Sample/Plunder/turntable

	ARCHER, MARTIN and FELL, SIMON : Pure Water Construction Code:DISCUSCD Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
With the above and Gino Robair, Robin Hayward, Rhodri Davis, Jenni Molloy, Stefan Jaworzyn, Charlie Collins, Chris Burn. An very interesting idea - a piece assembled from individual recordings of the above, but as a compositional exercise by way of computer editing and processing.
	ART BEARS: Art Bears Revisited (dbl) Code:ReRAB4/5 Price: £20.00 Quantity in Basket: none
Prepared over six years for our 25th Anniversary, this is a collection of specially commissioned re-mixes, re-workings and (mostly) new pieces made from the Art Bears' multi-track masters by JOHN OSWALD, THE RESIDENTS, CHRISTIAN MARCLAY, FRED FRITH, CHRIS CUTLER, BIOTA, OTOMO YOSHIHIDE/GROUND ZERO, BOB DRAKE JON ROSE, OSSATURA, WARRIC SWINNEY/KALAHARI SURFERS, WHEN, THOMAS DIMUZIO, ANNIE GOSFIELD ROGER KLEIR,ANDREA ROCCA, VITOR RUA, JOCELYN ROBERT,MUSCI/ VENOSTA/ MARIANI, MASSIMO SIMONINI, HERB HEINZ. MARTIN ARCHER, YASUSHI UTSUNOMIYA, JON LEIDECKER/WOBBLY,STEVAN KOVACS TICKMAYER andBRIAN WOODBURY - an amazing catalogue of imagination and great music, digi-packed with a cover art by EM Thomas, who did all three original art bears covers and containing Art re-mixes in the booklet as well as comprehensive information. This double also contains Collapse from the Ralph Records single, All Hail from the Recommended Sampler and one previously unreleased and unfinished track completed by Fred Frith and Chris Cutler for this CD.
	ARTEFACTS OF AUSTRALIAN EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC 1930-1973 Code:SHAM050 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
An important collection, not least for the oldest track, dated 1930, by the very elusive Jack Ellitt. If this dating is true, here is a genuinely groundbreaking work. Ellitt, who at this time was making soundtracks for the New Zealand abstract film-maker Len Lye - and whose later work was done for the most part privately, even secretly, to be tragically lost after his death in 2001 - has produced here musique concrete 29 years ahead of time. Presumably done on optical soundtrack (like its contemporary, Ruttman's 'Weekend') this is abstract, manipulated sound. The CD continues with a 1951 recording of Percy Grainger's 'Free Music' machines, a snatch of the Melbourne Dada Group (including Barry Humphries) and 11 more fascinating extracts of work by people most of us have never heard of - and whose inclusion here makes a very important contribution to the library of musical experimentation of the period. Importantly, not only electronic music is collected, but also small ensemble compositions operating far from the mainstream of contemporary music - even at this time. For instance McKim's 'Monotony for 8 trumpets' or Cantrill's 'Soundtrack for Elkon' are properly experimental compositions, while Nagorcka follows Cage with a piece solely for televisions, record players and radios. This is an important - and an enjoyable - document, with a useful booklet and offers a timely reminder of where we were 30 years ago, putting today's offerings into perspective.
	BUCK, TONY: Solo Live Code:WR003 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Tony Buck takes his STEIM interactive Drum/Perc/Sampler system through it's paces, not that listening you'd know where the hell the sound was coming from most of the time. An interesting set of pieces by one of the more interesting drummers around on that noise/electronic/rock fringe, and the only one I can think of to use triggered samples in a way that really works...
	BULLITT, JOHN T : Earth Sound Code:AK0701 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Small edition recordings of the earth's interior, taken from digital seismographs located around the planet. Since the true frequencies are extremely low, they have to be sped up considerably to bring them into the range of human audibility. There are 3 tracks, the first, at 2450x acceleration, captures an unbroken month, the second, at 10,000 x , about 4.5 months and the last, at 245x, three days around the December 2004 tsunami. You mostly hear earthquakes - and there are a lot of them at varying amplitudes - as pops, cracks and roars set in a constant sussurus that is the ocean's waters moving. It's stereophonic because the earth is round and the seismographs are far apart. The booklet notes are excellent, full and highly informative, and include the 'scores', showing the extraordinary frequency of events. Triple gatefold digi-pack. For total immersion or ambiance. An essential soundscape document.
	CASSIBER/GROUND ZERO: Live in Tokyo/Ground Zero remix (dbl) Code:ReRCGZ2 Price: £20.00 Quantity in Basket: none
This is a collection of pieces developed from and using the live recordings of Cassiber's Tokyo performance by Otomo Yoshihide and Ground Zero. This is also in part a tribute, and it is the last recording of Ground Zero, marking the end of Otomo's main project of the last 7 years. Taken together, these have much to say about the connections, innovations and changes at the musical boundaries between the mid 80's and late 90's. Listen to a sample of this release
	CASSIBER: A Face We All Know Code:ReRCCD Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Christoph Anders, Heiner Goebbels, and Chris Cutler. "A Face" breaks new ground altogether; it is a single work with texts by Chris Cutler, Rainald Geotz and Thomas Pynchon and documents the last days of a political nightmare. Beginners start here. Listen to a sample of this release
	CLOIDT, JAY: Kole Kat Krush - Code:ST-208 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Very entertaining selection of pieces plundered, cut up and played in real time by the Chronos Quartet and the Paul Dresher Ensemble, as well as tape or rather sample and computer manipulations. Full of jokes, quotes and eccentricities, as well as some nifty musical thinking. New generation where plunder and cross genre work is no longer an issue, but just comes naturally.
	CMCD [REISSUE]: Six Classics Code:ReRCMCD-RE Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
This essential piece of history at last reissued, redesigned and repackaged. Keystone works from the various streams of musique concrete, electronic music, soundscape, electroacoustics and plunderphonics - including two masterworks from Eastern Europe, a territory traditionally overlooked in collections of this medium. It comprises: John Oswald's 'Parade', a complex work drawn and extended from Satie's celebrated ballet composition of 1917; Georg Katzer's monumental 'Aide Memoire' ('7 nightmares from the 1000 year night'), a terrifying document of collage, electronic manipulation, original composition and sound documents from 1933-45; Lutz Glandien's exquisitely economical, sonically powerful and surprising 'Es Lebe' for Tape and Tuba; Steve Moore's groundbreaking 'A Quiet Gathering' (chamber music for environmental sounds) - a multi-layered 22 minute work made only from captured non-musical materials; Jaroslav Kr_ek's miniature electronic gem based on nightingale songs and the proto-plunder legend 'Ommagio a Jerry Lee Lewis' by Richard Trythall. An indispensable collection in my view.
	CRESHEVSKY, NOAH: Hyperrealism Code:Mutable17516-2 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Pure Plunderphonics from the world of contemporary music that concentrates on recognisable instrumental and vocal sounds organised through the notion of imaginary 'super-performers' with impossible techniques. These compositions feature more or less completely undistorted Western and Indian classical instruments and all manner of voices, intelligently deployed. There is rhythmic, harmonic and melodic content and the musics of diverse ages and places (especially Baroque) are inseparably entangled. The aesthetic is far from laptop or DJ and stays firmly in the electronic and compositional tradition (after Nancarrow or Alwyn Nicholas with massive instrumental resources and supersingers). A rare example, like early John Wall, of a disciplined and deep-structured use of 'natural' samples in possible but impossible compositions. A little one- dimensional but still highly recommended.
	CUTLER, CHRIS/DIMUZIO/VRTACEK: Preacher in naked Chase Guilty Code:PONK15 Price: £13.51 Quantity in Basket: none
Concert recording of surround sound timescore project at REAL ART WAYS, Hartford CT. A document of musical, unmusical, non musical and extramusical events. Continuous, as played, but tracked to be reprogrammable in keeping with the score concept. Beautiful package. Medium-fi; installation package.
	DAVIES, HUGH: Sounds Heard - with Free CD Code:HUGHDAVISSoundsHeard Price: £18.80 Quantity in Basket: none
An immensely useful book by one of the UKÕs early experimenters and pioneers in sound art, and a working authority in the field. This book collects much of his own writing on environmental listening, musical history, improvisation and indeterminacy, new instruments, audio art and installations and includes project descriptions and workbooks. 124 pp, with pictures and photographs. The CD contains a great collection of early plunderphonia, installation recordings, pieces for invented instruments and sound sculptures, musical boxes and found instruments (buzzers, dot matrix printers, eggslicers, tin can and fishing line &c). An important contribution to the field. ADD £2.00 postage Europe, £3.50 rest of world - sorry: weight
	DELAURENTI, CHRISTOPHER: Three camels for Orchestra Code:AAR003 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Excellent collection that includes an impressive sample-orchestra composition. Refreshing sleeve notes- "Adventurous new music made with traditional and home made instruments... no new age noodling, droning drum machines, ambient fog or other demeaning crap. Weird. Disturbing. No Compromises∓. Certainly a record with something to say.
	DIE TRIP COMPUTER DIE: We are your friends Code:ALDT2KCD Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Return of the eccentric Samples and Playing ensemble. Convincing, sometimes astonishing pieces, songs, mini-dramas. One of the best ensembles using this technology I've heard; very focussed and highly musical. Excellent.
	DUCHAMP, MARCEL: Musical Erratum + In Conversation Code:LTMCD2504 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Two new versions of Duchamp's  Musical Erratum - a pair of prescient scores that date from 1913 and form part of the preparatory work for 'The Great Glass'. In one, notes are replaced by numbered keys, and virtuoso performance is discouraged in favour of novel mechanical instrumentation (in this interpretation using spinning rotary discs and open piano strings). The other, a chance composition (38 years in advance of his later friend Cage) Duchamp's used numbered balls and a toy train in motion in its composition is played on a standard piano. This 74 minute CD also includes four spoken word extracts by Duchamp - in English -, including his important Houston lecture, The Creative Act' (1957), earlier released by Sub Rosa but for many years out of print, 2 lengthy interviews from 1959, and a reading by Duchamp of 'A l'infinitif'. The two musical pieces are excellently interpreted and recorded. The spoken word is simply indispensible.
	FELD, STEPHEN: The Time of Bells Vol 4 Code:VOXLOX206 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Fourth in this excellent series of bell soundcapes. Recordings from Sardinia (including some traditional song and many sheep), Venice (St Marco on a wet Sunday), Copenhagen (the carillon through rain and traffic), Lapland (all manner of bells from bellmaker Alvi Ruonala mixed with Arctic soundscapes) and Japan (temple bells). There is also a track for Oud and modified bell recordings, and the tolling of the Peace Bell in Hiroshima on the 60th anniversary of the American devastation of that city in 1945. With a silent crowd of 60,000, and a textile factory of busy cicadas.
	GABBIANI, CLAUDIO: Nightnursing Code:GABBIANI,CLAUDIO:Nightnursing Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Guitar, Computer, Violin, Drums, Electronics. Primarily the work of composer Claudio G. but with contributions from Roberto Musci, Jon Rose and Chris Cutler, this is an excellent collection of rich and often strange - even exotic - sample and computer manipulated material. At once complex and coherent, simple and focussed, it is delicately realised. Another one of those hard to define musical half-way houses, where all manner of disparate elements somehow meet and manage successfully to converge.
	GROUND ZERO: Consume Red Code:ReRGZ2 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
First Volume of a three CD project. Ground Zero makes a monster structure that starts screaming and gets more and more intense and massive until you don't imagine there is anywhere else to go. Then it gets bigger. A classic. Listen to a sample of this release
	GROUND ZERO: Revolutionary Peking Opera Code:ReRGZ1 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Otomo Yoshihide and frightening band deconstruct and rebuild the already sampled and reconstructed 'Peking Opera' of Heiner Goebbels and Alfred Harth. In conception, execution and in plain terms of aural excitement and intelligence, this is hard to beat. Stunning recording - with a drum sound to gasp at... Listen to a sample of this release
	GROUND ZERO: Plays Standards Code:ReRGZ3 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Just when you thought it would be safe... Ground Zero are back with a CD of extraordinary covers, some are massive, others strange, all add something to their originals and were selected because of their importance to founder Otomo Yoshihide's personal musical biography - all explained in his excellent accompanying notes. Just the version of Shed a Little Tear is worth the whole CD. Listen to a sample of this release
	JESIONKA, WARSZAWSKA: Greatest Hits Code:JESIONKAGreatestHits Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
In a green card folding case, this CD contains one track consisting of 17 concerts by leading composers of the 20th century, ranging from Cage to Xenakis, 'simultaneously performed' (punderphonically).The quartet, un-named on the CD, then performed individually, without listening to one another, mixing their tracks down to make an 18th work, mixed in with the rest. The result is a kind of ideal, massive Xenakis-like (but better, much better) symphonic roar that makes a perfect plea for the spirit of the first 2/3 of C20 music. It really is completely great. And likely to vanish. A great plunder classic.
	KING/MOSS/YOSHIHIDE: All At Once At Anytime Code:VICTOCD029 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Guitar, Turntables, Drums and Voice. In the hands of old hands. Live improvisations, well recorded and kept to the point.
	KINOTHEK PERCUSSION: Industry Code:NMLD873CD Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Dedicated to RUSSOLO. Organised samples of factory and mechanical sounds.
	KYRIAKIDES, YANNIS: A conspiracy cantata Code:u01 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Thoroughly composed 'electronic cantata' that juxtaposes 2 cryptic sources: short-wave radio spy number transmissions and the utterances of the oracle at Delphi. For Piano, 2 voices and electronics - fascinating work. Also includes hYDAtorison (for loudspeakers with sliding tones mounted inside piano, exiting varying pitches with feldmanesque playing alongside) and tetTIX for drum machines and heavy processing: unnatural sounds of nature as the machines call to one another in an'electronic Eden'. Altogether an impressive body of work.
	LAGOS, VENOSTA, MARIANI: Metamorphoses (Electronic Adventures in Flamenco) Code:ReRLVM1 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
11 pieces beautifully played by flamenco guitarist Alfredo Lagos, and then put through an electro acoustic obstacle course by Venosta and Mariani. The raw guitar is reversed, inverted, cut up, re-played, propelled by processed handclaps and swathed in delayed vocals. The large-scale hypnotic structures contrast strangely with the pristine simplicity of the original guitar pieces, and the album works as a profound meditation on culture, technology, art and authorship. Unusual, genre-bending and enjoyable. Listen to a sample of this release
	LEE, RAY: Siren (CD +DVD) Code:LeeSiren Price: £19.39 Quantity in Basket: none
Mass arrays of spinning sound-sculptures, insect-like articulated constructions, metal detectors, mechanical debris, choirs of sirens that produce rich, complex ululations, mostly in vast industrial spaces. Microtonal, polyrhythmic, visually beautiful, sonically mysterious, these recordings have a life of their own. The DVD also shows some of Lee's other soundworks. Very nice work.
	LERMAN, RICHARD: The Music of Richard Lerman 1964-87 (dbl CD) Code:EM1063CD Price: £21.74 Quantity in Basket: none
The first CD presents a re-mastered version of the original Folkways release Travelon Gamelon - music for amplified bicycles. The street and concert hall versions (1979-82) presented there are augmented here with a previously unissued concert version from New Zealand, recorded in 1986. This collection is interesting as much for the juxtaposition of street (environmental) and concert hall recordings as for its documentation of an idea that may well otherwise have been lost. Though many people used bicycles as musical instruments - playing the spokes, mostly - not least Frank Zappa, no one else to my knowledge took the idea so far. The second CD presents a number of other works from a prolific but low profile career, all of them built around electronically modified performances, and includes a very early proto-plunderphonic piece (1963/4: the source sounds are records by Stan Kenton and Mahler, respectively). There is also a modified soundscape work (1980) that uses live feeds from the street processed in real time through a double tape-machine 8 track loop. Other works use processes or homebuilt contraptions to evolve musical form. The accompanying booklet is substantial, useful and well annotated - and includes a small gallery of pictures (colour and b/w) with descriptions of various other installations and performance structures by Lerman not represented on the CDs. A useful release, because it documents an already forgotten artist and adds to the picture of the inspirations and DIY lo-tech approaches to sound - and the organic approach to structure - that was important, especially in America, in the 1960s.
	LOCKWOOD, ANNEA: Early Works 1967-82 The Glass World and Tiger Balm Code:EM1064 Price: £22.33 Quantity in Basket: none
Using only Glass - in all shapes and forms, and subjected to all manner of soundings and playing techniques - Glass World was essentially a performance piece, premiered at the Middle Earth club in London in 1978, and then recorded over the next two years for Tangent Records. It is one of the iconic works of the period; constantly referenced, making this is a valuable document. Tiger Balm is a 1970 piece, made for the BBC using loops, drones, recordings of tigers, and other found sounds in an early, and successful attempt to create a hypnotic protean drone. Limited Edition reissue in gatefold cardboard sleeve with two booklets, one of substantial notes by Lockwood, the other 'Piano Transplants', which documents Lockwood's scores and events in which pianos were variously burned, sited in parks and gardens, sunk in ponds and anchored on beaches.
	LOPEZ, FRANCISCO: Wind (Patagonia) Code:and/27 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
What it says on the package. This is a sustained, apparently untreated and unmixed recording (the notes are ambiguous) of the ever-present wind that agitates the vast emptinesses of Patagonia in winter. Gusts, flurries, squalls, zephyrs, darts and screamers ebb and flow, like a sea under changing weather; indeed the ear cannot always tell to which element it is listening. Wind is the bane of recordists, they try as a rule to avoid it at all costs, so a whole CD of wind is itself a polyvalent signifier - oh dear, yes, here comes a contradiction: for a man who has made a career of 'blind' listening there is a surprisingly exhaustive superstructure of supporting theory and guidance here in the paratextual appurtenances (sorry the language is catching); in a dense little essay we are told how to listen and how intellectually to interpret not only the sounds captured - but the overarching work itself, as an art enterprise. Even the sublime rears its hoary head. I have nothing against information, even - in some contexts - interpretation, but here it seems to detract from the elemental fact of the sound itself. Piling up the heady language that hangs like a cloud around contemporary art - functioning, it appears, as a kind of legitimation-by-contagion - does seem rather to undermine the project, since it renders hollow Lopez's own protestations about 'pure... listening... freed... of procedural, contextual or intentional levels of reference'. I don't complain about the essay or its opinions, only about the seeming bad faith of its inclusion, given Lopez's oft repeated desire to strip away all but the act of hearing. And Lopez's own notes - in the context of this whole package - seem incomprehensibly perverse if you really try to take them seriously. However. Enough. We talk about the CD and the sound it embodies is what it is and creates its own space in its own recognisance. It's an important document - and its completely blank label is its best explicator.
	LUNDING, RASMUS: A travellers guide Code:PINGOCD006 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Interesting and well produced experiment. Memoir of a journey with richly compiled field recordings, studio performance, composition and arrangement; sometimes rather too much easy-listening to my taste, but a notable experiment.
	MARCHETTI: Meu Code:MKCD007 Price: £5.58 Quantity in Basket: none
Extremely interesting structure of spaces, discreet sounds and distances; excellent and unusual use of the voice. Also of echoes and reverbs to distinguish and bind discontinuous short sounds. Excellent.
	MARCLAY, CHRISTIAN/OTOMO YOSHIHIDE: Moving Parts Code:asphodel2001 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Studio recordings by two of the virtuosi of the turntable.
	MARCLAY, CHRISTIAN: DjTrio Code:ASP2023 Price: £14.10 Quantity in Basket: none
7 turntable trio performances - all including Christian - in various combinations with DJ Olive, Marina Rosenfeld and Toshio Kajiwara. Live recordings from Galleries and Museums.
	MARCLAY, CHRISTIAN: Records Code:ALP02CD Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
A collection of pieces from 1981-1989 compiled in 1997 by Christian, who also provides an introduction and notes on the pieces. A useful sketch of his (4 - 8) turntable work which is based on general composition rendered and interpreted in live performance. An important document.
	MARUTANI, KOJI: Pataphysics Code:al002 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Starts with slow scatter piano piece, a little Satie but more abstract, followed by plundered media samples, surface noise, environmental recordings (dreamily, as memories), ending in long tones.Next is a pure plunderphonic piece, followed more long tones and finally 'crystal lounge' Clonks bleeps and lounge piano chords. Interesting CD.
	MUSCI, ROBERTO ,GABBIANI, CLAUDIO, ROSE, JON, CUTLER, CHRIS: Steel Water Light Code:ReRRMGC Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Music made originally for three short silent films by Joris Ivens, Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler performed as part of a music and film festival in Milan; here re-mastered, edited and reorganised for listening. Hard to describe, but it straddles the ground between composed and improvised, atmospheric and graphic music, with emphasis on colour, atmosphere and structure.
	MUSCI, ROBERTO: Debris of a Loa Code:LOW009 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Reissue of the long unavailable LP 'The Loa of Music', made before he teamed up with Giovanni Venosta, plus 6 new tracks.
	MUSCI/VENOSTA: A Noise, A Sound Code:ReRMVCD2 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
See other M/V title for general description. Over 2 years in the making and flawless, as usual. Listen to a sample of this release
	MUSCI/VENOSTA: Messages and Portraits Code:ReRMVCD Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Classic work. Overlays and constructs rhythmic and harmonic vignettes of transparent sound (at once complex and simple) from electronic, acoustic and documentary sources, taking ethnic field recordings as it's thematic centre. In the realm of 'My life in the Bush of Ghosts' but far more accomplished and developed. Listen to a sample of this release
	MUSICWORKS 56: (magazine & CD) Code:MUSICWORKS56 Price: £18.21 Quantity in Basket: none
Inc. interview, article about Iva Bittova and CD has 5 pieces by her + a great classic of James Tenney: 'Collage No.2: Viet Flakes', some new gamelan and others.
	NEGATIVLAND/CHUMBAWAMBA: The ABC's of Anarchism (20 min ep) Code:Seeland020CD Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
1999 recording. Wholesale plunder, Tellytubbies and anarchy.
	NEGATIVLAND: A Big 10-8 Place Code:SEELAND003 Price: £15.28 Quantity in Basket: none
See 'Escape' above
	NEGATIVLAND: Free Code:SEELAND009 Price: £15.28 Quantity in Basket: none
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	NEGATIVLAND: Negativconcertland Code:X180G Price: £18.80 Quantity in Basket: none
Negativconcertland is a limited Edition DOUBLE CD of a live concert including all the things you're not supposed to hear. Impressive - and funny. An instant collectors item, great document and piece of history.
	NEGATIVLAND: Over the Edge V.7: Time Zones Exchange Project Code:012CDSEELAND Price: £15.57 Quantity in Basket: none
	NEGATIVLAND: Over the Edge Vol 1. Jamcon '84 Code:Seeland004CD Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
More Radio featuring plunder, scanners, live music, telephone calls, plus the Stockholder's picnic broadcast and Negativeland's live remix of President Reagan's 2nd Inaugural address. Radio work.
	NEGATIVLAND: Over the Edge Vol 8. Sex Dirt Code:Seeland015CD Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Negativland on Sex, nice package, free freshener. Radio work.
	NEGATIVLAND: Points Code:SEELAND002 Price: £15.28 Quantity in Basket: none
See above
	NEGATIVLAND?: These Guys Are From England And Who Gives A Shit Code:Seelard021 Price: £15.28 Quantity in Basket: none
Negativeland's website says 'bootleg" versions of our banned EP have appeared over the past decade, including some forgeries that are so well-designed that it's hard to tell them apart from the original, but none of them have come even close to encapsulating the bloody history of that old release as this brand-new CD on the suspicious "Seelard Records" label. We don't even know where this "label" is located'. This ' is an album-length collection of just about every darn gasp uttered by Negativland which relates to the notorious and banned EP, from early run-thrus of the material (taped from our weekly radio show, OVER THE EDGE), to live versions both pre-lawsuit and post, and to the actual single itself. We are amazed at the extremely high-fidelity and professional presentation of this material, which even includes the only top-notch recordings available from our "Music For Lawyers" tour of 1993 (several lawsuit-related compositions which never saw the light of day on any other "legitimate" Negativland album)'. Historic. Buy it while you can.
	Negativland: DISPEPSI Code:SEELAND017CD Price: £15.28 Quantity in Basket: none
	Negativland: Happy Heroes Code:SEELAND018CD Price: £13.51 Quantity in Basket: none
	Negativland: Over the Edge V.2: Pastor Dick: Muriel's Purse Fund Code:SEELAND016CD Price: £15.28 Quantity in Basket: none
	Negativland: Over the Edge V.3: The Weatherman's Dumb Stupid Come-Out Line Code:SEELAND019CD Price: £15.57 Quantity in Basket: none
	Negativland: Over the Edge. V.1 1/2: The Starting Line Code:SEELAND014CD Price: £15.28 Quantity in Basket: none
	OSTERTAG, BOB/OTOMO YOSHIHIDE, JUSTIN BOND: Pantychrist Code:Seeland510 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Sampler and turntable band/force of nature underpin spoken, howled, sneered, pure sound, stand-up and sometimes almost sung monologues by JB. Theatre, noise and club tempi, with Rolls Royce action from Bob and Otomo. Some will find the texts entertaining, others may find themselves nonplussed (I count myself mainly in the latter category) but they mostly fit right in. There are spooky and funny moments. And a great overture.
	OSTERTAG, BOB/OTOMO YOSHIHIDE: Twins Code:CMDD0-00030 Price: £15.28 Quantity in Basket: none
Concept- 3 invitees prepare 3 original pieces of about 4 minutes. Bob and Otomo generate pieces from deconstructing, sampling, reconstructing, and sometimes supplementing them; each 'parent' thus leading to a set of 'twins'. The original pieces - by Chris Cutler, Yagi Michiyo and Herb Robertson - appear too, so here's a window on samplers, musical thinking and plunderphonia - as well as a very listenable CD. Japanese Pressing
	OSTERTAG, BOB: Getting A Head Code:BO2 Price: £13.51 Quantity in Basket: none
Second in the metal box limited edition re-releases, this one from1980 with Fred Frith (guitar) and Charles K. Noyes (percussion) and featuring unorthodox instruments built from tape recorders and helium balloons.
	OSTERTAG, BOB: Like a Melody -- No Bitterness Bob Ostertag Solo Volume 1 Code:MVORL1 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
The Jackson Pollock sound. Fractal densities. From one of the pioneers and intelligences of sampling.
	OSTERTAG, BOB: Say No More (dbl cd) Code:BO3/04 Price: £16.00 Quantity in Basket: none
First two volumes of the great set which began with Bob getting samples from Joey Baron, Mark Dresser, Gerry Hemingway and Phil Minton and creating a roaring piece with them (Vol 1) which the same people then learned to play, after a fashion and recorded (Vol 2). Fascinating and powerful and a rare chance to meditate on the mixed qualities of sampled and played musics. Great work. Limited Edition in metal boxes.
	OSTERTAG, BOB: Sooner or Later Code:OSTERTAGSoonerLater Price: £14.10 Quantity in Basket: none
Long out of print, now reissued in limited edition metal boxes by Bob himself,Sooner or Later is a powerful piece (for sampler) derived from the sounds of a Salvadorian boy burying his father: a shovel striking rock, a voice, a buzzing fly. Some guitar sounds by Fred Frith are added in part two. This tells only of the sources; what Bob does with them is compelling and hypnotic.categories CC, SAPT, EL, CL
	OSTERTAG, BOB: Verbatim Code:REDNOTE Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Third in Bob's great sampled-live-sampled project with Phil Minton and Mark Dresser. Nice packaging. See also special distribution
	OSWALD, JOHN : 69 plunderphonics 96 (Dbl CD and book) Code:fony69/96 Price: £21.15 Quantity in Basket: none
Likely the most essential release of 2001. 60 tracks covering the period 1969 to 1996 - including all 25 tracks from the infamous banned Plunderphonic CD -in re-mastered and alternate versions. Plus a 44-page, handbound, hardcover book, featuring a 30,000 word interview with Oswald who discusses the process and the cultural and historical context of the tracks, plus many of his own full-colour photo-collage images. Along with Cage's 4-33, Schaeffer's Etude aux Tourniquets, Oswald's Plunderphonic has to be one of the pivotal musical paradigm shifters of the second half of the C20.
