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MUSLIMGAUZE – Hussein Mahmood Jeeb Tehar Gass – CD – 01304

Released just days after his death on January 14, 1999, this CD ranks as one of his best and most memorable, with groovy non-stop percussion sharing space with smooth backgrounds.

MUSLIMGAUZE – Iran – CD – 00501

Iran was the first Muslimgauze recording to be released on CD, and therefore occupies a special place in the hearts of Muslimgauze fans. The year was 1988, and Dutch label Staalplaat had recently been introduced to the music of Muslimgauze through their association with Soleilmoon. At the time, Staalplaat was known for their attractively presented cassette releases. “Iran” was their first CD release, and signaled the start of the label’s transition away from the cassette format. Soleilmoon reissued “Iran” in America in 1993 after Staalplaat relinquished their rights to the material, although by then more than half a dozen Muslimgauze CDs had been issued by Staalplaat, Soleilmoon and other labels. “Iran” was available for another five years, until 1998, when it went out of print. The Muslimgauze catalog is profoundly deep, with 200 or more releases, depending on how you count them. Ever the one to love his latest compositions above all others, Bryn Jones, the man behind Muslimgauze, pushed his record labels to issue new product and let older titles go out of print, which for the most part that made sense. After all, fans want the newest album, so why keep something old in print? But with the passing of time, the question has been answered: History is relevant, and the old recordings are still important. Thus it is with particularly great happiness and pride that we bring back the first ever Muslimgauze CD. For this reissue the CD packaging has been completely redesigned. The original print films were converted into digital files so that the photographs could be reused, but the essay “Breien Met Mist / Zonder Handleiding” (Knitting With Fog / Without Manual) written in Dutch by Andrew McKenzie of The Hafler Trio, was deleted, allowing us to put full emphasis on the presentation of the images. The new package is printed entirely on high quality heavyweight papers, and is a work of art in its own right, rivaling the music recorded on the CD it’s designed to hold. A sturdy slipcover pocket holds a black-and-white four-page booklet together with a CD slipcase MADE WITH SCENTED metallic gold paper. It is truly an art object to cherish and treasure. [WARNING TO PEOPLE WITH SENSITIVITY TO PERFUME AND OTHER AROMAS: THIS CD MAY CAUSE ALERGIC REACTION]

PAUL SCHŪTZE – New Maps Of Hell

Tribal ambient dub, originally released on Australian label Extreme. Remastered, with bonus songs from other Extreme releases. For fans of early WARP, Muslimgauze, Future Sound Of London, The Orb, Rapoon and alike. Double LP in laminated cover, also printed on the inside, with Obi.

1. The Eraser 02:31
2. Topology Of A Phantom City 16:28
3. The Velvet Horizon 6:13
4. Eating The First Map0 2:12
5. Sacred Agents 07:15
6. Doubts About Walking 04:50
7. The Mutant Beautific 04:04
8. A Soul Reports 08:05
9. Dead Heart 06:15
10. Hallucinations (In Memory Of Renaldo Arenas) 08:11
11. The Memory Of Water, Part One 05:00
12. All That Was Solid 10:17

O YUKI CONJUGATE – Equator

British post-industrial/ambient group O Yuki Conjugate sees a multi-format reissue of their previously CD-only 1995 release Equator. Coming four years after their lauded Peyote release, the group split and reformed into their Mk II phase with the two original members Roger Horberry and Andrew Hulme, along with Malcolm McGeorge, Dan Mudford, and Pete Woodhead. Making use of the emergent technology of the early ’90s, Equator was one of the first albums to be mixed with digital equipment, weaving together a blend of studio, live and location recordings to create their own deeply immersive, enveloping soundscapes. Brooding atmospheres unfold underneath a wide range of ethnic percussion and deep, meditative basslines — existing in a unique cross-section of Jon Hassell-inspired 4th world mystery, Industrial landscapes and the rich middle-eastern projections pioneered by Muslimgauze. It’s a deeply hypnotic work that connects the dots between the late 80’s industrial scene and the smoked-out chill out rooms of the ’90s. Now revisited, this expanded vinyl edition features an additional 30 minutes of material, together with new glorious artwork from artist and actor Frederick Schimmelschmidt.

