Mike Oldfield was back into the extended composition game with Five Miles Out, continuing the "Taurus" series with the mammoth "Taurus II," an entertaining enough romp with references to Irish music, brass bands and Oldfield's beloved Morris…

As the follow-up album to Oxygene, Equinoxe offers the same mesmerizing affect, with rapid spinning sequencer washes and bubbling synthesizer portions all lilting back and forth to stardust scatterings of electronic pastiches…

As the Sixties mutated into the Seventies, a group of people who would go on to become a group of people who would go on to become The Residents began making their first recordings. Using a two-track machine, this gaggle of crazy kids, and The Residents, produced two experimental tapes, 'Ballad Of Stuffed Trigger' and 'Rusty Coathangers For The Doctor'.

Dean Hurley is an American composer, sound designer, and music supervisor known for his collaborations with visionary director and musician David Lynch. He is responsible for building eerie, evocative soundscapes using electronics, tape loops, and field recordings. His sound design work was an integral part of the third season of Twin Peaks, and a digital collection of the material, Anthology Resource, Vol. 1, was released in 2017…

A reimagining of Richard Youngs' "Sapphie", with instrumentals from Hypnotic Brass Ensemble and vocal contributions from Moses Sumney, Perfume Genius, and Sharon Van Etten.

Twenty-plus years into his career, producer/vocalist/songwriter/DJ Matthew Dear remains artistically unpredictable in pursuit of his prescient strain of electronically-formed, organically-delivered indie pop. His work traverses myriad musical worlds, belonging to none.

Seeking a refuge within their music from the assailing world, bassist Joshua Abrams and drummer Chad Taylor take up guimbri and mbira, instruments from diverse African states, finding a new pairing that moves past world music and jazz into something new, to do with dance, meditation, listening and convergence — truly a place of Mind Maintenance.

Scandal collects together three newly unearthed and revised pieces from Merzbow recorded between 1992 and 1995.

Satomimagae’s Hanazono is an invitation to revel in your immediate and imagined surroundings, to make time and space for guileless curiosity and garden variety enchantment. A tribute to everyday mysticism, Hanazono is an ecology of simple, cyclical refrains and elegiac entreaties cross-pollinating with ludic and layered folk vibrations.

Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar, a project consisting of Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar, Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar Some More and Return of the Son of Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar, is a series of albums by Frank Zappa. Released as separate albums in May 1981 on Barking Pumpkin Records, it was subsequently reissued as a triple album box set in 1982.

The Crux of the Biscuit is a compilation album by American musician Frank Zappa, released in July 2016, originally intended to celebrate the 40th anniversary of his album Apostrophe (').

Based on an initial idea by Gordon Pym (or was it Klaxon?), and taking advantage of the temporary presence of a second piano in the concert venue of la malterie, two trios from the Muzzix collective came together in late 2020 to create a quintet… The acoustic version of Toc (see Qeqertarsuatsiaat – Circum-Disc 2015) takes on the energy and electricity of the original trio, exploring soundscapes full of freedom. The trio Abdou/Dang/Orins (see Lescence / Gmatique – Circum-Disc 2020) plays the organic and the infinitely small.

A protean project created in 2010 after finding raw material in a dumpster of a small metal factory in the Vallée du bout du Monde in Thiers. David Bausseron’s metal instrumentarium already consisted of a few thin strips and slats of mechanical brush found in the street, halogen lamp bases with an astonishing resonance. Several forms have emerged over the years, from installation and interactive street performances to the most noisy electroacoustic concerts. Sound actions where the stunt body throws itself into reptative acoustic crossings or amplified tributes to broken faces. Acoustics, spaces, surfaces, performance, scenography, gesture, minimalism, gigantism, clutter, purity, electroacoustics, improvisation, composition, solo. This record, “Maelström” is a selection of recordings and the result of ten years of experimentation with metal objects. It brings together two aspects of the guitarist’s work on metal materials: acoustic and electroacoustic.

When Toc deals with hair, it’s not about splitting them ; the three musicians are closed enough in their quest of the ultimate sonic brushing. Toc seeks, cuts, equalizes, and often uncurls. Its research is slow and progressive, repetitive and insistent, with electrified energy, always built in the moment. Neither permanent nor straight, the music waves, makes loops, gradations and colors.

Continuing his solitary explorations, Peter Orins used an impeded year to initiate two distinct developments that enrich his approach to the drum solo. The piece VRTN is a variation, or an extension, of the piece Happened By Accident, the subject of the eponymous album released in 2019 (Circum-Disc – LX014). It takes up the use of the drums as a resonator of various objects, wood, metal, glass, and the preponderance of the unexpected, by introducing accidents and interactions. The musician adds electronic treatment, which we find in his first record (Empty Orchestras – 2013), produced by Pure Data software: a device, designed in collaboration with Antoine Rousseau, autonomous enough to influence him in an unpredictable way.