The long-awaited, groundbreaking, “pop” album by Michael Pisaro, in stunning 24bit and vinyl editions.

The remarkable packaging of the Hand-Silkscreened Edition features an ultra-clear vinyl record, with no center label. The vinyl, which is nearly as transparent as glass, sits between two sheets of heavy, transparent vellum, which are hand-silkscreened with a think skein of white ink, rendered from patterns of smoke molded by sine tones. The Hand-Silkscreened Edition also includes the complete book of musical scores.

With her sophomore album, Commotus, Barcelona pop luminary Lucrecia Dalt crafts a surrealist landscape borne by the inexorable scope and sand-swept surfaces of geologic time.

This updated, 24bit edition of Commotus reveals Lucrecia Dalt’s sound pallette in fine detail, while adding 7 new remixes by Gudrun Gut, Ekkehard Ehlers, :papercutz, XHGC, Los Amparito, WIRE contributor Woebot, and Jason Grier.

Commotus is now available in stores in North America and via Forced Exposure. All purchases of Vinyl after January 22nd include the 7 new remixes on the download card.

An absorbing look at Ariel Rosenberg’s early musique concrète epic, Thrash and Burn.

Thrash and Burn (short for “Ariel Rosenberg’s Thrash and Burn: Pre) dates from a time when Ariel Rosenberg, then a few years from turning “Pink”, first proclaimed himself a “20th Century Composer”, without a trace of irony in his voice. Appropriately, this early work takes the form of a musique concrète epic forged from Rosenberg’s late-90’s faux-primitif, garage-punk, and tape-loop experiments.

Brief, brooding, understated, and delicately framed, these debut pieces by the gifted 18 year-old Kiev producer, Valeria Sapega, make a minimalist manifesto for post lo-fi sound art. Bruegel seems to distill cinematic still-images from the cuttingrooms of her contemporaries. But these small pieces have an economy of means that matches classicism with pathos, and recalls turn-of-the-millennium masterpieces from the experimental ambient scene.

Features 6 years of archival recordings by Linda Perhacs, Morton Feldman, Julia Holter, William Basinski, John Cage, Michael Pisaro, Laurel Halo, Nite Jewelia, Stellar Om Source, Maria Minerva, John Maus and many more.

The HEM Archiv USB stick has been upgraded to a Schlüssel! The new USB Schlüssel (USB Key) drive comes packed in bright red crêpe papier inside a slender metal candy-box, and contains the Complete HEM Compilations, remastered in 24bit, as well as the complete recordings of Michael Pisaro’s Dog Star Orchestra Festivals in 2009 and 2010. In total, over 30 hours of music.