AK Musick was an improv collective assembled by Hans Kumpf to "make music in a very democratic way". The five players had a classical education but they were also influenced by avant-garde composers like Helmut Lachenmann and Johannes Fritsch. Their only album, "AK Musick", was recorded in 1972 at the famous Bauer Studios in just three hours and engineered by Martin Wieland, who had previously worked with Keith Jarrett for the ECM label. Some of the instruments used were: clarinet, cello, oboe, organ, piano, darbuka, tam-tam, ektare, flute, zither...Includes the amazing "Impro-vision" which sounds like electronic music but using only natural instruments.

"AK Musick" was originally released in 1972 on Kumpf's own AKM Records label. It was a private homemade edition of 150 copies with spray printed covers. During the 70s, AKM Records was also home to other free-jazz rarities like "Free Blacks" by Perry Robinson / Hans Kumpf (where Hans also collaborated with his friend Wolfgang Dauner) and "In Time" by Theo Jörgensmann.

Very hard to find now, we present the first ever LP/CD reissue of "AK Musick" done under license from Hans Kumpf.

*Remastered sound

*Booklet with liner notes by Klemen Breznikar (It's Psychedelic Baby) plus rare photos and memorabilia

*LP edition includes free digital download coupon

Tracklist:

Hava
Schace
Impro-Vision
My Ape & My Monkey
Ron Do
Baz

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Using cassette recorders, mutated musical toys, electric guitars, bass, rewired circuitry, analog pedal effects & cheap keyboards, they recorded and released in the late 70s a couple of astounding flexi-discs (Test and Phantom Limb) which led to them being included on the infamous Nurse With Wound list.

"Clear Memory" was originally released in 1984 only on cassette (50 copies) and it's an incredible example of DIY mutant psychedelic pop and homemade electronic weirdness which sounds years ahead of its time.

Here's the first ever reissue.

*Master tape sound
*Four-page insert with liner notes by Klemen Breznikar (It's Psychedelic, Baby)
*Includes digital download card
**File under: unfathomable & unpredictable**

" 'Clear Memory' reveals a wonderland of sense-expanding psychedelic potentiality lurking below the surface." - Mutant Sounds

"Their music features an incredible variety of sounds, images and structures that places it somewhere between slightly mutated rock and roll and pure experimental composition." - Gary Indiana (Modern World)

RIYL: RESIDENTS, CHROME, CABARET VOLTAIRE, FAUST, THROBBING GRISTLE, CLUSTER, OLIVIA TREMOR CONTROL...

Tracklist: 01. First Light - 02. French Passport - 03. Respect The Road - 04. Street Without Lunch - 05. Why Blondes Eat - 06. I Don't Want - 07. Hell's Little Ransom - 08. Forced Delight / Debris Factory - 09. Jumpstart - 10. Robop - 11. Keep The Letters - 12. Busy - 13. I Walk The Lawn - 14. The Big Horizon - 15. Integers

CD / Digital Bonustrack: 16. Endocircumventual

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One of Chicago’s best kept secrets, Care of the Cow’s history goes back to 1974. A trio formed by Victor Sanders, X Baczewska and Sher Doruff, they had a very unique and eclectic sound, experimental yet very melodic, mixing psychedelic folk-rock with art-rock and DIY / post-punk. Their influences were very diverse: Beatles, Fripp, Eno, Joni Mitchell, Carla Bley, Pauline Oliveros, Eric Dolphy…

Care of the Cow debuted in 1975 with a 10” followed by their first LP album in 1981. By 1983, the band was adding drum machines and synths to their sound, highlighted by Victor’s amazing guitar playing and X & Sher’s perfectly blended vocal harmonies, resulting in “Dogs’ Ears Are Stupid”, the second Care of the Cow album, released only as a tiny cassette edition in 1983.

For us, this is a lost gem from the ‘80s underground which really deserved a LP/CD reissue. Here it is, done in collaboration with Steve Krakow of Plastic Crimewave / Galactic Zoo fame.

