"platte" consists of: the image: 10 artists of various disciplines have been asked, to work on one or more records. the results will be shown in an exhibition at the frankfurt bookfair this october then go to berlin, hamburg, vienna, geneva, munich and zürich./ the ...
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CHARHIZMA019 | CHARHIZMA
"The debut ALBUM from Plastic Crimewave Sound, a monster excessive concept piece that wraps your head around devotional drones, snarling biker punk, scuzzed out sewer dirges, blasts of power electonix, even some lilting shoegazer-new wave moves, and then topped off with ...
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LAUNCH20 | ROCKET RECORDINGS
"On his debut as a solo artist, mondomarc has widened his stylistic horizon considerably and produced an album that sounds like one of those mixtapes you give a friend for his/her birthday. 100% party-compatible electro-killer-tunes, experimental sound-play, straight ...
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KK17 | KLANGKRIEG
"Palm Fronds (David Greenhill and Jeff McLeod) is a compelling listen on a number of levels. The songs themselves could be described as singer-songwriter in scope; I hear echoes of mid-to-late period Smog and even "Horse With No Name"-era America (especially on ...
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cpr719 | CATSUP PLATE
"Very deluxe packaged compilation of new bands, somehow associated with United Bamboo (NYC fashion line). Debut release on this label. Expensive, but feels like it's worth it -- and it's cheaper & better looking than than those Colette compilations, right? ...
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UU001 | UUNITED ACOUSTIC REC
"Themes is a classic exercise of variations on a theme. Basic the idea, essential, almost primal, the elaboration. The Linguido's challenge (as in the first CD "West Mantra") is that of fascination by mean of "habit". The rhythms and throbbings of percussive sounds ...
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ANT11 | ANTS RECORDS
"An hommage to Giacinto Scelsi 'Prakriti' (from the Sanskrit word meaning 'nature' or 'cosmic energy'), is an exploration of nature through transformation of natural sounds and integration of them with static drones obtained mainly stretching and granulating orchestral ...
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ANT10 | ANTS RECORDS
"This proposal of the duo Degrassi/Lenoci is strictly linked to a form of electroacoustic improvisation, strongly characterized in a "materic" sense. Lenoci's "traditional" instrumentation (piano and saxes) produce the sound and Degrassi "treat it" in real time. The ...
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ANT08 | ANTS RECORDS
"Moltitudine in labirinto is a poetic journey drawn with sound. An unveiled meeting. The minimal sequences, the recognizable character of Masin's music, here are fused with the electronic "vision" of Giuseppe Caprioli, more harsch, materic. The result is a fascinating ...
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AG07 | ANTS RECORDS
"A music concerned for, as the author writes in the disc notes, ". the importance of silence in music.". This work is conceived not "for organ" but, really, for "organ and silence", as the silence is a fundamental part of it, and it's not possible to give it up. It's an ...
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AG05 | ANTS RECORDS
"The application of musical criteria to the organization of time. "When we slow down a sound many times, all the way below 15 cps approximately, we perceive as a series of discrete pulses. In a physical sense it remains a sound, but not for human perception. Try now to ...
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AG02 | ANTS RECORDS
Joshua Pierce, piano & prepared piano, with Robert White, tenor ~ AFMM Ensemble; From the liner notes of Eric Salzman: "John Cage wrote for keyboards throughout most of his life. Most famously, he invented the so-called "prepared piano" but he also wrote for ...
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AG06 | ANTS RECORDS
"A meditation on silence, ecstatic and radical hearing of a soul who catch the real essence of sound and frees his creativity without a doubt. The result of a deep inner search, involved and involving. The journey of a non-compromised artist that choose the hardest ...
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AG01 | ANTS RECORDS
"First part of a 4 CD remix spectacle with about 60 artists remixing TV Pow's album "Friendship Patrol" which itself contained more than 60 short tracks. The first 2CD-set contains remixes from: Oren Ambarchi, Motor, Boris Hauf, Thymme Jones, Otomo Yoshihide, M Behrens, ...
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B-BOY020 | BOTTROP-BOY
"Gerwald Rockenschaub is one of the most wellknown visual artists, currently living in Berlin. Apart from making art he has been deeply involved with music from the start, playing in bands, DJ-ing, organising parties in his former hometown Vienna and occasionally ...
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SEMI005 | SEMISHIGURE
"New solo album from this Chicago Underground musician after albums on Moikai, Walking Road, Delmark and Mego. This is a one long 40-minute composition made for one of his own installations which is travelling the world at the moment. Far away from his delicate ...
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B-BOY022 | BOTTROP-BOY
"Remixes by Liam Gillick, Albrecht Kunze, Michaele Melián, Alva Noto, Markus Schneider, Shantel, Nobukazu Takemura. For Roehr's original work, see the Suppose label. "Peter Roehr's crafted work with a categorical reduction of form, was developed in the 60's: a time of ...
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WHATNESS007 | WHATNESS
special offer, new copy, sealed. hardcover "Max de Wardener is a true original, a talented multi-instrumentalist and composer. His debut EP for Accidental "Stops" wove a solemn tapestry of gentle oratorio, tonal grandeur and shimmering, cut-up electronics. Here he ...
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AC11CD | ACCIDENTAL
"this record was created entirely from a casio sk1 drum machine sample. this sample was then processed in real-time using a custom-built max/msp sound environment. 'scatter' was created by subtracting (or scattering) these sounds, processing them further and adding ...
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TONS017 | TONSCHACHT
"both of these compositions were produced while i was working freelance for de rijke marsh morgan architects in london. one afternoon i had a message to call a guy named 'jet mistry' who worked for the lift company thyssen. he was a chatty guy so we talked about names ...
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TONS016 | TONSCHACHT