label highlight 17/01 iDEAL Recordings
Sophie Agnel: piano , Joke Lanz: turntables. Recorded by Martin Siewert at his studio in Vienna April 2024 except Wittgensteins Hand and 21st Century Humans recorded by Benjamin Pagier at Instants Chavirés, Montreuil November 2022
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IDEAL284 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
Box set version of iDEAL069 and iDEAL 096 housed in a black, letterpressed box. Included are four photographic prints, one of which is signed and numbered by the artist. Limited edition of 99 copies.
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IDEAL069/IDEAL096 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"Sewer Election started blessing the undergound noise scene around 2002 and has since released tons of stuff, from harsh noise to raw musique concrète-like things and tape works. "Sweet Distractions" is a long piece sitting comfortably in the corner of his more laid ...
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IDEAL260 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"'Low Fidelity' was commissioned by Anna Koch / Weld with support from the Swedish Arts Council for the performance Insisting On. Sneak premiere for Issue Project Room, Saint Vitus Bar, Brooklyn, USA in December 2015. First performance at Weld, Stockholm, Sweden in ...
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IDEAL218 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
EDITION OF 200 COPIES, A: Saxmix John Duncan w/ Antoine Chessex, Martin Escalante, Dror Feiler, Mats Gustafsson and Ulrich Krieger. B: Mats Gustafsson, Joachim Nordwall & Henrk Rylander
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IDEAL253 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"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
