Nils Frahm returns with an expansive new album, 'Music for Animals', his first fresh studio material since 2018's 'All Melody' and 2019's associated 'All Encores'.

Acclaimed composer and pianist Poppy Ackroyd returns with ‘Liminal’, her intimate new album released June 5th via One Little Independent Records. Written and recorded during a period of profound upheaval and transition, it marks a return to the core of Ackroyd’s practice, bringing piano and violin back together.

Pioneering electronic artist Roach's LA ROSA is a zenith in the fourth decade of his legendary live career. Blending new pieces born from the performance experience with essential classics, the 2-hour set captures a riveting soundcurrent of styles and moods. From electronic space music to deep reflective multi-dimensional sequencers to dreamtime material, LA ROSA is heard as it was performed, created and mixed from the stage with no later overdubs or edits.

One of 12k’s most endearing artists is back with a new album. From Argentina, Federico Durand presents La Manzana Mágica, an album in signature Federico style inspired by his collection of Cinderlla stamps, in a way only Federico could do.

Lithic is a cave borne out of emotions and elemental forces. Sound and existential thought echo through its chasms and ancient history lingers within the stone. It is fractured by age, eroded by weather and awakened by voice, body and breath. It traces sound back to its primal origins, unearthing music that is summoned from beneath the ground and from the darkest parts of ourselves.

Extremely celebrated ambient techno pioneer Wolfgang Voigt has announced his first album in 17 years under his GAS project. "Narkopop" is the German musician's fifth album and first since 2000's "Pop". Last year, GAS reissued all of his previous albums under critical acclaim. Narkopop’s artwork is also based on Voigt’s photos of the same forest. Voigt has shared a teaser for the album which is due on April 21st via his own label Kompakt.

At the latest with the release of the albums "Zauberberg" and "Königsforst", in the mid-1990s, one associates GAS, Wolfgang Voigt's very own artistic cross-linking of the spirit of Romanticism and the forest as an artistic fantasy projection surface, with intoxicatingly blurred boundaries of post-ambient infatuation and the impenetrable thicket of abstract atonality. The distant, iconic straight bass drum marching through highly condensed, abstract sounds taken from classical music by the sampler or modulated accordingly, and the enraptured gaze through pop art glasses into the hypnotic thicket of an imaginary forest, manifested over the years this unique connection of audio and visual, which to understand fully, then as now, would be neither possible nor desirable.

Kompakt is proud to announce, finally, a reissue of the first, self-titled GAS album. Originally released on electronica imprint Mille Plateaux back in 1996, it’s been unavailable in its original form ever since – the version of GAS included in 2008’s Nah Und Fern box featured several different tracks. Here, however, GAS is restored in all its glory, the debut full-length from Wolfgang Voigt’s most enigmatic, quixotic project.

Following the jazzy library vibes of 2023’s collaborative Dolphin LP with Greg Foat and Moses Boyd, the venetian maestro Gigi Masin returns to the ambience for which he is renowned, with Movement - his first solo full-length since 2020’s Calypso, and his Sacred Bones Records debut. Fuelled by creative reinvention and rhythmic motion, he moves seamlessly between melancholy electronic notes, technoid robotics, groovy liminal cloudscapes, and fathoms-deep ambient aquatics.

After thirteen years of silence from the compound, during which anticipation has grown day by day, Boards of Canada finally return. Inferno retains their signature melodies and atmospheres, drawing on the esoteric influences explored in Societas X Tape (their 2019 NTS mix for Warp Records’ 30th anniversary) and the darker ambience introduced on Tomorrow’s Harvest, further deepened by an expanded role for speech soundbites. Spanning seventy minutes, the new album is available on special edition limited red translucent

Sydney-based drummer Laurence Pike lands on Balmat with a solo fusion of jazz, post-rock and trip-hop that nestles between Burnt Friedman, Makaya McCraven and Barry Adamson.

‘OPVS NOVUM: A Requiem Reworked’ finds Penelope Trappes inviting a carefully chosen circle of kindred spirits to dismantle and reanimate the funereal intensity of her fifth full-length album ‘A Requiem’. Conceived as more than a conventional remix record, the project reframes the original work through ten distinct artistic voices.

Duval Timothy and Carlos Niño have linked up for an album: Rain Music is due May 22, via their respective self-run labels, Carrying Colour and CNF. Navy Blue, Laraaji, and Nate Mercereau are among the guests.

Ambient Library Music for Woodwind and Synthesiser. A 9 track album inspired by a birthday card Greg's 4 year old son Leo drew for his mum earlier this year. This album is an aural delight of unusual sounds. Kind of like a mix of Satoshi & Makoto, Hiroshi Yoshimura, Hiroki Kikuta and the Karl Jenkins and Mike Ratledge soundtrack to 80's children's Television show 'Button Moon'.

A revered mainstay of the German underground for decades, Blumm seems to have found a true home here for his signature sound: sublime instrumental arrangements, long melodic lines, acoustic timbres and subtly sculpted atmospheres — contemporary chamber music with one foot firmly planted in minimalism.⁠ The first single ‘While Leaving’ is out today. Floating chorales, bowed double bass, a first glimpse of the record to come.