Kluster was a short-lived project of three musicians/artists/performers: Dieter Moebius, Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Konrad Schnitzler. They recorded two albums with Conny Plank in 1970, unprecedented in their experimental radicalism. Chaotic, apocalyptic (noise) improvisations (a sound later termed industrial), enriched with recited lyrics in places. The trio split up not long afterwards. Exchanging the K for a C, Roedelius and Moebius continued as a duo under the name of Cluster, whilst Conrad Schnitzler went solo. "Zwei Osterei" surpasses the earlier "Klopfzeichen" album by some distance in terms of its harsh noisiness and near brutal sonic attacks.

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Kluster was a short-lived project of three musicians/artists/performers: Dieter Moebius, Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Konrad Schnitzler. They recorded two albums with Conny Plank in 1970, unprecedented in their experimental radicalism. Chaotic, apocalyptic (noise) improvisations (a sound later termed industrial), enriched with recited lyrics in places. The trio split up not long afterwards. Exchanging the K for a C, Roedelius and Moebius continued as a duo under the name of Cluster, whilst Conrad Schnitzler went solo. "Klopfzeichen" was the most radical album of the early German pop music avant-garde by a country mile. Its sounds and noises had nothing in common with the sequencer-generated electronic music emerging from Berlin or Düsseldorf. Kluster music was Angstmusik, the music of fear.

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Conrad Schnitzler (1937–2011), composer and concept artist, is one of the most important representatives of Germany's electronic music avant-garde. A student of Beuys, he founded Berlin's legendary Zodiak Free Arts Lab, a subculture club, in 1967/68, was a member of Tangerine Dream (together with Klaus Schulze and Edgar Froese) and Kluster (with Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius) and also released countless solo albums. The blue album ("Blau") from 1974 was Schnitzler's second solo LP.

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Conrad Schnitzler (1937–2011), composer and concept artist, is one of the most important representatives of Germany's electronic music avant-garde. A student of Beuys, he founded Berlin's legendary Zodiak Free Arts Lab, a subculture club, in 1967/68, was a member of Tangerine Dream (together with Klaus Schulze and Edgar Froese) and Kluster (with Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius) and also released countless solo albums. The red album ("Rot") from 1973 was Schnitzler's first solo LP.

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Our new cassette is now available on cae-sur-a. Those guys did a wonderful job on this release...the packaging is absolutely top notch start to finish...and really fitting with the sound.

Recorded in and around Philadelphia in 2009 and mastered by Erich Steiger....tested out on a wintery night in Burlington, VT that same year....this chronicles core themes in the L&S canon and exposes these ideas through solo piano and processing

Loud & Sad

Second lathe cut 7" release from Loud & Sad.
A compliment to the new cassette on cae-sur-a, False Intimacy (available from us very soon)

Loud & Sad

new Head-Boggle cassette available ::: split-channel compositions using sounds from a Buchla Modular :::

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The second "Performance" release documents a set at the BCA center in Burlington, Vermont during the US tour with Mirror To Mirror in November of 2011. Performing using only live cassette playback and manipulation of guitar recordings as the sound source. This release captures a more subtle, ambient side in a number of shorter pieces with a finale of heavily layered waves of loops using the 4 track recorder as an instrument, with detail paid towards the mixing of sound and the speed of the cassette as a tool for expanding melodies. Recorded by Oliver Mitchell, mastered by M. Geddes Gengras, and photos by Greg Davis.

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Two pieces of frantic modular synthesis by Los Angeles' M. Geddes Gengras. On his second release for Ekhein, Gengras takes the possibilities of chaos and unpredictability within his growing modular set up to the next logical space. Avoiding the cliches of present day synthesizer based music and focusing on more abstract textures and approaches in pacing and the listeners endurance for sounds presented. East coast tour starting 9/21.

LAST

Sophmore release by duo The Compass Rose. Rumored to have taken nearly a year to complete following a move back to the states, Jack Gilbert and company have finally returned with a new album of data and voice. Whereas the focus of the previous Compass Rose release "The Plough Horse" concerned the totality of all things, "The Simulation Distrcit" seems to aim it's sights on what doesn't exist, what is invisible, and what is inevitable. . Plans for a debut LP in the works.

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This is the second time we are proud to feature the work of Swedish mastermind, Jan Svensson, on Digitalis. Previous to Dreamers, you likely heard his contributions as 1/3 of the maniacal FRAK and their Muzika Electronic LP. Well, with Studio SS he abandons his crew to toil away in his wired-up bunker. Dreamers rips out all the dance and pop elements from Muzika Electronic and focuses on the brittle, shattered bones.

