DRONE RECORDS ҉ NEWSFLASH ҉ DECEMBER 2019 ҉

Dear Droners, Mind Travellers and Sound Explorers, we gladly present you the Newsflash for December 2019 (8th update this year)!

This list is FULL of highlights and discoveries, great compilations, re-issues and obscure art editions.. get lucky with your POISON, and remember ANDREW MC.KENZIE's (HAFLER TRIO) saying : "The programme can be changed - it is only a question of knowing where the dial is" - we wish you a happy (whatever)-mas & and great new year 2020!

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NR. TITLE FORMAT LABEL & CAT-NR YEAR? SHORT INFO / EDITION / LIM.?/ SPECIALS PRICE back in stock the first proper CD-release (after numerous CDRs) by the musical side of HELGE SIEHLs project (once a member of MAEROR TRI) who is also active as painter CD Nitkie patch four 2010 1 1000SCHOEN - Moune and multi-media artist; three long tracks of mysterious & deeply floating ambience €13,00 inspired by the "moon"-topic; lim. 500 proper re-issue of the limited CD-R from 2006 (Kafue), now with one additional CD feat. new material (two long tracks) recorded 2011- the title was chosen after a nightclub that appears in FRITZ LANG's "Metropolis" film.. " It's a trademark ambient symphony, with do-CD Nitkie label patch seven 2011 2 1000SCHOEN - Yoshiwara melodies dwelling somewhere on the edge of harmonic spheres. Both in short and long €17,00 tracks, the impact is incredible - for the fans of experimental ambient sounds, it's another adventurous listening experience." BACK IN STOCK! extracts from four live rituals by the body art performance group around LOUIS FLEISCHAUER, who use body sounds for the creation of their music, creating a Old Europa Cafe OELP shamanistic an d cathartic experience live on stage: "For example the heartbeat of Louis LP 2019 3 AESTHETIC MEAT FRONT - Essence of Rituals 028 Fleischauer during suffocation, brainwaves at the moment of piercing and thereafter, €22,00 amplified springs that are connected to the skin via hooks, the ultrasonique sound of an embryo." - lim. 200 with gatefold art cover with many photos from the shows readings from the books "BLAUHOLZ" (DITTERICH VON EULER DONNERSPERG) and HENRY MARCUSE's "EROS Y CIVILISACION" (read by LIPPSTUECK and JAYROPE), with various additional music and sounds from: MURCOF & PHILIPPE CD Moloko+ PLUS 108 2019 4 AIR CUSHION FINSH - Gezieferreigen PETIT, COLUMN ONE, P. OLIVEROS, JAYROPE, DEAD MAURIACS, SONGS OF €13,00 NORWAY, etc etc. - this was a broadcasting programme by "Cashmere Radio Berlin" from January 2018 which could now be published officially PIER ALFEO = DUBIT (who had an excellent CD before on Backwards) - with three electro-acoustic compositions, revealing great details and lots of very "near" crackling sounds, sudden breaks and changes, and more calm passages, between tension - LP Ricerca Sonora RS9 2019 5 ALFEO, PIER - Works 2016-2018 dynamism and spheric relaxation, there are wide fields to explore.... / art edition LP €18,00 (one-sided, white vinyl, poster cover 60 x 90 cm with mathematical graphics , and vellum paper A4 inlay) - ed. of 300 the collection of rare material and demos from 2004, by the Swedish neo-classic / gothic industrial act who started on COLD MEAT INDUSTRY, melancholic and bombastic, now re-pressed with new artwork and two bonus tracks... " Hear the music CD Cyclic Law 105th Cycle 2017 6 ARCANA - The New Light evolve from it's groping first steps to the powerfull statement it has become today. €13,00 Arcana really stands for all things emotionally grandiose and this compendium serves has the perfect testament to a long and refined career. "

1 lost from 2005 by AIH & AIL of ARKTAU EOS and JKV of ZOÄT-AON, which now sees the daylight under a special collaboration name... very very pure 'primitive' & percussive archaic ritual muzak, at times very ecstatic & trance-inducing, using only CD Aural Hypnox 2019 7 ARKTAU AON - Ikuisuus näkyy luiden läpi voices, percussive / ethnic / original instruments & objects, no electronics or artificial €13,00 effects!! - 2nd edition (lim. 250 copies) now available, comes in silk-screen cardboard cover + 3 inserts 'Kenneth Werner returns to gterma with an album inspired by the ocean that surrounds his home island of Bornholm. During our stay we will experience the passing of the 8 AS IF - Havet CD Gterma 045 2015 seasons in the southern Baltic Sea. Twelve deep tracks hovering in the borderlands €13,00 between dubtechno and ambient, the zone which we find As If returning to again and again.' - full colour 16p booklet the first wider available full length release by this Belgian 'shamanistic' doom/drone project, the sounds can be raw and heavy but extremely meditative and otherwordly far 9 ASHTORETH - Rites I & II CD Cyclic Law 120th Cycle 2019 away at the same time, a guitarish melancholy is often present, eternally fluctuating €13,00 winds and aural substances are really transporting you to another (mind) place.. exceptional drone muzak, highly recommended !! lim. 500 copies extracts from so called "Seances" held 2013-2015 in Oulu (Finland) by different members of the Helixes label collective, extremely dark and sluggish drone ritual- scapes to enter the "threshold".... "Each séance was guided by a unique automatic- CD Aural Hypnox AHUE09 2019 10 AURAL HYPNOX - Underworld Transmissions portal-portrait reflecting the planetary and stellar distances seen at that particular time €13,00 in the lodge altar mirror-receiver..." - lim. 150 copies only, comes in 7" sized screen printed cover and with 16 p booklet KARLRECORDS special, CARSTEN VOLLMER, AFRIKA FESTIVAL Würzburg, MOERS festival 2019, DEAD CAN DANCE live in Frankfurt, KEIJI HAINO + SUMAC, ALFRED HARTHS REOLVER 23, REMOTE VIEWERS TRIO, CRONICA, MIDIRA mag Bad Alchemy 2019 11 BAD ALCHEMY - No. 103 (Sept. 2019) RECORDS, SOFA, TIETCHENS + DE