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Australian experimental label, founded in the early 2000s by Lawrence English. The huge catalogue includes releases by Chris Abrahams, David Toop, Norman Westberg, Chihei Hatakeyama, Janek Schaefer, John Chantler, David Shea, Ross Manning, Tim Hecker any many others.

 
including members of The Necks, Swans, Mats Gustafsson, Madeleine Cocolas, Chuck Johnson and many others,
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RM4250 | ROOM40
"In late 2024 my good friend Liam Keenan and I recorded a short session with our friend David Akerman at his studio Lost Sound in Marrickville. We had been working as art and music curators at a major art museum in Sydney, Australia. We both make music separately but ...
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RM4282 | ROOM40
"Headwater was originally composed as part of a larger interdisciplinary performance at the Abbotsford Convent in Melbourne, 2024, with the generous support of the Musica Viva Australia FutureMakers program and the Berg Family Foundation." All music composed by Helen ...
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"Shaking off the uneasy depths of Lapsed Gasps took a minute (those mix sessions were intense!). Oliver and I knew we'd like the record that followed to let in some light. Not much light, but enough to differently illuminate the darkened corners Push For Night prefers ...
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RM4272 | ROOM40

DRIFTWOOD - MAPS (CD)

"Following our 2024 self-titled release, Nick and I were compelled to make another record, expanding on the distinctive sound world we have found as the duo Driftwood. Grounded in the unique instrumentation of two microtonally re-tuned pump organs, alongside clarinets ...
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"Beatriz Ferreyra is a sonic world builder. For six decades she has been responsible for the creation of works that inhabit a place between the living world and the subliminal zones of the unconscious. Her compositions forge new realities, constructed piece by piece, ...
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Akio Suzuki has always been an artist in search of unexpected sound, and curiosity has been his guiding principle. Whether that be curiosity for objects, spaces or places, his work has been guided by a porousness and pliability which has allowed him to explore an ...
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RM4243 | ROOM40

CELER - POULAINE (CD)

""Created by commission for the University of California at Irvine as a sound companion for an exhibition of 13 different 14th Century manuscripts. The original pieces existed as 13 different parts for each individual piece of art." Or so the origins of the original ...
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RM4264 | ROOM40
"TripleAkuma is the third in a series of essential live documents from Merzbow. The stage and the studio are not the same place, and Merzbow has an acute understanding of this juxtaposition. Whilst the sheer density of the music might be maintained across both spheres, ...
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"In late 1975, Annea Lockwood realised her composition World Rhythms. It represents one of the first creative works exploring the potentials of field recordings in a multichannel setting. It is a landmark work and a composition that, on its 50th anniversary, has gently ...
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"Even without visiting a place, we often think we know it. It's a syndrome of the modern age. The world is right before us, on screen, summarised and sensorially curated into a particular vision that casts light across 'just so much' of an impression of a place and a ...
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"These are two conversations we had by emails when we all had to stay inside quietly five years ago. We have always enjoyed chatting on art, music, food and shared what we observed in life since we met but this period of lockdown, we couldn't see each other so somehow ...
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"Spring 2024. Carl Stone and Asuna performed together for the ?rst time at an international experimental music festival held in Kanazawa city, where Asuna lives. Carl Stone is a pioneering composer of computer sampled music. and ASUNA known for its "100 Keyboards" ...
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RM4253 | ROOM40

CLEARED - LUSTRES (CD)

Lustres is the most detailed and re?ned output of our studio practice using this method of exchanging sound material. The four tracks present a mood that, for us, is indicative of a kind of rolling celestial atmosphere. Simultaneously, there exists both a subterranean ...
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"I initially recorded all tracks in California between 2024 and 2025. The tracks were then sent to various locations around the world to each collaborator for completion, before returning to me in California for final touches. They were subsequently sent to Japan for ...
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RM4267 | ROOM40
""The Sound Leaves" began as an interactive sound performance and installation based around humans' impact on the environment and how that impact is altering the sonic landscape of our world. As ecosystems change due to climate collapse, the sound of those ecosystems ...
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"Steelwound is, by design, a singular record in Ben Frost's discography. It's a recording born of particular conditions, but also of particular interests. It was the first time Ben had set himself up with a situation where saturation, volume and density were all ...
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RM403 | ROOM40
"This is music inspired by the water and the wind. By the tattoo of the insects' beating wings and the soughing of the wattle in the sea breeze. By the dull roll of the surf and the rhythm of my breath against the pad of my feet as I walk along the sandy, leaf-littered ...
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RM4263 | ROOM40
'The album opens up the famous and yet somehow mysterious Rhodes...and finds an orchestra inside.' Derek Walmsley, The WIRE "The Fender inches toward warped generator territory...subtly piercing scrapes of surprising harmonic complexity'. Peter Margasak, Nowhere Street ...
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"Parasymbiosis was commissioned and developed by Art Zoyd Studios (Valenciennes, France) in March 2023 with percussionist Didier Casamitjana and Kasper Toeplitz on electric bass." (label info) "Through Parasymbiosis I imagined sounds of the inherent connection between ...
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Black Rain is Stuart Argabright - programming, keyboards, sound design; Shinichi Shimokawa - programming, guitar; Soren Roi - modular synth, guitar; Masashi Ohtsu - guitars, modular synth; Zanias - vocals - Comes with poster
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"Steelwound is, by design, a singular record in Ben Frost's discography. It's a recording born of particular conditions, but also of particular interests. It was the first time Ben had set himself up with a situation where saturation, volume and density were all ...
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RM403 | ROOM40
"This album was recorded as a soundtrack for Ken Jacobs' Nervous Magic Lantern at Spiral Hall, organized by Sound Live Tokyo, on November 3, 2015." (label info)
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RM4207 | ROOM40
?urru Wä?a traces notions of home, belonging, and displacement. In the two parts of the title track, Sunny Kim intones the words of Korean poet Yoon Dong Ju's poem, Another Home, in counterpoint to Daniel Wilfred's song, sung in the Wáglilak language. ?urru Wä?a ...
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RM4261 | ROOM40
After playing together for years, our tide was turning. What began as a happy rhythm of show dates in Berlin, from cozy trios in Klaus' home studio to ten-piece ensembles at Ausland, was now ebbing away thanks to Andy's move to the US. Whenever an accustomed pattern ...
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