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  • Steve Underwood “Even When It Makes No Sense – the Broken Flag Story”
    Steve Underwood “Even When It Makes No Sense – the Broken Flag Story”
    $20.00 | , Ships on/around Dec 27, 2024 Add to cart

    *Ships Late Dec* English cassette and record label Broken Flag was founded in 1982, and whilst not having released anything for a long time, it has never officially ceased to […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Industrial / Power Electronics, Non-Fiction
  • Gyorgy Galantai – Space & Time (Hungarian Mail Art / Fluxus Artist)
    Gyorgy Galantai – Space & Time (Hungarian Mail Art / Fluxus Artist)
    $60.00 | , Add to cart

    Here’s another one with the Fluxus vibes. Sounds like a dude scraping a piece of metal in a circular motion sometimes softly, sometimes more aggressively. György Galántai (born June 17, [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Master/Slave Relationship – Soundtrack To Black Leather Bondage
    Master/Slave Relationship – Soundtrack To Black Leather Bondage
    $80.00 | , , Add to cart

    Label: Cause And Effect Format: Cassette, Album, C60 Country: US Released: 1987 Genre: Electronic Style: Industrial Does not include re-sealable pouch with a 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ booklet.  

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Personal Best 10
    Personal Best 10
    $16.00 | , , Add to cart

    Interviews with: Alexander Rishaug Carlos Giffoni Hilary Woods Harald Fetveit Evicshen Rhodri Davies Deathprod 100 pages. Offset CMYK print. Perfect bound.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Personal Best 9
    Personal Best 9
    $16.00 | Add to cart

    Lasse Marghaug’s magazine Personal Best is back! Issue number 9 will be in hand and shipping mid to late June. Still my favorite magazine around. Issue 9 features interviews with […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • DDAA – Ronsard
    DDAA – Ronsard
    $26.00 | , , Add to cart

    French experimental/art-music that crosses into industrial at certain points. Label: Electrip – ELECTRIP 01 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country:Belgium Released: 1988 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Nurse With Wound – The Musty Odour Of Pierced Rectums (A Collection Of Obsolete Primitive Variations)
    Nurse With Wound – The Musty Odour Of Pierced Rectums (A Collection Of Obsolete Primitive Variations)
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    Reissue of a limited edition CDr from 2003 Label: Beta-Lactam Ring Records – mt056b Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue Country: US Released: 2008 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Tongue Depressor – Bones For Time
    Tongue Depressor – Bones For Time
    $37.00 | , Add to cart

    “Zach Rowden and Henry Birdsey’s generous latest offering is a tape-mangled, xenharmonic trip into the dissociated outerzone. Properly next level spirit-calling drone musick that [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Old Saw – Dissection Maps
    Old Saw – Dissection Maps
    $26.00 | , Add to cart

    Old Saw, the enigmatic New England collective led by Henry Birdsey (Tongue Depressor), return with their third long-playing record, Dissection Maps. _____________________________________ It is [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Folk / Country
  • Kafka’s Ibiki – Shiminkai
    Kafka’s Ibiki – Shiminkai
    $35.00 | , Ships on/around Dec 27, 2024 Add to cart

    New album “Shiminkai” by Kafka’s Ibiki, a three-piece band comprised of Jim O’Rourke, Eiko Ishibashi, and Tatsuhisa Yamamoto. Recorded live performance in Tokyo in 2023 by [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • David Edren – Relativiteit Van de Omgeving
    David Edren – Relativiteit Van de Omgeving
    $9.00 | , Add to cart