WAARD, EMPREINTES DIGITALES, SUB €4,00 ROSA, THE DEONTIC MIRACLE, LENKA LENTE, etc.. - 88 Seiten, handliches Format, günstig & geistreich! re-worked & enlarged version of "Unification" (a rare and phantastic sounding mini CDr with one track, from 2006), based on sounds from VIRGO, a gravitational inferometer Old Europa Cafe (near Pisa, Italy) collecting cosmic waves; a highly experimental & really 'cosmic' CD 2013 12 BAD SECTOR - Unification OECD162 sounding album, expressing the "human struggle for a more complete and unified €13,00 version of the basic forces of nature..." - 4 tracks 43+ min. playtime, edition of 500 copies, BACK IN STOCK re-release of the very first MARTYN BATES cassette "DISSONANCE" (as MIGRAINE INDUCERS) with 20 short pieces from 1979, plus the later issued 'American version" Beta-Lactam Ring BATES, MARTYN - Migraine Inducers / (1981), and a re-work from 1994 on the bonus CD!! An almost historical document do-CD Records mt196cd / 2007 13 being influenced by the industrial, new wave/punk & experimental movement from that €15,00 Antagonistic Music mt197a time.. comes w. oversized hardcover / gatefold-sleeve with 16 page booklet + extensive liner notes by ELSE TEICHER; BACK IN STOCK!! the ARCANA mastermind released his first solo-album in 2009 on the German label Kalinkaland, here's finally a re-issue of this mesmerizing work, a must for any DEAD CD Cyclic Law 153rd Cycle 2019 14 BJÄRGÖ, PETER - A Wave of Bitterness CAN DANCE fan (transporting the same mood and grandeur, without being a copy of €13,00 DCD); digipak ed. of 500 copies - comes with 8 page booklet newest album by the (ex) ARCANA / SOPHIA mastermind, with beautiful chorus echo guitars this goes more into a "waving" / songwriting direction, extremely dense and hautingly melancholic.. -"On what is now his 4th full length solo album, we are granted LP Cyclic Law 141st Cycle 2019 15 BJÄRGÖ, PETER - Structures and Downfall a calm, thoughtful and at times somber aural voyage. Melodic atmospheric guitar work, €22,00 lush string arrangements and slow, heavy percussive rhythms are present and elevated to new heights." - lim. vinyl 200 copies on black vinyl Spanish ritual industrial, drenched in a nighmarisch black metal atmosphere.. "s they first weave and then slice and dissect their impenetrable veil, a sonic ritual of abject BLACK EARTH - Gnarled Ritual of Self disfigurement begins to take shape before the listener, as the strokes and gashes of 16 LP Cyclic Law 134th Cycle 2019 €20,00 Annihilation black metal, industrial, noise and ritual drone intersect erratically and hypnotically, painting an hallucinatory arabesque of absolute dread and deformity..." - lim. 200 copies on black vinyl 2 the two PETER ANDERSSONs from BOXHOLM, Sweden, better known with their main projects DEUTSCH NEPAL and RAISON D'ETRE, documented here on rare live BOCKSHOLM - Ironic Discomfort and Cheesy Yantra Atmospheres YA- recordings (2014-2015), with their always pulsating cold ambient machine industrial 17 CD 2019 €13,00 Manners 2019-95 tunes... culled from three locations: their hometown in Sweden ("for the first and probably last time"), USA ("Machines with Magnest" festival) and Poland (Wrotycz Records festival) "in the depth of listening: a space of stillness, and slowness" - French harpist HELENE BRESCHAND performs two drone-minimalistic pieces: "Occam Ocean XVI" (for BRESCHAND, HELENE / ELIANE RADIGUE / Bocian Records BC- acoustic harp) by ELIANE RADIGUE (27+ min.), "Convergence, Saturation & 18 CD 2019 €13,00 KASPAR T. TOEPLITZ - Octopus KTT72 Dissolution" (for electric harp) by ELIANE RADIGUE and live electronics by KASPAR T. TOEPLITZ (26+ min.) => contemplation tunes that show the wide spectrum of harp sounds and performing... re-issue of the awesome third album (1992), the first with GORE drummer DANNY LOMMEN, also recorded in CONNY PLANK's studio near Cologne... "...to sound like CASPAR BRÖTZMANN MASSAKER - Der breaking concrete, grinding metal, or bursting glass, at once monumental and 19 LP Southern Lord LORD262 2019 €18,00 Abend der schwarzen Folklore threatening, impenetrable and hermetic, yet also archaically tender and loving.... - ....evolving into a free-form noise, strangely motionless like an earthquake rumble, that sounded like nothing else at the time.." [Boomkat] the fourth album from 1993, 1st time vinyl re-issue, their most dark & intense masterpiece! - "Mountainous noises tower up and crash down, and tormented sounds 20 CASPAR BRÖTZMANN MASSAKER - Koksofen do-LP Southern Lord LORD263 2019 rise from ominously seething grounds, haunting the entire song-scape. The feel of €24,00 doom and dread hangs heavily over the five songs, and the title song rumbles, shrieks and wails, plagued by Caspar’s guttural growls of war, suffering and death..." 'Nearly 150 minutes of unreleased Coil recordings around the period 1993 to 1996, from Danny Hyde's studio archives - artwork by Steven Stapleton, from a recalled Infinite Fog Productions dream by John Balance.' - comes in a stunning deluxe gatefold sleeve with wide spine, 3 x LP 2019 21 COIL - Swanyard IF-89LP re-press on WHITE vinyl and now with white framed coverart - "Just an enormous €47,50 juggernaut of unreleased Coil magic. It says it's culled from 93-96, to these ears there's a lot of their acid house, sort of vaguely dance-oriented material..." [Pierrelefou] the cassette-only live series on the Berlin based label goes on, high quality design and CONTAGIOUS ORGASM - Live at MP3 download included, perfect sound.. "...this perfectly shows the progression from 22 MC Raubbau RAUB-064 2019 the 2008 performance made available last year: gone are the idm leanings, the co €10,00 Maschinenfest 2018 sound of the 2010s (which is presented here) is even more a language of its own, abrasive and accessible, palpable and psychedelic at the same time." 100 copies the industrial classic