KAREN STACKPOLE with DIE ELEKTRISCHEN || Machine Shop
Stackpole and DE set up in a machine shop for a 3 day recording session. One more session and a whole lot of subtle tweakages later, Machine Shop is born. This will put to rest any speculation that gong records must all sound the same.
LOWE OPTA || 1
Ian Watson and Mark Jolliffe use field recordings, drones and good sense to make fucking excellent music. The first EP is an oft-surprising offering comprised of Saz recordings (made in a cave in Turkey) using an old German tape recorder layered with field recordings of Paris and acoustic drones and music box chimes.
DIE ELEKTRISCHEN || Pitch Black
Deep within a murky haze of black metal-inflected ambient music lurks an entrancing world of spectres, shades and ethereal phantasms. Pitch Black paints a picture of darkness that is full of menace and foreboding. Setting the mood is Leviathan's Wrest, who performs vocals on Leviathalidomide and keyboards on Psychedelicacy.
DIE ELEKTRISCHEN || Field Recording All-Stars
FRAS encourages you to explore your relationship to the aural world, hoping to provoke you into really listening to what is around you. A sound collage compilation that features field recordings from Aaron Ximm, Maggi Payne, Tony Cross, Jen Boyd, Rudy Trubitt, Leticia Castaneda, Crìa Cuervos, Drew Webster, Will Mitchell, Mark Griswold and Toby Paddock. Curated and mixed by Die Elektrischen.
DIE ELEKTRISCHEN || Minimalist All-Stars
Minimalist music does not necessarily imply a minimum of sounds or volume, it is simply adhering to the formal musical minimalism espoused by Michael Nyman. This record is an attempt to have fun with rules of the genre. Original music performed by Die Elektrischen, Loren Chasse and Jason Levis. Mixed and arranged by Die Elektrischen. Includes remix CD of the original recording sessions by Sote, Carson Day, Gerritt, Aemae and others.
DIE ELEKTRISCHEN || Drone All-Stars
Live drone session performed by a diverse array of Bay Area musical talent like Karen Stackpole, Garth Klipppert, Bill Noertker, Ben Hayes, Tony Cross and Die Elektrischen. Session was minimally treated and released in 2cd format including a remix by Sote.
DIE ELEKTRISCHEN || 12-inch Vinyl
“From Throbbing Gristle-ish noise to spacious and opaque ambient soundscapes to harsh industrial beat jams that invoke the UK’s Sweatbox label, DE lays down that neighbor-irritating shit.” - XLR8R
DIE ELEKTRISCHEN || Agares
From a limited release on Bone Structure Records, #21 in the Pseudomonarchia Daemonium series. "Agares" is often described as the demon of earthquakes, a subject that perfectly fits this long telluric ambient track.
PUSSYFINGER || Chew and Swallow
Proof that electronic music is neither sterile and academic computer music nor maddeningly simplistic dance music. A crashing sound-collage of original works and remixes of other Dielectric releases presented as an undiluted and vitriolic expression of the id.
PINERESIN || Ambergris
Nature-inspired electroacoustic improvisation performed on a huge variety of instruments, synthesizers and effects pedals. Music that is pastoral and gentle, infrequently pretentious and often quite diffuse and worrisome.
AGENTS del FUTURO || My Drone
An eclectic and engaging album of electroacoustic and electronic music that reflects the collage-artist spirit of it's creator, Jesse Clark. One of many projects from this relentlessly creative friend of Dielectric. Special artistic oversized CD packaging.
KAREN STACKPOLE || 12-inch Vinyl
Heavy metal. As in the literal weight of multitudes of gongs. Karen Stackpole is one of the master manipulators of metal and this 12” conveys the stunning sonic potential of resonating metal.
SOTE || Dastgaah
Voices from ancient Persia brought back to life. Traditional instruments become post-fucking-modern! It is evolution accelerated. A co-release between Dielectric Records and Record Label Records.
SOTE || 12-inch Vinyl
“Hyperactive, staccato jackhammer beats to lush hypnotic beatscapes, employing fuzzy block-rocking beats, swirling melodies, crunchy digital glitches, sampled harmony vocals, washes of warm distortion, super-distorted female torch singing, buzzing insect melodies, and all sorts of rhythmic and melodic mayhem.” - Aquarius Records
CARSON DAY || Terrabyte 3-inch CD
“Beautiful, thick slabs of post-Autechre skitter and thump, tangled and serpentine, but still somehow soothing and dreamy, the dense convoluted beats and rhythms all wrapped up in warm warped melodies and beautifully creepy atmospheres. Very cinematic and epic.” - Aquarius Records
CARSON DAY || 12-inch Vinyl
“A noisy, jumped up little fucker of a record. Carson Day is apparently really young and therefore his “full of beans and spunk” attitude will get him far. Well, judging from ‘Into the Night,’ the ghost of drill’n bass is found to be alive and well in California." - Sheikh Ahmed
ARASTOO || Warmth in Digital
"Drifting and shimmering, these thirteen tracks embrace nature, but in a totally abstract way. Dark soundscapes of distant vibrations and subtle sonic shifts, late night expanses of moonlight and forest flutter, smoothed into warm, rich drones." - Aquarius Records
