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ZHELEZOBETON / Muzyka Voln releases
Anthesteria -- "Phobos 1953 (OST)" -- CD -- €12
2010 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-XXVI / 7Hz Records, 7HZ 01 D, (ltd. 500)
The name of Anthesteria is already well-known to the connoisseurs of Russian post-industrial music. This project has released two solo CDs, a collaboration work with Stalnoy Pakt, and a number of tracks on various compilations. After this the project's leader George Beloglazov founded his own multimedia studio Phantomery Interactive and focused his attention on creating computer games with an unconventional author approach... After releasing the appreciated game "Sublustrum" ("Outcry") filled with the spirit of decadence, steampunk and sombre surrealism, spring 2010 saw the release of a new psychological quest - "Phobos 1953". The action takes place in March 1953 in an abandoned Soviet bunker - a place of strange experiments on the human psyche. The game explores such themes as the limits of mental possibilities, the electronic voice phenomenon, experiments with thought-transference and impact of fear on the human organism... The game soundtrack, presented on this CD, embodies the project's concept in sound. Imbued with an industrial atmosphere, leisurely soundscapes turn into states of calm estrangement and isolationism. Excursions into the unknown corners of the consciousness bring to its surface old memories and long forgotten yet vaguely familiar images... and laboratorial claustrophobia grows into light melancholia. This musical picture is performed in the trademark style of Anthesteria combining abstract dark ambient, melodic neoclassics and experimental sonic artifacts... The release is packed in a DVD-size double cardboard sleeve with full-colour cards depicting game locations and fragments of a book about mental suggestions from 1962. Released in cooperation with 7Hz Records.
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Archon Orchestra -- "Pong" -- CD -- €10
2010 Shadowplay Records, SPR 115 / Muzyka Voln, MV-IV / Monopoly Records, (ltd. 500)
Muzyka Voln in cooperation with the Moscow label Monopoly Records and under the aegis of the Voronezh company Shadowplay Records have released the debut album of the project Archon Orchestra. The compact disk cover shows a collage with a fragment of a Renaissance painting on which biblical saints look at the "sky" above them and see the game "Pong" being played there (a cult arcade game from 1972, first game by Atari company). What could this marvellous picture mean, let the listener decide... The main instrument on this CD is the organ, which sounds in fast mechanical sequences a bit unusual for our ears and more typical for the Berlin school of electronic music. Simple compositional structure meets vivid expression, liturgical atmosphere and a sublime metaphysical line running through the whole concept of the project. Some parallels can be drawn with the CD of the Sphere Rex project, released in 2009 by the same community of labels. And it is no coincidence, as both projects originate from the same "producer center". However if Sphere Rex makes accents on classical ambient and piano improvisations, then in the case of Archon Orchestra we deal with clearly structured music lying in the intermediate plane between the so called "holy minimalism" and "repetitive music"... We can recommend this CD to the lovers of Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Terry Riley and Recoil ("Hydrology" album).
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Baker, Aidan & The Infant Cycle -- "Rural Sprawl" -- CD-R -- €8
2008 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-XVII, (ltd. 250)
Canadian musicians Aidan Baker and Jim DeJong (aka The Infant Cycle) have used the "gentleman's kit" of modern experimenters for creating the compositions of this disk: guitar, bass, tapes, samples, feedback generator, playouts and thumb piano. Four album tracks correspond with four seasons, four states of the soul... Summer - repetitive loops become overgrown with the juicy flesh of atonal sound and transform into sampled rhythms flown over by a soft guitar tune. Autumn - the rhythm is reduced to a hardly evident monotonous shroud, the atmosphere becomes more melodic and melancholic and in the end turns into a heart-piercing guitar solo. Winter - time for sleep and detachment: icy ringing, the slow breath of bass impulses, the rustling of electronics and sluggish drones painting vast snowy soundscapes. And finally spring - the drone ambient nature unfolds large as life, majestic sonic waves sweep accompanied by a swarm of tiny sounds awoken to life again... The first two tracks were recorded in 2001 (and released on CD-R by the Italian label Blade Records in 2002 in a very limited edition), two others were recorded in 2005 and thus completed the natural cycle of this album.
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Cyclotimia -- "Celestis: Space Ceremonial Music" -- CD -- €10
2007/2010 Shadowplay Records, SPR 114 / ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-XXIX / Monopoly Records, (ltd. 500)
The reissue of probably the best album of the Russian electronic duo, complemented with a 15-minute space suite as a bonus track. Cyclotimia's album "Celestis: Space Ceremonial Music" was inspired by the activity of a well-known American aerospace company Space Services Inc. which among other things specializes in sending human ashes into space (via their subsidiary Celestis Inc.). Moreover, the compact discs with this music have prowled the outer space twice while being on board rockets launched from the spaceport America in New Mexico. This happened for the first time in April 2007 ("Legacy" project), and for the second time in May 2010 ("Pioneer Flight" project). Cyclotimia's music obtained the status of the official soundtrack to both events... "Celestis" definitely stands out in the discography of this project, known mainly for its post-industrial and avant-garde recordings. It would be no exaggeration to say that this is their most accessible work (in a good sense) correlating with the best examples of such acclaimed masters of the "space genre" as Jean-Michel Jarre or Klaus Schulze. At the same time the music on "Celestis" is in no way secondary, it is modern and quite craftily made... From the opening theme "Capsula" the album's atmosphere plunges the listener into a world of spiritual experience, calls to take an imaginary space travel; fly towards Space along with the remains held in capsulas... It's worth mentioning that the CD comes with a 12-page booklet narrating about the activities of the company. This release differs from the first edition (2007) as it contains an additional exclusive track "Another Time Another Place" - a 15-minute "space suite" recorded by the project in 2009.
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Cyclotimia -- "Music for Stockmarkets" -- CD -- €12
2008 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-XVIII, (ltd. 500)
Cyclotimia is most probably the only project in the world which has chosen the creation of a soundtrack to "globalisation" and life of the "consumer society" as their concept. The project members more than anyone else are immersed into the magic of finance and probably therefore has their creative intuition allowed them to compose the main part of "Music for Stockmarkets" with its unforgivingly precise name "Wallstreet Requiem". Today the whole civilised world is listening to this requiem the first cords of which were played on Wall Street itself... The "Music for Stockmarkets" album with its radically experimental nature stands out in the extensive discography of this Moscow project. The 64-minute album includes 32 tracks divided into three conceptual parts: "Wallstreet Requiem" (25 minutes, recorded in 2004-2007), "Trivial Pleasures" (26 minutes, recorded in 2002, this part was the only one released as a seperate CD in 2003) and "Financial Glossary" (13 minutes, recorded in 2003)... The music material itself is nothing like the one heard in the previous records of Cyclotimia. There is no apocalyptic soundscapes of "Wasteland" times, no cybernetic hi-tech and media madness of "E$chaton", no cosmic downtempo of "Celestis: Space Ceremonial Music"... Minimalism, academic sterility, surgical accuracy and meditative ataraxy prevail on "Music for Stockmarkets". Then again it is not the familiar "idm", "glitch", "noise", "clicks and cuts" and not "minimal techno"... The sound of the album is chrystal-clear and warm at the same time. "Vintage" lovers have a wonderful chance to listen to the masterpieces of Soviet music production (such as Rhythm 1, Rhythm 2, Aelita, Formanta UDS, Formanta EMS-01, Polyvox) in pure sound, unprocessed by effects.
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Cyclotimia -- "Sci-Fi Music: Soundtrack to a Nonexistent Movie" -- CD -- €10
2010 Shadowplay Records, SPR 113 / ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-XXVIII / Monopoly Records, (ltd. 500)
As the title suggests, the new work by Russian masters of electronic soundscapes represents a score to an imaginary sci-fi movie. The musicians call themselves admirers of old-school Sci-Fi / Cyberpunk genres, and for a long time they have felt a desire to make some music inspired by soundtracks of sci-fi blockbusters from 70-80-s... Spaceship battles, alien colonies, teleportation and mysterious droid ceremonies are only part of the images created by this music. The album contains both dynamic rhythmic "hits" and disturbing space ambient as well as avant-garde neoclassic pieces.
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Cyclotimia -- "Styx" -- CD -- €10
2009 Shadowplay Records, SPR 104 / ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-XXII / Monopoly Records, (ltd. 500)
ZHELEZOBETON in cooperation with the Voronezh label Shadowplay and the Moscow label Monopoly Records presents the new 7th full-length album from the masters of "stockmarket industrial". "Styx" is the most mainstream-oriented work in the Cyclotimia discography. The music here is free of experimental and academic explorations traditional for the band; here the emphasis is made on the rhythmical component. Inexorable like an economic recession and steadfast like a financial indicator chart, eleven compositions depict the sickly technogenic reality of the planet wrapped by networks of global capital, media glamour and ideological obsessions... In the ancient Greek mythology Styx was the embodiment of primeval dread and gloom, from which the first living creatures emerged. This was a personification of the underworld river whose pestilent currents seclude life from death... Similarly to this mythic river, currents of credits, percent, funds, financial quotations, capital issues, barrels of oil and advertising spaces flow on the Cyclotimia album to the accompaniment of hard, sterile and atmospheric electronic music... Recommended to the fans of Skinny Puppy, Clock DVA, Laibach (of the "Das Kapital" period), Front Line Assembly.
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Cyclotimia -- "TimeBank" -- CD -- €10
2009 Shadowplay Records, SPR 105 / ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-XXIII / Monopoly Records, (ltd. 500)
"TimeBank" is a collection of exclusive compositions recorded by Cyclotimia in 2003-2007 and for some reasons left out of the main albums. The material presented here is hard to fit in the Procrustean bed of common musical styles, but we can try to list the ingredients from which this post-industrial "dish" was cooked: both cyber jazz and idm, neoclassics and trademark technological ambient, old-school electronics and atmospheric new age, experimental and many more can be found here... Despite the seeming stylistic incompatibility the band succeeded in creating a self-sufficient album with a spectacular plot no worse than a good Hollywood thriller. A special jewel of the disk is the track "Nocturne" combining aerial melodies and uneasy sonic "cinematography". Also worth mentioning is the "live" 10-minute prog-industrial suite "Economic Meditation", imbued with psychedelic dramatism... Words written about the band several years ago remain true even today: "While actively using the possibilities of analogue and vintage equipment Cyclotimia creates unique soundscapes, suspenseful and sublime at the same time. Not so many projects can successfully implement such impressively "cold" atmospheres and, despite being "technological", fill the sound with such a deep humanistic sense." ["Audio Video Saloon" magazine]
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DMT -- "Selected Funbient Works 1-4" -- 2 CD -- €16
2009 kultFRONT, KF-XV / ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-XXIV / Aquarellist, aquarel 13-09 / Monochrome Vision, (ltd. 500)
Dmitriy Tolmatskiy (1970-2009) - a journalist and musician from the city of Saratov (south of Russia), one of the first popularizers of the alternative intellectual culture and particularly industrial music in post-Soviet Russia. He was the creator of the RWCDAX website which had certain influence on the mindset of many modern personalities of Russian post-industrial art... The musical project DMT was established in 1995 and released by the end of the 90s several limited-edition cassette albums, lapsing afterwards into silence for a while. In the mid-00s the project was revived, had some successful live gigs and recorded a lot of new material, part of which is presented on this double-CD "Selected Funbient Works 1-4"... Plans of this release existed for a long time but unfortunately were not implemented while the author was alive. His life cut short in the autumn of 2009. And now by joint efforts of the kultFRONT, ZHELEZOBETON, Aquarellist and Monochrome Vision labels, this release has become available for those interested. The album vividly displays the complex music world of DMT, which like everything innovative exists on the crossing of several musical styles and directions: from dark-ambient and industrial noise sketches to technoid rhythmics and pure sonic experiments.
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Eonic -- "Secret Land" -- CD -- €12
2010 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-XXVII, (ltd. 333)
Secret land lost in an unknown dimension... Like ancient ruins this place hides the traces of stories, which are told in this new album by the St. Petersburg project Eonic. This is their 6th release (and 2nd "professional" CD) and it easily combines different stylistic approaches, making its own way to the listener's heart. Ethno-gothic in vein of Dead Can Dance and Arcana is layered over tout electronic rhythms a la Delerium and Enigma and spiced by pleasant psychedelic arrangements. Musicians don't hesitate to step on the territory of pop-ambient and even new-age, and it just adds more lightness and airness to their energetic music. A firm and masterful work.
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Hypnoz -- "Breath of Earth" -- CD -- €12
2008 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-XV, (ltd. 500)
Hypnoz is a project of Dmitry Zubov, a musician from Moscow suburb Fryazino, the town that endowed the lovers of post-industrial music with such names as Hum and Staruha Mha. His first composition was recorded in 1993, and during its existence Hypnoz has released one CD on the Moscow label Insofar Vapour Bulk, which gathered tracks from different periods, a couple of very limited CD-Rs, and participated on the compilation "Iznutri" by the Ewers Tonkunst label with a fragment of a composition from this album. Aside from Hypnoz Dmitry plays in several other projects: Zuboff Sex Shop (post-punk / new-wave), Circle Of Iron Tape (harsh noise), BRZB (electronics, with Alexey Borisov), etc... The basis of most of the tracks for "Breath of Earth" was recorded by Dmitry together with Evgeny Voronovsky (Cisfinitum) during their joint night psychedelic sessions, and this is evidently felt in their mood. Stylistically this can be called tranquil electronic ambient with a remarkable experimental touch – but who thinks about it while recording? Slowly twisting sound helixes, drawing inside the astral subspaces, pulsating rhythms, cosmic sounds of old analogue synthesizers, – all this produces an appropriate effect on the listener's mind, and there's nothing more to demand from music.
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Hypnoz -- "A Score for Iron Blues" -- CD-R -- €8
2011 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-XXXI, (ltd. 150)
"A Score for Iron Blues" is already the eighth full-length album of the project Hypnoz - a brainchild of Dmitry Zuboff (Zuboff Sex Shop, Circle Of Iron Tape, BRZB) coming from Moscow region. This music will primarily appeal to the fans of old school industrial - the raw and moderately rough sound of the album is based on the use of overdriven and otherwise processed bass guitar and voice samples. With the help of these simple means comrade Zuboff manages to create quite varied compositions which seemingly don't contain anything innovative but at the same time sound just the right way: through the album harsh dirty sludge joins rugged hypnotic loops and even mild melodic tunes creating a melancholic mood. One of the tracks features the specially recorded voice of Jim Thirlwell (Foetus).
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i.m.m.u.r.e. -- "The New Circle" -- CD-R -- €8
2009 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-XXI, (ltd. 250)
The project i.m.m.u.r.e. is a part of St. Petersburg based musical foundation Forbidden Sounds Group and "The New Circle" is its first release on physical media. Before this the project successfully performed live several times and released a number of recordings on the net-label DNA Productions. The music of i.m.m.u.r.e. combines serious dark ambient, rhythmic electronics and psychedelic industrial in vein of English school a la Coil. It is full of gloomy melodies, light noises and sonic experiments, and is flavoured with morbid vocals narrating about infinite love to the dog and other schizophrenic joys of life. Part of the compositions from the album appeared to the author in his dreams. A nice soundtrack for an introspective pastime.
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Kryptogen Rundfunk -- "Live 2005" -- CD-R -- €8
2011 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-XXXII, (ltd. 150)
After several limited edition split and collaborative releases this is the first solo recording by Kryptogen Rundfunk since the release of his album "22.SZ" on Mechanoise Labs label back in 2004. The disk contains live recordings made during the "Noise vs Glamour" festival in 2005 in St. Petersburg and Moscow, later reworked in home studio... In fact the same program was prepared for both shows so some fragments of the compositions intersect, but due to the live mixing of sampled layers of analogue and computer synthesis and use of such instruments as analogue synth "Rokton", radio receivers, voice and processing units, both tracks sound entirely different in the end. In both cases these are constantly moving psychoactive soundscapes spreading from soft pulsations and drones to sprightly noisy fragments spiced up with a couple of funny samples.
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Kryptogen Rundfunk + Hladna -- "Rokton + Formanta" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2007 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-XII, (ltd. 250)
Hladna and Kryptogen Rundfunk - behind these names stand two St. Petersburg-based musicians playing experimental noise music. They both nourish a tender passion for old electronic instruments and often use them at their concerts and on recordings. One warm sunny day they gathered and decided to play on two analogue rhythm synthesizers "Rokton" and "Formanta". These are actually two identical instruments which were produced in the Soviet Union by two different factories. Each of them is the "brain" for electronic drum-kit, but can also be used separately - as a multi-channel tone-noise-generator or rhytm-machine. Kryptogen Rundfunk used his device smoothly, evenly and calmly while Hladna expelled from his more sharp and unpredictable sounds. Worth mentioning are Hladna's non-standard ways of making sound - on the last two tracks he opened the back plate of his synth and played not only using knobs but also getting inside and abridging contacts with his own hands (for which he was incidentally struck by the current a couple of times). Live recording without any processing, with all it's natural crackles and tasty overloads. Abstract electronics, minimalism and a little noise.
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Kshatriy -- "Slepok Soznaniya" -- CD -- €12
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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Maeror Tri -- "The A.V.E. - Tapes / Live in Nevers" -- CD -- €12
2010 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-XXX, (ltd. 500)
The German band Maeror Tri existed from early 1988 to the end of 1996. Over these nine years they have made a serious contribution to the development of the European post-industrial scene and had significant influence on many young musicians. Much of this was also achieved by their own record label Drone Records which has discovered a lot of talented artists. Even now, after the break-up of Maeror Tri, the band members continue to excite fans with recordings of their new projects Troum and 1000schoen... Unlike many industrial and noise musicians exploiting the themes of violence, politics and social problems in their creativity, Maeror Tri turned attention to the transcendental quality of sound, to its ability to expand consciousness and to awaken timeless and non-personal spiritual experiences. They recorded their music, which can be formally called industrial drone ambient, with the use of guitars, percussion, tape loops, various objects and effects, turning everything in a coherent flux of unconscious drones... This compact disk contains the last previously unreleased recordings by Maeror Tri. Four tracks are fragments of the band's 12-hour concert at the "Audio-Visual-Experimental" festival in Arnhem, The Netherlands, on November 11th, 1995; the fifth track is a part of their performance at the "Musique Ultimes" festival in Nevers, France, on May 14th, 1995. The material was thoroughly remastered by Sergey Uak-Kib (Kshatriy) and the artwork was prepared by Sergey Ilchuk (Vresnit & Vetvei Art).
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Majdanek Waltz / Sal Solaris -- "Tenebrae" -- CD -- €12
2011 Shadowplay Records, SPR 127 / ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-XXXIII, (ltd. 500)
A collaboration album by two prominent Russian post-industrial projects Majdanek Waltz and Sal Solaris. The conceptual core of the record is the poetry of Paul Celan, one of the major German-language poets of the post-World War II era. His cryptic fractured lyrics spoken in a specific estranged way by Pavel Blumkin is enchased by a weird fusion of avant-garde neoclassic and dark ambient music... This record will seem unusual even for those who are already familiar with the works of both projects. Here you won't find neither soulful neofolk songs, nor strong power ambient - instead the decadent sounds of violin, cello, clarinet, piano and bayan from Majdanek Waltz blend with shimmering electronic drones and uneasy soundscapes of Sal Solaris in paradoxical unity making your heart throb painfully. The last track features the haunting voice of Rada Anchevskaya (Rada & Ternovnik)... It won't be so easy to fall in love with this album from the first spin. It's like an eerie irrational dream able to frighten and cause a desire to wake up somewhat quicker. But the depth of this dream lures and makes you return and experience it again and again.
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Nazi Bastards From Aldebaran -- "Invasion" -- CD-R -- €8
2007 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-XIV, (ltd. 250)
An unknown artifact of the 90-ies Russian industrial scene! Having recorded several tracks in 1997-1999 the members of the project haven't done absolutely anything to make the result available for the public, and they just disappeared in complete obscurity... Years later the composition "Swastika Man" was released on the "Red Square" compilation by KultFRONT label. And only now can the gap be considered completely filled as this disk contains the full legacy of the project. Music of NBFA is a kind of old school electro industrial: catchy rhythms, melodies and well thought-out synthetic fillings of tracks. Various samples spice up the compositions, and their titles like "Illuminati", "Cleansing the Planet", "Nazi UFO Attacks Paris Nightclub" unambiguously talk about the ideological basis of this mysterious project.
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Noises Of Russia -- "Experimental Structure" -- CD-R -- €8
2008 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-XIX, (ltd. 250)
Nowadays Noises Of Russia is one of the most known groups on the Russian experimental post-industrial scene, mainly because of their numerous concerts and CDR-releases, published by their leader - Gosha Solnzev aka 1g0g ("Van Gog") - on his own label ElectroIndustria. This release has captured one of such concerts which took place at the Experimental Sound Gallery (ESG-21) in St. Petersburg in October 2008... This concert was peculiar because of the non-traditional band line-up which aside from 1g0g included some of his friends: musicians Nikolay Kalmykov (Hladna), M.M. (Kryptogen Rundfunk), Igor Potsukailo (Bardoseneticcube) and Evgeny Savenko (Lunar Abyss Deus Organum), and also VJ Alco (video projection) and Grigory Glazunov (ODDDance Theatre, butoh dance). By common efforts these comrades performed totally improvised material quite typical for the "St. Petersburg post-industrial wave" and combining elements of collage, industrial, noise and ambient. Field recordings and voice manipulations, metal percussion and rough analogue signals, guitar semi-melodies and various sound effects - all this is harmoniously blended in the unified psychedelic soundsphere.
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Noises Of Russia -- "Humility" -- 2 CD -- €16
2010 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-XXV / Aquarellist, aquarel 14-10 / ElectroIndustria, 12EICD, (ltd. 500)
Under the cover of the 3rd studio album of Noises Of Russia - a project which has chosen Tanatos to be their perpetual muse - there are two post-modern mysteries at once, two doors to the viscous and twilight space encyclopaedically oversaturated with the symbols of death of various traditions. The final countdown turns into a long immersion in a cold cerbal-sonic abyss where it's impossible to find out for sure if you are calmed or frightened, comforted or sneered at... if they mourn for you, a mortal, or are they glad for you, an immortal. The album also contains a ritual video for the track "Spirit", not however making the issue more clear.
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Overdose Kunst -- "Was ist Overdose Kunst" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2007 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-XII, (ltd. 250)
The Japanese duet Overdose Kunst exists since 2001 and records a strange sort of music which they call "schizopoetry". Rejection of stylistic norms in the name of sound-craft freedom, deconstruction and irrational re-assemblage of musical material - that's what stands behind this term. This approach allows them to keep a child's purity and frankness in musical perception with the ability to send an emotional charge without using settled compositional forms. This disc includes the most song-like tracks of the band: crookedly recorded guitars, voices emotionally singing some nonsense in a mixture of several languages, and reversed melodies. Fine and lyrical post-rock from Japanese experimental underground.
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Sister Loolomie -- "Signals" -- CD-R -- €8
2009 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-XX, (ltd. 250)
Sister Loolomie is one of the offspring of [S]ergey (or just [S]), a musician from Moscow region, known for his projects Exit In Grey, Five Elements Music and some others, as well as for his labels Still*Sleep and Semperflorens. The musical style of [S] is notable for its delicate and gentle approach to sound, the keywords for its definition are: ambient / drone / experimental / electroacoustic. In Sister Loolomie [S] utilizes deliberate sonic "digitalizing" and at the same time manages to keep the warmth and cosiness of sound in his own way, resembling tape drone music... [S]ergey uses guitar, electronics, radio and computer processing in creating his soundscapes, both abstract and sensuous at the same time. The compositions move calmly and slowly, sound loops draw in attention like spirals and dissolve it in their textures. Shivery signal waves and soft generated rasp form an aerial atmosphere, in which crackle the discharges of digital interference, and bright yet slightly melancholic melodies bring serenity and tender contemplative sadness.
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Sphere Rex -- "For Electronics and Piano" -- CD -- €10
2009 Shadowplay Records, SPR 101 / Monopoly Records / Muzyka Voln, MV-III, (ltd. 500)
Muzyka Voln in cooperation with the Moscow label Monopoly Records and the Voronezh label Shadowplay Records presents the solo album of one of Cyclotimia members - Sphere Rex... The word "ambient" came into the musical culture after the same-name solo album of Brian Eno, a member of the British art rock band Roxy Music. Legend has it that the musician was in the hospital and had nothing to do but to listen to the noises behind the window, and so he noticed a certain structure and musicality which he later started to imitate with the use of tapes and musical instruments... Of course Eno wasn't the one who discovered this music style first, as before him the ideas of "background music" were developed by the French composer Erik Satie, and the concept of "the art of noises" was stated by the Italian futurist Luigi Russolo. However it was Eno who recorded in the 70s a series of albums with compositions which, so to say, laid the foundation of all contemporary ambient music in its boundless variety: from inelaborate "new age" to club "chill out" to harsh and experimental "dark/drone ambient"... Sphere Rex plays ambient in this uncommon for today traditional vein, combining minimalism and "background"-style of electronic music a la Brian Eno and piano improvisations based on proto-ambient ideas of Erik Satie. This music is able to calm down and lull to sleep like alpha-wave rhythms or paint weird images guided by the surreal titles of compositions in one's imagination. For the goals of complete authenticity only analogue devices were used in recordings, as well as tube preamps and compressors from 60s-70s.
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ÜL -- "III" -- CD-R -- €8
2008 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-XVI, (ltd. 250)
ÜL was formed in 2006 by Argentinians Alan Courtis (Reynols), Fernando Perales and Charly Zaragoza. They have performed live many times in Argentina and released two albums: "Astropecuario" on the Scottish label Pjorn Records and "II" on the Argentinian Facon Records. This is their third disk containing material recorded in 2007. The goal of ÜL is the exploration of timbric possibilities of electric guitars in their own way, combining elements of noise, drone music and free atonal improvisation. Their compositions immerse the listener into an abstract world of electromagnetic interaction between acoustic and electronic medium. A world glutted with raw sounds of string vibrations, droney feedback resonances, acute work of limiting amplifiers and layering echoes of effects.
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V/A -- "Muzyka Voln" -- CD -- €12
2007 Muzyka Voln, MV-I, (ltd. 500)
The first release of a new sublabel of ZHELEZOBETON - Muzyka Voln - is a compilation of the same name, containing compositions from twelve Russian projects playing ambient / drone music. A selection of audio-tales in which each project introduces the listener to its own sound world he's living in: mystical stories, isolationism, altered states of consciousness, space landscapes, monotonous technogenic rumble, guitar passages and much more... Specially for this compilation exclusive tracks were provided by: Anthesteria feat. Kaj?, Bardoseneticcube, Cisfinitum, Closing The Eternity, Exit In Grey, Hum, Instant Movie Combinations, Kshatriy, Lunar^Abyss^Deus^Organum, Necropolis, Polaris and RemoteBand. This compilation may be useful for those interested in the Russian experimental scene and just for lovers of beautiful contemplative music. The CD is housed in a six-panel digipak decorated with photos of Baltic Sea made by Pavel "fljõt" Pevnitsky.
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"Voices of the Dead" / video - Yuri Elik, sound - Gosha Solnzev, Yuri Elik -- DVD-R -- €12
2006 ZHELEZOBETON Film, ZF-II, (ltd. 250)
Photographer and videoartist Yuri Elik is primarily known as one of the founders and permanent members of multimedia project 2012, creating audio-video installations on various contemporary art festivals (SKIF, Heilige Feuer, Multivision, etc.). Apart from this Yuri performs on his own making video- and slide-shows for a number of experimental musical bands in St. Petersburg. Yuri is also the video show author for the performances of Simon Magus ballet written by D. Kakhovskiy and the designer of several CD artworks and websites. Gosha Solnzev (also known as "Van Gog" - 1g0g) - big industrial showman, leader of the project Noises of Russia well-known in Russia, organizer of several festivals, such as "Noise vs. Glamour", "Military Days", "Noisy Women", etc. Gosha has always claimed that he plays funeral music, so it's no wonder he showed interest in the phenomenon of voices of the dead, discovered by Friedrich Jürgenson in the late 50s of the past century. Electronic Voice Phenomenon (voices of the dead, Raudive voices) are the voices of anomalous origin appearing while making records on tape recorders or other electronic audio devices. EVP researches claim and have proof that this is a possible way of communication between physical and some other non-physical planes of existence. The exploration of this phenomenon led to an effective cooperation between Van Gog and Yuri which resulted in a series of live performances with the "Voices of the Dead" program and this short film, with 24 minutes an obscure psychedelic drama evolving in front of the spectator. A multi-layered collage of concrete visual images and kaleidoscopic colour fields constantly transforms, accompanied by unusual and uneasy sombre ambient with real voices of the dead samples interlaced in it's structure. As a bonus this disk also contains a 12-min. slide-film "City Spirits": alternation of photos by Yuri Elik with his own soundtrack constructed from city noises. Yuri skillfully focuses attention on subtleties of usual things that remain unseen to the eye of a usual human being, generally too busy with thinking over his insubstantial problems and forgetting about the beauty of the world surrounding him. The release is packed in a special cardboard sleeve and goes with a booklet with an encyclopaedic reference about the phenomenon of electronic voices.
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.-9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z V/A... -- "Creative Personality (Tvorcheskaya Lichnost')" -- CD-R -- €8
2009 YAOP, YAOP 042, (ltd. 12)
Sarcastic Power Electronics / Rough Noise. An original work dedicated to all sorts of "unappreciated geniuses", "always misunderstood" home-made "gifted", graphomaniacs and twaddlers, "self-expressing personalities" who feel enough to fart in a microphone to consider themselves "not like other". Last 12 copies in simplified package - one five inch CDR in a sleeve. Yet completely hand made, all information is hand-written, each copy is unique. [press-release]
[-Hyph-] -- "Alter.Tenacio" -- CD -- €13
2008 Tourette, Tourette 004
=]nizhnee_techenie[= -- "Commercially Failed Album" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 4torecords, HT01
Perverted depressive cocktail of retrograde electronics a la Karl Runau and November Novelet, strained industrial noises, infant defective androgyne vocals, pseudo-gothic touch and suicidal melodies. A couple of tracks feature heavy dirty guitar playing some tonal Industrial Noise rathen then anything musical. Slim DVD-box. [YAOP]
>o< -- "Sampo" -- CD-R -- €7
2006/2010 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT17, (ltd. 17)
Long-awaited digital reissue of the legendary album. North ritual material. Mountain river exorcism, rite "forest" industrial. Ecstatic to death endless song on Ultch language and a drone-industrial "live track" played on a steel wire pulled through the attic of an old village house. Handmade sleeve, all info is hand-written. [label info]
0ID -- "Red Book (Ambient Mix)" -- CD -- €10
2004 Lagunamuch Community, LMC200, (ltd. 500)
0id is Andrey Antonets solo project, created for the realization of the author's own ideas outside the Alexandroid project. Taking part in the Alexandroid project with Alex Matrosov and releasing albums all over the world, Andrey creats his own ambient soundsystem. There is no complexity in his world, no ambiguity or vagueness - there are only his own ideas and mood, embodied in music. Red Book was specially created for private listening - two in the room is too much to understand him. [press-release]
1000schoen -- "Amish Glamour (Music For The Sixth Sense)" -- CD-R -- €10
2008 Lucioleditions, llns one
1000schoen is Helge Siehl, a German audio/visual artist, ex member of Maeror Tri. He released only a handful of limited edition discs for various German labels. His earlies works were strongly influenced by Zoviet France and Rapoon but "Amish Glamour (Music For The Sixth Sense)" clealry shows he has now digested and assimilated those influences to create his own personal sound... Captivating ambient/experimental atmospheres! [press-release]
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1000schoen -- "Moune" -- CD -- €13
2010 Nitkie, patch four, (ltd. 500)
MOUNE is a very old word for MOON, comes out of a old language that was spoken in Germany. But it's not german, it's Friesisch. Anyway, the moon theme is one of favourite topics in mystic circles around dark ambient genre. For Helge Siehl, who is the driving force of 1000schoen since the time he split his way with the other two former Maeror Tri members, it's definitely one of the most important subject - in his paintings, photos and music. This album, presenting the program of his first ever russian tour in December 2010 (with Troum and Feine Trinkers Bei Pinkels Daheim), shows more ambient side of 1000schoen, leaving rhythmic path aside in favor of menacing sounds of highly personal moon rising visions. Moreover, it's actually debut CD of this prominent german artist, who previously released his music mostly on limited/private edition CDRs. Featuring 3 tracks, with total running time of 45 minutes. [press-release]
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15 Degrees Below Zero -- "Under A Morphine Sky" -- CD -- €10
2004 Force Of Nature Productions, fon 07, (ltd. 1000)
15 Degrees Below Zero brings you the companion to 'Morhine Dawn' (2004 Crunch Pod Media), a further journey into the experimental ambience of 15 degrees below zero, who were formerly known as "Imperial Flower Unit". Mastered By Tomas Garrison At Misanthrope studios. "15 Degrees Below Zero's sound ranges from subdued, drifting ambience, featuring skewed, conventional instrumentation and tatters of rhythm, to more insistent, grittier electronic flourishes." [label info]
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1g0g -- "All Sacred" -- CD-R -- €6
2006 Electroindustria, 08EICDR
Solo album of of Noises of Russia frontman Van Gog (1g0g), which he actively performed during his numerous concerts in Russia and Finland in 2006. 50-minute suite forged from heavily distorted orthodox motets, ringing bells, industrial sounds, smooth ambient layers and found samples. True Christian harsh-noise!
1g0g -- "Cover Me From Any Evil" -- CD-R -- €6
2008 New Orthodox Line, NoL+CD-R01, (ltd. 150)
Apocalyptic breath noise. 1g0g alias Gosha Solnzev - the composer of electronic music. His compositions often created from stylistically disparate musical elements are defined by specific composition of music space and by density of sound stream. The voices of turning machines, church singing or piping, drops of rain knocking against the metal roof, dog's barking, tree's whisper, howl of the wind, organ accords and any other sounds are changing in his hands enormously and serve as real-time source material for creating of giant acoustical constructions of very fanciful forms. [press-release]
21 Gramms -- "I am a Product" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Le Crepuscule Du Soir, LCDS033, (ltd. 50)
Industrial Dark Ambient sometimes fertilized with cold drone, sometimes painted by depressive comatose neoclassic, occasionally exploding with industrial thunder and whacking in your brain with nasty violin clanks. Slim DVD case, insert and a postcard. [YAOP]
414 -- "Bone" -- CD -- €10
2008 Home Tape Studio, H.T.01, (ltd. 300)
A little-known project from one of the "old school" Russian noise musicians - Maks Lvovitch. 100% hometaping experience - tape loops, minimalism, monotonous abstract atmosphere, typical raw and fat cassette sound. Cardboard package.
900piesek / Dren -- split -- CD-R -- €8
2011 Uz Bolo Dost! / Be Creative / Hlukova Sekce, (ltd. 21)
Great old school split. Atmospheric daybreak ambient, technicistic canvases on the edge of Noise Ambient and Industrial in vein of early Edward Artemiev and machinery psychedelic Harsh Noise for the fans of Government Alpha. Handmade package of corrugated cardboard, oils and paper. [YAOP]
@C -- "0° - 100°" -- CD -- €10
2010 Monochrome Vision, mv31, (ltd. 500)
The new album of this portuguese duo (consisting of Cronica label owner Miguel Carvalhais and Pedro Tudela) is the long electroacoustic composition, which demonstrates the full range of soundprocessing diversity and creates the stunning images of great potential... Pedro Tudela (1962) and Miguel Carvalhais (1974) collaborate as @C since 2000, developing their work along three complementary approaches to sound art and digital music: procedural composition, concre`te sound and improvisation, with one foot in the fields of experimental, contemporary sound art and the other on live performance (where they also regularly collaborate with the Austrian artist Lia, performing as an audiovisual trio)... "77" started to take form in early 2007 and was developed until late 2009. Many of the sounds in this composition were created for the soundtrack of an installation by Lia and Carvalhais, dealing with concepts as liquid motion, flow, turbulence, percolation and phase transitions, which inspired the creation of several sound files sorted in three different groups, one for each section of the installation. During the process we had the chance to spend some time in the Atlantic island of Sa~o Miguel, where we made several recordings of the ocean, rivers, streams and volcanic furnaces, that complemented the remaining sounds. The installation soundtrack was devised as an open and modular composition, to be dynamically recomposed, as a library of sound files that we later used, transformed and shaped as "77". Three work in progress versions of this composition were presented live, in 4-channel mixes: in December 2008 in Porto, in May 2009 in Barcelona, and finally in October 2009 in Perugia, the first two in acousmatic setups, the later with Lia's live visual work. All these presentations shaped and shifted the piece to its final form, presented in this release, indexed in 8 movements to be listened sequentially. [press-release]
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A Challenge Of Honour -- "Ashigaru Revealed" -- CD -- €10
2008 Eternal Pride Productions, EPP 012
"Warrior's way means death. When there are two ways to choose, choose the one that leads to death. Don't argue! Direct your thoughts to the way you'd prefer, and follow :" The latest work from one of the most prominent and outstanding Martial / neoclassical European projects. Continuation of music Odyssey began 7 EP - box-set "Ashigaru and dedicated to warrior's traditions of medieval Japan. Graceful and epic cocktail of atmospheric neoclassical passages, Japanese drums and rhythms. The album is released as appealing digi-pack, its design in classical Japanese style was created by Peter Savelkoul. [press-release]
A Challenge Of Honour -- "Leonidas" -- CD -- €13
2009 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 120
The City of Sparta was once one of the biggest military state within Greece, the most famous Spartan king was Leonidas. A Challenge of Honour re-arranged lost material from his archive and created an Epic soundtrack in honour of king Leonidas, the ruler of Sparta! For this album A Challenge of Honour has once more returned to his sound of the legendary Seven Samurai recordings to try to get the right atmosphere for this journey into ancient history. Expect heavy percusion and powerful orchestral brass work combined with choirs and marching drums. [label info]
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A Challenge Of Honour -- "Where No Angels Dare To Come" -- CD -- €10
2006 Vrihaspati Recordings, VR009, (ltd. 500)
Official release of the recordings from the first ACOH live concert in 2002. Two bonus tracks were recorded at a live concert in 2004.
A Minority Of One -- "Bathe In Fiery Answer" -- CD -- €14
2009 Autumn Wind Productions, awp026, (ltd. 1000)
A Spirale -- "Agaspastik" -- CD -- €11
2009 Fratto9 Under The Sky Records, Fratto009 / Deserted Factory, DF051
Free Jazz from Italy. Try to imagine Kevin Drumm and Bhob Rainey playing rock together, with a drummer that deviate their already deviant music playing something coming from the sixties. The aim is to make music "not playing" (barbarous music, quoting Cornelius Cardew), a torn body that spits blood, whose only movement is generated by spastic contractions due to injuries. Agaspastik represents the "step beyond" of A Spirale, that from electroacoustic destructuration of "Porosita" (cd-r) and "Gariga" (SM -- 1360) expand their range of possibility and control over the sound matter, losing themselves in the languages of radical improvisation, of power noise, of punk... Very dark and violent music, with bewildering moments of melody... [press-release]
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A.M. Salad -- "Lo-Fi For Hi-Fi" -- CD -- €10
2004 Sunship Records, SUN51 / Gold Soundz, GS#34 / Little Mafia Records, LM041 / Nihilist, NIHIL 25 / Sloth Jinni, SJ002 / White Tapes, EM19
The project of Keith Childress (Algebrassiere) who presents here, the highlights of his mid-90's cassette noise collage & drone work. A deep exploration of mangled contraptions in foreboding places. 71 minutes! [label info]
Aa1 -- "Live at Electroline" -- CD-R -- €6
2007 Dars Records, DR10CD
aa1 (Vasily Kuznetsov) - master of performances from Ural whose concepts are always unexpected and very interesting. All compositions are created by means of own musical algorithms developed in PD environment. Each performance of aa1 is unique, because it does not have in advance prepared loops, melodies, rhythmic figures. Music is created in the course of a concert, live, from prerecorded soundbites and generated sounds. This CD is a recording of an improvised a concert at the first South Ural electronic music festival Electroline (Russia) in 2005. It's a 50-minute mix of sound-collaging, electroacoustics, ambient, and minimal noise. [label info]
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Aan -- "Salamaa" -- CD-R -- €7
2006 Ikuisuus, is-003
Aan is a duo by Kulkija and Uton. These recordings are from their first meetings ever (at least in these psychophysical bodies) in Helsinki and Tampere, late 2004. Music is full of strange sounds and dark atmospheres, deeply in the very heart of the so-called mystical
forrest folk illusion. Astral travelling, dreams from the other side... some beings in the source, dancing their song for life, death & mysteries. [label info]
Ab Intra -- "Aura Imaginalis" -- CD -- €10
2009 Zoharum, ZOHAR 006-2
Ab Intra is the Latin phrase for "on the inside". The term is quite appropriately connected with the project's music. The man behind it, Radoslaw Kaminski, claims that he seeks connection with his inner side by exploring the musical territories. Ab Intra is an illustration of the pictures that are created in the mind of the author. However, the form used enables the listeners to interpret the sounds in their own way. For fans of Inade, Raison d'Etre / Necrophorus, Herbst9, First Law, Endvra. [press-release]
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Abandoned Head -- "Oblique Visibility" -- CD-R -- €8
2007 Still*Sleep, cdr2
Abandoned Head is a solo project of Stanislav Wolkov, a member of duet Exit In Grey. His first release contains one half-hour long piece of isolationist dark drone ambient. Subtle sounds, unhurried evolution of musical plot, atmosphere depicting personal "sound vision" of the author.
Abbildung -- "Endless Repetition Of The Same" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Essentia Mundi, EM007, (ltd. 100)
This release celebrates five years of ABBILDUNG's unique sound experiments. The release contains a selection of tracks from various recording stages over the last 5 years. This is a 'special' release not intended as a 'best of' but as a history in unpublished, recovered, left material. [label info]
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Accomplice Affair -- "Cienie" -- CD -- €10
2011 My Hands Music, CD003
This album is continuation of music ideas from previous "Samotny horyzont" album. The album contains more experimental guitar sounds and mysterious voices. Music from this album gets of listeners to solitary and darkness lands. This music is cold and darkness, profounds and emotionals. Two songs were recorded together with Marek Styczynski (The Magic Carpathians, Cyber Totem). He created sounds with an old experimental instruments (cytra, fidola). Over 50 minutes of music for fans who like experimental sounds! [label info]
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Accomplice Affair -- "Samotny Horyzont" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 My Hands Music, MHM 002
My Hands Music presents the third album of Polish project Accomplice Affair called "Samotny horyzont". This album was recorded at P.P.R Studio in Ostrow Wlkp, Poland from March to September 2008 year and contains 8 songs including bonus song with Krzysztof Bilinski from Radio Panteon. The music from "Samotny horyzont" is like a way towards to world of human imagination. There are a lot of magic landscapes which are entangled with psychedelic sounds. Total time near 50 minutes of music! Especially for fans who like experimental music! [label info]
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Ad Lux Tenebrae -- "Ancestor's Call" -- CD -- €10
2008 Vegvisir music, o:002, (ltd. 963)
First full-length CD of Ad Lux Tenebrae (or K Svetu T'my - in Russian language), released after several split, collaboration and CDR editions. The disk contains two rituals, first was performed in the evening of Jan. 23rd, 2008, second - during the night on May 24-25th, 2004. Shamanic Dark / Drone Ambient of Ad Lux Tenebrae is the sound of the most ancient and deepest layers of existence, irrational and anti-rational, utterly alien to nowadays people, the manifestation of human side not distorted by the influence of "civilization" and "modern society". Message from the source where the essence of Nature and human flow together. Music from pre-times and out of time. The noise produced by humanoid organisms crawling about piles of metal and plastic, now completely drowns the call from the source of all living. Musicians of Ad Lux Tenebrae act as media, conductors that embody this signal, not bringing anything personal in the act of creation. In their rituals they use the original instruments like tambourine, self-made drums, tube, flutes and other untitled instruments made by themselves. Every ritual is put into a completed action only once, and will never be repeated in future... First ritual is intense and uneasy. A ritual of purifying from momentary things and merging with something that was rejected long time ago in blindness and stupidity. This is a wind tearing apart rotten meat of momentary and dissolving in an inexpressible glow from beyond. The storm of the first ritual gives place to pacification of the second one, but this calmness is illusive. Just like a pillow of moss in the middle of a forest looks so calm and safe, but it hides deadly depth of swamp pit underneath. Ghostly lights appearing in the very border of vision in short yet infinite moment of daybreak twilight, they lure inside the thicket warped in ghostly mist. The road of this music is tempting and frightening, what's gonna happen with the one following it?.. This CD is dedicated to the memory of Raven, a permanent member of the band, passed away in cold autumn of 2008. Rituals of "Ancestor's Call" were among the last recordings done with his participation. [press-release]
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Adriva -- "Adtasa" -- 3"CD-R -- €9
2008 Observatiore 19, (ltd. 18)
This release contains 2 tracks: first long track is quite typical for Adriva - same raw loops of sound, revolving like giant black millstones. Second track is even more minimalistic and consists of deep low-end rumbling loops.
Adriva -- "Cold Sea Week" -- CD-R -- €8
2007 Abgurd, AB-43, (ltd. 100)
Project of Denis from formations of SUNCHARIOT, ENMERKAR and MATTER shows a little more experimental Drone Ambient than the one he performs in his main project, SUNCHARIOT. The album is dedicated to the author's sojourn on the shores of Black Sea in winter. Slack, congealed soundwaves crystallize in the air and gently descend on eyelids and shoulders, immersing one in eternal slumber of Suspense. Floating spectres of drowned fishermen, call-signs of ultramundane submarines, icefloes that ram Eternity, chasm of scalding coldness and pitch-darkness. [press-release]
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Adriva -- "Cuore Mini" -- CD-R -- €6
2008 Observatiore 18, (ltd. 18)
Ritual old school industrial from Rostov-on-Don, Russia.
Adriva -- "Equites Mini" -- CD-R -- €9
2007 Observatory Records, Observatory 13, (ltd. 30)
This project always remains true to itself: minimalism, lo-fi sound, slowly rotating loops and feeling of some devilry happening around.
Adriva -- "Lacte Sessia" -- CD-R -- €10
2008 Observatoire 24, (ltd. 38)
One 30-min. piece made in monotonous drone ambient way typical for Adriva, but at the same time "shifted" towards more fluent mood: the sound became more flowing, loops - more wave-sounding, atmosphere - more abstract.
Adriva -- "Losung" -- CD-R -- €8
2007 Strely Peruna, SP017, (ltd. 100)
'Losung!' is a victoriously offensive shout of pagan barbarians directed to Roman garrisons. Obscure and heavy enveloping noise and rhythm of Death. For all lovers of dark ambient, death industrial and ritual. Special non-standard package, limited edition. 47 minutes. [press-release] Re-edition of the original CDR on Observatory Records with a bonus-track.
Adriva -- "Oriens" -- CD-R -- €10
2008 Observatiore 23, (ltd. 38)
The album was recorded in winter 2008. Lost - somewhere in reality and dream interactions. Clarity - only in search of one of the four cardinal directions... Total time - 60 minutes. [label info]
Adriva -- "Voix de Mythe" -- 3"CD-R -- €8
2009 Abgurd, AB-54, (ltd. 50)
A new mini-album from this Russian project which album Cold Sea Week released by Abgurd in 2007 got good acknowledgement. The new material is completely acoustic without usage of any musical instruments. Only field recordings and feedback. Everything melts down into electroacoustic drone ambient of live tension. [label info]
Adriva 91404 D -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT44, (ltd. 147)
Collaboration between one of the giants of Russian drone-scene - Adriva from Rostov-on-Don, and YAO 91404 D from Ingria. Industrial / musique concrete in classical style of Pierre Schaeffer and Brume. Industrial noises, hum and clanks of mechanisms, loops, howl of the wind, hiss of air trunks and warped parts of musical instruments are mixed together into a complex multi-layered retro-futuristic industrial symphony. Two-sided printed sleeve. [press-release]
Aelia Capitolina -- "Requiem" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 NAID, naid-002, (ltd. 22)
Second release of NAID is Aelia Capitolina project, known for good web releases, but this time the release is physical and it represents a conceptual work in slightly tragical and nordically creative mood. Snowstorm from north brought enveloping synthesizer drones, making you peer into dense mist and inhale cold wind of crushing of last hopes for Freedom. Stylistically this is close to funeral nordic ambient. Ideologically it resembles gloomy Canadians from Cyclic Law. Recommended. [Ufa Muzak]
Aeoga -- "Coav" -- CD -- €10
2004 Aural Hypnox, [AH02], (ltd. 1000)
Finnish label Aural Hypnox was founded only in 2004 but has already obtained reputation of qualified provider of dark drone/ritual music with their project Halo Manash. The new band on this label sounds quiet in vein - music is based on eerie guitar feedback textures, archaic drum and cymbal patterns, atonal/tonal vocalizations and various distant/peculiar sample layers. "To exhaust mind and body in order to obtain a condition of non-consciousness and thus receive, realize and create material based on both primal and absent vision". The CD comes in octagon shaped cardboard cover which you can easily use as wall-decoration in your room.
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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]
Aeterna Anima -- "Chaos Of Noise And Silence" -- CD-R -- €9
2002 self-released
The project from Tomsk, Russia, consists of only one person Const N.F. Griph who is responsible for programming and lyrics sounding on this album, and this is a great example of how ti create good and diverse material using minimum of equipment. 80 minutes, 19 tracks - a serious volume, especially since it has been composed during 3-4 months in early 2002. But this doesn't mean anything bad - on the contrary, every sound is processed with a responsible attitude, maybe only distortion is used a bit roughly and excessively, but the whole picture stays fine. There is some stylistical range, but it lies between the related genres - coming from the area of Noise through Dark Ambient into Drone Ambient. Some tracks are quite aggressive and tend to Genocide Organ and other pillars of this genre. SOme of the tracks are very mild, with low frequency background, easy ambiental pseudo-melodies, bells, and nice atmospheric lyrics spoken by male and female voices. You can hear the use of different effects - reverb, echo, panning - but at the same time everything's so simple and minimal. The overall feeling of this album is very positive. [Ultima-Ratio]
African Cave Recordings From The Lunar Surface -- "Acoustic Selenology In The 1900s" -- CD-R -- €9
2010 Black Drone: 13 Series, 13-1, (ltd. 39)
Experimental ambient, field recordings and musique concrete. Following the steps of Deutsch Nepal and Lustmord. Sleeve. [YAOP]
Aghast -- "Hexerei Im Zwielicht Der Finsternis" -- CD -- €13
2009 Eternal Pride Productions, EPP 014
Aghast was a project by Nebelhexe and Nacht, released in 1994. This album was released back then by legendary Cold Meat Industry and now we present a great re-edition in DIGI-CD. "Hexerei Im Zwielicht Der Finsternis" is real dark and gloomy ambience, played in a classical dark wave vein. Minimalism in musical content, compensated by spooky and ice-cold vocals that will haunt you. Macabre enchantresses in lovely disguise will seduce you to end your life and take you th their ghastly realm from which you will never rise. Hear gods cry and angels fall. Listen to the horror and beauty. Let Aghast bewitch you! [press-release]
Aghiatrias -- "Regions of Limen" -- CD -- €10
2004 Epidemie Records, EPR 045, 2nd edition, (ltd. 444)
An extensive dark-ambient album devoted to the theme of subliminal sensual perception and its fictive musical applicaiton. An abstrakt conception of the confrontation between the surreal and real world (artificial ambient versus realistic industrial sound). The meditative character of the compositions is brightened by discharges of a kind of radioactive irradiation, representing the fleeing moments of understanding. The formation aims for purity of expressive means in an effort to accentuate the role of the primarily suppressed and ignored spiritual dimension of our world,while pointing to the importance of the liminal "structures" of our perception." [label info]
Aglaia -- "Mondi Sensibili" -- CD -- €13
2006 Hic Sunt Leones, HSL 036
The third CD by AGLAIA "Mondi Sensibili" create a soundworld where the vibrations, the poetry and sound teraphy bring the listener into that forgotten sound places suggested by the title. In õMondi Sensibiliæ (Sensible Worlds), the sound incantations caracterized by the Aglaia's music become more and more clear and layered: the electronic sounds seem played from the wind, and their brilliance often seem to come from the cords of an acoustic instrument. [label info]
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Aglaia -- "Naked Movements" -- CD -- €13
2009 Hic Sunt Leones, HSL052
Aglaia -- "Reverberant Skies" -- CD -- €13
2009 Hic Sunt Leones, HSL053
Aglaia -- "Sacred Waters" -- CD -- €13
2004 Hic Sunt Leones, HSL028
The textural ambient project Aglaia have finally released their second album. After a very good feedback from the first CD "Three Organic Experiences", "Sacred Waters" is the new offertoires to introduce more and more in the amniotic sound dimension, of their music. The layers's quality become more deep here.. in breathing circles where processed voices and acoustic instruments, appear to be evocative and fragmented like in a dream, or just like what an echo can play with sounds in an open landscape, coming from far distances with the wind. The electronics/analog sounds are waves of flowing energy with a powerful relaxing quality, and behind them you can hear sometimes an indian flavour like an incense stick burning. By the way it's not possible at all to explain and describe the originality of this music, his poetry and his psychoacoustic properties, but if you start to listen, it invites you to stay inside yourself, in the motionless, and timeless space that induce, bathing in the Sacred Waters of the infinite ocean of peace and inspiration. [label info]
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Aglaia -- "Unprofaned Twilight" -- CD -- €13
2008 Faria Records, FAR-18 / Hic Sunt Leones, HSL 046, (ltd. 650)
The fourth cd of Aglaia is born from the previous work but, in comparison with them, it develops a wider breath directly from the background's sounds. The composition is softer and more refined. Again the sonorous world that here is explored is that one of the enchantment, of the mild sound fading. An unprofaned and inviolate twilight, where the different vibrations are balanced, without any sort of tensions. Time rolls by and space too. The sound is a natural matter and gives birth to an intense crepuscolar light. Listening to this music is like to see thousands of fine luminous rays, filtered through half-closed windows. A dance of dust in a never ending movement that catches the light around. With aglaia's sound we are in an electroacoustic microcosm full of vibrating signs. The first of the two long compositions suggests a natural and quiet landscape. The sound's mood is a sort of perpetual tinkling, wrapped up a voice coming from the space, that observes from afar. An harmonic accordance between different reality. The second, even though more intimate, is equally shining. Everything happens during a night where insects, spring-waters and moonlight match themselves together. A swarming midnight with underworld life. [press-release]
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Aglaia -- "White Maps" -- CD -- €13
2009 Hic Sunt Leones, HSL051
Agnivolok -- "Cherries" -- CD -- €10
2006 The Eastern Front, Front 005, (ltd. 1000)
Israeli neo-folk project Agnivolok presents its album 'Cherries'. The album was planned to be released on a few years ago under the original title 'Cherries for the Golden Skull', was re-worked slightly and out now. An impressive musical meltdown that takes traditional music into a new dimension. Passionate folk, rich of eastern and oriental characteristics, skillfully combined with experimental acoustic ambient layers, and a female voice that is haunted by melancholy. [press-release] Psychedelic folk with female vocals and some unusual instruments (two-handed saw, stone chello, ice flute), and some usual too.
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Agnivolok -- "Sculptor" -- CD -- €10
2006 The Eastern Front, Front 004, (ltd. 1000)
Now on CD with a previously unreleased bonus track 'Angels'. The alchemy of Agnivolok, an Israeli ensemble of musicians whose roots lie in the depths of Russia and the Ukraine, takes you to a place where unspeakable events fall into place... An impressive musical meltdown that takes traditional music into a new dimension. Passionate folk, rich of eastern and oriental characteristics, skillfully combined with experimental acoustic ambient layers, and a female voice that is haunted by melancholy. Agnivolok is Near Life Experience-traditional music for spiritual travelers. [press-release] Reissue of LP previously published by now defunct German label StateArt with bonus track. Mournful female voice in company with lots of acoustic (guitar, bass, piano, harmonium, etc.) and electronic (samples, effects) instruments. Israeli import.
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Agnivolok & Chaos As Shelter -- "Henbane" -- CD -- €10
2009 The Eastern Front, Front 024, (ltd. 1000)
Agnivolok is the neo-folk and experimental music project of Vera Agnivolok, Igor Krutogolov and Vadim Gusis. Vadim Gusis stands also behind the project Chaos As Shelter, his solo project. So this album seems a very logical collaboration, but could it not just been an Agnivolok album? Well, not quite. Since Agnivolok is very neofolk oriented and Chaos As Shelter makes mostly instrumental industrial soundscapes. Both projects take turns with each track, so we go from experimental neo-folk into experimental soundscapes. This way the album has a very interesting synergy. I very much like the, somewhat distorted, vocals of Vera Agnivolok, although I can't hear what she really sings about, it has a very nice ambience to it. Neo-folk for me is often a hit or miss, but here it's a definite hit. Because the neo-folk of Agnivolok has very industrial elements, it really fits with Chaos As Shelter soundscapes, to create one somewhat unique whole. With this album I really feel like walking in some dark industrial world, or some torn apart cities, and then getting some narrative in-between. It has therefore a somewhat cinematic quality, sometimes even theatrical. A very excellent release, even if you are perhaps not really into neo-folk. Though both projects have a significant sound of their own, together it works very well because they complete each others input. The Eastern Front has already delivered some fine releases, and this one they can put up there with some of their best albums! [Fabian, Gothtronic]
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Aidons La Norvege -- "Ostaggi" -- CD -- €10
1986/2010 Oltrelanebbiailmare, CD201004
Aidons La Norvege from Perugia, Italy, were formed in 1982; they showcased a typical dark wave style with Italian lyrics. They recorded an unforgettable 12" entitled "La Sfida" ("The Challenge", originally released by SPITTLE Records). Along with the aforementioned EP the band had significant live experiences, in Italy and abroad, recorded several demotapes and participated to various compilations (including the tape "The Fifth Column", released by French label Wallenberg and including contributes by DEATH IN JUNE, 23 SKIDOO and others). Aidons La Norvege quitted in 1988 playing only a few more occasional concerts. The CD release "Ostaggi" includes the four tracks that appeared on the "La sfida" 12", along with a selection of recordings from the same years that were only included on some promotional demotapes - and therefore substantially unreleased - for a total playing time of about 50 minutes of refined music to be remembered or rediscovered, also because the band have recently regrouped for some concert and is active again. [press-release]
Ain Soph -- "II" -- CD -- €10
1985/2001 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 037 / Misty Circles, MCR22
Re-edition of the second long time deleted Ain Soph album! Completely digitally re-mixed & re-mastered + plus some rare bonus material... a must for all lovers of this primer esoteric italian project! [press-release]
Ain Soph -- "October" -- CD -- €14
2002 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 044 / Misty Circles, MCR33
Yes the roman masters are back after 10 years with the AURORA follower album: "OKTOBER"... ! All is singed on Italian with their usual acoustic instrumentation and their tipical keyboard, songs in the way of Aurora but with an aditional rocking electric guitar, once more a work out of all standards! The more unusual industrial project which still works from inside the idustrial world... Tales from a jung russian guy during the october revolution... probably even more "surprising" than the last "incredible" AURORA... The disc that all of you was waiting for! Comes in ellegant digipack + lirics booklet. [label info]
AirSculpture -- "TranceAtlantic" -- 2 CD -- €15
2005 Neu Harmony, NH037
Dwelling more in the realm of Ambient Music, this release is a journey inward to the dark abstractions of the dreaming mind. With this work, AirSculpture explores the fabric of sound, its range of subtleties and the dramatic possibilities of music organized without a tonal center. A lilting piano improvisation opens each disc but soon the mood spirals downward into a shifting timbral plane. Drones build amongst a narrative of humming synthetic sound and constantly transforming tonal color. Set against these sections is the imaginative and engaging sequencer driven patterns AirSculpture is known for. Even here the group pushes beyond their earlier work and into new and unique depths of throbbing pulse, bouncing echoes and spacey beats. The result is a cool combination of inspired play, chance occurrence and the magnification of minute shadings of sound. [Chuck van Zyl, Star's End]
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Akala -- "The End Of The Beginning" -- mCD -- €7
2004 Fin de Siècle Media
This Lithuanian multimedia artist has among other things released the album "Delicate Instruction" on RRRecords and contributed music to the dance performance "Extremum Mobile". This work is about the ever changing flow which re-incarnates the soul; transmigration. It is not just a sound, but also a state opposite to everything that can be reached through your senses. [label info] "Akala come from Lithuania and is linked to 'naj', who had a CD on Pure before. The music of Akala is rather dark, displaying an interest in both ambient and noise. Slowly enveloping noise fields, using synths, loops and radio sounds alike. Again primitively made but with intense." [Vital Weekly 85]
AKPAN -- "Schwarze Sonne" -- CD -- €8
2007 Strely Peruna prod., SP019, (ltd. 420)
A project of a man also performing as Sva Battalion. Militant shamanistic dark-ambient/noise in which throat singing, khomus, percussion and wind instruments (not sampled but recorded by the author himself) meet noises and gunshots. Feeling like a gathering of shamans-generals conjures about their military business. In general, quite vivacious and non-standard recording, qualitative and interesting.
