Hydra Head press up a twelve-inch teaser for what is hopefully a shortly forthcoming vinyl issue of the recent collaborative album from Pyramids with Nadja. Lustmord and Ulver remix one of the most atonishing drone tracks to spill out amidst last year’s tar-slick of high-volume clamoring. Hand-numbered to 300, one at a time for $13 [...]

James Blake, exactly one-half of Mount Kimbie but a fully beloved producer in his own right, drops a triad of slow humping body-funk melodies and r&b vocal experiments from another dimension on 12 inches for the Hessle Audio label. If you like electronica that works better on your headphones than on the dancefloor, than this [...]

Holy shit, Madlib just may be the most prolific musician on earth.  The third installment in his MONTHLY series of Medicine Show albums is “Beat Konducta in Africa”.  This one was inspired and fueled by the afro-beat, funk, psych-rock, garage-rock & soul records of Africa.  In addition to the two songs posted below, you can [...]

More new vinyl from Javelin. The last two pieces of wax released by these boys moved with a quickness, so if you want some I advise you to wrangle a pre-order in at luakabop.com. Hey, isn’t that David Byrne’s label? Maybe these guys actually are cool.
Yep, they are.
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The third twelve-inch from dubstep wunderkind Joy Orbison. Featuring all the things we’ve come to love about this guy: warm, neon synth lines with chopped & skewed vocal lines, Joy Orbison can truly do no wrong. What really sets this one apart from all the other amazing dance 12″s that have been released so far [...]

Thrill Jockey is once again offering a subscription series of great 12″ releases.  Over the next year, they will release slabs by Javelin, Double Dagger, Jason Urick, Future Islands, Jack Rose with D. Charles Speer & The Helix, High Places, and Oval.  That’s a lot of music, and most of it will probably be awesome.  [...]

Gonjasufi is a man who keeps damn good company. The production credits may look familiar, but this definitely isn’t your typical Warp album – not that there is such a thing as a typical Warp album. Lysergic beat constructions from Flying Lotus, Mainframe and the motherfucking Gaslamp Killer keep your head nodding and your subs [...]

If you didn’t know, the group name Fenn O’Berg is the result of an unwieldy mashup of the three names of the artists involved. The unabridged version reads more like this: Christian Fennesz, Jim O’Rourke and Peter Rehberg. All accomplished experimental musicians in their own right, on In Stereo they come together to conjure digitized [...]

The debut solo album by the much beloved frontman of Sigur Rós, Jónsi Birgisson. If you like Sigur Rós then you’ll probably like this, that goes without saying. There is currently a pre-order for the vinyl edition on XL posted at amazon.com but rumor is there will be news shortly forthcoming about a deluxe and/or [...]

I just got an email that piqued my interest.  It was about the soundtrack for “Machinarium”, an independent puzzle/adventure video game, featuring the music of Czech composer Tomas Dvorak aka Floex.  These are spacey, futuristic electronic compositions, about exactly what you think a video game soundtrack should sound like.  The LP version is limited to [...]

The first vinyl release from Kranky for 2010 is a celebration in and of itself, we love this label. However, this release is doubly exciting since it is nothing less than the new album from underwater ambient maestro Loscil. What else? Oh, it’s also the very first Loscil album ever available on the vinyl format [...]

Quite Scientific Records have released a new 12″ 4-song EP from City Center. One side has grooves, the other side has a screenprint. I wouldn’t play that side if I were you, but I’m also not your mother – so you can do what you want with the things you buy. Before you do that [...]

I hate remix albums just as much as any other post-rave, acid-casualty burnout, but this album is infinitely more sublime than your average trance-rock refix. Dakota Suite offers up his compositions for dissection from several of the finest artists operating in the experimental music nexus, and the results are sounding pretty fantastic. Then again, it’s [...]

The dubstep genre has become so insanely prolific, it’s gotten pretty difficult to keep up with, let alone know for sure what even qualifies as being dubstep anymore. The latter can be debated endlessly on the appropriate forums – all I know is, I like what I’m hearing right here on these two ten-inch slabs [...]

This is Shining from Norway, not to be confused with Shining from Sweden. One plays black-metal, and the other plays Blackjazz. Get it straightened out in your head before heading to theomegaorder.com and placing your order.
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