Explorative synthesis is the name of the game, here, with Svensson digging through buckets of corroded circuitry, hoping that the one sound to unlock them all is still waiting to be found. But it's a fool's game, as we all know, because the further down that electronic hole you go, the less sense it all makes. Reckless bleets and splurps careen along like gravity is suddenly optional and we're just drifting through a field of space debris. Mutant rhythms blast out, making sure you make it back to the ground in a million pieces, ready for reassembly. Next thing you know, you're totally consumed by technology and have been sucked into the borg.

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All- Antipodean split from these two like minded projects. Two sides of fractured rhythms and shattered sequences. Edition of 40

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Raw, blasphemous Polish Black Metal.

Tour De Garde

Swedish Black Metal in the way it should be.

Tour De Garde

Raw blasphmous Black metal including a member of Drowning the Light.

Tour De Garde

Old school Thrash Metal like old Sarcofago.

Tour De Garde

Cold and underground Black Metal, highly recommended.

Tour De Garde

This Greek project use elements of Dark Ambient mixed with Doom to create and incredible ambience, recommanded.

Tour De Garde

Second version of this awesome demo of Funeral Ambient/Doom.

Tour De Garde

Uncompromising and intense devoted Black Metal.

Tour De Garde

Released in 2004 by Sadolust Records on 7"EP, the split material presents the collaborative work of OT from AKITSA and THESYRE. Three souls united against the current, the politically correct and the established values of modern society. It was time to make it available on tape format for those of you who don't own a vinyl player.

Those Opposed

Two new exclusive tracks of pure Black Metal, originally released on vinyl by Genocide Aesthetics.

Tour De Garde

One of the best Canadian Black Metal album now available on cassette.

Tour De Garde

With 197 Black Pendulums/Athousand Rattlesnakes In the Trees Geoffrey Sexton returns to Hooker Vision with a couple of nightmarishly titled tracks of equally mysterious prepared guitar work. Sexton is a master of creating dense, slow-paced visual pieces (Classroom Citizens) and he lends this gift expertly to his music.

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The Kevin Costner Suicide Pact is a four-piece from Denver, Colorado who turn a massive pile of communally manipulated pedals into a delicate wash of sound. Despite (or because of) the number of members, this crew is known for it's subtlety. And despite the subtlety, the songs on MHHASPOTSS have a presence that only a group so tight-knit could create.

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The Hobo man is back again on Hooker Vision to put his fractured take on dub music. Spin this at the club and you're bound to get your freaky ass thrown out. On the B side, British newcomer, Komodo Haunts, delivers a gentle set of cool, reflective beach zones. The comedown yin to Hobo Cubes' yang party.

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905 Tapes head honcho, Mike Haley, takes a break from Wether and drops this collection of languid synth pieces under his newest guise, Spectrum Tickets. The synths on Anyajegy, far from the harsher zones of Wether, percolate nervously atop a bed of buzzing drones, adding a touch of paranoia to your mellow.

Hooker Vision

Seabat offers a glimpse through the keyhole at a glittering future world formed from a pastiche of clever, nostalgic samples and dreamy synth work. Illusions flow smoothly in your mind's eye as Seabat's world takes shape.

Constellation Tatsu

All of the objects that surround you start to disintegrate as the electron beams sweep across your retina. Picture clay images so hazy and familiar yet surreal, it's as if viewing claymation for the very first time. In this spirit, Beer on the Rug and Constellation Tatsu present an extended version of CVLTS - Realiser.

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"intersezioni di vortici, studi ritmici e false chimere" is a suite of ten short compositions for modular analog synthesizer (except for one track that incorporates a few sounds recorded with a microphone). Initially conceived as series of studies on panning and phasing, the work ended to incorporate parts of two other series, all realised in Bologna between November 2011 and March 2012. The cover includes some of Maggiore's drawings from the same period. Luciano Maggiore lives and works in Bologna, and this is his first solo cd.

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'Streengs' is Nicola Ratti's fifth solo cd, and it showcases a completely new direction in his work. Using a minimal setup composed of a small analog synthesizer and a delay/looping device, amplified with two audio transducers placed on the strings of a grand piano, Ratti managed to create a very complex and dense soundworld. Every piece was recorded in realtime, during a residency at Hotel Pupik, Schrattenberg, in July 2011, allowing the sounds from the surroundings to interfere with the electrically-induced resonances of the piano. Mixed and mastered with Giuseppe Ielasi, a longtime collaborator (the two operate the Bellows project).

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Fancy: a 17th century term generally describing a composition in which form is of secondary importance. Fancies were usually contra-puntal and in several sections. (The Oxford Dictionary of Music)

Fancies (2009) served to reconcile previously unsettled material, based upon a scheme that condones disparity between its constituent parts. In the period since its completion, and subsequent issue on cassette, Fancies has come to represent an antithesis to what I originally termed 'a work in parenthesis'.

