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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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ANTHESTERIA -- "Eis" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2016 kultFRONT, KF-XXX / ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-LXVI, (ltd. 345)
Anthesteria "Eis" is the third CD in the "Znaki" series tracing the "parallel life" of Zhelezobeton and kultFRONT label residents. This collection of Anthesteria works includes compositions created in 2003-2010. Some of them were released on various compilations, others were published by the author in his web diary and some of the tracks are released for the first time. All compositions are woven into a single semantic stream showing the cardiogram of the author's experiences. These are contours of images surrounding the musician during seven years of activity. Since 2010 the project has been de facto "frozen" except for work on the track "Alone" for which Sergey Vasilyev ("Insane Pierrot Cabaret" / "Electrocabaret") read the poem by Edgar Allan Poe in 2016... Anthesteria is music of St. Petersburg - the dusky city standing on water and wind where most of the year one has to know how to keep warm. The theme of Winter is heard in every composition of the album in one way or another. Winter is either already here or inevitably comes in the future. Whether it is the opening autumnal track "Eidolon II" or the track "Exodus" dedicated to the Chernobyl disaster. This part of Europe knows what "nuclear winter" is… However Winter here is not only a sign of desolation and death. Rays of the frozen sun in "First Winter Day" find a direct way to the eyes of the listener who is enjoying the laughter of happy people in "We Are So Inspired That We Glow" and feeling the fresh breeze from the Gulf of Finland… The artwork is done by the famous visual artist and media philosopher Oleg 'cmart' Paschenko (http://humanimalien.ru) who has rethought the classical Anthesteria logo specially for this project. The CD is released in an edition of 345 copies.
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ARCHON ORCHESTRA -- "Cenotaph" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2013 Shadowplay Records, SPR 143 / Muzyka Voln, MV-VI / Monopoly Records, (ltd. 500)
Together with the labels Shadowplay Records and Monopoly Records we are pleased to present you the second album of Archon Orchestra, produced by the well-known founder of Cyclotimia and Sphere Rex projects. "Cenotaph" continues the line started on the debut CD "Pong" - the sounds of a church organ harmoniously intertwine with delicate, subtle electronics while piano and strings mysteriously "float" under the arches of a gothic cathedral immersing the listener in light melancholia. Recommended for the lovers of both atmospheric soundtracks (Ludovico Einaudi, Eleni Karaindrou) and academic "minimalism" (Philip Glass, Terry Riley, Arvo Pärt). However it's also absolutely worth checking out for the fans of "neoclassic" and "ethereal".
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ARCHON ORCHESTRA -- "Pong" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
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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ASTRALFLUIDZ -- "Mÿsteriüm Mägnüm" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2016 ZHELEZOBETON distribution division, ZHBD-13, (ltd. 300)
"Mÿsteriüm Mägnüm" is the debut album of the Ästrälflüidz project coming from Vladimir, Russia, and it's entirely dedicated to Alchemy as Royal Art, opening a new page in the history of an endless search for the highest and principal truth of human life. As Éliphas Lévi once wrote: "The Great Work is, before all things, the creation of man by himself, that is to say, the full and entire conquest of his faculties and his future; it is especially the perfect emancipation of his will"... The musical language of this opus may be characterized as a combination of epic symbolism and thoughtful sonic occultism. Ästrälflüidz' retort dissolves and condenses elements of neoclassic and dark ambient, experimental electronics and field recordings, minimalism and ritual inclusions aiming to disclose entirely the main idea of this work. Solve et Coagula!.. The disc is packed in a matte 4-panel digipak with a 12-page booklet. The edition is limited to 300 copies.
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BARDOSENETICCUBE & SHINKIRO -- "Beyond the Edge of the Universe" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2019 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-LXXVIII, (ltd. 300)
The Russian prophet of dark sonic surrealism Igor Potsukailo (Bardoseneticcube) once again teams up with the Japanese master of dark ambience Manabu Hiramoto (Shinkiro). "Beyond the Edge of the Universe" is their third collaboration work after "Four Noble Truths" (2011, Athanor) and "Inner and Outer Space" (2015, Zhelezobeton). Like both previous albums, the new release continues to explore the ghostly dichotomy of inner and outer worlds, this time shifting the focus to the border of the known universe and beyond... Unknown landscapes full of diverse acoustic phenomena are slowly unfolding before the aural gaze of the listener: from dense layers of synthetic sound and industrial samples to the finest emotional melodies, sensual female voices and echoes of a prepared koto. Such a rich sound palette allows the musicians to create incredible images, in the intricacies of which listeners can spend hours each time discovering something new. Beautiful, delicate and complex cosmic dark ambient music... Artwork was created by the St. Petersburg based designer Cyril Kazanov.
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BARDOSENETICCUBE & SHINKIRO -- "Inner and Outer Space" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2015 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-LX, (ltd. 333)
This is already the second collaboration album of Bardoseneticcube from Russia and Shinkiro from Japan, this time under their own names. The first disc "Four Noble Truths" was released under the combined title of Bashin on the French label Athanor in 2011 and was dedicated to the basic principles of Buddhist teachings. The meditative and contemplative subject continues here as well, now being focused on the aspects of inner and outer space. We submerge in the dark thick matter of sound, fluid, transparent and stratiform. Woven from abstract electronics, omnifarious samples and transformed voices, textures are smoothly interchanging, always showing new visions in the black mirror of our viewport. Makes you wonder - does the perceivable exist separately from the percipient? In any case this is dark, nocturnal, cosmic music, not devoid of epicism and dramatism. Worth having in your playlist for the next space travel!... The disc is packed in a matte 4-panel cardboard digisleeve with artwork made by Vitaly Stromchinsky (X3D5, Eternal Return Records).
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BU.D.D.A. -- "Diese Anmut von Trophäen" -- CD -- €10
2022 ZHELEZOBETON distribution division, ZHBD-23 / Attenuation Circuit, ACU 1041, (ltd. 300)
Bu.d.d.A. (Bund des dritten Auges) was born accidentally – in a dark room in Barcelona. It evolved quietly until Sascha Stadlmeier (EMERGE) and Chris Sigdell (B°TONG) took Bu.d.d.A. on the road and started to take the project seriously. This resulted not only in various EPs, split releases and compilation tracks, but also in a bona fide album which you can hold in your hand and put in your player. What's inside? Mesmerising ambient music! Bu.d.d.A. is Sascha Stadlmeier and Chris Sigdell doing the unexpected... playing real instruments! "Diese Anmut von Trophäen" ("This grace of trophies" in German) features not only trademark Bu.d.d.A. tracks, but also guest appearances by such illustrious figures as Bees from COMMON EIDER KING EIDER, DREKKA and BEBAWINIGI. Think of Earth meets Troum together with Brian Eno on LSD... "Diese Anmut von Trophäen" is released by the joint efforts of Zhelezobeton Distribution Division (Russia) and Attenuation Circuit (Germany). The CD is packed in double cardoard sleeve with three inserts.
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BU.D.D.A. -- "Diese Anmut von Trophäen" -- C-65 -- €10
2022 ZHELEZOBETON distribution division, ZHBD-23 / Attenuation Circuit, ACT 1058, (ltd. 70)
Bu.d.d.A. (Bund des dritten Auges) was born accidentally – in a dark room in Barcelona. It evolved quietly until Sascha Stadlmeier (EMERGE) and Chris Sigdell (B°TONG) took Bu.d.d.A. on the road and started to take the project seriously. This resulted not only in various EPs, split releases and compilation tracks, but also in a bona fide album which you can hold in your hand and put in your player. What's inside? Mesmerising ambient music! Bu.d.d.A. is Sascha Stadlmeier and Chris Sigdell doing the unexpected... playing real instruments! "Diese Anmut von Trophäen" ("This grace of trophies" in German) features not only trademark Bu.d.d.A. tracks, but also guest appearances by such illustrious figures as Bees from COMMON EIDER KING EIDER, DREKKA and BEBAWINIGI. Think of Earth meets Troum together with Brian Eno on LSD... "Diese Anmut von Trophäen" is released by the joint efforts of Zhelezobeton Distribution Division (Russia) and Attenuation Circuit (Germany). Bronze cassettes with black silk-screen body print, ivory cases, full-colour foldout covers with download coupon.
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CHURCH OF HOWLING DOG -- "Umbra" -- CD -- €9 [-50%]
2016 Evil Dead Productions, EDP 017 / ZHELEZOBETON Distribution Division, ZHBD-09, (ltd. 300)
The talented multi-instrumentalist Kein from Ekaterinburg, Russia has already proven himself in such projects as Sol Mortuus, Prognostic Zero and Zinc Room, and now the time has come for his new incarnation - Church Of Howling Dog. The labels Evil Dead Productions and Zhelezobeton Distribution Division present his first full-length work "Umbra"... "Umbra" is slow hypnotic instrumental psychedelic rock. Reverberated guitar chords, slides and coarse fuzz, a dispassionate drum machine and psychedelic string percussion, delicate organ pads, the hum of guitar amplifiers and the wheeze of cello - these are the elements creating this tapestry. Pleasantly enough, the author knows how to treat silence as it plays a significant role in his compositions - each note takes its time to fade away, mesmerizing the listener with its vibrations... Some familiar musical landmarks to be mentioned here are Earth albums "Hibernaculum" and "The Bee Made Honey in the Lion's Skull" (although Earth is more monotonous and straightforward), and the famous OST for the Jim Jarmush movie "Dead Man" by Neil Young.
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CLOSING THE ETERNITY -- "Forever and a Day" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2016 Muzyka Voln, MV-X, (ltd. 300)
The Russian project Closing The Eternity hardly needs an introduction. Since the beginning of its activity 15 years ago, in 2001, it has released a good amount of recordings on various respected labels both in Russia and abroad. In its music the project aims to digress from everything earthly and mundane, bringing attention to the phenomena and processes lying outside of the realm of human existence... The material of this album was recorded back in 2004 and has long been awaiting the right moment for manifestation. It seems as if this work was specially created for the Muzyka Voln label (the title of which translates as "music of waves") as these two words describe it best. Three long tracks flowing one into another dissolve the listener's attention in endless tides of gentle electronic ambience. An absolutely pacifying and tranquil work imbued with a majestic contemplative atmosphere... The artwork of the album features a series of photographs by Arseniy Vinovarov made literally on the edge of the Earth - at the shore of the Arctic Ocean, where one unwillingly faces the inhuman flow of time, where eternity meets infinity…
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CREATION VI & UHUSHUHU -- "Δ" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2016 Muzyka Voln, MV-X, (ltd. 300)
Masters of the new wave of Russian drone ambient present their collaboration work. A narrative streaming out of the green thicket of a fictional forest as a cloud of purple fog pierced by flashes of resonating harmonies and ghostly echoes. A dense organic cobweb of field recordings, voices, acoustic instruments and electronic manipulations. A dream filled with bright colours or a psychedelic slumber with a whirling kaleidoscope of asymmetric images and visions. A sonic fantasy so pleasant to dive into together with the musicians and spend some time in the company of your own subconscious mind…
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CYCLOTIMIA -- "Celestis: Space Ceremonial Music" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
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 -- "The Invisible Hand Of Market" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2014 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-XXXVIII / Shadowplay Records, SPR 148 / Monopoly Records, (ltd. 300)
The Moscow-based project Cyclotimia, well-known for its long-standing interest for the world of global finance, stockmarket speculators and multinational corporations, presents its new work "The Invisible Hand of Market". According to the musicians, this is not a conceptual album dedicated to the economic term of Adam Smith. In this case it's rather a metaphor "invisibly" linking together various compositions created during 2010-2013... The album's program consists of ten polystylistical tracks combining such genres as "post-industrial", "minimal(ism)", "dark ambient", "experimental" and "downtempo". The main line is a connection between the "sacral" and the "futuristic", a combination of a liturgical atmosphere and electronic music based on the above-mentioned styles... A separate part of the disc belongs to a 20 min. long electro-acoustic suite "Oil & Gas Colony" in five acts. Parts of vocal, classical string, wind and percussion instruments were recorded inside a dome of an abandoned radar station - a carbon fiber sphere 20 meters in diameter with a unique acoustic environment. This monumental work tells about the malignant nature of the resource-based economic model in modern Russia.
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CYCLOTIMIA -- "Music for Stockmarkets" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
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 -- "Regnum" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2020 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-LXXXII / Monopoly Records / Shadowplay Records, SPR 162, (ltd. 300)
More than five years of silence could suggest that the album "The Invisible Hand of Market" released in 2014 was the last sign of life of this Russian project. However, the musicians of the Cyclotimia duo, who consistently create soundtracks for a society of global capital dominance in their works, still have something to say, as it turns out... The album “Regnum” consists of six tracks (the CD version additionally contains a long-playing bonus track) and lasts for about half an hour. The compositions have a distinctive vibe of “the blessed 80ies” typical for the synthwave genre that has been in fashion in recent years, yet they distinctively go beyond the borders of this predominantly stereotyped style towards rhythmic post-industrial... "Regnum" comes out in turbulent times. Perhaps it’s no coincidence that the cover shows a man walking on a deserted night street into the unknown? And although the musical atmosphere doesn’t inspire anything optimistic in the end, the opening track with the characteristic name “Battlefield” is apparently intended to set the listener in a combat mood in relation to the future.
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CYCLOTIMIA -- "Sci-Fi Music: Soundtrack to a Nonexistent Movie" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
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 [-50%]
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 [-50%]
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 -- €10 [-50%]
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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DMT -- "Ultimatum" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2015 kultFRONT, KF-XXIV / ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-L, (ltd. 300)
DMT "Ultimatum" is the second album in "Die Zeichen" series run by kultFRONT and ZHELEZOBETON labels. The first part was released in 2013 - Sal Solaris "Die Scherben 2004-2010". The new album is a tribute to Dmitriy Tolmatskiy who unexpectedly left us in 2009. Dmitriy was one of the few journalists who popularized the alternative culture in Russia. In late 90-ies he created the web portal RWCDAX and his famous "Industrial Culture Extended FAQ" which unveiled previously unknown layers of post-industrial art for many Russians... "Ultimatum" shows the varied musical and stylistical planes of DMT. It mainly consists of compositions never officially released before, taken from CDRs which Dmitriy gave to his friends. There are also a few tracks from the compilations he had time to participate. Unfortunately not always were there notes and years of recordings. One track was digitized from an untitled audiocassette kept by the musician's friends in his native city of Saratov. The album provides a glimpse into various periods of DMT's sonic experiments from 1999 to 2008. It also features fragments of a live performance together with Alexei Borisov in St. Petersburg in December 2005. For bandcamp users there is a bonus archive of three compositions. One remix by DMT of the Species Of Fishes track. One remix of DMT track by the Ghost Reflection project. And an extended version of the title track from the unreleased album "Cold Autumn in Belgrade" recorded in 2000. The artwork is done by the famous visual artist and media philosopher Oleg 'cmart' Paschenko (http://humanimalien.ru | http://www.conclave.ru).
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EONIC -- "Secret Land" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
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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EXIT IN GREY -- "Control Points" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2020 Muzyka Voln, MV-XII / Frozen Light, FZL 072, (ltd. 300)
The new album by the Moscow region based drone ambient project Exit In Grey is released by joint forces of the labels Muzyka Voln and Frozen Light. It represents the completion of the symbolic trilogy started by “Shadows of Stillness” (2013, Muzyka Voln) and continued by “One Lumen from the Past” (2016, Frozen Light)... Exit In Grey stays true to his creative method: using an electric guitar, voice, effects, field recordings, radio waves & digital synthesizers he creates spatial sound canvases immersing the listener in gentle melancholic and contemplative atmospheres and dissolving his attention in endless fields of sonic vibrations... The CD is released in an edition of 300 copies in 6-panel matte digisleeve.
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EXIT IN GREY -- "Hysterics of the Eternal" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2016 Frozen Light, FZL 044 / ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-LXIV, (ltd. 300)
Radiowaves rustle, layers of ether interference whisper and an electric guitar carefully draws gentle tonal vibrations… The new album by Exit In Grey is indeed largely based on sounds of radio noises, so close to our heart. Although of course this is not a noisy work but rather oneiric, contemplative, shimmering… In two multilayered 20-min long collages we can hear the elements of nature and man-made objects, fragments of random radio interceptions and melancholic guitar parts piercing dark space with its bright emotionality... The material was recorded by Sergey [S] in March 2011 and mastered by Oleg Hurvatov (Interior Disposition) in 2016. The disc is released in cooperation with the Frozen Light label in an edition of 300 numbered copies in a standard jewel-case with an 8-page booklet.
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EXIT IN GREY -- "Shadows of Stillness" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2013 Muzyka Voln, MV-VIII, (ltd. 300)
Exit in Grey is one of the main musical incarnations of Sergey [S] from Moscow-area town Pushkino, who is also known for many other projects including Five Elements Music, Sister Loolomie and labels Still*Sleep and Semperflorens. Starting from 2004 Exit In Grey has released over a dozen of albums on CD-Rs and cassettes, mainly on his own label Daphnia Recordsand also on such labels as Mystery Sea, Abgurd and YAOP. His first factory-pressed CD "Perception" came out last year while "Shadows of Stillness" becomes the second album released in this format.... Exit In Grey has quickly developed it's own recognizable style - very calm, a bit melancholic drone ambient with gentle melodies and rugged textures made of found sounds. Four compositions of "Shadows of Stillness" follow the same path: harmonious currents of droning guitars and reed organ are framed by slow waves of resonances dissolving into each other, signals and loops crafted from field recordings, sounds of a Polyvox synthesizer and very long frequency radiowaves from the Earth's atmosphere and space bodies.... The album is dedicated to the beauty and grandeur of Stillness which we can so rarely notice in our everyday bustle...
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HATTIFNATTER -- "Barometrizm" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2015 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-LIX, (ltd. 333)
Hattifnatter is a collaboration project by Evgeniy Savenko (Lunar Abyss, etc.) and M.M. (Kryptogen Rundfunk) formed in 2007 for free-form exploration of the psychoactive electroacoustic ambience and only now matured enough for this first full-length studio album. The material has been recorded in 2007-2013, infused and distilled, redefined and again sent to distillation and transformation to finally form into six compositions full of weird oneiric images... Through the clouds of omnifarious rustles, hisses and crackles one can see the landscape built by analogue pulsations and multiplied echoed acoustic percussion clatter. Swarming in the bush of field recordings and random sound combinations are the little voices of the unknown creatures. The air of atonal guitar drones is soaked in melodic tunes, feedbacks and colourful multi-layered effects... Just like the doctor prescribed... Soulful mastering by Kshatriy (http://kshatriy.pro). The physical manifestation of this release is made as a CD in a 4-panel cardboard digisleeve and as an audio cassette. The digital version can be bought on bandcamp, CDBaby and iTunes.
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HYPNOZ -- "Breath of Earth" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
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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I.M.M.U.R.E. -- "The New Circle" -- CD-R -- €7 [-50%]
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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THE INFANT CYCLE -- "Drop-out Center" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2012 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-XXXIV, (ltd. 300)
"Drop-out Center" is the anniversary album of The Infant Cycle project celebrating 20 years of the personal creative journey of the Canadian musician Jim DeJong which began in November 1992 after leaving the band Mind Skelp-cher. During this time Jim has recorded and released a massive amount of material both on his own label The Ceiling and on other respectable underground labels such as EE Tapes, Drone Records, Afe Records, etc. and this is his second full-length album on CD after "The Sand Rays" (Diophantine Discs, 2009)... The album includes nine abstract compositions recorded with Jim's trademark approach. Using such sound sources as shortwave radio, vinyl surface, videotape, bird cage and also more "normal" instruments (bass guitar, electric mandolin, Korg Poly-800 synthesizer) he creates slowly drifting multilayered textures with sometimes unexpected stops and narration twists. Sharp crispy foreground sound is set off by gentle background waves of resonating feedbacks forming intelligent electroacoustic glitch / drone with scratchy tangibility, meditativeness and even a sort of romanticism. This is music that evokes imagination and easily paints images in the listener's mind... "Turn on!"
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THE INFANT CYCLE -- "Playout" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-XI, (ltd. 250)
The Infant Cycle is a project of the Canadian artist Jim DeJong working under this name since 1994. It may seem surprising, but all these 13 years he remained in the underground of experimental music, and his name is well-known only to inveterate enthusiasts and explorers of this strange phenomenon. The project has put out 6 full-length albums on cassettes and CD-Rs, several singles and an amazing series of minions called "Clear Shape" released in ultra-limited editions on transparent vinyls of unusual forms (square, hexagon and triangle). Jim has also recorded a lot of collaboration works with such musicians as Big City Orchestra, Dronaement, Orphx, Aidan Baker, Delphium, etc., some of them were published by his own label The Ceiling... The Infant Cycle's music has never been notable for tensity or ornateness, instead of this it focuses on the subtle aspects of sounding of separate timbres and their combinations. Such textural orientation allows to create a completely peculiar effect, and the seeming minimalism carries into the contemplation of the infinity of possible microsound combinations. In this connection, Jim knows how to get on with both rhythms and drone ambient prostration. Among his favourite instruments are Poly-800, shortwaves, feedback, field recordings and altered vinyl records... Vinyls deserve special mentioning. Jim carved the runout grooves of records and thus created simple and unembellished (yet in some ways, unpredictable) rhythm patterns. Once he decided to start a project severely limiting the sound sources to one carved playout and the operational sounds of his old 4-speed Califone record player. Additional noises were generated by running a razor blade along the platter while it was spinning (the blade at different altitudes, and the platter at different speeds which was picked up by the needle), and the tone arm being vibrated into different tones by a violin bow (amplified via the needle)... An early track (called, fittingly "Playout (Early)") appeared on "Lágrimas De Miedo N°8 - Sund", a compilation CD coming with the eighth issue of France's "Fear Drop" magazine (2001). Two excerpts were also released as a free promotional 5" by The Ceiling to announce the then-upcoming CD release of "Playout" on the American label Merchants Of Sound. But the label soon folded out, and the recording was lying and lying in the bins of The Infant Cycle's archive. And now we are infinitely glad to have an opportunity to present this work to your attention!
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KRCFHL -- "s/t" -- CS -- €12
2021 kultFRONT, KF-XXXIX / ZHELEZOBETON Distribution Division, ZHBD-21, (ltd. 50)
The recording entitled "KRCFHL" was made on September 28th, 2005 by the musicians of the projects Kryptogen Rundfunk, Cisfinitum and Hladna in the home studio of Evgeniy Voronovskiy in Moscow, right before the performance at the Our Baikonur mini-festival. Armed with analogue drum-machines, synthesizers and an electric violin with effect processors, this spontaneous trio delved into researching the present moment, moving along the rhythmic soundscapes filled both with emotional cosmic reveries and noisy psychedelic visions... The recording was kept "in the drawer" for 16 years until kultFRONT dug it out and turned it into this release, prepared with the support of ZHELEZOBETON Distribution Division. In addition to the original material, the label invited four projects – Notum, bezvlastje, Svetlo111 and Symphocat – to participate with remixes which showed their unique visions and peculiarly expanded the sound pallette of this album... The edition is embellished with the photos of old St. Petersburg walls and is made in the form of 50 copies of 85-minute audio cassettes. Digital version is available on bandcamp.
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KRCFHL -- "s/t" -- 2 CD -- €14
2021/2011 kultFRONT, KF-XXXIX / ZHELEZOBETON Distribution Division, ZHBD-21, (ltd. 200)
The recording entitled "KRCFHL" was made on September 28th, 2005 by the musicians of the projects Kryptogen Rundfunk, Cisfinitum and Hladna in the home studio of Evgeniy Voronovskiy in Moscow, right before the performance at the Our Baikonur mini-festival. Armed with analogue drum-machines, synthesizers and an electric violin with effect processors, this spontaneous trio delved into researching the present moment, moving along the rhythmic soundscapes filled both with emotional cosmic reveries and noisy psychedelic visions... The recording was kept "in the drawer" for 16 years until kultFRONT dug it out and turned it into this release, prepared with the support of ZHELEZOBETON Distribution Division. In addition to the original material, the label invited four projects – Notum, bezvlastje, Svetlo111 and Symphocat – to participate with remixes which showed their unique visions and peculiarly expanded the sound pallette of this album... The edition is embellished with the photos of old St. Petersburg walls and is made in the form of a double CD in a matte 4-panel digisleeve. Digital version is available on bandcamp.
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KRYPTOGEN RUNDFUNK -- "Elusive Trajectories 2003-2006" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2019 kultFRONT, KF-XXXIII / ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-LXXIV, (ltd. 300)
The series of archive recordings "Znaki / Die Zeichen" continues! The labels kultFRONT and ZHELEZOBETON present its fourth installment – the collection of compositions of the St. Petersburg-based noise project Kryptogen Rundfunk, recorded in 2003-2006. Most of these tracks were released on small-edition compilations of the same time, but some of them remained unpublished until now... This album offers a fresh look at the early period of Kryptogen Rundfunk’s sound in all its diversity. Sharp injections of digital glitches are polished by dense electronic drone and radio noises, raw sound of Soviet analogue synthesizers pervades the space with low-frequency vibrations, drum machines rumble in a slow industrial dance with a sampler used instead of a vocalist... The textures of the tracks vary from dark abstract drone ambient to edgy dashing noise, sometimes passing the stage of funny delusional rhythmic sketches. Each composition here is a separate short story, from a 12-minute immersion into the depths of radio waves on a psychedelic submarine to a 1-second collage made of several found sounds... Traditionally for the "Znaki" series the artwork was created by the media artist Oleg Paschenko (http://humanimalien.ru).
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KRYPTOGEN RUNDFUNK -- "Elusive Trajectories" -- t-shirt -- €18
2019 ZHELEZOBETON, (ltd. 40)
Based on the cover design of "Elusive Trajectories 2003-2006" created by Oleg Paschenko (http://humanimalien.ru), a small edition of Kryptogen Rundfunk’s t-shirts has also been printed. The t-shirts are made of premium quality “penye” fabric and are available in all sizes M, L and XXL.
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KRYPTOGEN RUNDFUNK -- "Liquid Circuits" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2016 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-LXV, (ltd. 333)
"Liquid Circuits" is the second solo studio album by Kryptogen Rundfunk released 12 years after the debut album "22.SZ" (Mechanoise Labs, 2004). The gap between these two works was filled with many collaborations and split recordings with such artists as Hladna, Lunar Abyss, Neznamo, Umpio, Forgttn, to name a few, and many tracks on various experimental and noise music compilations. Behind the project stands M.M., also known for running the ZHELEZOBETON and Muzyka Voln labels and participating in other projects such as Hattifnatter, Govorit Radio Kosmos, etc... The album is built on the use of analogue synthesizers and effect processors, various found sounds, samples and, of course, traditional for this project multiple kinds of radio noises and interceptions recorded both in home studio and various unusual places (the Caucasus mountains, Kola polar region, several cities of Western Europe…). Kryptogen Rundfunk combines elements of sound collage, drone and dark ambient, power electronics, chaotic and structured noise, weaving his multilayered musical fabric from them. Sonic streams radiate with all shades of frequencies, looped pieces of interference spiral out and soft rhythmic pulsations make room for scorching detailed electric noise burning out holes in sonic perception... Sound mastering performed by Kshatriy (http://kshatriy.pro). The compact disc edition is limited to 333 copies. Digital version can be purchased at bandcamp (including high resolution 24-bit FLAC), CDBaby, iTunes and other platforms of digital distribution.
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KSHATRIY -- "From Heart to Heart" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2013 Muzyka Voln, MV-VII, (ltd. 500)
Kshatriy pleases his fans with a regularity of his musical experiences and Muzyka Voln label gladly presents his third CD-album "From Heart to Heart". Many reviewers referred Kshatriy's previous works to space dark ambient and the new album also has a cosmogonic feel to its musical images. This time everything takes place in utterly deep space, in the immense emptiness that contains the whole world. Swinging on slow waves which shimmer in all possible colours we contemplate monumental galactic metamorphoses. Slowly unwinding are the tight spirals of synthesizer drone, rhythmic patterns pulsate and emotional melodies are cut with rare flashes of voice samples. Smoothly flows the sound, charged with energy, transmitting the experience of self-awareness from the musician to the listener... from heart to heart.
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KSHATRIY -- "Slepok Soznaniya" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
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 -- €10 [-50%]
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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LUNAR ABYSS DEUS ORGANUM -- "Agdy" -- CD -- €10
2022 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-LXXXVII / kultFRONT, KF-LX, (ltd. 200)
The new edition in the “Znaki / Die Zeichen” series, published by kultFRONT and ZHELEZOBETON labels, is a collection of rare recordings of the St. Petersburg project Lunar Abyss Deus Organum, which traces its history back to 1998. For almost a quarter of a century its author Evgeniy Savenko has been weaving bizarre patterns of acoustic harmonies, shamanic incantations and electronic oscillations, creating multi-layered visions of dreams from parallel worlds... The first compilation of miscellaneous tracks, named “Uzor”, was released by the author himself in 2011 and contained compositions from 2002-2004, while the current edition includes tracks from the later period of 2003-2013. Some of them were originally released on such cult Russian compilations as “Zvukolan”, “Muzyka Voln”, “Thalamus II”, etc., others – on very limited edition cassettes (“Kujvo”, “Devachan”), the rest are previously unknown compositions, remixes and live recordings... In addition to his activity in Lunar Abyss and other projects, Evgeniy constantly collaborates with like-minded artists. He is known as the organizer of live events, including a series of sleep concerts "dRЁma" and "PoludRЁma" and the renowned Gudelnaya Polyana (“Droning Glade”) stage at the local forest festivals Solar Systo Togathering and Deadwood Council. This compilation also features references to such friendly projects as Hladna, Kadegu and Nojda. Sound mastering and design work were done by Pavel Dombrovskiy (Uhushuhu) and the artwork features a drawing by Pastushka Sofya (Tremorkikimor).
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LUNAR ABYSS DEUS ORGANUM -- "Khara-Khoto" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2019 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-LXXV, (ltd. 300)
We gladly present the new Lunar Abyss Deus Organum full-length album "Khara-Khoto"! In fact, this is the first big studio work of the project after "Atimudra" (2012, BioSonar^Labyrint) and a long series of split-releases, collaborations, live recordings and various small editions... Khara-Khoto was the name of a Tangut city with Buddhist culture which existed in the XI-XIV centuries before it was captured by the troops of the Chinese Ming dynasty (nowadays it's geographically located in the Chinese Inner Mongolia). The idea of creating this album appeared after visiting a special exhibition at the Hermitage, which presented a lot of original artifacts from this ancient settlement buried in the sands. Special inspiration came from a deep understanding of the ephemeral and impermanent nature of existence – even prosperous cultures can die in one moment because of the blind greed of invaders... From the musical point of view, here one can hear the full sound palette typical for Lunar Abyss. This includes multilayered ambiental sketches with flowing chains of samples, voice loops and acoustic instruments; rhythmic percussive tracks with vigorous pulsating energy; abstract collages made of analogue electronics, radio noises and fragments of television programs; semi-static enveloping drones spiced up with field recordings. The psychedelic kaleidoscope of aural images continues its work – the fans of the albums "Snovidenie", "Tuntury" and "Atimudra" won't be disappointed! The CD-version is limited to 300 copies and comes in a 4-panel matte foldout digisleeve.
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MAJDANEK WALTZ / DENIS TRETYAKOV / THE NOKTULIANS -- "Pentagram" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2017 kultFRONT, KF-XXXI / ZHELEZOBETON Distribution Division, ZHBD-15, (ltd. 300)
Aleister Crowley's poems translated into Russian were first published in 2017 – the same year we release the album on which musicians inspired by his works create their sonic dedication. This album was created by Russian dark scene musicians who have never met before but have been following each other's activities for a long time – Majdanek Waltz and Denis Tretyakov... The latter professes his own religion which implies faith in a mole as an underground deity. Being the leader of two bands – "Tserkov' Detstva (Church of Childhood)" and "Bratya Tuluzovy (The Tuluzov Brothers)" – for the first time he acted as a reciter of poems. Majdanek Waltz from Ryazan' remembered their early musical experiments and primary sources of inspiration. Priceless support was granted by the secret musical project The Noktulians. The final black balance was masterfully adjusted by the member of Reutoff and Otzepenevshiye – ArSch aka Myrrman... Apart from all other obvious jubilees and important round dates, 2017 marks the 70-year anniversary of Aleister Crowley's death. This recording should close the gap of the jubilee list of the year. Instead of the always fashionable red stars better use this black digipak. Put it in windows, nail it to the front door, take it with you wherever you go. "Every man and every woman is a star"... 300 copies in glossy 4-panel digipak, released by kultFRONT with the support of ZHELEZOBETON Distribution Division.
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MAJDANEK WALTZ • VINTERSOLVERV • THE NOKTULIANS -- "Der Weg der Toten" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2019 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-LXXX, (ltd. 300)
"Der Weg Der Toten" (“The Path of the Dead”) is a collaboration by the renowned musical mystics Majdanek Waltz, the Belorussian neoclassical project Vintersolverv (ex-Erde, ex-Svalbard) and the dark horse of the Russian underground scene – The Noktulians. The work is dedicated to the marinistic images appearing in the poems of the expressionist and symbolist poets of the turn of the 20th century: Georg Heym, Stéphane Mallarmé, Arthur Rimbaud and Aleksandr Blok... Recitations by Pavel Blyumkin and Larisa Arkhipetskaya are skillfully framed by the sound of the chamber ensemble of Majdanek Waltz, supported by piano and string arrangements of Vintersolverv, at times referring to the melodic themes of his solo album "Frost På Träden" (2018, Infinite Fog Productions). But this harmony is fragile, occasionally it becomes covered with the rust of dark ambient and noise passages, and sometimes it is completely destroyed when the sonic field is invaded by the harsh dissonant music of The Noktulians. As a result, the whole album turns into a maelstrom of sounds and melodies dragging an unguarded listener into its abyss… The artwork for the album was created by Elena Lisitsa. CD edition is limited to 300 copies and comes in a matte 4-panel digisleeve.
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MIRA DREVO -- "Dreams of Abandoned Villages" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2020 Electrotapes Archive, ETA-CD-01 / ZHELEZOBETON distribution division, ZHBD-18, (ltd. 100)
The second full-length album of the St. Petersburg folk ambient project Mira Drevo is dedicated to the numerous abandoned villages of the Russian North. The idea of this work came to the author during ethnographic trips inspired by the interest in Russian folklore and village culture. In these expeditions many field recordings were collected: the stories of the elderly – about an uneasy life, war, beliefs and traditions, about what’s around and what’s inside; creaking floorboards of abandoned houses; dogs barking in the neighbourhood; rustling of spirits in the branches of dead apple trees; sounds of a cranberry swamp… Additional recordings were made on Solovki, on the Vottovaara mountain and in the Karelian woods. Some of the acoustic instruments were captured during these trips on a portable recorder and later woven into the fabric of minimalistic synthesizer ambient. A significant contribution to the sound of this album was made by the soulful vocals of Anastasiya Kharchenko who sang several folk songs and lyric poems... The album is released on a factory-pressed CD in an edition of 100 hand-numbered copies in matte-finished 4-panel digipaks, a tape version produced by the Electrotapes Archive label is also available.
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NEZNAMO -- "Aiwyasto" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2015 Muzyka Voln, MV-IX, (ltd. 300)
If somebody still doesn't know, behind the Neznamo project stands the Moscow-based musician Dmitry Shilov who stepped on the path of ritual ambient music in 1996 under the stage name of Unknown. After releasing five albums on the "Strely Peruna" ("Perun's Arrows") label, the project temporarily fell in a lethargic sleep but woke up again in 2006 with a renewed name and approach. As Neznamo Dmitriy has released several mini-albums on his own label Moonsun Productions, as well as a number of collaboration works with several other acts from the Russian drone underground: Misery, Bardo, Lunar Abyss, Siyanie, etc… For those interested in the project's roots and branches we can give some more keywords: Temnozor', Medve Na Meche, Peal Grim, Magickal Things. "Aiwyâstô" is Neznamo's first full-length album and first "factory-pressed" CD. The album consists of one 42-min long composition recorded in a deep transcendental state. Covered in ornaments of unhasting vibrations, flickering and parallel sound layers, dense string drone permeates the whole track. This music is for lovers of deep inner self diving. Towards the depths of pitch-dark sound where one can see all forms dissolving in emptiness and being reborn by it again in an endless game of space and imagination.
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NEZNAMO -- "Molva" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2021 Muzyka Voln, MV-XIII / Moonsun Productions, MS012, (ltd. 200)
Six years have passed since the release of the previous full-length work of Neznamo "Aiwyâstô", during which Dmitry Shilov was busy with session studio and concert work with other bands & projects (Majdanek Waltz, Noises Of Russia, etc.) and released only a couple of very limited edition cassettes ("Rite Unknown" and "Aery" – split with Notum). And now we finally have a new album! The material for it was collected during 2012-2019 from fragments of studio sessions and live recordings, and unlike "Aiwyâstô", which consisted of viscous thick drone music, "Molva" makes one remember the archaic and ritual roots of early Neznamo works. Conceptual like before, the album consists of three sonic canvases, woven from lingering drones, rustles, resonances and cryptic spells, interlaced into a single sonic ritual... The CD was co-released with Moonsun Productions in an edition of 200 copies in a 6-panel matte cardboard digisleeve, the digital version is available on bandcamp.
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NIGDENIYA -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €7 [-50%]
2012 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-XXXVI, (ltd. 150)
Nigdeniya is a mail-art project initiated by Vitaly Maklakov - a painter and musician from the Siberian town of Kamensk-Uralskiy, known to the fans of Russian noise underground for the projects Light Collapse, Kromeshna, Obozdur and DIY-labels Ostroga and Heart-Shaped Box. On the first album of this new project he collaborates with Michel Madrange aka M.Nomized - an honoured activist of the French underground since 1975. One track also features the Russian musician Dmitry Rodionov with his project Dmitry Rodionov Experience... "Nigdeniya" (translated from Russian as "Nowhereland") is an utopia state, an idea drawn out of writings of the English philosopher & humanist Thomas More. This is a geographical and socio-political fantasy, a place not found on Earth - as there is no place for this musical project whose creations are born in virtual space during an exchange of material by mail. The result of this exchange is presented in 8 compositions, in which electronic rhythms are tightly interwoven with multi-layered arrangements made of synthesized sounds, voices, sampled musical fragments and field recordings, forming striking industrial psychedelic kaleidoscope of visions.
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NOISES OF RUSSIA -- "Experimental Structure" -- CD-R -- €7 [-50%]
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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OGNI VIDENIY -- "Skeleton in the Closet for God" -- CD-R -- €7 [-50%]
2015 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-LIV, (ltd. 77)
The new album from Ogni Videniy following the "Sounding Emptiness" disc delves again into Buddhist themes, this time - the spatial Buddhist cosmology. Every track is dedicated to a certain state of mind and its corresponding plane of existence of sentient beings, from material worlds to the realms of pure consciousness... Nine compositions with intense sonic structures, like fractal canvases with no end and no beginning. Each of them with its own atmosphere: from mild and rarefied to dense, noisy and pulsating; all being pierced by elastic electric drones with lots of hues and parallel resonating forms... Perhaps this is a kind of music that devas are hearing in the depths of their meditative absorptions. However, no matter how high the level of their staying in non-material worlds is, the most valuable is still human life because it has the best opportunities to make decisions and choose the right path.
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OGNI VIDENIY & SVETLO111 -- "Synapse" -- CD-R -- €7 [-50%]
2015 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-LIII, (ltd. 77)
A collaboration of the two projects now based in St. Petersburg and often performing together at city gigs and forest festivals. Three long psychoactive tracks filled with gritty analogue noise, farced with scraps of electronic signals and soaked in a syrup of harmonious drones. Despite the abrasive texture of sound and use of rather sharp effects, the atmosphere of the album is quite contemplative. Like the severely frosty northern night with polar lights: the air bites your skin and burns your lungs, but you just can't stop staring. The key point is the right adjustment of perception and selection of warming elements!
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OTZEPENEVSHIYE -- "Razryv Svyazi (Disconnection)" -- 2 CD -- €14 [-50%]
2017 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-LXXI, (ltd. 300)
At last! The first major solo release from Otzepenevshiye in 11 years of the band's existence! The project was shaped in 2006 by Evgeniy Voronovskiy (Cisfinitum), Dmitriy Zubov (Hypnoz, Zuboff Sex Shop) and Ivan Napreenko (Sal Solaris, Θ16), but after some time transformed into a duo of Ivan and Arnold_pR (Reutoff, Myrrman). Otzepenevshiye have recorded many compositions published on compilations on various occasions by such labels as Heliophagia, Ewers Tonkunst, Old Europa Cafe, etc. The only full-length album "For a Knife" was created in collaboration with the band Vir' (2013, Zhelezobeton Distribution Division). And only now many scattered pieces, like cold drops of condensate, have accomplished their cycle and gathered in two dazzingly freezing snowflakes... Powerful and catchy guitar riffs, relentlessly sharp industrial rhythmics, minimalistic pads and authentic field recordings – these are the lattice points of the sound of Otzepenevshiye. The need to use understandable terms makes us turn to such tags as industrial doom metal, drone-doom or doomgaze, but anyway we can't avoid the word "doom" here. Yes, this music has darkness inside, there's suffering, there's a feel of real experience, but also a clear conscious gaze towards the other side of the rubicon. Otzepenevshiye know how to get to the very depths and see the blackness that contains the infinite cosmic absolute... Apart from solo recordings, the second disc features tracks created in collaboration with Circle Of Unexisted and Vir' and remakes of compositions by Banda Chetyryokh and Thergothon. The material of this album was released in small cassette editions by NEN Records, including several bonus tracks. The track-list of this double-CD edition was specially adjusted by the musicians for the sake of maximum immersion.
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PEAL GRIM -- "s/t" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2015 Moonsun Produsctions, MS009 / ZHELEZOBETON distribution division, ZHBD-07, (ltd. 100)
Peal Grim is one of the names of Dmitriy Shilov known for the projects Unknown, Neznamo and Magickal Things. Peal Grim explores the theme of dramatic experiences of the human life using acoustic and electric guitars, overdrive, distortion and spatial effects. Their sound creates clouds of guitar drone, noise and ringing, assuming different shapes in the acoustic atmosphere: sometimes floating like an impenetrable fog, sometimes rolling like a gigantic front of thunderclouds, sometimes creeping over a dark pit of overwhelming melancholia… These five compositions were recorded over the course of three years from 2007 to 2009 and were mastered by Sergey Bulychiov (kshatriy.pro) in 2014... "This record is not recommended to listening for depressively inclined persons".
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PETROGRAD DRONE GATHERING / MOSCOW NOISE MANUFACTORY -- "PoluDrëma 26.11.2021" -- C-90 -- €8
2022 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-LXXXVI, (ltd. 150)
Petrograd Drone Gathering exists since 2016; this project was conceived by Evgenii Savenko as an ensemble of like-minded musicians from St. Petersburg, united by the common idea of free undulating musical expression, saturated with the forest psychedelia of the Karelian isthmus. Moscow Noise Manufactory is a similar creative union of metropolitan musicians, working in many genres from drone ambient and noise to psychedelic jazz and doom metal. The project was organized by Georgiy Orlov-Davydovskiy in the spring of 2021. In fact, both formations are live laboratories exploring the impersonal matter of sound, and the appearance of their joint recordings was just a matter of time. Such a recording was made at the “PoluDrëma” (“semi-slumber”) party, which took place on the night of November 26th-27th, 2021 at the Red Eyes Moscow club. From midnight until morning the St. Petersburg musicians played in sequence with artists from Moscow, for eight hours weaving a seamless fabric of oneiric sound for an audience which was either sleeping or drinking tea. These recordings were later edited in studio and condensed in two 45-minute pieces, showcasing all versatility of experimental ambient music... This time the line-up of Petrograd Drone Gathering featured Alexey Korablin (Reconstruction of Moss), Dmitry Maslyakov (Mira Drevo), Evgenii Savenko (Lunar Abyss), М.М. (Kryptogen Rundfunk), Pavel Dombrovskiy (uhushuhu), Lilia Akivenson (tremorkikimor) and Alexandra Isaeva (Jum-Jum). Moscow Noise Manufactory was represented by Georgiy Orlov-Davydovskiy (Yudol), Dmitriy Bubinskiy (Old Moss), Alexandra Isaeva (Jum-Jum), Vladimir Cherepanov (t_error 404), Philipp Datura (Datura Metel), Fedor Kovalev (Waldgrenze), Anton Kochubeev (Acanto), Alexey Vasilev (Droning Room), Boris Drone ([bɔː]), Alexandr Rust (Cotton Rust), Koloyar Dreved (Hladna) and Ilya Suzdaltsev... The album is released in a limited edition of 150 copies on C-90 audiocassette: brand new tape in recycled shell with full-colour stickers, double-sided foldout cover and a download card.
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POLKKA LOVE MACHINE -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €7 [-50%]
2015 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-LVI / Aquarellist, aquarel 31-15 / Saaren Levy, (ltd. 77)
Polkka Love Machine is the title of a performance made by the Finnish theatrical group Sabotanic Garden founded by Pasi Mäkelä and Jussi Saivo. The piece appeared in 2009 and has toured extensively ever since in France, Germany, Austria, USA, Czech, Estonia and Finland. Now it's been turned into a musical project in which Pasi and Jussi explore the depths of ritual eroticism. What we hear is a set of six laid-back songs with a lo-fi sound but refined old-school approach. Slooow rhythms, hum of amplifiers, bluesy splashes of vibrating guitars, subtle electronic tones and ghostly auditory hallucinations... Retired jazzmen on mushrooms and sedatives? A session of deep seductive self-hypnosis? Or a result of super hot sauna overdose?... In any case, a great collection of Finnish love-making music... Jussi Saivo is also the member of such projects as Tiermes and Aural Holograms and a chief of his own Saaren Levy label. Pasi Mäkelä aside from performing with Sabotanic Garden plays weird music as PAM and operates his micro-label Meteorismo.
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PORCH NAP -- "Antidot (Selected Works 2007-2017)" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2018 Fulldozer Records, FDCD38 / ZHELEZOBETON Distribution Division, ZHBD-16, (ltd. 175)
During the last ten years this moderately active figure of the St. Petersburg underground has been engaged in acoustic research, almost invisible for most people but passionate in its cosmologic nature. The result of these experiments turned into a fusion of seemingly incompatible genres of modern music – techno and improvised noise. However in the interpretation of Porch Nap this paradoxical combination sounds quite natural... The album features selected tracks of Porch Nap dated 2007-2017, most of which were reworked in recent years. For five compositions additional parts were recorded by honored figures of the Russian experimental scene: Fedor Svolotch, Alexei Borisov, Kryptogen Rundfunk, Brompton's Cocktail, as well as by the famous American noise musician Phillip Klingler aka PBK. And the final track "Intelligent Noise Monday" was remixed live by Alexander Zaitsev, known as a member of the band EU (Ёлочные Игрушки)... Porch Nap's creative method is rooted in deep minimalism and almost complete disregard of musical setup in its traditional meaning. The basis of almost all compositions is built on live recordings of an analogue feedback generator transformed by the author’s algorithms of digital processing. Peculiar frequency combinations and extreme binaural effects obtained in a random manner during improvisations will arouse interest of the most inquisitive music lovers. Recommended to listen in headphones. Not recommended to listen before sleep... Standard edition: CD in digisleeve with two cards, limited to 175 copies.
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PORCH NAP -- "Antidot (Selected Works 2007-2017)" -- CD + 3"CD-R + CS -- €20
2018 Fulldozer Records, FDCD38 / ZHELEZOBETON Distribution Division, ZHBD-16, (ltd. 35)
Special edition includes CD in digisleeve with two cards, bonus mini-CD-R in cardboard sleeve with an alternative version of the title track Porch Nap feat Fedor Svolotch "Antidot" and two additional compositions, Porch Nap ""Ordo Ordinans" audio-tape (reissue of the 2001 album), all packed in white rag bag with silk-screen printing. Limited to 35 copies.
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PUSTOTA -- "Greatest Hits" -- CD-R -- €7 [-50%]
2015 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-LVII, (ltd. 77)
A collection of the best pieces by the conceptual project Pustota maintained by Evgeniy Savenko (Lunar Abyss, Hattifnatter, Boevye Cikady, etc.) to explore various forms of manifestation and convergence of the acoustic spaces and artifacts. Repeatedly amplified noise of old magnetic tape, work of tape-recorder mechanisms and technical faults, electro-magnetic interference, running through the tube cascades of the old amplifiers, impersonal urban and field recordings caught on cassette dictaphones - all this is tesselated in a sort of mosaic of textural sonic events. All compositions except one were previously released in extended forms by BioSonar^Lo-End label in tiny editions of 7-15 cassettes with deliberately absurd handmade artwork.
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SAL SOLARIS -- "Thresholds" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2016 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-LXII, (ltd. 333)
"Thresholds" is the first Sal Solaris solo album in 15 years marked by a variety of collaborations, splits and minor releases. From a musical point of view this is probably the most complex and certainly the most rhythmic work of the duo which opens a new chapter in its history... The Sun radiates and cools down. Mountains erode and grind into sand. Any system tends to minimum energy and maximum entropy, that is to uniformity. But while chaos does not reign yet, the universe is a complex thermodynamic landscape filled with low grounds and peaks, ridges and valleys. To go from one valley to another we need a breakthrough. As when a match boosts energy to let reagents gain ability to cross the threshold, and continue to roll freely and independently... "Thresholds" is an acoustic study of a breakthrough over the threshold. Therefore the album constantly crosses genre limits. The listener is taken from a thicket of dark techno to a rave meadow, and in the middle of dark ambient wasteland he or she gets thrust against a rock of minimal electro... "Thresholds" is also an attempt to answer the question of what may be a match in human life situations. How to cross the pass, when the ridge is covered with clouds. The album can be regarded as a box of matches, or an experimental map of passes for those who feel confined in their valleys... Authors can not guarantee its absolute accuracy... Cassette version of the album with two exclusive remixes is released by NEN Records and available for purchasing at their bandcamp as well as in our mailorder catalogue.
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THE SAND RAYS -- "Remembered Vol. 1 (EPs gathered together)" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2017 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-LXX, (ltd. 300)
After the dissolution of The Infant Cycle, Jim DeJong went on a hiatus from production, and disappeared into seclusion. However, after a few months, an offer to score a feature film appeared, which spurred him back into production. A lot of flexible basic tracks were produced during this time, that could be fitted together for different scenes. Unfortunately, the film production ground to a halt, but being active again caused DeJong to begin his new project, The Sand Rays, and adapt some of the film score ideas into something that could be released and heard. A number of EPs were released on DeJong's label The Ceiling in tiny editions, under a number of similar names (The Sand Rays, Ray Sands, Sandra Y.), which are hard to find. The sounds emanate from an assortment of instruments and sound makers including carved runout grooves, bass guitar, bird cages, shortwave radio, and more, cooked into a choppy stew of drones and mood... The cover photo reflects its contents. Up close, a pretty photo of sumac, but pulls back to reveal a more troubled location. This location was outside DeJong's old studio, a brownsfield too toxic for people, but a safe place for the vegetation to flourish... The material could be considered an extension of the final inclinations of The Infant Cycle, such as the "Drop-Out Center" album (2012, Zhelezobeton). A new chapter in the same book? Now we bring together the rare first four EPs in an easier to find and digest package, with full colour sleeve artwork. Eight interlocking tracks. Play it straight through, or random, or repeat.
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THE SAND RAYS -- "Remembered Vol. 2 (more EPs in coalescence)" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2020 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-LXXXI, (ltd. 107)
The Canadian musician Jim DeJong (ex-The Infant Cycle) continues to splinter and perplex his discography, releasing mini-works under different monikers: The Sand Rays, San Andreas, Sand Ra, etc. And we are making already the second attempt to collect these sprawling entities under a single cover after the CD "Remembered Vol. 1 (EPs gathered together)" in 2017... This time Jim doesn’t reveal the list of tools that he used, but we know his passion for recycled sounds of shortwave radio, household appliances and malfunctioning electronics. His music is like ghostly monochrome corridors and sound tunnels which often end with sudden turns and dead ends. It is like endless fields of inner calm, woven from reverberations and atonal textures, giving way to mysterious several second-long cuts in which seemingly almost nothing happens. It is like a quiet psychedelic introversion, a contemplation of bitcrushed emptiness, a parallel existence in intangible layers of space.
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SISTER LOOLOMIE -- "Signals" -- CD-R -- €7 [-50%]
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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SOL MORTUUS -- "Extinction" -- CD -- €9 [-50%]
2015 Evil Dead Produsctions, EDP016 / ZHELEZOBETON distribution division, ZHBD-08, (ltd. 300)
Sol Mortuus is the project of the Yekaterinburg-based musician named Kein, who played in the 90-ies in a well-known underground Russian atmospheric black metal band Thy Repentance and later got carried away by experimental ambient sound. Under this name he has already released the album "Black In The Green Wreath" on a split with Zinc Room (2014, Evil Dead Productions, EDP 014) and a couple of tracks on compilations. Kein is also the author of such projects as Scratching Soil, Carved Image Of Emptiness, Church Of Howling Dog and is a member of Prognostic Zero and Zinc Room... "Extinction" was recorded in 2014-2015 and dedicated to a life in decay, under a dying Sun, or possibly Three Suns? This is slow, thick and viscous rhythmic ritual ambient evoking spacious desert images (although everyone has their own visions). Aside from the essential synthesizers which play a background droning role here, a lot of acoustic instruments were used in this recording: cello, mandolin, blockflute, kaluka, vargan, buben and various percussion. The album sounds whole, it seems the tracks bleed one from another but at the same time each of them carries its own story built on the interpretations of the ancient Ural legends and tales of the northern peoples.
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SPHERE REX -- "For Electronics and Piano" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
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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STRUP vs DN23rd -- "24d19" -- CD -- €7 [-50%]
2021 ZHELEZOBETON distribution division, ZHBD-20, (ltd. 60)
Everything what we love: noises of radio ether and mysterious signals are framed by industrial field recordings and utterly abstract inhuman playing on acoustic instruments. A meditative sound collage, under the quasi-static form of which one finds a layered abyss full of micro-dynamic processes. A zen garden assembled from burnt rubber and metal junk. Two long lullabies from the factory radio room... Factory-pressed CD limited to 60 copies in a cardboard sleeve.
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THEODOR BASTARD -- "BossaNova_Trip" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2018 Fulldozer Records, FDCD41 / ZHELEZOBETON Distribution Division, ZHBD-17, (ltd. 300)
"BossaNova_Trip" is the highlight of the early experimental period of Theodor Bastard. A non-vocal electronic album recorded by Fedor Svolotch (Alexander Starostin) in 2002 several years before the formation of the band’s key line-up. 14 original utterly minimalistic tracks of the album were on the cutting edge of the avant-garde trends of that time and are worth comparing to the best glitch releases of such labels as Mego, Raster-Noton and Sonig. Aimed at the most sophisticated music lovers, "BossaNova_Trip" has completely fulfilled the ambitions of Fedor Svolotch as a skillful master of sound design and had a strong influence on the unique sound of the later well-known albums of Theodor Bastard. It was on this recording that the track "PU's_Tota" originated in its initial electronic proto-version which, in highly modified form, became the band's first major hit two years later. This reissue features a bonus track – the vocal version of "PU's_Tota", originally released on the compilation that came along with the BulDozer#2 magazine. The melody and the lyrics sung by Yana Veva, which are now so familiar to the fans of Theodor Bastard, appeared in this version for the first time.
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UHUSHUHU -- "Long Songs Pleasant for Hearing" -- 2 CD -- €14
2014/2022 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-XLI / Nebosvod, (ltd. 200)
Uhushuhu is a project led by Pavel Dombrovskiy, a musician and graphic designer from St. Petersburg, member of the bands Utrovortu, Pigeons and Insane Porrige-Makers, Krol’, etc. “Long Songs Pleasant for Hearing” is the project’s debut work, originally published in 2014... Following these songs, we set off on a journey through structures and surfaces in a shell of experimental drone ambient. We will face sonic anomalies, random wanderings in unstable and unpredictable spheres, vague rustles and semblant echoes, spaces of various densities, moods and origins, hidden dead-ends, spontaneous phonations and labyrinths enclosed in themselves... The 2022 reissue comes with a second disc containing three previously unreleased compositions with a total duration of 47 minutes. The edition is presented in a matte 4-panel digisleeve with a new design by Lilia Akivenson and limited to 200 copies. The digital version is available on bandcamp.
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UHUSHUHU -- "Onega" -- 2 CD -- €14
2015/2022 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-LII / Nebosvod, (ltd. 200)
“Onega” is Uhushuhu's second album, originally released by ΠΑΝΘΕΟΝ in early 2015 and later re-released in cassette format with a remix by Creation VI and an alternative version of the material by Uhushuhu themselves... Archaically natural, truly psychoactive drone, woven from hundreds of sounds that appear and disappear. Thick as a pre-dawn haze, haunted by the spirits of the forest and river nymphs. Flowing under the water like a transparent fog, descending deep to the smallest of shells on the muddy bottom of an ancient lake. Ripples on the liquid surface, stones dancing in the dark, tales of mosses and their inhabitants, the lightness of dew, the dizzying helicity of snails... The 2022 reissue comes with a second disc containing two bonus tracks from the cassette version along with one previously unreleased 26-minutes composition. The edition is presented in a matte 4-panel digisleeve with a new design by Lilia Akivenson and limited to 200 copies. The digital version is available on bandcamp.
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UHUSHUHU -- "Geoscience" -- 2 CD -- €14
2015/2022 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-XLVII / Nebosvod, (ltd. 200)
The third studio album by the St. Petersburg-based group Uhushuhu continues the line of the two previous works: "Long Songs Pleasant for Hearing" and "Onega", namely – long spatial tapestries filled with a whole lot of electronic and organic events drifting on a leisurely contemplative wave. One can listen to this music endlessly, it seems to be created of several layers of semi-transparent mirrors reflecting everything that comes in the field of the musicians' imagination: smooth synthetic pads, singing birds and (perhaps?) whales, radio waves and a heavenly female voice, lurking whispers, instrumental loops, field recordings and various found sounds. All this creates a complex electro-acoustic image, surely still pleasant for hearing to the connoisseurs of the ambient genre... The 2022 reissue comes with a second disc containing three previously unreleased compositions and the tape version of the “Underwater” long song. The edition is presented in a matte 4-panel digisleeve with a new design by Lilia Akivenson and limited to 200 copies. The digital version is available on bandcamp.
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UHUSHUHU -- "Long Songs Pleasant for Hearing" + "Onega" + "Geoscience" -- 3 x 2 CD -- €36
2014/2022 ZHELEZOBETON / Nebosvod, (ltd. 200)
A bundle of three double CD reissues of the first three Uhushuhu albums at a special price.
UL -- "III" -- CD-R -- €7 [-50%]
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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UMPIO -- "Insektio" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2021 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-LXXXIV, (ltd. 300)
Umpio is the solo project of the Finnish sound explorer Pentti Dassum, a member of numerous bands with incredible stylistic coverage from noise-grind (Romutus) to challenging electroacoustic experiments (SM/DP) and unpredictable brutal noise performed on self-built metal objects. However there's no junk noise this time – "Insektio" is made from massive oscillations, electronic microsounds and tape manipulations. Like a heavy trip into nature, listen with one ear to the ground, how all the insects work, how temperature shifts affect the resonance of the planet, and how civilizations crumble away as only the frogs and moss will survive... CD edition is presented in 4-panel foldout matte-laminated digisleeve and limited to 300 hand-numbered copies.
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VETROPHONIA -- "Kurutta Ippeiji (A Page of Madness") -- DVD -- €12 [-50%]
2014 ZHELEZOBETON Film, ZF-III, (ltd. 300)
"Kurutta Ippeiji (A Page of Madness)" is a silent film created by the Japanese director Teinosuke Kinugasa in 1926. The screenplay was written together with Yasunari Kawabata, a celebrated representative of the avant-garde literary movement of Neo-Perceptionists known as "Shinkankanu", who would later win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968. Considering the overall traditional orientation of the Japanese cinema of that time, the film greatly surpassed all concepts about experimental art and made a big sensation among critics although remained almost unnoticed by the masses... The story unfolds in a mental asylum where a woman is kept after her attempt to drown her own daughter. Her husband, a former sailor, takes a job there as a janitor in hopes of eventually rescuing his wife from captivity but soon he himself starts loosing his mind… The film includes striking scenes of the emotions of characters, also those of asylum patients whose insane visions are shown using unconventional analogue special effects, which still produce quite a psychoactive impact even on the modern viewer... The short film screening in 1926 was accompanied by live musicians playing and comments from "benshi" - professional narrators who have put semantic accents in the story, but there is no information about the original music score. At different times several soundtracks for the movie were composed, all in different styles - from classical taiko drums and jazz interpretations to indie rock and experimental electronics... Backed by the successful experience of recording soundtracks for silent cinema (let us recall "The Space Voyage" from 1936 directed by N. Zhuravlev), St. Petersburg's duo Vetrophonia continues to contribute to the legacy of avant-garde cinematography in its trademark retro-futuristic style. With the use of electronics, archival samples, classical strings, brass and self-built metallic instruments Nikolay Sudnik and Alexander Lebedev-Frontov managed to create a sound canvas ideally fitting every scene of the film. The soundtrack is made both with meticulous approach and light humour, it follows all changes of moods and guarantees a truly unique watching experience enhancing both visual and emotional sides of this masterpiece of the Japanese silent cinema.
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WANDER -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €7 [-50%]
2012 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-XXXV, (ltd. 150)
Wander is a duo from the Dutch town of Nijmegen consisting of Frans de Waard and Freek Kinkelaar, also known under the name Beequeen. Beequeen have been recording music since 1989 but in 2000 they decided to redirect this project to more accessible "almost-pop-music" and started Wander to unburden themselves in creating abstract soundscapes... This recording was made during the Russian tour of Wander / Beequeen in October 2011 in the Moscow art cafe "Ex:Libris". Their performance was not improvised - within 42 minutes the listener can find several specific compositions bound together by more abstract interludes. Freek plays guitar and uses expedient means for creating noises while Frans takes care of electronics and field recordings. Like in a good movie their music reflects a full range of human emotions: from light-hearted sketches with serene guitar passages to disturbing dark ambient scenes and, of course, trademark minimal drones with careful textures and easy noises.
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ZINC ROOM -- "Habal Garmin" -- CD -- €9 [-50%]
2021 Evil Dead Productions, EDP 028 / ZHELEZOBETON Distribution Division, ZHBD-22, (ltd. 100)
The album "Habal Garmin" by the Yekaterinburg-based industrial project Zinc Room is dedicated to the work of the Austrian writer Gustav Meyrink and continues the "literary" series of releases after "Window of Erich Zann", based on the works of H.P. Lovecraft, and "Poe", dedicated respectively to E.A. Poe... The permanent project mastermind Alexander "i" remains faithful to the style once chosen: the tone is set by a distorted bass guitar and metal percussion, and their crazy dance is accompanied by a cello, gloomy synth passages and repetitive samples recorded by Andrey "Kein" (Sol Mortuus, Church of Howling Dog, etc.). We regretfully note that this recording was the last for Andrey as part of Zinc Room – in October 2021 his life was taken by the well-known virus... The album is released by a cooperation of Evil Dead Productions and ZHELEZOBETON Distribution Division. CD-edition is limited to 100 copies and comes in a foldout cardboard sleeve with an insert, digital version is available on bandcamp.
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ZINC ROOM -- "Window of Erich Zann" -- CD -- €9 [-50%]
2016 Evil Dead Productions, EDP 018 / ZHELEZOBETON Distribution Division, ZHBD-10, (ltd. 300)
"Window of Erich Zann" is currently the latest album by Zinc Room from Ekaterinburg, Russia, led by Alexander "I" (also head of the Evil Dead Productions label and member of Prognostic Zero) and Kein (Sol Mortuus, Church Of Howling Dog, ex-Thy Repentance, etc.). This is a blend of raw noisy industrial and dark ambient with the project's trademark sound: roaring bass guitar, steel sheets and spiral springs are combined with thematic samples, powerful synth pads and slightly unexpected cello intrusions... The album symbolically marks the past 10-year anniversary of the project's activity and contains several reworked compositions from the debut Zinc Room disc "Cold Corridors of Fear" (2004, Evil Dead Productions). "Window of Erich Zann" was originally released by EDP as a limited edition CD-R in 2015 and now re-issued on a factory pressed CD with the support of Zhelezobeton Distribution Division featuring two exclusive bonus tracks.
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VARIOUS ARTISTS -- "Gudelnaya Polyana – Solar Systo Togathering 2020" -- 3 CD -- €18 [-50%]
2021 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-LXXXV, (ltd. 300)
Here we have a three-hour long compilation of live recordings, made in September 2020 at Gudelnaya Polyana (Russian for “droning glade”) – the experimental stage of the Solar Systo Togathering festival. The concept of Gudelnaya Polyana is total drone, infinitely diverse, but united in its essence. Every year in any weather dozens of musicians gather in the woods of the Leningrad region to take part in this ritual action, keeping themselves warm with bonfires, hot pu-er tea and kilowatts of sound... In 2020, we were lucky to record the performances of most artists, and many of them agreed to provide fragments of these recordings for a commemorative compilation. The unity and diversity of droning sound is fully represented here since the festival gathers musicians from different fields: ambient, drone, noise, electronic, academic, and even the ensemble of 12-year-old experimenters made their contribution... The first disc gently immerses us in the forest thicket, swamps and electrified fogs; the second takes us further into the labyrinths of sound experiments and unlikely consonances; the third begins with the piercing clarity of dawn, which gives way to a calm daytime mood, followed by the coming of night – the deep darkness thickens, we’re riding electromagnetic waves and trying to look beyond human existence... In order to recapture the atmosphere more precisely, the tracks of 28 artists are smoothly rendered in three hour-long mixes. The artists taking part in this compilation are: AIKO ONLINE feat. KIKIMOTA & ANTON SONDA-JUNGLOV, ANDREW SPRRW & NIKA, AU, DRONE LIBERATION FRONT, EGREGOROS, EVERGREEN DJ, JAGATH, JAM DAZAN, KONTAKT S INOPLANETYANAMI ETO MUZYKA, KRYPTOGEN RUNDFUNK, LUNAR ABYSS, MIRA DREVO, NOISES OF RUSSIA, PETER THEREMIN, PETROGRAD DRONE GATHERING, SACHA RUSH & INSPECTR, SIX DEAD BULGARIANS, SOILCULT, SONOZERO, SVETLO111, SYMPHOCAT, TILE~SHORE, TIM SIX, TREMORKIKIMOR, TRETIY MIR, TUHJADES MAADES, W I I, WALDGRENZE... The physical edition is presented as a foldout matte-laminated 6-panel digisleeve, limited to 300 hand-numbered copies.
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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[HAVEN] -- "A2982" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2008 Rage In Eden, RAGE 60, (ltd. 500)
42 minutes 05 seconds. This is the duration of the album. It will communicate any meter of time. Let us not however be deluded by the spells of this sorcerer; because the first sounds overturn its acknowledged and safe definition and begin construction of different, weirder spaces. This is the last chance to resign and turn back. Otheriwse, when you listen to the end of first track the only thihg left to say is "Toto, I have an impression that we're not in Kansas". You begin your own, separate (and the longest?) journey. What do you see on your way? What unknown ladns, traditions, incomprehesible rituals and dialects will you discover? I do not know. But I am sure that if David Lynch will ever undertake the filming of "Alice in the Wonderland" the soundtrack of the movie will be filled with the music from this particular album. "Victoire Vrist "Le Figuro". 10 tracks, 42 minutes, CD in digipack. [press-release]
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[SHTURM] -- "Final" -- CD -- €8 [-50%]
2021 MIC Label, MIC 016
EBM / Dark Electro. The final chord of the Moscow military-EBM formation. New material, which had been in the storehouse for almost five years and was waiting for its turn. Vocals are sung by the leader of the Yekaterinburg group SINGULAR 2.0 – Alexei Timkovsky. Musically it's all the same furious and danceable dark-electro / EBM loved so much by all fans of the group. And which, alas, will be heard for the last time within the framework of this project. As a bonus, several old compositions are presented, including the famous "Katyusha", presented here in the rereleased format. [label info]
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Θ -- "Total Division" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2021 Zoharum, ZOHAR 229-2, (ltd. 350)
Dark Ambient / Drone Metal. Behind Θ (Theta) project stands Themistoklis Altintzoglou hailing from Greece and currently residing in Tromso, Northern Norway. He has been releasing music since 2013 and is also half of the duos METATAG and ISOLATION. Θ has been collaborating with MITSUMIDAI on Brazilian horror film soundtracks (Uptake Fear & the Hand), background music for podcasts and has contributed with soundscapes and atmospherics for TAU CROSS and WAR//PLAGUE albums... “Total Division” presents 9 mysterious, and doom-driven tracks that are drowned in distortion and reverb. On this album, Theta unleashes powerful, dense and textural music that you can almost touch. Altintzoglou states that his origins are rooted in hardcore punk and whatever it may be – punk, black or doom metal - you can clearly hear that guitar sound is the center of his inspirations and sources. As bold as this statement may be - MAEROR TRI comes to mind but put into contemporary context. This is the most ”metal” album we’ve released so far and couldn’t be happier about it. “Total Division” is the example of those rare situations, when the Artist reached out to us directly and we immediately knew we want to release this fantastic piece of work... CD edition of 350 copies comes in a 6 panel ecopack. [label info]
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Θ -- "Vision Of One" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2022 Zoharum, ZOHAR 249-2, (ltd. 300)
Dark Ambient. After the well-received "Total Division", THETA returns to Zoharum with its successor, the album "Vision of One", on which Themistoklis Altintzoglou consistently explores the formula of his own musical expression, balancing between drone and ambient aesthetics; in this case, it is only a starting point for further excursions to other regions, not so obvious in this genre. The Greek artist with incredible ease juggles rather modest mens of expression in order to bring out new, sometimes surprising, or at least not so usual structures based on a cold massive, even rough and metallic sound. On this core, individual compositions are embedded, which naturally unfold in different directions, but nevertheless create a coherent but multicolored and intriguing album, where the atmosphere thickens with every minute, where you can clearly feel the Scandinavian cold, and everywhere enveloped in an aura of mystery, seasoned with a pinch of post black metal spirit. If you appreciated "Total Division", you will love "Vision Of One" - the younger, more mature successor... Released on CD in 6-panel ecopack in a circulation of 300 copies. [label info]
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>O< -- "By the nightingale paths of the city" -- CD-R -- €5 [-50%]
2016 Polevoy Dnevnik, P(F)D 006
Field recordings of nightingale songs, made during May-June 2016 in diverse areas of Saint-Petersburg. Calm corners and paths of wild nature in the droning industrial sphere of big city. Fullcolour sleeve. [label info]
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>O< -- "Emerald Leaves" -- CD-R -- €7 [-50%]
2020 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT151, (ltd. 22)
A beautiful meditative Drone Ambient / Progressive Electronics mini-album, imbued with the breath of spring, gentle breeze and freshness. Bright spring foliage yet not covered with dust sways on branches, emitting an emerald chime, and the movement of juices in the trees resonates with the pulsations of space. An ideal soundtrack for contemplative and psychedelic walks through forests and parks. Handmade and hand-painted cardboard envelope with textile applique in the form of an emerald leave. [label info]
>O< -- "La Belle Epoque" -- CD-R -- €7 [-50%]
2020 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT152, (ltd. 19)
Ambient / Drone / Dungeon Synth. The new disc by >o< is dedicated to the aesthetics of the "Beautiful Epoch", Art Nouveau or Modern - there are many names for this phenomenon, and the essence is very versatile, like this release. Here you will find sketches inspired by the masterpieces of Art Nouveau architecture like for example the famous Vitebsk Railway Station, and the technology of that era, and the romantic melancholy of the Baltic, and the breath of everyday life of those days. Accordingly, the tracks vary from minimalistic “gothic” forms of ambient to more lo-fi, experimental and drone variations of it - especially since we decided to supplement four new compositions with three bonuses of a similar theme, which were previously released on rare and already unavailable releases by >o<. The inner sleeve made by hand from vintage paper and decorated with a vintage floral sticker. All the information is handwritten with a golden ink. The outer A5 sleeve made of vintage patterned paper and sealed with a floral sticker. Decorated disc surface. [label info]
>O<MUTT -- "The Autumn Has Returned" -- CD-R -- €7 [-50%]
2016 YAOP, YAOP 059 / Conclamatum Est, E, (ltd. 39)
The classic of Karelian ambient Omutt (also known for his projects Mare Desiderii, Dime[drone], Galaxy The Incubator, Syvary, Karjalan Tazavalla, etc.) re-interprets the >o< album "The Autumn Has Come". The result is three tracks of wonderful obscure space Drone Ambient, dedicated to the three months of bleak northern autumn. Full-colour sleeve with a photo of Karelian Isthmus in autumn. [label info]
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0ID -- "Red Book (Ambient Mix)" -- CD -- €7
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]
0ID -- "Systems of Mercy" -- CD -- €7
2006 Lagunamuch Community, LMC700, (ltd. 1000)
0id is one Andrey Antonets, who is a member of Alexandroid, but solo creates his own ambient music. I think it's played on analogue synthesizers, and it's not the tapestry sounds of Hypnos but more the stripped down version of ambient house music. Things move a little bit, there is arpeggio's on the piano, and even a bit of percussion. However the highlight of the cd is the fourth track, which started out with a voice going through a vocoder, later on forming a duet of voices and brings it close to space age popmusic. That is absolutely a great piece. Even with such a title for the cd things can't go wrong. [Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly]
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15 DEGREES BELOW ZERO -- "Open Doors" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2021 Oxidation, CDROT085, (ltd. 200)
Ambient / Experimental / Noise. 15 Degrees Below Zero is Mark Wilson, Daniel Blomquist & Michael Addison Mersereau. The first release by this project was in 2000, so 21 years later we get to see how the project has progressed. Despite this album being started over 10 years ago it fully expresses a great maturity and beautiful diversity of styles. This is a truly epic album and I'm proud to present it to the world along with the members of the project. [label info]
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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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16P17R15O19T15O19O23Y16P -- "Plast XXI 91342018191723" -- 2 CD-R -- €15 [-50%]
1998/2017 Torga Amun, Amun-117, (ltd. 24)
Radionoise / Field Recordings / Minimal Industrial / Lo-Fi. One of the projects by dr. Feitnathoroth (Gorduw, Hilderend, Lilly, Unit+Ass, etc.) and Depth Tyrant (Tchort). Portraits of weird radio broadcasts: flowing frequencies, signals, transmission interference, distorted voices & noises, industrial dictaphone recordings and an unexpected remix on a track by Mental Detsruction. Utter minimalism for immersion into your self and into nowhere. Recommended to listen in a gas mask. The material was recorded in 1997 and released on cassette by Folvork prod. (Kfeytzez 011) in 1998. The reissue is done in handmade cardboard sleeves with applique and insert, eacg copy is unique.
