label highlight 17/01 iDEAL Recordings
warehouse find of one copy only ""Sacree Obsession", the new album from the Australian percussionist extraordinaire Will Guthrie, comes out of his continuing research into repetition, the ritual, physicality through volume and mass, and complexity through the ...
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IDEAL133 | 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
"The time-stopping tract of In Demons In! is a naturally elemental drone collaboration between eminent experimentalists Jim O'Rourke and CM Von Hausswolf for their eternal admirers at iDEAL Recordings. Offering a transfixing peek behind the curtain of pure black hole ...
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IDEAL189 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
special price "Venerable avant-garde composer John Duncan follows his prized cycle of cover versions Bitter Earth [2016] with Conventional Wisdom; a truly beguiling new suite of original, stony avant-blooz songs produced in collaboration with iDEAL boss Joachim ...
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IDEAL182 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"The first vinyl release between Carl Abrahamsson & Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, 'Loyalty Does Not End With Death' is the final part of a spoken word trilogy initiated in 1990 with the Psychick TV & White Stains side 'At Stockholm', and proceeded by their 'Wordship' [2004] ...
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IDEAL187 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"Daniel Rozenhall is the hidden master of obscure experimental music in Sweden, with a close relationship to the Elektronmusikstudion EMS in Stockholm and the Fylkingen venue, record label and organisation. He has a very limited catalogue; two excellent LPs came out on ...
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IDEAL178 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"Throw Light Upon is a journey through sonic deepness, wandering between episodes of glare and fractions of hazing textures. Created in a hot summer in a little room in Brussels. It's an amazing, deep, transcending techno fix by Jacopo Bacci. Somehow connected to some ...
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IDEAL183 | 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
"Bob Bellerue is a New York based composer, sound activist and artist. His, to us, highly important releases "Brokelyn" (LP, Love Earth Music 2014) and "Damned Piano" (2LP, Anarchymoon Recordings 2015) were quietly released and distributed but left a deep impact on ...
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IDEAL142 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"Two new vocal based recordings by the conceptual, and ever challenging artist John Duncan. "Mantra" is a piece by himself and is a choral drone that is highly capturing and transcendent. "Ur Sonate" is a classic sound poem by dadaist Kurt Schwitters composed between ...
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IDEAL167 | 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
"iDEAL is proud to present the debut album by Gothenburg-based artist Johan Zetterquist (b.1968). It contains three monuments, pieces that should probably be seen more like sound sculptures or documentations than compositions. The shape they come in is profound drone ...
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IDEAL159 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"Henrik Rylander's music has been inside the spine of iDEAL since his 2004 album "Traditional Arrangements for Feedback". Rylander's music now and then, is uniquely made out of feedback, and feedback only. His no-input mixing desk rituals ends up in a sharp, cold, ...
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IDEAL155 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"Sewer Election is back on iDEAL, nine years after his master piece of tape loop filth CD "Kassettmusik" and four years after his deep collab LP "Aska" with Frederikke Hoffmeier/Puce Mary. He is part of the inner circle of iDEAL though and it kind of amazes us that he ...
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IDEAL156 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"Haswell side plays at 45, Acid side at 33. Edition of 300, black vinyl. Cover by Jakob Krajcik, Photo by Oliver Fey, Mastered & Cut at Dubplates & Mastering." (label info)
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IDEAL111 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"I had to record something that was not music. Something pure, pulsating and far from any attempt to make it accessible in any way. I wanted something true, something filled with energy. A pulsating energy. To stop myself from working like I always do, I decided to ...
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IDEAL151 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"The second volume of the iDEALISM series is here, brothers and sisters. This is an attempt to present close collaborators to iDEAL back to back with people making music we love. No specific theme involved, just that we feel there is a certain creative and artistic ...
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IDEAL152 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
edition of 300 copies, comes with two inlays "we must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "being-oriented" society. to shape a new consciousness, one in which cooperation triumphs over domination, and humility before nature's complexity ...
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IDEAL144 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"This is the completing release to John Duncan's masterful "Bitter Earth" LP (iDEAL129). Here, Duncan is covering songs by Gladys Knight ("This Bitter Earth"), Pere Ubu ("Final Solution") and Jule Styne ("I Fall In Love Too Easily"). Beautiful versions by one of the ...
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IDEAL129-7 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"Finally, Ectoplasm Girls's long awaited second album is here!!! The Stockholm duo of sisters Tanya and Nadine Byrne is making an unique blend of post techno, industrial and esoteric pop. This is truly honest, dreamy, dark, evoking music and the heart of their power is ...
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IDEAL143 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
