Releases

2017


Steffen Roth – Kalbe / Milde
September 22, 2017 / AO014
Formats: MC, Dl | LISTEN + BUY

Kalbe / Milde is drummer Steffen Roth’s Minimal Music-influenced solo debut.
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Br’lâaB – Molochville
April 21, 2017 / AO013
Formats: MC, Dl | LISTEN + BUY

Br’laaB is the moniker for the studio works of Brecht Ameel (Razen), consisting of tape collage pieces based on recordings of found audio, ultra-fi sampling, degraded vhs, skipping cd’s and sandpaper vinyls.
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Transport – Milchreise
April 7, 2017 / AO012
Distributed by Cargo Records Germany
Formats: LP, Dl | LISTEN + BUY

Transport rushes through all sorts of unholy rituals and improvised excesses. A Space Odyssey without rules or certainties, apart from the filthy power of an uproar of etheric synthesizer washes and motoric drum pulses.
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Michael Valentine West – Von Bock Strasse 18
March 24, 2017 / AO011
Formats: MC, Dl | LISTEN + BUY

Michael is a composer/decomposer utilising lessons learnt from various musical disciplines such as minimal, ambient, glitch, hip hop, jazz and sound design.
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2016

Kai Niggemann, Nils Quak – Ein Abend am modularen Synthesizer
December 17, 2016 / AO009
Formats: MC, Dl | LISTEN + BUY

In May 2016, we invited the musicians Kai Niggemann and Nils Quak to an evening at the modular Synthesizer.
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SCULPTURE – FORM FOAM
November 19, 2016 / AO010
Distributed by Cargo Records Germany
Formats: 12″ Vinyl (Picture), Dl | LISTEN + BUY

The opto-musical agglomerate is the pairing of British musician Dan Hayhurst (media devices, electronic instruments) and New Zealand animator Reuben Sutherland (video zoetrope turntable, animation, optix).
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LÉONORE BOULANGER – FEIGEN FEIGEN
September 16, 2016 / AO008
Distributed by Cargo Records Germany
Formats: LP, Dl | LISTEN + BUY

She sings in French, German, improvises some unknown languages. The voice searches the lines and colors in an extra-European vegetation. Synesthesia. Impediment. Anomaly. Restart. Primitivism.

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FRANCE – LIVE À L’OTTFEST
March 18, 2016 / AO005
Formats: Limited Edition MC, Dl | LISTEN + BUY

At Ottfest 2014, FRANCE set out for a wild mesmerising revelry of sound. The result is one of their best recordings to date.

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VOMIT HEAT – SPIRIT DESIRE
February 26, 2016 / AO006
Formats: LP, Dl | LISTEN + BUY
Distributed by Cargo Records
Videos: Wrong Place | Miriam | Broken Heartscape

Debut album of Nils Herzogenrath. Fusing experimentalism, kraut and psychedelic with no fear of melodies and a heart for noise.

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BLUTIGER JUPITER – EUROPA
January 27, 2016 / AO007
Formats: MC, Dl | LISTEN + BUY
Video: Live in Cologne

These improvisations are impositions to the hearing habits in the largely calm waters of moden music.

2014

MICHAEL VALENTINE WEST – CODE 17 ABSTRACTION
October 17, 2014 / AO004
Formats: LP, Dl | LISTEN + BUY
Videos: Kim M | Interview

Michael is a composer/decomposer utilising lessons learnt from various musical disciplines such as minimal, ambient, glitch, hip hop, jazz and sound design.

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MORPHIOUS B – UP
April 12, 2014 / AO003
Formats: MC, Dl | LISTEN + BUY

Morphious B creates a world evolving from musical influences such as 80s boogie, hip hop, synth and studio experiments.

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BLEMISHES – LIBIDO
February 1, 2014 / AO002
Formats: LP, Dl | BUY

Blemishes always means an energetic explosion of fragmentary interlacings, an apparent chaos of improvisation.

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2013

TESK – NERVES
December 2, 2013 / AO001
Formats: MC, Dl | BUY

This sounds like abstract ambient, it sounds like noise, and live it turns into a rhythmic world rich of pictorial language.

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