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Olencki, Weston : Pearls Ground Down To Powder [VINYL]
Olencki, Weston :
Pearls Ground Down To Powder [VINYL]

(Full Spectrum -- USA )


Price: $16.95    




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Weston Olencki deconstructs and reimagines the banjo across two longform compositions, transforming it into a percussive, polyrhythmic engine and a harmonic resonator, navigating glitch-driven algorithmic textures and richly detuned sonorities, juxtaposing the kinetic, minimalist grooves of "The Rocks Are Different, Here" with the spectral, ring-modulated drones of "Brothers".

Woods, Peter J.: Sucking Stones
Woods, Peter J.:
Sucking Stones

(Love Earth Music -- USA )


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Exploring the intersection of harsh noise, spoken word, and conceptual composition, Peter J. Woods constructs a sonic meditation on Samuel Beckett's Molloy, weaving fragmented text, tense ambience, and intense sonic ruptures into a dynamic and gripping experience, where shifting textures and calculated silences evoke both philosophical depth and visceral tension.

Modelbau: 1x33.3
Modelbau:
1x33.3

(Love Earth Music -- USA )


Price: $9.95    




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Recorded in March 2024 using an 8-track borrowed from Peter Duimelinks, Frans de Waard's Modelbau project presents a dark drone piece that envelops listeners in rich, immersive textures, exemplifying his adept manipulation of lo-fi equipment to create profound ambient soundscapes.

Pek Solo: A Quartet of Peks - Unifications <i>[Used Item]</i>
Pek Solo:
A Quartet of Peks - Unifications [Used Item]

(Evil Clown -- USA )


Price: $5.00    




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Stelzer, Howard: The Flemish Giants (Suburban Observances Vol. 5)
Stelzer, Howard:
The Flemish Giants (Suburban Observances Vol. 5)

(Love Earth Music -- USA )


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A large-scale and meticulously deconstructed sonic exploration from Howard Stelzer, weaving layers of manipulated cassette tapes, tape players, and speakers with extensive processing from sonic luminaries Ralf Wehowsky, Brendan Murray, Linda Aubry Bullock, Bruno Duplant, Fani Konstantidou, and Andrew Zukerman — for a dense and unpredictable landscape where textures dissolve and reform in shifting abstractions.

Chrysakis, Thanos: Psyche
Chrysakis, Thanos:
Psyche

(Eternal Music Projects -- Australia )


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Exploring the depths and boundaries of the psyche through seven compelling electroacoustic compositions, Greek composer Thanos Chrysakis delivers a deeply psychedelic, mysterious, and immersive sonic journey, masterfully blending electronic textures and acousmatic elements that resonate within the listener's consciousness, psyche, and imagination — a vivid reflection on complex inner landscapes.

God Pussy: Rudimentar Desejo De Liberdade
God Pussy:
Rudimentar Desejo De Liberdade

(Love Earth Music -- USA )


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Brazilian noise artist Jhones Silva, aka God Pussy, delivers a brutal, uncompromising conglomerate of harsh electronic textures, abstract noise, and aggressive sonic distortion, employing pedals, synths, radios & noise generators in an intense DIY exploration of social chaos, urban corruption, and humanity's unfulfilled desire for freedom through confrontational electroacoustic compositions.

Myers, David Lee : Tin Drop Tear [BOOK w/ DOWNLOAD]
Myers, David Lee :
Tin Drop Tear [BOOK w/ DOWNLOAD]

(pulsewidth -- USA )


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Experimental composer and feedback artist David Lee Myers (Arcane Device) ventures into literary territory with a limited-edition book of fifty "Plunder-Lit" poetic pieces, complemented by fifteen spoken-word audio readings set to experimental soundscapes, evoking Tristan Tzara's work, William S. Burroughs' cutups, and the sensibilities of Captain Beefheart.

Zilmrah: Hallucinatory X-Ray Visions
Zilmrah:
Hallucinatory X-Ray Visions

(Love Earth Music -- USA )


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The debut full-length from Lawry Romani's noise/drone project Zilmrah blends manipulated samples, modular synths, and handcrafted electroacoustic instruments into intriguingly distorted yet spacious soundscapes, balancing hypnotic rhythms with dadaist absurdity and dense sonic experimentation in a captivating journey of cut-up electronics and immersive drones.