“Experimental folk-rock music into minimal synth depths. What a gem!”
-Archaic Inventions

“An absolute unique psych/folk/new music/post-punk blend. Strongly recommended to all open-minded listeners”
–Tony Coulter (WFMU)

*First ever LP / CD reissue

*Remastered from the master tapes

*Booklet with liner notes by Steve Krakow (Plastic Crimewave) and photos

*One previously unreleased bonus track.

Tracklist: 1. Chinese Food Part I - 2. Cemetery - 3. Like Me - 4. Chinese Food Part II - 5. Oceans In My Ears - 6. Dogs' Ears Are Stupid - 7. Australia / The Sleepwalker Bites Herself In French - 8. European Trains - 9. No Beethoven - 10. Dancing Partners (bonus track)

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Based on the Frankfurt suburbs, they consisted of the multi-instrumental duo of Dierk Leitert (synthesizer, sequencer, drums, bass, guitar, voice, saxophone, flute) and Mike Bohrmann (guitars, bass, synthesizer) plus a few collaborators. Carrying the torch of 70s bands like Cluster, Harmonia or Liliental into the 80s, Circles were also contemporaries of groups like Throbbing Gristle, Ilitch and Nurse With Wound so you can also expect some similarities in their music.

"Circles" was their first album, released in 1983 as a private pressing on their tiny Einhorn label, housed in a cool and mysterious looking cover. This little known but excellent kraut/psych/experimental album is highly recommended to anyone into Harmonia, Cluster, Fripp / Eno, Heldon, Conrad Schnitzler, Neu!, Throbbing Gristle, Ilitch, Irmin Schmidt, Amon Düül II...

First ever reissue, including booklet with detailed liner notes by Alan Freeman (The Crack In The Cosmic Egg, Ultima Thule) telling the story of the band for the first time.

"Circles are one of the most fascinating of German ambient/electronic bands from the post new-wave era" - Alan Freeman (The Crack In The Cosmic Egg)

Tracklist:

1. Einblicke 3:22

2. Viele Wege 3:30

3. Chant 2:44

4. Rockola 4:08
5. 10o Unter Null 5:23

6. Troflut 4:40

7. Reibend 3:23

8. Intermezzo 0:21

9. A) Woistich 8:03

B) Umgedreht 3:44

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Based on the Frankfurt suburbs, they consisted of the multi-instrumental duo of Dierk Leitert (synthesizer, sequencer, drums, bass, guitar, voice, saxophone, flute) and Mike Bohrmann (guitars, bass, synthesizer) plus a few collaborators. Carrying the torch of 70s bands like Cluster, Harmonia or Liliental into the 80s, Circles were also contemporaries of groups like Throbbing Gristle, Ilitch and Nurse With Wound so you can also expect some similarities in their music.

"More Circles" was their second album, released in 1984 as a private pressing on their tiny Einhorn label. Experimental krautrock with lots of psychedelic guitar, keyboards, motorik drums, drones, proto-ambient sounds and avant-garde / dadaist touches.

RIYL: Harmonia, Cluster, Fripp/Eno, Nurse With Wound, Throbbing Gristle, Chrome, Heldon, Conrad Schnitzler, Neu!, Eroc...

First ever reissue, including booklet with detailed liner notes by Alan Freeman (The Crack In The Cosmic Egg, Ultima Thule) telling the story of the band for the first time.

"Circles are one of the most fascinating of German ambient/electronic bands from the post new-wave era" - Alan Freeman (The Crack In The Cosmic Egg)

Tracklist:

1. Minimal Instant 1:12

2. A) Several Steps Leading Through Different Rooms 9:44

B) Escapades 3:29

3. Tripletwin 1:38

4. Paris Cut 4:07

5. Mental Dart 5:02

6. Trio Atonale 2:54

7. Tranquilo Gonzales 6:25

8. Sequences 4:04

9. Consequences 2:20

10. Spiral Dance 5:22

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Featuring Mythos drummer Hans-Jürgen Pütz on percussion & effects, alongside synth / keyboard freak Alex Meyer, poet / vocalist Pauline Fund and mysterious guitarist Peter Förster.
 

WARNING: DON'T LISTEN TO THIS ALONE IN THE DARK!!

*Master tape sound

*Booklet with detailed liner notes by Alan Freeman (Ultima Thule / The Crack In The Cosmic Egg)

RIYL: TERRY RILEY, CLUSTER, ASH RA TEMPEL, POPOL VUH, EMTIDI, JACULA, FRANCO LEPRINO, DEAD CAN DANCE

"Fans of Terry Riley's "Shri Camel" or Julianna Barwick's "The Magic Place" will like this one...meditative synth drones and soundscapes that sound almost sacred in places" - Faris Badwan (The Horrors / Cat's Eyes)

"...haunting and seductive, recalling the atmospheric minimalism of Brian Eno and conjuring up images of celestial angels drifting like ribbons of smoke through the darkness of deep space..." - Bobby Switchblade (Will The Fire)

Tracklist:

Dark Path - The Summit - Mountainside - Niemand Versteht - Daruber

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Emilio Aparicio was an electronic experimental musician from Guatemala, a pioneer in using the MOOG synth in Latin America. He released a series of private 45s, recorded at his home studio in collaboration with his patron and producer, the painter Roberto Abularach. In 1969, Roberto travels to New York, where he purchases one of the very early models of the Moog synthesizers directly from Robert Moog. He brought it back to Guatemala and he gave it as a present to his friend Aparicio.

It is during those years, 1969-1971, when the recordings included here, featuring primitive drum machines and the Moog synth, are registered. Most of the tracks were written at the country house of Abularach, where Emilio built his own home recording studio and where he spent long periods of seclusion. It is in this house where they also spent weeks experimenting with hallucinogens (LSD and Datura) in the company of other artists, painters, poets and musicians from the underground arts scene of Guatemala.

The fruit of those two years of experimentation were released in less than one month as five volumes of a 45 housed in a generic picture sleeve and titled "Música Electrónica" ("Electronic Music"). These strange records were never sold at shops: they were given away in exchange of four corks of a local drink called Salvavidas Roja, related to Abularach's family. As you can guess, the response was not that great, as the experimental music of Aparicio was too advanced for its time. Most of the 45s were destroyed and recycled and soon after Emilio created another experimental project, La Banda Plástica, releasing a couple of 45s for the biggest record label from Guatemala which also went nowhere.

Aparicio's music is a fascinating blend of primitive homemade electronics with Latin influences. Imagine "Psyche Rock" era Pierre Henry, Gershon Kingsley and Bruce Haack meeting Joe Meek at the Guatemalan jungle and you're there.

Emilio Aparicio passed away on 2012 due to prostate cancer. As his wife says, when he died and went to another dimension, it was as if he took with him all the energy from the electronic devices from their house: "it was a very strange thing, just everything died with him."

Here's for the first time ever the collected works of this unsung DIY hero which will blow the mind of any vintage electronica fan.

*Remastered sound

*Booklet with rare photos and liner notes by Ruffy Tnt (Discodelic)

RIYL: GERSHON KINGSLEY, KID BALTAN, BRUCE HAACK, PIERRE HENRY...with a dose of Peyote and Datura.

Tracklist: 01: Expansión Galáctica - 02: Los visitants de Sirio - 03: La Pipa de Lucas - 04: El Nacimiento Diario - 05: La Ceremonia - 06: El Misterio de Tihuanaco - 07: Brujería - 08: Transfiguración del Iniciado - 09: Bo Bo Bo Beu - 10: Paren la Contaminación del Aire

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Emilio Aparicio was an electronic experimental musician from Guatemala, a pioneer in using the MOOG synth in Latin America. He released a series of private 45s, recorded at his home studio in collaboration with his patron and producer, the painter Roberto Abularach. In 1969, Roberto travels to New York, where he purchases one of the very early models of the Moog synthesizers directly from Robert Moog. He brought it back to Guatemala and he gave it as a present to his friend Aparicio.