	OSWALD, JOHN/GRATEFUL DEAD: Greyfolded (dbl) Code:SA1969 Price: £23.27 Quantity in Basket: none
John takes 25 years of GREATFUL DEAD concerts (100+ live performances) and from them creates (seamlessly) a platonic ideal version of 'Dark Star' one second short of an hour. No Plunderphonic pyrotechnics here but a dead-paced unfolding that imbricates times and places, staying pretty much freeform (with psychedelic climax) until 40 minutes in when there's a rock burst burst followed by a Phil Lesh feature and then echoes of old Mexico. For Grateful dead fans, close listeners and the curious.
	OSWALD, JOHN: Plexure Code:AVAN016 Price: £18.21 Quantity in Basket: none
Only while limited numbers last, this is the scarce Japanese import of the 1993 plunderphonic classic in which John samples over a thousand top-hundred artists from the past 10 years. Starting with 'rapmillisylables', it then progresses through the material according to tempo. Hard to describe because the material moves so fast (there are thousands of fragments). It is jaw-droppingly complex, at the same time as being nothing but glossy hits exploding into a million shards (harmless when whole, exploded this stuff is lethal). This piece works on so many levels it's better to leave it to you the listener. EP length; indispensable
	OSWALD, JOHN: S/A 1969-1996 Code:Greyfolded Price: £14.10 Quantity in Basket: none
The ultimate Dark Star and other Grateful Dead plunderphones made at the request of the Dead who opened their massive live concert archive for John to work with.
	OTOMO YOSHIHIDE: Vinyl Tranquilizer Code:NAIM01CD Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Otomo's MEMORY DISORDER, Solo works, Vol 2. Featuring 60 1 minute tracks each working on a single vinyl record..; a compendium of techniques and fun to 'spot the source'.
	OTOMO,YOSHIHIDE and MARTIN TETREAULT: 21 situations Code:AM069CD Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
As you would expect, radical scratchings, poppings and destroyed vinyl with extras, or - just a couple of guys and their turntables in 21 situations..
	OTOMO,YOSHIHIDE/SACHIKO MATSUBARA: Music for DanceArt , Hong Kong's Memory Disorder Code:NAIAM04CD Price: £15.28 Quantity in Basket: none
New style Otomo, with Sachiko M. Sine tones, almost inaudible frequencies, disturbance, controlled noise. Hard to find Chinese release. Artprint inside card folder. Very limited supply.
	PARKETT - CHRISTIAN MARCLAY: Spring 2004 Code:parkettMarclay2004 Price: £22.33 Quantity in Basket: none
20th Anniversary edition of the international art magazine. 40pp lavishly illustrated in colour which is dedicated to CM and his work. Also featured: Gillian Wearing and Wilhelm Sasnal. Plus the rest of the Magazine of course. Ephemeral publication so the interested few should snap it up now. Weight means we have to add postage to this - sorry £3.00 UK, £4.00 Europe, £6.00 World.
	PERIL: AstroPeril Code:REDNOTE5 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
See below.
	POPOLI, TIZIANO: Naturalemente Sonori 1 Code:Polipop01 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Beautifully made environmental recordings from the natural sanctuaries and settlements around Modena, Italy. Wildlife, environmental ambiances, animals, some human sounds. Unexpected material. Exquisite. Start with any of them. Waterlands.
	POPOLI,TIZIANO : Documente Sonori Vol 2. Code:hk17 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Urban sounds of every kind. Wonderfully recorded. This is a great series.
	POPOLI,TIZIANO : Naturalemente Sonori 2 Code:Polipop02 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Beautifully made environmental recordings from the natural sanctuaries and settlements around Modena, Italy. Wildlife, environmental ambiances, animals, some human sounds. Unexpected material. Exquisite. Start with any of them.. Salse di Nirano
	POPOLI,TIZIANO : Naturalemente Sonori 3 Code:Polipop03 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Beautifully made environmental recordings from the natural sanctuaries and settlements around Modena, Italy. Wildlife, environmental ambiances, animals, some human sounds. Unexpected material. Exquisite. Start with any of them. Sassi di Roccamalatina.
	POPOLI,TIZIANO : Naturalemente Sonori 5 Code:Polipop05 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Beautifully made environmental recordings from the natural sanctuaries and settlements around Modena, Italy. Wildlife, environmental ambiances, animals, some human sounds. Unexpected material. Exquisite. Start with any of them. Appenines
	POPOLI,TIZIANO: Naturalemente Sonori 4 Code:Polipop04 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Beautifully made environmental recordings from the natural sanctuaries and settlements around Modena, Italy. Wildlife, environmental ambiances, animals, some human sounds. Unexpected material. Exquisite. Start with any of them. Sassoguidano.
	PROVINI, HERVE: Biological and Chaotic Music Code:UTR4116 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Insufficient sleeve notes are provided to this very interesting record for drums and computer based on bio-mathematical alogrithms. On the "Biological" tracks the computer plays piano and the effect is mysterious and very engaging - sets of rhythms and counter rhythms sounding like conventional kit and piano played in real time but indefinably unjazzy - un-anything - while remaining exiting and highly musical. The 2 "Chaotic" pieces have the computer also playing flute-sounds and a greater complexity of structure and simultaneous lines. All manner of musics emerge and submerge as it unfolds in its protean shape-shifting course. I think this is an important and exemplary record. Maximum stars.
	QUARTERLY, ReR (ARCHIVE): Vol 2 No 3 (vinyl) Code:Re0203 Price: £17.04 Quantity in Basket: none
LP: JOHN OSWALD, MUSCI/VENOSTA, TONE DOGS, DAVID MYERS, LUCIANO MARGIORANI, WHEN, KAMPEC DOLORES, LA 1919, J.LACHAN, J.GRIGSBY, MIRIODOR. Magazine: D.MYERS, A Personal system For Electronic Music, JOCELYN ROBERT:A Choice of means for Music, FERDINAND RICHARD: Mimi, History and Report. More.THIS IS A VINYL RELEASE
	QUARTERLY, ReR: Vol 4 No. 2 CD Code:ReR0402 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
CD contains commissioned works by Q.R. Ghazala: Sacrifice To Isis, , Mike Hovancsek/Paul Guerguerian:Three Cold Floors, Tom Dimuzio: Inception, Marie Goyette: Short-Cuts: Brahms, Ken Ando: Danseuse, Robert Iolini: Congo, Zimbabwe, Giovanni Venosta: Le Ombre Di Otello, Keith Rowe/A. De Fillips: Feu Brilliant, Brian Woodbury's Variety Orchestra:Shenandoah/Innsbruck, Richard Barrett: The Unthinkable, Stevan Tickmayer: Heterophony, Volapuk: Des objets de la plus grande importance, Boris Kovacs: Extract, Philip Perkins: Virgo Ramayana, Shelley Hirsch/ Jon Rose/Chris Cutler: After Hours/The Colour Of Blood.
	QUARTERLY, ReR: Selections Vol 1 Code:ReRQCD1 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Selections from VOLUME 1 of the ReR Quarterly,including the legendary recording of the so-called 'supergroup' DUCK AND COVER (Tom Cora, Chris Cutler, Heiner Goebbels, Fred Frith, Alfred Harth, Dagmar Krause and George Lewis), BIOTA, Steve Moore, CASSIX, 5UU's, John Oswald. Wirth generous book.
	QUARTERLY, ReR: Selections Vol.2 Code:ReRQCD2 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Commissioned materials from Robert Wyatt, Iva Bittova / Pavel Fajt, LA 1919, Jocelyn Robert, James Grigsby, J. Lachan, Henry Kaiser, Increase The Angle, Bill Gilonis, David Thomas, Jospeh Racaille, John Oswald, Musci / Venosta, Luciano Margiorani, 5UU'S, When, Jean Derome. Taken from Volume 2 of the influential Quarterly, remastered, with an exquisite book by Dirk Vallons.
	QUARTERLY, ReR: Volume 4 No 1 CD Code:ReR0401 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
On the CD: John Oswald/John Zorn, Biota, Cornelius Cardew, ZGA, If Bwana, Kalahari Surfers + Lesogo Rampolokeng, Koongoortoog (Tuva),Blitziods, Al Margolis, Tom Nunn, Thinking Plague, Adenoid Quartet, N.O.R.M.A., Les Sales Combles, R.Deutsch, Martin Burlas, Peter Machajdik, David Myers, Chris Cutler/Fred Frith. New, found and commissioned work.
	ROCCA, ANDREA: Heartsounds Code:CIRCQQ8 Price: £14.10 Quantity in Basket: none
Plunder, sample, electronics and instruments in carefully composed and highly original pieces (originally for film, theatre and dance). Breaks new ground and is brilliantly listenable. RECOMMENDED
	SAMKOPF, KJELL : Har Du Sunget Den For Grieg? Code:dBUT010 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Did you sing this for a Grieg? subtitled 'a landscape portrait of the artist 86 years on'. A highly interesting environ/plunder project contrasting minute 'empty' listening (to snow, mountain walks, ancient voices) with simultanious 'tidal' auditions of Grieg's lyric, orchestra, vocal and piano musics. One of a kind.
	SHABOTINSKI: Steinmals Code:PLAGDICHNICHT007 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
This label continues to release highly interesting works. This is a mixture of techno or ambient styles now and then with songs, melodic inventions and interesting playing...
	SONDE en CONCERT Code:oral21 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Ondes is a group of electroacousic composer/performers from Montreal who work with sound sculptures and found objects, the list of which would take pages. These are nicely realised, interesting pieces exploring sounds that are mysterious and complex - and far from laptop conformity. These are instruments, played by interacting human beings. I'd recommend, if you are interested, that you start with its partner Sonde en Ondes (below).
	STATE OF THE UNION: 2001 (3 CDs) Code:EMFCD028 Price: £29.96 Quantity in Basket: none
171 roughly 1 minute tracks commissioned by Elliot Sharp from the likes of Fred Frith, Alvin Curran, Mezbow, Zeena Parkins, Carl Stone, Zoot Horn Rollo, The Tape Beatles, Ikue Mori, Joey Barron, Christian Marclay, Henry Kaiser, Duck Baker, Marie Goyette, Alfred Harth....with no spaces, so shuffleplay for endlessly changing soundtrack. Like the famous Miniatures LP in lengths only: this is more a whole than parts, a necklace not a string of pearls.
	STOCK, HAUSEN and WALKMAN: Stop! Code:QRMCD111 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
68 minutes of SHW on stages. Good bits and dull bits. Come at it knowing what to expect.
	TAPE BEATLES, THE: Music with Sound Code:DOVeCD44 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
'Music with Sound' is an underground classic already, very much in the same territory as Negativland with plundered samples and soundbites, heavy on irony and iconoclasm.
	TENNEY, JAMES: Selected Works 1961-69 Code:FP001/ART1 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
First proper collection from one of the Pioneers. Includes the legendary Plunderphonic 'Blue Suede'. See also Musicworks Below.
	TETREAULT, MARTIN: La nuit ou j'ai dit non Code:AUDIOVIEW003 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Turntables as sound sources (abstract rather than recognisable) with a lot of effect processing. Interesting for it's techniques and it's distance from all other 'turntable' musics.
	TETREAULT/LEPAGE: Callas: La diva et le vinyle Code:AM059 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
For Clarinet and Turntables, featuring the recorded voice of Maria Callas and record noise. A concept interestingly explored in 16 pieces, tenuously connecting Emil Berliner (inventor of the flat pressed disc) who set up his first operating company in Montreal, and Maria Callas, who performed there in 1958. Anyway it provides a direction and limitation of material on these pieces that gives them a definite coherence and focus. I could have done with more information in the notes but that doesn't matter much either since, in the end, the ears have it - and it listens very well indeed. Buy it while you can, there's a copyright nightmare waiting to explode.
	TIMET: Shadows Code:IDichiForma04 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Loernzo Brusci and Andrea di Luca. Interesting and deeply considered.These are massive noise constructions, largely organised, with a great deal of processing, studio work and multitracking, not comparable to anything else I can think of. Great stretches, maybe sometimes too diffuse, but.. Best would be to try one and see how you get on with it, either will do.
	TIMET: Via Negativa Code:IDichiForma05 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Loernzo Brusci and Andrea di Luca. Interesting and deeply considered.These are massive noise constructions, largely organised, with a great deal of processing, studio work and multitracking, not comparable to anything else I can think of. Great stretches, maybe sometimes too diffuse, but.. Best would be to try one and see how you get on with it, either will do.
	TRAYLE, MARK : RM:MHZ Code:ART1022 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Arcana 33/13 programmes a computer and sampler to be controlled by a gramophone turntable, artCANgel is for tin can (vehicle for a french horn via CD) + computer, capital magnetic for credit cards and computer (transforming the magnetic data into sound) and Ciprocal generatied by webs of digital circuits. So the procedures generate the music, that's interesting - but so are many of the results.
	VARIOUS ARTISTS: Bari Sessions (Hayward/Nu's/Shea) Code:QUANTUM204 Price: £15.33 Quantity in Basket: none
The David Shea is good and the Charles Hayward worth the whole CD. Recommended.
	VARIOUS ARTISTS: Turntable Solos Code:AMO-VA-01 Price: £23.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Produced by Otomo Yoshihide who commissioned pieces from Christian Marclay, Erik M, Massimo Simonini, Frank Schulte, Martin Tetreault, Xtasis, L.K.O., Merzbow, Rik Rue, Takeshi Fumimoto, Tsunoda Tsugato, PNF, Crawling with Tarts, George Budd, Mood Man. And, of course, himself. Japanese Import.
	WALL, JOHN: Alterstill Code:UTTERPSALMCD2 Price: £14.10 Quantity in Basket: none
Samples, but very very interesting recompositions. Not media debris, scrap-irony, pick 'n' mix, but solid, thorough compositions that have great tension and fascination in their structural unfolding. Great sensitivity to the minutiae of sound. First piece is a classic.
	WALL, JOHN: Constructions I-IV Code:UtterpsalmCD4 Price: £14.10 Quantity in Basket: none
Another great CD from this most painstaking and careful of sampling composers. This time he extends further into instabilities in the technology as well as continuing to investigate aesthetic ways of convincingly integrating recorded acoustic instrumental performances, samples from other works and highly manipulated electronic information (original source material contributed by John Edwards, Mark Sanders, Andrew Sparling, Mark Wastell and Axel Dorner) Exploring different sonic territory from the previous CD, this is an exquisite and original work.
	WALL, JOHN: Fractuur Code:UTTERPSALMCD3 Price: £15.28 Quantity in Basket: none
NEW CD by one of the modern masters of sampling composition. These are serious and exiting works.
	WHEN: Black, White and Grey Code:ReRWHCD Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
A complete new work plus 'Death In The Blue Lake'. Combines playing and through-composition with manipulated and environmental sound in dramatic, narrative, psychological constructions. Quite unique. 'Death' based on a novel; texts in new works by Chris Cutler. Book of artwork. Listen to a sample of this release
	WHEN: Pearl Harvest Code:TRICK032 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Lars Pedersen's latest, on a planet of its own. How to describe the place where he wound up? These are part plunder, part original, part chaos, all tuneful, but stretched through kitsch to pure inspiration - 10 songs based on the Arabian Nights that borrow and mix soundtrack, late sixties Beatles, Lounge, Film music (lots of orchestra), Psychedelia, early Prince and Middle Eastern instruments. Dense arrangements in which a lot of played instruments and a lot of samples melt into one another and historic time lose it's definition. Strange and strangely compelling.
	WHEN: Prefab Wreckage Code:TAT021 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Includes text by Chris Cutler
	WHEN: Psychedelic Wunderbaum Code:trick004 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
A radical shift of direction for Lars Pedersen, though done with his exquisite ear, these are electro-songs, sample-techno-pop, restructured psychedelia with a lot of exotica. Hard to say much more about it, for the adventurous and curious. A lot of real playing here to alongside the samples and electroacoustic manipulations..
	WISHART, TREVOR: The Vox Cycle Code:OTP904 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Performed by Electric Phoenix. This is the legendary 6-part cycle centred on the human Voice, raw, radically treated and processed. For vocal quartet, Bass and Tape; the work of 8 years. This covers an enormous amount of ground, and bears the marks of the years of its completion. By Vox 5 there is much radical processing and morphing as the whole ground becomes inherently unstable (this piece also appeared on one of our quarterlies). By Vox 6 we are in rock, dance, chaos territory, a wholly radical opposition to the story so far. And so over the top it's dizzying.