The international collective, Pablo’s Eye, returns to Belgium’s jaunty reissue/contemporary label Stroom for their fourth release, ”The Light Was Sharp, Our Eyes Were Open.” The group’s previous three […]
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Formed in 1977 by Crammed Discs founder Marc Hollander and his musical partner Vincent Kenis, Aksak Maboul was a seminal project that playfully combined and deconstructed seemingly disparate […]
One of the seminal electronic albums of the early 90’s, Kitchen by German duo Max Loderbauer (the son of a composer) and Tom Thiel (a studio engineer) is […]
One of our favorite releases on the great Belgian archival label Stroom (run by Ziggy Devriendt aka Nosedrip), Spring Break is a collection of studio compositions by Pablo’s […]
Another favorite of 2023, NY-based artists Salenta and Topu debut on Belgian label Futura Resistenza. The pair met serendipitously in the summer of 2019 at a mutual friend’s […]
“Dedicated to Andreï Tarkovski,” Myths 3. La Nouvelle Sérénité is a stunning collection of ambient soundscapes from three of the best in the game, Jon Hassell, Harold Budd, […]
Techno, Disco, Italo, Electronics, House, Library, Cosmic and Ambient frequencies… Mappa Mundi’s sole release Musaics was released on Belgium’s legendary USA Import label in 1990, riding on the […]
Compiled by Stroom Records’ Ziggy Devriendt, Tropisch Verlangen, which translates to “Tropical Desire,” is a collection of handcrafted analogue electronic compositions by Belgian musician Cybe aka Siebe Baarda. […]
An absolute gem of a record revived by Portland’s Musique Plastique, Daedalus is the score to a deeply moving avant-garde production of the Greek myth that toured the […]
Italian ambient hero Gigi Masin & This Heat’s Charles Hayward split sides on Les Nouvelles Musiques De Chambre Volume 2. The musicians each interpret a prompt from the […]
Melancholic keyboard works by Belgian composer Dominique Lawalrée on his Editions Walrus “non-commercial music” label. The compositions feature a range of keyboard sounds using Bösendorfer piano, Hohner and […]
We’re big fans of Merope’s 2021 album Salos on Stroom so naturally we checked out the rest of the Lithuanian chamber group’s releases. Naktės are songs “inspired by the […]
“Fela Kuti-meets-Kraftwerk-on-the-dancefloor” by French composer Hector Zazou, Congolese singer Bony Bikaye, and electronic music composers CY1. Released in 1983 on seminal Belgian label Crammed Discs, Noir et Blanc […]
A daytime favorite at the In Sheep’s Clothing hi-fi bar, First Meeting is the first archival release of Belgian composer Dominique Lawalrée’s exquisite minimalist piano works. Compiled from […]
Most of the songs on Anna Domino’s brilliant solo debut East & West were written in her childhood bedroom in the late hours of the night on a […]
Jason Kolàr’s Modified Perspectives is one of the very few contemporary offerings on Nosedrip’s (mostly) reissue imprint STROOM and an In Sheep’s Clothing listening bar classic… The Barcelona-based […]
A balearic pop classic. Hoping for Love is French pop/jazz singer Isabella Antena’s 1987 second solo venture and was released five years after Antena’s monumental Camino Del Sol. […]
11,000 Dreams is a compilation spanning two decades and three different projects of Belgian artist Jan Van den Broeke. The songs are dreamy minimal synth musings that combine […]