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ideal (sweden) #ideal 049 ep

dead machines “plays kwaidan” seven inch single record

  • untitled (1)

  • untitled (2)
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dead machines
»plays kwaidan«

cat. no. ideal049
year 2007
format 7"
info 600 copies on black vinyl in b/w cover with full color insert

i asked john to write something about this but he never got around to do so. dylan's fest in the uk came between i think. however, this is a heavily psychedelic drone trip from john & tovah olson from detroit. dark soundtrack muzak that will rule your skull... intense but laid back... the best recording i heard from the dead machines, no doubt. it comes packed in a beautiful b/w cover with a full colour inlay. and -it's limited to 600 copies. act fast baby.

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ideal (sweden) #ideal 046 cd
kning disk (sweden) #kd 017 cd

wolf eyes “black wing over the sand” compact disc

  • black wing over the sand (34:44)
2007 release ; finally in stock ... the most recent “official” wolf eyes album, co-released by joachim nordwall’s ideal and mattias nilsson’s kning disk.
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wolf eyes
»black wing over the sand«

cat. no. ideal046
year 2007
format lp/cd

lp: 900 copies.
cd: 2000 copies.
co-released with kning disk.

heavily psychedelic. minimal. slow mindbending stuff... highly recommended, a future classic!

since wolf eyes formation during the end of the 90s up until today, their musical output has grown into an impressive oeuvre and gained them successes granted only a few bands. their style places them somewhere in the border area between experimental music, freeform, noise and harsh industrial. "black wing over the sand" is one long session (on vinyl divided on side a and b) that from the very first beginning lays bare the roots of wolf eyes: here is an evident presence of the industrial music of the early 1980s with bands such as throbbing gristle, maurizio bianchi (mb) and gary mundy’s cassette label broken flag.

instead of the harsh dissonances and compact walls of noise wolf eyes are well known for, the wholly instrumental piece moves slowly forward over a basis of silence. in that way black wing over the sand belongs to one of the band’s more accessible pieces of music, and is an excellent introduction to the dark cosmos of wolf eyes. with oscillating movements, wolf eyes conjure up short bursts of noise with screaming high pitched tones where a rhythmic deep and slow bass soon sets in, disappears, returns, increases pace, disappears and returns again. electric guitar, echo effects and sweeping sounds creates powerfully nerved effects over the slow rhythm.

black wing over the sand is yet another proof of how wolf eyes, simultaneously looking backwards and distinctly lets themselves be influenced by the hidden musical undercurrents that lies most close to their heart, with little means and creative craftsmanship succeeds in creating something altogether new, exciting and always unexpected.

black wing over the sand, now released on vinyl (limited to 900 copies) and shortly on cd, is a co- release from kning disk and ideal recordings. the album cover and inner sleeves features art illustration by andreas nilsson, fredrik söderberg och alivia zivich.

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ideal (sweden) #ideal 045 cd

bj nilsen / z’ev “22’22”” compact disc

  • bj nilsen - 22'22" (22:26)
  • z'ev - 22'22" (22:27)
  • bj nilsen & z'ev - untitled (22:22)
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bjnilsen & zév
»22' 22"«

cat. no. ideal045
year 2007
format cd

the atmospheric impact of the collaboration of bjnilsen and z’ev is massive. their genius is the power of drone and the beauty of trance. they build atmospheres that are at the same time disturbing, meditative and enjoyable. the atmosphere i am talking about is of course deep and dark, and it’s hitting the spine hard. it’s hard not to listen to the album in it’s full bloom. we’re hearing killer drone music here.

in ’22.22’, we see something natural happening. i want it to continue. i don’t want it to stop here… it’s too intense and beautiful to stop here. maybe it is that feeling that makes this album so great to me. the fear of this is it.

bjnilsen is a true master of the drone and together with z’ev’s magical percussion – the ’22.22’ album is no less than a true contemporary masterpiece. ideal is proud to be part of such beautiful work…

’22.22’ is building. filling space. making it all worth while.

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ideal (sweden) #ideal 039 cd

henrik rylander / leif elggren “gottesdienst” compact disc

  • gottesdienst
  • gottesdienst (remix by the idealist)
  • gottesdienst (remix by c.p.u.)
a great bit of pan-generational magic from elgaland-vargaland’s leif elggren and sweden’s henrik rylander ...
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henrik rylander & leif elggren
»gottesdienst«
cat. no. ideal039
year 2006
format cd
info 500 copies in oversized cardboard cover

rylander & elggren are kings of uneasy listening and chaos! but hidden within is beauty. this is a powerful experience of sound and two of sweden's most uncomfortable artists...

henrik rylander (ex-union carbide productions, also active in the skull defekts and leif elggren (krev, firework edition and the sons of god) at spire live in masthuggskyrkan. curated by mike harding of touch. part of gothenburg art sounds 2005. this long piece was executed at an extreme volume and it was seriously painful to experience the damned thing! but here it has mysteriously become very listenable and pulsatingly rhythmical. it is a truly powerful piece by two of swedens finest cutting age sound artists. the cd also features two remixes by the idealst and sound terrorist c.p.u.

about the artists:

henrik rylander is a gothenburg-based sound and visual artist working in the fields of noise, intense avant garde rock and photography. he was the drummer of the infamous and retarded garage rock band union carbide productions and is currently in the newly formed primal rock band the skull defekts. his photography is clinical and documentative, and as clinical is his feedback solo works - as heard on the "traditional arrangements of feedback" album for ideal.

leif elggren is based in stockholm and king of elgaland-vargaland together with cm von hausswolff, and is running the firework edition for the most brave swedish sound art on tasty cd's and vinyl and is also publishing beautiful books and prints. his own works are extremely focused and is ciruclating around themes as power, religion, life & death. together with kent tankred he is one of the sons of god, a great performance and noise duo.

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ideal (sweden) #ideal 038 cd

mokira “hateless” compact disc

  • you can't hide your hate forever (6:01)
  • hatelee sweet darlene (3:55)
  • hand in ghate (8:33)
  • hate me like i do (13:09)
  • sunshine and hate (6:16)
  • true hate will find you in the end (13:03)
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mokira
»hateless«

cat. no. ideal038
year 2007
format cd

andreas tilliander’s sixth album to date under his abstract electronics moniker mokira.

it’s his most simple, direct and physical album so far. 

inspired by the beauty of warm analogue synthesizer sounds and industrial and distorted harshness – ”hateless” is a powerful exploration of industrial ambient music in it’s most physical form. beautiful, yet disturbing… enormously deep bass (so far – his live shows on this material has killed two sound systems), dubby noise & killer soundscapes gives us tilliander’s most personal sounding album to date. his ability to put soul into his machines is rare among electronic recording artists today.

“hateless” is the long awaited album where tilliander shows us his full power, and takes another step out from the electronica label he’s been carrying for so long… his love for depth and roughness is getting full spin here. controlled darkness. deep stuff. it makes us love him even more. we didn’t think that was possible after his amazing ”album” (type records) & ”fft pop” (cubicfabric)… 

subsidized by the swedish council for cultural affairs

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ideal (sweden) #ideal 032 cd

the new alchemy “organic universe” compact disc

  • organic universe
  • crystal ball/evil mind
  • ghosts & lost lives
  • mix & deliver
  • in the light from the super 8 film
  • holy smoke (murder in the gallery)
  • blowin' in the wind (revisited)
  • the light of the sun
  • sonogram ultra sound stroboscope
  • cluster collide
  • black hole (we are stardust)
  • out in the sticks (flies
  • birds & bees)
  • .forest tramp
  • orange warning
  • information rain
  • rear view mirrors & wind screen wipers
  • slow burning/hot summer
  • megaphone macroscope
  • medication/illumination
  • crashing guitars against amplifiers
  • billion ears from now
  • 1st heartbeat/last heartbeat
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impressive flying-saucer-attack-lineage bedroom 4-track songs from per svensson.
ideal press release...
the new alchemy
»organic universe«

cat. no. ideal032
year 2006
format cd
info 500 copies in jewelcase.
»organic universe« is the second full length album of the new alchemy; the sounding output for multi-faced artist per svensson, born in gothenburg in 1965, now based in the beautiful south-west of sweden. svensson is comfortably moving between sound art and noise experiments, poetry, psych-rock, installation- and conceptual art. the borders are cloudy and unimportant. this is all as important to the world you are to know as the new alchemy.

per svensson was since the very early 80’s involved in the gothenburg punk scene and bands like rabies and also in the legendary society garageligan. he has slowly created an artistic language of his own and since 1987 he is earning his living as an artist. active in the circuit surrounding the radium organisation he was inspired by people like cm von hausswolff, freddie wadling, jean-louis huhta and leif elggren. soon – svensson’s work was picked up by elggren’s label firework editions which has been a very important base for his alchemical experiments in sound and image.

