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  • Can – Monster Movie
    Can – Monster Movie
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    “Though Monster Movie was the first full-length album in what would become a sprawling and often genre-defining discography, Can were on a level well ahead of the curve even in […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Broken Hope – The Bowels Of Repugnance
    Broken Hope – The Bowels Of Repugnance
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    The Chicago death metal band’s second album. Label: Metal Blade – 3984-14018-2 Format: CD, Album, Repress Country: US Released: VG+/VG+ with light marks & wear  

    GENRE: Metal
  • Con-Dom / Militia – Scorched Earth Policy
    Con-Dom / Militia – Scorched Earth Policy
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    Re-release of a 1995 split cassette on Old Europa Cafe Label: Old Europa Cafe – OECD 047 Format: CD, Album, Reissue Country: Italy Released: 2002 VG+/VG+ with light marks/wear.

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Intrinsic Action – Intrinsic Action
    Intrinsic Action – Intrinsic Action
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    Reissue of Intrinsic Action’s self-titled cassette from 1985 Label: BloodLust – no cat number Format: CD, Remastered, Stereo Country: US Released: 2020 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Intrinsic Action ‎– Five
    Intrinsic Action ‎– Five
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    Reissue of Intrinsic Action’s 1988 cassette on AWB Label:BloodLust! – B!048 Format: CD, Album, Reissue Country: US Released: 2004 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Nurse With Wound ‎– Thunder Perfect Mind
    Nurse With Wound ‎– Thunder Perfect Mind
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    “Although Steven Stapleton’s temporary retirement from music wasn’t quite as quiet as one might have imagined – a slew of reissues, live recordings and compilations in the [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Sewer Election – Sex / Death
    Sewer Election – Sex / Death
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    Reissue of a two cassette set, originally released on Harsh Head Rituals. Recorded 2006 in Harsh Head Studios. Label: PACrec – PACrec126 Format: CD, Album, Reissue Country: US Released: 2007 […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Christoph Heemann – Aftersolstice
    Christoph Heemann – Aftersolstice
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    “Dedicated to Noel Scott Engel, who after receiving the album sent me a handwritten letter sharing his impressions and appreciation. Thanks as always to Jim O’Rourke for his support [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Godflesh – Slavestate
    Godflesh – Slavestate
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    An infusion of Godflesh’s metal and electronic leanings Label: Relativity – 88561-1073-4 Format: Cassette, Mini-album, Compliation Country: US Released: 1991 VG+/VG+ with Some wear & [...]

