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Minor Planets

Deep & moody EBM, Acid, Dub, psychedelia by Swedish experimental artist Joachim Nordwall.

Techno, House & breaks selections by Avalon Emerson for DJ Kicks.

Experimental synth-wave release from Alessandro Adriani, inspired by classic Italian Library royalty Morriconi, Umiliani, Alessandroni etc. 43 tracks, 2xLP.Ltd edition of 400 copies.

Class comp of AUS deep House / Techno/ EBM from Butter Sessions & Noise In My Head.The first volume in an ongoing series compiled by Butter Sessions and Noise In My Head, Domestic Documents surveys independent artists who are living and producing Electronic abstraction in Australia. Far from a complete guide to the countrys burgeoning scene, the 2LP set presents a cross-section of wide ranging sounds and ideas, travelling the endless highways between Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne and Adelaide as well as regional towns, Ballarat and Keyneton. Featuring exclusive tracks from Daze, Mic Mills, Albrecht LaBrooy, Lucy Cliche and more, the comp also marks the first vinyl outing for newcomers Chiara Kickdrum, Ben Keynes and a fresh Dan White / Ryan Hunter collaboration Turner Street Sound.Domestic Documents Vol 1: Compiled by Butter Sessions and Noise In My Head by Various Artists

1973 LP (50th anniversary edition) marking the end of the collaboration with Klaus Schulze. The last Ash Ra Tempel recording in its original line-up.

Highly sought after S.A. LP from 1985. Remastered from the original tapes and reissued for the first time by Afrosynth Records.When Shadrack Ndlovu & Ernest Segeel teamed up with Dane Stevenson, owner of Blue Tree Studio in downtown Johannesburg, and journeyman producer Taso Stephanou, South Africa’s bubblegum era had just begun, spurred on by the success of Shangaan disco. The relative success of their debut 12” ‘Don’t Bang The Taxi Door’, marketed aggressively at taxi ranks throughout the country, helped put the Blue Tree label on the map and E & S were invited back to record a full album: Taduma, featuring on keyboards Dr Buke, an in-demand session player from Soweto.Rooted in Africa, yet purely electronic, Taduma was a moderate hit, spurred by tracks like ‘Taxi Door’ and ‘Mhane’, its hypnotic refrain ‘Mhane, famba na wena’ meaning ‘Mother, I am going to you’. Other tracks like ‘Mapantsula’ and ‘Be Careful’ place Taduma within the street-savvy ‘pantsula’ style and dance synonymous with consecutive waves of music from disco to kwaito, house and beyond, while ‘Sikele Masike’ repurposes a traditional Shangaan work song. Vocally E & S are closer to rapping than singing, in a combination of English and vernacular – predating other credited pioneers of kwaito in SA like Senyaka and Spokes H. Driving the music instead of vocals are waves of searing synths over rudimentary but explosive drum machine sounds – the word ‘Taduma’ meaning the sound of the drum.