Instrumentation: tongue drums, bass, thunderegg, voice, keyboards, samples, wireless, stratus, airtubes, skin, percussion, marimba, digital edits, dharbouka, roto-tom, sholak, finger cymbals, rain stick.

Mastered by Pieter De Wagter.
Double LP: Smokey clear vinyl; gatefold cover with insert; edition of 500.
CD: Comes in gatefold mini-LP sleeve and contains 17 tracks. limited to 300 copies
Cassette: comes in a standard plastic case and contains 18 tracks. limited to 100 copies

Double LP Track List:
01. Insect-Talk (6:41)
02. Sunchemical (6:01)
03. Gathering Shadows (5:08)
04. Skinned (3:04)
05. Equation (4:41)
06. Shintone (1:52)
07. Mansoases (5:14)
08. Umbra (2:40)
09. False Prophet (6:48)
10. 200ft Vertical Wall (1:06)
11. Departure (7:31)
12. Roseland (9:01)

CD Track List:
1. Insect-Talk
2. Sunchemical
3. Gathering Shadows
4. Skinned
5. Equation
6. Shintone
7. Mansoases
8. Umbra
9. False Prophet
10. 200ft Vertical Wall
11. Departure
12. Slight Return
13. False Prophet (original)
14. Equatorial
15. Fleshtones
16. Tegen Tonen
17. A Gap Between Two Worlds

Cassette Track List:
1. Insect-Talk
2. Sunchemical
3. Gathering Shadows
4. Skinned
5. Equation
6. Shintone
7. Mansoases
8. Umbra
9. False Prophet
10. 200ft Vertical Wall
11. Departure
12. Slight Return
13. Roseland
14. False Prophet (original)
15. Equatorial
16. Fleshtones
17. Tegen Tonen
18. A Gap Between Two Worlds

JERRY KRANITZ/VARIOUS – Cassette Culture – Homemade Music and the Creative Spirit in the Pre-Internet Age

Intensive 320 page book written by Jerry Kranitz. Includes two CDs loaded with almost 160 minutes of Cassette-Culture / DIY Artists

The book takes a social history/analytical approach to the growth of the global cassette culture/homemade music network that sprouted and flourished from the post-punk era through the early 1990s. The author explores how the participants communicated, traded, collaborated, and set up cottage industry labels to distribute their work. A long overdue study of this pivotal yet less-than-comprehensively documented chapter in the post-punk and 20th century independent arts movement stories.

CD1
01 10-Speed Guillotine ‘Temper Tango‘ 1990 (4:24)
02 Aconite ‘the truth about Cable TV‘ 1982 (3:05)
03 Another Headache ‘Cacophony Continues‘ 1992 (5:31)
04 Autopsia ‘Lebensherrgabe‘ 1983 (4:59)
05 Beequeen ‘EE EA‘ 1988 (2:18)
06 Big City Orchestra ‘Karawane‘ 1987 (3:44)
07 Bret Hart ‘Partytime‘ 1985 (3:02)
08 Brume ‘An Amphibian‘ 1988 (6:18)
09 Cacophony 33 ‘Frank‘ 1986 (1:37)
10 Charles Rice Goff III ‘Big Surprise’ 1990 (4:11)
11 Dog As Master ‘Black Body’ (Excerpt) 1985 (4:36)
12 Don Campau ‘I am Not Satisfied’ 1983 (3:02)
13 E Coli ‘Lag Phase’ ‘Djihad‘ 1981 (1:19)
14 E G Oblique Graph ‘Fall into Glass’ 1982 (2:21)
15 F-i ‘Zombie’ 1984 (4:50)
16 Gen Ken Montgomery ‘It happened to You’ 1983 (3:09)
17 Girls on Fire ‘In My Blood’ 1985 (1:29)
18 If,Bwana ‘Beauty and the Beast’ 1986 (3:28)
19 ITN / Mental Anguish ‘Force of Waves’ (Edit) 1988 (2:24)
20 Jeff Central ‘Tragick’ 1988 (4:26)
21 Joseph K Noyce ‘The Beat’ 1988 (2:37)
22 Kapotte Muziek ‘Audio Plagio 2‘ 1988 (3:58)
23 Ken Moore ‘Soft Pretense‘ 1986 (2:33)

CD2
VOD158.CD2: Artists L-Z (Total Duration 78:56)
01 Larynx ‘Graett’ 1981 (3:00)
02 Lord Litter ‘St James Infirmary’ 1990 (3:32)
03 Markus Schwill ‘The Advantage Of Tape-Music’ 1991 (2:29)
04 Minoy ‘Eskalith’ 1987 (5:16)
05 Monochrome Bleu ‘Imagination’ 1986 (2:26)
06 Muslimgauze ‚Cyst’ 1983 (4:20)
07 Mystery Hearsay ‘Painted‘ 1986 (2:03)
08 Non Toxique Lost ‘Statements‘ 1982 (4:18)
09 PBK ‘Untitled 04‘ 1990 (4:48)
10 Philip Johnson ‘Two Tracks Unused At The Time‘ 1979 (3:07)
11 Psi Nukli Trip Sequence II’ 1988 (5:22)
12 R Stevie Moore ‘Puttin’ Up The Groceries’ 1978 (2:59)
13 Ri Gillham ‘Soundtracks for imaginary films‘ 1980 (2:03)
14 Rimbaud Brothers ‘Deceit’ 1984 (3:41)
15 Rod Summers ‘Sad News’ 1984 (3:29)
16 Sheer Zed ‘Take a Walk Down the Street’ (3:26)
17 Storm Bugs ‘Hodge’ 1978 (4:54)
18 Taste of Stool ‘Squeeze Bees’ 1989 (1:01)
19 Viktimized Karcass ‘3.32 AM Rain‘ 1985 (5:24)
20 Vittore Baroni ‘Living with Prosthesis‘ 1985 (2:06)
21 Walls of Genius ‘Sunday, Monday Or Always!‘ 1983 (2:42)
22 Wolfgang Wiggers ‘l’ll Cry Tomorrow‘ 1983 (3:12)
23 Years on Earth ‘Opposition‘ 1982 (2:46)

PANASONIC – Remixes EP

Previously lost, forgotten, and then found remixes of Panasonic music by Zoviet France and Muslimgauze. Limited edition of 700 copies.

Tracklist
A Untitled Remix – Zoviet France 13:11
B1 Untitled Remix – Muslimgauze 4:28
B2 Untitled Remix – Muslimgauze 7:45

O YUKI CONJUGATE – Into Dark Water

The willfully obscure OYC formed in Nottingham in 1982 and have had a sporadic career on the outskirts of musical culture ever since. Initially associated with the early 80s post-industrial scene – along with Soviet France and Muslimgauze – OYC quietly forged their own brand of ambient music at a time when it was distinctly unfashionable to do so.

Always reluctant to categorise their sounds, OYC have been variously described as post-industrial, ambient, darkwave, tribal ambient, chill out, electronica and Fourth World. Take your pick.

‘Into Dark Water’ was recorded in 1986 over four days in an eight-track garage studio in Nottingham. Produced and engineered by John Kaukis, the result was a blend of flutes, percussion, electronics and loops that focused their sound and became for many the definitive OYC album.

Originally released in 1987 on the Leeds-based Final Image label, ‘Into Dark Water’ quickly sold out and has been highly sought after ever since. The re-issue, featuring a lovingly recreated sleeve, makes a vinyl version of this classic available again for the first time in over 30 years.

