When Jon Leidecker phoned in early 2012 with a proposition, it seemed a little too good to be true. Jon, part of a loose-knit west coast collective of sound artists whose work I much admired, wondered if Dieter Moebius and I might be interested in meeting him in a spectacular Montana mountain studio...

Coldwave / darkwave debut album by San Francisco based producer Gabriel Ramos. While the band has gone through some lineup changes Ssleeping Desiress has essentially remained the sole recorded output of Gabriel Ramos, who has been the only constant member. The album runs the boundaries between minimal...

Greetings sisters and brothers. Let s talk about reductionist revolution and the kicking in of doors. Let s talk of iconoclasts and culture bombs. Let s talk about moral panic and censorship. Let s talk about punk rock. On second thoughts let s not bother. The white noise is already deafening and actually,...

DIE PARTEI was a one-off project featuring musician Tom Dokoupil (Siluetes 61, The Wirtschaftswunder) and the artist and musician Walter Dahn (Die Hornissen). The pair met up for a single weekend in 1981 to record "La Freiheit des Geistes" ("La Freedom of the Spirit"), a fantastic instrumental post-punk...

Düsseldorf in the early 1980s. Punk was finished, but its pathos still drifted desolately through pubs and shared flats. At the same time, Synthesizers had become increasingly affordable due to digital electronics, allowing more and more people to make music. This music pushed ahead slightly in order...

This LP + bonus CD features the entire track listing, plus 5 bonus tracks from the Italia New Wave LP. This album represents the musical mutation that occurred after the post-punk hangover gave way to more frigid emotional shores, in-line with the synth-wave moment that was sweeping Europe and the white...

Reissue (originally released 1979 on cassette only) When you think of the music to have emerged from Seattle, grunge and Sub Pop are probably the first things that come to mind. But Seattle was already home to a vibrant alternative music scene back in the 1970s. One of the most prominent synthesizer...

TRACKLIST A1 - Neoteric Jack Dangers, MBM, Remix A2 - Neoteric Boris Divider Remix B1 - Neoteric Clock DVA Remix B2 - Neoteric Wrangler Remix Neoteric Composed by Clock DVA (Adi Newton, Tez Maurizio Martinucci). Concept By Adi Newton and Ibtaba. Design by Adi Newton and Francesco Maria Quarto. Mastered...

The long awaited new vinyl LP "For Concrete And Country" by Concretism. This is the utilitarian black vinyl edition limited to 300 copies for the world. There is also an edition of 200 copies pressed on "nuclear bunker hospital bay" turquoise vinyl. All music, production and mastering by Chris Sharp....

In the early 1980s, the French musical duo Fondation, comprising Ivan Coaquette and Anannka Raghel, released three tapes of fantastic electronic music which owed much to the experimentalism of the seventies. Synthesizer, organ, drum computer, solo guitar. Repetitive, meditative, hypnotic. Between ambient...

Essential recordings by the minimal synth master of our age. Deluxe edition of 500 copies. With the staccato surge and somber vocalizing of DAF , the distorted synthetic soundscapes of Dirk Ivens ' eeriest work, and the industrial strength of The Young Gods , Martial Canterel 's earliest outings are...

Since composer Sean McBride unveiled his first utterance as Martial Canterel almost 2 decades ago, he has produced a body of work both substantial and alluring within the field of live analogue electronic music. Effortlessly fusing a variety of styles and influences, Martial Canterel is one of the premiere...