Akira Rabelais - Spellewauerynsherde

From Allmusic.com : "Track titles like "1382 Wyclif Gen. II. 7" and "Caxton Golden Leg. 208b/2" don't go hand in hand with sounds so quiet and moving. Putting his Argeiphontes Lyre software to use, Akira Rabelais shifts around and reassembles performances of traditional Icelandic a cappella lament songs, field recordings that date as far back as the early '60s. Some passages sound as if they were barely touched, while others twist and fold within pillows of wind. Some notes hit with deep resonance, while others sublimate into shadowy drones. Regardless of what processing Rabelais put them through, each sound floats through your ears like a whisper but sticks when it reaches your soul."

"Spellewauerynsherde" was released by Samadhisound in 2004.

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Akira Rabelais - ...Bénédiction, Draw

"...Bénédiction, Draw" was released by Orthlorng Musork in 2003.

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Achim Wollscheid - Airs

"Airs" was released by Ritornell in 1999.

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Limpe Fuchs - Nur Mar Mus

"Nur Mar Mus" was released by Streamline in 1999.

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Illusion Of Safety - Graintext

From www.notype.com : "Exclusive EP from Illusion of Safety’s Dan Burke. A six-part composition that is at turns intricate movie-like granulation & alarming sound literature."

"Graintext" was released by No Type in 2001.

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Ghedalia Tazartes - Jeanne

Most of the tracks have been created for the theater play "Jeanne" produced in 2006 by the Pardès Rimonim company.

"Jeanne" was released by Vand'Oeuvre in 2007.

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Ghedalia Tazartes - Hystérie Off Music

"Hystérie Off Music" was released by Jardin Au Fou in 2007.

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Ghedalia Tazartes - Une Éclipse Totale De Soleil

"Une Éclipse Totale De Soleil" was released by Celluloid in 1984, then re-released by Alga Marghen in 1996.

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Ghedalia Tazartes - Tazartès' Transports

"Tazartès' Transports" was released by Cobalt in 1980, then re-released by Alga Marghen in 1997.

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Ghedalia Tazartes - Diasporas / Tazartès

The track "Quasimodo Tango" on "Diasporas" was composed by Michel Chion.

"Diasporas" was released by Cobalt in 1979.
"Tazartès" was released by Ayaa in 1987.
"Diasporas / Tazartès" was released by Alga Marghen in 2004.

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Jim O'Rourke - Terminal Pharmacy

From Allmusic.com : "With Terminal Pharmacy, Jim O'Rourke creates a soundscape so calm and minimal that some people, lacking patience for the seeming formlessness, could do entirely without it, while others will find themselves repeatedly putting it in their CD player at home, work, or wherever they need warmth dispersed throughout the air. Seeping steadily from the edge of silence comes crackles, thin fuzz, and extended string tones. Less narrative than what "electro-acoustic" usually refers to, "Cede" hums at the back of your mind. Given almost a minute of silence in between, the second piece then begins; sounding like a very quiet improvisation, the instruments whisper bowed rounds, a conversation in tininess that grows bolder at moments."

"Terminal Pharmacy" was released by Tzadik in 1995.

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Jim O'Rourke - Remove The Need

From Allmusic.com : "American post-classical composer Jim O'Rourke has been a key component in the increasing overlap of the American and European experimental music avant-garde, working in everything from jazz and rock to ambient and electro-acoustic and building many a bridge in between. A Chicago native, his work has found equal luck with experimental jazz and noise fanatics, chill room denizens, and bedroom experimentalists, and has had the resultant effect of cross-pollinating many otherwise isolated compositional communities. Dealing most often with prepared guitar in improvisational group settings, O'Rourke has also released a fair bit of material as a soloist, although more often in the electro-acoustic/musique concrète vein. He's collaborated with such contemporary improv heroes as Derek Bailey, Henry Kaiser, Eddie Prevost and Keith Rowe (of English improv group AMM), KK Null, David Jackman (Organum), and early Krautrock experimentalists Faust. O'Rourke is also engaged in an ongoing exploration of experimental rock as a member of Gastr del Sol, who've released albums through the Teen Beat and Table of the Elements labels. Beginning with guitar at the age of 6, it wasn't until his collegiate career at DePaul University that O'Rourke's interest in the less obvious possibilities of the instrument led him through the early catalogs of the post-classical and electro-acoustic traditions. While at DePaul, O'Rourke completed much of the work that would constitute his first few releases. He also had the opportunity to meet up with noted improvisational guitarist Derek Bailey, whose invitation to O'Rourke to play at the British improv festival Company Week led to further collaborative projects with Bailey, Henry Kaiser, Eddie Prevost, and David Jackman. O'Rourke began working with Dan Burke's Illusion of Safety project in the early '90s, releasing three albums through Staalplaat and Tesco, before moving on to form experimental "rock" group Gastr Del Sol with David Grubbs. Although focusing more on collaboration after a string of solo releases in the early '90s, O'Rourke has shifted back to solo work of late, releasing Terminal Pharmacy through John Zorn's Tzadik label and completing commissioned pieces for the Kronos Quartet and the Rova Saxophone Quartet. In 1995, O'Rourke was invited by German experimental electronic label Mille Plateaux (Oval, Steel, Microstoria) to conduct an extended remix of their entire back catalog. He also produced and co-wrote a good portion of innovative German outfit Faust's Table of the Elements release, Rien. Subsequent releases include 1997's acclaimed Bad Timing and its equally brilliant follow-up, 1999's Eureka."

"Remove The Need" was released by Extreme in 1993.

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Limpe Fuchs - Muusiccia (Metal/Stones)

Limpe Fuchs was a member of the avantgarde group Anima.

"Muusiccia (Metal/Stones)" was released by Streamline in 1993.

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Towering Inferno - Kaddish

From Allmusic.com : "Towering Inferno's Kaddish has slowly gathered acclaim as one of the most interesting rock-influenced experimental recordings of the mid-'90s; Brian Eno, for instance, has referred to it as the most frightening record he's ever heard. Towering Inferno are the British duo of Richard Wolfson and Andy Saunders, who are principally responsible for the composition of Kaddish (with some additional material from other sources), and also for much of the programming, keyboards, and guitars. British prog-rock vets Elton Dean and John Marshall (ex-Soft Machine) and Chris Cutler, as well as Hungarian folk singer Marta Sebestyen, also add important contributions to this 75-minute concept album of sorts, inspired by the horrors of the Holocaust. Rabbinical chants, hard rock/heavy metal guitar, ambient synthesizer, and Eastern European folk singing are all elements of an ambitious palette which gets its disturbing message across without sounding pedantic. Wolfson and Saunders have presented Kaddish as a mixed-media performance as well; originally released in 1994, it was picked up by Island for larger distribution, and issued in the U.S. in 1996. Wolfson and Saunders have something quite different in mind for their next project, which they described in the British magazine Record Collector as "a light-hearted, fun, post-rave kind of B-movie affair."

"Kaddish" was released by TI Records in 1993.

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Psychic TV - Splinter Test 2 [3 x CD Boxset]

 

 "Splinter Test 2" comprises the following three albums :
A - Mouth Ov Thee Knight
B - Sugarmorphoses
C - Cold Dark Matter

"Splinter Test 2" was released by Syard in 1993.

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Psychic TV - Splinter Test 1 [3 x CD Boxset]

 

From Allmusic.com : "After Genesis P-Orridge dissolved the seminal industrial rock outfit Throbbing Gristle, he and Gristle cohorts Peter Christopherson and Cosey Fanni Tutti, plus Geoff Rushton, formed Psychic TV in 1979 as a means of continuing their confrontational, shock-oriented approach to music and their multimedia live performances. Psychic TV draws much of its inspiration from the literary underground, including situationist philosophy, William Burroughs (a professed fan), the Marquis de Sade, and Philip K. Dick. The group also claims to be the mouthpiece for its own quasi-religious group, the Temple Ov Psychick Youth. P-Orridge has been branded a dangerous deviant in several publications, and police raided his home in 1992, seizing videos, books, and magazines following a television show concerning child abuse in which a Psychic TV performance art video was shown out of context.

As for the music itself, Psychic TV's earlier years continued in the experimental vein of Throbbing Gristle's work, encompassing melodic pop, barely listenable white noise, gentle ballads, industrial found-sound collages, spoken word pieces, and experiments with ethnic instruments and world music, all tied together by a dadaist sensibility. Force the Hand of Chance, the group's first album, was released in 1982; during the '80s, Psychic TV's prodigious output totaled over 20 albums. Much of this stemmed from a publicity stunt beginning in 1986 for which the group attempted to release one live album, each from a different nation, on the 23rd of each month for 23 months. Even though the group didn't quite achieve its goal, the 14 albums Psychic TV released in 18 months were enough to get the group into the Guinness Book of World Records. Christopherson and Rushton both left the group rather early on to form Coil, and Psychic TV has since become an open-ended collective with contributors such as Alex Fergusson, formerly of Alternative TV. Psychic TV scored a minor U.K. pop hit in 1986 with "Godstar," a tribute to Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones, and 1988 saw the group's first album release in America with Allegory and Self.

Beginning in 1988, P-Orridge became a pioneer on the British club and rave scene. Records from the Chicago house scene by Frankie Knuckles and Farley Jackmaster Funk made their way to London, and when P-Orridge noticed the word "acid" on one of them, he dubbed the British psychedelic variation "acid house" and began recording and experimenting with the style on Jack the Tab: Acid Tablets, Vol. 1 and Towards Thee Infinite Beat. P-Orridge has since released albums under the name Psychic TV as well as using a variety of aliases to produce "compilation" albums actually featuring all his own music. Several Psychic TV collections, as well as new material, appeared in the '90s; the best of the retrospectives are the two singles compilations Hex Sex and Godstar, and the 1999 overview Best Ov: Time's Up. New Psychic TV material took a backseat as P-Orridge's commitment to his spoken word project Thee Majesty and a new philosophy he dubbed "Pandrogeny" occupied his time. It was the latter that had him going under the knife for breast implants and enforcing the use of the pronoun s/he. PTV work began again in 2003 with two years of touring leading to studio work. A new album was delayed when Throbbing Gristle reunited for a short time, but work resumed in 2006. The finished product, Hell Is Invisible...Heaven Is Here, arrived a year later. P-Orridge's wife and bandmate, Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge, died of heart failure a few months after its release. A tribute to her, Mr. Alien Brain vs. the Skinwalkers, was released near the end of 2008, featuring versions of Syd Barrett's 'No Good Trying' and the Velvet Underground's 'Foggy Notion'."

"Splinter Test 1" comprises the following three albums :
A - Elipse Ov Flowers
B - Tarot Ov Abomination
C - Stained By Dead Horses

"Splinter Test 1" was released by Syard in 1993.

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The Computers - 36:17:32

From the press release : "An immense pressure of atmospheric sound will overwhelm you! The Computers transplant Iron Maiden and Pink Floyd samples onto pockmarked pure tones and scuffed up digital resonance. The result is a particle-laden computer jam for the tasting."

The Computers were Ian Epps, Jason Forrest (aka Donna Summer) and Dan Walsh.

"36:17:32" was improvised live in Ian Epps's living room on September 8th 2001.

"36:17:32" was released by Cock Rock Disco in 2002.

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Antenna Farm / Main - AF_M

From Allmusic.com : "After briefly retiring the Main name to work on other projects, Robert Hampson returned in collaboration with the Antenna Farm duo on this release, the first in a projected new series by the Staalplaat label. Initial collaborative recordings in the Netherlands were combined with other efforts in the U.K., resulting in this five-track release. Those familiar with the ultimate extremes of Hampson's work will find his efforts here a fine balance between past musical paths and new departures. He seems to have embraced the possibilities of glitch production for his relentless rhythms in much the same way as fellow heavy psych extremist Brad Laner did for Electric Company. Antenna Farm's work, being already grounded in that field, slots in nicely with the new focus here, the resulting collaborations being a fine balance between the duo's computer abuse and Hampson's drone-derived feedback treatments and alien sheets of sound. Bursts of static tones sound almost like alien transmissions from somewhere far off in the galaxy; almost animalistic tones of slurping and gulping crop up here and there among bursts of buzzing that cyclically reappear in the mix. The five tracks -- untitled but described via frequency transcriptions in the liner notes -- collectively live up to their creators' overall reputation for ignoring the easily tuneful for challenging, involving results. More organic methods of noisemaking occur -- the second track starts off with what could be a bunch of clattering pieces of wood, perhaps not. The final track provides a suitably gripping conclusion to AF_M, revisiting styles used elsewhere on the disc and adding new elements, such as a relentless echoing chime increasingly swathed in static noise."

"AF_M" was released by Brombron/Staalplaat in 2001.

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Antenna Farm - Fog / Splinter Tracks

Antenna Farm is a London based duo formed by Davin Howell and The Experience.

"Fog / Splinter Tracks" was released by Phthalo in 2001.

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Yoshihiro Hanno - 9 Modules.+

"9 Modules.+" was released by PROGRESSIVE FOrM in 2002.

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