UK cassette and record label Broken Flag was founded in 1982, and whilst not having released anything for a long time, it has never officially ceased to exist. Their primary interest was radical music, noise and power electronics. They first released music by label boss Gary Mundy's project, Ramleh, but later also by Le Syndicat, M.B., Controlled Bleeding, Giancarlo Toniutti and various Mundy solo projects.As Loud As Possible magazine first published the text by Steve Underwood (Harbinger Sound label boss) in 2010, but it is expanded here with additional interviews; updates; a reprint of two issues of Broken Flag's fanzine, "Even When It Makes No Sense"; and reproductions of many of the label's cassette covers. A fascinating read and an indispensable piece of industrial music history.Softcover, 17x24cm, 144pp. Korm Plastics, 2025

In 1984, Frans de Waard founded his label, Korm Plastics, and his music project, Kapotte Muziek. Shortly thereafter, Christian Nijs joined as a member. About a year later that, Frans launched the Opus Dei Society.This harsh noise cassette label released 23 cassettes by the likes of Post Destruction Music, Kapotte Muziek, Death Pact Internal, Factor 6, THU20, 13 Frater 13, A Violated Body, Zweiter Korps, Con-Dom, Nails Øv Christ, Odal, Experiment Incest, Birth of Tragedy, Brutal Love, Vandal X, Het Hilaire Brisdak Ensemble, Une Le Wurg Production, and Information Aggression.In this book, he details the story of each release and, along the way, interviews several key players, including Vidna Obmana, Don van Dijk, David Padbury, Eriek van Havere, Stef Windelinx, and Ameury Perez, while Peter Zincken writes autobiographical notes. There are a few reprinted pieces from the past, such as interviews with Con-Dom and THU20. There's even a recipe! Two additional texts are about Christian Nijs and his venture as a label, Disbuse Transmissions, and a piece on the early works of Peter Zinkcen / Odal.An indispensable read for anyone with a love of harsh noise, power electronics and obscure cassette releases.. Softcover, 17 x 24 cm, 88pp Korm Plastics, 2025

In 1975 a young queer singer from Cleveland meets photographer Nan Goldin — an encounter that will lead them to New York’s bombed-out downtown, where something unprecedented is brewing. At Max’s Kansas City and CBGBs, in derelict lofts and underground clubs, a generation of visionary women artists is rewriting the rules of creativity, sexuality, and power. Adele Bertei didn’t just witness the No Wave explosion—she ignited it. As acetone organist for the Contortions and Brian Eno’s assistant, she was at the epicenter when punk collided with post-punk, birthing a counterculture that fused music, art, cinema, fashion and outlaw literature into an uncompromising explosion of creativity. While mainstream culture wallowed in sexism and homophobia, these artists and more created something fluid, fierce, and transgressive. Raw, gripping, and illustrated with rare photographs from personal collections, No New York is the definitive insider’s account of the women who obliterated every barrier in their path, taking you deep into the artistic and sexual experimentation of an era when true expression mattered more than money or fame.A memoir of no wave and the women who shaped the scene  Hardback, 327 Faber & Faber, 2026

The Adventures of Red Rat and BIGGO — The Present is a remake of Bram konijn en Piet de muis [Bram the Rabbit and Piet the Mouse], a 1982 children’s book by Johannes van de Weert, a veteran of the Dutch punk underground who played with Rondos and The Ex, and who was the force behind Red Rat and Raket editions. The Present is a 2010 remake telling the story of a bully pig who terrifies a poor rat on a daily basis. After a while, the rat falls ill with fear and has to stay in bed. The lonely, evil pig has no one to play with and becomes depressed. The pig gives the rat a present — a bunch of beautiful flowers — and all is well. Now the two can play together. The 2010 remake, featuring different characters and intended for a North Korean audience, was never published. The 2025 English version opens with an introduction by Van de Weert, telling a bizarre story of a failed political career and an absurd vaudeville class struggle behind the seemingly harmless educational children’s book. Designed by Ott Kagovere, the book is printed in edition of 600.Staplebound, 17 x 22 cm (softcover, silkscreen and rispoprint), 32pp Rab-Rab, April 2026,   rab

Karl Marx spent three consecutive summers in the spa town of Karlsbad (now Karlovy Vary in the Czech Republic) in 1874, 1875 and 1876. Egon Erwin Kisch’s 1946 text Karl Marx in Karlsbad reconstructs these three stays. When Marx arrived in Karlsbad to take the waters for the first time, he was suffering, tired, tense, overworked and overly nervous, in other words, he was burnout. Years of political and theoretical work under agonising hardship and constant oppression had left Marx with pleurisy, inflammation of the lungs, inflammation of the nerves in his head, a carbuncle, a lung abscess and sciatica. Marx’s recovery in Karlsbad, surrounded by princes, ministers, aristocrats, chamber singers, adventurers, spies, and courtesans, is a story full of amusing anecdotes and surprises.  E.E. Kisch, described by Anna Seghers as a “detective,” investigated this lesser known period of Marx’s life and resolved some mysteries of international importance. For the first time fully translated, the essay is introduced by its editor, Sezgin Boynik, presenting Kisch within the context of interwar leftist avant-garde internationalism. The afterword by Sam Dolbear and Hannah Proctor revisits the emotional life of Marx and his daughter Eleonor during their visits to Karlsbad, without insulating them from the forces of history. Dolbear and Proctor are both writers and researchers, who have previously worked together on an essay on revolutionary childhood, as co-editors of a series of pamphlets on Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project, and on dreams, sleep, work, puppets, play, and proletarian children’s theatre. Designed by Ott Kagovere, the book features etchings and photographs of Karlsbad from the 19th century, as well as a colour reproduction of Christian Schad’s portrait of Kisch with tattoos. Softcover, 150 x 215mm, 80 pp Edition of 1000 Rab-Rab, May 2025

Drawing on his experience in the field of contemporary dance, Jeroen Peeters discusses principles, methods and practices that contribute to an understanding of dramaturgy as an experimental, collaborative practice and a material form of thinking. Written from practice, this book reflects a particular history of collaboration and conversation with dance-makers such as Martin Nachbar, Meg Stuart, Vera Mantero, Sabina Holzer, Lisa Nelson, Jennifer Lacey, Chrysa Parkinson, deufert + plischke, Eleanor Bauer, Philipp Gehmacher and many others. Phantasmal archaeology, unfolding material, literal and physical reading, crafting method, articulating process, witnessing and performing not-knowing, naming and ritual destruction, conceptual landscapes, symbolic waste, internal fictions and foreign objects – they may all play a role in creation and in exploring the unfamiliar in pursuit of making sense. And then it got legs is an invitation to think along or against, to discuss those ideas with others or explore them in the studio, and eventually to imagine and devise one’s own methods of research, observation, reflection and creation.Softcover, 168pp Varamo Press, 2022

Borderline Visible begins as a journey from Lausanne to Izmir in 2022 by two artist friends, one of whom experiences health problems halfway and has to stop. As the other continues towards Turkey, suddenly alone, the narration grows into a moving and troubled psychogeography as it shifts between “we” and “I”, present and past, piecing-together value and meaning from the very human ruins of aspiration, history, and language. Ant Hampton’s careful, at times miraculous, process of reconnection gradually lights up a constellation: voices and earthquakes, the Sephardic diaspora, tourism and forced movement, breakdowns and dementia, the end of the Ottoman Empire, swifts and swallows, Eliot’s The Waste Land and an urgent insight into hidden atrocities at the edge of Europe being funded from its centre.77 min, 232 pages, 16,7x24cmVoice & sound, english version: Ant Hampton Time Based Editions, 2023  Music:Fever, A Warm Poison by Oren Ambarchi. From the album In The Pendulum's Embrace (2007)Corridor Between Days by Perila (2022)Quixotism Parts 1 and 2, by Oren Ambarchi. From the album Quixotism (2014)   Borderline Visible is created by the artist Ant Hampton, who is also co-director of the Time Based Editions series. With a deep focus on liveness, his performance work since 1999 has often involved guiding people through unrehearsed situations using automated devices and a subtle use of instructions and narration.As with all Time Based Editions (about), an audio track combines narration, soundscape, and instructions that guide you over a given time through the book.The work is also experienced collectively as a live event for audiences, presented in theatre, film, sound art and music festivals, museums, book fairs and many other contexts. More info here.

In the wake of his Cause And Effect cassette label and distribution service, Hal McGee launched Electronic Cottage International Magazine. From 1989 to 1991, its six issues focused on the independent home recording community – artists who had developed their craft in the post-punk DIY era. The contributors were nearly all members of the hometaper community. The magazine featured articles providing helpful tips and highlighted the challenges hometapers faced. It included insightful artist and label profiles. And it could be a hotbed of controversy and debate. Though its mission was to serve the hometaper community, Electronic Cottage’s coverage of independent music contributed as much as any of the era’s publications. The 400+ pages produced stand as crucial documents of an era that was melting into the next.   Foreword by Jerry Kranitz, author of Cassette Culture – Homemade Music and the Creative Spirit in the Pre-Internet Age Design by Studio BertinHardcover, 468 pages, 21 x 27 cm Korm Plastics, January 2026

Just Glittering and Idwal Fisher were two collaborative noise zines produced by Mark Wharton, featuring work by the genre’s finest exponents and fans. The first issues of Just Glittering appeared in the late 1990s, and the two zines went on to document a fertile decade of creative noise-making. Back then, you couldn’t walk past a pub in Leeds without hearing windows rattled by a passing Japanese noise artist or effects pedals looped into submission, whilst meat thermometers regularly disappeared into places where no self-respecting meat thermometer would ever wish to go. Grotty rooms above pubs in England saw wild, ear-shattering performances from the likes of Filthy Turd, Smell & Quim and The New Blockaders. Labels put out cassettes tied to sponges, five-inch singles had 500 tracks on them, LPs came in steel boxes, and gigs sank. A lot happened, and these zines documented it in all its messy glory. Here, you will find reviews of those gigs and releases from that period, interviews, tour diaries, charity shop record reviews and word searches in German, culminating in the 2007 four-day New York No Fun Fest.  All issues of Just Glittering and Idwal Fisher are reprinted in this collection.Hardcover, 488 pages, 21×29,7 cm Korm Plastics, March 2025

The most comprehensive compilation of the sound artist's working documents for her unrealized media-opera tour de force Written in the early 1980s by American sound art pioneer Maryanne Amacher (1938–2009), Intelligent Life follows the employees of Supreme Connections LLC, a music entertainment corporation navigating a future in which artificial intelligence generates music faster than composers can. Anticipating an industry-wide downturn, Supreme Connections president Aplisa Kandel seeks advanced technologies that will revolutionize the act of listening, narrating to the audience as she does so. Though the untimely deaths of the opera's would-be patrons prevented Amacher from realizing the work in its intended forms—a serialized radio broadcast and television simulcast—she continued designing "treatments" for the opera for much of her career.This publication makes the most complete presentation of these working documents—including episodic scripts, notes on the use of LaserDisc and an illustrated storyboard for the pilot—available to the public for the first time, and evinces Amacher's prescient ideas about perception, listening and composition.Pre-order - Arriving mid April  Edited with introduction by Lawrence Kumpf. Paperback, 8.5 x 11 in. / 490 pgs / 28 bw. Blank Form Editions, April 2026

alphabet poems: for kids! is a collaborative, experimental book of poems and collages that celebrates the sounds and imagery of letters and words as they emerge into meaning. Designed both as a child’s book of poetry and for adults looking to rediscover a language they have lost, this surreal and playful reimagining of an ABC book appeals to kids of all ages. Written for and dedicated to the authors’ children, these poems are love letters to the English language, drawing on avant-garde poetic traditions to celebrate the sounds and imagery of letters and words as they emerge into meaning. Moving through the alphabet – each letter illustrated with a beautiful collage – this book is a journey through the foundations of our language. Surreal, imaginative, playful and unlike any picture book of poetry you’ve read or seen before, alphabet poem is absolutely for kids!, no matter how old they really are.Hardback, A5, 55pp Prototype Publishing, 2020

Olavi Laiho’s aliterative anti-fascist text written in 1944 in Oulu prison just before his execution. First time publsihed in its original Finnish and in English translation. Introduction by Minna Henriksson.   Olavi Laiho (1907-1944) was a writer, political organiser, and communist agitator, who was first imprisoned in 1932 – a time when ‘communist laws’ were in effect in Finland – for producing political material and running an illegal printing press in his home. He opposed Finland’s WW2 era fighting alongside Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union, edited illegal journals, but also planned armed resistance and facilitated correspondence between the party’s leadership in Helsinki and the Soviet embassy in Stockholm. He managed to hide from the police from when the Continuation War broke in summer 1941 until 22nd of December 1942, when he was arrested while visiting his sister in the parish of Paimio. Laiho was sentenced to death for treason and high treason. He was executed on 2nd of September, being the last Finnish citizen to be executed in Finland.  Just a couple of weeks before his execution, Laiho wrote a remarkable essay ‘Katso Koota’ [Look at K], using only words starting with the letter K. It gives a vivid picture of the political situation of the time: the war is still ongoing, but it has become evident that Finland is on the losing side. Not knowing his execution date, Laiho eagerly awaits a new batch of books to arrive at the prison library, enjoying his coffee substitute and the sound of distant music ... ‘Katso Koota’ is an early example of Finnish modern alliterative writing, a lipogram, a literary technique in which every word must start with the same letter. Laiho’s ‘Katso Koota’ predates the French Oulipo (‘workshop of potential literature’) of the 1960s. Considering that he produced his ‘constrained writing’ under conditions of extreme political and cultural confinement, it can be considered a true form of avant-garde subversion.  Published for the first time based on the manuscript at the People’s Archives, the booklet includes its content translation, a short introduction by Minna Henriksson and two illustrations by Kaisa Junttila.  Designed by Otso Peräsaari, the book is printed in 200 copies and is produced in Kalastaman Seripaja silkscreen workshop and If By Magic risography print house. The publication is realised in the context of the Counter-Libraries exhibition at the Library of the Labour Movement, Helsinki.A5 Staplebound, Softcover, 16 pages (Silkscreen and risoprint) Rab-Rab, Helsinki, October, 2025

Beneath the Surface invites us to pause, listen deeply, and use our voices to reclaim buried stories. This composition presents a radical approach to knowledge production, emphasizing embodied resistance as a crucial means of emancipation. Through personal and collective narratives, and a collection of writings composed over a year, Luïza Luz reflects on the challenges of navigating academic institutions that replicate selective narratives, emphasizing deep listening as both a theoretical foundation and a practical necessity. The work features contributions by Ahmet Öğüt and Jamila Barakat, broadening the dialogue around education, memory, and the power of the collective. Grounded in the body as a living archive, Beneath the Surface encourages listeners to confront shared inheritances and transform trauma into pathways for eco-liberation. In these turbulent times, deep listening becomes our most vital ally. As we grieve not only for lost lives but also for lost connections, we yearn to reconnect with one another and the Earth. Listening—through sound and the felt experiences of our bodies—offers us a way back.  Softcover, 104 pp Contributions by Ahmet Öğüt and Jamila Barakat.   Published by Archive Books and we make it, 2024

Felsen’s haunting follow-up to the acclaimed Deceit, a landmark of émigré fiction.  Happiness (1932) is the second novel in Yuri Felsen’s cycle The Recurrence of Things Past. Written as a diary addressed to his beloved Lyolya, it unfolds as an intense stream of consciousness in which Volodya – its anxious, self-scrutinising narrator – revisits the fragile equilibrium of their difficult relationship. When new figures enter Lyolya’s orbit, Volodya’s hard-won certainties begin to collapse. Forced to contend with a series of rivals – a Soviet film star, a dashing ex-soldier, a wealthy businessman – he is driven ever deeper into jealousy and self-analysis, with tragic results. As the relationship fractures, Volodya probes the uneasy bond between emotional suffering and artistic creation, and the elusive nature of happiness itself. Set among the exiled Russian community of interwar Paris, Happiness offers both a vivid social snapshot and an unnerving psychological portrait. Felsen’s exploration of desire, rivalry, masculinity and self-deception, shaped by shifting sexual and emotional mores, feels strikingly modern.trans. Bryan Karetnyk Softcover, 238pp Prototype, 2026

Articles: Shabaka by Tina Edwards, Booker Stardrum by Clifford Allen, Aurora Nealand by Bennett Kirschner, Jazz Now Jazz by Rui Miguel Abreu, The Space Book by Patrick Preziosi, XT by XT (Paul Abbott & Seymour Wright), Naïssam Jalal by Florent Servia, Craig Taborn by Bret Sjerven, the term "Free Jazz" by Pierre Crépon, Alexander Hawkins by Kevin Le Gendre Alan Braufman by Andy Beta, Discaholic column by Mats Gustafsson, album reviews, live reviews, Big Ears Festival photo essay & more.  Softcover, 128 pages We Jazz, Spring 2026

‘I read everything Kapil writes and each time am left in awe at her erudite dexterity to see the book, not as a medium of mere knowing, but of questing. Here she casts the dialectical inquiry between continuity and rupture, deploying cyborgs and monsters to overlay and amplify existential questions for the Anthropocene. The result is an ambitious work of complex yet coherent semiotic prowess I can’t wait to teach from.’ – Ocean Vuong‘This book is for all the monsters. This book is for anyone who did not discover, until it was almost too late, that they were beautiful in the eyes of strangers. This book is for anyone who came upon their origin story in a book of fairy tales in a public library. This book is for anyone who burns to write but does not. This book is for anyone whose idea of a good time resembles a vector, but also a kite. Imagine the blue sky and the cut glass of the kite’s string, glinting at dusk. You’re on the rooftop. This is childhood. This book is for anyone who, in the middle of their childhood, had the sudden thought: ‘I’m no longer a child. This book is for anyone who left their birthplace, for reasons they could not control at the time. Or reverse. This book is for anyone who made home, in the end, out of what it was: a glimpse of the horizon four times a year. This book is for anyone for whom this horizon is dreamed or recollected, a hot green line embedded in the art they make, something a reader or observer would not notice or perceive unless, like the artist, they repeated their walk through the space in which the art was presented, or made.’ Incubation: a space for monsters is a formally innovative, hybrid-genre book that incorporates poetry and prose. Set in a shifting narrative environment, where human bodies, characters, and text are neither one thing nor another, this fragmentary-diaristic text journeys through the spaces in-between. Originally published in America in 2006 by Leon Works, and out of print for the last seven years, this is the first time this seminal text has been available in the UK. Following protagonist Laloo – Cyborg, girl, mother, child, immigrant, settler – on a roadtrip through American landscapes, genre styles, and form, Incubation creates radical space for what is ‘monstrous’. Appropriating iconic American tropes, and the structure of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, Incubation explores the challenges faced by immigrants in attaining such notions of freedom in so hostile an environment. In this fragmentary document there is a celebration in the cobbling together of lives; global in scope, with an intimate focus on interior voice, this landmark text evidences the early innovations and talents of this T.S. Eliot prizewinning author.

An essential selection of fiction, poetry, and philosophical prose by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa that illuminates the restless brilliance of one of modern literature’s most influential voices. With a foreword by Polly Barton. Hell of Solitude presents a bold and varied selection of writings by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, one of the central figures of twentieth-century Japanese literature. Bringing together fiction, poetry, and philosophical prose—much of it appearing in English for the first time—this collection showcases the range and intensity of Akutagawa’s imagination. Moving from the whimsical and fantastical to the grave and introspective, the pieces reveal a writer of extraordinary clarity and psychological depth. Interwoven throughout are poems from a prolific body of verse, examples of which are sparse in English, alongside ‘Art and Other Things’, a fragmentary essay in which Akutagawa expounds his aesthetic views while drawing on examples from world literature and art. Translated with sensitivity and precision by Ryan Choi, Hell of Solitude offers a vital reintroduction to a writer whose lucidity, irony, and existential unease continue to resonate across cultures and generations.   Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892–1927), born in Tokyo, Japan, was the author of more than 350 works of fiction and non-fiction, including Rashōmon, The Spider’s Thread, Hell Screen, Kappa, and In a Grove. Japan’s premier literary award for emerging writers, the Akutagawa Prize, is named after him. Ryan Choi’s books include In Dreams: The Very Short Stories of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa and Three Demons: A Study on Sanki Saitō’s Haiku. He is an editor at AGNI. His writings and translations have appeared in Harper’s Magazine, The New Criterion, Poetry, The Times Literary Supplement, and elsewhere. He lives in Honolulu, Hawaii, where he was born and raised.  trans. Ryan Choi Softcover, 178pp Prototype, April 2026

Kahlo/Modotti – Forty Years Later is the result of a visit by Laura Mulvey to the Department of Film Studies at the University of Zurich in November 2022. The booklet contains two texts: Mulvey's evening lecture at the Cabaret Voltaire, revisiting hers and Peter Wollen's exhibition and film on Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti, and Wollen's 2003 essay on the phenomenon of "Fridamania." Focusing on Wollen's and Mulvey's curatorial work and the accompanying film from 1982, the books aims to draw attention to this lesser-known side of their engagement with film and the visual arts. The binary juxtaposition of Kahlo/Modotti, which the film and the exhibition took as a structural principle in the 1980s, becomes a playful quartet in 2024 – Mulvey/Wollen/Kahlo/Modotti – which rearranges and updates the diverse work steps of retrieval, curatorship, exhibition, filmmaking, reception, and reflection.   Laura Mulvey (born 1941, Oxford) is a feminist film theorist and director. Peter Wollen (1938-2019) was a British film theorist and filmmaker.Edited by Pascal Maslon, Volker Pantenburg, Caroline Schöbi, Linda Waack.  bilingual edition (English / German) Softcover, Staplebound, 64 pages (ill.) Harun Farocki Institut, 2024