Bleak Bliss

Masami Tada - 無 Mu [Sound Encounter]

1998 CD by sound artist and East Bionic Symphonia alumnus Masami Tada, with some short tracks for bamboo and beanbags, then two electric live performance documents. Released by Soh Gallery.

Masami Tada - 無 Mu [Sound Encounter]

Akio Suzuki - Rub Music

The second part of what would become the "either/OAR Editions 2014" set released as part of the label's either/OAR series ...

CD released and/OAR in 2014.

Rub Music

Masami Tada - 音 Ne [Sound Encounter]

Double disc album of live recordings in Austria, Germany and the Netherlands, plus collaborations with Keiko Yamada and Makoto Ito on sound sculpture.

disc 1 Live Document A - In Europe 12-28 May, 1994
disc 2 Live Document B - Collaboration of Three Ears 17-18 Dec, 1993

Akio Suzuki - Dancing Cat

I don't have the Editions 2014 box set that Mrs Inside refered to but I do have it's constituent parts. This was recorded at Ichinomiya City Memorial Art Museum of Setsuko Migishi on July the 12th, 2008.

CD released in and/OAR in an edition of 50 in 2014.

Dancing Cat

Masami Tada - 存Son [Sound Improvisation]

1993 CD released by Tokyo's Soh Gallery by Tada Masami, a sound and performance artist and former student of Taj Mahal Traveller Takehisa Kosugi who first became known to listeners as part of the legendary East Bionic Symphonia, In his spare time, Tada and some other former East Bionic collaborators (notably, Che Mukai and Kazuo Imai) perform as Marginal Consort. These improvised percussion pieces are full of small, sparse movements not unlike Jeph Jerman's Animist Orchestra.

Masami Tada - 存Son [Sound Improvisation]

Various - Danza De La Vida - Rest In Peace, Again, Syntactic

The final in memoriam for the great Syntactic. Four of the tracks come from 7" releases with the remainder being previously unreleased. Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Werner Möbius, Andrew Liles, O Yuki Conjugate, Blaine L. Reininger, The Broken Penis Orchestra and more ...

CD released on Klanggalerie in 2007.

Danza De La Vida

Akio Suzuki - はごろも "Suzuki Type- Glass Harmonica"

A very small-run CDR by sound art pioneer Akio Suzuki. The music on this disc was reissued on the "either/OAR Editions 2014" 4xCD boxset (yet unheard by me), along with more archival material. Recorded in 1996 and initially available for sale only at the Gelbe Musik gallery and record shop in Berlin.

Akio Suzuki - Suzuki Type- Glass Harmonica

Various - Danza De La Muerte - R.I.P. Syntactic

And from the ashes of Walter Robotka's Syntactic, he formed Klanggalerie. What a fucking genius! As a doff of the cap to what had gone before, a lot of brilliant people remixed a lot of brilliant people's music. Listen to it or (if you don't trust me) look it up and then listen to it.

Double CD released on Klanggalerie in 2002.

Danza De La Muerte

Ted Milton & The BoBonus Beats - Postcard

In case you don't know, Ted Milton is the founder of the brilliant Blurt. This is the best way that I can think of sliding away from the inspirational and esoteric small vinyl releases of this great label.

Single-sided 7" released on Syntactic in 1995.

Postcard

Free Agents - £3.33

Initially, this was a very mysterious Mancunian release and the details only came to light well after the event:

"While [Buzzcocks] are mixing 'Love Bites', the rest of The Tiller Boys play support to Gang Of Four at York University. The gig, played by Francis Cookson and Eric Ramsden, is recorded and subsequently released on Groovy Records - the off-shoot of The Tiller Boys call themselves Free Agents, and the record is both called, and sells for, £3.33p. Despite [Pete] Shelley's absence from the live recording, the remaining tracks which make up the album feature Shelley, Cookson and Alan [Deaves] (guitarist/vocalist with The Worst), recorded at Graveyard Studios in Prestwich, Manchester." There are even rumours that Barry Adamson is involved here somewhere.

LP released on Pete Shelley and Francis Cookson's Groovy Records in 1980.

£3.33

Free Agents - Cyclic

Eric Ramsden (aka Eric Random), Andy Boothman, Tony Quigley and Seema Gupta. Definitely the most unlikely and best thing to evolve out of the Manchester punk-funk melting pot.

7" released on Syntactic in 1998.

Cyclic

Main - Coderays

At this time, Main was the work of Robert Hampson of the mighty Loop and Stephan Mathieu. Excellent dislocated guitar with Spacemen 3 styled hushed vocals.

Single-sided 7" released on Syntactic in 1995.

Coderays

Scanner - Underwater / Gentle

Mutant techno doom courtesy of Robin Rimbaud.

7" released on Syntactic in 1995.

Underwater / Gentle

Christof Kurzmann - Sinn.Blau.Pause

Beautifully constructed sounds recorded in one channel with both left and right channels frequently having different content at the same time.

7" released on Syntactic in 1995.

Sinn.Blau.Pause

Organum - Sanctus

More revelatory organ drone in the first of the trilogy.

CD released on Robot Records in 2006.

Sanctus

Organum - Amen

The second of the trilogy provides a stunning leap into deep thought. Hauntingly beautiful.

CD released on Die Stadt in 2006.

Amen

va - Lágrimas De Miedo 14 - Pornography: Re-heat

A fun CD from 2008 that came with an issue of the French music magazine Fear Drop. This is the entire Cure album "Pornography", every song in order, each covered by a different band. Features tracks by Nadja, Troum, Contagious Orgasm, Savage Republic, Dirge, Year of No Light, and Kill the Thrill.

va - Lágrimas De Miedo 14 - Pornography- Re-heat