FRANS DE WAARD – This Is Supposed To Be A Record Label

Expanded fifth edition, published by Korm Plastics. Paperback.

In 1984 Frans de Waard started his own band, Kapotte Muziek, and his own cassette label, Korm Plastics. A few years later, in 1992, he was asked to work for Staalplaat, then one of the biggest independent labels for experimental and electronic music. Staalplaat was the home for bands like Muslimgauze, :zoviet*france:, Rapoon, O Yuki Conjugate as well as Jaap Blonk, Normally Invisible and Kingdom Scum. With an average of three new releases every month, Staalplaat remained a major player for the next eleven years. Frans was originally hired to set up a database and to sell and buy new music, but over the years also assumed a role as unofficial business director and A&R man, and came to be regarded as the head honcho. In 2003 he’d had enough and decided to quit.

This book tells his story of those eleven years, the many highs and as many lows of working for a small independent record label that also functioned as a shop, mail order, radio programme, news outlet, and concert organiser. It’s about embarrassing confrontations with musicians, labels, distributors, and the endless spending on the most unique packaging CD-Land had ever seen.

This book is not about the 1980s when Staalplaat was part of the local squatter movement, or their post-2000 activities in Berlin. This is Frans’ personal account from within, when Staalplaat was riding its biggest wave in the 1990s.

It includes various appendices, such as an interview with Staalplaat founder Geert-Jan Hobijn, a transcript of a radio interview with Muslimgauze, a 1980’s account of Staalplaat’s activities, and a discography, among others.

There are no images of artists or album covers; instead you can feast your eyes on some previously unpublished, behind-the-scenes photos taken in the office, shop and warehouse.

This book will appeal to everyone with an interest in the experimental music scene, and anyone else who wants to read a crazy, funny and sad story about a small struggling record label. Knowledge of the music is not required, but you will surely be inclined to look it up while or after reading this. Anyone who is interested in a manual of how (not) to run your record label might want to take notes.

228 pages, paperback.
Cover art by dutch comic artist Erik Kriek.
English language.

FRANS DE WAARD – This Is Supposed To Be A Record Label – Book

There are no images of artists or album covers; instead you can feast your eyes on some previously unpublished, behind-the-scenes photos taken in the office, shop and warehouse.

196 pages, hard cover.
Cover art by dutch comic artist Erik Kriek.
English language.
Limited to 300 copies.

E.G OBLIQUE GRAPH – Complete Oblique – 2xLP – 11965

SADLY, EVERY COPY OF THIS RECORD DELIVERED TO SOLEILMOON HAS A DENTED CORNER, DUE LIKELY TO INADEQUATE PACKING BY THE LABEL. THE DENTS AREN’T ENORMOUS, BUT YOU’LL WANT TO SHOP ELSEWHERE IF YOU’RE SEEKING PERFECTION. IF YOU’RE NOT LOOKING FOR PERFECTION, GET A COPY FOR A DISCOUNTED PRICE.

2015 repress. Limited to 300 copies. Originally released on vinyl in 2006 as a reissue of a 2002 double CDR. This double LP contains the earliest musical works by Bryn Jones aka Muslimgauze, originally released under the moniker E.g Oblique Graph. An important, must-have document of a nascent artist’s first steps towards technical and musical mastery. This material was recorded between 1981 and 1983 and released on Jones’s Kinematograph Tapes and Bourbonese Qualk’s Recloose Organisation in extremely limited tape and vinyl editions. Bryn Jones was a highly prolific British ethno-electronica and experimental musician who was influenced by conflicts in the Muslim world, with an emphasis on Israel and Palestine. With almost 200 albums released in less than two decades under the name Muslimgauze, Jones successfully established a unique and extraordinary soundscape by combining Middle Eastern, African, Indo-Pak, and Afghani atmospheres alongside heavily phased drones and colliding rhythms. Jones’s wide-ranging influence can be seen in the work of such contemporary artists as Shackleton and Vatican Shadow.