    GENRE: Metal
  • Andrea Dworkin – Intercourse
    Andrea Dworkin – Intercourse
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    “Intercourse is the fifth nonfiction book by American radical feminist writer and activist Andrea Dworkin. It was first published in 1987 by Free Press. In Intercourse, Dworkin presents a [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Gary Indiana – Vile Days
    Gary Indiana – Vile Days
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    “Gary Indiana’s collected columns of art criticism from the Village Voice, documenting, from the front lines, the 1980s New York art scene.From March 1985 through June 1988 in The [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ben Hall – Windbag
    Ben Hall – Windbag
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    A half hour channeling session invoked by human breath. Lungs push forth force and conjure temporary and overlapping tones to trance out to. Let these sounds set your ears afloat […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Thom Nguyen – Imago Ossuary
    Thom Nguyen – Imago Ossuary
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    Known to many as the percussive presence in groups like Nest Egg, MANAS, Wasting and We Bow to No Masters, Asheville’s Thom Nguyen moves in to dronier, driftier worlds with […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Tile – Warmfth
    Tile – Warmfth
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    Indianapolis trio, Tile, unfurl two side long slabs of Circle City sound balming on ‘Warmfth’, their debut cassette, for Medium Sound. Serene sound waves wash, sway and wiggle [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Eternal Husk – Commune III
    Eternal Husk – Commune III
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    Further tonal ruminations and aural questions asked from deep within. An outsider music grab bag jam selection, nay, transmission from deep within the Circle City. Another sonic commune (the [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Solid Squares – KS I & II
    Solid Squares – KS I & II
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    Local composer / saxophonist / drummer / improvisor Tom Lageveen drops in two heavenly compositions for piano, under his Solid Squares moniker. With a little help from his friends, KS […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Caldwell/Tester – Smiley (Endless Smile Mix)
    Caldwell/Tester – Smiley (Endless Smile Mix)
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    A contemplative holler from the far reaches of the Medium Sound universe. Landon Caldwell & Mark Tester conjure a meditative aural bridge, that sonically links the next two forthcoming [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Mark & Landon – Vol. 1
    Mark & Landon – Vol. 1
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    Sounds from the basement underneath the dance floor. Dusty programmed beats bussed out and live mixed amongst a hazy tapestry of keys and electric strings. Midwestern crunch through a [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Rectal Hygienics – Even The Flies Won’t Touch You
    Rectal Hygienics – Even The Flies Won’t Touch You
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      Label: Torn Light Records – no. 003 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: US Released: 2013 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Industrial / Power Electronics, Punk / Hardcore
  • Jim Marlowe – Mirror Green Rotor in Profile
    Jim Marlowe – Mirror Green Rotor in Profile
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    Louisville sound imaginer Jim Marlowe’s ‘Mirror Green Rotor in Profile’ takes your ears on a trip through a uniquely Midwestern world of cosmically touched up motorik zingers. [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Rixe – Collection (blue vinyl)
    Rixe – Collection (blue vinyl)
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    Collection neatly compiles RIXE’s first 3 Eps on one album. All 12 cuts have been remastered for maximum volume. Rixe appeared from nowhere and went from strength to strength over […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Charged G.B.H* ‎– Leather, Bristles, No Survivors And Sick Boys…
    Charged G.B.H* ‎– Leather, Bristles, No Survivors And Sick Boys…
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    Compiles the Leather, Bristles, Studs & Acne 12″, the No Survivors 7″ and the Sick Boy 7″ Label: Roadrunner Records – RR 9935 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Soft Places – Memory Does Not Pass
    Soft Places – Memory Does Not Pass
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    Memory Does Not Pass is a collection of studies in dissolving rhythm & voice set against environment, time, & connection to those who have come before and the echoes of […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • William Basinski – Lamentations
    William Basinski – Lamentations
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    “William Basinski’s reputation as the foremost producer of profound meditations on death and decay has long been established, but on his new album, Lamentations, he transforms operatic [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Scott Walker + Sunn O))) – Soused
    Scott Walker + Sunn O))) – Soused
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    “Having first approached Scott Walker about appearing on their 2009 album Monoliths & Dimensions, Sunn O))) initiated a conversation that would instead lead to something even more [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Metal
  • Big Thief – Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You
    Big Thief – Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You
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    “Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You is a sprawling double-LP exploring the deepest elements and possibilities of Big Thief. To truly dig into all that the music of […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Scott Walker – Bish Bosch
    Scott Walker – Bish Bosch
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    “Bish Bosch is, according to Scott Walker, the final recording in the trilogy that began with 1995’s Tilt and continued in 2006’s The Drift. Its title combines urban slang for […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Lip Cream – Early Years Gig
    Lip Cream – Early Years Gig
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    Live recording of Lip Cream from 1984. Label: Dynamite Records – DON DON SU・89 LP Format: Vinyl, LP Country: Japan Released: 2013 VG+/VG+ with light wear.