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1G0G -- "All Sacred" -- CD-R -- €6
2006 Electroindustria, 08EICDR
Dark Ambient / Noise. 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 Orthodox Christian harsh noise!
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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]
1G0G -- "Quiet Cube" -- CD-R -- €6
ElektroIndustria
Dark Ambient / Industrial / Experimental. The alboum “Quiet Cube” is a live concert recording, that have been played on a performance of buto theatre “ODDdance”. This performance had taken place in St. Petersburg, in a famous sculpture studio of Anikushin, as a part of “Museums Night” 2008. During the performance the audience are programmed to a result of invisible process, follow the instruction, they are crook on a fish-hook wich was suspended by the artists. The audience had no possibility for usual breathing, they need a respiratory system: an idea, conception, message, fictitious form. [label info] Author's edition by 1g0g (Noises of Russia): printed CDR surface, slim jewel-case.
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21 GRAMMS -- "Water - Membrane" -- CD -- €7 [-50%]
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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23 THREADS -- "I Woke Up at Dawn" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2019 Zoharum, ZOHAR 183-2, (ltd. 250)
Doom Metal / Industrial. Marek Marchoff, Ingrid Swen and Rafał Janus are back with the new album. This is the fourth album released under the moniker 23 THREADS. However, it shows a completely different side of the project. This is a kind of escape from the current formula based on combining dark folk with kraut rock. So what can you expect from "I Woke Up Dawn"? This album is a tribute to the protoplasts of heavy music. The musicians themselves say that it is a doom album. Undoubtedly, in these 9 compositions, you can feel a different weight than before. There are guitars in the foreground, bass lines, thick cylindrical riffs intertwined with possessed vocals. In the background, there is a psychedelic atmosphere of the 1970s. This, however, is a kind of a starting point, a creation that the trio uses to utilize their ideas and to mix in their own musical language already known from previous recordings. It is worth mentioning that in one of the songs there is a guest appearance of ZENIAL who performs his own interpretation, deconstructing previously existing recording by the 23 THREADS musicians, which gives an interesting effect consistent with the whole album, and thus confirms the complexity of the convention adopted by the trio. Taken from the motto from "I Woke Up Dawn", Occult Macabre Doom is the best description of the nature of this recording... The album released in digipak in the shape of a cross limited to 250 copies. [label info]
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2KILOS &MORE -- "entre3villes" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2009 Optical Sound, os.048 / Jeans Records, jeans records 07
IDM / Ambient / Post-Rock. French duo 2Kilos &More was formed in 2003 by Séverine Krouch and Hughes Villette, but their first release, a mini album entitled 9,21, wasn’t published until three years later on artisanal Paris-based imprint Taâlem. This was followed a year later by a full length album, 8Floors Lower, on Jeans Records, with a second album, Entre3villes, on Optical Sound issued two years later. Krouch and Villette also joined the ranks of French performance art collective Von Magnet, famed for mixing electronic music with flamenco and oriental music, in 2008, and with whom they have performed regularly ever since... [themilkfactory]
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2KILOS &MORE -- "Kurz Vor5" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2012 Audiophob, auphcd018
IDM / Ambient / Experimental. 2kilos &More is a French electronica duo from Paris created in 2003 and consisting of Séverine Krouch und Hugues Villette (Von Magnet). Before finding their way to Audiophob, they released one 3"CD and two albums on different labels as well as a lot of other contributions to compilations and movie soundtracks. The new album "Kurz vor5" is once again produced by Norscq (The Grief, Atlas Project, Von Magnet, dDamage, Colder, remixer for Meat Beat Manifesto, Depeche Mode etc.) in his Parisian studio. The duo has invited Phil Von (Von Magnet) and Black Sifichi (a great spoken-words artist from New York who worked with Black Dog, Burnt Friedman, Simon Fisher Turner, Rodolphe Burger, High Tones etc.), two important voices from the independent French scene, to feature three new vocal compositions. Using samples and digital sounds, the duo composes by improvising on long evolving sound waves. They shape every song like a journey through sonic universe, playing with tension and surges punctuated by instrumental interventions (guitars for Séverine or drums for Hugues), often reminding us of the cinematographic world of David Lynch or Steven Soderbergh (Solaris). [label info]
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414 -- "s/t" -- CD -- €15
2000/2011 self-released, (ltd. 38)
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. Kirill Stoukaline's author's edition with a new design.
73! + PUSTOTA -- "Nesterilnost' (Antisterility)" -- CD-R -- €6 [-50%]
2016 Biosonar^Lo-End, 053/2016 cdr, (ltd. 20)
Live recording of the collaborative droning / rustling of the two projects, captured at dRЁmA-10 @ ZANZA 19/12/2015. Two parallel soundflows: flying guitar waves by 73! and rugged layered noises of cassette tapes and field rustles by Pustota. Limited edition and DIY artwork in a cardboard sleeve and stuff like that. [label info]
793 -- "White Rainbow" -- CD-R -- €7
2022 Barbatos Productions, BP 023/2022, (ltd. 50)
Dark Ambient / Drone / Lo-Fi. A mysterious esoteric project from the depths of the Russian underground with one 40-minute track full of synthesizer drone, bass rasp and distant harmonic echoes. Plastic half-DVD-box, 50 hand-numbered copies.
7PM RITUAL -- ":08:16:02:" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2015 Lichterklang, LK029, (ltd. 300)
7pm Ritual is the new project of the founding Stein members Norbert Strahl, Nic Sender and Oliver Sittig who reunited for spontaneous jam-session after a couple of years, which finally resulted in “:08:16:02”. The album is a dedicated and conceptional piece of work, based on one of the biggest tragedies of the past millennium. Musicalwise 7pm Rituals debut is the perfect blend of songs, influenced by Neofolk and orchestral, cinematic sounds bands that sometimes remind of early recordings of In The Nursery, but with a more folky edge. The songwriting as well as the sound quality are outstanding and there’s no doubt that 7pm Ritual and their musical diversity will leave a deep impact throughout the different genres mentioned before. [label info]
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A CHALLENGE OF HONOUR -- "Ashigaru Revealed" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
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 -- €12
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 -- "Trilogy" -- 2 CD -- €17 [-50%]
2007 Vrihaspati Recordings, VR012, (ltd. 255)
The trilogy of human madness was released as three 10" ep's on the french label Divine Comedy. 5 years after the first release, comes now this 2CD-set containing the three 10" EP's digitally remastered on CD1 and on CD2 the Steinklang EP "Am ende des Tages..." as well as 5 unreleased tracks and 4 remixes by Antracot, Levoi Pravoi, Atrox and Hypnoskull (all exclusive).
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.
AABZU -- "It Came From Outer Space" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2014 Zoharum, ZOHAR 069-2, (ltd. 300)
With ”Rambo” album they conquered the Earth, and now AABZU duo (ie. Maciek Szymczuk and Lukasz Szalankiewicz aka Zenial) has decided to take over the whole universe. Their new album entitled ”It Came from Outer Space” is released on Zoharum in January 2014. And, although the title is not a direct reference to the science-fiction classic movie from 1953, those who have just imagined rubber aliens and cardboard scenery, will identify the atmosphere of this new album in the right way. This release is the next audio film for your listening pleasure - this time its theme is adventures in interplanetary area. It will feature aliens attacks, laser duels, plastic rocket flights and mysterious monsters straight from Mars and other planets. If that's not enough, one will also plunge into the secrets of the reptillians or escape from zombie attack. But this is just thematic backgroung for an hour of energetic electronica with hints of dub, ambient and breakbeat. Contrary to the trashy film references, the music on "It Came from Outer Space" is free from such qualities. Once again, AABZU surprises the listeners with their forward ideas and an unusual mix of styles while creating this new (cosmic!) quality... When asked about their influences for recording such an album, the duo answer, without the shadow of a doubt, that they come from their worship of such films - kitschy and cheap - where dwell robots similar to vacuum cleaners and aliens resembling shopping bags. The other, yet natural inspiration, is music, especially the one which is dominated by broken rhythms and massive basslines... The soundtrack to your interplanetary trip is composed of 10 tracks plus two remixes by Jim Coleman (Phylr) and Michal Sliwa (Echoes of Yul) which will only be available on the CD edition of the album. AABZU, Szymczuk-Szalankiewicz duo, invites you on the space flight with a handful of tracks: capturing, danceable at times, but always original. This 3-panel ecopak release is strictly limited to 300 copies. [press-release]
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AB INTRA -- "Henosis I-V" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2016 Zoharum, ZOHAR 132-2, (ltd. 300)
Ambient / Drone. A bit more than two years after the two-disc split with 1000Schoen (ZOHAR 070-2), Ab Intra is back with a new album. After two previous successful ventures entitled "Aura Imaginalis" (ZOHAR 006-2) and "Supremus" (ZOHAR 026-2) the new release is a record of its research in the field of music. "HENOSIS" (Greek for unity, unification) is a scene of a suggestive sonic travel; a travel uniting opposites at different symbolic levels. The sounds on the album are an attempt to reflect the transforming process expressed through color, intensity and frequency. In this sense, the album is a conceptual whole strongly interacting with the imagination of the audience. The album released in a digipak is strictly limited to 300 copies. [label info]
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AB INTRA -- "Henosis VI-XI" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2020 Zoharum, ZOHAR 212-2, (ltd. 300)
Ambient / Experimental. AB INTRA returns to Zoharum with a new piece of music. As title suggests we’re dealing here with a continuation or an expansion of the ideas explored in "Henosis I-V" from 2016. "Henosis VI-XI" takes us on a sound journey that unites (as "henosis" in classical Greek stands for "oneness", "union" or "unity" ) the opposites on different symbolic levels. As much as album presents sound pallete that resembles the previous part it differs in terms of arrangement and composition presenting new, unknown and exciting side of AB INTRA project. Taking the formula of "old plays new ways" AB INTRA once again presents music that’s strongly influencing listeners imagination. Album comes in 6 panel digipack limited to 300 copies. [label info]
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AB'SCHE / UNCODIFIED -- "Applied Misinformation For People Control" -- CD -- €10
2015 Naked Lunch Records, NLR020CD, (ltd. 250)
The third installment of the collaboration between Gianluca Favaron as Ab'she and Corrado Altieri as Uncodified. 11 tracks of Noise / Musique Concrete / Drone. Ltd x 250 copies in a digipak. Photography by Stefano Gentile.
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ABANDONED KITCHEN 1947 -- "A New Eden" -- CD-R -- €5 [-50%]
2019 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT147, (ltd. 47)
Finding beauty and even some kind of "paradise" - A New Eden - within the decadence of the modern urban landscape. Junkies as the new shamans, violence as a new kind of tenderness. Girls get forced into womanhood in dark alleys and dirty, dim-lighted rooms... The city is hell, but even at its darkest and murkiest and harshest, AK 1947 finds some beauty. An hour-long Katabasis in eight parts. Debut album by the Spanish project in the style of cold and grey industrial Dark Ambient of old school, bursting sometimes with furious Harsh Noise. Fullcolour sleeve. [label info]
ABBILDUNG -- "At The Gates Of Ouln" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2019 Winter-Light, WIN 020, (ltd. 200)
Dark Ambient. The welcome return of ABBILDUNG to our Winter-Light label with a new studio album 'At The Gates Of Ouln'. We journey once more to the world first visited in 'All Demons Are Horned' and enter the realm of the other dreamers. On 'At The Gates Of Ouln', ABBILDUNG presents us with six new tracks of classic dark ambient, forged in his own unique style. Utilising field recordings, samples, drones and beautifully crafted atmospherics, we are once again drawn in to the creative realm of Casian's music... Uplifting organ sounds wrap themselves around rich, dark overtones, pulling them from out of the shadows and up in to the half light, only to let them fall away again in to the gaping abyss below, as they burn bright for one last time before fading away in to black nothingness... Edition comes in a full-colour 4-panel digipak, limited to 200 copies. [label info]
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ABISSO -- "Urban Witchery" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2007 Luminol Method
ABISSO is a new Italian uncompromising harsh / white-noise project involved with Satanism and Urban Guerrilla! This debut mini-album consists of 6 untitled tracks of pure mental dissection noise... The album comes in a black 3" mini CDr packed in an elegant mini-DVD box with inserts... [Old Europa Cafe]
ABOVE THE RUINS -- "Songs Of The Wolf" -- CD -- €13
1984/2018 Infinite Fog Productions, IF-85
New Wave / Post-Punk. A long-awaited reissue of the important album in early Neo-folk history, which sold out more than 20 years ago. This for sure will be interesting for those who are deep in the new wave/post-punk/neo-folk music and interested in the history of genres. The album was released by legendary “World Serpent” in 1995 but recorded in far 1984 after Tony Wakeford left Death In June. A splendid mix of post-punk, new wave and slightly folky, sound bears resemblance to early Death In June, Tony Wakeford's future project Sol Invictus and Joy Division. “Songs Of The Wolf” was released as a tape in 1984 and as LP in 1986, both well acclaimed and sold out immediately. A new version includes the complete CD album plus two rare bonus tracks. This is absolutely everything that recorded by that short-time project, ever. This is music by very young people with a hot blood and raw energy. The album like a trip back in old times, makes you feel young again... but not too much and only for a while. Part the money from sales will be donated to charities like “Hunt Saboteurs”, “Southall Black Sisters” and "Animal defense community"... We tried to publish this album since the 2009 year and happy that that is finally done. Now we can enjoy music (!) again and some collections became more complete. [label info]
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ACCOMPLICE AFFAIR -- "Cienie" -- CD -- €7 [-50%]
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 -- €4 [-50%]
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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ACCRUST -- "Messenger of Shadows" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2018 Aesthetic Death, ADCD 047, (ltd. 500)
Dark Ambient / Industrial. "Messenger of Shadows" is a journey through the underworld, a personal hell traversed deliberately & methodically; and interpreted in 46 minutes of aural paintings. The blurry shadows of faded memories, dark, distorted and far from their source are what is left in the aftermath. Distant silhouettes serving as a testament of the grueling past. Their origin, now an altered version of its former self, reduced to a mere messenger of antiquity; a rotting resolution of a passing idea... "Messenger of Shadows" is Accurst's 3rd album. This completes the trilogy of concept albums that started with "Fragments of a Nightmare" in 2003. [label info]
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AD OMBRA -- "Almost Eternity" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2011 Rage In Eden, RAGE 83
After two years since the last release of ‘Magna Charta Illusorum’, Ad Ombra returns with a new album titled ‘Almost Eternity- Handmade beliefs for the nostalgic lambs’. The album presents 10 orchestral compositions. All the complex tunes, changes in the pace, dramatic phrases and the beautiful opera voice; all of them heard from the previous releases are also presented on ‘Almost Eternity’. The music is perfectly polished, definitely the magic of the third record worked well. The most sophisticated album by Ad Ombra. [press-release]
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AD OMBRA -- "Rites Of Genesis (Equinox Tremendum)" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2008 Rage In Eden, RAGE 53
Romanian project Ad Ombra’s debut album “Rites of Genesis” (equinox tremendum) offers a suite in 15 parts of Dramatic Orchestral art, rooted in the timeless fragrance of Classical music, adorned with Eastern lullabies, funeral dirges, monumental choirs and operatic female chants, theatrical soliloquies, industrial hues of a dark disturbing manner, all coagulated in order to depict the aesthetical testimonies of the project’s mastermind, George D. Stanciulescu. A spiral of emotions, thoughts, opalescent visions, essential recurrences, for Creation’s shrine that stands as a living mirror where everyone can reflect the(m)selves. For fans of Elend, Stoa, Sophia and Chaostar. 15 tracks, 42 minutes, 3 panel matt digipack with original artwork by Luna. [press-release]
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ADERLATING -- "Hell Follows" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2015 Black Plagve, Infect16
The 5th full length CD for Aderlating finds the duo of Eric Eijspaart and Maurice De Jong returning to Black Plagve for the first time since 2013’s Gospel of the Burning Idols. Hell Follows takes a somewhat altered approach as it moves away from the ritualistic horror and smothering claustrophobia of past releases, and into a more spacious realm, with more distinguished sounds and clearer instrumentation. That’s not to say that Hell Follows isn’t steeped in atmosphere and dark energy. The 9 tracks are unpredictable, wildly hallucinatory and beguiling… odes to nightmares and flickering visions of torment and anguish, an alchemy of blackened kosmiche keyboard textures, raspy, foreboding voices, and passages of corrosive rumblings, hellish drift, and sinister percussive clangor. Mories has stated that Hell Follows was recorded live in the studio with less computer processing, and it shows in the amorphous quality of the tracks; a Coil like sense of psychedelia and surreal wooziness to some, a hopelessly dark and apocalyptic feel to others that adhere more to the traditional Aderlating template. Collectively, it’s a wild and mercurial sonic journey that resides on the peripheral of anything Mories and Eric have done to date, and yet at the same time, makes perfect sense within their discography. [press-release]
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ADRIVA -- "Cuore Mini" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Observatiore 18, (ltd. 18)
Ritual old school industrial from Rostov-on-Don, Russia.
ADRIVA -- "Lacte Sessia" -- CD-R -- €7
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.
ADR-VA -- "Pigment...#1" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2012/2015 Rostov Vox, cdr01, (ltd. 10)
Reissue - 10 copies in a piece of green cloth. Individual audio lo-fi series, part 1 - "Chatte". Manipulations with ochra, sand, terracota... and other materials and processing... [label info]
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ADR-VA -- "Pigment...#2" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2012 Rostov Vox, cdr02, (ltd. 10)
Individual audio lo-fi series, part 2 - "Chatte - Reverse". Manipulations with ochra, sand, terracota... and other materials and processing... Only 10 copies, each containing a photo card from the author. [label info]
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ADRIVA -- "Spenta" -- CD EP -- €8
2017 Mantra Spenta, Sacrament V, (ltd. 300)
Drone / Archaic. The contemplative piece of drone sound art will lead the listener to the depths of preconscious. As the microcosm and the macrocosm are equal, so all the secrets and all the wonders are hidden inside of our deep inner self. Stop the fuss of mind and look into your soul. This is the only way to see the Unfading Eternal Flame... Adriva is the project of Russian ethnographer, artist and musical avant-gardist Denis Shapovalov from Rostov-on-Don. Starting his way in the black metal underground of the early 90s, and after founding one of the first Russian folk pagan band Sunchariot, the artist changed the reference point for drone and experimental music. Unlike the darker and denser paintings of the late Sunchariot, Adriva music is based on the experience of myths and drawing inspiration from archaic beliefs and the culture of the ancients. Presented in 4-panel digipak. [label info]
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ADR-VA -- "Voix De Mythe. Predchuvstvie - Ombre - Parties." -- CD-R -- €7
2012 Observatoire, obs * i(l65)|myth 039, (ltd. 65)
Reissue of two minions released in 2009: "Voix De Mythe" (Abgurd) and "Predchuvstvie (Ombre Parties)" (Der Schöne Hjuler-Memorial-Fond). "Voix De Mythe: 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] "Predchuvstvie (Ombre Parties): One 18-minute track created from the field-recordings made somewhere on military objects. Released in a very limited edition of 14 copies by Komissar Hjuler's label Der Schöne-Hjuler-Memorial-Fond. Slowly droning and hissing sound jelly, wrapping the listener with unnoticeable hypnosis."
ADR_VA -- "Zatemnenie" -- CD-R -- €7
2016 Rostov Vox, 04, (ltd. 50)
A project by Denis Shapovalov from Rostov-on-Don, Russia, ex-member of Sunchariot and head of the electroacoustic-oriented label Observatoire. "Zatemnenie" is a lost album from early 2000-s, recorded for the labels Strely Peruna and Abgvrd, but never released. Two tracks of raw monotonous obscure ritual ambient. All material is based on cycled looped dark drones. Like some giant millstones rotating in space and grinding matter into dust, or are those electromagnetic coils slowly resonating in thickened ether?.. Cover made of two thick cardboard plates holding a disc and a poster.
ADRIVA 91404 D -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €7 [-50%]
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 -- "The Completed History of Nordland" -- CD-R -- €3
Legio Mourman, legm-002, (ltd. 30)
Death Industrial / Dark Ambient. Russian industrial project with anti-Zionist ideology, inspired by the works of Douglas Reed, David Duke, Orey Volot, William Pierce and Evgeniy Evseev. Stylistically music varies from harsh noise and death industrial to darkwave and dark ambient with a martial touch. This disc contains the collection of mini-albums forming the "Nordic Weapons" trilogy.
AELTER -- "Dusk-Dawn / Follow You Beloved" -- 2 CD -- €10
2011 Crucial Blast, CBR98
One of several side-projects to emerge from the Wolvserpent camp, Aelter is the solo effort of Wolvserpent guitarist Blake Green. With Aelter, Blake explores a similar realm of dark majestic sound to Wolvserpent, with his massive downtuned guitar roar and bleak minor key melodies being the common thread between the two projects. But where Wolvserpent blends this chugging Melvins-esque heaviness and haunting slowcore arpeggios with violins, pounding drums, and a propensity for extended hypno-dirges, Aelter dispenses with the drums almost completely and goes for a more cinematic approach using layered keyboards and gorgeous harmonized voices that reminds me of something you would have heard on Beggers Banquet or 4AD being fused to a malevolent black heaviness. Both of the Aelter albums were only released on vinyl in limited editions of a few hundred copies and are close to going out of print completely, but we have now gathered both Dusk Dawn and Follow You Beloved together in a double disc set. [label info]
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AENDLEX -- "Driven by Night" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2016 Rage In Eden, RAGE 115
A journey of psych-folk experiences. Aendlex comes back with a work fully recorded in analog, the lyrics have been written in Venezuela and Italy. Take a trip into the highs and lows of these one man band memories... [label info]
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AERE AETERNUS -- "Humanity Needs No Funeral" -- CD -- €10
2008 Kaosthetik Konspiration, KSTK 006
The dominant atmosphere combines a sense of impending insanity with sexual deviancy and a large dollop of occultism, creating a dark and troubling misanthropic sojourn that is relatively unique. The final track is probably the most musical, as it is centred on a guitar arpeggio, but no such concessions to convention are present elsewhere on this deeply troubling disk. The accompanying video of "Invocation" shows a Satanic ritual in all its kitchsy glory. Recommended for those looking for something a darker than the usual entities. [Chronicles Of Chaos]
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AESTHETIC MEAT FRONT -- "Temple of Flesh" -- CD -- €10
2006 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 087
"Temple of Flesh" is based on an Invocation of Rapture from A-M-F's "Blood Sun Rising" Rituals (2003-004). The text of this invocation has been translated into 12 languages, and sculpted into a dark electronic abyss. Ritual drones are the framework for haunting invocations and chants, which are supported by the seductive mantras of Zaskia Morgan. Bombastic drums and instruments connected with hooks into the skin of the ritual participants are also sound sources for this release. Elegantly packaged in a DVD case, Temple of Flesh comes with 6 double-sided cards reflecting the essence of an A-M-F ritual. Italian invocation featuring vocals by OEC master : Rodolfo Protti... Sounds remixed by R|A|A|N. [label info]
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AETERNA -- "Abyssos" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2012 Lichterklang, LK012, (ltd. 400)
In 2009 the German Apocalyptic Folk Duo Aeterna released their successful debut „New Dawn“ on the Swedish cult label „Cold Meat Industry“. Their unique blend of dark Black Ambient, percussive Martial Industrial and fatalistic Folk was described as „Luciferian Hmyns to the New Dawn“. After three years of intensive work the eagerly awaited successor „Abyssos“ now will be released, radically continuing the path of it’s predeccesor, from the archaic growls of doom up to the ethereal heights of Icarus’ flight, characterized by it’s fateful lyrics, melancholic guitar-melodies, powerful vocals, martial drums and overall driven by the Luciferian ghost of revolt. „Abyssos“ is an album of dark flickering beauty and heathen power, mastered by Cyclic Law Mastermind Frederic Arbour. The exclusive artwork was conceived by the well-respected artist Birthe Klementowski, known for her collaborations with Desiderii Marginis, :Golgatha:, Sala delle Colonne, Apatheia, Vortex and Dawn & Dusk Entwined. [label info]
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AETHERE -- "The Long Dark Tea - Time Of The Soul" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2007 War Office Propaganda, WOP 45
Third full lenght album in 3 years from Aethere. Emanuale Ratti, a man behind Aethere have started to compose music already few years ago, trying to mix '70s space music with dark ambient in the vein of early Cold Meat Industry. Now Aethere has arrived with a perfect balance of old space music and ambient in the classic vein of Robert Rich & Alio Die, with a strong tones of oppressive & depressive feelings, rather far from old Cold Meat school influences. 6 tracks, 50 minutes, CD in digipack. [label info]
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AGATE ROLLINGS -- "Diomede" -- 2 CD -- €16 [-50%]
2016 Databloem, DB2CD069-2016
AGATE ROLLINGS is an Ambient / Electro Acoustic duo formed by Alessandro Sgarito and Stefano Gallone in 2010 in Rome (Italy). Their storytelling soundscapes of musical visions of sound and mental state, seem to constantly evolve and transmigrate in imaginary territories. Exploring and expanding this concept, Alessandro and Stefano not only offer 120 minutes of sounds and perceptions but also a photographic tale by Alessandro Sgarito (available in free download on request) and a book (available through Amazon), including images by Alessandro and words by Stefano. The idea for the title and the concept of the album came from the conformation of two islands called Big and Little Diomede and located in the middle of the Bering Strait between mainland Alaska and Siberia, which borders with the Chukchi Sea to the north and the Bering Sea to the south. Because they are separated by the International Date Line, Big Diomede is almost a day ahead of Little Diomede but with only 2,4 miles of distance. Because of this the islands are sometimes called Tomorrow Island (Big Diomede) and Yesterday Isle (Little Diomede). DIOMEDE is an inner journey, metaphorically passing through sounds and images to any place where life is good. [label info]
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AGHAST MANOR -- "Gaslights" -- CD -- €10
2012 Infinite Fog Productions, IF-18 / Eternal Pride Productions, EPP-19
Dark Ambient / Darkwave. Aghast Manor is a creation of Andrea Nebel (Aghast, Hagalaz Runedance, Nebelhexe) who - after working for quite some time on dark movie soundtracks - recently also re-introduced her old Aghast songs to actors and filmdirectors such as Scott Derrickso and David Lynch. As a result, Andrea got received new inspiration and she decided to work again on a full album with dark tracks! Aghast Manor is inviting you to haunting darkness and decadent visions, providing perfect soundtracks for dark disturbing atmospheres. With a blend of sinister ambient and classical tunes the first album 'Gaslights' is giving you images of industrial lunacies, victorian visions of opium smokes and dark poetry, femme fatales, Jack the Ripper and Lovecraftian occult experiences... Travis Ryan from Cattle Decapitation has submitted a song called 'Suck My Drain', vividly describing the atmospheres within slaughterhouses and other death camps. Aghast Manor's 'Gaslights' must be enjoyed at night, either in darkness or with candle light. [press-release]
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AGHAST MANOR -- "Penetrate" -- CD -- €10
2013 Infinite Fog Productions, IF-33
Aghast Manor is the creation of Andrea Nebel (ex-Aghast). On this album she is joined by grand dark-art master Jouni Havukainen (In Slaughter Natives). "Penetrate" invites you to a dark and haunting flair of ambient sounds combined with styles of symphonic industrial, dark cabaret and jazz noir. Sinister and peculiar indeed, but undeniably beautiful and alluring! ”Penetrate” seduces with an overall concept of 1940’s Paris, fallen suicidal women, wicked asylum nurses and Russian spies. [label info]
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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 -- "Unprofaned Twilight" -- CD -- €10
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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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]
AIN SOPH -- "Live At Piper 1986" -- CD -- €10
1986/2021 SPQR label, SPQR LX, (ltd. 616)
Industrial / Ritual. Live at Piper is the first official live performance of this legendary occult/esoteric band from Rome. In the year 1986 their gig was not very well received by the audience. First Korg synthetizer and ritual percussions made this concert a very unique and incredible experience. For the first time is now available digitally remastered in an special eco digipack cd, limited to 616 copies. [label info] Reissue of a cassette previously released in 1986 by Misty Circles.
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AJNA -- "An Era of Torment" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2017 Reverse Alignment, RA-39, (ltd. 300)
Dark Ambient / Drone. 2016 saw the release of Ajna's debut on Reverse Alignment; "Inevitable Mortality". An isolationist journey through desolate landscapes. External, but most of all internal. On "An Era of Torment", Chris F plunge deeper into the darkness of the soul. This time derived from psychological battlefields contemplating on lo-fi textures, blackened drones and abandon hopes. [label info]
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AJNA & DRONNY DARKO -- "Black Monolith" -- 2 CD -- €14 [-50%]
2017 Reverse Alignment, RA-34, (ltd. 200)
Dark Ambient / Drone Ambient. Despite the continental drift and the apparent distance between USA and Ukraine, Chris F and Oleg Puzan has been working together for some years now. Black Monolith though, is the first release under the Reverse Alignment banner and includes previously released tracks from EP Facing the Void and the long single 1000 Years of Cryosleep put out digitally by norweigan Petroglyph Music in 2013-2014. These have been remastered together with new material, forming a continuum of collaborative work... Ajna, known from it's release "Inevitable Mortality", and Dronny Darko, one of Cryo Chamber's highly esteemed artists, create an alliance in pitch black ambient to carry out our minds to the outer rim territories of discovered space and the dark vastness of a universe without an end... This is beauty and fear, calmness and disturbance. This is the "Black Monolith". [label info]
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AKAUZAZTE -- "Dan Danok" -- CD + DVD -- €23 [-50%]
2009 self-released
Spanish group performing experimental avantgarde rock / post rock / no wave. Hard to compare to anyone, but obviously the musicians are talented and full of ideas and their music is quiet psychedelic. Release package is quite luxury and unusual. [YAOP]
AKHLUTH -- "Coma Cluster" -- CD-R -- €5 [-50%]
2019 VOLOK Records, VR-27, (ltd. 20)
Dark Ambient / Drone. Akhluth is a collaborative effort between two artists - Andrii Kozhukhar (Kojoohar, Kadaitcha) from Nova Kakhovka, UA and Mykola Yosypenko (Motorpig) from Kharkiv, UA. The project started in 2018 as an aural alloy of modular synthesis, granular textures, noise and field recordings from the different regions of Ukraine. [label info]
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AKKOSAX -- "An Werner Pirchner" -- CD -- €7
2009 Col Legno, WWE 1CD 30003
Free Improvisation.
AKPAN -- "dBal-phur bond-pa" -- CD-R -- €8
2012 Strely Peruna, SP024, (ltd. 50)
First part of the demonic trilogy of the black mantras on authentic language of demons of lower and upper worlds. Half-hour ceremony of wrathy flow of consciousness in unclean outer world and purification to emptiness. In the recording were used authentic Tibetan ritual instruments and industrial metal pipes and surfaces, throat and guttural singing. Artwork utilizes a piece of decayed rags from a burial and sang, also analogue mastering was made in special days of the year. [from the author] Stylistically the recording is not close to the authentic Tibetan ceremonies (like it is with Phurpa project), in this case this is rather a view of tradition through the prism of post-industrial and noise music - which doesn't prevent it from being convincingly grim. Recording features Sergey Gabbasov (Vazhes, Bardo).
AKPAN -- "Schwarze Sonne" -- CD -- €6
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.
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AKPAN / BARDO -- "V Poiskah Potaennogo" -- CD-R -- €6 [-50%]
2008/2010 Valgriind, VG 36, (ltd. 75)
Handmade cardboard 3-panel digipack with b/w photos of Himalayan landscapes, made in 1939 by a famous expedition of Ernst Shaeffer. Two tracks of primeval monotonous drone. Reissue of a split previously released by S und S as an extra-limited edition of 12 copies. [label info]
ALBATROSS -- "Treasure Island" -- CD-R -- €7
2012, Anenerbe Music Club, 001, (ltd. 44)
Albatross - is a side-project of a Moscow-based post-punk band Anenerbe Music Club, with more psychedelic and experimental rock music. Packed in a 7" cover, 44 copies.
ALGOL -- "All These Worlds Are Yours" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2016 Ksenza Records, ksz 015, (ltd. 333)
Space Ambient. The fifth full-length album by ALGOL brings to you digital and analog sounds combined with some soothing guitar tunes. A conceptual and contemplating album for virtual cosmic journeys. ALGOL is a project of Daniil Kazantsev, also known for STUZHA.
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ALGOL -- "Timeshifter" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2019 Ksenza Records, KSZ 024
Dark / Space Ambient. Ksenza Records and Infinite Fog Productions present the new work by Daniil Kazantsev, the mastermind of the projects Stuzha, Black Wanderer and Algol. It is time to embark on a new journey through the endless cosmic horizons with the good old guide. Having left the usual notions of movement in space and time, we set off on a path led by cosmic winds. The new album “Timeshifter” is Algol's second work released by Ksenza Records and the seventh full-length album in 13 years of the project's existence. Characteristric refined space ambient showing the development of the project, which is a pleasure to watch. [label info]
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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... -- "Chamber Music" -- CD -- €12
2013 Infinite Fog Productions, IF-31, (ltd. 500)
We are happy present to you new CD of this wonderful Italian band. And now a best time for it, because their quiet melancholic music will be perfect introduction for imminent autumn season. "Chamber Music" was recorded 10(!) years ago, and it was the work that brought the group to a contract with Cold Meat Industry, but not released till this time due to copyright problems. All lyrics are taken fro James Joyce's collection of poems called 'chamber music'.To release this work was only necessary the permission of the actual copyright owner, Joyce's nephiew Stephen. This permission was denied in the past even to bigger artists as Kate Bush. It was clear then, that there was no other possibility than to write new lyrics and record all vocal parts again. Here under the base of "Chamber Music" was borns "as you're vanishing in silence" - CMI/2005, which got many many positive feedbacks. Now 10 years later, 70 years after Joyce's death, we have all rights to release this album. Digipak CD - limited to 500 copies. [press-release]
ALL MY FAITH LOST... -- "In A Sea, In A Lake, In A River .. ...Or In A Teardrop" -- CD -- €8
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 [-50%]
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]
ALLEGORY CHAPEL LTD. -- "Modus Operandi" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2021 Oxidation, CDROT073, (ltd. 200)
Industrial / Experimental. "Modus Operandi – a particular way or method of doing something, especially one that is characteristic or well-established." What does Modus Operandi mean though when it comes to Elden M. and Allegory Chapel Ltd.? ACL has been so varied over the years and has shown he is a master of all sorts of genres. Modus Operandi the new album by Allegory Chapel Ltd. perfectly encapsulates many of those past genre-defining moments in one CD. Modus Operandi also features the track Distributed Organs, Flesh Feedback [Instrumental] featuring MARFISIA BEL, and the track ICBM which is a collaboration with MONTE CAZAZZA. Oxidation is proud to release this album by one of my all-time favorite artists. [label info]
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ALLERSEELEN -- "Abenteuerliches Herz" -- CD -- €9
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]
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ALLERSEELEN -- "Chairete Daimones" -- CD -- €12
2019 Aorta, AORCD 20 / Indiestate Distribution, IST 093 CD, (ltd. 500)
Chairete Daimones (Ancient Greek for Be Greeted, Demons) is the brand-new CD by Allerseelen after their successful 2015 release Terra Incognita. This beautiful digipak CD with its 16-page-booklet, published by Aorta / Indiestate in early 2019, is another catchy and driving chapter in the discography of this adventurous and ambitious Austrian project... It has always been difficult to describe the music of Allerseelen as their oeuvre is not limited to just one genre: There seem to be dozens of them. No real expression key-word has been found to describe their apparently contradictory music. Some writers called it apocalyptic krautfolk or krautpop. This might work out as a rough approximation to describe some of their works, but definitely not for all of them. Most songs seem to exist inside an invisible field of force between genres like folk, post-industrial, pop, alternative rock. Nowadays, Allerseelen are musically situated somewhere between Coil, Einstürzende Neubauten, Laibach, Nine Inch Nails, 16 Horsepower and Throbbing Gristle. But Allerseelen are definitely unique with their studio recordings as well as live performances - as unique as the audience that has been attracted by their performances all over Europe, in North America and Russia... The 16-page-booklet - with all texts in German and English and partly even in Finnish - names the well-known guest musicians and vocalists who helped with their presence and skills to transform all seventeen songs on Chairete Daimones into real gems. The female singers are Aima (Les Jumeaux Discordants, Italy), Estella Plunkett (Miel Noir, Germany) and Faye R. (Fehu Uruz, Algeria). The cello is played by Annamaria Bernadette Cristian (Les Jumeaux Discordants, Italy). A special neo-classistic composition was written by Aida de Acosta (Keys of Perception, Venezuela) for Allerseelen. The bassist in almost all recordings is Marcel P. (Miel Noir, Fahl and other projects, Germany) who also took care of the mastering at his Dungeon Studio (Rhenania). Some songs have been mastered also at Soundtempel Studio. The violinists are Eugene Voronovsky (Cisfinitum, Russia) and Erich Zann (Kerbholz, Austria). The male guest vocalists are Aki Cederberg (Halo Manash, Finland) and Thomas Bøjden (Die Weisse Rose, Denmark). [label info]
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ALLERSEELEN -- "Dunkelgraue Lieder" -- CD -- €13
2017 Aorta, AORCD 19 / Indiestate Distribution, IST 092 CD, (ltd. 300)
Allerseelen, after their CD Terra Incognita (2014) and three reissues of early Allerseelen cassettes (Requiem, Schwartzer Rab, Autdaruta) are back with the CD Dunkelgraue Lieder. This is the deeply reworked version of the eponymous Allerseelen album Sturmlieder released first time back in 1996. Now, 21 years later, Gerhard Hallstatt has returned to his classic masterpiece and he’s offering us the new look on this great work... Dunkelgraue Lieder contains all the songs from the first Sturmlieder incarnation in shortened digitally remastered versions as well as 7 tracks which didn’t appear on the original release. The original tracks with their “sturm und drang” attitude have been placed in the middle of the new album wrapped in the new ones which are more philosophical, melancholic and permeated with sad beauty. Sonically they are also more into krautpop/neofolk sounding of todays Allerseelen making a contrast to harsh and abrasive tunes from mid 90-es. As a result we have a very interesting reminiscence of the past with a kind of a comment from the present, some wise and soft look back on one’s young spiritual nietzschean extremities... Some of the new tracks have been inspired by US black/folk/post metal band Agalloch which has a close spiritual connection with Allerseelen. Album’s precious artwork is based on the photos Gerhard made in 2010 in Oregon when he first met Agalloch at the same time as Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull had its apocalyptic eruption. The same time some new tracks included in this new album has been composed and recorded using loops from Agalloch songs... Melting old and new stages of Gerhard’s creative path Dunkelgraue Lieder would be a perfect work both for old Allerseelen fans and for younger audience who have probably never heard its 90es era music. Something to discover, something to look back – a perfect gem in everyone’s collection, very recommended. [label info]
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ALLERSEELEN -- "Flamme" -- CD -- €9
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]
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ALLERSEELEN -- "Fruhgeschichte I - Schwartzer Rab" -- CD -- €13
1990/2014, Ahnstern, Ahnstern 52 / Aorta, AORCD15, (ltd. 300)
This is a reissue of one of the first recording of ALLERSEELEN, originally recorded in Nov. 1989 and released as a tape on the AORTA' label in 1990. It contains the six original tracks, entirely remastered in 2014. Using kettle drums, processed violin, bass, human bones, loops, ALLERSEELEN composed dark, hypnotick, repetitive instrumental ambient ritual soundscapes. Comes in a four-panel digipack, limited to 300 copies. [label info]
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ALLERSEELEN -- "Fruhgeschichte III - Autdaruta" -- CD -- €13
2016 Aorta, AORCD 18 / Indiestate Distribution, IST 091 CD, (ltd. 300)
The third in the series of early Allerseelen soundworks re-issues, this time it is dedicated to Greenland shaman Autdaruta and it has a very Northern mystical feel inside. The extensive use of loops Gerhard made with natural instruments such as kettledrums, violins and the others, have created some great ritual industrial album which reminds more of earliest Hybryds or Zoviet France works than the nowadays Allerseelen music, but still the unique and distinctive artistic nature of Gerhard is easily recognisable. A small masterpiece from the early 90-es, not to be missed! [label info]
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ALLERSEELEN -- "Fruhgeschichte IV - Lacrima Christi" -- CD -- €13
1989/2019 Aorta, AORCD 21 / Indiestate Distribution, IST 094 CD, (ltd. 300)
The fourth in the series of early Allerseelen soundworks re-issues is another gem for lovers of dark ritual and rhythmical music who also highly appreciate a beautiful visual presentation. This digipak comes in a limited edition of 300 copies with photos of blue flowers, black wood and translucent tears, a poetic text about the background of this Allereelen cassette that was released in 1989 by Gerhard Hallstatt, the musician behind Allerseelen who back then worked under the name Kadmon, and a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke about wine and bitterness... Allerseelen were at this time not the music group that people are aware of nowadays with its numerous live performances all over Europe. It was still something prehistoric" or "embryonic", the acoustic and alchemical vision of one person. None of these unique recordings have ever been performed on stage... The first three releases in this series of re-releases - Schwartzer Rab, Requiem, Autdaruta - were inspired by alchemy, death and shamanism. The main inspiration for Lacrima Christi were a dangerous experience - or hour of truth - by Gerhard Hallstatt inside the crater of the Italian volcano Vesuvius in his youth and a sweet Italian wine named Lacrima Christi. Self-built xylophones made of bones and wood are creating an archaic and melancholic aura to remind the listener of the fragility and transience of life... The eight works on Lacrima Christi are not songs in the strict sense of the word. The dark loops that are intertwining each other in a hypnotic way appear rather like the soundtrack for a movie that was never made or never finished. A movie without actors: There are no lyrics, not even titles. These ritual rhythms and loops, combined with the sounds of ashes and fire, rocks, breath and wind, create a feeling like being inside the crater, the caldera of a volcano that is not dead but dormant... The sweet wine Lacrima Christi that grows on the ash grey slopes of the volcano Vesuvius refers to a Catholic myth about the tears of Christ in the time of his passion. To symbolize the co-existence of sweetness and bitterness, of light and darkness, of life and death, these recordings were enriched with rare voices, choirs, sighs, shouts of birth, lust, desire... There is something timeless in this music. Not only the sound itself, also the way how it came into existence appears incredibly anachronistic, almost "prehistoric" nowadays: Computers and internet were more or less science fiction, the internet was unknown. Just one small sampling keyboard served to create some loops. Everything else was done by using three tape recorders. The music was digitally re-mastered in a very careful way by Soundtempel Studio to preserve the authentic aura of the original recordings. For those who are keen to listen from time to time to something "against the modern world", these recordings might be a perfect choice. [press-release]
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ALLERSEELEN -- "Hallstatt" -- CD -- €9
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]
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ALLERSEELEN -- "Morgenrote" -- CD -- €12 [-50%]
2021 :retortae:, arkaisk 4 / Aorta, AORCD 22, (ltd. 300)
Darkwave / Neofolk / Industrial. This full-length compilation combines two different periods of ALLERSEELEN's creative work. The first 10 tracks contain material recorded in 2020: alternative versions of the tracks from the albums "Venezia", "Flamme", "Rauhe Schale", a song originally recorded for the STURMPERCHT project, a cover version of "Als Wärs Das Letzte Mal" by DEUTSCH AMERIKANISCHE FREUNDSCHAFT, and a remix of the track "Dolce Vita" made by the German dark electro project PHOBOS REACTOR. The last 8 tracks are the shortened songs from the early ALLERSEELEN cassette "Morgenröte" (1988).
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ALLERSEELEN -- "Neuschwabenland" -- CD -- €9
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]
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ALLERSEELEN -- "Rauhe Schale" -- CD -- €9
2010 Aorta, AORCD13
"Rauhe Schale" ('Rough Shell') is the brand new album from Austrian legends Allerseelen, which fascinates musically as well as visually. Everything moves and flows in a field of force between industrial, metal, folklore and pop. Lovers of bands like Nine Inch Nails, Einstürzende Neubauten, Laibach or Underworld could also fall in love with Allerseelen. Gerhard Hallstatt sometimes describes his music as Electronic Folklore or Apocalyptic Rock. But basically there is no real description for Allerseelen - all attempts to find an expression for their music may be valid for some time, yet lose their meaning after a couple of months or years. The songs were inspired by various magical mystery tours in Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Italy and Slovenia. Gerhard is assisted here by Dimo Dimov (Svarrogh, Miel Noir, Sturmpercht), Marcel P. (Sagittarius, Miel Noir, Halgadom), Meri Tadic (Eluveitie) and Annabel Lee (Blood Axis). 70 mins. of music in a digipak with booklet. [Cold Spring]
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ALLERSEELEN -- "Terra Incognita" -- CD -- €13
2015 Aorta, AORCD 16 / Ahnstern, Ahnstern 53
The latest all-new studio album of ALLERSEELEN released in 2015. The distinctive Gerhard's Krautpop has been recorded as usual with a help of his comrades, this time they are John Haughm (Agalloch), Jörg B (Der Blutharsch, Amestigon, Graumahd), Daniel P. (Arnica) and Alexander Wieser (Hrefnesholt) as well as Robert Taylor (Changes) who did the vocals on one of the songs. Combining folk, industrial and even some metal elements this contradictory music of the album is catchy and driving, but at the same time melodic, beautiful and melancholic. And profound beneath which is the epigraph reminds of: "All art is at one surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril." (Oscar Wilde: Dorian Grey) [label info]
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ALLERSEELEN -- "Venezia" -- CD -- €9
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]
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ALLISON, SCOTT & BEN OWEN -- "Untitled (For Agnes Martin)" -- CD -- €10
2013 Winds Measure Recordings, wm34/08-2 / Senufo Editions, # forty one, (ltd. 200)
Owen and Allison met in Brooklyn in 2009 with the intention to record 5 minute ‘songs’. Deciding to work within this duration, they made several versions of each improvisation based on a set of changing environments for new piece. Allison’s instrument’s included field recordings (processed and un-processed), ring-modulated sinewaves + contact mic; Owen’s instruments included a speaker + rose pedals, various oscillators, radio + fm transmitter and contact mic’ed surfaces + objects. The resonant pedals, feedback and shortened durations shaped the exchange that fluidly continued throughout the day. Not only the attention towards time and drawing from memory of years of collaborative improvised performance, this meeting documents decisive marks each person has explored in and out of the studio. [label info]
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ALPHA + GALATES -- "Oriflamme [Lys Noir]" -- CD-R -- €12
2022 Agfa Archive, AGFA 04, (ltd. 50)
Power Electronics / Noise / Industrial. The name Alpha + Galates refers to the old WWII French secret society studying Hyperborean themes, a kind of French Thule Society, an ark for Nazi-friendly esotericists. A new anonymous project with a radical ideological background has been launched on the underground French label Maltkross. Due to the fact that the musician is our old acquaintance, we decided to publish his new work. A crazy mix of brutal electronics, far-right politics, cyberpunk, heroic and occult aesthetics in the works of graphic novel artists of the 80s and 90s. The work "Oriflamme" has collected new tracks, as well as the best works from the early demos of the project. Multi-level intense noise terror with many references and easter eggs will not leave indifferent the lover of complex music and rich dense aesthetics. As for the design, you are again greeted by our branded thick original envelope pleasantly lying in your hands with many moves and labyrinths, inserts and discoveries. And if you know French, you will also be lucky to get acquainted with the texts and messages of the artist. [label info]
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ALTIERI / BALESTRAZZI / BECUZZI -- "In Memoriam J.G. Ballard" -- CD -- €10
2012 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 159
James G. Ballard (1930-2009) was one of the most important and brilliant contemporary writers and his death has left a big cultural void. The influence of Ballard’s aesthetics has produced on millennium-end generations a true cult, inspiring artists and art-works in all disciplines. Yet nobody, until now, has decided to dedicate an entire work to his memory. Thus, by mutual agreement, Corrado Altieri (Candor Chasma, Monosonik, TH26 ..), Simon Balestrazzi (TAC, Kino Glaz, Candor Chasma, Dream Weapon Ritual ..) and Gianluca Becuzzi (Limbo, Pankow, Kinetix ..), have decided to dedicate this album to the master of post modern literature and his work. The nine tracks of that album take their titles from so many Ballard novels, trying to recreate his special visionary mood into music. A universe ruled by free dreaming associations: eroticism, technology, consumerism and cruelty mingle together to create a new perception of reality. A constant dialectic between micro-events and macro-rumorism, between digital pointillism and white noise, in between static drones, fluctuations, shifts and sudden changes of scenery. The changing environment is producing sound architectures where the organic and the inorganic are no longer self-conscious, casting vague on each other. The Marilyn Monroe hologram projected on the wall of a motel near an airport is sexier than the original. James Ballard is dead, long live James Ballard. This is best Italian Industrial in good old-school mood! [press-release]
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AMATEUR ANT / MTOMBO -- "Electric Anthill" -- CD-R -- €5
2007 Sickcore, SC-013, (ltd. 100)
Radio-frequency noise / digital noise ambient. AA: Chirrimg noise resembling a pile of swarming ants with lots of hi frequencies. M: calm digital noise-ambient. As a bonus - 2 mutual remixes. [Triangle description] Cool handmade cover - hard binders cover with attached metallic shavings.
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AMBIGUOUS -- "The Garden Of Ruins" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2018 Aliens Production, AP 43, (ltd. 100)
Dark Ambient / Rhythmic Industrial. One of the darkest Aliens Production releases is momentarily actual thanks to this gentleman. Igor aka Ish and his devious side returns after a longer silence under the wings of Aliens Production. Once again Ambiguous is opening the gates of the mystery where is no boredom to dig and the remains of dead souls over which the sacred dust is decomposing will alive. Movies atmospheres are a strong source of energy and pulsating percussions shifts this piece into industrially tuned proportions. Atmospheric backdrop is wrapped in scary areas in which on the places embrace ancient testaments and abstract images. Painful but beautiful beginning of the end where various testaments and undiscovered corners meet. [label info]
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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]
ANALOG ANGEL -- "Dischord" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2009 Rage In Eden, RAGE 71
80's analog electronica; today's digital technology; blended together for an up to date sound. This is what the headline banner of www.Analog-Angel.com states - let's see!! The new album - DISCHORD - is released by RAGE in EDEN records on 30th November and is the debut album of this three piece, electronic band from Glasgow, Scotland. For anyone that has not heard of Analog Angel; they are not a boy band by any means. They are of an age where they can remember the 80's in full, vivid, 3-D glory and the songs on DISCHORD tell some of the story from the glorious 80's. 80's electronica? There is certainly more than a hint of 80's electronica on DISCHORD. Some of the basslines are straight out of the yearbooks 80-85!! Some of the sounds are pure analogue beauty; full of filter sweeps that could smash windows!! Up to date technology? - that box is ticked too. There are digital synths on the album; of that there is no doubt but they have been tweeked to within an inch of their lives! DISCHORD has been put together using some sort of digital interface but ANALOG ANGEL have tried to be a bit different from all the others in this genre and they have actually played some of the parts live and not quantized the result. This results in a less clinical sound with a bit more warmth than you would normally expect from an all electronic band. An up to date sound? They have managed to revisit the 80's, picked all that is good, timewarped back to 2009 and put together DISCHORD. [label info]
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ANARCHIST MOUNTAINS -- "Macedonians" -- CD -- €10
2019 Pantheon, PAN124, (ltd. 50)
Ambient / Drone. Open wide and endlessly fluid, the force of nature, the magic unseen yet so obvious when you feel it. Breathing it in with the air, seeing it in the reflections on water streams, hearing it with the wind that blows from the tops of the mountains. They seem so ancient and still, breathing static is their lesson. Yet remember that even mountains move, they're basically waves on earth, same as in the ocean... Each element seems to have its own nature but it's easy to feel them united. Like a family in a huge, neverending cycle. We see those waves still, for them we are sparkles... No matter what scale is, the cycle continues. [label info] Hand-numbered edition of 50 copies in handmade cardboard sleeves.
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AND REMAIN THERE FOREVER -- "Silence" -- CD-R -- €5 [-50%]
2019 VOLOK Records, VR-28, (ltd. 20)
Dark Ambient / Drone. AND REMAIN THERE FOREVER – a project of Ilya Gorlov from Kramatorsk, Ukraine. This is a dark ambient drone with a gloomy chilling atmosphere. Just what you need for fans of the genre. «After 5 years, the ghost mechanism of otherworldly visions started working again in a rotten station. Broadcasting the silence of the places left, which breaks the dances of ignorance in irreversible chaos, supressing hatred towards the system. By that indifferently prompting the void to meditate in the void». [label info]
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ANDER -- "...Potrwa Wiecznie" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2021 Zoharum, ZOHAR 241-2, (ltd. 300)
Neoclassical / Darkwave. "...Potrwa Wiecznie" (... it will last forever) is the successor to the great debut "Smutek" (Sadness), published a few years ago by BDTA. As on the previous release, we are dealing here with short, slightly song-like forms with a slightly melancholic and oneiric overtone. Each of the following miniatures unfold in such a way as to completely close into one longer story recorded on the album. The music on this album requires that you listen carefully, in a darkened room, detached from the hustle and bustle outside the window, so that its intimate character is fully heard in front of the listener. After all, this is an album for those who appreciate seemingly simple, somewhat fleeting, ephemeral melodies and short forms, woven delicately in a style similar to the atmosphere reminiscent of the sound of 4AD, Talk Talk, sometimes provoking reflection or stimulating the imagination of the audience... CD folded in ecopack, released in strictly limited edition of 300 copies. [label info]
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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 -- €10
2010 Midnight Records, MN024, (ltd. 500)
Dark Ambient. 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]
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ANDROMALAR -- "Nunquam" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2018 Reverse Alignment, RA-44, (ltd. 200)
Ambient / Drone. Reverse Alignment welcome ukrainian Andromalar to the fold. After three self released titles this magic drone act now found it's way to our label. Vast, dreamy soundscapes is expected. Listen and you'll understand what Andromalar is all about. [label info]
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ANEMIC ROYALTY / MONOCHROME -- split -- CD-R -- €6 [-50%]
2012 Deathforce Records, DF086CD
Anemic Royalty: Post-Rock, beautiful, transparent, like the air of a sunny September day. Monochrome: hallucinogenic Space Ambient with elements of Berlin school. Slim box. [YAOP]
ANEMONE TUBE -- "The Three Worlds - Allegory Of Vanity" -- CD -- €10
2017 The Epicurean, cure.17 / La Esencia, LER018/2017, (ltd. 300)
Industrial / Experimental / Noise. Far reaching pleasures will be at hand – Anemone Tube reveals a series of three CDs entitled “The Three Worlds: Allegory of Vanity / Forget Heaven / Vanity of Allegory”, referencing a cosmological treatise on the universe from the Theravada Buddhism of the 14th century, the subject matter of which is the description of three levels of existence of all beings and mythical creatures... This extensive retrospective release contains selected tracks from various tapes released between 1997 and 1999 - mostly rare and unavailable today - as well as yet unreleased tracks recorded between 1997 and 2013, a.o. outtakes from the “Death Over China” recordings, handpicked and recontextualized by Anemone Tube, representing the project’s roughest and most atmospheric material up to date, ranging from depressive ritual experimental ambient over dark rhythmic industrial soundscapes to whirlwind noise. Sharply mastered by Hunter Barr for a powerful, contemporary sound, each CD comes in a 6-panel digifile featuring beautiful photography by Dario Lehner. [label info]
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ANEMONE TUBE -- "The Three Worlds - Forget Heaven" -- CD -- €10
2017 The Epicurean, cure.18 / La Esencia, LER019/2017, (ltd. 300)
Industrial / Experimental / Noise. Far reaching pleasures will be at hand – Anemone Tube reveals a series of three CDs entitled “The Three Worlds: Allegory of Vanity / Forget Heaven / Vanity of Allegory”, referencing a cosmological treatise on the universe from the Theravada Buddhism of the 14th century, the subject matter of which is the description of three levels of existence of all beings and mythical creatures... This extensive retrospective release contains selected tracks from various tapes released between 1997 and 1999 - mostly rare and unavailable today - as well as yet unreleased tracks recorded between 1997 and 2013, a.o. outtakes from the “Death Over China” recordings, handpicked and recontextualized by Anemone Tube, representing the project’s roughest and most atmospheric material up to date, ranging from depressive ritual experimental ambient over dark rhythmic industrial soundscapes to whirlwind noise. Sharply mastered by Hunter Barr for a powerful, contemporary sound, each CD comes in a 6-panel digifile featuring beautiful photography by Dario Lehner. [label info]
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ANEMONE TUBE -- "The Three Worlds - Vanity Of Allegory" -- CD -- €10
2017 The Epicurean, cure.19 / La Esencia, LER020/2017, (ltd. 300)
Industrial / Experimental / Noise. Far reaching pleasures will be at hand – Anemone Tube reveals a series of three CDs entitled “The Three Worlds: Allegory of Vanity / Forget Heaven / Vanity of Allegory”, referencing a cosmological treatise on the universe from the Theravada Buddhism of the 14th century, the subject matter of which is the description of three levels of existence of all beings and mythical creatures... This extensive retrospective release contains selected tracks from various tapes released between 1997 and 1999 - mostly rare and unavailable today - as well as yet unreleased tracks recorded between 1997 and 2013, a.o. outtakes from the “Death Over China” recordings, handpicked and recontextualized by Anemone Tube, representing the project’s roughest and most atmospheric material up to date, ranging from depressive ritual experimental ambient over dark rhythmic industrial soundscapes to whirlwind noise. Sharply mastered by Hunter Barr for a powerful, contemporary sound, each CD comes in a 6-panel digifile featuring beautiful photography by Dario Lehner. [label info]
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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]
ANENERBE MUSIC CLUB -- "The Night Porter" -- CD-R -- €7
2014 Collapsar Publishing, mpec-01-2014, (ltd. 100)
Second album of the cult Moscow band Anenerbe Music Club made in retro-aesthetics and dedicated to the underground "new wave" music culture of 1980-s, true ex-Soviet nostalgia.
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ANGEL OF DECAY -- "Bleeding on the Flowers" -- CD-R -- €7
2007/2008 BloodLust!, B!103
Noise / Experimental. The solo analog synth / experimental project of Jonathan Canady (DEATHPILE, BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA, DEAD WORLD, etc.) active in 2002-2008. Recorded in one take live to 2 tracks on 3.31.2007. Originally released on cassette by BloodLust! in 2007.
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ANGST78 -- "78-Angst" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2019 Zoharum, ZOHAR 190-2, (ltd. 250)
Dark Ambient / Techno. ‘78 Angst’ is a conceptual compilation of tracks composed by Patryk Gęgniewicz (REVISQ) and Lukasz Szalankiewicz (ZENIAL) between 2013 and 2019. This music was composed in various places and circumstances: Zenial recorded in Poznań, Kraków and New York, Patryk in Wałbrzych, Jelenia Góra and Warszaw. Thus, every track has its own specific atmosphere and sound. The musicians have also invited other artists to make their remixes and reworks. One of them ‘At The Gates’ has been made by duo FISHERBOYZ. Dawid Chrapla and Dominik Żochowski are the authors of the next two tracks. The compositions on this album fluctuate around ambient, EVP-drone and techno. The name of the band comes from Gerald Kargl's movie ‘Angst’ and 78 is the year of birth of both project members. The CD is housed in a ecopak sleeve and the album is strictly limited to 250 copies. [label info]
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ANHEDONIA -- "Ontology" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
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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ANTEZ + MATHIEU CALLEJA + MIGUEL A. GARCIA + ARTUR VIDAL / GREGORY BUTTNER / HECTOR REY -- "Malasana / Kaktus / Myxini" -- 3 CD-R -- €8
2014/2015 Observatoire, obs * RD#4, (ltd. 100)
"Malasana": This recording was made in an area of Madrid called Malasana. The name recalls the Spanish struggle against the French troops of Napoleon, which took place at the beginning of the XIX century and is famously represented in the paintings of Goya. Nowadays, despite the increasing gentrification of the area of Malasana, it remains a place well known for night-time unrest and counter-cultural disobedience. This cultural climate draws parallels with the way improvised music relates to confrontation. Many musicians feel that improvised music clashes against, or is at odds with, social institutions, as in the case of Madrid, where modern or contemporary music is almost completely ignored by popular culture. In this recording we can hear a different kind of confrontation. Musicians seem to be trying to fight, both against themselves and against the temptation of presenting what they already know. They seem to be seeking out strategies for creating music collectively, without falling back on cliche, imitation or cultural habits. The listeners of this recording are invited to consider if the musicians have succeeded in this attempt. They are also encouraged to interrogate their own listening, as both a cultural practice shaped by social environment and as an area for a similar internal contest... "Kaktus": For this track I recorded the needles of a cactus played with my fingers. After some digital processings I edited them into a composition in 5 parts. In parts 3 and 5 the cactus recordings are combined and modulated with sinus-waves... "Myxini": Recorded in Bilbao during the summer of 2012. No overdub. [label info]
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ANTHESTERIA -- "Nebesnaya" -- CD -- €10
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, a 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 -- "By The Song As The Wind" -- CD-R -- €7 [-50%]
2007/2013 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT113, (ltd. 46)
Reissue of a legendary retro-psychedelic album recorded in 2006 by St. Petersburg based noise project Ant-Verstand. Earthen Power Electronics, an absurd cosmic symphony sunk in radionoise, smashing samples, sound like a prairie wind - tousles but purifies. Only 46 copies in sleeves with hand-written info, each copy is unique, each has different cover. [label info]
ANTI-VERSTAND -- "Cyclodol" -- CD-R -- €5 [-50%]
2015 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT119
Cholinolytic mid-frequency Harsh Power Electronic Noise, full of indescribable psychotic drive, soundtrack for the use of cyclodol tablets. Artwork inspired by A. Lebedev-Frontov's project "Pila". Listen very loud!!! Sleeve. [label info]
ANTI-VERSTAND -- "Electroorganics" -- CD-R -- €7 [-50%]
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 -- "Mulyazh V Pishchu Ne Prigoden" -- CD-R -- €5 [-50%]
2020 Paper Moon Republic, PMR_55, (ltd. 18)
Noise. Old School Harsh Noise, recorded live without spectators, without preparation and overdubs July 15, 2020. No electronics, just a contact microphone, macro objects (different for each of the three tracks) and tons of feedback. A ritual noise tribute to the classic styles of K2 and early Merzbow with a rabid psychopathic concept that harks back to the golden days of post-Soviet noise at the turn of the century, performed by Comforter, LLG, Reductio Ad Absurdum, Veprisuicida and Khlyst. Absurd scriptures and wild little heads. CD-R with printing on the surface, packed in transparent jewel-case. [label info]
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ANTI-VERSTAND feat. NOUMEN -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €7 [-50%]
2014 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT111, (ltd. 46)
New full-length album by Anti-Verstand is recorded with the help of Noumen (MNL9, Monologue, IAMNOTHING, Morbus Mundi, Endlosung (Russland), etc.) and based on his ideas and recordings. Voice harsh in vein of Masonna, sound poetry of Kurt Schwitters, dada experiments, musique concrete, psychoanalysis and transpersonalism, Noumen's gut-wrenching existential vocal outbursts, eccentric scenes, children's grindcore and sweet noise. The album comes with a Noumen's dadaist video "Death is near". Each copy is packed in a slim DVD-box, comes with a unique handmade cover with hand-written info and vintage amateur photography as an insert. Five random copies also contain vintage leather chevrons. [press-release]
ANTI-VERSTAND / TOTALMEHEHE -- "Cyclodol / Haloperidol" -- CD-R -- €7 [-50%]
2015 Cvlminis, (ltd. 20)
This isn't really a split release: Anti-Verstand's track "Cyclodol", being a soundtrack to the use of this anticholinergic drug (the original will be released soon) was reworked and edited by Noumen. As a result, the non-emotional anti-human almost-HNW track turned into an existential drama, spiritualized by the narratives of Noumen and flavoured with historical and religious samples and field recordings from a lunatic asylum. Two solo tracks by Totalmehehe are approximately in the same vein, multi-layered and verbally imbued, utilizing noise samples from Merzbow and other masters of noise. The result is unusual, raw, honest and certainly conceptual, like in all projects by Noumen: MNL9, IAMNOTHING, Morbus Mundi and others. Art bruite in its best. Slim-box. [YAOP]
ANTLERS MULM -- "Of Withered Sparks" -- CD -- €10
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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ANTRACOT -- "Ferropolis" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 Steinklang Industries, SK-IN 05, (ltd. 150)
The fourth fulltime album from Antracot comes in a small DVD-case and is limited to 150 copies. 7 tracks - 70 minutes noise, heavily influenced by japanese noisicans. From metallic sounds to pure aggressive powerful harsh frequencies and feedbacks with screams full of hate! Highly recommended for fans of this genre! Track 7 feat. Stahlwerk 9! [label info]
ANTRACOT -- "Galvanism" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2008 Tosom, XS-006, (ltd. 150)
Very active Noise and Power Electronics project from south Germany. Known from the fantastic releases on Steinklang Industries, Atacama Records or Apocalyptic Radio. With ATROX he released as BOLESKINE and THE TIROLER HORN SECTION on Atacama Records and he is a live member of ATROX. "Galvanism" is a 20 minute Noise killer track. Long, loud, aggressive. [label info]
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ANTRACOT -- "Maschinenraum 173" -- CD-R -- €7
2006 Steinklang Industries, SKD 13, (ltd. 250)
65 minutes of violent Harsh-Electronics and structured Power-Noise by this ATROX bandmember. [label info]
ANTRACOT -- "Neurokinesis" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Steinklang Industries, SK-IN 14, (ltd. 77)
One hour pure Japan-hardcore-noise by this german ultra-noise act. A brutal wall of noise with rumbling and screaming sounds. This album was released especially for their concert in Tokyo/Japan on 27.10.2007. [label info]
ANTRACOT / SCRELOMA -- "Live In Salzburg 10.10.2008" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Steinklang Industries, SK7-25
The fifth part of the new old SK7 series. Here a german / japanese collaboration cd with Antracot and Screloma. You will get 18 minutes of rumbling and droning noise from Antracot and about 30 minutes of wonderful japanese Powerelectronics as it’s best. Both are live recordings from the Steinklang pre-shop-opening event on 10.10.2008 in Salzburg. [label info]
AOOM -- "Aequinoctium" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2019 Pantheon, PAN108, (ltd. 50)
Ambient / Drone. AOOM is the collaborative project of UHUSHUHU & CREATION VI. Air and sound, lake and water, water and ice, wind and cold... So many different words for the things so alike. What seems opposite, from different realms, unfolds in simple conjunction made naturally – by Nature. What seems unspeakable is obvious in sound. Dualities of elements and cycles are merging into a river of tones and noises, forming something which can be called music, yet may be just the air fluctuation. It's up to the perception to decide where it starts and when it ends. It's simply a question of point of view, whether it's time or space, whether it's listening or hearing. [label info] Hand-numbered edition of 50 copies in handmade cardboard sleeves.
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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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AQUAVOICE -- "Early Recordings" -- 2 CD -- €13 [-50%]
2015 Zoharum, ZOHAR 102-2, (ltd. 500)
This double album collects the most interesting songs from the early years of AQUAVOICE. The first disc is almost completely repeated album 'Water Music', previously released only as a CDR, including "Underwater Flight" among others - a composition which landed in top 10 of the best electronic chart on National Radio 3. The second album collects the most interesting recordings lifted from "Soundchaser" and "Dreamdesigner" albums - also CDRs, which have been been unavailable and requested for since long. As a bonus, there is an unreleased song sung by the great singer Julia Doszna recorded a few years ago, that only now sees the light of day... The collection was entirely revised by the author, who lovingly refreshed recordings, some of them being slightly reworked to adapt them to the needs of this release. They now sound fresh, new and they make up a coherent set of recordings. At the end, the tracks were mastered by the invaluable Marcin Bocinski (already known for some Zoharum recordings, such as the two previous Aquavoice albums, Zenial and X-Navi:Et LPs)... With this album Tadeusz Luczejko closes the early period of his musical activities and, moreover, is a 20th anniversary release celebrating those years of Aquavoice... The CDs are housed in a ecopak sleeve and the album is strictly limited to 500 copies. [press-release]
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AQUAVOICE -- "Nocturne" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2014 Zoharum, ZOHAR 077-2, (ltd. 500)
"Nocturne", the second AQUAVOICE offering on Zoharum, is a successor to well-received last year's "Grey." The material for both albums was created around the same time and was divided according to the following key: "Grey" - more experimental and coarse compositions; "Nocturne" - more dreamy, low-key and soothing ambient textures. The new album includes 11 new songs clocking in at 50 minutes, songs a bit darker and colder than before where one can find inspirations taken from Scandinavian art. Tadeusz Luczejko, the author of this material and the man behind AQUAVOICE, says: Despite not liking cold on a daily basis, I do like it in art. I am inspired by the extraordinary works of artists such as Arve Henriksen, Jan Garbarek, Lars von Trier, Geir Jennsen and Eivind Aarset. I have an impression that we are on the same wavelength. This quote sums up the spirit of the album in the best possible way. One can find the answer, the feedback to those inspirations on "Nocturne." It is still varied, highest quality electronic music, with hints taken even from jazz. This 3-panel ecopak release is strictly limited to 500 copies. [press-release]
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AQUAVOICE -- "Silence" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2018 Zoharum, ZOHAR 168-2, (ltd. 300)
Ambient / Experimental. "Silence" is yet another, the fourth album by Aquavoice in the Zoharum catalog. Two years after the compilation "Early Recordings", the project delivers a completely new album consisting of 13 compositions stylistically kept in the vein which Tadeusz Łuczejko accustomed us to on his previous materials. "Silence" is the ambient in its purest form, it is extremely rich, interesting, multicoloured electronic music. 300 copies in 3-panel ecopak. [label info]
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ARBOREAL -- "Embodiment" -- CD-R -- €7 [-50%]
2019 Heart-Shaped Box Prod., HSB-119, (ltd. 24)
A HNW project by a Thai musician Polwach Beokhaimook. This isn't really an HNW recording though, as it's not particularly noisy. 25 minutes of almost static ambience, created with some background echoing field recordings and forefront scratching sounds. Hand-made design with an art-stamp.
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ARC -- "Arkhangelsk" -- CD -- €7 [-50%]
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 -- €6
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]
AREA BOMBARDMENT -- "Republic" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2017 Lichterklang, LK040, (ltd. 200)
Martial Industrial. Finally and after almost seven years since “In Hoc Signo Vinces” was released, LICHTERKLANG is proud to announce the release of “Republic”, the new opus of the Irish Martial Industrial project AREA BOMBARDMENT. „Republic“ marks the 10th anniversary of the band and was almost lost and forgotten on the hard-disc for six years for various reasons if the label would not have listened to it on a regular basis. It then took almost two years to get back in touch with Michael P. who agreed to finally release “Republic”. The tracks have been re-worked and re-mastered with some additional bonus stuff included. “Republic” is a conceptual work on the Irish history and the brave men that fought for their independence from England, proving that history and the Martial Industrial genre has more to offer than the constant relation to Third Reich related topics. [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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ARGENTUM -- "Ditirambos al dios de la Guerra" -- CD -- €10
2014 Ufa Muzak, UFA65, (ltd. 400)
Martial Industrial / Neoclassic / Ambient. The album full of colossal admiration for the Greek pantheon presented by the cult band Argentum. Overwhelming hymns with lyrics in Greek language, infused as components in an alchemic retort, only to make an unforgettable impression. Music is a secret way to Homer's "Iliad", Ovid's "Metamorphoses", to Aeschylus and Hesiod, to the mythological Olympus, the sacred mountain, the place of residence of the gods headed by Zeus. During the Great Dionysias in Athens choirs if singers dressed in goat skins were singing hymns - dithyrambs accompanying dances, and so the album if full of wine and hop spirit. Drunken satyrs with tails and goat legs carry old Silenus on a donkey, a wise teacher, to the sounds of flutes, pan-pipes and timpanis. The Agrentinian project's music opens slowly, moving from majestic hymns to resilient electronic rhythm, from conspiracy to Hercules, to the Orphic spells, to Zeus, from life to death, from pain to ecstasy. The Olympians pass in front of us and glorify their power, interwining Futhark and Ancient Greek, symbols of war and improving the magical experience, animal and divine nature... 9 tracks, 40 minutes, 4-panel digipak. [press-release]
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ARIU KARA -- "Medlennii Skaner Stalkera" -- CD -- €7
2005 Lagunamuch Community, LMC300, (ltd. 300)
Ariu Kara is a musical component part of audio-visual project Ariu Lab, created in 2001 by industrial photographer Anastasiya Krutova. Ariu Lab deals with documentary, video installations and visual design. Ariu Kara records sound for all visual parts of the project. Ariu Kara plays gloomy music of post-human future, dead earth, covered with snow of nuclear winter. It's music of dark overcastted sky, and huge rusty broken cars, living alone in their own eternal cycle. They assemble creatures from odd details and disassemble to assemble again. [press-release]
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ARKHAION -- "When Gods Walked The Earth" -- CD-R -- €7
2012 Ufa Muzak, UFA57, (ltd. 150)
Heroic / Mythical sympho neoclassic ambient. Human history is not what is seems for the majority of modern people today. There's no evolutionary and progressive history of development. The primitive modern science can only suppose that it all started about 8000-6000 years B.C. The raven darkness of this delusion is penetrated by other theories which may seem to be completely fantastic, talking about cyclic models of development. 10.000 years before the Common Era humanity was at the peak of cosmic growth and highest development. All myths and heroic eposes, ciphered and allegorical, tell about that times. In those times there was a different race on Earth, now we call them Gods. The great ancestors built gigantic cities, they were developing and lived according to the highest wisdom. This race was certainly of cosmic origin, and they laid the foundation of the whole history on this planet. There were humans like us too, who lived in the same time with the highest creatures, the Gods, and received knowledge from them. First kings described in ancient myths were the offsprings of the Gods - they belonged to the other level and deserved complete worship. Their power allowed them to reach the highest spiritual state, the biggest progress of science of much more absolute character, to build the cities of unseen constructions. The power of human beings came from the Gods who gave them self-consciousness and combined their fate with their own great fate and goal within the Universe. It started 200.000 years ago. Majestic, triumphant and cryptic album of the conceptual project Arkhaion opens up slowly and calmly like movement of a huge body in cosmic space. Everything is undisturbed and grandiose, white light divides in spectral colours and the micro-symbol starts rotating, a mandala containing the new model of the Universe. Ambient and symphonic structures repeat the process of matter efflux from the stars. Immersion in music is like obtaining wings for a short time enough to see the fabulous picture from the bird view. Genetic memory will allow only a few to dive deeper into the visionary space of the Ancient and live some more time there. 8 tracks, 52 minutes, pro-CDR, 8-page booklet with 8 myths. [press-release]
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ARMENIA / MACRONYMPHA -- "Promiscuity" -- CD-R -- €7
1997/2002 Bizarre Audio Arts
Noise. Reissue of a tape released in 1997.
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ARROWWOOD -- "Eye Of Ivy, Thorn And Moss" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2017 COD noizes, SHUM06
Dark Folk / Psychedelic Folk / Ritual. We are pleased to inform that we have released three records of the amazing American psych / dark-folk project Arrowwood. Two albums, "Hemlock And Spindle Flower" and "Eye Of Ivy, Thorn And Moss", were previously released only as DIY CDr, were instantly sold out and very quickly became "rarities". The third album, "Dark Fairytales", contains ten previously unreleased exclusive tracks, supplemented with material from the split recording with Novemthree, also released in DIY canons. "Hemlock And Spindle Flower" has been remastered for this release... Arrowwood is the "one-girl" project of multi-instrumentalist Chelsea Robb, positioning herself as "forest folk". Her music is addressed to Wiccan rituals, forgotten spells and mysterious forces that inhabit the depths of forest thickets. However, Arrowwood's music has its own unique sound, largely due to the truly unearthly voice of Chelsea, and the atmosphere that plunges the listener into a state of light autumn sadness... Despite the fact that the project is little known on the background of the titans of the dark folk scene, in the circles of connoisseurs it has long earned a cult status, including thanks to the collaborations with Novemthree and Kim Larsen’s Solanaceae. [label info]
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ARROWWOOD -- "Hemlock And Spindle Flower" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2017 COD noizes, SHUM08
Dark Folk / Psychedelic Folk / Ritual. We are pleased to inform that we have released three records of the amazing American psych / dark-folk project Arrowwood. Two albums, "Hemlock And Spindle Flower" and "Eye Of Ivy, Thorn And Moss", were previously released only as DIY CDr, were instantly sold out and very quickly became "rarities". The third album, "Dark Fairytales", contains ten previously unreleased exclusive tracks, supplemented with material from the split recording with Novemthree, also released in DIY canons. "Hemlock And Spindle Flower" has been remastered for this release... Arrowwood is the "one-girl" project of multi-instrumentalist Chelsea Robb, positioning herself as "forest folk". Her music is addressed to Wiccan rituals, forgotten spells and mysterious forces that inhabit the depths of forest thickets. However, Arrowwood's music has its own unique sound, largely due to the truly unearthly voice of Chelsea, and the atmosphere that plunges the listener into a state of light autumn sadness... Despite the fact that the project is little known on the background of the titans of the dark folk scene, in the circles of connoisseurs it has long earned a cult status, including thanks to the collaborations with Novemthree and Kim Larsen’s Solanaceae. [label info]
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ARSENNE, ARTHUR -- "Abstractions" -- CD-R -- €7 [-50%]
2017 Heart Shaped Box Prod., HSB-107, (ltd. 36)
Harsh Noise Wall / Field Recordings / Drone.
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ART ABSCONS -- "Am Himmel Mit Feuer II" -- CD -- €15
2012 Fronte Nordico, AA II, (ltd. 300)
The CD version of the first Fronte Nordico release from one of the best today's new neofolk projects Art Abscons. "Am Himmel mit Feuer II" is a total remake of CD out in 2010 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 completely resorted. The result is a totally 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! This CD version is different not only to the 2010 release but also to its vinyl analogue, it lacks two short interludes appeared on LP but includes one totally new track and one song here is completely reworked. The release comes in a special embossed thick grey rough carton cover with full colour picture and limited to 300 copies only. [press-release]
ART ABSCONS -- "Les Sentiers Eternels" -- CD -- €15
2012 Fronte Nordico, AA IV, (ltd. 300)
The CD version of the second Fronte Nordico release from Art Abscons, one of its most favourite current neofolk projects. "Les Sentiers Eternels" is a brand new album including 10 tracks finished and mixed in early 2012. This work took about one and a half years in the making and shows further development both in technical refinement and the creative side of the project. The genre borders of neofolk are broken and we see here a varied mix of many style elements - from pure dark folk guitar ballads to more eclectic conceptual tracks close to something which could be defined as kraut-rockish psychedelic industrial, from electro-pop / minimal wave tunes to harsher and more aggressive pieces. The album was produced according to an innovative recording technique called "Stereo Spektral Sunrise" and is the first album to feature the SPEKTRALOPHONE, a sort of organic synthesizer developed by Art Abscon himself. "Les Sentiers Eternels" also brings Art Abscons' spiritual kinship with American neofolk project Gnomonclast to a new level and contains various noteworthy contributions from N2 ItinitI and Sasha Feline. This album is a kind of sounding universe strictly based on the principles of Abscons Magik and N2 ItinitI's cabalo-gnostic achievements, and, thus, includes any contradictions the real universe presents us with. There's everything here - Sun and Moon, Day and Night, Love and Hate, Joy and Grief, all act according to the hidden principles eternal, and this work is the most complex and intellectual to be found among Art Abscons albums until now - the literal and accurate revelation of the Hidden God - a pure excitement to the intelligent listener who is into occult matters! This CD is again distinct to the LP version, one track is totally reworked and the cover artwork is different. The release comes in a special embossed thick grey rough carton cover with full colour picture and limited to 300 copies only. [press-release]
ART ABSCONS -- "Nach allen Regeln der Kunst" -- CD -- €16
2021 Opus Abscondi, OA005, (ltd. 200)
Modern Classical / Neofolk / Darkwave. Art Abscon's latest album was produced in 2020 and in perfect seclusion and tranquility. It holds a special secret - a secret that is the result of more than two years of research and preparations. Even if you do not know what it is, you will most certainly feel it. Art Abscon does not wish to talk about it, but has given away one hint: you would not be able to play along to this album with any instrument at your disposal; the music on this album is far outside standard musical conceptions... The album was mixed and mastered by Nathaniel Ritter (Kinit Her) - and it is thanks to him that this is Art Abscon's best sounding release so far. The CD is housed in a 6-panel digifile featuring photographs of Art Abscon's stop motion music video to a song titled "Abscon". [label info]
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ART ABSCONS -- "The Separate Republic" -- CD -- €15
2017 Fronte Nordico, AA VI, (ltd. 300)
Neofolk. After five years of album-releasing silence, ART ABSCONs finally celebrates his comeback with an album that clearly shows that good things are always worth waiting for. For his sixth official album release, the Grandmaster has accepted not even a single collaborator and presents us 13 songs featuring 36 instruments all played by Michael, the man behind the mask, and which form the foundation of the artistic vision of "The Separate Republic". Digipak. [label info]
ARUM LILIES -- "Dismal Fantasies" -- CD -- €10
2017 Death Continues Records, DCRCD012
Cold, uncomfortable, heavy electronics. "...one of the more disturbing, unsettling releases we have heard in a while... uncomfortable, minimalist noise, very deep drones, death industrial atmospheres and sounds that mimic marginally tuning antique radios and half-effective LP players with old, crackling records. We don’t listen to this music because it’s beautiful. We do so because there is a comfort in discomfort, because sometimes we are attracted to that which evokes images that are often on at the dark horizon of our imagination. Dismal Fantasies totally fits that mold successfully. Disturbing. Unsettling. Fantastic!" [The Noise Beneath The Snow]
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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]
AS WE LAY -- "Sacrilege" -- CD-R -- €5 [-50%]
2018 VOLOK Records, VR-15, (ltd. 20)
Dark Ambient / Drone. A dark, monotonous canvas, frightening with its infinity. Sucks you down into a black hole of a disturbing dream. Filled with unclear images. Only for real connoisseurs of the genre. [label info]
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ASTARIUM / UVODNA -- "Odalism" -- 3"CD-R -- €4 [-50%]
2017/2018 Valgriind / Glasir CD-R Series, 04
Dark Ambient / Darkwave. Reissue of the split, previously released as a 3.5" floppy disk. This edition finally features the audio tracks in full quality. ASTARIUM performs shamanic Darkwave with a mouth harp, and a track by the Siberian project UVODNA is closer to pagan neoclassics and late SUMMONING. Double sleeve. A beautiful release in all aspects. [YAOP]
ASTRAL & SHIT + KROMESHNA -- "Emyd Lub" -- 3"CD-R -- €7 [-50%]
2012 Ostroga, OTR-023
20'56 mn unique track issued from a collaboration between two Russian musicians. The result is an instrumental droning ambient piece, mixing electronic and concrete sounds. Nice sound. Housed in a special painted enveloppe. [Nuit Et Brouillard]
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ASTRO -- "Far In The Distance" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2021 Abhorrent Creation Tapes, ACT004, (ltd. 500)
Noise. The brand new album from legendary Japanese Noise duo ASTRO: Hiroshi Hasegawa (C.C.C.C., South Southern Delta, Shroud Of Vapour, Galax, etc), and Hiroki Hasegawa (aka ROHCO, also of C.C.C.C. and Shroud Of Vapour). Recorded in Toyko earlier this year, "Far In The Distance" features walls of blistering harsh noise and blissful glitchy electronics, spread across two colossal tracks (21 and 25 mins apiece), with the second track involving heavier, power electronics elements. Hiroshi on electronics, field recordings and samples; ROHCO on electronics and devices. [Cold Spring]
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ASTRO & CORNUCOPIA -- "Deep Wind" -- CD -- €7
2010 Quasi Pop Records, QPOP CD055, (ltd. 500)
Noise / Psychedelic. The second collaboration between Japanese noise legend Hiroshi Hasegawa (Astro) and duo Cornucopia from Puerto Rico, though the first one released on CD. Each from two tracks is from the particular artist, and based on opponent's sound sources. Totally psychedelic record, often in extreme frequences & dynamics, it features some Cornucopia's trademark pulsating sounds, while Astro's track is unstopable stream of deep, heavy and slow as hell noise magma. Physical, brutal and meditative. Pure beauty of modern extreme electronic music. [press-release]
ASTROM, B. -- "Utan Titel" -- CD -- €10
2010 Aderlatning 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 -- "Semikarakory" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2015 Frozen Light, FZL 019, (ltd. 292)
"We will go to Semikarakory!" Latvian composer, musician and sound designer Kirils Lomunovs/Astrowind consistently develops alternative music style Paleopsychedelic Ambient falling into the limits of the Dark Ambient genre, and still is being inspired with the art of an actor and director Alexander L. Kaidanovsky. The delivered to the listeners "Semikarakory" mini-album is a logical sequel of the previous Astrowind album "Kaidanovsky". The "Semikarakory" mini-album is dedicated to the full-length director's work of Kaidanovsky - "Zhena kerosinshchika" (engl. "Kerosene seller's Wife") [1988]. This is an imagined walk in the dreary territory, where every being dwells in the anxious suspense, in an unquenchable thirst of freedom, haunted by the whing of the broken glass. "The chips are haunting me." Every chip here is a painful reminder of hopes' delusion. Insanity here is the only way to hide. Everyone here hopes for a miracle, dreams to soar up high above reality, to reach for an absolution, but even angels cannot escape this smothering space. The liberation lies within music. Three-panel A5 cardboard. 292 copies. [press-release]
ASULA MORI -- "Veter" -- CD-R -- €7
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]
ASVLMJENOK -- "Amor Fati" -- 2 CD-R -- €8 [-50%]
2016 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT133, (ltd. 152)
New word in the history of the European Power Electronics. 12 sermons-infusions dedicated to fate, death, cosmos and the slavery of neurotic ignorance in which most of people dwell. Fears, labyrinths and traps of verbal thinking, a wish to seem better than you are, political dirt, frustration, personal pride and insane Dostoevskiy's fixations - these are the walls of Asvlmjenok, a concentration camp for the consciousness in which people have immured themselves. And around that there is only the infinity of space which many can see only in a dream... in a dream from which you don't want to wake up. Extremely powerfull full-range sound, brutal vocals and obscure sample. Like Genocide Organ or Sektion B, but better. Vinyl case, handmade cover, insert. [label info]
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AT1385 -- "Home Audio" -- CD-R -- €5 [-50%]
2015 Kill Ego, KLLG013, (ltd. 50)
IDM / Electro / Breaks. A project of the Russian musician Alexander Tikhonov with a compilation of tracks recorded in 2005-2015. Powerful rhythmic electronics. CD-R packed in a slim jewel-case with an obi-strip.
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ATARAXIA -- "ENA" -- CD -- €10
2015 Infinite Fog Productions, IF-51
"Remember the wisdom out of the old days, they know undying things and nothing troubles the great streams and gleams from the holy orchards, where there is none but fruit that is of precious stone, or apples of the sun and moon. They know undying things, for this I have sailed the seas... WE ARE ONE. ENA (one = unity in Greek) is our musical contribution to overcome duality, conflicts and separation trying to go towards a resonant, open-hearted attitude. What we seed in our life, in others’ lives, on the earth is what we receive. We are One, separation causes blindness and destruction. WE ARE ONE, WE ALL ARE CONNECTED. Vibration is the very first act of creation, Music has the duty and the right to work on connection being such a suitable and direct channel to express harmony. If our life is meant to be a spiritual growing and not just a materialistic experience, all the domains where spirituality is expressed can become a source of enlightenment. Here is our naked soul alone in “her” voyage. To us, Music is diffusing a spiritual knowledge that’s not linked to a dominating specific religion but to the harmony of the cosmic forces. The aim is to reach again the primeval plenitude, calmness and inner light, being a part of the whole. The magic word resounds before being pronounced. Knowledge and Experience happen at the same time and all of this is a sacred announcement, a message that doesn’t need rationality to be caught. It is a sort of spiritual call coming from the depths. Memory and singing are linked, they enable a deeper subtle “sight”. The ancient wisdom was based on letting go, forgetting ourselves, our ego and masks in order to feel and live “the moment”. A deeply felt thank for all what we have received from Greek philosophy, poetry and mysticism. Without this inspiration we wouldn’t be here to do what we do. ENA!" [label info] Standard edition in jewel-case.
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ATARAXIA -- "Llyr" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2010/2011 Shadowplay Records, SPR 100
Medieval / Neofolk. Three years after the last studio album Kremasta Nera, Ataraxia is back with a marvellous new album! Llyr (Lyra) is the name of the instrument of the Bards and the Greek lyrical poets; a sacred musical instrument visually inspired by the grace and nobleness of the swans. Ataraxia, in this voyage, played the following instruments: classical, folk and 12 strings guitars, chitarra battente, keyboards, flutes, sitar, gamelan, daf, frame drums, santoor, tablas, zard and bells. Female vocals are sometimes accompanied by male vocals. This new album is a new story inspired by pagan myths, feminine celebrations Of Mother Nature, celtic traditions… Ataraxia and her charismatic singer Francesca Nicoli have now create their uncommon genre of music: a cosmogonic dark folk praying for Beauty. [Prikosnovenie] Russain edition comes with a bonus track and a slipcase.
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ATARAXIA -- "Spasms (Sous La Coupole Spleenetique Du Ciel)" -- CD -- €10
2014 Infinite Fog Productions, IF-36
Regular edition of the all new album, in Jewel box with 12 page booklet! Ataraxia in their own words on their new album: “Is this the bitter-sweet side of ourselves? We portray great misery, of course, and a typically human desperate need of survival but, at the same time, joke and irony are always present to exorcise the fear of decay and death. Here we are just musicians playing airs that make you dance and cry at the same time, and while doing this we say to ourselves: “Take your bloody knife and start exploring your killing nature, be not politically correct, sing and play as a fucking gorgon if you wish and have fun". “Paris Spleen” and the following “Spasms” are works in progress, both musically and as live performances, and our main actor Paul Patchy is just a disseminator of chaos.”
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ATARAXIA -- "Suenos" -- CD -- €10
2001/2012 Infinite Fog Productions, IF-14
"Sueсos" ('Dreams' in Spanish) was originally released in 2001 by Cold Meat Industry's imprint Cruel Moon International. This remastered edition contains the bonus track 'Melisanda', which appeared on the rare split 10” with Engelsstaub "In Amoris Mortisque" (1995). "Sueсos" is a collection of songs with different styles, themes, with different historical backgrounds and recorded with the use of many acoustic instruments. Divided into three parts, the first (‘Ego Promitto Domino’) features lyrics inspired by journeys and memories of middle Eastern lands. The sounds are between neoclassical, orchestral and dreamy Mediterranean ambience. The second part (‘L’ame d’eau’) is entirely based on Medieval ballads for acoustic instruments and 2 vocalists. The Third part (‘Sandy Dunes’) is more intimate and meditative, once again the theme is the one of water linked to the female soul: The voyage through the sea, regret, the need of the sea, just for Francesca’s heavenly vocals. [press-release]
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ATE & NOWA ZIEMIA -- "Substrate" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2021 Zoharum, ZOHAR 232-2, (ltd. 250)
Guitar Drone / Ambient. Artur Krychowiak (Nowa Ziemia) and Petar Petkov (ate) both hailing from Tricity in northern Poland join their forces to showcase mutual passion for guitar drones and harmony. Nowa Ziemia is not new to our roster and his collaboration with Petkov is his third installment for Zoharum. ate on the other hand has 2 albums released by Bulgarian Amek - a label close to our hearts. “Substrate” consists of 2 long, harmonic ambient tracks. Heavily processed guitars are surrounded by field recordings and subtle electronics creating soothing dronescapes. It’s one of those records which you can play all day long on repeat without fear of getting bored or annoyed, as with each listen you’ll discover new layers of musicality. This music is like a cushion for your mind giving it a sense of safety. [label info]
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ATOLON -- "Concret" -- CD -- €9
2012 Intonema, int004, (ltd. 250)
Concret is not only 4th release of Intonema but also it's the long-awaited 4th release of the Spanish trio Atolon that was recorded in January, 2011 by Simon Reynell, director of English label Another Timbre. Alfredo Costa Monteiro (acnordion, objects), Ferran Fages (acoustic turntable, objects) and Ruth Barberan (trumpet, objects) are using their instruments by unusual way: they are preparing them, playing on their surfaces, knocking and inventing a lot of other ways for sound making. Despite of these non-musical sounds, the trio is following almost melodic motive all through the piece. [press-release]
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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 -- "The Deep Invisible" -- CD -- €10
2008 Vendlus Records, Vend032
Dark Ambient / Industrial. Peter Andersson is a must-know name in the world of dark ambient and industrial music. He’s the man behind Raison d’etre, Stratvm Terror, Bocksholm among many, previously released by Cold Meat Industry, Essence Music and Old Europa Cafe. Atomine Elektrine is described as a truly out-of-body, deeply layered and dynamic cosmic experience in the form of a masterful ambiance, filled with outbursts of energy and synthetic movements. “The Deep Invisible” is his 5th album as Atomine Elektrine, it is a journey of dark matter to outer and inner space, to the empty regions of the universe outside the ambience of celestial bodies and to the inner most subconscious manifestations of the mind. [press-release]
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ATOMINE ELEKTRINE -- "Nebulous (Expanded Edition)" -- 2 CD -- €16
2007/2016 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 217
Space Ambient / Electronics. Peter Andersson brings Atomine Elektrine to an utterly refined and perfectionist sphere. Nebulous leaves all physical boundaries behind and takes you on a trip through endless space towards unknown deep corners of the cosmos. The sound is widening every moment and the walls of your room seem to disappear. Multi dimensional layers of sound makes this record into a cosmic outburst. A truly out-of-body, deeply layered and dynamic cosmic experience in form of a masterful ambience filled with energy outbursts, synthetic movements, illuminating pulses 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', composed in 2005, one of the greatest albums related to this genre since the early 70’s. Peter allowing the ever evolving music to take shape slowly and form amidst the ever changing facades he creates. Truly an amazing achievement... Originally released in 2007 'Nebulous' is now presented in an expanded version with compilation tracks, earlier bonus material, previously unreleased stuff and also a complete live set earlier only released as a digital album with the title 'Space is an Illusion - Live in Vilnius'... Presented in a phantom styled 6-panel digipak based on space friendly original art by Hypsis. [press-release]
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ATOMTRAKT -- "Artefakte Des Verderbens" -- CD -- €10
2012 Steinklang Industries, SK56, (ltd. 400)
Two years after the highly acclaimed "Sperrstelle Nordost" album the mighty ATOMTRAKT are back with a new bombastic, martial, heroic and apocalyptic Industrial release which is entitled "Artefakte des Verderbens". The album spreads a superior and cold atmosphere and deals with the Battle of Stalingrad (2nd World War). As on "Sperrstelle Nordost", cold, heroic and atmospheric synthesizer layers are mixed with bombastic drums and military war-like rhythm patterns. The vocals on the new record vary from dark and clean to distorted and threatening. The overall sound of the album is powerful and bombastic - it spreads a superior and mighty atmosphere rarely heard before. The lyrics deal with fears, death, decay and ambiguity. When listening to this sophisticated album, you can find yourself on the battlefield in Stalingrad. The album itself never gets boring - This is due to the variety of songs and themes. The album is available in a 6-panel DIGIPAK and it was recorded and mastered at Luftschutzkerker Studio in Switzerland. [press-release]
ATROX -- "Dear Great Leader" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Steinklang Industries, SK7-22
After one year of silence Atrox comes back with a new album. He arranged several weird sounds to a wonderful trip in a strange world. Old School Industrial like Haus Arafna meets the typical Atrox style. So you will get a mixture of Industrial, Experimental, Ambient and Powerelectronics. Welcome to the trip in a real strange world... [label info]
ATROX & ANTRACOT -- "Earth Listen Vol.2: Oppenheimers Garden" -- CD-R -- €16 [-50%]
2006 Atacama Records, a.r.21, (ltd. 100)
ATRX -- "Third Report" -- CD-R -- €12 [-50%]
2021 Zaimka, (ltd. 10)
Experimental / Ambient / Sound Collage. A cocktail made of sounds of different nature. Crossing textures of sound and images that have already changed their color... ATRX is Marcello Groppi, also member of Italian experimental band The Great Saunites. "Third Report" is the final chapter of a noise trilogy started in 2019. Compositions created using field rec, bass, no input mixer, plus various sound sources founded and assembled during summer 2021. Hand-decorated jewel case. Each copy is unique. [label info]
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ATTRITION -- "Invocation" -- CD -- €10
2012 Infinite Fog Productions, IF-28
A soundtrack for your dreams and nightmares... 30 years since their groundbreaking dark ambient album "This Death House" ATTRITION's Martin Bowes has combined forces with his wife Kerri on their full length movie score, written for the film G.H.O.S.T from cult U.S. horror film company Mutantville. From uneasy, shifting atmospheres to main themes on piano, vocals and strings, the album was remodelled and mixed at the Cage for this audio only version... An invocation in nine parts. Jewel case edition with 12 page booklet. With artwork by Holger Karas. [press-release]
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ATTRITION -- "The Truth In Dark Corners" -- CD -- €7 [-50%]
2011 Other Voices Records, VOX8CD
This is not exactly a new album, but a live recording from 1985 (!) in The Netherlands. This is the kind of 'dated' album that will appeal for the biggest fans of the 80s and the collectors of Attrition. We get a spoken introduction (in Dutch) to the concert featuring nine songs (on this album). It seems that Martin Bowes restored some old demo-recording from this gig in The Netherlands. The songs are mainly taken from the "Smiling, At The Hypogonder Club"-album plus some old singles as well (cf. "Shrinkwrap/Pendulum Turns"). The bonus of this album is for sure the previously unreleased songs "In The Attic" and "The Aftermath". Both songs are rather experimental, totally fitting to the 80s musical style of early Attrition. The opening song from the concert (cf. "The Drop") is a bit less experimental and revealing a new-wave touch. The quality of the recording (sound) is quite honest while the songs are showing early tracks like "Pendullum Turns" or yet "Hallucinator" in a different (live) version. This album is mainly recommended for the heaviest fans of the band! Notice that the pictures of the concert (on the front- and back cover) were taken by Justin Mitchell from Cold Spring Records. Back in time he was a big fan of Attrition and finally become a friend of Martin Bowes. This album is pure nostalgia. [Side-Line Magazine]
ATTRITION -- "The Unraveller Of Angels" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2013 E-Klageto, Exklageto 03, (ltd. 500)
Darkwave / Industrial. The long awaited album from legendary dark industrial pioneers ATTRITION. Founder Martin Bowes has teamed up with US singer Tylean on vocals and created 10 new works varying in style from industrial to gothic to dark ambient soundscapes, whilst lyrically continuing his exploration of introspective themes of life, love and death... With a host of special guest appearances: Mona Mur (Einsturzende Neubauten, En Esch etc), Matt Howden (Seiben etc), Annie Hogan (Marc and the Mambas, Nick Cave etc), Erica Mulkey (Unwoman), Ian Arkely (My Silent Wake, Seventh Angel), Jyri Glynn, Joanna Dalin and more... [label info]
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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.
AUGSBURGER TAFELCONFECT -- "Fusion In The Slaughterhaus" -- CD -- €5 [-50%]
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 RAGE -- "The Doctrine Of Maybeness" -- 3 CD -- €25
2005/2019 Infinite Fog Productions, IF-98
Experimental / Industrial / Techno. "The Doctrine of Maybeness" by AURAL RAGE is an anthology of the works of Danny Hyde’s AURAL RAGE project, an engineer, Programmer, producer, collaborator, remixer, and co-conspirator of COIL, NINE INCH NAILS, PSYCHIC TV, DEPECHE MODE, and many others. A 15 year anniversary of musical adventure on 3xCDs with all works together - "A Nature Of Nonsense", "Sinsemilla Dreams" and "Svay Pak" with unreleased bonus tracks... One of the early sampling Pioneers, producing 80’s band SAVAGE PROGRESS, a huge continental hit. Working with amongst others THE SOFT CELL, and many more on Fairlights and Synclaviers. He contributed many unique sounds to COIL’s legacy and worked on their legendary albums Horse Rotovator and Love’s Secret Domain, onto The new Backwards. COIL lovers know that Hyde was a kind of a secret member for this group... On AURAL RAGE dark industrial-tinged electronica and moony-ambient music has broadened with synthetic strings, programmed rhythms, shuddering MDMA-filtered beats, acid gurgles and insect buzzes are all over the album. Believing that Humour can be the hidden violin in a piece. This anthology is a Cross-genre cocktail of various music styles, a pure experiment without any borders... The project features following guest musicians: John Balance and Peter Christopherson aka COIL and Joanna de Seyne. [label info]
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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."
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AX -- "Metal Forest" -- CD -- €10
2012 Cold Spring, CSR167CD
AX is the project of British rock and electronic musician Anthony Di Franco (Ramleh, Novatron, Ethnic Acid, JFK, ex-Skullflower). Extreme and uncompromising, AX presents a unique sound world of blistering power electronics, pulverising bass drones, feedback symphonies, and dark atmospheres. This CD includes tracks from the legendary long out of print mid-90s vinyl albums, digitally remastered for the first time. [press-release]
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AYRIA -- "Flicker" -- CD -- €5 [-50%]
2007 Soyuz Music / Alfa Matrix, AM1058CD
Sensual EBM with a mystical touch from the Canadian artist Jennifer Parkin. Official Russian edition with full-color 12-page booklet. Jewel case. [YAOP]
AZA -- "Expansion" -- 3"CD-R -- €5 [-50%]
2017/2019 RU.MO.RE., 005, (ltd. 25)
Experimental / Drone / Noise. Greek electronic artist based in Athens. Working more as a collector of sonic instances rather than as a musician, AZA filters the everyday life to discover the essence of our auditory experience. His syntheses intermit an assemblage of ordinary sounds in a variety of “raw” states with frequencies at the edges of human hearing, field recordings and melodic instrumental interferences; creating a complex pervasive undercurrent soundscape. [label info]
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AZOIKUM -- "Anthropophagy" -- CD-R -- €12
2009 Cipher Productions, (sic 53), (ltd. 100)
Power Electronics from Germany.
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AZOIKUM / GOVERNMENT ALPHA -- "Das Methadonprogramm" -- CD -- €10
2005 Multi National Disaster Records, MNDR 2015, (ltd. 444)
Harsh noise.
B°TONG -- "Monastic" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2017 Reverse Alignment, RA-36, (ltd. 300)
Dark Ambient / Experimental. Since getting to know Chris Sigdell from a distance in 2010, sending the label a promo copy of ”The Great Disintegrator”, and onwards recognising the release of his project b°tong through labels such as Attenuation Circuit, Greytone and Silken Tofu, we met up in the flesh in 2016. Since then the label invited him to master last years releases from Ajna, Valanx and Dronny Darko and now releases his project b°tong’s two new albums ”Monastic” and ”The Long Journey”. ”Monastic” is a configuration of field-recordings that Chris Sigdell recorded together with his companions Benny Braaten and Bertrand Gaude in 2010, while having a day off on tour. In the hands of Chris Sigdell ”Monastic” forms spooky and disturbing waves of sound, dripping carelessly down the spine, crushing rocks... Don’t listen properly, behave inaccurate. Don’t be obnoxious, be quiet and feel the concrete. [label info]
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B°TONG -- "Probing The Boundaries" -- CD-R -- €7 [-50%]
2019 Marbre Negre, MN 091, (ltd. 100)
Dark Ambient / Experimental. "This album was made with the intention of creating a real hostile and dark piece of sound." [from the artist] 100 copies in full-color cardboard digifile.
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B4 -- "Didaktik National Legendary Rock" -- 2 CD -- €9 [-50%]
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]
BABYLONE CHAOS -- "Flying Bodies Under The Clouds" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
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]
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BABYLONE CHAOS -- "Les Machines Ecarlates" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
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]
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BABYLONE CHAOS / LAMBWOOL / LE DIKTAT -- "Shi" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2008 OPN Records, OPN CD08
The object you are holding in your hands is special in many respects. The product of a collaboration between three artists with a divergent, and indeed sometimes opposed, approach of music, this work plainly demonstrates how their musical universes ultimately complement each other along three axes – noise, rhythm and melody... The melodies are provided by Lambwool. A talented musician adept at creating musical landscapes fraught with melancholy, he colours the record with layers of keyboards and acoustic instruments samples that conjure up the crystalline, meditative melodies he has become renowned for... Babylone Chaos has long been an avid proponent of chaotic, oppressing climates and deals in suffocation and saturation. The nefarious vapours of his distorted, out-of-joint universe bring a great measure of entropy to this opus... Le Diktat is the only duo involved in this three party collaboration. Le Diktat brings the rhythm to the table. Break-core loops, drum n’bass rhythm patterns, trip-hop, electro and rock elements coupled with scratches create the most unexpected stylistic fusions, even on the most haunting instrumental tracks of this album. The result is a surprising collision between acoustic purity and punishing industrial beats, but a remarkably daring demonstration... Jembes, flutes, scratches, harp, piano, samples; intense episodes or long, meditative soundscapes; sometimes quiet, sometimes heavy with saturation, this work of contrasts displays a thousand faces, takes a thousand forms which will not fail attract any and all who would take a musical journey in unchartered territories. The soundtrack to the End Times! [press-release]
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BAD SECTOR -- "Dolmen Factory" -- CD -- €10
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 -- €10
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 -- €40
2006 Waystyx, WR16, (ltd. 185)
"Kosmodrom" is dedicated to famous Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and Soviet space investigations. Music strongly differs from previous recordings of Massimo Magrini: multi-layered tonal and noise stratifications are gone to non-existence, there's no dense and energetic sound any more. Instead of this the album comprises rarefied (still it is space!) sonic field made of smooth ambient substrate with angular constructions built over it from sharp noise pieces, samples of Russian space talks, infrequent melodic lines and abrupt beats, rather pulsating than creating straight rhythm. Soviet synthesizers "Aelita" and "ANS" were also used while recording of the album. The released is packed in special plastic case and supplied with 18-page booklet containing lots of useful information about the evolution of space researches and cosmodromes in Russia and USSR... This edition is a double CD set, first CD contains "Kosmodrom" album, 2nd presents 4 bonus-tracks developing the main theme.
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BAD SECTOR -- "Storage Disk 1" -- CD -- €10
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]
BAD SECTOR -- "Storage Disk 2" -- CD -- €10
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.
BAD SECTOR -- "Transponder" -- CD -- €10
1999/2011 Infinite Fog Productions, IF-12
Science experiment as pagan ritual... Who needs representation for Bad Sector? Certainly almost no one. Since 95 year, each new album of this project it's event which is awaited by every second listener of industrial music. And now - long-awaited, CD the version, one of the most interesting albums of Italian master Massimo Magrini! First time Transponder was released as CD-r on Blade Records in 99, now the album is again accessible, in a new format and with additional, exclusive compositions of that period - "Yst" and "Waal"! More than 60 minutes dark, deep, meditative, structured noise-ambient, in the best traditions of Dolmen Factory and Ampos... [press-release]
BAD SECTOR & ASTRO -- "Idio Blast" -- CD -- €16
2005 Insofar Vapor Bulk, IVBCD10, (ltd. 500)
Initial material for this released was recorded by Hiroshi Hasegawa (Astro) and then manipulated and re-organized by Massimo Magrini (Bad Sector). Resulting sound of the album reminds something Aube-like: attenuate abstract electronic waves with highly detalized structure, nothing like traditional Bad Sector sound at all. The artwork of this release deserves separate description: it's a cardboard meccano kit with engineering instruction, by following it's notes you can assemble technic-like construction of decent size, in which the CD with booklet should be put. Besides the album itself, the CD contains some extra-material from Astro in ogg format (player installer can be found on CD as well), screensaver and several wallpapers for your computer desktop.
BADRUTT, GAUDENZ & ILIA BELORUKOV -- "Sauerkraut" -- CD -- €10
2021 Intonema, int033
Experimental / Electroacoustic. In 2013, the collaboration of electronic musician Gaudenz Badrutt and saxophonist Ilia Belorukov began in a trio with accordionist Jonas Kocher, and in 2014 the album Rotonda was released on Intonema. Since then, time has passed, Badrutt and Belorukov have toured also as a duo, Belorukov later switching to a modular synthesizer... In March 2019 in Biel/Bienne, the duo fruitfully worked in a new context, looking for fresh ways to interact, not only with each other, but also between electronic setups, in which complex patches and processing chains are filled with feedback and, therefore, unpredictability. The album Sauerkraut is a document of free improvisation in an extremely wide framework from barely audible field recordings and reductionism to the deafening chaos of electrical processes of live sampling and synthesizer modulations. [label info]
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BADRUTT, GAUDENZ / ILIA BELORUKOV / JONAS KOCHER -- "Rotonda" -- CD -- €9
2015 Intonema, int016, (ltd. 200)
In September 2014 Intonema co-organized the Russian tour of Gaudenz Badrutt, Ilia Belorukov and Jonas Kocher. They played in Moscow, Yaroslalv, Tomsk, Kemerovo, Novosibirsk and St. Petersburg. They recorded the material of this album in Intonema's hometown, St. Petersburg, which extends the series of releases recorded in rotunda of the Mayakovsky Library. Acute attention to silences and extremely careful work with sound comes from the "fourth" collaborator, the space of the rotunda and its specific acoustics. [label info]
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BAGHIRI, AMIR -- "Live Long And Prosper" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2011 Blue Box, BB1107
Ambient / Drone / Tribal. Amir Baghiri is back after 5 years with a spacious ambient release, dedicated to Star Trek fans from all over the world. Transforming space and time into ambient drones and subtle tribal rhythms, pushing space music to its highest level. Welcome back to the deep, emotional and mystical soundworlds by one of the ambient music world's premier tribal ambient sound designers. [label info]
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BAND OF PAIN -- "Sacred Flesh (Original Movie Soundtrack)" -- CD -- €9
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), 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]
BARAKA[H] -- "Illuminescence" -- CD -- €10
2020 taalem, alm 100, (ltd. 150)
Guitar Drone. The very first solo-release by Baraka[H], member of the legendary TROUM and MAEROR TRI bands, also head of the seminal Drone Records label. Baraka[H] has created and collected through the years some tracks that were not used for TROUM tracks. He went back to these tracks and completed them in 2018-2019, especially for this release. The result is "Illuminescence", a collection of beautiful aerial and nostalgic guitar-based tracks, maybe a bit more droney and melodic... "These "songs" are not played perfectly - I'm not a professional musician. But all I can say is that they express my deepest feelings, a yearning for something that is absolutely not 'visible' or tangible. I don't know what it is, but there must be something hidden in the air, in the sounds, in the sensations..." [Baraka[H]]. Regular edition is released as a minimax CD in transparent "single" slim jewel-case. [label info]
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BARBAROSSA UMTRUNK -- "Der Talisman des Rosenkreuzers" -- CD -- €8
2012 Ufa Muzak, UFA 49, (ltd. 400)
Military pop / Ethereal neoclassic. We present the fundamental work by the French musical formation completely dedicated to the mysterious personality of Baron Rudolf von Sebottendorf and his work "Der Talisman des Rosenkreuzers" published in 1925 in Germany. One of the founders of powerful secret organisation "Thule Society", a member of Turkish masonic lodge "Order of Rose Wreath", a numerologist, an occultist, a Sufi practicioner with misty entangled fate - he fits very well for a subject of detailed study, and one of the forms of it is this album. Musically, you'll hear one of the most powerful combinations of martial, neoclassic and ambient. From the very first seconds it goes deep in the significant years of the XX century, grandiose flashes - slices of troublous times, exotic geographic locations, dangerous people, occult-war intrigues and famous mystical German movement. Walls of heavy drones, explosive drumming and songs of dervishes, sublime samples of classics and dark rhythms encoded by electronics, a whisper from the other world, making heart beat high. During all the long and comprehensive material there is an intuitive investigation of entangled weltanschauung of "the baron", a combination of sufism, masonry and aryosophy. 13 tracks, 70 minutes, 6 panel cardboard sleeve. [press-release]
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BARDO, IGOR -- "My Sweet Nightmare" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
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 -- "Ambiwax" -- CD -- €7
2013 ML, ML 0513, (ltd. 250)
New album from the acclaimed Russian master of surrealism and sonic psychedelia - Igor Potsukailo. Dense cocktail made of twisted and warped electronic passages, industrial rhythms, voice samples and all kinds of sounds not possible to identify... "Transparent bubbles of consciousness collapse and dissolve in scraps of conversation from a weird movie. There are no motives, just a brush dissecting the Moon." [from the author]
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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 -- "Game Over" -- CD -- €12
2013 Deserted Factory
New CD from the legendary Russian project. The material was created back in 2009 and by now has been only available via torrent-service rutracker.org, and now finally sees the light of the day in physical format being slightly reworked for CD release. Minimalistic dark ambient slowly evolving into more spacious soundscapes and picturesque surrealistic forms richly spiced by hypnotic loops and speech samples.
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 -- "Noosphere" -- CD -- €9
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 -- "Telloram" -- CD-R -- €8
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 + KROMESHNA -- "Kaleidoscope" -- CD-R -- €6
2019 Ostroga, OTR-107, (ltd. 78)
Experimental / Drone. A collaboration of two Russian experimentalists: Igor Potsukailo (Bardoseneticcube) from St. Petersburg and Vitaly Maklakov (Kromeshna) from Kamensk-Uralskiy. Synthesizer rumbles and mild industrial noises, field recordings, mouth harp, radio transmissions, fragments of TV-news and other odd samples and mixed with the auto-training voice recordings, forming well-structured eventful collages soaked in lingering drones.
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BARDOSENETICCUBE & IGOR V. PETROV -- "The Perpetuum Mobile Space Vehicle" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2006 Mechanoise Labs, [mn029], (ltd. 500)
Collaborative material from Bardoseneticcube's recording sessions with St. Petersburg-based saxophonist Igor V. Petrov. Definitely one of Bardoseneticcube's most singular and musical works, with a mixture of irradiated electronics, hazy lunar jazz, sedated drones and urban soundscapes. Think of a cross between Bohren & Der Club of Gore and Contagious Orgasm but set in Pripyat. Artwork by STPo. [label info]
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BARDOSENETICCUBE & VRESNIT & KSHATRIY -- "Creation" -- CD -- €8
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) e 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]
BARRIKAD -- "Class War" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2010 Xerxes, ES58
Noise. Swedish Harsh Noise unit with a mini-album on the Japanese label Xerxes run by Yasutoshi Yoshida aka Government Alpha.
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BARRIKAD -- "We Make Nihilists Smile Again" -- CD -- €10
2011 Phage Tapes, PT:152, (ltd. 500)
The three tracks on this CD are each a collab between Barrikad and Kriminaaliset Metsanhaltijat, Fear Konstruktor or Government Alpha. Starting off this disc is a 19 min track with Kriminaaliset Metsanhaltijat where the collab conjures up an dark ambient styled track with ominouse soundscapes, sparse vocals, the clang of metal objects. The second track Barrikad and Fear Konstruktor produce a synth warble with strange vocals. The final track is a straight up harsh noise blast between Barrikad and Government Alpha similar to the 3" released by L.White. Edition of 500 copies with 8 page booklet. [press-release]
BASHIN (BARDOSENETICCUBE + SHINKIRO) -- "Four Noble Truths" -- CD -- €9
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]
BASS COMMUNION -- "Reconstructions and Recycling -- 2 CD -- €20
2019 Aquarellist, aquarel 51-19, (ltd. 500)
Abstract / Ambient / IDM. A limited reissue of the 2003 CD of reconstructions of BASS COMMUNION music by an incredible line-up of artists from the electronic, drone and experimental music scenes. Originally released as a single CD, this new edition on Aquarellist has been expanded to include a second CD containing 2 long remixes by SCORN (17.45) and EXPERIMENTAL AUDIO RESEARCH (10.45) that were omitted from the original version for reasons of space. These and the original interpretations by LULL, MONOLAKE, CARBON BOY, BOLA, RAPOON, BLACK FACTION, RHINOCEROS, VIDNA OBMANA and COLECLOUGH / POTTER have all been remastered by Steven Wilson for this new edition. The artwork has also been reworked by Carl Glover, and now comes in a gatefold card sleeve. Strictly limited one-off 2CD pressing of 500 copies. [label info]
BASTARD NOISE / GOVERNMENT ALPHA -- "Radiation Snowfall" -- CD-R -- €22 [-50%]
2003 Xerxes, ES:45
BASTARDS OF LOVE -- "Decadance Royale" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2006 Deja Vu Music, Dejavu 002
Bastards of Love debut album on CD! Let's get minimal! Featuring guest appearances from Genevieve Pasquier, and Nora Below, Bastards Of Love are tearing you up! Tobi Margaux has arisen from the vinyl release underground with his first CD. Bastards Of Love "Summer Destination" EP was a short initiation to what is now fully realized on "Decadance Royale". 70 minutes of pure electronic passion connecting old school synth-lines with amazing pumping rhythms that lead you straight into ecstasy. The vocals provide an emotional note ranging from whispering, melancholic layers, to the final heights of power: shouts of life. Invoking an experience that flows into the spirit and creates an everlasting impression. The magic of "Alchemy" with Genevieve Pasquier flows into pulsating industrial pop with "The Love Cafe", and "Fast Reaction". The mellower crooning side of Bastards Of Love is also finely represented by "Misunderstandings" and "World Of Matter". Bonus remixes of the hits "Stories" and "Rouge Fatale" round out the complete infusion of this "Decadance Royale". This is the language of pure energy, this is rebel electropop! [press-release]
BATTUS, PASCAL / LIONEL MARCHETTI / EMMANUEL PETIT -- "La Vie Dans Les Bois" -- CD -- €8 [-50%]
2012 Herbal International, 1201
Free Improvisation / Field Recording. "La Vie Dans Les Bois is a document of a musical performance recorded in the open air near a castle in France. The players were Pascal Bathus and Emmanuel Petit with their electric guitars, Lionel Marchetti credited with "electricity", and Yфko Higashi who performed a butoh dance during their music performance. La Vie Dans Les Bois is a compellingly mysterious piece of delicate interplay where for 50% of the time the guitars are barely recognisable as such, and all the performers only make an utterance when the occasion demands it... The recording also blends nicely with the distant sound of birdsong in the air... You may not be able to "hear" the sound of the dancer participating on the record, but Higashi's work is still perceptible somehow, as it were appearing in the interstices of the music, shaping its contours. The creators clearly felt moved enough to include a landscape painting by Dominique Lechec as part of the package, and a few lines from a poem. [Ed Pinsent, The Sound Projector]
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BATHYM -- "Interference Demon" -- CD-R -- €5 [-50%]
2018 Volok Records, VR-18, (ltd. 20)
Be wary of looking inward. You may find emptiness there. The author tries to tell us about this in the album “Interference Demon”. Great material from BATHYM. The bursting scrape of a guitar is like breaking iron. Pure improvisation of pain.
It all sounds like bone cracking and gnashing of teeth. We recommend to listen only to the connoisseurs of guitar rumble. [label info]
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BECUZZI, GIANLUCA -- "[In]visible Fields" -- 2 CD -- €10 [-50%]
2011 Silentes Minimal Editions, sme 1145
INVISIBLE FIELDS is collection of tracks created in order to non-compositional works: sound and video installations, theatre, performances, live set. The first CD includes 5 tracks from various installations and theatre pieces. FOR E.A.P. is a reworked audio section for a theatre piece based on E.A. POE novel "The Pit and the Pendulum". THE CAGE is a performance made for the art exhibition "Strade Bianche". Gianluca Becuzzi played, into an etruscan barrel, a big empty aviary, scraping and beating it. RADIO TRANS IT was composed for an installation by Pietro Riparbelli / K11 entitled "Camera Sonora for 4 Radiodramas" presended at eXperimenta 02. WATER MEMORIES is the title of a site specific work presented at eXperimenta 03. BREATHS is the soundtrack of a series of video portraits by Francesco Arena. The second CD includes the long title track (IN)VISIBILITY, a semi-impro electroacoustic live set. The performance was created with a laptop playing a backing track (field-recordings, processed frequencies, concrete sounds) and objects (paper and stones of different form and size). [press-release]
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BEHRENS, MARC -- "Animistic [for Donatella]" -- CD -- €10
2004 Aufabwegen, aatp14, (ltd. 500)
This CD contains two pieces, 'Animistic (for Donatella)' concentrating on mixing location recordings with 'played' objects to obtain a complex soundscape in three parts that is inspired by the idea of an animist understanding of nature. 'Decaying Study 3' on the other hand offers a dense and dynamic drone-like composition built from the generative transformations of two sound files. The cover features 7 full colour cards in a DVD box that show photographs by the artist, complete with liner notes and texts explaining the nature of the location recordings. Marc Behrens is an artist and designer working in several fields. He has conceived musical compositions, installations, performances, objects, videos, and design. Born in Darmstadt, Germany, M. Behrens is a citizen of Konungarikena Elgaland-Vargaland (KREV). His discography spans releases on such labels as Sirr, Trente Oiseaux, Hypnotism, Intransitive, Wachsender Prozess to name but a few. He has collaborated with Francisco Lopez, Paolo Raposo, John Duncan and others. [label info]
BELBORN -- "Y" -- CD -- €15 [-50%]
2004 self-released
Belborn's 3rd album is self-released after the demise of World Serpent. Includes an MPEG video for an instrumental version of Notfeuer.
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BELL, JAKE -- "Awake In My Flying Dream" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2014 self-released, (ltd. 500)
Space Ambient / Electronics. New York guitarist Jake Bell played with Simeon (Silver Apples) in the legendary band Random Concept from 1966 to 1972. Silver Apples became famous for the first time in history that they began to use electronics in rock music. Simeon played on oscillators and tone generators, analog synthesizers did not exist then, and those first units that just appeared were too bulky to use on stage. Thus, Jake Bell stood at the origins of great historical events: the psychedelic revolution, the formation of the experimental music scene, etc. Unfortunately, due to personal disagreements, he and Simeon parted, and the recordings of Random Concept music remained unreleased. Jake disappeared from the scene for a quarter of a century, and only in 1997, after meeting Simeon again, decided to release his first solo album “Synjase”. The material of the album is a kaleidoscope of guitar instrumentals with accompaniment of electronic rhythms and ambient noises. Jake Bell is a master at transforming instrumental music into other dimensions. Dreamy, passionate, light, bright, but at the same time bizarre and eccentric, it always sounds fresh and unusual, although it retains a certain emotionality typical for the mid-80s: Herbie Hancock, Jean-Michel Jarre, Yello, etc. It is also interesting that the guitar parts sound very unusual, creating a lot of tonal shades and contrasts in each composition. Reviewers called Jake Vangelis of the next generation, heir to Pink Floyd at the zenith of their fame. “Awake in my flying dream” is the first CD of the series to include his latest work in the style of space ambient: beautiful cosmic landscapes, a captivating synthesis of art rock and electronics, melodic new age progressions that unfold in amazing atmospheric paintings. Jake Bell is not only a musician, but also an artist in a broad sense. He was engaged in ivory and wood carving, paints in the style of primordial, primitive art, draws with fluorescent paints that glow in the dark, and also holds unique workshops on art therapy, neo-expressionism, spontaneous painting, etc. The CD contains a booklet with reproductions of some of his works. Limited edition stylized as a mini-LP sleeve, with an inner sleeve and silver foil embossing, 500 copies. [Monochrome Vision]
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BELORUKOV, ILIA -- "Nobody Ever Escaped From There" -- CD -- €10
2018 Moving Furniture Records, MFR057
Experimental / Drone / Field Recordings. With "Nobody Ever Escaped From There" Ilia Belorukov returns with the follow up album to “There Was Hardly Anybody There” (Spina!Rec, 2016). Again he returns to electro-acoustic studio works, stepping outside his customary world of improvised saxophone... In the new works for this album an important role is taken by the vintage electronic instrument “Evgeniy Sholpo’s variophone” (constructed by Boris Shershenkov). The variophone is a photo-electrical instrument for which you works by means of rotating cut-out discs which are recorded on film as sound. Due to the instability of this instrument the sound has a very natural sound to it, as well as a rich sound colour palette. This you can hear back in “At his side was someone” and “One never meets anybody”... Other sounds sources are field-recordings recorded with different devices to capture different characteristics of the sounds (and recorders) which he combined with samples and synthesizers. With these different elements Belorukov composed the four works on this album with a focus on the lower frequency spectrum. [label info]
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BELORUKOV, ILIA -- "Someone Has Always Come" -- CD -- €10
2021 Sublime Retreat, SR008
Experimental / Electroacoustic. "Someone Has Always Come" is a third album by Ilia Belorukov in a series started with “There Was Hardly Anybody There” (Spina!Rec, 2016) and followed by "Nobody Ever Escaped From There" (Moving Furniture Records, 2018). In the new works Ilia combines diverse sound sources to create idiosyncratic electro-acoustic compositions. In 4 tracks you can hear elements of musique concrète, drone, ambient and virtual soundscapes based on field recordings, but these compositions are unique sonic worlds in themselves, transcending the boundaries of any particular genre. The whole list of instrumentation used: 0-coast, modular synthesizer, korg electribe amkII, vcv rack, electric organ, axolotl, electromagnetic pickup, vinyl samples, ppooll, flutophone, alto saxophone, effects pedals, nord drum 2, field recordings on sony pcm-m10, zoom h2n, sansa clip in Saint-Petersburg, Moscow, Yaroslavl, Nizhny Novgorod, Berlin, Zurich, Helsinki, Biel/Bienne, Tarasovskaya... [label info]
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BELORUKOV / BOSSHARD / DENZIER / MARKVART -- "Bizarre Perspectives" -- CD-R -- €7
2020 Акт-Продукт, akt-produkt 41
Free Improvisation / Electroacoustic. Swiss violinist Patricia Bosshard and Franco-Swiss saxophonist Bertrand Denzler, active in various fields of modern improvisational and composed music, play together with Russian experimental musicians, whose range of activities is also rather wide: Ilia Belorukov plays here alto saxophone and electronics, Alexander Markvart uses feedbacks of a prepared acoustic guitar and extracts sounds from a variety of objects. The recording was made at the Sound Museum at the end of 2017, Bosshard and Denzler appeared then in St. Petersburg as representatives of ONCEIM – Orchestra of New Musical Creation, Experimentation and Improvisation, and performed together with St. Petersburg Improvisers Orchestra... 5 thoughtful and contemplative improvisations, in which it’s not always clear what instrument is the source of sound. Any of these improvisations is a trace or a document of a meeting, which, anyway, opens rather bizarre perspectives... The release has a physical form – CDr in a cardboard envelope (that is also rather strange at this difficult time). [label info]
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BELORUKOV, ILIA / GABRIEL FERRANDINI -- "Disquiet" -- CD -- €10
2019 Clean Feed, CF521CD
Free Jazz / Free Form. There’s souls in the world who, no matter the distance between them, seem destined to meet: alto saxophonist Ilia Belorukov is from Saint Petersburg and drummer Gabriel Ferrandini has Lisbon as his home. Their respective backgrounds, their cultures and the music scenes they belong to couldn’t be more different, and yet, they’re soul brothers. Yes, they share the same disquietness announced by the title of this album, but that’s only the manifestation of something more deep in both of them: their common aloofness to the notion that an artist has to express himself or herself inside tight frames, those of a genre, an aesthetic current, a style. Belorukov is known for his wide range collaborations with musicians and bands going from creative jazz, free improvisation and classical contemporary music to hardcore punk, metal and noise, in every one of those situations always sounding like himself because his own musical universe has aspects we find in all of those tendencies. The use of extended techniques, preparations and electronic devices help him to take the saxophone to unsuspected ranges. The same way, Ferrandini’s approach to the drumkit can fit as much in a free jazz context as, for instance, an art rock one. In a recent interview he said that our contemporaneity is a mix of everything: in his opinion, every jazz drummer should hear Aphex Twin and Squarepusher to become more complete. Here they are together, opening our ears… [label info]
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BELORUKOV, ILIA / MIGUEL A. GARCIA / JASON KAHN / FRANTZ LORIOT -- "Invanskrue" -- CD -- €10
2017 Intonema, int025, (ltd. 200)
Improv / Electroacoustic / Minimal. In December 2016, Ilia Belorukov and Miguel A. García were on tour in France and Switzerland, with Zurich as the final point of their trip. Jason Kahn and Frantz Loriot, who live in Zurich, accepted the invitation to participate in the studio session with visiting musicians. This spontaneous meeting was saved in Invanskrue, Intonema's 25th release. The quartet explores the connections between electronic and acoustic sources of sound, getting to the territory of free improvisation, electroacoustics and microtonal play on the instruments. [label info]
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BELORUKOV, ILIA & JON HEILBRON -- "Studio & Rotonda" -- 2 CD -- €14
2019 Intonema, int031, (ltd. 200)
Minimal / Experimental / Free Improvisation. Recently we released the solo album Pieces for Chord Organs by Australian musician Jon Heilbron, which was recorded during an artist residency in St. Petersburg in August 2018. While there, he performed and recorded alongside Ilia Belorukov, resulting in this new double release... The first disc (aptly named Studio) consist of private recordings, in which silence and static sounds are punctuated by saxophone, snare drum, Bontempi organs, and toy harmonica... The name of the second disc, Rotonda, will not be surprise to regular Intonema listeners: this is a continuation of a series of recordings made in the Rotunda of the Mayakovsky Library. The unusual acoustics of the former Dutch church acts as a "third" member of the collective. Sounds coming from the street, random rustlings, and movements of the public are woven into a general outline forged by the musicians. [label info]
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BELORUKOV, ILIA & LAURI HYVARINEN -- "Inverted Canvas" -- CD-R -- €7
2021 Hemisphäreの空虚, HNK023
Free Improvisation / Experimental. Ilia Belorukov – modular synthesizer, Lauri Hyvärinen – acoustic guitar. Recorded live at 4 Pokoje, Warszaw, Poland on February 12, 2019. CD-R comes in oversized mylar cover with two full colour card inserts.
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BELORUKOV, ILIA / MAKLAKOV, VITALY -- split -- CD-R -- €15 [-50%]
2015 Ostroga, OTR-45, (ltd. 26)
Sound & visual collage travel. Different sound sources and instruments, tape experiments, field recordings and samples of different nature, all blending into one surreal landscape. Design - paper collages from Vitaly Maklakov's archive. Each copy has an exclusive hand-made artwork. Pro-CDR, 26 copies. [label info]
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BELORUKOV, ILIA / KONSTANTIN SAMOLOVOV / CHRISTIAN MEAAS SVENDSEN -- "Cephas Unisons" -- CD -- €10
2019 LaoBan Records, LB 05
Free Improvisation. Ilia Belorukov – alto saxophone; Konstantin Samolovov – selected drums, objects, radio, voice recorder; Christian Meaas Svendsen – double bass, voice. Recorded live at Vinylla Sky Bar and Cement Factory Studio in St. Petersburg, March 25th-26th 2018.
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BERGMAN, KRISTER -- "Purification/2019" -- CD-R -- €5 [-50%]
2018 Red Engineering Production, REPR-08, (ltd. 20)
Drone. This album of the Swedish musician Krister Bergman contains two works: "Purification" and "2019". This is beautiful ambient drone noise executed in cold tones. [label info]
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BETA TWO AGONIST -- "Autumn Perdue" -- CD-R -- €9 [-50%]
2008 Databloem, DB08021
Experimental Ambient / Glitch. 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 [-50%]
2006 Databloem, DBCD 016
Experimental Ambient / Glitch. 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]
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BEYOND BLACK VOID -- "Desolate" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2002/2006 Marche Funebre Productions, MARCH 003
Drone / Doom Metal. One of the projects of the Belgian musician Stijn van Cauter (UNTIL DEATH OVERTAKES ME, ARCANE VOIDSPLITTER, etc.). This is the first album, originally released on CDR by Stijn's own label Nulll Records, now remastered and reissued on factory-pressed CD, packed in jewel-case with cardboard slipcase.
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BEYOND ENCLOSURE -- "Dungeon of Total Void" -- CD -- €10
2016 Malignant Records, TumorCD98
Prominent S&M inspired electronics is not a new theme, but it has been a long time since such a vital voice has arisen. Enter Beyond Enclosure. With their debut recording Dungeon of Total Void, this Portuguese duo fronted by Samantha Diabolik with the assistance of Andre Coelho (of the now defunct Sektor 304 and operating here as "The Analyst"), have assembled an imposing homage to discomfort, pain, and pleasure. Built around a foundation of subversive and deviant themes, the eight tracks here undulate and throb with malfunctioning electronics, noxious, droning wavelengths, brooding, low slung bass, and malevolent psychoacoustics, with a stream of processed vocal instructions and commands that create a heightened sense of tension and unease. It's a brilliant display and musically should find immediate appeal among fans of Puce Mary, IRM, Sewer Goddess, and Haus Arafna. [label info]
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BIANCHI, MAURIZIO -- "R.C.E." -- CD-R -- €10
2006 Simple Logic Records, simlog038, (ltd. 100)
"Exasperating sonata in three dissections for enharmonic pianoforte, industrial oscillations and digital emissions." Packaged in a hard cardboard sleeve, with disc envelope and inserts. Released in a limited edition of 100 hand-numbered copies.
BIANCHI, MAURIZIO & APPELBAUM, MAOR -- "Electrostatic Deflection" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2007 Silentes Minimal Editions, sme 0714
Industrial / Experimental. "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]
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BIANCHI, MAURIZIO + SAVERIO EVANGELISTA -- "Micromal Sonorities" -- CD + A4 booklet -- €15 [-50%]
2007/2015 13, sps1508, (ltd. 250)
A collaboration between Maurizio Bianchi and Saverio Evangelista (Esplendor Geometrico). Originally published only in Japan in 2007 and deleted since long, it's now time for this long awaited re-release, which - along with the CD - features the photographic work "Micro" by Stefano Gentile, inspired by the album. [label info] The disc is packed in a 16-page A4 booklet.
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]
BIANCHI, MAURIZIO & MAUTHAUSEN ORCHESTRA -- "Spiritual Noises" -- CD -- €10
2012 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 155, (ltd. 300)
Industrial / Noise. Historical collaboration between two of the fathers of Italian (and not only Italian)
Old-School Industrial: Maurizio Bianchi (M.B.) and Pierpaolo Zoppo (M.O. / Mauthausen Orchestra). "Creating noise is determined by the presence of an original particle to which randomly apply an alteration to convey a voltage-activated disturbing that determinates the electro-phonic perturbation. As a result we obtain the SPIRITUAL NOISES". Limited edition of 300 copies in a Digipak.
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BINARY DIRGE -- "Sultriness In Brains" -- CD-R -- €6 [-50%]
2019 Valgriind / Glasir CD-R Series, 06, (ltd. 44)
Radionoise. The new release of this Russian project from Novosibirsk. Static mid-frequency radionoise saturated with the painful atmosphere of stuffiness, poisoning, devastation and radioactivity. Vinyl case, black & white cover plus insert. [YAOP]
BIOMASS vs. COMFORTER -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €8 [-50%]
2004 Spirals Of Involution, SOI 039, (ltd. 197)
Biomass tracks (project comes from the city of Jaroslavl) are dedicated by japanese movie "The Ring" by Hideo Nakata and represent rather calm noise flow. Comforter whips out with hurracane of cut-up porno-harsh-noise with Vladimir Zhirinovsky as a guest vocalist in the last track.
BIRDS OF TIN -- "Altarwise" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2009 Diophantine Discs, n = 24, (ltd. 500)
We are very pleased to present the latest recordings by Birds of Tin: a project we have long admired and fate finally brought us together. The two lengthy tracks of "Altarwise" were recorded in late 2004 and remastered earlier this year. The first track is a 30-minute experimental work that gradually moves through a wide range of sounds (echoing chimes, mysterious noises, subdued clanking, drones). The second piece is an epic 46-minute composition of deep ambient/drone music that manages to float freely through the listener's imagination while keeping his attention... While many modern day experimental artists have moved on into the computer realm, Birds of Tin has remained true to the experimental sound of tape loops, lo-fi samplers, and collections of unique toy instruments running through small fx boxes. The sound of the work may have become more cohesive and seamless over the years, but the methods have largely remained the same. Birds of Tin was always about creating and expressing by opening the heart and mind to the muse... in this way the sounds flowed through the artist, not from the artist. Birds of Tin is honest music. As the quote from Jackson Pollock states emphatically, every artist paints what he is. In the case of Birds of Tin, the sounds are no mere window dressing..this is who he is... Brooke Oates' Birds of Tin project has been active since 1996. His previous works have been released on such labels as Manifold, Solipsism/Self Abuse, Syntactic, XZF, and Hypnos. Additionally, Birds of Tin has collaborated extensively with such artists as Rapoon, Mechanism, and Augur... Housed in a custom printed color wallet. [press-release]
BISCHOFF, JOHN -- "Aperture" -- CD -- €10
2003 23five, 23five 006
John Bischoff has been composing music with computers and electronics since the mid 70s, and has always focused his compositions towards malleable forms that best suit live performances. Within this context, Bischoff seeks to position the construction of sound far beyond the common perception of synthetic music as a mere simulation of the intrinsic sounds of traditional instruments. Instead, Bischoff qualifies his work as the realization of a "reflective intention," where he determines sonic structure not only through the predetermined elements which go into a piece, but also through the active process of listening to the music as it happens and responding accordingly. In describing his initial attraction towards computer technologies, Bischoff states, "Here was a single device that could contain a seemingly infinite range of pieces or configurations of elements and that could be interacted with in real-time." During the '70s when programming involved crude systems of binary code, Bischoff’s vision of the possibilities for computer-based composition fused to performative agency seemed implausible; yet in hindsight, his artistic imperatives were incredibly prescient of contemporary tools such as the nearly omnipotent audio synthesis language Max/MSP, which has been at the core of Bischoff's recent work... An aptly named set of compositions, Aperture opens the possibility for multiple readings through a series of diverse techniques ranging from additive synthesis to FM synthesis to sampled-based processes. Each of the pieces within the album was recorded in real-time with no overdubs. Aperture introduces itself with clusters of samples that sprawl with the deliberate pacing of Morton Feldman’s later periods, yet Bischoff renders what might be recognizable citations of a piano or percussion as pointillist condensations of digitized pixels and precise plastic details. During the ensuing pieces, Bischoff unleashes coarse streams of electrons which flange and pulse within the caustic firestorm of divergent timestretching, giving the impression that Bischoff is quite literally tearing the fabric of sound. Bischoff also presents a collaboration with Kenneth Atchley in complementing the oversaturated physical noise of Atchley's water fountain sculptures with short digital articulations that ride on the top of Atchley's dense texture. [label info]
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BISCLAVERET -- "Theu Anagnosis" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2014 Zoharum, ZOHAR 072-2 / Steinklang Industries, SK82, (ltd. 333)
BISCLAVERET returns with a new album entitled "Theu Anagnosis". It is a concept album, similarly to the previous 2 albums. In 8 compositions here the musicians captured a mystical-philosophical treatise of sorts. The first part of it, namely "An Introduction to Reading God", was presented on 7" vinyl split with Feine Trinkers bei Pinkels Daheim. By means of lyrics and music the duo creates apparently surreal own world of sounds devoid of "here and now." They propose their own vision of the Absolute which is seen through the eyes of mystics, madmen and free thinkers. The band invites us on a psychedelic wandering into the depth of ego, on a metaphysical adventure in the world of music painted with various colours, shapes and stories. Dreams of a madman? Calls of a scholar? Experience of a hermit? It all melts in a lava of many cultures. Yet here it creates a crystal, but heterogenic image. What is it like? Check it yourselves. The album is co-released by Steinklang Industries & Zoharum. Edition with black cover (222 copies). [label info]
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BIZARRE UPROAR -- "Amputaatio" -- CD -- €13
2015 Filth And Violence, FILTH&VIOLENCE-106
New 2015 full length from the legendary Finnish noise master. 2 long tracks of obliterating filth ridden power electronics. Somehow more dirge ridden and in the gutter than previous albums... Harsh, violent vocals and thunderous decayed bass tones clash against an oppressive percussive hell. Hail BU! [Unsafe And Insane]
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BIZARRE UPROAR -- "Filthy Communions 2005/2009" -- CD -- €10
2010 Turgid Animal, TA488, (ltd. 300)
Five live recordings from Helsinki and Rio De Janeiro, Brasil. Finnish masters of total filth. No bullshit, just noise. 12 page booklet with pictures from the gigs and shit smeared all over. [label info]
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BIZARRE UPROAR -- "Liha-Evankeliumi" -- 3 CD BOX -- €24
2008 Freak Animal Records, FA-CD-045, (ltd. 250)
Harsh Noise / Power Electronics. Re-release of selfreleased 10x3" CDr set originally 50 copies. Discs come in black window sleeves, packaged in an almost leather like heavy black box with pasted artworks and booklet.
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BIZARRE UPROAR / AUNT MARY -- "Recordings 1991-1992" -- CD -- €25
2005 Freak Animal Records, FREAK-CD-031, (ltd. 200)
Noise / Noisecore. Early recordings made by Pasi Markkula for his projects BIZARRE UPROAR (harsh noise / power electronics) and AUNT MARY (noisecore).
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BJARNADOTTIR, HAFDIS -- "Sounds of Iceland" -- CD -- €14
2015 Gruenrekorder, 157, (ltd. 1000)
This recording takes you on a round trip of Iceland. The aural journey starts westward from the island's south in the cold early spring. After a side trip into the West Fjords, our route traverses the north of the country at the height of summer, followed by an excursion into the interior highlands before a short stop in the East Fjords. As the sound trip nears its geographical starting point, autumn and winter make their appearance before the journey comes full circle. The recordings do not feature human-derived sounds. [label info]
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BJERGA, SINDRE -- "Dream Interruption" -- CD-R -- €5 [-50%]
2016 Attenuation Circuit, ACK 1008, (ltd. 50)
On an extensive tour of the Baltic, Norwegian electro-acoustic improv artist Sindre Bjerga recorded this half-hour album that covers a lot of ground in a comparatively short span of time. Starting with Sindre’s trademark amplified metal objects, it turns into a massive drone noise behemoth in the end. If the small, distant sounds of the first half of the set represent the shadowy realm of dreams, then the gradually rising drone of what sounds like bomber planes overhead does indeed come as an interruption, a menacing presence that forces the sleeper to wake up … and perhaps run for cover. A visceral, quasi-narrative instant composition that translates well into the recorded format. [label info]
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BJERGA, SINDRE -- "Hermetically Sealed Static Operation" -- CD-R -- €7 [-50%]
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 -- "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 -- €8 [-50%]
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 / 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 DEPTHS GREY WAVES -- "Nightmare of the Blackened Heart" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2011 Aesthetic Death, ADCD 022, (ltd. 1000)
Black Depths Grey Waves is a black occult industrial project from the sickened minds of Clint Listing (AS ALL DIE, LONG WINTERS STARE, WHEN JOY BECOMES SADNESS) and Saint Ov Gravediggers (ORDO TYRANNIS, GRIM PIG). Noise-filled, black industrial, occult evocations - music that will make you feel at one with your disturbed mind. [label info]
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BLACK SAND DESERT -- "Choking On Grave Soil" -- CD -- €10
2006 PACrec, PACrec119 / Troniks, TRO-224
Cinder block snakes pummeling through intricately woven nests, kneading maliciously at the middle, trying relentlessly & desperately to break through. A silver haired piper tries calling his snakes back home, stretches his vocal chords deep & wide but only whispers trickle out. They move too fast for him to catch. He closes his eyes tightly and follows them out & away, admiring their persistance & brilliant navigation with an envious heart. Their scales push outward and gash the softness open leaving shards and soggy ash in a twisting tail behind them. You can hear meat tearing in waves of coarse & uneven static, swelling & expanding as if they carve a new base, a fresh home. They bury their coiled bodies deep inside, knotting tails & heads into electric branches, you can hear the branches spitting up electricity and the way their fire crackles first and thunders immediately after. He circles the landscape like a madman trying to find the slithering escape artists that have left him behind. Their buzzing rattles growing larger & larger serve as his compass & guide. He picks up and fondles the skin they shed & tease him with. He can hear them digging, getting further & further inside, spilling wildfire in the folds & flesh. The end is here and the sounds they make reflect it, a blister covered whistling tone thins itself into nothing & disappears. They are lost and so is he... Black Sand Desert is the harsh noise sideproject from Greh (Hive Mind / Chondritic Sound). [press-release]
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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 TAPE FOR A BLUE GIRL -- "A Retrospective | 1986-2008" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2008 Shadowplay Records, SPR 070
Neoclassical / Darkwave. Black tape for a blue girl - legends of the Neo-Classical / Heavenly Voices / Darkwave scene - have their first Russian best of courtesy of Shadowplay Records. Featuring tracks from all eras of their career, A Retrospective is designed for recent fans of vocalists Elysabeth and Bret from The Scavenger Bride and Halo Star as well as those who go back to the 80's and 90's with Oscar's vocals. Keeping things lively, Sam picked alternative mixes of many tracks, and also included three re-recordings with current members ("Remnants of a Deeper Purity"," "Overwhelmed, beneath me" and the previously unreleased "I have no more answers."). [press-release]
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BLACK WANDERER -- "Hostile Territory" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2017 Ksenza Records, KSZ 018, (ltd. 350)
Dark Ambient / Drone / Isolationism. Black Wanderer (BW) is a new cinematic drone project from Algol. According to the author, BW explores much more inhospitable territories. It focuses on darker minimalistic tunes which suit perfectly sci-fi and horror films. Consider “Hostile Territory” as an alternative soundtrack with more menacing and suspended atmosphere. BW recorded using only bass and electric guitars which deliver more natural ambiance and presence to the sound. [label info]
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BLACKHOUSE -- "5 Minutes After I Die" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
1986/2013 Dark Vinyl, DVLR 1, (ltd. 200)
Rhythmic Industrial. Repressing of an absolute cult album from 1986. "5 Minutes After I Die" was the third Blackhouse release, focusing on rhythmical noise and a pure feedback driven beat with enlightening vocals. Blackhouse are the godfathers of Rhythmic Industrial. Limited repress of 200 copies only! [label info]
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BLACKHOUSE -- "Hidden Beneath The Metal" -- CD -- €16 [-50%]
1996 Discordia, DISC 067 CD
Legendary American old school industrial band, a unique example of Christian industrial music. This CD contains the remixed version of half-hour long track from 1991 + 10 more rare tracks from the compilations released in 1983-1996. Great powerful unconventional industrial. [YAOP]
BLACKHOUSE -- "Live In Leipzig" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2016 Dark Vinyl, DV67
BLACKHOUSE are the grandfathers of Industrial and this most fans still say: the tracks from their first 3 albums are their best tracks ever… and here you can find the best on one record. After 31 years BLACKHOUSE live world premiere took place in Leipzig 2015. 15 classic Blackhouse songs from the first albums, direct from the mixing board. [label info]
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."
