500 copies. First 100 mailorder copies on white vinyl.
Two brand new burners (including a Hendrix cover on the b-side) recorded during the same sessions for The Major Stars next full length album for Important. (more)

Basement Echo is the historical meeting point of two generations of the Japanese underground. Kawabata Makoto, leader of The Acid Mothers Temple, and Michishita Shinsuke, leader of LSD March, are together here for the first time in a guitar duo.
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Limited edition of 500 copies from the Acid Mothers Temple leader. Packaged in a deluxe letterpressed jacket printed at 53rd Parallel Press in Portland Maine.(more)

Absolutely essential solo recordings from Acid Mothers Temple leader Kawabata Makoto. Inspired by the legendary Popol Vuh album Hosianna Mantra...... (more)

O Si Amos A Essere Duas Umbras? is comprised of two epic, deeply meditative, spiritual and transcendental compositions. Track one, titled "Ses Aintro ‘e mene finzas Si Ses In S'Atter'Ala E Su Mundu" is the very first solo track Kawabata has ever recorded on an acoustic guitar. Filtered through 3 reverb units and a single delay this epic acoustic track starts off droning but quickly builds with reverb drenched and finger picked momentum light years away from any of Kawabata's solo guitar work.

"...Weaving shimmering phrases and drones, Makoto
brings to mind the soundscapes of Robert Fripp's more
recent solo releases, especially Fripp's collaboration
with Jeffrey Fayman, A Temple in the Clouds..." -Igloo

Echoing like a long lost Werner Herzog soundtrack Totem 2 is a record of subtle Meditations and Deep electric Hallucinations from the Crystal Caves of the Northwest to the orchestral desert portals of Turkey..Featuring members of EARTH, ASVA, BURING WITCH, THE DIMINISHED MEN, and special guests from Secret Chiefs 3 and the thriving Istanbul music scene. Recorded, mixed & produced by Randall Dunn (Six Organs Of Admittance, Earth, Sunn O))) etc.) .. ....(more)

Self VA is Kouhei's 2nd album. His first was released on the Mille Plateaux label in 1998. Since then he has kept busy with numerous collaboations as well as his work with NHK (Raster Noton). Kouhei seamlessly weaves all of his work together in seemingly effortless fashion. Collaborations on
Self VA. include Leif Elggren, NHK, Sensational (Jungle Brothers), RLW and more..(more)

Telepathic full length collaborative release from Kouhei Matsunaga, Sean Booth of Autechre and Pan Sonic's Mika Vainio. Using space, silence and electronic tones these three electricians rewire your brain for a new comprehension of sound..(more)

Mika Vainio (Pan Sonic) has contributed a side of lengthy work for harsh electronic drones while Kouhei's side consists of experimental breakbeats and modern electronica......(more)

*back in stock in very limited supply
NHK began in Osaka in 2006 between Kouhei and Toshio Munehiro. Their previous work, titled Unununium, can be found on the Raster Noton label.These experimental electro-rhythmic compositions sound incorporate beats,
noise and a modern aesthetic. LTD 300......(more)

Glass Forest is a highly listenable starting point for any
newcomers curious about Daniel Menche's vast discography. It is also, according to Menche, the last cd he will release. (more)

Body Melt is limited to 500 copies only. The first 500 are on white vinyl. This is the companion release to the Glass Forest CD being released on Important simultaneously. Both releases are housed in staggeringly unique artwork by
Emily Hyde.
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Imagine yourself riding on cells coasting through your body's veins. The sound of the heart grows stronger like a beating drum as you're pulled closer. Suddenly, you're embraced by this giant pulsating muscle and when you're finally released back into the veins you can hear it's sound fading slowly, but still growling with the same intensity that it has beat with for eternity. Jugularis is the soundtrack to this ride and like your heart it's packaged in blood: the ultimate symbol of life and intensity.

Sirocco by Daniel Menche is the first recording by him created by utilizing sound sources from several other sound artists. Andrew Lagowski, Asmus Tietchens, Main, John Duncan, Scanner, Illusion Of Safety, Merzbow, ErikM, B. Labelle and AMT submitted one minute sections of sound for Daniel Menche to work with.
Much like Steve Reich's Phase Patterns or Phillip Glass' Music In 12 Parts, this is a lenghty single piece that evolves and and changes shape slowly over the course of the composition.

These beautiful bamboo boxes are handmade out of organic bamboo and screen printed at Monoroid. Design by Jenny Akita. The box incldues all 13 discs and a painting by Masami Akita. More info here.

All 13 Merzbow Bird discs plus a bonus CDR of unreleased Bird sessions material. Also included is a piece of original Xerox art made by Masami Akita in the mid nineties and a screen printed tote bag with the Bird Box artwork. (more)

Merzbow 13 Japanese Birds volume 13. The final release in the series.(more)

Merzbow 13 Japanese Birds volume 12 (more)

Merzbow 13 Japanese Birds volume 11 (more)

Merzbow 13 Japanese Birds volume 10 (more)

Merzbow Bird series volume 9. (more)

Merzbow Bird series volume 8 (more)

Merzbow Bird series volume 7 (more)

Volume six in the our 13 month series with Merzbow titled Thirteen Japanese Birds.. (more)

Merzbow Bird series volume 5 ............. (more)

Merzbow Bird series volume four ............. (more)

Subscription & deluxe bamboo box available.
Part three of a 13 cd/ 13 month series. Each release is strictly limited to 1000 copies and will not be repressed.
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Subscription & deluxe bamboo box available.
Part two of a 13 cd/ 13 month series. Each release is strictly limited to 1000 copies and will not be repressed.
Vol. 2: Fukuro follows closely the lines drawn on Volume One with Masami Akita playing a full drum set along with his analog electronics ..... (more)

Subscription & deluxe bamboo box available.
Part one of a 13 cd/ 13 month series. Each release is strictly limited to 1000 copies and will not be repressed.
Vol. 1: Sozume finds Masami Akita weaving a full drum set with electronics for a new turn in the ever-winding Merzbow panorama...... (more)

Dolphin Sonar is Merzbow's full length protest album against the annual brutal slaughtering of some 2,500 dolphins in Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture Japan. This is an angry album full of beats, blasts and broken glass. Clattering smashes are pursued by pulsing analog whirls like the heart of a dolphin being chased through the bloodied waters of Taiji. .. (more)

Over 60 minutes of total analog destruction by noise king Merzbow and Brooklyn noise boss Carlos Giffoni, This live collaboration was recorded during Giffoni's Synth Destruction Japan Tour in September of 2006. This is Sound Totalism..... (more)

Author, activist, painter and sound artist Masami Akita had been at the foreground of experimental music for over 25 years. Inspired by psycedelic rock, free jazz, early electronic composition as well the physical arts, especial Kurt Schwitters' Merzbau, Masami Akita has created a musical language all his own. ......(more)

Minazo Volume Two is Merzbow's second full length tribute to the
recently departed Japanese elephant seal named Minazo.
This vinyl only released is pressed on blue splatter vinyl and yellow splatter vinyl (please specify which you'd prefer) and housed in a deluxe textured tip-on style heavy duty jacket.

Minazo is Merzbow's tribute to the beloved male elephant seal who lived life in captivity at a Tokyo aquarium. Masami Akita often visited the seal at the aquarium and was allowed to access Minazo behind the scenes. Minazo includes many phototographsand an essay by Masami Akita as well as illustrations by Jenny Akita.

What did you listen to last summer? Masami Akita, otherwise know as Merzbow, spent most of his summer listening to Horace Andy, Studio One, Dennis Bovel, Keith Hudson and a whole pipe full of other dub mavericks. That's probably why this brand new full length, with cover art by Jenny Akita, is dripping with deep bass riffage and a whole lot of electronic dub vibes and beats.

Merzbird is Merzbow's follow up to 2003's successful beat oriented record Merzbeat. With the same reverence for crushing analog beats and weaving noise textures and a compositional complexity, Masami Akita brings Merzbeat and Merzbow into the future, advancing concepts, with Merzbird.

Last of Analog Sessions is a 3 cd box set compiling Merzbow's last 3 albums recorded entirely on anlog equiptment. These albums went unreleased until now, and mark a historic compositional change in the world of Merzbow. Upon completion of these three albums Masami Akita traded his analog equiptment for an Apple laptop which he has been composing on ever since. This change in equiptment marks a change in sound and a whole new period for Merzbow. This box set marks the end of an era and the beginning of another.
This set is strictly limited edition and each one comes with an embroidered Merzbow Last Of Analog Sessions patch

Pressed in an edition of 500. 1/4 of the pressing is on double sided color vinyl. This means that side A is blue and side B is red. 3/4 of the pressing is a red/blue swirl. Double sided screen printed jackets..........(more)

Get all 4 Bardo related new LPs plus a free Bardo Pond tote bag for $60. More details on the release page.
LP limited to 1000 copies. First 200 mailorder copies are on blue vinyl. .............. (more)

Somewhere in the realm of the Holy Modal Rounders, Tower Recordings, Diane Cluck & Daniel Johnston there is Mountainhood. Following his sold out records on Time Lag and Ecstatic Yod, Michael Hilde has hand made all 300 jackets and we've photographed each one. (more)

Limited edition of 500 numbered copies. Screenprinted at Monoroid.
Bulbs features William Sabiston formerly of Axolotl. ....(more)

Follow This House sounds like your entire record collection melting in the trunks of a hundred junk yard cars on a hazy, steamy, sweltering hot summer afternoon ......(more)

Brand new collaboration between Pete Swanson and Gabe Saloman of Yellow Swans, Tom Carter of Charalambides and Robert Horton. This time it's a landslide of swamp-noise-drone with feedback layered like mud atop the skeleton of a buried song structure

300 made. Hand numbered. Screened at Monoroid.
For years, both Z'EV and Jon Mueller have explored these possibilities, both within traditional forms, and singling out specific elements within those forms. For Z'EV, an entire book, called Rhythmmajik, was written about the properties of rhythm.... ....(more)

Mugstar hover in the realm of Oneida and Sonic Youth and fit well beside such Important records as Cave and A Place To Bury Strangers. Since 2003 they've issued a few full lengths, a split with Mudhoney, an etched 10" and most famously, recorded the last ever Peel Session with the late John Peel.(more)

Important Records is excited to release the limited edition of 1000 vinyl edition of the highly sought after Muslimgauze classic "Zuriff Moussa." Zuriff Moussa is pressed on red, white, green and black vinyl (250 of each) representing the 4 colors of the Palestinian flag and the deluxe screen printed chipboard jackets were printed by Neil Burke of Monoroid. Please note that the track listing has been revised by Staalplaat down to what they consider the key tracks Important Records to fit this vinyl issue.

Beautifully packaged double LP inside a metallic gold hand printed jacket done by Neil Burke at Monoroid. Brand new jams from MCIAA on one LP and Praxinoscope (an MCIAA project) on the other. Hand numbered to only 300 copies!...... (more)

Hand numbered and limited edition of 300 copies. This is the sister release to the MCIAA/Praxinoscope LP. Hand printed at Monoroid by Neil Burke on heavy duty board stock. Super deluxe and epic adventures from the MCIAA space-brothers. Each brother takes a side...... (more)

Leave Me In The Black No-Thing is MCIAA's response to their last album for Important titled Cosmic Light Of The Third Milennium. Where Cosmic Light celebrated infinite light, Leave Me hovers in a particular sort of cosmic darkness
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Roberto Opalio is 1/2 of My Cat Is An Alien. Chants From Isolated Ghosts is his debut solo recording and it was originally released in a tiny private pressing on cdr which sold out immediately and has since become one of MCIAA's most sought after releases...... (more)

Like some kind of droned out Sun Ra, My Cat Is An Alien landed and stayed only long enough to drop off the masters and the artwork at Important Records before vanishing into the cosmos, or Torino, once again.
This new full-length album was recorded April 2005 at MCIAA's Alien Zone, located in a remote region of the Western Alps, Piemonte, Italy. The work consists of three tracks entitled "Section I-II-III" for a total lenght of 49:20 minutes.

Introducing The Cosmic Blues is My Cat Is An Alien's introduction to their full length release on Important Records. This 7” is limited to only 300 copies and each comes in deluxe screen printed packaging with an individual Polaroid photograph taken,altered and signed by Roberto Opalio.
This is the fifth installment in Important Record's ongoing Arts & Crafts Series which pairs records with hand made artwork from the artists involved in the audio.

Black Magic Disco is the new all-star band featuring Tom Greenwood (JOMF), Maurizio & Roberto Opalio (My Cat Is An Alien) and Ramona Ponzini (Painting Petals On Planet Ghost, Praxinoscope)...... (more)