Akpan / Bardo -- "V Poiskah Potaennogo" -- CD-R -- €6
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]
Akpan / Dadhikra -- "Indo-Bod" -- 3"CD-R -- €9
2011 S und S Records, SS-2010-013-01 / YAOP, YAOP 049, (ltd. 30)
Split / collaboration of two projects from Moscow region and Ingria, inspired by various aspects and directions of aryan and related cultures originating from the Arctic motherland. The birth of Brahma from lotus, Vishnu who grew from umbilicus in absolute peace amidst waves of the Worl ocean, and spirits dancing in snowstorms of the Lapland thundras - in two Ritual Ethnic Industrial tracks of Dadhikra. Overtone buddhist noise, voice and deliberate beats of ting chang - in enchanting rite of Akpan. Short collaboration track - glow of bright mysterious drone painted with parts of traditional instruments. Fully handmade artwork utilising vintage materials, calligraphy, hand-cut stamps. [press-release]
Albireon -- "Mr. Nightbird Hates Blueberries" -- CD -- €14
2010 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 132
A dark comedy or a folk drama about drunk birds, mocking spiders, empty bottles and lost souls. Starring David E. Williams, Lloyd James, Sonne Hagal, Future Whirl, Die Weisse Rose. A strange manuscript, telling a tale about some bizarre characters, found somewhere in a forgotten cellar and hidden by countless broken bottles, was the inspiring spark for this dark comedy or folk drama-as the subtitles suggest-set to music in order to show how love can be a faint illusion and the deepest of all wounds. For this decadent party, recorded between late 2008 to early 2010 and graced by great emotional neo folk ballads and more experimental gloomy soundscapes, Albireon invited some very selected guests to share this tasty blueberries' cake and offer the album a different palette of vocal nuances and a multinational coven of damned artists' parade. American songwriter-genious David E. Williams, UK's finest minstrel Lloyd James of Naevus, german neo folk leading act Sonne Hagal, Norwegian/american highly talented artist Future Whirl (formerly Oberon) and the new martial heroes Die Weisse Rose are the selected guests of Mr. Nightbird's party. These great artists offered a priceless contribution to Albireon's music and lyrics, and perfectly painted the sad main character, in his struggling pilgrimage toward love, loss, forgiveness and rebirth, but all seen through the drunk eye of the mocking spiders. And after all, you now may be guessing why Mr.Nightbird hates blueberries? Listen to the album and find out why! [press-release]
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Algol -- "Deep Thoughts About Universe" -- CD-R -- €6
2007 Misfake, MF#6
Russian project from the depth of Siberia. Press-release says: We are all physically living in a definite space and time, but we have an amazing gift, that must not be left out! Mentally, we can broaden the borders of reality by Imagination. I feel myself trapped in a cage between two lions; the first one is eternity of Macro - and the second is chaos of Micro - world. But if you close your eyes, cast aside all your useful thoughts, and join a mind flight with me, you will be able to explore new unknown horizons and see other worlds. Use & develop your imagination thoroughly for it's the most important sense that we possess as human beings. We can not fight against Time, but nevertheless, we can play with it using our Minds!
Alio Die -- "Flight of the Real Image" -- CD -- €13
2006 Faria Records, FAR-05, (ltd. 1000)
The Russian label Faria Records have re-released the MCD by ALIO DIE "The Flight of Real Image" (out of stock from a long time), in full lenght version: this is a limited edition in 1000 copies in a special cardboard package with 5 cards, inside the cover. The artwork was released by Hic Sunt Leones in collaboration with the painter Sara Luciani. The tracking list bring together the tracks originally included in the mcd, with two unrealised track with Saffron Wood, a new track with Bruno Sanfilippo, a beautiful acoustic track with Luciano Daini, and other inedits. [artist info]
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Alio Die -- "The Hidden Spring" -- CD -- €10
1998 Crowd Control Activities, Crowded 4
Alio Die -- "Khen Introduce Silence" -- CD -- €10
2003 Hic Sunt Leones, HSL 025
Taking basic improvisations only from sounds produced by Khen (mouth-organ from Thailand/Laos) and processed by different controls like filters, pan and multi-effects, Stefano Musso looks for a vibrational enviroment that is like a special point of view, where time changes his meaning and sometimes becomes absolutely relative, finding a place for contemplation, like being in the clouds and breathing with the sound of the spheres. Observe the circular harmony of seasons in his never ending flow, it speaks like old poetry that is familiar to the soul. [press-release]
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Alio Die -- "Le Stanze Della Trascendenza" -- CD -- €13
1999 Hic Sunt Leones, HSL 016
This is the second part of a trilogy of ambient music (the first part of this series is "The Hidden Spring" out on Crowd Control Act. in 1998) characterized by old sound sources of acoustic origin Stefano Musso did several years ago (voice, flute, field recordings), reworked now with modern technologies of digital multitrack recordings.
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Alio Die -- "Leaves Net" -- CD -- €10
2001 Hic Sunt Leones, HSL 019
The third part of the trilogy based on re-assembling old recordings features several previously unreleased tracks and compositions from compilations "Death Odors", "Regeneration-Degenerescence", "Desire" and mCD "The flight of the real image".
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Alio Die -- "Music Infinity Meets Virtues" -- CD -- €13
2009 Nextera, ERA 2060 2
Performed Live at Church of St.Simon and Juda, Prague 1 - Old Town, May 23rd, 2009.
Alio Die -- "Sol Niger" -- CD -- €13
2004 Hic Sunt Leones, HSL 021
This new CD contains unrealized material recorded by Alio Die in the year 2001. The tracks are characterized from the editing of old recordings produced in Milan in 1990, with Massimo Iadarola plays guitar and effects. The recordings were integrated with radionoise from an old Valvular Model. Some new sounds of flutes and percussions were added from Gianfranco Cualbu. The recordings were completed with a new tracks displays zither, muezzin voices from the shirt wave space and field recordings made by Alio Die in Notre Dame, Paris Sept 2002. The sound atmosphere of this release is close in some way of the really first CDs by Alio Die, with a light electronic taste, in the feeling of the dark that pass before a new dawn. [label info]
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Alio Die & Aglaia -- "Private History Of The Clouds" -- CD -- €13
2009 Infraction, INFX 037, (ltd. 900)
Alio Die & Amelia Cuni -- "Apsaras" -- CD -- €12
2001 Projekt, PROJEKT126
Italian singer Amelia Cuni has a voice like a drink of mountain stream water, a voice that you might expect to find operating in popular song. But her area of expertise is that most ancient and rigorous of Indian styles, dhrupad singing. Cuni's vocal clarity and dusky sweetness sit oddly but perfectly in this austere context. Recent enthusiastic collaborators have included Paul Schutze, Terry Riley, Werner Durand and David Toop. This is not music that borrows a few Indian flavours, but a serious attempt to make something new and expressive from within Indian art music. It's both extraordinarily beautiful and very easy to listen to. [Clibe Bell, The Wire Magazine] With 15 different collaborations and 7 solo albums to his name, Italian ambient soundscape constructor Alio Die presents his most stunning release to date. His work with Robert Rich and Vidna Obmana have set the stage for the unusual beauty of this dramatic work, celebrating nature and the magic of the human voice... In Hindu mythology, the Apsaras are female spirits of nature, usually water nymphs. Flowing in the waters, these celestial nymphs come out of the waves like the first seed of the mind: desire. Talented artistically, the Apsaras are very beautiful; charming musicians and dancers for the pleasure of the Gods. [press-release]
Alio Die & Daini, Luciano -- "End of an Era" -- CD -- €13
2007 Hic Sunt Leones, HSL 042
Alio Die: Psaltery, Zither, Drones and Loops, Editing and Field Recordings. Luciano Daini: Cello, Flik-Horn, Zither, Voice, Flutes,
Metals, Percussions, Rattles, Keyboards.
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Alio Die & Festina Lente -- "Il Sogno Di Un Piano Veneziano A Parigi" -- CD -- €13
2005 Hic Sunt Leones, HSL 030
With Il Sogno di un Piano Veneziano a Parigi Alio Die and Festina Lente creates together a place of the memory where the past rest with a filmy nostalgia.. it is a dramatically joint that finally extinguish itself to the become.. there at the border where the personal moment ends, and the taste of an impersonal experience starts, with a longer breath. Like life belongs to the cosmos, and time belongs to the seasons. After a long friendship a pianoforte met a zither, their incorporating sounds brought on wings of an ancient and lully dream, in foggy layers of impalpable feelings and in a wayward journey towards the inland. The field recordings were collected in Paris, East-Asia, and America by Alio Die, kimsonJa and Francesco Paladino such as rituals, animals, objects and spontaneous voices in the street... surround and conduce towards parallel worlds. The ambient tracks are alternated with more intense and obscure moments, without breaking the solution of the continuum, through the organic elaborations of the sound's dye... loops of notes and silences, subtle presences of the field recordings that spy both: mankind and nature: So the treated piano and the nipped and scrubbed cords, the voices and noises, the resonances of metals... calls back the memory's body, that comes to the surface with great glangour. Dissolvent bright and dark colours, putting voices together to a poetical inspiration and a glamorous and precise lyricism of the entire inside. [press release]
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Alio Die & Johnson, James -- "Cube 7 - Sospensione D'Estate" -- CD -- €13
2007 Hic Sunt Leones, HSL 041
CUBE music is designed to blur the architectural spaces that we occupy during our waking hours of the day. Whether it be an office cubical, a personal listening space or subtly defined spaces within an architectural enviroment. CUBE music is music at the edge of perception, music meant to expand interior space. Listening at a volume slightly above the natural sound in the space that this work is being played. [label info]
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Alio Die & Paladino, Francesco -- "Angel's Fly Souvenir" -- CD -- €13
2004 Hic Sunt Leones, HSL 027
'Angel's Fly Souvenir' a CD by ALIO DIE & FRANCESCO PALADINO with contributes by IN GOWAN RING and JACK OR JIVE. An album out of any definition, music at the same time dreamy and deep, a concrete and ethereal journey, born from the pleasure to experiment, the project was starting from acoustic sounds and voices recorded throw a long tube with zither loops, flutes, and different sonorous objects not identified at all and from the 'nose' sounds by Francesco Paladino. The album contains seven tracks, two of that are enriched by the epic collaboration track with In Gowan Ring in 'Ancient Consciousness of the End', and with the voice by Chako of Jack or Jive in 'Flowing Out from the Core of the Mountain'. [label info]
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Alio Die & Saffron Wood -- "Corteggiando le Messi" -- CD -- €10
2006 Hic Sunt Leones, HSL 037
From seminal experiments at the research of the harmony, playing with nipped and scrubbed cords by salterio and zither (plus marimba and fields recordings), improvising and recording in the open spaces of the inner Liguria, some very relaxing tracks are spring out ...with coloured harmonics and enchanted depth. One of the Top Ten listenings here: [label info]
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Alio Die & Saffron Wood -- "The Sleep of Seeds" -- CD -- €12
Hic Sunt Leones, HSL 026
The title is also the opening track of this macroscopic journey into a world which spontaneously engages us when we travel through it. A link between life and earth, a passageway between time and change. A melodious itinerary in which a time hourglass often makes no sense but only the sound of articulated and fragmentary notes... 50 minutes between a seed and a grain of soil to wander into an infinite space while listening to a far away earth longing sound. Recorded in Savona Italy august 2002, with different flutes, tubes, accordion, various objects, rattles, shells, bells... Drones and loops, effects, editing and mastering on Pro-tools, at Temple studio Milano spring 2003. All the CDs comes in a special artwork compositions with tissues leaves, seeds... [label info]
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Alio Die & Zeit -- "Sunja" -- CD -- €13
Hic Sunt Leones, HSL 023
"Magic has blown its precious spores in the air. A human rite, humble and quiet, has evoked a red hot globe that gently illuminates the path toward the borders of Sunja, the dream place where all vibrations start. Sometimes the light comes down from the sky, clear like a crystal. Sometimes it climbs slowly from the earth's depths, but it's always comforting. Crossing the thresholds of Sunja is like landing on an uncontaminated island, furrow its white sea-shores lapped by tepid foamy waters, been inebriated with wide floral smells and saltiness in secret places of the inland and in caves dug from time, gain the top of the plateau from which it is possible to see beyond... Sunja is creative strength enclosed in two long tracks of incredible intensity, rich in levels of knowledge, pure enchantment and beauty. The deep sound has an extraordinary symbolic and evocative power and it has arrived to a supreme purification owing to millenial percolations across the rock. Music shines, beholds, resounds at the bottom of ourselves, lives and spreads out. We realize, in listening, that a light warmth closes in upon us, everything loses its own original sense, the gates open... the road is beaten! Basic acoustic recordings were improvised during a warm night in late summer 2002 at Lunae studio,Tuscany. Edited and mixed in spring 2003 at Temple studio, Milano. Stefano Musso: zither, samples and loops, buzzer, fields recordings. Tommaso Cimo: khen (mouth-organ), accordion, attles, bird calls, bells. All the CDs come in a special artwork numbered compositions with collages and handmade prints." [label info]
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Alisa-Yhtye -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €6
2009 Triangle Records, [TR042], (ltd. 100)
Grigory Avrorin makes noise since 1997. He started in a band TALONOV NET, and after it's breakup continued to improve his skills in heir band TEA MAN WITH TEA GUM. Later there were such projects as SOVIET SEX MACHINES, MONOPOLKA and some more. In the last years Avrorin paid more attention to his solo work. His noise researches are presented to the audience under various titles, the most known of them are GRA, FREDRIKSON, CHELOVEK V SHTANAH, FON-BARON, DOKTOR KINCHEV, NOISE WENDY, ALISA-YHTYE, HUREN AQUARIUM, VIOLINIST IN ASSHOLE, G. Avrorin. Most of his works have their own recognisable sound, namely dirty, disharmonic and aurally disgusting. ALISA-YHTYE is not an exception and represents junk industrial mixed with scrap noise. Nevertheless it sounds very noble and traditional, the listener immediately feels the atmosphere of late 80-s - early 90-s. Sluggish hardly heard noise is interlaced with metal gritting and percussion. Feedback whistles quietly, and G. Avrorin leisurely emits another cloud of cigarrete smoke. Noble old school industrial noise. [press-release]
Alk0 -- "Music Under Intoxication" -- CD -- €10
2003 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 060
Alk0 is the solo project by Jouni Ulvtharm member of MZ.412 and Econocon! Harsh analog sounds in best powerful nordic industrial tradition... Fear of the unknown, machines alienation & high cerebral intoxication! Large full-color booklet with interesting "technology archeology" graphics. [label info]
All Hail The Transcending Ghost -- "s/t" -- CD -- €10
2009 Cold Spring, CSR122CD
Dark Ambient / Guitar Drone. The debut album from All Hail The Transcending Ghost - a joint collaboration between Henrik Nordvargr Björkk (MZ.412, Toroidh, Folkstorm etc) and Tim Bertilsson (Fear Falls Burning, Switchblade). Together the Swedish legends have created arguably one of the most haunting drone-dark-ambient-industrial works in recent years, invoking the spirits of old Nordvargr, meets the sludge-doom vibe of Tim's hellish guitar. This has to be the most unsettling work from Nordvargr, as the man himself states "truly the most scary music I have recorded". An icy chill down your spine... a cold hand on your shoulder... you are never alone in the darkness. [press-release]
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All My Faith Lost... -- "In A Sea, In A Lake, In A River .. ...Or In A Teardrop" -- CD -- €10
2002/2009 Infinite Fog Productions, IF-04, (ltd. 1000)
"In a sea, in a lake, in a river ... ... or in a teardrop" was composed and recorded by "all my faith lost .." in its original line-up (Francis, Federico, Viola and Raffaella) as a first full album. The songs included in this album are inspired by spirits and fairies somehow releated to water. There is Grageth-Anoon, a fairy that can be seen near small lakes, there is Argea, that comes out from a river to tell your destiny and Anja, a fairy hidden in a tear. The sound of the album is just more acoustic than recent releases of the band and almost all songs are following the verse/chorus/verse rule. Acoustic and Classic guitars are the main instruments at the base of the compositions, flutes and delicate synths create, then, light arrangements giving that ethereal mood that will be more present in the following releases of the band. The vocal parts are equally divided among the male one (Federico) and the female ones (Viola and Raffaella) creating a perfect balance between heavenly/frail and profound/dark atmospheres. "In a sea, in a lake, in a river ... ... or in a teardrop" is a beatiful travel in the early steps of "all my faith lost ..." music. [press-release]
All-Stars Noise Collective -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €5
2011 Shit Noise Records, SNR 091
Mail collaboration between Armenia, Ego Death, Erekta, Napalmed, RedSK, Earth Incubator, Ecoute La Merde, Fever Spoor, NRYY. Laconic artwork. [YAOP]
Allerseelen -- "Abenteuerliches Herz" -- CD -- €15
2002 Aorta, AORCD07
"Abenteuerliches Herz is a great album. Raw, powerful and complex. It is very exciting to see someone take the neo-folk music genre and completely redefine and broaden its scope. To see an artist infuse this genre with so many diverse musical approaches and infuse it with Mediterranean flavor has been a very unique and enjoyable experience. Allerseelen's Abenteuerliches Herz truly stands out as an original and innovative release. I highly recommend this album to everyone. The music is very approachable and seductive. Faeries coming from many different music scenes will find both something familiar and something new in this music. All of the songs lyrical content is poetically esoteric and open to interpretation. The music is also good just for the experience. If you love innovative music that is redefining limits and boundaries you have to get Abenteuerliches Herz!" [Malahki Thorn, Heathen Harvest]
Allerseelen -- "Edelweiss" -- CD -- €14
2005 Aorta, AORCD11
This outstanding collection of newer musical works of the Austrian artist ALLERSEELEN is a co-production of AHNSTERN and Allerseelen's own label AORTA. the 74 minute CD in luxurious 6-side digipack contains a selection of the best ALLERSEELEN songs, many of them for the first time on CD. also some unreleased Industrial-Folk hymns will give pleasure to the listener's ears. at a bigger part of the songs, ALLERSEELEN was supportet by guest-musicians: Demian (O PARADIS), Rosa (CIRCE), Gaya (HAGSHADOW), JOSEF and Herr Percht (STURMPERCHT) help to give this album a very special touch. [label info]
Allerseelen -- "Flamme" -- CD -- €15
2003/2004 Aorta, AORCD10
"Apocalyptic folklore magnetico pop.. The music on these two records is warm and sensual with apocalyptic pop, folklore magic and flamenco magnetico. Fine catchy melodies, infectious groovy rhythms, a lot of joie de vivre ambiance, lovely strings and a varied musical menu. Accessible and original at the same time. There are no weak moments. Some of my favourite songs are the sing-along 'Sonne golthi-ade (Josef)', the intimate classical songs 'Ob auch mein Herz so funkelt' and the almost Latin 'Sturmlied'. On the album even a DAF cover is present: 'Als wars das letzte Mal '.?"Flamme" sparks with the lovely choral 'Kamerad', the cheerful 'Lowin', the irrestible dancehit 'Goldener Lebenswein', the mysterious 'Knistern'... With this record the temperatures are rising again..." [funprox.com]
Allerseelen -- "Hallstatt" -- CD -- €14
2007 Aorta, AORCD12
The Allerseelen CD Hallstatt contains thirteen brand-new apocalyptic and passionate songs about love and death. This release - musically situated somewhere in a terra incognita between folklore, krautrock, metal and industrial music - is inspired by the beautiful Upper Austrian village Hallstatt which belongs to the world cultural heritage due to its amazing tomb findings of the Hallstatt culture and the unique ossuary with the painted skulls. The songs have lyrics and vocals by Gerhard Petak and R.N. Taylor from Changes. [label info]
Allerseelen -- "Neuschwabenland" -- CD -- €15
2000 Aorta, AORCD05
"It is not only the packaging that possesses the texture of ice. A shimmering world of subterranean glacial caverns. One's consciousness is mesmerised by siren-like strings and metallic chimes, that glisten like frozen stalactites in this palace of ice. Sophisticated upbeat numbers veering toward pop territory in terms of its melody and construction, gelid love-songs. The addition of string and brass sections imbues the whole with a sense of subdued tension which acts as the perfect vehicle for Kadmon's pondering, poetic lyrics. Backdrobs of pulsating bass, sweeping reverberations. Wonderfully expressive violins provide a respite from the cold. As always with Allerseelen, one is left feeling enthused and invigorated by a brilliant listening experience. With concepts and music of this quality, Kadmons looks set to remain at the forefront of cutting-edge sounds for years to come." [Judas Kiss zine]
Allerseelen -- "Rauhe Schale" -- CD -- €14
2010 Aorta, AORCD13
Allerseelen -- "Stirb und Werde" -- CD -- €15
1999 Aorta, AORCD04
"An Allerseelen CD is an event. A ritual. I have never been disappointed. I have never heard an Allerseelen piece that sounded weak, poorly done, or uncared for. Allerseelen represent a standard of excellence that is almost unheard of in the world today. Stirb und Werde is no exception. It refers to the journey of death and rebirth. The artwork is taken from photographs of the sanctuary Externsteine in Westphalia. The music follows a progression, beginning softly, and almost tentatively, like the first rays of sunlight on the horizon; and, like the sun, a few minutes after this CD has begun to arise, it becomes almost overwhelmingly brilliant. Stirb und Werde is a masterpiece of the Twentieth Century, and a sentinel of the Golden Age that must surely follow this modern world of darkness." [starvox.net]
Allerseelen -- "Venezia" -- CD -- €15
2001 Aorta, AORCD06
Dedicated to Mediterranean culture and music, this album was inspired by the beautiful city of Venice, Italy. The albums music moves between powerful and rhythmic oriented tracks to soundtrack-type grooves, encompassing the decadent, inspired, hypnotic and surreal. Based on R.M.Rilke and inspired by Nietzsche and E.Pound. Lounge and downtempo industrial. [label info]
Allerseelen / Otzepenevshiye / Neutral -- "Georg Trakl. Umnachtung" -- CD -- €12
2008 Ewers Tonkunst, HHE 016 CD
Split-album of Allerseelen, Otzepenevshiye and Neutral is dedicated to a German poet Georg Trakl (1887-1914). Although Trakl is referred to the classics of impressionism, his poems extend further than depicting the corporal collapse, that fascinated Georg Heim and Gottfried Benn. Evgeny Golovin has fairly mentioned in his article "Hypothesis #1" that within his short lifetime Trakl has become "one of the most original explorers of the metaphysics of death." He is occupied with "a problem of getting inside the most mysterious sphere of human existence", and it happens through the space, where usual bonds break apart and appear the new phantasmal ones. In his research Trakl leaves the boundaries of banal contrapositions, his mature poetry isn't dark, but it's completely enigmatic - just as his whole language of poetry. The members of this release tried to present their own musical understanding of the hallucinatory universe of Trakl's poems, where dream and reality, movement and immobility are blended in incognizable proportions. [press-release]
Allerseelen / Sangre Cavallum -- "Barco do Vinho" -- CD -- €12
2006 Ahnstern, Ahnstern 21
Barco do Vinho is the Portuguese word for Wine Boat - the boats that in the past brought the barrels of wine from the vineyards in Callaecia (Northern Portugal) on the river Douro to the town of Porto. The CD features four exclusive songs by the Northern-Portuguese group Sangre Cavallum and four exclusive songs by the Austrian group Allerseelen - ancient and traditional but at the same time brand-new avant-garde music, somewhere between apocalyptic folklore and psychedelic rock. Poetical songs about wine taken down rivers with crews of strong men, floating down throats with crews of sparkling spirits. Inspired by the vineyards that welcome the sun bringing character to grapes. Then a silent darkness, a timeless life inside oak barrels turn wine into flavoured blood for a toast between men and nature. [label info]
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Allseits -- "Hel" -- CD -- €12
2009 Cyclic Law, 23rd Cycle, (ltd. 1000)
ALLSEITS is the Solo project of the german instrumentalist Nina Kernicke known from her recent collaboration with German Drone pioneers Troum of which Nina has also been a recent live member of and her work under her other alias, ALLSIDES. The Album "Hel' describes the way into the underworld, the listener is guided through various stages on the journey down to Hel, the Norse mythological term for hell and also for the goddess Hel who is said to keep watch over the underworld. The journey begins at the foot of Yggdrasil, the world tree, under which the entry to Hel is hidden. We then ride the river Gjöll, that flows along the human world before it runs down to Hel. Gjöll is spanned by the bridge Gjallarbrù which is guarded by Modgudr, a female giant, who decides who can pass the bridge. Leaving Gjallarbrù behind, the large dog Garm that sentinels the gate to Hel is waiting and at his side sits Fjalar, a rooster that will crow to signify the beginning of Ragnarok, the end of the world. After passing Fjalar Hel is finally reached. This allegoric tale is expressed diligently by Kernicke with the use of guitar, bass, drums and skillful sampling creating thick drony layers of deep and solemn emotions. Edition of 1000 copies In gatefold cardboard sleeve. [press-release]
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Altai Ashram -- "Thynbhura" -- CD-R -- €9
2003 Fight Muzik, FM09, (ltd. 420)
Recorded in Altai, at the bottom of Belukha mountain, in the western Shamballa entrance, by Mighty Shaman Altai Kagan Khum and His progeny. It is live heathen shamanic ritual session in His magical Domicilium. The Mighty Shaman sings magickal formulas by guttural singing, talks in language of animals and birds also. His progeny creates soft real-time noises as well as some keyboard and sound fx. [label info] Handmade 10" cardboard cover with inserts & photos.
Altar of Flies -- "Permanent Cavity" -- CD -- €10
2010 iDEAL Recordings, iDEAL081
Debut full length CD album by Altar of Flies from Mjölby, Sweden. Crude, intense analog waves of sound. Organic, heavy stuff that we wamly recommend to anyone interested in post industrial music and noise. Altar of Flies is the new power on the Swedish noise scene, to be put on the underground throne next to Sewer Election. Altar of Flies is Mattias Gustafsson who has recorded stuff since 2006, mainly for his own cassette label Hästen & Korset but also high quality sub terrestial labels like Cipher, Husk, and Nil by Mouth. 'Permanent Cavity' is his first more widely distributed album release. Altar of Flies is extremely uncompromising, creating organic, dark, unpleasant extreme electronic music through tape loops, analog synths and effects. So - discover the power of Altar of Flies. [press-release]
Altar Of Sorrow -- "The Pole Guardian" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Desolation Production, DP10|09, (ltd. 50)
Polar Drone Ambient in vein of Tomas Köner, Netherworld, Kammarheit and Northaunt. One of the tracks is dedicated to Quadrantids, another one - to the arctic island of Kolguev. Packed in a sleeve. [YAOP]
Aluminum Noise -- "Army of Robots" -- CD-R -- €7
2000 Soulworm Editions, Worm VI
This is the second Aluminum's CD-R release after 'Stir of Echoes' out on SSSM. This time American duo comes out with bizarre lo-fi noise made with a wide variety of sound sources - from feedback manipulation to field recordings, shortwave, tapes, guitar and voices. Not as harsh, yet deliciously chaotic and disturbing. [label info]
Ambiansu -- "Tagebuch" -- CD -- €9
2009 Noori Records, NR011 / New Approach Records, NAR001, (ltd. 500)
Ambiansu is a Portuguese Dark Ambient project, joining the efforts of two well-known artists in that scene: Merankorii and Ambience. Together, they created a dark new world, that you can visit by purchasing their debut release 'Tagebuch'. 'Tagebuch' is an opus of 5 pieces, a mix of what's classical with what's disruptive, and what's traditional with what's unconventional. It was released in a 500 copies limited edition CD in cardbox. [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]
Amon -- "Foundation" -- 2 CD -- €12
2005 Afe Records / Eibon Records, afe070cd / Amn053
"Foundation" is an Eibon Records / Afe co-production that comes in the form of two full-lenght CDs packaged in a beautifully designed heavy cardboard sleeve. It features most of the tracks originally contained on the first untitled Amon album which was out on Murder Release in 1996, the whole "Mer" limited edition CD-R released by Blade Records in 2000, and a few unreleased/rare bonus tracks. Popular demand for a "Mer" second edition has always been high, and five years later from its original release it's time to make it available to the public again along with an improved version of the untitled Amon debut CD. All the tracks on "Foundation" were performed and recorded by Andrea Marutti between September 1995 and April 2000 at Lips Vago Digital Studio and were fully remastered and post-produced on purpose of this release. "Foundation", the title track, was sourced from a Memory Moog improvisation played by Riccardo Marmugi. "Prepare to Leave" was originally released by Eibon Records on the "Dissolution Fahrenheit" CD compilation back in 1997. [Afe press-release]
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Amon / Never Known -- "Live at Molto 08.04.1997" -- CD-R -- €9
1997/2000 AFE Records, afe006rcd, 2nd edition
This recording was taken at the very first Amon / Never Known concert played at Molto Gallery [R.I.P.], Milan, in April 1997. [label info]
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Amon / Nimh -- "Sator" -- CD -- €12
2007 Eibon Records, Amn069
AMON (Andrea Marutti), the most important and estabilished italian Dark-Ambient project, and NIMH (Giuseppe Verticchio), a well-known and eclectic alchemist of electronic-ethnic-acoustic-ambient sound mixtures, worked side by side for some weeks to create their first collaborative effort. SATOR is a granitic and majestic work, a musical journey through time and history that throws the listeners into the most remote abysses of Earth. Massive magmatic sounds mixed with the technologic and synthetic vibrations of oscillating sinewaves & with frosty isolationist timbres programmed through fluxes of information written in binary code: In digisleeve. [press-release]
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Among The Stars -- "The First Flight" -- 3"CD-R -- €5
2008 BioSonar^EleKtro - 011, (ltd. 99)
Space disco in best traditions of mixing industrial and dance genres. More psychedelic than Ant-Zen, less danceable than psy-trance. The authorship is carefully hidden, but after all everybody knows. Author's packaging - small cardboard sleeve. [press-release]
Amputation Desire -- "bIId" -- CD-R -- €8
Sick Arts, SAP 18, (ltd. 100)
Side-project of Flutwacht oriented towards raw minimal industrial noise ambient. Monotonous factory loops slowly pulsate and generate sickly pictures of mechanical schizophrenia. [Abgurd description]
Anapthergal -- "An Intracranial Disclosure" -- CD-R -- €7
2000 Soulworm Editions, Worm IV
From the mainstay of Finnish woods, from the depths of frozen lakes - here comes Anapthergal. Spooky, carbonized ambience, noisy textures, ritual preparations... A ghoulish orgy heard by the pitch black nights around Anapthergal's lair. The following album consists of the first and the second material, previously released separately on AFP. Now they are gathered together and wrapped in the brand new artwork. [label info]
Andersson, Peter -- "Sculpturing Time Fragments" -- CD -- €12
2010 Midnight-Productions, MN024, (ltd. 500)
The new solo album from Peter Andersson - the mastermind behind Raison D'etre. Restrained and distant ambience sounding mixed with typical industrial elements like Raison D'etre. Time stops and rearranges here... Check it out if you are a Raison D'etre fan! [label info]
Anemone Tube -- "Dream Landscape" -- mCD -- €10
2010 Silken Tofu, stx.11, (ltd. 500)
'Dream Landscape' is the first official solo release by ANEMONE TUBE after 9 years of silence. Originally founded in 1996 in Southern Germany, ANEMONE TUBE has quite made a name for himself in the industrial/noise genre especially due to the psychogenic nature of his music. On this new release ANEMONE TUBE creates massive ambient/noise soundscapes. The sounds are pulsating, drowning and floating, tormenting and caressing - all culminating in a haunting sonic experience. 'Dream Landscape' is - together with the album 'Death over China' - the first part of the 'Suicide Series'. To this field recordings made in China provide a conceptional basis. 'Dream Landscape' is a concept album of fierce malignant power. In a poetic way ANEMONE TUBE combines analytical realism of the phenomenal world with buddhist psychology and nihilist rhetoric influenced by the visionary authors H.P. Lovecraft and Yukio Mishima. Mastering by JAMES PLOTKIN. [press-release]
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Anemone Tube -- "Existence" -- CD -- €11
2001 Aufabwegen, aatp09, (ltd. 500)
Old school noise attacks and twisted analogue soundscapes. [label info]
Anenerbe -- "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" -- CD -- €8
2007 self-released, (ltd. 500)
Russian band Anenerbe was formed in the beginning of 2000-s and follows the asceticism of minor post-punk aesthetics. On their performances and recordings the band use a grotesque mix of decadent irony with sickly sadness, excited self-mockery with despair and hopelessness. The themes of their songs are deep and varied, they contain inner claustrophoby, vicious transformations, destructive eroticism, pompous militant mysticism, eternal return, private interpretations of eschatologic and gnostic apocryphs, etc... [press-release]
Anenzephalia -- "Ephemeral Dawn" -- CD -- €13
1995/2007 Tesco Organisation, Tesco 026
Released 1995 in a ltd. ed. of 750 and sold out since 10 years! That time released in a postercover and available now again in a Digipak with booklet. Brilliand brain numbing power-electronics. Sixty-four minutes of thick electronics, droning waves, distant echoing vocals, subtle rhythmic loops, rumbling basses and some higher piercing frequencies. Finally available again. [label info]
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Angel Of Decay -- "Covered in Scars" -- CD -- €10
2005 Desolation House, DH-0700, (ltd. 1000)
Angel of Decay provides the seventh installment of the Desolation House series, Relapse Records/Release Entertainment's premium dark ambient collection. Angel of Decay is Jonathan Canady, formerly of both Dead World and Deathpile, who creates dark surrealism using vintage analog keyboards. Covered in Scars blends chilling dark ambient with words and concepts culled directly from a lifetime of personal nightmares. [press release]
Anhedonia -- "Ontology" -- CD -- €10
2009 Aliens Production, AP 19, (ltd. 550)
A long awaited album of this talented musician, who has with its album DESTRUCTIVE FORCES crossed waters of idm genre and his next phase will be for sure a desert for fans of industrial community. Crystal electronics in pulsating rhythms and atmospheric labyrinths is again timeless phase in production of this creative artist, that is crossing over boundaries of human perception. Noncommercial electronic full of alterations and industrial methods in combination with melodies and destructive surfaces. On this album you can find interesting cooperations with projects like: DOCTOROFMINDMD, SOMBRA, DISHARMONY, that has moved this work again on higher level. [press-release]
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Annen Berg -- "Riddles Of The Worm EP" -- CD-R -- €9
2008 FinalMuzik, FMSS07, (ltd. 150)
Anthesteria -- "Beyond Nimbostratus" -- CD -- €11
2004 Der Angriff Nr. 18, (ltd. 500)
Audiovisual project from Saint Petersburg. This first album was being recorded during 2 years. Author was inspired by observations of sky and clouds and some places of "old town" perceived in historical introspection. Anthesteria continues musical tradition represented by Peter Andersson (Raison d'Etre) and Eric K. (Le Joyaux De La Princesse). At the same time, Anthesteria goes beyond the music: visual aspect of this project is presented by photoalbum which you can find on the same disk.
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Anthesteria -- "Nebesnaya" -- CD -- €11
2005 Der Angriff, Nr. 24
The 2nd album of St. Petersburg-based project continues the line started 2 years ago with their debut album "Beyond Nimbostratus". The style of this album varies a lot from track to track, but in general it can be restricted with terms neoclassic/gothic/dark ambient, sometines traditional, sometimes experimental. One track features vocal of MRZ (Majdanek Waltz). "The second Anthesteria album tells a story of a journey, but it's not a journey about a ghost city as it was the case in the Beyond Nimbostratus debut album, the decadent but charming open-air museum called St.-Petersburg being the prototype of this ghost city. Now it's a journey about a fragile world of emotions and perceptions known to everyone, Á sound realization of the author's diary. The winter city is preserved in the atmosphere itself, but just a scenery or background. Keeping the trend designated in their debut, Anthesteria added martial drums and recitative voice together with some ethnic elements in a number of compositions. Anthesteria keeps multiplying illusions which make up the charm and value of human's life." [label info] Double-panel aromatized fouldout digisleeve with photos for each track.
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Anti-Verstand -- "Electroorganics" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT27, (ltd. 92)
Reissue of a legendary album with a bonus-track and new artwork. Old schoola low-frequency rough noise created with the use of low-voltage currents fed through human body and picked by microphone input of a magnetophone, recorded in 2003. Bonus track is an electrified mid-frequency concrete noise based on a field recording made in July 2007 in Kurkiyoki. DVD-box, handmade cover with technologic paper, mini-poster. [press-release]
Anti-Verstand -- "Man, as they say" -- 3"CD-R + MC -- €9
2010 YAOP, YAOP 045, (ltd. 13)
A misanthropic grin inspired by many years of observing the "two-legged fellow citizens". A digital-analogue release in two parts: 3"CDR contains a 7 minute Old-School Power Electronics track with a mocking vinyl sampling; cassette carries a 45-minute canvas of the performance of Leonid Brezhnev with a real time accompaniment of retrograde industrial electronics. For those who loved "By the song as the wind". Sleeve with pharmaceutical insert. [label info]
Anti-Verstand -- "Song Like Wind" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 Abgurd, AB-44, (ltd. 100)
ANTI-VERSTAND - side-project of YAO 91404 D - is pretty known among adorers of Russian Noise due to tapes released by YAOP and a couple of CDR re-releases made by Abgurd and Fight Muzik. With "Song Like Wind" the project introduces absolutely new and fresh point of view on its Art. The first recordings of ANTI-BRAIN were on the verge of boundless madness and unprejudiced aural challenge, while the new album appears to be more expressive, strict and catchy, burning with romantic-totalitarian lunacy of the best works by YAO 91404 D, e.g. "Heroes of the Coal Age" and "Key to Abyss". Love-poetry of soviet-era, disco-songs, accompanied by a captured metal impress, soviet-era variety art, rough and rigid feedbacks, concorporated into percussive ritual noise loops and abrasive distorted tapes emerge monumental piece of art. [press-release]
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ANTIchildLEAGUE -- "The Father" -- CD -- €10
2008 Hagshadow, Hag 01
An eclectic work that journey's from dark experimental ambient music to harsh noise, combined with both spoken word and hostile vocalizations. The musical or backing structures are derived from field recordings, self created loops, both classical analogue and software synth and rhythms. An exploration into the world of the dysfunctional family, society control, over population, relationships, religion and physiological trauma. This is the first complete album work from ACL in its ten year existence of sporadic collaborations. Recorded both in London and in sight of the Italian Chapel Orkney between 1998 to 2008. [press-release]
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Antlers Mulm -- "Filth In Several Styles - Alternative Sparks" -- CD -- €14
2009 Sonderübertragung!, SUE33, (ltd. 330)
Antlers Mulm -- "Of Withered Sparks" -- CD -- €13
2007 Loki Foundation, LOKI 47
The third album of ANTLERS MULM opts for deep resonating tones that are harmonious and hypnotic with a greater emphasis on percussion, and the massive foray into song based structures. Dark Beats linked with impressive vibes bringing highlights of an extraordinary world of sound. Phantasmagorial Melodies are melting into an intense atmosphere guided by the outstanding voice of the father of shadows Hans Johm. Throbbing samples enriches this compositions to a homogenic masterpiece. These 10 songs are catching the mood of the warm feeling of being at home and creating a landscape of a coruscant kingdom that lies deep within the lyrical and musical expression. These tracks building melancholy on the most song based LOKI release ever - take a deep breath and get lost in this aural world of ANTLERS MULM. Limited Digipak with 12page booklet. [label info]
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Antlers Mulm -- "Silbergrauer Staub" -- CD -- €14
2003 Sonderübertragung!, SÜ07, (ltd. 541)
Anvil Ov Kellipoth // Velehentor -- "Seismo..." -- CD -- €10
2010 Tormented Whores of Da'ath Records, TWDR-11, (ltd. 117)
Industrial | Noise | Power Electronics | Dark Ambient. Split album dedicated to recent Seismic Activity on Haiti island and numerous Delightful consequencies, Atonal orthodox electroguitar aleatory and Abyssal Power Electronics / Dark Ambient. Strongly NOT recommended. [Gjöll]
Apatheia -- "Lifethesis" -- CD -- €14
2003/2009 Cold Meat Industry, cmi204
Aphelion -- "Lay" -- CD -- €10
2008 Shadowgraph Records, Shadow 1
Aphelion is a hardcore industrial outfit that pull no punches while driving home their inimitable style of wrenching, break-neck, dystopian future shock. Their new CD, Lay has 10 tracks of pure terror which all bleed into one another, leaving the listener no time or chance to stop the madness, so to speak. It is an atonal, dehumanized, automated and bloody record that can be either cathartic - at the right moments - scary in other mood swings, or it could be just plain noise to the uninitiated, but that would only show the lack of creativity and the absence of experimentalism in one's mentality... [Heathen Harvest]
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Apoptose -- "Bannwald" -- CD -- €14
2010 Tesco Organisation, TESCO 078
On a Friday in September many years ago three girls went into a large forest in northern Germany. They never returned. Apoptose followed their path into the woods and listened closely to the voices whispering among the trees. The new album 'Bannwald' reflects the girls' journey to a realm of witchcraft, fairy-tales and ancient goddesses. Here in the green twilight of rustling leafs and crackling twigs nothing is as it seems and reality is covered by a thick layer of autumn foliage. The German term 'Bannwald' bears a double meaning: On one hand it stands for a protected woodland where nobody is allowed to cut trees or even to enter. On the other hand 'Bann' is an ancient word for ban or spell. After the urban nightmares of the last CD 'Schattenmaedchen' Apoptose come back to the northern wilderness once more - the home of their very first album 'Nordland'. This time with extended lineup: Those who had the chance to attend one of the rare live performances already know the voice of singer Silke and the enormous rhythms of the 15 drummers of the Fanfarenzug Leipzig. On 'Bannwald' they join forces again to invoke the spirits of moss-covered stones and hidden glades. Needless to say, this CD comes in an outstandingly designed multiple-panel foldout cover featuring an 8-page booklet and a separate cardboard CD-sleeve. [press-release]
Apoptose -- "Schattenmädchen" -- CD -- €14
2007 Tesco Organisation, Tesco 068
Schattenmädchen (English: 'shadow girl') has always been around, waiting patiently for seven years to step out of the shadows and reveal its face. Apoptose's third album explores dystopian locations: the undergrounds of Japanese megacities, the depths of worldwide data highways, the nightmares of little children. The seven tracks express images of a desolate and dying world, far removed from the solitude of the beloved Northern woods. A world lacking daylight and oxygen. A bleak vision of reality. Over the years, several of these tracks made their way to compilation CDs all over the globe. There they laid dormant to be reunited some day to form this album. In autumn 2006, Apoptose joined forces with Japanese cyberpunk author Kenji Siratori to complete the cycle. On this album, Apoptose works for the first time with spoken word lyrics. Featured languages are Japanese, English, and German. The tracks previously on compilations have been polished/remixed/rerecorded and renamed especially for the unique listening experience of Schattenmädchen. The CD is housed in an embossed 6-panel cardboard cover with an additional booklet. 7 tracks, 62 min. [press release]
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Aquadorsa -- "Cloudlands" -- CD -- €13
2009 Glacial Movements Records, GM006
Aquadorsa is a new musical Italian ambient project formed by Enrico Coniglio and Oophoi. Their first work 'Cloudlands' is a perfect mix of glitch, classical and orchestral glacial ambient soundscape. Enrico Coniglio is a guitar player and composer and his research has increasingly focused on the relationship between 'music' and 'landscape ', in an attempt to represent the contemporary crisis of the territory, the loss of nature and identity of places, and the unknown on the evolution of post-urban and post-industrial territory. He has collaborated with various artists, including: Nicola Alesini, Joachim Roedelius and Elisa Marzorati.He has produced some releases such as "AREAVIRUS - topofonie vol.1" (2007 Psychonavigation), "dyanMü (2008 Psychonavigation) and digital releases Sapientumsuperacquis on Touch Radio (Touch records) and Cro`nicaster (Cro`nica Electronica). Gianluigi Gasparetti better know as Oophoi started his own music experiments in 1995, trying to explore the shores of deep space-ambient. His live album "The spirals of time", released in 1997 by Amplexus, has been voted as one of the best ambient albums of all times. Oophoi uses traditional instruments as synths and sampling machines and his music is recorded using analog-only devices in The Kiva. He has released CDs for many International labels such as Amplexus, Hypnos, Nextera, Prikosnovenie and Glacial Movements and he has collaborated with Louisa John Krol,Alio die,Mathias Grassow and Klaus Wiese. [press-release]
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ARC -- "13th" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2002 Taalem, alm 10
ARC is a Canadian trio comprised of Aidan Baker, Richard Baker (no, they're not brothers) and Christopher Kukiel. It was formed spontaneously in 1999. ARC's music is based on drones and melodic loops created by Aidan's heavily-treated guitar. Add Richard and Chrisopher's tribalish rhtyhms made with various percussive instruments and you get the picture. When we, at Taâlem, first heard ARC, we couldn't help thinking of Life Garden and Voice of Eye, those great US tribal ambient bands from the 90's. But ARC is no copycat! [press-release]
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ARC -- "Arkhangelsk" -- CD -- €10
2008 Epidemie Records, EPR 064, (ltd. 600)
ARC is a Canadian trio (Aidan Baker - guitars, flutes, tapeloops, Richard Baker - drumkit, percussion, & Christopher Kukiel - percussion) playing tribal guitar drone ambient with psychedelic and post - rock elements and very hypnotic sound. Their brand new album Arkhangelsk brings 4 compositions in 67 minutes and comes in nice 6 panels digisleeve and is limited on 600 copies. Arkhangelsk was recorded in Toronto, Canada in December 2007 in two separate sessions. The first consisted of improvisational performances on drumset and guitar and the second consisted of layering percussion, electronics, and woodwind tracks on those original drum/guitar tracks. Both sessions were done in real-time in single takes with a minimum of post-production editing or manipulation in an effort to capture the spontaneity of the performances. As such, Arkhangelsk maintains the typical ARC sound while simultaneously exploring more adventurous poly-rhythms and textures, combining influence/inspiration from such artists as Flyer Saucer Attack, The Boredoms, Tribes of Neurot, and Rapoon. [press-release]
ARC -- "The Circle Is Not Round" -- CD -- €12
2005 A Silent Place, ASP02, (ltd. 800)
ARC formed spontaneously in 2000 at a performance at The Ambient Ping, Toronto's long-running live ambient/experimental music series. ARC is a trio of Aidan Baker (guitars, flutes, tapeloops), Richard Baker (drumkit, percussion), & Christopher Kukiel (percussion). Their music is a mixture of Popul Vuh acoustic compositions, Pink Floyd's Ummagumma era, Voice of Eye or Subarachnoid Space..., with dense and organic drones and hypnotic ethnic rhythms. ARC's sound is centred on the melodic loops, textures, & samples provided by heavily-effected guitar & other melodic instruments. This is overlaid with tribal-esque rhythms provided by various percussive instruments; drum kit, djembe, tabla, wood blocks, etc. With this combination, they create a roiling tapestry of both rhythmic & ambient sound, a sound simulataneously prim(ev)al & avant-garde. ARC, regular performers in Toronto and Montreal, have released a number of cdr releases on such labels as Piehead Records, Worthy Records, and their own label Arcolepsy Records. Their release "The Circle is Not Round" with Italy's label A SILENT PLACE (SmallVoices sister label) is their debut CD release. The disc is packaged in a special cardboard digisleeve with varnished images. [press-release]
ARC -- "Glassine 1" -- CD -- €8
2008 A Silent Place, ASP22
Glassine I was recorded live at the Ambient Ping in Toronto on 03/07/2006; and can be easily described as an organic space ambient, with very strong references to Pink Floyd (Ummagumma), Popol Vuh, Ashra Temple, Jackie-O Motherfucker, O Yuki Conjugate, AMP and Flying Saucer Attack or "Fourth World" ambient music! Four tracks of pure vibrant multi-layered psychedelic drone music! Now, close your eyes, listening to "Glassine I" and start for your trip even without the intake of any substances! [press-release]
Arcana -- "Cantar de Procella" -- CD -- €13
1997 Cold Meat Industry, CMI.55
Arcana's followup to their one year old debut album. They continue their mixture of so-called industrial elements and rather classical and medieval influences, and this one will no doubt be as critically acclaimed as their debut. [label info]
Arcana -- "The First Era 1996-2002" -- 4 CD -- €37
2010 Cyclic Law, 27th Cycle, (ltd. 2000)
Arcana -- "Raspail" -- CD -- €15
2008 Kalinkaland Records, KAL 32
Arcana -- "Le Serpent Rouge" -- CD -- €11
2005 Displeased Records, D-00145
This 6th full-length album is Arcana as you have never heard them before. With melodies from the orient, feelings of the hot Arabic landscape and beautiful sounds of instruments like the Duduk and the Hammered Dulcimer, Arcana has on this release moved further from the original sound that we have heard through out the years. Along with the fabulous art of Agnieszka Szuba, this album is a release you can't miss. European edition. [press release]
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Arcana -- "Le Serpent Rouge" -- CD -- €15
2005 Projekt, Projekt 171
This 6th full-length album is Arcana as you have never heard them before. With melodies from the orient, feelings of the hot Arabic landscape and beautiful sounds of instruments like the Duduk and the Hammered Dulcimer, Arcana has on this release moved further from the original sound that we have heard through out the years. Along with the fabulous art of Agnieszka Szuba, this album is a release you can't miss. US edition. [press release]
Arcane Device -- "Devices 1987-2007" -- 2 CD -- €15
2007 Monochrome Vision, (mv18), (ltd. 500)
Anthology of rare and previously unreleased tracks by Arcane Device, recorded within the 20 years. It is divided into two parts. The first one consists of tracks from compilations issued by Subterranean Records, Tragic Figures, SFCR Tapes, and Generations Unlimited, but also unreleased material remastered and/or remixed in 2007. The second one is subtitled as "Feedback symphony" and based on various recordings, presented in four movements and finished in 2007. One more chance to approve the exceptional skills and compositional/technical talent of David Myers who can control the electrons by will, creating fantastic soundscapes. Arcane Device is the unique project of american graphic designer and musician David Myers, active between 1987 and 1995. His creative output is going beyond any categorization, because it's possible to re-arrange and demonstrate such many styles of modern music with only one thing that is feedback. This effect usually happens when you shortcut the input and output of any electric device. It's hard to believe but this almost uncontrolable beast became the driving force for Arcane Device music, armed by self-made bank of delays and filters. Looking like inward sound research, decorated with finest web of random processes and microvariations, it becames the peculiar feature. Endless circulation of electrons, never repeating routes and always having some chance for individual life inside of any macrostructure. [press-release]
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Arche -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €9
2001 Nefryt, N 008, (ltd. 222)
The project musicians from Ucho & Solaris (Marek Rybicki & Rafal Detkos) with Piotr Piotrowski (philosopher, astrologer & singer). Space journey on two basses, electronics, tapes, objects & voice. Secret music, psychedelic atmosphere, between dream and reality. Special A5 cover. Limited & numbered edition of 222 copies. [press-release]
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Arditi -- "Leading The Iron Resistance" -- CD -- €14
2011 Equilibrium Music, EQM033
Arditi -- "Marching on to Victory" -- CD -- €14
2007 Equilibrium Music, EQM015
The original release of "Marching on to Victory" dates back to 2003, with a small pressing of 1000 copies on the obscure Swedish label Svartvintras. The legacy that one half of the project brought from his work with Puissance was fairly evident, yet the focus on his work as Arditi was not so much beautifuly orchestrated narrations of the apocalypse, but far grimmer depictions of the past centuries world conflicts. Field recordings and blurry speeches were incorporated into Arditi's compositions, adding a rather disturbing tone to the predominant military snare-drums, obscure symphonic arrangements and hypnotic soundscapes. The suffocating combination between martial classical arrangements and somber atmospheres would set Arditi's debut album as one of the bleakest releases on the Militaristic Neo-Classical movement that was starting to flourish at the time. "Marching on to Victory" is now made available again, in a deluxe Digipak release featuring 2 bonus tracks. [press release]
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Arditi -- "Omne Ensis Impera" -- CD -- €14
2008 Equilibrium Music, EQM020
The highly anticipated new album by the Swedish duo is finally upon us, under the title 'Omne Ensis Impera' . The sense of determination that echoes through their music and which has brought them to the forefront of Martial / Industrial Neo-Classical scene has stayed untouched, evoking the sense of duty and commitment that Italy's WWI elite storm troops, from which the name Arditi originated, were known for. 'Omne Ensis Impera' introduces an additional strength to Arditi's compositions - epic orchestral loops and thunderous percussions are granted a more prominent role, stirring the damp and suffocating ambiance that the duo have always produced so well with their use of ominous synths, obscure speeches and mesmerizing narrations. Similarly, shades of the Italian Futuristic movement of the early XXth century, which served as inspiration in the early days of the project, remain imprinted in Arditi's work - 'Omne Ensis Impera' could well be a modern interpretation of the Futurist's goal of glorifying warfare to an artistic expression beyond its inherent violence and intrinsic sense of heroism. 'Omne Ensis Impera' has been mastered by Kamrat Nordvargr of Mz.412 and Toroidh, an old ally of the band. Nordvargr has also contributed with additional arrangements on a couple of tracks, and prepared a slightly modified track list, which will feature on the vinyl version of the album that will follow soon, together with a limited edition box set. The CD version is presented in a deluxe glossy Digipak, with embossed artwork. [press-release]
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Arditi -- "Spirit Of Sacrifice" -- CD -- €14
2004/2011 Equilibrium Music, EQM032
Arditi -- "Standards of Triumph" -- CD -- €14
2006 Equilibrium Music, EQM014
Boasting the unique personality of this Swedish combo, "Standards of Triumph" taps further into the darker tones of Militaristic Neo-Classical ambiance that has become the band's trademark, resulting in their strongest effort so far - ever effective in their use of crushing orchestrations and evocative speeches, Arditi hereby drags the listener around muddy trenches, leaving aside overly pompous festive marches or alcohol fueled merry bunker songs which seem to have become the norm as of late, and casting an hypnotizing veil over the turmoil of warfare-inspired Industrial soundscapes. [label info]
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Ariu Kara -- "Medlennii Skaner Stalkera" -- CD -- €9
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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Arkona -- "Acid Landscapes" -- CD -- €10
2011 Zoharum, ZOHAR IYHHH 003, (ltd. 444)
'Acid Landscapes' released by Zoharum is the first regular publication of the tracks from the series of the same title. It includes 4 privately released albums with songs recorded between 2002 and 2009. This album collects the most atmospheric pieces from this series. 'Acid Landscapes' is a psychedelic journey through the city at night. The music on this album simply refuses to be pigeonholed. A careful listener will find ambient textures, dub or illbient rhythmic structures, post-industrial atmosphere and even acid twist. Everything bathed in a specific sense of humour. It's more than 70 minutes of music that provokes and teases, yet fascinates... In Karol's own words: 'The idea for Acid Landscapes series came from looking through the old Arkona tracks I had in my archives. There were loads of them, since I have always been recording a lot and most of it was shelved as leftovers of low quality. After a closer look I thought that a significant part of it has artistic merit and coherent feel. That's how the idea for Acid Landscapes was born. Soon I realised that I have enough material for a couple of albums... The process of creation has remained unchanged for years. I use my tiny home studio. I have recently exchanged my archaic PC for a laptop with a 24-bit soundcard. However, only 3 years ago I was using a PC with a 16MB RAM memory. While composing Acid Landscapes I was using the following equipment-samplers: boss sp 202 and sp 303, roland mc 303, roland jupiter 4, farfisa, elektronika em 25, korg m-500, hohner psk 60 + a couple of effects and analogue filters. All external sounds were recorded using a condenser microphone which is built in boss sp 202... Currently I've been working on the next instalment being more of a tekno acid space dub part. Simple and spatial to the max'... This album will be a nice surprise for fans of Scorn, Psychic TV, Coil ('LSD' period), Techno Animal, Material. [press-release]
Arktau Eos -- "Mirrorion" -- CD -- €10
2006 Aural Hypnox, [AH06], (ltd. 1000)
Presented in seventeen chapters that can be approached as singular gateways or a slowly unfolding journey of epic proportions, the debut album of ARKTAU EOS is a challenging, complex work. Born of intense private musico-magical sessions held in places abandoned by man and further refined in the temple-laboratory of the duo, it is the distillation of seven arduous months of work. As the title suggests, 'Mirrorion' is the music of stellar light thrown down from the Heaven's zenith and its eldritch reflections in the depths below, uniting atavistic elemental noise with serene passages of crystalline, spectral ambience. Ultimately, 'Mirrorion' seeks to surpass such earthly definitions in favour of a non-dual vision of reality, hopefully transforming the listener in the process. For this recording ARKTAU EOS have favoured an organic approach with majority of instrumentation being of acoustic variety, including the unearthly choral of the kanglings, piercings blasts of windbones, accelerating steel-plate rolls, singing bowl and various kinds of stringed instruments. [press-release]
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Armon Kuilu -- "s/t" -- CD -- €10
2008 Totuuden Sarvi Levyt, 001, (ltd. 500)
The first release from Totuuden Sarvi Levyt is a piece of Finnish art destined to remain in the minds of those who hear it. The debut mini-album by Armon Kuilu is a funereal musical journey, two long progressive compositions built out mostly of classical piano, strings, orchestral drums, singing, prayers and invocations in male and female voices. More of a gothic work than a total assault on the senses, yet one must remember that the word gothic is often abused in connotation with just a melancholic form of new age entertainment music but here the soundscapes bring to mind images of forlorn cemetaries, initiatory cults, bloodletting, woodlands and altered states of consciousness. At times the melodies of chamber music break out into squeals, groans and crackling which haunt the space and resonate with the Finnish poetry, that most of the time reminds one of a satanic ceremony. Some passages sound familiar to the listeners of European avantgarde and progressive music such as ACTUS, ART ZOYD and releases from the label Athanor. Post-industrial fans should also listen to this work but remember that this is not your generic so-called occult album with the usual Crowley spoken parts. Instead this is a deeply personal work with challenging classical and sometimes jazz or progressive melodies composed by the master behind the project and performed by real musicians with authentic instruments and also utilizing real actors for the various voices and spoken parts. Believe me, you will hear the difference. The mini-album comes in a black & white sleeve with a full color 8-page art booklet (size 7x7"), built from nature-mystical imagery shot on infrared film. [press-release]
Arnica -- "Numancia" -- CD -- €14
2010 Ahnstern, Ahnstern47
Artefactum -- "Foxgloves & Bluebells" -- CD -- €13
2011 Old Europa Cafe, OECD143 / Ur Muzik, UR 005, (ltd. 300)
Lie down on the soft summer grass, deep in the woods just before twilight, and perhaps you will be lucky enough to encounter some good-natured tiny beings of pleasing appearance. Under their spell you may want to fall asleep, but you may also want to... dance! Being one of the very few representatives of what might be labelled as feminine ambient music, Artefactum remains the embodiment of unique characteristics: deep and warm ambient intertwined with sounds of nature, ritual bells, remote drumming and sensual vocals - in the case of Artefactum you simply can't mistake the music for any other artist's work. Merissa d'Erlette's new opus 'Foxgloves & Bluebells' has at last taken its final shape after five long years since the release of 'Rosarium Hermeticum' - her last full-length album. The music is richer and more varied than anything else she has ever made - while still within the borders of ambient, the release contains at the same time a collection of beautiful songs inspired by old poetry and mysterious folklore. With wonderful guest appearances from neo-medieval THE SOIL BLEEDS BLACK, British folk singer ANDREW KING (Duo Noir / Sol Invictus) and neo-classical DAWN & DUSK ENTWINED, 'Foxgloves & Bluebells' is a must-have release for anyone into esoteric post-industrial music. Released in collaboration by OLD EUROPA CAFE and UR MUZIK as a 6 pannel digipack. [press-release]
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Artificial Memory Trace -- "Singtra" -- CD -- €16
2009 Waystyx, WR45, (ltd. 300)
"Created 2004 in Ireland from sounds of trains recorded in Prague 1994 by Slavek Kwi". A short (24 min) symphony of minimal concrete sounds turned into surreal, gentle and sublime atmosphere. Unusual cardboard package.
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As All Die -- "Time Of War And Conflict" -- CD -- €10
2001 Crowd Control Activities, Crowded 25
Neo-folk, Martial Industrial and Noise from America.
As All Die -- "Victory" -- CD -- €10
2006 Flood The Earth Records, FTE 011
Without question the most aggressive martial industrial release from As All Die to date. Mixes elements of heavy percussion, harsh soundscapes, aggressive and spoken vocals, droning synths and WWI samples. Not for the timid! [Red Stream]
Asianova -- "Love Like a Veiled Threat" -- CD -- €12
1995/2005 Eibon Records / Radiotarab Records, Asi057 / Rt002
A few years after the acclaimed & praised "Burning the blue skies black", ASIANOVA are back with a brand new MONUMENTAL opus. Rarely (or should I dare saying never ?) a dark ambient cd has encompassed so many different elements & influences: from ultra-low abysses of drones to ghostly female vocals, from ethnic percussive sequences to bright, shimmering flute melodies, from crystal-clear guitar harmonies to immersive synth-layers. A long journey through a magical world - once again, all I can say is that words alone fail in describing this album - you have to check out by yourself..... [press-release]
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Asmorod -- "Hysope" -- CD -- €12
2006 Steinklang Industries, SKD 12
A fascinating introspective deep ambient work that distinguished itself from the mass of uniformized dark ambient releases. Niiko (now the only member of Asmorod) used the word Hysope (French word for Hyssop) as a symbolism of spiritual purification. In ancient times, Hyssop was used for the cleansing of lepers (Leprosy may represent sin... but lepers were not necessarily sinful) and used for cleaning sacred places. It is alluded to in the Scriptures: 'Purge me with Hyssop, and I shall be clean' (Purify me from my sins, and i will be clean; wash me, and i will be whiter than snow. Psalms 51:7). Two tracks from that album feature choirs by eLL from Sui Generis Umbra. [press release]
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Astro & Cornucopia -- "Deep Wind" -- CD -- €10
2010 Quasi Pop Records, QPOP CD055, (ltd. 500)
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]
Åstrom, B. -- "Utan Titel" -- CD -- €10
2010 Åderlåtning Produktion
11 tracks of field recordings, static, ambient, guitars, stoy, pop, grind, improvisations, madness, maraccas, 80's drums, bootlegging, melodies, piano, samples etc. in 46 minutes. Ten "original" compositions + one cover song from an old skateboard video. Recorded on different tape recorders, arrangement and completing sounds using software. [label info]
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Ataraxia / Autunna et sa Rose -- "Odos Eis Ouranon - La Via Verso il Cielo" -- 2 CD -- €17
2005 Equilibrium Music, EQM004
A deluxe Digipak double-CD, by two of the leading figures in the Italian Neo-Classical scene, Ataraxia and Autunna et sa Rose. Autunna et sa Rose have used material from their first 3 albums, hereby interpreted on piano and cello, and featuring soprano vocals and poetic recitation. Saverio, the group's mastermind, and his companions bring to life dramatic pieces that push the typically softer tones of Neo-Classical music into a more demanding ground dominated by Contemporary Classical music. Interpretations of compositions by Ataraxia and Tuxedomoon were also part of the concert recorded in Rovigo that evening and included in this release. Borrowing an ancient Wiepking and Co. piano, Ataraxia rearranged a collection of their finest tracks that would fit an entirely acoustic format, revisiting them in a warmer and more intimate form. This selection covers not only tracks from most of their releases, but also titles from the sold-out EPs "Orlando" and "Des Paroles Blanches", as well as two previously unreleased songs and material never before issued on CD. [label info]
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Atavist / Nadja -- "II: Points At Infinity" -- CD -- €10
2008 Profound Lore Records, PFL 037
Again spanning two epic elongated tracks (around 22 minutes each), 'Points At Infinity' goes much further substance and depth wise than the first experimentation these two acts converged in. Definitely taking this experiment between both acts to the next level, albeit creating something wholly new and different when compared to the debut, rather than just continue on from the first release, 'Points At Infinity' takes the doom/drone/ambient experiment into new territory as both acts continue to push new sonic ground... 'Points At Infinity' also marks the first Atavist recording featuring the new Atavist line-up which consists of new vocalist Matt Bartley and ex-NARCOSIS bass player Oliver Turner. Of course Nadja is and always will be Aidan Baker and Leah Buckareff. [press-release]
Atom, Mikhail -- "Astroepos" -- CD-R -- €8
1999 Soulworm Editions, Worm III
A conceptual masterpiece, and the ultimate one among those made by the Russian ambient artist known as Mikhail Atom. Travelling the nostalgic, subtle soundscapes, the author tries to render an illustration to the his own philosophical and alchemic searches. Sheer bells, monumental synths and mysterous, gentle noises... All this drives the listener to some kind of mystical mood while the spirit leaves the body for a while, wondering for what's hidden behind the horizon of meanings... [press-release]
Atomine Elektrine -- "Archimetrical Universe" -- CD -- €11
1999/2009 Eternal Pride Productions, EPP 015, (ltd. 1000)
Eternal Pride Prod. presents re-mixed version of "Archimetrical Universe" + bonus tracks from extra limited CDr boxed version of the album "Nebulous". New edition like DIGI-CD with new design. Space is an illusion. Peter Andersson (Raison D'?tre, Stratvm Terror, Svasti-ayanam, Necrophorus) is one of the handful of finest sound manipulators in the world. Period. Archimetrical Universe showcases Peter's dissection of the sky, a Caesarean section that births massive, geometrically perfect sonic diversions, all spheres and angles, burnished metal dreams and pristine sonic caresses that reconfigure sound into smooth surfaces. To counterbalance the exactness of the sonic development, light rhythms emerge, huge slabs of disrupting tones puncture, the scattered remnants of all of Peter's projects utilized in the creation of the music here. Everything seems to be in perpetual motion, evolving, revolving, reinvented at the mercy of Peter's deft hands and devious whim. The clarity of production and meticulous restructuring of the known (space, stars, planets) with the unknown (space...stars...planets...) only heightens the journey upon which he guides us, an alluring venture into the cavernous realm of space...but not a space most of us would imagine. Whether he is sonically scrubbing the architecture, or just mesmerizing us with another sound sculpture at the edge of forever, Archimetrical Universe is, quite possibly, Peter's finest release yet, which says a lot because his sonic portfolio runneth over with intoxicating, mind-altering sound manipulations that inspire one's imagination with conflicting emotional responses (sorrow, desolation, awe, wonder) at all times. Space is an illusion... but Peter has brought it to life. Essential! [press-release]
Atomine Elektrine -- "Nebulous" -- CD -- €14
2007 Essence Music, ESS007, (ltd. 800)
On this second installment for Essence Music, Peter Andersson brings ATOMINE ELEKTRINE to an utterly refined and perfectionist sphere! The trancey beats and sacral atmosphere of Binomial Fusion are past and widely replaced by a truly out-of-body, deeply layered and dynamic cosmic experience in form of a masterful ambience filled with energy outbursts, synthetic movements and algorithmical rhythms. An aural projection for a detailed exploration of nebulas, black holes, exploding stars and unknown deep corners of the cosmos. Very much influenced by the electronic side of the kraut scene and with the ability of imposing his very own classic trademark, Andersson sets a new stone and makes Nebulous one of the greatest albums related to this genre since the early 70's. Another amazing proof of talent from this Swedish genius! Presented in an snowy white gatefold digisleeve and tracing paper packaging. [label info]
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Atrabilis Sunrise -- "Altered Alternative (Boredom Level)" -- CD-R -- €7
2004 Deserted Factory, DF016, (ltd. 100)
I like gritty ambience. When ambience is too smooth and produced like a pop record, in many cases the mood is destroyed. I would not consider Atrabilis Sunrise (continuation of dark-industrial act Catharsis) to be ambient. It definitely has ambient and dark-industrial influences, but it's more varied, harsh and complex in structure. It's affected by too many musical styles to call it just that. It's a little psychotic, a little edgy and pretty disturbing. Ranging from decent ambient, to hammering industrial, to weird sonic experimentation Atrabilis Sunrise knows how to retain the attention of the listener. Filthy distorted noises, a lot of breaks, broken percussion and sizzling electronics. A soundtrack to a fever dream. I cannot pinpoint the exact influences of this project. Brighter Death Now an Atrax Morgue? Scorn and Mental Destruction? It's quite clear that 'Padre P.C.' is followings his own somewhat strange musical route, maniacal and dark. Enjoyable insanity in 17 tracks without reaching the boredom level. [JS, Funprox webzine]
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Atrium Carceri -- "Phrenitis" -- CD -- €13
2009 Cold Meat Industry, CMI203
'Phrenitis' takes the listener to a twisted place where the walls between worlds are razed. The ruinous cities of wars long past, where time itself is but a prisoner and the warlords roaming their purgatorial halls are free to destroy the very foundations of the natural order... 'Phrenitis' is the 6th album of Atrium Carceri and is yet another step of the ever increasing Atrium Carceri wake up call. Simon Heath shows himself and the world, yet again, that no man is ever truly the master of their art unless they strive to evolve with it. The soundscapes he has created bypass the conscious mind, taking the listener deep into his pristine nightmare. The evolution of sound is spot-on and sets Atrium Carceri apart from other lazy dark ambient acts by being a truly diverse piece, replete with details upon details to make the illusion complete, and haunting compositions to make the mind yearn. [press-release]
Atrium Carceri -- "Souyuan" -- CD -- €14
2008 Cold Meat Industry, cmi189
3 years in the making, Atrium Carceri is back with another visceral masterpiece entitled Souyuan. After careful psychological observeration of test listeners, Simon Heath has done it again - renewing the genre through careful planning and painstaking attention to each fragment and detail, however minute. With fresh atmospheres, and a depth previously unfathomable, Souyuan will amaze initiates and pundits alike with its complexity and pureness of form. Never before has the artists innermost recesses been so sublimely conveyed to any medium... Simon, born in 1977, started producing when he early on played around with his Amiga and a microphone. In the years that have followed, Simon got involved in numerous projects and developed his knowledge and skills. During the process and through the years, he has been part of writing 16 albums and additionally many other tracks on compilations and other albums, released under various names, touching a broad range of ambient, dub, IDM, psy, folk, medieval, classical and black ambient. Simon is known for having reached a very high level both in story telling and production technique... Atrium Carceri has been praised by music critics and embraced by a cult audience for its depth of atmosphere. As described by one reviewer, "Heath creates a world where time collapses, where the ancient world of conjured spirits, the physical limitations of being all too human, and the infinite outreach of potential futuretech, all coexist." [press-release]
Atrox -- "Bremse Unbrauchbar" -- CD -- €10
2006 Steinklang Industries, SKD 14, (ltd. 333)
The new ATROX CD was especially recorded for the live gig in Tokio and contains over 60 minutes of darkdroning Experimental-Noise and Powerelectronics, of course in typical ATROX-style. [label info]
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Atrox & Ms'sM -- "Earth Listen Vol.1: Mending The Earth" -- CD-R -- €11
2005 Atacama Records, a.r.19, (ltd. 100)
Atum -- "Hitwa" -- CD -- €10
2008 Beast Of Prey, bop 5.1, (ltd. 444)
If symbol can be recieved be senses, then combining with a sound, how much a concept does it makes? Is this something more, that can move our imagination a step forward? New album of Polish project Atum is atry in creating such images in our minds. As a guests on the album participated: INFAMIS, DEAD FACTORY and EQUUS. 47 minutes long album of strong dark ambient. Sounds, calm, and growing, pulsing create a grim atmosphere. Album diversified by rhytm loops, industrial hits and also acoustic guitar. Sounds for a Cold Meat fans, something between Desiderii Marginis and Megaptera. Unconventional release in 135mm by 150mm format, printed on a cardboard 45cm long. Folded in three parts, minimalistic graphic form with specialy designed symolics. CD mounted on a rubber dot. All foiled and hand numbered to 444 copies. [press-release]
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Atum -- "Legendy Miejskie" -- CD -- €11
2009 Beast Of Prey, bop 6.7
"Legendy miejskie / Urban Legends", the latest album by ATUM, has just arrived! "Urban Legends", arguably one of the strongest titles of the Beast of Prey label, is an extraordinary album, composed mostly of field recordings registered in Jaworzno, the home town of ATUM. It is an attempt at reconstructing the surroundings in order to distill something that eludes the every-day experience. Despite its private character, the message of the Legends is universal as well. Everyone of us passes dozens of places we think are "tamed", places seemingly devoid of meaning. Just a little effort is what it takes to dispel this illusion... Musically, the album is rather varied. It's a combination of field recordings, drones, whispers, and sounds of different acoustic instruments. The purpose is to reveal the oneiric dark side of the surrounding world. Guests such as Infamis (acoustic guitar), Tomasz K, Rafal Pach, and Piotr U (the author's friends from Jaworzno) contributed to the making of the album... Album released in colour digipack, full professional production. [press-release]
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Aube -- "Ambera Planeta Wawar" -- CD -- €10
2007 Autarkeia, acd 025
AUBE Ambera Planeta Wawar goldenCD was the first bootleg issued by AUTARKEIA label. However, after the author Akifumi Nakajima apologised to us for his "negligence', the misunderstandings between AUTARKEIA and Akifumi were cleared out. In the meantime after the author recognised the bootleg, AUBE Ambera Planeta Wawar goldenCD has acquired a new status. This publication has become an official release of the project, while its previous concept (that of a bootleg) became meaningless. The exclusive record by the Japanese genius is based on excellent psychedelic ambient and the collages of extreme, structural noise music. The release is sold in an elegant digipack, which is probably the first in AUBE history. [press-release]
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Aube -- "Duplex-Sphere" -- CD -- €10
2004 Ultra-Mail Prod., U.M.P.-002, (ltd. 445)
Tracks presented on this album were recorded live in 1993-1995 using two voltage controlled oscillators. The CD also contains re-edition of 7" EP "Fast Tumbling Blaze" recorded in 1996 with voltage controlled oscillator. Sometimes calm, sometimes very furious japanoise work.
Aube -- "Imagery Resonance" -- CD -- €10
2007 Aquarellist, aquarel 05-07, (ltd. 1000)
This album has been specially recorded by Akifumi Nakajima for presentation at his Moscow concert in November 2007. This time he found the sound source in a small analogue percussion synthesizer Amdek PCK-100. Mostly calm album showing roughness and asperity of sound only in the first track. The rest material sounds more like lingering psychedelic soundscapes created from stratifications of looped and freely running electronic signals.
Aube -- "Le Syndrome Aquatique" -- 2 CD -- €15
2008 Silentes, sme 0721
This is the long awaited reissue of one of the best Aube's work originally titled AQUA SYNDROME, published about 10 years ago by MANIFOLD records. The new reissue included the original album with a bonus track and a bonus live CD. LE SYNDROME AQUATIQUE is an impressive job of deconstruction and resetting of sonorous material to work of Aube, this particularly extended in the duration, treaty and expanded time, much to be proposed in a rich edition in double CD. Through sophisticated and very tested technical of sonorous rework assembled in years of untiring activity in a searching experience, Aube puts molding on and models fragments of concrete sounds of "aquatic" derivation transforming them in unknown drones, noises, pads, loops rhythms-mechanics, constructing a fantastic sonorous tapestry of valuable invoice and incredible impact, and unavoidably bringing back to the memory the first three CD constructed with single water sounds of the monumental one box of 12 CDs proudly published from Amplexus more than 10 years ago. One new unforgettable work for all those who love, and has loved, the avant-guard-istic sonorous experimentations of large the great Japanese master. [press-release]
Aube -- "Metal on Metal" -- 2 CD -- €15
2008 Silentes, sme 0722
Another long awaited reissue from Aube. METAL ON METAL (as for AQUA SYNDROME) was published by MANIFOLD records. Also for this work, over the original album, you'll can hear a bonus track and a full live CD. To the discovery of the alchemical secrets and the magic of the metallic materials, of their acoustic characters, and the possible technological manipulations on the sounds that are possible to pull out... It arches of it resonances, mantric vibrations, hypnotics bells rings... That features of sounds of cymbals, plates, rings... that tubular elements are used or more ordinary and simple metallic objects of common use... that they are bowed or scraped..., Aube acquires the sounds and of it transforming its essence... decomposing and recomposing the shape... Fragmenting, expanding, stratifying and elaborating the sonorous matter, constructs complex wafts, resounding weaves carpets, interlaces thin threads of metallic tensions, crumbles and agglomerates acoustic particles, leaves to flowlong, reverberating, harmonic drones... "Metal on Metal", two only, fantastic CD for and a matchless release. [press-release]
Aube -- "Millennium: October" -- CD -- €10
2002 Armonika, KA200010, (ltd. 500)
October part of the "Millennium" series. Sound source material: air.
Aube -- "Millennium: November" -- CD -- €10
2002 Armonika, KA200011, (ltd. 500)
November part of the "Millennium" series. Sound source material: air.
Aube -- "Millennium: December" -- CD -- €10
2002 Armonika, KA200012, (ltd. 500)
December part of the "Millennium" series. Sound source material: air.
Aube -- "Pôle Nord" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2005 Taalem, alm 21
Does Aube really need an introduction? After more than 160 releases (!) in fourteen years, I guess he doesn't. For this 3"cd-r, Akifumi Nakajima has, as usual, used a single source to create his music; this time feedback. You could then imagine the tracks to be noisy as hell. Thankfully they're not. Aube knows perfectly how to mix noise and ambient music. So the result is noisy, yes, but listenable; ambient, too, but not boring. A great work, as usual should I say. [press-release]
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Aube -- "Redintegration" -- CD-R -- €11
2002 G.R.O.S.S., GRCDR2002-RED, (ltd. 202)
Material: percussion synthesizer Amdek PCK-100.
Aube -- "Reworks Maurizio Bianchi Vol. 1" -- CD -- €10
2005 Silentes, sme 0503
Aube presents a superb work of re-editing and re-composition of original material from 'Ml Mheen Alysm' by Maurizio Bianchi. This preserves the distinctly experimental aim of the music by the historical Italian artist, renewing it in surely less extreme/harsh, but equally new form. Unquestionably listenable and very effective. [label info]
Aube -- "Reworks Maurizio Bianchi Vol. 2" -- CD -- €10
2006 Silentes Minimal Editions, sme 0609
As the title suggests, the second meeting of these experimental minds. Static music, suspended by a thread of silence. Circular flowing audio structures. Archeology of sound. Mind expanding ambient textures. A new, fascinating operation of disassembly and restructure of sonic material by Maurizio Bianchi (the entire album 'The Testamentary Corridor'), by incomparable Japanese "audio sculptor" Aube. Silentes is a sub-division of Italian label Amplexus. [label info]
Aube -- "Reworks Nimh Vol. 1" -- CD -- €10
2007 Silentes Minimal Editions, sme 0611
Another must have work by audio decomposition-genius and sound-sculptor AUBE. Ethnic-electronic sound sources (as with "The Missing Tapes" by NIMH) transfigured and remodeled into completely new sonic lifeforms with state-of-the-art audio processing algorithms. Residual fragments of the original sound-sources occasionally appear in the mix like aquatic fauna swimming to the surface for a brief second. A magnum opus in four movements. Intensely facinating work by the unparalleled master of experimental sound design. AUBE is peerless. A minimal mosaic of sound that takes the listener on a slow-motion expedition into the very fabric of tone. A ocean of sound-grains for the listened to swim in. Spoken language doesn't (yet) contain words that properly describe these sounds... an absolute must have for the experimental music devotee. [press-release]
Aube -- "Reworks Stefano Gentile" -- CD -- €10
2005 Silentes Minimal Editions, sme 0501
Glacial sonic tensions, hypnothic electronic sequences, loops alienated stratifications, isolationist dark atmospheres, slow and progressive accumulations of changing sonic masses... An extraordinary work of restoration and revision of original material by Stefano Gentile developed by Aube, japanese great master, and able manipulator and contemporary electronic-experimental music reworker. [label info]
Aube -- "Reworks Stefano Gentile II" -- CD -- €10
2008 Silentes Minimal Editions, sme 0720
Long static drones and suspended frequencies of harmonic, sonorous wafts in constant evolution riding cyclical hypnotic perennially changing synthetic curved waves... Loops and fluctuating waves meet expand sonorous carpets and push-buttons electronic micro-sequences that progressively decompose in minimal rhythmic structures... Submerged melodic fragments emerge soft between stuffed with wadding magma flows... Extraordinary atmospheres and great new tension for this, most waited chapter of "Aube Reworks Stefano Gentile"! [press-release]
Aube -- "Variable Ambit" -- CD -- €10
2011 Housepig, HPIG-16, (ltd. 300)
This long-awaited disc finally sees the light day! Recovered from a now-defunct label, delayed for various reasons including a fake cd plant scam, Housepig is proud to present "Variable Ambit"! The master of single-source recording takes a simple starting point - feedback - and manipulates it into a rich tapestry of overlapping tones and textures. Eight tracks, 66 minutes. Pro CD in jewel case with full-color four-page booklet, limited to 300 copies. [label info]
Augsburger Tafelconfect -- "Fusion In The Slaughterhaus" -- CD -- €9
2004 Nneon, Nneon 002-2
Augsburger Tafelconfect is an audiovisual hamburgian trio consisting of Jyrgen Hall, who also recorded quite a lot of stuff for Cologne's finest label Staubgold under the name of Gunter Adler, as well as with his group Gronland Orchester, on laptop and electronics. Musically he teams up with Sebastian Reier on volcano-guitar. Their name pays tribute to the frivolous medieval music of Valenthin Rathgeber but their music is far away from that. Mixing electronically processed analogue guitar, computer, electronics as well as concrete sounds and beatz, they create a kind of half-improvised music that kicks ass instead of boring people with too much academic referentiality - their live sets add another component: the strong and colorful atmospheric visuals by BaronesseA who is also the designer of Nneon. This is their debut recording. [Fulldozer]
Aun -- "Black Pyramid" -- CD -- €12
2010 Cyclic Law, 29th Cycle, (ltd. 1000)
Continuing on the foundations laid with the acclaimed 2009 album Motorsleep, AUN are further blurring the line where earth and space intersect with the ominous floating monolith "Black Pyramid". Casting a new shadow, the seven tracks that make up Black Pyramid are loosely inspired by the worlds created by visionary french artist Enki Bilal. While still dealing in dark matter, the twisted guitar and electronics mutations find the duo at their most melodic, luminous and accessible yet, but in the world of AUN there is always a very fine line between light and darkness. AUN's singular psychedelic ambient drones laid on Black Pyramid definitely marks this release as some of their best work yet, and this says a lot about the sheer power of this new album given their prolific and highly praised discography. [press-release]
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Aural Holograms -- "Vol. 1" -- CD -- €10
2007 Aural Hypnox, [AH08], (ltd. 1000)
The very first part of the Aural Holograms series incorporates various call and response patterns manifesting vibrating, subtle energies, all of which have been accurately divided into separate rhythmic dimensions and time-shifting aural tapestries. The overall experience - i.e. the ecstatic effect - is transmitted by the intensity of syncopated rhythms, reed organ lingering on a few tones, self-transforming vocal work accompanied with carefully chosen oscillating tunes and a variety of percussive patterns utilising artefacts crafted according to the methods of traditional metallurgia, as well as real-time tape operations. Comes in six-panel hand finished cardboard booklet, in an edition of 1.000 copies. [label info]
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Austere -- "Solyaris" -- CD -- €11
2008 Hypnos, hyp2753
This is a creative peak for this much-overlooked ambient duo, their first release on Hypnos, following their Hypnos Secret Sounds album Pulse in 2007. In their 10 years of productivity, Austere has covered territory from Pulse's drone minimalism, ranging back through odd and trippy Coil-inspired sonic experimentation, to seamless dark ambient, and occasionally glitchy weirdness. Despite some challenging material in their back catalog, Austere have in this case produced an album as friendly and pleasant as any Austere fan could have imagined possible, and yet without resorting to the usual tricks that make music sound "listenable." [label info]
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Autopsia -- "The Knife" -- CD -- €10
1989/1992 Staalplaat, STCD 020
Reissue of the 12" originally released by Staalplaat in 1989 in a standard digipak (w/o die-cut). Features two bonus tracks. "Solemn piano, rising strings and bells, synthetic horns, al overwhelming with a blinding sense of ancient powers and glorious triumph. Music for these new dark ages." [miki, Discogs.com]
Autumn Galaxy -- "An Emperor's Garden" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 House Of Alchemy, #008, (ltd. 123)
A collaboration between Ville Moskiitto and a prolific artist Brad Rose known for Charlatan, Dick Test, Electronic Exercises, Little Jupiter, Modem Doom, North Sea, The, Space Dive, Ukraine and many other projects. Acoustic phych-folk and shamanic drone ambient, fairy atmosphere, landscapes and trips... Carboard box with an insert. [YAOP]
Avrorin G. / Magnetone -- "Last Drop Of Orchestra" -- CD-R -- €5
2010 self-released
Mail collaboration of two little known artists, coming from noise and free-rock and electronic Russian underground. Magnetone plays cello, Avrorin uses prepared steel objects of Soviet industry. As a result we have dissonant industrial flow of din and howl. [from the author]
Azoikum / Government Alpha -- "Das Methadonprogramm" -- CD -- €10
2005 Multi National Disaster Records, MNDR 2015, (ltd. 444)
Harsh noise.
B.I.S. -- "Bicephale" -- CD-R -- €10
2006 Ruralfaune, rur004, (ltd. 50)
B-Machina -- "Rotation Zwei" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Valgriind, VG 23
New album of Austrian project. Professional polygraphy in CD-envelope. Synthesis of acoustic guitar sound and noise background. [label info]
Bœtong -- "The Great Disintegrator" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Snowy Tension Pole, STP-004, (ltd. 100)
Continuing the edition of our tape, we are pleased to introduce to you our artist - bœtong. Here is a musician issuing records and giving concerts all over the world. He is dealing with creating and alternative experimental electronic music. His work takes on various interesting forms, we will focus on his dark ambient side. A very technical album, titled 'The Great Disintegrator' which was created between 2008 and 2010. It will appeal not only to listeners of industrial music but also to those who like well-developed musical episodes. The general climate sucks the listener in from the very first second. What happens next, consequently confirms the first fascination. Beyond the borders and even further - into the void of all perception. This is such a strange journey that you do what the artist wants. You will use his items, but it will be interesting for you and you will see how much you will be satisfied. You will start to enhance yourself. [press-release]
Babylone Chaos -- "Flying Bodies Under The Clouds" -- CD -- €10
2010 OPN Records, OPNCD0014, (ltd. 500)
Brand new release mixing dark soundscapes, concrete sounds and weird voices!!! A really amazing new piece of music from this French one-man project (Botchan Karisen). Babylone Chaos has long been an avid proponent of chaotic, oppressing climates and deals in suffocation and saturation. Artwork by MineUchi, with images by Yoshihiro Oimatsu. Mastering by Ruelgo (Le Syndicat). Ltd x 500 copies ina 6-panel digipak. [Cold Spring]
Babylone Chaos -- "Les Machines Ecarlates" -- CD -- €11
2007 OPN Records, OPN CD07, (ltd. 500)
A man with a fish eye stared at me when I satisfied my computer with this CD. The artwork on this release is awesome, something which is thoughtful to do when you release your CD in a DVD case. On the front of 'les machines ecarlates' stands a man pierced through his forehead with a huge piece of piping. On the back a man with a fish eye gives me a look, which keeps me away from the track listing underneath it. I must say, it pleases me to receive such artwork, I could write a good review about the artwork alone.(...)Listening to the CD I found that Babylone Chaos can be compared, in a strange way, with Aphex Twin. You can hear beats, but they never last longer than a few measures. That is one of the reasons why this CD sounds so great. Babylone Chaos doesn't care about being tagged with a genre; the artist just does what he wants. The CD isn't one you listen to on a regular occasion. Listening to 'les machines exerlates' is a trip. A trip to the beautiful, the ugly, the frightening the heaven and the hell. [Heathen Harvest]
Babylone Chaos / Lambwool / Le Diktat -- "Shi" -- CD -- €11
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]
Baciamibartali / Winter Light -- "The Mournful Gloom" -- CD -- €10
1982/2009 Oltrelanebbiailmare, CD200902
Rhefined and superbly workmanshipped Elettro-wave music, brought to your attention by two unforgettable and unforgetted italian bands that left their own mark during the Eighties. Collected here on a single and extraordinary CD are the remastered versions of Baciamibartali's 'The Mournful Gloom' 12' vinyl and the 'Baciamibartali / Winter Light' split 12' vinyl originally released between 1982 and 1984. An unmissable CD for all the band's aficionados who were lucky enough to follow them since the early days, and a unique chance for the New Wave music lovers who still haven't known and appreciated them. [label info]
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Bad Sector -- "Chronoland" -- CD -- €13
2011 Power & Steel, PAS 30
This new album of Massimo Magrini is the soundscape for a mind movie and another masterpiece that picks up where the previous work CMASA left off. Twelve beautifully crafted chapters of music segueing between morphing layers of thick drones, haunting melodies and crackling vocal transmissions. Chronoland unfolds a fascinating and cineastic atmosphere of frightening ambient melodica with dark soundwaves deeply imbedded in the music and bursts of electro-acoustic effects. This release is another step forward into the sound cosmos of Massimo Magrini with new directions but always in the unique way of BAD SECTOR. [press-release]
Bad Sector -- "Dolmen Factory" -- CD -- €12
2008 Faria Records, FAR-21, (ltd. 500)
Reprint of the classic Bad Sector release. Harmonic, noisy, emotional electronic tracks set the trademark sound of the one-man project from Tuscany. It includes an unreleased track. [label info]
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Bad Sector -- "The Harrow" -- CD -- €11
2007 Ewers Tonkunst, HHE 015 CD, (ltd. 750)
Re-edition of long sold out (and damn great!) album with a bonus track.
Bad Sector -- "Kosmodrom" -- CD -- €19
2005 Waystyx Records, WR15, (ltd. 795)
"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.
Bad Sector -- "Storage Disk 1" -- CD -- €13
2007 Waystyx Records, WR30, (ltd. 500)
First part of 2CD project revealing interest of Massimo Magrini in history of Soviet computer technics and presenting ten years of Bad Sector creative activity. It includes as remastered released compilation and bonus tracks as never before released material. Contains compositions from "Survival Tool" 3"CDR (Cohort Records), "Polonoid" concert edition CDR (Bastet Records) and "BadBox" edition boxset (Tantric Harmonies), "Toroidal Body" 7"+ mCDR (Pre Feed/Eibon Records), "Dolmen" 7" (Drone Records), "Manifesto Industriale Italiano" (Old Europa Cafe) tape box set. [label info]
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Bad Sector -- "Storage Disk 2" -- CD -- €13
2008 Waystyx, WR43, (ltd. 500)
2nd part of rare tracks anthology. Contains material from: "Planar Energy" picture 7" (Smallvoices), "Scrignum Vitae" box with CD and objects (Old Europa Cafe), "Ten Years Of Madness" 2 CD (Achtung Baby!), "Land:[Schaft]" 2x10" (Cold Lands), "Hover" CDr (Bastet Rec.), "L'Ame Electrique Presents Old Europa Cafe" (Ame Electrique) + 4 previously unreleased tracks recorded in 2002.
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Bad Sector -- "Transponder" -- CD -- €12
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]
Baghiri, Amir -- "Bluebox Collection" -- 4 CD -- €30
2000 Arya, Y10, (ltd. 600)
Incredible! Over 280 minutes of new and often magnificent sounds from Amir Baghiri. This limited edition box set contains 4 brand new albums: CITY - LIVE - NIGHT - SLEEP. The music is more rhythmic on the album CITY with industrial noises, and slower ambient on SLEEP, from movement and chaos of a city to deep meditation. Amir (also with the help of many friends) is quite adept at shifting gears for each disc, and shows all his power in creating magic atmospheres that lead you on an unforgettable trip. The 4 CDs are packaged in a clear big jewel box with a 16-page booklet including full notes and photos. [Backroads Music description]
Baghiri, Amir -- "Dreamresources" -- CD-R -- €11
2002/2007 Bluebox, BB005
Baghiri, Amir -- "Exosphere" -- CD-R -- €11
2005 Blue Box, BB001
A mixture of masterful, spooky alien soundscapes and fluid textures by one of ambient music premier electro-tribal sound designers. "Exophere" offers ten tracks making up 68 minutes of music continuing the fine tradition of space & tribal ambient which Baghiri is known for. The album starts off quiet but after a few minutes a slow and later on accelerating and prominent sequence shows up which is reminiscent of the extended track "In the Heat of Venus" on Steve Roach's album "Western Spaces". [label info]
Baghiri, Amir -- "Orbital Repose" -- CD-R -- €11
2006 Bluebox, BB002
Baghiri, Amir -- "Planet X" -- CD -- €11
2006 Blue Box, BB002
Inspired by the exotic astrophysical phenomena of the 10th planet. An in-depth ambient turmoil of 76 minutes, blending deep soundscapes with sequenced pieces (in Amir's words: "multidimensional ambient & groove creation") and environmental sounds. A certain touch of Steve Roach's music still can't be missed, but again Amir shows he's has found his way in the genre by exploring his own musical pathways over the years. In a way it's a pleasant dream flight with some more active passages, but in no way background music. This highly atmospheric and well produced recording certainly deserves both thumbs up. [label info]
Baghiri, Amir -- "Rooms" -- 3 CD -- €18
2001 Arya, Y13, (ltd. 500)
"Rooms" is a three CD-set tribal minimalism from Amir Baghiri. The set has three distinct themes - one for each cd - that are interconnected. The CD's are subtitled Inner Rooms, Real Rooms and Spaces in Between respectively. "Inner Rooms" refers to the chambers within the self. Amir has fashioned some expansive minimalism replete with experimental influences and ethnic subtleties. There is also a guest appearance by overtone singer Jim Cole. Jim's vocals enhance the subtle rhytm and deep drone of "The Trip of Thoughts" This disc is a journey in and of itself. It is also the beginning of a much larger journey and it sets that stage quite effectively. "Real Rooms" is - DUH! - a reality check. From the singing bowls of "Big Bang" through the experimental textures of "Timeslices" and the gentle atmospheres of "Nowhere Like Home" this cd has an organic presence. The organic atmospheres add the unique touch. This leg of the journey serves to ground the listeners. "Spaces in Between" maintains integrity with its double entendre. The first - and most obvious - meaning is a reference to the physical spaces between rooms. Amir's more subtle intent is to define the crossover between the emotional/spiritual existence and the physical/intellectual self. Amir is more concerned with the intangible spaces. This disc ties the first two discs together in the form of holistic integration of the self. The expansive atmospheres are perfect for meditating and discovering the symmetry of the heart, soul, mind and body. The organic textures and tribal influences create the vehicle for self-discovery. Amir has really come into his own of late. This is an exciting development inhis maturation as a composer and performer. Assuming that he continues to develop apace, the sky is the limit! [Jim Brenholts]
Baghiri, Amir -- "Time" -- CD-R -- €11
1998/2006 Bluebox, BB004
Baghiri, Amir & Wee Bandits -- "A Brief History of Light" -- CD-R -- €9
2007 Blue Box, BB0706
On "A Brief History Of Light" Amir Baghiri and guests mix mesmerizing floating textural electronica and high tech chill-out/down tempo music. The cd kicks off with the dynamic "Falling Star", which featured quite a heavy dance beat, before we move into the great sequencing and soundscapes of the engaging "Cosmic Axis". More floating textures follow in the very nice tracks "Ghosts of the Dark Wood" and "Between Shadows and Fog", which beautifully realm in sort-of Steve Roach territory. The ten minute "Origins of Light" is another atmospheric outing with mesmerizing, deep sound worlds, fx's, vocal samples and a slow sequence, in which more trance rhythms pop in halfway. "Asphalt Wolf" is next, a four minute trance dance track with lots of fx's, moving into "Princes of Light", which has some vocals. The realm in this and the following tracks is overall chill-out. It's difficult to describe the music on this album, so you best check out the sound clips. [press-release]
Baker, Aidan -- "Book Of Nods" -- CD -- €13
2008 Beta-lactam Ring Records, mt163 / negro 40, (ltd. 500)
A new landscape is painted out of darkness by progressive strokes of the dawn. The finished piece is neither night nor day, but the transformation itself. Aidan Baker's (Nadja) "Book Of Nods" crests experimental peaks in similarly paced sonic transmigrations. His lustrous chimera blooms open in shifting onion layers built out of slow-moaning guitar, flute, organ and drums. The resonant frequencies of quietly crashing nodes vibrate the ozone with a sub-textural beating of multi-pianic feathers. Baker's prior metallic inclinations lend in heaviness, adding a certain stylistic thud to Terry Riley-like territories, and colouring portions almost as if they were middle passages in some sprawling prog excursion. A soft eruption of synchronous sweet airs. [press-release]
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Baker, Aidan -- "Dance of Lonely Molecules" -- CD-R -- €13
2007 Blade Records, wmda070, (ltd. 200)
Baker, Aidan -- "Lost in the Rat Maze" -- CD -- €11
2011 ConSouling Sounds, SOUL0011, (ltd. 800)
Aidan Baker needs no introduction: this prolific Canadian classically trained multi-instrumentalist has generously contributed to the doom/drone/ambient genre. Nadja, Arc and Whisper Room are just a few of his manifestations. As a solo artist he also composed quite an impressive backcatalogue. Consouling Sounds is proud to add another release to that list, as we're quite confident this one will stand out in this discography. With Lost in the Rat Maze Aidan Baker produces an unconventional album - even to Baker-standards. Having been known for his extensive ambient soundscapes, Baker chose a different approach to his sound weaving - albeit true to the "Bakersound". In stead of a densely layered and broad sound palette, Baker has almost embraced a "postrockish" method of composing. More compact, pointed and clear progressions can be discovered, together with a diverse array of instruments, sounds and techniques. Expect the classic Aidan Baker elements: captivating, fascinating and repetitive mesmerizing sounds - but with a different twist to it. [press-release]
Baker, Aidan -- "Noise of Silence" -- CD -- €13
2007/2011 Essence Music, ESS015, (ltd. 400)
Baker, Aidan -- "The Sea Swells a Bit..." -- CD -- €11
2006 A Silent Place, ASP006
The sound of this new Aidan Baker's album is comparable to the best (obscure) psychedelic post-rock releases including great droning, hypnotic and honeiric atmospheres. Spontaneously composed by Aidan, who plays guitar (electric & acoustic), bass, tapeloops, drum machine and percussion in his droning 'fashion soup'. The result is the three long and beautiful tracks that constructs this album. His guitar treatments and amazing looping work get more and more marvellous, as the droning increasing percussions take the listener to a peaceful state of mind. The sound rises all around as the stream floods to the seaside, giving refuge to emotions through numbing clouds of murmuring electric voices. Aidan's performances high standards and his instantly recognizable style are here well confirmed, adding to the excellent level of his discography! [label info]
Baker, Aidan -- "The Taste of Summer on your Skin" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2004 Taalem, alm 15
I'm not sure Aidan Baker really needs an introduction. Also a member or the tribal-ambient trio ARC (remember "13th" we released some months ago), he has built an impressive discography in a few months, releasing his beautiful drone/ambient guitar-ish music on every interesting label (Mystery Sea, DTA, S'Agita or The Locus OF Assemblage to name but a few). Of course we couldn't not be part of (smile!). So here is "The Taste of Summer on your Skin", "a melodic, shimmering multi-instrumental drone track" as Aidan describes it himself. [press-release]
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Baker, Aidan / ARC -- "The Sun Is Bleeding & Has Black Hands" -- 2 CD-R -- €14
2009 Kokeshidisk, kodi 12
Compiled by Aidan Baker, "The Sun Is Bleeding & Has Black Hands" is a collection of tracks taken from various rare and/or out-of-print releases previously issued as cd, cd-r or mp3, and compilations. Each disc is almost 80min long. The Aidan Baker disc is full of shiny & melodic drones while the ARC disc is full of tribal ambiences the trio is known for, with a noisy & chaotic final! [press-release]
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Bald Doll -- "Pikula In Da House" -- CD-R -- €4
2007 Folvork'prod, Kfeytzez 076, (ltd. 20)
60 min. Electro! Reissue of a club rarity from 2002! Rare club oriented side-project of TCHORT (Siberian project existing since early days of Russian underground scene). Special CD tray and nothing extra. [label info]
Band Of Pain -- "Sacred Flesh (Original Movie Soundtrack)" -- CD -- €10
2000/2010 Cold Spring, CSR33CD, (ltd. 666)
On Friday 14th April 2000, the film SACRED FLESH finally premiered at the ABC Piccadilly cinema for a two week stint, before being shown at cinemas across the country. It was delayed for a while as the BBFC decided on whether to grant a certificate for screening, or to ban it altogether! Finally, with a few edits they gave it an 18 certificate. The soundtrack was written by BAND OF PAIN, creating a very dark, brooding atmosphere to compliment Nigel Wingroves' film. Originally with a 16-page booklet depicting explicit scenes from the film (generallt cute lesbian conventuals - M.M.), pressure from the distributors forced the artwork into a revised 4-page version. SACRED FLESH is dark journey into realms of mental anguish and repression; a very Black Ambient soundtrack. At last, BAND OF PAIN is working in the medium to which its most suited. An incredible new album with massive demand from both film and music distributors alike. 10 year anniversary edition of 666 copies! [label info]
Barabino, Federico / Cat'n'Bone -- "Collaboration" -- CD-R -- €4
2009 self-released
Technogenic hi-fi noise ambient in vein of Aube, sometimes really loud. A collaboration between Russian and Argentinian artists. [YAOP]
Barabino, Federico & Maklakov, Vitaly -- "Fleur Light" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Heart-Shaped Box Prod., HSB-033, (ltd. 21)
Collaboration between Argentinian and Russian artists. Psychedelic drone ambient and unprocessed naturally sounding solos on acoustic guitar. Nice full-colour cover. [YAOP]
Barbara -- "Peger" -- CD -- €10
2007 Heart & Crossbone, HCB 009, (ltd. 999)
Psycho Doom Grind. Juxtaposing noise-core, grind and doom, with strong hints of black metal, it's hard to accept the fact that Barbara's instrumental line-up is comprised only by a drummer (David OPP A.K.A Cadaver Eyes) and a bass player (Re-em H). Both of them also deliver the screams and perverse whispers on their first album in four years, a hectic and mindless anti-musical rupture. For fans of Today Is the Day, VOG, Truman's Water, Burmese, Lightning Bolt and Pig Destroyer. [press-release]
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Barbarossa Umtrunk -- "Wehrwolf Dharma" -- CD -- €10
2010 Ufa Muzak, UFA 33, (ltd. 200)
Military pop / Esoteric industrial. UFA presents a grandiose album by the French sound battalion BARBAROSSA UMTRUNK. This masterpiece is hard to file under a certain style, as they are so interwoven in music and can't be clearly defined. Ethnic elements, cimbals, shamanic singing, heavy drones, synth lines and lots of vocals blend together into an insane mix of apocalyptic, ritual and orchestral neoclassics. The album's concept is no less complex and sophisticated, it was inspired by the theories of Hans Horbiger and northern dark shamans cults. Spinning around the magic of seids and werewolf mysteries, the hidden plot of the songs tells us about the attempt to rewrite the history of Hyperborean race from the very beginning, from the fall of Thule legend. The ice-cold atmosphere of this album penetrates into the fundamental principle of a mystery, and the werewolf spirit sleeping in collective unconscious wakes up. BU ised in their work texts by J. Parvulescu, R. Howard, A. Rosenberg, M. Marmin (creator of "Greece" new right-wing group in France). The album contains tribute songs to Runes Order and Celtic Frost... Cold merciless ambience of a forest where secret is buried in soil itself, dark paths that protect and wreck, gibbous Moon singing silent songs... in darkness it starts the dreadful game of death, and the sound of broken bones and the wild howl of wolves become a new catastrophic believe. 10 tracks, 72 minutes, 200 copies, sturdy 4-panel sleeve with an insert. [press-release]
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Barbarossa Umtrunk / Dronerune -- "Distant Shores of Hvetramannaland - A Tribute to Miguel Serrano" -- CD -- €9
2011 Ufa Muzak, UFA 41, (ltd. 500)
Military Pop / Dark Ambient / Drone doom. We present this long awaited split album of awesome quality. One of the best releases of UFA Muzak corporation, hard and important for understanding and inner interpretation. The long monumental material of this otherworldly dedication to the most significant figure of mystical aryan movement consists of equal parts - contributions made to the full extent and dignity by French military ambient and Argentinian guitar drone noise. This album is like an initiation, to pass it through, listen and submerge in it, one has to have a strong will and true belief in immortality of human soul. Through noise, slavery and pain of this world belonging to the Tsar who captured souls in senseless and eternal circle, appear exceedingly delicate gleams of light, coming through into the continual space, these flamy messages of runic forms, true symbols against death and entropy. They exist, come through the chosen ones and represent the last hope. The voice of gnostic prophet Miguel Serrano is heard in sparse spheres, his speech is eternal, once said, wherever he is now. From the stars, it's breezing real all-penetrating cold... 8 tracks, 78 minutes, A5 cardboard sleeve. [press-release]
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Bardini, Gregorio & Gerstein -- "Arise Of A Bleeding Rose" -- CD -- €11
2009 The Eastern Front, Front 025, (ltd. 1000)
Collaborative work of two legends of Italian industrial scene Gregorio Bardini and Gerstein featuring S. Rukavina (Bleiburg) and Paolo Longo Vaschetto. Gerstein (a.k.a. Maurizio Pustianaz) and Gregorio Bardini knew each other in the mid '80s. At that time Gerstein was moving his first steps composing his piano experimental suites, while Gregorio was active as keyboard and flute player with Thelema first and with Kino Glaz then. They missed their contact and during the last twenty years Maurizio experimented with musical styles and atmospheres (see his 1993 'Sucker' album for his intimate piano/guitar ballads as well as the CD released by Discordia in 1996 for his first steps into anxious electronic/guitar soundtracks composition, to name few) and Gregorio studied flute with Severino Gazzelloni, became a trained blow instruments concert artist and collaborated with Tuxedo Moon, T.A.C. and many others. Gregorio studied also Euro Asiatic and Indo European cultures/sounds and explored these themes producing different albums on the Arx Collana label. Their paths crossed again when Maurizio received the Gregorio Bardini first release for The Eastern Front label (titled 'Sentinelle del Mattino') for a review on Chain D.L.K. (magazine that he founded with Marc Urselli in the mid '90s). Maurizio asked to Gregorio if he was interested into a collaboration and after his positive answer, he prepared ten electronic tracks that were aiming to create a timeless suspended in time effect where fears and hopes were battling like a clash of titans. Electronic sounds, piano, kettledrums and drum machine patterns have been used having in mind the Keith Emerson soundtrack to the 'Inferno' movie as reference for the atmospheres he wanted to create. Gregorio added flutes, ocarina and performed spoken word and singing, Maurizio gave his voice only to the main track 'Arise Of A Bleeding Rose', a song/anthem for the whole album which is focused on the regain of the original self... 'Arise Of A Bleeding Rose' sounds like no other album of the genre and sees as guests Bleiburg and Paolo Longo Vaschetto whom also took care of the final mix. [press-release]
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Bardini, Gregorio -- "Sentinelle del Mattino" -- CD -- €10
2007 The Eastern Front, Front 008, (ltd. 1000)
Hypnotic musical journey composed by the legend of Italian scene Gregorio Bardini. An artist who is on scene since early 80s, stood behind TAC and Kino Glaz, collaborated with Thelema and Tuxedo Moon, Tony Wakeford and Vidna Obmana, Alio Die and Steve Pikkolo, Thierry Lolif and Doubling Riders. "Sentinelle Del Mattino" dips you into the world of harmony, expressiveness and anguish melodies. Wide specter of musical instruments (piano, flutes, guitars, drums, zurna, kena, ciaramella, saxophone), unforgettable vocals, unique records of Mary de Rachewilts voice, reading her father Ezra Pound' Cantos and musical innovations of Stefan Rukavina (Bleiburg), Tiziano Popoli, Mauro Franceschi, Paolo Longo Vaschetto, Peter 'Kompripiotr' Holzknecht, Martin 'Mala' Langes, Stephan 'Physh' Fischnaller, touches a heart up to its deepest depths. [press-release]
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Bardini, Gregorio & Thierry Jolif -- "Kantalon" -- CD -- €10
2009 The Eastern Front, Folk 002, (ltd. 500)
Kantalon is an ancient Gaelic word, it refers, in this old Celtic tongue, to the 'chant' but also to the lessons that the druids were teaching to their pupils. This name has been found engraved on a votive pillar, so we could see a symbolical link traced between the knowledge the druids were transmitting through the oral, and often singing, courses and the pillar rooted deeply in the soil and with his peak touching to the skies, sacred domain of the invisible. By the years has been transmitted in the old Celtic land of Brittany, many popular song in the Celtic local tongue. Of course those songs they had nothing to do (or so far) with the teachings of the ancient druids, but often they are also 'lessons'. Lessons about events of the past times, mainly sad events, stories of crimes, of battles, of losing ... Sometimes the exact subject of the story is not so easy to recognize, sometimes the words are quite obscure in their meaning but most of the times, with a little feeling of what really means symbolism, we are able to find the real and concrete spiritual meaning of the song. As the Kantalon is rooted into a particular soil so we are, and those songs are too, they belong to us because we belong to this particular ground and country even if we are living in a time far away from the time in which they were created. So we took those songs not 'as they were', but as they could be now, with all the musical background we had inside of us. We had worked on this distance between their origin and us as a real musical matter. Our aim was not to try to do a kind of mix between medieval music and modern one but to express the spiritual reality and complexity of those lyrics and melodies into our own musical field as if those songs made a travel through time and had to pass through the filters of modern music (experimental, concrete, classical, free-jazz, industrial ... and so on) to reach our brains and our instruments. [press-release]
Bardo, Igor -- "My Sweet Nightmare" -- CD -- €12
2011 Some Place Else, SPEXI057, (ltd. 250)
Igor Bardo is a Russian musician and sound artist. He is best known as the mastermind of Bardoseneticcube, which is one of the leading experimental/post-industrial groups from Russia. He describes his music as Surrealism: 'Pure psychic automatism by which it is intended to express, either verbally or in writing, the true function of thought. Thought dictated in the absence of all control exerted by reason, and outside all aesthetic or moral preoccupations.' (Andre Breton)... My Sweet Nightmare is Igor Bardo's debut solo album, containing about one hour of first class psychedelic electronic listening music. The surrealist soundscapes will be instantly embraced by fans of Bardoseneticcube, yet the artist manages to conquer heaps of new ground at the same time. Free from the burden of expectation related to the fame of his main band, My Sweet Nightmare has mr. Bardo take us on an adventurous journey deep down into the rabbit hole. Themes such as religion, psychedelia, sleep paralysis etc. are explored with eerie atmospheres, bliss-inducing frequencies and cutting edge studio experiments... Igor Bardo formed Bardoseneticcube in 1998. The group have released dozens of albums on various labels throughout the world, and their powerful audiovisual live performances have gathered fame in Russia, Europe and Scandinavia. Igor Bardo has also collaborated live and on record with numerous Russian experimental artists. [press-release]
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Bardoseneticcube -- "Bad Heaven" -- CD-R -- €7
2006 Ostroga, OTR-006, (ltd. 222)
Dark drone ambient, dedicated to the theme of Russian orthodox church. Choirs, bell ringing and meditative drones. Limited to 222 copies in full-colour sleeves. Cover is a reproduction of an icon found in the deserted village near the Ural. Inserts - burnt images of oppressive sky over the doms of Russian churches - photos made by Noises Of Russia.
Bardoseneticcube -- "Biosphere" -- CD-R -- €8
2002 Ultra, UCD 14, (ltd. 150)
The final part of sheres trilogy - spacy raw ambient.
Bardoseneticcube -- "Deadhead" -- CD -- €10
2006 Aquarellist, aquarel 03-05, (ltd. 500)
New album of Bardoseneticcube is the whole surrealistic musical performance which is impossible to squeeze into the boundaries of any genre. Six untitled pieces reveal the labyrynth of sonic cobwebs born in the depths of subconscious mind of Igor Potsukailo and his brothers in arms (several guest musicians took part in recording sessions - two guitarists, saxophonist, etc.). The basis for the most tracks is formed by the hybryd of orchestral-ethno-electronic rhythmics and it's layered over with melodic lines walking from composition to composition and completely unexpected samples hardly rationally coordinated with musical context. For sure, this time Igor's talent has beaten all the stylistical limitations - the album sounds very organic and energetic.
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Bardoseneticcube -- "Democracy Of Noise" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 ML, ML 0108, (ltd. 93)
A very diverse album containing rhythmical, ambient, industrial and noisy moments, sounding like a single whole moulded into a surreal atmosphere. This disc could be used as a study guide for noise artists who want to learn the experimental approach, professionalism and quality of sound treatments.
Bardoseneticcube -- "Hola! El Maniacomio!" -- CD-R -- €6
2011 Noo Slava Bogu, NSB 002
Live recording from October 2001 at "Klim Voroshilov" club, St. Petersburg. Bardoseneticcube were Igor Potsukailo & Sergey Matveev.
Bardoseneticcube -- "Illness Of Green Colour" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 ML, ML 0208, (ltd. 93)
"Illness Of Green Colour" is not a new album of BSC, this is a reissue of one-track half-hour-long album "Disease", released in 1999 by Black Dead Rabbit Production as a limited edition of 50 copies. This track is followed by a 20-min. long bonus-composition, taken from the album "Blood Of Green Colour" (2005 Blade Records, ltd. 150), which by the author's opinion thematically fits the material of "Disease".
Bardoseneticcube -- "KachaREX" -- CD-R -- €7
2001 Puzzle God
Gently flowing ambient accompanied by soft noises and various concrete samples. Sometimes very cosmic, sometimes just pleasant mild atmosphere.
Bardoseneticcube -- "Lord Of Light" -- CD-R -- €9
2006 Deserted Factory, DF033, (ltd. 180)
Dark Industrial Noise / Ambient from Russia. [label info]
Bardoseneticcube -- "Monolith" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 ML, ML 0308, (ltd. 93)
The album consists of one track lasting for a little more than an hour. Smooth and slowly moving nocturnal industrial tapestry: soft background noises, fragments of voices and echoes of all kinds... One of the most atmospheric recording of Bardoseneticcube.
Bardoseneticcube -- "Myzantrofy" -- CD-R -- €13
2005, Abgurd Subdivision, AB-08, (ltd. 133)
New album of one of the oldest industrial projects from St. Petersburg. Slowly unfolding damp murky compositions with heavy rhythmic loops, round dance of crankshafts, ritual elements and all the rest attributes necessary for this genre. Sometimes with strange pseudo-ethnic inlays. Recommended for orthodox industrial dark ambient admirers.
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Bardoseneticcube -- "Naegleria Fowlery" -- CD -- €11
2007 Blade Records, wmda071, (ltd. 300)
This strange and extremely varied disc opens with a track which whirls in and out of The Caretaker's 'Haunted Ballroom'-style samples with piercing electronics. Moving onwards we encounter dense rhythmic industrial pieces and experimental electronics - all the while chasing the thread of eccentric samples and searing white noise. Limited to just 300 hand-numbered copies in an outsized foldout package. A great, if unusual, piece from the Russian outfit. [Cold Spring Records description]
Bardoseneticcube -- "The Sacral Member" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2006 Taalem, alm 36
Bardoseneticcube is a now well-known artist from Russia, with releases on various labels like Drone Records, Steinklang, Athanor or Mechanoise Labs. For this 3", Bardoseneticcube has looked into his archives and found these two tracks in an ambient/ritual style, sometimes rhythmed by percussions that could remind our dear Internal Fusion. [label info]
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Bardoseneticcube -- "Tek-Now II" -- CD-R -- €9
2001 Puzzle God, PG 02
One of the earliest albums of this well-known St. Petersburg's project, recorded in 1998 and 2000. Dub industrial rhythmics, ethnic samples and electronics. Absolutely different from their late ambient-noise albums, sounds more like a mixture of Muslimgauze and Ministry.
Bardoseneticcube -- "XXX" -- CD -- €10
2006 Aquarellist, aquarel 02-05, (ltd. 509)
New Bardoseneticcube album is inspired by life and works of Nika Turbina - a poetess who started to write grown-up tragic poems when she was only 4 years old. "This is not me writing, this is God leading my hand", - the small girl used to say. First Nika's book of poems came out when she was only 9, and was later translated in 12 languages. After living pathologically strange life, receiving the most prestigious poetic prize "Golden Lion", and being held in mental hospital, at the age of 27 Nika tragically died falling down from the 5th floor window. The musical dedication of Bardoseneticcube is presented in 12 untitled tracks filled with surrealistic feelings and some childish morbidity. Obscure loops and industrial soundscapes are buried under a pile of rhyme wreckage, melody fragments and almost chaotic manifold of strange sounds.
Bardoseneticcube / Philippe Blanchard -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €8
2007 Ultra, UCD24, (ltd. 150)
Recording of jam-session of Philippe Blanchard (Lt. Caramel) and Bardoseneticcube, St. Petersburg, spring 2006.
Bardoseneticcube / Lieutenant Caramel -- "Silence Submarine" -- CD -- €9
2011 Studio Forum
"Silence Submarine" is the first collaborative work by St. Petersburg based project Bardoseneticcube and French musician Philippe Blanchard also known as Lieutenant Caramel. Some time ago I've invited him to perform live in Russia for the first time at the mini-festival in Moscow, but Philippe has also played in St. Petersburg where he made friends with Igor from Bardoseneticcube. After that they kept comminucating remotely and after some time recorded a collaboration work which has remained unreleased all this time, until at last Studio Forum label has released it in March 2011. All tracks are built traditionally: one musician gives the basic material, another finalizes it. The connoseurs of works of both projects will easily recognize the origin of most tracks, and this process is a fascinating thing indeed. [Monochrome Vision]
Bardoseneticcube + Noises Of Russia -- "New Orthodox Line" -- CD -- €10
2007 Some Place Else, SPECD07043
New Orthodox Line brings together two of the most notable Russian post-industrial / experimental groups: Bardoseneticcube and Noises of Russia. This unique collaboration stirs the best of both artists to surface, and results in an extremely powerful and intense emotional experience. The opus travels from sacral soundscapes of orthodox choirs and church bells to a more punishing end of the sonic spectrum provided by pounding rhythms and howling feedback. Here, the opposites unite with passion and compliment each other for the sake of the greater good, the synergetic New Orthodox Line. [label info]
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Bardoseneticcube & Igor V. Petrov -- "The Perpetuum Mobile Space Vehicle" -- CD -- €11
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. Artwork by STPo. [press release]
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Bardoseneticcube & Vresnit & Kshatriy -- "Creation" -- CD -- €10
2011 Vetvei, V20, (ltd. 580)
A new CD release is presented on the Vetvei label. It is a split of three already well-known projects: Bardoseneticcube (St.-Petersburg), Vresnit (Yaroslavl) É Kshatriy (Vsevolozhsk). Being active and variously cooperating in studios and at concerts, the authors have got a vision of joint release: this split is inspired by a condition of direct experience, transformation, sensation of a new life arrival, display and realization of nature, creativity comprehension as a natural form of being. Some tracks from each project are presented on the disk as a seven acts of creation. BARDOSENETICCUBE: Igor Potsukajlo together with Alla Ryzhenkovoj (traditional Russian vocal) and Edward Dragunov (overtone singing) have presented light Ambient with colorific electronic patterns. Songs "Za verhom" and "Golymba", opening this disk, brightly show a female, mother nature. Further the space reveals as an active man nature. VRESNIT: As a initiator of the release concept, Ilchuk Sergey has presented multilayered psychedelic Drone Ambient with a plentiful use of the field and found records, guitar and cassete drones, analog electronics. "Time is Art "," Anahata "," Creation "... two of this tracks are written down together with a spiritually close project Kshatriy. Becoming even more professional mastering engineer with each his work, Sergey Uak-Kib (KSHATRIY) in the traditional key has presented two powerful space Drone Ambient tracks, " Well of Soul " and " Intention ", showing in music an author's experience of beauty, harmony and a resonance. A unification of the interweaving beginnings in the solemn act of the world creation. A new act of the initiating resonance and contemplation of the universal art and boundless self-similarity with open hearts. Mastering - Kshatriy. Design presented by six-panel full-colored envelope and card Vresnit & Vevei Art. [press-release]
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Bardoseneticcube / Zaubertote -- "Strachilka" -- CD-R -- €8
2008 Extremal Psychonauts, ExPsy 010, (ltd. 96)
Musical & noise pieces dedicated to child frights, fears, "bugaboos and baddies", hiding themselves in wardrobes and under the bed. Came to life from the subconsciousness, not more than distorted thoughts, karmic cockroaches, flying away through a window leaf... These compositions were recorded five years ago for an unreleased compilation of the same title, they overlaid their time and now come to the world... Handmade package. [press-release]
Bargain Basement / Wilt -- "Flea Market / 1958" -- CD-R -- €7
2002 Solipsism, Solipsism-53, (ltd. 100)
Bargain Basement: short wave radio, police scanner, field recordings, dishwasher, contact microphones, guitar, synthesizer, sheet metal, power tools, sampler, effects processor, tape manipulations, circuit bending, toys, pipes, video tape rewinder. Wilt: tapes, elektroniks, samples, found objects.
Bashnya Ledyanyh Voronov -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Valgriind, VG 13, (ltd. 50)
The new release of the young Russian label Valgriind is a debut recording of a project with an epic title Bashnya Ledyanyh Voronov ("Icy Ravens Tower" in Russian). Three tracks recorded live apparently on a dictaphone. The 1st track "Gates to the crystal vast" contains slow mouth harp playing accompanied by female voice, singing a wordless song. A feeling of something winter-Slavonic... The 2nd track "Rising up the snow-clad steps towards the non-existence" really contains the recording of steps, wind, something crackles, knocks during almost 6 minutes. The 3rd track "Emptiness of icy silence" - again long monotonous mouth harp piece. Minimalism. Packed in a slim-box with attached foil rune.
Batchas -- "Explorations 85-95" -- CD -- €10
2007 Monochrome Vision, (mv14), (ltd. 500)
Robert Masse is the man behind Batchas, Freq63, Mydaus, Trebor Semas, Microscope and side-projects like Myiase and Mental Showdowns. He was born in 1963 in Nice (France) and got interested in unconventional musical arrangements since his very childhood: started from the household electrical appliances exploration and self-made mind-blowing gear in combination with cheap processing/recording equipment, he got first real art studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Marseille (1981). Influenced by industrial and avant-garde music, but also in things like mail art, tape network, limited vinyl editions and hand-made covers, he created Scrotum Production label in 1985, based in Paris and mostly intended for his own productions as Batchas, ranging from electroacoustics to industrial music. All releases were limited edition tapes with handmade packaging. After a couple of years living in Berlin, Robert moved to Zurich, where he released his first CD called 'Tahafut-Ul-Tahafut' (1993), mysterious tapestry of piano sounds gently treated with atmospheric effects, voices, samples etc. The live performance with guests musicians from Zurich at the Musiques Ultimes Festival in Nevers (France) indicated the beginning of a long collaboration with the french Noise Museum label, which starts with the publication of Batchas 'Live in Nevers' LP and 'Mydese' CD. Since 1998, excepting a couple of performances as Myiase with his old mate Roger Rotor and a very few collaborations with other musicians in Zurich, Batchas stopped all his musical activities. Today, he is working as a Flash developer. "explorations 85-95" is the last Batchas studio release. It contains tracks from an old unreleased album as well as totally re-worked and remastered material recorded between 1985 and 1995. This is another masterpiece of minimal analogue synth-sound alchemy, a journey through Batchas acoustic world allocated in the deep space between two acoustic radiators of stereosystem. [press release]
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Bates, Martyn -- "Migraine Inducers / Antagonistic Music" -- 2 CD -- €16
2007 Beta-lactam Ring Records, mt196/mt197a, (ltd. 1000)
Freed from layers of sand, the ancient seal is cracked and the stone portal pried away. A hoary blizzard of slowly settling dust and mold is finally sliced by the first tantalizing glint of a mythological cache. At long last a lost experimental classic from the earliest days of the UK diy movement is delivered from legendary obscurity. ':violent anti-music: I think this is a brilliant tape:hauntingly beautiful and totally refreshing sound.' So wrote Geoff Rushton (aka Jhon Balance) in a 1980 issue his Stabmental magazine about Martyn Bates's 'Dissonance' cassette ('Migraine Inducers' was the project's title). Originally released as a micro-edition in the UK in 1979, the more definitive American version was released as a cassette in the US shortly afterwards. For the first time 'Dissonance' sees a limited edition CD and vinyl reissue, appended by a bonus disc with the 1994 'completion' of the piece. 'Dissonance' presaged Martyn's solo career and his work as part of Eyeless In Gaza in a most unusual way. Rather than directly suggesting what was to come, the cassette, instead, suggested a composing and sound AESTHETIC that exists to this day. That first cassette-only cri-de-coeur would have you believe that Martyn would be the next Nurse With Wound. Instead, rather like a more extreme Vice Versa or Human League, with Bates literally finding his voice, the later music (solo and with Eyeless In Gaza) evolved into a textural, fractured, DIY chamber pop INFORMED by the avant-garde, occasionally straying back into outright experimentalism (Pale Hands I Loved So Well, eg.). That Eyeless In Gaza (and let's not forget Peter Becker) and post 70's Martyn Bates manifested from 'Dissonance' makes this bizarre and essential release even more of a precious find. If Martyn had not recorded another note, this would still stand as an extremely important early, incredibly forward thinking moment of sonic exploration. Dynamic, visceral and jagged but musical and deliberately constructed, 'Dissonance' captures, maybe even defines the zeitgeist of the DIY attitude that was rising in the heady days of the late 70's and early 80's. An undeniable antecedent and a true revolution. Ed. of 1000 copies in a deluxe 5 color gatefold sleeve, 16 page booklet with liner notes about the project by Else Teicher. [label info]
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Bates, Martyn -- "Mystery Seas (Letters Written #2)" -- CD -- €14
2005 Shayo, Shayo 006
MARTYN BATES started sending his LETTERS WRITTEN in 1982, when he released his first solo work - the highly personal character of which demanded a songform made of the most basics ( keyboards + voice). And while this work went obscured by the magnificence EYELESS IN GAZA radiated constantly, (disbanded 1986 - reformed 1993)..., a second batch of LETTERS WRITTEN, appeared after reunion. Slowly evolved themes, haunted droning keyboards, autumn/winter romantic atmospheres and Martyn`s dominating vocals (in great shape) rule again, but this time sound is a bit less monotonous, the folk scent is stronger, arrangement includes some percussion, winds and.... it is the discreet (nearly illusional) presence of PETER BECKER (co-production, percussion, vocal harmonies) that makes, behind shadows, these seas nearly as mysterious and seductive as some of the best EYELESS IN GAZA works. [label info]
Becuzzi, Gianluca -- "[In]visible Fields" -- 2 CD -- €10
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]
Becuzzi, Gianluca -- "Memory Makes Noise" -- CD -- €8
2006 SmallVoices, SVR06021
With this new release by Small Voices, Gianluca Becuzzi, for the first time, presents his work under his birth name, confining the aka Kinetix as an extension of his name. "Memory Makes Noise" is an important passage in the long carreer of our Tuscan sound-artist, projecting him to the achievement of his own creative dimension. Left the cold digital aesthetic, Gianluca Becuzzi, is focusing his re-search on electro-acoustic sounds, livening "Memory Makes Noise" with throbbing concrete noises, material manipulations and deep enviromental reverberations. On the back-ground of this soundscapes, exacts and fascinating at the same time, there are the shadows of the cut up evoked by the author: from Luc Ferrari, Ivo Malec and Morton Subotnik, to Rolf Julius, Bernhard Guenter e Kozo Ikeno. "Adductionism" as activation of the memory, which rush in the present confusing with it, to avoid any kind of linear sequence. In the ethernal present time, where every sign contains its own opposite, the echo sounds before its source: "Memory Makes Noise". [label info]
Becuzzi, Gianluca & Orsi, Fabio -- "Muddy Speaking Ghosts Through My Machines" -- CD -- €8
2006 A Silent Place, ASP12
Muddy Speaking Ghosts Through My Machines' is the brand new album released together by Fabio Orsi and Gianluca Becuzzi. This album will be certainly followed by other cooperations, considering the big friendly artistic sodality between them. Fabio e Gianluca are a strange duo, considering the big differences of their artistic back-ground. Fabio Orsi is a young and unexpected talent. After his first album, "Osci" (LP, SmallVoices 2005), produced by Gianluca Becuzzi, he got a lot of positive feedbacks, worldwide, by the most important international media, confirmed by his second official release "For Alan Lomax" (CD, A Silent Place 2006) splitted with cosmical Italian duo My Cat is an Alien. Gianluca Becuzzi is a very well known character of the Italian experimental scene since from the 80s, under many different alias. Recently known as Kinetix, Gianluca latest release is the very well appreciated "Memory Makes Noise" (CD, SmallVoices 2006) a great electroacoustic pearl. The unexpected uncounter between different forces, experiences and visions of this two artists is prefectly melted in this album: strong and tied, an imaginary place where folkway and research, past and present, distance and closeness, mud and clouds, ghosts and machines meets. Shreds of ballads, guitars and old keyboards floating on the vibrant surface of this faery river and disappear, towed off by drones and rumors, pouring between distant voices and centenary blues songs from the Alan Lomax archive. Raptur and sweet lostness: this is the main sensation. It could be listed as Avant-Folk, or Experimental-Blues, Ambient- Roots or contemporary aesthetics and aching nostalgia... [press-release]
Beequeen -- "Der Holzweg - The 13th Anniversary Edition" -- CD -- €10
2006 Tantric Harmonies, TANTRA X35, (ltd. 500)
Legendary Beequeen's debut + all related material previously released on different versions of Der Holzweg such as LP, cassette, CD... Not good enough??? Here you can find tracks from 2 rare 7"!!! Comes in special package and limited to 500 copies. [label info]
Bestia Centauri -- "Teratogenesis" -- CD -- €12
2007 Eibon Records / Afe Records, bes073 / afe093cd
Avantgarde / Experimental. Bestia Centauri is a solo electronic music project begun in 1999. "Teratogenesis" is its fourth release after "Ubbo-Sathla" (Somnambulant Corpse Recordings, 2002), "The Antideluvian Earth" (Afe, 2003) and "The Self Immolation Rite" (Somnambulant Corpse Recordings, 2004). The aim of Bestia Centauri is to create sonic landscapes that convey a sense of the numinous, the horrific, and the extra-human. Its sounds have much in common with those of electroacoustic music, but the compositional structures generally display a much greater sense of flow. With the new release, "Teratogenesis" (...an Eibon / Afe co-production...), Bestia Centauri defies once and for all the persistent mischaracterizations of its sound as belonging to the "Dark Ambient ghetto". Electroacoustic and computer music elements come brazenly to the foreground, and contribute even more so to the flow of "crawling chaos" that has always characterized and inspired Bestia Centauri's compositions. The genesis and development of a monstrosity is the theme of this new work, which charts a course from mutated unicellular sonic DNA to the resultant life-form that reaches "from the jaws of the dragon, from the depths of the abyss"... [label info]
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Beta Two Agonist -- "Autumn Perdue" -- CD-R -- €9
2008 Databloem, DB08021
When I received Beta Two Agonist's demo some years ago, I knew from the first notes I was dealing with a talented artist. A year later Beta Two Agonist's debut album on Databloem Zero Point Field saw the light, a delightful mix of minimal glitchy atmosphere's and soft rhythms. Yet, I felt Ian Lizandra's best was yet to come: :Well, here it is: Autumn Perdue, a consistently brilliant set of rhythmic and melodic glitch ambient. Unlike other releases in this genre, Autumn Perdue gives you the feeling it's played life with real instruments. Actually Ian does use acoustic instruments such vibraphone and piano, which gives it all a more organic and personal touch. Another strong point is the transparent, perfectly balanced production. If you like contemporary glitch ambient ala Off The Sky, Murcof or Shuttle 358 you shouldn't miss this one. [label info]
Beta Two Agonist -- "Zero Point Field" -- CD -- €10
2006 Databloem, DBCD 016
Minimal glitchy atmosphere's, soft rhythms and gentle shades of melody. Databloem is so good at finding new talent in ambient electronica, and they have really outdone themselves this time in bringing listeners the fresh sounds of Beta Two Agonist. [label info]
Beyond Sensory Experience -- "The Dull Routine Of Existence" -- CD -- €12
2006 Cold Meat Industry, cmi154
On The Dull Routine of Existence, the Swedish duo Beyond Sensory Experience find themselves carefully scrutinising the conventions of everyday life applying an impressive new take on their characteristic experimental dark ambient. This time delivering dark, complexly melodic and rhythmic waves of sound that penetrates mind and body. In short, this is BSE at their very best. Beyond Sensory Experience was formed in Uppsala, Sweden in 2001 by Drakhon and K. Meizter. The Dull Routine of Existence is their second release on Cold Meat Industry, after starting their journey with four albums on the Italian label Old Europa Cafe. [press release].
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Beyond Sensory Experience -- "Korrelations" -- CD -- €14
Old Europa Cafe, OECD 070
The production of thešanouncedšspecial box was cancelled! but we will now produce a 4th CD in the BSE series with unreleased BSE material plus remixesšby Mr. Nordvargr, Alk0,šDo Shaska!,šAlexxxš& more ... Soon also ašnew BSE CD on Cold Meat Industry but we are proud to know we was thešlabel releasingštheir debut trilogy! of course also this CDšcomes inšusualšelegant digipack coveršwith wonderfull design! Numbers rule the world! [label info]
Beyond Sensory Experience -- "No Lights In Our Eyes" -- CD -- €14
2008 Cold Meat Industry, cmi182
After months of long Nordic nights, intense recording sessions and creative outbursts Beyond Sensory Experience release No Lights In Our Eyes on which they further develop their characteristic and much commended sound. The examination of life that began on Pursuit Of Pleasure and The Dull Routine Of Existence advances and now focuses on death and the subconscious sides of life. Musically, No Lights In Our Eyes ranges from coldest minimalism to the darkest orchestral eruptions, becoming an addictive stimulus for your inward eyes. Expect first class dark atmospheres with a distinctive BSE twist. [press-release]
Beyond Sensory Experience -- "Tortuna" -- CD -- €14
2003 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 049
Beyond Sensory Experience & Moljebka Pvlse -- "Zielona Gora" -- CD -- €11
2009 Ur Muzik, UR 001, (ltd. 500)
We at Ur Muzik headquarters love Sweden... and we are proud to present our very first release 'Zielona GÕra' by the well known Swedish acts Beyond Sensory Experience and Moljebka Pvlse. Both bands were invited in April 2008 to play a concert in Zielona GÕra, Poland. After the concert the two bands joined together on stage and recorded the raw material for this release. This material was then taken to chilly Stockholm and reworked by the artists. The result is a monumental, 70 minutes long, dark ambient work that unifies the excellence of Beyond Sensory Experience and Moljebka Pvlse's worlds. Released as a digipack and limited to 500 copies only. [press-release]
Bianchi, Maurizio -- "Akoustikoriginem" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Lona Records, locd55r, (ltd. 150)
Improvisation is the practice of making and creating in the moment and in response to the stimulus of one's immediate environment. Musical improvisation is the spontaneous creative process of making music while it is being performed. It's like speaking or having a conversation as opposed to reciting a written text. "Akoustikoriginem" is a marginal and exhausted resource for experimental diffusion of uncompromised acoustic sounds from the convergent beginnings... Maurizio Bianchi prevalently uses an expiatory acoustic guitar, maltreated with cortical fingers. Dedicated to Jubal, the tamer of the improvised acoustic sounds. [label info]
Bianchi, Maurizio -- "Apokalypsis XXIII" -- CD -- €13
2011 Nitkie, patch six, (ltd. 500)
In August 2010, Maurizio Bianchi officially announced his retirement from musical scene. "Apokalypsis XXIII" is his last ever electronic music album, recorded in Summer of 2010. All the latest albums appeared after that are in fact re-issues of older works or the collaborations with other artists using his sound sources. Like other solo albums of Maurizio Bianchi, "Apokalypsis XXIII" has religious roots and consists of four long tracks, each of those divided into further sections titled after verses taken from "Book of Revelation", the most mysterious and most scary part of New Testament. Many artists found the inspiration around these themes, apocalyptical images were used by painters and sculptors during the crisis periods of mankind history: Middle Ages, Renascence, end of XIX century etc. Hopefully, this album will drive attention to the world around us, and especially if keeping in mind the most recent accidents and disasters, these days it becomes more actual than ever. Comes in golden foil embossed cover. [press-release]
Bianchi, Maurizio (M.B.) -- "Bactérie" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2006 Taalem, alm 34
The Italian industrial legend, Maurizio Bianchi, is back. More prolific than ever, he proposes here a 24min track which should put the listener in a trance-like state... Rather ambient & evolutive construction with venenous & penetrating sounds... "This microbic "Bactérie", conceived and realized at the beginning of 2005, is profaning the rigid stoicism of our educational orthodromy, while a dichromatic decontamination accustoms the agoraphobic atomicity. The captious escape is vulcanizing the mutant manipulation of some articulated blastogenesis... Another altruistic bacterial sickness?" Maurizio Bianchi / M.B. [press-release]
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Bianchi, Maurizio -- "Carcimetrio" -- CD-R -- €11
2006 Simple Logic Records, simlog036, (ltd. 100)
Bianchi, Maurizio (M.B.) -- "Dead Colours" -- CD -- €10
2008 Silentes Minimal Editions, sme 0717
The more quiet side of MB... with an incredible dark melancholic tough in vein of David Lynch's atmospheres... Fantastic! Reissue of a CDR published a couple of years ago in only 120 copies. Now finally available on CD with restored artwork. This CD was released as part of a trilogy entitled "An Absurd Trilogy", the other titles being "The Self Portrait Of M.B." (sme 0715) and "Menstruum Regles" (sme 0716). [label info]
Bianchi, Maurizio (M.B.) -- "Ludium" -- CD -- €10
2009 Silentes Minimal Editions, sme 1033
A long and almost 'solemn' track built with reverberated piano notes, a slow and rhythmical flow leaned on a background made of clashing hisses and vague, distant, rustling ambient noises: A brief interval based on obscure drones moving in circles, inexorably entangled on themselves: Therefore another long piano-based track, this time more dilated, confused, ethereal and prim, so much that it takes the distinguishing features of an indecipherable sonic mass, abstract and booming, estranging, deep and psychedelic: A few and minimal elments, 'directed' in a masterly fahion and assembled in an absolutely fundamental work, from the brightest mind of Italian experimental scene and of all the music 'without compromises' of the last thirty years: One of the last contributes to the History of Music from an artists that, even in a phase of extraordinarily and unstoppable creative mood, has recently choose and officially announced to quit his long artistic activity. Simply essential. [label info]
Bianchi, Maurizio (M.B.) -- "M.I. Nheem Alysm" -- CD -- €10
2005 Silentes Minimal Editions, sme0502
The brand new album by MAURZIO BIACHI is the first in a series on SILENTES. M.I. NHEEM ALYSM is a decompositive triad for reverbarating piano and osmosized keyboards, idealized and carried out between the autumn 2003 and the spring 2004. Dedicatated to all the people they proclaim the liberation of the modest minimalistic sound. A true manifesto. [press-release]
Bianchi, Maurizio -- "March-Ex" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Lona Records, locd62r, (ltd. 150)
March-Ex (based on the book of Genesis, chapter 31, verse 35). "To obtain the menarchal attention of creative limits in a special synthetic subject, electro-hematic photocompositions scratched to the declivity as always different to obtain a dysmenorrheic catalyst. It was planned for soft shapes, extreme perfection, hematopoietic spirituality, however that was a simple labial menometrorrhagia. The tendinous tissue adapted the metabolism of coagulative effects, on the pestilential determination to guarantee the menorrhagic splendor among impressive recordings. Spurring the processional metrorrhagia of reformable background and concrete oligomenorrhea; between the infinite paths, our hypomenorrhagic point of view is inevitably furnished in a genuine horrors of our amenorrhagic time, mysterious of lightning along with the sanguinolent and peripheral activities. The polymenorrheic reputation or some excursions to a consequent capillarisation of hematogenous resistance. To modify the sedentary escape. This is the hemostatic defrosting of "March-ex"."` This work is not dedicated to the Dr. Hermann Stieve (22-5-1886 / 6-9-1952). [label info]
Bianchi, Maurizio (M.B.) -- "Menstruum Regles" -- CD -- €10
2008 Silentes Minimal Editions, sme 0716
Decomposition instead that composition. De-structured music that instead structured music. Not to complex and articulated technologies for recording, mixing of the parts and mastering; not to one sophisticated production and maniacal and defined participations correct in post-production... This the new "challenge" capacity to the extreme limit from Maurizio Bianchi, a new musical effort, "directed", "raw", immediate, absolutely uncompromising new, to outside of every law and from every pre-constituted rule... Fragments of music, short fragments of sonorous material of varied extraction, now short, now long, placed in sequence one behind the other, in a "dry" way, following absolutely unforeseeable times and dynamics. Continuous loops, raw unexpected cuts, noise alternated to musical parts, single sounds, drones, notes of piano, buzzes, soft pads, electric current workers... Two long traces, 75 minutes, a listening experience over any edge and reliable definition... This CD was released as part of a trilogy entitled "An Absurd Trilogy", the other titles being "The Self Portrait Of M.B." (sme 0715) and "Dead Colours" (sme 0717). [label info]
Bianchi, Maurizio (M.B.) -- "The Self-Portrait of M.B." -- CD -- €10
2008 Silentes Minimal Editions, sme 0715
An unusual self-portrait of Maurizio Bianchi in a minimal and introspective version, "a discreet" sonic self-portrait, elaborated with soft and nearly abstract electronic sketches, cyclical waves, tangles of intersected sounds, stratified, continuously changing, manipulated and molded through uses of effects, filters, reverbs, choruses, delay... Expanded paces, rarefied and "apparently quiet" atmospheres, but at the same time always full of a constant sense of gravity and heaviness, of vulnerability, always on the extreme border of the abyss that leads towards the unknown, the dark, the not to be defined and the mystery... This CD was released as part of a trilogy entitled "An Absurd Trilogy", the other titles being "Menstruum Regles" (sme 0716) and "Dead Colours" (sme 0717). [label info]
Bianchi, Maurizio -- "Verfall" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Lona Records, locd66r, (ltd. 150)
Dedicated to the "entartete" musicians who were persecuted for their creativity between the 1937 and the 1945. "An intimistic work, in which the disintegration and declension of multicellular particles meet damaged piano affections. Ruinous and protonic waves culminate in a declining sonorous decay, which is the neurotic aim of the falling off author, at his regimental climax." (M.B. - March 2010). Degenerative work, played at a degrading piano on the 17th August 2009, in a decadent afternoon. [label info]
Bianchi, Maurizio / Peter Andersson - Henrik Nordvargr Björkk - Jarl -- "S.F.A.G. / S.F.A.G. De-Composed" -- 2 CD -- €18
2010 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 134
ANTE-FACTS: After the disintegrative period of my production (from 'Symphony for a Genocide' to 'Das Testament'), the purchase of a misanthropic echo-machine and the consequent decay of the electric-analogue machinery, my efforts was redirected to a pre-recording sound sublimation, so I started to re-compose the electronic metastasis of early times, filtering through dehumanizing effects of the echo-machine, keeping attention particularly to the explanatory process of my ancestral subjectivism. FACTS: The modulatory shaking of S.F.A.G is the oxygenating prelude to the irradiating bionic music later developed through levigating works such as 'Endometrio' and 'Carcinosi' and represents a milestone in my pre-apocalyptic production which later will culminate into the horrid of 'Armaghedon'. The exegesis of this work reflects a strong attachment to smooth and round effects of the roughness of the frantic early days, but with a constant preference for the symbiosis between well preordered sound masses and not well defined radio broadcasts, like nebulae drifting in a space in trembling condensation. POST-FACTS: The interest of Gary Mundy of the British 'Broken Flag' label (who later would have released the esoteric "The Plain Truth") gave me the incentive to make him listen to the demo tape which was of his liking so that in January 1983 he decided to publish the album as a tape with the title "SFAG 1981" (the year relates to the link with the date of the beginning of my vinyl production). In the early 90's Tegal Records was releasing a non-authorised "truncated" version on CD, but this new version of OEC maintains the integrity of the entire work and was completely digitally remastered by Peter Andersson (Raison D'etre). [Maurizio Bianchi] The original album is accompanied by a second CD with 3 de-compositions using extracts of the original S.F.A.G. recordings done by 3 well known Nordic industrial artists: Peter Andersson (Raison D'Etre), Henrik Nordvargr Björkk (MZ.412), Erik Jarl (IRM). The whole is coming in a nice vintage packaging reminding to the first Industrial/Vinyl era: Gatefold cover as the old vinyl covers but CD sized and vinyl-look CD's. [label info]
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Bianchi, Maurizio / Appelbaum, Maor -- "Electrostatic Deflection" -- CD -- €10
2007 Silentes Minimal Editions, sme 0714
"Electrostatic Deflection" is a new industrial-music masterwork, created through collaboration with MAURIZIO BIANCHI, and Israeli musician MAOR APPELBAUM. It's represents Bianchi's more extreme direction... a sample of whats comming in the future from the historic Italian composer. Amazing impact, immense slabs of industrial sound in motion. Sweeping vistas of intense static energy, storm-fronts moving across the stereo field, an acoustic tidal wave approaching landfall, breathtaking deep and dark voyages through underground abysses... a massive and monumental work. Sounds of Sodom and Gomorra burning... don't look back! An apocalyptic prophecy of sound. Waves of sound that can penetrate the thickest steel-plate. Let it wash over you. At high volume, this cd becomes a very physical experience. [label info]
Bianchi, Maurizio + Appelbaum, Maor -- "Environmental Meditations" -- CD -- €10
2006 Topheth Prophet, TP009
[...] Bianchi here teams up with one Maor Appelbaum, who is a member of various Israeli project such Poochlatz, Vultures, IWR and who has various solo projects Screening, Vectorscope and Plated Steel [...] "This work provides profitable logicality to the futuristic aversions, subjecting the deprecared barins marketing to an elistist unpretentiousness". In case you didn't know. The music are six lengthy slabs of noise. Feedback crushes into each other, and is fed through a bunch of synthesizers and sound effects. At times things 'mellow' out just a little bit and goes into some ambient industrial area. It has that same unfocussed sound that is the trademark of Bianchi. It goes on and on, but it has something captivating [...] [FdW, Vital Weekly #560]
Bianchi, Maurizio / Appelbaum, Maor -- "Innervation" -- CD-R -- €9
2008 Afe Records, afe105lcd, (ltd. 300)
Industrial / Noise. Maurizio Bianchi is probably the most well-known and respected italian experimental composer; at the end of the 70s, at the peak of the Industrial scene, he released several tapes of noise music under the Sacher-Pelz and M.B. Symphony for a Genocide was his first vinyl record, soon followed by other cult albums such as Menses, Neuro Habitat, Regel, Mectpyo Bakterium, Das Testament, Endometrio, Carcinosi and The Plain Truth. In 1984, "Armaghedon" was announced as his last record. In 1998-2000 the whole M.B. vinyl catalogue was officially re-released on CD by Ees't Records. At the same time, after a 14 years of meditative pause, Maurizio Bianchi returned to create music. Plenty of solo albums and collaborations were released since then, showcasing Bianchi's different approaches at experimental music. Maor Appelbaum has been part of the Israel music scene for many years. He is involved in many experimental projects such as Sleepless, Vultures, I.W.R and Thy Mesmerized, as well as being the sole creator of Vectorscope, Lunisolar and Screening. His musical ventures expand to more metallic bands such as the doom infested Moonskin. He has done various musical collaborations with Maurizio Bianchi, Kenji Siratori, Clint Listing, The Hollowing and Tom Davidov. Coming after "Environmental Meditations" (Topheth Prophet, 2006) and "Electrostatic Deflection" (Silentes, 2007), "Innervation" is Maurizio Bianchi & Maor Appelbaum's third collaborative effort. The six tracks on the album have a strong impact, treating us with stabs of intense noise generated by analog synthesizers and effects... [label info]
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Bianchi, Maurizio (M.B.) & Appelbaum, Maor -- "Mene Teqel Farsin" -- CD -- €10
2009 Silentes Minimal Editions, sme 1034
Storms of cosmic energy, boiling and gurgling electronic fluxes, sonic masses made of monolithic and impenetrable drones, visions of smoky afterdeath landscapes, scorching and infernal: A neverending tunnel with no way out, a sense of deep anguish, of desolation and resigned impotence that lead the dark journey from the beginning to the end of this hallucinatory path. The sound quality and the sharpness of details are absolutely insuperable, they will offer you a 'wrapping' and emotionally all-involving listening experience. [label info]
Bianchi, Maurizio (M.B.) & Atrax Morgue -- "M. Plus T." -- CD -- €10
2008 Silentes, sme 0825
Just before leaving this world in 2007, Marco Corbelli (Atrax Morgue) made a series of recordings in collaboration with the old Italian master of pre-industrial culture Maurizio Bianchi (MB). The end result is this devastating album, centred around morbid themes of 'mord' and 'tot'. "Germinal murders... A betulinic bath of hydrocloric acid... Coprological Isomorphism... It is with deep grief that... Terminal death!". [label info]
Bianchi, Maurizio (M.B.) & Cria Cuervos -- "Azazel" -- CD -- €10
2009 Silentes Minimal Editions, sme 0928
Three long and 'majestic' tracks where Maurizio Bianchi's typical deep and reverberated sonorities, full of crepuscular melodies and subtle dissonances, get enriched by more electronic elements and fascinating elaborations, sophisticated manipulations and strong dynamic interventions operated by Cria Cuervos: Three touching compositions built on progressive 'crescendos' and a raging of slow sonic stratifications that lead to real 'explosions' of sounds, drones, pulsations, frequencies, vibrations: A new, magnificent and very successful collaborative experience. [label info]
Bianchi, Maurizio & Siegmar Fricke -- "Primordium" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 T'an! Kaven!! Ash!!!, Ash!!! 014, (ltd. 250)
Experimental acoustic ambient. Primordial sounds created by Maurizio Bianchi/M.B. using a rudimental five strings guitar, afterwards polarized effects added by Siegmar Fricke utilizing a shapeless analogtronic apparatus. Comes in semi-handmade digipack. [label info]
Bianchi, Maurizio & Fricke, Siegmar -- "Stroma~Konkret" -- CD -- €10
2006 Monochrome Vision, (mv07), (ltd. 500)
Extra heavy fusion of industrial noise and musique concrete, this exclusive collaboration unites forces of two legendary musicians who were witnessed the roots of industrial music movement. It consists of three long tracks of mechanical aggression, clinical obsession and uncompromizing psychic attack. Dedicated to the memory of Pierre Schaeffer, this is the second part of ongoing series, started by Tibprod label CDR-release. An electroacoustic ploughing is macerating our reflective horizons: 'Stroma~Konkret' is its romantic name, but the spectroscopic effect is valiantly spiritual. The outcome of this rarefied and perturbed project is stirring with its germinative disarticulation and its contrasting caution... A plenty sense of paroxysm is troubling the conscientiousness while an expiatory framework instructs some stromatic predilections. It is a concrete soundness to reutilize the simplified trembling of human vicissitudes. May we triturate the scientific truths with a probative logic? 'Stroma~Konkret' extirpates the shrunk bitumen from our weathertight self-injury as the exiguous coenaesthesia mixes again a reformative naivety. (Maurizio Bianchi) These compositions "cellular-organelles" took place inside the spheroid surroundings of hydrophilic microfloras in the course of the radiometric age 2006. We, the concrete operators, continously analysed stromal loops by vehement freeze-fracture observations and autothrophic microfillaments. The aqueously phytoplanctonic sub-structure of this "symphony nebulitique" characterizes the terminal exhumation of cryphonectric ferro- chelatase. Constant research by isolelectric focussing on ultramicroscopic events led to the one and only nuclear-encoded aim: the sphaerialic polymetamorphose of stromatic plastocyanin. (Siegmar Fricke) [label info]
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Bianchi, Maurizio / Craig Hilton -- "PU 94" -- CD-R -- €11
2006 Simple Logic Records, simlog041, (ltd. 130)
Bianchi, Maurizio (M.B.) & Craig Hilton -- "PU 94" -- CD -- €10
2007/2009 Silentes Minimal Editions, sme 0926
Here at last is a deserved and 'rightful' CD re-release of this fantastic collaboration created in 2007 by Maurizio Bianchi and Craig Hilton. Until now this recording was only made available in a very limited CD-R edition. Extremely dark atmospheres, restless and dramatic: Sharp masses of metallic noises cleave pulsating substrates of low frequencies, mixed with magmatic agglomerates of more processed sounds of an unrecognizable nature: Moments of stasis and apparent quietness: Handfuls of minutes of an unutterable, hanging and distressing tension: Sudden showers of vibrant frequencies that emerge from nowhere and bury everything under an heavy and devastating sonic mantle: A real masterpiece of incredibly dark and subterranean music. [label info]
Bianchi, Maurizio & Jan-M. Iversen -- "Rekviem MB-JMI" -- CD -- €10
2011 Silentes Minimal Editions, sme 1144
A "classic" minimal ambient album; just one long track, a bit obscure, of a static nature but unarrestable as a matter of fact and slowly developing, built with layers of soft and 'round' sounds, heavily processed and effected, whose origin seems to be an organ... "Atypical" for sure, if confrontated with the huge and widely diversified productions of Maurizio Bianchi, this new album is probably one of the last and not to be missed releases signed by 'M.B.', since he has already announced his definitive departure from the musical scene. Another extraordinary collaborative CD, involving this time Jan-M. Iversen, an artist of international fame who managed to enrich and elaborate with great effect the "sound materials" provided by Maurizio Bianchi. [press-release]
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Bianchi, Maurizio / Land Use -- "Psychoneurose" -- CD -- €10
2005 Manifold Records, mancd046
Italian Avant-Noise legend M.B. and Land Use collaborate on dramatic, subterranean wall-of-noise constructions and swirling textural storms, dense and complex arrangements, shifting and shimmering tones barely under control, streaming toward some distant and indefineable precipice. Not noisy, but way too tense and corrosive to be called ambient. These vibrant monoliths of sound shift the listeners pysche into a restless sort of zen, a blissful chaos - truly mind and mood-altering. Bianchi released early records on Whitehouse's Come Org. label and has been active since the 1970's. And a recent and conspicuous absence from the experimental music world has been broken by several recent releases of surprising freshness and relevance. It is unclear where MB leaves off and Land Use begins but Psychoneurose is definitely a clear and brilliant return to early MB techniques with several refinements in delivery and focus. Psychoneurose will be the clear weapon of choice for those who prefer their ambience with teeth and their Power-Electronics with more of the deep, vaster textures than violence. [press-release]
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Bianchi, Maurizio / M.D.T. -- "Genologic Technocide" -- CD -- €10
2006 Spatter, SPCD3 / Pagan Moon Organization, PGM009, (ltd. 500)
These recordings show the most extreme side of M.B.: not very much ambient oriented, but a strong industrial noise opera reminding us the masterpiece from 1981 "Symphony for a Genocide". [label info]
Bible, Jeremy & Jason Henry -- "Ound" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Abgurd, AB-55, (ltd. 100)
American artists JEREMY BIBLE & JASON HENRY work in the field of electroacoustics, digital sounds and field recordings constructing deep and smooth Drone Ambient with light touch of experimental and slightly noisy sounds. During the year 2008 they released some albums throught their own label Experimedia and through other labels: Gruenrekorder, Resting Bell and Gears of Sand. The last one is known for its releases of NETHERWORLD, OOPHOI and AIDAN BAKER, in which ranks the JB&JH duet stands proud and self-confident without any allowance for the yet short musical career. [press-release]
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Big City Orchestra -- "Eerily" -- CD -- €13
2009 EE Tapes, EE17, (ltd. 300)
Bill Catez -- "Macrohard" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2002 Afe Records, afe036mcd
What's this? Deja-Vu anyone? ...hiding behind the Bill Catez moniker, one of the most aficionado Afe artists returns with a fresh concept: a short collection of tunes assembled recycling some of the cheapest and unusable sounds borrowed from his favourite OS. Funny and abrasive at the same time. Open your ears and he will show you once again what a man can do just with a tracker and a lot of imagination. [label info]
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Bionulor -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €8
2009 etaLABEL, eta-cd 017, (ltd. 121)
"How recycling of old musical recordings from tapes, vinyl and old musical waste can lead to an intriguing album." The art of recycling adapted to music that is exactly what the musical project Bionulor does. With loops from classical music the Polish musician recreates his own pieces. Most pieces on the self-titled debut album are based on minimal samples of just one or a few notes. Most samples seem to originate from piano songs, but there are also some stringed instruments appearing. In a way not uncommon to William Basinski we hear the loops fade in and out slowly changing their character during the progression. Though, the technique used here is not so much based on degradation and/or disintegration of sound. No, instead Bionulor uses a digital processing technique. In the pieces we hear soft filters and pitching to alter the sound. In several pieces the same source sounds are used but rendered with different effects delivering diverse results. Sometimes it sounds a little bit too easy, but as a whole there is enough variation on the album to keep you listening. As a debut album this self-titled album is a really good start, with a promise to a bright future for this musician. [Sietse van Erve, Earlabs]
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Bionulor -- "Sacred Mushroom Chant" -- CD -- €10
2011 Wrotycz Records, WRT011
Inspired by the work of such artists as Aube and William Basinski, Bionulor again rakes the past, looking like an alchemist for the most appropriate material for their work. "Sacred Mushroom Chant" is a record created solely on the basis of treatment of the human voice without additional sounds or instruments... Each of the five tracks is based on a separate part of the sound source. Then the base is: an archival record of shamanic chant associated with the ceremony of taking hallucinogenic mushrooms, a Japanese traditional song extracted from a collection of old vinyl records, Neil Armstrong's walking on the lunar surface famous phrase, a fragment of an interview with Marcel Duchamp telling about his first ready-made, and finally the voice of the artist himself denouncing the sentence attributed to Hassan ibn Sabbah ('Nothing is true')... Over 50 minutes of pure experimental music (mix of minimal, ambient and even noisy sounds) created on the basis of author's creative method called the "100% sound recycling". Cover art by Monika Machnik, mastered by Peter Andersson. Comes in 4-panel digipack. You will be really impressed when you realize that those tracks were crafted only with scraps of samples. [press-release]
Birds Of Tin -- "Altarwise" -- CD -- €10
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]
Bisclaveret -- "Amalgame" -- CD -- €10
2008 Zoharum, ZOHAR 003-2
New Bisclaveret album contains 9 reworks prepared by bands from independent scene. Projects who undertook the task of remixeslaveret music are Moan, Endraum, Sleeping Pictures, Horologium, synta[XE]rror, Ghosts of Breslau, God's Bow, Loverdozed and Hoarfrost. Each of them reinterpreted Bisclaveret songs in their vein adding surprising elements, thus creating and exploding stylistic mix: from minimal sounds based on vocals and subtle melodies through elements of goth ending with electro-industrial versions. 'Amalgame' presents a new face of this Polish band. The disc contains a special bonus, 'Insane in God' video. [label info]
Bisclaveret -- "Engill Ljssins" -- CD -- €10
2011 Zoharum, ZOHAR 014-2
Special jubilee release for 10th anniversary of Bisclaveret. Album contains tracks from compilations "Scontrum ACT VI" and "Where Tattered Clouds Are Stranding", remixes and new unreleased before track 'Telesis'. Packaged in exclusive 2-panel digipack. Graphics based on Paint of Iwona Murawska - young, great painter. [label info]
Bisclaveret -- "Ephemeros [ante'Te Deum']" -- CD -- €10
2010 Zoharum, ZOHAR 011-2
The newest Bisclaveret release is a concept album, touching up a subject of human existance hidden in the symbolic of seven angel names. On this album you will find 7 songs - pieces showing various aspects of human's nature and his cosmic dimension in the world. This album is the trip into the human's mind through the word and sound. Ephermeros [ante 'Te Deum'] shows a little bit different face of Bisclaveret by using new form expression which the musicians used in the alchemic ritual of creation. Album released in exlusive 3- panel digipack. [label info]
Bisclaveret -- "Psyche noMine" -- CD -- €10
2006 The Eastern Front, Front 007, (ltd. 1000)
Bisclaveret - A Polish dark ambient/dark wave duo presents its album Psyche noMine. It took two years to conceive, resulting in 6 songs (clocking at around 53 minutes). Musically, it's a piece for those interested in moving, yet extraordinary art. Lush strings, industrial rhythms and even noise tones at times summarize the background for Dragos' voice coming from the other, subconscious side of his mind. Lyrically, it's a concept-album of sorts. All the lyrics deal with human sub consciousness. The words on 'Psyche noMine' shows a man entangled in the arcane of the world, somebody who does not notice phenomena around him. The man whose recklessness or even arrogance so natural for him is the cause for him being lost in the surrounding reality. The album's ambiguous title suggests what receivers will deal with when listening to new Bisclaveret album. A must-have album for fans of Nordvargr, Dead Man's Hill and Cold Meat Industry acts, such as In Slaughter Natives & Sanctum. [press-release]
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Bisclaveret vs. Bruno -- "Les Mannequins" -- CD -- €10
2007 Zoharum, ZOHAR 001-2
12th of July is the day of official premiere of "Les Mannequins" - publication signed as Bisclaveret vs Bruno. The date of edition is not choosen by a coincidence, it falls on the date of birth of Brunon Shulz. In this way musicians would like to pay homage to one of the greatest artists of modern art. Text from the "Tractate about Mannequines" has inspired them to the creation of almost 40 minutes, improvised concept album. This CD is balancing between classic sounds of Bisclaveret and more drone-ambient nature of the band. [label info].
Bizarre Uproar / The Cherry Point / Gelsomina -- "split" -- CD-R -- €7
Rokot, RKT-03, (ltd. 100)
Three Harsh Noise substances that you know perfectly well created three 18 minutes long tracks sounding mangling and indivisible.
Pro-done silk-screened CDR in a half-DVD-box. [label info]
Bizarre Uproar & Gelsomina -- "Assisted Self-Sterilization" -- CD -- €11
2007 Freak Animal Records, FREAK-CD-039, (ltd. 300)
Finnish harsh noise at its best!!! Full of energy, scrapmetal, feedback,... I dare to say best material in the harsh noise category and recommended to any noise freak. [label info]
Bjerga, Sindre -- "Hermetically Sealed Static Operation" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT77, (ltd. 109)
Live recording made by famous Norwegian musician in St. Petersburg's Experimental Sound Gallery (ESG-21) on June 29th, 2010. Alchemical tapestry at the edge of non-aggressive atmospheric old school industrial and chtonic technigenic drone with expressive psychedelic taste, parts of live glockenspiel and ocarina. For the fans of Vetrophonia and ZGA, NON and Herbst9... Artwork made of paper and plastic, special unique insert comes with 8 copies. [press-release]
Bjerga, Sindre -- "I Never Promised You A Rose Garden" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2007 dirtydemos, dirtyCDR 017
Catacomb tapestry on the border of drone ambient and droning noise, performed on metal junk with the wide use of slow tape playback technique. Very nice lo-fi release. [YAOP]
Bjerga, Sindre -- "Northern Enlightenment" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Pjorn 72, pjorncd0024 / Piped-in From Head Office, pifho010, (ltd. 60)
Ethereal twinkles twinkle, sub-marine rumbles rumble, and glacial winds wind their way to an ecstatic final five minutes of layered drone. Turn it up and sit the fuck down. [label info]
Bjerga / Iversen -- "Burning Liquid Rubber Metal" -- CD-R -- €7
2006 Abgurd, AB-26, (ltd. 120)
Dense and raw Harsh Drone Ambient. This is a pretty unusual album for these norsk experimentalists. It reminds of YAO 91404 D and MAEROR TRI at the same time. Acute feedbacks, sullen guitar loops and solid background of electronic hum and radionoise crepitation. Slim-box with a photo from 1980s made with an electron microscope. [press-release]
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Bjerga & Iversen -- "Sharks Control These Waters" -- CD-R -- €8
2009 Still*Sleep, CDR13
This Norwegian duo is quite prolofic in solo and collaboration work, and usually keeps away from self repetitions and graphomania, which is great. The new album "Sharks Control These Waters" is probably the best material recorded by this day: one 48-min long track slowly and accurately evolves with demersal bleeps, nice interferences, background drones and knockings into submarines' platings. Just less than an hour long immersion under water... [Abgurd]
Bjerga / Iversen -- "Shortest Way to the Moon" -- CD-R -- €8
2007 Harha-Askel, [HA-2], (ltd. 80)
Two live recordings from the British tour 2006 of this prolific Norwegian drone ambient duo. Deep drones and pounding percussion. Intense. Strange. Beautiful. Black disk, handmade cardboard cover. [YAOP]
Bjerga & Iversen / Skullpture -- "split" -- CD-R -- €7
2005 Musically Incorrect Records, MIR #25, (ltd. 100)
More Musically Incorrect Records, although the content is not always a strikingly incorrect thing, as many of their releases hoover nicely along the lines of experimental music. Such as the split by Bjerga/Iversen and Skullpture. The ongoing collaboration between Bjerga/Iversen is here ready with part three of The Lighthouse Tapes: "All things Bright And Beautiful". Iversen plays 'electonics' and effects and Bjerga 'ampilied' objects and effects. In this long piece they gently improvise their way through scratching, moving and rubbing objects, while feeding them to the maggots of electricity, in an atmospherical setting (two candles and a bunch of LEDs lit the entire room, I imagine, while outside the wind can be heard at Norway's Southernmost point). This collaboration is finally growing and growing. Skullpture is a different bunch. They improvise on guitars and feed them through the lines of distortion and delays. Also slightly atmospheric, but much more raw and untamed than those of Bjerga/Iversen and more along the lines of some of the New Zealand lo-fi improvisers. Nice, but a bit long. [FdW, Vital Weekly]
Black Leather Jesus -- "First You Destroy Their Faith" -- CD -- €10
2004 Spatter, SPCD1
Black Leather Jesus has been something of an umbrella project for collective works of a number of various noise/experimental artists. In its best years, BLJ included as many as 13 members. It was originally formed by Richard Ramirez in 1989 and is still active nowadays, 15 years later. This new release on Spatter is another great chapter in the BLJ saga. Killer harsh noise. [8mm Records]
Black Leather Jesus -- "Yes, Sir (Filth Play)" -- CD -- €10
2009 Mask Of The Slave, MS-020, (ltd. 500)
The great new album from the legendary Texas based noise band formed in 1989! The 20th Anniversary album! The band was founded by Richard Ramirez. Currently, it also includes Kevin Novak (TEF), Sean Matzus (The Secret Geography/ITLOA), Scott Houston (Respirator/S.P.I.T.), Vance Osborne (Murex/ITLOA), with occasional assistance by Jovan Hernandez (ze'r0-sum/Anatomy of a Blackout). [label info]
Black Sun Productions -- "Astral Walk" -- CD -- €10
2004 FinalMuzik, FM01, (ltd. 1000)
Black Sun Productions is an international collective of radical artists well known since almost a decade on the industrial and underground scenes in Europe and USA. Black Sun Productions' members Massimo & Pierce are the creators of the performance project Plastic Spider Thing (a ritual/installation in 23 parts carried by the couple throughout 2002 and 2003) and live members of Coil on their only tour in more than twenty years of the band's recording activity. Massimo & Pierce are also friends and collaborators of Lydia Lunch, HR Giger and Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo (Larsen) with whom they're currently working on a project of industrial renditions of Bertolt Brecht's lyrics and Kurt Weill's music. Black Sun Productions' member Drazen is the author of the only official full lenght album of Coil remixed, Plastic Spider Thing, available on Eskaton (Coil's own label). [label info]
Black Sun Productions -- "The Milky Smell of Phantom Sperm" -- CD -- €13
2008 Old Europa Cafe, OECD112
This Black Sun Productions new album features collaborations with PSBEUYS, Sudden Infant, Niko Skorpio, Baraclough and Devotchka's Conundrum. Conceived by Massimo & Pierce as the darker counterpart to their 2007 post-pop album Chemism, The Milky Smell of Phantom Sperm marks Black Sun Productions' return to the realm of abstract, experimental musick. Magick, trance sounds... [press-release]
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Black Sun Productions & Val Denham -- "Somewhere Between Desire And Despair" -- CD -- €13
2009 Tourette, Tourette 010
Black To Comm -- "Rückwärts Backwards" -- CD -- €10
2006 Dekorder, Dekorder 014
Black to Comm is the sound project headed by March Richter, head of German label Dekorder. His debut album relies mostly on processed shellac and vinyl loops, field recordings and assorted instruments (gamelan, organs, guitars, pianos among others) to forge 8 tracks of surreal ambience and crackling grooves. The carefully constructed arrangements make this more than just a patchwork of random sounds and the pieces even have a somewhat bittersweet and emotional quality to them. Last but not least, the tracks linger just long enough to leave an impression without wearing out their welcome. [Mechanoise Labs]
Black Wings -- "Going to the End" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Satanarsa Records, STN-054
Monumental dark ambient and neoclassics mixed with low-key doom. Sporadic invasions of quiet distorted guitar and funeral drums don't affect the overall "postindustrial" mood created by an organ and field recordings. Atmospheric melancholic work. Jewel-case. [YAOP]
Bladh, Martin -- "Study For A Theater Of Cruelty" -- CD -- €10
2009 Annihilvs, APEX006, (ltd. 300)
This is the long-delayed and anticipated solo release by the genius frontman of Swedish industrial legends IRM. Aktionist, provocateur, visionary: Martin Bladh has composed an eerie score for impossible performance art, incorporating sparse, stringed drones and chilling atmospheres similar to Bladh's work with performance artist Bo I. Cavefors. Standard edition jewel case. [label info]
Blame -- "Water" -- CD -- €9
2007/2008 Klangdynamik Records, KD 06
Bleeding Heart Narrative -- "All That Was Missing We Never Had In The World" -- CD -- €11
2008/2009 Cold Spring, CSR109CD
Orchestral / Avant-Garde. Reissue of the stunning debut BHN album from spring 2008 (Ltd x 200). Working with a constantly evolving autumnal orchestra of layered cellos, repeating piano melodies, hushed vocals and mutant textures of sound and noise, Bleeding Heart Narrative has constructed a unique, haunting and compelling album. BHN is the work of sole composer, artist and producer Oliver Barrett, working in the live spectrum as a septet. Presented in a digipak with the new and exclusive bonus track 'Blueskywards'. We can't recommend this highly enough! [press-release]
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Bleiburg -- "Pieces Of A Broken Dream" -- 2 CD -- €15
2006 Cold Spring Records, CSR68CD
Neofolk / Dark Industrial. Over the years many bands from the Industrial / Neofolk spectrum have collaborated with Croatian artist Bleiburg. Here, for the first time, those alliances are collected together in a double CD set. Each band brings their own unique flavour to their collaborative piece and Bleiburg also executes seven unreleased solo tracks. Features such renowned international artists as: Amir Baghiri, Aube, Cawatana, Cellar Of Rats (ex-Kerovnian), Harvest Rain, Larrnakh, Lonsai Maikov, Nocturne, Obscure Resistance, Project Toth, The Soil Bleeds Black, Telepherique, Thorn Agram and Vidna Obmana. [label info]
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Bleiburg -- "Indivisibiliter Ac Inseparabiliter" -- CD -- €11
2009 The Eastern Front, Front 026, (ltd. 1000)
Following 2008's Open Wound live CD and DVD releases, the martial industrial project of German-Croatian musician Stefan Rukavina launches a fresh offensive on The Eastern Front with this nostalgic tribute to the glory and pathos of a vanished empire... 'Indivisibiliter ac Inseparabiliter'-Latin for 'indivisibly and inseparably'-was the motto of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Formed in 1867 under the aegis of the Austrian Habsburg dynasty and constituting the most important power bloc in central Europe, the empire was consigned to oblivion by the First World War, a war precipitated by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Habsburg throne. The empire's rise and fall is vividly evoked in 15 new tracks by Bleiburg, with styles ranging from orchestral grandeur through stirring folk melodies to sample-laden EBM. The album booklet is copiously illustrated with beautiful period artwork, and contains a detailed German-language history of the Rukavina family, in particular the illustrious Croatian general Baron Georg Freiherr von Rukavina, commander of the fortress of Temesvar (Timisoara). [press-release]
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Bleiburg -- "Open Wound" -- CD-R -- €7
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]
Bleiburg -- "Till The Last Night" -- CD -- €10
2011 The Eastern Front, Front 030, (ltd. 1000)
New Bleiburg's album released by The Eastern Front is titled 'Till The Last Night'. The album tells a story about Israeli wars that were outbreaking regularly since the historical moment when State Of Israel was declared on 14th May, 1948.
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Bleiburg -- "Way Of Crosses" -- CD -- €10
2007 The Eastern Front, Front 009, (ltd. 1000)
Though only people themselves create History, they always prefer to re-write it afterwards, being horrified and embarrassed by what they have committed. But sometimes we must make bold to face the truth and to acknowledge the fact that we are guilty of what we made and that we are guilty towards History. And we must carry our own cross and pass our own way and once reach the Golgotha of our own conscience. 14 outstanding compositions of one of most enigmatic artists of German neo folk/industrial scene. 14 songs presented on this album were recorded in various years, composed in various styles and sung in various languages. Just truth stays invariable. "...The concepts of all the releases have a basic principle: history. It is important to read between the lines - of global and personal history and not to believe all we read, hear, feel, see or are taught..." - from Cold Spring interview with Bleiburg. [press-release]
Blod -- "My Beloved Daughters" -- CD -- €10
2004 Segerhuva, SEGER 6
At last we are able to present this eagerly awaited CD by Sweden's most hardened sexnoise extremist. No hyperbole needed - if you are at all serious about noise and/or LOVE, you should get this. Guaranteed to leave your eardrums like a pair of flogged ass-cheeks... Sore, numb, and aching for more... [label info]
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Blood & Sand -- "Bardo" -- CD-R -- €10
2007 Bunkier Productions, BXV CDr, (ltd. 350)
Without doubt one of the most interesting albums released lately on the dark folk scene. "Bardo" is a collection of never published before songs by Russian dark folk masters: Blood & Sand. Eleven astonishing acoustic ballads with plenty of instruments and wonderful arrangements. Released as an oversized, eight page booklet with lyrics. Professional print. Strictly limited to 350 copies, hand numbered. A true must for fans of Backworld, Forseti... [label info]
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Blood Axis -- "Blot: Sacrifice in Sweden" -- CD -- €12
1998Cold Meat Industry, CMI X
In November 1997, Blood Axis was invited to fly to Sweden and present a special live performance for the Cold Meat Industry 10th Anniversary Feast. The show was recorded on digital multi-track directly from the mixing board, and the resulting tapes were brought back to USA and re-mixed and re-processed by Blood Axis temselves for an exceptional result: a crystalline and intense summoning of everything from haunting heathen mantras to electronic aggression, traditional European melodies to crushing bombastic anthems. [press-release]
Blood Axis -- "Born Again" -- CD -- €14
2010 Storm, STRM-12
The second full-length studio album in the group's twenty-year history, Born Again signals startling developments and a radical maturation. Old vines have been cut back and carefully tended in order to bear strange new fruit. Over the course of the twelve tracks that comprise Born Again, Blood Axis explores an epic yet human universe in which gods are summoned, kingdoms rise, riddles are unlocked, love is lost, and worlds crumble. This is psychedelia in the literal sense: a 'mind-manifesting' journey through the collective psyche of its creators. Born Again weaves a web of potent pleasures. Whereas the earliest Blood Axis music was marked by keyboards and samples, Blood Axis in 2010 is stripped down to an essential core of natural instrumentation, but with force and bombast fully intact. The sonic ingredients on Born Again include electric and acoustic strings (guitar, violin, bass, bouzouki, banjo), melodeon, piano, highland bagpipes and Galician gaita, marching percussion, the mysterious Annabel-a-tron, and Bobby BeauSoleil's growling, prison-vintage guitar eruptions circa 1976. Underpinning the album and propelling much of the music is the traditional Irish drum the bodhran, recorded here with unprecedented power. Moynihan's ominous voice is well matched by Annabel Lee's elfin intonations, just as her violin finds a perfect counterpoint in Robert Ferbrache's protean guitar parts. A selective cabal of guest musicians from Europe and the USA add tasteful embellishments to these deceptively simple arrangements. Shot through by myth and romance, the expressive lyrics on Born Again have their roots in ancient and modern poetry, archaic invocations, and tragic laments. Alongside modern English and German, songs are sung in medieval 10th-century Old English and 13th-century Middle High German. The end result is both unclassifiable and unforgettable: neither folk nor rock, traditional nor avant-garde, modern nor archaic. It is simply Blood Axis. Born Again was recorded over a span of many years in remote locations ranging from rural Vermont to the catacombs of Absinthe Studios in Denver, Colorado. Engineered and produced by founding Blood Axis member Ferbrache, the dense sonic tapestry of Born Again is simultaneously raw and refined, synergistically more than the sum of its primal parts. Packaged in a beautiful gatefold cover, Born Again includes a 24-page booklet with complete lyrics and translations, striking portraits of the band members, and solemn photographic images from France, Germany, Austria, Portugal, and the USA. To everything there is season. For those who are cursed, a time to die and to be forgotten. And for the blessed, a time to be born again: to live on, beyond death, in the minds of men. Now is the time for Blood Axis to be Born Again. [press-release]
Blood Axis -- "Ultimacy" -- CD -- €14
2011 Storm, STRM-13
Blood Axis -- "The Gospel of Inhumanity" -- CD -- €12
1996/2001 Storm Records, STRM05
The debut album and an absolute milestone in military-verged Neoclassical music. Coming in the original digipack artwork. A blend mixture of military rhythms classical parts with traditional instruments and the strong voice of Michael Moynihan.
Blood Of Thee Christ -- "Behind Thee Bars" -- CD -- €10
2010 Autarkeia, acd 061, (ltd. 300)
Harii does his time in prison, but the curse of blood ov thee christ reaches malice adepts even from the cellars of the repressive structures. Kristian Olsson has compiled the latest album Behind Thee Bars of the sound recording sessions, while Harii was still on the rampage in freedom, and so far it seems it may be the strongest album BOTC ever made. The tracks contain brutal vocals of both Harii and Kristian, very intense lo-fi noise, and morbid samples of trash films. Generally, this album reminds early works of SURVIVAL UNIT. Most probably because the sound in Blood Ov Thee Christ project is mainly managed by Kristian himself. One will find tracks recorded in the cult festival ICETODIRON 2007 TE, followed by a long break in concert activities of Autarkeia label. [press-release]
Bloodyminded -- "Phases : Two" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 BloodLust!, B!074, (ltd. 200)
These recordings were made in November 2006, by Mark Solotroff (for Bloodyminded), at Conservatory, Chicago, Illinois - solely utilizing live versions of songs from the "Magnetism" CD that were recorded live during the August 2006 Bloodyminded tour - as source material. [label info]
Bloodyminded -- "Plays Bloodyminded" -- CD-R -- €8
2007/2008 BloodLust!, B!095
Ex-Intrinsic Action. Power Electronics / Noise. CD edition of out-of-print cassette, first released in a numbered edition of 100 copies for the April 2007 BLOODYMINDED tour, then in a numbered edition of 25 copies for the Leaderless: Underground Cassette Culture Now exhibition at Printed Matter in New York City; Special conceptual recordings approved by Pierpaolo Zoppo himself (Mauthausen Orchestra). [label info]
Blowhole -- "Reassembled" -- CD-R -- €8
1995/2008 Lunhare, zzz - 2, (ltd. 100)
Live and studio recordings previously released on cassette in 1995. Free-noise(jazz?) assaults, improvisations, objects beaten and scraped, but also a violin. All you can imagine and nothing you may imagine. A manifesto of musical freedom. [label info]
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Blunt Force Trauma -- "Bled Out" -- CD -- €10
1997 Malsonus, M002, (ltd. 1000)
DEATHPILE collaboration with GRUNTSPLATTER. Complex and punishing HARSH NOISE. [label info]
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Bocksholm -- "The Haunting Curse Of Skogs-Sara" -- CD -- €10
2006 Wrotycz Records, WRT 003
There is a legend saying that Skogs-Sara lived in the forest called Osterskogen, she got a virgin born child named Frans Enoch. Soon after the birth three nude gay men arrived, they had followed the bright iron sign in the sky to the small Skogs-Sara lodge. These three men gave Frans Enoch the bastard one gift each; black clogs, an orange thermal Helly Hansen sweater and a box of snuff. Frans Enoch later worked as a cheese producer but on his spare time he preached that one day there will come two men named Peter Andersson and then the city of Boxholm will forever be doomed. The citizens of Boxholm did not believe Frans Enoch, so they crucified him in the forest and let him die alone. Skogs-Sara went furious and put a curse on the citizens by letting two named Peter Andersson to be born who would terrorize the citizens for all time with a project called Bocksholm. The third terror attack by Bocksholm is now here. After two successful albums on Tesco Organisation and NATO, Bocksholm now turns the root of the problem with the album "The Haunting Curse of Skogs-Sara". The music is a weird and explosive experience, it is harder and stranger than ever. It is a psyhological weapon that sneak upon the victims. The citizens of Boxholm will get fucked - and so will probably you! [press-release]
Bocksholm -- "Rinna Leathercluster Liveaction 2008" -- CD -- €10
2009 Autarkeia, acd 044, (ltd. 500)
Lina Baby Doll [Deutsch Nepal] and Peter Andersson [Raison D'etre], two famous punks of the industrial scene, played the havoc again. In the beginning there was a very drunken gig that resulted in a very drunken album. Nevertheless, it is impossible to accuse the musicians of unprofessional recording or unusual state when recording. Since seas of beer are the most favourable condition for the records and gigs of these Swedish blokes, the concert in Malmo is simply perfect. In the meantime, well-mastered record does not leave any hints of non-studio work. Bearing in mind the reputation of these well-know masters of havoc, no wonder that this record is dominated by remarkable, powerful industrial rhythms, outbursts of psychedelic ambient, intoxicated, gargling vocals, sombre and dismal atmosphere transfused by alcoholic delirium, alcoholic despair and alcoholic hysteria that has only one culprit... No, no, it is not the alcohol, but this isolated, remote Swedish provincial town Bocksholm with its fauna and polluted nature that had such a heavy impact on the childhood of these alcohol addicts. [press-release]
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Boe, Tore Honore -- "Suave Siesta" -- CD -- €10
Purple Soil, Pulse zero: one
Tore Honoré Bøe, - is the instigator of series of the projects named Origami Republika. This CD in fact contains 2 mini-albums: previously inreleased "Suave" and "Siesta" published in 2000 by Jazzassin Records. Minimal ambient built on a carcass of collaged enviromental sounds with additions from various processed sources.
Boevye Cikady -- "Pokamest" -- CD-R -- €8
2009 Extremal Psychonauts, ExPsy 011, (ltd. 46)
Various pieces of situational character united by a concept of "replacement in waiting". These are compositions written with notes, generated from text and graphic files, environmental recordings done with a photosensor, processed recordings made through the wall (using "method of a cup"). Each experiment is threaded in the structures of other experiments and this creates the feeling of compositional construction and makes each track an independent piece. In each recording there is some substitution, some replacement, stripping the core of any sound event - a waiting for return to zero. Handmade artwork - each copy is unique. [press-release]
Boevye Cikady -- "Shtrihi Trepeta" -- CD-R -- €6
2009 BioSonar Revers
Author's reissue of the first album of this St. Petersburg's project (a side-project of Lunar Abyss Deus Organum), released in 2004 on Extremal Psyhonauts label limited to 34 copies. Electroacoustic ambient. Simple artwork. "Wave and microtonal minimalism, acusmatic pieces from the depths of electroacoustic abyss, "drawn sound" + two pieces of live cicada singing". [label info]
Boevye Cikady "There's no love under snow" / Brain Fork "Play my Anima" -- CD-R -- €8
2005 Extremal Psychonauts, ExPsy 009, (ltd. 44)
Evgeny Savenko (Boevye Cikady) starts off his part of the disc with high frequency digital crystallines which interlace in elastic nubbins and fancifully crumble to sinusoids. Then follows the submergence in a computer running the engine of atomic submarine and unexpected emersion in multidimensional space impregnated with distinct erotic modulations. Roman Obuhov (Brain Fork) supports the romantic initiative and directs it into fairy animated concretics. Ghosts beyond the looking glass and aliens, voice of electrodrill and piano tunes, all is glued by electronics into distorted picture which generates lots of strange associations and thus has unusual attraction.
Bogdanov / Potsukailo / Stukalin -- "Slaughter in the Pigeon-Hole" -- CD-R -- €9
2009 self-released, (ltd. 69)
An archive recording from 1997, previously released as limited CDR editions by Black Dead Rabbit label twice - in 1998 and 1999. This is a collaboration between the group Reductio Ad Absurdum with yet unknown Igor Potsukailo (Bardoseneticcube). This compilation is a second part of the collaboration recordings of RAA and Igor made in spring 1997. All material was recorded during 3 or 4 noise sessions in two months. First part of this material was previously released as Genetic Load "Tollenkisten". These recordings were not included in "Tollenkisten" because of somewhat different sound concept which, compared to "Tollenkisten", is more primitive and rough. [from the publisher]
Bolus, Andy -- "Surgical Anus Clinik" -- CD-R -- €5
2006 Monopolka, Monopolka Dental School # 116
Andy Bolus (Evil Moisture) worked with Yamantaka Aem (Hanatarash, Boredoms), Hirinori Murakami (Vomit Lunchs), Erik Minkkinen (Intertecsupabrainbeatzroomboyz), Andrew Sharplay (AA) and Noel Acshot (Len). Frankly speaking, nothing to listen. If there was humour, it was too English and moreover anticlerical, for me - completely sterile, for you all the more. Boomer. 10" cover, serigraphy, pro-printed CDR. [label info]
Bondarenko, Vadim -- "Sentimental" -- CD -- €11
2009 Faria Records / Fine Acoustic Series, FINE-01, (ltd. 500)
"Sentimental" is an album of sensitive feeling melodies played by the composer himself on the piano. The album contains different pieces, but all they are united by one unique inner mood. Like the brilliant melodies of Ryuichi Sakamoto, this music will be remembered by everyone who likes romantic genre. [press-release]
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Bondarenko, Vadim -- "Smoking Music" -- CD -- €11
2008 Faria Records, FAR-17, (ltd. 500)
"Smoking Music" was created in 2000-2004. The style of this music can be really named "smoking music": it is delicate made melodic ambient compositions (9 Smoking Zones). To creatÅ this album Vadim used keyboards, clarinet, samples and piano. It is a good listening for everyone who likes misty ambient music and the creative work of Brian Eno or Harold Budd. [press-release]
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Bone, Richard -- "Etherdome" -- CD -- €11
1999 Hypnos, hyp1917
The ambient electronic genre has been heavily colonized by dance and world music, a fact that makes Bone's pure, gauzy synthscapes seem fresher than they might otherwise. His evocative, almost primitive sound harkens back to the purity of Eno's Music for Airports. Very little happens, yet somehow a spell is cast. [Jim Aiken, Keyboard Magazine] After spending a couple of albums in the electronica lounge, Richard Bone returns to his ambient home in this CD of slow, dark, shimmering soundscapes. Bone has a nice touch on synthesizer, recalling Steve Roach's early drift works like Structures from Silence. [John Dilberto, Echoes Radio Host] Etherdome is definitely a very fine album and balances out beautifully the more experimental offerings on Hypnos with a smooth, refined and intimate ambient album, unfortunately aren't made that often. Beautiful. [Vidna Obmana]
Bone, Richard -- "The Spectral Ships" -- CD -- €11
1998 Hypnos, hyp1808
The music of this album is different from the style typical of Richard Bone, although it maintains the same spirit of sonic electronic exploration. As the title suggests, the music is mysterious. Using synthesizers to create an icy, ghostly world, Bone takes us to the immense quiet of wide, dark spaces. Listening to this album is travelling throughout musical tales whose soundscapes are set in remote oceanic regions of a supernatural charactor. These stories in a musical form are comparable to movie soundtracks, and stimulate the imagination of the listener to re-create the facts and scenaries that the music suggests. [E. Kogler, Amazing Sounds]
Bonemachine -- "Combat" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 Symbolic Prod, SYMBCD38, (ltd. 250)
The new prod of this ambient militarist noise band from Austria. 4 long tracks. Pro-printed artwork. [label info]
Bonemachine -- "Erste Rotation (eine Retrospektive von Krieg und Zeit)" -- 2 CD -- €16
2008 Sabbathid Records, Hoof044
Military Industrial / Dark Ambient from Austria. Two lengthy CDs containing old, unreleased and remixed material. Based upon the legacy of industrial music and krautrock Bonemachine has chosen the right way to lay out its own vision of industrial era, following some methods of alternative dark and electronic music. Double DVD Box. [YAOP]
Bonemachine / Maskinanlegg -- "War Against Banana" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2007 Tosom, TOSOM XS-002, (ltd. 150)
Austrian War Industrial meets great Norge Noise. Split release by Bonemachine from Austria and Maskinanlegg from Norway. Each project with one track. "War Against Banana" is a strange kind of electronic art from the vaults of Europe. MINI DVD BOX WITH 3 INLAY. [label info]
Booby Mason / Claudia Shitter / Pichismo / .nyctalops. / Huren Aquarium -- split -- CD-R -- €7
2011 self-released
Booby Mason is a young Russian project from Omsk, psychedelic guitar (almost) harsh noise. Claudia Shitter is another reincarnation of Monopolka, stupid useless shit noise with toys. Pichismo presented a live recording: dirty post-Gerogerigegege-noise on a sitar (!) with yelling. .nyctalops. and Grigory Avronin (Huren Aquarium) presented powerful mid-frequency harsh noise assaults. Self-released by Strup, cover made of vintage A3 sheet + info insert. [YAOP]
Boris -- "Soundtrack from film Mabuta No Ura" -- CD -- €15
2005 Essence Music, ESS005, (ltd. 1000)
The Japanese masters of drone and analog feedback never cease to amaze us. Fans actually never know what to expect from a new album. Sludgy guitar riffs, super distorted psych rock or mighty minimal drones? Just be prepared for a new masterpiece, the way only they seem to do it. Soundtrack from film Mabuta No Ura (translated as Backside Of The Eyelids) presents BORIS at their most abstract personality. A stunning guitar-driven psychedelic voyage to an imaginary land where Pink Floyd's "More" meditates with Sunn 0))) drenched in ambience and feedback! Being a flowing and brooding soundtrack to an imaginary film conceived by the three band members, the album manages to present the listener to a number of moods and soundscapes without actually breaking out of its shell. From mellow, dreamy Syd Barret-inspired acoustic incursions, hazy vocals, slow post-rock tones and rhythms to occasional bursts of dynamics passing through avant-noise experiments and mammoth deep drones of blasting energy (like on the 12 minutes long "Space Behind Me (part 1)"). A contemplative masterwork! Hard to imagine what sort of film Mabuta No Ura must be? The evocative sounds here give us freedom to conjure up appropriate images and quoting Atsuo's own words: "This is a soundtrack for images that appear on the mabuta no ura of the listeners, by reading the stories contained on the album and listening to the music. It's dew made from unconsciousness of Boris members. The dewdrops are spun into thread and the thread forms a whole story. The way we refer to images of the daily lives." We are glad to present this extended Brazilian/world CD version of Soundtrack from film Mabuta No Ura, containing different artwork and exclusive extra music not available on the Japanese CD/LP, housed in a slipcase that holds our luxurious custom heavy mini-replica of the gatefold vinyl including a set of cards unveiling mabuta no ura stories and photos of the band members taken in their most recent European trip. [press-release]
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Borisov, Alexei -- "Before The Evroremont" -- CD -- €9
2002 N&B Research Digest, NBRD-04
One long track assembled very much like a surreal, unsettling, even hysterical audiocollage lamenting the replacement of soviet esthetics with west european consumerism. Environmental sounds (radio, telephone conversations, sawing, hammering, drilling, clattering), distorted guitars and disrupted computer wizardry resulting in post-constructivism with a beat. [Fulldozer]
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Borisov, Alexei -- "Live Recordings" -- CD-R -- €9
2007 Invisible Hand, IHD039, (ltd. 500)
2 live tracks recorded at HUH festival, 2003 and at The 8th Floor, 2007. The release is packed in two painted 10" vinyl records.
Borisov, Alexei -- "Multiviza" -- CD -- €11
2007 Laton, Laton 046
Anthology of live recordings of Alexei Borisov, following after the similar F.R.U.I.T.S. CD released two years ago, appears to be the essential thing. Well, everybody know that his live sets are very different from the studio-albums, but it's just the way the things should be because his albums are usually devoted to something that can't be represented live, even if there is no real technical problems exists. The geography of touring shedules is impressive, but one can wonder if his music can fit in such a different kind of concerts and audiences. Just have a look through the list: Mutek (Montreal), Sonar (Barcelona) and BuduArt (Tomsk). There are more noisy, harsh and unstructured pieces reminding the installations of Achim Wollscheid or kitschy glitch from Mego and Raster-Noton series in the same time, suddenly dissolved into haunting guitar improvisations, warped by unarticulated mumbling and fastened by broken beat collages. Is it possible to imagine within the same track? Well, there will be always good to hear overloaded blasts of ultra-frequencies, so you will not get bored definitely! For those of you who just like me were leaving the concert with a sense of pity for absence the album-versions, now is the time to take over. Perfectly balanced and carefully selected, this is the best ever Borisov's album. [Dmitry Vasilyev, Independent Electronic Music]
Borisov, Alexei and HEC -- "Live in Paris" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Sickcore, SC-015, (ltd. 200)
Experimental noise.
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Borisov, Alexey + K.K.Null -- "Xenoglossia" -- CD -- €9
2003 Insofar Vapor Bulk, IVBCD11
Collaboration between Russian soundartist Alexey Borisov (Nochnoy Prospekt, F.R.U.I.T.S.) and Japanese electronic musician K.K.Null (Zeni Geva). Crackling and squeaking microwave electronics, digital noises and weird beats, cool experimental work.
Borisov, Alexei & Anton Nikkilä -- "Where Are They Now" -- CD -- €9
2007 N&B Research Digest, NBRD 008
Borisov and Nikkilä are sticking around for many years, occasionally collaborating here and there and helping each other with their solo efforts, too. Moreover, they are both involved in N&B Research Digest label, which is intended for all their current projects. "Where Are They Now" is the most recent N&B's release, out in 2007. Besides the usual juggling with textual images inducing the nostalgic feelings, they succeed also some stylistic experiments: sometimes all we can hear is jazz, although it's all made by electronic means (excluding the guitars). Some tracks recorded live during the gigs in several european venues, as far as Borisov uses to play his sets in very different and unpredictable way. So what about is this album? Well, as we getting older we got obsessed with our memories more and more, as they are growing too. Seems that musicians are trying to recollect these memories in somehow chaotic and say confusing approach. But they apparently succeed with this, because we are all the brothers in time, so it's always charming and transparent idea to share and commemorate. [Fulldozer]
Borisov, Alexei & Olga Nosova -- "Selected Works" -- CD-R -- €6
2010 self-released
Alexei Borisov is a veteran of Moscow electronic stage, creator of groups NOCHNOY PROSPEKT, F.R.U.I.T.S. and VOLGA. The music basis of his solo works is free improvisation created with digital and analogue technichs combining the elements of noise, industrial, psychedelia and minimal rhythms, vocal parts and guitar intrusions. Olga Nosova is a vivid representative of new generation of Russian experimental music. She's a member of several established Moscow bands - Brom, Syncopated Silence, Yad, Motherfathers. This compilation presents the selected recordings of this duet. [Fulldozer]
Bosemann, Karl -- "Euphoria Mitte" -- CD -- €10
2010 Monochrome Vision, mv32, (ltd. 500)
With the whole bunch of very limited edition releases on such labels as Tosom, Domestic Violence Recordings, Verato Project and the luxurious LP made by Youdonthavetocallitmusic, the name of german musician Karl Bösmann is emerging since 2003. This is his second real CD after "Unton" (2005, Badbeatz Records) and includes several new compositions, showing the maturity and intensity of his prolific talent... Karl Bösmann (*1965) works and lives in Germany near Frankfurt. Karl Bösmann irritates. His name alone, which reminds of Kafka's wayfarer to America, Karl Rossmann, is ambiguous. A mixture of sinister and "typical german", where you can think of one of Alexander Kluge's "Case Histories", which show in particular austerity the deceitfulness of fate. In fact his debut "Das Kind in der K?che" (2004) exactly met this impression. Since 1999 he is working around a spectrum from avantgarde to contemporary music, playing with nearly all elements of these genres without sounding cliche'd. Musical influences range from AMM and Aube through Nurse With Wound and Organum to Ghe'dalia Tazarte`s and Xenakis, and so set his ambitions at a very high level. His soundscapes - published by labels such as Tosom, Domestic Violence Recordings, Verato Project and Youdonthavetocallitmusic - oscillate between programme music and abstraction, leaving no doubt about the maturity and intensity of his talent. In more prosaic words, Bösmann follows no rules. His impulse is to experiment, and to create timeless solid buildings of tones. Bösmann constructs, in the good old tradition of electroacoustic music, with instruments played by himself, and completely without the fashionable chic of a laptop: minimal repetitive passages, especially drones that vibrate in themselves, that flash, shimmer and take a character and 3D-quality of its own. Phill Niblock and Ligeti could come to the back of your mind, a resonance that is an honour to both sides. [Rigobert Dittmann, Bad Alchemy]
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Boy Dirt Car -- "Heatrig" -- CD -- €10
1987/2001 Lexicon Devil, lexdev003
Renewed availability of the Boy Dirt Car material from the '80s is a darn good thing and includes, in the case of Heatrig, a remastering job that clarifies certain sounds well beyond the expected vinyl-to-digital threshold. The opening title track presents the group's roots in hypnotically aggressive garage rock, complete with a vocal both irritating and monotonous. It isn't long before the sense of regularity in rhythm moves from a rock & roll riff to a typical electronic music process in which something mysterious repeats while slowly evolving, detail by detail. If it resembles Phillip Glass, it is only because a couple of hobos are melting one of his old records in place of their normal supply of sterno. The six members of the group take no particular credits for instruments or an identifiable contribution of any sort -- instead they collectively put together group compositions in which there is simply no predicting what will happen, sound sources merging and dividing, a train arriving at one moment and a feather floating magically through an ocarina the next. [Eugene Chadbourne]
Boys Next Planet -- "Animal Funny" -- CD-R -- €6
2007 Emerson Lake And Headche
Jam-session recording of several underground musicians from Lancashire, U.K. Lo-fi improvisation on everything that could be found at the moment...
Boys Next Planet -- "Scum Next Door" -- CD-R -- €6
2007 Emerson Lake And Headche
Lo-fi noise improvisation recorded on a dictaphone. Musical idiotism in pure form.
BpOlar -- "Pheromones" -- CD-R -- €9
2009 Practising Nature, PN09033
Second release for BpOlar on Databloem's sister label Practising Nature. The follow up to his (Dirk Driesen from Antwerp) acclaimed debut The White Heads, is another adventure in intense and moving cinematic soundscapes. BpOlar's dynamic and unique sound will grab you from the first note and will keep you hooked till the last note fades away.... Dirk says: "I made most of this music when pheromones were mainly dormant, autumn and winter. Composed like a painting... layer by layer... fussing around with computers until something is bigger than the sum of it's elements... Picture yourself with an Amaretto-coffee or a Finnish vodka... or just a bio-lemonade.... starting quit cinematic... over rusty industrial... to dada". [press-release]
Bradley, Paul -- "Chroma" -- CD -- €11
2007 Twenty Hertz, TH 016
Split over seven tracks 'chroma' is a beautiful swarming forty five-minute suite of pieces. A warm, almost angelic hue of sound radiates from 'chroma' giving it a pure, optimistic feeling that only fades with the last dying notes. Weightless and saturated in it's waves of sound, all you have to do is listen. [label info]
Bradley, Paul -- "Pastandpresentcollide" -- CD -- €12
2006 Shining Day, Shine 04, (ltd. 300)
There is no escape, grainy snapshots constantly replaying in our heads. It is futile, our every action/reaction, decision, choice, it is who we are, it is what we will become. An endless loop in our minds, it is always with us. Past and present... Brand new drone suite by Paul Bradley. Sound material collected over the years from different sources. [press-release]
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Bradley, Paul & Cria Cuervos -- "Moraines II" -- CD -- €8
2007 SmallVoices, SVR 07025
Moraines II is a radical re-working of the limited release Moraines (Twenty Hertz / Sileat, 2006). The original recordings have been augmented, re-worked and newly mixed into an entirely different piece of music. The final result is a far heavier and more substantial work that creates a light and dark relationship with the original release and is much more than a simple 'remix' of Moraines. Glacial drones melt to liquid and degrade to static. Andrew Liles also contributes a track which that takes elements and unique contributions to twist the work into his own personal sound world. Packaged in a textured digisleeve. [press-release]
Brain Fork -- "Beast Water" -- CD-R -- €8
BioSonar^EleKtro - 001, (ltd. 101)
Soundtrack to a horror-movie for robots about a robot-werewolf turning into human at night, hesitant in its hysterical impossibility of overcoming the program error. Or maybe deformed Muslimgauze praising a plastic bottle. Anyway, something mysteriously wandering in the electro-analogue labyrinth of rhythmic noise. Full-colour A5 sleeve. [label info]
Brandal, Andreas -- "Drive Home With A Hammer" -- CD -- €10
2005 Quasi Pop Records, QPOP CD036, (ltd. 500)
The first full-length CD release by Norwegian noise artist Andreas Brandal. He has been making music with various bands and projects since the late 80's and released a several 7" and LPs on famous Norwegian label Smalltown Supersound as solo artist, as well as a partisipant of improv-noise duo Larmoyant. Andreas is also known as an active live performer, he has various live collaborations and recordings with different artists, such as Masami Akita aka Merzbow, Bruce Russell (The Dead C, A Handful Of Dust), Jon Hegre (Jazzkammer), Kjetil D. Brandsdal (Noxagt), Maja Ratkje (Spunk, Fe-Mail), Zbigniew Karkowski and others. "Drive Home With A Hammer" was released in November 2005 by the Ukrainian label Quasi Pop and represents the powerfull and impressive audio work, created with a both vintage analogue equipment and modern computer tools. The album sounds very deep, organic structured and "analogue", because of hisses, brutal tape loops and "glitches" are the constant ingredients of Andreas output. The structure of tracks is clear and irregular at the same time, the music flows freely, but not quiet, because it is created with both composition and improvisation methods. [press release]
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Brandal, Andreas -- "Little Three" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2006 Lona Records, locd23r, (ltd. 50)
Andreas Brandal is from Bergen, Norway. He has been making music with various bands and projects since the late 80's. In 1994 he released his first recording as a solo artist. This was a 2'5 minute cassette-single titled "Tape 1", followed in 1995 by 2 more cassettes.
In 1996 he released his first vinyl single "Better Than Casters" on his own label. In this period he also participated on various compilations and music for art and web projects. In 1997 the Smalltown Supersound label released a split vinyl single with Andreas Brandal and Bruce Russell (The Dead C / A Handful Of Dust). In 1998 Andreas and fellow musician Jarle Nordvik formed the guitar-noise improv duo Larmoyant. This project released one LP and played several concerts. [label info]
Brandkommando -- "Keine Arbeit Macht Frei!" -- CD -- €11
2007 Beast Of Prey, bop 4.4, (ltd. 350)
New album of our Polish project BRANDKOMMANDO. Over 60 minutes of Hard ride now with hars vocals in power electronics vein! Walls of merciless noise, distortions and extremes that BRANDKOMMANDO doesn't save. "Keine Arbeit Mach Frei!" is a vision of fear, pain, hunger and suffering of man forced to live in death camps during world war two. Thousands of people that faced unhuman suffering and terror, violence and humiliation. "Keine Arbeit Mach Frei!" it's a vision of work and death camps. Unconventionally released album. Line of printed paper folded to 13cm x 18cm size. Special formed paper with vertical cut for closing the package. Package hand cutted and folded, hand numbered to 350 copies. [press-release]
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Brasil -- "Wander Till Spring" -- CD -- €9
2006 Nefryt / Cat Sun, N 015 / CSD001, (ltd. 365)
First CD from Nefryt! It's a side project two musicians from One Inch Of Shadow. They used a lot of acoustic instruments: bells, cymbals, trumpet, lingatone, bontempi, flutes, didjeridoo, drums, xylophone, mandoline, broken trombone... + old electronic stuff, tape recorder & voice. Subtle & esoteric sounds, psychedelia, delicate rhythms... sadness & melancholy. Nice A5 gatefold cover. Limited & numbered to 365 copies. Reedition of very rare CDR with a new tracks. [press-release]
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Brighter Death Now -- "Breaking Down Nihil" -- CD -- €25
2009 Der Angriff, Angriff Nr. 37, (ltd. 150)
This release was made to support the russian shows of Brighter Death Now tour "Breaking Down Nihil!" which took place in Moscow and Saint-Petersburg in September 2009th. It is limited to 150 copies and intended for sale on these shows only. Tracks 1-2 featuring Anthesteria & Lamia Vox. Tracks 3-4-5-6 featuring Bardoseneticcube & 414. Those contributors have played onstage with BDN in Moscow and Saint-Petersburg respectively. Tracks versions presented on this release have been recorded and mixed by the artists in their studios during preparations for the live shows using BDN original backgrounds as the source tracks. [press-release]
Brighter Death Now -- "Breaking Down Nihil - Live" -- 2 CD -- €18
2011 Der Angriff, Nr. 39, (ltd. 450)
Der Angriff and Indiestate Distribution proudly present a very special 2CD release of one of the most influential and famous power electronics projects in the world, a favourite child of Cold Meat Industry mastermind Roger Karmanik - Brighter Death Now. Recorded live during short Russian tour made in September 2009, it is unique since the lineup was made of Russian artists and only Roger himself was a part of the common European live incarnation of BDN. The persons behind Anthesteria and LamiaVox have joined him in Moscow while the guys from Bardoseneticube and 414 were together with him on stage in St.Petersburg. The basic parts of the tracks have been sent to them all in advance, so they have prepared their own vision of this material, thus it was nothing like a spontaneous improvisation or jam-session, but pure conceived and well-organized collaboration. Both shows have been recorded on a multi-channel devices, then carefully mixed and mastered, so the final quality is close to the studio one without losing any bit of the raw energy of live performance. The result is a very fresh and unexpected look on the well-known BDN compositions such as "Innerwar", 'PayDay' and 'Testing' which should be interested not only for devoted followers of the project but for the wider audience of power electronics / death industrial fans. The real gem in our roster, not to be missed! The release is limited to 450 copies and comes in a special embossed foldout envelope with cardboard inner sleeves. CD 1: MOSCOW (24-09-2009): Innerwar / Oh what a night / Payday / I wanna die / Destroy / I hate you. CD 2: SAINT-PETERSBURG (28-09-2009): First floor / Testing / Leave me alone / Dodsambient / There is nothing left in this world / Female blood. [press-release] Mastered by Kshatriy.
Brighter Death Now -- "Breaking Down Nihil - Live" -- 2 CD -- €25
2011 Der Angriff, Nr. 39, (ltd. 50)
Special edition of the release which is limited to 50 copies, it contains embroidered BDN patch and sealed with a BDN logo wax stamp.
Brighter Death Now -- "Disobey" -- DualDisc (CD + DVD) -- €20
2005 Cold Meat Industry, cmi139
"Disobey" may just be the ultimate release of Brighter Death Now, 2 live-shows presented as a DualDisc, both recorded in Rostock 1997 (CD) and 2003 (DVD) respectively. Brighter Death Now leaves no-one untouched with brutal and destructive industrial sounds, dealing with sinister topics such as death, childabuse and confusing love as a trademark. BDN has the past few years also become one of the more chaotic, charismatic and unpredictable live-acts in the industrial scene. With a charming sense of black humour BDN changes shape from a little rascal to a moral-majority hag dressed up for sunday commandment... something which actually happened during the show in Rostock 2003. Featuring for this special occasion; Roger Karmanik and Lina B Doll (Deutsch Nepal), two beautiful iron ladies ready to manhandle you! [label info]
Brighter Death Now -- "Kamikaze Kabaret" -- CD -- €14
2005 Cold Meat Industry, cmi151
BDN's steady mainman Roger Karmanik never goes out of style! A new punishing fullength CD packed with 8 churning traditional kneecapwrenching tracks, get down with it or bow in shame... Following the last album "1890" from 2001, this new work is more in the vein of 1998's "May all be dead": meaning slight punk mode ON. Diverse, hallucinatory, monotone and HEAVY with that sweet characteristic doom-laden and depressive touch. Simple and effective; just right for your pulsating private parts. [label info]
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Brighter Death Now -- "Necrose Evangelicum" -- 2 CD -- €22
2008 Cold Meat Industry, cmi179
Recorded during 1995 - that most creative of years for Brighter Death Now, which also produced the much harsher album Innerwar, as well as the final part of the epic 'Great Death' trilogy - Necrose Evangelicum was immediately received as a new milestone in the genre of 'sacred-death-industrial.' In fact, the album had the most favorable reception of any BDN record, and has generally been considered the most easily accessible of BDN's work. In order to once more make this groundbreaking album available, we have gone back and digitally restored, remastered and remixed the tracks to give them the facelift they so richly deserve. This new edition of Necrose Evangelicum is presented in a beautiful foilprinted digipak together with a 'live' CD recorded during the same era. Actually the 'live' CD is the recording of a rehearsal for a concert in Vaasa, Finland, which ended up never taking place! The permission of the organizers ran out, and the evening came to an end, before BDN had an opportunity to take the stage. [label info]
Brighter Death Now -- "Where Dreams Come True" -- CD -- €14
2009 Cold Meat Industry, CMI196 / Jinx, JINX CD-003
Brizbomb -- "SSREC#006" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Somnolent Shelter Records, SSREC#006
No keyboards, no sequencers, no samples, no computer, no pre-recorded material, no strings. Only a man and a rack full of devices. Spacy underwater drone noise ambient in vein of Inade or Herbst9 recorded 100% live without overdubs. Jewel case. [YAOP]
Brume -- "Accident de Chasse" -- CD -- €10
2007 Waystyx Records, WR51, (ltd. 375)
We have the proud to announce that we began to realize 13 CD Brume Anthology. Christian Renou made the extract of common Brume history from 1978 to 2000. It consists of totally remastered tape releases and rarest live recordings and a big amount of unreleased material. This is the 1st CD, originally recorded in 1988/89 and released on cassette in 1989 by Tonspur Tapes. Digitally remastered at Brume Rec. in winter 2006. [label info]
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Brume -- "After The Battle (A Chronicle Of The Joy Of Life)" -- CD -- €13
2009 EE Tapes, EE18, (ltd. 300)
Brume -- "I'm... I come... I was..." -- CD -- €10
2007 Waystyx Records, WR52, (ltd. 375)
This is the 2nd CD in the anthology, originally recorded in 1992 and released on cassette in 1992 by Tonspur Tapes. Digitally remastered at Brume Rec. in winter 2006. [label info]
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Brume -- "Schiluuk" -- CD -- €10
2008 Waystyx, WR53, (ltd. 375)
This is the 3rd CD in the 13 CD Brume anthology, originally recorded in 1991 and released on cassette in 1991 by Corrosive Tapes. Digitally remastered at Brume Rec. in winter 2006. C. Renou - all instruments, home-made instruments, tape, pseudo ethnic voices, electronics, mix... [label info]
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Brume -- "Stable" -- CD -- €10
2008 Waystyx, WR54, (ltd. 375)
This is the 4th CD in the 13 CD Brume anthology. C. Renou - electronics, tapes, voices, mix. Track #1 was recorded in real time in the studio: programming, 3-string guitar + effects. Track #6 is alien stuff called "Erection in Church" from Nihilistic Recordings compilation cassette. Because of the destruction of the original master, this recording was revisited and remastered from a bad quality cassette copy. Produced in 1995 by Bandaged Hand Produce. Reworked and digitally remastered at Brume Rec. in winter 2006. [label info]
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Brume -- "Electrocoagulation Tapes" -- CD -- €10
2008 Waystyx, WR55, (ltd. 375)
This is the 5th CD in the 13 CD Brume anthology. Tracks 1-9 basically recorded live in the studio. C. Renou - electronics, metal, tapes, loops, horn, trump, voice, mix. Pat' Blanch - trump, voice, tapes. G. Guiggia - percussion, flutes. Reprocessed at Brume Rec. in winter 2006. Originally produced on cassette by Irre-Tapes in 1991. Tracks 10-12 were extracted from the split tape Brume / Telepherique, produced by Drahtfunk Products in 1991. [label info]
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Brume -- "Les Victimes Sont Dangereuses" -- CD -- €10
2008 Waystyx, WR56, (ltd. 375)
This is the 6th CD in the 13 CD Brume anthology. C. Renou - all instruments. Compiled, recorded and mixed at Brume Rec. in 1996-97. Ultrasonic mastering by Richard Johnson / Atmoject. Originally produced by Atmoject as a limited edition CD-R in 1998. Digitally remastered at Brume Rec. in winter 2006. [label info]
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Brume -- "Moll" -- CD -- €10
2008 Waystyx, WR57, (ltd. 375)
This is the 7th CD in the 13 CD Brume anthology. C. Renou - all instruments, tapes, mix, Marie-France - voice. Compiled, recorded and mixed at Brume Rec. in 1999. Originally produced by Prion Tapes as a limited edition CD-R in 1999. Remastered from the DAT-master at Brume Rec. in winter 2006. Dedicated to Philip K. Dick. [label info]
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Brume -- "Lost in Karrack" -- CD -- €10
2008 Waystyx, WR58, (ltd. 375)
This is the 8th CD in the 13 CD Brume anthology. A compilation of rare/unedited tracks. C. Renou - all instruments, tapes, voice. Remastered from the DAT-master at Brume Rec. in winter 2006. [label info]
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Brume -- "Early Tracks" -- CD -- €10
2008 Waystyx, WR59, (ltd. 375)
This is the 9th CD in the 13 CD Brume anthology. A compilation of the very first recordings from 1981-1986. C. Renou - all instruments, tapes, mix; Antoine Faure - guitar; Eric Erfurth - guitar, voice; Phil - guitar; Thierry Febvre - sequencer. Remastered from the cassette and DAT-masters at Brume Rec. in winter 2006. [label info]
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Brume -- "Live With or Without Audience" -- CD -- €10
2008 Waystyx, WR60, (ltd. 375)
This is the 10th CD in the 13 CD Brume anthology. Live recordings from 4 performances held in 1985-1988. Remastered from the cassette and reel-to-reel masters at Brume Rec. in winter 2006. [label info]
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Brume -- "In Death We Trust! / Programm T4" -- CD -- €10
2008 Waystyx, WR61, (ltd. 375)
This is the 11th CD in the 13 CD Brume anthology. Tracks 1-8 recorded in 1987 and produced by Underground Prods in 1998. Track 9 recorded in 1986. Remastered from original cassette masters at Brume Rec. in winter 2006. [label info]
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Brume -- "Drug" -- CD -- €10
2008 Waystyx, WR62, (ltd. 375)
This is the 12th CD in the 13 CD Brume anthology. "Drug" (parts 1-7) was basically recorded in 1999 and released as a limited edition CD-R by Blade Rec. in 1999. Track 8 was basically recorded in 1986 and released as a limited edition cassette by Brume Rec. in 1998. Tracks 9-10 were the very last stuff recorded in 1999 under the name of Brume. Digitally remastered at Brume Rec. in winter 2006. [label info]
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Brume -- "The Prehistoric Tapes" -- CD -- €10
2008 Waystyx, WR63, (ltd. 375)
This is the 13th CD in the 13 CD Brume anthology. "These recordings were the very first electronic experiments I made, just after I gace up Uria, and just before I create Brume. The main stuff was inspired by music like Heldon, Suicide... but also progressive music and German kraut-rock." Recorded from 1979 to 1983 at Primitive Studio and Brume Rec. Remastered from "dusty tapes", reprocessed at Brume Rec., winter 2006. [label info]
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Brume -- "Anthology" -- 13 CD box -- €120
2008 Waystyx, WR50, (ltd. 100)
13 CD Brume anthology, consisting of releases from WR51 to WR63 in special box with red silkscreen, limited edition 100 copies. For people who bought all 13 CDs separately an empty box with black silkscreen is available for free.
Brume -- "Emergence" -- 2 CD -- €16
2009 Waystyx, WR65
"These 2 CDs could be played together on 2 CD players, both should be connected to a single usual Hi-Fi amp in order to get some dephasings & maximum effects as well as sound was distilled during the E.P.E. 1990 year installation". Reissue of a double-cassette released by Old Europa Cafe (OEC 016) in 1990. Contains soundtrack for E.P.E. installation created from water sounds.
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Brume -- "Erzatz #0 / Tout" -- 2 CD -- €15
2006 Waystyx, WR25, (ltd. 212)
Special ultra-limited CD (not CDR) re-edition of very rare material from classic of electro-acoustic music. Tracks from "Tout" appeared previously on various cassette compilations, "Erzatz#0" was previously released in 1998 as CDR limited to 75 copies on Brume Records.
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Buben -- "Prayers Of Steel - Prologue" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 T'an! Kaven!! Ash!!!, Ash!!! 025, (ltd. 100)
Vladislav Buben, the acknowledged industrial ambient presents his new album Prayers Of Steel-Prologue. Vladislav Buben - musician, promoter, artist, creator of some radio and art projects from Belarus. Vladislav represents TV show about alternative electronic music 'Called for the electricians' on local MTV (Belarus). During 7 years Vlad represented radio show 'The Lost World' (the oldest radio show in Belarus about extreme & alternative music) and Radio "Mir" 107.1 FM. Vladislav is a main coordinator of Lostworld webzine and label. [label info]
Buben -- "Vim" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 T'an! Kaven!! Ash!!!, Ash!!! 024, (ltd. 100)
Experimental Electronic | Ambient. Vladislav Buben the acknowledged industrial ambient musician, promoter, artist, creator of radio and art projects from Belarus presents his new album Vim. Comes in jewel case with full-colour insert. [label info]
Buckettovsissors -- "Brain Erase" -- CD-R -- €7
Produck
Droney rough noise, almost atmospheric dark ambient! Recording of a gig performed in a small railway carriage with the use of reverb made of a tin can. Sleeve. [YAOP]
Burmese / Fistula -- split -- CD -- €10
2004 Crucial Blast, CBR 38
Hyper destructive low-end violence from two of the American underground's most ferocious hate-sludge outfits. A dual assault from feedback-warriors BURMESE and battle-sludge titans FISTULA. BURMESE annhilate everything before them with a lethal blast of low frequency skree tantrums, cough-syrup drenched blastbeats, WHITEHOUSE-worshipping noise, and demonic free improvised violence. Think KHANATE, DROPDEAD, EARTH, and MERZBOW in an earth shattering, widow-making basement deathmatch. Ohio's FISTULA batter up with megaheavy sludge, blistering blackened thrash, diseased rock, and some incredibly infectious riffs. Hear these tarpit battle anthems, hail the low frequency berserker. BURMESE burn you down... FISTULA pisses all over the ashes. [press-release]
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Burning Star Core -- "Blood Lightning 2007" -- CD -- €10
2007 No Fun Productions, NFP12
Creeping drones, strange mutilated vocal incursions, and compositions full of unidentifiable sounds both acoustic and electronic. Another classic in sound exploration from the mind of Mr. C. Spencer Yeh. This is the sound of humanity looking into the depth of their soul searching for a reason to continue fighting the daily maze of homo sapien life. The three sisters on the front cover of this album all have the "mark of the devil". Like all No Fun Productions cd's comes in the deluxe classic mini-gatefold style no fun CD case. [label info]
c.j. mind & man ufo (eXperiment) -- "eXtrasensory" -- CD-R -- €9
2007 Ambiroad Records, AR01
c.j. mind & man ufo (eXperiment) -- "Source" -- CD -- €11
2008 Faria Records, FAR-24, (ltd. 500)
If you like music of Steve Roach - you will like it too!... The natural beginning of all life on the Earth intertwines with estrangement pressing on the person the incomprehensible power of an external world (space). Too extraneous and severe really to be a monastery of each of us, as if a mourning bed-sheet swallowed light. In this contradiction, someone finds something attractive for search of the external forms not similar to ours, but probably forgets that its house, a family and surrounding close friends as anybody another is important to him. And being behind an understanding side, and remains not untangled ball drawing to only when on it is unique a question exciting you to you by all means (here and now) it is necessary to receive it is unique a right answer... Stay in a womb, a birth, individual search of sense of existence, leaving in the other world. Spring (awakening) before fading in a cold twilight of mature autumn (death). All is marvelously simple. After all the, Nature does not suffer intervention in its nature. When it exists without our presence - flows and sounds absolutely other light. But the Creator comes and by a wave of an invisible conductor's baton twists a surprising pattern on beauty, in which the voice of a far-far star is audible... The teamwork purpose (the present album) consisted, first of all, in desire to grope some integrity of a universe and attempt to find room for this perception in presented on seventy five minutes of a music material. [press-release]
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C.O. Caspar -- "Pass the Times" -- CD -- €12
2002 Hau Ruck!, HR!41
The Berlin veteran after a long time with a new album - a monolithic, metallic droney sound-monster, where structures dissolve totally and make place for contemplative float-textures. The abstract industrialized tunes appear to be in a continous breathing movement, sometimes nearly meditatively silent, then again in breaking out eruptive noisescapes. [label info]
C.O. Caspar -- "Reports From This Lunatic Asylum" -- CD -- €12
2009 Hau Ruck!, HR!93
"Reports From This Lunatic Asylum" is the new album by C.O.Caspar, legendary industrial musician from Berlin. It is a symbiotic mix of textfragments and archaic soundscapes and rhythm. The album tries to reflect nowadays chaos in this world in its specific way - a combination of proclamations and assurances which never will be concerted in the end, a critisims on todays politics and mediasystems. [label info]
C.O.I. (Ceremony Of Innocence) -- "Tiefenrausch" -- CD-R -- €10
2007 self-released, (ltd. 44)
Post-industrial project inspired by the theme of Antarctic, Base 211, submarines in ice, and playing cold nordic Dream-Pop / EBM, obviously influenced by Allerseelen "Neuschwabenland". Contains a video bonus. Deluxe packaging, CD-R in ejector with a sticker, three full-colour A5 panels, flyer and a magnet picture. [YAOP]
Cage Cabarrett -- "__________" -- CD-R -- €8
2010 Turbinicarpus Records, TBC010, (ltd. 25)
Turbinicarpus Records (Donetsk, Ukraine) presents a new CD of experimental electronics by Cage Cabarrett (Lisbon, Portugal). Music must give birth to Orgasm and Revolution. CAGE CABARRETT are Rubina Go'is and Andre' Faustino. They are the "musical dice players" (Musikalisches Wu"rfelspiel); the followers of John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhauzen, Pierre Boulez and Witold Lutos?awski; the "random" music performers; the explorers of aleatoric music: CAGE CABARRETT explore notions of indeterminacy in art, aleatoric music and intuitive improvisation. Musicians use the unpredicted performance to dissolve any fixed properties of music sound into a fluid process and break with the traditional control of the composer over the material... All sounds have equal value: sounds chosen by the composer, by the performer, and all the unforeseen and unpredictable sounds that surround us every day. The extremest experiments and randomization-based ideas are welcome. Each track is one unrepeatable livetake with no mixes or overdubs... CAGE CABARRETT take seriously the sounds that stick to eternity and use a great number of musical machinery: antique analogue synthesizers, such as Korg MS-20 from 1978, classical Roland SH 101 and legendary YAMAHA CS-5, a radio, a theremin and other vintage devices. It sounds like "________!"... It does not pay to describe music with words and it's definitely useless to describe semi-random music of elusive shape. Music on this CD has wrong geometry, it comes from another dimensions, where the sum of triangle's angles never equals 180 degrees. That's why CAGE CABARRETT warn about possible consequences of this interrogation into acoustic perception. [press-release]
Cages -- "Folding Space" -- CD -- €10
2009 Cold Spring, CSR121CD
Post-Rock / Experimental. There is nothing fun or pedestrian about dreams that are uncompromising to the point of reality. The shaking notes that make up 'Folding Space' were recorded by two people holed up in their whole respective imaginations of visions of loops, layers and pleading lyrics. It is stubborn but not ugly, nearly one hour of music set in studios buried by blizzards of the American Great Lakes region... Cages is Nola Ranallo and David Bailey. They practiced, moved apart, relayed tapes through the mail, revised the entire damned thing, and then rejoined to capture every last seizure on this record. They sought sounds from the same dreams that give fools belief and colorfully punctuate the nights of the sanest. It's sometimes pretty ('Lost Lipids') or crushing ('Psalm to Mother'; 'If It Flies, It Dies') or left hanged in the speakers ('Dying'). There are elements of dreamy ether and discomfort rather than the easy choruses and catchphrases of the most collected and consumed art form. And, then, you'll find a song radiating another thing entirely. (sweetness? The Devil's hand?)... Live, the duo transfers their forged and found music into a very personal presentation that soars above the casually talking show-goers, the poor man's jazz bands, and the art house showboats. Patrons and fellow musicians are pulled in; sounds are pushed out but never apart... 'Folding Space' is a foot to the honest and hard road, which can quickly cut away the uncurious and reward the rest like the tapes listened to repeatedly in the fevers of your youth. Please mull and judge, and add to the tops or bottoms of the lists you think necessary. And know the visions backing this elaborate music were recorded and are performed for a primary reason: to exist freely. [Justin Kern]
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Calabi-Yau -- "Compactified" -- CD -- €11
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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Camanecroszcope II -- "Echoes Ov A Beckoning Arcanum" -- CD -- €16
2006 Spectre, S23
Camisole -- "Claustrophobic Education" -- CD-R -- €8
2008 Bone Structure, Bone 116, (ltd. 66)
Canaan -- "A Calling to Weakness" -- CD -- €12
2002 Eibon Records, Can036
Proudly introducing CANAAN's fourth full-lenght album, and without any doubt their most melancholic one. 'A calling to weakness' music is much sharper, rougher, heavier, darker than ever before. The 17 songs of the album create an incredibly enthralling and mournful atmosphere - your next psychic black hole... [label info]
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Canaan -- "The Unsaid Words" -- CD -- €12
2006 Eibon Records, Can060
4 long years have passed since "A calling to weakness". But finally CANAAN are back...... stronger than ever....... If ACTW was a moan of pain, "The unsaid words" is a chant of knowledge. Of the knowledge of an unstoppable physical and psychical withering. Dark, profound, sinister music. No other band sounds like this........ [press-release]
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Captain Heroin -- "Drama" -- CD-R -- €6
Onyxia, onyx006
Captain Heroin is the frolic analogue anaconda with clashing sounds of plaintive retro-electro and stomping hot vibrations of elegance. The dramatic act of Captain Heroin's artificial music seeks happiness in loneliness, sadness and madness. The electric disco sound of reluctant nausea and disturbance makes Captain Heroin the reptile that sneaks in the electronic jungle of the Garden of Eden and commands to eat from the tree of drama. The musical streamlines travel from the highest peaks of happiness into the deepest pits of despair and delirium: music from sunshine to heartbeat flat-line. [press-release]
Carved Image Of Emptiness / Zinc Room -- "Lie, Illusions, Mystifications / Zinc 99,99" -- CD -- €10
2007 Imp. Hate Fac., IMPHF 002 / Evil Dead Productions, EDP 006
This CD contains not even a split, but in fact 2 full-length albums of two Russian industrial projects, both coming from Ekaterinburg, Ural region. Carved Image Of Emptiness isn't so easily categorized with one term, during their half of the disc the style changes in quite unpredictable manner. The album starts with an energetic industrial track with sampled distorted bass guitar (well, when you write about noise music you can't be completely sure about the sound sources, but it sounds like bass guitar here) and various samples. Then comes unhurried, sombre and serious neo-classics which changes with more "fairy" track. Then again, a neo-classical composition in which pompous martial-like "verse" (think about Der Blutharsch) alternates with totally cartoon-style "chorus" (think about "Crocodile Gena"). During the last 4 tracks the same metamorphoses happen... I think this could be a good soundtrack for some slightly naive, but thus interesting industrial movie from 80-90-ies... Zinc Room is quite another matter! Here you can feel the addiction to the old noise school: in his tracks analogue distortion (bass guitar, percussion, steel objects) blends with field recordings and samples. The recordings are mostly not aggressive (unlike, say, Japanese act K2 who uses a lot of iron as well), but somehow sadly pensive. Like an abandoned rusty factory building standing in the field and grown by weeds long ago. However the spirits of industrialization still live there and sometimes continue their mechanical activity.
CAST -- "Are Teek L" -- CD -- €10
2005 Peace Technologies, PT 002, (ltd. 500)
Denis Kaznacheev was born in 1983 in Tashtagol, Siberia. He adore music from his early childhood. He began from hip-hop and came to electronic music. His concert program started with idm project CAST when he was 18. In 2003 Denis came to Moscow, where his first album released. [label info]
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Cat'n'Bone -- "Snailocat's Blood" -- CD-R -- €4
2008 self-released
Rough Noise and Old-School Industrial from the north of Russia. A very good work combining digital chainsaw in vein of Comforter with retro-mood in vein of Alexander Lebedev-Frontov and shamanism of YAO 91404 D. Double sleeve with insert - blood-stained paper. [YAOP]
The Cat's Orchestra -- "Vortex" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2009 Turbinicarpus Records, TBC007, (ltd. 25)
A new noise-jazz album of one-man-project from Kiev, Ukraine. This is a story of solid but disperse layer of irregular noise being methodically spread over the acoustic plane of a grand piano that was cynically squashed with echo-effect. Any music in its true understanding relies on sculpturality. By true understanding, we mean harmony and right sound distribution of all possible instruments and materials in a random order. Words as such possess the same strength and meaning as other sound-production methods. That is, a meaningful text is mere poetry. Or, to be more specific, music loses its meaning when words gain it. What is music? Following Pound, we can understand it as 'a mist over swamps'. Or follow Brzeska and see it as segregation of planes. What should music look like? This question makes sense only if raised post factum. Music can be built from any material at hand. Should we reduce music to the orchestra pit, we will reduce the hearing. Music and singing (i.e., pronouncing a meaningful text) can be combined only if our aim is entertainment. Music plus words equals entertainment. Music plus words does not equal music. Music does not depend on time and place. Time becomes a plane. Time does not exist as an idea, an external force, as eternity. Any change of the existing soundtrack is a rejection of music as such. Entertainment may have either negative or positive quality. Music does not have any quality. Music is a process of changing. Music is a dialog between you-and-me. The album was recorded in 10 days in Kiev. Mini-CD in an illustrated 5-page hand-made mini-book. [press-release]
Catharsis & Drape Excrement -- "Homo Homini Lupus" -- CD -- €10
1999 Black Plagve, infest02
Homo Homini Lupus is the second release of the Malignant Records side label Black Plagve. Black Plagve is devoted to releasing some of the finest artists in the death industrial and black ambient fields. The two bands represent the pinnacle of what this most fertile field of dark music has to offer... Catharsis is the project of French artist Pascal Catharsis. His half of this split CD is rife with hatred, anger, and negativity. Grinding, pounding slave-ship rhythms head through monstrously thick dark smog. Tortured, anguished voices howl in the background while melodies sound the arrival of a murderous tyrant, who makes blood rain onto the charred and blackened battlefields... Drape Excrement is a side project of the mind behind the power electronic group Soldnergeist. While Soldnergeist attempts to bludgeon the listen with its terrifying sonic blasts, Drape Excrement crawls about in a subtler manner. Of course, Drape Excrement is equally nefarious, and no less pleasing than Soldnergeist or the Catharsis part of the split. Drape Excrement's 7 tracks are filled with black walls of corroded atmospheres and ghostly wails and moans. "Anger, Remember to My Words," however, gets downright aggressive with its violent, searing electronics and flanged vocals... Homo Homini Lupus is an excellent CD by two death-industrial juggernauts, beautifully packaged with artwork by Phil Easter of Stone Glass Steel. Most highly recommended. [Nirav Soni, ink19]
Cattletrain Commando -- "Metropolis" -- 3"CD-R -- €5
Psych.KG, 09, (ltd. 50)
The debut mini-album of a band from Mönchengladbach town located in Nordrhein-Westfalen. The musicians call their style 'industrial blues' although in fact this is quite aggressive noise. Some split-tapes with various little-known projects were released in 2007. Limited edition of 50 copies. [Monochrome Vision info]
Caul & Kirchenkampf -- "Sleep - Night - Death" -- CD -- €10
2008 Malignant Records, TUMOR CD31, (ltd. 888)
Two artists return to the Malignant roster, having teamed up to create over 60 minutes of dark ambient solitude. A soundscape for late night reflections, full of quiet, whispering drones, cosmic flutterings, arching climatic tones and textures that ascend and descend in a delicate interplay between beauty and bleak desolation. You know their work as separate entities, find out what they do when brought together. Limited to 888 copies with specialty eco-wallet packaging designed by ::: eye.lyft ::: (www.eyelyft.com). [press-release]
CD-R -- "Disorder" -- CD-R -- €6
2004 Spirals Of Involution, SOI 042
This recording is inspired by the movies of Wong Kar Wai. 5 digital noise tracks are made using samples from these movies. The last track is a kind of remix on "The End" by Jim Morisson (The Doors).
Cellerino, Edgardo Moia -- "L'Amore Che Gira Il Mondo" -- CD -- €11
2009 Oltrelanebbiailmare, CD200903
Oltrelanebbiailmare is proud to introduce the solo debut CD of Edgardo Moia Cellerino, best known as Le Masque's singer. "L'amore che gira il mondo" is a collection of songs taken from various Le Masque albums, compilations and very rare and unreleased tracks. Edgardo has just got back during November from the prestigious Tenco Festival, a showcase dedicated to the most valid Italian singer-songwriters, where he received the SIAE/Club Tenco Prize as the best emerging author/songwriter with the following mention: "His lyrics are illuminated by all-consuming landscapes. His language is made of an almost embarassing extreme and refined elegance, and reminds the greatest Italian writers of the Twentieth Century, from Pavese to Buzzati. Nonetheless he defines himself just like "a polka-dot illustrator on clowns costumes". At the Tenco Festival he presented some of his songs in concert, including the new album title-track. For all the Le Masque aficionados and for all the lovers of Italian songwriting... This is a must! [label info]
Chaos As Shelter -- "Message" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2002 Taalem, alm 9
Chaos As Shelter, from Israel, is one of those bands that don't really need to be presented. He has fastly become a big name in the ambient industrial world thanks to a handful of releases on various labels around the world. For this 3", Vadim has worked from a spy message he had captured on his shortwave radio. The always evolving 20mn track he has composed is simply fascinating and obsessive. At the first listening you're hooked! [press-release]
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Chaos Research -- "Revelations" -- CD -- €10
2006 Deserted Factory, DF027
Chaos Research is the new solo project of Marko (Gravehill) M. Hautamaki, also known from such bands as Majesty (the doom metal act from Finland), Two Witches (the gothic rock act from Finland/Germany), SinMasters (multi-national fetish dance-metal), ex-Shade Factory (finnish ebm-band) and Gravehill Paris Witch (experimental dark ambient from Germany/Finland/USA). He is also busy doing session appearances, film music and remixes for various other bands. The music style of Chaos Research is unique combination of neo-classical, (dark) ambient, ethno and electronic music. [press-release]
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Chaoticum -- "[Psycho] Log: Y" -- CD -- €13
2007 HORUS CyclicDaemon, HCD 09, (ltd. 500)
Children's Noise Orchestra of Children's Arts School #1 -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT34, (ltd. 96)
An orchestra of Children's Art School #1 of Kamensk-Uralskiy town (Siberia) pupils headed by one of the most interesting Russian noise artists (Vitaly Maklakov - Light Collapse, Kromeshna, etc.). Avant-guard post-industrial collage built on lo-fi loops, multiple samples, voices and musical fragments. Retro-futurism as psychedelic kaleidoscope from future, past, present, childhood, maturity and non-existense... Two-sided printed sleeve. [press-release]
Children's Noise Orchestra of Children's Arts School #1 -- "Floating Laundry (Tale in 3 Parts)" -- CD-R -- €7
2011 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT84, (ltd. 18)
On the second full length the sound of Children's Noise Orchestra has become closer to Musique Concrete / Industrial Avantgarde in best traditions of St. Petersburg's Experimental Sound Gallery (ESG-21). Samples of traditional instruments, domestic noises, enigmatic solos, poetry recitations. For the fans of Sergey Kuryokhin and Nikolay Soudnick. DVD-box, handmade cover. [label info]
Circadian -- "Flanking The Black Moose" -- CD -- €10
2004 Radiotarab Records/Eibon Records, Cir050/RT001
Mutual release of two Italian labels - a good example of well-combined elements of heavy ambient, noise, field recordings and various strange electronics.
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The Circular Ruins -- "The Alchemy Concert" -- CD -- €10
2005 Databloem, DBCD 011
The Circular Ruins live from the Atmostreams web broadcast of June 2004. An alchemical mix of rhythms, ambience, and leads. "Anthony Paul Kerby cites Schulze and Namlook as influences on his web-site. I don't think he's far behind those two! If you like your EM with a contemporary flavour I strongly recommend this CD." - WP / Synth Music Direct. [label info]
The Circular Ruins -- "Realm of Possibility" -- CD -- €10
2002 Databloem, DBCD 002
Ryhthmic ambient excursions: deep, complex, and beautiful. "Part of the strength of Circular Ruins material is the sheer attention to microscopic detail. One feels as if one is inside the machine, while at the same time still acting as audience to the vast sonic tapestry performed." - Brian Bieniowski. [label info]
Circulum Musicum -- "Phases" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Thar Records, Thar 001
Circulum musicum is one of the most promising names in contemporary ambient/electronic music. With the use of classic-orchestral elements in combination with a variety of electronica, Circulum Musicum creates a atmospheric, deep, lush, spacious and beautifully put together sound. There's a lovely balance between the dark, atmospheric and the ethnic, thematic side and although it's contemporary electronic music, there's a old-school tribal ambient feel to it all. Combined with the excellent sound quality, makes this album an absolute winner. [Databloem]
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Circus Joy -- "Laetitia" -- CD -- €12
2009 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 124 / Misty Circles, MCR72
Italian cult band in which play 2 former members of AIN SOPH as well as other well known musicians of the Roman underground. At the time of the last release by Circus Joy 'Improvvisa Azione Paganini", noise was turned into pleasure and sex; in their new work, "Laetitia", there is no pleasure in noise without sorrow, and sorrow takes over... This CD is not only a sonic tribute to Pop-Art, as its cover clearly shows, or to the noise-psychedelic rock of Velvet Underground (one of the most influential bands for Circus Joy): it's a tribute to the recent and tragic departure of their friend and poet/singer, Letizia. "Laetitia" displays the two faces of Circus Joy: sensual, sick love ballads on one side and the crazy, electric, rides on the other. The record has been recorded between 2008 and 2009 at "Spectrelab" and "Trafalgar Studio Roma", except for the last track "An Eccentric Garden" which has been realised putting together the single parts each of members did on their own, at their own place, then sending them via the internet to the others... Circus Joy is a group of non-musicians, long time friends who come together to produce noise by experimenting and improvising with their instruments. Formed in 1984 by Corrado Mancini, the line-up tends to change from release to release, for this album the line-up was completed by Spectre, Mario F.O.B., ClauDEDI and Steve StrolI. A crazy post-industrial release. [press-release]
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Circus Joy -- "...Le Ore Piu Belle" -- CD-R -- €8
Misty Circles / Nausea Recordings, MCR54 / NAU008
Circus Joy is a long-running indefinable experimental entity from Rome, Italy. Active since the early 1980s, they've always been a sort of twin band to Ain Soph, playing however a completely different kind on music, or more appropriately in this case, non-music. "...Le Ore Piu Belle" is a "private collection" of 15 tracks, covering the whole career of these elusive sound terrorists, and is released as a collaboration between their personal label Nausea Recordings and the well-known Misty Circles. What you have to expect from this CDr is a very hard time listening, as the music is sharp, unpolished and uncompromising... Circus Joy like to indulge into dissonance, to play all their instruments like they were drum kits, in order to grasp ideas and feelings from total chaos and try to give them some meaning... Something between Borbetomagus and Naked City, which you're not likely to put in the CD player while having breakfast... If you have strong and well-trained ears, and you like creative noise-makers such as early Sonic Youth and Swans, or the above mentioned Borbetomagus and Naked City, this Circus Joy retrospective is a good purchase to get introduced into the world of this cult music terrorists. Headphones are suggested for total audio torture. [Simon V.]
Cisfinitum -- "Coniunctio" -- 2 CD -- €15
2005/2006 Ewers Tonkunst, HHE 009 CD, 2nd edition, (ltd. 500)
Cisfinitum is one of the oldest and well-known projects on Russian industrial scene, and shortly after their well-acclaimed 7" on Drone, Ewers Tonkunst is happy to present another international release of this remarkable project. This 2CD-set contains the tracks from the most gloomy and profound albums of Cisfinitum - "Landschaft" (released in 2001 as CDR by IVB Records) and "Malgyl" (previously unreleased), which have been recorded in 1999-2001. The material has been remastered and recompiled to become the new entity called "Coniunctio". Newborn album consists of two parts, "Worlds Of Retribution" and "Heavenly Russia", the first one contains most dark and depressive tracks, the second one presents brighter side of Cisfinitum. Going through the desperate landscapes of today's dying spiritless world, the listener comes into the sacred and surreal inner space of an immaterial land full of light, mysticism and universal melancholy. One of the most beautiful and heartful records ever done in the drone ambient style, "Coniunctio" could remind of the best and saddest Maeror Tri albums or legendary HOEDH "Hymnus", but the irrational Russian essence within Cisfinitum's music makes it unique and completely original. The real masterpiece which we are really proud to release! The second edition of this double-CD comes in a stylish monochrome foldout digisleeve. The edition is limited to 500 copies. [press-release]
Cisfinitum -- "Music Of Light" -- CD-R -- €8
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.
Cisfinitum -- "Nevmenosis" -- CD-R -- €9
2008 Afe Records, afe110lcd, (ltd. 150)
Dark Ambient / Experimental. Cisfinitum is a prominent post-industrial project from Moscow, Russia. It was started in the late 90s by composer and musician Eugene Voronovsky, and since then has drawn significant attention as one of the most uncommon and distinctive acts of the national experimental scene. Cisfinitum has a very specific emotional style lying within the boundaries of drone ambient and noise. Eugene Voronovsky has graduated from the Moscow State Conservatory as a professional violinist. In his music he uses classical instruments such as violin, piano and percussions, along with sounds traditionally considered "non-musical". All sources are subjected to processing, both Soviet analog tools and modern digital technologies are used. "Cisfinitum is the sound of eternity. I've always wanted to create the music of Russian cosmos, music capable of expressing information about Russia that is impossible to reveal by means of words. They call this 'drone' overseas, but I prefer to define it 'metaphysical ambient'", claims Eugene. "Nevmenosis" is a collection of tracks composed by Eugene Voronovsky between 2001 and 2007 which were remastered by Andrea Marutti of Afe Records on purpose of this release. Some of them ("Dissolutio", "Moscow 30", "Galene" and "Oskolok") already appeared on compilations published by Ewers Tonkunst, Monochrome Vision and EE Tapes. Artwork for the album is based on pictures taken by Russian photographer/artist Vespa_crabro and is a fine addition to the music... [label info]
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Cisfinitum -- "Tactio" -- CD -- €11
2008 Mechanoise Labs, mn033, (ltd. 500)
With a parsimonious discography mostly released on seasoned Russian labels such as Waystyx, Ewers Tonkunst and Monochrome Vision, Evgeny Voronovsky has established himself as a uniquely engaging artist in the country's current ambient scene. Under the name of Cisfinitum, he has taken a syncretic approach to an often codified genre, uniting his formal training as a violinist at the Moscow State University with his affinity for concrete sounds and experimental structures. Past releases have shown a capacity to synthesize these factors at times while emphasizing the contrasts between them at others, sometimes over the course of a single track. In this aspect, this album follows the tradition faithfully... Tactio is the live recording of a Cisfinitum concert at the St. Petri Dom (St. Peter's Cathedral) in Bremen, on November 24, 2005. The particular (and as expected highly favorable) acoustics of this environment were consistently used not only as an enhancing effect but as an integral foundation for the performance, making it unmistakably tied to its context. Presented in the form of six continuous tracks, the album is a contemplative composition of vibrant drones, reverberating bells and synthesized resonance, gracefully evolving from the celestial tones of its start to the tellurian pulses of its climax. This is a piece of work that is elaborate in its simplicity, and it's with much appreciation that it is presented here today. The beautiful iconic artwork by Evgeny Kuprienko further emphasizes the relic-like qualities of this recording. [press-release]
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Cisfinitum -- "V" -- CD -- €10
2003 Waystyx Records, WR 05, (ltd. 696)
"V" is the aural extension of audiochemy method developed by both Cisfinitum members (Voronovsky and Norvila) in Audioform Studio during recent two years, using synthesis of classical composition, industrial aesthetics and tonal noise layers. Listening to Cisfinitum music, everyone can feel physically the exclusive aloofness and impartiality preceding the heterogeneity and time collaps. Long transitions between initial states, sudden dynamic outbursts and again desolate spaces where apprehensions are the only way to think. This album is notable not only by background contents but by sounding too: the deliberately reduced quality is remained in the past, agressive alienation changed to the introspective one. The atmosphere of sci-fi cinema of the 70-80s is back - cold, dark, mysterious but nevertheless open-minded and reality engaged. For those of you who like to use CD-ROM for anything labelled with "compact disc" logo, the nice surprise is waiting. [label info]
Cisfinitum / The [Law-Rah] Collective -- "[ANS]werk" -- CD -- €13
2011 Fario, fario cd 11
Cities In Desolation / Eric Boros -- "Of Trains And Funky Shit" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 1000+1 Tilt
Cities Last Broadcast -- "The Cancelled Earth" -- CD -- €14
2009 Cyclic Law, 21st Cycle, (ltd. 1000)
Pär Boström, the man behind the acclaimed project KAMMARHEIT offers us a new and unexpected entity under the name Cities Last Broadcast. The Cancelled Earth album is the result of almost a decade of sporadic field recordings mainly recorded in airports, train stations, various tunnels and under numerous bridges all greatly polished and turned into a refined mass of desolate ambience and subtle hypnosis all engulfed in Pa"r's legendary signature sound. Uniquely packaged in a gatefold book like format with rich and singular artwork made by Boström himself. Through Cities Last Broadcast the buildings themselves will gather to whisper about their inscrutable story. [press-release]
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Clausthome -- "Radiophare [Lampe D'Ambiance]" -- CD -- €11
2005 Indiestate, IST 034 CD, (ltd. 500)
Clausthome is another project of the Latvian band Claustrum known for their great release on Old Europa Cafe. 'Radiophare' brings the listener first class radio-noise in a vein of Bad Sector, Arecibo or SETI/Lagowski. This material was gathered during two years (under project research named Clausthome) using different ways of radio waves scanning, data gathered by radio telescopes and archives of universe research data servers. It was a sound analysis experiment, where material and after-processing of both Earth and cosmic authentic static radiation were used, applying different sound alteration programs and sampling methods, as well as sound synthesis creating music environment. It is a process of translation and transformation that leads towards awareness of that potential environment, which can be created using the gathered material. CD comes in a silver-black digisleeve with an insert and limited to 500 copies. [press-release]
Clausthome -- "Radiophare II [Les Ondes Radio]" -- CD -- €12
2010 Indiestate, IST 081 CD, (ltd. 500)
The Latvian radionoise gurus Clausthome are back! With its new work "radiophare [les ondes radio]" they offer a new trip into the world of the radio waves. The route is a bit different than in the previous work "radiophare [lampe d'ambiance]" (Indiestate, 2005) - now it is closer to the actual radio waves and leads through darker spaces. Sometimes you will be left alone in the beauty of the invisible electromagnetic choir that surrounds us all. Sometimes there will be mere documental fragments thrown into your ear. At some point, it is sounding like a story about life - a look at life through radio waves. The sound here is made using carefully selected and processed scans and recordings of the radio waves, served by Clausthome's usual attitude to the radionoise aesthetics. The release is limited to 500 copies and comes in a monochrome silkscreened digisleeve, recommended to the fans of Bad Sector, John Duncan and other radionoise and radiodrone projects. [press-release]
Claustrum & Traur Zot -- "Returning to the Past by Silence" -- CD -- €10
2004 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 071
A requiem to the past century, whose peace has been buried under the layers of asphalt, glass and steel, under human indifference and soullessness, under the false values... Conceptual work consisting of six parts of sympho-industrial interlacing with darkwave and some martial touch! High quality live recording by Latvian acts Claustrum and Traur Zot. [press-release]
Cleaning Women -- "Pulsator" -- CD -- €9
2001/2004 Soyuz Music, BV-1
Industrial clangs and yells, echoes of Lapland lullabies, a Sufi and smile on techno-pop. Cleaning Women found the way off from the autobahn where Kraftwerk brought the music - directly in the parallel world, to Cleanus, the planet of cleaning robots. The most witty anti-utopia, most ominous dances, most functional clothes dryers! [AFI]
Clear Stream Temple -- "XVI" -- CD -- €10
2003 Cold Spring Records, CSR47CD
Debut album, reissued from the extremely limited and rare CDR, with extra tracks, and absolutely beautiful artwork. `XVI` is a genius mix of neo-classical, martial industrial, dark ambient. A timely attack on the US Bush Presidential administration and all that has in store for us. [press release]
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Clew Of Theseus -- "Meridian" -- CD -- €10
2009 Cathartic Process, CP-11
This album shows a projection and further maturity in Clew Of Theseus' sound. Meridian is a dark and esoteric album, very focused, full of sounds at once harsh and ambient, with forceful drones and rich textures. Sounds were created with acoustic winds, electric guitar, analog and junk synthesizers and gritty electronics, mixed to create a foreboding atmosphere. The album was mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk at Stereophonic Mastering, best known for his work on dozens of Daniel Menche albums. Meridian was recorded in two weeks during the monsoon season of 2008. A careful study into the symbols inside the album show an obsession with elemental force and eternal power. Clew Of Theseus evokes images of furious storms, wiping the landscape of blight, bringing beautiful darkness in its wake. CD packaged in standard jewel case with full-color artwork. [press-release]
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Clew Of Theseus -- "The Playground Of The Damned" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Cipher Productions, (sic 41), (ltd. 100)
Cloama -- "Revisionist Knowledge" -- CD -- €11
2005 Freak Animal Records, FREAK-CD-028, (ltd. 500)
Brutal Finnish power electronics.
Cloama + Blutleuchte -- "From Wasteland Mausoleums" -- CD -- €11
2007 New Old Sentinel, Sentinel-CD-06, (ltd. 500)
New collaboration of two Finnish projects released in summer 2007. Die Blutleuchte are known for their single yet very successful album, one of the best releases of Sahko Records. "From Wasteland Mausoleums" is a glance at the world which is hard to recognize: deserted, bewitched, thrown back in time. Both projects left their power-electronics ambitions for a while, and also went to the past. Ritual evening with candles, an evening of memory of German pioneers of electronic music, guitar improvisations, strange combination of melodic and noisy fragments, an ofter metaphore for a typical dichotomy of life - 12 tracks lasting for about an hour. Limited edition with 8-page booklet, 500 copies. [Monochrome Vision]
Closing The Eternity -- "Kosmodrones" -- CD-R -- €9
2011 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT35, (ltd. 212)
This album of the established Russian project was recorded in 1999-2002 but released only now. Three tracks interwoven with semantic interference with three poems of Georgy Ivanov about what is left after "the attack of atomic hysteria / will scatter everything in flare of azure". Black drone of cosmic vacuum and icy glow of monumental electronic melodies. "Only yellow day-dawn / Only icy stars / Only millions of years". Full-colour cover, three inserts with poems by Ivanov. [press-release]
Closing The Eternity -- "Noughtwards" -- CD -- €10
2009 Epidemie Records, EPR068, (ltd. 600)
After very successful album 'Nearby Being' (2006, in cooperation with Ad Lux Tenebrae project), we bring you a new album of mysterious project from Russian Ural. 74 minutes long composition called 'Noughtwards' is full of dark harmonic drones and subtle pulsations, and is meant to multiply your inner self by zero and to take you off... noughtwards. The album is coming out in nice six pannels digipack in limited edition of 600 pieces. [press-release]
Cock E.S.P. -- "Greatest Dicks" -- CD -- €11
1996 Pure, PURE 39
Legendary noise circus from Minneapolis with the report of their best and worst recordings from 1993-1996. Powerful living Harsh Noise with wild energy. Sleeve.
Coelacanth -- "The Glass Sponge" -- CD -- €11
2003 23five, 23five 004
Cold Fusion -- "Report" -- CD -- €10
2005/2007 Rage In Eden, RAGE 56
This record is the re-edition of Cold Fusion's classic second full-lenght work. The concept album entitled "Report" with 46 minutes of military ambient soundscapes and rhythms, so characteristic for Cold Fusion. The first issue ( sold-out ) was published by War Office Propaganda only in 200 CDR copies in 2005. Now re-issued on CD in digipack with Michal Karcz's artwork. [press-release]
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Cold Fusion -- "Rundfunktechnische Versuchsanstalt I" -- CD -- €10
2010 Rage In Eden, RAGE 73
"Rundfunktechnische Versuchsanstalt" - the experimental radio engineering outpost created in Germany in July 1940. Cold Fusion's next record; this time you will find some compositions on the CD that were available earlier on previous publications, i.e. "Parabellum", "63 days", "The Sound Of Nothingness". Additionally, the CD has been enriched with several tracks that have never been published before. Graphic design by Lukasz Pawlak - REQUIEMSTUDIO.PL. [press-release]
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Cold Fusion -- "Simmetria" -- CD -- €10
2007 War Office Propaganda / Rage In Eden, WOP37
Symmetry perceived as some kind of balance and harmony. Symmetry between surrounding world and its "mirror reflection", which sticks in our minds. Symmetry of left and right side, day and night, birth and death. Symmetry of buildings, objects, bodies. biquitous symmetry. Brand new album of Cold Fusion reflets ist theme - dynamic, marching atmosphere from one side, melancholy and reverie from another. Illusory lack of symmetry or rather its confirmation? 11 tracks, 44.30 minutes comes in nice digipack designed by Michal Karcz. [press-release]
Collapse Project -- "Your Own Way" -- CD-R -- €9
2007 Klangdynamik Records, KD 02, (ltd. 111)
Column One -- "Feldaufnahmen I" -- CD -- €13
2007 Auf Abwegen, AATP21, (ltd. 500)
Feldaufnahmen I is the first release in a series of pure filed recordings by german multi-disciplinary experimental group Column One. The 12 recordings where collected in east Germany in the Polenztal within the mountain range called Elbsandsteingebirge in 2000-2001 with the simplest equipment. The recordings where edited and rearranged by Robert Schalinski in Berlin in 2006. Feldaufnahmen I is a new phase for Column One who have continued to change and evolve in their musical career. The group was renowned for post-industrial atmospheres, media collages and cut-up dadaist humor now they enter the terrain of sound ecology with their own twist. The 12 pieces on the disc radiate with beauty - they demonstrate the full spectrum of sounds that can be found in any relatively quiet natural resort: dogs barking, humming of insects, crackling of twigs, footsteps, wind and more... The CD Feldaufnahmen I is presented in a full colour digipak with a 16 pages booklet with full colour reproductions of photographs taken by Column One in the area where the sounds were recorded. [label info]
Comatose -- "Oceans Of Tears" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Bone Structure, Bone 67, (ltd. 77)
Combative Alignment -- ":And Outside Glows The Red Dawn" -- CD -- €10
2005 Malignant Records, TumorCD24, (ltd. 100)
After several releases, including full length vinyl releases on LOKI and their own label Avatar, and a 7" on Eternal Soul, the first full length CD from this powerful and visionary German project on US label Malignant now. Can perhaps be seen as Combative Alignments benchmark, offering 6 tracks that work as a virtual musical thoroughfare to a more dreamlike, illusory state. Deeply brooding atmospheres, where omniscient layers of drones and reverberating sound currents meet measured, ritual percussion as performed under the glowing, gloomy haze of a primordial sunrise. And Outside Glows the Red Dawn shines a dim light on a world of obscure origin, full of dark Germanic mysticism and unearthly sonic terrain. On a whole, this is a more focused, deeper, and fluid recording than you've heard before, yet triumphantly carrying on the tradition laid down by previous releases. [press-release]
Comforter Inc. -- "Faustrecht" -- CD-R -- €7
2002 Spirals Of Involution, SOI 033
Relentless terror for ears, performed with the help of modern technologies. I think that's how the depths of computer would sound if you connect it directly to electricity transmission line with tension of ten thousand volts.
Comforter -- "Voice of the Voiceless" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Rokot, RKT-08, (ltd. 50)
Old Russian Harsh Noise project that was very active in the beginning of 2000s but is on hiatus nowadays. Swift, superdispersed analogue noise powder of feedbacks and metal junk. Recorded in 1999. [label info]
Comforter vs. Lefthandeddecision -- split -- CD-R -- €8
2003 Spirals Of Involution, SOI 031, (ltd. 104)
Split release of Russian and American projects, playing digital harsh-noise. An hour of constant flow of dense, gritting sound, like a fork in your ear. Highly brutal.
Communism -- "Laughing Gas" -- CD -- €14
2005 Misteriya Zvuka, MZ 271-2
Experimental / noise / rock from late 80-s Soviet Siberian underground - feat. members of Grazhdanskaya Oborona. "From the whole vast discography of COMMUNISM the album "Laughing Gas" (1989) is perhaps the most hard to listen to. After colourful idiotism of "On Soviet Speed" and clearly structured conceptualism of "Suleiman Stalskiy", "Laughing Gas" impresses first of all with lashings of noises and absolutely unstoppable lyrics. The album is completely immersed in the magic environment of free ad-lib or as Egor Letov said 'very strange excursions into consciousness'"... [Maxim Semelyak]
Communism -- "Satanism" -- CD -- €32
2007 Misteriya Zvuka, MZ 276-2
Experimental / noise / rock from late 80-s Soviet Siberian underground - feat. members of Grazhdanskaya Oborona. "The 8th album named "Satanism" is the black hole in the landscape of COMMUNISM. Even the most dedicated fans of Egor Letov & Co. used to tell they couldn't listen to this more than once. Meanwhile "Satanism" is definitely one of the most important exuses of COMMUNISM as musical project - here you won't find recitations by Kuzma, no obvious concept, no easy-to-catch expressions, only harsh full scale sound experience, quite radical for the USSR in 1989. Of course both COMMUNIZM and GRAZHDANSKAYA OBORONA have always used the elements of noise, ritual rhythms and shamanic kind of vocals. But only "Satanism" utilizes all these techniques only to fill all the space of this lengthy album - the result is pure season in hell with the elements of miner strikes in Kuzbass... "Satanism" is perhaps the only work of Soviet musicians which could be easily placed in one row with the odious records of British industrial musicians, I mean first of all NURSE WITH WOUND and CURRENT 93 (their noisier side). In fact this record had something irrevocable in it. "Satanism" with its rumbling numbness kind of opened some door, behind which everything was ultimately funny and scary at the same time." [Maxim Semelyak]
Compest -- "Benu" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2005 Taalem, alm 26
Compest is the latest project of Martin Steinebach who was already a busy bee with his three other projects Monoid (electro industrial), StillStand (ambient soundscapes) and Conscientia Peccati (dark ritual). Compest could be described as his meta-project, gathering all his sounds. Mastered very loud, "Benu" is a 20min piece mixing tribal, ambient & noisy sounds... [press-release]
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Con_Sense -- "Code Sent" -- CD-R -- €9
2009 Databloem, DB09026
Con_Sense is a project driven by Tomas Weiss, one of the most promising names in Ambient / Electronic music. Beautifully mastered cinematic ambient with atmospheric / tribal grooves. Code Sent covers over an hour of top class contemporary electronic music, with a wink to various Berlin school legends. [label info]
Concrete Belly -- "s/t" -- 3"CD-R -- €5
2007 Mechanoise Labs, [mn031], (ltd. 50)
A nice small post rock disk. Sampling and collages turn into soft semi-melancholic guitar tunes, sometimes blurring into cozy amorphism, sometimes gathering into distinct melodic constructions. Simple and beautiful.
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Concrete Violin -- "End Times" -- CD-R -- €7
2003 Solipsism, Solipsism-55, (ltd. 100)
Raw noise music of American PE-school with monotonous noisescapes and lots of distorted vocals. Concrete Violin here isn't that agressive as his colleagues usually are, this album is even atmospheric to a certain extent.
ConDemek -- "Technological Shack Job" -- CD -- €11
1997 Functional Organisation, functional 011
"Technological Shack Job" is a tour-de-force of experimental mayhem within a tight conceptual framework. Damian Catera, Steve Lombardi, and Roxanne Benedetto weave an alluring sonic landscape that veers simultaneously towards rock, experimental power electronics, and more. This concept album explores the socio-political and psychological dimensions of humanity's relationship with technology and in its inter-mingling with reactionary belief systems. The American project presents over 60 minutes of mixed rhythms and soundscapes, with outbursts of noise and samples developing into a wall of rhythms. [press release]
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Contagious Orgasm -- "Corporal" -- CD -- €10
2010 Industrial Recollections
Compiling early SSSM label compilation tape tracks from 80's and early 90's on one disc! Logical addition to previous 3 C.O. titles under Industrial Recollections. [label info]
Contagious Orgasm -- "Spill Drop" -- CD -- €10
2003 Waystyx Records, WR09, (ltd. 410)
New step on the way of Hiroshi Hashimoto creative evolution, one of the most controversive Japanese musician, presenting dense stream of sound, explosing by traditional for Contagious Orgasm flashes of sexual obsession, ritualism and culture permeate. Mature and complicated work. It's a mirror, in which crystall depths everyone of us will see his real matter - purest drop of human prejudices, fears and drawbacks essence. On one hand you can find microglitches, clicks, subtle melodies and controlled rhythmic clicks'n'cuts. And on the other hand more experimental sounds: from rough field recordings, noisy frequencies and distorted voices to sinewaves and continuous glitches. As always on Waystyx Records, exclusive design, consisting of transparent heavy polyethelen and strip of technical ribbon with red landmark. [press-release]
Contagious Orgasm + Government Alpha -- "Heartstrings" -- CD -- €10
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 + Kadaver -- "A Tragedy Without A Border Line" -- CD -- €10
2011 Wrotycz Records, WRT012
Collaboration between Hiroshi Hashimoto from already legendary Contagious Orgasm and Michael Zolotov from Israeli power electronics and noise project Kadaver. "A tragedy without a border line" is a mixture of ambient, PE and noisy sounds. Consists of 3 long pieces of musick without frontiers... Bubbling drones, sampled voices, crashes and hums. All packed in a 6 panel digipack - designed by Michael - with rather controvensial photo inside (at least some will think so). [press-release]
Contemplatron -- "Antarabhava / The Six Realms" -- CD -- €10
2005 Wrotycz Records, WRT 002, (ltd. 500)
The Sanskrit word "Antarabhava" means "the intermediate state" and in particular refers to the state between the death and the moment of the next birth. This is the sonic journey of the soul wandering through the nooks of another worlds. The second part describes the six realms which, according to the Buddhist tradition, symbolizes six destructive emotions: ignorance, hatred, enslaving desire, jealousy, pride and greed. Each track is dedicated to the different emotion and all of them sounds like tunes from the outer space. The cd comes in a cardboard sleeve and is limited to 500 copies. [press-release]
Contemplatron -- "Delog" -- CD -- €10
2008 Wrotycz Records, WRT 007
After a successful debut album Wrotycz Records is proud to announce the second release of this Polish dark ambient act. The DELOG experience is extraordinary, marvellous, even within the esoteric context of Tibetan Buddhism. The Tibetan word DELOG refers to one who has crossed the threshold of death and returned to tell about it. The person who is recognised as DELOG lays without any sign of breath, pulse or body warmth for many days. During that his or her mind journeys to other realms of experience: the pure display of enlightened mind as well as existence within samsaric delusion and ignorance. [press-release]
Control -- "Deadly Sins" -- CD -- €12
2010 Malignant Records, TumorCD48
11 years after making his debut on Malignant side label, Black Plague, the legendary Control returns home to roost, with another pulverizing display of power. 7 tracks, thematically centered around the 7 deadly sins (with each track clocking in at the 7 minute), originally released as lmtd CDr for the Elektroanschlag 11 festival. There is no atonement here, nor redemption offered. Just cold, jarring currents of massively built power electronics and horror filled death industrial, full of clamoring factory debris, razor sharp sheets of sonic violence, and grisly metallic grind, rounded out with Garrison's trademark vocal devastation. In 4 panel digipak, designed by John Balistreri of Slogun. [press-release]
Controlled Collapse -- "Injection" -- CD -- €7
2008 Soyuz Music / Dependent Records, mind 119
Young and undoubtedly talented Polish musician Wojciech Krol has always admired the godfathers of harsh EBM - Belgian band Suicide Commando. So no wonder that his debut album "Injection" (2007) is an explosive mixture of harsh electro (tracks "Liar", "Impact") and pure EBM ("Selfless", "Dreams"), which can go directly to club dancefloors. If you like brutal heavy sound of Agonoize, Hocico and Velvet Acid Christ, you will certainly like Controlled Collapse as well. Special surprise for the lovers of more mild techno-pop - one of the tracks ("Fulfillment") features Darrin Huss from Psyche on vocals. [label info] Russian licensed edition.
Coph Nia -- "The Dark Illuminati" -- CD -- €14
2007 Cold Meat Industry, cmi163
The Thelemic Warlord is back; and after years of silence and solitude Aldenon once again presents us with a true masterpiece - "The Dark Illuminati - A Celestial Tragedy in two acts". This is an epic saga of eight illuminating pieces trying to penetrate the core of the Darkest Light. Aldenon's characteristic growling coupled with Linus's bombastic drums and Karin's serene voice come together in a tapestry of ritualistic, penetrating and sinister ambiance. Included are three timeless classics in new and improved formats... Choirs, strings and intricate orchestrations bring about an unforgettable tale that won't leave any listener untouched; possibly giving rise to more questions, than it poses answers. So what is it? The Dark Illuminati - The Dark Enlightened.... A global elite attempting to enforce a world government? An organization controlling world affairs? The New World Order? Or a Secret Few, merely seeking to preserve the Dark Light....? Well... The Stage is set. The Music begins to play. But the Script has been lost. [press-release]
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Coph Nia -- "Holy War EP" -- mCD -- €13
2001 Cold Meat Industry, CMI.93
Where the debut album 'That which Remains' was somewhat solemn and introspective, 'Holy War EP' is more 'in your face'. Like its predecessor it varies a great deal in styles, but this time it more aggressive and sexual in nature. Digipak. [label info]
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Coph Nia -- "Qliphothic Phantasmagoria" -- mCD -- €9
2008 Wrotycz Records, WRT008
The collection of Coph Nia-fied covers including Ozzy Osbourne's 'Mr Crowley', the song Mr. Aldenon's band was born to cover, 'Black Sabbath' by the band of the same name, 'Sick Things' by Alice Cooper and 'Levitation' by psychedelic space rockers Hawkwind.
Coph Nia -- "Shape Shifter" -- CD -- €14
2003 Cold Meat Industry, cmi122
The second full length album displays familiar streaks while simultaneously pointing out new directions. The pitch-black darkness is eased by moments of sacral ambience, while at times a grand piano and screeching choirs augment the goings-on. [label info]
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Corder, Jason & Beta Two Agonist -- "Further To Find Closer" -- CD-R -- €9
2008 Databloemm, DBCD08019
Two of the most promising names in contemporary electronic music join up for a journey through electro acoustic ambient with a glitch.
This collaboration grew from a collection of musical fragments exchanged between November 2007 and February 2008. These fragments evolved into nine movements seamlessly fused and blended into a morphing cloud of texture. The sounds used were recorded from acoustic/analog instruments and then processed or left untouched. Jason Corder & Beta Two Agonist: vibraphone, xylophone, glockenspiel, windchimes, prayer bowls, electric piano, guitar, field recording, effects and processing. [label info]
Corder, Jason & Opium -- "Autunno" -- CD-R -- €11
2006 Practising Nature, PN019
Jason Corder's percussive minimalism interwoven with Opium's drones. Jason Corder - The moniker "Off the Sky" was originally birthed as a simple misinterpretation of an obscure line from that famous film Trainspotting. Random as its conception was, Off the Sky is an all too apropos title summating the dub-atmospheric and acoustic solo projects emanating from Jason Corder's studio in Kentucky, USA. It is a humble hand that reflects both his mild mannered nature and his usual "in-the-clouds" mind-set. Jason's musical style is loosely inspired by the likes of Monolake, Gas, and Christian Fennesz. Teo Zini (Opium) was born in Bollate, Milan (Italy) in 1979 and now lives in Varese. His love for electronic music began when he was 15. His first experiments were created with the first home personal computer soundcards. Through software he creates rich drones and complex soundscapes often using etnic/tribal sounds and beats. Opium is also involved in other projects such as Sola Translatio with Alio Die. [label info]
Corder, Jason & Opium -- "Thepresentday" -- CD-R -- €11
2006 Practising Nature, PN019
Opium drones and ethnic elements are interwoven with Jason Corder's percussive minimalism to create a flowing long-form work of seven fascinating movements. [label info]
Corpoparassita -- "Inesorabile" -- CD -- €10
2007 FinalMuzik, FM06, (ltd. 500)
Italian project Corpoparassita is known in the industrial underground scene for a few outstanding limited edition CDr releases. "Inesorabile" is their first full length CD, including - trust us! - the most obscure and colder stuff around! Just imagine a modern version of Italian 70's horror movies' soundtrack meeting thrilling dark ambient and morbid black noise. "Inesorabile" is a must for industrial / dark ambient fans, and it is available in a beautiful poster sleeve akin to some Crass and hc / crustcore releases. [label info]
Corpoparassita -- "L'affannoso Respiro Del Gatto" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Abgurd, AB-48, (ltd. 100)
Itialian Dark Ambient project. Surrealistic macabre. Soft harmonic drones and ambiences, bass-guitar, gloomy scratches. Contemporary tales of parallel worlds. [label info]
Costa, Gustavo -- "Slow Life in the Age of Hyperstressed Communities" -- CD-R -- €7
Setola Di Maiale, SM1910
Composed and recorded between 2007 and 2010. Gustavo Costa is a Portuguese musician and composer who lives in Porto, well known as an excellent drummer/percussionist, he is involved in many projects, ranging from free improvisation, free jazz, to ensemble of modern compositions, to hardcore punk. This disc presents his latest compositions, in which the complex sound material is organized with great skill and sensitivity. A very good sound research that blurs the nature, "what I hear is acoustic or electronic?". Then their stratification, their layout, together with variations, make it a work of great interest. Here there are deep musical ideas, near Mauricio Kagel or Pansonic, but these are just names to give a general idea. [press-release]
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Cote Deserte -- "Dale Cooper's Case" -- mCD -- €9
2001 Aquarellist, aquarel 19-11, (ltd. 500)
A Moscow - St.Petersburg based project inspired by Angelo Badalamenti's score for the "Twin Peaks" TV series. The project's music is a cocktail made of jazz, ambient and modern experimental music which will appeal to the fans of such bands as Dale Cooper Quartet And The Dictaphones, The Necks, Bohren & Der Club Of Gore, No-Man, etc. 6 tracks, 33 minutes. [label info]
Cotton Ferox -- "Defragmental" -- CD -- €12
2007 Eroto Tox Decodings, ETD002, (ltd. 1000)
Cotton Ferox / Bardoseneticcube / Kryptogen Rundfunk / 1g0g -- "Mother Russia" -- CD-R -- €10
2009 Edda Grammofon, HILO-7, (ltd. 100)
An intense live jam recorded in St. Petersburg during Cotton Ferox 2007 Russian tour. Eerie, dark, Russian, Swedish, psychedelic, emotional, evocative... Et cetera. A free-flowing and colourful mind expansion in the sparkling encounter between two cultures and six heads. [label info]
Courtis -- "Endless Cassette Research Vol.1" -- CD-R -- €8
2005 Ultra, UCD 21, (ltd. 99)
Solo project of Argentine musician A. Courtis, participant of Reynols. The album is recorded with usage of Tascam 424 with endless cassette. Fat raw analogue laid-back sound makes you feel being inside of some device surrounded by textolite panels, mechanical switches and bundles of wires with streams of electrons fulfilling abstract experimental tasks.
Courtis, Alan -- "ACR" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2010 Lona Records, locd68r
"A Capella Rainbow" is an experimental piece made with voice as only sound source recorded at the artist's own Studios in Buenos Aires. In this case the recordings were so heavily processed that it's hard to recognize traces of human voice. Vocal Drone? Sci-fi Spoken Word? Detuned Human Bioacoustics? Electrified Singing? It's difficult to say, however it's an intense piece to be filed probably in between "Sound of Hydrangea" and "Tape Works". [label info]
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Cranc -- "All Angels" -- CD -- €10
1999 Diskoi EDO, E-07, (ltd. 890)
Crank Sturgeon -- "Drastic Ishmael Effect" -- CD-R -- €5
2006 Monopolka, This is Monopolka 112
Degenerative American jazz-rock in extremely unpleasant way. 60 minutes of shit on down beat. Horrible mug on cover, pro-printed CDRs, serigraphy. [label info]
Crawling With Tarts -- "Ludiques Manifestes" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Lunhare, zzz - 1, (ltd. 100)
Three live recordings from concerts held in Oakland in 1991 and 1992. Intended to be released on cassette in 1999, but kept in the drawer until now, this work is published for the first time. Improvisation sketches on percussive patterns, self-constructed instruments, and even a punky, fast and furious song. Different sides of a group always different from the rest. [label info]
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Cria Cuervos -- "Des Tempes qui se Vitrifient ou se Marbrent" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2005 Taalem, alm 28
Cría Cuervos, from Italy (as its name and the track title don't show it) proposes here a truly beautiful piece of dark ambient, after some other releases on Thisco or Mystery Sea. The best image I could use to depict this piece is to describe it as a mysterious living being getting out of its lethargy and discovering an hostile world... Slowly evolving, the sound constantly progresses to reach an unexpected climax... Beware, the beast is alive. [press-release]
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Cria Cuervos -- "Vor Feuerschlünden" -- CD-R -- €9
2007 Afe Records, afe092lcd, (ltd. 100)
Electroacoustic / Experimental. Cria Cuervos is the music project of italian sound artist Eugenio Maggi. Influenced by surrealism, minimalism, Drone and Industrial music, Hard Core/Punk and Grind, his music has evolved from more noisy experiments and now sits somewhere in between darker ambience and electroacoustic. During the years he created several full-lenght solo works and also collaborated with artist such as Paul Bradley, Sparkle in Grey, Ninth Desert and Maurizio Bianchi. His music was released on many international labels: Immanence, Thisco, Mystery Sea, Taalem, Twenty Hertz and Dielectric Records. "Vor Feuerschlünden" (...German for "Before Throats of Fire"...) is Cria Cuervos's latest full-lenght offering and it probably is his best solo work to date. The album features two long tracks of electroacoustic / experimental nature, built using field recordings (...cicadas, gas, frogs, water...), self-programmed Theta waves, short waves and softwares. No synthesizers were used during the recording process. [label info]
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Crisis -- "Holocaust Hymns" -- CD -- €18
2005 Apop Records, Apop 013
Critikal -- "Graphorrhea" -- CD -- €10
2007 Kvitnu, kvitnu 4 / Nexsound, ns60 / Zeromoon, ZERO 008
Dmytro Fedorenko (Kotra), Andrey Kiritchenko, Tobias Astrom and Jeff Surak (Violet) join forces to present this masterwork of muscial fragmentation. The new fab four of the electronica world. [label info] 'The overall atmosphere changes from harsh and corrupted to dark and evil over the course of the record and I get sucked into a dystopian world that I last experienced this way when I listened to 'black vomit' by Wolf Eyes with Anthony Braxton.' [Cracked] ':one is lost in its quagmire of unorthodox tunings and thrashing textures as though in a delirium, only a constant threat can be gleaned from its dark surface.' [Earlabs]
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Cruelty Campaign -- "Distressed Signals" -- CD -- €10
2002 Tesco Organisation, TESCO048
The Los Angeles-based group Cruelty Campaign utilizes site recordings, found sounds, and interviews to create musical atmospheres and harsh soundscapes that are both beautiful and disquieting. Excellent experimental dark tech. Packaged in a Digipak. [press release]
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Cuni, Amelia -- "Sings Dhrupad" -- CD -- €11
1998 Hic Sunt Leones, HSL 014
Master of dhrupad traditional indian chant present an exceptional performance live in Bombay. On this recording, Amelia Cuni presents two ragas, both of which, according to the time-theory of Indian music, are prescribed for early morning performance, and are associated with a devotional mood. They form a part of Amelia's single most brilliant concert appearance in India, which catapulted her into celebrity status. Ms. Cuni is recognised today as the finest non-Indian exponent of vocal music in the mideaval Dhrupad style, and probably the only significant Dhrupad vocalist amongst women anywhere. Ms. Cuni's achievement is exceptional because of her command over all the departments of the art form -- the grammar of the Raga melodic structures, the rhythmic disciplines, sensitivity to the literary content of the poetic form, and the distinctive technique of voice production with its demands on breath-control, lung-power, and tonal precision... [label info]
Current 93 -- "How I Devoured Apocalypse Balloon" -- 2 CD -- €11
2006 Soyuz Music / Durtro, DSM 4026-06
Russian edition of this album will all titles translated to Russian language.
Cyber Baphomet -- "Directory "Human" Delete" -- CD -- €10
2008 Nomos Dei, Legis I, (ltd. 666)
Schizophrenic industrial rhythmic electronics, the label marks the style of the project as "satanik postindustrial".
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Cyclotimia -- "Deja Vu" -- CD -- €10
2008 Shadowplay Records, SPR 061
The Moscow project CYCLOTIMIA is not needed to be present. It's albums were released at the cult western electro-industrial labels and also in Russia. It's music were sent even in space. During the period of 9 years there are lot of reviews about this band almost all sites and magazines that are devoted to the electro-industrial music mention CYCLOTIMIA or write articles about it. But you could make your own opinion about it - just listen the CD... All songs from the album were written in 2001 year and were released as two vinyls "Same Time Same Place" and "Metamorphosis" in 2002 year. But were difficult to buy because of the very limited edition... Chronologically the album "Deja Vu" is between "Wasteland" and "E$chaton". [press-release]
Cyclotimia -- "New Death Order" -- CD -- €10
2006 Ewers Tonkunst, HHE 013 CD, (ltd. 500)
This is a re-issue of the first MCD by Cyclotimia which has been released by the now defunct State-Art back in 2000 and now is a very hard-to-find collector item. This depressive gloomy work is closer to the early band's vinyl releases than to more electro-oriented latest albums. The claustrophobic aura of the world dying in the strangling embraces of the new world order, the total horror of everyday life, the omnipresent tentacles of consumerism - all the distinctive conspirological Cyclotimia topics are already here on this debut work, and lo-fi industrial-oriented sound makes it all totally revealed and free of any veneer. This album is a brilliant soundtrack for pre-apocalyptic times which could appeal not only to Cyclotimia fans, but to all the lovers of obscure atmospheric industrial in a vein of Schloss Tegal "Oranor III" or some 90-ies Sigillum S works. In addition to the initial MCD material, the release includes 8 previously unreleased tracks from the same period and comes in a cardboard full-colour envelope limited to 500 copies only. Total length is 74 min. [press-release]
Cyclotimia -- "Trivial Pleasures" -- mCD -- €8.50
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 -- €10
2002/2005 Irond, IROND CD 05-1065
"We started to record 'Wasteland' in the end of 1999. We were inspired by the album 'The City' by Vangelis. A view of the Greek composer on modern city looked unreasonably "optimistic" to us... The idea of creating a soudtrack more suitable for contemporary megalopolis was born immediately. Impenetrable veil of stone buildings, blinding neon advertising lights, continual informational streams, supermarkets, stockmarkets, all-round crowds of ever scurrying people and cars... This was the picture of our "city". The recording took about twelve months, and by the beginning of 2001 the work was completely done. Listening to 'Wasteland' after five years we tend to consider that despite some technical imperfection our goal has been reached. It's worth mentioning that there's something more in common with Vangelis' work - we deliberately used some same sound libraries of the BBC company which sound in 'The City' album too. It's a strange case when the CD can apply both to the fans of "old school" electronics, i.e. Klaus Schulze, Vangelis, Tangerine Dream, and to the lovers of ominous darkness like Raison d'Etre, In Slaughter Natives, Lustmord, Bad Sector, Coil, Skinny Puppy." [from the authors] The album was originall released in 2002 by now defunct German label Stateart, and in 2005 reissued by Russian company Irond.
Cymphonic -- "Strataradialis" -- CD -- €10
2007 Databloem, DBCD 07018
Multi layered original sounds and "Biospheric" elements, smoothly woven into first class ambient. A fairytale caught in music. [label info]
Czajkowska, India -- "Cosmospir" -- CD -- €13
2008 Hic Sunt Leones, HSL047
Czalczeskun -- "Samer'10" -- CD-R -- €3
2011 Smell The Stench
Weird crappy noise / ambient from Poland.
D9 -- "s/t" -- CD -- €10
2009 Heart & Crossbone, HCB 021 / Urban Decay, UDR 003
Named after one of the most imaginative and infamous key roles in the Israeli occupation, D9 is as merciless as this monstrous bulldozer, ramming reality in its' forehead with their post apocalyptic hectic predictions, directed towards the Israeli state and the worlds' systematic moral corruption, fueling their fury with an offensive portion of old school hardcore punk, and generating this boiling wrath into an original crushing blend of sly grindcore and bare boned power violence hostility, with a fair amount of devastating sludgy riffage and obscure electronic noise intervals to make their squashing sound even more quirky and disturbing. [press-release]
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Dachise -- "Elegant Aggression" -- CD-R -- €7
2003 Solipsism, Solipsism-45, (ltd. 100)
One of the late recordings of this UK project, now defunct and re-organised as The Digitariat. Six old school tracks varying from noise to cut-up and from surreal concrete ambient back to noise.
Dachise -- "Twin Braids" -- CD -- €10
1999 Assemblage Point, 001CD, (ltd. 500)
DACHISE somehow manage to bang a wedge between the Japanese school of Raw Noise and a more Avant Garde, tape - manipulation sound. So while there are moments here when, at a decent volume, you feel they are going to knock the house down around your ears, it makes for a much more interesting experience. Whereas the Japanese approach is to simply blast you away, DACHISE have a much more effective way of assaulting your aural nervous system - they lull you with warmth, beats and hypnotic tape loops, then fire detonating bursts at you when you least expect it. [Metamorphic Journeyman]
Darkwood -- "Flammende Welt" -- CD -- €14
2001 Heidenvolk, HV 04
"Flammende Welt" is the third album by the German band Darkwood. After leading us into a neo-classical soundscape and battlefield atmosphere on their album "Heimat & Jugend", they now close the circle to "In the Fields" and present a heroic acoustic album with German and English vocals and an omnipresent touch of melancholy. Martial tunes and samples complete the historical tale on the Folk of Destiny. [label info]
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Daruin / Torturing Nurse / Stpocold -- "split" -- CD-R -- €8
2007 Abgurd, AB-37, (ltd. 114)
This is the second part of Harsh Noise 3-way split series.
DARUIN, guided by Kazuya Ishigami, is rather well-known among adorers of experimental Digital Post-Industrial. 19-minutes-long track filled with action: it starts off with a Glitch prelude, streams towards schizophrenic TV-collages, trembles with piercing Digital Noise, whirls with a storm of heated noise. A 20-minutes-long track of TORTURING NURSE is recorded by duo of Youki and Junky. Wall of noisy feedbacks interrupted by guitar passages, pick scrapes and screams. STPOCOLD - project of INSTANT MOVIE COMBINATIONS, researching wastelands of Digital Noise. 21-and-a-half minutes of asthmatic asphyxia. Fine-dyspersated gravel of noise is forced through ears by howling and droning frequencies. [press-release]
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Das Reut -- "Arte De Ben Morire" -- mCD -- €8
2004 Divine Comedy Records, DC 037, (ltd. 500)
Das Reut is a side project of russian dark industrial's leading combo, the mighty Reutoff... Here, we present its very first release : a 4 tracks MCD. The music is a very weird affair... Mid tempo rythmics flirting with dark-electronica (and even ebm), enhanced by some desperate and aggressive vocals, but without any intention of dance floor's conquest. There's also an 80's touch all around but the Reutoff's tragical and frozen atmosphere still remains... Let's add the artwork is composed of amazingly strange drawnings in a cool packaging! [label info]
Das Synthetische Mischgewebe -- "Collaborations" -- 2 CD -- €15
2006 Monochrome Vision, (mv09), (ltd. 500)
DSM's music world appears as the intricate but finest tapestry of microscopic sounds, sophisticated packing of voids with sonic hallucinations, textural interactions and layering effects. Mostly sourced from the ordinary life, sounds changed beyond any recognition, the endless flow of electroacoustic treatments and studio engineering. This album includes collaborations with some finest sound-artists over there, and must be attended as the most diversified one. The full title of this double-CD album of collaborations is: "The escape of the electrified dermatologist epitomises his dissent with the compromising juxtaposition of the smell and the sound of a pair of wings injured in subdued romance". It contains tracks recorded with ERG, Jorg Thomasius, Artificial Memory Trace, The Oval Language and Thomas Beck. Loud and quiet, occasionally full blast and more frequently sneaking little sounds, no less intense and all alternating in a few seconds - discontinuity may likely be the trademark of DSM's sound world. Things are kept together, coherency is established by all what is absent, form vanishes before it can be grasped. [label info]
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Das Synthetische Mischgewebe -- "Le Vide Pour Appui" -- CD -- €16
2009 Waystyx, WR42, (ltd. 424)
This CD contains the recordings prepared specially for a dance performance for the conservatory of Caen, France (yet it's not easy to imagine what kind of dancing it was while listening to this music). All the sounds were recorded in the class of orchestral percussion with tam tams, gongs, cymbals, cymbaloms, toms, xylophones and vibraphones, carillon, timpani, barrel drums, bells, tubular bells, etc. being played mechanically with different motors and other electrical devices, via different transmitters, low frequency pulses via loudspeakers and transducers, with spirals, strings, coils, tapes, wires, elastics, air pressure, adhesives, etc. and never with hands or drum sticks of what ever kind. [label info] Unconventional package desigh with the use of silk-screened plastic and elements made of thick leather.
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Dasein -- "Vae Victis" -- CD-R -- €6
2009 Valgriind, VG 17, (ltd. 100)
Deep noise ambient, associated with history of world wars. Author's artworks are used in design. [label info]
Dasein vs. Bardo -- "Prima Materia" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2010 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT56, (ltd. 72)
Moscow based noise act Dasein (a side-project of Fanum) reworks the compositions of another Moscow project Bardo (aka Sergey Gabbasov, pre-Vazhes), played on Tibetian ritual instruments, into a 20-minute mysterious drone noise ambient nocturne. Dense low rumblings of pre-matter, enigmatic sounds flowing through low-frequency layers, chilly night music for contemplation over the riddles of the universe. Handmade cardboard sleeve, cover photo by Orleane. [press-release]
Dasein / Indra / YAO 91404 D -- "Aikuaivenchorr" -- CD-R -- €7
2011 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT74, (ltd. 50)
Space Drone Ambient created from the field recordings made in July 2010 in Hibiny tundras, particularly on a hospitable mountain Ajkuajvenchorr (Mountain with a god's mother's head) - land of July snowstorms and tame partridges. Space depth, arctic forest cold, purity of mountain rivers and clarity of air, shamanism, all-pervading taste of technicism. Only 50 copies in minimalistic package. [label info]
The Days Of The Trumpet Call -- "I Saw No Temple In The City / Reminiszenz 1999-2006" -- 2 CD -- €16
2008 Trutzburg Thule, TRUTZCD003
The Days Of The Trumpet Call are back! Neoclassical surrounded by a large range of ambient, experimental and folk rock. "I Saw No Temple In The City" was TDOTTC's 2nd opus and was originally released back in 2001 on 10" picture disc (Ltd x 555) by Ars Musica Diffundere. "Reminiszenz..." provides a review of the strongest work of TDOTTC from 1999-2006. 13 select pieces have all been revisited and remastered in the studio. Last but not least is a special bonus track, written by Sagittarius and sung by Troy Southgate (H.E.R.R) and Vera Debaillou. This double album is presented in a stunning 6-panel digipak. [press-release]
The Days Of The Trumpet Call -- "Purification" -- CD -- €11
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]
De Fabriek goes The Hitmachine -- "Het Terrein II" -- CD -- €13
2007 EE Tapes, EE08, (ltd. 185)
Dead Man's Hill -- "The Daemons of Death" -- CD -- €10
2006 War Office Propaganda / Rage In Eden, WOP29
The newest Dead Man's Hill CD contains 8 songs consisting of organic howling sounds, crossed with lots of choirs, strings, horns and trumpets, beautiful clean vocals and usual DMH-percussions. Includes the track "Masks of Egypt", which appeared also earlier on the WOP promo-sampler. [press-release]
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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 Raven Choir -- "Selenoclast Wolves" -- CD -- €11
2006 God is Myth Records, GIM018
What can be said about the amazing Dead Raven Choir that hasn't been said already? This release marks the return of D.R.C. after a slew of releases on some very respectable cd-r labels, not to mention 2003's "Wine, Women and Wolves" cd (Last Visible Dog) as well as last years "Cask Strength Black Metal" 3 LP box set (Weird Forest) which was a re-issue of ALL of the "Choir's" ugly, noisy, totally fuzzed out black metal on vinyl format. Smolken returns to the dark, avante-garde neo-folk side of Dead Raven Choir that has made this such a unique and awe inspiring musical journey. Selenoclast Wolves is an album that runs the gammet of emotions; Whether it be the creepy lurch and sway of the track "The Silence", the brooding melancholy of "When Men Die", or the sheer manic violence of "I am Not a Recluse" the common feeling throughout is one of complete isolation. As a bonus this cd will contain the complete re-issue of the "Lesbian Corpse Wolves" album which was limited to ONLY 30 copies. All completely re-mastered by Frederic Arbour (Cyclic Law, Visions, Longing for Dawn). On "Lesbian Corpse Wolves" most of the vocals were handled by the beautiful voice of Emily Salvatierra. Aversion Online once said of this release that these "...dark, folk-ish compositions rely heavily on picking accents and clashing notes that are both melodic and completely discordant all at once..." and we could not agree more. Now lets all raise a glass (or goblet perhaps?) and thank Mr. Smolken for resurrecting his fascinating project once again!!! [label info]
Dead Voices On Air -- "Fast Falls The Eventide" -- 2 CD -- €15
2009 Lens Records, LENS0109
Fast Falls The Eventide is aural provocateur Mark Spybey's (ex-:Zoviet*France:) 11th album as Dead Voices On Air, and across a multi-decade career stirring pots experimental, existential, and otherwise, his is a sound that summons any number of nocturnal beasties from the ether. Blink twice, listen carelessly and you'll fail to discern the minutiae Spybey meticulously works into every one of the 15 pieces sprawling across the first disc of this 2-CD set's eminent domain. Spybey works hard at his art so you don't have to: rather, as the listener, the participant, the absorber, it's more important to ignore categorical tags such as 'industrial', 'ambient', 'soundscape', et al, and instead gorge deeply on a wriggling, sometimes confrontational puzzlebox of sounds erupting from a bevy of mysterious sources... Fast Falls The Eventide is a two CD set featuring the all new recording Fast Falls The Eventide on Disc 1. Disc 2 features the long out of print first release by Dead Voices On Air - Abrader - originally released in 1994 on cassette by Japan's G.R.O.S.S. label. This digitally remastered version of Abrader features two previously unreleased tracks featuring cEvin Key. Abrader and the two bonus tracks are only available on this CD release. [label info]
Deadhorsemort -- "A Priori: Dedicated to Rene Descartes" -- CD-R -- €8
2010 Linija Shuma, SHUM0010, (ltd. 36)
Industrial dark ambient in classical vein - dense obscure atmosphere, minimal hypnotic rhythms, echoes of the images from the past in gramophone melodies sounding merry yet somehow pathological in such musical framework... "This album represents the power of true belief versus true delusion and the uncertainties that come from these powerful questions of the self. Absolute knowledge of ones self maybe possible to achieve but perhaps can never truly be realized, understood, nor embraced due to finite limits of reality, being merely a human being. Also if one could truly embrace its own truth, would one really like what ones sees? Even if not, one would still have to live, die, and face the unknowns of eternity with this inner truth, that may be displeasing... This album is dedicated to Rene Descartes and his ideas on experience, truth, and certainty. Ideas, such as empiricism versus rationalism and the ideas of priori and posteriori inner truths, while in the pursuit of ones absolute knowledge." [from the authors]
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Deadwood -- "8 19" -- CD -- €10
2006 Cold Spring Records, CSR53CD
Outstanding Power Electronics from Sweden. This is DEADWOOD's debut album and is a solid, pounding force of electronics, Death Ambient atmospheres and brutal vocals. Featuring a member of Satanic Black Metal act Blodulv. File alongside such luminaries as The Grey Wolves and Mz.412. DEADWOOD is a relentless assault on the senses! Approach with due caution! [press-release]
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Deadwood -- "Ramblack" -- CD -- €11
2008 Cold Spring Records, CSR104CD
'Ramblack" is the follow up to Deadwood's successful 2005 album "8 19" (CSR53CD). Over the past 3 years this Swedish artist has been toiling away, creating a new black ambient / death noise masterpiece and "Ramblack" is the result. Cloaked in a more raw and morbid sound then its predecessor, this album truly changes ones perspective of audial darkness. This analogue beast of an album layers the tonal prayers of demons and the distorted cries of angels, sickness and depravity. True Death Electronics. The soundtrack to your end. "Ramblack" features guest vocals from Norwegian Black Metal legend Maniac (Skitliv, ex-Mayhem), who's vocal approach on the song 'Forakt' shows the full range of his capacity. Truly one of the most sick and twisted pieces of sonic art ever recorded. Enjoy the disease! [press-release]
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Death In June -- "All Pigs Must Die" -- CD -- €17
Leprosy Discs, Leper CD4
Here it is! You begged for it?! Death in June is back with the guitar and other traditional instruments, such like accordeon, flute and trumpet. Together with A. Ritter of the German folk-band Forseti and the famous trumpet player Campbell Finley, Douglas P. recorded a new album very much in the style of his folk highlights, "Rose clouds.." and "But, what ends...". The album is splitted in 6 folk orientated and 5 experimental tracks, remember records like "Wall of Sacrifice". Inspired by Charles Mansons night of Helter Skelter, Douglas P. found a way to haunt his own nightmare. Comes in extraordinary coverdesign and deluxe manufacturing with embossed titles and debossed images. [label info]
Death In June -- "Black Angel - Live!" -- CD -- €17
2008 Leprosy Discs, LEPER CD8, (ltd. 2000)
Live recording made on 24.05.2000 at The Esplanade, Melbourne, Australia. Band consisted of Douglas P. & John Murphy. Songs performed: Ku Ku Ku, To Drown A Rose, Omen-Filled Season, Symbols Of The Sun, Giddy Giddy Carousel, Kameradschaft, She Said Destroy, The Honour Of Silence, Golden Wedding Of Sorrow, Runes And Men, Fall Apart, But, When Ends When The Symbols Shatter? Signed by Douglas P.
Death In June -- "Peaceful Snow" -- 2 CD -- €22
2010 New European Recordings, BAD VCCD54
Death In June -- "The Rule of Thirds" -- CD -- €17
2008 New European Recordings, BAD VC CD 51
The first new Death In June studio album in more than three years. The CD edition is presented in an embossed softpak with 16 page lyric book. The embossed whiphand looks like the birds on AA and this is where the music continues. Minimalistic and pure, nearly no other instruments then the guitar and the voice of Douglas P. A break with what you know from "Symbols" or albums like "TCAC" and "OH". You will love the artistic pictures in the artwork. Recommended! [Tesco]
Death In June & Rice, Boyd -- "Alarm Agents" -- CD -- €17
New European Recordings, NER BAD VCCD48
Alarm Agents; the multi-headed Beast of Obsessions meets the Wolfshook of your Desires. Realist? Alarmist?? You must have this! Alarm Agents; from Berlin to Jerusalem ring the bells. A new album from Death In June and Boyd Rice. A marriage made in Hell. [label info]
Deathroes -- "Hate Fuck" -- CD -- €10
2007 PACrec, PACrec132 / Troniks, TRO-265, (ltd. 1000)
Deathroes is Gerritt and Sixes. Debut release from this Oakland Black Noise super group. Equal parts harsh and black, filled with spite. [label info]
Decadence -- "Where Do Broken Hearts Go?" -- CD -- €12
2005 Cold Meat Industry, cmi147
Decadence has been proudly signed to Cold Meat Industry for their first album since the "Something to love, something to spend" LP in 2003. With their new album "Where do broken hearts go?", Decadence manage to create a perfect harmony between sophisticated Neo-Classical and Neo-Folk music; dramatic classical orchestrations, militaristic snares and soft melodies played by piano and acoustic guitars. Fragile innocence presented by female singer Eufrosyne, and completed by the cynical voice of Petros - a perfect combination of Romance and Sin. Decadence have released very limited vinyls on prestigious labels before, that were instantly sold out, so we are finally glad to present their new album, to a larger audience. Jewelcase with 24-pages fullcolour booklet with decadent and sexy pictures. [label info]
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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).
Deison -- "Night Sessions" -- CD -- €10
2011 Silentes Minimal Editions, sme 1149
A collection of fascinating and obscure nocturnal sessions alternating "classical" electronic inspiration parts based on sequencers and synthetizers to more abstract and minimal sonic episodes, deep drones, musical mix ups, distorted and extended guitars, deformed human voices, static and moving more typical "ambiental" movements, cold insets of more pulsing and "techno oriented" sounds, suggestive atmospheres build on bizzare loops, more typically "glitch" inserts and hisses... a great collection of collaborations with Teho Teardo, Philippe Petit, Under the Snow, Jim Coleman, Franck Vigroux, Testing Vault, Annen Berg. [label info]
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Deison & K.K. Null -- "Into" -- CD -- €10
2009 Silentes Minimal Editions, sme 0931
Penetrating 'Hi-tech' music, always on the border between sound, silence and noise: Splinters of sonic fragments, buzzings, electronic hisses, pulsations, hypnotic loops, ambient textures, sudden rays of light: A kaleidoscope of syntethic sounds and digital glitches, in a universe dominated by binary codes, that evolves through the cold-hearted control of sophisticated algorhythmic mutations programmed by human entities that already reached a level beyond the borders of our earthly knowledge: [label info]
Delphium "Heart Full of Soul" / The Infant Cycle & Ramunas Yaras "Translation" -- 2x3"CD-R -- €9
2006 Diophantine Discs, n = 5,6, (ltd. 100)
"Heart Full of Soul," nearly 23 minutes, is one of Delphium's darkest and noisiest recordings to date. The very direct and engaging work features tracks ranging from droning dark ambient to distorted and expressive rhythmic beats. "Translation" is a 20-minute release consisting primarily of The Infant Cycle processing and supplementing avantgarde clarinet recordings by Ramunas Yaras. The resulting experimental (and somewhat rhythmic) pieces fall variously within the spectrum between ambient drone and noise. This release is presented as a pro-printed 2x3"CDr set, packaged in a special color folder sleeve, and limited to 100 copies. Delphium has been active since 1993, releasing numerous vinyl and CD releases on labels such as Drone, Moloko+, Hibou, and his own Aquese label. The Infant Cycle, active since 1992, has many releases on labels such as EE Tapes, Blade, Hands, and his own label, The Ceiling. Ramunas Yaras is a Lithuanian experimental composer and writer who is also known for his work in Endiche Vis.Sat and Magic Carpathians Project. [label info]
Delplanque, Mathias -- "Ma Chambre Quand Je N'Y Suis Pas (Montreal)" -- CD -- €10
2006 Mondes Elliptiques, .E.Q.05.02, (ltd. 500)
This is the stereo version of a sound installation presented at Montreal's Studio Cormier in December 2004. It is the second part of the "Ma chambre quand je n'y suis pas" series. The piece is based on the recording of 'silences', i.e. the recording of sound produced in spaces with no human presence. The sound of an 'empty' Studio Cormier was therefore used as the material for the production of this piece. The sound takes were done during the quietest moments of the day, by means of microphones placed strategically throughout the Studio by the artist. The sounds gathered were then amplified, and their frequencies, accentuated to the extreme. In the installation itself, the sound was broadcast in multi channel mode over 11 loudspeakers, including a subwoofer, in four Studio Cormier spaces ('Hall', 'Living room', 'Bedroom', 'Lab'). This installation closed Mathias Delplanque's Montreal residency at Studio Cormier from July to December 2004, as part of Les Inclassables program, proposed by the Association francaise d'action artistique (AFAA), in partnership with the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec (CALQ) and the Office franco-quebecois pour la jeunesse (OFQJ)... The result of the experiment, as presented on this record, constitutes a genuine drone odyssey playing on fullness and emptiness, presence and absence, "speak" and "non-speak"... One long track full of subtle movement and enlivened with various underlying currents. A sheer delight... Mathias Delplanque is known, among others, for his releases under the LENA moniker on the Quartermass label. As THE MISSING ENSEMBLE, Mathias Delplanque, John Sellekaers and Daniel De Los Santos recorded the HIDDEN DOORS cd, released on MONDES ELLIPTIQUES (.E.Q.05.01.). [press-release]
Deltidseskapism -- "Dunklets Hogtid" -- CD -- €11
2003 U-Cover 40, u-cover 40/02, (ltd. 500)
U-cover 40 proudly presents it's second relase coming from Deltidseskapism aka Bauri aka Martin Abrahamsson (Stokholm, Sweden), known for his releases on fine electronic labels such as Neo Ouija, Awkward Silence, Pitchcadet and on compilations for City Centre Offices, Benbecula, Surgery, Merck, Mille Plateaux and Mitek. On this album Abrahamsson presents six tracks of his irresistable blend of clicks'n'cuts inspired rhythms mixed with beautiful melodies and founded sounds resulting exactly in 40 minutes of music. -special cardboard packaging. [press-release]
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Demimonde -- "Mutant Star" -- CD -- €10
2000 Epidemie Records, EPR 042
Dense Vision Shrine -- "A Voyage of Imagination" -- CD -- €10
2006 Epidemie Records, EPR 052, (ltd. 500)
Norwegian Karsten Hamre's (Penitent, Veiled Allusions) project Dense Vision Shrine second long play volume entitled "A Voyage of Imagination" includes only one, sixty two minutes long, enigmatical composition. Be prepared for the deep, gloomy neoclassical dark ambient, opening passages of other, distant dimensions. [label info]
Dense Vision Shrine -- "Time Lost In Oblivion" -- CD + DVD -- €15
2009 First Fallen Star, ffs001, (ltd. 500)
Having created music for many years under such project names as Arcane Art, Penitent, and Defraktor, Karsten Hamre returns in 2009 with the simultaneous release of "Through the Eyes of a Stranger" and Dense Vision Shrine's "Time Lost in Oblivion" - both on First Fallen Star! Although it mysteriously shares a similar title and artwork with "Lost Time in Oblivion" (2007, Desolate Sonorities), "Time Lost in Oblivion" is a completely new album with no known connection to the 2007 release! Building upon a solid foundation of dark ambient, Dense Vision Shrine also employs sampled sounds and sparse rhythm to carefully design the listening experience of a realm where time itself has stopped, of a blackened voyage into oblivion. Each track of the album is distinctive, yet always possessing the signature of Dense Vision Shrine and proving unmistakably bleak. Even a seemingly benign track title like "The Girl Next Door" is in fact found to be quite ominous and devoid of any hope! "Time Lost in Oblivion" is presented in a DVD case with professionally pressed CD and professionally printed artwork, limited to 1,000 copies! The first 500 copies are presented in a 2 disc DVD case with a professionally pressed bonus DVD (PAL format), also titled "Time Lost in Oblivion," that takes the viewer on a visual journey of imagery used for live performances! [press-release]
Dent, Loren -- "Anthropology Vol. 1" -- CD -- €10
2009 Infraction, INFX034, (ltd. 900)
Depressive Disorder -- "In Depth" -- CD -- €9
2006 Monopol Records, monopolrecords 007
Depressive Disorder -- "Ultima Ratio" -- CD -- €9
2005 Monopol Records, monopolrecords 004
Der Arbeiter -- "Holzwege" -- CD -- €12
2010 Ur Muzik, UR 003, (ltd. 500)
Der Blutharsch -- "s/t" -- CD -- €14
2001/2007 WKN, WKN14
The first ever Der Blutharsch album originally released as a limited-edition picture LP is now finally available on CD. A classic album of dark, military-driven, industrial music within a neo-classical atmosphere. [Tesco]
Der Blutharsch -- "Everything Is Alright" -- CD -- €14
2008 WKN, WKN32
A collection of rare compilation and vinyl-only tracks and remixes recorded in 2002-2008.
Der Blutharsch -- "Flying High!" -- CD -- €15
2009 WKN, WKN34
"Flying High!" with this psychedellic combat cry one of the most excentric and innovative projects from Austria / Vienna is returning. On their ninth studio album Der Blutharsch continues travelling in the direction they took back in 2005, when the former guru of martial industrial/military pop, Albin Julius, and his band, rocketed towards the deep space of psychedelia. One of the most controversial bands of the last decade staked its claim anew, totally breaking with old images, cliches and tunes. Starting already on the last album The Philosopher's Stone the turning to the walls of guitars and repetitive chants was already to recognize. Flying High turns this to a programmatic climax. If you start thinking on Sunn O))), Guru Guru, Amon Düül, Tangerine Dream or Godspeed You! Black Emperor you are not to far away, but still inherent is the big part of apocalyptic feeling which you are already used to. Highly influenced by the amercican West Coast Sound of the late sixties with a small dosis of that what some people use to call Krautrock. The tracks are slightly developing into eachother, ambient parts followed by ecstatic deathrock songs and then they glide into a wall of sound. The guestparts on the vocal side is full of well know artists: besides Bain Wolfkind and Albin Julius or Gianni Serusi, you discover 1980s legend Patrick Leagas who himself celebrates the title song in his typical distinctive manner. Flying High is a dark record, it mixes eros and deathwish, productivity with desctructivity. Since the release of, "When Did Wonderland End?", Der Blutharsch have mutated into a psychedelic rock monster; their motto, "into new territories!", symbolic for this mutation, a battle fought not by marching but by flying, 'Flying high!'. Flying high! is a weird trip for blown minds through the dark worlds of today's society, passing love, hate and lust during its journey into the center of the sun! The CD comes in a stunning foilblocked, painted with glowing in the dark ink, digipack, covered up in a need designed folder. [press-release]
Der Blutharsch -- "Live in Leiden" -- CD -- €14
2010 WKN, WKN 37
Live in Leiden by Der Blutharsch is the 3rd album in a series of live recordings - after "Live at The Monastery" and "Live in Copenhagen". Live in Leiden was recorded at "The Night of Confusion" held September 28th 2oo4 at legendary venue LVC (where already artists like Nico performed) and was the "most cntroversial" concert in the 40 years history of this venue. Nevertheless, this night was a huge success and this recording is a document of this night. At the same time it is the last live recording of the "old" Blutharsch - a small reminder about what Der Blutharsch was dreaded for before they morphed into "era two" and turned into a dark psychedelic kraut monster. This is a great live document of a concert of the thee band who invented "martial industrial" as well as "military pop" - a MUST of all die hard fans of this genre as well as for people who want to know why this band once has been considered "dangerous". The CD comes in a foilblocked digipak. [press-release]
Der Blutharsch -- "The Moment Of Truth" -- CD + mCD -- €14
1998/2004 WKN, WKN22
Re-release of the long soldout 10", mCD material on one CD and with the track of the ultra rare 7" "Thank you!". Comes in nice 6 panel digipak.
Der Blutharsch -- "The Pleasures Received In Pain" -- CD -- €14
1999/2000 WKN, WKN8
Another milestone in neoclassical industrial music, this is the third Blutharsch album originally released in 1999. Comes in an Digifile cover.
Der Blutharsch -- "The Track Of The Hunted" -- CD -- €16
2000 WKN, WKN10
The third full-lenght release of this Austrian artist, this is probably the best Blutharsch release. Atmospheric tracks with orchestral parts and traditional instruments.
Der Blutharsch -- "When All Else Fails!" -- CD -- €14
2001 WKN, WKN15
Der Blutharsch -- "When Did Wonderland End?" -- CD + DVD -- €17
2005 WKN, WKN25
Finally, the all new album strike by Albin Julius (vocals, drums, percussion, harp, harmonium, piano, synth and programming), Marthynna (vocals, percussion, drums, tambourine), Bain Wolfkind (vocals, guitar, snare drum), and Jorg B. (guitar, bass guitar), aided by Paola Andrea Riascos of Terroritmo (vocals), Christine K. of Graumahd (clarinet), Matt Howden of Sieben / Sol Invictus, (violin), Alessio B. of Varunna (cello), Didi Bruckmeyer of Fuckhead (vocals), and Douglas P. (lyrics) is on its way. With the deluxe foil-blocked package comes a limited DVD with a clip for the track: "So Bring Your Iron Rain Down Upon Me." [label info]
Der Blutharsch & Deutsch Nepal -- "Apocalyptic Climax 2" -- CD -- €12
1999/2011 WKN / Eternal Pride Productions, WKN05
In 1999 "Apocalyptic Climax 2" was the result of mutual collaboration of the leading martial\industrial\ambient formations Der Blutharsch É Deutsch Nepal. The state of despair and hopelessness is the main leitmotif of this music. Death floating in the uncertainty, death as the basic obsession standing behind all your thoughts and feelings-the monotonous and cold language and fixed scenes. Albin Sunlight Julius & Lina Baby Doll stand here for the chroniclers of Europe , its dramatic historical way which gave rise to the bloody outbreaks & mystical spiritual revelations-war as the phenomenon of the human nature which is constantly testing itself for strength. Apocalyptic despair is the leitmotif of the whole album which was released as limited edition 10'' in 1999, and which is still available on CD as release WKN5 in the format of Digi CD by the exclusive distribution of Eternal Pride Productions. [press-release]
Der Blutharsch And The Infinite Church Of The Leading Hand -- "The Story About The Digging Of The Hole And The Hearing Of The Sounds From Hell" -- CD -- euro;15
2011 WKN, WKN 40
Der Blutharsch And The Infinite Church Of The Leading Hand + Aluk Todolo -- "s/t" -- CD -- euro;14
2011 WKN, WKN 41
Derniere Volonte -- "Commemoration" -- 2 CD -- €17
2004/2011 Hau Ruck!, HR!67
A collection of all singles, compilation tracks, unreleased demos, etc.
Derniere Volonte -- "Obeir Et Mourir" -- 2 CD -- €30
Nuit Et Broulliard, NB.CD.06
Re-issue of the mythical double tape-boxset released by La Nouvelle Alliance in 1998 in a limited and numbered edition of 120 copies (L.N.A. 01). Only 90 were finally edited that time. All original material was entirely remastered and seven unreleased tracks from the same recording sessions were added for a tolal length of about 140 mns/28 tracks. Unlike to the recent releases of this French one-man project "Obéir et Mourir" includes neither any singing nor pop-influences. The sound here is a great blending of dark ambient soundscapes, militaristic percussion samples and tape-voices taken from World War II' documentaries. Powerful anthems march in front of melodic tracks and oppressive atmospheres reflecting perfectly the climate of the 30's and of the 40's made of fury, pain and tears: "Obéir et mourir" is nothing but an audio and visual illustration of these dark days... The two CDs come in cardboard cover with a 14 postcard-set, housed in a deluxe dark green boxset with embossed front-picture and bronze printings. [press-release]
Derrame Sanguineo / Sektor 304 -- split -- CD-R + zine -- €8
2011 Latrina do Chifrudo, LC CD006, (ltd. 50)
Old and new. Derrame Sanguineo was a project of Gustavo Costa, infamous drummer of multiple projects like Motornoise, Most People Have Been Trained To Be Bored or Lost Gorbachves and Iur, a visionary (or mad man) devoted to Industrial music. The tracks presented here are the only recordings ever made from this project and are a good example of the Industrial music production in Portugal during the late 90's and early 2000's. Industrial music from the turn of the century, delivering harsh vocals, powerfull lyrics and programmed beats fuelled by hatred! The second part of this release belongs to Sektor 304, a rather new force that delivers 3 unreleased tracks from their early beginings, including the only recorded track from Intonarumori, Sektor's prior identity that had in its line up legendary names such as Tshueda from Hospital Psiquiatrico and J.A. from Wolfskin, now remixed to fit the sound of Sektor 304. Junk metal abuse and tribal drum loops. The whole package comes with a 20 page booklet with artwork by A. Coelho and screenprinted covers by Oficina Arara. [press-release]
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Des Esseintes -- "Les Diaboliques" -- CD -- €10
2005 Malignant Records, TUMOR CD23
If Magnus Sundstrom's more well known project The Protagonist is DrJekyll, then his side project, des Esseintes can certainly be seen as a MrHyde... a more sinister alter ego, bent on destructive behavior, representing a liberation of the dark side and a more primitive being, that once freed from the bonds of conscience, becomes harder and harder toc ontrol. And thus, we have des Esseintes. Based on a collection of short stories by Jean-Barbey d'Aurevilly, Les Diaboliques is the first full length album for des Esseintes, and it's truly a masterwork. The result is an existentialistic inferno of various musical trash and harsh rhythms, with clanging, mechanized percussion barely cushioned by a menacing ambience of cinematically styled electronics igniting the background. These are dark regions explored on the six tracks here, populated by stomping behemoths that threaten to crush with every step, and shards of visceral, dynamic textures that slice across the proverbial sonic landscape. And while Magnus' work has certainly garnered recognition, Les Diaboliques may just solidify him in the lexicon of the industrial public, or take him to a whole new level. Greatly appealing to not only fans of old school greats such as SPK and Test Dept, but to thosefans of CMI and even some Hands material. [press-release]
Des Esseintes -- "Mondo Macabro" -- CD -- €10
2006 Malignant Records, TUMOR CD27
A classic example of what's old is new! With Mondo Macabro, we've conveniently compiled all of your favorite des Esseintes vinyl releases since 2000, remastered them, boosted them to eye popping levels, and if that weren't enough, added 3 bonus, unreleased tracks to top it off! 12 tracks in total, spanning the Muse (2000) and On/Off (2002) 7's, the split LP with Magmax (2001), and the split 10' (2001) with Negru Voda. A great history lesson in the short existence of des Esseintes, each track on each subsequent release just seems to up the ante, with one track more crushing than the next:. a steady, doom filled procession of post-apocalyptic, tribal percussion, deadening, jackhammer rhythms, and dramatic, suspense filled atmospheres. When Armageddon hits, rest assured, you'll have your soundtrack. Mandatory!! [press-release]
Des Esseintes / Diskrepant -- "Folie À Deux" -- mCD -- €7.50
2003 Fin de Siècle Media, (ltd. 500)
Two of Sweden's finest get together to release an unholy blend of rhythmic soundscapes and minimalistic noise. A touch of classic industrial drones with a tint of musique concrete. A perfect description of contemporary electronic music. [label info]
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Desaccord Majeur -- "La Couleur Odorante" -- CD-R -- €9
1998/2006 Kokeshidisk, kodi 6, (ltd. 100)
Reissue of the tape released in 1998 on our previous label Harmonie, "La Couleur Odorante" gathers eight tracks previously released on various international compilations from 1990 to 1995, showing the evolution of Désaccord Majeur music & sounds with more and more ethnic influences while keeping a melodic and evolutive structure. This reissue includes two previously unreleaseds track from 1989 (one of the first Désaccord Majeur tracks, very ambient) and 1993 (more in the ethno-ambient sounds he's known for). [press-release]
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Desiderii Marginis -- "Deadbeat" -- CD -- €14
2001 Cold Meat Industry, CMI.86
Mjölby: hick town, epicentre of Swedish counter-culture, a power-plant transmitting anti-art currents over the national grid. Home of the legendary deathseekers Brighter Death Now, of the infamous scatologist Raison d'Etre, and not least of the decadence afficionado Desiderii Marginis. 'Deadbeat' is Desiderii Marginis' magnum opus, a bewitching tale from a midwintery Sweden veiled in darkness, firmly maintaining their ranking among the upper crust of the Mjölby avantgarde. Listening to Desiderii Marginis is like travelling in time, back to the days when you first discovered CMI and instantly became enchanted. By watching and learning from old mages like Raison d'etre and Morthound, Johan Levin has aggregated different styles, but eventually the music is still distinguished by his highly personal touch. Close your eyes, and find yourself moved to desolate windswept forests - where mist lingers around leafless branches, moonbeams just barely break through, and distant howls both entice and frighten. These are emotions so familiar and so novel at the same time, evoked by classic CMI material that both looks back and points forward. [label info]
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Desiderii Marginis -- "The Ever Green Tree" -- CD -- €14
2007 Kaosthetik Konspiration, KSTK 005, (ltd. 1000)
In the pure vein of his previous realization, Dark ambiant industrial with very personal feelings and innovations. "The Ever Green Tree" is a concept album based on eternal youth, eternal values, fame and immortality. 'The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.' - A.N.Whitehead (1861 - 1947). Comes in a textured digifile, first eddition limited to 1000 copies. [label info]
Desiderii Marginis -- "Seven Sorrows" -- CD -- €14
2007 Cold Meat Industry, cmi173, (ltd. 2000)
Seven Sorrows is the sixth album by the renowned swedish dark-ambient project Desiderii Marginis, and a most eagerly awaited follower to the highly acclaimed album of 2005, That Which Is Tragic And Timeless. With the material on Seven Sorrows Johan Levin, the mind behind Desiderii Marginis, has dug deeper than ever before within the creative depths and so ventures even further into the darklands of dispair and solitude, deeper into the vibrant shadows of the human mind. Since the very debute in 1993, Desiderii Marginis has, with every new offering, refined and reinvented the trademark sound, and this release is no exception to the rule. Strummed guitars and dulcimers blend seamlessly with soaring strings, raging drones, the sound of twisted metal and spoken word. Diverse sources, yet tamed to an intriguing and alluring whole that slowly spin it's web around the helpless listener and drags them into the vortex of dreamlike darkness. First 2000 copies in a 6-panel digipak, artwork photos taken by the exceptional photographer Birthe Klementowski. [press-release]
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Desiderii Marginis -- "Songs over Ruins" -- CD -- €16
1997/2001 Cold Meat Industry, CMI.56, 2nd ed.
The tune of a little bell overlaid by strange voices seemingly far away. Melodic atmospheric ambient sounds, one piece with straight rythms, the other very slow and quiet like musical description of a tree without its leaves, haveing cold and waiting for spring that never comes... [label info]
Desiderii Marginis -- "Strife" -- CD -- €14
2004 Cold Meat Industry, cmi131
'Strife' is, as the name implies, a sort of reflection over the rather pityful human desire to engage in all kinds of conflict. Everywhere and always. There is admittedly a healthy aspect of conflict or competition - the clash of ideas, ideologies, opinions and the like. But often strife takes the form of mere pointless destruction for no purpose. That particular lack of meaning is what this album is all about. 'War is a continuation of politics' von Clausewitz wrote in the 1830's. But if there's no political visions to realize, no higher goal to pursue, no new beginning, no rebirth, then what? Guns go silent only to discover that nothing has really been accomplished. Old structures of injustice remain, recent conflicts are added to old ones. Does this sound depressing? I think it is. The music on this album is not intended to sound like the blazing guns of a world at war. It is what it is simply because these kind of thoughts went through my head as the music was made. I have had no ambition to address any particular issue, I'm definitely not trying to promote, or badmouth, any political or ideological points of view. Politics are firmly rooted in the present. Strife itself is eternal. The music is, as always, a strictly personal way to deal with and express the ever present madness of man. Nothing changes, everything is new... [label info]
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Desiderii Marginis -- "Years Lend a Golden Charm" -- CD -- €10
2009 Eternal Pride Productions, EPP 016
To gain a deeper understanding of what is, it is necessary to examine what was - to go to the sources and the origins. With the emergence of this brand new offering by Desiderii Marginis, 'Years Lend a Golden Charm' we are invited to experience the very birth of what is now a well established and worldwide recognised project within the dark-ambient industrial scene. The contents of the new album is made up of some 73 minutes of material from the first three tapereleases from 1993. Highly sought after by collectors but only available in a mere dozen of handmade copies, these songs are now finally made available to a greater audience. When you listen to the music with the knowledge that hindsight brings - it is obvious that these are the roots and the foundations, not only of the first full length album 'Songs Over Ruins', but of every succesive release up to the latest 'Seven Sorrows'. In 1993 there was no set course, no long term plan - and still, maybe it couldn't have turned out any other way? [press-release]
Deutsch Nepal -- "Amygdala" -- CD -- €14
2011 Autarkeia, acd 066
Deutsch Nepal -- "Comprendido!... Time Stop!" -- CD -- €14
1997 Cold Meat Industry, CMI.49
For more than six years this project haunted the world with deformed soundscapes and harsh noises. Within the school of industrialism, Deutsch Nepal manage to combine psychedelia with dark atmospheric ambience. The earlier releases has been filled with dark mourning sounds with ritualistic drumming that now burst out into aggression. Gone is the ethnic influence and you will meet a new form of electronic treatment and distorted voices earlier not used in the Deutsch Nepal sound-image. [press-release]
Deutsch Nepal -- "Deflagration Of Hell" -- CD -- €11
1991/2003 Cold Meat Industry, cmi127
Deutsch Nepal -- "Dystopian Partycollection" -- CD -- €11
2008 Cold Meat Industry, cmi180
Deutsch Nepals Dystopian Partycollection contain previously released material from compilations and limited edited vinyls. It is not to be seen as a major release from Deutsch Nepal but a small shop of horrors where everyone could shoplift whenever in the spirit. Quality and atmosphere is different from track to track as there is no theme or secret path to follow on this album - It's plain Deutsch Nepal - Just as we love it! So just C'mon get naked... remember nude improvised dancing is not only for fun it's also for free! This is Deutsch Nepals Dystopian Partycollection to be followed by many more sad experiences in your poor and empty lives... Tracks are taken from the following releases: Heilige Feuer (Der Angriff), 10" vinyl (WKN), Flowers Made of Snow (Cold Meat Industry), A Rainy November Day in Wroclaw (Ars Benevola Mater), Death Odours II (Slaughter Productions), 1-sided LP vinyl (Extremocidente Records), 3A4éCTëA - Fuck the Modern World (Autarkeia). [label info]
Deutsch Nepal -- "Erosion" -- CD -- €11
1999/2009 Autarkeia, ACD 035
This probably the most depressing Deutsch Nepal album, earlier released as a limited edition by Staalplaat company, now has again become available to a wide audience. Genial project author Der General has made a remark sometime ago that during the recording of Erosion there persisted the feeling that this is the last work of Deutsch Nepal after which nothing will remain... perhaps only death. This almost came true as Deutsch Nepal went silent after the recording for nearly 10 years. Now the masterpiece of melancholy clad in an elegant digipack (the design was made by the author himself) and with an enhanced sound triumphantly opens the golden worlds to the audience again. The worlds where breathing becomes harder each moment and where you feel only a small useless toy. [press-release]
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Deutsch Nepal -- "Erotikon" -- CD -- €11
2006 Cold Meat Industry, cmi166
Deutsch Nepal, is Lina B Doll, a well-known cult-phenomenon in the industrial underground scene, with several worldwide tours and collaborations with notorious artists such as Der Blutharsch, Brighter Death Now, Raison d'etre he is just as famous as he is infamous. With several respected releases on various labels such as CMI (of course), Hauruck, Staalplaat and Old Europa Cafe, it is now with great pleasure we are finally able to present a completely new studio album. On Erotikon Deutsch Nepal blooms in full decadence. Dark seductive psychodelic industrial songs - it is retro all the way back to the Nico influences, it's addictive in every sexual way - and it leaves you with a complete new experience and a sensational taste of bodily fluids. Lubrication saves! [label info]
Deutsch Nepal -- "Live in Saint-Petersburg 26.12.06" -- CD -- €15
2011 Aquarellist, aquarel plan b 01-11, (ltd. 150)
Live performance Deutsch Nepal in club Orlandina, Saint-Petersburg, Russia on December, 26th 2006. 150 copies in cardboard sleeve. Mastered by Uak-Kib.
Deutsch Nepal -- "A Silent Siege" -- CD -- €14
2002 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 045
The final part of "Silent" trilogy published by Old Europa Cafe. Great example of old school industrial! The album has been collected over 10 years and is spiritually close to Lina Baby Doll's live shows - alcohol-fueled, sometimes rhythmical, song-oriented, dark, chaotic and kinky.
Deutsch Nepal -- "Tolerance" -- CD -- €13
1994/2009 Autarkeia, ACD 037
The genial album Tolerance is one more golden deja vu of the industrial culture, released by Staalplaat label long ago, sold out and desperately sought and hunted in auctions by collectors. The new release of the cult album enjoys the enhanced sound and the new package design from the author Lina Baby Doll. And this time it does not come out in limited edition like its predecessor. The new generations can get it without limitations. Those who do not know Lina Baby Doll's masterpieces, should be informed that Tolerance is an artefact of the early stage of project's Deutsch Nepal music. The period is characterised by ritual tribal rhythms, mesmerising loops and indeed suggestive psychedelic atmosphere. [press-release]
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Die Form -- "Bach Project" -- CD -- €18
2008 Matrix Cube / [Trisol] Music Group GmbH, TRI 338 CD
Die Form -- "Exhuman" -- CD + DVD -- €15
2006 Trisol, TRI 280 CD
Whatever you may call their artistic accomplishment - be it Dark Electro, Neo Classic or Avant-garde - DIE FORM play in a league of their own. Having been pioneers of dark electronic music for 25 years they are still one step ahead of anyone else. "ExHuman" manages to captivate us by a raw, almost tangible directness that can be felt especially in songs such as "Neo Futura RMX" where impelling dance beats sound like whippings, or "Chaos Theory" which is very likely to become (thanks to its post-industrial rhythms) the band's new club hit along with "Nox ExHumana RMX". However, "ExHuman" is not only meant to be a club album but holds a variety of other styles: songs with soundtrack-like elegance and profoundness such as "Pendulum/Dismember" take turns with Dark Ambient sounds as represented in "Electroid" and "New Erotica". "ExHuman" is spheric, sombre, complex and -as usual- very innovative. The isolation of the creational process, nightshifts, the bleak, cold and sterile atmosphere, in short, all the familiar yet strange elements which are so typical for DIE FORM do also unfold on this album. DVD incl. video clips by Philippe Fichot. [label info]
Dieter Müh -- "Cari Saluti" -- CD -- €10
2000/2002 Functional Organisation, Functional 014
Voices, loops, field recordings of airport terminals, travelogues, and electro-acoustics are layered into a mix of low- and hi-fi, analog and digital, novelty, special effects, and humor, juxtaposed with hallucinatory journeys into darkness. [label info]
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Dieter Muh / Mnem -- "Atomyriades" -- CD -- €10
2008 Cipher Productions, (sic 49), (ltd. 500)
"Eight pieces of what can be best described as mildly old school industrial music. Its noise music but it never goes over the top, landing in the world of distortion and feedback. Yet there are mild distortions to be spotted, repeated loops of obscured sounds (vinyl, voices, field recordings? Who knows?), sound effects working almost over time, especially delay and reverb machines. Sounds are fed through digital and analogue machines and synthesizers, rhythms are formed, and torn apart, built up and thrown about. The machinery used these days may differ from the ones used in the 80s, but the result is not far from it." [Vital Weekly]
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Different State -- "Knar" -- CD -- €10
1996/2008 Zoharum, ZOHAR 004-2
Zoharum Collektiv presents - Album of legendary polish industrial band Different State - 'Knar'. For the first time on CD!!! Legendary album in remastered version, including two rare tracks, edition in new layout 'Knar' is one of the most important releases in history of Different State. Many polish musician journalists announced 'Knar' as the album of the Year 1996. We recommend this release to elder fans of this group and to all of you who love unconventional type of sounds... [label info]
Different State -- "More Than Music" -- CD-R -- €9
2005 Requiem Records, 23/2005
This is the latest album of Poles from the U.S. very personal with sentimental spleen. Narcotic trance, sonic magic full of references to explosive mixture of trip hop, new wave, illbient and postindustrial. A steamroller of heavy rythm and strong base - fusion of new sounds with experimental acoustics. [label info]
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Different State -- "Through The Falling Eyelid" -- CD -- €10
2010 Zoharum, ZOHAR 009-2
THROUGH THE FALLING EYELID is the newest full length of the Polish combo which now is composed by Marek Xavier Marchoff (tools, alchembient structures), Laura Marchoff (angelic voice), Jarek Szczyglak (guitar) and Keith Rudolf. Just like their tracks on "Spazmatic[k] Spell", the ten you find on this one present a wide array of atmospheres and sounds that span from the industrial ambient electronic atmospheres of the opening "Isolate: stone cold heart", to the retro electro industrial sounds of the closing "Manifest: through the falling eyelid", passing through the cinematic samples orchestration of "Project: verses without words" or the i.d.m./industrial experimentation of "Challenge: formal experimentation", the jazz/industrial improvisations of following "Damage: bleed from their souls" or the slow dub electronic industrial atmospheres of ""Signal: I'm out". Here and there you'll find light guitar solos or vocals that shyly contrast the paranoid atmosphere created. An album that needs time to be fully appreciated because sometimes it sounds fragmented but if you are in the mood for industrial experimental sounds, give it a try. [Chain D.L.K.]
Different State -- "Yield" -- CD -- €10
2011 Zoharum, ZOHAR 015-2 / Wyrm Records, WYRM 003-2
Zoharum & Wyrm Records present the newest album of Different State 'Yield (Capicity of production)'. Release contains remastered versions of pieces which were published on the tape Yield in 1995 for the first time by I&E SPM and 2 bonus tracks from the Cardinal Mosaic. 15 years ago when this material appeared on our stage someone said: Americans have Ministry, Britons have Goldflesh and Poles have Different State. It's the best what we can tell about this CD. These words say everything about the climate of this material. Yield is the most metal from all industrial, or the most industrial from metal productions of Different State. We will not have to convince the old fans but those who haven't heard this CD yet but they like projects like J. Broadrick & co. will be delighted. Released in elegant, 'mint' 3-panel digipack. [press-release]
Different State / Sigil -- "Spazmatic[k] Spell" -- CD -- €10
2008 Zoharum, ZOHAR 002-2
This album, dedicated to A.O. Spare include 60 minutes of pure magic[k]al sounds conceived by two projec[k]ts: Different State and Sigill. Each of them represents a slightly different approach, although they are both connected by mystic[k]al, alc[k]emical, ritual character. Marchoff (Different State) describes his music as alchembient. This sums his work up perfectly. It's a mix of illbient a bit in the vein of Coil or Psychic TV, a great deal of alchemical incantations and moans, there's a lot of elements so characteristic for Different State. In conciving the following material, Marchoff was aided by Laura Marchoff (angelic[k] voice, custom made generator A-23), Tom Westbum (clarinet, sax, alto sax, trumpet) and Janusz Sokolnicki (tube AMP, lead guitar). Sigill is a project consisting of brat salo and Nantur-a duo creating electronic lunar spaces and astral soundscapes using samples and ancient instruments. The material was conceived during winter solstice 2006. The disc is packaged in a deluxe 3-panel digipak. [press-release]
Dimeth Trip -- "Instructions From Konstantin Lopushansky" -- CD -- €10
2011 Autarkeia, acd 058 / Moontrix, MTXCD003, (ltd. 200)
This disc is a joint project of two independent labels Autarkeia and Moontrix. Geid and Dega, members of the industrial/ambient formation MALDUR ATAI, have recorded an album inspired by fatal post-apocalyptic films of the talented Russian director Konstantin Lopushansky. In their musical work, Geid and Dega build the atmosphere reminding of a horrible nightmare where the future can be glimpsed only in eerie fragments of the past. The new post-apocalyptic world is bizarre and hopeless, therefore, the surviving people dream to wake up. Sadly, the dream would not go away. That is a new reality with no existential meaning, an absolute dead-end that has destroyed the majority and made the surviving ones wish for death. The message of the album authors, like the films of the Russian director, is crystal clear: the dream is soon set to become the only prospect of the human civilisation. DIMETH TRIP's disc Instructions From Konstantin Lopushansky is a fine industrial/ambient album distinguished by its tough atmosphere and containing a number of samples from Konstantin Lopushansky's films. Moreover, it is a clear warning that we have come to the limit. Once we step over the line, there is no way back. Master for the record was made by ambient genius Peter Andersson (RAISON D'ETRE). [press-release]
Diona & Shebuzzz -- "Time and Space" -- CD-R -- €8
2010 Still*Sleep, CDR15
A collaboration work between Russian one-girl-project Diona and Moldovian one-man-project Shebuzzz released by Still*Sleep, the label run by Exit In Grey / Five Elements Music / Sister Loolomie mastermind Sergey [S]. Slowly evolving deep spatial ambient with mysterious female voices and unconventional sparse rhythm.
Discordance -- "Supremacy" -- CD -- €10
1998 Crowd Control Activities, Crowded 06, (ltd. 500)
The first full lenght CD by this great power electronic unit from Italy. [Slaughter Productions]
Disharmony -- "Evolution" -- CD -- €10
2009 Tympanik Audio, TA029
Under-rated, yet revered with undying admiration by the already initiated, this Slovakian duo has (un)quietly scorched the underground Electro-Industrial scene for many years, releasing several continuously morphing collections of work amongst the awe of fans and music critics alike... With a plethora of remixing and album credits to their name, dISHARMONY manage to speak volumes once again with their signature brand of down-tempo, yet hard-hitting electronica-tinged dark electro works, paying never mind to any looming trends, but instead constantly evolving beyond the typical genre clones and earn their right to the throne amongst a horde of imitators... You may know dISHARMONY's critically-hailed last album 'Malignant Shields'. You may know their prolific remix collection 'Cloned: The Other Side Of Evolution'. You may know their recent collaborations with the likes of Flint Glass, Totakeke, Mnemonic, Stendeck, Fractional, Anhedonia, Zentriert ins Antlitz, and countless others. But be sure of this: you do not know 'Evolution': Yet. [press-release]
Disharmony -- "XFrames" -- CD -- €10
2006 Aliens Production, AP 14, (ltd. 550)
Lord Sauron and Ryby are standing behind this Slovak dark-electro project. Cold atmospheres, samples from the movies, hypnotic rhythms, crystal electronic and distorted vocals are the main elements of this project. Unreleased material from early era + remixes made by Gaping Chasm, Anhedonia and Flint Glass. Dark-electro-ambient. [label info]
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Diskrepant -- "33-12" -- CD -- €11
2004 Fin de Siècle Media, FDS 10
While the first outing from Diskrepant, the "Folie a Deux" split CD with des Esseintes, had Per Åhlund delving into the realms of ear-shredding noise, the new album points in another, less visceral direction. "33-12" deals with the spirituality - not to be confused with religiosity - of Man. The sparse electronics are augmented by gongs, bells and the occasional chanting, lending a feeling of a sacred Tibetan ceremony performed in a high tech studio. With "33-12" Diskrepant have made an album with a timeless, yet modern feel, that is bound to appeal to fans of the monotonous drone excursions of Mirror and Organum, as well as those with fond memories of the ritual / industrial synthesis of Zero Kama.
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Diskrepant -- "Ex Machina Libertas" -- CD -- €10
2009 Fractured Spaces Records, FS0408CD
Dark environmental ambient / Experimental. This is the fourth release for both Diskrepant and Fractured Spaces Records, and this time we're entering a dystopian vision of the future of mankind with a nightmare amalgamation of flesh and machine. Using subtle environmental field recordings Diskrepant dives into a Hadean vision of a world where people are half-natural/half-robot, a world where nature is slowly being squeezed by metal and glass. Diskrepant is Stockholm-based Per Ahlund. Previous releases on Fin de Siecle Media include the Folie a Deux EP, plus the 33-12 and Into Sleep albums. [press-release]
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Disleksick / Ego Death -- split -- CD-R -- €5
2010 Coffin Crawl Records, CCR-027, (ltd. 15)
Noisecore / Noise Punk from Canada versus wry atonal Free Jazz Noise from Greece. Sleeve + insert. [YAOP]
Disorder Of Deadeight -- "Voidkollapse / Tunnelvogel" -- CD -- €10
2006 Vaticanian Roadkill Records, VRR 03/04
Spooky rumblings from these Finnish wizards of drone. This two track, hour long excursion sounds as if it has taken the Radiophonic Workshop, Nurse With Wound, Uton, The Boredoms, Sunn, and squeezed them all through the worlds biggest delay pedal. This maybe one of the best things we have heard in a long while, and is definitly not for the faint hearted, but ultimatly is one heck of a gloriously rewarding trip. [Rough Trade]
Dissecting Table -- "Chaos Attractor (Remix 2)" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2010 R.O.N.F. Records, RNF-052
Advance for "Chaos Attractor" full length CD on R.O.N.F. Records. This Mini CDr includes an exclusive track by Dissecting Table recorded in 2009. Different stuff than which included on the "Chaos Attractor" CD being this really a remix of the full lenght material with different approach and sounds. Dissecting Table released this full work entitled "Chaos Attractor" on his own label UPD Organization but only 10 copies were pressed and quickly distributed. This Mini-CDr comes loaded with an amazing unsettling dense instrumental and full of details track of Noise / Industrial / Ambient with weird synth sounds, psychedelic detunings, paranoid futurism and metal objects by the Japanese mastermind Ichiro Tsuji. [press-release]
Dissecting Table -- "Dead Zone" -- CD -- €10
1995 UPD Organization, UPD 007
Dissecting Table -- "Human Breeding" -- CD -- €10
1997 Release Entertainment, RR 6954-2
The fourth full-length release from this highly-revered Japanese post-industrialist.
Dissecting Table -- "Hypocrisy" -- CD -- €11
2004 Mile 329, Mile 329.14
14th full-length release from Ichiro Tsuji's unique project, this time in the shape of three long instrumental tracks of synthetic noise, strong percussions and Japanese Biwa music. Closer to "Zigoku" than to "UPD II", and a great starting point for those that have missed out on past releases. [Mechanoise Labs]
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Dissecting Table -- "Into the Light" -- CD -- €10
1998 Crowd Control Activities, Crowded 05
Dissecting Table -- "Life" -- CD -- €10
1997 Release Entertainment, RR 6401-2
Dissecting Table -- "Rancid Smell" -- CD -- €13
2006 Waystyx, WR26, (ltd. 100)
Dissecting Table - is a project of Japanese musician Ichiro Tsuji, quiet prolofic nowadays. This CD contains both elements of typically Japanese fat harsh noise spiced with madly distorted vocals (roars and screams) and more soft, though more occasional, electronic fragments. The last track unexpectedly sounds in completely different style: string passages with drum beats change into sudden metal noise and back.
Dissecting Table -- "There Is No End To The Existence Of Consciousness" -- CD -- €10
2010 UPD Organization, UPD 062, (ltd. 100)
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 -- €7
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]
Division S -- "Something To Drink V" -- CD -- €13
2011 Old Europa Cafe, OECD142
Here comes DIVISION S second CD, the fifth chapter in the 'Something to Drink' saga. A new small treasure of minimal Noir-Cabaret with Mediterranean sounds, with Rock'n'Western saloon melodies, with vintage fashioned hits dealing with '60's like' sounds. Songs to be listened while drinking a good Italian red wine and smoking an unfiltered cigarette. Songs for nostalgic rainy days and for summer sunset light. Songs for lovers and suffering broken hearts. Songs for drunken and dandy urban cow-boys & cow-girls. 'Something to Drink V' continues where the last album ended, from the last drink, from the last glass of whine: 'Alla Salute!' [press-release]
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Divisionofdarkradioinduztrie -- "Tek..A.D..Stereo..Apocalypse.." -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Deserted Factory, DF044, (ltd. 200)
Nothing is really known about this anonymous Italian project with the only one released album consisting of three long tracks lasting for nearly 40 minutes. Stylistically it can be described as improvisational guitar ambient, but not dark ambient, rather it's a cinematic collage of slowly moving contemplative melodic themes. Limited edition of 200 hand-numbered copies. [Monochrome Vision]
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DJ GOLUBb -- "Generation Of Bastards" -- CD -- €11
2008 Tesla, nT02
Great debut CD from a promising Russian newcomer. D.J. GOLUBb isn't a DJ as it would may seems - the name just means "Destroying Justice Dove" and he writes and plays his own music, being one of the favorite live acts on the Russian dark dancefloor. Many of this album tracks such as "Reason", "Beat Of God" or "ListenTi" are already well-established club hits here and the crowd is always active when they are playing. Musically it's a mix between dark electro patterns, trancey loops and catchy poppy melodies layered into thick danceable basslines and sometimes noisy straight beats. "Generation Of Bastards" could be a good break in-between listening to more harsh and dark noisy stuff - it gives some rest to the ears with its clear sound, still keeping the power and mood of true violent distorted beatz artifacts. And, sure, it's a good chance for a brutal noise lover to involve his tender girlfriend into his favorite music :) [press-release]
Djen Ajakan Shean -- "Crows Heading For Point Blank" -- 3"CD -- €7
1995 Amplexus, XUS 03, (ltd. 1000)
Beautiful ethno-ambient in the vein of Vidna Obmana (who incidentally mixed the EP). 21 minutes captured on a 3" CD, as part of the highly collectable series on Amplexus. Packed in glossy A5 card wallet in PVC slipcase. Limited edition of 1000 copies. [label info]
DL & EK -- "XIB" -- CD-R -- €7
2001 Soulworm Editions, Worm XII, (ltd. 200)
Formerly known as Dachaulustknaben and Einsatzkommandos, these two legends of German power electronic scene in early Nineties came out with a collaborational release, entitled 'XIB'. The title stands for their deathcamp concept - XIB was the number of the women's block in one of the nazi lagers. But neither DL nor EK did approach the subject alike so many other power electronics outfits. Their attention has turned out to the victims not mutilators. Later on, they have decided to leave this imaginery as nothing original anymore. Anyway, their recordings speak for themselves alone, as only 'alte-schule' power electronics can do. Extremely raw, grinding and obscure electronic assault that crushes your bones and boils your blood, still being soundscape rather than just noise for the sake of noise. This CDR is a re-release of long sold-out one on Bastet Recordings (re-mastered version of the '92 tape). [press-release]
Dmitry Rodionov Experience -- "Learn to Keep Silence from Trees" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT50, (ltd. 106)
Guitarist Dmitriy Rodionov founded a project "Lenin & I" in 1999 in small closed Ural naukograd Snezhinsk (Chelyabinsk-70), which is built around a major scientific research institute "Academician Zababakhin's All-Russian Scientific Research Center of Technical Physics Federal Nuclear Center". Dmitry's music is complicated, masterly embodied, deeply philosophic, filled with a spirit of Nature and inhuman tranquility work on the edge of Drone, Dark Ambient and Industrial made with the help of natural and artificial sounds, noise, voices and different acoustic and electric instruments. The album is expanded with 2 video clips - a kind of screen version of noise pictures interpreted to the language of visual images. Fullcolur sleeve. [press-release]
Dmitry Rodionov Experience -- "Seventeen Moments Of Winter" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Heart-Shaped Box, HSB-043, (ltd. 41)
"The work over this album took about 6 months of winter and spring 2003, mostly in Scherbakovka village in Sverdlovsk region. "Seventeen Moments Of Winter" is filled with the sense of frosty Ural winter, loneliness and warmth of village life. The main line of the album is the composition "New Year's experiments" split in 4 parts. In general, all compositions are like "dreams" seen in frosty winter nights in a Ural village. All these "dreams" are divided in several periods of waking up, marked as "Origin through". One of the tracks - "Influence of the moon" - was inspired by an exhibition of Marina Kutyavina (http://www.mariku.ru). The exhibition was called "Angels and Moons". The track "Gagarin" tells about the first space flight of the Soviet cosmonaut Y.A. Gagarin. "What has felt the man who was the first in the history of Earth to fly in space? Must be something on the edge of insanity. Total detachment from reality". "Seventeen Moments Of Winter" is a conceptual work in which the author refers to his childhood memories. "Music has the ability to take you through the time... Just like, for instance, a smell which you liked in childhood can recreate the image from your childhood, if you close your eyes". [from the author]
DN23rd -- "Nix" -- CD-R -- €8
2006 Abgurd, AB-32, (ltd. 23)
Latest album by date. Three morose tracks. Sun rising over ruins... Nothing alive, only ether carries cuts of useless liturgies. [label info]
DN23rd -- "Signals From Outside" -- CD-R -- €11
2004 Abgurd Subdivision, AB-03, (ltd. 23)
The re-release of Zhelezobeton disc of 2002. Multi-layered radionoise with signals of unknown origin.
DN23rd + Hydrogenium -- "Scorcher" -- 3"CD-R -- €3
2010 CSRC, CSB-03, (ltd. 32)
[Remix by the Moscow project Hydrogenium of a track by another Moscow project DN23rd.] Multilayered radionoise sounding a bit like (electrical) transformer drone filled with communication interceptions and slowly, systematically and inexorably corroding the last remnants of your cerebrum with somewhat detached, restrained mechanical fury. Like a disabled, uncontrollable tank set on fire with its crew trapped inside still driving amain through the bodies of already dead and still alive. [press-release]
Dog -- "Hx. of Violencia" -- CD-R -- €7
Smell the Stench
Industrial Noise in school of early 80-s. The roots of this music go back to early NON and Throbbing Gristle, and the fruits are comparable to Comforter and Pain Jerk. Sleeve. [YAOP]
Donis -- "Alexandreia" -- CD -- €10
2007 Autarkeia, acd 018, (ltd. 500)
Donatas Bielkauskas - the man having keen ear, primeval curiosity, solid musical education and exquisite taste, who has released into the world the musical project DONIS (tribute in Prussian) - expands the space of creative quests with every new album until it transgresses this single regular cultural medium - music related with the tradition of Lithuanian ethnos, which he is the expert of. This time the artist has embarked on a new challenging journey, that is, to compose music revealing the unknown spirit of antiquity. His efforts have resulted in Alexandreia album that serves as a deep, pure and dreamy manifest to the ancient times. Tranquil, transparent and persuasive ambient stream prevails in the tracks. The archaic winds of different nations tastefully add to it in some of the tracks. These include hornpipe, bagpipes, mesmerising rhythms of tabor and mystifying bells. Soft and velvety voice of vocalist Alwyda, who has created the key vein of the album, opens the idealised femininity of the antiquity and conveys emotionally-charged world vision of genius Konstantin Kavafi where the Mediterranean past and present, the East and the West, the Greeks and the barbarians meet in the catharsis of profound sadness and wisdom, where the fall of civilisation witnessed in the vanishing cultural heritage is revealed. The Greek poetry recited in an enchanting voice and the ambient melting the words with elemental force embrace the audience who do not even know the archaic language. Alexandreia album will not disappoint the lovers of Dead Can Dance, Kameras 48, Raison D'etre music, either. [press-release]
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Donis -- "Vacuum" -- CD -- €10
2004 Autarkeia, acd 003, (ltd. 499)
This is not the latest Donis' record. It was recorded in 1997, when Lithuania was still in deepest electronic music crisis. "Vacuum" had waited seven years for his real live in personal Donis' archive. The album consists of only one long track, that could be ascribed to "ambient' stylistics. Though the sound of album proposes feeling of dark emptiness, it can not be described as "dark ambient". By it's influence "Vacuum" reminds "Coil's" ambient works that take you to the psychedelic trip. Extremely low generator vibration in record doesn't allow the feeling that you're high in the mountains to go out. The air is being crossed by toneless and icy sound, music motives are deep and sharp. Every stream of sound will work out as if you, the listener, are in a trip of deep emptiness. [press-release]
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Donzel-Gargand, Bernard -- "Still to be a Storyteller" -- CD -- €10
2009 Monochrome Vision, mv29, (ltd. 500)
The 20 years anthology of creative work from the french composer, consisting of only previously unreleased material. Fantastic soundscapes, drawing images without any visual similarities and presenting the best ever sense of acousmatic music... Bernard Donzel-Gargand is the unique musician and composer. He is a celebrity in Annecy but unfortunately less known abroad, especially because he published just one CD of fabulous works on Plate Lunch in 2001. Before discovering electroacoustic music in 1978, he participated in the free jazz movement and improvised music. Since that time, he is the author of acousmatic music, works for animation, dance and interactive contemporary art. In 1981, he founded the Collectif & Cie studio, together with Philippe Blanchard, Alain Basso, Philippe Moenne-Loccoz, and Peter Ernrooth, amongst others. Later on, with Philippe Blanchard he founded Studio Forum and the yearly festival "Le Bruit de la Neige". Bernard was born in 1955 and composing the music since 70s, he knew personally Pierre Schaeffer and received some prizes at GMEB concours in Bourges. He influenced Blanchard a lot, and his music was perfect example for many other young musicians in Annecy. But his musical career was not so active, because Bernard prefers to work alone in his studio rather than promote his music for publicity. But his works can be compared with the best electroacoustic music coming from France, and his name should be mentioned with celebrities like Michel Chion, Xavier Garcia, Bernard Parmegiani, Luc Ferrari and Francois Bayle. His pieces are breathtaking and transcending the sense of time. [press-release]
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DOR -- "Life in Russhausen" -- CD-R -- €8
2011 Ufa Muzak, UFA 42, (ltd. 120)
Power Electronics. Boundless distance of dark areas, corridors, side streets, bottomless niches. Catacombs of endless labyrinth, suppressing with monumentality of its cruelty. Everyone who is here feels horrifying despair, because this territory is not somewhere outside, it is inside of people. Those who are entrapped, beaten and humiliated. Who lives in a country where treachery and violence has become the basis, where all human rights are defied, and there's only one freedom left: survival and slave submission. The project of harsh analogue anti-music in Power Electronics style, presents its requiem suite of the basics of people's structure resulted in a formula: "Hate your neighbour as yourself". Eight tracks of manic depressive convilsions. Sick therapy session either going to cure you, or plunge deeper in the abyss of the vicious circle. To all born in the period of new distemper. Russia is an ordeal... 8 tracks, 45 minutes, 8-page cardboard booklet. [press-release]
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Doroga -- "s/t" -- CD -- €10
2010 Ikuisuus, IKU-021 / Nekorekords, Neko-02
Debut CD by a new Finnish duo. Slow ritual gongs, metals, percussions, loops and free clarinet/sax meditations, etc. Slow and intense... A study in evolving emptiness and truly a hypnotic trip. Comes in a 7" size sleeve. [labels info]
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Double Leopards -- "Savage Summer Sun" -- CD -- €10
2005 Hospital Productions, HOS-114
'Savage Summer Sun' captures two of Double Leopards' live sets from back-to-back days in March during their Spring 2005 West Coast tour. The first recording is from Il Corral in Los Angeles, and the second recording is a radio performance on KDVS in Davis, CA - one of the best live documents of the latter-day classic DL line-up: Marcia Bassett of Hototogisu, GHQ, and Purple Haze; Chris Gray of Endless Boogie, and Maya Miller & Mike Bernstein of Religious Knives. Maelstroms of distortion from the most compelling and influential drone collective to come out the American underground in the late nineties. Deep, turning, sinister industrial wrapped in existential undertow. [label info]
Douris, Francois -- "Colombe" -- CD-R -- €10
2000 Solipsism, Solipsism-29, (ltd. 100)
Drakh -- "Bethlehem" -- CD -- €12
2010 Essence Music, ESS014, (ltd. 400)
One third of the cult post-industrial Swedish legends MZ.412, one half of the amazing experimental act Beyond Sensory Experience and Nordvargr's long running loyal partner on classic endeavors - including the abyssal black ambient duo Nordvargr/Drakh. With such high caliber re'sume', we are more than honored to present the first DRAKH solo album! While mostly known for his demonic, truly Swedish guitar interventions on the MZ.412 or N/D pitch black ambiences, Bethlehem finds Jonas Aneheim walking through slow, quasi-harmonic, subtle, yet thick drone fields weaving elaborate and unexpected damaged electronic rhythms and harsh, crackling ambient textures that can become - at the same time - both delicate and haunting, warm and freezing, to finally drown in a sea of reverb, glacial riffing and distortion on his own shadowy interpretation of the city of Bethlehem. Simply perfect. Masterfully conceived and recorded on the road during his many world travels over the past years - from the US State of Indiana to Asia -, the album successfully narrates unknown angles from these places via ominous sonic vistas and pallets that truly honor the charming aura and tradition of the bleakest Swedish sounds. Presented in our custom 6-panel digisleeve packaging with stunning and desolate photography by Seldon Hunt. Not coincidentally mastered by no one else than Jouni Ollila (aka Ulvtharm, from the MZ.412 fame) at oLLiLaboratories Studios. [press-release]
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Drape Excrement / Söldnergeist -- "Black Rider" -- CD -- €10
2006 Steinklang Industries, SK32, (ltd. 500)
Dark and impressive Industrial-Electronics in classical style mixed with dronning and pulsating Power-Electronic tracks. Unreleased early recordings from these pioneers of the early 90ies! Cover-art by Fabrice Billard. [label info]
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Draugurinn -- "Daudada" -- CD -- €11
2010 Le Crepuscule Du Soir, LCDS009-1, (ltd. 500)
Severe and cold Dark Ambient from the young Swedish project. Tracks are sometimes thoughtful and perfectly fitting late night walks through forest and mountains, sometimes utterly dark like the night in damp caves. Jewel-case. [YAOP]
Dreamcatcher -- "Nimbus" -- CD -- €10
2005 Ohnono, OHNO 08, (ltd. 1000)
Hailing from the bowels of Montreal's 'ghetto', Dreamcatcher blast out with the big guns. Nimbus is the debut full length; chock full of enough sinister beats and atmospheric noise-scapes to seriously mess up your face. By harnessing the power of hot wired mixers alongside countless other home made electronics, Dreamcatcher has no trouble carving out a distinct sound. Past releases on nautical almanac's in house label 'Heresee' and 'Alien8 Recordings' have been met with praise for a reason. An interstellar combination of cosmic proportions... This is Dreamcatcher. [press-release]
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Dren / N.K.T.T. -- split -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2011 self-released
Atmospheric old school noise with industrial flavour. For the lovers of early Maurizio Bianchi. Sleeve. [YAOP]
Drog_A_Tek -- "Live at B-Stasion" -- 3"CD-R -- €5
1000+1 TiLt
21 minutes of free improvisation on repeating loops, like a long, never ending joint. [label info]
Dronaement -- "Allein... Unter Menschen" -- CD-R -- €9
2004 AFE Records, afe051lcd, (ltd. 150)
Dronaement is active since 1997 and is the main musical project of Marcus Obst who lives in the South area of what once was East Germany. Marcus is also involved in the Das Rhythmische Ornament experimental drone-punk duo and runs a small label called Nauze [Muzick]... After a few amazing tape albums he joined the Drone Records serie with the "Wassermond" 7", which was based on a collaboration with Jim De Jong, followed soon by a split LP with The Infant Cycle (Jim De Jong again....). Since then he released some marvellous solo CD-R albums on Dachstuhl, Nauze [Muzick] and Mistery Sea that everyone with an even small interest in Drone / Experimental music should immediately put their hands on. An "analog drones meet muffled guitars" collaboration with french guitarist Rabbit's Sorrow (Sebastien Roux) was also released on CD by Le Cri De La Harpe. "Allein... Unter Menshen" is the fully remastered re-version of the tape originally released on Nauze [Muzick] back in 1999. The first long track entitled "Allein..." was recorded using an electric organ as the only sound source. It is a beautifully calm drone played on the G tone, which is the tone of the day, and is meant to induce a state of meditation into the listener. "...Unter Menschen" is another very long track, some kind of a floating collage constructed from hours of field recordings taken in a big railstation hall in Leipzig, Germany. The last track, "Abriss" is a short but beautiful exclusive addition to this CD-R re-release... Dronaement is clearly one of the most talented drone-based music project around and "Allein... Unter Menschen" is a nice rediscover of one of his earliest releases. [label info]
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Dronaement -- "Ezoterick Muzick" -- CD-R -- €9
2006 AFE Records, afe085lcd, (ltd. 150)
"Ezoterick Muzick" was inspired by repeated listenings of indian traditional music and is a successful attempt at creating meditative / relaxing ambient music. [label info]
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Drone Lebanon / Wertham -- "Roma & Yerushalayim" -- CD -- €10
2008 Topheth Prophet, TP013, (ltd. 497)
Being a split CD, the album titled "Roma & Yerushalayim" presents two interesting artists from the power electronics scene, Israeli artist Drone Lebanon and Italian artist Wertham. Opening with Drone Lebanon, the opening track sends the listener into religious atmospheres of ritual chant. Shortly after religious act is being overwhelmed by crushing waves of destructive electronics wiping out any sign of musical tone. The combination of Middle-Eastern music culture and crushing symphonies is extremely effective. As the album develops, Drone Lebanon makes a slight change into more technoid sound worlds with the piece titled "Self hating jew" that reminds of early Wumpscut added some excellent black metal-sounding distorted vocals of Drone Lebanon. Other moments of Drone Lebanon takes the listener into ambient atmospheres, though don't expect any sonic tranquillity from this guy. Second artist on the split album, Wertham, opens his part of the apocalyptic show with a sweet children's choir, soon after completely destroyed by hordes of high frequency noise. The first piece from Wertham is a long epic piece of ambient noise, consisting of eastern chants, expressive noise moments, distant voices and buzz-drones. Though circulating in the same stylish spheres Wertham is slightly more subdued compared to the harsh sounds of Drone Lebanon. Though both artists should appeal to all listeners of grinding music. [NM, Vital Weekly]
DS Matter -- "Harmonia" -- CD-R -- €8
2009 Abgurd, AB-51, (ltd. 100)
After releasing two albums (Untitled and Pinky Lips) this project of Denis Shapovalov (SUNCHARIOT, ADRIVA, ENMERKAR) added two symbols to its name and one album two the discography. "Harmonia" is an oversimplification of frequencies or "supercompression" as an interpretation of author's point of view on the nowadays digital mastering in the mass-music that makes the final mix sound unified. The album presents only saturated frequencies on rise and fall. This sort of averaging allows disclosing new aspects of pure acoustic sounds of glass, plastic, wood, metal recorded with microphones and digitally processed. The album contains three long meditative tracks in a sophisticated electroacoustic manner with interesting variations of frequencies and warm droning backgrounds. [press-release]
DsorDNE -- "Grafio Ricerca 002" -- CD-R -- €8
1988/2008 Lunhare, zzz - 6, (ltd. 100)
Originally released on cassette by Hax twenty years ago, Grafio Ricerca 002 was remastered by Marco Milanesio/DsorDNE himself and enhanced with three unreleased tracks. Here are the basis for the sound later developed and released on the 'E' un sole' and '24 o 25 - GRU/O/MO' album. [label info]
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Dub Constructor -- "Ulitka Zen" -- CD -- €8
2004 Lagunamuch Community, LMC100
The first release of Lagunamuch community was a collection of the best tracks of Dub Constructor. Roots dub, experimental electronic dub, ambient-dub - you find all major dub trends there. Ulitka Zen is an outstanding work of sound engineer and live-sessions master. Anyone who heard this release knows that the Babylon is going to fall. [label info]
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Dunkelheit -- "Les Temps Modernes" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Steelkraft Manufactory, SKM10, (ltd. 100)
A new release from this Quimper (Brittany/France) based project, active since 1993. From industrial noise to concrete cut-ups and cold ambient soundscapes. Released by Steelkraft Manufactory, limited to 100 CDR in a white digipak. [label info]
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Duozero -- "Esperanto" -- CD -- €10
2006 SmallVoices, SVR06019
"Esperanto" is the multi-lingual voice of technology, a suspension of sounds based in research: a chaos of signs overwhelmed by sonic devices... New sound manipulator Duozero takes atmospheres and sound structures, twisting them into a blasphemous aural ecstacy of concrete music, unconscious field recordings and machine connections... [label info]
Durand, Werner & Alio Die -- "Aqua Planing" -- CD -- €13
2005 Hic Sunt Leones, HSL 029
In the enigmatic Aqua Planing, Werner Durand and Alio Die create a sonorous, powerful, impervious space; sometimes liquid, subtly endearing. A meeting of mysterious sounds, both improvised and organised, of the traditional and self-made wind- instruments and their hybrids by Werner Durand (persian and circular water ney, circular clarinet, khen, prepared shakuhachi) with the editing, loops and enviromental recordings by Alio Die. As in the title track, where they recorded the sound of the wind blowing on the edge of a PVC tube sticking out of the car window, while driving on an italian highway and mixed it with the sound of the ocean, filtered acoustically by the very same PVC tube, or the noise of a night train, the church bells in a mountain village, the musicians cause you to loose tracks of home and move towards purely surreal places. Their performance is always rigorous, the accurate tunings accuracy and special timbres of Werner Durand`s playing settled in the peculiar atmospheres created by Alio Die evoke unique interwoven listening spaces, rich with hues and shades, continuously evolving. [press release].
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Dusk Of Hope -- "Flexible Response " -- CD -- €10
2005 Hermetique, H-CD05, (ltd. 500)
Long-delayed CD album from this French ambient noise project whose previous material includes a tape released years ago on Slaughter and some compilation appearances, including tracks on our own "Like Music to Their Ears Vol 1". The artwork and sound both depict images of decay, ruins and of places still haunted by the ghosts of past and nameless conflicts. Tense and brooding at time, serene at others, but always executed with a purpose. Released on Propergol's home label, Hermetique. [Mechanoise Labs]
Dust To Dearth / Lysergene -- "The Death Of The Sun" -- CD -- €10
2009 Aesthetic Death Records, ADCD 012
Split CD from two awesome dark minimal ambient artists: Dust To Dearth and Lysergene. Dust To Dearth is the dark ambient manifestation from Mandy (Murkrat), featuring harrowing and chilling dark desolate sounds. Meanwhile Lysergene - the side project of Esoteric member Gordon Bickness - come forth with their second release with 3 dark droning evocations of melancholic ambient drone to bring forth the Death Of The Sun. [Cold Spring]
Dvar -- "El Mariil" -- CD -- €10
2010 Shadowplay Records, SPR 112
Hands go round, time go ahead... Now the hour has struck for the 10th anniversary album of the main incognito of Russian musical scene - DVAR! Judging from the hermetical artwork, the artists have returned to early esoterics of the project, filled with magic, alchemic symbolism and bee theurgy. Antropomorphous insectoids post-modernists which appeared in stylish fashion getup on two last dance albums "Zii" É "Fayah!" now switched to astral plane on "El Mariil" and appear as Angel Bees who hover in emerald azure and blow their horns. The sounds of these horns will appeal to those for whom the message of DVAR has ended on last chords of "Roah" and "Rakhilim". Absent of popular electronic arrangements and mentally deranged dances, "El Mariil" is a lyrical message from DVAR, a complex and neoclassical album. This elegant release is destined mainly for the lovers of beautiful and sublime music. [press-release]
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Dvar -- "Jraah Mraah" -- CD -- €10
2007/2010 Shadowplay Records, SPR 116
Reissue of the 2007 album will all cyrillic spelling. Original press-release: "After a year odd of silence DVAR comes back with a new extraordinary creation. "Jraah Mraah" presents 30 finely crafted miniature masterpieces made at the meeting-point of indietronics, gothic, fantasy pop, minimalism and avanguard. Blazing expressive pieces vary from driving ones to meditative, from "cheerful" to tragic. That's possibly how "punk" or "synthpop" should sound if performed by cockroaches, flies and caterpillars from old Soviet cartoons. And really, one can't but admire this inventive sickness in performance! The disc is literally covered with odd obscure atmosphere similar to David Lynch's movies. This feeling, when under a mask of a clown you can see a skull, or when a colorful wrapping of a chocolate sweet hides a pile of dead earthworms inside... Besides traditional fans of Dvar, this album will be surely appreciated by sentimental lovers of touching child's music and other most unusual, experimental and innovative. Unambiguously recommended to the fans of 'Schnappi, das Kleine Krokodil', THE RESIDENTS, DRAGIBUS, PLUXUS, MESSERCHUPS, Yan Tiersen, LITTLE COMPUTER PEOPLE, SNAKESKIN, etc."