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Spektral Quartet Performs Anna Thorvaldsdottir – Enigma
    Spektral Quartet Performs Anna Thorvaldsdottir – Enigma
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    This album is the result of a multi-year alchemy between the singular writing of composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir and the playing of three-time GRAMMY nominees Spektral Quartet. The first string [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Daníel Bjarnason – Recurrence
    Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Daníel Bjarnason – Recurrence
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    The Iceland Symphony Orchestra is widely praised for its performances and recordings and concerts devoted to modern music. Since 2011, the orchestra’s home has been Harpa Concert Hall in [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Daníel Bjarnason – Atmospheriques, Vol.1
    Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Daníel Bjarnason – Atmospheriques, Vol.1
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    At the risk of getting doxxed by my musician colleagues, I’m going to divulge a dark truth about classical music: it’s never as captivating or molecule-altering for anyone as it […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Bára Gísladóttir – SILVA
    Bára Gísladóttir – SILVA
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    SILVA is a work for processed double bass built on the idea of a downward growing forest, living its own secret life of underground raves and meditative cohesiveness. I like […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Kristín Anna* – I Must Be The Devil
    Kristín Anna* – I Must Be The Devil
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    Kristin Anna (Múm) and Kjartan Sveinsson (Sigur Ros) have created one of the most painfully beautiful albums I’ve heard in years. Kristin’s voice is as gorgeous as it is unique […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Gyða Valtýsdóttir – Epicycle II
    Gyða Valtýsdóttir – Epicycle II
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    Icelandic cellist, singer, and composer Gyda Valtysdottir, a founder of the band múm and 2019 winner of the prestigious Nordic Council Music Prize, releases Epicycle II on her label DiaMond in [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Kjartan Sveinsson – Der Klang Der Offenbarung Des Göttlichen
    Kjartan Sveinsson – Der Klang Der Offenbarung Des Göttlichen
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    Der Klang der Offenbarung des Göttlichen is an opera in four acts conceived by Kjartan Sveinsson and artist Ragnar Kjartansson, which was commissioned by and originally performed in Volksbühne am [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Alex Sopp – The Hem And The Haw
    Alex Sopp – The Hem And The Haw
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    On Wednesday, February 7, 2024, Alex Sopp, the flutist, composer, vocalist, and visual artist releases the title track ‘The Hem & The Haw’ from her upcoming debut album The Hem […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Daníel Bjarnason – Concurrence
    Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Daníel Bjarnason – Concurrence
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    “I am both very proud and excited to bring out the second volume of this recording project dedicated to bringing the orchestral sound world of Icelandic composers to the ears […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Anna Thorvaldsdottir – Rhízōma
    Anna Thorvaldsdottir – Rhízōma
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    Rhízōma, composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s debut album of recorded works, is steeped in the beautiful strangeness and exhilaration of that which is simultaneously familiar and unfamiliar. The [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Eovaro Egilsson & Pall Ragnar Palsson – Skjalfti
    Eovaro Egilsson & Pall Ragnar Palsson – Skjalfti
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    When two Icelandic composers Páll Ragnar Pálsson and Eðvarð Egilsson finished scoring Quake, a psychological family drama, they were not ready to stop just there. What followed was a voyage […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Eva Ollikainen – Archora; Aiōn
    Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Eva Ollikainen – Archora; Aiōn
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    The core inspiration behind ARCHORA centres around the notion of a primordial energy and the idea of an omnipresent parallel realm – a world both familiar and strange, static and […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Bára Gísladóttir & Skúli Sverrisson – Caeli
    Bára Gísladóttir & Skúli Sverrisson – Caeli
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    Caeli is spun out of the idea of skies and dimensions merging into a borderless being, boasting of a rich and vivid texture, at times carrying numerous worlds inside at […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Anna Thorvaldsdottir – Aerial
    Anna Thorvaldsdottir – Aerial
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    “I am really excited about our upcoming release of Aerial on Sono Luminus this year! The album was originally released in 2014 on Deutsche Grammophon and now the journey of […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Zander Raymond – Secrets From A Squirrel
    Zander Raymond – Secrets From A Squirrel
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    After a series of impressive collaborations and increasingly assured solo releases, multimedia artist Zander Raymond now shares his first LP, Secrets From A Squirrel. Inherent in these pieces is [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Zander Raymond – To Have Several Lives
    Zander Raymond – To Have Several Lives
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    Zander Raymond is an interdisciplinary artist and musician working in Chicago, IL. In his visual work, he improvises with found materials, tools, and images to make drawings, prints, and [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Bark Culture – Warm Wisdom (gold vinyl)
    Bark Culture – Warm Wisdom (gold vinyl)
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    Victor Vieira-Branco – vibraphone John Moran – bass Joey Sullivan – drums

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Bark Culture – Warm Wisdom
    Bark Culture – Warm Wisdom
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    Victor Vieira-Branco – vibraphone John Moran – bass Joey Sullivan – drums