It is during those years, 1969-1971, when the recordings included here, featuring primitive drum machines and the Moog synth, are registered. Most of the tracks were written at the country house of Abularach, where Emilio built his own home recording studio and where he spent long periods of seclusion. It is in this house where they also spent weeks experimenting with hallucinogens (LSD and Datura) in the company of other artists, painters, poets and musicians from the underground arts scene of Guatemala.

The fruit of those two years of experimentation were released in less than one month as five volumes of a 45 housed in a generic picture sleeve and titled "Música Electrónica" ("Electronic Music"). These strange records were never sold at shops: they were given away in exchange of four corks of a local drink called Salvavidas Roja, related to Abularach's family. As you can guess, the response was not that great, as the experimental music of Aparicio was too advanced for its time. Most of the 45s were destroyed and recycled and soon after Emilio created another experimental project, La Banda Plástica, releasing a couple of 45s for the biggest record label from Guatemala which also went nowhere.

Aparicio's music is a fascinating blend of primitive homemade electronics with Latin influences. Imagine "Psyche Rock" era Pierre Henry, Gershon Kingsley and Bruce Haack meeting Joe Meek at the Guatemalan jungle and you're there.

Emilio Aparicio passed away on 2012 due to prostate cancer. As his wife says, when he died and went to another dimension, it was as if he took with him all the energy from the electronic devices from their house: "it was a very strange thing, just everything died with him."

Here's for the first time ever the collected works of this unsung DIY hero which will blow the mind of any vintage electronica fan.

*Remastered sound

*Insert with rare photos and liner notes by Ruffy Tnt (Discodelic)

RIYL: GERSHON KINGSLEY, KID BALTAN, BRUCE HAACK, PIERRE HENRY...with a dose of Peyote and Datura.

Tracklist: 01: Expansión Galáctica - 02: Los visitants de Sirio - 03: La Pipa de Lucas - 04: El Nacimiento Diario - 05: La Ceremonia - 06: El Misterio de Tihuanaco - 07: Brujería - 08: Transfiguración del Iniciado - 09: Bo Bo Bo Beu - 10: Paren la Contaminación del Aire

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*24-bit domain remaster from the original tapes.

*Booklet with liner notes by Alan Freeman (The Crack In The Cosmic Egg)

RIYL: TERRY RILEY, POPOL VUH, SAND, PETER MICHAEL HAMEL, TANGERINE DREAM, BABA YAGA, CLUSTER, COZMIC CORRIDORS, BRAINTICKET...

"A candidate for being dubbed 'Ambient' before Ambient existed. A work of crystal clear simplicity, 'pure' electronic sounds, and beautiful minimalism." - John Bagnall (The Sound Projector)

"Mysterious and enigmatic to the end. 'Sehr Kosmische' as they say!" - Alan Freeman (Ultima Thule, The Crack In The Cosmic Egg).

Tracklist: Lunarscape - Ethereal Jazz - Venus Rising

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Dark minimal synth electronics & experimental sounds by LOS INICIADOS, a mysterious project, highly influenced by The Residents, related to legendary Spanish synth-pop band AVIADOR DRO. This is their rare and sought-after second album, originally released in 1983 on the DRO label as the soundtrack to a puppet stage play, based on ALFRED JARRY'S "UBU ROI".

*16-page LP sized insert featuring the original stage play booklet.

*Remastered sound.

*Original artwork

Tracklist: A1. Obertura - A2. Canción de Los invitados - A3. Danza Inca de La Tía Ubú - A4. Canción 1a de Los Palotines - A5. Desfile - A6. Canción del Tío Ubú - A7. Canción 2a de Los Palotines - A8. La Aparición del Sr. Matías - A9. Última Canción de Los Palotines - A10. ¡Al Saco! - B1. Intermezzo - B2. Canción de Ladislao - B3. Presentación del Príncipe Freixinet - B4. Canción del Zar - B5. Canción de Guerra de Los Palotines - B6. Canción del Klam y La Tía Ubú - B7. Triunfo de Ladislao - B8. Canción Final

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