from 1986 by the band from Zwolle, NL, at that time out on the legendary DISCOGS ESPLENDOR GEOMETRICO (from Madrid) - "Official reissue of B.F.E. (Burka for this experimental industrial electronic classic originally released by Discos Esplendor LP Everyone) Records 2018 23 DE FABRIEK - Made in Spain Geométrico in 1987. This is a record that at that time saw De Fabriek fully connecting €18,50 BFE049 to the industrial scene without forgetting their earlier post-punk and krautrock roots." - standard ed. 250 copies this obscure French composer (1960-2010) created this work as "Musique Prehistorique" in 1987, performed inside a cave (or mining of marl), using many samples from wild animals and 'primitive' musical elements....parts sound like a strange MC In-Poly-Sons IPS 0216 2016 24 DE FILIPPIS, ALAIN - De Memoire d'Os crossing of CHRIS WATSON, G. TAZARTES and DDAA... "a pre-historical music, €10,00 primitive and raw, filled with an imaginary bestiary that probably inhabited the caves of our ancestors." - lim. ed cassette (C-60) with large cardboard plate cover the first great collab. by DEISON + MINGLE, who recently released the excellent "Tiliaventum" -box: atmospheric and dense tracks merging piano sounds with Aagoo Records AGO073 electronics and subtle break beats in slow motion, everything is drowning in a deep 25 DEISON / MINGLE - Everything Collapse(d) CD / REV.Laboratories 2014 sentiment of melancholy,..."drones, field recordings and processed loops intermingled €13,00 REV004 with disturbed rhythms, melancholy harmonies and piano chimes. A gloomy and dirty electronic sound that turns into an extremely evocative score which is full of pathos." - CD version the following album to the great "Everything Collapse(d)" LP - 11 slow 'ambient IDM" 26 DEISON / MINGLE - Weak Life CD Aagoo Records Ago078 2015 tracks that are very focused and dense, with twisted rhythms and machine-like €12,00 intensity... " Weak Life carries on the perfect union of Deison and Mingle's sounds: 3 drones, field recordings and processed loops onto which disturbed rhythms, distorted beats and electronic treatments are inserted. As always these are dirty electronics which are extremely evocative, to which we have become accustomed." - excellent stuff again ! ROGER DOYLE from Ireland was one of those 'outsider artists' being on the legendary NURSE WITH WOUND list in 1978, and this album appeared in the same year but was Dead-Cert Home withdrawn by 'CBS Classics' almost immediately after the release..." Now finally do-LP 2019 27 DOYLE, ROGER - Thalia Entertainment VCR-013 available on its intended format, the keening, breezy logic and abstract dramaturgy of €25,00 Doyle’s work on ‘Thalia’ has been reshuffled to highlight its apparent surreality and frolicking apparitions.." - FIRST TIME VINYL RE-ISSUE !! a "radio opera" that was created in 1998 with the help of THANASIS CHONDROS and ALEXANDRA KATSIANI - pretty unique in its peculiarity, very silent / soft parts DRYGIANAKIS, COSTIS - Chondros and Rekem Records REKEM interchange with extreme ones, lots of spoken word material, but also found stuff from 28 CD + BOOK 2019 €16,00 Katsiani on the Mountain 14 other music, object sounds, psychodramatic formations, very special stuff comparable to dramatic 'earplay' compositions from L. MARCHETTI i.e. a real audi o JOURNEY with tons of surprising moments and beautiful moods.. incl. 48 page book Greek/English 'DUENN (Fukuoka, Japan) is an electronic musician and composer producing minimal works, using a minimum of equipment. With "On Layer" he brings us 5 fragile CD St.An.Da 1910 2019 29 DUENN - On Layer dreamscapes reminding of the late, great OOPHOI, which says a lot about the impact €13,00 of the music..' - oversized artprint cover, lim. 100, on a new label from SILENTES two works that were finalized in 1992, by the French composer, writer, and co-founder of the Groupe Musiques Vivantes des Lyon (GMVL): "12 Haiku" consists of 12 short FORT, BERNARD - 12 Haiku / L'Impatience des pieces, each 3 of them representing one of the four seasons, corresponding with the 30 CD GMVL - CD 10 1993 €15,00 Limites beautiful artwork and the text of one Haiku, the second piece a comissioned work for the INA-GRM about the subject of time... poetic, emotional electro-acoustic that still waits to be discovered 'The post- pioneer from Japan, surprises once again with simplistic purity in noise and sound. field recordings, junk noise and rhythms, organs and Tesco Organisation distinctive vocals - a mixture towards another great GRIM experience. - Attention: The LP 2019 31 GRIM - Factory Ritual (white vinyl) TESCO 133 distorted infernal ending of the proclaimed "Factory Ritual" can only be accomplished at €23,00 ones own peril. CAUTION: No liability for brain-, nerve- and machine-damage ! THIS GETS LOUD AND EAR PIERCING!' lim. 250 white vinyl, A4 booklet debut album for this new project of GUIDO MÖBIUS (feedbacks) and ANDI STECHER (drums) plus special guests MICK HARRIS and YUKO MATSUYAMA => "With the pulse of the feedback ANDI STECHER's drumming, at times feverish and driven, then LP Karlrecords KR071 2019 32 G.A.M.S. - G.A.M.S. distanced and abstract, creates polyrhythmic structures. What comes into being is a €18,00 maelstrom of sound and rhythm - music beyond every style, the power of which lies in its rawness." - 300 copies, 180gr. vinyl, DL code the second noise-clash (after "An Untroublesome Defencelessness", 2016) for these three gifted performers on the RareNoise label, four long sets recorded in a studio in HAINO, KEIJI / BALAZS PANDI / MERZBOW - RareNoise Records do-LP 2019 February 2018... "the three intrepid improvisers explore a threshold of sound so 33 RNR111LP €27,50 Become the Discovered, not the Discoverer blisteringly intense, that it passes into a zone of divine cacophony." - comes on coloured vinyl rare & early HALO MANASH material recorded deep in the Finnish woods, first issued in 2016 on a limited cassette that sold out too quickly, now for the first time on CD... "All audio material on this album originates from the 'Tulitania' private ritual held in the CD Aural Hypnox AHUE08 2019 34 HALO MANASH - Unetar deepest forest of Northern Ostrobothnia in December 2006." - lim. 400, extremely nice €13,00 issue w. oversized screen printed 7" cover, three full coloured insert cards + digital download card first proper CD album by this undiscovered / anonymous dark ambient artist from France, named after the Japanese phenomenon of self-chosen isolation: on nine Steelwork Maschine CD 2011 untitled tracks a vision of surrealistic dark ambience is spread, with icy metallic sounds, 35 HIKIKOMORI - Far from the World SMR-09 €10,00 ghostly voices from everywhere, grating field recordings from scrap, etc... ed. of 100 copies / digpack Drone Records is surely not known as a place to offer much FOLK music, but IN LP Lune Musick LUNE 004 2019 36 IN GOWAN RING - Hazel steps through a GOWAN RING's compositions are, like MARTYN BATES music for example, of a €23,00 4 weathered Home special 'suspended' and sublime quality transporting you to other places, often completely mesmerzing in their sheer beauty and deep emotional impact... this is the first vinyl re-issue of the 2002 album, "A unique synthesis of folk, mediaeval and psychedelia that could only be In Gowan Ring". this album collects tracks culled from split releases with AT JENNIE RICHIE "and other AJR related projects" - you have to face a very wild mixture here, rhythmic stuff with psychedelic guitars and amorph sound clusters, noisy collages, Krautrock industrial, CD-R Errata In Excelsis eie016 2015 37 IRR.APP.(EXT.) - The Jennies made me do it (1) and lots of undecipherable organic manifestations and anti music without a possible €16,00 classification.. and titles like "The Monsters Are Due On Alder Court".. this will strenghten your Unconscious! Lim. 200 the project of ALICE KUNDALINI (SHE SPREAD SORROW), LUCA SIGURTA and DANIELE DELOGU with it's debut album, inspired by HÖLDERLIN's classic poetic text Helen Scarddale LP 2019 "Hyperion".. haunting stuff!! "The arrangements ebb and flow upon a rhythmic spine of 38 JUNKIE FLAMINGOS - Lemegeton Party HMS051 €20,00 drum machines and cybernetic sequences, laden with acoustic instrumentation bathed in effects and treatments that all serve to bolster Kundalini’s allegorical declarations.." KAFFEE UND KUCHEN is a Polish electro noise performance project, on this CD you can find some live extracts from different German cities, but also many remixes from the likes of THOROFON, GEHIRN.IMPLOSION, EMERGE, PHILIPP MÜNCH Krater Recordings KR05- CD 2019 (SYNAPSCAPE), HYPNOSKULL, KILLER (the EA80 singer sings "Bitte mit Sahne"!), 39 KAFFEE UND KUCHEN - Sahnestücke 009 €12,00 CARSTEN VOLLMER (great remix!), and underground poets like LÜTFIYE GÜZEL... a very versatile compilation, the right thing for you Sunday afternoon tea time.. DVD 6 panel digipak, 21 tracks 68+ min. this album shows the fascination of microscopic field recordings made from air conditionings... a genius work! "Wer hat sich nicht schon einmal im Dröhnen & Rauschen von Lüftungs- und Klimaanlagen verloren? ERIC LA CASA hat hier 30 40 LA CASA, ERIC - Air.Ratio CD SIRR Records sirr 0026 2006 verschiedene Extrakte von ‘Nahaufnahmen’ gemacht, alle in Paris in verschiedensten €15,00 Gebäuden auf Fluren, Toiletten, Badezimmern... AIR.RATIO zeigt die Verschiedenartigkeit & Vielschichtigkeit von ‘Rauschen, Dröhnen, Pfeifen, Heulen, Summen, etc.’ auf!" a fascinating "study" of a SHRUTI box (the Indian drone instrument working on a system of bellows, similar to a harmonium), capturing the silent 'side-effect' noises of the instrument as object as well ("sampling and processing the breaths, whistles and LP Kohlhaas KHS 002 2014 41 LAMI, GIOVANNI - Mema Verma noise produced by the reeds"), very intimate and near, a perfect mixture between non €18,00 electronic drones and subtle concrete sounds... in the progression of this LP the original shruti drones become more and more audible.. lim. 300 silk-screen cover very limited vinyl version (300 copies) of the new album, two years in the making, the "Dots" are now a trio with EDWARD KA-SPEL, SILVERMAN and ERIK DROST (on guitar!), the band-sound is changing again.. "A good mood; A playful mood; A dark do-LP Metropolis MET 1190 2019 42 LEGENDARY PINK DOTS - Angel in the Detail mood. Angel In The Detail is, like many of LPDs previous , a somber €35,00 indulgence. But like many dark acts offers cathartic release. With LPD delivering this through an almost perfect sound design.." [Soundscape] "Maybe the purest industrial power electronics release of Japan´s Linekraft - back in 1975, Democratic Kampuchea proved that conducting politics meant killing the people. Tesco Organisation LP 2019 Controlling the people is to kill their bodies and spirits... Music presented here is a 43 LINEKRAFT - Subhuman Principles TESCO 131 €20,00 soundtrack for 'subhumans' who starts to act by oneself." - lim. 300, numbered by hand, comes with two double-sided A5 inlays THE TRANSCENDENTAL MUSIC FOR THE TRANSCENDENTAL FILM - "Soundtrack LUSTMORD - First Reformed - Extended to Paul Schrader's 2017 film 'First Reformed', starring Ethan Hawke, Amanda Seyfried 44 do-LP Vaultworks 331V 2019 and Cedric Kyles. The release features extended versions of the score formatted as a €27,50 Motion Picture Soundtrack standalone album. The double vinyl edition includes an extra track "Venice" which was featured at the Venice Film Festival red carpet event." - gatefold cover, black vinyl co-founder and frontman of the lengendary CABARET VOLTAIRE with his first solo- album in 35 years ! "...Laced with leftfield house and cut-up sound collages, Um Dada CD DAIS Records DAIS141 2019 45 MALLINDER, STEPHEN - Um Dada is a melding of energies that are an exercise in simplicity and motion. Sincere, playful €13,00 realism that beckons your body to move..." CD version in Gatefold cardboard sleeve