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Half Shadow – At Home With My Candles
    Half Shadow – At Home With My Candles
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    At Home With My Candles, Half Shadow’s third LP is an album of mythopoetic paeans to the domestic uncanny—the mysterious and unseen worlds experienced at home. Recorded almost entirely in […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Dior – Angels Kiss At The Edge Of Cacatopia
    Dior – Angels Kiss At The Edge Of Cacatopia
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    DIOR is Sarah Moore and Stasia Kowaleski, (of Vats, Porcelain Gods, Trixie Linoleum, Babyface Evil) Sarah from Snoqualmie, WA and Phoenix and Stasia (Ghost Bitch, Desire Complex, kzv, Babyface [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Altamira – Altamira
    Altamira – Altamira
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    Jackie Beckey’s Altamira is a cave song, a meditative howl, like Joanna Brouk in a snowstorm, ripping up your down jacket and wool socks, find her in the cold turning […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Mayako XO – Mayako XO
    Mayako XO – Mayako XO
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    Mayako XO is the solo music project of Sara Gernsbacher based in Los Angeles. XO by Mayako XO is an exercise in singing to multiple selves, non-human, past and future, […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Chevrolet Pile – The Crunchy Western Commotion Of
    Chevrolet Pile – The Crunchy Western Commotion Of
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    It’s as if the all star cast of a specific midwestern underground scene conspired to turn to their roots, an expansive flat land, rows of corn and a god damn […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • Kudler* / Gerycz* – Kapteyn B
    Kudler* / Gerycz* – Kapteyn B
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    my squashed ideas of person foil cooking oil padding your mouse feet across the kitchen I’m used to this sound and actually its lullaby doubled over the infestation is endearing […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • American Friend – Sound Under Rock
    American Friend – Sound Under Rock
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    Adam’s drums keep the blood flowing and Sarah’s bass holds the body upright, Jana’s guitar reacts to the confines of rhythm and their lyrics pinch. They pull open the curtains […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Skeme Richards – Jazz All Days
    Skeme Richards – Jazz All Days
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    Limited release directly sourced from the Nostalgia King Himself A true Jazz Funk Mixtape The Jazz All Days cassette released in conjunction with fRUITY Shop in Shanhai. The cassette is […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • The Raga Guide: A Survey Of 74 Hindustani Ragas (includes 4 CDs)
    The Raga Guide: A Survey Of 74 Hindustani Ragas (includes 4 CDs)
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    An introduction to Hindustani ragas, including notation and four example CDs. Nimbus Records, 1999 Softcover edition. Some warping to book from weight of CDs/plastic disc holders

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Robert Wyatt ‎– Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard (1975 UK Pressing)
    Robert Wyatt ‎– Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard (1975 UK Pressing)
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    Robert Wyatt’s voice is as distinctive and subtle an instrument as Tom Waits’s or Bessie Smith’s. He stretches his vocal chords through alien alto registers with grace, into [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Body Without Organs – Isis And Thoth
    Body Without Organs – Isis And Thoth
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    Body Without Organs were a duo from New York City consisting of Richard Behrens (lyrics, vocals, guitar) and Carl Howard (electronics, effects) formed in 1982. The pair brought together skill [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Consumer Electronics – Repetition Reinforcement
    Consumer Electronics – Repetition Reinforcement
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    The long-running alias of former Whitehouse agitator Philip Best, and now featuring vocals and music by Sarah Froelich and n0!se pioneer Russell Haswell, Consumer Electronics hold steadfast to an [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • John Cage – Variations VII
    John Cage – Variations VII
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    Performed at 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering, 69th Regiment Armory, New York City, October 15 and 16, 1966 Sound sources: AM-FM Short Wave Radio, Geiger counter, sine wave generators, horn [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • The Shadow Ring – Remains Unchanged
    The Shadow Ring – Remains Unchanged
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    The Shadow Ring was founded by guitar player Graham Lambkin and percussionist Darren Harris in Cheriton, Kent, England in 1993. Tim Goss joined the Shadow Ring in 1996 performing on […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise