Why Keith Dropped The S

05/12/2022

Anonymous Visitor is a mixtape glued together with left-overs of rough recorded KRAMP cassettes that were most of the time left behind on trains or donated in letterboxes as an anonymous invitation. The cassettes are a collection of weird field recordings and distorted sound experiments brought together on 2 tape decks. One is doing his job and the other one is broken after it drank too much water from the sea during a recording in Athens. From then on, the sound of the sea is caught into the machine, the speed is totally uncontrollable and the play button doesn't hold itself.

1 track album

03/07/2022

Callosal

For two no-input mixing boards and one Joseon bowl fragment.

The two separate feedback systems were only able to communicate with and influence each other by vibrating through the bowl fragment. This fragment of a bowl made in Korea’s Joseon period was discovered by Alfred 23 Harth in Korea and given to me as a gift, for which I am very grateful. To place this artefact from centuries ago between two implements of modern electronic music-making suggests a larger point.

It is often, if not always, the case that different sets of potentials (technological or otherwise) can only operate with and on each other through the traditions, attitudes and frames of thought passed down to us by our history. In such situations, it is wise not only to evaluate the possibilities themselves as though they were in isolation, but also to take into account the breadth or narrowness of these attitudinal conduits through which they must pass in their constant communication with each other as they co-evolve, in order to properly gauge how this evolution is developing and what might be changed in order to encourage progress along a more universally beneficial path.

Massimo Magee, London, March 2022

1 track album

10/12/2021

If anyone is interested in a vinyl copy of anything in our catalogue, email me at [email protected]

https://whykeithdroppedthes.bandcamp.com/

10/04/2021

Engaged in a duel of wits, Seventeen Arguments is a selection of duets and solos for Vitamin C Supplements, Sauce Bottles, Insulation Foam, Paint Brush, Drainpipe, Radio, Police Scanner, Prayer Box, Toaster, Bread, Butter, Knife, Lighters, Samsung Phone, iPod Touch, Thumb Piano, Egg Slicer, Books, Bike Horns, Paint, Paper, Bells and Packing Peanuts.

1 track album

09/16/2021

Double bass, loops and modular synthesizer improvisation. Recorded at home on 2 September by Hannes d'Hoine

1 track album

08/12/2021

Mik Quantius is true European underground cult. He speaks in tongues and comes in peace. He's the krautrock Beefheart. He's the esoteric metalhead. He's a one man voodoo ritual. He's Neil from The Young Ones and Garth from Wayne's World in one. He was live in Jerusalem.

1 track album

06/24/2021

WHY KEITH DROPPED THE S presents its 22nd album, "12 Portraits", a re-issue of the CD compilation put together by Belgian modern composer Paul A.R. Timmermans, originally released and sold in 2002 on his own website.
"12 Portraits" contains contributions from some of the key players in minimal and experimental music from around that time, such as Laurie Spiegel, Alvin Curran, Moniek Darge and Baudouin Oosterlynck, amongst others.

12 track album

06/14/2021

Today's offering is from French sonic architect Clarice Calvo-Pinsolle!

4 track album

06/07/2021

Paul A.R. Timmermans (aka P-ART) Born 1950, Belgium. Composer and curator of "The P-ART Projects".
Multi-artist: contemporary piano, sound objects, installations, sculpturing synth sounds, intuitive sound performing, microtonal music, instant compositions on tape, MIDI-files, HD recording and audio CDs:

"Composing really is an organic process: I respond spontaneously and intuitively to an incident as it is thrown into my lap. I take the same approach when creating my multitrack recordings.”

Now available exclusively on the planet Earth

6 track album

05/27/2021

Today's offering is hauntingly beautiful improvised solo violin from Queenslander Adam Cadell!

4 track album

05/13/2021

A healthy serving of thematic vibrations from Cardiff based artist Ian Watson

4 track album

05/07/2021

New single from Belgian artist Clara Lissens up now! This will be our first to be cut as a 7 inch.

2 track album

05/05/2021

Proud to present these short bursts of electronics chaos from LAST ACTION, coming from Erpe-Mere, Belgium

6 track album

04/16/2021

New release from Onomatopee, a project by multidimensional Belgian artist and fluxus associate Ludo Mich. Performing with him are Djuna Keen on alto sax, and René Thuys on guitar, programming, and production.

1 track album

03/24/2021

Currently taking vinyl pre-orders for when production gets back into full swing in September. No payment needed until then, get in touch for more info.

03/18/2021

Beautiful improvised electric guitar from Pavel Viry!

2 track album

03/18/2021

TRISKAIDEKAPHOBIA, the newest offering from Japanese power electronics titan KK NULL

26 track album

03/18/2021

"On this recording, I use my self-designed 'coincidence drum sticks'. Because they are flexible and tall, I don't have total control over them, which makes that they create sounds by accident, which I combine with more controlled sounds. This way, I get constantly surprised by my own playing. I find sounds which originate by accident very important in improvised music"

2 track album

03/18/2021

Instrumental free-jazz & experimental hip hop from Calgary!

9 track album

03/18/2021

Solo snare drum improv from Ryosuke Kiyasu

4 track album

03/18/2021

"I was sitting in a white tent which was the luminous element and playing with feedback, a drum pad, a stroboscope, a wig and a headlamp. The electric impulse of the stroboscope was inserted in the mixer and was influencing the sound. It can cut off the sound and make a rhythm (strobodrumcomputer) so the rhythm and the light are synchronized and are coming from the inside of the tent (where also the performer is located). "

1 track album

03/18/2021

"When I was 15, I went to the library to borrow a Sonic Youth CD because I already spent my monthly pocket money on 'Nevermind'. They didn't have their latest album ('Dirty') so I borrowed the previous one ('Goo'), copied it on a tape and brought the CD back to the library. But as was often the case with CDs from the library, it was damaged. So what I heard on my tape was: the intro of a song and then 4 seconds of 'Goo' skipping back and forward for ten minutes. Doesn't sound bad. Doesn't sound bad at all".

2 track album

03/18/2021

(Q) Let's talk about your recording.

(A) It's shortwave radio noise.

(Q) Can you still receive analog antenna radio signals?

(A) Until the end of the year.

(Q) So it's kind of a time document.

(A) Isn't any record a time document?

3 track album

03/18/2021

Legendary American jazz multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee, with an improvised field recording from the backseat of a car with the stereo playing

1 track album

03/18/2021

Anarchist HNW from Fargo

2 track album

03/18/2021

3 track album

03/18/2021

3 track album