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NEWS: In this section you find all the new releases - whether music or print - as they come out and/or are being listed in the shop.
This can include major re-stocks as well as older titles and second hand records or books. New titles are being added on a near-daily basis.
"Noisezone" is a avantgarde jazz project that came to life in Basel, Switzerland. Trio of musicans: Sebastian Smolyn, harnessing a storm of sounds coming from his E-Trombone, his brother Artur, generating vast range of convulsive, electronic noise attacks and Daniel Buess, empowering both with thrilling rythms of his percussion. Those 3 personalities come together within eXplosive improvisation. Searching musical language of their own, they continue to penetrate broad areas of music itself with each performance bringing them closer to its boundaries. As the performance becomes a musical exploration ritual, everyone who dares joining it will be entirely exposed to its physical and spiritual radiation remaining in your body and soul even long afterwards. (Text: Adrian Mania) Includes download code with additional tracks!credits released April 25, 2025 Noisezone is: Sebastian Smolyn: e-trombone Artur Smolyn: electronics Daniel Buess: drums, electronics all music by Noisezone Digital tracks produced by Artur & Sebastian Smolyn mixed by Artur Smolyn Vinyl produced by Alex Buess All tracks mastered by Alex Buess Cover design by Adrian Mania reworked by BigRogers license
After two extensive tours through Europe and 4 Albums finally released in Europe by the end of the 90s, Oxbow, and their German label Crippled Dick Hot Wax, discussed thoughts on extending the audience for the indie noise rock giants and do something largely popular in the pop world that seemed vastly unusual, however, for a band in the alternative music world: a remix album. Those plans were even publicly stated on Singer Eugene Robinson's own TV show on German Viva TV, yet never realised. But Oxbow had already done a first step to actually make it happen. They handed their long time European sound engineer Manuel Liebeskind and producer and former label mate Alex Buess (with 16-17 on Kevin Martin's pathological label) the full Steve Albini recorded multitracks of their album Serenade in Red. Instead of just remixing an existing song, Liebeskind and Buess, now under the name of PxfXFn5, composed 2 completely new tracks. Using loops and sounds from the original Oxbow recordings, and samples from live recorded cassette tapes, they created something that still is Oxbow - and not. 2 Tracks that transport the heavy blues and noise inspired unique sound of Oxbow into electronic soundscapes and beats. They open a totally different approach to Oxbow music, and to what remix, or re-composition, could mean. In 2024 these tracks have been revisited and remastered by Alex Buess who brought the tracks to the life they deserve. While Oxbow singer Eugene S. Robinson can also be heard with Buess on 16-17's last studio album Phantom limb (Trost records, TR193), he now also is half of electronic Duo Mangene with Manuel Liebeskind, that has recently released their first album '101 Atomic Terms and what they Mean' on fellow label A tree in a Field Records. Oxbow are Eugene S. Robinson - Vocals Niko Wenner - Guitar Dan Adams - Bass Greg Davis - Drums PxfXFn5 are Alex Buess and Manuel Liebeskind credits released February 28, 2025 Original recordings by Steve Albini Mixed by Alex Buess and Manuel Liebeskind at WWolf 281 Mastered by Alex Buess Graphic Design by Karin Blaser and Roger Big Rogers Graf Editors Manuel Liebeskind and Greg Davis
“The Mountaineers” is a short term project that was founded in 1998 by 3 musicians playing together in various other projects, such as Sprawl, Werther/Wittwer, 16-17. This music comes from a very rare live performance in the Reithalle Bern. This 8:52 minutes piece is the only existing document of the explosive formation, in which the guitarist and electronic musician Stephan Wittwer, who sadly died recently, also played. Stephan was very fond of this project and always wanted to revive it, but unfortunately it never happened. We have decided to release this recording as number 000 of our live series in memory of Stephan. The Mountaineers are Stephan Wittwer, Guitars and Electronics Alex Buess, Reeds, CD-Scratch & Electronic Devices Michael Wertmüller, Drums credits released March 14, 2025 Recorded live at Reithalle Bern in June 1998 by Roger Graf Live Mix by Christoph Ali Remastered by Alex Buess
Atlas Kopko was initiated by Markus Jud in 1987 and was at the beginning more of a musical project than a band, a descendant of the group Ix-Ex-Splue with their hypnotic improvisations and meditative noise orgies to experimental industrial/noise rock. This description also fits the current production of Atlas Kopko. Atlas Kopko is a follow-up band to Ix-Ex-Splue, but with an expanded musical vocabulary that additionally includes a strong tendency towards cinematic music. The creative element of improvisation also takes a more subordinated role in Atlas Kopko's new album and, since the recordings made in 1994 were very carefully done, brought the possibility of transferring these over 29 year old recordings into the present time through current mixing and production techniques. Atlas Kopko consists in this production of musicians , who were at that time all involved in the Basel experimental music scene and some still are today . Since the Skin And Speech label was also founded at that time, it became necessary to make this exciting, diverse production accessible to the public.. credits: released January 22, 2024 Atlas Kopko: Markus Jud: Sax and Electronics - Tobi Madörin: E-Bass, Rebab - Role Schmid: Drums Manuel Liebeskind: Guitar, Banjo and Mandolin - Dani Meyer: Electronics - Markus Kneubühler: Synthesizers and Electronics All tracks composed by: Markus Jud Recorded by Alex Buess @ Wolf281 Studios, Basel 1994 Mixed by Markus Jud, 2023 Mastered by Alex Buess @ Wolf281 Studios, Basel 2023 Lacquer Cut by Adi Flück @ Centraldubs, Bern Titles generated by Andreas Kreie Kreienbühl Cover by danilot & PAZ Graphic design and Videoworks by BigRogers
2 years after their debut album on Utech Records, P/O MASSACRE goes deeper in their immersive noise experimentation in this collaboration album with Alex Buess, and Merzbow (Masami Akita 秋田昌美). An architecture of distortion, Moog processors, spring reverb, drone effects and more, then developed in different directions by two electronic/noise veterans. It’s a journey of pure sensation, destruction, and rebirth. A skull-vibrating sound decomposition to your face. For this very reason of searching the limit of frequency and sound structure, we’ve decided to make this album as double 45 rpm vinyl, for a maximum aural experience, cut for vinyl by Frédéric Alstadt at Mont Analogue Masters. As he says: “it’s the cut of the uncuttable”. The visual design and layout are taken care of by the Taiwanese noise builder Chia-Chun Xu (Karma Detonation Tapes), with the artwork from the film destroying artist Tseng Peng-Chieh. Heavy gatefold sleeve, with obi and a bonus CD which includes an exclusive track “Nonslaught” from the same recording session by P/O MASSACRE only. Double album available in two versions: Black vinyl and a colour vinyl edition with one record in marbled green and one in marbled rusty vinyl.