5 second album for this Polish composer from Lodz (also active as LIMITED LIABILITY SOUND), musically difficult to categorize: instrumental parts, very concrete object / field rec. noises, electronics and found sounds merge into a dreamlike, avantgardish Attenuation Circuit ACU CD 2018 ambient sound with sometimes emerging Jazz or IDM elements, very melancholic and 46 MANKOWSKI, ADAM - Dzwieki z Offu 1013 €12,00 restrained... the whole is meant as a tribute to Polish film-maker GREZGORZ KROLIKIEWICZ and especially his film "Na Wylot"; lim. 100 and absolutely to discover !! after various collaborations by JONATHAN MEESE ("Alle Macht der Kunst") with the HJULER couple in the PSYCH KG "Fluxus" LP series, this must be the first full length MEESE / MAMA BAER / HJULER - Alaska Kid CD with material by the three dadaistic bruitists and features 11 tracks: you can listen 47 CD Moloko+ PLUS 107 2019 to a collaged JOSEPH BEUYS, "Strammstehen" - samplemania by MEESE, further €13,00 jagt Dr. No investigations into MAMA BAER's singing & feedback noise experiments, agitation speech earplay poetry madness, "Alcoholisme-Brut Nr.1", etc.. + digipak with new MEESE artworks DAN MELCHIOR's album from 2014 has its roots still in folk, blues and songwriting, but working with these elements and combining it with electronic means something different arises, highly listenable & melodic & minimal but with enough experimental NO=FI Recordings LP 2014 edges and surprises.. this is lovely underground drone blues! "..to avant rock, 48 MELCHIOR, DAN - All at Sea NO036 €14,00 experimental folk/blues and weird sounds....The stuff he played changed with him, slowly affected by electronic music, Krautrock (like Can and Faust), avantgarde, concrete music" gorgeous artbook (100 pages. linen cover with foil blocking) presenting a photographic work by JOSEPHINE MICHEL (known from their book "Halfway to White") + CD with a MICHEL, JOSEPHINE & MIKA VAINIO - The live recording (56+ min.) by MIKA VAINIO (last show in UK 2016, performing parts of a 49 BOOK + CD Touch CODEX 2 2019 €36,00 Heat Equation planned new CD for Touch).. " The photographs and the music interact through a variety of climates, where the microcosm and the macrocosm, the animate and the inanimate, the telluric and the cosmic coexist - and sometimes fuse." "God is a Dictator!" - re-issue of the deleted box-set (2015), a strong concept album with pugnacious industrial fighting against western religion, absorbing some elements Old Europa Cafe OECD of christianity (church bells, choirs) into these hypnotic noise-scapes filled with the CD 2019 50 MILITIA - The Face of God 268 typical MILITIA sounds of self-played percussion, vocal attacks, distorted drones, war €14,00 samples, electronics... the fight is always on, resistance is always needed! Lim. 300 nice 6 panel digipack extreme improvisation music with fast changing high speed noise attacks and 'quietly growing tension' by these two gifted performers in collaboration, recorded at two live MORI, IKUE / MAJA S.K. RATKJE - performances..."The most astonishing element of this superb performance is the 51 LP Bocian Records BC-IM 2013 €16,00 Scrumptious Sabotage realization that even though the compositions are entirely intuitive, created without any previous planning, guidelines or negotations, the listener can sense a nearly palpable sense of deep connection and understanding between the artists" first release for this vocal performer from Stavanger, Norway => thirteen pieces were recorded at various indoor and outdoor places, capturing the environmental sounds and 52 MOTLAND, STINE JANVIN - In Labour LP Pica Disk PICA 033 2014 atmospheres from these sites, and performing to it with her textured breath and €16,00 whisperings and vocal utterings.. very special, intimate, challenging stuff! check it out at : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX29rFGbKS4 / 180gr vinyl + DL code excellent, heavily reduced "small noises" music, a long form collage created on MURAYAMA, SEIJIRO - The Empire of Slip of percussion objects and with voice, sine-wave electronics and occasional field 53 CD Hitorri - hitorri 984 2018 €14,00 the Tongue recordings, very "concrete" (no further effect processing) and intimate... - "Densely structured and mysterious, this is an overpowering, incomparable masterpiece." one of the MG classics from the mid 90's period, finally available again after 25 years on the prolific Essence Music label from Brasil..."Four intoxicating suites showcasing Bryn Jones' ability to create lengthy, slow burning and detailed compositions soaked CD Essence Music ESS 28 2019 54 MUSLIMGAUZE - AL-ZULFIQAR SHAHEED with trance inducing percussive impetus and beautiful -never again to be reproduced- €16,00 middle eastern atmospheres.." - comes in 6 panel digisleeve, lim. 280 copies, re- mastered and with new artwork we got very few copies of the BOX-edition, one of those ESSENCE got famous for: CD/CD-R + BOX Essence Music ESS 28 2019 55 MUSLIMGAUZE - AL -ZULFIQAR SHAHEED amazing objects are placed inside it: a hand-painted antique tile, screenprinted cotton €95,00 6 (special edition) cloth, a hand-carved golden medaillon plus a little copper-tinted arabian sword !! + bonus CDR with rare track and download card: lim. ed. of 119 copies (numbered) LP version of the rare japan tour only CD from 2014 with new artwork; 400 copies black vinyl -"Imperfection was recorded as if both bands were one, with Nadja playing their world-acknowledged thick unearthly droning wall of bass and guitars, while Vampillia LP Throne Records TR56 2015 56 NADJA / VAMPILLIA - Imperfection arranged the doomy acoustic drumming, beautifully harsh classical strings and piano. €16,00 This instrumental voyage will take you to the highest peaks in a crystal-clear sunny day only to drag you to the blackest abyssal ocean's depths right afterwards." bass clarinet, e bass, bass horn and saxophon drones build the basis for the pieces on this do-CD: " Wieder sehr volltönende, vielschichtige Klangteppiche, die an neuere 57 NIBLOCK, PHILL - Touch Food do-CD Touch TO:59 2004 Sachen von HAFLER TRIO denken lassen, wo sich innerhalb der vermeintlich €16,00 statischen Klangwolken Wellen- und Kreisbewegungen ausmachen lassen, absolut hypnotisierend... A must for drone-lovers !!" (Drone Rec. info] / back in stock ! Great, monumental work by the drone-minimalist from New York, 9 long pieces spread on 3 CDs based on instrumental sounds performed by different musicians, NIBLOCK formed 24-32 track pieces out of this, with no further electronic processing: Reine 58 NIBLOCK, PHILL - Touch Three 3 x CD Touch TO:69 2006 Klänge, Wellen, Frequenzen, Fliessen, Obertöne - Statik die sich bewegt, wie sie €21,00 einnehmender kaum sein könnte-mal sehr nah, dicht und konkret, mal orchestral vielschichtig und polyphon....benutzte Instrumente: Cello, Akustikgitarre, Saxophon, Trompete, Viola... early CD release with two long compositions: The Soldier String Quartet performs "Five Experimental Intermedia More String Quartets" (25+ min.), a piece for five multi-tracked string quartets, and CD 1993 59 NIBLOCK, PHILL - ...Music by Phill Niblock Foundation XI111 "Early Winter" (45+ min,.) for flute, bass flute, string quartet and synthesizer, using 38 €14,00 different sampled voice tracks... the second NIBLOCK full length CD, back in stock ! this marks the first time JEROME NOETINGER was asked to "compose" a piece for a classical trained instrumental ensemble, he tried to let them sound like his reel to reel NOETINGER, JEROME / ENSEMBLE PHOENIX tape experiments and arrangments - the result sounds like nothing else, a deranged 60 LP Bocian Records BC NxP 2016 €17,00 BASEL - Les Voix de L'invisible dissonant machine of unknown matter maybe, repetitive elements occur but it's not really minimal 'structured' music, like a broken "sampler" made out of classical instruments and noises... very very special !! rare 7" released for the festival "Scenasonica Congresso" that happened in Pordenone, Old Europa Cafe OESR Italy, in October 2019 - the 7" was normally only available at the concert or from the 7" 2019 61 NURSE WITH WOUND - Arcane Reawakeing 007 label directly, we could get a handful of copies... two pieces ("Trasference 1 & 2") on €16,00 two different coloured vinyl, numbered ed. a surrealistic aural nightmare, inspired by the outbreak of smallpox in Yugoslavia in the 1970's... "Adrift in the sea of narcotic synth textures, discordant recitations, Tesco Organisation contaminated laboratory noises, misshapen fragments of charlatan sermons, cannibal LP 2019 62 POST SCRIPTVM - Variola Vera TESCO 132 ceremonies, voices of dying children and speeches of the moribund Eastern Blok €20,00 dictators, Variola Vera navigates its wayward course amidst the bitter nostalgia, ritualistic fervency, lethargic dejection, and frantic anguish." - lim. 300, full colour inlay IN THE DREAM OF RIVERS - rare art-release on the HONGKONG based label - 67+ min of new material (8 tracks) - definitely one of the more surrealistic and dreamy Ultra-Mail Prod. UMP- RAPOON releases, strangely floating soundscapes and "small sounds" shape a CD 2019 63 RAPOON - Dust of Souls 064 remarkable atmosphere.. comes in an oversized "deluxe gatefold package with tip-on €28,00 printing. Includes a handmade artwork created on a pieces of sandpaper. Signed and numbered on the back of the sandpaper.Limited to 100 copies." last copies of this collaboration LP with two side-long pieces, most extreme and highly RATKJE, MAJA S.K. / JOACHIM MONTESSUIS dynamic collages around RATKJE's vocal utterings and noises change with some great 64 LP Erratum EM009 2013 calmer and almost musical / shamanistic passages... dark & daring ! - "Experimental €15,00 - Janus mouth music duet, free interlaced vocal noises, sonic poetry and free electronics. A convergent formal meeting of two complementary paths between poetry and music." third volume in the 13(3) series, with interesting audio part by Italian sound artist RATTI, NICOLA & MARK TEMPLETON - NICOLA RATTI - field recordings mixed with other object sounds that do no really 65 LP + booklet 13 (3) - issue # 3 2014 "belong" to it, creating a subtle illusion.... the photographic (?) part comes from MARK €15,00 Resophonic TEMPLETON (16 page A4 booklet); NICOLA RATTI is a prolific composer with releases on DIE SCHACHTEL, SENUFO, ROOM40 or STUDENTS OF DECAY.. lim. 7 250 copies on white vinyl & still to discover ! joint release by the re-established ANT-ZEN label and Raubbau from Berlin, this is indeed the very first full solo album / LP by the man and designer behind Ant-Zen, Ant-Zen act400 / STEFAN ALT, comes with six awesome fine print inlays (12" x 12"), six tracks feat. LP 2019 66 SALT - Machiakari Raubbau RAUB-076 GENEVIEVE PASQUIER (THOROFON) and a cover version of a JOHN CARPENTER €25,00 piece ("Assualt on Precinct 13", all thematically strong connected to Japanese culture, with mastering by M. RICHTER (XABEC) Synth ambient transitions from Denmark, this is the second album on GTERMA by SecondFace... "Elements of techno-minimalism and ambient dub are still on the menu 67 SECONDFACE - Transitions CD Gterma 053 2017 but less present while the whole sound design (which proves quite hypnotic and €13,00 mesmerizing) has expanded further into the mellow, chill-out domain." [Sonic Immersion] - comes with full colour booklet, 74+ min. playtime one of the longest active Russian experimental/drone/post-industrial projects (who released a 7" on Drone