Chase, Caleb: Looking At Bugs Under A Log
Chase, Caleb:
Looking At Bugs Under A Log

(Love Earth Music -- USA )


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Experimental composer Caleb Chase presents 15 succinct electroacoustic pieces that delve into intricate sound spatialization and panning techniques, crafting immersive auditory environments where layered textures and dynamic movements reveal hidden sonic details, rewarding attentive listening through headphones or stereo speakers.

del Pino, Francisco / Charlotte Mundy: The Sea [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD]
del Pino, Francisco / Charlotte Mundy:
The Sea [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD]

(Notice Recordings -- USA )


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Composer Francisco del Pino and vocalist Charlotte Mundy create a deeply nuanced and emotionally rich exchange, as Mundy's radiant voice navigates del Pino's intricate, polyphony-tinged compositions, layering syllabic repetition, resonant phrasing, and textural detail into a multitrack performance that evokes mantra, lament, and ecstatic meditation in equal measure.

La Casa, Eric: Zones Portuaires 2
La Casa, Eric:
Zones Portuaires 2

(Swarming -- France )


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Working from recordings made at maritime ports between 2017 and 2023, sound artist Éric La Casa constructs a compelling suite of documentary compositions shaped by the industrial rhythms, constraints, and spatial tensions of global harbours, blending field recording and sonic observation into a tactile, immersive portrait of male-dominated coastal labor environments.

Various Artists: In Fractured Silence
Various Artists:
In Fractured Silence

(SOUFFLE CONTINU RECORDS -- France )


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Originally compiled for Steven Stapleton's United Dairies label and now remastered, this snapshot of late 20th-century experimental/industrial music brings together the surreal collage of Nurse With Wound's Stapleton, the brooding piano of Robert Haigh (Sema), the chamber-styled acoustics of Hélène Sage, and the sonic provocations of Un Drame Musical Instantané.

CHANGES TO blind (Phil Zampino): Volume 9 - I Wave on a Fine Vile Mist [CD + DOWNLOAD]
CHANGES TO blind (Phil Zampino):
Volume 9 - I Wave on a Fine Vile Mist [CD + DOWNLOAD]

(Squidco -- USA )


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The ninth and first concept album from Phil Zampino's CHANGES TO blind project, composed from synthetics, samples, field recordings, plunders, and voice, draws on a childhood 10" circus record to explore life's strange loop through sonic experimentation, collage, and poetry-blurring memory, absurdity, and existential inquiry in a deeply personal, carousel-like narrative.

Kuvveti, Deli : Kuslar Soyledi [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD]
Kuvveti, Deli :
Kuslar Soyledi [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD]

(Tsss Tapes -- Italy )


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A limited-edition cassette release from Turkish-born, Seattle-based artist Deli Kuvveti, Kuşlar Söyledi presents four studio compositions blending creaking doors, bird and liquid sounds, and minimal drones into a meditative exploration of microsound and sound collage.

Mori, Ikue: Of Ghosts And Goblins
Mori, Ikue:
Of Ghosts And Goblins

(Tzadik -- USA )


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Electronic innovator Ikue Mori presents a captivating 9-part work drawing inspiration from Lafcadio Hearn's chronicles of Japanese folklore, through intricate laptop electronics and synthesizer work, conjuring a series of instrumental miniatures that evoke the ethereal presence of fox spirits, phantoms, and other spectral entities, a mysteriously enchanting and seductive work.

Nakayama, Tetsuya: Edo Wan [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD]
Nakayama, Tetsuya:
Edo Wan [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD]

(Tsss Tapes -- Italy )


Price: $9.95    




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Composing with assembled field recordings and environmental textures, Chiba, Japan-based composer Tetsuya Nakayama transforms mundane sounds into poetic events, as water, metal, and incidental noise intertwine in a quiet yet immersive narrative that re-enchants everyday spaces, revealing a new mode of listening shaped by nuance and fleeting detail.

Zorn, John (Ikue Mori): The Bagatelles Vol. 4 Ikue Mori
Zorn, John (Ikue Mori):
The Bagatelles Vol. 4 Ikue Mori

(Tzadik -- USA )


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Downtown NY improviser, sound artist and drummer Ikue Mori reimagines John Zorn's compositions from his Bagatelles book through her distinctive electronic lens, crafting a solo album where composed structures meet spontaneous digital improvisation, revealing new dimensions and highlighting her innovative approach to sound and form.

