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ZHELEZOBETON / Muzyka Voln releases
Anthesteria -- "Phobos 1953 (OST)" -- CD -- €10
2010 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-XXVI / 7Hz Records, 7HZ 01 D, (ltd. 500)
The name of Anthesteria is already well-known to the connoisseurs of Russian post-industrial music. This project has released two solo CDs, a collaboration work with Stalnoy Pakt, and a number of tracks on various compilations. After this the project's leader George Beloglazov founded his own multimedia studio Phantomery Interactive and focused his attention on creating computer games with an unconventional author approach... After releasing the appreciated game "Sublustrum" ("Outcry") filled with the spirit of decadence, steampunk and sombre surrealism, spring 2010 saw the release of a new psychological quest - "Phobos 1953". The action takes place in March 1953 in an abandoned Soviet bunker - a place of strange experiments on the human psyche. The game explores such themes as the limits of mental possibilities, the electronic voice phenomenon, experiments with thought-transference and impact of fear on the human organism... The game soundtrack, presented on this CD, embodies the project's concept in sound. Imbued with an industrial atmosphere, leisurely soundscapes turn into states of calm estrangement and isolationism. Excursions into the unknown corners of the consciousness bring to its surface old memories and long forgotten yet vaguely familiar images... and laboratorial claustrophobia grows into light melancholia. This musical picture is performed in the trademark style of Anthesteria combining abstract dark ambient, melodic neoclassics and experimental sonic artifacts... The release is packed in a DVD-size double cardboard sleeve with full-colour cards depicting game locations and fragments of a book about mental suggestions from 1962. Released in cooperation with 7Hz Records.
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Archon Orchestra -- "Pong" -- CD -- €10
2010 Shadowplay Records, SPR 115 / Muzyka Voln, MV-IV / Monopoly Records, (ltd. 500)
Muzyka Voln in cooperation with the Moscow label Monopoly Records and under the aegis of the Voronezh company Shadowplay Records have released the debut album of the project Archon Orchestra. The compact disk cover shows a collage with a fragment of a Renaissance painting on which biblical saints look at the "sky" above them and see the game "Pong" being played there (a cult arcade game from 1972, first game by Atari company). What could this marvellous picture mean, let the listener decide... The main instrument on this CD is the organ, which sounds in fast mechanical sequences a bit unusual for our ears and more typical for the Berlin school of electronic music. Simple compositional structure meets vivid expression, liturgical atmosphere and a sublime metaphysical line running through the whole concept of the project. Some parallels can be drawn with the CD of the Sphere Rex project, released in 2009 by the same community of labels. And it is no coincidence, as both projects originate from the same "producer center". However if Sphere Rex makes accents on classical ambient and piano improvisations, then in the case of Archon Orchestra we deal with clearly structured music lying in the intermediate plane between the so called "holy minimalism" and "repetitive music"... We can recommend this CD to the lovers of Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Terry Riley and Recoil ("Hydrology" album).
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Baker, Aidan & The Infant Cycle -- "Rural Sprawl" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-XVII, (ltd. 250)
Canadian musicians Aidan Baker and Jim DeJong (aka The Infant Cycle) have used the "gentleman's kit" of modern experimenters for creating the compositions of this disk: guitar, bass, tapes, samples, feedback generator, playouts and thumb piano. Four album tracks correspond with four seasons, four states of the soul... Summer - repetitive loops become overgrown with the juicy flesh of atonal sound and transform into sampled rhythms flown over by a soft guitar tune. Autumn - the rhythm is reduced to a hardly evident monotonous shroud, the atmosphere becomes more melodic and melancholic and in the end turns into a heart-piercing guitar solo. Winter - time for sleep and detachment: icy ringing, the slow breath of bass impulses, the rustling of electronics and sluggish drones painting vast snowy soundscapes. And finally spring - the drone ambient nature unfolds large as life, majestic sonic waves sweep accompanied by a swarm of tiny sounds awoken to life again... The first two tracks were recorded in 2001 (and released on CD-R by the Italian label Blade Records in 2002 in a very limited edition), two others were recorded in 2005 and thus completed the natural cycle of this album.
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Cataclyst -- "Monuments of a Rubicund Age" -- CD -- €10
2007 Tantric Harmonies, TANTRA X31 / Zhelezobeton, ZHB-X, (ltd. 600)
A strange project that for a moment united Peter Andersson (raison d'etre) and Johanna Rosenqvist (ex-Institut, Koeff) in the distant 1992. Cataclyst's music combines the melancholic beauty of early raison d'etre and Necrophorus, harsh industrial rhythms of Institut and tribal-elements of another undeservingly forgotten project of Peter - Svasti-Ayanam... What differs this product from other works of Swedish industrial scene masters is the atmosphere of remote fairy worlds in which you smoothly sink into while listening to "Monuments of a Rubicund Age". Peter and Johanna have woven an infinite labyrinth of mirages, walking through which will be a pleasant surprise for both the fans of ambient / experimental / industrial and more conservative gothic lovers. The first edition of the album was published by Peter's own label Yantra Atmospheres in 1999 and was limited to 100 copies. This reissue has been made by joint efforts of the labels Tantric Harmonies and Zhelezobeton, it contains a shorter version of the album's last piece + bonus-track. Original photographs are made by Pavel Bourchenko.
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Cyclotimia -- "Celestis: Space Ceremonial Music" -- CD -- €10
2007/2010 Shadowplay Records, SPR 114 / ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-XXIX / Monopoly Records, (ltd. 500)
The reissue of probably the best album of the Russian electronic duo, complemented with a 15-minute space suite as a bonus track. Cyclotimia's album "Celestis: Space Ceremonial Music" was inspired by the activity of a well-known American aerospace company Space Services Inc. which among other things specializes in sending human ashes into space (via their subsidiary Celestis Inc.). Moreover, the compact discs with this music have prowled the outer space twice while being on board rockets launched from the spaceport America in New Mexico. This happened for the first time in April 2007 ("Legacy" project), and for the second time in May 2010 ("Pioneer Flight" project). Cyclotimia's music obtained the status of the official soundtrack to both events... "Celestis" definitely stands out in the discography of this project, known mainly for its post-industrial and avant-garde recordings. It would be no exaggeration to say that this is their most accessible work (in a good sense) correlating with the best examples of such acclaimed masters of the "space genre" as Jean-Michel Jarre or Klaus Schulze. At the same time the music on "Celestis" is in no way secondary, it is modern and quite craftily made... From the opening theme "Capsula" the album's atmosphere plunges the listener into a world of spiritual experience, calls to take an imaginary space travel; fly towards Space along with the remains held in capsulas... It's worth mentioning that the CD comes with a 12-page booklet narrating about the activities of the company. This release differs from the first edition (2007) as it contains an additional exclusive track "Another Time Another Place" - a 15-minute "space suite" recorded by the project in 2009.
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Cyclotimia -- "Music for Stockmarkets" -- CD -- €10
2008 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-XVIII, (ltd. 500)
Cyclotimia is most probably the only project in the world which has chosen the creation of a soundtrack to "globalisation" and life of the "consumer society" as their concept. The project members more than anyone else are immersed into the magic of finance and probably therefore has their creative intuition allowed them to compose the main part of "Music for Stockmarkets" with its unforgivingly precise name "Wallstreet Requiem". Today the whole civilised world is listening to this requiem the first cords of which were played on Wall Street itself... The "Music for Stockmarkets" album with its radically experimental nature stands out in the extensive discography of this Moscow project. The 64-minute album includes 32 tracks divided into three conceptual parts: "Wallstreet Requiem" (25 minutes, recorded in 2004-2007), "Trivial Pleasures" (26 minutes, recorded in 2002, this part was the only one released as a seperate CD in 2003) and "Financial Glossary" (13 minutes, recorded in 2003)... The music material itself is nothing like the one heard in the previous records of Cyclotimia. There is no apocalyptic soundscapes of "Wasteland" times, no cybernetic hi-tech and media madness of "E$chaton", no cosmic downtempo of "Celestis: Space Ceremonial Music"... Minimalism, academic sterility, surgical accuracy and meditative ataraxy prevail on "Music for Stockmarkets". Then again it is not the familiar "idm", "glitch", "noise", "clicks and cuts" and not "minimal techno"... The sound of the album is chrystal-clear and warm at the same time. "Vintage" lovers have a wonderful chance to listen to the masterpieces of Soviet music production (such as Rhythm 1, Rhythm 2, Aelita, Formanta UDS, Formanta EMS-01, Polyvox) in pure sound, unprocessed by effects.
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Cyclotimia -- "Sci-Fi Music: Soundtrack to a Nonexistent Movie" -- CD -- €10
2010 Shadowplay Records, SPR 113 / ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-XXVIII / Monopoly Records, (ltd. 500)
As the title suggests, the new work by Russian masters of electronic soundscapes represents a score to an imaginary sci-fi movie. The musicians call themselves admirers of old-school Sci-Fi / Cyberpunk genres, and for a long time they have felt a desire to make some music inspired by soundtracks of sci-fi blockbusters from 70-80-s... Spaceship battles, alien colonies, teleportation and mysterious droid ceremonies are only part of the images created by this music. The album contains both dynamic rhythmic "hits" and disturbing space ambient as well as avant-garde neoclassic pieces.
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Cyclotimia -- "Styx" -- CD -- €10
2009 Shadowplay Records, SPR 104 / ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-XXII / Monopoly Records, (ltd. 500)
ZHELEZOBETON in cooperation with the Voronezh label Shadowplay and the Moscow label Monopoly Records presents the new 7th full-length album from the masters of "stockmarket industrial". "Styx" is the most mainstream-oriented work in the Cyclotimia discography. The music here is free of experimental and academic explorations traditional for the band; here the emphasis is made on the rhythmical component. Inexorable like an economic recession and steadfast like a financial indicator chart, eleven compositions depict the sickly technogenic reality of the planet wrapped by networks of global capital, media glamour and ideological obsessions... In the ancient Greek mythology Styx was the embodiment of primeval dread and gloom, from which the first living creatures emerged. This was a personification of the underworld river whose pestilent currents seclude life from death... Similarly to this mythic river, currents of credits, percent, funds, financial quotations, capital issues, barrels of oil and advertising spaces flow on the Cyclotimia album to the accompaniment of hard, sterile and atmospheric electronic music... Recommended to the fans of Skinny Puppy, Clock DVA, Laibach (of the "Das Kapital" period), Front Line Assembly.
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Cyclotimia -- "TimeBank" -- CD -- €10
2009 Shadowplay Records, SPR 105 / ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-XXIII / Monopoly Records, (ltd. 500)
"TimeBank" is a collection of exclusive compositions recorded by Cyclotimia in 2003-2007 and for some reasons left out of the main albums. The material presented here is hard to fit in the Procrustean bed of common musical styles, but we can try to list the ingredients from which this post-industrial "dish" was cooked: both cyber jazz and idm, neoclassics and trademark technological ambient, old-school electronics and atmospheric new age, experimental and many more can be found here... Despite the seeming stylistic incompatibility the band succeeded in creating a self-sufficient album with a spectacular plot no worse than a good Hollywood thriller. A special jewel of the disk is the track "Nocturne" combining aerial melodies and uneasy sonic "cinematography". Also worth mentioning is the "live" 10-minute prog-industrial suite "Economic Meditation", imbued with psychedelic dramatism... Words written about the band several years ago remain true even today: "While actively using the possibilities of analogue and vintage equipment Cyclotimia creates unique soundscapes, suspenseful and sublime at the same time. Not so many projects can successfully implement such impressively "cold" atmospheres and, despite being "technological", fill the sound with such a deep humanistic sense." ["Audio Video Saloon" magazine]
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DMT -- "Selected Funbient Works 1-4" -- 2 CD -- €14
2009 kultFRONT, KF-XV / ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-XXIV / Aquarellist, aquarel 13-09 / Monochrome Vision, (ltd. 500)
Dmitriy Tolmatskiy (1970-2009) - a journalist and musician from the city of Saratov (south of Russia), one of the first popularizers of the alternative intellectual culture and particularly industrial music in post-Soviet Russia. He was the creator of the RWCDAX website which had certain influence on the mindset of many modern personalities of Russian post-industrial art... The musical project DMT was established in 1995 and released by the end of the 90s several limited-edition cassette albums, lapsing afterwards into silence for a while. In the mid-00s the project was revived, had some successful live gigs and recorded a lot of new material, part of which is presented on this double-CD "Selected Funbient Works 1-4"... Plans of this release existed for a long time but unfortunately were not implemented while the author was alive. His life cut short in the autumn of 2009. And now by joint efforts of the kultFRONT, ZHELEZOBETON, Aquarellist and Monochrome Vision labels, this release has become available for those interested. The album vividly displays the complex music world of DMT, which like everything innovative exists on the crossing of several musical styles and directions: from dark-ambient and industrial noise sketches to technoid rhythmics and pure sonic experiments.
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Eonic -- "Secret Land" -- CD -- €10
2010 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-XXVII, (ltd. 333)
Secret land lost in an unknown dimension... Like ancient ruins this place hides the traces of stories, which are told in this new album by the St. Petersburg project Eonic. This is their 6th release (and 2nd "professional" CD) and it easily combines different stylistic approaches, making its own way to the listener's heart. Ethno-gothic in vein of Dead Can Dance and Arcana is layered over tout electronic rhythms a la Delerium and Enigma and spiced by pleasant psychedelic arrangements. Musicians don't hesitate to step on the territory of pop-ambient and even new-age, and it just adds more lightness and airness to their energetic music. A firm and masterful work.
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Hypnoz -- "Breath of Earth" -- CD -- €10
2008 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-XV, (ltd. 500)
Hypnoz is a project of Dmitry Zubov, a musician from Moscow suburb Fryazino, the town that endowed the lovers of post-industrial music with such names as Hum and Staruha Mha. His first composition was recorded in 1993, and during its existence Hypnoz has released one CD on the Moscow label Insofar Vapour Bulk, which gathered tracks from different periods, a couple of very limited CD-Rs, and participated on the compilation "Iznutri" by the Ewers Tonkunst label with a fragment of a composition from this album. Aside from Hypnoz Dmitry plays in several other projects: Zuboff Sex Shop (post-punk / new-wave), Circle Of Iron Tape (harsh noise), BRZB (electronics, with Alexey Borisov), etc... The basis of most of the tracks for "Breath of Earth" was recorded by Dmitry together with Evgeny Voronovsky (Cisfinitum) during their joint night psychedelic sessions, and this is evidently felt in their mood. Stylistically this can be called tranquil electronic ambient with a remarkable experimental touch – but who thinks about it while recording? Slowly twisting sound helixes, drawing inside the astral subspaces, pulsating rhythms, cosmic sounds of old analogue synthesizers, – all this produces an appropriate effect on the listener's mind, and there's nothing more to demand from music.
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Hypnoz -- "A Score for Iron Blues" -- CD-R -- €7
2011 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-XXXI, (ltd. 150)
"A Score for Iron Blues" is already the eighth full-length album of the project Hypnoz - a brainchild of Dmitry Zuboff (Zuboff Sex Shop, Circle Of Iron Tape, BRZB) coming from Moscow region. This music will primarily appeal to the fans of old school industrial - the raw and moderately rough sound of the album is based on the use of overdriven and otherwise processed bass guitar and voice samples. With the help of these simple means comrade Zuboff manages to create quite varied compositions which seemingly don't contain anything innovative but at the same time sound just the right way: through the album harsh dirty sludge joins rugged hypnotic loops and even mild melodic tunes creating a melancholic mood. One of the tracks features the specially recorded voice of Jim Thirlwell (Foetus).
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i.m.m.u.r.e. -- "The New Circle" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-XXI, (ltd. 250)
The project i.m.m.u.r.e. is a part of St. Petersburg based musical foundation Forbidden Sounds Group and "The New Circle" is its first release on physical media. Before this the project successfully performed live several times and released a number of recordings on the net-label DNA Productions. The music of i.m.m.u.r.e. combines serious dark ambient, rhythmic electronics and psychedelic industrial in vein of English school a la Coil. It is full of gloomy melodies, light noises and sonic experiments, and is flavoured with morbid vocals narrating about infinite love to the dog and other schizophrenic joys of life. Part of the compositions from the album appeared to the author in his dreams. A nice soundtrack for an introspective pastime.
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Kryptogen Rundfunk -- "Live 2005" -- CD-R -- €7
2011 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-XXXII, (ltd. 150)
After several limited edition split and collaborative releases this is the first solo recording by Kryptogen Rundfunk since the release of his album "22.SZ" on Mechanoise Labs label back in 2004. The disk contains live recordings made during the "Noise vs Glamour" festival in 2005 in St. Petersburg and Moscow, later reworked in home studio... In fact the same program was prepared for both shows so some fragments of the compositions intersect, but due to the live mixing of sampled layers of analogue and computer synthesis and use of such instruments as analogue synth "Rokton", radio receivers, voice and processing units, both tracks sound entirely different in the end. In both cases these are constantly moving psychoactive soundscapes spreading from soft pulsations and drones to sprightly noisy fragments spiced up with a couple of funny samples.
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Kryptogen Rundfunk + Hladna -- "Rokton + Formanta" -- 3"CD-R -- €5
2007 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-XII, (ltd. 250)
Hladna and Kryptogen Rundfunk - behind these names stand two St. Petersburg-based musicians playing experimental noise music. They both nourish a tender passion for old electronic instruments and often use them at their concerts and on recordings. One warm sunny day they gathered and decided to play on two analogue rhythm synthesizers "Rokton" and "Formanta". These are actually two identical instruments which were produced in the Soviet Union by two different factories. Each of them is the "brain" for electronic drum-kit, but can also be used separately - as a multi-channel tone-noise-generator or rhytm-machine. Kryptogen Rundfunk used his device smoothly, evenly and calmly while Hladna expelled from his more sharp and unpredictable sounds. Worth mentioning are Hladna's non-standard ways of making sound - on the last two tracks he opened the back plate of his synth and played not only using knobs but also getting inside and abridging contacts with his own hands (for which he was incidentally struck by the current a couple of times). Live recording without any processing, with all it's natural crackles and tasty overloads. Abstract electronics, minimalism and a little noise.
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Kshatriy -- "Slepok Soznaniya" -- CD -- €10
2009 Muzyka Voln, MV-II, (ltd. 500)
The project Kshatriy appeared on the Russian post-industrial scene in 2004 and up to present has participated in several compilations, as well as released some solo and collaboration recordings on limited edition CDRs. Muzyka Voln presents the project's first "professional" compact disk with the album "Slepok Sonzaniya" (meaning "a mould of consciousness" in Russian)... This work is based on the concept of consciousness of a warrior, a galactic warrior of light, bringing to world pure knowledge, infinite silence, perfect balance, a moment of power and might, a flight of freedom, love, serenity, joy, light, unified time, eternal life, simplicity and bliss... The music of the project can be described as fractal dark drone ambient with lots of patterns, woven from various sonic fibres: synthesized drones, processed field recordings, acoustic echoes and rhythmic loops. Calm and profound, filled with resilience and hidden power, like an endless ocean of tranquility, energy and beauty.
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Kshatriy -- "Transforming Galaxy" -- CD -- €12
2012 Muzyka Voln, MV-V, (ltd. 500)
"Transforming Galaxy" is the second full-length album of Sergey Bulychyov (aka Uak-Kib) from Vsevolozhsk, Russia - an imprint of direct experience of the Universe. The album is dedicated to the end of Kali-Yuga - the age of technocratic lack of spirituality and moral decay - and to the attainment of human awareness of the Unity... Eight hasteless compositions of psychedelic drone ambient combine a light atmosphere with deep multilayerness, crystal clear sound transparency with mild and sometimes uneasy melodies. Soft organic tracks full of plangent drones, noises and natural recordings neighbor with dense and saturated hymns to Hindu goddess Kali. The disk is closed by a beautiful lyrical composition reminding us that the best way to overcome ignorance and realize unity is Love... The album is released in a glossy 6-panel digipak with front cover by Sergey Ilchuk (Siyanie, ex-Vetvei & Vresnit Art).
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Kshatriy -- "Transforming Galaxy" -- CD + CD-R BOX -- €39
2012 Muzyka Voln, MV-V, (ltd. 30)
First 30 copies are designed by the author as special collector's edition: hand-crafted bag made of brown velvet containing art printed on a thick wooden plate 28 x 30 cm, and also an additional CD-R with a live recording of Kshatriy's performance in Moscow-based cultural center "DOM" on October 23, 2010.
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Maeror Tri -- "The A.V.E. - Tapes / Live in Nevers" -- CD -- €12
2010 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-XXX, (ltd. 500)
The German band Maeror Tri existed from early 1988 to the end of 1996. Over these nine years they have made a serious contribution to the development of the European post-industrial scene and had significant influence on many young musicians. Much of this was also achieved by their own record label Drone Records which has discovered a lot of talented artists. Even now, after the break-up of Maeror Tri, the band members continue to excite fans with recordings of their new projects Troum and 1000schoen... Unlike many industrial and noise musicians exploiting the themes of violence, politics and social problems in their creativity, Maeror Tri turned attention to the transcendental quality of sound, to its ability to expand consciousness and to awaken timeless and non-personal spiritual experiences. They recorded their music, which can be formally called industrial drone ambient, with the use of guitars, percussion, tape loops, various objects and effects, turning everything in a coherent flux of unconscious drones... This compact disk contains the last previously unreleased recordings by Maeror Tri. Four tracks are fragments of the band's 12-hour concert at the "Audio-Visual-Experimental" festival in Arnhem, The Netherlands, on November 11th, 1995; the fifth track is a part of their performance at the "Musique Ultimes" festival in Nevers, France, on May 14th, 1995. The material was thoroughly remastered by Sergey Uak-Kib (Kshatriy) and the artwork was prepared by Sergey Ilchuk (Vresnit & Vetvei Art).
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Majdanek Waltz / Sal Solaris -- "Tenebrae" -- CD -- €10
2011 Shadowplay Records, SPR 127 / ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-XXXIII, (ltd. 500)
A collaboration album by two prominent Russian post-industrial projects Majdanek Waltz and Sal Solaris. The conceptual core of the record is the poetry of Paul Celan, one of the major German-language poets of the post-World War II era. His cryptic fractured lyrics spoken in a specific estranged way by Pavel Blumkin is enchased by a weird fusion of avant-garde neoclassic and dark ambient music... This record will seem unusual even for those who are already familiar with the works of both projects. Here you won't find neither soulful neofolk songs, nor strong power ambient - instead the decadent sounds of violin, cello, clarinet, piano and bayan from Majdanek Waltz blend with shimmering electronic drones and uneasy soundscapes of Sal Solaris in paradoxical unity making your heart throb painfully. The last track features the haunting voice of Rada Anchevskaya (Rada & Ternovnik)... It won't be so easy to fall in love with this album from the first spin. It's like an eerie irrational dream able to frighten and cause a desire to wake up somewhat quicker. But the depth of this dream lures and makes you return and experience it again and again.
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Nazi Bastards From Aldebaran -- "Invasion" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-XIV, (ltd. 250)
An unknown artifact of the 90-ies Russian industrial scene! Having recorded several tracks in 1997-1999 the members of the project haven't done absolutely anything to make the result available for the public, and they just disappeared in complete obscurity... Years later the composition "Swastika Man" was released on the "Red Square" compilation by KultFRONT label. And only now can the gap be considered completely filled as this disk contains the full legacy of the project. Music of NBFA is a kind of old school electro industrial: catchy rhythms, melodies and well thought-out synthetic fillings of tracks. Various samples spice up the compositions, and their titles like "Illuminati", "Cleansing the Planet", "Nazi UFO Attacks Paris Nightclub" unambiguously talk about the ideological basis of this mysterious project.
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Noises Of Russia -- "Experimental Structure" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-XIX, (ltd. 250)
Nowadays Noises Of Russia is one of the most known groups on the Russian experimental post-industrial scene, mainly because of their numerous concerts and CDR-releases, published by their leader - Gosha Solnzev aka 1g0g ("Van Gog") - on his own label ElectroIndustria. This release has captured one of such concerts which took place at the Experimental Sound Gallery (ESG-21) in St. Petersburg in October 2008... This concert was peculiar because of the non-traditional band line-up which aside from 1g0g included some of his friends: musicians Nikolay Kalmykov (Hladna), M.M. (Kryptogen Rundfunk), Igor Potsukailo (Bardoseneticcube) and Evgeny Savenko (Lunar Abyss Deus Organum), and also VJ Alco (video projection) and Grigory Glazunov (ODDDance Theatre, butoh dance). By common efforts these comrades performed totally improvised material quite typical for the "St. Petersburg post-industrial wave" and combining elements of collage, industrial, noise and ambient. Field recordings and voice manipulations, metal percussion and rough analogue signals, guitar semi-melodies and various sound effects - all this is harmoniously blended in the unified psychedelic soundsphere.
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Noises Of Russia -- "Humility" -- 2 CD -- €14
2010 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-XXV / Aquarellist, aquarel 14-10 / ElectroIndustria, 12EICD, (ltd. 500)
Under the cover of the 3rd studio album of Noises Of Russia - a project which has chosen Tanatos to be their perpetual muse - there are two post-modern mysteries at once, two doors to the viscous and twilight space encyclopaedically oversaturated with the symbols of death of various traditions. The final countdown turns into a long immersion in a cold cerbal-sonic abyss where it's impossible to find out for sure if you are calmed or frightened, comforted or sneered at... if they mourn for you, a mortal, or are they glad for you, an immortal. The album also contains a ritual video for the track "Spirit", not however making the issue more clear.
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Overdose Kunst -- "Was ist Overdose Kunst" -- 3"CD-R -- €5
2007 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-XII, (ltd. 250)
The Japanese duet Overdose Kunst exists since 2001 and records a strange sort of music which they call "schizopoetry". Rejection of stylistic norms in the name of sound-craft freedom, deconstruction and irrational re-assemblage of musical material - that's what stands behind this term. This approach allows them to keep a child's purity and frankness in musical perception with the ability to send an emotional charge without using settled compositional forms. This disc includes the most song-like tracks of the band: crookedly recorded guitars, voices emotionally singing some nonsense in a mixture of several languages, and reversed melodies. Fine and lyrical post-rock from Japanese experimental underground.
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Sister Loolomie -- "Signals" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-XX, (ltd. 250)
Sister Loolomie is one of the offspring of [S]ergey (or just [S]), a musician from Moscow region, known for his projects Exit In Grey, Five Elements Music and some others, as well as for his labels Still*Sleep and Semperflorens. The musical style of [S] is notable for its delicate and gentle approach to sound, the keywords for its definition are: ambient / drone / experimental / electroacoustic. In Sister Loolomie [S] utilizes deliberate sonic "digitalizing" and at the same time manages to keep the warmth and cosiness of sound in his own way, resembling tape drone music... [S]ergey uses guitar, electronics, radio and computer processing in creating his soundscapes, both abstract and sensuous at the same time. The compositions move calmly and slowly, sound loops draw in attention like spirals and dissolve it in their textures. Shivery signal waves and soft generated rasp form an aerial atmosphere, in which crackle the discharges of digital interference, and bright yet slightly melancholic melodies bring serenity and tender contemplative sadness.
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Sphere Rex -- "For Electronics and Piano" -- CD -- €10
2009 Shadowplay Records, SPR 101 / Monopoly Records / Muzyka Voln, MV-III, (ltd. 500)
Muzyka Voln in cooperation with the Moscow label Monopoly Records and the Voronezh label Shadowplay Records presents the solo album of one of Cyclotimia members - Sphere Rex... The word "ambient" came into the musical culture after the same-name solo album of Brian Eno, a member of the British art rock band Roxy Music. Legend has it that the musician was in the hospital and had nothing to do but to listen to the noises behind the window, and so he noticed a certain structure and musicality which he later started to imitate with the use of tapes and musical instruments... Of course Eno wasn't the one who discovered this music style first, as before him the ideas of "background music" were developed by the French composer Erik Satie, and the concept of "the art of noises" was stated by the Italian futurist Luigi Russolo. However it was Eno who recorded in the 70s a series of albums with compositions which, so to say, laid the foundation of all contemporary ambient music in its boundless variety: from inelaborate "new age" to club "chill out" to harsh and experimental "dark/drone ambient"... Sphere Rex plays ambient in this uncommon for today traditional vein, combining minimalism and "background"-style of electronic music a la Brian Eno and piano improvisations based on proto-ambient ideas of Erik Satie. This music is able to calm down and lull to sleep like alpha-wave rhythms or paint weird images guided by the surreal titles of compositions in one's imagination. For the goals of complete authenticity only analogue devices were used in recordings, as well as tube preamps and compressors from 60s-70s.
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ÜL -- "III" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-XVI, (ltd. 250)
ÜL was formed in 2006 by Argentinians Alan Courtis (Reynols), Fernando Perales and Charly Zaragoza. They have performed live many times in Argentina and released two albums: "Astropecuario" on the Scottish label Pjorn Records and "II" on the Argentinian Facon Records. This is their third disk containing material recorded in 2007. The goal of ÜL is the exploration of timbric possibilities of electric guitars in their own way, combining elements of noise, drone music and free atonal improvisation. Their compositions immerse the listener into an abstract world of electromagnetic interaction between acoustic and electronic medium. A world glutted with raw sounds of string vibrations, droney feedback resonances, acute work of limiting amplifiers and layering echoes of effects.
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V/A -- "Muzyka Voln" -- CD -- €10
2007 Muzyka Voln, MV-I, (ltd. 500)
The first release of a new sublabel of ZHELEZOBETON - Muzyka Voln - is a compilation of the same name, containing compositions from twelve Russian projects playing ambient / drone music. A selection of audio-tales in which each project introduces the listener to its own sound world he's living in: mystical stories, isolationism, altered states of consciousness, space landscapes, monotonous technogenic rumble, guitar passages and much more... Specially for this compilation exclusive tracks were provided by: Anthesteria feat. Kaj?, Bardoseneticcube, Cisfinitum, Closing The Eternity, Exit In Grey, Hum, Instant Movie Combinations, Kshatriy, Lunar^Abyss^Deus^Organum, Necropolis, Polaris and RemoteBand. This compilation may be useful for those interested in the Russian experimental scene and just for lovers of beautiful contemplative music. The CD is housed in a six-panel digipak decorated with photos of Baltic Sea made by Pavel "fljõt" Pevnitsky.
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"Voices of the Dead" / video - Yuri Elik, sound - Gosha Solnzev, Yuri Elik -- DVD-R -- €10
2006 ZHELEZOBETON Film, ZF-II, (ltd. 250)
Photographer and videoartist Yuri Elik is primarily known as one of the founders and permanent members of multimedia project 2012, creating audio-video installations on various contemporary art festivals (SKIF, Heilige Feuer, Multivision, etc.). Apart from this Yuri performs on his own making video- and slide-shows for a number of experimental musical bands in St. Petersburg. Yuri is also the video show author for the performances of Simon Magus ballet written by D. Kakhovskiy and the designer of several CD artworks and websites. Gosha Solnzev (also known as "Van Gog" - 1g0g) - big industrial showman, leader of the project Noises of Russia well-known in Russia, organizer of several festivals, such as "Noise vs. Glamour", "Military Days", "Noisy Women", etc. Gosha has always claimed that he plays funeral music, so it's no wonder he showed interest in the phenomenon of voices of the dead, discovered by Friedrich Jürgenson in the late 50s of the past century. Electronic Voice Phenomenon (voices of the dead, Raudive voices) are the voices of anomalous origin appearing while making records on tape recorders or other electronic audio devices. EVP researches claim and have proof that this is a possible way of communication between physical and some other non-physical planes of existence. The exploration of this phenomenon led to an effective cooperation between Van Gog and Yuri which resulted in a series of live performances with the "Voices of the Dead" program and this short film, with 24 minutes an obscure psychedelic drama evolving in front of the spectator. A multi-layered collage of concrete visual images and kaleidoscopic colour fields constantly transforms, accompanied by unusual and uneasy sombre ambient with real voices of the dead samples interlaced in it's structure. As a bonus this disk also contains a 12-min. slide-film "City Spirits": alternation of photos by Yuri Elik with his own soundtrack constructed from city noises. Yuri skillfully focuses attention on subtleties of usual things that remain unseen to the eye of a usual human being, generally too busy with thinking over his insubstantial problems and forgetting about the beauty of the world surrounding him. The release is packed in a special cardboard sleeve and goes with a booklet with an encyclopaedic reference about the phenomenon of electronic voices.
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.-9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z V/A... -- "Creative Personality (Tvorcheskaya Lichnost')" -- CD-R -- €8
2009 YAOP, YAOP 042, (ltd. 12)
Sarcastic Power Electronics / Rough Noise. An original work dedicated to all sorts of "unappreciated geniuses", "always misunderstood" home-made "gifted", graphomaniacs and twaddlers, "self-expressing personalities" who feel enough to fart in a microphone to consider themselves "not like other". Last 12 copies in simplified package - one five inch CDR in a sleeve. Yet completely hand made, all information is hand-written, each copy is unique. [press-release]
[-Hyph-] -- "Alter.Tenacio" -- CD -- €13
2008 Tourette, Tourette 004
=]nizhnee_techenie[= -- "Commercially Failed Album" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 4torecords, HT01
Perverted depressive cocktail of retrograde electronics a la Karl Runau and November Novelet, strained industrial noises, infant defective androgyne vocals, pseudo-gothic touch and suicidal melodies. A couple of tracks feature heavy dirty guitar playing some tonal Industrial Noise rathen then anything musical. Slim DVD-box. [YAOP]
>o< -- "Sampo" -- CD-R -- €7
2006/2010 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT17, (ltd. 17)
Long-awaited digital reissue of the legendary album. North ritual material. Mountain river exorcism, rite "forest" industrial. Ecstatic to death endless song on Ultch language and a drone-industrial "live track" played on a steel wire pulled through the attic of an old village house. Handmade sleeve, all info is hand-written. [label info]
0ID -- "Red Book (Ambient Mix)" -- CD -- €10
2004 Lagunamuch Community, LMC200, (ltd. 500)
0id is Andrey Antonets solo project, created for the realization of the author's own ideas outside the Alexandroid project. Taking part in the Alexandroid project with Alex Matrosov and releasing albums all over the world, Andrey creats his own ambient soundsystem. There is no complexity in his world, no ambiguity or vagueness - there are only his own ideas and mood, embodied in music. Red Book was specially created for private listening - two in the room is too much to understand him. [press-release]
1000schoen -- "Moune" -- CD -- €13
2010 Nitkie, patch four, (ltd. 500)
MOUNE is a very old word for MOON, comes out of a old language that was spoken in Germany. But it's not german, it's Friesisch. Anyway, the moon theme is one of favourite topics in mystic circles around dark ambient genre. For Helge Siehl, who is the driving force of 1000schoen since the time he split his way with the other two former Maeror Tri members, it's definitely one of the most important subject - in his paintings, photos and music. This album, presenting the program of his first ever russian tour in December 2010 (with Troum and Feine Trinkers Bei Pinkels Daheim), shows more ambient side of 1000schoen, leaving rhythmic path aside in favor of menacing sounds of highly personal moon rising visions. Moreover, it's actually debut CD of this prominent german artist, who previously released his music mostly on limited/private edition CDRs. Featuring 3 tracks, with total running time of 45 minutes. [press-release]
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1000schoen -- "Yoshiwara" -- 2 CD -- €18
2011 Nitkie, patch seven, (ltd. 500)
Esoteric realism is the good term for 1000schoen works. With every new album, the meaning of this wordplay is getting more obvious, though also unexpected at the same time. "Yoshiwara" is not exception, it was first released by Kafue Systems in 2007, in very limited run on CDR with handmade photographic cover. The title should be familiar for those who knows the famous movie "Metropolis" by Fritz Lang, it was the nightclub where the main character Maria was working as the dancer. But it's also the red light district name, in 17th century Tokyo. However, the music we can find here can be hardly imagined as the soundtrack for the new version of "Metropolis". It's a trademark ambient symphony, with melodies dwelling somewhere on the edge of harmonic spheres. Both in short and long tracks, the impact is incredible - for the fans of experimental ambient sounds, it's another adventurous listening experience. This re-edition includes the second CD with two new and previously unreleased tracks, recorded in 2011. [press-release]
15 Degrees Below Zero -- "Under A Morphine Sky" -- CD -- €10
2004 Force Of Nature Productions, fon 07, (ltd. 1000)
15 Degrees Below Zero brings you the companion to 'Morhine Dawn' (2004 Crunch Pod Media), a further journey into the experimental ambience of 15 degrees below zero, who were formerly known as "Imperial Flower Unit". Mastered By Tomas Garrison At Misanthrope studios. "15 Degrees Below Zero's sound ranges from subdued, drifting ambience, featuring skewed, conventional instrumentation and tatters of rhythm, to more insistent, grittier electronic flourishes." [label info]
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1g0g -- "All Sacred" -- CD-R -- €6
2006 Electroindustria, 08EICDR
Solo album of of Noises of Russia frontman Van Gog (1g0g), which he actively performed during his numerous concerts in Russia and Finland in 2006. 50-minute suite forged from heavily distorted orthodox motets, ringing bells, industrial sounds, smooth ambient layers and found samples. True Christian harsh-noise!
1g0g -- "Cover Me From Any Evil" -- CD-R -- €6
2008 New Orthodox Line, NoL+CD-R01, (ltd. 150)
Apocalyptic breath noise. 1g0g alias Gosha Solnzev - the composer of electronic music. His compositions often created from stylistically disparate musical elements are defined by specific composition of music space and by density of sound stream. The voices of turning machines, church singing or piping, drops of rain knocking against the metal roof, dog's barking, tree's whisper, howl of the wind, organ accords and any other sounds are changing in his hands enormously and serve as real-time source material for creating of giant acoustical constructions of very fanciful forms. [press-release]
21 Gramms -- "I am a Product" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Le Crepuscule Du Soir, LCDS033, (ltd. 50)
Industrial Dark Ambient sometimes fertilized with cold drone, sometimes painted by depressive comatose neoclassic, occasionally exploding with industrial thunder and whacking in your brain with nasty violin clanks. Slim DVD case, insert and a postcard. [YAOP]
21 Gramms -- "Water - Membrane" -- CD -- €10
2012 Greytone, Grey009
With many qualitative independent CDr, Tape, eps productions, 21 GRAMMS garnered so much praise from so many quarters in the past years.
'Water - Membrane' is the second Poland's 21 GRAMMS pro-CD album. Seven extended pieces of sublime orchestral dark natural ambient, generated a truly wonderful album. 'Water - membrane' sounds like a 'last hope' inner movement into the most unknown decadences of the soul. Discouraging, shining, naturally isolationist. [label info]
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414 -- "Bone" -- CD -- €12
2008 Home Tape Studio, H.T.01, (ltd. 300)
A little-known project from one of the "old school" Russian noise musicians - Maks Lvovitch. 100% hometaping experience - tape loops, minimalism, monotonous abstract atmosphere, typical raw and fat cassette sound. Cardboard package.
900piesek / Dren -- split -- CD-R -- €8
2011 Uz Bolo Dost! / Be Creative / Hlukova Sekce, (ltd. 21)
Great old school split. Atmospheric daybreak ambient, technicistic canvases on the edge of Noise Ambient and Industrial in vein of early Edward Artemiev and machinery psychedelic Harsh Noise for the fans of Government Alpha. Handmade package of corrugated cardboard, oils and paper. [YAOP]
A Challenge Of Honour -- "Ashigaru Revealed" -- CD -- €10
2008 Eternal Pride Productions, EPP 012
"Warrior's way means death. When there are two ways to choose, choose the one that leads to death. Don't argue! Direct your thoughts to the way you'd prefer, and follow :" The latest work from one of the most prominent and outstanding Martial / neoclassical European projects. Continuation of music Odyssey began 7 EP - box-set "Ashigaru and dedicated to warrior's traditions of medieval Japan. Graceful and epic cocktail of atmospheric neoclassical passages, Japanese drums and rhythms. The album is released as appealing digi-pack, its design in classical Japanese style was created by Peter Savelkoul. [press-release]
A Challenge Of Honour -- "Leonidas" -- CD -- €13
2009 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 120
The City of Sparta was once one of the biggest military state within Greece, the most famous Spartan king was Leonidas. A Challenge of Honour re-arranged lost material from his archive and created an Epic soundtrack in honour of king Leonidas, the ruler of Sparta! For this album A Challenge of Honour has once more returned to his sound of the legendary Seven Samurai recordings to try to get the right atmosphere for this journey into ancient history. Expect heavy percusion and powerful orchestral brass work combined with choirs and marching drums. [label info]
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A Challenge Of Honour -- "Where No Angels Dare To Come" -- CD -- €12
2006 Vrihaspati Recordings, VR009, (ltd. 500)
Official release of the recordings from the first ACOH live concert in 2002. Two bonus tracks were recorded at a live concert in 2004.
A Minority Of One -- "Bathe In Fiery Answer" -- CD -- €14
2009 Autumn Wind Productions, awp026, (ltd. 1000)
A Spirale -- "Agaspastik" -- CD -- €11
2009 Fratto9 Under The Sky Records, Fratto009 / Deserted Factory, DF051
Free Jazz from Italy. Try to imagine Kevin Drumm and Bhob Rainey playing rock together, with a drummer that deviate their already deviant music playing something coming from the sixties. The aim is to make music "not playing" (barbarous music, quoting Cornelius Cardew), a torn body that spits blood, whose only movement is generated by spastic contractions due to injuries. Agaspastik represents the "step beyond" of A Spirale, that from electroacoustic destructuration of "Porosita" (cd-r) and "Gariga" (SM -- 1360) expand their range of possibility and control over the sound matter, losing themselves in the languages of radical improvisation, of power noise, of punk... Very dark and violent music, with bewildering moments of melody... [press-release]
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A.M. Salad -- "Lo-Fi For Hi-Fi" -- CD -- €10
2004 Sunship Records, SUN51 / Gold Soundz, GS#34 / Little Mafia Records, LM041 / Nihilist, NIHIL 25 / Sloth Jinni, SJ002 / White Tapes, EM19
The project of Keith Childress (Algebrassiere) who presents here, the highlights of his mid-90's cassette noise collage & drone work. A deep exploration of mangled contraptions in foreboding places. 71 minutes! [label info]
Aa1 -- "Live at Electroline" -- CD-R -- €6
2007 Dars Records, DR10CD
aa1 (Vasily Kuznetsov) - master of performances from Ural whose concepts are always unexpected and very interesting. All compositions are created by means of own musical algorithms developed in PD environment. Each performance of aa1 is unique, because it does not have in advance prepared loops, melodies, rhythmic figures. Music is created in the course of a concert, live, from prerecorded soundbites and generated sounds. This CD is a recording of an improvised a concert at the first South Ural electronic music festival Electroline (Russia) in 2005. It's a 50-minute mix of sound-collaging, electroacoustics, ambient, and minimal noise. [label info]
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Aan -- "Salamaa" -- CD-R -- €7
2006 Ikuisuus, is-003
Aan is a duo by Kulkija and Uton. These recordings are from their first meetings ever (at least in these psychophysical bodies) in Helsinki and Tampere, late 2004. Music is full of strange sounds and dark atmospheres, deeply in the very heart of the so-called mystical
forrest folk illusion. Astral travelling, dreams from the other side... some beings in the source, dancing their song for life, death & mysteries. [label info]
Ab Intra -- "Aura Imaginalis" -- CD -- €10
2009 Zoharum, ZOHAR 006-2
Ab Intra is the Latin phrase for "on the inside". The term is quite appropriately connected with the project's music. The man behind it, Radoslaw Kaminski, claims that he seeks connection with his inner side by exploring the musical territories. Ab Intra is an illustration of the pictures that are created in the mind of the author. However, the form used enables the listeners to interpret the sounds in their own way. For fans of Inade, Raison d'Etre / Necrophorus, Herbst9, First Law, Endvra. [press-release]
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Ab Intra -- "Supremus" -- CD -- €10
2012 Zoharum, ZOHAR 026-2
After 4 years since the last release, AB INTRA returns with a new album. "Supremus" is almost an hour of music placed in the widely-understood dark ambient genre. The album reflects a much more mature image of the artist who consciously creates a world of his own sound and vision. The idea behind the album is the trial of creating an inner feeling, or impression, which is superior to others (Supremus comes from Latin and it means the highest, definite, dominant) which is in fact the effect of tuning one's mind and stepping outside the conditioned structures. It is a trial of placing consciousness in the sphere of pure sensations where the word becomes dominated by the sound, surrounded by the feeling, and the symbol and vision become the carrier of new meanings. [press-release]
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Abandoned Head -- "Oblique Visibility" -- CD-R -- €8
2007 Still*Sleep, cdr2
Abandoned Head is a solo project of Stanislav Wolkov, a member of duet Exit In Grey. His first release contains one half-hour long piece of isolationist dark drone ambient. Subtle sounds, unhurried evolution of musical plot, atmosphere depicting personal "sound vision" of the author.
Abbildung -- "Endless Repetition Of The Same" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Essentia Mundi, EM007, (ltd. 100)
This release celebrates five years of ABBILDUNG's unique sound experiments. The release contains a selection of tracks from various recording stages over the last 5 years. This is a 'special' release not intended as a 'best of' but as a history in unpublished, recovered, left material. [label info]
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Accomplice Affair -- "Cienie" -- CD -- €10
2011 My Hands Music, CD003
This album is continuation of music ideas from previous "Samotny horyzont" album. The album contains more experimental guitar sounds and mysterious voices. Music from this album gets of listeners to solitary and darkness lands. This music is cold and darkness, profounds and emotionals. Two songs were recorded together with Marek Styczynski (The Magic Carpathians, Cyber Totem). He created sounds with an old experimental instruments (cytra, fidola). Over 50 minutes of music for fans who like experimental sounds! [label info]
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Accomplice Affair -- "Samotny Horyzont" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 My Hands Music, MHM 002
My Hands Music presents the third album of Polish project Accomplice Affair called "Samotny horyzont". This album was recorded at P.P.R Studio in Ostrow Wlkp, Poland from March to September 2008 year and contains 8 songs including bonus song with Krzysztof Bilinski from Radio Panteon. The music from "Samotny horyzont" is like a way towards to world of human imagination. There are a lot of magic landscapes which are entangled with psychedelic sounds. Total time near 50 minutes of music! Especially for fans who like experimental music! [label info]
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Ad Lux Tenebrae -- "Ancestor's Call" -- CD -- €10
2008 Vegvisir music, o:002, (ltd. 963)
First full-length CD of Ad Lux Tenebrae (or K Svetu T'my - in Russian language), released after several split, collaboration and CDR editions. The disk contains two rituals, first was performed in the evening of Jan. 23rd, 2008, second - during the night on May 24-25th, 2004. Shamanic Dark / Drone Ambient of Ad Lux Tenebrae is the sound of the most ancient and deepest layers of existence, irrational and anti-rational, utterly alien to nowadays people, the manifestation of human side not distorted by the influence of "civilization" and "modern society". Message from the source where the essence of Nature and human flow together. Music from pre-times and out of time. The noise produced by humanoid organisms crawling about piles of metal and plastic, now completely drowns the call from the source of all living. Musicians of Ad Lux Tenebrae act as media, conductors that embody this signal, not bringing anything personal in the act of creation. In their rituals they use the original instruments like tambourine, self-made drums, tube, flutes and other untitled instruments made by themselves. Every ritual is put into a completed action only once, and will never be repeated in future... First ritual is intense and uneasy. A ritual of purifying from momentary things and merging with something that was rejected long time ago in blindness and stupidity. This is a wind tearing apart rotten meat of momentary and dissolving in an inexpressible glow from beyond. The storm of the first ritual gives place to pacification of the second one, but this calmness is illusive. Just like a pillow of moss in the middle of a forest looks so calm and safe, but it hides deadly depth of swamp pit underneath. Ghostly lights appearing in the very border of vision in short yet infinite moment of daybreak twilight, they lure inside the thicket warped in ghostly mist. The road of this music is tempting and frightening, what's gonna happen with the one following it?.. This CD is dedicated to the memory of Raven, a permanent member of the band, passed away in cold autumn of 2008. Rituals of "Ancestor's Call" were among the last recordings done with his participation. [press-release]
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Adriva -- "Adtasa" -- 3"CD-R -- €9
2008 Observatiore 19, (ltd. 18)
This release contains 2 tracks: first long track is quite typical for Adriva - same raw loops of sound, revolving like giant black millstones. Second track is even more minimalistic and consists of deep low-end rumbling loops.
Adriva -- "Cold Sea Week" -- CD-R -- €8
2007 Abgurd, AB-43, (ltd. 100)
Project of Denis from formations of SUNCHARIOT, ENMERKAR and MATTER shows a little more experimental Drone Ambient than the one he performs in his main project, SUNCHARIOT. The album is dedicated to the author's sojourn on the shores of Black Sea in winter. Slack, congealed soundwaves crystallize in the air and gently descend on eyelids and shoulders, immersing one in eternal slumber of Suspense. Floating spectres of drowned fishermen, call-signs of ultramundane submarines, icefloes that ram Eternity, chasm of scalding coldness and pitch-darkness. [press-release]
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Adriva -- "Cuore Mini" -- CD-R -- €6
2008 Observatiore 18, (ltd. 18)
Ritual old school industrial from Rostov-on-Don, Russia.
Adriva -- "Equites Mini" -- CD-R -- €9
2007 Observatory Records, Observatory 13, (ltd. 30)
This project always remains true to itself: minimalism, lo-fi sound, slowly rotating loops and feeling of some devilry happening around.
Adriva -- "Lacte Sessia" -- CD-R -- €10
2008 Observatoire 24, (ltd. 38)
One 30-min. piece made in monotonous drone ambient way typical for Adriva, but at the same time "shifted" towards more fluent mood: the sound became more flowing, loops - more wave-sounding, atmosphere - more abstract.
Adriva -- "Losung" -- CD-R -- €8
2007 Strely Peruna, SP017, (ltd. 100)
'Losung!' is a victoriously offensive shout of pagan barbarians directed to Roman garrisons. Obscure and heavy enveloping noise and rhythm of Death. For all lovers of dark ambient, death industrial and ritual. Special non-standard package, limited edition. 47 minutes. [press-release] Re-edition of the original CDR on Observatory Records with a bonus-track.
Adriva -- "Oriens" -- CD-R -- €10
2008 Observatiore 23, (ltd. 38)
The album was recorded in winter 2008. Lost - somewhere in reality and dream interactions. Clarity - only in search of one of the four cardinal directions... Total time - 60 minutes. [label info]
Adriva -- "Voix de Mythe" -- 3"CD-R -- €8
2009 Abgurd, AB-54, (ltd. 50)
A new mini-album from this Russian project which album Cold Sea Week released by Abgurd in 2007 got good acknowledgement. The new material is completely acoustic without usage of any musical instruments. Only field recordings and feedback. Everything melts down into electroacoustic drone ambient of live tension. [label info]
Adriva 91404 D -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT44, (ltd. 147)
Collaboration between one of the giants of Russian drone-scene - Adriva from Rostov-on-Don, and YAO 91404 D from Ingria. Industrial / musique concrete in classical style of Pierre Schaeffer and Brume. Industrial noises, hum and clanks of mechanisms, loops, howl of the wind, hiss of air trunks and warped parts of musical instruments are mixed together into a complex multi-layered retro-futuristic industrial symphony. Two-sided printed sleeve. [press-release]
Aelia Capitolina -- "Requiem" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 NAID, naid-002, (ltd. 22)
Second release of NAID is Aelia Capitolina project, known for good web releases, but this time the release is physical and it represents a conceptual work in slightly tragical and nordically creative mood. Snowstorm from north brought enveloping synthesizer drones, making you peer into dense mist and inhale cold wind of crushing of last hopes for Freedom. Stylistically this is close to funeral nordic ambient. Ideologically it resembles gloomy Canadians from Cyclic Law. Recommended. [Ufa Muzak]
Aeoga -- "Coav" -- CD -- €10
2004 Aural Hypnox, [AH02], (ltd. 1000)
Finnish label Aural Hypnox was founded only in 2004 but has already obtained reputation of qualified provider of dark drone/ritual music with their project Halo Manash. The new band on this label sounds quiet in vein - music is based on eerie guitar feedback textures, archaic drum and cymbal patterns, atonal/tonal vocalizations and various distant/peculiar sample layers. "To exhaust mind and body in order to obtain a condition of non-consciousness and thus receive, realize and create material based on both primal and absent vision". The CD comes in octagon shaped cardboard cover which you can easily use as wall-decoration in your room.
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Aeterna Anima -- "Chaos Of Noise And Silence" -- CD-R -- €9
2002 self-released
The project from Tomsk, Russia, consists of only one person Const N.F. Griph who is responsible for programming and lyrics sounding on this album, and this is a great example of how ti create good and diverse material using minimum of equipment. 80 minutes, 19 tracks - a serious volume, especially since it has been composed during 3-4 months in early 2002. But this doesn't mean anything bad - on the contrary, every sound is processed with a responsible attitude, maybe only distortion is used a bit roughly and excessively, but the whole picture stays fine. There is some stylistical range, but it lies between the related genres - coming from the area of Noise through Dark Ambient into Drone Ambient. Some tracks are quite aggressive and tend to Genocide Organ and other pillars of this genre. SOme of the tracks are very mild, with low frequency background, easy ambiental pseudo-melodies, bells, and nice atmospheric lyrics spoken by male and female voices. You can hear the use of different effects - reverb, echo, panning - but at the same time everything's so simple and minimal. The overall feeling of this album is very positive. [Ultima-Ratio]
African Cave Recordings From The Lunar Surface -- "Acoustic Selenology In The 1900s" -- CD-R -- €9
2010 Black Drone: 13 Series, 13-1, (ltd. 39)
Experimental ambient, field recordings and musique concrete. Following the steps of Deutsch Nepal and Lustmord. Sleeve. [YAOP]
Aghast -- "Hexerei Im Zwielicht Der Finsternis" -- CD -- €13
2009 Eternal Pride Productions, EPP 014
Aghast was a project by Nebelhexe and Nacht, released in 1994. This album was released back then by legendary Cold Meat Industry and now we present a great re-edition in DIGI-CD. "Hexerei Im Zwielicht Der Finsternis" is real dark and gloomy ambience, played in a classical dark wave vein. Minimalism in musical content, compensated by spooky and ice-cold vocals that will haunt you. Macabre enchantresses in lovely disguise will seduce you to end your life and take you th their ghastly realm from which you will never rise. Hear gods cry and angels fall. Listen to the horror and beauty. Let Aghast bewitch you! [press-release]
Aghiatrias -- "Ethos" -- CD -- €10
2006 Epidemie Records, EPR 054, (ltd. 500)
The fourth and as before thematic album of the Czech formation Aghiatrias, accomplishing its own concept of so-called integrated music that represents a confrontation in broad dimensions of contemporary classics, dark-ambient, noise and industrial. The central motif of this album is the refusal of broadly accepted materialistic view of the world and its future, demonstration of awareness of historical lapse of the human in relation to that what transcends him, well thought out attack against the "soul swallowers" supporting pathological mechanisms of hidden, nevertheless sophisticatedly planned process leading to the suppression of spirituality. The album is revocation and update of time-honored, in prism of today mistakenly as if mythical and therefore for many not existing combat of the good and the evil in the individual. Digipak. [label info]
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Aghiatrias -- "Regions of Limen" -- CD -- €10
2004 Epidemie Records, EPR 045, 2nd edition, (ltd. 444)
An extensive dark-ambient album devoted to the theme of subliminal sensual perception and its fictive musical applicaiton. An abstrakt conception of the confrontation between the surreal and real world (artificial ambient versus realistic industrial sound). The meditative character of the compositions is brightened by discharges of a kind of radioactive irradiation, representing the fleeing moments of understanding. The formation aims for purity of expressive means in an effort to accentuate the role of the primarily suppressed and ignored spiritual dimension of our world,while pointing to the importance of the liminal "structures" of our perception." [label info]
Aglaia -- "Mondi Sensibili" -- CD -- €13
2006 Hic Sunt Leones, HSL 036
The third CD by AGLAIA "Mondi Sensibili" create a soundworld where the vibrations, the poetry and sound teraphy bring the listener into that forgotten sound places suggested by the title. In õMondi Sensibilię (Sensible Worlds), the sound incantations caracterized by the Aglaia's music become more and more clear and layered: the electronic sounds seem played from the wind, and their brilliance often seem to come from the cords of an acoustic instrument. [label info]
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Aglaia -- "Naked Movements" -- CD -- €13
2009 Hic Sunt Leones, HSL052
Aglaia -- "Reverberant Skies" -- CD -- €13
2009 Hic Sunt Leones, HSL053
Aglaia -- "Sacred Waters" -- CD -- €13
2004 Hic Sunt Leones, HSL028
The textural ambient project Aglaia have finally released their second album. After a very good feedback from the first CD "Three Organic Experiences", "Sacred Waters" is the new offertoires to introduce more and more in the amniotic sound dimension, of their music. The layers's quality become more deep here.. in breathing circles where processed voices and acoustic instruments, appear to be evocative and fragmented like in a dream, or just like what an echo can play with sounds in an open landscape, coming from far distances with the wind. The electronics/analog sounds are waves of flowing energy with a powerful relaxing quality, and behind them you can hear sometimes an indian flavour like an incense stick burning. By the way it's not possible at all to explain and describe the originality of this music, his poetry and his psychoacoustic properties, but if you start to listen, it invites you to stay inside yourself, in the motionless, and timeless space that induce, bathing in the Sacred Waters of the infinite ocean of peace and inspiration. [label info]
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Aglaia -- "Unprofaned Twilight" -- CD -- €13
2008 Faria Records, FAR-18 / Hic Sunt Leones, HSL 046, (ltd. 650)
The fourth cd of Aglaia is born from the previous work but, in comparison with them, it develops a wider breath directly from the background's sounds. The composition is softer and more refined. Again the sonorous world that here is explored is that one of the enchantment, of the mild sound fading. An unprofaned and inviolate twilight, where the different vibrations are balanced, without any sort of tensions. Time rolls by and space too. The sound is a natural matter and gives birth to an intense crepuscolar light. Listening to this music is like to see thousands of fine luminous rays, filtered through half-closed windows. A dance of dust in a never ending movement that catches the light around. With aglaia's sound we are in an electroacoustic microcosm full of vibrating signs. The first of the two long compositions suggests a natural and quiet landscape. The sound's mood is a sort of perpetual tinkling, wrapped up a voice coming from the space, that observes from afar. An harmonic accordance between different reality. The second, even though more intimate, is equally shining. Everything happens during a night where insects, spring-waters and moonlight match themselves together. A swarming midnight with underworld life. [press-release]
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Aglaia -- "White Maps" -- CD -- €13
2009 Hic Sunt Leones, HSL051
Agnivolok & Chaos As Shelter -- "Henbane" -- CD -- €10
2009 The Eastern Front, Front 024, (ltd. 1000)
Agnivolok is the neo-folk and experimental music project of Vera Agnivolok, Igor Krutogolov and Vadim Gusis. Vadim Gusis stands also behind the project Chaos As Shelter, his solo project. So this album seems a very logical collaboration, but could it not just been an Agnivolok album? Well, not quite. Since Agnivolok is very neofolk oriented and Chaos As Shelter makes mostly instrumental industrial soundscapes. Both projects take turns with each track, so we go from experimental neo-folk into experimental soundscapes. This way the album has a very interesting synergy. I very much like the, somewhat distorted, vocals of Vera Agnivolok, although I can't hear what she really sings about, it has a very nice ambience to it. Neo-folk for me is often a hit or miss, but here it's a definite hit. Because the neo-folk of Agnivolok has very industrial elements, it really fits with Chaos As Shelter soundscapes, to create one somewhat unique whole. With this album I really feel like walking in some dark industrial world, or some torn apart cities, and then getting some narrative in-between. It has therefore a somewhat cinematic quality, sometimes even theatrical. A very excellent release, even if you are perhaps not really into neo-folk. Though both projects have a significant sound of their own, together it works very well because they complete each others input. The Eastern Front has already delivered some fine releases, and this one they can put up there with some of their best albums! [Fabian, Gothtronic]
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Ahad, Zsolt Sores -- "Ahad's Master's Garden III (2007 - 2009): The Harmonian Blues" -- 2 CD -- €10
2011 Fourth Dimension Records, FD2CD76 / AudioTONG, ATCD09.2011, (ltd. 500)
These two discs capture Budapest's prolific and versatile musician, Zsolt Sores, in a fully tranced-out fug that draws not only from his background in rock music but also his strong leanings towards the avant-garde and improvisation partly formed by being classically-trained yet never content to remain as such. In turn, we are treated to some near-mystical and transcendental journeys through a contemporary psychedelia at once recalling Taj Mahal Travellers and the spaceward-bound forays of early Pink Floyd and Can as well as Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock with their grizzled Dadaism and Lee Ranaldo's expansive and drone-bound guitar textures. Inspired by Fourier's Harmonian Opera and several quotations by Hakim Bey, Sores' has here created an album that resonates with depth of a nature rarely found these days. [press-release]
Aidons La Norvege -- "Ostaggi" -- CD -- €10
1986/2010 Oltrelanebbiailmare, CD201004
Aidons La Norvege from Perugia, Italy, were formed in 1982; they showcased a typical dark wave style with Italian lyrics. They recorded an unforgettable 12" entitled "La Sfida" ("The Challenge", originally released by SPITTLE Records). Along with the aforementioned EP the band had significant live experiences, in Italy and abroad, recorded several demotapes and participated to various compilations (including the tape "The Fifth Column", released by French label Wallenberg and including contributes by DEATH IN JUNE, 23 SKIDOO and others). Aidons La Norvege quitted in 1988 playing only a few more occasional concerts. The CD release "Ostaggi" includes the four tracks that appeared on the "La sfida" 12", along with a selection of recordings from the same years that were only included on some promotional demotapes - and therefore substantially unreleased - for a total playing time of about 50 minutes of refined music to be remembered or rediscovered, also because the band have recently regrouped for some concert and is active again. [press-release]
Ain Soph -- "October" -- CD -- €14
2002 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 044 / Misty Circles, MCR33
Yes the roman masters are back after 10 years with the AURORA follower album: "OKTOBER"... ! All is singed on Italian with their usual acoustic instrumentation and their tipical keyboard, songs in the way of Aurora but with an aditional rocking electric guitar, once more a work out of all standards! The more unusual industrial project which still works from inside the idustrial world... Tales from a jung russian guy during the october revolution... probably even more "surprising" than the last "incredible" AURORA... The disc that all of you was waiting for! Comes in ellegant digipack + lirics booklet. [label info]
AirSculpture -- "TranceAtlantic" -- 2 CD -- €15
2005 Neu Harmony, NH037
Dwelling more in the realm of Ambient Music, this release is a journey inward to the dark abstractions of the dreaming mind. With this work, AirSculpture explores the fabric of sound, its range of subtleties and the dramatic possibilities of music organized without a tonal center. A lilting piano improvisation opens each disc but soon the mood spirals downward into a shifting timbral plane. Drones build amongst a narrative of humming synthetic sound and constantly transforming tonal color. Set against these sections is the imaginative and engaging sequencer driven patterns AirSculpture is known for. Even here the group pushes beyond their earlier work and into new and unique depths of throbbing pulse, bouncing echoes and spacey beats. The result is a cool combination of inspired play, chance occurrence and the magnification of minute shadings of sound. [Chuck van Zyl, Star's End]
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AKPAN -- "Schwarze Sonne" -- CD -- €8
2007 Strely Peruna prod., SP019, (ltd. 420)
A project of a man also performing as Sva Battalion. Militant shamanistic dark-ambient/noise in which throat singing, khomus, percussion and wind instruments (not sampled but recorded by the author himself) meet noises and gunshots. Feeling like a gathering of shamans-generals conjures about their military business. In general, quite vivacious and non-standard recording, qualitative and interesting.
Akpan / Dadhikra -- "Indo-Bod" -- 3"CD-R -- €9
2011 S und S Records, SS-2010-013-01 / YAOP, YAOP 049, (ltd. 30)
Split / collaboration of two projects from Moscow region and Ingria, inspired by various aspects and directions of aryan and related cultures originating from the Arctic motherland. The birth of Brahma from lotus, Vishnu who grew from umbilicus in absolute peace amidst waves of the Worl ocean, and spirits dancing in snowstorms of the Lapland thundras - in two Ritual Ethnic Industrial tracks of Dadhikra. Overtone buddhist noise, voice and deliberate beats of ting chang - in enchanting rite of Akpan. Short collaboration track - glow of bright mysterious drone painted with parts of traditional instruments. Fully handmade artwork utilising vintage materials, calligraphy, hand-cut stamps. [press-release]
Albireon -- "Mr. Nightbird Hates Blueberries" -- CD -- €14
2010 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 132
A dark comedy or a folk drama about drunk birds, mocking spiders, empty bottles and lost souls. Starring David E. Williams, Lloyd James, Sonne Hagal, Future Whirl, Die Weisse Rose. A strange manuscript, telling a tale about some bizarre characters, found somewhere in a forgotten cellar and hidden by countless broken bottles, was the inspiring spark for this dark comedy or folk drama-as the subtitles suggest-set to music in order to show how love can be a faint illusion and the deepest of all wounds. For this decadent party, recorded between late 2008 to early 2010 and graced by great emotional neo folk ballads and more experimental gloomy soundscapes, Albireon invited some very selected guests to share this tasty blueberries' cake and offer the album a different palette of vocal nuances and a multinational coven of damned artists' parade. American songwriter-genious David E. Williams, UK's finest minstrel Lloyd James of Naevus, german neo folk leading act Sonne Hagal, Norwegian/american highly talented artist Future Whirl (formerly Oberon) and the new martial heroes Die Weisse Rose are the selected guests of Mr. Nightbird's party. These great artists offered a priceless contribution to Albireon's music and lyrics, and perfectly painted the sad main character, in his struggling pilgrimage toward love, loss, forgiveness and rebirth, but all seen through the drunk eye of the mocking spiders. And after all, you now may be guessing why Mr.Nightbird hates blueberries? Listen to the album and find out why! [press-release]
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Algol -- "Deep Thoughts About Universe" -- CD-R -- €6
2007 Misfake, MF#6
Russian project from the depth of Siberia. Press-release says: We are all physically living in a definite space and time, but we have an amazing gift, that must not be left out! Mentally, we can broaden the borders of reality by Imagination. I feel myself trapped in a cage between two lions; the first one is eternity of Macro - and the second is chaos of Micro - world. But if you close your eyes, cast aside all your useful thoughts, and join a mind flight with me, you will be able to explore new unknown horizons and see other worlds. Use & develop your imagination thoroughly for it's the most important sense that we possess as human beings. We can not fight against Time, but nevertheless, we can play with it using our Minds!
Alio Die -- "Flight of the Real Image" -- CD -- €13
2006 Faria Records, FAR-05, (ltd. 1000)
The Russian label Faria Records have re-released the MCD by ALIO DIE "The Flight of Real Image" (out of stock from a long time), in full lenght version: this is a limited edition in 1000 copies in a special cardboard package with 5 cards, inside the cover. The artwork was released by Hic Sunt Leones in collaboration with the painter Sara Luciani. The tracking list bring together the tracks originally included in the mcd, with two unrealised track with Saffron Wood, a new track with Bruno Sanfilippo, a beautiful acoustic track with Luciano Daini, and other inedits. [artist info]
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Alio Die -- "Khen Introduce Silence" -- CD -- €12
2003 Hic Sunt Leones, HSL 025
Taking basic improvisations only from sounds produced by Khen (mouth-organ from Thailand/Laos) and processed by different controls like filters, pan and multi-effects, Stefano Musso looks for a vibrational enviroment that is like a special point of view, where time changes his meaning and sometimes becomes absolutely relative, finding a place for contemplation, like being in the clouds and breathing with the sound of the spheres. Observe the circular harmony of seasons in his never ending flow, it speaks like old poetry that is familiar to the soul. [press-release]
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Alio Die -- "Le Stanze Della Trascendenza" -- CD -- €13
1999 Hic Sunt Leones, HSL 016
This is the second part of a trilogy of ambient music (the first part of this series is "The Hidden Spring" out on Crowd Control Act. in 1998) characterized by old sound sources of acoustic origin Stefano Musso did several years ago (voice, flute, field recordings), reworked now with modern technologies of digital multitrack recordings.
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Alio Die -- "Leaves Net" -- CD -- €12
2001 Hic Sunt Leones, HSL 019
The third part of the trilogy based on re-assembling old recordings features several previously unreleased tracks and compositions from compilations "Death Odors", "Regeneration-Degenerescence", "Desire" and mCD "The flight of the real image".
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Alio Die -- "Music Infinity Meets Virtues" -- CD -- €13
2009 Nextera, ERA 2060 2
Performed Live at Church of St.Simon and Juda, Prague 1 - Old Town, May 23rd, 2009.
Alio Die -- "Sol Niger" -- CD -- €13
2004 Hic Sunt Leones, HSL 021
This new CD contains unrealized material recorded by Alio Die in the year 2001. The tracks are characterized from the editing of old recordings produced in Milan in 1990, with Massimo Iadarola plays guitar and effects. The recordings were integrated with radionoise from an old Valvular Model. Some new sounds of flutes and percussions were added from Gianfranco Cualbu. The recordings were completed with a new tracks displays zither, muezzin voices from the shirt wave space and field recordings made by Alio Die in Notre Dame, Paris Sept 2002. The sound atmosphere of this release is close in some way of the really first CDs by Alio Die, with a light electronic taste, in the feeling of the dark that pass before a new dawn. [label info]
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Alio Die & Aglaia -- "Private History Of The Clouds" -- CD -- €13
2009 Infraction, INFX 037, (ltd. 900)
Alio Die & Amelia Cuni -- "Apsaras" -- CD -- €12
2001 Projekt, PROJEKT126
Italian singer Amelia Cuni has a voice like a drink of mountain stream water, a voice that you might expect to find operating in popular song. But her area of expertise is that most ancient and rigorous of Indian styles, dhrupad singing. Cuni's vocal clarity and dusky sweetness sit oddly but perfectly in this austere context. Recent enthusiastic collaborators have included Paul Schutze, Terry Riley, Werner Durand and David Toop. This is not music that borrows a few Indian flavours, but a serious attempt to make something new and expressive from within Indian art music. It's both extraordinarily beautiful and very easy to listen to. [Clibe Bell, The Wire Magazine] With 15 different collaborations and 7 solo albums to his name, Italian ambient soundscape constructor Alio Die presents his most stunning release to date. His work with Robert Rich and Vidna Obmana have set the stage for the unusual beauty of this dramatic work, celebrating nature and the magic of the human voice... In Hindu mythology, the Apsaras are female spirits of nature, usually water nymphs. Flowing in the waters, these celestial nymphs come out of the waves like the first seed of the mind: desire. Talented artistically, the Apsaras are very beautiful; charming musicians and dancers for the pleasure of the Gods. [press-release]
Alio Die & Daini, Luciano -- "End of an Era" -- CD -- €13
2007 Hic Sunt Leones, HSL 042
Alio Die: Psaltery, Zither, Drones and Loops, Editing and Field Recordings. Luciano Daini: Cello, Flik-Horn, Zither, Voice, Flutes,
Metals, Percussions, Rattles, Keyboards.
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Alio Die & Festina Lente -- "Il Sogno Di Un Piano Veneziano A Parigi" -- CD -- €13
2005 Hic Sunt Leones, HSL 030
With Il Sogno di un Piano Veneziano a Parigi Alio Die and Festina Lente creates together a place of the memory where the past rest with a filmy nostalgia.. it is a dramatically joint that finally extinguish itself to the become.. there at the border where the personal moment ends, and the taste of an impersonal experience starts, with a longer breath. Like life belongs to the cosmos, and time belongs to the seasons. After a long friendship a pianoforte met a zither, their incorporating sounds brought on wings of an ancient and lully dream, in foggy layers of impalpable feelings and in a wayward journey towards the inland. The field recordings were collected in Paris, East-Asia, and America by Alio Die, kimsonJa and Francesco Paladino such as rituals, animals, objects and spontaneous voices in the street... surround and conduce towards parallel worlds. The ambient tracks are alternated with more intense and obscure moments, without breaking the solution of the continuum, through the organic elaborations of the sound's dye... loops of notes and silences, subtle presences of the field recordings that spy both: mankind and nature: So the treated piano and the nipped and scrubbed cords, the voices and noises, the resonances of metals... calls back the memory's body, that comes to the surface with great glangour. Dissolvent bright and dark colours, putting voices together to a poetical inspiration and a glamorous and precise lyricism of the entire inside. [press release]
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Alio Die & Paladino, Francesco -- "Angel's Fly Souvenir" -- CD -- €13
2004 Hic Sunt Leones, HSL 027
'Angel's Fly Souvenir' a CD by ALIO DIE & FRANCESCO PALADINO with contributes by IN GOWAN RING and JACK OR JIVE. An album out of any definition, music at the same time dreamy and deep, a concrete and ethereal journey, born from the pleasure to experiment, the project was starting from acoustic sounds and voices recorded throw a long tube with zither loops, flutes, and different sonorous objects not identified at all and from the 'nose' sounds by Francesco Paladino. The album contains seven tracks, two of that are enriched by the epic collaboration track with In Gowan Ring in 'Ancient Consciousness of the End', and with the voice by Chako of Jack or Jive in 'Flowing Out from the Core of the Mountain'. [label info]
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Alio Die & Saffron Wood -- "Corteggiando le Messi" -- CD -- €12
2006 Hic Sunt Leones, HSL 037
From seminal experiments at the research of the harmony, playing with nipped and scrubbed cords by salterio and zither (plus marimba and fields recordings), improvising and recording in the open spaces of the inner Liguria, some very relaxing tracks are spring out ...with coloured harmonics and enchanted depth. One of the Top Ten listenings here: [label info]
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Alio Die & Saffron Wood -- "The Sleep of Seeds" -- CD -- €12
Hic Sunt Leones, HSL 026
The title is also the opening track of this macroscopic journey into a world which spontaneously engages us when we travel through it. A link between life and earth, a passageway between time and change. A melodious itinerary in which a time hourglass often makes no sense but only the sound of articulated and fragmentary notes... 50 minutes between a seed and a grain of soil to wander into an infinite space while listening to a far away earth longing sound. Recorded in Savona Italy august 2002, with different flutes, tubes, accordion, various objects, rattles, shells, bells... Drones and loops, effects, editing and mastering on Pro-tools, at Temple studio Milano spring 2003. All the CDs comes in a special artwork compositions with tissues leaves, seeds... [label info]
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Alio Die & Zeit -- "Sunja" -- CD -- €13
Hic Sunt Leones, HSL 023
"Magic has blown its precious spores in the air. A human rite, humble and quiet, has evoked a red hot globe that gently illuminates the path toward the borders of Sunja, the dream place where all vibrations start. Sometimes the light comes down from the sky, clear like a crystal. Sometimes it climbs slowly from the earth's depths, but it's always comforting. Crossing the thresholds of Sunja is like landing on an uncontaminated island, furrow its white sea-shores lapped by tepid foamy waters, been inebriated with wide floral smells and saltiness in secret places of the inland and in caves dug from time, gain the top of the plateau from which it is possible to see beyond... Sunja is creative strength enclosed in two long tracks of incredible intensity, rich in levels of knowledge, pure enchantment and beauty. The deep sound has an extraordinary symbolic and evocative power and it has arrived to a supreme purification owing to millenial percolations across the rock. Music shines, beholds, resounds at the bottom of ourselves, lives and spreads out. We realize, in listening, that a light warmth closes in upon us, everything loses its own original sense, the gates open... the road is beaten! Basic acoustic recordings were improvised during a warm night in late summer 2002 at Lunae studio,Tuscany. Edited and mixed in spring 2003 at Temple studio, Milano. Stefano Musso: zither, samples and loops, buzzer, fields recordings. Tommaso Cimo: khen (mouth-organ), accordion, attles, bird calls, bells. All the CDs come in a special artwork numbered compositions with collages and handmade prints." [label info]
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Alisa-Yhtye -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €6
2009 Triangle Records, [TR042], (ltd. 100)
Grigory Avrorin makes noise since 1997. He started in a band TALONOV NET, and after it's breakup continued to improve his skills in heir band TEA MAN WITH TEA GUM. Later there were such projects as SOVIET SEX MACHINES, MONOPOLKA and some more. In the last years Avrorin paid more attention to his solo work. His noise researches are presented to the audience under various titles, the most known of them are GRA, FREDRIKSON, CHELOVEK V SHTANAH, FON-BARON, DOKTOR KINCHEV, NOISE WENDY, ALISA-YHTYE, HUREN AQUARIUM, VIOLINIST IN ASSHOLE, G. Avrorin. Most of his works have their own recognisable sound, namely dirty, disharmonic and aurally disgusting. ALISA-YHTYE is not an exception and represents junk industrial mixed with scrap noise. Nevertheless it sounds very noble and traditional, the listener immediately feels the atmosphere of late 80-s - early 90-s. Sluggish hardly heard noise is interlaced with metal gritting and percussion. Feedback whistles quietly, and G. Avrorin leisurely emits another cloud of cigarrete smoke. Noble old school industrial noise. [press-release]
Alk0 -- "Music Under Intoxication" -- CD -- €10
2003 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 060
Alk0 is the solo project by Jouni Ulvtharm member of MZ.412 and Econocon! Harsh analog sounds in best powerful nordic industrial tradition... Fear of the unknown, machines alienation & high cerebral intoxication! Large full-color booklet with interesting "technology archeology" graphics. [label info]
All My Faith Lost... -- "In A Sea, In A Lake, In A River .. ...Or In A Teardrop" -- CD -- €10
2002/2009 Infinite Fog Productions, IF-04, (ltd. 1000)
"In a sea, in a lake, in a river ... ... or in a teardrop" was composed and recorded by "all my faith lost .." in its original line-up (Francis, Federico, Viola and Raffaella) as a first full album. The songs included in this album are inspired by spirits and fairies somehow releated to water. There is Grageth-Anoon, a fairy that can be seen near small lakes, there is Argea, that comes out from a river to tell your destiny and Anja, a fairy hidden in a tear. The sound of the album is just more acoustic than recent releases of the band and almost all songs are following the verse/chorus/verse rule. Acoustic and Classic guitars are the main instruments at the base of the compositions, flutes and delicate synths create, then, light arrangements giving that ethereal mood that will be more present in the following releases of the band. The vocal parts are equally divided among the male one (Federico) and the female ones (Viola and Raffaella) creating a perfect balance between heavenly/frail and profound/dark atmospheres. "In a sea, in a lake, in a river ... ... or in a teardrop" is a beatiful travel in the early steps of "all my faith lost ..." music. [press-release]
All-Stars Noise Collective -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €5
2011 Shit Noise Records, SNR 091
Mail collaboration between Armenia, Ego Death, Erekta, Napalmed, RedSK, Earth Incubator, Ecoute La Merde, Fever Spoor, NRYY. Laconic artwork. [YAOP]
Allerseelen -- "Abenteuerliches Herz" -- CD -- €15
2002 Aorta, AORCD07
"Abenteuerliches Herz is a great album. Raw, powerful and complex. It is very exciting to see someone take the neo-folk music genre and completely redefine and broaden its scope. To see an artist infuse this genre with so many diverse musical approaches and infuse it with Mediterranean flavor has been a very unique and enjoyable experience. Allerseelen's Abenteuerliches Herz truly stands out as an original and innovative release. I highly recommend this album to everyone. The music is very approachable and seductive. Faeries coming from many different music scenes will find both something familiar and something new in this music. All of the songs lyrical content is poetically esoteric and open to interpretation. The music is also good just for the experience. If you love innovative music that is redefining limits and boundaries you have to get Abenteuerliches Herz!" [Malahki Thorn, Heathen Harvest]
Allerseelen -- "Flamme" -- CD -- €15
2003/2004 Aorta, AORCD10
"Apocalyptic folklore magnetico pop.. The music on these two records is warm and sensual with apocalyptic pop, folklore magic and flamenco magnetico. Fine catchy melodies, infectious groovy rhythms, a lot of joie de vivre ambiance, lovely strings and a varied musical menu. Accessible and original at the same time. There are no weak moments. Some of my favourite songs are the sing-along 'Sonne golthi-ade (Josef)', the intimate classical songs 'Ob auch mein Herz so funkelt' and the almost Latin 'Sturmlied'. On the album even a DAF cover is present: 'Als wars das letzte Mal '.?"Flamme" sparks with the lovely choral 'Kamerad', the cheerful 'Lowin', the irrestible dancehit 'Goldener Lebenswein', the mysterious 'Knistern'... With this record the temperatures are rising again..." [funprox.com]
Allerseelen -- "Hallstatt" -- CD -- €14
2007 Aorta, AORCD12
The Allerseelen CD Hallstatt contains thirteen brand-new apocalyptic and passionate songs about love and death. This release - musically situated somewhere in a terra incognita between folklore, krautrock, metal and industrial music - is inspired by the beautiful Upper Austrian village Hallstatt which belongs to the world cultural heritage due to its amazing tomb findings of the Hallstatt culture and the unique ossuary with the painted skulls. The songs have lyrics and vocals by Gerhard Petak and R.N. Taylor from Changes. [label info]
Allerseelen -- "Neuschwabenland" -- CD -- €15
2000 Aorta, AORCD05
"It is not only the packaging that possesses the texture of ice. A shimmering world of subterranean glacial caverns. One's consciousness is mesmerised by siren-like strings and metallic chimes, that glisten like frozen stalactites in this palace of ice. Sophisticated upbeat numbers veering toward pop territory in terms of its melody and construction, gelid love-songs. The addition of string and brass sections imbues the whole with a sense of subdued tension which acts as the perfect vehicle for Kadmon's pondering, poetic lyrics. Backdrobs of pulsating bass, sweeping reverberations. Wonderfully expressive violins provide a respite from the cold. As always with Allerseelen, one is left feeling enthused and invigorated by a brilliant listening experience. With concepts and music of this quality, Kadmons looks set to remain at the forefront of cutting-edge sounds for years to come." [Judas Kiss zine]
Allerseelen -- "Rauhe Schale" -- CD -- €14
2010 Aorta, AORCD13
Allerseelen -- "Stirb und Werde" -- CD -- €15
1999 Aorta, AORCD04
"An Allerseelen CD is an event. A ritual. I have never been disappointed. I have never heard an Allerseelen piece that sounded weak, poorly done, or uncared for. Allerseelen represent a standard of excellence that is almost unheard of in the world today. Stirb und Werde is no exception. It refers to the journey of death and rebirth. The artwork is taken from photographs of the sanctuary Externsteine in Westphalia. The music follows a progression, beginning softly, and almost tentatively, like the first rays of sunlight on the horizon; and, like the sun, a few minutes after this CD has begun to arise, it becomes almost overwhelmingly brilliant. Stirb und Werde is a masterpiece of the Twentieth Century, and a sentinel of the Golden Age that must surely follow this modern world of darkness." [starvox.net]
Allerseelen -- "Venezia" -- CD -- €15
2001 Aorta, AORCD06
Dedicated to Mediterranean culture and music, this album was inspired by the beautiful city of Venice, Italy. The albums music moves between powerful and rhythmic oriented tracks to soundtrack-type grooves, encompassing the decadent, inspired, hypnotic and surreal. Based on R.M.Rilke and inspired by Nietzsche and E.Pound. Lounge and downtempo industrial. [label info]
Allerseelen / Otzepenevshiye / Neutral -- "Georg Trakl. Umnachtung" -- CD -- €12
2008 Ewers Tonkunst, HHE 016 CD
Split-album of Allerseelen, Otzepenevshiye and Neutral is dedicated to a German poet Georg Trakl (1887-1914). Although Trakl is referred to the classics of impressionism, his poems extend further than depicting the corporal collapse, that fascinated Georg Heim and Gottfried Benn. Evgeny Golovin has fairly mentioned in his article "Hypothesis #1" that within his short lifetime Trakl has become "one of the most original explorers of the metaphysics of death." He is occupied with "a problem of getting inside the most mysterious sphere of human existence", and it happens through the space, where usual bonds break apart and appear the new phantasmal ones. In his research Trakl leaves the boundaries of banal contrapositions, his mature poetry isn't dark, but it's completely enigmatic - just as his whole language of poetry. The members of this release tried to present their own musical understanding of the hallucinatory universe of Trakl's poems, where dream and reality, movement and immobility are blended in incognizable proportions. [press-release]
Allerseelen / Sangre Cavallum -- "Barco do Vinho" -- CD -- €14
2006 Ahnstern, Ahnstern 21
Barco do Vinho is the Portuguese word for Wine Boat - the boats that in the past brought the barrels of wine from the vineyards in Callaecia (Northern Portugal) on the river Douro to the town of Porto. The CD features four exclusive songs by the Northern-Portuguese group Sangre Cavallum and four exclusive songs by the Austrian group Allerseelen - ancient and traditional but at the same time brand-new avant-garde music, somewhere between apocalyptic folklore and psychedelic rock. Poetical songs about wine taken down rivers with crews of strong men, floating down throats with crews of sparkling spirits. Inspired by the vineyards that welcome the sun bringing character to grapes. Then a silent darkness, a timeless life inside oak barrels turn wine into flavoured blood for a toast between men and nature. [label info]
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Allseits -- "Hel" -- CD -- €14
2009 Cyclic Law, 23rd Cycle, (ltd. 1000)
ALLSEITS is the Solo project of the german instrumentalist Nina Kernicke known from her recent collaboration with German Drone pioneers Troum of which Nina has also been a recent live member of and her work under her other alias, ALLSIDES. The Album "Hel' describes the way into the underworld, the listener is guided through various stages on the journey down to Hel, the Norse mythological term for hell and also for the goddess Hel who is said to keep watch over the underworld. The journey begins at the foot of Yggdrasil, the world tree, under which the entry to Hel is hidden. We then ride the river Gjöll, that flows along the human world before it runs down to Hel. Gjöll is spanned by the bridge Gjallarbrù which is guarded by Modgudr, a female giant, who decides who can pass the bridge. Leaving Gjallarbrù behind, the large dog Garm that sentinels the gate to Hel is waiting and at his side sits Fjalar, a rooster that will crow to signify the beginning of Ragnarok, the end of the world. After passing Fjalar Hel is finally reached. This allegoric tale is expressed diligently by Kernicke with the use of guitar, bass, drums and skillful sampling creating thick drony layers of deep and solemn emotions. Edition of 1000 copies In gatefold cardboard sleeve. [press-release]
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Altar of Flies -- "Permanent Cavity" -- CD -- €10
2010 iDEAL Recordings, iDEAL081
Debut full length CD album by Altar of Flies from Mjölby, Sweden. Crude, intense analog waves of sound. Organic, heavy stuff that we wamly recommend to anyone interested in post industrial music and noise. Altar of Flies is the new power on the Swedish noise scene, to be put on the underground throne next to Sewer Election. Altar of Flies is Mattias Gustafsson who has recorded stuff since 2006, mainly for his own cassette label Hästen & Korset but also high quality sub terrestial labels like Cipher, Husk, and Nil by Mouth. 'Permanent Cavity' is his first more widely distributed album release. Altar of Flies is extremely uncompromising, creating organic, dark, unpleasant extreme electronic music through tape loops, analog synths and effects. So - discover the power of Altar of Flies. [press-release]
Altar Of Sorrow -- "The Pole Guardian" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Desolation Production, DP10|09, (ltd. 50)
Polar Drone Ambient in vein of Tomas Köner, Netherworld, Kammarheit and Northaunt. One of the tracks is dedicated to Quadrantids, another one - to the arctic island of Kolguev. Packed in a sleeve. [YAOP]
Aluminum Noise -- "Army of Robots" -- CD-R -- €7
2000 Soulworm Editions, Worm VI
This is the second Aluminum's CD-R release after 'Stir of Echoes' out on SSSM. This time American duo comes out with bizarre lo-fi noise made with a wide variety of sound sources - from feedback manipulation to field recordings, shortwave, tapes, guitar and voices. Not as harsh, yet deliciously chaotic and disturbing. [label info]
Ambiguous -- "Stone Cross" -- CD -- €10
2010 Aliens Production, AP 22, (ltd. 333)
This year's winter had quite strong and freeze roots, which has taken its cold into the wombs of this new Slovak project, which has with its charisma found a place in our family. With this Aliens Production opens next phase and brings this time horrifying and darker form of Slovak deep dark terror. Mystical, deep project covered with mystery, in which protagonist combines beautiful moods in combination with destroying, almost after death atmospheres and out of space surfaces, which are covered with a veil of mystery. Soundtrack for the movie in other surface, cleaning for the soul or look into imaginary world, that is the best escape from the reality. Real, Slovak dark ambient, that will take you through dark corners of Slovak woods. A certain choice for fans of: Cold Meat Industry, Malignant Records, Cyclic Law, Ars Benevola Mater... Limited edition 333 copies and exclusive metal packaging... [press-release]
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Amd4a -- "Metal Tank" -- CD-R --€8
2009 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT47, (ltd. 86)
Noisy ritual industrial based on scratches and gnashing of metal, overloads and measured imposing rhythm. Sharp aggressive noise space of the first short intro piece makes room for a folk melody played on metal objects (we've heard nothing like this before!), and then comes the third track - cold shaman's sorcery little by little turning into hypernoisy martial industrial with pretentious male and female vocals. Then - harsh-neoclassics, harsh-gothic, a couple of near-radionoise mid-frequency tracks, and finally - a long meditative canvas of noisy organic dark ambient. Packed into a vinyl box with cover made of foil, full-colour front cover and a disk from an antiquarian 5.25" floppy, printed insert with information. [press-release]
Amon / Never Known -- "Live at Molto 08.04.1997" -- CD-R -- €9
1997/2000 AFE Records, afe006rcd, 2nd edition
This recording was taken at the very first Amon / Never Known concert played at Molto Gallery [R.I.P.], Milan, in April 1997. [label info]
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Amon / Nimh -- "Sator" -- CD -- €12
2007 Eibon Records, Amn069
AMON (Andrea Marutti), the most important and estabilished italian Dark-Ambient project, and NIMH (Giuseppe Verticchio), a well-known and eclectic alchemist of electronic-ethnic-acoustic-ambient sound mixtures, worked side by side for some weeks to create their first collaborative effort. SATOR is a granitic and majestic work, a musical journey through time and history that throws the listeners into the most remote abysses of Earth. Massive magmatic sounds mixed with the technologic and synthetic vibrations of oscillating sinewaves & with frosty isolationist timbres programmed through fluxes of information written in binary code: In digisleeve. [press-release]
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Among The Stars -- "The First Flight" -- 3"CD-R -- €5
2008 BioSonar^EleKtro - 011, (ltd. 99)
Space disco in best traditions of mixing industrial and dance genres. More psychedelic than Ant-Zen, less danceable than psy-trance. The authorship is carefully hidden, but after all everybody knows. Author's packaging - small cardboard sleeve. [press-release]
Amputation Desire -- "bIId" -- CD-R -- €8
Sick Arts, SAP 18, (ltd. 100)
Side-project of Flutwacht oriented towards raw minimal industrial noise ambient. Monotonous factory loops slowly pulsate and generate sickly pictures of mechanical schizophrenia. [Abgurd description]
Anapthergal -- "An Intracranial Disclosure" -- CD-R -- €7
2000 Soulworm Editions, Worm IV
From the mainstay of Finnish woods, from the depths of frozen lakes - here comes Anapthergal. Spooky, carbonized ambience, noisy textures, ritual preparations... A ghoulish orgy heard by the pitch black nights around Anapthergal's lair. The following album consists of the first and the second material, previously released separately on AFP. Now they are gathered together and wrapped in the brand new artwork. [label info]
Andersson, Peter -- "Music For Film And Exhibition II" -- CD -- €13
2010 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 135
Like baking a sweet cake or cooking an indian dish you need good ingredients and spices to get the right mouthfeel and the splendid flavor of your desire. 'Music for Film and Exhibition II' is just like that: a levelled declitre of raison d'etre, a brimful tablespoon of Atomine Elektrine, a couple of teaspoons of Necrophorus and a little bit of this and little bit of that, mixed into a perfect blend of many tastes. Peter Andersson, well-known from projects like Raison d'etre, Stratvm Terror, Necrophorus and Atomine Elektrine, shows here broad spectrum of sonic atmospheres, like if all of his different music projects were combined into one. From ambient-drone-textures and electronic chill-out to concrete sounds to even pure atmopsheric piano tunes. 'Music for Film and Exhibition II' is the sequel of 'Music for Film and Exhibition' (Yantra Atmospheres, 2007). While the previous output contains collected works from different exhibition projects and movies spanning from 1999-2005, this sequel is focused on one single project; an exhibition. Peter Andersson has lately worked as a media producer at Swedish Air Force Museum and being involved with their new large permanent exhibiton about the Cold War. Within this project Peter has worked with sound design and movie production in particular. The sonic results are presented on 'Music for Film and Exhibition II'. Some of the tunes are used as soundtrack for exhibition movies while the main part are sonic atmospheres and soundscapes to create the ambience of the exhibition rooms. The music is presented here as stand alone productions, displaced from its original context. To fully experience the music in its environmental Raison d'etre there is no other way but to travel to the Swedish Air Force Museum. Until then, you may enjoy the music on its own. The CD comes in a six panel digipak covered with beautiful Sunset painting by italian artist Christian Montagna/FLOODSart. [press-release]
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Andersson, Peter -- "Sculpturing Time Fragments" -- CD -- €12
2010 Midnight-Productions, MN024, (ltd. 500)
The new solo album from Peter Andersson - the mastermind behind Raison D'etre. Restrained and distant ambience sounding mixed with typical industrial elements like Raison D'etre. Time stops and rearranges here... Check it out if you are a Raison D'etre fan! [label info]
Anemone Tube -- "Dream Landscape" -- CD EP -- €10
2010 Silken Tofu, stx.11, (ltd. 500)
'Dream Landscape' is the first official solo release by ANEMONE TUBE after 9 years of silence. Originally founded in 1996 in Southern Germany, ANEMONE TUBE has quite made a name for himself in the industrial/noise genre especially due to the psychogenic nature of his music. On this new release ANEMONE TUBE creates massive ambient/noise soundscapes. The sounds are pulsating, drowning and floating, tormenting and caressing - all culminating in a haunting sonic experience. 'Dream Landscape' is - together with the album 'Death over China' - the first part of the 'Suicide Series'. To this field recordings made in China provide a conceptional basis. 'Dream Landscape' is a concept album of fierce malignant power. In a poetic way ANEMONE TUBE combines analytical realism of the phenomenal world with buddhist psychology and nihilist rhetoric influenced by the visionary authors H.P. Lovecraft and Yukio Mishima. Mastering by JAMES PLOTKIN. [press-release]
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Anemone Tube -- "Existence" -- CD -- €11
2001 Aufabwegen, aatp09, (ltd. 500)
Old school noise attacks and twisted analogue soundscapes. [label info]
Anenerbe -- "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" -- CD -- €8
2007 self-released, (ltd. 500)
Russian band Anenerbe was formed in the beginning of 2000-s and follows the asceticism of minor post-punk aesthetics. On their performances and recordings the band use a grotesque mix of decadent irony with sickly sadness, excited self-mockery with despair and hopelessness. The themes of their songs are deep and varied, they contain inner claustrophoby, vicious transformations, destructive eroticism, pompous militant mysticism, eternal return, private interpretations of eschatologic and gnostic apocryphs, etc... [press-release]
Anenzephalia -- "Ephemeral Dawn" -- CD -- €14
1995/2007 Tesco Organisation, Tesco 026
Released 1995 in a ltd. ed. of 750 and sold out since 10 years! That time released in a postercover and available now again in a Digipak with booklet. Brilliand brain numbing power-electronics. Sixty-four minutes of thick electronics, droning waves, distant echoing vocals, subtle rhythmic loops, rumbling basses and some higher piercing frequencies. Finally available again. [label info]
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Anenzephalia / Inade / Operation Cleansweep -- split -- CD -- €12
2006 Teito Sound Company, TEITO-006
Nearly more than 10 minutes of unreleased material by each group. This compilation was released by the japanese label TEITO to go along with the first live appearance of all three bands in Tokyo/Japan.
Angel Of Decay -- "Covered in Scars" -- CD -- €10
2005 Desolation House, DH-0700, (ltd. 1000)
Angel of Decay provides the seventh installment of the Desolation House series, Relapse Records/Release Entertainment's premium dark ambient collection. Angel of Decay is Jonathan Canady, formerly of both Dead World and Deathpile, who creates dark surrealism using vintage analog keyboards. Covered in Scars blends chilling dark ambient with words and concepts culled directly from a lifetime of personal nightmares. [press release]
Anhedonia -- "Ontology" -- CD -- €10
2009 Aliens Production, AP 19, (ltd. 550)
A long awaited album of this talented musician, who has with its album DESTRUCTIVE FORCES crossed waters of idm genre and his next phase will be for sure a desert for fans of industrial community. Crystal electronics in pulsating rhythms and atmospheric labyrinths is again timeless phase in production of this creative artist, that is crossing over boundaries of human perception. Noncommercial electronic full of alterations and industrial methods in combination with melodies and destructive surfaces. On this album you can find interesting cooperations with projects like: DOCTOROFMINDMD, SOMBRA, DISHARMONY, that has moved this work again on higher level. [press-release]
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Annen Berg -- "Riddles Of The Worm EP" -- CD-R -- €9
2008 FinalMuzik, FMSS07, (ltd. 150)
Anthesteria -- "Beyond Nimbostratus" -- CD -- €11
2004 Der Angriff Nr. 18, (ltd. 500)
Audiovisual project from Saint Petersburg. This first album was being recorded during 2 years. Author was inspired by observations of sky and clouds and some places of "old town" perceived in historical introspection. Anthesteria continues musical tradition represented by Peter Andersson (Raison d'Etre) and Eric K. (Le Joyaux De La Princesse). At the same time, Anthesteria goes beyond the music: visual aspect of this project is presented by photoalbum which you can find on the same disk.
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Anthesteria -- "Nebesnaya" -- CD -- €11
2005 Der Angriff, Nr. 24
The 2nd album of St. Petersburg-based project continues the line started 2 years ago with their debut album "Beyond Nimbostratus". The style of this album varies a lot from track to track, but in general it can be restricted with terms neoclassic/gothic/dark ambient, sometines traditional, sometimes experimental. One track features vocal of MRZ (Majdanek Waltz). "The second Anthesteria album tells a story of a journey, but it's not a journey about a ghost city as it was the case in the Beyond Nimbostratus debut album, the decadent but charming open-air museum called St.-Petersburg being the prototype of this ghost city. Now it's a journey about a fragile world of emotions and perceptions known to everyone, Į sound realization of the author's diary. The winter city is preserved in the atmosphere itself, but just a scenery or background. Keeping the trend designated in their debut, Anthesteria added martial drums and recitative voice together with some ethnic elements in a number of compositions. Anthesteria keeps multiplying illusions which make up the charm and value of human's life." [label info] Double-panel aromatized fouldout digisleeve with photos for each track.
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Anti-Verstand -- "Electroorganics" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT27, (ltd. 92)
Reissue of a legendary album with a bonus-track and new artwork. Old schoola low-frequency rough noise created with the use of low-voltage currents fed through human body and picked by microphone input of a magnetophone, recorded in 2003. Bonus track is an electrified mid-frequency concrete noise based on a field recording made in July 2007 in Kurkiyoki. DVD-box, handmade cover with technologic paper, mini-poster. [press-release]
Anti-Verstand -- "Man, as they say" -- 3"CD-R + MC -- €9
2010 YAOP, YAOP 045, (ltd. 13)
A misanthropic grin inspired by many years of observing the "two-legged fellow citizens". A digital-analogue release in two parts: 3"CDR contains a 7 minute Old-School Power Electronics track with a mocking vinyl sampling; cassette carries a 45-minute canvas of the performance of Leonid Brezhnev with a real time accompaniment of retrograde industrial electronics. For those who loved "By the song as the wind". Sleeve with pharmaceutical insert. [label info]
ANTIchildLEAGUE -- "The Father" -- CD -- €10
2008 Hagshadow, Hag 01
An eclectic work that journey's from dark experimental ambient music to harsh noise, combined with both spoken word and hostile vocalizations. The musical or backing structures are derived from field recordings, self created loops, both classical analogue and software synth and rhythms. An exploration into the world of the dysfunctional family, society control, over population, relationships, religion and physiological trauma. This is the first complete album work from ACL in its ten year existence of sporadic collaborations. Recorded both in London and in sight of the Italian Chapel Orkney between 1998 to 2008. [press-release]
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Antikatechon -- "Privilegium Martyrii" -- CD -- €10
2011 Silentes Minimal Editions, sme 1038
Thick and spectral dark ambient, full of soft and flowing pads stratifications, involved in deep and penetrating low frequences coils, lightened by delicate and touching melodic inserts, broken by echoes of reverbering mettallic noises, clanging chains, circular mechanical movements, waves of unaudible hisses, distant and suffering human voices... Great first issue CD for the Antikatechon project, involving the Davide Del Col's eclectic personality, unique mind of the Ornament project, and key man of more recent collaborative project like Echran and Molnija Aura. [label info]
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Antlers Mulm -- "Filth In Several Styles - Alternative Sparks" -- CD -- €14
2009 Sonderübertragung!, SUE33, (ltd. 330)
Antlers Mulm -- "Of Withered Sparks" -- CD -- €13
2007 Loki Foundation, LOKI 47
The third album of ANTLERS MULM opts for deep resonating tones that are harmonious and hypnotic with a greater emphasis on percussion, and the massive foray into song based structures. Dark Beats linked with impressive vibes bringing highlights of an extraordinary world of sound. Phantasmagorial Melodies are melting into an intense atmosphere guided by the outstanding voice of the father of shadows Hans Johm. Throbbing samples enriches this compositions to a homogenic masterpiece. These 10 songs are catching the mood of the warm feeling of being at home and creating a landscape of a coruscant kingdom that lies deep within the lyrical and musical expression. These tracks building melancholy on the most song based LOKI release ever - take a deep breath and get lost in this aural world of ANTLERS MULM. Limited Digipak with 12page booklet. [label info]
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Antlers Mulm -- "Silbergrauer Staub" -- CD -- €14
2003 Sonderübertragung!, SÜ07, (ltd. 541)
Apatheia -- "Lifethesis" -- CD -- €14
2003/2009 Cold Meat Industry, cmi204
Aphelion -- "Lay" -- CD -- €10
2008 Shadowgraph Records, Shadow 1
Aphelion is a hardcore industrial outfit that pull no punches while driving home their inimitable style of wrenching, break-neck, dystopian future shock. Their new CD, Lay has 10 tracks of pure terror which all bleed into one another, leaving the listener no time or chance to stop the madness, so to speak. It is an atonal, dehumanized, automated and bloody record that can be either cathartic - at the right moments - scary in other mood swings, or it could be just plain noise to the uninitiated, but that would only show the lack of creativity and the absence of experimentalism in one's mentality... [Heathen Harvest]
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Apnoea -- "Embrace Of The Waves" -- CD-R -- €3
2011 Nurn Records, NRN04, (ltd. 25)
Debut album of a Karelian duo. Warm and light ambient based on guitar sound, full of tape noises. [label info]
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Apoptose -- "Bannwald" -- CD -- €14
2010 Tesco Organisation, TESCO 078
On a Friday in September many years ago three girls went into a large forest in northern Germany. They never returned. Apoptose followed their path into the woods and listened closely to the voices whispering among the trees. The new album 'Bannwald' reflects the girls' journey to a realm of witchcraft, fairy-tales and ancient goddesses. Here in the green twilight of rustling leafs and crackling twigs nothing is as it seems and reality is covered by a thick layer of autumn foliage. The German term 'Bannwald' bears a double meaning: On one hand it stands for a protected woodland where nobody is allowed to cut trees or even to enter. On the other hand 'Bann' is an ancient word for ban or spell. After the urban nightmares of the last CD 'Schattenmaedchen' Apoptose come back to the northern wilderness once more - the home of their very first album 'Nordland'. This time with extended lineup: Those who had the chance to attend one of the rare live performances already know the voice of singer Silke and the enormous rhythms of the 15 drummers of the Fanfarenzug Leipzig. On 'Bannwald' they join forces again to invoke the spirits of moss-covered stones and hidden glades. Needless to say, this CD comes in an outstandingly designed multiple-panel foldout cover featuring an 8-page booklet and a separate cardboard CD-sleeve. [press-release]
Apoptose -- "Schattenmädchen" -- CD -- €14
2007 Tesco Organisation, Tesco 068
Schattenmädchen (English: 'shadow girl') has always been around, waiting patiently for seven years to step out of the shadows and reveal its face. Apoptose's third album explores dystopian locations: the undergrounds of Japanese megacities, the depths of worldwide data highways, the nightmares of little children. The seven tracks express images of a desolate and dying world, far removed from the solitude of the beloved Northern woods. A world lacking daylight and oxygen. A bleak vision of reality. Over the years, several of these tracks made their way to compilation CDs all over the globe. There they laid dormant to be reunited some day to form this album. In autumn 2006, Apoptose joined forces with Japanese cyberpunk author Kenji Siratori to complete the cycle. On this album, Apoptose works for the first time with spoken word lyrics. Featured languages are Japanese, English, and German. The tracks previously on compilations have been polished/remixed/rerecorded and renamed especially for the unique listening experience of Schattenmädchen. The CD is housed in an embossed 6-panel cardboard cover with an additional booklet. 7 tracks, 62 min. [press release]
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Aquadorsa -- "Cloudlands" -- CD -- €13
2009 Glacial Movements Records, GM006
Aquadorsa is a new musical Italian ambient project formed by Enrico Coniglio and Oophoi. Their first work 'Cloudlands' is a perfect mix of glitch, classical and orchestral glacial ambient soundscape. Enrico Coniglio is a guitar player and composer and his research has increasingly focused on the relationship between 'music' and 'landscape ', in an attempt to represent the contemporary crisis of the territory, the loss of nature and identity of places, and the unknown on the evolution of post-urban and post-industrial territory. He has collaborated with various artists, including: Nicola Alesini, Joachim Roedelius and Elisa Marzorati.He has produced some releases such as "AREAVIRUS - topofonie vol.1" (2007 Psychonavigation), "dyanMü (2008 Psychonavigation) and digital releases Sapientumsuperacquis on Touch Radio (Touch records) and Cro`nicaster (Cro`nica Electronica). Gianluigi Gasparetti better know as Oophoi started his own music experiments in 1995, trying to explore the shores of deep space-ambient. His live album "The spirals of time", released in 1997 by Amplexus, has been voted as one of the best ambient albums of all times. Oophoi uses traditional instruments as synths and sampling machines and his music is recorded using analog-only devices in The Kiva. He has released CDs for many International labels such as Amplexus, Hypnos, Nextera, Prikosnovenie and Glacial Movements and he has collaborated with Louisa John Krol,Alio die,Mathias Grassow and Klaus Wiese. [press-release]
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ARC -- "13th" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2002 Taalem, alm 10
ARC is a Canadian trio comprised of Aidan Baker, Richard Baker (no, they're not brothers) and Christopher Kukiel. It was formed spontaneously in 1999. ARC's music is based on drones and melodic loops created by Aidan's heavily-treated guitar. Add Richard and Chrisopher's tribalish rhtyhms made with various percussive instruments and you get the picture. When we, at Taâlem, first heard ARC, we couldn't help thinking of Life Garden and Voice of Eye, those great US tribal ambient bands from the 90's. But ARC is no copycat! [press-release]
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ARC -- "Arkhangelsk" -- CD -- €10
2008 Epidemie Records, EPR 064, (ltd. 600)
ARC is a Canadian trio (Aidan Baker - guitars, flutes, tapeloops, Richard Baker - drumkit, percussion, & Christopher Kukiel - percussion) playing tribal guitar drone ambient with psychedelic and post - rock elements and very hypnotic sound. Their brand new album Arkhangelsk brings 4 compositions in 67 minutes and comes in nice 6 panels digisleeve and is limited on 600 copies. Arkhangelsk was recorded in Toronto, Canada in December 2007 in two separate sessions. The first consisted of improvisational performances on drumset and guitar and the second consisted of layering percussion, electronics, and woodwind tracks on those original drum/guitar tracks. Both sessions were done in real-time in single takes with a minimum of post-production editing or manipulation in an effort to capture the spontaneity of the performances. As such, Arkhangelsk maintains the typical ARC sound while simultaneously exploring more adventurous poly-rhythms and textures, combining influence/inspiration from such artists as Flyer Saucer Attack, The Boredoms, Tribes of Neurot, and Rapoon. [press-release]
ARC -- "Glassine 1" -- CD -- €8
2008 A Silent Place, ASP22
Glassine I was recorded live at the Ambient Ping in Toronto on 03/07/2006; and can be easily described as an organic space ambient, with very strong references to Pink Floyd (Ummagumma), Popol Vuh, Ashra Temple, Jackie-O Motherfucker, O Yuki Conjugate, AMP and Flying Saucer Attack or "Fourth World" ambient music! Four tracks of pure vibrant multi-layered psychedelic drone music! Now, close your eyes, listening to "Glassine I" and start for your trip even without the intake of any substances! [press-release]
Arcana -- "Raspail" -- CD -- €15
2008 Kalinkaland Records, KAL 32
Arcana -- "Le Serpent Rouge" -- CD -- €11
2005 Displeased Records, D-00145
This 6th full-length album is Arcana as you have never heard them before. With melodies from the orient, feelings of the hot Arabic landscape and beautiful sounds of instruments like the Duduk and the Hammered Dulcimer, Arcana has on this release moved further from the original sound that we have heard through out the years. Along with the fabulous art of Agnieszka Szuba, this album is a release you can't miss. European edition. [press release]
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Arcana -- "Le Serpent Rouge" -- CD -- €15
2005 Projekt, Projekt 171
This 6th full-length album is Arcana as you have never heard them before. With melodies from the orient, feelings of the hot Arabic landscape and beautiful sounds of instruments like the Duduk and the Hammered Dulcimer, Arcana has on this release moved further from the original sound that we have heard through out the years. Along with the fabulous art of Agnieszka Szuba, this album is a release you can't miss. US edition. [press release]
Arcane Device -- "Devices 1987-2007" -- 2 CD -- €15
2007 Monochrome Vision, (mv18), (ltd. 500)
Anthology of rare and previously unreleased tracks by Arcane Device, recorded within the 20 years. It is divided into two parts. The first one consists of tracks from compilations issued by Subterranean Records, Tragic Figures, SFCR Tapes, and Generations Unlimited, but also unreleased material remastered and/or remixed in 2007. The second one is subtitled as "Feedback symphony" and based on various recordings, presented in four movements and finished in 2007. One more chance to approve the exceptional skills and compositional/technical talent of David Myers who can control the electrons by will, creating fantastic soundscapes. Arcane Device is the unique project of american graphic designer and musician David Myers, active between 1987 and 1995. His creative output is going beyond any categorization, because it's possible to re-arrange and demonstrate such many styles of modern music with only one thing that is feedback. This effect usually happens when you shortcut the input and output of any electric device. It's hard to believe but this almost uncontrolable beast became the driving force for Arcane Device music, armed by self-made bank of delays and filters. Looking like inward sound research, decorated with finest web of random processes and microvariations, it becames the peculiar feature. Endless circulation of electrons, never repeating routes and always having some chance for individual life inside of any macrostructure. [press-release]
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Arche -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €9
2001 Nefryt, N 008, (ltd. 222)
The project musicians from Ucho & Solaris (Marek Rybicki & Rafal Detkos) with Piotr Piotrowski (philosopher, astrologer & singer). Space journey on two basses, electronics, tapes, objects & voice. Secret music, psychedelic atmosphere, between dream and reality. Special A5 cover. Limited & numbered edition of 222 copies. [press-release]
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Arditi -- "Leading The Iron Resistance" -- CD -- €14
2011 Equilibrium Music, EQM033
Arditi -- "Marching on to Victory" -- CD -- €14
2007 Equilibrium Music, EQM015
The original release of "Marching on to Victory" dates back to 2003, with a small pressing of 1000 copies on the obscure Swedish label Svartvintras. The legacy that one half of the project brought from his work with Puissance was fairly evident, yet the focus on his work as Arditi was not so much beautifuly orchestrated narrations of the apocalypse, but far grimmer depictions of the past centuries world conflicts. Field recordings and blurry speeches were incorporated into Arditi's compositions, adding a rather disturbing tone to the predominant military snare-drums, obscure symphonic arrangements and hypnotic soundscapes. The suffocating combination between martial classical arrangements and somber atmospheres would set Arditi's debut album as one of the bleakest releases on the Militaristic Neo-Classical movement that was starting to flourish at the time. "Marching on to Victory" is now made available again, in a deluxe Digipak release featuring 2 bonus tracks. [press release]
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Arditi -- "Omne Ensis Impera" -- CD -- €14
2008 Equilibrium Music, EQM020
The highly anticipated new album by the Swedish duo is finally upon us, under the title 'Omne Ensis Impera' . The sense of determination that echoes through their music and which has brought them to the forefront of Martial / Industrial Neo-Classical scene has stayed untouched, evoking the sense of duty and commitment that Italy's WWI elite storm troops, from which the name Arditi originated, were known for. 'Omne Ensis Impera' introduces an additional strength to Arditi's compositions - epic orchestral loops and thunderous percussions are granted a more prominent role, stirring the damp and suffocating ambiance that the duo have always produced so well with their use of ominous synths, obscure speeches and mesmerizing narrations. Similarly, shades of the Italian Futuristic movement of the early XXth century, which served as inspiration in the early days of the project, remain imprinted in Arditi's work - 'Omne Ensis Impera' could well be a modern interpretation of the Futurist's goal of glorifying warfare to an artistic expression beyond its inherent violence and intrinsic sense of heroism. 'Omne Ensis Impera' has been mastered by Kamrat Nordvargr of Mz.412 and Toroidh, an old ally of the band. Nordvargr has also contributed with additional arrangements on a couple of tracks, and prepared a slightly modified track list, which will feature on the vinyl version of the album that will follow soon, together with a limited edition box set. The CD version is presented in a deluxe glossy Digipak, with embossed artwork. [press-release]
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Arditi -- "Spirit Of Sacrifice" -- CD -- €14
2004/2011 Equilibrium Music, EQM032
Arditi -- "Standards of Triumph" -- CD -- €14
2006 Equilibrium Music, EQM014
Boasting the unique personality of this Swedish combo, "Standards of Triumph" taps further into the darker tones of Militaristic Neo-Classical ambiance that has become the band's trademark, resulting in their strongest effort so far - ever effective in their use of crushing orchestrations and evocative speeches, Arditi hereby drags the listener around muddy trenches, leaving aside overly pompous festive marches or alcohol fueled merry bunker songs which seem to have become the norm as of late, and casting an hypnotizing veil over the turmoil of warfare-inspired Industrial soundscapes. [label info]
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Argentum -- "Aguilas de Libertad" -- CD -- €10
2011 Ufa Muzak, UFA 47, (ltd. 500)
Military pop / Neo Folk / Neoclassic / Post rock. Inner history which existence has never been documented becomes especially clear once in a thousand years. Its laws and principles written in blood in its origin are much older than any existing religion or political idea. Everything which contains there has highly explosive nature for a contemporary world order. Cause-effect relationship of terroristic attacks, wars, economical crises, religious faction, new viruses, become useless. They change their poles and at this moment that which was black becomes white, and that which was white becomes black. This is not a state of crisis, this is an ultimate end, even when death is more worth than living. Argentinian project Argentum in its album "Eagles of Freedom" wipes the dust just from several dreadful pages before which the sunshine fades and other, hidden glow starts its cold action. Musically the album is very laconic and simple. But this simplicity is imaginary and in one hour the wideness of presented material becomes visible. Symphonic backgrounds, clear vocals, electronic loops, acoustic guitar passages, calm rolls of disturbing drums, "empty" tracks of light flight. In the whole picture every moment of the disc becomes a link leading to the one goal. Music for the Triumph of the Spirit and Freedom! 15 tracks, 60 minutes, A5 cardboard sleeve + inserts. [press-release]
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Arktau Eos -- "Mirrorion" -- CD -- €10
2006 Aural Hypnox, [AH06], (ltd. 1000)
Presented in seventeen chapters that can be approached as singular gateways or a slowly unfolding journey of epic proportions, the debut album of ARKTAU EOS is a challenging, complex work. Born of intense private musico-magical sessions held in places abandoned by man and further refined in the temple-laboratory of the duo, it is the distillation of seven arduous months of work. As the title suggests, 'Mirrorion' is the music of stellar light thrown down from the Heaven's zenith and its eldritch reflections in the depths below, uniting atavistic elemental noise with serene passages of crystalline, spectral ambience. Ultimately, 'Mirrorion' seeks to surpass such earthly definitions in favour of a non-dual vision of reality, hopefully transforming the listener in the process. For this recording ARKTAU EOS have favoured an organic approach with majority of instrumentation being of acoustic variety, including the unearthly choral of the kanglings, piercings blasts of windbones, accelerating steel-plate rolls, singing bowl and various kinds of stringed instruments. [press-release]
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Armon Kuilu -- "s/t" -- CD -- €10
2008 Totuuden Sarvi Levyt, 001, (ltd. 500)
The first release from Totuuden Sarvi Levyt is a piece of Finnish art destined to remain in the minds of those who hear it. The debut mini-album by Armon Kuilu is a funereal musical journey, two long progressive compositions built out mostly of classical piano, strings, orchestral drums, singing, prayers and invocations in male and female voices. More of a gothic work than a total assault on the senses, yet one must remember that the word gothic is often abused in connotation with just a melancholic form of new age entertainment music but here the soundscapes bring to mind images of forlorn cemetaries, initiatory cults, bloodletting, woodlands and altered states of consciousness. At times the melodies of chamber music break out into squeals, groans and crackling which haunt the space and resonate with the Finnish poetry, that most of the time reminds one of a satanic ceremony. Some passages sound familiar to the listeners of European avantgarde and progressive music such as ACTUS, ART ZOYD and releases from the label Athanor. Post-industrial fans should also listen to this work but remember that this is not your generic so-called occult album with the usual Crowley spoken parts. Instead this is a deeply personal work with challenging classical and sometimes jazz or progressive melodies composed by the master behind the project and performed by real musicians with authentic instruments and also utilizing real actors for the various voices and spoken parts. Believe me, you will hear the difference. The mini-album comes in a black & white sleeve with a full color 8-page art booklet (size 7x7"), built from nature-mystical imagery shot on infrared film. [press-release]
Arnica -- "Numancia" -- CD -- €14
2010 Ahnstern, Ahnstern47
Arse -- "Discography" -- CD -- €10
2009 Lolita Slavinder Records
This Finnish band triumphed shortly during 1992-1993, followed in footsteps of Sore Throat, Seven Minutes of Nausea and most of all, early ANAL CUNT! Live assaults and one "studio demo" is compiled to one nearly 50 minute CD! Test the limits of noisecore chaos you can take! Absolute must! [label info]
Artefactum -- "Foxgloves & Bluebells" -- CD -- €13
2011 Old Europa Cafe, OECD143 / Ur Muzik, UR 005, (ltd. 300)
Lie down on the soft summer grass, deep in the woods just before twilight, and perhaps you will be lucky enough to encounter some good-natured tiny beings of pleasing appearance. Under their spell you may want to fall asleep, but you may also want to... dance! Being one of the very few representatives of what might be labelled as feminine ambient music, Artefactum remains the embodiment of unique characteristics: deep and warm ambient intertwined with sounds of nature, ritual bells, remote drumming and sensual vocals - in the case of Artefactum you simply can't mistake the music for any other artist's work. Merissa d'Erlette's new opus 'Foxgloves & Bluebells' has at last taken its final shape after five long years since the release of 'Rosarium Hermeticum' - her last full-length album. The music is richer and more varied than anything else she has ever made - while still within the borders of ambient, the release contains at the same time a collection of beautiful songs inspired by old poetry and mysterious folklore. With wonderful guest appearances from neo-medieval THE SOIL BLEEDS BLACK, British folk singer ANDREW KING (Duo Noir / Sol Invictus) and neo-classical DAWN & DUSK ENTWINED, 'Foxgloves & Bluebells' is a must-have release for anyone into esoteric post-industrial music. Released in collaboration by OLD EUROPA CAFE and UR MUZIK as a 6 pannel digipack. [press-release]
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Artificial Memory Trace -- "Ama_Zone1: Black-Waters" -- CD -- €10
2011 Monochrome Vision, mv37
This album is basically the report about the trips to Brazil during 2007-2008. Everything you can imagine, from airport recordings and street noise to the environmental recordings of bees, bats, frogs etc, also the sounds of boat, campfire, underwater etc. Mostly unedited, these recordings are presented here as is, with some of them just transposed to have been heard by human ears. A kind of meta-reality, which is not accessible for those who never visited this part of the world... Collage of Re_Ality-particles created by Slavek Kwi during Nov-Dec 2010 and April 2011 in T.O.P. (Tentacles Of Perception) Studio, Ireland. All (except when stated otherwise) sounds were recorded in remote reserve Xixuau Xiparina in region of Rio Jauaperi off Rio Negro (Brazil) Aug 2007 and Dec 2008-Jan 2009. Thanks to Chris Clark for his support and guides Castelo and Jose Ferreira Barroso for navigating us on the canoe through flooded rainforest (www.amazonia.org). Track 2-11 was conceived originally as multichannel installation dedicated to children on the autistic spectrum; produced by 'Learn & Explore', The National Concert Hall, Dublin, Ireland - many thanks to Katie Wink and Carol-Ann McKenna for kind support (www.nch.ie). The majority of sounds were not subjected to any other transformation than editing and layering to form another meta-reality. The exceptions are: track 1 (noise reduction used for some sounds recorded in airport, speed-variation in the end of airplane taking off), track 2 (echo effect used with voice), track 3,8,13 (originally to human ear inaudible ultrasonic sounds were transposed with speed-variation within our aural reality). The division in tracks is for location of sound purposes mainly; it has no compositional meaning. [label info]
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Artificial Memory Trace -- "Singtra" -- CD -- €16
2009 Waystyx, WR45, (ltd. 300)
"Created 2004 in Ireland from sounds of trains recorded in Prague 1994 by Slavek Kwi". A short (24 min) symphony of minimal concrete sounds turned into surreal, gentle and sublime atmosphere. Unusual cardboard package.
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As All Die -- "Time Of War And Conflict" -- CD -- €10
2001 Crowd Control Activities, Crowded 25
Neo-folk, Martial Industrial and Noise from America.
As All Die -- "Victory" -- CD -- €10
2006 Flood The Earth Records, FTE 011
Without question the most aggressive martial industrial release from As All Die to date. Mixes elements of heavy percussion, harsh soundscapes, aggressive and spoken vocals, droning synths and WWI samples. Not for the timid! [Red Stream]
Asbaar -- "Corona Veli Aurei" -- CD -- €10
2010 Black Drone, bdrl007
ASBAAR is a new dark ambient project of Marc Merinee (known for his martial industrial act ELDAR signed to Cold Meat Industry, as well as for his participation in Equimanthorn). "ASBAAR is a meeting with our ancestors who speak to us in our dreams, and teach us how to run our lives, everything that lies between the energies that move the world. To hear is to connect with our collective conscience, irrational consciousness that unites all living things together with all the energy that moves the universe." (Marc Merinee) "CORONA VELI AUREI" The Black Album is created under the influence of photographic collection of Manel O. Company, which was the key to finding the way to the creation of this album. Comes in 6-panel Digipak including 12-page booklet with photos by Manel O. Company and texts by Marc Merinee. [press-release]
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Asmorod -- "Hysope" -- CD -- €12
2006 Steinklang Industries, SKD 12
A fascinating introspective deep ambient work that distinguished itself from the mass of uniformized dark ambient releases. Niiko (now the only member of Asmorod) used the word Hysope (French word for Hyssop) as a symbolism of spiritual purification. In ancient times, Hyssop was used for the cleansing of lepers (Leprosy may represent sin... but lepers were not necessarily sinful) and used for cleaning sacred places. It is alluded to in the Scriptures: 'Purge me with Hyssop, and I shall be clean' (Purify me from my sins, and i will be clean; wash me, and i will be whiter than snow. Psalms 51:7). Two tracks from that album feature choirs by eLL from Sui Generis Umbra. [press release]
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Aspectee -- "Jour Cinq" -- CD -- €10
2011 Black Drone, bdrl012
Black Drone is proud to present the second full-length album of Aspectee following a debut CD Morben released through First Fallen Star in 2009. Aspectee is a project of German musician Michael Frenkel making electronic music since mid-90s, also known for his previous works as Evoke Scurvee. With "Jour Cinq" Aspectee presents a massive droning creation, dark and intense while transparent and organic at the same time. Over one hour of hypnotizing experience not to miss out... This is a pure art of drone, we can't recommend it more! [press-release]
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Astma -- "There Will Be A Mc'Donalds" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Bornos Product
Astma is Olga Nosova (drummer and vocalist mostly known for her work with Moscow noise-core band Motherfathers) and Russian industrial/electronic scene pioneer Alexei Borisov. The collaborative project was formed in April 2009 in Moscow. Paying homage to both experimental tradition of Alexei's countless musical reincarnations and Olga's instrumental noise experience, the duo embrace elements of weird free-form spoken word psychedelia, live electronics, noise, heavy acid, electroacoustic, d'n'b and far too many different types of acoustic torture to even bother mentioning them. All tracks composed, played and mixed in Moscow, Pilgrim studio, August 2009. Olga Nosova - drums, voice, effects, TB-303. Alexei Borisov - guitar, voice, electronics. [Fulldozer]
Åstrom, B. -- "Utan Titel" -- CD -- €10
2010 Åderlåtning Produktion
11 tracks of field recordings, static, ambient, guitars, stoy, pop, grind, improvisations, madness, maraccas, 80's drums, bootlegging, melodies, piano, samples etc. in 46 minutes. Ten "original" compositions + one cover song from an old skateboard video. Recorded on different tape recorders, arrangement and completing sounds using software. [label info]
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Astrowind -- "Kaidanovsky" -- CD -- €10
2012 Greytone, Grey010
Astrowind' Sound designer from Latvia Kriipis Tulo creates an amazing, deeply emotional and romantic music with help of vintage analog synthesizers and open-reel tape recorder. There is a feel of acroamatic escapism, there are these huge chords of hissing analogue synthesizers and you can even find this special kind of Slavonian melancholia (or Baltic, respectively) people use to rave about. Astrowind bring up a lot of references in their beautiful and, well, obsolete music. Astrowind Project got the harmonies and the sound to become one of the most interesting Baltic acts to emerge from a scene rich of innovative musicians (Muschraum, Joel Tammik, Selffish, to name just the most obvious)... This first Astrowind pro-CD album is a tribute to Aleksander Kaidanovsky, worldwide well known and seminal russian actor and film director. The album consists is eight tracks filled with mind-floating contructions and de-contructions that will bring the listener to a wider dimension. 'Kaidanovsky' sounds like an oppressive, yet captivating, music experience surfing from a lysergic and mutant electronic textures to a degraded samples and hypnotic voices of the universe. A really amazing and impressive album for one of the most talented artist coming from baltic area. [press-release]
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Asula Mori -- "Veter" -- CD-R -- €8
2007 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT10, (ltd. 89)
Mystic Sympho Dark Ambient from the middle of Russia. Using traditional rock-group indtruments (guitar, synthesizer, bass, vocal) they create enigmatic dark meditative cold music pierced with damp wind, never-ending melancholy, wandering in gothic dusk and very cinematographic at the same time... DVD-box with handmade cover made of hand-coloured paper. [press-release]
Atavist / Nadja -- "II: Points At Infinity" -- CD -- €10
2008 Profound Lore Records, PFL 037
Again spanning two epic elongated tracks (around 22 minutes each), 'Points At Infinity' goes much further substance and depth wise than the first experimentation these two acts converged in. Definitely taking this experiment between both acts to the next level, albeit creating something wholly new and different when compared to the debut, rather than just continue on from the first release, 'Points At Infinity' takes the doom/drone/ambient experiment into new territory as both acts continue to push new sonic ground... 'Points At Infinity' also marks the first Atavist recording featuring the new Atavist line-up which consists of new vocalist Matt Bartley and ex-NARCOSIS bass player Oliver Turner. Of course Nadja is and always will be Aidan Baker and Leah Buckareff. [press-release]
Atchley, Kenneth -- "Fountains" -- CD -- €10
2002 Auscultare Research, aus 016
With the right electronic tools and amount of ingenuity, you can turn the safest artifact into potential noise mayhem. Kenneth Atchley has reinvented the water fountain. Capturing the sound of water in perpetual motion, he enhances sonic details to the point of oversaturation. In his liner notes he explains: "This is sound not of waves, nor ripples on the surface; but on top of that: the foam, the embellishment." Indeed, what listeners hear is not the usual watery sounds used in electro-acoustic music. The fountain makes its own music, a shroud of millions of water particles hitting the surface, tiny individual sounds forming something not quite equal to the sum of its parts. Atchley uses all kinds of containers, pumps, and recording devices -- from field recording-type miking to contact microphones -- to capture the vibration of the "tub." Fountains presents three pieces of 20 minutes each. The artist doesn't merely illustrate his instruments, he builds dense noise pieces, heavy in intensity. They often lack subtlety in form, shifting abruptly from one setting to another (typical to harsh noise artists -- think of Merzbow or Bastard Noise playing in water), but this technique constantly destabilizes the listener, who has to refocus his or her listening. Some of the textures he achieves are simply amazing and, just to make sure listeners don't forget how they were obtained, he lets water speak for itself in numerous places. Harsh, strangely poetic, and one of a kind. [FranŚois Couture, Allmusic]
Atom, Mikhail -- "Astroepos" -- CD-R -- €8
1999 Soulworm Editions, Worm III
A conceptual masterpiece, and the ultimate one among those made by the Russian ambient artist known as Mikhail Atom. Travelling the nostalgic, subtle soundscapes, the author tries to render an illustration to the his own philosophical and alchemic searches. Sheer bells, monumental synths and mysterous, gentle noises... All this drives the listener to some kind of mystical mood while the spirit leaves the body for a while, wondering for what's hidden behind the horizon of meanings... [press-release]
Atomine Elektrine -- "Archimetrical Universe" -- CD -- €11
1999/2009 Eternal Pride Productions, EPP 015, (ltd. 1000)
Eternal Pride Prod. presents re-mixed version of "Archimetrical Universe" + bonus tracks from extra limited CDr boxed version of the album "Nebulous". New edition like DIGI-CD with new design. Space is an illusion. Peter Andersson (Raison D'?tre, Stratvm Terror, Svasti-ayanam, Necrophorus) is one of the handful of finest sound manipulators in the world. Period. Archimetrical Universe showcases Peter's dissection of the sky, a Caesarean section that births massive, geometrically perfect sonic diversions, all spheres and angles, burnished metal dreams and pristine sonic caresses that reconfigure sound into smooth surfaces. To counterbalance the exactness of the sonic development, light rhythms emerge, huge slabs of disrupting tones puncture, the scattered remnants of all of Peter's projects utilized in the creation of the music here. Everything seems to be in perpetual motion, evolving, revolving, reinvented at the mercy of Peter's deft hands and devious whim. The clarity of production and meticulous restructuring of the known (space, stars, planets) with the unknown (space...stars...planets...) only heightens the journey upon which he guides us, an alluring venture into the cavernous realm of space...but not a space most of us would imagine. Whether he is sonically scrubbing the architecture, or just mesmerizing us with another sound sculpture at the edge of forever, Archimetrical Universe is, quite possibly, Peter's finest release yet, which says a lot because his sonic portfolio runneth over with intoxicating, mind-altering sound manipulations that inspire one's imagination with conflicting emotional responses (sorrow, desolation, awe, wonder) at all times. Space is an illusion... but Peter has brought it to life. Essential! [press-release]
Atomine Elektrine -- "Nebulous" -- CD -- €14
2007 Essence Music, ESS007, (ltd. 800)
On this second installment for Essence Music, Peter Andersson brings ATOMINE ELEKTRINE to an utterly refined and perfectionist sphere! The trancey beats and sacral atmosphere of Binomial Fusion are past and widely replaced by a truly out-of-body, deeply layered and dynamic cosmic experience in form of a masterful ambience filled with energy outbursts, synthetic movements and algorithmical rhythms. An aural projection for a detailed exploration of nebulas, black holes, exploding stars and unknown deep corners of the cosmos. Very much influenced by the electronic side of the kraut scene and with the ability of imposing his very own classic trademark, Andersson sets a new stone and makes Nebulous one of the greatest albums related to this genre since the early 70's. Another amazing proof of talent from this Swedish genius! Presented in an snowy white gatefold digisleeve and tracing paper packaging. [label info]
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Atomizator -- "Torsion" -- 3"CD-R -- €5
2011 Buh Records, BR24, (ltd. 66)
Atomizator is one of the most active current projects and experimental scene in Madrid. His work covers various aspects of the poetry of Dadaist strain: using vocal experimentation (glossolalia, simultaneity) as well as sound poetry (manipulation of the electronic voice). "Torsion" thus becomes a hybrid between art work and poetry vocal sound. Pure and lovely nonsense. Cover art by Haz. Mini cdr limited edition of 66 copies. [label info]
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Atrabilis Sunrise -- "Altered Alternative (Boredom Level)" -- CD-R -- €7
2004 Deserted Factory, DF016, (ltd. 100)
I like gritty ambience. When ambience is too smooth and produced like a pop record, in many cases the mood is destroyed. I would not consider Atrabilis Sunrise (continuation of dark-industrial act Catharsis) to be ambient. It definitely has ambient and dark-industrial influences, but it's more varied, harsh and complex in structure. It's affected by too many musical styles to call it just that. It's a little psychotic, a little edgy and pretty disturbing. Ranging from decent ambient, to hammering industrial, to weird sonic experimentation Atrabilis Sunrise knows how to retain the attention of the listener. Filthy distorted noises, a lot of breaks, broken percussion and sizzling electronics. A soundtrack to a fever dream. I cannot pinpoint the exact influences of this project. Brighter Death Now an Atrax Morgue? Scorn and Mental Destruction? It's quite clear that 'Padre P.C.' is followings his own somewhat strange musical route, maniacal and dark. Enjoyable insanity in 17 tracks without reaching the boredom level. [JS, Funprox webzine]
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Atrium Carceri -- "Phrenitis" -- CD -- €14
2009 Cold Meat Industry, CMI203
'Phrenitis' takes the listener to a twisted place where the walls between worlds are razed. The ruinous cities of wars long past, where time itself is but a prisoner and the warlords roaming their purgatorial halls are free to destroy the very foundations of the natural order... 'Phrenitis' is the 6th album of Atrium Carceri and is yet another step of the ever increasing Atrium Carceri wake up call. Simon Heath shows himself and the world, yet again, that no man is ever truly the master of their art unless they strive to evolve with it. The soundscapes he has created bypass the conscious mind, taking the listener deep into his pristine nightmare. The evolution of sound is spot-on and sets Atrium Carceri apart from other lazy dark ambient acts by being a truly diverse piece, replete with details upon details to make the illusion complete, and haunting compositions to make the mind yearn. [press-release]
Atrium Carceri -- "Souyuan" -- CD -- €14
2008 Cold Meat Industry, cmi189
3 years in the making, Atrium Carceri is back with another visceral masterpiece entitled Souyuan. After careful psychological observeration of test listeners, Simon Heath has done it again - renewing the genre through careful planning and painstaking attention to each fragment and detail, however minute. With fresh atmospheres, and a depth previously unfathomable, Souyuan will amaze initiates and pundits alike with its complexity and pureness of form. Never before has the artists innermost recesses been so sublimely conveyed to any medium... Simon, born in 1977, started producing when he early on played around with his Amiga and a microphone. In the years that have followed, Simon got involved in numerous projects and developed his knowledge and skills. During the process and through the years, he has been part of writing 16 albums and additionally many other tracks on compilations and other albums, released under various names, touching a broad range of ambient, dub, IDM, psy, folk, medieval, classical and black ambient. Simon is known for having reached a very high level both in story telling and production technique... Atrium Carceri has been praised by music critics and embraced by a cult audience for its depth of atmosphere. As described by one reviewer, "Heath creates a world where time collapses, where the ancient world of conjured spirits, the physical limitations of being all too human, and the infinite outreach of potential futuretech, all coexist." [press-release]
Atum -- "Hitwa" -- CD -- €10
2008 Beast Of Prey, bop 5.1, (ltd. 444)
If symbol can be recieved be senses, then combining with a sound, how much a concept does it makes? Is this something more, that can move our imagination a step forward? New album of Polish project Atum is atry in creating such images in our minds. As a guests on the album participated: INFAMIS, DEAD FACTORY and EQUUS. 47 minutes long album of strong dark ambient. Sounds, calm, and growing, pulsing create a grim atmosphere. Album diversified by rhytm loops, industrial hits and also acoustic guitar. Sounds for a Cold Meat fans, something between Desiderii Marginis and Megaptera. Unconventional release in 135mm by 150mm format, printed on a cardboard 45cm long. Folded in three parts, minimalistic graphic form with specialy designed symolics. CD mounted on a rubber dot. All foiled and hand numbered to 444 copies. [press-release]
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Atum -- "Legendy Miejskie" -- CD -- €11
2009 Beast Of Prey, bop 6.7
"Legendy miejskie / Urban Legends", the latest album by ATUM, has just arrived! "Urban Legends", arguably one of the strongest titles of the Beast of Prey label, is an extraordinary album, composed mostly of field recordings registered in Jaworzno, the home town of ATUM. It is an attempt at reconstructing the surroundings in order to distill something that eludes the every-day experience. Despite its private character, the message of the Legends is universal as well. Everyone of us passes dozens of places we think are "tamed", places seemingly devoid of meaning. Just a little effort is what it takes to dispel this illusion... Musically, the album is rather varied. It's a combination of field recordings, drones, whispers, and sounds of different acoustic instruments. The purpose is to reveal the oneiric dark side of the surrounding world. Guests such as Infamis (acoustic guitar), Tomasz K, Rafal Pach, and Piotr U (the author's friends from Jaworzno) contributed to the making of the album... Album released in colour digipack, full professional production. [press-release]
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Aube -- "Duplex-Sphere" -- CD -- €10
2004 Ultra-Mail Prod., U.M.P.-002, (ltd. 445)
Tracks presented on this album were recorded live in 1993-1995 using two voltage controlled oscillators. The CD also contains re-edition of 7" EP "Fast Tumbling Blaze" recorded in 1996 with voltage controlled oscillator. Sometimes calm, sometimes very furious japanoise work.
Aube -- "Imagery Resonance" -- CD -- €10
2007 Aquarellist, aquarel 05-07, (ltd. 1000)
This album has been specially recorded by Akifumi Nakajima for presentation at his Moscow concert in November 2007. This time he found the sound source in a small analogue percussion synthesizer Amdek PCK-100. Mostly calm album showing roughness and asperity of sound only in the first track. The rest material sounds more like lingering psychedelic soundscapes created from stratifications of looped and freely running electronic signals.
Aube -- "Le Syndrome Aquatique" -- 2 CD -- €15
2008 Silentes, sme 0721
This is the long awaited reissue of one of the best Aube's work originally titled AQUA SYNDROME, published about 10 years ago by MANIFOLD records. The new reissue included the original album with a bonus track and a bonus live CD. LE SYNDROME AQUATIQUE is an impressive job of deconstruction and resetting of sonorous material to work of Aube, this particularly extended in the duration, treaty and expanded time, much to be proposed in a rich edition in double CD. Through sophisticated and very tested technical of sonorous rework assembled in years of untiring activity in a searching experience, Aube puts molding on and models fragments of concrete sounds of "aquatic" derivation transforming them in unknown drones, noises, pads, loops rhythms-mechanics, constructing a fantastic sonorous tapestry of valuable invoice and incredible impact, and unavoidably bringing back to the memory the first three CD constructed with single water sounds of the monumental one box of 12 CDs proudly published from Amplexus more than 10 years ago. One new unforgettable work for all those who love, and has loved, the avant-guard-istic sonorous experimentations of large the great Japanese master. [press-release]
Aube -- "Metal on Metal" -- 2 CD -- €15
2008 Silentes, sme 0722
Another long awaited reissue from Aube. METAL ON METAL (as for AQUA SYNDROME) was published by MANIFOLD records. Also for this work, over the original album, you'll can hear a bonus track and a full live CD. To the discovery of the alchemical secrets and the magic of the metallic materials, of their acoustic characters, and the possible technological manipulations on the sounds that are possible to pull out... It arches of it resonances, mantric vibrations, hypnotics bells rings... That features of sounds of cymbals, plates, rings... that tubular elements are used or more ordinary and simple metallic objects of common use... that they are bowed or scraped..., Aube acquires the sounds and of it transforming its essence... decomposing and recomposing the shape... Fragmenting, expanding, stratifying and elaborating the sonorous matter, constructs complex wafts, resounding weaves carpets, interlaces thin threads of metallic tensions, crumbles and agglomerates acoustic particles, leaves to flowlong, reverberating, harmonic drones... "Metal on Metal", two only, fantastic CD for and a matchless release. [press-release]
Aube -- "Millennium: October" -- CD -- €10
2002 Armonika, KA200010, (ltd. 500)
October part of the "Millennium" series. Sound source material: air.
Aube -- "Millennium: November" -- CD -- €10
2002 Armonika, KA200011, (ltd. 500)
November part of the "Millennium" series. Sound source material: air.
Aube -- "Millennium: December" -- CD -- €10
2002 Armonika, KA200012, (ltd. 500)
December part of the "Millennium" series. Sound source material: air.
Aube -- "Pôle Nord" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2005 Taalem, alm 21
Does Aube really need an introduction? After more than 160 releases (!) in fourteen years, I guess he doesn't. For this 3"cd-r, Akifumi Nakajima has, as usual, used a single source to create his music; this time feedback. You could then imagine the tracks to be noisy as hell. Thankfully they're not. Aube knows perfectly how to mix noise and ambient music. So the result is noisy, yes, but listenable; ambient, too, but not boring. A great work, as usual should I say. [press-release]
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Aube -- "Redintegration" -- CD-R -- €11
2002 G.R.O.S.S., GRCDR2002-RED, (ltd. 202)
Material: percussion synthesizer Amdek PCK-100.
Aube -- "Reworks Maurizio Bianchi Vol. 1" -- CD -- €10
2005 Silentes, sme 0503
Aube presents a superb work of re-editing and re-composition of original material from 'Ml Mheen Alysm' by Maurizio Bianchi. This preserves the distinctly experimental aim of the music by the historical Italian artist, renewing it in surely less extreme/harsh, but equally new form. Unquestionably listenable and very effective. [label info]
Aube -- "Reworks Maurizio Bianchi Vol. 2" -- CD -- €10
2006 Silentes Minimal Editions, sme 0609
As the title suggests, the second meeting of these experimental minds. Static music, suspended by a thread of silence. Circular flowing audio structures. Archeology of sound. Mind expanding ambient textures. A new, fascinating operation of disassembly and restructure of sonic material by Maurizio Bianchi (the entire album 'The Testamentary Corridor'), by incomparable Japanese "audio sculptor" Aube. Silentes is a sub-division of Italian label Amplexus. [label info]
Aube -- "Reworks Nimh Vol. 1" -- CD -- €10
2007 Silentes Minimal Editions, sme 0611
Another must have work by audio decomposition-genius and sound-sculptor AUBE. Ethnic-electronic sound sources (as with "The Missing Tapes" by NIMH) transfigured and remodeled into completely new sonic lifeforms with state-of-the-art audio processing algorithms. Residual fragments of the original sound-sources occasionally appear in the mix like aquatic fauna swimming to the surface for a brief second. A magnum opus in four movements. Intensely facinating work by the unparalleled master of experimental sound design. AUBE is peerless. A minimal mosaic of sound that takes the listener on a slow-motion expedition into the very fabric of tone. A ocean of sound-grains for the listened to swim in. Spoken language doesn't (yet) contain words that properly describe these sounds... an absolute must have for the experimental music devotee. [press-release]
Aube -- "Reworks Stefano Gentile" -- CD -- €10
2005 Silentes Minimal Editions, sme 0501
Glacial sonic tensions, hypnothic electronic sequences, loops alienated stratifications, isolationist dark atmospheres, slow and progressive accumulations of changing sonic masses... An extraordinary work of restoration and revision of original material by Stefano Gentile developed by Aube, japanese great master, and able manipulator and contemporary electronic-experimental music reworker. [label info]
Aube -- "Reworks Stefano Gentile II" -- CD -- €10
2008 Silentes Minimal Editions, sme 0720
Long static drones and suspended frequencies of harmonic, sonorous wafts in constant evolution riding cyclical hypnotic perennially changing synthetic curved waves... Loops and fluctuating waves meet expand sonorous carpets and push-buttons electronic micro-sequences that progressively decompose in minimal rhythmic structures... Submerged melodic fragments emerge soft between stuffed with wadding magma flows... Extraordinary atmospheres and great new tension for this, most waited chapter of "Aube Reworks Stefano Gentile"! [press-release]
Aube -- "Variable Ambit" -- CD -- €10
2011 Housepig, HPIG-16, (ltd. 300)
This long-awaited disc finally sees the light day! Recovered from a now-defunct label, delayed for various reasons including a fake cd plant scam, Housepig is proud to present "Variable Ambit"! The master of single-source recording takes a simple starting point - feedback - and manipulates it into a rich tapestry of overlapping tones and textures. Eight tracks, 66 minutes. Pro CD in jewel case with full-color four-page booklet, limited to 300 copies. [label info]
Augsburger Tafelconfect -- "Fusion In The Slaughterhaus" -- CD -- €9
2004 Nneon, Nneon 002-2
Augsburger Tafelconfect is an audiovisual hamburgian trio consisting of Jyrgen Hall, who also recorded quite a lot of stuff for Cologne's finest label Staubgold under the name of Gunter Adler, as well as with his group Gronland Orchester, on laptop and electronics. Musically he teams up with Sebastian Reier on volcano-guitar. Their name pays tribute to the frivolous medieval music of Valenthin Rathgeber but their music is far away from that. Mixing electronically processed analogue guitar, computer, electronics as well as concrete sounds and beatz, they create a kind of half-improvised music that kicks ass instead of boring people with too much academic referentiality - their live sets add another component: the strong and colorful atmospheric visuals by BaronesseA who is also the designer of Nneon. This is their debut recording. [Fulldozer]
Aural Holograms -- "Vol. 1" -- CD -- €10
2007 Aural Hypnox, [AH08], (ltd. 1000)
The very first part of the Aural Holograms series incorporates various call and response patterns manifesting vibrating, subtle energies, all of which have been accurately divided into separate rhythmic dimensions and time-shifting aural tapestries. The overall experience - i.e. the ecstatic effect - is transmitted by the intensity of syncopated rhythms, reed organ lingering on a few tones, self-transforming vocal work accompanied with carefully chosen oscillating tunes and a variety of percussive patterns utilising artefacts crafted according to the methods of traditional metallurgia, as well as real-time tape operations. Comes in six-panel hand finished cardboard booklet, in an edition of 1.000 copies. [label info]
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Austere -- "Solyaris" -- CD -- €11
2008 Hypnos, hyp2753
This is a creative peak for this much-overlooked ambient duo, their first release on Hypnos, following their Hypnos Secret Sounds album Pulse in 2007. In their 10 years of productivity, Austere has covered territory from Pulse's drone minimalism, ranging back through odd and trippy Coil-inspired sonic experimentation, to seamless dark ambient, and occasionally glitchy weirdness. Despite some challenging material in their back catalog, Austere have in this case produced an album as friendly and pleasant as any Austere fan could have imagined possible, and yet without resorting to the usual tricks that make music sound "listenable." [label info]
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Author & Punisher -- "Drone Machines" -- CD -- €10
2010 Heart & Crossbone, HCB 028
By squelching, triggering, amputating, stretching and tormenting sounds achieved from the execution of heavy machinery into vivid instruments, Tristan Shone, the man behind Author & Punisher, offers "Drone Machines", One of thee most eviscerated and innovating albums to come out in years. Nonetheless, "Drone Machines" is beyond avantgarde, in that exciting sense that it brings together slow-paced DOOM whips, modern technology, an eerie flood of vile drones and heavy machinery in a whole new perspective. It's also an album that is reviving the INDUSTRIAL METAL genre from its ashes and rephrasing the primeval passion for that classic bestial drum pound with rancid low end and sonic-metallic scraping - and this unblemished contrast - between concrete innovation and the reinvigoration of lost sounds, is exactly what makes "Drone Machines" such an important, groundbreaking and iconic album. For years to come... Recommended if you like Godflesh, HALO, Swans, Human Queena Orchestra, Dead World, Grave in the Sky, Khanate, Black Mayonnaise, Caspar Br-tzmann Massaker, Trust Obey etc. [press-release]
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Autumn Galaxy -- "An Emperor's Garden" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 House Of Alchemy, #008, (ltd. 123)
A collaboration between Ville Moskiitto and a prolific artist Brad Rose known for Charlatan, Dick Test, Electronic Exercises, Little Jupiter, Modem Doom, North Sea, The, Space Dive, Ukraine and many other projects. Acoustic phych-folk and shamanic drone ambient, fairy atmosphere, landscapes and trips... Carboard box with an insert. [YAOP]
Avrorin G. / Magnetone -- "Last Drop Of Orchestra" -- CD-R -- €5
2010 self-released
Mail collaboration of two little known artists, coming from noise and free-rock and electronic Russian underground. Magnetone plays cello, Avrorin uses prepared steel objects of Soviet industry. As a result we have dissonant industrial flow of din and howl. [from the author]
Ax -- "Astronomy" -- CD -- €10
1997 Freek Records, FRR 027
Ax is the sometime-project of Anthony Di Franco, who appeared on early Skullflower albums. Mastered by Dennis Blackham. "Exploding star noise and electromagnetic overtones overloading your synapses."
Azimuth -- "Illbient" -- CD-R -- €3
2011 Nurn Records, NRN01, (ltd. 25)
Azimuth project captures numerous sounds circulating in free space, distorting and collapsing them in lo fi soundscapes, that sound closely to what's usually called drone or noise. Intuitive and introvert sounds with no claim to be called art. [label info]
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Azoikum / Government Alpha -- "Das Methadonprogramm" -- CD -- €10
2005 Multi National Disaster Records, MNDR 2015, (ltd. 444)
Harsh noise.
B4 -- "Didaktik National Legendary Rock" -- 2 CD -- €14
2011 Poli5
The band B4 was created accidentally in 1998 at a festival in Turnovo, when it was necessary to replace the missing band. Since then the line-up has been changing with a constant core consisting of keyboardist David Freudlem, guitarist Tomas Prochazka and drummer Leosem Kropackem. Since the beginning they have been playing improvised music based on psychedelia with fragments of noise, jazz and rock with special reference to the specific sound of the former Eastern bloc. B4 is probably the only Czech group actively involved in krautrock. Their studio recordings and live performances can be completely different, as in cases of Can or Nurse With Wound they are homogeneous stream of wild improvisation. Like with the British band The Bays they can say that "performance is the product". Years ago the band decided to use only historical analogue instruments: Vermona organ, Korg and Siel analog keyboards, tape echoes and replicas of Italian wow-pedals from sixties... B4 are inspired by Czech musicians Peter and Paul Ormovy, Steve Reich, the projects Medeski, Martin and Wood, Einstuerzende Neubauten and especially by two songs of the project Money Mark "Information Contraband" and "Push the Button". B4 has recorded and released several CDRs by their own, and in 2010 they had their first official release "Ringo George Paul John" on Poli5. Now their cooperation with the label continues with the release of the double album "Didaktik National Legendary Rock"... The album was recorded during the five day session at a cottage in Hornim Prysku without any preparations. The first CD contains nine songs moving between krautrock, retrofuturism, lounge and film music. With rich layers of noise, this album is characterized with non-standard usage of equipment, turntables and tape recorder. Most tracks on the CD are instrumental, other songs are in Czech, English, Hungarian and French... The second CD contains remixes or more alternative versions of these songs, reworked into totally different tracks. The overall feeling is different, with freak-country sound, a psychedelic hybrid of blues and garage noise and stoner rock. The inspiration for the first disc were mainly Zdenek Liska and Ennio Morriconne, for the second disc particularly Captain Beefheart, delta blues and African music... "Didaktik National Legendary Rock" is a labyrinth of sounds intended to make audience curious and inquisitive with a sense of extreme audio adventure. [label info]
B.I.S. -- "Bicephale" -- CD-R -- €10
2006 Ruralfaune, rur004, (ltd. 50)
B-Machina -- "Rotation Zwei" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Valgriind, VG 23
New album of Austrian project. Professional polygraphy in CD-envelope. Synthesis of acoustic guitar sound and noise background. [label info]
Btong -- "The Great Disintegrator" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Snowy Tension Pole, STP-004, (ltd. 100)
Continuing the edition of our tape, we are pleased to introduce to you our artist - btong. Here is a musician issuing records and giving concerts all over the world. He is dealing with creating and alternative experimental electronic music. His work takes on various interesting forms, we will focus on his dark ambient side. A very technical album, titled 'The Great Disintegrator' which was created between 2008 and 2010. It will appeal not only to listeners of industrial music but also to those who like well-developed musical episodes. The general climate sucks the listener in from the very first second. What happens next, consequently confirms the first fascination. Beyond the borders and even further - into the void of all perception. This is such a strange journey that you do what the artist wants. You will use his items, but it will be interesting for you and you will see how much you will be satisfied. You will start to enhance yourself. [press-release]
Babylone Chaos -- "Flying Bodies Under The Clouds" -- CD -- €10
2010 OPN Records, OPNCD0014, (ltd. 500)
Brand new release mixing dark soundscapes, concrete sounds and weird voices!!! A really amazing new piece of music from this French one-man project (Botchan Karisen). Babylone Chaos has long been an avid proponent of chaotic, oppressing climates and deals in suffocation and saturation. Artwork by MineUchi, with images by Yoshihiro Oimatsu. Mastering by Ruelgo (Le Syndicat). Ltd x 500 copies ina 6-panel digipak. [Cold Spring]
Babylone Chaos -- "Les Machines Ecarlates" -- CD -- €11
2007 OPN Records, OPN CD07, (ltd. 500)
A man with a fish eye stared at me when I satisfied my computer with this CD. The artwork on this release is awesome, something which is thoughtful to do when you release your CD in a DVD case. On the front of 'les machines ecarlates' stands a man pierced through his forehead with a huge piece of piping. On the back a man with a fish eye gives me a look, which keeps me away from the track listing underneath it. I must say, it pleases me to receive such artwork, I could write a good review about the artwork alone.(...)Listening to the CD I found that Babylone Chaos can be compared, in a strange way, with Aphex Twin. You can hear beats, but they never last longer than a few measures. That is one of the reasons why this CD sounds so great. Babylone Chaos doesn't care about being tagged with a genre; the artist just does what he wants. The CD isn't one you listen to on a regular occasion. Listening to 'les machines exerlates' is a trip. A trip to the beautiful, the ugly, the frightening the heaven and the hell. [Heathen Harvest]
Baciamibartali / Winter Light -- "The Mournful Gloom" -- CD -- €10
1982/2009 Oltrelanebbiailmare, CD200902
Rhefined and superbly workmanshipped Elettro-wave music, brought to your attention by two unforgettable and unforgetted italian bands that left their own mark during the Eighties. Collected here on a single and extraordinary CD are the remastered versions of Baciamibartali's 'The Mournful Gloom' 12' vinyl and the 'Baciamibartali / Winter Light' split 12' vinyl originally released between 1982 and 1984. An unmissable CD for all the band's aficionados who were lucky enough to follow them since the early days, and a unique chance for the New Wave music lovers who still haven't known and appreciated them. [label info]
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Bad Sector -- "Chronoland" -- CD -- €13
2011 Power & Steel, PAS 30
This new album of Massimo Magrini is the soundscape for a mind movie and another masterpiece that picks up where the previous work CMASA left off. Twelve beautifully crafted chapters of music segueing between morphing layers of thick drones, haunting melodies and crackling vocal transmissions. Chronoland unfolds a fascinating and cineastic atmosphere of frightening ambient melodica with dark soundwaves deeply imbedded in the music and bursts of electro-acoustic effects. This release is another step forward into the sound cosmos of Massimo Magrini with new directions but always in the unique way of BAD SECTOR. [press-release]
Bad Sector -- "Dolmen Factory" -- CD -- €12
2008 Faria Records, FAR-21, (ltd. 500)
Reprint of the classic Bad Sector release. Harmonic, noisy, emotional electronic tracks set the trademark sound of the one-man project from Tuscany. It includes an unreleased track. [label info]
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Bad Sector -- "The Harrow" -- CD -- €11
2007 Ewers Tonkunst, HHE 015 CD, (ltd. 750)
Re-edition of long sold out (and damn great!) album with a bonus track.
Bad Sector -- "Kosmodrom + Extra Tracks" -- 2 CD -- €30
2006 Waystyx, WR16, (ltd. 185)
Double CD set, first CD contains "Kosmodrom" album, 2nd - 4 bonus-tracks developing the main theme.
Bad Sector -- "Plasma" -- CD -- €12
1998 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 011, 2nd edition
If "Ampos" is the "plastic" masterpiece by Bad Sector this is the "surgerical" masterpice by the Italian industrial master! great conceptual work! sound sources: Magnetosphere, Vostok + Salyut + Soyuz original recordings, Pulsar, High Voltage, Neon... all this sounds are building a unique powerful & pulsing sound sculpture, a great mind experience! Thecover presents a series of interesting "electricity / energy"photos! Second print with a new full color re-worked cover! [press-release]
Bad Sector -- "Storage Disk 1" -- CD -- €13
2007 Waystyx Records, WR30, (ltd. 500)
First part of 2CD project revealing interest of Massimo Magrini in history of Soviet computer technics and presenting ten years of Bad Sector creative activity. It includes as remastered released compilation and bonus tracks as never before released material. Contains compositions from "Survival Tool" 3"CDR (Cohort Records), "Polonoid" concert edition CDR (Bastet Records) and "BadBox" edition boxset (Tantric Harmonies), "Toroidal Body" 7"+ mCDR (Pre Feed/Eibon Records), "Dolmen" 7" (Drone Records), "Manifesto Industriale Italiano" (Old Europa Cafe) tape box set. [label info]
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Bad Sector -- "Storage Disk 2" -- CD -- €13
2008 Waystyx, WR43, (ltd. 500)
2nd part of rare tracks anthology. Contains material from: "Planar Energy" picture 7" (Smallvoices), "Scrignum Vitae" box with CD and objects (Old Europa Cafe), "Ten Years Of Madness" 2 CD (Achtung Baby!), "Land:[Schaft]" 2x10" (Cold Lands), "Hover" CDr (Bastet Rec.), "L'Ame Electrique Presents Old Europa Cafe" (Ame Electrique) + 4 previously unreleased tracks recorded in 2002.
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Baghiri, Amir -- "Bluebox Collection" -- 4 CD -- €30
2000 Arya, Y10, (ltd. 600)
Incredible! Over 280 minutes of new and often magnificent sounds from Amir Baghiri. This limited edition box set contains 4 brand new albums: CITY - LIVE - NIGHT - SLEEP. The music is more rhythmic on the album CITY with industrial noises, and slower ambient on SLEEP, from movement and chaos of a city to deep meditation. Amir (also with the help of many friends) is quite adept at shifting gears for each disc, and shows all his power in creating magic atmospheres that lead you on an unforgettable trip. The 4 CDs are packaged in a clear big jewel box with a 16-page booklet including full notes and photos. [Backroads Music description]
Baghiri, Amir -- "Dreamresources" -- CD-R -- €11
2002/2007 Bluebox, BB005
Baghiri, Amir -- "Exosphere" -- CD-R -- €11
2005 Blue Box, BB001
A mixture of masterful, spooky alien soundscapes and fluid textures by one of ambient music premier electro-tribal sound designers. "Exophere" offers ten tracks making up 68 minutes of music continuing the fine tradition of space & tribal ambient which Baghiri is known for. The album starts off quiet but after a few minutes a slow and later on accelerating and prominent sequence shows up which is reminiscent of the extended track "In the Heat of Venus" on Steve Roach's album "Western Spaces". [label info]
Baghiri, Amir -- "Orbital Repose" -- CD-R -- €11
2006 Bluebox, BB002
Baghiri, Amir -- "Planet X" -- CD -- €11
2006 Blue Box, BB002
Inspired by the exotic astrophysical phenomena of the 10th planet. An in-depth ambient turmoil of 76 minutes, blending deep soundscapes with sequenced pieces (in Amir's words: "multidimensional ambient & groove creation") and environmental sounds. A certain touch of Steve Roach's music still can't be missed, but again Amir shows he's has found his way in the genre by exploring his own musical pathways over the years. In a way it's a pleasant dream flight with some more active passages, but in no way background music. This highly atmospheric and well produced recording certainly deserves both thumbs up. [label info]
Baghiri, Amir -- "Rooms" -- 3 CD -- €18
2001 Arya, Y13, (ltd. 500)
"Rooms" is a three CD-set tribal minimalism from Amir Baghiri. The set has three distinct themes - one for each cd - that are interconnected. The CD's are subtitled Inner Rooms, Real Rooms and Spaces in Between respectively. "Inner Rooms" refers to the chambers within the self. Amir has fashioned some expansive minimalism replete with experimental influences and ethnic subtleties. There is also a guest appearance by overtone singer Jim Cole. Jim's vocals enhance the subtle rhytm and deep drone of "The Trip of Thoughts" This disc is a journey in and of itself. It is also the beginning of a much larger journey and it sets that stage quite effectively. "Real Rooms" is - DUH! - a reality check. From the singing bowls of "Big Bang" through the experimental textures of "Timeslices" and the gentle atmospheres of "Nowhere Like Home" this cd has an organic presence. The organic atmospheres add the unique touch. This leg of the journey serves to ground the listeners. "Spaces in Between" maintains integrity with its double entendre. The first - and most obvious - meaning is a reference to the physical spaces between rooms. Amir's more subtle intent is to define the crossover between the emotional/spiritual existence and the physical/intellectual self. Amir is more concerned with the intangible spaces. This disc ties the first two discs together in the form of holistic integration of the self. The expansive atmospheres are perfect for meditating and discovering the symmetry of the heart, soul, mind and body. The organic textures and tribal influences create the vehicle for self-discovery. Amir has really come into his own of late. This is an exciting development inhis maturation as a composer and performer. Assuming that he continues to develop apace, the sky is the limit! [Jim Brenholts]
Baghiri, Amir -- "Time" -- CD-R -- €11
1998/2006 Bluebox, BB004
Baghiri, Amir & Wee Bandits -- "A Brief History of Light" -- CD-R -- €11
2007 Blue Box, BB0706
On "A Brief History Of Light" Amir Baghiri and guests mix mesmerizing floating textural electronica and high tech chill-out/down tempo music. The cd kicks off with the dynamic "Falling Star", which featured quite a heavy dance beat, before we move into the great sequencing and soundscapes of the engaging "Cosmic Axis". More floating textures follow in the very nice tracks "Ghosts of the Dark Wood" and "Between Shadows and Fog", which beautifully realm in sort-of Steve Roach territory. The ten minute "Origins of Light" is another atmospheric outing with mesmerizing, deep sound worlds, fx's, vocal samples and a slow sequence, in which more trance rhythms pop in halfway. "Asphalt Wolf" is next, a four minute trance dance track with lots of fx's, moving into "Princes of Light", which has some vocals. The realm in this and the following tracks is overall chill-out. It's difficult to describe the music on this album, so you best check out the sound clips. [press-release]
Baker, Aidan -- "Book Of Nods" -- CD -- €13
2008 Beta-lactam Ring Records, mt163 / negro 40, (ltd. 500)
A new landscape is painted out of darkness by progressive strokes of the dawn. The finished piece is neither night nor day, but the transformation itself. Aidan Baker's (Nadja) "Book Of Nods" crests experimental peaks in similarly paced sonic transmigrations. His lustrous chimera blooms open in shifting onion layers built out of slow-moaning guitar, flute, organ and drums. The resonant frequencies of quietly crashing nodes vibrate the ozone with a sub-textural beating of multi-pianic feathers. Baker's prior metallic inclinations lend in heaviness, adding a certain stylistic thud to Terry Riley-like territories, and colouring portions almost as if they were middle passages in some sprawling prog excursion. A soft eruption of synchronous sweet airs. [press-release]
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Baker, Aidan -- "Dance of Lonely Molecules" -- CD-R -- €13
2007 Blade Records, wmda070, (ltd. 200)
Baker, Aidan -- "Lost in the Rat Maze" -- CD -- €11
2011 ConSouling Sounds, SOUL0011, (ltd. 800)
Aidan Baker needs no introduction: this prolific Canadian classically trained multi-instrumentalist has generously contributed to the doom/drone/ambient genre. Nadja, Arc and Whisper Room are just a few of his manifestations. As a solo artist he also composed quite an impressive backcatalogue. Consouling Sounds is proud to add another release to that list, as we're quite confident this one will stand out in this discography. With Lost in the Rat Maze Aidan Baker produces an unconventional album - even to Baker-standards. Having been known for his extensive ambient soundscapes, Baker chose a different approach to his sound weaving - albeit true to the "Bakersound". In stead of a densely layered and broad sound palette, Baker has almost embraced a "postrockish" method of composing. More compact, pointed and clear progressions can be discovered, together with a diverse array of instruments, sounds and techniques. Expect the classic Aidan Baker elements: captivating, fascinating and repetitive mesmerizing sounds - but with a different twist to it. [press-release]
Baker, Aidan -- "Noise of Silence" -- CD -- €13
2007/2011 Essence Music, ESS015, (ltd. 400)
Baker, Aidan -- "The Taste of Summer on your Skin" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2004 Taalem, alm 15
I'm not sure Aidan Baker really needs an introduction. Also a member or the tribal-ambient trio ARC (remember "13th" we released some months ago), he has built an impressive discography in a few months, releasing his beautiful drone/ambient guitar-ish music on every interesting label (Mystery Sea, DTA, S'Agita or The Locus OF Assemblage to name but a few). Of course we couldn't not be part of (smile!). So here is "The Taste of Summer on your Skin", "a melodic, shimmering multi-instrumental drone track" as Aidan describes it himself. [press-release]
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Baker, Aidan / ARC -- "The Sun Is Bleeding & Has Black Hands" -- 2 CD-R -- €14
2009 Kokeshidisk, kodi 12
Compiled by Aidan Baker, "The Sun Is Bleeding & Has Black Hands" is a collection of tracks taken from various rare and/or out-of-print releases previously issued as cd, cd-r or mp3, and compilations. Each disc is almost 80min long. The Aidan Baker disc is full of shiny & melodic drones while the ARC disc is full of tribal ambiences the trio is known for, with a noisy & chaotic final! [press-release]
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Bald Doll -- "Pikula In Da House" -- CD-R -- €4
2007 Folvork'prod, Kfeytzez 076, (ltd. 20)
60 min. Electro! Reissue of a club rarity from 2002! Rare club oriented side-project of TCHORT (Siberian project existing since early days of Russian underground scene). Special CD tray and nothing extra. [label info]
Band Of Pain -- "Sacred Flesh (Original Movie Soundtrack)" -- CD -- €10
2000/2010 Cold Spring, CSR33CD, (ltd. 666)
On Friday 14th April 2000, the film SACRED FLESH finally premiered at the ABC Piccadilly cinema for a two week stint, before being shown at cinemas across the country. It was delayed for a while as the BBFC decided on whether to grant a certificate for screening, or to ban it altogether! Finally, with a few edits they gave it an 18 certificate. The soundtrack was written by BAND OF PAIN, creating a very dark, brooding atmosphere to compliment Nigel Wingroves' film. Originally with a 16-page booklet depicting explicit scenes from the film (generallt cute lesbian conventuals - M.M.), pressure from the distributors forced the artwork into a revised 4-page version. SACRED FLESH is dark journey into realms of mental anguish and repression; a very Black Ambient soundtrack. At last, BAND OF PAIN is working in the medium to which its most suited. An incredible new album with massive demand from both film and music distributors alike. 10 year anniversary edition of 666 copies! [label info]
Barabino, Federico / Cat'n'Bone -- "Collaboration" -- CD-R -- €4
2009 self-released
Technogenic hi-fi noise ambient in vein of Aube, sometimes really loud. A collaboration between Russian and Argentinian artists. [YAOP]
Barabino, Federico & Maklakov, Vitaly -- "Fleur Light" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Heart-Shaped Box Prod., HSB-033, (ltd. 21)
Collaboration between Argentinian and Russian artists. Psychedelic drone ambient and unprocessed naturally sounding solos on acoustic guitar. Nice full-colour cover. [YAOP]
Barbara -- "Peger" -- CD -- €10
2007 Heart & Crossbone, HCB 009, (ltd. 999)
Psycho Doom Grind. Juxtaposing noise-core, grind and doom, with strong hints of black metal, it's hard to accept the fact that Barbara's instrumental line-up is comprised only by a drummer (David OPP A.K.A Cadaver Eyes) and a bass player (Re-em H). Both of them also deliver the screams and perverse whispers on their first album in four years, a hectic and mindless anti-musical rupture. For fans of Today Is the Day, VOG, Truman's Water, Burmese, Lightning Bolt and Pig Destroyer. [press-release]
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Barbarossa Umtrunk -- "Wehrwolf Dharma" -- CD -- €10
2010 Ufa Muzak, UFA 33, (ltd. 200)
Military pop / Esoteric industrial. UFA presents a grandiose album by the French sound battalion BARBAROSSA UMTRUNK. This masterpiece is hard to file under a certain style, as they are so interwoven in music and can't be clearly defined. Ethnic elements, cimbals, shamanic singing, heavy drones, synth lines and lots of vocals blend together into an insane mix of apocalyptic, ritual and orchestral neoclassics. The album's concept is no less complex and sophisticated, it was inspired by the theories of Hans Horbiger and northern dark shamans cults. Spinning around the magic of seids and werewolf mysteries, the hidden plot of the songs tells us about the attempt to rewrite the history of Hyperborean race from the very beginning, from the fall of Thule legend. The ice-cold atmosphere of this album penetrates into the fundamental principle of a mystery, and the werewolf spirit sleeping in collective unconscious wakes up. BU ised in their work texts by J. Parvulescu, R. Howard, A. Rosenberg, M. Marmin (creator of "Greece" new right-wing group in France). The album contains tribute songs to Runes Order and Celtic Frost... Cold merciless ambience of a forest where secret is buried in soil itself, dark paths that protect and wreck, gibbous Moon singing silent songs... in darkness it starts the dreadful game of death, and the sound of broken bones and the wild howl of wolves become a new catastrophic believe. 10 tracks, 72 minutes, 200 copies, sturdy 4-panel sleeve with an insert. [press-release]
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Barbarossa Umtrunk / Dronerune -- "Distant Shores of Hvetramannaland - A Tribute to Miguel Serrano" -- CD -- €9
2011 Ufa Muzak, UFA 41, (ltd. 500)
Military Pop / Dark Ambient / Drone doom. We present this long awaited split album of awesome quality. One of the best releases of UFA Muzak corporation, hard and important for understanding and inner interpretation. The long monumental material of this otherworldly dedication to the most significant figure of mystical aryan movement consists of equal parts - contributions made to the full extent and dignity by French military ambient and Argentinian guitar drone noise. This album is like an initiation, to pass it through, listen and submerge in it, one has to have a strong will and true belief in immortality of human soul. Through noise, slavery and pain of this world belonging to the Tsar who captured souls in senseless and eternal circle, appear exceedingly delicate gleams of light, coming through into the continual space, these flamy messages of runic forms, true symbols against death and entropy. They exist, come through the chosen ones and represent the last hope. The voice of gnostic prophet Miguel Serrano is heard in sparse spheres, his speech is eternal, once said, wherever he is now. From the stars, it's breezing real all-penetrating cold... 8 tracks, 78 minutes, A5 cardboard sleeve. [press-release]
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Bardini, Gregorio -- "Sentinelle del Mattino" -- CD -- €10
2007 The Eastern Front, Front 008, (ltd. 1000)
Hypnotic musical journey composed by the legend of Italian scene Gregorio Bardini. An artist who is on scene since early 80s, stood behind TAC and Kino Glaz, collaborated with Thelema and Tuxedo Moon, Tony Wakeford and Vidna Obmana, Alio Die and Steve Pikkolo, Thierry Lolif and Doubling Riders. "Sentinelle Del Mattino" dips you into the world of harmony, expressiveness and anguish melodies. Wide specter of musical instruments (piano, flutes, guitars, drums, zurna, kena, ciaramella, saxophone), unforgettable vocals, unique records of Mary de Rachewilts voice, reading her father Ezra Pound' Cantos and musical innovations of Stefan Rukavina (Bleiburg), Tiziano Popoli, Mauro Franceschi, Paolo Longo Vaschetto, Peter 'Kompripiotr' Holzknecht, Martin 'Mala' Langes, Stephan 'Physh' Fischnaller, touches a heart up to its deepest depths. [press-release]
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Bardini, Gregorio & Gerstein -- "Arise Of A Bleeding Rose" -- CD -- €11
2009 The Eastern Front, Front 025, (ltd. 1000)
Collaborative work of two legends of Italian industrial scene Gregorio Bardini and Gerstein featuring S. Rukavina (Bleiburg) and Paolo Longo Vaschetto. Gerstein (a.k.a. Maurizio Pustianaz) and Gregorio Bardini knew each other in the mid '80s. At that time Gerstein was moving his first steps composing his piano experimental suites, while Gregorio was active as keyboard and flute player with Thelema first and with Kino Glaz then. They missed their contact and during the last twenty years Maurizio experimented with musical styles and atmospheres (see his 1993 'Sucker' album for his intimate piano/guitar ballads as well as the CD released by Discordia in 1996 for his first steps into anxious electronic/guitar soundtracks composition, to name few) and Gregorio studied flute with Severino Gazzelloni, became a trained blow instruments concert artist and collaborated with Tuxedo Moon, T.A.C. and many others. Gregorio studied also Euro Asiatic and Indo European cultures/sounds and explored these themes producing different albums on the Arx Collana label. Their paths crossed again when Maurizio received the Gregorio Bardini first release for The Eastern Front label (titled 'Sentinelle del Mattino') for a review on Chain D.L.K. (magazine that he founded with Marc Urselli in the mid '90s). Maurizio asked to Gregorio if he was interested into a collaboration and after his positive answer, he prepared ten electronic tracks that were aiming to create a timeless suspended in time effect where fears and hopes were battling like a clash of titans. Electronic sounds, piano, kettledrums and drum machine patterns have been used having in mind the Keith Emerson soundtrack to the 'Inferno' movie as reference for the atmospheres he wanted to create. Gregorio added flutes, ocarina and performed spoken word and singing, Maurizio gave his voice only to the main track 'Arise Of A Bleeding Rose', a song/anthem for the whole album which is focused on the regain of the original self... 'Arise Of A Bleeding Rose' sounds like no other album of the genre and sees as guests Bleiburg and Paolo Longo Vaschetto whom also took care of the final mix. [press-release]
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Bardini, Gregorio & Thierry Jolif -- "Kantalon" -- CD -- €10
2009 The Eastern Front, Folk 002, (ltd. 500)
Kantalon is an ancient Gaelic word, it refers, in this old Celtic tongue, to the 'chant' but also to the lessons that the druids were teaching to their pupils. This name has been found engraved on a votive pillar, so we could see a symbolical link traced between the knowledge the druids were transmitting through the oral, and often singing, courses and the pillar rooted deeply in the soil and with his peak touching to the skies, sacred domain of the invisible. By the years has been transmitted in the old Celtic land of Brittany, many popular song in the Celtic local tongue. Of course those songs they had nothing to do (or so far) with the teachings of the ancient druids, but often they are also 'lessons'. Lessons about events of the past times, mainly sad events, stories of crimes, of battles, of losing ... Sometimes the exact subject of the story is not so easy to recognize, sometimes the words are quite obscure in their meaning but most of the times, with a little feeling of what really means symbolism, we are able to find the real and concrete spiritual meaning of the song. As the Kantalon is rooted into a particular soil so we are, and those songs are too, they belong to us because we belong to this particular ground and country even if we are living in a time far away from the time in which they were created. So we took those songs not 'as they were', but as they could be now, with all the musical background we had inside of us. We had worked on this distance between their origin and us as a real musical matter. Our aim was not to try to do a kind of mix between medieval music and modern one but to express the spiritual reality and complexity of those lyrics and melodies into our own musical field as if those songs made a travel through time and had to pass through the filters of modern music (experimental, concrete, classical, free-jazz, industrial ... and so on) to reach our brains and our instruments. [press-release]
Bardo, Igor -- "My Sweet Nightmare" -- CD -- €12
2011 Some Place Else, SPEXI057, (ltd. 250)
Igor Bardo is a Russian musician and sound artist. He is best known as the mastermind of Bardoseneticcube, which is one of the leading experimental/post-industrial groups from Russia. He describes his music as Surrealism: 'Pure psychic automatism by which it is intended to express, either verbally or in writing, the true function of thought. Thought dictated in the absence of all control exerted by reason, and outside all aesthetic or moral preoccupations.' (Andre Breton)... My Sweet Nightmare is Igor Bardo's debut solo album, containing about one hour of first class psychedelic electronic listening music. The surrealist soundscapes will be instantly embraced by fans of Bardoseneticcube, yet the artist manages to conquer heaps of new ground at the same time. Free from the burden of expectation related to the fame of his main band, My Sweet Nightmare has mr. Bardo take us on an adventurous journey deep down into the rabbit hole. Themes such as religion, psychedelia, sleep paralysis etc. are explored with eerie atmospheres, bliss-inducing frequencies and cutting edge studio experiments... Igor Bardo formed Bardoseneticcube in 1998. The group have released dozens of albums on various labels throughout the world, and their powerful audiovisual live performances have gathered fame in Russia, Europe and Scandinavia. Igor Bardo has also collaborated live and on record with numerous Russian experimental artists. [press-release]
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Bardoseneticcube -- "Biosphere" -- CD-R -- €8
2002 Ultra, UCD 14, (ltd. 150)
The final part of sheres trilogy - spacy raw ambient.
Bardoseneticcube -- "Deadhead" -- CD -- €10
2006 Aquarellist, aquarel 03-05, (ltd. 500)
New album of Bardoseneticcube is the whole surrealistic musical performance which is impossible to squeeze into the boundaries of any genre. Six untitled pieces reveal the labyrynth of sonic cobwebs born in the depths of subconscious mind of Igor Potsukailo and his brothers in arms (several guest musicians took part in recording sessions - two guitarists, saxophonist, etc.). The basis for the most tracks is formed by the hybryd of orchestral-ethno-electronic rhythmics and it's layered over with melodic lines walking from composition to composition and completely unexpected samples hardly rationally coordinated with musical context. For sure, this time Igor's talent has beaten all the stylistical limitations - the album sounds very organic and energetic.
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Bardoseneticcube -- "Democracy Of Noise" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 ML, ML 0108, (ltd. 93)
A very diverse album containing rhythmical, ambient, industrial and noisy moments, sounding like a single whole moulded into a surreal atmosphere. This disc could be used as a study guide for noise artists who want to learn the experimental approach, professionalism and quality of sound treatments.
Bardoseneticcube -- "Hola! El Maniacomio!" -- CD-R -- €6
2011 Noo Slava Bogu, NSB 002
Live recording from October 2001 at "Klim Voroshilov" club, St. Petersburg. Bardoseneticcube were Igor Potsukailo & Sergey Matveev.
Bardoseneticcube -- "Illness Of Green Colour" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 ML, ML 0208, (ltd. 93)
"Illness Of Green Colour" is not a new album of BSC, this is a reissue of one-track half-hour-long album "Disease", released in 1999 by Black Dead Rabbit Production as a limited edition of 50 copies. This track is followed by a 20-min. long bonus-composition, taken from the album "Blood Of Green Colour" (2005 Blade Records, ltd. 150), which by the author's opinion thematically fits the material of "Disease".
Bardoseneticcube -- "Lord Of Light" -- CD-R -- €9
2006 Deserted Factory, DF033, (ltd. 180)
Dark Industrial Noise / Ambient from Russia. [label info]
Bardoseneticcube -- "Monolith" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 ML, ML 0308, (ltd. 93)
The album consists of one track lasting for a little more than an hour. Smooth and slowly moving nocturnal industrial tapestry: soft background noises, fragments of voices and echoes of all kinds... One of the most atmospheric recording of Bardoseneticcube.
Bardoseneticcube -- "Naegleria Fowlery" -- CD -- €11
2007 Blade Records, wmda071, (ltd. 300)
This strange and extremely varied disc opens with a track which whirls in and out of The Caretaker's 'Haunted Ballroom'-style samples with piercing electronics. Moving onwards we encounter dense rhythmic industrial pieces and experimental electronics - all the while chasing the thread of eccentric samples and searing white noise. Limited to just 300 hand-numbered copies in an outsized foldout package. A great, if unusual, piece from the Russian outfit. [Cold Spring Records description]
Bardoseneticcube -- "Noosphere" -- CD -- €10
2008 Monochrome Vision, mv24
New album by russian project Bardoseneticcube dealing with theory of russian scientist Vladimir Vernadsky about collective consciousness, emerging from the interaction of human minds. The continuos computer-generated music, minimally changing but reaching maximum concentration, comes as the one long track, designed for your mind challenge. "The universe is full of endless and omnipresent information fields, different in their energy/meaning potentials. Some of them are accessible for people who are using it extensively, others are intended only for machines that seem to be their source and destination at the same time. This soundpiece is pure improvisation by Igor Potsukailo (BARDOSENETICCUBE) and a Toshiba Satellite A-110 laptop (BARDOSENETICCUBE). The laptop is the leading performer here, created by unknown system error and playing the music of solar wind, derived from the information field that is not accessible to anyone else. Igor Potsukailo uses a kind of feedback circuit, adding the elements of human presence into this music and modifying the energy/information balance in that powerful field near our planet Earth called Noosphere... The laptop was stolen shortly after the recording session, so this particular album represents its only appearance in the project BARDOSENETICCUBE." [press-release]
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Bardoseneticcube -- "The Sacral Member" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2006 Taalem, alm 36
Bardoseneticcube is a now well-known artist from Russia, with releases on various labels like Drone Records, Steinklang, Athanor or Mechanoise Labs. For this 3", Bardoseneticcube has looked into his archives and found these two tracks in an ambient/ritual style, sometimes rhythmed by percussions that could remind our dear Internal Fusion. [label info]
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Bardoseneticcube -- "Tek-Now II" -- CD-R -- €9
2001 Puzzle God, PG 02
One of the earliest albums of this well-known St. Petersburg's project, recorded in 1998 and 2000. Dub industrial rhythmics, ethnic samples and electronics. Absolutely different from their late ambient-noise albums, sounds more like a mixture of Muslimgauze and Ministry.
Bardoseneticcube -- "Telloram" -- CD-R -- €12
2007 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT08, (ltd. 156)
New album from the most blazing Russian ambient project. Dehumanized technogenic desolate space noise-ambient with high concentration of radionoise. Your ticket beyond the bounds of galaxy. 156 copies in handmade package from polypheme. [press-release]
Bardoseneticcube -- "XXX" -- CD -- €10
2006 Aquarellist, aquarel 02-05, (ltd. 509)
New Bardoseneticcube album is inspired by life and works of Nika Turbina - a poetess who started to write grown-up tragic poems when she was only 4 years old. "This is not me writing, this is God leading my hand", - the small girl used to say. First Nika's book of poems came out when she was only 9, and was later translated in 12 languages. After living pathologically strange life, receiving the most prestigious poetic prize "Golden Lion", and being held in mental hospital, at the age of 27 Nika tragically died falling down from the 5th floor window. The musical dedication of Bardoseneticcube is presented in 12 untitled tracks filled with surrealistic feelings and some childish morbidity. Obscure loops and industrial soundscapes are buried under a pile of rhyme wreckage, melody fragments and almost chaotic manifold of strange sounds.
Bardoseneticcube / Philippe Blanchard -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €8
2007 Ultra, UCD24, (ltd. 150)
Recording of jam-session of Philippe Blanchard (Lt. Caramel) and Bardoseneticcube, St. Petersburg, spring 2006.
Bardoseneticcube / Lieutenant Caramel -- "Silence Submarine" -- CD -- €9
2011 Studio Forum
"Silence Submarine" is the first collaborative work by St. Petersburg based project Bardoseneticcube and French musician Philippe Blanchard also known as Lieutenant Caramel. Some time ago I've invited him to perform live in Russia for the first time at the mini-festival in Moscow, but Philippe has also played in St. Petersburg where he made friends with Igor from Bardoseneticcube. After that they kept comminucating remotely and after some time recorded a collaboration work which has remained unreleased all this time, until at last Studio Forum label has released it in March 2011. All tracks are built traditionally: one musician gives the basic material, another finalizes it. The connoseurs of works of both projects will easily recognize the origin of most tracks, and this process is a fascinating thing indeed. [Monochrome Vision]
Bardoseneticcube + Noises Of Russia -- "New Orthodox Line" -- CD -- €10
2007 Some Place Else, SPECD07043
New Orthodox Line brings together two of the most notable Russian post-industrial / experimental groups: Bardoseneticcube and Noises of Russia. This unique collaboration stirs the best of both artists to surface, and results in an extremely powerful and intense emotional experience. The opus travels from sacral soundscapes of orthodox choirs and church bells to a more punishing end of the sonic spectrum provided by pounding rhythms and howling feedback. Here, the opposites unite with passion and compliment each other for the sake of the greater good, the synergetic New Orthodox Line. [label info]
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Bardoseneticcube & Vresnit & Kshatriy -- "Creation" -- CD -- €10
2011 Vetvei, V20, (ltd. 580)
A new CD release is presented on the Vetvei label. It is a split of three already well-known projects: Bardoseneticcube (St.-Petersburg), Vresnit (Yaroslavl) É Kshatriy (Vsevolozhsk). Being active and variously cooperating in studios and at concerts, the authors have got a vision of joint release: this split is inspired by a condition of direct experience, transformation, sensation of a new life arrival, display and realization of nature, creativity comprehension as a natural form of being. Some tracks from each project are presented on the disk as a seven acts of creation. BARDOSENETICCUBE: Igor Potsukajlo together with Alla Ryzhenkovoj (traditional Russian vocal) and Edward Dragunov (overtone singing) have presented light Ambient with colorific electronic patterns. Songs "Za verhom" and "Golymba", opening this disk, brightly show a female, mother nature. Further the space reveals as an active man nature. VRESNIT: As a initiator of the release concept, Ilchuk Sergey has presented multilayered psychedelic Drone Ambient with a plentiful use of the field and found records, guitar and cassete drones, analog electronics. "Time is Art "," Anahata "," Creation "... two of this tracks are written down together with a spiritually close project Kshatriy. Becoming even more professional mastering engineer with each his work, Sergey Uak-Kib (KSHATRIY) in the traditional key has presented two powerful space Drone Ambient tracks, " Well of Soul " and " Intention ", showing in music an author's experience of beauty, harmony and a resonance. A unification of the interweaving beginnings in the solemn act of the world creation. A new act of the initiating resonance and contemplation of the universal art and boundless self-similarity with open hearts. Mastering - Kshatriy. Design presented by six-panel full-colored envelope and card Vresnit & Vevei Art. [press-release]
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Bardoseneticcube / Zaubertote -- "Strachilka" -- CD-R -- €8
2008 Extremal Psychonauts, ExPsy 010, (ltd. 96)
Musical & noise pieces dedicated to child frights, fears, "bugaboos and baddies", hiding themselves in wardrobes and under the bed. Came to life from the subconsciousness, not more than distorted thoughts, karmic cockroaches, flying away through a window leaf... These compositions were recorded five years ago for an unreleased compilation of the same title, they overlaid their time and now come to the world... Handmade package. [press-release]
Bargain Basement / Wilt -- "Flea Market / 1958" -- CD-R -- €7
2002 Solipsism, Solipsism-53, (ltd. 100)
Bargain Basement: short wave radio, police scanner, field recordings, dishwasher, contact microphones, guitar, synthesizer, sheet metal, power tools, sampler, effects processor, tape manipulations, circuit bending, toys, pipes, video tape rewinder. Wilt: tapes, elektroniks, samples, found objects.
Barracker -- "Calmness" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Necrophone, C, (ltd. 12)
Mid-frequency harsh noise turning into collage noise in vein of Veprisuicida, and then into shimmering industrial drone ambient. Handmade cardboard cover with stickers. [YAOP]
Bashin (Bardoseneticcube + Shinkiro) -- "Four Noble Truths" -- CD -- €12
2011 Athanor, ATNR 039, (ltd. 333)
Something new has risen from the depths of Athanor's magickal furnace! ' Bashin ' is a brand new collaborative side project by SHINKIRO from Japan, known from his two dark ambient releases on Athanor, and prolific BARDOSENETICCUBE from Russia. Bashin consists of four long tracks of dark ambiences using drones, bells and various unusual sound sources as main textures, all based on a concept inspired by the buddhist concept of the Four Noble Truths, during which Buddha received his enlightenment. Presented in 5 covers/cards on textured paper, limited to strictly 333 copies, with the CD coming inside a black envelope. This release is part of Athanor's eco-releases - a concept to prevent from using plastic for smaller, limited CD series. [label info]
Bashnya Ledyanyh Voronov -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Valgriind, VG 13, (ltd. 50)
The new release of the young Russian label Valgriind is a debut recording of a project with an epic title Bashnya Ledyanyh Voronov ("Icy Ravens Tower" in Russian). Three tracks recorded live apparently on a dictaphone. The 1st track "Gates to the crystal vast" contains slow mouth harp playing accompanied by female voice, singing a wordless song. A feeling of something winter-Slavonic... The 2nd track "Rising up the snow-clad steps towards the non-existence" really contains the recording of steps, wind, something crackles, knocks during almost 6 minutes. The 3rd track "Emptiness of icy silence" - again long monotonous mouth harp piece. Minimalism. Packed in a slim-box with attached foil rune.
Batchas -- "Explorations 85-95" -- CD -- €10
2007 Monochrome Vision, (mv14), (ltd. 500)
Robert Masse is the man behind Batchas, Freq63, Mydaus, Trebor Semas, Microscope and side-projects like Myiase and Mental Showdowns. He was born in 1963 in Nice (France) and got interested in unconventional musical arrangements since his very childhood: started from the household electrical appliances exploration and self-made mind-blowing gear in combination with cheap processing/recording equipment, he got first real art studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Marseille (1981). Influenced by industrial and avant-garde music, but also in things like mail art, tape network, limited vinyl editions and hand-made covers, he created Scrotum Production label in 1985, based in Paris and mostly intended for his own productions as Batchas, ranging from electroacoustics to industrial music. All releases were limited edition tapes with handmade packaging. After a couple of years living in Berlin, Robert moved to Zurich, where he released his first CD called 'Tahafut-Ul-Tahafut' (1993), mysterious tapestry of piano sounds gently treated with atmospheric effects, voices, samples etc. The live performance with guests musicians from Zurich at the Musiques Ultimes Festival in Nevers (France) indicated the beginning of a long collaboration with the french Noise Museum label, which starts with the publication of Batchas 'Live in Nevers' LP and 'Mydese' CD. Since 1998, excepting a couple of performances as Myiase with his old mate Roger Rotor and a very few collaborations with other musicians in Zurich, Batchas stopped all his musical activities. Today, he is working as a Flash developer. "explorations 85-95" is the last Batchas studio release. It contains tracks from an old unreleased album as well as totally re-worked and remastered material recorded between 1985 and 1995. This is another masterpiece of minimal analogue synth-sound alchemy, a journey through Batchas acoustic world allocated in the deep space between two acoustic radiators of stereosystem. [press release]
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Bates, Martyn -- "Migraine Inducers / Antagonistic Music" -- 2 CD -- €16
2007 Beta-lactam Ring Records, mt196/mt197a, (ltd. 1000)
Freed from layers of sand, the ancient seal is cracked and the stone portal pried away. A hoary blizzard of slowly settling dust and mold is finally sliced by the first tantalizing glint of a mythological cache. At long last a lost experimental classic from the earliest days of the UK diy movement is delivered from legendary obscurity. ':violent anti-music: I think this is a brilliant tape:hauntingly beautiful and totally refreshing sound.' So wrote Geoff Rushton (aka Jhon Balance) in a 1980 issue his Stabmental magazine about Martyn Bates's 'Dissonance' cassette ('Migraine Inducers' was the project's title). Originally released as a micro-edition in the UK in 1979, the more definitive American version was released as a cassette in the US shortly afterwards. For the first time 'Dissonance' sees a limited edition CD and vinyl reissue, appended by a bonus disc with the 1994 'completion' of the piece. 'Dissonance' presaged Martyn's solo career and his work as part of Eyeless In Gaza in a most unusual way. Rather than directly suggesting what was to come, the cassette, instead, suggested a composing and sound AESTHETIC that exists to this day. That first cassette-only cri-de-coeur would have you believe that Martyn would be the next Nurse With Wound. Instead, rather like a more extreme Vice Versa or Human League, with Bates literally finding his voice, the later music (solo and with Eyeless In Gaza) evolved into a textural, fractured, DIY chamber pop INFORMED by the avant-garde, occasionally straying back into outright experimentalism (Pale Hands I Loved So Well, eg.). That Eyeless In Gaza (and let's not forget Peter Becker) and post 70's Martyn Bates manifested from 'Dissonance' makes this bizarre and essential release even more of a precious find. If Martyn had not recorded another note, this would still stand as an extremely important early, incredibly forward thinking moment of sonic exploration. Dynamic, visceral and jagged but musical and deliberately constructed, 'Dissonance' captures, maybe even defines the zeitgeist of the DIY attitude that was rising in the heady days of the late 70's and early 80's. An undeniable antecedent and a true revolution. Ed. of 1000 copies in a deluxe 5 color gatefold sleeve, 16 page booklet with liner notes about the project by Else Teicher. [label info]
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Bates, Martyn -- "Mystery Seas (Letters Written #2)" -- CD -- €14
2005 Shayo, Shayo 006
MARTYN BATES started sending his LETTERS WRITTEN in 1982, when he released his first solo work - the highly personal character of which demanded a songform made of the most basics ( keyboards + voice). And while this work went obscured by the magnificence EYELESS IN GAZA radiated constantly, (disbanded 1986 - reformed 1993)..., a second batch of LETTERS WRITTEN, appeared after reunion. Slowly evolved themes, haunted droning keyboards, autumn/winter romantic atmospheres and Martyn`s dominating vocals (in great shape) rule again, but this time sound is a bit less monotonous, the folk scent is stronger, arrangement includes some percussion, winds and.... it is the discreet (nearly illusional) presence of PETER BECKER (co-production, percussion, vocal harmonies) that makes, behind shadows, these seas nearly as mysterious and seductive as some of the best EYELESS IN GAZA works. [label info]
Becuzzi, Gianluca & Orsi, Fabio -- "Muddy Speaking Ghosts Through My Machines" -- CD -- €8
2006 A Silent Place, ASP12
Muddy Speaking Ghosts Through My Machines' is the brand new album released together by Fabio Orsi and Gianluca Becuzzi. This album will be certainly followed by other cooperations, considering the big friendly artistic sodality between them. Fabio e Gianluca are a strange duo, considering the big differences of their artistic back-ground. Fabio Orsi is a young and unexpected talent. After his first album, "Osci" (LP, SmallVoices 2005), produced by Gianluca Becuzzi, he got a lot of positive feedbacks, worldwide, by the most important international media, confirmed by his second official release "For Alan Lomax" (CD, A Silent Place 2006) splitted with cosmical Italian duo My Cat is an Alien. Gianluca Becuzzi is a very well known character of the Italian experimental scene since from the 80s, under many different alias. Recently known as Kinetix, Gianluca latest release is the very well appreciated "Memory Makes Noise" (CD, SmallVoices 2006) a great electroacoustic pearl. The unexpected uncounter between different forces, experiences and visions of this two artists is prefectly melted in this album: strong and tied, an imaginary place where folkway and research, past and present, distance and closeness, mud and clouds, ghosts and machines meets. Shreds of ballads, guitars and old keyboards floating on the vibrant surface of this faery river and disappear, towed off by drones and rumors, pouring between distant voices and centenary blues songs from the Alan Lomax archive. Raptur and sweet lostness: this is the main sensation. It could be listed as Avant-Folk, or Experimental-Blues, Ambient- Roots or contemporary aesthetics and aching nostalgia... [press-release]
Beequeen -- "Der Holzweg - The 13th Anniversary Edition" -- CD -- €10
2006 Tantric Harmonies, TANTRA X35, (ltd. 500)
Legendary Beequeen's debut + all related material previously released on different versions of Der Holzweg such as LP, cassette, CD... Not good enough??? Here you can find tracks from 2 rare 7"!!! Comes in special package and limited to 500 copies. [label info]
The Being -- "Through Madness To Mercury" -- CD -- €10
2010 The Mercurius Collective, Tmc 05
The Being's debut album deals with the concept of inner-transformation and personal growth on a spiritual level by combining the arts of philosophy & poetry, music & magic into one coherent whole. A musical style perhaps best described as neofolk / neocabaret - though not strictly bound to a genre as such - takes the listener on a journey through the realms of self-transformation with a strange, unworldly and experimental mixture of mood swings that intentionally shock the mind and purposefully disturb the mental balance. Digisleeve with 20-page booklet. [press-release]
Bestia Centauri -- "Teratogenesis" -- CD -- €12
2007 Eibon Records / Afe Records, bes073 / afe093cd
Avantgarde / Experimental. Bestia Centauri is a solo electronic music project begun in 1999. "Teratogenesis" is its fourth release after "Ubbo-Sathla" (Somnambulant Corpse Recordings, 2002), "The Antideluvian Earth" (Afe, 2003) and "The Self Immolation Rite" (Somnambulant Corpse Recordings, 2004). The aim of Bestia Centauri is to create sonic landscapes that convey a sense of the numinous, the horrific, and the extra-human. Its sounds have much in common with those of electroacoustic music, but the compositional structures generally display a much greater sense of flow. With the new release, "Teratogenesis" (...an Eibon / Afe co-production...), Bestia Centauri defies once and for all the persistent mischaracterizations of its sound as belonging to the "Dark Ambient ghetto". Electroacoustic and computer music elements come brazenly to the foreground, and contribute even more so to the flow of "crawling chaos" that has always characterized and inspired Bestia Centauri's compositions. The genesis and development of a monstrosity is the theme of this new work, which charts a course from mutated unicellular sonic DNA to the resultant life-form that reaches "from the jaws of the dragon, from the depths of the abyss"... [label info]
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Beta Two Agonist -- "Autumn Perdue" -- CD-R -- €9
2008 Databloem, DB08021
When I received Beta Two Agonist's demo some years ago, I knew from the first notes I was dealing with a talented artist. A year later Beta Two Agonist's debut album on Databloem Zero Point Field saw the light, a delightful mix of minimal glitchy atmosphere's and soft rhythms. Yet, I felt Ian Lizandra's best was yet to come: :Well, here it is: Autumn Perdue, a consistently brilliant set of rhythmic and melodic glitch ambient. Unlike other releases in this genre, Autumn Perdue gives you the feeling it's played life with real instruments. Actually Ian does use acoustic instruments such vibraphone and piano, which gives it all a more organic and personal touch. Another strong point is the transparent, perfectly balanced production. If you like contemporary glitch ambient ala Off The Sky, Murcof or Shuttle 358 you shouldn't miss this one. [label info]
Beta Two Agonist -- "Zero Point Field" -- CD -- €10
2006 Databloem, DBCD 016
Minimal glitchy atmosphere's, soft rhythms and gentle shades of melody. Databloem is so good at finding new talent in ambient electronica, and they have really outdone themselves this time in bringing listeners the fresh sounds of Beta Two Agonist. [label info]
Beyond Sensory Experience -- "The Dull Routine Of Existence" -- CD -- €12
2006 Cold Meat Industry, cmi154
On The Dull Routine of Existence, the Swedish duo Beyond Sensory Experience find themselves carefully scrutinising the conventions of everyday life applying an impressive new take on their characteristic experimental dark ambient. This time delivering dark, complexly melodic and rhythmic waves of sound that penetrates mind and body. In short, this is BSE at their very best. Beyond Sensory Experience was formed in Uppsala, Sweden in 2001 by Drakhon and K. Meizter. The Dull Routine of Existence is their second release on Cold Meat Industry, after starting their journey with four albums on the Italian label Old Europa Cafe. [press release].
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Beyond Sensory Experience -- "Korrelations" -- CD -- €14
Old Europa Cafe, OECD 070
The production of theanouncedspecial box was cancelled! but we will now produce a 4th CD in the BSE series with unreleased BSE material plus remixesby Mr. Nordvargr, Alk0,Do Shaska!,Alexxx& more ... Soon also anew BSE CD on Cold Meat Industry but we are proud to know we was thelabel releasingtheir debut trilogy! of course also this CDcomes inusualelegant digipack coverwith wonderfull design! Numbers rule the world! [label info]
Beyond Sensory Experience -- "No Lights In Our Eyes" -- CD -- €14
2008 Cold Meat Industry, cmi182
After months of long Nordic nights, intense recording sessions and creative outbursts Beyond Sensory Experience release No Lights In Our Eyes on which they further develop their characteristic and much commended sound. The examination of life that began on Pursuit Of Pleasure and The Dull Routine Of Existence advances and now focuses on death and the subconscious sides of life. Musically, No Lights In Our Eyes ranges from coldest minimalism to the darkest orchestral eruptions, becoming an addictive stimulus for your inward eyes. Expect first class dark atmospheres with a distinctive BSE twist. [press-release]
Beyond Sensory Experience -- "Ratan" -- CD -- €12
2003 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 064
Third & final part of the BSE trilogy during 2003 ! It takes off where Urmula ended, spiralling further down the dark ambient soundscapes. wonderfull dark ambient sounds with exoterical inspiration from Mr. Drakh (star of MZ.412) & the scientist K. Meizter, digipack plus booklet in the same vain of the 1st & 2nd album! [label info]
Beyond Sensory Experience -- "Tortuna" -- CD -- €14
2003 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 049
Beyond Sensory Experience -- "Urmula" -- CD -- €12
2003 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 059
Second part of a trilogy produced during 2003 ! Those recordings are the result of an intense creative process performed in the nordic absence of sun. It takes off where Tortuna ended, spiralling further down the dark ambient soundscapes. Wonderfull dark ambient sounds with exoterical inspiration from Mr. Drakh (star of MZ.412) & the scientist K. Meizter. Digipack plus booklet in the same vain of the 1st album! [label info]
Beyond Sensory Experience & Moljebka Pvlse -- "Zielona Gora" -- CD -- €11
2009 Ur Muzik, UR 001, (ltd. 500)
We at Ur Muzik headquarters love Sweden... and we are proud to present our very first release 'Zielona GÕra' by the well known Swedish acts Beyond Sensory Experience and Moljebka Pvlse. Both bands were invited in April 2008 to play a concert in Zielona GÕra, Poland. After the concert the two bands joined together on stage and recorded the raw material for this release. This material was then taken to chilly Stockholm and reworked by the artists. The result is a monumental, 70 minutes long, dark ambient work that unifies the excellence of Beyond Sensory Experience and Moljebka Pvlse's worlds. Released as a digipack and limited to 500 copies only. [press-release]
Bianchi, Maurizio -- "Akoustikoriginem" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Lona Records, locd55r, (ltd. 150)
Improvisation is the practice of making and creating in the moment and in response to the stimulus of one's immediate environment. Musical improvisation is the spontaneous creative process of making music while it is being performed. It's like speaking or having a conversation as opposed to reciting a written text. "Akoustikoriginem" is a marginal and exhausted resource for experimental diffusion of uncompromised acoustic sounds from the convergent beginnings... Maurizio Bianchi prevalently uses an expiatory acoustic guitar, maltreated with cortical fingers. Dedicated to Jubal, the tamer of the improvised acoustic sounds. [label info]
Bianchi, Maurizio -- "Apokalypsis XXIII" -- CD -- €13
2011 Nitkie, patch six, (ltd. 500)
In August 2010, Maurizio Bianchi officially announced his retirement from musical scene. "Apokalypsis XXIII" is his last ever electronic music album, recorded in Summer of 2010. All the latest albums appeared after that are in fact re-issues of older works or the collaborations with other artists using his sound sources. Like other solo albums of Maurizio Bianchi, "Apokalypsis XXIII" has religious roots and consists of four long tracks, each of those divided into further sections titled after verses taken from "Book of Revelation", the most mysterious and most scary part of New Testament. Many artists found the inspiration around these themes, apocalyptical images were used by painters and sculptors during the crisis periods of mankind history: Middle Ages, Renascence, end of XIX century etc. Hopefully, this album will drive attention to the world around us, and especially if keeping in mind the most recent accidents and disasters, these days it becomes more actual than ever. Comes in golden foil embossed cover. [press-release]
Bianchi, Maurizio -- "Carcimetrio" -- CD-R -- €11
2006 Simple Logic Records, simlog036, (ltd. 100)
Bianchi, Maurizio -- "Celtichants" -- CD -- €13
2012 Alone At Last, AAL[3], (ltd. 500)
Lost and found all of a sudden, this album is the exploration made with the chanting voices of unknown nature. Choral fragments were decomposed and restructured, arranged with the effects and atmospheric shifts, creating the mysterious soundtrack to the otherworldly ceremony. These echoing voices are going directly from the lost memory or the daydreams, nobody can tell you where they are from, where they are calling you. Limited edition of 500 copies in special packaging - custom made of textured paper with black/silver print, assembled by hand. Comes with the set of 3 photos of miocenic basalts made by Siegmar Fricke in Maspalomas (Gran Canaria Island). [label info]
Bianchi, Maurizio / M.B. -- "Guitarrhagia" -- 3"CD-R -- €5
2011 Buh Records, BR22, (ltd. 150)
A new work by world-renowned Maurizio Bianchi, hero of the first wave of so-called industrial music. "Guitarrhagia" joins other works in which the instrument, acoustic guitar, it led to a situation of saturation limit, played in vein of free-jazz and noise. Listening is the important thing here. The harassment of the instrument (and its sound) has an unexpected result, captivating yet dangerous. Limited edition of 150 copies in mini cdr, hand numbered. [label info]
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Bianchi, Maurizio (M.B.) -- "A M.B. Iehn Tale" -- CD -- €12
2004 Small Voices, SVR04012, (ltd. 500)
The brand new release of Maurizio Bianchi (M.B.). Similar to his early experimental bionic - industrial masterpiece like "The Plain Truth", "Armaghedon", "Endometriö and "Carcinosi", this album presents eight decomposed tracks with slow, obscure and meditative music... Cold atmospheres and reverberating piano... Really one of Maurizio Bianchi best work to date!!! Dedicated to all the meditative people who is living in the environmental paradise. [press-release]
Bianchi, Maurizio (M.B.) -- "M.I. Nheem Alysm" -- CD -- €10
2005 Silentes Minimal Editions, sme0502
The brand new album by MAURZIO BIACHI is the first in a series on SILENTES. M.I. NHEEM ALYSM is a decompositive triad for reverbarating piano and osmosized keyboards, idealized and carried out between the autumn 2003 and the spring 2004. Dedicatated to all the people they proclaim the liberation of the modest minimalistic sound. A true manifesto. [press-release]
Bianchi, Maurizio -- "March-Ex" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Lona Records, locd62r, (ltd. 150)
March-Ex (based on the book of Genesis, chapter 31, verse 35). "To obtain the menarchal attention of creative limits in a special synthetic subject, electro-hematic photocompositions scratched to the declivity as always different to obtain a dysmenorrheic catalyst. It was planned for soft shapes, extreme perfection, hematopoietic spirituality, however that was a simple labial menometrorrhagia. The tendinous tissue adapted the metabolism of coagulative effects, on the pestilential determination to guarantee the menorrhagic splendor among impressive recordings. Spurring the processional metrorrhagia of reformable background and concrete oligomenorrhea; between the infinite paths, our hypomenorrhagic point of view is inevitably furnished in a genuine horrors of our amenorrhagic time, mysterious of lightning along with the sanguinolent and peripheral activities. The polymenorrheic reputation or some excursions to a consequent capillarisation of hematogenous resistance. To modify the sedentary escape. This is the hemostatic defrosting of "March-ex"."` This work is not dedicated to the Dr. Hermann Stieve (22-5-1886 / 6-9-1952). [label info]
Bianchi, Maurizio (M.B.) -- "The Self-Portrait of M.B." -- CD -- €10
2008 Silentes Minimal Editions, sme 0715
An unusual self-portrait of Maurizio Bianchi in a minimal and introspective version, "a discreet" sonic self-portrait, elaborated with soft and nearly abstract electronic sketches, cyclical waves, tangles of intersected sounds, stratified, continuously changing, manipulated and molded through uses of effects, filters, reverbs, choruses, delay... Expanded paces, rarefied and "apparently quiet" atmospheres, but at the same time always full of a constant sense of gravity and heaviness, of vulnerability, always on the extreme border of the abyss that leads towards the unknown, the dark, the not to be defined and the mystery... This CD was released as part of a trilogy entitled "An Absurd Trilogy", the other titles being "Menstruum Regles" (sme 0716) and "Dead Colours" (sme 0717). [label info]
Bianchi, Maurizio (M.B.) -- "The Testamentary Corridor" -- CD -- €12
2006 Silentes Minimal Editions, sme 0608
Alternating between lighter atmosphere and darker isolationistic moments, Bianchi penetrates deep into the most subtle essence of sound, re-arranging it's elemental particles/grains and creating unbelievable sonic-washes. M.B. says: "Insubordinate discord in five tempos for monolithic keyboards and multicellular dissonances, perpetrated during the autumn of 2005. Dedicated to the lamented martyrs. To commemorate a testamentary event the human beings expend time and care, all theirs energies, but sometimes the results are disappointings... Due to the unconvenient heritage of our rhetorical history lost in the corridor of time." [label info]
Bianchi, Maurizio -- "Verfall" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Lona Records, locd66r, (ltd. 150)
Dedicated to the "entartete" musicians who were persecuted for their creativity between the 1937 and the 1945. "An intimistic work, in which the disintegration and declension of multicellular particles meet damaged piano affections. Ruinous and protonic waves culminate in a declining sonorous decay, which is the neurotic aim of the falling off author, at his regimental climax." (M.B. - March 2010). Degenerative work, played at a degrading piano on the 17th August 2009, in a decadent afternoon. [label info]
Bianchi, Maurizio / Peter Andersson - Henrik Nordvargr Björkk - Jarl -- "S.F.A.G. / S.F.A.G. De-Composed" -- 2 CD -- €18
2010 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 134
ANTE-FACTS: After the disintegrative period of my production (from 'Symphony for a Genocide' to 'Das Testament'), the purchase of a misanthropic echo-machine and the consequent decay of the electric-analogue machinery, my efforts was redirected to a pre-recording sound sublimation, so I started to re-compose the electronic metastasis of early times, filtering through dehumanizing effects of the echo-machine, keeping attention particularly to the explanatory process of my ancestral subjectivism. FACTS: The modulatory shaking of S.F.A.G is the oxygenating prelude to the irradiating bionic music later developed through levigating works such as 'Endometrio' and 'Carcinosi' and represents a milestone in my pre-apocalyptic production which later will culminate into the horrid of 'Armaghedon'. The exegesis of this work reflects a strong attachment to smooth and round effects of the roughness of the frantic early days, but with a constant preference for the symbiosis between well preordered sound masses and not well defined radio broadcasts, like nebulae drifting in a space in trembling condensation. POST-FACTS: The interest of Gary Mundy of the British 'Broken Flag' label (who later would have released the esoteric "The Plain Truth") gave me the incentive to make him listen to the demo tape which was of his liking so that in January 1983 he decided to publish the album as a tape with the title "SFAG 1981" (the year relates to the link with the date of the beginning of my vinyl production). In the early 90's Tegal Records was releasing a non-authorised "truncated" version on CD, but this new version of OEC maintains the integrity of the entire work and was completely digitally remastered by Peter Andersson (Raison D'etre). [Maurizio Bianchi] The original album is accompanied by a second CD with 3 de-compositions using extracts of the original S.F.A.G. recordings done by 3 well known Nordic industrial artists: Peter Andersson (Raison D'Etre), Henrik Nordvargr Björkk (MZ.412), Erik Jarl (IRM). The whole is coming in a nice vintage packaging reminding to the first Industrial/Vinyl era: Gatefold cover as the old vinyl covers but CD sized and vinyl-look CD's. [label info]
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Bianchi, Maurizio / Appelbaum, Maor -- "Electrostatic Deflection" -- CD -- €10
2007 Silentes Minimal Editions, sme 0714
"Electrostatic Deflection" is a new industrial-music masterwork, created through collaboration with MAURIZIO BIANCHI, and Israeli musician MAOR APPELBAUM. It's represents Bianchi's more extreme direction... a sample of whats comming in the future from the historic Italian composer. Amazing impact, immense slabs of industrial sound in motion. Sweeping vistas of intense static energy, storm-fronts moving across the stereo field, an acoustic tidal wave approaching landfall, breathtaking deep and dark voyages through underground abysses... a massive and monumental work. Sounds of Sodom and Gomorra burning... don't look back! An apocalyptic prophecy of sound. Waves of sound that can penetrate the thickest steel-plate. Let it wash over you. At high volume, this cd becomes a very physical experience. [label info]
Bianchi, Maurizio / Appelbaum, Maor -- "Innervation" -- CD-R -- €9
2008 Afe Records, afe105lcd, (ltd. 300)
Industrial / Noise. Maurizio Bianchi is probably the most well-known and respected italian experimental composer; at the end of the 70s, at the peak of the Industrial scene, he released several tapes of noise music under the Sacher-Pelz and M.B. Symphony for a Genocide was his first vinyl record, soon followed by other cult albums such as Menses, Neuro Habitat, Regel, Mectpyo Bakterium, Das Testament, Endometrio, Carcinosi and The Plain Truth. In 1984, "Armaghedon" was announced as his last record. In 1998-2000 the whole M.B. vinyl catalogue was officially re-released on CD by Ees't Records. At the same time, after a 14 years of meditative pause, Maurizio Bianchi returned to create music. Plenty of solo albums and collaborations were released since then, showcasing Bianchi's different approaches at experimental music. Maor Appelbaum has been part of the Israel music scene for many years. He is involved in many experimental projects such as Sleepless, Vultures, I.W.R and Thy Mesmerized, as well as being the sole creator of Vectorscope, Lunisolar and Screening. His musical ventures expand to more metallic bands such as the doom infested Moonskin. He has done various musical collaborations with Maurizio Bianchi, Kenji Siratori, Clint Listing, The Hollowing and Tom Davidov. Coming after "Environmental Meditations" (Topheth Prophet, 2006) and "Electrostatic Deflection" (Silentes, 2007), "Innervation" is Maurizio Bianchi & Maor Appelbaum's third collaborative effort. The six tracks on the album have a strong impact, treating us with stabs of intense noise generated by analog synthesizers and effects... [label info]
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Bianchi, Maurizio & Siegmar Fricke -- "Primordium" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 T'an! Kaven!! Ash!!!, Ash!!! 014, (ltd. 250)
Experimental acoustic ambient. Primordial sounds created by Maurizio Bianchi/M.B. using a rudimental five strings guitar, afterwards polarized effects added by Siegmar Fricke utilizing a shapeless analogtronic apparatus. Comes in semi-handmade digipack. [label info]
Bianchi, Maurizio & Fricke, Siegmar -- "Stroma~Konkret" -- CD -- €10
2006 Monochrome Vision, (mv07), (ltd. 500)
Extra heavy fusion of industrial noise and musique concrete, this exclusive collaboration unites forces of two legendary musicians who were witnessed the roots of industrial music movement. It consists of three long tracks of mechanical aggression, clinical obsession and uncompromizing psychic attack. Dedicated to the memory of Pierre Schaeffer, this is the second part of ongoing series, started by Tibprod label CDR-release. An electroacoustic ploughing is macerating our reflective horizons: 'Stroma~Konkret' is its romantic name, but the spectroscopic effect is valiantly spiritual. The outcome of this rarefied and perturbed project is stirring with its germinative disarticulation and its contrasting caution... A plenty sense of paroxysm is troubling the conscientiousness while an expiatory framework instructs some stromatic predilections. It is a concrete soundness to reutilize the simplified trembling of human vicissitudes. May we triturate the scientific truths with a probative logic? 'Stroma~Konkret' extirpates the shrunk bitumen from our weathertight self-injury as the exiguous coenaesthesia mixes again a reformative naivety. (Maurizio Bianchi) These compositions "cellular-organelles" took place inside the spheroid surroundings of hydrophilic microfloras in the course of the radiometric age 2006. We, the concrete operators, continously analysed stromal loops by vehement freeze-fracture observations and autothrophic microfillaments. The aqueously phytoplanctonic sub-structure of this "symphony nebulitique" characterizes the terminal exhumation of cryphonectric ferro- chelatase. Constant research by isolelectric focussing on ultramicroscopic events led to the one and only nuclear-encoded aim: the sphaerialic polymetamorphose of stromatic plastocyanin. (Siegmar Fricke) [label info]
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Bianchi, Maurizio / Craig Hilton -- "PU 94" -- CD-R -- €11
2006 Simple Logic Records, simlog041, (ltd. 130)
Bianchi, Maurizio & Land Use -- "Neural Frequencies" -- 3"CD -- €7
2007 Steinklang Industries, SK-IN 08, (ltd. 500)
Spectral modulations refer artificial synthesis of psychophysical filters, while electro hypnotic segmentations unclose multiple external stimuli of pauperized dimensions. The neural degree is shading the higher method of frequencies, but the turgescent preceptive instruments autoregulate the recognizable discomfort. The normalization method is already remitted to the infected acquisition: it's the lacerating beginning of the epileptic end. [M.B.]
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Bianchi, Maurizio / Land Use -- "Psychoneurose" -- CD -- €10
2005 Manifold Records, mancd046
Italian Avant-Noise legend M.B. and Land Use collaborate on dramatic, subterranean wall-of-noise constructions and swirling textural storms, dense and complex arrangements, shifting and shimmering tones barely under control, streaming toward some distant and indefineable precipice. Not noisy, but way too tense and corrosive to be called ambient. These vibrant monoliths of sound shift the listeners pysche into a restless sort of zen, a blissful chaos - truly mind and mood-altering. Bianchi released early records on Whitehouse's Come Org. label and has been active since the 1970's. And a recent and conspicuous absence from the experimental music world has been broken by several recent releases of surprising freshness and relevance. It is unclear where MB leaves off and Land Use begins but Psychoneurose is definitely a clear and brilliant return to early MB techniques with several refinements in delivery and focus. Psychoneurose will be the clear weapon of choice for those who prefer their ambience with teeth and their Power-Electronics with more of the deep, vaster textures than violence. [press-release]
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Bianchi, Maurizio / M.D.T. -- "Genologic Technocide" -- CD -- €10
2006 Spatter, SPCD3 / Pagan Moon Organization, PGM009, (ltd. 500)
These recordings show the most extreme side of M.B.: not very much ambient oriented, but a strong industrial noise opera reminding us the masterpiece from 1981 "Symphony for a Genocide". [label info]
Bible, Jeremy & Jason Henry -- "Ound" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Abgurd, AB-55, (ltd. 100)
American artists JEREMY BIBLE & JASON HENRY work in the field of electroacoustics, digital sounds and field recordings constructing deep and smooth Drone Ambient with light touch of experimental and slightly noisy sounds. During the year 2008 they released some albums throught their own label Experimedia and through other labels: Gruenrekorder, Resting Bell and Gears of Sand. The last one is known for its releases of NETHERWORLD, OOPHOI and AIDAN BAKER, in which ranks the JB&JH duet stands proud and self-confident without any allowance for the yet short musical career. [press-release]
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Big City Orchestra -- "Eerily" -- CD -- €13
2009 EE Tapes, EE17, (ltd. 300)
Bill Catez -- "Macrohard" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2002 Afe Records, afe036mcd
What's this? Deja-Vu anyone? ...hiding behind the Bill Catez moniker, one of the most aficionado Afe artists returns with a fresh concept: a short collection of tunes assembled recycling some of the cheapest and unusable sounds borrowed from his favourite OS. Funny and abrasive at the same time. Open your ears and he will show you once again what a man can do just with a tracker and a lot of imagination. [label info]
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Bionulor -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €8
2009 etaLABEL, eta-cd 017, (ltd. 121)
"How recycling of old musical recordings from tapes, vinyl and old musical waste can lead to an intriguing album." The art of recycling adapted to music that is exactly what the musical project Bionulor does. With loops from classical music the Polish musician recreates his own pieces. Most pieces on the self-titled debut album are based on minimal samples of just one or a few notes. Most samples seem to originate from piano songs, but there are also some stringed instruments appearing. In a way not uncommon to William Basinski we hear the loops fade in and out slowly changing their character during the progression. Though, the technique used here is not so much based on degradation and/or disintegration of sound. No, instead Bionulor uses a digital processing technique. In the pieces we hear soft filters and pitching to alter the sound. In several pieces the same source sounds are used but rendered with different effects delivering diverse results. Sometimes it sounds a little bit too easy, but as a whole there is enough variation on the album to keep you listening. As a debut album this self-titled album is a really good start, with a promise to a bright future for this musician. [Sietse van Erve, Earlabs]
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Bionulor -- "Sacred Mushroom Chant" -- CD -- €10
2011 Wrotycz Records, WRT011
Inspired by the work of such artists as Aube and William Basinski, Bionulor again rakes the past, looking like an alchemist for the most appropriate material for their work. "Sacred Mushroom Chant" is a record created solely on the basis of treatment of the human voice without additional sounds or instruments... Each of the five tracks is based on a separate part of the sound source. Then the base is: an archival record of shamanic chant associated with the ceremony of taking hallucinogenic mushrooms, a Japanese traditional song extracted from a collection of old vinyl records, Neil Armstrong's walking on the lunar surface famous phrase, a fragment of an interview with Marcel Duchamp telling about his first ready-made, and finally the voice of the artist himself denouncing the sentence attributed to Hassan ibn Sabbah ('Nothing is true')... Over 50 minutes of pure experimental music (mix of minimal, ambient and even noisy sounds) created on the basis of author's creative method called the "100% sound recycling". Cover art by Monika Machnik, mastered by Peter Andersson. Comes in 4-panel digipack. You will be really impressed when you realize that those tracks were crafted only with scraps of samples. [press-release]
Birds Build Nests Underground / Ruinu -- "Bohnice, Babi Leto, Scena Poli5" -- CD -- €10
2010 Poli5, EPP 030-2
Surprisingly, after several years of successful existence, this is the first factory pressed CD for the two leading Czech experimental outfits. For this split they both used the recordings made during the Babi Leto festival celebrating two years of existence of Poli5 label. Two different approaches to contemporary improvisation. BBNU as always use turntables and sound generators, Ruinu uses large number of processors and trivial sound sources. Both sound like a mosaic. [label info]
Bisclaveret -- "Amalgame" -- CD -- €10
2008 Zoharum, ZOHAR 003-2
New Bisclaveret album contains 9 reworks prepared by bands from independent scene. Projects who undertook the task of remixeslaveret music are Moan, Endraum, Sleeping Pictures, Horologium, synta[XE]rror, Ghosts of Breslau, God's Bow, Loverdozed and Hoarfrost. Each of them reinterpreted Bisclaveret songs in their vein adding surprising elements, thus creating and exploding stylistic mix: from minimal sounds based on vocals and subtle melodies through elements of goth ending with electro-industrial versions. 'Amalgame' presents a new face of this Polish band. The disc contains a special bonus, 'Insane in God' video. [label info]
Bisclaveret -- "Engill Ljssins" -- CD -- €10
2011 Zoharum, ZOHAR 014-2
Special jubilee release for 10th anniversary of Bisclaveret. Album contains tracks from compilations "Scontrum ACT VI" and "Where Tattered Clouds Are Stranding", remixes and new unreleased before track 'Telesis'. Packaged in exclusive 2-panel digipack. Graphics based on Paint of Iwona Murawska - young, great painter. [label info]
Bisclaveret -- "Ephemeros [ante'Te Deum']" -- CD -- €10
2010 Zoharum, ZOHAR 011-2
The newest Bisclaveret release is a concept album, touching up a subject of human existance hidden in the symbolic of seven angel names. On this album you will find 7 songs - pieces showing various aspects of human's nature and his cosmic dimension in the world. This album is the trip into the human's mind through the word and sound. Ephermeros [ante 'Te Deum'] shows a little bit different face of Bisclaveret by using new form expression which the musicians used in the alchemic ritual of creation. Album released in exlusive 3- panel digipack. [label info]
Bisclaveret -- "Psyche noMine" -- CD -- €10
2006 The Eastern Front, Front 007, (ltd. 1000)
Bisclaveret - A Polish dark ambient/dark wave duo presents its album Psyche noMine. It took two years to conceive, resulting in 6 songs (clocking at around 53 minutes). Musically, it's a piece for those interested in moving, yet extraordinary art. Lush strings, industrial rhythms and even noise tones at times summarize the background for Dragos' voice coming from the other, subconscious side of his mind. Lyrically, it's a concept-album of sorts. All the lyrics deal with human sub consciousness. The words on 'Psyche noMine' shows a man entangled in the arcane of the world, somebody who does not notice phenomena around him. The man whose recklessness or even arrogance so natural for him is the cause for him being lost in the surrounding reality. The album's ambiguous title suggests what receivers will deal with when listening to new Bisclaveret album. A must-have album for fans of Nordvargr, Dead Man's Hill and Cold Meat Industry acts, such as In Slaughter Natives & Sanctum. [press-release]
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Bisclaveret vs. Bruno -- "Les Mannequins" -- CD -- €10
2007 Zoharum, ZOHAR 001-2
12th of July is the day of official premiere of "Les Mannequins" - publication signed as Bisclaveret vs Bruno. The date of edition is not choosen by a coincidence, it falls on the date of birth of Brunon Shulz. In this way musicians would like to pay homage to one of the greatest artists of modern art. Text from the "Tractate about Mannequines" has inspired them to the creation of almost 40 minutes, improvised concept album. This CD is balancing between classic sounds of Bisclaveret and more drone-ambient nature of the band. [label info].
Bizarre Uproar / The Cherry Point / Gelsomina -- "split" -- CD-R -- €7
Rokot, RKT-03, (ltd. 100)
Three Harsh Noise substances that you know perfectly well created three 18 minutes long tracks sounding mangling and indivisible.
Pro-done silk-screened CDR in a half-DVD-box. [label info]
Bjerga, Sindre -- "Hermetically Sealed Static Operation" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT77, (ltd. 109)
Live recording made by famous Norwegian musician in St. Petersburg's Experimental Sound Gallery (ESG-21) on June 29th, 2010. Alchemical tapestry at the edge of non-aggressive atmospheric old school industrial and chtonic technigenic drone with expressive psychedelic taste, parts of live glockenspiel and ocarina. For the fans of Vetrophonia and ZGA, NON and Herbst9... Artwork made of paper and plastic, special unique insert comes with 8 copies. [press-release]
Bjerga, Sindre -- "I Never Promised You A Rose Garden" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2007 dirtydemos, dirtyCDR 017
Catacomb tapestry on the border of drone ambient and droning noise, performed on metal junk with the wide use of slow tape playback technique. Very nice lo-fi release. [YAOP]
Bjerga, Sindre -- "Northern Enlightenment" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Pjorn 72, pjorncd0024 / Piped-in From Head Office, pifho010, (ltd. 60)
Ethereal twinkles twinkle, sub-marine rumbles rumble, and glacial winds wind their way to an ecstatic final five minutes of layered drone. Turn it up and sit the fuck down. [label info]
Bjerga / Iversen -- "Burning Liquid Rubber Metal" -- CD-R -- €7
2006 Abgurd, AB-26, (ltd. 120)
Dense and raw Harsh Drone Ambient. This is a pretty unusual album for these norsk experimentalists. It reminds of YAO 91404 D and MAEROR TRI at the same time. Acute feedbacks, sullen guitar loops and solid background of electronic hum and radionoise crepitation. Slim-box with a photo from 1980s made with an electron microscope. [press-release]
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Bjerga & Iversen -- "Sharks Control These Waters" -- CD-R -- €8
2009 Still*Sleep, CDR13
This Norwegian duo is quite prolofic in solo and collaboration work, and usually keeps away from self repetitions and graphomania, which is great. The new album "Sharks Control These Waters" is probably the best material recorded by this day: one 48-min long track slowly and accurately evolves with demersal bleeps, nice interferences, background drones and knockings into submarines' platings. Just less than an hour long immersion under water... [Abgurd]
Bjerga / Iversen -- "Shortest Way to the Moon" -- CD-R -- €8
2007 Harha-Askel, [HA-2], (ltd. 80)
Two live recordings from the British tour 2006 of this prolific Norwegian drone ambient duo. Deep drones and pounding percussion. Intense. Strange. Beautiful. Black disk, handmade cardboard cover. [YAOP]
Bjerga & Iversen / Skullpture -- "split" -- CD-R -- €7
2005 Musically Incorrect Records, MIR #25, (ltd. 100)
More Musically Incorrect Records, although the content is not always a strikingly incorrect thing, as many of their releases hoover nicely along the lines of experimental music. Such as the split by Bjerga/Iversen and Skullpture. The ongoing collaboration between Bjerga/Iversen is here ready with part three of The Lighthouse Tapes: "All things Bright And Beautiful". Iversen plays 'electonics' and effects and Bjerga 'ampilied' objects and effects. In this long piece they gently improvise their way through scratching, moving and rubbing objects, while feeding them to the maggots of electricity, in an atmospherical setting (two candles and a bunch of LEDs lit the entire room, I imagine, while outside the wind can be heard at Norway's Southernmost point). This collaboration is finally growing and growing. Skullpture is a different bunch. They improvise on guitars and feed them through the lines of distortion and delays. Also slightly atmospheric, but much more raw and untamed than those of Bjerga/Iversen and more along the lines of some of the New Zealand lo-fi improvisers. Nice, but a bit long. [FdW, Vital Weekly]
Black Deal With Snow & Mesopic Vision -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €8
2008 Still*Sleep, CDR06
Black Deal With Snow is one of the multiple incarnations of Russian drone-musician [S], known for his projects Exit In Grey, Five Elements Music, Sister Loolomie, etc. Mesopic Vision is a creation of another Russian musician who previously used the name Polaris and is also known for his label Abgurd. Their collaboration work is a one 37-min. long track of dark drone ambient. Really strong, varied and powerful recording.
Black Leather Jesus -- "First You Destroy Their Faith" -- CD -- €10
2004 Spatter, SPCD1
Black Leather Jesus has been something of an umbrella project for collective works of a number of various noise/experimental artists. In its best years, BLJ included as many as 13 members. It was originally formed by Richard Ramirez in 1989 and is still active nowadays, 15 years later. This new release on Spatter is another great chapter in the BLJ saga. Killer harsh noise. [8mm Records]
Black Leather Jesus -- "Prove To Me That You're More Than Meat" -- CD -- €10
2007 Audio Dissection, AD03, (ltd. 300)
2007 recordings from this long standing Texas project, featuring the lineup of Richard Ramirez, Kevin Novak (TEF), Vance Osborne, Sean Matzus and Scott Houston. Over 50 minutes of sonic violence dealing with the usual gay S & M themes. [Self Abuse Records]
Black Leather Jesus -- "Skuff" -- CD -- €10
2008 Turgid Animal, TA371, (ltd. 500)
The latest full length by these US Harsh Noise Heroes! Kevin Novak, Richard Ramirez, Scott Houston, Vance Osborne and Sean Matzus take you on a journey of self degradation and filthy revenge riddled noise violence. Step back in time to the slave auction. Hear the abuse. Black and White covers designed by our very own Tisbor. [label info]
Black Leather Jesus -- "Torture Machinist" -- CD -- €10
1995/2009 Industrial Recollections, IR-BLJ1
Tape recorded originally back in 1994. Massive 5 piece line-up churning richly textured but extremely crude and brutal harsh noise in finest tradition of houston harsh noise scene. Freak Animal Records re-issued this as very limited CDR back in 2000, but since material simply is outstanding in all ways - in BLJ catalogue and harsh noise in general - it was obligatory to get material done on real CD. Now, 2009 Industrial Recollections release as CD, jewelbox, including all original artworks of tape! [press-release]
Black Leather Jesus -- "Yes, Sir (Filth Play)" -- CD -- €10
2009 Mask Of The Slave, MS-020, (ltd. 500)
The great new album from the legendary Texas based noise band formed in 1989! The 20th Anniversary album! The band was founded by Richard Ramirez. Currently, it also includes Kevin Novak (TEF), Sean Matzus (The Secret Geography/ITLOA), Scott Houston (Respirator/S.P.I.T.), Vance Osborne (Murex/ITLOA), with occasional assistance by Jovan Hernandez (ze'r0-sum/Anatomy of a Blackout). [label info]
Black Sun Productions -- "Astral Walk" -- CD -- €10
2004 FinalMuzik, FM01, (ltd. 1000)
Black Sun Productions is an international collective of radical artists well known since almost a decade on the industrial and underground scenes in Europe and USA. Black Sun Productions' members Massimo & Pierce are the creators of the performance project Plastic Spider Thing (a ritual/installation in 23 parts carried by the couple throughout 2002 and 2003) and live members of Coil on their only tour in more than twenty years of the band's recording activity. Massimo & Pierce are also friends and collaborators of Lydia Lunch, HR Giger and Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo (Larsen) with whom they're currently working on a project of industrial renditions of Bertolt Brecht's lyrics and Kurt Weill's music. Black Sun Productions' member Drazen is the author of the only official full lenght album of Coil remixed, Plastic Spider Thing, available on Eskaton (Coil's own label). [label info]
Black Sun Productions & Val Denham -- "Somewhere Between Desire And Despair" -- CD -- €13
2009 Tourette, Tourette 010
Black To Comm -- "Rückwärts Backwards" -- CD -- €10
2006 Dekorder, Dekorder 014
Black to Comm is the sound project headed by March Richter, head of German label Dekorder. His debut album relies mostly on processed shellac and vinyl loops, field recordings and assorted instruments (gamelan, organs, guitars, pianos among others) to forge 8 tracks of surreal ambience and crackling grooves. The carefully constructed arrangements make this more than just a patchwork of random sounds and the pieces even have a somewhat bittersweet and emotional quality to them. Last but not least, the tracks linger just long enough to leave an impression without wearing out their welcome. [Mechanoise Labs]
Black Wings -- "Going to the End" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Satanarsa Records, STN-054
Monumental dark ambient and neoclassics mixed with low-key doom. Sporadic invasions of quiet distorted guitar and funeral drums don't affect the overall "postindustrial" mood created by an organ and field recordings. Atmospheric melancholic work. Jewel-case. [YAOP]
Blackhouse -- "We Will Fight Back!" -- CD -- €10
1988/2009 Klanggalerie, gg133, (ltd. 300)
The ultimate version of the ultimate Blackhouse album. Brian Ladd presents you WWFB as it was recorded and meant to be heard. Due to the time restrictions on vinyl, several tracks had to be taken off the album. Now, this classic record comes to you full-length, with the original intended running order and a booklet explaining more about the recording and some rarely seen band photographs. Tracks include "We will fight back", "Rock Rock", "Granite Grind" and "Totally Gone". An Industrial-rock masterpiece! [label info]
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Bladh, Martin -- "Dirge; The Peter Sotos Files" -- CD -- €10
2008 Freak Animal Records, FA-CD-042
Martin Bladh of IRM with samples & spoken word from author Peter Sotos. [label info] "While I was working on the Swedish translation of Peter's excellent book Selfish, Little: the Annotated Lesley Ann Downey, I found that I couldn't get enough of this unsafe, highly personal world, and got the ugly idea to make my own piece based upon it. Since I love the buyer's marked material I asked Peter for the permission to do a recording centered on his private universe. He agreed and sent me a load of sound- and video clips, which he'd collected and put into context. I guess it's fair to call this album a conceptual piece, but I want to point out that it is foremost my own personal take on Peter's work and he should not be held responsible for anything I've done. Big thanks to Peter who made this recording possible. Martin Bladh, Norrköping, June 2008."
Bladh, Martin -- "Study For A Theater Of Cruelty" -- CD -- €10
2009 Annihilvs, APEX006, (ltd. 300)
This is the long-delayed and anticipated solo release by the genius frontman of Swedish industrial legends IRM. Aktionist, provocateur, visionary: Martin Bladh has composed an eerie score for impossible performance art, incorporating sparse, stringed drones and chilling atmospheres similar to Bladh's work with performance artist Bo I. Cavefors. Standard edition jewel case. [label info]
Blame -- "Water" -- CD -- €9
2007/2008 Klangdynamik Records, KD 06
Bleeding Heart Narrative -- "All That Was Missing We Never Had In The World" -- CD -- €11
2008/2009 Cold Spring, CSR109CD
Orchestral / Avant-Garde. Reissue of the stunning debut BHN album from spring 2008 (Ltd x 200). Working with a constantly evolving autumnal orchestra of layered cellos, repeating piano melodies, hushed vocals and mutant textures of sound and noise, Bleeding Heart Narrative has constructed a unique, haunting and compelling album. BHN is the work of sole composer, artist and producer Oliver Barrett, working in the live spectrum as a septet. Presented in a digipak with the new and exclusive bonus track 'Blueskywards'. We can't recommend this highly enough! [press-release]
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Bleiburg -- "Pieces Of A Broken Dream" -- 2 CD -- €15
2006 Cold Spring Records, CSR68CD
Neofolk / Dark Industrial. Over the years many bands from the Industrial / Neofolk spectrum have collaborated with Croatian artist Bleiburg. Here, for the first time, those alliances are collected together in a double CD set. Each band brings their own unique flavour to their collaborative piece and Bleiburg also executes seven unreleased solo tracks. Features such renowned international artists as: Amir Baghiri, Aube, Cawatana, Cellar Of Rats (ex-Kerovnian), Harvest Rain, Larrnakh, Lonsai Maikov, Nocturne, Obscure Resistance, Project Toth, The Soil Bleeds Black, Telepherique, Thorn Agram and Vidna Obmana. [label info]
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Blood & Sand -- "Bardo" -- CD-R -- €10
2007 Bunkier Productions, BXV CDr, (ltd. 350)
Without doubt one of the most interesting albums released lately on the dark folk scene. "Bardo" is a collection of never published before songs by Russian dark folk masters: Blood & Sand. Eleven astonishing acoustic ballads with plenty of instruments and wonderful arrangements. Released as an oversized, eight page booklet with lyrics. Professional print. Strictly limited to 350 copies, hand numbered. A true must for fans of Backworld, Forseti... [label info]
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Blood Axis -- "Born Again" -- CD -- €14
2010 Storm, STRM-12
The second full-length studio album in the group's twenty-year history, Born Again signals startling developments and a radical maturation. Old vines have been cut back and carefully tended in order to bear strange new fruit. Over the course of the twelve tracks that comprise Born Again, Blood Axis explores an epic yet human universe in which gods are summoned, kingdoms rise, riddles are unlocked, love is lost, and worlds crumble. This is psychedelia in the literal sense: a 'mind-manifesting' journey through the collective psyche of its creators. Born Again weaves a web of potent pleasures. Whereas the earliest Blood Axis music was marked by keyboards and samples, Blood Axis in 2010 is stripped down to an essential core of natural instrumentation, but with force and bombast fully intact. The sonic ingredients on Born Again include electric and acoustic strings (guitar, violin, bass, bouzouki, banjo), melodeon, piano, highland bagpipes and Galician gaita, marching percussion, the mysterious Annabel-a-tron, and Bobby BeauSoleil's growling, prison-vintage guitar eruptions circa 1976. Underpinning the album and propelling much of the music is the traditional Irish drum the bodhran, recorded here with unprecedented power. Moynihan's ominous voice is well matched by Annabel Lee's elfin intonations, just as her violin finds a perfect counterpoint in Robert Ferbrache's protean guitar parts. A selective cabal of guest musicians from Europe and the USA add tasteful embellishments to these deceptively simple arrangements. Shot through by myth and romance, the expressive lyrics on Born Again have their roots in ancient and modern poetry, archaic invocations, and tragic laments. Alongside modern English and German, songs are sung in medieval 10th-century Old English and 13th-century Middle High German. The end result is both unclassifiable and unforgettable: neither folk nor rock, traditional nor avant-garde, modern nor archaic. It is simply Blood Axis. Born Again was recorded over a span of many years in remote locations ranging from rural Vermont to the catacombs of Absinthe Studios in Denver, Colorado. Engineered and produced by founding Blood Axis member Ferbrache, the dense sonic tapestry of Born Again is simultaneously raw and refined, synergistically more than the sum of its primal parts. Packaged in a beautiful gatefold cover, Born Again includes a 24-page booklet with complete lyrics and translations, striking portraits of the band members, and solemn photographic images from France, Germany, Austria, Portugal, and the USA. To everything there is season. For those who are cursed, a time to die and to be forgotten. And for the blessed, a time to be born again: to live on, beyond death, in the minds of men. Now is the time for Blood Axis to be Born Again. [press-release]
Blood Axis -- "Ultimacy" -- CD -- €14
2011 Storm, STRM-13
Blood Axis -- "The Gospel of Inhumanity" -- CD -- €12
1996/2001 Storm Records, STRM05
The debut album and an absolute milestone in military-verged Neoclassical music. Coming in the original digipack artwork. A blend mixture of military rhythms classical parts with traditional instruments and the strong voice of Michael Moynihan.
Blood Box -- "Funeral In An Empty Room" -- CD -- €12
2011 Power & Steel, PAS 29
Seven years after the highly acclaimed Iron Dream CD (Eibon) and 14 years after the CD debut, A World of Hurt (Malignant/Katyn), Blood Box finally returns with a new album, Funeral In An Empty Room. As one part of revered dark ambient project Yen Pox, Michael JV Hensley is certainly no stranger to creating epic and immersive soundscapes, and with Funeral In An Empty Room, he has yet again meticulously crafted another highly detailed, intensely atmospheric work. Awash in slow, dreamlike waves of morphing textures, and blissfully unfurling cosmic drift, this is nothing less than an aural vision down the hypnotic path to the unknown; serene yet gloomy, with multiple layers of swelling tones, subdued melodies, and ominous, spacey effects. [label info]
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Blood Ov Thee Christ -- "Behind Thee Bars" -- CD -- €10
2010 Autarkeia, acd 061, (ltd. 300)
Harii does his time in prison, but the curse of blood ov thee christ reaches malice adepts even from the cellars of the repressive structures. Kristian Olsson has compiled the latest album Behind Thee Bars of the sound recording sessions, while Harii was still on the rampage in freedom, and so far it seems it may be the strongest album BOTC ever made. The tracks contain brutal vocals of both Harii and Kristian, very intense lo-fi noise, and morbid samples of trash films. Generally, this album reminds early works of SURVIVAL UNIT. Most probably because the sound in Blood Ov Thee Christ project is mainly managed by Kristian himself. One will find tracks recorded in the cult festival ICETODIRON 2007 TE, followed by a long break in concert activities of Autarkeia label. [press-release]
Blood Ov Thee Christ -- "Master Control" -- CD -- €10
1988/2005 Segerhuva, SEGER 11
Most people tend to want to forget, we don't. That is why we have chosen to re-release this killer tape. Master Control was originally released as an ultra-obscure tape back in 1988, and listening to it now, it is clear that it has stood the test of time, and sounds just as raw, visceral and bloodthirsty as it did back then. We are not re-releasing this because someone involved got famous doing folk music years later, no we do it simply because we think it deserves to be more than a rumour at the outer fringes of lunatic Norrland. This is how we remember music from when we were kids - dark, obsessive and frightening as hell. Master Control contains the original c-60 plus a 10 minute bonustrack recorded in 1988. [press-release]
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Bloodyminded -- "Phases : Two" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 BloodLust!, B!074, (ltd. 200)
These recordings were made in November 2006, by Mark Solotroff (for Bloodyminded), at Conservatory, Chicago, Illinois - solely utilizing live versions of songs from the "Magnetism" CD that were recorded live during the August 2006 Bloodyminded tour - as source material. [label info]
Bloodyminded -- "Plays Bloodyminded" -- CD-R -- €8
2007/2008 BloodLust!, B!095
Ex-Intrinsic Action. Power Electronics / Noise. CD edition of out-of-print cassette, first released in a numbered edition of 100 copies for the April 2007 BLOODYMINDED tour, then in a numbered edition of 25 copies for the Leaderless: Underground Cassette Culture Now exhibition at Printed Matter in New York City; Special conceptual recordings approved by Pierpaolo Zoppo himself (Mauthausen Orchestra). [label info]
Blue Sabbath Black Cheer -- "Crows Eat The Eyes From The Leviathans Carcass" -- CD -- €10
2009 Release The Bats Records, RTB#44, (ltd. 500)
Blackened mayhem from Seattles Blue Sabbath Black Cheer. 'Crows Eat The Eyes From The Leviathans Carcass' is a collection of several older, long out of print cuts and included is also two unreleased tracks. Mastered by Hans Grüsel. Limited to 500 copies in a Stumptown Printers cardboard sleeve with artwork/design by FEEDING. Black on black print both on the cover and the disc... Blue Sabbath Black Cheer formed in late 2005, in Seattle, WA, USA, and is centered around the duo of wm.Rage: guitar, vocals, electronics and tapes - and Stan Reed: vocals, electronics, tapes and bass. The sound of BSBC is dark and heavy, violently bleak horror-noise: 'a demon network of scraping nails.' [press-release]
Blunt Force Trauma -- "Bled Out" -- CD -- €10
1997 Malsonus, M002, (ltd. 1000)
DEATHPILE collaboration with GRUNTSPLATTER. Complex and punishing HARSH NOISE. [label info]
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Bocksholm -- "Rinna Leathercluster Liveaction 2008" -- CD -- €10
2009 Autarkeia, acd 044, (ltd. 500)
Lina Baby Doll [Deutsch Nepal] and Peter Andersson [Raison D'etre], two famous punks of the industrial scene, played the havoc again. In the beginning there was a very drunken gig that resulted in a very drunken album. Nevertheless, it is impossible to accuse the musicians of unprofessional recording or unusual state when recording. Since seas of beer are the most favourable condition for the records and gigs of these Swedish blokes, the concert in Malmo is simply perfect. In the meantime, well-mastered record does not leave any hints of non-studio work. Bearing in mind the reputation of these well-know masters of havoc, no wonder that this record is dominated by remarkable, powerful industrial rhythms, outbursts of psychedelic ambient, intoxicated, gargling vocals, sombre and dismal atmosphere transfused by alcoholic delirium, alcoholic despair and alcoholic hysteria that has only one culprit... No, no, it is not the alcohol, but this isolated, remote Swedish provincial town Bocksholm with its fauna and polluted nature that had such a heavy impact on the childhood of these alcohol addicts. [press-release]
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Boe, Tore Honore -- "Suave Siesta" -- CD -- €10
Purple Soil, Pulse zero: one
Tore Honoré Bøe, - is the instigator of series of the projects named Origami Republika. This CD in fact contains 2 mini-albums: previously inreleased "Suave" and "Siesta" published in 2000 by Jazzassin Records. Minimal ambient built on a carcass of collaged enviromental sounds with additions from various processed sources.
Boevye Cikady -- "Pokamest" -- CD-R -- €8
2009 Extremal Psychonauts, ExPsy 011, (ltd. 46)
Various pieces of situational character united by a concept of "replacement in waiting". These are compositions written with notes, generated from text and graphic files, environmental recordings done with a photosensor, processed recordings made through the wall (using "method of a cup"). Each experiment is threaded in the structures of other experiments and this creates the feeling of compositional construction and makes each track an independent piece. In each recording there is some substitution, some replacement, stripping the core of any sound event - a waiting for return to zero. Handmade artwork - each copy is unique. [press-release]
Boevye Cikady -- "Shtrihi Trepeta" -- CD-R -- €6
2009 BioSonar Revers
Author's reissue of the first album of this St. Petersburg's project (a side-project of Lunar Abyss Deus Organum), released in 2004 on Extremal Psyhonauts label limited to 34 copies. Electroacoustic ambient. Simple artwork. "Wave and microtonal minimalism, acusmatic pieces from the depths of electroacoustic abyss, "drawn sound" + two pieces of live cicada singing". [label info]
Boevye Cikady "There's no love under snow" / Brain Fork "Play my Anima" -- CD-R -- €8
2005 Extremal Psychonauts, ExPsy 009, (ltd. 44)
Evgeny Savenko (Boevye Cikady) starts off his part of the disc with high frequency digital crystallines which interlace in elastic nubbins and fancifully crumble to sinusoids. Then follows the submergence in a computer running the engine of atomic submarine and unexpected emersion in multidimensional space impregnated with distinct erotic modulations. Roman Obuhov (Brain Fork) supports the romantic initiative and directs it into fairy animated concretics. Ghosts beyond the looking glass and aliens, voice of electrodrill and piano tunes, all is glued by electronics into distorted picture which generates lots of strange associations and thus has unusual attraction.
Bogdanov / Potsukailo / Stukalin -- "Slaughter in the Pigeon-Hole" -- CD-R -- €9
2009 self-released, (ltd. 69)
An archive recording from 1997, previously released as limited CDR editions by Black Dead Rabbit label twice - in 1998 and 1999. This is a collaboration between the group Reductio Ad Absurdum with yet unknown Igor Potsukailo (Bardoseneticcube). This compilation is a second part of the collaboration recordings of RAA and Igor made in spring 1997. All material was recorded during 3 or 4 noise sessions in two months. First part of this material was previously released as Genetic Load "Tollenkisten". These recordings were not included in "Tollenkisten" because of somewhat different sound concept which, compared to "Tollenkisten", is more primitive and rough. [from the publisher]
Bolus, Andy -- "Surgical Anus Clinik" -- CD-R -- €5
2006 Monopolka, Monopolka Dental School # 116
Andy Bolus (Evil Moisture) worked with Yamantaka Aem (Hanatarash, Boredoms), Hirinori Murakami (Vomit Lunchs), Erik Minkkinen (Intertecsupabrainbeatzroomboyz), Andrew Sharplay (AA) and Noel Acshot (Len). Frankly speaking, nothing to listen. If there was humour, it was too English and moreover anticlerical, for me - completely sterile, for you all the more. Boomer. 10" cover, serigraphy, pro-printed CDR. [label info]
Bondarenko, Vadim -- "Sentimental" -- CD -- €11
2009 Faria Records / Fine Acoustic Series, FINE-01, (ltd. 500)
"Sentimental" is an album of sensitive feeling melodies played by the composer himself on the piano. The album contains different pieces, but all they are united by one unique inner mood. Like the brilliant melodies of Ryuichi Sakamoto, this music will be remembered by everyone who likes romantic genre. [press-release]
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Bondarenko, Vadim -- "Smoking Music" -- CD -- €11
2008 Faria Records, FAR-17, (ltd. 500)
"Smoking Music" was created in 2000-2004. The style of this music can be really named "smoking music": it is delicate made melodic ambient compositions (9 Smoking Zones). To creatÅ this album Vadim used keyboards, clarinet, samples and piano. It is a good listening for everyone who likes misty ambient music and the creative work of Brian Eno or Harold Budd. [press-release]
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Bone, Richard -- "Etherdome" -- CD -- €11
1999 Hypnos, hyp1917
The ambient electronic genre has been heavily colonized by dance and world music, a fact that makes Bone's pure, gauzy synthscapes seem fresher than they might otherwise. His evocative, almost primitive sound harkens back to the purity of Eno's Music for Airports. Very little happens, yet somehow a spell is cast. [Jim Aiken, Keyboard Magazine] After spending a couple of albums in the electronica lounge, Richard Bone returns to his ambient home in this CD of slow, dark, shimmering soundscapes. Bone has a nice touch on synthesizer, recalling Steve Roach's early drift works like Structures from Silence. [John Dilberto, Echoes Radio Host] Etherdome is definitely a very fine album and balances out beautifully the more experimental offerings on Hypnos with a smooth, refined and intimate ambient album, unfortunately aren't made that often. Beautiful. [Vidna Obmana]
Bone, Richard -- "The Spectral Ships" -- CD -- €11
1998 Hypnos, hyp1808
The music of this album is different from the style typical of Richard Bone, although it maintains the same spirit of sonic electronic exploration. As the title suggests, the music is mysterious. Using synthesizers to create an icy, ghostly world, Bone takes us to the immense quiet of wide, dark spaces. Listening to this album is travelling throughout musical tales whose soundscapes are set in remote oceanic regions of a supernatural charactor. These stories in a musical form are comparable to movie soundtracks, and stimulate the imagination of the listener to re-create the facts and scenaries that the music suggests. [E. Kogler, Amazing Sounds]
Bonemachine -- "Combat" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 Symbolic Prod, SYMBCD38, (ltd. 250)
The new prod of this ambient militarist noise band from Austria. 4 long tracks. Pro-printed artwork. [label info]
Bonemachine -- "Erste Rotation (eine Retrospektive von Krieg und Zeit)" -- 2 CD -- €16
2008 Sabbathid Records, Hoof044
Military Industrial / Dark Ambient from Austria. Two lengthy CDs containing old, unreleased and remixed material. Based upon the legacy of industrial music and krautrock Bonemachine has chosen the right way to lay out its own vision of industrial era, following some methods of alternative dark and electronic music. Double DVD Box. [YAOP]
Bonemachine / Maskinanlegg -- "War Against Banana" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2007 Tosom, TOSOM XS-002, (ltd. 150)
Austrian War Industrial meets great Norge Noise. Split release by Bonemachine from Austria and Maskinanlegg from Norway. Each project with one track. "War Against Banana" is a strange kind of electronic art from the vaults of Europe. MINI DVD BOX WITH 3 INLAY. [label info]
Booby Mason / Claudia Shitter / Pichismo / .nyctalops. / Huren Aquarium -- split -- CD-R -- €7
2011 self-released
Booby Mason is a young Russian project from Omsk, psychedelic guitar (almost) harsh noise. Claudia Shitter is another reincarnation of Monopolka, stupid useless shit noise with toys. Pichismo presented a live recording: dirty post-Gerogerigegege-noise on a sitar (!) with yelling. .nyctalops. and Grigory Avronin (Huren Aquarium) presented powerful mid-frequency harsh noise assaults. Self-released by Strup, cover made of vintage A3 sheet + info insert. [YAOP]
Boris -- "Soundtrack from film Mabuta No Ura" -- CD -- €15
2005 Essence Music, ESS005, (ltd. 1000)
The Japanese masters of drone and analog feedback never cease to amaze us. Fans actually never know what to expect from a new album. Sludgy guitar riffs, super distorted psych rock or mighty minimal drones? Just be prepared for a new masterpiece, the way only they seem to do it. Soundtrack from film Mabuta No Ura (translated as Backside Of The Eyelids) presents BORIS at their most abstract personality. A stunning guitar-driven psychedelic voyage to an imaginary land where Pink Floyd's "More" meditates with Sunn 0))) drenched in ambience and feedback! Being a flowing and brooding soundtrack to an imaginary film conceived by the three band members, the album manages to present the listener to a number of moods and soundscapes without actually breaking out of its shell. From mellow, dreamy Syd Barret-inspired acoustic incursions, hazy vocals, slow post-rock tones and rhythms to occasional bursts of dynamics passing through avant-noise experiments and mammoth deep drones of blasting energy (like on the 12 minutes long "Space Behind Me (part 1)"). A contemplative masterwork! Hard to imagine what sort of film Mabuta No Ura must be? The evocative sounds here give us freedom to conjure up appropriate images and quoting Atsuo's own words: "This is a soundtrack for images that appear on the mabuta no ura of the listeners, by reading the stories contained on the album and listening to the music. It's dew made from unconsciousness of Boris members. The dewdrops are spun into thread and the thread forms a whole story. The way we refer to images of the daily lives." We are glad to present this extended Brazilian/world CD version of Soundtrack from film Mabuta No Ura, containing different artwork and exclusive extra music not available on the Japanese CD/LP, housed in a slipcase that holds our luxurious custom heavy mini-replica of the gatefold vinyl including a set of cards unveiling mabuta no ura stories and photos of the band members taken in their most recent European trip. [press-release]
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Borisov, Alexei -- "Before The Evroremont" -- CD -- €9
2002 N&B Research Digest, NBRD-04
One long track assembled very much like a surreal, unsettling, even hysterical audiocollage lamenting the replacement of soviet esthetics with west european consumerism. Environmental sounds (radio, telephone conversations, sawing, hammering, drilling, clattering), distorted guitars and disrupted computer wizardry resulting in post-constructivism with a beat. [Fulldozer]
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Borisov, Alexei -- "Live Recordings" -- CD-R -- €9
2007 Invisible Hand, IHD039, (ltd. 500)
2 live tracks recorded at HUH festival, 2003 and at The 8th Floor, 2007. The release is packed in two painted 10" vinyl records.
Borisov, Alexei -- "Multiviza" -- CD -- €11
2007 Laton, Laton 046
Anthology of live recordings of Alexei Borisov, following after the similar F.R.U.I.T.S. CD released two years ago, appears to be the essential thing. Well, everybody know that his live sets are very different from the studio-albums, but it's just the way the things should be because his albums are usually devoted to something that can't be represented live, even if there is no real technical problems exists. The geography of touring shedules is impressive, but one can wonder if his music can fit in such a different kind of concerts and audiences. Just have a look through the list: Mutek (Montreal), Sonar (Barcelona) and BuduArt (Tomsk). There are more noisy, harsh and unstructured pieces reminding the installations of Achim Wollscheid or kitschy glitch from Mego and Raster-Noton series in the same time, suddenly dissolved into haunting guitar improvisations, warped by unarticulated mumbling and fastened by broken beat collages. Is it possible to imagine within the same track? Well, there will be always good to hear overloaded blasts of ultra-frequencies, so you will not get bored definitely! For those of you who just like me were leaving the concert with a sense of pity for absence the album-versions, now is the time to take over. Perfectly balanced and carefully selected, this is the best ever Borisov's album. [Dmitry Vasilyev, Independent Electronic Music]
Borisov, Alexey + K.K.Null -- "Xenoglossia" -- CD -- €9
2003 Insofar Vapor Bulk, IVBCD11
Collaboration between Russian soundartist Alexey Borisov (Nochnoy Prospekt, F.R.U.I.T.S.) and Japanese electronic musician K.K.Null (Zeni Geva). Crackling and squeaking microwave electronics, digital noises and weird beats, cool experimental work.
Borisov, Alexei & Anton Nikkilä -- "Where Are They Now" -- CD -- €9
2007 N&B Research Digest, NBRD 008
Borisov and Nikkilä are sticking around for many years, occasionally collaborating here and there and helping each other with their solo efforts, too. Moreover, they are both involved in N&B Research Digest label, which is intended for all their current projects. "Where Are They Now" is the most recent N&B's release, out in 2007. Besides the usual juggling with textual images inducing the nostalgic feelings, they succeed also some stylistic experiments: sometimes all we can hear is jazz, although it's all made by electronic means (excluding the guitars). Some tracks recorded live during the gigs in several european venues, as far as Borisov uses to play his sets in very different and unpredictable way. So what about is this album? Well, as we getting older we got obsessed with our memories more and more, as they are growing too. Seems that musicians are trying to recollect these memories in somehow chaotic and say confusing approach. But they apparently succeed with this, because we are all the brothers in time, so it's always charming and transparent idea to share and commemorate. [Fulldozer]
Borisov, Alexei & Olga Nosova -- "Selected Works" -- CD-R -- €6
2010 self-released
Alexei Borisov is a veteran of Moscow electronic stage, creator of groups NOCHNOY PROSPEKT, F.R.U.I.T.S. and VOLGA. The music basis of his solo works is free improvisation created with digital and analogue technichs combining the elements of noise, industrial, psychedelia and minimal rhythms, vocal parts and guitar intrusions. Olga Nosova is a vivid representative of new generation of Russian experimental music. She's a member of several established Moscow bands - Brom, Syncopated Silence, Yad, Motherfathers. This compilation presents the selected recordings of this duet. [Fulldozer]
Bosemann, Karl -- "Euphoria Mitte" -- CD -- €10
2010 Monochrome Vision, mv32, (ltd. 500)
With the whole bunch of very limited edition releases on such labels as Tosom, Domestic Violence Recordings, Verato Project and the luxurious LP made by Youdonthavetocallitmusic, the name of german musician Karl Bösmann is emerging since 2003. This is his second real CD after "Unton" (2005, Badbeatz Records) and includes several new compositions, showing the maturity and intensity of his prolific talent... Karl Bösmann (*1965) works and lives in Germany near Frankfurt. Karl Bösmann irritates. His name alone, which reminds of Kafka's wayfarer to America, Karl Rossmann, is ambiguous. A mixture of sinister and "typical german", where you can think of one of Alexander Kluge's "Case Histories", which show in particular austerity the deceitfulness of fate. In fact his debut "Das Kind in der K?che" (2004) exactly met this impression. Since 1999 he is working around a spectrum from avantgarde to contemporary music, playing with nearly all elements of these genres without sounding cliche'd. Musical influences range from AMM and Aube through Nurse With Wound and Organum to Ghe'dalia Tazarte`s and Xenakis, and so set his ambitions at a very high level. His soundscapes - published by labels such as Tosom, Domestic Violence Recordings, Verato Project and Youdonthavetocallitmusic - oscillate between programme music and abstraction, leaving no doubt about the maturity and intensity of his talent. In more prosaic words, Bösmann follows no rules. His impulse is to experiment, and to create timeless solid buildings of tones. Bösmann constructs, in the good old tradition of electroacoustic music, with instruments played by himself, and completely without the fashionable chic of a laptop: minimal repetitive passages, especially drones that vibrate in themselves, that flash, shimmer and take a character and 3D-quality of its own. Phill Niblock and Ligeti could come to the back of your mind, a resonance that is an honour to both sides. [Rigobert Dittmann, Bad Alchemy]
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Boy Dirt Car -- "Heatrig" -- CD -- €10
1987/2001 Lexicon Devil, lexdev003
Renewed availability of the Boy Dirt Car material from the '80s is a darn good thing and includes, in the case of Heatrig, a remastering job that clarifies certain sounds well beyond the expected vinyl-to-digital threshold. The opening title track presents the group's roots in hypnotically aggressive garage rock, complete with a vocal both irritating and monotonous. It isn't long before the sense of regularity in rhythm moves from a rock & roll riff to a typical electronic music process in which something mysterious repeats while slowly evolving, detail by detail. If it resembles Phillip Glass, it is only because a couple of hobos are melting one of his old records in place of their normal supply of sterno. The six members of the group take no particular credits for instruments or an identifiable contribution of any sort -- instead they collectively put together group compositions in which there is simply no predicting what will happen, sound sources merging and dividing, a train arriving at one moment and a feather floating magically through an ocarina the next. [Eugene Chadbourne]
Boy Dirt Car -- "Spoken Answer To A Silent Question" -- CD -- €10
2007 Aftermusic
2007 reunion recording. In one of the most unlikely reunions of recent years, seminal Milwaukee noise group Boy Dirt Car announces the release of its first new recordings since 1988. Spoken Answer To A Silent Question brings together several original members -- co-founder Darren Brown, Keith Brammer and Dan Kubinski (Die Kreuzen), T.S. Wahlen and Dave Szolwinski -- and, consistent with Boy Dirt Car's classic revolving-door lineup, brings in several newcomers, including longtime Milwaukee mainstays Peder Hedman, Karl Paloucek and Jeff Hamilton. For much of the 1980s, Milwaukee was home to Boy Dirt Car's brooding sound. Influenced as much by Wisconsin's brutal winters and the dark tales of its North Woods as by any of their avant garde contemporaries, the group forged a sound different from other so-called 'industrial' bands of the day. As one reviewer once put it, 'Boy Dirt Car creates a sound not like being in a car crash, but of being under one.' Just as it cadged its industrial instrumentation from scrapyards and roadsides, BDC culled its members from across Milwaukee's vibrant music scene of the time, building up an intense following and a reputation as one of the city's most potentially hazardous acts. At the same time, the group recorded numerous (now-legendary) cassettes and LPs which, while escaping the ears of Rolling Stone, garnered them coverage in The Wall Street Journal, and -- even more unlikely -- from late advice columnist Ann Landers. [press-release]
Boys Next Planet -- "Animal Funny" -- CD-R -- €6
2007 Emerson Lake And Headche
Jam-session recording of several underground musicians from Lancashire, U.K. Lo-fi improvisation on everything that could be found at the moment...
Boys Next Planet -- "Scum Next Door" -- CD-R -- €6
2007 Emerson Lake And Headche
Lo-fi noise improvisation recorded on a dictaphone. Musical idiotism in pure form.
BpOlar -- "Pheromones" -- CD-R -- €9
2009 Practising Nature, PN09033
Second release for BpOlar on Databloem's sister label Practising Nature. The follow up to his (Dirk Driesen from Antwerp) acclaimed debut The White Heads, is another adventure in intense and moving cinematic soundscapes. BpOlar's dynamic and unique sound will grab you from the first note and will keep you hooked till the last note fades away.... Dirk says: "I made most of this music when pheromones were mainly dormant, autumn and winter. Composed like a painting... layer by layer... fussing around with computers until something is bigger than the sum of it's elements... Picture yourself with an Amaretto-coffee or a Finnish vodka... or just a bio-lemonade.... starting quit cinematic... over rusty industrial... to dada". [press-release]
Bradley, Paul -- "Chroma" -- CD -- €11
2007 Twenty Hertz, TH 016
Split over seven tracks 'chroma' is a beautiful swarming forty five-minute suite of pieces. A warm, almost angelic hue of sound radiates from 'chroma' giving it a pure, optimistic feeling that only fades with the last dying notes. Weightless and saturated in it's waves of sound, all you have to do is listen. [label info]
Bradley, Paul -- "Pastandpresentcollide" -- CD -- €12
2006 Shining Day, Shine 04, (ltd. 300)
There is no escape, grainy snapshots constantly replaying in our heads. It is futile, our every action/reaction, decision, choice, it is who we are, it is what we will become. An endless loop in our minds, it is always with us. Past and present... Brand new drone suite by Paul Bradley. Sound material collected over the years from different sources. [press-release]
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Bradley, Paul & Cria Cuervos -- "Moraines II" -- CD -- €8
2007 SmallVoices, SVR 07025
Moraines II is a radical re-working of the limited release Moraines (Twenty Hertz / Sileat, 2006). The original recordings have been augmented, re-worked and newly mixed into an entirely different piece of music. The final result is a far heavier and more substantial work that creates a light and dark relationship with the original release and is much more than a simple 'remix' of Moraines. Glacial drones melt to liquid and degrade to static. Andrew Liles also contributes a track which that takes elements and unique contributions to twist the work into his own personal sound world. Packaged in a textured digisleeve. [press-release]
Brain Fork -- "Beast Water" -- CD-R -- €8
BioSonar^EleKtro - 001, (ltd. 101)
Soundtrack to a horror-movie for robots about a robot-werewolf turning into human at night, hesitant in its hysterical impossibility of overcoming the program error. Or maybe deformed Muslimgauze praising a plastic bottle. Anyway, something mysteriously wandering in the electro-analogue labyrinth of rhythmic noise. Full-colour A5 sleeve. [label info]
Brandal, Andreas -- "Drive Home With A Hammer" -- CD -- €10
2005 Quasi Pop Records, QPOP CD036, (ltd. 500)
The first full-length CD release by Norwegian noise artist Andreas Brandal. He has been making music with various bands and projects since the late 80's and released a several 7" and LPs on famous Norwegian label Smalltown Supersound as solo artist, as well as a partisipant of improv-noise duo Larmoyant. Andreas is also known as an active live performer, he has various live collaborations and recordings with different artists, such as Masami Akita aka Merzbow, Bruce Russell (The Dead C, A Handful Of Dust), Jon Hegre (Jazzkammer), Kjetil D. Brandsdal (Noxagt), Maja Ratkje (Spunk, Fe-Mail), Zbigniew Karkowski and others. "Drive Home With A Hammer" was released in November 2005 by the Ukrainian label Quasi Pop and represents the powerfull and impressive audio work, created with a both vintage analogue equipment and modern computer tools. The album sounds very deep, organic structured and "analogue", because of hisses, brutal tape loops and "glitches" are the constant ingredients of Andreas output. The structure of tracks is clear and irregular at the same time, the music flows freely, but not quiet, because it is created with both composition and improvisation methods. [press release]
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Brandal, Andreas -- "Little Three" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2006 Lona Records, locd23r, (ltd. 50)
Andreas Brandal is from Bergen, Norway. He has been making music with various bands and projects since the late 80's. In 1994 he released his first recording as a solo artist. This was a 2'5 minute cassette-single titled "Tape 1", followed in 1995 by 2 more cassettes.
In 1996 he released his first vinyl single "Better Than Casters" on his own label. In this period he also participated on various compilations and music for art and web projects. In 1997 the Smalltown Supersound label released a split vinyl single with Andreas Brandal and Bruce Russell (The Dead C / A Handful Of Dust). In 1998 Andreas and fellow musician Jarle Nordvik formed the guitar-noise improv duo Larmoyant. This project released one LP and played several concerts. [label info]
Brandkommando -- "Keine Arbeit Macht Frei!" -- CD -- €11
2007 Beast Of Prey, bop 4.4, (ltd. 350)
New album of our Polish project BRANDKOMMANDO. Over 60 minutes of Hard ride now with hars vocals in power electronics vein! Walls of merciless noise, distortions and extremes that BRANDKOMMANDO doesn't save. "Keine Arbeit Mach Frei!" is a vision of fear, pain, hunger and suffering of man forced to live in death camps during world war two. Thousands of people that faced unhuman suffering and terror, violence and humiliation. "Keine Arbeit Mach Frei!" it's a vision of work and death camps. Unconventionally released album. Line of printed paper folded to 13cm x 18cm size. Special formed paper with vertical cut for closing the package. Package hand cutted and folded, hand numbered to 350 copies. [press-release]
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Brasil -- "Wander Till Spring" -- CD -- €9
2006 Nefryt / Cat Sun, N 015 / CSD001, (ltd. 365)
First CD from Nefryt! It's a side project two musicians from One Inch Of Shadow. They used a lot of acoustic instruments: bells, cymbals, trumpet, lingatone, bontempi, flutes, didjeridoo, drums, xylophone, mandoline, broken trombone... + old electronic stuff, tape recorder & voice. Subtle & esoteric sounds, psychedelia, delicate rhythms... sadness & melancholy. Nice A5 gatefold cover. Limited & numbered to 365 copies. Reedition of very rare CDR with a new tracks. [press-release]
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Brighter Death Now -- "Breaking Down Nihil" -- CD -- €25
2009 Der Angriff, Angriff Nr. 37, (ltd. 150)
This release was made to support the russian shows of Brighter Death Now tour "Breaking Down Nihil!" which took place in Moscow and Saint-Petersburg in September 2009th. It is limited to 150 copies and intended for sale on these shows only. Tracks 1-2 featuring Anthesteria & Lamia Vox. Tracks 3-4-5-6 featuring Bardoseneticcube & 414. Those contributors have played onstage with BDN in Moscow and Saint-Petersburg respectively. Tracks versions presented on this release have been recorded and mixed by the artists in their studios during preparations for the live shows using BDN original backgrounds as the source tracks. [press-release]
Brighter Death Now -- "Breaking Down Nihil - Live" -- 2 CD -- €18
2011 Der Angriff, Nr. 39, (ltd. 450)
Der Angriff and Indiestate Distribution proudly present a very special 2CD release of one of the most influential and famous power electronics projects in the world, a favourite child of Cold Meat Industry mastermind Roger Karmanik - Brighter Death Now. Recorded live during short Russian tour made in September 2009, it is unique since the lineup was made of Russian artists and only Roger himself was a part of the common European live incarnation of BDN. The persons behind Anthesteria and LamiaVox have joined him in Moscow while the guys from Bardoseneticube and 414 were together with him on stage in St.Petersburg. The basic parts of the tracks have been sent to them all in advance, so they have prepared their own vision of this material, thus it was nothing like a spontaneous improvisation or jam-session, but pure conceived and well-organized collaboration. Both shows have been recorded on a multi-channel devices, then carefully mixed and mastered, so the final quality is close to the studio one without losing any bit of the raw energy of live performance. The result is a very fresh and unexpected look on the well-known BDN compositions such as "Innerwar", 'PayDay' and 'Testing' which should be interested not only for devoted followers of the project but for the wider audience of power electronics / death industrial fans. The real gem in our roster, not to be missed! The release is limited to 450 copies and comes in a special embossed foldout envelope with cardboard inner sleeves. CD 1: MOSCOW (24-09-2009): Innerwar / Oh what a night / Payday / I wanna die / Destroy / I hate you. CD 2: SAINT-PETERSBURG (28-09-2009): First floor / Testing / Leave me alone / Dodsambient / There is nothing left in this world / Female blood. [press-release] Mastered by Kshatriy.
Brighter Death Now -- "Breaking Down Nihil - Live" -- 2 CD -- €25
2011 Der Angriff, Nr. 39, (ltd. 50)
Special edition of the release which is limited to 50 copies, it contains embroidered BDN patch and sealed with a BDN logo wax stamp.
Brighter Death Now -- "Disobey" -- DualDisc (CD + DVD) -- €20
2005 Cold Meat Industry, cmi139
"Disobey" may just be the ultimate release of Brighter Death Now, 2 live-shows presented as a DualDisc, both recorded in Rostock 1997 (CD) and 2003 (DVD) respectively. Brighter Death Now leaves no-one untouched with brutal and destructive industrial sounds, dealing with sinister topics such as death, childabuse and confusing love as a trademark. BDN has the past few years also become one of the more chaotic, charismatic and unpredictable live-acts in the industrial scene. With a charming sense of black humour BDN changes shape from a little rascal to a moral-majority hag dressed up for sunday commandment... something which actually happened during the show in Rostock 2003. Featuring for this special occasion; Roger Karmanik and Lina B Doll (Deutsch Nepal), two beautiful iron ladies ready to manhandle you! [label info]
Brighter Death Now -- "Kamikaze Kabaret" -- CD -- €14
2005 Cold Meat Industry, cmi151
BDN's steady mainman Roger Karmanik never goes out of style! A new punishing fullength CD packed with 8 churning traditional kneecapwrenching tracks, get down with it or bow in shame... Following the last album "1890" from 2001, this new work is more in the vein of 1998's "May all be dead": meaning slight punk mode ON. Diverse, hallucinatory, monotone and HEAVY with that sweet characteristic doom-laden and depressive touch. Simple and effective; just right for your pulsating private parts. [label info]
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Brighter Death Now -- "Necrose Evangelicum" -- 2 CD -- €22
2008 Cold Meat Industry, cmi179
Recorded during 1995 - that most creative of years for Brighter Death Now, which also produced the much harsher album Innerwar, as well as the final part of the epic 'Great Death' trilogy - Necrose Evangelicum was immediately received as a new milestone in the genre of 'sacred-death-industrial.' In fact, the album had the most favorable reception of any BDN record, and has generally been considered the most easily accessible of BDN's work. In order to once more make this groundbreaking album available, we have gone back and digitally restored, remastered and remixed the tracks to give them the facelift they so richly deserve. This new edition of Necrose Evangelicum is presented in a beautiful foilprinted digipak together with a 'live' CD recorded during the same era. Actually the 'live' CD is the recording of a rehearsal for a concert in Vaasa, Finland, which ended up never taking place! The permission of the organizers ran out, and the evening came to an end, before BDN had an opportunity to take the stage. [label info]
Brighter Death Now -- "Where Dreams Come True" -- CD -- €14
2009 Cold Meat Industry, CMI196 / Jinx, JINX CD-003
Brizbomb -- "SSREC#006" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Somnolent Shelter Records, SSREC#006
No keyboards, no sequencers, no samples, no computer, no pre-recorded material, no strings. Only a man and a rack full of devices. Spacy underwater drone noise ambient in vein of Inade or Herbst9 recorded 100% live without overdubs. Jewel case. [YAOP]
Brown, Hannis -- "Severe Insomnia" -- CD -- €10
2011 Lumberton Trading Company, LUMB015, (ltd. 500)
The second album by this NYC-based composer/songwriter/improviser/electro-acoustic artist, whose eleven pieces here not only absorb the free jazz of his beloved Charles Mingus but also the micro-tonal orchestral work of Ligeti and Penderecki, and Edgar Varese's forays into spatial electro-acoustic soundworlds of a highly personal and some might argue traumatic disposition. As with the debut, Oh Ee Ah, Hannis Brown's music winds itself around those contours impossible to pin down to any one thing beyond that line between insanity and genius. [press-release]
Brume -- "Accident de Chasse" -- CD -- €10
2007 Waystyx Records, WR51, (ltd. 375)
We have the proud to announce that we began to realize 13 CD Brume Anthology. Christian Renou made the extract of common Brume history from 1978 to 2000. It consists of totally remastered tape releases and rarest live recordings and a big amount of unreleased material. This is the 1st CD, originally recorded in 1988/89 and released on cassette in 1989 by Tonspur Tapes. Digitally remastered at Brume Rec. in winter 2006. [label info]
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Brume -- "After The Battle (A Chronicle Of The Joy Of Life)" -- CD -- €13
2009 EE Tapes, EE18, (ltd. 300)
Brume -- "Drafts Of Collisions" -- CD -- €10
1997 Crowd Control Activities, Crowded 02
Series of ambience and sounds sculptures as a continuos evolution. Good "Concrete Music". [Old Europa Cafe]
Brume -- "I'm... I come... I was..." -- CD -- €10
2007 Waystyx Records, WR52, (ltd. 375)
This is the 2nd CD in the anthology, originally recorded in 1992 and released on cassette in 1992 by Tonspur Tapes. Digitally remastered at Brume Rec. in winter 2006. [label info]
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Brume -- "Schiluuk" -- CD -- €10
2008 Waystyx, WR53, (ltd. 375)
This is the 3rd CD in the 13 CD Brume anthology, originally recorded in 1991 and released on cassette in 1991 by Corrosive Tapes. Digitally remastered at Brume Rec. in winter 2006. C. Renou - all instruments, home-made instruments, tape, pseudo ethnic voices, electronics, mix... [label info]
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Brume -- "Stable" -- CD -- €10
2008 Waystyx, WR54, (ltd. 375)
This is the 4th CD in the 13 CD Brume anthology. C. Renou - electronics, tapes, voices, mix. Track #1 was recorded in real time in the studio: programming, 3-string guitar + effects. Track #6 is alien stuff called "Erection in Church" from Nihilistic Recordings compilation cassette. Because of the destruction of the original master, this recording was revisited and remastered from a bad quality cassette copy. Produced in 1995 by Bandaged Hand Produce. Reworked and digitally remastered at Brume Rec. in winter 2006. [label info]
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Brume -- "Electrocoagulation Tapes" -- CD -- €10
2008 Waystyx, WR55, (ltd. 375)
This is the 5th CD in the 13 CD Brume anthology. Tracks 1-9 basically recorded live in the studio. C. Renou - electronics, metal, tapes, loops, horn, trump, voice, mix. Pat' Blanch - trump, voice, tapes. G. Guiggia - percussion, flutes. Reprocessed at Brume Rec. in winter 2006. Originally produced on cassette by Irre-Tapes in 1991. Tracks 10-12 were extracted from the split tape Brume / Telepherique, produced by Drahtfunk Products in 1991. [label info]
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Brume -- "Les Victimes Sont Dangereuses" -- CD -- €10
2008 Waystyx, WR56, (ltd. 375)
This is the 6th CD in the 13 CD Brume anthology. C. Renou - all instruments. Compiled, recorded and mixed at Brume Rec. in 1996-97. Ultrasonic mastering by Richard Johnson / Atmoject. Originally produced by Atmoject as a limited edition CD-R in 1998. Digitally remastered at Brume Rec. in winter 2006. [label info]
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Brume -- "Moll" -- CD -- €10
2008 Waystyx, WR57, (ltd. 375)
This is the 7th CD in the 13 CD Brume anthology. C. Renou - all instruments, tapes, mix, Marie-France - voice. Compiled, recorded and mixed at Brume Rec. in 1999. Originally produced by Prion Tapes as a limited edition CD-R in 1999. Remastered from the DAT-master at Brume Rec. in winter 2006. Dedicated to Philip K. Dick. [label info]
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Brume -- "Lost in Karrack" -- CD -- €10
2008 Waystyx, WR58, (ltd. 375)
This is the 8th CD in the 13 CD Brume anthology. A compilation of rare/unedited tracks. C. Renou - all instruments, tapes, voice. Remastered from the DAT-master at Brume Rec. in winter 2006. [label info]
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Brume -- "Early Tracks" -- CD -- €10
2008 Waystyx, WR59, (ltd. 375)
This is the 9th CD in the 13 CD Brume anthology. A compilation of the very first recordings from 1981-1986. C. Renou - all instruments, tapes, mix; Antoine Faure - guitar; Eric Erfurth - guitar, voice; Phil - guitar; Thierry Febvre - sequencer. Remastered from the cassette and DAT-masters at Brume Rec. in winter 2006. [label info]
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Brume -- "Live With or Without Audience" -- CD -- €10
2008 Waystyx, WR60, (ltd. 375)
This is the 10th CD in the 13 CD Brume anthology. Live recordings from 4 performances held in 1985-1988. Remastered from the cassette and reel-to-reel masters at Brume Rec. in winter 2006. [label info]
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Brume -- "In Death We Trust! / Programm T4" -- CD -- €10
2008 Waystyx, WR61, (ltd. 375)
This is the 11th CD in the 13 CD Brume anthology. Tracks 1-8 recorded in 1987 and produced by Underground Prods in 1998. Track 9 recorded in 1986. Remastered from original cassette masters at Brume Rec. in winter 2006. [label info]
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Brume -- "Drug" -- CD -- €10
2008 Waystyx, WR62, (ltd. 375)
This is the 12th CD in the 13 CD Brume anthology. "Drug" (parts 1-7) was basically recorded in 1999 and released as a limited edition CD-R by Blade Rec. in 1999. Track 8 was basically recorded in 1986 and released as a limited edition cassette by Brume Rec. in 1998. Tracks 9-10 were the very last stuff recorded in 1999 under the name of Brume. Digitally remastered at Brume Rec. in winter 2006. [label info]
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Brume -- "The Prehistoric Tapes" -- CD -- €10
2008 Waystyx, WR63, (ltd. 375)
This is the 13th CD in the 13 CD Brume anthology. "These recordings were the very first electronic experiments I made, just after I gace up Uria, and just before I create Brume. The main stuff was inspired by music like Heldon, Suicide... but also progressive music and German kraut-rock." Recorded from 1979 to 1983 at Primitive Studio and Brume Rec. Remastered from "dusty tapes", reprocessed at Brume Rec., winter 2006. [label info]
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Brume -- "Anthology" -- 13 CD box -- €120
2008 Waystyx, WR50, (ltd. 100)
13 CD Brume anthology, consisting of releases from WR51 to WR63 in special box with red silkscreen, limited edition 100 copies. For people who bought all 13 CDs separately an empty box with black silkscreen is available for free.
Brume -- "Emergence" -- 2 CD -- €16
2009 Waystyx, WR65
"These 2 CDs could be played together on 2 CD players, both should be connected to a single usual Hi-Fi amp in order to get some dephasings & maximum effects as well as sound was distilled during the E.P.E. 1990 year installation". Reissue of a double-cassette released by Old Europa Cafe (OEC 016) in 1990. Contains soundtrack for E.P.E. installation created from water sounds.
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Brume -- "Erzatz #0 / Tout" -- 2 CD -- €15
2006 Waystyx, WR25, (ltd. 212)
Special ultra-limited CD (not CDR) re-edition of very rare material from classic of electro-acoustic music. Tracks from "Tout" appeared previously on various cassette compilations, "Erzatz#0" was previously released in 1998 as CDR limited to 75 copies on Brume Records.
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Buben -- "Prayers Of Steel - Prologue" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 T'an! Kaven!! Ash!!!, Ash!!! 025, (ltd. 100)
Vladislav Buben, the acknowledged industrial ambient presents his new album Prayers Of Steel-Prologue. Vladislav Buben - musician, promoter, artist, creator of some radio and art projects from Belarus. Vladislav represents TV show about alternative electronic music 'Called for the electricians' on local MTV (Belarus). During 7 years Vlad represented radio show 'The Lost World' (the oldest radio show in Belarus about extreme & alternative music) and Radio "Mir" 107.1 FM. Vladislav is a main coordinator of Lostworld webzine and label. [label info]
Buben -- "Vim" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 T'an! Kaven!! Ash!!!, Ash!!! 024, (ltd. 100)
Experimental Electronic | Ambient. Vladislav Buben the acknowledged industrial ambient musician, promoter, artist, creator of radio and art projects from Belarus presents his new album Vim. Comes in jewel case with full-colour insert. [label info]
Buckettovsissors -- "Brain Erase" -- CD-R -- €7
Produck
Droney rough noise, almost atmospheric dark ambient! Recording of a gig performed in a small railway carriage with the use of reverb made of a tin can. Sleeve. [YAOP]
Buddha Mind Big Band -- "In Time" -- CD -- €10
2010 Ikuisuus, IKU-022 / Nekorekords, NEKO-05
A Finnish trio led by free jazz veteran Eki Joutseno, who has played with many improv heavyweights like Alan Silva, Tapani Varis, Matti Riikonen and many more. Tibetan influenced ritual sounds and meditation moods played on gongs, singing bowls, shenai, flutes, junk metals, tape loops. 52 mins. [label info]
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Burke, Dan & Thomas Dimuzio -- "Upcoming Events" -- CD -- €10
2008 No Fun Productions, NFP32
Further exploring the collaborative powers of Illusion Of Safety mastermind Dan Burke and prolific sound crafter Thomas Dimuzio, Upcoming Events is an unending spur of equal parts gorgeous and uncomfortably perplexing sound spread of 15 tracks. Crackles of electronic fire, tremolo-infused waves of sustained guitar, broken music boxes and found sounds among all other sorts of unfounded wails of gargantuan melancholy drone, Burke and Dimuzio's collaboration is a forceful collection of early industrial sound ruination combined with classic Krautrock ambiance of the Tangerine Dream/Cluster ilk reassuringly composed into something wholly modern and powerful. [press-release]
Burmese / Fistula -- split -- CD -- €10
2004 Crucial Blast, CBR 38
Hyper destructive low-end violence from two of the American underground's most ferocious hate-sludge outfits. A dual assault from feedback-warriors BURMESE and battle-sludge titans FISTULA. BURMESE annhilate everything before them with a lethal blast of low frequency skree tantrums, cough-syrup drenched blastbeats, WHITEHOUSE-worshipping noise, and demonic free improvised violence. Think KHANATE, DROPDEAD, EARTH, and MERZBOW in an earth shattering, widow-making basement deathmatch. Ohio's FISTULA batter up with megaheavy sludge, blistering blackened thrash, diseased rock, and some incredibly infectious riffs. Hear these tarpit battle anthems, hail the low frequency berserker. BURMESE burn you down... FISTULA pisses all over the ashes. [press-release]
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Burning Star Core -- "Blood Lightning 2007" -- CD -- €10
2007 No Fun Productions, NFP12
Creeping drones, strange mutilated vocal incursions, and compositions full of unidentifiable sounds both acoustic and electronic. Another classic in sound exploration from the mind of Mr. C. Spencer Yeh. This is the sound of humanity looking into the depth of their soul searching for a reason to continue fighting the daily maze of homo sapien life. The three sisters on the front cover of this album all have the "mark of the devil". Like all No Fun Productions cd's comes in the deluxe classic mini-gatefold style no fun CD case. [label info]
Busso De La Lune -- "Hidden" -- CD -- €10
2006 Hic Sunt Leones, HSL038, (ltd. 500)
Hic Sunt Leones presents the new CD "Hidden" by BUSSO DE LA LUNE, projekt from Poland by Piotr Jurczak. After different CDr released on different labels ,finally Hidden will be printed in CD, ltd edition of 500 copies. The music by Busso de la Lune will be for sure well receipted from ambient listeners fans everywhere. [label info]
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Buttercup Insurgent -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €7
Smell The Stench
Hypnotizing Harsh Noise Wall and necrophiliac Dark Ambient from the UK-based musician. Sleeve. [YAOP]
Bvdub -- "I Remember (Translations of 'Morketid')" -- CD -- €12
2011 Glacial Movements Records, GM0011, (ltd. 250)
'Alessandro Tedeschi, aka Netherworld, has become a dear friend of mine since his kind invitation to produce an album for Glacial Movements last year, and his vision, kindness, and honesty have been an inspiration. He had sent me a copy of his album 'Morketid,' and from the opening notes I was mesmerized - not in a typical way, as his music is far too subtle for that, but on a much deeper level, as the music brought a flood of memories surging forth that I had long thought lost. It took me back to those times when ambient music was so pure, and so true: so when he then asked if I would be interested in doing a translation of the album, I couldn't have said yes any faster. I call them translations, as they are not remixes. I used his original work as a base, and it is indeed interwoven in the translations, but my translations serve more as my own narratives on the memories and feelings his original work evoked. The translations are about memories: memories of dreams lost, and never fulfilled: but also the beauty in knowing that dreams exist: as whether they come true or not, it's in their pursuit that life means anything. The original album brought back all my memories of my time in the early rave scene, the dreams I (and everyone, really) had for the beautiful utopia that only existed in our minds, and which we were only able to reach but a few times - but also my current surroundings of China, where in a rapidly changing environment, I am constantly reminded of unrealized dreams - deserted buildings that stand as monuments of once-great visions, and echoes of so many voices once yearning to be heard, wanting only for the world to remember them for a moment. And so it has been a strange kind of full-circle experience, as I stand in this place with no connection to my former life, yet in it I realize that every 'scene' is the same - we all just want to be heard, by someone - and to be remembered.' [from the author]
Bymel, Ofer & Büttner, Gregory -- "Ripsnorter" -- CD-R -- €8
2012 Observatoire, obs * Ü | instrument 031, (ltd. 250)
Collaboration of Israel drummer and experimentalist Ofer Bymel with German sound artist Gregory Büttner. The album contains two long improvisations, the first recorded in Gastatelier Fleetinsel (where Ofer got an artist residency for one month) and the second recorded live at "Blurred Edges" Festival in 2010 in Hamburg. There with Ofer breathes through his instrument and handles it with a lot of extended techniques; Gregory plays his sounds using a laptop through small loudspeakers which he prepares or plays with resonating objects. As a result the record gives an impression of a perfect melting of acoustic and electronic sounds. [label info]
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c.j. mind & man ufo (eXperiment) -- "eXtrasensory" -- CD-R -- €9
2007 Ambiroad Records, AR01
c.j. mind & man ufo (eXperiment) -- "Source" -- CD -- €11
2008 Faria Records, FAR-24, (ltd. 500)
If you like music of Steve Roach - you will like it too!... The natural beginning of all life on the Earth intertwines with estrangement pressing on the person the incomprehensible power of an external world (space). Too extraneous and severe really to be a monastery of each of us, as if a mourning bed-sheet swallowed light. In this contradiction, someone finds something attractive for search of the external forms not similar to ours, but probably forgets that its house, a family and surrounding close friends as anybody another is important to him. And being behind an understanding side, and remains not untangled ball drawing to only when on it is unique a question exciting you to you by all means (here and now) it is necessary to receive it is unique a right answer... Stay in a womb, a birth, individual search of sense of existence, leaving in the other world. Spring (awakening) before fading in a cold twilight of mature autumn (death). All is marvelously simple. After all the, Nature does not suffer intervention in its nature. When it exists without our presence - flows and sounds absolutely other light. But the Creator comes and by a wave of an invisible conductor's baton twists a surprising pattern on beauty, in which the voice of a far-far star is audible... The teamwork purpose (the present album) consisted, first of all, in desire to grope some integrity of a universe and attempt to find room for this perception in presented on seventy five minutes of a music material. [press-release]
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C.O. Caspar -- "Reports From This Lunatic Asylum" -- CD -- €14
2009 Hau Ruck!, HR!93
"Reports From This Lunatic Asylum" is the new album by C.O.Caspar, legendary industrial musician from Berlin. It is a symbiotic mix of textfragments and archaic soundscapes and rhythm. The album tries to reflect nowadays chaos in this world in its specific way - a combination of proclamations and assurances which never will be concerted in the end, a critisims on todays politics and mediasystems. [label info]
C.O.I. (Ceremony Of Innocence) -- "Tiefenrausch" -- CD-R -- €10
2007 self-released, (ltd. 44)
Post-industrial project inspired by the theme of Antarctic, Base 211, submarines in ice, and playing cold nordic Dream-Pop / EBM, obviously influenced by Allerseelen "Neuschwabenland". Contains a video bonus. Deluxe packaging, CD-R in ejector with a sticker, three full-colour A5 panels, flyer and a magnet picture. [YAOP]
Cage Cabarrett -- "__________" -- CD-R -- €8
2010 Turbinicarpus Records, TBC010, (ltd. 25)
Turbinicarpus Records (Donetsk, Ukraine) presents a new CD of experimental electronics by Cage Cabarrett (Lisbon, Portugal). Music must give birth to Orgasm and Revolution. CAGE CABARRETT are Rubina Go'is and Andre' Faustino. They are the "musical dice players" (Musikalisches Wu"rfelspiel); the followers of John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhauzen, Pierre Boulez and Witold Lutos?awski; the "random" music performers; the explorers of aleatoric music: CAGE CABARRETT explore notions of indeterminacy in art, aleatoric music and intuitive improvisation. Musicians use the unpredicted performance to dissolve any fixed properties of music sound into a fluid process and break with the traditional control of the composer over the material... All sounds have equal value: sounds chosen by the composer, by the performer, and all the unforeseen and unpredictable sounds that surround us every day. The extremest experiments and randomization-based ideas are welcome. Each track is one unrepeatable livetake with no mixes or overdubs... CAGE CABARRETT take seriously the sounds that stick to eternity and use a great number of musical machinery: antique analogue synthesizers, such as Korg MS-20 from 1978, classical Roland SH 101 and legendary YAMAHA CS-5, a radio, a theremin and other vintage devices. It sounds like "________!"... It does not pay to describe music with words and it's definitely useless to describe semi-random music of elusive shape. Music on this CD has wrong geometry, it comes from another dimensions, where the sum of triangle's angles never equals 180 degrees. That's why CAGE CABARRETT warn about possible consequences of this interrogation into acoustic perception. [press-release]
Calabi-Yau -- "Compactified" -- CD -- €10
2008 Faria Records, FAR-19, (ltd. 650)
Calabi-Yau (called in the names of two mathematicians (Eugenio Calabi) and (Shing-Tung Yau )) spaces may be that microscopic shape, deep inside the hidden dimensions of string theory. There are many such spaces: According to string theory, space-time isn't 4-dimensional as you might expect, but 10-dimensional. Where are the extra six dimensions? One answer is that they're "compactified": roughly speaking, rolled up into such a small space as to be unobservable at human scales. You are in the forest, it is night, and in a moment you are in space, exploring the phenomena, for which there is no explanation and knowledge in our days:And You hear the sound of loquacious water far away from You. The sky is in front of You:You can observe all the planets to be clearly. And there are plenty of animals around You, which You've never seen before, which are so close, that they are almost touching You. Thought is equal to movement, there is no difference between them. There is only one way to understand these visions: It is possible because of 'calabi-yau', spontaneous movements and feelings inside myriads of spaces: [press-release]
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Calarco, Juan Jose & Velez, David -- "Bahias" -- CD -- €10
2011 Semperflorens, sf06, (ltd. 500)
On December of 2009 Juan Jose Calarco and David Velez captured sound from bays near the cities of Buenos Aires and NYC respectively. They exchanged files for over two years until mid 2011 when the piece was finalized. The artists wanted to explore the opposite weather conditions as an element of difference and the site where they will record (bays) as an element of concurrence to support their site recording work. On the compositional process the artists make gestural and intuitive use of those recordings based on mere formal and aesthetic considerations: Concrete sounds used as material to build new experiences on the listener's conscience where the perception of space and time is altered and distorted under artistic acoustic means. [label info]
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Camanecroszcope II -- "Echoes Ov A Beckoning Arcanum" -- CD -- €16
2006 Spectre, S23
Camisole -- "Claustrophobic Education" -- CD-R -- €8
2008 Bone Structure, Bone 116, (ltd. 66)
Candyman And Evil Flowers -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €8
2008 Still*Sleep, CDR07
One more project of Russian musician [S] known for Exit In Grey, Five Elements Music, Sister Loolomie, etc... Under this name he explores more dense sounding side of drone ambient music, sometimes even bordering with noise, but still driven by emotions. The closest analogues are Maeror Tri and Troum albums. The lovers of these projects should really draw their attantion to this release - you won't be disappointed. The recording was done with the help of guitar, accordion, flute, voice and percussion.
Captain Heroin -- "Drama" -- CD-R -- €6
Onyxia, onyx006
Captain Heroin is the frolic analogue anaconda with clashing sounds of plaintive retro-electro and stomping hot vibrations of elegance. The dramatic act of Captain Heroin's artificial music seeks happiness in loneliness, sadness and madness. The electric disco sound of reluctant nausea and disturbance makes Captain Heroin the reptile that sneaks in the electronic jungle of the Garden of Eden and commands to eat from the tree of drama. The musical streamlines travel from the highest peaks of happiness into the deepest pits of despair and delirium: music from sunshine to heartbeat flat-line. [press-release]
Caramelos, Felipe -- "Se Prohibe Cantar" -- 2 CD -- €15
2007 Waystyx Records, WR31, (ltd. 423)
After few years of work recognized master of concrete sound Lt. Caramel create brand new material, devoted to slavery in contemporary Spain. And now we present this edition with 2 booklets, decorated by real silver key. [label info]
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Carved Image Of Emptiness / Zinc Room -- "Lie, Illusions, Mystifications / Zinc 99,99" -- CD -- €10
2007 Imp. Hate Fac., IMPHF 002 / Evil Dead Productions, EDP 006
This CD contains not even a split, but in fact 2 full-length albums of two Russian industrial projects, both coming from Ekaterinburg, Ural region. Carved Image Of Emptiness isn't so easily categorized with one term, during their half of the disc the style changes in quite unpredictable manner. The album starts with an energetic industrial track with sampled distorted bass guitar (well, when you write about noise music you can't be completely sure about the sound sources, but it sounds like bass guitar here) and various samples. Then comes unhurried, sombre and serious neo-classics which changes with more "fairy" track. Then again, a neo-classical composition in which pompous martial-like "verse" (think about Der Blutharsch) alternates with totally cartoon-style "chorus" (think about "Crocodile Gena"). During the last 4 tracks the same metamorphoses happen... I think this could be a good soundtrack for some slightly naive, but thus interesting industrial movie from 80-90-ies... Zinc Room is quite another matter! Here you can feel the addiction to the old noise school: in his tracks analogue distortion (bass guitar, percussion, steel objects) blends with field recordings and samples. The recordings are mostly not aggressive (unlike, say, Japanese act K2 who uses a lot of iron as well), but somehow sadly pensive. Like an abandoned rusty factory building standing in the field and grown by weeds long ago. However the spirits of industrialization still live there and sometimes continue their mechanical activity.
CAST -- "Are Teek L" -- CD -- €10
2005 Peace Technologies, PT 002, (ltd. 500)
Denis Kaznacheev was born in 1983 in Tashtagol, Siberia. He adore music from his early childhood. He began from hip-hop and came to electronic music. His concert program started with idm project CAST when he was 18. In 2003 Denis came to Moscow, where his first album released. [label info]
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Casual Approach -- "Acid Rock Noise Cowboys... Just Playing The Blues" -- CD -- €10
2011 Psychdelic Farm Records
Insane Psychedelic Rock project from Joe Roemer of Macronympha. "Liner notes shout outs to: Cream, Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, Yardbirds, Creedence, the Doors, Grunge Rock, Noise Rock, Surf Rock, Punk Rock, Bob Mould, J. Mascis, Earthless, Acid Mother's Temple, All The Macronympha Noise Otaku, Pete Cosey, Albert Collins, Miles Davis, Buddy Guy, Guitar Center, Marshall, Carvin, Dunlop, Ernie Ball, GHS, Planet Waves, Levys, Randy at Cindy's Guitar Shop, Mesa-Boogie, Peavy, Sunn, Gibson, Pearl, Ibanez, Jackson, Fender, DiMarzio, Electro Harmonix, Sony, Tascam, Maxell, Gin, Beer, Whiskey, and Great Herb."
Cat'n'Bone -- "Snailocat's Blood" -- CD-R -- €4
2008 self-released
Rough Noise and Old-School Industrial from the north of Russia. A very good work combining digital chainsaw in vein of Comforter with retro-mood in vein of Alexander Lebedev-Frontov and shamanism of YAO 91404 D. Double sleeve with insert - blood-stained paper. [YAOP]
The Cat's Orchestra -- "Vortex" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2009 Turbinicarpus Records, TBC007, (ltd. 25)
A new noise-jazz album of one-man-project from Kiev, Ukraine. This is a story of solid but disperse layer of irregular noise being methodically spread over the acoustic plane of a grand piano that was cynically squashed with echo-effect. Any music in its true understanding relies on sculpturality. By true understanding, we mean harmony and right sound distribution of all possible instruments and materials in a random order. Words as such possess the same strength and meaning as other sound-production methods. That is, a meaningful text is mere poetry. Or, to be more specific, music loses its meaning when words gain it. What is music? Following Pound, we can understand it as 'a mist over swamps'. Or follow Brzeska and see it as segregation of planes. What should music look like? This question makes sense only if raised post factum. Music can be built from any material at hand. Should we reduce music to the orchestra pit, we will reduce the hearing. Music and singing (i.e., pronouncing a meaningful text) can be combined only if our aim is entertainment. Music plus words equals entertainment. Music plus words does not equal music. Music does not depend on time and place. Time becomes a plane. Time does not exist as an idea, an external force, as eternity. Any change of the existing soundtrack is a rejection of music as such. Entertainment may have either negative or positive quality. Music does not have any quality. Music is a process of changing. Music is a dialog between you-and-me. The album was recorded in 10 days in Kiev. Mini-CD in an illustrated 5-page hand-made mini-book. [press-release]
Catatonic Factum -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €8
2008 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT45, (ltd. 45)
Painted in cold sullen colours of non-agressive Industrial, icy Space Ambient and sometimes even brutal Harsh Noise, this album is a documentary precise portrait of the civilization in the end of Kali-Yuga, the hell on Earth, the most horrible anti-utopia which became the reality. Gloomy reign of machines managing everything, zombie people dully doing their work in hope to damp their fear of themselves for at least an hour, cybersystems without masters, because everyone - from the almighty corporation heads to the last bums - are the slaves of the idiotic solidarity of weakness. Gmashes and rustles of the unknown aggregates, morse peeps, radio intercepts of office talks (which stink of depression and fear much more than any contemporary "suicide rock"). Even the appeal to the glorious pages of the national history is impregnated with pompous hollywood reek of mass-culture. A remarkable audio-film about our common concentration camp. Strongly recommended. 45 copies are packed in the pages and photos from the report of the US Mine Department of the Interior from 1973. Each copy is unique. [press-release]
Cattletrain Commando -- "Metropolis" -- 3"CD-R -- €5
Psych.KG, 09, (ltd. 50)
The debut mini-album of a band from Mönchengladbach town located in Nordrhein-Westfalen. The musicians call their style 'industrial blues' although in fact this is quite aggressive noise. Some split-tapes with various little-known projects were released in 2007. Limited edition of 50 copies. [Monochrome Vision info]
Caul & Kirchenkampf -- "Sleep - Night - Death" -- CD -- €10
2008 Malignant Records, TUMOR CD31, (ltd. 888)
Two artists return to the Malignant roster, having teamed up to create over 60 minutes of dark ambient solitude. A soundscape for late night reflections, full of quiet, whispering drones, cosmic flutterings, arching climatic tones and textures that ascend and descend in a delicate interplay between beauty and bleak desolation. You know their work as separate entities, find out what they do when brought together. Limited to 888 copies with specialty eco-wallet packaging designed by ::: eye.lyft ::: (www.eyelyft.com). [press-release]
Cellerino, Edgardo Moia -- "L'Amore Che Gira Il Mondo" -- CD -- €11
2009 Oltrelanebbiailmare, CD200903
Oltrelanebbiailmare is proud to introduce the solo debut CD of Edgardo Moia Cellerino, best known as Le Masque's singer. "L'amore che gira il mondo" is a collection of songs taken from various Le Masque albums, compilations and very rare and unreleased tracks. Edgardo has just got back during November from the prestigious Tenco Festival, a showcase dedicated to the most valid Italian singer-songwriters, where he received the SIAE/Club Tenco Prize as the best emerging author/songwriter with the following mention: "His lyrics are illuminated by all-consuming landscapes. His language is made of an almost embarassing extreme and refined elegance, and reminds the greatest Italian writers of the Twentieth Century, from Pavese to Buzzati. Nonetheless he defines himself just like "a polka-dot illustrator on clowns costumes". At the Tenco Festival he presented some of his songs in concert, including the new album title-track. For all the Le Masque aficionados and for all the lovers of Italian songwriting... This is a must! [label info]
Changes -- "Lament" -- CD -- €12
2010 Hau Ruck!, HR!94
From Changes' inception, R. N. Taylor and Nicholas Tesluk have woven bardic tales of gallantry, chivalry and of larger-than-life legendary and mythical heroes. They've sung of new love, love unrequited and love lost. They've written songs painting sonic imagery foretelling a dark apocalyptic future, which later came to pass while currently prophesying a society in the seminal stages of an even darker fate. With their new album, Lament, they turn their gaze inward, to their own personal apocalypses, stemming from their long marriages ending in dismal dissolution. They tell of their dark, oppressive inner-world that sought to drive them beyond the brink of despair. Only by being able to immerse themselves in their art and create works expressing these sorrows would they be able to maintain their sanity. Lament reaches out to all who've had their lives disrupted by modern societal partners going through mid-life crises, becoming antagonistic strangers to their families overnight. The song entitled "The Invisible Man" tells a tale based on H. G. Wells' novel with a personal twist. In their song "Emily", the historical figure of poetess Emily Dickinson comes to life. The "Mountains of Sorrow (Remix)", is an instrumental song enhanced by the deft arrangement, musicians and singers of Der Blutharsch with a voice-over by R. N. Taylor of his heart-rending lyric poetry. Also included, new versions of three of Changes' earlier works; "The Saddest Thing", "Sweet Eve" and "Memorabilia" as these songs merged well with the album's concept. Lament is sixty-four minutes in length with thirteen tracks. Comes in nice Digipak with a sixteen page liner booklet. [press-release]
Chante Ista -- "Alaya" -- CD-R -- €7
2012 Radiodrone Records, RD-05, (ltd. 80)
The first release of the project from the North Karelia - Chante Ista. Meditative sound installations from 66 33? parallel: Anima Mundi contemplates the static icy landscapes that are sparkling by purity of perfection. Anima Mundi listens itself wandering behind the sun on the firmament's ringing emptiness. Anima Mundi inhales and exhales the northern lights, the endless energy flows. Excellent lasting dream of Alaya, that runnin through the World Space by Fiery Thought of Ultimate Beginning. [label info]
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Chaos As Shelter -- "Message" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2002 Taalem, alm 9
Chaos As Shelter, from Israel, is one of those bands that don't really need to be presented. He has fastly become a big name in the ambient industrial world thanks to a handful of releases on various labels around the world. For this 3", Vadim has worked from a spy message he had captured on his shortwave radio. The always evolving 20mn track he has composed is simply fascinating and obsessive. At the first listening you're hooked! [press-release]
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Chaos Research -- "Revelations" -- CD -- €10
2006 Deserted Factory, DF027
Chaos Research is the new solo project of Marko (Gravehill) M. Hautamaki, also known from such bands as Majesty (the doom metal act from Finland), Two Witches (the gothic rock act from Finland/Germany), SinMasters (multi-national fetish dance-metal), ex-Shade Factory (finnish ebm-band) and Gravehill Paris Witch (experimental dark ambient from Germany/Finland/USA). He is also busy doing session appearances, film music and remixes for various other bands. The music style of Chaos Research is unique combination of neo-classical, (dark) ambient, ethno and electronic music. [press-release]
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Chaoticum -- "[Psycho] Log: Y" -- CD -- €13
2007 HORUS CyclicDaemon, HCD 09, (ltd. 500)
Children's Noise Orchestra of Children's Arts School #1 -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT34, (ltd. 96)
An orchestra of Children's Art School #1 of Kamensk-Uralskiy town (Siberia) pupils headed by one of the most interesting Russian noise artists (Vitaly Maklakov - Light Collapse, Kromeshna, etc.). Avant-guard post-industrial collage built on lo-fi loops, multiple samples, voices and musical fragments. Retro-futurism as psychedelic kaleidoscope from future, past, present, childhood, maturity and non-existense... Two-sided printed sleeve. [press-release]
Children's Noise Orchestra of Children's Arts School #1 -- "Floating Laundry (Tale in 3 Parts)" -- CD-R -- €7
2011 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT84, (ltd. 18)
On the second full length the sound of Children's Noise Orchestra has become closer to Musique Concrete / Industrial Avantgarde in best traditions of St. Petersburg's Experimental Sound Gallery (ESG-21). Samples of traditional instruments, domestic noises, enigmatic solos, poetry recitations. For the fans of Sergey Kuryokhin and Nikolay Soudnick. DVD-box, handmade cover. [label info]
Chrysakis, Thanos -- "Magma" -- CD -- €10
2011 Monochrome Vision, mv40, (ltd. 500)
Thanos Chrysakis' output consists of composition, performance, and installation. He was born in 1971 in Athens, residing for the last 12 years in the UK. His work has appeared on various independent labels, and events in several countries while since 2007 he operates the Aural Terrains label. He composes for electronics, acoustic instruments and environmental sounds, focusing on the structural and aesthetic capacity of sonic matter. His works were selected at the international competition De musique et d'art sonore electroacoustiques de Bourges 2005 and in 2006 at the 7th international electroacoustic competition Musica Viva in Lisbon. His current performing projects are collaborations with Wade Matthews, James O'Sullivan, Dario Bernal-Villegas, and Jerry Wigens. "Magma" is nearly half hour long electroacoustic piece, recorded in 2011 and presenting one of the best compositions by the artist. For this work, he extensively uses electronic devices, acoustic sounds and field recordings. The music on this cd breaks the boundaries between experimental electronics, electroacoustic, glitch, microsound and ambient, as myriades of colliding sounds coalesce and interact in a minimal, abstract sonic dramaturgy. [press-release]
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Circadian -- "Flanking The Black Moose" -- CD -- €10
2004 Radiotarab Records/Eibon Records, Cir050/RT001
Mutual release of two Italian labels - a good example of well-combined elements of heavy ambient, noise, field recordings and various strange electronics.
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The Circular Ruins -- "The Alchemy Concert" -- CD -- €10
2005 Databloem, DBCD 011
The Circular Ruins live from the Atmostreams web broadcast of June 2004. An alchemical mix of rhythms, ambience, and leads. "Anthony Paul Kerby cites Schulze and Namlook as influences on his web-site. I don't think he's far behind those two! If you like your EM with a contemporary flavour I strongly recommend this CD." - WP / Synth Music Direct. [label info]
The Circular Ruins -- "Realm of Possibility" -- CD -- €10
2002 Databloem, DBCD 002
Ryhthmic ambient excursions: deep, complex, and beautiful. "Part of the strength of Circular Ruins material is the sheer attention to microscopic detail. One feels as if one is inside the machine, while at the same time still acting as audience to the vast sonic tapestry performed." - Brian Bieniowski. [label info]
Circulum Musicum -- "Phases" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Thar Records, Thar 001
Circulum musicum is one of the most promising names in contemporary ambient/electronic music. With the use of classic-orchestral elements in combination with a variety of electronica, Circulum Musicum creates a atmospheric, deep, lush, spacious and beautifully put together sound. There's a lovely balance between the dark, atmospheric and the ethnic, thematic side and although it's contemporary electronic music, there's a old-school tribal ambient feel to it all. Combined with the excellent sound quality, makes this album an absolute winner. [Databloem]
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Cisfinitum -- "Bezdna" -- CD -- €10
2005 Monochrome Vision, (mv02), (ltd. 500)
New album of Moscow-based project Cisfinitum shows final turn from gothic influences to electroacoustic music. Very strong and unusual album with precise and deep sound. A whole bunch of Soviet analogue synthesizers were used on this recording, even the famous ANS. Plus some traditional acoustic instruments processed to full unrecognizability.
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Cisfinitum -- "Coniunctio" -- 2 CD -- €15
2005/2006 Ewers Tonkunst, HHE 009 CD, 2nd edition, (ltd. 500)
Cisfinitum is one of the oldest and well-known projects on Russian industrial scene, and shortly after their well-acclaimed 7" on Drone, Ewers Tonkunst is happy to present another international release of this remarkable project. This 2CD-set contains the tracks from the most gloomy and profound albums of Cisfinitum - "Landschaft" (released in 2001 as CDR by IVB Records) and "Malgyl" (previously unreleased), which have been recorded in 1999-2001. The material has been remastered and recompiled to become the new entity called "Coniunctio". Newborn album consists of two parts, "Worlds Of Retribution" and "Heavenly Russia", the first one contains most dark and depressive tracks, the second one presents brighter side of Cisfinitum. Going through the desperate landscapes of today's dying spiritless world, the listener comes into the sacred and surreal inner space of an immaterial land full of light, mysticism and universal melancholy. One of the most beautiful and heartful records ever done in the drone ambient style, "Coniunctio" could remind of the best and saddest Maeror Tri albums or legendary HOEDH "Hymnus", but the irrational Russian essence within Cisfinitum's music makes it unique and completely original. The real masterpiece which we are really proud to release! The second edition of this double-CD comes in a stylish monochrome foldout digisleeve. The edition is limited to 500 copies. [press-release]
Cisfinitum -- "Tactio" -- CD -- €11
2008 Mechanoise Labs, mn033, (ltd. 500)
With a parsimonious discography mostly released on seasoned Russian labels such as Waystyx, Ewers Tonkunst and Monochrome Vision, Evgeny Voronovsky has established himself as a uniquely engaging artist in the country's current ambient scene. Under the name of Cisfinitum, he has taken a syncretic approach to an often codified genre, uniting his formal training as a violinist at the Moscow State University with his affinity for concrete sounds and experimental structures. Past releases have shown a capacity to synthesize these factors at times while emphasizing the contrasts between them at others, sometimes over the course of a single track. In this aspect, this album follows the tradition faithfully... Tactio is the live recording of a Cisfinitum concert at the St. Petri Dom (St. Peter's Cathedral) in Bremen, on November 24, 2005. The particular (and as expected highly favorable) acoustics of this environment were consistently used not only as an enhancing effect but as an integral foundation for the performance, making it unmistakably tied to its context. Presented in the form of six continuous tracks, the album is a contemplative composition of vibrant drones, reverberating bells and synthesized resonance, gracefully evolving from the celestial tones of its start to the tellurian pulses of its climax. This is a piece of work that is elaborate in its simplicity, and it's with much appreciation that it is presented here today. The beautiful iconic artwork by Evgeny Kuprienko further emphasizes the relic-like qualities of this recording. [press-release]
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Cisfinitum -- "V" -- CD -- €10
2003 Waystyx Records, WR 05, (ltd. 696)
"V" is the aural extension of audiochemy method developed by both Cisfinitum members (Voronovsky and Norvila) in Audioform Studio during recent two years, using synthesis of classical composition, industrial aesthetics and tonal noise layers. Listening to Cisfinitum music, everyone can feel physically the exclusive aloofness and impartiality preceding the heterogeneity and time collaps. Long transitions between initial states, sudden dynamic outbursts and again desolate spaces where apprehensions are the only way to think. This album is notable not only by background contents but by sounding too: the deliberately reduced quality is remained in the past, agressive alienation changed to the introspective one. The atmosphere of sci-fi cinema of the 70-80s is back - cold, dark, mysterious but nevertheless open-minded and reality engaged. For those of you who like to use CD-ROM for anything labelled with "compact disc" logo, the nice surprise is waiting. [label info]
Cisfinitum / The [Law-Rah] Collective -- "[ANS]werk" -- CD -- €13
2011 Fario, fario cd 11
Cities In Desolation / Eric Boros -- "Of Trains And Funky Shit" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 1000+1 Tilt
Cities Last Broadcast -- "The Cancelled Earth" -- CD -- €14
2009 Cyclic Law, 21st Cycle, (ltd. 1000)
Pär Boström, the man behind the acclaimed project KAMMARHEIT offers us a new and unexpected entity under the name Cities Last Broadcast. The Cancelled Earth album is the result of almost a decade of sporadic field recordings mainly recorded in airports, train stations, various tunnels and under numerous bridges all greatly polished and turned into a refined mass of desolate ambience and subtle hypnosis all engulfed in Pa"r's legendary signature sound. Uniquely packaged in a gatefold book like format with rich and singular artwork made by Boström himself. Through Cities Last Broadcast the buildings themselves will gather to whisper about their inscrutable story. [press-release]
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Clausthome -- "Radiophare [Lampe D'Ambiance]" -- CD -- €12
2005 Indiestate, IST 034 CD, (ltd. 500)
Clausthome is another project of the Latvian band Claustrum known for their great release on Old Europa Cafe. 'Radiophare' brings the listener first class radio-noise in a vein of Bad Sector, Arecibo or SETI/Lagowski. This material was gathered during two years (under project research named Clausthome) using different ways of radio waves scanning, data gathered by radio telescopes and archives of universe research data servers. It was a sound analysis experiment, where material and after-processing of both Earth and cosmic authentic static radiation were used, applying different sound alteration programs and sampling methods, as well as sound synthesis creating music environment. It is a process of translation and transformation that leads towards awareness of that potential environment, which can be created using the gathered material. CD comes in a silver-black digisleeve with an insert and limited to 500 copies. [press-release]
Clausthome -- "Radiophare II [Les Ondes Radio]" -- CD -- €12
2010 Indiestate, IST 081 CD, (ltd. 500)
The Latvian radionoise gurus Clausthome are back! With its new work "radiophare [les ondes radio]" they offer a new trip into the world of the radio waves. The route is a bit different than in the previous work "radiophare [lampe d'ambiance]" (Indiestate, 2005) - now it is closer to the actual radio waves and leads through darker spaces. Sometimes you will be left alone in the beauty of the invisible electromagnetic choir that surrounds us all. Sometimes there will be mere documental fragments thrown into your ear. At some point, it is sounding like a story about life - a look at life through radio waves. The sound here is made using carefully selected and processed scans and recordings of the radio waves, served by Clausthome's usual attitude to the radionoise aesthetics. The release is limited to 500 copies and comes in a monochrome silkscreened digisleeve, recommended to the fans of Bad Sector, John Duncan and other radionoise and radiodrone projects. [press-release]
Cleaning Women -- "Pulsator" -- CD -- €9
2001/2004 Soyuz Music, BV-1
Industrial clangs and yells, echoes of Lapland lullabies, a Sufi and smile on techno-pop. Cleaning Women found the way off from the autobahn where Kraftwerk brought the music - directly in the parallel world, to Cleanus, the planet of cleaning robots. The most witty anti-utopia, most ominous dances, most functional clothes dryers! [AFI]
Clear Stream Temple -- "XVI" -- CD -- €10
2003 Cold Spring Records, CSR47CD
Debut album, reissued from the extremely limited and rare CDR, with extra tracks, and absolutely beautiful artwork. `XVI` is a genius mix of neo-classical, martial industrial, dark ambient. A timely attack on the US Bush Presidential administration and all that has in store for us. [press release]
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Clew Of Theseus -- "Meridian" -- CD -- €10
2009 Cathartic Process, CP-11
This album shows a projection and further maturity in Clew Of Theseus' sound. Meridian is a dark and esoteric album, very focused, full of sounds at once harsh and ambient, with forceful drones and rich textures. Sounds were created with acoustic winds, electric guitar, analog and junk synthesizers and gritty electronics, mixed to create a foreboding atmosphere. The album was mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk at Stereophonic Mastering, best known for his work on dozens of Daniel Menche albums. Meridian was recorded in two weeks during the monsoon season of 2008. A careful study into the symbols inside the album show an obsession with elemental force and eternal power. Clew Of Theseus evokes images of furious storms, wiping the landscape of blight, bringing beautiful darkness in its wake. CD packaged in standard jewel case with full-color artwork. [press-release]
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Clew Of Theseus -- "The Playground Of The Damned" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Cipher Productions, (sic 41), (ltd. 100)
Cloama -- "Revisionist Knowledge" -- CD -- €11
2005 Freak Animal Records, FREAK-CD-028, (ltd. 500)
Brutal Finnish power electronics.
Cloama + Blutleuchte -- "From Wasteland Mausoleums" -- CD -- €11
2007 New Old Sentinel, Sentinel-CD-06, (ltd. 500)
New collaboration of two Finnish projects released in summer 2007. Die Blutleuchte are known for their single yet very successful album, one of the best releases of Sahko Records. "From Wasteland Mausoleums" is a glance at the world which is hard to recognize: deserted, bewitched, thrown back in time. Both projects left their power-electronics ambitions for a while, and also went to the past. Ritual evening with candles, an evening of memory of German pioneers of electronic music, guitar improvisations, strange combination of melodic and noisy fragments, an ofter metaphore for a typical dichotomy of life - 12 tracks lasting for about an hour. Limited edition with 8-page booklet, 500 copies. [Monochrome Vision]
Closing The Eternity -- "Kosmodrones" -- CD-R -- €9
2011 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT35, (ltd. 212)
This album of the established Russian project was recorded in 1999-2002 but released only now. Three tracks interwoven with semantic interference with three poems of Georgy Ivanov about what is left after "the attack of atomic hysteria / will scatter everything in flare of azure". Black drone of cosmic vacuum and icy glow of monumental electronic melodies. "Only yellow day-dawn / Only icy stars / Only millions of years". Full-colour cover, three inserts with poems by Ivanov. [press-release]
Cock E.S.P. -- "Greatest Dicks" -- CD -- €11
1996 Pure, PURE 39
Legendary noise circus from Minneapolis with the report of their best and worst recordings from 1993-1996. Powerful living Harsh Noise with wild energy. Sleeve.
Coelacanth -- "The Glass Sponge" -- CD -- €11
2003 23five, 23five 004
Collapse Project -- "Your Own Way" -- CD-R -- €9
2007 Klangdynamik Records, KD 02, (ltd. 111)
Column One -- "Feldaufnahmen I" -- CD -- €13
2007 Auf Abwegen, AATP21, (ltd. 500)
Feldaufnahmen I is the first release in a series of pure filed recordings by german multi-disciplinary experimental group Column One. The 12 recordings where collected in east Germany in the Polenztal within the mountain range called Elbsandsteingebirge in 2000-2001 with the simplest equipment. The recordings where edited and rearranged by Robert Schalinski in Berlin in 2006. Feldaufnahmen I is a new phase for Column One who have continued to change and evolve in their musical career. The group was renowned for post-industrial atmospheres, media collages and cut-up dadaist humor now they enter the terrain of sound ecology with their own twist. The 12 pieces on the disc radiate with beauty - they demonstrate the full spectrum of sounds that can be found in any relatively quiet natural resort: dogs barking, humming of insects, crackling of twigs, footsteps, wind and more... The CD Feldaufnahmen I is presented in a full colour digipak with a 16 pages booklet with full colour reproductions of photographs taken by Column One in the area where the sounds were recorded. [label info]
Comatose -- "Oceans Of Tears" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Bone Structure, Bone 67, (ltd. 77)
Combative Alignment -- ":And Outside Glows The Red Dawn" -- CD -- €10
2005 Malignant Records, TumorCD24, (ltd. 100)
After several releases, including full length vinyl releases on LOKI and their own label Avatar, and a 7" on Eternal Soul, the first full length CD from this powerful and visionary German project on US label Malignant now. Can perhaps be seen as Combative Alignments benchmark, offering 6 tracks that work as a virtual musical thoroughfare to a more dreamlike, illusory state. Deeply brooding atmospheres, where omniscient layers of drones and reverberating sound currents meet measured, ritual percussion as performed under the glowing, gloomy haze of a primordial sunrise. And Outside Glows the Red Dawn shines a dim light on a world of obscure origin, full of dark Germanic mysticism and unearthly sonic terrain. On a whole, this is a more focused, deeper, and fluid recording than you've heard before, yet triumphantly carrying on the tradition laid down by previous releases. [press-release]
Comforter Inc. -- "Faustrecht" -- CD-R -- €7
2002 Spirals Of Involution, SOI 033
Relentless terror for ears, performed with the help of modern technologies. I think that's how the depths of computer would sound if you connect it directly to electricity transmission line with tension of ten thousand volts.
Comforter -- "Voice of the Voiceless" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Rokot, RKT-08, (ltd. 50)
Old Russian Harsh Noise project that was very active in the beginning of 2000s but is on hiatus nowadays. Swift, superdispersed analogue noise powder of feedbacks and metal junk. Recorded in 1999. [label info]
Comforter vs. Lefthandeddecision -- split -- CD-R -- €8
2003 Spirals Of Involution, SOI 031, (ltd. 104)
Split release of Russian and American projects, playing digital harsh-noise. An hour of constant flow of dense, gritting sound, like a fork in your ear. Highly brutal.
Communism -- "Laughing Gas" -- CD -- €14
2005 Misteriya Zvuka, MZ 271-2
Experimental / noise / rock from late 80-s Soviet Siberian underground - feat. members of Grazhdanskaya Oborona. "From the whole vast discography of COMMUNISM the album "Laughing Gas" (1989) is perhaps the most hard to listen to. After colourful idiotism of "On Soviet Speed" and clearly structured conceptualism of "Suleiman Stalskiy", "Laughing Gas" impresses first of all with lashings of noises and absolutely unstoppable lyrics. The album is completely immersed in the magic environment of free ad-lib or as Egor Letov said 'very strange excursions into consciousness'"... [Maxim Semelyak]
Communism -- "Satanism" -- CD -- €32
2007 Misteriya Zvuka, MZ 276-2
Experimental / noise / rock from late 80-s Soviet Siberian underground - feat. members of Grazhdanskaya Oborona. "The 8th album named "Satanism" is the black hole in the landscape of COMMUNISM. Even the most dedicated fans of Egor Letov & Co. used to tell they couldn't listen to this more than once. Meanwhile "Satanism" is definitely one of the most important exuses of COMMUNISM as musical project - here you won't find recitations by Kuzma, no obvious concept, no easy-to-catch expressions, only harsh full scale sound experience, quite radical for the USSR in 1989. Of course both COMMUNIZM and GRAZHDANSKAYA OBORONA have always used the elements of noise, ritual rhythms and shamanic kind of vocals. But only "Satanism" utilizes all these techniques only to fill all the space of this lengthy album - the result is pure season in hell with the elements of miner strikes in Kuzbass... "Satanism" is perhaps the only work of Soviet musicians which could be easily placed in one row with the odious records of British industrial musicians, I mean first of all NURSE WITH WOUND and CURRENT 93 (their noisier side). In fact this record had something irrevocable in it. "Satanism" with its rumbling numbness kind of opened some door, behind which everything was ultimately funny and scary at the same time." [Maxim Semelyak]
Compest -- "Benu" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2005 Taalem, alm 26
Compest is the latest project of Martin Steinebach who was already a busy bee with his three other projects Monoid (electro industrial), StillStand (ambient soundscapes) and Conscientia Peccati (dark ritual). Compest could be described as his meta-project, gathering all his sounds. Mastered very loud, "Benu" is a 20min piece mixing tribal, ambient & noisy sounds... [press-release]
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Con-Dom -- "Live in Japan 2003" -- CD -- €12
2007 Teito Sound Company, TEITO-009
Recorded live on March 5, 2003 at Die Pratze in Tokyo, Japan.
Con-Dom / Militia -- "Scorched Earth Policy" -- CD -- €10
1995/2002 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 047
Re-release of the legendary tape out on OEC, completely remastered by Frank Gorissen (Militia) for the CD format! First part of the cd is featuring more songs of faith & war by Con-Dom in his usal scraping way, with great rough vocals and pulsing & beating sounds: "Power is nothing without Control" & "Butchers Call to Arms" are 2 of the 6 titles by Con-Dom, you now wat to aspect! The second part of the cd features Militia's best power & war structured industrial agony .... Reiterative sound fields changing into great industrial tradition! Militia is also delivering 2 unreleased live-attacks with great sampled voices recorded during their very first live gig! A new cult release by OEC, not to loose! [press-release]
Con_Sense -- "Code Sent" -- CD-R -- €9
2009 Databloem, DB09026
Con_Sense is a project driven by Tomas Weiss, one of the most promising names in Ambient / Electronic music. Beautifully mastered cinematic ambient with atmospheric / tribal grooves. Code Sent covers over an hour of top class contemporary electronic music, with a wink to various Berlin school legends. [label info]
Concrete Belly -- "s/t" -- 3"CD-R -- €5
2007 Mechanoise Labs, [mn031], (ltd. 50)
A nice small post rock disk. Sampling and collages turn into soft semi-melancholic guitar tunes, sometimes blurring into cozy amorphism, sometimes gathering into distinct melodic constructions. Simple and beautiful.
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Concrete Violin -- "End Times" -- CD-R -- €7
2003 Solipsism, Solipsism-55, (ltd. 100)
Raw noise music of American PE-school with monotonous noisescapes and lots of distorted vocals. Concrete Violin here isn't that agressive as his colleagues usually are, this album is even atmospheric to a certain extent.
ConDemek -- "Technological Shack Job" -- CD -- €11
1997 Functional Organisation, functional 011
"Technological Shack Job" is a tour-de-force of experimental mayhem within a tight conceptual framework. Damian Catera, Steve Lombardi, and Roxanne Benedetto weave an alluring sonic landscape that veers simultaneously towards rock, experimental power electronics, and more. This concept album explores the socio-political and psychological dimensions of humanity's relationship with technology and in its inter-mingling with reactionary belief systems. The American project presents over 60 minutes of mixed rhythms and soundscapes, with outbursts of noise and samples developing into a wall of rhythms. [press release]
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Contagious Orgasm -- "Confession Of Mannequin" -- CD -- €10
1988/2009 Industrial Recollections, IR-CO2
Highly worshipped earliest material of the cult industrial-experimental band from Japan. This 2nd tape from 1988 (SSSM) shows a very different project to what CO is known to be today. You can see why they established in early 90s deals with many leading European Industrial / Power Electronics labels (Tesco, Ant-Zen, Praxis Dr. Bearmann etc). 45 minutes presented with original sound from metal master tapes without any modern day boosting gimmicks. Great dynamics and amazing quality. Covers include full re-print of all original tape artwork as it was. [press-release]
Contagious Orgasm -- "Corporal" -- CD -- €10
2010 Industrial Recollections
Compiling early SSSM label compilation tape tracks from 80's and early 90's on one disc! Logical addition to previous 3 C.O. titles under Industrial Recollections. [label info]
Contagious Orgasm -- "Invasion" -- CD -- €10
2009 SSSM, SSSM-111
From the outside space to the inner space. Processed field recordings & electro-acoustic sound art collage, a mixture of constituted delicately industrial and noisy ambient sounds. [label info]
Contagious Orgasm -- "Spill Drop" -- CD -- €10
2003 Waystyx Records, WR09, (ltd. 410)
New step on the way of Hiroshi Hashimoto creative evolution, one of the most controversive Japanese musician, presenting dense stream of sound, explosing by traditional for Contagious Orgasm flashes of sexual obsession, ritualism and culture permeate. Mature and complicated work. It's a mirror, in which crystall depths everyone of us will see his real matter - purest drop of human prejudices, fears and drawbacks essence. On one hand you can find microglitches, clicks, subtle melodies and controlled rhythmic clicks'n'cuts. And on the other hand more experimental sounds: from rough field recordings, noisy frequencies and distorted voices to sinewaves and continuous glitches. As always on Waystyx Records, exclusive design, consisting of transparent heavy polyethelen and strip of technical ribbon with red landmark. [press-release]
Contagious Orgasm -- "Thin Skinned" -- CD -- €10
1989/2010 Industrial Recollections
3rd tape from 1989 presents 2 long tracks, in total c. 45 minutes of playing time of experiemental industrial by the Japanese cult band. Those who heard the previous two tapes re-issued, can?t go wrong with this one! [label info]
Contagious Orgasm + Kadaver -- "A Tragedy Without A Border Line" -- CD -- €10
2011 Wrotycz Records, WRT012
Collaboration between Hiroshi Hashimoto from already legendary Contagious Orgasm and Michael Zolotov from Israeli power electronics and noise project Kadaver. "A tragedy without a border line" is a mixture of ambient, PE and noisy sounds. Consists of 3 long pieces of musick without frontiers... Bubbling drones, sampled voices, crashes and hums. All packed in a 6 panel digipack - designed by Michael - with rather controvensial photo inside (at least some will think so). [press-release]
Contemplatron -- "Antarabhava / The Six Realms" -- CD -- €10
2005 Wrotycz Records, WRT 002, (ltd. 500)
The Sanskrit word "Antarabhava" means "the intermediate state" and in particular refers to the state between the death and the moment of the next birth. This is the sonic journey of the soul wandering through the nooks of another worlds. The second part describes the six realms which, according to the Buddhist tradition, symbolizes six destructive emotions: ignorance, hatred, enslaving desire, jealousy, pride and greed. Each track is dedicated to the different emotion and all of them sounds like tunes from the outer space. The cd comes in a cardboard sleeve and is limited to 500 copies. [press-release]
Contemplatron -- "Delog" -- CD -- €10
2008 Wrotycz Records, WRT 007
After a successful debut album Wrotycz Records is proud to announce the second release of this Polish dark ambient act. The DELOG experience is extraordinary, marvellous, even within the esoteric context of Tibetan Buddhism. The Tibetan word DELOG refers to one who has crossed the threshold of death and returned to tell about it. The person who is recognised as DELOG lays without any sign of breath, pulse or body warmth for many days. During that his or her mind journeys to other realms of experience: the pure display of enlightened mind as well as existence within samsaric delusion and ignorance. [press-release]
Controlled Collapse -- "Injection" -- CD -- €7
2008 Soyuz Music / Dependent Records, mind 119
Young and undoubtedly talented Polish musician Wojciech Krol has always admired the godfathers of harsh EBM - Belgian band Suicide Commando. So no wonder that his debut album "Injection" (2007) is an explosive mixture of harsh electro (tracks "Liar", "Impact") and pure EBM ("Selfless", "Dreams"), which can go directly to club dancefloors. If you like brutal heavy sound of Agonoize, Hocico and Velvet Acid Christ, you will certainly like Controlled Collapse as well. Special surprise for the lovers of more mild techno-pop - one of the tracks ("Fulfillment") features Darrin Huss from Psyche on vocals. [label info] Russian licensed edition.
Coph Nia -- "The Dark Illuminati" -- CD -- €14
2007 Cold Meat Industry, cmi163
The Thelemic Warlord is back; and after years of silence and solitude Aldenon once again presents us with a true masterpiece - "The Dark Illuminati - A Celestial Tragedy in two acts". This is an epic saga of eight illuminating pieces trying to penetrate the core of the Darkest Light. Aldenon's characteristic growling coupled with Linus's bombastic drums and Karin's serene voice come together in a tapestry of ritualistic, penetrating and sinister ambiance. Included are three timeless classics in new and improved formats... Choirs, strings and intricate orchestrations bring about an unforgettable tale that won't leave any listener untouched; possibly giving rise to more questions, than it poses answers. So what is it? The Dark Illuminati - The Dark Enlightened.... A global elite attempting to enforce a world government? An organization controlling world affairs? The New World Order? Or a Secret Few, merely seeking to preserve the Dark Light....? Well... The Stage is set. The Music begins to play. But the Script has been lost. [press-release]
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Coph Nia -- "Holy War EP" -- CD EP -- €13
2001 Cold Meat Industry, CMI.93
Where the debut album 'That which Remains' was somewhat solemn and introspective, 'Holy War EP' is more 'in your face'. Like its predecessor it varies a great deal in styles, but this time it more aggressive and sexual in nature. Digipak. [label info]
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Coph Nia -- "Qliphothic Phantasmagoria" -- CD EP -- €10
2008 Wrotycz Records, WRT008
The collection of Coph Nia-fied covers including Ozzy Osbourne's 'Mr Crowley', the song Mr. Aldenon's band was born to cover, 'Black Sabbath' by the band of the same name, 'Sick Things' by Alice Cooper and 'Levitation' by psychedelic space rockers Hawkwind.
Coph Nia -- "Shape Shifter" -- CD -- €14
2003 Cold Meat Industry, cmi122
The second full length album displays familiar streaks while simultaneously pointing out new directions. The pitch-black darkness is eased by moments of sacral ambience, while at times a grand piano and screeching choirs augment the goings-on. [label info]
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Corder, Jason & Beta Two Agonist -- "Further To Find Closer" -- CD-R -- €9
2008 Databloemm, DBCD08019
Two of the most promising names in contemporary electronic music join up for a journey through electro acoustic ambient with a glitch.
This collaboration grew from a collection of musical fragments exchanged between November 2007 and February 2008. These fragments evolved into nine movements seamlessly fused and blended into a morphing cloud of texture. The sounds used were recorded from acoustic/analog instruments and then processed or left untouched. Jason Corder & Beta Two Agonist: vibraphone, xylophone, glockenspiel, windchimes, prayer bowls, electric piano, guitar, field recording, effects and processing. [label info]
Corder, Jason & Opium -- "Autunno" -- CD-R -- €11
2006 Practising Nature, PN019
Jason Corder's percussive minimalism interwoven with Opium's drones. Jason Corder - The moniker "Off the Sky" was originally birthed as a simple misinterpretation of an obscure line from that famous film Trainspotting. Random as its conception was, Off the Sky is an all too apropos title summating the dub-atmospheric and acoustic solo projects emanating from Jason Corder's studio in Kentucky, USA. It is a humble hand that reflects both his mild mannered nature and his usual "in-the-clouds" mind-set. Jason's musical style is loosely inspired by the likes of Monolake, Gas, and Christian Fennesz. Teo Zini (Opium) was born in Bollate, Milan (Italy) in 1979 and now lives in Varese. His love for electronic music began when he was 15. His first experiments were created with the first home personal computer soundcards. Through software he creates rich drones and complex soundscapes often using etnic/tribal sounds and beats. Opium is also involved in other projects such as Sola Translatio with Alio Die. [label info]
Corder, Jason & Opium -- "Thepresentday" -- CD-R -- €11
2006 Practising Nature, PN019
Opium drones and ethnic elements are interwoven with Jason Corder's percussive minimalism to create a flowing long-form work of seven fascinating movements. [label info]
Corpoparassita -- "Inesorabile" -- CD -- €10
2007 FinalMuzik, FM06, (ltd. 500)
Italian project Corpoparassita is known in the industrial underground scene for a few outstanding limited edition CDr releases. "Inesorabile" is their first full length CD, including - trust us! - the most obscure and colder stuff around! Just imagine a modern version of Italian 70's horror movies' soundtrack meeting thrilling dark ambient and morbid black noise. "Inesorabile" is a must for industrial / dark ambient fans, and it is available in a beautiful poster sleeve akin to some Crass and hc / crustcore releases. [label info]
Corpoparassita -- "L'affannoso Respiro Del Gatto" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Abgurd, AB-48, (ltd. 100)
Itialian Dark Ambient project. Surrealistic macabre. Soft harmonic drones and ambiences, bass-guitar, gloomy scratches. Contemporary tales of parallel worlds. [label info]
Corvuz -- "Invisible Landscapes" -- CD -- €10
2012 self-released / ZHELEZOBETON distribution, ZHBD-01, (ltd. 500)
The debut album of a musician from the city of Oryol, Russia, released with the support of ZHELEZOBETON label. "Invisible Landscapes" is dark ambient recorded with a typical Russian approach combining homage to native traditions, deeply melancholic contemplation and powerful thirst for the beyond. Dark red embers, twilight, wind sways over tree crowns, lost eyesight of the consciousness wandering in forest labyrinths and gradually dissolving in the infinite circle of life and death... Rich sound of Soviet analogue synthesizers, a bit of field recordings, voice samples and digital processing - this is the pallette used for creating this image. It feels that the music of Curvuz is inspired by the project Staruha Mha, a cover-version of its track rounds up the album. The album was mastered by Sergey Uak-Kib (Kshatriy), artwork performed by Sergey Ilchuk (Siyanie, ex-Vetvei & Vresnit Art). Digipak.
Costa, Gustavo -- "Slow Life in the Age of Hyperstressed Communities" -- CD-R -- €7
Setola Di Maiale, SM1910
Composed and recorded between 2007 and 2010. Gustavo Costa is a Portuguese musician and composer who lives in Porto, well known as an excellent drummer/percussionist, he is involved in many projects, ranging from free improvisation, free jazz, to ensemble of modern compositions, to hardcore punk. This disc presents his latest compositions, in which the complex sound material is organized with great skill and sensitivity. A very good sound research that blurs the nature, "what I hear is acoustic or electronic?". Then their stratification, their layout, together with variations, make it a work of great interest. Here there are deep musical ideas, near Mauricio Kagel or Pansonic, but these are just names to give a general idea. [press-release]
[myspace]
Cote Deserte -- "Dale Cooper's Case" -- CD EP -- €9
2001 Aquarellist, aquarel 19-11, (ltd. 500)
A Moscow - St.Petersburg based project inspired by Angelo Badalamenti's score for the "Twin Peaks" TV series. The project's music is a cocktail made of jazz, ambient and modern experimental music which will appeal to the fans of such bands as Dale Cooper Quartet And The Dictaphones, The Necks, Bohren & Der Club Of Gore, No-Man, etc. 6 tracks, 33 minutes. [label info]
Cotton Ferox -- "Defragmental" -- CD -- €12
2007 Eroto Tox Decodings, ETD002, (ltd. 1000)
Cotton Ferox / Bardoseneticcube / Kryptogen Rundfunk / 1g0g -- "Mother Russia" -- CD-R -- €10
2009 Edda Grammofon, HILO-7, (ltd. 100)
An intense live jam recorded in St. Petersburg during Cotton Ferox 2007 Russian tour. Eerie, dark, Russian, Swedish, psychedelic, emotional, evocative... Et cetera. A free-flowing and colourful mind expansion in the sparkling encounter between two cultures and six heads. [label info]
Courtis -- "Endless Cassette Research Vol.1" -- CD-R -- €8
2005 Ultra, UCD 21, (ltd. 99)
Solo project of Argentine musician A. Courtis, participant of Reynols. The album is recorded with usage of Tascam 424 with endless cassette. Fat raw analogue laid-back sound makes you feel being inside of some device surrounded by textolite panels, mechanical switches and bundles of wires with streams of electrons fulfilling abstract experimental tasks.
Courtis, Alan -- "ACR" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2010 Lona Records, locd68r
"A Capella Rainbow" is an experimental piece made with voice as only sound source recorded at the artist's own Studios in Buenos Aires. In this case the recordings were so heavily processed that it's hard to recognize traces of human voice. Vocal Drone? Sci-fi Spoken Word? Detuned Human Bioacoustics? Electrified Singing? It's difficult to say, however it's an intense piece to be filed probably in between "Sound of Hydrangea" and "Tape Works". [label info]
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Cranc -- "All Angels" -- CD -- €10
1999 Diskoi EDO, E-07, (ltd. 890)
Crank Sturgeon -- "Drastic Ishmael Effect" -- CD-R -- €5
2006 Monopolka, This is Monopolka 112
Degenerative American jazz-rock in extremely unpleasant way. 60 minutes of shit on down beat. Horrible mug on cover, pro-printed CDRs, serigraphy. [label info]
Crawling With Tarts -- "Ludiques Manifestes" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Lunhare, zzz - 1, (ltd. 100)
Three live recordings from concerts held in Oakland in 1991 and 1992. Intended to be released on cassette in 1999, but kept in the drawer until now, this work is published for the first time. Improvisation sketches on percussive patterns, self-constructed instruments, and even a punky, fast and furious song. Different sides of a group always different from the rest. [label info]
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Crawling With Tarts -- "Sarajevo Center Metal Doors" -- CD -- €8
1995 Realization Recordings, RZD-019
San Francisco-based composer Michael Gendreau (1961) is a collage artist of the age of field recordings. Beginning in 1983, the duo of Michael Gendreau and Suzanne Dycus performed under the moniker Crawling with Tarts. They produced about 20 cassettes in 80-s and then switched to "surface noise operas" (operas composed out of field recordings, studio manipulations and acoustic improvation), three of which are presented on this CD.
Cria Cuervos -- "Vor Feuerschlünden" -- CD-R -- €9
2007 Afe Records, afe092lcd, (ltd. 100)
Electroacoustic / Experimental. Cria Cuervos is the music project of italian sound artist Eugenio Maggi. Influenced by surrealism, minimalism, Drone and Industrial music, Hard Core/Punk and Grind, his music has evolved from more noisy experiments and now sits somewhere in between darker ambience and electroacoustic. During the years he created several full-lenght solo works and also collaborated with artist such as Paul Bradley, Sparkle in Grey, Ninth Desert and Maurizio Bianchi. His music was released on many international labels: Immanence, Thisco, Mystery Sea, Taalem, Twenty Hertz and Dielectric Records. "Vor Feuerschlünden" (...German for "Before Throats of Fire"...) is Cria Cuervos's latest full-lenght offering and it probably is his best solo work to date. The album features two long tracks of electroacoustic / experimental nature, built using field recordings (...cicadas, gas, frogs, water...), self-programmed Theta waves, short waves and softwares. No synthesizers were used during the recording process. [label info]
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Crisis -- "Holocaust Hymns" -- CD -- €18
2005 Apop Records, Apop 013
Critikal -- "Graphorrhea" -- CD -- €10
2007 Kvitnu, kvitnu 4 / Nexsound, ns60 / Zeromoon, ZERO 008
Dmytro Fedorenko (Kotra), Andrey Kiritchenko, Tobias Astrom and Jeff Surak (Violet) join forces to present this masterwork of muscial fragmentation. The new fab four of the electronica world. [label info] 'The overall atmosphere changes from harsh and corrupted to dark and evil over the course of the record and I get sucked into a dystopian world that I last experienced this way when I listened to 'black vomit' by Wolf Eyes with Anthony Braxton.' [Cracked] ':one is lost in its quagmire of unorthodox tunings and thrashing textures as though in a delirium, only a constant threat can be gleaned from its dark surface.' [Earlabs]
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Cruelty Campaign -- "Distressed Signals" -- CD -- €10
2002 Tesco Organisation, TESCO048
The Los Angeles-based group Cruelty Campaign utilizes site recordings, found sounds, and interviews to create musical atmospheres and harsh soundscapes that are both beautiful and disquieting. Excellent experimental dark tech. Packaged in a Digipak. [press release]
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Cult Of Youth -- "A Stick To Bind, A Seed To Grow" -- CD -- €13
2012 Der Angriff, Nr. 40, (ltd. 450)
Der Angriff and Indiestate Distribution proudly present a long awaited CD reissue of a brilliant debut Cult Of Youth album which has been released as an LP on DAIS Records in 2008. This american combo is now tending to be more root rock oriented gaining high success in more mainstream "new angry young men" audience. But this debut work is a pure old school neofolk, reminding of early days Death In June and Sol Invictus, with young raw power, aggression, extreme sincerity and great hooky melodies. This version has totally new mastering, so the sound is clearly different from the vinyl release and it has now become proper as artists think. CD also has 6 bonus tracks including the ones from the first 7" and the first CDR on Axiomata as well as a couple of previously unreleased ones. This edition is limited to 450 copies and comes in a special foldout envelope with cardboard inner sleeve and three postcard inserts with lyrics and photos. [press-release]
Culver / Seppuku -- "Dedicated To Soledad Miranda" -- CD -- €10
2009 At War With False Noise, atwar043, (ltd. 500)
Very proud to get this one out! First time on CD for both these bands: Culver, possibly the most under-appreciated "experimental" musician in the UK who's been making some of the most awe-inspiring drone/noise for years. For those of you who don't know, Lee Stokoe plays bass in Geordie post-whatever geniuses Marzuraan as well as being the current foil to Matthew Bower's walls of scraping guitar noise in Skullflower, but Culver is his "main" project. On this CD he gives us a 30 min+ deluge of harrowing bassy drone. It starts off like the sound of the generator from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and similarly purveys a sense of crawling dread at what is to come. Soon things get more desperate before being crushed into oblivion by a wall of crushing amplifier noise, which slowly develops into a more sedative shifting tone that wouldn't have been out of place on a Conrad Schnitzler record in the 70s. Perfect!... Seppuku give us two tracks in very different styles....first track "Inga" sees a full band play some unbearably heavy doom. Ushered in by what sounds like a tolling bell, this gives way to some Throbbing Gristle-esque hydraulic pumping before the guitars kick in and everything is laid to waste. Brutal low frequencies and inhuman low/screaming vokilllllls....heavy duty! Second track Emanuelle is enhanced by the appearance of Deek and Stevie from Messiah Complex; sounds very post-industrial power electronics, with walls of bleak static forming the backbone of the track, interspersed with what sounds like post-apocalyptic winds of death, and some distorted lines of screeched vocal. Unpleasant... Comes in a jewel case with a 12-page glossy booklet featuring pics of my favourite euro-babes. Released in tribute to the most beautiful woman to have ever graced the world with her presence, Soledad! [press-release]
Cuni, Amelia -- "Sings Dhrupad" -- CD -- €11
1998 Hic Sunt Leones, HSL 014
Master of dhrupad traditional indian chant present an exceptional performance live in Bombay. On this recording, Amelia Cuni presents two ragas, both of which, according to the time-theory of Indian music, are prescribed for early morning performance, and are associated with a devotional mood. They form a part of Amelia's single most brilliant concert appearance in India, which catapulted her into celebrity status. Ms. Cuni is recognised today as the finest non-Indian exponent of vocal music in the mideaval Dhrupad style, and probably the only significant Dhrupad vocalist amongst women anywhere. Ms. Cuni's achievement is exceptional because of her command over all the departments of the art form -- the grammar of the Raga melodic structures, the rhythmic disciplines, sensitivity to the literary content of the poetic form, and the distinctive technique of voice production with its demands on breath-control, lung-power, and tonal precision... [label info]
Current 93 -- "How I Devoured Apocalypse Balloon" -- 2 CD -- €11
2006 Soyuz Music / Durtro, DSM 4026-06
Russian edition of this album will all titles translated to Russian language.
Cyclotimia -- "Deja Vu" -- CD -- €10
2008 Shadowplay Records, SPR 061
The Moscow project CYCLOTIMIA is not needed to be present. It's albums were released at the cult western electro-industrial labels and also in Russia. It's music were sent even in space. During the period of 9 years there are lot of reviews about this band almost all sites and magazines that are devoted to the electro-industrial music mention CYCLOTIMIA or write articles about it. But you could make your own opinion about it - just listen the CD... All songs from the album were written in 2001 year and were released as two vinyls "Same Time Same Place" and "Metamorphosis" in 2002 year. But were difficult to buy because of the very limited edition... Chronologically the album "Deja Vu" is between "Wasteland" and "E$chaton". [press-release]
Cyclotimia -- "E$chaton" -- CD -- €10
2004/2005 Stateart, AVANT009
2nd full-length Cyclotimia album after "Wasteland" originally released in Russia by Irond label and then reissued in Germany by Stateart. "'Eschaton' is that electronic music which is impossible to label so easy. This is obviously nor industrial, nor EBM, nor darkwave, nor dark ambient, although some elements of the above mentioned styles are present here. It's clear only that this is very original and ultra-modern! A fusion of Skinny Puppy and Recoil, early Download, late Coil, instrumental works of Haujobb or Frontline Assembly... You can also hear the Pope himself speaking on this record!..." [Irond]
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Cyclotimia -- "New Death Order" -- CD -- €10
2006 Ewers Tonkunst, HHE 013 CD, (ltd. 500)
This is a re-issue of the first MCD by Cyclotimia which has been released by the now defunct State-Art back in 2000 and now is a very hard-to-find collector item. This depressive gloomy work is closer to the early band's vinyl releases than to more electro-oriented latest albums. The claustrophobic aura of the world dying in the strangling embraces of the new world order, the total horror of everyday life, the omnipresent tentacles of consumerism - all the distinctive conspirological Cyclotimia topics are already here on this debut work, and lo-fi industrial-oriented sound makes it all totally revealed and free of any veneer. This album is a brilliant soundtrack for pre-apocalyptic times which could appeal not only to Cyclotimia fans, but to all the lovers of obscure atmospheric industrial in a vein of Schloss Tegal "Oranor III" or some 90-ies Sigillum S works. In addition to the initial MCD material, the release includes 8 previously unreleased tracks from the same period and comes in a cardboard full-colour envelope limited to 500 copies only. Total length is 74 min. [press-release]
Cyclotimia -- "Trivial Pleasures" -- CD EP -- €8
2003 Monopoly Records, MONO 001-1003
Cyclotimia is one of the most known Russian electronic bands. Since 1999 band has released 3 CD and 2 vinyl albums in Germany, Italy and Russia. Starting as an 'industrial' project, in time Cyclotimia borrowed elements from different music genres, such as 'old-school electronics', 'experimental', 'new age'. Inspiring in 'global' and 'free market' themes, the band creates unique crossover soundscapes in the modern 'post-industrial' area, referred to as 'L'Electronique Mondial' by the musicians. 'Trivial Pleasures' is the first part of their similarly titled 'L'Electronique Mondial' trilogy which is going to include two more MCD's of certainly non-trivial music. Created using mainly old Soviet analogue synths, 'Trivial Pleasures' is a bit 'alien' to the previous works of the band, but at the same time is Cyclotimia's most radical and experimental album. [press-release]
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Cyclotimia -- "Wasteland" -- CD -- €10
2002/2005 Irond, IROND CD 05-1065
"We started to record 'Wasteland' in the end of 1999. We were inspired by the album 'The City' by Vangelis. A view of the Greek composer on modern city looked unreasonably "optimistic" to us... The idea of creating a soudtrack more suitable for contemporary megalopolis was born immediately. Impenetrable veil of stone buildings, blinding neon advertising lights, continual informational streams, supermarkets, stockmarkets, all-round crowds of ever scurrying people and cars... This was the picture of our "city". The recording took about twelve months, and by the beginning of 2001 the work was completely done. Listening to 'Wasteland' after five years we tend to consider that despite some technical imperfection our goal has been reached. It's worth mentioning that there's something more in common with Vangelis' work - we deliberately used some same sound libraries of the BBC company which sound in 'The City' album too. It's a strange case when the CD can apply both to the fans of "old school" electronics, i.e. Klaus Schulze, Vangelis, Tangerine Dream, and to the lovers of ominous darkness like Raison d'Etre, In Slaughter Natives, Lustmord, Bad Sector, Coil, Skinny Puppy." [from the authors] The album was originall released in 2002 by now defunct German label Stateart, and in 2005 reissued by Russian company Irond.
Cymphonic -- "Strataradialis" -- CD -- €10
2007 Databloem, DBCD 07018
Multi layered original sounds and "Biospheric" elements, smoothly woven into first class ambient. A fairytale caught in music. [label info]
Czajkowska, India -- "Cosmospir" -- CD -- €13
2008 Hic Sunt Leones, HSL047
Czalczeskun -- "Samer'10" -- CD-R -- €3
2011 Smell The Stench
Weird crappy noise / ambient from Poland.
Dachise -- "Elegant Aggression" -- CD-R -- €7
2003 Solipsism, Solipsism-45, (ltd. 100)
One of the late recordings of this UK project, now defunct and re-organised as The Digitariat. Six old school tracks varying from noise to cut-up and from surreal concrete ambient back to noise.
Dachise -- "Twin Braids" -- CD -- €10
1999 Assemblage Point, 001CD, (ltd. 500)
DACHISE somehow manage to bang a wedge between the Japanese school of Raw Noise and a more Avant Garde, tape - manipulation sound. So while there are moments here when, at a decent volume, you feel they are going to knock the house down around your ears, it makes for a much more interesting experience. Whereas the Japanese approach is to simply blast you away, DACHISE have a much more effective way of assaulting your aural nervous system - they lull you with warmth, beats and hypnotic tape loops, then fire detonating bursts at you when you least expect it. [Metamorphic Journeyman]
Dadhikra -- "Bjorknaver" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2012 YAOP, YAOP 048, (ltd. 32)
This mini-album is filled with joyful atmosphere of sunny spring days in the woods and traditional feasts, and is performed completely on traditional instruments made of birch bark: shepherd's horns and bugles, zhaleyka, sharkunka, etc. Instrumental music close to authentical folk lore. Mini-slim-box, textured cover with a photo, all info hand-written. [label info]
Dapnom -- "Paralipomenes A La Divine Comedie" -- CD -- €10
2011 Mors Ultima Ratio, MUR-001, (ltd. 500)
4 tracks of Dark Ritual Sophisticated Evil Music. Digipack + 4 page-booklet, incredible artwork by Metastazis (Morbid Angel, Secrets of The Moon, Ascension, Neo Inferno 262, etc.). [label info]
Dark Ages -- "A Chronicle of the Plague" -- CD -- €10
2006 Supernal Music, FERLY039CD, (ltd. 1000)
DARK AGE's second album continues offering us minimalist Dark Ambient from the main member of DRUDKH and HATE FOREST, this time more melodic than before, and inspired on the horrors of the Middle Ages. Between the fall of the Western Roman emprie in A.D. 476 and the fall of Constantinople (capital of the Eastern Roman empire) in 1453, Europe was ravaged by plagues and superstition. Greek was largely forgotten, and with it much of the learned texts of antiquity. 'A Chronicle of the Plague' is a musical tale of the terror of 1349, which depopulated entire villages and decimated Europe's human population; the disease was not understood at the time, and therefore it was assumed to have been the wrathful punishment from the Judaeochristian Deity. Alas, prayers were of no avail... [press-release]
Dark Ages -- "The Tractatus De Hereticis Et Sortilegiis" -- CD -- €10
2011 Primitive Reaction, PR032
A most certain strange and true discovery of blackest blasphemies, nighttime rituals and terrible crimes against our mother church. New dark ambient masterpiece from a frontman of DRUDKH and HATE FOREST. With this third album Dark Ages has lifted their dark art to the new level. CD comes with 12 pages booklet. [label info]
Darkwood -- "Flammende Welt" -- CD -- €14
2001 Heidenvolk, HV 04
"Flammende Welt" is the third album by the German band Darkwood. After leading us into a neo-classical soundscape and battlefield atmosphere on their album "Heimat & Jugend", they now close the circle to "In the Fields" and present a heroic acoustic album with German and English vocals and an omnipresent touch of melancholy. Martial tunes and samples complete the historical tale on the Folk of Destiny. [label info]
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Daruin / Torturing Nurse / Stpocold -- "split" -- CD-R -- €8
2007 Abgurd, AB-37, (ltd. 114)
This is the second part of Harsh Noise 3-way split series.
DARUIN, guided by Kazuya Ishigami, is rather well-known among adorers of experimental Digital Post-Industrial. 19-minutes-long track filled with action: it starts off with a Glitch prelude, streams towards schizophrenic TV-collages, trembles with piercing Digital Noise, whirls with a storm of heated noise. A 20-minutes-long track of TORTURING NURSE is recorded by duo of Youki and Junky. Wall of noisy feedbacks interrupted by guitar passages, pick scrapes and screams. STPOCOLD - project of INSTANT MOVIE COMBINATIONS, researching wastelands of Digital Noise. 21-and-a-half minutes of asthmatic asphyxia. Fine-dyspersated gravel of noise is forced through ears by howling and droning frequencies. [press-release]
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Das Ruckgrat Der Nacht -- "Synthetische Dunkelheit" -- CD-R -- €7
2005 Tosom, TOSOM 013, (ltd. 150)
First release by this german project. The album is full of fantastic soundscapes and drones, some are mysterious and deep, but also with beautiful moments. A great trip through synthetic darkness. [label info] DVD-box with an insert.
Das Synthetische Mischgewebe -- "Casual Praise Of Domestic Calamities" -- CD -- €10
2004 Hypnagogia, GIA02, (ltd. 500)
Das Synthetische Mischgewebe started in the early 80's in Berlin with electronical industrial / avant-garde associated cassette releases. All compositions by Guido Huebner, created between 1999 and 2004 in Caen, France and Berlin, Germany. Sections of track 6 recorded in the studio for electro acoustic music at the arts academy of Berlin. Field recordings for track 8 and 9 were carried out at the harbour of Hamburg, Germany, as well as at the shores of Lower Normandy and in the countryside around Caen, especially the bridges trespassing the canal between Caen and the sea. Ltd x 500 copies in a square DVD case. [Cold Spring]
Das Synthetische Mischgewebe -- "Collaborations" -- 2 CD -- €15
2006 Monochrome Vision, (mv09), (ltd. 500)
DSM's music world appears as the intricate but finest tapestry of microscopic sounds, sophisticated packing of voids with sonic hallucinations, textural interactions and layering effects. Mostly sourced from the ordinary life, sounds changed beyond any recognition, the endless flow of electroacoustic treatments and studio engineering. This album includes collaborations with some finest sound-artists over there, and must be attended as the most diversified one. The full title of this double-CD album of collaborations is: "The escape of the electrified dermatologist epitomises his dissent with the compromising juxtaposition of the smell and the sound of a pair of wings injured in subdued romance". It contains tracks recorded with ERG, Jorg Thomasius, Artificial Memory Trace, The Oval Language and Thomas Beck. Loud and quiet, occasionally full blast and more frequently sneaking little sounds, no less intense and all alternating in a few seconds - discontinuity may likely be the trademark of DSM's sound world. Things are kept together, coherency is established by all what is absent, form vanishes before it can be grasped. [label info]
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Das Synthetische Mischgewebe -- "Le Vide Pour Appui" -- CD -- €16
2009 Waystyx, WR42, (ltd. 424)
This CD contains the recordings prepared specially for a dance performance for the conservatory of Caen, France (yet it's not easy to imagine what kind of dancing it was while listening to this music). All the sounds were recorded in the class of orchestral percussion with tam tams, gongs, cymbals, cymbaloms, toms, xylophones and vibraphones, carillon, timpani, barrel drums, bells, tubular bells, etc. being played mechanically with different motors and other electrical devices, via different transmitters, low frequency pulses via loudspeakers and transducers, with spirals, strings, coils, tapes, wires, elastics, air pressure, adhesives, etc. and never with hands or drum sticks of what ever kind. [label info] Unconventional package desigh with the use of silk-screened plastic and elements made of thick leather.
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Dasein -- "ņļį: Live In Yaroslavl" -- CD-R -- €8
2011 Ufa Muzak, UFA 46, (ltd. 88)
Drone ambient noise. Ufa Muzak presents the new release made after a gig happened on April 15th, 2011 in Yaroslavl, Russia. This disc contains the full fragment of performance of the Moscow based project Dasein. This is cold, evil, but inwardly bright noise blast in space where it swooned for the purpose of examination and understanding. More than half an hour of powerful furious flow inside of which happens nothing that can be marked as usual or trivial. The projects nature of sound immediately brings the listener into an altered state of mind. The heartbeat quickens, the visual acuty increases, the level of adrenaline in blood rises, all hearing is focused on the psycho-physical affect and soon one looses his orientation in time. What is it needed for? The specific historical moment is taken as a concept of this action, and for deeper understanding of its essence we present this experience of taking the thinking from the objective reality in deep movements of the past. "Bayonets into the ground!" 1 track, 29 minutes, cardboard sleeve + 2 cards. [press-release]
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Dasein -- "Vae Victis" -- CD-R -- €6
2009 Valgriind, VG 17, (ltd. 100)
Deep noise ambient, associated with history of world wars. Author's artworks are used in design. [label info]
Dasein vs. Bardo -- "Prima Materia" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2010 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT56, (ltd. 72)
Moscow based noise act Dasein (a side-project of Fanum) reworks the compositions of another Moscow project Bardo (aka Sergey Gabbasov, pre-Vazhes), played on Tibetian ritual instruments, into a 20-minute mysterious drone noise ambient nocturne. Dense low rumblings of pre-matter, enigmatic sounds flowing through low-frequency layers, chilly night music for contemplation over the riddles of the universe. Handmade cardboard sleeve, cover photo by Orleane. [press-release]
The Days Of The Trumpet Call -- "I Saw No Temple In The City / Reminiszenz 1999-2006" -- 2 CD -- €16
2008 Trutzburg Thule, TRUTZCD003
The Days Of The Trumpet Call are back! Neoclassical surrounded by a large range of ambient, experimental and folk rock. "I Saw No Temple In The City" was TDOTTC's 2nd opus and was originally released back in 2001 on 10" picture disc (Ltd x 555) by Ars Musica Diffundere. "Reminiszenz..." provides a review of the strongest work of TDOTTC from 1999-2006. 13 select pieces have all been revisited and remastered in the studio. Last but not least is a special bonus track, written by Sagittarius and sung by Troy Southgate (H.E.R.R) and Vera Debaillou. This double album is presented in a stunning 6-panel digipak. [press-release]
DDV -- "A Sound Atlas Of Venereology" -- CD -- €10
1982/2011 Trash Ritual, trash054
Another re-issue on Trash Ritual by Danny DeVos, also known as DDV and one half of Club Moral. His 'Sound Atlas Of Venereology' dates from 1982. This is very much an underground product of its time: a booklet with pictures of veneric diseases, and its not always to relate them to the music (not the titles of the pieces: they speak volumes!), which is the sort of noise that was popular in the days: a simple synthesizer sound, piercing vocals (which are unmistakably DDV sneering vocal charm), cut-ups and manipulations of vinyl records. A great document of its time. [from FdW review, Vital Weekly]
De Fabriek goes The Hitmachine -- "Het Terrein II" -- CD -- €13
2007 EE Tapes, EE08, (ltd. 185)
Dead Man's Hill -- "Dog Burial" -- CD -- €12
2007 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 092
7th full length album for Dead Man's Hill! Far more violent and darker atmosphere than ever before. This entire album handles about the loss of nature, all the people who destroy it, knowing and unknowing what they're doing. Further it handles also about nature making conspiracies with the Loa's to let mankind disappear from the earth. The music sounds like a storm wiping away everything in the neighbourhood. Extremely dark classical death industrial with choirs, the voice of the Apocalypse telling people in their dreams how it all will evolve, magical and Black Metal atmospheres... For all lovers of "In Slaughter Natives"! Art-work presenting a series of magnificent Caravaggio paintings! [press-release]
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Dead Man's Hill -- "Spirits" -- CD -- €10
2010 Steinklang Industries, SK 53
Over the last 7 years, DEAD MAN'S HILL became a well known and much appreciated artist in Ritual Ambient, Neoclassic and Bombastic Martial Music and with this new album, the band drags the listener into alternate realities and far away spheres. The lyrics are mainly dealing with travelling in these worlds. Musically the album goes further in the vein of Lakes of Sacrifice (2006) but a lot deeper-going and much more worked out, so you can say that "Spirits" is definitely the band's best album up to date. Dark and deep-dronning Ambient, mixed with strong and powerful Martial songs, varied with hypnotically mesmerizing Tribal parts. All in all the whole Album has a strong Death Industrial touch and even carries some Gregorian elements. Listen to this album, and let yourself take away to a intangible world, to far away shperes where things are just different to all You ever expected. "Spirits" includes a video from the track Road to Sweet Waters, made by Alex Hugin Wieser. 8 songs / 65 min. [press-release]
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Dead Raven Choir -- "Selenoclast Wolves" -- CD -- €11
2006 God is Myth Records, GIM018
What can be said about the amazing Dead Raven Choir that hasn't been said already? This release marks the return of D.R.C. after a slew of releases on some very respectable cd-r labels, not to mention 2003's "Wine, Women and Wolves" cd (Last Visible Dog) as well as last years "Cask Strength Black Metal" 3 LP box set (Weird Forest) which was a re-issue of ALL of the "Choir's" ugly, noisy, totally fuzzed out black metal on vinyl format. Smolken returns to the dark, avante-garde neo-folk side of Dead Raven Choir that has made this such a unique and awe inspiring musical journey. Selenoclast Wolves is an album that runs the gammet of emotions; Whether it be the creepy lurch and sway of the track "The Silence", the brooding melancholy of "When Men Die", or the sheer manic violence of "I am Not a Recluse" the common feeling throughout is one of complete isolation. As a bonus this cd will contain the complete re-issue of the "Lesbian Corpse Wolves" album which was limited to ONLY 30 copies. All completely re-mastered by Frederic Arbour (Cyclic Law, Visions, Longing for Dawn). On "Lesbian Corpse Wolves" most of the vocals were handled by the beautiful voice of Emily Salvatierra. Aversion Online once said of this release that these "...dark, folk-ish compositions rely heavily on picking accents and clashing notes that are both melodic and completely discordant all at once..." and we could not agree more. Now lets all raise a glass (or goblet perhaps?) and thank Mr. Smolken for resurrecting his fascinating project once again!!! [label info]
Dead Voices On Air -- "Fast Falls The Eventide" -- 2 CD -- €15
2009 Lens Records, LENS0109
Fast Falls The Eventide is aural provocateur Mark Spybey's (ex-:Zoviet*France:) 11th album as Dead Voices On Air, and across a multi-decade career stirring pots experimental, existential, and otherwise, his is a sound that summons any number of nocturnal beasties from the ether. Blink twice, listen carelessly and you'll fail to discern the minutiae Spybey meticulously works into every one of the 15 pieces sprawling across the first disc of this 2-CD set's eminent domain. Spybey works hard at his art so you don't have to: rather, as the listener, the participant, the absorber, it's more important to ignore categorical tags such as 'industrial', 'ambient', 'soundscape', et al, and instead gorge deeply on a wriggling, sometimes confrontational puzzlebox of sounds erupting from a bevy of mysterious sources... Fast Falls The Eventide is a two CD set featuring the all new recording Fast Falls The Eventide on Disc 1. Disc 2 features the long out of print first release by Dead Voices On Air - Abrader - originally released in 1994 on cassette by Japan's G.R.O.S.S. label. This digitally remastered version of Abrader features two previously unreleased tracks featuring cEvin Key. Abrader and the two bonus tracks are only available on this CD release. [label info]
Deadhorsemort -- "A Priori: Dedicated to Rene Descartes" -- CD-R -- €8
2010 Linija Shuma, SHUM0010, (ltd. 36)
Industrial dark ambient in classical vein - dense obscure atmosphere, minimal hypnotic rhythms, echoes of the images from the past in gramophone melodies sounding merry yet somehow pathological in such musical framework... "This album represents the power of true belief versus true delusion and the uncertainties that come from these powerful questions of the self. Absolute knowledge of ones self maybe possible to achieve but perhaps can never truly be realized, understood, nor embraced due to finite limits of reality, being merely a human being. Also if one could truly embrace its own truth, would one really like what ones sees? Even if not, one would still have to live, die, and face the unknowns of eternity with this inner truth, that may be displeasing... This album is dedicated to Rene Descartes and his ideas on experience, truth, and certainty. Ideas, such as empiricism versus rationalism and the ideas of priori and posteriori inner truths, while in the pursuit of ones absolute knowledge." [from the authors]
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Deadwood -- "8 19" -- CD -- €10
2006 Cold Spring Records, CSR53CD
Outstanding Power Electronics from Sweden. This is DEADWOOD's debut album and is a solid, pounding force of electronics, Death Ambient atmospheres and brutal vocals. Featuring a member of Satanic Black Metal act Blodulv. File alongside such luminaries as The Grey Wolves and Mz.412. DEADWOOD is a relentless assault on the senses! Approach with due caution! [press-release]
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Deadwood -- "Ramblack" -- CD -- €11
2008 Cold Spring Records, CSR104CD
'Ramblack" is the follow up to Deadwood's successful 2005 album "8 19" (CSR53CD). Over the past 3 years this Swedish artist has been toiling away, creating a new black ambient / death noise masterpiece and "Ramblack" is the result. Cloaked in a more raw and morbid sound then its predecessor, this album truly changes ones perspective of audial darkness. This analogue beast of an album layers the tonal prayers of demons and the distorted cries of angels, sickness and depravity. True Death Electronics. The soundtrack to your end. "Ramblack" features guest vocals from Norwegian Black Metal legend Maniac (Skitliv, ex-Mayhem), who's vocal approach on the song 'Forakt' shows the full range of his capacity. Truly one of the most sick and twisted pieces of sonic art ever recorded. Enjoy the disease! [press-release]
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Death In June -- "All Pigs Must Die" -- CD -- €17
Leprosy Discs, Leper CD4
Here it is! You begged for it?! Death in June is back with the guitar and other traditional instruments, such like accordeon, flute and trumpet. Together with A. Ritter of the German folk-band Forseti and the famous trumpet player Campbell Finley, Douglas P. recorded a new album very much in the style of his folk highlights, "Rose clouds.." and "But, what ends...". The album is splitted in 6 folk orientated and 5 experimental tracks, remember records like "Wall of Sacrifice". Inspired by Charles Mansons night of Helter Skelter, Douglas P. found a way to haunt his own nightmare. Comes in extraordinary coverdesign and deluxe manufacturing with embossed titles and debossed images. [label info]
Death In June -- "Black Angel - Live!" -- CD -- €17
2008 Leprosy Discs, LEPER CD8, (ltd. 2000)
Live recording made on 24.05.2000 at The Esplanade, Melbourne, Australia. Band consisted of Douglas P. & John Murphy. Songs performed: Ku Ku Ku, To Drown A Rose, Omen-Filled Season, Symbols Of The Sun, Giddy Giddy Carousel, Kameradschaft, She Said Destroy, The Honour Of Silence, Golden Wedding Of Sorrow, Runes And Men, Fall Apart, But, When Ends When The Symbols Shatter? Signed by Douglas P.
Death In June -- "Peaceful Snow" -- 2 CD -- €22
2010 New European Recordings, BAD VCCD54
Death In June -- "The Rule of Thirds" -- CD -- €17
2008 New European Recordings, BAD VC CD 51
The first new Death In June studio album in more than three years. The CD edition is presented in an embossed softpak with 16 page lyric book. The embossed whiphand looks like the birds on AA and this is where the music continues. Minimalistic and pure, nearly no other instruments then the guitar and the voice of Douglas P. A break with what you know from "Symbols" or albums like "TCAC" and "OH". You will love the artistic pictures in the artwork. Recommended! [Tesco]
Death In June & Rice, Boyd -- "Alarm Agents" -- CD -- €17
New European Recordings, NER BAD VCCD48
Alarm Agents; the multi-headed Beast of Obsessions meets the Wolfshook of your Desires. Realist? Alarmist?? You must have this! Alarm Agents; from Berlin to Jerusalem ring the bells. A new album from Death In June and Boyd Rice. A marriage made in Hell. [label info]
Deathroes -- "Hate Fuck" -- CD -- €10
2007 PACrec, PACrec132 / Troniks, TRO-265, (ltd. 1000)
Deathroes is Gerritt and Sixes. Debut release from this Oakland Black Noise super group. Equal parts harsh and black, filled with spite. [label info]
Defektro -- "Collapse of the Unseen Wall" -- 3"CD-R -- €11
2008 Linija Shuma, Shum 0007, (ltd. 54)
Japanese project performing it's music on metal constructions. Neatly structured compositions combining elements of atmospheric ambient and harsh ferro-noise, providing the feeling of almost physical contact with a crystalline molecular grid. Packed in a silver cardboard sleeve with a polished metal insert under the disk. Recommended to the lovers of a Canadian artist Alan Bloor (Pholde, Knurl).
Deison -- "Dirty Blind Vortex" -- CD -- €10
2000 Crionic Mind, CM006, (ltd. 500)
A fuming miasma of desiccated frequencies and oppressive atmospheres from this Italian purveyor of Death Industrial & Dark Ambient. "Dirty Blind Vortex" is a cryptic snarl of emotion and obsession, impulse and lethargy. Features contributions from SSHE RETINA STIMULANTS, GOVT. ALPHA, BAAL, R.H.Y. YAU, LASSE MARHAUG and more. [label info]
Deison -- "Night Sessions" -- CD -- €10
2011 Silentes Minimal Editions, sme 1149
A collection of fascinating and obscure nocturnal sessions alternating "classical" electronic inspiration parts based on sequencers and synthetizers to more abstract and minimal sonic episodes, deep drones, musical mix ups, distorted and extended guitars, deformed human voices, static and moving more typical "ambiental" movements, cold insets of more pulsing and "techno oriented" sounds, suggestive atmospheres build on bizzare loops, more typically "glitch" inserts and hisses... a great collection of collaborations with Teho Teardo, Philippe Petit, Under the Snow, Jim Coleman, Franck Vigroux, Testing Vault, Annen Berg. [label info]
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Deison & K.K. Null -- "Into" -- CD -- €10
2009 Silentes Minimal Editions, sme 0931
Penetrating 'Hi-tech' music, always on the border between sound, silence and noise: Splinters of sonic fragments, buzzings, electronic hisses, pulsations, hypnotic loops, ambient textures, sudden rays of light: A kaleidoscope of syntethic sounds and digital glitches, in a universe dominated by binary codes, that evolves through the cold-hearted control of sophisticated algorhythmic mutations programmed by human entities that already reached a level beyond the borders of our earthly knowledge: [label info]
Delphium "Heart Full of Soul" / The Infant Cycle & Ramunas Yaras "Translation" -- 2x3"CD-R -- €9
2006 Diophantine Discs, n = 5,6, (ltd. 100)
"Heart Full of Soul," nearly 23 minutes, is one of Delphium's darkest and noisiest recordings to date. The very direct and engaging work features tracks ranging from droning dark ambient to distorted and expressive rhythmic beats. "Translation" is a 20-minute release consisting primarily of The Infant Cycle processing and supplementing avantgarde clarinet recordings by Ramunas Yaras. The resulting experimental (and somewhat rhythmic) pieces fall variously within the spectrum between ambient drone and noise. This release is presented as a pro-printed 2x3"CDr set, packaged in a special color folder sleeve, and limited to 100 copies. Delphium has been active since 1993, releasing numerous vinyl and CD releases on labels such as Drone, Moloko+, Hibou, and his own Aquese label. The Infant Cycle, active since 1992, has many releases on labels such as EE Tapes, Blade, Hands, and his own label, The Ceiling. Ramunas Yaras is a Lithuanian experimental composer and writer who is also known for his work in Endiche Vis.Sat and Magic Carpathians Project. [label info]
Delplanque, Mathias -- "Ma Chambre Quand Je N'Y Suis Pas (Montreal)" -- CD -- €10
2006 Mondes Elliptiques, .E.Q.05.02, (ltd. 500)
This is the stereo version of a sound installation presented at Montreal's Studio Cormier in December 2004. It is the second part of the "Ma chambre quand je n'y suis pas" series. The piece is based on the recording of 'silences', i.e. the recording of sound produced in spaces with no human presence. The sound of an 'empty' Studio Cormier was therefore used as the material for the production of this piece. The sound takes were done during the quietest moments of the day, by means of microphones placed strategically throughout the Studio by the artist. The sounds gathered were then amplified, and their frequencies, accentuated to the extreme. In the installation itself, the sound was broadcast in multi channel mode over 11 loudspeakers, including a subwoofer, in four Studio Cormier spaces ('Hall', 'Living room', 'Bedroom', 'Lab'). This installation closed Mathias Delplanque's Montreal residency at Studio Cormier from July to December 2004, as part of Les Inclassables program, proposed by the Association francaise d'action artistique (AFAA), in partnership with the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec (CALQ) and the Office franco-quebecois pour la jeunesse (OFQJ)... The result of the experiment, as presented on this record, constitutes a genuine drone odyssey playing on fullness and emptiness, presence and absence, "speak" and "non-speak"... One long track full of subtle movement and enlivened with various underlying currents. A sheer delight... Mathias Delplanque is known, among others, for his releases under the LENA moniker on the Quartermass label. As THE MISSING ENSEMBLE, Mathias Delplanque, John Sellekaers and Daniel De Los Santos recorded the HIDDEN DOORS cd, released on MONDES ELLIPTIQUES (.E.Q.05.01.). [press-release]
Deltidseskapism -- "Dunklets Hogtid" -- CD -- €11
2003 U-Cover 40, u-cover 40/02, (ltd. 500)
U-cover 40 proudly presents it's second relase coming from Deltidseskapism aka Bauri aka Martin Abrahamsson (Stokholm, Sweden), known for his releases on fine electronic labels such as Neo Ouija, Awkward Silence, Pitchcadet and on compilations for City Centre Offices, Benbecula, Surgery, Merck, Mille Plateaux and Mitek. On this album Abrahamsson presents six tracks of his irresistable blend of clicks'n'cuts inspired rhythms mixed with beautiful melodies and founded sounds resulting exactly in 40 minutes of music. -special cardboard packaging. [press-release]
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Demimonde -- "Mutant Star" -- CD -- €10
2000 Epidemie Records, EPR 042
Dense Vision Shrine -- "A Voyage of Imagination" -- CD -- €10
2006 Epidemie Records, EPR 052, (ltd. 500)
Norwegian Karsten Hamre's (Penitent, Veiled Allusions) project Dense Vision Shrine second long play volume entitled "A Voyage of Imagination" includes only one, sixty two minutes long, enigmatical composition. Be prepared for the deep, gloomy neoclassical dark ambient, opening passages of other, distant dimensions. [label info]
Dense Vision Shrine -- "Unwinding The Inside" -- CD -- €10
2007 Rape Art Productions, RAP#028, (ltd. 500)
DVS is a dark ambient side project from Norweigan artist Karsten Hamre aka Penitent. Material dense produced under an orchestral ambient mixtured with pure and deep sounds in 3 amazing conceptual tracks. If you like acts as Lustmord, Archon Satani, MZ412, Inade, Cold Meat Industry, Cold Spring, War Office Propaganda titles I recommend you it. Black & white art works. Comes packaged in PVC sleeve. [label info]
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Dent, Loren -- "Anthropology Vol. 1" -- CD -- €10
2009 Infraction, INFX034, (ltd. 900)
Depressive Disorder -- "The Chronicle Of Fear" -- CD -- €10
2009 Monopolrecords, 011, (ltd. 200)
After the seven years of existence and four years after the release of their last studio album In Depth comes up the Czech electro-formation Depressive Disorder with a new album "The Chronicle Of Fear". The album, composed of the raw electronics, solid guitars, leads up to the dark, almost ambient atmosphere, accompanied by typical vocals. The Chronicle of Fear brings it all in the eleven album tracks. [label info]
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Depressive Disorder -- "In Depth" -- CD -- €10
2006 Monopolrecords, 007, (ltd. 500)
Indeed, Czech Republic's most famous EBM/Electro act couldn't find any better name to describe their musically evolution since their debut "Ultima Ratio". This is an 'in depth' piece of quality Electro/Industrial music, pressed on a silver circle and hidden in a well designed digi-pack. Also the Czech label Monopolrecords marks with this new output their return after having released not lesser than six releases in 2005. DEPRESSIVE DISORDER did grow and could win a lot of more musically maturity. While the charismatic vocals provided by Patrik Lev still offers all paths between emotional and melodious up to raging and screaming, the music and so the synth play has reached a not expected complexity. Same I can say about the rhythm programming. This is not that stupid 4/4-on-the-floor beat, almost all tracks show some diversity on that term, but still featuring a tough slap-in-your-face attitude. DEPRESSIVE DISORDER play a fine and well worked out of Dark Electro with thick and ominous synth layers and a unique kind generally. They also now included some guitar riffs added into some tracks like 'Abyss', 'Underneath', 'TV-Freak' and 'Blind' - only to strengthen some arrangements and - of course - not to satisfy some Metal headbangers. 'Abyss' and 'Blind' get my vote for bringing on the most addictive melodious content, both can be named as favorites of an overall amazing release. This release is one of the huge amount which needs to get heard without doubt by the masses of the genre. You'll get also a video clip of the track 'TV-Freak' which surely doesn't fit with the tastes of the VIVA/MTV (de-)generation. Go out and purchase this masterpiece!!! [Marc Tater, Chain D.L.K.]
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Depressive Disorder -- "Ultima Ratio" -- CD -- €10
2005 Monopolrecords, 004, (ltd. 500)
Patrik Lev (Disorder) stood at the beginning of a project which was created in 2002. Radim Cap (Stork) joined him during the time when he was working on the first CD. At the same time Stork worked on his project called Mastermind. Depressive Disorder made two demo CD "Near to death" and "Another step to death" in 2002. In winter of 2003 Depressive Disorder started to make concerts and work on a new CD "Ultima Ratio", which comes to shops thanks to a company Monopolrecords in these days. Patrik, Tom Galle and Matin Pavlik Atreid (Beamship) simultaneously work on a audio-visual project called H.E.E.L. Radim goes on his own project Mastermind. "Ultima Ratio" was finished in summer 2004. [label info]
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Der Arbeiter -- "Holzwege" -- CD -- €12
2010 Ur Muzik, UR 003, (ltd. 500)
Der Blutharsch -- "s/t" -- CD -- €14
2001/2007 WKN, WKN14
The first ever Der Blutharsch album originally released as a limited-edition picture LP is now finally available on CD. A classic album of dark, military-driven, industrial music within a neo-classical atmosphere. [Tesco]
Der Blutharsch -- "Flying High!" -- CD -- €15
2009 WKN, WKN34
"Flying High!" with this psychedellic combat cry one of the most excentric and innovative projects from Austria / Vienna is returning. On their ninth studio album Der Blutharsch continues travelling in the direction they took back in 2005, when the former guru of martial industrial/military pop, Albin Julius, and his band, rocketed towards the deep space of psychedelia. One of the most controversial bands of the last decade staked its claim anew, totally breaking with old images, cliches and tunes. Starting already on the last album The Philosopher's Stone the turning to the walls of guitars and repetitive chants was already to recognize. Flying High turns this to a programmatic climax. If you start thinking on Sunn O))), Guru Guru, Amon Düül, Tangerine Dream or Godspeed You! Black Emperor you are not to far away, but still inherent is the big part of apocalyptic feeling which you are already used to. Highly influenced by the amercican West Coast Sound of the late sixties with a small dosis of that what some people use to call Krautrock. The tracks are slightly developing into eachother, ambient parts followed by ecstatic deathrock songs and then they glide into a wall of sound. The guestparts on the vocal side is full of well know artists: besides Bain Wolfkind and Albin Julius or Gianni Serusi, you discover 1980s legend Patrick Leagas who himself celebrates the title song in his typical distinctive manner. Flying High is a dark record, it mixes eros and deathwish, productivity with desctructivity. Since the release of, "When Did Wonderland End?", Der Blutharsch have mutated into a psychedelic rock monster; their motto, "into new territories!", symbolic for this mutation, a battle fought not by marching but by flying, 'Flying high!'. Flying high! is a weird trip for blown minds through the dark worlds of today's society, passing love, hate and lust during its journey into the center of the sun! The CD comes in a stunning foilblocked, painted with glowing in the dark ink, digipack, covered up in a need designed folder. [press-release]
Der Blutharsch -- "Live in Leiden" -- CD -- €14
2010 WKN, WKN 37
Live in Leiden by Der Blutharsch is the 3rd album in a series of live recordings - after "Live at The Monastery" and "Live in Copenhagen". Live in Leiden was recorded at "The Night of Confusion" held September 28th 2oo4 at legendary venue LVC (where already artists like Nico performed) and was the "most cntroversial" concert in the 40 years history of this venue. Nevertheless, this night was a huge success and this recording is a document of this night. At the same time it is the last live recording of the "old" Blutharsch - a small reminder about what Der Blutharsch was dreaded for before they morphed into "era two" and turned into a dark psychedelic kraut monster. This is a great live document of a concert of the thee band who invented "martial industrial" as well as "military pop" - a MUST of all die hard fans of this genre as well as for people who want to know why this band once has been considered "dangerous". The CD comes in a foilblocked digipak. [press-release]
Der Blutharsch -- "The Moment Of Truth" -- CD + mCD -- €14
1998/2004 WKN, WKN22
Re-release of the long soldout 10", mCD material on one CD and with the track of the ultra rare 7" "Thank you!". Comes in nice 6 panel digipak.
Der Blutharsch -- "The Pleasures Received In Pain" -- CD -- €14
1999/2000 WKN, WKN8
Another milestone in neoclassical industrial music, this is the third Blutharsch album originally released in 1999. Comes in an Digifile cover.
Der Blutharsch -- "When All Else Fails!" -- CD -- €14
2001 WKN, WKN15
Der Blutharsch -- "When Did Wonderland End?" -- CD + DVD -- €17
2005 WKN, WKN25
Finally, the all new album strike by Albin Julius (vocals, drums, percussion, harp, harmonium, piano, synth and programming), Marthynna (vocals, percussion, drums, tambourine), Bain Wolfkind (vocals, guitar, snare drum), and Jorg B. (guitar, bass guitar), aided by Paola Andrea Riascos of Terroritmo (vocals), Christine K. of Graumahd (clarinet), Matt Howden of Sieben / Sol Invictus, (violin), Alessio B. of Varunna (cello), Didi Bruckmeyer of Fuckhead (vocals), and Douglas P. (lyrics) is on its way. With the deluxe foil-blocked package comes a limited DVD with a clip for the track: "So Bring Your Iron Rain Down Upon Me." [label info]
Der Blutharsch & Deutsch Nepal -- "Apocalyptic Climax 2" -- CD -- €12
1999/2011 WKN / Eternal Pride Productions, WKN05
In 1999 "Apocalyptic Climax 2" was the result of mutual collaboration of the leading martial\industrial\ambient formations Der Blutharsch É Deutsch Nepal. The state of despair and hopelessness is the main leitmotif of this music. Death floating in the uncertainty, death as the basic obsession standing behind all your thoughts and feelings-the monotonous and cold language and fixed scenes. Albin Sunlight Julius & Lina Baby Doll stand here for the chroniclers of Europe , its dramatic historical way which gave rise to the bloody outbreaks & mystical spiritual revelations-war as the phenomenon of the human nature which is constantly testing itself for strength. Apocalyptic despair is the leitmotif of the whole album which was released as limited edition 10'' in 1999, and which is still available on CD as release WKN5 in the format of Digi CD by the exclusive distribution of Eternal Pride Productions. [press-release]
Der Blutharsch And The Infinite Church Of The Leading Hand -- "The Story About The Digging Of The Hole And The Hearing Of The Sounds From Hell" -- CD -- euro;15
2011 WKN, WKN 40
Der Blutharsch And The Infinite Church Of The Leading Hand + Aluk Todolo -- "s/t" -- CD -- euro;14
2011 WKN, WKN 41
Derniere Volonte -- "Obeir Et Mourir" -- 2 CD -- €30
Nuit Et Broulliard, NB.CD.06
Re-issue of the mythical double tape-boxset released by La Nouvelle Alliance in 1998 in a limited and numbered edition of 120 copies (L.N.A. 01). Only 90 were finally edited that time. All original material was entirely remastered and seven unreleased tracks from the same recording sessions were added for a tolal length of about 140 mns/28 tracks. Unlike to the recent releases of this French one-man project "Obéir et Mourir" includes neither any singing nor pop-influences. The sound here is a great blending of dark ambient soundscapes, militaristic percussion samples and tape-voices taken from World War II' documentaries. Powerful anthems march in front of melodic tracks and oppressive atmospheres reflecting perfectly the climate of the 30's and of the 40's made of fury, pain and tears: "Obéir et mourir" is nothing but an audio and visual illustration of these dark days... The two CDs come in cardboard cover with a 14 postcard-set, housed in a deluxe dark green boxset with embossed front-picture and bronze printings. [press-release]
Derrame Sanguineo / Sektor 304 -- split -- CD-R + zine -- €8
2011 Latrina do Chifrudo, LC CD006, (ltd. 50)
Old and new. Derrame Sanguineo was a project of Gustavo Costa, infamous drummer of multiple projects like Motornoise, Most People Have Been Trained To Be Bored or Lost Gorbachves and Iur, a visionary (or mad man) devoted to Industrial music. The tracks presented here are the only recordings ever made from this project and are a good example of the Industrial music production in Portugal during the late 90's and early 2000's. Industrial music from the turn of the century, delivering harsh vocals, powerfull lyrics and programmed beats fuelled by hatred! The second part of this release belongs to Sektor 304, a rather new force that delivers 3 unreleased tracks from their early beginings, including the only recorded track from Intonarumori, Sektor's prior identity that had in its line up legendary names such as Tshueda from Hospital Psiquiatrico and J.A. from Wolfskin, now remixed to fit the sound of Sektor 304. Junk metal abuse and tribal drum loops. The whole package comes with a 20 page booklet with artwork by A. Coelho and screenprinted covers by Oficina Arara. [press-release]
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Des Esseintes -- "Les Diaboliques" -- CD -- €10
2005 Malignant Records, TUMOR CD23
If Magnus Sundstrom's more well known project The Protagonist is DrJekyll, then his side project, des Esseintes can certainly be seen as a MrHyde... a more sinister alter ego, bent on destructive behavior, representing a liberation of the dark side and a more primitive being, that once freed from the bonds of conscience, becomes harder and harder toc ontrol. And thus, we have des Esseintes. Based on a collection of short stories by Jean-Barbey d'Aurevilly, Les Diaboliques is the first full length album for des Esseintes, and it's truly a masterwork. The result is an existentialistic inferno of various musical trash and harsh rhythms, with clanging, mechanized percussion barely cushioned by a menacing ambience of cinematically styled electronics igniting the background. These are dark regions explored on the six tracks here, populated by stomping behemoths that threaten to crush with every step, and shards of visceral, dynamic textures that slice across the proverbial sonic landscape. And while Magnus' work has certainly garnered recognition, Les Diaboliques may just solidify him in the lexicon of the industrial public, or take him to a whole new level. Greatly appealing to not only fans of old school greats such as SPK and Test Dept, but to thosefans of CMI and even some Hands material. [press-release]
Des Esseintes -- "Mondo Macabro" -- CD -- €10
2006 Malignant Records, TUMOR CD27
A classic example of what's old is new! With Mondo Macabro, we've conveniently compiled all of your favorite des Esseintes vinyl releases since 2000, remastered them, boosted them to eye popping levels, and if that weren't enough, added 3 bonus, unreleased tracks to top it off! 12 tracks in total, spanning the Muse (2000) and On/Off (2002) 7's, the split LP with Magmax (2001), and the split 10' (2001) with Negru Voda. A great history lesson in the short existence of des Esseintes, each track on each subsequent release just seems to up the ante, with one track more crushing than the next:. a steady, doom filled procession of post-apocalyptic, tribal percussion, deadening, jackhammer rhythms, and dramatic, suspense filled atmospheres. When Armageddon hits, rest assured, you'll have your soundtrack. Mandatory!! [press-release]
Des Esseintes / Diskrepant -- "Folie À Deux" -- CD EP -- €7
2003 Fin de Siècle Media, (ltd. 500)
Two of Sweden's finest get together to release an unholy blend of rhythmic soundscapes and minimalistic noise. A touch of classic industrial drones with a tint of musique concrete. A perfect description of contemporary electronic music. [label info]
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Desaccord Majeur -- "La Couleur Odorante" -- CD-R -- €9
1998/2006 Kokeshidisk, kodi 6, (ltd. 100)
Reissue of the tape released in 1998 on our previous label Harmonie, "La Couleur Odorante" gathers eight tracks previously released on various international compilations from 1990 to 1995, showing the evolution of Désaccord Majeur music & sounds with more and more ethnic influences while keeping a melodic and evolutive structure. This reissue includes two previously unreleaseds track from 1989 (one of the first Désaccord Majeur tracks, very ambient) and 1993 (more in the ethno-ambient sounds he's known for). [press-release]
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Desiderii Marginis -- "Deadbeat" -- CD -- €14
2001 Cold Meat Industry, CMI.86
Mjölby: hick town, epicentre of Swedish counter-culture, a power-plant transmitting anti-art currents over the national grid. Home of the legendary deathseekers Brighter Death Now, of the infamous scatologist Raison d'Etre, and not least of the decadence afficionado Desiderii Marginis. 'Deadbeat' is Desiderii Marginis' magnum opus, a bewitching tale from a midwintery Sweden veiled in darkness, firmly maintaining their ranking among the upper crust of the Mjölby avantgarde. Listening to Desiderii Marginis is like travelling in time, back to the days when you first discovered CMI and instantly became enchanted. By watching and learning from old mages like Raison d'etre and Morthound, Johan Levin has aggregated different styles, but eventually the music is still distinguished by his highly personal touch. Close your eyes, and find yourself moved to desolate windswept forests - where mist lingers around leafless branches, moonbeams just barely break through, and distant howls both entice and frighten. These are emotions so familiar and so novel at the same time, evoked by classic CMI material that both looks back and points forward. [label info]
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Desiderii Marginis -- "The Ever Green Tree" -- CD -- €14
2007 Kaosthetik Konspiration, KSTK 005, (ltd. 1000)
In the pure vein of his previous realization, Dark ambiant industrial with very personal feelings and innovations. "The Ever Green Tree" is a concept album based on eternal youth, eternal values, fame and immortality. 'The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.' - A.N.Whitehead (1861 - 1947). Comes in a textured digifile, first eddition limited to 1000 copies. [label info]
Desiderii Marginis -- "Seven Sorrows" -- CD -- €14
2007 Cold Meat Industry, cmi173, (ltd. 2000)
Seven Sorrows is the sixth album by the renowned swedish dark-ambient project Desiderii Marginis, and a most eagerly awaited follower to the highly acclaimed album of 2005, That Which Is Tragic And Timeless. With the material on Seven Sorrows Johan Levin, the mind behind Desiderii Marginis, has dug deeper than ever before within the creative depths and so ventures even further into the darklands of dispair and solitude, deeper into the vibrant shadows of the human mind. Since the very debute in 1993, Desiderii Marginis has, with every new offering, refined and reinvented the trademark sound, and this release is no exception to the rule. Strummed guitars and dulcimers blend seamlessly with soaring strings, raging drones, the sound of twisted metal and spoken word. Diverse sources, yet tamed to an intriguing and alluring whole that slowly spin it's web around the helpless listener and drags them into the vortex of dreamlike darkness. First 2000 copies in a 6-panel digipak, artwork photos taken by the exceptional photographer Birthe Klementowski. [press-release]
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Desiderii Marginis -- "Songs over Ruins" -- CD -- €16
1997/2001 Cold Meat Industry, CMI.56, 2nd ed.
The tune of a little bell overlaid by strange voices seemingly far away. Melodic atmospheric ambient sounds, one piece with straight rythms, the other very slow and quiet like musical description of a tree without its leaves, haveing cold and waiting for spring that never comes... [label info]
Desiderii Marginis -- "Strife" -- CD -- €14
2004 Cold Meat Industry, cmi131
'Strife' is, as the name implies, a sort of reflection over the rather pityful human desire to engage in all kinds of conflict. Everywhere and always. There is admittedly a healthy aspect of conflict or competition - the clash of ideas, ideologies, opinions and the like. But often strife takes the form of mere pointless destruction for no purpose. That particular lack of meaning is what this album is all about. 'War is a continuation of politics' von Clausewitz wrote in the 1830's. But if there's no political visions to realize, no higher goal to pursue, no new beginning, no rebirth, then what? Guns go silent only to discover that nothing has really been accomplished. Old structures of injustice remain, recent conflicts are added to old ones. Does this sound depressing? I think it is. The music on this album is not intended to sound like the blazing guns of a world at war. It is what it is simply because these kind of thoughts went through my head as the music was made. I have had no ambition to address any particular issue, I'm definitely not trying to promote, or badmouth, any political or ideological points of view. Politics are firmly rooted in the present. Strife itself is eternal. The music is, as always, a strictly personal way to deal with and express the ever present madness of man. Nothing changes, everything is new... [label info]
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Desiderii Marginis -- "Years Lend a Golden Charm" -- CD -- €10
2009 Eternal Pride Productions, EPP 016
To gain a deeper understanding of what is, it is necessary to examine what was - to go to the sources and the origins. With the emergence of this brand new offering by Desiderii Marginis, 'Years Lend a Golden Charm' we are invited to experience the very birth of what is now a well established and worldwide recognised project within the dark-ambient industrial scene. The contents of the new album is made up of some 73 minutes of material from the first three tapereleases from 1993. Highly sought after by collectors but only available in a mere dozen of handmade copies, these songs are now finally made available to a greater audience. When you listen to the music with the knowledge that hindsight brings - it is obvious that these are the roots and the foundations, not only of the first full length album 'Songs Over Ruins', but of every succesive release up to the latest 'Seven Sorrows'. In 1993 there was no set course, no long term plan - and still, maybe it couldn't have turned out any other way? [press-release]
Detritivore -- "Pakt" -- CD -- €10
2010 Lyderhorn Records, LR-009, (ltd. 1000)
Alternating between light and heavy, while being simultaneously beautiful and ugly, the Norwegian duo Detritivore manages to mix these elements on their debut album, Pakt. Essentially a concept album depicting disillusionment with religion and subsequent descent into darkness, the album is a harrowing experience of not quite Drone, not quite Noise, and not quite Doom Metal, but a true amalgamation of the three. Pakt is produced by Joakim Jensen, mastered by James Plotkin, and features mesmerizing illustrations by Justin Bartlett. [label info]
Deutsch Nepal -- "Amygdala" -- CD -- €14
2011 Autarkeia, acd 066
Deutsch Nepal -- "Comprendido!... Time Stop!" -- CD -- €14
1997 Cold Meat Industry, CMI.49
For more than six years this project haunted the world with deformed soundscapes and harsh noises. Within the school of industrialism, Deutsch Nepal manage to combine psychedelia with dark atmospheric ambience. The earlier releases has been filled with dark mourning sounds with ritualistic drumming that now burst out into aggression. Gone is the ethnic influence and you will meet a new form of electronic treatment and distorted voices earlier not used in the Deutsch Nepal sound-image. [press-release]
Deutsch Nepal -- "Deflagration Of Hell" -- CD -- €11
1991/2003 Cold Meat Industry, cmi127
Deutsch Nepal -- "Erosion" -- CD -- €10
1999/2009 Autarkeia, ACD 035
This probably the most depressing Deutsch Nepal album, earlier released as a limited edition by Staalplaat company, now has again become available to a wide audience. Genial project author Der General has made a remark sometime ago that during the recording of Erosion there persisted the feeling that this is the last work of Deutsch Nepal after which nothing will remain... perhaps only death. This almost came true as Deutsch Nepal went silent after the recording for nearly 10 years. Now the masterpiece of melancholy clad in an elegant digipack (the design was made by the author himself) and with an enhanced sound triumphantly opens the golden worlds to the audience again. The worlds where breathing becomes harder each moment and where you feel only a small useless toy. [press-release]
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Deutsch Nepal -- "Live in Saint-Petersburg 26.12.06" -- CD -- €15
2011 Aquarellist, aquarel plan b 01-11, (ltd. 150)
Live performance Deutsch Nepal in club Orlandina, Saint-Petersburg, Russia on December, 26th 2006. 150 copies in cardboard sleeve. Mastered by Uak-Kib.
Deutsch Nepal -- "A Silent Siege" -- CD -- €14
2002 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 045
The final part of "Silent" trilogy published by Old Europa Cafe. Great example of old school industrial! The album has been collected over 10 years and is spiritually close to Lina Baby Doll's live shows - alcohol-fueled, sometimes rhythmical, song-oriented, dark, chaotic and kinky.
Deutsch Nepal -- "Tolerance" -- CD -- €10
1994/2009 Autarkeia, ACD 037
The genial album Tolerance is one more golden deja vu of the industrial culture, released by Staalplaat label long ago, sold out and desperately sought and hunted in auctions by collectors. The new release of the cult album enjoys the enhanced sound and the new package design from the author Lina Baby Doll. And this time it does not come out in limited edition like its predecessor. The new generations can get it without limitations. Those who do not know Lina Baby Doll's masterpieces, should be informed that Tolerance is an artefact of the early stage of project's Deutsch Nepal music. The period is characterised by ritual tribal rhythms, mesmerising loops and indeed suggestive psychedelic atmosphere. [press-release]
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Die Form -- "Bach Project" -- CD -- €18
2008 Matrix Cube / [Trisol] Music Group GmbH, TRI 338 CD
Die Form -- "Exhuman" -- CD + DVD -- €15
2006 Trisol, TRI 280 CD
Whatever you may call their artistic accomplishment - be it Dark Electro, Neo Classic or Avant-garde - DIE FORM play in a league of their own. Having been pioneers of dark electronic music for 25 years they are still one step ahead of anyone else. "ExHuman" manages to captivate us by a raw, almost tangible directness that can be felt especially in songs such as "Neo Futura RMX" where impelling dance beats sound like whippings, or "Chaos Theory" which is very likely to become (thanks to its post-industrial rhythms) the band's new club hit along with "Nox ExHumana RMX". However, "ExHuman" is not only meant to be a club album but holds a variety of other styles: songs with soundtrack-like elegance and profoundness such as "Pendulum/Dismember" take turns with Dark Ambient sounds as represented in "Electroid" and "New Erotica". "ExHuman" is spheric, sombre, complex and -as usual- very innovative. The isolation of the creational process, nightshifts, the bleak, cold and sterile atmosphere, in short, all the familiar yet strange elements which are so typical for DIE FORM do also unfold on this album. DVD incl. video clips by Philippe Fichot. [label info]
Dieter Müh -- "Cari Saluti" -- CD -- €10
2000/2002 Functional Organisation, Functional 014
Voices, loops, field recordings of airport terminals, travelogues, and electro-acoustics are layered into a mix of low- and hi-fi, analog and digital, novelty, special effects, and humor, juxtaposed with hallucinatory journeys into darkness. [label info]
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Different State -- "Knar" -- CD -- €10
1996/2008 Zoharum, ZOHAR 004-2
Zoharum Collektiv presents - Album of legendary polish industrial band Different State - 'Knar'. For the first time on CD!!! Legendary album in remastered version, including two rare tracks, edition in new layout 'Knar' is one of the most important releases in history of Different State. Many polish musician journalists announced 'Knar' as the album of the Year 1996. We recommend this release to elder fans of this group and to all of you who love unconventional type of sounds... [label info]
Different State -- "More Than Music" -- CD-R -- €9
2005 Requiem Records, 23/2005
This is the latest album of Poles from the U.S. very personal with sentimental spleen. Narcotic trance, sonic magic full of references to explosive mixture of trip hop, new wave, illbient and postindustrial. A steamroller of heavy rythm and strong base - fusion of new sounds with experimental acoustics. [label info]
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Different State -- "Through The Falling Eyelid" -- CD -- €10
2010 Zoharum, ZOHAR 009-2
THROUGH THE FALLING EYELID is the newest full length of the Polish combo which now is composed by Marek Xavier Marchoff (tools, alchembient structures), Laura Marchoff (angelic voice), Jarek Szczyglak (guitar) and Keith Rudolf. Just like their tracks on "Spazmatic[k] Spell", the ten you find on this one present a wide array of atmospheres and sounds that span from the industrial ambient electronic atmospheres of the opening "Isolate: stone cold heart", to the retro electro industrial sounds of the closing "Manifest: through the falling eyelid", passing through the cinematic samples orchestration of "Project: verses without words" or the i.d.m./industrial experimentation of "Challenge: formal experimentation", the jazz/industrial improvisations of following "Damage: bleed from their souls" or the slow dub electronic industrial atmospheres of ""Signal: I'm out". Here and there you'll find light guitar solos or vocals that shyly contrast the paranoid atmosphere created. An album that needs time to be fully appreciated because sometimes it sounds fragmented but if you are in the mood for industrial experimental sounds, give it a try. [Chain D.L.K.]
Different State -- "Yield" -- CD -- €10
2011 Zoharum, ZOHAR 015-2 / Wyrm Records, WYRM 003-2
Zoharum & Wyrm Records present the newest album of Different State 'Yield (Capicity of production)'. Release contains remastered versions of pieces which were published on the tape Yield in 1995 for the first time by I&E SPM and 2 bonus tracks from the Cardinal Mosaic. 15 years ago when this material appeared on our stage someone said: Americans have Ministry, Britons have Goldflesh and Poles have Different State. It's the best what we can tell about this CD. These words say everything about the climate of this material. Yield is the most metal from all industrial, or the most industrial from metal productions of Different State. We will not have to convince the old fans but those who haven't heard this CD yet but they like projects like J. Broadrick & co. will be delighted. Released in elegant, 'mint' 3-panel digipack. [press-release]
Different State / Sigil -- "Spazmatic[k] Spell" -- CD -- €10
2008 Zoharum, ZOHAR 002-2
This album, dedicated to A.O. Spare include 60 minutes of pure magic[k]al sounds conceived by two projec[k]ts: Different State and Sigill. Each of them represents a slightly different approach, although they are both connected by mystic[k]al, alc[k]emical, ritual character. Marchoff (Different State) describes his music as alchembient. This sums his work up perfectly. It's a mix of illbient a bit in the vein of Coil or Psychic TV, a great deal of alchemical incantations and moans, there's a lot of elements so characteristic for Different State. In conciving the following material, Marchoff was aided by Laura Marchoff (angelic[k] voice, custom made generator A-23), Tom Westbum (clarinet, sax, alto sax, trumpet) and Janusz Sokolnicki (tube AMP, lead guitar). Sigill is a project consisting of brat salo and Nantur-a duo creating electronic lunar spaces and astral soundscapes using samples and ancient instruments. The material was conceived during winter solstice 2006. The disc is packaged in a deluxe 3-panel digipak. [press-release]
Dilloway, Aaron -- "Bad Dreams" -- CD -- €10
2004/2005 PACrec, PACrec115 / Troniks, TRO-173, (ltd. 1000)
Dilloway's got a grave problem! Tense ghost clatter and haunted Michigan sputter collapse helplessly into fever, exhaustion, depression. This is home-taping of unconscious dread and hopeless shudder. Originally released in a small edition on his own Hanson Records, Bad Dreams return for the Wolf Eyes / ex-Violent Ramp / Galen / Couch member. When Aaron wakes up, he'll wish he were dead... Blank 8 track tapes, metal scraping and looping, and tape players mic'd on the inside... [press-release]
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Dilloway, Aaron -- "Boggs Vol. Two" -- CD -- €10
2005 Hanson Records, HN 112
Boggs Volume 2 is a collection of two long out of print CDR's from Wolf Eyes member, Aaron Dilloway. This new release contains, in their original entirety, the "Seizure" CDR released by Hanson and the "Appalling & Alive" 3" CDR released by Chondritic Sound. [label info]
Dim Arcana -- "Vox Populi" -- CD -- €10
2011 Black Drone, bdrl010
Dim Arcana was born in the a.d. MMVIII, from the intent to recall ancient atmospheres of death and pestilence, dreadful environments where the man of the medieval times lived. Influenced by the greatest names of the ambient scene (like Uruk-Hai, Raison D'etre, Equimanthorn) the duo presents a medieval dark ambient with great noise and drone influences, alternating orchestral passages of ethereal rhyming. Lavish breaths of past times serve as frames, where bells of churches and ancestral instruments bring you back in medieval Europe... This debut full length album follows the EP Yersinia also released by Black Drone. CD comes in beautifully designed 6-panel digipak and includes 12-page booklet with texts and illustrations. [press-release]
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Dimuzio, Thomas -- "Sonicism" -- 2 CD -- €12
1997 RRRecords, RRR-CD-22
The name of Thomas Dimuzio may not be unfamiliar to anyone with an eye open for the more serious composing underground artists. I particular liked his LP 'Headlock' which came out years ago. Dimuzio plays around with a wide variety of sound sources, including things we would recognize as instruments, like acoustic guitar and clarinet but also a wide variety of field recordings. It blows me away totally. Great walls of sounds, slowly building to a high point, to be cut off extremely, only to be followed by soft, environmental recordings (like on disc 2, with the fourth track being rain, thunder and bees). If ever 'ambient' was something, this is it. This plays around with droning sounds and ambient alike. [Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly]
Diona & Shebuzzz -- "Time and Space" -- CD-R -- €8
2010 Still*Sleep, CDR15
A collaboration work between Russian one-girl-project Diona and Moldovian one-man-project Shebuzzz released by Still*Sleep, the label run by Exit In Grey / Five Elements Music / Sister Loolomie mastermind Sergey [S]. Slowly evolving deep spatial ambient with mysterious female voices and unconventional sparse rhythm.
Discordance -- "Supremacy" -- CD -- €10
1998 Crowd Control Activities, Crowded 06, (ltd. 500)
The first full lenght CD by this great power electronic unit from Italy. [Slaughter Productions]
Disharmony -- "Collapse" -- CD -- €10
2005 Monopolrecords, 006, (ltd. 500)
Third album of Slovak dark electro formation, that opens next stage in their imaginary efforts. New album of this Bratislava's duo is again flooded with mixture of cold surfaces, hybrid rhythms, movie moods and lived vocals. Atmospheric, industrial elements are strong part of this walk through non terrestrial parts. Beside 14 songs cd contains remix by the german modern electro project Polygon. [label info]
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Disharmony -- "Evolution" -- CD -- €10
2009 Tympanik Audio, TA029
Under-rated, yet revered with undying admiration by the already initiated, this Slovakian duo has (un)quietly scorched the underground Electro-Industrial scene for many years, releasing several continuously morphing collections of work amongst the awe of fans and music critics alike... With a plethora of remixing and album credits to their name, dISHARMONY manage to speak volumes once again with their signature brand of down-tempo, yet hard-hitting electronica-tinged dark electro works, paying never mind to any looming trends, but instead constantly evolving beyond the typical genre clones and earn their right to the throne amongst a horde of imitators... You may know dISHARMONY's critically-hailed last album 'Malignant Shields'. You may know their prolific remix collection 'Cloned: The Other Side Of Evolution'. You may know their recent collaborations with the likes of Flint Glass, Totakeke, Mnemonic, Stendeck, Fractional, Anhedonia, Zentriert ins Antlitz, and countless others. But be sure of this: you do not know 'Evolution': Yet. [press-release]
Disharmony -- "XFrames" -- CD -- €10
2006 Aliens Production, AP 14, (ltd. 550)
Lord Sauron and Ryby are standing behind this Slovak dark-electro project. Cold atmospheres, samples from the movies, hypnotic rhythms, crystal electronic and distorted vocals are the main elements of this project. Unreleased material from early era + remixes made by Gaping Chasm, Anhedonia and Flint Glass. Dark-electro-ambient. [label info]
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Diskrepant -- "33-12" -- CD -- €11
2004 Fin de Siècle Media, FDS 10
While the first outing from Diskrepant, the "Folie a Deux" split CD with des Esseintes, had Per Åhlund delving into the realms of ear-shredding noise, the new album points in another, less visceral direction. "33-12" deals with the spirituality - not to be confused with religiosity - of Man. The sparse electronics are augmented by gongs, bells and the occasional chanting, lending a feeling of a sacred Tibetan ceremony performed in a high tech studio. With "33-12" Diskrepant have made an album with a timeless, yet modern feel, that is bound to appeal to fans of the monotonous drone excursions of Mirror and Organum, as well as those with fond memories of the ritual / industrial synthesis of Zero Kama.
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Diskrepant -- "Ex Machina Libertas" -- CD -- €10
2009 Fractured Spaces Records, FS0408CD
Dark environmental ambient / Experimental. This is the fourth release for both Diskrepant and Fractured Spaces Records, and this time we're entering a dystopian vision of the future of mankind with a nightmare amalgamation of flesh and machine. Using subtle environmental field recordings Diskrepant dives into a Hadean vision of a world where people are half-natural/half-robot, a world where nature is slowly being squeezed by metal and glass. Diskrepant is Stockholm-based Per Ahlund. Previous releases on Fin de Siecle Media include the Folie a Deux EP, plus the 33-12 and Into Sleep albums. [press-release]
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Disleksick / Ego Death -- split -- CD-R -- €5
2010 Coffin Crawl Records, CCR-027, (ltd. 15)
Noisecore / Noise Punk from Canada versus wry atonal Free Jazz Noise from Greece. Sleeve + insert. [YAOP]
Disorder Of Deadeight -- "Voidkollapse / Tunnelvogel" -- CD -- €10
2006 Vaticanian Roadkill Records, VRR 03/04
Spooky rumblings from these Finnish wizards of drone. This two track, hour long excursion sounds as if it has taken the Radiophonic Workshop, Nurse With Wound, Uton, The Boredoms, Sunn, and squeezed them all through the worlds biggest delay pedal. This maybe one of the best things we have heard in a long while, and is definitly not for the faint hearted, but ultimatly is one heck of a gloriously rewarding trip. [Rough Trade]
Dissecting Table -- "Chaos Attractor (Remix 2)" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2010 R.O.N.F. Records, RNF-052
Advance for "Chaos Attractor" full length CD on R.O.N.F. Records. This Mini CDr includes an exclusive track by Dissecting Table recorded in 2009. Different stuff than which included on the "Chaos Attractor" CD being this really a remix of the full lenght material with different approach and sounds. Dissecting Table released this full work entitled "Chaos Attractor" on his own label UPD Organization but only 10 copies were pressed and quickly distributed. This Mini-CDr comes loaded with an amazing unsettling dense instrumental and full of details track of Noise / Industrial / Ambient with weird synth sounds, psychedelic detunings, paranoid futurism and metal objects by the Japanese mastermind Ichiro Tsuji. [press-release]
Dissecting Table -- "Dead Zone" -- CD -- €10
1995 UPD Organization, UPD 007
Dissecting Table -- "Human Breeding" -- CD -- €10
1997 Release Entertainment, RR 6954-2
The fourth full-length release from this highly-revered Japanese post-industrialist.
Dissecting Table -- "Hypocrisy" -- CD -- €11
2004 Mile 329, Mile 329.14
14th full-length release from Ichiro Tsuji's unique project, this time in the shape of three long instrumental tracks of synthetic noise, strong percussions and Japanese Biwa music. Closer to "Zigoku" than to "UPD II", and a great starting point for those that have missed out on past releases. [Mechanoise Labs]
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Dissecting Table -- "Into the Light" -- CD -- €10
1998 Crowd Control Activities, Crowded 05
Dissecting Table -- "Life" -- CD -- €10
1997 Release Entertainment, RR 6401-2
Dissecting Table -- "Rancid Smell" -- CD -- €13
2006 Waystyx, WR26, (ltd. 100)
Dissecting Table - is a project of Japanese musician Ichiro Tsuji, quiet prolofic nowadays. This CD contains both elements of typically Japanese fat harsh noise spiced with madly distorted vocals (roars and screams) and more soft, though more occasional, electronic fragments. The last track unexpectedly sounds in completely different style: string passages with drum beats change into sudden metal noise and back.
DiversAeon -- "Existence Exceeded" -- CD-R -- €7
2005 Toiko, TOK-06, (ltd. 50)
Industrial / Noise / Experimental. 20 minutes of high quality material from Finland. [Freak Animal]
Divinum Opus Sedare Dolorem / Frozen Ocean -- "Sensus Veris" -- CD-R -- €8
2011 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT78, (ltd. 78)
"Sensus Veris" - "feeling of spring" - split recording of two Russian electronic projects. Pensive lyrical ambient, quite melancholic, but not that dark, rather fresh like first spring wind, flickering like first leaves on birch branches, tender like first snowdrops, lively like bird clamour. Laconic piano and folk fragments in vein of late Current 93 make the album even more bright and interesting. Two-ply package of different kinds of paper and colour insert. [label info]
Divisionofdarkradioinduztrie -- "Tek..A.D..Stereo..Apocalypse.." -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Deserted Factory, DF044, (ltd. 200)
Nothing is really known about this anonymous Italian project with the only one released album consisting of three long tracks lasting for nearly 40 minutes. Stylistically it can be described as improvisational guitar ambient, but not dark ambient, rather it's a cinematic collage of slowly moving contemplative melodic themes. Limited edition of 200 hand-numbered copies. [Monochrome Vision]
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DJ GOLUBb -- "Generation Of Bastards" -- CD -- €11
2008 Tesla, nT02
Great debut CD from a promising Russian newcomer. D.J. GOLUBb isn't a DJ as it would may seems - the name just means "Destroying Justice Dove" and he writes and plays his own music, being one of the favorite live acts on the Russian dark dancefloor. Many of this album tracks such as "Reason", "Beat Of God" or "ListenTi" are already well-established club hits here and the crowd is always active when they are playing. Musically it's a mix between dark electro patterns, trancey loops and catchy poppy melodies layered into thick danceable basslines and sometimes noisy straight beats. "Generation Of Bastards" could be a good break in-between listening to more harsh and dark noisy stuff - it gives some rest to the ears with its clear sound, still keeping the power and mood of true violent distorted beatz artifacts. And, sure, it's a good chance for a brutal noise lover to involve his tender girlfriend into his favorite music :) [press-release]
DL & EK -- "XIB" -- CD-R -- €7
2001 Soulworm Editions, Worm XII, (ltd. 200)
Formerly known as Dachaulustknaben and Einsatzkommandos, these two legends of German power electronic scene in early Nineties came out with a collaborational release, entitled 'XIB'. The title stands for their deathcamp concept - XIB was the number of the women's block in one of the nazi lagers. But neither DL nor EK did approach the subject alike so many other power electronics outfits. Their attention has turned out to the victims not mutilators. Later on, they have decided to leave this imaginery as nothing original anymore. Anyway, their recordings speak for themselves alone, as only 'alte-schule' power electronics can do. Extremely raw, grinding and obscure electronic assault that crushes your bones and boils your blood, still being soundscape rather than just noise for the sake of noise. This CDR is a re-release of long sold-out one on Bastet Recordings (re-mastered version of the '92 tape). [press-release]
Dmitry Rodionov Experience -- "Learn to Keep Silence from Trees" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT50, (ltd. 106)
Guitarist Dmitriy Rodionov founded a project "Lenin & I" in 1999 in small closed Ural naukograd Snezhinsk (Chelyabinsk-70), which is built around a major scientific research institute "Academician Zababakhin's All-Russian Scientific Research Center of Technical Physics Federal Nuclear Center". Dmitry's music is complicated, masterly embodied, deeply philosophic, filled with a spirit of Nature and inhuman tranquility work on the edge of Drone, Dark Ambient and Industrial made with the help of natural and artificial sounds, noise, voices and different acoustic and electric instruments. The album is expanded with 2 video clips - a kind of screen version of noise pictures interpreted to the language of visual images. Fullcolur sleeve. [press-release]
Dmitry Rodionov Experience -- "Seventeen Moments Of Winter" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Heart-Shaped Box, HSB-043, (ltd. 41)
"The work over this album took about 6 months of winter and spring 2003, mostly in Scherbakovka village in Sverdlovsk region. "Seventeen Moments Of Winter" is filled with the sense of frosty Ural winter, loneliness and warmth of village life. The main line of the album is the composition "New Year's experiments" split in 4 parts. In general, all compositions are like "dreams" seen in frosty winter nights in a Ural village. All these "dreams" are divided in several periods of waking up, marked as "Origin through". One of the tracks - "Influence of the moon" - was inspired by an exhibition of Marina Kutyavina (http://www.mariku.ru). The exhibition was called "Angels and Moons". The track "Gagarin" tells about the first space flight of the Soviet cosmonaut Y.A. Gagarin. "What has felt the man who was the first in the history of Earth to fly in space? Must be something on the edge of insanity. Total detachment from reality". "Seventeen Moments Of Winter" is a conceptual work in which the author refers to his childhood memories. "Music has the ability to take you through the time... Just like, for instance, a smell which you liked in childhood can recreate the image from your childhood, if you close your eyes". [from the author]
DN23rd -- "Nix" -- CD-R -- €8
2006 Abgurd, AB-32, (ltd. 23)
Latest album by date. Three morose tracks. Sun rising over ruins... Nothing alive, only ether carries cuts of useless liturgies. [label info]
DN23rd -- "Signals From Outside" -- CD-R -- €11
2004 Abgurd Subdivision, AB-03, (ltd. 23)
The re-release of Zhelezobeton disc of 2002. Multi-layered radionoise with signals of unknown origin.
DN23rd + Hydrogenium -- "Scorcher" -- 3"CD-R -- €3
2010 CSRC, CSB-03, (ltd. 32)
[Remix by the Moscow project Hydrogenium of a track by another Moscow project DN23rd.] Multilayered radionoise sounding a bit like (electrical) transformer drone filled with communication interceptions and slowly, systematically and inexorably corroding the last remnants of your cerebrum with somewhat detached, restrained mechanical fury. Like a disabled, uncontrollable tank set on fire with its crew trapped inside still driving amain through the bodies of already dead and still alive. [press-release]
DN23rd / I Am Nothing -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 self-released, (ltd. 23)
Static radionoise / philosophy. [label info] Two monsters of radionoise. Very powerful. Self-released by I Am Nothing. 23 copies in slim case with colour covers. [YAOP]
Doda Lingua -- "s/t" -- 3"CD-R -- €5
2011 Buh Records, BR25, (ltd. 100)
Debut of young Peruvian artist Karla Ramirez under the name of Doda Lingua. This little album contains experiments with vocal and electronic sounds from this one of the most unique vocal artists. Echoes of sound poetry, glossolalia and voice as raw material: cutting and pasting, loops, playful compositions, tribal screams and reverie-like singing. Cover art by Hector Delgado. Mini cdr limited edition of 100 numbered copies. [label info]
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Dog -- "Hx. of Violencia" -- CD-R -- €7
Smell the Stench
Industrial Noise in school of early 80-s. The roots of this music go back to early NON and Throbbing Gristle, and the fruits are comparable to Comforter and Pain Jerk. Sleeve. [YAOP]
DoMa Ensemble -- "s/t" -- CD -- €10
2011 Poli5, EPP 033-2, (ltd. 400)
A unique combination of voice, cello and saxophone as well as two musical personality with great experience in the field of classical, experimental, jazz and improvised music. This creates a diverse collage of music without borders. [label info]
Donis -- "Alexandreia" -- CD -- €10
2007 Autarkeia, acd 018, (ltd. 500)
Donatas Bielkauskas - the man having keen ear, primeval curiosity, solid musical education and exquisite taste, who has released into the world the musical project DONIS (tribute in Prussian) - expands the space of creative quests with every new album until it transgresses this single regular cultural medium - music related with the tradition of Lithuanian ethnos, which he is the expert of. This time the artist has embarked on a new challenging journey, that is, to compose music revealing the unknown spirit of antiquity. His efforts have resulted in Alexandreia album that serves as a deep, pure and dreamy manifest to the ancient times. Tranquil, transparent and persuasive ambient stream prevails in the tracks. The archaic winds of different nations tastefully add to it in some of the tracks. These include hornpipe, bagpipes, mesmerising rhythms of tabor and mystifying bells. Soft and velvety voice of vocalist Alwyda, who has created the key vein of the album, opens the idealised femininity of the antiquity and conveys emotionally-charged world vision of genius Konstantin Kavafi where the Mediterranean past and present, the East and the West, the Greeks and the barbarians meet in the catharsis of profound sadness and wisdom, where the fall of civilisation witnessed in the vanishing cultural heritage is revealed. The Greek poetry recited in an enchanting voice and the ambient melting the words with elemental force embrace the audience who do not even know the archaic language. Alexandreia album will not disappoint the lovers of Dead Can Dance, Kameras 48, Raison D'etre music, either. [press-release]
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DOR -- "Life in Russhausen" -- CD-R -- €8
2011 Ufa Muzak, UFA 42, (ltd. 120)
Power Electronics. Boundless distance of dark areas, corridors, side streets, bottomless niches. Catacombs of endless labyrinth, suppressing with monumentality of its cruelty. Everyone who is here feels horrifying despair, because this territory is not somewhere outside, it is inside of people. Those who are entrapped, beaten and humiliated. Who lives in a country where treachery and violence has become the basis, where all human rights are defied, and there's only one freedom left: survival and slave submission. The project of harsh analogue anti-music in Power Electronics style, presents its requiem suite of the basics of people's structure resulted in a formula: "Hate your neighbour as yourself". Eight tracks of manic depressive convilsions. Sick therapy session either going to cure you, or plunge deeper in the abyss of the vicious circle. To all born in the period of new distemper. Russia is an ordeal... 8 tracks, 45 minutes, 8-page cardboard booklet. [press-release]
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Doroga -- "s/t" -- CD -- €10
2010 Ikuisuus, IKU-021 / Nekorekords, Neko-02
Debut CD by a new Finnish duo. Slow ritual gongs, metals, percussions, loops and free clarinet/sax meditations, etc. Slow and intense... A study in evolving emptiness and truly a hypnotic trip. Comes in a 7" size sleeve. [labels info]
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Double Leopards -- "Savage Summer Sun" -- CD -- €10
2005 Hospital Productions, HOS-114
'Savage Summer Sun' captures two of Double Leopards' live sets from back-to-back days in March during their Spring 2005 West Coast tour. The first recording is from Il Corral in Los Angeles, and the second recording is a radio performance on KDVS in Davis, CA - one of the best live documents of the latter-day classic DL line-up: Marcia Bassett of Hototogisu, GHQ, and Purple Haze; Chris Gray of Endless Boogie, and Maya Miller & Mike Bernstein of Religious Knives. Maelstroms of distortion from the most compelling and influential drone collective to come out the American underground in the late nineties. Deep, turning, sinister industrial wrapped in existential undertow. [label info]
Douris, Francois -- "Colombe" -- CD-R -- €10
2000 Solipsism, Solipsism-29, (ltd. 100)
Drahomira Song Orchestra -- "The Return Of 120 Magicians" -- CD -- €12
2005 Waystyx, WR19, (ltd. 100)
DSO is the musical offshot of mysterious Institut Drahomira, known for its cinematographic, literary, political and criminal activity, which nevertheless comes beyond our interest. This ensemble was formed in the mid 80's, but the name wasn't mentioned anywhere until the end 90's, when some works was published by labels like Vacuum and Flesh Eating Ants Records. The overall number of albums recorded since then, is near thirty! But most of them are still unreleased and waiting for the lucky moment to see the daylight, as the official website says. They are looking for interested labels, offering their material for a prominent release. One of the first voices around, that was Moscow based label Waystyx, recently interested in analogue soundings and old-school recording techniques quite common for the 80's/90's underground scene. "The Return of 120 Magicians" is an unique, really peculiar album, which can't be compared with anything else. It could be described as mysterious combination of collage recording technique and analogue electronica, the boiling mix of avantgarde, surrealism, nostalgia and grim humour. Musicwise, the structure of tracks is dispersed between several patterns and fragments, repeated sounds that are varied in details, they are swirling around and above you, creating hypnotizing and haunting atmosphere which will overwhelm you since the very beginning. Retro aesthetics, electronic permutations of analogue sources, reviving samples and percussive stringed sounds - all these components are doing the excellent job together, so we must say this one is one of the best albums of the year. [Dmitry Vasilyev, "Independent Electronic Music"]
Drakh -- "Bethlehem" -- CD -- €13
2010 Essence Music, ESS014, (ltd. 400)
One third of the cult post-industrial Swedish legends MZ.412, one half of the amazing experimental act Beyond Sensory Experience and Nordvargr's long running loyal partner on classic endeavors - including the abyssal black ambient duo Nordvargr/Drakh. With such high caliber re'sume', we are more than honored to present the first DRAKH solo album! While mostly known for his demonic, truly Swedish guitar interventions on the MZ.412 or N/D pitch black ambiences, Bethlehem finds Jonas Aneheim walking through slow, quasi-harmonic, subtle, yet thick drone fields weaving elaborate and unexpected damaged electronic rhythms and harsh, crackling ambient textures that can become - at the same time - both delicate and haunting, warm and freezing, to finally drown in a sea of reverb, glacial riffing and distortion on his own shadowy interpretation of the city of Bethlehem. Simply perfect. Masterfully conceived and recorded on the road during his many world travels over the past years - from the US State of Indiana to Asia -, the album successfully narrates unknown angles from these places via ominous sonic vistas and pallets that truly honor the charming aura and tradition of the bleakest Swedish sounds. Presented in our custom 6-panel digisleeve packaging with stunning and desolate photography by Seldon Hunt. Not coincidentally mastered by no one else than Jouni Ollila (aka Ulvtharm, from the MZ.412 fame) at oLLiLaboratories Studios. [press-release]
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Drape Excrement / Söldnergeist -- "Black Rider" -- CD -- €10
2006 Steinklang Industries, SK32, (ltd. 500)
Dark and impressive Industrial-Electronics in classical style mixed with dronning and pulsating Power-Electronic tracks. Unreleased early recordings from these pioneers of the early 90ies! Cover-art by Fabrice Billard. [label info]
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Draugurinn -- "Daudada" -- CD -- €11
2010 Le Crepuscule Du Soir, LCDS009-1, (ltd. 500)
Severe and cold Dark Ambient from the young Swedish project. Tracks are sometimes thoughtful and perfectly fitting late night walks through forest and mountains, sometimes utterly dark like the night in damp caves. Jewel-case. [YAOP]
Dreamcatcher -- "Nimbus" -- CD -- €10
2005 Ohnono, OHNO 08, (ltd. 1000)
Hailing from the bowels of Montreal's 'ghetto', Dreamcatcher blast out with the big guns. Nimbus is the debut full length; chock full of enough sinister beats and atmospheric noise-scapes to seriously mess up your face. By harnessing the power of hot wired mixers alongside countless other home made electronics, Dreamcatcher has no trouble carving out a distinct sound. Past releases on nautical almanac's in house label 'Heresee' and 'Alien8 Recordings' have been met with praise for a reason. An interstellar combination of cosmic proportions... This is Dreamcatcher. [press-release]
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Dren / N.K.T.T. -- split -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2011 self-released
Atmospheric old school noise with industrial flavour. For the lovers of early Maurizio Bianchi. Sleeve. [YAOP]
Drog_A_Tek -- "Live at B-Stasion" -- 3"CD-R -- €5
1000+1 TiLt
21 minutes of free improvisation on repeating loops, like a long, never ending joint. [label info]
Dronaement -- "Allein... Unter Menschen" -- CD-R -- €9
2004 AFE Records, afe051lcd, (ltd. 150)
Dronaement is active since 1997 and is the main musical project of Marcus Obst who lives in the South area of what once was East Germany. Marcus is also involved in the Das Rhythmische Ornament experimental drone-punk duo and runs a small label called Nauze [Muzick]... After a few amazing tape albums he joined the Drone Records serie with the "Wassermond" 7", which was based on a collaboration with Jim De Jong, followed soon by a split LP with The Infant Cycle (Jim De Jong again....). Since then he released some marvellous solo CD-R albums on Dachstuhl, Nauze [Muzick] and Mistery Sea that everyone with an even small interest in Drone / Experimental music should immediately put their hands on. An "analog drones meet muffled guitars" collaboration with french guitarist Rabbit's Sorrow (Sebastien Roux) was also released on CD by Le Cri De La Harpe. "Allein... Unter Menshen" is the fully remastered re-version of the tape originally released on Nauze [Muzick] back in 1999. The first long track entitled "Allein..." was recorded using an electric organ as the only sound source. It is a beautifully calm drone played on the G tone, which is the tone of the day, and is meant to induce a state of meditation into the listener. "...Unter Menschen" is another very long track, some kind of a floating collage constructed from hours of field recordings taken in a big railstation hall in Leipzig, Germany. The last track, "Abriss" is a short but beautiful exclusive addition to this CD-R re-release... Dronaement is clearly one of the most talented drone-based music project around and "Allein... Unter Menschen" is a nice rediscover of one of his earliest releases. [label info]
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Dronaement -- "Ezoterick Muzick" -- CD-R -- €9
2006 AFE Records, afe085lcd, (ltd. 150)
"Ezoterick Muzick" was inspired by repeated listenings of indian traditional music and is a successful attempt at creating meditative / relaxing ambient music. [label info]
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Drone Lebanon / Wertham -- "Roma & Yerushalayim" -- CD -- €10
2008 Topheth Prophet, TP013, (ltd. 497)
Being a split CD, the album titled "Roma & Yerushalayim" presents two interesting artists from the power electronics scene, Israeli artist Drone Lebanon and Italian artist Wertham. Opening with Drone Lebanon, the opening track sends the listener into religious atmospheres of ritual chant. Shortly after religious act is being overwhelmed by crushing waves of destructive electronics wiping out any sign of musical tone. The combination of Middle-Eastern music culture and crushing symphonies is extremely effective. As the album develops, Drone Lebanon makes a slight change into more technoid sound worlds with the piece titled "Self hating jew" that reminds of early Wumpscut added some excellent black metal-sounding distorted vocals of Drone Lebanon. Other moments of Drone Lebanon takes the listener into ambient atmospheres, though don't expect any sonic tranquillity from this guy. Second artist on the split album, Wertham, opens his part of the apocalyptic show with a sweet children's choir, soon after completely destroyed by hordes of high frequency noise. The first piece from Wertham is a long epic piece of ambient noise, consisting of eastern chants, expressive noise moments, distant voices and buzz-drones. Though circulating in the same stylish spheres Wertham is slightly more subdued compared to the harsh sounds of Drone Lebanon. Though both artists should appeal to all listeners of grinding music. [NM, Vital Weekly]
DS Matter -- "Harmonia" -- CD-R -- €8
2009 Abgurd, AB-51, (ltd. 100)
After releasing two albums (Untitled and Pinky Lips) this project of Denis Shapovalov (SUNCHARIOT, ADRIVA, ENMERKAR) added two symbols to its name and one album two the discography. "Harmonia" is an oversimplification of frequencies or "supercompression" as an interpretation of author's point of view on the nowadays digital mastering in the mass-music that makes the final mix sound unified. The album presents only saturated frequencies on rise and fall. This sort of averaging allows disclosing new aspects of pure acoustic sounds of glass, plastic, wood, metal recorded with microphones and digitally processed. The album contains three long meditative tracks in a sophisticated electroacoustic manner with interesting variations of frequencies and warm droning backgrounds. [press-release]
DsorDNE -- "Grafio Ricerca 002" -- CD-R -- €8
1988/2008 Lunhare, zzz - 6, (ltd. 100)
Originally released on cassette by Hax twenty years ago, Grafio Ricerca 002 was remastered by Marco Milanesio/DsorDNE himself and enhanced with three unreleased tracks. Here are the basis for the sound later developed and released on the 'E' un sole' and '24 o 25 - GRU/O/MO' album. [label info]
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Dub Constructor -- "Ulitka Zen" -- CD -- €8
2004 Lagunamuch Community, LMC100
The first release of Lagunamuch community was a collection of the best tracks of Dub Constructor. Roots dub, experimental electronic dub, ambient-dub - you find all major dub trends there. Ulitka Zen is an outstanding work of sound engineer and live-sessions master. Anyone who heard this release knows that the Babylon is going to fall. [label info]
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Due Process -- "Combine I -- XVIII" -- CD -- €10
1995 RRRecords, RRR-CD-20
Ahh. Here's some serious art damage that careens from ambient industrial to the astringent squonks, bleeps and clamor of '60s avant-garde to the angst-ridden sonic shards and noisy electronic reflections of the post-industrial mess we find ourselves in now. Featuring Tom Dimuzio, Ron Lessard (the man behind RRRecords) and John Wiggins, Due Process knows how to crank it out. While they can create a terrific din, the music actually leans a bit in the ambient direction, with lower dynamics and muffled timbres, albeit with a raucous pandemonium of noise just beneath the surface. [Dean Suzuki, Option]
Dunkelheit -- "Les Temps Modernes" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Steelkraft Manufactory, SKM10, (ltd. 100)
A new release from this Quimper (Brittany/France) based project, active since 1993. From industrial noise to concrete cut-ups and cold ambient soundscapes. Released by Steelkraft Manufactory, limited to 100 CDR in a white digipak. [label info]
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Duodecimo -- "Medi Sessions" -- CD-R -- €7
2000 SSSM, sssm-032
Duodecimo are Rupert Cogan and Paul Stone from UK. They use tone generators, feedbacks and short looped samples creating minimal rhythmic electronic soundscapes.
Duozero -- "Esperanto" -- CD -- €10
2006 SmallVoices, SVR06019
"Esperanto" is the multi-lingual voice of technology, a suspension of sounds based in research: a chaos of signs overwhelmed by sonic devices... New sound manipulator Duozero takes atmospheres and sound structures, twisting them into a blasphemous aural ecstacy of concrete music, unconscious field recordings and machine connections... [label info]
Durand, Werner & Alio Die -- "Aqua Planing" -- CD -- €13
2005 Hic Sunt Leones, HSL 029
In the enigmatic Aqua Planing, Werner Durand and Alio Die create a sonorous, powerful, impervious space; sometimes liquid, subtly endearing. A meeting of mysterious sounds, both improvised and organised, of the traditional and self-made wind- instruments and their hybrids by Werner Durand (persian and circular water ney, circular clarinet, khen, prepared shakuhachi) with the editing, loops and enviromental recordings by Alio Die. As in the title track, where they recorded the sound of the wind blowing on the edge of a PVC tube sticking out of the car window, while driving on an italian highway and mixed it with the sound of the ocean, filtered acoustically by the very same PVC tube, or the noise of a night train, the church bells in a mountain village, the musicians cause you to loose tracks of home and move towards purely surreal places. Their performance is always rigorous, the accurate tunings accuracy and special timbres of Werner Durand`s playing settled in the peculiar atmospheres created by Alio Die evoke unique interwoven listening spaces, rich with hues and shades, continuously evolving. [press release].
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Dusk Of Hope -- "Flexible Response " -- CD -- €10
2005 Hermetique, H-CD05, (ltd. 500)
Long-delayed CD album from this French ambient noise project whose previous material includes a tape released years ago on Slaughter and some compilation appearances, including tracks on our own "Like Music to Their Ears Vol 1". The artwork and sound both depict images of decay, ruins and of places still haunted by the ghosts of past and nameless conflicts. Tense and brooding at time, serene at others, but always executed with a purpose. Released on Propergol's home label, Hermetique. [Mechanoise Labs]
Dust To Dearth / Lysergene -- "The Death Of The Sun" -- CD -- €10
2009 Aesthetic Death Records, ADCD 012
Split CD from two awesome dark minimal ambient artists: Dust To Dearth and Lysergene. Dust To Dearth is the dark ambient manifestation from Mandy (Murkrat), featuring harrowing and chilling dark desolate sounds. Meanwhile Lysergene - the side project of Esoteric member Gordon Bickness - come forth with their second release with 3 dark droning evocations of melancholic ambient drone to bring forth the Death Of The Sun. [Cold Spring]
Dvar -- "El Mariil" -- CD -- €10
2010 Shadowplay Records, SPR 112
Hands go round, time go ahead... Now the hour has struck for the 10th anniversary album of the main incognito of Russian musical scene - DVAR! Judging from the hermetical artwork, the artists have returned to early esoterics of the project, filled with magic, alchemic symbolism and bee theurgy. Antropomorphous insectoids post-modernists which appeared in stylish fashion getup on two last dance albums "Zii" É "Fayah!" now switched to astral plane on "El Mariil" and appear as Angel Bees who hover in emerald azure and blow their horns. The sounds of these horns will appeal to those for whom the message of DVAR has ended on last chords of "Roah" and "Rakhilim". Absent of popular electronic arrangements and mentally deranged dances, "El Mariil" is a lyrical message from DVAR, a complex and neoclassical album. This elegant release is destined mainly for the lovers of beautiful and sublime music. [press-release]
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Dvar -- "Jraah Mraah" -- CD -- €10
2007/2010 Shadowplay Records, SPR 116
Reissue of the 2007 album will all cyrillic spelling. Original press-release: "After a year odd of silence DVAR comes back with a new extraordinary creation. "Jraah Mraah" presents 30 finely crafted miniature masterpieces made at the meeting-point of indietronics, gothic, fantasy pop, minimalism and avanguard. Blazing expressive pieces vary from driving ones to meditative, from "cheerful" to tragic. That's possibly how "punk" or "synthpop" should sound if performed by cockroaches, flies and caterpillars from old Soviet cartoons. And really, one can't but admire this inventive sickness in performance! The disc is literally covered with odd obscure atmosphere similar to David Lynch's movies. This feeling, when under a mask of a clown you can see a skull, or when a colorful wrapping of a chocolate sweet hides a pile of dead earthworms inside... Besides traditional fans of Dvar, this album will be surely appreciated by sentimental lovers of touching child's music and other most unusual, experimental and innovative. Unambiguously recommended to the fans of 'Schnappi, das Kleine Krokodil', THE RESIDENTS, DRAGIBUS, PLUXUS, MESSERCHUPS, Yan Tiersen, LITTLE COMPUTER PEOPLE, SNAKESKIN, etc."
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Dvar -- "Madegirah: Bizarre Rares & Early Works" -- CD -- €10
2009 Shadowplay Records, SPR 102
An absolute collection of all kinds of rarities and oddities recorded by the project during their "seclusion" period (1992-1997) and during the recoring of their full-length albums until "Jraah Mraah" (2005). Contains tracks from the legendary cassettes "Dvar" and "Raii". This album is only for true fans of DVAR open for different sides of the project's manifold legacy. 80 minutes and whole 50 tracks of total madness, animated shamanism, theatrical grotesque and gothic surrealism! Specially recommended for the lovers of subtle absurdity and post-modern magic. Contains a cover-version of a track "Fly" of a neo-classical band Caprice. WARNING: this music can seriously injure your mental health for indeterminate period of time. [press-release]
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Dvar -- "Piirrah / Taai Liira" -- CD -- €10
2009 Shadowplay Records, SPR 103
The complete and final reissue of the material from the legendary albums "Piirrah" and "Taai Liira" on one CD with a generous bonus-track section. The occult project DVAR has become known for the "gothic" community after the compilation "Edge Of The Night" released in the year of Millennium. The song "Taai Liira" stood out among the rest of material. Full of inhuman aggression, paranoidal hysteria and infinite pathology this song created at the junction point of darkwave and electronic black metal has opened a window for mass audience. Later followed the release of the first full-length album "Piirrah" in Italy, then powerful stylistical metamorphoses, creation of their own unique style "lightwave", release of 5 albums on Russian label Irond, including "Taai Liira", and many more... This CD presents the complete reissue of "Piirrah" and it's Russian reissue as "Taai Liira" also featuring previously unreleased material. This is a sort of archive mould of surely one of the most dark and sickly chapter in the history both Russian and international "dark scene". [press-release]
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Dvar -- "Rakhilim" -- CD -- €10
2003 Monopoly Records, MONO 002-1103
The music is frivilous and amusing, making you smile and grimace, sometimes slightly sad, sometimes just semi-danceable. Round-dance of elves overdozed with acid. "Started back in early 90's and playing some kind of bizzare 'cartoonish-like' avantguard music, DVAR released several works ('Dvar', 'Raii') which now are rated among big rarities. After long years of silence DVAR returned with a gothic darkwave album 'Piirrah' released in Italy in 2002 and presenting material from the period 1999-2000. A year later the band produced 'Roah'. This time DVAR's style changed once again. It wasn't really 'dark' anymore, but rather melancholic. Oriental and minimalist influences could be easily heard. Music critics claimed it 'lightwave'. DVAR was recording 'Rakhilim' during year 2002, and by now it is the freshiest material of the bizzare formation. With this album DVAR's unique style reaches its artistic and technical purity." [label info]
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Dweller At The Threshold -- "Ouroborus" -- CD -- €10
2001 Hypnos/Binary, HYBY0101
E.A.R.S. / Ego Death -- "s/t" -- 3"CD-R -- €3
2010 Deathforce Records, DF 053
Split of two projects from Greece. E.A.R.S. - calm atmospheric electronic with brutal metal micro-invasions on the first track, 2nd track is a strong dramatic ambient composition in several parts. Ego Death - overdrived noise a la "vent shaft in a milling shop".
EAE -- "5 parts" -- CD-R -- €8
2006 Hladna, (ltd. 33)
Solo project of Andrey "Buratino" from Moscow-based band Architheatre. Experimental noisy electronics, cyclic, ambiental and moderately abstract, though sometimes straightforward rhythmical. Designed by Hladna, by slight mistake the project is named AE inside the sleeve.
Earth To Ground -- "Symbiosis" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Essentia Mundi, EM019, (ltd. 100)
The debut release of Earth To Ground band from Germany. Guitar, voices, synths, acoustic percussions & free compositions: an outstanding experimental music adventure. 'Symbiosis' is industrial drone with a touch of human sensibility induced by various voices effects. A symbiotic treatise between the sound and the environment in industrialized ages... Earth To Ground plays experimental music and it is from Germany. The style cannot easily be categorized, the music has a special aura created with droning-industrialized guitars and by the presence of voices, it is something really special that have to be heard. It is a project that also plays live, and currently it is in studio preparing the first full length CD. Let yourself captivated by the journey with the debut release 'Symbiosis'. [label info]
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Earworm / Thethe -- "split" -- CD-R -- €9
2005 Triangle Records, TR-03, (ltd. 90)
Earworm play instrumental music between noise rock, early psychedelic and something which is often described with terms "post-...". Unleashed guitar, insane bass, furious cello, nervous rhythm-section. The material is taken from their "Serious Ear" EP. Thethe - is weird blurry post-punk meeting with indie-pop and indie-rock + tuba, female vocals and wonderful lyrics. [press-release]
Earzumba -- "Real Ruido Pastizo" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 Editions Zero, #13
Amazing collage music from the Argentinian artist Christian Dergarabedian (C.D.). Within 1.5 - 3 min time of composition he somehow manages to unglue normally sounding music and transform it into a strange surrealistic canvas with interludes of specific sound scenes. The disk sounds like a sound-movie in which psychedelia turns into scenes from gangster thriller, and in general, skilfully written plot unfolds in a very unpredictable way.
Eb.er, Rudolf / Lanz, Joke / Phillips, Dave -- "Schimpfluch-Commune Int." -- CD -- €10
2007 Nihilist, NIHIL 50.1
Nihilist is extremely pleased to be able to announce the CD reissue from the out of print Schimpfluch box released earlier this year. This is one of the sickest recordings from the Schimpfluch Commune, commemorating their 20th anniversary of aktions. Artwork by Rudolf Eb.Er, with the audio being reworking of exclusive material from Joke Lanz and Dave Phillips. [label info]
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Echran -- "s/t" -- CD -- €14
2005 Ebria Records / Small Voices, Bronto - 006 / SVR05017
Looks like Italian scene is ahead the whole planet in terms of experimental electronic music. Echran is relatively new project formed by Davide Del Col (Ornament) and Fabio Volpi (Otolab). Davide plays analogue Korg synth and Fabio uses laptop and his voice. The music is very minimal in structure - in fact, each track is smoothly developing pulsating waves over which Fabio's calm voice is declaiming texts in Italian. But the frequency selection and the quality of sound material will make each minimal/analogue electronics lover rapturously squeak in ecstasy, because everything sounds incredibly tasty.
Echran -- "In Offret" -- CD -- €8
2009 A Silent Place, ASP42
In Offret is the second Echran full length after the acclaimed self-titled debut (released by the Italian SmallVoices label in 2005). Echran is the electronic project of Davide Del Col (Molnija Aura) and Fabio Volpi, who has worked over the last few years with the Milanese audio/video collective Otolab. Starting in 2003, the project joins two different kinds of experiences: one is gloomy and ambient, the other is noise-based with a psychedelic attitude. Echran's dark electronic soundscapes are not easy to pigeonhole: there's a constant metronome-like pulse that could be compared to Pan Sonic or some Basic Channel-inspired minimal techno, but at the same time it's not really ambient or droning. French lyrics give the record an elegant touch of soft velvet atmosphere. [press-release]
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Efficient Refineries -- "Epinervio" -- CD -- €11
2006 Menstrual Recordings, LH02, (ltd. 300)
Siegmar Fricke is a busy man these days. If not working on something solo himself, or with Maurizio Bianchi in collaboration, he works as Efficient Refineries, together with Miguel A. Ruiz. Both have a history in electronic music that goes back to the good ol' 80s with their cassette releases. They work under this alias since 1995 and have released four CDs, none of which I heard. 'Epinervio' is their fifth release and it dabbles in the field of electronic dance music. Although it goes into various directions, the main direction is that of ambient house. Deep, atmospheric synthesizer patterns lay the heavy fundament of this music, and the rhythm ticks nicely away. A voice sample is thrown in, occasionally. While techno inspired, I doubt wether this will get many feet moving on the dance floor. The music is certainly too strange for that, too angular, too hooky and too dark. But perhaps in a more daring chill out room, this might work. At home it certainly works nicely, good entertaining music with a darker edge. Nice to play when you do the dishes. [press-release]
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Ego Death -- "Everyday Life (Normal Noise)" -- CD-R -- €4
Reality Impaired, RIRCD057
I'm not sure if I guessed it right, but it seems that this time Manos Michaelides has connected a broken contact mic to an air hockey table and recorded everything for half an hour. Everything you can hear is various crackles and rattles, sometimes also distant voices appear. Naturally, a die-hard fans only release.
Ego Death -- "Fresh Flesh for Rotting Humans" -- CD-R -- €3
2010 self-released
Power electronics and noise mixed with wry avantgarde. Necrosis. [YAOP]
Ego Death -- "Thanatos Athanatos" -- CD-R -- €4
2011 Nitro Atmosfericum Records, NRN-004, (ltd. 77)
Prolific Greek project Ego Death works in the field of lo-fi digital sound, sometimes taking this appoeach to an extreme level of Neanderthal savagery. Two half an hour long tracks of minimal synth playing destroyed by ultramundane levels of digital compression and distortion.
Ego Death "(($%$%^%^&((()))^&^&^(*())))" / Cat'n'Bone "einitinnudrndl?rnreeli?" -- CD-R -- €4
2009 Smell The Stench
Ego Death / Gorgonized Dorks -- "split" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2008 Sewer Records, SEWER 036, (ltd. 20)
Concrete noise from Greece vs. experimental noise from USA. [YAOP]
Egoproblem (Lasse Marhaug) -- "Exit Tape Kill" -- CD -- €10
1997/2010 Freak Animal Records
Year 1994 in Norway. Lasse Marhaug has yet to start working under his own name. Obscure short lived project just before that, titled Egoproblem releases one 20 minute tape and performs one live gigs. This CD collects those materials, presenting the most straight forward industrial/power electronics works of Lasse Marhaug. In total c. 40 minutes of simple but effective works full of hard tones and metal banging. Tape/Exit/Kill from original DAT tape, live recording with decayed and crude industrial-noise attack! Including liner notes by the artists. [label info]
Ehnahre -- "Taming The Cannibals" -- CD -- €10
2010 Crucial Blast, CBR 89
The new full length (number two) from the Boston based avant-black/death/doom band Ehnahre, Taming The Cannibals, is one of the more cerebral and challenging "death metal" albums to have come through the Crucial Blast headquarters this year. After being turned on to their excellent debut from 2008 The Man Closing Up, I've been itching to hear more from these warped death abstractionists; their debut instantly dazed me with its jarring, alien approach to bestial slow-motion death metal, drawing heavily from the twelve-tone serialism of composer Arnold Schoenberg and the outer fringes of free-jazz and free improvisation as much as they do from the foul black pit of early 90's death metal and doom. Even after years of devouring the most dissonant strains of death metal that I could get my mitts on (Gorguts, Demilich, Immolation, Portal, etc.), these guys stunned me with their extreme chaotic dissonance and pitch-black chthonic textures, a combination of atonal 20th century classical music and vicious blackened death laced with squalls of free-jazz horns, stretches of intense choral ambience, and blasts of calcifying glacial doom... [label info]
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Eidulon -- "Idolatriae" -- CD -- €10
2007 Malignant Records, TUMOR CD33
With the release of Eidulon's debut CD Idolatriae, we at Malignant are pleased to welcome another new project into the cozy confines of our slowly expanding roster. 7 tracks of ultra bleak, abstract atmospheres, with sounds and textures that seem to seep from catacomb walls and come slithering out of subterranean chambers. Certainly, this can be classified as a dark ambient record, but at it's core, it's more than just that simple classification. There's a gritty, more jagged edge here, with tetonic shifts, deep rumblings, and crackling, climatic squalls buried under a bed of ghostly reverb and haunting tonal resonance. Fits in nicely with past Malignant releases such as R|A|A|N's 'The Nacrasti', Heid's 'Arktogaa', and even Caul's 'Crucible' CD. In elegant 6 panel digipak, with stark black and white, carefully arranged illustrations inspired by Taschism and Spatial art. From gothtronic.com: "I am deeply impressed by this release, seven tracks of the finest dark ambient recommended for all people who like this kind of music. This is pure beauty with great atmospheres making you dream away to the furthest regions, to places were no man has ever put his feet. Be nice to yourself and purchase this great release." [press-release]
Eiserner Wille -- "Heltir" -- CD-R -- €7
2011 self-released, (ltd. 20)
Harsh industrial avantguard work painted with multiple samples from the history of Third Reich. Triple sleeve with four inserts. [YAOP]
Ekca Liena -- "Light Procession" -- CD-R -- €9
2012 Pocket Fields, PF025, (ltd. 100)
Daniel W J Mackenzie is perhaps best known for his work as Ekca Liena, a droning guitar and electronic mesh of ambience, electronica and hints of doom. This alias has carved it's place in the UK ambient underground. In addition, Daniel also records and performs with psychedelic drone outfit Plurals and even have collaboration with Nadja's Aidan Baker due. Ekca Liena`s music contains a variable configuration of ambient, drone, post-rock, doom, noise and electronica. There is also a psychedelic and ritual element at times. Daniel Mackenzie is making music since his mid-teens and when Daniel hit seventeen he think it got a bit more serious. This combined with a continuing desire to transpose emotions and experiences (usually of the negative, melancholic kind) and things far more abstract into art are the roots of it... 'Light Procession' is new album recorded last winter and now released in a limited edition of 100 copies in special hand-made packaging with foto inserts inside. Here we have excellent mash-up of ambient, post rock, drone, drum tribal and eletronica. [press-release]
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EKRAN / Boevye Cikady -- "Even Yesterday It Seemed To Be Impossible" -- CD-R -- €8
2005, Extremal Psychonauts, ExPsy 012, (ltd. 88)
"Notions about possible and impossible change quickly in owr days..." once wrote in free press Lenin Prize laureate, Hero of Socialistic Labour, academician A. Tselikov. EKRAN and Boevye Cikady, both projects from St. Petersburg, entirely agree with comrade Tselikov's opinion and because of this decided to release a split-album in support of this statement. Science and technology, folk medicine and atomic energetics, astronautics and terrestrial fauna - here are the main ideological inspirers of the musicians. Melancholic atmosphere of laboratories, detachment of research officers and statistical registration of events are waiting for the attentive listeners in the first half of the disc recorded by EKRAN using old Soviet synthesizers. In contrast to this, Boevye Cikady get inside the animal microworld, decompoze the matter on frequency components and cheerfully explore the holographic structure of the Universe by means of digital music made with the help of Apple Macintosh software. The artwork is done in best D.I.Y. traditions - DVD-box with roughly xeroxed booklet containing visual accompaniment to the sound tracks. The edition is limited to 88 copies, but don't be afraid fellows, fascism won't go through!
Eldar -- "Sapere Aude" -- CD -- €14
2009 Cold Meat Industry, cmi195
Electronic Press Kit -- "The Death Instrumental Session E.P." -- CD-R -- €7
2005 Altsphere Production, ALT011
Ultra-minimalistic yet conscious cold-wave with nice phat sound. Underground distribution edition - CD-r coming with colour ink-jet printed cover. [Misanthropic Propaganda]
Elephant Zyclus -- "Tripod" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2003 Afe Records, afe027mcd
About one year after the release of his "Zyclus Over Berlin" CD-R album it's time for another small dose of Elephant Zyclus. We have chosen our favourite track and edited it for this release. Samples were subsequently given for treatment to a couple of selected Afe artist... Lips Vago, under his new DJ Lips guise, remained faithful to the spirit of the original track adding some more Techno danceabilty to make you sweat... a034 couldn't care less about the original and came up with a 200 bpm Drill monster based mostly on the bass loop. Spiral almost destroyed the unreleased "Promis" filling it with all sort of glitches. We enjoy this remix frenzy a lot, there will be more remix projects on Afe very soon. Let's enjoy "Tripod" in the meantime. [press-release]
Elle -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €7
Smell The Stench, (ltd. 50)
Italian girl Ludovica Corsini performs high quality varied Harsh Noise of Government Alpha school. Full-colour cardboard cover, sleeve. [YAOP]
Ellende -- "Heroin" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2004 AFE Records, afe50012, (ltd. 50)
"Heroin" starts as a sparse and pleasantly vibrating drone-based piece and slowly get crowded with pulsating and swirling elements. As the swirlings continue and percussive sounds are introduced, the music evolves into some kind of hazy and hypnotic dream populated by creatures speaking with backward/high-pitched voices. Approaching the end of the track, all these elements slowly fade away leaving room for otherworldly noises/effects and a sort of vocoderized voice. As usual, the concept for this releases is focused on a writing by Wim Bontjes, a deceased Ellende member. [label info]
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Elli Riehl -- "Das Brauen Der Feuerwolken / Alraun" -- 2 CD -- €15
2006 Punch Productions, PP018
Embryoptic -- "Blood Vessels" -- CD -- €11
1995 Connect The Dots Music, ctdmux 02, (ltd. 500)
Minimalistic organic art noise with rare invasions of rhythms. Artwork made of transparent plastic. Rare. [YAOP]
Emeralds -- "Solar Bridge" -- CD -- €10
2008 Hanson Records, HN 183, (ltd. 1000)
HANSON RECORDS is proud to announce EMERALDS - SOLAR BRIDGE, the trio's first full-length album after numerous cassette and cd-r releases on such labels as American Tapes, Chondritic Sound, and the bands own imprints Wagon and Gneiss Things. The album opens with the side long 'MAGIC' where the band builds a quiet drone into an extreme thick sawblade of swirling noise as beautiful as it is menacing. The flip is yet another sidelong journey titled 'THE QUAKING MESS', a track that stabs your brain with fluttering sparks of synthesized needles before relaxing you into a Göttsching-esque dream state while slowly bringing you back to earth with an electronic wave of molten rumble. Fans of the smooth tones of 'New Age Of Earth' era Ash Ra Tempel and the buzzing thick drones of Throbbing Gristle's 'Heathen Earth' should take note, as EMERALDS may be their new source for electronic drugs. [press-release]
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Emme Ya -- "Atavistic Dreams & Phallic Totems" -- CD -- €10
2011 Cold Spring, CSR127CD
40 minutes of dense astral emanations and magickal paradigms transmitted through the ritual mantras generated by Emme Ya. Emme Ya's 'Atavistic Dreams & Phallic Totems' is based on the mysterious African Dogon tribe and their secret oral tradition. In the 1930s two anthropologists gained their trust enough to be told these remarkable secrets. The Dogon seemed to possess advanced astronomical knowledge beyond their means, without any instruments. They revealed that the star Sirius was orbited by the 'smallest and heaviest of all stars' and drew its elliptical orbit, which spans 50 years. This white dwarf (Sirius B) is so invisible that the first image was only obtained by scientists in 1970. But the Dogon also told of a third star in the system named Emme Ya (now Sirius C). This was only discovered in 1995 and only with the use of advanced infrared imaging. The Dogon say that their information was given to their ancestors through contact with beings from the star system of Sirius, calling these beings Nommos or 'the monitors of the universe'. [press-release]
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EMOR -- "Grain of Sand" -- CD EP -- €12
2004 Human Meat For Sale
Sludge doom metal from Slovakia in vein of Neurosis album "Times of Grace".
Emulsion -- "Blue Sky Objective" -- CD -- €11
2006 Lens Records, LENS0010
Emulsion's full-length debut CD brings together elements of 80's electro, cutting-edge IDM, and bouncy melodies steeped in indie influences. Blue Sky Objective is electronic pop music: an accessible and appealing mixture of pretty, emotive melodies and lo-fi electro beats. Thanks to an NES-lit eighties childhood, Emulsion's Nathan Koch never lost his obsession with the eight-bit aesthetic and its resulting digital artifacts- leading to his immersion in San Francisco's gaming industry, with a Game Boy planted firmly in his palm. With the prior release of a single and an EP, Emulsion spent over a year touring and promoting across the US with strong support from niche press and college radio. For fans of: Solvent, Casino Versus Japan & Ulrich Schnauss. [press-release]
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Endless Hypersomnia -- "Past Reflections: Madness, Sadness, And Torpor" -- CD-R -- €7
2011 Smell The Stench, (ltd. 50)
Young but already becoming popular Black Industrial project from the school of of Mr. Nordvargr & Co. Powerful industrial tracks resembling early MZ. 412 turn into Black Metal themes and dark ambient soundscapes. [YAOP]
Endo, Kazumoto & Kazuma Kubota -- "Switches And Knobs" -- CD -- €10
2011 Phage Tapes, PT:133, (ltd. 500)
The follow-up to the live recording on released on Noise Ninja in 2009. This material is a joining of Endo (Killer Bug) and Kubota (Blood Letter, The Cracked Mirror) in their usual fashion - lots of starts and stops, blasts of sound and silence. 2 tracks: 1 studio, 1 live. [label info]
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Endvra -- "Black Eden" -- CD -- €10
1996/2005 Red Stream Inc, RSR-0114
The sinister music of Endura has gathered appreciation from an increasingly diverse audience who appreciate that burgeoning movement of individuals and bands using electronics to sculpt a music that has been called Dark ambient. [label info]
Enmerkar -- "Untitled" -- CD-R -- €6
2007 Observatory Records 10, (ltd. 18)
A new project of Denis Shapovalov (Sunchariot, Adriva) from Rostov-on-Don, Russia. Despite the new name, his musical stylistics is in the old vein - mega-old-school ritual ambient with hollow sound. Monotonous subdued rhythms, low-frequency drone and looped fragments of string passages. One 33-min. track. Package - folded sheet of golden paper with minimum of information.
