SEDDON CAPTAIN MAURICE
2018. The 12 pieces on this LP, recorded between 1968 and 2003, mainly consist of phone calls, incoming and outgoing. The calls were made to TV and radio stations, friends, relatives, his dentist and sundry others. ..
KYMATIK/MIDWITCH CUCKOOS
2017. The works on 'Anthropological Constants' straddle a fence between field recording and experimental composition. The original tracks that make up this LP were the first computer-based compositions (originally m..
BURROUGHS WILLIAM
2016. This work comes in two sections, which in their original form lasted for over an hour and first appeared in 1998 under the name 'Electronic Revolution' as a free CD with issue 1 of the French magazine 'Crash'...
BOHMAN ADAM
2014. 'Music And Words 2' is the second installment in an ongoing series of archival documents of Bohman's early work. As is the case with the first volume, this CD is divided into two separate segments of his work...
BODIN LARS-GUNNAR/BENGT
2013. Comes with a 4-page insert, limited to 500 copies. Originally created as a 6-part radio series in 1965, and released in 1966 by Sveriges Radio, this is the first LP recording by either of these composers. Reco..
VÝBEROVKA
2013. "When the Los Angeles Free Music Society 10 CD set came out I eagerly flipped through the contents to see what treasures had finally been made available again. Much to my surprise the early compilation I...
GREENHAM LILY
2013. Britain's best known sound poet is Bob Cobbing, but it's hard to come up with a list of other sound poets working in Britain in the '60s and '70s. It's equally difficult to think of any female sound poets work..
GRAVITY ADJUSTERS EXPANSI
2013. Although the Gravity Adjusters Expansion Band (GAEB) started in 1967 they remain one of the long lost and underestimated groups that explored the areas of sound sculpture, improvisation, experimental music and..
FRIZZELL DWIGHT -REV.-
2013. After Paradigm Discs released the 1976 LP by Anal Magic and Rev. Dwight Frizzell, the true scope and diversity of this mans activities became more apparent to me. First there were the countless unused remnants..
CUSACK PETER
2013. Over the last 25 years Cusack and Eastley have been gradually adding episodes to the collection of compositions that make up this CD. The foundation of this work consists of location recordings layered with th..
COMA GUS
2013. The kind of strange and experimental music that makes a mutant proud to be defective. Expect gigantic tape loop symphonies, sundry plunderphonics, lo-fi Sparks and the voice of JFK, a WILLIAM BURROUGHS intervi..
ANAL MAGIC & REV. DWIGHT
2013. Beyond The Black Crack was the concept of Reverend Dwight Frizzell, a musician, film maker, Doctor of Metaphysics and minister in the Universal Church of Life. It remains a little known classic, and one of the..
BOHMAN ADAM
2013. In 1980, ADAM BOHMAN (MORPHOGENESIS, THE BOHMAN BROTHERS) made his first recordings using two budget cassette recorders, an ordinary trumpet, and a variety of other acoustic instruments and objects, many of wh..
MORPHOGENESIS
2013. The fifth CD by legendary UK free sound conglomerate, working together for well over a decade without ever using laptops or samplers. Everything on this CD is performed and processed completely live, using var..
ORAM DAPHNE
2013. Daphne oram is best known for her design of her oramics system, and also for co-founding the bbc radiophonic workshop in 1957, but until now the only easily available piece of music by her on cd has..
VÝBEROVKA
2013. This first release on Paradigm Discs includes many new names and is intended to redress the imbalance between the lack of new experimental music in London compared with the proliferation of the tried and teste..
WISHART TREVOR
2013. A beautiful lo-fi, microphone-fumbling, distorted, how-not-to-make-a-recording effort by TREVOR WISHART. From 1971, no instruments, plenty of shouting and machine sounds. Completely crazy.
MORPHOGENESIS
2000. The London group Morphogenesis have been in existence since 1985. The group consisted of seven people at the time of recording, but for all the sessions, except the live track, the line-ups are amalgams of var..
BRAST BURN
2013. Still available. Crazed mantric rock by a group about which no information was ever given, and no production date or location is indicated. Long pieces of hypnotic free form rock hysteria with heavily fuzzed e..
MARKS & LEBZELTER
2012. This New York based duo released their one and only LP in 1968 on Columbia Masterworks, just months after Zappa released 'Lumpy Gravy' in California. Although the 2 projects have some superficial similarity in..
ORPHEUS
2012. - Lost For Centuries To Resolve The Enigma Of Defeat The Mastery Of Freedom (If Only It Were In My Power) Philosopher Of The Sublime Refuge Over Av..
EASTLEY MAX
2010. What is essentially a retrospective of MAX EASTLEY's installation work updates and adds many new examples to New and Rediscovered Musical Instruments (split LP with David Toop, Obscure Records 1975). Of the 35..
DOWNES BOB
2007. "Paradigm continues to uncover important fragments of the historic record. Bob Downes was everywhere on the musical fringes of the '60s, and his own 'Open Music' with Barry Guy and Denis Smith was part of..
WISHART TREVOR
2002. York University's music department houses one of the UK's first ever electronic music studios, and during the early seventies it was a hotbed of creative activity. Much of the released output from the studio a..
MORPHOGENESIS
2002. Morphogenesis started recording in January 1985 and this is our sixth CD release, coming 3 months after the release of Volume 1. Like Volume 1, this CD also contains excerpts from 3 concerts (all in London thi..
KYMATIK
2002. The name 'Kymatik' is derived from the Greek word 'Kyma', meaning 'a great wave', and was used by Swiss physicist Hans Jenny as a descriptive term for the effects he saw using amplified tones to manipulate/cre..
ISHIJIMA AKEMI
2001. This mini CD follows on from her previous electroacoustic composition on 'Variations 2 - a London compilation' Paradigm Discs (PD 05). It includes one new piece and a reissue of 'Ab Ovo', previously released o..
DETONI DUBRAVICO & ACEZA
2000. Croatian composer and pianist Dubravko Detoni is a name barely familiar to even the most hardened and fanatical followers of avant garde composition. Although he has managed to consistently escape almost all f..
VÝBEROVKA
2000. A third and final collection of lesser known & infrequently recorded artists living in London. Considering its size, London is not well recognised as a centre for experimental and electronic music (at leas..
VÝBEROVKA
2000. Second compilation from Paradigm exhibiting nine works by lesser-know avant-garde composers from in and around the City of London. Features wonderful electro-acoustic work from Akemi Ishijima, minimalism perfo..