Juice Machine: Yachats
Juice Machine:
Yachats

(Love Earth Music -- USA )


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Recorded across two seasons in coastal Oregon, Yachats showcases the late Heather Chessman and Roger Smith as Juice Machine, sculpting fragile, tape-based electro-acoustic collages that blend field recordings, loops, and discreet electronics into seven immersive vignettes — each a poetic meditation on place, memory, and sonic texture.

subservientdominance: Publicdominance
subservientdominance:
Publicdominance

(Love Earth Music -- USA )


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Live recordings from four Northeast U.S. performances by subservientdominance, the solo project of Doug DeWalt, blending power electronics, harsh noise, and deep vocal-driven textures into a visceral exploration of sonic dominance, with each set presenting a uniquely aggressive and immersive approach to raw electroacoustic intensity.

E.O.C. (Engineering Of Consent): Dreams
E.O.C. (Engineering Of Consent):
Dreams

(Love Earth Music -- USA )


Price: $9.95    




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An enigmatic electroacoustic project from Mexico City, E.O.C. (Engineering Of Consent) crafts layered, dramatic, and immersive soundscapes that blend dark ambient, noise, and experimental textures into a compelling exploration of human nature, perception, and the subtle forces shaping collective experience.

Liedwart, Kurt / Petr Vrba: Punkt <i>[Used Item]</i>
Liedwart, Kurt / Petr Vrba:
Punkt [Used Item]

(Mikroton Recordings -- Russia )


Price: $10.00    




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The debut album of free electronic music explorers Kurt Liedwart on synthesizers, cracked homemade and everyday electronics, and Petr Vrba on synthesizers and electronics, where each track is built upon a permutating sonic foundation of well-paced compositions that transition between hypnotic abstract structural forms and textural and timbral experimentation.

Dunston, Nick: Skultura [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] <i>[Used Item]</i>
Dunston, Nick:
Skultura [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] [Used Item]

(Tripticks Tapes -- USA )


Price: $8.00    




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Bassist & composer Nick Dunston's Berlin band Skultura creates a uniquely experimental and fascinatingly sculpted approach to free jazz through layers of sound and serious playing punctuated by voice and concrete elements, each piece keeping the listener in anticipation of what might happen next, eased into serious jazz grooves, then whisked away in new directions; not to be missed!

Nil by Nose: Pictures On Trains Repainted
Nil by Nose:
Pictures On Trains Repainted

(Love Earth Music -- USA )


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A collage of reinterpretations based on original tracks composed by Nil by Nose to accompany graffiti-covered train videos, this remix album features a diverse range of experimental artists reimagining those quick, raw compositions into a wildly creative and unpredictable audio journey through sound, decay, rhythm, and noise.

Skaset, Havard: 8:15
Skaset, Havard:
8:15

(Conrad Sound -- Norway )


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Guitarist Håvard Skaset (Sult, MoE) delivers a grim and compelling solo work of guitar, synth, and tape compositions with a 24-page book of abstract b&w art, exploring themes of disappearance and destruction, building intense drone-based soundscapes punctuated by moments of stark introspection, in a minimalist and historically charged reflection on human malice and memory.

Baron, Marc / Eric La Casa: Contrefacons
Baron, Marc / Eric La Casa:
Contrefacons

(Swarming -- France )


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Exploring the fragility of recorded memory and the processes of cinematic restoration, Marc Baron and Eric La Casa capture, manipulate, and recontextualize sounds from the Hiventy film laboratories, transforming them through analogue treatments and dynamic re-recording into a compelling meditation on representation, decay, and the shifting nature of perception.

Lopez, Francisco: Untitled (2021-2022) [2 CDs]
Lopez, Francisco:
Untitled (2021-2022) [2 CDs]

(Bu Lang Tribute Cake -- USA )


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A double CD of composed environmental sound works from Francisco López, assembling raw field recordings from locations including Tenerife, Eswatini, Israel, Georgia, Chile, and the southwestern USA, along with a film soundtrack and a collaboration with Felipe Otondo, creating immersive, abstract electroacoustic pieces with intentional silences and textural extremes.

