Oppelganger: A Trip Into The Mirror World

Ektoplazm and Escape Into proudly present The Mirror, the last release by the duo Dan Flict and Werther Azevedo, from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. After a three year hiatus Escape Into is back with their most adventurous release yet. Without the pressures of having to conform to a particular genre, what emerged is a blend of freestyle electronic music with strong Rock influences: they call it Trip-Rock. The melodies are more complex and refined than before, while the tracks twist and turn unpredictably. Their use of analogue synthesisers shines through the complex arrangements bringing an organic warmth to the whole journey. A very original trip through extraordinary and harmonious soundscapes. Produced with care and focus on details, it rewards repeated listens. Their deepest offering yet!

The complete collection of Achim Reichel’s innovative avant-garde project in the early 1970s. The lavishly designed 10 CD box-set includes all five studio albums and almost five hours of rare and unreleased music, a new remix-album – Virtual Journey – as well as a hardcover book with the artist’s own liner notes. A lucky accident was the catalyst. In Hamburg in the early 70s, while playing with his new Akai X330D tape machine, Achim Reichel discovered he could build soundscapes of guitar echoes and add even more simultaneously. He spent hours in his room with headphones on, growing his orchestra of guitars. A.R. & Machines recorded five studio albums. Their debut, “Die grüne Reise”, – The Green Journey – was released in 1971 on tape cassette and vinyl, and was met with complete confusion, even from the music press, who had no genre-drawer to stick it into, and is a lasting Krautrock monument captured on tape.

The DUSTMAN DILEMMA is a quintet from Caen, France, playing a charged instrumental avant-rock blend fueled by daring sax work and jazzy textures…