IDEAL RECORDINGS
iDEAL Recordings is a label and organisation founded by Joachim Nordwall in 1998. iDEAL is releasing various kinds of experimental music, ranging from noise via drone and improv to techno. The huge label program includes vinyl releases, CDS and tapes by Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Mats Gustafsson, The Skull Defekts, Dave Phillips, Altar of Flies, Stephen O'Malley, Wolf Eyes, Henrik Rylander, Sewer Election, Ectoplasm Girls, Mika Vainio, BJ Nilsen, John Duncan and many, many more.
"Inspired by a life long obsession of dub, synth, industrial and different kinds of minimalism, "Extended Player" 12"EP by The Idealist is a tribute to these inspirations aswell as an attempt to move forward or elsewhere. This is experimental techno and electronic music ...
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IDEAL236 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"Egil Kalman has levelled up on this one; we were stunned by his last solo opus, and on 'Forest of Tines', the bassist/synthesist has traded the EMS Synthi 100 for the Buchla Series 200, recording at Stockholm's illustrious Elektronmusikstudion (EMS). Here, he builds on ...
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IDEAL237 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"MAAVAK a two 10xCD box sets presenting the intense, present, sometimes fragile & often challenging music of Swedish/Israeli composer, musician, artist and activist DROR FEILER, celebrating 50 years of musical, artistic and political actions in Sweden and around the ...
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DROR002/IDEAL252 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"MAAVAK a two 10xCD box sets presenting the intense, present, sometimes fragile & often challenging music of Swedish/Israeli composer, musician, artist and activist DROR FEILER, celebrating 50 years of musical, artistic and political actions in Sweden and around the ...
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DROR001/IDEAL251 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
" "Räkna evighet som intet" is an electroacoustic composition in two movements and as much an incantation as it is a process of mourning embodied in an aesthetic structure. Throughout the piece Enocksson weaves taut strings, tense static and veils of feedback with ...
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IDEAL231 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
" "Räkna evighet som intet" is an electroacoustic composition in two movements and as much an incantation as it is a process of mourning embodied in an aesthetic structure. Throughout the piece Enocksson weaves taut strings, tense static and veils of feedback with ...
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IDEAL231 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"A precedent of sorts to, erm, Armand van Helden vs Fatboy Slim's 1999 bout, 'The Heavyweight Sound Fight' takes pride of place among iDEAL's hall of oddities with one of the zaniest recordings by three international leaders of the avant-garde. Double LP with an ...
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IDEAL229 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
""Senno I" is the solo debut album by Tot Onyx aka Tommi Tokyo, who has been a founding member of the Japanese performance art/live electronics duo group A since 2012. They incorporated the use of the body in their noise & poetry-performances and they made some ...
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IDEAL203 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"Incipientium is a rather new Gothenburg-based one man project who is succeeding to dive deep into some kind of rusty, unwell ambient sound. There are connections to stuff like Organum and Jeph Jerman but he has a unique voice, and is a much needed injection in the ...
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IDEAL208 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"A new SEWER ELECTION album on iDEAL! The most brutal one yet without a doubt, after the now classic "Kassettmusik" CD (2008), the "Aska" LP collab w Frederikke Hoffmeier/Puce Mary (2013) and the very depressing "Malign" LP from 2017. Three intense, tense tracks. Just ...
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IDEAL221 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
all covers with dented edges "It's all in a haze. Time and life has happened and memories fade. These recordings were made in 1991 and 1992 when we were proudly surfing our mid teens and spending enormous amounts of time in the studio. Every weekend was spent upstairs ...
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IDEAL222 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"Kent Tankred (b.1947) is one of the true hidden masters of Swedish electro-acoustic and experimental music. Tankred studied at Elektronmusikstudion in Stockholm in the early 70s and he has released a sparse catalogue of fine works, mainly for his and Leif Elggren's ...
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IDEAL209 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
tranparent blue vinyl, cover by Alter of Flies / Allon Kaye, edition of 300 copies "This is the third ALTAR OF FLIES album on iDEAL, after the "Permanent Cavity" CD in 2010 and the self titled LP in 2014. And in a way, it marks a new direction for AoR, more isolation, ...
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IDEAL191 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
300 copies only "Venerable avant-gardist John Duncan supplies quietly jaw-dropping new fruits from his fertile relationship with iDEAL Recordings, rendering a concept album for the times split between thoughts on social energy/ failure, and intimacy, in his singular ...
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IDEAL210 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"Porya Hatami (b.1981) is an experimental sound artist based in Sanandaj, Iran. Working in the field of ambient/minimal, his compositions explore the balance between electronics and environmental sounds, utilizing processed acoustic and electronic sources and field ...
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IDEAL206 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
""Actor-Network Theory" is the final record Nick Klein made as a resident of New York City. Recorded in 2018, it weaves a disparate sonic narrative of dissociative opiated sleeping-bag retreats, and anxiety fueled drum loops. "Actor-Network Theory" is right before the ...
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IDEAL190 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"Mike Mangino was half of the insanely creative New Jersey-based duo SMERSH. They started releasing cassettes in 1981 and went on like a couple of mad men in a tornado until Chris Shepard passed away in 1995. They created unique dub, noise, industrial, synth together. ...
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IDEAL185 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"A masterful work from the Italian underworld. Riccardo Mazza is a hidden master of the Italian experimental music scene, a scene that has been extremely important since the late 70's or so. Coming from that background, he has besides his actions as his solo crusade RM, ...
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IDEAL161 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"Fireburn the Bloodlot commits crenellated walls of guitar noise by CM Von Hausswolff and Joachim Nordwall under their Sins For Beginners alias for avant-garde powerhouse, iDEAL. Mantled after a phrase Richard Kern graffitied on the bathroom wall of Hausswolff's Lower ...
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IDEAL176 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"Villa Abo is more than a band name. It is a former bank buliding in Johannishus in South East Sweden which was where Börft Records was founded and where the boss Jan Zwarre Svensson grew up. It was where the original location of Studio Styrka was and where the first ...
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IDEAL168 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"Underground mutant synth music, futuristic and historical at the same time. Even though the music sounds basically like nothing else, connections can been made to the rougher parts of John Carpenter, horror film music as we would have wanted it, or some of those German ...
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IDEAL162 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"Once upon a time, there were two very difficult people who loved music very much. They loved music so much that they stayed together despite having clear signs that it was not necessarily the right thing to do. They made music together, or next to each other, and ...
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IDEAL165 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"Ideal throw a total curveball with Vanligt Folk's doomdub body music mutations on Palle Bondo, where the Oslo/Gothenburg trio drop their punk leanings in favour of a stark sound lodged somewhere between Mika Vainio, CS + Kreme, Fever Ray, Toresch, and even Autechre. ...
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IDEAL166 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"HIGH BOYS suffers a deep passion for old school acid and techno, back to back with an obsession for bad vibes, dub 7"s, William S Burroughs and 80s industrial music. These common interests made Jean-Louis Huhta (Dungeon Acid / Brommage Dub) and Joachim Nordwall (iDEAL) ...
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IDEAL147 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