+DOG+: Peace
+DOG+:
Peace

(Love Earth Music -- USA )


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A long-running experimental noise unit led by Steve Davis and featuring Lob Instagon, +DOG+ craft a subtle and textural set of eighteen lo-fi electroacoustic improvisations recorded in Massachusetts, California, and Rhode Island, blending electronics, field recordings, and minimalist structures with a calm, intimate, and exploratory aesthetic.

Thee Checkered Shoed Dude: A 'Lil Test Of That
Thee Checkered Shoed Dude:
A 'Lil Test Of That

(Love Earth Music -- USA )


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Blending layered studio experimentation with raw live performance, the mysterious Thee Checkered Shoe Dude's album traverses glitchy textures, looped electronics, and spontaneous energy, recorded in Miami and on stage in Phoenix and Sacramento, for a vibrant and unpredictable electroacoustic journey that bridges structured sound design and chaotic improvisation.

Berkson, Judith: Liederkreis II [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD]
Berkson, Judith:
Liederkreis II [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD]

(Notice Recordings -- USA )


Price: $8.95    




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Featuring electronically-augmented vocal interpretations of lieder songs by such composers as Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann, New York vocalist Judith Berkson also presents purely electronic pieces engaging noise and feedback-oriented vignettes, the evolution of her project started in 2016 as she re-contextualizes classical music in powerfully expressive ways.

Liyou, Lucy / YSKA: A Need/A Want [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD]
Liyou, Lucy / YSKA:
A Need/A Want [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD]

(Notice Recordings -- USA )


Price: $8.95    




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Narrated by text-to-speech vocalization, Korean-American pianist and composer Lucy Liyou collaborates with Bulgarian-born guitarist Ivana Kafedjiyska (YSKA) in an album of languorously floating and understatedly abrasive music complemented by subtle field recordings, two works of curiously philosophical, baffling and observational verse; unique and compelling.

Jaeger, Kassel: Fernweh [VINYL 2 LPs]
Jaeger, Kassel:
Fernweh [VINYL 2 LPs]

(Black Truffle -- Austria )


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A major work in Kassel Jaeger's catalog, blending musique concrète and electronic synthesis into a drifting, immersive soundscape across two LP sides, shifting through abstract environments rich with elusive textures and hidden detail, as subtle rhythms and concrete sounds evoke a sense of motion, memory, and a yearning that echoes the meaning behind the album's title: a deep longing to travel.

Olsen, Lance Austin  : Death in the Urban Jungle
Olsen, Lance Austin :
Death in the Urban Jungle

(Confront -- UK )


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A one-track electroacoustic work composed and mixed by Lance Austin Olsen, combining amplified copper plate, shruti box, guitar, flute, found tapes, and processed objects with extended voice and sampler, forming a dynamic and unpredictable narrative that shifts between silence, tension, and resonance in a rich, scored soundscape of urban unease.

McGee, Hal: Columbus Expedition [Cassette w/ Download]
McGee, Hal:
Columbus Expedition [Cassette w/ Download]

(Copy This! -- USA )


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A celebration of friendship, sound, and daily life, Hal McGeeŐs cassette + download release assembles dictaphone recordings from his June 2025 trip to Ohio, capturing conversations with Chris Phinney, Jeff Chenault, and Jerry Kranitz, the ambience of cafŽs, shops, and the Arts Fair, collaborative studio and live performances, and voices from the city, composed into a strangely compelling audio diary.

A Magic Whistle: The Solar Cell [VINYL]
A Magic Whistle:
The Solar Cell [VINYL]

(Public Eyesore -- USA )


Price: $24.95    




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Recorded largely in an off-grid mountain hut, the fifth A Magic Whistle album finds Andy Puls uniting the chamber-folk intimacy and minimalist electronics of his earlier work into a vivid, wilderness-shaped soundscape where homemade sequencers, modular synths, guitars, whistles, and his resonant "Cascadian Sympathetic Steel" flow with field recordings and wordless voice.

Hawkins, Chester: Apsis
Hawkins, Chester:
Apsis

(Intangible Arts -- USA )


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Recorded while on tour in Arizona, Denmark, and Sweden, experimental composer Chester Hawkins transforms keyboards, live loops, field recordings, synths, lapsteel, and music box into immersive and hallucinatory soundscapes, weaving tense, meditative, and otherworldly excursions that trace the shifting orbits of inner and outer space in vivid, exploratory detail.

