Electronic

2020 collection. When David Bowie and Iggy Pop relocated from LA to continental Europe, taking trains to Berlin, Paris and Warsaw, they would have come across new music that was very different to the burgeoning disco scene they left behind. Cafe Exil -...

2020 archive release. Esoteric Reactive is delighted to announce the first ever full commercial release of the 2004 recording by Tangerine Dream founder Edgar Froese, Dalinetopia. In 1967, the young Edgar Froese met the unique and eccentric artist...

2019 release. Titled Artemis after the Greek goddess of the moon and daughter of Zeus, Lindsey Stirling's upcoming album takes listeners on a journey of tragedy and triumph. Each song on the album sonically represents the upward struggle that Artemis,...

2019 release. The periodic table jumble codename that is 2Xirtam (AKA the duo of Lee Anthony Norris and Frank Rumpelt) debuted the remarkable Quantized Memories on Carpe Sonum last year, and it appears that in that time, their imaginative breadth has...

2019 release. The duo of Dimitris Avramidis and Ross Baker, better known as Middlemarch, join the Carpe Sonum roster after the quietly devastating Wolf Hall, issued on Time Released Sound in 2014. This disc of remixes retains the magisterial heft and...

2019 release. The band Parson Jones is singer-songwriter Joshua Hollenstein and multi-instrumentalist and producer Kerry Fogarty. On their debut single for the French label Underdog Records, the duo was singing non-standard rhymes. One could hear a...

2019 release. Sounds Of The Mansion is a cinematic musical excursion into an urban landscape of music, art and late night hangs. In the absence of vocals, the listener is free to travel the music by his or hers own imagination. Thor de Force is the solo...

2019 release. Radical Chill Out is an open project of the artist collective RCO initiated by Dr. Motte and Gabriel Le Mar. The RCO sound production concept of this debut release is based on a special selection of public domain sounds, which in an...

2019 release. Qst is an abbreviation of Quest, both of which are aliases of Frans de Waard, whose decades-long career as a performer, composer, writer/publisher, labelhead and general artistic instigator has seen him traverse more electronic/experimental...

2019 release. Once a duo, in 2007 Yamaoka became the sole province of Kenichi Oka, and if nothing else, the man hasn't lain fallow since. On the contrary, he's continued to ply his trade across a veritable smorgasbord of labels worldwide, and,...

2019 release. Magdalene is the second studio album by English singer and songwriter FKA Twigs. It is her first body of work since her EP M3LL155X (2015), and first full-length record since LP1 (2014) Production was handled by FKA Twigs herself, with...

2019 release. Krystian Shek's work is nothing if not eclectic. He's worked out his own mode of Namlookian 'environmental music' across previous Carpe Sonum discs, whether building towering edifices of stratospheric ambient or subtly shaking the...