Rec. [DR-59] in 2003) with often surrealistic 'superstructure', in SHINKIRO & BARDOSENETICCUBE - Beyond Zhelezobeton ZHB- third collaboration with Japanese dark ambient project SHINKIRO => focused on the 68 CD 2019 €12,00 the Edge of the Universe LXXVIII last questions of Cosmology, they created a rich, calm and melancholic cosmo-scape, with many sound details enfolding inside the mix... "Beautiful, delicate and complex cosmic dark ambient music." - numb. ed 300 copies minimalistic dark synth ambience from the U.S., after many CDRs the first "fabric- pressed" CD, a soundtrack to "capture the aftermath of our world after having suffered through a grand deluge"--"The continuous live-set is an inner world ambient affair 69 SLOAN, JASON - Deluge CD Gterma 039 2014 drifting into ethereal lands as it smoothly changes shape and reveals intrinsic motion €13,00 along the way. Headphones are essential to discover the many fine details and hypnotic realm embedded in the carefully molded, overtly minimalist atmospherics" [Sonic I.] tribute remixes for the 85th birthday of the pioneering German minimalist composer, following his three principal compositional concerns "SONORITY, RHYTHM, and STIEBLER, ERNSTALBRECHT / VARIOUS DURATION" - " five artists from different musical backgrounds present their approach 70 LP Karlrecords KR062 2019 €18,00 ARTISTS - Reworks to and understanding of Stiebler's minimalist aesthetic" : FRANK BRETSCNEIDER, BERANGERE MAXIMIN, JASMINE GUFFOND. PHONOSPHERE, KAMMERFLIMMER KOLLEKTIEF; 300 copies on 180 gr. vinyl + download code a kind of sister-album to "Life Metal", the four tracks were recorded at the same sessions (Chicago, July 2018) as "early morning improvisation" contemplation practises... and here O))) do what they can maybe do best: creating mighty 71 SUNN O))) - Pyroclasts LP Southern Lord sunn333 2019 drones that swirl and circle, full of vibrations, resonances, overtunes, feedbacks, €23,50 overwhelming with the full spectrum of frequencies, with the gradual crystallization of certain structures and forms.. feat. stunning full colour sleeves & inlays, PURPLE IN ORANGE vinyl the now rare first CD of works by the French-Argentinian composer (who also became the managing director of INA GRM), created for percussion, SYTER (System for the CD INA GRM ina c 1014 1993 72 TERUGGI, DANIEL - Syrcus - Sphaera Electronic Treatment of Natural Sounds), and tape; comes with 16 page booklet feat. €16,00 liner notes, scores and photos... the legendary live performance at ALL TOMORROW'S PARTIES December 2004, - A Souvenir of Camber dedicated to JOHN BALANCE who died one month earlier; this was first released as 73 do-LP Mute TGLP20 2019 €25,00 Sands lim. concert CDR (sold out immediately); comes in gatefold-cover, with mini-poster and digital copy inlcuded, lim. vinyl ed. on white vinyl the legendary live performance at ALL TOMORROW'S PARTIES December 2004, dedicated to JOHN BALANCE who died one month earlier; this was first released as THROBBING GRISTLE - A Souvenir of Camber TGCD lim. concert CDR (sold out immediately); "..what’s important here is that the new pieces 74 do-CD 2019 €16,50 Sands 20 / Mute TGCD20 slide effortlessly between the old classics. They don’t seem out of place and have the effect of dragging TG into the present. THIS album should have been titled TG Now." [FREQ] - digipack edition, remastered the 'dreamtone' improvisation/acoustic drone/folk-ensemble with LOREN CHASSE, 75 THUJA - Hills LP Rose Hobart ROSE002 2019 GLENN DONALDSON, STEVEN R.SMITH and others with a rare work from 2002 (CD- €20,00 R on Last Visible Dog), now re-issued on vinyl... "a misty fold of keyboard drones, 8 tinkling piano, clusters of percussives, shuttling and scrabbling strings and other things - often asks for metaphor from the natural world" - ed. of 500 copies on a new sublabel of BLACKEST EVER BLACK promising debut album for the female Turkish-German artist from Berlin (also active as R.A.N.=ROADS AT NIGHT), creating very dense, dark and reduced ambient electronica and more experimental / processed field recordings of an extremely bleak 76 UTKU, HÜMA - Gnosis LP Karlrecords KR068 2019 and atmospheric nature... "Merging field recordings with ambient soundscapes, €18,00 abstract electronics and ritualistic throbbing beats, 'Gnosis' is an intense sonic travelogue where the storyline exceeds the borders any specific musical genre."- ed. of 300 copies last copies of this rare and early INA GRM CD with three pieces for soprano and computer and one older 8 channel tape, created 1981-1994; the Argentinian born composer ALEJANDRO VINAO has created here a trilogy of pieces that are focused on CD INA GRM ina c 1015 1994 77 VINAO, ALEJANDRO - Hildegard's Dream the melodic phrases of "Non-European singing models" (= of Oriental origin) and €15,00 processed them in a most unique way... "GO" from 1981 is based on voice and percussion and a 10 chord chorale; comes with 20 page booklet after the awesome 2018 collaboration with PHURPA Frederic Arbour presents this new work named "Temples", seven pieces of haunting and beautiful, dark harmonic drones and ambiences, less "cosmic minimal" as on earlier releases, but with a great intuition CD Cyclic Law 119th Cycle 2019 78 VISIONS - Temples for deep floating transcension sounds.. " “#38;Temples” also serves as an hymn to lost €13,00 civilisations, and a gratitude for what can still be found and discovered from our predecessors..." ed. of 500 copies re-edition of the lim. CDRs from 2007 which marked the return of VOICE OF EYE, one Old Europa Cafe of the most important "transcension drone" projects emerging from the 90's... "Although do-CD 2010 79 VOICE OF EYE - Emergence & Immersion OECD123 completely improvised, the music seems amazingly composed. One can intuit that the €15,00 musical re-uniting of this duo created a vortex in the worlds.." BACK