S*Glass: Benign Neglect
S*Glass:
Benign Neglect

(Public Eyesore -- USA )


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Founding member of Bren't Lewiis Ensemble and Glands of External Secretion, and longtime driver of Bananafish magazine, Seymour Glass (as S*Glass) presents three 20-minute works of surrealist musique concrète, layering loops, cassettes, objects, organ, voice, and field recordings into unsettling yet strangely meditative sound collages that conjure fever dreams and altered states.

Thrash the Flash (Dufourd / Foussat): Viens !
Thrash the Flash (Dufourd / Foussat):
Viens !

(Fou Records -- France )


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A rare meeting across four decades as guitarist Marc Dufourd and synthesist Jean-Marc Foussat revisit their Axolotl roots, juxtaposing the raw collage of their 1982 improvisations — feedback, fractured rhythms, and spectral melodies — with a 2023 counterpart of folk-tinged guitar, toys, and electronics, a reflective dialogue on time, memory, and soundŐs restless possibilities.

Deman, Berlinde: Plank 9
Deman, Berlinde:
Plank 9

(Relative Pitch -- USA )


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Exploring the resonant depths of the serpent, a low-pitched lip-reed aerophone, and her own voice through effects and extended techniques, Belgian musician Berlinde Deman crafts an intimate and deeply personal sound world where breath, tone, and distortion intertwine, her slow and deliberate process unfolding like a meditative journey toward balance, discovery, and quiet transformation.

Brown, Don / Dan Reynolds: D=D [HARDCOVER BOOK w/ CD]
Brown, Don / Dan Reynolds:
D=D [HARDCOVER BOOK w/ CD]

(Sacred Realism -- Germany )


Price: $34.95    




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The culmination of 15 years of work is this ambitious installment of Bryan Eubanks with Joe Foster, Dan Brown, and Dan Reynolds' sound project, in a CD of diverse compositions merging concrete, acousmatic sources and field recordings, with an accompanying 391 page book of letters, notes, aphorisms, scores, images, and commentary from the artists & contributors.

Thollem: Worlds in a Life, Two
Thollem:
Worlds in a Life, Two

(ESP-Disk -- USA )


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Reimagining sounds from his past collaborations with Nels Cline, Pauline Oliveros, William Parker, Terry Riley, and Michael Wimberly, Thollem transforms their performances into new sonic landscapes through real-time improvisation using samples from their improvisations, blending organic and electronic textures into a kaleidoscopic exploration of memory, transformation, and infinite creative possibility.

La Casa, Eric / Jerome Noetinger: Off Tracks
La Casa, Eric / Jerome Noetinger:
Off Tracks

(erstwhile -- USA )


Price: $13.95    




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""An exploration of buildings emptied of their activities, a crossing of spaces abandoned by their occupants, a drift through the ghostly trace of a vanished presence, a testimony to the general deterioration underway that also applies ...

Coultrain: Mundus [COLORED VINYL]
Coultrain:
Mundus [COLORED VINYL]

(Positive Elevations -- USA )


Price: $24.95    




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West Coast songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Coultrain, aka Aaron Michael Frison or Seymour Liberty, in a sequel to his Phantasmagoria album, a soulful, introspective and lyrical collection of songs based around a sequence of images reminiscent of a dream, capturing the hazy state of mind that drove the process behind this album, as well as its dreamy effect.

Coultrain: Mundus [VINYL]
Coultrain:
Mundus [VINYL]

(Positive Elevations -- USA )


Price: $18.99    




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West Coast songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Coultrain, aka Aaron Michael Frison or Seymour Liberty, in a sequel to his Phantasmagoria album, a soulful, introspective and lyrical collection of songs based around a sequence of images reminiscent of a dream, capturing the hazy state of mind that drove the process behind this album, as well as its dreamy effect.

Hprizm: Signs Remixed
Hprizm:
Signs Remixed

(577 Records -- USA )


Price: $16.00    




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577 Records' experimental, electronic sub-label Positive Elevation releases this remix of Gerald Cleaver's Signs album, itself an innovative album of synthetic rhythms and sonic landscape, here reworked by producer Hprizm, aka High Priest of Antipop Consortium, channeling Cleaver's work into dream-like territory that re-thinks and re-paces the original.



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