Release date 10 March 2008
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If, out of these fourteen female singers recorded in the 1920's, some have managed to put food on the table for a while, none became famous or rich, and most remain completely unknown.

What can be said about a singer whose entire work fits on a single-sided 78rpm record? What circumstances ... [more]

Release date 7 January 2008
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Here I am, for the fifth time, facing this impossible task no one has asked me to do. How can one bring together the history of electronic and concrete music to the history of noise music? For this volume, I want to highlight pieces illustrating a technique (Claude Ballif's 'Points, ... [more]

Release date 12 October 2007
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These rare pieces are taken from Bob Hite's fabulous collection of 78rpm records. A historical collection that helped, in its own way, save from oblivion the rural bluesmen who have dropped out of the scene decades ago and made possible their reintegration to history. Everyone is now entitled to hear ... [more]

Release date 5 September 2007
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From Alireza Mashayekhi to Ata Ebtekar/Sote, the quantum leap of unknown electronic music composed in Iran from the Sixties till today. Two Iranian music masters who work (mainly) on ancestral structures to create something radically new, who travel around the world to finally live and work in their country - ... [more]

Release date 27 November 2006
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Volume 2 of the ultimate collection of archives of the avant-garde in Belgium. In total, clocking 220 minutes of rare documents published in 3 parts... Volume 1 was released back in 2005 and 3 is planned for future release.

In this second volume you can hear rare documents including ... [more]

Release date 19 May 2006
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Unfortunately, outsider music has had no Harry Smith or Alan Lomax to discover, with such zeal and focus of purpose, its' unpretentious talents. The two 'folksong hunters' realizing the importance of making recordings to serve collective memory. Respectively collating an anthology of American folk music and travelling the globe making ... [more]

Release date 17 April 2006
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Reissue of the fourth volume in this early Sub Rosa compilation series.

Features tracks from: Jon Hassell (duo with J.A. Deane, from 1985), never released since, Harold Budd (duo with Eugen Bowen, from 1983), in the mood of The Serpent in Quicksilver (with a splendid steel guitar), Gavin Bryars (duo with ... [more]

Release date 28 February 2006
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This fourth volume of Sub Rosa's Anthology series continues to showcase all aspects of electronic music from its early beginnings to the present day.

This installment is the pivotal axis of a planned seven piece set including new submissions from China, Brazil, Norway, Hungary as well as classics and unreleased material ... [more]

Release date 6 December 2005
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Gerard Malanga [b 1943, The Bronx] writer, photographer, filmmaker, performer [with The Velvet Underground] and Andy Warhol's main assistant, superstar & and closest friend at the Factory from 1963 to 1970. Also know as a seminal photo archivist of the pop culture, Gerard Malanga edited for Sub Rosa a selection ... [more]

Release date 7 November 2005
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Volume 1 of the ultimate collection of archives of the avant-garde in Belgium from Magritte to Broodthaers, from James Ensor to Christian Dotremont. In total, clocking 220 minutes of rare documents published in 3 parts... Volumes 2 and 3 planned for release in 2006.

This first volume includes a lecture by ... [more]

Release date 22 October 2004
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This third volume of Sub Rosa's Anthology series continues to showcase all aspects of electronic music from its early beginnings to the present day.

Here you'll find more than two and a half hours of music, much of which is rare and unpublished, in fact at least 75% of the ... [more]

Release date 21 May 2004
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The Hidden City consists of 15 sound portraits of the city of Gothenburg by artists featured in the book "The Hidden City, People and Places in Gothenburg", or artists who have an interesting relationship with certain places or addresses in Gothenburg...

The book, published by Glänta Produktion, an independent book ... [more]

Release date 21 May 2003
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This second volume of Sub Rosa's anthology explores the early days of pre-electronic music; rare and unpublished pieces by influential composers of electronic music; unreleased tracks by cornerstones of the 90s electronic, acid and industrial scenes; free-jazz... and some rare stuff from Captain Beefheart, Daphne Oram, Alan R. Splet...

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Release date 1 February 2003
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This is the first installment of a vast collection of "Noise and Electronic Music" Sub Rosa plan to release over the years in seven double volumes. This volume begins in the 1920s, with the Russolo brothers, and looks at each decade in turn; Ruttman in the 30s, Schaeffer in the ... [more]

Release date 1 June 2002
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This double CD contains 4 tracks based on Hemri Pousseur's 8 Parabolic Studies (8 Études Paraboliques) which were created in 1972 at the WDR studios in Cologne.

