Taken from the album 'Ein Gedachtnis Rollt Sich Auf Der Zunge Aus'

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PRIVAT - Das Parkett (ALT56)

Chain Of Flowers - Amphetamine Luck (ALT65)

Taken from the album "From Squats To Lots: The Agony And XTC Of Low Life", release 05/11/21.

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Low Life - Agony & XTC (ALT66)

Taken from the album 'Water Temple' out 25/11/2022.

Order here: https://property-de.bandcamp.com/album/water-temple

'Water Temple' is the debut album of the Berlin-based group Property. Comprised of Marijn Degenaar (NL) and Vivant de Non (AUS), the group use the theme of hydromancy to straddle the poetics of reverb from a post-punk perspective. The album wanders through dense end-of-world sensations without keeping away from piercing melodic instrumentation. As hazy as 'Water Temple' can get, Property just as easily trade the murky side of their post-punk sound for analogue synthesisers that feel almost celestial. Used to striking effect on 'Water Temple', the chorus-heavy bassline is interwoven with a strident melody that punctures the rhythm and accents the Neue Deutsche Welle energy that the pair play on at certain moments. Similarly, the vocals on 'Water Tempel' flirt with our cracked times from another angle, rendering a remarkable first transmission from this new duo. Foggy synthesisers fill the cavities of every track, though the driving leads ensure the ambience never overtakes the song-structures across the album. This tendency is best captured on the downer-anthem Blood Cube with its sharp drum machine rhythm, just as Clear Boys reprises this rowdy pop edge for a forceful album closer. The burning melancholy of 'Water Temple' is as shadowy as it is enlivening.

Property - Sea Wall (ALT69)

Damien Dubrovnik - Penis Corset (ALT701)

Taken from the album "Illusion + Memory" released on 28/04/2023.

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Finlay Shakespeare - Theresa (ALT70)

Taken from the album 'Never Ending Space' out 26/05/2023.

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Chain of Flowers - The Wall (ALT73)

Taken from the album "Full-On", released 30/06/2023.

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Klara Lewis & Nik Colk Void - Work It Out (ALT74)

Taken from the album Nightshade. Out 01/09/2023.

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Tom James Scott - Blue Mist (ALT62)

Taken from the album Château Mordécoly. Out 01/09/2023.

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Mordecoli (Ecka Mordecai & Valerio Tricoli) - II (ALT71)

Taken from the EP 'Infinite Dream Weapon'

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PC World - At Heaven's Gate (ALT76)

Taken from the album 'YACKER' out 05/04/2024.

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CONTAINER - ERASER (ALT78)

Taken from the album "Es Geht Der Tag" out 28/06/2024.

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Alter is proud to present the debut full length release from devotional music outfit Unstern, a collaborative effort between deep ambient artist Arzat Skia and prodigal pianist Leo Svirsky.

Co-mixed by Swedish electronic music luminary Civilistjävel! and mastered to tape by Stefan Betke, the album features lush electronics, two pianos refracting across the stereo field, processed recordings from the Peruvian Amazon, bowed percussion by Greg Stuart, alongside strings and renaissance meantone organ recorded at Orgelpark in Amsterdam.

The results are an abundant audio illusion where what seemingly repeats slowly over time morphs in a manner where the destination escapes the departure point with extreme discretion, a reverent nod to Morton Feldman’s compositional method of “Crippled Symmetry.”

Throughout Es Geht Der Tag there is a muted, refined melancholy imbued with a constantly fluctuating pulse which generates a sense of temporal disorientation, leaving the listener lost in a strange yet not at all unfamiliar sonic labyrinth. It is a journey whereby a glorious subtle tension exists between the grandiose and the restrained.

This is environmental music, not in the sense of capturing nature itself, more with regards to an unfolding of audio elements which move in a manner in tune with the multitude of flows in the world.

Unstern’s Es Geht Der Tag is a deep mental journey, rich in subtle transcendental tendencies and psychic liberation.

RIYL: Gas, Arvo Part, Charlemagne Palestine, Hoedh, His Divine Grace, Die Sonne Satan, Werkbund, Asmus Tietchens

Unstern - Of Fire And The Many-Eyed Wheels (ALT75)

From the LP 'Chain of Flowers' out October 16th, 2015.

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Chain Of Flowers - Crisis (ALT22)

Taken from the album "Goofin' Drones".

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JS Aurelius- Falling Asleep To The Smell Of The End (ALT26)

Taken from "The Lonesome Dealer" 12" (ALT27).

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Nick Klein - Chats With Lucy (ALT27)

Taken from the EP 'World In Action'.

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Digital: https://hhelmm.bandcamp.com/album/world-in-action

Helm - Blue Scene (TTT55 / ALT32)

Taken from the self titled record on ALTER, released on the 23rd of June.

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Love Theme - Desert Exile (ALT34)

Taken from the EP 'World In Action Remixed' (ALT37).

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Helm - Blue Scene (Laurel Halo Remix) (ALT37)

Taken from the EP 'Lowered Flaming Coffin' (ALT39).

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Nick Klein - Peña Adobe (ALT39)

Taken from the EP 'World In Action Remixed' (ALT37).

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Helm - Blue Scene (Parris Remix) (ALT37)

Vast, expansive and introspective works utilising place-specific found sound on this second Cremation Lily LP for Alter. Contemplating mortality, illness and the perennial bleakness of British winter in a seaside town we find Zen Zsigo experimenting with piano, violin, synthesiser and walkman tape players. Layering field recordings of the Hastings shoreline atop druggy, stretched out 303 basslines and snippets of spoken word there seems to be an overarching thematic of memory and reflection at play. From vignettes of crumbling glass and bittersweet drones through to sprawling, semi-rhythmical pieces (‘As a sea creature...’) it seems as if Zsigo is trawling the coast for fragments of its former glory. The end result of his study manages to echo the work of Yoran, Leyland Kirby and even Jacob Kirkegaard yet the rare moments where he lays bare his own vocal narrative seemingly transforms In England Now, Underwater into sonic diary territory. Mixing salt-water soaked cassette loops with haunting, minimalist piano motifs and warped recordings of crashing waves and bird noise an intense atmosphere of Ballard’s drowned world is evoked through sound.

Order: https://cremationlily-alter.bandcamp.com/album/in-england-now-underwater

Cremation Lily - Washed Through Glass (ALT42)

Vast, expansive and introspective works utilising place-specific found sound on this second Cremation Lily LP for Alter. Contemplating mortality, illness and the perennial bleakness of British winter in a seaside town we find Zen Zsigo experimenting with piano, violin, synthesiser and walkman tape players. Layering field recordings of the Hastings shoreline atop druggy, stretched out 303 basslines and snippets of spoken word there seems to be an overarching thematic of memory and reflection at play. From vignettes of crumbling glass and bittersweet drones through to sprawling, semi-rhythmical pieces (‘As a sea creature...’) it seems as if Zsigo is trawling the coast for fragments of its former glory. The end result of his study manages to echo the work of Yoran, Leyland Kirby and even Jacob Kirkegaard yet the rare moments where he lays bare his own vocal narrative seemingly transforms In England Now, Underwater into sonic diary territory. Mixing salt-water soaked cassette loops with haunting, minimalist piano motifs and warped recordings of crashing waves and bird noise an intense atmosphere of Ballard’s drowned world is evoked through sound.

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Cremation Lily - Rusted Red (ALT42)

Taken from the compilation ALERT! out 19/04/2019.

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Anna Peaker - Helicidae (ALT50)

Taken from the compilation ALERT! out 19/04/2019.

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Cru Servers - Glumbooth Nitwit (ALT50)

Taken from the album 'Plain Songs' available on LP / DL. 

Released 20/09/2019.

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Fabulous Diamonds - G.B.H. (ALT49)

Taken from the album 'Becoming A Bed', released on the 18th of October 2019.

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Trevor - Cabbage Land (ALT48)

Taken from the album 'Scramblers' out 20/03/2020 on ALTER.

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CONTAINER - NOZZLE (ALT52)

Taken from the album 'Scramblers' out 20/03/2020 on ALTER.

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CONTAINER - MOTTLE (ALT52)

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Saturnalia

Taken from the album 'Drug of Choice' out 12/02/21.

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