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Gil Melle The Andromeda Strain Soundtrack cdr cdr 2006/1971 new This movie is a classic conspiracy/armageddon flick in the tradition of Heston's 'The Omega Man' or 'THX-1138'. Giant 70s computers loom and lights blink in color-coded rooms while...	BWIE	$5.00 Add:
Martha Folts New Music for Organ cdr cdr 2006/1974 new Boston sports multiple local all-cdr labels of dubious legality. This particular one comes to us by way of a lovely fellow named George. It features what are obviously George's...	BWIE	$5.00 Add:
Michael Snow the Last lp cdr cdr 2007/1987 new Here's a little cdr of a great Michael Snow lp. You might remember Snow as the filmmaker of 'New York Eye and Ear Control' or as a performer on Steve Reich's 'Pendulum Music'. He...	BWIE	$5.00 Add:
Polly Bradfield Solo Violin Improvisations cdr cdr 2009/1979 new Bradfield's first, last, & only solo album is frank & flatly stark, with bone dry scrapes and chalky scratches cutting through big chunks of silence as dead as 3 day old fish. She's...	BWIE	$5.00 Add:
Various True Vine 78 Series Vol. 15: Missa Pro Defunctis cdr cdr 2008/1934 new Grand series, showcasing the stellar 78 collection of Ian Nagoski. If you don't know him, Ian is the onetime owner of the True Vine record store in Baltimore, MD, and also compiled...	BWIE	$6.00 Add:
Joseph Celli Video Ears Music Eyes cd cd 1995 M-/M- Intimate & delicate drones made by allowing each musician to improvise along with overdubbed versions of themselves, which Celli catpured on video & processed during the performance for...	O.O.	$8.00 Add:
Various Splitting Bits cd cd 2003 new Nice little forgotten set of musicians who, in some sense or another, play the machine. One woman read lines of html code, someone plays turntables, someone else hacks a video system....	EMF	$8.00 Add:
Bent Lorentzen Electronic Music cdr cdr 2005/1987 new Charming record of Danish graphic scores that look like Mac Classic clip-art charts. The pieces here go back as far as '72. The well-monikered Bent is best known for his more trad...	Creel Pone	$8.50 Add:
Pierre Henry Mise en Musique du Corticalart de Roger Lafosse cdr cdr 2005/1971 new Henry is the greatest master tape cut ups ever had, and this is an obscure record of his that features recordings of brainwaves. In this case, the brain belonged to Roger Lafosse,...	Creel Pone	$8.50 Add:
Various Carrefour cdr cdr 2005/1972 new Quebecois electronic composition & musique concrete feat. the wonderful Hugh LeCaine (who's best known for a tape piece created from a recording of a single drop of water). The very...	Creel Pone	$8.50 Add:
Zanagoria (Giorgio Carnini) Insight Modulation cdr cdr 2005/197x new Italian soundtrack composer Carnini took on a pseudonym to do some early 70s library music. Reverby jazz, cheapo ring modulator effects, & some general bloop 'n fart. Tracklisting:...	Creel Pone	$8.50 Add:
Jocy De Oliveira cdr cdr 2006/1981 new Brazilian electronic compositions with vocal 'stories', which in this case means Joan LaBarbara-type squawking, ring modulators, & tape garble. Jocy grew up as a piano prodigy & she...	Creel Pone	$9.00 Add:
Pierre Henry Cortical Art III cdr cdr 2006/1973 new Follow up to Creel Pone's brainwave recordings made our fave man in the ivory tower, Pierre. This one's a performance of the same piece as on the Roger Lafosse record, but now given...	Creel Pone	$9.00 Add:
Wolfgang Fuchs/Jerome Bryerton/Damon Smith Three October cd cd 2001 M-/M- Fuchs has been playing around Berlin since the mid 70s & founded the King Ubu Orchestru in '83. On a solo tour of the US in 1997, he met a couple of younger Americans & took them under...	Balance Point Acoustics	$9.00 Add:
Iannis Xenakis Pleiades cd cd 2011/1979 new Les Percussions de Strasbourg perform this drum piece, written for them in '79, with Xenakis in attendance. Stochastic (that's Xenakis-speak for 'I drew up a probability graph & used...	Harmonia Mundi	$9.50 Add:
Laszlo Dubrovay Live Electronic cdr cdr 2008/1979/1975-77 new Slippery & fuzzed out synth warpage abetted by electronic organ & some background string scratches, cimbalom & sprinkles of percussion. Laszlo's from Hungary & at the time...	Creel Pone	$9.50 Add:
Reinhold Weber Elektronische & Phonetische Kompositionen cdr cdr 2009/1973-74 new German prof who taught electronic music (at Karlsruhe) for over 30 years. Raw oscillations & generators with some wicky-wack crude effects. One piece has classic Robby the Robot...	Creel Pone	$9.50 Add:
Various Electronic Music from Iceland cdr cdr 2010/1980-83 new Ice cold synth plops with a hefty dose of 80s echo & harmonizer- makes it sound like a round after round of glass chimes shattering into each other. A much more radical version...	Creel Pone	$9.50 Add:
Bulent Arel & Daria Semegan Electronic Music for Dance cdr cdr 2011/1978 new Buchla 200 pieces made for dancers & at the Columbia Princeton Electronic music studio when the means to make this kind of oscillator gorp was very new & clunky. The dance piece was...	Creel Pone	$10.00 Add:
Ernst Karel/Annette Krebs Falter 1-5 cd cd 2010/2006 new Ever wish you could visit an ant farm from the insects' point of view? Tiny little crunches of underfoot gravel, the hum of industiral environs, bacon fry, crinkles & tons of...	Cathnor	$10.00 Add:
Giuseppe Morrocchi Aaffluss Raaffluss cdr cdr 2011/1988/1980-84 new Florence pianist who plays along with backwards recordings of himself. He deliberately repeats notes, now quickly & now slowly, and then they're repeated again in the...	Creel Pone	$10.00 Add:
Jean Baptiste Barriere Pandemonium cdr cd 2012/1979/1975-76 new Parisian who has a record on Wergo, & worked at Ircam during the 80s and 90s. This early venture has lots of synths, feedback & tape delay, & is rather sauced, with large,...	Creel Pone	$10.00 Add:
Josef Otto Mundigl Elektronische Musik cdr cdr 2011/1976-80 new Mundigl built the prototype of the EMS Synthi E, & taught musicology in Germany at Regensburg. He also recorded library music here & there, jailbroke his own ring modulators &...	Creel Pone	$10.00 Add:
Klaus Ager Sondern die Sterne Sinds cdr cdr 2010/1974-76 new Klaus is from Salzburg & has been running an Austrian new music festival since the mid-70s (2012's was in May). Just before founding it, Klaus took a trip to Stockholm to play...	Creel Pone	$10.00 Add:
Lelo Nazario Discurso Aos Objetos cdr cdr 2011/1984/1978 new Brazilian jazz fusion pianist who started out in an experimental band called Grupo Um. Here he makes a chunky collage of cartoon crashes, found sounds, radio plays, sped up...	Creel Pone	$10.00 Add:
Lucien Goethals/Karel Goeyvaerts IPEM cdr cdr 2012/1963-73 new The Institute for Psychoacoustic and Electronic Music (IPEM) is an electronic music studio attached to Ghent University in Belgium, founded in part by Goethals. Goeyvaerts was an...	Creel Pone	$10.00 Add:
Oskar Sala Electronic Virtuosity cdr cdr 2011/1970 new In the endless cheaper vs. better technology debate, Oskar's Trautonium takes the betamax side against the sythnesizer. Besides being the instrument's inventor, he's it's expert...	Creel Pone	$10.00 Add:
Umberto di Grazia Dimensione Sogno cdr cdr 2011/1976 new Di Grazia is a former public relations guy who quit his job in order to feel his way through gentle, plaintive moog solos that he first heard in a recurring dream. Sparse, but...	Creel Pone	$10.00 Add:
Various Elektronische Musik Konkret Instrumental Vokal cdr cdr 2011/1982 new Obscure German fellas in Stuttgart bonk gongs and then manipulate the tape, prepare pianos so that they sound like kotos, type nonsense into early computers, or mess with oboe...	Creel Pone	$10.00 Add:
Various Elektronski Studio Radio Beograda cdr cdr 2012/1975 new Lots of schwings, stacks of beeps moving together in time, & serge modular gorp from Radio Belgrade's electronic music studio. One guy in particular, Josip Kalcic, does a spot-on...	Creel Pone	$10.00 Add:
Various Works of Electronic Music cdr cd 2012/1979-85 new Electroacoustic pieces from Greece, Hungary & Yugoslavia. One fella who's rather orchestral was a mathematician by day, one makes a moog fantasy, another was a student of Xenakis....	Creel Pone	$10.00 Add:
Chris Watson El Tren Fantasma lp 12 inch 2011 new Watson's from both Cabaret Voltaire & the Hafler Trio, but I think his solo field recording work is some of his most fascinating. Recreation of a cross-country train journey in...	Touch	$10.50 Add:
Moondog Snaketime Series lp lp 2007/1956 new Also known as the 1st Prestige album. Moondog's japanese wife (whose real name was Mary, not Suzuko or Sakura), wooden triangle invention (called the 'Oo'), fugues/rounds, &...	Moondog	$11.00 Add:
Luciano Berio Coro cd cd 2002/1980/1975-77 M-/M- Whether the texture is thick or thin, Berio's always trying to get individual voices tripping over one another for a gauzy & transparent weave, and so here he had each...	Deutsche Grammophon	$11.50 Add:
Ester Ferrer ZAJ Concert for 30 or 60 Voices cd cd 2012/2010/1980 new 30 people gather outside. One person sings/talks for one minute, then a 2nd person joins in at 2 minutes, a 3rd at 3 minutes, & so on until all 30 people are making chants,...	WMOR	$12.00 Add:
Loic Blairon Double Bass cd cd 2009 new A half hour of dead silence punctuated by about 20 thinly-spread plinks, made on double bass but sounding high & electronic, like a cell phone. Issued on Mattin's label with some vague...	WMOR	$12.00 Add:
Matthieu Saladin Deserts cd cd 2009/1954 new Edgar Varese's 'Deserts' caused a riot upon it's first radio broadcast in the mid-1950s. Part of the trouble probably stemmed from the free tickets that attracted a wider audience...	WMOR	$12.00 Add:
Tom Johnson An Hour For Piano cd cd 2010/1973 new Tom Johnson is well known for writing a 1977 Village Voice essay that, in the days before NPR, introduced a bunch of brownstone dwellers to minimalism. His most famous piece lasts...	Irritable Hedgehog	$12.00 Add:
Various Improkup dvdr dvdr 2012/2011 new Dvdr that contains no visuals, but about 72 hours worth of mp3s. A bunch of improvisors/freaks in Eibar, Spain broke into an abandoned factory for 3 days & staged concerts that...	WMOR	$12.00 Add:
William Duckworth Time Curve Preludes cd cd 2012/1977-78 new Lightly prepared solo piano that puts weights on certain keys so that strings will resonate along with what's played, plus long pauses after the end of each section allow the last...	Irritable Hedgehog	$12.00 Add:
Alvin Lucier I Am Sitting In a Room cd cd 1990/1970 new There's no more perfect illustration of site-specific composition than Lucier's renowned hall-of-mirrors tape piece. He recorded himself making a little speech, which described the...	Lovely	$12.50 Add:
Alvin Lucier Sferics/Music for Solo Performer cd cd 2010/1987/1965-81 new If a single person can be said to be responsible for the rise of site-specific sound installations, then Alvin Lucier's your man. A member of the Sonic Arts Union with Robert...	Lovely	$12.50 Add:
Asmus Tietchens Soiree cd cd 2011 new Tietchens makes 'I Am Sitting in a Laptop'- that's to say he tries to take musical processing to it's ultimate conclusion. Using specific computer pieces from his past catalog, he re-runs...	Line	$12.50 Add:
Christina Kubisch Five Electrical Walks cd cd 2007 new Processed recordings from Kubisch's installation in which particpants walk around wearing wireless headphones that amplify the background electro-magnetic fields present in the...	Important	$12.50 Add:
Gordon Mumma Studio Retrospect cd cd 2000/1959-1982 new Sonic Arts Union dude who was one of the first to try and build his own circuits. He also got the scene going in Ann Arbor, MI, starting up the electronic music studio there &...	Lovely	$12.50 Add:
Leo Kupper Digital Voices cd cd 2012 new Kupper lives in Belgium & has long experience working in electronic music studios & also with musique concrete (since the early 60s). He's particularly good at getting fractalized or...	Pogus	$12.50 Add:
Limpe Fuchs Nur Mar Mus cd cd 1999 new I can't imagine why there's no noise/hardcore band stealing this dear lady's name for their own- as I was sure the first time I saw this cd that it was by some cum-encrusted Europunks...	Streamline	$12.50 Add:
Noah Creshevsky Rounded With a Sleep cd cd 2012 new Playful, zig zagging cut-ups from this former director of the Center for Computer Music at Brooklyn College. Creshevsky writes pieces that stay within 20th century avant-classical...	Pogus	$12.50 Add:
Pauline Oliveros Alien Bog/Beautiful Soop cd cd 1997/1966-7 new Essential classic of blorping synth. A Buchla Box 100 series and Pauline's tape delay system get together and they burp like a lake full of electronic frogs. Then Pauline whips out...	Pogus	$12.50 Add:
Pauline Oliveros No Mo cd cd 2001/1966-67 new Queen Pauline sets her Buchla boxes to max blorpage and makes a song inspired by the frogs around Mills college in California (where she'd just become the director of the tape...	Pogus	$12.50 Add: