This Dull Ache by Mark James Works

Link: Mark James
Link: This Dull Ache
Link: Cherrystones
Link: Rough Trade

A collaboration between producer/DJ Cherrystones and designer/artist Mark James, This Dull Ache is a lovingly packaged film project.

Boasting a DVD and 20 page booklet within a 10" sleeve, it's a piece that actually dates back to James' first solo show back in 2008 - although now re-worked [both re-edited and remixed] for its limited release. Additionally produced by Academy Films' Liz Kessler and edited by Ben Crook, it's now available to order from Rough Trade.

Popol Vuh - The Werner Herzog Soundtracks (Box Set)

The divine music of Popol Vuh is inextricable from the Werner Herzog films it soundtracks. This lavish set includes five seminal film scores: Heart of Glass (1976), Aguirre (1972), Nosferatu (1979), Fitzcarraldo (1982) and Cobra Verde (1987) in one lavish, beautiful box including a 98-page hardback book with rare photos and liner notes.

Scoring Herzog's 'Aguirre', Popol Vuh, lead by Florian Fricke, established a longstanding relationship with the director, providing him with a milestone of electronic music which is still regularly cited as a masterpiece. Fricke's innately moving compositions presaged the electronic ambient and new age genres, incorporating avant-garde classical, religious music, prog and krautrock themes into a substantial, harmonically rich sound.

Over the next fifteen years Fricke's musical evolution was charted by his work for Herzog, weaving increasingly elaborate instrumentation into the electronic fabric of his compositions. Between his captivating choral work for Nosferatu, the operatic classicism of Fitzcarraldo, or the breathtaking lushness of Cobra Verde, Fricke and Popol Vuh inspired a generation and re-defined the art of the soundtrack.

Boomkat link: The Werner Herzog Soundtracks
Amazon link: The Werner Herzog Soundtracks

Mr Oizo - Moustache (Half a Scissor)

Link: Brainfeeder

In a week of Flying Lotus action (what with him unlocking some bonus material via electrickery involving his Cosmogramma album and a webcam), the man's own Brainfeeder label is re-releasing a Mr Oizo album.

The Flat Eric favourite's Moustache (Half a Scissor) has been cited by FlyLo as a hugely inspiring piece of work hence its re-appearance as just 1,000 vinyl copies. And it additionally presents another opportunity to look at the visual work by Oizo - a.k.a. Quentin Dupieux - of which Moustache is just a small part. Rubber, for example, is his film about a murderous psychic tyre which is rumoured to be getting a wider release in 2011. Seriously.