    Antwerp synthesist David Edren describes his latest solo collection in conceptual terms: a harmony of space and time, elements and environments, perception and impermanence. Conceived in the [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Nu Sire – Human Shield
    Nu Sire – Human Shield
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    Nu Sire is Jason James, who is active between the various underground communities of noise, techno, hardcore and metal in Los Angeles. Human Shield arrives after several years of upstaging […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Whitney Johnson – Hav
    Whitney Johnson – Hav
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    Whitney Johnson, alter-ego of psychoacoustic voyager Matchess, debuts with a new composition that meditates on the duality of the human body. An instrument that collates awesome sensory [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Six Organs Of Admittance _? Companion Rises (Twig Harper Remix)
    Six Organs Of Admittance _? Companion Rises (Twig Harper Remix)
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    6OOA’s 2020 opus is reunmanaged by sound composer Twig Harper, whose REMIX goes places no other remix record could dare under his unlimited brief. In the process, it affords the […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Dean Spunt – Basic Editions
    Dean Spunt – Basic Editions
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    An excursion in electronic sound instrumentally unpacking Dean Spunt’s fascination with language – in this instance, the syntax of the systems and processes of various 64-voice E-mu modules [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Richard Ramirez _? Amplified Tactics 2LP (Jacket water damaged – records are fine)
    Richard Ramirez _? Amplified Tactics 2LP (Jacket water damaged – records are fine)
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    “‘amplified tactics’ collects 4 segments of live performances from texas and mexico in 1999, rolling back to an era when live noise shows were isolated mysterious affairs or [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.* – Glorify Astrological Martyrdom
    Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.* – Glorify Astrological Martyrdom
    $18.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Acid Mother’s Temple’s Glorify Astrological Martyrdom is sure to appeal to the myriad AMT fans who have made Crystal Rainbow Pyramid a new fan favorite. Professionally recorded [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Experimental / Noise
  • Coffin Prick ? Side Splits
    Coffin Prick ? Side Splits
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    The collection of music you’re about to squeeze through your temporal lobe is not comprised of your standard 4/4 dance remixes. Unlike traditional remix records, these thirteen pieces are [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Techno / House / Electronic
  • Broken Telepathy ? Broken Telepathy
    Broken Telepathy ? Broken Telepathy
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    Using an idiosyncratic compass and thinly disguised as Broken Telepathy, the Bronx-based duo of Kaori Nakamura (Soft Gang) and Darin Mickey (Dichroics/Soft Gang) navigate a range of emotional [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • DJ Speedsick / Giugno
    DJ Speedsick / Giugno
    $12.00 | Add to cart

    Released on CDr from endogenesis – housed in a manilla envelope. labeled CDr.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Techno / House / Electronic
  • Zach Rowden – Limit Experience
    Zach Rowden – Limit Experience
    $20.00 | Add to cart

    A solo double bass LP from Zach Rowden. A minimal and  drone album that requires you to let go, and hear Zach’s discipline and from that – patience. Immediately intimate, […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Masonna – Shinsen Na Clitoris (Picture Disc)
    Masonna – Shinsen Na Clitoris (Picture Disc)
    $60.00 | , , Add to cart

    Reissue of a limited CD from 1990 on Vanilla Records Label: Hospital Productions – HOS-639 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Picture Disc, Reissue Country: US Released: 2019 VG+/VG+  

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Akira Sakata – 20 Personalities Akira Sakata Sings
    Akira Sakata – 20 Personalities Akira Sakata Sings
    $17.00 | , , Add to cart

    Akira Sakata’s frantic “vocal-jazz” album Label: Better Days – YF-7006-N Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Japan Released: 1980 VG+/VG+ with some wear to cover. Includes liner.  

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Experimental / Noise
  • DJ Speedsick – You People Make Me Fucking Sick CDr
    DJ Speedsick – You People Make Me Fucking Sick CDr
    $16.00 | Add to cart

    New sixteen-minute piece by DJ Speedsick of cut-up style harsh noise and claustrated blues guitar entrails descending into a vortex; comprised largely of archival recordings and audio extracted [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Karen Constance / Dylan Nyoukis ? Day Music / Night Music
    Karen Constance / Dylan Nyoukis ? Day Music / Night Music
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    Constance the insomniac presents us with Day Music. Heavy processed electronics, field recordings, mangled voices and tape wrangle constructed late at night in bed. Fend off the darkness fears [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • tik///tik / Salt Swan ? KCPC / Musk Lust
    tik///tik / Salt Swan ? KCPC / Musk Lust
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    Amerige Records takes pride in reviving an overlooked classic, now reissued on vinyl and widely accessible for the first time. Originally distributed on cassette among friends in 2011, this [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Leslie Keffer ? Represents: Live 2005
    Leslie Keffer ? Represents: Live 2005
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    “Vocals, Radios.” As line items on record sleeves go, that’s fairly cryptic – it could mean anything. But that’s what Ohioan noise artist Leslie Keffer was working with on the […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Baphomet Sex – All Ancestors Standing Beside Your Bed
    Baphomet Sex – All Ancestors Standing Beside Your Bed
    $10.00 | Add to cart

    Baphomet Sex is V. Jasper Fairbanks 4 track cassette player with looping cassette 10 channel mixer Genthalz C.U.N.T Earthquaker Organizer, Arpanoid, Astral Destiny Donner loop pedal Edition of 50

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Leslie Keffer – She-Wolf
    Leslie Keffer – She-Wolf
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    Leslie Keffer: vocals, radios Previously unreleased material written and recorded in 2006 Edition of 50

