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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.

 
"'Which way to leave?' is the latest record by Stockholm based musician John Chantler. The self-reflexive sequencing that tracks the sub-harmonic series in the opening blast of 'Falling Forward' positions the record as Chantler's most explicitly melodic. These melodies ...
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RM463 | ROOM40
"The Piano has been an instrument that has woven its way in and out of my life since I was a child. I grew up listening to great classical and jazz players, prepared piano and electronic experiments, extended techniques and later the incredible works of Boulez, ...
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RM476 | ROOM40
"Based in Spain, composer and visualist Pierce Warnecke has developed an elegant auditory hallucination with his debut edition Memory Fragments. Known widely for his collaboratarial works, this edition represents Warnecke's first solo outing. Recorded over the better ...
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RM479 | ROOM40

NEW ROME - NOWHERE (CD)

"New Rome is the latest project from Polish composer Tomasz Bednarczyk. In the late 2000s, Bednarczyk emerged with a trilogy of electronic records that set pastural tonality against grainy smears of pulse and rhythm. His previous Room40 editions Summer Feelings and ...
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"Chris Abrahams returns in 2016 with a new edition for Room40, Fluid To The Influence. Building upon the foundation of his previous three editions, Abrahams charts out a divergent course through lilting piano flows, distended organ passages, thunderous electronic ...
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"In 2016, Room40 is proud to continue the publication of a series of editions from American guitarist and composer Norman Westberg. Best known for his work with the seminal outfit SWANS, Westberg's output beyond that group is sprawling and restless. His name recurs and ...
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RM474 | ROOM40
"Ross Manning is one of Australia's best kept secrets. Over the past half decade, Manning has been behind a series of increasingly profound explorations into light and movement. These installation works seek to reveal spectrum and frequency in patterns that often go ...
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RM471 | ROOM40
"Erik Griswold, the American born, Australian based composer is a master of the prepared piano. Over the past two decades he has forged a deeply personal approach to transforming the piano from a tonal hammered instrument into a device that transgresses acoustic music ...
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RM468 | ROOM40
"I think I have known Ueno Takashi for almost a decade now. If not that long, then certainly close. Over that time I've had the pleasure of performing with him and collaborating together on a number of recording projects for Tenniscoats. Ueno's work, both solo and with ...
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RM456 | ROOM40
"UK-based artist Chris Herbert is a man of intermittent communications. Over the past decade he has published a select oeuvre of crushingly lush and elegant records. Fittingly then, Constants, his new edition for Room40 is a transmission from an overtly private realm. ...
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RM457 | ROOM40
"Even Clean Hands Damage The Work is the new LP from UK based artist John Chantler. Following on from The Luminous Ground, his critically acclaimed album from 2011, Even Clean Hands Damage The Work sees Chantler delve ever deeper into the inner zones of audible ...
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RM459 | ROOM40
"Rhythm is at the core of who we are. Second to second, day to day, year to year, our lives are a series of spiralling orbits governed by time. Time between heartbeats, between breathes, between meals, between visits with family, the list of cyclical activity goes on ...
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EDRM423 | ROOM40
"It is important to remember that sound is ultimately a physical medium. Vibrations, emitted through the airwaves collide with surfaces, reflecting and inflecting in a blissfully chaotic interplay before finding their way to our ear drums. It's here, in this space of ...
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RM458 | ROOM40
"Chris Abrahams' Memory Night is his third edition for Room40 - Play Scar and Thrown preceding this album. Widely recognised as the pianist for Australian liminal improvisation trio The Necks, Chris Abrahams' solo work etches out an entirely different universe. It's a ...
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RM453 | ROOM40
"In 2012, Room40's open frame festival probes this idea of dead silence - asking what role does silence play today across music and art spectra. We bring together a range of artists whose work can be seen to reflect on this idea of absence and presence. Moreover these ...
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ERIKM - TRANSFALL (CD)

"eRikm's Transfall is a document of profound gesture. A collection of works that resolve his recent explorations into music and sound for performance, dance and theatre. For almost two decades, eRikm has been a major force in contemporary musique concréte. He is a ...
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RM449 | ROOM40
"Wege translates as 'path' and it's a fitting title for the latest rendering from master percussionist and experimental composer Andrea Belfi. The albums' four pieces act as orientation points through some imaginary sonic landscape. Wege is Belfi's forth LP (the first ...
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RM446 | ROOM40
"Scott Morrison is one of Australia's best kept secrets. Working away solidly under the radar for more than half a decade, Morrison's practise has sauntered between affairs with the fine arts, architectural installation and live performance. Until this point, his work ...
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EDRM422 | ROOM40

MINAMO - DOCUMENTAL (CD)

"Tokyo quartet Minamo occupy a privileged place in the Japanese music scene. They remain one of the few ensembles to consistently produce work that simultaneously refines and expands upon their existing themes and aesthetics. Their largely improvised interactions have ...
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RM443 | ROOM40
"Pimmon is the Australian godfather of laptop led electronics. Over the past decade and a half, Pimmon has carved out a unique space for himself amidst through producing a series of masterfully executed excursions into abstract electronic sounds. On The Oansome Orbit, ...
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RM441 | ROOM40
"Steinbrüchel's Narrow is an album of reduction and transformation. Like much of Steinbrüchel's recorded work, the genesis of Narrow stems from a singular idea concerned with the notion of "static development". Working with a limited palette of source material ...
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"With 'A Field For Mixing', Chartier brings the physicality of space directly into his compositional practise. Recording a variety of small and large spaces in Australia, Japan and the USA, Chartier utilises the unique properties of these spaces to create a newly ...
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RM439 | ROOM40
"For the best part of a decade, Éric La Casa's attention to sonic phenomena has resulted in some of the finest contemporary Musique Concréte to come out of France. La Casa's methodology for sound recording allows for a versatile examination of both urban and natural ...
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EDRM421 | ROOM40

V.A. - FABRIQUE (CD)

"An incredibly limited edition to celebrate the final Fabrique (a concert serie organized by Lawrence English in Brisbane from 2001 to 2009) held last friday Feb 20. Features exclusive and live pieces from David Grubbs, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Janek Schaefer, ...
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