Enmerkar -- "Untitled II" -- CD-R -- €6
2007 Observatory Records, Observatory 12, (ltd. 20)
Side project of Sunchariot. Perserving, drowsy and vision-inducing drone ambient. Trapeziform cardboard package. [YAOP]
Epsilon Eridani -- "Disturbance" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Essentia Mundi, EM015, (ltd. 100)
Drone based release all the way from Mexico. The 2 lengthy tracks, very dense and dark, portrais a journey to the mind's core. A core of disturbances. This is the first CD release of Epsilon Eridani after a few mp3 releases to various net labels... Originating from Mexico City, Juan Pablo Valle, 30, produces both ambient and dark ambient. He samples sounds from everything and enjoys modifying them by pitching or time stretching, adding some bright or dark melodies to his compositions. [label info]
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Erynis -- "Manhattan / Dwelling" -- CD -- €13
1998 Tesco Organisation, TESCO 036, (ltd. 800)
This sound artist from the USA presents a dark, intense soundscape of destruction and apocalyptic noise to celebrate the end of city civilization. Comes in a deluxe special package. [label info]
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Es -- "Kesamaan Lapset" -- CD -- €10
2009 Fonal Records, FR-64
"This is my fifth solo release as Es. Kesa"maan lapset was recorded during a three year period. It is a mix of soundscapes and pop tunes. You can hear influences varying from contemporary indie to ancient classical music. It's a summer album and a childhood photo album. The name translates as 'The Children Of The Summerland'. It an homage to the Pekka Streng album 'Kesa"maa' (Summerland) which is one of my favourite Finnish albums ever made. It also refers to Finland of course. I've been travelling a lot these past three years and every time I return here it feels more and more like home... I've used lots of instruments, from high-end analogue synthesizers and upright pianos to cheap flea market Casios. I've recorded parts of this abroad and at home in my studio and in my bedroom. There are a few special guests: Laura Laurila plays violin, Tuomas Eriksson (Risto) plays trombone and Elissa Ma"a"tta"nen who has sung on most of my albums is present again to give her special voice to the tracks... I hope you enjoy the album. It is not as ambitious a work as my previous double album Sateenkaarisuudelma. But this one is meant to be listened to in many more situations and it might just fit as music for a house party too:" [Sami Sänpäkkilä / Es]
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Esche -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Alarmstufe, (ltd. 44)
Black & white cover imitates bizarre interweaving of branches. By the was, Esche means ash-tree in German. So it's not surprising is we see this particular tree on the album's cover. And that this tree - the great tree of the world in Scandinavian mythology - throws a shadow on the whole creative work of the project. Listen to the track titles: "SheLESt", "V Suhih Kronah", "Sonmh". First and the longest (25 min) track starts to draw the listener in its thicket with mysterious drones interlarded with multiply echoed clappers, shakers and other tinkling and cracking rhythmic noise effects. Sometimes this resembles shamanic rituals of the Finnish hermits from the Aural Hypnox label. The magic atmosphere gets thicker and finally materializes itself in looped rattle of wooden percussion and swooningly sonorous trembling of leaves. The green ocean rolls with waves of monotonous rustling somewhere high over the head. Track number two - V Suhih Kronah - combines field recordings (someone's steps, crackling of dry lop), gurgling electronics, blasting of mouth harp and some piercing sound keeping the listener in tension. The final track is a noise canvas, babel of sounds and timbres, mixed together. A host of impersonal voices, rushing in resonant spaces of a foreigner's dream. [Radiodrone]
Esche -- "Wendigo" -- CD-R -- €6
2011 Valgriind, VG 45 / Alarmstufe, Alarmstufe02, (ltd. 186)
Over the banks of melt waters in last whisper of fierce winter comes Wendigo's breath. From beneath the roots bound by blizzard, behind the ancient bark, in the stone heart of the forest comes this music - metaphysical incarnation of the spirit of winter Frost and Hunger. A borderline between autumnal and winter cycles, the only attempt to hide in wolf grass and survive in Snowstorm. A call of blood from the far North. Second full-length of Esche released by common will of the labels Valgriind É Alarmstufe prod. Field recordings, guitar, mouth harp, synthesizers, voice, percussion & various electronics summoned to document this mysterious ritual. This time the artwork is made by Sergey Ilchuk (Vresnit & Vetvei Art). 186 copies, full-colour cardboard sleeve + inserts. [press-release]
Escuadron De La Muerte -- "Omnia Vincit Mors" -- CD-R -- €8
2010 Ufa Muzak, UFA 34, (ltd. 141)
Apocalyptic noise / Power electronics. Going wind in black pits, in ropes with no way out. This is the situation of reality. All of you are sitting tied to chairs, and information goes right in your brain. Abnormal, infinitely violent and compressed. Blood, lies, hunger, money. Smell of a burned human being and nature of depravity felt in killing fields. Bile of the world, in all corners of constant inconceivable depression. The project from South America presents an hour of music full of total strain and moral hardiness. This is not just noise in it's common form, this is a completely new level where this project exists, leaving behind all rivals. Prepare for adrenaline shock and remember - there's no way out. Escuadron De La Muerte is the music of crisis, all and everything, without an end. [press-release]
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ESE (Entheogenic Sound Explorers) -- "The Other Door" -- CD-R -- €9
2009 Databloem, DBCD09024
ESE's follow up to the acclaimed The Shroom Experience debut album on our Practising Nature sister label. The Other Door showcases the more catchy, ambient dub influenced (The Orb) side of the band. Melodic synth sounds, varied rhythmic elements, psychedelic effects and an occasional guitar combine into a lovely, timeless sound. [label info]
Evil Moisture & Macronympha -- "The Tentacles Of The Octopus Sometimes Compete Against Each Other" -- CD -- €10
1995 Pure, DIDX-031042
Ex.Order -- "Corporate Control" -- CD -- €12
2007 Power And Steel, PAS 21
While the last releases were focussed on archive and live recordings this is finally the all new album, following the INFERNAL AGE from 1999. Ten tracks of an immensely raw sonic and violent aesthetic constructed through dark throbbing machine noises, crushing rhythmic layers and vocals. Highly explosive heavy electronics, uncompromising and provocative both sonically and visually. An unforgiving tour de force capturing the perfection of disorder. The absolute response to the nightmare that is the world we live in. [press release]
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Ex.Order -- "Shuchu Ryoku" -- CD -- €14
2010 Power & Steel, PAS 28
Exalot -- "Analogue Flowers" -- CD -- €10
2005 Faria Records, FAR-003, (ltd. 500)
Bright and clear music performed on analogue synths, simple and even primitive to some point, but always mellow and naive. It reminds either old space TV-programs or child's games on Dandy computers. The CD is packed in cardboard cover with a set of cards with computer graphix.
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Exit In Grey -- "Audiometry : Domination" -- CD-R -- €8
2009 Daphnia Records, ph11
Reissue of the debut 3"CDR "Audiometry" (2004) with an 18-min bonus track "Domination". Guitar drone ambient varying from almost monotonous raw and deep rumbles to gentle melancholic tunes... sonic waves and streams slowly come and pass away, leaving the listener in spellbound numbness.
Exit In Grey -- "Dim Lines" -- CD-R -- €8
2008 Daphnia Records, ph10
Three long mild tracks, classical guitar-based drone ambient with field recordings. The atmosphere of cosmic forest and infinite blue sky.
Exit In Grey -- "Emotional Resounding" -- CD-R -- €8
2005/2007 Daphnia Records, PH06, 2nd edition
Slowly evolving spaces filled with deep guitar drones, field recordings and ocassional electronic sounds. Definite recommendations! Second edition.
Exit In Grey -- "Magnetoline - Night Medidation" -- CD-R -- €8
2006 Daphnia Records, PH04
The new album of one of the best Russian drone projects is made out of sounds of processed guitar, field recordings and prepare singing bowls. Slowly rolling hollow and distant rumbles swallowing up the attention like a huge swirl, slowly evolving melodies and flowing by frequency fibers like clouds. During listeting the brain tunes itself down to lower frequency waves and smoothes down emotional state.
Exit In Grey -- "Nowadays Warm" -- CD-R -- €8
2004/2007 Daphnia Records, PH01
Reissue of the very first album of EIG, originally released in carved wooden box, limited to 10 copies. Classical guitar drone ambient, beautiful and melancholic. Similar artists: Troum, Aidan Baker, True Colour Of Blood, etc.
Exit In Grey -- "Radionarayan" -- CD-R -- €8
2007 Daphnia Records, ph08
This time Exit In Grey, reduced to one member [S], experiments with combining guitar drones and radionoises, and does it really successfully! More than an hour of calm yet energetic meditative drone music.
Exit In Grey -- "Raktasonic" -- CD-R -- €8
2009 Daphnia Records, ph09
This album contains early recordings from 2004, made only by [S], one half of the duo. Minimal guitar drone ambient with resonating harmonies.
Exit In Grey -- "Sub Pluvia" -- CD-R -- €8
2007 Daphnia Records, ph07
"This work is dedicated to all those forlorn during the rain." Emotional guitar drone ambient with uneasy and sorrowful atmosphere. Each track features sounds of rain, thunder or flowing drops. This is the most rough album of the project because of wide use of distorted guitar.
Expired Station -- "s/t" -- 2 CD-R -- €10
2011 Heart Shaped Box prod., HSB-051, (ltd. 23)
Radionoise - fixation of ether done in Spring 2008 by a 14-year girl Darya Kudryavtseva. 2 sprayed CD-Rs, 23 copies, art by Udachina Varvara. [label info] Double-DVD box.
Exploplasmatic Coagulation -- "C++ (Selected Works 2005-2010)" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 InterioRepertoR, IR04
Exploplasmatic Coagulation is one of the projects of Moscow based musician Oleg Hurvatov, also known for Interior Disposition and Lanceolaria Im Licht Der Laterne. Like the author says himself, "if the matter of two other projects, anyhow, is the internal side of the human ego, Exploplasmatic Coagulation enters in sphere of mechanical interactions. The sound becomes the tool - a microscope or a scalpel opening a micron wrong side of the world." Cold abstract ambient and non-aggressive noise fields with spatial atmosphere.
Exsanguinate / La Infame Turba De Nocturnas Aves -- "Allegory Of Death" -- CD -- €10
2003 Misanthrope Studio, MS003, (ltd. 500)
Each band presents it's own sonic Allegories of Death... meditations on that inevitability we all fear and at the same time are fascinated by. To set the tone Exsanguinate starts with a commanding and urgent track, flush with militaristic undercurrents in it's opening moments. From there the material evolves into something more abstract and steeped in dread with tendrils stretching into elements of clinical drone and throbbing frequencies to a more introspective ambient chaos. [l-i-t-d-n-a] rounds out the disc with their unique blend of deep tones, harsh frequencies, gentle pulses against an almost ambient feedback. Squalls, static, interjecting beats, squirming distortions and vocalizations accentuate an anxious,looming reality. [l-i-t-d-n-a] closes among fluid environmental recordings juxtaposed with clanks and pulse beats, to provide the score for a yet to be discovered altered state, one in which reason is elusive. [press-release]
Exterior Mirror -- "Hupp" -- CD -- €10
1996 Katyn Records, KAT-01
Deep ambient electronics from the Chicago artist Claude Willey.
Exxasens -- "Beyond The Universe" -- CD -- €10
2009 ConSouling Sounds, SOUL0007, (ltd. 1000)
After Exxasens' debut cdr Polaris sold out at lightspeed it was clear we had to take up to the next level. So, here we are: Beyond the Universe! This debut full album picks up where Polaris left: beautiful unearthly melodies somewhere on the line between post-rock and post-metal. Impossible to pinpoint an exact genre or reference point: Barcelona's Exxasens maintains a unique musical journey. A journey that leads the listener somewhere... Beyond the Universe. [press-release]
Ezhi i Petruccho -- "Istorii" -- CD -- €7
2006 Lagunamuch Community, LMC600
Russian spoken word / ambient project, devised in late 90-s by Andrey Andrianov. Some time later the musician Andrey Dergachev joined him and they have recorded several philosophic stories about two fictional characters Ezhi and Petrucco, and then released their first album. Since that the project has become more and more famous and popular, attracting the attention of radio stations, animators and just all the interested listeners. [label info]
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Ezhi i Petruccho -- "Skazki" -- CD -- €7
2007 Lagunamuch Community, LMC-1000
Russian spoken word / ambient. Ezhi and Petruccho? Who are they? First of all, these are names, just like "water", "stone", "law". The stories about them repeat the eternal genre of "tales by a fire". After two thousand of years we actually continue sitting by a fire, although we have learned how to get water from a tap and electricity from a socket. Basic names don't change. Sounds and names cause each other and again go into silence. We've just found the way into our "inner ArTek" and continue walking light not losing sight of each other... "And Ezhi was a shaman", - says Andrianov in a very wise hypnotic voice. And the music of Dergachev catches you and carries away into the timeless existence. Here, in a half empty room a cup of tea or mulled wine and a chequered plaid are waiting for you, and the stars are goggling in the window. After all, the real tales are told long after midnight. [label info]
F.R.U.I.T.S. -- "Forbidden Beat" -- CD -- €11
2004 Laton, Laton 029
This is a seminal band of Alexei Borisov and Pavel Jagun, exploring their particular interest in rhythmical music. But, even being very dynamic and nimble by its nature, they can't be considered as dance music. I would be agree with those who bring it up to the more accessible version of Borisov solo works, which is now located completely in experimental/noise domain. FRUITS was founded more than 10 years ago but I still had no chance to grab their records, knowing them only due to frequent and regular appearance in various concerts and festivals. This album, shortly released by the Austrian label Laton, compiled from live gigs material recorded between 1992 and 2003. A kind of live anthology which consists of nostalgic "Industrial gatherings" in Moscow, but also recent performances in Paris and "Avanto" festival in Helsinki. Very heterogeneous album, starting from the square beat and minimal/electro arrangements, then the mood is going to be softer and deliberated, drawing us to the melodious ambient. But the atmosphere is uneasy, raw and noisy outbursts comes back from behind, like the seething magma - it reminds me the spacious feeling in the beginning of Mono No Aware "Kitanai Yatsu" album, released by Hands. But as soon as this melodic component disappears, you can see the vast of electronic dissonances and effects, sheer and shivering noises seems to be a barrier for sludgy and breaking beat. [Dmitry Vasilyev, Independent Electronic Music]
Factor X -- "022" -- CD -- €10
2011 Monochrome Vision, mv36
factor X started in June 1983 in Paignton as a conceptual music project by Shaun Robert. Since then, a lot of tapes were released, on labels like Drahtfunk Products, Schimpfluch, SPH, Jeremy Bamber Tapes, BV Tapes, Intransitive Recordings and Old Europa Cafe. The collaborative CD with TAC and Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock was published by Harsh Dept. in 1996, it has been quiet for many years, but now Shaun Robert emerged again with some new projects like Mutant Beatniks etc. It's a good time to remember his old and quite obscured recordings from the 80s!.. "022 was put together over the year 1985, there's a sound on here that take me right back to the time I recorded them, the first that comes to mind is the recording of a fire engine from the roof top where I was living, and the squeaking bed sounds from a flat I moved into later. I'd listen to the parts over and over, it's all very basically put together, with a technic I was using at the tape which was, three tape machines, two playing and one recording, and we're talking Radio Shack not even Pioneer. An extra thing I should mention, is that there was a 7" single part with the tape, I think I did a edition of 25, and sent them to poor devils I had the addresses of. I can only remember one good response from this guy in Portugal, a DJ on some radio station, he sent me this wonderful letter back saying how much he loved the record, and tried to play it out, but nearly got the sack. The single were second hand from a bargain bin, scratched to pieces, you could play them but destroy your stylus. I put labels on them so there was really no way of knowing who had originally done the little disc. The cover for the single was a drawing I did of an angular man, starting his walk down a path, a picture that has so what hung in my mind, think about now, after listening to 022, while recording it off to put up, there is a connection with the aboriginal content that's on the tape." [Shaun Robert]
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Fagus -- "Return To Chaos" -- CD-R -- €7
2011 Smell The Stench
Cosmonoise. Deep atmospheric tapestry which can be described as noisy version of Bad Sector's "Plasma". B/w sleeve. [YAOP]
Failing Lights -- "s/t" -- CD -- €10
2010 Intransitive Recordings, INT036
An evocative work of bleak electronic atmosphere and suffocating dread, Failing Lights is the intensely personal vision of Michigan (via Lexington, KY) artist Mike Connelly. While he has toured the world as 1/3 of legendary industrial/noise units Hair Police and Wolf Eyes, Connelly spends his days crafting a much different sound on his own. Under the Failing Lights flag, he has self-published a nearly uncountable number of cassettes and CDRs of rough drones, detuned improvised grit, blown-out burl, and unstable acoustics in tiny editions that quickly vanish into collector-land. Intransitive is proud to present the defining - and first widely available - Failing Lights statement, an album of sinewy horror with a fine-tuned beauty within its darkness. A single piece in five sections, Failing Lights begins with disquietingly barren negative space. As the album creeps forward, it steadily dispenses sheets of diffuse throat-scratch and skittering strings, culminating in a blast of molten organ. Not noise, ambient, improv, black metal, or anything else: this is pure Failing Lights. [press-release]
Falkenstein -- "Kraftort" -- CD -- €14
2009 Heimatfolk, HF 08
Falkenstein -- "Urdarbrunnen" -- CD -- €14
2008 Heimatfolk, HF 04 / Kraftplatz Records, KRPL 02
False Mirror -- "Derelict World" -- CD -- €12
2010 Malignant Records, TumorCD47
"In the beginning it looked like an ordinary storm..." After three years of intense work, Dark Ambient disciple False Mirror returns with his third full-length journey, aptly entitled "Derelict World". With the timeless drones of his debut "Chronostatic Scenes" and the icy soundscapes on his highly acclaimed sophomore masterpiece "North" still resonating through space, solo artist Tobias Hornberger delivers "Derelict World", his most massive and epic undertaking so far. As its two brooding predecessors, also his third work of masterfully crafted Ambient has become a monumental alliance of dark drones, frostbitten soundscapes and warm vibrating tones from the deep bowels of the earth. Famous for his skilled use of field recordings from an extremely diversified range (some of the recordings stem from an old monastery, the medieval city of Ulm or the Arabian sea) and for his ability to cloak the superior forces of nature into menacing, yet beautifully devised sounds, "Derelict World" also offers a truly apocalyptic concept that blends perfectly with the dense wall of sound on this mysterious Ambient challenge: Nothing less than the end of humanity, brought upon this world by the relentless forces of nature forms the basis on which the resonating and thundering tracks develop into chimaeras of terrible momentum, ever-changing and ever-increasing their dramatic potential. Devised with sophisticated software he solely created for composing this album, False Mirror easily evokes elemental feelings like sublimity, fear or trepidation - culminating in an impending sense of doom that never leaves the listener and brings to life the destructive side of nature that surrounds us every day. From the sheer force of a tornado set loose to the beguiling calm within the eye of the storm, "Derelict World" is a 74 minute long sonic journey into a desolated, depopulated world. A 20 page booklet with a conceptually linked short story written by author and journalist Bjorn Springorum accompanies the release. The album is moreover equipped with a number of hidden messages that lead to a rewarding "Bonus World" on falsemirror.de. "...and the rest was silence." "...One of the best dark ambient releases in recent years". 9.5/10 Orkus Magazine. "The False Mirror album is one of the best CDs I've ever listened to!" M. Sturtzer, Phelios. [press-release]
Fanum & Kromeshna -- "Zapredel" -- CD-R -- €7
2011 Radiodrone Records, RD-04, (ltd. 100)
Sacred / pitch darkness drone ambient from Moscow and Ural musicians. The view out of transcendent territories. Ropy postmortality saddle stitched thin ordinary existence by rough crow's cawing. The Metaphysics of the other world. Mamleev's Idlers meets Mercier and Camier. Envelope from craft-paper with fullcolour print. Limited 100 handnumbered copies. [label info]
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Fanum & Parchim -- "Coniunctio" -- CD-R -- €7
2012 Radiodrone Records, RD-06, (ltd. 96)
There are only gods who can walk along the rainbow, the staircase will be the chthonic image of Mercurius, encased in a vessel. Being mercury, it will dissolve gold, fading its solar essence. Oh, the brave wanderer! The very man, who defeated the tiger and overrode the double-headed steed, pick up the keys of Spargia, and let the crimson light of the Magnum Opus begin to gleam! The will of the one, who clenchs the Lapis, is superior, feeling the breath of a clean mud's flesh. On the wings of the One and Indivisible, by merging of the spirit, the soul and the matter in the name of Coniunctio. [label info]
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Fanum & Vazhes -- "IR" -- CD-R -- €8
2010 Still*Sleep, CDR14
Thirty minutes of steady dense and tight (like molten bitumen or solidifying lava) "trademark" drone from Fanum, filled with hardly imperceptible movements of keys, mournful singing of duduk, bird voices and rustle of wind in the leaves, boiling of huge amount of water in which the listeners dives closer to the middle of the track, and voices recorded probably by Sergey Gabbasov (Vazhes) during his ethnographic trips to abandoned villages. I can call for help the words "natural ambient", and it will be quite relevant and characterizing the hidden events happening in the depth of the sonic mass and illustrating such processes as slow growth of grain, deliberate movements of shadows, dissolving items and substances in the water and something like this, invisible from the first glance and subject to the eternal cycles of the outside world. [maeror3.livejournal.com]
Faryus -- "Lucid Dreams" -- CD -- €11
2008 Faria Records, FAR-15, (ltd. 500)
This album is devoted to a phenomenon of the "Lucid dreams". A 'lucid dream' - is a dream, in which the person is aware that he or she is dreaming while the dream is in progress. During lucid dreams you have control over the dream characters and environment, as well as the ability to perform otherwise physically impossible feats. The feelings which you feel during lucid dreams are very similar to those available during a waking state. Often they surpass the 'usual' with a saturation and intensity. This phenomenon has been researched by such well-known researchers as Stephen LaBerge, Robert Monroe, Carlos Castaneda, etc.. The 9th book of Carlos Castaneda - "The Art of Dreaming" explains more fully the events occuring within this album. The album is conceived as travel from the moment of falling asleep up to the depths of the infinite universe of the Dreaming: 'Vivid Dream' - this is a dream, where colours and events are extremely bright. After awakening we never forget these dreams, it remains in the memory as a very exciting experience. It is the first phase of lucid dreaming and the beginning of our travel. We can then find "Clarity", passing through the first gate of dreaming to enjoy the "Lucid Dream". Opening infinite opportunities of the universe of dreaming we begin our "Free Flying" obtaining the sanctum sanctorum of the dreaming universe - to the "World of Inorganic Beings". [press-release]
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Faryus -- "Night Forest Reality" -- CD -- €11
2008 Faria Records, FAR-20, (ltd. 500)
"Night Forest Reality" describes a world which does not exist in daylight, arising when the last dying beam of sunshine fades from dark shaggy branches of old trees, when air becomes damp and hearing sharpens. A constant feeling of someone's presence borders the periphery. From the impenetrable darkness in the heart of the wood, a cool wind forces leaves to tremble, hardly distinguishable in the twilight. It only imparts its vibration and a touch of cold air to the face, a suggestion of swaying branches, sparkling streams and the rustle of revived grass. Dew drops barely sparkle in the gloom, reflecting the stars blinking in bottomless moonless depth. The night wood, frightening and attracting, living an invisible life, populated by unfamiliar ancient beings. Almost nothing visible in the impenetrable darkness, but exposing its mysteries via sounds of the unseen, of that which should not be seen." [D.I. Abigor]
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Faryus & Vadim Bondarenko -- "8 Atmospheres" -- CD -- €11
2008 Faria Records, FAR-25, (ltd. 500)
This album is the successful combination between two different worlds: bewitched electronics from Faryus and meditative parts of piano and clarinet from Vadim Bondarenko. In addition, this CD contains poetic video clip created by Alexander Sveshnikov. Welcome to the inner ambient dimension!... [label info]
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Faryus & Vadim Bondarenko -- "Quiet Songs From Misty Places" -- CD -- €10
2011 Silentes, 201127
QSFMP is the 2nd album made in collaboration of 2 different musicians: "electronic wizard" Faryus and classical music player and composer, but sometimes "misty traveller" Vadim Bondarenko. These QUIET SONGS were composed in 2 steps: first liquid electronic atmospheres were created by Faryus, then the piano and the clarinet melodies were improvised and recorded by Vadim Bondarenko. Actually this album is an invitation to find some misty places in your dreams... Frail and delicate ambient atmospheres, clusters of rarefied piano notes lying on discreet drones, soft and evanescent clarinet riffs, suggesting and catching natural sounds... Light and ethereal pastel-coloured musical plots... Eight tracks, one hour of suspended and quiet sonic passages, flowing like discreet background, or to listen/see in a passionate mood, dreaming in silence, lying in gloom... Wonderful ambient stuff from these two Russian artists in the same vein of some of Harold Budd's works... Well known for their previous works on Russian FARIA Records, Faryus in the past has also crafted an album in collaboration with Robert Rich. [label info]
Favourite Mirror -- "Aberration" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 Haarbn Productions, Haarbn 009, (ltd. 101)
Belorussian project that definitely came from the depths of metal past, but now has gone quite far away from their roots... You can feel these roots in firm compositional structure, melodies, rhythms, sounds, strictly attached to measures, and in electroguitar, appearing from time to time. And at the same time this is already ambient / neoclassic work with beautiful lush quality-made arrangements, rich in sounds and atmospheres. And actually, much more than neoclassic, because the turns of their musical canvases are sometimes very unpredictable yet interesting! An epic album without exaggeration. Completely pro-done artwork in dvd-jewel-case.
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Fear And Aghast -- "Solitude" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Le Crepuscule Du Soir, LCDS020, (ltd. 100)
Emotional Minimalist Deep Dark Ambient / Experimental: necrophiliac organ, depressive piano, grotesque cello, corvine clamour, grave rhythms and suicidal female recitations. Slim DVD case, full-colour 12-page booklet with lyrics and big colour postcard. [YAOP]
Fear Konstruktor -- "Preparation Of Hymanity" -- CD-R -- €9
2009 Sickcore, SC-16, (ltd. 100)
Masterly strong Power Electronics from already well-known Russian project. Gorgeous multi-complex package. [YAOP]
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Fear Konstruktor & Mourmansk 150 -- "Arson Acrimony" -- CD-R -- €8
2008 Spirals Of Involution, SOI 052
Power Electronics.
Feindflug -- "Feindflug (Vierte Version)" -- CD -- €14
1999 Black Rain, BR 001
Feindflug -- "Im Visier" -- CD EP -- €12
1999 Black Rain, BR 003
Feindflug -- "Volk Und Armee..." -- CD -- €14
2005 Black Rain, BR 026
The Fields Of Hay -- "Songs For Nine Ladies" -- CD -- €10
2007 Fourth Dimension Records, FDcd72
FIGS -- "Neva Wave" -- CD -- €11
2006 Dom Records, CDDOMA 060435
Russian experimental percussion quartet consisting of Ekaterina Fedorova, Alexey Ivanov, Markus Godwin and Nick Soudnick (ZGA).
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Filivs Macrocosmi -- "Stalker" -- CD -- €9
2006 OMS Records, OMSCD02, (ltd. 500)
Inspired by and a tribute to A. Tarkovsky's movie "Stalker" (1979). Stalker is an elaborate puzzle. Its pieces are always scattered, and the listener is relied upon to bring the final element of the puzzle along with him. Stalker invites you to get carried away into your own thoughts, flowing with the images as it provides new questions to ponder. In that sense, the album is very much like a philosophical poem: a very simple surface covering innumerable layers of meaning. One long ride in a cart, with clunking metal and water-whooshing sounds. Altogether fascinating and hypnotic. "Welcome to your Self, an alien place guarded by barbed wire". [label info]
Filivs Macrocosmi & Charadriiform -- "Ex Vivo" -- CD -- €9
2012 A5 Production, AP-08 / OMS Records, OMSCD04, (ltd. 500)
One long collaborative ambient/drone track of two Ukrainian projects. "Since the beginning of time mankind has been fascinated by Space. Few has not dreamed of going to the Moon, or to become an astronaut and leave his mark on Mars, while being a child. In 1961, the technical genius of Soviet scientists proved that man can master the cosmos. But how many people think about the fact that in addition to the celebrations, glory and indescribable feelings, a flight beyond Earth may bring pain, suffering, madness? In our work Ex Vivo (Lat. "from life"), we would like to reveal all the faces of flights, which are not talked about - loneliness, isolation from the usual things, the incredible closeness of death and an endless cold abyss of the universe, which stares at astronaut. We have tried to convey and express the feelings that a person experiences at start of the machine and to the point where he can no longer distinguish the picture generated by his imagination from reality. The tranquility that ends the album in any case should not be understood as an obituary. It is rather a hymn of praise to the birth of a man who understood and took for himself a place that was defined for him by the universe." [press-release]
Fire In The Head -- "As The Nest Burns" -- CD -- €10
2005 Autarkeia, acd 009, (ltd. 400)
Fire In The Head is probably one of the garish artists of noise/power electronics, representing the famous school of the USA. The project's author Michael Page previously participated at live performances of the legendary Giovanni Balistrer's project SLOGUN, also closely linked to the livery of NY sound terrorists. As The Nest Burns is short, but highly hysterical, brutal and dark album of noise/power electronics stylistics. Michael Page masterly plays with amplitude of different tracks intension. Slackened, leaden, psychedelic sounds overgrow into the avalanche of terribly aggressive and hysterical noise, gradually flooding back as unusual and uncomfortable sound stream. As The Nest Burns is a sort of element of otherworld civilization, starting its sudden extension, transformation and smashing attack. There are many fragments of distorted vocal in this album, making the tracks especially threatful. This is a completely new, reformed attack of USA power electronics tradition against the normal and moral world. Do you know what happens as the nest burns??? Then the children burn!!! [press-release]
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Fire In The Head -- "Screams for the Mute" -- CD-R -- €7
2005 Deserted Factory, DF028, (ltd. 200)
To get some more information on an artist, it's always good to look at their website. And when it comes to Fire in the Head, we see an indication for what we are about to hear when we look at the links-section: Guilty Connector, Slogun, Sickness, Control, Skullflower/Ramleh, Grey Wolves/Open Wound & Survival Unit. Fire in the Head can be labelled harsh noise, a type of music definitly not for the weak. For as far as I know, most artists in the genre are from America and Asia, but in Europe it's also being produced more and more. The genre is a little bit less 'constructed' as power electronics, but what it lacks in structure is made up for in agression. Provided you can handle the sounds, you can play this album on repeat. Every time you notice new layers and new depth within the tracks and after a few rounds, the beaty really reveals itself. 'Watch And Burn' is a great droney track, while 'Playing God' and 'Floodgate' are way more opressive in nature ('Floodgate' actually hurts a bit). The masterpiece on this album is the final track 'Through Jaded Eyes'. It's a beautifully created noisescape with a melancholic feel. The CD isn't really accessible for a larger audience, but it is definitly worth buying for noise-addicts and maybe also people who want to try out something without beats, but with a lot of power. [Bauke / Gothtronic]
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First Human Ferro feat. Albireon -- "Prosa Profana" -- CD -- €10
2011 Nitkie, patch eight, (ltd. 500)
"Prosa Profana" is a follow-up to "Guernica Macrocosmica" and the 2nd post mortem dedication by Olegh Kolyada (a tribute to his father Vasyl Kolyada) collaborating with Albireon neo-folkers this time. A low-key unison of dissonant ex-Soviet schlager melodies and forefront Italian vocals in a tender naive manner offer a unique nostalghic experience. The release comes in a beautiful digipak with a 12-page booklet. [label info]
First Human Ferro feat. Kenji Siratori -- "Adamnation" -- CD -- €12
2007 Eibon Records, Fhf071
What happens when modern classical music meets power noise, female sopranos meet dark ambiences, harsh death industrial voices melt with traditional melodies? First Human Ferro are bringing experimental music to new territories... [label info]
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Five Elements Music -- "Herbal Cemetery" -- CD-R -- €8
2009 Still*Sleep, SS19
Two long ambient tracks made of field recordings: rustling leaves, herbs, branches, blowing wind, etc. An immersion into sonic micro world filled with it's unordinary life.
Five Elements Music -- "Isolation & Echoscopy" -- CD-R -- €8
2007 Still*Sleep, SS13
One more exploration of elements by FEM this time is based on prepared sounds produced by human body. All kinds of crunches, gurglings and wheezes are plaited in sophisticated sound tracery with FEM's trademark sound. An interesting phisiological experiment - listen to what your body can make in the hands of the artist.
Five Elements Music -- "Kapotte Muziek By" -- CD-R -- €9
2008 Moving Furniture Records, MFR001, (ltd. 100)
The Dutch duo of Frans de Waard and Roel Meelkop traveled all the way to St. Petersburg, Russia in May 2008, where they did some live performances as Kapotte Muziek. From these performances one has been reworked by the Russian sound/drone artist [S] who also works under the name Five Elements Music. The result is an amazing piece combining field recordings with metal scrapping and oozing drones. [label info]
Five Elements Music -- "Magic Of Deconstructor Band" -- CD-R -- €8
2005 Still*Sleep, SS08
Rustling and slightly ringing ambient sometimes turning into drone, collected from processed field recordings. Very calm atmosphere like with always that [S] creates.
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Five Elements Music -- "Mystic Echo" -- CD-R -- €8
2006 Still*Sleep, SS11
Isolationist and somewhat vague ambient collage based on field recordings with ghostly and distant sound. Everything is imbued with sounds of wind, quiet but fairly tense. Heavily transformed resonating soundflows of winds in their enviroments... These are mystic echoes, pseudo-subterranean vibrations, faint sounds of surroundings, chime of bell and glass... Entangled in the light haze of air streams. [label info]
Five Elements Music -- "New Communications: One" -- CD-R -- €8
2006 Still*Sleep, SS09
Russian project FEM works approximately in the same conceptual course as Japanese Aube, but oriented towards "natural" approach. While Aube uses only one sound source for an album, may it be tone generator's waves or sounds of water, FEM chooses only 5 elements: air, water, earth and stone. And while Aube often goes mad with building mathematically precise multy-level constructions with hi-fi sound, FEM on the contrary inherited droning structure of tracks from other projects of [S] (Sister Loolomie, Exit In Grey) with muffled lingering sounds. This album starts with literally stone ambient but by 10th minute the identification of sound practically disappears and only sometimes kind of familiar timbres emerge: cicadas, radionoises, etc.
Five Elements Music & [D] -- "New Communications: Two" -- CD-R -- €8
2006 Still*Sleep, SS12
From the author: "My first collaboration work with Diona. The work of this artist is quite diverse... in this case it's presented in two acts. In the first act this is more post-industrial material... short distorted loops, pulsations, modulations and knocks. Pretty abrasive and rusty. In the second act she synthesises pleasand and lingering ambient. Droning and near static. Tones are layering one over another, hanging in the air and returning back to the un-revealed. Developing her creativity in these directions, she undoubtedly reaches very successful results. And I sincerely hope we'll hear again from her. Some nice and recognizable material was sumbitted by FEM as well."
Five Elements Music -- "Pictures from Sand : Boiling Line" -- CD-R -- €8
2008 Still*Sleep, SS18
Two mini-albums on one disk. "Picures from Sand" is based on the sounds of sand: low-frequency gentle drones, layered and rustling, gradually accumulate slowly lingering resonances, then again turning into dry field recordings. The theme of "Boiling Line" is the sound of boiling water, but it's not that obvious at once: the noise of electric kettle transforms into wind moans, hi-pitched signals turn out to be seagull voices, and the sound of gurgling liquid is set off by monotonous low drones.
Five Elements Music -- "Six Acts Of Saprofields" -- CD-R -- €8
2005 Still*Sleep, SS07
Still natural field recordings ambient. Perhaps this is the sort of music stones and insects are enjoying!
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Five Elements Music -- "Solumpremoterra" -- CD-R -- €8
2005 Still*Sleep, SS05
The second album of FEM is entirely dedicated to the earth element - completely low-frequency drone, to some extent close to the collaboration album of Troum & Yen Pox.
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Five Elements Music -- "Stok (Drainage)" -- CD-R -- €8
2008 Still*Sleep, SS17
The album with Russian title "Stock" ("drainage") contains two tracks with soundscapes, based on the sounds of water. Unhurried laminating clear and processed field recordings create comfortable atmosphere, filled with drawling drones and resonances, and great number of small details (hissing sand, rivulets, stones and other artificially amplified natural sounds) carry away listener's attention, leaving him in a numb contemplation of the tangled sound flow.
Five Elements Music -- "Suite In Terra" -- CD-R -- €8
2005 Still*Sleep, SS04
Five Elements Music is a conceprual project of Sergey [S] (Exit In Grey, Sister Loolomie), based on using natural sounds. Drone ambient with lots of field recordings: earth, water, sand, fire, salt...
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Five Elements Music -- "Summer Session" -- CD-R -- €8
2011 Still*Sleep, SS20
Summer & winter recording sessions from the master of field recordings from Moscow region. Two lengthy sound canvases united by strident and rustling wafts of summer sounds and under-icy cold currents of winter aethers. A recording of fairytale beauty. [Abgurd]
Five Elements Music -- "Sylphstream" -- CD-R -- €8
2008 Still*Sleep, SS16
First half an hour long track sounds a lot like another project of [S] - Ion And Sophus - very quiet atmospheric tunes accompanied by lo-fi field recordings. Second track starts to condense the sound and brings the feeling of being in a primeval night forest not in the best time... the campfire is playing tricks, the swamps are droning, the wood spirits are wandering around... The last third track continues this feeling drawing in the very inside of fire - here dominate the sounds of flames and charcoal crackles, little by little dissolving in their own echoes...
Five Elements Music / Andrea Marutti / Jim Haynes -- "Tri-Ton" -- CD -- €10
2011 Observatoire, obs 027, (ltd. 400)
Some words on the story behind this disc. One of the members was offered to create a deep tonal composition based on a written description of some other composition. Sergey & Maria from Five Elements Music recorded such a track in 2010. This track was highly appraised by two other artists invited to work on this disc, and it served as a reference point for this split-album - American sound artist Jim Haynes recently collaborating with Brendan Murray, and Andrea Marutti, known in Russia for his Amon project. The idea of three long drone compositions with distinctive textures and technological and tonal touches has been successful in it's result. Listening to "Tri-Ton" submerges into the relief atmosphere of almost geological irregularities with individual accents in various sonorities and author's intellectual investigations... [press-release]
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Five Elements Music & Denis Shapovalov -- "Steel Glares and Night Shadows" -- CD -- €10
2011 Observatoire, obs * 029 cd, (ltd. 350)
Record of this disc has been made during 2010,2011. The material of Moscow region project Five Elements Music is used as a basis. The record was made at night in different industrial areas of town. In this collaboration F.E.M. goes ahead with its field recordings line. Denis Shapovalov (Adriva) finds his sound recovery from natural materials - metal, glass, wood: One cannot find synth's in this disc, however, naturalistic sticky pseudo-analog sound provides 'authentic old school'. This effect is sustained by wave reverberations which run into massive drones. But it's not the very essence of buzzing often cut by new structure waves and cycles conjoined with field recordings. [press-release]
Five Thousand Spirits -- "Quantum Consciousness" -- CD -- €11
2006 Sempiterna Mutatio, SM 008
After seven years of silence they are heard again. Raffaele Serra and Alio Die's Quantum Consciousness is an mysterious electronic journey (5 tracks without interruption) that, though still ambient music, comes close to '70s-era electronic cosmic music. An unbroken journey of great intensity characterized with an electronic refined touch and a flood- like vitality, always at the threshold of mystery's whirlpool. Powerful electronic mantras that in these lands have already given some kind of earthly utterance. Great artwork in gold print on dark green. [press release]
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Five Thousand Spirits -- "Schwarzschild Radius" -- CD -- €11
2006 Sempiterna Mutatio, SM 009
Collaboration project of Alio Die (drones and loops, editing, prepared zither, field recordings) and Raffaele Serra (analog and digital synthesizers, tapes and electronics).
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Five Thousand Spirits -- "Synapse - Shaihulud" -- CD -- €10
2007 Faria Records, FAR-11, (ltd. 750)
Five Thousand Spirits - it is collaboration between Alio Die and Runes Order. What we will have if we will mix the best works of "Bad Sector" and "Klaus Schulze", to add in them deep ambient moods from "Alio Die" and hypnotic-trance analogue electronic from "Runes Order"? We shall have the delightful pearl which has collected in all best from different styles of intellectual electronics! The meeting of synthesist Raffaele Serra and Alio Die (supported this time by Zeit) create here an excellent quality of sound, in Synapse S. you will find the amazing moods and a lot of aesthetic pleasure. This is 5000 Spirits's treasure box, recommended to all music lovers. As always, each track is accompanied wonderful artwork of Sara Luciani, which develop the concept of album in art area. [press-release]
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Fjernlys -- "Ascending Triads And Luminous Arcs" -- 2 CD -- €16
2006 Loki Foundation, Loki 42
On their first album FJERNLYS emerges marvelous sounds and voices organically in songs and arrange a pleasant and relaxed sound to pure benefit with highest recognizing value. The songs layer cosmic and synthetic sounds and go on tracing according to the principle harmony in the music, their acoustic space seems very expansive, it is by no means over-crowded. The voices creep crosswise into sounds and effects to lunar spheres and solar places, exactly the correct nuance at refinement not only to remain in the ear but also simply very charming. Sometimes the central sequence takes surprising twists in some recordings and the density of sounds became touchable. Behind this project hides one of the INADE Masterminds, who recorded nine tracks supported from several musicians, those clearly possesses more songcharacter than the work which appeared from the Lightchannel so far. Fjernlys' attitude to music remains unfettered by stylistic frames and the album targets the style-encompassing essence of sounds. The five remixes and interpretations of ANTLERS MULM, BAD SECTOR, FIRST LAW and LOVESPELL on the second CD support the complex character of the whole release and expand the border to a new style of Ambient Songs. Ace - Clear - Pure. [press-release]
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Flatline Skyline -- "All Sound / No Vision" -- CD -- €11
2009 Mechanoise Labs, mn 034, (ltd. 500)
The second album from Jacen Kemp and Robert Andrew Scott stands as a stylistic counter-statement to 2005's "Horizon Grid." Fierce, emotionally driven and abrasively textured, "All Sound / No Vision" confirms Flatline Skyline's masterful sense of tension and release and melodic sensibility while further evolving their sound beyond any previous expectation... Where "Horizon Grid" forged atmospheres of lethargic bliss and nocturnal stillness, these eleven new tracks are united by their restlessness and unstable nature. From the energetic vocals and metallic shard-like pulse of "Fox Fight" to the improvised noisy electronic shudders of "One Secret," there is a new-found sense of visceral life that breathes, screams and seeps into every moment of this album. Jacen Kemp's voice plays a prominent role in this aspect; its multi-faceted intonations are perfectly suited to the shifting electronic foundation. [press-release]
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Flatline Skyline -- "Horizon Grid" -- CD -- €11
2005 Mechanoise Labs, [mn026], (ltd. 400)
Absolutely non-typical release for this French underground noise-oriented label. The thing is that in fact represented music should be described as "electro-pop". But! This is very unusual electro-pop because it somehow harmoniously combines best features of IDM, abstract electronic noise and psychedelic trip-hop. And while listening to this CD you just don't know what to expect next minute: will it be synth passages in vein of Depeche Mode, or digital clicks typical for contemporary computer-based music, or heartfelt melancholic vocal. In general this is beautiful non-extremal electronic music almost approached mainstream level which can't be called disadvantage in this case.
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Flesh & Space -- "I'am Jesus" -- CD-R -- €5
2011 Rapen Winter Records, RWR-0210/O, (ltd. 100)
Darkwave / suicidal ambient. "One of the most unusual representatives of the dark scene: music created obviously with some help of drugs (you can see this from the lyrics) and forbidden for sale in Europe and Russia. This prohibition is connected with the project's bad glory - people say there were many suicides after listening to their music. One of them was their guest guitarist who helped to record one of the albums "From..." Some parallels can be seen with such bands as Sopor Aeternus and Dvar, but in general the music of Flesh & Space is very original and distinctive, and it will definitely cause very different emotions." [Dark Monastery] Jewel box with 4-page booklet.
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Fletcher, Todd -- "Star" -- CD -- €11
1996 Arya, Y02, (ltd. 1000)
Electronic drones unvaryingly generate a pleasant environment of passive sound, exploring minimalism tempered with Fletcher's innate creativity. Extremely tranquil percussion does little to disturb the sonic veil, even enhancing the serenity with its languid, muffled beats. The textures of delicate tonalities are almost ephemeral, expertly filling the void with an delectable resonance that neither rises not plummets, maintaining an unobstructed course through the air, not unlike sunlight bathing the spectacle of an ocean undisturbed by winds or waves. Electronic pulses are elongated to impossible duration, wavering in the embellishment of secondary sweeps that cross the audience's perceptions like washes of tinted light. While intended to convey celestial concepts, this music possesses an earthy quality that touches the listener's soul with soothing reassurance. [Matt Howarth, Sonic Curiosity]
Flexkiks -- "Freeland" -- CD -- €8
2006 Peace Technologies, PT 004
Flexkiks is Alex Matrosov (Alexandroid), Liam-Arthur Berent (Abstract Avenue) and Vladimir Muhlberg (PlusMinus) joint project, recorded in Munich, Germany. "Freeland" contains broken rhythms of techno-break, dark-hop, idm character. Musicians took some elements of industrial culture as a basis for their work and constructed their own vision of music. [label info]
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Flint Glass / Telepherique -- "Information Gigabyte" -- CD -- €10
2007 .Angle.Rec., .A.R.05.05., (ltd. 404)
Musically speaking, many artists from the industrial and post-industrial scenes have addressed the topic of future information shock, be it explicitly or implicitly; for example SPK, as early as 1979-1980:In 2006, it is still a hot topic, more than ever in fact. With a will to sonically explore the intricate and infinite mazes of information spun in the last few dozens years, and illustrate the tremendous changes which have been occurring during that period and which affect us all, TELEPHERIQUE's Klaus Jochim and FLINT GLASS' Gwenn Tremorin have joined forces for this collaborative album, which is indeed a concept album about information overload, the speed at which technological changes occur and the negative effects of this information overload on our psychological state. Both artists have sampled and gathered a great deal of sounds taken from computers or conferences on the topic, in a totally digital way from the FLINT GLASS perspective, and in an analogic/old-school fashion from the TELEPHERIQUE perspective. The idea was to confront the technological evolution with itself in the composition process, in a chronological way, by imagining the evolution from 1980 or so, up until now. You can then expect a pleasing and surprising 'shock' between FLINT GLASS' trademark distorted idm-ish beats, intertwined with sinister and expansive atmospheres, and TELEPHERIQUE's dirty soundscapes and machinesque old-school and sometimes or often lo-fi drifts for which they have been renowned since 1989. Let aural information flood you! [label info]
Flores, Rafael -- "Nubes, Cometas, Rumores Y Orugas" -- CD -- €10
2005 Monochrome Vision, (mv05), (ltd. 500)
First official CD album of Rafael Flores who hails from the depth of spanish noise underground scene, known for his early works released under Comando Bruno moniker. This compilation presents the latest decade of his sound experimentation, and shows quite diverse sides of his creative efforts, which ranges from collaged field recordings to noise ambient loops, from rhythmic structures to hypnotic electronic passages. [press-release]
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Flores, Rafael -- "Olive Days" -- CD-R -- €7
2006 Zeromoon, Consume Buy 2006 series
A handful of nice minimal concrete/atmospheric experimentations by this Spanish underground musician. Released in "Consume Buy 2006" series by American Zeromoon label available for sale only in 2006.
Flutwacht -- "30 Monkeys" -- CD -- €11
2006/2007 The Tourette Tapes, TT#4, (ltd. 300)
Reissue of the extremely limited (30 copies) Apocalyptic Radio release from 2006, with bonus, previously unreleased, tracks. "30 Monkeys" is the soundtrack for a world controlled by apes, crushing machines and noisescapes. "The music is a degenerate mass of harsh electronic waves and patterns as savage as the primate of the title. Even when Flutwacht lower the decibel levels down a fraction the violent restraint is never far from the surface. A brooding seething mass of noise waiting to erupt once more. The production on this release is crisp and clean... and this gives the recording a greater sense of depth and bite allowing the hugely powerful electronics full reign to take centre stage... Take the best aspects of Propergol, minus the samples, and multiply the effect by ten". [Heathen Harvest]
Flutwacht -- "Breath" -- CD -- €10
2008 Mask Of The Slave / The Tourette Tapes, MS-015 / TT#11, (ltd. 500)
New full length album from the wellknown german Power Electronics/Noise projekt. Flutwacht returned to Mask of the Slave Records with this great stuff, after several releases with other labels in the industrial/experimental scene. The best Flutwacht release to date, highly recommended for PE/Noise/Experimental maniacs. [label info]
Flutwacht -- "Creta" -- CD -- €11
2006 The Tourette Tapes, TT#1, (ltd. 222)
The album alternates pure and ellegant electronic ambient tracks sometime featuring even a femal voice to harsh power electronics as we know from the best German acts! 70 minutes of best industrial sounds! [Old Europa Cafe]
Flutwacht -- "Heroinloops" -- CD -- €9
2008 Steinklang Industries, SK 45, (ltd. 350)
"Heroinloops" is a brilliant, pure Industrial album by German's top-Noiser FLUTWACHT. Their new album brings a great mix of rhythmic oldschool Industrial a la early Esplendor Geometrico, or like the famous early 90ies Steinklang Rhythm-Noisers, with a strong touch of "modern" Power-Electronics. The powerful noise-tracks alternate with hypnotic Ambient-Noise tunes, which give the album a comatose and traumatic character. "Heroinloops" is a varied and well structured Noise-album, for all fans of the early Industrial years. [press-release]
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Flutwacht -- "Secondface" -- CD + CD-R -- €14
2008 The Tourette Tapes, TT#9, (ltd. 77)
Reissue of one of the limited CDRs in vast Flutwacht's discography, originally published in an edition of 50 copies. This is actually an album of cover-versions of the title track, performed by such projects as Xedh, Contagious Orgasm, Objekt/Urian, Vincenzo Bossi, Antracot, TZII, Bonemachine, Synomorph, Terg and Hyeno. The album is closed by the original track by Flutwacht, which sounds quite unusual for this project - rhythmic, almost danceable industrial hit. All other versions can be divided in two groups: first (strangely small) shows the adherence to shock tactics and heavy rhythms, while second prefers dark ambient with deep atmospheric bass sounds as if created from machine samples or even field recordings. Limited edition of 77 copies. [Monochrome Vision]
Folkstorm -- "The Culturecide Campaigns (Archive Series 5)" -- CD -- €14
2010 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 137
The series of the 'Folkstorm' monster continues! The Culturecide Campaigns was released in 2000, only available for one month through MP3.com, during which time only 39 copies were sold. These more than ten years old recordings has now finally been restored, redesigned and remastered and features two bonus tracks. This album was recorded back to back with "Victory or death" and carries the same menacing feeling, but with a bit more structure and empahsis on pounding rythmic industrial noise. The Culturecide Campaigns was Folkstorms first attempt at infiltrating mainstream culture and also infiltrating the new and upcoming filesharing culture. Besides releasing this album only online it was also spread in secret over the Napster filesharing website. Mainstream "top ten album" downloads were manipulated and tracks were exchanged. That means that possibly thousands of people that were expecting to listen to Madonna or U2 ended up listening to this. So maybe this oscure gem actually has been more played than all of the Folkstorm albums, albeit in secrecy to an unaware audience?
If you want rough old-school industrial this is what you need! The campaign continues... [press-release]
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Folkstorm -- "Folksongs" -- CD -- €10
2011 Old Europa Cafe, OECD144
Folkstorm returns to follow up the successful 2009 album "Ortodox" with another crushing assault on your senses. This time Nordvargr pushes the sound even further and adds a more classic songstructure and vocals to the album - hence the title. While still maintaining a harsh old-school industrial vibe, these recordings takes Folkstorm to a whole new level. Welcome to explore the wrath of a man gone seriously pissed off with everyone and everything. Don't loose the chance to taste the new Folkstorm Combat Folk-Pop(?)! [press-release]
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Folkstorm -- "Information Blitzkrieg" -- CD -- €10
1999/2000 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 028, 2nd. ed.
Folkstorm is the solo project of Mr. Kremator Nordvargr, mind of MZ.412! The sounds on this album are quiet different and not related to MZ.412, although this is heaviest power-electronics and old school industrial... ranging from real beating tracks to more noisy ones with lots of sampled voices! a masterpiece of new industrial muzak, no politics, no religion, no standard. The first 470 copies was sold during the pre-seals, second print available... [press-release]
Fonnia -- "2010" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Le Crepuscule Du Soir, lcds015, (ltd. 67)
Haunting Drone Dark Ambient dropping curtsies towards Power Ambient / Droning Noise. 4-page full-colour A5 digisleeve with a booklet. [YAOP]
The Forced Oscillations -- "Acids" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 self-released
Moscow based band The Forced Oscillations was formed in 2005 as a duo and first played electronic stuff. With the influence of the band Notchnoi Prospekt (a psychedelic electro-rock band of Alexei Borisov and Ivan Sokolov) they reworked the sound and whole idea, going on with post-punk sound, enhanced with some non-standard features. As a homage to Notchnoi Prospekt, The Forced Oscillations covered their song 'Acids' - a revolutionary track, full of apocalyptic fear and industrial madness, literally. The hymn of a collapsing empire, after 20 years it has a value once again. During 2006-2008 the song was rearranged few times and the final version was recorded - the band's trademark. The remixes were made by fellow musicians: Vitalij Lebedev (Haloed Ghost), Ted Newsom (revideolized, Melodramus), Levan Lomidze (Fashion Suicide, Didactic Scalica), The:Het; Tbilisi-89 is a The Forced Oscillations side-project. [label info]
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Fordell Research Unit -- "The Illusion Of Movement" -- CD -- €10
2011 At War With False Noise, atwar101 / Braw Records, BRCD001, (ltd. 500)
Absolutely chuffed to be putting this out after talking about it for literally years. FRU is one of the absolute best drone bands not just in the UK but on the planet and over the past few years I've seen Fraser (and then Fraser and Grant) play some of the most dense, suffocatingly heavy drone noise time and time again that has only been surpassed by the untouchable Culver. Lee Stokoe's work is a good basis for comparison if you're a FRU virgin and they tread similar sound-in-a-vaccum stasis and churning, crunching, collapsing-building noise as Gateshead's finest. This band is a major force in its own right though and there's a real foreboding horror movie atmosphere going on here. Really glad to be bringing this band to a bigger audience and I just hope this leads to giving these guys the attention they so thoroughly deserve! 500 copies jewel case, co-release with BRAW RECORDS of Edinburgh. Nick's a nicer guy than me, puts on good gigs and has a moustache, get it off him too! [press-release]
Foresta ESP -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Le Crepuscule Du Soir, lcds019, (ltd. 50)
Gloomy Dark Ambient from Italy. Symphonies of night wanderings through desolate dangerous places. 4-page full-colour A5 digisleeve. [YAOP]
Foundation Hope -- "The Faded Reveries" -- CD -- €9
2006 Cold Meat Industry, cmi162
Foundation Hope released its debut album A Call To All Redeemers on the French Divine Comedy Records in January 2006. After summer 2006, two tracks will appear on the Book-cd compilation Pere Lachaise. Before the debut, two promo's were made, respectively titled Broken Sounds Set To Despairing Melodies and The Forsaken Playgrounds. Both are sold out. The musical influences of Foundation Hope are many, from dark-ambient to abstract noise and post-rock. The aim was and will be, trying to find an individual and somewhat original sound, instead of the sound of common dark-ambient Lustmord epigones. [label info]
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Foundation Hope -- "Our God Is A Consuming Fire" -- CD -- €10
2008 Autarkeia, acd 028
The latest album Our God Is A Consuming Fire by the Dutch project Foundation Hope, just like its earlier output, aims at the exposure of hope institute promoted by the Christian religion. The album is characterised by the transparent but melancholic atmosphere, where each track radiates with quiet and modest despair. Our God Is A Consuming Fire is the high class of ambient deeply affecting human emotions. In short, this album may be labelled the despair consolidated in sound. [press-release]
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Foundation Hope -- "Tunes for the Wounded" -- CD -- €9
2008 Cold Meat Industry, cmi177
'Tunes for the wounded' can be considered a lament. It is a defamatory accusation to the world and it's suffering. Foundation hope lodges complaints through gritty ambient-industrial structures, broken sounds and despairing moods. Always without losing touch with the beautiful and melodic. Always with that tiny bright spark of hope, overshadowed by doubt and cynicism. This successor to 'The faded reveries' is a little more harsh. Incorporated are distorted guitar drones, tape-decks, broken strings and noisy outbursts. Firmly rooted in reality, this is tears dropping slowly, a herd crawling through mud and blood, and a call to a redeemer who isn't there. [label info]
Fractal Heads -- "Light On The Stepped Plates" -- CD -- €11
2006 Laton, Laton 043
This duo from Novokuznetsk composed from Sergei Malkin (Radius) and Dmitry Kravchuk first appeared in the program of "Cultural hero of XXth century" festival in 1999, and debuted on the Exotica label compilation, remains quite unknown outside Kemerovo region for a long time. In 2003, their album "Dreampainting" was released on very limited edition CDR by St.-Peterburg based label Fight Muzik. Finally, this full-length CD is released officially, but the material itself was recorded back in 1999. Actually, this type of music is a bit dated, but in terms of cultural isolation it's really exciting. They combined in very smart way some minimal electronic sequences, mysterious radiovoices and polyrhythmic patterns, all created by soviet analogue synthesizers. The aesthetic feeling is very close to Kraftwerk circa early 80s, that means emotional insensibility and rarefied atmosphere. The static approach in arrangements and simple melodies slowly transformed to amorphous sounds disappearing in the past makes me think about technocratic aspects of ambient music. [Dmitry Vasilyev, Independent Electronic Music]
Fractional -- "Aliwen" -- CD -- €11
2006 AKH Records, akh 10061-2
On his first cd-album on the Dutch label AKH Records, Pierre Remy finds himself among the spiralling worlds of modern and experimental electronic sounds. Aliwen is a 60+ minute journey through several landscapes, that results in lightweighted industrial collages, melodical and downbeat dub and minimal percussive aural excursions. Not making use of extended long dreaded passages, featuring steady rhythms and endlessly played chords, Fractional's variety of styles comes to the surface. Pick out the best of the Intelligent Techno from Albion, for example, Autechre and Squarepusher, add some subtle elements, a pinch of the harshness of Muslimgauze and Aliwen proves to be Fractional's ideal showcase on this self produced first album. This is the urban style of modern electronic music. [label info]
Frakmundt -- "Urbarglieder" -- CD -- €14
2010 Percht, Percht15
Francis, Richard & Russell, Bruce -- "Garage Music" -- CD -- €13
2012 Alone At Last, AAL[2], (ltd. 500)
Bruce Russell has an MA in Political Studies, and works as an information designer. He has previously worked in the field of archives management, during which time he ran the National Radio sound archive. As a sound artist Russell is known mainly for his involvement in New Zealand's longest-running improvisational 'post-rock' group, the Dead C., although he also works in the field of radiophonic composition, and records as a solo artist and with the trio A Handful of Dust. He performs with electric guitar, electronic devices and analogue tapes. Bruce also runs the internationally respected record label Corpus Hermeticum. Richard Francis (b. 1977) is representing the younger generation of NZ musicians, working mainly with electronics and noise matters. This album is a collection of their collaborations in different modes. Three parts of "Garage" are their showcase of mail music exchange, the "Undead" piece is the justaposition of two solo sets from 2009, and "Live" is recorded during the concert at The Physics Room, Christchurch. Francis plays modular synthesizer and computer, and Russell uses guitar, tapes and clavioline (the old synthesizer like instrument invented in 1947). Limited edition of 500 copies in special packaging - custom made of textured paper, assembled by hand. Comes with two photos of modern buildings. [label info]
Franklin, Martin & Northam, Michael -- "An Opening Of The Earth: Recovered" -- CD -- €11
2008 Faria Records, FAR-23, (ltd. 500)
':.excavating the sonic crust with heavy synthesised drones, trebly buzzes and popping bursts of sound::eerie as hell.'
Darren Bergstein, I/E (from review of original release)... "An Opening Of The Earth: Recovered" revisits a spontaneous collaboration between the two musicians, captured in the early 90's. Recorded in an obsolete format, no longer playable with today's technology. The old playback device, recovered from dusty storage for one last use, and the recording of this event brought back into the present - recovered once again.At once a sonic artifact of the recent past and a touchstone for contemporary developments in lo-fi electronic sound... Franklin and Northam's original meeting saw them both on the cusp of developments in their own careers. Franklin's seminal Ambient trio, TUU shortly after embarked on an enduring series of CD releases and performances across Europe. Michael Northam's nomadic life as a travelling sound artist continued from this point onward, leaving a trail of recorded evidence from projects in 25 countries... Mythic imagery of man descending into the mysteries of the Inner Earth is conjured in this intense recorded performance.Using lo-fi sampling, eerie drones, percussive metal instruments and effects, the players trace an intuitive path through a midnight electronic improvisation. Snippets of sound from other projects of that time slip in and out of the mix, roughly recorded Theatre rehearsals, and audio of UK street life appear from dictaphone tapes. Like an unearthed archeological find, the recordings of this ritualistic performance tie the pieces to their location, as well as the events of their time... After unearthing the original tapes, Martin Franklin has created all new mixes for this Faria Records release, including previous unheard sections, re-interpreted and enhanced for the 21st Century listener. [press-release]
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Freiband -- "Replicas" -- CD -- €10
2007 Monochrome Vision, (mv19), (ltd. 500)
Highly conceptual project that combines features of remix, recycling and plagiarism - the re-interpretation of classic album by Asmus Tietchens 'Daseinsverfehlung'. All what can be heard on this CD, as always in case of Frans de Waard framework, is made from music that already existed: every sound, word in titles and even the cover picture - all is just processing and manipulation techniques. Frans de Waard was born in 1965 in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. His experiments with sound started back in 1980 when he just was using tape recorder, guitar and household objects. The first ever piece recorded was published in "Katacombs vol.III" compilation tape, released by Karsten Rodemann on his Graf Haufen Tapes label in Germany, 1984. So it becames the moment when Kapotte Muziek was formed, and then also Korm Plastics label, bothe of them are still existing until today. Initially, Frans teamed up with Christian Nijs, but in 1987 the latter one left, soon replaced by Peter Duimelinks, who was very active in that time with V2-Organisation (the big independent label, production center and publishing company, later just obscured by Staalplaat) and multimedia performance group THU20. Another musician from this group, Roel Meelkop, also got involved with Kapotte Muziek later, in 1996. Actually, THU20 had many participants and was more influenced by realtime composition, while Kapotte Muziek is very conceptual project dedicated to timeless and continuous exploration of recycled sound, whether acoustic or electronic ones. What you hear is like slow shimmering, irregular pulsations or some crackles pushing the limits of audibility and then pushed away by silence. So it seems that almost each piece ever recorded can be also used for further processing. Besides Kapotte Muziek, Frans currently also plays in Beequeen duo with Freek Kinkelaar, runs Plinkity Plonk and other small labels, writes tons of reviews for the Vital Weekly newsletter. When he just get some free time, becomes active with various side-projects like Goem (minimal techno), Quest (ambient), Shifts (post-rock), Captain Black (remixes) etc. Freiband is also one of his solo projects. [press-release]
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Frequency In Cycles Per Second / Maurizio Bianchi -- "Chaotische Fraktale + Letzte Technologie" -- 2 CD -- €15
2006 Silentes Minimal Editions, sme 0612
A new double cd from Silentes, containing soundworks by 'Chaotische Fraktale' and 'Letze Technologie'. These works were sourced from collaborations between M.B./Maurizio Bianchi, and Frequency in Cycles for Second/Sandro Kaiser. A fascinating sonic mix of influences here... industrial, electro-experimentation, minimalism, noise, and deep-listening. Large, drone-based segments meld with the distant sounds of reverberating piano and soft whispered melodies. Dramatic and dark. Huge pools of sound, where the listener can float weightlessly between earthly calm and otherworldly discord. [press-release]
Friedman, Stephan -- "Music for Theatre" -- CD-R -- €7
2006 T'an! Kaven!! Ash!!!, Ash!!!005, (ltd. 55)
A project commissioned from Stephan Friedman (Silence & Strength, Antiochus) by Notzar Theatre for the play "Stom!". "STOM!" (Shut up!) is an absurd play about absurd life. It tells the tale of a person in a modern society who has no say in the matter. He is being humiliated, thrown around, beaten, stepped upon from birth till death. Notzar is a small avant-garde Jaffa-based theater. The Theater dialogue group consists of Arab and Jewish young actors that say things which are hard to say and are even harder to hear. Over an hour moving score of ambient layers, scourging electronics and original poetry. [label info]
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Frisch, Johannes & Ralf Wehowsky -- "Unwahrscheinlichkeiten" -- CD -- €16
2010 Waystyx, WR64, (ltd. 188)
The duo of Johannes Frisch and Ralf Wehowsky has already showed up on the "Tränende Würger" CD (Korm Plastics, 2005). The main instrument of Frisch is double bass, the trademark approach of Wehowsky is pedantic electronic sound transformation aiming towards artifacts and tiny details of sound to be put to the foreground. The collaboration of these two musicians combines modern neoclassical and concrete music with complex psycholigical compositional structure. The album consists of three tracks. The first one was recorded real-time with minimal post-editing. The second one contains two recordings of the same piece, taped after each other during the same recording session. The third track consists of 3 excerpts from one recording, played back in different speeds and layered over each other. Pathologically strange sound of a classical instrument, filtered under a meticulous supervision of a German composer - the accents are put on microscopic details of double bass, all rustles and creaks are put to the front, supported by strange electronic sounds as if sucked by syringes from the wires of pick-ups and effects modules. Recommended to the rare lovers of getting into the very depth of sound. Special cardboard sleeve.
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Frog -- "s/t" -- CD -- €16
2010 Waystyx, WR49, (ltd. 146)
New side-project of Christian Renou known for his project Brume. Monotonous haunting and sometimes almost danceable beats are layered over looped electroacoustic sounds and dark ambient pierced by lengthy droning lines. Fascinating industrial rhythms, elaborate compositional structure and fantastic depth of sound from the true master of musique concrete... Non-standard hand painted cover from thick cardboard.
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Frozen Faces -- "Broken Sounds of a Dying Culture" -- CD -- €11
2007 Wrotycz Records, WRT 005
"The year is 1996 I was surfing on cold waves through the very heart of Linkopia, night after night it was all the same. Sleeping in the Karmanik basement seduced by delerium echoing between white concretwalls. I could hear the equiptment slowly disintegrating as I put out the light, broken sounds of a dying culture. This might be the erosion of history eternally scraping on the crown of mankind... or was it just the decline of my personal belongings after years of abuse... and was there any diffrence between the two theories? I streched out my limb and pressed the record-button." - Lina Baby Doll. Originally released by Entartete Musikk in 1996 as a limited edition LP. Now available in CD format with totally remastered sound, new artwork and bonus tracks from the Religion of Hate 7" in original extended versions. A must for all the fans of Lina's works who somehow missed the vinyl version! A5 folding cover. [press-release]
Frozen Ocean -- "Steamworks: Hibernation" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT38, (ltd. 62)
The age of steam technology left almost the same mark in mankind culture history as stone or bronze ages. Locomotives, steamboats, manufactures based on steam power - all this formed the basis for civilization in XIX and early XX centuries. Now this age is gone but it still inspires technical artists working in different genres. The Moscow based project Frozen Ocean also paid it's homage in the form of beautiful old school industrial dark ambient album dedicated to steam technology. Now even the official mass media seriously consider the possible demise of modern industry based on electrical energy (2012 cataclysm) and who knows, maybe today's state of steam machines is just a hibernation before future awakening?... Sleeve + insert. [press-release]
Frozen Rabbit -- "26,000" -- CD -- €10
2005 Dehausset, DE001
Frozen Rabbit's debut CD represents sonic futurism at its most epic. 26,000 pits gradually unfolding analogue synth drones against monumental walls of reverb while flickering, ghostlike voices emerge from the ether. This is nocturnal psychedelia; simultaneously languid and intense... Frozen Rabbit is a new project from renowned Vancouver musician and engineer Phil Western, in collaboration with Tim Hill. Western is best known as a member of Skinny Puppy and offshoot project Download - and the new project with Mark Spybey (Dead Voices On Air, Zoviet*France, Reformed Faction) called Beehatch. Western was also a full-time member of Off'n'Gone, Floatpoint and Plateau, and has worked with an excessively long number of artists... Previous collaborations between Western and Hill have been rooted in dancefloor-ready techno. Here they drop the beats and focus on the darkly meditative, expansive potential of pure, resonant sound. This admirably adventurous new approach takes the style of the ambient disk from Western's solo CD World's End to a whole other level of ornate abstraction. [press-release]
Fuck, The Retarded Girl -- "Atavistic" -- CD-R -- €7
2011 Smell The Stench, (ltd. 45)
Contains three manic and precise live noise performances from throughout 2011, and an exploration of malfunctioning cassette tapes. Best release from the Melbourne solo harsh noise project. [label info]
GAAD / V.I.K.I. -- split -- 3"CD-R -- €5
2008 SUBliminalRECordings, no.187, (ltd. 30)
A rare release of a prolific yet brought to an early grave Greek label. Industrial Harsh Noise in mid-aggressive bass forms. [YAOP]
Gabbasov, Sergey -- "India" -- CD -- €11
2010 Faria Records, FAR-028, (ltd. 500)
Here is the sonic picture of India, naturally modelling the melodic continuum to fit it's title - starting from the size of an ear auricle and getting to the knowledge of reality. This work could be filed under "relax" and "sounds of nature", but to melomaniac's pleasure, it also contains the deep sense inside, guided by duduk, percussion and electronics. They appeal to get imbued by the voice of peaceful eternity, successfully imitated by Sergey Gabbasov, who obviously used to dissolve himself in the noble ethers of Indian musical heritage. "India" is a nice example of a meticulous work, assembled by bits like a mosaic, presenting the fertility and diversity of this country, loved by chilled hyperboreans. [press-release]
Gae Bolg -- "Petite Introduction Aux Pratiques Des Gymnosophes" -- CD -- €14
2009 Le Cluricaun, CL014
Galaxy The Incubator -- "Collages Cult" -- CD-R -- €5
2006 self-released, (ltd. 24)
Project from Petrozavodsk, Russia. Collages with various degree of intensity - from harsh to cut'n'noise, from minimal playing on frequency generator to pieces in vein of Out Of Focus. In other words, domestic recordings multiplied by TV & radio cut-ups + broken CD-player. Carelessness to everything all around. The disc is divided into several parts: track 1 - beginning, 2-6 - tension increases, 7-9 - a little rest, 10-15 - sharp phase, 16-17 - ending. Packed in sleeve made from the sheets of medical textbook from 1981, insert. [press-release]
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Galaxy The Incubator -- "UFO are Messengers of Satan" -- CD-R -- €8
2007 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT24, (ltd. 116)
Space Ambient / Noise inspired by a yellow book about "UFO mysteries" (where from the album title is taken, and each of 28 tracks is dedicated to one of the "extraterrestrial civilizations" described in a book). Vacuum drone pressure turns into abrasive tracks with blurred voices from without and then makes room for almost industrial futuristic pulsations and uneasy hiss of apparatus. Really new approach to the seemingly trite space subject. 116 copies in a double-cover. [press-release]
Ganzer -- "Nahtriheccunde Gahinneverahtunin Zehgessurklach Zunnus" -- 3"CD-R -- €5
2006 TSPHN Researches, (ltd. 31)
Typical for Ganzer harsh-noise attack in brutal Japanese style.
Ganzer -- "Puppet Faust" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Sickcore, SC-17, (ltd. 100)
Harsh Apocalyptic Noise.
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Ganzer -- "Sophia" -- CD-R -- €7
2006 TSPHN Researches, (ltd. 31)
18-minute harsh-noise piece frightful to think hin what way cooked from a "concerto for bassoon and low strings" by Sofia Gubaidulina.
Gaping Chasm -- "Fragments Of War" -- CD -- €10
2006 Aliens Production, AP 12, (ltd. 550)
Gaping Chasm is Ergo - it is a one-man project which was started in 1995. It present an effort to create classical EBM, to combine vocal with aggressive and on the contrary very pleasant sounds. We can find in every new Ergo's stuff an effort not to be monotonous. Within some time Ergo started to create a lot of instrumental materials that iniciated to move his work to more peaceful and mysterious atmospheres, the result of this was a creation of side project Anima Mundi, which links the different cultures and their traditional sounds with Ergo's moods. [press-release]
Garet, Richard -- "Silver" -- CD -- €10
2012 Observatoire, obs * 033, (ltd. 300)
Richard Garet's new work 'Silver' unfolds throughout four tracks over the hour period with an intriguing ripple of textures and electronic sounds carefully crafted, weighed, and measured. The explicit essence of Richard's records is confirmed by a skillfully interwoven palette of sounds such as field recordings, and material that emerges from studio processes, as well as, Garet's affinity for timber, pitch, and consequential tones. The foundation remains within the investigation of brittle material, malleability, and in drawing attention to focused listening, fluctuating connections, and sonic relationships. One may say that 'Silver' finds balance between spontaneous bursts from coil signals and accurate processing, between materiality and phenomena, arriving to a carefully composed and harmonious state... [label info]
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Gasparin, Gi -- "24 Soli" -- CD-R -- €8
2009 Lunhare, zzz - 7, (ltd. 100)
Always busy with many groups (Piume E Sangue, Pangolinorchestra`, Gi-Napajo, etc.) and collaborative projects (just look for some other Lunhare releases), the workaholic Gasparin had the time to record this solitary work. Just a guitar, a keyboard, and a misterious 'horizontal rantola' as instruments, but lots of ideas and influences. [label info]
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Gasparin, Gi & Andreini, Jacopo -- "Il Giro del Mondo in 80 Pezzi" -- CD-R -- €8
2008 Lunhare, zzz - 8, (ltd. 100)
That is, 'Around the World in 80 Tracks'. Gasparin and Andreini are active in the Italian impro/alternative circuit since the early 90's. Here they join forces and travel around every musical genre and style you can mention. This is the world music you'll never find in a world music shop. [label info]
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Gasparin, Gi & Pesavento, Felice -- "Caja Antelice" -- CD-R -- €8
2009 Lunhare, zzz - 10, (ltd. 100)
A work based on sampling, tapes, and records with some guitar and keyboard additions. It may sound like dark ambient at first, but it suddenly turns into looped rhythms then suddenly it turns into more structured compositions then suddenly..... [label info]
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Geisha -- "Die Verbrechen der Liebe" -- CD -- €10
2008 Crucial Blast, CBR 68, (ltd. 1000)
This hour-long, six track monolith follows Geisha into a psychedelic black storm, their blown-out and raw rock infused with a bone-rattling recording and covered in a thick sheen of white noise and gritty distortion. As with their previous album, the spirit of seminal noise rock / sludge rock (think Cherubs, Melvins, My Bloody Valentine's "Isn't Anything" for coordinates) is combined with violent, chaotic NOISE and tainted with blurred VHS cassette visions and vague allusions to BDSM, and then jammed through an orgone accumulator, forming a ferocious, crushing rock beast that reveals it's powerful hooks and melodies underneath the churning distorted bass rumble and sludgemetal riffage, blasts of psychedelic drone-noise and corrosive skree, percussive pummel, and deranged singing. The sound is immense, and the first five tracks on Die Verbrechen Der Liebe deliver Geisha's in-the-red heaviness and hooks in surplus. "Prelude To Amber Pays The Rent", "A Wilderness, Except By Sight", "Sportsfister" - every one is a crusher. But then Geisha pull out the monstrous thirty-minute, thirty-five second closer "Theme From Diana", and the tone changes completely. This track is a re-working of a "metal percussion" set that Geisha originally performed live several years ago, and it begins as a slowly building fog of voices and effects and shimmering metal that blooms into an expanse of droning, fx-heavy guitar, looping samples, cosmic effects, and improvised percussion. It's a kind of rumbling industrial dronescape that stretches out forever, until suddenly in the last few minutes the drifting drones and psychedelic guitars and sampled voices suddenly explode in an immolating nuclear blast of overdriven, speaker-annhilating noise and the track immediately, terrifyingly changes shape into a monstrous lumbering noise-metal dirge that bulldozes out of your speakers, whooshing Hawkwind effects swooping overhead, the band knotted together into a white-hot blast of ultra heavy riffage, distortion, and a wall of percussive force. "Diana" is one of the most crushing pieces of music that I have ever heard from Geisha, like some majestic and brutal conglom of Swans, Skullflower, Merzbow, and Burmese forged into a destructive space-metal supernova. Crucial Blast is releasing the CD version of Die Verbrechen Der Liebe in a limited edition of 1,000 copies, packaged in a full-color gatefold jacket. [press-release]
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Geisha -- "Mondo Dell'Orrore" -- CD -- €10
2006 Crucial Blast, CBR 52
Devouring/rebirthing the concept of "noise rock" into something frighteningly beautiful and brutally heavy, GEISHA deliver crushing blasts of impossibly hyperdistorted rock baked in massive frequency overload and massive hooks and melodies and sinister crushing riffs, all of it slathered in filthy throbbing feedback and white noise horror holocaust, like the early 90's alt rock of Isn't Anything-era MY BLOODY VALENTINE and DINOSAUR JR. mashed together with the most brutal sort of UNSANE/Am Rep style racket and distortion-drenched psych/noise into a sludgy metallic mass, jamming with a small army of pedal-smashing harsh electronics troglodytes playing awesomely catchy/crushing pop songs buried beneath a hellish storm of skree and amp-blowing fuzz. Terrifying. Beautiful. [press-release]
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Gelsomina -- "Nostalghia" -- CD -- €10
2004/2006 Cipher Productions, (sic 28) / Musically Incorrect Records, MIRCD2, (ltd. 500)
The name Gelsomina was encountered before, on a bunch of CDR compilations from Finnish Musically Incorrect Records, who also released 'Rautavaara'. The first ten tracks on 'Nostalgia' were originally released by Smell The Stench in 2004 as a cassette. Gelsomina is the nom de plume for Pekka PT, who is credited for 'noise' and noise is what we get. Loud obnoxious feedback and distortion, the full works are here. Unlike others in this field, Gelsomina has 'depth', has 'variation' and has 'skil' - three factors not always present in the work of the lesser imaginative noise makers. Even when Gelsomina walks the paths of noise that is now paved like a highway and no longer a 'find your way in the bush', he still does a pretty fine job, pretty much along the lines of a good Merzbow. One of the better noise makers I encountered recently. [Vital Weekly]
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Gelsomina + no Xivic -- "Furnace" -- CD -- €10
2007 Some Place Else, SPECD07044
Furnace is an unlikely yet strangely natural union of no Xivic, renowned sculptor of dark electro-acoustic soundscapes, and Gelsomina, Finland's most prolific harsh noise artist. The title track, also the main piece on the album, is a live collaboration recorded in late 2006, a grand opus of psychedelic noise with a peculiar 'kraut' flavour! In addition to this, both artists created exclusive tracks on their own to complete the album. In total, Furnace is a 44-minute blast of fire, brimstone and hazardous electric currents, and thus a fine completion of Some Place Else's tenth year of activity. [press-release]
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Generic -- "Torture" -- CD -- €10
2008 Fractured Spaces Records, FS0208CD, (ltd. 1000)
Genre: Creepily atmospheric dark ambient. For its second release, Fractured Spaces Records couldn't have chosen a better one: Generic's "Torture", a long and deeply unsettling journey into the beating black heart, and Antarctic iciness of the collective shattered psyche, of mankind. Created using 'foley tracks' and sound effects (used for both film and television), as well as the occasional guitars, bass, and found sounds, it all combines to produce a haunting, nerve-shredding, ghostly and schizophrenic soundtrack, guaranteed to simultaneously freeze the heart and mind, and induce cold sweat to bead the forehead and shivers to wrack the body. Six mid to long tracks of bleak mindscapes totalling just over 50 minutes and wrapped in beautiful full colour digipak with artwork by new German digital artist Thamus. Generic is Adam Sykes and is based in the United Kingdom's West Country. He also records as Ritual Summertime and ran the Iris Light label, releasing artists of the calibre of Aube, Band of Pain, Crackletone, Dense Vision Shrine, and Front 242. [press-release]
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Genetic Load -- "Tollenkisten" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 ML, ML 0408, (ltd. 93)
Genetic Load is a collaboration project by Bardoseneticcube and Reductio Ad Absurdum. The album was recorded in 1996 and originally self-released on a cassette in 1997, then re-released on a CD-R by Black Dead Rabbit Productions as a limited edition of 100 copies. Powerful industrial experimental noise recording.
Genetic Selection -- "World Of Tomorrow" -- CD -- €15
2007 Ant-Zen, act 195
Genetic Transmission -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €11
2006 Die Schone Blumen Musik Werk
Low-key atmospheric old school industrial played on metal, resembling the works of Russian project Misery. Sophisticated package: carbdoard sleeve with printed info is glued over with fallen leaves, sprayed with varnish and packed in outer slipcase. Gorgeous artwork and great music! [YAOP]
Genetic Transmission -- "Ascetic" -- CD -- €10
2007 Beast Of Prey, BOP 4.0, (ltd. 444)
New album of Polish industrial scene leader, Tomasz Twardawa, long-time artist, creator of legendary project Genetic Transmission, coauthor of such projects as ?adne Kwiatki, Godzilla and Hated Bruit Kollectiv. "Ascetic" is an acoustc, experimental album in bruit convention represented by GENETIC TRANSMISION. Over 60 minutes journey trough ascetic world of industrial collages. It's like cubism, synthetic in music, acoustic colours, natural objects and artistic deformation become a discussion between reality and art. What in reality and sorrounding is common for us GENETIC TRANSOMISIONS deforms, shatters and turns in it's bruit style. In recording of "Ascetic" were used mainly field recordings, experimantal-industrial sounds and combined allogether. The album is released in an unconventional package, in form of round paper circles of 150mm diameter. Three round paper inserts plus two round inserts of brown paper. In all circles are four holes and all is combined with a small rope. The CD is attached on a rubber insert between the papers. All hand made and numbered, to 444 copies limit. [press-release]
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Genetic Transmission -- "Music for Vienna Actionists" -- CD-R -- €11
self-released
In 2003 in Katovice, Poland there was a show of silent films by Viennese actionists Otto Muhl and Gunter Brus (made in 1964-65) with soundtrack from Genetic Transmission. This documentary disc includes the original films with this soundtrack, a fragment of a live performance of Genetic Transmission in Euforia Art Cafe and separate recording of the soundtrack/ Sleeve. [YAOP]
Genetic Transmission -- "R.E.T.R.O." -- CD -- €10
2007 War Office Propaganda / Rage In Eden, WOP41
Genetic Transmission is a project of Tomasz Twardawa - a legend of polish industrial scene. The newest GT album - R.E.T.R.O is recorded in vein of old industrial. Most of basic sounds are microphone recordings of different instruments, original acoustic installations like set of stones, glass and metal as well as field recordings. The equipment is wide spectrum of contact and dynamic microphones, old telephone headphones. All enriched with vintage soviet made electronic devices from early 80's. More than sixty minutes of pure industrial sounds in six tracks, CD in digipack. [press-release]
Genetic Transmission -- "Rondel Pelen Lajna" -- CD-R -- €7
2003 Soulworm Editions, Worm XXXVI, (ltd. 100)
Tomasz Twardawa is a living legend of the underground industrial scene in Poland. Since the mid eighties, he has taken part in pioneer projects as TKT, Godzilla and a few more, introducing noise and power industrial aesthetics into the numb, self-proclaimed 'avantgarde' crowd, stimulating its development with his uncompromised, radical approach. His main brain-child, Genetic Transmission, with numerous great releases under belt, proves that his flame still burns. The album presented hereby is a bruitist construct of thoughtful, detailed electroacoustics with a remarkable musique-concrete edge and composition methods that are completely unpredictable, yet consistent. Sound is the matter. [press-release]
Genetic Transmission -- "Spiral" -- CD-R -- €9
2008 Afe Records, afe113lcd, (ltd. 100)
Experimental / Industrial / Noise. Tomasz Twardawa is a living legend of the underground industrial scene in Poland. Since the mid eighties, he has taken part in pioneer projects as TKT, Godzilla and a few more, introducing noise and power industrial aesthetics into the numb, self-proclaimed 'avantgarde' crowd, stimulating its development with his uncompromised, radical approach. His main brain-child, Genetic Transmission, with numerous great releases under belt, proves that his flame still burns. After many albums on his own label Die Schöne Blumen Musik Werk, and more recently on Tochnit Aleph, Beast of Prey and War Office Propaganda, "Spiral" is his first release on Afe. Consisting of one long track - about 43 minutes - "Spiral" begins smoothly with a field-recording of wind blowing through a desert alley, but soon turns into a powerful industrial collage. Genetic Transmission has the ability to deform everyday sounds and submit them to his own laws, converting usual noises into a proper surrealistic and bruitiste language all of his own. Most of the sounds used in this composition are culled from recordings of different instruments, original acoustic installations - like sets of stone-sculptures, glass scoriae and metal agglomerates - and field recordings. Tomasz's equipment includes a wide spectrum of contact and dynamic microphones, old telephone headphones, vintage soviet devices and modern computer technology. "Spiral" is varied, claustrophobic and sharp. Nerve-wracking at times, with noises crawling up and down the invisible thread that unites them, the album has an oppressive and dense feeling from the beginning to the end... [label info]
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Genocide Organ -- "Remember" -- 2 CD -- €20
1997/2007 Tesco Organisation, TESCO 067
The 10th birthday of "Remember" sees the re-release, containing an extra of 50 minutes live material. Total Time: 139min.! All material was remastered for this release by Propergol and the artwork is completely overworked. It gives an oversight on G.O. performances from the beginning until the year 2000. Powerful, provocative and subversive, just different! [label info]
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Gerechtigkeits Liga -- "Hypnotischer Existenzialismus / The Games Must Go On" -- CD -- €13
1985/2005 Isegrimm Records, Isegrimm 001
Geriht -- "Forgotten Ways" -- CD-R -- €9
2008 Rigorism Productions, RP014, (ltd. 100)
Dim dusty death ambient full of depressive guitar drones, sick cries and moans, muddy noises and suicidal washy rhythms. A perfect soundtrack for the last days of a self-hater's life. DVD-box. [YAOP]
Gerostenkorp -- "Terre Brulee" -- CD -- €10
2009 OPN Records, OPNCD0010, (ltd. 500)
"French Experimental artist Gerostenkorp produces a tribalistic stomp that treads similar ground in different areas to Pain Teens and Swans. Gerostenkorp provide a futuristic soundtrack that works on subtle atmospheric ambience throughout. Ghostly ambient qualities dominate this album, yet it also changes its approach frequently. "Terre Brulee" seems industrial only in its electronic futurism, yet seems reach out further in its sound and ambitions. There is a sense of seductive French Neu Wave where the song overtakes the ambient passages" (Judas Kiss). Features guest appearances by Von Magnet and Terroritmo, bringing a theatrical dimension to the addictive tribal-oriented rhythmic Industrial soundscapes. Presented in a sumptuous 6-panel digipak. [Cold Spring]
Gerostenkorp & Neon Rain -- "Io Non Ho Paura" -- CD -- €10
2008 OPN Records, OPNCD009, (ltd. 500)
The brand new split gathering Gerostenkorp & Neon Rain. Velluto Grigio & Profondo Giallo are 2 tracks dedicated to Dario Argento's works and Giallo movies. More than 50 minutes of Industrial Ambient "Giallo" music. Limited edition of 500 copies housed in a slim dvd package with full "Giallo" colour artwork. [label info]
Gerritt -- "Space Level Blaze" -- CD -- €10
2005 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 025
Psych-out acid noise reak extravaganza! Star dust, inhalation and electric fire evidence in the wake of smoke and strobes! Material extracted from Gerritt on the west coast and meticulously deranged by John Wiese. [label info]
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Gerstein -- "Phlegmaticus" -- CD-R -- €8
1999 Oktagon Records / Misty Circles, GON 002 / MCR 19
Gerstein was born in fall 1984 as a personal music project of Maurizio Pustianaz. Since then he has moved between solo melancholic piano ballads, experimental harsh sounds, synth-guitar powerful extravaganza before approaching his electronic semi-melodic style in the latest years... This album is a re-issue of a 1986 cassette out on Misty Circles with a bonus track. Old school dark atmospheric Italian experimental music.
Giscard Le Survivant -- "Seul Contre Le Programme Commun" -- CD-R -- €9
2002 Mechanoise Labs, [mn014], (ltd. 100)
Being the most atypical release from Mechanoise Labs so far is already quite a feat, but pushing it beyond the novelty point is something else altogether. Giscard le Survivant manages to move from stomping distorted beatbox loops to odd collages of vintage late 70's samples with the sort of flow that keeps you wondering what's next on the menu, as some buzzing synthsaw taunts you. The references might be a bit too obscure for those unfamiliar with the late 70's/early 80's reign of then french President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, but the general sense of lo-fi madness of the music will make sure that not all of it is lost on them. Votez Giscard! [press-release]
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Glasberg -- "Utrennik" -- CD-R -- €6
2008 ElectroIndustria, 11EIóDr, (ltd. 100)
In a certain sense Glasberg (St. Petersburg, Russia) reminds of clanking question mark, which can appear in the head after a sleepless night on a balcony of a tower-block in St. Petersburg outskirts. Important are not the specific formulae, but the gesture and message themselves. Technologically the meditation is performed by a method of intuitive warping, by distorting the sound in real time intil it turns into a rarefied vibrational flow flavoured with a desperate voice. [press-release] The debut album of Uncle Fika, a permanent member of Deutsch Nepal concerts in St. Petersburg ;) Old-school death-industrial, analogue weirdness and insane vocals.
Glaukom Synod -- "Uczulony" -- CD-R -- €3
self-released
Schizoid electro-industrial from France with sampled metal parts.
Gnaw Their Tongues -- "An Epiphanic Vomiting Of Blood" -- CD -- €10
2008 Crucial Blast, CBR 69
Gnaw Their Tongues, an enigmatic project from the Netherlands that has wowed fans of messed-up heaviosity with the phenomenal Reeked, Pained and Shuddering CD that was released on Paradigms along with a host of super-limited CDR and cassette releases, is joining the Crucial Blast roster for the CD release of the new full length An Epiphanic Vomiting Of Blood, which was released as a limited edition vinyl release at the beginning of 2008 on Burning World Records. This undefinable mass of black amorphic horror is one of the most intense listens we've engaged in recently, a nihilistic pit of howling orchestral strings and blackened abstract doom, operatic female voices plunging into a fetid sewer of filth and blackness, equal parts avant black metal and splattered sludge and symphonic horror movie score. An overwhelming deathscape scrawled in jagged figures across pieces like "My body is not a vessel, nor a temple. It's a repulsive pile of sickness" or "Sawn asunder and left for the beasts", and flecked with moments of unbelievably crushing beauty that may surprise fans of Gnaw Their Tongue's previous work. [press-release]
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Gnomonclast -- "Gather Together" -- CD -- €13
2011 Old Europa Cafe, OECD145
This, the second album of a proposed trilogy, furthers the themes drawn from Tempus Null nearer to a conclusion. While remaining aggressively percussive, many orchestral movements and melodic constructions accompany the virulent proclamations of J1 StatiK (Luftwaffe) and N2 ItinitI (Valence). Also accompanying Gnomonclast for this release are a host of musicians from such bands as Art Abscons, Cult Of Youth, Awen, Stahlfaust, State Research Bureau, Giftstrauch, and Front Sonore. This album exemplifies its title, for never before have so many diverse artists gathered together to tell a coherent, yet complex narrative concerning time's certain movement toward an end. Prior to time's censure, Gnomonclast offers "Gather Together," an album that requires close scrutiny. [press-release]
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Goatvargr -- "s/t" -- CD -- €9
2006 Cold Spring Records, CSR65CD, (ltd. 1000)
A harsh journey of sound structures summoned from the deepest caverns of Hell by the scene's most prolific madmen, Nordvargr (SE) and Goat (USA). Working with each other's source material, they offer up a brutal and violent masterpiece. Not just a head on noise album, but a refined symphony of bestial lust, worship and violence. Goatvargr is an assault on the senses, appealing to both the metal and noise scenes (for fans of MZ.412). [press-release]
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Goatvargr -- "Black Snow Epoch" -- CD -- €10
2010 Cold Spring, CSR126CD
The second unholy union of Lord Nordvargr (MZ.412, Folkstorm, Toroidh etc) and Goat (USA). Time, pilgrimages and bloodlines have been bourn since the first testament of Goatvargr was witnessed in this era of false knowledge. The first covenant of Goatvargr was baleful, lycanthropic and lethiferous. A rejection of the techgnostic kingdom and circuitry idols which seduce our era. The downfall of light has brought a world of coldness. This Black Snow Epoch is a time to honour our forbearers such as MZ.412 and the elements of flesh, wood and alchemical steel. Industrial loops and analogue keyboards merge with sheet metal and chains to create a solemn winter hymn where the cold steel stings your flesh. The wolf instinctively hunts through the frost, and the goat is blamed for human transgressions, yet during the Black Snow Epoch, the true hunters will pursue... Presented in a jewelcase with foldout poster cover. [press release]
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Gods Of Electricity -- "Sundiving" -- CD -- €11
2006 Faith Strange, fs6, (ltd. 600)
The Golden Oaks -- "Autumn Testament" -- CD -- €8
2005/2008 A Silent Place, ASP17
And finally, unto the earth, The Golden Oaks are borne. Comprised of Brad Rose (The North Sea) and Keith Wood (Hush Arbors, Sunburned Hand Of The Man), The Golden Oaks are acoustic folk magicians springing forth candles from wooded sanctuaries. Composed by mail, "Autumn Testament" is a hymn to the season of red, gold, and orange. A canopy of leaves shelters the proceedings from the fog that threatens to obscure these sounds. This is a glorious combination of organic grace, blessed by the forests of past centuries. Digifile. [press-release]
Golem Gross / The Bastard Noise -- "Universe Of Dishonor" -- CD -- €10
2009 Housepig, HPIG-19
In 2002, GOLEM GROSS was an unknown "Skull Ally" in Brooklyn who displayed a strong sense of composition, gentle restraint & an arsenal of malfunctioning audio. "Universe of Dishonor" transports the listener to an intergalactic incubus wherein Abrupt Millipede Feeding and Stegosaurus Wars are apt titles. Abysmal canyons, absolutely blunt lyrical style & episodes of severly destructive battle make "Universe of Dishonor" a dynamic, possessed & grievous opus paying tribute to the colossal failures of man. Rather than 'just another CD' in the discography, "Universe of Dishonor" shines as a high point in a long career of dedication to premium audio display. [label info]
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:Golgatha: -- "Tales of Transgression and Sacrifice" -- CD -- €14
2007 Cold Meat Industry, cmi176
The French philosopher Georges Bataille serves as the inspiration for the new and third fulltime album of the German ritual-folk-band :Golgatha:. Founded in 2004 by Christoph Donarski and S. Marleni, :Golgatha: began in the dark realms of ambient-drones and continually developed their use of acoustic instruments to create a unique mixture organic and electronic elements. After two acclaimed albums on the subject of heroism, 'Tales of Transgression & Sacrifice' marks a certain change of course in the music of :Golgatha: - in a psychonautic trip from ritual-drumming via multi-textured soundscapes up to catchy folk-songs this album appears even more sensual, erotic and fascinating than before. [label info]
:Golgatha: -- "Waste Land" -- CD -- €14
2005/2009 Cold Meat Industry, cmi198
:Golgatha: / Dawn & Dusk Entwined -- "Sang Graal" -- CD -- €14
2008 Cold Meat Industry, cmi184
Golyshev, Nikita -- "3 Plays For Mechanical Water And Electrical Sky" -- CD-R -- €7
2006 Zeromoon, Consume Buy 2006 series
Three long compositions from Nikita Golyshev (CD-R project). Very quality-made atmospheric electroacoustic music. Released in "Consume Buy 2006" series by American Zeromoon label available for sale only in 2006.
Golyshev, Nikita -- "Solaris" -- CD -- €10
2007 Monochrome Vision, (mv20), (ltd. 500)
The debut CD album of one of the most promising russian underground musician, presenting his own unique vision of ambient music. Combining the deep layers of machine-like hum and minimal melodic keys, Nikita creates highly emotional and dramatic journey to the netherworld. Two parts of this one hour long suite are the partly presented in the program of Add Noise II festival on May 15th, 2007. Beginning in 2003 as the part of duo aptly titled CD-R, Nikita Golyshev quickly became the one of the most promising electronic musicians on the Russian underground scene. His output progressed from rhythmic noise mayhem to diverse and heterogeneous experiments, ranging from machine improvisation through bleak drones to pure processed acoustic minimalism. He released some CD-Rs and published many works online, as well as on his own Musica Excentrica, Electrosound and Share My Wings imprints. He finally recorded the debut CD album under his real name. [press-release]
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Gomberg, Billy -- "Days" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 The Land of, LND007, (ltd. 100)
Days collects five studio pieces drawn from acoustic recordings of piano and voice, treated, amplified, and arranged. The arrangements are simple: long passages of sound material lay next to each other, their closeness and distance outlining a structure. Billy Gomberg is a musician and occasional video artist living in Brooklyn NY. His studio practice incorporates analog synthesis, digital treatments, acoustic recordings and custom programming, creating electronic sound caught gazing at its own physicality, acoustics in love with their abstraction. [Databloem]
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Gorduw -- "XI Chastt Istorii Feitnathorotha. Pulsar 44 (Gultu Euphoria)" -- CD-R -- €8
2011 Torga Amun Rec., 025, (ltd. 48)
Famous Russian underground project from Siberia mostly active in early 2000ies. Folvork sympho industrial / dark electronic with elements ambient, noise, beat: Cardboard sleeve.
Gorduw -- "XVIII CIF. SS Medicine" -- CD-R -- €7
2012 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT91, (ltd. 69)
Apocalyptic Dark Electro from the famous Siberian project. Powerful industrial sound. Two-sided b/w cover and four inserts. [label info]
Government Alpha -- "Impregnable Storm" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 New Nihilism, NN VI, (ltd. 250)
It's impossible to get a clue about Japanese noise phenomenon without mentioning Yasutoshi Yoshida, the man responsible for numerous extreme music gems such as Government Alpha, S.Isabela, Detroit Core etc. and surely the kingpin of the renowned Xerxes label... Govt. Alpha's mission started in 1992 as a natural conclusion to Yoshida's urge for expression through the art, deliberately in it's terminal form. While incorporating all that awesome elements of Japanese noise sound, Government Alpha suddenly developed its own trademark sound-abstract yet seductive framework of multilayered feedback, mangled distortion roars, wild editing and manic signal processing that takes an assault on your ears with no holds barred... Tokio's wildest, Government Alpha proves it again on Impregnable Storm, an album scheduled for NN so long ago... And worth to wait for, hands down! This is extremely brutal, loud and harsh. This is the passion. This is sexy. This is Government Alpha... Once again the packaging consists of an A2-sized, offset printed poster folded to form A5 sleeve housed in crystal celar plastic wrapper. Limited to 250 hand numbered copies, get yours just now. [press-release]
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Grain Belt -- "s/t" -- CD -- €10
2010 Small Doses, DOSE75 / White Centipede Noise, WCN01 / Phage Tapes, PT:99, (ltd. 200)
Harsh noise and metal abuse from Minneapolis. Grain Belt is a trio comprised of the people behind the Wince, Baculum, and Willful projects. Three tracks each recorded at a live show. [label info]
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Grassow, Mathias -- "Deeper Purity" -- CD-R -- €11
2007 Practising Nature, PN07026
Grassow, Mathias -- "Elixir" -- CD-R -- €11
2005 Practising Nature, PN0605
Grassow, Mathias -- "Highlights 1" -- CD-R -- €11
2007 Practising Nature, PN07014
Grassow, Mathias -- "In Search Of Sanity" -- CD -- €13
1993 NO-CD, CDNO 05
Grassow, Mathias -- "Tiefweite Stille 2" -- CD-R -- €11
2006 Practising Nature, PN007
Atmospheres and drones flavoured with tribal rhythms and Indian instruments. [label info]
Grassow, Matthias / Baghiri, Amir / Gleisberg, Rudiger -- "Arcanum" -- CD -- €23
1997 Arya, Y05, (ltd. 700)
First edition of this legendary album, jewel-case. [YAOP]
Grassow, Mathias / Baghiri, Amir / Gleisberg, Rudiger -- "Arcanum" -- CD -- €11
2007 Faria Records, FAR-12, (ltd. 500)
This is rerelease of legendary masterpiece from 3 famous german composers. "Arcanum" - it is collaboration of three different musical styles which creates a unique arcanum of excellent music. Mathias Grassow fills compositions his special deep mood drone ambient. Amir Baghiri adds his hypnotic percussions and Rudiger Gleisberg plays wonderful cosmic electronics. It will enjoyable to all music lovers! Previously released by Amplexus label as ltd of 500 copies at 1998 and totally sold out few years ago. Now rereleased with two bonus tracks, and luxury pack with artworks of Markus Vogt with several cards inside. [press-release]
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Grassow, Mathias & Jim Cole -- "Deep - Breath - Silence" -- CD-R -- €11
2006 Practising Nature, PN07020
Grassow, Mathias / Fricke, Siegmar -- "Aurora" -- CD-R -- €11
2005 Practising Nature, PN010
Grassow, Mathias & guests -- "Dronament" -- CD-R -- €12
2006 Practising Nature, PN008
Atmospheres and drones flavoured with tribal rhythms, Indian instruments and ambient guitar. Reminiscent of textbook ethno- or eco-ambient by the likes of Vidna Obmana, Antonio Testa and Alio Die. Unlike their classic works, however, there is the occasional "disturbance" in the ambient atmosphere, when flatulent horns and chaotic percussion clatter and clash for just an instant, like a sudden thunderstorm. [label info] The guests are: Holger Brune, Klaus Wiese, Carsten Agthe, Markus Reuter, SiRenee.
Grassow, Mathias & guests -- "Fata Morgana" -- CD-R -- €11
2006 Practising Nature, PN012
Grassow, Mathias & guests -- "Opus Posthumum 2" -- CD-R -- €11
2005 Practising Nature, PN003
Grassow, Mathias & guests -- "Opus Posthumum" -- CD-R -- €12
2005 Practising Nature, PN002
A hypnotic mix of soundscapes and indian string instruments, flavoured with harmonic singing. [label info] The guests are: Klaus Wiese, Kai Schroder, Jim Cole.
Grassow, Mathias & Jiri Mazanek -- "Inner Path" -- CD -- €11
2008 Nextera, ERA 2051-2
Inner Path - the idea of combining pure handplayed acoustic instruments with modern electronics, samples and nature-sounds. With a spiritual sight behind, Inner path is open for free direction and interpretation nevertheless with a strong focus inside ourselves by considering the existence here on earth as ONE of many journeys back into the inner light. This work is a remembrance... Mathias Grassow: electronic creations, nature-sounds, singing-bowls, voice. Jiri Mazanek: 86-string zither, 8-string kantele, 5-string kantele, guitar, overtone singing. [label info]
Grassow, Mathias & Weiss, Thomas -- "Insights" -- CD-R -- €11
2007 Practising Nature, PN07023
Thomas Weiss and Mathias Grassow creating a new sound, which works well for the traditional and contemporay listener. Deep and reflective. [label info]
Grassow, Mathias & Weiss, Thomas -- "Outland" -- CD -- €11
2007 Faria Records, FAR-13, (ltd. 500)
A reflection from outer spaces in between the universe of our mind. A miniature of the endless space from far behind mankinds tangibility. To understand the real essence of the heart of the matter, often it is necessary to take a look from the distance. Just this distance shows structures and connections, which are otherwise impossible to see and grasp - because everyone himself is part of a certain situation. Therefore 'Outland' stands for a journey into an 'outer land', to become an advanced view for realization. Luxury pack with artworks of Markus Vogt. [press-release]
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Grave In The Sky -- "Cutlery Hits China: English For The Hearing Impaired" -- CD -- €10
2007 Heart & Crossbone, HCB 015, (ltd. 999)
The Sludge-core scene is injected with a poison: Horror movies DVD subtitles are being gargled and forced into song lyrics, backed up by heavy poundings and black metallic space-rock dirges, on this new release from Rani Zager (Poochlatz / Lietterschpich), Maor Appelbaum (Poochlatz / Sleepless / Screening) and Matan Shmuelly (Armilos). Check this out if you're into Hey Colossus, Corrupted, Gravitar, Darkthrone and Electric Wizard. Overblown as fuck, 44 min long, 999 copies. [press-release]
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Green Army Fraction -- "Caste War - Back In Their Place" -- CD -- €10
2006 Steinklang Industries, SK38
Green Army Fraction travels through the totality of Indo-Europa, from the far East to the high North, to present you his personal vision of individuality and collective consciousness in the light of the Absolute and the Self. A metaphysical speculation wrapped in harsh and well structured power electronics, crowned with screaming dirtorted and clean vocals and many fine samples. Songtitles like "Yggdrasil 3000" and "Heliga Nord" round the album to a powerful conceptual work about Eurasian understanding of spirituality. [press-release]
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Green Army Fraction -- "Chlorophyll Flood" -- CD -- €10
2005 Steinklang Industries, SKD 08
Re-release of this great Power Electronics album from Swedens Noise-Terrorists. Originally released as a CDR edition of 100 copies only! This CD-version was totally remastered in the Steinklang-Studios and comes with new artwork and 2 unreleased bonus-tracks from the same time. [label info]
Green Army Fraction -- "Norrlandsvisor" -- 3"CD-R -- €10
2005 Misanthrope Studio, MS015
Gregory -- "Restart Now" -- CD -- €10
2004 Monopolrecords, 001, (ltd. 500)
Instrumental - electronic - rhythmic - industrial in one of a kind performance, sequences supported with massive rhythmic force. This music is a fascinating example of perfect electronic style combined with modern rhythms, a lot of samples and experimental-sounding parts that brilliantly add flavour to its atmosphere and mood. [label info]
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Greinke, Jeff -- "Wide View" -- CD -- €11
2002 Hypnos, hyp2240
Jeff Greinke is regarded as one of the forefathers of the modern ambient/atmospheric genre. Classic Greinke releases such as Lost Terrain and In Another Place inhabit an original, evocative, sonic territory unique in ambient music - somewhere north of the fourth world. Now, with his newest CD Wide View, Greinke has taken his sound into an entirely new context. In doing so, he has created a unique album in a catalog of unique albums, as well as a sterling example of what ambient music can achieve. The first impression I had when listening to the CD was how composed it sounded when compared aside past ambient releases by. On the surface, the sound palette is somewhat traditional; with electronic strings and piano, all drenched in reverb. In fact, this release has a classic quality to it - the type of early ambient flavor we had come to expect from a Harold Budd or Brian Eno album during the seventies. This comparison is valid and appropriate. But make no mistake - this is not a rehash of triumphs from other artists' catalogs. Greinke takes the lead of past masters and imbues their spirit with a musicality all his own. A close listening to Wide View will reveal the signature sounds we expect from Greinke, all in an extremely subtle and restrained fashion. This is an album that will open to the listener gradually, with repeated playing. As with past Greinke works, Wide View inhabits a rain-soaked atmosphere; but it is also one of stunning cloud banks, with their silent movement across panoramic skies (as depicted in the cover art). The themes of light and shade are explored in an extremely personal way - always a quality of the best ambient/atmospheric music. These soundscapes reach the stratospheric heights, but are never too far away from earthly repose... [Brian Bieniowski]
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Gretel -- "Casket" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 self-released
Gretel exists from 2010. The album "Casket" was recorded at home using automatic writing method. The instruments were broken guitar and cracked crash cymbal. The music of Gretel is hard to categorize. Surreal grotesque atmosphere, ghostly vocals, toy sound and fairy unsettling melodies. Gretel also is a creator of Madlene band. [from the author] Sophisticated package made of cardboard, polyesther, polyfoam, etc.
Griffin, M. -- "Fabrications" -- CD -- €12
2008 Hypnos, hyp2806
Grkzgl -- "Esque" -- 3"CD -- €8
2006 .Angle.Rec., .A.R.03.01., (ltd. 500)
First release of the .Angle.Records. label in the 3'' mini-cd format! This format lends itself well to the implementation of a maximum of ideas within a minimum of space. Clocking it at under 20 minutes on the cd player, this release proposes a journey that is indeed short but full of variations. Here is an excellent introduction for this promising artist from Montreal. Grkzgl (pronouced 'grak-siggle'), once known under various other names, comes from many horizons at the same time. Influenced by the post-industrial universe as well as the minimal or noisy avant-garde, Grkzgl strings 6 pieces together, which represent so many micro-adventures, interrelated and presented in an uninterrupted fashion, the whole forming an entity driven by multiple jolts. His ingredients? Spacious ambiences, cracklings originating from everywhere and nowhere, short-circuits, underlying hummings, psychoactive noise :one already feels, upon the first moments, the presence of each of the many sound components which will compose this mini-album. Except that in the very beginning, each one goes its own way :and very soon, the unison happens, all particles and corpuscles meet with each other and, in concert, all those elements lay the foundations, terribly structured and chaotic at the same time, of a universe that is whacked-out but full of a constant lucidity and direction. The various preferred sound sources of the artist are, of course, triturated and recycled in a peculiar way, resulting in organic abstractions that are carefully thought out, evocative, evolutionary and saturated. [press-release]
Growing / Mark Evan Burden -- "s/t" -- CD -- €15
2005 Xeng, XENG 01 CD
Gruel -- "s/t" -- CD -- €10
2010 At War With False Noise, ATWAR090, (ltd. 500)
CD issue of this instant classic of avant-sludge. This is the only recording Gruel made, or will ever make since they announced their recent split, and what a testament it is! Like The Melvins playing King Crimson's "Red" album, this is at both theatrical, beautifully composed, and troglodyte-ianly heavy. Utterly immersive, each passage of quiet atmospherics is shattered by a barrage of brilliant repetitious riffing. Four 15 minute-long songs and it's totally captivating from start to finish. Will definitely be right up the alleys of those into Melvins, Swans, Grief, Throbbing Gristle, Goblin, Harvey Milk etc etc etc. 500 copies in a stickered PVC sleeve, with the disc wrapped in a big double-sided full colour poster. [press-release]
Grundik + Slava -- "Frogs" -- CD -- €10
2005 Topheth Prophet, TP004
A really cool take on the experimental ambient genre, creating beautiful soundscapes using dark synth sweeps, found sounds, guitars and a bunch of other things. There are a few tracks where they go into completely different territory - especially the second track, which sounds like some aliens kidnapped a funk band - but mostly they stick to the really experimental ambient stuff. "Frogs" also features the talents of Chaos As Shelter, Igor Krutugolov and Victoria Hanna, the latter of which contributes vocals on half of the tracks, giving them a really weird feel, adding a somewhat playful side to the darker tracks [...] There are some more traditional middle eastern elements here and there, but mostly this disc keeps to its really nice experimental dark ambient textures with the previously mentioned Hanna's vocals popping in to add even more texture. There are always new sounds coming into the mix, it never gets boring. [industrial.org]
Gruntsplatter -- "The Aberrant Laboratory" -- CD -- €10
2006 Dark Vinyl, DV 52
"The Aberrant Laboratory" finds Gruntsplatter exploring more ambient and disorienting planes in an effort to contextualize the ramifications of renegade science and deviant medicine. Framed against a somewhat literary backdrop, it is one of the more concrete conceptual works from the project and creates a different kind of listen than past releases. The familiar components of the sound that has sustained Gruntsplatter for the last 10 plus years are intact, and are perhaps at their most effective in allowing the listeners thoughts to wander with this outing. Brooding ambience, and cutting frequencies combine with odd melody and an enveloping, fluid mix that lead you through the dirty laboratories and hovels of taboo science where genius and atrocity meet on level ground. [label info]
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Gruntsplatter -- "Chronicling The Famine" -- CD -- €10
2003 Desolation House, DH-0200, (ltd. 1000)
The enigmatic Gruntsplatter is a malleable creature that hovers in the gray area between abrasive noise and dark ambient by combining the atmosphere of one with the density of the other. Evocative and subtle in its detail, its mood and depth of composition are incredibly refined. Gruntsplatter also draws, though somewhat esoterically, from literature, history, and the death rattles and rituals of an eroding gene pool. [press-release]
Gruntsplatter -- "The Death Fires" -- CD -- €10
2000 Crowd Control Activities, Crowded 19
Gruuthaagy -- "Metraton - Order Of The Outer Darkness" -- CD-R -- €3
2005 Smell The Stench
Croatian experimental project on Australian lo-fi/noise label. Gloomy atmospheres mixed with energetic metal percussion beats and sometimes subdued distorted guitars & synths. Raw primeval sound, like a powerful mix of homemade pompous metal and lo-fi ritualistic industrial.
Grzinich, John -- "Surface Scripts" -- CD -- €10
2010 Semperflorens, sf05, (ltd. 500)
Surface Scripts was composed from field recordings, site-specific actions, environmental installations and wire instrument sounds recorded from 2008-2010. The title refers to my interest in the time-worn processes of nature and the effects this has on various materials such as stone, metal or wood. Much of the sounds we hear around us are the acoustic effects of these processes taking place while the visual patterns are written as ancient scripts. A set of small lines carved into a stone by water may have taken thousands of years, yet the sounds we hear are momentary. [John Grzinich]
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Guignol Dangereux -- "Dr. Kangaroo goes Classical" -- CD-R -- €8
Deserted Factory, (ltd.99)
Mockery over classical music. Talented pieces in which Bach meets Merzbow, P.A.L. and Klangstabil. [YAOP description]
Guignol Dangereux -- "Robbery Pop" -- CD-R -- €8
2006 Sick Arts, SAP 14, (ltd. 100)
Rhythmic electronic music somewhere between collage / techno / minimal / industrial with quite abstract feeling and sharp sound. 7" cover with photo art by Stefan Weimbs.
Guignol Dangereux / Iversen -- split -- CD-R -- €7
2006 Stop/Eject, EJECT19, (ltd. 50)
Tender and grandiose split at the same time, fascinating with meditative measured chimes and floods of huge solar ocean of Drone Ambient. Textured paper sleeve, painted disc. [YAOP]
Gulaggh -- "Vorkuta" -- CD -- €10
2009 New Era Productions, NEP10, (ltd. 300)
In 2007 when Stalaggh completed their trilogy ('Projekt Nihil', 'Projekt Terrror' and 'Projekt Misanthropia') Stalaggh changed their name to Gulaggh. A Stalag is Nazi POW concentration camp, a Gulag is a Soviet work camp. The extra G and H stand for Global Holocaust. With Gulaggh they will also create a trilogy. The titles of the trilogy are as follows: 'Vorkuta', 'Norilsk' and 'Kolyma'. These are the names of worst Soviet Gulag concentration camps that were located north of the Arctic Circle. The first Gulaggh cd was finished in july 2008 and this time they used only classical instruments like violins, trumpets etc. For vocals they used several mental patients and over 30 children from a youth mental asylum. [press-release]
GZ -- "Switching Surface" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 Vapraksila Inc, c0015
Russian musician Egor Favorsky (GZ) has recorded his album "Switching Surface" using old analogue synthesizers and sound processing units, trying to keep his electroacoustic sound as close as possible to the remote 70-ies. During 40 minutes the experiment in sound happens, testing the acoustic systems of the listeners. [label info]
H.E.E.L. -- "Light In The Hell" -- CD -- €10
2005 Monopolrecords, 005, (ltd. 500)
Audio-visual project of Martin Pavlik (Frontier Guards), Patrik Lev (Depressive Disorder) and Tom Galle (visuals). The CD contains 9 audio tracks (somewhere between EBM and ambient) and data track with more than 200 pictures and a slideshow in a kind of cyber-punk style.
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H.E.R.R. -- "Fire and Glass: a Norwood Tragedy" -- CD EP -- €8
2007 Cold Spring Records, CSR74EP
This brilliant new four-track EP from the Anglo-Dutch masters of Neoclassical music relates to the incredible story of the Crystal Palace, an architectural jewel in the heart of Victorian London and itself a tragic metaphor for the rise and fall of the British Empire. Recited alongside talented Dutch composer Michiel Spape's wonderful score, Troy Southgate - who was born and bred in the area - begins his tale with a beautiful description of the Palace in all its majestic glory, before moving on to a dramatic account which deals with its cataclysmic destruction in 1936 and, finally, a very moving and personal epilogue which elaborates upon the heartfelt sadness he feels for Upper Norwood's contemporary decline. Welcome to the Pleasuredome! [press-release]
H.E.R.R. -- "XII Caesars" -- CD -- €10
2009 Cold Spring, CSR117CD
Neoclassical. H.E.R.R.'s 4th album was originally inspired by the book "De Vita Caesarum" by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus from 121 AD, during the reign of the emperor Hadrian. It is one of the greatest sources of much of what we know about the first twelve Caesars after the fall of the Republic. The first tragi-comic Neoclassical operetta about The Twelve Caesars. Let the light of heart rule in this more "song-based" album. Comes with an elegant 16-page booklet. [label info]
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h.h.t.p. & portablepalace -- "Cavitation" -- CD -- €10
2005 Monochrome Vision, (mv04), (ltd. 500)
Cavitation is the phenomenon where small cavities of partial vacuum form in fluid, then rapidly collapse, producing a sharp sound. These cavities are caused by still object within moving fluid or by moving object in still fluid. If you focus ultrasonic waves into water, tiny bubbles will be produced, forming a fractal structure and radiating sound by themselves. This is a cavitation field being produced by a radially symmetric sound field - acoustic cavitation. The interaction between computer science technology and freeform musical creative process becomes a central point in this international collaboration of three artists from Belarus and USA. The abstract soundscapes are obscured by intricate structures, acoustic phenomena and electronic effects, it's going to infinity and never repeat itself. The finest harmony of soundfield is credited to the principles of intuitive simulation, realised through the system of computer-aided instruments. [label info]
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H.W.R. / Hatekod -- "Totenmarsch / Anti-NWO" -- CD-R -- €8
2011 Ufa Muzak, UFA 43, (ltd. 131)
Martial industrial ambient / Postmortem power electronics. Conspiratorial underground. Red light illuminates the hands. Faces covered with masks. The noise of heavy leather shoes. Cloths with images of old symbols on the walls. New secret fire is modelling in front of their concentrated eyes. Echo is heard through narrowed consciousness - an old German song. Split of two clandestine projects from France, a pile of black & white photographs scattered on a table: archive and modernity. H.W.R. - wakeful ghosts of the past, in absolute silence, on the places of old battles, they come out and become visible. Old discoloured uniform with hardly seen badges, pale hair and faces, whisper. Hatekod - fragments of modernity where the idea spreads turning into growing red branch on a map. From a screen hissing with snow shows up the footage of streets drenched in blood and houses with forbidden symbols drawn. Dark, malevolent and hoax filled audio document, a deadly strain transmitted in encoded form... 10 tracks, 45 minutes, A5 cardboard cover, insert. [press-release]
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Haare -- "Madon Evankeliumi" -- CD -- €10
2010 At War With False Noise, ATWAR091, (ltd. 500)
It's taken long enough but I'm chuffed to finally be doing a release with one of my favourite noise (I sue this in the loosest term) artists going around right now, Finland's Haare. This is total swirling psychedelia, incredibly heavy shifting tides of drone with evil organ lines permeating the noise. I can't better the description Haare himself gave it: "a slow, heavy bell". Based on source sounds provided by Olly Pearson, Chris Chantler and Dom Finbow. You may have heard of them! 500 copies in an A5 pro-printed foldover wallet and PVC sleeve. Amazing art by Andrew Labanaris (Electric Wizard and MOSS). [press-release]
Hag-Hag-Hagal -- "s/t" -- CD -- €9
2008 Valgriind, VG 12
Experimental ambient from little known Russian project. Sometimes noisy, sometimes melodic, but in general sounding like a constant "conscious flow" without interference of rational thought, which resembles Bardoseneticcube. A very good sound quality & nice varied atmosphere. Digipak.
Hair Police -- "s/t" -- CD -- €10
2003/2005 Hospital Productions, HOS-085a
Basement noise dirge death skuzz hell. Compiles the long out of print Hospital cassette and "Mortuary Servants" EP while adding new exclusive mud-noise constructions from the "Drawn Dead" sessions. [label info]
Hair Police -- "The Empty Quarter" -- CD -- €10
2007 Harbinger Sound, HARBINGER 056
Mad strangeness from this trio of psychedelic noise-icians out of Lexington, Kentucky: with spiritual and creative cross-pollination from the likes of Wolf Eyes, Prurient, and Burning Star Core. Mike Connelly (guitar, vocals, tape manipulation, noise), Robert Beatty (electronics), and Trevor Tremaine (drums, vocals, tape manipulation) create an ominous, searing, screeching, seething, maniacal, grimy, guttural, tortured sonic assault fraught with swelling oscillator tones, soaring rumble-sweeps: ill-gotten ecstatic wails, restrained respirations: a devolving radioactive bombardment of rip-squeak-squelch-disintegration beams: scanning a contracted and overwhelmed soulscape. The world does not end with a whimper, but a bang. And, this is certainly a soundtrack for the aftermath. [Roland Blunt, KFJC]
Haisha / Mizuko -- "Happily Never After" -- CD -- €10
2001 Crucial Blast, BLAST 10
A meeting of two demented forces from the filthiest gutters of Los Angeles. HAISHA opens with a seriously grotesque noisecore/grind/trash hybrid, powered by jackhammer drum machines and miles of bad fucking attitude. Think early EARACHE grindcore, japanese trashpunk a la CONFUSE, and hardcore gabba smashed up in a crystal meth milkshake. Things only get worse when MIZUKO follow up with event-driven found sound, grisly power electronics, and queasy death industrial that is misanthropic to its very core. Black transmissions from a rotting planet, unleashed on an unsuspecting ghost world. Presented in a sleek glossy gatefold package. [press-release]
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Hakobune -- "Heath Grass" -- CD-R -- €8
2011 Still*Sleep, CDR18
Takahiro Yorifuji creates mild static Drone Ambient worth comparing to Klaus Wiese and Mathias Grassow. [label info]
Hall Of Mirrors -- "Forgotten Realm" -- CD -- €10
2009 Silentes Minimal Editions, sme 0927
Second 'chapter' in the 'Hall of Mirrors' saga, a project that hides the fervid minds of Giuseppe Verticchio/Nimh and Andrea Marutti/Amon. On this release they're supported by Andrea Freschi (Subinterior, Konau:) and Andrea Ferraris (Ur, Sil Muir:), who gave their contribute with additional sound sources. Another long and fascinating journey among the ruins of lost and ancient civilizations, among desolate landscapes forgotten by time: To enrich the already busy electronic stratifications, among slowly evolving ambient sonorities and occasional parts of more sharp and 'rough' elements of a Post-Industrial nature, we also find suggestive sound of reverberating flutes and dilated electric guitar parts, ending with delicate melodic arpeggios and evocative rhythmic accents of a vague cinematic taste. The adventure goes on: [label info]
Halo Manash -- "Language of Red Goats" -- CD -- €10
2008 Aural Hypnox, [AH09], (ltd. 920)
Guided by nether nectars and dream herbs, oneiric visions and the light of lunar tides, Halo Manash Language of Red Goats aims to be a cartography of cavernous elemental realms and regions, sources and springs that run deep and thick with the fluids of life, death and dream. What was seeded at the Thin Veils has been gathered at Harvest time, and is offered to the seeker as a libation and guide into the ever-liminal, shrouded spaces, for dream-vigils and awakenings. Language of Red Goats is a complete work in itself, but can also be viewed as the first facet of a tripartite series of works that are part of one holistic creation - three faces of the same being. More akin to a primitive fieldrecording in the realm of oneirotropic exploration, than an actual album, the work consists of one lengthy tripartite soundscape. Utilizing only gongs, bells, metal bowls and wind instruments, as well as flocks of birds, the work is in contrast to earlier more refined works that feature a wide multiplicity of instruments and soundsources. Language of Red Goats is a bare, primitive and sometimes raw aural landscape, and yet nonetheless achieves a rare subliminal intensity and an edge of otherwordly luminosity. Comes in a hand finished cardboard booklet, in an edition of 920 copies. [press-release]
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Hamre, Karsten & Jecan, Vlad -- "Enter Inside" -- CD -- €11
2007 Wroth Emitter, W.E. 015
Karsten Hamre is a very busy person. Through the years, the list of names and titles he's worked with have increased exponentially-- each band and title an exploration of a sound and ambience that was destined to become solely his own. From the quixotic brilliance of Penitent, to the dark elegance of Veiled Allusions, and now also a solo project bearing only his name. What often is remembered most about Hamre's work is an ambience that always feels nautical. There is ever a sense of vast, oceanic space. It is expressed in various ways through his works, but it seems always to be there. Many of the sounds seem to come from under water, or inner water. They hint at the dark things hidden in our histories, in our religions; in the decayed and rotting backyard pools of post- Apocalypse suburbia. Karsten Hamre takes a minimalist approach to his typically lush (albeit delightfully creepy) soundscapes. The result reminds me of works such as Geir Jenssen's "Biosphere", with bits of Lustmord and K.K. Null thrown in for both ominous rhythm and outer darkness... Vlad Jecan manages to combine sounds of different types and horizons, distorted sonorities who yet express profound calmness, a fast slide of cosmic images placed in front of your eyes and just then you will hear sounds that reflect the grey emotions lurking inside yourself. The music of an emotional paradox, depressing yet mirthful, distorted yet calm. [press-release]
Harvest Rain -- "Night's Glow" -- CD -- €9
2006 War Office Propaganda, WOP 21
Masters of American dark folk in theirs newest full lenght album. 11 beautiful songs, 42 minutes of haunting, atmospheric and melancholic music. No need to say more, as in case of Harvest Rain's music no special recommendation is needed! Simply great CD! Glossy varnished digipack with original cover designed by Michal Karcz and reproduction of Tor Lundvall's paintings inside. [press-release]
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Hasegawa, Hiroshi -- "Ascension No. 999" -- CD -- €10
2008 Steinklang Industries, SK-IN 13, (ltd. 500)
Hiroshi Hasegawa's musical roots go back to the late 80ies, where he started as a pioneer under the Japanese Experimental Electronic artists. Hasegawa is the man behind C.C.C.C., ASTRO, MORTAL VISION, TRANCE and other projects. He released also several works together with Akifumi Nakajima from AUBE. Ascension No.999 is his first album under his real name (besides a split LP from 1988) and it's also his very first Ultra-Noise work! The sounds vary from experimental cut-up noise, over dronning sound-walls, to screaming high frequency manipulations. Cover-design by Yoshihiro Nakano. 50 min. / 2 tracks. [press-release]
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Hated Bruit Kollektiv -- "Aktion One" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 New Nihilism, NN II, (ltd. 250)
HBK is an ephemeric project held among musicians behind Genetic Transmission, Moan and Nojsens. Three minds, three individualities, tree artists sharing one inspired vision. These are people we know for years so it became somehow natural to invite their bastard child to our NN therapy group finally, starting the "Harsh Kontakt" series of relases from now on. The sound sculpture presented hereby has been captured at Bez Kontroli Fest 2007 as probably HBK's best gig to date. Expect the unexpected, as they have gone the whole hog, without no mercy to the audience or themselves. OK, it's all there: refreshing traditional industrial, warming harsh noise, stoned bruitist plunderphonics, and last but not least-good taste and the fucking clue, VSOP. The packaging consist of a huge, A2-sized heavy stock poster folded to form A5 sleeve housed in a solid plastic wrapper. [press-release]
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The Haters -- "Blank Banner" -- CD -- €10
1993 We Never Sleep, WNS 017
The Haters -- "Death-Defying Sickness" -- CD -- €10
2002 Noisopoly, NOP-05
The Haters -- "Mind The Gap" -- CD -- €10
1996 Vinyl Communications, VC-107
All three tracks were produced from stapling records together with an amplified staple-gun.
The Haters -- "Nikumu 2007" -- CD -- €10
2007 Kubitsuri Tapes, S;E;X59-024CD
The Haters -- "Ordinarily Nowhere" -- CD -- €10
1995 Pure, DIDX-031037
The Haters -- "Untitled Title Shot" -- CD -- €10
2002 Noisopoly, NOP-04
Since its premiere in early 1999, GX's Untitled Title Belt has become a main sound source both on stage and in the studio. Just by looking at this belt, one would not necessarily be able to tell that this implement is a combination microphone, distortion-pedal, and noise generator. It was fashioned after the traditional championship wrestling belt. This CD contains realtime recordings of GX's Untitled Title Belt feeding back on itself. No multi-tracking or post-production was applied.
Hati -- "Die Mechanik, Die!" -- CD -- €10
2008 Beast Of Prey, BOP 5.7
The album of the group from Torun - this time under the banner of Beast of Prey. A characteristic trance-gong-drone-music in the release "Die Mechanik, Die!" has been saturated with electronic sounds. Such HATI will suprise many of you! More than 45 minutes long album perfectly recorded during the performance in "the Mechanik" club in Gdansk. This time HATI famous for its acoustic sounds - made propably the darkest CD in its discography, the CD enriched with dark ambient tones. Tarry and heavy backgrounds perfectly harmonized with trance and mechanical instrumental variations of musicians move the imagination and bring nearer the world of the dying mechanics. From one side - harmonic and perfectly interrelated pieces of music, from the other side - increasing and intensifying athmosphere of the darkness which - like a rust - conquers more and more parts of urban areas. The title of this release speaks for itself... HATI has got already few albums released in Poland and Europe, also from the concert aspect is one of the most recognizable projects in our country and HATI's live performances take many people breath away. The group has been performing in many cities in Poland and also abroad: in Germany, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands. HATI is a music group founded on sounds of acoustic instuments - traditional ones with the industrial instrumentarium. [press-release]
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Hati -- "Mantra-I - Prehistory Of HATI: Vol. 1" -- CD-R -- €8
2006/2008 Eter, etcdr 03 / 2nd, (ltd. 66)
Early 1997 recordings from this Polish project, this time with a ritual touch added to their percussive / junk metal modus operandi. 6 long pieces of hypnotizing lo-fi loops and drones. [Mechanoise Labs info]
Hati vs. Z'EV -- "#1" -- CD -- €11
2006 Ars Benevola Mater, ABM 21, (ltd. 950)
A sensational collaboration between HATI & Z'EV, the unique Rythmajick's master. Here the sound-qabalhist melt some raw audio-materials provided by HATI in order to condense 50 minutes approx. of AL-chemical sounds. HATI are a great Polish duo playing inspired psych-ambient soundscapes mixing gongs, metal discs, aluminium bars with wooden pipes, animal horns and trumpets... Z'EV, who is very well-know for his percussiive music skill, edited and treated Hati's tracks those were originally recorded in 2003. His rhythmajickal remix created structures with a long range of mystical drones. This album is well-recommended to true experimental magick-percussive industrial music-lovers! [press-release]
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Hattifnatter -- "Ololiuqui" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT57, (ltd. 112)
A collaboration project of Evgeny Savenko (Lunar Abyss Deus Organum) and M.M. (Kryptogen Rundfunk). Transcendental mystical electroacoustics and Musique Concrete, improvisations in psychedelic Drone Ambient and Lo-Fi Easy Noise style. Dark and funny atmosphere of a parallel existence. Music of electromagnetic lifeforms. Intuitive journey in sound through the spaces of wave fields and noise veils. Cult of Barometer and Lightningism. Handmade cardboard cover. [press-release]
Haus Arafna -- "Blut + Nachblutung" -- CD -- €15
2006 Galakthorrö, 006
Before someone else does it for us, we'd rather do it ourselves: the debut album from Haus Arafna is, after 11 years, once more available. In re-freshed sound quality, and with a new look: a 24 page monster booklet which is filled to the top with blood-enriched pictures and texts, with which the listeners can also enjoy themselves visually. In addition to the well-known "Trilogie des Blutes" from 1995, there are three bonus tracks ("Nachblutung"), to listen to, which also stem from this period. These have, however, only now been fully completed in order to be included in this re-issue from mr. and mrs. Arafna. [press release]
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Haus Arafna -- "New York Rhapsody" -- CD -- €15
2011 Galakthorrö, Galakthorrö 028
This is no typical Haus Arafna album. It has already celebrated its premiere in September 2009 as part of the New York Fashion Week. Haus Arafna had accepted the offer to create the soundtrack for a show featuring the fashion designer Katie Gallagher. Somewhat of an unusual venture into a new environment, and in front of a new audience, this was obviously an exciting challenge for creative artistes, and for 'Industrialists', considering the extreme style of expression, a very pleasurable experience. The emphasis laid on the various elements on this album is different to that of the earlier releases. That is why Haus Arafna has preferred to delay the issue of 'New York Rhapsody' until after the release of the 'official' album 'You'. Angst-Synthesizer, raw electricity, metal percussion, artfully reduced electronic textures and unusual vocal performances combine into a 'sound from the Abyss' with deep ritual undertones. No sign of 'Screams'n'Shouts' here. Instead Haus Arafna has created Angst-Pop hits and Industrial Monsters with an extra dose of darkness, almost as if the March into Destruction has to be sweetened somewhat. Well-dressed, of course... CD in jewel case with 12 page booklet incl. all lyrics. [press-release]
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Haus Arafna -- "The Singles 1993-2000" -- CD -- €15
2003 Galakthorrö 015
The official re-release of all 4 vinyl singles on one compact disk, dated for 10 years anniversary of the band and the label. Contains "Sex U Mas", "Take One Get Two" (split-single with Karl Runal, CD release contains only Haus Arafna's part), "The Last Dream Of Jesus" and "Für Immer".
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Haus Arafna -- "You" -- CD -- €15
2010 Galakthorrö, Galakthorrö 025
"You" is an album of contrasts and leads the listener along carefully selected levels of suspense through the full gamut of the Arafna-esque art of sound creation. The spectrum extends from dark jewels which permeate nerve and brain, to great boulders which avalanche their way through the intestines. A peculiar hybrid of various Industrial Music styles forming a malicious monster, remarkable for its changeability and the unexpected. Difficult to control, cunningly applied analogue electronics meet sawing Angst-synthesizer ensembles ingeniously accompanying scream, -speech, -distortion vocals to the beat of noise and steel. That has proved itself, but today's music from Haus Arafna is generally more advanced, more to the point. All probably created just for "You". CD in jewel case with 16 page booklet. [press-release]
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[haven] -- "Amity" -- CD -- €10
2010 Zoharum, ZOHAR 016-2
'Amity' is definitely the most accessible album in the discography of this project. After flirting with American Tympanic Audio, [haven] comes back to the Polish market. The fifth album of one of the most interesting projects on the Polish independent scene released on Zoharum - [haven]'s 'Amity'. The new album can be quite a challenge for the current [haven] fanbase. 'Amity' is a bold journey through different soundscapes. [haven] links different musical worlds: elements of ambient and post-industrial electronica soaking in the experimental sauce. Spiced up with oriental melodies and beautiful voice of Magda Glocka, it constitutes an attractive alternative for listeners from the outside of the independ music circle. [press-release]
Havoc1986 -- "Anti-Life Wind / Lair Of Macabre" -- CD-R -- €6
2009 Valgriind, VG 24
The first Power Electronix release from Valgriind. 9-tracks storming pressure of discharged nihilism from perspective Kharkiv project. Pulse of the absolute technogenic hate under the dust of organic substance. Envelope from duralumin sheets, bounded with screw. [label info]
He Would Drown -- "Music To Wreck To" -- CD -- €10
2004 Noise Control Corp., NCC/9, (ltd. 500)
Heal -- "Extension" -- CD -- €11
2000 Sound On Probation, SOP 002, (ltd. 500)
From the mind of Lauren Perrier - who also works under the names Zonk't, Pylone and his own - comes the new trip-hop electronica project Heal and their debut CD Extension. In collaboration with Bernard Ducayron and featuring collaborations with Samia Doukali & Anouk Azar - Extension is sure to appeal to fans of Massive Attack with smooth, deep bass lines, laid back electronic drum grooves and synth washes that perfect the modern club 'chill-out' vibe. [Lens Records info]
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Heal -- "Starting Back" -- CD -- €11
2007 Sound On Probation, SOP 007, (ltd. 500)
Laurent Perrier don't know rest, he's always working to something new. It is amazing that he's running a label where every project of its roster is headed by Laurent himself. This time after seven years from the previous album "Extension" we have a new CD by Heal. STARTING BACK is the most melodic work to date made by Laurent and if the first Heal album was approaching to dub and ambient just like the Scorn of the first period did, the new album changes everything by introducing elements of jazz, 70s progressive rock (check "Chute d'oreiller" and its approach a la Goblin) and hip hop. Blending everything just to compose an ideal soundtrack for a futuristic noir movie, Heal did something new where the dub element is still present and you can hear it by listening to the bass lines but the new influences enrich the sound creating a new and fresh mixture. The fifteen instrumental tracks sound mysterious and if you check "Mainmise" you'll be seduced by its oriental melodies. Good one! [Maurizio Pustianaz, Chain D.L.K.]
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Hekate -- "Goddess" -- 2 CD -- €22
2004 Auerbach Tonträger, AB 011LU
Herbst9 -- "From A Dark Chasm Below" -- CD -- €12
1999/2005 Loki Foundation, Loki21
The legendary and long deleted first album now finally available again in a remastered version! Complex, textural ambience, consisting of layer upon layer of kinetic, luminous tones and ephemeral nuances of time. Nearly 70 minutes of finest ritual ambient music, mesmerizing rhythmic percussions with deep and sonorous dronings. Herbst9 construct sonic rituals gleaned from the ruins of minds scraped hollow and left to decay while the natural sound stands with this release and the archaic motives developing visionary sequences. [label info]
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Herbst9 -- "The Gods Are Small Birds, But I Am The Falcon" -- CD -- €12
2008 Loki Foundation, LOKI 48The all new album of Herbst9 is a step further into the depths of the Assyrian and Asian mythologies, using authentic audio and visual fragments of sacrifices, lamentations, prayers and ancient rituals. The result is a deep labyrinth of sounds with meditative percussions, ghostly vocal fragments and singings which melts with detailed and multi-layered tones of various traditional instruments. All this is constructed around a core of dark and ongoing floating drones creating an atmosphere of true archaic music which has been developed by Herbst9 to perfection. This soundtrack is the secrecy from the deep and hidden places of the sacred earth transcending us beyond the real world to the inner realm of ourselves. The CD is presented in 6-panel digipack. [press-release]
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Herbst9 vs Z'EV -- "Through Bleak Landscapes" -- CD -- €12
2007 Loki Foundation, Loki 45
With this stunning collaboration the dark cavernous drones and ethnic-ritual instrumentation of Herbst9 melts with the complex and percussive sounds of industrial pionier and master of rhythmajik Z'EV. Ten tracks of deep spheres and blazing ruminant lightnings abducting you into golden constellations and swirling worlds full of aural effects and demonic resonance. Both projects worked with raw material of each other while the final mix was made by Herbst9. The result is a sombre and meditative soundtrack made with gongs, choral textures, deep vibrating strings and scraping effect-sounds reaching it's climax with outbursting tribalistic sequences and drummings. An impressive and gripping journey through bleak landscapes and abandoned places accompanied by a 24-pg booklet. [press-release]
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The Het -- "You Not Me" -- CD -- €10
2011 Monochrome Vision, MVTH, (ltd. 500)
A very strong personal work, with each track having its own concept and story of creation. Despite this, the album has a strong sound and a monolithic continuous-direction, which can be felt only after hearing it in full. Thoughtful, emotional, dark and mysterious neoclassical / ambient music with a black palette. After all, there is a law by which the viewer / listener perceives a black stage design as separate from themselves, the viewer, and a white / light as a continuation of it, the viewer's space. [label info]
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Hex On -- "In Slow Motion" -- CD -- €10
2008 Shadowplay Records, SPR 077
The compilation of "extravagant" music "Extravaganza!" (http://www.monopolyrecords.com/extravaganza/index.html) released in 2007 by Monopoly Records in cooperation with Stereo & Video magazine, unleashed the debut of this mysterious Russian-American project... It is known that all creative activities concerning the album "In Slow Motion" were performed only during the night, and were supported by strong hallucinogenic and psychoactive drugs, through which the musicians sought to contact the dead stars of American pin-up and vintage erotica. Which certainly has had its effect on the music! The album is packed with dark eroticism, the inseparable whispers making it an ideal soundtrack for succuba and incubi's nightly routs... This highly unconventional style formally belongs somewhere between dark trip-hop and post rock, but in fact it's absolutely unique... Reminiscent of: Recoil, Massive Attack, Portishead... It's worth pointing out the design and the lush booklet containing highly artistic drawings and calligraphy. [press-release]
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Hildebrand, Gustav -- "Primordial Resonance" -- CD -- €14
2005 Cyclic Law, 15th Cycle
Gustaf's second full lenght is a unique, evolved experience offering you to embark upon an odyssey through ancient and lifeless surroundings. Sweeping ambient soundscapes and delicate textures mingle with the distant shrieks of surreal machinery - conjuring up images of abandoned and forgotten places, clouded skies and dead cities where time has been standing still. A captured moment from a strange no man's land lit by a perpetual gloom, Primordial Resonance is a voyage only limited by the imagination of the listener. [press release]
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Hildebrand, Gustav -- "Starscape" -- CD -- €14
2004 Cyclic Law, 7th Cycle
Known from his Lithium (CMI) project and his collaboration with Karjalan Sissit and now working under his own name, Gustaf Hildebrand takes us through the sonic confines of space with his own vision of how space could aurally be experienced. First pressing of 500 copies in textured fold out sleeve. [press-release]
Hinageshi Bondage -- "Pariisi Vuonna 1959" -- CD-R -- €7
2001 Nihil Market, nM 1.3, (ltd. 150)
Depther is the solo work of a Finnish guy from the band I.corax (not that that ring any bells here). There are three lengthy piece of very dark soundscapes, two are studio pieces and one is a live pieces. Heavy, dense, dark atmospheric music of sounds being pushed around through the wild bunch of sound processors. Vibrant stuff, as opposed to some of the more static counterparts to be found in this alley. The live piece is a bit more static then the studio pieces though. [Vital Weekly]
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Hirsch, Vladimir -- "Concert Industriel Pour Orgue" -- CD -- €10
2007 Ars Benevola Mater, ABM29, (ltd. 435)
Concert industriel pour orgue is initially an extensive composition in quasi-oratorial form, in final version abbreviated and restructuralised. Classical form is here only in contours. Opus is characterised by thematic spurts, erupting in desultory pulses and, exhausted, dying away in a mass of industrial sounds, without consequent ending of idea. The industrial matrix is also a space and energy source for volcanic activity proper. The solo role of the organ is surprisingly not dominant and its parts are often taken over by other instruments. The revised and re-worked second version of the composition is placing more emphasis on systematic approach to its theme and sound, without essentially influencing the above said basic qualities of the opus. In 2002, the third and final concert version was created, markedly different from the original ones with closer concept and highlighted church atmosphere of the composition. This is now released by the Italian label Ars Benevola Mater, both separately and as a part of the author's set of works entitled "The Assent to Paradoxon" (2006-2007 Ars Benevola Mater). [press-release]
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His Divine Grace -- "Reverse Aleph" -- CD -- €12
2001 Hau Ruck!, HR!14
A lot of secrets around this band, no information. Even the labels seems to know nothing about this formation. So is the music, dark & ritual, doomy and gloomy, coming from behind, getting you in your sleep. Haunting you in your deepest nightmares. You may be dead and even then you don't know a thing about this release. Just experience it! [label info]
Hive Mind -- "Death Tone" -- CD -- €10
2005 Hanson Records, HN 123
Weird dudes jamming synths. Alone. Social Problems. Problems. Recorded late into the night. Fucking A. That is the business, right there. Shit is just creepy-gets under your skin. While most noise youth get their chocolate fingers lost in gadgetry and posturing-something about a synth jam that's just.... Human ... humanly wrong. But fucking right. Right on Hive Mind. [label info]
Hladna -- "Gromoglasnoe DA!" -- 2 CD-R -- €10
2007 Hladna, (ltd. 30)
Special author's edition of the recording entitled "Gromoglasnoe DA! jertvam himicheskoj ataki" prepared for the european tour of Hladna / Noises of Russia in spring 2007. Rough handmade sleeve made from sodden in black oil paper. Audio + video from the concert which took part on 20.05.2003 in St. Petersburg's Experimental Sound Gallery. Harsh power electronics/noise.
Hladna -- "March 2003" -- CD-R -- €7
2011 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT85, (ltd. 60)
Ultra powerful initiative Power Electronics with deep earthy bass pulsations and shamanic energy. Ritual rhythms take all your bowels out and leave the body whirling around the bonfire like a frantic phantom with glassy eyes. Slim box, embossed cover. [label info]
Hladna -- "Melting Water" -- CD -- €10
2007 Aquarellist, aquarel 04-07, (ltd. 300)
Reissue of a very limited CD-R "Talaya Voda" (Russian translation of the title). Old recordings of St. Petersburg-based project from 1998-99. Very raw ritual ambient/noise saturated with ultramundane drones and metal rattle. Mostly meditative but sometimes brutal. Primordial music. Specially for this reissue the album was remastered by Igor Potsukailo (Bardoseneticcube). Cardboard foldout sleeve.
Hladna -- "Music of Empty Rooms" -- 3"CD-R -- €10
2001 self-released, (ltd. 68)
Cosmic-cold ultra-minimalistic electronic ambient. Absolute detachment. Handmade cover with a piece of mirror.
Hladna -- "Untitled 1996" -- CD-R -- €7
2006 Hladna
On this CDR you can find very early recording done in 1996-1997, "proto-Hladna", so to say, known to friends as "Lord Black". Absolutely minimalistic atmospheric compositions played on a simple synthesizer, not even a hint at horrible noise Hladna makes these days. More likely this is a recording in vein of post-metallic Burzum, but even more minimalistic and strangely more atmospheric. Beautiful rough handmade package.
Hladna -- "Vetrokamni" -- CD-R -- €9
2007 self-released
Basic material for this new album of St. Petersburg-based project was found in old recordings from 1996, which then had been seriously reworked in 2007. If one tries to define the style, he can find electroacoustics, lo-fi, drone ambient, ritual, noise, etc... but all these definitions are secondary, and primary is the power, the spirit lying inside, and here are no problems with that. The disc instantly grasps your mind and holds until the end for an hour, and forces to press "repeat" afterwards. Earnestly recommended to everyone who loves hypnotic records. The artwork consists of a woven sack with a couple of inserts.
Hladna & Vresnit -- "Inej Senju Kornej" -- CD -- €10
2010 Vetvei, V08, (ltd. 383)
This release presents the first part of collaborating materials recorded by Nikolay Kalmykov (Hladna) and Sergey Ilchuk (Vresnit) in a remote Jarogora village in January 2010. Winter woods of Vepsky Park, ...disturbing pulsation of the earth and majestic meditative canvas. Handbells summons the frozen spirits, the snow crunching underfoot breaks off by sharp technogenic crunches, twilight goes down, the frost grows stronger and then all calms down. At a dawn fairytale maids sing solar lullabies, and boundless birds spin heavenly open spaces. Space drone equipment, flutes, jaw's harp, field taperecordings, -the nature and technology have merged here in three dense Drone Noise Ambient shamanic rituals where kind covers of Vresnit's chtonic naturalism and weird psychedelic hide a lump of severe urbanistic existentialism which is indispensable for Hladna's works. Design presented by full-color six-panel envelope from Vresnit Art. [press-release]
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Hladna / Xerox 667 -- "22-23.02.2003" -- CD-R -- €7
2012 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT95, (ltd. 34)
Archive sessions of two projects from the same artist. Psychedelic Power Electronics in vein of "Gromoglasnoe DA!" sometimes intersected with more rhythmic tracks, remotely resembling Genocide Organ, and squeaking / creaking dehumanized Electronic Noise Ambient. Strong futuristic industrial atmosphere. Slim-box. Cover made of vintage paper with reproductions of the paintings by Nik. Nik. Kalmykov. The release comes with a dose of "Luminal" (phenobarbital) for a good sleep after listening. [press-release]
Hladna / Zevodvozogon' -- "s/t" -- 2 CD-R -- €12
2007 Hladna
This set contains Zevodvozogon' album + Hladna's "Untitled 1996".
Hoarfrost -- "Ground Zero" -- CD -- €10
2008 Zoharum, ZOHAR 005-2
Zoharum Collektiv presents debut album of Silesian dark ambient project: HOARFROST - "Ground Zero". The 'Ground Zero' is a landscape developing from an unknown cataclysm presenting ruins and debris of steel, dust flying in the air, rust and slivers, tumbling down construction, where steel structures bend and fold like a pack of cards. A 37-minute story about the destruction of the concrete world is presented in 6 pieces in a dark ambient/industrial climate. Additionally the record also contains a video clip to 'From here to ruins'. [label info]
Hoarfrost -- "Puppets of the Divine Coroner" -- CD -- €10
2011 Zoharum, ZOHAR 025-2
Who is the man nowadays? A cogwheel in a machine, which he built by himself? A prisoner of a corporation - a modern labor camp? A hostage of a development, which has to proceed faster, faster and faster? A slave of money? A victim of his own ambitions? A castaway in a city of human zombies? A resident of a big cemetery, where he entombed his free will? A puppet? But in whose hands? 'Puppets of the divine coroner' is a reverie about the man, who wanted to control the world but he fell into the trap and became a prisoner of the reality, created by himself. Is there a chance for an escape from the point he reach? [press-release]
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Hoarfrost & Inner Vision Laboratory -- "Decline" -- CD -- €10
2010 Zoharum, ZOHAR 010-2
Both Hoarfrost and Inner Vision Laboratory are young projects, but it would be an understatement to call them 'newcomers.' Each of them has already released debut albums alongside numerous split releases, collaborations, web extended plays and compilation tracks. Thanks to them they gathered a substantial following among experimental music listeners. It was just a question of time when the men behind the projects would collaborate on a release. The result is 'Decline' - a tale of descending into the pits of madness in 8 parts. Inspired by two poems, 'Madman' and 'Modern Icarus,' takes you on a journey into the realms of dark thoughts. With such a clear concept, it's no wonder that the music is cinematic, thus slowly building images in the listener's head. Face the stillness, but remember: something is lingering in the corner. [label info]
Hollowing & Maor Appelbaum -- "Collaborating Torture" -- CD -- €10
2008 Topheth Prophet, TP016 / Heart & Crossbone, HCB-017
'Collaborating Torture' was created through the collaboration of two artists who shared a dark ambient vision; the increasingly prolific Israeli Maor Appelbaum (Grave In The Sky, Poochlatz and many others) and Rectrix Records founder Matt Gibney's solo project Hollowing. Consisting of a single 54 minute track full of heavy, dark drones, 'Collaborating Torture' is a haunting, shifting mass of sound that evolves, expands and contracts as it progresses. Layered drones intersect as chimes gently ring out and voices from another dimension call out from deep within the rumbling depths of sound. Although less bassy than most drone based recordings, 'Collaborating Torture' focuses more on a sweeping, swirling maelstrom of encircling sound that encapsulates and cocoons. Adding to the more atmospheric and ethereal aspects are creaking, chinking, chiming little sounds that resemble movement and activity in the shadows while dominant layered drones and obscured ritualistic chants sweep all around in dark swathes. After building and building the layers of sound, they are stripped away and, while the earthquake-like drones rumble beneath the feet, the sound opens up, the chants and delicate chimes become clearer as if observing some ancient ritual deep in an underground cavern with painted symbols and burning torches. As sounds build and fall again, the addition of short passages of acoustic guitar and rattling percussion can be made out amongst the murky layers... [Paul Lloyd, Judas Kiss]
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Hollowing / Marspiter -- "Habashira" -- CD -- €10
2005 The Rectrix, TF12
Split release with 4 tracks from the Hollowing and 3 from Marspiter. The former move from cavernous noise ambient to aggressive tribal pieces, while Marspiter sticks to a subterranean form of neoclassical with a restrained and buried sound suitable for the epic movies of yore. A nice combination that covers a fair amount of sonic ground. [Mechanoise Labs]
Horologium -- "A Handful of Dust and Ashes" -- CD -- €10
2010 Zoharum, ZOHAR 013-2
'A Handful of Dust and Ashes' is a collection of tracks recorded during various occasions, but united here by a peculiar sediment of dust and rust; it's a journey in time to strictly limited 'A Handful of Dust', published by Cynfeirdd, and to 'Opium', amounts of which are long sold out and yearned for by those in search of lost time. The (re)collection is crowned by three tracks performed live in Barcelona and Bologna in 2008 and 2009. The artwork by Fab and Sophie embody fin de siecle that has never been that convincing and tangible. Packaged in 3-panel digipack in new design. [press-release]
Horologium -- "Le Cartoline Perse" -- CD -- €10
2007 Blade Records, wmda074, (ltd. 300)
A collection of various unreleased and rare compilation tracks by this cult Polish act. Four tracks have never been released before, while the last track, 'Anywhere', gives us a taster of the forthcoming album 'The World Is Not Enough'. The music ranges from Symphonic Industrial with strange, haunting vocal samples, to upbeat Laibach-esque Industrial pop anthems. A nice range of styles on this disc and a good introduction to the act. Limited to just 300 hand-numbered copies in an outsized foldout package (with a couple of naked ladies on the cover for good measure!). [Cold Spring Records]
Hoshino, Takanobu -- "A Sampling + 5" -- CD-R -- €7
2012 Observatoire, obs * (Ģ65) 034, (ltd. 65)
Three similar ways to the one minimalistic entire. This solo work of Takanobu Hoshino lasts about 50 minutes. Three tracks draw attention to transient configurations without special focus to field recordings details, sampling or distant background. And behind all this is the constant landscape or idyll harmony of author's composition. Mastering by D Shapovalov. [label info]
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Hotel 74 -- "Rooms" -- CD -- €11
2008 self-released
Hotel 74 are a French electronic music duo based in Paris, created in 2007 by Alexis Gelinet and Jean-Christophe Villain. Their highly atmospheric music is practically entirely instrumental and reminds of Boards Of Canada, Moby, Clint Mansell or Mogwai. Their sound, combining analogue keyboards, guitars and organic rhythms, echoes the soundtracks of John Carpenter's movies or 80's American TV series like Miami Vice or Twin Peaks. [Databloem]
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Howden, Matt -- "Robot World - An Original Film Score" -- CD -- €13
2011 Redroom, Redroom 007
Howden, Matt -- "Voyager" -- CD -- €11
2004 Ars Benevola Mater, ABM 08, (ltd. 1077)
Twenty-one neo-classical tracks that follow the progress of the Voyager space probe from Jupiter, past Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and out to The Heliopause, the outermost reaches of the Sun's rays. As the album progresses out through the Solar System, the time signatures, keys, and conventional sounds and phrases mutate - the music becomes wilder and manipulations of conventional sounds, and time elements become more pronounced. The last track, The Heliopause, brings together all the elements of the album in a seventeen minute finale, capturing the relentless journey of Voyager heading out of our Solar System. [press-release]
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Howden, Matt / Wakeford, Tony -- "Wormwood" -- CD -- €13
2003 Tursa, TURSA 031CD
Hrefnesholt -- "Uraungst" -- CD -- €14
2010 Percht, Percht16
Hrossharsgrani -- "Ancient Tales" -- 2 CD-R -- €8
2010 Valgriind, VG 37 / Lost Reich Records, Reich 12, (ltd. 200)
A compilation of early works of this Austrian project with some references to early Graveland and Darzamat. The music takes listener to the ancient times full of myths, hoary legends and war-drum rolls. Pure art binding together past and future. Professional artwork. [label info]
Huber, Alois -- "Founder" -- CD -- €10
2006 Laton, 039
Alois Huber is another austrian artists, co-founder of Laton label, formerly also known as the collaborator for many Sabotage Communications and Craft Records projects. In the early 90s, he was a part of Dependance band, along with Franz Pomassl. His more recent works are drawing a line between minimal techno and ambient. He released some albums between 1996 and 2003, but "Founder" stands apart, so it was just released. So, it's pure synthetic music with straight rhythms and middle-paced arrangements. There is also very funny cover version of Ganymed's "Take Me Higher" (1978) - unbelievable! [Dmitry Vasilyev, Independent Electronic Music]
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Hudak, John -- "Sand Or Stars" -- CD -- €10
2005 and/OAR, and/16
The first piece of this CD mastered by John's friend and collaborator Stephan Mathieu (Sirr.ecords, Lucky Kitchen, Hapna, etc), is unlike much of John's previous work in that it features sharp staccato percussive sounds suddenly dodging in and out, but nevertheless it still has John's "endless" compositional sense written into it. A subtle sense of humor seems to be inherent in the piece as well, as if some of the sounds hesitate with indecision as to whether or not they should make their presence known or perhaps they are trying to avoid colliding with some of the other sounds. And upon listening to this piece, be careful with volume settings at first listen, because the listener will quickly discover another aspect of this piece that is unlike much of John's previous work: sudden volume shifts. This seems to suggest that the sounds are also changeable in temperament as well! The second piece on this CD is perhaps the most meditative of the collection with its muted midrange buzzing that jumps around within the stereo spectrum, perhaps being reminiscent of musical radar signals or sonifications of normally inaudible activity occurring in a planet's magnetosphere, all the while maintaining a benevolent warmth throughout. And what could possibly be described as the amplification of rolling ion particle blasts being broadcast via shortwave radio, tells us that we have reached the third and final piece of this collection of what could be considered as being among John Hudak's finest works. [label info]
Hukam -- "Astral Track Inside of Moutain" -- CD-R -- €8
2008 BioSonar Labyrint 05, (ltd. 108)
Project of Evgeny Savenko (Lunar Abyss, Ritualnaya Bioingeneria, eyc.) "Hukam - a term of Sikh, those who search for spirit in Himalayan foothills. Hukam is a Life Impuls, which is called Naam & Sach by Sikh, Shabd & Nad by Hindu, Kalma & Kalam-i-Rabani by Muslims and Logos by Christians. Here Hukam is a psycho-energetical sound project from L.A.D.O. and it has no connection with music (is aesthetic sense). This project represents sound meditative practices, journeys in the body of sound, tuning on the between-dimensional perception. A bridge between crystalline and organic consciousness. This disk is a tuning on the astral projection, a trip to the depth of your astral body, slight widening of attention sphere due to temporary relaxation of the frontal ego. The effect is achieved by using the difference between sonic waves in two channels. Sound which comes in consciousness through hearing transfroms into a signal of a non-sonic nature and is perceived as a tune bypassing brain functions. The nervous system relaxes and the consciousness obtains the possibility of free movement in the astral body." [press-release]
Hull, Scott -- "Audiofilm I" -- 3"CD -- €7
2008 Crucial Blast, CBR 71, (ltd. 1000)
Scott Hull is already well known in the grind/metal underground for his devestating riffage in Pig Destroyer and Agoraphobic Nosebleed; outside of extreme metal, however, Scott has also worked on dark, sumptuous soundscapes and ambient film scores at his Visceralsound lair that have just recently began to appear in recorded form over the past few years. Scott's Requiem CD that came out through Relapse Records earlier this year was one of the first official releases of his film score/soundscape work, and was widely embraced by fans of bleak cinematic ambience and chilling electronic sound sculpture. Crucial Blast is following that amazing disc with a series of limited-edition 3" CDs that each feature a short, 10+ minute piece of fearsome dark ambient music from Scott that showcase his skill at blending blackend Lustmordian drift with terrifying mixing techniques that clot the mind's eye with unnerving, nightmarish sound events. [label info]
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Hull, Scott -- "Audiofilm II" -- 3"CD -- €7
2010 Crucial Blast, CBR 79, (ltd. 1000)
The second installment in our series of limited-run 3" CDs from Scott Hull. Best known for his amazing thrash/grind riffage in the bands Pig Destroyer and Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Scott has been gradually revealing another side of his musical persona over the past few years, an obsession with cinematic soundscaping and dark evocative film scores, mutant electronic textures and pitch-black isolationism that employs brilliant production trickery to immerse the listener in a vibrant, active aural environment. The first disc that we released, Audiofilm I, was a terrifying, lightless driftscape, filled with creepy vocal loops, massive low end ambience, and an all-around horrific vibe that had us comparing it to works from Lustmord, Lull, and the Ambient disc from Painkiller's Execution Ground. But on this follow-up, Scott creates a much more frantic and energetic soundscape, this one alive with minimal bass-shuddering pulses and keening tone manipulations, layered swarms of insectile electronic chitter, swells of shadowy ambience, brain-melting plasma blasts, and vast tectonic drones. A brief (at 12 minutes) but amazing dose of abstract dark ambient/noise that will appeal to fans of Bastard Noise, Astro, and freaked-out 70's sci-fi synth soundtracks. As with the first disc, this 3" CD is packaged in a full color miniature folder with awesome artwork/photography from Seldon Hunt, and pressed in a one-time run of 1,000 copies. [press-release]
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Hum -- "Caldron of Winds" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2007 Taalem, alm 47
Russian artist Dmitry Chistov is an extremely busy bee! Known under various aliases (Sphogha, Maw, Mikosterion or Small Town Zombie to name a few), he has self-produced many releases for around ten years. First labels to notice his evocative drones were the usual suspects Drone Records and Mystery Sea. Composed in 2004 and 2005, "Caldron of Winds" shows Dmitry's ability to create subtle & melancholic drones mixed with natural sounds... [press-release]
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Hum -- "Flesh of the Soul" -- CD -- €11
2006 Quag, twenty two, (ltd. 300)
Finally, after the numerous CDRs and one 7" on Drone Records, this is the first factory-pressed CD of this brilliant drone-ambient project. "Flesh Of The Soul", which is definitely one of the best works Dmitry Chistov has ever done, is a real masterpiece of cold transcendental soundscapes. The album is filled with majestic melancholy, it is clear and soothing, there's a plenty of veiled melodies and celestial harmonies hidden inside its simple sound structures. It sounds a bit nostalgic cause Dmitry uses only old-fashioned tape-technique and analogue synth loops, utilizing digital devices just for the final mastering, but the atmosphere is very special, reminding of early Zoviet France, Maeror Tri, Tesendalo or Aidan Baker. It could seem very peaceful and calm, but beyond this bright and peaceful surface the sorrow and darkness is hidden. The beauty of this music is enchanting and it is hard to resist its magical spells, so it might be difficult to fight the desire to play this album over and over in yearning to experience again the tender touch of this unearthly Flesh Of The Soul. The album is limited to 300 copies and comes in special package printed silver on black. Very recommended. [press-release]
Human Flesh -- "Penumbra" -- CD -- €9
2007 EE Tapes, EE10, (ltd. 300)
An exclusive new work by Human Flesh, the legendary musical project of multi-instrumentalist Alain Neffe (Insane Music, Belgium) and his friends-musicians/singers. These never before released tracks, which were recorded between 1985 and 1995 on an old reel-to-reel TEAC 8-track, have been analog-mixed on a 2-track open real tape or DAT (Digital Audio Tape) and digitally remastered by computer. 7" cover printed on deluxe cardboard with insert. [press-release]
Human Greed -- "Black Hill: Midnight At The Blighted Star" -- CD -- €10
2008 Lumberton Trading Company, LUMB011
The third album by Edinburgh's finest exponents of often haunting, yet always touching, ebb and flow. Includes very special guest appearances by Julia Kent (Antony and the Johnsons, Blind Cave Salamander), Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo (Blind Cave Salamander, Larsen), David Tibet (Current 93) and Clodagh Simonds (Fovea Hex). Gathering together material quite possibly amounting to their most accomplished yet, 'Black Hill...' is akin to being caught in the trail of a shooting star heading to the very place where dreams, fears, hopes and an overwhelming sense of helpless abandonment teeter over the periphery of yet another rather enticing void. At once beautiful, melancholic, slightly bruised and foreboding, the music here never fails to captivate. Also features fantastic exclusive artwork from Deryk Thomas (otherwise known for work adorning certain sleeves by Swans and Angels Of Light) and Alan McGowan. [press-release]
Human Larvae -- "Home Is Where The Hurt Is" -- CD -- €10
2008 Existence Establishment, EE08, (ltd. 500)
Introducing the debut full-length of this new Dresden based heavy industrial/power electronics unit following his 3 inch CDR on Silken Tofu. Taking cues from styles as diverse as the cinematic Navicon Torture Technologies and grungy lo-fi ...Today I'm Dead, Human Larvae delivers an emotional torrent of self-destructive force with "Home is Where the Hurt Is". Spanning a running time of over an hour, styles range from rhythmic orchestral industrial to bleak passages of black noise with a good dosage of throbbing feedback and scathing vocals. There is some sick twisted narrative to be found here but the search for these mysterious happenings will bring you to places you may never return from. [press-release]
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Human Metronome & 33 Tetragammon -- "Resonating Earth" -- CD -- €9
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The Human Quena Orchestra -- "The Politics Of The Irredeemable" -- CD -- €10
2009 Crucial Blast, CBR 76
...Crushing and oppressive, a crawl through abstract fields of low-end sound that move from punishing blasts of ultra-heavy machine-doom and earth-shaking tectonic riffs, to thick fogs of black electronic ambience that shimmer with subsonic pulses and celestial drones, the presence of malevolent electricity crackling in the air around the lumbering, nightmarish electro-sludge monstrosity of the Human Quena Orchestra. And at the same time, there are passages of immense beauty on this album that lurk at the peripheries of HQO's malevolent crush; the track "Aspirations" for instance, where pummeling slow-motion industrial percussions grinds in an infinite loop beneath a swirling nightsky of kosmiche synthesizers and heavenly, blissed-out ambience... [label info]
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The Human Voice -- "Exit Lines" -- CD -- €12
2008 Eibon Records, Voi077
Dark ambient/post rock. NORTHAUNT mastermind Harleif Langas gives voice to a less dark and oppressive journey with "Exit lines", and explores the thin boundary between ambient (not necessarily dark....) music and spacious post-rock. Deep drones and sparse melodic guitar lines, "skeletal" structures and subtle noises. Appealing to both the Constellation-freaks and the courageous (and open minded) dark ambient travellers. Digisleeve. [press-release]
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Hunyadi P.H. -- "Recycled Sounds & Forbidden Songs" -- 3"CD-R -- €5
2008 Mask Of The Slave, MS-021, (ltd. 125)
Old school noise/PE from Transylvania. The title speaks for itself! Analog harsh noise with lots of PE elements mixed with Hungarian military songs from the 2WW. [label info]
Hurvatov, Oleg -- "Anaesthesia Dolorosa Psychica" -- CD-R -- €7
2011 Radiodrone Records, RD-02, (ltd. 100)
New album by Oleg Hurvatov (Interior Disposition, Lanceolaria Im Licht Der Laterne) presents this space ambient musician on the other part. There's a totally unfamiliar, unexpected person. Anaesthesia Dolorosa Psychica is an exorcism dive into the depths of sorrowful heartlessness, which fetters the will to live. It is a proven attempt to find a way out of the maze of closed benumbed consciousness by sound magical opportunity. Psychoactive drone ambient transmits the chaotic flow of neurons and dark thought forms. It's a last refuge into a infinite loneliness of a microcosm. The abyss calls to abyss. The abyss swallows up the abyss. Envelope from craft-parer with fullcolour print. [press-release]
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Hush Arbors -- "Cleaning The Bone" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2005 267 Lattajjaa, LTJ-33
Psychedelic drone ambient, sounding like Troum performing slowest songs of The Doors. [YAOP]
Hybryds -- "Dreambient" -- CD + DVD -- €17
2008 Aquarellist, aquarel 07-08, (ltd. 1000)
HYBRYDS is a Belgian ritual-esoteric project, which in the early 90-s released it's most significant album "Music for Rituals" on the cult label Artware run by Donna Klemm (R.I.P.). They have reached the peak of creativity in 90-s with their classical discs "The Ritual Should Be Kept Alive" parts 1 & 2, "Soundtrack For The Aquarium", recorded for the Antwerp water park, "Dreamscapes From A Dark Side", "Tectonic Overload". In 2000 the female member of HYBRYDS, Yasnaia, leaves the band, and Magthea is busy with his project NA-DHA for some time. The new album of HYBRYDS, "Dreambient" is based on exploration of the female characters from the Pagan past: archetypes of the seducer, the demon, the girl, the whore, the slave, the mistress, the priest, the mother... The music of the project has become more accessible for uninitiated listeners: traditional ambient-ritual basis is enriched with rhythmic electronics, melodic synthesizer tunes and even guitar parts. Vocals are now done by Madeline Arndt from the German darkwave/gothic band Schattenkinder. Audio-CD is supplemented by a DVD containing a visualization of the subconscious flow of religious and erotic archetypes. The release is packed in a double-digipak with a booklet. [press-release]
Hybryds -- "Ritual Anthology" -- CD -- €12
2009 Aquarellist, aquarel 10-09, (ltd. 600)
With this CD Aquarellist is proud to present the anthology of early ritual works of this fabulous Belgian project. This music immerses the listener into the space of RITUAL - the magical action aimed to reach the goals beyond the borders of the ordinary world. An action evoking deeper layers of consciousness, deeper memories not active in our everyday life. An action that helps to reveal our potential as powerful and miraculous creatures... Hybryds present their visions of rituals in the form of rhythmical compositions built on repetitive percussive loops crowned with layers of numerous archaic instruments, aided by vocal spells and atmospheric soundscapes with minor electronic additions... This material was recorded in 1986-1993 by Magthea & Yasnaia with the help of their friends: Ah Cama Sotz, Djen Ajakan Shean, Vidna Obmana, Clive Richards, Irae Deprofundo and Bobby Colombo. Three tracks from this CD were previously released on "The Rhythm Of The Ritual" CD (Charnel Music, 1994), one track was released as "The Ritual Should Be Kept Alive - Part 1" CD EP (3RIOART, 1991), and three other tracks are released here for the first time. [press-release]
Hybryds -- "Soundtrack For The Antwerp Zoo Aquarium" -- CD -- €10
1995/2011 Zoharum, ZOHAR 022-2
The reissue of a long-deleted classic album by this legendary Belgian project. 'Soundtrack for the Antwerp Zoo Aquarium' is an unusual album, even in comparison with other Hybryds works. It was created especially for the 150th anniversary of the Antwerp Zoo. Music composed by Sandy and Hermann (of Ah-Cama Sotz) was woven in between the sounds of dolphins, killer whales and the noise of the underwater world.
The Zoo director wrote the following in the preface: "Soundtrack for the Antwerp Zoo Aquarium" is a musical journey of the similar stature as "20 000 Leagues Under the Sea" by Julius Verne. Let it be the best recommendation for those who haven't had a chance to get to know to one of the best and most interesting albums in the Hybryds discography. [press-release]
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Hyios -- "Consuetudines" -- CD -- €10
2009 Malignant Records, TUMOR CD40
The alluring debut from Leipzig Germany's Hyios, Consuetudines offers 7 lengthy compositions of cold ritual drones, arching trajectories, and visceral descents into subterranean caverns, where rich, kinetic textures and deep resonant tones move and morph in a fluid, serpentine fashion, sprinkled with the debris of an ancient culture and something more otherworldly and primordial. Leipzig has historically proven to be fertile ground for dark ambient and Consuetudines continues in the fine tradition set forth by such notable acts as Inade and Herbst9. In 6 panel digipak, mastered by Secret Lab. A great new discovery. [label info]
Hypnoz -- "Chronica Plennyh" -- CD -- €9
2006 Insofar Vapor Bulk, IVBCD12
"Chronica Plennyh" is the first album of Hypnoz, or better not, it's rather mystical-sonic notes of Dmitry Zubov, very personal and disgracefully sincere, shocking with their non-standard approach to recording. For instance, on a track "Elektrichestvo" he plays backand forth the recording of laughing of his friend Roman S. (project Staruha Mha) who took LSD-25 for the first time, plus overlay of glass breaking by metal crow-bar at his home, altogether mixed with sounds of boiler-room. Or recording session with a man who was imprisoned for a murder ("Serdcebienie"). The 9th track "Radio "Artem" is dedicated to the fond memories of Artyom Grechko (silly and funny man, founder of a style "dispanser rock"), brutally killed at a spring in a sleeping-quarter somewhere in Moscow. After listening to 14 tracks one unwittingly finds himself in a dark space realm of unknown sides of Russian soul. As author says himself, he's been travelling there often. [press-release]
Hypsiphrone -- "And The Void Shall Pierce Their Eyes" -- CD -- €10
2011 Black Plagve, INFECT09, (ltd. 500)
Debut album from this one man project from Greece, and a new entry into the Black Plague roster, fitting right in with label mate's Sewer Goddess in its ability to create innately evil and impure sounds, integrating elements of doom metal, black metal, and dark experimentalism into the pure industrial horror that constitutes the majority of this release. The result is nothing short of absolute and abject dread; 8 tracks spanning an hour worth of material: an auditory overload that's completely immersive, and at times overwhelming, where heaving masses of percussive doom collide with shuddering machinery dirge, ghoulish and nightmarish ambience, torturous screams, and cinematic depravity, the sounds layered into a tangled and abstract tapestry of something completely epic and nearly majestic in its scale. Fans of Gnaw Their Tongues, Abruptum, and 'Necrose Evangelicum' era BDN will do well to wallow in the oozing blackness and unbridled malevolence Hypsiphrone has created. Lmtd 500 copies, in 6 panel digipak. [press-release]
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I Am Nothing -- "Without People 3 - Under Concrete and Glass" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Valgriind, VG 01, (ltd. 50)
Fast impulsive radionoise / philosophy. Reissue of a self-released work, handmade artwork (overexposed X-ray film, X-ray paper package). [label info]
I Am Nothing + Light Collapse -- "Levelheaded / Urban Machinery" -- 4 CD-R BOX -- €11
2010 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT69, (ltd. 19)
A great collaboration of two leading Russian industrial artists - Noumen (MNL9, Yadokhimikaty, Morbus Mundi, Hyperborea, etc.) and Vitaly Maklakov (Obozdur, Kromeshna, 581C, etc.). Three-hour long canvas of rough pulsating retrograde Industrial and urban lo-fi drone in vein of early releases of Industrial Records and Ultra, and old records of NON. Dedicated to the founder of Japanese "School of pure land" in Buddhism Sinran Shohin and all the fathers of dadaism. Artwork contains technological scheme unique for each copy. [press-release]
I Burn -- "Infraharmonies, Scald Cavities" -- CD -- €11
1998 Fuoco Records, Fuoco001, (ltd. 500)
Soundtracks for your cremation. Harsh and noisy BRIGHTER DEATH NOW-like structures meet dark ambient: transmute your conception of sound: you BURN...... Transparent yellow jewelcase. [label info]
I.Corax -- "Spectral Metabolism" -- CD -- €10
2005 Kaos Kontrol, K\K 012, (ltd. 1000)
Haunting revelation of sonic worlds where primal elements and archaic voices flux side by side with contemporary methods of amplifying the relation between sound and mind to culmination. Whirling soundscapes of organic and natural phenomena woven together with the synthetic and manipulated; the outcome being nothing short of utmost brilliance in the field of dark ambient and post-industrial. After a few highly acclaimed limited CDr works, the Finnish duo finally presents their first CD release, undoubtedly setting out to challenge the stagnance of the genre they master eminently. Stunning black/white oversized foldout carton sleeve. [press-release]
I/DEX -- "Layers" -- CD -- €10
2009 Lagunamuch Community, LMC1001
I/DEX (Vitaly Harmash) is a musician and an audio-designer from an industrial city of Novopolotsk, Belarus. From the mid 90s Vitaly was experimenting making his own music, using analogue synthesizers, radio, guitars, field recordings, various devices and computers.
The life in a city with a huge industrial estate has influenced the art of Vitaly. I/DEX music hypnoses and fascinates listeners by its warm structures. His music is a subtle intellectual electronics filled with sunny melodies and micro-glitches, which dissolve in pure ambient landscapes of nature - in forests, fields and lakes. In 2003 the debut album of I/DEX - Seqsextend was released on an experimental label Nexsound and received numerous positive reviews from web-zines all over the world. Since then I/DEX has worked with such people as Pole (~scape rec.), H.H.T.P., Kriipis Tulo, Guy Van Belle and took part in several European festivals of electronic music. Hand by hand with his concerts, Vitaly continued recording his art experiments and recorded a very deep and a serious album Layers. Layers is an outstanding collection of inner feelings, transmitted by an audio-artist with its music. Each element here is a multi-layered synthesis of intellectual art - micro-electronic, idm and deep ambient. Each of 9 tracks is an insight into a world of surrealism and fantasy with their mysterious flora and fauna. When listening to this album-exposition, you will see your own images and landscapes. This is how your own world will be mirrored in this music. [press-release]
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i: Wound -- "Tryptych 2: Skarz" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2001 Taalem, alm 2
I:Wound is a fascinating German project. You might know thanks to his excellent "Ram Nai Satya Hai" CD he released some years ago. Sascha uses a lot of field recordings (indian crowd, makets, that kind of stuff) sometimes mixed with hard rhythms or ambient sounds. Might recall Muslimgauze on track 4. [press-release]
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ICK -- "Les Hemorragies Nihilistes" -- CD -- €10
2001 Hau Ruck!, HR!25
First CD by this Frensh project this time with a more rhytmic & electronic tune! [label info]
Id Molotov -- "Mordance" -- CD -- €11
2007 Tesla, nT01, (ltd. 500)
Indiestate Distribution is proud to present the first release on its new label Tesla which will specialize in various genres of modern electronic music, especially in hard and extreme rhythm-oriented stuff from power noise and teknoize to TBM and industrial hardcore. The first release on the new label is the debut album of Id Molotov, the artist from Saint-Petersburg which is very well-known in Russia due to his numerous live gigs on the best extreme dancefloor events. Being a qualified butcher for a number of years, he learned to combine the professional brutality with soulful softness inside and to view the world with a bit of distance and a touch of humour. These personal traits continue in his music, where the harsh and cruel rhythms are united with the cold but soft keyboard pads, ironic samples and bizarre effects. "Mordance" is a hardcore slaughter with an intelligence inside, containing a bunch of smash driving tracks well deserving hard dancefloor DJ's attention. Recommended to the fans of Hands Production's most direct and extreme stuff. The CD is limited to 500 copies only, it comes in a full-colour fold-out digisleeve with an insert. Total time 74 min. [press-release]
IDX1274 -- "The Crimean Tatar Architecture Of The Zincirli Medrese In Bakhchisaray" -- CD-R -- €4
2007 Triangle Records, [TR026], (ltd. 50)
Necrotic rough-noise as a creation of Death her Majesty. Her bone fingers never let you go, as you was catched once. Impenetrable darkness and total misery. Ltd. to 50 copies. [press-release]
If, Bwana -- "Radio Slaves" -- CD -- €10
2007 Monochrome Vision, (mv11), (ltd. 500)
Al Margolis hailed from the 1980s American cassette under- ground through his cassette label Sound Of Pig Music; he is co-founder of experimental music label Pogus Productions. Active under the name If, Bwana since 1984, his music has swung between fairly spontaneous studio constructions and more process-oriented composition. Currently Margolis is also label manager for Deep Listening, Experimental Intermedia (XI Records), and Mutable Music. He has recorded and/or performed with Pauline Oliveros, Joan Osborne, Ellen Christi, Ulrich Krieger, Dave Prescott and Fred Lonberg-Holm, among others. In 2006 he performed at the 15th Brooklyn College Electroacoustic Music and the 6th Sonic Circuits DC festivals, had installations at Diapason in NYC and the Santa Fe Electro- acoustic Music festival, been commissioned by WDR Cologne, collaborated with video artist Katherine Liberovskaya on "Take- off", which has been shown internationally, and premiered "Three Songs in Search of a Voice", a "nohtopera" with MutaMYTHeatre (text and voice by Lisa Barnard). "Radio Slaves" album was recorded in 1986, when Margolis had just gotten the Casio sampler SK-1. It was cheap and easy to use, producing very short loops, probably only up to 4 seconds. Almost the entire recording uses that technology, loops completely populating the pieces. These works in particular make use of samples from the radio and vinyl as the main sound sources - the LP scratches heard on some of the tracks are meant to be there, as they are an integral part of this work. Originally issued as a limited edition cassette "Radio Slaves" on the Medicinal Tapes (France) in 1986, then re-issued on CDr by the Generator Sound Art (USA) in 2003, this album finally released on CD with some bonus tracks. Loopy and sampledelic, it will return the spirit of 80s into your ears. Great collage music from the pioneering american experimental sound project. [press release]
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Igloodoom -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €7
2006 XV Parowek, XVP40
Recorded in November 2005, featuring: Hubert Napiorski (Thaw/Astipalea) - analog equipment, Bartek Kalinka (XV Parowek) - computer. Dynamic, improvised electroacoustics. CDR comes in pink paper envelope, with color cover and insert. [label info]
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Igloodoom -- "Broken Ghost of Penniless Wilds" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 XV Parowek, XVP48, (ltd. 100)
77 minutes of darkened, dragging, futuristic soup, hopeless chemical reaction, hang in a void. Music pulled out from many jams by Bartek/XVP, Hubert/Thaw/Astipalea. Non-digestable drones, loops, hiss, undercover explosions, etc. Definitely cold, rather not loud.
CDR comes in pink paper envelope, with color cover, insert and print on the cdr. Limited to 100. [press-release]
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Ignis Vrbis Mithrae -- "Sacrae Romanae Origines" -- CD -- €15
2009 Wolf Age, WAR08
Il Mestruo Delle Puttane -- "L'Armonia Dello Scazzo Pt1: PorcoDio" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2004 Perineum Productions, 008, (ltd. 41)
Powerful base-driven industrial noise with guitar roar and metallic clangs. Handmade cardboard sleeve + insert. [YAOP]
Il Prato Dei Desideri -- "Mr. Bizzarre / Una Notte Nel Prato" -- 2 CD-R -- €12
2007 Blade Records, WMDA079, (ltd. 100)
A side-project of Urna, experimental industrial ambient from Italy.
Illusion Of Safety -- "Bridges Intact" -- CD -- €12
2010 Waystyx, WR 69, (ltd. 324)
New album of Illusion Of Safety was recorded preliminary with piano, guitar, electronics and sound processing devices. Abstract tonal and atonal improvisations share the sonic continuum with background drones, rasps and gentle noises, and they do it in highly unpredictable surreal way: mild "melodies" turn into energetic uneasy passages being interrupted by "concrete" sonic romp evolving into spatial drone and electronic landscapes... and all this whirl continues during the whole CD increasing the degree of abstractness and psychedelia as it moves towards the end, which is presented in a form of beautiful harmonic composition.
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Illusion of Safety -- "In Session" -- CD -- €13
2008 Waystyx, WR40, (ltd. 500)
Illusion Of Safety is one of the oldest post-industrial acts in the Americal musical underground, and in my opinion, of the most interesting projects ever. During 25 years of existence IOS have recorded a lot of various albums and their music has been changing a lot. Having passed through all the circles of industrial hell, Dan Burke has lost almost all his companions and remained alone. He hasn't released too many albums recently, and "In Session" released in 2008 has become a real surprise for me. I mean of course the fact of the release, because the highest quality of musical material and huge amount of pleasure while listening to it is guaranteed by any of IOS albums. "In Session" was recorded in 2007, the mastering was made by Thomas Dimuzio at Gench Music Studio. This is a very thorough and delicate work, an abstract performance in which synthetic and natural sounds mix in the most unusual combinations, when you really hold your breath to wait what's gonna be further. In 6 tracks of the album there are a lot of quiet microscopic sounds which whirl in front of the eyes like thoughts without rational content. They change into the smooth waves of melodic ambient, then to insane sampled collages which don't make you feeling relaxed keeping the constant tension. This shortening of the distance between contemplativeness and neural spasms has always been the trademark of IOS - it's interesting to watch how the musical structure transforms under the emotional passion hiding after each second of the track time, but not always going out. Separate compliments should be given to the artwork designer - you can observe the cover for a really long time being astounded by it's beauty. [Dmitry Vasilyev, Monochrome Vision]
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Illusion Of Safety -- "Probe" -- CD -- €10
1992/2010 Perdition Plastics, PER 012, (ltd. 500)
This is the first re-issue of Illusion of Safety's Probe since its only appearance in 1992. In a limited edition of 500 copies, Perdition Plastics is proud to reintroduce this notable work of contemporary composition. Veteran provocateurs, Illusion of Safety, examine an audio landscape found between youth and innocence, manufactured entertainment, and suburban complacency. Using a pastiche of field recordings and suggestively composed elements, Dan Burke and Jim O'Rourke strikingly capture ambivalence and their own personal interactions within this environment. Probe was one of several early, pinnacle works to foreshadow the unique and prolific audio fingerprint of renowned producer/player, Jim O'Rourke, when still a compositional student in Chicago. O'Rourke began working with Dan Burke's Illusion of Safety project in the early '90s, releasing three albums with the project. This release fits neatly into O'Rourke's recent issuing of forgotten and initial recordings. As the constant center of Illusion of Safety since 1983, Dan Burke has consistently edited and evolved more than 20 CDs from ambience to electronica, from sound collage to post-industrial noise. The complexity and restraint found within Probe marked a compelling new direction for Burke and a great many others influenced by his music. Illusion of Safety has been released by such labels as Die Stadt, Experimedia, Silent, Soleilmoon, Staalplaat, Tesco, and Waystyx among others. Collaborations include Cheer-Accident, Thomas Demuzio, Kevin Drumm, Ben Vida, and others. Probe will be of interest to those who enjoy Hafler Trio, Throbbing Gristle, Luc Ferrari, etc. [press-release]
Imagho & Ultra Milkmaids -- "By Mail..." -- CD -- €10
2001 SSSM, SSSM-102, (ltd. 500)
COLLABORATION works, very ambient/melodic sound, Feeling of floating drifting electronics of atmosphere is ambient air space of characteristic. From France. [label info] A great CD for ambient / guitar drone lovers!
Imanishi, Masayuki -- "Land" -- CD -- €11
2008 Deserted Factory, DF008
Some very tasty science-fiction incoherent noise escapades from Masayuki Imanishi, whose Land (DESERTED FACTORY DF-8) is filled with many distorted, swirling and hyper-edited adventures in boldly reverberating insanity. Unlike many noise artists who place too much faith in violence and volume, Imanishi pays close attention to fast-moving dynamics and juxtaposing of sonic layers, and somehow maintains a high degree of obnoxious unlistenability throughout. Recommended to all you noisician sophisticates who are getting bored with the usual daily diet of Hair Police, Pain Jerk and John Wiese. [Ed Pinsent, The Sound Projector]
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The Impossible Flower -- "Anthophobia" -- CD-R -- €9
2007 AFE Records, afe064lcd, (ltd. 100)
"Anthophobia" was supposed to be released one year earlier along with "Roots and Fruits" to showcase the other side of The Impossible Flower. Unfortunately we had to pospone this release until... now! In the meantime, The Impossible Flower has gained more and more a cult status due to a collection of previously self-released material that was compiled and published by Benbecula Records in their monthly Mineral Series. Just like "Roots & Fruits", all the tracks that appear on "Anthophobia" were recorded some time ago, when The Impossible Flower was still a solo project by Andrew David Daly. Clocking in at about 50 minutes, "Anthophobia" (...an abnormal and persistent fear or flowers...) consists of nine great carefully produced IDM tracks that compete with themselves to conquer the listeners' favour. A very difficult match since all of them stand out one way or the other... [label info]
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In A Nutshell -- "Arrhythmia" -- CD -- €12
2007 Lagunamuch Community, LMC334
The second album of In A Nutshell is called Arrhythmia. It is a further exploration of dark corners and mazes of inner conscience. This time everything sounds even more experimental and darker than last time in Ultraviolet Test. A hidden entrance into another world, where live invisible ghosts and shadows of alienation of the modern civilised society. This album expands intrinsic intellectual space, bridges through the thin line of the horizon, leading to the land where dreams disappear. [press-release]
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In A Nutshell -- "Ultraviolet Test" -- CD -- €8
2005 Lagunamuch Community, LMC400 / KillKenny Rec., kk-001
In a Nutshell plays a melodious post-punk turning to eccentric grunge or unobtrusive ambient. All the members of the band are from Russia. The music of In a Nutshell is full of reflection, slump and November rain. In spite of the sensibility and the co-ordination of the musical stuff they're always looking for new sound and technics. The music has become more rhythmic, but it's still romantic and delicate all the same. Probably in their work musicians affirm the famous Hamlets phrase "O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space". [label info]
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In Gowan Ring -- "Exits and Entrances" -- 2 CD -- €16
2007 Ahnstern, Ahnstern25
Jon Michael B'Eirth (B' - IN GOWAN RING / BIRCH BOOK) is one of the last of a dying breed, that of the wandering minstrel. At the same time he is one of the first, one of the founders of a new generation of Folk musicians, gently growing out of the early ninetees, after a worldwide, for 15 years lasting dark era of no ambitious Folkrock music at all. Approaching the middle of the 70ies, all the great Folk-Rock bands, Songwriters and Minstrels either disappeared or started to drift into triviality (beside a very few exceptions) and the darkness in Folk should last up to the late 80ies/early 90ies, when artists from the early World Serpent label recovered their roots out of the late 60ies/early 70ies era. This was the time, when the young B' joined World Serpent and within only 2 albums, he got one of the most important acts on that label and for the whole growing scene. From the very beginning until today he was the lonesome wandering minstrel and with his heartbreaking balads and Psychedelic Folk tunes he occupied many hearts over the past 15 years. IN GOWAN RING is not only unique because of B's outrider position, he is also a perfectionist and a highly professional autodidact. He is one of the very few persons I ever met, who plays all imaginable instruments and who is even able to build and (re)construct these instruments himself. A unique genius with a big heart full of sadness and flowers... Exists & Entrances is a retrospective through the years 1994 to 2003. All 40 songs and 157 minutes have never been released officially before, only the artist himself gave away some copies on CDR. On several songs B' was performing with Michael Moinyhan & Annabel Lee (BLOOD AXIS / ALRAUNE), with Markus Wolff (WALDTEUFEL) and other friends around his magical circle of Folk freaks. Besides several traditional songs, this compilation also includes coverversions from songs by great 60ies/70ies Progressive Folk artists and songwriters, like THE INCREDIBLE STRING BAND, STRAWBS, VASHTI BUNYAN, NICK DRAKE, FRED NIEL, ROD McKUEN, as well as coverversions from PSYCHIC TV, LEGENDARY PINK DOTS, Brian Castillo (JARBOE) and 17 PYGMIES. All songs were remastered by Axel Frank (WERKRAUM) in the Blue Lounge Studios/Berlin. [press release]
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In Gowan Ring -- "Hazel Steps Through A Weathered Home" -- CD -- €14
2002/2005 Shayo, Shayo005
In Meditarivm -- "The Great Limbo" -- CD -- €10
2010 Wrotycz Records, WRT 010, (ltd. 500)
In Meditarivm is an Ukrainian apocalyptic ritual & dark ambient project organized in 2000 by Olegh Kolyada known by his projects First Human Ferro, Ostarbeiter and Oda Relicta. The albums like 'Les Fleurs du Mal' and 'Uterus' outlined the old school approach of the project clearly influenced by highlights of Morthound, Ildfrost, ConSono or Archon Satani. "The Great Limbo" is based on the re-engineered early works selectively crafted anew in summer 2009 at Olegh's Oda Relicta home studio. An elusory history of the project proceeds with a special Wrotycz Records release. The record, accompanied by a talented artwork of Kati Astraeir, comes as a limited to 500 copies 4-panel UV-varnished digipack with a poster. [press-releases]
In Meditarium -- "Les Fleurs Du Mal" -- CD-R -- €7
2002 Soulworm Editions, Worm XVII, (ltd. 300)
Another fine incarnation of the almighty Ukrainian artists of the First Human Ferro fame. In Meditarium has that easily recognisable sound, but makes a few steps deeper into dark atmospere of decadent joys of an alienated human being. Some ritualistic influnces are to be heard (say Archon Satani in the 'Virgin Birth' period), the rudimetary melodies fulfill the whole setting. The lyrics deal with consensual aspects of love and completion on the one hand, pain and serenity on the other. James Joyce's lines (taken form 'Giacomo Joyce') constitute the final comment and an invocative epitafium to this masterpiece... [press-release]
In My Rosary -- "15" -- CD -- €10
2008 Shadowplay Records, SPR 068
"An unexpected and highly welcome return by legendary Dark folk act In My Rosary. "15" comes swelled with dreamy melancholic melodies carried by deep and melancholic vocals". Russian reissue with 3 bonus tracks.
iN sCissorS -- "Mnemosyne & The Structure Of Time" -- CD -- €10
2011 Zoharum, ZOHAR 021-2
"Mnemosyne & The Structure Of Time" is a translation of the scenes that preceded the Earth's decline in 'Orbis Terrarum Requiem' into the sounds of iNsCissorS' 'Cinematic Ambient' where Mnemosyne, the ancient Hellenic Titan goddess of memory and remembrance and the inventress of language and words orchestrates the sequence of events and guides you throughout the complex cluster of the structure of time downwards to her lake in Hades where initiates used to drink in order to remember and bear memories along their journey through life... iNsCissorS' third full-length album is a new journey through places beyond the Earth's surface composed and performed by Vincent Andelmoth but with the also greatly important feature and additional composing and arrangements of Jason Andelmoth... Angel W. Black features giving her own enchanting touch with her astonishing voice either when lamenting as a queen that passed to silence or when invoking Hecate from Hades! Finally, as in every album the artwork is an inseparable part of the concept of iNsCissorS. This time the images cloaking the music are designed by the well known photographer/image maker John Santerineross (www.santerineross.com) who gave life to the image of Mnemosyne in his own unique way capturing the atmosphere of the album through his camera and translating it to another work of art! [press-release]
iN sCissorS -- "Orbis Terrarum Requiem" -- CD -- €10
2009 Zoharum, ZOHAR 008-2
"Orbis Terrarum Requiem" in brief means "The World's Requiem" or "The Earth's Requiem" and in the case of this album the second explanation given fits better to its concept and thematology. It is a requiem for the destruction that has befallen Earth/Nature inflicted by humans. It describes a world deserted and the only inhabitants are life forms that used to dwell beneath the Earth's surface even long before the Nature's fall and they still do after it... An excellent follow-up to 'The Veratrine Evangelicum', more structured and mature. An album that will grow on you after a few listens. For fans of Sanctum, Mental Destruction, Sui Generis Umbra, Bisclaveret, Dead Man's Hill. [label info]
In The Nursery -- "Cause + Effect" -- CD -- €10
2007 Shadowplay Records, SPR 042
"We are never aware of a cause in the creative process until it becomes an effect." A unique collection of specially commissioned and exclusive remixes of material from throughout In The Nursery's 20 year back catalogue. Contributing artists include - Faith & The Muse, Attrition, Assemblage 23, And Also The Trees, Chandeen, Haujobb, Electronium, Flesh Field, Ivan Iusco & Seize. 'Cause + Effect' is intended to highlight the interactive, inspirational and motivating nature of music. IN THE NURSERY include their own special interpretation of the classic Joy Division track 'Love Will Tear Us Apart'. [press-release]
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Inade -- "Aldebaran" -- CD -- €10
1996/2007 Cold Spring Records, CSR13CD, 3rd edition
The masters of Black Ambient! "Aldebaran" is the black sun of the secret knowledge. This work focuses on the German Vril society myths of 'Aldebaran', from which universal spirituality is said to originate. One hour of immense walls of dark, brooding atmospherics, pulsating anthems of the universal power, mixed with themes of heritage and history. The ultimate document of deep and cavernous dark ambient. [press-release]
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Inade -- "Burning Flesh" -- CD -- €12
1993/2007 Loki Foundation, LOKI 24
Due to the big interest we decided to re-release the legendary "Burning Flesh" material from 1993 with all the bonus material that appeared already on the limited CD-Version in 2000 in a new sympathically remastered version done at Secretlab in June 2007. The soundscape is a pitch-black ambience in which peculiar sounds scramble about, ignites a rising wave of gloom, driven by the slow clatter of tribal hooves upon unearthly terrain. [press-release]
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Inade -- "Colliding Dimensions" -- 4 CD -- €29
2005 Loki Foundation, loki 38
Live retrospective box with 4 individual CDs and 16-pg. booklet. All material recorded and sculptured during live shows and rehearsal sessions 1995-2002.
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Inade -- "The Crackling Of The Anonymous" -- CD -- €12
Loki Foundation, LOKI29
After 5 years since the last studio album Aldebaran, we can finally announce the release of a new full lenght work. With The Crackling Of The Anonymous, Inade move beyond all pre-conceived notions of sonic creativity. The plethora of puzzle pieces that interconnect in the expanding universe that Inade unwaveringly explores have grown amorphous, no longer defined by distinct outlines, melding as one whole, obscure entity. The expansion comes in many levels, incorporating the vast parameters of time, dimension and reality as viable participants in Inade's aural objective: to shine a light on the enigmatic unknown and give it a vague silhouette. The dark and hallucinatory masterwork that is The Crackling Of The Anonymous, is constructed via the never heard utterances of the void, while tapping into the psyche of the impossible. A stunning release that defies all logic because it creates its own! [press-release]
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Inade -- "The Incarnation Of The Solar Architects" -- CD -- €12
2009 Loki Foundation, LOKI 50
There is a world that shadows our world, a world of mysterious design and unspoken secrets, of space that breathes and infinite echoes that never cease to cry. Mirrors that refract images into dark pools of cosmic nothingness. Inade explore these worlds on their latest masterpiece, The Incarnation of the Solar Architects, in which sound is utilized in a transformative manner, not only to focus on that which lies beyond and that which has never been seen, but to embrace the Darkness and let it wash over one's soul. The mythology that Inade has created touches that place beyond forever, yet now, through the insistence of that which lurks in the margins, a metamorphosis has transpired, in which the cosmos of self has awakened. If one believes that God is everywhere, so is the Darkness that came before Him. A Darkness thriving with anonymous ideals (the possibilities are endless... ) and devious intentions, resplendent with mystical creatures that shamble through antediluvian kingdoms constructed from polished metal, luxurious crystals, and unlimited dreams... though one would need new eyes to see them, and new ears to hear them. Inade provide the soundtrack--the frisson of unease is abundant, a churning, seething dread that veers into awe. It's up to the individual listener to listen intently, behind shuttered eyelids... to see and experience the true labyrinthine hierarchy of black splendor that awaits. [press-release]
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Inade -- "The Incarnation Of The Solar Architects" -- 2 CD + DVD -- €180
2009 Loki Foundation, LOKI 50 SE, (ltd. 259)
Ultra limited edition of the latest album including bonus CD and DVD.
Inade -- "Samadhi State" -- CD -- €12
2006/2008 Loki Foundation, LOKI 41
A Japanese edition of collected studio works from the last years, recorded during several sessions and rehearsals at the Light Channel. Remixed, re-constructed and re-edited in 2005. This release was accompaning the Spring Equinoxe concert in Tokyo and is now available outside of Japan as well. "Samadhi State" is illuminating the space of reality and the luminous arcs of dreams. Samadhi is a over-conscious experience that lies beyond waking, dreaming, and deep sleep. The realisation made in Samadhi is numinous realisation. A perfect condition in vigil, a condition of absolute consciousness. It is the final goal of everything and the highest form of self-possession, in the sense of collecting all the faculties of the constitution towards reaching union or quasi-union, long or short in time as the case may be, with the divine-spiritualå Life in the spirit is not fading. If the restrictions of the empirical being are exceeded, the universal life is intensified. The life becomes cosmical and even hypercosmical. The Samadhi State is neither guards nor dreams it is the fourth dimension, where the infinite eternity prevails. [press-release]
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Inami, Sunao -- "Delayed" -- CD -- €12
2004 Electr-ohm, TCCD-20041
Sunao Inami's music's main strength lies in repetition, but where the "poison" lies is different every time: electronics, glitch, techno, noise, ambient; the result of recent years of progression, digression and collaboration from which he's gained impetus, irritation and motivation. By soaking up these sensations, he has arrived at his most recent sound. Inami embraces the thrill of improvisation on the Powerbook G4 and the feeling of tension and composition from the newest DSP recording methods and any and every editing process. For "Delayed" he used a Waldorf synth for hardware, and mainly Reaktor 4, Live, Spark, Logic 6 and Protools for software. Otherwise spoons and other kitchen utensils. [label info]
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Inami, Sunao -- "An Impulse of Acoustic" -- CD -- €12
2005 Electr-ohm, TCCD-20051
The music made by improvisation sound sketch and cut up, after that editing and constituting that it same method of his album "DELAYED", but a greatly different matter from before is the following, the multiple use of the irregular beats by the samples chopped up by filtering and Granular synthesis especially with a complicated thing characteristic this time. The sounds influence from IDM and glitch or electronica stuff of these days, and also German electronics or experimental of the 70s and the early '80s industrial music. Sunao used NI Reaktor 4, Absynth, Ableton Live 4, Waldorf synthesizers mainly. [label info]
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Inanna -- "Signal / Or / Minimal" -- CD -- €13
1999 Crowd Control Activities, Crowded 17
Inapt -- "Inaptology Part II" -- CD -- €14
2001/2002 Antigroove, Antigroove1
Incapacitants -- "Burning Orange" -- CD -- €10
2008 Pica Disk, PICA006
Incapacitants needs no introduction; the duo of Fumio Kosakai and T.Mikawa; veterans and originators of Japanese noise music; cult band number one for noise fanatics worldwide; a band whose infamous status as the best live noise act ever has continued to grow over the years because the duo almost never plays outside of Japan. In January 2007 Incapacitants performed live, for the second time in Europe in 25 years, at the All Ears festival in Oslo Norway for an overly enthusiastic audience (people from all around Europe had travelled to see their heroes). The band later described the two shows as highlights of their career. Burning Orange documents these concerts. The CD consists of two complete sets; one Incapacitants as a duo and on the second joined by finnish noise-connoisseur Tommi Keränen (Testicle Hazard) as a trio under the name of Fumio Tommiakawa (a take on Gomikawa Fumio; the trio of Pain Jerk and Incapacitants). The sound of Incapacitants is described in the liner notes of Burning Orange by Tommi Keränen as "an inspiring, pure, all-encompassing, ecstatic storm of sound that has a power of near-religious proportions - and that alone, without any unnecessary gimmicks". That celebratory ecstasy certainly comes across on Burning Orange, of which KerÄänen also handled the post-production under the supervision of Mikawa. [press-release]
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Incapacitants / T.A.D.M. -- "Stocks & Bonds" -- CD -- €10
1999 Self Abuse Records, SAD-08
Split CD from Japanese Noise gods Incapacitants and harsh unit Two Assistant Deputy Ministers (TADM). Also features one collaboration track.
Incinerator International -- "Head On" -- CD -- €10
2004 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 067
Incinerator International is a collaborative project between: US noisemaster John Balistreri (Slogun) and Swedish multi-musician Henrik Nordvargr Bjorkk (MZ. 412, Folkstorm, HH9, etc). Highly distorted, disturbed and menacing, this soundtrack for every girls nightmare is finally unleashed to rip your speakers apart! Soundwise you will recognize the frantic vocals that Slogun is known for, but this time the musical backdrop is more of a dirty Folkstorm-ish nature. This is the future of power electronics! Kneel before your masters! YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT TO ASPECT! [press-release]
Incompetent Cervix -- "03/07/10" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Altered States Tapes, AST009, (ltd. 40)
Incompetent Cervix are a Melbourne duo comprised of Mark Skelton (Y35.3, Galactagogue) and Mitchell Brennan (Brassskulls). Harsh electronic terror is the name of their game. This is a recording of their second show at Sunshine + Grease earlier in the year. Edition of 40 copies, sprayed CD-R's. [label info]
Incorporeal Consciousness -- "Demoscapes" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Spermodeath Records, SD-05, (ltd. 100)
Irreality sounds, creaking doors from the outside. Meditations of spaces of the incorporeal consciousness, the remote rustle of other and cold lips of death. The reckless jump in a black tunnel - somewhere there far shivers a pupil, absolute emptiness, fear of eternity. Starting fingers in the incorporeal. Experiments for all and for anybody. Style: drone ambient, dark lo-fi experimental. Form: cd-r / cardboard package with inserts. [label info]
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Indigo Larvae -- "Abandoned to Despair" -- CD -- €10
2007 Steinklang Industries, SK 42, (ltd. 500)
This is a new project of STAHLWERK 9 with a even darker and far more aggressive and sinister atmosphere. Created in the ultimate depth of hell these 9 symphonies of misanthrophy, despair and self-mutilation hold the key to carnage and suicide. Listen to it, and start to squirm:you are never alone! A new shadow has appeared in the black forests of Death Industrial to blot all your hopes out. But beware: this is not the end! It is just a beginning. - a new revelation for BRIGHTER DEATH NOW addicts! [label info]
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Indra -- "Seven Mortal Sins" -- CD-R -- €7
2011 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT13, (ltd. 92)
Conceptual Death Industrial / Power Electronics album inspired by the concept of seven deadly sins. Sound was created from processed recordings of real manufacturing equipment, to be compared with best projects of Italian PE school, like Atrax Morgue and N. The disc is packed in a 5" flexi disc package and comes with 4 double-sided inserts with pictures for each track. [label info]
Indra -- "Taste the Poison" -- CD-R -- €8
2007 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT11, (ltd. 99)
Toxic Power Electronics. Totalitarism, overload of venomous frequencies, clanks of carriages, barking of guard dogs, orators' calls, hiss of sprayers in gas chambers, yperite fog over trenches and momentary collapse in the end. We should note the sound separately - ideal combinations of power and lo-fi, worth of best works in genre. Handmade package of mirror-like plastic with roughly burnt logo. Limited to 99 copies. [press-release]
Indra -- "Through the Cold Wells" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT12, (ltd. 100)
Second full-length album of Indra was being prepared for several years. First track was recorded in 2001, looks like this is the earliest recording by Indra, second was created in 2003 on the ruins of a building bombed during WWII, third was recorded in 2002. Noise ambient, mainly linear, but in the 2nd track more cyclic... many sounds for this album were recorded in wells. The disc contains a video-clip made by >o< for Indra on the ruins of a mysterious street in Lagoda. Cold and dampness. Big full-cover sleeve with inserts. [press-release]
Indra / YAO 91404 D -- "Khibinogorsk" -- 2x3"CD-R + MC -- €14
2011 YAOP, YAOP 046, (ltd. 31)
The long-avaited second part of the series dedicated to during expeditions and walks. The city of Khibinogorsk (now Kirovsk) was built on Kola peninsula, among Khibiny mountains in the late 1920s - early 1930s by "special migrants" (agrarians who were exiled from Central Russia during Stalin's collectivisation). The nucleus of the city was Apatite-nepheline concentrating factory ANOF-1 - the first enterprise of such a kind which was intended to let USSR get rid of necessity to import chemical fertilizers. In 1931 Khibinogorsk recieved a status of city and the factory started its work. In December 1939 a giant building of railway station was opened. It had splendid interior with parquetry, marble walls and bronze chandeliers and received trains from Moscow and Leningrad. But gradually the importance of the city went down, it gave its role away to the neighbour city of Apatity which was esatblished in 1959 12 kilometers far from Khibinogorsk. In the 60-s direct trains between Kirovsk and the capitals were abolished, in the late 80s the railway station was abandoned, in early 90s same happened with the factory. Nowadays the city is significant only with ski resorts and monumental ruins... A collaboration release between two industrial projects includes a disc with live recording of performance / live without audience at ANOF-1; a cassette with a studio album asembled exclusively from recordings made there with analogue tape recorder; a disc which includes almost 200 historical pictures of Khibinogorsk and a scanned book about the city from 1933 and a photo insert. [press-release]
Indu Mezu -- "Dustplastic Tube" -- CD-R -- €5
2004 self-released, (ltd. 21)
Unmusical music containing from various unmelodical melodies, unrhythmical rhythms and other strange electronic components. Partly reminds IDM, but completely psychedelic in its crookedness. As if you shake up Aphex Twin in a mixer, shave some cinematographic fragments there, put child's colour cubes and spit. Disc is packed in Soviet popular scientific magazine "Science and Life" of 60-ies!
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Indu Mezu -- "Opus" -- CD-R -- €5
2007 Cold Graey, MF09, (ltd. 57)
Tape was recorded in the end of 1997, beginning of 1998. Remastered in 2007. No computers used in recording. Hardware: two tape decks, broken guitar, lo-fi mics, CASIO M-100, various handmade stuff and tapes, tapes, tapes. [label info]
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Infamis -- "Upiór - Qualis Rex, Talis Grex" -- CD-R -- €7
2005 Beast Of Prey, bop 2.0, (ltd. 333)
Neoclassic dark ambient with vivacious melodies and gregorian chorales. Stylish artwork made in a form of a A5-formatted booklet with thematic pictures and texts.
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The Infant Cycle -- "A Mysterious Disc" -- 3"CD-R -- €5
2009 The Ceiling, CEIL032
A disc mysterious. The release has not a single letter on the sleeve or the media.
The Infant Cycle -- "Remote" -- CD-R -- €9
EE Tapes, ET 74, 2nd edition, (ltd. 60)
Comprised of three long tracks, this is the more "difficult" side of the project. Constant changes in texture, sudden contrasts, rhythms that flex and contract, and structures that reveal themselves as something very different than what they seemed on the surface - not background music.
The Infant Cycle -- "Trialism - Clear Shapes Stereo" -- 2x3"CD-R -- €10
2009 Abgurd, AB-47, (ltd. 100)
Reissue of the "clear forms" lathe cuts that were released by The Ceiling in 2002, 2003 & 2004, and B-sides of those that were put online by mp3-label Sonus in 2005. [label info]
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The Infant Cycle / The Ancient Tapes of Indu Mezu -- "In Between and in Both Sides in the Same Time" -- CD-R -- €7
2012 Cold Graey, MF18, (ltd. 57)
Jim DeJung and Swill Klitch reworks each other's sources. 22" of very strange sounds. The Infant Cycle source: Strange unpredictable noises that Alesis USB interface makes when Mac G4 is in sleep mode. TATo Indu Mezu works: Sampled to cassette tape with various speeds and manual manipulations, cutted, looped, digitized back and mixed. TATo Indu Mezu source: An old computer reel from a wardrobe-sized ones. Stolen at the secret Soviet aircraft plant. The tape was about 4 times wider than cassette player head so it was pressed and regulated by hands and sometimes passed manually. The Infant Cycle manipulations: Reworked with no added instrumentations. At one point there were sources stored on tape 4-track, mini-disc 4-track, DAT, and the hard drive. It came out very fragmented, and "voices" appeared. [press-release]
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The Infant Cycle / Davison, Jared -- "Periodical I" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2005, The Ceiling, CEIL029
A new series of mini-CDR budget priced split-releases between The Infant Cycle and other artists operating inthe underground world of Southern Ontario. In the first installment, The Infant Cycle provides a crackly amalgam of previously released and unused material, prepared in a stew of ambiguous vibes. Davison (the founder of the infamous Mind Skelpcher), takes the crackle even further into the heart of your favourite record's worn grooves. Challenging listening for those who need it... [label info]
The Infant Cycle / UPhold -- "Our Past Present (Now Then)" -- 2x3"CD-R -- €9
2007 Afe Records, afe086mcd, (ltd. 100)
Experimental. Jim DeJong (The Infant Cycle) and Muffy St. Bernard (UPhold) are pleased to be partnered with each other for "Our Past Present (Now Then)". Their friendship dates back to the early '90s Canadian experimental tape scene, and they have worked together on occasion. The Infant Cycle was begun in 1992 by Jim DeJong, as a 21st birthday present to himself. Since then he has steadily created a large number of releases working with both "musical" and "non-musical" objects to create soundscapes that don't easily fit ready-made descriptions. UPhold was formed by Muffy St. Bernard in 1993, growing out of early-morning radio experiments on CKMS, the University of Waterloo's campus station. Those experiments were honed in the group Mindsculpture (a.k.a. Mind-skelp-cher) and have matured over time. His music has been released through his own label, Dangermuff Enterproses, and through Jim DeJong's The Ceiling. "Unrelated Work Tapes 7/7/04" by The Infant Cycle is a new chapter in his series of aural collages based on his own past, present, future and non-existant releases, where he explores the wide possibilities offered by manipulation / juxtaposition of different portions of audio materials taken out of their original context. The four UPhold tracks include assorted synthesizers, field recordings, found sounds and voices, metal percussions and other low-budget electronic paraphernalia used to create very complex and cinematic experimental music... [label info]
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Infra Red Army -- "EnTrails" -- CD -- €11
2007 Laton, Laton 037
Under this playful moniker there is the ukrainian project appeared for the first time on the "Polyvox Populi" CD released in 2003 by Nexsound label. Another track was included in the "Culmination" compilation released by Laton, so here is it, the debut album released in 2006, also by this austrian label. The material presented here is very close to ambient music, but based not on sustained drones rather on various sounds and samples interweaved into multi-layered almost static soundscapes. One thing to be recognized here for sure is guitar (Dmitry Soroka is the classically-trained guitarist). The music has some distinctive features like melancholic mood, downtempo timeframe and very subtle emotional organization, revealing the sort of dramatic plots behind the steady sound images. Eleven tracks with strange and intriguing titles like "NocTurn" and "OptiMystique" will help you to make one step forward to understand the enigmatic ukrainian soul. [Dmitry Vasilyev, Independent Electronic Music]
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Inhalant -- "Save Our Souls" -- CD -- €10
2010 Syzmic Records, syzmic06, (ltd. 250)
A hidden hand wipes the tears and hidden fears as god looks away. New CD release from the highly respected Texas based project. This time INHALANT kicks up almost 40minutes of harsh industrial noise. A slow grinding death taking its grip on a society oblivious to the obvious. [label info]
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Initial Chaos -- "Median of life: Terminate the process" -- CD -- €9
2008 Winter Silence, WS001 / Cyberborea Records, CYBER001
Synth Dark Electro with screaming vocals.
Initial Chaos -- "Ego Splitting" -- CD -- €7
2010 Nihil Art Records, NAR 003, (ltd. 500)
Sombre synth / darkwave with screaming "black" vocals and sophisticated existentialist lyrics on russian. [label info]
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Inner Vision Laboratory -- "Anywhere Out Of The World" -- CD -- €10
2010 Beast Of Prey, bop 7.0, (ltd. 500)
This new album by a Polish group explores the phenomenon of Ambient music. The project's use of surround sound, its combination of various styles and field recording methods makes it characteristic and easily recognizable. 'Anywere Out Of This World' will take you on an amazing journey into the world created by INNER VISION LABORATORY, a journey which will inspire your heart and spirit. This journey resonates with echoing sounds and folk songs invariably connected to Mother Earth. This album has a spirit - the spirit of Earth. On 'Anywhere Out Of This World' you will find perfectly arranged and well-balanced ambient compositions, spatial collages underpinned by folklore, which emphasizes the album's specific nature. As usual, suitable piano parts reflect the record's character. This over-50-minute album contains 11 tracks and is available in a full-colour Digipak. Edition of 500 copies. The album should appeal to those who enjoy tranquil, diverse, dark-ambient sounds similar in fashion to Raison D'etre, Desiderii Marginis, Asmorod, etc. [press-release]
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Inner Vision Laboratory -- "Future Chaos" -- CD -- €10
2011 Zoharum, IYHHH 004-2
Inspiration comes from various modern postmodern and futuristic art forms including sci-fi literature or films, minimalist and industrial underground music scene, amongst many other sources. The main such source of inspiration for 'Future Chaos' is today's ever - changing world. Wars, poverty, global economy in crisis, fossil fuels depleting more rapidly every year could put an end to the world as we know it in a snap. A sudden catastrophe could drive human kind away from its technological progress straight into dark and really volatile enviroment of the dark future and into the chaos embedded within it. Some years past the critical moment on planet earth humans begin to leave their isolated and scatterred enclaves to reconquer the desolate postapocalyptic landscapes. A world where ancient rituals and neoprimitivism spread over ruined remains of a reckless past. My work is an illustration of a world after a sudden collapse of humanity and its civilisation in during 21 st century. 'Future Chaos' is a dark ambient passage into landscapes of this world of tribal and postindustrial elements. [press-release]
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Inner Vision Laboratory -- "Perpetua" -- CD -- €10
2012 Zoharum, ZOHAR 028-2
The focal point of the album is the condition of mankind entangled in the cycle of creation, stagnation and destruction. Creation is an idealistic picture, it dwells in an idea of fiat lux et facta est lux. It is a blueprint for the musical narrative that is comprised of unrestricted admiration of life, of order that is mankind's objective, and ultimately of conflict which is the most inherent human condition. In the war of mankind against itself the ideals permeating creation become obscure and only annihilation brings forth a new illusion - a promise of another beginning. The ubiquitous illusion is an all-encompassing device that folds these non-recordable events into a cycle. It is channeled in the unifying wave of music of Karol Skrzypiec - an artist more complete, yet still debating the finality of his form of communication. Syntactically, the latest release of INNER VISION LABORATORY is an effect of thoughtful construction. Perpetua is an unconventional harmonious image which draws also from beyond of the repertoire typically associated with the instrumentarium characteristic of its genre, the accord of the album's narration, however, is not lost. [press-release]
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Inner Vision Laboratory -- "Perpetua / Nadir Focus" -- CD + CD-R -- €15
2012 Zoharum, ZOHAR 028-2
First 50 copies of this album come with additional CD-R with 4 more tracks.
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Inner Vision Laboratory & Roto Visage -- "Cinema Stain" -- CD-R -- €9
2009 Beast Of Prey / No Angels Productions, NAP-CD 011, (ltd. 200)
We would like to present a unique opus, which appears as a co-operation of Inner Vision Laboratory (Poland) and Roto Visage (USA) projects, symbolically entitled "Cinema Stain". Here, the listener is forced to wale in pathological and "impure" visualizations of human pain, fears and suffering, which are surprisingly seducing with subtle beauty. Some of the soundforms are painted heavily with a brush of rhythm while others flow like the spools of film spinning through a mechanical projector. The aim of both of the composers was to write an original soundtrack to a non-existent horror film - the result is excellent, and by taking vocal samples from other movies, they created also an auditory record of tension and melancholic darkness. For layout of this release, we used modified photographs from the very talented photographer - Karolina Kosowicz. Packaging is non-typical: professionally printed and professionally duplicated CDR with additional graphical insert are placed in a plastic box (slim dvd box type). Inserts and covers are professionally printed on gloss paper. Edition is limited to 200 hand numbered copies. Album production by No Angels Prod. and Beast Of Prey. [press-release]
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An Innocent Young Throat-Cutter / Vomir / Government Alpha / Torturing Nurse -- "Harsh Purification" -- 4 CD-R -- €13
2009 Corrosive Art Records, CA-19, (ltd. 100)
Absolutely infernal release consisting of four harsh noise albums. An Innocent Young Throat-Cutter is a project by Richard Ramirez, others need no introduction. DVD-box with inserts. [Abgurd]
Inorganic Blossoming -- "Autumndrones" -- CD -- €10
2010 7Hz Records, 7HZ 03 D / Infinite Fog Productions, IF-13 / Chernaya Zemlya, žś:Ē, (ltd. 292)
An ambient / drone project from Kemerovo, Russia. Three tracks last for 28 minutes and appear in a form of quiet contemplative harmonic ambient with mild noise accompaniment and rare glimpses of mysterious melodies. Masterfully created arrangements, flawless timbral decisions and optimal length of the tracks are the three trumps of "Autumndrones". This music instantly compells attention from the very first sounds and sometimes it's really impossible to turn away from it - you just catch yourself listening to this recording for fourth or sixth time in a row. To keep it short, this is a cimpletely amazing recording from the talented project, and one of the best ambient recordings in my collection. [Dark Industry] The CD is packen in DVD-size corrugated cardboard sleeve with a dry leaf.
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Inoue, Tetsu -- "World Receiver" -- CD -- €10
1996/2006 Infraction, INFX 015, (ltd. 800)
Insphera -- "Shape" -- CD-R -- €7
2003 Terra Inferna, TinF 001
Classic old school dark ambient - omnious atmosphere, industrial noises and distant percussion, smooth electronics and echoes of working factories. Musical walk through the abandoned industrial territories.
Instant Movie Combinations -- "5.Now" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2008 Abgurd, AB-34, (ltd. 50)
One of the very first tracks recorded during the summer of 2004. Grand static Drone Ambient for sleep experiments. [press-release]
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Instant Movie Combinations -- "9Ymbo" -- CD-R -- €7
2006 Abgurd Subdivision, AB-19
Debut album from the project coming from Novosibirsk, Russia. IMC plays noise drone ambient and promises to become one of the openings of this year. Static and elastic dissociating layers of sonic waves. Imagine Klaus Wiese's "Ruh" but performed completely with digital technologies, add "life-enhancing" analogue hisses and crackles a la Galakthorrö and you'll probably get the image. "Once you remember..." [press-release]
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Instant Movie Combinations -- "Dreams Frozen / Boiled" -- 2 CD-R -- €9
2006 Misfake Studio, mf03, (ltd. 57)
A hobby-horse of IMC has always been static music for which you have to have special perception tuning - don't expect that you'll be carried away by melodies or unusual collages or some other evident tricks, here you should let your attention creep inside the depth of sound, feel it's texture by ear. And then minimalistic static fields unfold in flowing layers of constantly transforming waves. First disk is really cold, more "digital" and heartless in feeling; second one is more warm and shaggy, wheezy and distorted. Very good and interesting work.
Institut -- "The Struggle Never Ended" -- CD -- €14
2005 Cold Meat Industry, cmi143, (ltd. 1000)
Lirim Cajani's project Institut should be well established now, having played a lot around Europe over the years. This newly recorded effort, the first CD without earlier member Johanna Rosenqvist, is a solid tribute to the struggle of the little man. A strong delivery of faith to the oppressed and a raging ripper for your right to only remain. The sound is more up-front live-centered, almost totally devoid of rhythms throughout and with a lot of anguished and hateful vocals. Full of drenching static and simple but effective walls of noise and reverberating samples which surely works sufficiently incisive. Kill your inconveniences! [press-release]
Institution D.O.L. -- "With Her I Had Some Tropical Feelings" -- CD -- €10
2005 Steinklang Industries, SKD 09, (ltd. 500)
The new masterpiece from Austria's obscure-electronic act no.ONE! This musical mixture between rhythmic noise sequences, psychedelic melodies and ambient/hypnotic patterns treats the untold story of Madame I. and M. (the man behind INSTITUTION D.O.L.). Listen and be part of a psychoacoustic trip through romantic storytales, disturbed by violence, brutal sex and the sound of a chainsaw! The perfect soundtrack for your private S/M-party; reminds a little to Cosey Fanni Tutti's masterpiece "Time to tell". [label info]
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Interior Disposition -- "From Autumn..." -- CD-R -- €7
2011 InterioRepertoR, IR08, (ltd. 100)
New album of this Moscow based project envelops the listener with sorrowful drones and uncomplicated melodies, immersing into autumnal melancholy. [label info]
Interior Disposition (ID) -- "Starvision Fields" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 InterioRepertoR, ir01, (ltd. 150)
The new release from the Moscow-based project ID. "This album can be understood as attempt to clear a sound up to transparent weightlessness, uniting structural features "Galaxys" and "Astrohelix". The decision of this problem was promoted also by presence of the new equipment. All album can be broken into conditional four parts. 1. The introduction (composition Deep Green): a moonlight night, the person goes on the central strip of hayway; 2. studying of space (all short tracks: RATAN, COS-B, EXOSAT, IUE, VLA): the person looks not on carried by automobiles, and lifts the person to the sky; 3. sight of space (Ectasia Of The Red, B26 Orion, M31 Andromeda, Metanic Ice, Andromeda Will Back!): the abyss peers, but as a matter of fact it is a part of internal geography of the person + the ending" [artist info]
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Interior Disposition -- "Taedium Vitae" -- CD -- €7
2010 Nihil Art Records, NAR 002, (ltd. 500)
Dark drone ambient. The album is dedicated to memory of Italian musician Marco Corbelli, the only member of project Atrax Morgue. On May, 6th, 2007 at the age of 36 years old he has committed suicide. New album of Interior Disposition "Taedium Vitae" is the attempt to glance in the painful world of the Italian artist. [label info]
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Intrinsic Action -- "II" -- CD -- €10
1987/2004 BloodLust!, B!046
"Aggressive and fully adrenalised Power Electronics / Extreme Noise feedback and 'sado-electronics' from a project of Mark Solotroff (Bloodyminded). All tracks have been digitally remastered for CD." [Cold Spring] American-style PE back from 1986!
Intrinsic Action -- "Bad Jack" -- CD -- €10
1988/2003 BloodLust!, B!044
Re-mastered re-release of the fourth I.A. cassette, originally issued in 1988 on Arbeit Recordings. With bonus tracks [live + SCTL] and new photographs and artwork. 71 minutes. [label info]
Intrinsic Action -- "Five" -- CD -- €10
1988/2004 BloodLust!, B!048
"Aggressive and fully adrenalised Power Electronics / Extreme Noise feedback and 'sado-electronics' from a project of Mark Solotroff (Bloodyminded). All tracks have been digitally remastered for CD." [Cold Spring] American-style PE back from 80-s!
Invisible Front -- "Interferences And Time" -- CD -- €9
2007 Indie-ziert, IZ.03, (ltd. 477)
IOIOI -- "Sleeping: Awaken Visions" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Ikuisuus, IS-045
IOIOI approaches here the possibility of witnessing the flux of sound-emotions.... through the breathing of a passive mind. What is left when the body-mind is almost sleeping yet awake?.... Each track acts as a perceptive pleat; time affecting. It asks for time. All the process is improvisation, however it may sound as composition, here and there..... 'If you fall asleep while you listen to:that's very good. When you wake up sounds are ended. What's left?'.... Love, .... [label info]
Ion And Sophus -- "Mini Mum" -- CD-R -- €8
2007 Still*Sleep, CDR03
Second album, recorded by Sergey [S] (Exit In Grey, Sister Loolomie, Five Elements Music) under the name of Ion And Sophus. Three minimalistic lo-fi compositions created with the use of processed field recordings and calm synthesizer lines. Third track is recorded in collaboration with Russian musician and writer Maxim Tioulenev.
Ion And Sophus -- "Three" -- CD-R -- €8
2008 Still*Sleep, CDR10
Third album of lo-fi ambient project of Sergey [s], just as gentle and fairy as previous two.
Ionosphere -- "Angular Momentum" -- CD -- €14
2004 Power And Steel, PAS 19
With the first full length work of this German project another remarkable release in dark and space ambient has earthed that accompanies with the classic works of this genre. The ten tracks on this album following their previous 10 inch release on Avatar Records, creating a giant sphere full of thick and brooding soundscapes with thunderous eruptions, imploding stars, ghostly voices, powerful machine noises and pulsing rhythms. On "Angular Momentum" Ionosphere probing the darkness until it's deepest core! Digipack CD. [label info]
Irikarah -- "Programmed Illusions" -- CD -- €10
2007 Misanthrope Studio, MS021, (ltd. 300)
A great new CD from this German cult industrial band. Irikarah's material ranges from old school industrial, to aggressive rhythmic noise to heavy power electronics. Comes in a digipack.
