Two of Norway’s most exciting progressive artists, Jordsjø and Breidablik, come together to celebrate their 10th anniversary in the music industry with an innovative split album titled Kontraster. The album contains two 20 minutes long tracks showing different perspectives and expressions of “contrasts”. Both tracks represent bold exploration of progressive rock's diverse soundscapes, paying homage to the genre's pioneering artists while carving new paths for the future.

Jean-Michel Jarre has composed and recorded a 52 minute musical score for ‘Amazônia’, a new project by award winning photographer and filmmaker Sebastião Salgado, for the Philharmonic Paris.

In 1973, the Sound Sculpture Show took place at the Vancouver Art Gallery. An LP audio catalogue of the exhibition, entitled “The Sounds of Sound Sculpture”, was released in 1975 under the supervision of the Canadian sound sculptor John Grayson and US composer David Rosenboom. Grayson had edited an important early book on the field, “Sound Sculpture”. The LP included rare takes of Rosenboom and Grayson, amongst others, playing famous pieces by pioneering sound sculptors including the Baschet brothers and Harry Bertoia, the latter best known for his Sonambient series. It also included some of the few recordings by Stephan Von Huene, who had begun to create his kinetic sculptures, and the profound atmospheric pressure systems constructed by the New York sound artist David Jacobs.

Internationally acclaimed harpist Alina Bzhezhinska and Ibiza-based producer Tulshi announce their collaborative album ‘Whispers of Rain’.

Incredible album of bleeding-heart catharsis from cellist Oliver Coates, think Arthur Russell doing drone metal with Fennesz, and you’re not far off Coates’ capacity for tear-jerking genius here.

Recorded live at the Phoenix Central Park, Sydney, August 22nd 2024.

The fictitious tour of far-away lands continues, as anonymous artist Glåsbird follows the scratchy, folk-ambience of Norskfjǫrðr with a return to lonely arctic-island sounds. Novaya Zemlya is a Russian-owned island, stretching from just off the mainland between the Kara and Barents seas, with two islands split by the Matochkin Strait.

The first of Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser's exploitive cosmic space rock albums is also the best, and certainly kicks the seat out of the many jam bands that arose in the '90s. Unlike most "super groups" who collapse under the weight of their own hubris, the Cosmic Jokers, who were never really a proper group anyway, almost improve upon the sound of their precursors, namely Manuel Göttsching and Klaus Schulze from acid-jam-supreme Ash Ra Tempel, and Jurgen Dollase and Harald Grosskopf from blitzkrieg psychedelic Wallenstein.

He has been insatiably producing music for over thirty years. He has produced countless indie artists, and has commercially released over 200 albums of his original music.

Limited edition, quadruple LP in lidded box with download coupon and large double sided poster. Featuring two extended mixes and four bonus tracks, two of which are exclusive to this format. Initial preorders from Matador shipped with a packaged pin set.

Different Rooms is a collection of songs and musical motifs we composed, edited, and collaged in the weeks between late 2024 and early 2025. Most of the recorded material was performed during that editing process, except for live performances taken from improvisations we recorded with Jeff Parker and Josh Johnson some time in 2023. In our typical process, much of our material is collaged and combines moments of live improvisation, field recordings, and in-studio experimentation. This record, however, marks an evolution in our approach to studio production.

Rival Consoles has been concurrently in the foreground and background of electronic music since the late 00s; conjuring tense melancholia for Black Mirror soundtracks, playing in front of 10,000 dance fans at Drumsheds, selling out London’s Barbican Hall, and logging an expansive, wandering collection of synth-sculpted albums that explore a myriad different styles and aesthetics—but always with human emotion as their lodestar.

Mike Oldfield’s 1974 album Hergest Ridge – his follow up to Tubular Bells – will be issued on SDE exclusive blu-ray audio in June.

“Power" is the first recording with Echoes Of A New Dawn Orchestra, a group of talented Parisian musicians (widely known for releasing a 12" on Danilo Plessow's Space Grapes as Jeroboam ) with whom Shuya Okino has toured Europe for the past three years as Kyoto Jazz Massive & Echoes Of A New Dawn Orchestra. It is a powerful gospel, Disco and Jazz Funk track with deep lyrics by Vanessa Freeman that inspire using your potential to better the world. The band then recruited Art Of Tones, who has had a string of hits with originals and remixes on numerous labels including Local Talk, Glitterbox, Z Records, and King Street to remix the track. Expanding on the exuberance of the original song, this uplifting Disco House with jangling guitar cuts, slappy bass and thumping drums is sure to heat up dancefloors in the summer of 2025.

The N.Y.C. Peech Boys were a disco/electro outfit led by Larry Levan and Michael De Benedictis. Larry Levan made his name due to a decade long residence in the famous Paradise Garage club, becoming one of the most respected DJs in the 80’s dance scene of the Big Apple.