Tones 11
Playlist: Masaru Sato The Hidden Fortress (Doxy Music) Toru Takemitsu November Steps (RCA Victor) Rudolf Maros Eufonia 1 (Hungaroton) John Cage, Lou Harrison Double Music (Time Records) Karlheinz Stockhausen Telemusik (Deutsche Grammophon) The Music Improvisation Company Packaged Eel (ECM Records) Morton Subotnick Laminations (Turnabout) Read More
RSOT_Melody Attack Remixes 12″
Beginning of May, a second 12inch from Red Stars Over Tokyo will follow his ‘Crossing A Frozen Sea &”‘ featuring remixes only, done by Machinefabriek and Vindicatrix. ‘Building Houses’, the original will feature on the ‘Melody Attack’ album to be released later this year, has been re-imagined by Machinefabriek as a heavily sound-based... Read More
Current Favorites
Autechre Exai lp (warp) Scanner Colofon & Compendium 1991-1994 lp (sub Rosa) Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe Timon Irnok Manta lp (Type) Joris Van De Moortel Bats Pats Boem Ping lp (Joris Van De Moortel) No Artists Sounds Of Steam Railroading lp (P. Winston Link Railway Productions) Tod Dockstader Recorded Music For Film, Radio & Television: Electronic Vol.1 lp (Mordant Music) Ivo... Read More
Digital Purchase
You can now find all our music on Bandcamp for digital downloads. If you do not use Bandcamp but would like to buy digital (and can pay via IBAN banktransfer), contact us through mail [at] testtoon [dot] com. The ‘Crossing A Frozen Sea 12″‘ will be digitally available April 22nd. Thanks for the support. Read More
RSOT_Crossing A Frozen Sea 12″
End of March will see the release of a 12inch featuring one original Red Stars Over Tokyo track and a remix by the acclaimed Magazine collective from Cologne. ‘Crossing a Frozen Sea’ is a 20-minute long Ambient track that seems to reference the alienation of the Residents’ Eskimo album, but quickly turns into an almost driving and kind of staccato elegy, frozen in time between... Read More
Tones 10
Eliane Radigue Vice – Versa, Etc (1970) Mix II (Alga Marghen) Scanner Who Else Is There? (Sub Rosa) Sohrab Susanna (Touch) Eliane radigue Vice – Versa, Etc (1970) Mix II (Alga Marghen) Eric Thielemans Wind In Tube (Sub Rosa) Norbert Möslang The Sound Of Insects A (Bots) Read More
Shoc Corridor Artificial_Horizon_ep
In January 2013 we released Artificial Horizon, a track from the early 80′s by the obscure English band Shoc Corridor. The music of Shoc Corridor is like a brooding, progressive lullaby. On their first ‘Experiments in Incest’ album and with their original line-up, they created dark, sound-based short stories, focusing heavily on mood and texture. From this debut album... Read More
Red Stars Over Tokyo
By the end of March, Testtoon will release the first of two 12inch’s by the Belgian Red Stars Over Tokyo. Watch out for more updates on this one. Listen to ‘The House of Erased Dreams’, released earlier on RSOT’s own Hot Hair records. Read More
Oubys_Positronium ep
Belgium dark ambient label Testtoon treat us to a remix EP featuring extended cuts of ‘Positronium II’ the highlight of Ouby’s Testtoon debut ‘Terra Incognita’. Here we’re treated to a Substance remix of the track as well as two variants by the artist himself. The substance mix is a dark, industrial affair that is surprisingly tuneful considering it’s made up of the... Read More
Mitlt
This worn-out tape of an old Oubys documentary mysteriously matches his track ‘Mitlt’. Read More