»organic universe« is alchemic rock with an honest power. there’s a lot of nerve, and svensson is allowing time to evolve the songs… there’s echoes of rock music from the 60’s and on. and echoes of mysticism, alchemy and occultism – colouring the music and the lyrics of course.

timeless music. but also simply, a fucking good rock album from the new alchemy

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ideal (sweden) #ideal 030 cd

carlos giffoni / prurient “heavy rain returns” compact disc

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slept-on collaborative album betwixt dom “prurient” fernow & no-fun’s carlos giffoni ; nary available on these shores since its date of release (late 2006) ...
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carlos giffoni / prurient
»heavy rain returns«

cat. no. ideal030
year 2007
format cd

500 copies in standard jewelcase

"heavy rain returns" is a truly monumental album. recorded in bushwick, new york city - it's an intense trip into harsh noise and electronic sickness. carlos giffoni is maybe best known for his great "welcome home" record for important and his curator skills are infamous through his no fun fest in brooklyn which is the world's most extreme music festival. prurient is dominick fernow who is operating the hospital productions label and shop out of a basement in new york. his albums "black vase" and the latest "pleasure ground" for load records are both highly recommended and loved. here we hear two of the us-noise scene's absolutely most important creators together - and man, it's pure energy hitting you hard. most copies are in the us so hurry to get your copy. the noise is on!

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ideal (sweden) #ideal 029 cd

dead letters spell out dead words “old ghosts, new ghosts, all ghosts” compact disc

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  • if you touch me i will disappear
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  • the things i have destroyed
  • -
  • hope/less/loss
  • mask walls and other ways to keep things out to keep things in.
  • in perfect and imperfect circles
  • shards and the things they reflect
  • three nineteen a. m.
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  • days like these and days like those and nights that never end
  • -
  • closer closer still
  • -
  • the circles you have turned to lines (no ghosts)
  • context of words & actions
  • tell me that you feel the same (reprise)
  • -
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dead letters spell out dead words
»old ghosts, new ghosts, all ghosts«

cat. no. ideal029
year 2006
format cd
info 500 copies in jewelcase.

the second full-length for ideal by gothenburg's dead letters spell out dead words offer us a journey down the depths of a hurt soul. recorded during one year of emotional turmoil, from pitch black depression to something resembeling happiness, »old ghosts, new ghosts, all ghosts« combine ekelund's penchant for treated field recordings, monotonous soundscapes and epic drones. this album is a must for anyone in to dark drone music. there are traces back in time as well as a very personal sound on this album, which consists of 19 tracks, divided into two parts, the first one being the darker of the two. some peices carry titles, others not. they are there to take the album forward, perhaps to tell a story of how it feels to be down and out. to lose hope. to lose love. to be left behind. »old ghosts, new ghosts, all ghosts« is as beautiful as pain can get.

thomas ekelund (b. 1977), based in gothenburg, sweden does what others fail to do - he gives life to his machines. his sound is very organic and real and should appeal to everyone interested in deep listening, ambient noise, as well as the human psyche.

this is seriously deep.

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ideal (sweden) #ideal 026 ep

alvars orkester “era maximus - searching & moving” seven inch single record

  • searching & moving

  • dark lights
  • master of suction
summer 2006 single from alvars, recorded back in the early days but released post their ash.int’l debut “interface.” note that this is in an edition of 100 - and that kning’s mattias nilsson was the design-guru here ...
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alvars orkester
»searching & moving«

cat. no. ideal026
year 2006
format 7"

100 numbered copies. white marble vinyl.

three psychadelic noise-drones recorded in studio styrka 1989-1991.

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ideal (sweden) #ideal 024 ep

the ass galaxy “bomb me bomb me bomb me” seven inch single record

  • bomb me
  • bomb me
  • bomb me
weirdo outsider free-gonk from joachim nordwall and johannes heldén, bustin’
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the ass galaxy
»bomb me, bomb me, bomb me«

cat. no. ideal024
year 2005
format 7"

one-sided. 200 copies on silver sperm vinyl.

the ass galaxy is the unholy creative output of ideal's the idealist (ex-kid commando, also in alvars orkester and the skull defekts) and johannes "burner" heldén who is a sound and visual artist and a science fiction poet with his body covered with satellites and messages to not-yet-discovered civilisations. this is pure filth, a slow distorted beat, slightly out of rhythm, with a few samplings thrown in and a viking-style battle-melody. if aliens would find this as a good example of human culture - they would kill us all.

sickness on 7"s of sperm-coloured vinyl. limited to 200 numbered copies. no artwork.

