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Laurel Halo's 'Quarantine' is one of the most compelling debut albums we've heard this year. Ever since she revealed the hyper-fused kinetics of 2010's 'King Felix' EP, there's been a certain weight of expectation on this unique artist, which has evidently been fulfilled with the likes of her technofied 'Hour Logic' and 'Spring' EPs, plus the criminally overlooked ambient holo-spaces of the 'Antenna' cassette for NNA Tapes. Yet, if you still haven't been convinced of her skills, a newly established connection with the esteemed Hyperdub and the utter brilliance of this album - from the sounds to … Read more
**Limited edition of 500** 'Kippschwingungen' finds Frank Bretschneider returning to a rare and obscure bit of East German electronic equipment with compelling results. In 2007 Frank was invited to compose music for the Subharcord, a unique electronic instrument developed in the 1960's for the creation of "special effects" at the RFZ, the technical centre for radio and television of the East German postal service. Of the eight machines originally made only three survive to this day in Vienna, Trondheim and Berlin, which could be considered as the Soviet counterparts to the Mixturtr… Read more
ANDY STOTT
Passed Me By / We Stay Together (Deluxe 2CD Edition with Bonus Tracks)
Modern Love
2CD // £14.99
NOW: £8.99
Cat. Number: LOVE070
*Now re-pressed - Deluxe gatefold oversized Digipak including two CD's featuring the "Passed Me By" and "We Stay Together" albums in full, plus 25 minutes of bonus material* Andy Stott entered a compelling new phase of evolution on 'Passed Me By', inverting the energy of his Juke and Technoid hardcore excursions into something more brooding and subtly visceral. Folding in a wider palette of influences from Kassem Mosse to Arthur Russell, to Actress and James Ferraro, 'New Ground' opens the set proper and we're dominated by bone crushing bas… Read more
**Hand-numbered limited edition of 65 housed in sealed recycled envelope** Dozens kick off Under The Spire's limited edition 3" CD series with a nineteen minute electronic storm called 'Curving Quest'. Coming from Montreal's Francesco De Gallo of Hobo Cubes fame and Ryan Connolly aka Sundrips you might know what to expect, but that's not to say this is a predictable listen. Within minutes of entry we're submitted to a barrage of superheated electromagnetic radiation and soon enough left delirious and dehydrated in roiling ambience reminding of Leyland Kirby before our minds are extruded through in… Read more
Type mark their 100th release with a reissue of Porter Ricks' essential 'Biokinetics'. Back in 1996, dark ambient pioneer and sound designer Thomas Köner, together with engineer Andy Mellwig, presented the Techno community with one of it's most enduring and definitive albums in the form of 'Biokinetics'. It was the first album release on Basic Channel's Chain Reaction imprint, birthing three 12" singles which expanded and twisted the templates of Moritz Von Oswald and Mark Ernestus with an aquatic torque and unique vision, taking the sound to immersive, isolated depths previous… Read more
*Limited to 300 copies only for the UK* "Note from Michael Gira: "Thanks to all of you who attended the Swans shows during our recent tours. The experience, for us, was lifegiving and nourishing. The audiences were not only the largest with which we've ever been blessed, but the most genuinely connected and in tune with the sonic / psychic experience in which we all participate. Thank you! "Represented in these discs are the best recordings we could provide of the (ever-evolving) shows. Those of you who attended the early ones realize that the first iterations of th… Read more
**Hand-numbered limited edition of 85 housed in sealed envelopes** 3rd instalment of Under The Spire's 3" CD series is an eighteen minute astral projection by Greek synth explorer, Panos Alexiadis aka Lunar Miasma. Vangelis-style syn-Brass blooms like a slow-motion ecstasy rush, spiralling into the cosmos with wide-eyed galactic ambition and celestial spirit.
Last we heard of Deutch bass-head and best bud of Mr. Apparat Phon.O, he was crafting fluorescent Euro-rap with ex-Funkstoerung bloke Chris De Luca, but forget all that - he's on 50 Weapons now and has a brand new MO. 'Black Boulder' is Phon.O's take on the UK funky/2-step sound and who better to re-engineer that sprawling niche than someone with his production smarts? From the very beginning it's clear we're listening to something that has been sharpened by a diamond tipped blade - sure there are references to Burial, 2562 and Martyn (to name just a handful), but Phon.O's crisp, clean production … Read more
**Hand-numbered edition of 65 copies housed in sealed envelopes** 2nd in Under The Spire's limited 3" CD series comes from an improvisational electronic trio by way of Portland, Oregon. Deploying real-time synthesis as well as analog synth, drums and percussions, 'The Work' EP explores three intrepid zones of brooding drone and subaquatic pulses with a cinematic bent recalling the work of early electronic pioneers such as Suzanne Ciani and modern day revisionists like Panabrite.
BURIAL
Street Halo EP / Kindred EP (Japanese Import)
HYPERDUB / BEATINK
CD // £10.49
Cat. Number: BRC320CD
One-off Japanaese pressing of this limited CD compiling both of Burial's 'Steet Halo' and 'Kindred' EPs, originally produced exclusively for the Japanese domestic market. All six tracks in their full length versions, totalling 50 minutes of music not previously available on CD, packaged in full size jewel case with Japanese obi-strip overlay.
SHACKLETON
Music For The Quiet Hour / The Drawbar Organ
WOE TO THE SEPTIC HEART!
2CD // £11.99
Cat. Number: SEPTICCD001
**Regular 2CD Edition in a gatefold sleeve** Eighteen months since their first issue, Woe To The Septic Heart!'s long delayed 2nd release finally dawns upon us. Comprising entirely new and previously unreleased Shackleton material - including collaborations with vocalist Vengeance Tenfold and musical spars Andreas Gerth (Tied & Tickled Trio) and Kingsuk Biswas (Bedouin Ascent) - it's also his most shocking and invigorating body of work. What strikes us first and foremost is the newfound vitality and visceral impact of his sound here. Any signature murk is replaced … Read more
CATHERINE CHRISTER HENNIX
Live at the Grimm Museum: Volume One
Important Records
CD // £12.99
HOME LISTENING / MODERN CLASSICAL / AMBIENT
Cat. Number: IMPREC342
Sonic Acts' maiden release is a collaboration with Important Records presenting Catherine Christer Hennix's extraordinary live recording of 'Blues Dhikr Al-Salam', made on sunday 14th August at The Grimm Museum, Berlin. Swedish-American composer Christer Hennix is regarded among the elite of 20th and 21st century minimal composition, spending the 1960s studying the work of Iannis Xenakis and Karlheinz Stockhausen, and later becoming a noted disciple of Pandit Pran Nath and La Monte Young in the 1970s. Coincidentally, this piece was first premiered at Young'… Read more
Part of the MBV reissue programme, this brand new compilation draws together their 4 EP releases, Feed Me With Your Kiss, You Made Me Realise, Glider and Tremolo alongside 7 additional rare and previously un-released tracks. All tracks have been painstakingly remastered.
The original studio albums have been painstakingly re-mastered by Kevin Shields at Metropolis Studios in London and Loveless comes as a 2-disc set featuring a previous re-mastering from original analogue tapes, completed by Kevin Shields but never released.
**Limited edition of 500** 'Built Through' is a visceral, engrossing exploration of "acoustic architecture" schemed by prolific sound artist, collaborator, and Line Records boss, Richard Chartier (US), and sound artist/composer Robert Curgenven (AU/UK). As inferred by the title, 'Built Through' is focussed upon the aesthetics of space and features four pieces stemming from original source material (field recordings, older compositions) which was reprocessed/reworked by the two artists in order to further investigate theirs and our perceptions of the material's internal a… Read more
MARCELLUS PITTMAN / RICK WILHITE / VARIOUS
In The Dark: The Soul Of Detroit
Still Music
CD // £13.99
Cat. Number: STILLMCD005
Killer doublepack with exclusive, unreleased tracks by Marcellus Pittman, Rick Wilhite, Delano Smith, Mike Huckaby, Keith Worthy, Malik Alston and others, a small example of how much music and cultural activity thrives in Detroit. All of the artists involved in this project are creators and perpetuators of the musical heritage of the motor city. Deep House wares for all Detroit heads.