Forbearance (2011) was composed specifically to accompany Fancies, and can be considered its honorary sixth part. The work signals a shift in my attitude towards notions of compositional economy, formal concurrence and discordance, engagement and refrain – aspects of Fancies that I have since come to admire. (Adam Asnan)

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Third Volume of the 'Time Machine' series (volumes I and II have been released on two separate cassettes on Entr'acte).

"The Time Machine project was conceived in order to find a simple and immediate way to work with rhythm. I built two cheap and imprecise, almost-square wave oscillators with a wide range of frequencies. These oscillators can sweep and cross-modulate from sparse pulses to high frequency audio signals. I use a mixer to create feedback between the filters, CV and audio signals and simply record the output; there are no overdubs." (Renato Rinaldi)

Renato Rinaldi studied drama, composition and electronic music. After a number of years working as an actor he began composing music for theatre, radio dramas and video installations. He hasproduced several radio plays, documentaries and reportages for the Italian national broadcasting radio (RAI). In music, his work focuses primarily on the relationship between sound and environment.

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Amish is pleased to announce a new release featuring work from two American noise and sound artists, the Ohio-based Mike Shiflet and the recent Portland-to-New York transplant Pete Swanson. The fifth installment in the label's Required Wreckers series (AMI-035R/W) features side-long compositions that borrow as much from the worlds of noise and power electronics that Swanson and Shiflet were affiliated with in the early parts of their careers, as from techno and modern composition.

Mike Shiflet's "Bedside" utilizes disparate sources—guitar, field recordings, abstract electronic textures and white noise—to create a composition that's both warmly pastoral and defamiliar. "Bedside" is elegiac and slowly evolving, blending acoustic sound sources Shiflet then disrupts with understated percussive tremolo. This is one of Shiflet's most beautiful works to date. Shiflet has released a number of critically acclaimed recordings over the last decade for labels like Type and Ecstatic Peace!, as well as collaborating with C. Spencer Yeh in Burning Star Core.

Pete Swanson's "College View" documents another example of his recent recordings' attempt to blur the lines between techno, noise, and electronic music. "College View" drags Detroit dance music into a static field of electricity, and then doubles back again. "College View" documents another great example of Swanson's mature, post-Yellow Swans output, as indicated on a series of releases since 2011 on labels like Three-Lobed and Type.

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"Electronic Music for Square and Sine Waves" documents Kowalsky's contribution to the 2011 Activating the Medium festival in San Francisco. This commissioned piece continues Kowalsky's interest in how sound engages, manipulates and modifies one's awareness of space. This piece generates—as both the name of the festival and Kowalsky's composition suggest—sound that amplifies a hearing subject's relation to his or her environment. For this composition, Kowalsky tuned an AM radio to random interference between channels, static abstractions that bookend the work. Within the core of the piece, Kowalsky used contact mics to process this, and other, sound source(s) as he moved around the performance space. The effect of this movement generates both melodic feedback and acoustic forms that provide a subtle complement to the static interference of the radio frequencies.

"For Baroque Lute, Tapes and Resonant Space" documents Kowalsky's on going tape chants process, a project previously realized on both his Battery Townsley (2011) and Tape Chants (2009) LPs. For this iteration, Kowalsky tuned square and sine waves to Dutch lutanist Jozef van Wissem's lute and then played these recordings through cassette players. Though they have collaborated previously, this performance at Issue Project Room in October 2011 is the first chronicling of van Wissem and Kowalksy's duo-work.

In both his performances and sound installations, Kowalsky has shared the stage and/or collaborated with a wide range of contemporary artists and musicians over the last ten years, including Stephan Mathieu, Fred Frith Kevin Drumm, JD Emmanuel, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Ben Vida, Yoshi and Tashi Wada, Aaron Dilloway, C. Spencer Yeh Paul Clipson, among others. Kowalsky has released a number of critically acclaimed solo records for labels like Kranky, Senufo Editions and Root Strata, as well as working with Marielle Jakobson in Date Palms (Mexican Summer).

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There exist only subtle threads of aesthetic continuity from Silent Land Time Machine's debut &hope still (TIME-LAG Records), where guitar dominates in the main, with the music shifting its emphasis toward micro electronic assemblages – at times damaged, turbulent, and percussive, at others lulling, plaintive, and melodic – with naïve, organic, and lucidly processed string arrangements woven throughout. Reissue of 180g vinyl EP out on Indian Queen Records.

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These recordings are artifacts from the psychic birth of Thousand Foot Whale Claw: unhinged and unconscious voyages through slow-burning clouds of both inner and outer landscapes. Fleshcave, which comprises the entirety of Side A, is the demo-version of Fleshwave on Lost in Those Dunes (HD002). Slobos is the demo-version of Phobos, a track from TFWC's Dope Moons Vol.1 LP, out now on Monofonus Press. Time Brothers closes with its title-track, which was recorded during the bands' Lost in Those Dunes studio sessions.

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