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Slacking ? Roundhouse A Bootlicker
    Slacking ? Roundhouse A Bootlicker
    $12.00 | , Add to cart

    Debut vinyl release from Slacking. New American harsh noise. Mastered by Grant Richardson at Hex Audio Labs. Side B is an excerpt of a live collaboration with Mallard Theory.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • K2 ? Hybrid Dub Metal Musik
    K2 ? Hybrid Dub Metal Musik
    $18.00 | , Add to cart

    K2 / “Hybrid Dub Metal Musik” A-1: Tokyo Would Be Carthago (12’32”)* A-2: Trade Friction in Medieval (7’57”)* B-1: Love To The Extent to Biting My Hands (20’42”)** *Recorded at […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Hell And Back
    Hell And Back
    $10.00 | Add to cart

    “A document of life events. Last Day With My Garbage, Share The Wealth, Confounder, Ozymandias & Joe Roemer, Dead Door Unit”

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Emil Beaulieau – America’s Greatest Living Noise Artist
    Emil Beaulieau – America’s Greatest Living Noise Artist
    $15.00 | , Add to cart

    Originally released via RRRecords. Crucial document containing over an hour of live and studio footage. NTSC format videotape

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Rock Candy – Swimming In
    Rock Candy – Swimming In
    $8.00 | Add to cart

    Delve into Rock Candy’s first ever released recordings – enter their universe of far out features, including sounds from the electric guitar, organ, drum machine and “vintage” keyboard. An [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • TASTE – I dipped my comb… (Loud experimental rock)
    TASTE – I dipped my comb… (Loud experimental rock)
    $24.00 | Add to cart

    I dipped my comb in shochu and ran it through the hair of the night is the brand new release from the intriguing trio 番長 Taste, consisting of Mark Anderson […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • V/A ? ?And Shiva Came For Charlie
    V/A ? ?And Shiva Came For Charlie
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    Memorial compilation for Charlie Gocher featuring many Sun City Girls associates. Includes 20pg zine with info/photos Label: Ri Be Xibalba – OQ’EBAL 002 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • SUSS – Birds & Beasts
    SUSS – Birds & Beasts
    $16.00 | Add to cart

    SUSS’ fifth release, Birds & Beasts, on Northern Spy Records, finds the New York-based ambient trio digging deeper, populating its stark, ethereal soundscapes with primal currents of sound [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Folk / Country
  • Suss – Suss (2022 self titled)
    Suss – Suss (2022 self titled)
    $34.00 | , Add to cart

    A lot has happened to SUSS since their last vinyl release, 2020’s Promise on Northern Spy Records. That album ended up on many best-of lists that year, and was cited […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Folk / Country
  • Sissy Spacek – Mirror Aggressor State
    Sissy Spacek – Mirror Aggressor State
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    Sissy Spacek Mirror Aggressor State CD Helicopter HEL 99099 On the heels of their F.O.A.D. LP and mid-west/east coast tour, a new full-length album from the Isaac Horne/Charlie Mumma/John Wiese [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Muslimgauze _? Blinded Horses
    Muslimgauze _? Blinded Horses
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    “Blinded Horses (1985) was the 2nd album released by Muslimgauze on his Limited Editions series – the first being Hunting Out With An Aerial Eye – and finds the pioneering, [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Amelia Courthouse – Broken Things LP
    Amelia Courthouse – Broken Things LP
    $22.00 | Ships on/around Sep 06, 2024 Add to cart

    On her first album since ruby glass (SPINSTER, 2019), sound artist and composer amelia courthouse (aka Leah Toth) builds on her previous album’s textures, moods, and evocations of memory, adding [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Sun Araw ? Beach Head
    Sun Araw ? Beach Head
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    “The four tracks of Beach Head, like much of Sun Araw’s work, capture Cameron Stallones at a certain place and time; its re-release some years after its first limited run […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Indie / Alternative
  • Camille Dietrich – Grates of Love
    Camille Dietrich – Grates of Love
    $10.00 | Ships on/around Aug 23, 2024 Add to cart

    Camille is the rawest cellist working today, straight up, no qualifiers. It’s hard to separate her from her dad and co-conspirator Don Dietrich in the same way it’s incredibly difficult […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Guilherme Granado – Christi Annu Ali Vyianna
    Guilherme Granado – Christi Annu Ali Vyianna
    $10.00 | Ships on/around Aug 23, 2024 Add to cart