IRM -- "Order4" -- CD -- €14
2010 Cold Meat Industry, CMI205
Irrumatorium -- "Also Sprach My Ass" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Steelkraft Manufactory, SKM05, (ltd. 100)
ALSO SPRACH MY ASS is the first full-length CD of Irrumatorium, based on artist's thinkings which have especially guided his life: the readymades of Marcel Duchamp, the book Fight Club, the Occam's razor principle, etc... Can you imagine the result of these maximal references condensed in this minimal music? [label info]
Ishida, Naoki -- "Tone Redust" -- CD -- €10
2006 Quasi Pop Records, QPOP CD044, (ltd. 500)
It's quite difficult to describe the music of Naoki Ishida's debut album correctly. There are a lot of spontaneous and 'fortuitous' sounds from casual urban life in that music on the face of it. But it is impossible to be sure that these sounds are on the background of other elements or these sounds serve themselves as a background for something main: There are also some naive and unaffected chords played on acoustic guitar as well as some clinking and iridescent synth waves & gentle drones. Generally speaking, any tunes, any beats. But, on the whole the structure and the nature of 'Tone Redust' isn't the typical 'ambient' free flow nor 'pop' bars + beats grid. Perhaps, the compositions of Naoki Ishida in a manner are deconstructed 'digital' folk ballads or scant fat-free jazz pieces. And one more important note: there's not a 'ready for use' music, there's just an non-ambitious audio-situation where the music is growing in process of being. This is the fixation on the moment of spilling over from routine life into something more artificial and adventurous: In other hand, this unstable situation exists between classical, everlasting questions: to be (the next sound or note or every event) or not to be. That album follows the traditions of aerial & environmental recordings of labels such Hapna or Lucky Kitchen. All music played & composed by Naoki Ishida with acoustic guitar, synth and field recordings. This is the very first release of artist from Japan on Quasi Pop. [press-release]
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Isomer -- "Face Toward The Sun" -- CD -- €14
2009 Tesco Organisation, TESCO 076
Isomer's third cd with Tesco takes a sharp turn toward more aggressive territory, with the raw industrial hinted at in previous outings getting a proper airing. The dark ambient textures for which he is known still feature, but Face Toward the Sun forges new stylistic ground for the project. From the throbbing electronics of the opening track, through power electronics, walls of noise, violent vocal deliveries and carefully structured dark ambience, this is a characteristically varied album. Never one to shy from a dirty old blending of styles, a nice little martial ditty even makes an appearance for the militant in all of us. Face Toward the Sun was assembled from improvisations, previously unused material and nights of MS-20 hard-ons, making a lusty, varied album of industrial music. Some of the tracks here has been already presented on the well received DVD Cold Meat Live in Australia, where Isomer delivered one of the most surprising gigs of the festival. The studio versions of the tracks here will appeal to listeners of martial industrial as well as to an industrial dark ambient audience. Presented in a double gatefold digipack with potent imagery, total running time: 58 min. [press-release]
Isomer -- "Serpent Age" -- CD -- €13
Tesco Organisation, TESCO054
Isomer is the solo project of Australian David Tonkin, and remains one of the few active producers of dark ambient music in this far-flung continent. To date, Isomer has self-released three full-length cassettes: Semblance of Perfection, Sedation, and The Lotus Eaters. Serpent Age heralds a new stage in Isomer's progression, taking a decidedly more dark ambient approach than previous outings. It is a focusing and culmination of past work. Serpent Age is an album airing personal beliefs and passions. The Serpent has appeared in many guises throughout history and in a myriad of cultures. It represents deceit for some, wisdom for others. The coil of death, the helix of power. Serpent Age hails this creature as a seal of personal strength and focus. Direction, endurance, fortitude. [label info]
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It-Clings vs. Pneumatic Detach -- "The All Too Logical Descent Into Madness" -- CD -- €10
2007 Bugs Crawling Out Of People, bcp003
Spoken words by It-Clings with pounding beats provided by Pneumatich Detach (Hive Records). Not exactly the "hearing faint voices inside your head" kind either, this is more like inviting a spiteful cynic with a megaphone to rant away to his heart's content from the comfort of inside your cranium. From lucid observations to over-the-top diatribes, there's thankfully enough black humor in here to keep it from turning into a neurotic moan fest. You'll also find out more about a new creative use for a spoon. [Mechanoise Labs]
Iud Polk -- "Summer Klezmer Orgy" -- CD-R -- €7
2003 Stop-Eject, This Is Eject03, (ltd. 100)
American noise disgrace. Collage stuttering tracks move into elastic rhythm'n'noise and back. With lots of speech samples playing up the stupidity of "American English": a funny collade made from OK's. Sleeve, insert, stickers on a disc. [YAOP description]
Ivan Samshit -- "Essential Shit" -- CD -- €10
2007 Quasi Pop Records, QPOP CD047, (ltd. 500)
The very first (and still remains the best) electro-pop Ukrainian group Ivan Samshit has recorded 12 (or even more) albums in period from 1987 to 1997, but very few of them was released on cassettes in Ukraine and Germany in 90th. 'Essential Shit' is a compilation of the best tracks from these neglected recordings, that are available on CD for the first time ever! 19 tracks have been re-recorded directly from original pre-historyc master-cassettes and reel-tapes and carefully re-mastered using both modern digital and vintage analogue restoration equipment. In result, the sound of this CD is very similar to the tape sources - warm, deep, hissing and a bit raw in it's primal beauty. There are a lot of the well-known real 'pop-hits' presented on CD and some more experimetal tracks as well. [press-release]
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Iversen, Jan-M -- "Lull Before The Storm" -- CD-R -- €4
2008 B-Rush, [B-10], (ltd.40)
Preceding a storm oppressive silence, the weak wind which is walking on deserted coast and calming down in depth of fjords. An old beacon as the symbol of hope and rescue, grows gim in darkness of a coming storm. The 57-minute play rough ambient from the known Norwegian musician. Ltd. 40. [press-release]
Izanami's Labour Pains -- "Womb of Izanami" -- CD-R -- €6
Sick Arts, SAP 15, (ltd. 25)
Juicy digital noise, with it's brutality and cruelty close on the heels of Russian project Comforter. [Abgurd description]
J Orphic -- "Cum Ipse Gratia" -- CD-R -- €8
2010 UFA Muzak, UFA 36, (ltd. 120)
Martial / Neoclassic / Avanti. Roman tsar, Pax Romana, the holy dictator Gaius Iulius: as a holy writer, hides behind our backs and we hear the secret hymns of the triumvirate. The son of Venus, million times slowed down in word and prayer - of colour and fall. Modern neoclassicism of J Orhic tells us, with the voices of the living party, that is not allowed to listen to by profanes. Minor tones of icy speech, neoclassical counterpoints and artificiality of sound. Industrial as an echo in the throne room where 23 stab wounds were given, and the walls changed the sound, coloured the length of parts with the amethyst spectrum. Imperium. Militaria. Ad extra. 11 tracks, 70 minutes, CDR, non-standard cardboard sleeve, 3 inserts. [press-release]
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Jaaportit -- "Avarrus" -- CD -- €13
2006 Epidemie Records, EPR 059, (ltd. 500)
Jääportit is a Finnish band playing profoundly azure electronic ambient music since 1997 CE. With "Avarrus" the band has effected its third auditory manifestation. The new album contains five new diverse songs, composed and produced by Tuomas M. Mäkelä in his home studio during 2004-2006 CE. The record's musical style grows over simple limits. Electronic sequences blend into progressive elements. Roots dig down deeper into the unknown. You travel across levels as rhythmic combinations distance themselves from preceding minimalistic soundscapes. The music of digital machines is enlivened by acoustic instruments such as violin and female voice. In lyrics' stead the story is carried along and afar by soundstream gathered from a live environment. From the twilight of the Age of Aquarius one is moved to the whereabouts of a misty future, and via the nucleus of Space, back again. [label info]
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Jaaportit -- "Voimasuo" -- CD -- €10
2009 Epidemie Records, EPR067, (ltd. 600)
A new album of frosty Finnish project JÄÄPORTIT. Seven atmospheric compositions blending together dreamy etheric ambient, cold rhythmical nordic electronics and melancholy post-rock. The album is thematically dedicated to the world under human kind transformation. Intense, strong and polymorphous album hardly to fit in conventional categories, because it's kind of a musical labyrinth, definitely worth of exploring. The album is coming out in nice six pannels digipack in limited edition of 600 pieces. [press-release]
Jahrtal -- "William Blake - Lieder von Unschuld und Widerfahren" -- CD -- €10
2009 Ahnstern, Ahnstern39
This is the second album by the Austrian Psychedelic-Folk artist Jahrtal. The man behind Jahrtal is Ewald Spiss, a artist from Tyrol, who already started doing electro-acoustic music and sound-installations in the early 80ies. Jahrtal today is authentic psychedelic Folk music, maybe only compareable with In Gowan Ring. The lyrics of the second album are poems of "Songs Of Innocence and Of Experience" by the english poet William Blake (1757-1827), translated by Ewald Spiss, as near as possible to the original Blake-texts. [label info]
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Jamming? -- "It's Not Cold With Us" -- CD-R -- €3
2009 Ambulacranarx Records, amblcrnrx - 09, (ltd. 20)
This release is made as a result of contact with members of this duo (Ramzon and Skifa). Original music played with improvised means, self-made ethno-rasta instruments and their own rasta-vocal cords. [label info] Homemade recordings of ritual parties: rhythmic percussive sketches, jew's harp, rainstick, pipes, voices, etc.
Janicek, Martin & Ferenc, Petr -- "Tah" -- CD -- €10
2011 Poli5, EPP 040-2, (ltd. 400)
The recording of an extraordinary collaboration performance of Martin Janicek, creator of sound objects, installations and wonderful musical instruments, and Peter Ferenc, a founding member of turntable experimenters Birds Build Nests Underground, at an exhibition at Prague Manege on 11.02.2011. Minimalism, ambient surfaces, echoes of post-industrial. Factory pressed CD in a cardboard box with a sliding "drawer". [label info]
Janko, Krul' Albanskaj -- "Ekezhhm, Gyuvel Pyuganlahkh Aektspyud?" -- CD -- €10
2001 Some Place Else, HAM 018 CD
File under sample terrorism! Location recordings, recontextualized classical music, experiments with noise and so-called 'cinematic isolationism' by the late Henry Zalkin (also Bulimia, etc.). 4 tracks, 70 minutes. [label info]
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Jannerwein -- "Abendlauten" -- CD -- €14
2008 Heimatfolk, HF 05
Jarboe + Justin K Broadrick -- "J2" -- CD -- €11
2008 The End Records, TE096
J2 is the much-anticipated ambient musical exploration from singer/songwriter/performer Jarboe (ex-Swans) and Justin K Broadrick (Jesu, Godflesh), a collaboration fueled by a unique and diverse energy. [discogs.com]
Jardin D'Usure -- "Jardin D'Usure Revoit Le Daily-Bul" -- CD -- €16
2009 Waystyx, WR37
The Belgian duo Jardin d'Usure (Marc Moedea and Gabriel Severin) made their first CD in 1994 ("Musique Du Garrot Et De La Ferraille") where there was already a strong interest on so-called literary avant-garde movements, with, for example, some interpretations of dada poems from Raoul Hausmann, Hugo Ball and co. This time the duo is working on seven funny texts from another international avant-garde movement, the Daily-Bul (born at La Louviere at the end of the fifties). These sardonic and insane interpretations of texts from Balthazar, the Piqueray brothers, Pol Bury, etc. are accompanied by some strong electroacoustic pieces in Ultraphonist style (one of their other common projects). [label info] Unconventional cardboard sleeve.
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Jarl -- "Breaking Point Syndrome" -- CD -- €11
2007 Autarkeia, acd 021
Breaking Point-Syndrome is the ninth album of Erik Jarl, Swedish industrial genius. Just like his previous albums, this one radiates the remarkably icy, mercilessly depressing and languorous as well as claustrophobic mood. To reach the effect, Erik simply generates unique industrial sound. His each accord smacks of unexplainable anxiety, the feeling of degenerate future, drug-induced reality, poisoning and exceptionally technocratic character. Jarl music can be qualified as psychedelic industrial/drone, while the album Breaking Point Syndrome is an excellent example of the Scandinavian mastership in creating esp. persuasive and visionary sonic landscape. [press-release]
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Jarl -- "Fragile Confrontation" -- CD -- €10
2005 Annihilvs, APEX001
ANNIHILVS proudly presents FRAGILE CONFRONTATION, our second full length CD release by Swedish Darkambient sound sculptor JARL. Since the release of the debut full length SEALED VOID in 2003, this brilliant artist (who has already shown his mettle as a member of IRM) has released albums for such noted labels as MALIGNANT RECORDS and SEGERHUVA. Now, JARL has returned to ANNIHILVS as the label begins its rebirth. FRAGILE CONFRONTATION finds JARL looking back into the sparse, cold isolationist landscapes of SEALED VOID, while instilling an undercurrent of impending violence, like a blade slowly moving toward flesh in tense, scraping frame-by-frame action. Metallic drones and static waves slide against each other as the confrontation between steel and skin comes to a mind-numbing collision. [press-release]
Jarl -- "Sealed Void" -- CD -- €10
2003 Force Of Nature Productions / Annihilvs
Jarl has already taken the world of dark electronic music by storm as one half of Irm, hailed the world over as the new leaders of the Swedish noise-industrial underground. With his solo project, he has once again risen to the throne and stands strong as a force to be reckoned with. SEALED VOID takes the listener drifting past dying suns, through black holes and beyond, to a place where the universe takes human form. [press-release]
Jarl -- "Turbulence Colour" -- 2 CD -- €18
2008 Autarkeia, acd 030, (ltd. 500)
Turbulence Colour is the tenth album of talented Swedish composer Erik Jarl, containing two and a half hours of new, never released sound material in two CDs. In terms of music, Erik Jarl remains loyal to his original but dismal style. Very long, hypnotic tracks convey unbearable, depressing and morbid states of human psyche. Turbulence Colour is at the same time a journey into the grey matrix of anxiety where the listeners are masterfully taken through the sickly labyrinths of the author's mind. The latest Erik Jarl's release is the top class drone psychocollage packed into a very elegant package. [press-release]
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Jarl -- "Vertigo Emission" -- CD -- €10
2009 Autarkeia, acd 045, (ltd. 200)
Vertigo Emission, the twelfth album of Erik Jarl, this Swedish genius of sound construction, is a logical continuation of his earlier works. The composer remains loyal to the style he propagates. Slow, very heavy and dismal sound waves grip the listeners and take them into the colourless, uncanny and morbid world. Like the previous ones, this album reminds a person who could earlier see the colours but became colour blind and in order to adapt to the new situation has to understand familiar yet irreversibly changed signs anew. The aesthetics of Erik Jarl's sonic decoration is like always very austere and merciless, however, it is marked by endless charm resulting from especially sensitive and subtle construction. Regular edition in digipak, limited to 200 copies. [press-release]
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Jarl -- "Vertigo Border" -- CD -- €10
2010 Autarkeia, acd 048, (ltd. 200)
Vertigo Border is the thirteenth album of the Swedish electronics favourite and the second volume of Vertigo trilogy. The magic number thirteen may imply that the album contains anything special: However, let us leave these considerations for the numerological masturbators. There is nothing more special in Vertigo Border than in the earlier Erik's albums since he remains loyal to his credo to fuck the audience with his monotonic, depressing, icy and colour-blind sound waves, to throw a tie onto their necks and slowly strangle them out of this grinding, claustrophobic and cramped world. All Jarl's albums smack of enormous and refined weariness. This is already the thirteenth album and this is the thirteenth tomb on your little grave, this is the thirteenth swing of the spade with the soil onto your coffin. The coffin sealing you off with all your squeaks of madness from the outside. The coffin doomed to choke you out of your life. This is an existential coffin with existential suffocation caused by unbearable, morbid and monotonous reality embodied in the sounds of the album. This is the ice in which you are frozen and where, beholding the inexhaustibility of the infinity, you may neither move, nor speak or even wink. So, you are that mechanical toy paralysed by sadist existence. Jarl is a ghost monotonously repeating this to you, so do not expect anything hopeful from the thirteenth master's album. Nor from the fourteenth that is still to be composed. Nor from the fifteen either. Suffer because you are worth it! [press-release]
Jarl -- "Vertigo Rebirth" -- CD -- €13
2010 Autarkeia, acd 053, (ltd. 200)
Vertigo Rebirth is the fourteenth album of Swedish composer Erik Jarl and the third and last part of the Vertigo trilogy. It is difficult to say anything more about Jarl's music on the whole. Like the earlier albums, this one generates particularly severe emotions that could be shortly defined as isolation, intoxication and especially negative, poisonous intuition. This impression is enhanced by the contrast. Erik opens the album with a track that has a construction uncharacteristic to his previous compositions. This composition contains quite strange rhythmics and is rather dynamic, which generates deceptive elation. But that's only the first track of the album. The rest fling the audience back to the cold uncompromising space of drone, piercing and crushing all attempts to perceive the phenomenon of Jarl's impasse. This is one more remarkable album for potential suicides. [press-release]
Jarl -- "Wound Profile" -- CD -- €11
2007 Autarkeia, acd 024, (ltd. 500)
The album Wound Profile by Erik Jarl, the genius of Swedish electronics, previously released in a cassette, has now, after some processing of the record, come out as a CD in a very elegant digipack. The album consists of two record sessions: one of them (6 tracks) was recorded by Erik in 1999, while the other (one track) was recorded 18 months later. Those closely following the music of the Scandinavian master may recognise the early sound of Erik's compositions in Wound Profile album that at certain points even remind the first IRM records. Clear-cut, abnormal, psychedelic rhythmics, its distorted, massive repetitions, analogous loops of synthetic sound generate the emotions of anxiety, morbidity and degeneration. Unlike Erik's later music marked for its abstract structure and closer to drone style, the album Wound Profile can be characterised by emotional straightforwardness and brutality. [press-release]
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Jarvis, A. -- "Thread (Uproot And Scatter)" -- CD-R -- €7
Fencing Flatworm Recordings, ff015
Atmospheric Psychofolk with transparent acoustic guitar, mild ambiences and melancholic voice samples. Sleeve. [YAOP]
Jazkamer -- "Balls The Size Of Texas, Liver The Size Of Brazil" -- CD -- €10
2007 Purple Soil, pulse zero: four
If "diverse" is the very word for JAZKAMER duet (John Hegre + Lasse Marhaug), it also seems to be the best "Balls the Size of Texas, Liver the Size of Brazil's" description. None of the band's previous full-length albums were same or similar to each other, so are(n't) the "Balls". If "Panic" is band's ultimate blues record, "Balls" are band's "London Calling", with each song different not only within the album, ranging from harsh noise outburst to calm to dreamy guitar ambiences. But the blues is still in and on with simple artwork, consisting strictly of landscape pictures to underline the album's misty, dreamy, nostalgic atmospheres. Full length CD, paper fold-out cover. [label info]
Jazzfinger -- "The Ducal Palace" -- CD -- €10
2009 Turgid Animal, TA408, (ltd. 300)
Only the second ever pro-pressed CD by North-East England's drone masters Jazzinger. This time chronicling the first ever rehearsal and recording of the core duo of Ben Jones and Hasan Gaylani. Raw guitar recordings from 1996 fill the discs 30+ minutes and if you listen carefully on the last track you can hear the police turn up and tell them to cease making the racket! Old school experimental work out from a simpler time. Artwork by long term fan of the band, George Proctor. [press-release]
Jennifer Gentle -- "Concentric" -- CD -- €8
2010 A Silent Place, ASP39, (ltd. 500)
Better known as purveyors of quirky, semi-sleazy avant pop gems on their Sub Pop albums, Jennifer Gentle have also issued through the years a series of weirder releases, running the gamut from out-there psychedelic rock to 'crunching and hefty slab of tripped out musique concrete worthy of Joji Yuasa, Kunihara Akayima or one of their equivalent early '60s greats' (Julian Cope). Concentric is the last and also their bleakest, most uncompromising and probably best experimental album to date. This time Fasolo took his live band in his own Ectoplasmic Studio, recorded them and then spent hours painstakingly editing the material, adding here and there the odd effect and generally directing what sounds like a nightmarish Surrealist movie perversely shot in lush Cinemascope, or a hellish version of Lumpy Gravy as played by a freaked-out jazz combo. Digipak. [label info]
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Jennifer Gentle -- "A New Astronomy" -- CD -- €8
2005/2006 A Silent Place, ASP13
Official re-issue of the ultra rare 2005 Sub Pop release (Ltd x 100 copies), now in a digipak. This album is dedicated to Giovanni Paneroni, amateur astronomer and misunderstood genius. "A new astronomy" is probably the most eccentric and out-there JG release to date. Recorded mostly in Marco Fasolo's bedroom on a 4-track cassette machine, the album was conceived as the imaginary soundtrack for some of their most bizarre, vivid dreams - obviously interspersed by the occasional nightmare. It's made by grainy, hallucinated musical scores trying to depict the beautiful, the scary, the annoying and the simply absurd inhabiting dreams. It runs the gamut from ghostly ambient drones to brain-damaged acoustic sketches, covering everything in between - furious guitar freak-outs and a homage to British 60's producer Joe Meek included. [label info]
Jennifer Gentle & Kawabata Makoto -- "The Wrong Cage" -- CD -- €8
2002/2008 A Silent Place, ASP34
Re-release of "The Wrong Cage", the superfreaky, acid rock album that introduced Italian psych-pop mavericks Jennifer Gentle to the rest of the world, leading to their subsequent Sub Pop signing. Originally self-released in 2002, "The Wrong Cage" saw the young Italian quartet join forces with Kawabata Makoto (Acid Mothers Temple) for a live album that captured the band at it's most ferocious. Over 30 minutes of wonderful sonic carnage: two long, ultra-heavy guitar freakouts plus a eerily beautiful solo sarongi track played by Kawabata. All in all, a must for all fans of heavy, guitar-driven psychedelic avant-rock. Inlcudes a bonus track - an 18-minute long version of "Bring Them" from another night of that tour. Digipak. [label info]
Jerman, Jeph -- "For Henry F. Farny 1904" -- CD -- €10
2011 TraitMediaWorks, tmw031
From one of the world's finest practitioners of field recording, audio damage, and improvised sound, Jeph Jerman's CD is a wonder of found sound. One single strand of abandoned Arizonian telephone wire is tapped into to generate an amazing array of discordance, frequencies, reverberation. Wind and wire. The desert is better with headphones. Highly recommended! [label info]
Jerman, Jeph -- "Prayer * Tactus" -- CD -- €10
2009 Semperflorens, sf01
Track 1 is made from Tinguely's machine, Tibetan prayer wheels, burden basket, drum; track 2 - from stones, volcanoes, shortwave, wire, VLF. Constructions of field recordings mixed with object improvisations. "Prayer" is peripheral sounds existing around "religious" activities of different faiths. "Tactus" deals with geologic or geophysical sound traces finely layered. As above, so below... [label info]
Jerman, Jeph -- "Roadwork" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Lunhare, ZZZ - 14, (ltd. 100)
A work documenting 25 years of field recordings on the roads of the USA brilliantly edited and mixed in a single long track. [label info]
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Jerman, Jeph & Five Elements Music -- "Insecta" -- CD-R -- €8
2011 Still*Sleep, CDR19
A collaboration between American and Russian musicians made with unthinkable precision and beauty. As the title suggests, everything is built on the sound of insects. Grasshoppers, cicadas, clumsy humble-bees, flies, wasps and others are recorded with love and accompanied with the humble rustle of grass, drone coming from remote roads and wind sweeps. A very summer and sultry work. [Abgurd]
Jerman, Jeph & Doug Theriault -- "Tathata" -- CD -- €13
2010 Nitkie, patch one, (ltd. 500)
Tathata is a central concept in Buddhism, literally translated from sanskrit as "thusness" or "suchness". Tathata expresses appreciation of the true nature of reality in any given moment. As no moment is exactly the same, each one can be savored for what occurs at that precise time, whether it is thought of as being good or bad. However, Jeph Jerman and Doug Theriault are trying to give us the possibility to meditate on this word, they recorded three long improvised pieces for the same-titled album. Jeph plays acoustic sources (stones, health balls, metals, sticks etc) and Doug played guitar and processed it with his laptop. The music is very quiet, the sparse and spontaneous movements reveals the silence playing the main role between abstract sound gestures. It seems so that the musicians have no intent to produce music, which can express certain ideas or follow the process, thus it's setting free your mind and clear it from any predominant thoughts. In fact, it's a new direction of perceiving the environment, the musicians share with some sounds, originated far from the complex pseudoreality programming, it's mostly intuition. Another important step to understanding the musical ecology, to reach the point where anything can be taken apart from everything else. [press-release]
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JGRUU / Grassa Dato -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €7
2011 Buh Records, BR23, (ltd. 100)
Split between the Peruvian JGRUU and Spanish Grassa Dato. JGRUU moves between the industrial, cosmic music and noise and offer two rough tracks and psychedelic sound. Grassa Dato is meanwhile perhaps one of the biggest revelations of the current (and great) experimental music scene in Madrid, has an extensive track made from the use of pedals, feedback and (what appear to be) voices processed with high dose of noise and rhythms. Totally wild. The collage on the cover is the work of Hector Delgado. Edition of 100 copies on cdr. [label info]
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Job Karma -- "Strike" -- CD -- €10
2005 Ars Benevola Mater, ABM 11, (ltd. 1080)
Slowly elating deep ambient, analogic ritual industrial, sadness of vacuum tube generators, echoes from the "life", voices taken from somewhere, rhythmical sound... is not easy to describe the music of this polish combo! This is the perfect soundtrack for a decadent world, an apocalyptic society controlled by the machines & industries... just give a look to www.jobkarma.pl to discover more about this FANTASTIC band!!! [press-release]
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Job Karma -- "Tschernobyl" -- CD -- €11
2007 Ars Benevola Mater, ABM 35, (ltd. 1000)
Juhning, Herz -- "Miasma" -- CD -- €15
2009 Galakthorrö 024
After Herz Jühning has whetted the appetite of so many listeners with his Faces EP, Galakthorrö now is proud to be able to present Herz Jühning's first Longplayer. On Miasma he combines the kinetic energy of Power-Electronics with favourite ingredients from the witches'cauldron of Angst Pop. You will hear brutal bass-drones, nasty electrified currents, pumping analog rhythms and eerie frequency modulations. The sound elements have been ruthlessly selected to emphasise the reductive characteristics, and brought together around the incisive vocals to form an homogenous and complete work of art. Whether ailing popsongs, aggressive noise-attacks, or ominous sound experiments, all is artfully united in the 13 songs found on Miasma. Once more it is Jühning's no-frills arranging technique, that shows itself to be so highly effective on Miasma, just as it made Faces so successful. There is much to discover and Miasma will take the hearts of its listeners by storm! How could it not? CD in matt finish digipac, 16-page booklet incl. lyrics. [press-release]
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Julie's Haircut -- "Our Secret Ceremony" -- 2 CD -- €12
2009 A Silent Place, ASP38
"Our Secret Ceremony" is the fifth album by Julie's Haircut. The record lives on the osmosis of different styles and approaches, from pop to electronica, from psychedelic rock to experimentation, still never lacking in coherence and unity. The first disc has a more classically orientated song structure, accompanied by the second part which has a looser feel. In a way, it's as if there are the two basic aspects of the creative process and, ultimately, of the human existence, living side by side: light and shadow, consciousness and unconsciousness, reality and dream. Presented in a hardback cardboard 6-panel digisleeve. [label info]
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Julie's Haircut & Sonic Boom -- "N-Waves / U-Waves" -- CD -- €8
2007/2008 A Silent Place, ASP19, (ltd. 750)
In late September 2005 Sonic Boom, (Pete Kember of Spacemen 3, Spectrum and Experimental Audio Research) meets Julie's Haircut at Studio Alpha in Bologna to co-operate with them in the final editing of their latest album. Only a part of 3 days of studio recordings was released in the original 10" edition of this release (Ltd 524). "N-Waves / U-Waves" contains two takes produced in that session: 'Gemini, pt. 1 & pt. 2' presented here in its first take; and 'Scarfo Spanks DC' - another completely unreleased improvisation. Two more studio improvisations complete this CD release, with Sonic Boom playing exotic electronic devices such as the Raagini, Kraakle and the EMS Synthi AKS sinthetizer. CD slip with embossed outer sleeve. [label info]
June 11 -- "Matter is Alive" -- CD -- €9
2008 EE Tapes, EE16, (ltd. 400)
The CD starts with a cover version of By This River, a mood-evoking 1977 Brian Eno song, and contains melodic tributes to other abstract artists like Marthe Wery and Robert Rauschenberg. Harold Budd, another great influence, is honored with a graceful waltz. The music seems to fill the gap between ambient and song. Assembled in layers, electronic ones as well as piano, clarinet, sax, guitars, percussion, and samples from faraway places. All these elements are treated as equal. Also: some very sensual female vocals by Mieke Versyp and special guests Nadine Bal (from BeNe GeSSeRiT, Human Flesh...) and Drita Kotaji (who was - back in the 80ies - the composer and singer of the haunting ballad 'my Suitor' by Bernthoeler and is now part of INK). The project was set up in Gent, Belgium by Jan Van den Broeke. Some might remember him as a member of The Misz and Absent Music, a long time ago. This CD puts him back on track, with new tools, old and new friends and a strong and personal new vision. Matter Is Alive: 10 painted songs, 50 minutes of beauty and melancholy in the face of
the end of the world: [press-release]
K11 -- "The Sacred Wood" -- CD -- €13
2010 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 141
K11 (aka Pietro Riparbelli) is a very good sound-sculptor continuing the long tradition of Italian Ambient Industrial artists... This special album was recorded at the enchanting park of Monsters of Bomarzo. The park of Monsters of Bomarzo was devised by the architect Pirro Ligorio (he completed the Cathedral of Saint Peter in Rome after the death of Michelangelo and built Villa d'Este in Tivoli) on commission of Prince Pier Francesco Orsini, called Vicino, only to vent the heart broken at the death of is wife Giulia Farnese. The park was born in 1552 as "Villa of Wonders" to be the only one of it's kind in the world. Incredible but true, the Park of Monsters remained in complete oblivion till 1954 and only few people was aware about all the fantastic treasures contained within the park for over 400 years! K11 was recording the soul of this park of Monsters and Wonders and after re-working the sounds he delivers us a trip between reality and dream. Psychadelic, ritual ambient music from an other space, from an other era, from an other land... [press-release]
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K11 -- "Waiting For the Darkness" -- CD-R -- €9
2010 Afe Records, afe126lcd, (ltd. 100)
Experimental / Industrial / Noise. "K11 is a project that deals with the world of radio signals, the trans-communication and other invisible phenomena, to create a dimension where the only sound sources are signals from shortwave radio receivers. In this project I use only sounds coming from the atmosphere and from invisible places." Many music works created by Pietro Riparbelli were released by Radical Matters in Italy during the recent years. His "Voices From Thelema" was published by Aurora Borealis in the United Kingdom during early 2009. "Waiting For the Darkness" is K11's first release on Afe, here's a short introduction to the album written by the author: "Waiting For the Darkness" is the documentation of an action of instrumental transcommunication performed in a forest in 2007. It consists of a video, recorded during the last hours of the day and of five audio tracks composed with short wave radio signals recorded during the action itself. This work wishes to investigate the dimension of fear and continues the research of Pietro Riparbelli about Instrumental Transcommunication started off with the first action performed within the Abbey of Thelema and documented on the "Voices From Thelema" CD. "Waiting For the Darkness" was born as an audio-video installation which has been hosted by "PX Piombino Experimenta 04" international sound art festival in collaboration with Influx..." [label info]
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K2 -- "In the Monotonous Flowers" -- CD -- €10
2002 Ground Fault Recordings, GF022
The master of Junk Metal noise offers a completely different experiment with this Groundfault CD release. There is no outright sonic assault, no continuous crash of metal-on-metal within K2's In the Monotonous Flowers, (though the metal destroying K2 does make several appearances within this recording) this release showcases K2's approach to cut-ups and sound collage. This is a quieter (at times), more constructed look at sound using a variety of sources, from lo-fi to crisp and loud from effected music and found sound, to confused conversation and clamor. K2 shapes each piece by randomly bouncing from source to source, using panning, echo, and saturation to never let the listener's ear settle into a comfortable feeling for long if at all. [Christopher Goudreau]
K2 -- "HA GA NE" -- CD -- €8
2010 Triangle Records, TR-44 / Cerosene, CRSN, (ltd. 250)
A member of 80s mail-art-scene, the King of metal Junk Noise of 90s - Kimihide Kusafuka - a surgical pathologist and a scientist started his musical activity. After early period of ambient/industrial works, then blasting metal collages, in the end of 2009 K2 started a new chapter, changed the method and the style of his noise. “HA GA NE” is made with processed old metal tape recordings and distorted Korg MS-20 synth, recorded and mixed traditionally on MTR. Loud'n'fast cut-up noise! Kimihide Kusafuka says: “Punk rock gave me both the concept that the persons who cannot play the musical instruments professionally and skillfully are even able to play “music”, and the loudness of the aggressive rock sounds. (...) I have been considering on the relationship between the loudness and complexity of noise music and the biological (or scientific) and social influences. “Noise” is a factor, which should be excluded in the post-modern “clean” world, but I think that “noise” - like factor needed for acquisition of healthy balance between inner (personal) and outer (social) sides. If no noise exists in the world, I think that we will self-destroy. Loudness and complexity of noise give us the paralyzing of our logical and rigid thinking circuits, and speed of noise give us the freshness or relaxation of our firm right brains.” This is real CD, limited to 250. [press-release]
Kabal -- "Alone" -- CD-R -- €9
2002 Afe Records, afe040cd
After delighting his audience with the self-titled debut album in 1998 Dr. Kabal has finally come up with his second full-lenght release which is proudly presented as an Afe Records / Moonfear co-production. For all those who passionately remember the good old days of what was called "Intelligent Techno" (whatever that meant...) this will be a very enjoyable experience. Entirely recorded at Pergolab with the affectionate support of Leeza and the whole Afe Community, it literally sweats out the soul of the silicone chips that generated it. [label info]
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Kabal -- "Kabal" -- CD-R -- €9
1998 Afe Records, afe009cd
New Electronica, very "warpish" debut of Dr. Kabal. All the tracks on this release were written and produced by Kabal between October 1995 and May 1997, except tracks 2, 3, 9, 10 and 11 written by Kabal and Leeza, track 6 written by Leeza and track 13 remixed and produced by Lips Vago. [label info]
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Kadaver -- "Automatic Autopsy" -- CD -- €8
2009 Topheth Prophet, TP018, (ltd. 500)
Second album of Israeli project on Topheth Prophet label. "Automatic Autopsy" is a bit strange material which is not aggressive unlike many of his other works, it's built on blending various styles and this gives specific oppressive sound, and Michael Zolotov did a good job on this. The album consists of multi-layered sound structures of feedbacks, field recordings, sampled loops, etc. which create overall terrifying and depressive atmosphere. [Sickcore]
Kadaver -- "God Has Left The Building" -- CD-R -- €7
2006 Mask of the Slave, MS-008, (ltd. 150)
Kadaver is a 1man project by Michael Zolotov from Israel. Active since 2003 (yet the first release came out on 2005). The sounds of Kadaver shifts from dark and twisted ambient through industrial till harsh noise and power electronics. This is NOT art nor music. Kadaver is NOT an artist trying to "creatively express himself" via this format. This is a cancer. It's sickness. It's a warm streaming vomit of hatred towards life, humans and existence. It's the knife in your hand when nightmares twist your dreams. It's the emptiness that devours your meaningless being and bleed as tears of decay over it. This is not for anyone... This is Kadaver. [press-release]
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Kadaver -- "This Time... It's Cancer" -- CD -- €10
2007 Topheth Prophet, TP012, (ltd. 500)
"This Time... It's Cancer" is the latest release by Israeli death industrial prodigy Kadaver
originaly was supposed to be released by Italian Slaughter Productions but due to the circumstances changed to Topheth Prophet. "...Death needs time for what it kills to grow in..." (William S. Burroughs). [label info]
Kadef -- "Statt Disco lullend um sich selbst kreisen" -- CD-R -- €7
Tosom, TOSOM XX-003, (ltd. 99)
4 abstract and desolate minimal-noise pieces in Kadef's analogue lo-fi style. Music for people without Saturday-night-disco-fever. People which circle around itself and this of course alone. [label info]
Kahn, Jason & Francis, Richard -- "s/t" -- CD -- €10
2009 Monochrome Vision, mv28, (ltd. 500)
The new album from two masters of electroacoustic improvisation, who are living thousands miles away from each other, but found some common aesthetic views and originality of artistic expression. This materials were recorded live during their collaborative performances in various locations, consisting of four long tracks, presenting the unique interaction between technology and intuition... Jason Kahn's work includes sound installation, performance and composition. He was born in New York in 1960, grew up in Los Angeles and relocated to Europe in 1990. He currently lives in Zürich. He has given concerts and exhibited sound installations throughout Europe, North and South America, Japan, Mexico, Korea, Israel, Turkey, Russia, Lebanon, Egypt, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Australia. Kahn performs both solo and in collaborations, using percussion, analog synthesizer or computer in different combinations. He composes for electronics, acoustic instruments and environmental recordings. For larger groups of directed improvisation he has devised a system of graphical scores. Kahn creates his sound installations for specific spaces. The focus of these primarily non-visual works lies in the perception of space through sound... Richard Francis has been releasing works on CD/vinyl, performing solo and in collaboration as a touring artist since 1996. He uses field recordings of natural and electronic sounds and a signal generator to compose layered sound works of textural and tonal detail. He has released solo and collaborative works on a number of labels worldwide and runs his own label CMR through which he currently releases limited edition lathe cut records by New Zealand artists. In performance he uses a computer and electronics and has toured Japan, Australia, Hong Kong, Canada, USA and Europe. Since 2003, Francis has composed works for sound installation, participating in group and solo shows at galleries throughout New Zealand. [press-release]
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Kaiten -- "Turning Of The Heavens" -- CD -- €10
2005 Annihilvs, APEX002, (ltd. 500)
ANNIHILVS proudly presents TURNING OF THE HEAVENS, the debut album from KAITEN, the collaborative project featuring Erik Jarl (IRM, JARL) and Lirim Cajani (INSTITUT, OPERATIV PERMANENT). As would be expected from an alliance of these two Swedish artists, KAITEN is a foray into dark, dense, and superb harsh electronics. Taking their name from the infamous Japanese manned torpedoes, a submarine counterpart of the Kamikaze planes of WWII, KAITEN submerges the listener in a world of claustrophobic, shuddering tension. Distorted echoes of mayhem resonate against the hull of a steel coffin speeding toward certain destruction. Grating, shouted vocals, radio intercepts, and bombastic rhythms are crushed together to represent an inevitable fiery death and a hero's grave in the cold, crushing depths of the Pacific Ocean, all in the name of imperious glory. [press-release]
kakaokamkami -- "@" -- CD-R -- €7
self-released
The first record by this Helsinki-based outfit. Features five home-made instrumental tracks of simple glockenspiel and violin melodies flavored with buzzing guitars and programmed percussion. [from the author]
kakaokamkami -- "Snowballs" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Jozik Records
This is the most psychedelic but at the same time the most rocking effort by kakaokamkami so far. Ten tracks, forty minutes of beauty. Comes in handmade carton covers. [label info]
Kammarheit -- "Asleep and Well Hidden" -- CD -- €14
2003/2005 Cyclic Law, 3rd Cycle
First "official" CD from this Swedish master of what we could term apocalyptic dark ambient. After a streak of CDrs and an apperance on the "Nord Ambient Alliance" compilation CD, Kammarheit offers us a unique album of tortured sonic landscapes taking us on an unsetteling journey through darkened dreams. Homogeneous dark ambiences combined with serene drones and put together as a shadowy collection of dreamy, melancholic soundscapes, Kammarheit forms images of long lost ruins, barren lands and gigantic, rumbling machines. "Asleep and well hidden" was created as a tool for dreamers, a place to flee to when the outside world comes too close. [label info]
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Kandelin, Toni -- "Abstractions ļf Kindness" -- CD-R -- €6
2004 Spirals Of Involution, SOI 040
Yaroslavl-based label Spirals Of Involution is a true discovery for real noise-lovers and this disc isn't the exception. Toni Kandelin - a Finnish musician and founder of Hammasratas label - seems to be a big noise-lover as well. Powerful analogue sound, abstract composition structures, harsh noise as it is!
Kapotte Muziek -- "Praag / Rotterdam" -- CD -- €10
Chondritic Sound, CH-127 / PACrec 114, (ltd. 1000)
This joint-release of Chondritic Sound and Pac Rec contains two live pieces, recorded in 1995 and 1998, at the time when Kapotte Muziek was still a trio featuring Roel Meelkop, Peter Duimelinks and Frans de Waard. 'Praag', recorded in 1995, starts off with a serene drone, subtle added by the fickle crackling of various kinds of manipulated sounds. Although 'Praag' may be classified as a standard live set, being menial documented, the second piece should be seen as an ode to Detroit, the city of punk, noise, trash and techno. In 1998 Kapotte Muziek took part of the 'I rip you, you rip me' project in Rotterdam, a project dedicated to the impact of Detroit to the music history. All mentioned music elements, except punk perhaps, pass by during the set. It's great to hear the meaning of 'trash' being used by taking found objects as source material, gradually manipulated to noise and electronic excerpts. I guess you may call it a punk spirit. [MW, Vital Weekly]
Kar -- "Sfrigor" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2005 Taalem, alm 22
Kar is an Italian duo, who presents here its first 3"cd-r after some self-released cd-r's and a pair of other cd-r's on the sadly defunct S'Agita Recordings. This 20min piece will surprise you as its sound evolves radically from the beginning till the end. It starts with some scraping & scratching sounds which could remind you some stuff like Organum, then moves to a more electronic domain with some glitchy sounds... [press-release]
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Karisen, Botchan -- "Réactions Méchaniques" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2006 Taalem, alm 33
Botchan Karisen is a French artist also known under the Babylone Chaos alias where he creates electro-industrial sounds (his latest release was on Divine Comedy Records) and is a member of the experimental & oniric duo Scripta Manent. This piece, created in 2004, mixes an un/de-tuned piano melody, manipulated sounds, ambient experimental music and noise... [press-release]
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Karjalan Sissit -- "Fucking Whore Society" -- CD -- €12
2009 Cyclic Law, 25rd Cycle, (ltd. 2000)
At last, Karjalan Sissit return after 4 years of relative silence with their most obscure and harshest work ever. Fucking whore society is an anger and Vodka fueled bombastic opus inspired by the world's psychopathic state. A revolt against the cruel and sickly ways of today's society and a visceral and personal statement denouncing betrayal. Karjalan Sissit have masterfully expanded their signature sound with dense ambient passages and unsettling vocals all combined with their intensely unique orchestral passages, presenting us their best and most intense work yet. Produced by Peter Bjärgö (Arcana / Sophia). Edition of 2000 copies In A5 gatefold cardboard sleeve. [press-release]
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Karjalan Sissit -- "Karjalasta Kajahtaa" -- CD -- €14
2004/2009 Cyclic Law, 8th Cycle, (ltd. 1000)
The Finnish pioneer is back from the degenerated and alcoholized Swedish ghetto of Eskilstuna. 3rd full lenght from Markus Pesonen who now dove deeper into total Melancholy, Anti socialism, Bitterness, Disintegration and Alcoholism. Filled with what has defined KARJALAN SISSIT's sound thus far: Bombastic outbursts of Neo classical arrangements entwined in traditional Finnish Humppa and deep industrial sonorities. The songs were this time fiercly enhanced with some added vocals giving the whole album a much more aggressive touch. Again produced by Peter Bjärgö at Erebus Odora, this new album definitely stands above it's predecessors. Edition of 1000 copies in A5 book. 2nd edition. [press-release]
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Karjalan Tazavalla -- "Uhtua" -- CD-R -- €8
2009 UFA Muzak, UFA 29, (ltd. 91)
Death Industrial / Power Ambient. Karelian republic as Uhtian republic. Wonderful sonic document of the second "opus magnum" of this project from Petrozavodsk. This disc is a dedication to the Uhtian republic, which was founded in 1920-s in the northern Karelia and wanted to separate from Russia and become part of Finland. Two revolutionary revolts happened but were suppressed. This is history. During the running time of this disc you'll hear: iron walls of death industrial, cold currents of death ambient, and whisper of dark noise - this would most efficiently describe all the dreams that haunted the musicians during the recording of this material... Väinämöinen arises from Tuonela and warns people: don't make evil deeds and you won't be in that horrible situation where mean people are... 5 tracks, 54 minutes, CD-r, black carbdoard handmade digi-folder + stickers and cards. [press-release]
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Karma Marata / Kristian Giorgini -- "...And Still Remain" -- CD-R -- €9
2010 Ufa Muzak, UFA38 / Skullline, SLCDR110-10, (ltd. 120)
Neo-Folk / Military Pop. "One day the city will surrender and new barbarians will come to pull most terrible crimes. The replete and refined culture will turn to nothing, to dust under the feet of ignorant conquerors. They will destroy everything that was accumulated and systematized by this civilization in centuries, in one night all monuments, paintings, books and inventions will be committed to eternal nothing. This happens all the time, because this is a part of life itself, like nature and the right for rough uncontrolled power. Then the barbarians will go away, leaving only remembrances, quickly erased by time, feelings hovering over the ruins..." The 40th release of the label is a collaboration of German and Italian artists. A deep cultural excursion into martial - neofolk - synthpop musical areas. Professional sound cultural cafe will give you the passes for solemn and Teutonic-like romantic ritual from Karma Marata. After a short rest on a glade, chest full of mountain air, burned by cold water, as if by enchantment you're invaded by warm and mysterious aromas of Corsica - Kristian Giorgini. Gentle vocals and staggering ecstatic electronics... 6-panel hand made digipak. [press-release]
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Kasyansky, Grundik -- "Floating Point" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 Topheth Prophet, TP011, (ltd. 100)
Grundik Kasyansky plays feedback synthesizer, field recordings, theremin, samples and assemblage and here on 'Floating Point' one Fyodor Makarov plays toy concertina. The music is an 'audio collage based on three works written for dance', all mixed up into one piece, so the relevance of the music for dance is gone, I'd say. In his previous releases Kasyanksy was a man who showed his love for quiet music, with a big role for silence among the silence, and perhaps a soft peep here and there. But on this new release he makes a step forward. It may end out in his usual soft mood, but over the course over the thirty-six minutes that go before that he brings his material alive through a very strong audio collage. Field recordings and feedback, and occasional bang on the toy piano: it makes up quite a strong release. At times I was reminded a bit of Andrew Liles, even when Kasyansky's music sounded at times more fully loaded than Liles. It marks a great step forward for Kasyansky and is by far his best release to date. [Vital Weekly]
Katchmare -- "Frieda Harris" -- CD-R -- €7
2011 Heart & Crossbone, HCB 036, (ltd. 100)
An algid five tracks Occult homage to Lady Frieda Harris (mostly known as the artist behind Aleister Crowley's Thoth tarot deck) is the case with this new creation by Nick Hoffman aka Katchmare. "Frieda Harris" represents both progression and realization Hoffman explored on previous Katchmare albums that he recorded during winter time, as it substantiates in the 25 minutes album opener "Winterreise" - A gesture to the renowned Schubert winter piece in the shape of saturnine and freezing drones that shifts to "Unseen Chariot", a picturesque track that offers noise washes alongside silent intervals and sensory drones gliding in idiosyncratic space heaven. "Wind Canticle" comes next as a methodical winter hymn with bitter ceremonial qualities, whilst "Shifting Snow" is a short and intimidating segment before "Ulrikke" rigorously end this album with an evident observation: Destruction implies creation. Death implies life. Winter is Death. [press-release]
Katzo -- "Disposition" -- CD -- €10
2006 Silentes, 200611
A (nearly) 70 minute flux of dynamic/driving programmed rhythmic sequences, bass lines, and pulsing grooves... meshed into each other, then infused with microsounds. KATZO is a Japanese project by Katsuya Urushizaki. This is 'on the go' ultra high-tech electronic music... great for listening while on the move, or as a 'night dub soundtrack' for your deepest dreams. [press-release]
Keeler, James P. -- "5 Shades for a Grey Room" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2002 Taalem, alm 8
James P. Keeler has become shortly a big name in the dark-ambient / experimental fields with his Wilt project. Under his own name, James doesn't change his music radically. Sometimes more haunting with some rhythms and deep rumblings, sometimes more concrete with unexpected natural sounds, it has an experimental aspect that keeps you awake! [press-release]
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Keimverbreitung -- "The K Sessions" -- CD-R -- €6
2003 Amplexus, (ltd. 177)
Keimverbreitung is a new dimension in ambient-avantguarde music. Decadent atmospheres, rumorism, laments & electronic sounds....all mixed to create the perfect soundtrack for our unsound minds...to dscover it! [label info] Something experimental-vanguard. Throat singing, shaman's percussion, ethnic guitar parts, dark industrial ambience. Eclectic but interesting. [Abgurd description]
Kenotaph -- "Promise" -- CD -- €10
1998 Functional Organisation, Functional 012
Side project of Skalp presents the material of an old tape with bonus material. Distorted rhythmic noise with harsh pounding machinelike sounds and slow whispering voice.
Keplers Odd -- "Strena Seu De Nive Sexangula (A New Year's Gift Of Hexagonal Snow)" -- CD -- €10
2008 Fractured Spaces Records, FS0108CD, (ltd. 1000)
Genre: Guitar-based noise drone ambient. From the darkest and coldest heart of Sweden comes the trio known as Keplers Odd, and Fractured Spaces Records is pleased to announce that "Strena Seu de Nive Sexangula", their third CD album, is the first official release on the UK's newest quality underground music label. Featuring seven tracks of noisy yet subtly ambient guitar-driven sonic attacks, eerily redolent of the icy cold mysterious aurora-wrapped landscapes prevalent throughout Northern Europe, inhabited by creatures and monsters spawned from the myths & legends told around campfires over countless generations. Indeed, Keplers Odd have themselves spawned a monster of an album, creating textures and ambiences far beyond the normal run of over-driven guitar noisefests - yes, there is unalloyed power here, but there is also quiet subtlety, sinister atmospherics, and deeply dark occult moods. Ancient abandoned buildings, dark musty corridors, sinister forces at play - it's all here in stonking quantities!! KEPLERS ODD are: Daniel Jansson (Deadwood, STUG 218 & Crest 218 [Crest & STUG 218 collaborative project]), Magnus Moilala (Crest & Crest 218 [Crest & STUG 218 collaborative project]), and Kristina Persson (Viper Trail). Currently they are to be seen rampaging around Gothenburg, Sweden. [press-release]
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Khaos Theory -- "From the Darkness of Khaos" -- CD -- €9
2008 Military Industrial Komplex Records
Khaos Theory is a military industrial metal band from NYC sounding sometimes like hardcore version of Laibach. "The concept for "From the Darkness of Khaos" is to reveal the hidden governments of the world and expose them into the light and minds of the 95% ignorant in today's world. Each song deals with a specific topic on the Iraq war, 9/11, Multinational corporations, Religion as an ignorant tool of enslavement, and the hidden elect or Illuminati secret societies which are slowly changing the world we live in to a uni-polar Orwellian state where only one government has the means to control and subjugate your life. Songs like "Kein Entkommen" give a vision of Corprate tyranny over the common man as they slowly destroy natural resource to gain profit to become an establisment that is too powerfull to stop. Thus none escape the grasp of total control they have. "Black September" is a song about the planes destroying the world trade center and changing the outlook of the western thought towards third world states. "The West Will Conquer" is a song that has a militant and patriotic anthem like any good propaganda piece to inspire a people to become active and involved in their countries agenda. The current album contains these tracks and many others like "Khaos Theory" and "From the Darkness of Chaos". Some songs are more dark and futuristic industrial, where as other songs are more classical and neo-militant". [from the press-release]
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Kiila -- "Tuota Tuota" -- CD -- €10
2009 Fonal Records, FR-65
Tuota tuota is the third full-length album by Kiila. Its songs were born of peaceful, focused work and intense rehearsals with friends, interspersed with sleep and mealtimes. The album features an eight-strong core line-up but, as always, the composition of the group varies effortlessly according to need. At this table, there is room for everyone... As musical form, songs have always been important to Kiila, and consequently Tuota tuota develops around its songs. On the other hand, the album consists of many details: the sound is full, the web of instruments more varied and carefully orchestrated than before. It is unnecessary to separate the electronic from the non-electronic components. Different traditions of folk and pop music intermingle with electronic music and improvisation, tones and sound itself. This way, the album also poses questions about songs and songwriting... The motifs in the songs are not easy to render in English, but one can at least attempt to translate some of them: master of the house, elk antlers, tree bark, sound of rapids, fog, letters, calves, fingers. The list, however, doesn't make the songs easier to understand in a foreign language. The words sound archaic, anachronistic or timeless, the language of the myth. But can they be something else, too? And how transparent do we want the myth to be? At the risk of sounding dull, I suggest that the songs do speak to their age, our age, the nature of knowledge and work, the fluctuations of inspiration and threat. Unfortunately, it is mostly only the Finnish-speaking listeners who will be able to assess the validity of this idea... The name of the album, Tuota tuota, translates roughly as 'well, well' and signifies a thinking pause, a moment of contemplation. The language alone is likely to give pause to an English-speaking listener, but I hope the idea will convey itself in more ways than just that. And a pause for thinking is, of course, never a waste of time. [Niko-Matti Ahti / Kiila]
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Kiln -- "Thermals" -- CD -- €10
2005 Infraction, INFX 007, (ltd. 500)
KiloWatts -- "Undercurrent" -- CD -- €14
2009 Somnia, somnia 009, (ltd. 777)
Kinetix -- "Gestaltsystem 01 :: Possible Forms" -- 2 CD -- €15
2006 Monochrome Vision, (mv06)
"Possible Forms" is the first section of the audio installation titled "Gestaltsystem" represented for the first time at the exhibition "PX: Piombino eXperimenta 2005" Piombino (Italy). "Possible Forms" is not a double-CD album, but it's an audio-set composed by two CDs planned to be played simultaneously. It includes sixteen electronic compositions of identical length (5'.20") for a total time of 42'.42" for each CD. This work is conceived in order that every track of each record could play as second layer on every track of the other one. For this reason, the tracks hasn't neither title nor a pre-arranged sequential order. Macrostructure: the black CD includes eight tracks with metrical-tonal elements, while the white CD contains eight tracks of only noise drones. Both CDs have the same peak level (0dB), so the listener can choose the respective volume of each of the two CDs. These recordings contain ultra and sub sonic frequencies; for this reason the author advices the listener not to play the CDs at high volumes. Microstructure: all the tracks are obtained from a special combination of forty different audio fragments, previously selected and extracted from various digital sources. The minimal form of the entire work was specifically created to facilitate the listening in combined modality, establishing this way a precise relationship between sign and function. Vertical audio system: using two CD players (or CD-ROM/DVD players) in Random / Shuffle and Repeat modes, both players have to be started simultaneously. So, the two records can be played together ad libitum, generating sounds and sequences in continuous movement. Possible Forms uses sound strategies based on the calculation of auditive times and spaces in order to create a different kind of audio-logic design. In this sense this work can be intended as a device able of expanding the ordinary possibilities of domestic listening and it can be presented in the form of audio installation. [press release]
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Kinetix -- "White Rooms" -- 2 CD -- €12
2004 Small Voices, SVR04014
Kinetix is the new moniker of Gianluca Becuzzi (LIMBO). Kinetix' second official release on Small Voices, "White Rooms" is a work which conjugates radical electronica and expressive power in a unique formula made of stylised and very personal minimalist sound-design. The relationships between physical space and acoustic space constitute the main theme of this double-CD, packaged in an elegant digipak. "White Rooms" is a limpid digital gallery through which the listener is invited to discover bright and resounding spaces, white flats inhabited by concrete sounds, ultra-frequencies, noises, voices and silences. An aesthetic experience placing itself beyond the genres in territories of pure contemporary avant-garde." [press-release]
'kirchenkampf' -- "Babel" -- 2 CD -- €15
2007 Diophantine Discs, n = 8,9, (ltd. 500)
"Babel" follows the recent and well-received albums "Island of the Dead" (on Cohort) and "Transmissions" (which we released last year). It is an extremely dynamic and dense work that could generally be classified as experimental dark ambient. The theme here is the Tower of Babel and each disc takes a somewhat different yet complimentary approach: the first ("Red Babylon") is generally a rather heavy and intense recording, while the second ("Citadel of the Nevermind") is more droney and dream-like. A profound and monumental journey lasting well over two hours... 'kirchenkampf', the project of John Gore (Cohort Records, The Oratory of Divine Love, >wirewall<), has been active since 1986. Since that time he has released numerous recordings on his own and other labels. Additionally, John has collaborated with a number of others, including Steve Hall (Yen Pox), C. Reider, and Brett Smith (Caul)... The CDs come packaged in a stunning printed gatefold sleeve. [press-release]
Kiritchenko, Andrey -- "Live At Ultrahang Festival" -- CD-R -- €8
2005 Live Reports, nlr02
Born in 1976 in Kharkiv / Ukraine and started his musical activity in 1991 as a singer / song-writer in a rock band. Active in fields of electronic music since 1996. Andrey is a cross-genre experimental sound artist combined acoustic and digital aesthetics, tiny melodies and noise. So far, under all aliases he released more than 40 albums on labels such as Staalplaat, Ad Noiseam, SPEKK, Zeromoon and Nexsound; has over 50 compilation appearances on labels all over the world; performed through continental Europe, Russia and Kazakhstan; had collaborations with Francisco Lopez, Kim Cascone, Sara Lunden, Jeff Surak, Kotra, the Moglass etc.; nominated and awarded by Qwartz Electronic Music Awards... This material was recorded live on 27.09.2003 in Budapest, Hungary.
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Kiritchenko, Andrey / Courtis, Anla / Moglass -- "s/t" -- CD -- €10
2006 Nexsound, ns49 / Carbon Records, CR122 / TIBProd., TIBCD80 / Gold Soundz, GS#46 / 1000+1 TiLt
Collaboration album by Anla Courtis, Andrey Kiritchenko and the Moglass. All three musicians put their sounds in the common pool and manipulate them, in the honoroued tape trading way. [label info]
Kirlian Camera -- "Invisible Front. 2005" -- CD -- €13
2005/2007 [Trisol], TRI 306 CD
Re-Release of the studio album of the year 2005. A tragic odyssey of 11 incredible songs permeated by a sense of loss, as beautiful KIRLIAN CAMERA have never produced before; despite some highly appreciated masterpieces of their past. It looks as though the band's latest hard period had condensed in a desperate lust and need to communicate, which has never been so luminous and aimed at its own unique vision. The enormous relief given to both Elena's stunning voice and talent in composing has been rewarded by an incomparable result, made even more intense by Angelo's anticipated "return to the male vocal parts. A record filled with a dreadfully incorporeal atmosphere, a somewhat statuesque, incomprehensible alienation, or estrangement, settle very closely to the borders of places impossible to describe ... - places that Elena, Angelo and their various collaborators (amongst them Jarboe from THE SWANS and Lloyd James from NAEVUS) seem to know very well. Ghostly and seemngly "magic" signals are appearing everywhere in a transfigured and nearly frozen scenery, almost as if Ridley Scott's "ALIEN" got wrapped in an additional cloak of sensation, dread, but also of a tragic beauty, indeed. These signals or echoes are coming from an unknown zone in which a spacecraft haunted by hallucinating spectres seems to be silently travelling on forever. KIRLIAN CAMERA have chosen a voluntary distance towards the typically conceited trends of the music-scene, an attitude that gave birth to a breath-taking new album, that will leave the inclined listeners speechless with admiration. Combinin "future avant-garde" with classical pop-arrangements, this amazing album will blast the confines of the genre of mere electronic music, sending a shiver own everybody's spine. The distilled power of all the hit-singles KIRLIAN CAMERA have ever created in their long career has been magnified on this album !!!=Is something like this really possible after so many falsely acclaimed - as fa= too often "empty" - electronic releases all around?!? It really looks so, at last... [label info]
Kirlian Camera -- "Odyssey Europa" -- 2 CD -- €18
2009 Out Of Line, OUT 373 | 374
KK Null -- "Galactic Tornado" -- CD -- €10
2008 Quasi Pop Records, QPOP CD051, (ltd. 500)
The album 'Galactic Tornado' by Mr. Kazuyuki Kishino (KK NULL) presents the deep, dense & dynamic electronic music. It's unconditional, intuitive and highly emotional excellent audio-work. Combining synthetic sounds from various synthesizers and electronic machines with acoustic audio signals, the composer explores (from his own point of view) some artistic values of 'psychedelic electronic sound' that were widly presented on space/electronic/kraut albums from 70s. Naturally, this CD could be recommended for listeners who prefer the contemporary experimental sound in its highest quality and for fans of 'retro spacey' sound from the groups such as Popol Vuh, Cluster or even Tangerine Dream as well. Luxurious 6-panels digipack with silver lettering and spot varnishing feautures artwork with images done by Kazuyuki Kishino. [press-release]
KK Null -- "Gamma Ray Burster" -- CD -- €10
2007 Steinklang Industries, SK-IN 09
"Gamma ray burster" is the newest masterpiece of KK Null, one of the most influential artists in japanese Noise and Experimental music. Rhythmic and pounding analogue sine waves combined with experimental electronic sounds, flirring, whistling, crackling, rumbling and noising inside Your head. On "Gamma ray burster" you can enjoy noisy tracks with even danceable parts, as well as pure noise and avantgardistic experimental Cold Electronics. This album contains all kinds of different experimental Noise styles, what makes the 52 minutes very enjoyable and entertaining. Let you take you to a trip into another galaxy. Far from here. Very far! [press-release]
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KK Null / John Wiese -- "Mondo Paradoxa" -- CD -- €10
2009 Auf Abwegen, aatp26, (ltd. 500)
Constructed over the period of two years via mail collaboration this is a great and forceful collaboration between two artists that each have made a name for themselves with their unique approach to making sound. KKNULL is a master of feedback studies, working with looped scenarios to create dense and vital sound units. KKNULL has a long history as an experimental musician and is also the leading force behind proto-metal-group Zeni Geva and the dark-industrial project Absolut Null Punkt... John Wiese has recently collaborated with such acts as Wolf Eyes and Sunn O))) and is also a graphic designer in high demand. Usually he creates fragile but very erruptive lo-fi noise rumblings with an almost poetic touch. He has a musical past in the group Bastard Noise... Needless to say, both artists combine the best of both worlds in this crunching release! Comes in beautiful full cover digipak, designed by Government Alpha, typesetting by John Wiese. [press-release]
Klammheim -- "Heimwarts" -- CD -- €14
2009 Heimatfolk, HF 10
Klinikal Skum -- "Miasma" -- CD-R -- €8
2006 Abgurd Subdivision, AB-22, (ltd. 102)
New album from Ryan Oppermann of REDROT, NEUNTOTER DER PLAG, etc. It features analogue electronics and synth-noise styled atmospheres, though the musician doesn't actually use a synth. The theme with KLINIKAL SKUM is of mental hospitals, clinic, medication, nurse fetish, medical fetish, psychosis, etc. It is very much influenced by italian instrumental synth-noise: ATRAX MORGUE, M.Bianchi, MURDER CORPORATION and N. It is dark, creepy, and demented... [press-release]
Klood -- "Aversion" -- CD-R -- €8
2003 EE Tapes, ET 84, (ltd. 200)
Aversion is pure drone ambient, very smooth, but not minimalistic, created with technology traditional for this style, also used by e.g. Troum, and slightly spiced with field recordings. [aghast]
Knifeladder -- "Music/Concrete" -- CD -- €13
2009 Cold Meat Industry, cmi192
Knifeladder have been in existence in one form or another since 1998. Their sound is the culmination of years of experimentation and independent development. The resultant sound is a heavily percussive industrial organic hybrid, a new meshing of electronic loops, live bass and percussion and ethnic instrumentation to form a kind of Organic Industrial Music. Two years after the release of 'The Spectacle' (now sold out) Cold Meat Industry are pleased to present the latest work by Knifeladder; 'Music/Concrete'. - a unique mix of hi tec and lo fi sounds, authorititive drums courtesy of the one and only John Murphy, and distorted obscure instruments, Knifeladder have again produced a work of great visceral power. With shuddering machine loops overlaid with frenetic metal percussion, power ambient soundscapes melting into epic defiant anthems, Music/Concrete uses traditional hand played electronics and instrumentation to realise a throroughly contemporary vision of rebirth and decay... Compared to such acts as Test Dept, Coil and Mother Destruction, Knifeladder have outgrown their reference points to create their own niche in the genre obsessed Industrial scene. The personnel include Jonh Murphy, percussionist and electronic pioneer with such acts as SPK, early Current 93 and credible pop act The Associates. Andrew Trail was founder of Autogeddon and performed in the controversial Ministry of Love, who broke up after being banned from performing in every live venue in Sydney. Hunter Barr was a founder member of the infamous Infant Skull Surgery and is a renowned recording engineer for his unconventional yet obsessively perfectionist approach. Knifeladder themselves have performed with such acts as Allerseen, Sieben, Naevus, Coil, Bad Sector and Neither/neither world. With over 100 live actions, they have mastered the live environment like few others... Play loud, play often, and find the joy that only laughing in the face of death can bring... [press-release]
Knox Om Pax -- "Laudanum" -- CD -- €10
2007 Destructive Industries, DI001, (ltd. 1000)
Heartful, yet very morose Neoclassical/Ambient. Suicide soundtrack for the fallen. [label info]
Knudsen, Jørgen -- "Wealth" -- CD -- €10
2006 Quasi Pop Records, QPOP CD038, (ltd. 500)
This is the first solo album of Norwegian composer and musician Jørgen Knudsen who was a founding member of highly acclaimed duo Information. This duo had an unique combination of sound and creative methods as well as their interest in connecting music with visuals, texts, dances etc. Information released a few fantastic albums on labels such as Beatservice and Rune Grammofon. Jørgen had been working on his first solo album during last few years, recording and collecting the audio sources for it. Most of these recordings were made in defferent places around the planet: Norway, Iceland, Greece, Chech Republic, Japan, China, Shri-Lanka, Goa, Thailand, Cambodia etc: Generally speaking, 'Wealth' has no typical style or even its own specific sound, this record reflects the Jorgen's interests in developing music in many different directions at the same time. Follows its name, 'Wealth' is a surrealistic blend of natural sounds and field-recordings, acoustic instruments, exotic voices, delicate melodies in 'Thai pop' style, different found sounds and noises. Another interesting fact about this release: the music was composed by Norwegian, recorded around the world, assembled in Cambodia and Thailand & at last, released on Ukrainian record label. Beautiful fotos on the cover of this album were made by Ukrainian photographer Sergey 'Doctor' Volkov in Greece. Is this a Globalism? [press release]
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Knurl -- "Vermifuge" -- CD -- €14
2007 PACrec, PACrec134 / Troniks, TRO-269
Knyaz' Myshkin -- "Wizard & Woman + Grifomania" -- CD-R -- €7
2006 Chopsticks, CSCD01
Legendary Belorussian avantguard project self-identifying as "intuitive improvisation". Each recording and performance are being done "right here and right now" and thus are unique. Everything what you might or might not imagine about improvisation music you'll find here. Mad mixture with a fragrance of John Zorn, Bill Laswell, Sergey Prokofiev and Asian and African folklore. The disk contains studio session "Wizard & Woman" and live set on Grifomania festival in Minsk. Not absolutely standard package. [press-release]
Kodiak / Nadja -- "s/t" -- CD -- €14
2009 Denovali Records, DEN40
Koff Koff -- "The Quality of Life" -- CD-R -- €7
TIB Productions, tibcd75
Norwegian noise, sharp and harsh, but intelligent and full of events at the same time. [YAOP description]
KolpakopF -- "įGNOIA" -- CD-R -- €7
2011 Heart Shaped Box prod., HSB-049, (ltd. 40)
Dark ambient created under the influence of Borges stories. Project coming from Ryazan, Russia. Sprayed CDR, 40 copies, slim-case, full-colour cover. [YAOP]
KolpakopF -- "Fire and Algebra" -- CD-R -- €7
2011 Heart Shaped Box prod., HSB-047, (ltd. 40)
Dark ambient created under the influence of Borges stories. Project coming from Ryazan, Russia. Sprayed CDR, 40 copies, slim-case, full-colour cover. [YAOP]
KolpakopF -- "Prostranstvo Ugroz" -- CD-R -- €7
2011 Heart Shaped Box prod., HSB-048, (ltd. 40)
Dark ambient created under the influence of Borges stories. Project coming from Ryazan, Russia. Sprayed CDR, 40 copies, slim-case, full-colour cover. [YAOP]
KolpakopF -- "The Sky Is Out of Order" -- CD-R -- €7
2011 Heart Shaped Box prod., HSB-050
Psychedelic drone ambient created under the influence of Borges stories. Project coming from Ryazan, Russia. Double sleeve. [YAOP]
Kolpakopf -- "Wet" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Cold Graey, MF16, (ltd. 57)
Kolpakopf was based in the end of 2005 by Mihkail Lyonushkin in Rostov. Album Wet was recorded in 2007. Musically it's a dark ambinet on the edge of microsound. You can actually feel wet caverns, as if you were there. As if you were it. Nine tracks with no names. Very strong debut from promising musician. The release presented as a handmade DVD-sized sleeve. [label info]
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Kommando -- "Necroinvasiv" -- CD -- €13
2007 L. White Records, LW-050, (ltd. 300)
They digged very deep in the UMB-archive, and finally brought some really rotten, dirty, sticky "audio-corpses", dated from mid of the 90`s,to the surface. The material had been digitally cleaned and partly restructured for being presented for the very first time on cd. Well arranged power-electronics with distorted screams and aggressiv vocals, leads to the roots of this pre-THOROFON project. [press-release]
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Kopp, Hermann -- "Under a Demon's Mask" -- CD -- €15
2008 Galakthorrö 021
Everybody who has seen the Buttgereit films Nekromantik 1+2 and Todesking, has heard of Hermann Kopp. The music he wrote and performed for them is ever-present, pervading the atmosphere and has contributed considerably to the advancement of these films into classics. He still retains to this day his exceptional musical ability, and proves it yet again. Galakthorrö is proud to be able to present 13 new songs from the nekrodramatist: more than 40 minutes of new material, which today - just as it did then - has as its core his dissonantly tempered and individualistic violin playing. Combined with electronics, a host of weird instruments and metal percussion he creates an unequalled gruesome opus, carried by an effectively conceived minimalism, and the most beautiful and haunting Angst melodies imaginable. So morbid and wonderful in fact, that we have to ask ourselves how we could manage to survive for so long without any new material from Hermann Kopp - and which demons were riding him that he had to keep us waiting so long. CD in matt finish digipac, 20-page booklet incl. all texts and lyrics. [press-release]
Kora Et Le Mechanix -- "Excursin Forte (16:9 Progressive Remixes)" -- CD -- €11
2007 Nextera, ERA 2047-2
Following the critically acclaimed debut album "Excursin", Kora et le Mechanix the Czech experimentalists decided to invite some of the most interesting Czech and Slovak artists from the alternative scene to participate on their remix album! The result is a unique compilation of exclusive remixes from 16 different artists covering various musical genres including dub, chill out, click'n'cuts, drill'n'bass, electronica and electroacoustic music, but mostly exploring the experimental sides of ambient music. Carefully selected and mastered, this conceptual remix album is highly recommended to everyone, who likes progressive and experimental music with a fresh feeling full of new sounds and ideas. [press-release]
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Korperschwache -- "Evil Walks" -- CD -- €10
2010 Crucial Blast, CBR 88
Evil Walks is the first widely available cd release for Crucial Blast from Korperschwache after almost a decade of smaller, limited-run discs released through the label's Crucial Bliss sub-imprint. It's also the most focused work yet from this utterly demented Texas outfit that started out in the mid 90s as a pure noise project but gradually evolved into this weird, lumbering black-dirge that we hear now. The eight songs that make up Evil Walks feature the signature Korperschwache moves: thumping minimal drum-machine pound courtesy of the relentlessly decisive Doktor Omega, droning dissonant riffs that veer from hypnotic noise to dismal quasi-black metal buzz, RKF's narcoleptic croaking and malevolent sneer bathed in reverb and amp skuzz, guitars humming and droning against cranked-up amps while creepy news sound bites, the distant sad howling of wolves and ear-piercing screams drift across the background... Strange post-punk reverberations rumble all throughout this disc, nothing new to those who are familiar with the myriad other Korperschwache discs that have come out since 2001 when RKF first began flirting with his odd mix of simple, mesmeric gloom-guitar and black mechanical slime, but it's never sounded better to my ears than it does here, when the music forms into this stoned blackened hypno-rock thing, the buzzing guitars and acid-scorched melodies looping over the skittery industrial beats and weird dubbed-out snares and concussive Godflesh-esque rhythms, turning into something that sounds remarkably like a mutant cross between late-80s British psych/drone rockers Loop and those notorious improv-black metal freakazoids Abruptum... [press-release]
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Kotkavuori, Tapio -- "Terra Hyperborea" -- CD -- €11
2005 Gemina Stella, GSCD-003
Tapio Kotkavuori is a Magister of the Temple of Set and he has an essential role in the practises and information sharing of northern magical context. He is also the author of two books on the subject of Left Hand Path. Terra Hyperborea contains a selection of Kotkavuori's sound-magical Workings recorded in 2001CE. At the time, recordings were made under the project name Vaskikäärme. These recordings have now been remastered and are publicly available in CD-format for the first time. The album contains also a high-resolution version of the Underground Tunnels-video. Musically artist himself describes Terra Hyperborea as "post-apocalyptic dark-ethno-ambient". Its semi-organic, semi-electric soundspheres are trance inducing, almost hypnotic, varying from soft mood adjustments to more focused incantations and chants. Kotkavuori's main weapon of choice in this battle against silence is didgeridoo, but tons of other instruments - such as vocals, rainstick, shaman drum, coffee maker, synthesizer, kitchen knives etc. - have been utilized as well. All in all, these recordings create a shamanistic ambiance with a dark twist characteristic to the Left Hand Path. They provide an inspiring background for mundane as well as Other Kind of activities. To some, this record offers an unique peek to the world of Black Magic. To others, it offers a lot more. [Some Place Else]
Kotra -- "Ampere" -- 3"CD-R -- €5
2005 Alku, pochatok 55
Kotra is the main art project from Dmytro Fedorenko. Dmytro studied mathematics at National University of Ukraine and classic guitar at music school in Kyiv. Started making music in 1994 as bass player in the jazz-noise band Potercha. In 1996 Dmytro founded noise duo Zet and made a series of performances with independent visual artists and videomakers in Kyiv. During 1997-1998 he participated in several video-art, net-art and interactive workshops in the Soros Center for Contemporary art in Kyiv. In 1998 after Dmytro left Zet, he started his solo project Kotra. Since that time he has released 10 full length albums, and has worked with Andrey Kiritchenko, Kim Cascone, Franz Pomassl, Alexei Borisov and Andreas Berthling. Kotra's tracks were released on different compilations in Europe, USA and Ukraine. Dmytro also made music for miscellaneous interactive CDR, web and video projects together with Akuvido. Those projects took part on such festivals around the world as Kryptonale, EMAF, Villette Numerique, Netmage, Videoex, [d]vision and many more. In 2003 Kotra played live on Clubtransmediale festival in Berlin, Garage festival in Stralsund, Unsound festival in Krakow, Noise&Fury festival in Moscow.
"Ampere was made with the old (1953) soviet radio microphone, mixer and some self-made devices. By locking a chain "mic-speakers" through the mixing board I was recieving really interesting and powerful resonances with dynamics that i never heard before..." [press-release]
Kotra -- "Icon" -- CD-R -- €8
1999 self-released
This release is a final part of an installation project "Icon XXI Century" created in 1999 by Kotra (Dmytro Fedorenko) with Akuvido (Anna Kuts & Viktor Dovgaluk). The CD itself is a mix of Kotra's "Icon XXI" VHS videotapes and programmed rhythms. CDr comes with 32 pages booklet with pictures of icons, series of symbols and a concept of the project.
Kotra -- "Reset" -- CD -- €10
2008 Kvitnu, KVITNU 6
Reset serves up seventy minutes of scalpel-sharp electronic music from Ukraine-based Dmytro Fedorenko under the Kotra name. The Kvitnu head and one-time Nexsound co-producer (2003-07) likens his music to 'ear needles' and the album's sixteen tracks are certainly invasive and uncompromising (though he's issued a dozen full-length albums and collaborations since establishing the Kotra name in 1998, Reset is his first solo release since 2004's Dissilient). Reset, which breaks up its longer pieces with five fragments, brutalizes the listener from the outset with 'Rational Attack' and 'Absent Response,' tracks whose machine-like precision and relentlessness exemplify the material's merciless tone. If there's a comparative point of reference for Kotra , it's Carsten Nicolai's Alva Noto whose material is also inhumanly cold yet rhythmically funky too. Kotra's 'Vilna Struktura,' for example, merges high-pitched tonal cross-currents with pulsating throb in a way that suggests Alva Noto operating his gear in a particularly aggressive frame of mind. There's inarguably a sadomasochistic dimension to Kotra's music- the violent onslaught of grinding noise in 'Solid Dissection' and 'Fire Fractions' is so eardrum-piercing it's almost painful-but there's music to be heard in these eviscerations too, for those at least with dispositions strong enough to handle it. [Textura]
Kotra -- "Revolt" -- CD -- €10
2010 Kvitnu, KVITNU 9
Prime explosion of sprightly elements from different times in combination with bizarre oscillations from friendly alchemists.. Something from the past and something from the present. Independence in variety, light's inside. This is 8th solo work of Kotra. 10 original tracks with five remixes from Zavoloka, Dunaewsky69, Sturqen, v4w.enko and Pomassl. [label info]
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Kotra & Zavoloka -- "Wag The Swing" -- CD -- €10
2006 Kvitnu, KVITNU 1
24 swinging and jazzing tracks that sound quite different from each artists solo works. Explosive broken beats, slow motioned melodies, raw uncutted pieces - more than two years of improvising and constructing in one release. Bass, empty vinyl player, blank CD matrixes, voice and other machines. Swinged and jammed in Kyiv mostly during summer and autumn of year 2006, also in winter and spring of 2005. [label info]
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Koude -- "Towards the False Light" -- CD-R -- €8
2007 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT19, (ltd. 33)
Harsh psychedelic Drone Ambient played primarily on electroguitars with a minimal dose of synthesizer and metal percussion. Atmospheric, anxious, existential technogenic-shaman's sound, very much close to Ural's project Ad Lux Tenebrae and meditative tracks of old Communism. Due to author's request the edition is limited to 33 copies, so you better be quick... [press-release]
Kraken -- "Amore" -- 2 CD -- €17
2005 Spectre, S17
Krasniy! -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €5
2008 S und S records, SS-2008-004-04, (ltd. 13)
This is how the music of our ancestors sounds in the modern world, the expression of extasy and turnover during the ritual of Kolo zeal. Furious noise, tambourine and fifes - a live recording of the ritual. The blood-belief is not forgotten, it waits for its morning hour to be awaken with the rise of the clear bright face. Recorded in 2007 by one of the members of UFA Muzak label. [press-release] Fourth variant of limited edition, in simple but nice handmade package.
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Krasnye Svitki -- "First Dog Trip" -- CD-R -- €8
2007 TSPHN Researches
Russian punk-folk band Krasnye Svitki (The Red Scrolls) made this recording during their trip from Ryazan to Yaroslavl and back. In trains, bus, boat and just on the street the guys were singing traditional folk songs and recording them onto a dictaphone. Pure male vocal polyphony without any instruments + background sounds of direct Russian reality of public conveyances. Released by the home label of Majdanek Waltz / Ganzer in thick handmade cardboard sleeve, contains songs lyrics and manifesto about punk-folk (in Russian). Absolutely authentic release.
Kreutzfeldt, Danny -- "Numberground" -- CD-R -- €10
2007 Practising Nature, PN07025
Haunting industrial soundscapes by Danny Kreutzfeldt. An ambient nightmare in 6 movements. [label info]
Kreuzer -- "In Hoc Signo Vinces" -- CD -- €11
2008 The Eastern Front, Front 018, (ltd. 300)
New album of the very young Israeli project Kreuzer. Martial dark ambient sounds mixed with industrial elements. Feel spirit of the Crusades and medieval Jerusalem in Kreuzer new album - 'In Hoc Signo Vinces'! [label info]
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Kreuzer / Surma -- "Viltis" -- CD -- €10
2008 The Eastern Front, Front 020, (ltd. 300)
New split of two young projects - Ukrainian Surma and Israeli Kreuzer. Viltis in spite of being composed by two different musicians, sounds as a whole-hearted album... Like the full-length albums of both musicians, here music flows in industrial and dark ambient music space and complete the nostalgic atmosphere by the samples of old records in Lithuanian language. [press-release]
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Kreuzweg Ost -- "Edelrost" -- CD -- €10
2005 Cold Spring Records, CSR58CD
'Edelrost' draws a line from yesterday to tomorrow, from hope to despair, from blind obedience to revolution. Outstanding arrangements - rhythmic military industrial and hymnal orchestration - creating an oppressive sonic soundtrack of incredible martial anthems. Essential. [press-release]
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Kriegsfall-U -- "s/t" -- CD -- €10
2011 Epidemie Records, EPR073
A new eponymous album of Hungarian project KRIEGSFALL-U. Uncompromising sacral martial industrial with apocalyptic neo-folk elements declaiming in Hungarian. Delikatessen for lovers of old Derniere Volonte, Der Blutharsch, Sophia. Luxurious digipack edition with 12 pages booklet. [label info]
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Kriegsturm -- "Eternity" -- CD-R -- €6
2009 Valgriind, VG 34, (ltd. 150
Reissue of only one recording of already non-existent Latvian neo-folk project. Combination of live nature recordings, guitar, noise waves and strident female vocals. Design contains documentary photos of The Second World War made on the Baltic territory. Limited edition with professional polygraphy , different from the first edition. [label info]
Kriminaaliset Metsänhaltijat -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €13
2008 Triangle, TR-36, (ltd. 16)
One more forgotten work of this project, a collection of live recordings. Radical. Utterly unpleasant noise flow, rattle and metal clank. [label info]
Kriminaaliset Metsanhaltijat -- "Anarkkia, Kaaos, Maailmanloppu!" -- CD-R -- €12
2008 Triangle Records, [TR039], (ltd. 5)
Ultimate industrial / power-electronics. Manifests about end of the world, politics and dark angels of Chaos. Power. Limited edition 5 copies. [label info]
Kriminaaliset Metsanhaltijat -- "Koskemattomuus" -- CD-R -- €8
2009 BloodLust!, B!138
BloodLust! is happy to announce "Koskemattomuus," the label's second release by the emerging industrial noise group, Kriminaaliset Metsänhaltijat, which follows on the footsteps of the bands recent "Anarkkia, Kaaos, Maailmanloppu!" EP [B!129]. The members of this shadow group of old-school industrial acolytes originally hail from Finland and from Karelia -- a region and an autonomous republic of northwest Russia, between the Gulf of Finland and the White Sea. To paraphrase some of the band's own dogmatic yet oblique statements and manifestos, Kriminaaliset Metsänhaltijat quite accurately claim to have built their sound on the bones of such groups as S.P.K. and Throbbing Gristle, through a prism of Japanese harsh-noise and Finnish hardcore-punk, spewing out a nihilistic nightmare of diffused synth hiss, commanding metal percussion, waves of harsh-noise, anarcho-punk attitude, and dissident power-electronics. This "new" album, which the band actually recorded in 2001, furthers the group's association with the anarcho-punk scene [CRASS, et al] by presenting a fiercely grim anti-war statement. By conjuring the disasters of war, both historic and contemporary, the group lays the blame for the death of so many innocent civilians squarely on the shoulders of greedy politicians and big business. Kriminaaliset Metsänhaltijat weave their aggressive, dark industrial-noise style with segments of traditional, romantic Finnish war songs from World War II, as well of impassioned battlefield vocal segments, creating a complex and compelling tableaux that should appeal to a broad group of listeners, including fans from the martial music, minimal synth, crusty punk, and noise scenes. These are professionally duplicated CDs, with single panel, double-sided inserts, featuring striking color artwork; in jewel boxes with shrinkwrap. [press-release]
Kristus Kut -- "Butterfly King" -- CD -- €10
2010 Mind Flare Media, MFM004
Mind Flare Media's first official release from Kristus Kut. Butterfly King showcases Kut's most recent advancements in his sound. Branching off from his earlier, more noise-influenced work, he enters a realm of voodoo-worshipping, highly sexual, dark, ritualistic ambient. Known for his elaborate performances, this work features a story revolving around sexual development and liberation. The album features seven tracks ranging from trance-inducing soundscapes to pulsing rituals of sound. [press-release]
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Kromeshna -- "Simple Mysteries" -- CD-R -- €8
2011 Still*Sleep, CDR17
Two mysteries from the Russian musician Vitaly Maklakov (Light Collapse, Obozdur, and lots of other projects) from the Urals. Quite cryptic swamp-cosmic drone framed into industrial field recordings. Despite being minimalistic, this is a dense and saturated work with a strong atmosphere.
Kromeshna + Bardoseneticcube -- "Lilac Honey" -- CD-R -- €7
Ostroga, OTR-019
One collaborative 21 min. track from St. Petersburg based Bardoseneticcube and Kromeshna from Ural. "Like psychedelic balm pouring in florid patterns in eternal search for otherworldly clouds" [UFA Muzak]. A5 paper sleeve with a herbarium.
Krutogolov, Igor -- "White" -- CD -- €10
2006 Auris Media, aum 10 / Topheth Prophet, TP006, (ltd. 1000)
From Israel comes Igor Krutogolov, who is besides a musician also the designer for Topheth Propeht. Apparently he is mostly known for his 'klezmer core' project Kruzenshtern & Parohod but also a 'toy orchestra' Igor Krutogolov's Karate Band as well as various collaborations he has done with people like Chaos As Shelter, Agnivolok, Bastard Noise, Tidal and Darkwood. For 'White', which comes with a booklet with white pages (funny or arty) he plays bass with bow and strings, voice, keyboards, objects, flute and birds and gets help from somebody playing bells and someone delivering a tape of rain sounds. Divided into seven parts, this is however very much one piece. The musical theme's re-occur in every track, the rain sounds return every now and then. The label compares this is to Colin Potter and Andrew Liles, which, especially in the case of Liles, I can see some parallel. The drone like sounds form the backbone of the piece and with irregular intervals, real instruments are added. Unlike Liles however, Krutogolov doesn't dwell that much of sound effects, and rather uses them in a more natural sounding way. Quite hypnotic and engaging at times, this is surrealist music, with a built in tension that keeps lurking around the corner, and the listener is waiting for something to happen. Wether or not it happens I won't reveal, but it's a pretty strong CD. [FdW, Vital Weekly #560]
Kryptogen Rundfunk & DN23rd -- "Silentium Universi" -- CD-R -- €4
2010 CSRC, CSB-01, (ltd. 25)
Radionoise description of the Universe with total length of 45 mins 55 secs, made by comrades MM and DN in autumn 2002. Human factor is reduced to an essential minimum, and eloquent pithiness of the natural signals of radio ether comes to the forefront. "It is only an emission produced by processes that are purely physical, natural, and totally uninhabited, therefore devoid of any linguistic character, of content, of meaning..." The medium is packed in a kraft paper envelope with b/w photo, a quotation from "His Master's Voice" by Lem unique for each copy, and all the necessary and sufficient information. [press-release]
Kubin, Felix -- "Atoma Exi Mono" -- CD -- €9
2005 Solnze Records, SCD 042
"The best of..." compilation from one of the coolest lo-fi eccentric Felix Kubin. Includes tracks recorded together with Aavikko, Angie Reed, Klangkrieg, some tracks previously published only on old 7". "Felix is dandy and aesthete. Of course he's a propagandist of absurd and trash but he looks at absurd and trash from aside, he plays with them". [Andrey Gorohov, "Musprosvet"]
Kult -- "Overtures for Violent Intercourse" -- CD-R -- €7
2003 Dungeon Records, DR002
Sinister and oppressive Industrial Noise from Portugal - correct listening at maximum volume. Underground distribution edition - CD-r has ink-jet printed black/white cover. [Misanthropic Propaganda]
Kurbonsho -- "Vahan Songs" -- CD -- €12
2011 Chernaya Zemlya, CZ:a, (ltd. 700)
The disc contains unique ethnographic field recordings made by Andrey Komarov (Vishudha Kali), during an expedition to the Pamirs in 2004. One of the goals of this expedition was to study the musical traditions of the Pamir highlands. Here he discovered the most outstanding poet and musician, Kurbonsho. The village in which he lived is a wild place on Vakhania (Afghan gap) with no electricity and extremely difficult access. Although local residents claimed that he was unlikely to agree to sing, Andrey still managed to record his primordial folklore music, which is represented on this disc. Kurbonsho died in 2008. Beautiful lyrical melodies (sung in Devanagari) with smooth transitions and flowing vocals - the music is clear and unprepared for the European organic ear. Ltd x 700 copies in a 20-page A5 digibook. [label info]
L/A/B -- "Psychoacoustics" -- CD -- €10
2004 Ground Fault Recordings, GF032
Live improvisations on electronics and mechanics treated with scientifically approved methods; together with composed sections interpolated with sounds of science; illustrates the musical sounds of the human psyche. Along any sensory continuum the adaptation level is the level we are used to. As listeners adapt to greater amounts of L/A/B music, there is a gradual shift along the continuum toward greater pleasure. At one extreme is the beauty that is associated with a sense of lightness and balanced order. It does have a faintly decorative quality to it. At the other extreme we have the much darker form of beauty that we associate with profundity and truth. The distinction between these two extremes of beauty has less to do with the objects under consideration, whether a flower, or a piece of music, than it does with the attitude of the considerer of the object. The dominating mythology of our time is science. Scientific methods applied to the arts can be used to enhance the receptability of the listener. L/A/B helps the listeners to program their own brains and to develop their own sensitivities. [press-release]
L.E.A.K. / Kosmophon -- "Duochromatic" -- CD EP -- €8
2004 Fin de Siècle Media
L.E.A.K. - ambience, distorted environments and lustige elektro-akustische klänge.
The music of L.E.A.K. is sometimes disturbing, sometimes beautiful, but always sincerely present. The soundscapes take you to one of those rare places where structure and chaos are not necessarily mutually exclusive. L.E.A.K. released the album 'The Old Tea House' on Cold Meat Industry in 2001. Kosmophon - a side project of weird British cult soundtrack fetishist Caesar Romero, who released the highly recommended CD 'Matamoros' on his own Shadowfist label. The material presented here is of a very different nature. The sleaze and spaghetti western hints are replaced by minimal and hypnotic analog electro noise experiments. [press-release]
L'Anus Solaire -- "Manifestation I : Orifices" -- CD -- €13
self-released, AS 01, (ltd. 300)
L'Homme Eternel -- "Maladie Orientale - Sessia" -- CD-R -- €6
2008 Observatiore 21, (ltd. 50)
L'Homme Eternel is a collaboration project of two Russian musicians: Denis Shapovalov (Adriva, Sunchariot, Matter) and Alexander Selivanov (Mortart). The second work of H.E. is made in the same vein, but more chaotic and surreal. It doesn't contain flowing tracks as before, but still has the mesmerizing ritualistic feeling. Like in the previous album here the most interesting think lies in live improvised sonorities. Sounds are like alive creatures from other dimensions inhabitating the surreal jungles, they frighten and surprise one's consciousness. In general, this is a rough and abrupt work. [label info]
L'Idiot Du Village -- "Bestioles" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Steelkraft Manufactory, SKM02, (ltd. 100)
Ants. Moths. Butterflies. Cockroaches. Centipedes.... And many others are featured on this L'Idiot Du Village record, for a 73 minutes opera of groovy insects doing their sometimes harsh, sometimes ambient, noise stuff, conduced and directed by L'Idiot Du Village. L'Idiot du Village has been releasing solo albums since 1999 on labels 'Black Sun Rising', 'Broken Brains' and 'L'Eglise de la Petite Folie', and is currently a member of math-core band 'Rotule'. [label info]
La Casa, Eric -- "Secousses Panoramiques" -- 3"CD -- €8
2006 Hibari Music, hibari-07
Sixteen short field recordings from 2006 by the prolific artist whose work is mostly comprised of such pieces (before being enhanced or occasionally mixed with other sounds). In oversized packaging. [Fourth Dimension Records]
La Maison Moderne -- "Day After Day" -- CD EP -- €9
2000 Hau Ruck!, HR!07
La Maison Moderne is a side-project of Der Blutharsch and mixes a sense of humor with the spirit of wine drinking. Some might not care for it while others might enjoy this strange mix. [label info]
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Lab Report -- "All Your Little Pieces Make Me A Whole" -- CD -- €10
1998 self-released
This album was created using samples taken entirely from Sound Cube. Those sounds were manipulated in Pro Tools. The entire album was sculpted or pieced together, as opposed to being played live. The dialogue is from Jeffery Dahmer's defense attorney. This CD is sound support for a gallery opening for Matt Schultz's one man show (of the same title) at the Oskar Friedl Gallery, featuring his sculpture, hand made instruments and his Anti Tank Guitars. [Lens Records]
Lab Report -- "Classical Atmospheres" -- CD -- €10
2000 self-released
Classical Atmospheres sees Lab Report venturing into new sonic and compositional territory. Very much in the soundtrack vein but still with a healthy dose of the otherworldly drone that is signature Lab Report. Features Matt Schultz with Johnny Polonsky and Tom Slattery. [Lens Records]
Ladder House -- "Aaron" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Happy Family
Seven pieces of frantic doxology in alien dialect to the accompaniment of violint, piano and sounds of nature. Art without looking back at human logic and common sense. Predecessor of the project Negligee. [label info]
Lagowski -- "Temporary Distractions" -- CD -- €10
2006 Ars Benevola Mater, ABM 23, (ltd. 1035)
Thanks to his long experience in the world of electronic music, Andrew Lagowski leads our attention through brilliant, harmonious and involving electro paths. The sound structures are continuously fluttering inside electric spirals of minimal atmospheres, futuristic beats and avantgarde solutions coming from the most experimental and cultured industrial music. [label info]
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Laibach -- "Neu Konservatiw" -- CD -- €11
2003/2006 Cold Spring Records, CSR38CD
The official release of the semi-official, legendary 1000 only vinyl from 1985, now a highly sought-after collectors piece! Lovingly remastered, with an 8 page book of new text about LAIBACH and NSK of the time by ALEXEI MONROE (commissioned exclusively for this release by LAIBACH), plus never before seen images from the NSK archive. This album finds LAIBACH at their most powerful, orchestral and anthemic!! [press release]
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Lamia Vox -- "... Introductio" -- CD -- €11
2010 Der Angriff, Angriff Nr. 38, (ltd. 500)
The brilliant first album of a young impressive artist coming from Saint-Petersburg, Russia. LamiaVox is one-girl project exploring lovecraftian dark chtonic realms with a very professional attitude to the composition and sound of her audio witchcraft. The melodic dark ambient with a subtle touch of ritual percussion is very sinister and cold but at the same time very emotional. "Introductio" is far from being monotonous, obviously having some evil living inside. Desiderii Marginis, Vestigial, Northaunt and of course Lustmord of "Heresy" era comes to mind when you hear these hymns to the new aeons of Great Elders returning. The release limited to 500 copies comes in a full colour 4-panel digipak. [press-release]
Land:Fire -- "Shortwave Transmission" -- CD -- €12
2009 Power & Steel, PAS 25
Coming back with an all new album after more than 5 years the Alter Ego of HERBST9 delivers another outstanding soundtrack about radiological warfare and it's debris during the last century. SWT is like a massive energy spike with a surrounding maelstrom of machine noises, rhythms, interferrences and electromagnetic waves. The complex arrangement of technical sounds creates a deadly atmosphere of fallout and devastated landscapes with an apocalyptic aura reflected by dissonant harmonies and deep shimmering ambient scapes.
Presented in a 6 panel digipack. Mastered by Andreas Wahnmann. [press-release]
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Langemarck -- "Injustitia Est Commodatum" -- CD -- €11
2009 Der Angriff, Angriff Nr. 31, (ltd. 500)
The debut release from the project of Stefan S. known for his collaboration with Von Thronstahl ('Return To Palestine'). A perfect mix of martial industrial and neofolk elements with a bit of electronic industrial tunes. For the ones who like Derniere Volonte, Forseti, early Death In June and Sixth Comm. The release comes in a deluxe full-colour embossed digisleeve with partial UV-laquering. 13 tracks, 51 minutes, limited to 500 copies. [press-release]
Lark Blames -- "The Reins Of Life" -- CD -- €12
2010 Ur Muzik, UR 002
Larsgarden / Rowenta -- s/t -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2008 Tuguska Label, TGSK002
A collaboration between Tuguska Label owner and the musician behind such projects as Odo (Drone Doom), A Perfect Friend (Post Rock), Pacta (Ambient) and the German musician Frank Rowenta who makes experimental music since early 80-s. Very pleasant, airy and summer album. Field recordings (voices, wind, rustles of nature) are carefully mixed with guitar tunes, synthesized abstract melodies and hypnotic drones. Perhaps this is subjective perception, but the compositions draw pictures close to Tarkovsky's movie "Mirror". [Abgurd]
Larva 108 -- "99.09 | Inside The Stones" -- CD -- €10
2010 Greytone, grey007, (ltd. 500)
"99.09 Inside the stones" is a collection of the most significant tracks made by LARVA 108 during the first 10 years. 12 songs for 60 minutes. A sountrack for walking alone through a winter snowstorm or between the trees during a grey day of november. Experimental, electronica, drones create organic gloomy atmospheres... LARVA is born in 1999 when Guido (also known as 108) began to make some experiments with a PC, an old DOS software called Fasttracker and some other tools, instruments and pedal effects. Strongly influenced during his youth by people like William Burroughs and by movies like Decoder, he finally found a way to express himself with an old computer. The main goal was to produce a sound inspired by nature, a soundtrack for landscapes, moments and for abstract visual productions, to make something disturbing or just a way to escape from this world for few moments. LARVA is heavily connected with the 108's visual productions so the project name turned in to LARVA 108. Since 2002, Guido is also active with the dark ambient/noise band called CORPOPARASSITA and from this moment the sound of LARVA 108 changed a bit becoming more organic and less noisy, with more electronica on it. During these years he released many pieces, always strictly limited to few copies on tapes and CDr, home made most of the times and very hard to find. In 2008 108 created some soundscapes for the installations called "La bolla di legno" inside the Triennale di Milano and in Wroclaw (Poland) at the BWA gallery. During the years he collaborated with many artists and with the coreographer Tamara Gvozdenovic. [press-release]
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Lasik Surgery -- "Cyclo" -- CD + DVD -- €10
2010 Silentes Minimal Editions, sme 1039
Tense electronic plots, calm ambiental stasis, inserts of sharp and harsh metallic sonorities, distorsions, filaments of subliminal melodies, masses of dark and penetrating low frequency drones. The journey of Lasik Surgery starts with a whirlwind of atmospheres and perpetually prismatic sonorities that have a big impact on the listener. This project was born from the minds of Pierpaolo Zoppo (Mauthausen Orchestra), the memorable noise-power electronic author who firmly came back to the fore in the recent years, and Gianluca Favaron, a skilled master controller and sound assembler with a long experience, already active under other aliases (Ab'she, Under the Snow, Metal Music Machine). The first exciting chapter of Lasik Surgery - a name that will surprise us again in the future for sure - comes with a free DVD that includes two videclips created by Enrico Bressan. [press-release]
Last Dominion Lost -- "The Tyranny Of Distance" -- CD -- €13
2004 Tesco Organisation, TESCO 058
The multi-talented John Murphy (currently in Foresta di Ferro, Kraang, and Shining Vril) did these recordings with Dominik Guerin in Australia in the early nineties. The music is more or less a follow up to classical SPK music like "Leichenschrei" - hard aggressive screams, rhythms, and noise loops with a partly tribal touch. All produced with old analog equipment. If there is a music to be labeled "old school" than here it is! [label info]
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The Last Hour -- "s/t" -- CD -- €10
2008 Intuition Records, INT28006
Debut album from ex-Gothica member Roberto Del Vecchio. The music is cold dark wave, played in an atmospheric and romantic way (this is Italian!) with touch of harsh industrial elements and modern electronica, combined with neo-classical and soundtrack-like tunes. In some parts it reminds me a lot of classic Hyperium releases (Stoa, Anchoarge, Manic P) as well as such Projekt bands as Lycia and Soul Whirling Somewhere or recent CMI signers like :Golgatha:, Atrium Carceri, or even 4AD icons like This Mortal Coil, Dead Can Dance and Clan of Xymox. Roberto creates music which paints an atmospheric pictures in the listeners head. The whole album is true masterpice of art sombre. [press-release]
Last Influence Of Brain -- "Two Faces" -- CD -- €10
2009 Aliens Production, AP 20
In 1996, Solo and Blazena started the electro-industrial project "Samhain" and a few months later, they were joined by Bop, a close collaborator of K.I.F.O.T.H and a founding member of the electro act "Mindscape". In 1998, the trio launched a new project "Loct In" venturing into complex atmospheric sound, but both projects were left unnoticed. The early missteps have prompted the band members to go back to their roots and explore the old school electro sound. Last Influence of Brain (LIOB) came to life in 1999. The demo debut "Revolution Countries Evolution" and the follow-up EP "Escape" have earned them a steadily growing fanbase, and stirred the attention of the now defunct label Black Flames Records, which offered them a contract for a European release in 2003." Four years after their highly-regarded debut "Illusions and Reality", Last Influence of Brain are on the verge of storming their way back into the alternative electronic scene. "Inner Wars" features over 75 minutes of authentic dark elektro pleasure that would appeal to young electrofreaks and veteran rivetheads alike. Gems such as "Return", "Absent Meaning", "Inner Wars" and Why are You Waiting?" are destined to become dark elektro classics. The album concludes with an ecstatic remix of "Why Are You Waiting?" by the Brain Leisure. [press-release]
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Lauxna Lauksna -- "Sakai" -- CD -- €10
2005 Dangus, DGCD016
Smart and distinctive Baltic industrial, blending rough electronic music, tribal rhythmics and ethno-cosmic visions, which are the core here. "Sakai" (Resin) is a debut album of a promising Lithuanian duo who stand for avantgardist ideas, noiseous lo-fi aesthetics, analogue signals, psychedelic ambiente and good poetry with original vocal style. Thats a magic heathen adventure on a modern industrial highway, where instead of urban smog you have starlit vaults, and dripping honey, milk and resin instead of gasoline... Choose your trip. Choose amber vision. - Lets really explore! CD includes 9 tracks and special printed lay-out. [label info]
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Lavelle, Brian -- "Fallen Are The Domes Of Green Amber" -- CD -- €10
2007 Diophantine Discs, n = 10, (ltd. 500)
With "Fallen are the Domes of Green Amber" Brian Lavelle continues in his more recent direction with experimental drone music, while also incorporating some of his earlier recordings into the pieces. At over 70 minutes, the album consists of two lengthy and picturesque tracks. Both are extremely focused, complex, and dynamic -- they evolve, gradually and intricately. Beautiful (yet also melancholy) and abstract, the two pieces are quite distinct from each other in their own respects, yet fit together to form a seamless and monumental overall work... Recording under various guises since 1990 (though generally under his own name), Brian Lavelle's work has covered a large cross-section of experimental music ranging from more noisy works in the past to his more ambient/drone material of recent years. He has released material on such labels as Audiofile, Bake, Afe, Microwave, and Freek. Additionally he has collaborated with artists such as Richard Youngs, Alistair Crosbie, and Emil Hagstrom. Brian also runs the Dust, Unsettled and Quinquaginta labels, and operated one of the earliest mp3-labels: techNoh... The CD comes in a beautiful green printed wallet. [press-release]
Law -- "Wading Knee-Deep in Your Blood" -- CD -- €10
2002 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 039
Oroginally issued in 1997 as blood-red vinyl LP in a very limited edition on OEC and long time sold-out! This album was re-released into digital format completely re-mastered by Thomas Dimuzio at Grench Studios. Original album plus some bonus material for a total length of 67 minutes of obsessing harsh & heavy power-industrial sounds for a new LAW! "The composite picture of man that merges from the art of our time is the gigantic figure of an aborted embryo whose limbs suggests a vaguely anthropoid shape... screams in abysmal terror at the universe at large"... For lovers of grups such as Propergol, Genocide Organ, Slogun... An album which needs to be discovered! [press-release]
Lay, Josh -- "True Mask" -- CD -- €10
2009 Small Doses, DOSE66, (ltd. 200)
It's hard to believe that this is the first Josh Lay release to find its way to the compact disc format. Fittingly, Josh considers this to be his best work to date, and I can't say I disagree. This is a four track, nearly 40 minute meditation on the masks people wear to make their way in the world. Elements of black metal, harsh noise, power electronics and dark ambient combine to create a dark, twisted environment built from electronics, guitar, and some of the most gutteral vocals I've heard him spew. The accompanying art was hand-made by the artist. Edition of 200 copies packaged in jewel cases with 4-panel inserts and double sided jewel cases. [press-release]
Lazharus -- "Error" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Le Crepuscule Du Soir / Cain Records, lcds028 / CR003, (ltd. 50)
Black Industrial sounding like a mixture of slowed down Tchernoblyad with most character pieces of Abruptum. Very atmospheric perverted work for the lovers of dark catacomb art. DVD box. [YAOP]
Lazyfish + Alexandroid -- "OS" -- CD -- €8
2005 Peace Technologies, PT 003
"Lazyfish presents his next multifarious great collaboration album OS this time with Alexandroid from Riga. The album contains 11 tracks on cd. Slow melodic tunes and dark heavy beats altogether. Lazyfish has already released an album Vortex in Russia, some deep-tech tunes on Trapez records, an interactive track on the Native Instruments compilation (WMF Records) and his above mentioned collaboration cd with Mewark. Andrew Antonets aka Alexandroid is from Riga. He released 3 albums with his production partner Alex Matrosov on russian electronic labels and album False Starts on Lo recordings, England. OS is the digital translation of experiences and emotions, a shadow of the past and a view into the future. Most of the tracks on OS are made by Alexandroid, four by Lazyfish. Lazyfish and Alexandroid present their rich collection of the (still) wide-range of purely digital-electronic music in many different styles and colours with fantastic additional vocals by Kristi Aivare, Alex Matrosov and Andrew Antonets himself." [press-release] Light airy electro-ambient with unobtrusive admixture of IDM. Sandy sound textures with rustling electronic sounds, fragments of female and less male vocals, deeply processed guitar and the whole mass of various micro-sounds and cracklings, psychedelic atmosphere. Re-edition of the album previously released on German label K2O.
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Lazyfish / Mewark -- "s/t" -- CD -- €8
2006 Peace Technologies, PT 005
Alexander Potekhin aka Lazyfish, one of the most talented up-and-coming artists from Moscow electronic music scene, will release his second album in collaboration with Alexander Petrunin aka Mewark. Lazyfish has already released an idm/techno album Vortex in Russia and some more deep-tech tracks on Trapez records in Europe. Alexander Petrunin aka Mewark works as a sound designer & jingle maker on MTV-Russia. Both met about 2 years ago programming for Native Instruments Reaktor and started working on the album. Lazyfish/Mewark contains 14 songs highlighting in the different aspects of these 2 sound designers: starting with some dsp-ambient-dub, floating into some bitter-sweet Autechre influenced melody-monsters, some tricky technical freak-outs, coming down to dsp-ambient again and ending in some dark and modern deep electronic. [label info]
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LCEDP -- "De L'Utilité Des Convoyeurs" -- CD -- €10
2005 .Angle.Rec., .A.R.05.03., (ltd. 500)
Coming from the speedcore/hardcore area of electronic music, Montreal's LCEDP now delves into the world of rhythm'n'noise. His first CD creation, De L'Utilité Des Convoyeurs, takes up where urban exploration leaves off, and strives to return all that decaying matterå to life. A vibrant life, a powerful cry of joy, sadness, anger and bliss altogether. The machines are operational again, and they have a lot to say. LCEDP listened to their message and translated it into his elegant yet stormy and abrasive musical style. The result, you hold in your hands. Noisy and punchy and ultra rhythmic, with a few more introspective and abstract momentså 21 impressions transcoded by LCEDP + 1 additional impression revised by ORPHX. Grey sleeve with tone-on-tone embossed patterns and insert. [label info]
Le Dépeupleur -- "Disambiguation" -- CD -- €11
2006 Aufabwegen, aatp15, (ltd. 500)
"Disambiguation" is the third CD from the duo of Zbigniew Karkowski and Kaspar T. Toeplitz. It features one ongoing stream of grey, heavy and disturbing noises. It contains blocks of solid and almost material sounds, causing a physicality and urgency to the "music" which is rare to find these days. [label info]
Le Futurisme -- "Instrument Of Darkness" -- CD-R -- €6
2009 Valgriind, VG 28, (ltd. 50)
Radical art on the border of obsession and adequate perception. Straem of deformated crunch, going through consciousness like a hymn of electric beast in whirlwinds of magnetic fields. [label info]
Le Masque -- "Colloquio" -- CD -- €10
1986/2008 Oltrelanebbiailmare, CD200801
Born in Milan in 1979, Le Masque are one of the finest Italian wave band. This cd contanis the reissue of the legendary 'Colloquio' EP (released on Supporti Fonografici in 1986), influenced by the melancholic writings of the Italian Crepuscolari poets (the lyrics of the title track are an extract from Carlo Vallini's poem "Un Giorno"), plus a live recording of Le Masque exhibiton at Club tenco in 1990. In 1984 they also released their first mini-lp 'Happy Flock' on the legendary italian label Mask Production, runned by Lisfrank, this name will remember something to the minimal synth lovers. [Mannequin Mailorder]
Le Masque -- "Fu Languore" -- CD EP -- €10
2011 Oltrelanebbiailmare, CD201106
After several years of silence, LE MASQUE are back with a brand new mini album (23 minutes) of unreleased music... and there are simply no words to describe their poetry. Musically speaking, it is a return to some of the atmospheres we heard on albums like "Il Signor Gustavo Coscienza" or "La Memoria di Venere", showcasing an acoustic approach and their usual poems that are simply stunning. [label info]
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Le Syndicat -- "Timespace Losses 1982 / 1987" -- CD -- €10
2009 Monochrome Vision, mv28, (ltd. 500)
This CD is a collection of rare tracks by this most famous french noise project, previously released on obscure tape compilations and includes the very first live recording session. It represents the pioneering bruitism music in the most raw and powerful mode, it's still going strong and hitting hard, thus should be not missed by any real noise fans... All recorded between 1982 and 1987 and originally released on compilations: "The Call Of Cthulhu" (1985, Cthulhu Records), "Sexorama vol.3" (1987, ZSF Produkt), "Morality" (1985, Broken Flag), "Wolfsangel" (1986, Nihilistic Recordings), "L'Enfer Est Intime Vol.00" (1985, VP231), "L'Enfer Est Intime Vol.01" (1985, VP231), "Kill SPK" (1985, Beast 666 Tapes), "Dry Lungs I" (1985, Placebo Records). Bonus-track "All armi" is the first ever live recording made at "L'Abbatoir" club in 1982. Some tracks optimized by Ruelgo 2009, specially for this re-edition. [label info]
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Le Syndicat & Phaeton Derniere Danse -- "Theophanie į Visu" -- CD -- €10
1995 Pure, PURE 16
Le Testament De La Lumiere -- "Echoes Out Of Time" -- CD + CDR -- €16
2010 Steinklang Industries, SK 47, (ltd. 150)
Lebedev-Frontov, Alexander -- "Bio Versus Mechano" -- CD-R -- €9
2011 ALF Produkt, No. 17, (ltd. 60)
This disk is a collection of previously unreleased noise constructions produced in 1988-1992 undear heavy hypno aesthetic influence of so called "music of machines" and in presentiment of forthcoming triumphal march of biological mechanisms on planetary scale. Special thanks for inspiration to KRAFTWERK, Gary NUMAN, Paul HINDEMITH, Ernst TOCH, Hans Heinz STUCKENSCHMIDT, and also A.ANDRIEVSKY. [from the author]
Lebedev-Frontov, Alexander -- "Chaos" -- CD-R -- €8
2009 ALF Produkt, No. 12
Archive recordings from Alexander Lebedev-Frontov (Linija Mass, Stalnoy Pakt, Veprisuicida) made in 1985-86. In fact, this is his first full-length audio work recorded before the creation of his famous project Linija Mass. Digitized from cassettes.
Lebedev-Frontov, Alexander -- "Cosmos" -- CD-R -- €8
2009 ALF Produkt, No. 13
Archive recordings from Alexander Lebedev-Frontov (Linija Mass, Stalnoy Pakt, Veprisuicida) made in 1986. This is his second audio work (after "Chaos") recorded before the creation of his famous project Linija Mass. Digitized from tape.
Lebedev-Frontov, Alexander -- "Production Waste" -- 2 CD-R -- €10
2012 ALF Produkt, No. 18, (ltd. 44)
Previously unreleased archive recordings from 1985-1987. Must be some of the earliest Soviet industrial sound experiments created long before Linija Mass project.
Leeza -- "Living in a Pixel" -- CD-R -- €9
2006 Afe Records, afe079cd
Six years passed since Afe released Plasmic, Luca Di Mattei's adventorous lo-fi electronica debut disc assembled with an almost total lack of equipment. During all this time Luca has been busy working on his many musical projects (Leeza, Hendy Van Morris, Bill Catez and Jabba) and had a few releases on Afe and on his own label called Moonfear. Luca also collaborated with Kabal on many of the tracks that appeared on his self-titled debut album, and also gave him some help on the following "Alone"... Leeza's music is generated using a laptop computer and no other electronic devices. It has its main roots in what was once called Intelligent Techno, and is clearly inspired by the good records published during the '90s by labels such as Warp, Rephlex, Skam, etc. With "Living in a Pixel", he has crafted an album of classic melodic electronic compositions which are very rarely tuneless. [label info]
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Legendary Pink Dots -- "Faces In The Fire" -- CD -- €14
1996 Soleilmoon Recordings, SOL 42 CD
The Legendary Pink Dots -- "Live at the Metro" -- CD -- €14
1999 SPV Poland / Big Blue, SPV 150122
Recorded live at the Cabaret Metro, Chicago on November 11, 1998.
Leichtmann, Hanno -- "Nuit Du Plomb" -- CD -- €14
2006 Karaoke Kalk, karaoke kalk cd 37
Les Joyaux De La Princesse -- "Aux Volontaires Croix De Sang" -- CD -- €18
2007 Les Joyaux De La Princesse , LVN ~ IV, (ltd. 2000)
The new LJDLP opus is based on the obscure 1930's "Croix de Sang" movement. This album contains new material with the exception of a reworked track from the "Croix de Bois" 10". Digipack packaging with copper debossed finition and a 12 page full color booklet.
Les Mort Skin -- "Front Capacity" -- CD-R -- €9
2007 UFA Muzak, UFA15, (ltd. 151)
LES MORT SKIN is a side project of a Bulgarian power electronics act CAVUM ORIS. Not going far away from it's horrible music, it moves towards martial-oriented fortifications. With it's specific brutal view and understanding it represents "wild hunt of Odin" on contemporary fields, like a slaughter where everything burns. In the course of the whole album to the accompaniment of metal crushes, clangs and cracks stands the dense atmosphere of pitiless collision of interests, where the fact of being right established only by complete destruction of one of the sides. This is an industrial symphony, with which the whole XX century is filled, the great opera of suffering, death, explosions, torture, fire, pouring blood, burnt flesh, pain, gas and suffocation. Breaking, burning, bursting metall, tons of which fall from the skies, flying in heads, crushing bones, annihilating blood, metal as a reason? Paradox. Martial/death industrial. 7 tracks, 36 minutes, CD-r, black sleeve with silver serigraphy, insert. [press-release]
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Lethal Dose 50 -- "21st Century Awakening" -- CD -- €13
2006 Nuit Et Brouillard, NB CD 05
Lethe -- "Catastrophe Point #5" -- CD -- €10
2009 Intransitive Recordings, INT034
Catastrophe Point #5 is the latest in Kuwayama Kiyoharu's signature series of compositions that explore the charged, mysterious atmosphere of disused industrial sites. For this album, Lethe turns his attention to an abandoned warehouse by a pier in his hometown of Nagoya, Japan, using objects discovered in situ to perform a ritual of sonic resurrection. He brings a dead space back to life, giving it a voice and allowing it to speak. Metal chains, sheet metal, broken machinery, and factory debris are bowed, struck, and dragged across the concrete floors of the massive hall, reverberating and responding as Kuwayama and his microphones scuttle across the desolate terrain. Growling cello and unstable horns underscore the torrents of percussive clatter. Catastrophe Point #5 is a haunting album of volatile, malevolent ambiance... Kiyoharu Kuwayama began working with sound in the late 1980s, using half-scale violin, cello, and found junk objects in the group Minotaure. In 1999, he and violinist Rina Kijima formed the improvisational acoustic duo Kuwayama-Kijima to bring their instruments outdoors and perform in environments with unique acoustic properties, notably underneath a highway overpass and in a construction site. Between 1999 and 2003, Kuwayama organized the five-day-long Lethe.Voice.Festival in an unused grain warehouse... Lethe's previous release on Intransitive was Tsurumai, a stellar collaborative CD with Dutch noise legends Kapotte Muziek. He has also appeared on albums with bassist Matt Heyner (Malkuth, Cold Bleak Heat, No-Neck Blues Band), Jonathan Coleclough, Hidekai Shimada (Agencement), Carter Thornton (Enos Slaughter, Izititiz), Kiyoshi Mizutani, and Campbell Kneale (Birchville Cat Motel)... For fans of Christoph Heemann, Surface of the Earth, The New Blockaders, Z'ev, or Organum. [press-release]
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Lethe (2) -- "Nowhere" -- CD -- €10
2010 A5 Production, AP-04
Lethe is a one-man Dark Ambient / atmospheric project by StormChild from Kiev. With very occult, dark and obscure apocalyptic ambient music, "Nowhere" captures the cold, dead atmosphere of the ghost town of Tschernobyl. 8 tracks and around 43mins of music in a DVD case with professional artwork by Dmitry Mayatsky. Ukrainian import. Not to be confused with the Japanese minimalist composer of the same name. [Cold Spring]
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Lietterschpich -- "I Cum Blood in the Think Tank" -- CD -- €10
2007 Topheth Prophet / Heart & Crossbone, TP010 / HCB009
"...The power electronics and death industrial on this cd sound like Skin Chamber, Irm and Master/Slave Relationship crashed into each other head-on, afterwards the broken and mangled remnants were used as good or as bad as it went to build a new vehicle. The tortured electronica hums, growls and fluctuates; the slow and refractory music with sluggish rhythms has been outfitted with distorted, mentally deranged sounding vocals of the kind that instigates nightmares to boot. One track even inclines towards breakcore, but the insanity on this disc is quite different from the madness of Venetian Snares or Hellfish. Besides Merzbow-style white noise there are also discernible structures apparent in the sonic waves, this makes 'I Cum Blood In The Think Tank' a listening experience which is all the more imperative. Drone lovers might want to check this out as well, by the way. This is digital doom for advanced nihilists." [Nanhold, Gothtronic]
Lieutenant Caramel -- "Early Tape Works" -- 2 CD -- €15
2006 Monochrome Vision, (mv08), (ltd. 500)
Lieutenant Caramel is the musician and film director at the same time, he shoot movies for ears with microphone. The continuous search for poetic images, frantic interchange of subjects, twisted and broken mosaic of fuzzy elements, the breathtaking incoherence of perception, the mark of primitive life, the total absence of organization and rational thoughts. All this breathes, moves, obtains the voice and gradually becomes meaningful. Theatrical view of musique concrete, humorous and surrealistic collection of masterpieces recorded in the ten years. Despite its evident correlations with french electroacoustic school, Lieutenant Caramel's music finds much more common issues with approach of such artists as Brume and Nurse With Wound - surrealistic and humorous, breaking rhythm of everyday life, household inventory instead of real instruments. All tracks are specially remastered for this album, originally they appears on:
(1-5) "L'Odyssee Du Lieutenant Caramel" (1985, 1989 audiofile Tapes aT84), (11-17) "Les Bonnes archives du Dimanche" (1985, 1986 Old Europa Cafe OEC003), (18-20) "Du Plomb plein les ailes" (1984, 1985 Acteon), (6, 21) "Et Ca Vole!" (1993, SPH), and also on split-LP with La Sonorite Jaune: (7-10) "Je ne veux plus voir le ciel" (1988, Acteon 011/SJ Organisation SJ028). [label info]
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Lieutenant Caramel -- "Street Noise Penetrates My House" -- CD -- €16
2009 Waystyx, WR46, (ltd. 500)
A new album of French musique concrete genius. Quite unusual CD sleeve with fleecy cardboard and corset-style lacing.
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Lieutenant Caramel & Victor Nubla -- "Dos Hombres Verdes" -- CD -- €16
2010 Waystyx, WR67, (ltd. 256)
Computerized electroacoustic, collage concrete music, hallucinogenic ambient, perverted voices, thoughtpul piano passages, almost rock'n'roll guitar tunes and drums falling to pieces... Totally unpredictable flow of sound, a puzzle for an attentive listener, a real trip.
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Light Collapse -- "Pop" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 Heart Shaped Box Prod., HSB-018, (ltd. 31)
Concrete Radionoise. A portrait of Russian radio-ether. Handmade sleeve from a page of some glamour zine. [YAOP]
Light Collapse -- "Walls" -- 2 CD-R -- €10
2011 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT94, (ltd. 24)
HNW, mainly hypnotizing rumble sometimes intersected by more varied Harsh Noise materian in vein of Masonna. Vinyl box, cover made of wallpaper, insert with info. [label info]
Light Collapse & Cat'n'Bone -- split -- CD-R -- €7
2011 Torga Amun Rec., 023
Harsh Noise from Ural based Light Collapse versus industrial ambient substance from Murmansk based Cat'n'Bone. Slim box. [YAOP]
Light Collapse + LN 313 -- "Making External Space" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Heart-Shaped Box Prod., HSB-034, (ltd. 32)
Cosmic technogenic noise ambient, collaboration work between two projects from the Ural, Russia. Handmade cover from a page of an old technical magazine + a couple of inserts. [YAOP]
Light Collapse & Radiokvadratura -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €7
Heart Shaped Box productions, HSB-011, (ltd. 45)
Collaboration work between two Russian projects from Ural region. Sick and aticky anti-dance marathon. Brutal dances with broken legs, crutches, burnt bottles with foil and piles of crap. No artwork, just a piece of paper, PVC sleeve and something sprayed on a disk. We dance the third day. Not enough bottles. [Abgurd description]
Light of Shipwreck -- "From The Idle Cylinders" -- CD-R -- €7
Crusial Bliss, BLISS20, (ltd. 200)
Light Of Shipwreck is a one-man project of Ben Fleury-Steiner, owner of Gears of Sand Recordings. Dense ominous feedback drones and heavy pounding riffs freely flowing under the massive of the mechanical tribal rhythm. Three tracks of intense crushing power-ambient, with huge resonating metal slabs glimmering in an ocean of heavenly feedbacks and reverbed guitar on the back of trance-krautrock percussion. Colour A5 cover. [YAOP]
Ligne Claire -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 Steelkraft Manufactory, SKM 001, (ltd. 100)
Ligne Claire is a project brought up by Bertrand Barrere, featuring David Delwiche (HYTC), Stephane Flauder (Fin de Siecle), Serge Usson (Neon Rain, Storm Of Capricorn), Christophe Gales (Westwind) and Delphine Riou. During a one year recording session, all these individuals contributed by internet, each adding his own elements to the previous work of others, in turns. The result is a perfect blend of old-school industrial, rumbling drone/ambient and raw power-electronics. [press-release]
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Liles, Andrew -- "New York Doll" -- 2 CD -- €14
2007 Infraction, INFX 013, (ltd. 550)
Liles, Andrew & Menche, Daniel -- "The Progeny Of Flies" -- CD -- €13
2008 Beta-lactam Ring Records, mt206, (ltd. 500)
Ed. of 500 copies in a book bound CD case.. Kold Krush Groove, y'all. Literally! Individually Liles and Menche have torn the experimental world many new ones, but as a unit they achieve a critical mass so monumental that they deserve their own Hollywood-style canoodling name. That name: Linch-Me-Eels. The graceful ferocity that oozes out within the first few seconds is such that:well, let's just say that if you called friends and told them you were on the moon, they would believe you. A vicious, celestial-cathedral rumble gapes its maw and spews forth into a sluggish river of electro-magma, reshaping landscapes once carved out by Cremaster Cycles and the gravitational forces of the planet Solaris. While Menche's test-tones defying low-end slowly compresses the woofers into diamond earrings, an emerging theme for tack piano cautiously stabs at the din. And just before cowboy-robot-gone-mad Yul Brynner shows up to kill all humans, the piano slinks away to make room for the buzzing progeny of the flies, whose crescendo of wing-beats quietly, subtly rises and rises the swarm to Jupiter and beyond the infinite. After multiple listens a Xen(akis)-like state is realized and there should be a giant Star Fly-Child in your living room. Brutally cosmic!!! [press-release]
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The Lindbergh Baby -- "Hoodwinked" -- CD -- €13
2007 False Flag Records
Lingua Lustra -- "Horizon" -- CD-R -- €10
2006 Practising Nature, PN004
Deep and psychadelic, blended with rhythmic structure. Second album by sonic experimentalist Albert Borkent (Amsterdam). [label info]
Linija Mass -- "Trud" -- CD -- €12
2007 Der Angriff, Nr. 13, (ltd. 400)
Reissue of the very first tape album previously published by Alexander Lebedev-Frontov's own label Ultra.
Linija Mass -- "Mechano-Faktura" -- CD -- €12
2007 Der Angriff, Nr. 14, (ltd. 400)
Reissue of a CDR previously published by Alexander Lebedev-Frontov's own label Ultra.
Linija Mass -- "Proletkult" -- CD -- €12
2007 Der Angriff, Nr. 30, (ltd. 400)
Reissue of a CDR previously published by Alexander Lebedev-Frontov's own label Ultra.
Linija Mass -- "Industrealism" -- 3"CD -- €8
2007 ALF Produkt, No. 9, (ltd. 440)
Mini-album with two old tracks (2001) and one new (2007). Standard edition.
Linija Mass -- "Industrealism" -- 3"CD -- €12
2007 ALF Produkt, No. 9, (ltd. 60)
Mini-album with two old tracks (2001) and one new (2007). Limited to 60 copies in handmade package.
Lips Vago -- "First Experience" -- CD-R -- €9
1998 Afe Records, lip001cd
New Electronica. All the tracks on this release were written and produced between January and March 1995 and are Lips Vago's very first recordings. [label info]
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Lips Vago -- "Flaco EP" -- CD-R -- €7
1999 Afe Records, afe002cd
A bizarre excursion through cheap sounds and strange effects. All the tracks on this release were recorded between September and December 1995. Original version of track 5 was created and gently supplied by Kabal. All the tracks originally appeared on the "Words & Numbers" tape. [label info]
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Lips Vago -- "Second Experience" -- CD-R -- €9
1998 Afe Records, lip002cd
New Electronica. Early Lips Vago material. All the tracks on this release were written and produced between March and June 1995. [label info]
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Lips Vago -- "The Space Age" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2000 Afe Records, afe016mcd
More signs of (alien...?) life from Lips Vago... one long space inspired track recorded back in March 1996. This is the very first Afe MiniCD-R 3". [label info]
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Lips Vago -- "Transparent Life" -- CD-R -- €9
1999 Afe Records, afe001cd
Another alias of Andrea Marutti known to dark-ambient lovers by his projects Amon and Never Known. Light electronic music, early material recorded in 1995. First CDR release on his own Afe Records.
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The Liquescent Horror -- "A Funeral for the Things Undying" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Satanarsa Records, STN-037
Gothic Horror Neoclassic based on piano and cold minimalistic Dark Ambient with doomed growling and rare intrusions of heavy doom guitar. Jewel case. [YAOP]
Liquid Bridge -- "Cornucopia" -- CD-R -- €7
2005 Strange Charm Records, SC05003
This project was formed by Tony Sharp and Brian Cosgrove. Cornucopia is their first officially released work that will please all fans of classic EM sounds and analogue electronics. The following equipment was used on this release: EMS VCS3, DK2, ARP 2600, Roland JP8000, Juno 60, SH02, SH09, SH101,MC202, VK1, VP330 Vocoder Plus, XP10, TR707, SH1000, PK5, Emu Emax, Vintage Keys plus, Kawai K4, Korg MS10, N5ex, Kurzweil PC88, Oberheim OB12, Matrix 1000, Fender Rhodes Stage 73, Moog Minimoog, Yamaha DX7 Mk1, DX7II, MU80, Alesis Air F/X, Lexicon MPX100 and a late appearance by the NED Synclavier II. [Databloem]
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Liquidarlo Celuloide -- "Cruzyficcion Monosodica" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Buh Records, BR12
Industrial sounds and hysterical collages meet psychedelic rock. The combination of drums, guitar and keyboard gives its signature sound to Liquidarlo Celuloide, this time more like what is shown in his concerts. But the explorations of such noisy, anarchist, baroque armed pieces assembled from different sources remains the common thread. Cosmic atmospheres and rock. The seamless transition for those who loved 'Pradera TÕxica' or 'No mas Video' and look for the emotions of noise rock offered by Liquidarlo Celuloide during their live gigs. [label info]
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Liquidarlo Celuloide -- "Sinapsis" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Buh Records, BR13
Finally, the trio of Juan Diego Capurro (keyboards), Javier Manrique (guitar) and Alfonso Vargas (drums) have a rock record, if this term can still be used here. Rock with psychedelic keyboards and melodies processed to the creaking industrial sounds, rock that becomes noise and noise becomes rock. Essential document for those who have enjoyed the explosive and intense performances of Liquidarlo Celuloide. [label info]
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Liquidarlo Celuloide / Animal Machine -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Buh Records, BR06, (ltd. 50)
Split between the Peruvian noise and industrial music project Liquidarlo Celuloide and a Peruvian living in Poland, Animal Machine. Liquidarlo Celuloide - the band of Juan Diego Capurro, presents the EP "Escila", gruesome and paranoid vignettes of static atmospheres and ghostly reverberations. Animal Machine, led by Ernesto Bohorquez (ex-SDH), has an extensive track ranging from harshnoise to power electronics. From the finest hostility. A great pair from the beginning to the end of the album that seeks to assault the senses. [label info]
Listing, Clint -- "My Father, My Keeper" -- CD -- €10
2008 Autumn Wind Productions, AWP025, (ltd. 1000)
Dark Ambient memories from the creator of As All Die... "My Father, My Keeper" was three years in the making, Clint Listing combines the sounds of Post Rock, Ambient Soundscapes, Avantgarde Jazz and Post Industrial elements. A unique and unusual release that plays the soundtrack for a mind feeling lost... embracing loss and remembering the sounds now long gone and slowly fading from memory... "My Father, My Keeper" will bring you the solace your mind is starving for. This release also contains a 3 song EP called "The Snow Ghost EP", this EP brings alive the ambient shadows you thought you saw in the dark... the gentle breath on the back of your neck... the face you thought you saw reflected in the window.... melting the frost from the glass. Encased in an excellent looking 4-panal digipak. [press-release]
Lith -- "Pylon" -- CD -- €14
2002 Divine Comedy Records, DC 011, (ltd. 500)
Litvin, Arseny -- "Tiksi" -- CD-R -- €8
2012 BioSonar^Lo-End, 009-2011, (ltd. 23)
Thie work is dedicated to a small polar town of Tiksi located in one of the bays of the Laptev Sea, near the creek of Lena river. This is a port town, serving the most difficult part of the Northern Sea Route. The album is a sound sketch to a journey through this town made by some invivible unearthly mind, notes from a travel diary, quick, shortm but filled with senses of a traveller, expressed by drone-noise means. Cold, echoes of port metal and mysterious visions stuck in frozen land. The album was created from August to November 2011. Post-mastering by BioSonar^Lab. DIY sleeve made by the author. [press-release]
Llovespell -- "Audioemotional Retreat" -- CD -- €15
2011 Sonderübertragung!, sue38cd, (ltd. 299)
Llovespell -- "Every Song Is A Llovesong" -- CD -- €14
2007 Sonderübertragung!, SUE25, (ltd. 300)
Llovespell -- "Last Breath Before Light" -- CD -- €14
2009 Sonderübertragung!, SUE30, (ltd. 330)
Llovespell -- "Signatures Of Sympathy" -- CD -- €14
2005 Sonderübertragung!, SUE15, (ltd. 300)
Llovespell -- "Symmetric Poetry" -- CD -- €14
2004 Sonderübertragung!, SÜ05, (ltd. 500)
Locrian -- "Drenched Lands" -- CD -- €10
2009 At War With False Noise, ATWAR053 / Small Doses, DOSEFORTYTHREE, (ltd. 1000)
First full-length studio album from one of the most consistently good bands around today, Chicago's Locrian. Drenched Lands is a beautifully thought-out piece of music, from a gentle guitar strum/synth opening (not a million miles away from Culver/Earth "Pentastar"-era territory) which cuts out abruptly just as you're becoming entirely engrossed, only to give way to an epic cavernous drone. The whole thing brings to mind some sort of disused industrial factory or barren post-apocalyptic landscape. Dark tones, noise, keys and the odd well-placed guitar strum combine brilliantly to evoke feeling of desolation, loss, a submission of will....it's almost like the logical conclusion of Neil Young's Dead Man soundtrack; almost tangiential in sound to Earth's recent(ish) "Hex" record. 1000 copies, co-release with Small Doses (US customers buy from them, it'll be cheaper!). Comes in a lovely fold-out printed Stumptown "Arigato Pack" with full-colour 4-page booklet. [press-release]
Lomakin, Andrey -- "The Attack" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Necrophone, å, (ltd. 25)
Guitar noise, improvisation, pseudo-sludge. DIY artwork from cardboard and burnt reports. [label info]
Lomakin, Andrey -- "Obscure Domestic Chaos 2005-2006" -- CD-R -- €5
2008 Skotomogilnik, SM003, (ltd. 12)
Andrey Lomakin from St. Petersburg, noise of various velocity levels. Rough sleeve made of a carpet found on a car graveyard. [label info]
Loo, Andres -- "Skeletons On Rock" -- CD -- €11
2009 Laton, Laton 048
Originally a drummer, Andres Loo is a musician, who does shows with his exclusive wave-edit based music, prototypically rhythm-focused, spiced up with heart ache vocals for cherries on the cake. Coming from Tallinn, Estonia, Loo has recently been warming up bands like Black Dice and writing film music for Estonian feature films. His upcoming collaborations include a musical, to be written alongside Kevin Blechdom. "Skeletons on Rock" (Laton 048) is the debut release by Andres Loo. Loo's sonic edge seems to be hijacked from the experimental, but don't let it deceive you... It is music. Poppy, occassionally extremist sounding powertunes, and a tease for music lovers of many kinds. [press-release]
Lopez, Francisco -- "Amarok" -- CD -- €12
2010 Glacial Movements Records, GM007
Francisco Lopez is known all over the world as one of the main figures of all time experimental music. He performed in hundreds lives, projects and sound-sets in 60 countries of 5 continents and his huge discography has been released by more than 200 labels all over the world. His musical universe moves from human-ear limits to the deepest abysses of sonorous power and it is mostly composed of field recordings caught along the wildest areas of Earth or between the sounds of industrial world... For 'Amarok' composition two years of hard work have been employed using sounds and processed field recordings. It's a unequalled conceptual soundscape in this artist's huge discography and it perfectly joins to Glacial Movements aesthetics. After a few seconds from the track beginning we are dip into an arctic trip which lasts more than an hour and in which tangled weavings in a masterly fashion handled by the Spanish artist appear, develop and dissolve. Gusts of arctic wind, the Amarok's wheezing breath (Amarok is the name of a gigantic wolf in Inuit mythology) and the sense of loss in the polar night are only some of the sensations that this cryogenic hallucinatory acustic is able to evoke. 'Amarok is probably one of the more isolationist and spookiest work I've ever done' Francisco Lopez, march 2009. [press-release]
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Lopez, Francisco -- "El Dia Anterior A La Emergencia De Los Adultos De Magicicada" -- 3"CD -- €7
2006 Purple Soil, pulse three: one, (ltd. 505)
Repress of 1993 tape only release, showing the ambient-most face of Lopez' music. Deep, droning ambience at the usual threshold of the audible. [label info]
Lopez, Francisco -- "Untitled (2006-2007)" -- 2 CD -- €15
2008 Monochrome Vision, mv25, (ltd. 500)
Wide and diverse selection of several short pieces, composed by this prolific spanish musician during the last two years. It features quite a variety of sonic materials, from very atmospheric to quite fast-paced, and everything in between, including pieces made with recordings from planes, a piece for an instrumental ensemble, etc. The whole is quite cohesive and strong work, very characteristic and intense. [label info]
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Lopez, Francisco -- "Untitled (2010)" -- 2 CD -- €18
2012 Alone At Last, AAL[1], (ltd. 500)
The next part of the ongoing series of annual reports, consisting of various untitled pieces made in 2010. Different in approach and composition techniques, the tracks of this double album presents the current showcase of one of the most important composers on the underground spanish scene. Using raw source materials from David Newman, 30-second original "seed" recordings collectively mutated into a myriad sound materials (by David Longa, Ryan Beppel, Daniel Puig, Colin Wambsgans, Martin Sadowski, Mauricio Meza, Clemens Beier, and Francisco Lo'pez himself), created from original enviornmental sound matter recorded in the Murcia region in Spain and at locations in the Groene Woud region in South Holland, and also using original recordings made at buddhist monasteries in Hi Tain, Nyaungshwe, Sagaing and Bagan (Myanmar/Burma). Limited edition of 500 copies in special packaging - custom made of textured paper, assembled by hand. Comes with the set of 3 photos of exotic food. [label info]
Lopez, Francisco -- "Wind [Patagonia]" -- CD -- €10
2007 and/OAR, and/27
and/OAR couldn't be more pleased to present the third part of Spanish sound artist Francisco Lopez's already classic "trilogy of the Americas" which started with La Selva, followed by Buildings [New York] (both released by V2 Archief, Netherlands). An immersion into the sonic matter from micro- and macro- environments dominated by wind in Patagonia. A vast barren space shaped and inhabited by the ever-changing forces of unmuted plants, rocks, sand, snow, and ice. An irregular broad-band environment of relentless strength and richness. And above all, a tour de force of profound listening... Packaged in a super gloss digipak with 16 page 4 color booklet. [label info]
Lopez, Francisco + Novi_sad -- "Titans" -- CD -- €10
2011 Gradual Hate Records, GH 112CD, (ltd. 500)
Sound artists Francisco Lopez (Spain) and Novi_sad (Greece) have explored together the blurred territory between reality and the creation of self-contained sound environments through a long process of transformation of sonic materials. Working with the same shared field recordings carried out in the region of Ancient Olympia in Greece, they have created two individual pieces with extreme dynamics, at times obscure and dense, but laden with hidden complexity and a few surprises for the most adventurous listeners. [label info]
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Lord Wind -- "Atlantean Monument" -- CD -- €10
2006/2010 No Colours Records, NC 116 / WolfTyr Productions, WTP 002
Pagan & medieval neoclassics from Polish musician Darken of NSBM-band Graveland.
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Loscil -- "Coast / Range / Arc" -- CD -- €12
2011 Glacial Movements Records, GM010
Loscil is a recording project of the Canadian composer Scott Morgan. His career in the ambient music genre began in 1999 with the debut self-produced work A New Demonstration of Thermodynamic Tendencies which drew the attention of American label Kranky. Working primarily with Kranky and Ghostly International, Loscil has released some wonderful works which led him to be defined by worldwide media as one of the most authoritative composers of electronic music of our times. One of Loscil's main features is to write environmental weavings which revolve around a well-defined subject. For example, the subject of thermodynamic principles with Triple Point or the subaquatic work Submers, where every composition takes its name from that of a historic submarine. This aspect of the Canadian artist perfectly merges with the Glacial Movements theme and philosophy; that of glacial and isolationist ambient music... In fact, Coast / Range / Arc is centered around the coastal mountains of the Pacific Northwest, studded with glaciers, lakes, waterfalls, canyons and epic views. The majestic ranges form a striking mountain landscape. These tracks explore the timelessness of mountainous elevations; oxygen deprived and surrounded by boundless skies. Mountains are hardly static - in fact they are dynamic on a time scale beyond the human experience. They grow, buckle, twist, erupt and erode at an epic pace. The Coast / Range / Arc is filled with such mountains and valleys, their dynamics nearly imperceptible. They evoke awe and a connection to an imperceptible past. They are constantly changing, yet represent such a seemingly stoic fixture in our relatively short lives. [press-release]
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Love-Fine -- "Temperature's Rising" -- CD EP -- €11
2010 Latona, Latona 02
This quartet comes from Kazan', Russia. A girl behind a groovebox and a yound man behind a "Korg" stand still like robots from Kraftwerk, while vocalist and guitarist are slamming like The Hives (Timour, the singer, even sings husky). In response to the label "electro-punk" being constantly tagged to the band, they make shoegazing noise and weird psychedelic melodies, swear love to kraut-rock and help organising the gigs of Austrian and Polish electronic avantguardists. This CDEP consists of 3 new band's tracks + 2 remixes on the title track from Astrolabe and A Headphones. [Fulldozer]
Low End Ensemble -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €8
2009 .Angle.Rec., .A.R.05.07., (ltd. 125)
.ANGLE.REC. is proud to present the first production of Montreal's own LOW END ENSEMBLE. Coming out from the ashes of multiple rock, progressive, blues and metal bands, Christian Lecompte joins forces with Simon Thibaudeau's oscillated and noiseful world. Witness the birth of Low End Ensemble. We promise no knobs to be left unturned, no feedback left unheard and rumble that would make an earthquake feel ashamed. Simon plays synths, effects, noise & bass Christian plays bass, feedback & moog. Simon also goes under the KVIK moniker, with releases on labels such as BRISE-CUL RECORDS or NAME RECORDS. The particularity of LOW END ENSEMBLE lies in the exchange of favours between the two sound creators of the project: due to his musician training as well as his experience and mastery in more conventional and ''written'', styles, Christian embeds, in a certain structure, the dishevelled explorations of Simon Thibaudeau, while the latter, with his off-beat and noisy approach, incites Christian to let himself loose and somewhat break the mold of the rigidity and seriousness sometimes associated with more ''composed'' music. From there, one could rightly qualify this first album as ''composed improv'' or ''improvised compo''...Treasures unfold over the 4 long tracks that compose this first official production :In the end, a disc that is more atmospheric than full-on noise. To be filed under organic psych/drone. [press-release]
LU -- "B-Interrail" -- CD -- €10
2003 Small Voices, SVR03004
LU is a great new Italian one man band. Multi-instrumentalist and sampler wizard Gianluca Porcu proposes a very personal mix of acoustic and electronic music, endowed with a warm and lively Mediterranean sensibility. The album is an organical suite in various movements in which lyrical and melodious orchestral themes are played with the help of a small ensemble of special guests (flute, clarinet, sax, piano, guitar), then deconstructed and remixed through layers of soft electronica, female choirs, cut-up vocals (including the ghost of Marcel Duchamp) and glitches elements, all with a stimulating attitude between pop and classical plus more than a small hint to vintage lounge soundtracks. In the final track, Consapevolezza della riduzione, LU also proves to be able to construct powerful avant-pop songs. LU is the missing link between The Penguin Café Orchestra and Fennesz. A very unique, pleasurable, slighthy wistful and at times funny experience, also for lovers of Nobukazu Takemura, Pascal Comelade, Pulseprogramming, The Books, etc. [press-release]
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Luasa Raelon -- "80000v" -- CD-R -- €7
2003 Snip-Snip Records, SNIP-SNIP 13
Luasa Raelon -- "Automatic Satan" -- CD-R -- €7
2002 Snip-Snip Records, SNIP-SNIP 02
Luasa Raelon -- "Consumed Within the Years of Lead" -- CD -- €10
PACrec / Snip-Snip Records, PACrec104, (ltd. 1000)
Brooding, dark industrial material with insane structure and sense of space. Inspires a sense of unease and dread, total midnight music. [label info]
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Luasa Raelon -- "The House Of Flesh" -- CD -- €11
2008 Snip-Snip Records, SNIP-SNIP 55
New 2008 from David Reed's main project. Doom-ridden synth wailings and gloomy atmospheres welcome you inside the House of Flesh. Absolute audio dread. [Mechanoise Labs] Enter the house. Meet your doom. Pure evil. [label info] :)
Luasa Raelon -- "The Poison City" -- CD -- €12
2005 Eibon Records, Lua056
Dark ambient/death industrial. Welcome to the poison city. A place where nuclear radiations colour the sky with green clouds, mutating vegetation suffocates the sun and asphyxiating miasms coming from abandoned toxic wastes endanger life......... LUASA RAELON is definitely one of the most interesting realities of US dark ambient/death industrial scene, combining low-rumbling drones with extemporaneous noise bursts to create a pretty personal & recognizable sound. This poison city IS a terrible place, trust me..... [press-release]
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Luasa Raelon -- "Storms Of Neptune" -- CD-R -- €7
2002 Snip-Snip Records, SNIP-SNIP 01
Lucisferrato -- "Ahnenschein" -- CD -- €12
Der Angriff Nr. 1, (ltd. 450)
The first CD of LC aka Lucisferrato, which releases on Hau Ruck made well-known to the world this one of the most unique and original St. Petersburg outfit that uses various analogue devices, voice and prepared accordion to create the frightening picture of human soul suffering in the modern world collapse. [label info]
Luftwaffe -- "Ere I Perish" -- CD -- €14
2010 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 129
The new full-length CD featuring 55 minutes of oratorical demagoguery from U.S. Martial and Neofolk duet, Luftwaffe. With 16 original tracks with collaborations by with Richard Leviathan (of Ostara and Strength Through Joy), Awen, Valence, Gnomonclast. Features an original cover-art painting by the internationally renowned NY artist Richard Phillips. The uncompromising marriage of Martial Industrial, Acoustic Folk and Solipsistical Nihilism; Luftwaffe continues to forge new awakenings within the Post Industrial genre. "The overriding voice. The word bespoke is power. And these words shall be the last. And that voice is ours. Thou shalt perish. Ere I perish." [press-release]
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Lull -- "Like a Slow River" -- CD -- €13
2008 Glacial Movements, GM004
After a long period of silence, Glacial Movements Records is glad to announce you the return of the most important representative of ambient isolationist music ever: the wonderful English artist Mick J. Harris aka LULL (Scorn, Painkiller, Napalm Death).Unquestionable genius of the last century's second half European music and point of reference about the rising isolationist aesthetics, being on the same wavelength as post-rock last scenaries... "Like a slow river" it's a work characterized by sharp and minimal atmospheres but also dark, cold and huge such as big bodies of ice which slowly move carried by an endless river. The five compositions of "Like a slow river" reach the high expectations of the previous works such as "Cold Summer", "Continue" and the "Murder Ballads" trilogy with Martin Bates. With no doubt, this is the coldest and darkest work ever composed by this pioneer of industrial-ambient music. You all will be led to the oblivion of your existence....the freezing darkness of these glacial night is going to come down on your bodies and minds....you'll fall in your deepest sleep with the far echo of glacial runnings....the way to eternity is in front of you.... [press-release]
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Lumina Sector / Ego Death -- "Light & Darkness" -- CD-R -- €3
2010 Sewer Records, SEWER 042 / Vmr Recordings, VMR 8
Dark Ambient, Noise, Power Electronics. [YAOP]
Luminance Ratio -- "Like Little Garrisons Besieged" -- CD -- €10
2009 Boring Machines, BM 016 / Fratto9 Under The Sky Records, fratto010
LUMINANCE RATIO is a collaborative effort joining sound artists Eugenio Maggi (Cria Cuervos, Slave Auction), Gianmaria Aprile (Ultraviolet Makes Me sick, Fratto9under the sky records) and Andrea Ferraris (Airchamber 3, Ur, Ulna, John Russel, Sil Muir). 'Like Little Garrisons Besieged' brings them far from their respective discographies and finds them sailing in the apparently quiet waters of free-folk, electroacoustics and minimal drones. The music, resulting from live sessions and painstaking studio work, is meticulously thought to combine electronics with analog/traditional instruments: laptop, acoustic and electric guitars, cardiod and contact microphones, vibraphone, melodica, glockenspiel, minidisc, rimshot and cymbals, analog synth, percussion, kaoss pad and pedal effects. Featured on this release is Paul Bradley (Twenty Hertz, Monos, etc.)'s personal reinterpretation of their collective work, assembling an expanded 'remix concrete' out of the single tracks. [press-release]
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Luminous -- "Links" -- CD -- €10
2008 Tara Records, TARA 004
Time for some sub-aquatic bubbling abstract electronics and dark ambient sound worlds from Links. 'Luminous' Two 30 minute tracks take you on a sonic journey and really give you the sense that your lost in a different space and time, like floating around in some liquid metal dreamscape. With the sound of drones creating a feeling of amnesia. Very absorbing stuff. I'd like to listen to this whilst locked in a cupboard and become a total void. Housed in a red clamshell case on Tara Records. [Norman Records]
Lunar Abyss -- "aut-inJiR" -- CD-R -- €8
2011 Biosonar^Lo-End 011 cdr, (ltd. 13)
Quite conceptual recording of a night live set on the afterparty of "inJiR" forest festival (Crimea, Aya cape, September 2011) done from the desk and representing slowly shifting loops going in three asynchronous layers, no "playing", only cold watching of what's happening. The recording features a fragment of predawn hour, an hour of visions and dreams. DIY carbdoard box with b/w stickers and inserts with b/w photos of Aya cape and the festival. [press-release]
Lunar Abyss -- "Timeline... 2010" -- CD-R -- €8
2010 Biosonar^Labirint 016, (ltd. 52)
The author's mix containg tracks from early period of Lunar Abyss Quartet till nowadays releases of Lunar Abyss Deus Organum, also featuring unreleased fragments and live backing tracks. Fluent journey in time and space of Lunar Abyss sonic creation. Mixed in three tracks matching the timeline. Each copy is handmade and handnumbered. [label info]
Lunar Abyss -- "Yolgva" -- CD-R -- €8
2012 BioSonar^Lo-End, 012/2012, (ltd. 20)
Raw live recording from a gig happened on November 1st, 2004 in Experimental Sound Gallery (GEZ-21), with NikNik (Hladna) and first appearence of M.M. (Kryptogen Rundfunk). It all starts with low-key field recordings, guitar loops and mouth harp planks, and closer to the middle develops into spontaneous noise blasts, all second half of the performance is raw shamanic drone noise with tough analogue pulsations and crackling of metal objects trapped in chains of sound effects. And of course voice signals of E.S. and NikNik. The correct atmosphere of the gig was intensified by a video. Essential material for those interested in project's history. DIY cardboard box with b/w stickers and inserts. [press-release]
Lunar Abyss as Boevye Cikady -- "Golden Dissaciative Trip" -- CD-R -- €8
2010 Biosonar^Labirint 015, (ltd. 91)
The album is dedicated to dissociative and deprivated states of mind. Details and phenomena of the world loose interdimensional links and here comes the dissociative meeting of a mirror and it's reflections. The disk contains author's early works, not previously released because of thematical correspondence, one can comprehend them as some accumulated sonic-time experience, as a guide in dissociative states, or as a poetic reflection of this theme. All these tracks sound aomewhere right in the middle of the mentione projects, and apeear to be a synthesis of two mythologies of sound. Sunny atmosphere of ultramundane experiences, vigorous wave high-tech ritual! Handmade cardboard sleeve. [press-release]
Lunar Abyss + Bardoseneticcube -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €6
Biosonar Revers
Author's reissue of a limited CDR, published in 2003 by 8th Moon Art, with simplified artwork. Mutual remixes of these two Russian projecrs, dense multi-layered noise-ambient.
Lunar Abyss + Lesnaya Pogan' -- "Dremo-Ta" -- CD-R -- €8
2010 Biosonar^Labirint 014, (ltd. 108)
Wooden noises, crunch and grunts of the analogue synth power, howlings of gnomes in the night, rustles of furtive efts, bubbling of mineral and electromagnetic magic, music of wood spirits. Tape loops, Soviet era vocoders, reverbs and synths, field recordings and accidental sounds found on old tapes. A winter collaboration recording. Handmade cardboard sleeve with monotyping. [press-release]
Lunar Abyss vs Lunar Abyss -- "Teni" -- CD-R -- €8
2011 Biosonar^Labirint 020/2011, (ltd. 52)
Auto-remixes of the early tracks of the project. Dense layered clouds of sounds interlace with transparent shadows of recognizable sounds. The material is sometimes transformed to total loss of identification, sometimes unprocessed samples from that tracks are utilized. The twisting of personal creative time in non-personal sound flow, reflashing of dronings. Trip ambient, ritual electroacoustics. Each copy is handmade and numbered. [label info]
Lunar Abyss Deus Organum -- "Bereg Holodnoj Vesny" -- CD-R -- €10
2009 Vetvei, V04, (ltd. 108)
Final part of two-piece opus from L.A.D.O is out now on Vetvei! CD-R contains best fragments of artists night performance, as heard by guests of annual forest open-air festival Systo Togethering 2007. Album starts with sounds of body moving into forest - human breathes, moves and hears approaching drone and rustles. Lazy sun sets and inner space of sleep rise. L.A.D.O blindfolds the listener and leads him\her into the deep caverns and shallow waters. Listener follows the pulse of branches and joins procession of glowworms and fireflies to find his\her inner space. Speaking of style - second part of series is still a trademark psychedelic drone ambient canvas embroided with analog and digital soaring sounds, sometimes turning into undanceable experimental trance with radio signals and shamanic songs. Evgeniy Savenko uses loops, vinyl records, musique concrete and voice to create his well-known frost-tinged drones. In general the record done in Biosonar style - structured, colorful, complex and more bright than many well-known and average releases on drone scene. The cover in gold and gray waxed paper cover with herbal Vetvei-style artwork and 3 photos from the shores of Cold Spring. Each copy has individual cardboard package with 3 inserts. [press-release]
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Lunar Abyss Deus Organum -- "Geologorazvedka" -- CD-R -- €8
2010 Biosonar^Labyrint 012, (ltd. 108)
A concept album made out exclusively of analogue synthesizers with the help of Neznamo and Lesnaya Pogan. Layered structure, multi-level flow of drones, clatters, signals, rustles and crackles merge in thick ambiental environment with dense earthy sound of geological visions. Packed in cardboard sleeve with coloured photos. [press-release]
Lunar Abyss Deus Organum -- "Snegopad" -- CD-R -- €8
2009 Biosonar^Labirint 007, (ltd. 52)
One more disc collected from winter home and processed field and live recordings. Drone-ambient - it's kind of called like this. Three tracks lasting for approximately an hour, enveloping droning-windy sound, spirally twisted distant echoes of outward events, rushing voices of crazed winter spirits. Third track is a rhythmically organized butoh of wood-goblins. Handmade artwork - each copy is unique. [press-release]
Lunar Abyss Deus Organum -- "Snovidenie" -- CD -- €10
2006 Biosonar^Labirint 01, (ltd. 323)
New full-length of famous Russian project L.A.D.O. contains reworked material from the ultra-limited mini-album "Sleeping In The Sleep" plus new tracks dedicated to the subject of dreams. Musical canvas of the album streams like a river, on which surface one can watch layers of droning ambient, voices of mermaids and forest spirits, ritual percussion, echoes of electronic impulses... Lots of authentic Russian folk instruments and field recordings were used on this recording. The CD is packed in handmade cardboard package - each copy is unique.
Lunar Abyss Deus Organum -- "Tryakusta" -- CD -- €10
2011 Vetvei, V17, (ltd. 485)
New album from Saint-Petersburg L.A.D.O. progect is result of 3 live records mixing: July 1, 2010 in art-apartment "Vmeste" - a meditative sound performance "Ring Time" - feat Kshatriy; July 4, 2010 a morning concert in "Zelenogorsky Festival of ambient music vol.1"; July 14, 2010 a meditative sound performance "Diamond Sandman - 12 th floor" in the art-apartment "Vmeste". An incredibly deep multilayered Drone Ambient with plenty of colorful patterns. A dense self-observing stream, that takes away all the dependences and rushing through an endless self-similar spheres. Mastered by Kshatriy. Full-colored six-panel envelope Vresnit & Vetvei Art. [press-release]
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Lunar Abyss Deus Organum -- "Tsagan" -- CD-R -- €8
2010 Biosonar^Labyrint 011, (ltd. 108)
Tsagan (Tibetian) - white, clear, bright. Lullaby and bathing songs decorated by drones and pipes, bells, breath of dawn, drops of lead, voice and guitar loops, mouth harps, theremin and forestal rustles. Everything sounds a bit alike "Brusnika" 7" but with more varied sound. Also took part in this recording: Tanya Svaha, 6sun, GoRa, Neznamo, and others... Packed in cardboard sleeve with coloured photos. [press-release]
Lunar Abyss Deus Organum -- "Tuntury" -- CD -- €10
2009 Aquarellist, aquarel 08-08, (ltd. 500)
The new album of one of the oldest Russian dark-ambient projects Lunar Abyss Deus Organum is a collection of six sonic pictures of the world of thundra-yoga. Each composition is like a complex multidimentional mosaic build of layered sounds of completely different nature: field recordings, samples, synthesizers, singing, tape noises, etc. These layers not just sound along, but slowly and relentlessly create a slowly twisting deep sonic spiral, stretching listener's attention out to several directions at once. Hallucinatory ambient of double dosage.
Lunar Abyss Deus Organum -- "Uzor" -- CD -- €10
2011 Biosonar^Labyrint 23, (ltd. 323)
The third "real" CD by LADO combines tracks recorded in 2002-2004 and due to various circumstances initially spread over various compilations and EPs ("Heilige Feuer III", "Thalamus II", "Holy Mother Russia", "Listopad Vot On", "Brusnika"). Now the circle is closed and this CD represents the pieces almost in the same order as they were created. The album reflects a certain period of creativity and especially author's interest in proto-Eurasian cultures. The compositions are created from acoustic and electronic structures, drum and noise loops, voice samples, scientific & journalistic recordings and deep wave drones.
Lunar Abyss Deus Organum -- "Uzor" -- CD -- €18
2011 Biosonar^Labyrint 23, extra limited, (ltd. 23)
Special edition of "Uzor": 23 copies in handmade A5 book made of hard cardboard with additional drawings done by the author during the recording of this album.
Lunar Abyss Deus Organum + Anamezon -- "Nidra" -- CD-R -- €8
2009 Biosonar^Labyrint, 010/2009, (ltd. 108)
Anamezon is a new project by Evgeny Savenko characterized by more electronic synthetic sound, and this "collaboration" is sort of balance between natural ambient of L.A.D.O. and electronic embient, sometimes even rhythmic. Field recordings, sounds of forest and alien voices are mixed with monotonous dronings, gentle pulsations and cosmic vibrations of analogue and digital synthesizers. Trademark multi-layered sound, psychedelic atmosphere and even-tempered energetics guaranteed. One track features Pepelaz A.B.
Lunar Abyss Deus Organum / Boevye Cikady / Pustota -- "Vetry Pamyati (Winds of Memory)" -- CD-R -- €8
2010 Biosonar^Labirint 019, (ltd. 52)
Three live fragments recorded in various years, of the three projects by one person, previously unreleased. L.A.D.O. - calm, almost soporific drone ambient, remote echoes of reindeer breeders tribal songs and howls of wind in the night. Boevye Cikady - a hurricane of digital twists and wildness of information flows, matted in funnels of noise whirls. Pustota - live version of the track "Ravens at the Sea" - dense natural noise, rumpus of crows in spring and a sorm in winter city of Yalta, all mixed on the basis of mountain wind. Each copy is handmade and handnumbered. [label info]
Lunar Abyss Deus Organum + Hattifnatter -- "Boloto" -- CD-R -- €8
2010 Biosonar^Labirint 017, (ltd. 52)
The continuation of subnatural theme is presented in the new swamp album by LADO & Hattifnatter. A journey to the world of hobgoblins and water spirits. Vibrant engulfing soundscapes are mixed with laid-back light melodic noisy pieces, narrating about helobious existence and non-existence. Trip ambient, easy noise, ritual electroacoustics. Each copy is handmade and handnumbered. [label info]
Lunar Abyss Deus Organum + Hattifnatter -- "Lesnaya" -- CD-R -- €8
2009 Biosonar^Labyrint 009, (ltd. 52)
"Lesnaya" means "woody" in Russian, so this is a new woody album from LADO & Hattifnatter. Having walks in a forest in company with ether creatures, talks of trees, movements of roots, singing of streamlets melt together in deep psychedelic (dark)-ambient with haunting atmosphere. Each copy is handmade.
Lunar Abyss Deus Organum + Hattifnatter & Neznamo & Kshatriy & Vresnit -- "Sonastroika" -- CD-R -- €8
2011 Vetvei, V14, (ltd. 181)
A collective performance recording of LUNAR ABYSS DEUS ORGANUM + HATTIFNATTER & NEZNAMO & KSHATRIY & VRESNIT with the assistance of VJ Yury Elika from November, 4th, 2010 in ESG-21 club, St.-Petersburg. A six-parts session of a group audio-visual communication in a wonderful day of the decreasing moon. There were no separate performances of projects this evening, the participants joined in the action of unity. Field records, voices, guitars, synthesizers, wind instruments and extensive electronic devices in hands of the consciousness phenomena spin a dense Drone Ambient veil. A communication, a sound breath, an illusion stream, a clearing walk on the autumn wood, called to connect all the opposites! A design is presented by a six-pannel full-color envelope and a flyer of the action Vetvei & Vresnit Art. [press-release]
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Lunar Abyss Deus Organum feat. Kshatriy -- "Listopad Vot On" -- CD-R -- €8
2007 Biosonar^Labirint 02, (ltd. 64)
Here it is, the fall of leaves, here is it's flickering dance, whirling in the time cell between the branch and the earth. We gathered the recordings of the autumn, for the immersion and for the movement, for the games with the astral doubles and etherial creatures. Rhythmic rolls, cyclic funels, helix passages, magnetic pickups. Admiring the transition season. The Earth breathes... Two ritual ambient tracks are recorded and mixed in 2003, the following two are dark-psychedelic remixes on the material from "Zeleznaya Voda" CD and "Brusnika" 7". Packed in cross-folding handmade sleeve with lots of inserts unique for each copy. [press-release]
Lunar Abyss Deus Organum vs Neznamo -- "Dendralepsya" -- CD-R -- €8
2010 Biosonar^Labirint 013, (ltd. 108)
Dendralepsya - ability to suddenly turn into a tree. Assume you're sitting home, having a dinner with relatives and all of a sudden you're all covered with branches, most often coniferous - this is it! This disk presents dendraleptic soundscapes, i.e. the sound you hear while being a tree. Dense shroud of tender drones, like a mist. Images and visions create light gaps between the trees. Delicate tuning of your heart chakra - melodic layers in ultimately remote background. Music for strain listening and recognizing. The sound is based on voices and live instruments, ocarina and pipes, but all drown in fog, in mist, in solute. Handmade cardboard sleeve. [press-release]
Lunar Abyss Quartet -- "8" -- CD-R -- €8
2007 BioSonar^Labirint 004, (ltd. 52)
Re-edition of the very first album recorded in 1996-98 and released by 8th Moon Art in 1998. Atmospheric dark drone ambient with old school approach and vague analogue sound and cold atmosphere. Music of northern woods and tundra. Outstanding sound-processing techniques dilute the seriousness of content with a dashing smile, and lecture about discovering the Transbaikalian copper deposits in 1949 may be cognitive in self-educational sense, dear comrades.
Lunar Abyss Quartet -- "Arktika" -- CD-R -- €6
2007 BioSonar Revers
Author's re-edition of the 3rd full-length album of this well-known Russian project. The original version has been released on limited to 80 copies CDR by Ultra label in 2002. Cold landscapes of arctic expanses, voices in polar explorers' heads, atmosphere of doomed mystery... almost completely acoustic recording. Simple artwork in jewel case.
Lunar Abyss Quartet -- "Cosmologamma" -- CD-R -- €6
Biosonar Revers
Meditative monotonous ambient extracted from handmade metal and brass instruments. Author's reissue of the CD published by Quag, with simplified artwork.
Lunar Abyss Quartet -- "Hyperborean" -- CD-R -- €6
2010 BioSonar Revers
Authors reissue of a 10" record published by Der Angriff in 2003. "Mysterious travel into the heart of ancient Baltia, where the cold lakes and moss-covered stones in the pine-woods still keeping the secrets of the times long forgotten: Chants, ambient layers and delicate percussion together with some sound effects shroud the listener in the mist of the Hidden:" [Der Angriff]
Lunar Abyss Quartet -- "Zeleznaya Voda" -- CD-R -- €6
2002/2011 Biosonar^Revers
Author's reissue of a CD released by Chimaera label in 2002. "Resonant engulfing dark ambient played on natural instruments. Brilliant archival live recordings from this Russian ritualistic pagan droning ambient act, here presenting recordings from live performances and sessions made during 1998-2002. Wonderfully evolving soundscapes of sonorous drones and echoes blending together with ritualistic rhythms and voices as well as some more industrial elements." [Old Europa Cafe] Simplified artwork - b/w print in a slim sleeve. [label info]
Lunde, Eric -- "Candyhole" -- CD -- €10
2011 Freak Animal Records
Full length CD of Eric Lunde combines noise and concept art. From fierce tape recycling to field recordings, spoken word, digital edge meeting harsh analogue damage. Unique quality of Eric Lunde's work still present after decades! [label info]
Lunde, Eric (aka Trait) -- "Inspirationals" -- CD -- €10
1988/2009 Industrial Recollections
Back in 1988 Arbeit Group label released obscure industrial-noise release by project called TRAIT. A-side of the tape includes several different arrangement for inspiration in battle. B-side included several of those arrangements combined together for temporary unified action. 45 minutes of most primitive analogue destruction, leaving no place for easylistening or relaxing moments. Even with the atmopheric and dark moment, sound is extremely decayed and coarse sound of tape loops, manipulation and electronics which transforms it to difficult industrial-noise. Years after the original release, personnel behind it has been officially declassified. Trait is one of the most vicious works of Eric Lunde, known for 80's masterpieces under his own name and legendary industrial group Boy Dirt Car. Releases on V2 archief, RRR, AWB, Powertech Industries. "Inspirationals" is carefully reflecting the original tape as accurately as possible. Material is transferred from original master tapes to CD by artist himself, leaving everything 100% as is. There is 2 long pieces (A and B side) with no mastering, no cleaning up, no boosting. Artwork is faithful to the original release, replicating the it as accurate as possible. This is the first release by Industrial Recollections label, aimed for re-issuing sold out pe/industrial/noise releases for fanatical audience. [press-release]
Lunde, Eric -- "Mimefistofele" -- CD -- €10
2011 TraitMediaWorks, tmw030
Are you familiar with opera? Then Boito's Mefistofele ought rank right up there, despite the sickening stench of an omnipresent g*d, but the devil has the game in this one and its worth listening to "son lo spirito che nega sempre tutto". Anyway. Eric Lunde has taken the first act of this beloved opera and given it the reduplication treatment. Layered and processed, it barely sounds like the original, which was the intent. Harsh, nearly criminal assault on this beloved masterpiece of evil, sin and redemption, except that now the devil comes out on top... [label info]
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Lundvall, Tor -- "Ghost Years" -- CD -- €14
2010 Tursa, TURSA101
"Ghost Years" is my first retrospective CD featuring tracks from various compilations, vinyl-only releases plus some unreleased material. The focus is more on my vocal work, however there are a few instrumental pieces included as well. Although the music spans about a decade, I was surprised at how well the tracks flow together to make a coherent ensemble, evolving from my earlier song-oriented compositions to the more ambient nature of my recent recordings. [Tor Lundvall, November 2009]
Lunyov, Svyatoslav -- "Para Pacem Para Bellum" -- CD -- €10
2006 Quasi Pop Records, QPOP CD037, (ltd. 500)
'Para Pacem Para Bellum' is the first CD release with the great music of Svyatoslav Lunyov's. That serious, highly emotional and spiritual work is the result of two general methods of creating music: academic tradition (scores, acoustic instruments and playing of the real musicians) and the contemporary/experimental way (generating, synthesis, editing with computer tools). Needs to say that this electro-acoustic work combines the well-known traditional elements of the Requiem, Passions and the Mass. There where the liturgical canon showes up just as the titles of some parts of the macrocycle. All the parts represent to some extent the variations of integral and unbroken melodic-harmonic complex. The whole work can be considered as a sort of chaconne. The main dramatical collision of this work develops on the level of interaction/contraposition between the natural acoustic sounds (the piano, organ and the strings) and the synthetic electronic timbres. [press-release]
Lurk -- "Furking" -- CD-R -- €8
2007 Blade Records, wmda078, (ltd. 100)
Mathias Josefson (Moljebka Pvlse) says: "This record is a re-release of a tape that was released almost ten years ago. The material is improvised in the studio with little or no-overdubs. The first and the last track on the re-release are new recordings from 2006 done by rb and mj".
Lustmord -- "Beyond" -- CD -- €17
2009 Vaultworks, J-3, (ltd. 1000)
Lustmord -- "The Dark Places Of The Earth" -- CD -- €17
2009 Vaultworks, E-7, (ltd. 1000)
Lustmord -- "Heresy" -- CD -- €15
1990/2004 Soleilmoon, Sol 99 CD
It's not often that an album comes along that both initiates and defines a genre. From the deepest vault at Soleilmoon, precisely such a cherished but long unavailable classic has been remastered, repackaged and re-issued. "Heresy", the album that launched and defined the dark ambient genre when it was first released in 1990, has been hailed by critics and fans as one of the most important works of its time. Nearly 15 years after its release it regularly features on top-ten lists of ambient music. "Heresy" was recorded in various subterranean locations and manipulated in the studio with Andrew Lagowski providing engineering and additional programming. It was the first Lustmord album to feature extensive sampling and computer assisted sound design. Recent improvements in sound technology permitted Lustmord to re-master and significantly improve on the original recordings for this new version, which comes in a digipak and even bears a new catalog number. Based on recognition established through recordings like "Heresy", Brian Williams, the man behind Lustmord, went on to work as a sound designer in Hollywood and has over 40 major motion picture credits as well as TV, games and now commercials. His resume includes musical collaborations with The Melvins, Adam Jones (Tool), Chris & Cosey, Coil, Paul Haslinger (Tangerine Dream), SPK, Robert Rich, Current 93 and Nurse with Wound. He has done remixes for Jarboe (Swans), Venetian Snares, Lori Carson and Mortiis. From 1985 until 1999 he ran Side Effects Records, the label launched by SPK, releasing more than 30 albums. As Lustmord he has released 11 albums since 1981. "Heresy" stands as Lustmord's signature work, the gauntlet that birthed a genre, and this new edition shows even more why it's been a best seller for such a long time. [press-release]
Lustmord -- "Juggernaut" -- CD -- €15
2007 Hydra Head, HH666-123
With sound design & production by Lustmord and guitar & vocals by King Buzzo of the Melvins, Juggernaut unleashes four tracks worth of menacing ambient tremors, boomeranged drones and ominous sonic moonscapes in swell after unsettling swell of creeping electronic deviance. Initially recorded for an art opening by hot-rod enthusiast / notorious tit man Chris "Coop" Cooper in August 2004, this version of the Juggernaut collaboration is a limited release and an updated version of the original recording. [label info]
Lustmord -- "The Monstrous Soul" -- CD -- €15
2000 Soleilmoon, SOL 97 CD
Lustmord -- "Other" -- CD -- €15
2008 Hydra Head Records, HH666-157
Lustmord -- "Purifying Fire" -- CD -- €17
2000 Soleilmoon, Sol 98 CD
A collection of rare and unreleased tracks from this master of dark ambience... Covering the years between 1995 and 1998, it includes tracks previously given for compilations to a diverse range of labels, including Plug Research, Side Effects, Cold Spring and Dry Lungs, also some completely unreleased tracks.
Lustmord vs. Metal Beast -- "s/t" -- CD -- €14
1997 Side Effects, dfx 32
A collaboration record made during their live performance on radio and afterwards enhanced in the studio. Typical Lustmord's obscure atmospheres and dark-ambient versus rhythmic electronics of Metal Beast.
Lvpercalia -- "Florilegium" -- CD -- €12
Equilibrium Music, EQM 005
In the finest Italian neo-classical medieval/gothic italian tradition, Lupercalia's second album blends together eastern and european influences in an alchemical creation produced by top-notch musicianship and a strong soprano voice.
Lysergene -- "Critical Mass" -- CD -- €11
2008 Aesthetic Death Records, ADCD 008
Project of the founder of legendary funeral doom band Esoteric - Gordon Bicknell. Imagine Godflesh playing EBM inspired by psychedelic substances and nuclear weapon. Cyberapocalyptic. [YAOP]
M.E.S.S. -- "Weekend Ritual Massacre" -- CD -- €10
2008 Pitkit, PIT666
With so much evil-doing around them, politically and/or musically, it's no wonder that Israel's M.E.S.S (stands for Mr. Error Sound System) are fueled with so much spite and angst-ridden ferocity that it's only natural for them to be squashing membranes with their uptempo and speedy-punk-grind-noise-hardcore, overpowered by a squeaking and growling female vocalist that is bringing the Riot Grrrl movement back from the dead with the most innovative and fresh attitude you can imagine. Or can't, actually. Mixed and mastered by thee mighty Dan Swano to make it top-notch and even more hostile. Recommended if you like Melt-Banana, Bikini Kill, Huggy Bear, Karyn Crisis and Daisy Chainsaw. [press-release]
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Maa / Out of Focus -- "split" -- CD-R -- €4
2006 Triangle Records, [TR04], (ltd. 120)
Split of two Karelian projects. Maa - noise performed on microphone and frequency generator. Out of Focus - mostly heavy formed noise. An attempt to bring household devices, makeshift trash and computer together. [label info]
Maaaa -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €9
2006 Triangle Records, [TR09], (ltd. 20)
Noise, nothing more... Digipack. [label info]
Maaaa -- "Decay And Demoralization" -- CD -- €10
2010 Mind Flare Media, MFM002, (ltd. 500)
MAAAA's "Decay and Demoralization" comes at you with 6 tracks well over 60 minutes in length. This stuff is harsh and without a doubt the most extreme band coming out of Poland's underground today. Decay and Demoralization includes tons of power electronics and bizarre recordings that create an odd, otherworldly atmosphere stuck in a white noise frenzy. Banging metal, shrieking, dying, the cover of this album should say it all. These guys like to take the energy of punk rock and fuse it with noise, creating a sound all their own. An excellent showcase of what's to come. [press-release]
Maaaa -- "Human Waste" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Rokot, (ltd. 100)
This Karelian project has been very active giving gigs and producing studio works during 2006-2007 but as the founder moved to Poland there has started a sort of hiatus for MAAAA. "Human Waste" was issued by Rokot in 2008 as a tape with additional bizcard CDR and got a lot of good response from listeners worldwide. Due to some wishes of people who were late in getting a copy of the first edition, we decided to make a CDR version to provide everybody with a great piece of Power Electronics. Don't be confused if you heard some of MAA(AA) earlier works that contain raw and chaotic Noise. On "Human Waste" nicely constructed tracks are pulsing directly through your liver right to the spine. The sound is thick and mangling. Maybe the whole picture is not that agressive and insane but if you want a nice "CONTROL making ATRAX MORGUE-like throbs" album -- you'll be satisfied. [press-release]
Maaaa -- "Sampo Distortion" -- CD -- €10
2010 24919 Records, CD24919-03, (ltd. 500)
New album of ex-Karelian project Maaaa, now residing in Warsaw. Maaaa has created completely pitiless thing, both in sound and in it's sense. The mythical coffee-grinder of Kalevala like mighty annihilator rises from the bottom of the sea and grinds all this ugly world of evil and progress down. "Everything crashes, at out place everything crashes, here, now and then" - as one unknown lady said. And she was right, "Sampo Distortion" comes to you! [label info]
Maaaa -- "Satan Edge" -- CD-R -- €9
2008 B-rush, B-11, (ltd. 44)
The Karelian project from Triangle Records, 44 minutes of blowtorching barbaric harsh with samples of satanic ceremonies + guitar-drone thought in the end of the disk. Packed in a sleeve with colour insert. [label info]
Maaaa & Galaxy The Incubator -- "Fury From Outer Space" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 Triangle Records, [TR023], (ltd. 66)
Dreaming about nothing. Collaboration of two projects coming from Petrozavodsk, Russia, recorded on the night of May 18-19, 2007. Dense and pitch-dark wall of meditative drone-noise. "Fury From Outer Space" is a fixation of hidden reality, the parallel worlds. Thr truth is over here. Packed in 2 plates of radio-chips, fastened with screws, an insert with detailed description and polygraphy. [label info]
Maath -- "No Survivors For The New World" -- CD -- €12
2005 Eibon Records, MAA054
Dark ambient. Based upon the concept of coma, sleep and suspended animation, "No survivors for the new world" gently brings you through a dormant world, where dreams flow freely around you, leaving a coloured trace in the cold and dark void. Melodic dark ambient of the finest kind, and one of the most impressive debuts I've heard in a long long while. Round, deep, mesmerizing. Are you ready for your new world? [press-release]
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Macelleria Mobile Di Mezzanotte -- "Profilo Ottimale Delle Ferite" -- CD -- €10
2002 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 048
Translated : "MIDNIGHT MOBILE BUTCHER'S SHOP - Excelent Profile of the Wounds", debut album for this Italian power-industriual monster which is taking inspiration from the many italian extreme industrialoids like: the old MB, Murder Corporation, Atrax Morgue... but with a more cool & cold touch and adding some incredible jazz-noisy-bossasnuff-bloodeasy sounds which makes this new project simply unique! A real big surprise to be discovered! Crime Jazz Industrial!!! [label info]
Machine De Guerre -- "Vanites" -- CD -- €10
2011 OPN Records, OPNCD0015
A dark disc from the catacombs of Paris and the debut album from Machine De Guerre (War Machine). Reminds of Haus Arafna, Le Syndicat Electronique or Millimetric. For followers of Industrial, Minimal Electro and Coldwave. Presented in a very nice 6-panel black and white digipak. [Cold Spring]
Machinefabriek -- "Vloed" -- CD -- €10
2010 Cold Spring, CSR138CD
'Vloed' is a collection of (slightly edited) live performances, recorded between 2006 and 2008 in Amsterdam and Den Haag. "All performances find Machinefabriek in fine form, offering up thick billows of warm guitar shimmer, fluttery staticky ambience, and at one point some uncharacteristically heavy super distorted metallic guitar, but here, it's not so much metal as simply a mighty drone, thick and throbbing and super intense. There are long stretches of near silence and super minimal high end drone, glimmering slow building crescendos, squalls of distorted choral buzz, warm whirring metallic reverberations, shimmery and dense black dronemusik, all the stuff we love about Machinefabriek" (Aquarius). Beautifully remastered with a 20-minute bonus track, 'Vloed' captures the immersive live experience of a Machinefabriek concert. Presented in a stunning matt digipak with modified artwork. [press-release]
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Machinist Noise Assault -- "Self Help" -- CD -- €10
2010 Silken Tofu, stx.04, (ltd. 300)
'Self Help' is the first official album by Machinist Noise Assault, culminating after years of dabbling with different styles of drone, noise, and industrial since its inception in 1998. Lyrically, 'Self Help' is a scornful examination of various forms of self abuse/neglect, and severe internal struggle based around the concept of one being one's own worst enemy. Sonically, expect to hear densely layered power electronics, standing out from the usual 'Set it and forget it'-style of its peers with less focus being applied to outright abrasiveness, and more being put on texture, development, and atmospheric elements. Mastering by THOMAS GARRISON. 7" sized black cardboard package with silver print, packaged in transparent bag. [press-release]
Maeror Tri -- "Hypnotikum I" -- CD -- €12
1998/2010 Nefryt, N 018, (ltd. 300)
First time on CD. Both packed in A5 gatefold covers, both limited & numbered to 300 only!!! Postindustrial ambient and hypnotic loops created by legendary Maeror Tri. These recordings are based on loops that were used by Maeror Tri during their live-concerts in Torino, Cologne and Ghent 1996. [label info]
Maeror Tri -- "Hypnotikum II" -- CD -- €12
1998/2010 Nefryt, N 019, (ltd. 300)
First time on CD. Both packed in A5 gatefold covers, both limited & numbered to 300 only!!! Postindustrial ambient and hypnotic loops created by legendary Maeror Tri. These recordings are based on loops that were used by Maeror Tri during their live-concerts in Torino, Cologne and Ghent 1996. [label info]
Maeror Tri -- "Meditamentum I" -- CD -- €14
1994/2005 Manifold Records, mancd044
Re-edition of the CD previously published by German label Holonom in 1994. This was the 2nd full-length of Maeror Tri after "Multiple Personality Disorder". It contains retrospective compilation of cassette tracks dated 1989-1992. "This compilation is probably the more ambient of any Maeror Tri compilation, going for more textural guitar and drift than the rumbling, backwards-chord sound. Comes in an amazing brown artboard case and embroidered cloth sleeve, four-page booklet inside inspired by rough layouts of cassette-years past gives plenty of text to absorb with the sounds. Amazing sounds demand amazing packages and we wanted to make sure this would be a treasure for all who were ever interested in Maeror Tri." [label info]
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Maeror Tri -- "Multiple Personality Disorder" -- CD -- €10
1993/2009 Purple Soil, pulse zero: six
Repress of the first CD release by Maeror Tri (1993, Korm Plastics). "Multiple Personality Disorder" is a concept CD divided in four long parts recorded back in 1991 that fully showcase their mastery in distorting drones and layering guitar sounds. Stefan Knappe and Martin Martin Gitschel now record under the guise of Troum. Presented in a very nice 6-panel digifile with booklet and postcard, featuring the original (yet unused) cover for the album's initial 1993 release. Expanded liner notes and the story behind the album by Frans De Waard. [Cold Spring]
Maeror Tri -- "Wheel: Collection Of Rare And Lost" -- 2 CD -- €16
2009 Waystyx, waystyx 39, (ltd. 432)
This is mainly a collection of long deleted compilation tracks by M.T. that appeared on various MC- & CD-compilations, along with some previously unreleased material, sorted chronologically by the date of creation / final mastering. All material was collected from various 4-track masters, DAT-masters, compilation tapes & CDs by BarakaH early 2009, and re-mastered my Markow C. in April 2009.
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Maeror Tri -- "Yearning for the Secret(s) of Nature" -- CD -- €12
2009 EE Tapes, EE13, (ltd. 300)
Born as an obscure cassette on Fool's Paradise (London 1993), this exclusive and essential work by Maeror Tri made a brief appearance earlier as a CD-r on EE Tapes (Saint Nix 2001) before it quickly vanished into oblivion. Due to popular demand it has finally been made available again as a limited CD release! Repolished in sound and housed in a new designed jacket, 'Yearning....' has now become of full value between such masterpieces as 'Myein' or 'Language of flames and sound'. Don't miss it this time....... Restoring/remastering work by Anders Peterson @ ghostsounds.net. Art design by Alan McClelland @ eyelyft.blogspot.com. [press-release]
MagatsuJuso -- "Hymnary Of Disposable Mankind" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Le Crepuscule Du Soir, lcds020, (ltd. 50)
Ritual Dark Ambient from Japan inspired by ancient Japanese mythology. Obscure blackened work. 4-page fill-colour A5 digisleeve. [YAOP]
Mahapralaya -- "New H" -- CD -- €10
2010 Tormented Whores of Da'ath Records, TWDR-10, (ltd. 100)
Minimal Dark / Black Ambient. "Ambientcore for True Headbangerz exclusively. Very normal. Digibook CD". [label info]
Maison Close -- "s/t" -- CD -- €10
Force Majeure, Force 005
Inspired by "Johnny Got His Gun," this self-titled release contains many samples from the movie that can be heard all throughout the album. It was recorded in 1998-99 and contains electronics, metal tapes, and vocals. The works are akin to Anenzephalia, and Maison Close's minimalism is reminiscent of Dagda Mor's "Border of Light," though it seems to incorporate a more emotional approach. Packaged in a digipak. [label info]
Majdanek Waltz -- "About the Origin of the World" -- CD -- €8
2006 Wroth Emitter Productions, W.E. 012
Fourth official work of this Russian dark-folk band. A symbiosis of classic European dark-folk and dark-ambient. Unhurried guitar fingerings and piercing alto interwoven with dark drones. Doomed and furious voice declaiming about the origin of the world. Music for thoughtful listening. Recorded in 2004. [label info]
Majdanek Waltz -- "Cold" -- CD -- €10
2006 KultFront, KF-IV, (ltd. 500)
"Cold" is the 4th release of KultFront label and the 2nd officially published work of Ryazan-based group Majdanek Waltz. "Silver age dark folk" - that's how this release can be characterized. Live flute and accordion, guitar and bass, accompanied by smooth industrial noises, cast the feeling of transparent melancholy. This is neither light nor dark feeling. More likely it's closer to cosmic coldness, whirling onto the earth surface. Besides Majdanek Waltz this album was prepared with the help of other musicians: Anthesteria (St. Petersburg) and Wolfsblood (Moscow). Anthesteria presented a remix on the track "Everything is going to be in winter way"; Wolfsblood sang on the track "Cold" to the accompaniment of MW. In addition to this album you'll find previously officially unreleased track "Raven" and two thematic photo galleries uncovering the visual constituent of inner life of Majdanek Waltz' musicians. [press-release]
Majdanek Waltz -- "Cranes" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2008 KultFront, KF-XI, (ltd. 150)
"Cranes" is a new single from Russian neofolk project Majdanek Waltz, who have previously praised the heavenly manifestations in the concept of WWII. This new release is dedicated to all the soldiers who fought for the freedom of Europe in 1939-1945. After the years the theme of ideological enmity doesn't loose it's topicality, but the band's music sates with wisdom and understanding of fallacy of fratricide. No More Wars Amongst Brothers - says the booklet of "Cranes" from Majdanek Waltz. Faces of loser soldiers as a pole of that dream where beautiful black birds fly... The discs are packed in KultFront traditional cardboard sleeves, tightened by black laces. [label info]
Majdanek Waltz -- "Cranes" -- 3"CD-R box -- €13
2008 KultFront, KF-XI, (ltd. 45)
First 45 copies of the single are accompanied by a special necessity set of an intellectual front soldier. Aside from the musical disk the fancy box contains materials aimed to help the deeper understanding of the beauty of the great war-song melody, of the sense of it's words. [label info]
Majdanek Waltz -- "Hamleth's Childhood" -- CD -- €10
2007 KultFRONT, KF-VIII
Born in "the soul of all Russia" - the city of Ryazan' - musicians of Majdanek Waltz are carried away by the most mysterious, so called Siver Age of Russian poerty and prose. They appeal to decadence and withered roses weaving them into the "heavenly tragedy" of European expressionism. On a dark stage, among silence, appears death... Without time, like a paradoxical-permanent attribute of the eternal in human soul. "Hamleth's Childhood" is the first in last 3 years, new and long-awaited full-length album of Majdanek Waltz. It's name is taken after a poem by Boris Poplavsky, who was called "a distant violin between close balalaikas" by Vladimir Nabokov... The musicians themselves say that this album reveals the band's sound at most. They have used their classical instruments: guitar, bass, bayan (accordion), violin, keyboards and human voices. For the first time here's female voice - of Larisa Archipetskaya - "precticing witch in third generation" - as the musicians say. Guest appearances also include Anthesteria, Misery and Wolfsblood. The new album emphasizes the emotional saturation, it immerses the listener in melancholy and light autumnal sorrow. Fading, freezing cold and the beauty of death. Besides Boris Poplavsky's poems, "Hamlet's Childhood" is based upon the works of mystic symbolists Georg Heim and Maximilian Voloshin. [label info]
Majdanek Waltz -- "Pepel" -- CD -- €10
2009 Nadeln Prod., NaP.I
'Pepel' is the first part of MAJDANEK WALTZ trilogy. This album contains all tracks which were previously recorded exclusively for the compilations, different versions of some compositions also released on the compilations and new unreleased tracks. MAJDANEK WALTZ stays within their own tradition - melancholic and twilight, anxious and 'transparent' neo-folk with brilliant fragments of embracing darkness and martial atmosphere. All texts are on Russian language. [press-release]
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Majdanek Waltz -- "Ophelia" -- CD -- €10
2009 kultFRONT, KF-XIII / Wroth Emitter Productions, W.E. 024
"Ophelia" is the second part of a trilogy by Majdanek Waltz. This disc can be considered as evolution of the musical and lyrical essence of the band introduced by the "Hamlet's Childhood" album, and is based on original acoustic music of the band coupled with the lyrics of the German early XX century expressionist poets Paul Zech and Georg Heym. All compositions are published for the first time. The CD was released on October 9, 2009 by joint efforts of the Moscow label Wroth Emitter and St. Petersburg label kultFRONT. [press-release]
Majdanek Waltz -- "Zhatva (Harvest)" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 kultFRONT, KF-XIV, (ltd. 250)
"Zhatva" (Russian word for "Harvest") is the final part of the trilogy by Majdanek Waltz (after "Pepel" and "Ophelia"). This disk is a sort of retrospective of uncommonality of the group. Aside from the features of their classical style, here you can find the depths of the band's experimental abyss. Composed using lyrics by Georg Heym, skills of flute and cello players, and help of the St. Petersburg project Anthesteria. Limited to 250 numbered copies. [press-release]
Majdanek Waltz / Sal Solaris -- "Himmel Des Reichs / Der Himmel Über Berlin" -- CD -- €10
2008 KultFront, KF-X, (ltd. 500)
Split "Himmel Des Reichs / Der Himmel Über Berlin" is a re-issue of the most energetic recording of MW with remastered sound, with special support of their associated from SS. In fact the release continues the theme of MW's single "Cranes" - the theme of inanity of the confrontation between the two forces of brother-soldiers. And yet two poles can be distinctly seen here, divided both stylistically and ideologically. If four tracks of MW are the hymns of one of the confronting sides, performed at the meeting point of anxious military-industrial and dark-folk, four tracks of SS are the ambient-industrial memory of those who was at the other side of the front. The CD is accomplished by a thematical videoclip of SS "Der Himmel Über Berlin" created from archive video-materials. The author is a clip-maker Oleg Potiy (VJ Dornier Wal). The artwork contains rare photographs from 1939 when the fighters of both poles were still confederates. [press-release]
Makoto, Kawabata -- "The Tales Of The Dream Planet" -- CD -- €13
2009 Housepig, HPIG-15, (ltd. 500)
Malachi / The Bastard Noise -- "The Immortals" -- CD -- €10
2009 Housepig, HPIG-021 / Hear More!, HMI06 / 200mg, 200MG010
This split marks a dedicated continuation of excellence in delivery and concept from milwaukee's malachi as well as a change in direction for the bastard noise. Malachi surrounds with two uncompromising orchestral compositions that are both stunning in thier appeal. The bastard noise line up is joined by a debut of l. Rauf and it delivers two altogether delicate compositions that seem an attempt at describing nature on a universal scale with the vast distances between objects only traversed by light itself; a glittering of long-since moribund stars from eons before it was seen by man.both units strive for the epic in their own manner. [label info]
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Malameccanica -- "Noli Tangere" -- CD-R -- €8
2010 Turbinicarpus Records, TBC009, (ltd. 25)
This music has it's own life. I'm trying to say that you will not find yourself familiar with "Noli Tangere". There is a distance between you and the music (a really greasy road sometimes). But even feeling this distance with your skin, you understand that your mind and the tape noises are sticked together. It's a quite strange situation but it is the way it goes... This music is quite noisy but not riotous. It does not screech. It does shimmer like a yellow octopus in ancient water... The singer is not really a singer. He's more a herald with a tremendous conviction in a voice. You may think that the words are just a dazzle paint for the music but then you get a perfect sign that it makes music really unfathomable... No, no time for logomachy... This mix of italian wave and contemporary noise and electroacoustics gives your wits the opportunity to look and to see something more underneath all-around things. Why? Coz' it deals not with a warped reality but with an intermittent pulse, flagging and melting until you get a refuge in a perfect glee... There are many ways to describe how the person thrusts in a puke on the platform and there is the only way not to tell that. [press-release]
Maldur Atai -- "Checkpoint" -- CD -- €10
2010 Autarkeia, acd 047, (ltd. 300)
This is the first full album of industrial/ambient project Maldur Atai, titled Checkpoint. This dose of music of nearly one hour emanates strong and solid atmosphere that grows, develops and changes during each exquisitely constructed track. The notional indexes of the album touch upon a variety of religious aspects. Yet, they all are related to violence in religion and religion as an arcane or masked violator acting in informational reality. This album reveals religion as a system marketed and propagated by invisible conspirators. The system marked by powerful structure, network and techniques. It exists as a secret institute in the informational field of hallucinations, entices with its promises and attractive images, however, in reality opens horrible nightmares, marauds and kills. What is worst in this matrix is that it chooses children as its main target. The adults have been conditioned in their childhood so that they would sacrifice their children to the system later. Checkpoint is a filtration camp where the children's souls are met by elitist creatures of the arcane society wearing black mantles and hiding their faces. They lie, they enslave, they manipulate and they involve you in the vicious circle with almost no hope of retreat. Checkpoint is an abstract, universal and purified vision of Maldur Atai in which many will recognise their own very personal experiences and the symbols of the everyday secret war. [press-release]
Man Da Rin -- "Bad / Good EP" -- 3"CD-R -- €2
2007 Ambulacranarx Records, amblcrnrx - 03, (ltd. 30)
A small single from gothic Mandarin. Clicks and glitches, pulling wires out of mind and other joys of the author inclined to machine murder. The disc contains 1 track + 1 bonus track. Also 2 mp3 files contain 2 unmixed tracks from the first composition, so you can listen to them either separately, or together. CD-extra (2 audio tracks + mp3 bonus). [press-release]
Mania -- "Ultra-Negative" -- CD -- €10
2008 Freak Animal Records, FA-CD-043, (ltd. 250)
4 tracks of heavy and noisy Mania material, with extensive use of metal junk. 2 tracks with analogue electronics contribution from Aaron Dilloway (former member of Wolf Eyes and many other projects). 1st edition of 250, in plastic box with full color inserts. [label info]
Manilapede -- "s/t" -- CD -- €10
2010 Turgid Animal, TA534
"Makes me feel like i've bored a hole into the center of the earth with my teeth!" says one friend close to this Starving Weirdo's alter-ego band. Self described as "Dune Rock" & coming from the deserts of Manila, California; this is a band very influenced by it's surroundings. Slow motion metalic riffs ring throughout the entire 50 minutes of the debut album, laying the founding for waves of rolling synth lines and sporadic clangings echoing in the distance, presumably a shamanic attempt at drums but too lost in a trance to muster any concrete tempo or rhythmn. Album of the year for me, what about you? [press-release]
Manson, Charles -- "The Summer Of Hate - The '67 Sessions" -- CD -- €11
2007 Arte Lupo, L182
Charles Manson's name should be no stranger to lovers of the weird and wonderful, having been sentenced to life without parole for his leadership of the cult 'The Family', who committed several murders in the late '60s. Before these events, Charley had high-hopes of becoming a pop star, with his strange psychedelic folk music - bizarrely more fashionable today than ever. Here for the first time are the complete recordings that were made on 11th September 1967 in a rehearsal studio, which went onto be used as demos to try to secure a recording deal, which never happened. Spoken word elements throughout the 18 tracks (just under 45 minutes). Essential for collectors of '60s Folk and weird psych freakouts. [label info]
Mantra, Michael -- "D#m/Gm" -- CD -- €10
2008 Purple Soil, pulse zero: five
The so far unreleased 1998 album. Classical example of static music. Two lengthy ambient tracks, heavy on subtle drones and concrete sounds, descending slowly forwards. [label info] "D#m/Gm is an album of extended ambient listening of sonic icebergs slowly shifting over time. This album is based in ultra minimal atmospheric dronecore, an exploration into the dark unknown of somber sonic states of the mysterious unknown and leveraging changes in states of feeling and states of consciousness. For maximum sonic effect, listening to this CD with stereo headphones is recommended. Do not listen to this album while operating heavy machinery or operating an automobile, motorcycle, marine craft, aircraft of extra terrestial craft. This album is dedicated to world peace for all sentient beings." [sleeve notes]
Marchetti, Lionel & Capparos, Olivier + Higashi, Yoko -- "A Blue Book" -- CD -- €16
2011 Waystyx, WR68, (ltd. 294)
The compositions recorded by the musicians in various years show wide range of contemporary experimental music. Here one can find the eternal Marchetti's interest in "musique concrete", electroacoustics of French school, academic vanguard of Capparos... His piano parts, like slowly dispersing circles on water, interact perfectly with rustling radionoises, crystal vibrant ambient and voice of a small girl, creating fragile and elusive music filled with always changing images, pieces of phrases and charm of Christmas chorals. The music which can be called "intimate", as it's so close and pleasant. The title track "A Blue Book" is a symphony which can be created by almost anyone by twisting knobs of a radio receiver and travelling through fragments of transmissions catching pieces of phrases, melodies with long pauses on "empty" waves, listening to only hypnotic mysterious crackles and trying to understand who or what is sending these signals. For Capparos this becomes an analogue of human memory which randomly extracts from its bank fragments of recollections, echoes of sounds, flashes of vivid experiences and lingering tension. The three-part piece "Tenebrae" for string quartet, composed by Olivier in 2008, shows the other side of his creativity - this is academic music for conservatory halls, resembling (not only because of similarity of sound, but mostly because of the feeling of almost religious ecstasy able to capture the listener entirely) the works of such aknowledged masters as Arvo Part... Marchetti and Higashi join forces to work over only one piece "A Short Story" based on recording of human voice made in 1860. Abstract sounds which Lionel derives from the synthesizer neighbour with Yoko's voice, mild as if stroking your hair drone, noise and crackle of interference and that fragment of a 150-year old recording where woman sings a lullaby... Delicate, multi-faceted and very personal work. [maeror3.livejournal.com]
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Marchoff, Marek X. & MJ Caroline Rider -- "Voxfields" -- CD -- €10
2011 Zoharum, IYHHH 005-02, (ltd. 444)
Marek Marchoff - the brain and the only permanent member behind DIFFERENT STATE project is a very creative man. He works a lot and the effects always amaze the listeners. Almost 20 years of experience in creating experimental and industrial sounds has left a stamp on his works. Without copying his own ideas, he is still searching, discovering new sounds and taking various initiatives. Together with MJ Caroline, he created his first field recording album. It's not a typical album for this kind. Marchoff treated field recordings as a palette of sounds by means of which he built a sonic horror story placed somewhere in Tilden fortress where rhythms are composed of footsteps, beats, reverberations of basements where only in the background life is throbbing and somewhere from the distance the moaning of war sirens can be heard. "Voxfields" is released as a fifth part of our ongoing IYHHH series. We are sure that it will be a stand-out position in this collection that serves a purpose of presenting lesser-known albums or side-projects. But, what seems to be obvious, the album is an excellent position in its own right and can compete with other recordings in this field and beyond. [press-release]
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Marhaug, Lasse -- "It's Not The End Of The World" -- CD -- €10
2007 Quasi Pop Records, QPOP CD043, (ltd. 500)
Quasi Pop proudly presents this record by Norwegian experimental/noise hero Lasse Marhaug. On this record he plays with the methods and traditions of serious electronic avantgarde that integrated into the aesthetics of loud & bloody harsch noise music. Damn hard, loud and overloaded skillfull thing, but exciting and highly intelligent at the same time. Please, play this CD as loud as it possible! Important: This is CD re-release of the same-titled very limited CD-R released in 2006 on chinese label Doufu. Our CD version with brand new artwork was fully re-mastered and also some tracks were added. The stunning collage artwork & design for this release by Lasse Marhaug himself. [press-release]
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Marutani, Kojo -- "Pataphysics" -- CD -- €10
2000 Alluvial Recordings, ALL002, (ltd. 500)
Our first release for 2000, this is from Japanese composer Koji Marutani, who also runs the Digital Narcis label. Here, he presents a group of recordings of wide variation. He continues his series of "Scenes" recordings which incorporate field and locational recordings with electronic elements. The first piece is inspired by the radical piano work of Eric Satie. Other pieces includes cool, flowing ambiance and cut up's of American, Japanese and European TV and radio broadcasts. There is also his attempt at adding a warm, human element to the often tired Electro- Blip sound. It's packaged in a perfect balance of austere lights and earthy tones in an edition of 500. [press-release]
Marutti, Andrea -- "The Subliminal Relation Between Planets - Live In Archiaro" -- CD -- €10
2008 Nextera, ERA 2049-2
Marutti, Andrea -- "Traces 94-95" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2001/2005 Taalem, alm 1
You might not know this name but if we tell you that this is the man behind the great dark-ambient projects Amon and Never Known, we think you'll see who Andrea is... Here he proposes us three tracks recorded some years ago and mastered very recently especially for this release, a bit close to the old Never Known sound. Not really dark-ambient, a liitle more experimental yet still melodic. [press-release]
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Marutti, Andrea & Fausto Balbo -- "Detrimental Dialogue" -- CD -- €10
2010 Afe Records, afe127cd / Boring Machines, bm023 / Fratto9 Under The Sky Records, fratto012
Experimental / Avantgarde. Andrea Marutti and Fausto Balbo have met in 2005 at Lab12 in Vigevano; both active in music making since more than fifteen years, their friendship has grown over the years on the fertile ground of the interest that they share about electronic experimentation and their wide and open-minded listening habits. "Detrimental Dialogue", their very first collaboration, deeply explores various types of analogue and digital synthesis (additive, subtractive, Physical Modeling, FM, Phase Distortion, Granular, etc.) and live electronics elements. Recorded together in the authors' studios and then worked out in seclusion between 2007 and 2009, the tracks on "Detrimental Dialogue" were subsequently redefined during a one-week long collective mixing session rigorously made with analogue equipment and precious outboard effects at Fausto Balbo's studio. The album presents four experimental electronic pieces whose exact classification eludes us since their musical contents are rich of the most disparate suggestions. In a formula full of its own natural-born personality, we find elements that recall prominent experimental forms - sometimes pseudo-abstract - rich of fragments, loops and "clusters" of sounds that bear a pronounced and exhibited synthetic matrix. "Atmospheric", dilated and generally quiet sequences are alternated with more structured, dramatic and progressive moments that shake the listeners and emotionally involve them with a more orthodox path, without giving way to conventional or stereotyped solutions... [label info]
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Maska Genetik -- "Strada" -- CD -- €15
2011 Galakthorrö, Galakthorrö 027
'I've reached the limits of my strength' said Amon Radek, and set off in search of a new life. There was to be no place for Maska Genetik, it was too much of a torture to justify those high standards he insisted on. We were astounded and couldn't believe it, and so we held his album back for some considerable time. Perhaps he wanted urgently to replace one of the songs? An artist of course, has his sensibilities, and a Russian has an additional inbred melancholy. So let us not be too hasty. Over the years we have certainly fulfilled our role as inheritance trustees, and so now we present his first and probably last album. It is all the more regretful, because Maska Genetik represented a pinnacle in the history of Galakthorrö, for us and for many of our listeners. This is obviously the case with Strada. There are songs to be heard that were created before, and after, the sought-after Quarantine EP. Radek's inner conflicts and his very real suffering have shaped his Angst Pop into its own unique form. We are not presented with self-pity, but with anger and a deep sorrow, at a world fashioned by mankind, in which a future for humanity is hard to imagine... CD in jewel case with 8 page booklet. [press-release]
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Maskinfett -- "Stinkhole Universe" -- CD-R -- €7
Ominous Recordings, OR001
This pulse-oriented harsh, industrial noise from Sweden. The debut albums contains some of Maskinfetts greatest moments. This should be of interest for fans of Merzbow, Smegma and more such, since it's filled with sickening cluster, harsh industrial noise, and pulses. [label info]
Massive Ejaculation -- "Pony Express" -- CD -- €10
2009 24919 Records, CD24919-02, (ltd. 500)
First line-up of Massive Ejaculation was gathered in Fleetwood, Lancashire to plat rock'n'roll. First release "Anarcho-hippy with dogs" consisted of 86 songs about violence and was released on a 6-minute cassette by Smith Research label. The cover was made of fragments of 11 pirate videocassettes with the movies by Aristide Massacceze (Italian porn director). 15 years later the basic discography of Massive Ejaculation is presented on a CD by Russian label 24919. [Monopolka] Wildly joyful collage noise, horribly dirty sound of archive tapes and natural "shitcore" which will clean the remainings of your brain out of brainpan, and in the end - a fervent remake of Ministry song. All this is "Pony Express". [label info] Digipak.
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Mastermind -- "Power" -- CD -- €10
2005 Monopolrecords, 003, (ltd. 500)
Solo project of Radim Cap from Depressive Disorder. EBM / future-electro / industrial.
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Materia Aurora -- "Post Night Sequences" -- CD -- €11
2009 OPN Records, OPNCD0011 / BKO Media, BKOMCD01, (ltd. 500)
First release in CD format from this french project mixing cold ambient music with drones & acoustic sounds. The music is cold as ice as well as deeply organic. The cd is housed in DVD digipack file with full icy colour artwork. [label info]
Maths Balance Volumes -- "Black Husk" -- CD-R -- €7
Weirdo Records, (ltd. 50)
Most low-key Maths recording in a while, and one of the best...mostly short pieces, with childlike melodies being forced into repetitious and grime-covered songs, trance-inducing synth/percussion grooves, black holes of tape murk, lullabies, and a few large ensemble explosions of rock n' noise... [Microsound-announce] Minnesota gypsy violin gyrations, samples stretched & broken until they morph into odd casio songs, unruly tape pieces let go over acoustic guitar thump & back porch stomp. [label info]
Matousek, Vlastislav -- "Kaligrafie II: Shakuhachi" -- CD -- €9
2004 Nextera, LK 0146-2
Japanese traditional music played on shakuhachi flute.
Matter -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €10
2007 Observatory Records 9, (ltd. 11)
One more side-project of Sunchariot / Adriva, this time experimenting with digital drone ambient. Leisurely minimalism and atmosphere truly engulfing beyond. Music for full immersion.
Matter -- "Pinkly Lips" -- CD-R -- €9
2007 Observatoire, Observatoire 14, (ltd. 50)
Matter is a project of Russian musician Denis Shapovalov (Adriva, Sunchariot), in which he explores the possibilities of computer technologies. However he does it in the same way as in his main projects. The result is rather strange meeting of digital sound and raw primordial approach: monotonous noises, crackles, loops and complete obscurantism. An engaging release.
Mauthausen Orchestra -- "Sonic Deprivation" -- CD -- €10
2009 Silentes Minimal Editions, sme 0930
A fantastic selection of archive materials from the 'golden age' of Mathausen Orchestra, the Italian power-electronic project born in the early 80s from the mind of Pierpaolo Zoppo, recently back in full to his artistic activity (see also the other CD Silentes SME0932, Nimh/Mauthausen Orchestra: From Unhealthy Places). Coming as a wonderful digipack CD, these six tracks collected from his very first cassette releases (Murderfuck, Mafarka, Anal Perversion, Host Sodomy, From Homicide to Slaughter) are released in a completely restored and remastered edition that finally does justice in full to the incredible and futuristic visions of one of the most significant Italian experimental artists of the last thirty years. Unthinkable and apocalyptic sonic masses pushed to the extreme, an endless flux of strong emotions, a violent and devastating impact: Absolutely not to be missed. [label info]
Mauthausen Orchestra -- "Where Are We Going?" -- CD -- €14
2008 BloodLust!, B!091
Mavis, Mac -- "Report from the Lake" -- CD -- €11
2009 Faria Records, FAR-27, (ltd. 500)
Synthesized audio report from far away lake and it's surroundings of natural beauty and original almost untouched wilderness. Drifting in a boat with only a small synthesizer and portable recorder to create ideas for later production. Capturing moments of peace impossible to tell in words. Life by this lake, where only handful of people live. Meetings with the friendly natives living near by. From waking up to early morning sunrise to late night boat journeys,losing all sense of time and date. World as we know it has no meaning in here. This is no 2 week holiday watching TV. This is wildlife, survival for the inexperienced. When the evening falls and winds calm down you can hear whispers of the wilderness. When thunder storm arrives you have wooden cottage for shelter. No need to worry about electricity blackout because here you never had any. Old radio at the cabin porch playing ambient music, battery operated synthesizer, guitar and food. Silence is everywhere. This album is based on real life experience. Melodic and warm ambient music, created totally with hardware synthesizers and sequencer. With some actual on location field recordings as reference. [press-release]
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McMarian -- "Marian Wyjechal (Give Noise A Chance)" -- 3 CD-R -- €10
2010 Impulsy Stetoskopu, 023, (ltd. 120)
Part of the "The Archive Of Polish Industrial Music" series. "McMARIAN was started as a studio project in 1986 by Marcin Bednarski and Piotr Kalinowski. They were occasionally assisted by OJCIEC WAHEHE (of WAHEHE), FRANZ DREADHUNTER (ex DÜPA) and PREZES (of ID). As much as it developed the art concepts of the group WAHEHE (of which Bednarski was a major member), it put forward a completely different aesthetic quality of music. While WAHEHE explored the industrial avant-garde of rock music, both ideologically and musically, McMARIAN dropped the rock tradition and its rebellious platform entirely. Instead, it focused on electronics and the new vistas and possibilities it opened, still fascinated with industrial music's primary ideas: antimusic and an unconventional use of synthesizers. Its main instruments were two analogue synthesizers designed by Kalinowski himself (one consisting of a sequencer, noise generator and a drum machine) and pre-recorded tapes of looped idiosyncratic electroacoustic textures. Their works relied on irregular rhythms of rough sound, often morphing into a sonic cacophony that overpowers snippets of conversations, radio and TV programmes or radio plays for children. This was complemented by an oneiric atmosphere, full of surreal contrasts and Dadaistic absurdities, accentuated by Kalinowski's collage artworks, which have never been published before and several of which are included on this release. Terminated in 1989, the project left very little output." Metal box with booklet.
MD Howser -- "Phat Beat Farming" -- 3"CD-R -- €5
2008 Harha-Askel, [HA-7]
THE FUTURE IS NOW! a.k.a. is it the 20th century already? Retarded tekkno-beats and total regressive electronica from the boy wonder MD Howser. [label info]
Mechthild Von Leusch -- "Aith Ochnal, Rungholter Tanze, Zweites Buch" -- CD -- €22
1993 Walter Ulbricht Schallfolien, WULP 016
Meditations -- "Eternal Absence" -- 3"CDR -- €5
2008 Small Doses, dosethirtythree, (ltd. 115)
This is the third release from this trio - Franklin Teagle, Matt Yacoub, and Ryan McGill (Bones of Seabirds). Schizophrenic noise -PE-like one moment dark ambience in others - of the highest order - drenched in feedback with a heart of stone. [label info]
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Meelkop, Roel -- "5 (Zwischenfälle)" -- CD -- €13
2007 Auf Abwegen, AATP18, (ltd. 500)
5(zwischenfaelle) is the latest release by dutch electronic musician ROEL MELLKOP (also member of Kapotte Muziek, THU20 and GOEM). It is a special release in Meelkop's catalogue because it is consist of five piece that were originally used in the context of sound installations running over a certain period of time in specific special surroundings. For 5 (zwischenfaelle) Meelkop has set himself the task to compress these soundscapes into five dense and still minimal audio pieces that could work outside the context of the original installations. 5 (zwischenfaelle) is focussed on single sound events and stark beautiful dynamic movements in a certain area of sound and does not have the bruitistic research-like feel of other solo works by Meelkop. 5 (zwischenfaelle) makes for concentrated unpolished ultra minimal listening with maximum effect. For all friends of Bernhard Gunter, Francisco Lopez, Joe Colley/Crawl Unit or Marc Behrens this is a definite work! [press-release]
Meelkop, Roel & Takanobu Hoshino -- "Fukushima" -- CD -- €10
2011 Observatoire, obs * 030 cd, (ltd. 350)
It may sound preposterous, but this CD is the direct result of a catastrophy. When on March 11th of 2011 an earthquake was noticed in Japan, nobody could anticipate the destruction that would ensue in a large part of the country. The city of Fukushima had to endure te worst of all: it was first hit by an earthquake and then a tsunami. But with the breakdown of a nuclear plant in direct vicinity of the city, a nightmare came true. Not only did many people lose their homes, now the fear of contamination was as real as it could get. Up until now it is still unclear how many people will suffer the consequences of nuclear radiation. It is for the city of Fukushima and its inhabitants that this CD was concieved and produced, as a memorial to their struggle and a token of respect to their endurance. [press-release]
Megaptera -- "Staring Back At You" -- CD -- €10
2007 Malignant Records, TUMOR CD29, (ltd. 800)
In a final celebration of Megaptera's 15 year anniversary, Malignant presents the definitive last statement from this prominent and highly influential death industrial project. Staring Back At You concentrates on demo versions, outtakes, and rare songs from various arenas, including the compilations Zyklon B, Beating the Meat, Slaughter Age '95, The Book ov Shadowz, Death Odors II, as well as material from the Deep Inside mLP, and more. These tracks capture Megaptera at their grittiest, creepiest, and most horrifying...a grinding, lurching monstrosity fueled by the madness, violence, lies, wars, and disease that plague the world. Lmtd to 800 copies, and coming in a 6 panel digipak designed by Marten Kellerman, this has been re-mastered by Magnus Sundstrom (The Protagonist), with additional boosting courtesy of Thomas Garrison (Control). Staring Back At You is final nail in the coffin for Megaptera, and may they rest in peace, but continue to deliver nightmares, maddening thoughts, and the darkest of obsessions. Track listing: More Disturbance (demo version), The Passage (demo version), Disoriented (Totally Different demo version), Lurking Fear (Pre-damaged demo version), Frozen Corpse, The Final Day (excerpt), Morior, Mass Murder, Antropofagi, Deep Inside. [label info]
Meirino, Francisco -- "A While and Awhile" -- CD-R -- €8
2012 Observatoire, obs * 036, (ltd. 100)
This new solo album by Francisco Meirino might at first look like a fairly short 9 tracks ride but it immediately attracts attention and the need for concentration by alternating, with various degrees, intensity, dynamics and volume. This assemblage of endless changes with the obvious hissing sound of reel-to-reel motors, the brutal voltage discharges of dying equipments, brings warmth and focus on the other important aspect of this detailed audio work... the threat of an unknown sonic language. Recorded using computer, reel-to-reel tape recorders, analog synth, field recorder, various home-made electronics, piezo transducers, radio scanner and electro-magnetic sensors. [label info]
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Meizter, K. -- "Tetraphobia" -- CD -- €10
2009 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 117
After channelising all his musical energy into Beyond Sensory Experience for the past two years, K. Meizter finally returns with a new solo exertion. Spawned during the sinister last months of a northern year, Tetraphobia scans through the kafkaesque layers of human anxiety, and continues K. Meizter's distinctive manipulation of sound, melody and pulse. Following Travelling Light, Dark Matters and the Horologium collaboration Eight Studies in Transition, K. Meizter's new release develops even more unsettling atmospheres of reflection and alteration. With 10 tracks and over an hour of foreboding avant-garde, Tetraphobia is K. Meizter's most convincing work this far.
Dark and solemn. [press-release]
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Meizter, K. -- "Travelling Light" -- CD -- €16
2006 HORUS CyclicDaemon, HCD 07, (ltd. 500)
Melek-Tha -- "Perfect World Eradication" -- CD -- €13
2003 Kubernoise, NOISE003
Menche, Daniel -- "The Face of Vehemence" -- CD -- €10
2002 Ground Fault Recordings, GF019
My influence and inspiration for "The Face of Vehemence" is the book "Sun and Steel" by Yukio Mishma. The CD title "Face of Vehemence" is basically what I see in Yukio Mishimas face; especially on the book cover. Almost all of his photos he has that "face of vehemence". When I finally read his book "Sun and Steel" it was like a "take the words out outa my mouth" experience but articulated absolutly perfectly in a manner I could never do with words. How he percieved "words" in relating to the flesh is how I percieve "sound" in relating to the flesh. Yukio Mishmas attitude towards art/flesh/death/spirit is highly inspiring towards my music. [Daniel Menche]
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Menche, Daniel -- "Kanticle" -- 3"CD -- €7
2006 Ferns Recordings, rhizome_01, (ltd. 500)
Recorded in winter of 2003 and finished in summer of 2005 in Portland (Oregon) at Stereophonic studios. Dedicated to Koji Tano (1965-2005).
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Menche, Daniel -- "Scather" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2005 Taalem, alm 23
Taâlem goes noise :-) Another great artist in the Taâlem series that should need no introduction. Daniel Menche has fastly gained a strong reputation in the experimental/noise scene thanks to many releases on various labels all around the world (Tesco, Soleilmoon, Beta Lactam Ring, Antifrost, to name but a few) and extremely physical live performances. Here's another fine example of his huge talent to create loud and powerful but subtle music! [press-release]
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Menche, Daniel & Mizutani, Kiyoshi -- "Garden" -- CD -- €10
2003 Auscultare Research, aus 019
For this collaboration CD called "Garden" Daniel Menche and Kiyoshi Mizutani used an interesting concept. Menche took care of the low end of the frequencies, while Mizutani did the high end of the frequencies. Daniel Menche is well known for his low rumbling soundscapes, while Kiyoshi Mizutani usually operates in the mid-range of our hearing. Both artists use found or environmental sounds and manipulate these to create their music. "Garden" contains lots of sounds that sound like they have been recorded by Mr. Mizutani in a Japanese garden, chittering birdsounds or perhaps the sounds of insects that turns into a hissing drone. This chittering and hissing is accompanied by the unrecognisable low rumblings by Daniel Menche. This one track soundscape takes a bit more than an hour and starts quite gentle. Towards the end, however, it becomes more and more threatening. In all this is a very exciting and interesting release, which is less dark than Menche's usual output and a bit darker than Mizutani's releases and is both meditative and unnerving at the same time. [Funprox review]
Mercuri, Damiano -- "European Music And Ballads From Renaissance And Baroque Era" -- CD -- €11
2009 The Eastern Front, Folk 001, (ltd. 500)
Damiano Mercuri (Rose Rovine E Amanti) plays Renaissance and Baroque epoch ballads and courtesy music. Damiano Mercuri is known as neo-folk artist while being a professional classical musician Damiano virtuously played and recorded popular in Renaissance and early Baroque era ballads and classical pieces. Pressed CD in quantity of 500 copies. Comes in 3 folded glossy packing with Renaissance painting themed artwork. [press-release]
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Merzbow -- "Annica" -- CD -- €11
2008 Cold Spring Records, CSR107CD
The first track on Merzbow's latest opus was recorded at Tin Pan Alley studios, London, on 20th April 2008 - the day after his momentous performance at ULU. Akita created an astounding and very unique 20-minute track, playing freestyle drums over his trademark noise. The final 2 tracks were created at Munemi House in Tokyo. Another fine example of why Merzbow is the undisputed King of Japanese Noise! 58 minutes in total. [press-release]
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Merzbow -- "Batztoutai With Material Gadgets" -- 2 CD -- €13
1986/2005 RRRecords, RRR-CD-06
Reissue of the do-LP "Batztoutai With Memorial Gadgets" from 1986 remixed in 1993 + bonus CD "Loop Panic Limited" containing cut-ups from various records.
Merzbow -- "Camouflage" -- CD -- €12
2009 Essence Music, ESS012, (ltd. 800)
The elemental excitement for each new Merzbow album remains intact among us here and, after four long years, the undisputable master returns to Essence Music with a new installment of his unique brand of harsh psychedelic noise assault. A bit distant from Sha Mo 3000's pulsing, often rhythmic strategies or the recent albums featuring freestyle drums by Masami Akita himself, Camouflage plays by the more straight MERZBOW rules, going back to his comfort zone of audio barbarism. We salute the ferocious torrents of abused, imploding and exploding electronics, the sharp, pulverizing and abrasive high frequencies and the unrelenting punishment of frenzied throbbing machine-screams witnessed in the controlled cacophonic environment of Camouflage! Presented in our deluxe, sturdy gatefold mini-LP packaging featuring intriguing psychedelic collages by Mr. Akita. [press-release]
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Merzbow -- "Dead Zone" -- CD -- €10
2011 Quasi Pop Records, QPOP CD059, (ltd. 500)
The multi-billions trasinternational concerns think we want more and more cars, computers and mobile phones. For offering all these crap to us for cheap, they need more and more cheap energy. They want nuclear power plants which are powerfull and good in making money, but this technology is extremely dangerous for the people and for our planet. To get a cheap plastic junk today, we are agree to kill our child's future today. We have already had two colossal nuclear disasters in only last 25 years: Chernobyl (Ukraine) in 1986 and Fukushima (Japan) in 2011. There are lots of information everywhere about the sas consequences of both and do we really need more proofs?.. Japanese noise master Masami Akita recorded CD "Dead Zone" in March 2011, the day after the first explosion of Fukushima Nuclear power plant. All pictures for the artwork were taken in Chernobyl and Prypiat in May 2011. This CD is dedicated to the worldwide anti-nuclear movement. [label info]
Merzbow -- "Don't Steal My Coat" -- CD -- €8
2009 No Music Records, noise 015 / Olmolungring, OLR 01
Merzbow -- "F.I.D." -- 2 CD -- €15
2006 Fourth Dimension Records, FD2CD70
Three recordings from December 2005 and January 2006 on each disc. "F.I.D.' (Fur Is Dead) follows the lead of the recent 'Minazo Vol. 1', the tracks are coated in defined melodies and ultra noisy denser textured ambience, the use of guitar feedback taken to a new sculptured level. Each track here is very different, not staying in one set of sounds, which makes it a wonderfully balanced double album... In the top two or three Merzbow releases for this year and in the top ten releases of the last few years. Another clear example of an artist, performing at the height of his powers. [Roger Batty, Musique Machine]
Merzbow -- "Marmo" -- CD -- €13
2010 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 131
After two vinyl releases finally a digital album by the master of Japan-Noise on OEC. This album is entitled "Marmo" (Marble for Italian) and is devoted to the Italian and particularly the Venetian marble. Masami was visiting and playing in this magic Italian city several times and was impressed by all the marbles used in the Venetian buildings and paintings... The 3 tracks composing this album are entitled "Merzbotanica-parallela", "Botanica parallela" is a book written by the Italian author Leo Lionni who is also the inventor of such botanic science, a parallel iper-real botanic where imagination is more reliable than reality.... A real psychadelic tribute by the Japanese master of noise to Venice and Italy.... Enter this new 'Merzcolored-Merzbotanic-Merzpsychomuzak' full of scratching rythms and psychoactive noises and let your brain explode. Special folding cover with Venetian marbled paper effect and golden letterings. [press-release]
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Merzbow -- "Scene" -- CD -- €9
2005 Waystyx, WR11
Recorded in November 2004, this material is not remarkable for it's brutality, rather on the contraty, sometimes it reminds quite normal music. The album is filled with straight rhythmic moments and ambient diffusions, but of course Masami Akita couldn't do it without good noise flavouring even here.
Merzbow / Carlos Giffoni / Jim O'Rourke -- "Electric Dress" -- CD -- €10
2007 No Fun Productions, NFP-15
Electric Dress covers the full spectrum of sound color possibility, from totally brutal walls of destructive noise to beautiful minimal synthetic interplay, analog drone and shifting alien electronics. A total face melting collaboration recorded live in Tokyo using an array of analog synths and a variety of custom analog equipment, including Merzbow's classic home made spring/junk metal instrument. Warm, varied, and obsessive this is what industrial music should have been, the sound of infinite machines demolishing a planet and creating a new structure where live organisms have been eradicated. Edited and mastered by Jim for maximum sonic annihilation. [press-release]
Merzbow & The Haters -- "s/t" -- CD -- €10
1986/2006 Banned Production, BP-128
Originally released by Banned in 1986, this collaboration set the mark high for all subsequent noise releases. This CD rerelease is remastered by John Wiese and features a remixed version of "Jopa" by G.X. Jupitter-Larsen. [label info]
Merzbow / Sutcliffe Jügend / Satori -- "s/t" -- CD EP -- €11
2008 Cold Spring Records, CSR102CD, (ltd. 1000)
Released on the occasion of Merzbow, Sutcliffe Jügend and Satori at ULU, London, 19th April 2008. Japanese Noise, Power Electronics and Fortean Electronics from these 3 giants of the Noise / Industrial scene, with one exclusive studio track from each act. This CD is presented in a full colour card slip and is shrinkwrapped. [press-release]
Merzbow / Z'EV -- "Spiral Right / Spiral Left" -- CD -- €10
2010 Cold Spring, CSR133CD
In the planning (and many faxes, emails and discussions in person) for 20 years, finally this stunning collaborative release for Cold Spring from Japanese Noise king Merzbow and legendary elemental sound artist Z'EV is here. The tracks were created in London and Tokyo, with each artist remixing the other's original sounds. Two tracks weighing in at 22 minutes apiece! Dark Ambient Noise in a special textured card digisleeve. [press-release]
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Messdiener -- "Würmer im Kruzifix / Klosterarbeiten" -- CD -- €10
2008, Psych.KG 33 / E-Klageto 01/2008, (ltd. 222)
A strange German project playing some crazy avantguard / rock. Collages from samples, rhythmic drums, space synths, sometimes guitars and wild screams in German. Overall great dada atmosphere. A very decent record quality unlike with many homemade projects. Simple edition.
Messer Chups -- "Black Black Magic" -- CD -- €7
2002 Solnze Records, SCD 025
This Russian masterpiece twists you outta this world. Black Black Magic is Messer Chups most musical release: 50's B-Movie soundtracks, the guitar at times reminiscent of Ricky King, Sci-Fi Horror ala Ed Wood, the erotique of Russ Meyer - all in perfect combination with Lydia Kavina's (niece of Lev Termen, Theremin inventor) Theremin to mutate a sound so 'retro', that it sounds like the future.
The video for 'Go Satan Go' features Russian Playmate of the year Natalya Simakova, guaranteeing even more kitsch. Messer Chups is a side project of one of the members of Russia's Messer fur Frau Muller. Each of their releases is slightly different in tone - they're all loaded with bits of musical and spoken samples, ranging from 1950s B-movies to cartoon sounds.This one, however, focuses more on surf-style guitar music and theremin. Now there's a combination you don't hear much of on CD these days! Messer Chups plays with these completely diverse sounds to create a wonderful musical style all their own. As usual, song titles are pretty indicative of the strangeness - although many of them are listed in Russian only. However, using software such as RealPlayer on your computer will show you the English titles, as I discovered. What can you say about songs called "Cat Religion" or "Cowboys, Indians and Their Parents"? All you need to know is that they really do sound both cool and strange. Aside from 13 excellent songs, there is also a CD-ROM video included on this disc, "Go Satan Go!," which comes from Messer Chups' previous release, Vamp Babes (which is every bit as good as this CD). Run, don't walk, to buy this CD - and all their others, while you're at it; you won't regret it! [Cheryl Shinfield, coldandstrange.com]
Messer Chups -- "Crazy Price" -- CD -- €7
2003 Solnze Records, SCD 032
The king of Russian lounge Oleg Gitarkin changes his image headily - his albums contain less samples and more exotic instruments. The 6th album of his project Messer Chups is recorded with the help of two theremin players - Lidia Kavina is now supported by her apprentice Barbara Buchholtz, - and harpists. All these instrumental rarities and amenities are crowned by a remix from a cult British band People Like Us. [label info]
Metaorganism -- "I:Baphomet" -- CD-R -- €6
2008 Some Place Else, SPECDR08048
Metaorganism was conceived - or discovered - in Kuuskulma studio while conducting various experiments with sinewaves, oscillators and feedback. Metaorganism is based on - or communicates through - a network of digital and analog devices transmitting information to each other, back and forth. In the system, a minor change in a supposedly insignificant parameter may unexpectedly change the overall course of the sound. Everything affects everything - as above, so below... At some point of its development, the system will reach a state of balance where it seems to become self-reliant - independent, evolving - and in a sense a communicating entity which becomes conscious of itself. The Manifestation occurs, through sound. A series of recording sessions were held, with the attempt to experiment with the system to serve certain 'hermetic' purposes, to influence the nature of Manifestation, ie. what exactly is invoked in/through the sound. I:Baphomet is the first in what is being planned as a series of Metaorganism audio documents. [press-release]
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Methadrone -- "Better Living (Through Chemistry)" -- CD -- €10
2009 ConSouling Sounds, SOUL0006, (ltd. 2000)
Methadrone has come a long way since its conception as a 2-bassed sludge/drone monolith. Craig Pillard (who has been part of Evoken, Incantation, e.a.) gradually expanded his sound through experiment with acoustic guitars and other vocal collaborations. Better Living (Through Chemistry) is pushing beyond the boundaries of traditional doom music, resulting in well balanced atmospheric pieces of music which make this third full album the apogee of Methadrone's oeuvre this far. On this innovative journey, that bridges the gaps between doom, drone, dark ambient, wave and even neo-folk, Pillard sided with Jason Wallach (The Unquiet Void), Tara Vanflower (Lycia) and Thierry Arnal (fragment.) to present their next step in the evolution of gloomy music. [press-release]
Microspora -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €7
2011 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT73, (ltd. 83)
Operator Produkzion opens a series of releases by Microspora - most likely the least known project of the "Leningrad noise school". It's creator - Valery Rakcheev - belongs to a group of such artists as A. Lebedev-Frontov and K. Stoukaline, he's been active (in the fields of music, fine arts, philophonia, audiophilia, etc.) in the underground since late 70-s, but somehow hasn't released anything from his music until today, just making some copies of his albums for friends. This album is filled with old school power droning electronics, pulsating minimal noises and technogenic claustromanic rumble. Last track is a sort of experimental downtempo industrial with samples from German history of the second third of XX century. Handmade montage cover with the graphics of V. Rakcheev. [press-release]
Microspora -- "Ausrottung" -- CD-R -- €7
2012 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT87, (ltd. 87)
Minimalistic metaphysical Death Ambient with a touch of cosmism, cold atmosphere of North and industrial smack. High quality material on European scene level. For the fans of Soldnergeist "Spur 2", Baradelan, I Burn, Nightmarish. Slim-DVD-box, handmade cover with a necrophiliac photo from the World War II unique for each copy. [label info]
Microspora -- "BOM" -- CD-R -- €7
2011 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT90, (ltd. 67)
Psychedelic ambient, somethimes rthythmical, sometimes turning into a retrograde droning of an electro organ, sometimes spiced up with concrete noises. Reminds the experiments of the electronic music pioneers in 60-70ies. Handmade cover, all info handwritten. [label info]
Microspora -- "Necrofuturism" -- CD-R -- €7
2011 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT89, (ltd. 53)
Second release from the classic of the Leningrad noise school for Operator Produkzion. Sampledelics, swinging Moog organs, buzz of valve electrobees mixed with blurry factory noise, abrasive rustle and shocking redneck beats. Sleeve. [label info]
Microspora -- "Wool" -- CD-R -- €7
2011 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT79, (ltd. 101)
First track is soft psychedelic sci-fi space ambient based on warm retro electronic sound, resemblind some sci-fi movies from 60-s. Second track contains strange music as if old Suicide from 1975 with their garage electronic sound tried to perform Autechre compositions. Sleeve. [press-release]
Miel Noir & B-Machina -- "Weiss" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 The Eastern Front, Front 015, (ltd. 300)
Miel Noir which was created in 2007 is a side project of Dimo D. founder of Svarrogh and playing in Allerseelen and Sturmpercht. Miel Noir' sound, concept and atmosphere differ from Dimo's main project Svarrogh, it's another way and another music. Miel Noir performed live for the first time on MLB Festival in Madrid on 31 May, 2008 and those who will be lucky to attend this great event heard the Miel Noir premiere performance. 6 melancholic industrial tracks adorned with deep unique Dimo's vocal are titled 'Miel I, II, III, IV, V, VI' and run about 25 minutes... B-Machina is former well-known industrial act Bonemchine from Austria, presented 16 tracks on "Weiss". Only 3 tracks 'The Color Of My Innocence', 'Fahne Empor!' and 'Wald aus Stein & Rost' are full tracks while the other 13 ones is a silence completing perfectly the concept of the album... "Weiss" comes in quantity of 300 hand numbered copies in CD-R format in glossy high quality 3-folded hard paper packing. Artwork designed by A.W. was created in quiet misty colors and enhanced with original photos made by Dimo D. [press-release]
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Mikosterion -- "Slipout" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2002 self-released
One more side-project of Hum. Bright and transparent droney track dedicated to the Autumn Mystery, mushrooms and ideal trip.
Miles Bryson, P. -- "The Weight of the World, a Long Day's Tango into Night" -- CD -- €10
2002 SSSM, SSSM-103
One long dark-ambient track constructed from field recordings, sounds of tango, orchestral pieces and electronics.
Milieu -- "Beyond The Sea Lies The Stars" -- CD -- €10
2006 Infraction, INFX 018, (ltd. 505)
Milk-Man*s=KRANTRANSPORT -- "30M" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Winter Solstice Records, ws001
If you like Kraftwerk, you will probably like this Russian industrial project too. Futuristic music filled with urban sounds of mysterious future, pleasant pulsationg beat and atmospheric keyboards - as if it was created for the movie about intergalactic travels. The universe, space, infinity... Spheres unknown but so attractive to us. So attractive and inviting is the music of Milk Man. You can fully enjoy the vibrations of the amazing electronic ship guided by romantic and authentic captain. [press-release]
Minamata -- "Cyclator" -- CD + DVD -- €17
2009 Les Nouvelles Propagandes, NP.021, (ltd. 500)
Minamata -- "Niigata" -- CD -- €13
2007 Zone De Confusion, Z.D.C.02
Mindmap -- "Plochy" -- CD-R -- €9
2003 Afe Records, afe047lcd, (ltd. 200)
"Plochy" is the debut album of slovakian band Mindmap and comes after the usual demos and the self-released "Live at Subterra" CD-R. Main people involved in Mindmap are Emil Mat'ko and Igor Ilias who take care of all the programming, with the help of Dana Mazalova on vocals, and other collaborators. We're pleased to announce that this is our favourite Afe release ever: if there has to be an album that synthesize all the different styles of electronic music we released until today, that is 'Plochy'. It has beautiful ambient textures, it has real songs, you can dance to certain tracks and appreciate all the research that went into crafting each sound on others. "Plochy" (Slovak name for "strings" or another sustain sound) it's a 360 journey into the realm of the electronic sound that starts with the suggested exoticism and the mysterious lyrics of "As We Were", and ends with the excellent electro trip-hop Ear Drum Kru Mapmind Remix of "Retrospective". In between these tracks you'll appreciate the calm atmospheres and intelligent rhythms configurations that permeate the whole work: the oniric labyrinth of "Da Song", the delicate guitars on "Cori Celesti", the suffered vocals on "Eman"... each track on this album deserves a special mention. [label info]
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Ministry Of Truth -- "óĢÅŠĻŹ EP" -- CD-R -- €4
2010 No Head Records
Russian darkwave / gothic. A promo-release for the second full-length of Ministry Of Truth which should be released in autumn 2010. All lyrics in Russian language. Featuring an exclusive remix of "Broad is the man" by dj dirty. [label info]
Ministry Of Truth -- "Ministry Of Truth EP" -- CD-R -- €4
2007 No Head Records
Russian darkwave / gothic. A debut release of Ministry Of Truth which captured the band as a duo of it's core members. This is actually the first demo before a full-length album which was released only after three years. This EP is interesting with a track "Timely Death" only performed at the very first live gigs and never re-recorded later, and also the original versions of "Father" and "Emotions", which have become the band's visiting card. [label info]
Ministry Of Truth -- "Night Of The Soul EP" -- CD-R -- €4
2008 No Head Records
Russian darkwave / gothic. Second release of Ministry Of Truth and actually the second demo before a full-length album. First public appearance of the third member, Minister Of Harmony. Interesting with two tracks: the original version of a mega-hit "Broad is the man", and a remix of "Father" by one of the godfathers of German dark scene ENDRAUM. [label info]
Ministry Of Truth -- "Peel" -- CD-R -- €6
2010 No Head Records
Russian darkwave / gothic. Full-length collection of rarities from Ministry Of Truth. Actually, a bonus disc for "Pocketsize God" album, containing different versions of the album tracks, live recordings and remixes.
Ministry Of Truth -- "Pocketsize God" -- CD -- €8
2010 Shirok Chelovek Records, 01
Russian darkwave / gothic. First full-length album of Ministry Of Truth, all lyrics in English. Features guest appearance of Anton Brezhestovsky (Caprice). [label info]
Ministry Of Truth -- "Something, Somewhere EP" -- CD-R -- €4
2009 No Head Records
Russian darkwave / gothic. First completely original release of Ministry Of Truth. First public appearance of Minister Of Culture. An interesting item, as all this material is not going be used anywhere else. [label info]
Minotaur Shock -- "Maritime" -- CD -- €9
2007 Soyuz Music / 4AD, CAD 2511 CD
Minotaur Shock is a new member in the family of famous labwl 4AD which previously released Pixies, Dead Can Dance and Lush. Nowadays debutants play what is now called "indietronics" - a fusion of euphoric indie-pop with voiceless laptop electronics. Optimistic pop tunes gently flavoured with warm electronic noises turn into more abstract compositions resembling tracks of Mum. They don't have their own vocals in the tracks, but sometimes appear various choirs in vein of Royksopp. [Dmitry Veber, Salon Audio Video] Russian edition in jewelcase.
Miriam -- "Scents" -- CD -- €10
2007 Shadowplay Records, SPR 046
"Scents" is the first official release by this very talented Italian act spanning across ethereal, dark and new-wave atmospheres, adding a blend of originality with outstanding female vocals. Mellow and delicate electronica mixed with acoustic instruments to shape fresh and new atmospheres. 10 tracks + 1 video track. [press-release]
Miriam -- "When Beauty Is Invisible" -- CD -- €10
2007 Shadowplay Records, SPR 047
There are very few words that may effectively describe the new melodic shades that this Italian trio reached with its new release 'When Beauty Is Invisible': mesmerizing, visionary, deep... 10 completely new tunes that span across electro, ethereal and orchestral atmospheres, melting it all together through the addition of new sonic landscapes that will capture your ears. Miriam release 'When Beauty Is Invisible' to explore both innermost depths and infinitely distant horizons... [press-release]
Miro -- "s/t" -- CD -- €7
2009 self-released
Miro is a collaboration between Andrey Popovskiy (curator of Experimental Sound Gallery in St. Petersburg) and Mikhail Kuleshin (drummer of the band Rtut' / Hg). Andrey plays electroguitar with lots of effects and objects, Mikhail uses drums and percussion. "Calm sonic landscapes turn into nervous free-jazz fractures, the language of modern academic music is combined with pseudo-impressionistic passages. 'Unusual' ways of producing sound (brushes, bows, feathers, matches, chains, etc.) go with standard plectron. Digital sound-processing devices (reverbs, overdrive, echo, loop station) are applied along with 'clean' sound. This music is improvised, it's not the 'frozen result', but the process of creating the sonic images." [from the authors]
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Misery / Neznamo -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Moonsun Productions, MS004, (ltd. 111)
Split of two completely different but at the same time elusively similar projects. Slow, tightening drones and prolonged vibration of NEZNAMO pass into noise-vortex of MISERY, tearing apart and motionless at the same time. Ritual Ceremony of Opposites, joining each other with the streams of ritual / drone / ambient / noise. Recommended for listening in headphones at highest possible volume. CD-r, 2 cards, hand-made layout soft cardboard, graphite, black paint. [label info]
Missing Dog Head -- "Unigami" -- CD -- €10
2011 Delphy Rekords, DER 025
Portugese improvisatonal free rock project featuring Martin Philadelphy, Chris Janka, Gustavo Costa and Helge Hinteregger. As if they're infected with the "virus of slowness" of Bohren Und Der Club Of Gore, but not entirely... Very unhurried but pleasant compositions vary from "almost jazz" and "almost country" to completely improvised soundscape tracks and never try to catch listener's attention, rather dissolve it in their slowness and contemplation of this beautiful music created with a standard rock-band instrument.
The Missing Ensemble -- "Hidden Doors" -- CD -- €10
2006 Mondes Elliptiques, .E.Q.05.01., (ltd. 500)
Three sonic trajectories which tie and untie. Three creative entities to orchestrate the whole. John Sellekaers (Xingu Hill, Dead Hollywood Stars), Daniel De Los Santos (Tamarin) and Mathias Delplanque (Lena, Bidlo) open us the door to a universe whose maze conceals a multitude of other doors. Some are half-open, others are closed and many are, at first sight, invisible. As we explore further, we must let those secret doors some time to take shape, to reveal themselveså and it will then be possible to fix our attention on various aspects of the sound labyrinth that is presented to us, to come and go while letting ourselves be carried by the waves and the modulations, which then become our exploratory vehicle and form one body with us in the journeyå Indeed, many doors are hidden, but they are awaiting to be discovered, probedå Behind them, fullness or emptinesså Here, John Sellekaers, Daniel De Los Santos and Mathias Delplanque have concocted a sound fabric which explores the tangents uniting or dissociating ólowercase soundō, drone and dark ambient. Where does each of those styles start, where does it end? No one could tell... Nevertheless, HIDDEN DOORS brings its share of answerså in a very personal way: lots of textures, palpable ambiences, subtle drifts. The whole is produced in an elegant and stylish fashion. [label info]
Mister Fuckhead -- "333" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 No Part Of It
The material on "333" is made up of free association compositions that incorporate rhythmic noise, pseudo-classical mannerisms, watery electronic sounds, and spastic, fluttering drum machines with wild time-signature juxtapositions. First partially written in 2003, in a 2nd floor closet, squatting in a rat-infested house that only had power in the flooded basement, Clayton Counts mastered the final product in a stretch of about 5-8 hour long days, while we meticulously went over every detail. The 60 minutes of material amalgamates a series of cohesive works made specifically for live performance, in manic, alcohol soaked, dark and solitary sittings of 15-25 hours, then obsessively expanded/refined until 2009. It is composed entirely with a Yamaha RM1x sequencer, incorporating various carefully crafted haywire anamolies that were featured in Dead Tech/Circuit Bending type of art gallery events, and much experience from performing with live bands or working with a wide variety of artists. [press-release]
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Mister Vapor -- "Light And Vapor" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Black Drone, BDRL003, (ltd. 100)
Thomas Park (mainly known for his project Mystified) continues his sound experimentations under the name Mister Vapor. "Light And Vapor" is a sequence of five processed field recording episodes evolving one into another and featuring rhythmic inclusions interwoven with noise of the outside world. Feelings of loneliness and uncertainty will capture the listener from the very beginning and will not let go 'til the very end. [label info]
Mixturizer -- "Senile Dementia" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Mask Of The Slave, MS-024, (ltd. 60)
Noise / Experimental project based in Canary Islands, Spain. Started on summer 2006 by Manuel M. Cubas as a scape from music to pure sound and noise experimentation to express and creating through a personal point of view on surrealistic/ abstract/ non conventional/ anti-commercial and personal ways. Also defined as a multi-layered noise act combining unsightly sound forms with Harsh Noise, Experimental, Industrial, Ambient elements. [label info]
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Mizutani, Kiyoshi / Shimada, Hideaki / Kuwayama, Kiyoharu -- "Gambetta" -- CD -- €10
2008 Monochrome Vision, mv27, (ltd. 500)
This unique collaboration of three Japanese musicians coming from quite different music background (Kiyoharu Kuwayama: contact microphone, hand made electronics; Hideaki Shimada: violin, live electronics; Kiyoshi Mizutani: feed back, drumstick) tends to be the most radical and uncompromising one. It's really hard to explain what it's all about, it's too alien and very far from any rational thought you can imagine. For the unprepared listener, it can be very uneasy and helpless experience, but for me, it explains the very idea of avant garde music in our post modern age. [label info]
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Moan -- "Endemia" -- CD-R -- €7
2003 Soulworm Editions, Worm XXXVII, (ltd. 250)
Moan's work has never been easy to pigeonhole, nor should it be overlooked. And here's the proof, almost an hour long excursion through the contaminated psyche, alienated entity and anxious being. After a couple highly anticipated albums (not to mention the 3" on Soulworm, folks!), 'Endemia' seems to be the crucial achievement. Although immersed in Moan's genuine, claustrophobic ambient mood, the songs presented hereby are kept in dark industrial style, with some suggestive, chaotic outbreaks. We are proud to release this wonderful album, the most spectacular manifestation of both talent and approach, and last but not least - a notorious friend of ours. [press-release]
Mockingwyrd -- "Cracks in the Void" -- 3"CD-R -- €5
2007 Some Place Else, SPECDR07041, (ltd. 150)
Mockingwyrd. Not much is known about him/her/them (?) thus far, except vague credits on a number of Finnish experimental releases (often by other Some Place Else artists, such as Ovro and Niko Skorpio). It is rumoured that Mockingwyrd is also a bass player in several doom & thrash metal, jazz and experimental groups. [...] Sceptics maintain Mockingwyrd is just another pen-name of a Some Place Else-related artist. Some others claim he's an extra-terrestrial entity from Aldebaran and worship him as god of the new aeon. Some Place Else representatives dismiss both of these claims as nonsense, but what do you know? Who do you believe? Nevertheless, Cracks in the Void is an EP, to our knowledge the debut, by Mockingwyrd. It contains two tracks recorded 'in the void', employing a bass guitar with a carefully selected pile of effects. These two tracks create a narrow yet spacious interzone, a one-off meeting point of low-frequency drones and sparse yet delicate melodies. Press play, slip in and enjoy your brief escape from daily routines. [label info]
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Modell, Rod & Mantra, Michael -- "Sonic Continuum" -- CD -- €11
1998 Hypnos, hyp1811
Listening to this album is an incredibly moving experience; its ultra downtempo, sublimely soaring & diving synthwork & staccato mechanical pulses woven against a background of superbly sampled soundscapes (both natural, such as marine/shore & thunder, as well as urban, such as muffled voices & cascading ceramic twinkling) will keep you entranced for the entire album's duration. [zthrockm, Discogs.com]
The Moglass -- "Sparrow Juice" -- CD -- €10
2006 Nexsound, ns45
The group under the Moglass came into being in 1997, in Kharkiv / Ukraine. New records of the Moglass are spontaneous improvisations, mostly live records, which by no means always can be called free-noise because sometimes they are very gentle and melodic. Up to date they released 6 full-lengths and various compilation appearances, have collaborations and recordings with Tom Carter (Charalambides), Vanessa Arn (Primordial Undermind), Anla Courtis (Reynols), Andrey Kiritchenko, Kotra. Toured with Jackie O' Motherfucker, My Cat Is An Alien. [label info]
Moljebka Pvlse -- "dvnkl" -- CD -- €11
2006 Fifth Week, FW003 (ltd. 500)
The 7th full-length album of this Swedish project is recorded by Mathias Josefson in cooperation with Karin Jacobson, who usually sings and plays drums in the band Les Issambres and also takes part in experimental theatre group Kekelejfs. In the hands of Mathias Karin's voice and instrumentation is transformed into a multilayer of sound. Spoken words, singing, sounds of nature, manipulated and twisted, takes us away on a journey. A journey inwards into the mind, cause it's not just any mind, but the mind of someone that is far from alright, someone experiencing the world through multi personalities and trying to make sense of her perceptions, a chaotic mind meeting a chaotic world. But this is far from chaos: the music is done with theatrical precision, carefully directed, performed and executed. This is not an easy listening album, but right from the start it puts a spell on you and you know that you have to listen to it to the end. [label info]
Moljebka Pvlse -- "Fall In Woodland Cemetery" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2008 Taalem, alm 49
With his first works released on well-known labels like Cold Meat Industry, Eibon Records or Fin de Siecle Media, Mathias Josefson's Moljebka Pvlse has fastly gained a strong reputation in the dark ambient/industrial world. Including more & more field recordings in his sound, Josefson soon departed from his typicial "Swedish roots" to more droney sounds like his more recent productions on Mystery Sea, Gears of Sand, Drone Records or this very 3". Minimal yet captivating droney field recordings! [press-release]
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Moljebka Pvlse -- "Sadalmelik" -- CD -- €10
2002 Cold Meat Industry, cmi113, (ltd. 1000)
Imagine someone delicately rolling out a dough comprising both the subtler moments of Maeror Tri and the hypnotic ambience of mid-eighties Lustmord, incorporating low frequency factory sounds and you might come close to this monotonous drone-party. [label info]
Moljebka Pvlse -- "Zojo" -- CD -- €10
2010 Greytone, grey008, (ltd. 500)
The Moljebka Pvlse album Zojo was recorded during the Mathias studies at the Royal Institute of Art. He was inspired by the longest night of the year in Stockholm, the day when there is almost no daylight. His ambition was to make an acoustic album of minimal music without any musical instruments. Moljebka Pvlse setup long nylon strings across his entire studio at school, which he then plucked and bowed and recorded with his favorite contact microphones on that very night. These recordings became the fundament of the album and set the tone for the rest of the work. Moljebka Pvlse are very grateful for the contribution by the Japanese artist Michiko Kashiba on this album. [press-release]
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Mollusk -- "Accretions" -- CD -- €10
2001 The Foundry, FOU.14
Moloch -- "Nachwirkung Suicid" -- CD-R -- €6
2007 Heart Shaped Box Prod., HSB-017, (ltd. 27)
Experimental industrial from Ukraine. [label info]
Mondrian Oak -- "Through Early Seed" -- CD -- €10
2009 ConSouling Sounds, SOUL0008, (ltd. 300)
Mondrian Oak conceived in autumn 2007, and slowely paved the path to launch their debut album Through Early Seed. These Italians shared the stage with a lot of great bands (Zippo, Gerda, Last Minute To Jaffna, Viscera/// e.a.), which most certainly helped them to shape their own voice within the genre: they have crafted a sound which is evocative and psychedelic merely with the classic rock instruments, devoid of excess. With their loud, doomy and gloomy outbursts that alternate with intimistic accoustic parts, their music is situated on the crossroads between postrock and postcore. The maturity and originality they put in the arrangements of the composition makes this a debut album that truly stands out, and predicts a promising future! [press-release]
Moneyi$god -- "M.A.R.K.Z" -- CD -- €10
2010 Heart & Crossbone, HCB 027
Japans' best kept secret are back with a new album! Fronted by Kan of the legendary 80's punk-thrash act The Asbestos, MONEYI$GOD has been flooding the Japanese underground scene with sheer originality for over a decade by practicing their perpetual belligerence and inimitable crossover between virulent sludge-doom, grim noise rock and endless post punk latitudes... M.A.R.K.Z kicks off with the tribal pummeling of "Cancer" and continues with the supposedly friendly "Murasaki", but it's only a devious act of diversion before "Black Rainbow" smoothly barge in with a caustic ska rhythm section, super-thick bassline, and above all, Kans' matchless gargling vocals that rumble throughout the entire album like a decisive instigator. "Waltz" lashes right after as a scorching crescendo with its' perforating and frantic gradual guitar parts and functions as a great build up for the epic "Hate Song" - a panegyric-like wayward track of unblemished loathing for humanity. The doom-dubbed remix for "Black Rainbow" by Balata (David OPP & Finkelstein of Lietterschpich fame) is the final aggressor that perfectly ends this veritable album of gashed hymns and surged audacities... Recommended if you like Killing Joke, Zeni Geva, LEWD, Pailhead, Arab on Radar, Christpunchers, Six Finger Satellite, The EX, Nomeansno etc. [press-release]
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Monologue -- "Comprehending of Senseless" -- CD-R -- €9
2006 Sickcore, SC 008, (ltd. 50)
Great atomic black drone ambient + genocide lyrics. The work is dedicated to the city of Pripyat (Chernobyl nuclear plant). The best work of Monologue to date published by cult label Sickcore in finest package, comes with a verse and photo of Pripyat exclusive for each copy. [YAOP]
Monstrare -- "Novum Ott" -- CD -- €10
2003 Force Of Nature Productions, fon 02
This is Monstrares second full length cd that delves deeper into the darkest reaches of humanities horrific mind. Cold, Dark ambient, pasted with ritualistic overtures, a nightmarish sountrack for the soul. [label info]
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Monstrare / Wilt -- "Graveflowers" -- CD -- €10
2004 .Angle.Rec., .A.R.05.02., (ltd. 500)
For the last few years, the enthusiasts have been enjoying the evolutionary sound creations of CORDELL KLIER (MONSTRARE) and JAMES KEELER (WILT). The first, very often, in his solo adventures, works in a register which one could hail as "dark glitch", or a close encounter of the third kind between modern technology and the abyss, as the second builds us somber sonic monoliths, raw blocks of black bruitist matter and dark lo-fi atmosphericså It was no doubt that the collision, or fusion, between these two aesthetics tinged with psychotropism was going to give way to a genuine journey, a unique and peculiar epic, in the image of the respective projects of the two creators. There is a natural fit between these projects as both focus on dark mathematical projections. In this monumental production, MONSTRARE feeds us with new-school sonorities as WILT opts for old-school sounds, an it goes without saying that one used the source sound material of the other to crystallize his own visions, and vice versa. Side by side, the intemporal, uncompromising and often arrhythmic sonic fluids secreted here sometimes have a textured minimalistic feel, sometimes reflect a will of nuanced saturationå Here one will easily recognize the traditional ambient and subtle black noise WILT feel, just pushed to the utmost level, with MONSTRARE doing the dark-clicked drone he is renowned for, but in an especially demented way. Alternately, the listener finds himself wandering through the uneven meanders of subterranean cathedrals and flying over futurist cities radiant with an aura of strangely coloured neons. But there are a thousand and one other possible interpretations. Organic yet bleak, the music presented here symbolizes the passing of life into subharmonic spirituality. Now is your turn to make yourself your own interior movie while listening to this album! [press-release]
Monocube -- "Vibramina Maerosis" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT49, (ltd. 100)
Solemn drone ambient unleashing into drone noise. Depressive feedbacks, hollow rumbles and exhausting hi frequencies, cold and twilight. Sleeve. [label info]
Monopolka vs. Tape Salad -- "Noises of Vaporussia / Heroin Marriage" -- 2 CD-R -- €7
2007 Emerson, Lake and Headache
Two anti-musical recordings from Danish artist Anders Artentoft (Bohman Family / Bimbo Sons) and Russian Phil Monopolka (Tea Man With Tea Gum, Massive Ejaculation, etc.). The artwork is an A2 doble-sided poster.
Montgomery, Gen Ken -- "Drilling Holes In The Wall" -- CD -- €10
2007 Monochrome Vision, (mv17), (ltd. 500)
Archive materials from one of the most mysterious musicians in electronic underground, dating from 1988 to 1991. Each piece composed by Gen Ken Montgomery is the result of domestic alchemy, transforming some ugliest environmental sounds into artistic images of impressive beauty. His instruments are just prepared toy synth, but also from time to time laminator, icebreaker, radiator, film projector and so on. These recordings were made in Conrad Schnizler studio in West Berlin, and also live on stage there, in time of Germany reunion. [label info]
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Monument Straha -- "Monument Straha / Spring / Shadow" -- 3 x CD-R -- €13
2011 Retrogad 02, 03, 04, (ltd. 30)
A 3 disk set containing the recordings of the Leningrad-based band Monument Straha (Monument Of Fear). Retrogad 02: "Monument Straha" - contains same material as the cassette released by Ultra label. The press-release says: "A hard case of late Soviet proto-pseudo-quasi-gothic from rainy Leningrad of late 80-ies. The released was announced by ULTRA as far back as 1995 but because of mysterious disappearance of the master tape in the archive depths of bass player Yuri Kovalsky and it's lucky discovery just in the end of 2008, the release is made only now in mass edition of 30 copies for especially steady maniacs. Sound a la Joy Division or Bauhaus, sepulchral lyrics, the atmosphere of invigorative dread and black humour"... Retrogad 03: "Spring" - a reissue of rare cassette from 1991. Retrogad 04: "Shadow" - mini-CDR with previously unreleased audio and video materials... The set also contains 3 posters and is packed in black PVC sleeve.
The Moon And The Nightspirit -- "Osforras" -- CD -- €13
2009 Equilibrium Music, EQM023, (ltd. 1000)
The Moon And The Nightspirit -- "Osforras" -- CD -- €17
2009 Equilibrium Music, EQM023BK
Collector's edition in a digi-book.
Moon Far Away -- "Minnesang" -- CD -- €14
2010 Ahnstern, Ahnstern 45
Moon Far Away -- "Sator" -- CD -- €10
2006 Shadowplay Records, SPR 030
Moon Far Away is the band whose debut album "Lado World" was with the single heart recognized as the first true gothic release in Russia. In 11 years of they existence this Arkhangelsk ritual darkwave \ neo-folk project became the cult one on a Russian dark scene and became very popular abroad. The tracks of the band were presented both in Russian and foreign compilations of the dark scene. The musical press gives excellent reviews on all Moon Far Away creations. You can find picture of the band as the centerfold in German magazine Zillo. Japanese director Susei Nisi made a film that is devoted to the Moon Far Away... "...'SATOR', being the second full-scale release of this cultic lineup, expands the boundaries of its sound image even more, going deeper into the ethno-esoteric genre and using symbols of the early Christianity. The experiments with folk instruments and with the structure of the musical pieces, and the unprecedented atmosphere and ritual orientation of the rhythm structures make 'SATOR' a complete musical pattern dedicated to the mystery of eternal return lived through over and over again. MOON FAR AWAY sings of the harmony of man's material outer space - and the unexplored spiritual inner space:" (from Brudenia Records press-release).
Mortart presents Neglekt -- "Abuse" -- CD-R -- €7
Imbecil Records 009, ltd. 77
Neglekt = Mortart. Classical death industrial from the south of Russia. Dark soundscapes and factory atmosphere, vague blows, low frequencies. The album is recorded in old school manner, without any computers, only tapes, field recordings, metal percussion, etc.
Mortart -- "Annihilation" -- CD-R -- €6
2006 Imbecil Records 017
As it was noticed by critics "in all Mortart's albums slow death approaches to the listener, but in each album it looks a little different". Here it's incarnated as three long and very slow tracks, filled with senseless scraps of human speech and deep low frequencies. Compositions breathe with despair and blackness in listerer's face.
Mortart -- "Klinik" -- CD-R -- €6
Imbecil Records 011, (ltd. 40)
Probably the most abstract Mortart album - 2 tracks of minimalistic ambient extracted from manipulations with electronic devices.
Mortart -- "This World So Beauteful As Formerly" -- CD-R -- €8
Imbecil Records 010
"Although Russian projects didn't manage to go down in history of 'indusrial culture', they confidently take their niche in post-industrial existence. In this relation Mortart is obviously the one who consolidates the foundation of modern industrialism; sounding from total obscurity he is one of the few whose truth and honesty is without doubt. His debut album "World Downfall" caught the attention with its dark beauty and interesting studio moments, for example for this recording was invited Marina Kurasova, the leader of Rostov's division of National-Bolshevist Party. Nowadays Mortart has about a dozen of releases on his own label Imbecil Records, and the project found its trademark sound... As far as we already can speak about 'influences' and 'inspiration sources' in 'post-industrial culture', first of all we have to mention the visible facts of 'where his legs grow from': obviously early BDN, then MEGAPTERA, MZ.412 and ARCHON SATANI. Hence the style of the project can be described as morose blend of death industrial and dark ambient. Main stimulant images-themes are also comparable to mentioned bands: misanthropy, Death as the only aim, anti-christianity (but not Satanism!!!), sexual violence, dissection, serial killers. Nevertheless one can feel Mortart's 'south-Russian' accent: compositions sound especially unhurry and criminal aura of the city he lives in adds subconscious spite and doom..." [CODE_188, "Organic Human Mechanisms"]
Mortuor -- "I'm Waiting For You..." -- CD -- €10
2009 Syzmic Records, syzmic05, (ltd. 250)
The highly anticipated debut cd from MORTUOR is now available.. This project doesnt feature a large back catalog of releases, but yet has gained a massive amount of respect and interest in from those in the community. MORTUOR was inspired by the works of ATRAX MORGUE. Listening to this full length, you will no doubtily hear it.. And feel it.. This album is cold, dark, and minimal.. Combine all of these into one, your have MORTUOR. [label info]
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Moskiitto, Ville -- "In Fine Style - 4-track Recordings 2003-2004" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2008 Harha-Askel, [HA-8]
Finnish psych-folk, sometimes instrumental, sometimes with vocals, but always atmospheric and almost shamanic. From John Fahey to >o<. [YAOP]
Moskiitto, Ville -- "Kaikki Mitaunohdin Sanoa" -- CD-R -- €7
Foxglove, foxglove124, (ltd. 100)
This album differs a lot from the other works of Ville Moskiitto. The author focuses more on acoustic and organic sounds. From odd soil-blurry folkish roots to awkward forest plaints, the alter ego of Moskiitto - pure magic. Whisper and accordion make sound deeper and push "Kaikki Mitaunohdin Sanoa" forward to the midnight sun. [YAOP]
Moskiitto, Ville -- "Retkikertomuksia" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 Barl Fire Recordings, BF019
More soil-based atmospheric material from the young Finnish talent. Prevail here folk bow instruments. Very strong forest, shamanic spirit. [YAOP]
Mossad -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €7
2011 The IRA and Muzak Struggle, 01
Here we present the first release of UFA MUZAK sublabel. The project is quite interesting and enigmatic. We know that sonic assault is performed by 2 well-known artists from Russian noise underground: Vitaly Maklakov (LIGHT COLLAPSE, KROMESHNA, etc.) and Evgeny Solomatin aka Dr. Feithnathoroth (GORDUW, LILLY, etc.). Any other explanations disppear in conspirological and near-secret technologies comparable with the title of the project. Possible parallels can be found with similar Swedish mystery lovers PROIECT HAT. Musically the album represents strong stratified power noise with lots of discoveries in vein of brutal version of PAINSLUT. And closer to the end Vitaly couldn't help but gave a couple of tracks of evil harsh noise in japanese style, as if he put a period. Cardboard sleeve with an insert. [press-release]
Moth Electret -- "Tocasen" -- CD -- €10
2009 Diophantine Discs, n = 19, (ltd. 500)
"Tocasen", Moth Electret's second record, is an engaging and intense hour-long work of experimental ambient music. Landscapes of mysterious worlds are forged from a variety of drones, processed sounds, and other recordings. Within these seven tracks the sounds pulse and flutter through a beautiful and complex metamorphosis. Stig Berg has been recording music since 2000 as R|A|A|N and as a member of Aesthetic Meat Front. His first Moth Electret release came out on Mystery Sea in 2007... Housed in a custom printed color wallet. [press-release]
Mourmansk 150 -- "Catharsism Of A Triggers" -- CD -- €10
2006 Misanthrope Studio, MS012, (ltd. 500)
Bristling violent antipathy-StridorHarshNoize, distress/trauma therapy-PowerElektronix and lethargic enervating despair sodden-DeathIndustrial/drones! Mourmansk150 explores, relays and personifies the final bleak outpost of sonic extremity before it transcends into front line active terrorism, hatecrimes and fatal vendettas! When nothing remains but the drive to great your own death aside taking a selection of the despised with you... [press-release]
Mourmansk 150 -- "Zwischen Verfall Und Veranderung / Between Decadence And Mutationy" -- CD -- €12
2003 L. White Records, LW-012, (ltd. 300)
Mousepad -- "Waves 01" -- CD-R -- €3
Smell The Stench
This small 17-minute disk presents Mousepad exploring not the 8-bit game devices, but mostly guitar feedbacks, whistling, softly droning or sharply noising in clouds of sonic effects.
Mousepad -- "Waves Two" -- CD-R -- €3
2005 Smell The Stench
Three experimental / noise tracks improvised on an electroguitar with effects.
Mt. -- "Teach Your Children How To Think Not What To Think" -- CD EP -- €8
2009 ConSouling Sounds, SOUL0002 / Motive Sounds Recordings, MISC003, (ltd. 1000)
It has been a while since we heard new tunes by the band branded by The Silent Ballet as 'one of the shining new lights of the UK post-rock scene'. The EP contains 4 brand new tracks that push beyond 2006 critically acclaimed Lethologica. During the years of silence the band progressed as songwriters, which is reflected in every track on the Teach Children How To Think, Not What To Think EP. Intelligently layered structures entwined with amazingly crafted melodies leave no room for interpretation: Mt. are back and determined to permanently claim a place in the spotlights. [press-release]
Mueran Humanos -- "s/t" -- CD -- €14
2010 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 138
Multipoint Injector -- "Disseminator" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Beast Of Prey, BOP 5.6, (ltd. 150)
Since 1961 when the first man went to the Space, the regular manned and unmanned exploration has been set going. The Space has become the ground of research and throughly investigation about the Earth. The Space also became the chance for the survival of humanity. The album "Disseminator" is the experimental trial of going into the extraterriestrial zone. The musical picture of exploring and humanizating the Space. MULTIPOINT INJECTOR is the author's musical project of Absteiner from :WULGATA:. It has got few already released albums. "Disseminator" is the first CD released outside native initiatives. F4F and Mizantropy Records. More than 65 minutes long CD contains the compound of various genres and experimental sounds. Calm, pulse and stretched sound structures. The unconventionally released album made of a 450 x 180 mm cardboard stripe, folded in 3 parts and glued around with color photos. Professionally made CDR with a print. The whole is folded by hand and numbered up to 150 pieces. [press-release]
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Murayama, Seijiro / Eric La Casa -- "Supersedure" -- CD -- €10
2009 Hibari Music, hibari-16
Seijiro plays a snare drum (but in far-flung and microscopic ways, mostly unrecognisable) while Erik uses microphones and field recordings - though this won't give much impression of what's on the CD, which is in a category of its own - nothing like anything done with a laptop, nothing like acoustic improvising, nothing like electronic music, but rich and organic and often surprising. Unusual and interesting. In a small edition; folded card sleeve. [Rer Megacorp]
Murder Corporation -- "One Life By Murder" -- CD -- €10
2000 Eibon Records, Mrc026, (ltd. 500)
A new chapter in the sick MURDER CORPORATION crusade against false, relaxing, soft, easy-listening music. A sonic excursion in the realms of noise, conceptually based upon the 'work' of the sadly famous russian serial killer Andrej Chikatilo. Deranging, decomposing, disgusting, disturbing, disharmonic. A wall of white noise shaped by a cruel mind. Now just sit down, take the lights off and relax, if you dare...... [label info]
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Murderous Vision -- "Ghosts Of The Soul Long Lost" -- 2 CD -- €10
2005 Live Bait Recording Foundation, LBRF 022, (ltd. 1000)
It is hard to believe that Murderous Vision has been frightening the underground electronic scene for ten years now! This double CD retrospective is testament to the productive career of this maleficent Post-Industrial beast. This album shows the shape-shifting face we have come to expect over the years from Murderous Vision and represents every style the band is known for. From Dark Ambient and Death Industrial to Power Electronics. Clocking in at 160 minutes, Ghosts is packed to the brim with rare and unreleased work spanning the years 1996-2004. Included in this collection are every compilation appearence to this date as well as all material from split releases with Kuru (Blood Brain Barrier), Acclimate (Beautiful Black World) and Black Mayonnaise (Texas Tour CDR). Also included are all the tracks from the Burning The Promised Land 3"CDR and an extremely rare (and beat driven) piece from 1996's "Ov Thee Underworld" cassette single (of which i think there were less than 10 copies). Lavishly packaged in a standard double jewel case with full color 6 panel artwork designed by Murderous Vision himself!!! This is the definitive Murderous Vision release! Limited to 1000 copies. [press-release]
Murderous Vision -- "Life's Blood Death's Embrace" -- CD -- €10
2006 Live Bait Recording Foundation, LBRF 024
The release of 2005's "Ghosts of the Soul Long Lost" retrospective marked the first 10 years of cult Industrial act Murderous Vision. Providing a looking glass into the history of this well respected purveyor of all things dark. "Life's Blood Death's Embrace" charts the path for the future of the project. A deathly mixture of the blackest of Ambient passages supplemented heavily by Classical refrains and post-industrial rhythmic structures. Taking the mixture of these to the next level, of which the foundation was laid by 2002's successful offering "The Times Without Gods". Add to this sound and vocal contributions by the controversial Industrial artist Brethren, crystal clear production values and a superb Mastering job from the legendary hands of Peter Andersson (Raison d'etre, Stratvm Terror etc.). This standard jewel case edition of 1000 copies features artwork by the mesmerizing and lethal Visual Artist Rebecca Potter and multi medium Polish art phenomena Kati Astraeir to perfectly match the dark vision of this album. Audio and Art merged to create a greater whole, and it comes together impeccably. A must own for all who live for Death Industrial/Ambient music! [press-release]
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Murderous Vision -- "The Times Without Gods" -- CD -- €10
2002 Live Bait Recording Foundation, LBRF 018
Deep layers, melodic keyboards, classical samples, some ritualistic percussion here, some low-pitched echoed plus chorused voices there, and a good dose of darkness via reverb and minor chords; you already know the formula, don't you? But the fact is that, even if Murderous Vision repeats the patterns of an established genre with a superb accuracy .. and then, maybe you can infer that this is the case of a perfectly planned album, which lacks an own soul, and that's not precisely what surrounds me .., Mr Petrus demonstrates that it has an identity as a composer. And moreover, I would describe some parts of the recording as highly emotional, giving that somewhat special touch to the album; the quality all art should transmit and something that some technically depurated musicians tend to forget nowadays. Add to it a few carefully arranged pictures (layout work of the acclaimed Michael Riddick) in a standard jewel case, but with a professional appearance, and, as a whole, here you have the reasons why an edition like this couldn't keep on passing unnoticed for the average fan of the more listenable side of Industrial. A perfectly designed product and an infallible bet, which surely decided the artist to give its best in all senses once he realized what he had between hands. A moment of brilliancy and a high mark difficult to be surpassed in the near future, but that can set a new beginning for the band. [press-release]
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Muridae -- "Under The Fable Of Meaning" -- CD -- €11
2009 Silentes, 200925
Opium + Jason Corder + Brian Archinal. A variegated and original universe of electronic visions; leading ryhthmic parts, cosmic suggestions, echoes of filtered human voices and hints of concrete noises extraordinarily mixed with catchy electronic progressions, among pulsating basses, sequencer patterns and winning melodic arpeggios: A surprising 'mix' of ideas that 'draws' from a wide range of stylistic influences, an extraordinary deep impact sound quality rich in dynamics, for an uninterrupted flux of incredible emotions: [label info]
Musiikkivyory -- "Tulemme Sokeiksi" -- CD -- €10
2009 Ektro Records, EKTRO-059
Ektro Records is thrilled to release Tulemme sokeiksi ('We're Becoming Blind'), a retrospective CD compiling material by Musiikkivyöry ('music avalanche'). In addition to being a curious chapter in the endless saga of the post-punk era, this DIY document is also one of the finer, more elusive threads of the global cassette-culture scene. Originally issued in 1981, Musiikkivyöry's two tapes were the work of Mika Taanila, a 15-year-old who would grow up to become an internationally acclaimed filmmaker. This compilation features the key tracks from those micro-edition bedroom recordings. Musiikkivyöry's output is typical of the early '80s' raw zeitgeist, but with a timeless, teen-anguish twist. Taanila heartily embraces punk's total do-it-yourself ideal, yet his style is light years away from the conventional guitar groups of the day: Atonal riffs, home electronics, randomly cut-up radio sounds, noise, and primitive industrial weltschmertz blend into a rough, highly personalized whole. [press-release]
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Muskel -- "Seven Days Of Pain" -- CD -- €10
2003 Black Plagve, infect05
Good old fashioned noise record to cleanse the system. A delerious racket delivered with precision and control and with the iron willed determination of a Swedish maniac. This is a cattle prod jolt to the system, leaving in it's wake a distinct burning sensation followed by the dull roar of frazzled nerve endings. There are no subtleties, no ambient interludes, just a twisted mass of metal and chaos screaming at the top of it's lungs. [label info]
Muslimgauze -- "Armsbazzar" -- CD -- €13
2008 Essence Music, ESS011, (ltd. 999)
Armsbazzar investigates both released and unreleased selected recordings from the intense period comprised between 1994 and 1997. Included are the out-of-print Hebron Massacre and Gulf Between Us singles, which feature two of the longest, most stunning and hypnotic MUSLIMGAUZE pieces ever - plus two inedit, highly percussive tracks taken from the recording sessions of the mythic, yet still unreleased and unheard, Zamindar album. Presented in our custom 6-panel digisleeve packaging - which also houses a 5-color poster - adorned by the highly original and strong artwork from the fantastic Iranian visual artist Mohammad Fadaei. Mastered by Peter Andersson and limited to 999 hand-numbered copies. Unfortunately Bryn Jones, this eccentric music visionary and controversial figure who spent a lifetime moved by personal beliefs and relentless dedication to the Middle East issues, is no longer with us, but his unique and disturbing music is carved in stone and will always be in our hearts and minds. [press-release]
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Muslimgauze -- "Camel Through A Needles Eye" -- 2 CD -- €19
2010 The Muslimgauze Preservation Society, TMPS02, (ltd. 500)
Muslimgauze -- "From The Edge" -- 3 CD -- €19
2003/2011 The Muslimgauze Preservation Society, TMPS10, (ltd. 500)
The music by Muslimgauze, on CD 1, was recorded around 1990. The master was a cassette tape (hence the mastering process). Part of the remixes on CD 2 were released in 2003 on vinyl (Chlorophyll Records) and on CD in 2004 (Azra / Chlorophyll Records). Packaged with papyrus covers hand-printed in Egypt, fold-open full color insert, and sticker.
Muslimgauze -- "Iran" -- CD -- €14
1988/2010 Soleilmoon Recordings, SOL 6 CD
Muslimgauze -- "In Search Of The Abraham Mosque" -- CD -- €13
2011 The Muslimgauze Preservation Society, TMPS05, (ltd. 500)
Muslimgauze -- "Nadir Of Purdah" -- CD -- €11
2008 Tantric Harmonies / Aquarellist, TANTRA X43 / aquarel 06 - 07, (ltd. 200)
A compilation of vinyl-only tracks: 1-3 are taken from the "Nile Quartra" 7" (originally released by Jara, 1994), tracks 4-7 from the "Nadir Of Purdah" 12" (originally released by Jara, 1995), track 8 taken from the "Impulse #4" (Impulse Magazine Tape Compilation). Standard edition in jewel case.
Muslimgauze -- "Nadir Of Purdah" -- CD -- €15
2008 Tantric Harmonies / Aquarellist, TANTRA X43 / aquarel 06 - 07, (ltd. 200)
A compilation of vinyl-only tracks: 1-3 are taken from the "Nile Quartra" 7" (originally released by Jara, 1994), tracks 4-7 from the "Nadir Of Purdah" 12" (originally released by Jara, 1995), track 8 taken from the "Impulse #4" (Impulse Magazine Tape Compilation). Special edition in cardboard package.
Muslimgauze vs. Species Of Fishes -- "s/t" -- CD -- €10
2007 Tourette 003
Bryn [Jones] took 2 different albums of Species of Fishes to create this album. Because this is a remix, we get some different sounds than usual for a Muslimgauze release, which is nice! There are still occasional Arabic voices, and overall this release has a pleasant sound to it overall, not as 'challenging' as some Muslimgauze can be, but there are still spots that make you take hold, like, wow, what an ear piercing first song! This looped whistle gets into your head and makes the world a different place. Dubby sounds on track 2 with the trademark dropouts of Muslimgauze. There are other tracks with sharp sounds, but they aren't distorted like on some other releases - just the sharp without the static. This is a cool release for Muslimgauze. Some are take it or leave it, but this one is worth hearing. [EAR/Rational] Previously released in 1999 on Species Of Fishes (FCD 01). The original tracks from Species Of Fishes albums "Songs Of A Dumb World" and "Trip Trap" were used for this remix project. All remixes, summer/autumn 1998.
Musterion -- "The Black Lodge" -- CD -- €16
2006 HORUS CyclicDaemon, HCD 06, (ltd. 500)
Mutagene -- "Sleeping Possession" -- CD -- €10
2002 Databloem, DBCD 003
An intriguing blend of dub, ambient, techno, and the orient. One could think of Plaid, Namlook, Warp or Orb. No need for any resemblance, Mutagene is original enough and a real pearl between the pile of recent releases. [label info]
Mutant Ape / Slut Kull -- "Mutant Kull" -- 2 CD-R -- €10
2007 412Recordings, 412R008MK, (ltd. 46)
Split release with the theme of "genocide". [label info]
My Cat Is An Alien / Steve Roden -- "Cosmic Debris, Vol.II" -- CD -- €8
2007 A Silent Place, ASP23
CD re-issue of the second installment in the "Cosmic Debris" split ART-LP series set up by Maurizio and Roberto Opalio, aka My Cat Is An Alien, on their own Opax Records. California visual / sound artist Steve Roden's contribution represents the unique experience of hearing him literally 'playing' guitar chords. MCIAA deliver another piece of 'cosmic debris', centered on multilayered echoes of voice, toy piano, space drones raising from a distant horizon, and their own physical gestures performed during the recording, which reproduce themselves through the air, re-play and give birth to echoes of real time that overcomes its own essence, becoming field recording itself, mirror and spectre of its immutability. Their track entitled also features Ramona Ponzini's Japanese bells contribution. Digisleeve. [label info]
Myiase -- "Moment Magnétique" -- CD -- €13
Old Europa Cafe, OECD 022, (ltd. 470)
Myiase is the project of Roger Rotor + Batchas (well known for many vinyl & CD releases), 2 great Switzerland industrial-ambient & concrete-electronic artists, just one long "live" track which moves with a slow & constant beat through tribal-ethnic music & electronic-trance sounds with lots of sampled voices from other dimensions... a big nerval travel for discover unknown & alterated sensations! The soundtrack for your trance-training... [label info]
Mystery Hearsay -- "Flesh Tomb" -- CD -- €10
2011 Monochrome Vision, mv38
The music of Mystery Hearsay is synth/guitar based old school post-industrial from the 80s, the classics of hometaping aesthetics, psychedelic noise trips with some rhythmic parts and fuzzy vocals. This is the first proper CD album including the remastered tracks from "Flesh Tomb" tape, and from "Unifur" tape originally released as LARB album back in 1986... Crawling back from Die-hard damnation and clearing out the cobwebs in 2004 one will find the trilogy of Zeromoon CD-r releases. These along with a interpretation 3 inch release curated bit by bit ala Cornucopia crew of Jorge Castro (PR) are all available on www.archive.org. The submitted tracks were cured and preserved by MC Ladno aka Jeff Surack of uber intelligence and organizer of Sonic Circuit festivities - a master of Quantification with a CAPITAL K. Here and now we retro blast into the end of 2010 when the lid was about to drop on the tomb. Sprouting from a chance meeting in northeast tennessee the burial ground gets raided again. Thus Kuwahara was birthed in the lab of M. Peck and his label Waiting World Records. The debut CD release [Honeycult] opened the womb for the Cultivation series of interpretations and remixes. Volume one contributions by Wilt,Lagowski,Steve Brand,Brian Sanders and topped off with two newer tracks. It is insane and impossible to compress three decades into a few paragraphs. There's just too many tombs in the plot. We continue to turn the soil... at www.mysteryhearsay.com. [label info]
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Mystified -- "Passing Through the Outer Gates" -- CD -- €10
2010 First Fallen Star, ffs005, (ltd. 500)
Through the end of all things is a new beginning found! The Eulogy Series challenges musicians to create the soundtrack to nothing less than their own death, transition, and afterlife, as they see it in their own mind and in accordance with their personal beliefs - a task found by many to be emotionally monumental and intensely difficult! Well-known for short and mid-length releases on innumerable record labels around the world, Thomas Park (Mystified) has met this challenge by creating a full-length album that is worlds apart from his previous releases in both maturity and complexity, and in doing so has opened a new chapter in his own history as a musician. Having collaborated in the past with artists such as Robin Storey (of Rapoon) and Nigel Ayers (of Nocturnal Emissions), and possessing DJ skills worthy of note in Spin Magazine (11/2000), there was no question as to whether or not the potential for such a personal album existed; only through what form it would be birthed! As his body dies and his soul embarks on a timeless journey through an increasingly strange series of gates toward a place of final rest, we find that Thomas` aural vision is crafted with not only spiritual transcendence of this physical world, but also with transcendence of the narrow genres typically used to classify musicians. Ambient and dark ambient soundscapes alike are deftly populated by neo-classical elements, occasionally with an experimental twist! There are no comparisons to other musicians or albums, as this album and the journey within are distinctly those of Mystified! Dare you join Thomas on his spiritual journey? Or do you fear to leave this world behind?.. Mystified`s "Passing Through the Outer Gates" is presented in an A5 digipak with silver foil-embossed lettering and a specially die-cut cover whose coffin-shaped hole reveals only a hint of the true album cover artwork underneath! Featuring David Demaret`s "Burning Souls" painting, with additional graphics and layout by Eclipse Media. Music mastered by Frederic Arbour for Cyclic Law Mastering. [press-release]
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MZ.412 -- "Burning The Temple Of God" -- CD -- €10
1996/2010 Cold Spring, CSR140CD
This is the ultimate statement in Swedish Black Industrial, summoning forth the act's controversial black metal side and recalling the Norwegian church burnings of the early 90s. Nightmare inducing ritual old school industrial, alongside raw black metal, this album has been hailed as one of the greatest albums in the genre by noise and black metal fans alike! It could actually be considered the first real crossover album between the genres. Remastered and extended version of the 1996 album with bonus tracks and alternate takes culled from the original masters. Housed in a matt laminate digipak with spot varnishing. [press-release]
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MZ.412 -- "Domine Rex Inferum" -- CD -- €10
2001/2011 Cold Spring, CSR145CD
Reissue of MZ. 412's 2001 Satanic masterpiece! The inventors of Black Industrial take you on a misanthropic journey through a claustrophobic vortex, filled with sinister dark ambient and threatening Industrial atmospheres. "Domine Rex Inferum" is a less noisy affair than previous MZ. 412 albums, maintaining lower frequencies for a more intimidating experience... Originally limited to 2000 copies, now carefully remastered and reissued with two bonus tracks in a matt digipak with spot varnishing. [press release]
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MZ.412 -- "In Nomine Dei Nostri Satanas Luciferi Excelsi" -- CD -- €10
1995/2010 Cold Spring, CSR136CD
First of 5 albums in the MZ. 412 reissue series, with a new album planned for next year. 1995 bore witness to the resurrection of nefarious Swedish horde MZ. 412 (previously manifest as Maschinenzimmer 412) - Nordvargr, Drakh, Ulvtharm and Shaitan. This ground-breaking, genre-defining album saw the inventors of "Black Industrial" blur the boundaries between Black Metal, Ritual Industrial, Dark Ambient and Power Noise. "In Nomine..." captures the darkest sides of Satanism, death and ritual sacrifice. An enduring, blasphemous statement of True Swedish Black Industrial. This remastered version features two previously unreleased tracks, alternate versions and all new artwork. Housed in a matt digipak with spot varnishing. [press-release]
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MZ.412 -- "Infernal Affairs" -- CD -- €10
2006/2011 Cold Spring, CSR146CD
7 years after possibly their darkest and most subdued album "Domine Rex Inferum", the Black Industrial pioneers step things up with a bombastic Industrial magnum opus! Opulent orchestral arrangements sit perfectly alongside cavernous dark ambient and blackened noise to create another monumental release from the Swedes who have dominated the scene since their inception in the early 90s. Reissued with two extra tracks in a stunning matt digipak with spot varnishing. [press release]
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MZ.412 -- "Nordik Battle Signs" -- CD -- €10
1999/2011 Cold Spring, CSR144CD
Another Satanic tour de force from the overlords of Swedish Black Industrial! "Nordik Battle Signs" is a disturbing ordeal of Power Electronics, malevolent vocals, Industrial Noise with an explosive harshness. This Satanic ritual features the militaristic drumming of an infernal army, a collaboration with Ordo (Rosarius) Equilibrio and one track featuring voice-based noises from the band's fan-base... Remaster of the 1999 album with new artwork, drastically improved and completely remastered audio and 4 extra tracks (including the spectacular completed version of the long deleted 'Legion Ultra' 7") in a matt laminate digipak with spot varnishing. [press release]
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N. -- "Communication Overload" -- CD-R -- €8
2008 Mind Control, MC004
Analogue old school power electronics. A live classics. DVD box. [YAOP info]
N. -- "Failure" -- CD-R -- €7
2006 Abgurd, AB-30, (ltd. 172)
The very new album of Italian Power Electronics grandeur. Sublime layers of hard synthetic Noise. [label info]
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N. -- "Macabre Lust / Destination Morgue" -- 2 CD-R -- €10
2010 Cerebro Morto, CM006
N. is one of the most important acts out of the Italian death industrial movement, that remains active until today. This release collects an unreleased studio recording from the early days, together with a very rare live recording from 2007. Macabre Lust was recorded back on 1998 and hasn't been released until today. Great work from the early days! Remastered in 2010, by N. himself. Destination Morgue represents the first opportunity to experience N. live! Live recording from the Destination Morgue Festival in Rome, February 2nd 2007. [label info]
N-616 -- "[Ex-Planet Earth]" -- CD -- €10
2005 Desolate Catacombs of SMERSH, SMERSH01, (ltd. 500)
First CD-album by Russian electro-project from the city of Stavropol. Side A of the CD contains same-titled full-length album, side B - mini-album "Winter World III" with bonus track. Rhythmical brisk electro body music with lots of keyboards and samples as well as small pseudo-black-metal hail!
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N.A.O.S. -- "The Final Harvest" -- CD -- €10
1995 Itsemuhra Arts, HR 003
NAOS is a one-man-project of Magus Wampyr Daoloth (George Zacharopoulos) of Necromantia. The debut album The Final Harvest was recorded in 1993 and released in 1995 through German label Itsemuhra Arts. The music is not Black Metal or any kind of metal, but Gothic/Darkwave. The vocals are just spoken words and the lyrics are about satanism and individualism. The atmosphere is a very dark one, the beats are mainly slow and there are some haunting keyboard melodies as well. Black as hell, even without a guitar! Some songs are too long in duration, so there is sometimes too much replication in one song. I don't know if this kind of music is something for metalheads, but I am sure, that even Black Metal fans need a silent hour once in a month. Then I would recommend NAOS! [Skariotis, Hellenic Metal]
Na-Dha -- "Voices Without A Sound" -- CD -- €11
RWCDAX Records, RWCD 10
This is a first solo full-length CD of MAGTHEA, the member of now legendary ritual industrial project HYBRYDS. Recorded live during night sessions, this album submerges a listener into the space of dream-like images and forms, makes him feel like somnambulist in the full-moon night in some haunted land. Using the treated voice samples intertwined with ambient and meditative structures, NA-DHA builds an unreal hall of sound mirrors reflecting different elements of this illusory world. [label info]
Nadja -- "Autopergamene" -- CD -- €13
2010 Essence Music, ESS013
Nadja -- "Desire In Uneasiness" -- CD -- €10
2008 Crucial Blast, CBR 65
Following a wave of recent reissues and re-recorded versions of older CD-R titles, Desire In Uneasiness is an album of all new material from the acclaimed Canadian dreamsludge weavers Nadja. Five colossal jams of eternally-fuzzy, ethereal dirge that are powered by the interlocking bass guitars of Leah Buckareff and Aidan Baker, who set loose a wave of monstrous grinding bass riffs amidst a fog of beautiful, swirling electronic effects. Desire also marks the first Nadja album to feature a live drummer in place of the drum machine programming that has driven the band's previous recordings, and the difference in the band's sound is apparent from the first crushing beats of album opener 'Disambiguation'. The organic drumming here takes Nadja's music into new realms of spacious jazzy exploration, dubby rhythms and cavernous psychedelia, while also delivering some of the band's most grooving, crushing hypno-bliss yet. Desire also stands out from the rest of the Nadja catalog for it's bizarre artwork that Aidan commisioned from his friend The Reverend Aitor. Aitor's bright, bold lines and textured magic marker artwork gives the gatefold jacket we've presented this disc in the look of a twisted children's book on acid, with weird images of chickens, trees growing through chairs, and more. The package is a sturdy 4-panel gatefold jacket printed by Stoughton, and it looks killer. [press-release]
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Nadja / Atavist / Satori -- "Infernal Procession... And Then Everything Dies" -- CD -- €10
2008 Cold Spring Records, CSR111CD, (ltd. 1000)
Split release from Canadian Shoegaze / Droners Nadja (Aidan Baker and Leah Buckareff), Manchester Doomers Atavist and UK Fortean Electronics / Dark Ambient act Satori. Released to coincide with their UK joint tour. Ltd x 1000 copies in a 6-panel outsized sleeve. [label info]
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Nadja & Troum -- "Dominium Visurgis" -- CD -- €13
2010 Transgredient Records, TR-07
This is something you could call a "dreamlike liaison". When the Canadian "avant metal / drone doom"-duo NADJA (who name TROUM as one of their early influences) and the German post-industrial / experimental drone pioneers TROUM (years ago active as MAEROR TRI who are still discovered by many drone-fans these days) combine their exceptional styles, they form something even vaster as usually known from them. These three long collaboration tracks were recorded as a result of a spontaneous improvisation in April 2008 "live in the studio" near the Weser-river in Bremen, Germany, and suck you in with their powerful & emotional drone melancholy that works in many micro-& macrocosmic ways, using electric & acoustic guitars, bass, accordeon, drum-machine & voice. [press-release]
Naevus -- "Relatively Close To The Sea" -- CD -- €14
2008 Hau Ruck!, HR!91
Naevus -- "Soil" -- CD -- €14
2001 S.P.K.R., THUK I
The long sold out classican from Naevus available again in small quantity! CD comes in beautiful digipack.
Nakajima, Akifumi -- "Water 1991" -- 2 CD-R -- €13
2008 Kokeshidisk, kodi 11
With "Water 1991", Kokeshidisk continues the re-release of pre-AUBE releases. Like "Water 1990" we released in 2005, this is the soundtrack to an exhibition by Arichi+Sasaoka in 1991 and is a two-disc set (to respect the format of the original release) designed to be played at the same time. Don't worry they can perfectly be played separately, though! Nakajima-san follows the same path started on "Water 1990": using mainly water as sound source, he composed an almost peaceful soundtrack with a (not so) surprising noisy finale, announcing the first AUBE works... [press-release]
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Napalmed -- "Full Connect-i-cut" -- CD-R -- €7
2003 Altsphere Production, ALT052
Noise / industrial. Recording of a live show in 2006. Underground distribution edition - CD-r coming with laser-printed black/white cover. [Misanthropic Propaganda]
Napalmed -- "iii" -- CD -- €10
2008 Napalmed, 2008 CD 011, (ltd. 600)
Let us introduce third (?) album in self-release production as a continutity of previous full-lenghts "Up to the Ears in the Tinnitus" (1997, three compositions) & "Never Mind the MSBR, Here's the Napalmed" (2002, two tracks). Full-lenght, pro-pressed compact disc is packaged in really unusual pro-printed, oversized, hand-made cover. 80-minutes long track in actual line-up: Martin.B. + Radek.K. - industrial, noise, materials, effects, metals, water, vibes, waves, sounds, junk, grabage, breath, voice, shouts, graphics, photos. Careful home recordings, thoughtful mix & accurate mastering - both in superb proffesional studio. No music, no silence, nothing more than 'pure harsh industry impro noise' in Napalmed way! Main stuff improvisation 22/04/07, few additional sounds 10/08/06, both at schoolshebna. Mixed & mastered 17/11/07 at 'Deamon's Pit' by Daemon and Radek.K.. [press-release]
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Napalmed -- "Mixes II. + III." -- CD-R -- €7
2003 Altsphere Production, ALT001
Re-edition of CD of well-known Czech noise industrial trio, 10 tracks album that came back from 1999 a. b. Underground distribution edition - CD-r coming with laser-printed black/white cover. [Misanthropic Propaganda] This is not a remix album per-say. It is more of an album of originals wich happens to contain several short, heavily manipulated samples from the bands KMFDM, ZooBombs, Laurie Anderson, Octadred, THC, Manic Street Preachers, Danzig, Madonna, Cathedral, Task, Dying Fetus & Laibach. [Discogs info]
Napalmed -- "Noisax Jazzostrial Fractamental" -- CD -- €10
2008 Guerilla Records, GR 049-2, (ltd. 500)
Brandnew, the fourth album was recorded for your pleasure by Napalmed band (MartiN.B. and RadeK.K.). Two japanese musicians, Teruhiro Shiojima on guitar and Hiroyuki Fujiwara on altsax and digipiano, join album as collaborators. If we use strong words, recording is enriched by improvisation, jazz, collaborations, avantgarde, with the well-known parts of industrial, electronics and of course noisy spaces. [label info]
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Napalmed -- "Up to the Ears in Tinnitus" -- CD -- €10
1999/2006 Stand Against Vivisection Records, (ltd. 500)
Repress of 1999 legendary picture LP on CD. Includes slightly remixed two original tracks and bonus track from the same session. Altogether 80 minutes of harsh, deafening old school noise. CD, 3 tracks/80 minutes, full color fold-out paper cover.
Narkoleptik -- "So Sweet, So Perverse" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Mask Of The Slave, MS-017, (ltd. 100)
The long awaited new album from the leading Romanian PE/Noise act! The 5 tracks of the album were edited and mastered from old tapes! Essential release. CD-R in normal jewel case limited to 100 copies. [label info]
Narusis, Orlandas -- "Apply To" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 Perineum Productions, 021, (ltd. 93)
Minimalistic glitch electronics. Weird and at the same time appealing atmosphere. Beautiful rainbow handmade cover. [Sickcore]
Nauchno-Elektronnoe Muzykalnoe Obyedinenie -- "What is break?" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2007 KultFront, KF-VII, (ltd. 111)
Hail the Soviet period of stagnation! With it's gray dusty but proud people's faces, in homely clothes - miced up with space flights, fantasctic attainment of the Soviet scientists, interest in the unknown and thus frightening "capitalism" and it's manifestations, with a premonition of changes. KultFRONT is glad to introduce you the "Nauchno-Elektronnoe Muzykalnoe Obyedinenie" (Scientific Electronic Musical Association) with a mini-album "What is break?". Rare (real!) recordings of the enlightener's "anti-agities" vinyls for village people, - about robots, new-fashioned break, etc., - set off with quality industrial electronic arrangement. Five exclusive tracks about the past. Although, why the past? Someone for sure will want and see the outlines of the future in this disk. This release forestalls the full-length CD of N.E.M.O., however not all of the tracks presented on this minion will be included in the album. [press-release] I can only add that this Russian project was formed by Evgeny Voronovsky (Cisfinitum) and Yaroslav Rost (Kooperativ Nishtyak) and the material was recorded in 2001, so it's quiet a unique recording indeed. 100% analogue recording made under influence of Kraftwerk and Soviet disco.
Navia -- "Holodno" -- CD-R -- €6
2009 BioSonar Revers
Reissue of the recording made in 1997 and first released in 2002 on 8th Moon Art label limited to 30 copies. Lo-fi dark ambient. Chtonic collaboration of people who now play as Hladna and Lunar Abyss Deus Organum, in which one can find their current musical predilections. Simple artwork. [label info]
Navicon Torture Technologies -- "The Arrow and the Wound" -- CD -- €10
2004 Eibon Records, Nav048
Once again entering the deranged mindset of the jilted lover-turned-sexual predator, NAVICON TORTURE TECHNOLOGIES is back with THE ARROW AND THE WOUND, delivering the most absolutely brutish levels of misogyny yet and creating an atmosphere of emotional depravity where lust is confused with longing and love is intermingled with delerium. Power noise at its highest and most uncomfortable levels. [press-release]
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Navicon Torture Technologies -- "VTERVS" -- CD -- €10
2008 NCC: Noise Control Corp., NCC/12, (ltd. 1000)
14 feverishly-deranged love songs heralding the coming end of an era. "VTERVS" is the first all-new full-length album from Power Electronics / Industrial Noise act NTT in three years, and the first of the final four releases by the project. "VTERVS" features collaborative input from Cloama, SKM-ETR, STROM.ec and Silent_Command, as well as stalwart NTT personnel Mark Kammerbauer (Fragment King), Matt Slagle and Fallon Nieves (Covet). Ltd x 1000 copies. [label info]
Nazca -- "Biodegradable" -- CD -- €10
1999 Eibon Records, Nzc013
Post rock/dark. Highly recommended to any SWANS or Nick Cave fan, this album offers a particular mixture of wave, gothic and dark. [label info]
NDE -- "Krieg Blue Ehre Asche" -- CD -- €10
2009 Cold Spring, CSR110CD
Martial Industrial / Black Metal. Debut from this Belgian duo. Like the dark solitary figure which adorns the cover, NDE are shrouded in mystery and desolation. The music speaks loudly and across the centuries. A unique smelting of malevolent, noisy Black Metal, pounding, anthemic martial drums and wretched Death Industrial in eight acts. [label info]
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Necro Stellar -- "Pulsing Zero" -- CD -- €10
2006 Shadowplay Records, SPR 024
Veterans of Russian dark wave, quite often shocking with their extravagance, occultists NECRO STELLAR for a long time do not require any more representation to domestic public. However, and not only for domestic: the previous album of this collective - " Saturating Cemetery " - has subdued hearts not only of Russian listeners, but also has been warmly met by the European and American audience. In the 30 of the best releases of 2005 in opinion of the biographer of Goth Mick Mercer "Saturating Cemetery " appeared in the first (!) 10, and such influential foreign editions as ZILLO, ORKUS and GOTHIC BEAUTY gave this creation the extremely positive estimations. Tracks of NECRO STELLAR appear in play-lists of the western broadcasts devoted to schwarze scene, and disks of this band now can be found practically in any parts of the globe, starting from Japan and stopping by Brazil and Argentina. The matter is the unique sound of this collective. The leader of the project Yuri Zvezdniy is known as the brilliant master and the expert in work with an analog sound. Together with his colleagues of band he puts horror into listeners, generating chilling up to depth of the soul, or forcing blood to begin to boil a mix from EBM, dark electro and ambient... The basic musical direction based on sound of the old analog synthesizers, tape processing, physical modeling, guitar drive, magnificent programming, generously seasoned with naturalistic noise and sounds, a different sort of anxious rustles, vinyl effects, industrial Low Fi loops, iron sheets, ominous jingling of scythe and tribal-percussion of human bones, put listener in a mysterious atmosphere of a dark wood of the human consciousness... The variety of vocal components gives the sounding of an album the unique, bright, expressive, sharp-sensual painting. Here are cutting-through ears vocoder chorals replaced by quiet open pathetic singing of the soloist, and gentle, sometimes ethereal motives - wild growling of Anastasia Podnebesnaya... Considering an unanimous opinion of the western critics, it is possible to say, that unique style of performance and the own style of this band which are out of habitual frameworks of the modern electro music, allows to tell about creativity of NECRO STELLAR as of the most interesting phenomenon which has arisen on the ground of their country's schwarze stage. The style of this collective some conditionally name "VooDoo Electro", actually represents difficultly giving in to the description symbiosis of kraut, old school electro and modern electro, some moments seems like trance and experimental... The band have co-operated with many known Russian electronicians. Some of them, in particular Moscow violinist Evgeny Voronovsky from CISFINITUM, took part in record of "Pulsing Zero"... Besides the unique material represented by the band, essential interest for the listeners is the results of teamwork of NECRO STELLAR with pioneers of British electronics ATTRITION, Australians ANGEL THEORY and gifted American divine UNWOMAN. You will find all this on the new album of NECRO STELLAR - Pulsing Zero". [press-release]
Necrophorus -- "Moments of Sleeping Sadness" -- CD -- €10
2008 Tantric Harmonies, TANTRA X41
This is the anthology of the early tracks of Necrophorus. All titles created by Peter Andersson in 1991-1992 and appear on the first demo-tapes: 'Sadness and Somnolence' (1991) and 'The Voices of Eternity Which Calls for the Captives of the Time' (1992).
Necropolis -- "Necrosphere" -- CD -- €10
2003/2006 Cold Spring Records, CSR51CD
Re-issue of a CD-R, published by Zhelezobeton in 2003 limited to 85 copies. The album was recorded as a soundtrack to author's dreams and based on field recordings made in taiga and disused military missile shafts. Cold Spring is reissuing this immense dark ambient creation - remastered with brand new, stunning artwork and an extra 14-minute long track.
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Nedicry -- "Sincere Wounds" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Cold Graey, MF11, (ltd. 57)
This is a magnificent piece of old-school dark ambient. Melodically consistent sound that is unusual for the modern ear refers to the foundations of independent industrial as well as the grands of neo-classics. The bands as Reguard Extreme, A Challenge of Honour, Der Feuerkreiner may be recalled. Nevertheless, Nedicry emphasizes string section. It will be a pure discovery for those who seek the ways to feel by the means of music. The release presented as a handmade DVD-size-sleeve. [press-release]
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Nedicry -- "Sincere Frustration" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Cold Graey, MF14, (ltd. 57)
Sincere frustration develops the theme of the first album in the neo-classical way. Even sharper, even deeper. This album is able to raise the wind up inside you, wake you up and call you. Where? Direction is not as important as the impulse. Especially for us, packed into the ground and lost our faith. A strong string section, the solemn and wistful, the restless and thoughtful. Music. Able to awaken and inspire. Oversized sleeve. [press-release]
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Negligee -- "Wet Conversation" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Happy Family
An unprecedented case of blending folk tunes, free improvisations and crafty sophistications about near-religious themes. Completeng the picture are slightly limping rhythmics and inimitable acidity. [label info] A young Russian project playing nice melodic synth-ambient with a good touvh of absurdity.
Negligee feat. Prosphora -- "Impotence" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Happy Family
Relaxed passages and thoughtful intonations are present here just to meet the noise saturnalia of the side-project PROSPHORA. Two sides of one medal, a scythe struck a stone, and a split in the author himself. Quite unbalanced. [label info]
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Negru Voda -- "Vald De Luxe" -- 3 CD -- €18
2011 Malignant Records, TUMORCD42
Originally begun as a side project to the new defunct Megaptera, the purpose of Negru Voda was to be a more personal and expressive solo outlet for death industrial veteran Peter Nystrom. Compared to the perhaps darker, more layered sound of Megaptera, Negru Voda is stripped down, unrefined, and to the point - old school, true to form, and primitive industrial music heavily influenced by pioneering electronic artists such as Test Dept, S.P.K., The Klinik, Cabaret Voltaire, Severed Heads, and the like. Primarily built upon a strong foundation of punishing and persistent rhythms and cold, analogue pulsations, these are colossal soundscapes, where harsh, factory corrosion is met with insidious waves of distorted, electro-shock blasts streaked with highly ominous and bleak atmospherics as fueled by pints of lager, drams of Islay single malt, alienization, media wastelands, and cold Scandinavian winters... With Vald de Luxe, Malignant presents a comprehensive 3CD overview of the complete Negru Voda sound, combining a slew of new, unpublished recordings, coupled with a collection of out of print, completely re-mastered works, including the full length Dark Territory CD (Old Europa Cafe, 1998), plus 3 bonus tracks, as well as the des Esseintes split 10' (Fin de Siecle, 2001) and the AVA: (dunk) picture 7' (Formosan, 2002). Also featured is the enlisted help of such notables as Magnus Sundstrom (des Esseintes, The Protagonist), Ulf Soderberg (Sephiroth), Kristoffer Oustand (V:28, K.N.O., Plague Machinery), and Christian Pallentin (P.A.L)... Few can stake claim to the immeasurable influence and legacy of Peter Nystrom, and with Vald de Luxe, it becomes immediately evident that authentic, old school Swedish industrial still reigns supreme. In 8 panel digipak, with exquisite design by Kristoffer Oustad and Marten Kellerman. [press-release]
Nekrasov -- "Extinction" -- CD -- €10
2010 Crucial Blast, CBR 86
...Riding atop the recent wave of black metal/noise hybrids who combine the bleak frosty riffs and blackened ferocity of underground BM with blown-out and corrosive strains of industrial noise (see also WOLD, Emit, Grief No Absolution, Enbilulugugal, Vargr), the Australian one-man band Nekrasov has so far made a substantial mark in the realm of extremist necro-racket with a series of limited edition, brutally abrasive albums (Cognition Of Splendid Oblivion, The Form Of Thought From Beast, etc) that have mostly been self-released, save for some recent offerings on labels like Siege Of Power and Chrome Leaf. Early on, Nekrasov's sound was steeped in caustic noise, a blazing industrialized black metal assault that was doused in heavy levels of irradiated distortion and Merzbowian skree. But more recently, it's mutated into less metallic regions, alternating the hyperblast black metal with forays into crushing, demonic wall-noise and blasted ambience. Now, Nekrasov is back with a new full length (the first for Crucial Blast), and it's the most advanced slab of their blacknoize terror that we've heard so far. An octagonal prism of isolationist drone, flesh-rending mechanical black metal, abstract otherworldly beauty, claustrophobic industrial dread, and the most violent, suffocating strains of harsh noise, Extinction is pure cyclonic contempt for humanity.... [label info]
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Nekyia -- "Alchemalady" -- CD -- €10
2008 Beast Of Prey, bop 5.2, (ltd. 456)
Whatever You could call NEKYIA music, there are always elements that move past used musical patterns. "Alchemalady" is an album founded upon a strong and solid rhythm, whose walls are build by uncommon arrangement rich in various sounds. And the binder is an alchemical concept, merge together element with element, track with track, sound with sound. "Alchemalady" is a 60 minute long, dynamic album, full of rhythm, female and strong male vocals, whispers and singings. 14 compositions combining electronic elements with varied percussion and strong industrial hits. Unconventional released album made of 130mm x 180mm cardboard. Three sepearete cards with from brown cardboard with golden prints. All cards have holes and all is combined with a small rope. The CD is attached on a rubber insert between the papers. All handmade and numbered, to 456 copies. [press-release]
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NeonCoil -- "Non-Stop Electronic Cabaret" -- CD -- €9
2008 Klangdynamik Records, KD 05
Neon Rain -- "Dirtier than the Dirt" -- CD -- €10
2003 Steelwork Machine, SMR01
Welcome to ritualistic industrial. Neon Rain hail from France and this is their first full-length legit release (on their own label), after a demo back in 2000 and a several compilation appearances. Loop based compositions minimal in nature, where oppressively paranoid moods dominate. Repetitiveness is central to the composition method, and the variety achieved through the use of analogue sound effects, saturated noises, unsettling vocal samples, monotone vocals, steel percussion, dark ambiences, drones is remarkable. Brutality, noises, rhythms and ambiences rub shoulder in a most effective way with the overall feel being quite dark and surreal. A soundtrack to a surreal, imaginary ritual. Neon Rain can be easily filed under avant-garde industrial, as they effectively couple loads of experimentation with the rawness of death industrial and with space ambient following no predefined schemes. A recommended choice for the bleak-industrial crowd. [Dark Life]
Neon Rain -- "We are Meat / The Vultures" -- 2 CD -- €14
2008 Steelwork Machine, SMR007
Between drone and power electronics, Neon Rain is carrying all the sufferings of working-class meat slaves on the first part of this release. From defiance to resistance, through synth-pop to post-industrial martial anthems, the second part is dedicated to all the people around the world who lead our societies to more chaos and destruction. A no man's land, the ultimate step to peace. [press-release]
Nerell, Loren -- "The Venerable Dark Cloud" -- 3"CD -- €8
2000 Amplexus, XUS 12, (ltd. 1000)
Very rich ethno-ambient created using bonang, ciblon, gendÉr, gongs, slenthem, synths, samples, treated sonic textures - all atmospheres used in this recording were recorded in Bali, Java and Los Angeles between 1993-1997. A perfect addition to the Amplexus ambient series of 3" CDs, in full colour card wallet in PVC slipcase. [label info]
Net -- "En Route As It Is In Action" -- CD -- €9
1996 The Lime Green Yellow Recording Company, LGY 004 CD
Experimental / Dub. This is dark and human, brutal music of contrasts, soundtracking the inward / outward journey. An optimistic isolationist album, performed on a variety of electric and electronic machines, some specially built for the task, some corralled for a humming role, even some actual musical instruments... [label info]
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Net -- "False Colour Pictures" -- CD -- €9
2000 The Lime Green Yellow Recording Company, LGY 012 CD
Experimental / Dub. More ambient depths and wavetips in this new album, further twisting mutations of music, more specially found or made sound objects, and an exercise in extreme editing will end in a darkly yearning and beautiful soundtrack to your thoughts and hopes. [label info]
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Netherworld -- "Kall - The Abyss Where Dreams Fall" -- CD -- €10
2007 Mondes Elliptiques, .E.Q.05.03, (ltd. 441)
Always concerned with pushing even further its explorations on the side of "drone" drifts, angleREC adds to its parallel series, that is the MONDES ELLIPTIQUES label, a new release in the form of the first official CD production of Italian project NETHERWORLD. This CD has the rather evocative title of ''KALL - The Abyss Where Dreams Fall''. Alessandro Tedeschi's project previously gained a fair share of attention with CDR or mini-CDR releases on fine labels such as UMBRA, GEARS OF SAND, TAALEM/KOKESHIDISK! Alessandro also runs the GLACIAL MOVEMENTS label, which gave us, in 2006, the acclaimed CRYOSPHERE compilation. In a tradition that is anchored, at the same time, in avant-garde, ritual soundz and dark-ambient, with a typically Italian touch, NETHERWORLD gives a peculiarly and elegantly organic and palpable feel to sounds that, in the hands of others, would maybe fall flat ...and it is as if the sound universe conjured by the magic of NETHERWORLD was strangely how could one say? OCCUPIED. Each moment, each twist and turn of this sound adventure bears infinite richness and elasticity, at all times ...those are rather "busy" sound layers but each of the elements has sufficient breathing space and can differentiate itself from the other surrounding components. This antagonism represents one of NETHERWORLD's greatest strengths. Another noteworthy antagonism: this tendency to propose us ambiences that are excessively introspective, subdued, withdrawn into themselves, but which, at the same time, expand, subtly dilate to occupy an incommensurable space. Upon the first notes (or pulses??) of the opening track, "KALL", this infinite abyss, envelops us and our dreams sink, dissolve, reinvent themselves... The sound propositions found on "KALL" have enough movement and density to please the ones fond of depth in their music, but the overall 'purified' feel will please the most discerning purist. For the occasion, MONDES ELLIPTIQUES once again used the mastering talents of JOHN SELLEKAERS @ METARC and it is CHRISTIAN SALETTE who put his savoir-faire in our service for the design of the sleeve and images. Limited to 441 copies! Deluxe cardboard sleeve. [press-release]
Netherworld -- "Over the Summit" -- CD -- €13
2011 Glacial Movements Records, GM009
Netherworld's icy symphony is back as the moniker of Alessandro Tedeschi, Glacial Movements's mind and arm. After having produced Morketid - acclaimed by critics all over the world as a precious gem of ambient music, and featured on key compilations such as The Wire Tapper 22 ('Aurora Borealis' blu ice mix, edited for The Wire), Zaum Vol.1 produced by the Ireland's Psychonavigation, and also a split CD with the Canadian duo Nadja titled 'Magma to Ice' (Fario Records). Throughout his own label, Netherworld has worked with internationally renowned artists such as Rapoon (ex Zoviet France), Lull (Mick Harris/Scorn), Francisco Lopez, Oophoi, and bvdub and has already planned new features with Thomas Koner, Loscil, Pjusk and emerging, new talent... In the sound of the Roman artists, fragments of classical music blend with field recordings of every kind, voices and found sounds are manipulated, sampled and remixed, converting them in new frames and timbres likely to evoke rest and silence typical of the extensive glacial vastnesses. 3 years after his first full length CD, Netherworld comes back with this new work titled 'Over the Summit,' in which enclosed memories, feelings, and past experiences, deeply lived during the years and surrounded by an almost deafening silence, can be heard and felt circling vast mountains' snowy peaks... The underlined aspect is the sensation of peacefulness or contemplation of an uncontaminated and silent nature, wrapped in the winter's white blanket. For the six tracks composing 'Over the Summit,' the sound emanated by the Aurora Borealis has been embraced and manipulated for a work of art, melting it with ethers of orchestral fragments escaped by the perennial layers of Permafrost. [press-release]
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Neuf Le Muet -- "Murderous Mind" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2010 Cold Graey, MF15, (ltd. 57)
Neuf Le Muet sounds like cross between production of 4AD, some trip-hop and ambinet. Foggy sound, touching voice, some guitar, piano and lots of strong, gloomy emotions. Music to listen to with the extinguished candle, while looking at the cold damp night. The release presented as an poster-sleeve wrapped in parchment and tied with braid. [label info]
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Neuntoter Der Plage -- "Doors Beyond Doors" -- CD-R -- €8
2006 Abgurd, AB-24, (ltd. 124)
NDP is an another project stillborn by Ryan Oppermann. Here he takes a direction towards morbid and twisted Ritual Death Ambient. Dark hypnotic atmospheres, autoharp, droning vocals, backwards samples, chains, electronic drones, violin, hand bells, sleigh bells, etc. This project is devoted to the author's psychedelic experiences - according to the sounds put here, that experience was really horrifying. Open those Doors for yourself. Hand-made sleeve. Ink-jet printed CD-r. [press-release]
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Neuntoter Der Plage -- "The White Ashen" -- CD-R -- €8
2008 Abgurd, AB-49, (ltd. 100)
Much-esteemed Ryan Opperman from the town of Novi, MI has been creating insane and utterly weird Death Industrial and Noise albums for almost 10 years by now. His projects REDROT, KLINIKAL SKUM, XOMBIE, POST-MORTEM JUNKIE and some others are worthy of rapt attention. This time we introduce the re-release of the tape 'The White Ashen' that was available through musician's own Skeletone records as a limited to 100 copies edition. Three long tracks grant minimal infernal Black Ambient / Death Industrial with necro voices. [press-release]
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Never Known -- "Once in a Lifetime" -- CD-R -- €9
1995/2007 Afe Records, afe014rcd
Never Known is the earliest music project of Andrea Marutti, best known as Amon and as Afe label owner. Andrea began his experiments with music in the early '90s using tapes and concrete elements. A few years later he also began to use synthesizers, samplers and other electronic devices, and founded the Lips Vago Digital Studio. Several releases of Ambient / Dark Ambient music were published by labels such as Eibon Records, Amplexus, Drone Records, Taalem, etc. on CD and other medias. Following "Dawn of an Era", "Once in a lifetime" was Never Known's second release. Recorded between August 1994 and August 1995, it was published by Murder Release as a C46 tape in September 1995. The tape was subsequently re-released on CD-R by Afe in March 1999. For this new edition, all tracks were remastered from the original tapes by the author in March 2007 at Lips Vago Digital Studio. The album consists of ten short ambient numbers mostly created with poor equipment which included several tape recorders, cheap microphones and objects. Basic synthesizers lines were subsequently added to some of the tracks. [label info]
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Never Presence Forever -- "Disturbed Visceral Nociception" -- CD -- €10
2002 Crionic Mind, CM009, (ltd. 500)
NEVER PRESENCE FOREVER unravel slowly with a profoundly well conceived album of Bleak Minimalism and Dark Ambience. To this foundation they add somniferous hints of melody, abrasion and rhythmic punctuation. Rich textural drifts and detailed craftsmanship give this release a enveloping penetration and depth. NPF has a few limited releases but "Disturbed Visceral Nociception" is the marks the first widely available release. [press-release]
Neznamo -- "Korjenje" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2010 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT54, (ltd. 111)
Known for his wonderful works in the field of traditional drone ambient, this time Neznamo takes a shot at completely different but spiritually close approach. Ritual music full of humming life, bird voices, fabulous atmosphere of bright summer nights, ringing of a ceremonial bell. The work is dedicated to a small people living in South-West Germany - Luzyczanie (or Serbjo), and the artwork contains thematic photos and text in Luzycz language. Mysterious voices from Spreewald. 2-sided printed sleeve. [press-release]
Neznamo -- "Zavet" -- CD-R -- €8
2010 Vetvei, V10, (ltd. 111)
This is the last part of Neznamo's 'MY' trilogy. 'Zavet' finishes this song devoted to the Tradition. First two parts, 'Seme>Zemlya' and 'Utrata' were published by Moonsun Productions. Themes of 'Zavet' - the Fall of Tradition, Defeat of Spirit, and their future Revival. Eternal Primary Myth of Death and Rebirth appears here as sounds and echoes. This release presents majestic Drone Ambient canvas weaved of drones and noises created with wind, string and percussion instruments and field recordings. Decorative design presented as full-color six-panel envelope. [press-release]
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Neznamo / Kryptogen Rundfunk / Lunar Abyss Deus Organum -- "Magnitnaj Zmij" -- CD-R -- €8
2008 Biosonar^Labyrint, 08/2009, (ltd. 52)
A triple split from the projects which played together in the cultural center "Dom", Moscow on February 17, 2009, containing the material recorded live at that event. Neznamo - archaic drone ambient with live flute. Kryptogen Rundfunk - gritty noisy electronics filled with radio interference, samples and analogue signals. L.A.D.O. - multi-layered fractal psychedelic ambient.
NID -- "Galactic Nebulae" -- CD-R -- €7
2002 Verato Project, verazitat 005
NID is an anonymous experimental group of three members living in Basel, Bremen and Munich, and uses strict analogue sources to create spontaneous brooding environmental ambiences for your listening discomfort.? This CD-R features 7 outstanding atmospheric soundscapes. Varied sounds guaranteed to warp your mind! [press-release]
Niellerade Fallibilisthorstar -- "Hackelsekista" -- CD -- €10
2004 Total Holocaust Records, THR-25
Hypnotising, ambient, recorded in the wilderness, in decaying suburban envoirments, this is not the standard Black Metal release, in fact it's not Black Metal, it's a Dark Ambient project, with among others, Ravenlord of Woods of Infinity behind the group, consisting of 4 other members. If you want a soundscape that provides you with hate, with a sense of being there, that provokes your feelings, a CD without comprimise, over 70min of the darkest of ambient/ritualistic sound to be discovered. Comes crowned in maybe the best looking booklet I ever seen. All in all, don't miss out. This will be a trip you will not forget. [press-release]
Niellerade Fallibilisthorstar / Green Army Fraction -- "Westerbotten" -- CD -- €10
2009 Cathartic Process, CP-14
After Sweden's Niellerade Fallibilisthorstar's impressive full length albums HÅlrum (SNSE) and Skrankverk (Dystonia EK) (among other stellar releases), this collaborative album shows an even further development in their sound. The pairing with Green Army Fraction (also from Sweden) for Westerbotten results in a massive, powerful sound. Their heavy use of cymbals and analog electronics creates impressions that surpass harsh noise trappings, and the listener immediately realizes that Westerbotten exceeds genre definitions or expectations of either group involved. The sounds created reveal the magickal qualities of Metgumbnerbone or Coil, the dark psychedelic ambiance of The Stargazer's Assistant The Other Side of the Island or Wolf Eyes' Black Wing Over the Sand, and the cacophony of The New Blockaders. Prepare yourself for one of the most impressive listens in recent memory. Elaborately printed with metallic inks and packaged in a gatefold sleeve, along with a 16-page booklet. [press-release]
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Nightmare Lodge -- "Blind Miniatures" -- CD -- €10
1999 Red Stream Inc, RSR-0128
Soul-stiring, dark string orchestral architectures building into an orgasmic frenzy of floating beats, maddening juxtaposed rhythms, and many unidentifiable sound creatures. It is a moody trip through a red terrain of distorted filled thoughts and sensations, haunting passages of subdued and quiet minimal soundscapes. [label info]
Nightmare Void -- "The Dreamer Of A Vegetative Desert" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Le Crepuscule Du Soir, LCDS031, (ltd. 50)
The most tortuous waves of darkness, philosophy, frailty and emotion Slim DVD case + 8 pages booklet. [label info] Minimalistic Black Ambient.
Nigredo -- s/t -- CD-R -- €8
2001 Sphogha, Ultra Low Fidelity/ULF02
One more side-project of Hum released on his own label. Sound sources for this recording were "Plyvox" Soviet analogue synthesizer and reel-to-reel recorders. Mysterious hums and hisses, distant electronic flows and - like always with Hum - catchy atmosphere.
Nigulesugci -- "D.E.F. / Siegfried Tod" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT53, (ltd. 108)
Second full-length of this mysterious project, this time featuring YAO 91404 D. Cold genocide old school death industrial blended with mournful atmospheric melodies, necro-avantguard and old archive recordings. A serious soundwork and high recording quality. 2-sided printed sleeve. [press-release]
Nihil Est Excellence -- "Environ" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2002 Soulworm Editions, Worm XXV, (ltd. 50)
Nihil Est Excellence is an alter-ego of an Ukraininan artist Andrey Kiritchenko, whose works rapidly become well recognized within the international electronic scene. Indeed, it's hard to pass indifferently by his field recording experiments. Two compositions 'Environ' consists of, are based on sounds recorded using nothing more but a microphone. After the skillfull processing a fascinating atmospehrics unveils, sort of theme for environmental contemplation - tempered but hard to forget. [press-release]
Nikkila, Anton -- "White Nights" -- CD -- €8
2002 N&B Research Digest, NBRD 005
Cut-up wacky Muzak samples collide with blips'n'blops and disembodied Russian voiceovers, Nikkila's music grooves but his sense of rhythm is definitely warped. [Fulldozer]
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Nilsen, BJ & Z'EV -- "22' 22"" -- CD -- €10
2007 iDEAL Recordings, iDEAL045
Classic drone album from Touch recording artist BJNILSEN and legendary industrial percussionist Z'EV. [label info]
Nimh -- "The Impossible Days" -- CD -- €10
2004 Weird Amplexus, WAX 13, (ltd. 500)
Point of arrival of a long course of sonic research and experimentation, The Impossible Days sees Nimh (Giuseppe Verdicchio) summarizing a long time experience in combining obscure and static resonance, electronic plots, sound-effects, tensions, pulses, voices and real life ambient recordings, acoustic and electric sound sources treatments, in a high emotional impact diversified alternation... An impressive utilization of articulate sonic stratifications, mixings of electroacoustic material and samplings, original sounds, analogue and digital noises, generated by electronic machines, collected through both traditional and in contact microphones recordings. [label info]
Nimh -- "Subterranean Thoughts" -- CD -- €10
2005 Silentes Minimal Editions, sme 0505
About one year after the release of The Impossible Days, Nimh (Giuseppe Verticchio) explores the innermost paths of electronic experimentation again with his new Subterranean Thougths. The album showcases a kaleidoscope of many different sounds, from the lysergic visions of Rewind to the cinematic suggestions of Recovered Memories, from the tight and dark atmospheres of Back to Laudomia to the ritual elements of Perpetual Cycles, from the rhythmic distorsions of Subterranean Thoughts to the hypnotic stasis of The Liquid Dream and the lyrism of the title-track reprise at the end of the disc. [label info]
Nimh / Nefelheim -- "Whispers From The Ashes" -- CD -- €10
2004 Weird Amplexus, WAX09
Ideally inspired by the Inquisition era, like some titles of the tracks may suggest, Whispers from the Ashes presents Nimh (Giuseppe Verticchio) and Nefelheim joined together for the production of a dark oriented CD that alternates obscure and haunting atmospheres with more gloomy and sometimes dramatic and highly evocative episodes... In a blend of low frequencies, metallic sounds, echoes of distant voices and human screams, whispers, concrete noises, ritual processions, suddenly an acoustic guitar chord, some reverberate piano notes, the sound of falling rain, bits of thundering percussions emerge... Like in a disquieting voyage to a far away past, in a stakes and witches age, featuring persecutions of heretics and superstition... A wonderful trip in vein of Raison D Etre and Cold Meat sounds. [label info]
Ninth Desert -- "Different Trouble Experiences of Twilight" -- CD-R -- €9
2007 Afe Records, afe073lcd, (ltd. 100)
Ninth Desert is the latest solo project of Cyril Herry from France, also known before as Ashes To Ashes, Sechres Mound (a duo in collaboration with Toy Bizarre), Lecanora and Exotoendo. During the years his music has been released by many international labels including Athanor, Old Europa Cafe, Harmonie, Verato Project, Taalem / Kokeshidisk and Mystery Sea... As the title aptly suggests, the album was recorded using many different kinds of manipulated, stretched, treated and stripped down sound sources. All the tracks on "Different Trouble Experiences of Twilight" were created mostly at night during Summer 2005 ("Headscape", "Combinations From a Persistent Night" and "Somewhere Close to the Skin") and Summer 2006 ("Selective Memory" and "Red Mute"). They represent different mentalscapes where all elements are forced to coexist in the same time and space by a complex internal memory system. [label info]
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Nitrous Flesh -- "Shadow Fracture" -- CD -- €10
2003 Tantric Terror, KALI 001
Debut full-length CD. Psychedelic death industrial and dark ambient soundscapes with overtones of horror and the occult. [label info]
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Nkondi -- "Illuminatedblacknessofmyinvisibility" -- CD-R -- €7
Deserted Factory, (ltd. 99)
Brutal American harsh noise on low and middle frequencies. The Elite. [YAOP]
No -- "Moongoon" -- CD-R -- €7
2006 Tourette 001 / No Rekords 132
Tourette Records is a new label from Texas and its first release is a collection of older material by Jan Iwers' project No, co-released with No Rekords. Some of the tracks date as far back as the late 1990s and in parts the material has been previously released (on the 7" of the same name on Drone and the Schmoll compilation on Dhyana). No is all over the place here. There is a short piano improvisation, a reverie of quietly dancing notes. There are far stretched sub-bass drones, combined with airy high frequencies and hints of melodies. There are tracks built from contrasting blocks and fragments of sound, rumbling just above the threshold of audibility, spiraling upwards and downwards, moving like soft clouds in the sky. Some field recordings, both processed and unprocessed are to be spotted now and then, but mostly No moves in abstract terrains. He manages to keep a remarkable coherence in all these pieces, a sense of structure and tension and a sound that is all soft and gentle but keeps a certain jagged quality below the surface. So this CD-R presents a nice collection of tracks, making older, probably long gone material available again and serving as a good introduction as well as a highly welcome retrospective. [MSS]
No Festival Of Light -- "Officina Gentium Vagina Nationum" -- CD -- €13
2000 Functional Organisation, Functional 013
The second CD from this Swedish outfit containing experimental, ambient drones, and creating a nightmarish atmosphere with occasional satanic outbursts. [label info]
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No Name Desire -- "Wastelands" -- CD -- €10
2004 Monopolrecords, 002, (ltd. 1000)
The band No Name Desire was coming into being during the year 1998. Current crew was complemented in 2001. All the members of the band take part in composing the music. The concert setup is VeNa - keyboards, Neural I - drum pads and Were - vocal. Old school EBM appearence as well as back screen projection corresponding to their music characterize their shows. As for the sound, the band draws on old school EBM especially in the fast and marked rhythms, compact bass line and distorted vocal that NND enriches with elaborate melodic elements. The aim is not the simple machine-like rhythms characteristic for the beginnings of electronic music, but rather emotional dance tracks reflecting the feelings and mood of people on the brink of the age of cybernetics. Lyrics are clearly derived from the cyberpunk literature heritage that has by now become diffused in commercial movies and post-cyberpunk literature, but in the works of EBM bands it survived in its true form, describing the dark vision of a technocratic society governed by multinational corporations and agonized by never-ending internal conflicts. Radiation polluted deserts, cracked walls, desintegrating iron beams as well as shoreless wastelands of the human soul - their new album "Wastelands" contains all of this. [press-release]
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no Xivic -- "I Do Blame You" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2004 Taalem, alm 17
no Xivic is Henkka Kyllonen, a Finnish artist you may have discovered thanks to his untitled 7" released last year by Drone Records, described by the label as "underground 'dronish' experimental sounds, based on long & moving metallic drones mixed with higher, near-distorted frequencies and low rumblings. This results in pure & elegant floating dronescapes that never stands still, giving you nothing to fix upon from your completely immersed mind." "I Do Blame You" might be harsher & noisier than this previous piece of vinyl. Here, no Xivic proposes us a near 24min long track, perfect blend of noise and dark ambience, piercing frequencies and rumbling drones. "Try this in supermarket or some place filled with people! (works everytime)". [press-release]
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Nocturnal Emissions -- "Duty Experiment" -- CD -- €13
1995 Soleilmoon Recordings, SOL 5 CD
Nocturne -- "Fleisch und Metall" -- CD -- €14
2007 Steinklang Industries, SKD 17, (ltd. 500)
"Fleisch und Metall" is a conceptual album, a soundtrack for an actionistic performance, done by the French Industrial / Noise act Nocturne. The performance took place in a old, ruined factory and the 20-page booklet shows impressions from this event, as well as several artistic fotos from industrial areas. "Fleisch und Metall" is a very organic and icecold album, sometimes reminding to early Werkbund, sometimes even to japanoise-like metall-orgies. All in all the album is very complexly structured and many changes in music and style don't let come up any boring moments. Nocturne also uses a lot of samples in French language and even more sirenes, saws, metal-hammerings and more machine sounds, what gives "Fleisch und Metall" the grade of a 100% pure Industrial album. An additional 11 minute video brings you a challenging hommage to industrial work and revolution, accompanied by an amazing Industrial soundtrack. [press release]
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Nocturne -- "Terroriser Manipuler Convaincre" -- CD -- €13
Old Europa Cafe, OECD 082, (ltd. 150)
Concept album builded arround the figure of Doctor "Mabuse" the anti-hero of Norbert Jacques's novel, the genius of crime and chaos, the genius of finance in a slow falling world in the first part of 1900... Slow moving tracks reminding to a world brocken by First World War. Very industrial concept using analog instrumentation mixed up to sounds from the beginning of the last century and many samples in German language taken from the legenadry movie as well as french vocals. Oversized 7" cover plus inserts. [label info]
Nocturne -- "Vers Le Vide" -- CD -- €10
2009 FinalMuzik, FM13, (ltd. 600)
Martial Industrial / Experimental / Dark Ambient. After some CDs and vinyl releases on Steinklang, Tesco, Old Europa Cafe and other international labels, Nocturne is back with a masterpiece of sumptuous sadness and powerful melancholy, where black and white memories and drums of war collide. One of best Nocturne's works to date! [label info]
Nocturne -- "Working / Ecstasy" -- 2 CD -- €18
2010 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 139
The fourth release by Nocturne on OEC. Two albums full of analogue sounds, droning noises, rumours as building collapsing while bombing, sensations like driving in a endless tunnel, far alarms, electricity, S/M & B/T/K feelings, cold and freezing voids mutating into hot layers of concrete, far sampled voices: and much more : A very homogeneous work in perfect Nocturne style. [label info]
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Noi, Hubert / Howie B -- "Music for Astronauts and Cosmonauts" -- 2 CD -- €12
2007 Laton, 042
This album is a collaboration of world renowned Britisch studio wizard, remixer and DJ Howie B, who has worked with the likes of U2, Bjork, Brian Eno, Tricky, Sly and Robbie, Soul to Soul and islandic artist Hubert Noi who's musical collaborations include Phsycic TV and HOH aka Hilmar Orn Hilmarsson. Howie B is for the first time working with the Icelandic artist Hubert Noi on a musical project. Before their lines crossed when Howie used one of Hubert's paintings for the cover of his solo album 'Music for babies' 1996. 'Music for Astronauts and Cosmonauts' is a soundtrack for a round journey in Earths orbit (297 km above Earth). The length of the tracks: 'Morning', 'Day', 'Evening', 'Night' is 90 minutes (one round) that time-measure equals what takes 24 hours to see on earth (sunrise to sunrise). [label info] Very slowly and monotonous yet nice ambient work.
Noises Of Russia -- "Concert in Ikra Club 03.09.2006" -- CD-R -- €6
2006 ElectroIndustria, 07EICDr
Noises Of Russia -- "Electrosummer" -- CD-R -- €6
2004 Electroindustria, 03EICDr
Placing the urban people (ourselves) into the nature we risk losing the peace of mind and becoming mentally diseased. Shocking silence, exciting trembling of forest, full relaxation of mind can paralyse the human will and wish for living. The program is composed from the samples of natural sounds combining with polyphonic landscapes. [press release]
Noises Of Russia -- "Hydrophobia" -- CD-R -- €6
2006 Electroindustria, 07EICDr
In our new program HYDROPHOBIA we continue investigations into the stereotypes of perception. If our latest program INVISIBILITY AND LABOUR was dedicated to the full disintegration of personality under the social pressure which is mechanizing all the life processes, the program HYDROPHOBIA materializes the response of individuum to the social aggression. The object dissection is mechanism of manifestation so-called forbidden emotions such as mystical joy, inexplicable sorrow, in-depth horror, catharsis which are opposed to the legalized feelings of cleanness, sterility, health, happy unconscious alcohol intoxication, enjoyment of material comforts. [press release]
Noises Of Russia -- "In Ryazan. Easel Painting, sketch # 5" -- CD-R -- €6
2006 Electroindustria, 06EICDr
Recorded live in Ryazan on 25.01.2006. "The program EASEL PAINTING opens anthology of industrial sound. The noises of industrial machines represent the monochrome part of spectrum of the industrial-sound palette, the retrospective sight of the XX century - the age when the heavy industry myth was born and was dethroned. The solists are machines. Their interaction with each other and with human voices, with harmonic polyphonies (so-called landscapes) and noises (music concrete) that appeared as accompaniment creates atonal and non-rhythmic sound picture which gives the spectator a rare chance to combine the work therapy with shock therapy." [press release]
Noises Of Russia -- "Invisibility & Labour" -- CD-R -- €6
2005 Electroindustria, 04EICDr
In the program "INVISIBILITY and LABOUR", which was successfully performed at the international music festival SKIF-7, we placed the emphasis on the increasing of the psychical influence on the spectator/listener. Intonation changes typical for non-stop performances - and NOISES of RUSSIA always make non-stop performances because we consider conditional both the bounds between the different compositions and creative finality in all its manifestations - so the intonation changes became stronger and more notable. Noise curtain gave place to sweet quiet harmonies, conceptual hysterics to ethereal whispers, dark sound landscapes to airspace full of rustles. The result of such suggestively sometimes was unexpected and seemed like shock treatment. The noise with the special attention to radio waves began to play the main role in the influencing on listener/spectator. The same importance had texts used by the participants of the project. At different times we used for compilations lyrics of such groups as SWANS, CURRENT-93, LEGENDARY PINK DOTS, old Sumerian poetry, Maya mythologies, texts of Catholic mass, works of Russian poets Vladimir Buritch and Velemir Khlebnikov and our own poetry.
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Noises Of Russia -- "Live at Sculptor's Studio" -- CD-R -- €6
2011 ElektroIndustria, 13EICDr
The recording of a live gig with a special program performed in the studio of a Moscow based sculptor A. Mitenyov on June 15, 2011. Noises Of Russia were: Gosha Solnzev (1g0g) and MC Prorok. All tracks are previously unreleased except "Spirit" which is presented here in a live version.
Noises Of Russia -- "Live in "DOM" 27.12.2006 & 22.02.2007" -- CD-R -- €6
ElectroIndustria
Noises Of Russia -- "We Sorrow For You" -- CD-R -- €6
2007 Electroindustria, 09EICDr
Second full-length studio album of Noises Of Russia, the result of two-year work with archaic layers of consciousness and saturated sound canvases. The album's sound came out even, dark and discreet. It's textural basis is one of the central monuments of Indoeuropean culture, one of the most anscient spiritual instructions of humanity - "Upanishady" - the precept of defence against the monsters born by endless vigil of mind. The subject of this electronic symphony in 5 parts is the ironical lesson of merited pass out, from child's carelessness to death through the experience of existence. [label info]
Noises Of Russia / A Challenge Of Honour -- "2010 Secret Assembly Apocalyptic Tour" -- CD-R -- €6
2010 ElectroIndustria
Split-release dedicated to the joint tour of Noises Of Russia and A Challenge Of Honour happened in April 2010. Contains 4 new compositions from Noises Of Russia + 3 previously unreleased tracks from A Challenge Of Honour.
Noises Of Russia and Komok, Olga -- "Cantigas De Santa Maria" -- CD-R -- €6
2005 Electroindustria, 05EICDr
In the program CANTIGAS DE SANTA MARIA performed by breath -noise group NOISES of RUSSIA & OLGA KOMOK (the leader of the medieval music collective LATERNA MAGICA) the authentic Spanish music of XIII-XIV centuries is placed into the dramatic sound landscape of the modern urban civilization. Old Spanish spiritual songs (cantigas) singing to the accompaniment of wheel lyre (it's a modern copy of XIV century instrument) are accompanied by harmonic polyphonies (so-called landscapes), noises (music concrete), industrials sounds and rhythms. CANTIGAS DE SANTA MARIA is a monument of medieval culture and cult of Mother of God, which was the most important for Catholics in Middle Ages and is still alive nowadays. Cantigas tell about the different miracles of Virgin Mary: how She defeated basilisk and dragon in Toledo, how She saved drunk monks from the river near Salamanca, how She cured dying horse, how She catholicized Jews and exorcised the devil from the girl. Each story is full of true faith in the infinite mercy. Every tenth story is a the song of praise dedicated to Mother of God. [press release]
Noism -- "+" -- CD -- €10
2008 Crucial Blast, CBR 67
The first real release from the Japanese glitch/shred duo Noism, following their appearance on the Relapse compilation Drummachinegun and a series of demos. Formed by guitarist Yoshiro Hamazaki and programmer Tomoyuki Akiyama in 1999 in Tokyo, Noism focuses on ridiculously complex and spastic death/grind instrumentals using programmed drums that are cut up and spliced back together into impossible rhythms, a million brain-melting riffs and dissonant shredding, all of which is chopped up and processed into abstract death blasts that defy physics. This twelve-song, twenty-one minute disc features a unique, glitched-out chop shop of Planet Mu-style beats delivered at truly meth'd levels of chaos fused with sweeping technical death metal. Insane. Highly recommended for fans of extreme, way-out avant-guitar spazz and absurdly technical deathgrind. [press-release]
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Nojsens -- "Transmisja" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Beast Of Prey, (ltd. 68)
Debut album of experimental project NOJSENS released in colaboration with Beast Of Prey. Project has been around for some time, and his creator Dawid Chrapla is experienced in colaborations with Genetic Transmission and co-founder of Hated Bruit Kollectiv. The album "Transmisja" is a psychedelic bruitysm with use of synths inspired by Genetic Transmission as well as technically crafted noise made from tiny sound parts. Fast, exploding fragments filled with streams of sound mix with more static parts, occasionally torn by more noise fragments and loops. At the same time the sound is more clear than typical noise build on hardware or static sound sources. Samples and hums combine with synth parts, but there are also metallic, extent fragments as well as bits - dynamic and much processed, more distant from more trans approach to music. [press-release]
Nole Plastique -- "Escaperhead" -- CD -- €10
2008 Nexsound, nsp03
After having a succesful net-release by Russian band Nole Plastique "Sourire En Souriant [ns48]" and a great performance on Detali Zvuku festival in Kyiv / 2007, Nexsound is very happy to release their first full lenght CD called "Escaperhead". Nole Plastique was initially the project of Roman Kutnov, who lives in Kazan (Russia) and now it's Aleksei Belousov who joined the project in 2007. During the last few years since 2004, Nole Plastique has produced several releases that one could call "romantic noise". Nevertheless at the moment Nole Plastique is strongly attracted by songs and rather acoustic sound. Their music revealed softness of musical forms in an endless sound flow along the lines of the contemporary forms of psychedelic folk music. [label info]
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Nord'n'Commander -- "Maps Of The Shadow' Travelling" -- CD -- €9
2008 Casus Belli Musica, CBM 001CD, (ltd. 1000)
Many ancient philosophers taught that our world was only a shade and a shape in respect of the Real World. But thirst for this Perfect World requires permanent development of attention exactly to ... a shadow. Just as a bridge to the Superior the NORD'N'COMMANDER members realize the word "shadow" and offer us their maps, their plan of What Veritable Intention prefers. The album "Maps Of The Shadow' Travelling" (2003) has taken over from the album "Heavenly Barrow" (2002) some stylistic features. Cold, "gothic" vocals and keyboards in combination with "industrial" guitars and drums are also present here. But there is something that makes this album related to "Sacred Spear Aftersounds" (2001) too: namely, interest in archaic Indo-European harmonies. So the style of the album may be called approximately as "gothic / folk / electro". Curiosity for a Shadow, which the NORD'N'COMMANDER members have displayed, is expressed in the fact that musical and poetical images, metaphors and symbols are flowing freely and easily. The symbols are being transfused out of serious philosophical constructions into human (sometimes over-human) psychological praxis and even mental moods. It's just an atlas of shadows sui generis. But remember that Shades and the Superior are joined. Listen to them!.. [press-release]
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The Nordic Miracle -- "We Shall Provide" -- CD -- €10
2002 Humbug, Humbug009
For this first album as The Nordic Miracle, Jazzkammer's Lasse Marhaug and Origami Arktika's Tore Boe have collected their first three live performances, "unedited and unprocessed," presented between December 2000 and September 2001. All three are ferocious slabs of harsh noise in the most extreme, unruly way (think pre-laptop Merzbow or Government Alpha). Their sheer power turns them into physical experiences, but despite their blatant in-your-face nature, they hide clever twists and a bizarre sense of contrasting a propos. Don't try too hard to find relations between the referential titles and the musical contents. If you manage to find something by Bach or The Beatles in there, you may be listening to the wrong record. There is a guitar chord buried somewhere in the middle of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," but that's about it. Everything else is raging analog and digital noise. The aforementioned track makes good use of "outbursts" of silence (yes, in this context silence feels almost more violent than noise), while "Bach; Die Johannes-Passion BWV 245" can almost become ambient it is so relentlessly deafening. Followers of the Origami Arktika constellation, and even Jazzkammer fans, will be surprised by the brutality of this material. [Francois Couture, All Music Guide]
Nordvargr -- "For the Blood is the Life" -- CD -- €13
2007 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 097, (ltd. 666)
Musically we have an album of the finest darkambient music around, yet this piece also contains many other elements that we usually dont get served up by our household Swede - rythmic arrangements, faint melodies that flows in and out of our perception and the distinct sound of old 78 rpm acetate records. This is darkambient that makes you want to move because of the grooves, but also to check that noone stands behind you... Composed by Henrik Nordvargr Bjorkk during the winter of 2006/2007, this is his tribute to old folklore, myth and mysteries surrounding VAMPIRISM! A musical plunge into cold nights, abandoned castles and forgotten entities. [press-release]
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Nordvargr -- "Helvete" -- CD -- €11
2008 Eternal Pride Productions, EPP 013
The newest creation from Villa Bohult, the Nordvargr family burial vault. This time the 'cursed poet' Wrest from the USBM Leviathan Cult and Drakhon (Beyond Sensory Experience, MZ. 412) have joined the night sessions of the never sleeping Swedish zombie. It would be totally insane to be waiting for something life-asserting, light and positive for the three of them. 'Helvete' is just the overwhelming Darkness and the ice-cold all-filling Terror. Meditative and sinister Dark Ambient rhythms are filled with the ominous whisper of Wrest and Drakh. Deep and lengthy drones as well as the charming atmosphere of the Swedish industrial decadence. At the end of this trip all of those nostalgic for the times of the 'Burning The Temple Of God' MZ. 412 will be fully rewarded for all the years of waiting... [press-release]
Nordvargr -- "In Oceans Abandoned By Life I Drown..." -- CD -- €13
2007 Essence Music, ESS008, (ltd. 800)
The Nordic giant purveyor of modern dark ambient death drone sounds strikes again on Essence Music! This time Mr. NORDVARGR leaves behind the detailed abyssal land of haunting minimalistic atmospheres found on Vitagen, released under his full name - Henrik Nordvargr Björkk - and moves towards the blackest side of the drone doom micro cosmos. A grim place where, sitting on the throne, he commands the crushing, ear splitting and slow motion processed guitar blasts that emerge from the depths of the pitch black ambience background. Cavernous rumbles, disembodied voices and disturbing malfunction machines play the role and prepare the terrain for one of the most demonic axe attacks to come! Presented in our custom 6-panel digisleeve packaging with stunning artwork by Stephen O'Malley (Sunn O))), Khanate) and photography by Seldon Hunt. [press-release]
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Nordvargr -- "Pyrrhula" -- CD -- €9
2008 Cold Spring Records, CSR98CD
Partly based on an old Swedish folktale, Pyrrhula ("doomlord") is a pitch black journey into utter darkness. This is a tale of foreboding doom... a portent of dark times to come... a blight on the face of this earth. These eight Black Ambient / Doom / Droneworks were brought forth from the abyss of Villa Bohult exclusively for Cold Spring and contain the malevolent vocals of Lord Nordvargr himself! "Beware the small creatures of light, they only bring misery and death upon the enlightened ones. For they will paint their breast with blood and reap your unborn angels." [press-release]
Nordvargr / Drakh -- "The Betrayal Of Light" -- CD -- €15
2007 tUMULt, TM373
Nordvargr / Drakh -- "Cold Void Of Nothing" -- CD -- €17
2002 Fluttering Dragon, fdragon021
Nordvargr / Drakh / Klier -- "The Less You Know, The Better" -- CD -- €9
2008 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 111
Norma Reaktsii -- "Echo Stihii" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT48, (ltd. 88)
Ideological art of noise. Radionoise recorded with the use of pre-war receivers with re-soldered components, magic atmosphere, field recordings, techno-mysticism and soundscapes of WWII. Wandering echo of radio ether of 1942. Handmade cardboard cover. [label info]
Norma Reaktsii -- "Silver Thunder" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT59, (ltd. 88)
Minimalistic angst ambient / indurtsial filled with sounds of vintage electronics, radionoise, guitar chatter, field recordings, amplified powerful voice recitating austere traditionalistic lyrics. Aesthetics of Karl Runau and November Novelet combined with author's talent and right ideology! Slim DVD box with an insert. [press-release]
Norma Reaktsii -- "Tectonic Charge Condensation"" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Valgriind 06, (ltd. 50)
Radionoise recorded with an old pre-war radio-gramophone with resoldered components. A project of the founder of the young Russian D.I.Y. label Valgriind. Minimalism, handmade artwork (cardboard, drawing). [label info]
Norma Reaktsii -- "Telluric Energy" -- CD-R -- €6
2008 Valgriind, VG 08, (ltd. 50)
Four tracks of pure unprocessed radionoise.
Norma Reaktsii -- "Vril" -- CD-R -- €4
2008/2011 Nitro Atmosfericum Records, NRN-006, (ltd. 100)
Analogue Ambient with Radio noise elements, recorded with the restored radio of 1937 release, with the Russian language lyrics and pure female voice. Sound manifestation of Eternal Ice and Hollow Earth theories. CD-box with radio details. [Valgriind]
The North Sea -- "Archaic Spines" -- CD -- €8
2007 A Silent Place, ASP20
An interesting selection of both acoustic and electric instruments and a shimmering tension created by the juxtaposition of old song forms / instruments with new ideas and technologies from Brad Rose's project. 'Archaic Spines' may surprise even the most dedicated The North Sea fans, as we are presented with a fine selection of very sparse and lovely meditations for bouzouki. The sound is raw, apparently released as recorded with few (if any) overdubs or effects. The effect is mesmerizing and refreshing, one instrument played with feeling and an unerring ear for the folk rivers that feed The North Sea's ocean of sound. Digifile. [press-release]
Northam, Michael -- "Go" -- 3"CD -- €7
2006 Ferns Recordings, rhizome_02, (ltd. 500)
Based on various sources including spring cars themselves recorded at the Terre Haute Raceway September of 2005. This work is a monolithic testament of the force of life of a man who lived it fully until the end. As well, a meditation on the samasaric metaphor of the oval track-the circle of life we are all riding along and are bound to GO. [label info]
Northam, Michael & Vidyarthi, Jatin -- "Golden Shadows" -- CD -- €10
2009 Semperflorens, sf02
"A document of the Khoj residency, Jatin and myself took a bit of time (with the help of the Khoj crew) to make a short edition of a collection of our sessions and recordings we did together... Strange mix of improvisation, minimal acousmatics and field recordings (perhaps the first project of its kind from India)." [Michael Northam]
Northaunt -- "The Ominous Silence" -- CD -- €12
2001/2010 Ewers Tonkunst, HHE 027 CD / Cyclic Law, 32nd Cycle, (ltd. 470)
Second in a series of collaborations between Ewers Tonkunst and Cyclic Law is also a re-issue of a long sold out dark ambient milestone - the debut Northaunt album which first saw the daylight back in 2001 on Polish label Fluttering Dragon. "The Ominous Silence" is more musical album than its followers, with a lot of piano, guitar and synth melodic parts like in the classical tracks "De Sorte Traer" and "Pain Is Better", but the typical Northaunt elegiac melancholy and dark gloomy nordic ambient soundscapes are already here. This edition has completely new artwork, new mastering and a bonus track, it is limited to 470 copies and comes in a stylish monochrome mini LP-like embossed cover with inner sleeve and three inserts. [press-release]
Northern -- "Drawn" -- CD -- €10
2007 Infraction, INFX 024, (ltd. 740)
Nostalgia -- "Beyond Horizon" -- CD-R -- €10
2007 Practising Nature, PN07018
A project of Mathias Grassow and Rudigier Gleisberg. Nostalgias 3rd album again shows the band in another light. It is an instrumental album in electronic style, where Grassows "spiritual ambient" drones and Gleisbergs classical orchestra-sounds are melded together in a perfect melange of surprising and tenseful ethno-electronica. [label info]
Nostalgia -- "The House On The Borderland" -- CD -- €11
2005 Ars Benevola Mater, ABM 18
Nothing -- "The Grey Subaudible" -- CD -- €12
2000 Eibon Records, Nth022
Prepare to dive into an ocean of darkness. Sounding like an hybrid between LYCIA and RAISON D'ETRE, "The grey subaudible" is a devastating debut, highly recommended to the dark souls out there. [press-release]
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Nothing -- "Silence Came Back In, Filling Jagged Spaces" -- CD -- €12
2004 Eibon Records, Nth046
A disharmonic journey through the mid-world spheres. Fragments of corrupted melodies melt with post-nuclear tribal rhythms. Quiet semi-silences turn into crystal-clear ambiences, then suddently leave space to bursts of noise. Shamanic-like chants evolve into caressing violins, then fall into pits of ultra-droning dark ambient. ...S.U.R.R.E.A.L... ..G.H.O.S.T.L.Y... In clear-trayed jewel box. [label info]
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Novatron -- "New Rising Sun" -- CD -- €10
2000 Cold Spring Records, CSR28CD, (ltd. 1000)
NOVATRON is the main project of ANTHONY DI FRANCO, who many of you will know from his previous projects - RAMLEH, SKULLFOWER and AX, and noise technician, KEVIN LASKA. This debut, exclusive to COLD SPRING, is a powerful journey into dark noise, slamming percussion, and subsonic bass rumbles. An excellent album, rich in variety and sonic textures. [label info]
November Novelet -- "From Heaven On Earth" -- CD -- €15
1999 Galakthorrö 011
November Növelet is more calm and romantic side of Haus Arafna, most of texts and vocals belong to the female part of the duet. Detached, beautiful and blameless as an ice sculpture music which simply has no analogues.
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November Novelet -- "Magic" -- CD -- €15
2007 Galakthorrö 019
This magically-charged jewel of electronic music consists of twelve new songs. The analogue foundation combines with electric vibraphone and 8-bit surrealism transformed into sound. Melancholic synthesiser melodies and the ethereal voice of Mrs. Arafna melt into a fragile beauty with emotional depth. Unpretentious and lost, a gripping experience. In spite of all this exploration of the depths, there is also the opportunity to roll up the carpet. Mr. and Mrs. Arafna have conjured up a few dance hits, which because of their minimalism and cultured morbid charm, should kick off the party mood for the creatures of the night. These contrast well with the slow pieces - tinged with a breath of experimentation, resulting in a many-facetted, and at the same time very balanced, Angst Pop album. The long time in waiting for the release of this new record will soon be forgotten in sheer listening pleasure. CD in de luxe matt finish gatefold digipac plus 16-page booklet incl. all lyrics. [press-release]
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Nrodum -- "V" -- CD-R -- €9
2009 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT52, (ltd. 95)
A project of the guy standing behind Vresnit / Vetvei, Vagranok, ex-Pugna & Kerpg, known for his atmospheric earthy and retro-technicistic works on audio, video, photo and design. Second part of the U-V-Y trilogy making up the whole project's discography. Raw hypnotic drone and waving multilayers of eternal radio ether, voices, signals of various devices and earth-hitting cellar samples. All this existed before the radio received was invented, but only after this people could hear and fixate these signals. The work envelops with same otherworldly charm as "U", but unlike the previous one, presents "more musical" forms. Industrial archaics and monotonous power electronics. Author's artwork: multidimensional colour photo images attached to a black sleeve 15 x 16 cm. [press-release]
NRYY -- "Kiss" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2009 T'an! Kaven!! Ash!!!, Ash!!! 029, (ltd. 50)
Weird guitar industrial album from Japanese project NRYY. Mix of guitar industrial sounds and melodic noise. Released as 3 parts, each under its own title, come on 3" CDs in quantity of 50 copies each part. Album 1: 'Kiss', Album 2: 'Wind and Cloud', Album 3:'Red'. [label info]
NRYY -- "Red" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2009 T'an! Kaven!! Ash!!!, Ash!!! 028, (ltd. 50)
Weird guitar industrial album from Japanese project NRYY. Mix of guitar industrial sounds and melodic noise. Released as 3 parts, each under its own title, come on 3" CDs in quantity of 50 copies each part. Album 1: 'Kiss', Album 2: 'Wind and Cloud', Album 3:'Red'. [label info]
NRYY -- "Wind and Cloud" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2009 T'an! Kaven!! Ash!!!, Ash!!! 030, (ltd. 50)
Weird guitar industrial album from Japanese project NRYY. Mix of guitar industrial sounds and melodic noise. Released as 3 parts, each under its own title, come on 3" CDs in quantity of 50 copies each part. Album 1: 'Kiss', Album 2: 'Wind and Cloud', Album 3:'Red'. [label info]
Numina -- "Eye of the Nautilus" -- CD -- €11
2005 Hypnos, hyp2548
One thing that becomes apparent listening to Numina's work is the craftsmanship is very high. For those that don't know his work it falls under the American ambient school, drones and floating textures with some rhythmic underpinning in places. Jesse Sola weaves his sounds with slow tonal shifting and that's one of my favorite aspects of his work is that unfolding quality which in the right hands is the musical equivalent of storytelling... Numina releases are very heavy on the synths. Jesse's work would appeal very well with those that prefer the synth as the main timbre... There's always a deeply Gothic quality to his work too... no fey crystal happiness here. The whole "Eye of the Nautilus" theme fits the sound perfectly as it spirals out of your speaker putting the whole room under a spell... A definite sonic psychedelic experience. [Paul Ellis]
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Numina -- "Sanctuary of Dreams" -- CD -- €11
2004 Hypnos, hyp2445
Jesse Sola records as Numina. Sanctuary of Dreams, his first release on a major label (Hypnos Recordings), might be his best effort yet. In the past, his CDs have leaned to the darker sides of ambience. While this disc does have some ominous tones, the overall timbres are gentle and soothing. Sola's style allows the uplifting chords to be the overriding persona of this CD. He combines organic textures with languid atmospheres to create warm and friendly soundscapes. This disc is a friend. It will appeal to fans of Jeff Pearce, Remco Helbers, Markus Reuter, and Zero Ohms. [Jim Brenholts, All Music Guide]
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Numina -- "Shift to the Ghost" -- CD -- €12
2007 Hypnos, hyp2650
Numina's third album on Hypnos Recordings is "Shift to the Ghost," a long-form continuous piece, which is a format that is actually fairly new for Numina, despite his many prior recorded releases. The album does include indexed track points for convenience in navigating through the CD, and each song is distinctly different in feel, but the songs evolve seamlessly into one another. The continuous, long-form ambient format works very well here, never droning on too much or dwelling too long in a certain sonic space. Numina himself states that the album "is about the life and death of the physical self," hence the title. Whatever the concept, this album contains all the elements Numina fans enjoy, from deep and sombre ambient, to twinkling, swirling space music, constantly evolving. It's a long, fascinating visual journey, and it never grows tired. The latest work from ambient "rising star" Numina is possibly his best yet. [press-release]
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Nurminen, Jari-Matti -- "In Sickness and in Health" -- CD-R -- €8
2005 Vety Productions, vety07
On his ambient solo recording ex-bass player of sludge stars - Fleshpress - explores sickness and health. First is represented with hollow cyclic drone ambient sounding like quited hushed power electronics, and second - with mellow romantic synth ambient, as if Mortiis would conceive to play warm positive music. [YAOP]
Nurse With Wound -- "Homotopy to Marie" -- CD -- €17
1982/2007 Jnana Records, UNITED JNANA 366
Homotopy to Marie, originally released in 1982, was the fifth Nurse With Wound album. Steven Stapleton considers it to be the first "real" Nurse record as it was the first record he'd made without any intervention from his early partners. Its release also marked the point where Stapleton assumed the mantle of Nurse for all future releases. Musically, Homotopy is a brilliant example of Stapleton's tape editing and manipulation, producing a disturbing avant-garde collage that remains a stunning listen! Homotopy has been out of print for a few years and appears now with newly designed artwork in a six-panel digipack. This issue has also corrected the misplaced track index points which marred previous CD reissues. [label info]
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Nurse With Wound -- "Huffin' Rag Blues" -- CD -- €17
2008 Dirter Promotions, DPROMCD63
Nurse With Wound -- "Stereo Wastelands" -- CD -- €20
2006 Beta-lactam Ring Records, mt065, (ltd. 500)
A Collection of Musical Debris from the Original "Who Can I Turn to Stereo" sessions. [label info]
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NXA (New Art Ensemble) / Nick Soudnick -- "Noise And Fury 2000" -- CD -- €8
2001 Dom Records, cddoma 0106
Split-release: 25 mins. belong to Russian New Art Ensemble (voice, piano, trombone, computers); 48 mins. to Nick Soudnick (ZGA), whose recording is an answer to Otomo Yoshihide's work "Vinil Tranqaliser". This work is comprised of 60 one-minute long short pieces, made from 60 vinyl records. Nick has made 67 pieces (because he lost count) from one record, and it was his own ZGA record. Here is presented approx. half of this work because of lack of space. [label info]
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Nyrja -- "Nielu" -- CD-R -- €7
2005 Toiko, TOK-05
Nyrjä, the solo project of Antti Joensuu, goes through a wide range of machine-based styles of post-industrial music. Included are dark ambient, death industrial and hard heavy electronics. Most of the material is quite minimalist in nature, yet succeeds nevertheless in being both unique and original. The closest, but not too close, points of comparison would be several of Michael Ford's projects - especially Valefor and early Psychonaut - with the difference that Nyrjä's soundscapes are far more intriguing... [Jiituomas, Kuolleen Musiikin Yhdistys]
O Paradis -- "Las Nubes Que Mueren" -- 2 CD -- €18
2006 Punch Productions, PP016
This work contains all the tracks from "O Paradis" never used in the past. The Cd one is from the new period of the project, and the second Cd is a re-mastered vision of old demos. It was important for Demian to recuperate this abandoned tracks cause inside them we can find the clouds that in the past were crossing the sky of "O Paradis" and now they dissapear like a presentation for the new show. These clouds die over your head in form of little tears without nostalgia and without happiness. Right now the thunderstorm is growing on the driving mirror and we are running away to find our place on earth. 32 unreleased songs, for a total running time of over 92:00 minutes of pure poetry! [press-release]
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O Paradis -- "Pequenas Canciones De Amor" -- CD -- €13
2008 Tourette, tourette 005
Sixth full-length release from our favourite Catalonian troubadour, with a somewhat more light-hearted and poppy spirit than their previous CD. 17 tracks of the stripped-down, lugubrious Latin pop which is the trademark sound of the band Pure Mediterranean sunshine. Also features a cover of Bob Dylan's "It Ain't Me, Babe". File next to Spiritual Front, Division S, Mushroom's Patience etc. Digipak. [Cold Spring]
O Paradis -- "Serpiente de Luna, Serpiente de Sol" -- CD -- €15
2003 Aorta, AORCD08
Most of the songs are based on samples, exquisitely knitted together over original bass-lines, and topped off with Demian's somewhat mournful and nostalgic vocals. Despite being richly produced, some of the songs have a bare, folky quality about them, with Demian's Spanish vocals creating an air of impenetrability to my Anglo-Saxon ears. This is not a negative, just something that underlines the difference between this project and its patron. It is also something that is less noticeable when concession are made to, how does one say, catchiness, such as on the simply gorgeous 'Por Cuidar de Mi, Amor', in which a beautiful synth line carries the song along. One could say that the folkier songs are solid and beautiful, whilst tracks like 'Por Cuidar', and the equally gorgeous 'Palabras', are just transcendent. The clarity of the album's production is worth emphasising, as is the stunning foldout digipak. [label info]
O Paradis / Escama Serrada -- "La Corte Del Rey Pescador / La Reina Este Mala" -- 2 CD -- €25
2009 Tourette, tourette 007/008, (ltd. 300)
O Paradis / Novy Svet -- "Entre Siempre Y Jamas Suben Las Mareas, Duermen Las Ciudades" -- CD -- €14
2003 The Nekofutschata Musick Cabaret, neko 12
Novy Svet adds their distinctive voice to 15 tracks recorded in cooperation with the traditional folk project Ô Paradis. Beautiful arrangements which will not only satisfy the pure Novy Svet fan but also reach people who feel attracted to Mediterranean folk music. [label info]
O Paradis / Val Denham -- "Transform Thyself" -- CD -- €14
2011 Hau Ruck!, HR!99
O.S.T. -- "Waetka" -- CD -- €10
2008 iDEAL Recordings, iDEAL042, (ltd. 600)
An important album by one of the hidden masters of the contemporary electronic music scene! O.S.T. is Berlin-based Christopher Douglas and "Waetka" is his long awaited return after a five years hiatus, a time he spent hidden in the darkest shadows. Step into a world of advanced electronic composition, static ambient soundworlds and a document of a hurt soul. This is how it sounds to survive. "Waetka" is advanced post-techno - where the beats are replaced by the darkest of atmospheres. [label info]
Objekt4 -- "Extermination Processing Tower" -- CD -- €10
2006 Ravenheart, RAVEN 36
Swe. Second album from this really unique dark ambient project. New tracks with new sound/noise ellements! Grim, base and harsh influenced of nihilism...Dont exist any similarly project in this cold-steel style!....other side of light..... [press-release]
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Objekt4 -- "Her Face Among The Shadows" -- CD -- €10
2004/2006 Ravenheart, RAVEN 43
The name of the person behind Objekt4 is Anders Peterson and the music is roughly described as experimental ambient with minimal rhythms. The opening track of the album 'Seclusion' already shows all of the elements mentioned and even when a few tracks are more towards experimental ambient, for example 'Among The Shadows' and 'Nowhere Everywhere'. Other tracks show a more IDM-like approach of the ambience which can be found in other Swedish projects known from the Cold Meat Industry label. Examples of this latter approach are for example the quite hectic 'Her Face' and 'Foreverneverendeverend' which has a very spooky atmosphere which reminded me of the original version of 'The Ring' (please be aware that that is a great compliment coming from me). All in all this is a very nice album which will definitly appeal to people who like Scandinavian (read: cold atmospheric) projects like Biosphere, Sephiroth, Desiderii Marginis and Atomine Electrine. [Bauke van der Wal, Connexion Bizarre]
Objekt4 vs. Kenji Siratori -- "Mind Corpse" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2007 Mask of the Slave Records, MS-013, (ltd. 100)
A great collaboration 3" between the Stockholm based Objekt4 & the Japanese cyberpunk writer Kenji Siratori. Objekt4 returned to Mask of the Slave Records with this great stuff, after several releases with other labels in the industrial/experimental scene. Kenji Siratori: a Japanese cyberpunk writer who is currently bombarding the internet with wave upon wave of highly experimental, uncompromising, progressive, intense prose. His is a writing style that not only breaks with tradition, it severs all cords, and can only really be compared to the kind of experimental writing techniques employed by the Surrealists, William Burroughs and Antonin Artaud. Embracing the image mayhem of the digital age, his relentless prose is nonsensical and extreme, avant-garde and confused, with precedence given to twisted imagery, pace and experimentation over linear narrative and character development. With unparalleled stylistic terrorism, he unleashes his literary attack. An unprovoked assault on the senses. Blood Electric (Creation Books) was acclaimed by David Bowie. [press-release]
Objekt/Urian -- "Tonfragmente II" -- CD -- €13
2001/2004 Zone De Confusion, Z.D.C.01, (ltd. 1000)
Obozdur -- "Free-form Homework" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 Heart-Shaped Box Prod., HSB-021, (ltd. 21)
Homemade soundscapes and noise improvisations. Double sleeve. [YAOP]
Obozdur -- "Live - 9.01.08" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT68, (ltd. 32)
Lo-Fi Mechano Industrial Noise. Dirty old-school sound, rough tape collages, clangs of metal, unstoppable mid-frequency crack and heavy overload. For the fans of YAO 91404 D, Anti-Verstand, Veprisuicida, Vivenza, Reductio Ad Absurdum. A5 artwork containing vintage Soviet art. [press-release]
Obozdur -- "Natural and Easy" -- CD-R -- €9
2009 YAOP, YAOP 032, (ltd. 10)
Shamanic lo-fi manipulations with guitar, tapes, glockenspiel and field recordings. Resonant rough sound, the atmosphere of autumnal evenings, mountain paths covered with fallen leaves, gloomy days, muscarine nights near a fireplace, and rainy dawns. Colour DVD-box with stickers, handmade cover, all information is handwritten. [press-release]
Obozdur -- "Pessima" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT25, (ltd. 61)
Shamanistic electronics from Ural. Mysterious drones, fascinating rhythms, industrial clanks and crackles, ritual loops. Live recording from the winter 2007. Limited to 61 copy in a handmade sleeve with photographs. [YAOP info]
Obozdur -- "snth" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT67, (ltd. 59)
Soviet magic, mysterious side of everyday routine and the transcendency of Khruschev's communism in three tracks of mystical Drone Noise Ambient, masterly evoked from household items. A surprising, deep and rich work resembling at the same time the fathers of electronic music from 50-60-s, the works of Akifumi Nakajima (Aube), and music from the Soviet sci-fi and popular science movies. Regular edition in a sleeve. [press-release]
Obozdur -- "snth" -- CD-R -- €10
2010 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT67, (ltd. 8)
Soviet magic, mysterious side of everyday routine and the transcendency of Khruschev's communism in three tracks of mystical Drone Noise Ambient, masterly evoked from household items. A surprising, deep and rich work resembling at the same time the fathers of electronic music from 50-60-s, the works of Akifumi Nakajima (Aube), and music from the Soviet sci-fi and popular science movies. Special edition in hand made pseudo digipak made from PVC blocks widely used as apartment garniture in Soviet times. [press-release]
Obozdur -- "Too Small and Eclectic Archive" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2009 Heart-Shaped Box Prod., HSB-041, (ltd. 9)
Cuts from tape experiments from the personal archive and archives of friends and acquaintances, nearly 18 minutes of eclectic sound collages and badly recorded child songs with guitar, monkey tricks with bass guitar processor and other musical rags... Mini DVD box. [label info]
Obozdur -- "Winter 2007" -- 2 CD-R -- €10
2010 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT65, (ltd. 62)
Rhythmic Old-School Industrial Avantgarde built on technogenic rhythms of a drum-machine, radionoise, obscure noises and urban samples. Closer to the end the sound mutates in weird industrial Noise Ambient based on feedbacks and reverberation. The dark side of retro-futurism. For the lovers of Veprisuicida and the cassette releases of Ultra label in mid 90-s. Black and white cover. [press-release]
Obozdur -- "Winter Canabinol Essence" -- CD -- €7
2009 Nihil Art Records, NAR 001, (ltd. 500)
Noise. 6 tracks: which will penetrate deeply into your mind & stay there for long time: leaving unique feeling of novelty & at the same time immersing you in depths of style: in a word: noise: free comments: [label info]
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Obozdur -- "XXX" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT66, (ltd. 23)
Trash mystical Musique Concrete over rhythmical Ambient. Aliens, special services manipulating mass consciousness, psychopressure of television, drugs, asocial teenager groups, musty microcosm of philistine flats, city legends - the aesthetic of this album is something one can call psychic underground of a city, it's spiritual sewerage. Dirt and psychopathy. Handmade cover of vintage paper and half-DVD box. [press-release]
Obozdur 91404 D -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €7
2011 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT76, (ltd. 146)
Collaboration of two remarkable projects from Urals and Ingria. Dense psychedelic Droning Noise pierced by seismic shimmering drone, flexuous like deep breath, sometimes peeling with industrial clanks, near power electronic passages, parts played by traditional instruments and sample-symbols. Through faint retro images from 60ies, through yellowed black and white photograps and scenes from daily life one can see the shapes of forthcoming Last Days. [press-release]
Oda Relicta -- "Lux Aeterna" -- CD -- €10
2011 Gradual Hate Records, GH 113CD / Twilight Records, TW 1.89, (ltd. 200)
'Lux Aeterna' is a chamber requiem that follows a classical arrangement with soprano, bass and tenor vocals juxtaposed with angelic chants of the Child's Choir, piano and organ passages of simple composition yet true purifying power. A collaborative release of Twilight Records and Gradual Hate Records. The CD comes in a grey/black digipak. The Requiem 'Lux Aeterna' was originally composed by Mykhayil A. Shukh in 1988. It was premiered in Donetsk (Ukraine) in 1990/1991. The recordings took part at the festivals in Gori (Georgia) and at 'Vorsel Meetings' (Ukraine). Re-recorded, re-engineered and re-arranged by Mykhayil A. Shukh & Olegh Kolyada at Oda Relicta HQ in 2010. [label info]
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Odal -- "Smashed Up Reality / Damned Nihilism" -- 2 CD-R -- €12
2009 Impulsy Stetoskopu, 013, (ltd. 120)
"These recordings were made in '87 and '88 orginally for Vis a vis the label of Gerogerigegege in Japan, but for some reason it never released on vinyl. 15 years later I received the orginally masters back, but there were rumours that RRRecords had some copies for sale, but that has never confirmed. However I always thought that there's an curse on this project and it is! Thanks to Rafal that he gives some of these Odalsounds an place". [Peter Zicken / Odal]
:Of The Wand And The Moon: -- ":Emptiness:Emptiness:Emptiness:" -- CD -- €14
2001/2010 Euphonious Records, PHONI 027
Re-release of this classic neo-folk album in digipak.
:Of The Wand And The Moon: -- "The Lone Descent" -- CD -- €15
2011 Heidrunar Myrkrunar, HEIM010
:Of The Wand And The Moon: -- "Lucifer" -- CD -- €14
2003 Euphonious Records, PHONI022
The third album of the danes around Kim Larsen follows the path, driven in on the previous album 'Emptiness:Emptiness:Emptiness', which could be described as mystical, atmospherical and melancholic folklore of scandinavistic impressions. The well known nordic influences are still existing in the lyrics, but on 'Lucifer' they get enriched with occult borrowings. 'Lucifer' and 'Emptiness:Emptiness:Emptiness' were recorded at the same time and both albums combines an extraordinary, almost magical - and always very dark - atmosphere. With 'Lucifer', the trilogy that once began with 'Nighttime Nightrhymes' is now completed. So now even the first chapter of :Of The Wand And The Monn:'s career is completed: and until the next chapter begins, 'Lucifer' will enchant your dreams: [press release]
:Of The Wand And The Moon: -- "Sonnenheim" -- CD -- €14
2005 Heidrunar Myrkrunar, HEIM003
This is the 4th, long awaited and anticipated masterpiece from :OTWATM: with 15 new tracks also featuring collaborators from Forseti and Sonne Hagal. Musically this is Kim Larsen and :OTWATM:, but with a very big development in sound and atmosphere. Comes in very nice digipack with embossed metallic-foilblocked titles and debossed images and a 12 page booklet with all the texts.
Off The Sky -- "The Geist Cycles" -- CD -- €10
2007 Databloem, DB07017
Off The Sky returns with a fascinating set of experimental ambiances, acoustic and glitchy rhythmic excusions. The geist cycles project began as a series of live sonic collaborations via Lexington (KY, USA) artists interacting to interpret an idea of life in transit to afterlife. The takes were later studio swept and fabricated with various piano arrangements and custom rhythmic texture. After repeated post-studio live performances, the tracks evolved into their current iteration. [label info]
Off The Sky -- "Gently Down The Stream" -- CD -- €10
2005 Databloem, DBCD 013
Jason Corder, recording as off the sky, has released an album that expertly blends the warm textural melodicism of flowing ambient music with the beats, clicks, pops, and effects from the glitch and laptop subgenres. The composite result is an album which brims with imaginative sophistication, a multi-hued affair that rewards the listener as layer after layer of smooth beauty intermixed with computer-controlled rhythms is revealed slowly and deliciously. A flowing collection of sophisticated and glitchy rhythmic ambient. "I consider Gently Down The Stream one of the best in the glitch/laptop subgenre since the turn of the century." Bill Binkelman. [label info]
Off. / Hladna / Noises Of Russia -- "Friedlaender Tor" -- CD-R -- €6
2008 ElectroIndustry
Live recordings made on April 21st, 2007 in Kaliningrad, Russia. "Off. - sound-art project of Danil Akimov, exploring sound aperiodicities happening in the moments of powering up / powering down the electronic devices. For his live performances he uses special device for current interruption and low-frequency signal generators." Mysterious electronic minimalism... Hladna - power drone ambient... Noises Of Russia - orthodox noise & sound-collages... Total time - 71:32.
Oglav -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €6
2009 Valgriind, VG 32, (ltd. 200)
Drawling digital vibrations from ambient/darkwave project. Expanses of snow-covered fields and feelings of pulsate echo of endless freedom inside own essence. Limited edition with professional layout, released as an envelope. [label info]
Ogni Videniy -- "Interference" -- CD-R -- €8
2011 Biosonar^Labirint 022/2011, (ltd. 52)
Previously unreleased archive material. Ritual analogue droning. Waves, filaments and flashes of sounds of synthesized and concrete origin. Absolutely northern music, like aurora borealis, straightening the consciousness, ideal soundtrack for entering the trip. Each copy is handmade and numbered. [label info]
Ogni Videniy -- "Skvoz' Temnotu" -- CD-R -- €8
2009 Vetvei, V06, (ltd. 181)
The sixth Vetvei release presents trip "Through Darkness" of the Arkhangelsk (the north of Russia) project Ogni Videniy. The album was recorded in 2007 and was published by the author in some copies of hand-made limited edition. Ogni Videniy (Fires of Images, from Russian) is evolutionary continuation of Industrial Noise project Control Fires (2002) which in turn originates in close dialogue with the project Six Dead Bulgarians, at that time under the direction of Alexey Chulkov (R.I.P). The structure changes, to Industrial Noise basis of Control Fires in 2007 the pure Spirit concept is added, the project gets rituality in the activity, therefore it is transformed to Ogni Videniy, constantly taking part in record and performances Six Dead Bulgarians and to this day. During existence of Ogni Videniy were some collaborations and concetrs with Hladna, Lunar Abyss Deus Organum, etc. Visions Of the Source, Keepers of Fires, Clearing the Wind... This album represents six cloths-trips in Internal Space through coast of northern seas and conversations with birds and stones, through footpaths of playful streams and the fallen asleep Spirits of wood. The purpose of participants is studying of construction of light, a sound, an image, the qualities of psychedelic experiences directed on strengthening. Ogni Videniy represent natural shamanic, ecstatic Ritual Ambient using many authentic acoustic instruments, electronic tools and field recordings. Release is presented in six-panel fullcolour envelope designed by Vresnit. [press-release]
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Ogni Videniy -- "Tajushie" -- CD-R -- €8
2011 Vetvei, V11, (ltd. 181)
Tajushie ("Melting") was recorded by Petr Abysov and Alexandr Chulkov in spring 2009. Entitled by a mantra of the Buddha of Medicine, it was planed as a meditative work directed on harmonization of energy streams of the listener. Undoubtedly, a water and air delicate game, a live recording of melting ice, songs of streams, sounds of singing bowl's vibrations, bell's ringing and singing winds carries away with a sound stream all the negative kinds of consciousness, clearing and healthing our inner world. The process of meditative immersing dissolves the listener and lets him melt in the Universal Absolute. The release is presented in six-panel full-colored envelope Vetvei & Vresnit Art. [press-release]
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OKOK Society -- "Third Side Experiment" -- CD-R -- €9
2009 Perineum, Perineum # 25, (ltd. 50)
One of the most obscure releases from Perineum. OKOK Society is longtime active mystics working in the underground. Between automatic drawing, outsider art, collage and other streams of chaos magick, OKOK Society also does EVP (Electroinic Voice Phenomena) - these are sounds from beyond - mainly recorded voices, gotten using special technics of recording. "Third side experiment" - is one hour if mystical experience lead by radio, found sound phantasms, nothing telling voices (?) and droning loops. cdr in digipack, 50 copies. [press-release]
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Old Fashioned Donkeys -- "Carnival Is Burning" -- CD-R -- €7
2005 Gold Soundz, GS#33 / TibProd., TIBCD078, (ltd. 100)
Old Fashioned Donkeys play fine old school industrial with ambient flavour which will definitely appeal to the fans of Lustmord, TG, NON and Ultra label. Sleeve. [YAOP]
Olhon -- "Sinkhole" -- CD -- €12
2006 Eibon Records, Olh062
A cooperative effort of Massimo Magrini (mastermind of the genious BAD SECTOR) and Zairo (of the ultra-obscure dark ambient travellers WHERE). "Sinkhole" was composed using original field recordings taken (mainly underwater) in the "Pozzo del Merro", the world's deepest sinkhole. The result is an extremely organic, almost "breathing" dark ambient journey. Very challenging, that's for sure..... Nobody knows what lies in the abyss. Just sit down and listen to the sound of the earth's depths. [press-release]
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Olhon -- "Underwater Passage" -- CD -- €12
2008 Eibon Records, Ohl075
Field-recordings maestros OLHON are back with a new stunning album. "Underwater passage" is based upon underwater recordings taken in 2006 by Zairo (WHERE), then treated by Massimo Magrini (of BAD SECTOR fame). These recordings were taken using special sensing microphones attached to an abandoned telephone cable running on the sea bottom at -40 m.; they were then processed with particular demodulating treatments, resulting in a complex and rich ambiental monument. Strange clicks, impulses, a load of movements. Definitely far from the usual concept of dark ambient = low-rumbling drones only, "Underwater passage" shimmers with cutting mid/high frequencies bursts. A very challenging listening, trust me. Cd comes in white-trayed, UV-varnished digipack. [press-release]
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Olneyville Sound System -- "Efforts In Freedumb" -- CD -- €10
2003 Last Visible Dog, LVD 035 / Hospital Productions, HOS-076, (ltd. 500)
Lo-fi, Noise Rock. Rhode Island locales sounding like a Lightning Bolt 78 played at 16rpm or a smacked out James Brown jamming with the Starfuckers or better yet ESP weirdos Cromagnon trying to cover This Heat. [label info]
Oloolo -- "Pavilosta" -- CD -- €8
2006 Lagunamuch Community, LMC333
Oloolo is the project of two sound designers from Riga, Latvia - Kriipis Tulo and Rodion Zolotarew. It's founded in 2001. This peculiar quality of Oloolo music is achieved through extensive use of Soviet-era analogue synthesizers (Polyvox, Yunost-21, Formanta, RMIF TI-5 and others). Oloolo took part events: Pan Sonic's and Phill Niblock concerts in Riga (2002, 2004), Watercolors 2002, Skanu Mezs (Sound Forrest - Klangwald) festival (2003), Microstraava (2005) and more. This album is dedicated to Pavilosta, latvian little town, Baltic sea, where it was so good for us, as far as it happens probably. [press-release]
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Olsson, Kristian & Bo Cavefors -- "Dödens Ö / Die Toteninsel" -- CD -- €10
2010 Autarkeia, acd 059, (ltd. 300)
Bo Cavefors is a famous persecuted Swedish playwright and brutal writer, persona non grata of the Swedish official culture, whose plays and exhibitions have been banned for their quite extreme and nonconformist character. Kristian Olsson, well-known Swedish sound terrorist, the founder of SURVIVAL UNIT and ALFARMANIA projects, using Bo Cavefors' book texts and his voice, has recorded a very gloomy dark ambient album dedicated for the inevitable phenomenon - DEATH. [press-release]
Omit -- "Tracer" -- 2 CD -- €16
2005 Helen Scarsdale Agency, HMS 005, (ltd. 750)
As with all of his previous work, Tracer is an antiquated behemoth, constructed from analogue synthesizers, primitive drum machines, homespun electronics, and numerous effects pedals. Simple wooden rhythms trot, trudge, and even glide along taut metric grids hotwired with bursts of mechanical splutter and the occasional creak from Pierre Henry's wooden door. An occasionally menacing, but more often melancholic orchestration of synthetic tones ripple, flex, and dissolve across the uniform structuralism, creating an ecstatic paranoia rarely heard with such splendor, rigor, and sublime blackness. If sonic references are required, then the Klaus Schulze masterpiece Cyborg remains the closest analogy to what may be found in Tracer. [label info]
Önd -- "s/t" -- CD -- €10
2001 Inner Gravity Records, IGR 002
Önd creates slow bass-heavy and noisy, atmospheric soundscapes that are accompanied by various elements such as cold, ethereal whispers, rhythmic electronic beats and sometimes haunting and beautifull ambient melodies that create a nice contrast with the distant machine-like noises and heavy drones. The music also manages to create a continuous sad and dark desolate atmosphere. [EverDarkGreen review]
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Ondo -- "Sol" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Abgurd, AB-58, (ltd. 100)
ONDO started in 2007 under the rule of C-J Larsgarden who had been performing under name PACTA before that. Since then the project has released several albums ranging from good to excellent. Style of the project is varying from work to work from raw Drone Doom with Industrial touch to abstract Drone Ambient with melodies and melancholy. Sol album is filled with bells, reversed sounds, spectre piano melodies and other hissing and whistling beauty of unknown source as well as sounds of bonefires and voices from afar. The most similar projects as we see it are OMENYA, raison d'etre and, of course, some tracks of TROUM. [press-release]
One For Jude -- "Figures" -- CD -- €5
2006 Infinite Fog Productions, IF-01, (ltd. 500)
French band, playing quiet strange neofolk mixed with electronics, gothic and rock music. "From first minutes, music full a melancholy and romanticism, will transfer you deeply, to the farthest, warm, and probably for a long time the lost memoirs. Where it will want to come back again and again... Guests musician - Eric Roger(ex-Sol Invictus; Gae Bolg)." [label info]
One Week In August -- "Documentary" -- CD-R -- €7
1999 Soulworm Editions, Worm II
Sound experimentations based on the destroyed, modified and prepared equipment as vintage tape players, drum machines, effect boxes, wires, metal scraps et caetera. No digital devices were used either for sound generation or recording process. Furthermore, no rehearsals or track sketches were taken before the session, everything is just an effect of improvisation and accidents... Yes, such methods point on the 'old-school industrial' tribute recording which this album exactly is. One Week in August's program varies from malignant, gloomy wasteland ambience to harsh industrial, really intense and painful. Not to miss. [press-release]
Onirot -- "Augusta Taurinorum" -- CD -- €10
2001 Inner Gravity Records, IGR 003
Onirot is a malignant project showing the darkest side of human isolationism. 8 tracks of pure insane sonic anxiety will burn into the soul. A great mixture between early MEGAPTERA and LUSTMORD. Included a bonus video track full of the extreme realities of human weakness... [Cyclic Law]
Onirot -- "Deus Ex Machina" -- CD -- €10
2006 Inner Gravity Records, IGR 004, (ltd. 500)
The final chapter in the Onirot trilogy (following on from Augusta and Ritualis). Deus Ex Machina delves into the dark heart of obscure contemporary cold ambience: Mechanical / Industrial sounds sprawl across heart-wrenching and inhuman, dark, deep and ancient star filled landscapes full of subtle sound threads. Deus Ex Machina is full of violent beauty delivered across five tracks of pure sonic anxiety. A fine Dark Ambient feast in the vein of Raison D'Etre or Herbst9 etc. [label info]
Ontayso -- "Elochim" -- CD -- €10
2003 Tantric Harmonies, TANTRA X19, (ltd. 750)
Brighter version of dark ambient music with lots of natural sounds. Very much like Alio Die works still less drony and more musical.
Ontayso -- "Magical Tone Tricks" -- CD -- €10
2005 Silentes, 200508
Magical Tone Tricks was created during the silent night hours as Ontayso's third full lenght album and their ninth release since their birth in 2002. Ontayso frequently collaborates with several musicians and acts but for this release Ontayso exists mainly by their two core members Koen Lybaert and Esther Santoyo. For this release Ontayso has been mainly focused on electronic manipulations and field recordings. The overall atmosphere spread over the 4 long tracks come close to the well known early Basic Channel sound. Magical Tone Tricks still keeps it's unique experimental Ontayso sound. It is their response to the excellent Rod Modell's releases on Silentes and shows their mutual love for this early 90ties Berlin sound and their joy of working with field recordings and minimal sound manipulations. [press-release]
Ontayso -- "The Long River Run 2" -- CD-R -- €7
2006 U-Cover, ucdr021, (ltd. 125)
The first Ontayso release in 2006 is a rework version from limited CDR release that was only available at the U-cover live tour end 2004. This time the same settings have been reconstructed in Ableton live 5 and some percussive rhythmic parts and floating synth lines are added to this dark track. Over 45 minutes long build around spacy ambient music that gentle flows above rumbling deep subs, sweet sax melodies, strange guitar sounds and creepy icy synths. In 2004 Esther Santoyo, Steven Lambrechts, Dave Vanderplas and Koen Lybaert constructed their most experimental minded basic, now almost 2 year later Koen Lybaert created herewith 'The long river run 2'. Overall an extravagant music piece that has a sublime combination of minimal music and dark driven ambient. This Ontayso release will appeal for fans of their 'Magical tone tricks' release as well to those who likes their 'Score of an imaginary Iceland' debut. [press-release]
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Oophoi -- "An Aerial View" -- CD -- €12
2008 Glacial Movements Records, WSGM001, (ltd. 750)
"When I've been asked to describe the Ice Age with an uninterrupted drone, I knew I wanted to avoid the cliches of the genre: dark rumblings, massive low frequencies, cold atmospheres. I had to describe with sounds the white landscape, the blinding light reflected by the frozen oceans, the abyssal silence. I have imagined myself in flight over this Sleeping Earth, a solitary winged-being surrounded by winds, air, water and ice. This led me to compose an airy drone with minimal variations and delicate tones, an hommage to a pure, incontaminated and remote land." [from the author]
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Oophoi -- "Arpe Di Sabbia" -- 2 CD -- €15
2007 Nextera, ERA 2045-2
"Arpe di Sabbia" (Harps of Sand) is a new double live album recorded in Archiaro, a remote location immersed in the woods of southern Italy, and it features exclusive music composed for this special event. The two discs contain more than 130 minutes of slowly-changing textures and abyssal drones that try to describe the hidden voices of Nature: the endless movements of the ocean waves, the rustle of the crescent moon, the sunset's undercurrents, the life of nocturnal animals, the silent flow of the stars. A magical connection with a world of forgotten sounds. [press-release]
Oophoi -- "Athlit" -- CD -- €10
2001 Hypnos, hyp2236
US - debut of Italian drone-ambient artist Oophoi. He previously released some well-received works on the Amplexus label, both solo and with Tau Ceti (who also contributes here). Many Hypnos listeners have asked for more deep, slow-moving ambient drone material, and if that style is your cup of tea, you'll love this one. It's just short of 74 minutes, one massive continuous ambience (though with four "index" points so you can navigate the CD more easily). There's space music and then there's DEEP space music, and this one is deep, deep, deep. Put on the headphones and drift... [press-release]
Oophoi -- "Dreams" -- CD -- €11
2006 Faria Records, FAR-06
"Dream" - in English this word means both "sleep dream" and "imagination dream". Oophoi means both. Tracks for this series were created under impression of some lucid dreams which he had. Each track is a one "dream". When you listen to it you immerse in a state of light slumber, lucid imagination. This is a dream! For full perception, for each "Dream" was created a special SIRDS (stereo) picture, which will open the world of Oophoi's dreams for the listener. First edition of "Dreams" series was released on a mini-CD under limited edition of 70 pieces only. Immediately sold out, of course. But a lot of people ask it still now and we decided to release a new series of 3 full CDs. Here you will find replayed and remixed versions of first edition of "Dreams" and new unreleased material. This is a first CD from our series. [press release]
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Oophoi -- "Dreams 2" -- CD -- €11
2007 Faria Records, FAR-07, (ltd. 500)
The 2nd part of the trilogy.
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Oophoi -- "Dreams 3" -- CD -- €11
2007 Faria Records, FAR-08, (ltd. 500)
The 3rd part of the trilogy.
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Oophoi -- "Hymns to a Silent Sky" -- CD -- €11
2005 Nextera, ERA 2038-2
An album of epic, deep, evocative space music that stretches out in front of you in its own infinite universe of sounds. The music is deeply connected with the mysteries of the sky: clouds moving slowly, delicate and dramatic colors merging together beyond the horizon line, winds carrying voices and sounds from distant times. A remarkable work full of poetry. [label info]
Oophoi -- "Mare Vaporum" -- CD-R -- €9
2000/2010 Practising Nature, PN10035
Re-mastered reissue of Oophoi's classic album, third part of the Moon trilogy after Mare Tranquillitatis and Mare Imbrium. The music leads through different levels of space ambient music, from vast and resonant alien soundscapes to mystic and solitary drones for bass flute and electronics. Another masterpiece of slow atmospheric space music. Oophoi plays synths and vocals. [label info]
Oophoi -- "The Rustling Of Leaves" -- CD -- €11
2005 Faria Records, FAR-04, (ltd. 500)
Originally this album was issued on CD-R in a limited edition of 150 copies only. It has been sold out very fast and deleted. Now this release has new quality studio mastering and a bonus track, which supplements organically the conceptual picture of the album, and special artwork: a cover with a centre spread and 6 cards inside - thereby each track has also an art idea. The album has been created in a classical Oophoi-style. Sound collages and moods remind of his early works, such as "Spirals of time" and "Three lights at the end of the world". The music immerses the listener in autumn-winter landscapes, when nature has already fallen asleep, and winter is about to cover vivid autumn clothes with its white blanket. The ghostly female vocal in the first track sets the necessary aspect of perception at once, and after that listeners should only enjoy the different sides of autumn mood and drown into the world full of magic, peace and calmness. [label info]
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Oophoi -- "The Spirals of Time" -- 3 CD -- €22
2007 Faria Records, FAR-09, (ltd. 500)
We are happy to present the new version of the most famous album of the great Italian master. "The Spirals of Time" is considered the best of Oophoi's albums, also it has been recognized as one of the best drone-ambient projects of all times. Now this legendary album contains 3 CD! Surprisingly, but materials of this project is a records from two concerts, which was played in own studio of the maestro, in the "Kiva", in April and in June, 1997. The third disk is a record from a concert which was played in old farmhouse in city Assisi (the central Italy) in 1999. This record as though was initially created to become a finishing disk of this trilogies. Here you will find new ideas and new development of conception, however "classical" soundings of "The Spirals of Time" is kept. [press release]
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Oophoi & Faryus -- "Forgotten Rituals" -- CD -- €11
2007 Faria Records, FAR-10, (ltd. 500)
Collaboration work between Oophoi and Faryus. This project is a deep meditation about forgotten civilizations and mystery of endless life. This music is created for deep listening. At first sight this music is static. If you will listen to it in a superficial way, you don't get all the hidden sounds and textures, but if you go into a serious deep listening you'll discover that it is not static at all this is powerful mood music. This music full of pictures, moods and thoughts, voices of forgotten civilizations. The concept of this album like meditation to ancient archeological artefact. You see a stone - it statics. But after you start to see the richest history of this object, images, emotions, events opens.. The Stone - a statics, a history - dynamics. Photos of Sumerians artifacts were used in design of this release. Sumerians civilization was the earliest extant civilization. Their culture existed 5000-8000 years ago in Mesopotamia. Nowadays, archeologists find remarkable artifacts and stone tablets with ancient writings and pictures of gods and a mysterious planet left by Sumerians. Sumerians called their gods "Anunnaki" which meant "those who came from heaven downwards the Earth". They believed that "Anunnaki" came from the mysterious planet which resides within our Solar system. They called this planet "Nibiru". [press release]
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Oorchach -- "Chtonikka" -- CD -- €10
2008 Autarkeia, acd 027, (ltd. 300)
Chtonikka is the second album of OORCHACH, Lithuanian post industrial project. Six new tracks are dedicated to the arcane world Chtonikka whose vision the author conveys through the gloomy industrial loops, coarse and dirty lo-fi sound. Powerful tribal rhythms provide the tracks with vehement dynamics, while the album as a whole smacks of strong archaic mood. [label info]
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Opalio, Roberto -- "Chants From Isolated Ghosts" -- CD -- €14
2004/2007 Important Records, imprec115
Opalio, Roberto -- "The Last Night of the Angel of Glass, Vol. I & II" -- 2 CD -- €14
A Silent Place, ASP11
Roberto Opalio is a member of a project My Cat Is An Alien. His solo album was recorded as a soundtrack for the film of the same name, released on a DVD-R by American label Foxglove. In his recordings Roberto mainly used his own voice, processed to the state of pseudo-angelic choir, plus "electric astral guitar, space toys and alientronics". Two long 46-min pieces, quite leisurely and minimally evolving in their course.
Opium -- "Algorithms" -- CD -- €10
2007 Silentes, 200615
A stunning new offering by Opium. Classically elegant and extremely refined ambient music. Multi-dimensional sounds that are warm and enveloping. An emotional travelogue, starting dramatically, then taking the listener down a slower path, comfortably easing you into a long and fascinating sonic trip, where the sounds grow wide and large, and finally crumble inward, then regenerate, returning for another phase. A new sonic alchemy, and an entirely new world of soothing sounds for the adventurous listener to visit. [press-release]
The Oratory of Divine Love -- "Purgatorio" -- CD -- €10
2006 Waystyx, WR29, (ltd. 225)
The name of The Oratory of Divine Love isn't probably widely known, but researches of experimental music of course know the man behind it - John D. Gore - by his underground label Cohort Records (which released among other interesting artists discs of Bad Sector and Troum) and main project 'kirchenkampf'. By this time The Oratory of Divine Love has only released one CD-R on Belgian label EE Tapes and here with the effort of Russian label Waystyx the second full-length was born. The project's concept reflects John's interest in Christianity and radionoise, all compositions are being recorded always live using only radio passed through effect-chains as the sound source. This CD presents one long track with deeply reverberated surreal atmosphere, sucking your attention and immersing in real trance. Within these reverberations sonic events constantly flow and change like a picture of a dream, processed to full unrecognizability fragments of ether neighbour with low frequency radio drones, smooth waves synchronize with brain activity and slow down rational perceprion towards irrational. It's worth to mention very stylish artwork done by Waystyx - double sleeve made of black-oil-sodden paper (what a smell!), golden serigraphy and embossed album title on the cover.
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Orchid -- "Cold and Hunger" -- CD-R -- €6
2008 Valgriind, VG 15
Very emotional digital Pagan Ambient. A project of Nezhegol member. White DVD-box with cardboard insert. [label info]
Orchid -- "Echo / North not Found" -- CD-R -- €6
2009 Valgriind, VG 29, (ltd. 100)
CD-R split release of early unreleased works. Experimental project of Nezhegol author. Sounds, which reveal the essence of the North as a mental Grand-Motherland; Echo as an aftersound of an unseen reality. DVD-slim box with inserts. [label info]
Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio -- "Do Angels Never Cry, And Heaven Never Fall?" -- CD EP -- €15
2010 Out Of Line, OUT 425, (ltd. 1000)
Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio -- "ONANI" -- CD -- €14
2009 Cold Meat Industry, cmi191, 2nd ed.
Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio -- "Songs 4 Hate & Devotion" -- 2 CD -- €21
2010 Out Of Line, OUT 433 | 436
Ordo Templi Orientis -- "The Distances of Cold" -- CD -- €7
2010 Kasla Distribution, KASLA002CD
Unusual depressive work. The base of this music lies in Shoegaze / Postrock styles, but unlike the majority of these bands, OTO prefer not instrumental tracks, but traditional song structures. Vocals, atmosphere and some melodies resemble most bright girls-bands of indie stage, like Lush and Cat Power, but the musicians refer themselves to depressive black metal making the classification even more tangled (but don't be afraid - there's nothing from black metal here). Interesting atmosphere, quality sound, good English of the female vocalist. [YAOP]
Ordo Tyrannis -- "Vasa Iniquitatis" -- CD -- €10
2006 Flood The Earth Records, FTE 008
Experimental / industrial / black metal.
The Organisation of Sound -- "Illusion of a Movement" -- CD-R -- €6
Ostroga, OTR-008, (ltd. 100)
German drone ambient mainly built with loops of guitar, violin and clarinet.
Organisation Toth -- "Birth Ov Light" -- CD -- €10
2003 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 057
Ritual & magic beating dark & bleak industrial sounds by the French master for see "the birth of light"... Ill ritual muzak for your magik experiments & for necrophile nostalgics... [label info]
Organisation Toth -- "Gloria Victis!" -- CD -- €9
2007 War Office Propaganda, WOP 38
Organomehanizm -- "Bred Cosmosa" -- CD-R -- €9
2007 self-released, (ltd. 99)
As you can judge from the title, the album is dedicated to the conquest of outer space by the human. All the disk is built from huge amount of unique historical recordings which Kirill Stoukalin has obtained by the long arm of coincedence: singing Yuri Gagarin, talks between Soviet cosmonauts and control center, cuts of popular scientific broadcasts, etc. All this is interlaced in unified schizophrenic pattern with weird noises and odd electronic sounds. A sort of anti-Bad Sector.
Organomehanizm -- "Dichlophosrelaxator" -- CD-R box -- €10
2010 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT41, (ltd. 35)
Apotheosis of base harsh noise and old school industrial. Reissue of a cult album from 2000, previously release only on cassette. Almost infrasonic noise perforates ear-drums, heavy steps of metal percussion and dripping water sounds lead into the labytinths of night catacombs, industrial rumble fuels your brain with adrenaline, electric drone forces out the remainings of a false ego, and incomparable vocals of L.I. Brezhnev adds some idiocy. An absolute masterpiece!!! Special anti-crisis edition comes with a portion of a real Chinese noodles and is packed in a big handmade cardboard box. [press-release]
Organomehanizm -- "Quiet Insanity" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Rokot, RKT-07, (ltd. 100)
New album of recently reactivated noisician Kirill Stoukalin from Leningrad - you must forget about Saint-Petersburg here for it's pure concrete hash, rusty metal, killing cold humidity and mouldiness of Soviet era city on the banks of Neva. Kirill was a founder of Reductio Ad Absurdum - one of the very first Russian Industrial projects which started in the same time infamous Alexander Lebedev-Frontov did (early 1990s). If you still haven't heard a track from it -- you are loosing some great experience of feeling pure old-school madness and simplicity in the vein of M.B. and M.O. "Quiet insanity" includes 8 tracks of decomposed vinyl records, analogue sound sources and various schizophrenic samples. [press-release]
Organomehanizm -- "Sumerechnoe Sostoyanie" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 self-released, (ltd. 59)
The new release from Leningrad based project of Kirill Stoukaline (ex-Reductio Ad Absurdum). Three tracks recorded in 2006-2007. Monochrome aggressive schizo-noise. [Abgurd]
Origami Galaktika / i: Wound / Inderst Elia -- "Monolake" -- CD -- €10
2005 Purple Soil, pulse zero: three
Repress of the most beautiful of several live collaborations of these projects. Recorded already in 2000 in Oslo, originally released as limited CD-R on AMBERMUSIC year later, using fragments from still legendary, but still unreleased ORIGAMI GALAKTIKA 'Laos Vegas' album, this high-peak of live ambience comes again carefully re-mastered from the original minidisk (by Karel Kourek, man responsible for the sound of all recent h3o and OOPHOI albums) and re-packaged in nice paper fold-out cover. [label info]
Orkhestre Khaotique -- "Tandis que la Pluie S'Abat... Tandis que les Arbes Pleurent... l'Etre Meurt" -- 3 CD-R -- €10
Antihumanism, (ltd. 99)
Disc 1 - "inspired by P. Tignol and L. Waxweiler, and dedicated to their rotting corpses." Disc 2 - "inspired by the lonely trees blown by the wind, and dedicated to their ephemeral leaves." Disc 3 - "inspired by the animals that die each day to feed an ugly and degenerated species. My art is dedicated to these martyrs."
Orluk, Krzysztof -- "Blurred Reflection" -- CD-R -- €9
2009 Databloem, DBCD09025
Incredibly rich, minimal ambient/glitch in the vein of Off The Sky, Blamstrain, Biosphere, Shuttle358. Krzysztof Orluk is a musician born in Poland and this album is one of the rare pearls Databloem is always looking for. Krzysztof's sound is a compromise between digital machines and field recordings. Apart from this he uses orchestral sounds, opera recordings, different pianos and synthesizers, bells, old vinyl's and artificial cracks and noises. [press release]
Ornament -- "Unicorn Lullaby" -- CD-R -- €9
2005 AFE Records, afe066lcd, (ltd. 100)
"Unicorn Lullaby" was self-released by Ornament in a few copies back in 2000 and is now published by Afe in a fully remastered and repackaged version that showcases the author's visionary attitude. Due to the poor distribution of the original version, this is probably Ornament's less know work, but it's probably his best attempt at Dark Ambient music contaminated with Industrial elements. If we look for some kind of internal reference wondering through the whole Afe catalogue, this can easily be found in Never Known's "Dawn of an Era", but "Unicorn Lullaby" has of course a personality of his own. The distinctive overall sound of the album is subtly achieved with a rich shady substratum of distant sounds that are intentionally and elegantly kept in the background and are fully appreciable at a mid volume level. [label info]
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oro!oro! -- "Ilgesio Rubikonai" -- CD -- €10
2007 Autarkeia, acd 016, (ltd. 500)
oro!oro! - what is it? Is it the whoop of wonder full of charm and childishness beholding the transparent golden autumnal miracles? Or, are these the agony grips burning the throat and opening the last moment brimming with unbearable longing? This psychedelic code of multiple meanings has something eternal and deeply overt. Laurynas Jukonis, the master of the Lithuanian post-industrial, opens a new sonic structure and aesthetics that transcend the framework of GIRNU GIESMES project. The new project oro!oro! and its first album ilgesio rubikonai (Rubicons of Nostalgia) are undoubtedly among the most advanced musical works of the Lithuanian author revealing the accuracy and the subtlety of painting of complex and deep human emotions with the help of electronic sound. Particularly lucid and melancholic music of the album ilgesio rubikonai (Rubicons of Nostalgia), which may be classified as extremely refined ambient, transfers the audience into the masterfully highlighted and poetic visions experienced by personalities searching for the meaning of existence when the autumn in closing in. The autumn is the transformation of the nature bringing in the processes of ageing, decline and, at the same time, maturity into the whole of existence. The album promises a lonely but adventurous journey into the sorrowful landscapes of nature, cities and soul. The electronic sound helps the author to materialize the sense of nostalgia and create an immortal hymn for the period of golden autumn and the personality contemplating it. The oro!oro! album ilgesio rubikonai (Rubicons of Nostalgia) is among the most beautiful and deep ambient pieces reflecting the extremely complex ratio of human emotions and the existence. This new sound of ambient can surely be titled philosophical ambient. [press-release]
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Orplid -- "Sterbender Satyr" -- CD -- €14
Auerbach Tontrager, AB014
Orplid's "Sterbender Satyr" is as successful a mosaic of language, music, and representing images, as were their earlier releases. Apart from almost purely acoustic, mostly guitar-based songs, however, their new release sees Frank Machau and Uwe Nolte increasingly aiming for more ethereal soundscapes. Aside from Uwe's distinctive lyrics, it has become a cherished stable of Orplid to include settings of classical poetry on their albums. Uwe takes considerable pride in their interpretation of Oda Schaefer's poem 'Die Seherin', a track that ranks with Orplid's most expressive works. On this song the group collaborated with the artist Sandra Fink from Leipzig whose vocal delivery "is a reflection of the poem's archaic depths, rendered with a theatrical sensibility." "Sterbender Satyr" underlines a development that was already apparent in ist predecessor, "Nächtliche Juenger" (2003): Orplid are not a pure (Neo) Folk band, even if their early releases might have made that impression. The two musicians are rather constantly working on their unique settings of Uwe's "New German Poetry": lyrical, fragile, and sensitive, but powerful in expression and interpretation. [label info]
Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule & The HermAphroditic ChAOrder of the SILVER DUSK -- "156=Musick=Babalon=Kaos" -- CD -- €10
2011 Zoharum, ZOHAR 019-2
Esoterick Ambient, Shamanic Ritual Musick. Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule - the traveller, shaman, sound alchemist + 33 musicians (The HermAphroditic ChAOrder of the SILVER DUSK). 79 minutes of alchemic sound that will put you in a trance. Close to Psychic TV ('Themes' era), Hybryds, The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath a Cloud, Endvra, Exotoendo... The Silver Dusk's 156 = Musick Project is an experiment of Process: Magickal Musick was recorded by members of The HermAphroditic ChAOrder of the SILVER DUSK - usually in ritual context or with invocational intent - then posted on CD to other member/s in another country for them to add more layers to. This continued progressively until completion. The style of music ranges from neoclassical ambient orchestral multi-instrumental corroborations and layered electronic experimentations to simple primal ritual corroborees with sticks and bells and harmonious voices around a fire by the Hekate Tree. Dedicated to John Balance and Peter Christopherson with gratitude and inspiration... Standard edition in a digipak with a set of cards. [label info]
Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule & The HermAphroditic ChAOrder of the SILVER DUSK -- "156=Musick=Babalon=Kaos" -- CD + CD-R -- €15
2011 Zoharum, ZOHAR 019-2, (ltd. 156)
Esoterick Ambient, Shamanic Ritual Musick. Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule - the traveller, shaman, sound alchemist + 33 musicians (The HermAphroditic ChAOrder of the SILVER DUSK). 79 minutes of alchemic sound that will put you in a trance. Close to Psychic TV ('Themes' era), Hybryds, The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath a Cloud, Endvra, Exotoendo... The Silver Dusk's 156 = Musick Project is an experiment of Process: Magickal Musick was recorded by members of The HermAphroditic ChAOrder of the SILVER DUSK - usually in ritual context or with invocational intent - then posted on CD to other member/s in another country for them to add more layers to. This continued progressively until completion. The style of music ranges from neoclassical ambient orchestral multi-instrumental corroborations and layered electronic experimentations to simple primal ritual corroborees with sticks and bells and harmonious voices around a fire by the Hekate Tree. Dedicated to John Balance and Peter Christopherson with gratitude and inspiration... Limited edition containing an additional disc with more than 70 minutes of music(k). Together with the 1st disc it's more than 150 minutes of pure ritual sounds. [label info]
Orsi, Fabio -- "Find Electronica" -- CD -- €8
2007 A Silent Place, ASP21
"Find Electronica" is a wonderful album full of fine lyrics, structured as a long drone / ambient suite divided in two portions which are the frames of the articulated central track. A strictly personal exercise on the "Weird Folk" theme, hypnotic and seductive. The "found" electronica meets the sonorities made by the six chords, projecting enchanted landscapes on a vibrant horizon, with an intimate sensibility. Abstract and emotional, deep and dreamy. Digifile. [press-release]
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Orsi, Fabio & Valerio Cosi -- "We Could For Hours" -- CD -- €8
2008 A Silent Place, ASP26
"We Could For Hours" is instability. It represents the will to open the gates of unknown. It is the dark, whispered sounds and hidden truths. Chaos. And now here it starts, everything takes form, sensations rise, objects acquire colours, distorted vision but still a vision of reality... Silence. Sounds follow themselves but always hidden in a veil of mystery, words are mute, everything is listening attentively to the enchanting melody of nature... Everything is nothing. Nothing is the time. Time becomes memory and memory brings us to happy thoughts that rise first, then fall in the end. Hallucinations. The precariousness feeling is overwhelming us, tollings of a clock without hands are molesting our ears and they scan the slow and endless flowing of life. Too late to be back. There's no possibility. We have to live desolate countrysides burnt by an August sun. Lysergic vision. Void. [press-release]
Ortolani, Riz -- "Cannibal Holocaust" -- CD -- €10
1995/2005 Red Stream Inc, RSR - 0184
Riz Ortolani's score for Cannibal Holocaust has been eagerly sought after by aficionados of film music as well as fans of Italian horror! Now, at long last, the complete available score may be heard by the wide audience it deserves, in lovingly remastered sound. Cannibal Holocaust - Original Soundtrack by Riz Ortolani - a film by Ruggero Deodato. Here is the creepy soundtrack to Cannibal Holocaust - Ruggero Deodato's bloody, eye-gouging death fest from 1980. The soundtrack houses a myriad of interesting styles-from gentle acoustic melodies to over-the-top synth excursions and even lounge, jazz and disco influenced tracks. There is a certain moog sound repeated through the CD that will eventually get under your skin like a school of leeches in the amazon. There is a full range of styles and arrangements which take you a sanguine jungle journey of emotions... Come back....to CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST! Released in an excellent digipak! [press-release]
Our God Weeps -- "Unity" -- CD -- €12
2003 Hau Ruck!, HR!43
Dark electronic music from this interesting new project from Hungary. Comes in nice digipak with booklet. [label info]
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Ouroboros -- "Lux Arcana" -- CD -- €10
2007 Sabbathid Records, hoof034
Italian occult dark ambient in classical Cold Meat Industry style. 7th track is a cover version of Sting's song "Russians".
Ouroboros -- "Opus Tartari" -- CD -- €10
2011 Zoharum, ZOHAR 018-2
'Opus Tartari' is the latest album of Italian dark ambient project which - in its leader's own words - after years of esoteric and alchemist studies decided to transfer his own experiences into music. Ouroboros should be then treated as a medium used in search for its own philosophical stone. Compositions included on the album lead the listener into the world of antique and medieval times due to their tunes and the singing in Latin. Mystical, slightly sacral character of the tracks has become its leitmotif recognisible for the band. Marco Grosso known for his collaboration with many session musicians (with Claudio Dondo of Runes Order) asked a lot of vocalists (Nuna Luna - soprano voice, Sorath Isis, Aleph Zero, Malice) to participate in the recordings as well. This resulted in the creation of 'Opus Tartari' - an intriguing, emotional, full of unsettling beauty and esoterica journey. The album can be likened to early releases of Diamanda Galas, The Moon and the Nightspirit and The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath a Cloud. The album has been released in a 3-panel digipak. [press-release]
Out Of Focus -- "Subliminal Collages" -- CD-R -- €9
2006 Triangle Records, [TR05], (ltd. 60)
Surrealistic domestic noise, chaos, collages and distorted space. This time Karelian guys use: vacuum cleaner, guitar, naildrawer, cellophane bag, egg-cutter, piano, glass vase, iron ball, slide projector, water, scotch tape, 5-liter jar, paper, foam plastic, strobes, mouth organ, ski stick, pocket flashlight, electric razor, massager, hanger, scissors, engraving machine, gramophone, perforator, oven grill, screwdriver, peas, table spoons, forks. Disk has a multimedia part - clip and photo-album. Rough paper envelope with insert. Cover drawn by children from kindergarten number 114 of the city of Petrozavodsk.
Ovro -- "Revisited" -- CD -- €10
2008 Some Place Else, SPECD08047, (ltd. 1000)
The wondergirl of Finnish dark ambient soundscapes is back with a new album. Revisited is based on field recordings made during Ovro's tour in Russia in 2006, subsequently processed and treated in the studio. Revisited is a powerful aural travelogue. It will lull the listener to a state of receptive trance, and then starts working on the subconscious mind. Let yourself go, lose yourself in the sound, expect lucid dreams, out-of-body experiences, alien apparitions and a shower of sound massaging your body throughout. CD is packed in beautiful 4-panel digisleeve. Edition of 1000 copies. Revisited is loosely related to Estraier, a 2006 EP of which only a handful of copies were given out. Compared to Estraier, Revisited is extended, mutated and more elaborate throughout. While the beginning is similar, the paths taken turn out somewhat different and thus the outcome is all new. [label info]
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Ovro & Niko Skorpio -- "Live in Placard #7" -- CD -- €10
2004 Some Place Else, SPECD04032, (ltd. 500)
One hour of unsettling and unrestrained Uneasy Listening. Recorded live in Placard #7 Headphone Festival, Helsinki, Finland, 22th May 2004. This is musick to shrink skulls to. Edition of 500 copies, hand-numbered by the artists themselves. [label info]
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Ovum -- "Plastic Passion" -- CD-R -- €7
2006 Troniks, TRO-184
Two 20-min long tracks, deep isolationist drone ambient. Sleeve. [YAOP]
Owen, Ben -- "Birds and Water, 2 & 3" -- CD -- €9
2011 Observatoire, obs * 029 cd, (ltd. 350)
Birds and Water, 2 & 3 are four recordings from May 05, 2010 made while on residency with The Experimental Television Center in Owego, NY. These recordings are the second release in the series and continue as sound based pieces using David Jone's image processing system. ETC expanded operations in 1974 with the first Jones Colorizer and in 1975 with a set of keyers, a multi-input syncable sequencer and a bank of oscillators, all designed and constructed by David Jones. Thanks to Hank Rudolph, Sherry and Ralph Hocking, Justin Lincoln, Giuseppe Ielasi and Denis Shapovalov. Ben Owen, November 2011... In terms of sound it is rather minimalistic canvas of the length of 72 minutes. The first two tracks let us see what we are concerned with. This is super-strict and absolutely unmusical matter. The listener can picture to himself something from CM von Hausswolff, but based on two patches subtly guiding the original pure signal. Obs, November 2011. [press-release]
Oxyd -- "Astral Border" -- CD -- €10
2009 Aliens Production, AP 21, (ltd. 550)
OXYD is project, which has in our family succeded move forward and significant change in production releasing the album LARVA. The actual shape of this project is another search in electronic territories, and with sound this album is connected to paths and corners, which appeared in the previous release. Atmospheric elements in the combination of dominant beats and monumental sceneries. Gothic voices accompanied by synthetic pulses and melodic lines. Mix of IDM and analog elements in which flows dark ambient surfaces and industrial elements. This album is again a step forward to dynamic face and stronger attitude to production again suggests next musical experience which can not be missed. [press-release]
Oxyd -- "Larva" -- CD -- €10
2007 Aliens Production, AP 17, (ltd. 550)
Larva could be described as unlimited quantity of transformations and pulsating moves in electro oasis, that brings us third release of Slovak Oxyd, behind which stand both of protagonists from the project Disharmony. New release brings a new voyage and in comparison with last releases, sound of these two is for a step closer to technological ways, where darker messages follow organic melodies, machine rhythms and atmospheric floods in combination with scenic elements. Combination of dark ambient moods, industrial and IDM elements is great combination of various styles in electro music. Let your fantasy flow and travel around the world, that will bring you guaranteed industrial transfusions. Open the gates of your mind. Enjoy direct messages from the world of imaginary civilizations and become a part of atmospheric vibrations. [press-release]
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Oxyd -- "Liveforms" -- CD -- €10
2012 Aliens Production, AP 26 / Signifier, sig005, (ltd. 333)
You didn't have to wait very long for the first joint collaboration between record labels Aliens Production (Slovakia) and Signifier (USA). Oxyd follows up their 2009 release, Astral Border, with Liveforms, a rare recording of live performances that showcase this talented duo's ability to drift somewhere out in the darkest waters of ambient and IDM. Oxyd, a side project from the members of Disharmony (Tympanik Audio / Aliens Production), delivers dark tones and mysterious twists that balance seamlessly to create hypnotic sequences and atmospheric soundscapes that surge beyond the typical industrial voyage. Featuring several unreleased tracks along with songs selected to elicit a new emotion around every corner. [press-release]
Oxyd / Sumad -- "Mysterious Places Of Dead Souls" -- CD -- €10
2005 Ars Benevola Mater, ABM 16, (ltd. 545)
Dark soundscapes of onyric ambient, accompanied by the restless breath of drones and samples overwhelmed with typical scandinavian distressing atmospheres. 'Mysterious places of dead souls' opens gloomy horizons upon dead landscapes where all the shades of grey are reflected into a magma of sombre uneasiness. The ideal soundtrack to open a passage upon new and unknown dimensions. [press-release]
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Pacific 231 -- "Stif(f)le - Etats Brut et Balances" -- CD-R -- €10
2008 Monochrome Vision, (ltd. 150)
Pierre Jolivet has been producing music since 1981. His most recent CD Palestine has been released in 2007 in collaboration with Rapoon. In the Autumn of the same year, he visited Russia with concerts. They were organized in Moscow, St.-Petersbourg and Yaroslavl by Monochrome Vision label, which started the new series of live albums with this one. The concept of "Stif(f)le" is to encompass a space by creating a virtual world based on the use of digital technology. Since my first performance, nearly 25 years ago, progress has been made in creating and controlling the performance in a real time environment. The equipment consists of a single laptop, connected through MIDI to an upper torso exoskeleton and a data projector displaying the visual in sync with the sound feed. Abolishing the instrument liberates the performer as motion sensors on the body facilitate gesture found in dance or in sculpture. The minimalist aspect of the performance makes the spectator closer to an altered state of consciousness, a format used since the early sixties repetitive school of music to include the public as part of the event as a cerebral feedback loop. [label info]
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Pacific 231 & Rapoon -- "Palestine" -- CD -- €10
2007 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 096, (ltd. 700)
Palestine is a face-2-face in memoriam between Pacific 231 & Rapoon to the late Bryn Jones 1961-1999 a.k.a. Muslimgauze. The production also support the justified struggle for a truly free Palestinian nation, a key issue for a middle-east liberated from foreign ingerance.
Music was the modus operandi Muslimgauze wanted to carry the message and music is the medium we want to continue to convey the legacy. This regular edition is in-fact also a special edition due to the special screen printed Protex-Box / Lever Kick-out box and for the black coloured playing side of the CD! [press-release]
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Pacific 231 & Vox Populi! -- "Cthulhu Revisitation" -- CD -- €10
2007 Monochrome Vision, (mv16), (ltd. 500)
Pacific 231 is the project of Pierre Jolivet, a French musician now residing in Ireland. It came into existence in the early 80s and belonged to the first wave of industrial groups. Early albums were released by Le Syndicat, Cause And Effect & Bunker Records. Invaluable assistance in due time was given by Psyclones with whom Pierre recorded a couple of albums under the Psy 231 moniker, which were released on their label Ladd-Frith. While the early Pacific 231 albums like "Thule Apocalypse" and "Unusual Perversions" show us the bridge between power electronics and old school industrial, the later ones are much more experimental in sound and appeals to quite another perception type -- in no way to some numb stupor and paralyzing fear but to a complex balance of concentration and relaxation, governed by the harmony of resonances and transitional processes. The research was made on highly organic and self-consumed struggle occuring on the speculative level. Pierre is extremely exact in dealing with musical matter, slightly elucidating only those areas that do not bring danger though are not particularly flattering to your ears. His focus is primarily on sound - awkward, free of gloss but not free of sonic charm. Recently Pierre's activity has slowed and his style has undergone substantial changes, moving far from noise music into the sphere of experimental electronics and synthetic sound. The album "Ethnicities," released in 2006, is the first after a long hiatus. It embraces the whole epoque: urban soundscapes are melting away with the tropical forest invasion, the semi-authentic ethnic rhythms are dissolving in the psychedelic ambience. Pierre's interest in ethnic music finds its extension in the most recent album "Palestine" recorded for Old Europa Cafe in collaboration with Rapoon. This is a kind of ethno-trance suite devoted to the memory of Bryn Jones (Muslimgauze). In this connection, we must mention the long history between Pacific 231 and another French long lived band Vox Populi!. It was founded in 1981 by Axel Kyrou and released some remarkable LPs in the 80s, including the collaborations with HNAS and Pacific 231. Also interested in experiments with ethnic and industrial instrumentation, improvising and collages, Vox Populi! creates very rich pieces, drawing on psychedelic and traditional music, but avantgarde and mystical approach as well. Till now, none of their albums have been released on CD, making this retrospective their only available CD recordings. [press-release]
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Page, Mike -- "s/t" -- CD -- €10
2008 At War With False Noise, ATWAR042, (ltd. 500)
First "solo" album from the incomparable Mike Page, he of Fire In The Head, Sky Burial etc etc. When I got sent the original cut of this record he put a note in saying something like "Here's my new record...no PE, no ambient, JUST NOISE". Whilst this IS a departure from a lot of what he's known for, it would be a travesty to describe this as JUST noise. What you get here is one lengthy plunge into the depths of carefully-constructed aural extremity, utterly loud and heavy as fuck and utilising as many extremes of tone that your poor lugs can take! Sometimes it all goes a bit quiet and you think there's going to be an extended period of aural respite...until some shrieking high-end comes in and blows away any idea of shelter from the onslaught. I was really disappointed when Mike announced he was giving up F/I/T/H but if he keeps up this level of intensity and sheer bloodyminded bludgeon the future's bright. 500 copies on CD. Great FEAR - MORE BEER rip-off artwork (brilliant band, shite album eh!). [press-release]
Painting Petals On Planet Ghost -- "Fallen Camellias" -- CD -- €8
2008 A Silent Place, ASP35
Second full-length album from Italian brothers Maurizio & Roberto Opalio (My Cat Is An Alien) and vocalist Ramona Ponzini (Praxinoscope). 'Fallen Camellias' is a tribute to one of the greatest poetess ever, Japanese Yosano Akiko, whose work in literature in the early 1900's is considered as manifesto of the Japanese Romanticism. Imagine a Vashti Bunyan or a early Marianne Faithful singing sweet melodies in Japanese language, and you can have an idea of the musical and poetical universe of PPOPG. The songs of 'Fallen Camellias' are built on acoustic guitar melodies and are made of the same pure, melancholy of the legendary Nick Drake. Let 'Fallen Camellias' be your warm blanket, as well as the promise of a new future spring. 6-panel digipak. [press-release]
Paladino, Francesco & Breanin, Sean -- "Musica Fiuto" -- CD -- €13
2006 Hic Sunt Leones, HSL 033
Elaborated from the same basic 'voices' for "Nosesoul" made by Francesco Paladino, and then mixed, processed and integrated by Sean Breadin with totally acoustic improvisations with pocket corner, crwth, viola, gusle, voice, bendhir. A very original combination between improvisation music, drones and weird folk. [press release]
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Paladino, Francesco & Opium -- "Nosesoul: Angel Ghost and Human Shades" -- CD -- €13
2006 Hic Sunt Leones, HSL 032
Teo Zini / Opium: "Nosesoul project is pure improvisation, my sessions have been improvised and directly mixed with Francesco's voices. These sounds are pure breathe, pure prayers, pure mourns and pure pleasures to me. I hope this experience won't leave me trough my next years." Francesco Paladino: "I found I've a voice inside me but it is not mine. I supported it through my 'nosesoul' and 'lamentationes' researches. Some artists, beautiful friends, helped me by their influences and elaboration and the voice has gone out. So I moved."
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Pan Techno Icon -- "Bearing" -- 2 CD -- €9
The Lime Green Yellow Recording Company, LGY 016 CD
Pangolinorchestra -- "O" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Lunhare, zzz - 3, (ltd. 100)
Studio recordings previously released on cassette in 1995. Art & free-rock structures with a somewhat strange approach to melody. Featuring the genius of Piume E Sangue's Gi Gasparin. [label info]
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Panic Bedroom -- "Beasts of the End Times" -- CD -- €10
2011 self-releaded, CC 001
"Beasts of the End Times" - first album of polish industrial/noise duo Panic Bedroom. Panic Bedroom was founded in 2008 in Wroclaw on Karol Ilow's initiative. At the beginning he operates alone dealing with sound synthesis, composition as well as field-recording. In 2009, in the role of lead singer Szymon Borodziuk joins the project. Since then, Panic Bedroom acts as a duo. The music explored by Panic Bedroom are low, pulsating frequencies, mechanical loops, alarm sirens, unsetlling drones, ambient textures and the howl of machines. All that plus a large pinch of noise. Subjects that Panic Bedroom broaches are the collapse of Western civilizations, meltdown and reversal of their moral values??, human focus on consumption and above all, global domination and enslavement of humanity straight from Orwell books. Panic Bedroom warns against dark vision of the future, its transmission is the call for awakening for the dormant masses, to open their closed eyes. 'Beasts of the End Times' is the band's debut release. Apart from the two band members, sonic contributions were made by DVJ Tomasz Mniamos, known from S.A.D. and Acid TV, and Marcin Kepa, who added guitar parts to the mix. [press-release]
Panie Kahanku -- "Le Cauchemar" -- CD-R -- €5
DIS Productions
Calm trance-like rhythmic experimental electronics from Belarus, provided with samples of religious singing, ethnic tunes and manifold of other unpredictable elements.
Panzar -- "Pratotypon" -- CD -- €12
2006 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 078
OEC was since ever the home for the more harsh & batteling Peter Andersson aka Raison D'etre side projects! OEC was releaseing the debut Stratvm Terrror CD & 2 other very acclaimed ST followers... Now we like to go with this new disc by Peter which will be the very last one for his other "harsh" project: "Panzar"! World War II has ended and so will Panzar... Including a unique live performance from the hot summer desert war 2005 and a number of early prototypes never released before. Also included is a Panzar hit re-mix of the FOLKSTORM track "Victory of Death?"!!! "Pratotypon" contains all you need: harsh and growling electronic sounds, distorted and transformed beats, danger and blood from the battlefield. Comes in jewel case with artwork filled with early tanks. If you have a CD-player in your armoured vehicle this is the definite music to play, or why not: "buy a TANK!" [press-release]
Papa -- "Irresponsible Father" -- CD-R -- €6<
2007 Emerson Lake & Headache
Nearly 18 minutes of foolish happy and sometimes sad quality noise from this Karelian project (side-project of Maaaa).
Parchim -- "Instinct Of Self-Destruction (Instinct Samounichtozheniya)" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Spermodeath Records, SD-02
Death ambient, ritual noise. Slowcontinuence. Beds of shoreless rivers cherished by lifeless smiles of Death. Noise of pulsating wind. The temple of timelessness - rearing hands of the Lord, eternal slow falling and breath of earth. "Abyss - colourlessness is present here". Victims pampered by cold, faces of "pale Dostoevsky heroes"... stir, melancholy, dehydration, corpses, caustic shadows... [label info]
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Parchim -- "Winter - Never Die" -- CD-R -- €6
2010 Valgriind, VG 39, (ltd. 100)
New album from the author of Necrasota, ex-member of Ierophania. Transparent DVD-slim box with b/w cover decorated with a dried oak leave. Ritual ambient / noise. [label info]
Park Modern -- "Mechanical Bowels" -- 2 CD -- €13
2005 Laton, Laton 036
Park Modern is the seminal project of Evgeny Beresnev, started in the russian Far-East city Vladivostok in 1999. He participated some local electronic music festivals and produced four full-length albums available online so far, before gaining attention by Franz Pomassl from austrian Laton label. This ultimate anthology is composed from the tracks from all those albums, containing 45 tracks and 157 minutes of music! Evgeny calls his music "noise-IDM", and according to the label press-release it should be like "electro-mechanic musique concrete". So, what is it all about? All tracks are exploring rhythmic structures, but there are nether melodies nore standard techno-arrangements, instead of them, we have huge massive of sampled noises from everyday life. Something you have heard once upon a time, ranging from the railway train clatter to construction sites roaring, dishes clinking and toy instruments strumming. This "discotheque of mechanisms" is something to be associated with Ant-Zen/Hands Productions stuff, so you need more time to override the initial stages and get accustomed to, before you will be able to feel the difference. On this more profound level, you will be surprised with its seriousness and austerity, in spite of frivolous rhythms and jocular tracktitles. This peculiar feature is the main difference from other dance/industrial/noise mongrels. [Dmitry Vasilyev, Independent Electronic Music]
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Parkin, Nick -- "Descent" -- CD -- €13
Hic Sunt Leones, HSL013
A meditative obscure travel with acoustic and electronic treated sounds. First solo album from a member of Tuu and Stillpoint project. [label info]
Parhelion -- "Midnight Sun" -- CD -- €12
2010 Cyclic Law, 30th Cycle, (ltd. 1000)
Canada's Parhelion first full length album "Midnight Sun" is a collection of sonic reflections on the natural geography and harsh climate of the arctic terrain. Perhaps more so, it is also a meditation on the sacred quality of this mysterious land and man's relationship to it. Inspired both by the physical beauty as well as the mystic spirit which shrouds the northern landscapes, the album is the culmination of several years of studio experimentation and sound exploration. Blending guitar drones, icy synth pads and environmental sounds, "Midnight Sun" attempts to convey the solemn spirit of awe and reverence for the great white north through the use of sound and texture. [press-release]
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Parra, Alberto -- "La Invocacion Del Gran Condor" -- CD-R -- €7
2011 Buh Records, BR21, (ltd. 80)
Alberto Parra is one of the most interesting young musicians of the current Chilean experimental underground scene. Also a member of an improvisation group Sagittal Feast. "The Invocation Of The Great Condor" presents five tracks in which the author covers the trails left by the German cosmic music, the drone as well as added sounds mixed with various forms of electronic experimentation, always full of sensibility that connects with the spirit of psychedelia. Limited edition of 80 copies on cdr. Cover art by Camila Fuentes. [label info]
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PBK -- "2Experiences Paris 1996" -- CD-R -- €8
2010 noiseambient.com, NAS002, (ltd. 100)
Live recording from Paris made on November 23, 1996 - also performing were La Forge, Toy Bizarre, PBK, Schimpfluch Gruppe, Con Demek. The art of noise in preliminary extreme industrial forms. Slim-DVD-box with an insert. [YAOP]
PBK -- "Under my Breath" -- CD -- €16
2009 Waystyx, WR35, (ltd. 500)
"Under my Breath" is the new ambient noise release by Phillip B. Klingler, aka PBK. Collaborating with some of the most brilliant experimental musicians from around the world, PBK has created a work of exceptional depth and complexity. "Under my Breath" is an abstract contemplation on post 9/11 paranoia in the U.S. Most of the album was created in 2004 during the height of the Bush administration crackdown on human rights via the Patriot Act. The resulting album reveals a new vernacular for dark ambient isolationist music and is an important key to understanding PBK's ambitions in the world of sound. Seeking expression through the use of drones, natural or man-made acoustic sounds, digital glitching and turntable noise, the effect is one of surrealistic juxtaposition, not jarring, but totally organic sounding, that can be listened to and savored in an intellectual way. The distinguished guests on this album are Nocturnal Emissions, Wolf Eyes, Brume, Aube, John Wiggins, Tore H. Boe, Artificial Memory Trace, Dale Lloyd and C. Reider. [press-release]. Packed in an unusual cardboard "mirror-sleeve".
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PBK / Telepherique -- "Noise-Ambient Connection" -- CD -- €10
2008 Monochrome Vision, mv22, (ltd. 500)
This particular album is the first ever collaboration between american soundartist Phillip B. Klingler and german band Telepherique, it represents yet another breakthrough in the search for a music that is comprehensively exploring 21st century ambient music, an essential listening experience which is absolutely unique for the whole genre history as well as for both artists. PBK and Telepherique proposes premium quality music with manifold edges: some hypnotic ambient pieces, some crazy noise collages, but mostly just unclassifiable abstract sound-sculptures. Both artists uses a lot of synthetic sound sources and sequences, creating unsettling atmosphere from the structured electronic patterns ranging from intense rhythmic work to creepy ambient out-of-body soundscapes. [label info]
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PBK & Zanstones -- "Mantis Fog Desert" -- CD -- €10
2011 Monochrome Vision, mv39, (ltd. 500)
Zan Hoffman started his musical activity in 1984 and released an impressive amount of albums - more than 1000 releases under dozens of pseudonyms like Zanstones, Zanoisect, Bodycocktail, Masters Of The Ungentlemanly Art etc, including the collaborations with Francisco Lopez, Minoy, Agog, Jeff Surak, and other fellow explorers worldwide. Almost all of them were self-published by his own ZH27 label on tapes/CDRs and later on the net. The new collaboration of PBK and Zan Hoffman (Zanstones) is the experiment in perfect interaction between noise music, ambient approach and electronic sound, with organic and sometimes even psychedelic output. For both artists, being active in the underground music scene for many years, this album is very distinct and peculiar showcase of their endless creative potential. [press-release]
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PCRV Quartet -- "Basementality" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Somnolent Shelter Records, SSREC#004
Experimental noise somewhere between technogenic ambient / drone substances and more sharp industrial sketches. [Sickcore]
Pearce, Jeff -- "Bleed" -- CD -- €10
2002 Hypnos, hyp2241
Sublime. Jeff is one of my favorite composers at the moment. Instead of being an AMBIENT musician he's an ambient MUSICIAN. Jeff plays beautiful melancholy guitar treated with verb and delay with the utmost taste. Touchstones might be Satie, Tim Story, Patrick O'Hearn, but I wouldn't take those references too literally as Jeff has a touch of his own. There is a rare quality in a musician where on hearing their music you are effortlessly transported into a very deep place inside yourself which I believe can only happen when the composer is doing the same. There is a beautiful detached outer quality in the sustaining reverb, but his touch on the strings brings it inside so the music is simultaneously near and far away. Highly recommended. [Paul Ellis]
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Peenemunde -- "s/t" -- CD -- €10
2011 Obscurex, OBS007
38 minutes of carefully crafted, dark and gritty Industrial Noise by finnish noisemasters: P. Dassum (Umpio) & Pekka PT (Gelsomina / Sick Seed). [label info]
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Penitent -- "Deserted Dreams" -- CD -- €10
2004 Beyond Productions, BEY.0330
The latest Penitent album Songs of Despair just surprised so much both the press and the usual Penitent audience, since it was so full of Darkwave, Gothic, Doom and Theatrical elements so far from what Karsten has composed in the past. Now Karsten turns back to us with his new album and we like to define it in the way the artist himself like to do: a journey back to the old sonorities , totally devoted to the past sounds (in the vein of his very first releases on Cold Meat and Draenor/Napalm), but with a new majestic and poetic visions of the ethereal work. [Going Underground]
The People's Noise Project -- "The Noise Fame Monster" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Vomit Bucket Productions, VBP 055, (ltd. 100)
Noise-core tribute to Lady Gaga! 25 hits of Lady performed with canonic sound of Anal Cunt and Meat Shits with proper vocals, plus lively shouting-counts in vein of The Gerogerigegege before each track. A miracle! Sleeve. [YAOP]
Pepelaz Analog Beat -- "Underwater Current" -- CD-R -- €8
2004 BioSonar^EleKtro - 002, (ltd. 99)
Bright Karelian ambient, like a fresh breath of nothern wind and bogs. Full-colour A5 sleeve.
Pepelaz Analog Beat -- "Sorokopyatka" -- CD-R -- €8
2005 BioSonar^EleKtro, BioSonar^EleKtro-009
Rhythmic dub-like music with ambient inclusions. Pulsating sound layers derived from analogue drum-machines stratify and create hypnotic petterns supplied with vinyl samples. Sometimes sounds like a mix of Vromb and Muslimgauze.
Per Aspera -- "Nil Desperandum" -- CD -- €11
2008 New Nihilism, NN V, (ltd. 500)
The third and the most complete release by one of the most tallented ambient artists hailing from Poland these days. Unifying vast array of elements, Per Aspera once again achieves remarkably introvert but vibrant style. Eerie industrial atmosphere seamlessly blends with serene harmonies of almost orchestral form. Cinematic, monstrous drone formations morph into pulsating abyss of dissonant disturbances and uncompromised sonic experiments, overlaid by subtle beauty of human voice and minimalist acoustic instrumentation. All those skillful, multiformal explorations establish Nil desperandum one of those albums of complex yet stable musical concept-reflecting the incoherencies of human nature and its immanent affection to chaos and order merged together. Per Aspera tends to render tragically compound heritage of the mankind, being constantly shaped by cultural, ethnic and religious or ideologic discrepancies. Definitely not your average dark-ambient buzz, this album stands out of the dull cliche. The sound may appeal to the admirers of T. Köner, Parca Pace, Nocturnal Emissions or Neubautens to name a few but still, expect no pattern follower. Complemented with special A5-sized glossy digipak designed by Ibsen studio, this CD is limited to 500 copies only. [press-release]
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Per Aspera Ad Nilum -- "Silentwinter" -- 3"CD-R -- €5
2002 Soulworm Editions, Worm XVIII, (ltd. 99)
The light against its reflection, the snowy landscape monotony against the frost pattern complexity... Keeping the subtle balance between the sound and silence, Per aspera ad nilum's aural ambiences are quite successful attempt of rendering the wintry tranqulity. Clean, tamed but still sophisticated atmosphere creation and good selection of source sounds makes this release a promising debut. [press-release]
Perlonex / Keith Rowe / Charlemagne Palestine -- "Tensions" -- 2 CD -- €13
2006 Nexsound, NS54
This double-CD documents the 5th anniversary concert of Perlonex who on this occasion invited Keith Rowe(AMM) and Charlemagne Palestine as guests in order to feature different aspects of their musical work in two distinct sets. All material is presented as played live and no editing or overdubs have been applied. Recorded at Podewil by Christian Malejka on September 11th 2004 Mixed by Ignaz Schick & Burkhard Beins at AudioCue Studio Berlin... While Perlonex normally don't perform with guests the collaboration with Ch. Palestine, this unusual confrontation has been continued and Palestine became a frequent & only guest of the group. After the first meeting documented on this double CD there were several concerts taking place in France, Switzerland & Austria. A recent evening in Vienna which was recorded & broadcasted by ORF radio station documents how intense & unusual the quality of this exchange became. An 80 minutes long stream of intense drones cutting against quotations of Gershwin's "It ain't necessarily so". [label info]
Persona -- "Llibertat" -- 3"CD-R -- €5
2007 Mask of the Slave, MS-006, (ltd. 100)
Great new band from Barcelona, highly recommended for fans of death industrial, dark ambient, martial and noise. 5 exclusive new tracks for this 3" release. First album "Selbstmord" out on Nervous Nurse Records from Germany. [label info]
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Pesthauch -- "Erinnerung An Die Zukunft" -- CD-R -- €7
:VENE:
Aggressive and militant industrial/noise anti-music, probably too extreme for you. It's the re-release of the 'Erinnerung' cdr, originally released by On Oath Records in a very limited edition, with bonustracks. Also contains a cover from NON - "Total War". This WILL drive you to insanity! [label info]
Pesthauch -- "Manchmal ist es Besser, zu Vergessen" -- CD-R -- €7
Voor Een Nieuw Europa, (ltd. 97)
Blatant lo-fi in vein of production of St. Petersburg label YAOP: remote concrete noises and plenty of samples. Thick paper sleeve. [Abgurd info]
PGR -- "A Hole Of Unknown Depth" -- CD -- €14
1995 Noctovision, NCVCD 03
Phaenon -- "Submerged" -- CD -- €10
2007 Malignant Records, TUMOR CD30
With the debut release from Phaenon, it is immediately evident a heavyweight has arrived. The brainchild of Polish born, but current Maryland resident, Szymon Tankiewicz, Submerged is a dark ambient tour de force. Visually and sonically enveloping, this is an album of space and texture, slowly revealing a psychoactive soundscape of majestic, arcing timbres, circadian buzzes, and expansive drones. Heavy, and cosmically weighty in the beginning, Submerged evolves into something more minimalist and serene, radiating a celestial beauty, yet becoming even more bleak and suffocating as it progresses over it's 66 minute time frame. Experienced from start to finished, there's a palpable sense of drifting and drowning, of being carried away into an endless, interstellar vacuum. An exciting new project, and a must for dark ambient purists. In stylish 6 panel digipak, artwork by K. Enderlein (LOKI), mastered by Thomas Garrison... [press-release]
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Phelios -- "Astral Unity" -- CD -- €10
2010 Malignant Records, TUMOR CD 44
Following two CDs on Eternal Soul and a recent split LP on LOKI, Germany's revered dark ambient project Phelios makes their first appearance for Malignant. With its swirling cosmic drones and sweeping, cinematic drift, the music of Phelios is breathtaking and hypnotic, often evoking moments of serenity and beauty, yet spiking them with deep cushions of ritualistic percussion and textural squalls that suggest something much more ominous and threatening looms on the vast horizon. Collectively, Astral Unity is thoughtful and concise - a vivid and richly detailed entity that's alive and constantly evolving, channeling the universe while simultaneously exploring the inner regions of a more primordial earth. In 6 panel digipak, with gold foil stamping. [press-release]
Phillips, Dave & R.H.Y. Yau -- "Illusion Is A Natural Condition" -- CD -- €10
2005 Auscultare Research, aus 023, (ltd. 1000)
Dave Philips + R.H.Y. Yau present 'Illusion is a natural condition", the long anticipated Phillips + Yau collaborations culled between 2000-2005. Dave Phillips began his musical career when he was 17, co-founding the hardcore extremists Fear of God in 1987. As Fear of God developed Phillips began to see that their faster, shorter, noisier approaches to grindcore were merely a springboard for more psychologically challenging and physically demanding artforms. Soon after Fear of God's demise in 1989, he joined the actionist Schimpfluch-Gruppe which has followed the traditions of abjection and transgression as dictated by the Viennese Aktionists. Phillips has further developed these transgressions along with sociopolitical actionism in his solo efforts. R.H.Y. Yau is a curator and sound artist who has been active in the sonic arts since 1993. Yau's sonic works are inspired by sound poetry, actionism, and the processes of musique concrete. But bored by the musique concrete's academic cliques, Yau creates what he calls 'action-concrete.' These organic synapses of voice, body, and raw materiality are then combined with raw electronics to sound experiences of both ultra-violence and absolute absurdity at its most base level. This release features ten lithographic reproductions of original drawings by Leif Elggren. [press-release]
Phillips, Tomas / King, Dean -- "Les Mailles" -- CD -- €10
2008 Monochrome Vision, mv26, (ltd. 500)
The duo of Dean King and Tomas Phillips came together in 2000 with the mere intention of exploring a shared aesthetic. Their aim was the achievement of a balance between digital and non-digital sound and a functional recognition of their differences in terms of utility and signification. Whilst computer technology remains central to their work, they make an effort to locate composition within a space of physicality. Hence the use of acoustic instrumentation and field recordings gathered on the periphery of laptops, they seek to foreground the act of listening in the slowly evolving tradition of microsound, without precluding the possibility of active and engaged harmony. Les Mailles translates into English as "meshes", finely interlaced material that invites a certain transparency. Maya Deren's Meshes of the Afternoon relies on such opportunity of vision in order to communicate the inherent emotion of seemingly banal events, phenomena that go otherwise unnoticed at the expense of the character whose interiority becomes increasingly compromised in the unraveling universe of a film noir. Of course, accessing an inner life is not all storm and stress. In a context of quiet attention to slowly shifting movements, recognition of the microscopic may also yield productive insights into occurrences observed beyond the fabric of our inventions. [label info]
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Phillips, Tomas & Turra, Luigi -- "Vignettes Amplifie" -- CD -- €13
2011 Nitkie, patch five, (ltd. 500)
The first ever collaboration between prolific american composer Tomas Phillips and prominent italian newcomer Luigi Turra, "Vignettes Amplifie" presents a sequence of subtle sound constructions characterized by minimalistic and contemplative approach. Quiet field recordings, soft acoustic sounds and organic electronic arrangements builds panoramic view on two levels. The acoustic gestures like bells, manipulated objects and drone fragments are coming from silence and disappearing after some time. On the other hand, there is a kind of reflection of these sonic events in the background, muted and abstracted, hiding from your ears. But these microscopic sounds, short and forgetful, seems to be the main part of the whole thing - when you are trying to trace them down, to catch your attention, and to understand the aesthetical value of this music. Shy and confused, these sounds represents the soul of this music, but in fact they are just grow and fade away like the autumn rain. This album will teach you how to turn your mind into ears, hunting for every little susurration in total silence. [press-release]
Phosphorus -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €10
2010 Nadeln Prod., NaP.III, (ltd. 300)
New album of two Moscow musiÓians Ivan Kiritchenko (Zoyd) and Aleksandr "Long" (Doppelganger). Acustic ethno-tribal-ambient for those who like and longing for atmosphere of experimental ambient of the middle of 90s. Soft noise landscapes of PHOSPHOR inspired by Robert Rich and ALIO DIE; work with the percussion - VIDNA OBMANA, Jorge Reyes, TEMPS PERDU?, ENTEN HITTI: also there are some reflects on "romantic" period of SWANS. [press-release]
Phragments -- "Earth Shall Not Cover Their Blood" -- CD -- €10
2008 Malignant Records, TUMOR CD37
You've seen it before. Certain bands or artists delivering their finest work with their first recording. Then, in futile attempts to capture some of the same magic, becoming formulaic and stale, rehashing ideas and never really achieving the same caliber of work. Others, expanding on the elements of their prior releases, and through a natural maturation process, get stronger with each release. That would certainly be the case with Phragments. With their third full length studio CD, this Slovakian duo have made remarkable strides not only in quality but in scope. Equipped with an enriched sonic palate, Earth Shall Not Cover Their Blood mixes forceful brass and dark orchestral strings with rolls of powerful tribal percussion, somber wind instrumentation, ominous atmospheres, industrial clangor, and a strong and commanding vocal presence, particularly on tracks like "Over Deadlands" and "The Kin of Cain". Cohesive, complete, and epic, this is a release that will open some eyes to new found authority of Phragments. Yours to discover. In 6 panel digipak. [press-release]
Phragments & Korinth -- "Mysteries Of The Greylands" -- CD -- €11
2010 Greytone, GREY001
On this album, Phragments and Korinth have united into one monolithic entity, to produce a common opus. Orchestral choirs, dark ambient and ritual passages create a perfect cinematic journey over the mysterious Greylands, an archetypal and symbolic travel through the hidden side of the world. All songs are the result of collaboration of the two projects, resulting in a unique narrative experience. After three years of work, Phragments and Korinth deliver a ripe album - a great journey for the listener. 'Imagine a hidden side of the world, a landscape of archetypes and symbols. A place where reality becomes myth and myth becomes reality. Where repressed longings lurk, waiting to be awakened. Enter the Greylands.' [press-release]
Phurpa -- "Nag bDud Ceremony" -- CD -- €10
2009 Aquarellist, aquarel 12-09, (ltd. 500)
This voyage began in the middle of the 1990's in Moscow, when a group of artists and musicians led by Alexei Tegin and based at the legendary Fabrique of Cardinal Art commenced their studies of traditional ritual music, drifting away from the field of contemporary electroacoustic and industrial music with the intent to delve deeper into the ancient musical cultures of the ancient Egypt, Iran and Tibet... The original 2003 lineup of the project that emerged as a result was dubbed Phurpa (one of the five tutelary deities of the Father Tantra in Bon tradition), and all the members have carried on with their research in the field of Tibetan liturgies up to the present day. The ensemble adheres to the rgyud-skad tradition of Tantric overtone chanting. This CD contains The Last Life Practice of Mapang Yinchen, Yang-drub Ceremony and Black Dud Ceremony, recorded live in the underground, 2008. Ritual Tibetan instruments as used by the ensemble include the following: dunkar, silnyen, bub, damaru, kanling, nga, shang. [label info]
Picatrix -- "Quaestio Prima" -- CD -- €10
2005 Juggernath Recordings, JUG 001
Luigi Seviroli is a professional composer working for several major TV networks in Italy, including RAI and Mediaset. Basing his musical work on the novels of the well-known italian writer Valerio Evangelisti and the character of the inquisitor Nicolas Eymerich, 'Quaestio Prima' has been already defined by Evangelisti himself as the only opus able to incarnate the spirit of the novels, as well as of being a true soundtrack to the dark landscapes surrounding Eymerich... 'Quaestio Prima' is a professional composed and recorded 'soundscape', a storytelling masterpiece ranging from darkambient interrogative pulsings to acoustic and traditional grand openings. Intense surroundings will draws the listener to realities banned by time or forgotten by men, yet real and invasive... Hard to be further labelled, this first album from Picatrix offers a complex yet straight musical texture with a particular attention to sounds, production and composition. We strongly recommend to listen to it carefully in order to get you own personal picture. [press-release]
Pickford, Andy & Nagle, Paul (S.T.D.M.) -- "Ramayana" -- CD -- €10
2002 Neu Harmony, NH028
Berlin School. The music is flowing, sometimes gently but at other times like a raging current. There are elements of trance in here but rhythmically much more inventive and the sequences stronger than much of that style. The melodies are also superb, often subtle but always captivating. [label info] Although possessing some Berlin School traits, this music displays a healthy, modern quality that carries a distinctly unique style...surging pulsations that conspire to create electronic tempos of often-frantic pace, interweaving riffs that coalesce into mighty panoramas of sound rich with astral undertones. [Matt Howard]
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Piume E Sangue -- "Abbandono Della Patria Nipponica" -- CD-R -- €8
2008 Lunhare, zzz - 9, (ltd. 100)
A previously unreleased work dating back to 1993. This time it is Japan to be the inspirational departing point for the duo's keyboards and guitar sketches. [label info]
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Piume E Sangue (Duo Portugal) -- "Nel Ventre Della Balena" -- CD -- €10
Lunhare, P.E.S.P. 2
First composition narrates about a journey inside the whale's stomach in form of 30-min canvas, divided into 28 separate parts. Stylistically this is 100% "classical" avantguard, i.e. improvisation on "normal" instruments: guitar, percussion, strings, piano. Music sometimes falls into cacophonic epilepsy, sometimes lines up into curved melodic lines, very different in tempo and spirit, from abstruse to stupidly funny. Second track (also lasting for 30+ minutes) is more calm and ordered melodically, but here again the listener will be surprised by various distortions hiding themselves under the veil of harmonious piano tune. At the same time this track is more experimental, it reveals more weird playing techniques, samples, and sometimes even really noisy fragments. In general, this is quite a nice and playful disk.
Pjusk -- "Tele" -- CD -- €13
2012 Glacial Movements Records, GM0013
Pjusk is Rune Sagevik and Jostein Dahl Gjelsvik from the west coast of Norway - both from small villages close to nature. The sound of Pjusk is inspired by the harsh Norwegian weather and wild landscape. At the center point of the collaboration between the two is an old cabin high up in the mountains. This is where most of the music of Pjusk is made - framed by snowy peaks and the sound of cold streams.
The album "Tele" (the Norwegian word describing frozen underground water) is a natural progression from the album "Sval" released on the US label 12k in 2010. Inspired by the arctic wilderness, Tele is a journey of snow, ice and cold. [press-release]
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Placement -- "Our Man In High Places" -- CD -- €9
2000 The Lime Green Yellow Recording Company, LGY 010 CD
Ambient. Snapshots of ambient sound inspired by a Victorian Himalayan trekking diary, arranged into a series of music pieces. The result is a vivid imagined evocation of soaring peaks, oxygen-thin high passes, tense, rickety metal footbridges and vast plains. [label info]
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Placement & Adriva -- "Geometry In Distant Agriculture" -- CD -- €9
2011 Observatoire, obs 026, (ltd. 400)
A collaboration album of the UK project Placement performing ambiental "landscape music" since 1997 and Russian project Adriva, conceptually not using any synths and giving more respect to field recordings and analogue noises. The album was recorded in 2010 and inspired by Russian steppe and shores of Azov and Black seas. The music combines mild guitar drone ambient with electroacoustic elements and raw yet somehow soft and unobtrusive field recordings made in these regions. Very calm and relaxing atmosphere, pleasant mellow and deep sound. May please the fans of Exit In Grey / Five Elements Music works.
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Plan-A / Totenhaus / Desolation Zone -- "Grunberg Maschinen Sturm" -- CD-R -- €7
2005 Beast Of Prey, BOP 2.2, (ltd. 200)
Split of three representatives industrial scene from Zielonagora. Power of Industrial Music - maschines game. released on CDR in limited edition to 200 copies. Released by unconventional way: two rectangular piece of printing cardboard, between this steel grind-:-internal cardboard with sandpaper. Released in two colours-:- all odd numbers in red colour, even in brown colour cardboard. [press-release]
Plastic Crimewave Sound -- "Painted Shadows" -- CD -- €8
2009 A Silent Place, ASP30
On "Painted Shadows", the Chicago group scales back the guitars just a touch in favour of vaguely tribal textures as on the hypnotic lead cut "I Feel Evils." There's a more cosmically devoted feel than past albums, touching on elongated Kraut-like soundscapes. But the group's trademark kitchen sink take on avant-rock - incorporating everything from Hawkwind space-rock to post-MC5 freakouts to widescreen Neu! aural landscapes - remains firmly in place. Digisleeve. [label info]
Pleq & Segue -- "The Seed" -- CD -- €10
2010 Databloem, DB030-2010
Two of the most promising names in the minimal/ambient scene, Polish artist Pleq (Bartosz Dziadosz) and Canadian Segue (Jordan Sauer) are teamed up for this beautiful release on the renewed (pressed CD in special two panel digi file) Databloem label. Each track is well thought creation of organic soundscapes, deeply layered with glitchy patterns of clicks and warm synthetics. Incredibly rich, minimal ambient/glitch in the vein of Off The Sky, Blamstrain, Beta Two Agonist, Shuttle358. [press-release]
Plinth / Textile Ranch -- "The Rest, I Leave To The Poor" -- CD -- €16
2008 Make Mine Music, MMM051, (ltd. 1000)
Plotkin, James -- "Kurtlanmak / Damascus" -- CD -- €10
2006 Utech Records, URCD001, (ltd. 1000)
James Plotkin began his musical career as the guitarist for metal band OLD with vocalist Alan Dubin. The two would cross paths again under the guise of Khanate. In the interim Plotkin would become involved in projects ranging from guitar bent soundscape and grind to free improvisation. His body of work spans format and label, recording for Avant, Hydra Head, Asphodel, Earache, Southern Lord and Archive among others. Whether writing, performing, or producing, his output has been invariably unique and extreme. Kurtlanmak/ Damascus is no exception. Recorded live in New York and Buenos Aires respectively the tracks show a side of James Plotkin rarely seen, that of the solo artist. Plotkin utilizes two distinct setups for each performance and channels the sound of acoustic instrumentation through the hum of electronic sorcery. Released on Utech Records [022] as Kurtlanmak in the fall of last year, the limited cdr was sold at dates on the Khanate "It's Cold When Birds Fall From the Sky" tour. The music on this edition has been remastered and the packaging expanded. A second, unreleased recording from Argentina is added to complete the disk. [press-release]
Po.No.(i)Za. -- "Dokumentazion" -- 2 CD-R -- €9
2006 YAOP, YAOP 026, (ltd. 84)
Po.No.(i)Za. is a new brand of A. Korotkov came to change his project Lo.By..., but it continues to develop similar creative methods. The same totally analogue schizo-collaged looped radionoise without any analogues (not counting some parallels with Veprisuicida). 6-page booklet size A5. [press release]
Po.No.(i)Za. -- "Gymnastic Step" -- 2 CD-R -- €10
2011 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT96, (ltd. 19)
Futuristic looping collage noise, bouncy rhythms and energetic crunches. Vinyl box, handmade cover with the use of vintage paper. [label info]
Po.No.(i)Za. -- "K/chto ya est' i ch/kto menya est" -- 2 CD-R -- €9
2009 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT46, (ltd. 27)
Mid-frequency cyclic radionoise. The creative development of the Veprisuicida aesthetics. Lo-fi, old school, total purity. A view from aside. Each of 2 CDs aside from audio tracks includes a gallery of author's photos. Double DVD-box, 2-colour cover, insert. [label info]
Poets To Their Beloved -- "Embrace The Fool" -- CD -- €12
2007 Equilibrium Music, EQM016
Pogon' / Hladna -- "Travyenakon'" -- CD-R -- €9
2009 Hladna
3 tracks from Pogon' and 4 from Hladna. 2 of 3 Pogon' tracks present ritual dark ambient / noise with recordings of manta singing, a la brutal Svasti-Ayanam; another track is an experiment with electronic sounds. Hladna - raw electronic drone/noise with an allusion to Russian traditional folklore. Instead of the cover a piece of wooden board is used, you can hang it on a wall as a decoration.
Polaris -- "Nishkatup" -- 3"CD-R -- €8
2006 Abgurd, AB-31, (ltd. 90)
Drone Ambient. Hazy structures of shift. Hissing melodies of dimensions. Remembrance. [label info]
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Pomassl -- "Skeleton" -- CD -- €9
2006 Laton, 038
Franz Pomassl is the forward person in the new generation of austrian electronic music scene. In the end of 80s, he founded Laton label, which was primarily focused on radical forms of soundart and experimental techno with various stylistic and conceptual additions. In the recent works, he goes to push the limits of analogue synthesizers with computer-aided instruments, and often resides somewhere beyond the audible ranges. But in the beginning, his music was completely different - pure techno tracks, released on vinyl singles by Sabotage label (that one known for dj-mixes of eurodisco hits). This album includes re-released tracks from that time, and makes a charming variety in the die-hard line of recent extreme works. [Dmitry Vasilyev, Independent Electronic Music]
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Pornographic Noise Erection / Vomir -- "Harsh Music for Hot Nurses, vol. 2" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 Symbolic Prod, SYMBCD35
Dark & ambiant mix of electro-indus-noise & harsh noise. CDR with pro-printed artwork. [label info]
Post Scriptvm -- "Grey Eminence" -- CD -- €12
2010 Tesco Organisation, TESCO 079
A 4th full-length offering from these masters of existential necroindustrial. Grey Eminence is a meditation on the clandestine forces laboring tirelessly to prevent humanity from achieving its ultimate spiritual goals. Eight completely focused and meticulously executed compositions akin to an emotionally stirring haunted carousel ride through the vibrant, surreal and grotesque mental imagery, netherworld of paranoid illusions, mystic transmissions, secret rituals, somber and horrific visions of a civilization in decline. The lethargic torpors of ebbing and flowing analog pulsations and textures, augmented with obscure samples, acoustic string and percussion instruments alternate with violent hailstorms of rusted scrap metal, moans of apocalyptic machinery and serpentine invocations. Mastered by Andreas Wanhmann of Firt Law... Founded in New York City in 1999 Post Scriptvm creates bleak electronic music spanning a variety of post-industrial genres and described by the reviewers as concertedly dreamlike, mesmerizing, claustrophobic, and disturbing. Post Scriptvm's releases possess the emotional dynamics of a manic-depressive disorder. The compositions flow from eerie, hypnotizing death ambient structures to the visceral intensity of industrial noise, invoking surreal, Kafkaesque mental imagery as well as an overwhelming anguish of metaphysical horror. Post Scriptvm released material via various labels in the USA, Italy, France and Germany. The project is best known for their releases on Jerome Nougaillons (Propergol) label Hermetique and the most recent, critically acclaimed album "Raspad", out on Tesco Organization, as well as their well-received live performances at several industrial music festivals in USA and in Europe. [press-release]
Post Scriptvm -- "Marginal Existence" -- CD -- €14
2005 Hermetique, H-CD04, (ltd. 500)
A sound work on its own. An extremely dark one. Some sort of contemplative mirror of a sick society. It is without artifice that this American project hailing from New-York (Brooklyn) unveils us a neat and unhealthy piece of sound work of an incredible intrinsic maturity. A now mad and rabid, now suffocating atmosphere. The thread seems uncertain and lures the listener into a cruel maze with no exit. Here each sound is disembodied, jammed and torn out. Is this reality or is it fiction? On edge. Existence is a painful last resort. A desperate move. In search of one's own body, of one's own destiny. The journey is a dangerous and solitary one. Putrefied flesh, fleshless and revengeful spectres. Clockwork is irremediably running towards its last turn. Paralyzing. Like a trepan, Post-Scriptvm goes deeply into the unutterable side of our mind and of our sensitivity. A journey with no safe return guarantee and a possible dead end as an outlet in a pitiless and disjointed pipe dream like scenery. In the heart of the senses and of the emotion. The search for the past, for history and for existence lies in the fact of digging the earth among rubble and muddy bones in order to rebuild this macabre and moribund puzzle of our human life ad infinitum. A unique masterpiece incarnating an open-heart operative field, a brain surgery of the last chance during which a general anaesthesia is proscribed. Mastered by Jerome Nougaillon (Propergol), it comes in special envelope with inserts and is limited to 500 copies. [label info]
Povarovo -- "s/t" -- CD -- €10
2010 Aquarellist, aquarel 15-10, (ltd. 500)
The debut album of the Moscow collective playing in the style of dark jazz-ambient. The band which music is deservedly compared with Borhen & Der Club of Gore and The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble. It's worth to note that at their very first concert Povarovo were playing with The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble. [label info]
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Pragnavit -- "Svietacjam" -- CD -- €10
2007 Crivia Records, Ritual 01
New album of Belarussian project Pragnavit is classical ethnic dark ambient dedicated to the traditional spiritual culture of baltic-slavic region of the Old Europe. Chtonic and obscure side of the rituals incarnated in verbal rite-imaging rank of Svietacjam is an individual esotheric initiation in the legacy and world outlook of the ancestral clans of Crivia (Belarus). Authentic ritual instruments were recorded by the musicians of the band Osimira. The album is released in a nice digisleeve with 6-page booklet and a special postcard. [label info]
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Praying For Oblivion -- "Turm Schweigen" -- CD -- €10
2010 Obscurex, OBS001, (ltd. 200)
Hailing from Buffalo, a city located in the state of New York, PRAYING FOR OBLIVION is a one-man-project runs by Andrew SEAL, a musician now living in Europe. Using various electronic instruments & devices, effects and vocals, he creates noise tracks with strong industrial roots. If you still don't know P.F.O. just imagine the atmosphere of this big city of the North of America: abandoned factories and stores, tons of rusted metal, with parts of the roots falling down, with the wind going through these vast deserted spaces. And this is exactly how this album sounds. The whole release is a scream of anger and despair at the same time, full of abrasive sounds and industrial ambiences. A brillant album from one of the best Power-electronics act of today. Housed in slim DVD case with b&w printed cover. [Nuit Et Brouillard]
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Praying For Oblivion -- ":vilification ov:" -- 3"CD-R -- €5
2010 Roil Noise Offensive, RNOCDR112
Exploding American Power Electronics with clatter, feedbacks and Neanderthal yells. Colour sleeve. [YAOP]
Predominance -- "Dark Stars Unfolding" -- 2 CD -- €17
LOKI Foundation, LOKI40
Arisen from the fields of white ashes and bathed in tears of the world's genocidal slavery Predominance started 1995 to drown in the ruins of an unconcious mind. The evolution of Gerd Zaunig's project was mystified by the leaming beauty of a silver ship and ended illuminated at the threshold to astral gates on nocturnal skies. This "Dark Stars Unfolding" is an essential journey through the mind of the south saturn delta into the polar stargate. The circle of the four symbols is closed and the work of Predominance will remain in the ungained gorge of a swelling universe... After nearly 10 years of activity and with just three regular albums in this decade Gerd Zaunig placed with Predominance one of the main pillars in the wide area of dark ambient music. The unique sound of Predominance combines dense and atmospherical soundscultures with symphonic structures, pulsating rhythms and visionary-majestic vocals. This double album now marks the final release of Predominance as the project already ended in 2003. Devided into 2 parts the Disc One: ARCHIVUM contains selected tracks from the first tape (White Ashes), the first LP (Obliteration), various compilation tracks and unreleased material. Disc Two: LIVE collects high quality live recordings from the whole period of activity and includes all the outstanding vocal tracks for what Predominance was especially known for. [press-release]
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Prisoner Of Flesh -- "I" -- CD-R -- €7
1999 Soulworm Editions, Worm I
Being a debut release of Prisoner of Flesh, this album proudly opened our catalog. Other than numerous death-industrial acts emerging those days, Prisoner of Flesh stood fresh and innovative - every composition is well arranged, detailed and in a way rather unique. Very atmospheric, industrial constructions drowning in spooking ambience and overwhelming noise - without mercy or compromise.
Despite the years passed it is still one of our strongest releases. [press-release]
Profane Grace -- "Nocturnal Omniscience" -- CD -- €12
2010 Ewers Tonkunst, HHE 025 CD, (ltd. 500)
The first new full-length album of this excellent well-known US dark ambient project since the year 2003, "Nocturnal Omniscience" is a kind of a return to Profane Grace roots. Being close to such early works as "Ages in Dust" and "The Seal Of Xastur", this work is a mere reflection of the darkest layers of todays declined and dehumanized universe. The epic and solemn chants consecrated to the most hidden and darkened immaterial entities and their actions bring neither light nor hope for the better future of the decaying mankind. The Ancient is at the gates again and Profane Grace's sound constructions which glorify the unearthly grandeur of yet invisible domains are hailing its imminent coming. Musicwise it's surely the best project's album to date, combining highly professional soundwork skills together with deep profound dark atmosphere, chilling melodies and sharp metaphysical intuitions. Highly recommended to all fans of good dark ambient with an esoteric touch, not to be missed by the followers of Loki Foundation, Cyclic Law and Cold Meat Industry! The release limited to 500 copies comes in a monochrome black mini LP-like cover with silkscreened elements. [press-release]
Project The Three -- "Antimother" -- CD -- €11
2003 Nextera, ERA 2033 2
ANTIMOTHER is a follow-up to czech ambient-industrial pioneers - THE THREE, whose works foresaw and predestined the musical algorithms and the development of not just czech but also the industrial scenes. After their last studio session in 1995 which resulted in seven compositions, which blazed the trail that has been later walked by such artists as Yen Pox, the THE THREE's activity was frozen. After eight years of hibernation they have metamorphized into ANTIMOTHER. The restless feeling of obscure, untouchable chaos somehow far and dangerously close at the same time; this is the ineffable ambivalence that everyone "with ears" can experience while listening to ANTIMOTHER - The Project Three. This CD includes studio album "Antimother" + their legendary minialbum "003" previously released in 1995 on CDR limited to 33 copies. [label info]
Promyshlennaya Arkhitektura -- "Love and Technology" -- CD -- €17
2000 UR-Realist, URCD011
In spring 1988 Selivanov was the guitarist for "Putti" and "Grazhdanskaya Oborona", same year in autumn he plays live with his own band "Promyshlennaya Arkhitektura" ("Industrial Architechture"). Themes of his songs are amazingly similar to the panopticum of "collapsing new people" in Britain in early 1980-s: antisex, tiredness, decay, death. The definition "collapsing new people" was used by Fad Gadget in regards to one of the favourite groups of Moscow intelligentsia in 1990-s - Einstuerzende Neubauten; and although Selivanov is often compared to EN, comparing to Fad Gadget, Gary Numan or Magazine, and especially to the Leer-Rental duet with their album "The Bridge" (Industrial Records) would be more adequate. Monotonous guitar riffs, dark repetitive synths, lyrics about vanity and disgusting meaninglessness if the existence - a kind of trademark of electronic post punk. [Mikhail Verbitskiy]
Propergol -- "Program Vengeance" -- CD -- €14
2005 Malignant Records, Tumor CD 21
Finally, Propergol's 5th CD has been born :with a vengeance. Program Vengeamce continues in the great tradition set forth by previous works, this time offering up 17 tracks totaling 71 minutes of sonic turbulence. Like being in the mind of a schizophrenic moments before the killing spree:the voices growing, the hallucinations building to maniacal levels, the inner chaos too much to bear:until, finally, an eruption. A recording that's full of sensoryoverload, with the levels pushed to extremes, the noise ultra saturated, the atmospheres menacing and combustible, and the obsessive rhythms full of beautiful distortion and aggression. In the end, a sense of anguish, a feeling of despair:a mind locked away to contemplate it's actions. As always, sample heavy, but an integral part of the power that is Propergol, and adding to the sense of madness and pandemonium that permeates this release. [press-release]
Propergol -- "Un Dechainement De Violence / Cleanshaven" -- 2 CD -- €17
2006 Functional Organisation, 015
Both first released in the last decade as CD-Rs only in a very ltd. edition of 99 and 200 copies! This are the first releases and first recordings by Propergol and are true pearls and wanted Industrial releases. Both are digitally remastered for a perfect sound like a sharp knife or lets better say razorblades! This French project delivers dense unhealthy atmospheres, well structured power-electronics, noise supported by dark & loud rhythms and samples, collages and some vocals. Total Play time: 143 min. Comes in a very nice 8 panel double CD Digipak. [press release]
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Proscenium -- "Weltschmerz" -- CD -- €12
2007 Dark Vinyl, DV #58
A melancholic and sombre neo-classical album, with piano and elements of dark ambient. At times this release may very well remind the listener of David Tibet or bands like Predella Avant, Elijah's Mantle or Ozymandias. Proscenium hail from Sweden and will definitely appeal to fans of their fellow countrymen The Protagonist, Sephiroth and Ordo Equilibrio, despite the fact that they focus on the neo-classic aspect. "Weltschmerz" is their second album, their debut, "Behind The Curtain" was released in 2005. [label info]
Prurient -- "The Black Post Society" -- CD -- €10
2008 Cold Spring Records, CSR85CD
"The Black Post Society" embraces and accepts the depression of not having anything left to hunt. The mask without a face to hold. The depression of the hunter after the deer is killed. It is better to be hungry than to have eaten. As fantasy shatters under the whip of reality, erotic malaise settles in the nest of the mind inverting this dormant fuel to rekindle the endless cycle of sexual chaos. Black Industrial / Power Noise from this highly respected US act! [press-release]
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Psychonaut 75 -- "Stealing the Fire from Heaven" -- CD -- €9
2002 Memento Mori, MORI 15
The debut album of this side-project of Valefor, dark rhythmic dance industrial with alchemical background.
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Psychward -- "Headless Bodies" -- CD-R -- €5
2011 Magik Crowbar, MC008
Recycled noise from excerpts to loops that have been used in various live performances to quote samples that have been floating around. Very limited. [label info]
Psygram -- "Gehörgänge" -- CD -- €10
2002 Weird Amplexus, WAX03, (ltd. 500)
Psygram is Siegfried Fischer (voice, accordeon, samples, percussion) and Dirk Grützmann of Temps Perdu? who is responsible for realtime audio processing, electronics, loops and engineering. The group started around the same time as Temps Perdu?. Their music is focused on surreal ambient-industrial soundscapes and hypnotic live improvisations in a studio setting with influences of electro acustic music. Psygram: "All our music is recorded in those magic moments where emotions, dreams and technology, melt together to achive a perfect musical copy of our subconcious. All selections generated from chance processes, ranging from random sampling techniques to free form improvisation".
PTU -- "Hard Week" -- CD -- €11
2009 Laton, Laton 051
Modern technologies, Soviet synthesizers from the 1980s and live sessions form the basis of Electro, Minimal, Techno and - yes! - Pop oscillating sound cosmos of PTU. The trio, consisting of the twentysomethings Alexey Belousov, Alina Isolenta and Kamil Ea has not only the seriously-ironic bandname ("PTU" in Russian means "vocational school"), but also develops their own direction of danceable and fresh soundscapes filled with technoid and exotic imaginings of their place of origin - Kazan. [press-release]
Pugna -- "Filet Under Cradle Of Nails" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 Kerpg, Kerpg04, (ltd. 27)
Black drone ambient. Handmade 7" sleeve. [YAOP]
Pugna -- "SOBRET_IZDAR" -- CD-R -- €8
2009 Abgurd, AB-45, (ltd. 100)
SOBRET_IZDAR is an incantation and a rough test of the strength that are destined to stagger a human at the crucial point. Everything collapse except the one with the solid transcendent foothold. Awfully buzzing, morbidly dissonant and clattering guitar-and-synth-based Drone of the distant explosions with terror-struck meditation. Recorded in 2006. [press-release]
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Puissance -- "Back in Control" -- CD -- €14
2007 Equilibrium Music, EQM011
Puissance's second full-length album, one which has consolidated their status as forerunners in the Industrial/Militaristic scenario, which hereby starts to take on a more Neo-Classical orientation. Deluxe remastered edition with one bonus track. [press release]
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Puissance -- "Grace of God" -- CD -- €14
2007 Equilibrium Music, EQM017
The cogwheels on the Puissance warmachine are back to work, as defiant and innovative as ever. "Grace of God" re-invents the current notion of Martial-Pop, with their own superior combination of sumptuous Neo-Classical and Industrial music. [press release]
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Puissance -- "Mother of Disease" -- CD -- €14
2008 Equilibrium Music, EQM021
"Mother of Disease" is the third full length album produced by Puissance, and also their third re-issue on Equilibrium Music, following the early "Let Us Lead" and "Back In Control" releases, and last year's new album, "Grace of God". Much like it's predecessors on this fine collection, it has been re-mastered and enhanced with one bonus track, presented in a matte-blue deluxe digipak edition. [label info]
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Punck -- "Nowhere Campfire Tapes" -- CD -- €10
2005 Ctrl+Alt+Canc / AFE Records, ctrlcd02 / afe062cd
"Nowhere Campfire Tapes" is Punck's full-lenght debut CD and is released as a Ctrl+Alt+Canc / Afe joint venture. The album was recorded during 2004-2005 and follows two highly appreciated self-released CD-R EPs, many compilation appearances and a long and untired serie of live activities. It was created manipulating many different kinds of acoustic sources with audio editors and softwares. Among such sources we find digital synthesis, contact microphones and field-recordings."Nowhere Campfire Tapes" features four slowly evolving tracks, with three of them lasting over the ten minutes mark."Almost Anything" is pervaded with disturbing frequencies, distant metal noises and ticking rain; the latter being a recorring element on the album. "Adriatico Lisergico" (...or "Lysergic Adriatic" if you prefer...) starts with the treated recording of sea waves breaking against the shore, while abstract electronic soundscapes appear along the way. Approaching the end of the track, cutted-up voices are added just before sinking into sea waves again."Tsunami Notes" features the reciting voice of Paolo Ippoliti from Logoplasm along with sub-bass drones and high-pitched sounds. As the voice stops, the sound of a rainstorm fades in and out of the mix and a distant airplane fly over the last drops of pelting rain. "Almost Nothing" closes the album merging most of the elements found in the previous tracks in a perfect fusion of found-sounds, field-recordings, drones and digital/electronic frequencies. [press-release]
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Pure -- "Fetor" -- CD -- €14
2007 Freak Animal Records, FREAK-CD-040, (ltd. 300)
Cult British old-school industrial from 80-ies, the reissue of a tape released on Birthbiter, includes live recording from 1988. The release is sold out from the label. [YAOP info]
Pustota -- "Petrograd's Hollows and Cavities" -- CD-R -- €8
2010 Biosonar^Labirint 024, (ltd. 52)
Completely new conceptual project of E.S. (Lunar Abyss Deus Organum, Hattifnatter, Anamezon, Boevye Cikady, Ritualnaya Bioingeneria, Navia). Field-recording. Field, or rather city recordings made in the nights and early mornings during the period of white nights in the center of St. Petersburg. Recordings of winter night city made from the window. Fragments of social scenes: children, trams, doors, shaft-type yards, bridges. Multiplied and overlayed, reversed and sonically reflected, mixed in cinematographic soundscapes and raw-cut, lo-fi, hi-fi, DIY. Artwork includes 5 cards with the views of Leningrad-Petrograd-Petersburg. [press-release]
Pustota -- "Vmesto Togo (Instead of That)" -- CD-R -- €8
2010 Biosonar^Lo-End 002cdr, (ltd. 20)
Field-recording project of E.S. (Lunar Abyss Deus Organum, Hattifnatter, Anamezon, Boevye Cikady, Ritualnaya Bioingeneria, Navia). Live recording of the performance from the art-apartment "VMesto". A play of recordings of natural and technogenic character, reprt from the trip over mountains, seas and cities. DIY fetish artwork made of found photos and postcards. [label info]
Pylone -- "Black Grains" -- CD -- €11
2006 Sound On Probation, SOP 004, (ltd. 500)
First album by this Zonk't side project, resolutely ambient and more experimental. 'Black Grains' takes the listener on a one-hour long journey through subtle frequencies, very grainy (of course) clicks and blips, a little noise, and very deep drones (reminding of The [law-rah] Collective). Atmospheric in the truest sense of the word, this debut is a success, being a well produced and intelligently executed album which sets Pylone aside as an interesting project. [Cold Spring info]
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Quattro Bravo Eballieros -- "s/t" -- CD -- €12
2005 QUAG, quag 25, (ltd. 300)
The first non-private release of the mysterious Reutoff's side-project, previously known for the wide audience only by their track on Ain Soph's tribute "Tutti A Casa" which is not typical for the band. The project has started long before Reutoff in 1995. Being an expression of the very inner influences of Reutoff's aura it was usually created and recorded spontaneously. The result is something close to Novy Svet or Nurse With Wound. The first edition of 300 copies in a special "Quag-pack" printed silver-on-black. [press-release]
Quercus -- "Postvorta" -- CD -- €11
2007 Deserted Factory, DF034
Avantgarde Doom Metal. "Excellent doom metal comes from Czech republic, basically its drone doom metal mixed with doom/death metal and funeral doom metal. Apocalyptic mid tempo riffs and beautiful female vocal surrounds listener slowly and drag them into the darkness. That's a doom metal nature. World of true doom metal, as usual, hides in the shadows... Masterful work!!! [Deadwebzine]
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Quinto Sol -- "Ollintonatiuh" -- CD -- €10
2008 Silentes Minimal Editions, sme 0824
Quinto Sol was the brainchild of Faith & Disease keyboardist, the late Joaquin Tavares (d. 2006). Joaquin and co-founder Alfredo Feregrino sculpted a very brilliant "pre-Hispanic" ritual project that incorporated complex Mayan and Ancient symbolism woven into a percussive, dirge-like soundscapes. Tracks are culled from the studio and a "Day Of The Dead" live performance at the Seattle Art Museum. [label info]
R.Y.N. -- "Astral Death" -- CD -- €10
2008 Unrest Productions, UNPRCD02, (ltd. 500)
Finally the first real long-play album of this UK drone-duo presenting 6 long tracks of waving & slowly shifting massive drones, based on "guitar, bass, metal & effects". The sounds here are just flooding immensely, there's nothing "concrete" you can hold on to; the mind & body seem to be washed out slowly by these rustling, feedbacking & deeply reverberating overtune-waves. "Astral Death" is a journey into the pulsating, meandering heart of disintegration. Filed under: dark oceanic. [Drone Records]
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Raccoo-oo-oon -- "Is Night People" -- CD -- €10
2006 Release The Bats Records, RTB#17, (ltd. 1080)
Swirling sax-and-effects-heavy free-form punk from Iowa Citys Raccoo-oo-oon. Is Night People is their first magical recording, 7 organic rituals creating a majestic outlet of neverending energy. Beautiful cascades of manipulated vocals and layers of feedback melting together over sunny explosions of insane drumming. In the vein of Sun City Girls, Here Comes The Indian-era Animal Collective, Excepter etc. The cd comes in a letterpressed black Arigato Pak with gold ink made by Stumptown Printers and stunning art by Shawn Reed in the band. Recorded and mixed by Steve Wilson, Brad Brandhorst and Raccoo-oo-oon. Originally released as a tape by the band in early 2005, now fully remastered by Pete Swanson (Yellow Swans). [press-release]
Radio Kuolema -- "10050 Cielo Drive" -- CD -- €10
2005 Ars Benevola Matter, ABM20, (ltd. 545)
With this new release Radio Kuolema attempts with closed eyes a real documentary, where the tragic events linked to the Manson 'family' offer the black humus on which the music ideally sticks the obsessions of homicide mysticism which marked out an enduring trail of blood in the american collective unconscious. '10050 Cielo Drive' is the sound, the image, the memory. In these atmospheres the innocence and the frenzy of a world already on the edge of the abyss find shelter: an abyss where the children stare silent at whole cities devoured by flames, while they are still holding tight long knives in their hands. [press-release]
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Radio Murmansk -- "Shinjuku - Pushkinskaja" -- CD -- €10
2007 Steinklang Industries, SKD 22, (ltd. 350)
After several private CDR releases, this is the new official album from German's Minimal-Noise act Radio Murmansk. A powerful mix from 80ies minimal-electronics and pure noise-walls. Very rhythmic tracks with voice and many Japanese samples. [label info]
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Radoy Yar & 1g0g -- "Polyelei" -- CD-R -- €6
2008 New Orthodox Line, (ltd. 150)
Polyelei is a 44-minute long composition creating the space of spiritual noise. With a service in a temple without a roof, where putrid rain pour, with angels who sing for shot choristers, with sodden wooden forest cross, with endless bells; frescos become a thin pellicle, cigarette paper, through which may be seen the cherubs silhouettes; a kitchen radio preacher, talking with himself, and with the Lord too, yielding to enveloping noise, dissolving in it, starting to speak back to front and oddly croaking, glorifying the Lord like frogs from the parable of King David; someone's regular funeral; singing old woman who is already in eternity, somewhere between a snowstorm and a bedroom community; the requiem of manifold of bells, through which appear the final chants and voices; and finally, the last message - noone will be saved. [press-release]
raison d'etre -- "Live Archive" -- 3 CD -- €29
2010 Infinite Fog Productions, IF-10, (ltd. 499)
Since the early 90s Peter Andersson writes albums that remain in our memory as masterpieces and that have defined and formed the term 'dark ambient' in its form, as we know it today! This incredible release, 'Live Archive' is the best and most qualitative release by Raison d'Etre's famous Live performances and all tracks and recordings have been carefully selected by Peter Andersson himself and are being made available for the very first time on CD. 'Live Archive' offers far more than three hours of deepest dark ambient sound in Raison d'Etre's well known and highly praised quality. This Triple-CD set features both, already well-known tracks from the project's official studio albums in most interesting, very different live-versions and some exclusive(!) compositions, never heard or released before! All this makes this beautiful packaging a monumental edition and absolutely irresistible for all Raison d'Etre addicts and beyond! [press-release]
Raison d'Etre -- "The Luminous Experience (Live in Enschede 2008)" -- CD -- €14
2008 Cold Meat Industry, cmi188
This is raison d'etre alive! Put yourself in a comfortable position, light some candles in a darkened room and open a bottle of red wine of your choice. Prepare for meeting raison d'etre live in your living room. Press the play button and imagine a dark place: hear a distant sound that multiplies and coming closer and closer. The sound becoming a sonic swarm that surrounds your body, penetrating your mind and makes your soul trembling in its sublime foundation. Now, inhale a massive amount of air and hold your breath for a while. Constantly repeat. Let the sonic landscapes trigger your experience. Be enlighten... 'The Luminous Experience', recorded on the darkest hour of Midsummer night 2008 in Enschede (The Netherlands), is the first complete live album from raison d'etre featuring the whole set of one concert. The live set mainly contains live only material: a mixture of composed and improvised elements that has never been experienced on CD before. Present here are also some live adapted compositions from the albums 'The Empty Hollow Unfolds' and 'Metamorphyses'. 'The Luminous Experience' is the 11th original album by raison d'e^tre since their first album 'Prospectus I', released 15 years ago. [press-release]
Raison d'Etre -- "Metamorphyses" -- CD -- €16
2006 Cold Meat Industry, cmi158
Transformation is the key to the psyche. Breath and feeling intertwined is the given links for the search of inner wisdom and to unlock the hidden inside us. _Metamorphyses_ is a journey into the deep inner; a drama of the sublime and trancendental transformation of the psyche through a katabasis ritual of six transitional stages into a final completion. _Metamorphyses_ is a key to the psyche. Hypnotic, introspective and yet more difficult. As the seventh fullenght album from raison d_etre _Metamorphyses_ is in many aspects different from previous works by Peter Andersson. The organic flow and the use of drones has been extended creating a varied output of both calm/meditative and harsh/intense sound structures. The transformation in sound is also present in the feelings; demanding, tempting and deceptive are only a few elements that characterize the ordeal the listener has to withstand. [press-release]
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Raison d'Etre -- "Reflections from the Time of Opening" -- CD -- €16
2005 Cold Meat Industry, cmi138
Re-issue of the CD initially released on Bloodless Creations which contained early tracks from 1991. New version of this album includes 7 new tracks: 3 tracks from compilations, 2 previously unreleased tracks and 2 re-mixed tracks from "Prospectus I" album.
Raison d'Etre -- "When the Earth Dissolves in Ashes" -- CD -- €13
2012 Cold Meat Industry, cmi213
Album contains unique material formerly live only performed at different locations during 2010 and 2011: Zürich, Wuppertal, Rotterdam, Cologne, Leipzig (WGT), Cherkassy and more. The starting point for these live tracks is mainly the sounds used for "In Sadness, Silence And Solitude", "Metamorphyses" and "The Stains Of The Embodied Sacrifice" looped and mixed live together with on spot improvised sounds, thus shaped into new never before heard sonically expressions. 6-panel digipak. [label info]
Rajapinta -- "Bootleg Epiphanies" -- CD-R -- €6
2007 self-released, (ltd. 123)
"Bootleg Epiphanies" is a compilation of various material composed and recorded by Ibrahim Terzic and Niko Skorpio in various locations 2001-2006. Compiled and edited by Niko Skorpio in May/June 2007 in order to document the hundreds of hours of work and experiments Rajapinta have done through these years... The duo exercise extensive aural alchemy of mutating samples beyond recognition. There's heaps of tension and energy, and a presence that is unwilling to stay in one place for too long. Constant movement. Material ranges from subdued electro-acoustic soundscapes to fierce noise assaults... This is a semi-official, not-on-label release. The discs have been packed in surplus 7" sleeves (those of Reptiljan/Ibrahim Terzic split 7"), sealed with a large sticker that contains the art & info of the actual release. Limited edition of 123 copies, hand-numbered. [Some Place Else]
Rapoon -- "The Bush Prophet" -- CD -- €12
2010 Ewers Tonkunst, HHE 029 CD, (ltd. 500)
We are happy to present you the third Rapoon release on Ewers Tonkunst. "The Bush Prophet" is a brand new album from this legendary and highly influential project, which unique style of blending industrial, ethno-rhythmic and cut-up techniques has gained international recognition and made Rapoon one of the main artists in its genre. This work has an accent on more dark, hard and anxious sound constructions than most of its recent albums, it is full of tension and scepticism, but with no lack of inner hope though... Like it's last year Soleilmoon release "Melancholic Songs Of The Desert", it deals with isolationism and the myth of democracy. Manipulated by media and bombarded with political spin we live in a world where our political choices are reduced to almost zero. Faced with a hostile world and lies from every direction is it any wonder that there is a need to retreat to try and find some peace and humanity. The voices on the television make promises and soothing noises then wage unjust wars in our name. The lies fall like honey and nothing changes... These songs are a retreat into the one place that no government has yet found a way into, the free and open spaces of the mind. They are spontaneous and mediative reflections looking for an inner peace in a world made ugly by hatred and war. They symbolize a kind of "walkabout" and a reconnection with a lost sense of belonging spiritually, intellectually and physically with the world we inhabit. The music here looks for a sense of inner being that one can only find in quiet isolation... The release is limited to 500 copies and comes in a stylish digisleeve with artwork by Robin Storey. [press-release]
Rapoon -- "Dark Rivers" -- CD -- €12
2009 Lens Records, LENS0102
Dark Rivers is the sonic exploration and reflection of a particular stretch of landscape in the north of England. This is the home of Rapoon's Robin Storey and it is an essential part of who he is. "Dark Rivers is about a particular area in the North of England which stretches from the Solway Firth into the wastelands of the Northumbrian borders. This area is steeped in history and mystery. In particular, I have focused on the development of Britain's Cold War intercontinental ballistic missile weaponry in the late forties and fifties and which later became the center for Britain's space efforts. The idea that these top secret research bases were sited here is one of interest in itself. The area is historically renowned for its outlaws and geographical and political marginalism. Geographically, this is where the Roman Empire stopped and long before that this is an area that has the highest count of pre-historic rock glyphs anywhere in the world. Many of the place names reflect the ancient cultural beliefs and superstitions - Black Fell, Black Beck, etc. Even today the place is wild and remote and old superstitions live on. The conflict of the ancient superstitions and the cold war paranoia is essentially what this is about. The older superstitions swallowing whole the newer age which came and went on the same dark, brooding hills. I was lucky enough to be born and grow up here and the darkness of the place is embedded deeply inside me." [press-release]
Rapoon -- "Disappeared Redux" -- CD -- €10
2012 Zoharum, ZOHAR 029-2
Zoharum welcomes Rapoon to its rooster. We are honoured to present the new album by the legendary avant-garde project. Robin Storey, the man behind the moniker, has been creating music incessantly for more than 3 decades and is responsible for inspiring legions of other artists with his music released together with Zoviet France and then with Rapoon, New Cult of the Sun Moon, Hand & Slim, and also under his own name. With almost 50 releases under his belt, Rapoon is a household name in the ambient world. 'Disappeared' is not entirely new album. It was first released in 2010 as a download and as an extremely limited CDR edition. Now it has been remixed and partly re-recorded especially for this Zoharum release totalling to 72 minutes (the original album was 7 minutes shorter). Hence the title, "Disappeared Redux"... In its author's words: "This album is a continuation of recurring themes that have been interwoven into the entire recorded output of rapoon. Oblique and transitory the little stories and spoken words form connections across time and space. This is about those who disappear in strange circumstances and those who just disappear. The passage of time and change. Ghosts from the past and ghosts from the future." [press-release]
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Rapoon -- "Dream Circle" -- CD -- €12
1992/2010 Ewers Tonkunst, HHE 028 CD, (ltd. 500)
Reissue of the very first Rapoon CD from 1992.
Rapoon -- "Dream Circle" -- CD -- €26
1992/2010 Ewers Tonkunst, HHE 028 CD, (ltd. 50)
Reissue of the very first Rapoon CD from 1992. Collector's edition - 50 copies in laser etched wooden box.
Rapoon -- "From Shadows Sleep" -- CD -- €14
2007 Essence Music, ESS006, (ltd. 800)
An unique masterwork of mysterious dark and droney sounds! Less rhythmic than previous efforts, From Shadows Sleep sees RAPOON visiting ancient temples, moving between shadowy labyrinths of meticulous drones, echoed tones and distant rumblings, building a hypnotic sonic ritual that brings traces from a distant past in form of atmospheric, spiritual mantras of a possessive power. Ominous and bleak, yet wondrous, Robin Storey's trance-inducing soundscapes swirls around majestic droning tape loops, patterns, ethnic samples (especially tablas) and other secret devices masterfully arranged to mesmerize the listener. There's no light in here - you will be guided by RAPOON's brooding and extremely detailed sonic imagery. The album is housed in an old-fashioned letterpress embossed mini-box packaging with a set of cards printed on quality recycled paper stock showcasing 11 exclusive paintings by Robin Storey. [label info]
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Rapoon -- "I Am A Foreigner" -- CD -- €14
2003 Caciocavallo, cad 26
Rapoon -- "Just Say The Faith" -- CD -- €14
1998/2001 Soleilmoon Recordings, SOL 107 CD
Rapoon -- "The Library Of The Dead" -- CD -- €11
2008 Ewers Tonkunst, HHE 018 CD, (ltd. 500)
The second CD from Robin Storey on Ewers Tonkunst after the "Mental Traveller" collaboration with Cisfinitum released in 2006. This time Russian artist is also involved and it is a folk singer Tatyana "Toloka" Stepchenko who has also took part in one track on the above mentioned album. Tatyana kindly recorded some songs for Rapoon a capella and allowed him to pull apart, re-arrange, cut-up and re-sample her voice into the sounds and arrangements on this album. The result is a very delicate and enlightened work which is a kind of sonic travel to the clean and vast Russian north spaces to find some ancient and ancestral recollections, made using typical Rapoon sound tools, great and unique voice of Toloka and some very fresh and clear ambient tunes. The release is limited to 500 copies and comes in a stylish digisleeve. [press-release]
Rapoon -- "Media Studies" -- CD -- €12
2011 Aquarellist, aquarel 17-11, (ltd. 500)
New album is dedicated to the research of mass media's manipulation of people's minds. "These recordings include the voice of David Icke. They reflect on the role of the media in shaping and informing opinions (the war in Iraq for example showed the shameless use of the media by a government intent on war whatever the real facts were) and in furthering prejudices and persecution of those who have differing views and dare to express them. In 1991 Icke was "interviewed" on a well known prime time chat show with the sole purpose of public humiliation for "entertainment" value. There are many instances of the use of media for manipulation and propaganda and many have succumbed to the pressures when the media has been directed against them by malevolent forces (Dr David Kelly, UN weapons inspector in Iraq). The words of David Icke are used here in a benign and impartial way. Whatever your views about the thoughts of the man you have to admire his tenacity against the odds." [Robin Storey]
Rapoon -- "Melancholic Songs Of The Desert" -- CD -- €15
2009 Soleilmoon Recordings, SOL 166 CD
Rapoon -- "Messianicghosts" -- CD -- €12
1997/2011 Aquarellist, aquarel 18-11, (ltd. 430)
Reissue of a long time lost classical Rapoon album last time published in 2002 by the Austrian label Klanggalerie. Remastered and extended re-release of Rapoon's CD-R only release "Messianic Ghosts" on Syntactic (1997), plus the Birethen and Amüz 7" tracks from the Syntactic 7" (1996) plus two brand new tracks as well. [label info]
Rapoon -- "Messianicghosts" -- CD -- €25
1997/2012 Aquarellist, aquarel 18-11 b, (ltd. 70)
Collector's edition of this album comes in a linen bag with silk-screen print, with 5 photographs and aromas.
Rapoon -- "Navigating By Colour" -- CD -- €14
1999/2001 Soleilmoon Recordings, SOL 71 CD
Rapoon -- "Obscure Objects of Desire" -- CD -- €14
2008 Vivo Records, vivo2008039CD
This album is about yearning. That aching emptiness that still exists when all rational processes have been exhausted. The unobtainable,
all consuming and immaterial. The irrelevant and the irrational. The dark torments and the light hearted banter. The victories and the defeats. The achievements and the failures. The loves and the losses. When all are accounted for there remains only... the obscure objects of desire. [from the author]
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Rapoon -- "Wasteland Raga" -- CD -- €12
2009 Aquarellist, aquarel 11-09, (ltd. 1000)
New album of Rapoon dedicated to the memories of real art born from industrial wastelands of northern England. Trademark dark ambient combining melancholic tunes with industrial landscapes, tribal rhythms with sitar and other ethnic instruments, experimental approach with traditions... "While I was recently traveling through Eastern Europe recently, I passed through an area of industrial decline that reminded me strongly of the devastation of the Industrial heartlands of the UK during the early Thatcher years. The broken windows and twisted metal of the abandoned warehouses, the derelict pit-heads and the ruined factories all brought back memories of that grim time when the divide between rich and poor was never so obvious. Yet amongst the derelict factories and the red-brick estates of the North of England new music and art sprang forth as if driven by the desolate conditions. Out of the darkness came forth beauty in many forms. Wasteland raga is a remembrance of those times when art and politics held close and intertwined out of a real sense of purpose and unity. Now we have the bland unoriginal days of New Labour and the suits, bland self-satisfied music, and the crassness of yet another bad "art installation" in a "city of culture". Passing through the derelict wastelands of Industrial decline in Eastern Europe I was touched with nostalgia for a time when there was a sense of "us and them"... Art has stuck it's fat lazy arse on the side of the suits and the money men. Viva revolution!!!" [Robin Storey]
Rapoon & Birds Of Tin -- "Monomyth" -- CD -- €11
2004 Manifold Records, mancd041
This record is what all collaborations try to achieve: the best techniques of two artists, melded into something beyond either. The driving percussions of Rapoon are woven perfectly with the light, intropective drifts of Birds Of Tin. All the little adornments, touches and unexpected moments are in place, here and there, signposting your journey into a work that stays interesting and even changes, listen after listen. Monomyth manages to sound both tribal and futuristic all at once. A flight over haunted, surreal byways, unfigurable landscapes, the joining point of all spiritual elements and ideas. Those elements become expanded, magnified into something greater than just another Rapoon or Birds Of Tin disc. [label info]
Rapoon / Cisfinitum -- "Mental Travellers" -- CD -- €13
2006 Ewers Tonkunst, HHE 012 CD, (ltd. 500)
"Mental Travellers" is a collaboration work created by mail during the year 2006. This record could be considered as an attempt to find the very deep basic background which is common for all the people independent of cultural environment or political barriers between nations and states. The delving into the very depth of the heart exposes these common roots, and "Mental Traveller" shows it perfectly with its complex structure and at the same time simple integrity. It is an excellent blend of both artists' distinctive features - the esoteric rhythmic patterns and mystical rustles by Robin Storey is intertwined with subtle and beautiful drone ambient waves by Eugene Voronovsky. The result is quite diverse and captivating, and most of the compositions remind us more of early Zoviet France than current Rapoon or Cisfinitum works. The final track called "Eurasia" features Russian ethnic female singer Toloka, whose archaic chanting makes a very natural conclusion for this mental travel to humanity's primordial roots. The CD comes in a full-colour fold-out digisleeve with artwork by Robin Storey, this edition is limited to 500 copies only. [press-release]
Rasalhague -- "Rage Inside The Window" -- CD -- €10
2011 Malignant Records, TUMOR CD49
Following the self released 3inch CDr from a few years back, Rage Inside the Window is the astounding formal debut of Indiana based dark ambient artist Rasalhague, offering some of the most haunting, dread filled, and yet dynamic atmospheres we've come across in some time. Inspired by the true events of a young girl neglectfully imprisoned in filth and squalor by her thoughtless and uncaring mother. Rage Inside the Window takes the listener into the mind of a savagely depraved soul. Don't expect ambient of the spaced out, blissful, and softly textured variety. This is dirty and impenetrably dark, with an intertwining mass of demonic squalls, intense probing, highly ominous tonal drones, distant monolithic pulsations, and bleak isolationism. 6 lengthy tracks of pure psychological horror are presented here, with each piece segueing into each other in transforming waves, progressively getting darker, brooding, and more menacing as it goes. Finally, with the final track, some semblance of solace is achieved. Reference points can be made to Atrium Carceri, recent Raison d'Etre, and the like, but ultimately, Rasalhague operates within its own realm. In 6 panel, full color DVD Digipak. [press-release]
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Rasthof Dachau -- "Prison Poems" -- CD -- €10
2006 Steinklang Records, SK36
7 years went by since the last album from this Austrian Cold-Electronic project was released. "Prison Poems" is a conceptual work about the Irish civil-rights movement in the 70ies of the last century. The album deals about the fate of a handful young IRA volunteers, imprisoned for political affairs, but then simply sentenced as criminals. After a long hungerstrike, the young men died, forgotten from the rest of the world. Most songtexts on this album were written by one of these young men who died from hunger. He wrote these poems on toilet- and cigarette-paper with the refill of a biro-pen, hidden inside his body in the years before he died. The sound on this album varies from dark and cold songs a la GalaktHorroe to early SPK-like Heavy-Electronic tracks. All with hard or subliminal rhythms and psychic analogue frequencies. [press-release]
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Ratatoeskr -- "Leaving The Light" -- CD-R -- €7
2005 Farbstoff Abstrakt Media Prod., (ltd. 150)
Dark melancholic drone ambient, cold like waves of northern seas. [YAOP]
Ratkje, Maja S.K. / Marhaug, Lasse -- "Music For Gardening" -- CD -- €10
2009 Pica Disk, PICA009
The forth entry in Ratkje and Marhaug's "Music For"-collaborative series. After Shopping (2002), Loving (2004) and Faking (2005) comes... Gardening. The title is inspired by Ratkje's new life in the coutryside. The seven tracks on this CD are meant to inspire the listener to spend more time in their garden taking care of their plants. [label info]
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Re123+ -- "Magi" -- CD -- €6
2010 BadMoodMan Music, BMM 031-10
Drone Doom / Post Metal. The debut official release from a unique Belorussian band. The music of Re123+ is an act of meditation. Each time the band offers to a listener another kind of sound, never repeats itself preparing a special program for each concert. 'Magi' is a travel to the Past demonstrating the ancient story of Adoration of Magi to the listener as an astrological story. This is the attempt to understand and to see the true essence of matter while clearing it from various interpretations. This album like all other Re123+ works was recorded during night time. Besides traditional drone-touched guitars the musicians introduced sounds of accordion, triangle and percussion. Stylistically their music varies from drone-doom to post-rock and will surely suit the tastes of early Earth fans. For proper visualization of the album's idea the booklet includes photo art by members of Re123+ accompanied by citations from 'The Island of the Day Before' by famous postmodernist Umberto Eco. [ŠŅÅÓÓ-ŅÅĢÉŚ]
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Re-Drum -- "Four Whispers for the Bees" -- CD-R -- €11
Umbra Records, Umbra 041, (ltd. 100)
Russian project with debut full-length CDR on Italian label run by Gianluigi Gasparetti (Oophoi). Four different tracks combining electronic signals, field recordings, slowly evolving deep drones and strange fragments of melodies. Calm and a little surreal ambient.
Re-Drum -- "S" -- CD -- €10
2009 Zoharum, ZOHAR 007-2
An excellent piece of work by Pavel Aleshin whose drone soundscapes were released by Oophoi's record label Umbra and Slovakia-based Black Orchid Productions. The album explores the area of sacral and infinite, hence the title. S can be seen as the symbol of them. Re-Drum was founded in 2002 by Pavel Aleshin. The sound of Re-Drum varies from deep drone/noise soundscapes on the first albums to light, warm, even melodic textures in the last works. For fans of Robert Rich, Lustmord, Troum, Maeror Tri, Lull, Yen Pox. [label info]
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Realgar -- "Auriloquio" -- CD -- €10
Autarkeia, ACD 041
Autarkeia label has been long seeking to release such album. Mainly investigating the world of aggression, fear and nightmares, the label has always been searching for a certain balance to avoid one-sidedness, withdrawal and repetition. And, finally, this is the first album absolutely falling out of the earlier specialisation of Autarkeia, yet equally attractive. Well-known Italian musicians Roberto and Claudia, previously partaking in the activities of Kirlian Kamera, Ataraxia, Lupercalia and Argine, have recorded a number of remarkable tracks, the atmosphere of which is probably best described by words very lucid, yearning and constructed in esp. high quality. In terms of style, this is rhythmic electronics enticing the audience with its variety of ethnic instruments and fabulous voice of Claudia. The album promises very convivial journey to the world of alchemy of the Middle Ages. By celebrating the past, it is also nostalgic for the strange world of the times gone and no longer reachable to us. [press-release]
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Red Drugon -- "Pena (Foam)" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Heart Shaped Box prod., HSB-027, (ltd. 11)
"Non-conformism art" - near-industrial electronics and drum'n'bass with psychedelic and satiric samples. [YAOP]
Red Drugon -- "Ultra DMA" -- CD-R -- €5
2008 Heart Shaped Box prod., HSB-024, (ltd. 11)
"Non-conformism art" - satiric Collage Noise in vein of Veprisuicida, mixed with documentary samples and archive musical recordings. [YAOP]
Red Drugon -- "Wollungen" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Heart Shaped Box prod., HSB-025, (ltd. 11)
"Non-conformism art" - near-industrial electronics and drum'n'bass with movie samples and historical recordings. [YAOP]
Red Moth -- "Red World" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 Beast Of Prey, bop 4.2, (ltd. 150)
Debut album of Polish project RED MOTH. 35 minutes of harsh ride for extremal noise lovers. Devastation and chaos from experimental sounds to cruching waves, modulations and distortions. "Red World" is an album portraing frightfully chaotic development of Earth, men and their mad rush. Dictatorship of world awakens the need of money, profits, land or control above others. The heat of development in every genre of life leads also to social, cultural, emotional and spiritual vitiation. Project RED MOTH trough extremal sounds interpretates it's own observations of chaos on this earth. Unconventional release, raw cover cut in shape of cross from thick waste-paper cardboard. On front pasted a photo showing the cover of the album, and additional insert. The CD is mounted on plastic element. All folded in 15x15 cm square, wraped with special wire and foiled. The album is hand made and numered, limited to 150 copies. [press-release]
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Reductio Ad Absurdum -- "Anisotropy of Relict Radiation / Back-ups Stay on Earth" -- CD-R -- €9
1996/2011 self-released, (ltd. 25)
Reissue of a tape from 1996, previously released as a limited edition of 50 copies. Third album of this project.
Reductio Ad Absurdum -- "The Greatest Hits" -- CD-R -- €8
2005 Ultra, UCD 23, (ltd. 108)
Alexander Lebedev-Frontov released on his own label the compilation of the best in his opinion tracks of this St.Petersburg-based project gone to non-existence. Almost all tracks were previously released on different tapes, there's also one unreleased track. Sappy and raw analogue collaged industrial, many-sided and of course schizoidal. Perfectly fits the label's repertoire. Judging from the cover, the album could be entitled "The Greatest Tits".
Reductio Ad Absurdum -- "Last Convulses" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT31, (ltd. 100)
Previously unreleased last album of RAA from 1998. Lustful space disco with sampler attacks in proto-Messer Chups aesthetics. Science fiction, careless glamour of the 70-s, futurism and insanity, extreme sexual behaviour and rage of revolutionary masses... Connoisseurs will immediately feel the hands of Leningrad noise classics, even in this unusual role. Body modification / cock'n'ball torture artwork from Kirill Stoukaline. [press-release]
Reductio Ad Absurdum -- "Plodovitaya Suka Undead!" -- CD-R -- €9
1996/2011 self-released, (ltd. 25)
A collection of almost all compilation- and bonus-tracks given to various labels. Sleeve contains detailed info about each track.
Reductio Ad Absurdum -- "Sovmehkastratsiya" -- CD -- €9
2009 Provoloka, PRVLK 0002, (ltd. 375)
Reductio Ad Absurdum is one of the most interesting and original noise projects emerged from the post-Soviet Russia. They started their collective experiments in 1994, having recorded and released almost twenty albums, part of them was released by Ultra and Black Dead Rabbit Productions, another part by their own label Plodovitaya Suka. "Sovmehkastratsiya" was released on a cassette in far 1996 by Ultra as a limited edition of 30 copies. After almost 15 years this album is now available on digital media with an additional bonus-track taken from "Zvukoterror" compilation (Ultra 14, 1996). The musical component of this album won't leave untoched the lovers of oldschool analogue noise: noisy trance of Noizeclot, aesthetics of Dog As Master's "Conduit" period, inclination to alogical rhythmics of early Esplendor Geometrico - the music of Reductio Ad Absurdum combines all these approaches making their own, easily recognisable style. [press-release]
Reductio Ad Absurdum -- "Sparks of Lower Reign" -- CD-R -- €9
1996/2011 self-released, (ltd. 25)
Reissue of a tape recorded in 1995 and released in 1996 as a limited edition of 100 copies.
Reductio Ad Absurdum -- "Triumph of the Will and Phallic Personification of the Great Prince Alexander Nevsky / Phenomenal Spectre of the Distant Galaxies" -- CD-R -- €7
1998/2008 self-released, (ltd. 99)
Fantastic old school industrial from Kirill Stoukaline, Russia. Two tracks, 52 minutes. Samples from movies, cut with unhealthy sense of humour, noise pickups from various devices, metallic noises, peeps of modulators. [Abgurd]
Reed, Lou -- "Metal Machine Music" -- CD -- €10
1975/2000 Buddha Records, 74465 99752 2
There is no album in rock & roll like Metal Machine Music. There may be no album that is more rock & roll than Metal Machine Music. Certainly no other rock album by an established star and issued on a major label has generated such mad love and ferocious loathing - sometimes in the same listener - continuously for twenty five years. Rather than using musical instruments or the human voice, Lou Reed chose to stack multiple combinations of reverberating electronic sound, creating a vast, industrial howl. No lyrics, no melodies, just pulsing white noise and pure feedback. The album's impact was monumental, simultaneously presaging punk rock, ambient and industrial music. Metal Machine Music stands as one of the most influential rock albums of all time, while continuing to sound as uncompromising as when you first yanked it off the stereo and ran screaming from the room. This 25th anniversary edition features a new essay by David Fricke, Lou Reed's original liner notes, and deluxe packaging. [press-release]
Reformed Faction -- "I Am The Source Of Light, I Am Not A Mirror" -- 3 CD -- €45
2009 Soleilmoon Recordings, SOL 165 CD, (ltd. 300)
Reformed Faction -- "Until..." -- CD -- €10
2010 Greytone, grey002
"Until:" by Reformed Faction is a new set of recordings built around the ideas of abstract compositional instructions similar in meaning and intent to those used by Karlheinz Stockhausen in such works as 'From the seven days'. Eager to create a diverse and ever changing catalogue of works Reformed Faction here embrace improvisation, a feature fundamental to all their recordings, with a different focus and sensibility allowing sounds to evolve slowly and sub-conciously across a unrestricted timescale. Reformed Faction are Robin Storey and Mark Spybey, both ex-members of zoviet*france and both with long established and productive solo careers as Rapoon and Dead Voices On Air respectively. [label info]
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Reformed Faction -- "Vota" -- CD -- €14
2006 Klanggalerie, gg114
More than a decade after :zoviet*france: members Robin Storey (Rapoon), Mark Spybey (Dead Voices on Air) and Andrew Eardley (Delayer) left the band, the three have teamed up for a new group: Reformed Faction is a 21st century version of this important group with a unique sound that combines the old :zoviet*france: style with modern technology and a fresh wind blowing from the North of England. [label info] It's interesting that the album was initially released under a name of The Reformed Faction Of Soviet France, but due to the problems concerned with the rights of usage of the band's name, th elabel had to re-release it under a title of Reformed Faction.
Refuse To Die -- "Collection Of Agnostic Flies" -- CD -- €11
2008 The Eastern Front, Front 014, (ltd. 500)
Neo cabaret / Industrial / Avant-garde. This album is a hidden treasure of Israeli underground scene. Industrial cabaret. Industrial Dada! Futuristic collection of Refuse To Die music shadowed by operas samples, noisy and heavy sounds alternated with cabaret tradition accompanied by ironical verses on mix of English, German and Hebrew languages. [label info]
Refuse To Die -- "The Penguin" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 T'an! Kaven!! Ash!!!, Ash!!! 031, (ltd. 100)
Weird experimental work 'The Penguin' of acknowledged Israeli industrial avant-garde project Refuse To Die. The conceptual album consists of four parts: 'The Penguin: Spring', 'The Penguin: Summer', 'The Penguin: Autumn' and 'The Penguin: Winter'. Comes in snowwhite digipack with inner penguin themed artwork. [label info]
Release Helen Rytka -- "Huddersfield" -- CD-R -- €7
2006 Pitchphase, PPCDR08
Release Helen Rytka are Richard Ramirez and Melanie Riehle. Harsh noise.
Renoised / TBC / Audible Pain -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Sick Art Products, SAP 23, (ltd. 80)
A split of three German experimental / noise musicians. Renoised - not really harsch white noise, distorted electroguitar and lo-fi electronics. TBC - more juicy stuff with vinyl recorder, tapes, samples and effects, exploring various noisy ranges: from soft psychedelic to harsh. A fat part. Audible Pain - four different tracks of general experimental / noise direction.
Renou, Christian -- "Fragments and Articulations" -- CD -- €10
2002 Ground Fault Recordings, GF023
Christian Renou has been making electro-acoustic music for 17 years. His first cassette release was back in 1985. From 1985 to 2001 he recorded under the name Brume. He then started using his own name with the release of Zona Ventille in 2001 by Elsie and Jack Recordings. While the name changed, the style of music did not. Christian Renou is still putting out very high quality music in the new French tradition. Fragments and Articulations is no exception. [label info]
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Renou, Christian / Anemon Tube -- "Transference" -- CD -- €10
2003 Aufabwegen, aatp12, (ltd. 500)
C. Renou (aka Brume) reworks ambient tape manipulations by the German project Anemone Tube. Collages and noisy wokrs mix with quieter parts. CD in poster-art package. [label info]
Renou, Christian / The Bastard Noise -- "Brainstorming II" -- CD -- €10
2009 Housepig, HPIG-20
Christian Renou really should not need an introduction. The French master of detail has been cranking out releases under the name BRUME since the mid-1980's. On "Brainstorming II" THE BASTARD NOISE and Renou prove once again they are capable of creating some of the most haunting and progressive collaborations beheld. Renou brings unnerving rhythms + unsettling concrete sound; Wood fuses insect with cruel-tech; both exponentially more than the sum of their parts. "Brainstorming II" is startling in it's beauty, fascinating in it's discomfort, spacious and intense. Housepig is blessed to deliver sounds of such advanced design. [label info]
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Resch, Andreas -- "../Requiem" -- CD -- €10
2002 Weird Amplexus, WAX08, (ltd. 500)
Andreas Resch was one of the two members of legendary (Hyperium Records!) artist Mynox Layh. With 'Requiem', Andreas returns with a genuinely unusual sinister work of morbid atmospheres, an absolutely 'must have' release. 'Requiem' has a strongly obscure ambience, but cannot be compared to any ambient music, and it's surely an album to refer to endlessly with each listen giving something new to gain, disorienting as though wakening from a nightmare. Immense, striding, sumptuous string arrangements create a majestic and inspiring atmosphere. Andreas Resch is working in some potentially interesting areas of sound experimentation and this is a totally worthwhile and highly recommended opera. There are no other words which could possibly describe the endless feeling of the album. Definitely recommended. In vein of In The Nursery and old Laibach. [Blossoming Noise description]
Resonant Drift -- "The Call" -- CD -- €11
2009 self-released
Resonant Drift creates ambient atmospheres with occasional tribal rhythms in the vein of Steve Roach, Robert Rich, Jonn Serrie, Paul Ellis and Brian Eno. Mastered by Steve Roach, which have enriched the 60-minutes of compelling and intimate desert music enormously. The outcome has gained a lot of depth, as it slowly goes by in textural beauty and serenity, only occasionally supported by minimal sequencer patterns on the background. [Databloem]
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Resonant Drift -- "Flow Mingled Down" -- CD -- €11
2006 self-released
Resonant Drift is a music project of the USA-based musician Bill Olien, who mentions in the cd-booklet he was inspired by Steve Roach, Robert Rich, Jonn Serrie, Paul Ellis, Brian Eno and even TD. The 55-minute disc takes off with the peculiar, heavy sequencer-based "Until", thereafter shifting to a quiet mode as the nicely rendered Roach-kindred ethereal sonics step in on the 7-minute title track.
The sequenced, cinematic "Is this the Dream" comes next with its TD-like sequencers, after which the music slows down to the free form textural "Indescribable" with unsettling undercurrents. The latter feel continues on the darker shaded "Within, Still". The short piece "Moment" turns to much lighter atmospheres with accessible floating soundscapes, quickly followed by the well-rendered moody as dynamic sequencer outing "Spiral Nowhere". After the sedate interlude "Moment Again", "Yearning" offers a rather uneasy mood with its fx's and beat-driven electronica, extending this atmosphere as it leads the way to the dark textural dronescapes and grainy fx's of "Ground of all". The album ends with the gentle, transparent soundscapes of "Sorrow and Love" with water backdrop. Unfortunately there are some crackles discernable in these not as expansive and deep Roach-like textures. All in all, "Flow Mingled down" contains an interesting as adventurous mixture of ambient and sequencer-driven electronics, of which the darker sound paintings might need a bit more time to be appreciated. Just give it a try and let the music speak its own magic: [Best Stolenberg]
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Retarder -- "Enquiries" -- CD -- €13
2009 Tourette, tourette 006, (ltd. 400)
Reuter, Markus -- "Digitalis" -- CD -- €12
2001 Hypnos, hyp2128
A varied album of abstract and experimental ambient music put forth from this interesting German composer. Better known as one of the four members of The Europa String Choir, He uses a rather unique instrument referred to as a Warr Guitar. This is an 8-stringed guitar, which has a very different sound over the conventional guitar. The music presented on this album is not your typical ambient. It's a spacey album, full of chaotic swirling samples. The first half of the album is restless, ceasing to slow down. Slowly, the drawn out chaos turns dark and distant. Ever so slowly blending in with the next track. The progression is built from the first track to the last, making this a nice long journey into something special. Capturing harmony and originality, the artist makes this experiment work. A hard album to digest upon the first listen, but given time turns into a unique classic. [jackthetab, Discogs]
Reutoff -- "1998-2008" -- 6 CD box -- €50
2008 Ewers Tonkunst, HHE 023 B, (ltd. 100)
Limited Jubilee Box edition of 100, includes 6 albums on CDs and 2 cards. The albums are: Das Absterben [1998], Three Souls For A Reasonable Price [1998], Regno Di Pianta [2000], Unseen Rituals [2002], Deprivatio [2008], Tanz Der Kleinen Schweinen [2008].
Reutoff -- "Deprivatio" -- CD -- €12
2008 Ewers Tonkunst, HHE 017 CD
The first full-length solo CD in five years from the most internationally well-known Russian industrial project after their 2003 "Gute Nacht Berlin" on Albin Julius HauRuck! label. "Deprivatio" is a sad story of a person surrender to the enemy environment, it's about idle struggle with time and fatigue, about constant passions withering and vitality deprivation. Being maybe the most hopeless and sad work of the band, this album is paradoxically is their most rhythmic and dynamic - there're more noisy drum loops and electro sounds here than martial drum patterns and old school noise, but their unique deep and profound melodic main themes are still remain as the basement for the brilliant new tracks of despair and downfall. The ascetic b&w artwork was done by Murad Ibatullin known for the recent "Iznutri" compilation. The release comes as a jewel box with 6 panel booklet. [press-release]
Reutoff -- "Deprivatio" -- CD -- €13
2008 Ewers Tonkunst, HHE 017 CD, (ltd. 100)
The first 100 copies of this release come with two sided poster.
Reutoff -- "Kreuzung I-IV" -- 4 CD -- €48
2009 Ewers Tonkunst, HHE 024 b, (ltd. 100)
This release continues Indiestate series of special collectors deluxe editions. The limited edition boxset contains all four first Kreuzung collaborations in digital format including the very first one with Antlers Mulm previously released on LP only and available as CD exclusively for this set. Other albums (with Troum, Der Blutharsch and Deutsch Nepal) are identical to regular editions musically, but have different package - each CD (together with the inlay containing artwork from the standard edition of an album and info on the release) is housed in it's own die-cut envelope made of kraft brown paper with Reutoff logo embossed on the back side. Five postcards with photos from each of the projects involved are also included in the box. The whole set is very similar to the recent "1998-2008" jubilee set by Reutoff, but made according to the style of the whole Kreuzung series. The edition is numbered and limited to just 100 copies. A brilliant collectors item, be fast! [press-release]
Reutoff -- "Regno Di Pianta" -- CD -- €12
2000/2009 Ewers Tonkunst, HHE 001 CD, 3rd ed., (ltd. 400)
The third incarnation of Reutoff classics first seen the daylight in the year 2000. This time it's a regular jewel box with an artwork based upon now sold out digipak edition made by glorious cmart. Being the darkest, gloomiest and most industrial album of the project, Regno Di Pianta has become one of the most well-acclaimed Reutoff releases ever. Dense and sombre dark-ambient drones are intertwined here with noises and sprinkles of voice and cello samples, pouring out the eternal dusk of misty reign of suffer and solitude - the endless Regno Di Pianta, the Kingdom Of Tears. The edition is limited to 400 copies. [press-release]
Reutoff -- "Regno Di Pianta" -- CD -- €18
2000/2004 Ewers Tonkunst, HHE 001 CD, 2nd. ed., (ltd. 500)
This is a CD reissue of the first CDR-release of this well-known Russian dark-ambient band.
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Reutoff -- "Unseen Rituals" -- CD -- €11
2002 Ewers Tonkunst, HHE 003 CD
Combining layers of delicate noise with voice samples and rhythmical patterns, Reutoff creates unique atmosphere of despair and anxiety, where sad melodies dip into the pool of cold strained tension. Unseen Rituals explores the rites which people perform every day never mentioning them, their secret hidden essence. Recommended for everyone who likes the things that lie beyond the visible veil. The release comes as special sized folder with full-colour printing. [label info]
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Reutoff -- "Three Withered Souls" -- 2 CD -- €16
2006 Ewers Tonkunst, HHE 010, (ltd. 500)
CD-reissue of two first Reutoff albums, first published on tapes in 1988 as "Das Absterben" and "Three Souls For A Reasonable Price". All the material was re-mixed and re-mastered anew on high quality studio equipment. The sound of recordings was so strikingly different from the old known tracks that authors decided to give the a name to the album. Some bonuses also included - three new versions of compositions of that period giving an idea of band's current direction. [label info]
Reutoff vs Der Blutharsch -- "Kreuzung Drei" -- CD -- €13
2008 Ewers Tonkunst, HHE 022 CD, (ltd. 500)
Three tracks from Reutoff (source material - Der Blutharsch CD "When All Else Fails"), and two from Der Blutharsch (sorce material - Reutoff 7" "ReuTRauM III").
Reutoff vs. Deutsch Nepal -- "Kreuzung Vier" -- CD -- €11
2009 Ewers Tonkunst, HHE 021 CD, (ltd. 400)
The fourth issue in a series of collaborations between Reutoff and their friends. This issue includes 3 tracks from Reutoff based on the source material by Deutsch Nepal and 3 tracks suite called 'Jigsaw Puzzeling With A Dismembered Reutoff' created by Deutsch Nepal using the sounds delivered by Reutoff. The release comes in a special "Kreuzung" series package made of brown kraft carton with a full colour stickered artwork/info cover and Reutoff logo embossed on the back, the CD is housed in the same carton die-cut inner envelope. 6 tracks, 50 mins in total. First edition of 400 copies. [press-release]
Reynols -- "The Bolomo Mogal F Hits" -- CD -- €11
2004 Audiobot, BOT 007
Reynols -- "Pacalirte Sorban Cumanos" -- CD -- €11
2002 Beta-lactam Ring Records, mt051
I think Reynols' may have devised a new genre of music which we shall call here 'sushikraut.' All the syrupy, searing guitar hallmarks & plodding time signatures of the finest psychedelic krautrock legends: Ash Ra Temple, Amon Duul II, Guru Guru (early), Xhol Caravan, & Can (early) etc. All the psychedelic, syrupy r&om lo-fi looseness & spirtual spaciousness of Ghost, Acid Mothers Temple, White Heaven, & Magical Power Mako. Throw in sing-songy Gergorigegege style vocalisations (For some reason J&ek also sticks in my craw) & you've got yourself a masterpiece called Reynols. LP edition sold out. [press-release]
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Rich, Robert -- "Humidity" -- 3 CD -- €20
2000 Hypnos, hyp2020
Humidity is three discs of three California concerts recorded live in April and May of 1998. The first disc was recorded on April 2 in Stanford, the second on May 9 in Venice, and the third on May 10 in Pasadena. Each of these three discs has its own distinctive sound, but all three have the Robert Rich stereo depth and audiophile quality that he's known for. Humidity is less drone-y than some of Rich's earlier stuff, particularly Sunyata, on the Hypnos Recordings label, and Trances/Drones, which was re-released in 2000 on the Release/Relapse label. In fact, this recording is more along the lines of Rich's exotic stuff -- Seven Veils, A Troubled Resting Place, and issures -- complete with the synthesized sounds of acoustic ethnic instruments and chanting disembodied voices floating above Rich's densely layered electronic textures. Humidity is a great introduction to Robert Rich's work, but his studio recordings are really the best place to start. [Matt Borghi, All Music Guide]
Rich, Robert -- "Seven Veils" -- CD -- €12
1998 Hearts Of Space, HS11086
Seven rhythm-charged compositions inpired by the exotic, sensual ambience of the Middle East: On previous albums like Rainforest, Gaudi, Propagation, Yearning and Fissures, ROBERT RICH has shown uncanny skill at merging ethnic instruments with electronic enhancements. Seven Veils perfects this evolution, showcasing Rich's pulsating organic percussion, subtle electronics, and solo virtuosity on slide guitar and bamboo flutes. With special guests DAVID TORN on electric guitar, FORREST FANG violin, HANS CHRISTIAN cello, MARK FORRY kaval, and ANDREW McGOWAN bass. Seven Veils is blazingly original music and audiophile quality sound by one of the world's top electro-acoustic artists. [label info]
Rich, Robert -- "Somnium" -- DVD -- €15
2001 Hypnos, hyp2131
Somnium is a single continuous track, a 7-hour "sleep concert" recording in DVD format (playable on ordinary home DVD video players). "This is really a mesmerizing and intense work and although it starts out as a very recognisable Robert Rich work, it slowly shifts into a long part of minimal and dissonant drones which I really love, to end up in a sort of sublte brightness again. Very strong and soothing." [Vidna Obmana]
Rich, Robert & Boddy, Ian -- "Lithosphere" -- CD -- €11
2005 DiN, DiN21, (ltd. 2000)
Rich, Robert & Faryus -- "Zerkalo" -- CD -- €12
2008 Faria Records, FAR-22, (ltd. 1000)
Zerkalo = Mirror. Tangential glimpses remotely echoed, untethered from touch. No time nor place, no past nor future, internal, external. Sculpting from energy, clouded motion vaguely slipping. Evanescent vibration, without meaning apart from its own open secret. [label info]
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Richter Band -- "Smetana" -- CD -- €10
2009 Nextera, ERA 2055 2
Riek, Lasse-Marc -- "Saison Concrete" -- CD -- €10
2011 Semperflorens, sf07, (ltd. 500)
Sounds of the four seasons, condensed into one acoustic valuable - that describes the work of conceptual artist Lasse-Marc Riek. Birds migrating in late summer, livestock returning from the alps in fall and April's showers are some of the more recognizable incidents. Above all, the artist forms a fascinating soundscape by working with a huge variety of sounds and noises, and with each acoustic part he creates a composition complete by itself. Saison Concrete - coltish and jaunty or unfathomable melancholic - cover the span of a whole year. Thus, Riek's journeys through nature's sounds subtly turn into reflections about the nature of sounds. [Stefan Militzer]
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Rise And Fall Of A Decade -- "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" -- CD -- €11
2007 Intuition Records, INT27002
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow is a retrospective compilation covering period in history of the one of the most important French alternative/wave bands of the 90s: RISE AND FALL OF A DECADE from its very beginning in 1987 (with Galdhopiggen Glittertind which became the first song of the band) through their four successful albums of 90s (Rise and Fall of a Decade, Noisy But Empty, You or Sidney and Forgot the 20th Century) and rare singles (An Evening With Bernard, Mistake with interesting covers of S. Gainsbourg and The Pixies) to the present time (Don't Save The Museum recorded in 2006). Atmospheric keyboards, acoustic or distorted guitar, expressive male and heavenly female voice, excellent lyrics. Their extraordinary songs are full of beauty and melancholies. An impressive ethereal new wave with a specific French influence. [label info]
Ritual Front -- "Lightnings Over Crimson Hill" -- CD -- €11
2005 Der Angriff Nr. 25
First full-length album of Ritual Front. The band members call their style "combat folk", and in this definition one can find elements of martial and dark-folk given in esotheric context with multifarious arrangements of keyboards, flute and samples. Besides new tracks the CD contains new versions of already known hits "Two Lightnings" and "Being Born".
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Ritual Front -- "Strahlungen" -- CD -- €13
2008 Der Angriff, Nr. 33, (ltd. 500)
After more than two years of work, the most promising Russian dark folk act is returned with their new album. "Strahlungen" is much more matured, professional and carefully produced than the debut CD "Lightnings Over Crimson Hill", and at the same time it hasn't lost neither its energy nor its honesty and sincerity. Seven tracks about the difficult questions of honor and pride, choice and liability, death and rebirth sang in Russian will be more than transparent to the worldwide audience since those challenges don't know the national borders. The release comes in a very special silver embossed cardboard package reminding of vinyl cover with an inner sleeve, there is also 32 pages full color booklet inside with lyrics in Russian and German (the German translations done by Gerhard Hallstatt from Allerseelen) and limited to 500 copies. [press-release]
Ritualnaya Bioingeneria -- "Hton" -- CD-R -- €6
Biosonar Revers
Mechanical factory industrial, telling us the truth about hard slavery work in urban environment. Author's re-edition of long sold out album previously released by Ultra label in 2001, with simple home-printed artwork.
Ritualnaya Bioingeneria -- "Poluraspad" -- CD-R -- €8
2001 Ultra, UCD 17, (ltd. 100)
The new release of this project shows more harsh and noisy sound, mor etypical to old-school industrial. Urban noises combined with radionose and gramophone recordings of Soviet period bring the listener to the workshops and laboratories where one develops the technology of cultivating the hard-working homunculus on radioactive humus. [label info]
Ritualnaya Bioingeneria -- "Poluraspad" -- CD-R -- €6
Biosonar Revers
Author's re-edition of an album released by Ultra label in 2001, with simple home-printed artwork.
Ritualnaya Bioingeneria -- "Atom-Ananda-Svami" -- CD-R -- €8
2007 BioSonar_EleKtro 11, (ltd. 52)
Infinite delightful bliss of the atomic age. Fear of attack of evolutioned till the end self-destructing form of life. Aggression of collective directed towards absurd emptiness of alienation and impossibility. Nuclear past, nuclear present, nuclear future. Horrifying God saving through disintegration by reactive fire. Four hymns of negation, four songs glorifying warheards and reactors. 1. The birth of the idea of greatness of intellect able to destroy matter and time. 2. Cheerful militant trench rollicking cleaning of consciousness from compassion and love. Preparation for battle operation. 3. Process goes on and Legion is in horror. Wave rolls on and chariot not... 4. And long-awaited joyless result - total biospheric catastrophe. Noise deconstructions and pulsations were recorded in May 2002, previously unreleased material is the conclusion of the trilogy about technogenic suffering of body and soul. Limited to 52 copies. Handmade package. Living beings suffered during the recording were damned and saved. Aum Tat Sat. [press-release]
RLW -- "Herzblutanteil (I.K.K. IV)" -- CD -- €17
2009 Waystyx, WR47, (ltd. 432)
Once upon a time, in far 1794 year, Christoph Schmid wrote the lyrics for Ihr Kinderlein Kommet, which was performed soon after in Thanhausen an der Mindel. He united it then with the melody, composed by contemporary composer Johann Abraham Peter Schulz. In the end of 2001, a few weeks before Christmas, I recorded my daughter Sonja (aged 5 then) singing some of her favourite xmas tunes, including I.K.K. When Jos Moers (owner of Meeuw Muzak label) was asking me to contribute to a series of xmas 7"s he is doing once every year, I used 2 of those recordings for 2003's yearly event: merry merry (mm 027 - I.K.K. release #1 in retrospect). Side one has Sonja's singing (Stille Nacht = silent night) unedited "live". Side 2 has a funny piece composed from a transformed Ihr Kinderlein Kommet. When the 7" was done i had the impression that the transformed sounds had a quality of their own, so i used them for further transformations and to compose a new piece of about 15 mins length: I.K.K. - Purpur - Scharlachrot. Following my course of collaborative works I invited some friends to take part in this adventure. The result, I.K.K. - Purpur (CD, Sirr 025), was released in 2006, including contributions from Dan Warburton, Andrew Deutsch, Chris Halliwell, then Strotter Inst., Stephen Vitiello, also Johannes Frisch and Bhob Rainey, I.K.K. #2). Two lengthy pieces by Domenico Sciajno and myself followed later that same year as Gelbe Tupfen (CD, Bowindo 07 - I.K.K. release #3; not to mention a version by Reto Mader on his CD Fireproof in 8 parts, Hinterzimmer 2007). But other projects needed their time, so it took until 2008 before I came back to the KInderlein. The distance made it easier to go back to the sources: an extract from the original recording and the meeuw version are presented here superimposed for your pleasure in the end of this release. And so, the starting point is set by C. Renou (Brume), who uses extracts from almost all the following pieces for a glorious introduction: Merry merry! Don't wish me a merry Christmas, I won't have one. [RLW]
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RLW -- "The Pleasure Of Burning Down Churches" -- CD -- €10
2007 Black Rose Recordings, BRCD 07-1009
The title of the cd dates back to the mid 90s when I was travelling around Vietnam. One of the most impressive things there was meeting an American veteran soldier who had returned to the places of former glory. He was talking about the churches he bombed during the War, (high buildings are the best targets), with great enthusiasm and was extremely pleased to show us some of the ruins. When I decided to use some of the recordings I had made there for one of the pieces (# 2), I found "the pleasure of burning down churches" an appropriate title for this release. The 4 pieces were composed between April 2006 and January 2007. Some of the sounds came from my archives of unissued materials (especially from the mid 90's travel to Vietnam as heard in # 2), but most of the sounds were recorded in 2005/06. Thanks to Marc Behrens and Stephen Meixner for discussing details of the pieces and to Kouhei Matsunaga for taking part in one of the paper string actions as used on # 3. [RLW, January 2007]
RLW -- "Tonlose Lieder" -- CD -- €12
2004 PARA disc, PACD-013
After the recent re-issues of the old PD work, it's now time to fast forward in music history and take a closer look at the missing link of disbanding P16.D4 and the first solo works of RLW. Fast forward to 1990. This is the time when the old techniques of tape-splicing, cheap four track records and such like was replaced by cheap samplers and computer interfaces (midi to control sequences), being an option for everyone. Before this all settled down into RLW's first CD 'Acht' (1992), he experimented with a lot of ideas, using the newly acquired techniques. The abrassive side of P16.D4 became more subtle, more dynamic and at the same time it was also reduced in sound and approach. No less than twenty-two pieces from the sketchbook are to be found on this CD, and each of them is described in the booklet. Scratching records is for instance a main feature, like was done on the SLP project, but it involves also organ like sounds, sterile factory settings found inside the sampler and much more. In some cases we get the raw version of a piece that ended up on 'Acht', but the majority is unheard. Whereas on the later solo records by RLW it's hard to recognize the original input, we can hear on this CD him freely improvising around with instruments, sampling them etc. Of course not every fragment is great, but it would not be right to say that this album is only for those with a keen ear on history. It bears the collage-like style of P16.D4 with the latter RLW style, but in all its fragmented style it sounds, still after all these years, like a fresh album. Only to be compared, I think, with P16.D4's 'Tionchor' album. A collection of nice short pieces, that make more sense when heard they are grouped together. [FdW, Vital Weekly]
RJF -- "Greater Success In Apprehension & Convictions" -- CD -- €14
2008 Segerhuva, SEGER 24
Rocchetti, Claudio -- "Every Live Is Problem Solving" -- CD -- €10
2011 Silentes Minimal Editions, sme 1147
A suggestive gallery of abstract images, confused fragments of life and real living experiences, sights of urban landscapes... Noisy and electronic interferences, mechanical machines movements, concrete noises, low frequences fluxes, hissing sounds, interferences, but also melodic acoustic guitar pieces, human voices and other field recordings... A brave, uncompromising and heterogeneous "decomposed" mosaic of avantgarde sound art beyond time, beyond any point of view and any geometric coordinates. [label info]
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Rokkiryhma -- "Maailmanvoitto" -- 3"CD-R -- €5
2007 267 Lattajjaa, LTJ-59
Lo-fi pop-folk. Teenage psych-folk band inspired by mainly Atari Teenage Riot, playing on acoustic guitar, harmonica and flute some sleepy folk-songs in Finnish, and cover-versions of, for example, Justin Timberlake. Sleeve with insert. [YAOP]
ROME -- "L'Assassin" -- CD EP -- €9
2010 [Trisol] Music Group GmbH, TRI 382 CD
The Assassin - Murder? Crime of passion? As always, ROME's titles ought to be taken with a pinch of salt. ROME's new 'Chanson Noir' is speaking of man's enslavement in a world of constant transformation. The traditions of (french) Chanson and (american) Folk are becoming more and more influential in their current work. Chansonniers like LEO FERRE, JACQUES BREL and singer/songwriter heroes like CAVE, CASH and COHEN are obvious influences. The previous album "Flowers From Exile" already gave a first impression of what they themselves call 'Chanson Noir' - the darker side of singer/songwriter tradition: post-industrial-folk with bits and pieces of Electronic Pop, complex arrangements of breathtaking melodies, mesmerizing ballads of lyrical beauty, underlining ROME's ethos of never faltering or remaining uninvolved. The EP/Single features four songs among which the exclusive and intimate track "One Flesh". The creative input of new member Nikos Mavridis (on violin and other stringed instruments) has become more and more apparent, most obviously in the reinvented, "stringed" versions of two classic ROME tracks Der Erscheinungen Flucht and Der Brandtaucher from the highly successful album Masse Mensch Material. ROME are reinventing themselves with each release, without ever losing track of their roots. Still, the sheer anger and ultimate despair of the early, warlike days has somewhat evaporated to make room for more complex and classical arrangements and ever more thought-provoking lyrics. ROME: unmasked, honest and authentic! [press-release]
ROME -- "Masse Mensch Material" -- CD -- €15
2008/2011 [Trisol] Music Group GmbH, TRI 394 CD
New wine from the orchards of Rome! After two successful albums, Nera and Confessions d'un Voleur d'Ames, ROME blesses us with its 12-track-knock-out Masse Mensch Material -which holds more than one musical surprise! ROME's particular brand of post-industrial folk, combined with new-wave song-writing and neo-classical arrangements, takes on a new and poppy twist. But these outstanding songs have way too much depth to be dismissed as mere pop music. This third album is of a more subtle darkness and probably ROME's best work to date. A work of art of extreme sincerity, Masse Mensch Material revolves around the themes of love, faith and endurance. ROME has created a fascinating world of contradictions which each song lays out with clarity and with all the cruelty and kindness intact. Within a very short period of time and at a terrifying pace, workaholic mastermind Jerome Reuter has carved his own path and created and established a dominion of his own, with its own codes and values. Through its bitter sweet melodies of exquisite sadness and rebellion, its haunting lyrics, mesmerizing vocals and recordings of unmatched production and sound, ROME has become the new face of dark romanticism. Jerome's voice echoes pride and death of a time and place long forgotten. A voice which becomes the axis that breaks one's consciousness into some kind of tender submission. Let yourself be buried in the shade of this masterpiece, in the beauty of desperation! Come out under the stars! ROME is the light! [CMI press-release]
ROME -- "Nera" -- CD -- €26
2006 Cold Meat Industry, cmi164
ROME was founded in 2005 as a main output for the songs of Jerome Reuter, Luxembourg. Long time since a debut album was so eagerly awaited as by ROME, and Nera, which is the title of this brilliant piece, is "black" indeed. The atmosphere weighs heavy on the soul - a burden of flowers. However, ROME manages to include warmth and affection in its cold world of steel. The main characters in this language of lurking are defeated men - not unschooled by pain - in seedy places. ROME songs are full of citations, abstractions and ideals. The marching and counter-marching of doubtful armies luring our love away, with licit grace, icy and bitter irony. Gentle phantasms of desire. The reversal of sympathies. The aspects of eternity, spiritual hunger, treachery and corruption, shame and honour - being more than mere traps for the unsophisticated. These are some of Nera's interlocking themes in a world scorched by the wastefulness and cruelty of war. Nera is the meticulous patience of rage. Get it now and make it your friend, before it devours you. Presented in another beautifully debossed 4-panel digipak. [label info]
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Romero, Caesar -- "The Grotesque Burlesque Revue" -- 3"CD -- €7
2004 Fin de Siècle Media, FDS 07
In the spring of 1997 Amanda Moss, Adrian Jones and Marisa Carr, three London-based artists, joined forces and formed a cult performance art company called The Dragon Ladies. Together, they created a bizarre piece of deviant theatre which became known as The Grotesque Burlesque Revue. Loosely based on the fable of Bluebeard, re-nterpretations of female sexuality, fairy-tales, nightmares and myth, it tells the story of Dolly Blue, a naive Music Hall starlet who marries Captain Blue and sails away with him on a doomed honeymoon voyage. Once on board the ship she secretly enters his private chamber and discovers the dismembered remains of his previous wives. Dolly soon meets her own unfortunate end and she is killed, cast in porcelain and made into the ship's figurehead. This act invokes the wrath of Violet Rose, a fearsome sea-creature who destroys Bluebeard's vessel, killing herself and all on board. Finally, rising from the congealed chaos of the shipwreck, formed from oysters on the sea-bed and the blood and skin of the dead sailors, comes Bloody Pearl, a psychopathic street-walking prostitute. She seeks retribution for her death as Dolly Blue and exacts her revenge by seducing then strangling unwary sailors with strings of pearls. The show was originally commissioned by Chisenhale Dance Space and was performed as part of their 1997 "Trash" Season. The Grotesque Burlesque Revue rapidly gained cult status and was performed to sell-out audiences across town. In 1998 they programmed Enter The Dragon Ladies, a series of multi-media performance events at the Raymond Revuebar, Soho's notorious striptease club. Each event featured a performance of The Grotesque Burlesque Revue, a number of other "sideshow" acts, films and live bands. A second Dragon Ladies show was also produced at this time, The Macabre Melodrama of Lottie Bone. The final Dragon Ladies performance took place at the 1998 Lisbon Expo. By this point they had strayed from the original aims of the piece and the performance degenerated into a full scale audience riot. This sealed the fate of the company and they disbanded shortly thereafter. The complete, original soundtracks to both shows were released at the time as a limited edition of 100 CDs and the tracks contained here are re-mixed versions of those in the original score. Derived from sea-shanties, nursery rhymes and warped, fairy-tale carnival music they form the central part of the soundtrack to the show. [press-release]
The Rootsman / Muslimgauze -- "On-Line Jihad" -- CD -- €13
2011 The Muslimgauze Preservation Society, TMPS06, (ltd. 500)
Rose Sobchak -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Heart Shaped Box prod., HSB-044, (ltd. 41)
Smart serious Harsh Noise a la Lefthanddecision and Werewolf Jerusalem from the Moscow based project. Handmade package, double sleeve. [YAOP]
Rothkamm, Frank -- "Moers Works" -- CD -- €10
2006 Monochrome Vision, (mv10), (ltd. 500)
Frank Rothkamm is the one of most interesting musicians of today, contemporary of industrial culture. He is a true underground figure, the fighter of invisible front, who realized a number of projects, produced great records for his own Flux Records label. Being a professionally trained musician, he was shifting freely from tape collages in his teens, and going through different forms including chamber music and pop arrangements. "Moers Works" is his first experiment, discovered and unearthed by me incidentally. Archive materials recorded back in 1982-84 and released after quarter of century! All tracks on this CD were recorded with this completely analog "sampling" system which incorporated a borrowed Korg MS-20 synthesizer in Tracks 2 and 10. In Track 7, the base samples of guitar, piano, and strings were recorded at the studio of the local Castle Theatre, where he trained as an actor. Rothkamm perceived his compositional technique to be very "digital"; informed by both Punk Rock with its sudden shifts and hard cuts, and by the mathematics of permutation. All Moers Works were composed to be used in live performance, and it was in these works where he developed his first piece that took place in an unusual locations. Track 3 was recorded during a 1 week experiment where he would live and work at night and sleep during the day. Track 7 was commissioned by the theatre and forms the overture to the Heiner Mueller play of the same name, commencing with a stone thrown through a window. Tracks 4 through 6 were part of his ambitious "Fisch II" series, first performed in 1984 in the 25- seat Pulverhaus, a 16th century ammunition powder storage building located in the park. This brought him publicity that he has never regained since. [label info]
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Rotten Piece -- "N9-N1" -- CD-R -- €7
2006, Sick Arts Products, SAP 17, (ltd. 100)
This project is known for its outstanding live performances since early 90s. Industrial power electronics with small dose of rhythm. 41 minute of pleasure for the experts in old school sound. [YAOP description]
Ruchalski, Edward -- "Refined Localities Part One" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2004 Taalem, alm 16
Edward Ruchalski is an American soundartist who had some releases on Humbug before and also contributed to some Phonography.org compilations, together with people like Toy Bizarre, Eric La Casa or Mnortham. "Refined Localities Part One" is a 20min long track using field recordings and samples of string and percussion motor instruments Edward builds himself. You could compare this piece to some tracks of his previous CDR "Moveable Sites", maybe more focused on the droney side, like "a densely layered cake of droning sounds, carefully layered upon each other" as Frans de Waard wrote about "Moveable Sites" in Vital Weekly... [press-release]
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Rugitus Aeternam -- "Taedium Vitae" -- CD-R -- €7
2006 Deserted Factory, DF014, (ltd. 100)
Rhythmic noise from Mexico. Danceable.
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Ruhlmann, Mathieu -- "The Earth Grows In Each Of Us" -- CD-R -- €9
2007 AFE Records, afe097lcd, (ltd. 100)
Electroacoustic / Experimental. Mathieu Ruhlmann is a visual and sound artist. He first began composing soundworks to accompany his visual art based on found material. He has created works for various labels in Europe, Canada and the United States as well as contributed to several compilations. He has also produced sound installations and held performances thorughout North America. He currently resides in Vancouver, British Columbia. "The Earth Grows in Each of Us" was composed and recorded during Spring/Summer 2006. Instruments and sounds used on the album include: violin, piano, autoharp, accordion, bell, shruti box, voice, vinyl, wasps, seafoam, glass, tiles, fireworks, water, tree branch, metal, seedpod, pine cone, tone generator and stones. [label info]
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Ruhlmann, Mathieu -- "Gravity Controls Our Myths" -- CD -- €10
2009 Semperflorens, sf03
With previous works released by such labels as Mystery Sea, taalem, Afe Records and Gears Of Sand, it's pretty easy to understand that this musician plays fine drone ambient with elements of electroacoustic and field recordings, and this is 100% true for the 13 tracks of "Gravity Controls Our Myths" CD, released by the label of [S] (Exit In Grey / Five Elements Music / Sister Loolomie). [Abgurd]
Ruhlmann, Mathieu -- "Somne" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2004 Taalem, alm 19
After a full length cd-r on S'Agita Recordings and just before another one on our beloved Belgian friend Mystery Sea, here comes the first 3"cd-r of a newcomer in the ambient world. Mathieu Ruhlmann is a Canadian composer who carefully builds his pieces starting from his own field recordings. Add drones, subtle sounds and here's the result: a 20min long track, very calm, ambient, dark but luminous in the same time, cold and refreshing. Perfect for the winter! [press-release]
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Ruiz, Miguel A. -- "Grosor" -- CD -- €10
2005 Monochrome Vision, (mv03), (ltd. 500)
This is the new, remastered version of classic material recorded back in 80s, next to postindustrial aesthetics priority in electronic music. Rigorous and austere, ascetic but dynamic, this music rearranges everyday being into mindchallenging imagination, reserving the leading parts for the habitual processes and domestic objects. From the deep underground of Spanish industrial music, it comes to be rediscovered after 15 years. All this material was composed, recorded and mixed by Miguel Angel Ruiz in Madrid around 1989-1990. All unreleased, except tracks (1, 6, 9, 11), which originally were released on "Encuentros en la Tercera Edad" LP (1991). Mostly short tracks, creating the real sense of alienated memories, lost in time and space. Sometimes scary, sometimes strangely comfortable, but never boring landscapes of the someone's past life, these pieces are nothing to do with industrial aesthetics, it contains no social message at all. A lots of old analogue synths for your listening pleasure, if you are hungry for the nostalgic tones not melodies. [label info]
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Ruiz, Miguel A. & Bardoseneticcube -- "Exclusion Zone" -- CD -- €10
2009 Aquarellist, aquarel 09-09, (ltd. 500)
A collaboration work of Spanish musician Miguel A. Ruiz (Orpheon Gagarin, Efficient Refineries, etc.) and Russian project Bardoseneticcube. Dangerous zones of sonic landscapes painted with the help of analogue synths and sequences, all sorts of samples, vinyl records and even folk instruments (percussion, gusli, penny whistles and pipes). Schizophrenically twisted ambiental collage of the fragments of the modern soundsphere. Rhythmic excursions into contaminated areas. Industrial psychedelia.
Rulla / Montage -- "Gray Comedy / Messin'" -- CD -- €10
2005 Monotype, MN006
Finnish-Japanese power electronics split.
Runau, Karl -- "Beyond Frequencies" -- CD -- €15
1999 Galakthorrö 010
One of the possible associations which come to mind when listening to this CD - this is an engineer-physicist in deep dissociative trip, with exfoliated perception of the world, communicating with his analogue synthesizers under impression of formerly heard early Kraftwerk recordings. Completely abnormal music - highest recommendations.
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Rybicki, Marek -- "Opowiadania" -- 2 CD-R -- €10
2004 Nefryt, N 012, (ltd. 222)
The first solo work of member Ucho & Arche. Environmentals, deep ambient, enigmatic electro-stories. The music is like symbiosis: a computer with a nature. Special A5 cover, 222 numbered copies, the first double album from Nefryt!!! [press-release]
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Ryr / Transistorwald -- "split" -- CD-R -- €8
2010 Ufa Muzak, UFA40, (ltd. 121)
Martial industrial / Dark Ambient. The mysterious pre-execution rite has been done, no barriers left, only shadow left in this cell forever... Ryr and Transistorwald - preparation for something not coincidental. Borders passed by wanderers in black uniform, they took cover where no living will ever be. The pits are dug out and immersion of symbolical artifacts is finished with vein bloodletting. Sturm music, goes out of line without accompaniment, with the sound of needle cutting a plate. His eyes are covered with soil, but he breathes deeper and stronger than those who go, he believes. Inside the house burnt down just yesterday will pour stranger's guttural speech, a steel knot will be tied in the heart. Befor the taste of lead bullets and ground line riddled with tank dead grids there's a symbol of Ahnenerbe on yellow leaves. Weisthor whispers with fire and moves in a stream, in the place where he is. The earth is covered with ice on fire... A5 cardboard sleeve + insert printed on transparent film. [press-release]
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S*Core -- "Sediment" -- CD -- €11
1994 God Factory
S-H-M -- "Zuhause Is Es Immer Noch Am Schönsten" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Sick Art Products, SAP 21, (ltd. 100)
German project playing rhythmic industrial music with elements of techno and EBM. Dark but not harsh electronic songs, mostly instrumental.
Sabbath Assembly -- "Restored To One" -- CD -- €10
2010 The Ajna Offensive, Flame 58
Restored to One is a modern response to the musical activities of a cult known as The Process Church of the Final Judgment, who used music to spread their visions of Gnostic reconciliation in a time of cataclysmic change. Sabbath Assembly has re-charged the original hymns of The Process Church and worked them into moving renditions that unite the trinity of rock, psychedelic and gospel into one triumphant re-awakening. The Process Church was an intensely creative, apocalyptic shadow side to the flower-powered '60s and New Age '70s. The influential group opened Chapters in London, Europe and across the United States. Dressing in black cloaks and walking the streets with German Shepherds, they created their own intricately designed magazines, and promoted a controversial, quasi-Gnostic theology that reconciled Christ and Satan through deeper awareness and love. Funkadelic reproduced Process writings in two of its albums. The Process Church was accused of being part of a Satanic underground conspiracy by true crime pulps, most notably Ed Sanders' The Family, which linked the Church to the Manson murders. The insider's perspective of this secretive group and its true leadership recently emerged with Feral House's LOVE SEX FEAR DEATH: The Inside Story of The Process Church of the Final Judgment, written by former members including Timothy Wyllie, and edited by Adam Parfrey. Produced by Randall Dunn (Sunn O))), Earth, Boris, etc.). [press-release]
Sacher-Pelz -- "In Hoc Urbia Miazi" -- CD -- €13
2007 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 090
After more than 28 years the seminal contamination by Maurizio Bianchi / MB called "Sacher-Pelz" is finally back with dyslexic hollows
in the hypertoxic forewarning of scrupulous connoisseurs: "In Hoc Urbia Miazi" is its irrational title, and you should take note of this for your survival! Uncompromising & best quality old-school industrial-noise like in the very early "Come Organisation" times by this Italian CULT project! [press-release]
Sachiko -- "Zunya" -- CD -- €11
2009 Musik Atlach, MA006
Sachiko is a Japanese female vocalist (ex-Kousokuya, Overhang Party). She produces fantastic drone and noise. Her ritual psychedelic drone guides the listener to a quiet Great Beyond. This album is a live recording from summer 2008. This is different from her studio albums - her voice is modest in expression and she concentrates on the performance of drone, developing a psychedelic sound, both organic and hypnotic. Sachiko also performs with the meditation drone unit 'Tangerine Dream Syndicate' (lead by Fumio Kosakai), the shamanic duo Vava Kitora and other projects. Outsize gatefold sleeve. [Cold Spring]
Sadkarma -- "Solis E.P." -- CD-R -- €6
2005 Onyxia, onyx004
SadKarma is the phenomenon of the experience of pleasure, through the perception of balance and proportion of stimulus. It involves the cognition of a balanced form and structure that elicits attraction and appeal towards a person or an inanimate object. SadKarma is the bedlam of organic ambience with decoration & fluctuation in its purest form. The frames of the music bear fragments from certain eras of artists like Swans and Coil but the painting itself has drifting textures far more beautiful. [press-release]
Sadogipnoz -- "Old Structures - Mythological reason" -- CD-R -- €8
2002 8th Moon Art, 8M17, (ltd. 84)
The most outstanding Sadogipnoz release. Sound-constructing in vein of Brume and Muslimgauze. Ethnic percussion, noises, pieces of speech, distorted melodies, strange machine rhythms. Handmade green-paper art package.
Saint Street -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 No Part Of It
One more project from Arvo Zylo (Mister Fuckhead). Digital harsh noise work from 2003 - 2010, in some cases written before a formal introduction to harsh noise was made, out of explorations with failure at making structured electronic music. More musical elements than a usual harsh noise release can be expected. Pro shrink wrapped CDR. [label info]
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Sal Solaris -- "Der Ruf" -- CD -- €11
2006 Der Angriff, Nr. 28, (ltd. 500)
After around five years since the first Sal Solaris album "Outerpretation Of Dreams" has been released on Hau Ruck!, Der Angriff and Indiestate are proud to present the second CD of this great Russian industrial formation. The music of Sal Solaris could be labelled as "power ambient" - being profound and deep, without obvious rhythms or harsh noise patterns, it has no soothing meditative effect, but it is powerful and moving instead. The closest comparisons are Reutoff, Stalnoy Pakt or early Loki stuff, e.g. Dagda Mor. This album is a compilation of nearly all of the tracks that have been released by the band on various EPs and compilations through the years of project's existence. It includes their contributions for "Ten Years Of Madness" 2CD, "Heilige Feuer I" CD/LP, "Avangardia" CD, "Eternal Soul" box and "Holy Mother Russia" LP compilations, as well as the complete 10" EP "Remember" (Der Angriff, 2002) and two 2006 remixes for the tracks from their split 10" with Stahlwerk 9. Being scattered over numerous releases, these brilliant compositions were not able to bring the recognition that Sal Solaris really deserves, but collected together they demonstrate the real power and the obvious artistic talent of their creators. The real masterpiece, not to be missed! This CD comes in a cardboard full-colour envelope limited to 500 copies only. Total length is 77 min. [press-release]
Sala -- "Alas" -- CD-R -- €10
2003 Tantric Harmonies, TANTRA X5, (ltd. 230)
Sala is Lithuanian experimental post-industrial outfit. The music is very raw and savage. Five ambient / industrial percussive mantras. 45 mins. of ecstatic tribal beats, experimental textures and ritual ambience. All material was recorded live to bring you atmosphere of actual rituals and shaman practices into your living room. [label info]
Sala -- "En-Trance" -- CD -- €11
2005 Autarkeia, acd 008, (ltd. 500)
"En-trance" was recorded, but still wasn't released by the magic-practising artists almost a decade ago. This album compiles two lasting live-recorded tracks. Ritual pulsing, archaic sound of wind instruments, deep-dark ambient and surrealistic, unexpected music bends immersing the audience to the swirl of phantasmagoric moods. There are some movies classified as of the "noir" stylistics, the main feature of which is highly forcible and strong atmosphere. If the records also have the classification of the "noir", "En-trance" could be considered one of the most emphatic works of this style. Emotions generated by the "En-trance" music could be compared with the psychedelic atmosphere of the first albums of NWW, Hybryds. Interesting record and mystic ritual having sustained the challenge of social disregard during the years. [press-release]
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Sala Delle Colonne -- "XX.A.D" -- CD -- €13
2012 Cold Meat Industry, cmi208
In the gray Italian province of Alessandria lives the multi-talented MEHMET R. FRUGIS, also known for his project MEKHATE - 35 GRAMS. In 2006, the project SALA DELLE COLONNE was born with an obscure CD on the American label, Autumn Wind Production. In 2007 / 2008, for this new album, XX A.D., Mehmet R. Frugis completely changed musical references, taking inspiration from the majestic elements of classical compositions by Wagner, Sibelius and Mahler. And, by collaborating with the "Orchestra Aurora", his artistic output shifted to a contemporary style that embraces and integrates electronic sounds and samples. The result is a masterpiece of Neoclassical Martial music. [press-release]
Saltvind -- [Demo] -- CD-R -- €7
2007 Front Line Productions
Wonderful epic ambient from the banks of Neva. Slim-box. [YAOP]
Samhain -- "Violent Identity" -- CD -- €11
2006 Aliens Production, AP 13, (ltd. 550)
Dark noise / modern rhythmic industrial electronics from Slovakia.
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Samus -- "Desengano" -- CD -- €10
2002 Crucial Blast, BLAST12
"Desengano" is a surreal landscape of mutated freaked-rock comprised of lumbering sludge riffs that contort into tape/turntable manipulations amidst melodious keyboards and sustained guitar tones/drones. Ranging from the crushing droning doom-laden EARTH-esque guitar thud of "The Happy Sultan", and the bountiful melodies that playfully flow under the sugary electronica and plunderphonic jazz of "Super Orthopedic Caravan", to the expansive Ennio Morricone-influenced slide guitar ambience found in "Who's Pumping Estrada" and the wall reverbating drones and tape oscillating backwash that drifts into the no-wave dissonance of "Bone Ape Tit", SAMUS create a cohesive, multi dimensional soundtrack comprised of heavy duty psychedelia, avant-rock experimentalism, and opium-den cartoon soundtracks. [press-release]
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Sanfilippo, Bruno -- "Auralspace" -- CD -- €12
2009 AD21 Music, ad110
Sanfilippo, Bruno -- "InTRO" -- CD -- €12
2006 AD21music, ad107
From the start, InTRO sets a relaxing, reflective mood. Sanfilippo maintains a consistent mood, which means the CD makes an ideal sountrack for relaxing and thinking. Eno has suggested that ambient music must be listenable as well as ignorable, supporting various levels of attention, and the tracks on InTRO are excellent examples of this idea. Highlights of the CD include InTROpiano, which recalls Vangelis Memories of Green and the Brian Eno/Harold Budd classic, The Pearl; and InTROvoices, which uses wordless voice sounds to create a choral and even orchestral texture. InTRO is one of the finest ambient releases we've heard this year. [Synthtopia.com]
Sanfilippo, Bruno -- "Piano Textures" -- CD -- €12
2007 AD21 Music, ad108
'Piano Textures' is an introspective album which offers center stage for the processed sounds of a Grand old piano from 1923, accompanied by some synthesizers, duduk and samples of strings. All eight tracks have a more or less cinematic impact, their sounds tap from some kind of subconscious source, breathing a sense of melancholy that was also found in his former recordings... [Bert Strolenberg, E-dition magazine]
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Sanfilippo, Bruno -- "Piano Textures 2" -- CD -- €12
2009 AD21 Music, ad111
Sanfilippo, Bruno & Mathias Grassow -- "CROMO Piano & Drones" -- CD -- €12
2010 AD21 Music, ad112
Sangre Cavallum -- "Troadouro - Retrospectiva 1997-2007" -- 2 CD -- €16
2007 Folcastro, F 001
A worth hearing retrospective over 10 years, made from unreleased, rare and rough material. Troadouro contains 44 rare and collectable songs. It includes songs from 'Alborada do Douro', their debut tape of ritual folklore, and it follows with excerpts of rehearsals, demos, a live song with Michael Moynihan and Annabel Lee of Blood Axis, a home version of Wir rufen Deine Wolfe with Gerhard Hallstatt of Allerseelen and a lot of exciting unreleased songs in their unique style. The double digipack CD is released by FOLCASTRO, the new Portuguese label connected to Sangre Cavallum. This new folklorist and field collector label researches in the area of ethnomusicology and lore along with the new paths of folk music. But its work goes beyond the purely musical level. It will release field recordings, soundscapes, bioacoustics, bruitage, audio art illustrations and phonographic documents about traditions and environment from northern Portugal, Galiza and other ethnic regions of Iberia and Europe. An expedition to the world of pagan tradition with a contemporary interpretation. A clear co-operation with the Alpen song hunters of Ahnstern. [press-release]
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Sangre Cavallum -- "Veleno De Teixo" -- CD -- €14
2007 Ahnstern, Ahnstern28
The northern Portuguese Sangre Cavallum return with a new and outstanding folk album. It is titled 'Veleno de Teixo' meaning Yew Poison and it is a collection of tributes to women and to the cult of mother-goddess in pre-Christian era. "Veleno de Teixo" contains a brand-new set of 16 powerful songs between pagan folk and power-psych atmospheres. Inspired by the music and ethnography of their homeland Callaecia/northern Portugal. It is laboriously produced, capturing the revolutionary minds of these musicians. Among many traditional instruments they play the hurdy-gurdy, bagpipes, flutes, folkloric guitars, war-drums and many times these acoustic instruments are transformed with heavy distortions and meet the psychedelic bass and vintage guitars. It also features the new singer Emanuel Melo da Cunha on a fine debut. "Veleno de Teixo" is a step forward in their wonderful path and a pleasing example of how tradition is a living thing when folklore meets folk rock or dark industrial music. Includes great artwork and a 16 page booklet with psych-photo art and beautiful texts. 63 min. / 16 tracks. [press-release]
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santAAgostino -- "La Morte Marcia Sui Terreni K" -- CD -- €10
2008 Inner Gravity Records, IGR 005
Italian trio Santa Agostino have been around since 2005. "La Morte..." tells of noises from beyond the grave, playing the journey of no return from the death phase - and the return of those who are reborn more rotten and foul than before. A mix of noise drone and glitch, in the typical vein of Raster Noton and Mego, with moments of musique concrete. "Threshold field recording... minimalist, futurist sound architecture". [Cold Spring]
santAAgostino -- "Operazione Paura" -- CD -- €10
2010 Greytone, grey002
SantAAgostino tell of the Noises from Beyond the Gate. SantAAgostino play the Journey of No Return from the Death Phase. SantAAgostino sing the Dark Zone of those who met the pain-soaked Demiurge and came back to Earth without forgiveness for their sins. SantAAgostino write about the laments and the looks of those who saw beyond the coma and came back. SantAAgostino feel the return of those who died and are reborn more rotten and foul than before. Operazione Paura is a tribute to music and cosmos energy: the same energy that santAAgostino trio was permeated with during the opus and the esecution of the pieces. Operazione Paura is a total turning not just for the band but for dark, ambient music and noise, generally speaking. That's because santAAgostino is like a meteor crashed onto the Earth disarranging all the balances, rhythmes and cycles. After the crash the planet seems to be perished but, in the inner part, the new fire of life is burning. A brand new energy developed in a new way of living, of thinking and being. Operazione Paura speaks of the filmic and horrorific fear, mind trap 'to kill' atavistic thoughts and all those mental factors that trapped the man into a selfmade cage in his own mind, through the mind itself. Operazione Paura is an awl that, slowly but inexorably, drives the listener to a dimension where there is no thought, no images, no more conceptualizing, nothing still exhists: there is just a huge solitary desert now, where sounds spontaneously flow creating new monster beyond space and time. It's a place where new divine dynasties born, spreading their seed, in order to bear a brand new reign far from the borders that we can't even imagine. [press-release]
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Sasajima, Hiroki -- "Far East" -- CD -- €10
2010 Semperflorens, sf04, (ltd. 500)
Far east is composed by two different parts. First of all, it hear to a metal, plastic, and several kinds of artificial concrete sounds from an inorganic drone and the noise. Next, it is a soundscape with some organic unprocessed materials. Each different sound material is corresponding as a delicate and meditative tracks. "Far east" will unite the separated different sense at another angle. [Hiroki Sasajima]
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Satanismo Calibro 9 -- "Orgasmurder" -- CD -- €12
2011 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 150
SATANISMO CALIBRO 9 cd 'Orgasmurder' has been produced conjuring Vau-Ael in order to give you visions of violent pleasures and extreme knowledge. SATANISMO CALIBRO 9 gives birth to its most morbid, solemn and visionary recording, a maelstrom in front of which your staring eyes will find Wisdom and Hell. Infernal Industial for lovers of MZ.412. [label info]
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Satori -- "Contemptus Mundi" -- CD -- €11
2008 Cold Spring Records, CSR113CD
Brand new CD from UK Dark Ambient / Fortean Electronics act Satori - Neil Chaney (Pessary) and Justin Mitchell (Cold Spring boss). This is a collaboration between Satori and Magus Peter H Gilmore, High Priest of the Church Of Satan. Satori provide their trademark deep, underground, pounding electronics, here with a ritualistic dark soundtrack atmosphere, while Gilmore bestows a seething tirade against the weakness of the modern world! Two 20+ minute tracks, the 2nd being a deeper, instrumental mix of the title track. [press-release]
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Saturn Form Essence -- "Remembrances Of Space" -- CD-R -- €8
2011 self-released, (ltd. 20)
Icy Space Dark Ambient. Visions of space with invasions of separate aggressive noises. Packed in folded A3 poster with 2 photo-inserts. [YAOP]
Savenko, Evgeny & Matveev, Sergej -- "17 06 2002" -- CD-R -- €8
2003 8th Moon Art, 8M22, (ltd. 68)
Handmade cardboard sleeve with childlike abstract patterns of colour cardboard scraps, all information written by hand. Live performance in GES-21 - processed and natural interference of vinyl plates, constructed in odd hypnotic athmosphere.
Scala, Stefano -- "Il Tempo del Sogno" -- CD -- €13
2006 Hic Sunt Leones, HSL 035
Stefano Scala is a researcer and musician with a great experience in antropology and ethnic instruments that collected all over the world. The Italian project Nihm by Giuseppe Verticchio collaborate in some track with didjeridoo, voices and tapes. [label info]
Scala, Stefano -- "Impermanence" -- CD -- €13
2008 Hic Sunt Leones, HSL 044
Schadenfreunde -- "Civilization" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Sewer Records, SEWER 032
Obscure measured heavy death industrial between Brighter Death Now, Anenzephalia and Genocide Organ. Last track is based on a text by Oswald Spengler. Rough black and white artwork. [YAOP info]
Schistosoma -- "Moment" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
Malachit, m 008, (ltd. 121)
New music with echoes of their old sounds. 7 electro tracks with acoustic accents. Excellent rhythms. Delicate smell of ethno includes little notes of Orient. [label info]
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Schloss Tegal -- "The Myth of Meat" -- CD -- €10
Waystyx, WR07, (ltd. 330)
This time Czech-based project paid their attention to the phenomenon of pleasure from torture and violence, psychopathology quite widespread nowadays. This theme is usually utilized by power electronics projects of American school, but here the approach is completely different. Well thought-out compositions in death industrial vein, eerie samples and dismal atmosphere. When recording this album musicians used such instruments as cleaver, mallet, knives, grinder and hand saw. The release is packed in exclusive black paper case with red bond and booklet.
Schnitzler, Conrad -- "Windvogel" -- CD -- €16
2009 Waystyx, WR44
Conrad Schnitzler is a genuine legend in the krautrock and electronic music worlds. Schnitzler studied under Joseph Beuys before joining an early Tangerine Dream. Their first album Electronic Meditation shows a band highly influenced by Schnitzler's unique, singular approach. Schnitzler left Tangerine Dream to form Kluster with friends Dieter Moebius and Hans Joachim Roedelius. When Schnitzler left Kluster they changed their name to Cluster eventually merging with Michael Rother (of Neu!) to form Harmonia, a group who Brian Eno once called the most important rock group on the planet. Schnitzler also founded Eruption in 1970 along with Klaus Schultz, Manuel Gottsching (Ash Ra Tempel), and Klaus Freudigmann... Looking back at Conrad Schnitzler's career it becomes obvious that he was an architecht who helped draw the blueprints for some very significant musical movements. Perhaps overlooked, or at least desperately underappreciated, it hasn't slowed Schnitzler down. Since leaving Kluster Conrad Schnitzler has composed dillegently for electronics and piano. Now located in Dallgow Germany he continues to accumulate equiptment and recordings of what he says is 'cold, hard electonic sound.' [Important Records info] Comes is a blue/white fold-out gimmick "kite" cover.
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Screening -- "Low End" -- CD -- €9
2004 Maor Appelbaum Productions, MAP001
One-man project from Israel uses only bass-guitar heavily processed by various effects to create strange shapeless atmospheric music, which style is somewhere between dark-ambient and electroacoustic.
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Screwtape -- "S&M E.P." -- 3"CD-R -- €5
2011 Iceage Productions, ICE005, (ltd. 50)
Screwtape is the noise project of Melbourne sound artist Andrew McIntosh. The S&M E.P. is one track, 18 minutes and 10 seconds of stereo generated feedback. The track is underpinned with a sample taken from a corporate motivational speech called S&M. [label info]
Seamus -- "Forever" -- CD -- €10
2005 Silentes, cd 200506
On the wing of a new chapter in Amir Baghiri and Stefano Gentile's musical career the SEAMUS carries us to their latest sounds-statement to the mystical side of our industrial world. Refined and elegant electronic music, discreet rhythmical and pleasant movements, blended to cosmic-ambiental suspended sonic landascapes, bass lines, sequencers parts, voices, radio meddles, ambient distant noises, whispers, soft melodic elements... A moving and variegated sonic trip around a limitless electronic universe. [label info]
Secret Druid Society -- "Building The Hell" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Black Drone, BDRL001, (ltd. 40)
A debut mini-album by an Australian dark/drone ambient project Secret Druid Society. The release is built on the contrasts of different styles of music, mixing together ethnic melodies, orchestral passages and dark ambient backgrounds. It begins with a light ethnic-influenced "Empty Fields", continuing with a melancholic dark ambient part featuring "Violence And Sorrow" - a contrast composition with classic motives, abstract and haunting "Building The Hell", and ritualistic "Sacrifice". The album is concluded with, again, an ethnic improvisation " When my koto is alone..." Koto is a wonderfully sounding japanese traditional string instrument. [press-release]
Seele -- "Berlin + Remix Project" -- 2 CD -- €10
2005 Silentes, 200404b, (ltd. 300)
Project by Amir Baghiri and Stefano Gentile. Techno-noise and deep ambient... industrial sounds and triphop... This album is simply our postcard from Berlin... heart and soul. And take note also about Seele remix project on www.amirbaghiri.de. A limited edition of this album comes with a extra CD with a couple of mix and some loops that you will can use for create you own remix of this music. Also a ghost track is included. [label info]
Seelenthron / Traum'er Leben / Trinithos -- "III" -- CD -- €14
2008 Heimatfolk, HF 02
"III" is a 3-way split album by the classic German NeoFolk bands SEELENTHRON, TRAUM'ER LEBEN and TRINITHOS. On this album each band interprets their favourite songs by the other 2 bands + one own new song by each artist. the finale of "III" is a bonus track by Alexander Meier (Seelenthron) - a fantastic, neoclassical coverversion of a Soulsearch/Sturmpercht song. The 3 bands are well known and highly recommended in the German NeoFolk scene, as they are all fantastic musicians and great live-artists. Seelenthron and Traum'er Leben have already released several outstanding albums, but for Trinithos "III" is the debut-release (beside some very limited CDR releases). The first album by Trinithos comes in early may 2008 on HEIMATFOLK. [press-release]
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Seetyca -- "Bleakscapes" -- CD -- €10
2011 Essentia Mundi, EM018, (ltd. 300)
Everyone into dark ambient should be already familiar with Seetyca project from Germany. Bleakscapes full-length is an incredible dark journey, it consists in 77 minutes of drones, minimal dark ambient sound pleasures for the ear and mind. Bleakscapes was conceived and recorded in winter and spring 2010 @ mbira v.06. Seetyca plays e-maschinen, samplers, bells, flutes. Artin Mucht plays synth. Etheocles Stevens provides voices & string samples, recorded with the Oregon Origo string quartet. Mixed and Mastered by Seetyca & Artin Mucht. Additional artwork and final mastering by C. [label info]
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Sehnsucht -- "Wuste" -- CD -- €11
2010 Cold Spring, CSR128CD
Former MAYHEM front man MANIAC, whose band SKITLIV has proved to be a surprising departure from the Black Metal genre for which he was best known for over 20 years, has formed a side-project with fiance' Vivian Slaughter, bass player/vocalist with the Japanese all-girl band GALLHAMMER, SKITLIV's guitarist Ingvar Magnusson and experimentalist Andrew Liles (NURSE WITH WOUND). Unlike SKITLIV, which is a noise/doom amalgam, with Maniacs vocals still firmly rooted in Black Metal, SEHNSUCHT is in the noise / darkwave / ambient genre, with any vestiges of Black Metal pared away. Presented in a 6-panel digipak. [press release]
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Seism -- "From Station to Station" -- CD-R -- €7
Smell The Stench
This Canadian musician putting out huge amount of releases loves shortwave radio and field recordings which form the basis for this album. Fine chopping of ether and frequency chaos. Sometimes resembles Sadogipnoz from St. Petersburg, Russia. [Abgurd description]
Sektor 304 -- "Soul Cleansing" -- CD -- €10
2009 Malignant Records, TUMOR CD43
Equipped with a frightening and impressive array of primitive instrumentation pulled from junkyards and scrap metal heaps, this Portuguese outfit has delivered an astounding formal debut - a heady mixture of truly old school industrial in the vein of Einsturzende Neubauten, Test Dept, and S.P.K., and the grinding, bass heavy dirge of vintage Swans and Godflesh. These are anthems to the past, but geared towards an apocalyptic and bleak future: a form of counter-culture using what is most evident in modern western society: the debris, the abandoned objects, the waste, the noise, and the interference... With a solid foundation of rusty, oil drenched percussion, Sektor 304 adds layer upon layer of squalling industrial clangor, hammering metallic noise, grimy atmospheres, heaving masses of haunted factory drones, and threatening tribal batter, with a strong and commanding vocal presence. The sound here is almost physical in nature - provocative, persistent, and demanding. No one is doing what Sektor 304 is doing right now. Anyone into TRUE industrial (and that includes not just the aformentioned old guard, but also things like Strom.ec, Militia, Negru Voda, and Knifeladder) really should not miss out. In 6 panel digipak, mastered by Steel Hook Audio. [press-release]
Sektor 304 -- "Subliminal Actions" -- CD -- €10
2011 Malignant Records, TUMORCD53
The follow-up to the highly acclaimed Soul Cleansing CD finds Portugals Sektor 304 expanding on all aspects of their debut, once again channeling the essence of the old school guardians (Test Dept, SPK, Crash Worship), while simultaneously exploring new, uncharted territory. Comparatively speaking, Subliminal Actions is a more complete and focused album, with an even better flow than Soul Cleansing and more attention paid to detail, unleashing a cacophonic whirlwind of buzz saw grind, loops, power tools, and scraping, junk metal debris, clashing head on with exertive tribal percussion, clanging oil barrel rhythms, and industrial clamor resonating over a sprawling, post- apocalyptic wasteland. Some tracks, such as the opener, 'A Carving on Metallic Flesh', heap on the scorching noise, while others, such as the resounding, rhythmic driven 'By The Throat', 'A Vessel of Guilt', or 'Vultures' are delivered with factory-line precision, laced with grimy layers of bass-heavy dirge, bleak, reverbed squall, and distortion filled, atmospheric drone. Among the many highlights, is the albums closer, 'A Prismatic Sun', a 10 + minute epic excursion into a nightmarish world, populated by whispered vocals and uneasy drift that slowly rises and grows in intensity, climaxing into a blissfully dark and sweaty orgy of low slung bass, ominous, ceremonial drumming, and suffocating darkness... Subliminal Action not only compliments Soul Cleansing, but takes the Sektor 304 sound to new heights, delivering yet striking record sure to solidify their standing as one of premier, truly industrial acts in operation today... 10 tracks, totaling 63 minutes, in 6 panel digipak, mastered by James Plotkin. [press-release]
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Sektor X -- "Rzeczywistosc" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Sickcore, SC-18, (ltd. 100)
Power Electronics / Noise.
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Sekvens -- "Requiem for Analogue TV-Signals" -- CD-R -- €6
2006 Zeromoon, Consume Buy 2006 series
"At the end of 2005, after 50 years of broadcasting, the swedish government decided to shut down the analogue television network to make way for the digital future. This recording is based on one of the last transmissions." One 20-min. track of droning ambient atmosphere built from TV-tuning signals and noise. Released in "Consume Buy 2006" series by American Zeromoon label available for sale only in 2006.
Sempervirens -- "Dirge of the Dying Year" -- CD-R -- €12
2008 Stellar Auditorium, NAD-AUD001, (ltd. 300)
Soundscape / Minimalism.
Seplophobia / Post-Mortem Junkie -- "split" -- CD-R -- €7
Rokot, [RKT-02], (ltd. 76)
Horror Noise masterpiece by two sovereigns of death pulsations, dehydrating distortions and blackened twinkles. Post-Mortem Junkie is a project of horrendous Ryan Oppermann of Redrot, Klinikal Skum, Neuntoter der Plage, Xombie, etc. Previously released as the limited to 50 copies cassette through musicians own labels STOP/EJECT and Skeletone. [label info]
Seppuku Boogie -- "Cafe Deutschland / Live In Samoa" -- 2 CD-R -- €11
2006 Tosom, TOSOM 024, (ltd. 150)
The project of neofolk band Tscheljabinsk65 oriented towards ambient. Drifting psychedelic music floating like many-colored waves in sunny ocean. "Live In Samoa" was of course recorded in Europe, but the mood and contents do match the title. Minimalistic artwork. [YAOP]
2003 AFE Records, afe054cd
Partly inpired by Fleur Jaeggy's "I Beati Anni del Castigo / Sweet Days of Discipline", "Le Spectre de la Rose" tells the imaginary story of a thirteen years old girl, her vision of the world, her many dreams and nightmares, hope and fears. The music has obviously a cinematic quality, as it often happened in other Raffaele Serra's works. His usual references appear each now and then all over the disc: the santur on Fog and Dark Interlude, the Kraftwerk-inspired sequencer lines on She Who Laughs, the mantric melodies on Dreaming Escape and the long final Night Flight. [label info]
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Serra, Raffaele -- "Disappearing Music" -- CD-R -- €9
2000 Afe Records, afe010cd
First chapter in the "Cinema for the Ears" serie". Analogic synths and treated tapes lead through a real cinematic experience. [label info]
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Serra, Raffaele -- "Europe Endless" -- CD-R -- €9
2002 Afe Records, afe045cd
Raffaele Serra has been wandering through analogic synthesis for many years, then came digital synthesis and analogic machines were out of fashion... then they rised again from oblivion for the joy of the ones who never forgot about them, including Raffaele. Now it's time for him to search for new directions in sound and the most adventurous way seems to be soft-synthesis. A joyful sparkle appears again in the eye of the electronic shaman. "Europe Endless" tries to describe in music the atmospheres and movements of some of the most particular and meaningful european cities. Just like in a urban late night-trip all tracks are surrounded by some kind of a mantric halo, a soft circle of light that keeps turning on itself over and over again. This music demands repetition to generate and keep the appropriate state of mind. The listener should not try to resist it, just let it flow. Endlessly. [press-release]
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Serra, Raffaele -- "Holographic Soundscapes" -- CD-R -- €9
2000 Afe Records, afe018cd
All the tracks on this release were composed, performed and recorded by Raffaele Serra in Winter 1999 at mekon Studio. In these 20 tracks we find Raffaele shifting around beats and rhythmic textures, and what a nice surprise it is! [label info]
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Serra, Raffaele -- "Hypnagogic Algorithms" -- CD-R -- €9
2001 Afe Records, afe034cd
A new chapter in the ever growing "Cinema for the Ears" serie. This time Raffaele's trademark synthesizers overcome the concrete elements and transform his compositions in pure electronic delights. In between tracks filled with tension and reiteration we also discover some pleasant melodic moments and in the last track the old pioneer pays his sincere homage to the new electronic generations. As usual, all the tracks on this release were composed, performed and recorded by Raffaele Serra in Summer 2001 at Mekon Studio. [press-release]
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Serra, Raffaele -- "Molecular Memory" -- CD-R -- €9
2001 Afe Records, afe020cd
Here at last we have the third chapter in Raffaele Serra's "Cinema For The Ears" serie. Sound sources include rare field recordings taken in Tibet and India along with Raffaele's trademark analogic synthesizers. All the tracks on this CD-R were composed, performed and recorded by Raffaele Serra in late 2000 at Mekon Studio. [label info]
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Serra, Raffaele / Marutti, Andrea / Atto -- "Frontiere" -- CD-R -- €9
2001 Afe Records, afe021lcd, (ltd. 100)
In September 2000 Raffaele Serra and Andrea Marutti were invited to play a live concert in Milan at the "Frontiere" multimedia happening. This was one of the extremely rare public apparitions of Raffaele Serra and this is the reason why the concert was so important. During the performance, Atto, a famous italian videomaker, joined them on stage to feed the audience with live videos sourced from his powerbook. In such occasion they performed a mixture of ambient / analogic textures along with some more beat-oriented tracks thrown in for good measure. [press-release]
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Service Special -- "Nord" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Steelkraft Manufactory, SKM04, (ltd. 100)
Service Special is the solo project of Sebastien Schmit (member of K-branding). NORD is the second full-length CD of Service Special. In this record you can find twelve tracks of rhythmic, darkly melodic synth, minimal electronics with haunting female & male vocals. [label info]
Severin, Steven -- "Blood Of A Poet (Le Sang D'Un Poete)" -- CD -- €10
2010 Cold Spring, CSR135CD
Acclaimed solo artist and founding member of the legendary Siouxsie and the Banshees, Steven Severin's debut album for Cold Spring Records is titled "Blood Of A Poet (Le Sang d'un Poete). This album is his entire soundtrack to Jean Cocteau's 1930 black & white surrealist classic and is the second in his ongoing series of "Music For Silents". "Blood Of A Poet" received it's premiere at the Silent Movie Theater in Hollywood in January this year and this October sees Severin embark on his first ever solo tour of the UK hosted by the Picturehouse chain of cinemas. Digipak. [press-release]
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Sewer Goddess -- "With Dirt You Are One" -- CD -- €10
2010 Black Plagve, infect06, (ltd. 500)
Following numerous cassette and vinyl releases, With Dirt You Are One represents the first formal CD release from this Boston based cult project and officially kicks off the return of Malignant side label, Black Plagve. Expect 9 tracks of wretched, filth ridden, post mortem electronics, spewing forth a barrage of unclean frequencies, skuzzy reverberations, blackened drones, and anguished, inhuman vocalizations. Filled with negativity and dread, this is a hellishly grim and visceral assault, and essential listening for anyone into the darker, more depraved side of heavy electronics. [press release]
Sghor -- "Le Grand Mystere" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Beast Of Prey / Snowy Tension Pole, STP-001, (ltd. 100)
New release in Colaboration Beast Of Prey, Polish projekt of dark ambient with very dark, black and eternal sounds. "Le Grand Mystere" = 70 min album. "...Black, cold, the surrounding space. Without sound, without a bit of breath. Somewhere far away beyond the borders of the senses, outs of time, you can hear hopelessly long cries, sad, never-ending monotonous song of emptiness. Emptiness fills everything. Even hearts so far full of life now are dead. All overflows undescribed sorrow, starting off where everything was beginning. Amazing black, deep unlimited black. Darkness nothing more, there is no light. Far flare of perspective changes driven every day. The hours, days, months, years are irrelevant. Waiting gradually turned into the reluctance, the reluctance into sadness, sadness into pain. Far strenuous pain, of all colours of grey - the colour black. ..." [press-release]
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Sgnl_fltr -- "Exhalo" -- CD-R -- €9
2008 Databloem, DBCD 08020
Danny Kreutzfeldt is a versatile and praised artist, who has been doing a lot of styles under various names for years, and certainly shouldn't be a new name to people familiar with Databloem. Exhalo is his third album as Sgnl_fltr on Databloem and as with the others, it's packed with deep grooves, dense atmospheres and refined effects. This time around, the amount of genres mixed together is staggering, with warm ambient, cold techno, abstract electronica and gritty soundscapes seamlessly flowing together during the course of the album. [label info]
Sgnl_fltr -- "Vebra" -- CD -- €10
2004 Databloem, DBCD 010
Glitchy ambient-techno from Danny Kreutzfeldt releasing under his alternate name. If you like ambient/experimental with a down-tempo attitude then you just cannot go wrong. Each track is an experiment, a blank canvas to which a sonic abstract painting is applied. [label info]
Shadow Theatre -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 T'an! Kaven!! Ash!!!, Ash!!! 022, (ltd. 150)
Noise | Power Electronics. Shadow Theater is an acknowledged power noise project from Germany created as a result of collaboration between Flutwacht and Vincenzo Bossi. This is a record of live show of Shadow Theater performed at Kramladen, Kaiserslautern, Germany on 08/04/07. Special shadow theater (light and shadow) performance of noise/power electronics project Shadow Theater took place in Germany in Spring 2007 and here is the record of this mystified action... Noises, machines, synths, manipulations, vocals and visuals... [label info]
Shadow Theatre -- "Siona" -- CD-R -- €7
2006 T'an! Kaven!! Ash!!!, Ash!!!006, (ltd. 150)
Conceptual album of Shadow Theatre, a fusion of two German acts Flutwacht and Vincenzo Bossi. The album was performed and recorded live without audience in 2005-2006. 9 powerful tracks evoking anxious and bleak atmosphere expressed through distorted vocals and noise attacks alternated with impressive harsh industrial sounds and power electronics and mixed with samples and quiet ambient passages. [label info]
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Sharps Injury -- "I Told My Girlfriend This Was A 12"" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2004 Mechanoise Labs, [mn023], (ltd. 100)
Great rhythmical noise with plenty of melodic parts, synth lines and big variety of multifarious tones roaming between skilful programmed distorted beats.
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Shebuzzz -- "Distant Distances" -- CD-R -- €7
2011 InterioRepertoR, IR07
The album by Moldovian musician Jurij Sophijsky combines fluent ambiental and rhythmical elements. The music unobtrusively unfolds in long contemplative compositions containing of mild spacey drones, measured rhythms and sometimes plangent guitar riffs...
Shebuzzz -- "White Noise" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT42, (ltd. 82)
A mini-album of the electronic project from Moldova. Bright mysterious ambient, positive and cosmic. Fill-colour sleeve. [label info]
Shedding -- "What God Doesn't Bless, You Won't Love; What You Don't Love, The Child Won't Know" -- CD -- €13
2006 Hometapes, HT015
Shift -- "Bulk" -- CD -- €10
2009 Silken Tofu, stx.10 / Unrest Productions, UNPRCD05, (ltd. 350)
After several tape, cdr and vinyl-releases, 'Bulk' is the 2nd cd-release for Shift and a somewhat different sounding disc in shift's discography, because of its harsh and monotonous approach. Some thoughts about the album: 'This is the material that is suitable to feel with gut wrecking volume in live situation. cranium crushing!' - Pasi Markkula (Bizarre Uproar). 'Slowest shifting sounds of fuzzy static rattle, monotonic synth droning and pulsing, with massive tracks of very little happening. It's as monumental as the cover design, featuring a monstrous concrete center. Grey and still. Designed to certain rough elegance, but not pretty : When you sit down to investigate the layers of sound and subtle details of crackling fuzz distortion, you start to notice all kinds of hidden patterns behind the 'wall', and subtance becomes more audible than in something that's mere pedal distortion with no additional information to consume.' - Mikko Aspa (Grunt / Freak Animal). Or as one Unrest employee described it: 'Like planets burning down or the day ten million tons of filthy black shit rained down on the heads of a beaten species'. [press-release]
Shinjuku Filth -- "Raised By Wolves" -- CD -- €13
1997 Iridium, Ir 193.6, (ltd. 1000)
The author himself calls the style of Shinjuku Filth dance-industrial. Most of the tracks contain industrial-noise background, looped and distorted samples and quite harsh rhythm enriched by some ambient fragments. As a whole the album sounds quite cinematic, even resembling Hollywood style. [YAOP]
Shoemaker, Matt -- "Spots in the Sun" -- CD -- €11
2007 Helen Scarsdale Agency, HMS 010, (ltd. 400)
Spots in the Sun is a grotesque, sonic landscape with details exaggerated out of proportion and narratives folded upon themselves in a magnificent abstraction of electro-acoustics, rarified field recordings, and particulate matter plucked from ether. Shoemaker works in monochrome, shaping his gray tonalities into rhizomes of shadow which occasionally erupt in brilliance of hyper-realized clarity. While the familiar sounds of encircling birds, turbulent weather, and temple bells litter Shoemaker's recordings, the sonic topography describes a vulgar and hostile landscape where fits of delirium and circadian arrhythmia are common human responses. Shoemaker achieves these complex metaphors through labyrinthine drones spiralling through irradiated fog and glassine vibrations, punctured by the scars of a landscape in perpetual revolt. In many ways, Shoemaker's Spots in the Sun could be mistaken for Bernard Parmegiani at his most focused or even John Duncan at his most gracefully brutal... [label info]
Showers -- "Lepers, Lions, Cowards, Cunts" -- CD-R -- €7
Ignorant Gore Records, #1
Damaged and fuzzed out to the max, there is more than a little Harry Pussy in the Showers. But please don't mistake their music for that of a tribute band, as a rock foundation is even more prevalent in their music than that of the aforementioned. Five songs crunch and rumble by in a little over eight minutes. This disc will leave you stoked, confused, and checking your speakers to make sure they are not broken. Absolutely fantastic stuff from this new Providence band. [indieworkshop.com]
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Shyopot Run -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Valgriind, VG 03, (ltd. 50)
Mysterious Russian acoustic neofolk. This acoustic project uses such native instruments as pipe, balalaika and other. Beautiful guitar playing and wonderful female voice. Like a wind playing with leaves in a spring forest... No doubt, one of the most talented representatives of this style in Russia. A project of the members of NSBM-band M8l8th. Slim-box with a birch bark insert. [YAOP]
SicNoise -- "The Double Experience" -- CD -- €11
2010 OPN Records, OPNCD0012 / La Nouvelle Audience, LNA-E-002
Walter Norman (MTC) and Botchan Karisen (Babylone Chaos) met at the end of the 90's in Nice (South of France) when they started working on different musical projects. In 2000, they created a musical concept and project called SicNoise. A first album, "No Longer Human", was released in January 2002 on the Cut-Up Factory Cd-r label (it was re-released in 2007 on A.B.100). Then, at the end of 2002, a total silence arose. It wasn't a stand-by, nor a split up. It was just silence. The two members met again by chance in December 2006 with no reformation mentioned. A few months passed by and the creative process started again. Between Nice, Dijon and Paris, new tracks were forged, deformed and then evolved towards the doppelganger! At the end of summer 2009, their new album, 'The Double Experience', was complete. Finding the name of the album seemed obvious, a bit like the creation of SicNoise. [press-release]
Sigillum S -- "23/20" -- CD -- €10
2007 Verba Corrige Productions, VCP009
"More than ever, fringe culture methods and cutting edge acoustic science mate for the generations of endless layers and bursts of sonic pleasure: voices and drones clans across plans and peaks, fishing for universal tremors and sensorial catastrophes. Iconic translations of lost symbols flow like pathogenic lava into temporal sequence and weather forecasts become performances for alien audiences." The 20th anniversary album from post-industrial noise alchemists SIGILLUM S, "23/20", features (together with the original line up of Eraldo Bernocchi, P.NG5361.Bandera and Luca Di Giorgio) sound contributions from long time collaborators and friends, such as Bill Laswell, Toshinori Kondo, Professor Shebab, SH Fernando / WordSound, Martino Nicoletti, Lorenzo Esposito Fornasari, ZU, Xabier Iriondo, Ephel Duath, Karyn Crisis and various members of the same band, Mark Solotroff, Thomas Fehlmann, Gudrun Gut, Andrea Marutti, Claudio Agostoni and many others. [press release]
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Sikhara -- "Bardos State" -- CD -- €10
2006 URCK Records, URCK2020
The tribal percussion project of Scott Nydegger has performed over the 300 concerts in 26 countries. The project has always existed in a constant state of motion, touring and living in a nomadic way that has come to define it. In 2003, Sikhara began a self-imposed exile in Europe and fortified the line-up with French drummer Yann Geoffriaud most know for his work with the famed French power-violence unit George Bitch Jr. Sikhara also has many sattelite projects, including backing Iggy and the Stooges sax-wielder Steve Mackay and regularly appearing with ex-Can front man Damo Suzuki. They are a core band in The Radon Collective, an international community of touring experimental artists. Bardos State is Sikhara's 2nd release recorded on three continents and released by Radon, Soopa and Urck Records. [press-release]
Sil Muir -- "s/t" -- CD -- €10
2009 Diophantine Discs, n = 22, (ltd. 500)
Italy's Sil Muir presents to us here their first full-length work. It is a beautiful, yet melancholy, hour-long recording carrying us along that sleepless journey from dusk 'til dawn. Powerful and gentle drones shudder and shimmer through these four dense and amazing tracks. Sil Muir is the collaboration between Andrea Marutti (Amon, Never Known, Afe Records) and Andrea "Ics" Ferraris (Ur, Airchamber3, Ulna). Their only previous appearances are a lengthy compilation track on Transf.Order and a collaboration with Horchata on taalem... Housed in a custom printed color wallet. [press-release]
Silcharde -- "I Love... My Death" -- CD-R -- €7
Resistancia Underground, Resist 016, (ltd. 100)
70 minutes of Degenerated Sado Noise, if the AGHAST bitches had been raped by the Tetsuo's IRON MAN, they would have recorded this perverse piece of shit. CD-r coming in slim case with pro-laser-printed black/white cover, hand-numbered to 100 copies edition. [Misanthropic Propaganda]
Silence & Strength -- "Das Haus Zur Letzten Latern - A Tribute To Gustav Meyrink" -- CD -- €16
2009 HORUS CyclicDaemon, HCD 10, (ltd. 500)
Silence & Strength -- "Opus Paracelsum" -- CD -- €10
2006 The Eastern Front, Front 006, (ltd. 1000)
Second full-length esoteric dark ambient/alchemical experimental opus full of weird sounds composed by Silence & Strength. The album is inspired by life and works of Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, medieval Swiss physician, chemist, alchemist, one of the fathers of modern medicine and rebellious thinker, developed his own system of medicine and philosophy. All music by Stephan Friedman. [press-release]
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Silk Saw -- "Prestation" -- 3"CD -- €24
2006 Waystyx, WR23, (ltd. 100)
Silk Saw is belgian duo: Marc Medea and Gabriel Severin are also known for their side projects Jardin D'usure, Ultraphonist Ū Rob(u)Rang, and they never were doing the same thing twice. Their early works were released by Sub Rosa and still can be considered as best examples of experimental electronica, combining percussive minimalism, extensive exploration of sound textures with dramatic composition. Followed by CD albums on german Ant-Zen label, their approach became more relied on abstract beats charmed by ambient clouds and intricated arrangements. This new mini-album was released by Moscw-based Wystyx label in very limited edition of 100 numbered copies, and it combines all the previous features into one conceptual work. The crystal clear sound quality overrides irreproachably exact composition structure, this 3"CD should be the must for post-IDM fans. Besides the musical excellence, it also has exceptional packaging made of 60 years old rubber withdrawn from the secret industry resources. [Dmitry Vasilyev, "Independent Electronic Music"]
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Simply Wow! -- "Simply Woah! EP" -- 3"CD-R -- €5
2009 SUBliminalRECordings, no.203, (ltd. 25)
This project records on mobile phones and spreads out the rumors about themselves as if they were an Icelandic folk band which came to conquer America. 8-bit work combining trip-hop, industrial, folk and indie with quite noisy sound. [YAOP]
Simulacra -- "There Is A Fountain Filled With Blood" -- CD -- €10
2010 ConSouling Sounds, SOUL0009 / No Angels Productions, NAP-CD 012, (ltd. 500)
Degradation, degeneration, fear, sadness, loneliness, the end... these and many other negativities, "dressed in a dark ambient garment" can be felt in the new work of Simulacra. The five foggy pieces of work that overwhelm the listener with a feeling of a total solitariness while waiting for something that is not avoidable and can't be stopped create the musical whole. The sounds used in the new album of Simulacra are, as usual, the minimalist form of dark ambient, that emanates with hypnotic attraction. The main motif of the new album is a fountain filled with blood that symbolizes the source of death, the place we constantly head on in our gloomy existential pilgrimage. The atmosphere of the album grabs the listener's heart... to stop its beating with one grip. [press-release]
Simulacrum -- "Anti Matter Society" -- CD -- €10
2002 Weird Amplexus, WAX02, (ltd. 555)
A real surprise from Slovakia. After a couple of years from their debut cd on OLD EUROPA CAFE', SIMULACRUM returns with a real masterpiece of ritual ambient in vein of best COLD MEAT sound. A symphony that penetrates our souls for heading towards a desolate but incontaminated world. There isn't any possibility to thought... the only way is to leave himself... and leave the soul fly free... An absolute milestone. [label info]
Simulacrum -- "Upuaut" -- CD -- €10
Old Europa Cafe, OECD 069
3rdfull length albumby this great Slovakian project! "Upuaut" means in old Egyptian: "that (man), who opensa door", this album is less ambientthan the previous two, containinggreat tantric rythms (sometimes reminding to the best Rapoon...), many sampled voices & droning, mystic, hypnotic& sexual sounds... the perfect soundtrack for yourrituals. [label info]
Sink -- "The Process" -- CD -- €10
2008 Kaos Kontrol / Kult Of Nihilow, (ltd. 1000)
There is obscure and then there is Obscure. The difference is subtle, but when you hear Sink, you know the limit between obscure and Obscure has been surpassed. The Process is a beast that drags you below the surface and lets you gasp for air just enough to keep conscious and experience the horror. Monumental wall of sound built from demented vibrations, violent distortion, wailing feedback, reverberating clashes and almost choral (in)human voices echoing in your mind like amplified painful memories; and when the wall collapses, the undertow pulls you deeper into paranoid and disturbing surroundings filled with static drones, scorching electrical trills and gravely impressive Obscurity that defies mental health. You may never reach back to the surface: This is not a sludge record. This is not a drone record. This is not an experimental record. This is The Process. Released in co-operation by Kult of Nihilow and Kaos Kontrol. CD comes in special fold-out full colour carton sleeve. [press-release]
Sion Orgon -- "The Zsigmondy Experience" -- CD -- €10
2008 Lumberton Trading Company, LUMBCD009
The second album by Thighpaulsandra and Coil affiliate, once more gushing splendidly with so many universe-mulching ideas that it's difficult not to wonder what's floating around the air in his native Wales these days. From menacing near-ambience and the massive, punk 'n' Prog-bloated 'I'm in Blackout' to vocoded passages over the very same electronic insanity that's spewed out Stockhausen and Xenakis, there's much to wrestle with your mind's deepest and darkest corners here. Collaborators include Coil's Sleazy, Mike Edwards (Jesus Jones' singer), Frank Naughton (Rocketgoldstar and ex-Uziq) Gaz Williams (Rocketgoldstar), The Grangetown String Ensemble, The Chung Chinese Ensemble and many others. [press-release]
Siratori, Kenji -- "Digital Salvation" -- CD-R -- €7
Sick Arts Products, SAP 09, (ltd.100)
Already gained certain level of popularity, here's this Japanese writer & noisician with a portion of furious spoken word noise. 12 cyberpunk-mantras sounding like early Whitehouse only in Japanese language. [YAOP description]
Sirotek -- "And Came Out Under The Black Rain" -- CD-R -- €7
2011 Autizm, AUT-2, (ltd. 20)
Streams of blind uncontrollable forse, rushing through the night of everything... 37 minutes of yearning for symbolic, speaking the language of burning universe. Noise as a key to understand one's own personality, unstable, fluid, transient, woven from countless voices, not belonging to itself, but still in its extreme manifestations able to reach the level of asking the timeless... The album was recorded during autumnal harsh noise / industrial sessions in 2011 with the use of analogue synth Ritm-2 and feedback. Handmade 2-panel sleeve of white, silver and golden design paper with a poem and fragments of old photographs, CDr with prints. [press-release]
Sirotek -- "Gently" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2011 Autizm, AUT-1, (ltd. 25)
2 tracks, 14 minutes. "Gently" is built on an idea of combining trance guitar sludge with dense aggressive wall of noise textures and condensed vocals. Slowly starting "Unique death to unique life" evolves on a bridge of ritual drone and infernal crackles of tape field recordings, sharp metallic explosions and voice samples. Handmade sleeve of glossy dark red cardboard painted in oil. Insert with info. Mini CDr with acrylic fingerprints of the author. [press-release]
Sistema Bezopasnosti -- "Debitum Et Fides" -- 2 CD -- €12
2011 Heimdall Records
The new album of Sistema Bezopasnosti, one of the few currently active Russian dark folk bands. Their music is heroical and lyrical militaristic apocalyptic folk recorded by the canons of the genre: marching rhythms, acoustic guitar, bass, piano, trumpet and some amount of electronics. The band's style is easily recognizable by its lyrics and ecstatic vocals of the band's leader VlaD Doronin, and also by lush but thoroughly thoughtful musical arrangements. The songs sang in Russian language are dedicated both to the present-day themes of the dominance of non-spirituality, and to the timeless philosophical questions. Here's also some place for simple human feelings. The album also features a couple of nice instrumental tracks... The second CD contains the album "Cosmogony and Eschatology" (2008) previously not released on physical media. This opus is dedicated to the Scandinavian mythology and shows completely different side of the band, particularly it's skills in working with analogue electronic sound. Rich multilayered instrumental compositions, each of them like a trip with complete plot. This is not purely an ambient work, here is enough space for pompous battle scenes, electro ritual atmospheres and noisy moments... The album is released in a double digisleeve with an 8-page booklet containing lyrics and photos.
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Sistema Bezopasnosti -- "Magic Lamp of Osama ben Laden / Nina, Wendy, Anne..." -- CD-R -- €8
2011 SiBe Records / IL A VASH Records
Two albums (from 2004 and 2005) reissued on one disc. "Magic Lamp..." is a musical studies of Arab culture from the point of view of a Russian man. Flushed lyrical and ironic poetry of VlaD Doronin (in Russian language), acoustic and electric folk rock, sometimes turning into almost metal, and sampled ethnic tunes... "Nina, Wendy, Anne..." can be called an album dedicated to outstanding women (Wendy Williams, Anne Bonny, Nina Hagen) and feelings they arouse. Richly arranged sparkling cocktail of electronics, punk rock and folk - a real rock opera created by the professional story-teller VlaD Doronin. Full-colour sleeve + insert with lyrics.
Sistema Bezopasnosti -- "Swan Song" -- CD-R -- €5
2007 SiBe Records, SiBe-cd025
Russian group Sistema Bezopasnosti (which means "safety system") was formed in the beginning of 90-ies in Tumen', Siberia, and was playing in one line with other Siberian rock-bands like Grazhdanskaya Oborona, Instruktsiya Po Vyzhivaniyu, Kuzya UO, and others. However the band leader's passion for folklore, mysticism and other esoteric thing lead them to leaving their rock'n'roll past and starting making more experimental recordings. The album "Swan Song" was recorded entirely in home studio and represents typical apocalyptic folk music in vein of Current 93 with more "fairytale" touch. Epic compositions with hermetic lyrics in Russian are passionately performed in company with real orchestra of various instruments: guitars, violin, flutes, piano, synths, percussion, etc... A very nice and quality-made package.
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Sister Loolomie -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €8
2007 Still*Sleep, SS14
Second full-length disk from the side-project of Exit In Grey is released without a title but with a cool photo on the cover! Sonorous and noisy, and at the same time droning experiments with distorted guitar, samples and digital electronics. The sound is close to the late disks by Ultra Milkmaids but without their passion to surf-rock. Same abrupt splintered and granulated sounds in a context of smooth atmospheres.
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Sister Loolomie -- "Turn-On Delay and Simages" -- CD-R -- €8
2006 Still*Sleep, SS10
Long awaited first full-length album from Sister Loolomie coming from Moscow region, Russia. Beautiful lo-fi flow of shaggy drawling dronings accompanied by a swarm of hi-frequency modulations with Sister Loolomie's trademark subtly vibrating guitar sounds.
Sisternaus -- "Division One" -- CD -- €10
2007 Cold Spring Records, CSR61CD
Black Ambient / Industrial. Powerful debut of the Canadian noise project. 'Division One' is harsher and more bombastic than Harlow MacFarlane's now defunct project FUNERARY CALL. A true onslaught of Black Ambient, Power Noise and Death Industrial. This is the much anticipated album, after the well received track on our legendary SWARM sampler. [press-release]
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Sisternaus -- "Sensitive Disturbance" -- CD -- €10
2009 Cold Spring Records, CSR108CD
Black Ambient / Industrial. Blurring the lines between Dark Ambient, Industrial and Noise, Sistrenatus storms forth, shifting between oppressive aggression and unsettling atmospheres. "Sensitive Disturbance" is the third offering from this now legendary Canadian act, whose debut "Division One" was issued on Cold Spring in 2007. An aural journey through the urban decay of abandoned factories, scorched landscapes and underground passageways. "Sensitive Disturbance" is an abrasive rendition of the industrial revolution in its darkest phases. [label info]
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Six Dead Bulgarians & Ogni Videniy -- "2137" -- CD-R -- €8
2011 Vetvei, V12, (ltd. 181)
A teamwork of two Arkhangelsk projects SIX DEAD BULGARIANS and OGNI VIDENIY (FIRES of IMAGES) is presented by the Vetvei label. Eleven meditative Drone Ambient tracks were recorded in 13-14.02.2010, when a 2137 moon year began. This is a symbol of deliverance of all negative, collected in the leaving year, and development of positive qualities in a new year. That is why some tracks were recorded in the sunrise of the 2137 moon year. The work goes back to an ancient Bon tradition with a Buddhism influence. For the record are used singing bowls, metal, wooden percussion and electronic divices, a jew's-harp, sand and voice. Full-color six-panel envelope Vresnit & Vetvei Art. [press-release]
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Skare -- "Solstice City" -- CD -- €13
2009 Glacial Movements Records, GM005
Skare is the collaboration of Mathias Josefson (Moljebka Pvlse), Fredrik Olofsson and Per Ahlund. The members of Skare are all fascinated by the circulation of water, snow and ice. The metamorphosis from gas to floating liquid to snow to solid ice through freezing, the light reflecting from the snow and filtered through the ice as a prisma and - most of all - the sound of this ever ongoing circle... Skare's first album, Solstice City, is an interpretation of a journey through a shifting landscape where the city meets nature. Departing from a distant and foreign shore, the traveller embarks a ship, uncertain of his destination. This prelude, introduced vividly in "To the other shore", releases this pilgrim to further explore yet unchartered territories. Leaving all man-made conventions, the second track "Through Wind and Broken Ice" takes us where the city imitates nature. Finally, a factory appears in the whiteout; a place where angels are manufactured as presented in the final track "The Snow Angel Factory"... The vehicles used by Skare on this journey are field recordings, found sounds and treated and manipulated instruments. [press-release]
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Skinwell -- "Tunnels" -- CD -- €10
2008 .Angle.Rec., .A.R.05.06., (ltd. 333)
Doors cleverly concealed unexplored abandoned industrial sites. The angleREC and Mondes Elliptiques labels had the opportunity to work with many sound artists whose explorations are accompanied by a will to uncover on the field, in the abstract as well as in the concrete, different mysteries or secrets, or at least, to probe the enclave, the place they haunt. The SKINWELL project is no exception; its two protagonists, CHRISTIAN CORVELLEC and MARTIN DUMAIS, concoct music for TUNNELS, those places, where, at the end, one is beginnning to see the light, as the old proverb says, but in the present case, we do not really care; we can see the light in the distance, it also penetrates different interstices or fissures along the walls of the tunnels where we progress, but we prefer taking the time to pace the premises, to permeate ourselves with the sound echoes with which they fill our ears and head, and it should be mentioned that the ambiant-drone styling embraced by SKINWELL contains, like the music of some well-know artists of the genre (here we shall name CRANIOCLAST, TROUM or ZOVIET FRANCE with the unique goal of giving people a better idea as to where they are on the map of sonorities), a whole assortment of subtle electronic pulsations, concocted here by CHRISTIAN CORVELLEC, which always adequately support the sound fabrics woven by MARTIN DUMAIS, and which also are their starting point. One only has to imagine a minimal tech project gone the drone-ocean way åpulsations are there, always, but tinged with a sonic fog that is heavy, damp and fluid at the same time and which always suggests, in the end, uncertain twists and turns in this crossing of tunnels. But who would complain? [press-release]
Skitliv -- "Amfetamin" -- CD -- €11
2008 Cold Spring Records, CSR90CD
Exclusive release from the Doom / Noise project of Maniac (ex-MAYHEM), featuring Kvarforth (SHINING), and with special guest vocals by Attila (SUNN O))), MAYHEM). From Black Metal through Funeral Doom and Demonic Noise, Skitliv cover all the bases in modern extreme sonics. The CD version includes bonus tracks from Skitliv's live performance at the Camden Underworld, London, 13th December 2007, with a special intro from CURRENT 93 (David Tibet & Andrew Liles). [press-release]
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SKM-ETR -- "The Rugged Meat Cleaver" -- CD -- €10
2004 Eibon Records / Stridulum Recordings, Skm049 / Str009
Crushing walls of white noise meet melodies, just to show the two styles aren't oil and water..... Uncompromising harsh electronics with a somehow 'musical' edge, topped by lots of samples, in-your-face lyrics and thug attitude. Featuring contributions by Brethren, Slogun and Murderous Vision. Run, darling, run. Fast. The rugged meat cleaver is here FOR YOU !! [label info]
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Skorpio, Niko -- "Escape from Heaven" -- CD -- €10
2006 Some Place Else, SPECD06036
Escape from Heaven is the fruit of a lengthy period of hard work, the music has been composed in 2000-2005. The musick could be described as 'industrial', mostly because it pays homage to the early Industrial groups such as Throbbing Gristle, Coil or Psychic TV by being a wide-ranged beast of experimentation as well as fusion of diverse styles. Skorpio's wide-ranged musical background shines through in Escape from Heaven; from the deep dark ambient soundscapes of last year's The Hidden Nameless album, down to the cult bands Thergothon and This Empty Flow that Niko formed in the 90's. Despite the rather diverse contents, Escape from Heaven is musically a solid package. Escape from Heaven also carries a loose storyline that can be interpreted in occult, mythological, social and personal levels. Basically the album is a Manifesto of personal Liberation and a declaration of war against all forces of boredom and stagnation. [press-release]
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Skorpio, Niko -- "Half Born in Half Light" -- CD -- €10
2008 Some Place Else, SPECD08049, (ltd. 1000)
Half Born in Half Light is based on the foundations of psychedelic ambient soundscapes and darkly majestic bass drone, over which tribal rhythms and magickal vocal invocations build grotesque alien monoliths whose angles mock the euclidean mathematics of conventional composition. Niko Skorpio is not restricted to one particular genre, but draws on many sources. This makes the music colourful and diverse, yet it remains coherent and has the artist's unique fingerprints all over (this time literally in the cover as well). If we are to give it a label, let's call it HERMETIC FUSION MUSICK. CD comes with gorgeously designed 12-panel leaflet with art, photos, liner notes etc. Edition of 1000 copies. [press-release]
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Skorpio, Niko -- "NeitherSphere" -- CD-R -- €6
2009 Some Place Else, SPEDL090503
This EP contains two radical new mixes presenting different aspects of the key track from last year's highly acclaimed Half Born in Half Light album. 7" shoplifters mix, remixed by Niko Skorpio, strips away some of the drones to give emphasis to the complex tribal rhythms, also revealing the vibrant bassline. Karni Mata Dub, remixed by new acquaintance Karni Mata, shows the original tune completely taken to pieces and rebuilt as an all new track ruled by wild synths and hectic syncopated beats. Download and CDR formats include the album version as a bonus track. [press-release]
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Skorpio, Niko & Matsunaga, Kouhei -- "split" -- CD -- €10
2004 Deserted Factory, DF015
Split between Finnish and Japanese artists. Kouhei has recorded 17 tracks - all collaborations with a pile of artists (Koyzeu, Rudolf eb.er, Raionbashi, Frans de Waard, Phroq, Lasse Marhaug, Niko Skorpio, Gintas K, Zenial, Calros Giffoni, Ibrahim Terzic, Lesser, O-pi-O, Sort Mel, Eimontas Ciuta, Mattin, Greg Davis), partially - telepathic collaborations. Plus 5 solo tracks from Niko.
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Skullflower -- "IIIrd Gatekeeper" -- CD -- €10
1992/2007 Crucial Blast, CBR 63
A reissue of Skullflower's acclaimed 1992 album IIIrd Gatekeeper, featuring the lineup of Matthew Bower (guitar), Stuart Dennison (drums and vocals), and Anthony DiFranco (bass). IIIrd Gatekeeper is an immensely heavy album that was originally released on HeadDirt, the label run by Justin Broadrick of Godflesh/Jesu/Final fame back in the early 90's, and featured Skullflower at their heaviest, grinding out slow, sludgy riffs and crushing, almost industrial rhythms amid a tempest of psychedelic guitar noise and dense sheets of feedback - easily the most crushing, rock-based music that Skullflower ever produced. IIIrd Gatekeeper served up a skulldozing dose of post-industrial dirge rock that sat comfortably next to Godflesh, Swans, and Ramleh in terms of dark, druggy, hypnotic lumbering heaviness. This is one of our favorite albums ever at Crucial Blast, and we are presenting this reissue with new liner notes, a new package design that retains all of the original artwork from the HeadDirt release, and a remastering job courtesy of Scott Hull at Visceral Sound. [press-release]
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Skullflower -- "Malediction" -- CD -- €10
2009 Second Layer Records, SLR002, (ltd. 1000)
Brand new Skullflower studio recording featuring the line-up of Matthew Bower, Samantha Davies (Voltigeurs), Lee Stokoe (Culver) and Stuart Dennison (Ramleh, original Skullflower) back on drums. Three long tracks of blackened guitar wall. No one is making music that sounds like this. Comes in 6-panel digipack with artwork by Matthew Bower. [label info]
Skullflower -- "Orange Canyon Mind" -- CD -- €10
2005 Crucial Blast, CBR 45
The new full length from the legendary UK free/drone/psych outfit Skullflower, featuring some of the most searing, synapse scorching droneworks that Matthew Bower (the man behind Skullflower, as well as Sunroof! and The Hototogisu) has unleashed to date, in our humble opinion. Orange Canyon Mind is the follow up to 2002's awesome Exquisite Fucking Boredom (Tumult Records), and continues that albums utter mutation of stoned out riffs pulled taffy-like into eternity/oblivion and star-rupturing blasts of sonic white light. Over the 8 tracks/60 minute running time, Bower and cohorts build massive horizontal drones and melodic supernovas. Superb, beautiful, brain melting stuff. [press-release]
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Skullflower -- "Pure Imperial Reform" -- CD -- €10
2008 Turgid Animal, TA309, (ltd. 1000)
New Skullflower CD now available on Turgid Animal Records. Recorded last year live on an Antwerpen radio station comes this new guitar wall "composition" from Matthew Bower and Lee Stokoe. This is a real CD (a first for Turgid Animal) limited to 1000 copies with artwork desinged by MB himself and pro-printed on quality grey paper in standard jewel cases. This is a seriously solid release and is for fans of modern Skullflower recordings and anyone who just loves a good harsh racket! [label info]
Skullflower -- "Tribulation" -- CD -- €10
2005 Crucial Blast, CBR 55
The new emission from the UK trance-noise legends SKULLFLOWER. A black-void beaming of utterly destroyed drone rock and crushing amplifier obliteration that rains down black ash and punishing blasts of feedback skree on the listener. A dynamic, bleary-eyed meditation. An avalanche of powerdrone that threatens to take your cranium apart and transport your grey matter into filthy new dimensions infested with melodic razor cuts and submerged mantras. A triumphant eruption of apocalyptic meta-metal and radioactive raga swarms, guaranteed to loosen eardrums. This album is one of the heaviest, harshest slabs of guitar armageddon from Matt Bower since the glory days of Total, and bridges the void between the krautrock/celestial free drone influence of the last few Skullflower albums, and the blackened molten death of his Mirag material. [press-release]
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Slagle, M. -- "An Explanation Of The Past" -- CD -- €10
2002 Annihilvs, ANNIHILVS006
With an explanation of the past, his first proper release as a solo instrumental artist, Matt showcases his talents at composing music not easily defined by a genre tag. Although this is undoubtfully an 'industrial music' album, Matt has skillfully woven a soundtrack to a journey where he combines elements of any number of electronic subgenres and comes out on the other side with something unique and personal. Dark and menacing, an explanation of the past is also imbued with an atmosphere of self-discovery acheived through musical exploration. [press-release]
Sleep Research_Facility -- "Dead Weather Machine" -- CD -- €11
2004 Manifold Records, mancd042
The artist behind Sleep Research_Facility was living in a small flat in the UK with a heating/ac unit that was slowly breaking down, clogged with dust, slowly choking on it's own decay. The artist found the slowly changing sounds fascinating, suggesting larger, more serious possibilities - and so recorded them, creating a work for purely personal satisfaction that he never expected to be published until Manifold requested some material for possible release. "Dead Weather Machine" tells monstrous tales of things and places and feelings that it's common beginnings would never seem to suggest. But then imagine being as small as a piece of dust, trekking through some enormous, dying mechanical landscape, the sounds of world-sized storms swirling all around you. The titanic waves of impenetrable sonics slowly swing from out of the far-away darkness like the tentacles of some galaxy-sized beast, moving through clouds with the power of a silk-covered sledgehammer, thudding at the other side of the world. Several tracks of slightly differing technique are just chilling, huge and deep... scary deep. A microscopic entity, floating for ages through the channels and chambers of a machine that makes the weather for an entire world. A machine that is slowly dying. [label info]
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Sleep Research_Facility -- "Dead Weather Machine_Re:Heat" -- CD -- €11
2004 Manifold Records, mancd043
Originally conceptualized as a 100 copy cdr to go with a special limited edition of Dead Weather Machine, Manifold Records commisioned Sleep Research_Facility to create additional material based on the original sounds. But when they got the master, they were blown away and realized this was too good to let slip into obscurity. It would be a shame to keep this from being available to all people who seek out the best in dark-ambient and drift. Engaging, emotional and worthy of listening to ten years down the road. This is roughly an hour of slowly changing, deep, meditative drift based on the Dead Weather Machine source materials. [label info]
Sloth -- "A Whole Other World Of Fun aka 13 Songs 13 Samples" -- CD -- €10
2007 At War With False Noise, ATWAR018, (ltd. 500)
The first At War CD release is finally out!! Ohio's SLOTH have been creating some of the most fucked up, weird, funny music of the past 10+ years and this is their first ever CD full-length album! Known for split records with bands such as Corrupted, Grief, Floor, Upsidedown Cross, Noothgrush etc etc, this album sees Sloth in a much more musically diverse frame of mind than usual. The painful sludge noise is still there but there's an altogether more considered approach. There's piano on it for fuck's sake. Weird lo-fi songs that sound like they were written by a fucked up kid mix sit happily with garage rock high end jams and tar pit slo-mo doom dirges. The "13 samples" are bang on and the humour is as bizarre and hilarious as ever. Full CD (NOT A CDr) with full colour 4 page booklet, drawn by artist-in-chief Uberneecie and coloured in by a group of five year olds from Glasgow. [press-release]
Slumberwood -- "Yawling Night Songs" -- CD -- €8
2009 A Silent Place, ASP43
Debut album from this collective from the North Italian town of Padova, drawing inspiration from artists as diverse as Werner Herzog, Coil, Big Star and This Heat. From laptops to tree-tops - and mixing acoustic instrumentation with a twisted brand of psychedelia - Slumberwood developed their own musical language, brewing a weird amalgamation of sounds. "Yawling Night Songs" extracts nature's many melodies and cacophonies to create a portrait of the heavily romanticised conception of an enchanted European wood as it exists for the youth of the 21st century. A dramatic interpretation of the woods' ambience, leaving a pretty clear sense of what's hiding in the shadows, waiting to be found. Recorded and produced by Marco Fasolo (Jennifer Gentle). Digifile. [label info]
A Small, Good Thing -- "Slim Westerns" -- CD -- €14
1994 Soleilmoon Recordings, SOL 23 CD
Small Town Zombie -- "April Fragments" -- CD-R -- €9
2006 Datura Landscapes, DATURA 7, (ltd. 37)
Side-project of Hum. Minimalistic ambient work created from street sounds. Recommended to listen at low volume.
Smell & Quim -- "Lavatory" -- CD -- €8
2011 Paleolist Press, (ltd. 200)
New album of the greatest band singing about dicks, cunts and Jesus Christ. The extended booklet contains memoirs of one of the founders of Russian Milovan Srdenovic Appreciation Society, and some canonical texts by Milovan Srdenovic himself. Print run of 200 copies, A5 booklet, 24 pages, offset print. [press-release]
Soccer Committee -- "sC" -- CD -- €14
2006/2007 Morc Records, Morc 44
The Soil Bleeds Black -- "The Knightly Years" -- CD -- €11
2009 Twilight Records, TW 1.48
The Soil Bleeds Black celebrate 17 years of composing neo-medieval music with the release of "The Knightly Years", a compilation of select favorites and rare tracks featured only on previous vinyl record releases. Also included is an unreleased track to appear on their next full-length album as well as a cover version of Tears for Fears "Shout". In sum, this special release features of 15 tracks of TSBB's best work over the years. [press-release]
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Sol Invictus -- "In The Rain" -- CD -- €10
2007 Eternal Pride Productions / Infinite Fog Productions, EPP 009 / IF-02, (ltd. 300)
One of the fundamental and significant albums of the world's dark folk stage. The Russian edition comprises an exclusive bonus-track. The limited to 300 copies edition. Release only for Russia area. [press-release]
Sola Translatio -- "Enigma" -- CD -- €13
2006 Hic Sunt Leones, HSL 034
The third, much awaited CD by Opium and Alio Die is finally out! Enigma is an ambient album, with drones and dark ambient elements. Eight imaginary landscapes wavering between the earth and the cosmos, sometimes returning on the dark atmosphere of the first album, but with a few acoustic elements more clear. The album begins with some obscure and enigmatic atmospheres transitioning into more open/light tracks: looped sounds of the played cords of the zither, tubes, treated field recordings and small sounds of shells and bells add layers to the electronic magma. An intimate / introspective CD. [press release]
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Solanaceae -- "s/t" -- CD -- €14
2009 Heidrunar Myrkrunar, Heim006
The new side project of :Of The Wand And The Moon:.
Solblomma -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €5
self-released, (ltd. 40)
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Solblomma -- "His Majesty's Voice" -- CD-R -- €5
2007 Xerxes, ES-52
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Somnivore -- "Clergy Of Oneiros" -- CD -- €10
2007 Anima Arctica, AUER-001, (ltd. 1000)
After coming across his collaboration CD-R with Kivelä, the search was on for more material from this new project from Finland. Clergy of Oneiros is the debut CD from Somnivore and has the same ethereal yet richly detailed sound as the above mentioned CD-R, with its meditative drones, ghostly vocals and slightly noisier percussive loops co-existing in a dim and distant state. [Mechanoise Labs]
Somnivore & Kivelä -- "Maelström" -- CD-R -- €7
2005 New Old Sentinel, SENTINEL-CDR-03, (ltd. 100)
Free-form dark ambient from Finland that wouldn't be out of place on the Aural Hypnox roster, even if this does have slightly more industrial than purely ambient undertones. The mid-range frequencies require a decent pair of headphones to be fully appreciated and the lack of track markers might initially put one off from sitting down for the full 47 minutes, but Maelström is a finely crafted piece of work that renews its sound palette regularly enough to keep your attention throughout its duration. A great pick for those late-night listening sessions. [Mechanoise Labs]
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Son-Dha -- "Red Sector A Speeds Up Alio Die" -- CD -- €10
2001 Release Entertainment, RR 6516-2
Son-Dha is Alio Die (Stefano Musso) and Red Sector A (Andrea Bellucci). Their debut (as a duo) is Red Sector A Speeds up Alio Die. This is a very cool concept. Musso recorded some of his signature minimalist drones and Bellucci then reconstructed them with frenetic rhythms that are not quite techno. It works fairly well. Many have tried similar projects that remix existing compositions, but these atmospheres were designed specifically for Bellucci's handiwork. Again, this is not techno or new ambient. It will appeal to fans of the Orb, William Orbit, and Mo Boma. [Jim Brenholts, All Music Guide]
Sonne Hagal -- "Nidar" -- CD EP -- €13
2005 Grünwald
Sonne Hagal are working with the ambivalence of good and bad, light and shadow, live and death... overworking and interpret poems of William Blake. A blend mixture of fragile, atmospheric to folkish danceble tracks and their known manner, supported by Andreas Ritter (Forseti), Kim Larsen (Of The Wand And The Moon) and Matt Howden (Sieben). [press-release]
Sonne Hagal -- "Only Echoes Remain" -- CD -- €15
2012 Der Angriff, Nr. 42, (ltd. 215)
After now sold out DVD and vinyl versions of this great recording here's finally a small CD run. The release contains all 17 tracks Sonne Hagal played on its live performance made in October 2008 in Saint-Petersburg and recorded to multi-channel device with later studio mix. As bonus tracks it also has 4 instrumental pieces made as intros for various live events the band made during recent years, which were included in the vinyl version released by Fronte Nordico in 2010. Perfect quality of performance and recording made this album one of the best live releases in this genre ever, and this CD edition will be interesting not only to the hardcore fans of the band, but surely for the wider audience as well. This edition is limited to 215 copies and comes in a special foldout envelope with cardboard inner sleeve and three postcard inserts. [press-release]
Sonne Hagal -- "Only Echoes Remain" -- CD -- €20
2012 Der Angriff, Nr. 42, (ltd. 50)
Edition is limited to 50 copies and comes in a special foldout envelope with cardboard inner sleeve, three postcard, embroidered patch and sealed with a brown wax stamp.
Sonne Hagal -- "Only Echoes Remain" -- CD + DVD -- €32
2012 Der Angriff, Nr. 42, (ltd. 35)
Edition is limited to 35 copies and comes in a special foldout envelope with cardboard inner sleeve, three postcard, "Only Echoes Remain" DVD (Der Angriff Nr. 35) and sealed with a gold wax stamp.
Sostrah Tinnitus -- "Les Debris De L'Ete" -- CD -- €10
2004 Beyond Productions, BEY.0331
After the well-acclaimed debut album of TVMVLVS SERAPHIM, a new side-project has emerged - SOSTRAH TINNITUS. Even if very far from the dark / deep isolationism of the main project, SOSTRAH TINNITUS's debut album, "Les Debris De L'Ete", focuses upon ambient sonorities and naturalistic concepts. A perfect listening experience for fans of ALIO DIE or VIDNA OBMANA. [Cold Spring description]
Soudnick, Nick -- "AKHE Music. Part II" -- CD -- €10
Ultra, UCD 07, (ltd. 500)
Ritual-industrial soundtrack for AKHE Engineer Theatre installation.
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Soudnick, Nick -- "Depot of Genuis Delusions (Akhemusic Vol. 6)" -- CD -- €10
2011 Ultra, UCD 27, (ltd. 500)
New material by Nick Soudnick (ZGA, Vetrophonia, etc.) was recorded especially for the series of performances by Russian Engineering Theatre AKHE under the title of "Depot of Genuis Delusions". From the first seconds we hear powerful orchestral industrial - or is it industrialized classical music continuing the glorious futuristic traditions of Prokofiev? It take turns to multilayered musique concrete filled with manifold of gurglings and murmur of water, clanks, crashes and cuts of noise. Then the musical vortex intertwists even more dashingly: metallic rasps typical for ZGA, clip-clops and all-pervading bass strings, microsound fuss and sickly violin abstractions, mechanichal clockwork-like rhythmic sound constructions and soulful sounds of cello and accordion... Masterful work, full of completely different moods, in which despite all this variety one can distinctly feel the peculiar author's approach.
Soudnick, Nick -- "Faust3. Akhemusic vol. 5" -- CD -- €12
2006 Ultra, ultraCD24
Nick Soudnick provided another soundtrack for the performance of Russian engineering theatre "Akhe", this time for the piece called "Faust3". Avantguard-classical music with lots of string and brass instruments, supplemented by metal percussion, humble electronics and sampes. Think of Alfred Schnittke carried away by early industrial stuff - that's it.
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Soudnick, Nick -- "Pas de Trois" -- CD -- €12
2008 Ultra, UCD 26, (ltd. 500)
The new album of Nick Soudnick (ZGA, FIGS, Vetrophonia, etc.) is out on a label of Alexander Lebedev-Frontov. The concept of this recording and several related live performances includes two women dancing among the metal objects making sounds, and Nick mixes them down at his own discretion. The recordings reminds the sound of ZGA but in more improvised way.
Soudnick, Nick -- "Promenade" -- CD -- €11
2002 Long Arms Records, CDLA 02047
Solo album of Nick Soudnick (ZGA), recorded and mixed at ZGA Studio, Feb. 2002.
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Soudnick, Nick -- "Tauromakhia" -- CD -- €12
Chimaera, [xm 2], (ltd. 500)
Nick Soudnick is one of the veterans of the non-conformist art movement in Russia, he is known to industrial listeners for his participation in Vetrophonia, his mutual project with Alexander Lebedev-Frontov (Linija Mass, Stalnoy Pakt) and - to the most wide audience as well - for his Zga albums. This album based on the Greek Mythology, the sound is varied from harsh ambient noise to monumental musical moments. Very nice work from this legend of russian underground. [label info]
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Soudnick, Nick / Gayvoronsky, Vyacheslav -- "Delikatessen" -- CD -- €11
2005 Long Arms Records, CDLA 04067
Nick Soudnick: sound objects, samples, reeds, voice. Vyacheslav Gayvoronsky: trumpet, flute, voice.
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Soudnick, Nick / Sainkho Namchylak -- "Not Quite Songs" -- CD -- €16
2010 Leo Records, CD LR 564
Nick Sudnick, the leader of the legendary Soviet avant group ZGA, is famous for constructing his own and totally unique musical instruments. Since his instruments have no name, in the booklet we tried to make a photo of him playing his "sound objects'. Needless to say, Nick's unorthodox sounds created a challenge for Tuva singer Sainkho. As a truly outstanding artist, she rises for the occasion and responds to the challenge in a totally original way. We don't know any singer on this entire planet who can do with her voice what Sainkho does with hers. [press-release]
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Soudnick, Nick / Popovsky, Andrey -- "Utyugon" -- CD -- €10
2011 Free Culture / Pushkinskaya-10
The famous musical instrument and "the first analogue synthesizer" Utyugon was designed by Timur Novikov and Ivan Sotnikov and played an important role in the history of Russian experimental music. Besides, if we take into account the eyewitnesses' recollections we will see that the first Utyugon concert became the pivotal moment in Sergey Kuryokhin's music. "Sergey Kuryokhin took part in such concert for the first time. Before the concert he was a jazz musician and did not play his avangard experiments, but when he saw Utyugon he became inspired and got much enthusiasm". (from the Timur Novikov lecture). "Utyugon is the instrument that produces sounds. This instrument consisted of the table from which irons ("utyug" is Russian word for "iron") hung down by means of special strings. The irons pendulated, touched each other and produced very strange sounds that could be amplified by means of electronic equipment." (Timur Novikov). "Utyugon was an old rectangular kitchen table. I can suppose that it was found in dump or was left by the former flat owners. On the one side of the table there were nails that held the old irons and these irons were hung with guitar strings. Near the strings there were guitar pickups that firstly transmitted the signal to the cheap flanger and delay and then to the amplifier and speakers. On the other side of the table there were various kitchen knives that were stuck to the table and their vibrations were also taken by the guitar pickups. Maybe there were also piezoelectronic pickups from the cheapest old turntables." (Sergey Letov). Utyugon was preserved by the artist Valery Valran ans now is in the Museum of the New Academy of the Fine Arts. Several performances with the restored Utyugon took place in ESG-21. The material of the CD is the collaboration of Andrey Popovsky (Miro project, ESG-21 art director) and Nickolay Soudnick (ZGA, Vetrophonia) called "Vibrations for Utyugon in 12 parts". It presents the compositional scope of using Utyugon and modern devices for sound processing and sound mixing.
Soulsearch -- "Liedersammlung" -- CD -- €10
2006 Ahnstern, Ahnstern16
Classic Pagan-Doom Folkmetal with strong and heroic german lyrics and many medieval elements. Soulsearch started in the early 90ies to create their own, unique style, which would today be called Folkmetal. But at that time Soulsearch were alone in the fields. 10 years later, Folkmetal (or Metalfolk) as we know it nowadays, began to establish as a own musicstyle. All songs on this album were recorded between 1993 and 2000. The CD includes the final Soulsearch release: the 10" IHERNO from 2000, which was limited to only 100 copies. the other songs are a fine selection from their early albums (each album has sold 3000 to 5000 copies in the 90ies!) + one unreleased track. After they split in 2001, two ex-Soulsearch members joined again in 2005 and founded together with a third musician OUR SURVIVAL DEPENDS ON US, a more NEUROSIS-orientated formation. Another ex-Soulsearch member (Haju) is one of the basic-members of STURMPERCHT. Haju and the guys from O.S.D.O.U. recently formed MAGDALENA, who will release their first album on Ahnstern in late 2006. [label info]
Sound_00 -- "She's the One" -- CD-R -- €4
2006 Triangle Records, [TR08], (ltd. 50)
Noise and flowers from Makedonia! Best gift for your girlfriend! Packed in 1/2-dvd box, full-cover print, seeds of beautiful flowers! [label info]
Sound_00 -- "Sound_10" -- CD-R -- €8
Deserted Factory, DF002, (ltd. 99)
Cheeky Macedonian incursion on your nerval system. 15 tracks of hi- and middle-frequency crunch mixed with radio-collage experiments a la Lo.By... Really extreme music. [YAOP description]
South Saturn Delta -- "Experience The Concreteness" -- CD -- €10
2007 Cold Spring Records, CSR80CD
Extreme Japanese Noise / Psychedelic Noise. This is South Saturn Delta's debut album, featuring their finest live recordings from between 2003-2005, in Osaka and Tokyo. SSD is a kind of Japanoise supergroup, formed in 2003, with guitar and voice from Maso Yamazaki (Masonna), synth and voice from Hiroshi Hasegawa (Astro, C.C.C.C., YBO2) and drums from Nobuko Emi (Tsurubami). An extreme psychedlic noise trip over 4 lengthy tracks. [press-release]
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Souvenir's Young America -- "s/t" -- CD -- €10
2006 UndeRadar, UR08
Monstrous instrumental post-metal from Richmond, Virginia that crushed our skulls! We've heard previous recordings from these guys that we really liked, which saw them working with a mixture of spare Neurosis/Godflesh informed heaviness and cinematic post-rock like Godspeed You! Black Emperor or Explosions In The Sky. Really good stuff, very pretty at times, and heavy n' crushing at others. Well, this debut full length on the ever-stellar Underadar label takes those basic ideas and carries them into a whole new realm of beautiful, flowing, HEAVY instrumental music that we have totally fallen in love with. These songs are heavily layered, masterfully assembled instrumental creations, emotionally moving and majestic like Red Sparowes, filled with dense shoegazer buildups and gorgeous droning electronc swirl, massively heavy prog-rock dirges and sludgy piano-accompanied rock, never descending into boring noodling or overextended jams. A range of instruments are used here, keyboards, percussion, samples, guitars, accordion, xylophone, cello, and much more. The whole album sounds like a soundtrack for a killer lost road-trip movie scored by members of Neurosis and Godspeed You! Black Emperor doing a weird mix of 70's prog and biker rock, and 80's soundtrack metal, but with all sorts of forays into lonesome, dusty country guitar-twang, long droning expanses of floating electronic drones, supremely beautiful and often super-crushing !!! This is ABSOLUTELY A MUST GET for fans of heavy instrumental ambient metal/post-rock (Red Sparowes, Mogwai, Mono, Pelican, Isis, etc.), and soundtrack-influenced heaviness (Zombi, Chromelodeon). Very very highly recommended!!!! [Crucial Blast]
Souvenir's Young America -- "An Ocean Without Water" -- CD -- €10
2007 Crucial Blast, CBR 61
Richmond, VA's cinematic instrumentalists SOUVENIR'S YOUNG AMERICA present their second full length, "An Ocean Without Water," which will be released through Crucial Blast on both CD (on July 24th) and LP (shortly thereafter). The album was recorded with John Morand (Labradford, Sparklehorse, 4 Walls Falling) at Sound of Music. "An Ocean Without Water" comes in a 6-panel digipack designed by Sasha Barr... Lush, shimmering guitar ambience and hypnotic, propulsive instrumental heaviness wind through the dusty highways and burnt twilight skies of "An Ocean Without Water," the sophomore album from Richmond's Souvenir's Young America. Divided into six flowing movements, "An Ocean Without Water" is filled with intensely beautiful melodies that drift on lonesome harmonica strains and sparkling, celestial electronics, shot through with mystic, western slide guitar, passages of crushing angular riffage, rolling tribal drumming, and transcendent blues. Through their intricate song arrangements and moody textures, Souvenir's Young America has created an epic, emotional narrative. The sound draws from the collected DNA of forebears like Popul Vuh, Earth, Labradford, and Neurosis, yet they form a powerfully evocative instrumental language all of their own. Features collaborations with Aughra (Magic Bullet Records) and Nick Forte (Sublight Records, ex Rorschach / Beautiful Skin)... The band has developed their sound even further with this new album, and we couldn't be more stoked over the epic, moody sounds that onfold over "An Ocean Without Water's" 40 minute running time. [press-release]
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Spanxti -- "Dheghom" -- CD -- €13
2011 Autarkeia, acd 068
Speaking Silence -- "Insides" -- CD -- €11
2008 Intuition Records, INT28003, (ltd. 500)
The shoegazer / heavenly voices act Speaking Silence are back with an official re-issue of their previously self-released album Insides (1998). Strictly limited to 500 copies and with new package it is being released by the Russian Intuition label. Insides followed the Speak in Silence album released in 1994 on the German cult label Hyperium. Targeted at fans of the Cocteau Twins, Cranes, or yet Kate Bush. [label info]
Spectra Paris -- "Christmas Ghouls" -- CD -- €15
2010 Out Of Line, OUT 449
Spectre -- "Mantra Voluntatis" -- CD -- €14
2006 Hau Ruck! SPQR, HR! SPQR VIII, (ltd. 1000)
A solo project of the vocalist/guitarist od Ain Soph. One track feat. Albin Julius of Der Blutharsch.
Spielerei -- "Publix" -- CD -- €10
2005 Databloem, DBCD 014
There are times when just by listening to the first few notes you instantly know that you are in for a treat. I do not know how is does, but it works for me every time. I hope this is also true for you as the opening track entitled Tradition is a magnificent slice of electronic music. Surely there is no way that this standard can be maintained. The following track features gentle ambiences and moody bass notes that are carefully assembled into a haunting main theme composed using lots of differing sounds and sequences that continues to maintain the fascination. I think that Delight certainly lives up to its title and on reflection is even better than the opener. Area starts as being very low-fi with muffled sequences that are almost on the point of annoyance but slowly the quality appears to improve and rich Tangerine Dream style sequences emerge that are bound to please many. Technical quality is restored on the following track that again provides classic melodic electronic ambiences that persuade the mind to relinquish the mental pressure and all anguish is banished. Relaxation is the only thought to be encouraged when listening and thoroughly enjoying Renovation. This excellent release finishes in true ambient style with the appropriately titled Restplace, which describes the evocative piece precisely. Dennis Knopper has a major flair, which thankfully he shares with those who choose to listen to this truly exquisite music. [Modern Dance]
Spielerei & Mantacoup -- "Cold War" -- CD -- €10
2007 Silentes, 200718
An enthralling cosmic excursion, utilizing a universe of electronic tones, binary codes, digital trances, visionary software, and microchip meditations... utilizing sequencer riffs, electronic swells, tight rhythmic programming and pulsing analog arpeggios to pull listeners throught the frontiers of space and time. Melodic, soft sounds expand and gently caress the listener while submerging them into vast digital panoramas. Propulsion through the science of sound. Seven fantastic tracks realized during a collaboration between Dennis Knopper (of Spielerei) and Jeroen Vermeent (of Mantacoup). [label info]
Spielerei & Mantacoup -- "Wichman And Other Pieces" -- CD -- €10
2004 Databloem, DBCD 009
The Wichman Concert recorded live on March 13 2004 at Theatre Graff Wichman in Huizen, Holland, as part of the Alfa Centauri EM Festival series. Last 4 tracks are studio works. "This is an album that is very hard to pigeonhole but it is one of the best 'contemporary' sounding albums I have heard all year." - David Law. "Separately they have had some solid releases; together they are phenomenal." - Phil Derby. [label info]
Spika -- "Sonic Journey Through New Life" -- CD -- €9
2006 Requiem Records, 27/2006
Music inspired by the birth of new life. Audible influences of minimal music and the electro-acoustic school of noise generation. All of this is typically atmospheric for Spika and, while there are some pulsating moments, the listener is relocated to a distant and forgotten world, but familiar to all of us. [label info]
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Spiral -- "The Digital Vapor Glitch-Noise Fusion According to Spiral" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Lunhare, zzz - 5, (ltd. 100)
Spiral is the rascal side of Andrea Marutti, aka Amon and Never Known. The album title says it all, but if it's not enough have a listen to the mp3's. [label info]
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Spiral -- "In the Realm of Spiral" -- CD-R -- €9
2001 Afe Records, afe026cd
Afe is very proud to feed Spiral's masterpiece to the hungry masses again: originally published on tape by Murder Release in 1996, "In the Realm of the Spiral" comes re-mastered and enhanced for your auditive pleasure and also includes one extra track taken from the "Fuck Off... We Murder!" tape compilation. Power Electronics maniacs will love it, Pranks fanatics will too... the gentle frequencies of memory will invade your brain and turn you into a freak in a few seconds... [label info]
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Spiritual Front -- "Armageddon Gigolo" -- CD -- €14
2006 [Trisol] Music Group GmbH, TRI272CD
With fervent ballads combining "Mafia-folk", Nick Cave and Ennio Morricone - refined with a shot of Rock'n'Roll-Spirit - the Italian project SPIRITUAL FRONT along with their likeable singer Simone Salvatori have nestled cozily among different styles of music. What once started as a mixture of acoustic pop and free-style folk has soon turned out to be a charismatic live act and is just about to astonish the music business with their highly exceptional vision of Suicide Pop. Supported by the musicians of the Ennio Morricone Orchestra, the new album skillfully combines Western and Gangster film atmosphere and the aura of great entertainers which melt into a genuine, post-modern mixture. The result is music for the anarchistic youth of the future inspired by the spirit of the past. Vibrating guitar riffs, pointed piano chords, devoted strings and a subtle acoustic guitar support expressive English vocals which bewail the grievances of Machismo who is caught between an overwhelming drive for freedom and a romantic desire for eternity. This album definitely is a straight tip for all Bad Boys & Girls out there, for anarchistic rebels - and machos with a tender heart. Love and suffer with SPRITUAL FRONT. [label info]
Splinterskin -- "Wayward Souls" -- CD -- €10
2009 Cold Spring Records, CSR114CD
Dark Acoustic / Woodland Folk. Splinterskin unveils his spell after years of solitude and hermetic isolation, in the form of a harsh, dark folk music. His tales are told using an old classical guitar accompanied by haunting vocals, violin, and soothing whispers cradled in the delicate atmospheres of autumn. A collection of tales blending life and death, entities and creatures, hidden wisdom, unknown places, pain and suffering, folklore, possession, insanity, nature and the dark world that surrounds. Yet there are no words to truly describe Splinterskin's message or music. [press-release]
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Spontane Images & Obozdur -- split -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT43, (ltd. 39)
Spontane Images: technogenic canvas of Noise Ambient and Industrial with electronic pulsations and concrete noises. Obozdur: retro-futuristic experimental Sci-Fi Ambient with radionoise and cyclic samples. Regular edition: 39 copies in printed sleeve. [label info]
Spreu & Weizen -- "Gott Vergelt's!" -- CD -- €14
2011 Lichterklang, LK 004
Srapionov, Eduard -- "Biologic" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Observatiore 22, (ltd. 38)
The newest recording of a noise artist from Rostov, Russia. Eduard (Papa Srapa) has done a lot of live performances with immutable manipulations on his self-made chemical synthesizers. His artistic approach to composing and wide separate range of frequencies are very impressive during his gigs. The most significant individual character of the project is the combination of his engineering inventions with the creative aims. This CD is a first edition after his own demo-releases, it contains 6 tracks totally in 50 minutes. [label info]
SRMeixner -- "Between The Lines" -- CD -- €10
2003 Dirter Promotions, DPROMCD 51
From the ashes of leading experimental outfit, Contrastate, comes the self-named srmeixner project. Electronic music and field recordings are utilised to create a sonic soundtrack to an apocalyptic world exploring a sense of space and architecture inspired by Daniel Libeskind's Jewish Museum in Berlin. This is music inspired by the past, but very much of the future. The music resembles minimal modern architecture, and is a perfect aural example of the 'less-is-more' principle. An excellent release. [Cold Spring]
SRmeixner -- "The Dictatorship Of The Viewer" -- CD -- €11
2005 Fin de Siècle Media, FDS 15
SRmeixner is the solo project of Stephen Meixner, who once was a member of the influential UK outfit Contrastate. Here's what he has to say about the new album - The Dictatorship of the Viewer: "This piece takes its title from the 2003 Venice Biennale. The show was composed of different projects, each with its own identity and autonomy highlighting various contemporary social and political global concerns. Each project was supposed to reveal a cross section of the world's realities which could be used as an open map by the viewer to create their own individual experiences, giving the viewer control over how and when they visited each project. The title intrigued me, as did the concept. Utilising these I have recorded one track composed of various sub sections. Each has its own identity, yet all are linked together by virtue of the mixing process and the central themes; autonomy and control. Each sub section has been given a track number. Listeners can listen to the CD in the order I have arranged, create their own order by pre-programming their CD player or use the random function to programme the order in which the tracks will be heard. The very idea of designing the Venice Biennale to give the viewer control immediately poses an obvious conflict between the viewer and artist. In what way was the viewer empowered? It seemed to me that the only choice the viewer had was where to start and where to finish. The power was still with the artists in that they dictated what went into their projects, not the viewer. I wonder how many people will actually pre-programme this CD in their order of preference. The whole concept also reminded me of the initial arguments surrounding the World Wide Web. Empowerment, liberating, individual, autonomous, etc. Yet today the words that have become synonymous with the World Wide Web are Microsoft, access denied, spam, virus, etc. The core of this track was initially composed and structured as a live piece which was first performed February 2004 in London and then later extended, added to and re-worked." [press-release]
SRMeixner -- "Ten Thousand Ways To Die" -- CD -- €10
2010 Segerhuva, SEGER 29, (ltd. 300)
Stephen Meixner (ex-Contrastate) has deepened his exploration of spaghetti western thematics on this album. The tracks herein take as their inspiration the ideas and themes behind the making of the films and the era in which they were made. While the Italo-western genre is often focused on violent dynamics, Meixner's music focuses on haunting and sparse atmospherics yet keeping with the film genre's tendency to always keep things interesting by throwing in both unexpected and unsettling elements. Field recordings, samples and digital manipulation makes up the core of the album, with a distinct, smoothly composed desert flavour. [press-release]
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SS (Sudan Strain) -- "HA PP Y ERA VEY" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2005 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT04, (ltd. 157)
Nihilistic Power Electronics from SS (aka SudanStrain) - head of famous Abgurd label. Previously unreleased reworked archive material from 2002-2003 with obvious anti-christian and misanthropic taste. Powerful electronic noise attacks spiced with the samples from "Hellraiser" and reading the Bible backwards. The result is surprisingly conceptual and integral. Artwork based on exclusive collages by YAO. [label info]
Stahlwerk 9 -- "RetroMekanik" -- CD + CD-R -- €16
2009 Steinklang Industries, SK 48, (ltd. 200)
This album is a masterpiece of oldschool Industrial / Power-Electronics - probably the most powerful album Stahlwerk 9 ever did! The album consists of unreleased songs, recorded between 1999 and 2007 for various compilations never released, as well as some other unreleased songs from the band's early years and 2 perfectly recorded and exclusive live-songs. 11 tracks / 67 min. Here the limited edition includes a CDR with all compilation-tracks up to 2006 and other rare songs. [label info]
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Stalag 328 -- "Kriegsfreiwilligen" -- CD-R -- €9
2011 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT86 / Inner Decay, IDFA #02, (ltd. 115)
Harsh Martial Industrial, based on powerful artillery rhythms, background soundscapes, dark and excitatory atmospheres and different vocals. The debut of the project coming from Lvov, Ukraine, released by the joint forces of two labels. The album is dedicated to all soldiers died during the Great War of 1914-1918, all those who haven't returned home from this senseless slaughter, and all fallen under Ipra. Colour printed discs, hand made artwork made of vintage technologic paper, 2 full colour inserts. [press-release]
Stalaggh -- "Projekt Nihil" -- CD -- €10
2003 New Era Productions, NEP03, (ltd. 1000)
Stalnoy Pakt -- "O Roma O Morte / Giovinezza" -- CD-R -- €8
2006 ALF Produkt, N6, (ltd. 100)
Multimedia CD-R contains a video-clip "Giovinezza" and a 16 minute-long composition dedicated to the Italian warriors: a superb military-industrial collage made of ambient layers with fragments of anthems, old recordings and gramophone crunch. Beautiful and conceprual historical work.
Stalnoy Pakt -- "ROA" -- 3"CD-R -- €8
2008 ALF Produkzion, ALF Produkt No. 11, (ltd. 124)
New Stalnoy Pakt material is dedicated to the phenomenon of ROA (Russian Liberation Army), who fought for Hitler during WWII. Historical collaged martial industrial.
Stalnoy Pakt -- "ROA" -- 3"CD-R -- €12
2008 ALF Produkzion, ALF Produkt No. 11, (ltd. 30)
First 30 copies come in handmade artwork with a special stripe.
Stalnoy Pakt -- "Russia's Awakening" -- CD -- €12
2003 ALF Produkt No. 3, (ltd. 500)
This is the first full-length CD of the new project of A. Lebedev-Frontov (Linija Mass, Vetrophonia) and K. Rozhkov (S36Nz-Okh) after the brilliant 10" release in Prometheus series and the split 10" with Rasthof Dachau, both issued by Der Angriff. This time it is dedicated to those Russians who being in European emigration still tried to fight for the freedom of Russia after the Bolshevik revolution has happened. The music is in the same vein as on the previous vinyls - deep profound ambient with analogue noise touches and voice samples. Non-standard sized silver-on-black printed cover, limited edition of 500 copies. 10 tracks, total time: 53.43.
Stalnoy Pakt / Anthesteria -- "Dedicated to the Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905" -- CD -- €15
2007 Der Angriff, Nr. 29, (ltd. 500)
This split release is a commemoration of one of the most tragic pages of Russian history in the XXth century - the Russo-Japanese War. This lost war became a deep scar in a national consciousness of that period and turned out to be among the most painful and powerful incentives to the following first Russian revolution (1905) and further eventual decline of the Russian monarchy. This CD is a try to revive the deep anxiety and the premonition of the upcoming relentless social shock which have overwhelmed the Russian nation in those times. Stalnoy Pakt presents maybe their most melodic tracks to date here, the distinctive band's multi-layered dark ambient is melted with old military Japanese song samples and old Russian lyrics narrations, sometimes adorned with piano chords or martial drums. Anthesteria's cold gloomy tunes combined with choir chants and gramophone record samples aggravate the atmosphere of the dull waiting for the imminent disaster. The album is concluded with authentic historical recording of the classic track of the period called "Na Sopkakh Manchzhurii" performed by a very famous singer of that time Mikhail Vavich. This funeral waltz dedicated to the victims of this war drives the overall feel of despair and grief up to the highest limit. The album could be compared to the best examples of history inspired works but with its own very special purely Russian depressive mood. An absolute must! The release comes in a special A5 folder package with a lot of inserts and limited to 500 copies. [label info]
Stegm -- "Abstinence" -- CD-R -- €7
2002 Soulworm Editions, Worm XXI
Finally, we are glad to intruduce an album dealing with our long-live fetish interest. Adorable, BDSM oriented, voiceless power electronics radically executed by Ryan Bloomer (Flatline Construct). Harsh, malignant yet very atmospheric sound makes 'Abstinence' a perfect soundtrack for a satysfying intercourse. [press-release]
Stegm / Leihenhalle -- "Unconcious N' Bleeding" -- CD-R -- €7
2002 Dead Rats Produktions, Dead010, (ltd. 100)
Polish & Canadian industrial / power electronics.
Stelladrine -- "You'll Never See Your World Again" -- CD -- €10
2005 Mechanoise Labs, [mn027], (ltd. 550)
"People of Earth, attention! This is a voice speaking to you from thousands of miles beyond your planet!" - the aliens pontificate and open this futuristic soundtrack to the retro-fantasies about space intrusions, rockets, journeys through time, mad scientiscs and other sci-fi ingredients. Sound collage made of ambient electronics, drones and soft noises, "western-style" acoustic guitars and theremin emulators, surf music and sampled B-movies, twisted around the vintage spirit of pop-culture of 50ies. Great album with healthy sense of humour!
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Stelzer, Howard -- "Bond Inlets" -- CD -- €10
2008 Intransitive Recordings, INT030
Ten years after his debut CD, Stone Blind (Intransitive, 1997), Howard Stelzer presents Bond Inlets, his first widely available solo cassette-tape composition. Stelzer, a Boston-based composer and sound artist, was never happy with his previous album and threw away most of the pressing as soon as it returned from the factory. He took the occasion of his label's tenth anniversary to dissect the source sounds of that work and filter it through the lens of the interceding decade in order to build a piece that more accurately reflects what his intentions were then, and what his aesthetic is today. Bond Inlets is a subtly emotional work of foreground drone that beats its head against the plastic walls of cassette-tape technology, laying bare the physicality of the process of its creation. The dying motors of ancient cassette players, tape-saturated percussion, and blown-out condenser-mic wail are mixed with elements of live tape improvisations and surreptitious field recordings taken in Stelzer's neighborhood to create deep chasms of no-fidelity murk and evocative hiss. There is an implacable melancholy to Bond Inlets, with fragments of distant melodies that surface briefly only to be subsumed again into the grime. [press-release]
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Stereonoize Gallery -- "Diary of the Murderer" -- 3"CD-R -- €5
2003 DIS Productions
10 short EBM/breakcore tracks, though I doubt you would dance under this music, as it sometimes deviates towards rhythmic industrial. Very well done, like everything from this Byelorussian label.
Stigma Diabolicum -- "14 - The Plague Soundtrack" -- CD-R -- €7
Altsphere Production
Spaced out minimalistic lo-fi dark ambient from France. Underground distribution edition - CDr coming with photocopied b/w cover.
StillStand -- "Kreuzung" -- CD-R -- €7
2004 Tosom, TOSOM 014, (ltd. 100)
For this album StillStand use the recordings of traffic sounds on one of the crossroads as a sound source. It's not an easy listening, but definitely a fantastic trip: a combination of well-known everyday sounds with atmospheric soundscapes. A5 sleeve with 6 inlays. [YAOP]
Stimbox -- "Between Eugene And Victoria" -- CD -- €10
2006 L. White Records, LW-038, (ltd. 300)
New album of these american cult noise artist from San Francisco / 13 merciless harsh electronic noise tracks with a touch of true crime electronics / listen what sounds noise created. [label info]
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Stokes, Saul -- "Fields" -- CD -- €11
2003 Hypnos/Binary, hyby0205
Stokes, Saul -- "Radiate" -- CD -- €10
2003 Databloem, DBCD 006
Saul Stokes (USA) is a ambient-electronic artist with a number of highly regarded albums to his credit, and a very distinctive sound derived from his hand-forged electronics. Radiate is a startlingly bright and beautiful album, with sonic washes both warm and experimental. It also offers newcomers their best glimpse at the two modes of Stokes's work , willful improvisation and chilled ambient-techno. [label info]
Stokes, Saul -- "Washed in Mercury" -- CD -- €11
1997 Hypnos, hyp1602
A very rhythmic and melodic album, full of dynamics and uplifting sounds, I was impressed with its original style, due to the fact that Saul Stokes is the creator of all his electronic instuments, and has obviously designed them to give way for his own unique touch. The lack of slow drifting ambience, everso present in all other Hypnos releases, therefore cannot be considered as a drawback, but should be viewed upon differently, in light of the specific Stokes auditory expression. [Vladimir Jovanovic, Inner Space Radio]
Stokes, Saul -- "Zo Pilots" -- CD -- €11
1998 Hypnos, hyp1807
Somehow I missed out on Stokes' debut CD and now I regret that. Building his own electronics and still being able to create a sonically fascinating world is something not many people can do. Yes, listeners... if the word 'world' comes around, it's ambient time again and I stated it before and here again: Hypnos are a strong label to release this music. Stokes is no different: a great talent of creating outerworld, outerlimit sounds that is dark. In comparision to the other recent Hypnos CD's, Stokes uses rhythms, not in a techno fashion, but much more in a machine like humming way. Spacey, yet down to earth. Highlights for me are the cosmic 'First Jump' and the laid back 'Fast Creatures.' But the other five are top too! [Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly]
Stoll, Steve & Jeff Green -- "Tangled" -- CD-R -- €9
2009 Databloem
Tangled, a challenging twist of Steve Stoll's Minimal Techno and Jeff Green's cello excursions, showcases 2 improvised live performances and 4 composed studio tracks. An unusual yet exciting symbiosis of manipulated cello and drums, groovy and atmospheric. [label info]
Stormfågel -- "Den Nalkande Stormen" -- CD -- €14
2005 Cold Meat Industry, cmi149
Deep in the forests of Sweden we found a lumberjack (but he's ok...) and a transylvanian songbird... - together they are Stormfågel. The act itself may be new but the main character in the band, mr lumberjack himself, Andreas Neidhardt has been lurking around for a good 10-15 years in various lesser successfull constallations. This time he manage to surpass himself and created something charming and different. A mixture between folk, martial and neoclassical music! - Strange? and what about adding a very unique and personal female voice in Hungarian to this?! Not heavenly, but hellish and folkish.... Their sound whispers of atmospheres from the past. Romantic, melancholic and decadent, at time even with a bombastic touch. If necessary, they may be compareable with very early Blood Axis and Moon Lay Hidden. [press-release]
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Stormhat -- "Addicted To Disaster" -- CD -- €10
2008 Diophantine Discs, n = 15, (ltd. 500)
The work of Denmark's Stormhat melds a variety of elements of experimental music, from ambient/drone to field recordings and feedback. With his first pressed CD, Peter Bach Nicolaisen gives us a wonderful hour-long journey though field recordings, reverberating & scraped percussion, and drones. An excellent recording, sure to appeal to fans of all related genres, "Addicted to Diaster" provides a wonderful and engaging listen. Stormhat's work has previously been released on Cohort and A Beard Of Snails... Housed in a custom printed color wallet. [press-release]
Stormloop -- "Snowbound*" -- CD -- €12
2011 Glacial Movements Records, GM0012, (ltd. 500)
Stormloop is Kev Spence from Leeds, England who has been making electronic and ambient recordings since 1999. Snowbound* is his first recording on a record label, and the ambience is in perfect harmony with the icy themes of the Roman Glacial Movements. Snowbound* is a collection of tracks that was recorded in late december 2009, deep snow had fallen that stayed for over two weeks. Composing usually late into the night, watching the heavy snowfalls was the inspiration for these tracks, and the feeling of been lost in some remote cabin, safe but warm, with good food and drink, staring out at the depths of winter snow that covers the land. These crystalline soundscapes, take us from the cold winter nights, then out towards the bleakness of space. Snowbound* is an authentic full-immersion into the cold, and you can really feel the snowflakes on your skin. [press-release]
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Stoukalin, Kirill -- "Programma 3" -- CD-R -- €9
2002 self-released, (ltd. 40)
Russian harsh-noise from Kirill Stoukalin (Organomehanizm).
Stoukalin, Kirill -- "Organs and Mechanisms" -- CD-R -- €9
2007 self-released, (ltd. 50)
Kirill Stoukalin is an old school noisician from St. Petersburg, formerly known as a member of Reductio Ad Absurdum, and now making solo recordings (Organomehanizm) and collaborations with Alexander Lebedev-Frontov. This disc contains four different mixes of the same composition "Organs and Mechanisms". Collage made out of noises, bucket ramblings, radio and TV samples. Rough concrete sound.
Strangulated Beatoffs -- "Reverse Child Psychology" -- CD -- €10
2001 Nihilist, NIHIL 15
There are nine long tracks here, again based on tape loops of all sorts of music, but mainly these boys are into a sort of wacky sort of techno music, like in 'Lightning Bolt Nightmares' or '(I'm) Big Dick Black' played with raw loops of guitar noises and phased synthesizer. Strange music, as each track is quite different from the rest, but it's sort of a coherent style they present. Weird and raw, but then also quite accessible too. Simple, yet effective music which despite the fact that they use loops, which might easily leap into boredom. But it doesn't. Nice one here. [Vital Weekly]
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Stratosphere -- "The Introspective Spaces" -- 3"CD -- €7
1996 Amplexus, XUS 07, (ltd. 1000)
From the writings of Stratosphere: "As I compose my music, I try to create a relaxing environment so that the listener can escape from the hectic world of today. So, sweeping sounds which are filled with warmth are the base of each composition. Later on, percussion was added, but again, the relaxing mood was the main idea behind each musical work. Mystic meanings and surrealistic concepts are not what you must seek in this kind of music but pure enjoyment when experiencing these soundscapes". Produced by Vidna Obmana. Four tracks in an A5 full colour sleeve. [label info]
Stratvm Terror -- "Fixation" -- CD -- €12
2005 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 072
New CD of collaboration project of Peter Andersson and Tobias Larsson contains old material from 1998-99, 2 new tracks, one track from "Death Odors II" compilation published by Slaughter Productions in 1997 and one live recorded track. Although the album doesn't sound like a collection of separate pieces and has it's own atmosphere. Sometimes the sound blurres in sombre fog, sometimes condences in brutal harsh tension, in general, great death industrial album.
Stratvm Terror -- "Pain Implantations" -- CD -- €13
1998/2009 Old Europa Cafe, OECD118
Formed by aggression and pain the aptly titled CD 'Pain Implantation' is probably a good description of the music, given the focus of the approach. Sparse and suffocating atmospheres float forth while distorted sicken tones are injected. The opening track lulls the listener into a false sense of relaxation before the distorted frequencies leap out to reek havoc on the listeners cerebral area. The music throughout the disc pounds on your skull without mercy and then slows down before the next eruption, ripping through your ears jamming them with feedback and beats tearing the mind apart. Every track has a nerve grating, tympanic membrane agitating attraction, sonically careens off of the interior fortress of the body... Stratvm Terror is Peter Andersson of Raison d'etre, Necrophorus, Bocksholm, Atomine Elektrine etc. and Tobias Larsson of Ocean Chief. 'Pain Implantations' were originally released in 1998 on Malignant Records as the second CD album release of the band. This re-release from Old Europa Cafe, totally refurbished from the original master and added with two more songs, is presented with complete new artwork. [press-release]
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Stratvm Terror -- "This Is My Own Hell" -- CD -- €12
2008 Reverse Alignment, RA-6 / Existence Establishment, EE11, (ltd. 1000)
Welcoming the return of Peter Andersson (Raison D'etre, Necrophorous) and Tobias Larsson (Ocean chief), Existence Establishment and Reverse Alignment present "This is My Own Hell" with over an hour's worth of the darkest, bleakest industrial soundscapes these artists have delivered. Spanning minimalist dark ambience to doomed industrial passages Stratvm Terror portrays an absolutely hopeless atmosphere of pure desolation. With artwork featuring the paintings of Mia Makila, "This is My Own Hell" may just be your own pleasure. Limited to 1000 copies in 4 panel full color digipak. [label info]
Streicher -- "War Without End" -- CD -- €10
2002 Cold Spring Records, CSR41CD
Streicher are one of the Industrial underground legends - starting in Australia in the mid 80s, Ulex Xane began a number of extreme noise projects released mostly on cassette and distributed through the tape networks up to the early 90s. The original cassettes are now sought after collectors items. Streicher utilise a mix of total noise / power noise with covert military recordings, military equipment, radar signals, military telecommunication signals. It is a stark comment on the current war against terrorism - literally, a war without end. This is the first time the finest recordings of Streicher have been digitally remastered and presented to you on CD. [press release]
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Strup -- "How to Drill the Soil Sacredly" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT63, (ltd. 49)
A full-length album of the musician from Belarus, made in style of low-profile Rough Art Noise. The album is conceptual, dry, emotionally and aesthetically heavy, dirty, melancholic, tragic and lengthy. It is dedicated to the death of human self ("Ego"), when only will-less body remains... the eart and sky are drilled, stones answer no more to the prayers, only hardly heard whisper of soils, the last song of drying out stinky swamp. Three-panel black & white cover. [press-release]
Strup -- "Kanal Vospriyatiya" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 InterioRepertoR, ir03
Abstract analogue/digital dark ambient from Belarus. Dense waves of low-frequency sound and hoarse gritty textures, nice industrial lo-fi atmosphere.
Strup -- "Maskanimation" -- CD-R -- €7
2011 ōÅĢĻ ĶÅĢĻÄÉÉ records, (ltd. 24)
Rough Noise with hollow retrograde sound for the lovers of early analogue Comforter, LHD, Organomehanizm and the most monochrome works of Reductio Ad Absurdum. Beautiful handmade A5 cover made of vintage cardboard, CD is wrapped in a dried carbon paper, insert - technologic glass plate 12 x 12 cm. [YAOP]
Strup -- "Paralych" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2011 Spasi i Sohrani Records
This is literally the best Death Industrial from ex-Soviet Union. Pressure of low frequency chtonic sound, brutal distorted vocals, retro samples and mass of psychedelic abrasive sounds. Package hand-made from a Soviet postcard, technologic paper and necrophiliac b/w sticker. [YAOP]
Strup / .nyctalops. -- split -- CD-R -- €7
2011 óŠĮÓÉ É óĻČŅĮĪÉ Records
Two noise projects from Belarus and Russia. Strup presents long atmospheric radionoise track dedicated to Jan Palach. .nyctalops. performs good varied Harsh Noise. DVD-box. [YAOP]
Strup / MNL9 -- "That Very Time" -- CD-R -- €7
2011 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT62, (ltd. 87)
Though this one is a split album, it sound surprisingly homogenic. Old-School Industrial mixed with noise, created in the aesthetics of pre-Perestroika Soviet Union, lavishly stuffed with samples of Soviet broadcasts. The results sounds as if Throbbing Gristle, Coil and Test Dept. were some ultra-underground home-recording bands from Siberia (like legendary Grazhdanskaya Oborona). The disc also includes a dada "Antityaxt" written by Noumen. Regular edition in a sleeve. [label info]
Strup / MNL9 -- "That Very Time" -- CD-R -- €8
2011 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT62, (ltd. 87)
Special edition packed in a 80s "Pravda" newspaper, supplied with a set of atmospheric photos and a pocket calender (not to get lost in time). [label info]
Stumm -- "I" -- CD -- €10
2006 Aesthetic Death Records, ADCD 005, (ltd. 2000)
Sludge / doom from Finland.
The Stupid Set -- "You Guys Don't Exist!" -- CD -- €11
2006 Astroman.It, ASTRO 005
Experimental Post-Punk / No Wave ancient band from Italy, formed in 1977. Unconventional cover versions of "Louie Louie" and "Hello I Love You", harsh guitars, drum machines, atonality, screaming. For the lovers of Tasaday, CCCP - Fedeli Alla Linea, The Birthday Party and Lydia Lunch. [YAOP]
Sturmpercht -- "Geister im Waldgebirg" -- CD -- €15
2006 Percht, Percht 07
One year has passed since the Austrian / south Bavarian Alpin-Folk formation Sturmpercht released their last 7". Finally now here is their long awaited new album! "Geister im Waldgebirg" is a journey through the deepest central-European forests and mountains with all their strange creatures, fairies, myths and legends. The sounds and lyrics on this album are engrained in old pagan rites and cults, in hunters-legends and in tales from darkest woods and the people living there. The songstyles vary from powerful Martial-Folk hymns, over fragile Folk-balads, to weird songs about strange people and creepy animals. Several great artists supported Sturmpercht in the making of this album: first af all Axel from WERKRAUM, who is a basic Sturmpercht-member since quite a while now. It's Axels perfect guitar- and flute playing and his skillful hands in mixing, that the Folk-songs have this brilliant late 60ies/early 70ies touch now. The close Sturmpercht-friends ALLERSEELEN, SANGRE CAVALLUM and WALDTEUFEL have also recorded fantastic songs especially for this album. Allerseelen and Sangre Cavallum also contributed several sounds from their large archives and Waldteufel additionally gave his voice for "Riesenbruder". Sturmpercht is the only Folk-band, who created their own music style named "ALPIN-FOLK", which is absolutely unique up to now. Anyway if you prefer straight or weird Folk: there is no way around this album for all kinds of Folk-Lovers. This album will be your closest friend in dark and frosty winter nights! [press-release]
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Sturmpercht -- "Schattenlieder" -- CD -- €14
2009 Percht, Percht12
Three years have passed since Sturmpercht released their cult-album "Geister im Waldgebirg". Now the masters of ALPINE FOLK are back with their new album "Schattenlieder - eine kleine Nachtmusik fuer Waldteufel und Berggeister". The album features 20 diverse and unique songs full of alpine mystic, heathen legends and tales about strange fairies and pagan rites. "Schattenlieder" entrains you into deep forests, arcane mountains and dark chasms and guides you to hidden places in the depth of the central European forests, where hunters meet strange creatures from dusk til dawn. The atmosphere of the album varies between gnarled songs about creepy fairies, catchy folk hymns and dark songs about the hard life in high alpine regoins. The lyrics deal with alpine myths, forest tales and hunter sagas. "Schattenlieder" is the perfect "soundtrack" for misty autumn evenings as well as for dark winter nights. The album features a large variety of instruments and sounds: obscure, strange, folky, psychedelic, but always original and weird, in Sturmpercht's very unique way. "Schattenlieder" is a completely unpredictable album - each track is a "standalone", but contributes to the overall ambience of this alpine folk masterpiece and in the end the album creates a round, whole atmosphere. With almost 80 minutes of scary/dreamy folk songs, the album definitely sets a new benchmark within the Alpine Folk genre... [press-release]
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Sturmpercht -- "Stürm ins Leben Wild Hinein!" -- CD -- €14
2004/2010 Percht, Percht02
Due to many requests for a digital version of the first Sturmpercht LP, we decided to rerelease this obscure pearl of Alpine-Folkmusic on CD now... This album is pure weird Alpine-Folk music with martial drinking-songs, alpine battle-hymns and strange fairie-tales out from the deepest Austrian and Bavarian forests, all embedded in a breath of black Monty Python humour. [label info]
Sturmpercht -- "A Wilde Zeit" -- CD -- €14
2007/2008 Percht, Percht09
An extended reissue of the limited CDR. The album contains all songs from the previous vinyl releases: "Der Tanz Des Tatzelwurmes" 7", split 7" with Jägerblut, "Alpine Bann- Und Segensspruche" single-sided LP + CDR, "Der Marsch Der Wampelereiter" 7" + three previously unreleased tracks.
Styczynski, Marek -- "Cybertotem Remix Project" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 World Flag Records, WFR 029
In 2007, after I had released a solo project entitled Cyber Totem, I announced an open project whose main assumption was granting uncommercial access to two basic sound environments from that record to other musicians. The two sound environments were studio preparations based on natural sound recordings such as the sounds of the Carpathian mofettas and acoustic instruments such as didjeridu and an American Indian musical toy from Oregon. It was on these sound environments that I based two compositions from the original album: Dolphin's Death and Cyber Totem. I suggested that this procedure be followed by other musicians, which was a kind of exercise in composition. In the years 2008 and 2009 various musicians were sending over their own versions/visions of the compositions and, as a result of a number of discussions, arrangements and modifications the final shape of this CD, which presents an overview of those works, was established. I decided to publish eleven pieces by eight artists: CENTRUM, HATI, RAMUNAS JARAS, TREPANG, DUBCORE, EMITER, WIDOTA, ACCOMPLICE AFFAIR". [from the author]
Subarachnoid Space -- "Eight Bells" -- CD -- €10
2009 Crucial Blast, CBR 81
...Eight Bells is the first new release from Subarachnoid Space in four years (following 2005's The Red Veil on Strange Attractors). Featuring the recording lineup of Daniel Barone, Melynda Jackson, Lauren K. Newman, Daniel Osborne and Steven Wray Lobdell, the music of Eight Bells continues in the heavy lysergic vein as their last couple of post-Release albums, fusing wicked metallic crunch with ethereal fx-laden guitar freakouts and some of the band's most narcotized jamming yet... [label info]
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Subhuman -- "s/t" -- 3"CD-R -- €10
2005 Abgurd Subdivision, AB-09, (ltd. 99)
Project which authors preferred to stay unknown for the audience plays raw martial. Without politics, without "blood and soil", only musical retrospection of 30-40-ies. [label info]
Subhuman -- [untitled II] -- 3"CD-R -- €8
2006 Abgurd Subdivision, AB-18, (ltd. 198)
Second untitled work from Subhuman. Symphony of desolation after the hostilities. Distant buzzes and whistles, melancholic piano passages, rought drum rolls and speech samples. This mini-album will perfectly fit as a soundtrack for documentaries about the destruction of cities during WWII. Music can be possibly compared to Von Thronstahl and most soft works of Toroidh. Without politics, without "blood and soil". [press-release]
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Subhuman -- "[untitled III]" -- 3"CD-R -- €8
2008 Abgurd, AB-50, (ltd. 50)
Final part in the history of the project. The first two 3" CDrs gained a lot of attention and and good reviews, many people asked if any continuation would happen. If [untitled I] was rather bombastic, with neoclassic elements, whereas [untitled II] shifted emphasis to ambiences and minimal use of instruments while being more industrial - [untitled III] merges those two sides of Martial genre, combining light and touchy melodies with deep background ambiences. [press-release]
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Subinterior -- "Mesmerize" -- CD-R -- €10
2008 Afe Records, afe108lcd, (ltd. 150)
Subklinik -- "Musik For Dekomposition" -- CD -- €10
2010 Fall Of Nature Records, FN06
Since 1996, Subklinik has continued to create some of the darkest Death Industrial / necro-soundscapes in existence. Enter "Musik For Dekomposition", the latest full length from Subklinik, featuring six torturous expressions that convey a foreboding atmosphere abundant with feelings of death, and isolation, manifested through a sonic vortex of analogue filth and decay. [label info] "Lo-fi, unsettling, and ultra grim, this immediately takes me back to the early-mid' 90s and the heyday of the Slaughter Productions cassette scene." [Jason Mantis, Malignant Records]
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Subliminal -- "Coping" -- CD -- €15
2006 Galakthorrö 018
Pure terror! With his new album Albert Fisch has created such an impressive inferno of hate that hearing it warms the cockles of the heart! Violent analog electronic and machine noise is skillfully structured by the use of pulsating bass frequencies and aggressive vocal performances. The combination of all these elements culminate in a mighty shockwave that just surges off straight into the central nervous system. Powerelectronics at its best, uncompromising, dirty and trigger-happy! The theme "coping" forms the theoretic and emotional foundation, inspiring and evoking ideas, both acoustic and visual. Since the debut album Gracebudd, the development has continued. Those who appreciated Subliminals' contribution to the Kosmoloko sampler will find Coping a particularly successful follow-up experience. For anyone who wants to re-adjust his hate-wavelengths one more time, here is the right tool for the job. [press-release]
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Subliminal -- "Gracebudd" -- CD -- €15
2000 Galakthorrö 013
Harsh frequencies leaking from the depths of analog electrosound machines, weird voices, diabolical power and clinical atmosphere - what do you expect to be released on Galakthorrö label? Especially since Haus Arafna gave their hand in recording of this album.
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Submatukana -- "dAngerous tesTs" -- CD-R -- €8
2008 Turbinicarpus Records, TBC005, (ltd. 60)
A debut CD by an audiovisual project form Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine. The guys from Submatukana experiment with acoustic instruments & urban devices and play with the late japanoise school, breakcore and industrial-drone. It is a pure authentic project, who aims to popularize domestic devises' noises aesthetics with classical electronic experiments over breakcore, drone, noise and 8bit music... About Submatukana: "Sound is our structure, movement our main component. We are not motion of the body, but rather motion of the mind. Our abstract unreality is a deeper existence, which lives in the digital world, crashing spiritual substance down onto the concrete earth from the skies. It is a narrative of sounds, developing into completed forms through our conceptual performances in this theatre of absurdity we know as the world around and inside us. Yet through the swirling chaos lies strict logic at its core. Percussion and rhythm-section - fire and ice - visualizations of music, spiritual seduction of the unprepared mind, by Igor Yalivetz and Yuri Kupriyanov, creators of Submatukana: the pseudo-hallucinogenic Castaneda never discovered. Experimenting with anything and everything, harsh IDM and latent noise, it is a romantic chaos of postindustrialism and improvisation. Tune into the path towards your darker self." CD envelope is folded from a newspaper page, 4-paged colour booklet is included. [press-release]
Sudden Infant -- "Ear Wash" -- CD -- €10
2003 SSSM, sssm-104, (ltd. 500)
Absolutely deranged mixture of improvised noise, natural instruments (trombone and bass-guitar), cut-up technique, sampled voices and various abrupt sounds. Everything served under a hot sauce of crazy humour typical for this Swiss performance band.
Sunchariot -- "Eidyllion Delta" -- 3"CD-R -- €10
2007 Observatoire, Observatoire 15, (ltd. 36)
The continuation of the series of restored recordings collected under the sign of "delta". Obscure post-industrial ambient. Recommended to fans of quality-done old school / lo-fi.
Sunchariot -- "Komodia Delta" -- 3"CD-R -- €9
2007 Observatoire, Observatoire 17, (ltd. 36)
Two hollow tracks in vein of early obscure post-industrial ambient. Recommended to fans of quality-done old school / lo-fi.
Sunchariot -- "Ritual Head / Right Sun" -- CD-R -- €9
2005 Observatory Records 001
Sunchariot was formed in Russian city of Rostov-on-Don from the black metal band with the same name. Now it plays raw and harsh industrial/ambient in vein of Misery or early Lunar Abyss Quartet. This CDR contains the recording of the live show made using voice, computer and trephined human skull with sensors.
Sunchariot -- "Ruina Atrasiab" -- CD-R -- €10
2007 Observatory Records, Observatory 07, (ltd. 10)
A short 25-min work divided on 2 tracks. All project's trademark features are here: slow stalk of rhythm exuding through the wall of obscure rough sound and unexpected melancholic guitar tune.
Surma -- "Allocutio" -- CD -- €10
2008 The Eastern Front, Front 019, (ltd. 300)
New album of the very young Ukrainian project Surma. Martial ambient sounds mixed with industrial elements and nostalgic old samples. [label info] Walking those desolate battlefields of Les Joyaux de la Princesse and Der Blutharsch Surma is operating in their vein making sober martial ambient. Old shellac and repetitive loops of battle sounds grinding you through this war machine. As the smoke slowly disappears the horror will become visible and the stench of rough blood penetrates your nostrils. Allocutio brings you the oppressive atmospheres from the trenches. Starting with some kind of anthem in the 'First Vision' we enter the rotating war samples of bombing with some metal percussion and a distant voice in the 'Second Vision'. The martial genre is a genre with not much room for innovation and so this release continues with four more other visions with the same ingredients. Surma makes filmic martial ambient creating pictures of war and desolation. Allocutio is a nice record but the genre itself has nothing new to offer and so does Surma but Surma can compete with the best acts from the genre and is therefore interesting enough for those who like acts such as Combative Alignment or LJDLP. [Gothtronic]
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Survival Unit -- "Murder For The Mission" -- CD -- €13
2005/2009 Autarkeia, acd 034
Although the cult album Fentanyl Martyrs embodied the death of Survival Unit project, the latter is toxic even while buried. The zombies are coming back. The new album Murder For The Mission is Volume 1 of old and very rare, almost unobtainable retrospective records of the Swedish cult project or the collection of cultural terrorism. The album Murder For The Mission includes both released and yet unreleased tracks from a few sessions. These are Vemod label's tape Murder For The Mission, a concert in Paris and the CDR Utan Fana released as very limited edition. So the audio terror goes on and those who believe that it has ended after the Fentanyl Martyrs act, now will pay the double price. The extremely aggressive psycho-powerelectronics shock full of hatred and insane samples will get them. [press-release]
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Survival Unit -- "Thought-Trigger-Target" -- CD -- €10
2001/2009 Autarkeia, acd 040
Here is one more masterpiece of Swedish cultural terrorism supplemented with new material and re-released in the golden collection of cultural terrorism series. If compared with the most aggressive albums of Kristian Olsson's gang Survival Unit, this one is perhaps more atmospheric than openly destructive. Yet, like all other Survival Unit's diversions, it is pervaded by the black social despair, hate towards human civilisation and the lies it spreads about the reality. It also conveys the position of a person developed in the violent world, i.e. violence against violence for violence. Resistance to everything and anything. Life and its meaning in a nihilistic fight against the surrounding fake reality. This album is a gloomy insight into the future that awaits us all and a fine lesson showing us what stands at the end of the Scandinavian idyll. The album is released in a very elegant digipack with an embossed cover. [press-release]
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Survival Unit -- "Tied Down For Survival" -- CD -- €10
2003/2009 Autarkeia, acd 038, (ltd. 500)
At the times of global crisis, the zombies of cultural terrorism strike again with the fire of new toxic power. Tied Down For Survival is a old/new blow from the Scandinavian cult project Survival Unit to the rotten cancer of Western civilisation and the second collection of rarities in the golden collection of cultural terrorism series. This is an exceptionally suggestive, psychedelic power electronics with deeply terrorising implications. Here you will listen to unreleased live records, passages from limited edition utan fana and the controversial conspiracy theory of Rolf-Peter Andersson, where Swedish monarch family, Indira Gandhi and Mikhail Gorbachev practice cannibalism. [press-release]
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Survival Unit -- "Will To Zero" -- CD -- €10
2002/2009 Autarkeia, acd 039
Will To Zero is the third part in Survival Unit's golden collection of cultural terrorism series, actually meant for crippling as many people as possible without a hope of recovery. Daresay, that all in this album serves for the attainment of this purpose. The duration of esp. aggressive and deranged tracks exceeds 15 mins. Very straightforward sound, often reminding the invasion of rats, crushes the minds of all calibres. Do you believe your nerves are strong enough to take this? Then read the title once again and then go buy medical insurance. Zero chances to withstand. But those who do, will surely require medicines for the rest of their lives. The release is presented in a fine digipack of three embossed sides. [press-release]
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Sutcliffe Jugend -- "Pigdaddy" -- CD -- €10
2008 Cold Spring, CSR92CD
The Sutcliffe Jügend filthy dirt-mess of an album that is Pigdaddy is now available on Cold Spring. Six stories of mind-fucking depravity. Pigdaddy contains some of the most fucked up, histrionic and downright bizarre vocals ever recorded. The music is created using the most basic sound sources. The overwhelming sense of moral decay makes this Sutcliffe Jügend's most original album yet. Pigdaddy is Beyond Perverse. Sexual transgression never sounded so dirty. Hear Pigdaddy and you will never feel clean again. Cover painting by Kevin Tomkins. [press-release]
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Sutcliffe Jugend -- "This Is The Truth" -- CD -- €10
2008 Ground Fault Recordings, GF-166 / Hospital Productions, HOS-166, (ltd. 1000)
The first new recordings from Sutcliffe Jugend in over 8 years. Sutcliffe Jugend began in 1982 as a sub-project from the main extreme band, Whitehouse, and instantly gained notoriety as one of the harshest exponents of the original power electronics scene in the world. After releasing the monumental 10xCS boxset "We Spit On Their Graves" on Come Organisation in 1982, Sutcliffe Jugend released a handful of albums until 1999. A single 7" was released in 2001 and they weren't heard from again since 2006 when they played their first ever live show. Four shows were performed in 2006 and work on a new studio album was soon underway. One of the most extreme, influential and mysterious bands of the early 80s were back almost 25 years later. Recorded and mixed during the latter half of 2006, Kevin Tomkins returns to vocals for the first time since "The Victim As Beauty". While this album is a continuation of all before, it feels like a new beginning for them, for the first time Kevin and Paul have started to experiment with the Sutcliffe Jugend sound. Lyrically things have also moved on a great deal, with a more personal aspect to the songs than ever before. [press-release]
Sutcliffe Jugend / Satori -- "Japan Tour 2007" -- CD -- €11
2007 Cold Spring Records, CSR83CD
Split release from these two British acts for their Japanese Tour in April 2007... After "THIS IS THE TRUTH" Sutcliffe JŲgend continue to fuck with your brain. This time with a twenty eight minute diatribe against those who choose the path of least resistance, and suggest not only that they face their demons but embrace them. Are they questioning the listener or holding up a mirror and not liking what they see? Sutcliffe JŲgend continue to explore and understand the human condition with more depth and clarity of vision than a hundred singer/songwriters. A collage at turns ambient, experimental and explosive, they leave the listener thinking where next and more importantly - who is next in the line of fire... Satori arises with its first official release after 12 years of silence. 3 tracks of prime Fortean Electronics and Death Sonics, exploring the Noise side of Satori. Inspired by the Ringu trilogy, these tracks probe the hidden world of dead channel transmissions and unseen realms of the ether. This is the precursor to the Dark Ambient full-length album "KANASHIBARI", to be released on Dogma Chase Records / Molehill, Japan in 2007... Original artwork by Abby Hellasdottir. [press-release]
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Sva Battalion -- "Asymmetry of Chaos" -- CD-R -- €6
2010 Strely Peruna prod., SP022
New album of Martial Noise project from Moscow, more ambiental than his previous works. Session members are Andrey (Misery) and another Andrey with guitar, three Andreys. [Vetvei]
Sva Battalion -- "The Hidden Cult" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2008 Strely Peruna prod., SP020, (ltd. 40)
Second conceptual work from this Russian project, dedicated to the mysticism of Leaderism. Martial noise. Special non-standard packaging, limited edition. Contains multimedia part. 20 minutes. [press-release]
Sva Battalion -- "NAC" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2010 Strely Peruna Prod., SP023, (ltd. 40)
Strely Peruna Prod. present new mini-album "NAC" from the project SVA BATTALION. SB continues to develop the line of conceptual noise dedications, and "NAC" is a present time view on probably the most sanguinary and cynical fragment in the history of tsar's Russia - RSFSR - Russia - the red terror. Destruction for misty future of what has been done in the past. Terror as coverage for weakness, terror as coverage for incapacity. Corresponding the rage of those events, the album was recorded in rage! No computer or synthesized sounds! Only harshness of bare wires, distorted acoustic guitar and a microphone. The album also features reconstructed audio remembrances from the times of the "red terror". Heavy electronics / noise. A curious fetish of that evil times, a giving and punishing fetish was Nagant revolver, which marking sign we used in the artwork. [press-release]
Svaixt -- "Virsme Versme" -- CD -- €10
2007 Autarkeia, acd 022, (ltd. 500)
Words swaixtix, svastika, svaiksti have a common root that in Sanskrit or Indo-European mother-tongue means to shine, to glow, light. Svaixt, coming from Laurynas Jukonis, the master of the Lithuanian post-industrial, is one more project revealing his sincere interest in the roots of the civilisation, the beginning of the archaic, multi-meaningful, solid and conflictless reality. Demo version of Svaixt album Virsme versme was released in 50 copies by the very author in CDR format and sold in a blink. The album for the second edition was complemented by new material placing new stress in its concept. Svaixt music consists of deep, pulsating and very transparent ambient building up mystic, arcane atmosphere. The value of the album lies in the absence of digital sound generating means in the recording. Virsme versme was recorded by playing the single brass percussion inducing meditation and providing the sound with a strong oriental zest. The cover of Svaixt Virsme versme contains the photo of the legendary marsh opening Ulos Akis located in the Lithuanian region Dzukija, whereas the CD is packed in the elegant digipack. [label info]
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Svalbard -- "Heimkunft" -- CD -- €13
2010 Lichterklang, LK001
After their successful MCD, here comes the full-length debut album by this Belarussian Dark Electro, Neofolk'n'Pop, Martial project. An album for those who dance to the beat of Ostara, ThouShaltNot, Wolfsheim, Derniere Volonte etc. Mastered by Axel Frank (Werkraum, Sturmpercht, Triarii). [Cold Spring]
Svalbard -- "Treue Vaterland Jugend" -- CD EP -- €10
2009 Der Angriff, Angriff Nr. 34, (ltd. 500)
Svalbard is a promising newcomer from Belarus, which is known to the audience due to its successful performances on Crivia Aeterna festivals in Minsk, where they shared the scene with such internationally acclaimed acts like Moon Far Away, Pragnavit and Ritual Front. The music of Svalbard is a mixture of electronic military-pop and acoustic neofolk with some neoclassical elements and historical samples. Unlike many of todays act on martial scene, this project is not just a clone of its successful cult predecessors, it has its own unique face, combining great enthusiasm with strong ability to compose catchy melodies, which are destined to be popular hits on the scene. The debut MCD "Treue Vaterland Jugend" is about the struggle as an imminent component of life, the life that is consolidated with suffering and hope, when every moment given by Eternity is to be used to return to the roots. The release comes in a deluxe full-colour vinyl-like embossed cardboard cover with printed inner sleeve and partial UV-laquering. 6 tracks, 25 minutes, limited to 500 copies. [press-release]
Svarrogh -- "Yer Su" -- CD -- €14
2008 Ahnstern, Ahnstern34
Svartsinn -- "Devouring Consciousness" -- CD -- €12
2002 Eibon Records, Sva032
Imagine a crossing between Amon and Lustmord, enriched with some dreadful melodies here and there. An orgy of bass frequencies, an apocalypse of drones, a black resounding monolith. Those who are in love with gloomy ambiences won't be put to bread and water. Experience the depths, if you're brave enough......... [press-release]
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Svartsinn -- "Elegies For The End" -- 2 CD -- €20
2009 Cyclic Law, 26th Cycle, (ltd. 1000)
The 4th album by Norwegian dark ambient act, Svartsinn, shows a more melodic yet rather obscure side of the artist. 2009 is the 10th year of Svartsinn's existence and it has inspired Pettersen to try a different approach and to experiment with some new ideas. This new musical journey deals with sadness and melancholy, about not knowing one's place in this vast and at times uninviting world, how it can become a daily torment to not be able to find one's reason to exist. And it's also about finding one's personal path, finding ways to endure and hopefully transcend these engulfing life challenges... The Double CD includes a unique collaboration track with Dahlia's Tear and a 10 years anniversary bonus disc containing exclusive remixes by Triarii, Kammarheit, Letum, Life Toward Twilight, Gustaf Hildebrand, Tenebrious, New Risen Throne, MGriffin, Visions and Hovmod. All acts giving very interesting perspectives on some of Svartsinn's previously released tracks, making this second disc a very special homage to the singular world of Svartsinn. Edition of 1000 copies in 8 panel foldout cardboard sleeve. [press-release]
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Svartsinn -- "Of Darkness And Re-Creation" -- CD -- €12
2003/2010 Ewers Tonkunst, HHE 026 CD / Cyclic Law, , 5th Cycle, (ltd. 500)
First in a series of collaborations between Ewers Tonkunst and Cyclic Law, this is a re-issue of long sold out second Svartsinn album from the year 2003. "Of Darkness And Re-Creation" is a "collection of stories based on heavy mind struggles, emotional complicity or elegies which either leads to emptiness or dark places for a re-creation of the self image. Darkness is all around us or inside each and every one of us, let's not fear it.. Prosper in darkness..." (from the original edition release notes). Maybe most hopeless and desperate music ever done by Svartsinn's mastermind's Jan Roger Pettersen, it is definitely one of the classical works from this "new" generation of dark ambient artists that were gathered around Cyclic Law in the first decade of 2000's. This edition has completely new artwork and new mastering, it is limited to 500 copies and comes in a stylish monochrome mini LP-like cover with inner sleeve, both with some silkscreened elements. [press-release]
Svartsinn -- "Traces Of Nothingness" -- CD -- €12
Cyclic Law, 13th Cycle
The 3rd offering from Norway's Svartsinn could be acknowledged as the end of a trilogy, the first opus "Devouring Consciousness" was an album containing stories made during what the artist explains as being some difficult and rough times. The second offering, "Of Darkness And Re-Creation", was the process of trying to deal with these struggles and reflect on them. "Traces Of Nothingness" is simply the reaction, result and the path ahead in this ongoing, seemingly endless darkness. A slightly more melodic, sad and obscure side of Svartsinn that still keeps the cold and dark atmosphere that defines his sound. [press release]
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Swarm -- "XII" -- CD-R -- €6
2004 Valgriind 04, (ltd. 50)
Strange crooked electronics, Fruity Loops without any attempts to hide it. NAive and talented work! Package with handmade elements. [label info] An amateur recording made in genre of rhythmic electronic schizo, mainly in calm forms.
Sylvian, David -- "Alchemy - An Index Of Possibilities" -- CD -- €11
2003 Virgin Records Ltd., 7243 5 91308 2 8
A collection of works from 1985. Impressive list of collaborationists: Jon Hassell, Holger Czukay, Steve Jansen, Robert Fripp, Ryuichi Sakamoto. Very lively and bright works. No loosy tracks at all. The album is mostly filled with atmospheric ambient. Last track is an 18-minute grand ambient "Steel Cathedrals" (Sylvian, Czukay, Fripp, Sakamoto, Jansen): new-wave style (electronic rhythms,...), post-bop cool tube, spoken word, "crawling" electronic background. Deluxe edition in golden digipak. [YAOP]
Synapsis -- "Materia" -- CD -- €10
2010 Zoharum, ZOHAR IYHHH 002, (ltd. 444)
Zoharum presents new project of Dawid Chrapla (Nojens / Antibiotix) and Andrzej Turziak (:Wulgata:, Multipoint Injector). The album shows compilation of various styles: industrial, dark ambient and noise. [label info]
Syndikhat -- "Folkmord" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2001 Soulworm Editions, Worm XIII
Great Swedish death industrial / power electronics. [label info]
Syndromeda -- "Metaphysical Experiences" -- CD -- €11
2005 Neu Harmony, NH035
Brilliant synths and sequencing in this high charged outing by Syndromeda. [label info]
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Syvary -- "Celebration At The Niece" -- 3"CD-R -- €5
2009 Skotomogilnik, ::SM012::, (ltd. 8)
2nd issue of a release published on B-Rush and immediately sold out. True toys noise recorded at birthday party at one of the project's member. Recorded on a digital photo camera and not edited later. Played on a pile of Chinese electronic toys, background sometimes features voices of the guests. Last track is a glockenspiel shamanism. The disk is wrapped in sleeves of used postcards. Limited to 8. [press-release]
Syväry -- "Dislike" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 B-Rush, B-01, (ltd. 22)
Side-project of Galaxy The Incubator from Petrozavodsk, Russia. Varied irrational compositions from noises to calm abstract constructions made of digital and analogue sounds. Rather coarse electro-acoustics and post-noise. The disc is packed in a paper-bag from granulated sugar.
Szymczuk, Maciek & Slowtion -- "Ways" -- CD -- €10
2011 Zoharum, ZOHAR 024-2
The latest Maciek Szymczuk album was prepared together with a British artist hidden under the moniker Slowtion. 'Ways' is a musical journey into the depth of your own persona, the diary from spiritual journey in search of the answer on the meaning of the human existence where, among the complexities and blind alleys, one can find an element of sacrum, the contact with the Absolute. Musicwise, 'Ways' show slightly different traits of Maciek Szymczuk's work. It may have happened this way because of the collaborative nature of the project and Slowtion's involvement in it. Also, it may have been the character of Joanna's voice-delicate, ethereal that resembles Bristol sounds a bit. [press-release]
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T.A.C. -- "Twilight Rituals" -- CD -- €8
2003 Small Voices, SVR03003
This is the brand new album from T.A.C.!!! "T.R." was recorded in the same sessions of "Waiting for the Twilight" and include 14 new exclusive tracks..., a sort of "Waiting..." twin album. "Twilight Rituals" is the complementary twin album to "Waiting For The Twilight", created during the very same recording sessions. T.A.C. keep on in pursuing their aural alchemy of psycho-ambient soundscapes, and hypnotic songs achieving atmospheres not so distant from "WFTT". This time sounds are more determinate and static but once again not easy to be classified and still carrying the listener in a surreal world without any fixed reference-point. "Twilight Rituals" also is the matrix of "WFTT" but, according to T.A.C. wicked logic, being conceived before it had to be released after. This is the definitive sound-trip from the future past. [press-release]
T.A.C. -- "Waiting for the Twilight" -- CD -- €8
2002 Small Voices, SVR02001
This is the first issue of Small Voices. We are very proud to present thereturn of T.A.C. after five years from their last release "Apotropaismo". After a long time of hibernating sleep, this unforgettedexperienced italian band is back in a magnificent body-form, with a new upsetting sonic paradox... T.A.C. has created a virtual drome where never heard acoustic waves collapse into boundless technoid cages, wrapping dehumanized scaredvoices from the atavistic twilight of dying future! The shining (master)mind of the S.B.restrained this symptons in form of luminouses distant experiences in analien urban dimension. Atribernetic shaman will transfer you in a world of visions, combining sicked chants with electronical sounds, destructured (un)human female voices with unbelieveble acoustics soundscapes... Image a sort of cross between Coil, Matmos, a sort of post-modern obscure evolution of trip-hop and future hyper electronics music...! A swirling interplay that aims at sweeping away old musical categories, anyhow doomed to strain and break under their own burden. They pursue a declared commitment: to explore the depths of the human nature and to stimulate the listeners' imagination. [press-release]
T.A.U. -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €8
Ultra, UCD 03, (ltd. 120)
Noise-trance project from Kirill Rozhkov and Alexander Lebedev-Frontov.
T.A.U. -- "Absolutely Black Body" -- CD-R -- €8
Ultra, UCD 10, (ltd. 120)
Noise-ambient in the way of their first work.
T.R.B.U.H. -- "Ultraaarrrghhh" -- CD-R -- €3
Smell The Stench
A collection of digitized tape recordings from rehearsals, demos and live gigs of Croatian lo-fi noise-core band T.R.B.U.H. (featuring the member of Gruuthaagy). For the fans only.
T.rans A.tlantic R.age -- "Hobo Jazz Vol. 1 & 2" -- 2 CD-R -- €10
2009 Turbinicarpus Records, TBC008, (ltd. 25)
Turbinicarpus Records (Donetsk, Ukraine) proudly presents the double CD of experimental jazz performed by T.rans A.tlantic R.age (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA)... T.rans A.tlantic R.age (T.A.R.) is an explosion of panic beyond control, unorthodox experiments in all the genres to breakthrough beyond style borders, an independent musician from US who now turned to jazz... 'Hobo Jazz' usually refers to music performed by street musicians, homeless hobos, people of the Road. Banjo, double bass and a harp, american folk jazz, ragtime blues, music that first of all makes happy it's performers and sometimes brings a couple of bucks or an extra plate of counter-Pythagorean beans... Hobo Jazz by T.A.R. is an interpretation of musician's emotions who by chance saw a hobo jazz band jammin' out in NY subway. That moment, image, sound, and emotion stuck with him and more then 10 years later became an album... It's a surreal interpretation of own experience, which combines both classic and new waves of jazz: guitar noise, soul, improvisation, samples from Billy Holiday & Charles Mingus. Volume 2 is a bit different - no more samples, add vocals and extra instruments instead, sequences and moods change but the main concept stays the same. CDs come in a cardboard package with handmade collages. [press-release]
Tabata Mitsuru -- "Mankind Spree" -- CD -- €10
2010 Fourth Dimension Records, FDCD75
Mankind Spree is another incredible solo album by Tabata Mitsuru (Acid Mothers Temple, Zeni Geva, etc.), which is every bit as good as one may expect from an artist who has the power and vision to soundtrack time folding in on itself whilst simultaneously pushing the psychedelic envelope into realms where melodies, static white crackle and overflowing rivers of electronics converge like the very points where sanity opens its welcoming hands to madness. Featuring several guests, including Acid Mothers Temple's synthesizer player, Higashi Hiroshi, Mankind Spree comprises seven cuts that cough 'n' splutter over angular rhythms, suck up noise as colourful and beautiful as a perfect rainbow, hit back with some melodic scree and never stray too far from Tabata's keen ear for those rather more avant-strained sensibilities. Similar to Finland's magnificent Circle before him, Tabata's relationship with Fourth Dimension commenced with the release of a now long out of print limited edition 7" single in 1996, 'Children of Woods'. It is good to have him back! [press-release]
Tabor Radosti -- "Agartta" -- CD -- €10
2011 Aliens Production, AP 24, (ltd. 550)
Brand new album from Czech artist Tabor Radosti. Dark Ambient sounds join with shamanic rhythms featuring unearthly vocals reminiscent of a gap between space and time. Orchestral elements with hypnotic loops are arranged in waves which fill every corner of your imagination. Features collaborations with Ah Cama-Sotz and Kenji Siratori, and the voice of Ann Marie Thim (Arcana) on 2 tracks. Ltd x 550 copies in a DVD size metal box. [Cold Spring]
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Taeter -- "Absolut Nothing" -- CD -- €10
2010 Turgid Animal, TA499 / Trash Ritual, trash055, (ltd. 300)
Long delayed cd debut from Fecalove's side project Taeter. Italian ugly and filthy power electronics. Cock, self-deprecation and booze over and over again. 10 tracks including Brainbombs and The Sodality covers! 12 page booklet with lyrics and sexy pictures. Mastered in Singapore by Shaun Sankaran (Cumshot Wound). [label info]
Taghairm -- "Wrath" -- CD-R -- €8
2007 YAOP, YAOP 030, (ltd. 69)
This can be called derk-folk with electro-guitar. Or traditional-based post-punk. Or gothic post-rock. Cold depressive recitation will remind of the band Region 77 to the experts, or Majdanek Waltz to the neophytes. We should also mention periodical droplets of icy old school industrial and dark ambient. But what cost all these words in comparison with the fucking beautiful feeling of Truth and Freedom which is born by this solitary Music and so native teeth-gritting Words... Only 69 copies in handmade package. [press-release]
Talugung -- "Under Humid Light -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Harha-Askel, [HA-5]
Solo project of Ryan Waldron, a member of Canadian band The Riderless. Imaginary world music, evoking and blending together the images of distant corners of our planet. "Under Humid Light" is played mostly on handmade instruments and combines the elements of Asian, African and Western music. Handmade cardboard sleeve. [YAOP description]
Tam Quam Tabula Rasa -- "Lacrymae Rerum / Muleacenani" -- 2 CD-R -- €14
2004 Old Europa Cafe, OECDR 004, (ltd. 150)
Re-edition of these 2 tapes out years ago on OEC in the digital format, completely remastered sounds & new covers... Hard ethnic, esoteric looping & spheric sounds, maybe the two TQTR best albums now in a unique box ! A great italian project inspired by German & English classics like Kranioclast or Haflet Trio... A must for all lovers of real "industrial" sounds! Limited edition of 150 copies in jewel-box + full color cover & professionaly printed CDR + printed disc cover! [press-release]
Tape Salad -- "Each Banana Is Unique" -- CD-R -- €6
Chocolate Monk, CHOC-125
Lo-fi noise and primitive tape collages.
Taphephobia -- "Access To A World Of Pain" -- CD -- €10
2010 Greytone, grey006, (ltd. 500)
The music Taphephobia makes is mostly based on manipulated guitars (except house of memories that is mostly based on sounds). Taphephobia try to get out the feelings he has at the moment when Ketil compose the music. The idea is to create a atmosphere that is sometimes scary, and sometimes beautiful, like for example a good thriller drama movie. Taphephobia is very skilled to create a cinematic atmosphere combined with personal feelings like fear, hope, hate, regrets etc: The main goal is to make the listener able to dream away with the music. [press-release]
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Tardive Dyskinesia feat. Sikhara -- "White Flowers / Branca Flora" -- CD -- €10
2005 Dystonia Recordings, DYS002
The second album of this ritual dark ambient noise artist from Germany, this time in collaboration with the american artist Sikhara. Traditional portugese chants and ritual drums are coming over metallic soundscapes, mixed with strange orchestrations and piano.
Tarsus -- "Solifugae" -- CD-R -- €6
Multi National Disaster Records, MNDR 2013, (ltd. 175)
Industrial / power electronics / rhythmic noise.
Tasaday -- "Implosione Tra Le Pieghe Dell'Anima" -- CD -- €10
1984/2010 Silentes Minimal Editions, sme 1037
A sensational CD release of an awesome tape (originally published by Multiple Configuration) that includes live tracks recorded between 1983/1984 and comes in a completely remastered edition. Tasaday are a "cult" band active since the early Eighties. Born from the merging of Die Form and Nulla Iperreale, they are probably the most eclectic and groundbreaking representative of an Italian experimental scene that used to blend elements of rock, noise, experimental and industrial music with great courage and originality. An audio document of exceptional value, this longly waited reprint of live material is also the most direct and remarkable evidence of the work of this unforgettable - and still alive and kicking band. [press-release]
Tchernoblyad -- "IKEA" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2008 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT22, (ltd. 188)
The long awaited single of Tchernoblyad. Avantguarde Power Electronics with electroguitar, analogue synthesizer, metallofon, feedbacks and brutal male and female voices. A 10-minute clot of sickness and contempt, inspired by one of the most odious transnational corporation IKEA and it's pathologically manipulative marketing. Against the capitalism. Against the civilization. Against the pathological hydrocarbon necrostability. Against the modern world. 188 copies in vinyl boxes with inserts. [press-release]
Tchernoblyad -- "Love" -- CD -- €6
2009 Linija Shuma, Shum0008, (ltd. 454)
Genocide monotonous power electronics dedicated to the Un-life in it's various manifestations. Totalitarian noise terror. Lo-fi quality. Re-edition of CD-R and cassette releases.
Tchernoblyad -- "Love" -- CD -- €18
2009 Linija Shuma, Shum0008, (ltd. 10)
Genocide monotonous power electronics dedicated to the Un-life in it's various manifestations. Totalitarian noise terror. Lo-fi quality. Re-edition of CD-R and cassette releases. Special handmade edition wrapped in the pages of an old book.
Tchernoblyad / Lo.By... -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €6
2004 Spirals Of Involution, SOI 046, (ltd. 84)
Spirals Of Involution lo-fi series. Tchernoblyad is a project of Danil Dashkevich (YAO 91404 D). First track is made of tape noise with looped voice sample listing the titles of concantration camps. Second track was recorded live at night in a workshop of a plant. The only track by Lo.By... - insane collage made of media-information and noise.
Tchernostrup -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT55, (ltd. 149)
Psychedelic Old-School Power Electronics, a collaboration between Tchernoblyad (Ingria) and Strup (Belarus). Scratches of warped vinyl records, binaural strikes, signal attacks of antique cassetttes with computer programs from 80-ies, remote clanks and howls of night workshops, samples from little known Soviet movies. A severe mind cleansing. Provocative artwork. [press-release]
The Tear Garden -- "Crystal Mass" -- CD -- €18
2000 Nettwerk / Sub-Conscious Communications, SUB 19
Teatro Satanico -- "Black Magic Block" -- CD -- €10
2008 Steinklang Industries, SK 46
The new masterpiece from the black demons of electro-satanic Post-Industrial music!!! Black Magic Block is a very dense album, full of scary droning soundwalls combined with sublime and hypnotic rhythms. Devis DeV deviLs g., Kalamun and Faber intonate lyrics from Aleister Crowley and Austin Osman Spare with their totally mental voices, aided by Musique Concret - like compositions from DeviLs g. In fact, BMB is a very varied album, in some passages it could even be called the blackest Industrial-Pop album ever, with a strong touch of early Pan(a)sonic and Suicide. [label info]
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Technology of Silence -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 Heart Shaped Box prod., HSB-009, (ltd. 61)
The hero of the story is some city, a kind of hypertrophied Tchernobyl. After the catastrophe the city has become empty, only momeries remain from people living there. Radiation has mangled the bodies and minds of those who remained alive and ventured to stay there. The city appears in two images - as ruins of high technology civilization died from it's own hands, and as an accumulator of human memories, emotions and feelings. [from the author] EBM and technogenic ambient, handmade cardboard sleeve.
Tehom -- "Theriomorphic Spirits" -- CD -- €18
2000 Twilight Command, NERO XXVII
Telepherique -- "Hörspiele" -- CD-R -- €9
2002 AFE Records, afe046lcd, (ltd. 266)
"Hörspiele" is essentially a mixture of Ambient and Concrete music, a remarkable work whose main inpiration comes from the sensibility of Hearing, the chance of dreaming, meditating and travelling by the means of well known noises that people hardly listen because they are always present in the so-called "everyday life". For once the background turns into foreground and gets all the attention it always deserved. [label info]
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Telepherique -- "Musique Montage" -- CD-R -- €9
2007 Blade Records, wmda075, (ltd. 200)
Telepherique -- "Stahl und Stein" -- CD -- €11
2007 Waystyx Records, WR32, (ltd. 425)
Specially for Waystyx Telepherique represented the work, devoted to the Himalaya expedition in 1937. Made with usage of big amount of old analogue synthesizers and field recordings, it very objective reflects the atmosphere of those times. [label info]
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Telepherique -- "Zivilisatose" -- CD -- €10
2009 Diophantine Discs, n = 14, (ltd. 500)
"Zivilisatose" represents the culmination of Telepherique's twenty-year career. Having explored all throughout the realms of industrial, ambient, rhythmic noise, and field recordings, Telepherique has created a distinct sound which manifests itself in new and unique ways on each release. With "Zivilisatose" we are mesmerized by flowing and mysterious ambience, and challenged by unusual rhythms and noises. This, a very personal CD to Telepherique, is also their final full-length recording... Since 1989 Telepherique (and its various side-projects) have released nearly one hundred releases, beginning with many cassettes on their own Drahtfunk-Products label. With subsequent releases on such labels as Ant-Zen, G.R.O.S.S., Noise Museum, SSSM, and Afe, their work received a wide exposure. In addition to solo recordings, they have released numerous collaborations and splits with artists such as Contagious Orgasm, MSBR, Ultra Milkmaids, Brume, Aube, M.B., De Fabriek, and Roger Rotor. "Zivilisatose" also features artwork by TJ Norris... Housed in a custom printed color wallet with 4-panel insert. [press-release]
Telepherique + Bianchi, Maurizio -- "Zehn Tage (Touka)" -- CD -- €10
2004 AFE Records, afe059cd
Experimental. "Zehn Tage (Touka)" is a very special work born from the great friendship of two well-known estabilshed artists. The album concept is focused on the uselessness of time calculation compared to the precision of time itself. The disc title ("Ten Days", in english) refers and is dedicated to those forgotten days of History that were arbitrariously severed off in October 1582 during the Pope Gregorius XIII's Western Calendar Reformation. "Zehn Tage (Touka)" could be described best as a good mixture of Ambient and Concrete music: as in the best Afe record's tradition, it's not afraid of breaking down those genre boundaries, sliding further into psychedelic-tinged rhytmical territories. This is the very first collaboration in Maurizio Bianchi's rather long musical career and also the first Afe CD release... [label info]
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Telepherique + Ultra Milkmaids -- "A-C Symbiose" -- CD-R -- €9
2002 AFE Records, afe031lcd, (ltd. 222)
Following the successful 10" on Rendez Vous Radikal in 1998 and the "Nan Ticum Remixes" CD on Ignis Records earlier this year, Afe is honoured to introduce the third collaboration of Klaus Jochim and Yann Jaffiol. Patiently crafted using audio samples exchanged via mail, this work both explores and compares the untired possibilities still offered by analogic synthesis and the wide range of transformations that numeric systems can apply to sound using the latest computer technology. Telepherique does a good job on the analogic side while Ultra Milkmaids provides accurate digital treatments so that the analogue-computer symbiose is finally obtained with great effect for our listening pleasure. [press-release]
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Temnoyar -- "Nordscapes" -- CD -- €6
2009 Valgriind, VG 18
Majestic sounds from the North landscapes. 3 unreleased mini-albums, combined with general concept. Excellent graphic design supplements music. [label info]
Temperature Within / LovePowerExperiment -- "Through Fire" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 NOTHingness REcords, NOTH0022, (ltd. 111)
Collaboration between two US acts: Temperatie Within and lovepowerexperiment. The end result goes from minimal dark ambient to nearly cinematic neoclassical. CD-R in slimline DVD case with full colour cover. About 58 minutes. [label info]
Temple -- "Rastvor" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Rapen Winter Records, RWR-0109/T, (ltd. 50)
Psychedelic Industrial Ambient, resonating pulsating tracks with field recordings, mouth harp and cold urban taste. Pro CDR, jewel-box. [YAOP]
Temple Music -- "Incompleteness" -- CD -- €11
2009 Faria Records, FAR-26 / Shining Day, SHINE-10, (ltd. 500)
'INCOMPLETENESS' is the all new album from the visionary duo of TEMPLE MUSIC, beautifully presented in typical Faria fashion with 4 full colour inserts in an immaculate art housing... In 1931, the Czech-born mathematician Kurt Goedel demonstrated that within any given branch of mathematics, there would always be some propositions that couldn't be proven either true or false using the rules and axioms of that mathematical branch itself... the implication is that all logical system of any complexity are, by definition, incomplete; each of them contains, at any given time, more true statements than it can possibly prove according to its own defining set of rules. This implies that you'll never entirely understand yourself, since your mind, like any other closed system, can only be sure of what it knows about itself by relying on what it knows about itself... TEMPLE MUSIC'S Alan Trench and Stephen Robinson have used both the implications of GĆdel's theorem and the doctrine of anamorphosis to compose and fashion an album of 4 interconnected and complementary tracks that somehow look both forward and back; that juxtapose the old and the new into an organic whole of both sacred and temporal instruments - Indian harmonium and shruti box, plucked and hammered dulcimers, bodhrans, mosenos, various flageolets, synthesisers and keyboards, guitars, bass, Tibetan bells and singing bowls - 4 drifting shards of ethereal and sometimes frightening beauty, rose petals on the snow that are finally revealed to be tiny, perfect drops of crystalline blood... Tracy Jeffery of Orchis, Cunnan and SQE contributes to 2 tracks: vocals to Elemental and harp to Anamorphosis. [press-release]
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Temple Music -- "Soon You Will All Die And Your Lives Will Have Been As Nothing" -- CD -- €10
2010 Silken Tofu, stx.13, (ltd. 300)
Soon you will die and your lives will have been as nothing is the new album by the UK-based psychedelic/drone/ambient project Temple Music. Stephen Robinson and Alan Trench (known from the dark folk project Orchis) skilfully combine a wide range of acoustic and electronic instruments, field recordings and drones with spoken word, rhythm and chaos, resulting into one long avant-garde soundscape. The vocals are both comforting and unsettling and contribute to an overall magical atmosphere. Introspective and spiritual as well as powerful and energetic, Soon you will die and your lives will have been as nothing will entice the ears and the soul. [press-release]
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Temple Of Tiermes -- "Psychotropic Substances" -- CD-R -- €7
2003 Soulworm Editions, Worm XXXIV, (ltd. 333)
Being an incarnation of the Tiermes duo, Temple of Tiermes explores the sonic areas that are pretty close, from another angle though. Mind mangling, powerfull dark industrial ambience based upon acoustic and electronic preparations with almost shamanistic approach. While the bands members often dissapear in the woods to 'revitalize' among the fruits of mushroom, the eerie recordings they bring back are remarkable. Ritual - this should be a keyword when discussing Temple of Tiermes activities. The acompanying booklet presents photographic work by one of the bands members, and further visuals can be found in video presentation playable on the computer. Previously released on vinyl by Kaos Kontrol, the album became highly acclaimed and sold out soon after. Don't miss the secong chance as there could be no another chance given - it's a limited edition release again. [press-release]
Templebeat -- "The Grey Space" -- CD -- €11
2010 Silentes Minimal Editions, sme 1035
Templebeat was an Italian electro/industrial group related to Thee Temple ov Psychic Youth and its Italian branch T.O.P.Y.TV. Templebeat released a number of eps and tapes in the early 1990's. This album gathers tracks from their tapes "Interzone", "Treviso Underground" and "V.I.T.R.I.O.L. #3", remastered as usual. Includes a cover of DAF's "Der Mussolini". Musically, this is more in line with say Clock DVA than Psychic TV, also more or less reminiscent of the band's more famous country mates Pankow and Limbo. This is a radical departure from the Silentes label catalogue that mostly focuses on lush ambient soundscapes. Nevertheless a historical release! [Some Place Else]
Templegarden's -- "Velvet Steel" -- 3"CD -- €24
2006 Waystyx, WR21, (ltd. 100)
Templegarden's began in 1993 as the collaboration between such famous musicians as Andreas Schramm (known for Asche project and Fich-Art label), Philip Munch was the leader of Synapscape duo. Both were active as members of seminal Ars Moriendi band in the early 90s. The Templegarden's line-up was completed by some other former Ars Moriendi members in 1995: Andrea Boerner (Morgenstern) and Tim Kniep (another halfth of Synapscape). The main goal of Templegarden's is ancient mythology resurrection through musical means, the exploration of pagan rituals and natural forces, commonly speaking - all things mysterious and unexplicable. Their works are using a lot of ethnical and religious elements fusion, resulting the mature impressions derived from technology and cultural signs interaction. After two full CDs released by Ant-Zen, they remained silent for three years, now coming back with this mini-album that comes in oversized multilayered package made of thick foldout paper, limited to 100 copies only. It contains three long tracks of transcendental beauty, intended to guide you towards the deep trance state. [Dmitry Vasilyev, "Independent Electronic Music"]
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TenHornedBeast -- "Hunts & Wars" -- CD -- €10
2010 Cold Spring Records, CSR130CD
TenHornedBeast's third album for Cold Spring Records is titled 'Hunts & Wars'. Recorded over a three year period from 2006 to 2009 this album introduces subtle changes to the established TenHornedBeast sound with shorter delicate interludes separating longer tracks that rage with heavy distortion and doom-drone barbarism... 'Hunts & Wars' progresses the established TenHornedBeast sound using leaden, sub-tuned bass guitar to create rhythms and riffs that dominate a battlefield of vast ritual percussion and droning walls of electric dissonance, creating epic and expansive textures that by turns burn with frost and freeze with fire... Heavily influenced by the oneiric visions of Robert E Howard and Lord Dunsany. 'Hunts & Wars' seeks to evoke the elemental, anti-modern fantasias of these writers and is presented in a lavish digipak designed by noted American graphic designer Kevin Yuen (Sunn O))), Wolves In The Throne Room) to its full grotesque glory... The days have come when the steel will rule. Titans arise, monuments fall. Ballads of victory and defeat are sung aloud as from the highest steps we are swept on to the eternal Hunts and Wars... Presented in a 6-panel, spot metallic finish digipak. [press-release]
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TenHornedBeast -- "My Horns Are A Flame To Draw Down The Truth" -- CD -- €10
2009 Cold Spring, CSR106CD
Guitar Drone / Doom / Dark Ambient. The TenHornedBeast rises again. Five new compositions from black ambient / doom overlord Christopher Walton - three remixes / expansions / contractions of songs from the debut album "The Sacred Truth" and two totally new pieces that are in a similar style to this dark masterpiece. Walton has stripped some of the songs to their bare bones and allowed them space to breathe again. This album is all-new but continues the atmosphere of the debut and can be considered a companion piece. Presented in a matt-laminate, spot-varnished digipak. [press-release]
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Terg -- "A Cold Grave" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 Symbolic Prod, SYMBCD33
Abrasive & harsh noise. CDR with pro-printed artwork. [label info]
Terra Sancta -- "Disintegration" -- CD -- €10
2008 Malignant Records, TUMOR CD35
Four years after the release of the highly acclaimed Aeon CD, Disintegration finds Australia's Terra Sancta in fine form, having delivered another sweeping, dark ambient epic. Expanding on the sounds explored on his previous releases, Disintegration pushes the levels of intensity to new heights, featuring four long and texturally turbulent emissions of formidable power and depth. With it's enormous washes of stormy drones and billowing, multi-layered atmospheres, these are tracks that grow and build to such a degree they seem to collapse and erode under their own weight, strewing particles into a vast horizon and creating a broad panorama of ever changing desert colored hues. A completely enveloping and engulfing release, this is dark ambient on a massive scale, something Terra Sancta seems to have a knack for creating and something few do so well. Jewel box with 6 panel booklet, designed by Vestigial. [press-release]
Terra Sancta -- "Sunken | Buried | Forgotten" -- CD EP -- €7
2011 Malignant Records, TUMORCD51, (ltd. 500)
A brand new CDEP from Terra Sancta, originally planned as part of the next full length release, but the tracks here are significantly different from the newer material being recorded as to warrant a separate release. Sunken|Buried|Forgotten should be seen as a sort of bridge between Terra Sancta's past and future recordings, the three tracks here (total time roughly 23 minutes) representing the heavy droning sound found on particular parts of Disintegration; swaths of roughly textured, post-industrial drift, propelled forth with a massive back weight into a crescendo of epic turbulence, leaving a wake of swirling cosmic debris in its path. Once again, Terra Sancta shows an innate ability to push the limits of what is traditionally considered dark ambient. 4 panel digipak. [press-release]
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Terra Teratos -- "Meditations About Secret Of My Dark Destiny. Part Zero" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 B-Rush, B-17
"Meditations About Secret Of My Dark Destiny. Part Zero" is measured and dismal set of speechless tracks entitled like notes in a madman diary. Here is gloomy sound, sometimes analogue, deliberately padded out and imperfect. Here is apocalyptic minimalism, contemplation, monstrous tranquility rarely enlivened by major flashes, like a smile on madman's face before death. To be compared with "Dyatlov's Pass" by Velehentor, but these synth-noise collages contain much more music in terms of dark ambient. [Jul666]
Terra Teratos -- "Meditations about secret of my Dark destiny. Part 2" -- CD -- €9
2010 Electrica Caelestis, ELECTRICA 001, (ltd. 500)
Electrica Caelestis presents the third album of a Voronezh based one-(wo)man project Terra Teratos - the trilogy's final part 'Meditations about secret of my Dark Destiny'. Symphonic art of the strings, keyboard passages, unhurried percussions plunge you into oppressive ambience of dark dungeons, breathe out coldness of a spellbound forest, hand down shadowy echoes of the dark mass in honor of forgotten Gods. 'Meditations about secret of my Dark Destiny. Pt.2' is post-black ambient at its best. Epic, sombre, bewitching: [press-release]
Testa, Antonio -- "Inframundis" -- CD -- €11
2007 Faria Records, FAR-14, (ltd. 500)
Inframundis (inland universe, latin) is a research of stalagmites and stalagtites sounds mixed with textures and drones; It's a meditative record and it creates a balance between biosphere and technosphere. The cd gets free all its energies, its little/big sounds, its hidden atmospheres, and microharmonies. The sounds, music, make us come back to the past, offering us the view of a World. The sound evokes angelical moments between the imperceptible evolution of the sound of the sky and the ethnic roots, natural instrumental sounds creating atmospheres which evoke in our imaginary visions and images of the most far places. It is an alchemic project of ancestral sounds. Deeply rooted in our unconscious. Artwork conception was created by Sara Luciani, release contain several cards and double side cover. Cover photo by Enrico Labriola (www.enricolabriola.com). [press-release]
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Testa, Antonio -- "Radioforest" -- CD -- €10
2005 Tantric Harmonies, TANTRA X27
50 minutes of pacified ritual ambient recorded with the use of various wind and percussive ethnic instruments, field recordings from Mexico, Africa and Italy and synthesizers with samplers providing droney textured and melodic layers. Features musicians from Italian projects Alio Die, Opium, etc.
Testa, Antonio & Susana Beatriz Alvear -- "Ecosphere" -- CD -- €11
2008 ExperimenTribe, ET 001
Tetraktys -- "Voreion Sellas" -- CD -- €10
2005 Nykta, 013
Esoteric Ritual Art - this definition is present in the booklet of this CD from Greece, released by black metal label Nykta. In post-industrial terms this style is usually called ritual dark ambient, and here it is not too dark (looks like the geography has it's effect), and even unsophisticated, but diverse and tastefully enough. By the way, Sethon - man in charge of Tetraktys - also plays in a BM-band Vistkaed.
TH26 -- "La Haine" -- CD -- €10
2002 Small Voices, SVR02002
TH26were createdin the fall of1993by Corrado Altieri, musician involved from early eightiesin variouswave/post-punk bands.Soon the bandmovedto"electronic & industrial" sound territories,withlinks ranging from Maurizio Bianchi (the truefather of power-noise)to Klinik,and from Throbbing GristletoAdi Newton's Antigroup. "La Haine" presents 11 tracks of pure rhythmic & synthetic pleasures!!! TH26 offer acerebral andaggressive music with incursions in a sort of isolationist ambient-noise. Deviated songs andrumoristic experiments plus great uncompromising hard distorted & filtered vocals...!!! The album delivers a wide spectrum of sounds: TH26 offer you a rich and mature work..., surea great gem for hard-electronic music lovers!!! "La Haine" is produced by Simon Balestrazzi of T.A.C. that also offered an active collaboration to three tracks. A contagious anthems for the new future of electronic industrial music ! A sonic assault on the senses. [press-release]
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Tham Kar Mun / Yandsen / Yin Pin -- "Shang" -- CD -- €11
2005 Xing-Wu Records, XW5002CD
Thee Void Ov Zr19.84 -- "...Ov Silence & Pinky Elephants" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Deserted Factory, DF048, (ltd. 100)
New side-project of Italian musician Ricardo 777 known for his releases as Zr19.84 on such labels as Apocalyptic Radio and Skulline. Normally his works are based on post-war songs and melodies, marches and speeches of political leaders placed in atmosphere of dark ambient and distant industrial noise. The debut album of Zr19.84 'Adieu!' carried decadence and sickly memories crafted in a theatrical piece without characters, an impressive audio poem in vein of Nueva Germania and Spiritual Front. However here Ricardo steps aside towards more experimental electronics, this is completely instrumental music - synthetic, melodic and contemplative. The album "...Ov Silence & Pinky Elephants" was released in October 2009 and consists of 10 tracks, 2 of which are cover-versions of 'The Model' (Kraftwerk)and 'Into Thee Silence' (Testing Vault). Limited edition in A5 cover, 100 hand-numbered copies. [Monochrome Vision]
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Theme -- "Our Angels Dislocated" -- CD -- €10
2006 Lumberton Trading Company, LUMB003
The second album from this UK/Poland-based duo (featuring LTCo's Richard Johnson and Stuart Carter, also of Fields Of Hay, and both formerly involved with Splintered), following several years since their warmly received 'On Parallel Shores Removed' CD (Fourth Dimension/Tremor Recordings), offering a rich, organic and atmospheric tapestry of ideas that serves as a revitalised statement of intent. Combining genuinely played sitars, violin drones, guitar strums, loops, barely audible mutterings from an otherwise deserted midnight subway, electronic swirl, piano and all manner of otherworldly textures, 'Our Angels Dislocated' remains both focused and complex enough to cast new shadows with every listen. Complete with exclusive artwork by British sculptor, Mo Jupp, it fits perfectly into Lumberton Trading Company's erratic and often changeable grand design. [press-release]
Theme -- "Valentine (Lost) Forever" -- CD -- €10
2009 Heart & Crossbone, HCB 023
The third album from Theme, a band comprised of Stuart Carter, Jeanne Boyer and Richard Johnson (from'90s influential industrial-experimental band Splintered and head of the Lumberton Trading Company label), is a hallucinogenic intersection, where the exploration of twilight spaces, dreams, bitter reflections and hopes collide with a sense of escape (to better places?) or an abandoned 'self', either lost or searching for much needed identity... More 'song'-based than their previous album, on Valentine (Lost) Forever Theme often witnesses barbed yet oblique words cut-up and formed into mantras over a mesh of cascading drones, textures, blissed-out guitar strums, submerged tamboura, metallic sheets of electronic frah, occasional drum pounds and chilling swells'n'flecks of musique concrete. Overall, it catches the group exploring their environment, in more senses than one, with renewed vigour and nothing but questions left either open-ended or vying for interpretation. It's a world of rubble, dust and sprawling collapse, psychological or otherwise, screaming for meaning and purpose in a world gone mad where inner conflicts, vulnerability and regret are drowned in vast existential pools... With an additional remix by ex-Siouxsie & the Banshees bass player Steven Severin, this genuine album offers an apocalyptic sound mirage that recalls the experimental and post industrial works of :Zoviet*France, Throbbing Gristle and Coil, as well as the occult-like numbness of Current 93, the bleak avant-electronica of Andrew Liles and the psychedelic drones furrowed by the group's own previous work in both Splintered and Theme. In that sense, Valentine (Lost) Forever is a definite masterpiece in the ever-evolving legacy of the U.K. industrial scene, and if this is the end, then it's time to burn the truth. [press-release]
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Theodor Bastard -- "Remixed" -- CD -- €10
2011 Theo Records, THEO 002
Theodor Bastard planned to make this collection of remixes long time ago. It was born thanks to continual communication and collaborations with congenial musicians. The selection of the artists presented on this collection is not random - the musicians are tied by common tastes and by love to unusual music. With some of the artists Theodor Bastard repeatedly worked in the past, and with some of them the band is already making creative plans for the future. The artists contributing their take on the collection of remixes include: Animals On Wheels, Up, Bustle And Out, State Of Bengal, Scanner, Flint Glass, Geomatic, Fedayi Pacha, Infinite Scale, Tracing Arcs, Neotropic, EU, Stillife, Altera Forma, Absent One. 6-panel digipak + 12-page booklet. [press-release]
Theologian -- "The Further I Get From Your Star, The Less Light I Feel On My Face" -- CD -- €10
2010 Crucial Blast, CBR 87
The Further I Get From Your Star, The Less Light I Feel On My Face is the latest chapter from New York power electronics/synth-death demon Leech. This is the first full-length, widely available release from Leech's new incarnation as Theologian, which picks up where he left off with his long-running project Navicon Torture Technologies. Over the past decade, Navicon Torture Technologies blurred the edges of power electronics and dark industrial on albums like The Church Of Dead Girls (2002, Malignant), VTERVS (2008, NCC) and The Gospels Of The Gash (2009, Malignant) before ceasing operations in 2009. Now reconstituted as Theologian, Leech again explores the further realms of experience with a new form of blackened synth dread that combines many of the sounds that made up NTT's crushing electronic attack (Swedish death industrial, classic power electronics, harsh noise, powernoise) with a new level of heaviness and droneological power... [label info]
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Tho-So-Aa -- "Enrielle" -- CD -- €13
2002 Art Konkret, ART 35, (ltd. 500)
The re-release of the praised Enrielle tape. Art Konkret 15 is finally finished. The CD includes also three previously unreleased tracks.
THO-SO-AA's dark sound reflects the dreams and visions of the person behind THO-SO-AA. The sounds are created with acoustic instruments and this makes it more interesting, than the normal dark ambient music. You can think about of ambient death-industrial with a lot of different faces. It takes you in another world, the dark world of THO-SO-AA. The CD comes in special A5 artwork created by Drape Excrement. [label info]
Tho-So-Aa -- "Identify" -- CD -- €12
2010 Tesco Organisation, TESCO 081
We are proud to announce the long awaited ambient-masterpiece identify by Tho-So-Aa. After 7 years of development Tho-So-aa was finally ready to present this release. This is the german outfit most complex and dense album. Some of the tracks may show you with threatening collages and experimental loops, how close the difference between freedom and prison is. Other tracks are surrounded by melancholic soundscapes and dark bass-drones inspired by desperation and totally sadness. In the past years Lutz Rach spent working with sounds to create this thick layers and drones that have never surfaced in his music before. This is no longer pure dark ambient music, it is enriched by industrial sounds experimental use of classical instruments voice samples and an overall laying cry against isolation. The dark soundscapes expose a very cynical point of view on our sick society, it decribes the unknown pressure to identify with yourself! The wait was worth it, with this THO-SO-AA delivers his to date masterpiece. After 49 minutes, Identify lets you alone in your silly live, with the cognition: You are 75% dead. IDENTIFY NOW! [press-release]
Tholen -- "Sternklang" -- CD -- €12
2007 Cyclic Law, 20th Cycle
Sternklang is the expression of the intimate encounter with the whole, the direct connection with the stars and the vast universe, the sense of complete union with all the overdimensional attributes of what sourrounds us. With THOLEN, Eisen, the man behind this project has given us an aurally materialized glimpse of his numerous stargazing evenings...where the soundscapes are revealed while the stars seemed to gather and sing out of their primordial and powerful environment. The darkest hour is always the one before sunrise... In fold out gatefold cardboard sleeve. [press-release]
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Thomas Bey William Bailey -- "Strangelet" -- CD -- €10
2009 Belsona Strategic, BSS099
Previously known as The Domestic Front, Thomas Bey Wiliam Bailey now operates under his own name. Which is something more and more people do and did. Who remembers Crawl Unit, since long known as Joe Colley? As The Domestic Front he delivered some pretty interesting releases that were surely noise based, but which always seemed be more than just pointless attacks of brutality. Here on 'Strangelet' things start out in a pretty heavy feedback mode, but quite soon returns to the form of The Domestic Front, and were the great power lies of Bailey: the sound collage. He does hard edits in the music, swiftly changing from one thing to another, while sometimes he lets a few layers continue. Throughout it seems to me however that this first release under his name is overall a more louder one than the previous releases. Things are full on, all the time. That seems to be a new feature here, even with the edits he made. I always say I don't like noise for noise's sake, but when things are played here this forcefully and with so much care, intelligent noise I could even say, than I'm fully interested. A pretty intense release, even in its quieter moments, such as in 'The Sanctity Of Sloth'. Digital noise with an intelligent edge. [FdW, Vital Weekly]
Thompson, Robert Scott -- "At the Still Point of the Turning World" -- CD -- €11
2005 Hypnos, hyp2547
Robert Scott Thompson is one of the mainstays and legends of ambient music. He has created music in a variety of styles but his atmospheric ambient efforts are his best. At The Stillpoint of a Turning World is his first release on the Hypnos label... This is an awesome CD! While it might be Robert's best music ever, it is certainly among his top five or six. It is also one of the top Hypnos releases ever. Robert combines organic textures and metallic timbres with gentle drones and deep atmospheres. There are just enough gray washes to keep the disc somber but not dark. It plays as a long-form soundscape with 12 movements. The gentle drones provide the continuity. There is a certain progression here as well. Robert has always been on the cutting edge and he combines spiritual approaches to his craft. That approach gives his compositions and this set special appeal. This is a great CD and a wonderful start to a new year of more great sounds! [Jim Brenholts]
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Thompson, Robert Scott -- "Sidereal" -- CD-R -- €7
2002/2007 Aucourant Records, AUREC 0705
The incomprehensibly vast distances of intergalactic space are continuously permeated by a subtle auditory ambience of shifting drones, elegantly gestured events and unique rhythms. Radio astronomy and SETI (among other scientific discoveries) have confirmed and given voice to this splendid background noise whose origin and meaning is impossible to fathom. This recording does not use any sounds of extraterrestrial origin, yet it does allude to the ambience of the vast cosmology. The background sounds of the universe cannot be temporally framed due to their very nature. In this work, I have attempted to fashion a long-form ambient recording which takes its cue from the cosmological sounds which surround us... Sidereal is unique within my collection of compositions. Firstly because is presents a collection of distinct compositions with a clearly defined framework - more like an album of largely unrelated works - and, secondly, the works are coerced into relatedness through their framing by a complex, evolutionary, drone texture which forms the basis of the work. The background drone is positioned somewhere between cosmic radio static and pitched harmonic resonance, alluding to the drone flux of the distant starfields which were its inspiration. [from the author]
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Thorofon -- "Final Movement" -- CD -- €15
2002/2007 Klanggalerie, gg94, (ltd. 500)
A milestone in Thorofon's back catalogue, 'Final Movement' was released on the band's own UMB label in 2002. A very limited version of the album had a 10" included which is also present on this CD re-issue. And in addition, we have thrown in a previously unreleased track so the playing time is extended to nearly 80 minutes. Thorofon are a German-based duo consisting of Genevieve Pasquier (who also records as a solo artist) and Anton Knilpert. Although their sound is very unique, their roots lie in classic 80's Industrial - 'Final Movement' starts where SPK stopped in the mid Eighties. 'Bloodheat' is more your Cabaret Voltaire or Portion Control. A killer album first time on CD. [press-release]
Thunderwheel -- "Credo" -- CD -- €11
2009 The Eastern Front, Front 022, (ltd. 500)
Industrial Instrumental Romance. 'Thunderwheel' is a new project of Vadim Gusis, a mastermind of acknowledged Israeli project Chaos As Shelter and member of Agnivolok. Thunderwheel musically differs essentially from Chaos Of Shelter and Agnivolok and may surprise for the best. Igor Krutogolov (Kruzenstern & Parohod, Agnivolok, Igor Krutogolov's Carate Band) and Slava Smelovsky (Grundik + Slava, Crossfishes) feature on the record. [press-release]
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Thurow, Matthias -- "Melancholia" -- CD -- €14
1988 Erdenklang, ERD 2-88023
Thoughtful neoclassical ambient from the German composer specializing in music for cinema and theater, with clarinet and saxophone. Rare. [YAOP]
Tidal -- "Silent Knife Speaks" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2003 Taalem, alm 13
Tidal is David Brownstead, previously known for his harsh noise project 666 Volt Battery Noise. Not only the name has changed: the music too. Now David is focused on minimal ambient music. Tidal past works were released on a Pyrric Victory / Manifold, Alluvial and more recently a very nice three-way collaboration with Chaos As Shelter (see alm 9) and Igor Krutogolov on Ground Fault Recordings. "Silent Knife Speaks" is his first 3"cd and is a perfect example of his luminous ambient music, full of delicate sounds and subtle details... [press-release]
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Tidal / Peter Duimelinks -- "Ablution" -- CD EP -- €8
2006 Alluvial Recordings, A24
In Judaism, ablution is the process of washing away physical and mental impurities. Upon completion, the mind and body are cleansed and renewed. New York composer Tidal (David Brownstead) and Dutch composer Peter Duimelinks (Kapotte Muziek, Goem, THU20) collaborated on this work over the course of 2004-2005. The piece was traded back and forth between the two artists several times until it was fully realized. Ablution is a contemplative work which explores darkness and light. Momentum ebbs and flows in soothing washes. Tones, hums, and brittle, crackling interludes intertwine to flesh out a murky smear of sound. Ablution is approximately 20 minutes in length and packaged in a 5-inch sleeve. David selected photographs for the front and back covers which suggest submerging into darkness only to emerge into a blast of white light. [label info]
Tietchens, Asmus -- "Eine Menge Papier" -- CD EP -- €9
2009 Auf Abwegen, AATP27, (ltd. 500)
'Eine Menge Papier' assembles 20 minutes of sounds derived from using paper as the sound souce. Two tracks originally came out as a limited 7' record on the austrian Syntactic label in the 1990ies and appear here for the first time on CD. The other two tracks were planned for a follow up 7' on the same label that never materialized. The fifth track is a study of sonic material in the same series. There are two further tracks from the P.I.G. series that are considered by the artists as failed attemps. These remain in the closet. The five sonic movements on 'Eine Menge Papier' go back to the Tietchens sound right before he started the Mengen series, using primarily sine waves and white noise. 'Eine Menge Papier' is an interesting documentation of the transitioin in Tietchens' sound from the concretish, post-industrial rumblings and textures to the more refined, abstract and cold atmospheres. [label info]
Tietchens, Asmus -- "Marches Funebres" -- CD -- €13
2010 Auf Abwegen, AATP32 / Die Stadt, DS 112, (ltd. 600)
The central piece on MARCHES FUNEBRES is 'Grünschattiger Nachmittag'. Work on the composition began as early as 1979. A rough sketch of these first steps utilizing analogue rhythm machine and Minimoog is included as the bonus track on this disc. It became obvious that 'Grünschattiger Nachmittag' was impossible to realize on the Fairlight CMI. It took nine years for the equipment at Audiplex Studios to match the technical standards needed for the recording of the orchestral version of the piece as it was originally intended. Aided by my teacher and mentor Okko Bekker and equipped with numerous samplers and a sophisticated music software the piece was finally realized in 1988 after several weeks' hard work. The mockers would have it that I tried to have Django dancing the Bolero. Maybe they were half right. As you know, I am not not a friend of soft entertaining sounds but if it has to be kitsch then do it full-on. Hence even today I am standing in a 'greenish afternoon shade', if you know what I mean... 'Linea 5' was placed on the original LP to balance out 'Grünschattiger Nachmittag'. I was hoping to create something equally austere as 'Linea 1-4'. But, 'Linea 5' got out of hand. Carried away by delays and echochambers I lost myself in erratic mountains of sound (complete with sceneries of St. Elmo's Fire and alpenglow) until I was wholly exhausted. For my better I was saved by some good St. Bernhards wearing their bootles of brandy around their necks. Who knows where this journey of belated psychedelia would have ended without them. This time, the mockers' questions remained unanswered... MARCHES FUNEBRES was the second time I tried my hand at something vaguely symphonic; a slippery ground for me. It was preceeded by the 'Faircomp'-series and followed by the collaborative LP 'E' with Okko Bekker. Then this chapter was closed. 'Cobbler, stay at your last!' as they say. Still, for such an LP as MARCHES FUNEBRES to come out shows how the scope of what was possible had broadened by 1989. From now on, at the gate to the decade of the 1990ies, there shone an alternative to the quickly fading legacy of industrial at the horizon. Computers became affordable, CD began replacing vinyl, new ideas generated a musical diversity hitherto unheard of. In 1989 the new beginning was near. [from the author]
Tietchens, Asmus + Richard Chartier -- "Fabrication 2" -- 2 CD -- €15
2010 Auf Abwegen, AATP29, (ltd. 500)
'Fabrication 2' is the sequel to 'Fabrication', the first collaboration between Richard Chartier and Asmus Tietchens released in 2007. Whereas for the first collab the idea developed from the project around reinterpretations of Chartier's 'Postfabricated' this time the efforts where directly focussed on the reinterpretation of specific basic sound material. This basic sound material can be found on the first disc in the set 'Prefabrication 2' which was constructed by Richard Chartier alone in Montreal and Washington, DC. 'Fabrication 2' is the reworking of this sonic basis by Asmus Tietchens. Whereas the first CD has traces of subtle dematerialized rhythmic structures the second disc is a study in minimalism and concentrated sound manipulation. [label info]
Tietchens, Asmus / Jon Mueller -- "Acht Stücke" -- CD -- €13
2007 Aufabwegen, aatp20, (ltd. 500)
Second collaborative effort between german sound manipulation pioneer Asmus Tietchens and american improv-drummer Jon Mueller. The CD features 8 tracks that run up to 53 minutes. Jon Mueller on the second collaboration: 'The previous collaboration between Asmus and I involved me using only sounds derived from drum heads. For Acht Stuecke, I've used only Chinese gongs and cymbals, so a completely different range of sound occurs. The performance of the percussion material was from various non-mechanical techniques (striking, swinging gongs, extended techniques, etc.) to create a palette of mostly textural sound with a large frequency range that Asmus could work with.' And indeed, work he did! The completeness that is Acht Stuecke is of breathtaking beauty and simplicity and complexity at the same time. The album is definately more homogenous and 'together' than the first meeting of the two musicians. It emanates a warm and deep sound evolving out of total soundless blankness as it seems. [label info]
Tina Torture -- "Stripped, Punishead And Fucked" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Mask Of The Slave, MS-025, (ltd. 69)
Fresh blood from the Romanian power electronics, noise underground. The first full length album. Great song structures, dynamic power electronics meets dirty harsh noise. The CD contains a special video as bonus! [label info]
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The Tirolen Horn Section -- "Almdudler" -- CD -- €10
2004 Atacama Records, a.r.14, (ltd. 300)
On the contrary to the folky bandname and CD title, this is absolutely NOT a new Alpine-Folk project! T.H.S. is a Electronic project from ATROX - ANTRACOT - BOLESKINE. Some tracks are really experimental with a lot of feedback, others have deep rhythms and/or are even mesmerising. A very strange but good listenable album with even more strange lyrics. Anyway worth to taste! [Steinklang]
Tmavy Kruh -- "Astrum Imagery" -- CD-R -- €7
2011 Radiodrone Records, RD-03, (ltd. 100)
The confrontation with unimaginable outer space from the author of Transistorwald and Esche. Majestic wings of the stellar rotation mills, which slowly raises our dreams to empyrean radiant constellation of Coma Berenices. Astral ambient for non-psysical journey. To all who had wander. Mother of the Night. Envelope from craft-paper with fullcolour print. Limited 100 handnumbered copies. [label info]
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Tomutonttu -- "s/t" -- CD -- €10
2007/2009 Fonal Records, FR-66
Fonal Recods is re-releasing this long sold out debut Tomutonttu originally released on LP by Beta Lactam Ring records. Tomutonttu ('dust gnome') is a human called Jan Anderze'n, a visual artist and the leader of a respected avant-garde sound group Kemialliset Ystävät. Toy reed streams, mutilated vocals and groovy loops of animal noise are some of the colours used to create the whirling mess that is the lonely song of Tomutonttu. It is like a confusing detail of the Kemialliset Ystävät freedom flow, a microcosmos of strange sound creatures and dirt flying around in the stereo space and interacting with a logic all of their own. [press-release]
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Tomutonttu -- "Tomutonto" -- CD -- €10
2007/2009 Fonal Records, FR-67
Fonal Recods is re-releasing this long sold out gem previously released on vinyl by Ultra Eczema. Tomutonttu ('dust gnome') is a human called Jan Anderze'n, a visual artist and the leader of a respected avant-garde sound group Kemialliset Ystaävät. Toy reed streams, mutilated vocals and groovy loops of animal noise are some of the colours used to create the whirling mess that is the lonely song of Tomutonttu. It is like a confusing detail of the Kemialliset Ystaävät freedom flow, a microcosmos of strange sound creatures and dirt flying around in the stereo space and interacting with a logic all of their own. [press-release]
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Tonal Y Nagual -- "The Hidden Oasis" -- CD -- €11
2008 Thonar Records, TR.02
Second album by Bavarian folk band Tonal Y Nagual feature 17 more melodious and sombre songs mixed with some unexpected turns and twists. [label info]
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Topografia -- "Genius Loci" -- CD -- €10
2010 Greytone, grey005, (ltd. 500)
Another project by Maciej Banasik, known for his ambient/noise project ATUM. Genius Loci uses deep drones, acoustic instruments' sounds and field recordings registered near the author's place of living (Jaworzno). The project was inspired by the author's personal fascination with the diversity of nature and the philosophy of Schopenhauer, who considered nature to be one of the most primaeval manifestations of a blind and aimless will, a will which we too are a part of. [label info]
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Toroidh -- "Segervittring" -- CD -- €15
2007 Neuropa Records, NRP20, (ltd. 1000)
Toroidh legionaries, prepare for battle! June 2007 celebrates the return of one of the protagonists of martial industrial. After a few years hiatus, Toroidh returns to the battlefield and is ready to invade your stereo. Now exclusively signed to Neuropa, Toroidh flexes it?s muscles and unleashes an album filled with the trademark military tunes in the finest tradition of the genre. 'Segervittring' stands for the smell of victory and that's exactly what you're getting. Herr Nordvargr knows no mercy and leaves his enemies scattered behind in the midst of scorched earth. 'Segervittring' comes elegantly packaged in a six-panel A5 digipack bearing the artwork of Norwegian artists Trine & Kim whose previous employers include Ulver, Mayhem and Darkthrone. [press release]
Torsten Wjiik -- "Komprimert Munn" -- CD-R -- €7
2006 self-released, (ltd. 30)
Drone Ambient inspired by Sunn0))) and sometimes turning into droning noise. A project of Norwegian musician Kjetil Hanssen. Recorded with the use of electoguitar, computer and realtime samples. A cold and urbanistic work. [YAOP]
Total -- "Exploded Star Sad Servant" -- CD -- €10
1995 Self Abuse Records, SAD-03
Hypnotic, hallucinatory guitar feedback from Matthew Bower of Skullflower. [label info]
Totenhaus / Insane Asylum -- "On Obedience And Insanity" -- CD-R -- €7
2004 VOID Rekordz, VOID003, (ltd. 150)
Interesting split album between Totenhaus and Insane Asylum. Totenhaus presents 8 tracks ranging from rhythmic industial textures to noisier pieces. Insane Asylum offers 3 long tracks varying from oppressive atmospheres to pulsating electronics. Limited edition of 150 copies [this is a re-release of the Kultura Industrialna sold out edition]. [BSAH Distribution]
Towards Shadowland -- "The Garden Of Stone" -- 2 CD-R -- €10
2010 Le Crepuscule Du Soir, LCDS029, (ltd. 50)
Dark ambient from Mexico - Darkness, a blink of an eye trough a very long period of solitude and deception, as a picture of the garden of stone, the flow of world's decay. Slim DVD case + 4 pages booklet + a bonus CD including "The dark chamber". [label info]
Trama afonA -- "s/t" -- CD -- €10
2010 Greytone, grey004
Trama afonA is the sound/visual project by Lorenzo Scacchia - an attempt to tramaphonise (convey) what he sees in the dark and hears into silence. This Cinematic Dark Ambient album constitutes the first official release, gathering tracks composed between 2005 and 2008. TA pays particular attention to individual and specific human stories, rather than to history... focusing on what happens behind the scenes, aside, beneath. Opening doors and drawers using the sole curiosity as tool, walking backwards the traces of memory, wandering amid shades and details given by mystery, decadence, abandon, romanticism. Carefully delving into psychological dynamics. Openly denouncing the social plagues, but often humbly providing just visual and sound suggestions. Digipak. [label info]
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Trance -- "Compiled" -- CD -- €10
2008 Monochrome Vision, mv21, (ltd. 500)
Trance is the one-man project by american musician Mason Jones, known also as the founder of Charnel House label. During the 10 years of existence, he released 4 albums and numerous compilation tracks, which are often even more original and precious than album tracks. That's why we decided to gather them altogether for this release, which collects the most interesting material from the archives of the underground network. [label info]
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Transistorwald -- "Sleeping Eiktyrnir" -- CD-R -- €9
2011 Ufa Muzak, UFA 44, (ltd. 131)
Aryasophic dark ambient. His haunting sight appears and disappears in perspective, the air is filled with foreign presence. In a dream you enter their eyes and become their essence. Here's a snowy road trampled by footsteps, emergent lines of blood deceive and breath of the beast becomes heavy and frequent. Tree branches are so low, darkness looks out with shadows from holes. Hunter and prey are merged, their transformation slows down to reach the last apogee and burn away. Symbolic hunt has happened. Those who played their roles don't exist, but reality prompts with symbols that this was a special dream. The Transistorwald project is a dash of refined hearing, sight and smell of that place where everything happens again and again. In order not to lose the way fire will bring you to secret places of exceptional unconsciousness. One returns altered from there. Long like slow waves of a subterranean lake, melodic elements of Transistorwald are the new tales about old, told without words. Whistle of cold polar night, whisper of trolls, undead warriors lying in hills, girls' laughter coming from water, wicked old woman in a house and above all this - radiance of galloping stars... 8 tracks, 45 minutes, 6 panel cardboard package. [press-release]
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Traum'er Leben -- "Ursprung" -- CD -- €15
2007 Lower Saxony, LS0701, (ltd. 480)
The first professional pressed cd from this great folk band, know from their Split cd with Seelenthron and Thrinitos! It is limited to 480 copies. You will get beautiful folk songs in best tradition! A must for fans and collectors. [Steinklang]
Treachery -- "s/t" -- CD EP -- €7
2008 Czar Of Crickers, CZAR004
A hi-quality mixture of fast and hateful black-metal (with harsh female lead-vocals!) with more atmospheric post-industrial stuff. A must for those who enjoy energetic metal with experiments.
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Trees -- "Freed Of This Flesh" -- CD -- €10
2010 Crucial Blast, CBR 83
The mysterious Portland ensemble Trees return with their second offering on Crucial Blast, Freed Of This Flesh, with two new fetid death rituals scraped from the crypt. Each of these tracks averages around fourteen minutes, an extended death-rattle formed from black glacial riffs suspended in space, tectonic percussive rumbles, anguished shrieks of torment and abject suffering, deep guttural demon-toad throat singing, and endless sheets of glistening metallic feedback that spill and drift to the far edges of their extreme time-stretched ambient doom, a crumbling, blighted majesty, noxious ambient blackdoom adrift on putrescent tides. The wretched vocal effluvium creeps formlessly across austere slabs of crushing heaviness arranged into ghoulish constructs of atmospheric dread, moving so slow that the music seems to lose all sense of propulsion at times, becoming lost in a fog of howling amplifiers and buzzing feedback, the guitars stretched into massive decomposing drones, the spaces between infested with controlled bursts of drums that skitter and rumble, almost "jazzy" in a vague sort of way, but still incredibly slow and ponderous. Freed Of This Flesh inhabits the same sort of black-tar depths as the likes of Burning Witch, Monarch, Khanate, and Bunkur while stripping the slo-mo heaviness into their own twisted, skeletal configuration. [press-release]
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Trees -- "Lights Bane" -- CD -- €10
2008 Crucial Blast, CBR 66
The debut album from the Portland quartet Trees delivers two epic tracks of monolithic, blackened doom metal with a twisted, noise-damaged approach and a dank basement vibe. Trees craft glacial abstract riffs and rivers of ashen amplifier goo that fans of feedback-laden heaviosity will find highly satisfying, a kind of grinding, slow-motion black hole psychedelia that has a similiar hypnotic death-ritual quality as artists like Bloody Panda and Khanate, but with their own unique trance state of swirling guitar textures, horrific jet black dronescapes and ghoulish, excoriating vocals. Features members of the PDX psych-sludge outfit Tecumseh (Important Records). This CD edition of the TREE's debut comes in a Stoughton printed 4-panel gatefold case. [press-release]
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Trinithos -- "333" -- CD -- €10
2008 Heimatfolk, HF 03
After several ultra-limited CDR-releases, with "333" finally comes the debut-CD album of the German NeoFolk band TRINITHOS. The band was founded in the early millennium and in the past years they played several concerts together with their friends SEELENTHRON and TRAUM'ER LEBEN. Their music is best to describe as dreamy NeoFolk with a slight DarkPop touch, with orchestral parts, martial drums and even some apocalyptically dark experimental passages. On "333" the band plays a large variety of acoustic instruments, like several different guitars, bass, violins, flutes, drums, didgeridoo,... as well as a few beautiful electronic arrangements. The vocals are polyphonic performances of German lyrics by male and female voices and deal about mythologic themes, natur romanticism and theories of cognition. [press-release]
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TriORE -- "Three Hours" -- CD -- €14
2009 Cold Meat Industry, CMI.201
Tronus Abyss -- "Kampf" -- CD -- €10
2008 Aeternitas Tenebrarum Music Foundation, CULT 001
Repressed in a luxury 16 pages High Quality Digibook, with 2 bonus tracks, 1 never released before. The ATMF Cult collection is opened, Kampf is finally back available and repressed, the avant-garde but traditionally Indo-European act Milestone of the Italian Scene in movement, unleashed in the first edition under the banner of Pagan Moon also in consequence of the split of the label that was supposed to be release it, Varg Vikernes' (Burzum) Cymophane. Tronus Abyss history has started in the 1994 as an active part of the Black Metal scene but lately become something out of any easy classification. Kampf is a trip to the ancestral atavism and beyond human prison to unknown dimensions, musically a personal and still innovative, after 4 years from the release date, act stating how Black Metal can turn in something unique, a proud character merging electro-folk, ambient and industrial moods. Crossing the border of a genre understood as stereotypes, TA moved by nothing but their inmost research and the will to transcend the narrow human visual. [press-release]
Trostenec / Strup -- split -- CD-R -- €7
2012 Spasi i Sohrani Records
Split of two most outstanding Belarussian industrial projects inspired by modern political state and everyday life in their country. Strup performed three tracks of slow measured Old-School Industrial full of reverberated metallic clanks, meditative and sorrowful musical pieces and voice samples. Trostenec material is based on heavy electo-industrial rhythms with atmospheric sounds, forged in short (2-3 mins.) convincing compositions. Slim-DVD-box, b/w collage cover and an insert. [YAOP]
Trostenec / Strup / Yarn / Sirotek -- split -- CD-R -- €7
2012 Spasi i Sohrani Records
4-way split of two Russian and teo Belarussian projects. Trostenec: mournful Death Industrial with virtuoso atmospheric sound, filled with lots of concrete sounds. Strup: dramatic Old-School Industrial tapestry with almost symphonic progress. The best analogy that comes to mind is SAT Stoicizmo, but the likeness is not in music, but in it's complex structure. Yarn: Dark Ambient track with gurgling acid sounds. Sirotek: Harsh Noise suite in 3 parts with utterly indigestible aggressive sound. Complex handmade package: outer cover made of painted plaster cast with photo-inserts, padding made of dark red fabric, and inner b/w sleeve with infos. [YAOP]
Troum -- "AIWS" -- CD -- €12
2007 Transgredient Records, TR-05
AIWS is the first full-length cd release from Troum since 2003. It covers studio-recordings composed from 2002-2005. These musicians have compiled some of their most favorable pieces through the years to be placed on this release. Presenting nine analogue (4 & 8 track) recorded compositions that lead the listener through vast feelings of beautifully deep melancholic and hypnotic states of mind. Composed with guitar-drones and harmonic phrases that are processed in various ways creating an atmosphere of the sublime and emotional meditative states that transcend listener to immerse within themselves. Ingredients: Sufi-songs, old vinyl-crackles, acoustic & e-guitars, e-bow, e-bass, voice & whisperings, accordion & flute. Stunning photography & design work by Alan McClelland (Eye.lyft). One of the most emotional and profound Troum releases to date now available on Transgrediant Records. Dedicated to Eternity. [press release]
Troum -- "Autopoiesis / Nahtscato" -- CD -- €10
2010 Zoharum, ZOHAR 012-2, (ltd. 500)
Two elder vinyls first time on CD. These vinyls materials aren't unvailable + bonus tracks. Packaged in exclusive 3-panel digipack. 'Autopoiesis' was originally released as picture LP on Small Voices in October 2004 in limited edition of 567 copies. 'Nahtscato' was originally released as a 12"EP on Paranoise Records in July 2005 in an edition of 300 copies. The bonus tracks were recorded in 2003. [label info]
Troum -- "Ljubimaya | Daur" -- CD -- €11
2009 Abgurd, AB-38, (ltd. 500)
Reissue of two 10" from the years 1998 and 2003. Daur is the very first release of TROUM and it resents very post-rock sounding material wth a lot of decipherable guitar parts and good drive. Ljubimaya was released by the Russian label Waystyx and carries you towards lyrical and touchy eternity of everbeginning melodies without an end, into emptiness of existence with all the uterine roar provided by YEN POX project in one of the tracks. The covers uses psychodelic image manipulations by Dmitri "HUM" Chistov. [press-release]
Troum -- "Mare Idiophonika" -- CD -- €12
2010 Tourette, tourette 019, (ltd. 500)
Mare Idiophonika ('The Self-Playing Ocean') is the new album by the German duo TROUM and contains the studio-version of the live programme Troum performed in 2007, with a new ending added later. Using bass, guitars, metal objects, voices and choirs and for the first time also singing-bowls and 'dry' beats Troum creates yet another magnificent journey into unknown dimensions. Its sounds are stunning and enchanting, leaving one in a state of bewilderment while exploring the world of the unconscious. With its compelling drones and haunting atmosphere Mare Idiophonika is a masterpiece of transcendental soundscapes. It is a mind-blowing dreamy and moving experience, reaching out towards the inner self and beyond. [Silken Tofu] American version.
Troum -- "Objectlessness" -- CD -- €12
2007 Faria Records, FAR-16, (ltd. 750)
There is a big gap between 'rational', verbal language and the pre-symbolic language of our emotional and unconscious mind. Music is perceived partly with our conscious mind, who can analyze it and reflect on it. On another part, it is perceived by our unconsciousness, by our 'primal consciousness' that lies 'under' the rational mind. The idea: Experimental music, especially that of a more droning character, can easier 'get in touch' or be unconsciously connected with this primal state of mind. It is music that is linked with unconscious fantasies coming from a pre-verbal sphere of existence... the phase of life based on the dyadic interaction with the 'primal object', the mother. At this early stage, there's no awareness existing of being a full separated Subject, and no other full separated Objects can be perceived. Inner and outer reality is the same. Spheric, droning, dissolving music is pointing unconsciously at this 'objectless' sphere of existence. This release is dedicated to the idea of an especially formed 'pre-symbolic' music. Artwork conception contain 4 cards and cover with art from english creator Pete Burn. [press-release]
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Troum -- "Ryna" -- CD -- €12
2006 Transgredient Records, TR-04
Re-release of Troum's long sold out first album from 1998 with new artwork by Tilmann Benninghaus. Digipack.
Troum -- "Seeing-Ear Gods" -- CD -- €10
2011 Zoharum, ZOHAR 017-2
'Seeing-Ear Gods' is the second collaboration between Troum and Zoharum. The album in question is the re-release of the obscure CDR which saw the light of the day 5 years ago on Discorporeality Recordings label. Here it is repackaged (3-panel digipak) and gloriously remastered by Anders Peterson (from Ghost Sounds mastering studio) responsible for dusting off other Troum / Maeror Tri releases. 'Seeing-Ear Gods' is quite different a release from 'Autopoiesis / Nahtscato' released on Zoharum last year. It's not as multilayered or varied, but at the same time is much more minimalist and hence very hypnotic. It works more on the subconscious level. It demonstrates how to create a mindblowing atmosphere with very little sounds involved. Just one track, divided into 6 separate parts, but be assured that you will press the 'repeat' button a lot of times. [press-release]
Troum -- "Sigqan" -- CD -- €13
2003/2009 Transgredient Records, TR-06
Sigqan was produced January to April 2002 at Ghuto-m studios, in Bremen, Germany. It was based on a live performance on their tour throughout Germany and Netherlands with Ultrasound in October 2001. Part 1 & 2 were recorded live in the studio in one take with no overdubs. Part 3 is a new ending-part added later. The first edition was originally released in June 2003 on Desolation House Records (a side-label of Relapse Records).
Troum -- "Symballein" -- CD -- €12
2007 SmallVoices, SVR 07024
A collection of rare & early tracks from 1997-1999 previously released on various compilations.
Troum -- "Symbiosis" -- 3"CD -- €8
2002 Transgredient Records, TR-02
Mini-album on which BarakaH and Glit(s)ch recorded their tracks separately. Guitar and balalaika tunes, layers and psychedelic harmonies.
Troum -- "Tjukurrpa (part three: rhythms and pulsations)" -- CD -- €12
2003 Transgredient Records, TR-01c
Dronecore. This is the third part in Troum's Tjukurrpa-trilogy, following part 1 (harmonies) and part 2 (drones). This final part is dedicated to "rhythms" and "pulsations", with a focus on rhythmic, pounding, looping & repetitive elements and structures. With Tjukurrpa 3, Troum shows a not so well known side, using the trance-power of repetitive textures. In every of the seven extensive tracks (playtime 66+ min) rhythms in various moods build the basis: from smooth ambience-pulsations over ritualistic surroundings up to ecstatic pounding harshness, from underneath & soft pulsative patterns up to evolving harsh & overwhelming rhythmic loops. The music on Tjukurrpa 3 is made by raw & processed loops & handplayed percussion, along with electric guitar & bass, balalaika, mouth organ, male & female human voice, flute, and accordeon. No samplers, synths or computers used. [press-release]
Troum & All Sides -- "Shutun" -- CD -- €16
2006 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 089
Finaly, after several historiacal releases as MAEROR TRI, the acclaimed German duo is going for their first full-legth release on OEC as TROUM! This is, as they say, their most complex work to date made mixing 25 different tracks into one unique long (over 50 muinutes) composition! TROUM for this album is collaborating with the femal ALL SIDES project which makes this release even more intriguing! & it's their first full length album since Tjukurpa 3 dated 2003... Troum (ancient german word for "Dream") aim is to lead the listener into a hypnotizing dream-state of mind, and use music as the direct path to the unconscious pointing to the archaic essence of human psyche! TROUM works for creat alterated states of mind, they work on human unconscisus sphere... Their post-industrial drone music is created using a wide range of instruments like: guitar, bass, voice, accordiaon, balalaika, flute, mouth-organ, melodica, gong, field recordings & more, to create a sort of trascendental dark & atmospheric ambient industrial. TROUM dosen't work with synths, samples or computer soundscapes! The sounds are created "by hand". You can feel in this album: mysticism, ancestral power, ancient rites, the nature of your beeing... but also a collapsing world, the sounds of a falling universe, the deepest and more far star burning.... as well as the more inner part of yourself moving & pulsing! A journey through space, body & soul! This album comes in a special round metal-box! [press-release].
Troum & Reutoff -- "Kreuzung Zwei: Creatura per Creaturam Continetur" -- CD -- €13
2008 Ewers Tonkunst, HHE 019 CD
Produced in May-August 2008. Basic sound-sources & samples by Reutoff, additional instrumental recordings, tracks arrangements and mastering by Troum. The concept of this work is based on cosmology of Hildegard von Bingen.
True Colour Of Blood -- "(Absence)" -- CD -- €12
2003 Eibon Records / AFE Records, Tru043 / Afe052cd
When we think about "guitar players", we are misled by the very traditional concept of the "rock" guitarist playing riffs and solos..... WRONG !! There is a parallel universe where talented musicians like Eric Kesner use guitars (and nothing else.....) to build dense and flowing streams of sound. Dark ambient of the finest kind, where monstrously dark drones meet touching melodies; music that will project you into an unknown universe of reverberating sound-layers.........[press-release]
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True Colour Of Blood -- "Awakened, To Never Sleep Again" -- CD-R -- €7
2001 Soulworm Editions, Worm XVI
Raw and uneasy guitar drone ambient from States. "Guitar does not seem to be the perfect tool to create ambient sounds. But Eric Kesner proves it can work just perfect. The ominous monotony and minimalistic approach embed in these sounds makes 'Awakened...' an uneasy listening experience for the listener - by it's almost psychosomatic, resonant touch." [press-release]
Tsaraas -- "Whisper of Buried Hearts" -- CD -- €10
2008 Wroth Emitter Productions, W.E. 019
Dark-ambient side-project of Majdanek Waltz. Orchestral samples and majectic electronic organ turn into heavy drones with noisy elements. Detached voices, known for the basic project, recite mystical and bizarre lyrics. [label info]
Tuhat Kuolemaa Sekunnissa -- "s/t" -- CD -- €10
2007 Anima Arctica, AUER-002, (ltd. 1000)
Noble & Honest Neo Folk Rooted firmly to the pagan grounds of Finland. These songs are made to rise higher than pines, and the brilliant melodies glitter like silvery lakes under the holy sun. Some of these tracks are surely to be sung along with tears in eyes by lonely listeners, and some out loud by like-minded minds affected by blessed beers and wicked wines. This record is mainly performed two acoustic guitars and bass guitar held by men with fierce fire in minds and souls, with voice - sometimes fragile like icicles, sometimes hard like the wind from the arctic ocean, but always in the language of their ancestors - and with occasional elements of other traditional instruments. Humble and traditional approach to composing leads to traditional, yet innovative song writing... a reverend nod is given to the direction classics of British isle's neo folk genre, which shake hands with archaic songs sung by Finnish tribes next to fireplaces in nightless night, in lightless winter of this cold, cold country. [press-release]
Tuonela -- "The State of Thousand Lakes" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 YAOP, YAOP 043, (ltd. 40)
Karelian psycho-folk. The album is based on recordings made in ancient Karelian village Mashezero (local people say Mashozero). Crooked accordion improvisations, domestic noises, field recordings of birds, grasshoppers, rain, unobtrusive radionoise. Very relaxing album, like taking a rest near a lake after Saturday's bath... DVD-box, violet cover with a photo and a copy of painting of beautiful Karelian artist Tamara Yufa. Each copy is unique. [press-release]
Turman, Robert & Aaron Dilloway -- "Blizzard" -- CD -- €10
2009 Hanson Records, HN 211, (ltd. 500)
Collaboration between AARON DILLOWAY (ex-WOLF EYES) and ROBERT TURMAN (ex-NON, Z.O. Voider). Recorded in January 2009 during a horrible Ohio snowstorm. Dilloway on synthesizer and tape delays and Turman on tapes and effects. Very minimal, very slow, very cold. Frozen and stuck in the snow. Edition of 500 copies in jewel case w/ white tray. [label info]
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Tuts-Schiemsky, Emmanuel -- "Rust Voor De Stilte" -- CD -- €11
1996 Arya, Y01, (ltd. 1000)
Tender ethno-ambient which from the first minutes carries the listener away to the fantastic world of anscient Indo-Chinese civilizations: here everything's idyllic calm, beautiful, and... a little bit sad. Most of the album tracks are woven from patterns of vibraphonic percussion, against the background of which appear airy synthesizer figures interlacing with fairy sound of flute. Having created very kind and beautiful ethnic-coloured musical work, author nevertheless managed to avoid this frequent new age superficiality and sugary in sound. And one more thing: the last track differs very much in it's mood from the other tracks - here it's all very pensive and full of melancholy. A stunningly beautiful sad composition. The album will fit to those listeners who respect the creative work of Robert Rich, Steve Roach, Tuu, Voice Of Eye. A very strong meditative release. [Riverworld, Organic Human Mechanisms]
Tydish / Maaaa -- "split" -- CD-R -- €4
2007 Triangle Records, [TR020]
Power-electronics/Harsh-noise. Think before you think! This is not a test!!!! Total sXe-Jihad is cum-min soon. Make your choise or DIE!!! [label info]
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Tzesne -- "Defrost" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Abgurd, AB-52, (ltd. 100)
Spanish duo is well-known for its high-class albums released by some excellent European labels. Five untitled tracks of "Defrost" walk through different genre fields: electroacoustic experiments with clicks, scratches and macrosounds, static resonating mezmerizing drones and brutal final chord of 12-minute-long abrasive droning wall. Accurate and monolithic work. [press-release]
Ucho -- "Mycobacterium" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
Malachit, m 004
A new jewel from Malachit. Three faces of one project. The first track is like a music to a static dance with minimal noises & spaces. The second has subtle rhythms, trance & sound tunnels. The third contain some darker & more secret sounds. 25 minutes. [press-release]
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Uedineniya -- "Red Meridian" -- CD -- €8
2011 7 Hz Records, 7HZ 05 D / Chernaya Zemlya
Uedineniya is a one-man project by Alexander Elin (the doctor by a trade) from forests of Tambov, Russia. Uedineniya is not the first project by the author but it's the first project which has level with the physical carrier. The genre can be characterized as dark / drone ambient with big experimental and isolating elements. The author speaks the album is a musical support for the 8mm-record with videomaterials of travels on the first Arktika's series icebreakers were born at the middle of the twentieth century. This record has been found in the garage of the Alexandr's relative (the former seaman and polar explorer) Sergey Borisov. The main idea of this album is making the atmosphere of infinite cold and very long days during travels in ices, to remind listeners about places where life and short stay are very dangerous for people. For this reason the album has been named ėŅĮÓĪŁŹ ķÅŅÉÄÉĮĪ (eng. - 'red meridian') - dangerous line, the place for strong spirit people capable on heroically acts... Single CD edition without inserts in digisleeve. [label info]
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Uedineniya -- "Red Meridian" -- 2 CD -- €10
2011 7 Hz Records, 7HZ 05 D / Chernaya Zemlya, (ltd. 100)
Uedineniya is a one-man project by Alexander Elin (the doctor by a trade) from forests of Tambov, Russia. Uedineniya is not the first project by the author but it's the first project which has level with the physical carrier. The genre can be characterized as dark / drone ambient with big experimental and isolating elements. The author speaks the album is a musical support for the 8mm-record with videomaterials of travels on the first Arktika's series icebreakers were born at the middle of the twentieth century. This record has been found in the garage of the Alexandr's relative (the former seaman and polar explorer) Sergey Borisov. The main idea of this album is making the atmosphere of infinite cold and very long days during travels in ices, to remind listeners about places where life and short stay are very dangerous for people. For this reason the album has been named ėŅĮÓĪŁŹ ķÅŅÉÄÉĮĪ (eng. - 'red meridian') - dangerous line, the place for strong spirit people capable on heroically acts... Double CD edition with 2 cards in digisleeve, second disc contains video in SVCD-format with unique records with one of the first arctic expeditions. [label info]
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Uedineniya -- "Red Meridian" -- 2 CD box -- €18
2011 7 Hz Records, 7HZ 05 D / Chernaya Zemlya, CZ:v, (ltd. 100)
Uedineniya is a one-man project by Alexander Elin (the doctor by a trade) from forests of Tambov, Russia. Uedineniya is not the first project by the author but it's the first project which has level with the physical carrier. The genre can be characterized as dark / drone ambient with big experimental and isolating elements. The author speaks the album is a musical support for the 8mm-record with videomaterials of travels on the first Arktika's series icebreakers were born at the middle of the twentieth century. This record has been found in the garage of the Alexandr's relative (the former seaman and polar explorer) Sergey Borisov. The main idea of this album is making the atmosphere of infinite cold and very long days during travels in ices, to remind listeners about places where life and short stay are very dangerous for people. For this reason the album has been named ėŅĮÓĪŁŹ ķÅŅÉÄÉĮĪ (eng. - 'red meridian') - dangerous line, the place for strong spirit people capable on heroically acts... Boxset double CD edition with lots of inserts, second disc contains video in SVCD-format with unique records with one of the first arctic expeditions. [label info]
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Ultimaratio -- "Irreversibility of Time" -- CD-R --€7
Sounds Out of Understanding, SOU004, (ltd. 33)
Deadly dark ambient / darkwave inspired by Tchernobyl accident, depressive states and the irreversibility of time. Includes a cover-version of The Beatles "Yesterday". Colour foldout sleeve. [YAOP]
Ultra Fuckers -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €5
2006 Monopolka, This is Monopolka 110
Japanese idiotic "nocore yabai" punk as well as no less idiotic power electronics. Partly live in club "Namba Bears" with (Maso Yamazaki as drummer), partly in studio. Guitarist has recently received Akutagawa literary prize. 7" cover, serigraphy, pro-printed CDR, postcard. [label info]
Ultra Milkmaids -- "Lands" -- CD -- €15
2005 Waystyx, WR18, (ltd. 100)
Ultra Milkmaids is the french ensemble founded in 1993 by musicians formerly active as punk-band The Chicken In The Kitchen members. When this album was just in progress (in 2001), it was actually contracted to one-man project, with the active member known to us as Y. First Ultra Milkmaids recordings were quite noisy and using guitars in grindcore approach. Got some interest in experimental music and electronic devices, Y. and his brother R. discovered new ways of playing guitar, so the Ultra Milkmaids music got the balance shifting into more quiet and melodic side. Soon they released a split with german techno band Unit Moebius, and then got attention from now defunct Noise Museum label. They produced first real Ultra Milkmaids CD - "Vorely" in 1997, which was drawing some lines between inorganic ambient and organic instruments. Year after that, japanese label Noctovision produced album conceived as remix-project, with some nice contributions from Telepherique, Troum, Vance Orchestra, Goem and others. During the following five years Ultra Milkmaids produced handful of albums on labels like Drone Records, Ant-Zen, MNDR, Ignis Project, Staalplaat and their own U-Mohol. "Lands" contains six short pieces, total playing time of CD is around 20 minutes. So it was published only after 4 years and makes me thinking about archive cleaning - Moscow based Waystyx can save the situation but can't spread the word about Ultra Milkmaids too wide because of extra limited edition of this album - small but painted on both sides CD (100 copies have been made). Concerning the music itself, it's inspired by sentimental and lyrical mood, but the music is frozen and crumbled, like the sunshine reflected by broken mirror pieces. It has no particular melody, just the reckless array of notes, confused between each other, covering next and previous sounds. The last track "Paris" can give you a hint, showing some seconds of real acoustic guitar play - by the way, Y. plays also guitar in surf-bands The Surfin' Barmaids & The Star And Key Of Indian Ocean. [Dmitry Vasilyev, "Independent Electronic Music"]
Ultra Milkmaids -- "Pretty Day" -- CD EP -- €12
2008 Waystyx, WR38, (ltd. 500)
A small collection of new Ultra Milkmaids tracks and remixes both by them on other bands' tracks and by other bands on their tracks. A pretty nice disk for the fans.
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Ultra Milkmaids -- "Vorely Relay" -- CD -- €10
1999 Noctovision, NCVCD 07
Ultra Milkmaids started their career in mid-90s and have later collaborated with lots of other musicians. In 1997 both members were just 20 years old! But the fact that just after a couple of albums many musicians agreed to make their own remixes on their tracks just prooves the remarkable quality of their music. This is the album of remixes from the original "Vorely" CD (1997, Noise Museum). Remixes recorded in 1998 and released in 1999, and all of them are completely different: dub (Etereo Expandeum Club), ambient (Telepherique, Troum and Vance Orchestra), minimal techno (Goem), electro and breakbit (Icon Zero, Celluloid Mata and Captain Black). Those who didn't listen to the original album only have to guess - how it sounds at all? [Monochrome Vision]
Ultrapolyarnoe Vtorzhenie feat. Morbus Mundi / Transistorwald -- "Act Of Total Nonrandomness" -- CD-R -- €6
2011 Valgriind, VG43
Martial Industrial Noise split / collaboration from three Russian talented artists. An esotheric work inspired by the ideas of Miguel Serrano. [YAOP]
Umpio -- "Junk Electronix Vol. I" -- CD -- €10
2010 Nekorekords, Neko-03, (ltd. 500)
Heavy junk rhythms, beatboxing, accidental idiot breaks and harsh textures. This one actually is almost music. Comes in a 7" size sleeve with postcard. [label info]
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Un Defi d'Honneur -- "Verdun 1916" -- CD -- €13
2006 Vrihaspati Recordings, VR010, (ltd. 500)
The second full-length album of A CHALLENGE OF HONOUR's French alias UN DEFI D'HONNEUR. This is the first full-length release of this french counterpart since the 'Aurore de Gloire' album (2003) on the Belgian label NEUROPA. In 2005 UN DEFI D'HONNEUR released a 12" in a gatefold cover on the same label and that release was packed with re-arranged material from the debut album. Now Peter Savelkoul returns with 8 brandnew tracks of Martial/Neo-Classical music, with some very suprising compositions. [press-release]
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Under The Snow -- "Delta" -- CD -- €10
2011 Silentes, cd 201129
Extended sonic fluxes of synthetic imprinting mixed with delicate acoustic and electric guitar chords and riffs, crowd noises, fading melodic scrubs of unknown origin, feedback, echoes, pulses, vibrations, hissing waves in continuous movement... but also sudden pauses, unbelievable interludes of folk blues radio spots, crystal water sounds, static, evolving and dramatic electronic tracks, metallic ticking. An extraordinary collection of sounds and atmospheres for this new, ambitious and exploratory project by Stefano Gentile and Gianluca Favaron. [press-release]
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Unicorn -- "Playing With Light" -- CD -- €10
2004 Housepig, HPIG 001
A field report from an outpost at the border where droning ambience, minimalist melody and pure noise share an uneasy truce. Unicorn (featuring longtime members of Bastard Noise and Sleestak) serves up seven tracks, where melodic lines skate across a surface of disturbing drones and scathing noise. CD-Rom content includes three short films by Stephanie Miller, with soundtracks by Unicorn. Presented in a gorgeous letterpressed sleeve by Thumbprint press. [press-release]
Unit 21 -- "November" -- CD -- €8
2007 Peace Technologies, PT 006
Unit 21 is the project of Stanislav Vdovin. He started in 2003 with techno-house remixes and later released several non-dance solo albums on independent net labels. Autumn of 2005 marks the beginning of his concert activity. The first performances were played in Moscow, Izhevsk and Nizhnii Novgorod. In May 2006 Stanislav has added to his collection another mini-album "September-October", with 4 tracks, released on Thinner net label. November is the first solo work of Unit 21, released on a hard copy. This is an extension of "September-October", in a more winter and twilight version. This is the album about seclusion and remembrance. The nature of all tracks is thoughtful and contemplative. Noise of planes flying over the winter forest, trudging on the snow, rattling of trains passing stations, rustling of pages of the musicians' books. [press-release]
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Unit-Ass -- "Gravemoans" -- CD-R -- €9
2010 Torga Amun Records, Torga Amun, 020, (ltd. 50)
Apocalyptic depressive power industrial. A project of dr. Feitnathoroth (Gorduw, Tchort). 55 minutes. Painted half DVD-box with a sticker. [label info]
Unit-Ass -- "Political Uncorrected Musik" -- CD-R -- €9
2010 Torga Amun Records, Torga Amun, 022, (ltd. 50)
Apocalyptic depressive power electronics. This is the new style! A project of dr. Feitnathoroth (Gorduw, Tchort). 60 minutes. Recorded in 2003. Half DVD-box with 3 inserts. [label info]
Unit Auf -- "Hokmah Nistarah" -- CD-R -- €5
2008 Sewer Records, SEWER 012
The new release of :UNIT AUF: is his first full length under this name (a full length release was done as AUF too). 10 tracks of bestiality and total destruction is what you will find in this disc. The word "Noise" cannot really describe the layers of sounds that you will get here. The range of frequencies will bring your nightmares of post apocalypse closer today. Your speakers and ears will bleed! First few copies come in full colour cover. [label info] Lo-fi harsh noise from Hellas/Greece.
Unit Auf / Ego Death -- "Real Men Won't Rape" -- CD-R -- €5
Sewer Records, SEWER 010
Both artists have risen from the ashes of THIS IS NOW / DEATH TV, an old Greek noise / experimental band. Now, following their own ways, they cooperate for the first times since 2004 in this split. :UNIT AUF: create religious nothingness through unholy paths of personal sorrows turned to anger and back again, while EGO DEATHsamples reality into a distorted piece of glass to walk upon. [label info] Lo-fi experimental / harsh noise from Hellas/Greece.
Unknown -- "Unity" -- CD-R -- €5
Strely Peruna prod., SP011
Surprisingly calm and beautifully tranquil electronic ambient, sometimes with light rhythmics, samples and fragments of field recordings, a little resembles early Biosphere.
Ur -- "The Day of the Lord - 060606 Session" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Abgurd, AB-666, (ltd. 100)
Italian project started in 2005. UR has released a number of albums through Topheth Prophet, Afe Records, Mask Of The Slave. Music is mostly free-improvised in the style of Industrial of 1970's. Four long pieces recorded in 2006 create a hellish maelstrom of black shadows, heartrending groans, bloodletting rave in a throng of ashletting horny and caudate entitites. Sometimes more scary than TG, early CURRENT 93 and STALLAGH. [press-release]
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Ur -- "Four Calls for Locusts" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Mask Of The Slave, MS-022, (ltd. 60)
Ur were born in early 2005 as a collaboration between Federico Esposito and Mauro Sciaccaluga, both active in the italian hardcore circuit. Their music is mostly based on free improvisation and its sonorities can't easily be described without referring to the well-known and wildest experiments of Industrial music of the late '70s / early '80s. There is a strong dramatic feeling in their powerful sound, where everything seems to reproduce a sort of wedding between the modernity of the media and the primordial instincts of the performers. CD-R in normal slim-jewel case limited to 60 copies. [label info]
Ur -- "Triadic Memories" -- CD-R -- €9
2006 AFE Records, afe083lcd, (ltd. 133)
Industrial. Ur were born in early 2005 as a collaboration between Federico Esposito and Mauro Sciaccaluga, both active in the italian hardcore circuit. They were later joined by Andrea Ferraris, past and present member of Burning Defeat, Permanent Scar, Onefineday, Deep End and One By One. Their music is mostly based on free improvisation and its sonorities can't easily be described without referring to the seminal work of the well-known and wildest Industrialists of the late '70s / early '80s. "Triadic Memories" is their first "official" disc and comes after the self-released "Baptism & Birthday". There is a strong dramatic feeling in their powerful sound, where everything seems to reproduce a sort of wedding between the modernity of the media and the primordial instincts of the performers... [label info]
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Ur -- "Trieb" -- CD -- €10
2008 Topheth Prophet, TP017, (ltd. 300)
Ur was born from the collaboration between Federico Esposito and Mauro Sciaccaluga, both hailing from the hardcore-punk scene and from bands like Heartside (F.E.), Never Was, Downright, Kafka, Stalker (M.S.). The two joined in 2003 to work on F.E.'s industrial solo-project (a.k.a. Den LXV) live set, later they decided to collaborate and improvise together to create a new entity. Andrea Ferraris joined the band in the early days of 2005, contributing to define further on the sonic identity of the combo. A.F. is well known for having played and recorded with different bands ranging from hardcore to indie-post rock to experimental music (Airchamber3, Deep End, Burning Defeat, Permanent Scar, Onefineday, Ultraviolet Make Me Sick, Permanent Scar, etc:). Ur music is mostly based on improvisation that usually starts with drones or samples (with no pre-definite structure), to which they superimpose layers of electro-acoustic noisescapes coming from objects, field recordings, analog and traditional instruments processed using a load of pedals and effects. The sound ends painting a solid, harsh and dramatic industrial lounge where archaic instincts and modern obsessions meet. To use the words of a sound engineer after one of their live sets: ':it all sounds like early Pink Floyd on acid...on muriatic acid'. [press-release]
Ur + Craig Hilton -- "I Will Be The Light" -- CD-R -- €8
2009 Afe Records, afe114lcd, (ltd. 100)
Industrial. Ur were born in early 2005 as a collaboration between Federico Esposito, Mauro Sciaccaluga and Andrea Ferraris. They made their live debut at the Afe-Party in November 2005, recently they also opened for Eugene Chadbourne and Wolf Eyes during their italian tours. There is a strong dramatic feeling in their powerful sound, where everything seems to reproduce a sort of wedding between the modernity of the media and the primordial instincts of the performers. Following their self-released "Baptism & Birthday", "Triadic Memories" was released on Afe in April 2006. An Ur CD entitled "Trieb" was released in 2008 on Topheth Prophet in Israel... Craig Hilton was born in 1972, he has been playing the guitar since he was 10. His first experimentations in sound began as a teenager with a guitar and a 4 track tape recorder. His first release was a collaboration with Yannick Franck (Belgium) entitled "Amatra". A second collaboration happened with Maurizio Bianchi (Italy) entitled "PU94" which is being re-released in late 2008. A solo CD "The Smoking Mirror", released early 2008, incorporated much of what he wanted to achieve after the long and intensive collaborations with Yannick and MB. [label info]
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Urblud Dramader -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €9
2004 self-released
Studio full-length from the band of Eduard Srapionov (Papa Srapa). Dirty shamanic noise rock remotely resembling Sonic Youth or Grazhdanskaya Oborona. Includes such superhits as "Sudak (Song of Iona)", "Shoes" and many other good songs. Handmade package made of 5" floppy disk, scotch tape, razorblade and coin. [YAOP]
Urblud Dramader -- "Rostov-on-Don. 02.03.04" -- CD-R -- €9
2004 self-released
Live album of Eduard Srapionov's (Papa Srapa) band. Dirty shamanic noise rock remotely resembling Sonic Youth or Grazhdanskaya Oborona. Handmade package of corrugated cardboard, scotch tape, photos, razorblade, match, coin and 5" floppy disk. [YAOP info]
Ure Thrall -- "Arabian Knightmares" -- CD -- €14
2006 Tesco Organisation, TESCO 065
Arabian Knightmares is one man's effort to reflect the unfolding events of the current worldwide sectarian war in a series of harmonic constructs, utilizing actual sounds from the major events of the struggle (9/11, the Iraq War, etc.) to provide a historic point of reference. The forlorn yet beautiful emotions that are unmistakable in Muslim song and prayer are reflected here in a context so unique that it is deeply stirring in a musical sense and simultaneously brutal with its emotional impact on the listener. Tears are not uncommon. Comes in a special well designed cardboard box folder with 8 postcards. [label info]
Uruk-Hai -- "Black Blood, White Hand" -- CD -- €10
2010 Sturmklang, Sturm 01
Epic/mystic Black Metal (Ambient) with a heroic Martial touch! The 10-years-jubilee-album of Uruk-Hai (Austria) longs from the rage of the Orks to the beauty of Galadriel. "Black Blood, White Hand" is the most varied album and the absolute highlight in the history of the band. Gloomy Black Metal Hymns go along with fairy-like soundscapes and guide the listener through a unique acoustic journey on the most hidden paths of Middle-Earh. Eleven songs and one video-clip come in a mystic digipack with images of Luciferia (DIMMU BORGIR, DANZIG,..) as cover model. [label info]
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Uruk-Hai -- "Dragons Of War" -- CD -- €10
2005 Dragon's Breath Records, Dragon's Breath 001, (ltd. 1000)
Beautiful Martial Neoclassic Ambient from this Austrian artist working in various projects since early 80-ies. DVD-box, full-colour cover, insert. [YAOP]
Uruk-Hai -- "Lost Songs From Middle Earth" -- CD -- €10
2008 Aphelion Productions, AP034
Beautiful Martial Neoclassic Ambient from this Austrian artist working in various projects since early 80-ies. Jewel-case, 16-page colour booklet. [YAOP]
Uruk-Hai -- "Northern Lights" -- CD -- €8
2011 Valgriind, VG 47
Among those musicians who have read of tons of heroic fantasy books and spent hours listening to the music of Varg and Summoning and then rushed to torture guitars and synthesizers creating "inspired epic music", Alexander Wieser and his Uruk-Hai are the most pleasant to me, being a usual listener. He manages to create really epic compositions imbued with the spirit of ancient tales, soaked in spirit of bloody battles or beauty of fairy worlds where the dreamy author's nature tries to get with the help of rich fantasy. "Northern Lights" is a reissue of a cassette from 2005, with excluded track "Moria" (caused by of lack of space) and new bonus tracks instead old ones. This album material perfectly shows the essence of Wieser's music. On the one hand, it is black metal rawness and rage of Burzum (although the instrumental cover-version sounds very peaceful), on another - fantasy-like "otherworldness" of Enya (whose track "May It Be" is sung by some Hildr Valkyrie good in everything except for the fact that she is far from being Enya, and it speaks for itself)... When many adherents of "black ambient" play on two-three synth keys, Wieser manages to compose simple but heart-stirring electronic symphonies... A good work of Uruk-Hai waited for more effectrive media and meeting larger audience. [maeror3.livejournal.com]
Uruk-Hai / Mhnunrrn -- "split" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Le Crepuscule Du Soir, LCDS019
Majestic Dark Ambient inspired by the Middle Ages, and raw primordial Black Metal. Fascinating album for lonely trips. 6-panel full-cover A5 digisleeve. [YAOP]
Utarm -- "Minus The Divine" -- CD -- €10
2009 Turgid Animal, TA406, (ltd. 300)
Utarm is Norway's Sindre Foss Skancke and "Minus The Divine" is the incredible new album released as follow up to 2007's "Mutilation Epoch". Experimental Black Metal and Noise rolled into one well composed and certainly exciting if not bizarre sounding album. All the best bits of Skullflower, early industrial and influences drawn from his countries native Black Metal underworld fighting for space amongst a backdrop of blackened Harsh Noise filth. [label info]
V -- "Fam" -- CD-R -- €8
2008 Still*Sleep, CDR09
Deep low frequency drone with almost static compositional structure. Sounds from the abyss...
Vagranok -- "Shag v Bez.Dnu" -- CD-R -- €9
2009 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT51, (ltd. 117)
Second excursion of this project into the territory of Soviet past, the release of the materials recorded in summer 2008. The project line-up consists of SGI (Vresnit / Vetvei) and one of the members of Moscow-Yaroslavl trio Night Shift. 6 noise canvases dedicated to the visions of outer darkness seen through the old radio receivers and black and white photographs. To the inseparability of the dark Cosmos and bright future in the unsaid doctrines of Soviet mysticism. Flying and diving into the lost time, search for foothold, responsibility before the communist party and the people, coldness of supervisor's look and his lofty voices. In comparison to the previous release "Voz.Dukh" put out by Kerpg, this album is less dusty, it's sometimes condenses to industrial noise traditional for St. Petersburg noise wave, and sometimes disperses to manifold nuances of technogenic ambient. Fat raw sound, lots of samples and archive recordings, voices, radionoises, guitar, synths and Soviet vinyl. The last steel from cooled Vagranok. Author's artwork: full-colour photographs in typical SGI style and a signal sleeve. [press-release]
Valvula Antirretorno -- "Dios Existe" -- CD-R -- €10
2005 Slaughter Productions, SPCD55, (ltd. 100)
VALVULA ANTIRRETORNO is new spanish promising industrial, powerelectronic duo. "Dios Existe" featuring 5 tracks, a very nice work including as first track a great Esplendor Geometrico cover "quince anos tiene mi amor" rmx... really deranged and schizophrenic with smashing rythms and psycho's voice. Other tracks are excellent, from the more noisy to the more quiet.. like the last track "amen" a very ambient track with a very nice trick near the end. Highly recommended, very nice entertainment... Limited to 100 copies in standard jewel case. [press-release]
Van Alebeek, Rinus / Macek, Tibor -- "Ciao Jazzclub" -- CD-R -- €7
2006 Zeromoon, Consume Buy 2006 series
100% live concrete music - fragments of some events in some spaces: someone speaks, something crackles, bangs, plays, starts making noise, etc... always abrupt things are happening. All these "field" recordings are done quite professionally and nicely reproduce sound pictures of these events. Besides audio tracks (starting from track 2), this release contains multimedia information. Released in "Consume Buy 2006" series by American Zeromoon label available for sale only in 2006.
Van Richter, Max -- "Resurrection" -- CD -- €10
2002 Neu Harmony, NH026
Max Van Richter is a pseudonym for Paul Lawler. Van Richter was claimed to be a member of the band Arcane, which is Lawlers own project. According to the story, Van Richter was a victim of a mysterious spontaneous human combustion in his home, his charred remains found holding a badly damaged demo tape... "The tuneage on "Resurrection" is dark and ominous, an electronic soundtrack for some tortured nightmare trapped in an abandoned haunted house. Efforts have been made to capture the vibrant flair of the formative stages of the classic Berlin School sound, in numerous instances employing sounds that were in popular use during that electronic heyday, but the results often tend to be slicker than old recordings, employing technologies and sentiments that are distinctly modern." [Matt Howarth] Long lost and much anticipated album from the Arcane founder member. Sensational melodics and sequencing akin to 80's TD at their peak, with a symphonic twist!! [label info]
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Vance Orchestra -- "Drek" -- CD -- €15
2005 Waystyx, WR17, (ltd. 100)
Vance Orchestra is the dutch duo active for many years but under various names so one probably couldn't be succeed to trace all their appearances. There is not much information about these musicians, they like to keep private life in secret area. For the most part of corresponding audience, Vance Orchestra are known after their brilliant 7"-single released by Drone Records, followed by outstanding full-time albums released by labels like Noctovision, Noise Museum, Rund Um Den Watzmann and EE Tapes. These are really rare because of small edition sizes, becoming the real pain in the ass for die-hard collectors. Moscow based Waystyx label wasn't presumed to break up this tradition and released the newest Vance Orchestra work in extra limited edition of 100 copies. "Drek" is one half-hour suite divided into six parts, but there are no real tracks, so listeners are allowed to define boundaries between them. The most important point of Vance Orchestra work is recycling, they usually like to adopt someone else's music, grabbed from old tapes and records. There are some variations inbetween - some old electronic tunes from the trash-fiction cinema, abstract noises and vinyl crackles. Sometimes musicians just like to play with little music fragments, looping them and applying various effects, step by step and layer after layer. The final result is highly surreal music consisting of slowly changing images of the underworld scenes, hard to comprehend and remember. The must for all of you conundrum admirers, just not put it aside when you'll ever come across this one. [Dmitry Vasilyev, "Independent Electronic Music"]
Vanessa Van Basten -- "La Stanza Di Swedenborg" -- CD -- €11
2006 Radiotarab Records, Rt004 / Eibon Records, Van068 / Cold Current Productions, C.C.CD005 / Noisecult
Vanessa Van Basten is a duo with various guests and contributors from the alternative and extreme italian underground scene. We make slow, heavy, metaphysic instrumental music. Our influences are cosmic psychedelia, industrial rock like Swans or Godflesh, Neurot & Hydrahead catalogue, krautrock, norwegian black metal. [band info] Comes in a gatefold digisleeve with printed innersleeve.
Vargr -- "Wehrmacht Satanas [by lord Nordvargr]" -- CD -- €10
2007 Eternal Pride Productions, EPP 007
The name of Henrik Nordvargr Bjorkk has always been associated to the power of Swedish Black Industrial which has always been linked to MZ. 412 for many years. As a part of MZ. 412, Nordvargr first managed to combine black metal and post-industrial aesthetics. But VARGR is even a more diabolic, blasphemous and terrifying cocktail of the real Scandinavian black metal of the early 1990s and the noise post-industrial layers which create the atmosphere of real Evil, Death, Chaos and Destruction in their impious graciousness. An unholy communion summoned to create the soundtrack for all wars to come. Bow to the Northern Wolf! [press-release]
Vazhes -- "Banjara Lohar" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT40, (ltd. 102)
Post industrial ethno electronics in vein of most pushing works of Muslimgauze from this Moscow based project (ex-Bardo). Fanciful patterns of asian rhythms, primeval psychedelics and powerful spirit of Tradition speaking with the help of digital technologies, futuristic samples, elecronic noise attacks and unbending pulsations of dense dub bass. Worth special mentioning is the last track where the impressive "ensemble" is accompanied by a mouth harp. A very interesting work! Handmade cardboard sleeve. [press-release]
Vazhes -- "Deep Komis" -- CD -- €10
2010 Nadeln Prod., NaP.II, (ltd. 500)
New album "Deep Komis" by VAZHES, the project of Russian anthropologist and documentary director Sergey Gabbasov, is dedicated to authentic ethnic music of the Permian Komis. This album was made with RAPOON, NORTHAUNT and FANUM. It dips into the hidden and secret world of ancient and primordial nature, of secret and mysterious rituals... On the fanciful turnings of the forest path we will meet authentic ethno music of the Permian Komis, Nordic ambient, ethno-industrial, dub. Interweaving like lines of a spider's web, chthonic drones mix with resonant rhythms, enigmatic voices and dense dub bass. This is a trip into the world of magic, which is full of foresters, mermaids, brownies and giants, into the world of growing trees and sparkling water. Ancient rituals and traditional culture expressed by sound... Sun light, streaming through tree leaves and reflected in river water, village traditions and rituals - by VAZHES... Dark encryption of nature in a preceding dawn cool darkness - by RAPOON... Dead water in deep marshy weeds - by FANUM... Endless spaces of fields and forests under the bright sun, eternal magic of life - by NORTHAUNT. [press-release]
Vazhes -- "Mazari Sharif" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT60, (ltd. 79)
Harsh Dub Rhythm'n'Noise, based on complex mid-Asian rhythms, spiced with ecstatic Sufic singing and martial beats of ethnic drums, inspired by images of Muslim radicalism: "Iranian radio", "Taliban mujahid", "Karachi jackal"... This material was used as a soundtrack to a film by Darya Bondarenko "Slavic Islam" (2007). More than remarkable heir of Muslimgauze. Green sleeve with photos + insert. [press-release]
Vazhes -- "Pripyat" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT61, (ltd. 86)
This album is dedicated not to the Chernobyl tragedy of 1986, but to the town of Pripyat, all population of which was evacuated after the catastrophe. Abandoned houses, empty streets, cracked roads and walls, rusty machinery, radioactive background going off scale, lightening film, crippled silent nature. Wind howls in empty rooms, darkness, snow. Roaring environmental hum and rustling radionoises, filled with all-penetrating dreadful radiation. Full-colour 3-panel cover. [press-release]
Vazhes -- "Seid" -- CD -- €10
2009 Vegvisir music, o:007
Ritual noise / Folk. Many centuries ago noiades, the shamans of ancient Sami, have put seids (seita) on their current places. The centuries have gone, Sami went to the North under pressure of other peoples, wars passed by one by one, but seids still stand on their places. The true harmony never disappears. One can try to forget or destroy it, but nothing can replace it - there are only poor and paltry attempts of replacement to something different which has nothing in common with the natural way of living. Saids can be destroyed, everything connected with the traditional culture can be destroyed, we can forget and refuse everything thinking that it should be this way. But by doing so, a man undoubtedly opposes himself to Nature, instead of being an integral and harmonic part of it as it is in the traditional culture. By breaking the connections with Nature, according to the same law of natural harmony, a man will disappear himself... "Seid" is the debut album of Vazhes, a project by ethnographer Sergey Gabbasov. The album consists of 4 tracks, two of them "Seid" and "Krishna" are recorded by Vazhes, one is a collaboration between Vazhes and Fanum, and another one is created by Vazhes and Akpan. The album is dedicated to the struggle between chaotic and destructive world of contemporary people and eternal natural harmonic principles, embodied in traditional cultures... The beginning - existence and sound of the North - vibrations of stones, Northern lights, spirits of anchestors and crunch of ice. Silence frozen over the icy rocky spaces. Here and there seids, ancient like the North itsels, stand towards the sky. White stillness. Then, suddenly, Hindu kirtan and aggressive heat of radical religious fundamentalists. Struggle to death and Exodus. From ice and tundra to desert and top of the world. Roaring wind among the blinding white peaks promising oblivion. And drying wind taking away the last water and life. And finally, the raging summer storm over the forest swamps of the Ural and Kama river... Thunder and lightnings in the sky, the eternal forest and purifying water streams which feed the rivers and give birth to life... A way from North to South and back to North... Away from the dirt and thoughtless insanity of the modern world! [press-release]
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Vazhes -- "Steam Locomotives" -- CD-R -- €7
2011 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT72, (ltd. 154)
Classical Industrial Drone from the machinist and fireman of locomotives of "E" and "L" series, created from the recordings of these locomotives and filled with their sounds made in Russia and Bosnia and Herzegovina (Banovici, Kakan). The disc also includes a video with FT4 locomotive. Normal edition in handmade sleeve. [label info]
Vazhes -- "Steam Locomotives" -- CD-R -- €9
2011 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT72, (ltd. 15)
Classical Industrial Drone from the machinist and fireman of locomotives of "E" and "L" series, created from the recordings of these locomotives and filled with their sounds made in Russia and Bosnia and Herzegovina (Banovici, Kakan). The disc also includes a video with FT4 locomotive. Special edition comes with an additional wrapper unique for each copy created from "metallic" paper and vintage Soviet materials. [label info]
Vazhes -- "Urja" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2010 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT64, (ltd. 117)
Conceptual mini-album of Vazhes featuring leading Russian post-industrial artists Vresnit É Akpan. A voyage to a lost among the boggy forests Komi-Permyak village of Urja located near the huge site of Kuregkar ("hen town") of a mythic people of Chud' (Vazhes) on shore of Nylva ("girl's water") river. First composition makes it's path through the twilight of sundown foreboding night. A mystery of shadows, calm flow of water through the grass of fields. Evil rituals of black wizards can be heard in the night darkness of the second track, sparkles of fire flying high in starry sky, shades moving in a rhythm, gloomy incantations, voices appealing to mysterious beings. Daybreak in Urja. Sunlit fields, haystacks covered with morning dew, stubborn and viscous fog hiding in forest borders and river valley, singing birds and bawls of cattle following a shepherd playing horn. Beautiful material in nice packaging: handmade cardboard cover with three photos. [press-release]
Vazhes -- "Uzbekistan Under Dub" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT58, (ltd. 192)
A small masterpiece in the genre of post-industrial ethno dub. Dense bass, complicated rhythmic patterns, psychedelics tunes, middle-Asian instruments, pieces of traditional music, mysterious voices, technogenic samples. This album is aerial, transparent, but at the same time deeply substantial. In our opinion, this is even more interesting than Muslimgauze. Limited edition of 202 copies, 10 of them - in special packaging. This is normal edition in vinyl case with handmade cover. [press-release]
Vazhes -- "Uzbekistan Under Dub" -- CD-R -- €9
2010 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT58, (ltd. 10)
A small masterpiece in the genre of post-industrial ethno dub. Dense bass, complicated rhythmic patterns, psychedelics tunes, middle-Asian instruments, pieces of traditional music, mysterious voices, technogenic samples. This album is aerial, transparent, but at the same time deeply substantial. In our opinion, this is even more interesting than Muslimgauze. Limited edition of 202 copies, 10 of them - in special packaging. This is special edition in cardboard slipcase with attached brass medallion. [press-release]
Vdovin, Stanislav -- "December 24" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Rat Hole, RH 001 CDr, (ltd. 100)
'December24' tries to explore the state of mind in daylight / night-time of December. It's in some way common and simple feeling for people, living in northern latitudes. Clear frosty mornings, short and quiet days, evenings with 4 pm sunsets, and long, numb nights. It is about watching the course of time through dusty window pane, staying warm and comfortable... 'December Drone' is a hidden track, appeared during the 'Night' of 'December24'. Almost 19 minutes of solid, 'comfortably numb' soundwall, built from multilayered vinyl microsamples specially for Stanislav's live performance in Moscow club 'Brestclub' on 13-11-2006. The event called 'John Balance Memory Party'. Since that time the piece kept almost untouched, still perfectly mastered. [press-release]
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Vdovin, Stanislav -- "Made Of Cloth And Feather" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Occasion, 2010-04, (ltd. 100)
Searching and expression of nature magnificence is one of the most fruitful conceptions. To make it work it's necessary to find natural object or complex of objects and put them in a shape. Musical shape, for example. There are 8 pages in this made of cloth and decorated with feather album - 8 sketches about the world around. Sun beams emerge from behind of childhood haystacks, wet hood of a stranger under drizzling rain - like scenes from Kon Ichikawa movies. However it's only a surface with lazy circles, drifting apart from gentle notes of guitars, synthesizers, tibetan bowls, and female voice. In depths of the album there is a memory, which fragments sometimes form our reality as if they are tangible... Controlled randomness is compositional basis of the album. Many parts of the tracks appeared from live manipulations in AudioMulch environment, which were collated in sequencer afterwards. Rendered audio from sequencer had been loaded in Mulch again and so on, until the track reached definite level of intensity and, strange as it may seem, simplicity... Inspired by Thomas Brinkmann's response about magic in the beatless hooks Stanislav Vdovin continues his research in the field of dense sounding with Made Of Cloth And Feather from the point where the album December24 has ended. [press-release]
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Vdovin, Stanislav -- "Rapid and Tired" -- CD-R -- €5
2009 Rat Hole, RH 002 CDr, (ltd. 100)
Melancholic and swift, mini-album with the concept of moving. Images of trees, sweeping past in a train window, old things not associated with each other are all sounds of shadowy past. For this record Stanislav takes a step away from vinyl microsampling and uses synthesizers Polyvoks and Ensoniq instead. Such combination of analog and digital domains on the stage of composing is a metaphor of interpenetration of technology and nature - the essense of ambient techno music. [press-release] The CD is packed in a tin box.
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Vdovin, Stanislav -- "Second Variety" -- CD-R -- €3
2010 Occasion, 2010-02, (ltd. 100)
Stanislav Vdovin presents Second Variety - 11-minute drone piece, based on acoustic piano parts, which were performed by Olga Shaydullina for et_cetera release. All parts were intensely processed and combined with additional layers (pads) to achieve different from et_cetera feeling - lone and distant. Overcast off-season sky, merged with the horizon, causes zero visibility. Only somewhere in the middle a flashlight can be barely seen, telling us about the near sea. The name Second Variety refers to short story by Philip K. Dick first published in 1953. [press-release]
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Vdovin, Stanislav & Olga Shaydullina -- "et_cetera" -- CD-R -- €4
2010 Occasion, 2010-01, (ltd. 100)
et_cetera (et_c) is a duo of prepared acoustic piano and electronics. It is based on improvisation of two musicians, who treat freely the principle of 12-note composition. Piano sounding is sampled and played in realtime. Each track is for single note, and like in academic series, they are 12. Electronic musician appeals only to them, improvising with effects on basic 12 tracks. Piano part, by turn, varies segments of series, resting upon improvisation of electronic musician. The result is a chain of improvisations, where relations between fragments depend on listener's perception. [press-release]
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Vedan Kolod -- "Volchya Tropa" -- CD -- €8
2008 Slavyanskiy Voskhod, SV 006
This Russian band's music takes its roots in the pagan past. The musical master Valery Naryshkin has reconstructed rare instruments which were used many centuries ago: Scythian horn, gusli, zhaleyka, vargans, ocarinas, Slavic drums, etc. The band performs their own songs, some of them in Old Slavic language, and also authentic songs of Siberia and Western Russia, Siberian settlers from Belarus, Ukraine, Bulgaria + some instrumental tracks with throat singing. [press-release]
Vega Stereo -- "Light Positive Emotions" -- CD-R -- €7
2006 Vapraksila Inc, c0009, (ltd. 99)
At this moment the album has two variants - "Light Positive Emotions" and "Light Positive Emotions For Swaziland". They have two different tracks, different artworks and CD designs, but the overall musical mood is the same: you can't dance, there are no hits, these are just light positive emotions. [label info]
Vega Stereo -- "Light Positive Emotions For Swaziland" -- CD-R -- €7
2006 Vapraksila Inc, c0010
At this moment the album has two variants - "Light Positive Emotions" and "Light Positive Emotions For Swaziland". They have two different tracks, different artworks and CD designs, but the overall musical mood is the same: you can't dance, there are no hits, these are just light positive emotions. [label info]
Vega Stereo -- "Not In Vogue (Non-Expendable)" -- CD -- €9
2007 Vapraksila Inc, c0011, (ltd. 500)
This CD contains multi-format electronic music from the duo Vega Stereo. During the listening of these melodies ozone layer restores itself and population of the planet grows. "Space music enters our business talk". [label info]
Vega Stereo -- "Structural Formula" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2007 Vapraksila Inc, c0012
This 20-minute EP contains three compositions in different styles gathered as a single whole. They contain elements of sonic experiments, fragments of "old school" trance music and acid-ambient pulsations. [label info]
Vega Stereo & Potykot -- "Night 29" -- CD-R -- €7
2002 Vapraksila Inc, c0007
Friendship of a duet Vega Stereo with an artist of plastic theater "Black sky, white" and just a talented young man born and grown in Arkhangelsk and then like M. Lomonosov moved to the capital, Denis "Potykot", led to the recording of a collaboration album "Night 29". There is a war between dark ambient / industrial and minimal techno on this disc. Who wins - only listener can decide. [label info]
Veiled Allusions -- "Rosenkranz" -- CD -- €10
2002 Dragon Flight Recordings, dfr012
This album produces some superb soundscapes with unique percussion patterns. Veiled Allusions is the product of Karsten Hamre of Arcane Art (with which this bares some resemblance), Penitent and Dense Vision Shrine. The rhythms here are clear and distinct permeated with subtle perpetual and cavernous drone. I found Track 3 ('Faust Pt. II') very interesting with some good use of contempory melodies and rhythms. Track 4, 'Counting the Drops' reverts back to the more synthetic sound associated with this style of music. The overall effect is a well-balanced album with its own unique sound and musical direction. [DFG, Aural Pressure]
The Vein -- "The Fragile Surfaces" -- CD-R -- €9
2004 Requiem Records, 18/2004
Strong, stepping loops, base percussion sequences with wide ambient landscapes stack inbetween, noisy distortions, pulsating sounds on the verge of tribal dance (B. Laswell, Scorn, Different State). Very hipnotic and trance inducing on the whole. [label info]
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Velehentor -- "From The Gloom of Graves: Stonewells of Aeternity" -- CD -- €10
2008 Desolate Catacombs of SMERSH, SMERSH02, (ltd. 460)
Classic dark ambient: cold echoes of the unknown rituals, roaming in te utter darkness of resonant stone labyrynths. Paranoiac trance induced by the feeling of lifeless presence in the anscient crypts, breathing with deadly dampness. Icy calmness of indifferent doom. The album was recorded in winter 1999-2000. Packed in an absolutely black digipak (double-sided print, double black paint), the pictures are applied with varnish. [label info]
Velehentor / Vishudha Kali / Closing The Eternity -- "Ishopanishad" -- CD -- €10
2008 Vegvisir Music, [o:001], (ltd. 976)
"Ishopanishad" is a unique album for present days, as it was created in the process of a real-time performance, and all the music was played on "live" acoustic instruments, without using any "electronics". The album is conceptual and consists of three tracks - preparatory ritual, anticipating the mystery of performing Isha Upanishad, 2nd track - the mystery itself, and the 3rd - long, meditative, concluding, allowing the listener to immerse deep into himself and feel the traces of vibes of one of the most monumental Veda texts. The Upanishad is executed in a canonical style in Sanskrit in state of deepest concentration and meditative practice. During the recording of the album, the "eastern" traditional musical instruments were used, all brought from ethnographic trips... A little bit about the contents of Isha Upanishad - this ancient text is a conditional commentary to Veda, containing the preamble and 18 hymns, and it's one of the ten most authoritative texts (after the Veda) which in short and easy to understand yet very capacious form tell about truth and falsity of so called "human values", not thrusting any doctrines or religions to anyone. It just shows the misery, futility, transiency, caducity and infirmity of so called Karmic, "worldly" activity of modern people. Reading and rereading it's shlocks (quatrains), it's impossible not to feel surprised by that exactness of descriptions of realities of our contemporary life, as if the author could watch forward the time through the centuries while writing this astonishing text, and he showed to us, modern people, from his faraway past, that actually... nothing changed, people remained the same, their problems didn't change, and that's why like 4 thousand years ago this text is still actual and fresh... "Those who honour mystics fall into endless darkness, but even bigger darkness engulf those who worship the Absolute" - Sri Ishopanishad, 9. [press-release]
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Veprisuicida -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €9
1996/2008 Dubinogolovaya Korobochka, DK-1, (ltd. 66)
First album of Veprisuicida. A historical recording. "Constructive-destructive noise project of Ariana Vagina and Alexander Lebedev-Frontov. Hysterical sound. A good instrument for will training." (press-release of Ultra, 1996). 1996, post-USSR: wild outburst of gangsterism, narcomania and homosexuality. Everything is in agony. Petersburg has just experienced psychedelic revolution. Life is hopeless and full of darkness. That was the time when this work was created. The album was highly appreciated by the late S. Kuryokhin who planned to present it in June 1996 in his radio-show "Russian Cannibal" and then to re-release on CD. Unfortunately, because of the passage of maestro into another world, it was released only on compact cassette bu Ultra label in 1996, with the edition of 50, and later re-edition of 100. The tapes were spread around the world and their trace was lost in the depths of temporal spaces. The reissue is done in good quality with handmade sleeves from the author with maximum approach to the original release. [press-release]
Veprisuicida -- "Heavy Metal Cyclothimia / Science Friction" -- CD-R -- €9
1999/2009 Dubinogolovaya Korobochka, DK-4, (ltd. 66)
Reissue of two works previously published on teo split-cassettes: "Heavy Metal Cyclothimia" (split with Cisfinitum, Spirals Of Involution, 1999) and "Science Friction" (split with Comforter, Ultra, 1999).
Veprisuicida -- "La Rivoluzione Egofascista" -- CD-R -- €8
1997/2011 ALF Produkt, N16, (ltd. 75)
Reissue of a cassette from 1997. Regular black & white artwork.
Veprisuicida -- "La Rivoluzione Egofascista" -- CD-R -- €11
1997/2011 ALF Produkt, N16, (ltd. 43)
Reissue of a cassette from 1997. Handmade colour artwork + bonus-track.
Veprisuicida -- "Oskoplenie" -- CD-R -- €9
1997/2008 Dubinogolovaya Korobochka, DK-3, (ltd. 69)
Re-release of Ultra cassette from 1997.
Veprisuicida -- "Zlvoennonamerennayaneopoznannayakobelyomblednozheleznayadevstvennitsa" -- CD-R -- €9
1996/2009 Retrogad 01, (ltd. 100)
Reissue of the 2nd album of harsh-collage project by Alexander Lebedev-Frontov (Linija Mass), with a video bonus track.
Veprisuicida / Organomehanizm -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €9
2001/2008 Dubinogolovaya Korobochka, DK-2, (ltd. 69)
Re-release of Ultra cassette from 2001.
Veprisuicida / Organomehanizm -- "Electro-Pop" -- CD-R -- €8
2005 Ultra, UCD 20, (ltd. 60)
New release from legendary St. Petersburg's underground label Ultra. The album is dedicated to automatic preachers with in-built gramophones (an article about this phenomenon serves as a booklet, taken from Soviet newspaper of 1928, in Russian). Analogue old-school harsh-noise with dirty sound, radionoises, thematic samples from TV-broadcasting and porn movies.
Verde -- "Kato Internetist" -- 2 CD-R -- €10
2005 Musically Incorrect Records, MIR #23
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Verhagen, Darrin -- "Black Frost" -- CD -- €10
2004 Dorobo, 020, (ltd. 500)
A second part of "black | mass" trilogy by Darrin Verhagen (Shinjuku Thief, E.P.A.). If "Black Ice" delivered the 'searing pain upon arrival' to the black|mass trilogy, "Black Frost" serves as something of a gently uncomfortable antidote. Bordered by lowercase, delicate electroacoustic, sinecore and glitch terrain, "Frost" presents material considered, precise yet modest in tone. [label info]
Versus Reality -- "Hyro" -- CD-R -- €7
WitchHouse Records
Versus Reality (a name which was lifted from the name of a Techno Animal album) is a project of Sean Gallagher, also of the band Journal Square (www.myspace.com/journalsquare) In this project, he creates atmospheres and sound collages to stimulate the mind. Moods tend to be dark, and yet underneath it all, there is positivity. Samples are manipulated, sounds are stretched out, eternity extends... Using repetition, stimulation, and thought-evoking techniques, Versus Reality is not everyone's cup of tea, but rather, is an acquired taste. [from myspace profile]
Vertonen -- "Trigger Field" -- CD-R -- €7
1999 Solipsism, Solipsism-23
Harsh-noise album with a couple of more calm experimental tracks.
Vetrophonia -- "1987/1989" -- 2 CD-R -- €10
2010 ALF Produktion, ALF Produkt N14, (ltd. 48)
These two disks contain the prehistory of Vetrophonia we know now. The material was recorded in 1987-89 even before Alexander Lebedev-Frontov met Nick Soudnick. At first it was considered to be a Linija Mass album, but then obtained a separate sense and formed into a different project. The real Soviet noise collage industrial.
Vetrophonia -- "Simultannostb" -- CD -- €12
2003 Ultra, UCD 019, (ltd. 500)
The experimental outfit of A. Lebedev-Frontov (Linija Mass, Stalnoy Pakt) and N. Soudnick (ZGA), known for its split LP with Magmax - MSBR's Koji Tano side-project. SimultannostŲ is a very interesting collection of the material recorded between 1999 and 2003. Primitivism, automatism and mechanisticism makes Vetrophonia closely connected to the ideas of the early XX century Russian and Italian Futurism, reminding sometimes of Laibach "Rekapitulacija" with its totalitarian feel, but in general it's more abstract and free-form. Old school industrial at its best. The release is limited to 500 copies and comes in a 9" cover with a special artwork by Alexander Lebedev-Frontov.
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Vetrophonia -- "Strappadology" -- CD -- €12
2000 Long Arms Records, CDLA 00011
First CD-album of a collaboration album of Nick Soudnick (ZGA) and Alexander Lebedev-Frontov (Linija Mass, Stalnoy Pakt, etc.). Recorded live in St. Petersburg, Russia, 1997.
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Vetrophonia -- "Promzona" -- CD -- €12
2005 Ultra, UCD 22
Brand new album from this legendary orthodox-futuro-industrial project from St. Petersburg. Landscapes of industrial zones, clanks of rusty metal sheets, rings of glass concrete, rumbles of locomotives, roar of fabric pipes and sounds of gramophone from the workshop. Only mind-blowing composition "Protaskivanie Trub" ("Pulling the Pipes") filled with worker's speech samples is worth listening. Vetrophonia doesn't forget about the technological progress too - track "Informatika" tells us about the newest electronic computers working with perforated tapes. Be up to date, listen to Vetrophonia!
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Vetrophonia -- "Shumographika" -- CD -- €18
2005 Strange Sounds Records, SSR-05013
The latest release of this band for today. Vetrophonia are Nick Soudnick (ZGA) and Alexander Lebedev-Frontov (Linija Mass, Stalnoy Pakt) playing together orthodox-avantguard industrial. Prodigious blend of flows and short cuts of noise, gramophone wheeze, singing, barking, rattling and synthesized nightingale roulades, thoroughly structured in a dense soundtrack either for fantastic future or for fantasies of feverish-delirious state of mind. Anyway, dashingly involute sound plot won't make you bored during the whole disk. Vetrophonia are as always up to the mark!
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Vetrophonia / F.T. Marinetti / F.B. Pratella -- "Formula Of War" -- CD -- €12
2011 Der Angriff, Nr. 41, (ltd. 300)
The new album from the project of Alexander Lebedev-Frontov (Linija Mass, Stalnoy Pakt) and Nick Sudnick (ZGA). Old-school analogue industrial with a big influences from early XXth century's Futuristic era, 'Formula Of War' is a part of Alexander's series named after Marinetti's volume of poems 'Guerra sola igiene del monde' (War the Only Hygiene of the World), published in the year 1915 in the outbreak of World War I. Following the previous parts of the series made by Stalnoy Pakt (a 10' and a split CD with Anthesteria) this release is also dedicated to WWI, expressing the aura of this time by means of sound and artwork. Original compositions written and performed by Futurism leaders Francesco Balilla Pratella and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti are incorporated in the album adding the spirit of time to the whole work. The release is limited to 300 copies and comes in a stylish black & brown A5 folder with 5 postcards. [press-release]
Vetrophonia / F.T. Marinetti / F.B. Pratella -- "Formula Of War / War Of Motors" -- CD + 3"CDR -- €18
2011 Der Angriff, Nr. 41 / ALF Produkt 15, (ltd. 50)
First 50 copies of the new Vetrophonia album come with an additional 3"CDR with an exclusive bonus track "War Of Motors" (different from the CD version).
Vice Wears Black Hose -- "Part 2" -- CD -- €10
2009 Violent Noise Atrocities, VNA-040, (ltd. 500)
Vice Wears Black Hose is the wall noise supergroup of Richard Ramirez (Black Leather Jesus) and Sam Mckinlay (The Rita, BT.HN) and what they deliver here is another heavy slab of slowly alternating wall noise. It's a stasis that has been achieved through some kind of strife, like the artist who finally finds solace, not exactly in the way that he thought he would. [Existence Establishment]
Vidna Obmana -- "An Opera for Four Fusion Works" -- 4 CD -- €30
2007 Hypnos, hyp2239
The usual disclaimer applies... this music is not in any real sense "opera" music, and the term is used only to suggest the varied, multi-part quality of this ongoing release. AN OPERA FOR FOUR FUSION WORKS is a unique project by Vidna Obmana and Hypnos label - a four-CD album, released one CD at a time, and now - 4 parts together in a discounted package. Act I used guitar pieces from Dreams in Exile, Act II used Bill Fox's saxophone recordings, Act III worked from the foundation of Kenneth Kirschner's piano works, and this last installment utilizes the voice of Steven Wilson (No-Man, Porcupine Tree, and the artist behind Bass Communion). [label info]
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Vidna Obmana -- "Tremor" -- CD -- €10
2001 Release Entertainment, RR 6509-2
Atmospheric music that induces trance states in listeners who understand the language of sound. The first Vidna Obmana recording in what will be a trilogy of albums drawing inspiration from the classic Dante poem. [label info]
Vinterriket -- "Landschaftsmalerische Klangwelten Synthetischer Tonkunst 1996 - 2002" -- CD -- €10
2002 Parasite Records, PR 002
Vinterriket -- "Weisse Nachte Des Schwarzen Schnees" -- CD -- €10
2005 Drama Company, (ltd. 1000)
Vinterriket -- "Winterschatten" -- CD -- €11
2004 Flood The Earth Records, FTE 002, (ltd. 1000)
Vinterriket / A.E.P. -- split -- CD -- €10
2007 Asphyxiate Recordings, AR016
Violet -- "Blind From Staring Too Long At The Sun" -- CD-R -- €7
2006 Zeromoon
Part of the CONSUME BUY 2006 series of limited run cdrs that were available only during 2006, then promptly discontinued. A summation and further exploration of error mechanics, field recordings, and hard drones. Two studio tracks and one live performance fill out the audio portion with 2 video performances of basement alchemy and field recordings in the field. [label info]
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Violet -- "Foreign Lands" -- CD-R -- €7
2006 Spirals Of Involution, SOI 051
Russian label SOI Tapes published a set of fragments of live performances made by tireless experimentator Jeff Surak in different places during 2005: Budapest, Pecs, Vienna, Yaroslavl. Abount an hour of live breathing electroacoustic material recorded with the use of various unusual devices (i.e. gusli with several e-bows, microgenerators of wave signals, etc.) and improvised means.
Violet -- "Luminescence" -- CD-R -- €8
2004 Haamumaa
Violet -- "The Sun is Shining and the Flowers are Blooming on Violet Street" -- 3"CD -- €5
2005 Scarcelight Recordings, SLR38
First track on this mini-album of American project Violet represents domestic electroacoustic suite for water pipes, ventilation and snoring (though you can't ever be sure in origins of sound, electroacoustic musicians are very cunning with this). Second and third tracks are filled with shaggy dense and pleasant drones.
Violet -- "Violet Ray Gas And The Playback Singers" -- CD -- €10
2009 Zeromoon, zero008 / Sentient Recognition Archive, SRA010, (ltd. 1000)
Whereas violet light resides at the short-wavelength end of the visible spectrum, Violet sound projects outwards beyond the audio spectrum; from Minimalism and near-silence to full-on tonal Brutalism. 'Violet Ray Gas & The Playback Singers' creates a personal soundtrack to Futurist and Avant Guard cinema, filled with clipped foreign voices, the surface noise of old vinyl acetates and film projector hum. Seemingly familiar ethnic melodies decay and drone, with subtle turns of well-crafted and honed vision. Not unlike great film art, all composition leads to that awkward moment of dumbstruck awe upon completion, bathed in the deafening silence before one, then several, and finally thunderous audience applause bursts forth. That collective moment wherein the mind seeks to process the full range of aesthetic and emotional experience laid out before it: bewilderment to recognition, disruption to blissfulness, but never indifference or ambivalence. You are now changed from this experience and exposure. [press-release]
Violet / Alexei Borisov / Michael Gendreau -- "Bogatiri" -- CD -- €10
2005 Zeromoon, ZERO006
Three-way split recorded live in Russia during the tour in December 2003. The CD is opened with the track of Michael Gendreau performed at "DOM" centre in Moscow. Psychedelic journey through the fields of soft sound, flowing from frequency to frequency, which become sometimes surrounded by overtones, sometimes naked to sinusoids. Next comes the track of Alexei Borisov recorded in Yaroslavl's Museum of Fine Arts - almost 20 minutes of nervous electronic ambient accompanied by spontaneous vocals. The last number belongs to Violet and is entitled "Demonstration of Decay at GES-21" and done at St. Petersburg's Gallery of Experimental Sound. Smooth but dense crispy drones are insensibly filled with noise stuffing becoming jammed and scattered to the end of the composition.
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Violet + XV Parowek -- "Hansaplast" -- CD-R -- €7
2005 self-released, (ltd. 50)
Vir Unis & Saul Stokes -- "Thermal Transfer" -- CD -- €11
2002 Hypnos / Binary, hyby0203
Bouncing along like slightly heated molecules, Thermal Transfer warms the air with vibrant layered blips, meandering synths, and delicate tinkerings. Released on the new Hypnos sub-label, Binary, the electronically hyperactive thermal Transfer from Chicago based Vir Unis and Berkeley based Saul Stokes sets the standards for a new era in relaxing uptempo electronic music. The nine tracks glide through minor transformations with a sweet and comforting mood throughout and an airiness to the beats and synths that cleverly disguises their speed. The energy of techno infused IDM transfers into atmospheric soundscapes, resulting in a meeting place between the two where both elements can simultaneously appreciated on equal footing. Subtlety is key in the sound of Thermal Transfer; however, there are plenty of different intriguing noises, reverberating light beats, swirling synths rhythms, high end squiggles, and glowing sound washes to keep interest peaked from the opening "Kinetic Center" to the closing "Blurring Maguro (Interstitial Remix)." The final equilibrium is a fascinating and inviting sound experience that will tickle your brain and won't tire your ears. [Outburn Magazine]
Vishudha Kali -- "White Stone" -- CD -- €10
2004 Fight Muzik, FM23CD, (ltd. 444)
Martial noise - dense wall of sound made using analogue synthesizers and electro-organs, unusual vocals. Packed in plastic svastika-like envelope, containing also small booklet with lyrics and photos. The album is dedicated to all youth totalitarian organizations in Russia.
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Vishudha Kali -- "Unfinished Devastation Narrative" -- CD -- €11
2005 Faria Records, FAR 02 CD, (ltd. 689)
The most calm and quiet album of this St. Petersburg based project contains 5 tracks stylistically close to collaged fantasy ambient. The album was recorded on harmonium, bells, singing bowls and electronic devices with typical vocal parts reminding VK's collaboration work with Chaos As Shelter. The CD is packed in cardboard cover with 9 reprints of author's pictures.
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Vishudha Kali & Chaos As Shelter -- "Mirror" -- CD -- €13
2003 Chimaera, [xm 3] / Fight Muzik, FM17CD, (ltd. 420)
Collaboration album recorded without any electronic instruments. Archaic soundscapes of Chaos As Shelter, build with bells, singing bowls and stones supplemented with gutteral singing of Vishudha Kali. Unique mystical athmosphere.
Vishudha Kali & Moon Far Away -- "Vorotsa" -- CD -- €10
2011 self-released
Joint album from two famous Russian acts! Amazing voice of Count Ash and firm analogue sounds from VK which goes deep into Slavic chronotope. North Russian folklore, ritualism and intellectualism, tradition and avant-garde, Archangelsk and Saint Petersburg... Absolutely unique music, which possibly can be labelled as folk-ambient. Ltd x 500 copies in a 6-panel digipak. [Infinite Fog Productions]
Vnuk, Paul Jr. & Oöphoi -- "Distance to Zero" -- CD -- €11
2006 Hypnos, hyp2649
Hypnos has been much quieter these past couple of years, but when they do release a CD the quality remains quite high. The signature minimal ambient sound of the label is evident on Distance to Zero. Low drones pulse in and out to begin. Some dissonant elements are laid over the top for an eerie effect. The way the music breathes slowly in and out reminds me of another Hypnos release, Tom Heasley's Where the Earth Meets the Sky. Ambient in the truest sense, this music floats about restlessly, aimlessly, with no hint of rhythm or melody. Abstract sounds are used to their full potential in the subtlest of ways. The sounds become rough and gritty as it flows from the first to the second movement, which rings out with resonant metallic sounds, seeming to reverberate forever. The sounds become darker and more intense. As the disc makes its way from part two to part four (part three apparently didn't make the cut), the long slow fade of one moves right into a deep bass tone. At normal volume it isn't all that extraordinary, but I had turned it up to hear the subtleties in the quieter part, and found my stomach in my throat for just a moment there at the transition point. Easily the brightest of the three sections, gentle bells feature prominently here, along with those aforementioned low muffled booming sounds. It is not uncommon for minimal ambient works to include a long slow fade, and this one is exceptional in its patient denouement. Distance to Zero is first-rate adventurous ambience. [Phil Derby, Electroambientspace.com]
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Voice Of Eye -- "Anthology Two (1992-1996)" -- 2 CD -- €15
2011 Transgredient Records, TR-08
Rare & unreleased tracks from the U.S. dark ethno/drone cult-project, all re-mastered by VOICE OF EYE themselves; you can find here: the famous "Sprocket" 7" for Drone Records (1994), the lost mCD for ND that was never released (1995), rare compilation tracks (some of them came never out), plus a complete, fantastic rehearsal for a live show (1996) and an extract from Tryst 8 (split MC with BIG CITY ORCHESTRA, 1995); comes in a nice 6-panel digipack & full colour artwork by Bonnie McNairn. [label info]
Voice Of Eye -- "Emergence & Immersion" -- 2 CD -- €16
2009 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 123
In 2007 Voice of Eye ended their 12-year silence with 2 CD-R improvisation volumes: Emergence and Immersion. The works were released for their European tour in editions of only 100 each and sold out fast. Now those impossible-to-find, extremely limited releases are finally available on factory-pressed CD's! Old Europa Cafe of Italy has re-released Emergence & Immersion in a fine 2-CD 4 page full-color digifolder, re- mastered with a new bonus track, 'Peacock Symphony', offering 2 and a half hours of music. Spontaneity and raw emotional expression punctuate and keen throughout. Although completely improvised, the music seems amazingly composed. One can intuit that the musical re-uniting of this duo created a vortex in the worlds. Wildness, beauty, humor, darkness, fear, horror, yearning, grief and vast spaciousness inhabit this mysterious lively music. Herein one finds some of the source material for their recent live shows: 'Immersion', 'Dark Ritual', 'The Gates of Oblivion', 'Free'. A large array of instruments are used here including guitars, trombone, flutes, double-reeds, percussion, voices as well as Voice of Eye's self-made instruments: Squawk Box, Bass-Thing, Jeemna, Thing and Thing-mini. Step into the vortex! [press-release]
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Voice Of Eye -- "Seven Directions Divergent" -- CD -- €13
2009 Conundrum Unlimited, CU3
Seven Directions Divergent (2009) is the latest release by Taos, New Mexico based artists Voice of Eye. Taking over a year to produce, Seven Directions Divergent is the third CD to be released on Conundrum Unlimited, and the fifth full-length Voice of Eye CD.
As artists experimenting with sound we have been inspired by many different styles of music and noise. Seven Directions Divergent pays homage to some of the diverse musical sources that have influenced us over the years from traditional Sanskrit chants to Steve Hillage to cute Euro pop to shamanic transcendence. This is an ambitious project melding many different sources together with the ethereal beauty and yearning magnificence you expect from Voice of Eye. This CD transports the listener along a narrative history of our personal journeys of change and transformation as told through the medium of sound. Seven Directions Divergent was mastered by award winning engineer Jon Gold for the best sounding Voice of Eye release to date. Comes in a Digipack with beautiful full color artwork by Jim Wilson. [label info]
VoidWork -- "Horror/Forsaken" -- CD -- €14
2010 Black Drone, BDRL006
A beautiful release by VoidWork featuring Ann-Mari from Arcana on vocals. Comes in a 4-panel digipak. Horror/Forsaken is a double album based loosely on the concepts of fear, abandonment and mankind's meaningless place in an impersonal Universe. "Horror", the first half of the release, is relatively song oriented and was inspired musically by nineties dark wave, as well as traditional melodies of both Eastern and Western culture. "Forsaken" mainly carries traditional dark ambient influences and focuses on atmosphere rather than on conventional song structure or sound. Both dark halves come together to make a black whole that is organic in its origin and purpose. From waking to sleep, birth to death. [press-release]
Volume Sick -- "Night Raider" -- CD -- €10
2011 Oltrelanebbiailmare, CD201105
A "lost" album from 1993... Well known for their "Six Razor Blades" album published in 1991 by Contempo Records, Volume Sick were born from the ashes of Rinf (one of the first italian new wave projects) and published also a couple of 12" before disappearing... Now we have the chance to finally discover this album, originally recorded for a possible Contempo releases but "lost" after the bankrupt of the famous label. The album is produced by Paolo Favati (well known for his wonderful work with Pankow during the 80's and the 90's)... Night Raider sounds actually in the same vein of Talking Heads, with a weird sense of humor and great rhythms. Guest on one song Billy Blade from Italian legendary band GazNevada! The drawing on the front cover is an original made by Tanino Liberatore. Don't miss it! [press-release]
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Vomit Orchestra -- "Bridges Burnt" -- CD -- €10
2007 Autumn Wind Productions, AWP016
Ambient / Noise / Experimental. The experimental sounds of Vomit Orchestra revise what is known as reality, permeating the decomposition of spiritual blindness and absolute-nihilism. [press-release]
Von Hausswolff, Carl Michael -- "Bugs / Kryp" -- CD EP -- €11
2010 Laton, Laton 052
Third part of conceptual CD trilogy for Laton, former releases include "Rats / Rattor" and "Maggots / Maskar". Recorded at La Hacienda, Stockholm, January 2009. Contains small bag of insect poison.
Von Hausswolff, C.M. -- "Maggots / Maskar" -- CD EP -- €11
2007 Laton, Laton 045
Swedish frequncy war-loard, Carl Michael von Hausswolff has nearly worked over 20 years in This border situations that occur in daily life and music experience. He blurs the boundaries between traditional classifications using radios, movement dedectors, telephones, surveillance cameras, sonartechnologie and other appliances from the arsenal of equipment that can be procured by certain (vetted) persons. Interferences, interruptions and interdependences are various ways of altering conditions. Beside, CM von Hausswolff with Leif Elgren is co-founder of the selfproclaimed 'The Kingdoms of of Elgaland-Vargaland' (KREV) that were found on 27th may 1992. This CD presents his second conceptual album in a series exclusive for Laton. Packaging contains original bag of thai maggots. [label info]
Von Thronstahl -- "Bellum, Sacrum Bellum!?" -- CD -- €14
2003/2006 Vaws, VAWS223
Von Thronstahl -- "Bellum, Sacrum Bellum!?" -- CD -- €12
2003/2010 Eternal Pride Productions, EPP 017
Eternal Pride Prod. present re-release the third and best album of band. Originally released in july 2003, "Bellum Sacrum Bellum" was the so far last official album by German Neo-classic act Von Thronstahl and was released more than 2 years after their latest release. The album is questioning the so called 'just wars' mentality of certain world leaders of these days and offers Von Thronstahl's usual mixture of neo-classical orchestrations and beat orientated bombast electro. CD is released in 6-pannel Digipak, with new design and golden panton. [press-release]
Von Thronstahl -- "Conscriptum" -- 2 CD -- €16
2010 Cold Spring Records, CSR118CD
Cold Spring are proud to announce a double CD of rare, alternative versions, new and unreleased material from German Martial Industrial legends Von Thronstahl! The sounds on "Conscriptvm" range from Orchestral to Industrial, Neofolk to military-pop and Martial rock, all with the unmistakable, unique sound of Von Thronstahl! This is definitely a release for fans of the early 'classic' Von Thronstahl sound, which gained them the solid reputation they have today and could be considered a companion piece to 'E Pluribus Unum'. Around 140 minutes of fantastic music presented in a luxurious 6-panel digipak. [press-release]
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Von Thronstahl -- "Imperium Internum" -- CD -- €10
2000 Cold Spring Records, CSR32CD, 2nd edition
Martial Industrial / Neoclassical. The incredible orchestral power of VON THRONSTAHL has finally been released! "Imperium Internum" is an instant classic of the scene - massive orchestral power and military anthems, akin to the finest moments of IN SLAUGHTER NATIVES, LAIBACH, TURBUND STURMWERK and BLOOD AXIS! A fantastic book accompanies packed with images of VON THRONSTAHL and their manifesto. Recommended as among the finest releases we've handled! Now in stunning digipak format. [press release]
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Von Thronstahl -- "Mutter der Schmerzen" -- CD EP -- €11
2006 Der Angriff, Nr. 27, 2nd edition, (ltd. 500)
The 2nd edition of this MCD from the legends of martial industrial with the acoustic versions of their old tracks as well as the cover of DIJ "Runes And Men" and one Russian traditional song "Leader's Daughter" sang by the very nice female voice on pure Russian. Unlike the usual stuff from this band, there are almost no military drums or warlike guitars. The record is full of beauty and melancholy while the tension is hidden behind the warm voices and charming acoustic parts. This is the soft side of Von Thronstahl's creative universe, and it's really worth to discover! This edition comes in a brown monochrome fold-out digisleeve and limited to 500 copies. 5 tracks, total time - 22 min. [press-release]
Von Thronstahl -- "Sacrificare - Collector's Edition" -- CD + mCD -- €25
2007 Cold Spring, CSR82CD3, (ltd. 1000)
Limited edition of 1000 copies with metallised 3" CD (3" CD with 5" plastic surround) featuring mixes from the Von Thronstahl tracks which appeared on the 'Pessoa - Cioran' CD.
Von Thronstahl / The Days Of The Trumpet Call -- "Pessoa / Cioran" -- CD -- €12
2004/2010 Infinite Fog Productions, IF-06
Since 1998 year Von Thronstahl, led by the founder and leader Josef M. Klumb, remains to one of most appreciable and interesting groups on martial industrial/neofolk scene. The Days Of The Trumpet Call, it's neoclassic project by Raymond P., the musician of the Von Thronstahl.This split, is devoted the Portuguese poet Fernando Antonio Pessoa (1888-1935) and Romanian philosopher Emil Michel Cioran (1911-1995), their writings are used as lyric for this album.The melancholic neoclassics from The Days Of The Trumpet Call and probably strangest of all records Von Thronstahl where they balance on border between neoclassics and ambient, with a light touch martial and all the same, beautiful and charismatic, Josef's voice. CD is released in 6-pannel Digipak, with design by Federico Salvador (All my faith lost...) [press-release]
Vortex -- "Phanopoeia" -- CD -- €12
2008 Tesco Organisation, TESCO 074
The German ritual drone project Vortex is dedicated to the British art movement of Vorticism of the early Twentieth Century (1913-1920). Founded as an own vision of Futurism by Wyndham Lewis and expressed in the legendary magazine Blast (1914) Vorticism defined the artist as someone gaining creative power and inspiration out of the chaotic vortex of creative energy. The name was introduced by the Vorticist protagonist Ezra Pound who also coined the phrase 'phanopoeia': the idea of creating poetry for all senses. The music of Vortex pays audiovisual homage to the great Vorticist art. Psychedelic drones, ritual drums, processed sounds, glimpses of acoustic harmony, and original sound documents are blended to grant a holistic sensory experience. Vortex, the solo-project of a :Golgatha:-member, transcends the limits of dark ambient soundtracks on a quest for the unknown. Vortex is pure psychoactive energy. [press release]
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Voxus Imp. -- "Idafeld" -- CD -- €14
Eis & Licht, Eis 045 Doc
The ritual and experimental music by Voxus Imp. is purely electronic, but with a pleasantly organic feel to it. If the listener is searching for comparisons, we should definitely point to Werkbund, Coil, or early Hybryds. Recorded with the help of Darkwood. This re-release of the 1998 LP comes as a 6 panel digipak CD and includes a bonus track. [press-release]
Vranorod -- "s/t" -- CD -- €11
2010 Le Crepuscule Du Soir, LCDS026/3
Vranorod represents a reflection of a world through music. Therefore, Vranorod reflects nature in all forms- human, non-human and super-human. Vranorod approach to the theme from the point of view of a spiritualist captured in a world of materialism and that, naturally, must result with a strong melancholic touch to the music and lyrics themselves. This music is dedicated to those who search for wisdom in every single atom of this world and beyond. [press-release] Shoegaze with a touch of Black Metal.
Vraxoin -- "Delusions And Illusions" -- CD-R -- €7
1998 Austenite Recordings, AUS0008
Canadian industrial breakcore / clicks'n'cuts. Rare. [YAOP]
Vresnit -- "Seed Solar" -- CD -- €10
2010 Vetvei, V13 / Aquarellist, aquarel 16-10, (ltd. 484)
Joint release of Aquarellist and Vetvei label - new Vresnit album recorded in winter-autumn 2010 in cooperation with Kshatriy, Hladna and Neznamo. Qualitatively new in project creativity a five-part ambient space dedicated to the Culture Solar beginnings and transfiguring seeds disseminating. Vresnit art is turned to research primary being experience, - human consciousness conditions being resonant to the general nature. Sparkling cosmogonic Drone Ambient twined from voices, string and wind instruments, bells, singing bowls, electronic instruments and field recordings. Great Kshatriy mastering, solar full-coloured envelope and card Vresnit & Vetvei art. [press-release]
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Vresnit -- "Tunvet" -- CD -- €10
2009 Vegvisir music, o:008, (ltd. 484)
Shamanic Drone Ambient. Vresnit presented its first CD-release contained ecstatic & exploring records made in the fall of 2008 and remastered in winter-spring 2009. Vresnit is the project of one man working for artistic embodiment of the creative rotation within the label Vetvei. He was formerly known as ruler of Kerpg label, Pugna, Vagranok, Nrodum and other projects, now ceased their activities. Deaf thickets and swamps, heaven ravines, lost voices, unseen birds. Eternal mosses, lichens, fog and ancient trees. The path lies deeply through the thickets and higher to the sun, meeting with ancient human-animals, keepers of the Book. Majestic and archaic canvas neither begins nor ends, woven by the Sledge of Three-Worlds-Animals. The Words of scratches, beats, rings and rustles - all goes into vibrating flow of crudely woven muscarinic Shamanic Drone Ambient atmosphere. Tunvet appears as primitive experience for co-breathing with Earth, diving into the twilight forest and flowing into its beyond. Slow and endless movement in a Circle that appears as Eternal Order. A Myth of the World-Man Creation, a dreamflight, a meeting with the Forest Spirits preying on the flesh and substituting it with metal and stones, giving life to the Ancient Co-knowledge... Created using field recordings, voices and woodwinds, metal gongs, percussion and "concrete" sounds. Gripping, saturating and transforming experience of raw wind, celestial chariots and chthonic naturalism. [press-release]
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Vresnit & Kshatriy -- "TaeT" -- CD -- €10
2009 Vetvei, V07, (ltd. 484)
Mighty archaic dark ambient woven by two Russian projects with field recordings, voices and acoustic instruments. A very powerful work in this genre. "Vetvei label presented its first CD release, a collaboration of two congenial projects dedicated to the Symbols of Creative Roration. A retrospective journey by the bird through smells of melting herb songs and contemplations of the mysteries of Life. They are flowed away by Water, from the Ice to the boundless lakes dancing in mosses. Following to the Forge of Earth, walking the dense forests, winds and marshes, meeting the Heart Guardians. All the cycles of nature follow each other, Fire goes to Water and Earth goes to Heaven. Cosmos swaddle the birds flying toward dawn. All invocations in the name of Life. Many praising voices of people and animals merged into a rhythm that glorify the Natural Order, eternal and endless. Field recorgings, woodwinds, strings, percussions and drums, voices, tape noises and electronics was used in this work.They're all merged into a single timeless canvas. Spirit of every living thing awakening runs through it. An atmosphere of Ritual crossed with cosmic primordial Drone Ambient. One of the important parts of this release is design - 7"EP 6-panel cardboard envelope covered with the signs of Vetvei. Standing in awe of Majesty and experience of true Beauty. Tradition, vibrations for a New Cycle." [press-release]
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Vromb / Telepherique -- "Paradigma" -- CD -- €13
Fario, Fario CD 07, (ltd. 700)
The Fario label was created in 1998 by the staff of the French magazine Fear Drop. The concept behind Fario is the meeting: collaborations between two artists. Each record shows two halves created separately and a common track (here: two), a moment to share views or to oppose feelings. All tracks are previously unreleased. As they had planned to meet for a long time, Canadian artist Hugo Girard alias Vromb and German outfit Telepherique were more than happy to work on Paradigma, maybe to consider their own paradigms. Vromb is a one man project which appeals to different electronic and industrial roots as well as imaginary landscapes of rusted and spinning rotors. Free from gravity, these strange rhythmic lifeforms born from disused factories and psycho scientists are like the perfect bunker soundtracks. Sometimes the bunkers change into rockets silos and Vromb feels then ready for a space program. Telepherique is family affair. Led by Klaus, Danijela & Rene Jochim, Telepherique is a pot of powerful forces, magma and images, rhythms and voices, melancholy and energy. Their music is one of the best and most beautiful extension of industrial music. Always moving, like a river, like air, it's rich enough to become a complete cinema. [label info]
Vrtacek, C.W. -- "Fifteen Mnemonic Devices" -- CD -- €11
1996 Odd Size, CD OS 18
Chuck Vrtacek is an American guitarist, Czech by origin, once played in an avant-guard rock band Forever Einstein. The material for "Fifteen Mnemonic Devices" was recorded in 1986-1994, and it shows his interest to more compex musical forms. Blending noise samples and awkward guitar passages in that elegant proportion which keeps the balance between serious and funny, Vrtacek manoeuvres between the melancholy of the european saloon music, witty pun of improvisation and playful jazz turmoil. Sometimes the music seem to wither and become cold and laid-back, as if it was tired of life, then suddenly the fresh rhythm arrives and the atmosphere wakes again. We have to mention that some of the recordings were aided by Nick Didkovsky - one of the most original experimental guitarists, whose retrospective was recently released on a CD by Pogus label. [Monochrome Vision info]
Wakeford, Tony -- "Not All Of Me Will Die" -- CD -- €11
2009 The Eastern Front, Front 023, (ltd. 1000)
'Non omnis moriar' - 'Not all of me will die'. Over 2000 years ago, the Roman poet Horace wrote this line. Its poignant defiance of human mortality and faith in the transcending power of art rings out down the ages, finding an echo in this new work from Tony Wakeford, best known as the founder of seminal English dark folk band Sol Invictus. Not All Of Me Will Die is Tony Wakeford's fourth solo studio album. It commemorates the life and work of the Polish-Ukrainian Jewish poetess Zuzanna Ginczanka, who was executed by the Gestapo in Krakow in 1944. All of the album's lyrics are based on Ginczanka's verses. As with his last solo outing, 2007's Into The Woods, Tony Wakeford is joined here by a range of guest musicians and vocalists, including avant-garde composer Susan Matthews and members of Orchestra Noir, Zunroyz and Sol Invictus. [press-release]
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Waki -- "Music For Waki People" -- CD -- €10
2004 Databloem, DBCD 008
Delicate techno grooves, sequences and beats from one of Japan's best. Wakisaka Akifuma belongs to the well known artists of the japanese techno scene. Wakisaka Akifuma has studied composition at the University of Tokyo and started producing music in 1989. He started with his own label Loveburger in 1995. [label info]
Waldteufel -- "Heimliches Deutschland" -- CD -- €17
2000 Ultra!, ULT003
Heimliches Deutschland features German neofolk from Markus Wolff (vocals) and Annabel Lee (violin), with assistance from Annabel's partner Michael Moynihan (Blood Axis) providing percussion, and B'eirth (In Gowan Ring) playing flute. The songs and anthems - inspired by Germanic paganism - have a very organic and folkish feel and generally proceed at a fairly slow pace, imparting a ritual quality. The relaxed and essentially simple approach is nonetheless highly effective and evocative. [...] The CD booklet is attractively illustrated with symbols of Germanic paganism. [from the review of Rik, Flux Europa]
Waldteufel -- "Rauhnacht" -- CD -- €14
2007 Percht, Percht08
6 songs and 40 minutes about the Austrian / South German Rauhnacht rituals. "Rauhnacht" is a rural, ancient soundtrack for the holy Jul nights, combined with dreamingly sad Folk balads and Pagan Folkmetal hymns. All artwork for this edition was painted by Markus Wolff in may 2007 on wood-plates and the CD, as well as the LP, has a booklet with german and english lyrics. The album was mastered by Axel Frank (WERKRAUM) at the Blue Lounge Studios / Berlin. [label info] Released + remastered from edition on Terra Fria (2005). Includes 2 new songs.
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Walking Timebombs -- "s/t" -- CD -- €10
1997 Charnel Music, CHCD-27
First full-length solo release by Scott Ayers, mastermind behind Houston's notorious Pain Teens. This album's songs, heavily layered with Scott's trademark guitar sound and drums, also include unusual instrumentation like sitar, piano, and stand-up bass. Take the early Pain Teens albums' experimentation and mix in Scott's amazing playing and studio wizardry from the more recent albums, and you get this brilliant collection of sounds. [label info]
Wander -- "s/t" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2009 R.O.N.F. Records, [RNF-038], (ltd. 50)
Drone, Dark Ambient and white noise ensemble from The Netherlands. 1 track / 19 minutes Length / 50 copies pressed. Packaged in mini-dvd plastic case. [label info]
Watermann, John -- "1935-2002" -- CD -- €12
2008 Waystyx, WR36, (ltd. 500)
A collection of compilation tracks from John Watermann and his projects Spinal Machine and Total Disease.
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Watermann, John -- "Denial of Cricket" -- CD -- €16
2009 Waystyx, WR48, (ltd. 500)
Remastered at Brume Rec., October 2007. Originally released on Nightshift Records 1990.
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Watermann, John -- "Neurotic Jesus Cash Boy" -- CD -- €10
2006 Waystyx, WR27, (ltd. 150)
Half-hour long album previously published by Tochnit Aleph label is a beautiful example of John Watermann's late works. Flowing relaxed music filled with pulsations and transformed voices, surprisingly resembling best electronic works of Muslimgauze.
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Watermann, John -- "RAM Slot" -- CD -- €16
2009 Waystyx, WR66, (ltd. 500)
"In the late 80's scientists had modified and improved the circular RAM cartridge to such an extent that it could be slipped into neck slots of human guinea pigs (immobilized with the Cullen crane), simply snapped between the discs of the spine: for the first time ever it now was possible to record and store dreams as they actually occured during sleep." Remastered at Brume Rec., October 2007. Originally released on Nightshift Records 1990.
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Watermann, John -- "To Be Taken Seriously It Has To Be Long" -- 3"CD -- €20
2006 Waystyx, WR22, (ltd. 100)
John Watermann (1935 - 2002) was the master of collage music, one of the most original and talented musicians from pre-digital electronic underground scene. He started his career in Germany as experimental movie maker and photographer, became interested in music since mid 60s when he tried to involve background sound in his video works. In the 70s, he moved to Australia, where he was living until passed away. For many years he collected odd studio gear, able to record something only in 80s. Releasing a number of tape albums on his own Nightshift Records imprint, he used various denominations like Spinal Machine and Total Disease, illustrating also his automated language writings. The most ingenious work was released on 3 LPs, later re-released on double CD by Walter Ulbricht Schallfolien in Germany. During 90s, his works were released by various european and american labels, as well as interesting collaborations with Merzbow etc. Highly surrealistic and humorous, they implemented collage technique into environmental recordings and noise ambience. But many early materials remains unavailable due to very limited print. To correct this situation, Moscow-based Waystyx label started the series of re-releases, the first one is tape-single with two pieces from 1988-1989. Despite the short duration (just 9 minutes long), this little gem can be endlessly inspiring, and I just wonder if you change your mind about the traditional song structure after listening to. How is it possible to elaborate whole avantgarde piece out of single song bar without any additional arrangements? Carefully stripping down the structure, Watermann resolves a puzzle within the song, but it remains really the same. He succeed to put his absolute experience packed into sampled bits, supposedly random but not anyhow either. He succeed the maximum emotional output and bring you to ecstasy! [Dmitry Vasilyev, "Independent Electronic Music"]
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Watkiss, Thomas -- "Ancestor: Phase I - Silence" -- CD -- €11
2008 The Seventh Media, VII0801-CD, (ltd. 1000)
After nearly a year of writing, recording, rewriting, re-recording and finally completing in the studio, the first full length of the 'Ancestor' triad from Thomas Watkiss is now available. Recorded in 2007 and mixed in early 2008, 'Silence' clocks in at just over 63 minutes of somber forms, ambient soundscapes, drones and found sounds. Ltd x 1000 copies in a digipak. [Cold Spring]
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Watkiss, Thomas -- "Ancestor: Phase II - Machine" -- 2 CD -- €13
2008 The Seventh Media, VII0801-CD, (ltd. 1000)
Thomas Watkiss ia an American visual artist and experimental composer and this is his second release in the Ancestor triology. Dense drone ambient music for uneasy listening, with a great sense of darkness and mystery. This deluxe edition includes a live bonus CD, documenting a concert in Norway. Comes in a lovely slimline 6 panel digipack with UV matte coating. [Databloem]
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Waveform Transmission -- "V1.0 - 1.9" -- CD -- €10
2006 Silentes, 200613
Extraordinary vintage soundscapes. Nocturnal drone music created with a sprawling array of tape-loops, analog effects, modular synthesizers, 1980's samplers, alien shortwave radios, and field recordings made during peak-periods of paranormal activity. Recorded in 1995 by ROD MODELL (two years prior to starting DEEPCHORD), and CHRIS TROY. This cd is a recording of a live on-air broadcast. Analog sound quality (sadly missing from today's barrage of releases made with laptops/software). These sounds take on a majestic beauty and magic with repeated listens. Originally issued by Kim Cascone in 1996, now re-issued 10 years later. [press-release]
We Wait For The Snow -- "Lullabies From Our Dreams" -- CD -- €10
2007 FinalMuzik, FM09, (ltd. 600)
We Wait For The Snow project was born in the Winter season of 2004/05. The founding member of the project is Andrea Penso, alredy active with Selaxon Lutberg and Cold Current label, helped by her old friend Simone Zuccolin. The sound is deliberately lo-fi, and it is created exclusively with economical instruments: acoustic and electric guitars, cheap keyboards, accordeon, farfisa, varius non-musical objects, flute, toys, percussions, tapes... The aim is creating a confidential atmosphere through the balance between "dream" and "sadness". You can find this sense of precarious balance in the songs that alternate moments of pure improvisation with much more studied and controlled tracks. "Lullabies From Our Dreams" is the band's first official album; the songs are about dreams, lullabies and tales from the forest, stories of stones, woods, leaves, dead men, big trees, and girls that speak with demons... for fans of raw, occult and lo-fi recordings, Fursaxa, Troum, Current 93, Jackie O'Motherfu**er, Islaja, drone music and neo psych-folk, folk noir, field recordings, concrete noise and acoustic melodies... in few words, Troum meet Espers, or something like that! Beautiful digi-sleeve, limited to 600 copies. [press-release]
Wereju -- "When The Heart Shows Trough" -- CD-R -- €8
2008 Still*Sleep, CDR08
Blurry, eerie drones that have a lot in common with Aidan Baker's solo guitarscapes, but this is darker stuff. Heavily processed feedback swells in tide-like form, deep and sonorous, and underneath the warbling ambience is a dark soundworld enveloped in shadow. Muted melancholy melodies appear and disappear, soft whorls of sound carry over vast expanses of blackness, and reverberating strings hum suspended in the air. Wereju inhabits a realm of mysterious, drifting, meditative dark ambience. [Crucial Blast Records]
Werewolf Jerusalem -- "The Flies Of Our Tragic Dear" -- CD -- €10
2009 Breathing Problem Productions, BPP-015
Hotly anticipated definitive Werewolf Jerusalem harsh noise statement. 6 tracks of textured white noise obsession by Richard Ramirez. His strongest yet. Definitely one of the most promising and innovative noise projects of the last 5 years. Highest recommendation. [Second Layer Records]
Werkraum -- "Early Love Music" -- CD -- €14
2008 Ahnstern, Ahnstern23
14 progressive & traditional, psychedelic & medieval folk songs and chants of Early Love. 14 dreamy memories of the merry blue days from Early Times. Together with friends of the groups CHANGES, LADY MORPHIA and STURMPERCHT. "Early Love Music" is not just a Folk album. "Early Love Music" is a quantum leap for the new Folk generation of the third millennium and an enhanced assortment of early and new Folk-styles. Progressive- and Psychedelic Folksongs mix up and alternate with British and German traditionals in the vein of early Donovan (HMS), Spirogyra, Shirley Collins, Mellow Candle, Ougenweide,... just to name a few. Some songs even have a songwriter-like character, as if they were played somewhen in the mid 60ies in a dark Britanny forest by a suicidal Jackson C.Frank or Shawn Phillips. The complex arrangements and large variety of instruments even remind to The Incredible String Band and some early Acid-Folk bands. As a dot on the i, "Early Love Music" brings 2 coverversions of Donovan's ingenious fairytale "Jabberwocky" and Steeleye Span's traditional-hit "The Blacksmith". With "Song for Erik" Nicholas and Axel have created the sadest song ever sung, filling every father's eyes with a lake of tears. "Early Love Music" comes in a highest-quality 6-side-digipack with 16-page lyric-booklet. [label info]
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Wertham -- "Memories From The Pigsty" -- CD -- €13
2008 Tesco Organisation, TESCO 069
WERTHAM is the solo project of Marco Deplano, Italian mastermind of Mediterranean cinematic post industrial/folk combo FORESTA DI FERRO and active collaborator of numberless sound and visual projects spawning from post industrial culture to punk/hardcore. After more than 10 years of wait and a fistful of smaller releases, "Memories from the pigsty" is the first full length CD, displaying a sound rooted in a mix of full frontal power electronics and industrial music with a plethora of samples and very aggressive vocals. All words and lyrics should be interpreted as a real life diary which paints human landscapes describing domestic violence, white trash mentality, ghetto culture and street life in general. A real breakthrough for the Italian power electronic industrial scene, long overdue manifesto of Marco Deplano. [press release]
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Whetham, Simon -- "Meditations on Light" -- 2 CD -- €15
2011 Monochrome Vision, mv35
In 2009 Simon Whetham was commissioned by painter Kathryn Thomas to compose a surround sound composition and installation to accompany her Darkspace project, a series of paintings inspired by the infinity of the cosmos, which was exhibited as part of her biggest solo exhibition to date, 'Lightyears'... The composition was also mixed down to a stereo version, mastered by Scanner, and released on Simon's own label, Traceable Echoes, to be available to visitors of the exhibition. Many other artists heard the work and gave praise to this departure from Simon's work up until that point, as for the first time he had composed with much more musical elements, and an idea emerged. Simon was already planning his own reworking of the raw materials of 'Lightyears', as he felt the brief was very restrictive, and wanted to hear the results of using the same material without these constraints. He also offered the opportunity to all artists who responded positively to the work to produce their own characteristic interpretation of the composition. Here are the results; a common thread is evident, but very individual voices are heard, leading you on an immersive, engaging journey... [label info]
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Whitehead, Chris -- "Gryphaea" -- CD -- €10
2012 Observatoire, obs * 032 cd, (ltd. 300)
An amazing new work from Chris Whitehead, Gryphaea is based on the geological features of England's North Yorkshire coastline. The cliffs around Whitby are rich in marine fossils, and during Jurassic times this area was on the fringes of the shallow, warm Tethys Ocean, which covered most of Europe. Field recordings, phonography and electroacoustic elements combine to form an impression of these relics from a distant age and their subtle meanings. Through quiet hints and fragments, consuming ripples and crashing pulses, through hydrophonic ocean sounds and the voices of people and machines, a deep prehistory is evoked. These five tracks display an atmospheric sense of composition coupled with respect for the scientific truth. [press-release]
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Wicked King Wicker -- "God Is Busy... Save Yourself" -- CD -- €10
2009 Cold Spring Records, CSR125CD
Doom Metal / Harsh Noise. Wicked King Wicker is pure doom. Their brand of guttural expression strips away the rock n roll base and leaves nothing for the listener than the caustic reality of the darkest side of life. It is heavy, barbaric and void of hope. Wicked King Wicker has taken the power of doom metal and added noise to mix to make its point - a point that While their style is not for everyone, the number of people being turned on by their nihilism is growing fast. There are lots of labels that can apply to their music, and other bands with a similar approach to theirs, but the bottom line is Wicked King Wicker is unique, and their extreme doom stands alone as the heaviest, most brutal doom imaginable and it may take you places you don't want to go... 'God Is Busy: Save Yourself' is WKW's 6th album, and their first released outside of the U.S... WKW has been celebrated by loyal listeners around the world, as well as in the mainstream music press such as Terrorizer magazine, which gave the band's first two albums 8.5 ratings. [press-release]
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Wiese, Klaus -- "Baraka" -- CD -- €11
2007 Nextera, ERA 2042-2
Originally released in the early 80's on cassette only, this timeless and legendary album is finally available on CD! Re-mastered and re-edited by Klaus Wiese himself, this masterpiece rediscovers one of the finest moments in Wiese's discography and his entire music career. Enjoy a musical adventure with Tibetan Singing Bowls, Tambura, Zither, Ney Flute, voices, bells and field recordings. [label info]
Wiese, Klaus -- "Perfume" -- CD -- €11
2006 Nextera, ERA 102-2, (ltd. 1019)
These 12 brand new colorful electro-acoustic recordings were written, recorded and produced by Klaus Wiese playing keyboards, Tibetan singing bowls, chello, tabla and using natural sounds of wind and ocean. The perfect introduction for those who haven't yet discovered the beauty of the ambient music. Composed, performed and produced by Klaus Wiese in winter 2005. [label info]
Wildildlife -- "Six" -- CD -- €10
2007 Crucial Blast, CBR 64
Heavy, crunchy riffage rolls over celestial FX freakout and gang choral voices: part gluey pop hallucination, part psychedelic blast furnace, part metalloid skullcrush. Super melodic and catchy but vaguely menacing and dark at the same time: this is WILDILDLIFE. Their debut full length Six follows up a fistful of CD-R and vinyl documents and summons a wicked whirlpool of dense distorto crunch and freaky singing, raging metallic percussive pummel, tribal rhythms and crushing effects-soaked guitars, subdued floatational drones and ecstatically gorgeous melodies, all let loose in a series of psychedelic slowcore eruptions and swirling cosmic sludge. Going back and referencing a review that Terrascope Magazine printed about one of the band's earlier CD-R releases, this sounds vaguely like Black Sabbath and Butthole Surfers jamming together with ancient forest mystics, an experience both brutal and beautiful, and which proves that Wildildlife have already established themselves as serious purveyors of blown-out mindmelt heaviness. [label info]
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Will Over Matter -- "9 To The Moon" -- CD -- €11
2009 Bestial Burst, BeBu-034, (ltd. 500)
74 minutes journey through ritual electric doom, occult power electronics and lunar new wave madness. Created with oscillators, radio frequences and synthetizers, this unique release is suitable for those with an ear for electric albums of Beherit, Suuri Shamaani and the more experimental Ride For Revenge material. [label info]
Will Over Matter -- "Lust For Knowledge" -- CD -- €10
2011 Freak Animal Records
Freak Animal Records is proud to present new album of Will Over Matter. Band continues its path to new dimensions. Utterly unique approach bordering genius and utterly insane. Making choices that nobody else dares. Will Over Matter's take on esoteric-industrial noise abandons the cliche's of dark ambient/reverb drenched ritual muzak etc. It doesn't sound "retro", yet approach has more in common to M.B. and Musiikkivyöry for example, than contemporary noise. [label info]
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Will Over Matter -- "Might Of The Planet Eater" -- 2 CD -- €10
2009 Bestial Burst, BeBu-039
74 minutes journey through ritual electric doom, occult power electronics and lunar new wave madness. Created with oscillators, radio frequences and synthetizers, this unique release is suitable for those with an ear for electric albums of Beherit, Suuri Shamaani and the more experimental Ride For Revenge material. [label info]
Wilt -- "Wither" -- CD -- €10
2001 Crionic Mind, CM008, (ltd. 500)
Wilt extol the invisible corners of the thirsty earth with this exaltation of decay and reclamation. Best described as Noise Ambient, "Wither" is a aural quagmire of dusky vapors and ivy draped relics, grating erosions and the thorny shadows that rise and fall across dying landscapes. Moldering Dark Noise from this inspired American project. [press-release]
Wintersilence -- "Transmission Fields" -- 2 CD -- €10
2004 Weird Amplexus, WAX10
An impossible melting between rock and ambient with influences from many other musical styles and from Indian, Arabian and North-African culture. A surprising and ambitious trip from ambient to cosmic paths. This work has various influences, but all titles have something in common, they all seem to run after to an evocative attitude: all compositions could be referred to particular images and landscapes, and stimulate the listener's imagination to penetrate obscure dreams, at the edge between fear and tranquillity, where the soul feels unable to understand the substance of reality, and sometimes is got by a spiral of nightmares' fragments, over any rational rule. [label info]
Wolf Eyes -- "Black Wing Over The Sand" -- CD -- €10
2007 iDEAL Recordings, iDEAL046CD / Kning Disk, KD017CD, (ltd. 2000)
Black Wing Over The Sand belongs to one of the band's more accessible pieces of music, and is an excellent introduction to the dark cosmos of Wolf Eyes. With oscillating movements, Wolf Eyes conjure up short bursts of noise with screaming high pitched tones where a rhythmic deep and slow bass soon sets in, disappears, returns, increases pace, disappears and returns again. Electric guitar, echo effects and sweeping sounds creates powerfully nerved effects over the slow rhythm. [label info]
Wolfskin -- "O Ajuntar das Sombras" -- CD -- €12
2008 Malignant Records, TUMOR CD22
Finally, after years of delay, O Ajuntar das Sombras by Wolfskin is finally unleashed. Initally intended to be a re-issue of 2001-s very limited The Gather of Shadows by the Setting Sun CDr (Ajna), it eventually evolved into a re-working of three tracks from that release, complimented by 7 newly recorded tracks. As the Wolfskin era comes to end, this release represents a glimpse into their past - a more organic, flowing ambient record than what you may find today, and perhaps the least conceptual of all their releases. That being said, it most certainly will go down as one of their more stunning, darker visions; a masterpiece of shadowy atmospheres and drifting currents, featuring multiple layers of archaic sounds, foggy, nebulous textures, and ritual invocations, perfectly combined to form a release of intense depth and complexity. Must certainly rank among the finest dark ambient records released in the history of Malignant. In elegant 4 panel digipak. [press-release]
Wolfskin feat. Last Industrial Estate -- "Stonegates Of Silence" -- CD -- €10
2010 Malignant Records, TumorCD46
And so the journey formally ends for Wolfskin, 15 years from whence it began with the release of the Hidden Fortress cassette back in 1995. The essence of Wolfskin has transformed and mutated throughout the years, reaching on "The Stonegates of Silence" it's simpler form:.one of desolation, solitude, insanity and death, the final frontiers of human existence. As he did with The Hidden Fortress: A Revisitation CD, Wolfskin once again pairs up with Anders Peterson of Objekt 4 fame, now operating under the name of Last Industrial Estate for the purposes of this recording. This is Wolfskin at its bleakest and most restrained, offering 5 tracks of enveloping ambience built around foggy, ambiguous textures and an endless flow of drifting isolationism, shapeless horrors, and oppressive subterranean heaviness. In the case of Stonegates, Wolfskin goes out not with a bang, but with a slow, evolutionary creep into the shadows, forever etched in the lexicon of dark ambient music. In 4 panel digipak. [press-release]
Wolkspurz & Ramirez -- "Music For Your Holidays" -- CD-R -- €9
2002 Afe Records, afe023cd
A few years passed since the day we received Wolkspurz & Ramirez's first demotape. While the monumental "Teddy Bear Remix Project" was taking shape, Peter Wolkspurz and Andreas Ramirez kept on working on their debut album and now they're ready to fill you homes with some of their best tunes, entirely crafted abusing cheap and not so cheap electronic tools, including of course the gorgeous "Teddy Bear" hit single. Forget Simon & Garfunkel and Kruder & Dorfmeister: this is the real thing! [press-release]
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Woodland Choir -- "Serenity Rise" -- CD -- €10
2010 Epidemie Records, EPR072, (ltd. 500)
Woodland Choir is neo-folk project of a brilliant Hungarian musician Attila Bakos (you may know him from the last THY CATAFALQUE album where he sang all clear vocals). The album Serenity Rise brings you 9 fragile pure acoustic melancholic neo-folk songs in English language. Essential for fans of acoustic melancholic music and projects as Tenhi, Liholesie, Nest, October Falls, Neun Welten. Limited edition of 500 pieces in four-panels digipack with eight-pages booklet. [label info]
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Woundead -- "s/t" -- 2 CD-R -- €10
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Wreck Of The Hesperus -- "The Sunken Threshold" -- CD -- €11
2006 Aesthetic Death Records, ADCD 006
Ultra heavy sounding psychedelic album on the edge on Funeral Doom and Sludge. Gorgeous artwork made in aesthetics of Lovecraft's stories. [YAOP]
:Wulgata: -- "Echoes of the past... not far away" -- CD -- €10
2008 Beast Of Prey, bop 5.0, (ltd. 444)
WULGATA is our Polish musical project, who for the past few years was creating dark ambient and industrial sounds in quiet spots of Silesia. "Echoes of the past...not far away" is a compilation of what best in WULGATA, most bold and most varied. Deceitful album, from one side announcing the coming of a mortal threat, and from the other, a reflection of some inner strenght, that tries to break free and whispering calm the spirit. 55 minuts album composed from grim dark ambient sounds to rhtmical and industrial elements. Varied album depicting early Cold Meat sounds combined with what the best od Coil's "Musick to Play in the Dark'. Unconventional release made from brown and printed cardboard. Uncommon shape after folding creates 130mm x 180mm package. Inside there's colour insert with CD mounted on rubber dot. All handmade, numbered and waxed, limited to 444 copies. [press-release]
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Xaaron -- "Looking for the Saint Grail" -- CD-R -- €4.50
2008 S und S prod., SS-2008-003-02, (ltd. 13)
Solo project of Alexander Eresh from the Russian band Tenochtitlan. The medieval spirit merged with bombastic drumming and melancholic flutes in search of secret and saint Grail. The style of the music can be defined as martial folk ambient, the dark intense rhythm is accompanied with medieval Slavic, Celtic and Irish tunes. Recorded in 2002 at Imitation Sound Systems, released for the first time. [press-release]
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Xerox 667 -- "Xerocopy 24.12.2002" -- CD-R -- €7
2011 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT81, (ltd. 23)
Legendary project from Nikolay Kalmykov (Hladna). Minimal Old-School Industrial, automated robotic muzak with noise bursts and some infernal touch, close to early S.P.K. and rhythmic tracks of Irikarah. [label info]
Xerxes / Ego Death -- "At Night" -- CD-R -- €5
2008 Sewer Records, SEWER 016
XERXES come from the Ancient Lands of Persia (today known as The Republic of Iran) and carry with them a heavy musical tradition in their dark ambient / noise quest. EGO DEATH composed tunes of utter loneliness and sadness this time. Needs to be listened to only At Night. [label info] Lo-fi synthetic dark ambient from Xerxes versus lo-fi experimental/ambient stuff from Ego Death.
Xiphoid Dementia -- "Might Is Blight" -- CD -- €10
2009 Existence Establishment, EE10, (ltd. 500)
Xiphoid Dementia is Egan Budd's noise project based in Boston, Massachusetts. Mr. Budd has been active in the noise underground since about 2002 and creates a powerful sort of ambient-noise music. His latest release is a numbered, limited edition CD titled "Might Is Blight" and therein begins a bleak journey through the possible end times of life as we know it, the ruination of Earth, and the death of illusion. This noise artist has in his artistic grasp the means of creating sound structures that are metaphors for such ideas even though to find those places requires certain lengths to be gone to... What Budd has accomplished here is impressive, not too many noise artists are attempting something so ambitious, a hybrid style of composing that incorporates modern classical avant garde, droning electronic noise and atmospheric ambience to create a strong, cinematic music... From the orchestral title track opener to the lilting, tossing, aptly titled 'Your City Crumbles' to the profoundly disturbing final composition, 'None Shall Inherit The Earth', every one of these soundscapes moves in fascinating ways, morphing from powerful Penderecki-style string sections that teeter on the brink of collapse, then break down giving way to noisier electronics, heavy (metallic) droning, or screeching, anguished vocals, each sound texture seemingly always moving in a constant state of flux... [Phillip Klingler, Heathen Harvest]
Xiphoid Dementia -- "Wounds Never Heal" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2002 Soulworm Editions, Worm XXVII, (ltd. 50)
These three intense bursts of heavy, cold ambience with sinister noisy inteludes are the first Xiphoid Dementia release for a pretty long time. Was it worth waiting? Definitely yes, no matter if it's not a full-lenght material. Reborn, Xiphoid Dementia amuses the listener with sound that resembles the uncoscious fears that he may have experienced when being closed in the mother's womb. [press-release]
Xotox -- "Indre Stilhed" -- CD-R -- €8
2003 Tosom, TOSOM 009, (ltd. 200)
Xotox is a wellknown project from Germany in the area of Rhythmical Industrial with pumping rhythms and distorted sounds. Several releases exists on CDRs or Tapes, but also a few compilation contributions. With 'Indre Stilhed' XOTOX goes other ways and TOSOM is proudly to present it. On 'Indre Stilhed' you don't hear nothing like rhythmical parts or distorted sounds, forget what you know or heard about this project. 'Indre Stilhed' shows 'the silent side of Xotox'. 17 Tracks full of beautiful calm sounds, sometimes with a little classical touch. 'This album is dedicated to all those who can still feel the silence' and who's not? Xotox is the project of Andreas Davids, who also runs with'Neuf Noir Records' a little but very fine label, worth to check it. "indre stilhed" was composed to show the world of silence, fear, nature and beautiness beyond industrial soundscapes. [press-release]
XV Parowek -- "Kurz Z Kaluzy" -- CD-R -- €7
2006 XV Parowek, XVP43
Not a long (29 minutes) trip through different subgenres of abrasive electronics, with specific approach. CDR comes in pink paper envelope, with color cover and insert. [label info]
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XV Parowek -- "Lazy Street Fish" -- CD-R -- €7
2004 Solipsism, Solipsism-57
64 short tracks of cracklings, noise, and found sounds. It's suggested the disc can be played sequentially or in random order.
XV Parowek -- "Please Enlarge It, No, Shrink It" -- CD-R -- €7
2004 Deserted Factory, DF0011, (ltd. 99)
XX Committee -- "Network" -- CD -- €10
1983/2008 Impulsy Stetoskopu, 002, (ltd. 250)
"The Twenty Committee was my project with Chris Scarpino; it ran from 1981-1985. Network was my first LP release and the first classic of my long career. It was the second XX Committee release following a cassette, Steel Negro Music, on Arph Records. Network was originally supposed to appear on Charles Ball's Lust/Unlust label but it went bust (unbust). Luckily, a couple of weeks after we heard the terrible, terrible news, Thermidor records got in touch and ended up releasing the LP... Our idea was simple one. We wanted to strip industrial music, which we both enjoyed, of all of its rock moves and create a music that sounded like idealized heavy industrial machinery. We thought the repetition of our music, as well as the sound, was a radical critique of the exploitive nature of work under consumer-capitalism. We wanted to make machine-like anthems of negativity, but like the sound of heavy machinery, with a stark and powerful beauty. That's what we thought, anyway... The record sank without a trace. Chris got disillusioned over the actual opportunity to make good art and make a living and went into engineering. I've stayed the course. It seems like he may have been right. At any rate, this is a nicely done and fully authorized re-issue by the Polish label Impulsy Stetoskopu. Numbered edition of 250 copies, well mastered from the LP. Nice digipak reproduction of the cover with photos on the inside." [Scott Foust]
Y-Ton-G / Asmus Tietchens / Kouhei Matsunaga -- "YAK" -- CD -- €10
2007 Monochrome Vision, (mv13), (ltd. 500)
Asmus Tietchens is renowned as the one of most ingenious german composers in electronic music underground. His first attempts with tape music started in mid 60s, but in 1971 he bought a synthesizer and since then, constantly explores the advantages of electronic sound, never stopping or looking back. On the 70/80s edge, his music was somehow like weird electro-pop, and then changed to more obscure post-industrial sounding, experiments with classical forms and abstract structures with endless recycling. Many albums and collaborations were released, in various editions. Inspiring next generations of musicians, Tietchens never was associated with any trends, shared philosophical concepts or involved in any movements. His albums are just reflecting the atmosphere of studiowork, the appearance of pure musical ideas in the real time frame. "My music is composed of aesthetic and extraordinary events which make statements for themselves, but there is absolutely no message. For myself the music most definitely has a meaning. I am an adventurer in the studio... my aim is to discover the white dots on the landscape of sound, territories where no others have traveled." (Unsound, 1987) Kouhei Matsunaga grew up In Osaka, Japan, listening to hardcore techno and rap music. In the mid 90s, Kouhei met Masami Akita (Merzbow) in Kyoto, and they started working on a few projects. 1998 also saw the release of Kouhei's first album 'Upside down', which included appearances of Masonna, Natiho Toyota, and Merzbow. Since then, he released a number of collaborative and split albums with Merzbow, Niko Scorpio, John Watermann, Anla Courtis, Rudolf Eb.er, Lasse Marhaug, Ralf Wehowski etc. He was touring Europe and USA with Carlos Giffoni, Zbigniew Karkowski and John Duncan. He is also involved in Flying Swimming label and many other ongoing projects. Wolfgang Neven is the german musician, active since 1981 and better known later as Y-Ton-G. He was involved in duo Para-Noise-Terminal, but since 1994 started working solo and also organized the yearly workshop and festival Noise Factory making the doorway for many new german underground projects. His music is described as sound-alchemy: using a lot of metals, objects, field recordings and electronic gear, he retired himself from the material music sources like rhythm and melody, just concentrated on noise for exploration of human soul and personality. Released some albums on Raum 312 and Stein Sein Productions, he continues to present new works with his own Terminal-Tape-Prod. imprint. "YAK" is the collaborative effort, all tracks were recorded in different combinations, as stated in the track titles. Asmus Tietchens appears as project director, conducted the similar actions in the past with such respective artists as David Lee Myers (Arcane Device), Dirk Serries (Vidna Obmana) and Phillip B. Klingler (PBK). Concrete sounds and abstract constructions, endlessly recycled and digitally treated - the new album by Asmus Tietchens, Kouhei Matsunaga and Y-Ton-G is bearing the idea of total remix work. Following the great tradition of mail-collaborations, this german-japanese trio recorded the new series of experimental music studies. [press-release]
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Yadokhimikaty -- "Po Uslovnoy Stepi" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT21, (ltd. 43)
The anthology of rare recordings of this St. Petersburg experimental project, some of them have never been issued before, others were released as ultra limited edition cassettes. Garage avantgarde, Old School Industrial played on metal scrap, recitation of descriptions of electrical injuries, tape loops, brisk atonal chaos, a collection of "flashes" from the radio ether, the only one in the world composition in death-hop style, vinyl records torture, howl of electric motor and cover-versions of heroes of Russian and foreign rock music. Abominable sound quality and unhealthy mood. Handmade six-panel cardboard slim-case. [press-release]
Yadokhimikaty -- "Speeches of the Abandoned" -- 2 CD-R -- €10
2009 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT44, (ltd. 196)
The rebirth of the legendary Russian project with renewed line-up: Lorelei, Noumen and YAO 91404 D. The album opens with analogue drone ambient with whisper and cold sound of the wash, and continues with resonant ritual industrial with an accordion, radionoise, metal percussion and ominous incantations, and then comes to the "Dead Road" - dreadful old school / death industrial with rattle of stones and piercing whistle of snowdrift, inspired by the history of GULAG. Then comes the time of heart-rending industrial ritual with bass guitar, radio and unhealthy plaints. Fifth track is a dark string-industrial insanity. The album finished with an old school industrial track "Industrial Worker PR36-27N". Second disk includes a cover-version of Merzbow track by Noumen, all the lyrics from the album, a photo gallery, a manifest about the album and two attendant field recordings in mp3 format. Cold blood and frozen soil. 196 copies in vinyl boxes. [press-release]
YAO 91404 D -- "Aallot" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2010 YAOP, YAOP 035D, (ltd. 19)
Monumental atmospheric droning noise, meditation over waves. Played with the use of vod (vod - vaďďalain - a small Finno-Ugric people of just about 70 persons, indigenous population of western Ingermanland) traditional instrument - a wooden double-bass "puspele", also with radionoise, sounds of sea wash, and sounds of grinding machine working in a factory floor. The power of nature. Packed in cardboard frame mat covered with glass + insert. [label info]
YAO 91404 D -- "Antrazit" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2010 YAOP, YAOP 039D, (ltd. 19)
Chtonic industrial droning noise played with electronics and tape loops with samples from the Soviet film "Mine Workers" (1937). Sound silicosis. Inner printed sleeve, outer sleeve handmade of cardboard and leatherette. [label info]
YAO 91404 D -- "Coal" -- CD -- €8
2011 Valgriind, VG 48
Pure old school industrial with raw tape sound. Two long soundscapes made of roughly recorded industrial and machinery noises (sometimes coming to the levels of power electronics), metallic percussion and sampled fragments of Soviet movies and gramophone records. Sonic flow in mine worker's mind suffernig from long sleep deprivation and claustrophobia in heavy conditions of work below ground.
YAO 91404 D -- "LenShumZavod" -- CD -- €10
2009 Freak Animal Records, fa-cd-047
The newest album of YAO 91404 D makes deeply psychedelic, almost religious effect. Rich analogue Old School Industrial, tons of heavy basses tumble down into listener's mind, gramophone records roar and howl in antediluvian defective player speakers, brutally warped 7-inches overstrain in primeval harsh-noise, distorted sounds of railroads sound like proclamations from the Underworld... A meditative canvas somewhere between Soldnergeist and Veprisuicida. [YAOP]
YAO 91404 D -- "Pervomai" -- CD-R -- €6
2009 Valgriind, VG 21
One of the best albums from St. Petersburg. Walls of three-dimensional noise constructions and documental recordings from the beginning of the XX century. Scratching of the gramophone needle on the breath of the agonizing country. [label info] Cover made from roofing material + postcard.
YAO 91404 D -- "Photocore" -- 7 x 3"CD-R -- €24
2011 YAOP, YAOP 040
The result of three year work, new full-length album of YAO 91404 D "Photocore" consists of a collection of seven archive Soviet photographs from the times of industrialisation, and soundtracks for them. Field recordings made in workshops and fields, railroads and under water, clanks and drones of metal constructions, steel rhythms, roar of motors and abrasive rasps, atmospheric pieces of folk and academic music. Locomotive operation and recording of it's sound on the 5th track done by the machinist, coal heaver and musician Sergey Gabbasov (Bardo, Vazhes). Retrograde, mostly analogue sound. Handmade 12-page photo album, separate disk for each track. [press-release]
YAO 91404 D -- "Yuksporryok" -- CD-R -- €6
2011 Valgriind, VG 46
Recorded in 2010 in Khibiny Mountains, this album contains four tracks of mysterious field (?) recordings, out of which only the last one can be defined as made near a railroad. The other three impress by monstrous primitive shamanic-primeval noises and rattle and fat static ether radionoises. Total minimalist and absolute suppression of harmony. [Abgurd]
YAO 91404 D / Strup -- split -- CD-R -- €7
2012 Spasi i Sohrani Records
Mutual tribute / split of two projects from Belarus and Ingria. The authors arranged to record "live in studio" tracks in style of each other, of course through the prism of their own perception. As a result, YAO 91404 D made measured psychedelic bass Lo-Fi Death Industrial spiced with radio-howl and voices of arguing bums recorded through a ventilator window. Strup presents live "iron" Old-School Industrial with marching rhythms, powerful vocals and lots of delay effect. DVD-box. B/w collage artwork by Strup. [YAOP]
Yarovit -- "Simargl`s Call" -- CD -- €7
2010 Nihil Art Records, NAR 004, (ltd. 500)
Yarovit`s music is many-sided and advisedly cannot be put in limits of one defined style. The style can be termed heroic rhythmic Ambient - Folk, in some tracks with background guitar stuff, screaming "black" vocals and martial warlike lyrics on russian. [label info]
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Yellow6 -- "Heavy With Snow" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2010 Abgurd, AB-59, (ltd. 100)
Minialbum by a rather well-known project from UK was recorded in the beginning of 2010 as an impression by heavy snow clouds floating away. Warm, humid, wrapping piece by this great musician. Post Rock / Ambient in the vein of BOSCH'S WITH YOU, LABRADFORD, PAN-AMERICAN, GODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPEROR!: otherworldly, melodic, melancholic, as a natural accompaniment for rain, snow and mist. [press-release]
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Z'EV -- "The Deep Path" -- CD -- €10
2011 Seven Solar Metals, Season One
A monumental album featuring three impressive tracks in which Z'EV (mythical avant-garde experimental artist, percussion master and world wide performer), collects and exhibits brave and incredible sonic solutions, mixing and alternating enormous, deep and sometimes exploding and devastating sound masses based on low frequencies, to noisy metallic sounds, gongs and cymbal stratification... all oriented in temporary resounding "tunnels", where sonic elements are mixed through suggestive cyclic echoes and reverberations, infinite pauses, joining and integrating to other sonic tracks, for an important and unique listening experience. An unmissable masterpiece! [label info]
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Z'EV & Hati -- "Heart Of A Wolf" -- 2 CD -- €15
2011 Zoharum, ZOHAR 023-2, (ltd. 423)
The second collaborative effort between an industrial legend Z'EV and Polish sound artists using the moniker Hati. Two excellent live performances played in May 2011 captured on silver and black discs. The Torun gig is a very dynamic percussive adventure, whereas Gdansk concert concentrates on building slow-moving images. [label info]
Z'EV & Ramona Ponzini -- "Ankoku" -- CD -- €8
2008 A Silent Place, ASP32
Ramona's personal touch is certainly her own particular Japanese chant, together with the use of traditional percussion, bells and cymbals from Japan. Z'EV, enchanted by all those elements, asked Ramona for this cooperation. "Ankoku" is a Japanese word which means "deep darkness". For this debut Ramona's voice and percussion was processed by My Cat Is An Alien in their mysterious studio, placed somewhere in Western Alps, adding some field recordings. Those recordings were then sent to Z'EV who has processed them with some of his typical percussion. Z'EV deconstructed the sweetness of Ramona's chants, enfolding the pieces with a darker atmosphere. 5 obscure tracks, structured on charming vocal melodies moving out from a "haunted house". Digifile. [label info]
Zahnrad -- "Zubchatokolesnoe" -- CD-R -- €6
2009 Spermodeath Records, SD-07, (ltd. 110)
Power electronics with the Latvian colour. The eyes turned to the sun of War and Will - the guidebook for soldiers of a new era. Poetry of machine tools, lead and a steel, the manifesto of the future words of classics: Vituhnovskaya, Letov, Mishima, Imermanis, Laicenz, Majakovsky, Evola, etc. will soon drop out new snow. Style: power electronics, martial future noise. Form: cd-r / cardboard package with inserts. [label info]
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Zaimph -- "Sexual Infinity" -- CD -- €10
2006 Hospital Productions, HOS-162
Marcia Bassett of Double Leopards, Hototogisu, GHQ fame on her first proper solo full length has given us one of our favorites in the history of Hospital Productions. Sexual Infinty stands refreshingly organized into six escalating pieces of her signature guitar, voice, and electronic moodscapes entrancing the listener with sinister seduction. Comparisons to early 80's power electronics and industrial acts as uncommunity, Mauthausen Orchestra and Ramleh reside in the underbelly of Zaimph's ability to generate ominous, gritty, and doom laden atmosphere cloaked in a thick lush drone. What begins with raw ethereal guitar shadows of longing delight closes with vital gripping electronic tension. [press-release]
Zavoloka -- "Suspenzia" -- CD -- €10
2005 Nexsound, ns17e
Kateryna Zavoloka is a musician from Kyiv city, Ukraine. This is an extended version of her first release Suspenzia. The sound of Zavoloka is very impuslive mixture of rich and dense however sometimes abstract analogue and digital noises, melodies and idm-like drums.
Often unexpected music design and courses create an impression of body motion of a fighter in kung-fu drunken style. This release however called SUSPENZIA (in regards of Natalia Zhizchenko essay) that is "suspension" or "slip" in russian or ukrainian. [press-release]
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Zavoloka -- "Vedana" -- CD -- €10
2011 Kvitnu, KVITNU 16
This is second volume from series of albums dedicated to Purification by Four Elements: Water. The music is composed by Kateryna Zavoloka, transmitting different states of water and how they can be specifically translated to the sound. Low frequencies as a depth, traditional vocal as surface of sonic water. This album is a result of 2-years research, including work at Electroacoustic Music Studio at Academy of Music in Cracow and concerts-performances in collaboration with live generative interactive visuals from Laetitia Morais. It is exploration of Water Element. It is inspired by knowledge about Ukrainian Cossacks-Magicians, so-called Kharakternyky, that could control forces of nature, particularly water. They used to drink spring water to purify their energy and to became undistinguished and fluid as water. To reach inner melting. [label info]
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Zavoloka -- "Viter" -- CD -- €10
2007 Kvitnu, KVITNU 3
"Viter" means "Wind" in Ukrainian and this CD is dedicated to the Air element. Inhale Air, exhale Universe, be Universe, unite with Universe. This is first rite to the purification and self-actualization. Universe is waiting for us to change ourselves. First of all we should understand ourselves and to feel the Truth inside us and everywhere. Lead your feelings and emotions, influence your condition. Human being is integral part of the Universe. Universe is magical. Breathe. Zavoloka invented warm clear melodies and structures played by violin and contrabass to create airy, windy, kind, ethereal, hearty and soulful music. Design of cover artwork, packing was inspired by the evening sky - bright, warm yellow, amber lines on deep blue background. [label info]
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Zavoloka / AGF -- "Nature Never Produces The Same Beat Twice" -- CD -- €10
2006 Nexsound, NS44
HANDMADE BIO BEATS this is a collaboration between ukrainian musician, producer and graphic designer ZAVOLOKA aka KATERYNA ZAVOLOKA and german vocalist, poet, musician and producer AGF aka ANTYE GREIE AGF contacted ZAVOLOKA in 2003 after hearing her tracks on the internet and they soon realized a passion for each others music and decided to work together. During several live collaborations, for instance in belgium and france, and some sound material exchanges they developed the concept of creating TECHNO LIKE TREES. Nature beats. The idea was to extract sounds from existing and form a variation of beats and vocal snippets to make powerful techno of nature which can be seen as identical and not similar as structure of plants and nature. Repeating of otherness and repeating of difference. Both artists can be seen as huge fans and admirers of nature and the inspiration evolved out of structure of forest leaves and berries translated into musical rhythm and moods. One technique they used to produce these irregular but repetitive patterns was setting up an old school metronome tik tak at xxx beat per minute and count in and start to battle the beat with drumming on self designed sound banks directly recording into powerful converters the structure of the pieces are woody, spicy, discontinuous, recurrent, flavor, like: grain, sappiness, chime, species, extraction and vitality... NATURE NEVER PRODUCES THE SAME BEAT TWICE contains 50 one minute compositions each dedicated to a certain plant. the tracks are split into 5 subgroups: trees / bushes / meadow / flowers / spices. The language the artists communicate in is english but both bring in their native tongue by naming plants and both are singing and speaking ukrainian as well as interpreting ukrainian traditional folk lyrics. The record was mainly recorded in AGF's studio in berlin kreuzberg in july 2005. Edited and crafted in kyiv, ukraine at ZAVOLOKA's studio and mastered and completed in berlin prenzlauer berg in vladislav delays studio the white room in autumn 2005. The material is strictly female touch and without comparison to existing sound on planet earth. The design, photos, ornaments and packing are made by ZAVOLOKA. [press-release]
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Zeit -- "Waves from the Sky" -- CD -- €13
2008 Hic Sunt Leones, HSL043
The first solo CD by Zeit is a true revelation: After the two album in collaboration with Alio Die with a more acoustic quality, in 'Waves from the sky' Tommaso Cimo undertake electronic orchestrations with inserts of guitars and bass perfectly integrated, you can find attachments with the best mystic and cosmic music of the 70', traslated with a subtle sensibility into new territories of ambient music with a very fine touch. CD packaged in an elegant three sides digipack!! [press-release]
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Zeni Geva -- "Maximum Money Monster" -- CD -- €11
2007 Cold Spring Records, CSR78CD
Re-issue of the legendary debut CD by Zeni Geva, originally released by Pathological Records in 1990. Prepare yourself for the pounding, monolithic Japanese noise rock barrage that is Zeni Geva. For fans of early Swans. Zeni Geva is Kazuyuki K. Null, Mitsuru Tabata (ex-Boredoms), Ikuo Taketani and Tatsuya Yoshida. Comes with 3 bonus, previously unreleased tracks, recorded live in Tokyo 1988-1989. [press-release]
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Zenial -- "Connection Reset By Peer" -- CD -- €10
2012 Zoharum, ZOHAR 027-2
It's Zenial's first album in 6 years, and it shows his creativity in the context of live activity. It does not mean that 'Connection Reset by Peer' is a live album as such. Yes, the source material for the record was recorded live during sonic experiments and creating sound installations over the past few years. The album is not a compilation though-it's a well-weighed entity, thematically and sonically coherent. 'Connection Reset by Peer' is a result of interferences of environment sounds based to a large extent on electricity, radio feedback, electromagnetic field sounds emitted by current generators and elements of the so-called field recordings. [press-release]
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Zenial -- "Connection Reset By Peer / Music For Zombie Warriors" -- CD + CD-R -- €15
2012 Zoharum, ZOHAR 027-2, (ltd. 150)
First 150 copies of the new Zenial album come with an additional full-length CD-R with tracks from compilations and previously unreleased tracks.
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Zero Centigrade -- "Umber" -- CD-R -- €7
2012 Observatoire, obs * É | music 035, (ltd. 110)
This record was made during 2011 in Italy. The album, product of the 'impro duet' Tonino Taiuti and Vincenzo De Luce, can be called avant-blues. This mysterious work contains emotional parts. We can hear instrumental lines of acoustic and electric guitars, trumpet and electronic background sounds and effects. UMBER's main features is its inclination to primitivism and its wigged out air. If this is the music, this is music at its most bare and essential form. [label info]
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Zero Kama -- "Live In Arnhem & The Goatherd And The Beast" -- CD + mCD -- €18
2008 Athanor, ATNR 033
Zevodvozogon' -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €8
2006 Hladna
Early project where Nikolay Nikolayevich from Hladna took part. Primarily acoustic recordings - ritual drumming, demonic shouts and voices, sounds of fire and singing birds, atmosphere of madness and solitude in frozen forest. Beautiful rough handmade package.
Zevodvozogon' / Hladna -- "s/t" -- 2 CD-R -- €12
2007 Hladna
This set contains Zevodvozogon' album + Hladna's "Untitled 1996".
Zewizz, John -- "2012" -- CD -- €12
2010 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 130
JOHN ZEWIZZ releases hiz first solo CD stepping out ov the SLEEPCHAMBER shadows after almost 30 years! Thru the eras ov Sexmagick, Fetish, Electronic Goth, The Barbitchuettes, Women Of The SS, and at least 6 other stages ov his own unique esoteric styles ov musick: '2012' starts out at the title track. A dance kick poly rhythm styled piece that abstractly question us if 2012 will be the end ov daze. Strangely, you will find the chorus hauntingly hard to evict. 'IMMORTALITY" slinks along like an electric styled 'Gang Of Four' track with strangle stayed guitar leads and heavy bass beats. 'BLACKSTRAP CORSET' iz a great fetish fun-house piece complete with clown house laughter, school teacher commands and a great heavy low pounding beat - The chorus is clever and sleazy... 'INSOMNIA' iz a long piece that contains a steady bass pulse laced in all sorts ov exotik stereo electronix. With a theme ov suggested bestiality and no sleep the track iz nightmare like and bizarre, but still very interesting. Jaguar growls included. 'OBSESSION' iz a whispered fetish command vocal styled strap beat track. The overlaid electornix are ghostly and unique. Az what haz made SLEEPCHAMBER so original exists here. Obviously Mr. Zewizz iz the main ingredient in the SLEEPCHAMBER formula. 'SPY VS SPY' iz a trip in a dimensional layer ov dark and eerie rhythms that flow thru your veins az whispered vocals again penetrate the subconscious in a virus like degree. 'HELLS ANGELS' iz a poly rhythm driven track with a heavy beat kick & Harley's racing through out. 'EECIFORP?' iz proficiency backwards. Again the most abstract track on the CD suggesting 2012 being the end ov time. Ending the CD is a 12 1/2 minute dance re-mix ov the title track '2012'. But after the first 5 minutes it scratches into a surreal vocal style ov the opening track. [press-release]
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ZGA -- "The End Of An Epoch" -- CD -- €16
1991 ReR Megacorp, ReR ZGACD2
Second album recorded in 1991.
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ZGA -- "The Flight Of Infection" -- CD -- €11
2002 Tariff, TARIFF 001
Re-release of a tape from 1998.
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ZGA -- "Gloom" -- CD -- €11
2004 Strange Sounds Records, SSR-04008
Recorded and mixed at ZGA studio Oct.03-Feb.04.
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ZGA -- "Kinderalbum" -- CD -- €11
2003 Hor Music, HCD-079
Recorded in ZGA Studio. Mixed at Lenfilm Studio. Sept. 2002. Seventeen people took part in the recording of this album, among them Nick Soudnick (author of almost all lyrics, voice, accordion, sounds, loops, clarinet, keyboards, etc.), Ekaterina Fyodorova (drums, voice), Valeria Kildeeva (violin), Natalia Kordyukova (vocals) and many more. 6-panel digipak.
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ZGA -- "MaraZGAmatika" -- CD -- €11
Hor Music, HCD-063
Recorded at ZGA Studio and mixed at "Lenfilm" Studio Nov.-Dec. 2000.
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ZGA -- "Riga" -- CD -- €11
2004 Strange Sounds Records, SSR-04007
The very first recordings of the project run by Nick Soudnick, from 1984-1988.
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ZGA -- "Sub Luna Morrior" -- CD -- €16
1996 ReR Megacorp, ReR ZGA3
Classic recording by the ever deeper Russian instrument builders and masters of live electroacoustic/song/sound sculptures. Dangerous, Bitter, Desperate and Down to the Bone, but carrying a huge emotional charge and a rare beauty. This is lived music, both mature and profound. [label info]
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ZGA -- "Zero Gravity Anomaly" -- CD -- €11
2006 Strange Sounds Records, SSR-06016
Recorded and mixed at ZGA studio, 2005.
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ZGA -- "Zgamoniums" -- CD -- €16
1995 ReR Megacorp, ReR ZGACD
Sound bites from 'real' and electrified scrapyard instruments; an indescribable and incomparable group who have succeeded both in defying genre and creating radically new sounds. [label info]
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ZGA / FIGS -- "Who Has Stolen The Air?" -- CD -- €16
2007 Some Bizzare, SBZ076CD
A compilation of selected works by ZGA (Nick Soudnick) and FIGS (Nick Soudnick + three drummers/percussionists).
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ZGA / Opus Posth -- "Carmina Moriturorum" -- CD -- €15
2007 Wooden Head, WHR 001
New album, recorded in 2007 with a chamber orchestra.
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ZHA -- "Noise of Native Order" -- CD-R -- €8
2010 Biosonar^Labirint 019, (ltd. 52)
A wonderful side-project of Ogni Videniy created with a film maker Sergey Zhigaltsov. Ritual ambient of purifying nature. Ringing and droning of live instruments weaves the net which catches spirits and feeds the body of music. Sound from the center, from the heart of action, from the shores of the Arctic Ocean. Each copy is handmade and handnumbered. [label info]
Zimiamvian Night -- "Zimiamvian Night 2" -- CD -- €11
2007 Infraction, INFX 014, (ltd. 300)
Zinc Room -- "Shifting Soil" -- CD -- €10
2012 Evil Dead Productions, EDP 008
New album of a Russian project Zinc Room, which previously released several works on CD-Rs and one split-CD with another Siberian project Carved Image Of Emptiness. Unlike previous works, completely soaked in rusty distorted yell of bass buitar and metal percussion, here the things are less violent. Zinc Room's trademark sound is still here, but now it's become a part of more calm and dark scene created also with the use of synthesizers, recordings of soil, samples and mouth harp. Five unhurried ritual dark ambient composition with strong industrial spirit. Special guest on this album was t.b.Kein (Scratching Soil, Carved Image Of Emptiness, Prognostic Zero).
Zoat-Aon -- "Star Autopsy" -- CD -- €14
2005 Aural Hypnox, [AH04], (ltd. 1000)
'Star Autopsy' presents nine multi-dimensional dark ambient tracks which range from radiant textures, mesmerizing / swirling soundscapes to dense / crushing walls of sound and hidden abstract melodies. By using conventional instruments, various sound generating devices (such as analog synthesizers and samplers), vocals and other carefully chosen sonic objects Zoat-Aon manages to create an unique, dynamic and truly enigmatic / expansive atmosphere that continuously spirals further towards the unknown areas of consciousness. [press-release]
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Zoat-Aon -- "The Triplex Bestial" -- CD -- €10
2006 Aural Hypnox, [AH07], (ltd. 1000)
By the careful adjustment and manipulation of both modern and archaic mediums is created a highly dynamic work of aural alchemy depicting the trance and dream of a carnal totem standing between Heaven and Earth, where the unearthly sound of starlight's serpentine arteries winding together with the blackened branches above mingles with the oneiric hisses and crackles of necromantic phantoms and slithering roots below. A barbarous, sonic paradox suggesting the subtle arousal of the ancestry in flesh, a work both soothing and threatening to the intuitive mind. [press-release]
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Zonk't -- "-trope" -- CD -- €11
2007 Sound On Probation, SOP 008, (ltd. 500)
In recent times the name Laurent Perrier pops up quite regularly: either under his one name, or as Heal or Zonk't. Here it is the Zonk't hat again, and once again he changes the parameters of his sound. On his first (not reviewed in Vital Weekly) it was in the trip hop/illbient fashion of DJ Spooky, on 'Purr' it was the minimalism of Bretschneider and Pan Sonic but now on '-Trope' he combines these along side a lot of other dance music influences, such as techno, ambient house, hip hop, more dub, intelligent dance music or glitchy clicks 'n cuts. All played on a blend of analogue and digital instruments. One could all too easily think that this mixture of styles would lead to a CD that is too scattered, but its this variation that makes this a highly enjoyable CD - for home listening, I must add. Somehow I don't see the mass on the dance floor going crazy for one of these tracks or even a live concert - there the varied palette of Zonk't would work against it, but at home this hotchpotch of dance styles would make a fine listen. [FdW, Vital Weekly]
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Zonk't -- "Falling Down Fearless Of Bruises" -- CD -- €11
1999 Sound On Probation, SOP 001, (ltd. 500)
In his research, Laurent Perrier has never stopped regarding experimentations as his main piority. He is attached to rhythmical lines, floods of sounds trapped in a loop as well as attempting to create a 3-D type of experience where the sound would be shaped by Space, Silence and Accident. Zonk't confirms the impact that the fascinating tangle of hypnosis, abstraction, rhythms and different shades has on Perrier. Zonk't is far more than just one off project. Laurent Perrier now steps in a world marked with the thick and stingy texture left by Zoviet France, Scorn, the labels Asphodel and Mille Plateaux. Still, there are zillion of untouched paths left, to explore... Zonk't functions around long developing tracks. In turn: abismal or airy, bright or dark. The project is an exciting and haunting wondering conducted by the amazing application of one man behind so many machines. All of them subject to temperamental gravity... [Denis Boyer, Fear Drop]
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Zonk't -- "Purr" -- CD -- €11
2006 Sound On Probation, SOP 005, (ltd. 500)
Third full album for Zonk't, following his remarkable "Itching" on Brume Records. This French act (former member of Nox) presents another very well-written album made of ultra-deep basses, flowing atmospheres, small clicks'n'cuts, and a rather massive sound. Ranging from smooth, minimal dub pulses to drone-oriented, ultra-deep bass, "Purr" takes distilled techno under the microscope and well below freezing with its infinitesimal examination of slow-motion electronic minimalism. It is a work of astonishingly deep character, with an undeniable undercurrent of unease. [Cold Spring info]
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Zvuuk -- "For Dave" -- CD-R -- €5
2004 The Egg And We Music, pnin2, (ltd. 100)
Belarussian project Zvuuk recorded an original dedication to Dave Phillips using the sounds from his album "IIII". Two pathological electroacoustic tracks with perfect sound quality.
V/A -- "1000+1 Tilt #9 - Urban Folk Songs" -- CD -- €7
2005 1000+1 Tilt, #9
No Exit, Andre Borgen, F.N.S., Straiph, btong, Mecha Orga, Tlic, Like Defeated Soldiers Of A Long Forgotten War, Sunday Noise Peace, Anal Vissi, PS Stamps Back, The Factories Of Smirni.
V/A -- "23 Drifts To Guestling" -- CD -- €10
1983/2008 Iham Products, NANA 004 / FOPI, LAT23
Experimental. Originally released in 1983, this stands as the missing piece of the jigsaw between Coum Transmissions, Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV. Scrapbook rehearsals, formative ideas, radio snippets, interviews and general nonsense. CD version original cassette release of the contributions of the many people that made up Throbbing Gristle, Coum Transmissions, Coil and Psychic TV, brought to you by FOPI. Features: Throbbing Gristle, Genesis P-Orridge, Psychic TV, Monte Cazazza, Peter Christopherson, Martin Denny, Joan Armstrong, Gary Gilmore, Adi Newton, Frank Zappa, Charles Manson, Alex Fergusson & Lynette Fromme (Manson Family). [label info].
V/A -- "3A4éCTKA (Fuck The Modern World)" -- CD -- €10
2005 Autarkeia, acd 007, (ltd. 900)
The release dedicated to the second festival of industrial music - NORDIC AUDIO MODERN which took place in Vilnius on 7 May 2005. Compilation consists of tracks never published, remixed or performed by the world's famous guests of the festival - CON-DOM, THE GREY WOLVES, DEUTSCH NEPAL, FROZEN FACES, HAZARD, JANITOR, TRAUR ZOT, WEJDAS. In the slang of Russian military task-force, "Zachystka" carries the meaning of purging the certain territory of everything that moves and breathes. Shortly speaking - destruction. Many of industrial-minded people who had been attended the second NORDIC AUDIO MODERN festival stated that it was one of the most tremendous acts of brain defragmentation through their whole life. This CD may be considered the odd memento of that unforgettable night. Zachystka !!! [press-release]
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V/A -- "Anomalous Silencer No. 6" -- CD -- €10
2003 Napalmed, 2003 CD 010, (ltd. 1000)
37 international artists, 80 minutes of noise / industrial / electro / noisecore / sounds / experiments... Luca Miti, Chaos Holokaust Massaker, Oltretomba, Luasa Raelon, Astrogenic Hallucinauting, Pan Demla, Fever Spoor, The Mindripper, Skryty Puvab Byrokracie, Noisebitch, Johnny & Jhony vs. The Fox, Mauro Orselli, Imiafan, Andrew Duke, Guerraeterna, Crimen Familiar, Discotheque Gronland, Humberg, Fuck The Facts, Asistar_T, Enigma Eden, Tote Stadt, Plethora, Iron Bitchface, Nova-Sak, Nequaquam Vacuum, Sound Inhaler, ExMx, Tremor, Kromleqs, Ellis One, Noisecore Freak, CEOXiME, The Industrial Wiping System, K2, Maschinenmensch, Napalmed.
V/A -- "Aural Bowels" -- CD -- €10
2010 Let's Go To War, LGTW#012 / Latrina do Chifrudo, LC CD004
A gathering of the musicians that annually perform the 'Matanc,as Festival' in Porto. This is ritual, occult music from the depths of this city. This compilation shows a large variety of experimental music and it is an excellent showcase for the musical scene from Porto. Contains tracks from Satan's Zombies Paranoid, Besta Bode, New Traditional Fang Music, Pvppa, Caverna, Brutos da Natureza, Filigranas Negras, Tendagruta and Sparagmos. [label info]
V/A -- "Autumn Blood (Constructions)" -- CD -- €10
2009 Lumberton Trading Company, LUMB012, (ltd. 500)
A limited edition album gathering some of the artists who've so far appeared on the label plus several affiliates we like very much. Features exclusive material by Lawrence English, Peter Christopherson, Birds Build Nests Underground, Steven Severin, Volga, Theme, Andrew Liles, Zenial / Banabila, Formication, Sion Orgon, Human Greed & LeeDVD, Colin Potter. [label info]
V/A -- "Avtogen-Shaitan" -- 2 CD-R -- €9
2007 Ostroga, OTR-015
International compilation gathered by Ural-based label Ostroga. Theme for the compilation is it's title - any associations with these words: "avtogen-shaitan". Cyber Christ, M.Nomized, Bardoseneticcube, Cisfinitum, Eugeny Gnoystrelev, Yakdrizzle (With Hair), Indra, Tchernoblyad, Indu Mezu, Zinc Room, Fire In The Head, IDX1274, Kryptogen Rundfunk, Bidoche Musique, N-616, Aeterna Anima, Light Collapse, Cat'su Ox Tey, Flutwacht, Misery, Instant Movie Combinations. Artwork for each copy is completely different.
V/A -- "Balanced" -- CD -- €10
2008 Circlesandlines Recordings, candl02, (ltd. 300)
Second release of Russian label run by Places project and dedicated to the edition of calm and contemplative music. Featuring artists: Chris Tenz, Kshatriy, Cyclofillydea, Places, Jukeen, Arexx, Lunar Abyss Deus Organum vs. Kadegu, I/Dex, Harmash, Alexander Daf. General style direction: ambient / drone / idm.
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V/A -- "Beginners Night at the Tape Loop Club" -- CD-R -- €6
2010 Gold Soundz, GS#86
new 79 min comp CDR with pretty long tracks by STEFAN KUSHIMA, DREAM SAFARI, SPOILS & RELICS, TERJE PAULSEN, JOEY CHAINSAW, BJERGA/IVERSEN, SKY LIMOUSINE, PÅL ASLE PETTERSEN and ending with a 15 minute loop-o-rama by DOGFROG. From full-on guitar assault, via loop-a-delics and synth gurgling to bugs-in-your- pants freak-scapes... A good chance to pick up on some new names... Most tracks in the 7-10 min area... [label info]
V/A -- "Between Sun & Moon" -- CD -- €12
2000 Soleilmoon Recordings, SOL 77 CD
Compilation of the Italian Amplexus label: Loren Nerell, Solitaire, Amir Baghiri, Amir Baghiri / Rüdiger Gleisberg / Mathias Grassow, Emmanuel Tuts-Schiemsky, Amir Baghiri / Mathias Grassow, Mathias Grassow, Rod Modell, Quest.
V/A -- "The Black Square" -- CD -- €10
2006 KultFront, KF-VI, (ltd. 444)
Fresh survey of Russian post-industrial scene performed by KultFront activists. The continuation of line started with "Red Square" compilation. 15 exclusive tracks from BRZB (collaboration between Dmitry Zuboff from Hypnoz and Alexei Borisov), Bardoseneticcube, Ganzer feat. Lenochka, Ritualnaya Bioingeneria, Cyclotimia, SS-18 (side-project of DMT), Evilution, EKRAN (collaboration between Kryptogen Rundfunk and Anthesteria), Bunker (side-project of Ryr), Reutoff, Misery, Anthesteria, Tsaraas (side-project of Majdanek Waltz), Sal Solaris, Necropolis.
V/A -- "Blood Ties Document 2007" -- CD-R -- €8
2008 Existence Establishment, EE09, (ltd. 78)
A collection of noise and experimental music created in 2007. Tracks from sold-out limited releases, live sets, outtakes, etc. Ranging from minimal ambient and experimental, to power electronics, to harsh noise. Featuring: Anapthergal, Keplers Odd, Content Nullity, Oubliette, Fixture for Toxins, Lackthrow, Noisewerrrrk, Norther Machine, +Dog+, Mystified, and Salvation for Sale. [press-release]
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V/A -- "C21H23NO5 - Diacetylmorphin" -- CD -- €10
2006 Steinklang Industries, SKD 11 / Dystonia Recordings, DYS003
Brilliant new Power-Noise compilation with well-structured, rhythmic and catchy compositions by: TARDIVE DYSKINESIA / ATROX / THE MUSICK WRECKERS (ex-Thorofon) / LEICHE RUSTIKAL / CONTROL compiled and organised by Mr. Tardive Dyskinesia with stunning artwork by Leiche Rustikal. 2 tracks by each artist (except Atrox is one 14 min. track). [press-release]
V/A -- "Collapse 18.+19. August 2000" -- CD -- €10
2000 Stateart / Ars Macabre, SA AM 01
Festival compilation given to the visitors of Collapse Festival, MS Stubnitz, Rostock, Germany 18. + 19. August 2000. Featuring Ultra United, Folkstorm vs. Mz.412, Heid, Predominance, Nocturne, Ex.Order, Axon Neuron / Vagwa.
V/A -- "Collection 2 - Moving" -- CD -- €11
2003 Databloem, DBCD 004
Collection 2: Moving is, as the title suggests, the second compilation from the Dutch label Databloem. This label has been making a terrific name for itself, releasing high-quality electronica albums from a number of new and exciting artists. Moving is billed as "a collection of ambient explorations and grooves" - and it's a very satisfying collection; seemingly a denizen of an alternate universe where techno artists chose to discard their club roots in favor of the ambient sound. Don't expect banging tracks of stunning beatwork - this is a fine selection of laid-back, downtempo head-bobbers. Mantacoup, Carbon Boy, The Circular Ruins, Spielerei, Saul Stokes, Psychetropic, ENV(itre), Makunouchi Bento, Subradial, Vir Unis, Cyscape. [label info]
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V/A -- "Collection 3 - Blending" -- CD -- €11
2005 Databloem, DBCD 012
A collection of contemporary ambient and ambient-glitch that takes the listener on a journey that stretches the old boundaries into a shape of things to come. 70 minutes of bliss with not a sub standard track in sight, an impressive collection. Waki, Jason Corder, Krill-Minima, Lingua Lustra, Mendigo, Lufth, Dreaming The Seed, MOC, Danny Kreutzfeldt, Svartling, Liquid Bridge. [label info]
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V/A -- "Collection 4 - Transforming" -- CD-R -- €9
2008 Databloem, DB 08022
Another fine selection of ambient explorations and grooves. The subtitle "transforming" stands for the physical transformation, new
packaging and media (professional cdr). The music still offers a wide range of styles within the ambient domain, from Sgnl_fltr's clicky beats to Con_sense's dreamy atmosphere's. Exclusive, previously unreleased tracks by: Sgnl_fltr, Nostalgia, Daniel Maze, Johan Agebjorn, Bpolar, Con_sense, ESE, Cymphonic, Opium & Stefano Patruno, Beta two agonist and Muhr. [label info]
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V/A -- "Concrete Concréte" -- CD-R -- €7
2005 Construct.Destroy.Collective, CDC002, (ltd. 150)
"Concrete Concréte" is a conceptual compilation dedicated to concrete. Nine musicians have transformed their relationship to this fascinating material on the CD. Each track is a statement by itself, and you can hear echoes of concrete in all of them. The idustrial / experimental / noise music presented on this CD really fits to the theme of concrete and it's definitely going to be a great experience and challenge for all listeners. The CD comes packed in a DVD cover. [press-release] The list of participants: :.::, Urbanfailure, Phragments, Rentip, Iskra, Jamka, Martin Vysoky, Rbnx, Gottlieb.
V/A -- "Convergence" -- CD -- €8
2005 Fulldozer Records, fdcd19
A collection of tracks from artists participating in 2nd international festival of experimental electronic music BULLDOZERfest-2004 which took place in St. Petersburg on March 19, 2004: Andrey Kiritchenko, Volga, Theodor Bastard, Shumy Rossii, Spies Boys, PalSecam, Fizzarum, Notchnoi Prospekt, Vishudha Kali, Brain Fork, Hladna, Brompton's Cocktail, Porch Nap, S.P.U.L.
V/A -- "Culmination" -- 2 CD -- €13
2005 Laton, Laton 030
Park Modern, Benzo, Phagz, Radius, Zavoloka, Thilges 3, F.R.U.I.T.S., Recorderman, ADD, Pomassl, Brain Fork, The Closing, Infra Red Army, Mombus, Alois Huber, Ki wa, Andres Loo, Philipp Quehenberger, Tania Stene & Alexei Borisov, Auxpan, Auralbino, Fractal Heads. "Culmination" is the anniversary compilation of austrian-russian label Laton, released to celebrate 15 years of its existence. So the participants are mainly russian and austrian musicians, but you can also meet here some single french, estonian, ukranian and icelandic projects. The stylistic scope is much more wider, there are several efforts from the wold of contemporary electronica - like post-IDM, electro-ambient, glitchy soundscapes and rhythmic tracks, but also some abstract and really hard to classify experimental pieces. Besides Laton residents (F.R.U.I.T.S., Benzo, Alois Huber, Radius, Zavoloka), there are many new names with quite interesting works. For me, certain highlights are Park Modern from Vladivostok with the symphony created from train noises and clatter, ADD from Petrozavodsk using a lot of looped sounds in a melodic way, and also Fractal Heads from Kemerovo with their long last but not least piece assembled from interference between layered rhythmic structures and narrating radiovoice in the background. [Dmitry Vasilyev, Independent Electronic Music]
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V/A -- "Death Odors III" -- CD -- €13
2006 Slaughter Productions, SPCD57, (ltd. 500)
Conclusive part of the Death Odors trilogy compiled by Marco Corbelli (Atrax Morgue). Featuring: Kraken, Negru Voda, Bad Sector, Stratvm Terror, Schloss Tegal, Crepuscule, ...Today, I'm Dead, Folkstorm, Desiderii Marginis, IRM, Latex Baby, P.O.S.K.
V/A -- "Deep Sea Shipping" -- CD -- €7
2006 Lagunamuch Community, LMC800
Deep Sea Shipping is the first compilation on Lagunamuch, an electronic label in Moscow. This compilation has united many russian-speaking artists living in Russia and abroad. Deep Sea Shipping is a term borrowed from the maritime logistics and navigation. It perfectly reflects the whole internal component of music on this compilation. The concept of Deep Sea Shipping is rooted way back in the mythical worlds of H.P.Lovecraft, as well as in the realm of sci-fi stories. Moreover, the word 'deep' is of key importance here, because initially all the tracks on Deep Sea Shipping were stylistically aligned with each other and interconnected by such concepts as deep-tech, deep-ambient and deep electronic. Depth and diving is part of each composition, no matter how the genres may vary. Musicians: Selffish, Lazyfish, Abstract Avenue, Unit21, Oloolo, Sever, Riverz End, Holden, Unbound Persistence, Batiskaf, Total Reboot, Kriipis Tulo, Father?, 0id. [press-release]
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V/A -- "Delirious Music For Delirious People" -- CD -- €10
2011 No Part Of It
The Delirious Insomniac Freeform Radio Show has haunted the airwaves of WLUW into the wee hours of dreary Monday Nights since 2008. Host Arvo Fingers uses his lengthy experience as a sleepless madman to wield surrealistic songs and sounds into a slithering swath for 4 hours a week. Presently, "Delirious Insomniac" is also syndicated on RadioKL.Hr in Croatia, with occasional interviews, virtual guest installations, ghost hosts, and radio art. On September 9th, 2011, Arvo Fingers and WLUW will be celebrating the 4th Anniversary of the Delirious Insomniac Freeform Radio Show as well as the release of the first volume of "Delirious Music For Delirious People", a compilation featuring: Hans Gruesel's Krankenkabinet, Big City Orchestra, Gary Wilson, The Centimeters, i.m.m.u.r.e., Verdant, Pharmakon, Controlled Bleeding, Jarboe, Zola Jesus, Mac Blackout, Art Phag, Haunted George, Rancid Hell Spawn, The Dreams, Wold, Vapid Apparition, Murderous Vision, BeNe GeSSeRiT, Boyd Rice & Little Fyodor, Diatric Puds & The Blobbettes, Istvan & His Imaginary Band, Irene Moon. Digipak. [label info]
V/A -- "Echoes Of Polyhymnia - A Hypnos Compilation" -- CD -- €11
2008 Hypnos, hyp2855
Margaret Noble, Stellaria Fennica, Kristin Miltner, Clarissa Borba, Sara Ayers, Rose Bolton, Gydja, The Floating World, K. Cornelius, Lena Griffin.
V/A -- "Ekhnaton" -- CD -- €10
1984/2010 Silentes Minimal Editions, sme 1036
This compilation, originally released in 1984 as a vinyl LP by Multiple Configuration in collaboration with the legendary ADN label, is finally available again in a completely remastered CD version. "Ekhnaton" collects tracks recorded by the most daring and remarkable bands that were active in the experimental Italian scene during those years. "Simple Italian Research Vol. 1" was (and still is) the subtitle of an album that includes two tracks from each of the following bands: MAZE 1066, TASADAY (whose "Implosione tra le pieghe dell'anima" has recently been reissued by Silentes), EVITAXAL - an alias for Roberto Marinelli, also active as Laxative Souls - and the more well-known and active TAC (TOMOGRAFIA ASSIALE COMPUTERIZZATA). Through a valuable and accurate restoration, we're glad to make available again an unmissable view on the first intuitions and the experimental methodologies that shaped their times, leaving a permanent mark - in Italy and abroad - on the following generations. [press-release]
V/A -- "Eleven Notes In Black" -- CD -- €10
2009 Mask Of The Slave, MS-019, (ltd. 500)
The first noise compilation focusing exclusively to the legendary Houston noise scene! All tracks compiled by Richard Ramirez, all tracks were done exclusively for this release. The 11 artist: Melanie Riehle, S.P.I.T., Loudspeaker, T.E.F., Last Rape, Concrete Violin, Forced Orgasm, Werewolf Jerusalem, Baptist Skin Communiti, In the land of Archers & White Nurse Black Death. [label info]
V/A -- "Enemies" -- CD -- €12
2009 Der Angriff, Angriff Nr. 36, (ltd. 500)
A collection of wartime lyrical tunes performed by the artists from countries which have struggled on the opposite sides of the World War II frontlines. The participants are Duncan Patterson & Darren White (ex-Anathema) [UK], Traumer Leben, Von Thronstahl [both Germany], Lonsai Maikov, Dissonant Elephant [both France], Moon Far Away, Titlo [both Russia], Changes [USA], Rose Rovine E Amanti [Italy], Gothika [Japan]. All tracks are exclusive except the one from Von Thronstahl. Compiled by Count Ash (Moon Far Away). The release comes in a special b/w envelope similar to the soldiers letters which includes CD housed in its cardboard printed jacket and three photo inlays, limited edition of 500 copies. A very unusual and passionate release, not to be missed! [press-release]
V/A -- "Energia" -- CD -- €10
2007 OMS Records, OMSCD03, (ltd. 460)
UKRAINIAN DARK SYNDICATE proudly present an ENERGIA tribute compilation dedicated to a centenary of the founder of world's practical astronautics - S.P. Korolyov (1907-1966). Former USSR chief engineer and designer, he has gone down to spacecraft history as an ingenious inventor of world's first satellites, rockets, and human spaceflights, Y. Gagarin's including. Herein we render homage to a genius who brought human phantasies to outer space reality. An exclusive compilation which ranges from multi-faceted deep dark ambient to electroacoustics-related is featured by ATOMINE ELEKTRINE, AUTOPSIA, CISFINITUM, DEUTSCH NEPAL, FILIVS MACROCOSMI, FIRST HUMAN FERRO, ISOMER, KRYPTOGEN RUNDFUNK, NOCTURNAL EMISSIONS, POLYGON, SATORI, THOLEN, VESTIGIAL and VISIONS; compiled and executed by Olegh Kolyada (FHF / Oda Relicta). Coming as a glossy six-panel digipack CD with 12-page booklet. This special recording is a must-have piece of art to all space-addicted people of good will. [press-release]
V/A -- "Experimental Sound Gallery (ESG-21) Presents, Vol. 2" -- CD -- €8
2004 Strange Sounds Records, SSR-04012-PR
Second part of the series with live recordings presented by St. Petersburg-based Experimental Sound Gallery (ESG-21), showcasing the diversity of Russian underground experimental music in all genres. This compilation contains tracks from: Les Palmas, Nickolai Rubanov + Vladislav Bistrov + Nick Soudnick, Svaha, Vjacheslav Gaivoronsky + Andrey Kondakov + Vladimir Volkov, Eveline Petrova, Nick Soudnick, Das Sand Project, Alexander Ragazanov + Dmitriy Kahovsky, Rituanlaya Bioingeneria, Ekaterina Fedorova + Bredford Reed, Rushobo, Messershtern, Klever, Hladna, Richard Deutch + Georgy Bagdasarov + Markus Goodvin, Iva Nova.
V/A -- "Experimental Sound Gallery (ESG-21) Presents, Vol. 3" -- 2 CD -- €9
2009 Pushkinskaya-10
Third part of the series with live recordings presented by St. Petersburg-based Experimental Sound Gallery (ESG-21), showcasing the diversity of Russian underground experimental music in all genres. This compilation contains tracks from: Vjacheslav Gaivoronsky + Dmitriy Petrov, Alexey Shmurak, Totalitarian Musical Sect, The Noise of Time, Pustotsvet, Vedan Kolod, Russian Saxophone Mafia, Shakin Manas, Igry I Sny, Vespero, Wozzeck, Logic Of Chaos, Dots and Lines, Benzolnye Mertvecy, Sasha Pushkin, Alexei Borisov + Ignaz Schick + Maxim Pozin + Ilya Belorukov, Doroga V Arktiku, Maria Grigoryeva & Mini-orchestra, Vera Sazhina, Br[om], Cyclofillydea, Melonoise, Japanese Saxophone Quintet, Kira Lao, Elena Antonenko, Silence Corporation, Nado Podumat', Atlantida, Vlechenie Zvuka Iz, Magic Letters, Eject, Les Phares.
V/A -- "Fabriksampler V2" -- CD -- €10
2008 PharmaFabrik, PFCD19
The compilation album which features exclusive tracks from Henrik Nordvargr Bjorkk (Sweden), Lull (UK), Wo0 (Serbia), Go Tsushima (Japan), Left Eye Dominant (Italy), Alexei Borisov (Russia), Tania Stene (Norway), PureH (Slovenia), Sunao Inami (Japan), Dodecahedragraph (Slovenia), The Cherry Blues Project (Argentina) and Final (UK). Full album of ambient, drones, noise... [label info]
V/A -- "Finnexport 2003" -- 2 CD-R -- €9
2004 Spirals Of Involution, SOI 041
On June 21, 2003 in Yaroslavl's Museum of Fine Arts was held an action "Finnexport 2003" during which Russian audience had an opportunity to see some examples of Finnish experimental arts. This compilation is a fixation of musical part of this action. Two disks contain live recordings of the performances of A. Nikkilä & A. Borisov, Pink Twins and Pan Sonic.
V/A -- "The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse" -- CD -- €14
2005 War Office Propaganda, WOP16
Melek-Tha, Insuffer, Paranoia Inducta, Leiche Rustical - each act presents the vision of following apocalyptic disasters.
V/A -- "From Earth To Sirius" -- 2 CD -- €15
2011 Zoharum, ZOHAR 020-2
'From Earth to Sirius' is a form of message sent from the Earth to the brightest star. It is composed of 20 exclusive tracks prepared especially for this compilation: S.E.T.I., DIFFERENT STATE, APOCALYPTIC VISIONS, EXPO '70, NORDVARGR, RAPOON, PHELIOS, ZENIAL, ELECTRIC URANUS, ATOMINE ELEKTRINE, X-NAVI:ET, KIA KARMA, HYBRYDS, OUROBOROS, AH CAMA-SOTZ, EMME YA, CHRISTBLOOD, UNKNOWN CALLER, KALLEE, THERION TRISMEGISTOS... Each of the participating projects presents a slightly different character and style, and, at the same time, shows a different aspect of the cosmic theme, its strong relation to the Earth cycle and human life... Sirius - the canine planete - the brightest star of the northern sky, placed in the Canis Major constellation. Known since the ancient times, it has left an imprint on forming outlooks, beliefs, religious centres in many cultures. Even the ancient Egyptians worshipped Sirius as a deity, built their calendar on Sirius' cycle closely connected to the Nile tides before the summer solstice. Moreover, they were building their temples so that the light from the star was visible from the altar. In the 20th century the interest in the magical aspect of Sirius did not die out. Thanks to the Discordian groups with R.A. Wilson and T. Leary at the head it is still being revived... The 'From Earth to Sirius' compilation, dedicated to R.A. Wilson - one of the greatest philosophers of the turn of the centuries - a wise, insightful, witty, optimistic man, is a trial at reinterpreting the myth known to the man for the thousands of years... The music on the album oscillates between psychedelic drone, dark ambient, tribal and downtempo. Some of the projects approaches the theme in the vein of ritualistic music, the others realises their ideas through the sounds of universe and deep dark infinite space. There are humorous overtones as well, so characteristic for R.A. Wilson. The huge array of styles and themes depicts how wide and multilayered concept is the cosmos, its meaning and influence on the human lives. [press-release]
V/A -- "Generals Tachibana Kamitori Festival" -- 2 CD-R -- €10
2009 Tachibana Records 001, (ltd. 149)
Noise / Heavy Electronics / Ritual / Black Industrial / Necro Ambient / Experimental / Neofolk / Martial. Double disc compilation gathering the elite of Russian noise and ritual music. A unique sound document. A catechism for dedicated. An act of ritual cannibalism. Meat notches on the Way of Warrior. Each image actualize the initial coordinates where the Fiery South, Holy East and Steadfast West meet at the point of the Inner North. Noise assaults, hidden voices, victory marches, mantras of junction. Sickly landscapes of emptiness. Exposions of stars spreading silver seed. Archaic pulsations under the layer of secular snow. Immersion in space wells. War as the principle of existence. Eternal sacrifice as debt to the Absolute. On different side of human futility. Beyound the bounds of illusive constructions of reality. Listen in solitude at the gates of dawn!!! DISK I: Dima Beslan (ex-MP44), DASEIN, Merry Salaspils, PARCHIM, Pententacles, Necrasota, Awohaar, Organoid, Self-Sacrifice EIHWAZ (ex-BUNKER), HIERS XXVI, Ierophania feat. DASEIN. DISK II: PURBA, Sub Figura, RYR, Ierophania, Morgentayna, Aelia Capitolina, Vitaly Lalia, KIRLIT, Chasm Haze, Phurpa, Horth. 2 CDr; 22 tracks; 4 panel flat cardboard digisleeve; full-colouyr print; 2 inserts; wrapped in the Manifest of "Tachibana-art", hand-written (risography) in Russian. [press-release]
V/A -- "Geologists And Professional Tourists" -- CD-R -- €5
2000 N&B Research Digest, NBRD 001
An early compilation of the Russian-Finnish label N&B Research Digest with tracks by Alexei Borisov, Anton Nikkilä, Technical Acoustics Lab, Benzo, Idioritmik, Martiensgohome.
