label highlight 17/01 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
"The story of iDEAL starts out in London 1998, when Nordwall was living the hardscrabble life, and dreaming of starting a new record label and platform. He called it iDEAL, and 180 releases, 20 years later, it has become an invaluable node for non-standard, wayward ...
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IDEAL175 | 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
"Monstrance documents Mika Vainio & Joachim Nordwall reshaping guitars, drums and incendiary electronics at Einstürzende Neubauten's Berlin studio back in 2010. The results were originally issued by Touch in 2013, with this new 2LP edition arriving on Nordwall's iDEAL ...
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IDEAL164 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"One of three Stockholm-based Byrne sisters along with Tanya, her partner in Ectoplasm Girls, and Ambra, who has recently provided EG's live visuals, Nadine Byrne operates at the intersection of intuitive sonic and visual arts. Where Ectoplasm Girls tend to a bewitched ...
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IDEAL171 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"Sparse, dark and beautiful collaboration between Pan Daijing and Werner Dafeldecker, put to tape in Berlin. Pressed onto beautiful, high quality, white vinyl." (label info)
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IDEAL158 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
special offer "End Ground forms the 3rd and final installment in a series of records documenting the solo prowess of Sunn 0)))'s Stephen O'Malley released on Sweden's iDEAL Recordings. It was performed on electric guitar thru Sunn model T amps, and captured on zoom H4 ...
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IDEAL135 | 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
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
"Recorded in a Brooklyn basement during a couple of cold December days in 2014, the collaboration between Ryan Martin (DAIS Records, modular synth wizard) and Joachim Nordwall (iDEAL, analogue synth lover) became something very special, raw, intense and powerful. There ...
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IDEAL145 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"Saturn And The Sun's second album is called "Focus On The Centre Of Your Skull" and is a deep thing zooming in to mess with your mind. Heavy, psychedelic electronic music that draws fuel from 80's industrial stuff as swell as minimal techno and probably some dub too. ...
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IDEAL146 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
