Ascension - LP

Two side-long yawps by Jaworzyn & Irving, recorded live in 1994 and released on long-playing vinyl shortly thereafter.

Ascension - LP

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Various - Recovery

A specially commissioned set of cover versions / tributes / deconstructions of "popular" tunes. As clues: Carter Tutti with Floyd's Lucifer Sam; Alva Noto with Afrika Bambaataa & the Soul Sonic Force's Planet Rock; Matmos with Bow Wow Wow's C•30 C•60 C•90 Go; Mika Vainio's take on Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill and Ryoji Ikeda's brilliant tech-glitch appropriation of AC/DC's Back In Black.

People, this is an absolute joy. Well, it is to me. As always, please yourselves!

10 x 7" box set released on Fractured Recordings in 2008.

Recovery

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Varous - Régénération - Dégénérescence

A wealth of wonderful people woven through the mostly (and ironically) silent interludes of Cédric Peyronnet's Toy Bizarre project.

Double CD released on Cédric's own Kaon label in 1997.

Régénération - Dégénérescence

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Ascension - Five Titles

Can you really name an album "Five Titles" if you haven't bothered to title any of the songs? Released on shiny (though probably rotten) CD by Shock in 1994.

Ascension - Five Titles

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Ascension - One Title

Another short blast of "Daily Dance"-lineage guitar & drums blurt, from 1994.

Ascension - One Title

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Ascension - Two Titles

Early 7" of misanthropic free-noise guitar/drums blowout by Tony Irving and Stefan Jaworzyn, released in 1993 on Jaworzyn's own legendary Shock label.

Ascension - Two Titles

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Spectrum / Cheval Sombre - Mary / Red Moon

The Pete Kember led Spectrum with a lovely tribute to the late Mary Therese Hansen (a member of Stereolab) and Christopher covering a song by The Walkmen (with Pete providing the mix). There is also a great live collaboration between the two here that you should listen to.

7" released on The Great Pop Supplement in 2011.

Mary / Red Moon

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Cheval Sombre - I Sleep

Cheval Sombre is the expansively insular work of Christopher Porpora. These are precarious opiated songs of love as it's about to be lost ... the fact that Pete Kember (of Spacemen 3 / Spectrum / Experimental Audio Research etc) produces a couple of the tracks here just makes it all fall into place.

7" and CDr released on Trensmat in 2008.

I Sleep

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Expo 70 - Night Flights

Did someone mention Night Flights?

LP released on Fedora Corpse in 2009

Night Flights

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Expo 70 - Sunglasses

Seven inches of Justin Wright's spectacular psychedelic space-drone. The B-Side "Transcending Energy From Light" is an excerpt from the much longer version on the Night Flights LP.

Released on Trensmat in 2009.

Sunglasses

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va - Or Some Computer Music 2

From 2001, with music by Alberto de Campo, Atau Tanaka & Eric Wenger, Curtis Roads, Farmers Manual, Jim O'Rourke, Phoenecia, and Tom Wallace.

va - Or Some Computer Music 2

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va - Or Some Computer Music 1

1999 compilation featuring a range of underground noise and academic composers: Trevor Wishart, Stephen Travis Pope, Aphex Twin, cd_slopper, Beautyon, General Magic, Kevin Drumm, Ubik, Zbigniew Karkowski & Kasper T. Toeplitz.

va - Or Some Computer Music 1

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Astral Social Club - Skelp / Ginnel

The great Neil Campbell doing what he does ... extremely well. This was released as a single that came with a cdr. The disc contains the 2 vinyl tracks plus 1 mix of Skelp by Richard Youngs, and two mixes of Ginnel by Magnetize and John Clyde-Evans.

Released on Trensmat in 2008.

Skelp / Ginnel

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Various - Every Noise Has A Note

When Trensmat Records was around, the world was a better place. In general, they specialised in releasing gorgeous limited 7" singles that soon disappeared from view. This compilation brings together tracks from some of those missives: Circle, Bardo Pond, Heavy Winged, White Hills, Mugstar, Astral Social Club and a host of others...

CD released on Trensmat in 2009.

Every Noise Has A Note

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Various - A Box Full Of Ghosts

Three 7" singles featuring TV Pow, Liminal, Incapacitants, Kazumoto Endo, Christian Marclay and Otomo Yoshihide along with a CD-rom full of videos and live material.

Released on Gentle Giant Records in 2001.

A Box Full Of Ghosts

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Michael Prime - Priory Gardens

Wonderful 7" single by Michael Prime featuring two unprocessed recordings of bats. Released by Joe "Crawl Unit" Colley on his Povertech label in 1998.

Michael Prime - Priory Gardens

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Various - The Miracle Of Levitation

A very nice culture-clash of a compilation that manages to maintain more similarities than differences. Ground Zero (plus a solo Otomo Yoshihide track), Altered States (plus a solo piece by Uchihashi Kazuhisa), Ruins, a rare collaboration between Taku Sugimoto, Tetuzi Akiyama and Atsuko Ohno, Melt Banana, Xome, Jim O'Rourke, Liminal, TV POW, U.S. Maple and more. Dive in, the water's lovely!

CD released on Gentle Giant Records in 1995.

Levitation

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MNortham - Condensation

Includes tubeviolin, prepared autoharp, ship engine, iron cylinder, and sounds recorded in a bunker. Released as a 7" single on Povertech in 1996.

MNortham - Condensation

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RLW - Eyes

Baffling audio drama on a 7" single by the incomparable Ralf Wehowsky (ex-P16.D4), released by Povertech in 1996.

RLW - Eyes

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Satanic Abandoned Rock & Roll Society - Bloody Imagination

Well, there's a double hexagram so it's probably evil. However, this is so far away from his majesty's request that it's not true. Tetuzi Akiyama on high frequency resonator guitar with samurai sword, Naoaki Miyamoto on mid-high frequency electric guitar, Atsuhiro Ito on low frequency optron and Utah Kawasaki on mid-low frequency analog synthesizer.

Awesome!

CD released on Mikroton Recordings in 2012.

Bloody Hell!

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