V/A -- "Gothenburg 08" -- CD -- €10
2008 Fang Bomb, FB006
The by now legendary compilation LP 'Gothenburg 84' was released by Radium 226.05 (record label/gallery/publishing house/breeding ground) in 1984. The LP is an excellent document of an unusually creative period in the musical history of Gothenburg, featuring the upcoming talent of that time. It has an impressive roster of artists, such as CM von Hausswolff, Freddie Wadling, Zbigniew Karkowski and Jean-Louis Huhta. Now, in 2008, Gothenburg's electronic and experimental scene is again soaring with talent. It's a scene of pioneers creating exploratory, unique music - completely new, but still connected to the spirit from almost 25 years ago. It is another unique era, and it is time to document it. This is what 'Gothenburg 08' sets out to do. 'Gothenburg 08' includes never before heard tracks by The Skull Defekts, Porn Sword Tobacco, Anders Dahl, Jasper TX, Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words, Joel Brindefalk, Viktor Sjo"berg & Jonas Lindgren, Tsukimono and Sewer Election. [press-release]
V/A -- "Heilige Feuer" -- CD -- €14
2001 Der Angriff Nr. 3, (ltd. 1500)
The very last copies of the first volume of Heilige Feuer which has became a cult item immediately upon release. Two exclusive studio tracks from Sal Solaris, Deutsch Nepal, Der Blutharsch, Genocide Organ and Reutoff. CD comes as a digipak with A5 hard cover booklet printed on the deluxe paper.
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V/A -- "Heilige Feuer VI" -- 2 CD -- €19
2009 Der Angriff, Angriff Nr. 32, (ltd. 400)
The new release in the series is to commemorate the Heilige Feuer 6 festival which was held in December 2006 in Moscow. This is also a dedication to our good friend and true comrade Eduard Chernyshov whose enthusiasm, energy, activity and creativity once gave birth to Heilige Feuer festival and who has sadly passed away in late 2005. The double CD includes two exclusive tracks from the festival participants: A Challenge Of Honour, Anthesteria, Des Esseintes, I-C-K, Kryptogen Rundfunk, Leiche Rustikal, The Protagonist, and Radio Murmansk. The release comes as a deluxe double digisleeve printed with bronze on the luxury designer's paper, it is encased in a special box with the embossment of the festival logo. [press-release]
V/A -- "Heilige Feuer VI" -- 2 CD -- €24
2009 Der Angriff, Angriff Nr. 32, (ltd. 100)
The new release in the series is to commemorate the Heilige Feuer 6 festival which was held in December 2006 in Moscow. This is also a dedication to our good friend and true comrade Eduard Chernyshov whose enthusiasm, energy, activity and creativity once gave birth to Heilige Feuer festival and who has sadly passed away in late 2005. The double CD includes two exclusive tracks from the festival participants: A Challenge Of Honour, Anthesteria, Des Esseintes, I-C-K, Kryptogen Rundfunk, Leiche Rustikal, The Protagonist, and Radio Murmansk. The release comes as a deluxe double digisleeve printed with bronze on the luxury designer's paper, it is encased in a special box with the embossment of the festival logo. The limited collector's edition is made on a black paper and also includes 4 full-colour postcards with photos made on the concert. [press-release]
V/A -- "How to Stay Young & Healthy in a Modern World" -- 2 CD-R -- €8
2006 Abgurd, AB-28, (ltd. 200)
Compilation with contributions from: KRYPTOGEN RUNDFUNK, FUNKSTILLESENDER, INSTANT MOVIE COMBINATIONS, N-616, VELEHENTOR, KROMESHNA, EXIT IN GREY, BARDOSENETICCUBE, HALO MANASH, AEOGA, LOWLIFE, SUDANSTRAIN, DN23rd, REDHOUSE, BIOMASS, MONTAGE, INDRA, EKRAN, CONTROL, WORLD DOWNFALL, CISFINITUM, GELSOMINA. Drone Ambient, Ritual, Power Electronics, Harsh Noise - high-end! DVD-box with inserts. [label info]
V/A -- "Hypercommunity" -- CD -- €10
2010 Aliens Production, AP 23, (ltd. 300)
After releases Signs and Hyperreality, AP label has again gathered under his shield synthetic palette of electronic community and is representing in the modern concept of electronic underground. Atmospheric flows and the volumes of spherical particles which impacts in our atmosphere and the particles under the shield of older and new sounding projects that are tuned to similar and equally resonating frequency. Tune in to AP label channel and to Hypercommunity. Again exclusive turnout and colorful complex sounds and hybrid rhythms presented by: Apparent Symmetry, dISHARMONY, Anhedonia, Lpf12, Miiktek, Sec1nine13, Cybo, In A Mindset, Oxyd, Headdreamer, Structural Fault, Ish, Liob, Furthest From The Cold. [press-release]
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V/A -- "Idea of South-Indian Picture" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Observatoire, obs * 025, (ltd. 115)
This limited edition compilation presents experimental artists and musicians who by the force of imagination and artistic skills present the abstract idea of the "missing" civilization (throught the search of creative Agents in Dravidian India of the Old Shiva). As a result, this all may look quite equally interwoven - from rhythmic to looped, from samples to voices... from futuristic to archaic... Geography - Rostov-on-Don, St. Petersburg, Snegiri (Russia), Flensburg (Germany). [label info] Features tracks by: 4elovek40, Bardoseneticcube, Kirlit, Misery, Mortart, Papa Srapa, Kommisar Hjuler & Frau, Adriva.
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V/A -- "Immo Vero" -- 2 CD-R -- €9
2011 InterioRepertoR, ir09/ir10
A new compilation featuring dark ambient tracks from the new generation of underground artists from Russia and throughout the world: Xalm Retribution, Andres Westrvm & Alex Hedin, Electroshepherd, Ego Ex Nihil, Shebuzzz, Interior Disposition, Jism, Exploplasmatic Coagulation, Brut, Oleg Hurvatov, Fanum, Exit In Grey, Dark Legacy, Dispersive Light, Lanceolaria Im Licht Der Laterne, Gulp Of Noise, Sister Loolomie, Square Goose.
V/A -- "In Memory Of Miguel Serrano" -- CD-R -- €6
2009 Valgriind, VG 31
Compilation contains Fanum, B-machina, Orchid, Ryr, Akpan, Sieg, Dasein, Hrossharsgrani and other tracks. Dedication to the outstanding philosopher, the Holder of Blood & Soil Tradition, to The Last Epoch Witness. Eternal memory in scalding rays of Black Sun. Eternal flight of consciousness in the way of reaching Truth. Limited edition with professional layout. [label info] Artists: Fanum, B-Machina, Parchim, Ryr, Hrossharsgrani, Norma Reaktsii, Tchernoblyad, F.k.fx, Akpan, Dasein, Yav', Orchid, Sieg, Lyuten, Lebensessenz, Zona Molchaniya.
V/A -- "Interactions" -- 2 CD-R -- €13
1999 Afe Records, afe005cd
An early Afe Records compilation. All the tracks on this release were recorded between 1995 and 1998. Most of them were originally released on the "Interactions" tape. This reissue comes with many extra tracks, featured artists are Elephant Zyclus, Kabal, Leeza, Lips Vago, Minimal Man, Horace Reid and Xymek. [label info]
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V/A -- "...It Just Is (In Memoriam: Jhonn Balance)" -- 2 CD -- €13
2005 Fulldozer Records / Nocharizma Records, fdcd20 / nhcd02
Double CD compilation dedicated in memory of Jhonn Balance. 30 projects from ex-USSR territories and other countries involved: The Threshold Houseboy's Choir (Peter Christopherson), Thighpaulsandra, Theodor Bastard, Kotra, Spies Boys, Alec Empire, 2/5 BZ, Chris Connelly, Biblioteka Prospero, Phillip Klinger (PBK), KK.Null, EU, Darling Kandie, Pomassl, Alexei Borisov, COH, Alva Noto, Schlammpeitzigner, Goodiny & PCP, Scanner, Brompton's Cocktail, Mystified, hhtp, Noises Of Russia & Olga Komok, Kryptogen Rundfunk, A. Vorodeyev, Serge Tereshkine, Volga, I.L.I., M.R.F./Elena Voynarovskaya.
V/A -- "Iznutri" -- CD -- €11
2007 Ewers Tonkunst, HHE 014 CD, (ltd. 400)
The history of humanity knows many examples of posession by apocalyptic moods, but not many will argue that they have never been so overall as nowadays. In expectation of the End of Times we cast aside hysteria and try to catch the particular consonance - solemn and spellbound aspiration of liberation. Compilation "Iznutri" (Russian word meaning "from the inside") is a premonition - suffocating desert of linear time of contemporaneity will blow up like a mouldering mushroom, baring the unheard-of contours of the eternal present. However only a special Witness will be alble to go through this menacing transformation, whose coming evey one of us should await from the inside. Cisfinitum, Allerseelen, Reutoff, Sedative, Kryptogen Rundfunk, Majdanek Waltz, Sal Solaris, Hypnoz, Troum, Cyclotimia, Otzepenevshiye, O Paradis, Rapoon, Neutral, Hum, Quattro Bravo Eballieros.
V/A -- "Iznutri" -- CD -- €13
2007 Ewers Tonkunst, HHE 014 CD, (ltd. 100)
Special edition contains an additional poster and 2 cards.
V/A -- "Juche" -- CD -- €15
2008 Kim Il Sung Rec.
In the breedin-oven for years this finally sees the light of the day! In a world full of lies only one country stands above the rest. North Korea. A nation built completely on self reliance. A country of innovation, A land of technology, wide highways and accomplishments that surpass any other nation in the world. 8 Industrial bands want to tell you how they feel about North Korea in this beautifully packaged compilation compleatly manufactured in North Korea featuring compositions and full artwork by: Anenzephalia, CON-DOM, Ex.Order, Genocide Organ, Militia, Operation Cleansweep, The Grey Wolves, and Turbund Sturmwerk. Limited to a mear 15 million copies grab a copy fast before they sell out. Most of the bands on this Compilation haven?t participated in compilations for years, so this in an extraordinary event having them altogether on one great CD, expect the best. Pact in gold imbossed oversized deluxe booklet! [label info]
V/A vs. Kirlian Camera -- "Kalte Container" -- CD -- €15
2001 Radio Luxor, RL 23401
An assortment of remixes and covers of Kirlian Camera songs. Cover versions from Shining Vril, Naevus, Collection D'Arnell-Andrea and remixes from Wumpscut, 6 COMM and Allerseelen and many more. This is the regular cd edition.
V/A -- "Khatyn: Tacet, Sed Loquitur" -- CD -- €10
2007 Stigmata
Belarussian magazine Stigmata presents the exclusive compilation KHATYN: Tacet, Sed Loquitur. 13 legendary projects from Europe, Baltia and Russia joined their forces to pay homage to the victims of those who died in the fire of Belorussian village Khatyn in WW2. The compilation presents such genres as dark ambient, folk, electro, industrial and gothic. Most of the tracks are exclusive, the CD is beautifully packed and includes 12-page booklet and 3 postcards. Featuring: PROPERGOL, PRAGNAVIT, CYCLOTIMIA, BAD SECTOR, MAJDANEK WALTZ, ATARAXIA, MOON FAR AWAY, OSIMIRA, DONIS, CAWATANA, VISHUDHA KALI, FIRST LAW, NECRO STELLAR. [label info]
V/A -- "Kosmoloko" -- CD -- €15
2003 Galakthorrö 016
According to plan, the third part of the 10 years of Galakthorrö jubilee edition. This is a compilation comprised of two new and exclusive titles each from Haus Arafna, Karl Runau, Maska Genetik, November Növelet und Subliminal, together on one disc. The artists have lovingly presented their diverse and individual styles. A birthday present for Mother Galakthorrö. [label info]
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V/A -- "Like Music To Their Ears Vol. 2" -- CD -- €10
2004 Mechanoise Labs, [mn022], (ltd. 300)
Strong power electronics / noise compilation, assembled from the tracks of musicians from the whole world. The participants are: Nagasaki Fondue, The Mark Dutroux Slideshow, Control, bETON bARRAGE, DVT, Cutman, Government Alpha, Mourmansk 150, Foutredieu!!!, This Is Not Red Paint, Rupor Udara, Pine Tree State Mind Control, Sulphur, Kryptogen Rundfunk, Navicon Torture Technologies, Angel of Decay.
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V/A -- "Main Control Board" -- CD -- €10
2010 Lagunamuch Community, LMC1002
Alexander Matrosov, a part of Alexandroid, Gods Delusion, Flexkiks, Autopilots, Speyer projects came up with an idea to make such a compilation. He was going to make the second sound trip, a kind of sequel to the Deep Sea Shipping compilation. The sound was more of an industrial and radical type. This time the theme of the compilation is not a sea, but the black space with its microgravity, adventures and unpredictability. We decided to use new approaches, new technologies and invite musicians that we know. We were not rushing with this release, making the things more difficult for ourselves and testing the compilation by time. Once it is ready we are really happy with the final result... Main Control Board compilation is not mixed. All tracks are specially chosen to complete each other. Listening to the cd it feels like one album is playing. What is it, Main Control Board?.. We dig Main Control Board is a control board of our galactic, matrix or program, whatever you call the reality. You can draw parallels between what is happening on our planet and on the cd. There are no coincidences... It took us two years to finish this monolithic release. The result was worth the effort. Unfortunately during these two years many unexpected things have happened. One year ago, an excellent musician and creator of this project, Alexander Matrosov passed away. One year later we are dedicating this compilation to him. It is exactly the way he wanted to see and hear it. [press-release] Participants: Indu Mezu vs Flagra, Speyer, Riverz End, Abstract Avenue, Autopilots, Nightech, L.F., Abstract Avenue, Egofriend, Alexandroid.
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V/A -- "Message From A Subatomic World" -- CD -- €11
2008 Hypnos, hyp2854
Austere, Evan Bartholomew, Relapxych.0, Numina, Jason Sloan, Phaenon, Stephen Philips, True Colour Of Blood, Svartsinn, Oophoi.
V/A -- "Million Ways To Spend Your Time" -- CD -- €10
2006 Quasi Pop Records, QPOP CD040
CD compilation 'Million Ways To Spend Your Time' is dedicated to 5th birthday of Ukrainian label Quasi Pop. It represents new & rare works works by label mates and exclusive tracks from Quasi Pop's friends from different countries: Black To Comm, Continental Fruit, Peel Off The Bass, Monofilament, TV Pow, Lasse Marhaug, Andrey Kiritchenko, Origami Epileptika, 8Rolek, Jorgen Knudsen, O.Lamm, The Complainer, Andreas Brandal, Alexey Petrov, Batcheeba, CharSky, Biblioteka Prospero.
V/A -- "Mit Fester Hand - Allerseelenlieder" -- CD -- €14
2011 Ahnstern, Ahnstern 43
"Mit Fester Hand" is a dedication to the works of Gerhard Hallstatt. This anthology features Allerseelen songs, interpreted by friends of Gerhard: Ernte, Tyr-Kreis, Haberfeld, Die Weisse Rose, Fanes, Sagittarius, Scivias, Fäkm¨ndt, Hrefnesholt, O Paradis, Blood Axis & Sangre Cavallum, Sturmpercht, Larrnakh, Arnica, Klammheim, Der Arbeiter, Der Feuerkreiner, Cawatana, Svarrogh, Allerseelen.
V/A -- "Monopolrecords - The 5th Anniversary Compilation" -- CD -- €10
2005 Monopolrecords, 009, (ltd. 300)
Electro-industrial, experimental, E.B.M. compilation featuring mostly exclusive and previously unreleased track by: Bratri v Tracku, Disharmony, Depressive Disorder rmx by The Rorschach Garden, Mastermind, My Msphyxia, Interface Surgery, Oxyd, Last Influence Of Brain, Anhedonia, Gregory, Eclipsed, No Name Desire, Depressive Disorder, Frontier Guards, Broom Carwell. [label info]
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V/A -- "Motion + Time: Document One" -- CD -- €14
2005 D.O.R., ADOR 503
Apollon, Nomadstation, Apeiron.
V/A -- "Mouth Noise" -- 3"CD-R -- €5
2008 XV Parowek, XVP49, (ltd. 50)
Mouth noise compilation, created with use of lips, tongue, breath and vocals. Samples were taken from 4 Polish noiseheads (Rez Epo, Thaw, Sordid and XVP). The material was selected and structured by XVP. Looped animal-like noises, with no FX. 3" CDR in 7" transparent envelope and folded thick paper (B&W front, orange at the back). The CDR with a sticker painted with standard black ink. Limited to 50. [press-release].
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V/A -- "Mutations Of A Dream" -- CD -- €10
2001 self-released, MOAD-01, (ltd. 300)
Compilation released independently by ten Finnish noise / industrial / ambient artists: The 4th Floor, Vasemman Raajan Halvaus, Loyly, Maelstrom, Haava, DiversAeon, Nyrja, Konemessias, Hombre Muerto, Koje.
V/A -- "New [Input] Noise" -- CD -- €16
2006 Hellektroempire, HE:01, (ltd. 1000)
Lith, Bahntier, Ah Cama-Sotz, Caustic, Genetic Selection, Hypnoskull, Modulate, H.I.V.+ & Stendeck, Atrox, Proyecto Mirage, Substanz-T, Mono No Aware, Shizuka, Contagious Orgasm, Ultra Milkmaids.
V/A -- "New World Order" -- 2 CD -- €10
2007 Thonar Records, TR.01, (ltd. 999)
The Sounds Of Earth, False Mirror, Maya Nadir, Moon, Thomas Nola Et Son Orchestre, Tonal Y Nagual, A Challenge Of Honour, Nebelkorona, My Asphyxia, Galaxia Obscura, Phragments, The Alison Project, Institution D.O.L., Flutwacht, Noisewerrrrk, Izanami's Labour Pains, SKM-ETR, Invisible Front, Atrox, Kreuzer, Brachial Palsy, Atomtrakt, Sky Burial, Camisole, Erik Ursich.
V/A -- "Noise vs Glamour" -- CD-R -- €6
2006 Electroindustria / Vainohuuluus
"There is no doubt that music and noise aren't opposite concepts. Somebody could contradict us that music is a harmony of sounds and noise is absence of harmony, that is its extreme disharmony. However we insist, that sound harmony doesn't mean only tonal harmony like in traditional music, whose musicality is created by alteration of a pitch of a tone. Each audible sound whether it is noise of machines, whisper of leaves, human speech is in fact music. Music that consists in beauty and power of a sound, that is free and isn't attached to the tone, melody or rhythm." [1g0g] This compilation has been assembled by Finnish underground activists specially for "Noise vs Glamour / 06" festival, contains both released and unreleased, also live tracks from Finnish and Russian musicians: Älymystö, Noises of Russia, Hladna, Pain Nail, Bardoseneticcube, Haeretici 7o74, Siniaalto, Monopolka, Sadkarma, Project503, Radiokatve, Grunt, Flower.
V/A -- "Noise.il" -- CD -- €10
2006 Topheth Prophet, TP007
Israeli noise and power electronics! Mortalmanifest, Drone Lebanon, Gedem, Gaop vs Aboolele, Wreck&Drool, Aboolele vs Gaop, Barzel.
V/A -- "Not Found" -- CD-R -- €7
2006 UFA Muzak, UFA08, (ltd. 131)
Harsh Noise/Power Electronics. GANZER / DEAD ICE / SUDANSTRAIN / N.O.I.S.E. / BUNKER / TCHERNOBLYAD / INDRA / KNUT. White is Black. Peace is War. Freedom is Slavery. Knowledge is Weakness. 8 Russian projects of extreme electronics prove and show this 'feedback' of ideas. Wave of energy without any analogues will confirm the 'inversion' in the head and thus will empty it totally. Crime as marginal concept of existence will create another perverted view on the problem. After some time you'll understand that everything repeats, examples turn into mistakes, senses become substitutions, the devil will become the god. Overcoming of post-modernism as an act of art. Ear-tearing wave of sonic harsh terrorism of the 'white' half changes into calming and meditative madness of the 'black' half. The ending of the compilation has it's own sense - ATTENTION - turn off manually only. Special respect to the participants of the project - stay cruel and implacable. [press-release]
V/A -- "Oak Folk" -- CD -- €14
2010 Aorta, AORCD14
Agalloch, Allerseelen, Arnica, Changes, Dannagoischd, Frakmundt, Hrefnesholt, Klammheim, Splinterskin, Sturmpercht, Waldteufel, Werra.
V/A -- "The Old Europa Cafe" -- 7 CD -- €40
2008 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 100
This compilation was planed during 2007 for the 25th OEC anniversary. For celebrate the label and all the work done over all those years 101 artists / groups / projects which was / are / will be involved with OEC was invited to submit an unreleased or anyway re-worked / exclusive track devoted to the theme: Europa! Europe: from Portugal to Russia. Europe: his history. Europe: his culture. Europe: his cities. Europe: his beauty.: At last, a true Old Europe Cafe soundtrack.... [label info] Artists: A Challenge of Honour, Aesthetic Meat Front, Ain Soph - Tra le Rovine, Albireon, Alessandro Pacciani, All My Faith Lost..., Argine, Artefactum, Asianova, Astro, Autopsia & K.Rossmann, Bad Sector, Beyond Sensory Experience, Black Sun Productions, Bleiburg, Camerata Mediolanense, Circus Joy, Claustrum, Cristian Renou, Cropcircle, D.B.P.I.T., David E. Williams, Dawn & Dusk Entwined, Dead Man's Hill, Deutsch Nepal, Discordance, Division S, Dogs Hate Monet, Dream Weapon Ritual, Egida Aurea, Folkstorm, Foreign Trade, Foresta di Ferro, Furvus, Gerechtigkeits Liga, Grey Wolves, GX Jupitter-Larsen, H.E.R.R., Horologium, Hybryds, Jerome Deppe and Gentlemen Oscura, K. Meizter, Kallabris, Kenji Siratori, Knifeladder, Lark Blames, Lonsai Maikov & Dissonant Elephant, Lt. Caramel, Macelleria Mobile di Mezzanotte, Malato, Mauro Guazzotti, Moljebka Pulse, Musterion, MZ.412, Naevus, Nazi UFO Commander, Ninth Desert, Njurmannen, Nocturne, Nordvargr, Northgate, O Paradis, Organisation Toth, Pacific 231, Peter Andresson, Post Contemporary Corporation, Rapoon, Richard Ramirez, Roma Amor, Runes Order, S.Q.E., Sacher Pelz, Sala Delle Colonne, Second Amendment, Seelenblut, Seelenlicht, Selfishadows, Shining Vriel, Siegmar Fricke, Simulacrum, Sleeping Pictures, Slogun, Space Alliance, Spiritual Front, TAC, Tam Quam Tabula Rasa, Tears of Othila, Teatro Satanico, The Lindberg Baby, The Soil Bleed Black, Thomas Nola et Son Orchestre, Tribe of a Circle, Troum / Asianova / Voice of Eye, Ventral Metaphor, Vestigial, Voice of Eye, Vox Populi!, Wermut, Wertham, Weihan, XX Century Zorro.
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V/A -- "Oredezh" -- CD -- €10
2011 Fulldozer Records, FDCD 33, (ltd. 1000)
On the New 2012 Year's eve Fulldozer Records proudly presents our new full-length release. The music research topic is "Oredezh" - a beautiful river in the south-west of Leningradskaya Oblast' (rural area around Saint Petersburg), mentioned in the 1240 chronicles in connection with "the forced christening of Russia". Legends have it that when Russia was being christened, local inhabitants went to hide in forests, some to organize guerrilla groups, others simply to take refuge... Just for this release several well-known musicians and sound-artists came up with their interpretations of the raw pagan black metal track that gave the compilation it's name. The compilation is not a single or compilation of remixes, or "pagan" compilation. We wanted to create large musical canvas with varying sound in which interesting artists from all over the world would express their opinions and their points of view on this theme using the universal ways of musical language. Participants: BEHERIT (FIN), PBK (USA), FARMACIA (ARG), ADAM EBRINGER (AUS), EDWARD SOL (UKR), BARDOSENETICCUBE (RUS), RAJFAJH (RUS), BENZOLNYE MERTVECY (RUS), ALEXANDER BELKOV (RUS), KRYPTOGEN RUNDFUNK (RUS), COAXIL (RUS), PORCH NAP (RUS), SIVYJ YAR (RUS). [press-release]
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V/A -- "The Other World" -- 2 CD -- €16
1998 Hypnos, hyp1804
Vidna Obmana, Ruben Garcia & A Produce, Thomas Ronkin, Saul Stokes, A Produce, Jeff Greinke, Ron Boots, M. Griffin, David Tollefson, Egghatcher, Larry Kucharz, Meg Bowles, Exit, Alpha Wave Movement, Robert Scott Thompson, Viridian Sun, Jeff Pearce, Katsuya Hironaka, Richard Bone.
V/A -- "Perception Multiplied, Multiplicity Unified" -- CD -- €12
2001 Cold Meat Industry, CMI.90
This collection of songs covering all projects of Peter Andersson (aka Raison d'Etre) is the ultimate window into the wild and wondrous world of his music, and while it may not help us to fully understand what drives him, we can at least grasp his genius. Stratvm Terror, raison d'etre, Atomine Elektrine, Cataclyst, Panzar, Necrophorus, Bocksholm, Svasti-ayanam, Grismannen. [label info]
V/A -- "Pere Lachaise" -- CD -- €12
2006 Steinklang Industries, SKD 19 / Divine Comedy, DC045, (ltd. 500)
A great compilation of dark and neoclassical music, dedicated to Père-Lachaise cemetery, which is one of the most romantic and mysterious places in this holy world. It's also an unmissable reference in gloomy and cinematic "tragical" culture. Together, Steinklang & Divine Comedy Records are producing a tribute to this worldwide and legendary atmospheric icon. This musical journey is depicted by four top bands (with two tracks each) from the new emerging Dark-Ambiant and Neo-Symphonic scene: HOROLOGIUM; PROJECT WINTER and ARTEFACTUM from Poland completed by FOUNDATION HOPE from the Netherlands. The mood is dark, menacing and epic at time with Horologium being the most martial act. "Paradise One" symbolises a passage from life to death surrounded by fading memories from different areas and destinies. The CD is packed in a beautiful book with full pages sepia pictures by Fabrice Billard, known for his previous pictures and illustrations for DCR releases and bands such as Sonne Hagal. Art and history beyond the graves. Père-Lachaise is a feeric and beautiful place. A place you'll need a whole existence to know "tous les coins et recoins". [press-release]
V/A -- "Projekt Presents: A Dark Cabaret" -- CD -- €10
2005 Projekt, PROJEKT176
Compilation of artists inspired by 1920s/30s cabaret, but often with added darkness and sleaze courtesy of further influences from punk, rock and goth: The Dresden Dolls, Revue Noir, Jill Tracy, Katzenjammer Kabarett, Audra, Nicki Jaine, Pretty Balanced, black tape for a blue girl, The Brides, Rozz Williams, ThouShaltNot.
V/A -- "Radio Resistencia" -- CD -- €14
2009 Enfant Terrible, ET001, (ltd. 1000)
Swann Danger, Black Ice, Headcollision, Saralunden, Luisa LaChouf, Popsimonova, Flying Bodies, Florence Foster Fan Club, :Codes, Agent Side Grinder, Dolina, Kim Ki O, Model Z, Le Moine, Antlers Mulm, Distel, Wermut, Oplen.
V/A -- "Radiodrama - Collapse + Camera Sonora" -- CD + CDR -- €21
2008 Radical Matters, rmle#011, (ltd. 211)
"Collapse": Italian artist Pietro Riparbelli play souces materials from: BAD SECTOR, STRANGE ATTRACTOR, CLAUSTHOME, GALERIE SCHALLSCHUTZ, SIMM-EL, GRUPPO PSICOFONICO DI GROSSETO. A special concept album with incredible and original radio signals as source materials, recorded in different parts of the world by different projects and recomposed by Pitero Riparbelli. The album is focused on the esoteric side of electromagnetic activities (ITC, EVP, and trans-dimensional phenomenas) all around us. This edition also contains an enhaced CD-R "Camera Sonora" (audio + video and extras) + a xerographic book, based on the audio installation "Camera Sonora", realized by Pietro Riparbelli / K11 during Piombino Experimenta 3 - international sound art festival, with unedit pieces realized by: MASSIMO MAGRINI/BAD SECTOR, GIANLUCA BECUZZI, ALEKSANDER KOLKOWSKI, A.M.K., GLOBSTER, VITTORE BARONI/L.T. MURNAU, PROJECT D.A.R.K. Special handmade double-digipack. [label info]
V/A -- "Red Square" -- CD -- €10
2005 KultFront, KF-III, (ltd. 500)
Feat. comFORdebt, Nazi Bastards From Aldebaran, Rupor Udara, Majdanek Waltz, MP 44, Kryptogen Rundfunk, Cloning Experiment Failure, Comforter, Linija Mass, Fedor Svolotch, Chelovek, Mashina I Trans V Urbastrukture, DMT, Shumy Rossii (Noises of Russia), Disciplina Arcani, Cisfinitum, Knut. "The third release of musical label KultFront is a compilation entitled "Red Square". 16 Russian industrial projects, more or less known, prepared exclusive tracks for this compilation. There was a simple task given to the musicians - to try to express their attitude to revolution in general and to National-Bolshevism in particular. Maliciously, archly, pathetically, cosmically, intelligently - it's all went different. That's why the compilation contains very stylistically diverse, but qualitatively rich and rather difficult for one-time listening industrial mass. Fragile cardboard sleeve symbolizes the frailty of existence while the CD itself is done in the form of steel armoured train wheel. Just as revolution absorbs absolutely everything, the music and design of this release include completely incompatible, sometimes diametrically opposed things. Intro and Outro contain the recordings made during revolutionary mass-meeting in St. Petersburg at November 7, 2004. Conceptually, this CD has all the chances to go down in history of Russian industrial." [press-release]
V/A -- "Roulette Russe pour un Peu de Caviar" -- CD -- €10
2007 Monochrome Vision, (mv12)
A compilation of Russian experimental music gathered by Moscow-based label Monochrome Vision in cooperation with French Studio Forum headed by Philippe Blanchard (Lt. Caramel) for presentation at "Bruit de la neige" festival. Featuring: Kolpakopf, Bardoseneticcube, Exit In Grey, Cisfinitum, Instant Movie Combinations, Hum, CD-R, Interior Disposition, Alexey Borisov, Kryptogen Rundfunk, Moscow Laptop Orchestra, Noises Of Russia.
V/A -- "Rush for Black Celebration: Russian Industrial Depeche Mode Tribute" -- CD -- €10
2008 KultFront, KF-IX, (ltd. 500)
Russian Industrial Depeche Mode Tribute is the result of 3 years of work made by Russian industrial musicians who wanted to express their attitude to the famous band in an unusual way. As a rule, DM tributes (and there are over 30 of them as of today) present collections of carefully replayed DM songs, and this is done mostly for promoting those who decided to "replay the original" and make it "the same way as before". Rush for Black Celebration is completely different in this sense. First of all, in it's mood. This disc almost completely lacks the serene naivety of the 80-ies, often associated with DM. On the contrary, here one can feel aspiration for the dark corners of the subconsciousness, where one can accidentally (or intentionally) get while moving through the CD tracks. Secondly, this tribute is the only dedication to the legendary pop-band where the covers are not only driven by the feeling of recognition or love, but also by the critical revising their insane popularity, and even by the feeling of hatred to what they were doing. The result is 17 compositions almost fitting the 80-min limit of the CD. [press-release] Featuring: Das Reut, Light Collapse, ōbilisi-89, Interior Disposition, Sal Solaris, Alexei Borisov, ķ-28, Stpocold, Ganzer, Hladna, Instant Movie Combinations, Maroon, Kryptogen Rundfunk, Tsaraas, Noises of Russia, Kaj?
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V/A -- "Sacral Symphony" -- CD -- €14
2008 EE Tapes, EE14, (ltd. 300)
Caution: this limited compact disc contains highly meditative drones only, compiled and mastered by our comrade Eugeny Voronovski from Moscow! Five well-known contemporary artists/projects out of the dark drone forests created each around 15 minutes of their best output for this exclusive production on EE Tapes: 1000Schoen (Germany), Troum (Germany), Cisfinitum (Russia), Rapoon (Great Britain), First Human Ferro (Ukraine). No doubt this is a classic compilation in the true Russian spirit! Outstanding cover artwork too by Eugeny Kuprienko. Silver print on anthracite 7" cardboard cover. [label info]
V/A -- "Saturacion De Mecanismos: Una Compilacion De Industrial Noise Espanol" -- 2 CD-R -- €9
2011 Buh Records, BR38
Compilation that brings together the amazing new generation of industrial noise artists from Spain and already established artists who started their career in the 80s. Released as double CDR, this album expected to provide an introduction to the fascinating and vast world of experimental music in Spain and already hopes to become a reference disk. Participants: Reserva Espiritual De Occidente, Matatus, Shalocins, Grassa Dato, Ponzona, Francisco Lopez, Jazznoize, La Mujer Blandenga, Fasenuova, Funeral Souvenir, Arnau Sala, Carlos Villena, Scumearth, Xedh, Macromassa, Gyakusatsu, CoĮgul, VRILnoise, Hinyouki, Vacio Perfecto, Atomizador, Elias Merino, Rafael Flores, Mixturizer, Iker Ormazabal, C-utter, One Thousand Pilots. [label info]
V/A -- "Signs" -- CD -- €10
2005 Aliens Production, AP 10, (ltd. 550)
After a many cooperations and single releases has been again released interesting work from the workshop of aliens production, that presents new face of electro culture and with its content brings exclusive materials not only from slovak and czech underground electro scene. This cd is in fact a sort of review of industrial generation, that isn't a rookie on the scene. Besides one czech and more slovak projects this project has supported with its unchangeable sound french formation FLINT GLASS, german electro pioneer POLYGON, that exclusive materials you can only find at this release. I believe, that you'll let your inside open and make a space for your senses of hearing and so you can enjoy in this review of industrial blocks, ambiental atmospheres and magical electronics that will for sure widen your views and take you deep into the waters of electro underground. [press-release] Featuring: Anima Mundi, Samhain, Flint Glass, Disharmony, Vortex, Terminal State, mindMap, Gaping Chasm, Oxyd, Depressive Disorder, Tension, Polygon.
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V/A -- "Somehow They Knew..." -- CD -- €10
2006 Vrihaspati Recordings, VR007, (ltd. 500)
Vrihaspati Recordings is the label of Peter Savelkoul, the leader of the famous Martial-/ Neoclassical formation A CHALLENGE OF HONOUR. On his new labelcompilation, Peter compiled a wide variety of all projects, where he is involved in and which are (or will be) released on Vrihaspati Recordings. The song-styles vary from Neoclassical Soundtracks over Martial Hymns and from mesmerizing Folk pieces over trippy Ambient-Tunes, to violent Power-Electronic attacks. All tracks/versions/mixes on this compilation are unreleased and most of them are exclusive for this release! Contains tracks from: The Arkwoods, Laharis, Praetorio, Straight Mental Institute, Un Defi d'Honneur, Comtesse Du Nord, A Challenge Of Honour, Ex.Zero, Code 243. [Steinklang Records]
V/A -- "The Sound Ecology: Range" -- CD -- €13
2011 Nitkie, patch two, (ltd. 500)
With this first installment of compilation series devoted to the sound art, we propose the selection of works by talented musicians, whose way of sound matter representation is very interesting and absolutely different. Here, the sound ecology term seems to have nothing in common with any movements and organized societies, it's just a metaphor for the creation of something refreshing in our contaminated world where the music often is considered as the consumption product only. This is also the platform for discussions, since the range of opinions is also important for us. We hope that you will have the opportunity to discover the world of music just near your living place, like some of the artists did, and open your ears for the adventurous listening. We are looking forward to see the forthcoming contributions and ideas from likeminded people... Exclusive tracks by MATHIEU RUHLMANN, YANNICK DAUBY, MICHAEL NORTHAM, JOHN GRZINICH, FRANCISCO LOPEZ, JEPH JERMAN, RALF WEHOWSKY, MURMER, CHRISTOPHER MCFALL, ERIC LA CASA and CEDRIC PEYRONNET... Limited edition 500 copies in digisleeve, with 24-page colour booklet. [press-release]
V/A -- "Sounds Of A Universe Overheard" -- CD -- €11
2007 Hypnos, hyp2752
Jonathan Block, M. Peck, Freq. Magnet, Kirk Watson, dreamSTATE, Seren Ffordd, Dwight Ashley, Justin Vanderberg, Igneous Flame, Tau Ceti.
V/A -- "Steinklang Industries: Your Private Noisetransmitter" -- CD -- €10
2003 Steinklang Industries, EN8-CD, (ltd. 150)
A unique selection of artists from the Austrian label Steinklang, compiled specially for Denzatsu magazine. This edition comes without magazine and is limited to 150 copies. Features tracks from Legion Condor, DKF, Allerseelen, Sektion B, Fall Weiss, Krieger, Rasthof Dachau, A.R.S., Cold Flesh Colony, Stahlwerk 9, A Challenge Of Honour, Viron, Painslut, Atrox, Radio Murmansk.
V/A -- "Steinklang Industries II: 2005-2006" -- 2 CD -- €6
2006 Steinklang Industries
Second part of label's sampler-compliation. First CD contains industrial / power-noise / cold electronics: DRAPE EXCREMENT / SOLDNERGEIST, SURVIVAL UNIT, RASTHOF DACHAU, STAHLWERK 9, GREEN ARMY FRACTION, PAINSLUT, FLEISCH-MACHT-BOESE, SEKTION B, THE FINAL RESISTANCE, ANTRACOT, ATROX, INDUSTRIEPALAST, LEICHE RUSTIKAL, NOCTURNE, RADIO MURMANSK. Second CD contains folk / martial / neoclassic / ritual / ambient: ALLERSEELEN, SOULSEARCH, WERKRAUM, SANGRE CAVALLUM, CONCRESCENCE, THELEMA, STURMPERCHT, TARDIVE DYSKINESIA, COLD FUSION, INSTITUTION D.O.L., BARDOSENETICCUBE, ASMOROD, LAMBITANI, A CHALLENGE OF HONOUR, LAHARIS.
V/A -- "Steinklang Industries III: 2006-2007" -- CD -- €6
2007 Steinklang Industries
This is part 3 of the label compilation series! 79 min. / 20 tracks, 10 tracks Industrial / Noise / Dark Ambient: Indigo Larvae / Stahlwerk 9 / Flutwacht / Grimbergen / Institution D.O.L. / S.T.U.G.218 / Antracot / Dissecting Table / Maurizio Bianchi + Land Use / A Challenge of Honour, 10 songs Folk and more: Un Defi d'Honneur / Allerseelen / Werkraum / Svarrogh / In Gowan Ring / Zlye Kukly / Sangre Cavallum / Phase II / Sturmpercht / Waldteufel.
V/A -- "Table For Six: All Quiet?" -- CD -- €10
2006 EE Tapes, EE09, (ltd. 300)
Tarkatak, Cisfinitum, Civyiu Kkliu, Kendo Nagasaki, The [Law-Rah] Collective, 33 MHz.
V/A -- "TanzFronT" -- CD -- €11
2008 Tesla, nT03
Tesla proudly presents its first international distorted beats compilation which was prepared in a collaboration with the Moscow promo-group TanzFronT ProjecT. This album is a collection of tracks by the artists who has performed on the events TanzFronT made in a recent one and a half years of their activities. Among their guests who has contributed the tracks to this CD they were well-known international rhythm'n'noise and industrial acts such as Asche, Detritus, Empusae, Hypnoskull, Imminent, Mimetic Fake, Morgenstern, Proyecto Mirage and Winterkaelte, as well as younger promising Russian and international projects such as Cervello Elettronico, Coreline, Error, Id Molotov, Novel 23, Spin Provider and Virgin Fix. All tracks are exclusive or previously unreleased in digital media. [press-release]
V/A -- "Tel Aviv Aftermath" -- CD -- €10
2002 Topheth Prophet, TP001
A compilation of Israeli experimental music. Grundik-Slava, New Jerusalem Defence Forces, Igor18, Chaos As Shelter, Screening, Forma, HU, VectorScope, Agnivolok, The Crossfishes.
V/A -- "Ten Years Of Madness" -- 2 CD -- €10
2000 Achtung Baby!, ABCD001 (2nd edition)
This compilation was the first true experiment in Holy Mother Russia and is dedicated to the 10 year anniversary of one of the first independent musical projects in the Russian media - Achtung Baby! as "ten years of idealism, addiction for strange, extreme cultures in sounds, prints and pictures" (Donna Klemm, Artware Audio, Germany). Released more than 2 years ago it had a collossal success from musical audience both in Russia and all the rest of the world. The list of musicians: Reutoff, Inade, Skrol, Cyclotimia, Marienburg Jugend, 4th Sign of the Apocalypse, First Law, Sanctum, Reptilicus, Turbund Sturmwerk, Dissecting Table, Sektion B, Anima in Fiamme, Der Blutharsch, Blood Axis, Ostara, Matt Howden, Novy Svet, Ataraxia, Shinjuku Thief, Hybryds, Troum, Les Joyaux de la Princesse, Ain Soph, Stahlwerk 9, Bad Sector.
V/A -- "Terra Incendium" -- CD -- €4
2006 no label
Special re-edition of V/A sampler "Terra Incendium" originally released on LOKI in 2003 for the LOKI Foundation festival under the Slogan TERRA INCENDIUM in Moscow, Russia, on November 9, 2006. Features album tracks from First Law, Turbund Sturmwerk, Predominance, Inade, Herbst9, Bad Sector, Land:Fire, Ex.Order, Virologic.
V/A -- "Thalamus II" -- CD -- €10
2005 KultFront, KF-II, (ltd. 500)
The compilation dedicated to the 2nd "Thalamus" festival passed in May 2005. Contains 2 tracks by each project performed there: Shumy Rossii (Noises of Russia), EKRAN, Majdanek Waltz, Cisfinitum, Lunar Abyss Deus Organum.
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V/A -- "Thalamus III" -- 2 CD-R -- €10
2009 kultFRONT, KF-XII, (ltd. 222)
KultFRONT has dipped its hands into the musical bins of the post-industrial past, and drew out of there the unreleased recordings or the projects participated in THALAMUS III fest. Four years have passed since that time. The creative direction of many musicians has changed beyond recognition, and that's why we feel enthusiastic to 'remember' and understand something which is already past and yet unknown... The 'deja vu release' THALAMUS III is a kind of mirror in which one can see himself through the prism of 10 compositions. This set for the soul is just as stylistically varied as any other compilation from KultFRONT. Presented music ranges from pacificating ambient to totally sizzling noise. The release is split in 2 parts, each represented by same set of musicians. After the first musical cascade you're suggested to have a sort of "sonic flashback". Like in any other situation, this comeback to the traversed orbit may be even more fascinating than the debut travel... Let's remind that THALAMUS III fest featured: Alexei Borisov, Bardoseneticcube, DMT, Neizvestnost', Ganzer, 1g0g & Anna Zhurko, Govorit Radio Kosmos. The compilation consists of compositions going in the same order as it happened on stage... To the material rarities lovers and those who attended the festival we recommend to buy the first 50 copies of this small edition. There you will find the original posters of the fest THALAMUS III. To keep the deja vu state these discs also contain important 'wastepaper' with post-festival feelings of it's creators. [press-release]
V/A -- "Thalamus III" -- 2 CD-R -- €11
2009 ĖÕĢŲŌęņļīō, KF-XII, (ltd. 222)
First 50 copies come with the original A3 poster of the fest.
V/A -- "This Infernal Love Of Life" -- CD -- €10
2008 Monochrome Vision, mv23, (ltd. 500)
(mv23) Various Artists "This Infernal Love Of Life" CD A visionary showcase of Sweden's finest artists, paying tribute to the mighty currents of LIFE within us all. This album was originally released as an LP by TOPYSCAN in Stockholm in 1989, in a limited, hand-numbered edition. Included was a booklet with texts, artwork and photographs by the artists... Participants: ELD - OMALA, WHITE STAINS, PHAUSS and ZBIGNIEW KARKOWSKI... OMALA (M. Tegner and A. Karperyd) was one of the early Swedish ambient/industrial acts and produced two albums - "Germ" (1988) and "Relicon" (1991) before disappearing. Later they resurfaced in He Said Omala project where they were working with John Fryer (This Mortal Coil) and Graham Lewis (latter is known for work in Dome and Wire)... WHITE STAINS became renowned due to their correlation with TOPY and concerts with Psychic TV in the end of 80s. On their collaborative album "At Stockholm", Genesis P-Orridge reads his texts with the White Stains music on the background. Speaking about other albums, there is a wide range of various styles and approaches, but the common sense is about deep, concentrating melancholy and surely more serious than we can see in many PTV albums. Four albums were released by Staalplaat, Anckarstrom and Danse Macabre back in the 90s, showing the way towards the dark realm of eschatological chaos... PHAUSS is the most interesting brainchild of Swedish soundartist CM von Hausswolff, existed during the years 1983 - 1996, toured extensively all over the world, and released some remarkable albums, of which the most recommended are "Audiodrome" (1987, Radium 226.05), "Nya Sverige - Nothing But The Truth" (1991, Anckarstrom) and "GodTPhauss" (1993, Silent Records)... ZBIGNIEW KARKOWSKI is the most famous polish noise musician, he studied composition at the State College of Music in Gothenburg, Sweden, aesthetics of modern music at the University of Gothenburg's Department of Musicology, and computer music at the Chalmers University of Technology. After completing his studies in Sweden, he studied sonology for a year at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Den Haag, Netherlands. During his education, he also attended many summer composition master courses arranged by Centre Acanthes in Avignon and Aix-en-Provence, France, studying with Iannis Xenakis, Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Boulez, and Georges Aperghis, among others. He works actively as a composer of both acoustic and electroacoustic music. He is a founding member of the electroacoustic music performance trio "Sensorband." [label info]
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V/A -- "Tonwellen Konferenz" -- CD -- €10
Atakama Records, AR 23, (ltd. 500)
The compilation to Stöfis (Atrox) birthday party this year, with an exclusive track from each band who plays on the concert in Erlangen. With: Phelios, Antracot, Screloma, Stahlwerk 9, P.A.L., Deutsch Nepal, Synapscape, Tardive Dyskinesia, ACOH, Heimstatt Yipotash, UMB-Kollektif, Atrox, Der Manrz, Control and Morgenstern.
V/A -- "Total Time" -- 2 CD -- €8
2003 NN Records, nn 055
Boxhead, Critikal, Porch Nap, ID Molotov, Spies Boys, Yestestvoispytatel, Dark, Vies / Kapus, Kotra, Zvuki Ot Nekoli, Neizvestnost, Theodor Bastard, Dog 5, 412, Fitz Ellarald, Andrey Kiritchenko, Idioritmik, BRZB (Alexei Borisov + Dmitry Zubov aka Hypnoz), Mr. Z, God Fans, Denshi, DJ Kolombo.
V/A -- "Trax Reprint 2 : Notterossa/Rednight" -- 2 CD + zine -- €12
1982/2008 SmallVoices, SVR07026
This is the first in a series of reprint programme of the most representative titles from the TRAX catalogue, one for each letter of the name: T for Traxman, the comics series created for Frigidaire magazine by Massimo Giacon and Vittore Baroni; R for Rednight, a collective homage to the work of William S. Burroughs; A for Anthems, alternative national hymns for real and imaginary countries; X for Xtra, audio works composed at distance through a process of crossed interferences. Each reprint, accompanied with old and new texts, contemplates a digital remastering of the original works with the addition of remixes, remakes or new compositions created in concordance with the peculiar and distinctive "modular" approach of TRAX. This is an extended reissue of the cassette from 1982 (Trax, Ltd x 500). CD1: "Notterossa" is the full length orginal tape edited by V. Baroni & D. Ciulini. CD2 "Rednight" is a new creation by Giancula Becuzzi, assembled in 2006 at KXLab. Comes in an A4 sleeve. [label info]
V/A -- "Tribute for Lyni" -- CD-R -- €3
2011 Smell The Stench
Morpeth, Ataraxy, 21 Gramms, TROJ, Animal Machine, Ecoute La Merde, Nezumi, Julia LaDense, Ego Death, Cat.n.bone.
V/A -- "Untitled. A Tribute to Zdzislaw Beksinski" -- CD -- €12
2007 Wrotycz Records, WRT 004, (ltd. 750)
Line-up: Asmorod (FR), Contemplatron (PL), Desiderii Marginis (S), Gustaf Hildebrand (S), His Divine Grace (D), Hybryds (BE), Inade (D), Job Karma (PL), Kratong (RU), Necrophorus (S), Svartsinn (N), Zenial (PL). Two years ago we were all shocked by the news about the death of Zdzislaw Beksinski, one of the greatest painters of the XX century, murdered in his flat in February 2005. It`s a great loss for all people who appreciated a great artistic value although he was considered as a creator of dark and gloomy paintings and it was not so easy to deal with his visions. 12 artists from 7 countries decided to pay a tribute to Mr. Beksinski and create a compilation which will help us firstly to remember about his outstanding paintings and secondly spread the knowledge about Mr. Beksinski among those who did not have a chance to appreciate his craft while he was alive. The compilation was released on Feb 21st which is the second anniversary of the tragic death of Mr. Beksinski. The Album contains special tracks, never released before and inspired by the works of Mr. Beksinski. As his paintings were never titled, all tracks are unnamed as well. It is not possible to transform the image into the music, but, we believe, it is possible to create the music illustrating the image, reflecting the mood of somebody`s visions... Try to guess Beksinski`s visions dreams and nightmares... [press-release]
V/A -- "V:28 - Total Reconstruction" -- CD -- €12
2008 Cold Meat Industry, CMI190
Cover-versions / remixes of V:28 tracks done by: Nordvargr, Beyond Sensory Experience, Megaptera, Manes, Des Esseintes, Lrz, Thrawn Hellspawn, Shinjuku Thief / EPA, Desiderii Marginis, Origami Galaktika.
V/A -- "VI Congresso Post Industriale" -- CD -- €16
2009 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 115, (ltd. 345)
Genocide Organ, Folkstorm, Wertham, Inade, Nordvargr.
V/A -- "Visions: A Tribute To Burzum" -- 2 CD -- €15
2002 Unholy Records
A double CD with Modern Classical, Black Metal, Experimental & Ambient cover-version and reworks of various tracks by BURZUM: Aborym, Aegishjalmar, Black Queen, Cryogenic, Earthcorpse, Ewigkeit, Fornost, Funeral Procession, Judas Iscariot, Krigstrommer, Krystal, Luror, Nokturnal Mortum, Orthaugr, Pagan Hellfire, Sarnath, Schizoid, Starchamber, The Syre, Tronus Abyss, Wolfsburg, Woods Of Fallen, Herrenvolk.
V/A -- "Viva Negativa - A Tribute To The New Blockaders, Volume 1: UK" -- CD -- €10
2010 At War With False Noise, ATWAR064, (ltd. 500)
Volume I in a series of UK / European / US and Japanese artists' tributes to the pioneering UK Noise group The New Blockaders including exclusive tracks by: Nocturnal Emissions, Smell & Quim, Dieter Muh, Putrefier, srmeixner, Cheapmachines, Evil Moisture, Ashtray Navigations, Jazzfinger, Mutant Ape, Anomali, Halalchemists (incl. members of Skullflower, Culver, Snotnosed, Romance & Marzuraan).
V/A -- "Viva Negativa! A Tribute To The New Blockaders Vol. II Europe" -- 2 CD -- €15
2010 Auf Abwegen, aatp28
Viva Negativa! in a series of UK / European / US and Japanese artists' tributes to the pioneering UK Noise group The New Blockaders. Vol. II Europe includes exclusive tracks by: Asmus Tietchens, Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock, Giancarlo Toniutti, Christian Renou, Jerome Noetinger, Alexei Borisov, Lasse Marhaug, Massimo, Cisfinitum, Sudden Infant, Kommissar Hjuler, Freiband, Achim Wollscheid, Mama Baer, Das Synthetische Mischgewebe, Dave Philips, Vortex Campaign, Vom Grill, Zbigniew Karkowski, Grunt, Pita, Treriksroset, Benzo, Eshak, RLW... The New Blockaders are a group who, more than any other, define the essence of true Noise music both in art and in act. Their influence on the current crop of popular crossover Noise artists such as Prurient and Wolf Eyes is immeasurable. Emerging at the beginning of the 1980s alongside the Industrial grind of Throbbing Gristle and the harsh, abrasive Power Electronics of Whitehouse, TNB stood out through a purity of vision. Their first record, 1982's Changez Les Blockeurs, is noise in its most rudimentary form: metallic grating sounds and analogue feedback redefined what could be classified as music. Its abstract form and Dadaist construction challenged all that had appeared before. It's anti-music approach presented a recording closer to the theory-driven work of Einsturzende Neubauten than their supposed contemporaries. They would appear rarely and when they did it would be in anonymity. The records would emerge even more infrequently with little information and in tiny runs. Collaborations in recent years with artists such as Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Merzbow have brough their anti-sound to a younger and diverse audience. The metal-bashing of K2, the awkwardness of Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock, the density of Macronympha and the abrasiveness of Merzbow all owe something to the anti-music of TNB. They can truly be credited as pioneers of Noise music as we know it today. [press-release]
V/A -- "Walking In The Rain On The Ostrow Tumski" -- CD -- €11
2006 Ars Benevola Mater, ABM 24, (ltd. 1035)
Leiche Rustikal, Oxyd, Allerseelen, Troum, Job Karma, Sol Invictus, Lagowski, Tabor Radosti, Herbst9, Hati vs. Z'EV.
V/A -- "We Bring You A King With A Head Of Gold" -- 2 CD -- €15
2010 Cold Spring, CSR100CD
The follow-up to our award winning Folk compilation "John Barleycorn Reborn" from 2007. 34 tracks and 146 minutes of music from the best of current British Folk artists. CD1: Barron Brady, Cernunnos Rising, Corncrow, Dragon Spirit, Drohne, Emil Brynge, Kate Harrison, Kim Thompsett, Laienda, Magicfolk, Mama, Philip Butler & Natasha Tranter, Sproatly Smith, The Rowan Amber Mill, Tinkerscuss, Tony Wakeford, Touch The Earth and Wyrdstone. CD2: Autumn Grieve, Beneath The Oak, Demdyke, Ian McKone, Jennifer Crook, John Parker, Rattlebag, Relig Oran, Richard Masters, Ruby Throat, Sedayne : Sundog, Telling The Bees, The Fates, The Hare And The Moon, The Kittiwakes and Venereum Arvum. [press-release]
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V/A -- "We Can Elude Control" -- CD -- €12
2009 WCEC 01
Karl O'Connor & Mick Harris, Radovan Scasascia, Roger Semsroth.
V/A -- "What Pleasing The Lord Looks Like-Marriage: Extreme, Noise...and Terror From Japan & Israel" -- CD -- €10
2008 Heart & Crossbone, HCB 020
Not a tribute album for the legendary U.K Grind-Crust band, nor a religious initiative, but a glimpse into the cathartic underground of the Japanese and Israeli noise and doom scenes... All tracks are previously unreleased & exclusive for this compiation. Blasting off with the traditionally-oriented and bizarre doom of Osaka's RYOKUCHI, this is an exquisite slow-paced 10 minutes guilt trip down memory lane. Next up are Jaffa's CADAVER EYES, taking this trip off track with their corrosive Sloth-Doom. ZENOCIDE drag you down the wilderness, while wiping the soil with their lo-fi sludge-core indignation, and then cums LIETTERSCHPICHDIET, with their demonic Doom-Dub and heliocentric swirl. MONEYI$GOD are up next, spreading their own cancer with a lethal dose of industrialized and Sludge-grudge, before POOCHLATZ poison the air with their battered Power Electronics and primitive industrial. Jerusalem's REMESH elaborate the damage with a hellish ceremony of their own, dripping gradually brutal drops of industrial-noise before Osaka's NERVELESS wraps it up with a squashing, heavy as fuck, guitar-drone that would linger on and on. The Lord never seemed so pleased. [press-release]
V/A -- "Wilde Jaeger" -- 2 CD -- €16
2007 Percht, Percht10
WILDE JAEGER is a unique compilation of Alpine Folk Music, Pagan Ritual Music and authentic field-recordings from the darkest woods and deepest valleys to the highest peaks of the sacred Central- European Alps, as well as of other pagan and alpine regions in Europe and the USA. Wilde Jaeger is accompanied by an astonishing 24-page booklet, housed in a highest-quality 6-sided digipack with cover- paintings by Markus Wolff (Waldteufel). Participants: Svarrogh, Werkraum, Sangre Cavallum, A Minority Of One, Allerseelen, Heiliges Licht, Waldteufel, Scivias, Hamramr, Haberfeld, Ernte, Teatro Satanico, Fanes, Sturmpercht, Magdalena, Elli Riehl, Jagerblut, Hekate, The Joy Of Nature, Soulsearch, Jahrtal, Foresta Di Ferro, SagenToeterRiharcSmilesTrollFerd (Riharc Smiles), Thelema. [label info]
V/A -- "With Eyes Wide Open For A Brighter Future" -- CD -- €10
2006 House Of The Last Light, HLL003
Various points of view and various interpertations on the 9/11 events. Artists: .cut & One Figure, 15 Degrees Below Zero, Kadaver, Circle Six, As All Die, Thee Virginal Brides & Cheerleader69, Clear Stream Temple, Brainquake, Michael Thomas Jackson, Sound 00, Ctephin. [label info]
V/A -- "With Friends Like These: 10 Years Of Pissing In The Wind" -- CD-R -- €6
2010 Gold Soundz, GS#99, (ltd. 99)
The 10 year anniversary of hiw label Gold Soundz, Sindre Bjerga decided to make a compilation of exclusive jubilee works from his closest friends. 99 tracks, approx. half-minute each. A lot of projects, the most known are: Jan-M. Iversen, Cock ESP, Bjerga / Iversen, Torstein Wjiik, Origami Boe, Jazkamer, Frans de Waard, Koff Koff, etc. [YAOP]
V/A -- "XXXII° Concorso Internationale Di Musica Elettroacustica E Rumore" -- 2 CD -- €15
2010 Monochrome Vision, mv33, (ltd. 500)
In March 2010, Le Bruit De La Neige Festival organized the annual Luigi Russolo - Rossana Maggia Competition at the Faverges Soierie. The aim was to promote the electroacoustic music of young composers (under 35 years old). 60 composers from 28 countries participated in this contest. We selected 15 pieces received the maximum votes... Bruitism is a movement of sound art that was born the 9th of March 1913 when the painter and composer Luigi Russolo published the manifesto "L'Arte dei Rumori" (The Art of Noises), inviting the people to appreciate the complex sounds from nature and the industrial environment. This was as an important paradigm shift in contemporary music as would come later with the musique concrete of Pierre Schaeffer or 4'33", the silent work by John Cage... The compilation includes the tracks by Yota Kobayashi, Elia Marios Joannou, Valerie Delaney, Sergy Khismatov, Sebastian Peter, Joan Bages Rubi, Erdem Helvacioglu, Stefan Fraunberger, Damien Depannemaeck, Jean Francois Primeau, Ka-Ho Cheung, Andrea Santini, Dohi Moon. [press-release]
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V/A -- "Zyklus 1" -- CD -- €10
2004 Steinklang Industries, SK7-10, (ltd. 1000)
This compilation contains a selection of tracks from 7" vinyls released under the numbers SK7-01 - SK7-09, mainly the A-side of each 7" feat. RASTHOF DACHAU + STAHLWERK 9 / A CHALLENGE OF HONOUR feat. KRIEGER / COLD FLESH COLONY / TOTENSONNTAG / TUGEND MENSCH / SOULCRIPPLE / GIFT / RADIO MURMANSK.
V/A -- "Zyklus 2" -- CD -- €10
2006 Steinklang Industries, SK7-20, (ltd. 1000)
This compilation contains a selection of tracks from 7" vinyls released under the numbers SK7-11 - SK7-19, mainly the A-side of each 7" feat. PAINSLUT / DRESDEN 45 DVT / THOROFON / NFF / OPERATION JULMOND / IRIKARAH / GENEVIEVE PASQUIER / STAHLWERK 9.
Vinyl
0-9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W V/A16 Bitch Pile-Up / Mike Shiflet -- "Make Like A Fetus And Abort / Extract, Behold" -- LP -- €15
2007 Ecstatic Peace!, E#105, (ltd. 500)
Ohio has been rampant on the Ecstatic Peace play lists lately with the release of a long player earlier this year by Leslie Keffer and a forthcoming split LP by Emeralds and Tusco Terror. Like Keffer, who's moved to Nashville (to be closer to Be Your Own Pet), 16 Bitch Pile-Up and Mike Shiflet are both ex-pats of Ohio. 16 Bitch to California and Shiflet to some weird small town in Japan... Mike Shiflet we've known for years as he has produced some of the more interesting tapes and whatnot of midwestern out-ness from his Gameboy label and from his legendary duo tour with Burning Star Core / C. Spencer Yeh of a few years back. Like the amazing beard he has sported since childhood his music is a free-fall of acoustic wonder... He is also the cat responsible for turning on most of the world to the radical charms of three girls from Ohio wickedly named 16 Bitch Pile-Up. With a name like that you may have expected something just kinda funny but what made itself imminently obvious was that 16 Bitch was really and extremely into producing a wholly personal thrombosis of noise improvisation. Crystallized to the trio of Sarah Bernat, Sarah Cathers and Shannon Walter this trio has become one of the most consistently exciting live experiences of the last five years. These recordings by both artists were done when both were still residents of Ohio and reflect that time and space right before each other's exodus. They are raw and righteous and ready for you to take a bite. [press-release]
A Challenge Of Honour -- "Angelic Torment" -- 10" -- €13
2002 Divine Comedy Records, DC 012, (ltd. 500)
A Challenge Of Honour -- "Monuments" -- LP -- €13
2004 Steinklang Industries, SK 30, (ltd. 500)
A Challenge Of Honour -- "Nacht Fiel uber Gotenhafen" -- 10" -- €13
2003 Divine Comedy Records, DC 017, (ltd. 500)
A Challenge Of Honour / Praetorio -- "Hadrian's Wall" -- 10" -- €13
2005 Vrihaspati Recordings, VR001, (ltd. 500)
Aardvarck -- "Gensin" -- 12" -- €12
2003 Delsin, 37 dsr/aar4
Abdullah / Nephusim -- "split" -- 7" -- €7
Obskure Sombre Records, Obsk-666-002, (ltd. 500)
Abdullah: Stoner Rock with obvious influences from Black Sabbath and Cathedral. Nephusim: Sludge compared to Stumm and Loinen. [YAOP]
Abraxas -- "Nature Coils" -- 12" -- €15
1995 Pylon Recordings, (ltd. 500)
Hypnotic aural dub noisescapes from Scotland. One sided record. [Old Europa Cafe]
(ad)VANCE(d) -- "Two Events" -- LP -- €25
2009 Waystyx, waystyx 41, (ltd. 200)
Ex-Vance Orchestra. Packend in a poster sleeve + postcard.
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Alec Empire -- "The Destroyer" -- 7" -- €14
1996 Digital Hardcore Recordings, DHR US 7.4 / Grand Royal, GR034
Alec Empire -- "Kiss Of Death" -- 7" -- €12
2005 Digital Hardcore Recordings, DHR44ER, (ltd. 1000)
Alfarmania -- "Bottenskrapet" -- picture 12" -- €22
2009 Autarkeia, avi 036, (ltd. 227)
Alio Die -- "Under An Holy Ritual" -- LP -- €20
2006 Small Voices, SVV004, (ltd. 600)
Alio Die's magnum opus on vinyl for the first time. Released on his own label Hic Sunt Leones (1992) and re-released by Projekt (1993), this is a milestone of ritual ambient music. Ghostly incantations from the void, subtly shifting frequencies and moods. Dream-inducing atmospheres and introspective drones. Stefano Musso has managed to resurrect unsettling sounds from a pre-Middle Ages epoch and merge them into a pastiche of gripping, evocative pastures for the discerning Ambient fan. Limited to 600 copies. [label info]
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Allerseelen -- "Archaische Arbeiten" -- 2 LP -- €20
2003 Ahnstern, Ahnstern 1, (ltd. 600)
Allerseelen -- "Cruor" -- 2 LP -- €20
2006 Ahnstern, Ahnstern 3, (ltd. 600)
Allerseelen -- "Flamme" -- 2 LP -- €20
2003 Ahnstern, Ahnstern10, (ltd. 600)
Allerseelen -- "Gotos=Kalanda" -- 2 LP -- €20
2005 Ahnstern, Ahnstern 4, (ltd. 600)
Allerseelen -- "Heimliche Welt" -- 2 LP -- €20
2004 Ahnstern, Ahnstern 2, (ltd. 600)
Allerseelen -- "Sturmlieder" -- 2 LP -- €20
2004 Ahnstern, Ahnstern 5, (ltd. 600)
The Altai Chamber Orchestra -- "T.A.C.O." -- pic LP -- €13
1995 Steinklang Industries, SK 05, (ltd. 500)
Russian ritual music from the mastermind of SYNTACTIC / KLANGGALERIE himself. Rough and hypnotic! For fans of early Laibach. [label info]
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Ambulance -- "Antiques Roadshow / Snakes" -- 7" -- €10
2002 Planet Mu, ZIQ054
AMK -- "Needle Hit The Groove" -- LP + flexi 7" -- €32
1998 Pinch A Loaf Productions, PAL-18, (ltd. 400)
Pressed on Marble Green Vinyl. All Tracks on Side A were composed using cut-up and montaged versions of the compilation flexi included. Side B is a cut-up flexi glued onto the actual record. Also Included is the original 7'' Flexi. File under : Industrial-noise. The flexy contains tracks by: AMK/ Crawl Unit / Gino Robair / Con-Dom / Small Cruel Party / Gen-Ken / Smell & Quim / Hands To / Zipper Spy / Spastic Colon / Haters / Fin. [Old Europa Cafe]
ANNB -- "Ret Marut Handshake" -- 12" -- €16
2010 Raster-Noton, R-N 120
Amon -- "Nona" -- 10" -- €10
2003 Weird Amplexus, WAX07V, (ltd. 300)
After a long release-pause here's a new 10" vinyl from one of the best dark ambient-acts. Nona is a fascinating soundjourney into pre-verbal spheres, mysterious and truly beautiful noises move in slow but dynamic waves through time and space. "Nona" takes inspiration from a case of xenoglossy (the ability to speak in an unlearned and unheard foreign language, often associated with past-life recall, states of trance or hypnosis and mediumship) discovered in Great Britain around the early Thirties when a woman in state of trance expressed herself in a language which was recognized as ancient egyptian. This voice from the past was called "Nona" or "The One Without a Name". [label info]
Amor Fati / Vandal X -- "Against 'Nature'" -- LP -- €19
FLESH Records, FLESH 125
And Then You Die -- "Bitch / Divine Star" -- 10" -- €12
Onyxya Records / Skithund Records, onyx-shr020
The And Then You Die 10" single containing two (2) remixes from the forthcoming Fallout album, Bitch & Divine Star. This is a must have for all vinyl dj's and record collectors. No fancy stuff here! Just bass pounding dungeon electronics, monotonous enough to kill you, on 10 inch purple vinyl. [label info]
Apzolut -- "Rub Disturbly On This" -- 7" -- €9
2006 LoMechanik, LOMEK 005
Arnica -- "Mascaradas" -- 7" -- €11
2011 Fronte Nordico, AR I, (ltd. 150)
Second in the 7" series on Fronte Nordico. Arnica is a folk project from Catalunya known for their brilliant album on Percht / Steinklang and some remarkable compilation appearances. Using handmade instruments they create an authentic sound atmosphere of ancient folk rites that still alive in different rural and mountain areas. Their versions of two such Spanish carnivals are presented here on this 7". Original samples of sound recordings made on these fiestas are mixed with Arnica's own vocal and instrumental parts, recreating the dark and mysterious feel of these gloomy winter masquerades. The effect of presence is completed with documentary pictures from these events. Regular edition: special die-cut rounded silkscreened fold-out package made of textured hard orange paper tightened by four metallic cringles and fastened with a magnet fixator, three round 7" full colour inserts with photos and lyrics. [press-release]
Arnica -- "Mascaradas" -- 7" + 3"CD-R -- €23
2011 Fronte Nordico, AR I, (ltd. 50)
Advanced edition: 3"CDR in a full colour folder with original authentic recording of 'La Vijanera', special die-cut rounded silkscreened fold-out package made of textured hard orange paper tightened by four metallic cringles and fastened with a magnet fixator, three round 7" full colour inserts with photos and lyrics, the whole set is tied up with rope and sealed with green wax by the genuine fronte nordico logo stamp. [press-release]
Arovane -- "Cycliph" -- 12" -- €12
2002 DIN, arovane 5
Art Abscons -- "Am Himmel Mit Feuer II" -- LP -- €17
2011 Fronte Nordico, AA I, (ltd. 146)
Fronte Nordico's first release from one of the best today's neofolk young projects Art Abscons. 'Am Himmel mit Feuer II' is a total remake of CD out last year on Dead Scarlet Records. Most of the tracks were re-recorded, many got totally new versions, some new tracks were added and some old omitted, and the tracklist was commpletely resorted. The result is a completely different album - as matured, integral and professional as best neofolk classical works by Sonne Hagal, Forseti and Orplid. Brilliant melodies, charming voice, sophisticated soundwork and german poetry full of melancholy, sadness and irony are melting together to form a perfect gem of rare beauty - not to be missed by any fan of dark folk magical art! Regular edition: embossed die-cut thick grey rough carton cover with full-colour picture in the centre, attached full colour 12" info sheet, golden vinyl in an attached black special paper original fronte nordico cut-out inner sleeve. [press-release]
Art Abscons -- "Am Himmel Mit Feuer II" -- LP -- €40
2011 Fronte Nordico, AA I, (ltd. 50)
Advanced edition: full colour 60x90 cm flag with Art Abscons logo tied up with ribbon and sealed with golden wax by the genuine fronte nordico logo stamp, embossed die-cut thick grey rough carton cover with full-colour picture in the centre, attached full colour 12" info sheet, golden vinyl in an attached black special paper original fronte nordico cut-out inner sleeve. [label info]
Asianova -- "Magnamnemonicon" -- 10" -- €12
2006 Substantia Innominata, SUB-02, (ltd. 500)
ASIA NOVA is a project of Californian artist URE THRALL [ex VOICE OF EYE, etc.] and PAMELA PASSMORE with guest musicians Paul Valsecchi and Marlon Porter. "Magnamnemonicon" contains 6 parts of music spread on 2 sides, more than 30 minutes of material: The mind as an abyss of supressed memories. Voices & sounds arise from the own dark continent, materializing in strong emotions of loss & yearning for the un-reachable. The Unknown as an eerie entity in our selves? Artwork by Gregor Schultz. Red-white / pink marmorized vinyl in a first edition of 500 copies. [press-release]
Aube -- "Blau + Rot" -- 7" -- €8
2007 Auf Abwegen, AATP_Difficult, (ltd. 500)
On these two tracks, released for the first european tour by AUBE in eight years, Akifumi Nakajima worked with an old Roland SH-12 percussive synth. The result are two long tracks (each over 6 minutes) with a nice floating mood that sometimes changes into aggressiveness without losing its warmth. A great little record by one of the most important experimental musicians from Japan. [label info]
Audible Pain -- "Mehrzeitiger Hirnstamminfarkt" -- LP -- €13
Reduktive Musiken, redukt 001, (ltd. 320)
Pretty weird stuff from a new German artist. I really have a hard time describing this; it could be categorised as glith, noise, minimal or whatever but none of those really gives a correct description of the material. The sounds are very stripped down and usually the tracks consist of just one electronic buzzing sound just... well, buzzing around. At times it goes into loops and then again cuts and goes completely random. A few of the tracks include some noisier parts where the buzz turns into high pitched feedback and is also layered so that the sound becomes a bit more dimensional and varied. Still, it never gets noisy enough to call it noise. And the sound aren't exactly what I'd call glitch. It's just minimalistic sound. Apparently the material has been recorded after the artist has suffered from a stroke of some sort and I guess that explains a lot [...] [review from J, Degenerate #3]
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Autechre -- "Gantz Graf" -- 12" -- €14
2002 Warp Records, WAP256
Axon Neuron / Vagwa -- "Lohe" -- 10" -- €15
2004 Eternal Soul Records, ES11, (ltd. 300)
Baker, Aidan -- "Broken & Remade" -- LP -- €25
2010 Revolvermann Records, RMR 004, (ltd. 400)
Baker, Aidan -- "Letters" -- LP -- €25
2008 Basses Frequences, BF10, (ltd. 400)
Benzo -- "The Dust / The Tapes: Mania Remixes" -- 2x12" -- €19
2009 Sex Tags Mania, MANIA 17 / Laton, Laton 041
The Dust / The Tapes: Mania Remixes is a collaborative release between Laton and the evocatively named Sex Tags Mania label, and it presents three new tracks alongside remixes from S. Mitterer and Pomassl. For anyone who favors gritty, murky analog techno and house with a druggy, real-time feel, there's plenty to like here. But two tracks in particular stand out. The new track "The Stars" is cool, sleepytime techno that bobs along at 120 BPM, with plodding sub-bass pacing diligently between glancing dub explosions (and even ambulance sirens) in the high end; its closest comparison might be to Thomas Brinkmann's 11-year-old remixes of Richie Hawtin's Concept 1, with a similarly roly-poly sensibility. Even better is "Sibiria", which takes the original's overdriven, Pan Sonic-style pulses and mournful flute solo-- reminiscent of a decades-old field recording from the Mongolian steppes-- and turns them into a toe-scuffing grind. Norwegian disco musician Bjorn Torske plays rippling hand percussion over the top, his phrases fading in and out of phase, until the whole thing feels like a living, breathing skin, a case of drums turned to lungs, and vice versa, moving like a sky dotted with maple seeds. [Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork]
Bereft -- "Tough Man" -- 7" -- €9
2006 BloodLust!, B!066, (ltd. 300)
Bereft is Peter Lee from Force Of Nature Productions (Rhode Island). For this solo project, which has had very limited releases on Truculent Recordings and on Antihumanism Records, Lee crafts a mixture of old-school industrial and power-electronics, with intense vocals, tempered by dark, death-industrial-influenced, ambient soundscapes. [label info]
Berkana -- "Zuflucht" -- 7" -- €10
2002 Hau Ruck!, HR!34
Birch Book -- "Fortune & Folly" -- LP -- €17
2008 Ahnstern, Ahnstern35, (ltd. 500)
A side-project of In Gowan Ring. Drifting away from the overtly psychedelic, medieval, and soporific atmosphere which typified In Gowan Ring, B'ee displays a more organic, individualistic approach to songwriting. Fortune & Folly blends elements of idiosyncratic folk-pop and outcast-country with brooding layers of sound and sense, yielding a spectral ethereality in a captivating chiaroscuro thick with the visionary allusions of a haunted wanderer. [label info]
Birch Book -- "Vol. III - A Hand Full Of Days" -- LP -- €17
2009 Ahnstern, Ahnstern41, (ltd. 500)
Black Faction -- "Internal Dissident Part 2: Live In Vienna" -- LP -- €14
2002 Soleilmoon Recordings, SOLV 010, (ltd. 500)
Bola -- "Soup" -- 2 LP -- €21
1998 Skam, SKALP002
The Boyd Rice Experience -- "Hatesville!" -- LP -- €27
1995/2009 Caciocavallo, CAD 33, (ltd. 1000)
The Boyd Rice Experience -- "Hatesville!" -- picture LP -- €29
1995/2009 Caciocavallo, CAD 33 P
Brothomstates -- "Qtio" -- 12" -- €13
2001 Warp Records, WAP151
Bubble Gum -- "s/t" -- 7" -- €6
2002 Bazooka Joe, bubble7inch3, (ltd. 300)
Four electronic kraftwerkish italo-electro pop tunes from a new Spanish project with female vocals. [label info]
Burning Star Core -- "Three Sisters Who Share An Eye" -- LP -- €18
2006 No Fun Productions, NFP05, (ltd. 300)
Compositions for 9 midgets with mohawks screaming about life and harsh electronics. Nastiest burnign star core release to date. Spencer continues his search for the lost kingdom, with an army of his own he screams to them to get them psyched: "HARSH IS NICE!!!!!" [label info]
BusRatch -- "Tokei Nikki" -- LP -- €18
2010 RRRecords, RRR-999
Kyoto noise turntable trio BUSRATCH began in 1998 (and have disbanded after eleven years, making their debut vinyl release also their swan song), performing improvised music on eight turntables simultaneously. Later on, as a duo, KATSURA MORI and TAKAHIRO YAMAMOTO "play back" on turntables a variety of items including prepared records, cymbals, metal objects, and mouse pads, as well as constructing sound improvisationally by amplifying sounds made with the cartridge and arm. Plenty of abstract needle fingering, processing, repetition and extreme noise. Side one contains two elegant, contemporary avant-garde compositions, and on side two are ninety-nine locked grooves. They've performed with Christian Marclay, Otomo Yoshihide, Keiji Haino, Tetuzi Akiyama, Thomas Ankersmit, Utah Kawasaki, Bruno Meillier, Computer Soup, Olivia Block, Seth Nehil, and TV POW. [Mindhaven]
Calle Della Morte -- "Tardo Autunno" -- 7" -- €10
2003 Hau Ruck! SPQR, HR! SPQR III, (ltd. 300)
Can't -- "New Secret" -- pic LP -- €18
2005 RRRecords
Changes -- "Fire Of Life" -- LP -- €17
2001 Hau Ruck!, HR!22, (ltd. 750)
Changes -- "Legends" -- LP -- €17
2007 Hau Ruck!, HR!84, (ltd. 400)
Changes -- "Orphan In The Storm" -- LP -- €17
2004 Hau Ruck!, HR!48
Cheerleader69 -- "Godriders in the Sky" -- LP -- €10
2006 Steelwork Machine, SMR05, (ltd. 500)
[...] Cheerleader 69 offer up an eclectic and intriguing mixture of rhythmic electronica, moody dark ambient and bombastic martial industrial, in a genre-defying melange which is quite difficult to review, as it refuses to stay in one style long enough to get a fix on it. However, enjoying listening to it isn't nearly so challenging, as from the sample-strewn overture of 'Your Book Is Full Of Killings' to the compulsive percussions and crunchy industrial drones of 'La Derniere Charge De La Morve d'Or' and jazzy trumpet of 'Crystal Sierra', the music of Cheerleader 69's remains consistently vivid and interesting. The title track 'Godriders (In The Sky)' is the highlight of the album, with crushing tribal drums, looped choral vocals, vocal samples and a fat horn section combining into a Bacchanalian frenzy reminiscent of C.O.T.A., Foetus or Pigface. [...] [Judass Kiss]
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The Cherry Point -- "Dream Warriors" -- 7" -- €10
Statik Aktion Records, SA*03
Harsh Noise dedicated to the nightmares. [YAOP info]
Chorea Minor -- "Four" -- picture 10" -- €15
Taos Records, (ltd. 350)
Chthonic Force -- "Agathodaemon" -- LP -- €13
2004 Hau Ruck!, HR!64, (ltd. 400)
Civil Defence Programme -- "Protect And Survive / Attack Warning Red" -- 7" -- €11
2009 The All-Clear, AC1
Cloud Boat -- "Lions On The Beach" -- 10" -- €14
2011 R & S Records, RS 1105
Club Moral -- "Instruments Of Attraction (II. Sociale Hygiene)" -- 10" -- €18
2010 No Basement Is Deep Enough, NBIDE#2, (ltd. 520)
10' set with a large booklet and historical notes that documents some early recordings from Club Moral, a European Industrial/electronic cell that existed parallel to the whole Whitehouse/Nurse With Wound/Coil post-Industrial Reverse with a deeper connection to radical European art and actionism. Club Moral was simultaneously a group, a club space, an art gang, a publisher and a distributor with an in-house magazine - Force Mental - and a presence at many of the key 1980s subterranean summits, from The Equinox Event through the Berlin Atonal. This classic collection - with a ridiculously great cover shot - presents them as a group caught somewhere between Whitehouse-style hysteria, European minimal synth and bandstand rocking wildmen like The Cramps, all of which comes together on their delirious cover of the Trini Lopez hit 'Lonely Weekends'. A track like 'Now I Step On You' could almost be Japan's Oshiri Pen-Penz in terms of disobedient bloodymindedness and the group have an overall level of 'commitment' that is so Belgian it feels as if that country alone is responsible for punk's inheritance and transformation into a socially radical and deeply experimental form of Middle European Madmanism. Throw in some recordings of speaking clocks, austere keyboard drones and what sounds like a prison riot and you have a mainline that leads all the way to the whole Dennis Tyfus/Ultra Eczema scene. 'This is Club Moral's true live Raw Power'. Recommended. [Volcanic Tongue]
Code 243 -- "Urban Guerilla" -- LP -- €15
2004 Steinklang Industries, SK 33, (ltd. 500)
Code 243 is the Industrial side of Peter S., the frontman and mastermind from A CHALLENGE OF HONOUR. This new project is a smashing mixture of good old Rhythm-Industrial, as Steinklang customers know from our earlier releases, with a strong touch of modern Power-Electronics and several fine samples, crowned by Peter's psychedelic voice. This is 100% analogue agressive-guerilla-electronics with industrial-dancefloor guarantee!!! [label info]
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Cold Flesh Colony -- "Sanatorium" -- 7" -- €11
2003 Steinklang Industries, SK7-03, (ltd. 150)
Cold Fusion -- "63 Days (Part IV)" -- 7" -- €12
2005 Fluttering Dragon, fdragon036, (ltd. 400)
Combative Alignment -- "Image Acoustique" -- 7" -- €9
2003 Eternal Soul Records, ES06, (ltd. 300)
A fitting title for this Eternal Soul releases, which is perhaps somewhat more Ambient-oriented than its predecessors, but still features a militaristic tone. Heavy black vinyl, limited to 300 copies. [Equilibrium Music]
Common Eider, King Eider -- "Amnesia" -- 12" s/s -- €20
2010 self-released, Eiderpress 002, (ltd. 100)
Controlled Bleeding -- "Songs From A Sewer Of Dreams" -- 4 LP + 7" BOX -- €65
2007 Vinyl-on-demand, VOD 47.B, (ltd. 250)
A box featuring unreleased music from CB's very early days to today... One side from a long lost Knees and Bones session, one side of pre industrial music, live at CBGBs supporting Suicide 1979, one side a 25 minute live piece of ancient, very good material from 1977 (sounds like John Cage/Penderecki), One side of Freejazz Live improvisation with Borbetomagus, One side NEW TOTAL NOISE etc... This is one of those very very extreme (if not most extreme) VOD-releases... Limited edition of 250 copies including additional 7". [label info]
Crank Sturgeon -- "Upon My Discovery Of The Huso Dead Pan Lair" -- LP -- €15
2003 RRRecords, RRR 002
Cristal -- "Re-Ups" -- LP -- €20
2008 Flingco Sound System, FSS-3, (ltd. 500)
Current 93 -- "Aleph At Hallucinatory Mountain" -- 2 LP -- €25
2009 Coptic Cat, NIFE 004V, (ltd. 2500)
Cyclotimia -- "Metamorphosis" -- 10" -- €10
2002 Ewers Tonkunst, HHE 005 V, (ltd. 300)
This 6-track release continues in the same vein as "Wasteland" CD, released on State Art, but it's less rhythmic and more deep and meditative, being maybe the most dark and melancholic Cyclotimia release to date. Analogue electronic layers submerge listener to an atmosphere of uneasy hallucinatory reverie. Subtle clear sound and sad melodies unite to create the unique mix of cold psychodelia and soulful grief. [label info]
DAO + COH -- "Dzerzhinsk-9" -- LP -- €19
2009 Tourette, Tourette 010
Dawn & Dusk Entwined -- "Scherzo" -- 7" -- €11
2004 Eternal Soul Records, ES10, (ltd. 333)
Dead Fish Fuck -- "Silence At The Eye Of The Scream" -- LP -- €15
1997 Korm Plastics, kp 6697, (ltd. 250)
Sound on reflection and environment sound. Featuring Mark reverberant sounds of dripping water, voices, and story (in French) and sound re-enforcement. Affair with howling sounds and percussive sounds throughout, ending in a massive wall of guitar sound. [A Grep on Sound]
Death In June -- "All Pigs Must Die" -- picture LP -- €29
2001/2008 Leprosy Discs, LEPER 04
Delphium -- "Our Tribe Of Nothingness" -- 7" -- €6
1998 Speeding Across My Hemisphere, tinnitus / v.S. 005 / Disaster Area, DA 009, (ltd. 600)
A little more techno influenced than previous Delphium outputs. Three rhytmical dark pieces, atmospheric sounds and loops. [label info]
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Der Blutharsch -- "Flying High!" -- 2 LP -- €32
2009 WKN, WKN34
Der Blutharsch -- "Untitled (Tour 2009)" -- 1-sided 7" -- €13
2009 WKN, WKN 35, (ltd. 444)
Der Blutharsch vs. Our Survival Depends On Us -- "s/t" -- 7" -- €13
2009 WKN, WKN 33, (ltd. 500)
Desiderii Marginis -- "The Ever Green Tree" -- LP -- €30
2005 Kaosthetik Konspiration, KSTK 003, (ltd. 500)
Devillock -- "These Graves" -- LP -- €15
2006 Tone Filth, TF33, (ltd. 333)
DEVILLOCK is JUSTIN CHRIS MEYERS on organ, tapes and electronics. He also runs the Tone Filth label and also plays as PANTHER SKULL. He offers four tracks of densely layered sound, knitting all the sounds he can find together. Slowing down old reel to reel tapes on the title track provide another dark gesture in this music. Devillock doesn't play harsh noise as such, but he provides a pretty noise related drone sound. Minimal piercing sounds, mainly the lower region of the sound spectrum, making this quite a menacing affair. Noise as it's supposed to be: menacing, not by the harshness of it's sound, but by the content of what its sound has to offer. Despite it's title and bandname, I think it's a much more serious affair than the average noise attack. Great stuff. [FdW, Vital Weekly]
Die Macht -- "Blut Unter Den Fahnen" -- LP -- €18
2006 Slaughter In Art, SIA-LP001, (ltd. 500)
Die Weisse Rose -- "A Martyrium Of White Roses" -- LP -- €18
2009 Cold Meat Industry, CMI.197, (ltd. 599)
Dieter Müh -- "Stockholm Monsters" -- LP -- €18
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Live at Fylkingen, Stockholm, 17 November 2001.
Dieter Müh -- "Tertium Organum" -- LP -- €15
2003, Tesco Organisation, TESCO 056, (ltd. 500)
Dieter Muh, a British duo, presents a new way to explore the world with "Tertium Organum." Along the philosophical lines of Aristotle and Francis Bacon with a Konstructivist touch, the music is a powerful experimental output with rhythmic passages as well as ambient parts arranged with the typical sound cut-up methods of Dieter Muh. [label info]
Digitonal -- "The Centre Cannot Hold" -- 12" -- €13
2004 Seed Records, SEEDEP10
Disguises -- "Post-Mortem Depression" -- LP -- €15
2008, Wintage Records & Tapes, WRT-50, (ltd. 300)
"Post-Mortem Depression", the long awaited debut LP by Disguises, scum & splooge surfers of Toronto's noise/avant d.i.y. underground. A volcanic blast of rushing blood & damaged ear drums. "Post-Mortem Depression" was laid to tape at the Gas Station recording studio in late october 2007. Disguises spent a total of 2 days committing total "rock action" abuse live in the studio, scrapped off the floor by vibe captain Dale Morningstar. But before that these songs were hammered out live in front of an audience, almost a full year before recording "Post-Mortem Depression". Hundreds of strings shredded ..... piles of fried speakers ... hours upon hours of vhs tape ate for samples (Carpenter, Dr. Who, David Koresh, and classic Godzilla movies ... there all in here) a gonzo movie buffs auditory wet dreams cum to life. What remains is a 21st century punk rock record crafted by a band to difficult to pigeonhole in to one specific genre. "Post-Mortem Depression" seamlessly blurs the lines between avant/psych creep, free-jazz imrovisation, mechanized industrial groove, and total punk attack. An album made loud to be played loud .... with not one overdub, you fucking rubbahead. "Post-Mortem Depression" a modern rock record created by a band burning the heat of now. D-stroy! [press-release]
Dntel -- "Early Works, Later Versions" -- 12" -- €13
2010 Phthalo Records, PH56
Draheim, Charlie -- "Possession" -- LP -- €15
2006 Tone Filth, TF20, (ltd. 320)
First vinyl appearance by LORD DRAHEIM, who contaminates the A-side with sick tones, nauseating hiss and whine, the rumble and wet sadism of clogged sinuses, leading to a climax in an orgy of rotten magnetic tape. Mongrel howls, junkyard threats, and the slowest of rhythmic thump make up the unhealthy flip of this record. Edition of 320 with hand screened textured card stock covers. [label info]
Dusa -- "Ljung" -- LP -- €22
2006 Alternativkultur Ambassaden, AkA 11, (ltd. 300)
Half lost images of landscapes and early memories, a haunting nostalgia. Heaths and shrubbery. Dull audio collages of creaking, dim ambiances coupled with folk sounds, foggy melodies and the humming of a graybeard organ... 12" LP, 32 minutes. Edition of 300 copies with full color insert and 7 postcards. [label info]
Eisenkrone -- "Morgen...Ist Ein Anderer Tag" -- 7" -- €9
2003 Dictatvre, IV.MMIII
2 tracks of high-quality martial music with loud drumming, droning organ sounds and operatic voices. [Mechanoise Labs]
Elli Riehl -- "Waldsleut" -- 7" -- €10
2004 Hau Ruck!, HR!46, (ltd. 400)
Ernte / Liquid Team -- "Tribute To Spacemen 3" -- 7" -- €9
2002 Mimikaki, mk001, (ltd. 600)
Evil Moisture / Metalux -- "Split" -- LP -- €18
2005 Veglia, veglia21
Metalux side sounds like toy instruments and cut-ups, distorted guitars etc.... Evil Moisture side is totally fucked up noise'n electronics. The cover is a screenprint on old used covers. [Borft Records]
Ex.Order -- "Corporate Control" -- LP -- €18
2007 Power & Steel, PAS 21, (ltd. 222)
Faith & Disease / Jeff Greinke -- "Dream The Red Clouds" -- 10" -- €10
2002 Weird Amplexus, WAX01V, (ltd. 300)
Dream The Red Clouds is a collaboration between Dara Rosenwasser and Eric Cooley of FAITH & DISEASE and ambient composer JEFF GREINKE (who also has projects in the works with Anisa Romero of Sky Cries Mary, Bill Reiflin of Ministry, and has an extensive discography of music and film scores). This special one-off collaboration was released by Italy's AMPLEXUS RECORDS in both CD format and 300 Limited Edition hand-numbered RED vinyl copies; separately mastered especially for vinyl pressing by audio wizard Rick Fischer. The tracks on Dream The Red Clouds were recorded at Another Room in Seattle, WA, engineered and mixed by Jeff Greinke and produced by Eric Cooley. All 4 tracks are new and previously unreleased. Dara Rosenwasser provided the words and vocals, Eric Cooley played guitar and bass parts, and Jeff Greinke added the sounds and rhythms. Eric Cooley, on the collaboration: "Jeff Greinke is fairly legendary in Seattle, and we've always respected his work. After a show together we casually discussed doing something together, and a few years later we did - Dara and I went over to his studio with some new songs in our back pocket, recorded our parts over the course of a month and left the rest to him. It was all so seamless and natural, and I'm glad we now have that essence captured on a release...". [label info]
Fall Weiss -- "s/t" -- 2x7" -- €15
2004 AgitProp, AP002, (ltd. 346)
Fehlmann, Thomas -- "Live With Strings And Percussions - Titan One / DFM" -- LP -- €13
2011 Kompakt, KOM 224 LTD, (ltd. 600)
Feldgrau -- "Mechanized Misanthropy" -- LP -- €18
2005/2010 Satanic Skinhead Propaganda, (ltd. 500)
Industrial Black Death chaos of unmatched heaviness, extremity and violence from Pete Helmkamp. Created by Helmkamp, Bill Taylor from ANGELCORPSE/IMMOLATION and Vhex in 2004, the band created some of the destructive and terrorizing sounds ever heard in underground Extreme Metal. After creating the sole release "Mechanized Misanthropy" in 2005 on cd, the group disbanded and faded into obscurity, until this lp. This release, also titled "Mechanized Misanthropy" features the tracks from the original cd, along with additional unreleased tracks, with a new track listing and order, completely different artwork, layout and design, and marks this release as the definitive FELDGRAU onslaught. Over 50 minutes of uncompromising, unforgiving elitist chaos....... This release is limited to 500 copies. Standard lp jacket, printed inner sleeve and black vinyl. [press-release]
Flatgret -- "Xxxxxx" -- 12" -- €15
2006 rundownsun, No.30
Long-awaited vinyl debut from Vancouver underground noise legend Flatgrey. Industrial noise. Harsh, industrial noise. Pure sound. Mechanical, electrical, valve and tube. Scrounged, rescued and resurrected. Filtered through obsession. Menacing roars of bass pushed along grinding mechanics, like millions of rows of pneumatic teeth. Heaving, gnashing. Compressor hiss, and blast furnace tongue. Incendiary atmosphere, superheated, and forced through junked magnets and shredded cones. A nameless exercise. 1-sided gold offset-printing on heavy black paper. One-sided 12" 33rpm vinyl record with silk-screened b-side. Housed in a crystal-clear, heavy polyvinyl sleeve. Featuring art and layout from the artist. [press-release]
The Fortieth Day -- "Syria: 638 AD" -- LP -- €18
2008 Diophantine Discs, n = 18, (ltd. 300)
Over the past two years The Fortieth Day has released numerous cassette releases and Diophantine Discs is proud to issue their first LP. "Syria: 630 AD" consists of two 17+ minute compositions of extremely dense, powerful, and brooding tracks, with some absolutely monstrous bass. Comprised of Mark Solotroff (Bloodyminded, Intrinsic Action, and the BloodLust! label) and Isidro Reyes (Bloodyminded), Chicago's The Fortieth Day creates a unique music that is dense and murky, lurking somewhere between the realms of noise, industrial, and ambient. Various recording sessions are processed, re-processed, and mixed together to create the final studio recordings. Live shows also incorporate live real-time video projections by Noise Crush. Previous works include a collaborative cassette with Sshe Retina Stimulants and releases on BloodLust!, ORCO, and Cipher. Pressed on white vinyl and housed in a silver-printed and laser-cut [die-cut] sleeve. Limited to 300 copies. [press-release]
Four Tet -- "As Serious As Your Life" -- 7" -- €9
2003 Domino Recording Company Ltd., RUG167
Freq63 -- "Genetic EP" -- 12" -- €9
1997 Noise Museum, NM 011
Frozen Faces -- "Religion Of Hate" -- 7" -- €10
1999 Entartete Musikk, EM 05, (ltd. 500)
Genghis Tron -- "Dead Mountain Mouth" -- LP -- €20
2006 Lovepump United, LPU006
Genitor Lvminis -- "Deam Adessa" -- 10" -- €13
1999 Stateart, SA013, (ltd. 500)
Geroyche -- "Voxxx Series A.1" -- 12" -- €12
2005 Ventilator Tonträger, VT 0003, (ltd. 500)
Giffoni, Carlos / Keith Fullerton Whitman -- "Techno b/w 070207" -- LP -- €18
2009 No Fun Productions, NFP52, (ltd. 400)
Two very active modern electronic musicians who enjoy 20th century analog equipment deliver a document of mind expanding electronics with very different approaches. Giffoni's track 'Techno' is full of layered and perfectly synched synthetic rhythms matched with some very adhesive evolving sounds; Creating something that somehow ends up being a homage to both early techno and harsh Japanese electronics. Whitman's track is a beautiful exploration of synthetic tonality and space, like a sudden massage to several areas of the brain one by one but also all at once with a little spice of musique concrete. Both of these recordings share an expansive and psychedelic nature, as well as a nod to the past while moving into the future. Artwork by Maya Miller. [press-release]
Glitterbug -- "Privilege" -- 2 LP -- €23
2010 c.sides, 007-LP
Grabowski, Pawel -- "Cirr's Songs" -- 7" -- €9
2005 Drone Records, DR-72, (ltd. 300)
Grabowski is a young Polish soundmaker now relocated in Dublin, with a couple of releases under his belt, on Laub and his own Silence Is Not Empty label. Grabowski may be young but he surely doesn't lack talent and a refined style. Both "songs" are based on subdued, far-away drones and concrete elements (dripping water, a creaking door...), and the artist knows well how to weave captivating and emotionally engaging soundscapes with those minimal elements only. Grabowski's approach to minimal music reminds of great artists like Mirror, Coleclough or Monos - my favourite ep of the new Drone batch. This 7" comes in a black cover with a photo and, oddly enough, on black vinyl. [Eugenio Maggi, Chain D.L.K.]
Grunt / Love Hole -- split -- 7" -- €22
1996 Freak Animal Records, FREAK-EP-007, (ltd. 200)
Grunt has brutal power electronics / noise and Love Hole surpriced everybody with amateurish, sweet and sick pop music. [label info]
Gruntsplatter -- "The Passions of a Cripple" -- LP -- €14
2005 Force Of Nature Productions, fonr02, (ltd. 300)
Gruntsplatter delivers 6 tracks of unrelenting death industrial, adding power electronic vocals to continue on his path to explore the dark side of music. A must for collectors and fans of this genre, and those familiar with Gruntsplatter's previous works. [label info]
Haines, Greg & Wouter Van Veldhoven -- "Three Days Of Fever" -- LP -- €23
2008 Eat This Media, ETM004
Heilrath, Michael -- "Shoppen Soundtrack" -- LP -- €20
2007 Hausmusik, HM075
Herbst9 -- "Snake Of Saigon / From Below" -- 7" -- €9
2006/2009 Shortwave Transmission, SWT05, (ltd. 159)
Hermit -- "Molotovka" -- 7" -- €10
Hebdomadal Omphaloskepsif Media Productions, (ltd. 300)
Monopolka-style Harsh Noise. Kraft-sleeve + insert. [YAOP]
Hermit / Roy Gbiv -- split -- 7" -- €9
1996 Garbage Society, be 058, (ltd. 200)
Hertsi -- "Kohina" -- 12" -- €15
1993/2010 Sahko Recordings, SAHKO-004
Hinageshi Bondage -- "Tirez Sur Le Musicien" -- 7" -- €9
2001 Verdura, verdu-06
When it comes to making music "Tirez Sur Le Musicien" displays the diversity and unexpectedness of Hinageshi Bondage. Here's a complete change of sound compared to the previous "Diesel fruit my darling" 7"; instead of nightmarish panic sounds and harsh noises HB roams this time within much more "sofisticated" and calmer moods, though the atmosphere has remained quite the same. Two long pieces, 14 mins of beatiful and hypnotic soundscapes, both harmonic and rhytmic, being the result of a long recording process. [label info]
I-C-K -- "Les Reflexions Misanthropiques" -- LP -- €25
2000 La Nouvelle Alliance, L.N.A.004, (ltd. 300)
I-C-K -- "This is Nihil Tronix" -- 7" -- €9
2003 Blade Records, WMDA049, (ltd. 300)
Dense, aggressive & violent, beating power noise for your party time. Great danceble industrial. [Old Europa Cafe]
Idpa -- "Stream" -- 7" -- €13
1997 Stateart, SA005, (ltd. 200)
Imminent -- "Cask Strength" -- 12" -- €15
2009 Hymen Records, Y056
Imminent & Synapscape -- "The Incredible Three" -- 7" -- €11
2004 Ant-Zen, act183.1
Impact Test -- "Grimm's Faerie Tales" -- 7" -- €8
1993 Damned Ship Works, DS701
No Wave in vein of decadent post-Sonic Youth and crook piano parts goig over hollow noise ambient. [YAOP]
In Gowan Ring -- "Time Is A Spiral #01" -- 10" -- €13
2007 Time Is A Spiral, SPIRAL 001, (ltd. 500)
The Infant Cycle -- "A Mysterious Disc [2]" -- 7" -- €8
2010 The Ceiling, CEIL032
A disc mysterious. Packaged in a white cardboard sleeve. No information at all is written on the release. Two different versions of this lathe cut exist.
Inner Glory -- "s/t" -- 10" -- €13
2002 Runes & Men, R&M 004 / Misty Circles, MCR46 / Oktagon, R.I.P, (ltd. 323)
Irgun Z'wai Leumi -- "Klirrfaktor" -- LP -- €17
2008 Verlautbarung, Mitteilung 45, (ltd. 286)
Jackdaw With Crowbar -- "Hanging in the Balance" -- LP -- €10
1991 Hax, HAX 04
JACKDAW WITH CROWBAR were an English band playing a good blend of punk, dub, ethno etc. Before the LP on Hax they had had records released on Ron Johnson Records. [label info]
Janitor -- "Richie" -- LP -- €11
1999 Entartete Musikk, EM 04, (ltd. 800)
Jazzkammer / Opec -- "Split" -- 12" -- €15
2005 Reverse Recordings, rev-002, (ltd. 323)
Danish label Reverse Recordings have just released a Jazzkammer / Opec split LP. Our side is a 20 minute turntable freak-out, while Opec offer a more subtle but no less intense soundscape. 323 copies, silkscreened covers and a proper vinyl mastering by the good Rashad at D+M in Berlin. [Lasse Marhaug (Jazzkammer)]
Juhning, Herz -- "Miasma" -- LP -- €25
2009 Galakthorrö 024, (ltd. 414)
After Herz Jühning has whetted the appetite of so many listeners with his Faces EP, Galakthorrö now is proud to be able to present Herz Jühning's first Longplayer. On Miasma he combines the kinetic energy of Power-Electronics with favourite ingredients from the witches'cauldron of Angst Pop. You will hear brutal bass-drones, nasty electrified currents, pumping analog rhythms and eerie frequency modulations. The sound elements have been ruthlessly selected to emphasise the reductive characteristics, and brought together around the incisive vocals to form an homogenous and complete work of art. Whether ailing popsongs, aggressive noise-attacks, or ominous sound experiments, all is artfully united in the 13 songs found on Miasma. Once more it is Jühning's no-frills arranging technique, that shows itself to be so highly effective on Miasma, just as it made Faces so successful. There is much to discover and Miasma will take the hearts of its listeners by storm! How could it not? 12" LP, black vinyl, sturdy cardboard cover, printed inner sleeve and insert card incl. all lyrics. [press-release]
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Justice Yeldham And The Dynamic Ribbon Device -- "Birthdays" -- LP -- €18
2008 Anarchymoon Recordings, anok22 / Turgid Animal, TA345 / All Thumbs Press, ATP001, (ltd. 600)
Birthdays consists of two live sets by maverick amplified-glass player Justice Yeldham recorded during his & Keg's recent tour of Europe. If you've never heard of the guy you are in for a bloody treat. Using concert-grade piano contact mics, he amplifies a sheet of glass and plays it with his mouth and face, processing it with pedals attached to his belt, usually barefooted. The results are unworldly, and hearing it you would never imagine what created it, something only an Aussie could achieve. Like careening assaults of insect spaceships, he transports the listener to other worlds of sound, ending most often in a crash of the glass upon his head. He survives, bloody but alive, never worse for wear in the morning. Side A was captured in Marseille on the eve of Justice's 35th birthday while side B was recorded on Kegs birthday in Porto (for a preview listen at myspace.com/justiceyeldham). And to top off the birthday cheer Keg also did the cover illustration as a gift for Justice's Birthday. Mastered by the god-like Rasheed of Dubplates (Berlin), the record has been collaboratively released in an edition of 600 copies across the world by Anarchymoon Recordings (North America), Turgid Animal (Europe) & All Thumbs Press (Australia). Black vinyl, B-on-W labels, 2-sided printed insert in PVC sleeve. [press-release]
Kapotte Muziek -- "Threadments" -- 7" -- €10
Self Abuse Records, SAR12
Kapotte Muziek remixes Thread. [YAOP info]
Karceral Flesh -- "Bienvenue" -- 10" -- €17
2000 Athanor, ATNR 010
Karnnos -- "Bearer Of Order, Bringer Of Chaos" -- 7" -- €13
2001 Hau Ruck!, HR!16, (ltd. 400)
Kid606 -- "Die Soundboy Die" -- 12" -- €23
2008 Very Friendly, VF047LP / Tigerbeat6, Meow143
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Klassik In Qual -- "Unschlagbar Sanft" -- 7" -- €8
1992 No Records, (ltd. 500)
Unthinkable rarity from 1992, a document of early German noise scene. Pithecanthropic vocal noise like Masonna mixed woth symphonic music of Claude Debussy. Photocopied A3 cover, hand-numbered. [YAOP]
Kopp, Herman -- "Cerveau D'Enfant" -- 7" -- €11
2010 Galakthorrö, Galakthorrö 026, (ltd. 500)
A historical playroom seen with the spiritual eye is the atmosphere conjured up by this disc. Not a toyland paradise - the air is stale, the toys unused. The child is in hiding. Framed in fragile tones, passages of symphonic quality aspiring to set something seraphic against the morbid, looking to the heavens. A new facet of Hermann Kopp, whose voice completes the piece, inserted at certain selected points, electronically manipulated, in French. 7" EP, black vinyl, sturdy cardboard cover. [press-release]
La Voix Des Notres -- "Il Disait La Verite... Ils L'Ont Tue" -- 1-sided flexi 8" -- €25
2000 Les Joyaux De La Princesse, LVN ~ I
Lamia Is -- "Flesharvest" -- 10" -- €13
1998 Stateart, SA012, (ltd. 500)
Lavomaflex / Sbeb Normal -- "Split" -- 12" -- €13
2006 Byteburger Records, BB41
Le Syndicat -- "Ignitur" -- LP -- €19
1992 Staalplaat, SP 003, (ltd. 1000)
Leech Woman -- "No Name" -- 12" -- €11
2009 Quai Loh Records, LEGION 1202
Leiche Rustikal -- "Rudra" -- LP -- €13
2002 Steinklang Industries, SK 21, (ltd. 500)
Leidungr -- "Hell Eder Asar" -- 7" -- €11
2010 Fronte Nordico, LR I, (ltd. 150)
First in Fronte Nordico 7" series. Leidungr is a new project of H. Möller (Puissance / Arditi). Together with M. Belfagor (Nefandus, Ofermod) and P. Ståhl he is doing a kind of ritual archaic pagan folk with some ambient and martial elements and ancient Norse lyrics reminding of Waldteufel, Blood Axis and Werkbund's 'Rungholt' series. Regular edition: special die-cut rounded silkscreened fold-out package made of textured hard black paper tightened by four metallic cringles and fastened with a paper magnet fixator. [press-release]
Les Joyaux De La Princesse -- "Croix De Bois - Croix De Feu" -- 10" -- €30
2000 Les Joyaux De La Princesse, XIV Edition
Les Sentiers Conflictuels -- "Post-Traumatismes" -- 10" -- €15
2003 La Grande Illusion, LGI01, (ltd. 400)
Levoi Pravoi -- "March in September" -- LP -- €15
2005 Neuropa Records, NRP07, (ltd. 333)
The greatest Russian-American collaboration since the Cold War, Levoi Pravoi debuts a hummable martial mix of blaring orchestras, cavernous breakdowns, and battlefields soaked not in blood, but in the deep, groovy sounds of industrial glory. [label info]
Licht-ung -- "Die Weisse" -- 10" -- €14
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Licht-ung -- "Nora" -- 7" -- €6
2003 Licht-ung / Punk Kein Rock, (ltd. 220)
The first 7" by this young guy from near cologne. One track with microphone and feedback and one with an organ and lots of noise and some vocal samples. Pure noise, some a bit harsh. [Sozialistischer Plattenbau] Two 'catchy' harsh noise & organ pieces [Tochnit Aleph].
Linija Mass -- "Eiserne Revolution" -- 12" -- €13
2001 Membrum Debile Propaganda, 6000-52, (ltd. 400)
Conceptional 12" from this Russian industrial band. Now more rhythmical stuff. Sounds like from old industrial halls. The Iron Revolution.
Linija Mass -- "Proletkult" -- LP -- €13
2001 Membrum Debile Propaganda, 6000-50
The first full-length vinyl album of this industrial band. A little bit more rhythmical and powerful. Old school industrial with Italian Mussolini futurism touch of the 20-30-ies.
Linija Mass -- "Triumph Stali" -- 10" -- €13
2004 Der Angriff, Angriff Nr. 19, (ltd. 330
Brand new tracks from one of the best and the oldest russian industrial projects. Repetitive mechanical patterns with voice samples in the unique Linija Mass style, abrasive analogue sounds to create an aura of futuristic art revolt. The release comes packed in a nice cover printed on a special thick grey verged paper. [label info]
Lucisferrato -- "Childish Songs For Ugly Useless Dead Friends" -- 10" -- €13
2002 Der Angriff Nr. 7 (Prometheus PYRO Gamma), (ltd. 300)
Two tracks that sound nearly half-an-hour open to the listener a world full of misanthropy and tragedy, yearning and hope, it brings into concord sensible view of things and passionate gusts beyond... Incredible voice passages made with great passion and technically stainless interwoven into the unsettling canvas of harmonica, percussion and background ambience. [label info]
Lucisferrato -- "Weltanschauliche Mission" -- 12" -- €10
2001 Hau Ruck!, HR!12, (ltd. 600)
Lucisferrato -- "Weltanschauliche Mission" -- 12" -- €11
2001 Hau Ruck!, HR!12, (ltd. 100)
Lunar Abyss Quartet -- "Hyperborean" -- 10" -- €13
2003 Der Angriff Nr. 8 (Prometheus PYRO Epsilon), (ltd. 300)
Mysterious travel into the heart of ancient Baltia, where the cold lakes and moss-covered stones in the pine-woods still keeping the secrets of the times long forgotten: Chants, ambient layers and delicate percussion together with some sound effects shroud the listener in the mist of the Hidden: [label info]
The Lunar Minstrels -- "Shadow Winds" -- 7" -- €9
2004 Sweet Farewell, SF004, (ltd. 400)
Lunatik Sound System -- "The Heavy Minded Orchestra" -- 2x12" -- €25
2010 Something, Something Vinyl Series 13, (ltd. 500)
Lux Interna -- "Truth And Beauty And All Their Severity" -- 10" -- €15
2001 Eis Und Licht, Eis016, (ltd. 600)
M Ax Noi Mach / Unchained -- "split" -- 7" -- €10
2007 Ozonokids, OZKDS 011
Machinefabriek -- "Huiswerk" -- 7" -- €12
2008 Ketchup Cavern, KC04, (ltd. 500)
Machinefabriek -- "Slovensko" -- 7" -- €13
2010 Eat, Sleep, Repeat, ESR200912.01
Maeror Tri -- "Hypnotikum I" -- LP -- €12
1998 Soleilmoon Recordings, SOLV 008, (ltd. 800)
1st part of the last ever studio-recordings of MT from 1996/1997! Smooth & harmonic repetitive recordings, based on loops that were used by Maeror Tri during their live-concerts in Torino, Cologne and Ghent 1996. Nice fullcolour cover designed by Mars Wellink (Vance Orchestra). [label info]
Magik Markers -- "Inverted Belgium" -- LP -- €15
2006 Hospital Productions, HOS-136
One sided LP of the infamous bloody face cutting show in Beligium. Instrumental noise assult edited and remastered to slow motion shit attack - altered vinyl version of the CDR we had awhile back. Great double sided screenprinted fold-out chipboard covers. [Time-Lag Records]
Manipura -- "Vessels For The Infinite" -- 7" -- €9
1996 Speeding Across My Hemisphere, tinnitus / v.S. 004, (ltd. 600)
Two pieces from the project from Oslo, combining atmospheric drones with minimalistic tribal percussion. [label info] Red vinyl, colour cover, golden spraying.
Maska Genetik -- "Strada" -- LP -- €25
2011 Galakthorrö, Galakthorrö 027, (ltd. 608)
'I've reached the limits of my strength' said Amon Radek, and set off in search of a new life. There was to be no place for Maska Genetik, it was too much of a torture to justify those high standards he insisted on. We were astounded and couldn't believe it, and so we held his album back for some considerable time. Perhaps he wanted urgently to replace one of the songs? An artist of course, has his sensibilities, and a Russian has an additional inbred melancholy. So let us not be too hasty. Over the years we have certainly fulfilled our role as inheritance trustees, and so now we present his first and probably last album. It is all the more regretful, because Maska Genetik represented a pinnacle in the history of Galakthorrö, for us and for many of our listeners. This is obviously the case with Strada. There are songs to be heard that were created before, and after, the sought-after Quarantine EP. Radek's inner conflicts and his very real suffering have shaped his Angst Pop into its own unique form. We are not presented with self-pity, but with anger and a deep sorrow, at a world fashioned by mankind, in which a future for humanity is hard to imagine... 12" LP, black vinyl, sturdy cardboard cover, printed inner sleeve and insert card. [press-release]
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Moore, Thurston / Moore, Graham -- "Split" -- LP -- €18
2007 Nihilist, NIHIL 47, (ltd. 500)
A collossal meeting of the Moores! Thurston Moore (Ecstatic Peace label dude and Sonic Youth frontman) goes head to head with Graham Moore (TLASILA, Black Meat and Blossoming Noise label CEO) for a no holds barred noise attack! Thurston delivers a scathing 24 minute opus of gut twisting skin scraping skree. Graham takes a more collage style approach to his side using everything from body belching to a touch of classical avant abstract. Initial pressing of 500 copies of marbled 140 gram vinyl with pro-pressed jackets. [label info]
Mullen, Geoff -- "Armory Radio" -- 2 LP -- €23
2007 Barge Recordings, BRG003, (ltd. 500)
Muslimgauze -- "Hussein Mahmood Jeeb Tehar Gass" -- LP -- €50
2009 Waystyx, waystyx 33, (ltd. 171)
Vinyl re-issue of the original album released by Soleilmoon in 1999 (without the last 2 tracks from Uzi Mahmood). Limited edition of 171 hand numbered copies. 180 gram vinyl, dense cotton paper sleeve, serigraphy.
Mutant Ape -- "Erotic Yorkshire" -- LP -- €19
2009 Ecstatic Peace!, E#85g
Mutant Ape -- "Live And Proud" -- 7" -- €9
2009 Turgid Animal, TA385 / At War With False Noise, ATWAR059, (ltd. 150)
Great document of last summer from Mutant Ape. I played both these shows with him and they were two of the best shows I've seen Mr Proctor do...it's just total over-the-top, unpretentious NOISE. It's aggressive and in-yer-face; the haters can say whatever the fuck they want but Mutant Ape always delivers the good quite frankly. HARSH NOISE, NO BULLSHIT. Perfect! First side was recorded here at a great show we did with Bizarre Uproar and Gelsomina and the other from the great Distraction fest in Newcastle. [Al Mabon]
Nadja -- "Sky Burial" -- LP -- €20
2010 Latitudes, GMT 0:22 V, (ltd. 700)
Napalmed / rbnx -- "Unschlagbar Sanft" -- 7" -- €10
2003 Vinyl Disease Records, (ltd. 329)
Powerful Harsh Noise from Napalmed versus virtuoso Harsh Musique Concrete from rbnx. Black & white & golden sleeve. [YAOP]
Neuntöter Der Plage -- "Betwixt Descending Corridors" -- 12" -- €18
2009 Self Abuse Records, SAR-666
A personal exploration into the dark places that exist inside all of us. Inspired by vivid nightmares and dark visions glimpsed while staring into the bottomless depths of the abyss. Combining the best (or is it worse) elements of Dark Ambient, Death Industrial and Black Metal to create the darkest music possible. [label info]
No Festival Of Light / A Swarm Of Locusts -- "Documents Of Neural Assault - Part III" -- 7" -- €15
1997 Stateart, SA004, (ltd. 200)
No Xivic -- "Rauhattomuus" -- 7" (promo) -- €9
2003 Drone Records, DR-61
DRONE Records is proud to present NO XIVIC, a newcomer from the growing Finnish drone era. His very first release consists of underground 'dronish' experimental sounds. The three pieces on this EP are based on long & moving metallic drones (as if coming from BERTOIA) mixed with higher, near-distorted frequencies and low rumblings. This results in pure & elegant floating dronescapes that never stands still, giving you nothing to fix upon from your completely immersed mind. An atmosphere which is as much haunting as it its otherworldly. These three Finnish titles: 'Rauhattomuus' , 'Kemikaaleja' and 'Sieni' translate as 'Restlessness' , 'Chemicals' and 'Mushrooms'. These tracks are pointing to an inherent tension and have a brilliant intoxicating quality to them. Filed under: hallucinogenic drones. CLEAR VINYL [press-release] Promo copy without a handmade cover.
Noise Nomads -- "Nose Picker" -- LP -- €18
2007 RRRecords, RRR-NOISE, (ltd. 300)
Massive & minimalistic at the same time. Noisy but relaxing. Screenprinted cover. [Borft Records]
Noise-Maker's Fifes -- "Zona Incerta" -- 10" -- €12
2006 Substantia Innominata, SUB-03, (ltd. 500)
NOISE-MAKER'S FIFES is an experimental performance group from Brussels who do impressive shows with many selfbuild instruments and surrealistic sound-theatre-choreographies. The first side on 'Zona Incerta' is based on the choreography 'Dyonisos' Last Day' from 2003 and uses various live-material from this and other different performances. The second side is created from insects field recordings made in Kenya. ZONA INCERTA builds a very dimension of its own, totally hazy and foggy sounds ebb and flow in and out...water and metal-sounds are recognizable in the sound-field, high insect-frequencies intertwine with all kinds of strange noises and animal sounds... The Unknown is also the world of other creatures who perceive a totally different world. Listen with new ears, with different neurons. [press-release]
Noize Creator -- "12 Long Hours / Part Of The Dead" -- 12" -- €12
2008 Active Underground, AU09
NON -- "Solitude" -- 7" -- €15
2000 Mute Records Ltd., MUTE 250
Nos Royaumes -- "L'Antichambre" -- 7" -- €8
2004 .Angle.Rec., .A.R.07.01., (ltd. 222)
Before running aground onto the shores of a minimal, somber, muffled and textured electro with strains that are nevertheless poetically devastating, the creator behind the Montreal project Nos Royaumes flirted with the uneven terrains of rhythmic noise, pure noise, hard ebm and a zillion other sonic outlets, under various names. It is, however, with the founding of its current project that he proudly delivers us his first official release, which is the result of months, even years, of experimentation, discovery and refining. The enriched synthesis made by Nos Royaumes with his first 2-track 7 inch single, 'L'antichambre', brings us to a crossing of the different roads the creator followed in his many experimentations and sonic discoveries in recent years, to a place where the demarcation line between old-school industrial, dark ambient, narrative paths not spelt out and recursive bruitism takes on blurred and original shades. Nos Royaumes demonstrates, with the two monumental tracks of his first release, that oppressing ambiences can easily go together with enveloping atmospheres. [press-release]
Noumena / Season Of Discontent -- split -- 7" -- €9
1998 Gameboy Records, GB02
An electronic gathering only Ohio could spawn. We met the Seasons at an Assück show in Cleveland forever ago. Conversation on BN lead to noise talk and tape exchange. We were hooked and here's what came of it. Noumena adds new-found synth chirp to their feedback-drenched guitar work, whilest Season of Discontent contribute an extremely dense, unidentifiable wall of tapes, computers, vocals, effects and who-knows-what-else. Pressed on gold vinyl and packaged in aluminum foil covers with bee image affixed. [press-release]
Nurse With Wound -- "Thunder Perfect Mind" -- 2 LP" -- €40
1992/2001 Streamline, STREAMLINE 1020
Oakeater -- "Molech" -- LP -- €18
2008 Nihilist, NIHIL 55, (ltd. 300)
Dark occult ambient from Chicago's blackest pit. This being their debut vinyl release, with two amazing side long tracks. Molech, is a bit of spellcasting ritual power, where Prophecy, comprised of only pump organs, creating dense textural soundscapes. Limited to 300 copies on 140 gram black vinyl. [label info]
Omne Datum Optimum -- "Nostre-Dame Du Grande Oeuvre" -- 7" + mCD -- €40
2002 Cynfeirdd, Cyn 018
Omne Datum Optimum -- "Sator - Antiphonaire Premier" -- 7" -- €30
2001 self-released, (ltd. 297)
Orchestra Noir -- "Theme From Affordable Holmes" -- 7" -- €13
2007 Extremocidente, DEO 07010507 - 221b, (ltd. 222)
Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio -- "ONANI" -- pic LP -- €20
2008 Cold Meat Industry, cmi191LP, (ltd. 444)
Organisation Toth -- "Follow The Red Order" -- 10" -- €13
2001 Athanor, ATNR 014
Organisation Toth -- "Red Light" -- pic 7" -- €9
2003 Athanor, ATNR 019, (ltd. 333)
Organisation Toth -- "The Voice of T.ERR.O.R" -- 10" -- €17
2001 Athanor, ATNR 011
Ostara -- "Never Weep" -- picture 7" -- €13
2001 Osterraed, Osterraed3
Othila -- "Yula" -- 10" -- €13
2003 Divine Comedy Records, DC 027, (ltd. 500)
Phillips, Dave & Wiese, John -- "At A Loss For Words" -- 7" -- €12
2006 Blossoming Noise, PYG05VIN
PPF -- "En Dehors" -- 10" -- €13
2002 La Nouvelle Alliance, L.N.A.005, (ltd. 500)
PPF -- "Le French Touch EP" -- 10" -- €13
2003 Mimikaki, mk002
PPF -- "This Is Entertainment..." -- LP -- €13
2004 La Nouvelle Alliance, L.N.A.008
PPF / ICK -- "Collectivistes / Individualistes" -- LP -- €13
2006 Steelwork Machine, SMR04, (ltd. 500)
PPF and ICK are true Industrial / Power noise fiends who have some rather tasty releases out there if you can find them. [...] Here PPF have 2 tracks, ICK have 4 tracks and the remaining 4 tracks are collaborations between both. [...] Here are the fundamental principles of Industrial music put to an invigorating and quite quintessential ecstatic set of tracks that uses old analogue equipment and electronic effects to put their music across. Sounding like the bastard offspring of Throbbing Gristle and SPK the simplified beats and distorted vocals over the simplified in the best possible way electronic patterns are a joy to listen to. No histrionics or over abundance of overblown debris, just an unassuming guilty pleasure to immerse oneself in. Fuck originality. Overrated at the best of times. A blast from the past updated for the now. And French to boot. Who would ever have believed it. I've read a fairly negative review of this release elsewhere and cannot believe he listened to the same record that I'm thoroughly besotted with. Another critical cunt who deserves shooting. Fuck his words. Read mine and believe. For I would never lie to any of you. This release is worth buying a record player for alone. [...] [Judass Kiss]
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Putrefier -- "Pray for Fire / Body Hole" -- 7" -- €10
1992 Birthbiter
Classic British Rough Noise. [YAOP info]
Putrefier & Romance -- "Live Collaboration Newcastle 2007" -- LP -- €22
2009 Harbinger Sound, HARBINGER 063 / Birthbiter, 011, (ltd. 250)
Getting on with the real work. Captured live in Newcastle during 2007 this set owes more to Durgan's more recent work such as that found on the Pan Records disc and then letting Glaister's workouts run amok across everything as they attempt to dig their way out of the wine-cellars at INA-GRM and surface in some geordie real-ale house. Released by long-term cohort, and the notoriously elusive and stubborn Harbinger Sound label in arms with Putrefier's own Birthbiter imprint. No website, no MySpace, no nothing. [press-release]
Pymathon / Gentle Evil -- "Split" -- LP -- €15
2007 Verdura, verdu-20
The most ambitious and so far best heavy/jazz split LP of 2007! No shit. Pymathon = improvised thrash metal, Gentle Evil = harsh noise free jazz. Both kick ass, crush skulls and are loud enough to demolish buildings. [label info]
Radio Murmansk -- "MOC" -- LP -- €13
2005 AgitProp, AP004, (ltd. 313)
Radio Murmansk -- "Untitled (Kolyma / Sibir')" -- 7" -- €8
2003 Steinklang Industries, SK7-09, promo copy
Hard and subliminal analogue noise-disco on side A - pure terror-noise on side B from the depths of Sibiria - FROSTY! [label info] Promo copy in white sleeve.
Randy Barracuda -- "On The Low Again" -- 12" -- €13
2010 Laton, Laton 053
Laton is proud to announce the groundbreaking new release by enigmatic finnish producer Perttu Eino Hakkinen aka Randy Barracuda (RABA). Randy Baracuda is best known as one of the pioneers of the Skweee-movement - a Scandinavian genre often referred to as a mix of styles like wonky, hip hop and electro funk but has certainly it's own demented twist. Randy Baracuda is also half of Finnish legendary electro bass-outfit-duo Imatran Voima, and he has also releases under various aliases for such labels like Mighty Robot Recordings, Tellektro, Sahko, Sex Tags Mania, Flogsda Dancehall and Harmonia which he co-founded with Mesak in 2006 (Turku, Finnland)... 'On The Low Again' (Laton 053) cognates to 'On The Low' (Harmonia, HRMN-12) which was previously released in early 2010 containing material from the same Bergweg recording sessions 2009-10, Rotterdam. The trademark sound from the originator of spastic Scandinavian synth-funk style again dominates this 6-track debut for the austrian based Laton label, but this time mighty Randy Barracuda taking it to new levels of super compression, flips and signals away from the Lo-fi / 8-bit sound to slicker production styles, twisted R&B rhythms, layers it with a symphony of bleeps and keys alongside the usual sugar rush melodies and bump-n-grind b-lines to give it a incredible fresh slant... 'On The Low Again' is as undeniably catchy as it is speaker rumbling, an unbashed banger over the top and there is little to stop the RABA invasion. [press-release]
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Rasthof Dachau -- "Prison Poems" -- LP -- €20
2006 Steinklang Industries, SK 36, (ltd. 333)
Rats With Wings -- "Aide-Memoire" -- 2 LP -- €18
2006 Heard Worse Records, HW-02
Double LP of material taken from CD-R releases: The Fish Rots From The Head (unreleased), Southern Oscillation Index (HoLR) CDR-RWW (MIR), Ratified Loopholes (AEN), Ashtray Cabbage (Fiend), Get And Put (Deadline), Out Vile Jelly! (Gold Soundz), Night Science and Underground Australia compilations (Cipher Productions). All covers with fried compact disc glue to the cover. [Mindheaven Mailorder]
Renou, Christian -- "Transfer" -- LP -- €25
2009 Waystyx, waystyx 34, (ltd. 198)
üĖÓ-Brume.
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Reptiljan / Ibrahim Terzic -- "Pangrenade / Yuck Brij" -- 7" -- €6
2004 Some Place Else, SPE7SP03028, (ltd. 300)
Reptiljan is Niko Skorpio in his most energetic to date, creating sparkling electronica wherein everything from noise to breaks and glitch to exreme metal meet and explode. On this 7", Pangrenade looks for the point where grindcore and noise become one through violent digital treatments. On the other side, Ibrahim Terzic examines the beauty within the ugly. Yuck Brij shows Terzic pushing his unique style a few steps further with mind-piercing screeches, manifold rhythms and mutating melodies. Those who witnessed his amazing gig at Avanto Festival, Finland know that this cannot be missed! [label info]
Reutoff -- "The Fourth Face" -- 10" -- €13
2002 Hau Ruck!, HR!27
Reutoff -- "From The Womb" -- 10" -- €13
2003 Der Angriff Nr. 9 (Prometheus PYRO Sigma), (ltd. 400)
4-trx 30 minutes long 10" is a successor of the last year "Unseen Rituals" CD, but this work is more aggressive, dark, frightening and desperate. Its authentic dark noise melodic soundscapes with voice samples inside create the complex inhuman aura of total degeneration and hate that surrounds a man from birth to death, which is expressed with an irresistible force. [label info]
Reutoff -- "ReuTRauM II" -- 7" -- €11
2003 Kaos Kontrol, K\K 010, (ltd. 500)
Reutoff -- "ReuTRauM VI" -- 7" -- €11
2002 Blade Records, WMDA046, (ltd. 400)
Reutoff / Antlers Mulm -- "Kreuzung Eins" -- LP -- €16
2005 Ewers Tonkunst, HHE 008 V, (ltd. 330)
This release will start a series of collaborations between Reutoff and other projects. The collaboration with Antlers Mulm includes 6 tracks, 2 different remixes of Antlers Mulm's track "Schau unseren Jubel" made by Reutoff and two different remixes of Reutoff's track "Die Sunden der Vater" made by Antlers Mulm, as well as exclusive track of each of the band. The result turned out to be one of the most melodic and melancholic release for both of the projects. The beauty of eschatological sadness and profound nostalgia of the past revealed by the delicate sounds of this record, atmospheric and fragile but with some inner strength inside. [label info]
Reutoff / Totenlieder -- "The World Will Never Know" -- 7" -- €11
2003 Sweet Farewell, SF001, (ltd. 524)
Rice, Boyd & Z'EV -- "s/t" -- 12" -- €13
2008 Cold Spring, CSR105EP, (ltd. 1000)
The Rita -- "Milicent Patrick" -- 7" -- €10
Self Abuse Records, SA7-01
American Horror Harsh Noise, already became classic. [YAOP info]
Riviere, Arnaud / Jean-Philippe Gross -- "Monoface" -- 12" -- €14
2007 self-released
Romero, Caesar / Killer Moses -- "Getaway / Electrocuted" -- 7" -- €9
2001 Shadowfist Recordings, Shadow 001
S.Q.E. -- "Wahid" -- 7" -- €9
2005 Drone Records, DR-73, (ltd. 300)
S.Q.E. is the solo-project of J.GRECO now residing in New York City, who has worked with URE THRALL, KRIS FORCE, ALAN TRENCH, and others and released three full albums so far, now pointing into a more 'song-oriented'-direction than before ... The title of this EP WAHID means something like 'independent' (also 'alone' or 'solo') in arabic language. The title-track on Side A is build on powerful oriental percussion, mixed with mesmerizing floating flute, drone- and e-bow-guitar-sounds, forming layers of harmonic overlapping... EPITAPH 3, the B-side, is less rhythmically structured and creates enormous space with backwards-sounds from cymbals and voices, deep drones and synth-layers at the base... two deeply mesmerizing tracks.... Filed under: Oriental & Esoteric Drones. BLACK & WHITE MARBLE - VINYL. WHITE COVERS WITH WONDERFUL CALLIGRAPHED 'WAHID'-SYMBOL. [press-release]
Sable Mouvant -- "Out Of The Nightmare / Back To The Dream" -- 7" -- €11
Autarkeia
Sagentoeter -- "Prayers To Othinn" -- LP -- €13
2005 Ahnstern, Ahnstern14, (ltd. 500)
Sangre Cavallum -- "Patria Granitica" -- LP -- €15
2006 Ahnstern, Ahnstern18, (ltd. 400)
Satori -- "Kanashibari" -- LP -- €17
2008 Dogma Chase, DOGMA 005, (ltd. 300)
Schloss Tegal / Gehirn.Implosion -- "Birth: Beginning And Ending Of All Worlds" -- 7" -- €18
2007 Verstand Recs., 07, (ltd. 99)
Scivias -- "Stong-pa-nyid" -- 12" -- €17
2004 Eis Und Licht, Eis041, (ltd. 500)
Shadow Theatre -- "Ein Splitter Glas" -- 7" -- €10
2005 Apocalyptic Radio, AR 014, (ltd. 500)
Sick Llama -- "Born Again To Die" -- LP -- €18
2004/2007 Hanson Records, HN 164, (ltd. 500)
Heath from Fag Tapes. One of his early cass numbers, that was originally on American Tapes. Broiling & rolling clunkers of moss atmosphere & snot noises. Usually when people say something sounds claustrophobic, they really mean that it sounds like some aggro dude with too many tattoos is popping his neck veins yelling into a tin can. The real claustrophobia is here- creepy, smaller than you might imagine, but kinda gummy. [Weirdo Records]
Sickness -- "Fuck Your Punk Rock" -- LP -- €14
2004 RRRecords, RRR-SICK
Sidereal American harsh noise. Picture LP. [YAOP]
Sigrun Heid -- "Werkmeister" -- 10" -- €30
2001 Greyland, GR 04, (ltd. 194)
Simulacrum -- "Anti Matter Society" -- LP -- €10
2002 Weird Amplexus, WAX02V, (ltd. 288)
A real surprise from Slovakia. After a couple of years from their debut cd on OLD EUROPA CAFE', SIMULACRUM returns with a real masterpiece of ritual ambient in vein of best COLD MEAT sound. A symphony that penetrates our souls for heading towards a desolate but incontaminated world. There isn't any possibility to thought... the only way is to leave himself... and leave the soul fly free... An absolute milestone. [label info]
Skalp -- "Registratur / Ambivalenz" -- 10" -- €17
1998 Tesco Organisation, TESCO 033, (ltd. 600)
Tribal, Industrial, Ambient. Edition of 600 hand numbered copies on milky-white/clear vinyl in a foldout sleeve. [label info]
Skitliv -- "Bloodletting" -- pic 10" -- €15
2010 Cold Spring Records, CSR115P, (ltd. 777)
Limited edition 10" Picture disc from SKITLIV, the project of former MAYHEM front man MANIAC. With a line up that includes SHINING's NIKLAS KVARFORTH, SKITLIV is a disturbed, and disturbing, blackened doom journey through the mind of this legendary Black Metal vocalist who was one of the original exponents of the genre, and is one of its most recognisable figures. This picture disc is made extra special not only by the inclusion of 'Who Will Deliver Us From Gold and Planets' by CURRENT 93 - an introductory collage destruct that was created at the request of Maniac and is dedicated to him, but also because the artwork that is used for the side containing this track is part of one of Tibet's own paintings. [press-release]
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Skrol -- "Martyria" -- 10" -- €15
1998 Power & Steel, PAS 08, (ltd. 300)
Slughog -- "Hangman / Hanker" -- 7" -- €8
1994 Self Abuse Records, SAR-02 / Pummelcore, HOG 003, (ltd. 1000)
Powerful viscous Sludge with two bass guitars (!) and brutal vocals. Stinky psychedelic swamp. Stamped cover, poster inside. [YAOP]
Sol Invictus -- "Eve" -- picture 7" -- €15
2000 Tursa, TURSA 026
Sonic Amplitude -- "Accelerating Concrete" -- 7" -- €11
2000 Membrum Debile Propaganda, MDP 6000-33
Sonic Dragolgo -- "Sweet Pain" -- 7" -- €6
2002 Mirex, MIREX 007
7 inches of hardcore-melody-punk-rock-electronica w/ dirty metal guitars, euphoric noise attacks and really thick, hyped-up beats. [Boomkat]
Sonne Hagal -- "Only Echoes Remain" -- 2 LP -- €31
2011 Fronte Nordico, SH I, (ltd. 125)
The vinyl reissue of the soundtrack from the same name DVD release made in 2009 by Der Angriff which was highly acclaimed by critics and audience. Being recorded to professional multichannel device and then carefully mixed and post-produced, these tracks from live performance made in October 2008 in Saint-Petersburg are surely one of the best neofolk live recordings ever and they surely deserve the right to see the daylight being pressed on wax. In addition to the DVD material, our edition also contains 4 tracks unavailable elsewhere which were used as overtures for Sonne Hagal live performances in various times. Regular edition: sand-brown folder made of special paper, two vinyls in original fronte nordico cut-out and embossed inner sleeves made of sand-brown special paper, 12" inlay printed with dark-brown on sand-brown special paper. [press-release]
The Soul That Creates -- "Le Mouroir / Das Narrenschiff" -- 7" -- €10
2001 Dictatvre, III.MMI, (ltd. 300)
Spyke Point -- "No Coast Jazz" -- LP (single-sided) -- €15
2007 Troniks, TRO-262, (ltd. 128)
Collaboration between Spykes and The Cherry Point. One 16-min. track.
Stadsgaard, Christian -- "The Source Of Disintegration" -- LP -- €18
2010 Posh Isolation, Posh Isolation_023, (ltd. 250)
All infrastructure, all foundations, have a crack, a breaking point, a dead end, a source of disintegration. This is the sound of collapse. Cold broken drone vanishing into stagnancy, sonic representations of the endless lifeless, the uncured, the cursed. An ocean of frequencies for the drowning, a meditation of endings. [label info]
Stalnoy Pakt -- "Anno Mundi Ardentis / Legion Chesty" -- 10" -- €13
2006 Der Angriff, Nr. 23
Stalnoy Pakt -- "Decima Mas / Il Principo Nero" -- 10" -- €13
2003 Der Angriff Nr. 10 (Prometheus PYRO Delta), (ltd. 400)
The first record of the new Alexander Lebedev-Frontov project named Stalnoy Pakt. Alexander is known for his project Linija Mass, his self-released tapes and Europe made vinyls let him deserve the reputation of one of the most interesting russian industrial artist. Stalnoy Pakt is less futuristic and rhythmic than the previous Linija Mass works, it has more atmospheric sound, but the raw density of noise aggression is still there though it became a kind of a shell for the inner delicate soundscapes, deep and subtle, which lie beyond the harsh constructions. [label info]
Steinbrüchel -- "A\B\C\D" -- LP -- €17
2010 BineMusic, BINE 024VYR
Sturmpercht -- "Schattenlieder" -- 2 LP -- €21
2009 Percht, Percht12, (ltd. 500)
Subliminal -- "Look At The Creation" -- 7" -- €15
2009 Galakthorrö 023, (ltd. 520)
Look At The Creation. Which one? That is the question. Anyhow, in Albert Fisch's new creation Horror is the dominating factor. Lost souls are ground beneath the wheels of deathmachines. Unstoppable rolling Death. Permeating the scene is the voice of Albert Fisch - distorted, repulsive, mad, brutal. Albert Fisch is back, and is seeking new victims. Resistance is futile. Ultra-dirty, ultra-raw, ultra-aggressive - Power Electronics as it should be. 7" EP, black vinyl, sturdy cardboard cover. [press-release]
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Suspicion Breeds Confidence -- "Schmalz" -- 7" -- €6
2004 Miisc, r006
New material by Suspicion Breeds Confidence after a long pause. Less abstract and complex than before, this 7" shows a more gritty aspect of Tobias Schmitt's work (on one side) and a more emotional, modest one on the other. A very nice 7", well produced and something which should work as a treat to both fans of Suspicion Breeds Confidence and fans of good sound experiments. [Ad Noiseam]
T.G.V.T. -- "Paralysis" -- 10" -- €15
1998 Power & Steel, PAS 10, (ltd. 400)
Tarkatak -- "Skärva" -- 7" -- €9
1998/2003 Drone Records, DR-34, (ltd. 300), 2nd edition
A North German drone-project that has since this EP developed to one of the main german atmospheric deep droners... Beautiful & dark transcendental noise. 'First full-lenght E.P. of a quite unknown German project, which only appeared on 3 cassettes so far and on a split-7" with DEEP. TARKATAK uses synths and other electronic devices, the music is slow & dull, non-impulsive and dream-like. Very low rumblings, dark harmonies, some subliminal & dense backwards-effects, this is sensible "archaic music" which could be easily compared to old Zoviet France and the likes. Another Mind-Drone. If you're able to go INTO the sound, the sound will pulsate in YOU and have effects for a long time...' [original Drone Records press release] 300 copies on blue-white-red multicolour vinyl and beautifully designed fullcolour covers by Mario F.
Thorn Agram -- "Ar Dievu" -- 10" -- €13
2004 Ars Benevola Mater, ABM 06, (ltd. 497)
It's an outstanding release, subtle and insidious, demanding (and replaying) multiple listenings, a work dealing with war themes and epic remembrances. From the beginning to the very last breath, this disc exhibits glorious choral passages and powerful vocal effects. This blend of classicism and technology is quite unique, and drives the work beyond mere classification. Yet, there'se not a great deal of diversity, or contrast in quality, so isolating individual tracks would be rather unfair to the rest. Created from spiritual knowledge rather than pure technology, and impressively convincing. [press release]
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Thorofon -- "1/11 Privat 7/16" -- 10" -- €22
2005 Achtung Baby!, AB 005
Synthetic disco appeared on United Europe ruins, noisy reverberations stinging ruthlessly, static elastic ritual rhythms of dead plants and factories, heart-breaking callous spheres and revelations of the distortion in the vacuum of colorless urbanistic landscapes, painful intrusions into the human soul's anatomy. Thorofon investigate cycles of a human flesh wandering through all circles of the civilized modern Dante's hell scrupulously. The optimistic tragedy. The Death dances in anatomic realities of the well-known theatre Grand Guignol aesthetics. Relax & Drop! ...If you think that knows everything about industrial music, forget it. We're sure that the new project is the unexpected revelation of this musical style. [label info]
Throat -- "Adult Situations" -- 7" -- €9
2010 Kult Of Nihilow, (ltd. 330)
This all-too-brief EP from Turku, Finland's Throat (released by Kult of Nihilow) throws down a mere two tracks/10 minutes of high-quality "noise rock". Driven largely by pulsing, lightly distorted basslines and crisp, natural percussion, the harsh shouts and mangled singing fight their way forth from the back of the mix amidst guitars that offer up everything from swirling layers of feedback, repetitious rhythmic churns, and weird bends, to the types of surging, angular riffing you'd expect from this particular niche. My knowledge of this style is not what I'd like it to be, so I'm not really sure what parallels I'd draw here (not that it's necessary), but the band seems to draw comparisons to 16, Unsane, and Fudge Tunnel more often than not. I'd lean harder on Unsane than anything else in that list, but: it probably doesn't really matter, right? The bottom line is that this is an awesome 7" and it certainly leaves me hungry for more, which is what any good EP should do! [Aversionline]
Thurnemans -- "Punishment As A Reward" -- 7" -- €9
1999 Entartete Musikk, EM 03, (ltd. 300)
The Tiny Men -- "Ulixes" -- 7" -- €15
2003 Klanggalerie, gg75, (ltd. 150)
Tile -- "Poseidon / Prick Of Misery" -- 7" -- €9
2010 Kult Of Nihilow, (ltd. 308)
Pissed off, feedbacked noiserock. [label info]
Total Life -- "s/t" -- LP -- €13
2005/2007 Animal Disguise, ADR061LP, (ltd. 500)
Total Life is the solo project of Kevin Doria who is also a member of the atmospheric/noise/drone group, Growing. This is his debut release that we originally released as a limited edition cassette in 2005. This album displays an obsessive sense of composition and an absolute mastery of harnessing chaos to create a solid masterpiece. Heavy electronic washes, multiple layers of feedback and shifting harmonics create a powerful wall of sound that at first seems overtly harsh, but repeated listenings reveal a hidden beauty and natural soothing effect. Fans of Growing shouldn't be disappointed, but to make the comparisons to them would be much too easy. Total Life stands on its own, and walks its own path. [label info]
Trentemoller -- "Into The Great Wide Yonder" -- 2 LP -- €25
2010 In My Room, imr02lp / A:larm Music, ALARMLP137
Triarii -- "Triumph" -- 7" -- €36
2004 Eternal Soul Records, ES16, (ltd. 267)
Tsukimono -- "Time Canvas" -- 2 LP -- €23
2007/2009 Release The Bats Records, #37, (ltd. 525)
Long anticipated vinyl version of Tsukimonos grandiose Time Canvas, originally released as a limited CDR on Kning Disk spring 2007. A true gem when it comes to drone-based music, this recording still stands out as Tsukimonos finest moment. Each track is based on a sample on one specific instrument. Slow and quiet and big and brutal at the same time. Incredible beauty indeed. The deluxe 2xLP version also comes with a side-long bonus track recorded in 2008. Letterpressed silver ink on black cardboard sleeves. Liner notes by Matthias Andersson (RTB Records), PM Jonsson (Sound Of Music/Sonic), Gustav Rosengren (Kalligrammofon) and musician Viktor Sjoberg. Also comes with a coupon for a digial download of the album, which also includes The Lesson, a second bonus track. [press-release]
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Ultrasound -- "Death Comes From The Left" -- 7" -- €7
2001/2005 Drone Records, DR-50, (ltd. 300), 2nd edition
Coming originally from Texas, the trio ultrasound (partly ex-STARS OF THE LID) are now located in Den Haag, Netherlands, and Austin, Texas, USA. They did a couple of fantastic guitar-drone-releases in the 90s, climaxing in their so far latest CD-album Hamesh, that went into new musical territory combining melodic songs with drones. With this, their first ever 7 EP, they present two unbelievable emotional touching pieces of guitar & bass-drone-music, where long echoes of overtone guitar-sounds melt in one stream of pure sensible acoustics... ultrasound submerges the listener into a deep salty sea to float on the frail border between air and water, light and reflection, perception and knowing. This is pure yearning transformed into sounds. [original Drone Records press release]
Un Defi d'Honneur -- "Le Mort Homme" -- 12" -- €13
2005 Neuropa Records, NRP09, (ltd. 499)
A Challenge of Honour's Francophonic side-project creates an elegant and minimal atmosphere on this neoclassical concept album, a somber requiem for Le Mort Homme. Design by Nikolay Saveliev. [label info]
Vendor Refill -- "Sysreq EP" -- 12" -- €12
2002 Coredump Records, core_002
Voltage Improves Promiscuity -- "One" -- 7" -- €9
2000 Possessive Blindfold Recordings, PBV04
Von Thronstahl -- "Imperium Internum" -- 2 LP -- €30
2010 Fronte Nordico, VT I, (ltd. 150)
A first volume in Fronte Nordico series of deluxe vinyl reissues of Von Thronstahl's big and glorious legacy which in its most part has never been out on wax before. The aim of the series is to offer best of the main releases of this great martial industrial project in format of 2LP with bonus tracks, special artworks and outstanding packages. The first in the series is 'Imperium Internum' (originally by Cold Spring), it includes the complete album program on its three first sides and four bonus tracks from the compilations of the period - 'Riefenstahl' (VAWS, 1996), 'Thorak' (VAWS, 1998) and 'Notre Domicile Est L'Europe' (Thaglasz, 2001) - on side four of this 2LP set. Regular edition: silkscreen printed folder made of special black paper, two black vinyls in original fronte nordico cut-out and embossed inner sleeves made of black special paper, 12" inlay and 3 inserts printed on designer's matte white paper. [press-release]
Von Thronstahl -- "Imperium Internum" -- 2 LP -- €35
2010 Fronte Nordico, VT I, (ltd. 100)
Special edition: deluxe silkscreen printed folder made of special deep black texturized paper, two red vinyls in original fronte nordico cut-out and embossed inner sleeves made of red special paper, 12" inlay and 3 inserts printed on designer's matte white paper. [press-release]
Von Thronstahl -- "E Pluribus Unum" -- 2 LP -- €30
2010 Fronte Nordico, VT II, (ltd. 150)
Fronte Nordico is happy to present its new release - a second volume in a series of deluxe Von Thronstahl's complete albums vinyl reissues. 'E Pluribus Unum' (originally by Cold Spring, 2001) is out now, it includes the complete album program on its three first sides and four bonus tracks from the vinyl releases of the period - 'Sturmzeit' (Eis&Licht, 1998) and 'Leipzig 'Lichttaufe' 2000' (Fasci-Nation Recordings, 2001) - on side four of this 2LP set. Regular edition: silkscreen printed folder made of special black paper, two black vinyls in original fronte nordico cut-out and embossed inner sleeves made of black special paper, 12" inlay and 3 inserts printed on designer's matte white paper. [press-release]
Von Thronstahl -- "E Pluribus Unum" -- 2 LP -- €35
2010 Fronte Nordico, VT II, (ltd. 100)
Special edition: deluxe silkscreen printed folder made of special deep black texturized paper, two red vinyls in original fronte nordico cut-out and embossed inner sleeves made of red special paper, 12" inlay and 3 inserts printed on designer's matte white paper. [press-release]
Von Thronstahl -- "Sacrificare" -- 2 LP -- €30
2010 Fronte Nordico, VT V, (ltd. 135)
Fronte Nordico continues its Von Thronstahl reissues series. We are proud to announce that the band's fifth album 'Sacrificare', which is by right considered as one of the best and strongest band's works ever, has finally got its vinyl incarnation. This milestone of martial industrial (originally by Fasci-Nation Recordings, 2007) is now available as deluxe 2LP set containing the entire album program plus 15 minutes long 'Pessoa/Cioran Mix' originally included only in the limited 'Collector's Edition' of 'Sacrificare' (Cold Spring, 2007). Regular edition: silkscreen printed folder made of special ultra white paper, two black vinyls in original fronte nordico cut-out and embossed inner sleeves made of white special paper, 12" inlay and 3 inserts printed on designer's matte white paper. [press-release]
Von Thronstahl -- "Sacrificare" -- 2 LP -- €35
2010 Fronte Nordico, VT V, (ltd. 135)
Special edition: deluxe silkscreen printed folder made of special white textured paper, two white vinyls in original fronte nordico cut-out and embossed inner sleeves made of white special paper, 12" inlay and 3 inserts printed on designer's matte white paper. [press-release]
Von Thronstahl / Spreu & Weizen -- "Pan-European Christian Freedom Movement" -- LP -- €17
2011 Fronte Nordico, VTSW, (ltd. 150)
Another Von Thronstahl release on Fronte Nordico, this time it's a split with a young German martial industrial band called Spreu & Weizen with overall topic 'Pan-European Christian Freedom Movements'. Unlike previous Von Throstahl's reissues this LP contains only original exclusive tracks and versions never released before. While Von Thronstahl's style and sound would rather need no introduction, Spreu & Weizen music could be described as true martial at its best, with orchestral samples, military drums, angry guitars and lyric themes typical to the genre. Being a keeper of traditions, at the same time S&W offers a new fresh look on the style, having an ability being as enthusiastic and hitmaking as it's really necessary to do the great martial record. The band has already released two full-length CDs, and the second one called 'Gott vergelt's' (Lichterklang, 2011) which includes a few different mixes of the tracks from this LP, has already gained a big interest from the audience. The LP contains 8 tracks, 32 mins in total. Regular edition: silkscreen printed folder made of 2mm thick grey rough carton with die-cut window showing fullcolour picture on the front, full colour 12" inlay attached to the left inner side of the folder, silver vinyl in original fronte nordico cut-out inner sleeve made of black special paper attached to the right inner side of the folder. [press-release]
Vox Populi -- "As I Lay Dying Vs Club Junkies" -- 2x10" -- €19
2003 Jarring Effects, FX 034 2LP
Werkraum -- "Early Love Music" -- 2 LP -- €20
2008 Ahnstern, Ahnstern23, (ltd. 500)
Wermut -- "Les Cinq-a-sept Post-Neoistes" -- 10" -- €15
2004 Old Europa Cafe, OEMP 007, (ltd. 500)
Debut album by this "HIS DIVINE GRACE" new project. The band was collaborating with a large nuber of other artists for this release: Juergen Weber (Novy Svet), Egon Oppl, Dietrich Von Euler-Donnersperg & many others.... The sound is really difficult to be described... It's something between neo-folk, neo-cabaret & industrial sounds... For sure a masterpiece of neo-classic post-industrial neoist muzak! Special white vinyl! Art-work comes printed on high quality cardboard. [label info]
Wermut -- "Les Nuits Dalmates (Nouvelles Agapes Post-Neoistes)" -- 10" -- €15
2007 Old Europa Cafe, OEMP 013, (ltd. 342)
The second part of a vinyl trilogy after Wermut's debut album "Les Cinq-a`-sept Post-Neoistes" in which Wermut was involving Novy Svet & many other Post-Neoists... Here we go for the second opus! This time involving: O Paradis, Ait!, Echo West... A new chapter of "different muzak": a new masterpiece of "Neoist industrial Cabaret"... Limited & numbered edition of 342 copies on good traditional black vinyl. [label info]
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Westwind -- "Le Vent Divin" -- LP -- €13
2004 Neuropa Records, NRP04, (ltd. 300)
Wiese, John -- "Soft Punk" -- LP -- €18
2007 Troubleman Unlimited, TMU 184, (ltd. 1000)
After almost 10 years of performing solo and over 50 releases in every conceivable format, JOHN WIESE (SISSY SPACEK, et al.) finally unleashes his debut full-length. Thirteen songs of harsh yet beautiful soundscapes that explore the realm of piercing cut-n-paste assemblage and harsh noise. John is also in Sissy Spacek, and has jammed with Sunn as well... [label info]
Williams, David E. -- "Ensemble Experience Project" -- 7" -- €8
2010 Tesco USA, NATO003 / Ur Muzik, UR 002
Winterkalte -- "Progressive" -- 10" -- €13
1997 Hands Productions, V006, (ltd. 1000)
Classical rhythmic power noise record.
Women In Tragedy -- "Dark Passenger" -- 12" -- €18
Turgid Animal, TA365, (ltd. 250)
Dark Passenger is Bob McCully's sonic exploration into the death-journey, utilising the full spectrum of eclectica for which Women in Tragedy is known. This is a record you could play to your mom, and conversely this is also one of the most disturbing records I've ever heard. Limited to 250 copies, presented on quality 33rpm black vinyl with full colour labels and sleeves and clocking in at a little under 45mins playing time. Art and layout by the incredibly talented Elijah Funk. [label info]
Wright, Peter -- "Magpie Attack On The Back Road To Albert Town" -- 7" -- €9
2007 Dirty Knobby, DK003, (ltd. 500)
V/A -- "Absinthe #6" -- LP -- €15
2003 Steinklang Industries / SDIM, (ltd. 300)
Survival Unit, Painslut, Legion Condor, Sektion B, Dawn Projekt, Rtek, Atrox, Green Army Fraction, A Challenge Of Honour.
V/A -- "Finnish Military Marches: Suomalaista Sotamarssia II" -- 7" -- €10
2005 Der Angriff Nr. 22, (ltd. 220)
Second part of selection of Finnish military marches.
V/A -- "Holy Mother Russia" -- LP -- €15
2004 Steinklang International, SK-IN 02, (ltd. 500)
A compilation of most known Russian musicians on famous Austrian label. Featuring: Linija Mass, Lunar Abyss Quartet, Reutoff, Sal Solaris, Bardoseneticcube, Stalnoy Pakt, Lucisferrato, Hum.
V/A -- "Impulse Sealer" -- 12" -- €12
2002 Red Antenna, RA.12a
Mental TSP, Karl Zeiss, Candy Chang, Gen_Des_Com.
V/A -- "Moonlanding" -- 7" -- €10
Helicopter, No.2
A compilation on John Wiese's own label, containing 9 short tracks from The Haters, Zipper Spy, J.Wiese & Cory Ronnau, Spastic Colon, Aube, MSBR, John Wiese, Bastard Noise, Thurston Moore. [YAOP info]
V/A -- "Neue Welten" -- 10" -- €22
2001 Ragna Organisation, RO 008, (ltd. 500)
Coinside, Dies Natalis, Painbastard, Transform Collage, Dighum, Ophir.
V/A -- "Steinklang Industries Festival" -- LP -- €15
2004 Steinklang Industries, (ltd. 250)
Simon Schall, Operation Julmond, Code 243, DKF, Tormentum, Leiche Rustikal, Thorofon, Painslut, Wappenbund, Radio Murmansk, Stahlwerk 9, Sektion B, A Challenge Of Honour, Atrox.
V/A -- "Synthetic Allsorts" -- 2x12" -- €19
2001 Front End Synthetics, FSYNTH002LP
Mr. Deasy, Ambulance / da Paramedics, Alo_Nost, Booger, Spectac, Michael Morris, Americhord, Dunk, Decal, Trev, Rod, Daniel Figgis.
V/A -- "Ultrason" -- LP -- €22
2002 UNE (r)ecords, U-V01U02, (ltd. 450)
Catharsis, Militia, Maruta Kommand, Melek-tha, Folkstorm, Schloss Tegal.
Cassettes
>o< -- "Autumn has come" -- MC -- €6
2006 YAOP, YAOP 022
Dilettantish improvisations on two acoustic guitars, flute and bells. Primitive anti-rock referring sometimes to pitch dark depression of Joy Division, sometimes to cold autumnal meditativeness of a teenager, sometimes to primeval drive of garage bands of 60-ies, sometimes to "hippie" psychedelics. Anti-rock position here is presented not only in inability to play, but mostly in anti-song and anti-pop-musical form: this album is listened more like something ambient-meditative than like traditional music. Fotocover. [press-release]
>o< -- "Autumnightabyss" -- MC -- €6
2006 YAOP, YAOP 021
Ragged gloom of dark autumn night. Severely minimalistic work - one long improvised track played on old Soviet synthesizer "Yunost-21" and recorded with wild overload. Obscure oppressive pulsations of primitive power electronics gradually transfer to dirty ultra-loud gothic noise ambient and finish with unhealthy collage of high pseudo-symphonic trills and crackling electro-noise. Fotocover. [press-release]
>o< -- "Pohjolan Maa" -- MC -- €7
2012 L.Sh., (ltd. 28)
Ingermanland Psych Folk recorded on the banks of Neva, Volhov, Rayvolanyoki and Gulf of Finland. More melodic tracks performed on accordion, gusli, guitar, metallophone, multiple wind instruments and percussion, sometimes going somewhere into the depths of Psychedelic Rock turning into minimalistic shamanic performance and then into post-industrial collage made of birds voices. Features an interlude of rare recording of suite "Pohjola" by Kalle Rautio performed by the orchestra of folk instruments of Petrozavodsk conservatory. Full-colour cover, chrome cassette with colour stickers, two colour photo inserts. [YAOP]
16 Bitch Pile-Up / Gastric Female Reflex -- split -- C-60 -- €8
2009 Wintage Records & Tapes, WRT-40, (ltd. 100)
Continuing the Wintage Tape Subscription series, 16 Bitch Pile-Up's "Fuck yeah I'll be in the Front Row vol.8", comes on strong with one
hard & heavy live set with all the charm the ladies are known for. Sheets of terror/drone action imagine the wash cycle stuck on pummel. The B side contains quite a lovely performance by Gastric Female Reflex. Recorded while on tour through Europe summer of '07 as recorded by Dave Phillips. All the grace & humor the boys are known for, a total baguette gape-a-thon on a stale jizz tape spool. Deluxe box w/more than 6 colors of spray & stamp work + two posters. [press-release]
900piesek / Noisy Muertanna -- split -- MC -- €6
2011 Nomad Sky Diaries, NOM001, (ltd. 24)
Old school, mostly lo frequency electroguitar and electronic noise versus totally retrograd catacomb lo-fi industrial noise material in vein of early 80-s. Yellow-red cover, insert, handpainted cassette, sprayed box. [YAOP]
Alisa-Yhtye -- "s/t" -- C-46 -- €5
2007/2011 Phage Tapes, PT:122, (ltd. 100)
Reissue of a self-released cassette on a Minneapolis based label. Old school noise on various useless and needless waste (metal junk, strings, cassettes, bad wires, etc.), recorded on a broken 4-track. [from the author]
Ames Sanglantes / Nothingisttrue -- "Elimination Of The Inadequate And Unfit" -- MC -- €7
:VENE: (Voor Een Nieuw Europa)
Ames Sanglantes contributes six extremely brutal and very harsh but still rhythmic tracks, among the best AS stuff I've ever heard! The material is close to PE because of occasional use of vocals and fast pulsating noise. NothingIstTrue contributes half an hour of wellknown NIT noise; lengthy, straightforwarded, harsh, without rhythms or pauses. [Label info] First press on chrome tape with b/w cover.
Antarktida -- "Baza 211" -- MC -- €6
2008 Valgriind, VG 10
Ritual Industrial / Martial Avanguarde. Reissue of a CDR previously released by UFA Muzak (2005). Collaboration project of Russian underground musicians standing behind Ryr, Thernoblyad and >O< is dedicated to German researches of the South Pole made in the 30ies of XX century. This disc can definitely break your view on how should sound military industrial concerned with National-Socialism. Insane collages made from retro music, German speech samples and mad sound-trash from Ryr are supplemented with savage industrial noise and rhythms from Thernoblyad and >O<. The guys evidently have outstanding imagination, all together it is listened on one breath. The booklet contains several collages comparable to music. "Deep penetration into the dark waters of occult-theosophic Reich, made together by projects Ryr, Thernoblyad and >O<, mystyc atmosphere of alchemic death, combined with cosmic vision of unknown areas of world and man. The secret of "Last Sacral King", "Haunebu" project, operation "Valkyrie" have become topics for this collaboration. Flying saucers, enigmatic arctic bases, experiments with time and space - everything finds its reality here. Cold industrial sound implicitly subdueds the consciousness to move towards the North. Ritual kicks and chtonic frost, analogue noise hell, burning apparatus and exalted classics." [UFA Muzak]
Auf -- "O]["-- C-60 -- €4
Smell the Stench
An interesting experimental release of Greek project. Art-noise, old school industrial, rhythmic electronic music with analogue noises... Recommended. [YAOP info]
Avrorin, G. -- "Ruskomplekt Rituals" -- MC -- €4
2011 self-released
A collection of performances in "Ruskomplekt" independent art club for the last 1.5 years. Noise electronic entropy. Unforgettable atmosphere of free communication and easy fun. [from the author] G. Avrorin is a member of such projects as Alisa-Yhtye, Huren Aquarium, ex-member of Monopolka.
[ŠĻÓĢÕŪĮŌŲ]
Avrorin, G. & Zubov, Dm. / Booby Mason -- "split" -- MC -- €4
2011 self-released
First side contains the collaboration of Grigory Avrorin (Alisa-Yhtye, ex-Monopolka) and Dmitry Zubov (Hypnoz, Zuboff Sex Shop). In the end of horrible summer 2010 Dmitry came to St. Petersburg. We were hanging around the apartments in underwear, watched "Culture" TV-channel and recording noise on semi-dead 4-track. Second side contains tracks by Anton Gudkov from Siberia - collages of commercial radio cuts, field recordings, junk jams, etc., created under clear influence of Hanatarash. The cassette ends with a cover track on a nice British band. [from the author]
[ŠĻÓĢÕŪĮŌŲ]
Banana Pill / Calypso Borealis -- split -- MC -- €5
2011 Full Of Nothing, fon24, (ltd. 100)
On the reversed-pyramid-side of this tape you will find Banana Pill, a young Russian-Finnish family residing in Helsinki. You kind of know what to expect already, right? Their drones are fragile and nostalgic. Layered melodic pieces, cascading synth patterns, violin and guitar and a little bit of delayed pizzicato grooving. A purest emotion shining though the sound. As simple and as cool as that. The lone French psych-head Calypso Borealis is occupying the paper-plane-side. Kindest, softest, yet murky as mist compositions bring the coolest evening sofa experiences. Chilling mix of synths, field recordings, kalimba - one can only guess what else. We don't even know this guy's name but the stuff he's been putting out is top notch! Each cassette comes with a tiny 8-page zine with drawings by Ivan. There are many color variations. [label info]
The Barracks Of Afghanistan -- "Mother Tongue" -- C-30 -- €4
Spacelessjam, SPACE 12
A very strange release. Analogue and mostly acoustic industrial noise played on metal junk somewhere in vein of YAO 91404 D and K2, recorded into right channel only... Single-sided cassette. [YAOP info]
Brume -- "Recycled Music" -- MC -- €7
1990 RRRecords / Recycled Music
Cedamus -- "s/t" -- MC -- €5
1999 Old Legend Productions, OLP 002
Black Industrial Electronics. Mechanical music with distorted vocals, lots of minor noisy keyboards, totalitarian drum machine and some guitar inclusions. As if Depeche Mode suddenly started to play black metal. Rare. [YAOP]
Circle Of Iron Tape -- 'As Kosher As They Wanna Be' -- C-30 (one-sided) -- €4
2007 Monopolka / Emerson Lake & Headache
Another star from our local perverts. One long track starts from cynical insulting and horribly innacurate black metal - throws up few surprises and goes really heavy in places. Picture is the best one i did, really. [press-release] One more project of Dmitry Zubov (aka Hypnoz, Zuboff Sex Shop).
Cock Cobra -- 'Zink Een Niew Lied' -- C-10 -- €4
2007 Monopolka / Emerson Lake & Headache
CC is all dressed up, screaming and shouting through a dutch catholic religious service on tape, chanting and yelling crazy fucked up lyrics with a lot of feedback and harsh noise power! Made with contactmic's, tapedecks and a small synth. [press-release]
Communism -- "Blagodat' (Part 1)" -- MC -- €11
1996 čļņ, hmc-009
Avantguard / industrial / noise project of Egor Letov and Kuzma Ryabinov (Grazhdanskaya Oborona) - from late 80-s - early 90-s Soviet Siberian underground.
Communism -- "Blagodat' (Part 2)" -- MC -- €11
1996 čļņ, hmc-009
Avantguard / industrial / noise project of Egor Letov and Kuzma Ryabinov (Grazhdanskaya Oborona) - from late 80-s - early 90-s Soviet Siberian underground.
Communism -- "Blagodat' (Part 3)" -- MC -- €11
1996 čļņ, hmc-009
Avantguard / industrial / noise project of Egor Letov and Kuzma Ryabinov (Grazhdanskaya Oborona) - from late 80-s - early 90-s Soviet Siberian underground.
Communism -- "Blagodat' (Part 4)" -- MC -- €11
1996 čļņ, hmc-009
Avantguard / industrial / noise project of Egor Letov and Kuzma Ryabinov (Grazhdanskaya Oborona) - from late 80-s - early 90-s Soviet Siberian underground.
Communism -- "Igra v Samoletiki pod Krovatyu (Part 1)" -- MC -- €11
2001 Caravan Records, CAR 101
Recorded mostly during happenings we held in May 1989 in forests and dump sites. Lots of industrial avanguard (we used metallic constructions, objects and waste as musical instruments), weird studio sound effects and concrete music. Lyrics by GO, V. Shalamov, inspector Savchenko and some lesser known memoirs about Lenin. This slbum features tracks made for solo albums, both mine and Kuzya Uo (unreleased), and opuses from the bootleg avantguard album of GRAZHDANSKAYA OBORONA - Psychedelia Today, recorded in far happy summer of 1985. [Egor Letov]
Communism -- "Igra v Samoletiki pod Krovatyu (Part 2)" -- MC -- €11
2001 Caravan Records, CAR 102
Recorded mostly during happenings we held in May 1989 in forests and dump sites. Lots of industrial avanguard (we used metallic constructions, objects and waste as musical instruments), weird studio sound effects and concrete music. Lyrics by GO, V. Shalamov, inspector Savchenko and some lesser known memoirs about Lenin. This slbum features tracks made for solo albums, both mine and Kuzya Uo (unreleased), and opuses from the bootleg avantguard album of GRAZHDANSKAYA OBORONA - Psychedelia Today, recorded in far happy summer of 1985. [Egor Letov]
Communism -- "Leniniana" -- MC -- €11
2001 HOR, hmc-039
November. A kind of unbridled semi-mad half hour collage of Lenin and post-Lenin related material. A unique recording of child folk song "This was in Cherkassk town" heartly performed by my underage nice was used here. In general, this is a grotesque, multi-coloured, sickly and somehow frightful in its sickness work. [Egor Letov]
Communism -- "Khronika Pikiruyuschego Bombardirovschika" -- MC -- €11
2001 HOR, hmc-038
This is the last album of COMMUNISM and this is definitely a unique and significant work, as it was the last work recorded with Kuzma, and it was fully concentrated on our own selves with our own material without any elements of outside existence. It became a bridge from the old COMMUNISM to a new project EGOR I OPIZDENEVSHIE and late phase of GRAZHDANSKAYA OBORONA. [Egor Letov]
Dannagoischd -- "Emm Dichda Ondrholz" -- MC -- €7
2011 YAOP, YAOP 054, (ltd. 36)
Dannagoischd - the ghost of the dark forest - is a project coming directly out of the deep Alpine and Swabian woods. 'Emm dichda Ondrholz' (in the dense brush-wood) features 16 tracks of Alpine Forest Folk, telling tales in ancient Swabian language about creatures living in darkest fir woods. Dreamy songs, dark atmospheric tracks and folk tunes played with a vast variety of instruments. The rustling of trees, mysterious fires, ghosts and wild animals - the real forest atmosphere. A project by Waldwuudz, alias Cz (Vinterriket / Atomtrakt / Nebelkorona / Battle Dagorath / Nocternity / Sturmpercht). Mastered by Axel Frank (Werkraum/ Sturmpercht). A cassette version of album previously released by Percht. Only 36 copies in handmade cardboard double box with fullcolour stickers. [press-release]
Das Synthetische Mischgewebe -- "Recycled Music" -- MC -- €7
RRRecords / Recycled Music
De Fabriek -- "Recycled Music" -- MC -- €7
RRRecords / Recycled Music
Disguises -- "s/t" -- MC -- €5
2010 Wintage Records & Tapes, WRT-77, (very limited)
All new music getting people excited before sophmore LP comes out. More harsh noise and big beat Industrial creating pools of wasted serial killer psych. Dark and disturbed. This is my main band, and Wintage flagship project. [label info]
Dovgan, Vladimir -- "Audiotrainer - Powerful Tool for Your Growth" -- MC -- €7
self-released
Zombifying audio program for internal use of the employees of a company led by famous "new Russian" businessman. A rarity from 90-ies. Hellish insanity and brainwash, accompanied by popular musical tunes and phrases in Russian like "I am success, I am money, I am leader, I create leaders, I build the most successful company in the world". [YAOP]
Dren -- "Tools Of Pleasure - Instruments Of Torture" -- MC -- €6
2011 Uz Bolo Dost! Productions, ubd17
Hasteless atmospheric Old-School Industrial in vein of Einsturzende Neubauten. Synthesizer and metal scrap. One-sided cassette, full-colour A4 cover. [YAOP]
Dunkel -- "Evighed" -- MC -- €5
1999 Chanteloup Creations, AWE 11
Slow depressive atmospheric Black Ambient with the elements of meditative metal. In vein of "Filosofem". Rare. [YAOP]
Exit In Grey -- "Peaceful Landscape / Environment Despair" -- MC -- €5
2011 YAOP, YAOP 051, (ltd. 71)
Psychedelic Drone Ambient, sometimes peaceful, sometimes oppressive. Colour cardboard box. [label info]
Ezra Found / Do I Like Gilgamesh -- split -- MC -- €3
2011 Noo Slava Bogu, nsb! 004, (ltd. 50)
Ezra Found - Dima Khvatov and Kostya Popov. 2008-2010. Bardcore / martial industrinal / noise / chanson / neofolk. St. Petersburg. Do I like Gilgamesh - Misha Shishkin and Leva Gankin, musical project created in Moscow in January 2009. Influenced by Finnish psych folk from Fonal Records, British obscure psychedelia from 60s and St. Petersburg noise scene, this duo improvises on forest themes. Birds singing, bell, primitive noises. Music for passing out. [label info]
[mp3]
Gastric Female Reflex -- 'The REF' -- C-20 -- €4
2007 Monopolka / Emerson Lake & Headache
Following by European tour of these smarty canadian smurfs we suggest you this record. Gastric Female is an utterly anarchic collage mayhem you can't take any rest of. This consist of pro done old skool cassette with goofy silkscreen insert. [press-release]
Gray Forest -- "Free Spirit" -- MC -- €4
Frozen Darkness Productions, FDP13029, (ltd. 88)
Brazilian dark ambient project with National-Socialistic aesthetics. "The whole ideology of the project is born from Exoteric National Socialism, the worship of ancient gods, the quest for freedom of spirit, from the interpretation of the ancient alphabet, and from the knowledge that will free our race".
[myspace]
Grunt -- "Recycled Music" -- MC -- €7
2005 RRRecords / Recycled Music
Guilty Connector -- "Sabbath Connector Sabbath" -- MC -- €9
2000 hmw, hmw-02
Japanoise classic. The album is dedicated to Black Sabbath. [YAOP]
Guttural Strap-On -- "Vargavinterns Annalkande" -- MC -- €4
Smell the Stench
Grim Swedish death industrial performed on analogue electronics, sometimes resembling Anenzephalia and projects of Ryan Oppermann. [YAO]
Haare -- "Exogenesis" -- MC -- €8
2010 Abgurd, AB-60, (ltd. 100)
After a year of delay we have released the album by this finnish project recorded in the end of 2008. Abrasive, thunderous, psychodelic Drone Noise. A lot of long oppressing feedbacks, abyss of reverberating acoustic noises and guitar scratches are spread all over 53 minutes drowning you into thick resin of anthropomorphic terror. [press-release]
Hattifnatter -- "Liven'1" -- C-60 -- €9
2012 L.Sh., (ltd. 28)
A collection of live recordings by Hattifnatter. Side A contains an edited version of the performance in the Moscow cultural center "DOM" at "Otgoloski (Echoes)" festival on 23.05.2010. The project line-up was Evgeny Savenko, Artyom Kryptogen (M.M.) and Mitya from Lesnaya Pogan'. A half-hour long immersion into a psychedelic forest trip ambient. Side B features three live tracks recorded by Evgeny and Artyom in St. Petersburg's Experimental Sound Gallery in 2008-2010 in various projects: Hattifnatter, Lunar Abyss and Govorit Radio Kosmos (with Nikolay Kalmykov from HLADNA and Alla Ryzhenkova, a live member of BARDOSENETICCUBE). Experimental 15-min. trip ambient from Hattifnatter, ringing and droning canvas from Lunar Abyss and dense drone noise from GRK with interwoven traditional Russian female vocals. Chrome cassette with handmade insert.
Hermit / Gum Tea With Hee Haw -- "s/t" -- MC -- €4
Magnitophone Records
The recording of a concert in Vladimir, Russia, 2002. Canadian-French noise project with a stinker violin and crackles of overloaded electronics versus legendary St. Petersburg's noisegroup (t.net) - side A. Side B is a collaborational radio-outrage on FM-station in Orel, Russia. Dense ambient pulsations by Hermit and classical japanese full-on on toys, musical hammers, clarinet, cars and toy wheels by Gum Tea With Hee Haw. [press-release]
Hum / Misery -- "Landmarks In Mistscape / Vjosla Navjih Rek" -- MC -- €14
2009 Linija Shuma, SHUM 0009, (ltd. 33)
Split-cassette from two Russian musicians. Wonderful handmade box package.
Humans Fuck Off -- s/t -- C-30 -- €5
2011 DOKURO, DK026
Convulsive guitar approach, stomp boxes abuse and overgained tube amps. Asley Facchin (UnaLuna, Simmetria Distorta) and Michele Scariot (nodolby) recorded four improvisations inspired by high energy of artists like Haino Keiji, Thurston Moore, Dead C and Borbetomagus. Guitars flow change itself second-by-second moving from ululating tornado of dissonance to abstract pentatonic riffage... the core of the works is to investigate catharsis of free improv at max volume. [label info]
Iedomu Draugu / Picismo -- split -- MC -- €5
2011 Noo Slava Bogu, nsb! 003, (ltd. 50)
Iedomu Draugu was created by mentally retarded tourists during the festival "Hip-hop Avatar" in Riga where it performed without any musicians on stage, except for cardboard head named Mustafa Ibrahim. The instruments used in this recording are cheap Casio keys, bagpipe made of orthopedic ball, tape deck, plastic guitar and Lithuanian rhythm box. One of the projects of indefatigable Philipp Volokitin (Monopolka, Massive Ejaculation, etc.). Picismo (translated from esperanto as "fuck-up") - first punk / hardcore / crust / grind / noise band in the world propagating international plan languages. Actually it doesn't need a lot of introduction. [label info]
[myspace]
Jah Excretion -- "s/t" -- C-20 -- €5
2010 Wintage Records & Tapes, WRT-66, (ltd. 50)
Harsh and heavy Jah? Kill'in in the name of? Could there really be such a thing, Yes and the artists name is Jah Excretion. Hailing from Tokyo, Japan, Jah creates thick green-weed harsh walls of resin noise. Side A opens with some field recorded whistleing before being lobatomized by some no-input mixing harshness. Side B kills it with some sci-fi/pysch dub before being obliterated in to a realm of damaged frequencies and sputtering coughs of sound. Cassette comes sprayed with red, greens and brown. Cover tribute to Miles Davis, "On The Corner" wrapped in a poly case. [label info]
Joseph, Nigel / Moriss, Simon / Monopolka -- "Radio Largashire" -- MC -- €4
Monopolka
Members of classic staff of Smell & Quim in 97-99 (deducting main character) and not very classic live
line-up of Whitehouse play live somewhere in a someone's private estate in Largashire. Captain Beefheart under prozak, Monty Python under amphetamines, in general, classic idiotic British junk-noise with typical tricks and absence of drive. Serigraphy, tampon printing, pro-duplicated cassettes. [label info]
K2 / Veprisuicida -- "split" -- MC -- €5
2000 Ultra, U 38, (ltd. 60)
Japanese-Russian split of two big noise-lovers.
Kakawaka -- "Kassette Kassette Wassette Kassette" -- MC -- €4
Monopolka, This is Monopolka 66
Krovastyle from Berlin. Krova - cow (Polish) (so you better don't ask in Poland "Where is toilet krova?". Style - style (English). Looks like a title for magazine, but it's not. Cows are black and white, they have 2 horns, cow gives milk and has four calves. It always chew. Hinduists consider cow to be a holy animal. It eats grass and says "mo-o-o". Krovastyle is true rock'n'roll. Pro-duplicated cassettes. [label info]
Kryptogen Rundfunk & DN23rd -- "Silentium Universi" -- C-90 -- €4
2010 CSRC, CSB-01, (ltd. 23)
Radionoise description of the Universe with total length of 45 mins 55 secs, made by comrades MM and DN in autumn 2002. Human factor is reduced to an essential minimum, and eloquent pithiness of the natural signals of radio ether comes to the forefront. "It is only an emission produced by processes that are purely physical, natural, and totally uninhabited, therefore devoid of any linguistic character, of content, of meaning..." The medium is packed in a kraft paper envelope with b/w photo, a quotation from "His Master's Voice" by Lem unique for each copy, and all the necessary and sufficient information. [press-release]
Kuzya Uo & Khristosy Na Paperti -- "Dvizhenie Vselenskoe Sie" -- MC -- €11
1996 Manchester Files, MAN 033
Solo Experimental Noise Rock project of a member of COMMUNISM and GRAZHDANSKAYA OBORONA - from late 80-s - early 90-s Soviet Siberian underground. [YAOP]
Linija Mass -- "Fanatisch Eiskalt Maschine" -- C-40 -- €5
1998 Ultra, U29, 2nd edition
Lo.By... -- "And she was drivin' images..." -- MC -- €5
2006 YAOP, YAOP 025, (ltd. 57)
Original view on radionoise from deep north Russia. Pieces of ether and noise are subjected to maniac processing, mixing and looping, turning into completely unhealthy but extremely sprightly collage. Performed on three magnetophones and an equalizer. [press release]
Lowlife -- "My Icecream ūs For All You Young Girls" -- MC -- €4
Black Arts Productions, Black Arts 07, (ltd. 69)
Pornoise made by a simple recipe: Lolita-fetish + ZX Spectrum. Misanthropical project of the owner of Antihumanism Records also known for his post-Ildjarn act Myself. [YAOP]
Lunar Abyss -- "aut-inJiR" -- C-55 -- €8
2011 Biosonar^Lo-End 011 cdr, (ltd. 13)
Quite conceptual recording of a night live set on the afterparty of "inJiR" forest festival (Crimea, Aya cape, September 2011) done from the desk and representing slowly shifting loops going in three asynchronous layers, no "playing", only cold watching of what's happening. The recording features a fragment of predawn hour, an hour of visions and dreams. Found cassettes from early 1990s, type 1. DIY carbdoard box with b/w stickers and inserts with b/w photos of Aya cape and the festival. [press-release]
Lunar Abyss -- "Concerts Mixture 10-11" -- C-90 -- €8
2011 Biosonar^Lo-End 010 tape, (ltd. 13)
Side A: Consistent mix of live recordings from 2010-2011 captured with a microphone of Zoom H4 recorder. Fluent waves of chtonic sound and subterraneat industrial dark ambient turn into hypnotic loops and concrete acoustic pieces. Side B: Live mic with the materials provided by the projects Ogni Videniy and ZHA, recorded from a mixer to one track. Multi-dimensional choir of ringing percussion and drones, good for some trips and ritual tea parties. Found cassettes from early 1990s, type 1. DIY cardboard box with b/w stickers and inserts with b/w pictures. [press-release]
Lunar Abyss -- "Yolgva" -- C-46 -- €8
2012 BioSonar^Lo-End, 012/2012 tape, (ltd. 13)
Raw live recording from a gig happened on November 1st, 2004 in Experimental Sound Gallery (GEZ-21), with NikNik (Hladna) and first appearence of M.M. (Kryptogen Rundfunk). It all starts with low-key field recordings, guitar loops and mouth harp planks, and closer to the middle develops into spontaneous noise blasts, all second half of the performance is raw shamanic drone noise with tough analogue pulsations and crackling of metal objects trapped in chains of sound effects. And of course voice signals of E.S. and NikNik. The correct atmosphere of the gig was intensified by a video. Essential material for those interested in project's history. DIY cardboard box with b/w stickers and inserts. [press-release]
Lunar Abyss Deus Organum -- "Kujvo" -- C-60 -- €9
2012 L.SH., (ltd. 28)
A modest release on a mysterious label from Leningrad, related to the Heliophagia movement. The conceptual cassette series L.SH. opens with a recording of L.A.D.O., long time gathering dust on a shelf, but being not less interesting than nowadays recordings. This is a weaving of threads of tales and visions of polar lands, reindeer herders' and hunters' dreams. Side A: three pieces consequently take listener's attention through the horizons of life substances of the water world with its dances of ringed seals; the world of earthly beings; and the air world of winds, of star and solar light. Side B focuses attention on the force of warmth and heat as the most rare and important for life in subpolar areas - this is not the exhausting heat of southern countries, but hardly seen smudging light of an oil lamp in a tent, the warmth of living beings in an icy desert. The sounds of this album consist of many field recordings, ethnographic and home-made sketches, mouth harp playing and voice loops, all this is flavoured with distant radionoises and rustles. Chrome cassette with a handmade insert. [press-release]
Lunatic Hot Dump -- "Tjebja Zovut Katja" -- MC -- €4
Magnitophone Records
Loud homemade noise. Lit-hop in vein of Pyotr Mamonov, leap gangsta, cover-version of Kino song, cuts from the radio discussions "is noise good or bad?" with Rastvor 646 and Talonov Net, song "Do you buy the klitor". Instruments: metal and plastic tanks, metal balls and baloons, chinese musical toys, dictaphone, megaphone, telephone, magnitophone, bass-guitar, a drum, etc. [press-release]
Maaaa -- "Kello On Soinut" -- MC -- €6
2008 B-Rush, [B-33], (ltd. 20)
First side of this cassette was recorded in 2007 and sent to Belgian musique concrete label Kourlyk which was closed soon after releasing because of serious desease of it's owner. A year later the project decided to put out this release on a small Karelian label with some new material for the B-side. The release has been delayed for several times because of strange events happening with project members and the publisher during the work on this release. Musically this differs a lot from what Maaaa has been doing before - the A-sise contains one long YAOP-like track composed from concrete samples of squeaking doors, ticking clocks, sirens, etc. Second part is more multi-layered: field recordings, occasional sounds, voice mantras, screams - all this merges into whole obscurely bewitching picture in vein of early works of :Zoviet France:. Artwork - orange cover, all information is typewritten, similar insert - everything is packed in a sewn mitten with attached hand bell. [press-release]
Maaaa / Out Of Focus -- "Blood And Shit" -- MC -- €7
2008 Triangle, TR 034, (ltd. 50)
Blood clot of noise evil from Karelia. M: industrial rumbles of concrete samples, recorded on tape in Leningrad, and a shroud of analogue noise, extruded from Polyvox and materials at hand. OOF: not frequent but melodic synth lines and vinyl records manipulations, processed with Soviet electronic devices. Karelian school of industrial noise. 4-page booklet, sealed tape. Factory-made, 50 copies. [press-release]
Marchetti, Lionel -- "Alpha Z Centauris" -- MC -- €7
2011 Mirror Tapes, MT010, (ltd. 250)
New limited cassette album from this contemporary French concrete composer: with a title like Alpha Z Centauri it's hard not to evoke the praeterhuman drones of early Tangerine Dream and it does have a heavy alien tongue/shortwave from the stars feel, almost like an indecipherable alien communication, with what sounds like channelled voices churning inside restless cosmic electronics. As the piece builds it starts to accrue all sorts of sonic strata, with voices becoming gradually clearer and endless tone sparkling like deep starfields as it moves in fractal shapes towards the infinite centre of the universe. [David Keenan, Volcanic Tongue]
Me & Marta -- "The Nightmarish Stories that a 9-Year Old Girl Narrated to Her Pimp" -- MC -- €6
2006 YAOP, YAOP 024, (ltd. 173)
20 minutes of schizophrenic collaged noise extracted from broken Soviet "Melodia" vinyls. Sick side of Brezhnev's pop scene and childish songs. Easily recognizable typical Leningrad sound. Necrorealistic. [label info]
Mister Fuckhead -- "333" -- MC -- €9
2010 No Part Of It, (ltd. 99)
The material on "333" is made up of free association compositions that incorporate rhythmic noise, pseudo-classical mannerisms, watery electronic sounds, and spastic, fluttering drum machines with wild time-signature juxtapositions. First partially written in 2003, in a 2nd floor closet, squatting in a rat-infested house that only had power in the flooded basement, Clayton Counts mastered the final product in a stretch of about 5-8 hour long days, while we meticulously went over every detail. The 60 minutes of material amalgamates a series of cohesive works made specifically for live performance, in manic, alcohol soaked, dark and solitary sittings of 15-25 hours, then obsessively expanded/refined until 2009. It is composed entirely with a Yamaha RM1x sequencer, incorporating various carefully crafted haywire anamolies that were featured in Dead Tech/Circuit Bending type of art gallery events, and much experience from performing with live bands or working with a wide variety of artists. [press-release]
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Mister Fuckhead -- "Hello Walls" -- MC -- €9
2010 No Part Of It, (ltd. 84)
The impetus that spurred this album happened when Ed End, curator of the yearly comp series, "Necktar", asked me to contribute something based on "perception". I immediately came up with an elaboration from Willie Nelson's song, trying to evoke the idea of human imprints on inanimate objects existing within a room, or the anthropomorphic characteristics of them, without the implication of love or loss. This is from my experience of spending a lot of time in old and abandoned buildings, as well as cemeteries, desolate plots of concrete along the lake, and especially in the flooded, moldy basement of an incredibly old church around Augusta and Noble, Chicago circa 2003. I also wanted to use musical and visual imagery which suggested a sort of euphoric feeling of submersion that comes with the choice of complete solitude and being influenced solely by one's own thoughts/actions within a set location for long periods of time. Originally issued on the now defunct Enemata Productions in 2008 (headed by Rick from Infirmary), this new edition comes with 3 single sided 3x5 cards, a yellowed, crumbling page of a book from 1938 with old English text in German, and a generous amount of soil from either "The Bird Sanctuary" along Montrose area lake grounds, the Morse beach, or Bachelor's Grove Cemetary, reputedly the most haunted place in the country. Select copies come with worms, bird bones, and garbage. Cassettes are black Type II High Bias, duplicated by Andy Ortmann with full color labels inside of a smokey poly case, all contents come in a black 4x6 poly bag. Specific soil requests are not available. Run time is approximately 68 minutes. [press-release]
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Monopolka / Rayonbashi -- "Me & Stupid Rayonbashi" -- MC -- €4
Monopolka, Das ist Monopölchen 82
Trotskyist seminar in cabaret "Barricade" (Wedding, west Berlin). Dave Phillips barks, Daniel Loewenbruck soundscapes, Monopolka plays on ZX Spectrum. Das Publikum reagiert auf die konzerte verstoert, dann amuesiert, anschliessend aber begeistert. Very hard to listen till end (dull), but nice to hold in hands. Maximum idiotic artwork, tampon printing, pro-duplicated cassettes. [label info]
Monument Straha -- "s/t" -- C-40 -- €5
2009 Ultra, U 4, (ltd. 30)
A hard case of late Soviet proto-pseudo-quasi-gothic from rainy Leningrad of late 80-ies. The released was announced by ULTRA as far back as 1995 but because of mysterious disappearance of the master tape in the archive depths of bass player Yuri Kovalsky and it's lucky discovery just in the end of 2008, the release is made only now in mass edition of 30 copies for especially steady maniacs. Sound a la Joy Division or Bauhaus, sepulchral lyrics, the atmosphere of invigorative dread and black humour. [press-release]
Moore, Thurston / Gravitons -- split -- C-60 -- €8
Wintage Records & Tapes, WRT-55, (ltd. 100)
Continuing the Wintage tape subscription series comes volume #5 featuring noise celebrity A sider Thurston Moore(of Sonic Youth) w/ Toronto's own mixed gender free-noise duo Gravitons on the flip. Thurston lights a fire with his wobbly-pop, string-zing induced ho-down on the A side featuring two tracks of total shred and scrape; 12 String Acoustik Regret and 12 String Acoustik Suicide Pact with God. Like a zest bar on acid waiting for the devil at the crossroads, the smoke off these two tracks will surely appease the ones who watch the watcher's, watcher! On the B side Gravitons lay down a sweat dripping count-out full of feedback and fury. Total heavvvy hitters, all thrash & bash. These cats play to no one's time but their own, depending on which space-time continuum they happen to be in. Strictly Irie, 100% proof shot of rye on the rocks served with a hot rimmer of "Preferred Stock". Check the screen printed deluxe box and two posters that come with the hand-sprayed cassette. [press-release]
Murder Junkies -- "The Wolf Fury" -- MC -- €3
2007 Triangle Records, [TR024], (ltd. 20)
Genocide harsh-noise from Russia. Old-school analog sound. Gerogerigegege gone mad. Fine arts :) 21 minute of self-destruction. [label info]
Navia -- "Stulm / Sleepy Metropolis" -- 2 MC -- €8
2011 Biosonar^Lo-End 004, (ltd. 5)
The release of conceprually primitive material recorded in 1995-1999. Sides A & B - unreleased late material of the project, chaos and deconstruction, metal percussion, recorded onto an open microphone of a portable radio-tape recorder. Sides C & D - first recording of the project, previously released on cassette. Home recordings done by binding the wires from various sources. DIY fetish artwork made of b/w pictures and various odds and ends in plastic container. [label info]
Newton -- "Ode To RRR & Emil Beauleau" -- MC -- €5
2007 Breathmint, BM234, (ltd. 100)
American harsh noise, very quality-done, substantial and varied. Unusual polyethylene box, full-colour cover, cassette with stickers. [YAOP info]
Norma Reaktsii -- "Dying Land" -- MC -- €5
2011 YAOP, YAOP 052, (ltd. 28)
Deadly Noise Ambient / Musique Concrete, based on abstract drone, industrial noises and field recordings. Archive material from 2007. A visionary esoteric work. Comes with a bonus from 2009 "Agartha (In The Shadow Of Ragnarok)". A5 cover. [label info]
Nox -- "Thul Okgha" -- MC -- €5
2009 Frozen Wings Records, FWR007
Shamanik Occult Ambient. Full-colour cover and silk-screened cassette. [YAOP]
Obozdur / I Died -- "Fire, Shit And Sacred Face" -- split -- MC -- €5
2009 Black And Purple, 31
Harsh noise split of Obozdur from Ural, Russia, and I Died from Oregon, USA (by the way he owns the label Black And Purple). Chrome tape, each copy is painted in different colour, handwritten info, handmade cover with a collage from Vitaly Maklakov. [YAOP]
Organomehanizm -- "s/t" -- C-60 -- €5
Ultra, U 39, (ltd. 60)
Harsh noise with historical samples from K.Stoukaline (member of Reductio Ad Absurdum).
Organomehanizm -- "Bez Masky" -- C-46 -- €5
Ultra, U 42
PCRV (Pop Culture Rape Victim) -- "Me Tarzan, Eugene" -- MC -- €7
Black Arts Productions, Black arts 12, (ltd. 50)
Drive American harsh noise. Colour cover + insert. Chrome tape. [YAOP info]
Pink Sexdeath -- "I Wanna Fuck You" -- C-45 -- €7
2009 Sexkrime Arts, 003, (ltd. 60)
Debut assault. Completely obsessed bordering on truly insane. Spoken, shouted, and crooned vocals force their way through layers of lo-fi fucked synth and grating feedback. A violent attack not based on brute force, but a well planned slow torture. Rudimentary P.E. A sick soundtrack for the criminally over/undersexed. [label info] Labeled tape comes in an oversized card cover packaged in a ziplock bag.
Pink Sexdeath -- "Origa" -- C-45 -- €7
2010 Narcolepsia, narco018, (ltd. 47)
Russian Power Electronics. Obscure powerful work with sexual context and pathological vocals in vein of Slaughter Productions releases. Cardboard sleeve + insert. [YAOP]
Pink Sexdeath / Rape-X -- split -- C-40 -- €7
2010 Sexkrime Arts, 005, (ltd. 84)
Deranged synth-driven Power Electronics from the USA and Russia. [label info] Labeled tape comes in an oversized card cover packaged in a ziplock bag.
Prosphora -- "Canaan" -- MC -- €6
2009 self-released
"Oppressive collage made of looped guitar riffs, deformed violins, erratic voices and strained moans of an analogue synth. An incomparable example of twisted ambient/noise, amazing in its sincere forwardness. Special artwork." [from the author] A yound Moscow project, quite surreal sonic sketches, like deeeply shifted black metal band.
Pustota -- "Replacement" -- C-45 -- €8
2012 Biosonar^Lo-End, 016, (ltd. 7)
Technological field recordings. Recordings of mechanisms and technical objects working in highly overloaded mode, multiply re-recorded through Soviet tape-recorders and tapes of various brands. Rumble and crackle, clicks and rattling, absorbed by waves of hiss and drone. By conceptual non-intervention in the process of noise-making the many-sided field result was achieved, aside from thechnical interest it can also show the aesthetic and even psychedelic aspects, being a detached acoustic concept. While listening to this material you're not only wasting your precious time, but also getting aesthetic (and physiological - if you amplify it well on your stereo) pleasure, which is strengthened with additional options: ultra-limited edition and DIY fetish-artwork with postcards in cardboard box with absurd collage insert. [press-release]
Pustota -- "Stratification" -- 2 x C-40 -- €8
2012 Biosonar^Lo-End, 015, (ltd. 13)
Continuation of the series of highly conceptual recordings. Both cassettes are the result of multiple (dozens of times) cyclic re-recordings of five empty audio cassettes made in USSR, step by step distortion of upsound based on defects of tape and commutation, partly electrostatic effects and effect of electromagnetic interference amplified by a tube preamp inserted between the tape recorders. Cassette 1 presents high frequency hiss and rustle, cassette 2 - low frequency drone obtained by re-recording of cassette 1 through a rumple tape turned to reverse side. Conceptually the release is intended for simultaneous listening of both tapes on parallel magnetophones, but sequential order is also possible. Ultra-limited edition and DIY fetish-artwork in a cardboard box. [press-release]
Pustota -- "Vasilyevskiy Island Overload" -- C-45 -- €8
2012 Biosonar^Lo-End, 017, (ltd. 9)
Undulatory rumbling crunch of clipping overload, distorted drones and roraing buzzes. The concept of minimal participation in the process of sound derivation. Aesthetics of utterly useless pastime, equal to any other pastime, as much useless. The box will take some space on a shelf which is also definitely the advantage of this release. Ultra-limited edition and DIY fetish artwork in a cardboard box with a set of useless inserts. [press-release]
Reductio Ad Absurdum -- "Live in Youth Theatre on Fontanka 13.03.98" -- C-60 -- €5
Ultra, U 27, (ltd. 50)
Romantic SUB-V 19/X*P.C. -- "Horrible Dictu..." -- MC -- €4
1997 Music Violence Productions, MVP 005
Avanguard semi-electronic metal / alternative with industrial elements. In vein of Atari Teenage Riot and Cloning Experiment Failure, but take into consideration that the band is from Belorussia from mid-90s. Megarare! [YAOP info]
Romantic SUB-V 19/X*P.C. -- "The Make-Up For Four Without An Orchestra" -- MC -- €4
Music Violence Productions
Avanguard crazy metal / alternative with elements of industrial, funk, jazz, punk, samba and many more. Forgotten Belorussian band from mid-90s. Megarare! [YAOP info]
Sadogipnoz -- "Sound Accompaniment for Sado-Machist Games #2" -- MC -- €50
1999 8th Moon Art
Exclusive copy of an extremely rare release from the end of 90-ies. Psychedelic ritual ambient canvas with the use of synthesizers, violin, flute, multiple effects, never-ending ringing bells and recordings of sado-masochist performances. [YAOP]
Saint Street -- "s/t" -- MC -- €9
2010 No Part Of It
One more project from Arvo Zylo (Mister Fuckhead). Digital harsh noise work from 2003 - 2010, in some cases written before a formal introduction to harsh noise was made, out of explorations with failure at making structured electronic music. More musical elements than a usual harsh noise release can be expected. Pro-duplicated, imprinted smoky black cassettes with double sided 5 panel inserts. [label info]
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Shameless Barbarians -- "Pinkmilk" -- C-30 -- €7
2011 Quasi Pop Records, QPOP CS057, (ltd. 40)
Shameless Barbarians is Ukrainian free-membership, having interest in theatre/scene/audio performances, free improvisation, audio/anti-audio objects, sound/anti-sound tracks, spaces meta-integrations etc. Music on this cassette was recorded in 2008 by trio of performers (electro-organ, keyboard, analogue synth + prepeared tape) as free improvisation jam in stricktly reglamented tonal key. As for the "basis partiture" the prepeared tape has been used (vocoder + echo + found sounds). Both sides of the cassette contain the different version of the same two pieces - Birdmilk and Pinkmilk. Versions differ more likely, by dynamic and space-forming nuanses, than compositionally. The result, in our opinion, is a bit old-fashioned synth-music on "sci-fi esoteric-mythologic" theme. Perhaps it's cosmic psychedelic synth ambient. UK-made (pink!!!) cassettes dubbed in real-time on vintage Hi-Fi cassette decks. Professionally printed on nice recycled paper j-cards, all packed in plastic boxes. [label info]
Sklo -- "Klub Rozkos" -- MC -- €7
2011 Nomad Sky Diaries, NOM002, (ltd. 24)
Live cosmic psychedelic recording from the Slovakian project. A bit more industrial then So Shaska!, a bit more kraut-rock then Lunar Ayss Quartet. Hand-made box of spiked plastic, hand-painted cassette. [YAOP]
Sol, Edward -- "Motels & Cupids" -- C-30 -- €7
2011 Quasi Pop Records, QPOP CS050, (ltd. 50)
Thematically, this album is about having slept in stranger's places: motels and lover's beds. It's about a felling of new unused rooms, hearing a strange new sounds etc. Technically, It's a audio collage out of lo-fi found tapes, untuned radio-signals, clear and manipulated field-recordings, retro-samples + some synths. Actually, quite sleepy, claustrophobic and boring music. Most of the recordings I have used on this I made in 2007-2009, when I used to live in my old small appartment in the city. I've decided to release that material in contrast to my actual open-spaced village existence. Real-time dubbed red cassettes. Full-color printed on recycled paper O-Cases. [label info]
Sol, Edward -- "Provocative Manner" -- C-40 -- €7
2011 Quasi Pop Records, QPOP CS031, (ltd. 45)
This one is Edward's rare "pure noise" psychedelic album. Recorded in 2011 and based mostly on sound material prepeared for live performances. Some of the elements are computer-processed textures, the rest are tonns of feedbacks, oscillators, effects, guitar, analogue synth and tapes. Composed and collaged on mixer desk/4-track, edited and mastered with computer tools. Dedicated to the physycal power issue and to phenomena of male-female friendship off the sexual context. UK-made cassettes dubbed in real-time on vintage HiFi cassette decks. Professionally printed on nice recycled paper j-cards, all packed in plastic boxes. [label info]
Songs About Pandas & Copynoisehighclassical -- split -- C-40 -- €5
2010 Jozik Records, (ltd. 30)
The SaP side of this cassette features a number of small pieces varying from looped guitar drones and noises to more direct noiserock stuff. The cnhc side is a one big analogue bubblebath. Limited to 30 copies. [label info] Chrome tape.
Sonic Disorder / Emil Beaulieau -- split -- MC -- €5
2005 Smell The Stench
Noise performance at Spokanoisefest on September 10, 2005.
Squamata -- "Rust Fetish" -- C-20 -- €7
2006 Freak Animal Records, FREAK-TAPE-023
Elite Finnish Junk Harsh Noise with great powerful sound. For the lovers of Bizarre Uproar, Umpio, Sick Seed. Full-colour 4-panel cover. [YAOP]
Stoukalin, Kirill -- "Programma 2" -- MC -- €5
2000 self-released, (ltd. 40)
Russian harsh-noise from Kirill Stoukalin (Organomehanizm).
Strup -- "The All-Kindness and Half-Love" -- MC -- €5
2011 Depressive Illusions Records, cut 435, (ltd. 100)
Beautiful Power Electronics / Death Industrial album brewed on dense viscous rumble, multiple psychedelic sound effects, brutal roar instead of vocals and historical soundscapes. Worth mentioning is verbal contents which goes beyond the limits of "song lyrics" and belongs to some kind of visionary poetry. [YAOP]
Strup -- "Everybody Die Young" -- MC -- €5
2011 Depressive Illusions Records, cut 413, (ltd. 100)
A gorgeous album, true discovery-2010 for the post-Soviet noise scene! Lo-fi collage noise material built on multiple samples from Soviet records from 70-80-s, concrete & field recordings and talented author's poems read in a very expressive way (resembling Egor Letov...). The result is a haunting weirdly atmospheric work, a kind of caleidoscopic dream with cuts from Veprisuicida and unforgettable breakthroughs of the project Communism. Psychedelic "babyphone" for thirtysomething people. Cassette reissue of a cult album. B/w cover. [YAOP]
Strup -- "Shelter (Priyut)" -- MC -- €5
2011 Depressive Illusions Records, cut 414, (ltd. 100)
[Post]-Soviet Power Electronics, like lessons of "civil defense" ("grazhdanskaya oborona") during the times of the Cold War, where kids were taught how to quickly put on gas masks and get into a bomb shelter at the signal of air attack. Psychedelic like all Tarkovsky movies together, brutal like devices made by Soviet tank-tractor factories. Wild retrograde sound in vein of Throbbing Gristle of 70ies, archive samples, bass noise and feedbacks, detached depressive female and aggressive male voices, reading and shouting existential texts, inexpected intervention of guitar music in vein of Ildjarn. B/w cover + paper sheet with lyrics. [YAOP]
Strup / Baculum / Alisa-Yhtye / Obozdur -- split -- C-40 -- €5
2011 self-released
Surprisingly monolithic Harsh Noise split of four projects from Russia, Belarus and USA. B/w cover. [YAOP]
Sunchariot -- "Komodia / Eidyllion / Eikon" -- C-90 -- €6
2007 Observatoire, Observatoire 16, (ltd. 36)
Serie of restored recordings collected under the sign of "delta": "Komodia", "Eidyllion", "Eikon". Obscure post-industrial ambient. Recommended to fans of quality-done old school / lo-fi.
System Morgue -- "Hekatombaion" -- MC -- €6
2010 Heliophagia, HEL010
Power electronics / death industrial from Russia. "In the heat of summer we meet the month of immolation." Cassette release has an additional bonus track comparing to digital edition.
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Tchernoblyad -- "Singles Collection" -- MC -- €5
2010 YAOP, YAOP 044, (ltd. 22)
Tracks from compilations, splits and mini-albums, two absolutely exclusive tracks and a lot of rarities from long sold out releases. Special cover. [label info]
Thomas Bey William Bailey -- "Progressive Lycanthropy" -- MC -- €8
2010 Mirror Tapes, MT002, (ltd. 200)
Thomas Bey William Bailey is a multi-disciplinary artist, educator, and cultural re-searcher, whose work has manifested itself as books, articles, music releases, sound installations, experimental radio shows, and completely undocumented or personal creative actions / interventions... The Progressive Lycanthropy package includes one professionally duplicated cassette as well as a handsome information booklet (also pro-duplicated), in which TBWB explains his motivations in an exclusive essay 'A Weapon For The Wolf Age' (the booklet also includes a number of other illustrations and surprises along the theme of wolves, nature and modern warfare.) The three epic pieces on the cassette were built up from a 'feraliminal lycanthropizer' drone, an experimental binaural frequency supposedly used by the military as an 'audio truth serum' or as a combat stimulant- as the name suggests, this technique was meant to hurl individuals into 'wolf-like' states where they would careen between poles of focused rage and woozy ecstasy. Complemented with other sonic ornamentation and digitally-manipulated samples, this material is an eerie interpretation of the 'lycanthropized' state as it might exist in a hyper-modern, technology-driven society. Conducted in the spirit of the d.i.y. audio research that characterized the 'industrial music' era, this material should have a wide range of effects on individual listeners, from restlessness to wild abandon, and as such does come with a disclaimer not to play while experiencing high stress levels or while engaged in potentially dangerous activities (driving motor vehicles, handling firearms.) If you have ever wanted to travel to a world where fur and fangs mesh with integrated circuits to form an invincible hybrid, here is your ticket. [label info]
Tinemo Abbora / Ego Death -- "Spalttonband #5" -- MC -- €5
2010 The Tourette Tapes, TT#27, (ltd. 19)
Tinemo Abbora play guitar based Droning Noise, vaguely resembling Finnish Mockingwyrd. Ego Death presents here Industrial Noise with gothic flavour. [YAOP]
Torturing Nurse -- "Each Climax is a Fight Against the Party" -- MC -- €5
Wintage Records & Tapes, WRT-73, (very limited)
From Shanghai, China. Brutal harsh noise duo, famous for feedback and crushing guitar terror. Sex sounds on side B. [label info]
Udumbal -- "AhI BUDhNYA" -- MC -- €5
2000 Possession Productions, PS09, (ltd. 300)
Veda-based Ritual Dark Ambient with texts on Sanscrit language and mesmerizing dark atmosphere. Includes bonus-track not present on the original release. [YAOP]
Ur -- "Gettin' Rid Of The Albatross" -- MC -- €5
2011 Taxi Driver, TD006, (ltd. 33)
Wonderful Italian band performing powerful old-school psychedelic Industrial. Cassette edition of the new work limited to 33 copies. [Abgurd]
V.D.V.ZH. -- 'The Collection Of Dildoes' -- C-30 -- €4
2007 Monopolka / Emerson Lake & Headache
Original title is banned as it sounds really naughty in russian. The band itself is less promising and sounds like blackmetalish goof rumbling through your filthy arse. Bandmates dont need too much presentation here either, they owe biggest collection of dildoes - not to mention getting great pleasure out of using them. Artwork pic developes my first ever expirience as porn cartoonist. [press-release]
Vetrophonia -- "Kuomintang" -- C-40 -- €5
Ultra, U 26
Live recording of Nick Sudnick and Alexander Lebedev-Frontov at ZGA studio (May 17, 1998). Ritual trance-noise. Second edition (not numbered).
Vetrophonia -- "Live April '97" -- MC -- €5
Ultra, U20, (ltd. 100)
The Violet Grind -- "Ballad For The Republic" -- C-46 -- €5
Ultra, U 28, (ltd. 50)
Recordings from californian noisemaker Gary Ransford.
[Vlübä]-- 'Arkarp' -- C-40 -- €4
2007 Monopolka / Emerson Lake & Headache
Psychodelic primitive drone rock from Argentina. Sound a bit more grim than you cold expect but, alike another Buenos Airish cripple magus Reynols, absolutely basic and snotty. Gives me replica impression of doing sex piss out of old leeds repair. Old good Skullflowerish attitude and even more boring. This tape will smoke you up, of course. Pro done tape, comes in the case sleeve, with screenprint insert. [press-release]
Vresnit & YAO 91404 D -- "Laatokkalla" -- MC -- €6
2011 YAOP, YAOP 047, (ltd. 33)
YAOP masters the new genre - collaborations during expeditions and walks, and opens the new series of recordings. The first release is a 2 hour long "gig without audience" from Vresnit & YAO 91404 D, recorded during a trip to Ladoga lake on September 12th, 2010. First track is a good improvisation on metal junk, reinforcements, sand, glass, stones and two cassette dictaphones, resembling the early recordings of ZGA and Vetrophonia. Second part - low-key yet dynamic ritual trance canvas of sounds of trees and moss, onomatopoeia and intense rhythms. Colour cover. [press-release]
Wapstan -- "Of Zero And The Void" -- C-30 -- €7
2006 rundownsun, rundownsun no.24, (ltd. 100)
Icy pitch black Drone Ambient Noise, dedicated to the Arctic regions and hypothermical states. Minimalistic cover, chrome cassette, painted by hand. A beautiful release. [YAOP]
Worms -- "s/t" -- MC -- €5
1996 Ultra, U16, (ltd. 100), 2nd ed.
Industrial / darkwave from St. Petersburg underground. True!
Xotox -- "Live [21.januar 2000 Wiesbaden]" -- MC -- €7
Black Orchid productions, 022, (ltd. 200)
Fiducial German Rhythm'n'Noise in vein of Ant-Zen and Hands Organisation. A live recording of very good quality. [YAOP]
YAO 91404 D -- "Atmen Oszillationen" -- MC -- €5
2011 YAOP, YAOP 053, (ltd. 31)
Electroacoustic psychedelic canvas created from processed recordings of heart and lungs auscultations. New full-length album of YAO 91404 D, almost 1 hour of sound. Vague retrograde sound ranging from Droning Noise Ambient to Old-School Industrial, physiological concretics and industrial shamanism. Cover made of vintage paper. [label info]
YAO 91404 D -- "Flakes of Black Ash" -- C-30 -- €6
2003 YAOP, YAOP 007
Darkest misanthropic shaman's droning + mid-frequency genocide industrial. Totalitarian sound of secret laboratories. Lo-fi quality. [label info]
YAO 91404 D -- "Key to Abyss" -- C-60 -- €6
2004 YAOP, YAOP 0122
Unlimited edition of an audiotape (YAOP 012), initially released as a limited to 5 copies friends edition in May 2004. The album is inspired by a poem "Key to Abyss" written by Russian writer Ilya Masodov. Machine industrial-noise in vein of Alexander Lebedev-Frontov's projects LINIJA MASS and VETROPHONIA. Lots of rhythmical mechanopercussion, radionoise, musical quotations, industrial and spoken concretics. Apocalypse as Revolution. [label info]
YAO 91404 D -- "Paoda silingbu" -- MC + 3"DVD-R -- €11
2011 YAOP, YAOP 056, (ltd. 7)
Death Industrial / Musique Concrete created exclusively from sounds recorded in China during the Cultural Revolution 1966-1976. Bump retrograde industrial noise, shouting red guards, speeches of Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and Hua Guofeng, revolutionary songs, factory howlers, sinister drones and beats. Cardboard cover, 3"DVD-R containing a set of documentary films about the Cultural Revolution (in Chinese, English and Russian), each copy contains an un-repeating propaganda book published in Beijing in Russian during that times plus original handmade dazibao. [press-release]
YAO 91404 D -- "Vihtula" -- MC -- €5
2011 YAOP, YAOP 055, (ltd. 29)
Another full-length electroacoustic album of YAO 91404 D. Two lengthy Droning Noise tracks created by means of analogue processing (the instruments of early Musique Concrete from 50-60-s) of the recordings made by the author under water, also from phonograms of choral singing. Chtonic shamanic mood. [label info]
YAO 91404 D / Yadohimikaty -- "Weltstromen" -- C-45 -- €5
2003 YAOP, YAOP 004
Dirtily recorded neoritualistic shaman's rites. Two long tracks: YAO 91404 D - chtonic bass noise-loops + crystal chimes, Yadohimikaty - looped organ sample used as a background for lines of voice, percussion, metal and brass. Primordial psychedelia of Ice and Sun. [label info]
YAO 91404 D / Tchernoblyad -- "s/t" -- C-45 -- €6
2005 YAOP, YAOP 015, (ltd. 99)
Two long sick noise tracks. Live uncut improvised recording of YAO 91404 D - uneasy drone with strange sounds. Wild brutal mechanically distorted voice recorded through long metal pipe. Harsh noise side - Tchernoblyad - heart-rending nihilistic electronic noise. Raw lo-end sound. Exclusive package made of encephalogram printing. [label info]
V/A -- "Govnoise" -- MC -- €6
2009 self-released
The main thing about this cassette is that it was duplicated with maximum record level from a scratchy CDR, as a result some of participants sound worse, and others better than it was on the master. The cassette contains 2 tracks of Alisa-Yhtye, cut-up noises from Samomma Masomma (the author made noise for the first and last time in his life, completely acoustic noises of mobile phone scratched against surfaces), 8-bit mini-album from Red Pillow (Krasnaya Podushka) - everything is mixed without any order with lots of attendant audio-junk, and the tape ends with the material from Wolfvomit, a project of S. Hanolainen (Maaaa) with crusters from Petrozavodsk - shitty distorted metal. [YAOP]
V/A -- "Xypnima" -- MC -- €6
2010 Heliophagia, HEL005, (ltd. 42)
A compilation of Russian artists, dedicated to Vernal Equinox: Ganzer, Ghost Reflection, Erthad, Olmo, Soilcult, Vresnit.
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"The Space Voyage" (Mosfilm / Vetrophonia) -- DVD-R -- €5
2009 self-released
The science fiction film "The Space Voyage" was created at Mosfilm studios in 1935, and the alternative soundtrack was recorded in 2005 by Russian retro-industrial project Vetrophonia. The first issue of this variant of the film was made by Zhelezobeton Film in 2006 as a limited edition of 250 copies, and was quickly spread among the connoisseurs collections. This is the second edition made by Alexander Lebedev-Frontov (Vetrophonia), with simple artwork.
(ad)VANCE(d) -- "Flushing The Veins" -- DVD -- €12
2007 Waystyx Records, WR28, (ltd. 300)
Solo project by Mars Wellink, participant of Vance Orchestra. 45 minutes of incredibly beautiful and scaring multi-layered visual landscapes with true brilliant Vance Orchestra sound journey. [label info]
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Cyclotimia -- "One Day In Wasteland" -- VCD-R -- €8
2003 Seeds Of Time Video, (ltd. 111)
25-min long film assembled from pieces of TV-news about the events of 11.09.2001 in the New York City with soundtrack done by Cyclotimia. A good reminder.
Depressive Disorder -- "Insane For You" -- DVD -- €14
2011 Monopolrecords, 015, (ltd. 250)
The DVD includes a full recording, fifteen live tracks, filmed at the FAVAL music circus in Brno 2011, beautifully recorded on high-quality cameras. 70 minutes of live material + interview and two video clips. DEPRESSIVE DISORDER offer us a wide range of styles almost all based on different EBM/Electro themes but still with an own identity. Outstanding feature of DEPPRESSIVE DISORDER are without any doubt the marvelous performed vocals which can range from tremendous whispers to aggressive screams. [label info]
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Der Blutharsch -- "Live In Praha" -- DVD -- €22
2010 WKN, WKN 38, (ltd. 1111)
ID m Theft able & Crank Sturgeon -- "@ Gallery 119" -- DVD -- €14
2007 Statuory Tape
Two famous representatives of American noise scene. Live show from 2007 filled with the spirit of local Massachusetts patriotism :) [YAOP info]
Nine Inch Nails -- "Live: Beside You In Time" -- DVD -- €13
2007 Interscope Records
Video report about the world's tour supporting the album "With Teeth". Disc also includes 2 videoclips for the songs "The Hand That Feeds" and "Only", outtakes from rehearsals from 2005 (songs "Love Is Not Enough", "Every Day Is Exactly the Same" and "The Collector"), plus phot gallery. European edition in digipak with a poster. [YAOP]
Project503 -- "Feed It Back" -- DVD-R -- €9
self-released
Feedback is one of those mysterious phenomenons that appear almost everywhere, in every sphere and level of the universe, and participate in forming of the world around us. It appears in every complex system and is as a powerful regulation mechanism. Life is impossible without feedback - it appears on every level, from cell and subcell to population, biosphere and social levels. Feedback can miraculously create the whole world as if from nowhere. Feedback is widely used in technics, and is well known to musicians and video artists. Project503 is the creation of videoartist, photographer and VJ Yuri Elik, who is known for his activity as a part of multimedia group 2012, as well as for multiple collaborations with different musicians (Totalitarian Musical Sect, Aposition Orchestra, Noises Of Russia, Theodor Bastard, Brompton Cocktail, DaDaZu, and many others). He also made video performance for Simon Magus ballet by Dmitry Kakhovsky that was first presented at SKIF 7 festival. FEED BACK performance was developed specially for SKIF-10 in collaboration with musician Pavel Miheev (DaDaZu, Mycelium, Silence Corporation, Mandelbrot, Rtut', etc.). [press-release]
Pugna -- "MOKZYAKZHAGTU" -- DVD-R -- €9
2007 KERPG, KERPG_2, (ltd. 156)
Third official release of Russian necromagic project of militarized and denumanized noise ambient. This time it's an audio/visual release. Visuals represent project's live video consisting of b/w horror of "seat of war" at the sea. Poles played by: submarines, military vessels and their anthropoid riders, their collision and deconstruction as a result of total resistance and dogmatic glorification of enemy's death. Part of the live performance is used too. Particular attention in sound and video is turned to the functional wreck of submarines - b/w interweaving of dirty dreadful view of the sea, vessels and hypnotizing rough bass and at the same time soft and melodic ambient and codified black column of noise. The release leaves obscure, cold and isolationist impression. Everybody is in the compartement of a sinking submarine. Everybody will die. A monument of suffering and Leviathan's power. DVD-r in a sleeve, metal sheet 20x13 cm, riveted sailcloth, 2 cards. [UFA Muzak]
Sirotek / Sindre Bjerga -- "Live in Yaroslavl, June, 26, 2010" -- DVD-R -- €9
2010 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT71, (ltd. 26)
A video document of one day of noise life in Yaroslavl, Russia. Local project Sirotek (aka DOR) performs in darkness on analogue synths and devices. Existential splash on the border of Power Electronics and Art Noise, and sociopathic vocal hysteria. Guest Norvegian musician Sindre Bjerga performs for a bunch of fans behind the garages near railroad station. A mixture of psychedelic Ambient and Industrial with the use of cassette and digital players and live ocarina. Half DVD-box with an insert - a cut of cartoon on 8mm film. Completely handmade and handwritten artwork with the use of vintage psy-stickers, unique for each copy. [press-release]
Sistema Bezopasnosti -- "Alchemical Experiences at Home" -- DVD-R -- €8
2011 SiBe Records / IL A VASH Records
Russian dark apocalyptic folk band from Siberian city of Tiumen. Live DVD recorded on February 12, 2009 in Moscow during live gig with ORPLID. Very good quality and interesting atmosphere. The video was shot on two professional cameras, sound recorded directly from mixing desk mixed with the sound from audience. Montage by Wolfsblood. [label info]
Sonic Youth -- "Corporate Ghost - The Videos: 1990-2002" -- DVD -- €14
2004 Geffen Records
Sonne Hagal -- "Only Echoes Remain" -- DVD -- €16
2009 Der Angriff, Angriff Nr. 35, (ltd. 500)
A professional video recording of Sonne Hagal's live performance made in October 2008 in Saint-Petersburg. Shoot with several cameras and recorded to multi-channel device with later studio mix and careful video post-production, this brilliant concert from one of the best neofolk bands is a great example of state-of-the art concert movie which is so rare on the dark scene. The release comes in a deluxe full-colour vinyl-like embossed cardboard cover with printed inner sleeve. 17 tracks, 61 minutes, limited to 500 copies. [press-release]
Stalaggh -- "Projekt Terror - A Visualization" -- DVD -- €9
2006 Autumn Wind Productions, AWP007
Post black-metal noise with guitars and hysterical screams and shouts. "This DVD Displays the Unease of What Has Been and What Will Be...The Nihilistic Emptiness Raging in Your Mind. Visions of Thought Induced Plagues Lead You Through a Maze of Inner Torment and The Struggle to Grasp It....EXISTENCE IS FUTILE!! Contents: The "PROJEKT TERRROR" Video, The Full "PROJEKT TERRROR" Album with visual, A New STALAGGH Track, 2 tracks copiled from STALAGGH recordings by Xadras (20.SV project)". [label info]
Tardive Dyskinesia -- "Abuse" -- DVD-R -- €11
2007 Thonar Records, TR 05, (ltd. 50)
This DVD-R is a re-release of Tardive Dyskinesia's debut-LP, originally appearing in 2004 under the identical labelling 'Abuse' on Dystonia Recordings/Steinklang Industries. All now existant video clips occurred over the year 2006, partially forming the backdrop of Tardive Dyskinesias only appearance at 'Tonwellen Konferenz' (Erlangen/Germany) up to now. Aditionally to its musicial content this DVD-R makes the attempt to pick up the concept of 'Abuse', narrating consecutively the story of a man. Out of his sheltered childhood, by way of mental and corporal violence and due to the abuse of drugs respectively psychotropics he gets driven into an addiction to religious delusions or rather constructs them by himself. Side A (Songs 1-3) treats the growing up of character. Side B (Songs 4-6) deals with his delusions of power and greed, furthermore the getaway out of his life up to his final waste away in the asylum. Tune 7 is a remix of the composition 'Dein Leben/your life', which was created by Heimstatt Yipotash. This song has never been completed by Tardive Dyskinesia. [label info]
Vetrophonia -- "Turning Virgins into Doves / Fabrika Groz" -- VHS -- €4
1996 Ultra Video 01, (ltd. 500)
Performance of the futuro-industrial project of Nick Soundnick and Alexander Lebedev-Frontov in St. Petersburg on August 3, 1996. Bonus - video track of Veprisuicida (solo-project of Alexander Lebedev-Frontov).
Vetrophonia -- "Turning Virgins into Doves / Fabrika Groz" -- VHS + zine -- €5
1996 Ultra Video 01, (ltd. 500)
Performance of the futuro-industrial project of Nick Soundnick and Alexander Lebedev-Frontov in St. Petersburg on August 3, 1996. Bonus - video track of Veprisuicida (solo-project of Alexander Lebedev-Frontov). VHS comes with a fanzine "Fabrika Groz" #1 - art-edition done by ALF, contains interviews with Reductio Ad Absurdum, Chervi (Worms), some translated interviews with non-Russian artists and graphic materials. In Russian language.
W.A.R. (Projectile of the Simon) -- "Galgasreid" -- DVD-R -- €13
2006 RZM Records, 001/06
What is W.A.R. - better to read in desciption to his CD (and even more better to listen!). Accompanied with the sounds of vivacious classical music and mashine-gun bursts walk the Teutonic knights, soldiers of the WWI and of course nazi soldiers, so much honoured by every true military-style lover. Recommended to inveterate admirers of warfare and radical martial music. Everybody march!
V/A -- "Deadly Actions Live Retrospective 1994-1996" -- VHS -- €23
2001 Nuit Et Brouillard, NB Video 01
Hybryds, Anenzephalia, Deutsch Nepal, Allerseelen, Soldnergeist, Brighter Death Now, Mental Destruction, Genocide Organ, Stigma, Dive, Endvra, Predominance, In Slaughter Natives, Con-Dom, Asche, Zoviet France, Iugula-Thor, Les Joyaux De La Princesse, The Grey Wolves, La Nomenklatur. Video compilation (PAL format) of all bands that performed at Deadly Actions I-III. Exceptions: Morthond (not recorded), Contrastate (artist decided recording was bad quality), Dagda Mor (no reason). Allerseelen was not recorded live, but created a video to be put on this compilation. Numbered edition in large box with metal plate on cover.
V/A -- "Heilige Feuer IV. The Video Documents" -- DVD -- €15
2005 Der Angriff, Nr. 26
Video-fragments of live performances by Vetrophonia, Painslut, Bearer Of The Inmost Sun, Allerseelen, Rasthof Dachau on the festival of the same name held in St. Petersburg, Russia on October 18, 2003.
V/A -- "Secret Assembly @ Canyon Club (Zhytomyr, Ukraine) 16th May, 2009" -- DVD -- €13
2010 OMS Records, OMSDVD01, (ltd. 500)
A live document of a gathering of fine post industrial projects met in Ukrainian city Zhytomyr in May 2009. Camaraderie of Swedish Deutsch Nepal, Russian Noises of Russia, and Ukrainian First Human Ferro and Filivs Macrocosmi assembled for an old school dark ambient/death industrial/experimental deja vu. Deep isolationism, misanthropist & sociopath dark industrial, religious noise mantra, and erotic mechanica crisscrossed to form an unforgettable pattern of the night to remember. [press-release]
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Used + rare
Here you can download the list of rare & used CDs and vinyls. The list is presented as zipped MS Excel file. Contact us if you can't read it: mm (at) radionoise (dot) ru.
T-shirts
Ahnstern -- "Label Shirt" -- t-shirt -- €16
2010 Ahnstern, (ltd. 50)
Brown shirt with Ahnstern label logo. Image. Sizes L, XL.
Allerseelen -- "Gotos=Kalanda" -- t-shirt -- €16
2010 Aorta
Brown shirt with album cover. Image. Sizes M, L, XL.
Aube -- "Europe Tour 2007" -- T-shirt -- €15
2007 Auf Abwegen
Black T-shirt with silver print. Size M only.
Aube -- "Le Syndrom Aquatique" -- t-shirt -- €13
Silentes
Black shirt with white print. Image. Sizes L, XL.
Aube -- "Metal On Metal" -- t-shirt -- €13
Silentes
Black shirt with white print. Image. Sizes L, XL.
Heilige Feuer V -- T-shirt -- €12
Black T-shirt with the symbol of Heilige Feuer V international festival of industrial music. XL (50-52) size only.
Herbst9 -- "Logo" -- T-shirt -- €12
2006 Cold Lands, (ltd. 40)
High quality 2-sided TS specially made for the Herbst9, Inade, Land:Fire performance in Moscow, Russia in 2006. Light blue colour, size S.
Inade -- "Fishes" -- T-shirt -- €12
2006 Cold Lands, (ltd. 40)
High quality 2-sided TS specially made for the Herbst9, Inade, Land:Fire performance in Moscow, Russia in 2006. Dark-green (khaki) colour, size S.
Land:Fire -- "Logo" -- T-shirt -- €12
2006 Cold Lands, (ltd. 40)
High quality 2-sided TS specially made for the Herbst9, Inade, Land:Fire performance in Moscow, Russia in 2006. Black colour, size S.
Lunar Abyss Deus Organum -- "Snovidenie" -- T-shirt -- €15
Evgeny Savenko
Painted with special dyes black, red or orange cotton T-shirt of any size. Image on both sides and shoulders. Each t-shirt has it's own unique full-colour painting. Completely handmade. The examples of images can be seen here.
Majdanek Waltz -- T-shirt -- €12
2008 KultFront
Black T-shirt with white printing. Size XXL (52 cm shoulders, 68 cm heigth). Watch the image.
Mauthausen Orchestra -- t-shirt -- €13
Silentes
Bright white-gray shirt with M.O. logo. Image. Sizes S, M, L, XL.
November Növelet -- "Circle" -- T-shirt -- €16
Galakthorrö
Black classic (unisex) T-shirt with white print. Size XL. Image.
Percht -- "Label Shirt" -- t-shirt -- €16
2010 Percht, (ltd. 50)
Green shirt with Percht label logo. Image. Sizes L, XL.
Silentes -- "Label Shirt" -- t-shirt -- €13
Silentes
Red shirt with white label logo. Size L.
Sonne Hagal -- "We Become What We Fear!" -- t-shirt -- €15
Einsatzleitung
This is the first official Sonne Hagal shirt ever! White print on black shirt. Stylish front logo print on breast side and white backprint Magic circle with bandname and slogan. Image. Size L.
Stahlwerk 9 -- t-shirt -- €16
2010 Steinklang
Image. Sizes M, XL.
Storm Of Capricorn -- "Retours des Tranchees" -- T-shirt -- €15
Twilight Records
Black T-shirt with 'Storm of capricorn' draw and "Retours des tranchees" white on the front. Watch the image. Size L.
Sturmpercht -- "Band" -- t-shirt -- €16
2010 Percht, (ltd. 100)
Brown shirt with band photo. Image. Sizes M, L, XL.
Thalamus III -- T-shirt -- €8
2005 KultFront
Red t-shirt with the logo of "Thalamus III" festival, sizes XL (50-52), XXL (54-56). Photo.
Wir Rufen Deine Wölfe -- t-shirt -- €16
2010 Percht, (ltd. 150)
Image. Size XL.
Other
7" PVC sleeve -- €0.50
Thick high quality PVC sleeves, 7" format, made in Germany.
Elefantboy #4 -- zine -- €7
1998
Edition of Talonov Net band (Phil Volokitin, Monopolka, Massive Ejaculation). Russian / English languages. Sonic Disorder, Liquid Laugh Generator, Alarmversichert, Greenstench. 40 pages A5, b/w.
"Iceland Hits You" -- magazine -- €5
2010 Laton
Hildur Gudnadottir & BJ Nilsen, Ghostigital & Finnbogi Petursson, Reptilicus, AUXPAN, Stilluppsteypa, Hubert Noi, Pomassl, etc. The publication allows to look at Iceland through the eyes of Islandic musicians and artists, at Pomassl's view of Sigur Ros studio and sleeping Johann Johannsson. In one word, Iceland hits you! [label info]
Special Interests #3 -- zine -- €4
2010
IRON FIST OF THE SUN, XIPHOID DEMENTIA, ISOMER, LEIF ELGGREN, SUDDEN INFANT, FIRE IN THE HEAD, VIVENZA, Cover art + 2 artist pages I.Vekka (HAARE). Label special issue spots: Filth & Violence, Posh Isolation, Release The Bats, Abgurd, Urushima, Posh Isolation, top-10 essentials Pasi Markkula (Bizarre Uproar), Rodger Stella (Macronympha), tape article: Tommy Carlsson / Treriksr?set / Abisko, Aaron Dilloway / Hanson Records. Japan gig reports from april/may.
Special Interests #4 -- zine -- €4
2010
BASTARD NOISE, MINAMATA, BRANDKOMMANDO, KOUFAR / DISGUST, SICKNESS, RAYMEND DIJKSTRA, TENHORNEDBEAST, NEdS, Impulsy Stetoskopy, Trash Ritual, Tape Spot: Seymour Glass, The Essentials: Seymour Glass (Bananafish), Steve Underwood (ALAP/Harbinger Sound), Kohei Gomi (Pain Jerk), Cover Artists Government Alpha. 52 pages.
Special Interests #5 -- zine -- €4
2011
Con-Dom, Bryan Lewis Saunders, Theologian, Linekraft, Yama-akago, Pacific 231, Infirmary. label interview: Autarkeia. Shop interview: Hospital Productions. Tape article: Zan Hoffman, Rodger Stella. Essentials: Eric Wood / Bastard Noise, Richard Ramirez. Artwork: Alexander Lebedev-Frontov (Linija Mass, Stalnoy Pakt,..). 52 pages in English.
Special Interests #6 -- zine -- €6
2011
Treriksröset, Boyd Rice, Slogun, Perispirit, Mika Taanila, Gnaw Their Tongues, ILIOS, Black Boned Angel, Militia, Ke/Hil, Control, As Loud As Possible, GX Jupitter-Larsen, Sick Seed, Night Science. 68 pages in English.
Vepsian doll (six-hand) -- €9
2009 Hladna
Ritual Vepsian dolls from Nikolay Kalmykov (Hladna). Vepsian doll is made of line pieces without usage of scissors or needles, so that the life of a kid would be "not cut or stabbed". The doll has a ritual character, it can protect from evil forces, take the diseases and misfortunes upon itself, help to gather a good harvest. Six-hand doll symbolizes worship to Triglav, to Trinity. A small sack with herbs is strapped to the doll, you can brew them up and make a tea. Picture.
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