" Membranes is a ghost record by Benjamin Brejon & Jonathan Uliel Saldanha, which is an unfinished non-record. We started it in 2007. And finished it a million times. But never really. I found these mixes in a forgotten cloud and the cassette label "specific interest"decided to release them as they are. But it's just one version and one format. The principle of the dub is the spirit and the replicas. The spirit of a spirit. Substitutions. Not an original master.Remixes of a lost source. Like translating a non-native language into another language, passing things on to others; This vinyl release is a Polaroid image of a zone of sound, rhythms, lyrics, dynamics of an unquantifiable or particular moment in history. It could have been recorded yesterday or tomorrow. Or not recorded at all. This mix has emerged from the abyss." (Benjamin Brejon) The S|S vinyl master once again sheds new light on the sound of some of the mixes previously released on cassette. Mixes from a lost source emerge in new splendor from the abysses of sound. credits released September 13, 2024 MEMBRANES are: Instruments Benjamin Brejon & Jonathan Uliel Saldanha Vocals Adolfo Luxuria Canibal Ivo Machel Mark Stewart Strings Henrique Fernandes (double bass) Mathieu Werchowski (violin) All music by Beast Box (Brejon/Saldanha) ................................................................................................................ Mixed & produced by Jonathan Uliel Saldanha Vinyl compiled, mastered and produced by Alex Buess ................................................................................................................ Artwork Kristin Gerwien/ Julius Brejon (Original Artwork) Reworked for this vinyl edition by Roger „Big Rogers“ Graf
"Official bootleg" of wild live show by NoisePunkJazz veterans 16-17 live at Taktos festival in 1995. Remastered by Alex Buess in 2022 and now released as a collaboration of Skin + Speech and Plattfon Records.
One of the best recent Merzbow releases on Sores. White vinyl.
Relatively early Swarm Intelligence 12" on Instruments of Discipline from 2017 back in stock!
In this World by Cindytalk was released in 1988 in two parts, this is the first one with the catalog number CHIME 00.27Sused copy. Visual grading VG+, but some crackle in quiet parts, so I'm being a bit strict here. Sleeve however had wear around the edges and corner. Some traces of a removed sticker. Inner sleeve has a 'Music & Goods Exchange Notting Hill Gate' sticker.
Original cassette release from 1985. First release on Lydia Lunch's own label Widowspeak. Great condition.
Original ROIR tape release of live recordings of 8 Eyed Spy, Lydia Lunch's band in the early 80s. Tape in top condition.
Reissue on SST from 1988. Used copy in excellent condition - a little bit of tape hiss, but pays fine.
Extremely rare promo tape version of Dog Star Man. CAUTION: sound on the tape has deteriorated over the decades and is "wobbly". Don't buy this for the sound, only if you are a MBM completist. I believe this is the only copy of this item on the internet - no discogs entry yet (as of August 2025!!).
Used copy in excellent condition
Used copy in excellent condition. Grey cardboard, not numbered, black tape.
Tape version of the seminal Chris & Cosey album Heartbeat. Original on Rough Trade from 1981. Still decent sound quality.
Zahlreiche Anstreichungen, aber sauber genug, um das Buch als eigenen Studienband zu benutzen. Der gesamte Text ist gut lesbar.
The vinyl companion to the CD "The Later After" (adn73), DJ Hidden's "After Before" gathers on a 12" two of the most club-oriented tracks from the album. A deadly tool for any DJ and a sign of many packed dancefloors, these two loud, slowly building, insidious and agile tracks demonstrate DJ Hidden's ability at twisting the very roots of drum'n'bass and fusing them with his own high-fi production and melodic skills.
Second hand copy of Dylan's Blackout/Dogfight on Droppin' Science from 1998. Original pressing in VG+ condition.
Dred Bass on Second Movement Records from 1998. Original pressing.VG+