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ideal (sweden) #ideal 022 ep

andreas tilliander “dutty & digital” twelve inch single record

  • she don't dub
  • ideal chant
  • melod ica
  • skatterspot
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4-track boss dub-rock stylee from mille plateaux “survivor” andreas tilliander...
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andreas tilliander
»dutty & digital «

cat. no. ideal022
year 2004
format 12"

first edtion: 600 copies. deleted.
second edition: 600 copies

this is sweden's electronic superstar andreas tilliander at his very poundingly best! he has travelled from his minimal electronic dub on labels like mille plateaux, type and raster noton to a more up-beat dub sound. this ep with four amazing future classics bears echoes of augustus pablo, lee perry in battle with basic channel productions. but it isn't fair to say so - it's just to give you a hint. tilliander is creating his own unique sound and we love it. you will too. get your copy now of the very future of electronic dub music!!! obey the back-beat, man.

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ideal (sweden) #ideal 019 ep

contemporary punk unit “the renaissance fix” twelve inch single record

  • the renaissance fix
  • bad beginnings
  • future on hold
  • good beginnings
“high-tech electronics” from joel brindefalk; purportedly influenced by die form, rune lindblad, skinny puppy and lee perry ...
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contemporary punk unit
»the renaissance fix«

cat. no. ideal019
year 2004
format 12"

600 copies.

holy holy holy! contemporary punk unit is all over us again, dropping a new killer 12"ep on the ideal imprint! this is where deep dub, sweaty ebm and industrial shit meet. a battlefield of long dead sounds. and this is the sound of their resurrection. c.p.u. is the high priest of the church of technology and advanced sound! the title track is an honest and advanced electronic pop track, back-to-back with three more dark, noisy dub tracks. fans of lee perry, skinny puppy and lfo should check this out.

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ideal (sweden) #ideal 013 cd

mokira “sue is mine” compact disc single

  • sadly this was your life
  • her walkman started to melt
  • please don't drop me home
  • bigger then other girls mothers
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "bigger then other girls mothers"
early andreas tilliander project, less emphasis on “the dub” than the below would lead you to expect... quite beautiful.
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mokira
»sueismine«

cat. no. ideal013
year 2003
format cd

1000 copies in digipack.

amazing abstract electro-acoustic dub stuff from andreas tilliander. as mokira, he has released his more abstract recordings on labels like raster-noton and mille plateaux. this is four great tracks, now available for a damn good price.

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ideal (sweden) #ideal 011 cd

contemporary punk unit “can you compute?” compact disc

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choppy abstract idm-leaning music from one joel brindefalk. surprisingly detailed; quite good...
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contemporary punk unit
»can you compute?«

cat. no. ideal011
year 2003
format cd

1000 copies.

contemporary punk unit is joel brindefalk, an electronic composer who lives in karlskrona in the south-east of sweden. he has been composing music since the late 80's when he was first attracted to stuff like die form and skinny puppy. soon after this he discovered both electro acoustic experiments like the one's by rune lindblad and the world of dub through lee perry. you might say c.p.u. is the natural bastard child of these inspirational sources. with the mentality of dub he speaks the language of hi-tech electronics. now, 2006, c.p.u. is focusing on his noisier sides. most recently on cassettes on white tapes in brooklyn, nyc and ufo mongo, sweden. we hope he will get his head together long enough to make us the album we have waited for since 2003.

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8mm (italy) #8mm 012 cd
ideal (sweden) #ideal 041 cd

nmm “universal prostitution” compact disc

  • universal prostitution
  • consumed
  • work=decapitated life
  • blow
burnin’ sax/computer-feedback burst from mattin & lucio capece ... one of the rawer & more unheralded outings in mattin’s canon ...
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n.m.m.
»universal prostitution«

cat. no. ideal041
year 2007
format cd

500 copies in cardboard sleeve. anti-copyright.
co-released with absurd (greece) and 8mm (italy).

hardcore improvisation. extreme, sharp and filled with burning energy - no more music (at the service of capital). this is a beautifully painful record recorded in oslo, brussels and strassbourg in early 2006 by the duo of  argentinian lucio capece on saxophone, often feedbacked through a mixer and basque computer improviser/feedbacker/ destroyer and thinker mattin, both based in sunny berlin.

"universal prostitution" moves in the wastelands between extreme reductionism, noise and focused improvisation. the message is very political. a fist in the face of the capital. get into the void. cover image by gustav klucis. only free software were used.

mattin - voice. computer feedback.
lucio capece - saxophone. mixer.

nmm:

lucio capece - mixer, saxophone feedback
mattin - voice, computer feedback

pals, nmm 's ‘universal prostitution' cd is finally ready! nmm is the stellar duo feat bilbao 's mattin on computer feedbacks and lucio capece on saxophone feedback. recorded in strasbourg , brussels and oslo , 'universal prostitution' is their political and sonic maniphesto. my record of the year if you ask me. fucking brutal!

co-released with absurd ( greece ) and ideal recordings ( sweden ).

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