The first mix (not re-mix) was a re-interpretation by Pousseur himself. It laid the foundation stone of the edifice. unlike his 70s mixes, this ... [more]

Release date 31 May 2002
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This volume is both a continuation and a change from it's predecessor - a continuation as, like the first volume, 5 musicians each wrote a 10 minute electronic piece exclusively for the project. A change because this second release is more varied and explores other areas of composition: more immediate, ... [more]

Release date 15 January 2002
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A selection of Belgian musicians and acts that share the same passion for creating electronic music in a truly personal way. This doesn't mean that they create a purely abstract landscape, the usual language and codes of music can be disobeyed without becoming an experimental mess. These musicians are building ... [more]

Release date 1 October 2001
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Frank Lloyd Wright built a huge hotel in Japan between 1916 and 1922; a few months after construction was completed, Tokyo was devastated by an earthquake. Only a few buildings remained standing - amongst which Wright's Imperial Hotel. When asked how his creation had remained intact, he replied: Floating Foundation. ... [more]

Release date 19 July 2000
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Locust
The many shades of Mark Van Hoen, AKA Locust, are difficult to describe as no one description can adequately cover the intensity and complexity of his craft. There is a deep, moving and mysterious aspect to his work which ranges from abstract electronica, intelligent, yet sensual, techno grooves ... [more]

Release date 1 June 2000
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More than an hour of ultra-rare recordings: a document covering the greater part of the last century, including an essential 24 page guide to the recordings gathered here and the traditional culture of Greenland's Inuit peoples. Containing early recordings made on wax cylinder, this record presents an unique collection of ... [more]

Release date 12 March 2000
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For many their first introduction to the Raudive Tapes were through William Burroughs fictions and articles. The fact is, these mysterious magnetic tapes, which claim to capture the voices of the dead, and were recorded by the Baltic scientist Konstantin Raudive, are not a fiction but a reality (we are ... [more]

Release date 2 November 1999
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A virtual battleground, the versus project presents (friendly) clashes between labels looking for a fight.

A virtual journey through a gallery of electronic pieces: side by side, original tracks and remixes offer in combination a new approach to the Köln-based label Kompakt.

Thomas/Mayer, Jürgen Paape, Dettinger, Freiland, Michael Mayer, and more ... [more]

Release date 12 September 1999
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The concept for this release came from the writer, critic and close collaborator Marc Dachy. It's really a panorama of the most important avant garde writers and artists of the century, begining in 1912 with Apollinaire and ending with the Brazilian avant-garde of the 70s... unique archives mostly never before ... [more]

Release date 4 May 1999
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Part of Sub Rosa's versus series... This time the Beligian label goes head-to-head with Japanese breaks 'n' beats label Shi-Ra-Nui.

Featuring tracks and mixes from Tone Rec, Bisk, DJ Wally, Sasha Frere-Jones, DJ Hati Monji, Multiphonic Ensemble, Broken Bells Breaks, Cappablack, Jigen and Ruf Nek Piano.

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Release date 1 June 1997
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"Nature, cities, water, concrete... Water eating rocks, shores. Cities eating landscapes, life. Those two elements are interconnected, though fighting. In between there are humans, needing both elements to survive. A shelter to protect the close to 70% of water a body is made of. What is the connection, the dialogue, ... [more]

Release date 25 March 1997
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Remix project featuring Main, Scanner, Mouse On Mars, Oval, David Shea and Tobias Hazan.

Release date 6 February 1996
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A tribute to french philosopher Gilles Deleuze.

Release date 1 January 1995
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This first volume of Sub Rosa's Myths collection was part of their big musical conspiracy theory, established by the label in its very early moments. Once the basis of this corruption mindgame was set the first selection of artists were chosen to become members of the 'under the rose' secret ... [more]

Release date 1 January 1995
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In a more industrial vein than the first installment, the second volume of the Myths collections focuses on chaos, physics, and the transformation of energy. Featuring Hula, general Strike, S.P.K. and Les Archives Sonores Sub Rosa.