label highlight 17/01 iDEAL Recordings
"Carl Michael von Hausswolff with John Duncan, Leif Elggren, Jean-Louis Huhta, Joachim Nordwall, Henrik Rylander. Recorded at the opening of CM von Hausswolff's solo exhibition "INSNITT" at 3:e Våningen, Gothenburg on September 14th 2018. Cover photo by CM von ...
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IDEAL214 | 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
"Ancient Indonesian tradition meets doom rock in profoundly Ur ways on Stephen O'Malley and Senyawa's collaborative commission for choreographer Gisele Vienne. Following a decade of creative bonds forged between theatre director and choreographer Gise`le Vienne and doom ...
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IDEAL198 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"Aleph-1 is a project by carsten nicolai aka alva noto / noto. aside from his sound works under those pseudonyms, aleph-1 is electronic music with an acoustic sound aesthetics that was especially developped for the IDEAL Recordings label. The concept of aleph-1 derives ...
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IDEAL048CD | 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
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
"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
"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
"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
"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
BOTHEN, CHRISTER - LJUDSKULPTUR FÖR 5 KONTRABASKLARINETTER & ELEKTRONIK + SOLON FÖR KONTRABASKLARINETT & BASKLARINETT (LP)
"Christer Bothén's new LP on iDEAL is a beautiful creation moving comfortably between improv, sound art and drone. Christer Bothén is a main character in the Swedish improv, jazz and world music scene. He studied music in Mali and Morocco in the 70s and collaborated w ...
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IDEAL139 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"Joke Lanz travels down memory lane! Two decks a mixer and a dozen of old Sudden Infant vinyls to spin, scratch, manoeuvre, loop and juggle into a narrative new composition. Recorded and mastered by Rashad Becker in Berlin, this album combines Joke Lanz' unique ...
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IDEAL141 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
RM - UNFIT (LP)
"RM is Italian mastermind of bad vibes Riccardo Mazza. The man has a free approach to his music, with no interest what so ever in the device used as a source. RM is dark, meditative harshness at it's absolutely TOP. The intent is to submerge the listener with a gloomy, ...
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