RZR | RZRecords - An Extremely Independent Music Collective

  By: The Guys Who Run RZRecords (yes, we're still here) So, you’ve spent the last six months hunched over a modular synth, a four-track, and a broken MP3 player sending signals through some pedals. You’ve captured the sound of a dying fluorescent light bulb, layered it with a field recording of a construction site, and set it to a rhythm only you and maybe your cat can understand. Congratulations. You’ve made exclusive art. Now comes the existential question that keeps us up at night here at RZRecords headquarters (which for some of us is a spare room with a lot of boxes, and for others a laptop):  What format do you release it on? It’s 2026. We have streaming. Everyone's streaming away. We have high-resolution hid-def downloads. We have the infinite, intangible cloud. And yet, we’re here, seriously debating the merits of the Compact Disc. That shiny, 80s-era frisbee that everyone loves to mock. As a label that’s been “ruining the world of noise and jazz since the early 00s,...

RZRecords cat: RZR2025SUHg · UPC: 5063863770034  ·  New Release · Digital + Vinyl (CD coming soon) We don't do things quietly around here. You know that. But every once in a while, a release lands that even we weren't fully prepared for, something so unhinged in the best possible way that it makes you want to flip your desk and start moshing in the ruins. The super WOOPER split is exactly that release. Fifteen minutes and twenty seconds. That's all it takes. Fifteen minutes and twenty seconds of raw, beautiful, organized chaos, twelve tracks of free jazz, experimental noise, punk fury, and psych weirdness. All killer, zero filler. super WOOPER split by UIUIUI and Haggari Nakashe & gaop 🖤 Buy the Vinyl on ElasticStage 🖤 Who Are These People and Why Are They Like This UIUIUI is an experimental duo consisting of Ori Zornitzer (Plopsk6x) and Itay Raiten (Koala), officially headquartered in the legendary and entirely rea...

So you clicked on something called "Harsh Noise Wall" and now you're here, either because you're genuinely curious, someone dared you, or you've already heard it and need someone to explain why you can't stop listening to an unbroken wall of static for forty-five minutes. Welcome. You're in the right place. This is not going to be a short article, and that is entirely appropriate, because Harsh Noise Wall, HNW, to those of us who use the abbreviation unironically, is a genre that rewards patience, obsession, and a willingness to sit inside a sound that most people would describe as "is that a broken appliance?" It is not a broken appliance. It is art. Probably. What Is Harsh Noise Wall? Let's start at the beginning, which in HNW terms means starting with a wall. Literally. Harsh Noise Wall is a subgenre of noise music characterized by a sustained, largely unchanging mass of sound, feedback, distortion, static, white noise, blown-out electroni...

In the world of experimental audio and DIY noise , we spend a lot of time discussing gear, pedals, and synthesis. But some of the most profound "compositions" aren't created in a studio; they are captured in the wild. At RZRecords, we’ve always been fascinated by the thin line between natural  ambient noise and intentional art . When does a "background" sound stop being an annoyance and start being the lead instrument? The Art of Found Sound and Musique Concrète The history of field recording as music stretches back to the pioneers of musique concrète . They understood that a train whistle or a factory hum has a frequency and rhythm just as valid as a piano note. By pulling these sounds out of their natural environment and placing them on a record, we force the listener to confront the acoustic ecology of our world. It turns the act of listening into an act of discovery. Why We Listen to "Noise": For the average listener, a recording of a construct...

If you have ever tried to get two experimental musicians in the same digital room to agree on a release date, you know it is like herding cats.   Feral, feedback-loving cats . At  RZRecords , we have been doing this for over twenty years. We have paired harsh noise artists with avant-jazz saxophonists, punks, metal heads IDM artists and indie shoegazers. We have pressed splits on CD-Rs that remain unsold in basements, and digital releases that connected listeners in Ukraine, the Philippines, and Serbia. We've also tried our best with floppy disks. We failed. A  split release  is the ultimate DIY handshake. It is not a compilation; it is a direct dialogue. But coordinating them requires specific strategies for legalities (or the lack thereof), money (or the lack thereof), and format. Aaaand EGO, don't forget ego. Here is how we do it, a guide pulled directly from the RZRecords playbook. 1. The Handshake: Legal Agreements & Permissions Let us get the boring (but ne...