    When Ab from Cartas de Cartalunya (OCFC-002) sent me Christi Annu Ali Vyianna I thought it was another of his alter egos because it shared the same dreamscape Brazilian cyclical […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Aster ? Things That Just Happen
    Aster ? Things That Just Happen
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    [duo of Ashley Paul & Eli Keszler] Label: R.E.L. Records REL21 Format: LP Country: US Released: 2013  

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Glaciers – Superposition
    Glaciers – Superposition
    $12.00 | Add to cart

    TODD A. CARTER – PIANO, RHODES, SYNTH, PERCUSSION, TOYS, ORGAN MICHAEL HARTMAN – PIANO, SYNTHS, DRUMS, PERCUSSION RECORDED AT BEL_AIR SOUND STUDIO NOBLE SQUARE 2019 – 2022 [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Bugs And Rats ? Adidas
    Bugs And Rats ? Adidas
    $13.00 | , Add to cart

      “Vinylization of a 2010 CD-R by this Quincy, MA trio who have been around since 2003. Their longevity makes it damn odd that this is their first LP. But […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Indie / Alternative
  • Benjamin Lew / Steven Brown ? A Propos D’Un Paysage
    Benjamin Lew / Steven Brown ? A Propos D’Un Paysage
    $28.00 | , , Add to cart

    “A couple of years after the release of the magical “Douzième Journée” album, Benjamin Lew and Steven Brown meet again in the studio. With a little help from Vini Reilly […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Benjamin Lew ? Nebka
    Benjamin Lew ? Nebka
    $32.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Electronics go hand in hand with acoustics to conjure images of deserts and sand. “Nebka” is an arabic word which describes a sand dune formed by the wind around an […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • What Lies Beneath #5 Zine + CD-R
    What Lies Beneath #5 Zine + CD-R
    $11.00 | , Add to cart

    Interviews with/writings on Troth, Warm Currency, Ritual Heaps & Minimum Table Stacks.   What Lies Beneath, 2024

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Lord Spikeheart – The Adept
    Lord Spikeheart – The Adept
    $21.00 | , Add to cart

    The Adept is Lord Spikeheart’s first full-length album. A ferocious debut that ups the intensity and physicality of his previous releases and promises to bring a telluric big bang in […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Max Nordile ? Hanging By A Fan Over Wet Cement
    Max Nordile ? Hanging By A Fan Over Wet Cement
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    Hanging by a Fan Over Wet Cement is the music of listening after listening, when water runs relative to the sound of your own footsteps, and you lean over the […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Imminent Death – Radiant Ignition
    Imminent Death – Radiant Ignition
    $9.00 | Add to cart

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • INTRAVIS Compilation
    INTRAVIS Compilation
    $10.00 | Add to cart

    A compilation featuring Nota Grave, Vampiros Kosmos, Universal Cell Unlock, Zach Rowden, Energy Gradient, Tval, Shredded Nerve, Mortido, Prosperity, and Cienfuegos.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Spiteful Womb ? Traumacore
    Spiteful Womb ? Traumacore
    $9.00 | Add to cart

    C20, Edition of 50

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • England’s Hidden Reverse, Revised and Expanded Edition: A Secret History of the Esoteric Underground
    England’s Hidden Reverse, Revised and Expanded Edition: A Secret History of the Esoteric Underground
    $32.00 | , Add to cart

    An expanded edition of the classic exploration of the English esoteric musical underground—with the first biography of Coil, Current 93, and Nurse With Wound. This newly expanded edition of [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Industrial / Power Electronics, Non-Fiction
  • Mot ? Remains
    Mot ? Remains
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    Recorded during the Autumn of 2023 amidst fluctuating extreme states of tension and tranquility, Canadian artist Paul van Trigt delivers 30 minutes of thoughtfully spliced cassette and reel [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Arv & Milj? ? Jorden F?rst
    Arv & Milj? ? Jorden F?rst
    $24.00 | , Add to cart

    An emotionally charged and bizarrely evocative look at radical environmental advocacy groups, mainly Earth First! and Earth Liberation Front, channeled through the memories of the Swedish [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Thistle Group, P Wits ? Fog On My Brain/Figure It Out
    Thistle Group, P Wits ? Fog On My Brain/Figure It Out
    $15.00 | , Add to cart

    Match made in heaven collaborative hit single from New Zealand-based artists Claire Mahoney (Thistle Group) and Benedict Quilter (P Wits). Recorded and mixed by Stefan Neville, mastered for vinyl [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Franciska – Afvikling
    Franciska – Afvikling
    $7.00 | Add to cart

    The latest in the prolific output of Copenhagen’s talented Jonas Torstensen, better known as Franciska. Those already familiar with Franciska’s output from the past couple years on [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise