label highlight 17/01 iDEAL Recordings
"Joel Brindefalk (1975-2013) in memoriam. Our common memorial project together with Börft Records to celebrate the music of our lost brother Joel Brindefalk is presenting DIONYSIAN. Joel recorded this during a weekend in 1992 together with Joachim Nordwall, Christan ...
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IDEAL131 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
""Protest Music" is the first release by Ornament, the recent project of Joe DeNardo from the band Growing. Ornament began playing shows in late 2012 around the New York City area, and recorded this album in the summer and fall of 2014 in Brooklyn, NY. While live ...
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IDEAL127 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"Trance music for darkened dance floors. Tanya Byrne and her solo mission HYPNOTOWER has been on a more minimal, unpleasant and industrial trip than her ECTOPLASM GIRLS collaboration with sister Nadine Byrne. This is dealing with themes like death, dreams and ...
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IDEAL128 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"When John Cage was about to celebrate his 80th birthday in 1992, the Stockholm electronic Music Festival invited CM von Hausswolff to interpret Cage's piece Imaginary Landscape #5. At the time of the performance Cage had already passed away a month earlier. The piece ...
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IDEAL126 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"iDEALISM is a new LP compilation series presented by iDEAL, compiled by Joachim Nordwall. Showcasing artists with a clear and strong vision, some already working with the label, and some related ones and some future collaborators. The musical world is where we are used ...
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IDEAL123 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"On December 14th, 2011 - Mats Gustafsson played an amazing solo concert at our table at Bar Brooklyn in Stockholm. He was supposed to play a "real" concert but bastards didn't care much for that so he ended up playing at the head of our table. Someone spilled a full ...
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IDEAL119 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
""Object Subject To Change" is Henrik Rylander's fourth album for iDEAL but the first since 2009. Rylander is king of hypnotizing, focused feedback drone with razorsharp noise and monotonous pulse. Music that feels as comfortable in academic worlds as in filthy ...
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IDEAL109 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"Dimitrios K is a legendary techno dj and producer from Gothenburg, Sweden, setting up underground dance parties since the nineties. iDEAL released his untitled debut album last year, filled with his deep techno. Now we are releasing his new LP, based upon a few of ...
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IDEAL107 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"Kevin Drumm's 2007 cassette "PURGE" on iDEAL went out of stock in less than a week. This is the CD version of that killer thing. Intense listening taking you deep into the known unknown, or perhaps the unknown known. Drumm's noise is extremely powerful and dynamic.; ...
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IDEAL105 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"All tracks composed at The Castle, 2006, and pre-mastered at La Hacienda, 2008, by Carl Michael von Hausswolff. Recorded at Färgfabriken Center for Contemporary Art and Architecture, Stockholm, Sweden, in connection with the exhibition Matter! by Carl Michael von ...
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IDEAL102 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"Dave Phillips, based in Zürich and steady collaborator of the Schimpfluch Gruppe, is working with the extreme. This fine piece of vinyl, his first for Joachim Nordwall's iDEAL Recordings label, is a great, odd, harsh and beautiful experience. Humanimalism, ...
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IDEAL087 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"The size of the stage, position of the equipment, monitor position and height, hall architecture and acoustics, capacity and attendance, temperature and humidity, and sound level (dB) or Leq Meter limiting all varied from event to event. Each of the final recordings ...
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IDEAL099 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"Analogue, cosmic filth and synth excellence! POGROM was recorded back in 1990 in the excellent Studio Styrka in Johannishus, Sweden for the classic NYC tape label Sound of Pig but was rejected, forgotten or ignored. Maybe it was never even sent. No one remembers. It ...
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IDEAL097 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"A great deep techno album by Gothenburg's legendary dj and producer DIMITRIOS K. His debut and highly recommended for rhythm lovers." (label info)
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IDEAL094 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"Deep ambient music from visual- and sound artist, poet and science fiction addict Johannes Heldén. His music is slow, melodic, dramatic, dark and atmospheric but yet too damn abstract to even come near being called pop or whatever. Heldén has published a few books, ...
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IDEAL080 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"The Existence of Do-Ti-La-So-Fa-Mi-Re-Do Is Everything! presents a work for church organ, recorded in Göteborg and initially played by organist Mikael Wahlin, and thereafter constructed into a 48 minutes long composition by Fröberg." (label info) Accompanying release ...
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IDEAL096 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"Artist and composer Dan Fröberg is a true original, whether his modes of expression are sound-works, text-works, video-works or other presentations that are of his mind and hands. They all and always connect to the ever-growing labyrinth of clues and secrets and ...
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IDEAL069 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"Evil Moisture is Andy Bolus, operating from his base in a former mirror factory in north east Paris. "If You Want To Fuck The Sky, Teach Your Cock To Fly" is an old Russian prison saying and very suitable to the sound of this LP. It sounds like it was recorded in a ...
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IDEAL083 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"Altar of Flies is the new power on the Swedish noise scene, to be put on the underground throne next to Sewer Election. Altar of Flies is Mattias Gustafsson who has recorded stuff since 2006, mainly for his own cassette label Hästen & Korset but also high quality sub ...
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IDEAL081 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"Beautiful filth by Mr Mike Conelly (Wolf Eyes/Hair Police)." (label info) Limited to 200 copies.
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IDEAL071 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"Finally! Stockholm's legendary repetitive neo kraut/new wave rockers Audionom is back with their first proper album! We have been waiting for it patiently and man - it was really worth waiting for!!! This is music that goes straight to your guts and it is all set for a ...
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IDEAL066 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"Recorded in Chicago and Gothenburg, "Power Model X" is a documentation of Henrik Rylander's performance action which is right in between installation art and live performance. With a background as the drummer of the rough garage rock group Union Carbide Productions and ...
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IDEAL044 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"Christine Ödlund is a sound- and visual artist based in Stockholm and "Phenomena" is her debut album. Ödlund is educated in Electro-Acoustic Music at EMS, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and Konstfack - all in Stockholm. Her organic electro-acoustic music is drifting ...
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IDEAL057 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"Electro-acoustic music is going to different places. One of our favourite ones is when it gets deconstructed and carries that feeling of something that is falling apart. Mattias Peterssons first album for iDEAL; "Floodlight, can be seen as a beautiful document of ...
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IDEAL056 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"We'd like to call this acoustic drone jazz. Viktor calls it Slow Jazz on himself which might give you an even better idea on how this sounds. This beautiful album (Viktor's first one with this band) is sensitive and fragile. It is music filled with passion, warmth and ...
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IDEAL050 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