IN STOCK! after the nice "Wire Recorded Pieces" LP, here's another compilation by the same label with obscure electronic music from earliest pioneers: TOM DISSEVELT + KID BALTAN, Sound Miracle HENK BADINGS, REMI GASSMANN, DAPHNE ORAM, LIGETI, GOTTFRIEND LP + CD 2018 80 V.A. - Incantations For Tape Recordings SSMM 002 MICHAEL KÖNIG, MAX MATHEWS ("the father of computer music"), BÜLENT AREL, €20,00 USSACHEVSKY + LUENING, ALWIN NIKOLAIS, etc.. comes with full CD copy of the same album, clear vinyl the definite collector's item for the end of the year 2019! - JIM HAYNES label releases this massive woodbox with 10 full length cassettes on the theme "CORROSION", full albums by 10 artists, nicely designed with "corrosion" portrait cards and a small booklet Helen Scarsdale Agency 10 x MC BOX 2019 with essays.. FOSSIL AEROSOL MINING PROJECT, ALICE KEMP, G*PARK, SHE 81 V.A. - On Corrosion HMS 050 €100,00 SPREAD SORROW, HIMUKALT, RICHARD CHARTIER (PINKCOURTESYPHONE), FRANCISCO MEIRINO, NEUTRAL, KLEISTWAHR, RELY FOR DEATH.. lim. 200 copies a collection of artists/tracks from the legendary NURSE WITH WOUND list (1979), Vol. 1 with only French acts ("where the Seine meets the in-sane"), with pieces from nowadays more well known acts such as PIERRE HENRY, IGOR WAKHEVITCH, V.A. - Strain, Crack & Break : Music from the Finders Keepers Records do-LP 2019 PHILIPPE BESOMBES, JACQUES TOLLOT, ETRON FOU LELOUBLAN, ZNR, but 82 FKR101LP €24,00 Nurse With Wound List Vol. 1 (France) there are also more unknown & obscure ones: MAHJUN, JEAN COHEN-SOLAL, RED NOISE, HORRIFIC CHILD, JEAN GUERIN, DASHIELL HEDAYAT.. excellent artwork by S.STAPLETON ,gatefold cover, extensive liner notes.. a must !! a very touching tribute ("specifically recorded music by former label mates, collaborators and friends, and also some musical admirers") to the co-founder and V.A. - The Godfather of Odd: A HARDY FOX primary composer of THE RESIDENTS, wo passed away Oct. 2018, feat: DDAA, 83 CD Klanggalerie gg300 2019 €14,00 tribute BLAINE REINIGER, STEVEN BROWN (both of TUXEDOMOON), JG THIRLWELL (FOETUS), RENALDO & THE LOAF, FRED FRITH, PALO ALTO, RESIDENTS, OSTRICH VON NIPPLE, etc. etc. Back in stock one of our favourite comps from the past years ! - "sound ecology" / environmental / field recording pieces by the current "creme da la creme" of sound CD Nitkie label patch two 2011 84 V.A. - The Sound Ecology: Range artists, comes with extensive 24p. full-colour booklet: MATHIEU RUHLMANN, €13,00 YANNICK DAUBY, MICHAEL NORTHAM, ERIC LA CASA & CEDRIC PEYRONNET, 9 JOHN GRZINICH, FRANCISCO LOPEZ, JEPH JERMAN, RALF WEHOWSKY, CHRISTOPHER McFALL, MURMER; ed. of 500 copies - highly recommended for any fan of field recording art !!! extremely ethereal and amorph "ghost drone" and neo classic ensemble music on this collaboration, by the Danish all-female (4 members) group WE LIKE WE (performing on WE LIKE WE & JACOB KIRKEGAARD - Time is Sonic Pieces PATTERN violin, cello, percussion and voice) and sound artist JACOB KIRKEGAARD, based on a 85 LP 2019 €29,00 Local 08 12 hour live sound installation at the Thorvaldson Museum in Copenhagen, where they wandered through halls and rooms of the museum the whole day.. a must for lovers of minimal & haunting drone muzak! Lim. 500, laser cutted art cover after the big success of Vol.1 now the second part with "cover versions" (rather new ZEITKRATZER - Zeitkratzer performs Songs interpretations) of early KRAFTWERK songs (from their first two albums, published 1970-1972): "Harmonika", "Stratovarius", "Vom Himmel Hoch", "Wellenlänge" - LP Karlrecords KR069 2019 86 from the Albums "Kraftwerk 2" And "ZEITKRATZER’s interpretations are bouncy, horn-driven motorik grooves, static €18,00 "Kraftwerk" explorations of pointillistic overtones, breathy Zen-like meditations, and rollicking rhythms." - recorded live at Hellerau, Dresden, Jan. 2019; ed. of 500 copies the first album by this project from Brest (FR) which uses only a graphical symbol " ][|][" as project name, in a similar way hermetic and cryptic are the minimal industrial drones Steelkraft Manufactory created here, metallic sounding and interwoven deeply inside, somehow waving and CD-R 2011 87 ][|][ - ITER SKM-014 fluttering, very machine-like, and indeed inspired by the "International Thermonuclear €8,50 Experimental Reactor"... if you like bleak and minimal (not noisy) drones, this is very recommended! Digipak with booklet and inlays, no text at all, lim. 100

* ALREADY IN STOCK but no time / space for detail listing yet + PRE ORDERS : (will be featured en detail in the next Newsflash) : ELECTRIC SEWER AGE - Contemplating Nothingness CD (Old Europa Cafe) third E.S.A-album, the project by COIL-member DANNY HYDE € 15,00 SUTEKH HEXEN - Sutekh Hexen do-LP (Cyclic Law) lim. vinyl version by the 'black metallized' ambient industrial droners from the U.S. € 30,00 LEGENDARY PINK DOTS - Five Days... Complete do-LP ( Cleopatra ) limited vinyl version on orange vinyl, difficult to find in EU! € 39,00 CORTINI, ALESSANDRO - Volume Massimo LP Mute STUMM443 2019 € 26,50 - Drone Activity LP House of Mythology HOM018 2019 € 33,00

!! IMPORTANT PRE ORDERS !!: NURSE WITH WOUND - TRIPPIN' MUSIK 3 x LP United Dirter - NEW studio material - different coloured vinyls - insert - no tracklisting and no Side A, B, etc.. delayed until Mid January 2020! € 50,00 THROBBING GRISTLE - The Endless Not 3 x LP Mute TGLP19 2019 re-issue of the re-union albums "Part Two: The Endless Not" (2007), plus the rare "TG NOW" 4-track album from 2004, in a box set price t.b.a VOX POPULI! - La Cathedrale Morte LP Backwards BW41 2019 re-issue of the cassette from 1985 (Cause & Effect), which has never been re-issue so far ! Silkscreened cover with printed innersleeve price t.b.a alors: Drone on! ####################################################=>

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