Those of you who keep an eye on the more cosmically inclined blogs out there will probably already be familiar with The Endless House Foundation.

Supposedly the brainchild of “wealthy audiophile/maniac” Jiri Kantor, EHF is a project deliberately shrouded in mystery and mythology. Its releases come via Dramatic Records, a label matched only by Legowelt’s Strange Life in its commitment to supplying records with elaborate fictional back-stories.

Endless House, their newly released CD compilation, posits itself as a survey of material produced by various international artists in 1973, among them Felix Uran, Walter Schnaffs, Klaus Pinter and Rasmus Folk (whether these are the aliases of a solitary madman or a number of like minds is hard to say). Sonically, the default setting is woozy, instrumental proto-electro – think along the lines of Cluster, Chris Carter, The Future, or if you’re looking for modern-day comparisons maybe Belbury Poly, Oneohtrix Point Never and the aforementioned Danny Wolfers.

In the label’s own words:

“An obelisk of noise that rose rudely above the treetops of the Bialowieska Forest, the Endless House project shone for a mere six weeks in the spring of 1973. The outlandish brainchild of wealthy audiophile/maniac Jiri Kantor, its stated mission was ‘to become the cradle of a new European sonic community… a multimedia discotheque’ that should ‘surprise and delight’ artists and dancers alike. For all the wide-eyed optimism of its manifesto, however, the enterprise was never unknowing in its flirtation with disaster and self-destruction. The brilliant Czech may have made his millions as the midas-touched entrepreneur/taste-maker behind Paris-based magazine Otium International, but Endless House was always a vanity project as irredeemably vain as its maker…

The CD is housed in a velcro-sealed envelope and includes four postcards. If you’re interested, you can download a bunch of Felix Uran tracks for nowt over at 20JazzFunkGreats, and also check out a special Endless House mix for Drowned In Sound‘s Armchair Dancefloor.

Tracklist:
1.   Johannus Arpensium – Ostend (Invisible Cities)
2.   Felix Uran – Baltic Expo
3.   Walter Schnaffs – I am Germany
4.   Rasmus Folk – Pavel
5.   Earnesto Rogers – Marshall Plan
6.   Ernest Kantor – Jealosie (Escape To Outer Space)
7.   Rasmus Folk – Coupé
8.   Klaus Pinter – Soul Flipper PART 2
9.   Earnesto Rogers – Vespa
10. Felix Uran – Masprojekt_3
11. Klaus Pinter – Bewussseinweiterung
12. Jiri Kantor – Warum ist alles so schnell passiert