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Headphone Dust

Headphone Dust is the label set up by SW to issue music by his solo projects. Many of them are one-off limited editions.

Most of the Headphone Dust releases are available on-line from the Burning Shed website, but some very exclusive (and otherwise sold out) items are only available directly from Headphone Dust itself by emailing hd@swhq.co.uk.

IEM Have Come For Your Children

Cat No : IEMCD1
Artist : IEM
Format : CD (a vinyl edition of 380 copies was also released by US label Gates of Dawn)
Release date : Sep 2001
Duration : 6 tracks / 72 mins
Availability : Limited edition of 1,000 copies - SOLD OUT
Description : Studio reconstructed / overdubbed improvisations from 1999


Arcadia Son

Cat No : IEMCD2
Artist : IEM
Format : CD (a vinyl edition of 500 copies was also released by US label Gates of Dawn)
Release date : Dec 2001
Duration : 8 tracks / 46 mins
Availability : Currently out of print
Description : Studio album recorded in 2000


Bass Communion (second album)

Cat No : BCCD3
Artist : Bass Communion
Format : CD
Release date : Sep 2002
Duration : 7 tracks / 71 mins
Availability : Currently out of print
Description : Reissue of 1999 album


Altamont

Cat No : ALTLP4
Artist : Altamont
Title : Altamont
Format : Picture disc vinyl
Release date : Sep 2002
Duration : 3 tracks / 37 mins
Availability : Limited to 300 copies - SOLD OUT
Description : Abstract electronic music recorded by SW (with Si Vockings) when he was 15 years old


Bass Communion (reconstructions)

Cat No : BCCD5
Artist : Bass Communion
Format : CD
Release date : March 2003
Duration : 9 tracks / 80 mins
Availability : Limited to 1,000 copies - SOLD OUT
Description : Reconstructions and recycling of Bass Communion music by guest artists


Cover Version

Cat No : SWCD6
Artist : Steven Wilson
Format : CD single
Release date : March 2003
Duration : 2 tracks / 8 mins
Availability : headphone dust
Description : 2 songs based around voice, piano and acoustic guitar


Blackfield

Cat No : BFLP7
Artist : Blackfield
Format : Vinyl
Release date : May 2003
Duration : 10 tracks / 38 mins
Availability : NOT AVAILBLE! 10 copy private white label pressing
Description : Promotional pressing - work in progress versions of 10 tracks from the Blackfield album.


Ghosts on Magnetic Tape

Cat No : HDBCCD9
Artist : Bass Communion
Format : CD in cardboard gatefold sleeve. Some pressings include Andrew Liles reconstruction CD (see below)
Release date : Feb 2004
Duration : 5 tracks / 57 mins
Availability : headphone dust
Description : Studio album recorded 2003. Dark and spectral music.


Unreleased Electronic Music Vol 1

Cat No : HDSWCD10
Artist : Steven Wilson
Format : CDR packed in DVD case, with uniquie polaroid and signed index card
Release date : April-Aug 2004
Duration : 11 tracks / 66 mins
Availability : First pressing 100 copies / second pressing 250 copies - SOLD OUT
Description : A collection of SW's electronic music experiments between 1990-2003.


Ghosts on Magnetic Tape - A Liles Reconstruction

Cat No : HDBCCD9X
Artist : Bass Communion
Format : CD in plain card wallet designed to slip into gatefold sleeve for HDBCCD9
Release date : June 2004
Duration : 5 tracks / 57 mins
Availability : 500 stand alone copies, 200 special art editions, plus also included in some pressings of 2CD set with HDBCCD9
Description : Radical reconstruction and remix of the Ghosts CD by sound artist Andrew Liles.


Speak

Cat No : HDNMCD11
Artist : NO-MAN
Format : CD
Release date : Sep 2004
Duration : 13 tracks / 50 mins
Availability : www.burningshed.com
Description : Reissue of previously hard to find Italian only NO-MAN release from 1999, with bonus 11 minute track.


Cover Version II

Cat No : HDSWCD12
Artist : Steven Wilson
Title : Cover Version II
Format : CD single
Release date : Oct 2004
Duration : 2 tracks / 9 mins
Availability : headphone dust
Description : 2 songs based around voice, piano and acoustic guitar.


Dronework

Cat No : HDBCCD14
Artist : Bass Communion
Title : Dronework
Format : CDR single
Release date : March 2005
Duration : 1 track / 20 mins
Availability : Made to order CDR available from headphone dust
Description : 20 minute drone piece - reissue of a CDR previously available as part of the 20Hz Droneworks series.


Cover Version III

Cat No : HDSWCD15
Artist : Steven Wilson
Title : Cover Version III
Format : CD single
Release date : Sept 2005
Duration : 2 tracks / 10 mins
Availability : headphone dust
Description : Third in the series of CD singles containing a cover version and an original.


IEM : 1996-99

Cat No : HDIEMCD8
Artist : IEM
Format : CD
Release date : October 2005
Duration : 71 mins
Availability : Currently out of print
Description : Reissue of the first IEM album and first EP on one CD, with bonus material.


Unreleased Electronic Music

Cat No : HDSWCD10.2
Artist : Steven Wilson
Format : Black CDR in plastic wallet with colour insert
Release date : June 2006
Duration : 11 tracks / 66 mins
Availability : headphone dust
Description : Reissue of HDSWCD10 in a more modest package


Cover Version IV

Cat No : HDSWCD16
Artist : Steven Wilson
Title : Cover Version IV
Format : CD single
Release date : July 2006
Duration : 2 tracks / 11 mins
Availability : headphone dust
Description : Fourth in the series of CD singles containing a cover version and an original.