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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]
BLADH, MARTIN -- "Umbilical Cords" -- CD -- €10
2005 Segerhuva, seger 10
Industrial / Experimental. Segerhuva hereby presents the first solo recordings of Martin Bladh, who also resides in the acclaimed avantgarde group IRM and the more experimental unit SKIN AREA, both now widely known for their charismatic live-shows. This is a highly personal recording, which takes some firm mature steps further into physical essence and digs deep into the walls of the mothers utero with its hypnotic drones and drenching layers of organic sounds from cymbals, stringinstruments, accordeon and bass, all treated with great care and respect. Instrumental throughout, bicephalous in the way of screeching, shuddering sounds and drowsy in opposition. There is something strangely slippery about the recordings, a frightening, obtuse atmosphere embedded in silk and soft controlled feedback. Receivers take note: fully stunning in retro-spect. Are you in need of fetal life support? Take a journey through the body and experience the monotony and the pain of birth. [label info]
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BLADH, MARTIN & BO I. CAVEFORS -- "The Island of Death" -- CD -- €10
2012 Freak Animal Records, FREAK-CD-065, (ltd. 200)
New album of Martin Bladh is his best and most challenging. Many of the known elements of his works are there. Amazing tones of bow / string instruments, wailing yelling voice known from IRM, usage of samples/spoken word collages like on "Dirge", rhythms, musical patterns and electronic noise. But simply everything goes further. Leaving all expectation behind, what should qualify as "genre album". Less of noise, more of experimental disturbing elements, often avoiding playing it safe. This work is most definitely recommended for anyone who wants to hear albums what stand out of line. Packaged in dvd case with full color cover and full color 24 pages booklet including Bladh's unique collages and Cavefors' texts. [label info]
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BLADH, MARTIN & BO I CAVEFORS -- "Three Studies For A Crucifixion" -- CD + DVD -- €16
2008 Firework Edition, FEV1008 / FER1070
This DVD is of a three act "Passion Play" dedicated to Francis Bacon, this is nothing to do with noise either, but certainly could in no way be described as trivial. The protagonists here in front of a projection of the paintings set out to embody the nihilistic vision of the painter. You might feel disgusted or sick at the blood, intestines and homosexual acts - and perhaps want to return to the playfulness of Fckn'bstrds antics. This is the real deep black horror of existence - shocking in that is can be or should be performed by human beings at all, not that it is in its deliberation - to shock or disgust - that would be too easy, it would become a sex show, and it is not. Like the paintings of Bacon it unfolds along a horrific and deterministic trajectory that somehow cannot be avoided, if it did appear to be deliberately shocking then it would be possible to step outside the drama and see it as amusement or entertainment. Or is it excusable as a sudden outburst of promethian energy - which is understandably human - from tribal dancing through to the silliness in noise festivals. The real horror here is the premeditated logic of the performance devoid of any emotional excuse. This performance as also Bacons' paintings in their inhumanity could and should be ignored as impossible imaginations if not for the reality of the logic of the slaughter house from which they derive and the even more terrible realizations of these artists finding in this beauty. [jliat, Vital Weekly]
BLASTERKORPS -- "Nos Annees Mortes" -- 2 CD -- €15
2015 Infinite Fog Productions, IF-48
Complete anthology of Blasterkorps, project created by Geoffroy D. (DERNIERE VOLONTE, POSITION PARALLELE) and Leonce B. (I-C-K, NIHILTRONIX, SOLDAT ARNAUD, CAGE APOTHEEK). Depth of analog minimal synth, electro and raw industrial with voice of Geoffroy D.! First time on CD and many unreleased tracks! 25 composition, almost 100 minutes of music. [label info]
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BLEAK EXISTENCE -- "Distress" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2008 Corrosive Art Records, CA-13, (ltd. 50)
BLEIBURG -– "Musique Grotesque" -- 2 CD-R -- €24 [-50%]
2007 SkullLine, SLCDR007-07, (ltd. 50)
Bleiburg goes back to the 80-ies - 28 solo tracks in vein of electro / italodisco / ambient / minimal / experimental. A truly grotesque recording... [YAOP]
BLEIBURG -- "Open Wound" -- CD-R -- €7 [-50%]
2008 The Eastern Front, Front 016, (ltd. 300)
Martial / Industrial / Electronic. German-Croatian legendary project Bleiburg does not need to be presented. This year we introduce an unique document - a record of live performance of Bleiburg in Kassel, Germany at Panoptikum club in June 2007. Live performances of Bleiburg take place seldom, all the more this release witnessing Bleiburg on stage may represent the particular interest. "Open Wound" is a collection of well-known Bleiburg songs like Gulag Good-bye, Na Rad!, Nezdrava Tvorba, Good evening, Zagreb and more... Edition of 300 copies. Special 3 panels folded cardboard packing. [label info]
BLESSED SACRIFIST -- "Timeless Losers" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2009 FTAM, FTAM-017, (ltd. 50)
Highly introspective and emotionally raw harsh noise/power electronics from the Milwaukee resident. Low synth tones give way to overpowering walls. Member of straight edge PE group xALLxFORxTHISx and doom/sludge outfit Slob Donovan. [label info]
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THE BLUE PROJECT -- "Shelter" -- CD -- €12 [-50%]
2018 Eibon Records, TBP103
Ambient / Ethereal. New album from TBP, currently travelling through noisier paths than the ones they used to walk before. Maria Cristina's voice paints gentle melodies upon unsettling decostructed sonic backgrounds that owe something to both the most experimental DEAD CAN DANCE and the most courageous heavenly voices standards. For the brave and open-minded listeners only. [label info]
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BOCCI, CRISTIANO / FRANCESCO ARRIGHI / MARA LEPORE -- "Anagrammi" -- CD -- €12 [-50%]
2020 Unexplained Sounds Group, USG064, (ltd. 200)
Neoclassical / Electroacoustic / Free Improvisation. The piano: the perfect balance between harmony and melody. Processing a piano is always an adventure; having 24 recordings of free improvisations performed by Francesco Arrighi and Mara Lepore is an incredible sound palette to have available. These recordings were deconstructed into individual phrases and micro fragments and then reassembled, both serially and in parallell, to follow a unifying compositional idea. At the same time the tracks were dilated and processed with filters, echoes and granulation techniques in order to create the right mix between the sound of the instrument and its electronic transformation. [Cristiano Bocci]
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BOEVYE CIKADY -- "Shtrihi Trepeta" -- CD-R -- €5
2004/2009 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]
BOGDANOV / POTSUKAILO / STUKALIN -- "Slaughter in the Pigeon-Hole" -- CD-R -- €11
1998/2009 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]
BOLVERKSTORM -- "9 Steps To Death" -- CD -- €7
2013 Vegvisir music, o:009, (ltd. 200)
Martial Industrial. Bolverkstorm it is the name of new russian industrial project. “9 steps to death” is dedicaded to World War II and all those who perished thereat. Album consists of 8 tracks, each of them is about tragedy of soldiers death and act of bravery as well. Music of Bolverkstorm is made of hum of battles, archival records, blustering soundscapes, noises, groans, wardrums and trumpets. [label info]
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BOLVERKSTORM -- "Ewigkeit" -- CD -- €6 [-50%]
2014 Valgriind, VG54, (ltd. 500)
Martial \ Neofolk. "On the second album "Ewigkeit" Russian project Bolverkstorm presents the continuation of the sonic pictures of "9 Steps To Death" depicting the sensory perception of a white warrior's death, soldier or officer, in significant military conflicts of the historical realities. The breath of project - is pagan death in a battlefield, a clear derogation of the christian image of death of "those persecuted to death". May it be a mass massacre of people masses brought to war by the rulers, or a death of a volunteer warrior from a piece of metal, love and contempt for life at the same time - "der letzte sieger ist der tod". The eternal spirit of war burns the wicks of people fates, the fight for higher ideals borders with death - but the fates of those contempting death spark brighter. From the deep roots of antiquity to the young branches of modern weltanschauung - this spirit is constantly whispering to us over the clank of swords, rumble of cannons and rustling bullets..." [label info]
BONDARENKO, VADIM -- "Sentimental" -- CD -- €10
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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BONEHEADS VS. HOTDOGS / CONCRETE BELLY -- "split" -- CD-R -- €9
2007 Triangle Records, [TR017], (ltd. 50)
Split of Russian project BvsH and Englisg CB. Sexy vegetarian blonds from Novgorod, Russia won't make you dull with their pathological love to toys. Their rival - Sir Belly loves more serious toys, in the end we have a fine example of royal alco-noise and shit-ambient - spirit-lovers may get properly drunk. The guy is completely mad, look at his photo. Package: cardboard envelope A5, serigraphy. [label info]
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BOREDOM KNIFE / TYHJIO -- "Feticide / No Lives Matter" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2021 Abhorrent Creation Tapes, ACT003, (ltd. 525)
Noise. A powerful, lethal dose of misanthropic Noise from two Helsinki creators. Boredom Knife is Experimental - Electronics - Noise - Eruption. Tyhjiø is music out of nothingness... at one with the void. An extreme Finnish Noise split release filled with hatred for ALL of humanity. [Cold Spring]
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BORGHI, ANDREA -- "Vetrale" -- CD-R -- €7
2013 Observatoire, obs * instrument|(e65) 044, (ltd. 65)
Andrea Borghi: modified turntable, elaborated glass discs, computer, effects. "VETRALE investigates the connection between space and matter through generated sound as an item for their integration/interaction. Technology and electronic is used to focus on frequency fields and sound details otherwise inaudible. The sound becomes tactil, the matter audible. Ideal follow up as a personal research on material sounds begins with Omaggio a Lucio Fontana (2010) and continues with Vetrale (2011) as a performing act that expresses an idea of Sonorous Spatialism." [label info]
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BORISOV, ALEXEI -- "Multiviza" -- CD -- €10
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, ALEXEI & HEC -- "Live in Paris" -- CD-R -- €5 [-50%]
2008 Sickcore, SC015, (ltd. 200)
Experimental / Noise. Recorded by Alexei Borisov and Frantz Loriot (HEC) live in Paris, August 2007.
BORISOV, ALEXEI & OLGA NOSOVA -- "Samsa for a Friend (remixed by Yura Gorodezkii)" -- CD-R -- €7 [-50%]
2015 Heart-Shaped Box, HSB-095, (ltd. 30)
Experimental sound collage. Pro-CDR, 30 copies. [label info]
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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]
BPOLAR -- "The White Heads" -- CD-R -- €9 [-50%]
2007 Practising Nature, PN07021
Ambient. Cinematic, intense and moving soundscapes from Antwerpen (Belgium). Composed like a painting ... layer by layer ...until something is bigger than the sum of it's elements ...BpOlar's dynamic and unique sound will grab you from the first note and will keep you hooked till the last note fades away. [label info]
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BRADLEY, PAUL & CRIA CUERVOS -- "Moraines II" -- CD -- €8 [-50%]
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]
BRAND, STEVE -- "Upwelling: Emergence" -- CD -- €12 [-50%]
2018 Databloem, DBCD077
"Upwelling: Emergence", like it's predecessor, "Upwelling" (2011), is a collection of epiphanies, experiments, singular moments, re-workings, remixes and re-discoveries. Tracks were recorded between 2009 and 2017. Some of the music for this collection, like "Innervoice" and "Krater Of Earth" were completed while working on previous albums, but eventually set aside for various reasons. Some like, "Black Rock Temple" and "Womb Of Earth" were improvised in moments of inspiration and depth of feeling. Still others, "Names That Cannot Be Spoken" and "Host", are remixes and rethinkings of tracks that were originally released on compilations. "Near Earth" was created exclusively for this compilation and is an extension of my recent "Near Series" trilogy. [from the author]
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BRANDKOMMANDO -- "Nasz Ukochany Kraj" -- CD-R -- €7
2006 Beast Of Prey, bop 3.5, (ltd. 200)
Power harsh noise. New album of BRANDKOMMANDO "Nasz Ukochany Kraj" - 50 minutes of dewastation, extreme view of political situation and world around. No mercy, sharply and directly. Unconventional issue: Package made from white plastic folded in three pieces to 150 x 150 mm format, professionally made cdr. [label info]
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BRANDKOMMANDO –- "Three Strikes And You Are Out" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2011 Sickcore, SC023, (ltd. 300)
New work by restless Polish musician deals with European capitals burning in fires. City anarchy, street wars, violence and terror. The musician most likely stands at the same side of barricade with rebelling society, in front of which like soldiers of the Evil Empire stand up legions of dogs of system. Crushing analogue outrage of sonic violence, raging vocals, cultural and street terrorism. This release can be compared to such sonic hooligans as Grey Wolves, Barrikad, Survival Unit, etc. [UFA Muzak]
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BRANDKOMMANDO -- "Welcome to Paradise" -- CD-R -- €7
Tosom, TOSOM XX-006, (ltd. 150)
New full-length of Polish artist. This time the author turned his attention to the joyless reality of the African continent: the cannibal presidents Amin Dada and Jahn Bedel Bokassa, dictator of Zaire marshal Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu wa za Banga, apartheid and neo-colonialism. Anti-political power electronics, piercing feedbacks, distorted synths, wild noises. Colour cardboard sleeve + 2 photo inserts. [YAOP]
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BREWER, SPENCER -– "THE PIPER'S RHYTHM" -- CD -- €12 [-50%]
1991 Narada Equinox, CD-3018
New Age / Ambient from early 90-ies with lush arrangements and jazz motives. [YAOP]
BRIGHTER DEATH NOW -- "Breaking Down Nihil" -- CD -- €33
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 -- €15
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 -- "With Promises Of Death" -- CD -- €12
2014/2015 Familjegraven, GRAV-01, 2nd edition
Death Industrial / Power Electronics. "With Promises Of Death" is the first new full length album from seminal death industrial legend BDN in eight years. The inaugural release on Roger Karmanik's new label, Familjegraven, created with the sole intention of producing releases from BRIGHTER DEATH NOW in the wake of Cold Meat Industry's demise, heralds a slew of planned reissues and new material. This is now over! [label info]
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BRINSTAAR -- "Infotswetock" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2011/2014 Kotä Records, 01, (ltd. 450)
Here is what Brinstaar told us about this album: "I was creating Infotswetock using my guitar and some pedals, you can hear a synth I used in some tracks, it seems to be Polivoks as far as I remember. I had nowhere to play at that time, so I grabbed up my stuff and get it to the work office, and play the music when I had a break (and by the way, I want to say thanks to all colleagues and owners for the great patience they paid to me)... I made a creation process in the way of playing with hardware for a while to the moment I got sound I liked, then I get myself deep into sonar meditation. I improvised until I had my mind completely off, then I push the record button and get a condensed and intensive version in a right state of mind. Every track holds a several lines recorded in this way. For 2 years, while I was working on the album, I made hundreds of tracks, then I started to collect the coolest ones of them… then I dreamed a name Infotswetock, and that is how it was born... At the same time something happened with my perception, I’ve started to see patterns and structures everywhere, especially on people faces. I’ve thought about the nature of this patterns, and realized that it can be just another layer of the reality interpretation in my mind. Nothing magic, but pretty beautiful..." [press-release] Transparent plastic pack with silk screen.
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BRUME -- "Battery Hens Sabotage" -- CD -- €24 [-50%]
1992 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 001, (ltd. 498)
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 -- "Normal" -- CD -- €16 [-50%]
1998 Release Entertainment, RR 6999-2
BRUME -- "Zona Ventille" -- CD -- €16 [-50%]
2001 Elsie & Jack Recordings, #:008, (ltd. 1000)
When this CD was released, it was considered the last published work by Brume... Jewel-case with a sticker.
BRUME -- "Les Victimes Sont Dangereuses" -- CD -- €7
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 -- €7
1999/2008 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]
BRUME -- "Lost in Karrack" -- CD -- €7
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 -- "Live With or Without Audience" -- CD -- €7
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 -- €7
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 -- €7
1999/2008 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 -- €7
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]
BRUME -- "Emergence" -- 2 CD -- €10
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 & VRISCHIKA -- "s/t" -- CD -- €14 [-50%]
1998 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 016, (ltd. 500)
Second co-operation by Brume and Vrischika after the MCD out on Brume's own label. An ethno-industrial moisture with a wide range of ambients. [label info]
BRUNO SWIATLOCIEN -- "Czern I Cien II" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2015 New Experimental Art, NEA 002
The new album Bruno SWIATLOCIEN, czern i cien II, music and lyrics by Bronislaw Ehrlich. On the new album has 9 songs in the style of Dark Wave, Cold Wave, Noise or ambient. Candid message, the music of a noise mantras, uncompromising lyricism, is the essence of what we do on the album Czern i Cien II. In the music of Group Bruno SWIATLOCIEN can find something fans of early Swans, Kiling joke, Joy Division and Blood Axis. The first album of the band in Music Magazine, beside Wierze Fabryk was deemed album of the year 2013. New material already has similar quotes in the connoisseurs of music in reviews. Responsible for the production of discs Michal Miegon is known for its many projects, especially bands like Shipyard and Kiev Office. [press-release]
BSICTRANSIT -- "Aelita" -- CD -- €10
2019 Akt-Produkt, akt-produkt 39
Soundtrack / Ambient / Experimental. Cosmism is becoming a promising idea again, and it would be difficult for Akt-Produkt to stay aside from this trend. So we present our first cosmist release (and 39th overall). “Aelita” is the music for a ballet of the same name, created by Tomsk-based experimental collective bSICtransit. The ballet, which itself was an experimental work in progress, was first performed on November 7, 2014. Dance artist Ksenia Belenkova was responsible for its choreography, and its libretto based on the eponymous novel by Alexei Tolstoy was compiled by philosopher German Preobrazhensky... bSICtransit recorded a minimalistic and alchemical soundtrack where everything oscillates between the two poles. On the one hand there’s warm and old-fashioned Earth, where, however, there is no place already; on the other hand there’s cold, strange and alien space, where there is also no place (yet?). But there are 2 things that connect them – those are love and revolution. However, both of them remain somewhere in between those non-places, in the incomplete (or endless) flight towards. [label info]
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BUCKETTOVSISSORS -- "Brain Erase" -- CD-R -- €7 [-50%]
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]
BUCKNER, THOMAS / EDYTA FIL / ILIA BELORUKOV / ALEXEY LAPIN / JUHO LAITINEN -- "Bewitched Concert" -- CD -- €9
2011 Intonema, int002, (ltd. 300)
The second step we took was the album Bewitched Concert by international quintet Thomas Buckner (USA), Edyta Fil (Poland), Ilia Belorukov, Alexey Lapin (both Russia) and Juho Laitinen (Finland). This is a record of a concert that took place at the Experimental Sound Gallery on November 6th, 2009. Spontaneously arising cast nothing negotiating played music rather reminiscent of academic music with some adds of free improvisation elements and acoustic drone... "It may feel strange but everything that played and sung on this album is very natural for instruments and voice - despite cello solo in Epilogue (performed with extravagant technique of string over-pressing which reminds Pierre Henri's classical Variations for a Door and a Sigh) and Buckner's shaman roaring. It makes a deceptive impression that this music can be easily notated by conventional way and if having a great desire - even can be performed according to that notation. Perhaps, only Deep Listening founded by Buckner's compatriot (and probably a friend) Pauline Oliveros, sounds comparatively similar. Ilia Belorukov describes the concert atmosphere as "academic" and quite calm though, the performance form reminds the first movement of Witold Lutoslawski's Second symphony Hesitant - when you listen to it you can't trace that it invisibly involves you into a vortex of very fast music in which all sound events - like granules in the computer music - merge in one unique timbre." (Dmitry Ukhov, from CD booklet)
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BU.D.D.A. -- "All Der Guten Dinge Drei" -- CD -- €7 [-50%]
2019 Attenuation Circuit, ACU 1016, (ltd. 100)
Bu.d.d.A. - "Bund des dritten Auges" ("Third Eye Society") is a fairly new project involving experimental musicians Sascha Stadlmeier (EMERGE, Attenuation Circuit Records) and Chris Sigdell (Leaden Fumes (ex-Phased), b°tong) and which plays meditative ambient drones. Sometimes they play with a guest musician, and sometimes not. For those who need names, it may sound like Troum meets Earth together with Eno… but in reality Bu.d.d.A. builds on the legacy of German industrial band NID (1995-2005), who Chris was a member of, and which released a post-humous CD on Auf Abwegen (Asmus Tietchens, etc.). [label info] Factory-pressed CD in cardboard sleeve.
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BUFFETT, PETER -- "Lost Frontier" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
1991 Narada Mystique, CD-2012
Amazing New Age / Ambient inspired by the Wild West landscapes. [YAOP]
BUILDING 33 -- ".End." -- CD-R -- €5
CVLMINIS, (ltd. 20)
BUMSTEINAS, ARTURAS -- "Organ Safari Lituanica" -- CD -- €10
2016 Intonema, int019, (ltd. 200)
We are happy to introduce you Arturas Bumsteinas, a composer from Lithuania! This is our second collaboration with him since he participated in the making of our first release Wozzeck "Act III: Comics". A new Arturas’ solo release continues his series of organ works. During Summer 2015 he has visited 20 Lithuanian cities with Gaile Griciute who improvised on a church organ. Arturas has written 3 compositions based on the recorded material where he researched sound details and specificities of different organs along with their sound in the space. [label info]
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BUMSTEINAS, ARTURAS -- "Stories From Organ Safari" -- CD -- €9
2010 Lithuanian New Music Communication Center, NMKC 007
Free improvisation / Neoclassic. "Organ Safari is an ongoing project which was started in year 2008 by...Arturas Bumљteinas. Since then he is traveling around Europe and recording sounds of various organs in churches, concert halls, record stores, streets, music schools and other locations. From these collected recordings artist has built an extensive sound archive which serves as an important source for his various acoustic and electronic compositions, improvisations and collaborations that involve other musicians..." [sleeve notes]
BUNKER -- "II" -- CD-R -- €12
2011 Agfa Archive, AGFA 02, (ltd. 50)
Industrial / Power Electronics. : a return from the secret depths of a document buried in the ground : sound signatures under the camp-ringing echo : an angel of grace settled in a kennel, the prophet has a library - an ideological trap left to descendants : a prize for the invention of new methods of execution, columns of numbers on a transparent film grow before the eyes like a tree-flower of a demon : the skeletonized remains on the appellplatz are carried away by the wind, an endlessly monotonous repetition in the security cinema : the hissing sound of gas and forever remaining shadows, the commandant writes a letter to his wife and draws a guillotine at the end instead of a signature : in the shower room, a file cabinet, a forearm, a newcomer, with help, gas chamber trucks, the sum, poetry in the barrack : an aftertaste of alkali on the tongue, and a resonating concussion from broken tracks, gunpowder and a line of fire : two crossed triangles : a compact disc as gassing from audio systems : stop-play-reverse secret order in a whisper through breakwater of interference : organizing an action, deliberate simplification, counterpoint in agony, numbers, sacrifice... 11 tracks, 60 minutes, pro-CDr, 12-page art-book, postcard, stickers. [label info]
BURIAL HEX -- "Book Of Delusions" -- CD -- €10
2011/2012 Cold Spring, CSR166CD
During the period in which Clay Ruby first began working on this piece of art, he had become so completely surrounded by evil and deception that he was forced to begin summoning a particularly extreme and ancient force of protection and vitality just to make it alive through the end of 2008. Aside from spiritually fortifying Ruby's life, the complexities of these new elemental entities brought with them circumstances causing a much more rich and intense recording experience than he could have ever composed on his own. Classic horror electronics and post-industrial apocalyptic soundscapes with unsettling notes, anguished cries and voices of the dead. His most ritualistic album yet. Reissue of the extremely limited LP with bonus tracks taken from the split LPs with Kinit Her and Zola Jesus, all available on CD for the first time! All tracks have been carefully remastered. [press-release]
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BURIAL HEX -- "Throne" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2016 Cold Spring, CSR232CD
Finally a third volume of the essential reissue series featuring rare and out-of-print vinyl releases from Horror Electronics maestro Burial Hex. This collection takes us further back in time to a more raw and singular vision, whilst still infused with passionate vocals and eerie religious allusions that would eventually lead to a development of increasingly more compositional elements in the Burial Hex cycle. Collecting his sides from the split 7" with Sylvester Anfang on Aurora Borealis, the split 12" with Iron Fist of the Sun on Cold Spring, and taking a side each from “Bagirwa Hymn” on VON Archives and “From The Rites Of Lazarus” on Urashima, we experience the death industrial roots of this expansive project. Without as much focus on otherworldly hybrids, yet still organically eclectic, this offering will bring the grinding grey atmospherics and the nauseating aggression of early Horror Electronics into focus. Artwork by Nathaniel Ritter (Kinit Her). [press-release]
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BUTTERCUP INSURGENT -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €7 [-50%]
Smell The Stench
Hypnotizing Harsh Noise Wall and necrophiliac Dark Ambient from the UK-based musician. Sleeve. [YAOP]
BYMEL, OFER & BUTTNER, GREGORY -- "Ripsnorter" -- CD-R -- €6
2012 Observatoire, obs * y | 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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BZ BZ UEU -- "Tapes & Vinyls" -- CD -- €10
2016 Music A La Coque, COQ-010
Avantgarde / Punk / Free Jazz / Noise Rock. Bz Bz Ueu were an Italian avant-punk jazz band formed in 1992 in Bari. These are early recordings on tapes + 7" vinyls. Young and noisy from 1994 to 1998. "A crossover between hardcore and avant jazz, sharp no wave swerves and the feeling of bad fun. A product made of fury and immediacy, unthinkable in today's Italian scene". [Andrea Prevignano, Rumore]
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C. SPENCER YEH -- "1975" -- CD -- €10
2011 Intransitive Recordings, int037
Intransitive Recordings is extra-proud to present 1975, the debut solo album of tightly-coiled, crackling electronic ambience by C. Spencer Yeh. While “debut” may seem a strange word to use to describe an album by a guy with such a deep discography, Yeh explains that 1975 is like nothing anyone has heard from him before. “One thing is I really wanted to focus on a certain feeling of stasis. So much of what else I do just kinda pushes and pushes forward. 1975 is more vertical than horizontal, even though one can’t escape the horizontal completely.” Taking a confident step away from his familiar work as an improvising violinist and vocalist, from the mythology of his rock/noise band Burning Star Core, and from his recent forays into pop music, the omnivorous Yeh here reveals himself to be a composer of unsettling electro-acoustic miniatures... Yeh approached his source material with a desire to be transparent, even literal, and to avoid straightforward narrative. The literal is there in the deceptively matter-of-fact track titles — “Drone”, “Voice”, “Shrinkwrap from Solo Saxophone CD”, “Two Guitars” — but knowing which sound source is buried beneath these tones does little to remove 1975‘s sense of enveloping mystery. This is sensual abstract music with a light touch, a confident minimalism that only reveals its unsettling depth, sharp corners, and playful malevolence with repeat listens... For fans of Eliane Radigue, Hecker, Pita, or Kevin Drumm. [press-release]
C.3.3. -- "Ballad of Reading Gaol – The Cacophonietta" -- CD -- €11 [-50%]
2011/2018 Cold Spring, CSR255CD
C.3.3. is a personal project from Paul Jamrozy, co-founder of original industrial agitators TEST DEPT. The work is inspired by the real life experience of Her Majesty’s Prison Reading. Tracing the history of the location through to the present current political and social situation, evoking the harsh realities of Victorian and modern day Britain. Reminiscent of the finest mid-era TEST DEPT., such as “Gododdin” or “Pax Britannica”, with heavy percussion, strings, and strident vocals. The title C.3.3. is drawn from the cell number where the literary figure Oscar Wilde was incarcerated in Reading Gaol under gross indecency charges. C.3.3. was the pseudonym used for the publication “The Ballad of Reading Gaol”, a poem based on the execution of a fellow inmate. This sonic rendition draws upon the writings of Wilde’s poem and the horrors of prison life for a condemned man, as a metaphor for the universal predicament of all humankind. Remastered with 2 bonus tracks, featuring TEST DEPT. and presented in a 6-panel digipak. [label info]
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C.H. DISTRICT -- "Live at XIX Wrocław Industrial Festival" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2021 Zoharum, ZOHAR 247-2, (ltd. 300)
IDM / Industrial / Experimental. The latest album of C.H. District is 100% live material, recorderd during a concert at the 19th Wrocław Industrial Festival in the middle of the lockdown and broadcast entirely online. Mirek Matyasik - the founder of the project - presents a material mostly based on the use of modular synthesizers, extracting dense, motor structures, giving the composition a distinctive character. The heavy beats, kept in medium tempos, set the rhythm and fill a large part of the set, constituting a strong pillar for the successive tracks with a metallic, rough sound appearing at different moments. At the same time, their composer consciously uses the available means to build tension and atmosphere in a controlled manner throughout the performance. He does not give way for a moment, does not allow himself to unnecessary shoals, keeping the attention of the audience focused all the time. While in the sound tracks and structures based on heavy, mechanical rhythms, we can listen for references to CH District's work from the initial period of his activity, while listening more carefully to the depths of the composition, woven with a whole lot of flavors, bits of melody, a thicket of means that make up CH District. On the whole, you can feel the experience gained from working on music for Tympanik or M-Tronic. An interesting addition is a recording recorded during one of the streams, which was broadcast from a home studio, based on the same framework, but as a result of improvisation running in a slightly different direction. This publication is a record of a fleeting fragment in the work of C.H. District, captured during two Live performances, which today, after spreading the developed patterns on a modular synthesizer, cannot be recreated... CD folded in six-panels digipack released in limited edition of 300 copies. [label info]
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C.J. MIND & MAN UFO (EXPERIMENT) -- "Source" -- CD -- €10
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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CACTUS TRUCK with WADIM DICKE -- "Live In Siberia" -- CD-R -- €6
2019 Akt-Produkt, [akt-produkt 36] / Tractata Records, 004
Free Jazz. Akt-Produkt presents its 36th, this time another international release – live recording of Amsterdam-based power jazz trio Cactus Truck together with Wadim Dicke, bassist from Tomsk, Siberia... The Dutch trio describes its music as a mix of free jazz, japanoise, no wave, and delta blues. Saxophonist John Dikeman, guitarist Jasper Stadhouders, and drummer Onno Govaert create a high density sonic flow. On the one hand, their sound could be called old-school – it is inhabited by ghosts of free jazz, recalling the frenzy of Albert Ayler (whose "Spirits Rejoice" is quoted in the recording) or the first experiments of mixing jazz with heavy music; on the other hand – it is nuts and reckless in a punk rock way... Like many improvisers, Cactus Truck often collaborate with other musicians. In 2012 they did a joint release with Terrie Ex. "Live in Siberia" is a collaboration with Wadim Dicke – bassist, improviser, conductor of Strangelet Ensemble, and a member of such experimental outfits as Sect of Phoenix and Sine Seawave. Due to Wadim's presence, the sonic hailstorm seems to be even denser, and at the same time, more complete... This highly energetic recording was made at the "Energetik" house of culture in Cheremushki, the engineers settlement of the Sayano–Shushenskaya Dam. The EP consists of two improvised numbers, plainly titled "The Long Track" and "The Short One". The former unremittingly holds your attention for 19 minutes; the grindcore-like rapid firing of the latter, performed as an encore, fits under 15 seconds (not counting the applause), with a lot going on during those seconds. [label info]
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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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CAN CAN HEADS -- "Monorural Recordings" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2018 Gyggen Lompsa, Gygg-001 / Mannavelli
Free improvisaton / noise rock, recorded on tape one spring afternoon in a small wooden hut somewhere in Finnish countryside. Primitive, powerful, varied, mono!
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CANAAN -- "Il Giorno Dei Campanelli" -- CD -- €12 [-50%]
2016 Eibon Records, CAN098
Darkwave. The stronger the spiritual pain, the worse the physical damage. Suppurating plagues can be carved and cleansed: spiritual wounds are impossible to sterilize. Mental germs grow, mutate, infect, colonize and suppress the once healthy host. "Il giorno dei campanelli", CANAAN's eight album, is a diary of mental putrefaction. No antibiotic can work here: these 14 songs will leave no soul unharmed. [label info]
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CANAAN -- "Walk into my Open Womb" -- 2 CD -- €15 [-50%]
1998/2003 Eibon Records, Can010, (ltd. 500)
Originally released in 1998, and since then already repressed a few times, "Wimow" was CANAAN's second album, and contains some of the most significant tracks composed by the band. Taste the early days of the masters of deception..... This last repressing (in a limited edition of 500 copies) comes with new graphics. [label info]
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CAPECE, LUCIO -- "Elemental Pulse" -- CD -- €10
2019 Intonema, int030, (ltd. 200)
Minimal / Experimental / Free Improvisation. Lucio Capece's new solo work is the second album by the Argentinian musician on Intonema after 2013’s Music for Flying and Pendulating Speakers. Taking un/natural silence as his starting point, Capece continues his research into the perception of sound and music, both as a listener and performer. The work features three new compositions, using diverse sound sources including slide saxophone, analog synthesizers, effects and field recordings, with which Capece crafts a vast array of textures, from drone canvases and sounds of nature to rhythmic loops and beats. [label info]
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CAPECE, LUCIO -- "Less Is Less - Music For Flying And Pendulating Speakers" -- CD -- €9
2013 Intonema, int009, (ltd. 300)
Music for Flying and Pendulating Speakers - a new work by Lucio Capece, known primarily for preparing of wind instruments and post-reductionism. Currently he is focusing on a region of perception and sound being in space. In the first of two presented compositions Capece is playing in the cathedral in Bern using speakers flying on balloons, soprano saxophone and the sound of the room itself. The second part of the dis? is a piece for speakers as pendulums, moving according to the oscillation phenomena, and analog synthesizer. Filigree work based in acoustic properties of various materials and objects. [label info]
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CAPRICORNI PNEUMATICI -- "The Erivar" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2015/2016 Alma De Nieto, DNN 005 C / Monochrome Vision
Ritual / Dark Ambient. Back in the day, mid to late 80s, I was quickly cured from anything even vaguely ritualistic or all that came with the name Aleister Crowley attached, so that’s were I missed out on this Italian duo, whose name comes from Crowley’s book ‘”Liber A’ASH vel Capricorni Pneumatici SUB FIGURA CCCLXX”. They are only known by their pseudonyms Pazuzu and Soda Caustica, but I didn’t expect otherwise. A bit more research learned me they had a bunch of cassettes releases in the 80s, on a label called 666 Production, but also on SSS and Minus Habens and in 2016 there was this CD of six pieces recorded in 2014 and two in 2009, the latter that they did with Z’EV... Apparently their set-up was mostly acoustic in the past, ‘PVC tubes, air compressors, hammers, buckets, water, steel and aluminium tanks and plates, various metal and plastic objects’ yet on this CD also percussions, voice, harp guitar, ac. guitar, treatments and processing, electronics and field recordings. There is no ritual chanting here, which is always good in my book, but some fine atmospheric music of long form drone like sounds, whether these are acoustic in origin or processed versions. Actually I thought all of this was quite enjoyable throughout. Close your eyes, and there are no sigils, no burning crosses or incense, no liber all, just highly enjoyable experimental music based on loops, sounds, and with the right amount of reverb and delay (and no doubt more of those) all highly atmospheric; creepy and dark. Maybe this can also be the sound of a fine horror movie I thought. I am not sure this would make me rush out and hear their entire recorded output, but this one is surely the fine soundtrack to a grey November afternoon. [Vital Weekly]
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CAPRICORNI PNEUMATICI -- "Putredini Obnoxius" -- CD -- €12 [-50%]
1991/2017 Alma De Nieto, DNN 007 C
Ritual / Dark Ambient. Italian duo Capricorni Pneumatici started in 1987, taking their name from an Aleister Crowley book. This CD is part of their 30th Anniversary release series. It should have been their tenth album, originally composed in 1991 for the Portuguese label Putrefactio, but was never published at the time (probably only a few copies were made on cassettes by SSS Production, CP's own label). 26 years later it comes to light in this first edition. The recordings are made up of electric guitar, samples, synths, tapes, strings, field recordings, percussion and voices (including that of Aleister Crowley, whose book they are named after). Mastered from the original master tape. Digipak.
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CAPRICORNI PNEUMATICI -- "Rahoor" -- CD -- €12 [-50%]
2017 Alma De Nieto, DNN 013 C
Ritual / Dark Ambient. Italian duo Capricorni Pneumatici started in 1987, taking their name from an Aleister Crowley book. This CD is part of their 30th Anniversary and they have produced two new albums to mark the occasion. "Rahoor", recorded in 2017, is the third part of The Erivar trilogy. They present four songs that show industrial rhythms with a distinctive rhythm and a mysterious ceremonial landscape. 51 minutes of music using percussion, voices, electronics, and treatments. Digipak with drawings and sigils by Austin Osman Spare.
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CARAMELOS, FELIPE -- "Se Prohibe Cantar" -- 2 CD -- €10 [-50%]
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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CARBON BASED LIFEFORMS -- "VLA" -- CD -- €14
2011/2016 Infinite Fog Productions, IF-77, (ltd. 1000)
We’re happy to welcome legendary Sweden space ambient project in our roster. Special album, different from earlier works of CBL, one hour of deepest space ambient tunes, one hour snatched from eternity, one hour of ethereal oblivion... Very Large Array (VLA) is a radio astronomy observatory located on the Plains of San Agustin, between the towns of Magdalena and Datil, some 50 miles (80 km) west of Socorro, New Mexico. It comprises 27 25-meter radio telescopes in a Y-shaped array and all the equipment, instrumentation, and computing power to function as an interferometer. Each of the massive telescopes is mounted on double parallel railroad tracks, so the radius and density of the array can be transformed to focus on particular bands of wavelength. Astronomers using the VLA have made key observations of black holes and protoplanetary disks around young stars, discovered magnetic filaments and traced complex gas motions at the Milky Way's center, probed the Universe's cosmological parameters, and provided new knowledge about the physical mechanisms that produce radio emission. The VLA stands at an elevation of 6970 ft (2124 m) above sea level. It is a component of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO). [label info]
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CARVED IMAGE OF EMPTINESS / ZINC ROOM -- "Lie, Illusions, Mystifications / Zinc 99,99" -- CD -- €9 [-50%]
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 -- €7
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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CAT'N'BONE -- "Butterfly" -- 3"CD-R -- €3
2010 self-released, (ltd. 20)
Hollow Concrete Noise Ambient with industrial taste. Sophisticated medical fetish package. [YAOP]
CAT.N.BONE -- "Pencil" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 self-released, (ltd. 20)
Beautiful and interesting Old-School Industrial / Musique Conrete, exploring the cultural and sonic phenomenon of a pencil. Paper sleeve with a sticker, 8-page A5 booklet, a set of 6 pencils, rubber and blade. [YAOP]
CAT'N'BONE -- "Sniff a Tree" -- CD-R -- €5
2010 self-released, (ltd. 8)
Art Noise / Noise Ambient with mysterious stalking atmosphere. Jewel-case with tho cards and a piece of dendromaterial. Just 8 copies!! [YAOP]
CAT.N.BONE / EGO DEATH -- "Unveiling The Wicked Dead Glass Behind A Curtain Of Thin Tissue Under Any Circumstances" -- 3"CD-R + 3"DVD-R -- €6
2012 self-released, (ltd. 22)
CATATONIC FACTUM -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €7
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]
CATHEDRA -- "Time Was Away 1992-1997" -- 2 CD -- €15 [-50%]
2019 Zoharum, ZOHAR 191-2, (ltd. 350)
Ritual Industrial / Neoclassical. Known today for his projects CODEX EMPIRE and ANTECHAMBER, and as one half of KONSTRUKTIVISTS, MITRA MITRA and OPPENHEIMER MKII, Mark Crumby has been writing and recording since 1990. One of his earliest solo projects, CATHEDRA, recorded and issued a number of releases between 1992 and 1997 on a range of labels including Ant-Zen, OBUH records, MuzaMuza and Jara Discs... After being out of print for over 20 years, a new double-CD, ‘Time Was Away’ compiles 29 tracks selected from these releases, completely remastered, and in some cases remixed from the original master/multitrack tapes... Split over 2 CD’s, the material is divided thematically, with the first disc focusing on ritual/industrial/electronic material, and the second disc compiling classical/soundtrack pieces. The CDs are housed in a ecopak sleeve and the album is strictly limited to 350 copies. [label info]
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CATHEDRAL NIGHTMARES -- "Scincraeftcan" -- CD-R -- €7 [-50%]
2021 Dödens Kultur, DK№09, (ltd. 34)
Black Ambient. On his second release, a project from the Königsberg (Kaliningrad) underground presents even more versatile and distinctive look at Black Ambient: an abundance of analog synthesizers, sketches of acoustic guitar permeated with medieval melodies, Raw Black Metal cover on the great The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath A Cloud, a magical tribute to Dungeon Synth, diabolical avant-garde performance among ruins and caves - all this united by austere and free spirit of old Europe and the blackest techno magic. "A prophet sleeps in every person, and when it awakens, a little more evil is added to the world." The package is hand-made of artificial leather, cardboard and paper. Each copy is numbered by hand. [label info]
CAVE DWELLER -- "Walter Goodman (Or The Empty Cabin In The Woods)" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2020 Aesthetic Death, ADCD 072
Neofolk / Experimental. Solo project of Adam R. Bryant from PANDO. An experiment in music and poetry that explores and touches on themes of loneliness and dealing with mental illness. Each track was recorded and mixed differently, using multiple mediums and techniques, including simple smartphone tracking, digital and analog tape recording methods, and field recordings at places of importance. [from the artist] Released in a 6-panel digipak with a 24-page booklet.
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CAWATANA -- "Decline Of Privileges" -- CD EP -- €7 [-50%]
2015, Lichterklang, LK033, (ltd. 270)
Five years after their last sign of life the hungarian neofolk legend return with a new 6-track EP, continuing the concept that has started with the "Advocation Of Privileges" CD. [label info]
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CD-R -- "Antipathetic" -- CD-R -- €8 [-50%]
2004 Spirals Of Involution, SOI 038, (ltd. 99)
First official release of young Moscow-based noise band. Dissimilar sounding compositions blend together features of analogue sound sources and digital design/processing. The last track is a provocative hello to Anna Hermann, done as a unrecognizable recycling of her song.
CELLERINO, EDGARDO MOIA -- "L'Amore Che Gira Il Mondo" -- CD -- €7 [-50%]
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]
CELLERINO, EDGARDO MOIA -- "L'Impazienza Di Restare" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2016 Oltrelanebbiailmare, CD201618
Singer-Songwriter. New solo album from the LE MASQUE's singer. The Italian way to sing poetry. Elegance and refinement reminiscent of David Sylvian's songs without forgetting the best tradition of Italian songwriters. [Sugar & Spice]
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CELLERINO, EDGARDO MOIA -- "Plays Le Masque (Soundtrack)" -- CD -- €12 [-50%]
2019 Oltrelanebbiailmare, CD201921, (ltd. 100)
Singer-Songwriter. "I like life because I remember. This is not just another collection, but a filmed reproduction of Le Masque on the invisible screen of memory." (EMC) PLAYS LE MASQUE (SOUNDTRACK) is a soundtrack to a film that anyone can imagine as they wish. Edgardo reinterprets, re-elaborates and relives some of Le Masque's tracks creating the "definitive" work. Songs that are images that flow through our lives. [label info]
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CENT ANS DE SOLITUDE & FLINT GLASS -- "Sprengbagger 1010" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2017 Les Nouvelles Propagandes, NP.027
Industrial / Soundtrack. Germany, 1929 – After developing the plans for a huge excavator for his coal mining company, the engineer Karl Hartmann yearns for the fresh air far from his smog-filled industrial world. He returns to the village of his childhood going back to his roots in the countryside, participating in rural life, working in his grand-mother’s mill and enjoying his free time with Camilla, the pretty girl from the nearby castle. However, his assistant, Olga Lossen, discovering the plans for his machine and recognising their importance, asks the board of directors to bring Hartmann back in order to build it... The engineer is torn apart by the two women and the two conflicting ways of life. At the very moment he has to make a choice, he discovers that the village was built on a giant coal mine. This revelation seals the fate of the whole community. The giant machine, like an apocalyptic creature begins its deadly task, swallowing up the very ground, destroying the natural environment and the castle, tearing people away from their collapsing homes and bringing death and ruin into the midst of what ought to have been an Eden... Cent Ans de Solitude and Flint Glass offer a musical interpretation of the conflicts arising throughout the movie. The live performance consists of a mixture of their own unique approach to sounds, made up of electronic layers and including acoustic elements deriving from objects being transformed from their original functions, such as scratching metal, hitting stone or bending springs. These sounds mimic the devastating effects of the monstrous machine and the industrial world it comes from. This cinema concert immerses the viewer into a dense musical environment, backed by the melodic electronic lines which echo the cold and brutal sounds of metal. [press-release]
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CHALK, ANDREW / RALF WEHOWSKY / ERIC LANZILLOTTA -- "Yang-Tul" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
1998/2016 Cold Spring, CSR220CD
A legendary sound collaboration formed of two lengthy pieces. The first track features Andrew Chalk (Mirror, Ora, Ferial Confine) gently reworking the sound materials of Ralf Wehowsky (P16.D4). A hypnotic, slowly-evolving drone with waves of mysterious sounds, static and glitches. The second piece, on the other hand, finds Ralf Wehowsky composing a frenzied journey into otherworldly realms using sound material from Andrew Chalk and Eric Lanzillotta (Eye Music). These pieces reflect a sound unique from the work of any of the three individual participants, but clearly related. Subtle, but full of detail for the willing listener. Originally issued as limited coloured vinyl only on Lanzillotta’s label Anomalous Records in 1998. Cover painting by Andrew Chalk. Remastered for CD from the original master recordings. Digipak. [label info]
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CHANEY, NEIL -- "Aura (Original Soundtrack)" -- CD -- €11 [-50%]
2021 Cold Spring, CSR296CD
Dark Ambient / Neoclassical. We are very proud to release the original soundtrack by Neil Chaney to the British supernatural horror film "Aura" (aka The Exorcism Of Karen Walker). From the first notes, the incredibly evocative compositions feature huge swathes of cavernous Dark Ambient, with unsettling dark synths in the vein of the legendary '70's Italian Giallo horror. Quieter, and indeed sinister moments, are evoked by emotive strings, synths and piano, adding pathos and a melancholy atmosphere to the disturbing score... Aura: A couple discover Kirlian Photography apparatus in their new house. Intrigued by the concept of photographing peoples' Auras they unwittingly release an ancient evil. Only the local psychic can help and she knows far more than she reveals. Aura stars: Rula Lenska (a darling of British TV), Shane Taylor (Band Of Brothers), Jeanine Nerissa Sothcott (Nemesis)... Composing film soundtracks since 2009, Neil Chaney was also the creative mind behind the cinematic dark ambient / fortean electronics act SATORI (2007-2008 with Justin Mitchell), releasing their acclaimed album 'Kanashibari', and the EP 'Contemptus Mundi' (feat Magus Peter H Gilmore, High Priest of the Church Of Satan). He was also the creator of early 90's Industrial act PESSARY. [label info]
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CHAOTALION -- "Tannenholzrauch" -- CD -- €7 [-50%]
2015 Attenuation Circuit, ACU 1004
Dark fir woods and weird pentagram-esque runes on the cover: How can the contents of this album not be a cliched, possibly black-metal influenced rendition of the idiotic “stay true to the soil” creed? Well, Alexander Marco has succeeded in tricking us all. His music on this album under the Chaotalion moniker is a vast expanse of breathing, pulsating ambient dreamscapes, cleverly evoking certain black metal genre elements, but totally eliding its ideology... Marco uses guitar and electronics to create the music on this album, but his textural approach owes a good deal to his work with not-so-musical sounds. A regular participant in the Noise Factory sessions hosted by Y-Ton-G, Marco is also schooled in musique concrete and assemblage of found sounds, and this rather constructivist approach gives this release a refreshingly sober, clear, kitsch-free touch. Actually, the album, with all its packaging and teutonic titles, might well be a conceptual ‘joke’ on certain ‘black’ aesthetics, but the music is too well-crafted to allow for an easy interpretation as a simple parody. [press-release]
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CHAOTIC BOUND SYSTEMS -- "Dissonanz" -- CD -- €9 [-50%]
2020 Evil Dead Productions, EDP 024
Dark Jazz / Experimental. This time I will be extremely brief: the one who manages to extract harmony from dissonance is a true master. The second album of the Yekaterinburg one-man project Chaotic Bound Systems is an example of true deep skill and genuine talent. Even more full-bodied, diverse and melodically more complex and multi-layered than the previous album "No light", but at the same time more transparent. Paradoxically, despite the abundance of instruments and their seemingly dissonant parts, the album has a lot of free space and air; there is not even a shadow of slowness and heaviness in it - which often happens with avant-garde jazz improvisations. Dissonance as a non-trivial and rare means of expanding the musical horizon, and consciousness. Depths and completeness of perception. [Providiy-137]
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CHAOTIC BOUND SYSTEMS -- "Dust Demons" -- CD-R EP -- €5 [-50%]
2022 Evil Dead Productions, EDP 030, (ltd. 30)
Dark Jazz / Avantgarde. This EP from CHAOTIC BOUND SYSTEMS contains its last recordings and was conceived as an addition to the Evil Dead Productions label compilation "Museum II". Atonal piano phrases, chaotic percussion, scattering guitar and double bass parts – all this is kept together by lingering saxophone solos. As if a quintet of jazz musicians got really high and slowed down; the world is collapsing, but they are trying not to lose the remnants of rational perception and they succeed, thanks to their strong musical professionalism. Only this whole quintet exists inside one head, which belongs to the author of the project – Andrey Kein (aka Kein Z. Necro) from Yekaterinburg, Russia. Andrey was also known for such projects as SOL MORTUUS, CHURCH OF HOWLING DOG, CARVED IMAGE OF EMPTINESS and more, but he left this world in the fall of 2021 (RIP!)... Two tracks, 13 minutes, pro-CDR with foldout cover in a PVC-sleeve.
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CHAOTIC BOUND SYSTEMS -- "No Light" -- CD -- €9 [-50%]
2018 Evil Dead Productions, EDP 021, (ltd. 300)
Dark Jazz / Dark Ambient / Experimental. New project of the Yekaterinburg-based musician Andrey Kein known for such names as Sol Mortuus, Church Of Howling Dog, Carved Image Of Emptiness, Zinc Room and Prognostic Zero. Unexpected combination of dark psychoactive jazzy atmosphere and avant-garde compositional techniques. Tenor sax, xaphoon, piano and guitar set the tone here, Kein uses them to create utterly abstract patterns, sometimes crosshatched by nervous passages of the rhythm section. It's impossible to memorize any melody here, but so easy to dive deep in a dark viscous mass of an absurd dreaming, hidden behind the thick curtains of a velvety night.
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CHASSE, LOREN & MICHAEL NORTHAM -- "The Otolith" -- CD -- €10
2008 Helen Scarsdale Agency, HMS 014, (ltd. 700)
The recordings of Loren Chasse and Michael Northam begin and end with the great outdoors. Yet, the well-documented wanderlust of these two kindred sound artists is only part of the equation. Field recordings of wind, water, and stone intertwine and hybridize within private rituals of droning psychedelic ragas that return as a folklore reiterating the mystery of the natural world around us. Through his numerous contributions to the multi-faceted Jewelled Antler as well his solo work, Chasse has long postulated the microphone as an extension of his ear, which magnifies and probes the surface of the earth for a tactile grit that permeates all of the sounds that he generates. Northam claims his inspiration from vast geographies, microscopic detail, and severe weather, which he compacts through various techniques to explore what is between improvisation and acousmatic composition. Both Chasse and Northam entertain such notions through an alchemy of arcane instruments: autoharps, ouds, flutes, bells, gongs, bowed wires, harmonium, and Northam's magnetic table harp. The Otolith is the result of several years of work, with sounds gathered collectively in the San Francisco Bay Area and throughout Europe. The album speaks as a bramble of fence wire and chaparral scrub oak, acquiring an unkempt collection of rubbish, cobwebs, insects, and soil within its tangle. As the wind pushes in one direction, this mass emits a quite if scratchy melody as if the ghost from a forgotten song; but when the wind changes directions, it bellows a rasping din of metal and vine cracking against itself. This sodden calliope tumbles into a miasma of droning atmospheres, softly rasped distortion, and very subtly rendered lulabies lurking deep within the overgrowth. Hand letter-pressed in an edition of 700 copies. [press-release]
CHIANURA, PIERO -- "10 Tumbleweeds" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2017 Apparèmment Des Notes
Ambient / Instrumental Rock. The first solo album of Piero Chianura, the central figure of the Italian avant-progressive unit LA 1919 in the 80's! Although there is a single name on the cover, it is a work of a group, as Piero Chianura was supported by other musicians, such as drummer Federico Zenoni who is working with him together in LA 1919, guitarist Luca Formentini (FLOS), and producer Stefano Castagna (FLOS, SCREAM TEAM). Pleasant instrumental music centered around Piero Chianura's piano and synths, but it's quite an experimental ambient where some anomalous elements appear in the details. [Art Into Life]
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CHILDREN'S NOISE ORCHESTRA OF CHILDREN'S ARTS SCHOOL #1 -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €7 [-50%]
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 (A Tale in 3 Parts)" -- CD-R -- €5
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]
CHUMAHO DREW -- "Pyatki (Heels)" -- CD-R -- €7
2020 UtrovortU, l-04
Chanson / Folk. The new Chumaho DREW release is uncomplicatedly called "Hills". However, one should not be deceived by such simplicity and frivolity, this is not about the bulging body parts on the back of the feet, this is an INVITATION TO THE GRAVE! First you have to put yourself in a coffin and wait for the arrival. And someone Kondrat will arrive! And bonfires will blaze, frying those very heels, and a human soup will gurgle in cauldrons, and a bald brunette will burst with laughter! And this very life of yours will flash before the fading inner gaze as a series of borscht plates, cigarettes and disappointments: "...I was born, studied, got married, took a mortgage... were these faded printscreens really me? Who am I? Did I ever exist?" Horror, chilling horror grips you! But salvation comes from where it wasn't expected. Musketeers from Chumaho DREW take you out of the grave, where they just put you, shake you well and say - "A la guerre comme a la guerre, bro! There is only now! Eat!" [from the authors] Released in handmade foldout cardboard sleeves.
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CHURCH OF HOWLING DOG -- "Ummu Hubur" -- CD -- €9 [-50%]
2019 Evil Dead Productions, EDP 022
Stoner Rock / Psychedelic Rock. Second full-length album of the Russian project CHURCH OF HOWLING DOG created by Andrey Kein, also known for SOL MORTUUS, CARVED IMAGE OF EMPTINESS, CHAOTIC BOUND SYSTEMS and several other bands. From the musical point of view, "Ummu Hubur" continues to walk along the path started on "Umbra" (2016) – a desert dirt road with sunburnt grass and dusty roots and bones lying around. However here is a significant difference from the previous work: the unhurried contemplative electric guitar chords in several tracks are accompanied by the clear voiсe of Gregory Shobolov who recited his philosophical text in Russian language, perfectly complementing the overall sonic picture. Piano, percussion, cello, organ, synthesizer and effects also play their role in creating the arrangements. Beautiful soundtrack for immersion in the freedom of Chaos.
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CHURCH OF HOWLING DOG / PROGNOSTIC ZERO -- "Across The Road / Ver.0.02.013." -- CD-R -- €6 [-50%]
2013 Evil Dead Productions, EDP 012
Split of two Russian projects from Ekaterinburg. Church Of Howling Dog (side-project of mr. Kein from Carved Image Of Emptiness) presents three measured tracks in vein of atmospheric martial industrial / neoclassic, finely shaped according to the canons of the genre. Prognostic Zero (duet of Kein and Alexander i from Zinc Room / EDP label) starts with a dark ambient track with gregorian chorals and malignant whisper; then continued with a serious composition with industrial bass & rhythm, radionoises, strange voice samples and distorted pieces in vein of Zinc Room; and ended with another dark ambient track with quotations from classical church music.
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THE CIRCULAR RUINS -- "Realm of Possibility" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2002 Databloem, DBCD 002
Experimental / IDM. 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]
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THE CIRCULAR RUINS & MYSTIFIED -- "Fantastic Journey" -- CD -- €11 [-50%]
2013/2021 Cold Spring, CSR298CD
Ambient / Drone. "Fantastic Journey" is an homage to writers such as Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and other pioneers from the early age of science fantasy. Stunningly adventurous dark ambient, dronescapes, pulsing synths, melancholic strings, and exploratory ambient electronica take us on a journey of imagination and ingenuity. Tales are woven of fantastic voyages and feats of scientific endeavour, through subterranean worlds, mysterious unexplored islands, Utopian societies, travels through time, and the farthest reaches of outer space... "Fantastic Journey" perfectly encapsulates the wondrous visions of these futuristic writers over the last 150 years. Designed for serious listening and exercising your imagination... Originally released in 2013, we are proud to release "Fantastic Journey" on CD-proper for the first time, with an exclusive 10-minute bonus track, taking the intrepid listener on one last marvellous adventure... Composed and performed using various samples, synthesizers, and field recordings by Anthony Paul Kerby (The Circular Ruins) and Thomas Park (Mystified). [label info]
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CISAK, PIOTR + PETAR STIPSITS -- "Phonetics Of The Unspeakable II" -- CD-R -- €6 [-50%]
2017 Ostroga, OTR-078, (ltd. 50)
Instrumental / Improv / Electronics. Recorded in Vienna, Febriary 9th 2016. Piotr Cisak - cello & effects,
Petar Stipsits - drums. 50 copies in PVC sleeve.
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CISFINITUM -- "The Bog" -- CD -- €12
2013 Infinite Fog Productions, IF-39
This album is dedicated to the archetype of the toad in the world's mythology and based on re-processed sounds of frogs, toads and swamps. Field recordings were made during travels in China, India and Kavkaz and parts of the sound sources from friendly sound artists as Mars F. Weillink (ex-Vance Orchestra), Andrea Marutti (Amon) and Roman Voronovski (Rombix). Track 3 contains a looped voice by Dasha Baskakova and sounds recorded at Volkonski Dolmen using sine generator and dolmen original acoustic. Track 4 is based on pitched loops of a violin and sounds from Mars. No any preset sounds/ synths used on this record. [label info]
CISFINITUM -- "Coniunctio" -- 2 CD -- €13
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 -- "Music Of Light" -- CD-R -- €5
2005 Spirals Of Involution, SOI 050, (ltd. 157)
This is the most atypical album for Cisfinitum - a collection of most experimental, harsh and uneasy noisy tracks. Contains a fragment of insane live performance in Moscow, 1999.
CLAUSTHOME -- "Radiophare [Lampe D'Ambiance]" -- CD -- €9
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]
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CLAUSTHOME -- "Radiophare II [Les Ondes Radio]" -- CD -- €9
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]
CLEW OF THESEUS -- "The Playground Of The Damned" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Cipher Productions, (sic 41), (ltd. 100)
Noise. Recorded in 2002-2003, 'The Playground Of The Damned' was originally intended for Self Abuse's Solipsism sub-label, which unfortunately was ended before this disc could see the light of day. While a small artist edition disappeared into the ether, it's now finally time to bring 'The Playground Of The Damned' out from obscurity. The disc is a maelstrom of intense, engaging, finessed piece of harsh sonics with a heavier editing presence than other Clew Of Theseus releases, and mastered to painful perfection. 'The Playground Of The Damned' is the most focused, most tightly-wound, most intimidating release from Clew Of Theseus to date, carefully balanced with shorter ambient interludes and sample use. [label info]
CLIMAX DENIAL -- "You're Never Safe" -- CD-R -- €10
2008 BloodLust!, B!110
Power Electronics / Noise. First full-length recording after the debut on 7" on same label. Comprised of nine pieces including a befitting cover version of the delightfully indelicate DEATHPILE song, "Breaking A Doll". "You're Never Safe" is an excellent showcase of the unique blend of power-electronics and death-industrial! But let's just call it music from now on, that Milwaukee, Wisconsin's Climax Denial, AKA Alex Kmet, is increasingly well-known for. This CD was skillfully mastered by Thomas Garrison (CONTROL, EXSANGUINATE) at Misanthrope Studios in Santa Cruz, California. [Old Europa Cafe]
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CLINIC OF TORTURE -- "Whip And Pierce" -- CD -- €25
2001/2003 Freak Animal Records, FREAK-CD-030, (ltd. 200)
Noise / Industrial. One of the numerous projects of the restless Mikko Aspa (GRUNT). This CD collects tracks from the 2001 "Whip & Pierce" LP and from the 2003 "Perversion Bizar" 3"CDr. First edition, limited to 200 copies.
CLOAMA -- "s/t" -- CD -- €10
2005 New Old Sentinel, Sentinel-CD-01, (ltd. 500)
New Old Sentinel is a subdivision of Neuroscan.Org run by Jasse TUUKKI also STROM.ec member. This second album by CLOAMA offers very obscure industrial with ambient and experimental touches dealing with frequences, radiations and waves as well as their possible effects on nature, mind and body… Strange and quite subtile, evocative, deep atmospheres are developing along the five tracks/43 minutes of this CD enhanced by some frightening, hostile and weird elements setting off thebeauty of the the whole and revealing a contrast between peaceful apparences and things behind the mirror… Reminding us of some SCHLOSS TEGAL works. Recommended! Matte printed colour cardboard in A5 plastic sleeve. Edition of 500. [press-release]
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]
CLOSEDUNRUH -- "Sand Atmet Zeit - Los!" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2001 E-Klageto, 01001
Experimental Electronics / Ambient. A project of the German musician Thomas Tier. Abstract electronics and instrumental rhythmical compositions.
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CLOSING THE ETERNITY -- "Kosmodrones" -- CD-R -- €8 [-50%]
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]
CODEX OCCVLTA -- "Porta" -- CD-R -- €8
2020 self-released, (ltd. 50)
Dark Ambient. The first release of the long-existing and often performing St. Petersburg project Codex Occulta. "The material was recorded in different periods between 2008 and 2019, each track was inspired by an internal search under the influence of ancient dark cults, the main goal is to convey a meditative state and mood, when the sound becomes a kind of portal to another realm of images and archetypes, into the world behind the looking-glass of our reality." [from the author] Released in a 4-panel digipak.
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COH -- "COH DOMA" -- CD -- €14
2018 retortae, elixir 12, (ltd. 200)
New album from Ivan Pavlov aka CоH is a recording session in memory of his old friend Mika Vainio, who sadly passed away last year. The concert based upon this material took place place at Dom cultural centre in Moscow on 18.06.17. Unfortunately, the original live recording was lost due to a hard disk crash. Presented record is a live-in-a-studio version of the show, carefully engineered and mastered for the CD release. Musically it is deep electronic ambient with some throbbing rhythm pulsations and occasional glitches. CoH is active since late-90es, the project has got numerous releases on various labels including such milestones of modern electronic scene as Raster-Noton and Mego. Ivan also was a part of a post-utopian project Soisong made together with Peter Christopherson of Coil. Most of CoH releases had very special packages and our release is not exception – the CD packed in a special octagon-shaped thick black silkscreened carton package with a die-cut window and strictly limited to 200 copies only. [label info]
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COH -- "Mort Aux Vaches" -- CD -- €12
2003 Mort Aux Vaches, (ltd. 1000)
Glitch / Experimental. Recorded live 15/07/00 at the VPRO studio, broadcasted on VPRO Radio 5 "De Avonden". CD comes in six-panel plastic packaging held together with a metal brad.
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COIL presents BLACK LIGHT DISTRICT -- "A Thousand Lights In A Darkened Room" -- CD -- €13
1996/2018 Infinite Fog Productions, IF-87
IFP presents: reissue of one of the key albums in COIL discography - "A Thousand Lights In A Darkened Room". Recorded in 1996 as "Black Light District" project, the name was taken from a track by Boyd Rice. John Balance, Peter Christopherson, Drew McDowall, Danny Hyde were a part of this record and current reissue is authorized by Danny Hyde. Remastered by Martin Bowes. This CD contains an unreleased (!) track from the "Black Light District" recording session and Danny Hyde's comments in the booklet. [label info]
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COLD CAVE -- "Cremations" -- CD -- €10
2009 Hospital Productions, HOS-248
Cremations is a collection of early demo/live/and unreleased tracks from Cold Cave. From the projects isolated beginnings to the recent full band line-up the development of this singular musical entity is documented here in its icy electronic glory. From Cold Cave’s infancy sexual identity and oblique existentialism have been expressed through biting lyrics and electronic minimalism. Rarely has the human condition been exposed so brazenly as in “Sex Ads”. Melodies, noise and rhythms clash as stories from below the surface are retold. From the demo LP Coma Potion, which featured a rugged stripped down distortion, to the suggestive Electronic Dreams tour cassette (featuring the voice of Max Morton on the track “Heavenly Metals”). Cold Cave has developed its own brand of genre defying electronic music, without ever betraying its dark roots. Love and pornography, Industrial music and traditionalism, poetry and profanity all mix together in a hedonistic, cocktail of nihilistic nights and mournful mornings. Cremations collects all this work for the first and last time. [press-release]
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COLD FUSION & RUKKANOR -- "Wunderwaffe" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2008 Rage In Eden, RAGE 50, (ltd. 500)
The 5th anniversary of War Office Propaganda / Rage In Eden we'd like to celebrate with our classic re-edition. Critically acclaimed martial industrial split "Wunderwaffe" of Cold Fusion and Rukkanor, after first versions V-1 and V-2, this time comes as a V-3 weapon - third (and definitely last) time. Album contains two unpublished bonus tracks, both from "Wunderwaffe" session, and original, conceptual artwork made by Michal Karcz. Total time 42 minutes, 8 tracks in digipack. Limited to 500 copies. [press-release]
COLOSSLOTH -- "Heathen Needles" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2017 Cold Spring, CSR235CD
Industrial / Electronics. On his second album, Colossloth continues his esoteric sonic crusade of volatile yet absorbing audio textures. Cold electronica, with swathes of rhythmic power noise and industrial harshness, tempered with penetrating song structures. Eleven tracks of austere, reflective and exploratory electronics for journeys made into the hidden realms underpinning daily life, spanning the bridge between gnosis and praxis. The dissonance of opposites falling into elemental synthesis with a sound and approach influenced from the past, present and future, letting us remain anachronistic yet temporal voyeurs in the abyss evoked forth. Digipak. [label info]
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COLOSSLOTH -- "Plague Alone" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2020 Cold Spring, CSR277CD
Industrial / Experimental. When these tracks were recorded in spring-summer 2019, when the prophetic album title was set in stone, who knew what turbulence the world would undergo, what social isolation we would endure. To face a plague alone... Landscapes sheathed in cacophony, a new sound being forged, emerging from the fractured sonics and sepulchral bass rumblings. A bold move forward towards the cinematic... transcendence born from ancient currents stirred up into frenzied and chthonic ritual. Esoteric music for transportation and immersion, taming the wilderness of the ravaged psyche. Digipak. [label info]
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COLUMN ONE -- "Early Apes 1993-1995" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2011 Nefryt, N 021, (ltd. 500)
Remastered LP "Dream Box Experience" + alternative version of tracks from "This Is My Dream", "An Analog Anthology - Never Mind The World" & one track unpublished never before. Comes in very nice A5 folder includes 6 cards extra. [label info]
COLUMN ONE -- "Early Tapes 1992-1994" -- CD -- €10
2011 Nefryt, N 020, (ltd. 500)
Unknown versions of tracks from: "The Individual Box", New-Re-Generation", "Various Dreamdances", "Coincidentia Oppositorum", "THX1138", "Two Flowers For The Travel" & "Odyssee" + 4 tracks unpublished before. All material is remastered by Robert Schalinski. Comes in A5 folder includes 8 cards extra. [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.
COMMON EIDER, KING EIDER -- "Egregore" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2019 Cold Spring, CSR271CD
Ritual Ambient. Égrégore is a ritual collaboration between B.S.s. (Common Eider, King Eider, Badgerlore / Six Organs Of Admittance collaborator) and Arexis (La Breiche, Coume Ouarnede, Stille Volk, Ihan)… and all of the spirits of the Pyrenees present during those Dark Moon Rituals, wishing to speak. Born under May’s New Dark Moon in 2018, born in secrecy, in darkness, in Ritual. Born in a tiny cabin in the Pyrenees of France… Born in humbleness… in friendship. Born to offer voice to the stones and waters and stars and all the spirits of that land. Born to summon… Born to give thanks... Rituals documented late into the night and early morning hours. Black moon… Black Mother… Voices captured whispering, wailing, lashing out. Rocks ground together, bundles of branches channeling voices hanging in the air, wishing to be heard, but spoken with a foreign tongue. Bells ring to both banish and invoke. Antlers scratching… mapping a direction… drawing digits. Voices speaking of loss, of longing… of hope, of despair. Voices singing of the broken relationship with the land and spirits. Voices screaming for repair and reciprocity... Recorded live using electronics, rocks, antler, branches and voice. Four offerings given as gifts to the black air… the burnt soil… Gifts to the Spirits living in those forests and mountains of the Pyrenees. Dark moon folk magic… Housed in a beautiful matte-laminate gatefold ecopak, with visuals prepared by Kevin Gan Yuen (Sutekh Hexen). [label info]
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COMMON EIDER, KING EIDER -- "Shrines For The Unwanted, Respite For The Cast Aside" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2017 Cold Spring, CSR235CD
Ritual / Dark Ambient. The triumphant reawakening of San Francisco’s masters of behemoth ritualistic darkness… Within “Shrines For The Unwanted, Respite For The Cast Aside”, bone, antler and voice produce connective threads between the worlds, as guitar and percussion punctuate shifts in mood. Voices call to the spirits, and the spirits call back in return. Recorded in 2016 during four private, collective only rituals, the pieces pull the listener through the darkest and most overgrown trails of the blackest forest. Monumental and horizonless ritualistic black ambience. Vocal visitations by A.C. Way of Sutekh Hexen. Common Eider, King Eider is headed by Rob Fisk (ex-Deerhoof) and Andee Connors (A Minor Forest, legendary aQuarius boss). Spot-varnished digipak. [label info]
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COMPULSIVE SHOPPING DISORDER -- "In The Cube" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2008 Rage In Eden, RAGE 63
Bold and original arrangements, dense and oppresive electronic sounds, aggressive industrial phrases, melancholic melodies and cold, impassive voice. Where the darkness and music become to one, COMPULSIVE SHOPPING DISORDER is alone with you. So at last there is a chance to slow down, stay for a while, look at the mirror and open themselves. Touching your own weaknesses you get back your sensitivity, lost in depression of life. Listen to this musical diary of everyday fears and find yourself between words setting modern world a challenge. This is a testimony filled with gloomy romanticism of Kirlian Camera, Coil's sonic sadness and energetic clamour of Skinny Puppy. Listen on minimal level, at night's solitude. 7 tracks, 52 minutes, 3-pannel digipack. [label info]
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CONCRETE / LIGHT COLLAPSE -- split -- CD-R -- €4 [-50%]
2014 Torga Amun, Amun-072, (ltd. 20)
HNW split between German and Russian projects. A5 black / white glossy envelope.
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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.
CONDANNA -- "E I Vermi Ameranno La Mia Carne" -- CD -- €10
2008 Rustblade, rbl014
CONDANNA is an original experiment through alchemical audio activities characterized by an obsessive and introspective research of sound. 50 minutes to discover the circular subconscious, the dark soul, there finding a deep penetration in the wound of silence: this is "….e i vermi ameranno la mia carne", the CONDANNA debut cd. Everything has been programmed with an old "Roland" sequencer and all sounds come from synths and samplers, without additional pc editing or mastering. This first work is an attempt to create a personal manifesto able to transmit a complete lack of expression. A coma of the soul, a coma of the soul born from a hidden anger in the flesh, existential bruising eternally present. In 2005 the live performance began, outlined by a sound complex and eclectic; at the heart of the live performance is a component of improvisation with the use of instruments that allow CONDANNA to interact with his state of mind and his instinct at the same time, creating a greater sense of truth to the sounds played live. From these live experiments some of the recorded material in this new release emerged. [press-release]
CONIGLIO, ENRICO / UNDER THE SNOW -- "Dialogue One" -- CD -- €10
2011 Silentes, cd 201128
Dark Ambient / Minimal. This is the first split work between UNDER THE SNOW and various artists/friends. Nearly an hour of suggestive "border" music, equally divided between the relaxing and ambient atmospheres contaminated with experimental elements created by Enrico Coniglio, and the low-fi/rough sounds and atmospheres crafted by Under the Snow (Stefano Gentile (SEAMUS, SEELE) and Gianluca Favaron (LASIK SURGERY, AB'SHE)) - not so different but with a more dramatic, tense and hypnotic doom - built on deep drones stratifications, often hard and cutting, with a wide collection of noises, electronic hassles, ununderstandable wispherings, concrete moments... A perfect join-venture, a mix among two different music projects that gather coherence and inspiration to "sustain" a split album that showcases a not to be missed fusion of styles among the involved artists, oriented on parallel patterns, clearly increasing the value of their own personal and somehow different sonic directions. [press-release]
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CONJECTURE -- "Hydra" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2021 Zoharum, ZOHAR 227-2, (ltd. 300)
Dark Ambient / Industrial. Conjecture started in 2013 is the solo music project of the Greek Avant-Garde visual artist Vasilis Angelopoulos. His music roughly stays in a fixed musical pattern and is easily shifting between different genres and concepts. Using mostly hardware synthesizers, metal sheets, piezo microphones, DIY impulse responses "collected" from abandoned buildings, and tape-manipulation expresses his manifestos upon human existence, religious folklore stereotypes and transcendence through archetypal rituals, body deconstruction, human subtraction and murder... On his album for Zoharum, Angelopoulos pays homage to Greek mythology. Every track (and album itself) is titled after more or lesser known mythic creature and tells its own story. As expected, music is dark and sublime and production is perfectly executed - sound is crunchy and powerful. Tension is built from the very first and is being kept high until the last track which eases it off with soothing ambient, field recordings and... trumpet (seriously) giving this amazing album closure it deserves... Greeks seem to have their own vision of ritual industrial music and they perfected it in an amazing way. Conjecture is no exception here. His take on the subject is mature and original and manifests in ruthless machine rhythms and cinematic storytelling that keeps you captivated from the very beginning to the very end... CD edition of 300 copies comes in 6 panel digipack. [label info]
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CONTAGIOUS ORGASM -- "Dessert Addicts Will Return To This" -- 2 CD -- €24 [-50%]
2004 Ant-Zen, act 171
Contagious Orgasm's new work, two years after 'The Cause Of The Flow', is presented on Ant-Zen as a 2-cd set, consisting of 'Dessert Addicts...' on cd 1 and all of the album tracks remixed by 11 different artists on cd 2. The variety of sounds and musical styles on this album is remarkable. A few examples: dub-like beats ('Livewire Voodoo'), a nearly neo-classical tune with bowed and pizzicato strings ('In the Dim Light'), a surreal piece reminding one of a soundtrack to a picture by René Magritte ('Unstable Parade'), a possible reference to Barry Adamson - that is, 60's movie phrases and jazz trumpet ('Lounge') - and of course the atmospheric ambient soundscapes C.O. is known for. Top all of that off with the rhythmic and abstract usage of various percussion instruments. Also, C.O. has employed found sounds: sounds taken during the project's trip to Europe in 2001, "Peek and Poke" (microcomputer's basic command for 'Read and Write') includes voices and sounds from a German TV documentary - these voice samples have only been used for the sound itself because C.O. mastermind Hiroshi Hashimoto doesn't speak German. Japanese references can be found on the calm, chilling final track of the cd - with this track C.O. masterfully works with beautiful female vocals... CD2 is a reconstruction of the tracks from the album - done by artists from all over the world. Ultra Milkmaids turn C.O.'s work into a Sonic-Youth-like acoustic guitar & electric bass tune. Daniel Menche adds an intense bass, irritating voice samples and lots of noise. Telepherique embeds the strings on 'In the Dim Light' into meditative bass pulses that are followed by shuffling beat sequences. Xabec presents an ambient soundscape with clicks and drones. P.A.L's track is a little radio play based on the German sample "Als ich in die Wohnung kam..." - the story of a worker ant who arrives at home to find it conquered by various uninvited guests. Roger Rotor's unstable parade is a stable, fast tek-track, followed by the dark ambient drones and slight beats done by The (Law-Rah) Collective. Donna Summer says: "Who is Barry Adamson - disco will never die!", and after dancing, it's time to listen to Imminent's strange rhythmic piece. The last two tracks are ambient soundscapes done by Orphx and Ontayso... Packaging: special transparent paper booklet + 2cd-jewelcase. [label info]
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CONTAGIOUS ORGASM -- "Illegal Occupation of Ears" -- CD -- €10
2000 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 026
The Japanese master of recycled ambient-sounds! 2 long tracks, 2 real sound sculptures, 2 more surprises for your ears with his unique way to re-work & assembling broken sounds! The cover presents some collages by Ryuta Nogouchi a new very interesting japanese designer. [label info]
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, canґt go wrong with this one! [label info]
CONTAGIOUS ORGASM -- "Ultramarine" -- CD -- €10
2016 SSSM, sssm-118
Brand new album from Japan's Contagious Orgasm. A very unique sound with strange landscapes in numerous and different musical styles. But because of the countless noise, electronica, classical and experimental sounds to dark ambient it is so much more than that. Great twists of sound and colour, a wonderful scene description on each track, a true tour through the electronic sound space. Gatefold digisleeve. [Cold Spring]
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CONTAGIOUS ORGASM + GOVERNMENT ALPHA -- "Heartstrings" -- CD -- €12 [-50%]
2006 SSSM, SSSM-108, (ltd. 500)
Third recent collaboration release on Contagious Orgasm's home label, this time with Yasutoshi Yoshida of Government Alpha who's been responsible for the great collage artwork on all these CDs. Over these 12 tracks, Government Alpha's screeching blasts of white-hot electronic noise are cut-up and mixed in with Contagious Orgasm's industrial rhythms, off-beat collages and found sounds. Surreal, unusual and highly listenable. [Mechanoise Labs]
CONTAGIOUS ORGASM + INSTINCT PRIMAL -- "Giant Fish" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2014 SSSM, sssm-113, (ltd. 300)
Giant Fish is the result of creative collaboration and sharing of sounds between Contagious Orgasm and Instinct Primal. The album is a rich mixture of deep, dark, funereal and space ambient with rhythmic beats. Some tracks demand your full attention and there is no escape. Some can have a hypnotic effect on a sensitive mind and trigger a whole new inner world of abstract ideas and imagination. Clear your mind after a difficult day and immerse yourself. The sound is made for a experience listeners who like to enjoy a daily dose of "primal orgasm". Released in a four panel cardboard sleeve. [label info]
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CONTAGIOUS ORGASM + KOTODAMA -- "Blackout" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2008 SSSM, SSSM-109
Very nice atmospheric collaboration between Contagious Orgasm and fellow japanese act Kotodama, on Contagious Orgasm's SSSM label. Still slightly gritty, bure more mesmerizin than really noisy, the whole album contains a lot of long melodic loops, sci-fi soundscapes and this kind of almost dubby, deep tonality that is typical of Contagious Orgasm. More accessible than most material by this essential act, and recommended. [Ad Noiseam]
CONTAGIOUS ORGASM + ZYRTAX -- "DNA Loops" -- CD -- €12 [-50%]
2005 SSSM, SSSM-107
The speed, the multiple, the scatter of the flow of time, and the curtain of the space are made in the layer, and the sound of them who wraps the listener. This mail collaboration project really has a magic touch when it comes to confusing the issue. From experimental electronic music to industrial monoliths to noisy electrolounge, those materials are resolved, and proliferate. The sound world that they make has been condensed to strength. They have been able, with the passing years, to amalgamate many styles and intrigue the listener, by proposing sonic mix sample based sound sculptures, with a constantly renewed freshness. [SSSM]... Contagious Orgasm and Zyrtax collaborated by mail, the results are the 14 tracks that form this album. Surreal sound collages with lots of variation from gentle atmospherics to more harsh passages and over to loop psychedelia, and soundwise from pure acoustics to heavily processed digital sounds. Comes in a very nice-looking cardboard gatefold sleeve designed by Yasutoshi Yoshida. [Government Alpha]
CONTEMPLATRON -- "Delog" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
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]
CONTEMPLATRON -- "Ma Mo" -- CD -- €12 [-50%]
2018 Wrotycz Records, WRT 031
Ritual / Dark Ambient. On the fourth album of his indo-tibetan series Contemplatron uncovers from their ashes the world of the charnel grounds, cemeteries and demonic or saint beings who lived there. The Tibetan word 'mamo' is a non-literal translation of the Sanskrit word ‘matri’. In India matris, literally ‘mothers’, are female indigenous spirit-deities of the natural world. They are benevolent or malevolent - thus they can be potentially dangerous to humans and other beings. The matris are intimately associated with fertility and sickness, life and death. The main medium of communication, invocation, appeasement or protection against them is the mantra... Over one hour of tribal dark ambient served in luxurious digipack. Mastered by Peter Andersson. [label info]
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CONTEMPLATRON -- "Prabhashvara" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2012 Wrotycz Records, WRT 016
“Prabhashvara” (Clear Light) – the third album of dark ambient project Contemplatron. Music inspired by Tibetan buddism uniting traditional instrumentarium (gongs, bells, drums) with electronics and Tibetan monk’s chants. Mystic and meditative athmosphere guaranteed. Mastered by Peter Andersson (Raison d’Etre). CD released in elegant digipack (silver inprints and embossed elements) with design corresponding to the album concept. [press-release]
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CONTEMPLATRON & SHENTZ -- "Apocryphical Soundtrack for the Book of St. Lem His Master's Voice: Transmission Code" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2015 Wrotycz Records, WRT 025
"His Master's Voice" (original Polish title: "Glos Pana") is a science fiction novel by Stanislaw Lem, first published in 1968. It is a densely philosophical first-contact story about scientific efforts to decode, translate, and understand an extraterrestrial transmission. The novel can also be read as a critique of human intelligence and intentionality in the context of deciphering a message from outer space which forever eludes comprehension. Chaos is the primordial source that cosmically resounds in the microwave background radiation across the universe. To find sequences in this cacophonous confusion, to discover its principles and understand them, only to die holding on to a scrap of something much larger – this is what Lem's book as well as its apocryphal soundtrack are about. The abstract sound layers were created by two Polish artists from Contemplatron (dark ritual ambient) and Shentz (noise), and mastered by Peter Andersson (Raison d'être). Comes in 6 panel digipack. [press-release]
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COPH NIA / MINDSPAWN -- "Erotomechaniks II" -- CD -- €10
2016 Raubbau, RAUB-047
Dark Ambient / Industrial. Raubbau is delighted to present this transatlantic collaboration, sequel to the enormously well-received, yet regrettably rare first part of 2005. ‘Erotomechaniks II’ is a dark ambient delicacy in seven parts, all very concise tracks with a defined structure, never getting lost in sound as such. The overall subject matter is perfectly specified by the title: the meeting of machinery with eroticism, of precision with yearning, of industrial with human sounds... It was after his occult pop masterpiece ‘Lashtal Lace’ in 2014 that Mikael Aldén aka Coph Nia felt a certain creative drain, so obviously he turned away from the song structures and emotional range of said album and sought to return to what is his own roots as well as his shared history of dark ambient industrial with US-based artist Mindspawn: Gene Williams is a recognized multifaceted visual and musical artist, as much a seasoned producer (active since around 1980) as he is obscure. The combination of these two creative minds makes for the special tension of their collaborative work. ‘Erotomechaniks I’ was one of those albums that were received with rave reviews and enormous enthusiasm, but never found the wide audience it might have deserved due to the limited nature of its release. Now, with a definite resurgence of interest in that particular style, it’s the perfect time for Erotomechaniks II... It’s from the very first hum of ‘Hive Mechanics’ that the listener feels a fragile comfort, an inescapable enchantment to the otherworld, before the antagonistic metal scrapes set in - and from there the trademark dualism of the album perseveres: the continued clash of the carnal with the constructed. Erotomechaniks II is perfectly balanced, with the industrial sounds never pushing towards overt aggression, and the human sounds - like the subtle moans in ‘Lust Transformer’ - never diverting the abstract nature of the album. All of the tracks clock in around the seven-minute-mark and build an intriguing suspense; that, combined with the sublime sound design, makes Erotomechaniks II a prime choice for the dark ambient massive. [label info]
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COPROHAMMER -- "Compilation 2019-2020" -- 2 CD-R -- €10 [-50%]
2020 Red Engineering Production, REPR-20, (ltd. 20)
Noise / Black Metal. You can find the darkness of the Middle Ages, vampires and ghouls, cemeteries, demons, inquisition bonfires and all possible and impossible manifestations of evil and obscurantism in the work of COPROHAMMER. The musician at the beginning creates a characteristic catchy melodic line, subsequently processing it with distorting sound effects. Some tracks have vocals. In general, the compositions sound damp, dirty and harsh just what you need for real black metal with a noise element. The COPROHAMMER project has existed for a little more than a year, but during this time he managed to create two dozen mini albums, which almost all were included in the 19-20 collection. [label info]
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CORAZZATA VALDEMONE -- "Avanguardia Rumorista" -- CD -- €10
2013 Ufa Muzak, UFA63, (ltd. 500)
Martial industrial / Neo folk. The Italian division of totalitarian art ministrels presents an integral conceptual program embracing the most striking moments, testaments, dates and personal fates of the last century. Each track is a separate chapter, separate piece of art, immerging into uneasy retro atmospheres of the last century. The musical part of this album represents a whole variety of performers and musical styles. From traditional songs and bombastic battlefield canvases to sad and quiet departures that help to understand deeper those restless times. Special focus is made on funeral theme, both as a point of no return and as a symbol of lost hopes. Prayer of the Italian fascists, testament of Magda Goebbels before the tragic finale in the bunker, German funeral march "Ich Hatt Einen Kameraden", and traditional Sicilian march of death - all can be found here. Though this is not sombre and sepulchral music, but rather inspiring and frantic hour-long song. Mild baritone voice sinks in the monotonous drone of fields fuming after air bombardments. From the shattered ditches and infantry defences the praying voice will rise again, now in English, slowly crumpled by the patter of new legionnaires and mechanical noises. "Mother Of Death" runs the show, red colours of "The New Force" draw to stand up in close rows again and again, both alive and dead, for the final part, the great energies of the earth glorify the cult of machines and endless wars, turning into one dynamic line, just like on futuristic paintings. Corrazata Valdemone are neither politicians, nor militarists, they don't start wars and don't appeal to anything, this is just their aesthetic feeling which we can fully enjoy here. 9 tracks, 44 minutes, 4-panel digipak. [press-release]
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CORAZZATA VALDEMONE -- "Stornellando In Grigioverde" -- CD -- €10
2015 Wolf Age, WAR 09
10 tracks of totalitarian Martial-Industrial and a touch of Italian Folklore. Inspired by the iron storms of the first World War. Special guests: Absentia Lunae, Art Inferno, Faust(O), Stefania Domizia.
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CORDE OBLIQUE -- "A Hail Of Bitter Almonds" -- CD -- €7 [-50%]
2011 Shadowplay Records, SPR 128
Fourth album from the Italian guitarist Riccardo Prencipe. We were expecting this new beautiful album refined in a New York studio ! On this opus, the sound is extremely pure. Corde Oblique's musical landscape is like a warm wind from the Mediterranean sea, a Folk music tinted of nostalgia, enchanted by Italian female voices. Riccardo welcomes in his line-up the violinist and pianist of Ashram, Argine's drummer, a cellist and exquisite female voices as Claudia Sorvillo... Like a painter, Prencipe composes a musical painting with many guests as Daemonia Nymphe, the Synaulia (musicians on the movie 'Gladiator'), Anathema's Duncan Patterson, Sergio Panarella, singer of Ashram. Special mention to the beautiful acoustic cover of Radiohead 'Jigsaw Falling'. Corde Oblique's music captivates by its grace, its beauty and the strength of his compositions, like a heady perfume. [press-release]
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CORDE OBLIQUE -- "I Maestri Del Colore" -- CD -- €13
2016 Infinite Fog Productions, IF-64
The sixth album by Corde Oblique was conceived as a wooden palette used for mixing colors with sounds, the sounds of the colors are evoked by using lot of different musical instruments and musical styles. Almost all existing music tonalities have been used for the songs; moreover every title refers to a different color and the graphic design is inspired to one of the most famous italian art history encyclopedias printed in the '60s. The cover Picture is a photo from one of the main italian photographers: Franco Fontana. The album includes 13 unreleased songs written and produced by the mastermind Riccardo Prencipe. Over 50 minutes of refined Progressive-Ethereal-Folk music. [label info]
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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]
CORIUM -- "Ba#56" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2015 Opa Loka Records, OL16014 / Ecocentric Records, E.R.#200-CD, (ltd. 300)
Experimental / Musique Concrète / Industrial. The heterogenous nature of the CORIUM is based on a tension field which is generated by the two founding members Michael Schaffer and Matt Weigand. The musical roots of ambient and studio artist and guitarist M. Schaffer are located in projects such as BIRDMACHINE, INDIAN TREE PIE or MONOFLOW and vary from experimental abstraction to a clear harmonic form. Nearly standing opposite to his rather musical approach is the intonation of non-musician M. Weigand. His early musical education ocurred via 7 MINUTES OF NAUSEA, END OF SILENCE and XQM... While Schaffer is co-running the label for ambient and free sounds named Opa Loka Records, Weigand is the owner of Ecocentric Records, well known for its harsh and noisy obsessions... Common to both members of CORIUM is a gift to fill the room with sculptures made of tones and frequencies - this room is simply shining in the blaze of the CORIUM! The structures are yielding in an unique complexion of constructing / desconstructing euphony and - due to their will for transcendency - are interferring with entchanting additives to put the listener onto a magic journey alongside the dreamtime... So please be prepared to get melt down - and listen to the CORIUM! [label info]
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CORONA BARATHRI -- "Diabolical Path [Part III]" -- CD -- €10
2020 Speculum Diaboli Records, SDR003, (ltd. 150)
Ritual / Dark Ambient from Russia. This compilation contains the most significant works recorded for the section of the Dark Path 2018-2019. [label info]
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CORONA BARATHRI -- "Nox Mali" -- CD-R -- €7
2018 Noctivagant, (ltd. 43)
Dark / Ritual Ambient. "Night of Evil, Night of the Nights, Night of the Triumph of Evil Force, Feeding the Fire with our blood. Samael is the Father of Sins, the Source of Death. Childs Of Nahemah - Sons of Perdition, Dark Warriors, curse to god, curse to the world, curse to mankind. Orah HaEsh - Orah HaShed, DCLXVI". Limited edition of 43 copies with special booklet.
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CORONA BARATHRI -- "Speculum Diaboli" -- CD -- €7
2019 Speculum Diaboli Records, SDR001, (ltd. 100)
Occult Ritual Ambient / Dark Ambient from Russia. "Speculum Diaboli - look into the inner Darkness, in the hidden depth, in Satan's temple inside and see your real face in the reflection of Abyss. Tied with the crown of Abyss, the unbreakable blood ties, reflecting Darkness like the mirror of Diabolus." Limited edition of 100 numbered copies in cardboard sleeve.
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CORONA BARATHRI / AKHTYA -- "Summum Malum / Thronos Tou Satana" -- CD-R -- €7
2018 Noctivagant, (ltd. 149)
Dark / Ritual Ambient. Occult split of Russian and US projects.
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CORONA BARATHRI / EMME YA -- "Misterium Evigilationis Leviathan" -- CD-R -- €7
2018 Noctivagant, (ltd. 149)
Dark / Ritual Ambient. A new opus of the occult project Corona Barathri recorded together with Edgar Kerval (Emme Ya, Colombia), dedicated to the aspect of Principivm / Leviathan. Chalice Of Venom [Forbidden Gnosis] is the killing of the human by participle, the awakening of the Evil Principle. Limited edition of 149 copies with two art / sigil cards. [label info]
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CORONA BARATHRI / PARANOIA INDUCTA -- "Atra Mors" -- CD -- €10
2019 Speculum Diaboli Records, SDR002, (ltd. 150)
Occult Ritual Ambient from Russia meets Dark Ambient from Poland. "This release is devoved to the Great Plague, the Black Breath bringing death. Every track is full of fear, of inhuman suffering and pain. It is quintessence of horror in black soundscapes. The Sign of Pestilentia..." Featuring Hekte Zaren, Aesthetic Meat Front and Erszebeth (Stupor Mentis). Limited edition of 150 copies in 4-panel digipak.
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CORPSEINCINERATING FURMACE & LIGHT COLLAPSE -- split -- CD-R + mini-zine -- €10 [-50%]
2016 Torga Amun, Amun-095, (ltd. 20)
HNW. Pro-CDR. Design: booklet with graphic works by Vitaly Maklakov, 12 pages, A5. [label info]
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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]
CREATION THROUGH DESTRUCTION -- "Belt-Zone Circulation" -- CD -- €10
2014 Terror, TR-29, (ltd. 300)
Noise. Creation Through Destruction is a more raw harsh noise amplua of Dr Alex (aka Dead Body Collection). This CD is a collaboration of Creation Through Destruction and four Japanoisers - Government Alpha, Contagious Orgasm, K2 and Hiroshi Hasegawa. The CD consists of 4 long tracks that were recorded in 2009-2013 by Dr Alex, using radio static, field recordings (wind, water, trains and various machines) and additional sounds by aforementioned Japanoisers. Sounds - more than an hour of playing time, ranging from drones to pure harsh noise attacks while exploring the cosmic theme of four gas giants - Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Digipack with 8 page booklet. Limited to 300 copies. [label info]
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CRISANTEMO DEL CARRIONE -- "Fiore Di Passione" -- CD -- €12 [-50%]
2007 self-released
A well dignified Italian neofolk with elements of post-punk for the fans of Ianva, Rome, Ain Soph... [YAOP]
CROP CIRCLES -- "s/t" -- CD -- €7 [-50%]
2013 OPN Records, OPNCD0022, (ltd. 500)
Debut collaboration between Shoi Extrasystole (Collectif HAK) & Nicolas Dick (Kill The Thrill). 50 minutes mixing experimental sounds, ambient parts & spoken words. [label info]
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CRAWLEY, ALEISTER -- "All Words Are Sacred" -- CD EP -- €9 [-50%]
2022 Batrachian Recordings, anura001
Spoken Word. A collection of spoken recordings made by Aleister Crowley, captured on wax cylinders between 1910 and 1914. Reissue of some of the only known recordings from the infamous occultist, mystic, magician, poet, novelist, sexual deviant, and all-around misfit, Aleister Crowley. Recorded onto wax cylinder in the early 1910s, and later transferred to 78 RPM discs. The tracks include Crowley’s recitation of the first two Enochian Keys, original poetry, incantations, and songs. Intonations of black magic rituals as well as ruminations on topics from the sinking of The Titanic to American independence that will thrill collectors of the odd and mystical! An absolutely essential piece of occult history. Newly remastered. Presented in a gatefold ecopak with specially-created artwork. [label info]
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CROWN OF ASTERIA -- "Great Freshwater Seas" -- CD -- €11 [-50%]
2015 Ksenza Records, KSZ 007, (ltd. 300)
Limited edition of Megan Wood's project Crown Of Asteria. Monolithic one hour long track of forest black metal with ambient parts. [label info]
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CROWN OF ASTERIA -- "Karhun Vakat" -- CD -- €12
2016/2022 Ksenza Records, KSZ 028, (ltd. 70)
Atmospheric Black Metal one-woman band from Michigan, USA. "The bear (karhu in Finnish), King of the Forest, was the most respected animal of the ancient Finnish forests and still is today. The Birth of the Bear is a very old, probably Paleolithic myth having its roots in totemistic relationship between the powerful animal and the primitive man. As such the bear was the symbol of the whole tribe and a sacred animal. For this reason in some areas it was never hunted. Shamanism was also closely connected to the bear and sometimes the bear was seen as the spirit of a shaman..." [from the author]
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CULT OF YOUTH -- "Final Days" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2014 Sacred Bones Records, SBR 118 CD
For their third full-length for Sacred Bones, Cult of Youth have delved deeper into their style of punk-influenced psychedelic neofolk and created a self- described "post-industrial Pet Sounds." Using acoustic and electronic instruments, found sounds and an extensive tribal rhythm section, Cult of Youth have put it all out on the table and left us with their magnum opus... The band has returned with a renewed sense of enthusiasm and an all-new lineup. Sean Ragon, once the project's lone member, is now flanked by Jasper McGandy on bass and Christian Kount on electric guitar (both of whom were members of seminal Sacred Bones band The Hunt). Cory Flannigan on drums and Paige Flash on cello complete the five-piece. The end result is Cult of Youth as they were always meant to sound... The contributions of the new members are evident on every track on Final Days, from the anthemic "Empty Faction" to the gorgeous album closer "Roses." Final Days is the culmination of everything Cult of Youth has been moving towards the past seven years - post-industrial, post-punk, and post-enlightenment... Addendum: Real human bones were used on this recording and a portion of the lyrics were written in jail. [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]
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CUSTODIAN -- "Toil And Waste" -- CD -- €10
2010 Syzmic Records, syzmic07
9 tracks, 29 minutes of harsh electronic noise and industrial undertow. Bleak, inhospitable works that flow and mutate between screeching japanese influenced noise, HNW density, and churning industrial loops. [label info]
CYANOSIS -- "The Ethereal Stairwell Suite" -- CD -- €14
1998 Mu, MU 04
Guitar Drone. Ethereal ambient soundscapes created with guitar and bass from this US project. Cardboard package with a piece of hand-painted canvas.
CYCLOFILLYDEA -- "Do you remember the melody of light?" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2016 K-Records, kr002, (ltd. 300)
The long awaited full-length from the St. Petersburg-based post-industrial project Cyclofillydea! The album is dedicated to war in all its horror. Various destinies, names of fallen, nameless graves, heroes, traitors, those who want to forget and those who want to remember... Dipping its brush in this polyphony, war paints its canvas... The album features contributions from the well-known artists on neofolk- and post-industrial scene: Damiano Mercuri (Rose Rovine e Amanti), Gerhard Hallstatt (Allerseelen), Count Ash (Moon Far Away) and others. Lyrics in Russian, Italian and German languages. Digipak. [label info]
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CYCLOFILLYDEA -- "Unknown War / NEVE" -- CD-R single -- €3
2012 self-released, (ltd. 25)
A single disc with the new track by a meritorious St.Petersburg based project Cyclofillydea. Industrial apocalyptic military rock with female vocals reciting Italian poem written by Salvatore Quasimodo. Recommended to the fans of Der Blutharsch, Allerseelen, etc.
CYCLOTIMIA -- "Deja Vu" -- CD -- €6 [-50%]
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 -- "New Death Order" -- CD -- €10
2000/2006 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 -- €6 [-50%]
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 -- €7
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 -- "Dimensionata" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2013 Databloem, DB046-2012
Cymphonic (Stanley Swinkels) is back with another masterpiece of ambience. Stanley's traditional (Biosphere, Namlook) yet typical sound mingles synth pads and sequences beautifully with whispering voices, environmental field recordings and occasional fractal beats to create a range of sonic states and moods. The soft distortion from one dark area yields to the bright tone paintings of another in this wonderfully varied ambient landscape. Dimensionata is fascinating mix of ambient styles expertly woven into one totally engaging "Cymphonic" journey. Dimensionata: Love is Light, Light is Color and Color gives Dimension to Life. Cymphonic strives to sonically express a feeling and ambience that is both Harmonious and full of Tension. Peaceful and Spacious, with Lightness and Darkness, yet all in balance. With his 4th album ‘Dimensionata’ one can drift away along soothing dreamcape-drones with gentle rhythms. Next to that - like reality - there are senses arousing and more darkish cinematic pieces. This album tells a coherent story and is a total ambient experience in itself. Music is an expression of our inner life and much has been written about it. In the album ‘Dimensionata’ this is consciously and audibly accessible but there are layers that remain in the subconsciousness. It is mainly due to carefull listening (at ease) that you are capable of getting closer to these concealed realms of sonic expression. One thing is clear: Dimensionata is full of dimensions indeed. [press-release]
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CYMPHONIC -- "Strataradialis" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2007 Databloem, DBCD 07018
Ambient. Multi layered original sounds and "Biospheric" elements, smoothly woven into first class ambient. A fairytale caught in music. [label info]
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CYMPHONIC & VINTAGE H -- "Post Mortem Investigations" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2010 Databloem, DB033-2010
Ambient. Three years after the highly acclaimed Strataradialis album Cymphonic (Stanley Swinkels from The Netherlands) is back with a special album, created together with his father. In this unique project two generations work together with heart and mind to convert sound into an audiomovie experience, which covers the whole spectrum of atmospheric ambient music. Their story is told through spacious drones, surrounded by flocks of cinematic textures and heavenly voices. The first soundtrack, Post Mortem Investigations, guides you through possible stages of a Near Death Experience. The second titled Notturno, invites you to a synaesthetic panorama of the night. Depending on the state of ones attention, the listener can actively search and explore the music or take a more introvert position in receiving it. What will this album induce in you? [press-release]
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D E -- "Pine Island Under the Midnight Sun" -- CD -- €9 [-50%]
2018 1000+1 TiLt / RU.MO.RE., RU.MO.RE.001, (ltd. 111)
Dark Ambient / Drone from Greece inspired by a large glacial calving in the West Antarctic Sea and how it was captured by the Operational Land Imager on Landsat 8 satellite.
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D E -- "Sentimental Punk #22: Marie Menken, Athens-Berlin-Shiraz Sounds" -- CD-R -- €7 [-50%]
2019 RU.MO.RE., RU.MO.RE.003, (ltd. 25)
Dark Ambient / Drone from Greece. d E participation in “Sentimental Punk#22: Marie Menken Athens-Berlin-Shiraz Sounds”
curated by Dafne Marveez, held by the Committee for the Cancellation of the 21st Century, somewhere in Athens, 06/05/17. d E performed live aiming to interpret a collection of works by Marie Menken. The composition, given in a atonal, semi-musical form, consists of noises, soundscapes and feedbacks, generated live from moog mother 32, intellijel springray, mutable instruments clouds, korg monotron delay, borderlands granular, animoog synthesizer, tc electronic t2. [from the artist]
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D/FLECT -- "Rage" -- CD -- €12 [-50%]
2021 Aliens Production, AP 55
IDM / Electro. DEFLECT is another from the faces of the underworld from Holič and the third project in a row of a Slovak producer who calls himself ISH. On his account he already has several releases under headings such as AMBIGUOUS and ISH. For some time now, he has been a strong part of the Slovak dark scene and his creativity has smoothed out momentarily under his new self, called DEFLECT. This time, his steps take on more hybrid, pulsating structures, and anomalies. Hypnotic compositions in a strong idm dress full of electronic transfusions, broken beats, noises, and mysterious voices. Direct dance techniques, which are seconded by mysterious atmospheres and melancholic blocks, will get you to the level between trance and another dimension. Noise blocks and a variety of sounds and pulsating electro. Music that is like a transfusion. It pours herself into you until you submit to her. Industrial blocks in modern dress. That's a DEFLECT! [label info]
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DA-SEIN -- "Death Is The Most Certain Possibility" -- CD -- €16
2017 Galakthorro, Galakthorro 044
Galakthorrö celebrates the presentation of Da-Sein’s first album. Da-Sein continue on the path they’ve established on their debut EP Tautology: The album is impressive with its musical variety, skilfully arranged without falling to pieces. Minimalistic Angst Pop smashers with driving rhythms alternate with abstract sound sculptures. In certain selected places gloomy melodies drag themselves up from a foundation of organised drones and noises generated by the analogue synth. Deadpan female vocals from the Crypt, embedded in clouds of echo and gigantic reverberations, condense the omnipresent Darkness and Hopelessness. Just as diffuse as the voice, Heidegger’s philosophy (used by the Artists as a stimulant) evaporates into the rather personal sounding lines of text. Only the title of the album, and of course the band’s name, remain as an unambiguous testimonial. It doesn’t matter, because Music opens the soul of both creator, and listener, to an equal extent. That happens here and that’s how it should be. CD in jewel case with 16 page booklet. [label info]
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DA-SEIN -- "Mirror Touch" -- CD -- €16
2019 Galakthorrö, Galakthorrö 047
With their latest album, Da-Sein are well on their way, have made some live appearances in front of diverse audiences, and have been gathering experience. Experience can be seen to have flowed significantly into Da-Sein’s second long-player Mirror Touch. An exceedingly organic work – the opposite of sterile and digital – which lends, with masterfully applied distortion and lo-fi effects, additional complexity and depth to the analogue foundation. Kas Vision’s lyrics also add a sensation of depth, marking highlights, and are enhanced by her darkling vocal intonation. And Darkness is also the slogan – within which type of format frequencies take shape, fractured music arises and rhythm drives: It pushes from within the Darkness, and takes us with it into the Darkness. A potem będziemy razem spada... CD in jewel case with 16 page booklet matt finish. [label info]
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DADHIKRA -- "The Arctic Home" -- CD-R -- €7 [-50%]
2015 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT123, (ltd. 120)
The long-awaited first full-length album of Dadhikra, recorded during five years. Vedic post-industrial canvas inspired by the books of Bal Gangadhar Tilak "The Arctic Home in the Vedas" and Rahul Sankrityayan "Volga Se Ganga". The album filled with dances of dawns around the North Pole, cold breath of the Arctic Ocean, glimmer of midnight Arctic sun, mysterious atmosphere of the white night, pierced by the bird voices, singing of Vedic rishi and crackles of a ritual fire, Rigveda hymns, exploding with the assertive pace of nomads roaming through taiga, finding an unexpected parallel in the march of the Indian National Army of Subhas Chandra Bose. Long way from ritual post-industrial images of the Arctic Motherland gone under ice, through the taiga noise and drone, leading to a hot as a tropic day track "Jambudvipa", inaugurating the coming of Aryans to India. The album is closed by the short track "Dadhikra", shining in a drone among the patter of the sun stallion Dadhikra - as a sonic autograph from the project. Half DVD-box, cover made of hand-painted paper. [press-release]
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]
DADHIKRA -- "Bolotniy Zuy" -- CD-R -- €7 [-50%]
2020 Garðarsk Uruz, URUZ ᚱ, (ltd. 40)
Archaic Garðarsk Pagan Ambient, riddled with mystical signs and sound experiments, full of dense hum breathing, deaf swamp gurgle, bird voices, excerpts from the works of modern classics of northern Russian literature, Vladimir Lichutin and Vasily Belov. The cycle of life and death in family traditions and the energy of the swamp land. Released on CD-R, limited edition of 40 handnumbered copies. Handmade digifile made of wood and vintage paper, all information is written by hand. [label info]
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DADHIKRA -- "Kartulikuljused" -- CD-R -- €5 [-50%]
2020 Paper Moon Republic, PMR_49, (ltd. 38)
Noise / Drone / Folk / Experimetal. Kartulikuljused is “deaf bells” in Estonian. This is the name of the book by Aimée Beekman about the fate of Estonian villages, which this album of the project from the mysterious Ingermalandia is dedicated to. Noisy reflection on the fate of the Baltic-Finnish peoples living on the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland - that is, Estonians, Izhora and Vody. Folk droning noise with interspersed radio noise and fragments of Estonian, Vodsky and Izhora folklore from the rare soviet vinyls. Also, as the instrument used the authentic medieval archaeological stuff, including «deaf bells». CD-R with printing on the surface, packed in half-DVD-box. [label info]
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DADHIKRA -- "Siberia" -- CD-R -- €5 [-50%]
2017 Valgriind / Glasir CDR Series, 02, (ltd. 28)
Ritual Ambient. Recorded as a continuation of a 7" with the tales of the Yukaghir people, this album is also inspired by the traditional culture of the Siberian folk. Mouth harps, shaman's drums, throat singing, wooden flutes, noise of raindeer herds - all these ingenuous but convincing instruments create a chtonic canvas in the tones of viscous dirty brutal sound. The music is so energetic and emotionless at the same time, that it can fit well for any kind of pastime, mood and way of listening. A step on a firm hillock among the champing swamps - on a steady way to the ideal. Cover handmade of vintage cardboard, every copy looks differently. [YAOP]
DAGAZ -- "Battle Time Chronicle Of Glory. Part Two" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2019 COD Noizes, SHUM20 / Der Schwarze Tod, tod57, (ltd. 100)
Acoustic / Neofolk. Acoustic solo project from member of black metal acts Krada, Grimnir and Nebokraj. Compilation of rehearsal, live and cover tracks. Honestly and sincerely. 4-panel digipak, limited edition of 100 copies. [label info]
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DAHLIA'S TEAR -- "Harmonious Euphonies For Supernatural Traumas Mesmerising Our Existences In Radient Corpuscle Galaxies" -- CD -- €13
2005/2019 Infinite Fog Productions, IF-91, (ltd. 500)
Dark Ambient. Dahlia’s Tear debut shows off the use of field recordings and subtle drone to create a dark but vibrant atmosphere and aural reflection of the journeys through fantasy realms and this more introverted and personal touch.
This celestial album offers a unique listening and cosmic experience that integrates sound orchestration with speculative dark ambient music to present a melancholic account of one’s inner world rendered in sound... Orginial tracks released by Ravenheart Productions (Raven 32) in 2005. Restored and Remastered at Nightade (Sweden) by Anile.D. (Dahlia’s Tear). Comes in 4 Panel Digipack CD with Michal Karcz’s stunning artwork. Inviting the listener to distant woods in pitch black with Dahlia's Tear! [label info]
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DAIMON -- "Dust" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2018 St.An.Da., 1803 / Silentes Minimal Editions, sme1866, (ltd. 200)
Ambient / Drone. Formed in 2016, DAIMON is the trio of Nicola Quiriconi (VIPCANCRO), Paolo Monti (THE STAR PILLOW) and Simon Balestrazzi (T.A.C., CANDOR CHASMA, HIDDEN REVERSE). Following their sombre debut released in late 2016 by Metzger Therapie, "Dust", with it's many unexpected sides, is the outcome of an intense recording session that took place at the end of last year's European tour, which peaked with DAIMON opening William Basinski's Berlin concerts. Devoted to a vibrant and majestic personal form of drone music, DAIMON are exploring new depths as well as highly dynamic soundscapes that will surround you with their overwhelming sense of fluttering memories. Like dust covering an already gone present or a table perpetually set for guests belonging already to the past. Ltd x 200 copies in a gatefold digisleeve. [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 -- "The Tractatus De Hereticis Et Sortilegiis" -- CD -- €8
2011 Primitive Reaction, PR032
Dark Ambient. 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]
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DARK AWAKE -- "Hekateion" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2020 Aesthetic Death, ADCD 073
Dark Ambient / Ritual. A concept album based upon the ancient goddess of witchcraft Hecate. Presented in 4 tracks which are an accompaniment to an esoteric ritual and dark ambient expression to Hecate.
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DARK AWAKE -- "Imago Typhonis" -- CD EP -- €8 [-50%]
2016 Frozen Light, FZL 032, (ltd. 101)
New Dark Awake EP awakes the shadows… A step away from ordinary dark music of today… Dark, esoteric ritual, majestic music based on superb keyboards, neoclassical instruments and human bones trumpet brings darkness to your heart… An esoteric ritual songs about the forgotten heathen past and sumerian magick. Next Dark Awake album is going to be a masterpiece! CD, 2-folders digipack, limited to 101 hand-numbered copies. [label info]
DARK GLASS -- "Elemental" -- CD-R -- €6
2019 Buzzing Bird, (ltd. 100)
IDM / Experimental. Ivan Budaev from Moscow, Russia is an experimental musician, avant-garde artist, and video designer. Through his music he sets a goal - comprehension of noise and formation of utopian fantasies out of it, immersing listeners in multifaceted informational sound canvases...
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DAS SYNTHETISCHE MISCHGEWEBE -- "Le Vide Pour Appui" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
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 -- "ROA: 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 -- "Vacuum 2.0" -- CD-R -- €6 [-50%]
2012 Valgriind, VG 51, (ltd. 87)
Dark Ambient / Noise. First version of this album was recorded by Asket in the year of MMIII. Later released by now defunct label B-Rush on a CD-R limited to 36 copies. During the year of MMXI the album was re-recorded, and now, properly speaking, you hold in your hands a principally new recording totally different from the original. [label info]
DASEIN -- "Vae Victis" -- CD-R -- €4 [-50%]
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 -- €5
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]
DASEIN / DADHIKRA -- split -- CD-R -- €6 [-50%]
2012 Valgriind, VG 50
A split of two brother projects from Moscow and Ingria. Dasein presented one long track of gloomy Drone Noise Ambient with the atmosphere of industrial abandonment. Dadhikra opens its half with a lively natural psychedelic Folk Drone Ambient track "Arvid" and continues with a more dark canvas "Zhaln'ik" dedicated to the cult of ancestors and entombments. This track, besides psychedelic retro electronics, folk instruments, voices of birds and field recordings, also features dark (with a touch of doom) guitar and ritual clapper, calling to dead. Full-colour cover and info insert. [YAOP]
DASEIN vs. NORMA REAKTSII -- "93" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2011 Sickcore, SC22, (ltd. 300)
Power Electronics / Death Industrial dedicated to the tragic political events in Moscow in 1993.
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DAT RAYON -- "Motor City" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2014 Zoharum, ZOHAR 062-2, (ltd. 300)
"Motor City" is the second result of a collaborative work between Dat Rayon and Zoharum label, after the "Junkyard" net release. This time it is a physical release - the second compact disc long-player after well-received "Station Wagon" from 2012. Thematically, the latest Dat Rayon album revolves around automobile themes, similarly to "Station Wagon." "Motor City" is dedicated to Detroit - the birthplace of worldwide car industry which is depopulating and decaying now. In 11 compositions one can hear echoes of deserted factories that were once full of life. The illustration of this theme is one of a kind mix of deformed electronica with loads of dub and ambient. It is perfectly complemented by the cover artwork by Rafal Kolsut. This 3-panel ecopak release is strictly limited to 300 copies. [press-release]
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DAT RAYON / FOQL / RNA2 / GAAP KVLT -- "Circuit Integre Volume 1 - A Compilation Of Contemporary Electronica" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2015 Zoharum, ZOHAR 101-2, (ltd. 400)
"Circuit Integre" is a new Zoharum series, modeled after Philips' 'Prospective 21e Siecle', released at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s. Our new series presents the most interesting young projects working in the the field of broadly-defined electronic music. Each part will contain recordings of three different projects. In the first part the following participated: Dat Rayon, NZLD.pl and Gaap Kvlt... Dat Rayon is a Gdansk-based project inspired by the automotive industry, in particular the fall of the industrial city of Detroit. In their music they penetrate the periphery of the post-club electronica mixing ambient, dub and minimal techno. Dat Rayon has developed its own sound code that can be heard on "Station Wagon" (Seed Records, 2012) and "Motor City" (Zoharum, 2014) and the web release "Junkyard" (Dat Rayon / Zoharum, 2013)... FOQL and RNA2 are part of the NZLD.pl (formerly under the names Kolektyw Ebola and Marburg). They have released numerous smaller formats (cassettes, EPs, and tracks on compilations). Their music is fully analogue drawing from elements of electro, techno, drone and ambient music. Their music cannot be pigeonholed, so with every listen one can find new elements in it... The last of the artists presented on the first part of the "Circuit Integre" series is Gaap Kvlt. The project has already gained considerable audience thanks to their debut album "Void" (Monotype Records, 2014) and numerous EPs. The mysterious project mixes ambient and drone with hints of orientalism forming a sonic dome. The album is released in a 3-panel ecopak in a strictly limited edition of 400 copies. The cover is designed by Tomek Popakul (the author of an award-winning animated movie ‘Ziegenort’). It is mastered by Pawel Bartnik and his Centrala Studio. The whole production process is overseen by Michal Porwet. [press-release]
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DAUBY, YANNICK -- "Vescagne, Salese" -- CD -- €10
2015 Kalerne, kal06, (ltd. 250)
Dauby treads far different territory on this release--two tracks, the first recorded in a lignite mine in Vescagne (inactive), the second on an Alpine mountain, Caire Archas. "Lignite" is mysterious while also being rather luminous and transparent, bearing a number of surprisingly "musical" sounds, zither-like strums and resonant, warm booms. Clearly composed and, I imagine, processing the field recordings a good bit (I could be wrong), it works very well, calm but with a subtly disturbing undercurrent, as though Dauby is disturbing an area that would rather be left on its own. The second cut is full of air, ice and snow, very much outdoors, with crows cawing, snow crunching, wind flowing... as well as distant engines. The presumably electronically-produced drones add quite a bit of drama to the central section of the work. When they dissipate, leaving behind its echo and a wash of liquids, the effect is somehow very magical. It ends with several minutes of...I'm not sure, except it sounds like someone slogging through heavy, packed snow, deep in a crevice. Both pieces are very strong, really well designed and realized of this type. [Brian Olewnick, Just Outside]
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DAUBY, YANNICK / KOJO, HITOSHI / NORTHAM, MICHAEL -- "Korligon" -- CD -- €8
2012 Observatoire, obs * i|myth 041 cd, (ltd. 300)
The act of moving inside of this dimension requires a specific entry point - due to the fragile complication of finding this entry point often gestures are made that seem incidental, haphazard, and or like a clumsy dance. However - these gestures each acquire a particular sense when the non-linear goal is kept in mind... an accumulation of gestures that result in the correct connection to the necessary transducers. As the interface is in constant flux so this technology must transform and adjust at a moments notice. It is the ultimate organic interweaving of intention that creates the impression that the system is on the brink of evaporation - however it is the most fundamental indicator that all is in perfect working order... [Michael Northam]
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DAVIS, AG / CODY BRANT -- split -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2019 E-Klageto, Exklageto 19, (ltd. 300)
Experimental / Noise. 17 new experimental noise tracks by these US artists. AG Davis (Boy + Girl, Extra Sexes) is an author, performance artist /poet and composer from Jacksonville. His work often delves into the aphotic side of the human psyche, exploring the multifaceted realms of psychosis. Philadelphia musician Cody Brant (Flaspar, Toning) has previously collaborated with artists such as The New Blockaders, Pacific 231, Lieutenant Caramel, Kommissar Hjuler and many more. Ltd x 300 copies in a handmade card sleeve. [Cold Spring]
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DAY BEFORE US -- "Ode A La Nuit D'Ombre" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2019 OPN Records, OPNCD0035
Neoclassical / Dark Ambient. Day Before Us is an influential melodic dark ambient project currently active under a duet form and whose style borders graceful neoclassical tones, oneiric soothing textures and chilling soundscapes. A number of albums have been published on well-noted indie labels and the project occasionally gives life performances in a wide variety of contexts... In these new pieces Philippe Blache and Natalya Romashina are embarking in a musical journey of immediate expressive moods, oftenly mystical, exalted, animated by a tragic and existential breath, touched by a seraphic sense of poetry and guided by poignant emotional stories. Lead singer Natalya Romashina provides achingly beautiful singing parts with poetical lyrics which favor the aesthetic of suggestion and a tremendous sense of musical fluidity. Those evocative, virtuosic lyrical components communicate with the invocatory, litanous and harmonious qualities of Philippe Blache’s instrumental compositions. «Ode à la nuit d’ombre» is an album of staggering beauty where all pieces come together organically. [label info]
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DAY BEFORE US -- "Prelude а l'ame d'elegie" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2015 OPN Records, OPNCD0031, (ltd. 300)
Day Before Us is a cinematic, neoclassic dark ambient and deep sound art project formed in 2011 by Philippe Blache. Full length releases have been published by Rage in Eden, Twilight Records (…) Slowly moving melancholic piano airs, tonal synth clusters, processed acoustic textures, lyrical themes and discreet experimentations characterize the compositional process and the stylistic inclination. [label info]
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DAY BEFORE US & ANTIKATECHON -- "Complaintes Au Bord D'un Autre Monde" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2020 Heerwegen Tod Production, HTP-CD 019
Dark Ambient / Neoclassical / Industrial. Heerwegen Tod Production has the honor to present the next release straight
from the borderland of dark ambient, neoclassical and industrial music styles. The two projects – French „Day Before Us” and Italian „Antikatechon” decided to join forces and create an album together... „Day Before Us” is the dark ambient project with neoclassical compositions full of women declamations. Wonderful keyboard compositions are just woven into the music background and they seem to be the cradle of a classic atmosphere. There is the place where we can feel the spirit of the past and it is filling today`s emptiness... „Antikatechon” is the project specializing in long ambient hypnotic sessions with industrial emotions. Such a combination of styles generates definitely very unusual sounds. They seem to be different but still connected in a very interesting way so they complement each other and form a kind of a symbiosis... This combination of both styles generates an unprecedented wall of sounds, seemingly from different dimensions, while cleverly combined in such an amazing way that both these projects they complement each other, passing from the gentle nature of Day Before Us into the more acute form of expression represented by Antikatechon, almost in perfect symbiosis. Music representing a lot of elements, which can be safely called a journey through various dimensions of ambient sounds, combined into one whole... This generates a very original atmosphere, which is impossible to pass by without emotions. The graphic design reflects the theme of the album. It consists of classic women figures in black and white pictures. They are presented in monumental poses and look alive, just like from old photographs taken „post mortem. This is the 62-minutes musical journey with an original atmosphere and a large load of emotions. [label info]
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DAY BEFORE US / NIMH -- "Under Mournful Horizons" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2012 Rage In Eden, RIE 91, (ltd. 500)
Giuseppe Verticchio (Nimh) is a brilliant Italian underground musician specialised in organic / visceral ambient tales. He is notably known for his collaboration with Maurizio Bianchi and modern experimental electronic artists (Nefelheim, Baghiri from Italy...). He released more than 10 albums (between 2001 & 2007, including collaborative projects). His charged, orchestrated abstract universe features dynamic musical motifs (from acoustic percussions, exotic instruments to e-guitar) superposed on electronic dronescapes. His work is now called ambient-electronic-ethnic-experimental music... Day Before Us is an acoustic micro-tonal ambient project formed in 2010. The musical signature is turned to solemn soundscaping ritualism, dada-esque hypnopedies and soundtracky ambiences. The content is sometimes sustained by digital field recordings. All tracks are recorded live. The main sources of inspiration come from odd literature, ghostly presence, angelology, cinematic poetry and the magical realism. Day Before Us means the everlasting power of ancient time which saves us from the amnesia of everyday life. [label info]
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THE DAYS OF THE TRUMPET CALL -- "Purification" -- CD -- €12
1999/2010 Trutzburg Thule, TRUTZCD004
"Purification" is the re-issue of Raymond P.'s first album (1999, Black Rain). This edition comes remastered and in all new artwork. "Purification" was recorded at the same time when Josef K. and Raymond P. recorded Von Thronstahl's first two albums for Cold Spring. Dark and Neoclassical soundscapes with many voice samples. Digipak. [Cold Spring]
DDAA -- "Hazy World" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2014 Nefryt, N 026, (ltd. 444)
New studio album of this French avantgarde legend. Recorded especially for Nefryt! Gatefold A5 cover. [label info]
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DE WAARD, FRANS -- "Vijf Profielen" -- CD -- €10
2007 Alluvial Recordings, A26
In November 2005 Frans de Waard spend a week recording and composing on location in the small Dutch town Vlissingen, near the cost. The Marine shipyard is located in the centre of that town, but activities are moved and the whole area gets new direction in years to come. As part of an exhibition '[Mijn] Domein', three musicians were asked to reflect on this transition. Frans de Waard was last and recorded the remaining activities in this building where so called 'profiles' are made used in shipbuilding. In the piece things move from hectic and busy (in the first profile) to emptyness (in the fifth profile), although it's one piece. Using mainly recordings made on site of elevators, metal cutting and room ambience, this piece is a strong work of field recordings with minor electronic processing. Frans de Waard is best known for his work with a wide variety of projects, such Kapotte Muziek, Beequeen, Goem, Freiband and many more, all in the field of experimental music and sound art since 1984. Since then he runs his own Korm Plastics, had a brief involvement in Staalplaat and since 1986 has a magazine called Vital, since 1995 known as Vital Weekly. 'Vijf Profielen' is however the first full length Cd under his own name. Housed in the usual Alluvial Recordings plastic wallet, cover was printed at Knust in Nijmegen and design is by Roger_NBH. [label info]
DEAD LAND -- "Harbingers..." -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT36, (ltd. 36)
Death Ambient n with obscure raw industrial sound. This is the debute album of this project and it represents the research of the phenomenon of a harbinger-man, a harbinger of storm, war, chaos... it's divided into 3 parts: birth, where life meets death and youth with decrepitude; boyhood, where a man closes himself inside settling down in solitude; and finally the third stage - madness, where reality borders with dreams and where this man is born - a Harbinger... Among the influences the author mentions Oophoi, Klaus Wise, Staruha Mha, John Grzinich. Package: handmade sleeve with a slit and info-sticker, made of textured cardboard with fabric and spattered with ink + printed insert with photo and track-list. [press-release]
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 VOICES ON AIR -- "Mawson's Will And Other Stories" -- CD -- €13
2012 Ewers Tonkunst, HHE 034 CD
The album is named after a track that Spybey worked on with Robert Hampson of Loop and Main as part of the twentieth anniversary series of 7 inch singles, that has thus far featured collaborations with Simon Fisher-Turner, Edward Ka-spel and Robin Storey. Douglas Mawson was a famous polar explorer and this 12 minute collaboration with Robert became a focal point for this album. The tracks could perhaps be described as musical narratives, each named after a place or an event or a person that has attracted Spybey's attention. Some are more obvious than others, "Kursk," for example being about the Russian submarine disaster. But, ironically, in the world of Dead Voices on Air, concepts limit creativity. The studio is a place of invention, with the starting point being the creation of a sound. Ideas are never written down. When Spybey works he becomes engrosssed in the act of making music and in editing it. The studio and everything within it is utilized in the act of creating music. Spybey does not try to create music that is descriptive or literal. For him, the gift of music is in the eye and ear of the listener. The more he makes music, the longer this impossible career progresses, the less he feels like talking about music. He simply makes music. All of the time. The album also features a cameo appearance by Robin Storey and by Utah keyboard player Lori Cole, who has contributed several pieces that Spybey has reworked in the past year. [press-release]
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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DEADROW77 -- "Dark Waves For Little Greys" -- 2 CD -- €13 [-50%]
2016 Facthedral's Hall, FHCD14-2015, (ltd. 500)
Industrial / Electro / Darkwave. Operating out of the south of France, Facthedral’s Hall has been releasing music since 1997, all of it on CDR until now, with Deadrow77’s double-CD collection (500 copies available) the underground label’s first formally manufactured release. That’s not the only interesting thing about the project: the album’s twenty-nine instrumentals were recorded by Fabien Della Roma, a farmer who grows organic Saffron in the Oriental Pyrenees mountains, in his caravan using an Arturia MiniLab 25 synthesizer as the sole sound-generator. The majority of these spontaneous improvisations were recorded in a single take and have been sequenced in chronological order, the first CD presenting those produced in 2013 and the second in 2014. Each track is a self-contained electronic scene-painting of ambient-electro character; they’re mood paintings, too, that range between the darkest of excursions to ones of considerably lighter disposition. There are few dips in quality, and Deadrow77 guides us through everything from gothic cathedrals to underground caverns on this in-depth darkwave collection. He’s clearly got a gift for melody, and that each multi-layered production came into being as an improv makes the accomplishment all the more impressive. Titles such as “Ghost Trap,” “Carbon Circus,” and “Knockin’ D. Lynch’s Door” convey some of the tracks’ musical character all by themselves, and the arrangements are rich in sonorities, rhythms, and textures. From the jaunty (“Poob Knight”) and medieval (“Queen’s Death”) to the spacey (“Leaving Earth”) and meditative (“Birthnight Today”), the release has all the bases pretty much covered. The Arturia MiniLab 25 synthesizer obviously has much to offer with respect to the range of sounds that can be coaxed from it (one could be forgiven for thinking that a harpsichord’s featured in “Melancholia Tribe,” for example). Still, at 110 minutes there’s more Deadrow77 material here than one admittedly needs, and a single-CD overview drawn from the discs’ content would have sufficed. That being said, it’s hard not to be struck by the huge number of different song-like variations he’s generated on Dark Waves For Little Greys armed with nothing more than a single synthesizer and his own creative imagination. [Textura]
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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 -- €10
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 JENK -- "s/t" -- CD -- €10
2012 Phage Tapes, PT:169, (ltd. 500)
Noise. Death Jenk was formed after the Gnawed, Custodian and Grain Belt tour in 2010 when all 5 dudes had a chance to play together in Milwaukee. This disc contains two studio tracks and two live tracks recorded in 2010 and 2011. The material is a mix of the three projects with Custodian cutting channels in and out while adding loops, Gnawed provides vocals along with some low end reverb produced from his metal crate and Grain Belt produces their usual metal abuse with tons of feedback. [label info]
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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]
DECONDITION -- "Sukellan Tuntemattomiin Syvyyksiin" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2014 Force Majeure, Force006, (ltd. 497)
DECONDITION is Arttu LAINE, a Finnish musician living in Helsinki. "Sukellan tuntemattomiin syvyyksiin", "I dive into unknown depths" in english, is his debut CD after a first cassette released in 2006 on Freak Animal Records as FREAK-TAPE-022, "The Universal Nothingness". It contains thirteen tracks recorded before and after the "Universal Nothingness" sessions, at different times. Using electronics, sampler, effects, field-recording, junk metal, processed vocals, some tape-voices, DECONDITION creates hypnotic, repetitive pieces of noise, mixing power or rhythmic electronics with real industrial sounds. The atmosphere is obscure, weird, and very personal, most of the tracks dealing with the death and the resurrection of the ego. Housed in a six-panel digipack, limited to 497 copies. [press-release]
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DECONSTRUCTION DISCO -- "Construction 01.B.13" -- CD-R -- €4 [-50%]
2013 Attenuation Circuit, ACDD 1002
'Electronic music' means a lot of different things to different people: Dance music to many, avantgarde music with special instruments to others. The project DECONSTRUCTION DISCO is determined to prove that these aspects are not contradictory. In live improvisations, electronic beats meet instruments from the long history of electronic music, such as the theremin. The tools of dance music DJs and electronic composers alike, such as records, mixers, and synthesizers, are processed, sampled, and hacked to create new sounds... Daniel Fibrile: turntables, elektrojudas: live loops + sampling, CnZsMr: theremin, hacked hardware + bended circuits, EMERGE: treated and natural samples of recording media. [label info]
DEEP -- "Live At Lab.30" -- CD-R -- €5 [-50%]
2013 Attenuation Circuit, ACLAB 1001
Deep play ambient post-rock on two electric bass guitars. An unusual line-up for a festival dominated by digital music, but a truly experimental approach to this instrument. The music of Deep explores spaces, both acoustic and mental, something that is clearly audible on this recording. Without using a PA mixer, the duo set up their speakers and themselves amidst the audience and allow the room acoustics to interact with their music. Furthermore, the effects they use also create different "sound spaces", from harmonic flanged chords travelling through large echo chambers to distorted walls of sound closing in on the listener. [press-release]
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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).
DELIKATESSEN -- "s/t" -- CD -- €10
2005 Long Arms Records, CDLA 04067
Nick Soudnick: sound objects, samples, reeds, voice. Vyacheslav Gayvoronsky: trumpet, flute, voice.
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DELIKATESSEN -- "Delicatessen II" -- CD -- €12
2018 Long Arms Records, CDLA 18102
Free Improvisation / Industrial. The second album by the duo of Nick Sudnick (ZGA, VETROPHONIA, FIGS) and Vyacheslav Gaivoronsky. Vyacheslav plays on trumpet and Nickolay on self-made metal objects with electronic processing, and together they create a unique hybryd of post-jazz and post-industrial music. Four-panel digipak with a 12 page booklet containing an essay by Dmitry Ukhov with great amount of cultural references (both in Russian and English).
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DELPHIUM -- "A Beautiful Day To Die" -- CD-R -- €7 [-50%]
2020 Aquese Recordings, AQRCD-001, (ltd. 100)
Minimal / Experimental. Delphium return after a long hiatus with their first new recordings in nearly 18 years. A return to their experimental and ambient roots. Released in a nunbered limited edition of 100 copies on a professionally printed CDR and sleeve. [label info]
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DELPHIUM -- "Dead on the Inside" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2003 Hibou Records, hib00
Experimental / Breakbeat / Lo-Fi. Solo project of the UK-based musician Jonathan Forde, which he started in 1993.
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DELPHIUM -- "Nobody Sees the Monster in the Light of the Day..." -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2000 Moloko+, PLUS 038
Breakbeat / Experimental / Lo-Fi. Solo project of the UK-based musician Jonathan Forde, which he started in 1993.
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DELPHIUM / THE INFANT CYCLE & RAMUNAS YARAS -- "Heart Full of Soul / Translation" -- 2 x 3"CD-R -- €7 [-50%]
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]
DELTIDSESKAPISM -- "Dunklets Hogtid" -- CD -- €7 [-50%]
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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DEMONS THAT DROVE -- "A Dormant Sensory Organ" -- CD-R -- €5 [-50%]
2020 Red Engineering Production, REPR-18, (ltd. 20)
Dark power electronics with noise elements. The oppressive atmosphere of the album plunges the listener into the depths of the subconscious. The contemplator falls into the abyss of loneliness. In an individual vacuum against a background of mystical visions. The author explores the nature of fear, the nature of man, which originates in the emptiness of an undeveloped world. [label info] А project of Krister Bergman (POSITIVE ADJUSTMENTS).
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DEMOULIN, JULIEN & IA -- "The Bay" -- CD -- €10
2012 Basses Frequencies, BF40 / Ronda, RND17
A tribute to both a great friendship and the mist-mantled San Francisco Bay Area, "The Bay" is a sprawling forty-minute drone piece recorded and produced in 2009 and 2010 over the course of several journeys between Oakland, California and Brussels, Belgium. Guitar and vocal drones, environmental recordings and flute merge to form an emotional travelogue at the grey boundaries of the dreaming and waking worlds… in celebration of reminiscence, before a darkling dawn, deep under the skies of water… [label info]
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DEPRESSIVE DISORDER -- "In Depth" -- CD -- €7 [-50%]
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 -- €7 [-50%]
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 BLUTHARSCH AND THE INFINITE CHURCH OF THE LEADING HAND -- "What Makes You Pray" -- CD -- €10
2017 WKN, WKN 53
Psychedelic Rock. “What Makes You Pray” is a kind of sonic enigma and like any other enigmas it has an intriguing aspect. The ritual elements hanging over the work only increase the degree of fascination. The opening cut brings the listener immediately into mystery. Der Blutharsch And The Infinite Church Of The Leading Hand awakens good-old 80s influences from new-wave music, but they also mix it with more familiar industrial and ritual elements. The guitar and vocals both are noticeable elements running through the album. The sonic universe of this album is extremely dark and somewhat disturbing, but in the end that’s precisely what we expect from this band, isn’t it? [Side-Line]
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DERVENN -- "Gwad Roueel" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2012 The Eastern Front, Front 031, (ltd. 500)
Dervenn in Breton means "oak", the sacred tree of the ancient Celts. Wood is the matter of our instruments and our breath is the "wind that shakes the Barley"… even if we are living in the era of digital and numeric realities. The soul is still musical and deeply tainted by the landscape of Brittany, by the musicality of it, by the symbolism of it. Arthur, Perceval, Merlin, we still share their quest for truth and beauty when riding our cars… No commercial folklore, no infatuated "world" or "ethnic" music, no archeological mythology nor so-called traditionalism. Just our true modern Breton music. Beauty and breath of the arthurian past speaking a present day, but not vulgar, musical language. "Gwad Roueel" ("royal blood") is the first act of the quest, a personal and emotional evocation, using both traditional "celtic" instruments (bag pipe, Breton oboe, transverse flute, Irish whistle and bodhran) and modern ones. Invention and respect of the past are the key words, poetry, melody and strength are the feelings one gets from listening to this musical travel through the lights and darkness of human quest for purity and beauty… [press-release]
DESIDERII MARGINIS -- "Songs Over Ruins" -- CD -- €12
1997/2017 Cyclic Law, 89th Cycle, (ltd. 500)
DESIDERII MARGINIS long out of print debut album from 1997 “Songs Over Ruins” is given a proper re-issue, carefully remastered by Johan Levin himself and with new artworks. A landmark in the genre, with it’s desolate, minimalistic and grief stricken odes to religious and spiritual burdens. A foray through abandoned ruins and a reflection on the passing of time and the impermanence of all things physical. Outstanding in quality and production skills, this mesmerizing and foreboding journey is at times tranquil and melodic and also dives into more martial like percussive elements and industrial atmospheres. Classics like these definitely need to be discovered still and also rediscovered, and it’s with great pleasure that we make it available once again. [label info]
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DESIDERII MARGINIS -- "Thaw" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2014 Zoharum, ZOHAR 073-2
Of the Swedish wave of ambient acts from the 1990s, Desiderii Marginis is one of the few still active and definitely one of the finest of those few. Far from being a typical project in the vein of Brian Eno/Lustmord, Johan Levin, the mastermind behind Desiderii Marginis, has created and developed its own unique sonic palette merging digital and analogue: melancholic electronica with electroacoustic elements and intravenous rhythms. From the early days his music met with positive reactions resulting in albums on renowned the legendary Swedish Cold Meat Industry label, and lately also on Canadian Cyclic Law... Over the course of 20 years, Levin released 7 full-length albums, a 3-way split and a collection of rare pre-debut demos plus numerous tracks on various compilations. His latest offering entitled "Thaw" compiles the latter and adds 3 tracks from the split "Lost Signals from Unknown Horizons". On the one hand, it is simply a collection of rare tracks, but, on the other, it may serve a purpose of a "best of" album. With the chronology unaltered, it gives you the full picture of the project and its progress. It is a history lesson of the last 20 years in sonic melancholia of Desiderii Marginis. [press-release]
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DETOUR DOOM ENSEMBLE -- "Black Side" -- CD -- €13 [-50%]
2021 Dark Jazz Records, DJR 009, (ltd. 200)
Dark Jazz. This is the third album of the international group of artists, this time comprised of Adriano Vincenti (MACELLERIA MOBILE DI MEZZANOTTE, SENKETSU NO NIGHT CLUB, CRONACA NERA, etc.), Giovanni Leonardi (SENKETSU NO NIGHT CLUB), Michele Malaguti (NADSAT), Izzy Op de Beeck (FOR GREATER GOOD) and female Mexican saxophonist / vocalist Maria Ruvalcaba Uribe. Released as a 4-panel digipak with "soft touch" lamination.
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DETOUR DOOM PROJECT -- "Detour Doom" -- CD -- €10
2016 Aquarellist, aquarel 33-16, (ltd. 500)
Detour Project Doom, doom jazz act from Italy and USA. Our combo was born in 2014 from the union of members of several bands: Macellaria Mobile di Mezzanotte, Interview, Spiteful Womb and Rosengarten. The goal of the project is to create dark atmospheres, persuasive and dilated, directly inspired by visions in monochromatic dreamscapes and deserts. Detour Doom pays tribute to the atmosphere of film noir. Among our biggest influences are in fact black & white films, made of shadows and thrills. We compose a kind of long soundtrack, for suspended atmospheres. We are currently working on our debut album, trying to merge typical noir doom sounds with jazz and ambient / drone music. Our music is influenced by the works of Bohren & der Club of Gore, Angelo Badalamenti and David Lynch The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation - Space Dale Cooper Quartet, The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble Hidden Orchestra, and the dark ambient school of the 90's. [from the musicians]
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DETOUR DOOM PROJECT -- "Nothing Remains Of Us" -- CD -- €10
2016 Aquarellist, aquarel 37-16, (ltd. 300)
Imagine a long, empty, foggy road… leading through the deserts on an endless highway… surrounding by nothing… only the darkness of the night… This is the sound of Detour Doom Project, a doom jazz act from Italy and Germany. The band was formerly founded in 2014, a fusion of members from several bands from Italy and USA: Macellaria Mobile di Mezzanotte, Interview, Spiteful Womb and Rosengarten. In 2016 a new singer join the band, Bjarkan Wolfsdуttir from Germany (NO†HING MORE †O SAY). Creating dark atmospheres, persuasive and dilated, directly inspired by visions in monochromatic dreamscapes and deserts is the goal of this project. Detour Doom Project pays tribute to the atmosphere of Film Noir. The biggest influences are in fact b&w movies made of shadows and thrills. If you like the sounds of Bohren & der Club of Gore, Angelo Badalamenti, David Lynch, The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation, Space Dale Cooper Quartett, The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble, Hidden Orchestra and the dark ambient school of the 90's… you would also like Detour Doom Project. The compositions like long soundtracks for suspended atmospheres… hauntingly… gloomy. [press-release]
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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 -- "Alcohology" -- CD -- €12
2015 Entartete Musikk, 08
Deutsch Nepal and Lina Baby Doll is back after 5 years in the retreat of the Swedish woods with a new album - “Alcohology“. Obviously in between (or even during) the recordings there was some examination of bottles and the liquor they contained going on, the object for the album is the impact alcohol might have on people when consumed. Alcohology mainly contain slow pounding industrial music in the vein that are familiar to all Deutsch Nepal fanatics in the same way as the previous album Amygdala. Swirling mirrors of looped sounds loosely glued together with pounding or haunting beats followed with simple melodic input. The dystopian vocals present a surrealistic scenario built up inside your head while listening. The album take off in the track Alcohology Superior which might be a praise to the misery of a meaningless life only decorated with boredom, violence and a lot of alco …and then the study of the fact of this situation - Alcohology … followed by To the Earth’s bombastic description of celestial visions that might strike one under intoxication … “and falling asleep outside the liquor store one day“ together with a hungry Python. The thoughtful statements of the gain and dangers of the consumption of alcohol continues as a theme all through the album and end with a re-recording of Erosion from the album with the same name from 1999 where the impact fluids have, not only on the human body but also on Mother Earth itself. Though a frequent appearance on stage alone or together with others in different constellations releases from Deutsch Nepal are comparably rare. So don’t miss this chance for some fresh Deutsch Nepal released on Entartete Musikk. [press-release]
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DEUTSCH NEPAL -- "Amygdala" -- CD -- €12
2011 Autarkeia, acd 066
Amygdala is the latest album of the Swedish industrial music guru Der General. After listening to this album, one finds it difficult to decide whether it is a masterpiece of hypnotic music, the hallucinations of delirium tremens or perhaps the sign announcing the approaching apocalypse? Magnificent, gloomy and profound tracks create the atmosphere reminding the last days of the last member of the royal family or the celebration of the collapse of its era by a majestic empire. But that is only the general mood of the album. The tracks are very different from each other. Some of them frightful, some majestic, while the rest are calm and deep like dreams. And yet the subject matter of all lyrics is in one or another way related to death and the secret lurking behind it. Actually, Der General conveys it with remarkable subtlety. The album contains a number of crescendos, at least three hits and yet none of them reveal the secret fully. Der General music mesmerises with its slow and massive rhythms inherent most probably only to the Scandinavian electronics, and icy ambient flow inborn to the Northern men. Amygdala is the undisclosed secret. In various shapes it occurs throughout the album tracks where Der General to Heaven travels to meet Jesus and the holy family and investigate the nature of the supernatural ecstasy. Something bothers him and he leaves Heaven. In other tracks he states that we have to be reborn and continue living, later he takes part in the mystic funeral train burying and then resurging dead dogs. Upon their revival, the dogs attack the participants of the train and spread panic. Amygdala is a very colourful kaleidoscope of psychedelic visions. Der General concludes the album by letting us know that it is all clear to him and that the atmosphere is absolutely rotten. Perhaps it is a result of the empty bottle, or much more serious reasons… [press-release]
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DEUTSCH NEPAL -- "Dystopian Partycollection II" -- CD -- €12
2016 Entartete Musikk, EM09
Industrial / Experimental. The second Dystopian Partycollection contain a mixture of orfan tracks, exclusive remixes and music that earlier only could be found on vinyl as well as some intresting collaborations featuring some of the deepest undergrounds finest selection of artists. A big variation of sounds and representing a wide timespan and alien transformations of the music in orbit round the fat planet Baby Doll. The music was recorded 2009 – 2015, 12 tracks in 63 minutes refined and supported by TREPANERINGSRITUALEN, NAVICON TORTURE TECHNOLOGIES and DER BLUTHARSCH AND THE INFINITE CHURCH OF THE LEADING HAND. [label info]
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DEVILLOCK -- "Lay Into Me" -- CD-R -- €7
2006 Troniks, TRO-205
Experimental / Noise / Ambient from the US.
DIFFERENT STATE -- "Enormous Components of Motor Unit, Vol. 1" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2019 Zoharum, ZOHAR 175-2, (ltd. 300)
After nearly seven years since the last studio album, numerous albums released by Marek Marchoff solo, several reissues and two releases of the reformed 23 THREADS project, DIFFERENT STATE is back with a new album. "Enormous Components of Motor Unit vol. 1" is composed of 8 compositions full of the specific spirit known from the earlier works by the project and, on the other hand, presenting a completely new face of DIFFERENT STATE. Thanks to his restless nature, Marek as a composer does not stop for a moment, does not try to play tried concepts over and over again, but he is drawn into regions that he has not discovered yet. Here illbient rhythms, although still present, give way to the post-krautrock and psychedelic atmospherics constantly floating throughout the entire album. The whole is enriched with widely used acoustic instruments and numerous vocals appearing here and there. Every noise seemingly out of place here, as if by chance, gives an extra flavour. The song after the song flows hypnotically forming one coherent soundtrack to the unmade movie... The album is released in a limited edition of 300 copies in a hexagonal ecopack. [label info]
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DIFFERENT STATE -- "Enormous Components of Motor Unit vol. 2" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2020 Zoharum, ZOHAR 199-2, (ltd. 250)
Industrial / Experimental. DIFFERENT STATE is back with the new album. A continuation of the last year's 'Enormous Components of Motor Unit vol. 1'. Although both of these materials were created in a short period of time, they differ significantly from each other. In here the acoustic parts developed in the previous part give way to a raw drones resulting in quite corase and electric sound. Psychdedelic aura known from the previous part disappears here in the density of outwardly chaotic, trance inducing loops which determine the nature of the album, more predatory, full of emotions, well presented through music and text. In this short time, the artist's form of work also changed. The previous part ripened slowly, changed in the following stages from the idea to the new arrangements, while on the new album we get a record of several sessions, recorded shortly after each other, reflecting the spirit in which they were created in order to capture that time, place, circumstances and experiences. "Enormous Components of Motor Unit vol. 2" is an extremely personal album through which the author tries to redefine the current system values, using his latest experience. Like the first part, "Components of Motor Unit vol. 2" is released in a limited edition of 250 copies, in a hexagonal ecopack. [label info]
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DIFFERENT STATE -- "More than Music / It Cleans My Wounds" -- 2 CD -- €14 [-50%]
2017 Zoharum, ZOHAR 139-2, (ltd. 300)
Different State is the band that once stepped on the indigenous industrial scene. They caused a lot of stir with their first releases and gigs of the character of an art happening. Over the course of more than 20 years of their activity, their line-up has changed and their style as well. From the massive industrial metal through illbient structures and dub motives to esoteric electronica. Something that is a common denominator for all these sounds is their quality and a certain kind of uniqueness, an unspecified element that shows that the sounds came from the hands of Marek Marchoff and his companions. At the beginning of the noughties, during the CDR boom, two excellent albums were released. They were "More than Music" (Requiem Records, 2005) and "It Cleans My Wounds" (0v0 Art Records, 2006). Unfortunately, over the years, those strictly limited albums began to oxidize and, with this process, music could have been forgotten. Therefore, we decided to reissue these two materials on CDs to re-show and consolidate these albums, for new listeners and for collectors who are already left with only covers for earlier editions. The CDs are housed in gatefold vinyl replica sleeve and the album is strictly limited to 300 copies. [label info]
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DIFFERENT STATE / SIGIL -- "Spazmatic[k] Spell" -- CD -- €7 [-50%]
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]
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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DISFATUM -- "Death Instinct" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2019 Essentia Mundi, EM033, (ltd. 200)
Dark Ambient. 'Death Instinct' is the debut album of the Russian project DisFatum, which delights with dark ambient and black atmospherics, spiralling towards an absolute pureness - where nothing is needed nor nothing remains. Taking inspiration from Freudian psychology, this album suppresses the equilibrium of being by combining formless ambient drones and quietly sung vocals, harsher guitar and industrial ritualistic parts. 'Death Instinct' takes us on a dark journey within the confines of the psyche, which is trying to survive a world ablaze. It conveys a mirror reflection of the outside into the inside and a natural wish to escape from the material - non material to a superior position. A state from which there is no desire to return... ever. [label info]
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DISHARMONY -- "Cloned II" -- CD -- €8 [-50%]
2014 Aliens Production, AP 30, (ltd. 333)
Another dose of cloned, this time under the sign of Aliens production. After successful series of unreleased works and remixed projects, Slovakian duo dISHARMONY is once again showing its remix activity. Their new achievement presents a varied palette, either with every way routing electronic genres or never released pieces which are part of this project from the beginning. Many electronic nooks, industrial turbulences, movie atmospheres and original passages are accompanying this rare matter. Contrasted, but still compacted, wraps in a electronic spirit and for sure once again something from the archive which was never published. Bratislava's electro underground never sleeps, so watch out for this release, which transfers you into a dimension where the clones are pulsing in your blood circulation. [press-release]
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DISHARMONY -- "Fragments of Time" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2016 Aliens Production, AP 39, (ltd. 333)
After three years of silence and several releases on American label Tympanik audio, the Bratislava formation dISHARMONY is coming back with its completely fresh program and a new dark campaign is again presenting under their maternal label Aliens production. 13 new stories is awakening again under the guise of dark sheath, in which the protagonists mixes magical threads of sound surfaces, which we are accustomed to expect from this Petrzalska’s duo. Broken rhythms in a combination of beautiful atmospheres, crystal clear sounds and cinematic corners are the main characteristic of this latest message, which combines a variety of styles and mysterious landscapes. Downtempo waves are rocked in the waters of idm and ambient. Everything in the raw frequencies of the old school EBM and minimalist tones gives this release the new scheme, which is dominated by orthodox vocalizations and Industrial bandage. For the quantity of painful sounds, cheeky samples and distractive elements by listening there’s no emergency. dISHARMONY may affect you as engineers of the human souls, which will devour you with their charm and mainly with their artistry in the way that they can transfer life paths and stories into the music, that will be rotating for a long time in your bowels... [label info]
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DISHARMONY -- "Resonance" -- CD -- €12 [-50%]
2021 Aliens Production, AP 53, (ltd. 150)
IDM / Industrial / Electro. Dark, poetic, dreamy deep and melancholic. Hybrid structures in fragments of chaos. Some time has passed since the last stop of these two human soul engineers. And that is the main source of motivation and sound structures that the project conquered and decomposed into its current form. The world in which we wake up every morning is changing and rotting. We are in it like figures who often travel through the unknown and rotate in the bowels of ignorance. The sound balm that the new album brings is full of reality and industrial bandages strewn with electronic dust. Beautiful atmospheres in broken tons press on your auditory canals. Listen carefully and maybe you can also find your story of truth or illusion? [label info]
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DISHARMONY -- "XFrames" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
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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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]
DISPERSIVE LIGHT -- "Mazurka" -- CD-R -- €5 [-50%]
2017 VOLOK Records, VR-5, (ltd. 20)
Dark Ambient / Industrial. The second full-length album of the Kiev project DISPERSIVE LIGHT - MAZURKA is a perfect example of how tenderness and coarseness, love and hatred, brutality and purity can be combined. In his work the author tries to say how fragile and at the same time uncompromising can be our life. That we are somewhere on the boundary between despair and divine inspiration, we remain the same simple and infinitely lonely people. Moths flying to the light. We can not do anything about it. We can not change anything. The dance of being continues. And again and again, from our lips sounds a question addressed to the creator. Who are we? [label info]
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DISPERSIVE LIGHT -- "Spider" -- CD-R -- €5 [-50%]
2018 VOLOK Records, VR-13, (ltd. 20)
Guitar drone doom / industrial / noise from Kiev, Ukraine. "This is a gloomy dream. Images float before the dreamer's eyes one after another. Becoming more terrible and more desperate. I want to escape, to wake up. But the dream is like a spider's web, holding you tight. Horror penetrates the heart. Breath is interrupted. You are falling into the abyss. And only someone's eyes are watching your suffering in the dark." [label info]
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DISPERSIVE LIGHT -- "Traces In The Dark" -- CD-R -- €5 [-50%]
2017 VOLOK Records, VR-6, (ltd. 20)
Dark Ambient / Industrial. Like a mad artist, he paints rough strokes with his brush on the disintegrating canvas of reality. So the author of "Traces In The Dark" shows us the last flickers and sighs of the vanishing world. He seems to give us the pleasure of suffering at the time of death. He tells us, look, look carefully. It happens to you, it happens right now. Do not be afraid of anything, do not regret anything. Walk straight. Follow the trail into the darkness. You have the courage and strength to look beyond the edge. [label info]
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DISPERSIVE LIGHT / SUMMONS OF SHINING RUINS -- split -- CD -- €7 [-50%]
2012 A5 Production, AP010, (ltd. 500)
Split album featuring 5 lengthy tracks apiece from Dispersive Light (the drone / doom / black noise / death ambient band from Kiev artist Arthur Mogilevsky) and Summons Of Shining Ruins (Japanese experimental musician Shinobu Nemoto). For this album the two acts focused on man's dark side. Ltd x 500 copies. Ukrainian import. [Cold Spring]
DISSECTING TABLE -- "Human Breeding" -- CD -- €10
1997 Release Entertainment, RR 6954-2
The fourth full-length release from this highly-revered Japanese post-industrialist.
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]
DJ SHUHER -- "Harvest Of Joy" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2006, Shuher Audio, SHAU02
Experimental / Sound Collage. Early project of Dmitry Chistov (HUM, MAW, etc.), a 13-minute schizophrenic collage made out of looped vinyl records, rattle and noise, just total crookedness. The recording was made in October 1998 and is dedicated to all autumn's psychonauts. For best experience it's recommended to play this record on maximum volume with repeat functuion.
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DJINN -- "Fuck Vessel" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2021 Nekrogoat Heresy Productions, NGHCD16, (ltd. 200)
Dark Ambient / Black Metal. Djinn is the manifestation of the joint efforts of M.T. (K.F.R.) and Old (Old Burial Temple) and “Fuck Vessel” the first conjuration of its dark spectral entity. A well crafted blend of Ambient Atmospheric Black Metal as only masters of their arts can achieve. A dark, dense and agonizing journey into the most cold and visceral side of Black Metal. Originally recorded in 2015, partially in the Parisian catacombs and now available as a limited CD through Nekrogoat Heresy Productions. [label info]
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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]
DMITRIY RODIONOV EXPERIENCE -- "Learn to Keep Silence from Trees" -- CD-R -- €7 [-50%]
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. Full-colour sleeve. [press-release]
DN23RD -- "Signals From Outside / Unconnect" -- 2 CD-R -- €7 [-50%]
2013 Down Elkovca Records, CD-R DER 007, (ltd. 13)
Unique and cult "project" from Russian underground, all the recordings of which are the fixations of radionoises on various frequencies. No editing. Only selection of an interesting frequency and complete human noninterference in the process of radio-receiver's work. This release is a reissue of two previously released radio fixations. Signals From Outside was released three times (in 2001 - ltd. 4 copies, in 2002 - ltd. 23 copies, and in 2004 - again ltd. 23 copies). Unconnect was released only once in 2004 ltd. 23 copies. And now, after 9 years since the last editions, both of these fixations are available again under one cover. Two CD-Rs with printed surface packed in a slim-case. Radio scheme on aged paper used as a cover, info insert inside. [press-release]
DN23RD + HYDROGENIUM -- "Scorcher" -- 3"CD-R -- €3 [-50%]
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]
DOLGOE ZASTOLYE -- "Krasnye Vorota (The Red Gate)" -- CD-R -- €5 [-50%]
2020 Red Engineering Production, REPR-21, (ltd. 20)
Industrial / Dark Ambient / Field Recordings. "The Red Gate" album is a collection of images that line up a complete story. The album has many sounds familiar to most people who cause different associations. There are also many abstract sounds. "The Red Gate" is an intuitive movement to nostalgia for the present. This is the reverse and unaware side of everything that we know from childhood. Most of the material was recorded in the field. All other sounds were recorded in the studio using synthesizers, guitar effects and various improvised means. [label info]
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DOM VDOVY -- "Os Hians, Dentes Candidi" -- CD-R -- €8
2016 self-re1eased, (ltd. 42)
New album of the Russian project Dom Vdovy (translated as "House Of Widow") inspired by the Middle Age stories about lycanthropy. Dark / Horror / Black Ambient with old school tape sound and great sense of composition. Two long slowly evolving tracks, first of which contains merged two compositions of the new album, and second presents a 25-min live recording made in the Experimental Sound Gallery (ESG-21) in St. Petersburg in summer 2016. The disc is packed in a foldout A5 sleeve, limited edition of 42 hand-numbered copies.
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DOM VDOVY -- "Wilczyca" -- CD -- €7
2010 Salts & Ashes Productions, starlit003, (ltd. 500)
The project Dom Vdovy ("House of Widow", coming from Leningrad region) released its first demo records back in 2002, and in 2010 put out its first CD album. The project's style can be described as classical black ambient with elements of neoclassic - foggy obscure atmosphere, adherence to funeral and afterworld aesthetics, abundance of synthesizer pads, sepulchral samples and ritual rhythms. The CD also contains a video for one track.
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DOOM OF VALYRIA -- "Warg" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2017 Gradual Hate Records, GH 132 CD
Neofolk. WARG is the second album of Doom of Valyria, consist of seven epic tunes that sound to past ages and bloody battles. Folk music set in fantastic literature like Song of Ice and Fire and The Warlord Chronicles. [label info]
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DOR -- "The Trial" -- CD-R -- €12
2021 Agfa Archive, AGFA 05, (ltd. 50)
Power Electronics. An extremely metaphysical work from 2020, especially appreciated by the author, now available on physical media in an expanded form with all the texts and artworks that can shake your mental balance towards borderline metasleep. Walk through all the corridors of your essence, open all the doors. Shout, cry and don't say we didn't warn you. A sip of liquid black as oil will take you to the lower world, to underground Russia, embraced by flames of irrational chaos and bloody rakes. This album is about all of us. The trial is already underway... 14-panel artbook, sandpaper insert, postcard. [label info]
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DOROGA -- "I" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2010 Ikuisuus, IKU-021 / Nekorekords, Neko-02
Debut CD by a new Finnish duo (Hinageshi Bondage + Umpio). 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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DOWNFALL OF NUR -- "Umbras E Forestas" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2015 Ksenza Records, KSZ 002 / Infinite Fog Productions, (ltd. 300)
Downfall of Nur is Ritual Ambient/Black Metal project born in Argentina in early 2013 by Antonio Sanna. The project concept is based on the Nuragic Civilization and the Folklore of Sardinia, Italy, Place where Antonio Sanna was born and he lived his childhood. The name of the project come from is the root of the word of Nuraghe,the Nuraghes were temples of the ancient Nuragic civilization that saw their splendor in Sardegna between 17 A.C. to the second century D.C. [label info]
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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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DREAMCATCHER -- "Nimbus" -- CD -- €7 [-50%]
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 -- "Time & Form" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2019 Zoharum, ZOHAR 181-2, (ltd. 300)
Industrial / Techno. "Time & Form" is the debut of the duo hailing from Tri-City. The material was recorded at the turn of April and May 2018, shortly after Natt and Akton gave birth to DREN. The music on the album is characterized by stylistic eclecticism. Over the course of eight electronic works, you can hear strong influences of industrial, ritual sounds and widely understood "bass music". From the first beats of "Time" to the last bass breath of "Terminus", DREN spreads a dark aura around the listener. Dense, heavy atmosphere hovers above the unobvious, mechanical, yet ritual rhythms. 300 copies in 3-panel ecopak. [label info]
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DROG_A_TEK -- "Live at B-Stasion" -- 3"CD-R -- €4 [-50%]
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 -- €8 [-50%]
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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DRONNY DARKO & APOLLONIUS -- "The Sea Of Potentials" -- CD-R -- €10
2017 Pantheon, PAN034, (ltd. 50)
Dark Ambient. In the darkest places, there's always a light. Hidden, untouched yet always omnipresent since it is its nature. The deepest sea levels, the vastness of space, the darkest corners of the human soul. It's always there, waiting for the call, eager to unfold and to show an unexpectedly wide horizon of possibilities. On the fundamental level, it's not even light as we know it – just feasibility of action, of motion and creation. We all have it. It's a boundless sea and we are always on its shores... Pro-printed and varnished hq CDR disc housed in the black cardboard envelope with grey ribbon and pro-printed artwork. [label info]
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DROUIN, JAMIE & HANNES LINGENS -- "Alluvium" -- CD -- €10
2017 Intonema, int021, (ltd. 200)
One more duo on Intonema! Canadian artist Jamie Drouin, who uses a small selection of electronics, and German artist Hannes Lingens on snare drum and floor tom, have recorded this new album in an unusual way: Improvising in the studio using headphones, rather than monitors, the musicians were able to focus on meticulously detailed microsounds. In particular, the sounds derived from the close mic’ing of Lingen’s percussion instruments, combined with Drouin’s using that input as a sound source for his own electronics. The "Alluvium" recording process allowed their independent gestures and textures to cross pollinate each other’s, blurring the definition between their otherwise distinct instruments. [label info]
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DUB CONSTRUCTOR -- "Ulitka Zen" -- CD -- €6
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]
DUMONT, OLIVIER & RODOLPHE LOUBATIERE -- "Mouture" -- CD-R -- €6
2013 Observatoire, obs * RD#2, (ltd. 100)
This french guitar/percussion pairing produce few surprises, having found a comfortable slot in the post-reductionist, texturally aware corner of modern Improv. But what makes their music consistently interesting is the depth of the duo's palette. For every sound that resembles anything like percussion, even fewer sound anything like a guitar and a fair amount can't be easily attributed to either musician. Individual personalities, egos and characters diminish, and the focus is left on the sound of the music alone. Things scrape, roar, rumble and whine through a slow, finely detailed morass of constantly churning sound (the album's title translates fittingly as Grind). At different points both claustrophobically murky and airily glowing, this is engaging, absorbing music, but it's no easy listen, and patient attention is required befor it gradually seeps out its rewards. [The Wire Magazine]
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DUNCAN, JOHN & CARL MICHAEL VON HAUSSWOLFF -- "Our Telluric Conversation" -- CD -- €10
2006 23five, 23five 008
23five Incorporated proudly presents Our Telluric Conversation - the second collaborative album from John Duncan and Carl Michael von Hausswolff. This is an album which Duncan describes as having been galvanized by magnetism. In a semantic sleight of hand, Duncan and Hausswolff reveal magnetism through a duality of meanings. One on hand, they speak of the physical phenomenon of charged objects that exert an attraction or repulsion upon other objects; yet on the other, magnetism can be defined the psychological influence wielded by charismatic individuals. Our Telluric Conversation maps out the complexities that emerged through the collaborative pursuits of these venerated sound artists... [label info]
DUNKELHEIT -- "Temps Modernes" -- CD-R -- €5 [-50%]
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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DUOZERO -- "Esperanto" -- CD -- €5 [-50%]
2006 SmallVoices, SVR06019
Downtempo / Experimental. "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]
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DUST TO DEARTH / LYSERGENE -- "The Death Of The Sun" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2009 Aesthetic Death, 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]
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DVAR -- "Deii" -- 2 CD -- €10 [-50%]
2012 Shadowplay Records, SPR140
After two years the "Bee Cult Priests" return with the new mystical message for the humanity, hidden under a laconical name of "Deii". "Deii" is a double CD release, each containing 16 tracks filled with fabulous atmospheres, shamanic incantations of astral creatures, touching fantastic sounds and beautiful soul relieving melodies. This brilliant work carries the listener's spirit up to the times of the Renaissance, an era of triumph of Light, Spirit and Sense. As one alchemical maxim puts it, 'bees come to people for people could come to bees'. "Deii" is a perfect guide to the world of bees... [press-release]
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DVAR -- "Zii" -- CD -- €10
2008 Art Music Group, AMG 324
New Image. New Style. New Album. If there's a project in the world that could be simultaneously described as "gothic", "avantgarde", "fantasy pop" and a good dozen of other terms, then it's only and exclusively DVAR. The project of anonymous musicians led by their supernatural nurser carries its message to the people for already 7 years. The members of DVAR who never before showed their faces now have come before the audience. However, only in the form of... anthropomorphic bees. Who knows, maybe they really look this way? A renowned Russian comic painter Lumbricus Terrestris has designed the whole cartoon-comic concept for the new album perfectly depicting the music of this period. And the music presented in "Zii" is as much modern and actual as "swanky getups" of the three insect characters. The compositions of this album balance on the edge of "psychopathic darkwave", "avantgarde chanson" and surprisingly the most fashion trends from the world of glamour pop music. As always, the new album surprises with unexpected stylistic moves and sonic findings. However we can say that "Zii" crossed a kind of Rubicon and penetrated the world of really accessible musical forms, although being no less expressive. Like always on the recordings by DVAR, the atmosphere of songs ranges from bright to scary and even frightening. The abundance of all kinds of xylophones, harpsichords and children's organs this time is woven into groovy deep rhythm section which gives sunny fervour and dancefloor drive to the compositions. We should also mention that the album is dedicated to such a sad event as "mass destruction of bees by Varroa mite". [press-release]
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EARTH TO GROUND -- "Symbiosis" -- CD-R -- €5 [-50%]
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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ECHO WEST -- "Echoes of the West" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2005 Dark Vinyl, DV #51
ECHO WEST combines the elements of industrial music and cold-pop of the 80ies. Soundtechnical comparisons can be establish via older and younger groups like Dark Day, Nocturnal Emissions, SPK, Haus Arafna, November Növelet. [label info]
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ECHO WEST -- "In Pop We Trust" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2006 Dark Vinyl, DV #56
On their new album, this German outfit is moving into more melodic and partly even danceable minimal electro songs, away from industrial to more poppy tracks. "In Pop We Trust" thus is comparable to bands such as RORSCHACH GARDEN or BAKTERIELLE INFEKTION, that belong to the spearheads of the ever rising German minimal Electro- (or "Modern Pop / Angst Pop") scene, that takes inspiration from the 8oies. ECHO WEST presented their new album at WGT2006 and the new songs were welcomed extremely well! [label info]
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ECHOES OF YUL -- "Cold Ground" -- CD -- €10
2013 Avantgarde Music, AV212
A stylish 6 panels digipack to sweeten the hallucinating performance of this Polish band, one of the best European acts in terms of experimental post doom... A traumatic voyage by all means... [label info]
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ECHOES OF YUL -- "The Healing Sessions" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2015/2017 Zoharum, ZOHAR 143-2, (ltd. 300)
During the recording sessions for his most recent regular album "The Healing", Michał Śliwa aka Echoes of Yul recorded much more material than appeared on the album. Some of these unpublished recordings appeared on the "The Healing Session" cassette issued in the strict limit of 50 copies. The material was quickly distributed among the collectors and practically until now was unavailable in the physical form. Since the music is as interesting as on the regular album "The Healing", it could not be forgotten. Today, in a slightly refreshed version, with minor changes, it is rereleased, this time on a CD. The album is released in a 3-panel ecopak in a strictly limited edition of 300 copies. [label info]
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ECHRAN -- "In Offret" -- CD -- €6 [-50%]
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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ECLIPSED -- "The Probabilistic Mind" -- CD-R -- €10 [-50%]
2018 Aliens Production, APD018, (ltd. 66)
Electro / Industrial. The chemical connection between the community of old school Slovak musicians was finally combined and the reaction of this Hlohovec-Trnava cooperation has finally got it’s final concept. The project of members of SAMHAIN and KIFOTH has gotten the form of an analogue school, and this connection will be for sure a strong beginning for the fans of analog strings of dancing beats and the wild-torn sound of sound tortures. The concept is based on a raw analogue sound that has a lot of hallucinations and hard attacks on your mind. The project's purpose is to use the hybrid beats with amount of the strong sounding tones that are pulsing in the machine park. Excellent combination of electronics and experimentation. This is a concept for an open mind and a community that is willing to break into the oasis of analogue storm. This project is designed to respond to projects such as: Noise Unit, Intermix, Download... Unique pure sound concept full of cracking blocks and hybrid tortures. This digital edition is followed with strictly limited cdr edition in a special mechanical package of 66 copies. [label info]
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EGO COLLAPSE -- "Red Wings Of Autumn" -- CD-R -- €5 [-50%]
2015 Ostroga, OTR-036, (ltd. 30)
Experimental noise / dark ambient / field recordings. Ego Collapse: Vitaly Maklakov + Philipp Konieczny. "Together with Philipp Konieczny completed work on a new album. Today, 30 copies of "Red Wing autumn" saw the light. This long composition is dedicated to my friend Sergei Okonechnikov. During the recording, we often talked with Sergey on the topic of this music. He was particularly inspired by the realization of my text in this album. Work on the material was completed shortly before the death of Sergei." Pro-CDR, 30 copies. [label info]
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EGO COLLAPSE -- "Snow & Sun" -- CD-R -- €5 [-50%]
2016 Down Elcovka Records, CD-R DER 022, (ltd. 30)
Ambient / Noise / Drone. "Dreary tired swamps in the depths of taiga silently moan waiting for the relieving first snow. And over there only heavy snowy slouds waiting for their hour in the light of lazy autumn sun." Meditative Noise Ambient from the Russian-German project featuring Vitaliy Maklakov (Light Collapse) and Philipp Konieczny (Ego God). Almost an hour-long droning suite for the lovers of late autumn and melancholic black and white movies. CD-R with printed surface packed in half-DVD box. [label info]
EGOIST -- "Breaking Moment" -- CD -- €12 [-50%]
2021 Aliens Production, AP 54, (ltd. 100)
EBM / Industrial / Electro. Another in edition of never released and nowhere officially published appetizers in the electronic community. This project that has after millenium camed also to our parts on a festival Apocalyptic Visions was founded in Poland, and its protagonist already then had the same clean handwritting influenced by the EBM projects that are by the listening of this work well known to everyone. Atmospheric EBM where the influence of Canadian school is clear will absorb you from the beginning. Melodic lines, robotic vocals and speed tempos strikes like a hammer on the head. Solar panels tune the waves of energy into you and the bass lines rotate your listening device. This material is from older date, but stll very current, full of energy and great music. A complex of beats and catchy vocals served by the old school. Kuba and his view on the technological revolution. Even at that time cyberspace was filled with information dust and conspiracy theories... Egoist is one man project exploring biomechanical electro industrialsonic spaces. Created in 2002 by Kuba Włodarski, coming from Łódź (currently residing in Kraków), a remixer, DJ and propagator of industrial grinds. Egoist sound is characterized by canonades of mechanical beats and heavy bass lines flirting constantly with a specific dance vibes imposed on the productions of Kuba. CD edition including new bonus tracks. Ltd edition 100 copies digipack. [label info]
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EJECT -- "Instead of us there was rustle heard" -- CD -- €6
2012 self-released
Post-Rock / Experimental Jazz. A project from St. Petersburg, Russia, founded by Pavel Mikheev – multi-instrumentalist playing in numerous rock and experimental bands. In this incarnation Eject manifested as a trio with Pavel on guitar and effects, Dmitry Bibikov on double-bass and Konstantin Gubenko on drums and percussion. Six instrumental pieces somewhere at a meeting point of post-rock and experimental jazz. Dynamics with an unpredictable plot, emotionally charged atmosphere, sensitive and refined playing technique of all three musicians – recommended to the connoisseurs of unusual instrumental music!
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EL ULTIMO SOL -- "Entre Mundos" -- CD -- €12 [-50%]
2021 Gradual Hate Records, GH 146 CD / Soliferro, SF 007, (ltd. 200)
Neofolk / Ritual. A project by Daniel P. (ÀRNICA, WIHINEI RITA) and Gemma A. EL ULTIMO SOL is an encounter between worlds. A crossroad between realities, vibrations and sounds, where the old, the past and the present come together to form a timeless space. Time is diluted creating a sacred circle. For us it is an intimate and personal link, a relationship with the wild, with the mysterious of this apparently ordinary world, and of other worlds hidden from view, and that converge at the same point, at the same moment. An oasis in the middle of a life that pushes you to run, to not have time to feel. A place where everything stops to reconnect with the essential, with the primitive and instinctive, returning to the origin. [label info]
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ELBE -- "Sudety" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2018 Epidemie Records, EPR088, (ltd. 300)
Post Metal / Post Rock. Jeseníky are one of the most picturesqe mountains in Czech Republic. Their tortured history is reflected in melancholy atmosphere of abandonned and vanished villages such as Elba that inspired guitariste and composer Stanislav Jelínek (Dying Passion) to his new project called Elbe. Together with Martin Spacosh Peřina (Sousedi, Between the Planets) they made an impressive soundtrack to mysterious sceneries of Jeseníky region with elements of postrock, ambient, shoegaze and psychedelic... Limited edition of 300 copies in hand numbered 6 panels digipacks. [label info]
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ELDAR -- "The Secret Golden Flower" -- CD -- €12
2012 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 163
ELDAR, the Spanish Dark Ambient/Martial project that once started on Cold Meat Industry, return with yet another conceptual album presenting a wide range of beautiful sounds. The concept of this album is inspired by the mystical and psychological archetypes to explain the universal version of a generic soul that rules from the collective unconscious of individuals in all human civilizations since antiquity. These archaic prototypes were copied, emulated and used since the dawn of humanity, and fantastic dream and images have been represented in myths and symbols, trying to explain these exemplary patterns that are still alive and latent until today. They sleep present in popular folklore, in the psyche of every human being, influencing yourself and collectively in the beliefs and ideas that lead them to make beautiful and creative acts or carrying even their own destruction, evolving or backward from that inexorable shape societies through time and history. This album runs in his melodies and lyrics the long road of archetypes that continue to print his psychological injury in each individual and that shape their behavior in society, determining the fate of humanity. Composed by Marc Merinee & Merce Spica and recorded at Oxid Studio Barcelona 2011. Produced & Mastered by Marc Merinee. Art Work by Alonso Urbanos.
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ELEKTRONAVN -- "Audelà L'Inconnu (Vertical) / For Theo Angelopoulos" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 Empty Sounds Rec., ESR 007
Audelà L'Inconnu (Vertical): A classical soprano (Trine Vestergaard), a medieval hurdy-gurdy player (Søren Hammerlund) and an impro-guitarist (Stephan Sieben) were - one by one - asked to improvise in a long tunnel under some railway tracksin the southwestern part of Copenhagen. Elektronavn (Magnus Olsen Majmon) recorded it, computerized it and composed a work where each part/layer is presented horisontally (Audelà L'Inconnu Horisontal) and later on this work where the parts have been mixed to a hybrid vertical collage track... For Theo Angelopoulos: this work has earlier been released as 'forme' but has now been given a new name. An ode to the Greek director. [liner notes]
ELEKTRONAVN -- "Rationale Mystique" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 Empty Sounds Rec., ESR 002
All music composed, played & computerized by Elektronavn / Magnus Olsen Majmon 2004. One track is a remix of an old session with Niklas Antonsen (trb), Lars Tormod (bas), Stephan Sieben (gtr), M.O.M. (dr). [liner notes]
ELFFOR -- "Dra Sad (The Trilogy)" -- 3 CD -- €30
2017/2020 Ksenza Records, KSZ 031, (ltd. 111)
Dungeon Synth. A compilation of three albums under one cover: "Dra Sad" (2017), "Dra Sad II" (2018) and Dra Sad III (Beneath The Uplands Of Doom) (2019), previously released by Elffor himself. Triple CD digipak, limited to 111 copies.
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ELFFOR -- "Into The Shades Of Hate" -- 3 CD -- €30
1998/2021 Ksenza Records, KSZ 032, (ltd. 150)
Atmospheric Black Metal / Dungeon Synth. Reissue of the first three Elffor albums: "Into The Dark Forest..." (1998), "Son Of The Shades" (2002) and "From The Throne Of Hate" (2004). Triple CD digipak, limited to 150 copies.
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ELIWAGAR -- "Fra Hjertet Av Norden" -- CD -- €15 [-50%]
2012 Nordafolk Records, NF 002 / Great Turf Deluxe, GTD 006 / Pagan Pride
Neofolk. Beautiful Norwegian Neofolk from the very heart of the North. Beautiful female vocals, acoustic guitar, flute, violin, cello and shamanic tambourine. 9 songs in Norwegian. 6-panel glossy digipack, 20-page full-color booklet with all the lyrics, 4 full-color stickers with northern landscapes. [YAOP]
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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]
EMERGE -- "Hiding Place" -- CD -- €8 [-50%]
2016 Frozen Light, FZL 036, (ltd. 300)
“Hiding Place” is a lost EMERGE album partly collaborated with German fairy singer Eljara (Prinzip Nemesis) and Russian Experimental Ambient artist Re-DrUm. Great and almost easy-listening soundscapes full of bright mysterious atmospheres, distant choirs, meditative rhythms and calm melodies. Just inexpressibly beautiful music... In digifile, 300 copies. [label info]
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EMERGE -- "Materia" -- CD-R -- €7 [-50%]
2019 Attenuation Circuit, ACU 1014, (ltd. 100)
Electroacoustic / Experimental. The album, which manages to pack a variety of ideas and dramatic tension into its crisp 31 minutes, was recorded live in Poznan, Poland, in January 2018. EMERGE improvised with prepared samples and amplified objects made of various materials – hence the title – , namely wood, stone, and plastic. While the use of such basic, scratchy, even harsh sound sources is nothing new in EMERGE's work, the way in which he uses them here certainly is. They are often used to generate rhythmic loops that create downright beats, moving the piece to the brink of IDM or minimal music structures, but then collapsing such expectations by falling silent and moving into another direction altogether. While on the one hand silence is often used as a structuring medium, the drones so familiar in EMERGE only come into play as sound-effects that add colour to an otherwise monochrome palette. But this sparseness makes the compositional structure easy to hear and understand and certainly makes this album a perfect introduction for interested, yet inexperienced listeners who want to get into electroacoustic improvisation. More surprising than the rhythms, perhaps, is the direct, almost in-your-face way in which distorted voice like samples are used as a counterpoint to the live-generated sounds. They are used in dramatic gestures that almost resemble pop or rock dramaturgy, yet still are used sparingly enough so as not to become clichéd. This masterfully balanced mix of stylistic elements makes "Materia" an important addition to EMERGE's large body of work, if not a milestone. [label info]
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EMERGE -- "Steps" -- CD -- €13 [-50%]
2020 Attenuation Circuit, ACU 1021, (ltd. 300)
Field Recordings / Musique Concrete / Experimental. The album "Steps" is composed exclusively from field recordings made at the Dachau Concentration Camp memorial site. It is not possible to represent the horrors of concentration camps in music, and - a lesson learned from the many failures in the history of "industrial music" - the attempt to do so will inevitably result in trivialising, at best. Therefore, this is not about a concentration camp; it is about a memorial site. "Steps" shows to what extent contextual information about the sonic subject matter of a piece influences our listening. Only if we know the history behind these sounds - and the history of the place where they were recorded - are we able to make sense of the present. For part 2, Emerge invited sound artists to give their characteristic processing to the original field recordings. The resulting audio fragments are fed into the performance, symbolising a peaceful, solidary encounter of cultures: Anja Kreysing, Autonomaton, b°tong, Claus Poulsen, Dabit Vocem Austria, Federico Dal Pozzo, Freiband, Herr Penschuck, Limited Liability Sounds, Satori, Sofia Bertomeu, SRVTR, and Toni Dimitrov. [label info]
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EMIL BEAULIEAU -- "Moonlight In Vermont" -- CD -- €10
2005/2011 Hospital Productions, HOS-RRR
Noise. The true sound of love by America's greatest living noise artist. [label info]
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EMULSION -- "Blue Sky Objective" -- CD -- €7 [-50%]
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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EN NIHIL -- "The Approaching Dark" -- CD -- €10
2013 Eibon Records, NIH087
The sound of ongoing apocalypse. Mixing extemporaneous noise bursts with solid dark ambient structures and menacing death industrial, US legendary EN NIHIL return with a brand new album. And what a come-back it is. The humans have left the earth. The universe is collapsing, and this is the sound of its death........ [label info]
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ENDING -- "Attempts Of Sedition" -- CD -- €12 [-50%]
2018 Eibon Records, END106
Darkwave. Silver Pes (NERIAGE) and Mauro Berchi (CANAAN, NERONOIA) join forces in "Attempts of Sedition", the debut release of the Ending project. Covering territories tinged in dark electronics, the duo often let haunting melodies emerge from their sequenced nightmares, creating a perfect mixture of carefully structured songs with an unsettling sensibility. Comes in a 3-folders deluxe digisleeeve with booklet. [label info]
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ENDLESS IMITATION -- "Silence Mistery" -- CD-R -- €6 [-50%]
2019 Paper Moon Republic, PMR_24, (ltd. 28)
Drone Ambient. Everyday zen and apprehension of random moments in the context of the eternity. The greatness and beauty of specific fragments of reality through the prism of inner pacification. An ode to the endless loneliness of the kitchen demiurge. Maybe yours too? CD-R with surface print, packed in a half-DVD-box. [label info]
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ENDO, KAZUMOTO & EMANUELE BONINI -- "Rumore Da Ritorno Audio Metallico" -- CD -- €10
2014 Audio Dissection, AD14, (ltd. 300)
Noise. After the exciting split 7" experience of the past year, Kazumoto Endo and Emanuele Bonini (aka Encephalophonic) joined their forces togheter which culminated into a full lenght CD album. "Rumore Da Ritorno Audio Metallico" is the result of an intense raw sounds exchange which taken place beetween Japan and Italy and a furious studio work. Frenzy Harsh Noise that drills the brain and almost induced into a trance-like state with its 52+ minutes of unrelating assault. Hyperspeed mix of metal scrap noise, ear-piercing feedbacks, ripping fuzz damage, filter noise, rapid changes and dynamic accelerations makes this CD the ultimate harsh head ear-bliss experience. [label info]
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ENDRAUM -- "In Flimmernder Nacht" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
1993/2006 Shadowplay Records, SPR 029
Darkwave / Neoclassical. "In Flimmernder Nacht" was originally released by Danse Macabre in the year 1993 (KROK 122). This is a Russian reissue with alternative artwork, bonus tracks and outer slipcase.
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ENDRAUM -- "Innerlichkeit" -- CD -- €6 [-50%]
1996/2006 Shadowplay Records, SPR 027
German darkwave band. Russian reissue with bonus tracks.
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ENDRAUM -- "Zeitenlicht" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
1992/2006 Shadowplay Records, SPR 028
Darkwave / Neoclassical. "Zeitenlicht" was originally released by Danse Macabre in the year 1992 (KROK 69). This is a Russian reissue with alternative artwork, bonus tracks and outer slipcase.
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ENEMITE -- "Wuyuan" -- CD -- €13
2017 Infinite Fog Productions, IF-67
Dark Ambient. Long time sold out, impossible to find and highly acclaimed Dark Ambient masterpice available again. You can almost sit back and imagine yourself laid on an icy cold mortuary table, with a circle of men approaching you with ceremonial knives. The music on this release really is that effective. "Wuyuan" really is not comparable to anything else from its genre; as usual, the Chinese scene provides us once again with something as twisted and unorthodox as anyone could want to imagine. [label info]
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ENGEL DER VERNICHTUNG -- "s/t" -- 2 CD -- €5 [-50%]
2012 Oltrelanebbiailmare, CD201209
Oltrelanebbiailmare presents a double CD that collects the particular proposal of the never forgotten Engel Der Vernichtung from Rieti, Central Italy. Born in 1985 as a project by Federico Festuccia and Roberto Feliciangeli - soon joined by Daniele Arisi and Paolo Campanelli - the group took its disturbing name of "Angel of Destruction" from an Einstürzende Neubauten song. After several performances in deconsecrated churches and abandoned factories, Engel Der Vernichtung debut in 1986 with the cassette "L'Art de la mort". Their style is characterized by electronic sounds and classical melodies similar to those used by Dead Can Dance, while the lyrics are often taken from the works of famous Italian writers and poets such as Dacia Maraini, Valerio Magrelli, Giovanna Sicari and others. On the first CD of this collection we find all the tracks originally included in the Mini-LP "L'amour fou" released in 1988 and the complete album "Angels in the Dust" published in 1990. The second CD offers an extensive set of unreleased tracks recorded in a subsequent period. A touching journey around and inside feelings, between the sacred and the profane, an exploration of the subconscious where rationality is lost in favor of the most irrepressible and deep instincts. [label info]
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ENMERKAR -- "Untitled II" -- CD-R -- €4
2007 Observatory Records, Observatory 12, (ltd. 20)
Side project of Sunchariot. Perserving, drowsy and vision-inducing drone ambient. Trapeziform cardboard package. [YAOP]
ENTHEOGENIC SOUND EXPLORERS -- "Magic Garden" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2011 Databloem, DB034-2011
Entheogenic Sound Explorers are Stefano Contini and Piero Marchesi and Magic Garden is their third album on Databloem. Over the years the band have taken several musical influences and channeled them into something that is truly their own. But if comparisons must be made it could be with The Orb or Future Sound Of London. Expect a masterful blend of analog and digital sounds, which will carry you away on a psychedelic journey through the gardens of dubby, hypnotic ambient. [press-release]
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ENTHEOGENIC SOUND EXPLORERS -- "The Other Door" -- CD-R -- €9 [-50%]
2009 Databloem, DBCD09024
Downtempo / Ambient / IDM. 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]
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ENTHEOGENIC SOUND EXPLORERS -- "Quarto" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2013 Databloem, DB044-2012
Entheogenic Sound Explorers fourth and most consistent album so far, offering an hour worth of adventurous dubby, hypnotic ambient. With "Quarto" Stefano Contini & Piero Marchesi have made another step in pushing their composing and production skills to a higher level. The albums seems to tell a story, travelling through psychedelic landscapes with a sense of hope and being. Put on repeat and you will discover new paths with each listen. [label info]
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ENVENOMIST / FENCES -- "Ascension / Decension" -- 2 x 3"CD-R -- €10
2009 Phage Tapes, PT05, (ltd. 75)
Two US-based dark ambient / noise artists. 3"CD-Rs come in mini jewel cases with two color screen print inserts all housed in a hand made screen printed card-stock box.
ERDLICHT -- "Urlicht: Erster Kreis" -- CD-R -- €7
2011 Ufa Muzak, UFA 39, (ltd. 120)
Nordic Ambient. Icy horizon, isolated and empty, no manifestation of life, it stays infinite and reachless, but this is just an illusion, a facet which will fall like morning mist. Like a drawing on glass, it takes a hot palm pulsating with living blood, and spreads with water carrying away the memories, words, never stopping, never ceasing. Spheric sound preserved in a glacier, runic prayer in front of horizon dying in flames, the Sun enlaces still visible silouettes with sine waves. Retreat and inclination of concentrated and peaceful consciousness to the ultimate secret land, radiating light mirages before dusk, even greater mystery behind them. Leviathan continues his way among the dark cold of depth, everything is silent and watching his movements. In this album of the German project ERDLICHT all valuable ingredients of his nordic ambient production are preserved: depth, expanse, colour. From sound devices elemental spirits appear in the air, and the story of their wordless speech will submerge you in bright and lucid dream. Be careful and don't believe them... P.S. This disk includes the original EP "Mitnachttrost", dark ambient with martial elements dedicated to Miguel Serrano, plus two previous albums "Erster Licht / Wilde Jagd" (Licht Und Stahl, 2009) and "Morgenrothe / Abendroth" (Tosom, 2009)... 11 tracks, 78 minutes, cardboard cover + 3 cards. [press-release]
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ESCAPE FROM WARSAW -- "Korozje" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2021 Zoharum, ZOHAR 221-2, (ltd. 300)
Electro / Acid / Industrial. Karol Su/Ka aka Escape From Warsaw strikes again with his hardware jams of acid electro madness and guerilla electronics fueled by delirious rumblings of a madman concerning Polish reality, politics and far beyond. Album consists of tracks that were originally recorded as Street City Nomad (EFW’s other project) between 2006 and 2010 and newer compositions. Szymon samples and refers to figures like Bukowski, Kerouac or characters known from Polish punk/counter culture. The music itself is raw and uncompromising and along 14 songs you’ll find ones that you can easily dance to and also ones that will make you stand still for a while and question reality. The lyrics question it, as songs are of the kind that are funny on one side but touch very serious matters currently corrupting our country on the other. What deserves a special attention is covert art made by Karol Su/Ka himself. Six unsettling yet amazing graphics which could serve as an idea for LSD blotter. Leave the fear behind and expect the unexpected. CD edition of 300 copies comes in 6 panel digipack. [label info]
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ESCAPE FROM WARSAW / SANTA MARIA & KAROL SU/KA -- "Materia / Czas Snu" -- 2 CD -- €14 [-50%]
2019 Zoharum, ZOHAR 184-2, (ltd. 350)
Illbient / Dub / Experimental. After many years of absence in Zoharum, Karol Su/Ka returns with his music to our catalog. The release presented here is a double album, showing two different faces of his work. ESCAPE FROM WARSAW (formerly known as ARKONA) presents a style known from his previous recordings. A lot of here dub-based rhythms, electropunk nerve, sometimes even club-oriented structures and samples taken from various sources. All that is mixed in the characteristic psychedelic EFW style. It is a bit of a nod to a listener (perhaps due to the use of instruments and the electroclash conventions of the pastiche). However, lyrically he tells us about important things to a large extent. In simple words which Karol likes to put together, he has included many topics that are food for thought: ecological threat, modern life, loneliness etc. On the one hand, these are protest songs, but, on the other hand, they give a lot of pleasure from listening to them... The second disc belongs to the duo under the name of Santa Marta / Karol Su/Ka. "Czas Snu". The compositions on it are sonic illustrations to the intriguing poems of Marta Olszewska. Karol's music moves from the electropunk realm towards ambient structures, spatial compositions, much more subtle and intimate. Originally, these two discs were to be released separately, but combined in one package seemed a perfect complement to each other, just like the Taoist ying-yang... A double album is released in an ecopack limited to 350 copies. [label info]
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ESCUADRON DE LA MUERTE -- "Omnia Vincit Mors" -- CD-R -- €7
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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ET NIHIL -- "Nor Am I" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2016 Lichterklang, LK035, (ltd. 250)
Neofolk. If there is one band in the current Neofolk scene, that stands out among all other bands it’s ET NIHIL for sure. Rising from the ashes from legendary LUFTWAFFE, b9 InViD, RB and Jonathan S consequently follow their artistic vision and present a highly dynamic and powerful variety of the genre. “Nor Am I” is their first official studio release after the limited and sought-after “Onus” CDR, two live-albums and numerous singles and the first one to be released on LICHTERKLANG. “Nor Am I” contains 13 tracks of pure Neofolk mayhem, spanning from the morbidty of the Neofolk genre to intense drumming Martial Industrial is known for up to harsh and distorted vocals characterized by the Industrial scene, defining a new and modernized version of Neofolk. [label info]
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ETHNIC ACID -- "Power-Works 1986-88" -- 2 CD -- €10
2009 Industrial Recollections
Compilation of mid/late 80s UK project of Anthony DiFranco (Ramleh, Skullflower, Ax, Novatron, JFK, etc). Chosen tracks from his forgotten & most obscure tape releases from the labels Known from Broken Flag, Birthbiter, JFK, Disciple Productions, but also 4 previously unreleased tracks! [label info]
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EUBANKS, BRYAN & JASON KAHN -- "Drums Saxophone Electronics" -- CD -- €9
2014 Intonema, int013, (ltd. 200)
Bryan Eubanks and Jason Kahn's debut album was released in 2011. Then Eubanks used his own customized open-circuit feedback system and analogue electronics and Kahn played his modular synthesizer. Intonema releases their second recording where Eubanks plays soprano saxophone with electronics and Kahn drums the kit this time. While you can hear Jason's drums in full scale, Bryan's saxophone takes a lot of effort to detect it in the rich texture of the duo's sound which continues its studies of microtones, dynamic shades and the work of hybridization of acoustic and electronic instruments. [label info]
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EUGENEKHA -- "Gravity = Гравитация" -- 2 CD -- €15 [-50%]
2017 Frozen Light, FZL 064, (ltd. 300)
Ambient / Berlin School. Gravity – a double concept album of the Russian project EugeneKha. Gravity is a fusion of tradition meditative space ambient, progressive post-Krautrock and dreamy synth-electronics. Also the album includes two live performances, the performance of which differs from the album versions. In album was not used software synths and instruments (VST). Only Hardware! [from the author]
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EUGENEKHA -- "Three Months" -- CD-R -- €10
2018 Pahtheon, PAN068, (ltd. 60)
Drone / Ritual Ambient. Sweetest ray of morning sun opened doors for the gentle wind, first breath of warmth and bliss. Promise of summer was whispered by leaves on the trees, slowly brewed up in soil it was ready to unfold. New cycle of beauty, new kinds of aromas, longer days and warmer nights... Crickets filled every evening with anticipation, singing their noisy sonatas to the sparkles in the sky. Rhythms of awakening, humming of thousands of tiniest creatures, a new mantra for the new cycle. Summer was almost here for another three months — they'll pass like everything else, but its sensations will stay... Hand-stamped linen cover envelope with pro-printed inside artwork. [label info]
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EUROPAPLAN -- "Armes de Vengeans / Vergeltungswaffe" -- CD -- €10
2002 Achtung Baby!, ABCD003
Europaplan is a new joint project by well-known French group Nocturne and German total sound ideologists Axon Neuron/Vagwa, who have been working long time in the vein of power-electro experiences and archive documentation of WWII. The central theme of their new research is a history of creation of the one of the most legendary German military rockets - 'a weapon of revenge' A4/V2 (Von Braun/Dornberger konzeption). Both musicians represented here a sound expressive and quite exciting monumental document: uncompromising bubbling "military" industrial and abrasive power-electro sounds, obscure war noise outfit, deep rumbling from hell, wrapped in a gristly sleeve, its sound like a true chronic documentary soundtrack with big amount of sampled voices in German from the past and wartime narration. [label info]
EVITAXAL / LE COSE BIANCHE -- "Circulated" -- CD -- €10
2015 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 2015, (ltd. 300)
A split album offering the old versus the new Italian Power-Electronics Industrial sound. EVITAXAL is a project by Roberto Marinelli who is prpbably better known for his LAXATIVE SOULS / LXSS project. LAXATIVE SOLULS / LXSS was one of the oldest Industrial Power-Electronics projects appeared in Italy at the beginning of the 1980es and Roberto together with Maurizio Bianchi and Mauthausen Orchestra was one of the old fathers of Italian Industrial. His album "Disinfektionsraum" dated 1984 was released on the cult label RECLOOSE ORGANISATION which was run by Bourbonese Qualk. While LE COSE BIANCHE is the new and rising Italian Power-Electronics... For this split EVITAXAL and LCB join forces and demonstrates once more (if needed) that Italian Power-Electronics is still alive and fighting. Try this old/new Italian harsh blend. [label info]
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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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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.
EXPOSE YOUR EYES & HOWARD STELZER -- "One Should Never Cease Considering Human Love, Which Remains as Grisly and Golden as Ever" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2021 Oxidation, CDROT071
Experimental / Musique Concrete. Paul Harrison has been on a prolific creation streak recently and has been working under various monikers, the most famous is probably EXPOSE YOUR EYES. Looking through his discography you can see Paul is no stranger to collaborations. For this release a formidable collaborator was chosen, Howard Stelzer, who is also no slouch when it comes to this style of recording. Howard has been absolutely stepping up his game with releases that also feature source material from others. "One Should Never Cease Considering Human Love, Which Remains as Grisly and Golden as Ever" is a powerful tour de force that features iconic recognizable sounds from each artist and melds perfectly into an excellent 30+ minute single piece. [label info]
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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.
EXTNDDNTWRK -- "Just Tracks" -- 2 CD -- €12 [-50%]
2014 Fourth Dimension Records, FD2CD92D
Long before the man with the fixed 'fuck you' stare, can of beer, e-cigarette and laptop found a home as one half of Sleaford Mods, Andrew Fearn was making music at home comprising samples, loops, frazzled electronic textures, deep bass rumbles, mutated beats, punk snarl, post-dancefloor meltdown mayhem and all manner of other abstract and disparate sounds. Rammed home by the same DIY sensibility that drives Sleaford Mods, Andrew's (mostly) solo works are where he cuts his teeth on new ideas, fresh sounds and music that sways heavily between that of a chemical-soaked film soundtrack and an obvious passion for all things that filter in from those less obvious edges most people prefer to keep at bay. Just Tracks collects the latest album of the same name alongside a bonus disc which delves into his back catalogue (otherwise to be found residing on Bandcamp and various other spots over the 'net). It, perhaps as suggested, merely hints at the little sonic dust-storms Andrew kicks up at every available free moment he gets (presumably over rugged and much abused equipment stained by coffee and with overflowing ashtray nearby…). Many of the pieces may at first appear like simple sketches, but there's a huge emotional scope to them that's perfectly ripe for throwing like a grenade into the often bland waters passing for today's better realms of electronic music. And, yes, let's just see who picks up on that classic Steve Albini ditty of yore very nicely covered here… [press-release]
EXXASENS -- "Back to Earth" -- CD -- €11 [-50%]
2015 Ksenza Records, KSZ 008 / Rock House / Aloud Music, ALOUD037CD / Infinite Fog Productions, (ltd. 300)
EXXASENS comes back to Earth after a eight-year space travel and 4 DiY albums, including the acclaimed ELEVEN MILES (Aloud Music LTD 2011) and SATELLITES (Aloud Music LTD 2013) and one compilation (2007-2014, Ricco Label, Japan). In this period, EXXASENS has evolved from a one-man solo project (Jordi Ruiz) to a fully-fledged band... Jordi Ruiz (guitars/programming), Sergio Ledesma (synths/keys), Cesc Cespedes (bass) and Oriol Planells (drums) have recorded the last EXXASENS’ album at Siete Barbas Studios (Barcelona). Containing 8 inspiring songs, BACK TO EARTH offers the band’s renewed vision of instrumental music which introduces choirs, stratospheric guitar solos, electronic groove and even a sung song. [label info]
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EZHI I PETRUCCHO -- "Istorii" -- CD -- €6
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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F.M.S. 41 -- "... past ..." -- CD -- €6 [-50%]
2009 Valgriind, VG 19
Industrial war marches, joined past and future. One of the Ogneslav's projects (N. Novgorod, Russia). Flaming flood of all-destructional energy. Very original recording at nowaday's scene. [label info]
FAHL -- "The Halls Of The Dead" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2014 Lichterklang, LK023, (ltd. 267)
FAHL was founded by Dimo Dimov, Marcel P. and Cornelius Waldner in autumn 2008. All members have been active in several Dark Folk, Neoclassic and Black Metal–projects for some time, among them :werra:, Von Thronstahl, Allerseelen, Sagittarius, Miel Noir or Svarrogh (just to name a few.) Four years after their debut „Paths To Emptiness“, FAHL’s second album „The Halls OF The Dead“ is not just a compendium of songs lyrically influenced by the „Mahabarata“, Stefan George, Ludwig Fahrenkrog, Carlo Michelstaedter and Hermann Graf Keyserling, but musicalwise the consequent continuation of what has been started four years ago. „The Halls Of The Dead“ is a dark opus of 13 occult ambient tracks that’ll haunt the listeners by it’s lyrical and musical depth and sincerity. „The Halls Of The Dead“ for sure is not an album for the fainthearted listener. The artwork for the album was done by well-known foto-artist Laetitia Mantis, being a long time friend with the band and it’s members, putting even more emphasis on the occult character of FAHL. [label info]
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FAHL -- "The Paths To Emptiness" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2010 The Eastern Front, Front 027, (ltd. 1000)
Fahl is much more complicated and interesting than many many albums in "dark ambient" style (if we keep calling a variety of musical creations this way). It tells a story. Vivid, exciting, emotions driven story about "gateways to the occult and hidden forces of the inner self" - thus musician themeselves described the idea. I would just add that this music is about what rests deep inside of human mind and soul and about what we hardly think and talk in daily fusiness. [label info]
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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]
FAKE CATS PROJECT -- "Russian Canon" -- CD -- €8 [-50%]
2016 Frozen Light, FZL 037, (ltd. 300)
Russian Canon is the fourth album - the first on CD - of the Moscow based Fake Cats Project. The title certainly doesn't mean our seventeen pieces form the Russian Canon, rather we are in search of it. We try to avoid Russian clichés, but sometimes play with them. There are no folk songs accompanied by bayan (the Russian Accordion) though you will hear Kiriill Makushin playing bayan. We don’t play typical Russian rock, though Alexey Borisov is a luminary of Russian rock himself, of the bands Nochnoi Prospect and Tsentr. This is not an album of the Russian intelligentsia, singing their sad, simple songs around the kitchen table, though some fragments were recorded by Igor Levshin in Alexey's kitchen. Our Russian Canon is not confined to national culture: we use the Turkish saz and Latin percussion. Our electric guitars certainly do not originate from Russia, and Konstantin Sukhan’s trumpet is more akin to free jazz rather than any Russian tradition. Any overlaps with industrial music or krautrock are sometimes coincidental and sometimes deliberate. Since there is a Russian tradition of fierce speculation on philosophy or revolution at the kitchen table, we use for our sound not cast iron rails, but a buffet filled with utensils, bottles, glasses and a trash bin. We've also added the creaks of rusty swings, screams, laughter and the songs of ordinary people in the Moscow streets. We include both the sane and insane, because no Russian Canon can go without a touch of insanity. [press-release]
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FALGAR -- "De Sangre Y Sol" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2019 Non Posse Mori Records, npm-005, (ltd. 500)
Neofolk from Puerto Rico. "For the few, who by a clandestine instinct that boils in their blood, evokes the symbols of the eagle and the swastika; and despite all the wounds that this world has left on them, they continue to take the paths of the sun." [from the artist]
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FALKENSTEIN -- "Kraftort" -- CD -- €14 [-50%]
2009 Heimatfolk, HF 08
German pagan neofolk, a project of Tobias Franke. Glossy digipak + booklet.
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FALKENSTEIN -- "Urdarbrunnen" -- CD -- €14 [-50%]
2008 Heimatfolk, HF 04 / Kraftplatz Records, KRPL 02
Falkenstein is a young oaktree in the fairywoods of new Pagan Folk Music. Born out of the mystic nature and ancient cult-places of southern Germany, Falkenstein guides you gently to your heathen ancestors and their natural religion. Falkenstein's music is classical NeoFolk in best tradition, with beautiful lyrics about hallowed trees and woods, ancient tales from veiled times and long forgotten natural rites. Falkenstein is definitely a unique and outstanding NeoFolk artist of the new generation, who knows how to play his instruments and who's lyrics directly creep under the skin of each Pagan and Folk Music lover... Falkensteins self produced debut-album "Heiliger Wald" gained a lot of applause in Folk music press and was highly recommended by many reviewers. Their brandnew album "Urdarbrunnen" is now released by the STEINKLANG / AHNSTERN NeoFolk daughterlabel HEIMATFOLK. "Urdarbrunnen" is again a perfecly played, strong and dreamingly beautiful album with a rich, varied instrumentation, even more dense and powerful than the debut album. The musical range lasts from acoustic ballads over Martial Folk songs to dark fairietales about naturaly mysticism, paganism and natural rites in the Alpine regions... If Falkenstein would have been 40 years earlier, today they would stand in line with bands like early Steeleye Span, Magna Carta and Pentangle... All songs recorded by Tobias Franke - mastered by Axel Frank (WERKRAUM) - artwork, layout and most fotos by Max Percht (STURMPERCHT). [press-release]
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FAMILY UNDERGROUND -- "Un Tratto Di Malinconia" -- CD -- €10
2010 Turgid Animal, (ltd. 500)
Industrial / Experimental. "If recent offerings from this long running CPH outfit (this being their ninth studio album) has showed a leaning towards a more industrialized sound. This could be said to be the band's first proper Industrial record. The drone pieces of the past are still present but in a more controlled and subtle way, adding even further to the psychedelic experience, and tying together 5 harsh industrial tracks. At times this will remind you of Whitehouse, Godflesh and more than anything else TG, complete with screamed desperate vocals and harsh oscillating synths. The disc flows extremely well and this together with the unorthodox artwork invokes an almost soundtrack like atmosphere. I urge everybody into oldschool industrial not to let the bands background trick you into not giving this album the attention it deserves". - Klaus Hansen
FARYUS -- "Lucid Dreams" -- CD -- €10
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 -- €10
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 -- €10
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 [-50%]
2011 Silentes, 201127
Ambient / Neoclassical. 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]
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FASCI DI COMBATTIMENTO -- "Among The Ruins - Ten Years Of Marching (Anthology 2009-2019)" -- CD-R -- €10 [-50%]
2020 Volok Records, VR-32, (ltd. 20)
Martial Industrial / Dark Ambient. All of the tracks in this anthology are based on occult, philosophical, archetypal, allegorical and satirical themes, for satire is one of the main driving forces in the universe, and an artist should not take him or herself seriously all the time. The world is an enormous jungle and we are all monkeys playing the same repetitive game of life, over and over again. Therefore, poetry, satire, music, painting and the arts in general, are the magic wands of any genuine bard and travelling wizard in the vast fields of the esoteric and the occult. These aspects are underlining once more, that our culture cannot be narrowed down. They even reflect outside musical manifestations, the profound and hidden yearning for art of a generation positioning itself against the psychopathic control grid, whose main task is to drag us down into the ruins of our modern times. [Borislav Vakinov]
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FASCI DI COMBATTIMENTO -- "A New World" -- CD-R -- €5 [-50%]
2017 VOLOK Records, VR-9, (ltd. 20)
Martial Industrial from Bulgaria.
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FAVARON, GIANLUCA + STEFANO GENTILE -- "Entretien" -- CD + A4 booklet -- €5 [-50%]
2015 13, sps1509, (ltd. 230)
The project originates from "in black" images taken by Stefano Gentile. Takes that flow in the most hidden sides of the soul. Gianluca Favaron gives sounds to these images with notes that don't leave room for imagination. Field-recordings and electronics to tell the same visions, the same soul moods. This release includes a 16 pages A4 booklet featuring the photographic work by Stefano Gentile and a CD with the sounds created by Gianluca. [label info]
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FEAR KONSTRUKTOR -- "Preparation Of Humanity" -- CD-R -- €6
2009 Sickcore, SC 016, (ltd. 100)
Masterful Power Electronics from already quite known Russian project. Magnificent sophosticated package.
FEAR KONSTRUKTOR -- "Ushabti" -- CD-R -- €4
2011 DOKURO, DK034
Dark Ambient / Experimental / Noise from Moscow, Russia with a release on the Italian label Dokuro. Full-colour cover in a PVC-sleeve.
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FEAR KONSTRUKTOR / BARRIKAD -- "The Path To The Black Lodge" -- CD -- €10
2012 Peripheral Records, PR007, (ltd. 150)
Peripheral Records is proud to announce it's seventh release - Fear Konstruktor / Barrikad 'The Path to the Black Lodge', influenced by the Black and White Lodge from Twin Peaks. 'The Black Lodge is a fictional setting featured in the television series Twin Peaks. It is an extradimensional place which seems to include, primarily, the "Red Room" first seen by Agent Cooper in a dream early in the series. As events in the series unfold, it becomes apparent that the characters from the Red Room, the room itself and the Black Lodge, along with the White Lodge, are connected.' Four tracks of dark-ambient drone's and blasts of Soviet era analogue synth experimentations. At once a mysterious journey into the Lodge itself and a hallucinatory auditory trip into the darkside of the psyche! Highly recommended. [press-release]
FEAR KONSTRUKTOR & MOURMANSK 150 -- "Arson Acrimony" -- CD-R -- €4
2008 Spirals Of Involution, SOI 052
Power Electronics. A split / collaboration of Russian and French projects.
FECALOVE -- "Great Northern War" -- CD -- €10
2015 Narcolepsia, narco066 / Untergeschoss, UNTER35
Italian Power Electronics / Noise unit.
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FEINE TRINKERS BEI PINKELS DAHEIM -- "A Bug's Life" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2016 Zoharum, ZOHAR 114-2, (ltd. 500)
Jürgen Eberhard aka Feine Trinkers Bei Pinkels Daheim celebrates 25 years of his artistic activity with the first full-length album on Zoharum entitled "A Bug's Life". Keen observers of our activity certainly know his name, for instance from a common vinyl 7-incher entitled "Both Sides of The Looking Glass" shared with Bisclaveret duo or from the composition "Enigmatic Visions", which appeared on a commemorative compilation "07|100|15"... "A Bug's Life" is the tenth full-length album in the discography of Feine Trinkers Bei Pinkels Daheim. It was being created, like the previous ones, for several years and is another conscious artistic statement. Seven compositions included here are of a collage nature and combine echoes of post-industrial ambient, drone music, musique concrete, field recordings and even plunderphonics. On his first studio album since "Die Legende vom Heiligen Trinker" from 2011, Jürgen Eberhard consciously continues his sonic quest on a depleted terrain and he manages to avoid traps of empty experiments. "A Bug's Life" is at the same time an atmospheric, and even accessible, album, and sonically elaborate and demanding of the listener. [press-release]
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FEMEHEIM -- "Dominium Terrae" -- CD -- €10
2014 Death Continues Records, DCRCD006, (ltd. 200)
Second album from Berlin's Femeheim. "Total early BDN / CMI / Slaughter Prod. death industrial worship going on here, with cold, noxious tones and ultra bleak frequencies that waft from a pit of misery and hopelessness. At times minimal and singular, other times more pulsating, antagonistic and heavy... brings back good memories and fills a niche that hasn't existed for sometime..." [Steinklang]
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FEMEHEIM -- "Egofanal" -- CD -- €10
2017 Death Continues Records, DCRCD010
The third album from Berlin's death industrial/power electronics act Femeheim. It's total early Brighter Death Now / Cold Meat Industry / Slaughter Productions death industrial worship going on here, with cold, noxious tones and ultra bleak frequencies that waft from a pit of misery and hopelessness. At times minimal and singular, other times more pulsating, antagonistic and heavy. 'Egofanal' brings back good memories and fills a niche that hasn't existed for some time. [label info]
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FEMME UNDER PLASTIC -- "Masked Solution" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Chi Omega Institute, souvenir 003
Harsh noise wall collaboration between Richard Ramirez and Ella Einsmire.
FENCES -- "One" -- 3"CD-R -- €4
2007 Small Doses, DOSEFIVE, (ltd. 61)
Fences consists of a single 10+ minute improvised track of droning sculpted feedback. Packaged in a cut, folded cover and vinyl sleeve. [label info]
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FERN -- "Vascular Poems / Abstract Safari" -- CD-R -- €5 [-50%]
2020 Volok Records, VR-50, (ltd. 20)
Dark Ambient / Experimental / Drone. FERN is a Swedish drone and experimental noise project mainly focusing on organismic and electronic soundscapes beyond the traditional linear timeline of contemporary music. The source of inspiration (among other things) are the Swedish vast forests, urban scenery and abandoned buildings. During the year, FERN has collaborated with other fellow noise makers such as IDEAL FATHER (SWE) and YU (UK)... This compilation is a dark ambient journey through drone and noise via field recordings. Part of the material is previously released (digital and cassette) on Imperfect Noise. The instrument of choice for this release was the SOMA Labs Lyra-8 combined with various field recordings and other analog hardware. All tracks written and produced by Fern, performed without the use of a DAW. [label info]
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FFORDD, SEREN -- "Fractured" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2015 Databloem, DB061-2015
Ambient / Field Recording / Minimal. The first act of any musician is to break the silence, rending the quiet by pouring sound into the waiting space as gently as an unfolding rose or as savagely as a lightning strike. Seren Ffordd, who has been recording since 2004, was intrigued by this sense of breaking, of the Fracture where the edge of the sound wave cuts the silence. This album came out of a wish to hear sound Severed and Shattered. What would a sound sound like if it’s frequencies were Peeled apart, it’s edges Blurred, Curdled, Hacked - merging into and out of each other? In ‘Fractured’, many of the original sounds are unrecognisable. On the album every sound is acoustic in origin, creating unusual textures, dissonances, shades – allowing the evolving themes of each track to develop in a fascinating, storytelling way. [label info]
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FIRE IN THE HEAD -- "Carrion Wind" -- CD -- €10
2009 Turgid Animal, TA389
Since resuming recording this past Autumn, F/I/T/H's work has taken a new direction. "Carrion Wind" is an ambitious work which consolidates the sounds explored with F/I/T/H and Sky Burial into a single project, focusing them into a complex and meticulously composed 63 minute industrial opus, a dark and ominous dirge, both beautiful and brutal, incorporating aspects of metal percussion, dark ambient, drone, doom and industrial electronics. Noticeably absent are Page's vocals as F/I/T/H takes a more "restrained" approach favoring slow layering of synths, field recordings, guitar loops and electronics to build a tension which occasionally peaks at an explosive level comparable to the shorter tracks of F/I/T/H's previous releases. [press-release]
FIRST LAW -- "Terrorforming" -- CD -- €12
2009 Loki Foundation, LOKI 49
The 6th full-length album of FIR§T LAW is setting real moments of artificial and creative substance. Intermittent bass and percussive elements as well as thrilling sound structures arrange a wide aural spectrum from ambient to drones through analogue modulations to complex compositions with outstanding vocals on top. Conceptually don't get it wrong, this album is not about religious airheads getting their way. This is not about the threat terrorist attacks impose on any of us nor has it the intention to proliferate violence as a viable way to change the status quo. At the least, as long your opinion stands against the opinion of the majority, you are pretty much out of luck. No, this album is about leverage; it is about deception and opportunity, by accident or by design; it is about resignation and self-delusion; but most of all, this album is about fear. [press-release]
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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FLASH BEACH -- "Recycled Thoughts" -- CD-R -- €15 [-50%]
2014 Attenuation Circuit, ACF 1001, (ltd. 50)
Surprisingly pop flavoured, combining electro and goth-rock ingredients and the occasional digital textural element, this is a crisp little album that paves the way to some of the more daring, dark material on Attenuation Circuit. The whole album contains instrumental material, sometimes miniature ambient sketches, sometimes song-structured. A nice little tribute to some of the more melodic stuff that can be done with synthesizers, in addition to what others of our artists do… [label info] Wooden plate instead of album cover!
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FLATLINE SKYLINE -- "All Sound / No Vision" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
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 -- €10 [-50%]
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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THE FLEA CIRCUS -- "A Touch Of Grey" -- CD -- €12
2022 Usagi, U06, (ltd. 300)
Industrial / Noise. The power trio Mirande/English/Skinner has dug out a strangely lit tunnel between the dustier nooks and crannies of the rich and varied 1980’s industrial scene and the just as elusively defined experimental field of today where they themselves reside. While it certainly reeks S*Core, Illusion Of Safety and whathaveyou, their very own fingerprints are all over the place, freshening things up. An out-of-time album we are very pleased to offer! [label info]
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FLETCHER, TODD -- "Star" -- CD -- €7 [-50%]
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 -- €6
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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FLUTWACHT -- "Breath" -- CD -- €7
2008 Mask Of The Slave, MS-015 / The Tourette Tapes, 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]
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FLUTWACHT -- "Creta" -- CD -- €10
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 -- €10
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 -- "Mindflood" -- CD-R -- €7
2005 Organic Pipeline, OP010, (ltd. 50)
German industrial noise / power electronics.
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FLUXUS -- "Mental Illness" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2013 OPN, OPNCD0023 / Unknown Pleasures Records, UPR 002
FLUXUS - "mental illness" collaboration work between Pedro Penas Robles aka HIV+ and MAURI featuring Arturo Lanz from legendary industrial pioneers ESPLENDOR GEOMETRICO and guest vocals by Vera from BLACK EGG. As the gloomy asylum depicted on the front cover, “Mental Illness” is haunted by eleven experimental tracks mixing minimal beats, cold music, white noise, abstract vocals by Pedro, Arturo Lanz and Vera. CD is housed in a three panels digisleeve with high quality artwork with selective brilliant varnish laquer. [label info]
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FM EINHEIT -- "Exhibition Of A Dream" -- 2 CD -- €14 [-50%]
2018/2021 Cold Spring, CSR292CD
Abstract / Experimental / Spoken Word. Twelve dreams of musicians, artists, and filmmakers, interpreted by FM Einheit (ex-EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN), with voices by: Lee Ranaldo (SONIC YOUTH), Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (PSYCHIC TV / THROBBING GRISTLE), Susan Stenger (BAND OF SUSANS), Émilie Pitoiset, Erika Stucky, and the Gulbenkian Choir; with guest musicians: Volker Kamp, Saskia von Klitzing, Robert Poss, and Susan Stenger... Exhibition Of A Dream (L'exposition D'un Rêve) is formed of twelve dreams interpreted as songs. Exploded in time, these are played as temporary and evolving patterns of shapes and forms in an otherwise empty gallery following the drawings of mandalas. Exhibition Of A Dream highlights the complex beauty of how to generate a dream in the mind of the spectator. A shared experience to be lived within our own personal inner space, these remastered dreams are an invitation to listen to a sensitive architecture of words and music... Created 2017, recorded both in public and in private in the amphitheatres and the garden of the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon, and in Einheit's own studio Steinschlag. The dreamers were: Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Lee Ranaldo, Émilie Pitoiset, Susan Stenger, Susie Green, David Link, Pierre Paulin, Alexandre Estrela, Tim Etchells, Gabriel Abrantes, FM Einheit, and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge... Originally released as a 3LP set, and only ever available at the 2018 exhibition at the Foundation. Presented in a 6-panel matt-laminate double digipak. [label info]
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FOLKSTORM -- "Sweden" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2004/2009 Cold Spring, CSR29CD
Death Industrial / Power Electronics. Discovered in the Cold Spring archives, an album shelved for over two years (recorded 2000). Pulled out, dusted down and remixed by Lord Nordvargr himself! This is the final full body of work by the legendary harsh Industrial Noise project. Prepare yourself for an intense trip through these 11 brutal and punishing tracks! 2nd, unlimited edition with modified artwork for 2009. [label info]
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FORD PROCO -- "Vertigo De Lodo Y Miel" -- CD -- €13
2000/2015 Infinite Fog Productions, IF-59, (ltd. 400)
The reissue for a pair of collaborations between Coil and Mexican duo Ford Proco, an act considered highly influential in Mexico’s industrial electronic music Scene, and whose debut album was on OPCION SONICA, the same label that originally launched HOCICO. The collaboration came about after Coil and Throbbing Gristle’s Peter ‘Sleazy’ Christopherson met the act’s Robert Proco and Wito Lavolt while watching The Orb perform in Los Angeles in the late 90s. They exchanged contact details, and a few months later, Christopherson called up the pair to ask if they wanted to be in a music video he was directing – Ice-T and Body Count’s ‘Born Dead’. Following that unlikely team-up, the Mexican duo worked on a pair of tracks with Christopherson and Coil vocalist John Balance, which ended up on Ford Proco’s Vertigo De Lodo Y Miel album, released in 2000. Infinite fog reissues “Vertigo De Lodo Y Miel” in a Digipak with new artwork, a collaboration that sounds lot like you’d expect a collaboration formed at an Orb gig to sound… [label info]
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FORRRESTDRONES -- "Najas Flexilis Exequiae" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2014 Zoharum, ZOHAR 082-2, (ltd. 300)
A few months ago tracks with old pictures of various plants started popping up around the net. Tracks full of organic, ethereal drones. Then this tape with covers made of pages from some old book was released and it landed in our hands. A set of 5 tracks entitled "Tallest Trees Gallery". We listened to it very carefully and loved it, but still didn't know who was responsible for those enchanting sounds. We went through the J-card and found only the email address starting from two words "Cough Serenades". Who is that Cough Serenades dude? It's Robert Skrzynski, otherwise known as Micromelancolie (do you still remember his Zoharum CD entitled "It Doesn't Belong Here"?). For his second offering as ForrrestDrones (but the first one on CD format) Robert has created one long piece entitled "Najas Flexilis Exequiae". A perfect contemplative track which takes you on a trip to the woods in the middle of the night. It is the world straight from forgotten fairy tales from sallow books. The owl from the cover is your guide on this dreamy journey. Is the forest real or are we only dreaming? Are those clicks, crackles and pops the sounds of the fire burning or the vinyl being played? Is the melody you hear soothing or sinister? Many questions keep popping up while listening to "Najas Flexilis Exequiae". Are you ready to take the challenge and answer them for yourself?... The CD is housed in an ecopak sleeve and is strictly limited to 300 copies. The cover paintings and design was made by Wiktor Jackowski. "Najas Flexilis Exequiae" was mastered by Mateusz Wysocki (aka Fischerle). The whole production process was overseen by Michal Porwet. [press-release]
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FORTHCOMING FIRE -- "Siberian Summer" -- CD -- €11
2005 Ewers Tonkunst, HHE 007 CD, (ltd. 500)
This MCD from the pre-Von Thronstahl project contains 5 tracks. The first track, "William Lovell", has been released on the long sold out Hyperium compilation in 1992. Based on the early novel from Ludwig Tieck (1773-1853), a famous german romantic writer, it explores the embarrasment of the ambigous mind and delicately expresses the exhausted and unstable soul suffering. As one of the most romantic and fascinating composition of FF, we think it deserves to be released again as a brilliant in a crown of another perfect songs. "Siberian Summer", the title track, is charming ballad with russian lyrics sang by Rada Taratununa, comes in a version, different to the one included in the recent FF album "In Flammen". "Watching Rome Burn" is also released in a new version, less guitar-oriented and more electronic. "Velvet Little Lady", a nice dark-wave song of yearning and sadness, and "Licht eines erloschenen Sterns", an electronic cold meditative piece with post-apocalyptic mood, are previously unreleased. The overall result is a dark-folk/dark-wave record full of integrity and beauty. The edition comes in a special glossy package limited to 500 copies. Total playing time is 29 minutes. [label info]
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FRACTAL -- "Hologram" -- CD -- €12 [-50%]
2022 Aliens Production, AP 57
IDM / Electro. The productivity and musicality of this Polish pioneer, who calls himself Fractal was under our label creatively active for the past year, and it can't be any different in the new year. However, one change is clear and deserved. This time, Tomasz will sign with his handwriting also on the physical recording. Again, limited edition that cannot be said about musical work, which avoids any limits and still observes in its minimalist creation. Beautiful surfaces in hybrid suit. Noises and melodic lines. Cinematic corners and melancholic cells in idm positions. Dense bass lines, piano sounds, space dust. Clean and dreamy. Deep and beautiful at the same time. Electronic backdrop built on idm procedures, glitch beats and melodic clips. A concept which is partly composed of previous releases and conceptually supplemented with new pieces. The album contains a lot of unreleased material and cinematic moods. Soundtrack to the movie or to the dreamy soul? It's enough to look here and the projection can begin. The story is really colorful… [label info]
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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]
FRAGMENT. -- "Home" -- CD -- €7 [-50%]
2011 OPN, OPNCD0016, (ltd. 500)
Drone Metal. Fragment is Thierry Arnal, a Frenchman with a penchant for slow, long, simple arrangements inspired by Low and Jesu. Home is a lush couple of songs that take in elements of drone and shoegaze with a keen but subtle emphasis on melody, or rather a sense of melodics. Like Jesu's Silver EP, Home juxtaposes slowly building layers of extremely down-tuned guitars with atmospheric electronic instruments and loops to create huge, swirling soundscapes that need to heard loud... [Tom McKibbin, The Sleeping Shaman]
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FRAGMENT. -- "Temporary Enlightenment" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2013 OPN, OPNCD0020, (ltd. 500)
Drone Rock / Metal. Fragment is the brainchild of Thierry Arnal, a musician/composer based in Lyon, France, one-man-project born in 2006 who has just digitally released his brand new album Temporary Enlightenment, a quite remarkable record which I'm sure will please all fans of Jesu, Nadja and Godflesh. [label info]
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FRAKMUNDT -- "Heiwehland" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2011 Percht, Percht 19
After more than one year FRÄKMÜNDT are back with their new masterpiece „Heiwehland“ ( “Land of Nostalgia“). Sixteen unique, expressive and headstrong songs grant the listener a passionate glimpse of the alpine areas of Inner-Switzerland. On “Heiwehland”, accordeon, guitars, hurdy-gurdy, bass, flutes, and the percussion contributed by Merlin (ELUVEITIE) blend together to form the unique and unconventional Swiss Ur-Folk. A primordial male voice and spoken passages contrast with the powerful voice of Anneli. Furthermore Chrigel Glanzmann (ELUVEITIE) and the renowned opera singer Christiane Boesiger contribute their guest vocals on two of the songs. New guitarist Guschti enriches the album with his string virtuosity. The varied songs in Swiss Alemannic dialect take you to a more than one hour long journey into the heart of the alps. They speak of historic events, tragic tales, frightening creatures, strange events, mysterious beings and the melancholic longing for a beautiful homeland that is disappearing in its original form but also about its outlasting beauty. As on the previous album “Urbärglieder”, traditional songs are reinterpreted and of course the comical and humorous elements have their place... This extensive digipak contains a twenty-page booklet full of breathtaking alpine photography and includes all the lyrics in Swiss Alemannic dialect as well as their description in English. [press-release]
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FRANCK, YANNICK & PIETRO RIPARBELLI -- "Whinny Muir" -- CD -- €5 [-50%]
2011 Silentes Minimal Editions, sme 1148
Dark Ambient / Drone / Radionoise / Experimental. A singular long, deep moving, slow and expansive drone-track, built on always changing sonic masses, low frequencies, strong electric-electronic sounds, field recordings, feedback, buzzes, hisses, rough distortion, fading organ chords, cellos and orchestral parts. Alternation of progressive crescendos, ambiental pauses, sudden, dramatic and catchy dynamic shocks. An evolving and extraordinary trip through an obscure sonic journey, convincingly assembled by Italian Pietro Riparbelli (K11, PT-R) and Belgian Yannick Franck. (Y.E.R.M.O., Idiosyncrasia). [label info]
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FRANKLIN, MARTIN & NORTHAM, MICHAEL -- "An Opening Of The Earth: Recovered" -- CD -- €10
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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FRIEDEMANN -- "Indian Summer" -- CD -- €12 [-50%]
1987 Narada Equinox, CD-3002
Great mild New Age / Ambient inspired by indian summer. Digipak. [YAOP]
FRONTIER GUARDS -- "Predestination" -- CD -- €10
2008 Aliens Production, AP 18, (ltd. 550)
Cybernetic revolution in our community is getting new face and at ALIENS PRODUCTION we would like to present very promising project, that will make a debut in our label with very strong album. Dazing, dark ambiental surfaces in which are concentraiting various space dust and catastrophic references and heritage. Music, that will very fast drawn you and won't let you back. Bright palette of sounds, noises and unexpected turns will follow you during this whole space trip. To songs very often seconds hybrid beats and industrial marches. Mix of idm, ambient and synthetic electornics. On cd will be great remixes by projects like: Oxyd, Subheim and Anhedonia. In our family for now the most darkest album, that will tickle to imaginarilly tuned listeners and also this material will present by its visual concept excellent photographer Tom Galle and his futuristic compositions, that goes with this creative grown project. [press-release]
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FRONTIER GUARDS -- "Reload" -- CD -- €12 [-50%]
2020 Aliens Production, AP 49, (ltd. 150)
EBM / Industrial / Electro. After the melancholic act "You", Atreid aka Martin Pavlik is announcing another album. This time Atreides' production transforms and takes a denser form thanks to the guests who participated on this album. Many famous names from the dark scene transcribes Atreides' footsteps into its form, thanks to which this release is colorful and musically and by the genre and at the same time it sets a strong lath and variously blends waters of EBM genre. The combination of Atreides' cyber production and well-known producers boils a nice cauldron of all sorts of styles and passions, which will be nicely complemented by three new tracks and again famous collaborations between the member of DEPRESSIVE DISORDER and charamismatic singer Jitka Charvátová, who is a member of the cult band OCEAN. Sound transformations were taken care of by projects such as: AMNISTIA, ISH, KIFOTH, MC1R, TERMINAL STATE, TOKEE, Vaclav Neckar (NO NAME DESIRE), LIOB, Jan Vozary (OCEAN), JIHAD... [label info]
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FROZEN OCEAN -- "Depths of Subconscious EP" -- CD-R -- €6
2008 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT29, (ltd. 56)
Arctic cold electronic Drone Dark Ambient. Northern icy sound of Kammarheit- and Northaunt-school. 24-min. mini-album in simple b/w package with photos made by Grin (Indra). [label info]
FROZEN OCEAN -- "Likegyldig Raseri" -- CD -- €8
2011 Deleting Soul Records, DSR007 / Suffering Jesus Productions, SJP024
FROZEN OCEAN -- "Steamworks: Hibernation" -- CD-R -- €4
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 OCEAN -- "Trollvinter" -- CD -- €10
2013 self-released, (ltd. 500)
A conceptual album based on Tove Jansson's book "Moominland Midwinter". A skillfully composed mix of dark ambient, neoclassic and rhythmic electronics. Packed in a digipak with a booklet, all in a slipcase.
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FROZEN OCEAN -- "Vestigial Existence" -- CD -- €8
2011 Deleting Soul Records, DSR003, (ltd. 500)
Atmospheric / depressive black metal.
FROZEN OCEAN / HEATHER GRAVE -- "Beyond Anemonautics" -- CD -- €5 [-50%]
2019 Spectral Halls Productions, hall03, (ltd. 300)
Doom Metal / Blackgaze. A split between two Vaarwel's project - from melodic doom metal in 90's vibe to post rock shoegaze post black metal instrumental jaunt. [from the author]
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FROZEN RABBIT -- "26,000" -- CD -- €7 [-50%]
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]
THE FUTURE / KURUM -- split -- CD-R -- €7 [-50%]
2018 Shift Lines, line 001, (ltd. 30)
Ambient / Experimental split between two mysterious projects.
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GABBASOV, SERGEY -- "India" -- CD -- €10
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]
GALATI -- "Silence [As A Din]" -- CD -- €12 [-50%]
2018 Databloem, DBCD080
Ambient / Soundscape. Galati is the work of Italian artist Roberto Galati, who creates dissonant soundscapes with an incredibly rich sound of layers of constantly shifting drones, (bass) guitar treatments, epic voices, ringing percussion, synthesized textures and unfathomable noises. An excellent album for those who like ambiance with a bit of an edge and sombre melody. 6-panel digipak. [label info]
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GALAXY THE INCUBATOR -- "Invisible Strike (Semitransparent)" -- CD-R -- €6 [-50%]
2020 Den Noiser Memorial Archive / Valgriind Glasir CDR Series, 13
Radionoise. To commemorate Den Neuser's 35th birthday on October 12, 2020, Den Noiser Memorial Archive, Glasir CDR Series and YAOP have co-released the previously unissued 2009 Galaxy The Incubator's album "Invisible Strike (Semitransparent)", which has been discovered more than 10 years later in the Valgriind archives. A dense and massive Droning Radionoise, dedicated to the history of the world's first long-range ballistic missile "V-2", its development and experience in combat use. Given the importance of space topic in Den's work, the concept of an album dedicated to the rocket that laid the foundation for all astronautics is not at all coincidental for GTI. Rare photos of "V-2" were provided from the collection of the famous researcher and thinker Katarij. [label info]
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GALAXY THE INCUBATOR -- "UFO are Messengers of Satan" -- CD-R -- €7 [-50%]
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]
GALDRAREYNIR -- "Gal anda vidR" -- CD-R -- €5 [-50%]
2012 self-released, (ltd. 96)
Ritual Ambient. Young Russian project "inspired by old nordic mythology, traditional poetry and esoteric practices of ancient north... " Dark ritual ambient, 6 tracks and about 50 minutes filled with the sounds of shaman's drum, pipes, mouth harp, mysterious incantations, incomprehensible and indefinite noises. Technically the quality of recording isn't that high, but the atmosphere doesn't become weaker, on the contrary, with this kind of monolithic sound material this only adds some true liveness and rawness, this even resembles some kind of chtonic interpretation of the music from Finnish label Aural Hypnox. The last track with its crazy exorcist samples only adds a couple od drops of insanity to the overall gloomy picture.
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GALDRAREYNIR -- "Gal Anda VidR / Modra Wyrta" -- CD -- €10
2012/2020 Valgriind, VG63 / Garðarsk Uruz, URUZ ᚲ
Ritual / Dark Ambient. Garðarsk Uruz continues to explore the Nordic heritage of the Volkhov area, this time in cooperation with the brother label Valgriind, addressing to the works of the unique Ritual Ambient project GaldrareyniR from the ancient city of Holmgard (Veliky Novgorod), which hardly has any analogues on the world music scene. Dense and raw like swamped forests on the banks of the Volkhov river, a ritual canvas saturated with the live sounds of traditional instruments, inspired by the runic practices and the tradition of Edda. Having joined forces, the two labels have released the full discography of GaldrareyniR on two factory CDs, as his works were previously released only on self-made CD-Rs. The first CD includes the full-length album "Gal Anda VidR" from 2012 and a previously unreleased 15-minute track "Modra Wyrta". Jewel case. [label info]
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GALDRAREYNIR -- "SolarLjod" -- CD-R -- €5 [-50%]
2014 self-released, (ltd. 48)
Ritual Ambient. Second album of this Russian chtonic ritual project. From the very first minutes the listener gets sucked into a tight cavern of ventral saound, in a foggy veil of which one can feel rhythms, splutter of mouth harp, flute and guitar howls and mutter of endless incantations. Sometimes the texture of sound becomes more clear and spirits manifest themselves from emptiness, but mostly the matter flows like dense jelly and all images come out of focus. Recommended to the lovers of dark ritual psychedelia.
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GALDRAREYNIR -- "SolarLjod" -- CD -- €10
2014/2020 Valgriind, VG64 / Garðarsk Uruz, URUZ ᚷ
Ritual / Dark Ambient. The second disc from the reissue of the full archive of works of the Volkhov-area project GaldrareyniR contains its second full-length album "SolarLjod", originally released in 2014 as a small edition DIY CD-R. Nordic ritual action full of hypnotic vibrations of a mouth harp and a tambourine, dark forestal drones and an abundance of raw guitar clangs accompanying runic spells. Jewel case. [label info]
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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 -- "Omega Point" -- CD-R -- €7
2012 Ufa Muzak, UFA 48, (ltd. 77)
Apocalyptic black harsh shoegaze. Along the metal walls of a small room slide the long shadows like interwined snakes. But there is nothing here and never have been, in this hazardous organic environment existence is impossible. Temperature heats up and steam swirls in white clouds. Gnash comes from the cracks in the floor and ceiling, someone tries to penetrate from the outside and strikes with great force with large-tonnage constructions. Sometimes noise becomes unbearable and the room shakes from waves of sonic pressure. Weightless like vapour this album of Ganzer streams from long huge rusty pipes randomly thrown on the ground. This hot smoke clogs the throat and tears the lungs. There is movement inside the pipes, soon it should come out. Half an hour of heavy waiting, listening deeply the harsh splashes of noise. The device indicator shows the way. There is nothing and has never been, in this metal box, in this prison, only an embossed inscription on the wall: your name and two dates, of your birth and your death. 6 tracks, 33 minutes, 6-panel cardboard sleeve with a rope and sticker. [press-release]
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GARET, RICHARD -- "Silver" -- CD -- €8
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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GARISH_CYBORG -- "2004-2006 selected tracks vol.1-3" -- CD-R -- €5 [-50%]
2014 Kill Ego, KLLG002, (ltd. 50)
IDM / Leftfield / Experimental Electronics from the Moscow-based underground polystylistical project.
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GARISH_CYBORG -- "Echo Sessions" -- CD-R -- €5 [-50%]
2014 Kill Ego, KLLG004, (ltd. 50)
Dub Techno from the Moscow-based underground polystylistical project.
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GARISH_CYBORG -- "Gradieren" -- CD-R -- €5 [-50%]
2013 Kill Ego, KLLG001, (ltd. 50)
Guitar Ambient from the Moscow-based underground polystylistical project.
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GARISH_CYBORG -- "Mermecolion" -- CD-R -- €5 [-50%]
2014 Kill Ego, KLLG005, (ltd. 50)
Dub / Reggae from the Moscow-based underground polystylistical project.
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GARISH_CYBORG -- "Second Sun" -- CD-R -- €5 [-50%]
2014 Kill Ego, KLLG003, (ltd. 50)
Experimental Electronics / IDM / Ambient from the Moscow-based underground polystylistical project.
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GARISH_CYBORG -- "Unification" -- CD-R -- €5 [-50%]
2014 Kill Ego, KLLG007, (ltd. 50)
Dubstep / Acid Electronics from the Moscow-based underground polystylistical project.
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GAS CHAMBER -- "The Filth at the Bottom of the Barrel..." -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Mask Of The Slave, MS-023, (ltd. 60)
Great new Power Electronics, Noise band from UK. CD-R in normal slim-jewel case limited to 60 copies. [label info]
GASPARIN, GI & ANDREINI, JACOPO -- "Il Giro del Mondo in 80 Pezzi" -- CD-R -- €7 [-50%]
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]
GASPAROTTI, GABRIELE / CIULLINI, DANIELE / STANCATI, MARIO LINO -- "Portraits" -- CD -- €12 [-50%]
2021 Unexplained Sounds Group, USG069, (ltd. 200)
Experimental / Ambient / Electroacoustic. Portraits is a new series from Unexplained Sounds Group focusing on electronic and electro-acoustic music composers. Each release creates a 'portrait' of three musicians by showcasing representative pieces of their recent musical journeys, serving as a guide for further listening and a means of exploring their work. This first volume is dedicated to three Italian musicians: Gabriele Gasparotti, Daniele Ciullini, and Mario Lino Stancati. Gasparotti and Stancati are among the most talented emerging musicians on the Italian experimental scene, while Ciullini is a veteran of the post-industrial underground who, after a very long silence, returned to music in 2012. [label info]
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GEKATA -- "Ancaris" -- CD-R -- €5 [-50%]
2018 MIC Label, MIC 003
Industrial / Electro. The new album of GEKATA opens a new page in the ritual experiment of Natalia Korotaeva, started in the distant 2002. This time the melancholy of somnambulic noise constructions is accompanimented by beat, binding all this dense monochrome gothic ligature into a uniform mechanism of submission... Eight tracks - eight steps of immersion into the worlds full of fear and despair, and at the same time with desire to know all things on Earth - worthy of all respect. Anyway, it's better to listen by yourself, plunge into the atmosphere and feel everything. [label info] A project closely related to the Russian industrial / electro / EBM bands HOLOCODER and TORCH PROJECT.
GELSOMINA + NO XIVIC -- "Furnace" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
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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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 TRANSMISSION -- "s/t" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
1997/2016 Zoharum, ZOHAR 130-2, (ltd. 200)
Musique Concrete / Sound Collage. As the first one in GT Archive Series, we release the debut material entitled simply "Genetic Transmission" released earlier on an OBUH tape in 1997. Now enriched and mastered by Tomasz Twardawa. It has been 20 years since its first release, but the recordings of sonic search still sound fresh and intriguing. We will find here compositions kept in the characteristic style of GT: harsh, metallic sounds, a mechanical structure, brut collages created using only analog sources and recorded in exactly the same manner - without the use of computers. In these dense structures, the artist concluded his entire manifesto, a declaration of his own research which has been developed consistently through his next sessions. "Genetic Transmission 1" is the starting point of your adventure with this project. This reissue is strictly limited to 200 copies. [label info]
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GENETIC TRANSMISSION -- "Ascetic" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
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 -- "Chrzaszcz Brzmi W Trzcinie" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2006/2016 Zoharum, ZOHAR 131-2, (ltd. 200)
Musique Concrete / Sound Collage. The second in GT Series Archive is the album entitled "Chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie" (A beetle buzzes in the reed - a Polish tounge twister), originally published on a CDR on Tochnit Aleph in 2006. In a short time it was sold out and practically until today the material has not been available in any other form. "Chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie" is a recording of the session based on the most primal sound sources which are only arranged in a suitable structures so that they form a concise material; however, they remained unchanged and no post-production was applied to them. The album consists of 6 compositions, about 60 minutes of industrial sound space characteristic of the work of Genetic Transmission. This reissue is strictly limited to 200 copies. [label info]
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GENETIC TRANSMISSION -- "Kapuke / Music For Vienna Aktionists" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2003/2019 Zoharum, ZOHAR 170-2, (ltd. 200)
Experimental. Consistently continuing the GT Archive publishing series, here is its sixth installment... On the album you will find recordings from two releases: "Kapuke" and "Music for Vienna Aktionists". The first part, originally released under the names Twardawa / Jankowski on MCDR, is a recording of sessions based on a large part of the prepared piano sounds and vocals. In fact, three people took part in the recording; Barbara's female voice appears as a guest. The second part of the album consists of seven tracks released originally on CDR, which was the first attempt at creating the soundtrack to the silent films of individual performative actions of the Vienna Actionists (including Otto Muehl and Günter Brus). At the same time, it was possible to present the material live together with moving pictures. Today one can enjoy the document to that event again... This reissue is strictly limited to 200 copies. [label info]
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GENETIC TRANSMISSION -- "Spójrzcie Пожалуйста, Jakie Piękne Macie Gęby" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2002/2018 Zoharum, ZOHAR 170-2, (ltd. 200)
Experimental / Musique Concrète. We are consistently continuing our reissue series, aimed at reminding the most important materials from the large discography of Genetic Transmission. As the fifth in a row, we present the album "Spójrzcie Пожалуйста, Jakie Piękne Macie Gęby" originally released on CDR by D.S.B.M.W. in 2002. The sound of this album is composed of oscillate in the fields Tomasz Twardawa's project has already been known for (brutism, plunderphonics, field recordings, industrial). Unlike previous sessions, we find here many more experiments referring to cut-up techniques (in the tradition of NURSE WITH WOUND), sound preparation using (for the first time in the history of GENETIC TRANSMISSION) a computer, or building a kind of narrative that forms a sonic story without unambiguous content. The album was reissued in an ecopak and is limited to 200 copies only. [label info]
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GENETIC TRANSMISSION -- "Strychnina (Music For Acoustic Installations)" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2005/2020 Zoharum, ZOHAR 207-2, (ltd. 200)
Musique Concrète / Industrial. It has become a sort of tradition that every year during first days of autumn we release at least one part out of GT Archive Series. Keeping this tradition alive we present you seventh instalment of this series that is “Strychnina”. “Strychnina” being one of the most important albums in vast Genetic Transmission discography, originally was released in 2005 as CD-R via his own imprint Die Schöne Blumen Musik Werk. It consists of 2 compositions about 20 min each. Limited edition of 200 copies in 4 panel ecopack. [label info]
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GENETIC TRANSMISSION / MOAN -- "Collaboration 1" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2003/2017 Zoharum, ZOHAR 149-2, (ltd. 200)
Zoharum continues the GT Archive Series where we reissue and save from oblivion the most interesting recordings from the sumptuous discography of GENETIC TRANSMISSION, most of which appeared exclusively on CDRs in strictly limited quantities. As the third one in this series is the recording which, as the title indicates, is the effect of a collaboration with another project from the Silesian region - MOAN. All the sounds were interestingly developed by both artists. Each of them exchanged sound snippets to arrange them in their own way. Then the entirety was subjected to the final mix and mastering to appear on a CDR back in 2003. The album was reissued in an ecopak and is limited to 200 copies only. [label info]
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GEROSTENKORP -- "Terre Brulee" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
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]
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GEROSTENKORP & NEON RAIN -- "Io Non Ho Paura" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
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]
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GERRARD, LISA & MARCELLO DE FRANCISCI -- "Departum" -- CD -- €14
2010/2018 Infinite Fog Productions, IF-84
Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner singer/composer Lisa Gerrard (Dead Can Dance) and film composer Marcello De Francisci have joined forces to bring you their first collaborative album work titled "Departum". This album is a collection of pieces, which are filled with lyrical soundscapes, orchestrated with vocal chants, cimbalom, guitars, percussion, modern instruments and orchestra. An effort that took two years in the making moreover a journey inspired by ancient world cultures (Mesopotamia, Europe & Asia)... After the groundbreaking album "The Trail Of Genghis Khan" written in collaboration with an Australian artist Cye Wood, Lisa Gerrard returns to Infinite Fog with the long-awaited complete extended edition of the album "Departum". Highest quality sound, ambient drifts, soft tribal rhythms, touching melodies of Cymbylom and 144-Strings Yang Chin played by Lisa Gerrard and transcendental vocals. All this gives even more in sum and makes "Departum" pure pleasure listening... The album recorded with Marcello De Francisci, a well-known American composer /visual artist with an Italian-Argentinean background, based in Los Angeles, California. Marcello De Francisci is a big name in soundtracks industry, in 2006 he won the best soundtrack of the year G.A.N.G. award for his work on SCEA's "God of War" game. His music has been used in major theatrical movie trailers such as "Avatar", "Prince Of Persia", "Monsters VS Aliens", "Seven Pounds", "Hellboy" to name a few. Moreover, we can remember his mesmerizing music in the sequel to "Baraka" art-house documentary, "Samsara". In 2009, Marcello and Lisa started to work together and recorded several soundtracks for major and art-house movies. Besides that, their creativity also found a realization in a common album "Departum" which became one of the most top-rated albums in Lisa Gerrard discography. Attentive listener may remember Marcello as co-creator Lisa Gerrard's album "Twilight Kingdom"... CD released in a digipak with massive 20 pages booklet. [label info]
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GERRARD, LISA & CYE WOOD -- "The Trail Of Genghis Khan" -- CD -- €13
2010/2017 Infinite Fog Productions, IF-75
With the greatest pleasure Infinite Fog Prod. presents "The Trail Of Genghis Khan" by Lisa Gerrard & Cye Wood! Whatever you know about Mongolia, hardly you could tell more than an Australian traveler Tim Kop, who left 3 years of his life in the marvelous Mongolian steppes, certainly taking with him far more impressions than many can take in his entire life. The film about this nomadic journey was released by the ABC Television Group, and has received many awards, including National Geographic (Australian Geographic)... The album ‘The Trail of Genghis Khan’ made by Cye Wood in collaboration with Lisa Gerrard sourced from material that Lisa and Cye produced for the documentary series ‘The Trail of Genghis Khan’. This album is an emotive interpretation of Tim Cope’s epic journey on horseback from Mongolia to Hungary. Drawing on inspiration from this rugged & majestic landscape and the culture & inhabitants of this unique part of the world, they have allowed their intuition to be the guiding force in the creation of these works... Lisa Gerrard, widely known for her magical voice, by the work in Dead Can Dance and the grandiose soundtracks, together with the Australian violinist multi-instrumentalist Cye Wood, currently based in Berlin, portrayed the emotions and impressions of the epic journey in musical form... Cye and Lisa, both extraordinary musicians who have devoted their entire lives to music since the early years, and it's no surprise that they could find the perfect mutual understanding and create such a wonderful album worthy of being named one of the best in the discography of both authors. Cye already had experience working with Lisa Gerrard as a violinist on her solo album "The Black Opal" 2009. And a year later the first full-length joint work "The Trail of Genghis Khan" was ready. Charming melodies, excellent arrangements, perfectly balanced atmosphere and a bewitching plot of songs, all this in a compartment with the inimitable vocals of Lisa Gerard is "The Trail of Genghis Khan". [label info]
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GEYCHENKO, SERGEY -- "Text" -- CD -- €7
2011 Frozen Light, FZL 001, (ltd. 200)
Second album of the Moscow based composer, poet, writer, etc. Sergey Geychenko. A conceptual musical tapestry based on Sergey's literature works (also featuring poems by Pushkin and Khlebnikov). Musically this is somewhere between industrial, noise-ambient, folk and classical music, based on a solid rock'n'roll platform. Sergey has recorded and performed almost all parties by himself (from piano and guitars to washing bowls, gates and solo on a rake comb)... Many surprises are waiting for the attentive listener! [label info]
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GIFFONI, CARLOS -- "Severance" -- CD -- €10
2010 Hospital Productions, HOS-253
After developing his calling card on Adult Life and The Eternal releases, Carlos Giffoni defines his signature with compositional electronic music. Melding the analog drone colliding tonality of the past expressions and inducing minimalist sequencer details, a pure electronic landscape is cultivated that nurtures the formation a man makes in stepping from the mysteries of youth into adulthood. [label info]
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GINTAS K -- "Dimensions" -- CD -- €8 [-50%]
2016 Frozen Light, FZL 042, (ltd. 300)
“Dimensions” by Lithuanian composer Gintas K was prepared as a live-in-studio recording to be presented at ISEA2015 (The 21st International Symposium on Electronic Art) during the main exhibition program “Immersive Sound Room”; Vancouver, Canada, August 14-18, 2015. “Dimensions” was created and performed using Plogue Bidule software and various VST plugins. The plugins were assigned and controlled by midi keyboard and midi controllers. All the elements were played live and engaged with improvisation, granules, noise and the computer as instrument. Relationships are formed between composed, live playing, improvisation, and generative software. Similarly, connections are made between vintage electroacoustic, digital noise and a soft touch. [label info]
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GINTAS K / DAVID ELLIS / SIMON TYSZKO, MASAYUKI IMANISHI, DASEIN -- "Radical Demos #3: Electronics, Montage, Noise" -- 2 CD-R -- €7
2013 Observatoire, obs * RD#3, (ltd. 100)
Disc I contains 2 tracks made by collaboration of GINTAS K, DAVID ELLIS & SIMON TYSZKO and 5 tracks by MASAYUKI IMANISHI. Disc II contains 3 tracks by DASEIN... David Ellis describes himself as a 'Culturalist' or 'Rogue Enthusiast'. He is an occasional actor, writer, journalist, film curator, broadcaster & advocate of marginalised artists. The vocal elements of Gintas K's compostion or 'Unsong' were recorded ad-hoc at the Beaconsfield Arch Space, London by David Ellis & Simon Tyszko during Tyszko's exhibition 'Unfunfair' - an assemblage of Sonic sculptures including defunct machines, a rewired analog record-player & Neon. At the invite of Tyszko to "step-up to the mic" Ellis a regular collaborator, began singing in "the quasi crooning, sentimental style of his Fathers generation, though in the more slightly off-the-cuff, off-key manner of our Uncles after two or three beers". Tyszko then joined him in a duet. Plus "....at some point as I was singing I started to feel queasy, unsettled, whilst at the same time liberated from my taste for syncopation, dissonance & rupture etc. When we were fondling the mic, belting-out these bit's of half-remembered songs from a Post-War period there was nothing ironic in our delivery. None. It came from the heart. From our hearts & the technology. From the microphone, from somewhere else"... 5 tracks by MASAYUKI IMANISHI recorded using radio and paper plus field recording... The material by DASEIN was recorded under the influence of a trip to Vietnam. Presented tracks are an attempt to rethink the Vietnamese traditional music in line with sound art. In addition to the modern sound processing also used authentic musical instruments. [label info]
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GITANE DEMONE QUARTET -- "Past The Sun" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2016 Dark Vinyl, DV72
There are a lot of known variables to the members of the GITANE DEMONE QUARTET. The precision punk chording of RIKK AGNEW (Adolescents / Christian Death / Social Distortion). The dexterous textured and sophisticated keyboard work of Paul Roessler (The Screamers / 45 Grave / Nina Hagen Band). The nimble and persuasive percussion electronics of DEB VENOM (Aunty Trust). And the fore, the voice like no other, the darkly compelling and poetic wailing of GITANE DEMONE (Christian Death / The Crystelles). Together they generate a unique sound seeming with vitality and rich in imagination thar far outstrips the sum of ist parts. Flirting with the most aggressive and surreal elements of each of their past projects, the GITANE DEMONE QUARTET stirs a violent cauldron that splashes out far beyond parameters of any genre expected of them. They haunt. They rock. They love. [label info]
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GLASBERG -- "Utrennik" -- CD-R -- €6
2008 ElectroIndustria, 11EINDr, (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 -- "Ogre" -- CD-R -- €7 [-50%]
2007 self-released
Collage electro aggro-industrial from France. Wild and energetic, but often non-structural music, compiled from noises, rhythms and heavy guitar samples.
GLAUKOM SYNOD -- "Uczulony" -- CD-R -- €2 [-50%]
self-released
Schizoid electro-industrial from France with sampled metal parts.
GLAUKOM SYNOD / STIGMA DIABOLICUM -- split -- CD-R -- €7
2007 self-released, (ltd. 100)
Mutual remixes of two French projects sound like a full-length album of the darkest Death Industrial, sometimes crawling down to the blackened ambient, sometimes - to wild PE. Sleeve. [YAOP]
GNAW THEIR TONGUES -- "Eschatological Scatology" -- CD -- €13
2012/2015 Infinite Fog Productions, IF-54, (ltd. 450)
Black Industrial / Noise. First time on CD, the most mentioned album of this cult, darkest project from the Netherlands. The experimental, ambient, and frighteningly noisy musical project Gnaw Their Tongues moves into more of a straight up extra harsh, noisy black metal vibe with this new release, and it's lead to a much more intense experience. [label info]
[bandcamp]
GNAW THEIR TONGUES -- "Per Flagellum Sanguemque, Tenebras Veneramus" -- CD -- €10
2011 Crucial Blast, CBR93
Per Flagellum Sanguemque, Tenebras Veneramus. Roughly translated, with blood and whip, we worship the dark. This is the latest collection of atrocities from Gnaw Their Tongues, an eight song investigation into the rites and rituals that emerge from the copper-scented frenzy of the serial killer, the obsessive acts of death worship enacted by those that live on the edge of abyss, the limits of experience sought by black cults. The sound is, as always, immensely heavy, with fractured drums and tunderous tympani skins reverberating within a maelstrom of seething black doom, screeching classical strings, horns, piano, and some of the most vomitous vocals imagineable. However, Per Flagellum Sanguemque is marked by the most frenetic percussive attack that we have heard from Gnaw Their Tongues, with volleys of chaotic drumming, fractured blasts, and maniacally complex patterns that sometimes seem to border on free-jazz drumming... [label info]
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GNAWED -- "Pestilence Beholden" -- CD -- €10
2016 Malignant Records, TumorCD97
Since its inception in 2009, Grant Richardson’s Gnawed has propelled itself into the top tier of heavy electronics and death industrial with a stream of high quality releases over a variety of formats. For his 3rd full length disc, Pestilence Beholden, the template set forth by prior works remains intact, but is dragged down into an even darker space, this time enriched by added layers of foreboding atmospherics and foggy ambience. Make no mistake, this is Gnawed through and through, but Pestilence Beholden is even more sculpted and refined than before, finding an intersection between tensile dread and controlled aggression, as ominous synth beds and throbbing drones are augmented with the cataclysmic reverberations, resonating scrapyard acoustics, and mechanized dirge you’ve come to expect. Recorded in industrial complexes in and around Minneapolis, the sound here is deep and immense, once again solidifying Gnawed in a category all their own. [label info]
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GNAWED -- "Terminal Epoch" -- CD -- €10
2012 Phage Tapes, PT:195, (ltd. 500)
Full length CD by the Minneapolis based power electronics project. Dude is out of control good. This disc contains a few different vocal styles, synth work, metal junks and a healthy dose of feedback. [label info]
[bandcamp]
GOAT THRON -- "Ultra Humiliate!" -- CD -- €7 [-50%]
2009/2012 A5 Production, AP013
Pagan Black Industrial / Dark Ambient duo from Lower Silesia, Poland. Reissue of the band's second album "Skrajne Upodlenie!" (originally a limited CDR from 2009 on Heerwegen Tod Production). Mechanical, sadistic and threatening blasts by Funeral, with obsessed and psychopathic vocals by Chaos (aka Walking Death). Ill and diabolic sounds with controversial content. Ritual screams, orgies, sadistic practices and torture, mixed with extreme sounds, created specifically for this project. "Who loves evil in every aspect, who loves to give pain and suffering". Nearly an hour of destructive music. Ukrainian import. [Cold Spring]
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GOATROPE -- "Walls" -- CD-R -- €5 [-50%]
2012 Smell The Stench, (ltd. 40)
Exactly an hour of muffled static black & white Harsh Noise Wall. Sleeve. [YAOP]
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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GONZALES, MARTINEZ -- "Dakstins" -- CD -- €6
2008 Lagunamuch Community, LMC555
Martinez Gonzalez is a multi-instrumental prodigy from Riga, Latvia. Dakstins (roof tiles) is his first solo work. Before this release Gonzalez took part and experimental music and jazz projects. Dakstins consists of pearl playing the strings of a human heart. The music is the basis, the mosaic of pictures from your dreams and fantasies. [label info]
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GORDUW -- "Vtoraya Chastt Istorii Feitnathorotha. Zemla. Tayga. Hvoyniy Thron Taygi" -- 2 CD-R -- €14 [-50%]
1996/2015 Torga Amun, Amun-085, (ltd. 20)
Black Ambient / Folvork Dark Ambient. This reissue of one of the albums of the legends of the Siberian underground. Digitizing the material was made from the original master tapes. Siberian brother Beherit unfolds before the listener picture virgin forests of the Siberian taiga. Sound austere, but confident. Sometimes there are reminiscences with Mortiis. This album - the story of arrival Folvorks on Earth. Folvorks - a special form of creatures. Folvorks also live among the people, but differ from them. Here tells the story of another alternate reality. It would seem that the material was irretrievably lost, but this album is like a magic stone that chthonic realm pushes into the sunlight, came to us from the past. This reissue used elements of the original design. 2 x pro-CDR, only 20 copies. Glossy envelope with two foto-inserts. The physical release contains unnamed bonus track. [label info]
[bandcamp]
GORDUW -- "XVII CIF. SS Army" -- CD-R -- €5
CVLMINIS, (ltd. 20)
78 min. Folvork Sympho Industrial / Dark Electronic With Elements Ambient, Noise, Beat… [Folvork] Reissue by CVLMINIS.
GORDUW -- "XVIII CIF. SS Medicine" -- CD-R -- €5
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]
GORDUW -- "XIX CIF. 30/15" -- CD-R -- €5
2011/2013 Kadaath Records, Kadaath 58, (ltd. 30)
79 min. It starts with rough ragged noise based on a batch of overwound effects of looped samples, which grows like an avalanche raving and then comes down to the valleys of more spacious structures, after all degrading to monotonous noise jelly hanging like an impenetrable fog. Persistent schizophrenic collages of mind-corroding voices, a short break and then again millstones start their work, grinding the common sense. Reissue by Kadaath Records.
GORDUW -- "XXIV CIF. Underground Dark Chill Out" -- CD-R -- €5
CVLMINIS, (ltd. 20)
GORODEZKII, YURA -- "2016" -- CD-R -- €5 [-50%]
self-released
Harsh Noise from the Moscow musician Yura Gorodezkii. Eight short tracks with a total duration of about 12 minutes. Hand-painted CD-R coves in a PVC-case with an attached photo and a collage insert.
GOROVOY, PROHOR -- "Don Juan" -- CD-R -- €5 [-50%]
2016/2017 Heart Shaped Box Prod., HSB-104, (ltd. 30)
Experimental / Ambient / Noise.
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GOROVOY, PROKHOR & ARSENY LITVIN -- "Zima" -- CD-R -- €5 [-50%]
2017 Paper Moon Republic, PMR_14, (ltd. 26)
Noise / Experimental. Mail collaboration of two Russian musicians from Sratov and Novosibirsk. 50-minute noise suite inspired by the poetry of Aleksei Kruchenykh. This canvas is full of details, it will lead you through the winter of futuristic dimensions: from barely heard to loud and widescale. We recommend listening in headphones on full volume. And hibernate. CD-R with printed surface, packed in a half-DVD-box. [label info]
[bandcamp]
GOVERNMENT ALPHA vs .NYCTALOPS. -- "Into The Stupor" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2012 Sickcore, SC24, (ltd. 250)
Psychedelic Harsh Noise split from Tokyo, Japan and Andreevka, Russia. Glossy digipak with collages made by Yasutoshi Yoshida.
[soundcloud] [soundcloud]
GOVERNMENT ALPHA / HIKARI NO OKA (THE HILL OF LIGHTS) -- "Schwingend / Obelisk" -- CD -- €10
2005 Licht-ung / Punk Kein Rock, (ltd. 300)
Split-CD featuring 6 pieces of high-pitched table-core harsh-noise by Government Alpha produced 2004-2005. German Licht-ung with one long minimal electronic piece plus 5 short blasts of harsh direct mic & effect noise. [Tochnit Aleph]
GOVERNMENT ALPHA / MSBR / NOTCHNOI PROSPECT -- "Japanoise Action in Russia" -- CD -- €10
1998/2019 Insofar Vapor Bulk, IVBCD13, (ltd. 100)
It was the first and the only performance of MSBR and Government Alpha in Moscow and also the first presentation of Japanese noise artists in Russia in general. The event, curated by Moscow based publisher and promoter Dennis Danchenko, took place at Moscow underground venue "Krai" (End/Edge). The supporting band was Moscow post-industrial formation Notchnoi Prospekt (Alexei Borisov, Richardas Norvilla, Roman Lebedev). The 3rd track of the album is a recorded jam between all participating musicians and some members of the audience, young underground musicians Roman Sidorov (Staruha Mha), Eugene Voronovsky (Cisfinitum) and Ivan Tikhomirov (Moscow Holocaust Soundtrack). The CD also contains a bonus section of 3 tracks of recycled material: Notchnoi Prospect reworking recordings of MSBR and Government Alpha, and T.A. Lab reworking MSBR. The artwork includes a replica of the original club's ticket.
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GRAND NORD -- "Cinq" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 Turgid Animal, TA105
GRASSOW, MATHIAS -- "Jericho" -- CD -- €12 [-50%]
2018/2021 GS Productions, GSP 320 / Nebosvod, (ltd. 100)
Ambient / Drone. Brandnew winter impression from the depths of old testimony. [from the author] Released as a 4-panel digipak, limited to 100 copies.
[bandcamp]
GRASSOW, MATHIAS -- "Vivamus Sit Potens" -- CD -- €12 [-50%]
2018/2021 GS Productions, GSP 321 / Nebosvod, (ltd. 100)
Ambient / Drone. «Vivamus Sit Potens» is a reminder of what man is and what he fails to be... a descent in ten stages... the way, the truth and the lie... [from the author] Released as a 4-panel digipak, limited to 100 copies.
[bandcamp]
GRASSOW, MATHIAS -- "The World Wars I & II - A Symphony Of Steel" -- 4 CD -- €25 [-50%]
2019 GS Productions / Небосвод, (ltd. 200)
Ambient. The topic of this new album has long been close to my heart. Both world wars significantly changed the world and still influence our daily lives today... No matter from which side one looks at these two wars, terrible atrocities would be committed everywhere. With this work I want to use the music as a non-verbal means of communication. I would like to transform bewilderment and dismay into inner peace and silence in the heart and wish that this has been achieved. Right now we are in such dire need of looking closely at what is happening politically with humans and the environment worldwide. This work, which I call my most important work, stands for forgiveness and love. It is dedicated to all the dead and suffering. It affects us all - everyone and everywhere. [from the author] 8-panel 4-CD digipak, comes with a poster.
[bandcamp]
GRASSOW, MATHIAS / BAGHIRI, AMIR / GLEISBERG, RUDIGER -- "Arcanum" -- CD -- €10
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 & CLOSING THE ETERNITY -- "s/t" -- CD -- €15
2016/2019 Aquarellist, aquarel 48-19, (ltd. 150)
Ambient / Drone. Reissue of the untitled album released on cassette in 2016 by ΠΑΝΘΕΟΝ as a limited edition of 77 copies. For this CD edition the new mix was made in January 2018. "Inspired by the astonishing nature of Ural region and folk stories from "The Malachite Box" cycle by Pavel Bazhov (goo.gl/dqDhSG), this collaboration between German drone maestro Mathias Grassow and prominent Russian project Closing The Eternity reveals thoroughly crafted aural world, where deep chthonic drones interact with huge ambiences and multiple percussion sounds. Constantly breathing, organic, always changing and yet truly monolithic sound, which tells stories about hidden secrets of the earth..." [from the original press-release]
GRASSOW, MATHIAS & JIRI MAZANEK -- "Inner Path" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
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]
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GRASSOW, MATHIAS & WEISS, THOMAS -- "Outland" -- CD -- €10
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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GREGORY -- "Restart Now" -- CD -- €7 [-50%]
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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GRIM MACHINE -- "Heterodoxa / Une Totale Midnight Chamber Music" -- CD-R -- €7 [-50%]
2017/2019 Concrete Noise, C.N.05, (ltd. 20)
Noise / Musique Concrète from Athens, Greece. Grim Machine is Alex M’s project, and the material runs from harsh to mysterious in quick order. One side of Heterodoxa is a studio assemblage, the other side is live and both go all over the place (although the live side’s more monolithic). Metal-edged noise generation gives way to babbling sound poetry, which evolves into musique concrète collaging and so on. Very neat. [The Wire] Reissue of a tape, previously released by the Greek labels E.C.T. / E.D.A. Records in 2017.
[bandcamp]
GRIM TALKERS -- "Built Sand Invasion" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2014 Gravity Swarm Recordings, UT-42 / Live.pro
Chapter IIII in the Grimm story - a meeting of Tokyo's BLAHMUZIK (aka BrothersGRIM) and GUILTY CONNECTOR. A crazy album that was waged in mid-winter, assembled in Zukazuka, in a Grimm hut quietly nested in the mountainous region. Sweeping, violent harsh noise; a dangerous noise storm, which may awaken unexpected anxiety. 7 tracks, 59 minutes of broken Japanese-made free music / noise Wave sounds. [Cold Spring]
GRIM TALKERS -- "Grimly City" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2013 Gravity Swarm Recordings, UT-40 / Live.pro
Tokyo's sampler ninja BLAHMUZIK a.k.a. BrothersGRIM meets GxCx's grimly harshest noise! Brain rotten overbearing stuck-up scum maggots puke up in the awful black rain in a grimy city, dissolute town. Japanese real nightmare sounds from the sickest island. [label info]
GRKZGL -- "Esque" -- 3"CD -- €5 [-50%]
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]
THE GROWING CRYSTALS LAB -- "Science Discoveries" -- 3"CD-R -- €10 [-50%]
2006 Old Europa Cafe, OECDR 016, (ltd. 150)
"The Growing Crystals Lab" was/is the line-up for the latest DBPIT live sets, including : Flavio DBPIT - winds, trumpet, noise; Annaconsuelo - vocals, percussions; Mario F.O.B. of Circus Joy - guitar; Steve Stroll of Ain Soph & Circus Joy - drums. The tracks on this album are 4 live-in-studio free improvisations choosen as the best tracks from a longer session recorded at Gatto Alieno Studios! The title of this album shows that this is a real pioneeristic experiment as the 4 members of the band had never played together before this session ... The final result is a series of very elegant & jazzy post-industrial, scientific & alien discoveries! Profesionally printed 3" mini CDR numbered on CD label and limited to 150 copies, special large cardboard box including insert + test-tubes with very dangerous "alien" substances for your own "alien" experiments.... "attenti al gatto alieno!" [press-release]
GROYXO / KRAFTVAERK 8000 -- split -- CD-R -- €7 [-50%]
2004 Perineum Productions, 005, (ltd. 111)
Experimental digital art noise from Japanese and Danish projects. The material is very loud but quite sophisticated and fascinating. Like always with Perineum label - very nice artwork made with love (handmade sleeve with an insert, all printed on art paper, handpainted disc). [YAOP]
GRUNDIK + SLAVA -- "Frogs" -- CD -- €7 [-50%]
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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GUIGNOL DANGEREUX / IVERSEN -- split -- CD-R -- €7 [-50%]
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]
GUILTY C. -- "Bottom Down" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2011 Gravity Swarm Recordings, UT-37, (ltd. 500)
Japanese noise inspired by: "Crowded towns and city networks... tinnitus in a ghost town... forgotten memories, vomiting and sinking into a stagnant river bed.. guitar feedback in the chilly rain... a putrid mess in the corner of a dirty town. Outbursts of chirping crickets in the night fog, harsh noise and drone... hellish rumbles from the earth and endless darkness.... black solitude harsh drone works". [label info]
GUILTY C. -- "Downpour Shammer" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2014 Gravity Swarm Recordings, UT-41, (ltd. 300)
Essential new album from Japan's GxCx (Filth The Sleep)! Harsh, powerful walls of noise, armoured with feedback and drones. "The relentless downpour in liar-deception, vanity, which has spread to the world... a high-quality, legitimate action and attitude that our people have started, such a rock demon, I will start cleaning the garbage! It's accusation rather than hate". A must listen for any noise fan! 6 tracks, 55 minutes. Comes in a fantastic A3 poster sleeve. [label info]
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GUILTY C. -- "Lands #2/#4" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2016 Gravity Swarm Recordings, UT-48, (ltd. 300)
Field Recordings / Experimental Ambient.
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GUILTY C. / .NYCTALOPS. -- "Audible Plague Menace" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2013 Sickcore, SC-26, (ltd. 300)
Harsh noise split between Japanese and Russian projects.
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GUILTY CONNECTOR -- "Mother's Bloated Corpse" -- CD -- €10
2003 Utsu Tapes, UT-25 / Deadline Recordings, DLR 272 / Membrum Debile Propaganda, MDP 5001-01
This album collects together the best tracks from various compilations and small run releases, as well as unreleased material from this multi-dimensional Japanese artist. Harsh noise, metal junk, collage and experimental sound recordings. A must for fans of GxCx and a perfect start for new fans too! J-card sleeve. [Cold Spring]
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]
GUNTER, BERNHARD -- "Impossible Grey" -- 3"CD -- €8 [-50%]
1997 Metamkine, MKCD 023
18 minutes of the electroacoustic noir, minutes of quite hiss on the edge of complete silence, exploding with bass thunder and industrial clangor, pierced by abstract rustles and drones. Release from the famous series "Cinema for Ears" from Metamkine. [YAOP]
GYAKUSATSU & CARLOS VILLENA -- "Harmonices Mundi" -- CD-R -- €7 [-50%]
2013 Marbre Negre, MN016 / Mantricum Records, mantricum 026, (ltd. 100)
Dark Ambient / Industrial / Noise. Marbre Negre and Mantricum Records present the new stuff by Gyakusatsu and Carlos Villena "Harmonices Mundi". The release is divided in 5 parts (part I by Gyakusatsu / part II by Carlos Villena / parts III, IV & V split between the bands). Excellent combination between the styles of both bands, noisy textures in an ambiental atmosphere. Harmonices Mundi is based upon the Johannes Kepler's theory of the universal movements according to geometrical models and musical scales, retaking the old topic of the celestial spheres and its universal music. [label info]
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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.W.R. / HATEKOD -- "Totenmarsch / Anti-NWO" -- CD-R -- €7
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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HAG-HAG-HAGAL -- "s/t" -- CD -- €4 [-50%]
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. 2nd edition in digipak.
HAIKU FUNERAL -- "Decadent Luminosity" -- 2 CD -- €12 [-50%]
2018 Aesthetic Death, ADCD 053
Industrial Metal / Dark Ambient. Brooding, mysterious, decadent Indian-influenced doom-industrial death-jazz ambient visions of shining celestial chandeliers thickly caked with smoke and grime, transcendence achieved through focused sexual depravity, and civilizations built upon slow-creeping inevitable decay. Although aspects of the music remind me of Skinny Puppy or Frontline Assembly performed on stages shrouded with moldering velvet curtains, Haiku Funeral has a uniquely powerful, mind-blowing vision all their own. [Dave Aftandilian, bandcamp]
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HAIKU FUNERAL -- "Hallucinations" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2016 Aesthetic Death, ADCD 034, (ltd. 1000)
Industrial Metal / Dark Ambient. Dark visitations from syncopated, hypnotic, lysergic and erotic rites - musick and magick are intertwined and explored. Released as a digipak with 12-page booklet including poetry, apocalyptic art & photos. [label info]
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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 -- €7 [-50%]
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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HALL, FRANK -- "I Remember You (Original Soundtrack)" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2020 Cold Spring, CSR287CD
Dark Ambient / Industrial / Neoclassical. We are extremely proud to release the official soundtrack to the cult Icelandic horror film 'I REMEMBER YOU' (Is: "Ég man þig"). Heavy dark ambient / industrial / orchestral soundscapes composed by Frank Hall, with a beautiful, solemn, folkloristic finale featuring Icelandic choirs. The soundtrack was created at the old industrial area of Grandi in Reykjavík, at a studio due to be 'gentrified' and forcefully emptied of the artists. "I was alone in this large building in this deserted area, working late hours, making music for a horror movie. It was during winter... wind blowing, darkness. There were some tense moments... As soon as I read the script I heard low brass in my head and that kind of stuck. We used a lot of brass instruments, filtered and processed throughout. I also ended up using a lot of bowed guitar, sometimes doubling the brass, sometimes more like a sound effect..." Hall also used analogue synths on the special climactic track "Montage". 'I Remember You' is based on the internationally acclaimed novel by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, the "Queen of Icelandic Crime". A must for fans of Graeme Revell, Steven Price, Lustmord, MZ.412. Digipak. [label info]
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HAMNSKIFTE -- "Fodzlepijnan" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2012 Myrkr, 1-2012, (ltd. 1000)
Black Metal / Folk / Drone Doom / Ambient. First record from a mysterious Swedish duo, whose sound is inspired by, according to the band themselves, Burzum, Earth, Skepticism, Nortt and Trollmann Av Ildtoppberg. But imagine those influences channeled into something more medieval sounding, and WAY more post rocky, a sort of droning medieval slowcore laid beneath softly buzzing metallic rumble and shimmer, and you'll get an idea of Hamnskifte's sound. This is drone and ultimately slow meditative Black Metal with hypnotic medieval folk melodies recorded with guitars, drums, bass, organ, bodhran drum, bells and some self-invented percussion instruments. Originally released to the world in the spring of 2010 by, now-defunct, American label Starlight Temple Society, as a limited edition of 125 copies. [label info]
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HARVEST RAIN -- "Blood Hymns" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2006 OPN, OPN CD 05
Neofolk. These Midnight Sessions began within the Winter Solstice and the recordings continued during the 12 Nights of Yule in 2002. 'Blood Hymns' is a personal soundtrack to the search for Thule/Hyperborea. The Spirit's journey back to the lost homeland. A "musical diary" of the blood answering the Pull of Magnetic North's Most Northerly Midnight. Where one finds the 13th Hour. These Midnight Sessions began after 'A Frost Comes with the Wind' and should be considered the follow-up to that album. The largest line-up for a Harvest Rain album yet. Special preparations and work with the Chilean artist Juan Almarza Anwandter of Der Arbeiter without whom this album would not be. 'Blood Hymns' is for all those on the Path of A-MOR. Expect simply the best with this new collection of heathen folk music anthems... [press-release]
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HARVEST RAIN -- "Nightwave" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2015 OPN Records, OPNCD0029, (ltd. 300)
Brand new album from French Neofolk / Electro act Harvest Rain. "The Path, like untamed fruit, is rotten, withered, decayed and deceased. Like a bloated body left out in the open sun. The fruit ferments... There is nothing in this world more beautiful than the moment when a human soul has been shredded, crucified endlessly, tormented, driven insane, beat and spat upon, torn into a trillion pieces, and all of this alone with no one to share or to know of it and to then be made anew, to receive the Consolamentum and brought back together, whole, complete, absolute, Resurrected. Could there possibly be anything more beautiful? Yes. I am one of the few who survived that Path. By the Absolute Loyalty of Divine Love. "She" in the flesh. "Her" footsteps are real, now and forever. For that is Her breath with mine in the Muse-ic of this album. The Serpent swallowed it's Tail. The Final Test. The Final Turn of the Wheel. There will be no more. For, behold! It is Done!". 6-panel digisleeve. [Cold Spring]
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HASEGAWA, HIROSHI & OPENING PERFORMANCE ORCHESTRA -- "Fraction Elements" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2016 E-Klageto, Exklageto 06, (ltd. 500)
Noise / Experimental / Sound Art. 'NO MELODY - NO RHYTHM - NO HARMONY - THIS IS FRACTION MUSIC' - the amazing 'digital deconstructivists' O.P.O from Prague collaborate with the 'cosmic' Japanese analogue noiser (aka ASTRO + former member of C.C.C.C. ), the three long tracks (one each by HASEGAWA and O.P.O + the main collab piece "Terrestrial Lightness") show their "pure drone/sound/noise" approach, the BORDERS ARE FLUENT = overwhelming CD with massively morphing and transforming drone noises!! [Drone Records]
HASEGAWA, HIROSHI / POSITIVE ADJUSTMENTS -- "Cryptic Void" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2013 4iB Records, 4iB CD/1013/004, (ltd. 250)
This split release features two long time experimental noise artists: Hiroshi Hasegawa and Positive Adjustments (Krister Bergman), both whom hail from different regions of the world: Japan and Sweden and being specially curated for this album. Cryptic Void displays the unique qualities of each artist’s personal creative expressions in the field of sound manipulation. Independently, they both deliver their own trademark styles of audio mayhem that have been personally developed and reinvented over the years through active participation in the experimental noise scene. [label info]
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HATED BRUIT KOLLEKTIV -- "Aktion One" -- CD-R -- €7 [-50%]
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 -- "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 -- "Metanous" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2015 Zoharum, ZOHAR 105-2, (ltd. 400)
"Metanous" is HATI's third album on Zoharum, but the first one including new material. Two years after releasing "Wild Temple" CD (MonotypeRec., 2013) the band is back with a new album which is a summary of the period 2011-2012 when the musicians performed as a trio of Rafal Iwanski, Rafal Kolacki and Robert Darowski. It's the next time in their history when the duo changed their line-up to expand the sonic formula and create music of a slightly different nature. In the case of "Metanous" the weight of percussion is balanced by the sound of the didgeridoo which exists here not so much as an addition, but a fully-fledged instrument. As usual, you can hear many other instruments making up the sonic world of HATI from the very beginning of the band. Here you can find gongs, drums, bells, found objects, horns and other wind instruments. The sound generated in this new interaction is rich, song structures are usually complex, often based on a dialogue of characteristic gong-based rhythms with didgeridoo and several other instruments played by Robert Darowski. Here are also acoustic drone explorations, equally important in the music of the group. Once again HATI reveals a new, hidden face. By re-building their line-up or inviting new members or collaborators (so far they include Z'EV, Dariusz Brzostek, Slawomir Ciesielski), Rafal Iwanski and Rafal Kolacki still explore new sonic areas. "Metanous" is the transformation (of the mind); the word 'meta' (Latin) means as much as the boundary, the end, the turning point. In the case of HATI, it is in fact the end of that period for Torun musicians. The group will never return in such a configuration again. This album is a recording of an interesting period of the group included in seven compositions recorded for the purpose of this release... The cover is designed by Tomek Mirt. The album is mastered by Lukasz Miernik. The CD is housed in a digipak and the album is strictly limited to 400 copies. [press-release]
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HAVOC1986 -- "Anti-Life Wind / Lair Of Macabre" -- CD-R -- €4 [-50%]
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]
HAVOHEJ -- "Kembatinan Premaster" -- CD -- €10
2009 Hells Headbangers, HELLS 033
Black Metal / Ambient / Avantgarde. The second full-length album is now complete! Deemed to be the grand master of unholy darkness and black perversion, "Kembatinan Premaster" destroys all past work & is the definite Havohej ritual to be observed by ALL devotees of the genre. Easily the ultimate contender on the bestial black throne of metal to deliver such complete utter fucking darkness so very few can capture. "Kembatinan Premaster" is a single meditation consisting of 8 parts in 37 minutes of total fucking blackness with acclaimed black vocal vomits and signature style profanatic percussion. This is the continuation of the now classic Ledney atrocities committed in 1993 and yet again breaking major ground 16 years later. [press-release]
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HAZARDA BRUO SONSISTEMO / ROMUTUS / TYHJIO / SMALL UNNECESSARY OBJECTS -- "Kolari" -- CD -- €7
2018 Ei Armua
4-way split CD of contemporary noise from Finland. HAZARDA BRUO SONSISTEMO = harsh junk. ROMUTUS = noise grindcore. TYHJIØ = harsh electronix. SMALL UNNECESSARY OBJECTS = industrial misery. [label info]
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HE WOULD DROWN -- "Music To Wreck To" -- CD -- €10
2004 Noise Control Corp., NCC/9, (ltd. 500)
HEADDREAMER -- "From The Inside" -- CD -- €12 [-50%]
2021 Aliens Production, AP 56, (ltd. 100)
IDM / Industrial / Electro. Sonic visionary Headdreamer member of Aliens production and his latest colossus of atmosphere and emotion. The partial concept that was recorded on previous ep's and compilations is complemented by new cells and great collaborations. Melodic idm electronics immersed in emotions and beautiful landscapes. The name itself suggests where this atmospheric odyssey was born and how waves of melancholy come to the surface of this world. Even though you have a soul of dust and a mind overwhelmed with iron, this concept will definitely shake you up and it will turn on your music sensors. The sound was taken care again by great Anatoly (Tokee) Grinberg and the visual concept was set by the unique Ingo from the graphic workshop Spiel Sinn. This combination of music and design will remain immortal! [label info]
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HEADDREAMER -- "Human Frequencies" -- CD -- €8 [-50%]
2014 Aliens Production, AP 29, (ltd. 333)
After many digital releases comes project Headdreamer with his new production and his modern sound will not leave any fan of ambient music unheeded. Melodic lines in down tempo rhythms and magical atmospheres are rolling the emotional canals of the listener. Many mysterious atmospheres, spherical elements and unmistakable atmospheres from dISHARMONY member. This listening discloses many uncharted corners and many interesting collaborations from projects like Huron, Esoteric sob, Ish, Stasis Device, Rentip, Lucidstatic, Basementgrrr... [press-release]
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HEAL -- "Starting Back" -- CD -- €7 [-50%]
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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HEDOROMERUHEN -- "Airs" -- CD-R -- €7 [-50%]
2017 Attenuation Circuit, ACRS 1014, (ltd. 100)
Folk Noise / Absurd. Yasutoshi Yoshida (electronics noise artist aka GOVERNMENT ALPHA) and Daisuke Ichiba (Bijinga drawing artist) meet in Berlin 2012 for exhibition. They clicked together that making "Folk Music Noise" sound. Then they started to perform as HEDOROMERUHEN. They released the 1st album "1" with experimental acid folk noise sound in 2013. The 2nd album "2" with experimental psychedelic noise sound was released in 2014. Then the 3rd album "3" with new wave and electronics noise style was released in 2015. HEDOROMERUHEN were invited to LUFF 2016 in Lausanne, Switzerland, then they had small tour in Europa. They recorded a lot of sound materials on this tour, not only live sounds. Yoshida and Ichiba destroyed these sound materials, then they re-constructed new tracks as a "Fake Live Documentary". This is "Airs". [from the artists]
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HEGRE, JOHN -- "Colors Don't Clash" -- CD -- €9 [-50%]
2006 Dekorder, Dekorder 017, (ltd. 500)
Returning to his original instrument the electric guitar, Hegre has produced an extremely diverse album mutating from hypnotic computer-loop drones to some glorious free analogue noise, from abstract banjo-like sketches to thick washes of sludgy doom metal and roaring noise rock, from divine electroacoustic sounds to otherworldly country-esque and classical guitar picking, all within one track, and often all at once, with small and simple melodies lurking within huge drifts of sound. And not one element sounds out of place here, it’s rather like the collages of seemingly inappropriate bits and pieces create a totally unique surreal and creepy atmosphere. Dozens of small details suddenly appear from nowhere, transforming even the most brutal noise attacks into complex textural arrangements, making this the most essential guitar album of the year. [label info]
HEILBRON, JON -- "Pieces for Chord Organs" -- CD -- €9
2019 Intonema, int029, (ltd. 200)
This is the second Intonema release dedicated to organ works. The first, by Arturas Bumsteinas, was a post-composition of church organ improvisations. The Australian musician Jon Heilbron, who uses Bontempi portable chord organs in real time, works in a completely different way. In August 2018, he spent three weeks at the St. Petersburg Artist Residency, writing and honing his compositions. Both pieces on the album Pieces for Chord Organs fascinate and lead away from the everyday hustle and bustle: the layered sound of organs diffused throughout the room create beatings and harmonies hardly possible in other conditions. [label info]
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HEINZ HOPF -- "Gothenburg" -- CD -- €10<
2013 Triangle Records, TR-52 / Outcry / Random Monster, RanMon:1
After having delighted in a few excellent tapes and a LP it is time to enjoy this first CD of the duet from Gothenburg, Sweden. Dan Johansson and Matthias Andersson are some of the best at what they do. The noise is solid, dense like lead, free of intricate experiments and gloomy pathos. It is made of simplicity and power. Pure pleasure. [press-release]
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HEKSEMOTE -- "Abominio Celato" -- CD-R -- €5 [-50%]
2019 Red Engineering Production, REPR-10, (ltd. 20)
Occult Noise / Ambient Noise Wall / Dark Ambient project from Italy.
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HEKSEMOTE -- "Denne Kirkegården Tilhører Oss" -- 2 CD-R -- €10 [-50%]
2019 Red Engineering Production, REPR-09, (ltd. 20)
Occult Noise / Ambient Noise Wall / Dark Ambient project from Italy.
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HELDENTOD -- "The Ghost Machine" -- CD -- €10
2012 Cold Spring, CSR131CD
Death Industrial / Power Electronics. Heldentod began in 2005 as an outlet for research into the little-known corners of 20th-Century history. While previous recordings whiplashed between the traditional and the experimental, Heldentod's latest album leaves behind its neofolk and martial-industrial roots to focus solely on electronics, but maintains the fundamental sense of composition found in earlier incarnations. Although now primarily influenced by death industrial and power electronics, Heldentod looks to create the most suitable expression of its key themes, including ghosts, ancestor worship, human sacrifice, neolithic fertility rights, Iron Age religion, medieval literature, unseen dimensions, inhuman intelligences, and all manner of Forteana. [press-release]
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HERZ JUHNING -- "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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HEXAPOD -- "White Corridore" -- CD-R -- €5 [-50%]
2018 Red Engineering Production, REPR-04, (ltd. 20)
Industrial / Field Recordings / Musique Concrète. A project by the Ukrainian musician Pavel Burgela (DISPERSIVE LIGHT, KESAR, STIFF AND COLD). "HEXAPOD" in translation means "Six-legged". According to the author himself, this is a kind of fusion of living and non-living matter. A symbiosis of metal and flesh. Which is vividly represented in our modern urban landscape. "We go out into the street and before us reveals a horrible, ugly picture of sounds. Screeching, howling sirens and roaring engines, steps of thousands of pedestrians hurrying on their own business. In this artificial chaos, the voice of the one for whom this mechanical "paradise" was created is buried. The voice of a man!" The album consists of six compositions each of which carries in itself not the repeated atmosphere of a modern city. [label info]
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HILDEREND & KAMERA SENSORNOY DEPRIVATSII -- "Mantras For Sensory Deprivation" -- CD-R -- €7 [-50%]
2015 Torga Amun, Amun-090, (ltd. 15)
Changing the world, a new world built on new foundations. New foundations and a new man, new kinds of creatures. The future is not drawn by God. The philosophical perspective on the subject of gene technology. [label info]
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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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HINO, MAYUKO -- "Lunisolar" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2018 Cold Spring, CSR245CD
Noise. ‘Lunisolar’ is the second solo album from the ‘Queen Of Japanese Noise’, Mayuko Hino. ‘Faintainhead’ unleashes swathes of densely layered noise, undulating in intensity and ferocity. Although claustrophobic throughout, there are moments of gentle metallic percussion, punctuating the raging vibrations beneath. ‘Astral Travelling’ offers no such relief, featuring unrelenting, piercing electronics throughout until the final few minutes of psychedelic comedown. In addition to self-made instruments, Hino plays noise with her six-theremin oscillators (in bright pink) – the one and only in the world, specially made by Ryo Araishi (a.k.a. ichion)... Prolific as a live performer, Hino is most well-known for forming C.C.C.C. (Cosmic Coincidence Control Center) in 1990, together with Hiroshi Hasegawa, Fumio Kosakai and Ryuichi Nagakubo. In its early phase, the band grabbed attention by combining noise music with Hino’s sadomasochism performance using bondage ropes and dripping candle wax. She has since been a member of Mne-Mic, DFH-M3, and Transparentz. Digipak. [label info]
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HIP, VALERA -- "Mountain Of Fugitives" -- 2 CD -- €14
2019 Infinite Fog Productions, IF-90, (ltd. 400)
Ambient. In June 2013, our friends brought us an album by the man named Valery. More than 30 years ago (after 15 years of wandering), he settled in the distant Altai village - Zamulta and did not leave these places anymore. You cannot get there either by plane or by train, and you can only drive by car in summer and autumn. Valery is engaged in homemaking musical instruments like pipes, harps, flutes; he breeds bees and leads the household, which forms the basis of his life. With his minimal resources, he recorded an album that fell into our hands. The recordings united under the name " Mountain of fugitives" turned out to be hypnotic ambient compositions built on drawing lo-fi drones, pipes, harps, nature breathing, field recordings, sounds of the surrounding life and the author's voice, occasionally filling the space with references to ancient Chinese and Japanese poetry like Mèng Hàorán and Matsuo Bashō, as well as quotes from the Norwegian writer Hans Burley, or his own verses... Valerych discovered "ambient" for himself as the most suitable form for self-expression without regard to any standards. The serenity of nature, the simple tranquility of a secluded lifestyle, the purity of a self-contained existence and the tension of daily physical labor, all here in these sounds, in the originality, naturalness, and softness of the sounds, which literally disarm and necessitate to play the record over and over again... It took 5 years to prepare all the material for publication. In the meantime, the album has grown to a dilogy with a total duration of more than 150 minutes. Now its 2CD and eight long nameless tracks instead of four... Enjoy by pure rural ambient music. [label info]
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HIRSCH, VLADIMIR -- "Katagenesis" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2021 Zoharum, ZOHAR 226-2 / Old Captain, OCCD53, (ltd. 300)
Modern Classical / Industrial. Vladimír Hirsch is a composer and a veteran of Czech industrial scene. Member (and/or founder) of projects like AGHIATRIAS, SKROL and CZECH INTEGRATED ENSEMBLE to name a few. “Katagenesis” showcases Hirsch’s consistency in style of creation. Melodic, powerful, sublime and absolutely terrifying. Album is presented in the form of triptych „Axonal Transit”, „Metaspheres” and „Hymn”. Across 11 tracks we are taking true tour de fear as we’re experiencing a sonic representation of horror. Orchestral instruments mixed with electronics are holding us in suspense from the very beginning to the very end giving us only a few short breaks to catch a breath. This is as far as you can imagine from easy listening, but it’s definitely worth the effort as when the album stops you feel the cathartic effect instantly. Amazing take on modern classical and experimental music. [label info]
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HIVE MIND -- "Sand Beasts" -- CD -- €7
2004 Chondritic Sound, CH-055 / PACrec, PACrec106 / Troniks, TRO-133, (ltd. 1000)
Dark Ambient / Noise. Imagine John Carpenter and Throbbing Gristle joining forces to score music for nightmares - Hive Mind's death-dirge horrorscapes are not too far off. Sand Beasts builds slowly from dark low-end analogue drones into rumbling speaker-threatening frequencies, piling on peaks of visceral, almost tactile, electronic churn and circuit carnage. [Andrew Carden, MOJO Magazine]
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HLADNA -- "March 2003" -- CD-R -- €5
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 & ORD -- "Tunottauan" -- CD -- €11 [-50%]
2018 Status Prod., SP 07 CD, (ltd. 200)
Ritual Ambient. When the connection between the Earth and the Cosmos is established, the balance is restored, the merging of reality and subtle worlds occurs, the image of Tunnotauan appears, the symbol of duality, polarity, harmony of the universe... Status Prod. presents a collaborative album of Russian ethno - industrial projects Hladna and Ord, recorded during a private session on July 28, 2017 and now, due to the label, this record became available on CD. The ritual ethno-industrial noises and singing of Tibetan bowls, the tinkling of the bells and the clatter of the shaman's tambourine, merge into a single sound canvas, enveloping the whole, leaving in the depths of the subconscious and causing unknown hitherto images... Two-headed God Tunottauan came to Koloyar, the leader of project Hladna, during the deep immersion into the subtle worlds, his image was reconstituted from memory and used in the design of the album. The album released in a gate-fold format, made of design cardboard, with an attachment from naturally aged material, circulated of 200 hand-numbered copies. [label info]
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HLADNA / XEROX 667 -- "22-23.02.2003" -- CD-R -- €7 [-50%]
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]
HOARFROST -- "Anima Mundi" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2016 Reverse Alignment, RA-27, (ltd. 300)
Anima Mundi - the world soul. Sometimes interpreted as the mythical Gaia or the mother of earth and all it's life and forms. The superorganism of the planet. With their fourth album, Hoarfrost explores the philosophical view of mother earth as the caring ancient goddess and the possibility that she's actually a Medea that will deceive and betray humanity, making us faithless and deprived of our will to survive. And in the end, facing total collapse. On "Anima Mundi", Hoarfrost collaborates with Katarzyna Bromirska (cello), Valdi Rzeszut (guitar), Dawid Chrapla and Tomasz Twardawa (noise structures) bringing us dark ambient industrialism... [label info] "I would highly recommend this to listeners who love to hear musicians step outside the normality of so much modern music. There is little here that could be directly compared to anything else out there. Hoarfrost have presented their most unique work to date." [Michael Barnett, Terra Relicta]
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HOARFROST -- "Puppets of the Divine Coroner" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
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 [-50%]
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]
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HOFFMANN, NICK -- "Barbarous Tongues" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2014 Gravity Swarm Recordings, UT-43, (ltd. 300)
Nick Hoffman is the proprietor of Oregon-based Pilgrim Talk Records and a prolific experimental musician in his own right, and though the label seems to have been on hiatus since last year, his personal output at least remains steady. That growing body of work ranges from fields recordings and elaborate improvised collaborations (like his enthralling LP with Takahiro Kawaguchi and Aaron Zarzutzki for Senufo Editions), to the varied CD before me, Barbarous Tongues, out on Japan’s Gravity Swarm Recordings. Like the atmospheric totems spread across its folded-poster packaging — tinted obelisks, a Celtic mask, and a wall covered in hanging dolls — this is a crafted object, resonant drones and tone patterns that without that sense of “craft” might each seem to build themselves from sheer weight of inevitability. Manipulated choral samples and the noisy perambulations of a distorted squiggle here and there add dimension to the listening experience, but the album’s biggest payoff is in simply tracing its movement from beginning to end. [Decoder]
HOGAN, ANNI -- "Kickabye" -- 2 CD -- €9 [-50%]
2009 Cold Spring, CSR99CD
Murder Ballads / Funeral Pop / Experimental. From her early days as a legendary Batcave DJ, through her work with Marc Almond, Anni Hogan is one of the true geniuses of the alternative scene. A composer, songwriter, arranger, producer, promoter and DJ, she helped to shape the sound of the 80s. Cold Spring is proud to present her debut release expanded and brought to the public for the first time on CD. "Kickabye" features some of the leading lights of the alternative scene: NICK CAVE, MARC ALMOND, FOETUS, BUDGIE (Siouxsie And The Banshees) and GINI BALL amongst others as well as production by Jim "Foetus" Thirwell, plus 10 extra tracks from the same period. The second CD also features tracks from the same period, featuring YELLO and production by BARRY ADAMSON. Digitally remastered with 4 new and exclusive song versions. [press-release]
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HOGAN, ANNI -- "Mountain" -- CD/DVD -- €10
2011 Cold Spring, CSR132CD
'Mountain' is an artistic collaboration between musicians Anni Hogan, Robert Strachan and Itchy Ear, film maker Bob Wass and mountaineer Cathy O'Dowd. Hogan and Itchy Ear originally worked on a series of piano pieces inspired by Rene Daumal's 'Mount Analogue' and the superior wisdom of mountains, using O'Dowds Himalayan conquests for particular authentic inspiration. Robert and Anni used these pieces and the Himalayan peaks as a template for painting a soundwave soundscape around the piano compositions. Cathy has supplied all the photographs for the album sleeve, beautifully edited by Abby Helasdottir, and Cathy has performed a fascinating and revealing monologue over the piece 'Deathzone'. The 'Mountain' film has been created by Bob Wass from Cathy's original film footage of her Everest expeditions. The film and soundtrack are an experimental 'journey' to explore sonically and visually the nature of 'journey and mountains'. DualDisc. [press-release]
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HOLLYWOOD BOXER -- "Day Of The Fight" -- CD-R -- €7 [-50%]
2021 Serdtsevina, (ltd. 18)
Powerful abrasive Harsh Noise from the project of Yuri Samoilove from Moscow. Envelope made of black cardboard with leather embossing + insert.
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HOLOCODER -- "Arctica" -- CD -- €7 [-50%]
2020 MIC Label, MIC 012, (ltd. 100)
EBM / Future Pop. Holocoder is delighted to present its new album: “Arktika.” The LP features the rhythmical and vivid sound at the intersection of EBM, synthpop, and futurepop. The lyrics recount the conquest of Arctics by brave polar explorers, the real heroes who sacrificed themselves for the future of their motherland. Our long-time fans will be surprised with the new versions of “Enemy Nation”, one of Holocoder’s top hits, and “Necrolife”, a song from the eponymous single edition that now has its lyrics in Russian. [label info]
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HOLOCODER -- "Novaya Rasa (The New Race)" -- CD -- €7 [-50%]
2017 MIC Label, MIC 001
Industrial / Electro / EBM. HOLOCODER returns with their new album "The New Race" which won't let anyone be indifferent about the precise beat, rough bass, straightforward lyrics and moderately aggressive vocals in the best traditions of the genre... "The New Race" musically develops the ideas of the previous album "The Sun Of Hyperborea". Russian lyrics about the severe North, dying Europe, opposition to foreign values, and readiness to new fights for the native land... "I wanted to sing the coming of the new man with this album, - says the musician Sergey Korotaev, - a man of honesty and impartiality, if you like, even unfeeling, but a man whose thoughts and convictions are aimed at returning to the roots of the very essence of people, to Nature, to the North..." The musical basis of the album is still EBM with a slight touch of dark electro and techno. The highlight of the album is the song "The Sky is on Fire" performed in an unusual style for the band. This is more of a a tribute to Front Line Assembly, Negative Format and other bands. [label info]
HOLOCODER -- "War Infection" -- CD -- €7 [-50%]
2011 Gravitator Records, GRR 126
Industrial / Electro / EBM. With this album the oldest Russian industrial project HOLOCODER shows the new facets of its creativity. Pain, desperation and the eternal fight with alien demons acquire new sense and energy in every track. Many fans of the genre will be pleased by the saturated electro/EBM sound perfectly combining classical "old school" elements and modern "cyber" tricks. All this, along with the harsh aggressive vocals, created truly bright and individual impression. Lyrics are traditionally sung in English. Almost all tracks are speedy and dynamic. Speaking about the inevitable musical parallels, such names as SUICIDE COMMANDO, FUNKER VOGT and ELECTRO SYNTHETIC REBELLION come to mind... [label info]
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HOMO -- "AGOODDOGISABADWOLF" -- CD-R -- €9 [-50%]
2019 Gravacoes Tunguska, GT11, (ltd. 100)
Experimental / Lo-Fi. From the mind of Filipe Silva, known for his extactic performance as part of HHY & The Macumbas as well as from Besta Bode, F.R.I.C.S. and other Soopa Collective projects, comes HOMO, his solo projection through electricity, spiraling voices, loops and lo-fi spectrality. A language built from broken sounds, words and sentences. [label info]
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THE HONKIES -- "How Do We Prevent The Advance Of The Desert?" -- CD -- €10
2017 Music A La Coque, COQ-011
Avantgarde / Free Jazz / Punk. The name of trumpet player Andy Diagram pops up every now and then in Vital Weekly, mostly as a member of Spaceheads, a duo he has with drummer Richard Harrison, but also for instance as a collaborator with Phillipe Petit. His musical career started in the late 70s with bands as Dislocation Dance and The Diagram Brothers, he also played with Pere Ubu, David Thomas and James. I never knew of a band he was in called The Honkies, where he plays trumpet and sings, along with Caroline Kraabel on saxophone and vocals, RE Harrison on drums, washing machine, trombone and vocals and Kathy Hulme on saxophone, cello and vocals. The little press note says that 'How Do We Prevent The Advance Of The Desert' was their second record, but Discogs lists it as their debut, and it was released in 1989 in a handmade cover, so the re-issue has just one of the vinyl sleeves reprinted. Music 'A La Coque is an Italian imprint who search the vaults for crazy obscure free music, and as such as The Honkies are a great find. This is a wild ride indeed, very much in the spirit of post-punk and without a single guitar in sight. It bursts with heavy rhythms, wild drumming on that kit, but at the same time heavy on the use of wind instruments. These blear around in the best free jazz manner, but it's perhaps the use of all these vocals, which add that post-punk flavour to it. This has all to do with the freedom of music and very little with the correct use of playing music; it is about the creation, stupid. Very much in spirit of what punk could have been, had it not been spoiled by drugs, drinks and fight. This is some forty-one minute of energy unleashed upon the listener, furious, even if it goes down in tempo a bit. The Honkies leave very little room for contemplation, allowing no Zen like hearing here. This was never before on CD, and now that void has finally been filled. Served as an introduction, like for me, or for those whose vinyl copies have been worn out. [Vital Weekly]
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HOROLOGIUM -- "Du Grand Desir" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2012 Ur Muzik, UR007
Ur Muzik is proud to present the latest release for this well-known act from Poland. Recorded in 2011 and 2012 “Du Grand Desir” comes as no surprise to those who have experienced the intensity of Horologium’s “Tellurian Anthems” album. This new full-length CD delivers eight tracks ranging from ritual ambient to martial anthems and ethnic dances. This solemn and yet strangely uplifting release, where the Orient meets the Occident, is perhaps one of the most varied works to date for Horologium. With additional help from the Chilean artist Der Arbeiter on two tracks, and beautiful artwork by Stefan Alt, this release is a must-have for all fans of the genre. Comes as a 6-pannel digipack. [press-release]
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HOROLOGIUM -- "Labyrinthos" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2014 Rage In Eden, RAGE 106, (ltd. 400)
“The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against themselves and others, in experiments. Their joy is self-conquest...” „Labyrinthos” may be regarded as the musical summary of Horologium’s work thus far, starting with the debut album „The Fire Sermon” and ending with their „Du Grand Desir”, enclosed within nine new tracks. This full-length takes you on a journey filled with military and ritual drumming, ambient film score muzak, sublime recitation and fiery sound collages. An invitation to the labyrith, marking the tenth anniversary of Horologium, presented by Rage In Eden. [label info]
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HOROLOGIUM & K. MEIZTER -- "Eight Studies in Transition" -- CD -- €10
2007 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 095
On Eight Studies in Transition the Polish industrial nostalgic Horologium and the Swedish BSE sound scientist K. Meizter examine human’s impossible fight against time. From birth to death, from playfulness to bitterness, from serenity to mental awe, this tale is transposed into music ranging from calm dark ambient to orchestral delirium, making it a fascinating exploration that will appeal to most industrial and dark ambient tastes. Presented in a special re-cicled like cardboard 6-panel digi-file + inserts. [press release]
HOSHINO, TAKANOBU -- "A Sampling + 5" -- CD-R -- €6
2012 Observatoire, obs * (e65) 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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HOSIANNA -- "Untier" -- CD-R -- €6 [-50%]
2021 VOLOK Records, VR-57, (ltd. 20)
Dark Ambient / Experimental. Untier is the story of the alienation of people from one another. The story of human relationships that fall prey to habit, routine and a series of stupid and sometimes horrible actions that essentially render them meaningless. The German word "Untier" means something like "anti-animal," "monster," or a person who has fallen into disgrace... Many different recording techniques were used to create the album: there are field recordings, junk metal percussion, a lot of analogue synthesizers, rearanged and stretched found sounds, bass guitar, a Roland TR8 for some of the percussion and a bit of modular synthesis. [label info]
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HOUR OF THE WOLF -- "I Doubt The World To Be" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Zvukovina, zcdr-0051, (ltd. 30)
HNW / harsh noise project by Andreas Brandal.
HOUR OF THE WOLF / I DREAMT OF HER BEAUTIFUL TENTACLES / DEAD BODY COLLECTION / INDCH LIBERTINE -- split -- 2 CD-R -- €10 [-50%]
2011 Sickcore, SC-21, (ltd. 100)
Harsh Noise Wall split from 4 projects origination from Norway, Denmark, Serbia & Italy.
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THE HOUSE OF HIDDEN LIGHT -- "Myliobatiformes" -- CD-R -- €5 [-50%]
2019 VOLOK Records, VR-21, (ltd. 20)
Darkwave / Neoclassical from Kiev, Ukraine. Beautiful and dreamy melodic music – quite a rarity for our weird catalogue.
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HUBBUB -- "UB/ABU" -- CD -- €12
2001 For 4 Ears, CD 1241
Frederic Blondy (Piano), Bertrand Denzler (Tenor Saxophone), Jean-Luc Guionnet (Alto and Soprano Saxophone), Jean-Sebastien Mariage (Electric Guitar), Edward Perraud (Drums). "Hubbub works on the sound matter and creates an expanded space inhabited by stripes, interlaced designs, resonances, tanglings, points and strokes, at the border of acoustic and electric worlds. Founded in 1999, Hubbub is a gathering of improvisers with various backgrounds who play since a few years with some of the most important musicians of the actual scene."
HULL, SCOTT -- "Audiofilm II" -- 3"CD -- €5 [-50%]
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 -- "Blade Charm" -- CD-R -- €10
2006 Sphogha, (ltd. 52)
The album is compiled from recordings made in summer 2001 with the use of synths, radio, tapes and tapeloops. It reminds more early projects of Dmitry Chistov (Nigredo, Sphogha), then late soft drony Hum in way of "Sleepland Emission". Here the sound is more rough and shaggy, with dominating wheezing noises, though of course he couldn't do without long resonances and hypnotic atmosphere. Beautiful and tidy handmade cover.
HUM -- "Corona Florea" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2012 self-released, (ltd. 60)
Drone. Three tracks recorded in 2005-2009. Vague drones streaming like a gauze in a ghostly forest, slow game of resonances and echoes, tranquility and contemplation.
HUM -- "Corvine Station II Extra Tracks" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2008 self-released
This mini-album contains 3 tracks which continue the theme of the Hum / Misery / Exit In Grey split-release dedicated to crows. Transformed corvine voices interwoven with Hum trademark minimal and tranquil drone ambient.
HUM -- "Lambent" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2008 self-released, (ltd. 35)
Drone. 3 new tracks from this Russian lo-fi drone ambient project. For those who love tranquility and harmony.
HUM -- "Landmarks In Mistscape - Extended Version" -- CD-R -- €10
2010 Datura Landscapes, Datura 14
Drone. Extended reissue of Hum material previously available as a very limited edition split-cassette with Misery. Minimalistic drones with wavy rolls od reworked field recordings, glimmer of resonant loops, slow whirling of sonic shadows...
HUM -- "Le Pilote De L'Onde Vive" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2009 self-released, (ltd. 40)
Drone. This release is an addition to the 10" record "The Spectral Ship" (Substantia Innominata, 2008) and contains one 9-min. composition. Strictly limited to 40 copies.
HUM -- "Lost In White Flame" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2006 Datura Landscapes, DATURA 8
Drone. One track recorded in 2001. Dedicated to all fallen asleep in embraces of winter. Melancholic detached drone ambient.
HUM -- "Radonej" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2003 Datura Landscapes, DATURA2
What is lo-fi as definition of sound of post-industrial projects? Usually this means that frequency spectrum is much wider than possible perceiving range, and this leads to "flat" inexpressive sound. But not with Hum. Formally the project stays within the borders of lo-fi with rather "old" kind of sound, but it's so blameless and atmospheric that such masters like Maeror Tri or Zoviet France come to mind. The disc opens with wheezing composition which dissolves in aerial emptiness of the second track which in it's turn changes with shimmering crackling soundscapes of the final piece. Classic drone.
HUM -- "Roots of Cruelty" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2002 self-released
Industrial / Drone. This minion represents more industrial than drone side of the project. Metal objects, rumbling far away, dim noises and lingering sound waves - these are the colours used by Hum to draw the four soundscapes in this album, with beautiful sense of taste which is typical for this project. Nice cardboard artwork.
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HUM -- "Sleepland Emission" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2003 Sphogha, Ultra Low Fidelity 10
Beautiful drone! Soft and at the same time moderately raw analogue sound carries away into spiral depths of unknown levels of consciousness.
HUM -- "Thunder Arrow" -- CD-R -- €9
2016 Sphogha
Industrial / Drone. New 20-min. EP from the Russian project Hum with old material recorded in 1999-2001. Polyvox synthesizer, radio, damaged tapes - this EP sounds quite harsh and raw, but even in these rough electic loops one can feel this totally hypnotizing effect so typical for Hum.
HUM -- "To April Waters" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2017 self-released, (ltd. 30)
Ambient / Drone. Two airy tracks dedicated to water in April. Minimal harmonic drones in the best traditions of the genre, one of the lightest works by this Russian project. 30 copies in hand-made mini-sleeves.
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HUM -- "Untitled" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2021 self-released
Ambient / Drone / Minimal. Three minimalistic untitled tracks recorded by the Russian project in 2017-2019 as a result of recycling of the same sound sketches. One of the tracks was previously released by the French label taalem in 2017 on their web-compilation "Homework - Year 2".
HUM / SMALL TOWN ZOMBIE -- "Stupefactons" -- CD-R -- €9
2005 Datura Landscapes, DATURA 5
Drone / Minimal. "Collaboration" between two projects of Dmitry Chistov is dedicated to stupefactions. The music is quite corresponding - steady, almost static sonic fields, bringing into stunned trance state.
HUNYADI P.H. -- "Recycled Sounds & Forbidden Songs" -- 3"CD-R -- €4 [-50%]
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]
HUSH ARBORS -- "Cleaning The Bone" -- 3"CD-R -- €7 [-50%]
2005 267 Lattajjaa, LTJ-33
Psychedelic drone ambient, sounding like Troum performing slowest songs of The Doors. [YAOP]
HYBRYDS -- "Cortex Stimulation / Virtual Impact" -- 2 CD -- €15 [-50%]
1996/2021 Zoharum, ZOHAR 238-2
Industrial. The next installment in the series of Hybryds classics reissues, consistently continued by Zoharum for years. This time we get two fullalbums, which, despite a few years between them, complement each other perfectly, showing a slightly more electronic face of the work of Belgian musicians... The first CD "Cortex Stimulation" was recorded with the participation of befriended musicians from Dive and Deutsch Nepal. The second disc "Virtual Impact" is a 100% live album, recorded during the band's performances at MS Stubnitz, Wave-Gotik-Treffen and Nursery Injection, which also featured guests from Deutsch Nepal, Dive or P.A.L... Originally, both albums were published by Daft Records, owned by Dirk Ivens. Today, refreshed, completely remastered and with new artwork by Sandy Nys, give the opportunity to rediscover for those who already know the earlier publications. For those who have not had yet the opportunity to know them in the past, it will allow to uncover an interesting and creative period in the activities of Hybryds. [label info]
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HYBRYDS -- "Dreambient" -- CD + DVD -- €15
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 -- "The Ritual Of The Rave" -- 2 CD -- €14 [-50%]
1995/2017 Zoharum, ZOHAR 151-2, (ltd. 500)
For the past several years Zoharum has been reissung the subsequent albums of the Belgian independent scene legend, Hybryds; so far five has been released. "The Ritual of the Rave" is the sixth installment in this series and is an expanded version of the 1995 album. It has not lost its freshness in those years. It is electronica with strong ambient and ethnic music influences locked in six long, slowly developing compositions. Here there are rhythmic elements directly taken from techno (which announced further changes in the Belgian project's repertoire.) "Icarus" or "Sjamanistic Dream" are still classics in the Hybryds catalogue... This is also one of the expanded editions of their classic albums. The second disc shows what Hybryds was like at concerts during the period when the recordings were made (live tracks compose the first five tracks recorded in 1995). In addition, we have three studio compositions here here. The first one belongs to the collaborative Hydra project, whose only official recording appeared on the compilation "The Uncertain Future" on Antler. The other two are the early recordings from 1988 by Magthea with Mark Burghgreave of Klinik. One of them, "Octahedron", appeared on the absolutely first single of the project... The album has been digitally remastered from the original master tapes by none else but Sandy Nys, who also provided the cover based on the previous editions. The CDs are housed in a digipak sleeve and the album is strictly limited to 500 copies. [label info]
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HYDRA DIVISION V -- "Ostracized" -- CD -- €7 [-50%]
2013 Artificial Sun, ArtSunCD #009, (ltd. 500)
TBM / Aggrotech. "Ostracized" - the debut album of Greek Aggrotech Hydra Division V team preparing for six years, tough and uncompromising rhythms and rough dance music just fit for the dark club parties. In addition to the main part of the disc are present bonuses in the form of two remixes of Larva and Acylum. [label info]
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HYPNOZ -- "Chronica Plennyh" -- CD -- €10
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]
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HYVARINEN, LAURI -- "Cut Contexts" -- CD -- €10
2021 Intonema, int032
Minimal / Free Improvisation / Field Recordings. Finnish guitarist Lauri Hyvärinen is known to our listeners for his participation in Horst Quartet's Edged Timbre released by Intonema in 2017. His work on the solo album Cut Contexts was carried out in 2020-2021, when musicians suddenly had a lot of time for studio work. This prompted Hyvärinen to listen and select the recordings of previous years and, on their basis, create 5 pieces, each one clocking in at 7 minutes. The result is an unpredictable and varied album, in which deliberate instrumental impulses coexist with coincidentally occurring environmental sounds, at the same time obeying the will of the composer and directing his thought. On one hand, this is a collage technique, due to which there are unexpected twists in the music. On the other hand, this is extremely focused guitar playing in a minimalistic manner. On the third hand, these are field recordings, attuning to attentive listening. [label info]
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I AM ESPER -- "Stalagmites" -- CD-R -- €5 [-50%]
2012 Smell The Stench, (ltd. 20)
Improvisational psychedelic drone ambient jam, recorded by this American project in a secret basement with the use of electric guitar and electronics, inspired by stalagmites. Full-colour sleeve. [YAOP]
I/DEX -- "Layers" -- CD -- €7
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.M.M.U.R.E. -- "Nowhere To Remain" -- CD-R -- €6
self-released
An album of the now defunct project from St. Petersburg, which was a part of Forbidden Sounds Group. Perhaps someone remembers i.m.m.u.r.e. by the album "The New Circle" released by Zhelezobeton in 2009. "Nowhere To Remain" is a two-track EP also published by the web-label DNA Production, but this disc also contains three bonus tracks, making total time up to 54 minutes. Mild melancholic and melodic experimental / dark ambient. The CDR is packed in a piece of PVC, sewn with threads and hand-painted.
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IAETUN -- "Eitrkvikja" -- CD -- €10
2019/2021 Altare Productions, ALTCD051
Dark Ambient / Medieval / Dungeon Synth. IÆTUN is the side-project of the Swedish musician WAGNER ÖDEGÅRD. This is the CD-reissue of a cassette previously put out by Wagner's own imprint Brugmanziah in 2019.
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IASOS -- "Inter-Dimensional Music" -- CD -- €13
1975/2020 Fact Of Being, FoB-003
Ambient / New Age. Iasos is a Music Creator, specializing in celestial, heavenly, inter-dimensional music. He is also one of the original founders of "New Age" music. He was named "the Duke Ellington of New Age" and the "Creator of New Age" by the New York Times. His albums often appear in lists like “the list of 50 Best Ambient Albums of All Time” by Pitchfork, “The 20 best new age albums“ by Facmag, to name just a few... Since 1968 Iasos has remained focused and dedicated to his original intention - composing and recording his music, giving seminars, and doing multi-media concerts around the world. His music has been used by NASA, LAZARIS, ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, LASERIUM, and HEWLETT PACKARD, as well as by numerous hospitals, health clinics, therapists, mental health clinics, and surgeons throughout the world... Despite this, we found that some of Iasos’s masterpieces are criminally rare and hard to get on physical formats. In 2019 during discussions with Iasos, we have chosen 3 albums for the first part of the reissues of Iasos's music on the Fact of Being on vinyl and audio CD... May this music be an OASIS for your Soul... In 1975 Iasos, published his first work "Inter-Dimensional Music" which during the years became an absolute classic of a new age and ambient music. This is probably a first "new age" album ever released. In addition, a year after in 1976 Steven Halpern, with his well-known masterpiece "Spectrum-Suite" cemented the existence of style... Being unique, the music lays at the crossroads of ambient, new age, psychedelic, prog, and space music. Recommended for fans of Peter Davison, Popol Vuh, Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, Steven Halpern, and Michael Stearns' early works. Now, after 45 years since first publishing the album available again on limited CD and VINYL in original artwork. [label info]
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IASOS -- "Realms Of Light" -- CD -- €13
2001/2020 Fact Of Being, FoB-005
Ambient / New Age. After a decade of a break, in 2001 Iasos returned with a new, first in a new millennium, album - "Realms of Light". Here you will hear 8 masterpieces of heavenly music that takes you to other-worldly realms just filled with Love and Light. This album continues where "Elixir" 1983 left off! Journey into heavenly celestial realms with a master of inter-dimensional music. Ecstatic planes of existence filled with love, light, color, fragrance, and sacredness. Unearthly sparkling beauty... There are a few guest musicians who beautify the album: Joie Favier from Cybervixen, legendary violinist Steven Kindler who was one of the forerunners in playing multi-string electric violin, and another new-age music legend Sophia Roberts... To summarize, this album is intensely full of heavenly feelings that will make your heart glow. First time available on CD! [label info]
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ICH WOLLTE, ICH KONNTE -- "Iterum - In Memoriam" -- CD -- €12
2006/2017 Ufa Muzak, UFA73, (ltd. 180)
Neoclassic / New Wave / Minimal Electronics. In the gloomy summer of 2017 we're pleased to present you one of our favourite projects we've been fascinated for many years with their unique dazzling coldness. With this reissue we mark the 10 year anniversary of this album originally released on vinyl by the cult label TREUE UM TREUE. It's time to remember AGAIN the mysteriously disappeared Johanna Liebhart, an obscure German minimal-diva. It's from her pieces of sonic detachment (so much reminiscent in sound of the prison-time BURZUM) the large part of the album "In Memoriam" is comprised... We brew wormwood, we burn frankincence, it's time for the ritual of remembrance, this experience won't leave you untouched. [label info] A project by the members of WERMUT and ANENCEPHALIC CRETINISTS.
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ID MOLOTOV -- "Mordance" -- CD -- €8 [-50%]
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]
IDIOTKNOW -- "Vyshel 12345" -- CD-R -- €5 [-50%]
2017 self-released
Harsh Noise. One 24-minute harsh-noise blast from the Moscow musician Yura Gorodezkii. Hand-painted CD-R coves in a thick PVC-sleeve with an attached photo and a collage insert.
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IDLEPHON -- "Intensive Collectivity Known As City" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2014 Tympanik Audio, TA083
IDM / Industrial / Ambient. The city is alive with whispers and its movement is blurred and feverish. A soothing and evocative urban sound, comprising images of the purposefulness and anonymity of life and machines in this vast oppidan. The sound of beings rushing past in the street, blurred faces, urgent whispers, warnings? Abandoned buildings stand stoic, guarding their stories with a cautionary glare. An old swing in a forgotten playground sways in the wind, shadows lengthening as this urban sprawl settles with the fading daylight... The sound of ritual gongs in the city’s temple echo through the dusk, winding down ancient tunnels, punctuated by radio waves and the ebb of wary modernity. Ambiance and rhythm seep through this interurban soundscape, haunting and beautiful, calibrating the subconscious and aligning the soul. Complex and intricate beats blend with textural tones, signed by distant voices and enticing melodies to create this serendipitous world where responsibilities are disregarded and time is seemingly infinite. A glimpse at what lies beneath the ordinary. [label info]
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IF, BWANA -- "The Ice Moons" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2015 Nefryt, N 027, (ltd. 400)
A collection of 5 amazing "instrumental / structured drone" tracks, oscillating between contemporary music, experimental and electronics, immersed in a minimalist atmosphere. Performed on baritone sax, bowed hammer dulcimer, violin, alto clarinet & cello by different musicians (Al Margolis, with Steve Norton, Dan Joseph, Viv Corringham, Nathan Bontrager), and the human voice on one track... creates a special 'breathing' and organic atmosphere of almost cosmic music and disturbing drones. Ltd x 400 copies in an A5 gatefold cover. [Cold Spring]
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IGNIS FATUUS -- "In Our Mad Bliss" -- CD -- €10
2005 Eibon Records, Ign059
Fairy music. Back in 1998, IGNIS FATUUS released one of the most impressive debut albums ever - "The futility goddess" (on UK label Cold Spring). Their astonishing mixture of neo-classical, ambient, wave (with amazing vocal contributions from SWANS-singer Jarboe) gathered a load of positive feedbacks from everywhere... Now, almost 8 years later, IGNIS FATUUS strike back with "In our mad bliss". Dark, warm, rich, gloomy music that transcends boundaries and defies definitions. Fairy-tinted musical scenarios, impressive female vocals, a sensual and seductive journey through a gently illuminated nocturnal world... Let Christus777 & Melysa Baucom take you by hand, and let yourself be cherished by the wonderful melodies of this magical universe....... Let the fairies fly in........ [press-release]
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IINEY + UL.V. -- "Vyaz'" -- CD -- €11 [-50%]
2019 Status Prod., SP 11 CD, (ltd. 150)
Dark Ambient. Status Prod. presents a collaboration album of Russian noise projects IRINEY and ULTRAPOLYARNOE VTORZHENIYE (UL.V.). Recorded over a period of five years, working separately and together, using field recordings, digital techniques and studio hardware, the album is finally complete. "Creaks and whispers, deaf, viscous drones, breath of a swamp immerse the listener in an ancient ritual, attach to it through understanding of a fairy tale, through an ancient chant, through contemplation of sacraments of the untouched nature. Vyaz' is released in an edition of 150 hand-numbered copies, presented in an outsized silkscreen-printed gatefold card cover with a silkscreen-printed card attachment, made of designer cardboard, featuring the art of Nizhny Novgorod artist Elena Lisitsa. [label info]
IL LAZZARETTO -- "Ergot - Il Monastero" -- CD-R -- €5 [-50%]
2021 Paper Moon Republic, PMR_60-1, (ltd. 10)
Noise / Industrial. Paper Moon Republic presents works from an Italian anonymous project. Damp and dirty Old School Industrial/Noise bitten by smallpox and rot, with a touch of primitive Drone Doom and gothic organ parts. Two long tracks, each almost a quarter of an hour, oozing with rusty miasma of the Middle Ages. One dedicated to ergot poisoning. Another is inspired by the history of the ancient monastery, covered with many legends. CD-R with printing on the surface, packed in Half-DVD-box (colored design). [label info]
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IL LAZZARETTO -- "Giftig Død" -- CD-R -- €7 [-50%]
2020 Dödens Kultur, DK№04, (ltd. 16)
Venomous Black Ambient, filled with the echoing gloomy breath of vintage synthesizers and the painful buzzing guitar clangor, as abrasive as in Black Metal albums, but absolutely devoid of signs of melody. Toxic sound of death, sick belch from the deepest underground of the 90s. Limited to 16 handnumbered copies in handmade A5 rough technological paper cover with a fullcolour photo of the darkest building in St. Petersburg (the Research Institute of Toxicology) glued at the front. All information is handwritten with silver ink. Supplied with a b/w A3 poster. [label info]
ILLUSION OF SAFETY -- "In Session" -- CD -- €9
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 -- "Mort Aux Vaches" -- CD -- €12
1999 Mort Aux Vaches, (ltd. 1000)
Experimental / Drone. Recorded on 21/05/1997 for VPRO's 'De Avonden' radio-program. CD comes in a silk-screened sandpaper cover with a metal fastener.
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ILLUSION OF SAFETY -- "New Rules, Same Game, Less Instruction" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2021 Drone Records, SYM:02, (ltd. 250)
Experimental / Musique Concrete. Second release in the 'SYM' CD series from Drone Records. Old and new heroes from the past and future of experimental transcension atmospheric noises and drones. Sounds from realms of Symbolization & Symmetrization!... These are new recordings from Chicago's (post) industrial legend Illusion Of Safety (Daniel Burke), creating something beyond any typical genre. Burke is currently working with conventional instruments, electronic synthesis, computer composition, samples, and highly amplified handled objects. He uses improvised and composed structures containing material that confounds memory and stimulates perception. The resulting music encompasses broken sound, disturbed ambience and unfiltered beauty that collectively evokes an awareness of the ineffable. The work activates modes of perception to facilitate direct access to the psyche, emotions, and the infinite in order to address the necessity of balance and the nature of dichotomy... Mastered by Thomas Dimuzio. Ltd x 250 copies in a 6-panel digisleeve. [label info]
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IMPERIVM LVCIFERI -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €15
2017 Deivlforst Records, DF 028, (ltd. 50)
Dark Ambient / Drone / Experimental. Music & visual art concept by IMPERIVM LVCIFERI, based on ritualistic ambient sessions recorded in Germany and Italy on a single KORG MS-20 mini analog synthesizer, channeling visions of the fall and reign of Lord Lvcifer through the same electronic medium. To be listened to in solitude and at high volume. 6-panel digipak. [label info]
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IN A NUTSHELL -- "Arrhythmia" -- CD -- €10
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 -- €6
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 SCHERBEN -- "Dort An Jenem Baume...." -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2011 Lichterklang, LK003, (ltd. 500)
After "Erlkönige" (2008) and "Ostrakon" (2009), IN SCHERBEN release their third album, "Dort an jenem Baume", which is their first release on "Lichterklang". While the two preceding albums were marked by the struggle for a distinctive identity, "Dort an jenem Baume" is not just the result of their acquired musical maturity, but, above all, an affectionate commitment to the concept of "Heimat", which can be experienced in Maren's and Lars's lyrics, but also in their musical interpretations of poems by Eichendorff, Nikolaus Lenau and Gottfried Benn and was inspired by their move from Leipzig to the Swiss Alpine republic. What elsewhere is often nothing but a common neofolk stereotype, a romantically idealised understanding of the homeland and its cultural and social origins, is transformed into a groundbreaking declaration of love, dedicated to one's own roots. Be it the Ruhr Valley, which is lyrically glorified in "Horizonte" or "Sachsenland", IN SCHERBEN's musical versatility and sparkling instrumentations are far from being restricted to cliches of the genre, but open up new horizons of classically inspired neofolk. Thus, they continue the tradition of strongly influential artists of the genre, such as Forseti or Dies Natalis, focused on the essential and united in their consciousness of the virtues of an honestly and deeply experienced affinity with nature and cultural achievement. [label info]
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IN SEARCH OF DEATH -- "III" -- CD -- €10
2015 Death Continues Records, DCRCD007, (ltd. 200)
Death Continues is a recent discover for me, but one of those that as soon I received the most recent batch of production got immediately filed under the “labels-to-follow” tag. As the name suggests, this Belgian label focuses on atmospheres strongly inspired by the grim reaper; nothing new somebody could say, but as soon you any of their releases will play, you are going to be reassured that the pale muse can still inspire the right minds to deliver the goods. When I received the preview of the third instalment of mysterious project In Search of Death – simply entitled III – I was more than eager to immediately give a spin to it since I really enjoyed the earlier work and I was definitely impressed. The mortiferous cover is simple but direct and perfectly introduces you to what you are going to experience while listening to the CD. We are dwelling in a form of high-class industrial structure under of veil of obscure atmosphere, but I would not file it under proper death industrial as somebody could expect. In Search of Death moves more toward 90’s Scandinavian industrial sounds, with well-shaped atmospheres based on repetitive patterns, well-thought constructed structures and a clear production that allows any detail to emerge. This release works at both guts and mind level and the constant changes in EQ avoids the “dull” effect that many projects attempting to follow this path tend to have. Despite being a collection of old archive material, this release sounds pretty fresh to me and make me want for more in the near future… [Wertham]
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IN SLAUGHTER NATIVES -- "Psicofonias - Las Voces Desconocidas" -- CD -- €13
2016 Gradual Hate Records, GH 131 CD
In the year 2008 the documentary called “Psicofonías: Las Voces Desconocidas” was shot by the film director Jose Moral. This was about the voices of dead people where echoes of spirits leave us some footprint after death. Humankind has believed during a long time that it is possible to communicate with dead people. Over the years, seances, mediums and psychics have been possible instruments to make contact with the afterlife. So, EVP is an espiritual footprint and a communication link to the soundtrack in this documentary. This one relies on some of the most important projects of the Dark Ambient Industrial music: In Slaughter Natives, which is a pioneer in the symphonic industrial field and part of the legendary label Cold Meat Industry. This music project is formed by Jouni Havukainen who carries out an outstanding and deep work full of aspects where in some parts we can listen the voices of dead people. Artwork by Nickolay Busov (Ufa Muzak). [label info]
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INABILE CAOS -- "1.0" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2018 Essentia Mundi, EM040, (ltd. 200)
Dark Ambient / Dark Jazz / Experimental. The debut album of Inabile Caos that exposes a bit of guitar drone-doom, dark ambient, experimental, dark jazz, avantgarde music for great listening pleasure. Davide Denvito is pursuing a certain musical path and with this release he proves he is able to transcend the confines of many music styles. He is very lucky as he's got his studio fully working thus giving him a certain liberty in creating. The potential of the music is great and we are very happy to have the debut album of him under our label. Mastered by James Plotkin himself (OLD, Khanate etc.) this release hits a sound niche perfection that you should immediately listen and own. A reference work in its own. [label info]
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INANNA -- "Day Ov Torment" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
1993/2007 Cold Spring, CSR71CD
Reissue of the massive Death Industrial album from this ARCHON SATANI side-project, originally issued by Staalplaat in 1993. INANNA were at the forefront of a new force in Doom Ambiance way back in the early '90s. This stunningly remastered and repackaged album brings alive one of the classic scene albums - a milestone in ultra grim and crushing death sonics, that paved the way for many Drone and Ritual Industrial bands around today. Mixed by J Havukainen (IN SLAUGHTER NATIVES). [press release]
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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]
INDIAN TREE PIE -- "Flight of the Syncretist" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2008 Unidentified Recordings, UIFR0020
Experimental Ambient from Michael Schaffer (BIRDMACHINE, MONOFLOW, THE BEAUTIFUL DISEASE, CORIUM, also chef of Opa Loka Records).
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INDIGO LARVAE -- "Abandoned to Despair" -- CD -- €9
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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INDIVIDUAL INDUSTRY -- "Twenty Years In One Hour" -- CD -- €7 [-50%]
2011 Other Voices Records, VOX4CD, (ltd. 500)
Individual Industry has started it's musical activities in 1987 as solo project of Alex Twin. In 1990 Maurizio Bonito and Lilian Vaz joined the band and six months later they released their first official demo tape called 'Apology'. They did more than 30 concerts between 1991-1997 and got lots of European radio plays. Band's music ranges from melancholic ethereal wave pop in best 4.A.D. traditions to trip-hop and synth-pop tunes mixed up with elements of Brazilian traditional music, making Individual Industry's sound something special. Catching melodies, lush arrangements, sensual female voice and dreamy atmospheres brought the band lots of fans and positive reviews around the globe. Over the past two decades the band took a part in dozen compilations, recorded two critically acclaimed albums, one MCD and extra limited (100 units or so) 2xCDR collection of rarities out in 2003 on Alex's own Wave Records. Other Voices bring you an essential collection of musical pearls, rarities, re-mixes and new stuff, all the best the band has recorded during its more than twenty years career. Now join their sentimental journey through the dreamfields! [press-release]
INDRA -- "Seven Mortal Sins" -- CD-R -- €7 [-50%]
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 -- €5
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 [-50%]
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 & TCHERNOBLYAD -- "Collaboration" -- 3"CD-R -- €5
2007 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT09, (ltd. 35)
Psychedelic Drone Noise Ambient. Traditional St. Petersburg's sound, waves of spreading space sounds alternate with explosions of sub-bass rumble. Live digital collaboration without processings and overdubs. 35 copies in slim-boxes with hand-made plastic cover and a sticker. [label info]
INDRA / YAO 91404 D -- "Khibinogorsk" -- 2 x 3"CD-R + CS -- €16 [-50%]
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]
INDUSTRIALNIY PEYZAZH (INDUSTRIAL LANDSCAPE) -- "Pustota. Part I" -- CD-R -- €5 [-50%]
2012 Shum Shturm Proizvodstvo, SSP-002, (ltd. 72)
Unique project from Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia - poetic austere avantgarde industrial with screams, poems, metal junk and dense analogue howling. Archived recordings from 2004-2005. Aesthetics of abandoned factories, working outskirts, dead inhabitants of city ruins, burnt out by alcohol and hopelessness. Gloomy brick 5-storey blocks as gravestones on the background of smoked sky, post-industrial hell and this music, seething with reek and anger, won't leave indifferent fans of such projects as Ierophania, Monologue and even Grazhdanskaya Oborona. CDR, 9 tracks, 40 minutes, foldout sleeve. [Ufa Muzak]
THE INFANT CYCLE -- "Left Ear Revolt (Mysterious Disco 2009-2012)" -- CD-R -- €7 [-50%]
2012 The Ceiling, CEIL035
Drone / Glitch / Experimental. Collecting recent EP, rare and unreleased tracks into one package, we have here a selection of the more recent manifestations of the subconscious-electro-acoustic-rock-drone-clatter that has been spilling out of the dilapidated ceiling headquarters. As The Infant Cycle rapidly approaches its twentieth anniversary with a regularly expanding discography of obscure and sometimes confusing releases, this travelogue may be the best introduction for the uninitiated, and a good way for older listeners to catch up on the project's new directions. [press-release]
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THE INFANT CYCLE -- "Remote" -- CD-R -- €7 [-50%]
2001 EE Tapes, ET 74, 2nd edition, (ltd. 60)
Industrial / Experimental / Drone. 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.
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THE INFANT CYCLE -- "The Sand Rays" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2009 Diophantine Discs, n = 20, (ltd. 500)
We're happy to introduce the new full-length record from The Infant Cycle. The Sand Rays is to be played from the outside to the center, from whichever edge you choose. The Sand Rays is pinball rhythm reverberations from sliced vinyl record playout grooves, gravelly surface vibrations. The Sand Rays is exploiting broken cords, near-empty batteries, half-broken equipment. We loved it and think you will too. Just be prepared to be a bit more confused when it is all over, but don't worry: you'll be too busy wiping that silly grin off your face because you had such a fun time... The Infant Cycle, active since 1992, is the brainchild of Jim DeJong. He has released material on such labels as Drone, EE Tapes, Hands, Moloko+, Afe, Zhelezobeton, Blade, Abgurd, and his own The Ceiling. Additionally he is a former member of Mind Skelp-cher and (as The Infant Cycle) has collaborated with numerous artists including Aidan Baker, Orphx, and Dronaement. [press-release]
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THE INFANT CYCLE / ANTMANUV -- "Periodical III" -- 3"CD-R -- €4 [-50%]
2006 The Ceiling, CEIL031, (ltd. 80)
THE INFANT CYCLE presents more "Unrelated Work Tapes" - part of series of that is both deeply interconnected (to other parts and future and past Infant Cycle tracks), yet can be heard on their own. Like much of the Ceiling catalogue, what is seemingly chaos later reveals itself as something else, and features much of the Infant Cycle's uneasy balance between abrasive textures, and quiet meditation - a balance often on the verge of tipping over. Over the past few years, ANTMANUV has created a diverse body of work in many different mediums. On this release, he has contribued a piece of wholly organic sound, a dense and growing entity of everyday sounds propelled into a hypnotic sphere of the familiar moved into unfamiliar territory. [label info]
THE INFANT CYCLE / DAVISON, JARED -- "Periodical I" -- 3"CD-R -- €4 [-50%]
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)" -- 2 x 3"CD-R -- €6 [-50%]
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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INFESTATION -- "Second Souffle" -- CD -- €9 [-50%]
2013 Steinklang Industries, SK74, (ltd. 300)
Five years in the making, the new INFESTATION album "Second Souffle" is now finally available on Steinklang records. After the debut album "Bastion Intouchable (2008)", the French-Canadian martial industrial attack is back! On this new release, violence is now at it's peak. Complex orchestral phrasing is mixed with devastating war drums and destructive vocals. "Second Souffle" is a unique martial industrial album, a paroxysm of affirmative cultural resistance. It's a firm statement against globalisation and the hypocrisy of multiculturalism. The album also explore the themes of sentimental nihilism and the duality of life and death. This is a must have for all fans of Von Thronstahl, Derniere Volonte, Triarii, In Slaughter Natives, Arditi or early Der Blutharsch. [press-release]
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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INGODEME -- "Endless" -- 3"CD-R -- €5 [-50%]
2019 Facthedral's Hall, FHCD21-2019, (ltd. 20)
Experimental / Ambient. First track of this EP was composed by Le K. (CHALUNG-GRA, SIZZLE, etc.) exclusively from cassette loops, precisely 24 loops of Korg Monologue (raw with no effects), recorded on 4 tracks portastudio on the endless tape. "In six times I recorded 4 mono loops/tracks that I captured with my computer. I let the 4 tracks play endless for about 9 minutes, turning equalizer buttons and playing volume faders during the process. On my computer, I superimposed all the recordings, and I made a quick mix by adding some internal effect plugins. I didn't try to resynchronize the loops between them, I just added all the audio files on the multitrack software, letting the chaos reorganize the rhythmic pulsations..." The second track was also composed from cassette loops, precisely 20 loops of Boss DR-5, and facebook videos (Gilets Jaunes, Wolf Cries), recorded on 4 tracks cassette recorder on another endless tape. In five times, Le K. recorded 4 mono loops/tracks captured on his computer. He used the same Ineko delay during the recording of all tracks and let the 4 tracks play endless for about 9 minutes, playing with buttons and faders. "On the multitrack software, I resynchronized the audio files between them by the same delay effect present on each recording, and I made a mix with internal plugin effects." [liner notes]
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INHALANT -- "Bloodshed" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2005 Pitchphase, PP-307
Harsh industrial noise from Texas. Recorded by Chad Wicked using synth, voice, feedback, effects & guitar directly to 4-track.
INITIAL CHAOS -- "Ego Splitting" -- CD -- €6
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 DEPTH -- "Horn Herald The Severity Of The Day" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2012 Steinklang Industries, SK 66, (ltd. 300)
Oldschool Death Industrial in best way of Brighter Death Now, Maschinenzimmer 412 and early Lustmord! [label info]
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INNER VISION LABORATORY -- "Continuum" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2019 Zoharum, ZOHAR 180-2, (ltd. 300)
Ambient / Dark Ambient. Karol Skrzypiec returns with a new album to the Zoharum fold. This artist, consistently following the path chosen by himself, discovers new areas with every new recording. In his compositions, synthetic structures increasingly give way to acoustic instruments. Not only does it give a different quality to his music, but also affects a completely different reception of it. Nowadays it is more spatial, has richer arrangement and boldly goes beyond the former structures that have been associated with the INNER VISION LABORATORY project. It would be difficult to describe this album as dark ambient. Although it is impossible to deny a composer the skill of building the right atmosphere, he is far from pathos or dark aura. You can find a note of melancholy, thoughtfulness, a space for reflection, but with light seen from a distance. Who knows - maybe it is an attempt to reconcile with the inevitable, with the thought that all that touches us serves the purpose of going further? To sum up, "Continuum" is an album of many sounds, colours, moving not only by the richness of sounds, but also encouraging reflection and bringing solace... The album is released in an ecopak limited to 300 copies. [label info]
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INNER VISION LABORATORY & NEPENTHE -- "Ambit" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2014 Zoharum, ZOHAR 066-2, (ltd. 400)
Two years after well-received "Perpetua" album, INNER VISION LABORATORY returns to Zoharum with their new album entitled "Ambit". Not a solo venture, but a collaborative effort with young, but promising NEPENTHE project. The album was 3 years in the making when they were searching for a common language and fiddling with sonic matter using the Internet in this respect, they have created a monolith - a very cohesive, yet symbiotic world. It might be easily labelled as "ambient", yet they break the patterns of that style. "Ambit" is composed of 7 compositions, clocking in at 50 minutes. It is composed of beautiful, yet unsettling melodies, for those who are fascinated with sounds coming from Cyclic Law and Loki Foundation labels, but also for new-comers to the genre. For those open-minded for something new and touching, a kind of music painted with the whole palette of colours and sounds. [press-release]
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 -- "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.
INSTINCT PRIMAL / PURBA -- "Sky Burial" -- CD-R -- €19
2018 BeTon, 201814, (ltd. 42)
Experimental / Ritual. A collaboration album recorded by Jan Kruml aka Instinct Primal from Kutna Hora, Czech Republic, and Svyatoslav Ponomarev aka Purba from Moscow, Russia and dedicated to the Tibetan practice of sky burial... Limited edition of 42 copies: 21 copies are in black edition and 21 copies are in red edition. Each copy is composed by a juta sack (15x20 cm.), with attached a picture about sky burial and vultures of death printed on canvas (7x10 cm). Inside the sack there is a cardboard (black or red, it depends from edition) with an attached sticker, with the cdr inside. There is also a pack with four pictures that develope the theme of sky burial with the Tibetan knot of infinite and the vultures of death. The four pictures are tied with a satin ribbon, black or red, it depends by edition) and with a metallic skull of a vulture. [label info]
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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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INSUB META ORCHESTRA -- "Archive #1" -- CD -- €9
2011 Insubordinations, insubcd04
Free Improvisation orchestra.
INTERIOR DISPOSITION -- "Blood & Scars" -- CD-R -- €7 [-50%]
2012 InterioRepertoR, IR11
Tracks included in this album were recorded in various moments between 2007 and 2011, united by mastering made in 2012. Science fiction driven space ambient will all genre attributes: electromagnetic signals, textured background noises, paddy synth lines and simple but effective melodies.
INTERIOR DISPOSITION -- "Cranium Vult: Unreleased & Rarities 2003-2013" -- CD-R -- €5
2013 InterioRepertoR, IR12, (ltd. 150)
A collection of previously unreleased tracks of this Russian project from the last decade. Space ambient with trademark "rustling" sound and minor consonances, quite resembling Bad Sector of "Polonoid" period, but with more minimalistic and abstract atmosphere, sometimes with rough rhythmical constructions.
INTERIOR DISPOSITION -- "From Autumn..." -- CD-R -- €5
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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INVISIBLE FRONT -- "Interferences And Time" -- CD -- €7
2007 Indie-ziert, IZ.03, (ltd. 477)
Industrial / Noise. "The shortwave pulsates and lives..." Your history, your noises, mysterious signals and the brainwashing function as a propaganda medium were the inspiration for the first album of the Berlin noise project INVISIBLE FRONT "Interferences and Time" with the subtitle "Battle on all sequences". The visual design of the CD, the name and the logo already indicate the subject of the Third Reich. The same is also reflected in titles such as "Neue Propaganda für Neue Hirne" ("New Propaganda for New Brains") and "Harmonie für den Schützengraben" ("Harmony for the Trench"). The main style is pure noise, peppered with a pair of rhythmic industrial interludes and calmer ambient sounds. INVISIBLE FRONT uses plenty of historical speech samples for this, so that the whole album sounds like a kind of radio play. In addition, “Lili Marleen” by LALE ANDERSEN can be heard from time to time, to which the track "Schicksalslied Aller Fronten" ("Fateful Song of All Fronts") is dedicated. None of this sounds particularly innovative and is only intended for very special tastes, but due to the many samples, which sometimes only become apparent after listening to it several times, the album remains quite interesting. As with every story, after all, you want to know how it goes on... The CD comes in a slim DVD box with a photo and sticker and is limited to 477 hand-numbered copies. [Terrorverlag]
INVISIBLE HAND -- "Babalon" -- CD-R -- €6
2008 YAOP, YAOP 033, (ltd. 23)
Neoritual music. First worthy Russian answer to the works of such bands as Ain Soph, Psychic TV, AIT! and Mushroom's Patience. Simple esoteric music, mesmerizing voice and allusions to the legacy of Crowley and Miguel Serrano. The single contains one song in studio and demo versions. Handmade cardboard cover A5, insert with information and three texts. [press-release]
ION AND SOPHUS -- "Love of One" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2016 Frozen Light, FZL 050, (ltd. 300)
Soundtrack of deep serenity dissolved in the relentless whispers of the waves. The play of light, illuminating the rocky shore, awaiting the twilight chill. A little warmth and relaxation with a little bit of melancholy. Sound mood, which came from the past, and waiting in the wings for 8 years. All of this accommodates in new Ion & Sophus CD - "Love Of One". 2 sizzling and flickering waves of sonic paintings, imbued with light and a little bit sad & slow melodic passages, recessed in deep reverberations. This music is dedicated on Hope. Hope that everyone has their own, hopes that have come true or not justified, the hope that sometimes moves us on our life path of. "Love Of One" has absorbed something close to meditation, something close and unknown at the same time. Something that we propose to discover each of you! [label info] Side-project of Exit In Grey.
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ION AND SOPHUS -- "Transit Station" -- CD-R -- €5
2011 InterioRepertoR, Ir05, (ltd. 100)
New album by one of the projects of Sergey [S] (Exit In Grey, Sister Loolomie, Candyman & Evil Flowers, etc.) deals with the theme of railroad stations, so close to the heart of any Russian man. First long track (nearly 29 minuites) - samples of traffic controllers and recordings of rail station stmospheres interlaced in mild yet persistent substance, balancing between melody and drone, merging altogether into an unhurried ambiental soundscape. Second track features same kind of melody combined with wave-like celestial noise creating more active and cosmic feeling.
ION AND SOPHUS -- "Twilight Oblivion (Sumerechnye Zabveniya)" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2018 Frozen Light, FZL 066, (ltd. 300)
Frozen Light presents new album by sub-Moscow project Ion and Sophus – «Сумеречные Забвения» (engl. = "Twilight Oblivion"). This material offers you to leave the usual course of your life for a few moments and make a little stop, listen for a while, leave your thoughts and disperse. To let go of what was never been and not to think of what will be. Try to get into the meditative structure of the sounds. And dissolve in twilight oblivion, having lost memory thread. [label info]
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IRON HALO DEVICE -- "The Collapsing Void" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
1996 Malignant Records, TUMOR 07
"The Collapsing Void" has two distinct segments. Tracks 01-04 were recorded live at the Hurricane in Kansas City on July 31, 1996. The performance was composed entirely of samples taken from other bands. You can easily identify the obvious cuts borrowed from Nine Inch Nails, Dead Can Dance, Skinny Puppy, Coil, Curve, Lords Of Acid, SPK, etc., etc. The detailed letters from music industry lawyers contained within the liner notes show that Iron Halo Device is definitely not a band that fears litigation. Tracks 05-08 were compiled from home studio demos written and recorded in August and September 1995, utilizing the same guerilla recording techniques. Most of the sample material, however, is based on slowed or accelerated percussion and drones, rather than than readily identifiable cuts. Yet the trained ear can hear a bit of Lustmord on 'The Abduction of Winter' so the samples are not that well masked. A slithery, all encompassing sonic octopus of diverse samples manipulated into cohesive, illusive, mind altering songs. A jumble of percussive elements, a hazy rippling horizon of sounds and sonic textures flow from inception to realization with smooth, deceptive grace. You'll applaud Philip T. Easter (STONE GLASS STEEL) for his daring sample based construction techniques and his dedication to the artists who contributed unknowingly. [Sickness Still Abounds].
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IRR. APP. (EXT.) -- "Kreiselwelle" -- CD -- €10
2009 Helen Scarsdale Agency, HMS 016
irr. app. (ext.) is the sound-engineering project of Californian M.S. Waldron, whose liminal slippages and detourned croons have been spotted recently on stage in Nurse With Wound. Yet for all of the antics that are required for the NWW spectacle, Mr. Waldron still dedicates himself in the parallel pursuits of irr. app. (ext.) with a discography that reads more like a wunderkammer of uncanny investigations into futility declared as its reverse... Kreiselwelle is the third and final installment to a body of works that irr. app. (ext.) has composed under the influence of Wilhelm Reich, the unorthodox 20th Century psychologist who proposed amongst many hypotheses, an interconnectivity between energy, organisms, and the entire cosmos. The title to this album translates as 'spiral wave,' a structuralist form which Reich had observed throughout nature within numerous systems, whether that be the grand arcs of galaxies down to the radial symmetries of micro-organisms. For Kreiselwelle, Mr. Waldron returns to the same collection of field recordings which began this trilogy that includes Ozeanische Gefühle and Cosmic Superimposition; however, he restricted himself to those sounds with spiralling origins: resonating springs, the sounds of the ocean cyclically churning over pebbles on the beach, the wafting of air around various objects, or simply a lamp-shade spinning in place. The resulting recording develops as an organic sublimation of one sound transforming from one state into another and then another. Motorized sounds of mechanical toys set askew settle into a tremolo phase pattern of electrical vibrations. These in turn morph into a cauldron of slow locomotive rumbling, which beget one of many glassine drones that float throughout Kreiselwelle. Many of the sounds seem to have origins in objects that are broken, obsolete, or just plain wrong; but through Waldron's deft alchemy, these sounds are allowed to flourish in this richly dark and oddly serene amalgamation. [press-release]
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IRR. APP. (EXT.) -- "Ozeanische Gefugle" -- CD -- €10
2001/2004 Helen Scarsdale Agency, HMS 002
irr. app. (ext) is the work of California-based sound artist Matt Waldron, whose collected body of work is far too important to continue to be forgotten. During the past decade, only two full albums -- Dust Pincher Appliances (2003 on Crouton) and An Uncertain Animal, Ruptured; Tissue Expanding in Conversation (1997 on Fire, Inc.) -- have seen the light of day despite the fact that perhaps a dozen albums have been completed. The public silence for irr. app. (ext) was never by Waldron's design, as numerous recording deals collapsed, one after the other. The story becomes all the more of conundrum as these misadventures of neglect and ignorance occurred despite Waldron's high-profile collaborations with Nurse With Wound and Stilluppsteypa. If a humble organization like the Helen Scarsdale Agency can have its say, then we speak to remove whatever curses that have haunted irr. app. (ext.) in the past and provide the world with the opportunity to revel in the spectacle and the beauty that is Matt Waldron's art. Had things gone differently, Ozeanische Gefuhle would have been one of the lost irr. app. (ext.) recordings. That would have been a shame for Ozeanische Gefuhle stands as an impeccable composition of post-surrealist dronescaping rivaling such masterpieces as The Hafler Trio's Kill The King, Jonathan Coleclough & Andrew Chalk's Sumac, and Nurse With Wound's Soliloquy For Lilith. The title has origins with Freud and earlier thinkers; yet Waldron came across Ozeanische Gefuhle (which translates from the German as "oceanic feelings") in his studies of Wilhelm Reich who referenced the term to describe the natural state of every healthy organism as connected to and engaged with the world around it, with its energies flowing from the center outwards. For Waldron, Reich's ideas became the starting point for a metonymic exercise seeking to discover that which is near a signifier and spiral beyond each successive discovery along a complicated aesthetic thread by way of intuition and accident. The album tumbles through a series of sympathetic dronings, field recordings, and performative gestures, continuously traversing the emotional polarities of psychological tension and externalized jouissance. The album begins with a heavily processed flutter of sustained woodwinds accompanied by thunderous rumbles in the distance before dispersing amidst Bernhard Hermann-esque slashings of discordant strings. Later on, the grotesque pathos of a Wurlitzer organ dissolves into a blackened emptiness that envelopes the complex resonant frequencies from Waldron's slow, deliberate performance upon bowls and bells. Despite the incredible depth of his source materials, Waldron displays an uncanny intellect that reflects all of his wandering passages through the lens of a melancholic ambience. Simply put, Ozeanische Gefuhle is a wonder to behold. [press-release]
IRRUMATORIUM -- "Also Sprach My Ass" -- CD-R -- €5 [-50%]
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]
ISH -- "Resonance Level" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2012 Aliens Production, AP 27
IDM / EBM / Ambient. Another next pearl in the waters of IDM and ambient. This time the protagonist and member of the Ambiguous project chooses a natural way in which are pulsing organic materials and shamanic spaces in original IDM compositions. Project who can attract with his dominated sound and many magical spaces which often exceed the borders of our world. In the songs are often overlapping multiple colors of sound and developing many moods itself. The combination of machined electronics and down temped loops moves the project to pulsing positions and opens to the listener the feeling of a pulsing live form. A strong atmospheric message. Many analogue spaces, hybrid loops and melodic lines. [press-release]
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IUGULA-THOR / SUCTION MELENA -- "All Dreams Are Only Self Facials" -- CD -- €10
2016 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 232, (ltd. 300)
Power Electronics. Collaborative release by a dangerous Italian friends trio. IUGULA-THOR: the Italian Industrial / Power-Electronic monster born from the minds of Andrea Chiaravalli and Paolo Bandera (SIGILLUM S / SSHE RETINA STIMULANTS) in the early 90es. SUCTION MELENA: The other harsh face of Giovanni Mori (LE COSE BIANCHE), the new man in the Italian Harsh Power-Electronics. This is sharp and uncompromising Hard Power-Electronics in pure Italian-Style. Scraping vocals, Analogic Power-Noise, Extreme-Sex... All the basic ingredients are served. [label info]
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IZANAMI'S LABOUR PAIN -- "Destination: Toujinbout" -- CD -- €10
2011 Phage Tapes, PT:141 / Small Doses, DOSE108, (ltd. 250)
Incredible and varied harsh noise from Germany’s Sascha Mandler (Namazu Dantai, Mazakon Tactics). Elements of power electronics, drone, and cut-up noise combine to form one of the most impressive noise assemblages I’ev heard in years. Packaged in 4-color screen-printed arigato packs. [label info]
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J ORPHIC / EPOCH / TSIDMZ -- "Unsere Weltanschauung" -- CD -- €10
2015 UFA Muzak, UFA68 / Sulphur Flowers, SF5, (ltd. 300)
Combative martial industrial / Neoclassic. Ladies and Gentlemen, UFA Muzak presents you the fresh almanac album from the new names of the European industrial underground. This recording features a dozen of chapters comprising musically and artistically all the important events in history, politics and economy from the traditional point of view of these artists who give special meaning to their work. You will have the complete image of aesthetical and cultural movement, inalterably keeping the idea of resistance against the modern decay, which, we have to say, increases its power and scale with every year. Back in 1938 Julius Evola wrote in German press, that a European started with eliminating the hierarchy inside of him and used his freedom for spiritual destruction, and only then called these phenomena of decline and decay with such innocent words as "progress" and "democracy". The music of these projects loudly claims one should not forget about the spiritual factors of the real European Unity which is now subsituted by such an absolutely degenerating market phenomenon as European Union. The album is split in three parts and each of them brings its own colour to the whole picture. J ORPHIC: Epic symphonic aquarelles of the various chapters of history in periods of especially solemn, triumphant and critical moments. As if you're in the Vienna Opera caught by fire, but the concert doesn't stop until the last line is crossed. EPOCH: Plunges you in a constrained world of hypnotic techno rhythms combining melodic anxiety with looped orders / incantations. No concession to the New World Order! The head is swirling of stupefying adrenalin raising its amount in blood. TSIDMZ: Here oriental tunes melt incredibly with waltzes of the previous century and clash of the cavalry timpani. Restless whisper spells the possibility of the Fourth World War amidst the unstopping mechanichal rattle. Despite of using the whole pleiad of sonic colours, "Unsere Weltanschauung" sounds as a united whole, and it offers some surprises even for the very experienced genre addicts. Carthago delenda est! 12 tracks, 63 minutes, 8-page booklet. [press-release]
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JACQUES, ANNE-F & TIM OLIVE -- "Tooth Car" -- CD -- €9
2016 Intonema, int020, (ltd. 200)
For our 20th release we are announcing the Canadian duo of Anne-F Jacques and Tim Olive! Their first album was released in 2014 on the 845 Audio label, prior to a Japan tour. In November 2015 they undertook a North American tour, recordings from which are presented on this new dis?, Tooth Car. Kobe resident Olive uses magnetic pickups to amplify resonances and vibrations. Jacques employs intriguing self-made rotating surfaces, prepared and amplified. Both musicians use minimal external sound processing, mainly equalization, therefore their work is very direct, tactile and raw. The live recordings of Tooth Car highlight the duo's time-honed rapport and surprisingly natural and organic music. The illustrations used for the album are created by renowned artist Julie Doucet. [label info]
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JAGATH -- "Devalaya" -- CD -- €10
2020 Cold Spring, CSR290CD
Ritual / Industrial. Jagath is a ritual/industrial ambient act from Perm, Russia. "We create our music at abandoned industrial locations - the bottom of a moist underground sewer shaft and inside huge hollow oil tanks - without using digital synthesis. We use simple, mostly hand-crafted instruments, found objects and our voices. We do this to share our vision of decaying post-industrial age, to unleash the spirit of deep beyond-world and unveil life in the abyss. It is cold out here, in Russia, everything stays frozen for decades. Life is almost stopped, and this cannot be changed. So we have to do something so as not to freeze to death... A firefly may inspire a man. Man takes a flint, flint carves sparks, sparks set fire to wood, a flame lights up. Flaring up more and more, a fire turns into a firestorm. Firestorm lives its own life". [from the artists] "Devalaya" ("Temple") was recorded in vast oil tanks from 2015 to 2018. 6-panel glossy digipak with photography by Gregory Skvortsov and Dmitriy Frolov. For fans of: SHIBALBA, PHURPA, ARKTAU EOS. [label info]
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JAHRTAL -- "Lichtbuch" -- CD -- €12 [-50%]
2007 Ahnstern, Ahnstern30
After the CD-single "Zwei Lieder" now follows the first album by the Austrian Psychedelic-Folk artist Jahrtal. The man behind Jahrtal is Ewald Spiss, a artist from Tyrol, who might be known by some of you from the early days of Industrial music (early 80ies). Lichtbuch is a true treasure of Psychedelic Folk Music, a unique collection of traditional folksongs from the Alps, musical versions of poems by Joseph von Eichendorff, traditionals from England and Scotland in german translation and even a traditional Tibetan prayer. Lichtbuch is a absolute authentic Folk album with great heart and pure soul. The songs and balads on Lichtbuch have mainly a sad-optimistic mood, they shall delight the listener, as well as touch him thoughtfully. Jahrtal is non-academic, honest music, which delivers the message of affection and momentaryness, of cause and effect. A wide and balanced instrumentation gives the album a unique touch. Besides a guitar, which the artist reconstructed himself to a Sitar (Gzitar), Jahrtal uses acoustic guitars, electric guitars, lute, banjo, dulcimer, gzitar, harpzither, psalter, flute, duduk, schalm, violin, organ and bird's voices. The main influences of Jahrtal are in the end-60ies and early 70ies with bands like Witthuser & Westrupp, Spirogyra and C.O.B., but a comparison to the most beautiful balads of Current 93 is inevitable as well. 12 tracks / 75 Min. [press-release]
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JANKO, KRUL' ALBANSKAJ -- "Ekezhhm, Gyuvel Pyuganlahkh Aektspyud?" -- CD -- €7 [-50%]
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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JARBOE & HELEN MONEY -- "s/t" -- CD EP -- €18
2015 Aurora Borealis, ABX063
Legend of underground music Jarboe joins forces with visionary cellist Helen Money (aka Alison Chesley) to create what is probably the most beautiful release in the label's history. While still a "heavy" record in many ways, Chesley's cello looming massive and distorted over much of the proceedings, there are moments of transcendent beauty with Jarboe's ethereal vocal and piano work soaring above the drones, reaching for the beyond... Working together and separately on the compositions, the album comes together as a seamless whole under the mastering of Kris Force, with moments of sparse beauty mirrored by howling squawls of intensity. This is a very human record, organic, the voice of Jarboe and the many textured strings of Chesley's cello combining with an earthy depth but reaching for the stars. [label info]
JARL -- "Breaking Point Syndrome" -- CD -- €10
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 -- "Case 1959 - Dyatlov" -- 2 CD -- €14 [-50%]
2015 Reverse Alignment, RA-12, (ltd. 500)
Dark Ambient / Drone / Industrial. Erik Jarl is active as Jarl since autumn 1999 and member of postindustrial act IRM. He has released CDs on several different record labels through the years and describe his music as turbulent, withdrawn electronics. A mixture of ambient, industrial and drone. This new double CD consists of three long tracks, the longest Jarl has done so far. Artwork and photography is done by the outstanding artist Karolina Urbaniak... This recording is based upon Dyatlov Pass Incident which took place in northern Ural Mountains in Russia during winter 1959. It resulted in the deaths of nine ski-hikers and until today, although some sources claim they have the solution, the cause of the events remains an unsolved mystery. [label info]
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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 -- "Hyperacusis" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2021 Zoharum, ZOHAR 222-2, (ltd. 250)
Experimental / Drone / Industrial. Erik Jarl hails from Sweden and is actively recording and releasing for over two decades now either solo or as a part of power electronics/industrial acts like IRM and KAITEN. On his fourth release for Zoharum titled “Hyperacusis”, Jarl gravitates towards drone void as he explores and sonically interprets this rare hearing disorder... Album consists of 2 long (around 20 minutes each), trance inducing tracks that put you into sedative state. Drones, high frequency pulsations and oscillations work here as a intronautic vessel in which you descend into the depths of subconscious and as much as we are aware that this is a bold statement, the closest comparison that comes to mind is Coil’s Time Machines. Yes, we said it... At first this appears to be a demanding piece of work but it’s utterly rewarding and eventually makes you wanna listen to it on and on and on… (to turn your mind off… to turn your mind off...). CD edition of 250 copies comes in a 6 panel digipack. [label info]
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JARL -- "Misophonia Colours" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2021 Drone Records, SYM:01, (ltd. 250)
Drone / Experimental. The start of the new 'SYM' CD series from Drone Records. Old and new heroes from the past and future of experimental transcension atmospheric noises and drones... Swedish musician Eric Jarl has been active since 1999, principally as Jarl. He was also a founding member of post-industrial act IRM, and a former member of SKIN AREA. Erik Jarl composes his music through a total analogue approach with the use of synthesisers, analogue sequencers, waveform generators, and oscillators, as well as several echo/reverb and delay units. Here he has created an ultra hypnotic 60 min. one-tracker that slowly plays a game with your head... Mastered by Peter Andersson (Raison D'Etre). Ltd x 250 copies in a 6-panel digisleeve with artwork by Tilman Benninghaus. [label info]
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JARL -- "Phonophobia" -- CD -- €10 [-50%]
2021 Zoharum, ZOHAR 240-2, (ltd. 300)
Experimental / Drone. "Phonophobia" is a kind of continuation of the subject matter of the previous release. While "Hyperacusis" was an attempt to explore this phenomenon and has shown it through the sound and final composition of songs directly influencing the peculiar nature of the album, "Phonophobia" refers directly to the issue of psychology and clinical psychiatry, where, thanks to methodically developed sound structures, arranged and marked appropriately on the scale of impact i ntensity with numbers 1-3, it recreates the world of sounds, closed in the mind of a person suffering from this ailment. Here, the space is suddenly filled with high-intensity sound waves, stimulating the li