Much needed (and limited) CD issue of killer Theo P productions mostly from the '00s. This guy needs very little introduction, but in case you've not been paying attention, Mr Parrish is one of House music's true auteurs and one of the genre's most respected minds. 'Sound Signature Sounds Vol.2' is the follow up to the first volume from 2000, and features eight of his deadly solo cuts plus one from his Rotating Assembly. With the exception of one exclusive cut, they've all appeared on vinyl already, so if you're a digital type, this is the one you should have been waiting for.… Read more
Recorded live at the Music Research Centre at the University of York, 'Leyfdu ljosinu' is the latest full-length from Icelandic cellist Hildur Gudnadottir, and follows 2009's phenomenal 'Without Sinking'. Again we are treated to Gudnadottir's delicate melancholia, but unlike its predecessor, 'Leyfdu ljosinu' is one single piece, recorded in one take with absolutely no post production to meddle with the sublime nature of the tonality itself. This gives the album a rare sense of levity and depth, and a pacing that many so-called 'experimental' artists attempt but few manage to truly mas… Read more
The latest impossibly black-hearted offering from Miasmah is the work of Gareth Davis and Frances-Marie Uitti. It's one of the least obviously electronic releases on the label to date - Uitti and Davis achieve its sublimely haunting, enervating sound largely through the natural power of their chosen instruments - clarinet and cello. But this is no neo-classical driftscape to pass an idle half an hour, it's a work that's angry and alive, possessed of a seductive and nightmarish energy. Davis's low-swooping clarinet tones in particular are capable of dredging up all kinds of dar… Read more
The original album has been painstakingly re-mastered by Kevin Shields at Metropolis Studios in London.
The perfectly ripe flesh of Björk's 'Biophilia' is diverted into fresh new contexts by El Guincho and Hudson Mohawke. Young Turks' Pablo Díaz-Reixa aka El Guincho transmutes 'Cosmogony' into a rippling sequence of offset bass undulations decorated with gasping, dissonant wisps of the original vocal pitched in criss-crossing formation. Hudson Mohawke is more faithful to the original material, leaving Björk's vox unblemished, but matching the grandeur of 'Virus' with the kind of synthesized sensitivity usually associated with Autechre, and minimal, plangent 808 hits and brass pomp that ricochet across the palacial space.
Lovers of Dark Ambient's shadowy recesses take note: this latest Type release brings the haunted New Mexican soundworld of William Fowler Collins to the world - and it's one of the most relentless collections of dense and harrowing midnight music you'll likely have the pleasure of hearing. Flicking through this record - skimming the surface of these crumbling, derelict sonic constructions - feels like intercepting a shortwave broadcast from the hereafter. It all points towards something sinister and most unwholesome, but to give all this context, it's worth noting that Coll… Read more
**Deluxe 2CD edition housed in an oversized 6 page Digifile with specially commissioned artwork by Andy Votel. Features 2 hours / 18 tracks including alternate versions and additional material not included on the vinyl set** As promised, Demdike Stare collect their 'Elemental' album on a double CD, and as warned, it's a morphed beast, comprising alternate versions and additional material in bleakest post-industrial fashion. Arguably this is their finest work to date, the result of two heads realising their ambition without compromise and in a typically enigmatic, shadowy way. By son… Read more
Two years since 'Splazsh' topped a stack of annual polls, Actress presents his 3rd, and most coherent album, 'R.I.P' - his 2nd for Honest Jon's. Despite being a vital cog in the machinery of underground UK dance and electronics since at least 2004 (when he released his 'No Tricks' debut), it's fair to say that it's only in the last few years he's made the shift from cult concern to acknowledged auteur of some repute. His work with Damon Albarn's DRC Music, beside a legendary DJ set at Sonar and killer remixes of Shangaan Electro, Panda Bear and Radiohead all certify the fact; so expectations are no doubt… Read more
SQUAREPUSHER
Ufabulum (Special Edition CD) (with Enstrobia CD EP)
Warp Records
2CD // £11.99
Cat. Number: WARPCD228X
**Exclusive to independent stores only - 6 panel digipack printed black with spot gloss UV, also includes 3 track Enstrobia EP on CD.** Depending on your tolerance for advanced electronic boogie jazz, Squarepusher's last album 'd'Demonstrator' as Shobaleader One was either the epitome of cool or unlistenably indulgent. Returning two years later as plain old Squarepusher, Tom Jenkinson presents what might well be his most popular side since 'Ultravisitor', focussing on a "big room"- friendly fusion of almost Trance-y hooks and dance-able machine funk, what h… Read more
Philippe Petit swiftly follows that 'marish Eraserhead re-score with another somnambulant (e)scape 'Oneiric Rings On Grey Velvet'. As opposed to industrial noise and unheimlich, Lynchian darkness, this one is possibly more surreal, taking inspiration from Italian Gialli and equally the classic literature of Homer, Lewis Carroll or James Joyce to depict a "a "fruity" Lemon girl's nonsensical journeys to oneiric lands." Petit is the dark interpreter, translating subconscious thoughts, rarely encountered emotions and a generally all-pervading sense of unease conducted from an … Read more
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Impressively diverse 7-track EP from Becoming Real that really takes his sound forward, towards a kind of synthetic psychedelia and techno-pop only tangentially connected to garage and dubstep. 'Zoning' is a total headfuck - it begins like a hollowed-out grime instrumental only to flower into a pixellated cathedral of abstract 16-bit dazzle that even Rustie or Wax Stag would struggle to find their way out of. 'Real's Slow Memory' is a bass-reinforced pop gem driven by the sweet vocals of Alice (Sunless '97) . 'Anthropology' is an investigation of more minimal sounds, its haunting … Read more
Punch Drunk drop the blazing debut from Guido! With two hugely acclaimed singles and only just as many remixes, Guido has achieved a level of respect within the bass-music scene usually reserved for long standing vets. Alongside the other G's, Ginz, Gemmy and er... Joker, Guido has developed a unique fusion of heavyweight R'n'B, dubstep and electrofunk, more commonly known as "dat purple Brizzle sound". With the grimy strings and starburst synth of last years 'Orchestral Lab' he injected the sound with a charismatic melodic-but-melancholy personality that refreshed the overtly dread style the scene was he… Read more
**2CDs, 2 hours worth of prime Johnny Jewel music inspired by European cinema noir and avant-classical composition and concepts by Cage, Ligeti, Satie, Feldman. Its' *not* his rumoured unused soundtrack to Nicolas Refn's 'Drive', but could well be used for your next intercounty mission or autobahn cruise** "Three years in the making, Symmetry - the project that began as a conceptual tangent between Glass Candy, Chromatics, Mirage, & Desire's more abstract sides - finally sees its release... Themes For An Imaginary Film is two hours of claustrophobic cinematic bliss compiled for P… Read more
*Now available on CD with extended tracks, interludes missed out from the LP and "a fuller representation of Holter's original intentions"" *Quite honestly one of the best albums of any description in recent years, now out on CD* Julia Holter is one of the most singular female artists we've encountered from the current groundswell of American indies. Leaving Records is possibly an unusual home for her latest, but then again, what's "usual" about Sun Araw, Matthewdavid or Dem Hunger? Her high concept fifth release, 'Tragedy' is based on the Ancient Greek play 'Hippolytus', and mixes elem… Read more
Justin Broaderick (Jesu, Palesketcher, Techno Animal, Napalm Death) remerges as JK Flesh for one of his heaviest albums in years. Appearing on 3by3, the label who tasked him with those bloodied remixes of Cloaks, he moves away from the shoegaze visions of last year's brilliant Palesketcher album, and the dramas of Jesu to burrow deep into stark, subterranean Dubstep rhythms mixed with rusted guitar noise and guttural howls. Like his buddy The Bug's brutalised dub, or Distance's axe-wielding halfstep, 'Posthuman' is all about visceral distortion and bruising bass weight, from the quaking kicks and do… Read more
FILFLA
SOMEONE GOOD
CD // £8.99
NOW: £4.95
HOME LISTENING / MODERN CLASSICAL / AMBIENT
Cat. Number: RMSG013
Filfla is yet another alias of Keiichi Sugimoto (aka Minamo, Fonica and FourColor) and under this moniker he explores his love of electronic pop music. You should probably know what to expect, as the focus is definitely very Japanese; twinkling melodies and choppy guitars are bend and moulded into chirping three minute pop songs with all the cascading harmonies you could possibly jam into the scant duration. In fact at times it’s like hearing Youtube favourite Nyan Cat reworked by Steve Reich, and that can only be a good thing, right?
One year since their 'Weathering' album landed to much acclaim from fans and the press, Epic 45 have invited The Remote Viewer, The Gentlemen Losers, Fieldhead, Jasper TX, E.L. Heath and Sarah Kemp to "weather" said album with lovely results. It opens with an exclusive new track called 'Leaving Traces' from the Staffordshire duo, before The Remote Viewer tickle their crackle box into action on a tenderly scuffed rework of 'The Village Is Asleep'. Meanwhile, their sometime collaborator and producer Charles Vaughan stirs 'People Say This Place Is Slowly Dying' as a diffuse piece of nippy pop-ambience an… Read more
THURSTON MOORE / MEG BAIRD / D. CHARLES SPEER / VARIOUS
Oh Michael, Look What You've Done: Friend Play Michael Chapman
TOMPKINS SQUARE
CD // £11.99
Cat. Number: TSQ2707
This one's been a long time coming, a glorious collection of tributes to British folk idol Michael Chapman, curated by Tompkins Square and Chapman's wife herself. We've got a fantastic amount of good material here, with Thurston Moore, Bridget St John, Meg Baird and Hiss Golden Messenger among others providing intriguing takes on the singer songwriter's fine catalogue of work. Each artist takes it into their hands to make the songs their own and while some are more successful than others, some serve to illumin… Read more
Back in stock! The final reissue of Basinski's 'Disintergration Loops' series sees yet more mediations on the subject of mortailty, brought to bear through a level of fragility rarely glimpsed witihn modern music. Comparable to Ryuichi Sakamoto in terms of its gracefully hypnotic and deeply textured poetic outlook, the fact that Basinksi managed to retrieve such emotional tracts from decaying source material is testament to his towering talent. Made up of three extended pieces, each composition is unique in terms of sound, but united by a very real sense of unyielding emotional … Read more
ANDY STOTT
Unknown Exception (Selected Tracks Vol.1)
Modern Love
CD // £7.99
NOW: £4.95
Cat. Number: LOVE050
Andy Stott has developed a unique sound since his debut for the Modern Love label back in 2005. His first demos were heavily influenced by the square-bassline techno variations of Claro Intelecto, a longtime friend, mentor and eventually labelmate and collaborator. His first release, 'Replace' featured a mixture of disciplines that took in elements of Detroit Techno and Chicago House which fast captured peoples imagination with intuitive, warm melodies and fathomless bass weight. From that point on Stott continued to shift and adapt his sound to take in ever disparate… Read more
THE CARETAKER
An empty bliss beyond this World
History Always Favours The Winners
CD // £7.99
NOW: £5.99
SOUNDTRACKS / LIBRARY / EARLY ELECTRONIC
Cat. Number: HAFTW008CD
Brand new LP from The Caretaker! Seeping to the surface two years since his cherished and widely acclaimed 'Persistent Repetition Of Phrases' LP, 'An Empty Bliss Beyond The World' returns our doddering protagonist to the deserted ballroom, wandering its waxed floor and dilapidated grandeur in an attempt to capture an era which has long since disappeared but still haunts the atmosphere. In the meantime he's accessed an alternate set of memory banks with his derivés into Leyland Kirby land, but back in The Caretaker role, James Leyland Kirby conjures a quieter, more introsp… Read more
Striking new album from Sasu Ripatti on Raster-Noton, the first of a projected series for the label. It comes not long after the Vladislav Delay Quartet LP on Honest Jon's, but there's no avant-jazz or caustic power electronics to be heard on Vantaa - instead, the kind of clotted, dub-wise techno abstraction that blew us away on his recent Latoma EP, and which he's been both refining and complicating over the course of his illustrious career. It's dense as anything, with complex rhythmic structures built up and then broken down before your ears, but for the most part calm and contemplative, full… Read more
Wrap yourself in the ultimate luxury kimono - an hour plus of 100% SILKs sleekest dance swatches. Move your body from Brooklyn baths to London lounges, LA love dens to Frisco fountains, Portland parties to Orleans orgies. French filter, Hacienda baggy, pleasure cruise, runway glare, gritty jack soul, bangin sexuality anthem, escapist bliss-co fantasy, blurry synth tension, chrono tech support SILKs got the feel. This is our house. !! 75 minute mix from Sir Stephen of some recent tracks and future wax from the 100% Silk stable... Limited to 1000 copies only.
Big new album from Robert Henke, putting aside the autumnal ambient shades of his recent work in favour of his darkest, most dancefloor-friendly release in ages. The title track, which also opens the album, sets the punchy tone, and finds the German reconnecting with his junglist roots, creating a sub-heavy roller that feels like a more supple, sophisticated update of late 90s techstep. Recorded and mixed entirely in - of course - Ableton live, the album's sound world is richly detailed, full of manipulated recordings of vintage cymbals and hi-hats, metal plates, singing bowls, bells and Henke's own vo… Read more
*CD Edition now in stock* 'Radiant Intervals' is the first Eleh LP on Important since '08s 'Floating Frequencies/Intuitive Synthesis Vol.3', and follows one of the Wire magazine's (and our) top records of 2010, the incredible 'Location Momentum' for Touch. Continuing with investigations into physically tactile tones and drones, this LP offers four further modular synth expeditions eternally moving towards the distant point depicted on the gorgeous, letterpress printed sleeve. After a stoically inert start 'Night Of Pure Energy' is unusually rhythmic (for an Eleh composition at least), propelled … Read more
**Deluxe hardback trifold digipak** Anders Peterson and Atheus, the rarified producer/engineers behind Ghost Sounds, collect eight sublime moments of dub and ambient techno on CD for the 1st time, including two previously unreleased tracks. Serge presents two original productions as Atheus; easing us in with the ultra-wide, subbass-cushioned flow of 'The Magic Mountain' beside the hazy, reverberant Dub House space of 'Stratagem', and later remixing A.P's 'Garden Therapy' as an opulent eighteen minutes of beatless, opiated ambience, and also contributing the Deathprod-esque title… Read more
SUN ARAW, M. GEDDES GENGRAS & THE CONGOS
FRKWYS Vol. 9: Sun Araw & M. Geddes Gengras meet The Congos
RVNG Intl.
CD // £11.99
Cat. Number: FRKWYS09CD
RVNG Intl.'s FRKWYS series has grown more and more adventurous since its 2010 inception; no longer content with just straight-up remixes, the label's focus now is on commissioning original collaborations between notable artists of different generations. Having already teamed ARP with Henry Cow's Anthony Moore, and synth boffin David Borden with young pups James Ferraro, Laurel Halo and Dan Lopatin, FRKWYS now unveils its most ambitious and exciting release to date: an album-length collaboration between Sun Araw, M. Geddes Gengr… Read more
It's been a long time in the making, but KTL's fifth slab of blackened wax is finally upon us, and what a treat it is. Peter Rehberg and Stephen O'Malley's grim collaboration may have begun as an ear-clawing take on the doom metal subgenre, but on 'V' the duo strip the metal from their deathly compositions. In fact much of the record was recorded at electronic music Meccas GRM (in Paris) and EMS (in Stockholm), so that should give you some idea of the direction we're taking here. While hardly a 'classical' record, the sounds on 'V' are rooted in the European minimalism of Eliane Radigue or even Gyorgy Ligeti, … Read more
One Little Plane is the solo moniker of Aussie singer-songwriter Kathryn Bint, but coming from Kieran Hebden's Text label you probably know that 'Into The Trees' is far more than JUST a singer-songwriter record. Hebden even gets involved as he takes the reigns for production duties, and Radiohead man Johnny Greenwood even pops up for a spot of collaboration. Bint's songs are elevated well by the glossy, assured production, and what might have been a more stripped-down record is multi-layered and deeply unusual. At times I'm reminded of Belly or Throwing Muses, Bint's voice has that coo-… Read more
VARIOUS / TRESOR
SubBerlin - The Story of Tresor
Tresor Records
CD + DVD // £9.99
Cat. Number: TRESOR247CD
**DVD + bonus 13-track CD of classic tracks** Coinciding with their 250th release, Tresor present Tilmann Künzel's 2008 documentary tracing the legendary Berlin club and label's 20 years history. It includes exclusive interviews with founding father Dimitri Hegemann alongside their long establishing roster - DJ Rush, Jeff Mills, Dr. Motte, Sven Väth, Alan Oldham, Blake Baxter, Chris Liebing - and many more, plus extracts of DJ sets and unearthed footage backed with a 13-track CD featuring music by Infiniti, Pacou, Scan 7, James Ruskin, The Advent, DJ T-1000, X-101.
BASIL KIRCHIN
Trunk Records
CD // £10.99
NOW: £3.99
SOUNDTRACKS / LIBRARY / EARLY ELECTRONIC
Cat. Number: JBH021CD
It's always cause for celebration when a new Trunk album comes in from the wide world of musical oddness. For some reason Johnny Trunk has managed to get a passage into the land of library music, soundtrack music and other such strangeness and just because of the lovely feller he is, he packages it all up for us, the humble consumer. This time around he's managed to dig up something truly special - Basil Kirchin's final masterpiece, the epic 'Particles'. Apparently buoyed by the new interest in his work thanks to Trunk's re-issue of 'Quantum', Kirchin started recording again and even though he w… Read more
I do love a good story, and you can almost always guarantee getting one with Trunk. This time around we're delving into the personal collection of Johnny Trunk, who is by all accounts a man on a mission when he wants something. A few years ago he was after a lesser known jazz 10" called 'Moonscape' by British jazz act the Michael Garrick Trio, a 10" that was limited to 99 copies only and now goes for well over £1000 on Ebay. Strangely enough he was able to track one down, and once stunned by the music proceeded to track down Mr Garrick himself and ask about the possibility of a reissue. A… Read more