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Dvar -- "Madegirah: Bizarre Rares & Early Works" -- CD -- €10
2009 Shadowplay Records, SPR 102
An absolute collection of all kinds of rarities and oddities recorded by the project during their "seclusion" period (1992-1997) and during the recoring of their full-length albums until "Jraah Mraah" (2005). Contains tracks from the legendary cassettes "Dvar" and "Raii". This album is only for true fans of DVAR open for different sides of the project's manifold legacy. 80 minutes and whole 50 tracks of total madness, animated shamanism, theatrical grotesque and gothic surrealism! Specially recommended for the lovers of subtle absurdity and post-modern magic. Contains a cover-version of a track "Fly" of a neo-classical band Caprice. WARNING: this music can seriously injure your mental health for indeterminate period of time. [press-release]
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Dvar -- "Piirrah / Taai Liira" -- CD -- €10
2009 Shadowplay Records, SPR 103
The complete and final reissue of the material from the legendary albums "Piirrah" and "Taai Liira" on one CD with a generous bonus-track section. The occult project DVAR has become known for the "gothic" community after the compilation "Edge Of The Night" released in the year of Millennium. The song "Taai Liira" stood out among the rest of material. Full of inhuman aggression, paranoidal hysteria and infinite pathology this song created at the junction point of darkwave and electronic black metal has opened a window for mass audience. Later followed the release of the first full-length album "Piirrah" in Italy, then powerful stylistical metamorphoses, creation of their own unique style "lightwave", release of 5 albums on Russian label Irond, including "Taai Liira", and many more... This CD presents the complete reissue of "Piirrah" and it's Russian reissue as "Taai Liira" also featuring previously unreleased material. This is a sort of archive mould of surely one of the most dark and sickly chapter in the history both Russian and international "dark scene". [press-release]
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Dvar -- "Rakhilim" -- CD -- €10
2003 Monopoly Records, MONO 002-1103
The music is frivilous and amusing, making you smile and grimace, sometimes slightly sad, sometimes just semi-danceable. Round-dance of elves overdozed with acid. "Started back in early 90's and playing some kind of bizzare 'cartoonish-like' avantguard music, DVAR released several works ('Dvar', 'Raii') which now are rated among big rarities. After long years of silence DVAR returned with a gothic darkwave album 'Piirrah' released in Italy in 2002 and presenting material from the period 1999-2000. A year later the band produced 'Roah'. This time DVAR's style changed once again. It wasn't really 'dark' anymore, but rather melancholic. Oriental and minimalist influences could be easily heard. Music critics claimed it 'lightwave'. DVAR was recording 'Rakhilim' during year 2002, and by now it is the freshiest material of the bizzare formation. With this album DVAR's unique style reaches its artistic and technical purity." [label info]
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Dweller At The Threshold -- "Ouroborus" -- CD -- €10
2001 Hypnos/Binary, HYBY0101
Dwelling -- "Ainda E Noite" -- CD -- €13
2007 Equilibrium Music, EQM013
Portuguese artisans of acoustic ambiance and challenging melodies present their new opus, 'Ainda E Noite'. Having spent a good portion of the last two years preparing this much awaited release, the Portuguese all strings combo Dwelling returns reinvigorated. Their trademark acoustic design has been slightly reshaped, not only by the recruitment of another violinist, but also through the use of other additional instruments - 8 string bass, fretless bass and 12 string Portuguese guitar have been weaved into the intricate fabric of Dwelling's compositions at key moments, adding new moods and textures to the band's core foundations made up of classical guitars and distinctive vocals... "Ainda E Noite" sees Dwelling gasping for air when faced with every day's asphyxiating city pace and taking the delicate female form and spirit for a late walk through Lisbon's darkest streets. The album seeks to expose the lonely side of feminine intimacy, embodying various moods and states of mind that grow more disturbing and unsettling as the quiet hours of the night roll by. Nostalgia and romanticism often turn into decadent bohemian extravaganza, as the taste of Fado acquires a more progressive aroma, and Classical overtones flirt with Jazzy grooves throughout the album... True to Dwelling's tradition, the lavish compositions gracefully blossom into intimate acoustic settings on this fully in-house 'top-notch' production. Recorded and mixed at Equilibrium Music Studios over a period of several months, the album was produced by the band and mastered by Francisco Martins, resulting in a pristine preservation of timbre and ambiance... 'Ainda E Noite' is housed in a beautifully designed fullcolor Digipak CD, that helps set the tone for the delicate yet sensual nature of the recorded material. [press-release]
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Dwelling -- "Humana" -- CD -- €13
2003 Equilibrium Music, EQM003
"Moments", Dwelling's debut MCD issued two years ago, lay down the foundations for the band's sonority, deeply rooted in the exploration of music in its purest form through the use of stringed instrumentation and voice... "Humana" follows the same path, yet expands upon Dwelling's musical framework, allowing them not only to improve their skill as musicians and composers, but also to explore and broaden their scope of influences, which encompass, within an acoustic Neo-Classical setting, elements of Jazz and Contemporary Music alongside an ever present undercurrent that draws back to Fado and Dwelling's Portuguese background... The album allegorically portrays various events of the cycle of human life, from the cradle to the grave, which translate into the various moods found throughout compositions much in the same way that one would balance his feelings towards life as he courses through the joy and radiance of youth into the heavy burden of old age... Challenging and bold, "Humana" may not be an immediately accessible listen, but it is sure to unveil a world of wonders to those who choose to dwell within it. [press-release]
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E.A.R.S. / Ego Death -- "s/t" -- 3"CD-R -- €3
2010 Deathforce Records, DF 053
Split of two projects from Greece. E.A.R.S. - calm atmospheric electronic with brutal metal micro-invasions on the first track, 2nd track is a strong dramatic ambient composition in several parts. Ego Death - overdrived noise a la "vent shaft in a milling shop".
EAE -- "5 parts" -- CD-R -- €8
2006 Hladna, (ltd. 33)
Solo project of Andrey "Buratino" from Moscow-based band Architheatre. Experimental noisy electronics, cyclic, ambiental and moderately abstract, though sometimes straightforward rhythmical. Designed by Hladna, by slight mistake the project is named AE inside the sleeve.
Earth To Ground -- "Symbiosis" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Essentia Mundi, EM019, (ltd. 100)
The debut release of Earth To Ground band from Germany. Guitar, voices, synths, acoustic percussions & free compositions: an outstanding experimental music adventure. 'Symbiosis' is industrial drone with a touch of human sensibility induced by various voices effects. A symbiotic treatise between the sound and the environment in industrialized ages... Earth To Ground plays experimental music and it is from Germany. The style cannot easily be categorized, the music has a special aura created with droning-industrialized guitars and by the presence of voices, it is something really special that have to be heard. It is a project that also plays live, and currently it is in studio preparing the first full length CD. Let yourself captivated by the journey with the debut release 'Symbiosis'. [label info]
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Earworm / Thethe -- "split" -- CD-R -- €9
2005 Triangle Records, TR-03, (ltd. 90)
Earworm play instrumental music between noise rock, early psychedelic and something which is often described with terms "post-...". Unleashed guitar, insane bass, furious cello, nervous rhythm-section. The material is taken from their "Serious Ear" EP. Thethe - is weird blurry post-punk meeting with indie-pop and indie-rock + tuba, female vocals and wonderful lyrics. [press-release]
Earzumba -- "Real Ruido Pastizo" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 Editions Zero, #13
Amazing collage music from the Argentinian artist Christian Dergarabedian (C.D.). Within 1.5 - 3 min time of composition he somehow manages to unglue normally sounding music and transform it into a strange surrealistic canvas with interludes of specific sound scenes. The disk sounds like a sound-movie in which psychedelia turns into scenes from gangster thriller, and in general, skilfully written plot unfolds in a very unpredictable way.
Echran -- "s/t" -- CD -- €14
2005 Ebria Records / Small Voices, Bronto - 006 / SVR05017
Looks like Italian scene is ahead the whole planet in terms of experimental electronic music. Echran is relatively new project formed by Davide Del Col (Ornament) and Fabio Volpi (Otolab). Davide plays analogue Korg synth and Fabio uses laptop and his voice. The music is very minimal in structure - in fact, each track is smoothly developing pulsating waves over which Fabio's calm voice is declaiming texts in Italian. But the frequency selection and the quality of sound material will make each minimal/analogue electronics lover rapturously squeak in ecstasy, because everything sounds incredibly tasty.
Echran -- "In Offret" -- CD -- €8
2009 A Silent Place, ASP42
In Offret is the second Echran full length after the acclaimed self-titled debut (released by the Italian SmallVoices label in 2005). Echran is the electronic project of Davide Del Col (Molnija Aura) and Fabio Volpi, who has worked over the last few years with the Milanese audio/video collective Otolab. Starting in 2003, the project joins two different kinds of experiences: one is gloomy and ambient, the other is noise-based with a psychedelic attitude. Echran's dark electronic soundscapes are not easy to pigeonhole: there's a constant metronome-like pulse that could be compared to Pan Sonic or some Basic Channel-inspired minimal techno, but at the same time it's not really ambient or droning. French lyrics give the record an elegant touch of soft velvet atmosphere. [press-release]
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Efficient Refineries -- "Epinervio" -- CD -- €11
2006 Menstrual Recordings, LH02, (ltd. 300)
Siegmar Fricke is a busy man these days. If not working on something solo himself, or with Maurizio Bianchi in collaboration, he works as Efficient Refineries, together with Miguel A. Ruiz. Both have a history in electronic music that goes back to the good ol' 80s with their cassette releases. They work under this alias since 1995 and have released four CDs, none of which I heard. 'Epinervio' is their fifth release and it dabbles in the field of electronic dance music. Although it goes into various directions, the main direction is that of ambient house. Deep, atmospheric synthesizer patterns lay the heavy fundament of this music, and the rhythm ticks nicely away. A voice sample is thrown in, occasionally. While techno inspired, I doubt wether this will get many feet moving on the dance floor. The music is certainly too strange for that, too angular, too hooky and too dark. But perhaps in a more daring chill out room, this might work. At home it certainly works nicely, good entertaining music with a darker edge. Nice to play when you do the dishes. [press-release]
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Ego Death -- "Everyday Life (Normal Noise)" -- CD-R -- €4
Reality Impaired, RIRCD057
I'm not sure if I guessed it right, but it seems that this time Manos Michaelides has connected a broken contact mic to an air hockey table and recorded everything for half an hour. Everything you can hear is various crackles and rattles, sometimes also distant voices appear. Naturally, a die-hard fans only release.
Ego Death -- "Fresh Flesh for Rotting Humans" -- CD-R -- €3
2010 self-released
Power electronics and noise mixed with wry avantgarde. Necrosis. [YAOP]
Ego Death "(($%$%^%^&((()))^&^&^(*())))" / Cat'n'Bone "einitinnudrndl?rnreeli?" -- CD-R -- €4
2009 Smell The Stench
Ego Death / Gorgonized Dorks -- "split" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2008 Sewer Records, SEWER 036, (ltd. 20)
Concrete noise from Greece vs. experimental noise from USA. [YAOP]
Ehnahre -- "Taming The Cannibals" -- CD -- €10
2010 Crucial Blast, CBR 89
The new full length (number two) from the Boston based avant-black/death/doom band Ehnahre, Taming The Cannibals, is one of the more cerebral and challenging "death metal" albums to have come through the Crucial Blast headquarters this year. After being turned on to their excellent debut from 2008 The Man Closing Up, I've been itching to hear more from these warped death abstractionists; their debut instantly dazed me with its jarring, alien approach to bestial slow-motion death metal, drawing heavily from the twelve-tone serialism of composer Arnold Schoenberg and the outer fringes of free-jazz and free improvisation as much as they do from the foul black pit of early 90's death metal and doom. Even after years of devouring the most dissonant strains of death metal that I could get my mitts on (Gorguts, Demilich, Immolation, Portal, etc.), these guys stunned me with their extreme chaotic dissonance and pitch-black chthonic textures, a combination of atonal 20th century classical music and vicious blackened death laced with squalls of free-jazz horns, stretches of intense choral ambience, and blasts of calcifying glacial doom... [label info]
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Eidulon -- "Idolatriae" -- CD -- €10
2007 Malignant Records, TUMOR CD33
With the release of Eidulon's debut CD Idolatriae, we at Malignant are pleased to welcome another new project into the cozy confines of our slowly expanding roster. 7 tracks of ultra bleak, abstract atmospheres, with sounds and textures that seem to seep from catacomb walls and come slithering out of subterranean chambers. Certainly, this can be classified as a dark ambient record, but at it's core, it's more than just that simple classification. There's a gritty, more jagged edge here, with tetonic shifts, deep rumblings, and crackling, climatic squalls buried under a bed of ghostly reverb and haunting tonal resonance. Fits in nicely with past Malignant releases such as R|A|A|N's 'The Nacrasti', Heid's 'Arktogaa', and even Caul's 'Crucible' CD. In elegant 6 panel digipak, with stark black and white, carefully arranged illustrations inspired by Taschism and Spatial art. From gothtronic.com: "I am deeply impressed by this release, seven tracks of the finest dark ambient recommended for all people who like this kind of music. This is pure beauty with great atmospheres making you dream away to the furthest regions, to places were no man has ever put his feet. Be nice to yourself and purchase this great release." [press-release]
EKRAN / Boevye Cikady -- "Even Yesterday It Seemed To Be Impossible" -- CD-R -- €8
2005, Extremal Psychonauts, ExPsy 012, (ltd. 88)
"Notions about possible and impossible change quickly in owr days..." once wrote in free press Lenin Prize laureate, Hero of Socialistic Labour, academician A. Tselikov. EKRAN and Boevye Cikady, both projects from St. Petersburg, entirely agree with comrade Tselikov's opinion and because of this decided to release a split-album in support of this statement. Science and technology, folk medicine and atomic energetics, astronautics and terrestrial fauna - here are the main ideological inspirers of the musicians. Melancholic atmosphere of laboratories, detachment of research officers and statistical registration of events are waiting for the attentive listeners in the first half of the disc recorded by EKRAN using old Soviet synthesizers. In contrast to this, Boevye Cikady get inside the animal microworld, decompoze the matter on frequency components and cheerfully explore the holographic structure of the Universe by means of digital music made with the help of Apple Macintosh software. The artwork is done in best D.I.Y. traditions - DVD-box with roughly xeroxed booklet containing visual accompaniment to the sound tracks. The edition is limited to 88 copies, but don't be afraid fellows, fascism won't go through!
Eldar -- "Sapere Aude" -- CD -- €14
2009 Cold Meat Industry, cmi195
Electronic Press Kit -- "The Death Instrumental Session E.P." -- CD-R -- €7
2005 Altsphere Production, ALT011
Ultra-minimalistic yet conscious cold-wave with nice phat sound. Underground distribution edition - CD-r coming with colour ink-jet printed cover. [Misanthropic Propaganda]
Elephant Zyclus -- "Tripod" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2003 Afe Records, afe027mcd
About one year after the release of his "Zyclus Over Berlin" CD-R album it's time for another small dose of Elephant Zyclus. We have chosen our favourite track and edited it for this release. Samples were subsequently given for treatment to a couple of selected Afe artist... Lips Vago, under his new DJ Lips guise, remained faithful to the spirit of the original track adding some more Techno danceabilty to make you sweat... a034 couldn't care less about the original and came up with a 200 bpm Drill monster based mostly on the bass loop. Spiral almost destroyed the unreleased "Promis" filling it with all sort of glitches. We enjoy this remix frenzy a lot, there will be more remix projects on Afe very soon. Let's enjoy "Tripod" in the meantime. [press-release]
Ellende -- "Bitter Lemons" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2004 Taalem, alm 18
Ellende is a mysterious project. No one knows exactly who contributes to Ellende. All we can say is that some people contributes sound to one Dutch man living in Japan. This man carefully builds (he's an architect) his tracks with these sound contributions et voila! Active for many years but releasing his music for only 2 years, Ellende has fastly got a very strong reputation in the dark ambient/experimental scene thanks to a bunch of cd-r's and mp3's releases on many labels all over the world, creating unique atmospheres that can't be compared to anything else. This 3" gives a perfect example of Ellende music, maybe a little harsher and darker than previous works... [press-release]
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Ellende -- "Heroin" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2004 AFE Records, afe50012, (ltd. 50)
"Heroin" starts as a sparse and pleasantly vibrating drone-based piece and slowly get crowded with pulsating and swirling elements. As the swirlings continue and percussive sounds are introduced, the music evolves into some kind of hazy and hypnotic dream populated by creatures speaking with backward/high-pitched voices. Approaching the end of the track, all these elements slowly fade away leaving room for otherworldly noises/effects and a sort of vocoderized voice. As usual, the concept for this releases is focused on a writing by Wim Bontjes, a deceased Ellende member. [label info]
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Elli Riehl -- "Das Brauen Der Feuerwolken / Alraun" -- 2 CD -- €15
2006 Punch Productions, PP018
Embryoptic -- "Blood Vessels" -- CD -- €11
1995 Connect The Dots Music, ctdmux 02, (ltd. 500)
Minimalistic organic art noise with rare invasions of rhythms. Artwork made of transparent plastic. Rare. [YAOP]
EMOR -- "Grain of Sand" -- mCD -- €12
2004 Human Meat For Sale
Sludge doom metal from Slovakia in vein of Neurosis album "Times of Grace".
Emulsion -- "Blue Sky Objective" -- CD -- €11
2006 Lens Records, LENS0010
Emulsion's full-length debut CD brings together elements of 80's electro, cutting-edge IDM, and bouncy melodies steeped in indie influences. Blue Sky Objective is electronic pop music: an accessible and appealing mixture of pretty, emotive melodies and lo-fi electro beats. Thanks to an NES-lit eighties childhood, Emulsion's Nathan Koch never lost his obsession with the eight-bit aesthetic and its resulting digital artifacts- leading to his immersion in San Francisco's gaming industry, with a Game Boy planted firmly in his palm. With the prior release of a single and an EP, Emulsion spent over a year touring and promoting across the US with strong support from niche press and college radio. For fans of: Solvent, Casino Versus Japan & Ulrich Schnauss. [press-release]
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Encomiast -- "Malpais" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2010 Taalem, alm 68
Founded in 1999, Encomiast is now the solo project of US sound artist Ross Hagen. A handful of beautiful releases were issued through various labels such as Lens Records, Gears Of Sand, Mystery Sea or Crucial Bliss. "Malpais" is a single long piece derived from an old folk song from an archival collection Ross was working with a few years ago. It uses a lot of other pieces from that collection as source material throughout. Expect layers of slowly evolving drones... [press-release]
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Endless Hypersomnia -- "Past Reflections: Madness, Sadness, And Torpor" -- CD-R -- €7
2011 Smell The Stench, (ltd. 50)
Young but already becoming popular Black Industrial project from the school of of Mr. Nordvargr & Co. Powerful industrial tracks resembling early MZ. 412 turn into Black Metal themes and dark ambient soundscapes. [YAOP]
Endvra -- "Black Eden" -- CD -- €10
1996/2005 Red Stream Inc, RSR-0114
The sinister music of Endura has gathered appreciation from an increasingly diverse audience who appreciate that burgeoning movement of individuals and bands using electronics to sculpt a music that has been called Dark ambient. [label info]
Epsilon Eridani -- "Disturbance" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Essentia Mundi, EM015, (ltd. 100)
Drone based release all the way from Mexico. The 2 lengthy tracks, very dense and dark, portrais a journey to the mind's core. A core of disturbances. This is the first CD release of Epsilon Eridani after a few mp3 releases to various net labels... Originating from Mexico City, Juan Pablo Valle, 30, produces both ambient and dark ambient. He samples sounds from everything and enjoys modifying them by pitching or time stretching, adding some bright or dark melodies to his compositions. [label info]
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Erdlicht -- "Urlicht: Erster Kreis" -- CD-R -- €8
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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Erynis -- "Manhattan / Dwelling" -- CD -- €13
1998 Tesco Organisation, TESCO 036, (ltd. 800)
This sound artist from the USA presents a dark, intense soundscape of destruction and apocalyptic noise to celebrate the end of city civilization. Comes in a deluxe special package. [label info]
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Es -- "Kesamaan Lapset" -- CD -- €10
2009 Fonal Records, FR-64
"This is my fifth solo release as Es. Kesa"maan lapset was recorded during a three year period. It is a mix of soundscapes and pop tunes. You can hear influences varying from contemporary indie to ancient classical music. It's a summer album and a childhood photo album. The name translates as 'The Children Of The Summerland'. It an homage to the Pekka Streng album 'Kesa"maa' (Summerland) which is one of my favourite Finnish albums ever made. It also refers to Finland of course. I've been travelling a lot these past three years and every time I return here it feels more and more like home... I've used lots of instruments, from high-end analogue synthesizers and upright pianos to cheap flea market Casios. I've recorded parts of this abroad and at home in my studio and in my bedroom. There are a few special guests: Laura Laurila plays violin, Tuomas Eriksson (Risto) plays trombone and Elissa Ma"a"tta"nen who has sung on most of my albums is present again to give her special voice to the tracks... I hope you enjoy the album. It is not as ambitious a work as my previous double album Sateenkaarisuudelma. But this one is meant to be listened to in many more situations and it might just fit as music for a house party too:" [Sami Sänpäkkilä / Es]
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Esche -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Alarmstufe, (ltd. 44)
Black & white cover imitates bizarre interweaving of branches. By the was, Esche means ash-tree in German. So it's not surprising is we see this particular tree on the album's cover. And that this tree - the great tree of the world in Scandinavian mythology - throws a shadow on the whole creative work of the project. Listen to the track titles: "SheLESt", "V Suhih Kronah", "Sonmh". First and the longest (25 min) track starts to draw the listener in its thicket with mysterious drones interlarded with multiply echoed clappers, shakers and other tinkling and cracking rhythmic noise effects. Sometimes this resembles shamanic rituals of the Finnish hermits from the Aural Hypnox label. The magic atmosphere gets thicker and finally materializes itself in looped rattle of wooden percussion and swooningly sonorous trembling of leaves. The green ocean rolls with waves of monotonous rustling somewhere high over the head. Track number two - V Suhih Kronah - combines field recordings (someone's steps, crackling of dry lop), gurgling electronics, blasting of mouth harp and some piercing sound keeping the listener in tension. The final track is a noise canvas, babel of sounds and timbres, mixed together. A host of impersonal voices, rushing in resonant spaces of a foreigner's dream. [Radiodrone]
Esche -- "Wendigo" -- CD-R -- €7
2011 Valgriind, VG45 / Alarmstufe, STUFE02, (ltd. 186)
Over the banks of melting waters breathes the Wendigo's last whisper of fierce winter. Under the roots bound by blizzard, behind the ancient bark, in the stone heart of the forest this music has it's roots - the metaphysical incarnation of the spirit of winter's Frost and Hunger. A border between autumn and winter cycles, a natural attempt to hide in wolfish grass and survive the Snowstorm. A call of blood of the last North. Second full-length album by Esche released by common will of Valgriind and Alarmstufe prod. Field recordings, guitar, mouth harp, synthesizers, voice, percussion and various electronics are here to fix this mysterious ritual. Artwork done by Sergey Ilchuk (Vresnit & Vetvei Art). [press-release]
Escuadron De La Muerte -- "Omnia Vincit Mors" -- CD-R -- €8
2010 Ufa Muzak, UFA 34, (ltd. 141)
Apocalyptic noise / Power electronics. Going wind in black pits, in ropes with no way out. This is the situation of reality. All of you are sitting tied to chairs, and information goes right in your brain. Abnormal, infinitely violent and compressed. Blood, lies, hunger, money. Smell of a burned human being and nature of depravity felt in killing fields. Bile of the world, in all corners of constant inconceivable depression. The project from South America presents an hour of music full of total strain and moral hardiness. This is not just noise in it's common form, this is a completely new level where this project exists, leaving behind all rivals. Prepare for adrenaline shock and remember - there's no way out. Escuadron De La Muerte is the music of crisis, all and everything, without an end. [press-release]
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ESE (Entheogenic Sound Explorers) -- "The Other Door" -- CD-R -- €9
2009 Databloem, DBCD09024
ESE's follow up to the acclaimed The Shroom Experience debut album on our Practising Nature sister label. The Other Door showcases the more catchy, ambient dub influenced (The Orb) side of the band. Melodic synth sounds, varied rhythmic elements, psychedelic effects and an occasional guitar combine into a lovely, timeless sound. [label info]
Ex.Order -- "Shuchu Ryoku" -- CD -- €14
2010 Power & Steel, PAS 28
Exalot -- "Analogue Flowers" -- CD -- €10
2005 Faria Records, FAR-003, (ltd. 500)
Bright and clear music performed on analogue synths, simple and even primitive to some point, but always mellow and naive. It reminds either old space TV-programs or child's games on Dandy computers. The CD is packed in cardboard cover with a set of cards with computer graphix.
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Exit In Grey -- "Audiometry : Domination" -- CD-R -- €8
2009 Daphnia Records, ph11
Reissue of the debut 3"CDR "Audiometry" (2004) with an 18-min bonus track "Domination". Guitar drone ambient varying from almost monotonous raw and deep rumbles to gentle melancholic tunes... sonic waves and streams slowly come and pass away, leaving the listener in spellbound numbness.
Exit In Grey -- "Dim Lines" -- CD-R -- €8
2008 Daphnia Records, ph10
Three long mild tracks, classical guitar-based drone ambient with field recordings. The atmosphere of cosmic forest and infinite blue sky.
Exit In Grey -- "Emotional Resounding" -- CD-R -- €8
2005/2007 Daphnia Records, PH06, 2nd edition
Slowly evolving spaces filled with deep guitar drones, field recordings and ocassional electronic sounds. Definite recommendations! Second edition.
Exit In Grey -- "Magnetoline - Night Medidation" -- CD-R -- €8
2006 Daphnia Records, PH04
The new album of one of the best Russian drone projects is made out of sounds of processed guitar, field recordings and prepare singing bowls. Slowly rolling hollow and distant rumbles swallowing up the attention like a huge swirl, slowly evolving melodies and flowing by frequency fibers like clouds. During listeting the brain tunes itself down to lower frequency waves and smoothes down emotional state.
Exit In Grey -- "Nowadays Warm" -- CD-R -- €8
2004/2007 Daphnia Records, PH01
Reissue of the very first album of EIG, originally released in carved wooden box, limited to 10 copies. Classical guitar drone ambient, beautiful and melancholic. Similar artists: Troum, Aidan Baker, True Colour Of Blood, etc.
Exit In Grey -- "Radionarayan" -- CD-R -- €8
2007 Daphnia Records, ph08
This time Exit In Grey, reduced to one member [S], experiments with combining guitar drones and radionoises, and does it really successfully! More than an hour of calm yet energetic meditative drone music.
Exit In Grey -- "Sub Pluvia" -- CD-R -- €8
2007 Daphnia Records, ph07
"This work is dedicated to all those forlorn during the rain." Emotional guitar drone ambient with uneasy and sorrowful atmosphere. Each track features sounds of rain, thunder or flowing drops. This is the most rough album of the project because of wide use of distorted guitar.
Expired Station -- "s/t" -- 2 CD-R -- €10
2011 Heart Shaped Box prod., HSB-051, (ltd. 23)
Radionoise - fixation of ether done in Spring 2008 by a 14-year girl Darya Kudryavtseva. 2 sprayed CD-Rs, 23 copies, art by Udachina Varvara. [label info] Double-DVD box.
Exploplasmatic Coagulation -- "C++ (Selected Works 2005-2010)" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 InterioRepertoR, IR04
Exploplasmatic Coagulation is one of the projects of Moscow based musician Oleg Hurvatov, also known for Interior Disposition and Lanceolaria Im Licht Der Laterne. Like the author says himself, "if the matter of two other projects, anyhow, is the internal side of the human ego, Exploplasmatic Coagulation enters in sphere of mechanical interactions. The sound becomes the tool - a microscope or a scalpel opening a micron wrong side of the world." Cold abstract ambient and non-aggressive noise fields with spatial atmosphere.
Exsanguinate / La Infame Turba De Nocturnas Aves -- "Allegory Of Death" -- CD -- €10
2003 Misanthrope Studio, MS003, (ltd. 500)
Each band presents it's own sonic Allegories of Death... meditations on that inevitability we all fear and at the same time are fascinated by. To set the tone Exsanguinate starts with a commanding and urgent track, flush with militaristic undercurrents in it's opening moments. From there the material evolves into something more abstract and steeped in dread with tendrils stretching into elements of clinical drone and throbbing frequencies to a more introspective ambient chaos. [l-i-t-d-n-a] rounds out the disc with their unique blend of deep tones, harsh frequencies, gentle pulses against an almost ambient feedback. Squalls, static, interjecting beats, squirming distortions and vocalizations accentuate an anxious,looming reality. [l-i-t-d-n-a] closes among fluid environmental recordings juxtaposed with clanks and pulse beats, to provide the score for a yet to be discovered altered state, one in which reason is elusive. [press-release]
Exterior Mirror -- "Hupp" -- CD -- €10
1996 Katyn Records, KAT-01
Deep ambient electronics from the Chicago artist Claude Willey.
Exxasens -- "Beyond The Universe" -- CD -- €10
2009 ConSouling Sounds, SOUL0007, (ltd. 1000)
After Exxasens' debut cdr Polaris sold out at lightspeed it was clear we had to take up to the next level. So, here we are: Beyond the Universe! This debut full album picks up where Polaris left: beautiful unearthly melodies somewhere on the line between post-rock and post-metal. Impossible to pinpoint an exact genre or reference point: Barcelona's Exxasens maintains a unique musical journey. A journey that leads the listener somewhere... Beyond the Universe. [press-release]
Ezhi i Petruccho -- "Istorii" -- CD -- €7
2006 Lagunamuch Community, LMC600
Russian spoken word / ambient project, devised in late 90-s by Andrey Andrianov. Some time later the musician Andrey Dergachev joined him and they have recorded several philosophic stories about two fictional characters Ezhi and Petrucco, and then released their first album. Since that the project has become more and more famous and popular, attracting the attention of radio stations, animators and just all the interested listeners. [label info]
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Ezhi i Petruccho -- "Skazki" -- CD -- €7
2007 Lagunamuch Community, LMC-1000
Russian spoken word / ambient. Ezhi and Petruccho? Who are they? First of all, these are names, just like "water", "stone", "law". The stories about them repeat the eternal genre of "tales by a fire". After two thousand of years we actually continue sitting by a fire, although we have learned how to get water from a tap and electricity from a socket. Basic names don't change. Sounds and names cause each other and again go into silence. We've just found the way into our "inner ArTek" and continue walking light not losing sight of each other... "And Ezhi was a shaman", - says Andrianov in a very wise hypnotic voice. And the music of Dergachev catches you and carries away into the timeless existence. Here, in a half empty room a cup of tea or mulled wine and a chequered plaid are waiting for you, and the stars are goggling in the window. After all, the real tales are told long after midnight. [label info]
F.ormal L.ogic D.ecay -- "LovstakkenI" -- CD -- €10
2001 Dark Vinyl Records, DV 34
Sideproject by Luigi M.Mennella (FURVUS, EN VELOUR NOIR). The structure of this album is based on the harmonized parts of a pure ambientalistic live recording done on the mountain of Lovstakken, Bergen, Norway. Processed moments of those sound recordings and music inspired by the sensations of that moments a wonderful / atmospheric ambient trip inspired by the mountain of Lovstakken. [label info]
F.R.U.I.T.S. -- "Forbidden Beat" -- CD -- €11
2004 Laton, Laton 029
This is a seminal band of Alexei Borisov and Pavel Jagun, exploring their particular interest in rhythmical music. But, even being very dynamic and nimble by its nature, they can't be considered as dance music. I would be agree with those who bring it up to the more accessible version of Borisov solo works, which is now located completely in experimental/noise domain. FRUITS was founded more than 10 years ago but I still had no chance to grab their records, knowing them only due to frequent and regular appearance in various concerts and festivals. This album, shortly released by the Austrian label Laton, compiled from live gigs material recorded between 1992 and 2003. A kind of live anthology which consists of nostalgic "Industrial gatherings" in Moscow, but also recent performances in Paris and "Avanto" festival in Helsinki. Very heterogeneous album, starting from the square beat and minimal/electro arrangements, then the mood is going to be softer and deliberated, drawing us to the melodious ambient. But the atmosphere is uneasy, raw and noisy outbursts comes back from behind, like the seething magma - it reminds me the spacious feeling in the beginning of Mono No Aware "Kitanai Yatsu" album, released by Hands. But as soon as this melodic component disappears, you can see the vast of electronic dissonances and effects, sheer and shivering noises seems to be a barrier for sludgy and breaking beat. [Dmitry Vasilyev, Independent Electronic Music]
Fahl -- "The Paths To Emptiness" -- CD -- €10
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]
Falkenstein -- "Kraftort" -- CD -- €14
2009 Heimatfolk, HF 08
Falkenstein -- "Urdarbrunnen" -- CD -- €14
2008 Heimatfolk, HF 04 / Kraftplatz Records, KRPL 02
False Mirror -- "Derelict World" -- CD -- €12
2010 Malignant Records, TumorCD47
"In the beginning it looked like an ordinary storm..." After three years of intense work, Dark Ambient disciple False Mirror returns with his third full-length journey, aptly entitled "Derelict World". With the timeless drones of his debut "Chronostatic Scenes" and the icy soundscapes on his highly acclaimed sophomore masterpiece "North" still resonating through space, solo artist Tobias Hornberger delivers "Derelict World", his most massive and epic undertaking so far. As its two brooding predecessors, also his third work of masterfully crafted Ambient has become a monumental alliance of dark drones, frostbitten soundscapes and warm vibrating tones from the deep bowels of the earth. Famous for his skilled use of field recordings from an extremely diversified range (some of the recordings stem from an old monastery, the medieval city of Ulm or the Arabian sea) and for his ability to cloak the superior forces of nature into menacing, yet beautifully devised sounds, "Derelict World" also offers a truly apocalyptic concept that blends perfectly with the dense wall of sound on this mysterious Ambient challenge: Nothing less than the end of humanity, brought upon this world by the relentless forces of nature forms the basis on which the resonating and thundering tracks develop into chimaeras of terrible momentum, ever-changing and ever-increasing their dramatic potential. Devised with sophisticated software he solely created for composing this album, False Mirror easily evokes elemental feelings like sublimity, fear or trepidation - culminating in an impending sense of doom that never leaves the listener and brings to life the destructive side of nature that surrounds us every day. From the sheer force of a tornado set loose to the beguiling calm within the eye of the storm, "Derelict World" is a 74 minute long sonic journey into a desolated, depopulated world. A 20 page booklet with a conceptually linked short story written by author and journalist Bjorn Springorum accompanies the release. The album is moreover equipped with a number of hidden messages that lead to a rewarding "Bonus World" on falsemirror.de. "...and the rest was silence." "...One of the best dark ambient releases in recent years". 9.5/10 Orkus Magazine. "The False Mirror album is one of the best CDs I've ever listened to!" M. Sturtzer, Phelios. [press-release]
Fanum -- "II" -- CD-R -- €6
2009 Valgriind, VG 33, (ltd. 100)
The second album of Moscow project. Covered sounds, sinking into deep waters of unconscious with accompaniment of celestial choirs at the ending (a fragment of Arvo Piarta "Da pacem Domine" used). Transparent plastic box with handmade insert. [label info]
Fanum & Vazhes -- "IR" -- CD-R -- €8
2010 Still*Sleep, CDR14
Thirty minutes of steady dense and tight (like molten bitumen or solidifying lava) "trademark" drone from Fanum, filled with hardly imperceptible movements of keys, mournful singing of duduk, bird voices and rustle of wind in the leaves, boiling of huge amount of water in which the listeners dives closer to the middle of the track, and voices recorded probably by Sergey Gabbasov (Vazhes) during his ethnographic trips to abandoned villages. I can call for help the words "natural ambient", and it will be quite relevant and characterizing the hidden events happening in the depth of the sonic mass and illustrating such processes as slow growth of grain, deliberate movements of shadows, dissolving items and substances in the water and something like this, invisible from the first glance and subject to the eternal cycles of the outside world. [maeror3.livejournal.com]
Faryus -- "Lucid Dreams" -- CD -- €11
2008 Faria Records, FAR-15, (ltd. 500)
This album is devoted to a phenomenon of the "Lucid dreams". A 'lucid dream' - is a dream, in which the person is aware that he or she is dreaming while the dream is in progress. During lucid dreams you have control over the dream characters and environment, as well as the ability to perform otherwise physically impossible feats. The feelings which you feel during lucid dreams are very similar to those available during a waking state. Often they surpass the 'usual' with a saturation and intensity. This phenomenon has been researched by such well-known researchers as Stephen LaBerge, Robert Monroe, Carlos Castaneda, etc.. The 9th book of Carlos Castaneda - "The Art of Dreaming" explains more fully the events occuring within this album. The album is conceived as travel from the moment of falling asleep up to the depths of the infinite universe of the Dreaming: 'Vivid Dream' - this is a dream, where colours and events are extremely bright. After awakening we never forget these dreams, it remains in the memory as a very exciting experience. It is the first phase of lucid dreaming and the beginning of our travel. We can then find "Clarity", passing through the first gate of dreaming to enjoy the "Lucid Dream". Opening infinite opportunities of the universe of dreaming we begin our "Free Flying" obtaining the sanctum sanctorum of the dreaming universe - to the "World of Inorganic Beings". [press-release]
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Faryus -- "Night Forest Reality" -- CD -- €11
2008 Faria Records, FAR-20, (ltd. 500)
"Night Forest Reality" describes a world which does not exist in daylight, arising when the last dying beam of sunshine fades from dark shaggy branches of old trees, when air becomes damp and hearing sharpens. A constant feeling of someone's presence borders the periphery. From the impenetrable darkness in the heart of the wood, a cool wind forces leaves to tremble, hardly distinguishable in the twilight. It only imparts its vibration and a touch of cold air to the face, a suggestion of swaying branches, sparkling streams and the rustle of revived grass. Dew drops barely sparkle in the gloom, reflecting the stars blinking in bottomless moonless depth. The night wood, frightening and attracting, living an invisible life, populated by unfamiliar ancient beings. Almost nothing visible in the impenetrable darkness, but exposing its mysteries via sounds of the unseen, of that which should not be seen." [D.I. Abigor]
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Faryus & Vadim Bondarenko -- "8 Atmospheres" -- CD -- €11
2008 Faria Records, FAR-25, (ltd. 500)
This album is the successful combination between two different worlds: bewitched electronics from Faryus and meditative parts of piano and clarinet from Vadim Bondarenko. In addition, this CD contains poetic video clip created by Alexander Sveshnikov. Welcome to the inner ambient dimension!... [label info]
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Faryus & Vadim Bondarenko -- "Quiet Songs From Misty Places" -- CD -- €10
2011 Silentes, 201127
QSFMP is the 2nd album made in collaboration of 2 different musicians: "electronic wizard" Faryus and classical music player and composer, but sometimes "misty traveller" Vadim Bondarenko. These QUIET SONGS were composed in 2 steps: first liquid electronic atmospheres were created by Faryus, then the piano and the clarinet melodies were improvised and recorded by Vadim Bondarenko. Actually this album is an invitation to find some misty places in your dreams... Frail and delicate ambient atmospheres, clusters of rarefied piano notes lying on discreet drones, soft and evanescent clarinet riffs, suggesting and catching natural sounds... Light and ethereal pastel-coloured musical plots... Eight tracks, one hour of suspended and quiet sonic passages, flowing like discreet background, or to listen/see in a passionate mood, dreaming in silence, lying in gloom... Wonderful ambient stuff from these two Russian artists in the same vein of some of Harold Budd's works... Well known for their previous works on Russian FARIA Records, Faryus in the past has also crafted an album in collaboration with Robert Rich. [label info]
Favourite Mirror -- "Aberration" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 Haarbn Productions, Haarbn 009, (ltd. 101)
Belorussian project that definitely came from the depths of metal past, but now has gone quite far away from their roots... You can feel these roots in firm compositional structure, melodies, rhythms, sounds, strictly attached to measures, and in electroguitar, appearing from time to time. And at the same time this is already ambient / neoclassic work with beautiful lush quality-made arrangements, rich in sounds and atmospheres. And actually, much more than neoclassic, because the turns of their musical canvases are sometimes very unpredictable yet interesting! An epic album without exaggeration. Completely pro-done artwork in dvd-jewel-case.
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Fear And Aghast -- "Solitude" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Le Crepuscule Du Soir, LCDS020, (ltd. 100)
Emotional Minimalist Deep Dark Ambient / Experimental: necrophiliac organ, depressive piano, grotesque cello, corvine clamour, grave rhythms and suicidal female recitations. Slim DVD case, full-colour 12-page booklet with lyrics and big colour postcard. [YAOP]
Fear Konstruktor -- "Preparation Of Hymanity" -- CD-R -- €9
2009 Sickcore, SC-16, (ltd. 100)
Masterly strong Power Electronics from already well-known Russian project. Gorgeous multi-complex package. [YAOP]
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Fear Konstruktor & Mourmansk 150 -- "Arson Acrimony" -- CD-R -- €8
2008 Spirals Of Involution, SOI 052
Power Electronics.
Fecalove -- "Beautiful" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Lona Records, locd61r, (ltd. 60)
Italian ugly, filthy one man harsh noise / power electronics unit. Started in 2002. Head of Turgid Animal Records Italian Division, also plays in Splinter vs Stalin. [label info]
Feindflug -- "Feindflug (Vierte Version)" -- CD -- €14
1999 Black Rain, BR 001
Feindflug -- "Im Visier" -- mCD -- €12
1999 Black Rain, BR 003
Feindflug -- "Volk Und Armee..." -- CD -- €14
2005 Black Rain, BR 026
Fektion Fekler -- "Angels Of Analog" -- CD -- €9
2007 Klangdynamik Records, KD 03
Fhievel -- "Preghiera Per Una Stella" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2006 Afe Records, afe088mcd, (ltd. 100)
Luca Bergero was born in Italy in 1980. If his electronic engineering studies helped his meeting with algorhytmic composition, at the same time they gave way to his crisis for technologic music pushing him to the concrete sound. His constant doubt, the desire to bring back art to the state of an unconditioned phenomenon - finally back in man's hands - and the necessity for development, contribute to a severe creation balanced between opposite sound sources. In 2003 his lowercase work "Vetri di carta" was produced by S'agita Recordings. In February 2005 the Portuguese label Creative Sources Recordings released "Pocket Progressive", a trio improvisation recorded along with Luca Sigurta and Claudio Rocchetti. His latest full-lenght work, "Le bapteme de la solitude", was released in late 2005 by Petite Sono. "Preghiera per una stella" (Prayer for a Star) is a long track composed in Spring 2006. Mainly built on long drones and tones, this release marks a definitive departure from Fhievel's ultra-minimal / microsound early works. Tiny concrete / electroacoustic elements are added along the road, as the drones flow in and out of the mix. Althought being very quiet and gentle, the music is far from being just sonic wallpaper, demanding concentrarion to the listener. [press release]
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The Fields Of Hay -- "Songs For Nine Ladies" -- CD -- €10
2007 Fourth Dimension Records, FDcd72
FIGS -- "Neva Wave" -- CD -- €11
2006 Dom Records, CDDOMA 060435
Russian experimental percussion quartet consisting of Ekaterina Fedorova, Alexey Ivanov, Markus Godwin and Nick Soudnick (ZGA).
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Filigranas Negras -- "Filigrana, Tripas E Sangue" -- 2 CD-R + zine -- €18
2010 Let's Go To War, LGTW #013 / Latrina do Chifrudo, LC CD003, (ltd. 20)
Soundtracks for occult performances. This package contains the ritual psychedelic ambient music CDR 'Pentagramas Bordados em Panos de Linho' and the experimental sludge monster CDR '7 Cruzes Invertidas' along with a graphic fanzine filled with pictures and drawings all inside a beautifully hand-crafted package made out of a piece of canvas used in a 2006 performance by this group, so all packages are slightly different. [label info]
Filivs Macrocosmi -- "Stalker" -- CD -- €10
2006 OMS Records, OMSCD02, (ltd. 500)
Inspired by and a tribute to A. Tarkovsky's movie "Stalker" (1979). Stalker is an elaborate puzzle. Its pieces are always scattered, and the listener is relied upon to bring the final element of the puzzle along with him. Stalker invites you to get carried away into your own thoughts, flowing with the images as it provides new questions to ponder. In that sense, the album is very much like a philosophical poem: a very simple surface covering innumerable layers of meaning. One long ride in a cart, with clunking metal and water-whooshing sounds. Altogether fascinating and hypnotic. "Welcome to your Self, an alien place guarded by barbed wire". [label info]
Fire In The Head -- "As The Nest Burns" -- CD -- €10
2005 Autarkeia, acd 009, (ltd. 400)
Fire In The Head is probably one of the garish artists of noise/power electronics, representing the famous school of the USA. The project's author Michael Page previously participated at live performances of the legendary Giovanni Balistrer's project SLOGUN, also closely linked to the livery of NY sound terrorists. As The Nest Burns is short, but highly hysterical, brutal and dark album of noise/power electronics stylistics. Michael Page masterly plays with amplitude of different tracks intension. Slackened, leaden, psychedelic sounds overgrow into the avalanche of terribly aggressive and hysterical noise, gradually flooding back as unusual and uncomfortable sound stream. As The Nest Burns is a sort of element of otherworld civilization, starting its sudden extension, transformation and smashing attack. There are many fragments of distorted vocal in this album, making the tracks especially threatful. This is a completely new, reformed attack of USA power electronics tradition against the normal and moral world. Do you know what happens as the nest burns??? Then the children burn!!! [press-release]
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Fire In The Head -- "Confessions Of A Narcissist" -- CD -- €11
2010 Cold Spring, CSR120CD
"Confessions Of A Narcissist" marks the final full-length release by Fire In The Head ending six years of sonic warfare with an assault of manic, self-indulgent industrial electronics. Drawing as much influence from early punk / hardcore as from industrial / power electronics, F/I/T/H was conceived as a cathartic outlet to explore and ratify the delusions and social perversions resultant of psychosis and the darker side of man's conflicted dual nature, to fan the flames which engulf the borders between obsession, compulsion, lust and need. The tracks on this release were recorded in 2007-2008 and are the last of the "short, sharp, shock" vocal tracks which Michael abandoned in favour of "epic" length industrial / ambient compositions. Features guest appearances from Nick Blinko (Rudimentary Peni) and J. Randall (Agoraphobic Nosebleed), with exclusive artwork from Blinko. [press release]
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Fire In The Head -- "Icon" -- CD -- €10
2007 Autarkeia, acd 023
I/CON is an exploration of religion as a both a catalyst for mental illness born of the human condition and as a disease itself. These are the incessant and uncontrollable screams of a deified ego mired in its own fallacies, of the pious and the possessed, of hypocrisy and holocaust, of resurrection and insurrection, of suffocating paranoia and immaculate deception, a final descent into a mind consumed with lies left to putrefy since youth, a head first plummet into the burning depths of malignant neuroses where the borders between reality and aberration have been razed, a maelstrom of auditory hallucinations and recurring apocalyptic nightmares. The dark ambient interludes of previous F/I/T/H releases are absent from this release having been replaced by a highly hysterical hallucinatory component resulting from the use of human voices used as a key of the aspect of the source material. I/CON shunts pure psychosis through eleven tracks of densely layered power electronics / industrial / noise leaving no room to breathe. [press-release]
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Fire In The Head -- "Screams for the Mute" -- CD-R -- €7
2005 Deserted Factory, DF028, (ltd. 200)
To get some more information on an artist, it's always good to look at their website. And when it comes to Fire in the Head, we see an indication for what we are about to hear when we look at the links-section: Guilty Connector, Slogun, Sickness, Control, Skullflower/Ramleh, Grey Wolves/Open Wound & Survival Unit. Fire in the Head can be labelled harsh noise, a type of music definitly not for the weak. For as far as I know, most artists in the genre are from America and Asia, but in Europe it's also being produced more and more. The genre is a little bit less 'constructed' as power electronics, but what it lacks in structure is made up for in agression. Provided you can handle the sounds, you can play this album on repeat. Every time you notice new layers and new depth within the tracks and after a few rounds, the beaty really reveals itself. 'Watch And Burn' is a great droney track, while 'Playing God' and 'Floodgate' are way more opressive in nature ('Floodgate' actually hurts a bit). The masterpiece on this album is the final track 'Through Jaded Eyes'. It's a beautifully created noisescape with a melancholic feel. The CD isn't really accessible for a larger audience, but it is definitly worth buying for noise-addicts and maybe also people who want to try out something without beats, but with a lot of power. [Bauke / Gothtronic]
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First Human Ferro -- "Corona Astralis" -- CD -- €8
2005 OMS Records, OMSCD01, (ltd. 500)
"Corona Astralis" is a consequential follow-up to the 2000 "Motherwards" CD and in the long run fundamentally represents development of the project, carefully combining early 1998-2001 death ambient/industrial experiments with recent ever generating solid electroacoustics, harsh electronica and dronesque synth multistructures, all to be ultimately finallized as integral one of the world in a grain of sand... [press-release]
First Human Ferro -- "Ferrari" -- CD-R -- €7
2002 Soulworm Editions, Worm XXVIII, (ltd. 250)
The industrial spirit is still alive, and for those in doubt here is the album that proves it. First Human Ferro proceed with radicalizing their sound, and compared to the their previous album on Soulworm this one is much more harsh and uncompromised. To lighten up the riot, crushing rthytms and straightforward noise bursts have been crafted - no bitching! Political, commited, yet unlike a pile of power electronics rednecks, intelligent libertarian message is an itegral part of the concept - not just an image. And it keeps them real, which is oh so rare nowadays. [press-release]
First Human Ferro -- "Guernica Macrocosmica" -- CD -- €12
2003 Eibon Records, FHF045, (ltd. 700)
"Melodic" Dark ambient. Who said dark ambient has nothing to share with melodies ? Who said it is not possible to combine dark, deep and dense drones with traditional music and melodies ? These phenomenal russian musicians are here to prove there are NEW seemingly undiscovered ways to conceive and create dark ambient. Put your imagination to work, and try to figure out something like AMON meets Red Army choirs, LUSTMORD meets sad russian popular music. Very hard to explain with words alone..... You'd better check it out..... Prepare yourself for a strange and challenging listening experience - n.o.t.h.i.n.g. in this record sounds like a "deja`-heard" (?)........ [press-release] Strange desolating dark-ambient, built up on flowing scraps of old soviet songs. Packed in a nice digipack.
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First Human Ferro -- "Homo Shargey" -- CD -- €10
2011 New Nihilism, NN VII / Requiem Records, RP 33/2011 / Triangle, TR 046, (ltd. 500)
Alexander Shargey (also known as Yuriy Kondratyuk) is a representative of passionate enthusiastic inventors who put their lives at stake to accomplish the mission for the future good of the whole mankind. Shargey belongs to a cohort of scientists who were the first to foresee the space conquering. They were great yet mocked-at dreamers and had to fight against all odds twice as hard. Shargey is a "recognized" space theoretic of unique unconventional genius. The name of a self-made engineer since decades has become well up to par with famous scientists like Tsiolkovskiy, Tsander, Korolyov... Ukrainian First Human Ferro project led by Olegh Kolyada pays a long overdue tribute to its compatriot composing a well-crafted vintage dark ambient album with both poignant and mesmerizing layers of sidereal voyage... Homo Shargey was pre-mastered by Italian ambient magician Vestigial. The packaging consists of a luxurious A5-sized digipak with silver finish and gloss varmish, conceptually designed by Marcin Lojek at Ibsen Design. [press-release]
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First Human Ferro -- "Metaballistik: The Voyeur And His Infra-Red Insekts" -- CD-R -- €7
2001 Soulworm Editions, Worm IX, (ltd. 100)
Coming from the area known of the infamous Chernobyl nuclear plant's disaster, the musicians behind first human ferro seem to be inspired by the tragedy and its aftermath that is to be seen all around them. A sound they create drowns in an eerie atmosphere of abandonment and decay. Cold, hollow ambiences based on a solid foundation of noisy electronics that bites your frail skin as unseen roentgens of radiation do. First human ferro becomes one of the most recognized industrial music outfits from Ukraine. 'Metaballistik...' is the second, and the best of their recordings to date, being released by several labels simultaneously, on various media formats. Of course, the Soulworm's version is a special one - as it contains additional tracks and exclusive artwork. [press-release]
Five Elements Music -- "Herbal Cemetery" -- CD-R -- €8
2009 Still*Sleep, SS19
Two long ambient tracks made of field recordings: rustling leaves, herbs, branches, blowing wind, etc. An immersion into sonic micro world filled with it's unordinary life.
Five Elements Music -- "Isolation & Echoscopy" -- CD-R -- €8
2007 Still*Sleep, SS13
One more exploration of elements by FEM this time is based on prepared sounds produced by human body. All kinds of crunches, gurglings and wheezes are plaited in sophisticated sound tracery with FEM's trademark sound. An interesting phisiological experiment - listen to what your body can make in the hands of the artist.
Five Elements Music -- "Kapotte Muziek By" -- CD-R -- €9
2008 Moving Furniture Records, MFR001, (ltd. 100)
The Dutch duo of Frans de Waard and Roel Meelkop traveled all the way to St. Petersburg, Russia in May 2008, where they did some live performances as Kapotte Muziek. From these performances one has been reworked by the Russian sound/drone artist [S] who also works under the name Five Elements Music. The result is an amazing piece combining field recordings with metal scrapping and oozing drones. [label info]
Five Elements Music -- "Magic Of Deconstructor Band" -- CD-R -- €8
2005 Still*Sleep, SS08
Rustling and slightly ringing ambient sometimes turning into drone, collected from processed field recordings. Very calm atmosphere like with always that [S] creates.
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Five Elements Music -- "Pictures from Sand : Boiling Line" -- CD-R -- €8
2008 Still*Sleep, SS18
Two mini-albums on one disk. "Picures from Sand" is based on the sounds of sand: low-frequency gentle drones, layered and rustling, gradually accumulate slowly lingering resonances, then again turning into dry field recordings. The theme of "Boiling Line" is the sound of boiling water, but it's not that obvious at once: the noise of electric kettle transforms into wind moans, hi-pitched signals turn out to be seagull voices, and the sound of gurgling liquid is set off by monotonous low drones.
Five Elements Music -- "Six Acts Of Saprofields" -- CD-R -- €8
2005 Still*Sleep, SS07
Still natural field recordings ambient. Perhaps this is the sort of music stones and insects are enjoying!
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Five Elements Music -- "Solumpremoterra" -- CD-R -- €8
2005 Still*Sleep, SS05
The second album of FEM is entirely dedicated to the earth element - completely low-frequency drone, to some extent close to the collaboration album of Troum & Yen Pox.
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Five Elements Music -- "Stok (Drainage)" -- CD-R -- €8
2008 Still*Sleep, SS17
The album with Russian title "Stock" ("drainage") contains two tracks with soundscapes, based on the sounds of water. Unhurried laminating clear and processed field recordings create comfortable atmosphere, filled with drawling drones and resonances, and great number of small details (hissing sand, rivulets, stones and other artificially amplified natural sounds) carry away listener's attention, leaving him in a numb contemplation of the tangled sound flow.
Five Elements Music -- "Suite In Terra" -- CD-R -- €8
2005 Still*Sleep, SS04
Five Elements Music is a conceprual project of Sergey [S] (Exit In Grey, Sister Loolomie), based on using natural sounds. Drone ambient with lots of field recordings: earth, water, sand, fire, salt...
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Five Elements Music -- "Sylphstream" -- CD-R -- €8
2008 Still*Sleep, SS16
First half an hour long track sounds a lot like another project of [S] - Ion And Sophus - very quiet atmospheric tunes accompanied by lo-fi field recordings. Second track starts to condense the sound and brings the feeling of being in a primeval night forest not in the best time... the campfire is playing tricks, the swamps are droning, the wood spirits are wandering around... The last third track continues this feeling drawing in the very inside of fire - here dominate the sounds of flames and charcoal crackles, little by little dissolving in their own echoes...
Five Elements Music / Andrea Marutti / Jim Haynes -- "Tri-Ton" -- CD -- €10
2011 Observatoire, obs 027, (ltd. 400)
Some words on the story behind this disc. One of the members was offered to create a deep tonal composition based on a written description of some other composition. Sergey & Maria from Five Elements Music recorded such a track in 2010. This track was highly appraised by two other artists invited to work on this disc, and it served as a reference point for this split-album - American sound artist Jim Haynes recently collaborating with Brendan Murray, and Andrea Marutti, known in Russia for his Amon project. The idea of three long drone compositions with distinctive textures and technological and tonal touches has been successful in it's result. Listening to "Tri-Ton" submerges into the relief atmosphere of almost geological irregularities with individual accents in various sonorities and author's intellectual investigations... [press-release]
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Five Elements Music & Denis Shapovalov -- "Steel Glares and Night Shadows" -- CD -- €10
2011 Observatoire, obs * 029 cd, (ltd. 350)
Record of this disc has been made during 2010,2011. The material of Moscow region project Five Elements Music is used as a basis. The record was made at night in different industrial areas of town. In this collaboration F.E.M. goes ahead with its field recordings line. Denis Shapovalov (Adriva) finds his sound recovery from natural materials - metal, glass, wood: One cannot find synth's in this disc, however, naturalistic sticky pseudo-analog sound provides 'authentic old school'. This effect is sustained by wave reverberations which run into massive drones. But it's not the very essence of buzzing often cut by new structure waves and cycles conjoined with field recordings. [press-release]
Five Thousand Spirits -- "Quantum Consciousness" -- CD -- €11
2006 Sempiterna Mutatio, SM 008
After seven years of silence they are heard again. Raffaele Serra and Alio Die's Quantum Consciousness is an mysterious electronic journey (5 tracks without interruption) that, though still ambient music, comes close to '70s-era electronic cosmic music. An unbroken journey of great intensity characterized with an electronic refined touch and a flood- like vitality, always at the threshold of mystery's whirlpool. Powerful electronic mantras that in these lands have already given some kind of earthly utterance. Great artwork in gold print on dark green. [press release]
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Five Thousand Spirits -- "Schwarzschild Radius" -- CD -- €11
2006 Sempiterna Mutatio, SM 009
Collaboration project of Alio Die (drones and loops, editing, prepared zither, field recordings) and Raffaele Serra (analog and digital synthesizers, tapes and electronics).
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Five Thousand Spirits -- "Synapse - Shaihulud" -- CD -- €13
2007 Faria Records, FAR-11, (ltd. 750)
Five Thousand Spirits - it is collaboration between Alio Die and Runes Order. What we will have if we will mix the best works of "Bad Sector" and "Klaus Schulze", to add in them deep ambient moods from "Alio Die" and hypnotic-trance analogue electronic from "Runes Order"? We shall have the delightful pearl which has collected in all best from different styles of intellectual electronics! The meeting of synthesist Raffaele Serra and Alio Die (supported this time by Zeit) create here an excellent quality of sound, in Synapse S. you will find the amazing moods and a lot of aesthetic pleasure. This is 5000 Spirits's treasure box, recommended to all music lovers. As always, each track is accompanied wonderful artwork of Sara Luciani, which develop the concept of album in art area. [press-release]
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Fjernlys -- "Ascending Triads And Luminous Arcs" -- 2 CD -- €16
2006 Loki Foundation, Loki 42
On their first album FJERNLYS emerges marvelous sounds and voices organically in songs and arrange a pleasant and relaxed sound to pure benefit with highest recognizing value. The songs layer cosmic and synthetic sounds and go on tracing according to the principle harmony in the music, their acoustic space seems very expansive, it is by no means over-crowded. The voices creep crosswise into sounds and effects to lunar spheres and solar places, exactly the correct nuance at refinement not only to remain in the ear but also simply very charming. Sometimes the central sequence takes surprising twists in some recordings and the density of sounds became touchable. Behind this project hides one of the INADE Masterminds, who recorded nine tracks supported from several musicians, those clearly possesses more songcharacter than the work which appeared from the Lightchannel so far. Fjernlys' attitude to music remains unfettered by stylistic frames and the album targets the style-encompassing essence of sounds. The five remixes and interpretations of ANTLERS MULM, BAD SECTOR, FIRST LAW and LOVESPELL on the second CD support the complex character of the whole release and expand the border to a new style of Ambient Songs. Ace - Clear - Pure. [press-release]
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Flatline Skyline -- "All Sound / No Vision" -- CD -- €11
2009 Mechanoise Labs, mn 034, (ltd. 500)
The second album from Jacen Kemp and Robert Andrew Scott stands as a stylistic counter-statement to 2005's "Horizon Grid." Fierce, emotionally driven and abrasively textured, "All Sound / No Vision" confirms Flatline Skyline's masterful sense of tension and release and melodic sensibility while further evolving their sound beyond any previous expectation... Where "Horizon Grid" forged atmospheres of lethargic bliss and nocturnal stillness, these eleven new tracks are united by their restlessness and unstable nature. From the energetic vocals and metallic shard-like pulse of "Fox Fight" to the improvised noisy electronic shudders of "One Secret," there is a new-found sense of visceral life that breathes, screams and seeps into every moment of this album. Jacen Kemp's voice plays a prominent role in this aspect; its multi-faceted intonations are perfectly suited to the shifting electronic foundation. [press-release]
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Flatline Skyline -- "Horizon Grid" -- CD -- €11
2005 Mechanoise Labs, [mn026], (ltd. 400)
Absolutely non-typical release for this French underground noise-oriented label. The thing is that in fact represented music should be described as "electro-pop". But! This is very unusual electro-pop because it somehow harmoniously combines best features of IDM, abstract electronic noise and psychedelic trip-hop. And while listening to this CD you just don't know what to expect next minute: will it be synth passages in vein of Depeche Mode, or digital clicks typical for contemporary computer-based music, or heartfelt melancholic vocal. In general this is beautiful non-extremal electronic music almost approached mainstream level which can't be called disadvantage in this case.
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Flesh & Space -- "I'am Jesus" -- CD-R -- €5
2011 Rapen Winter Records, RWR-0210/O, (ltd. 100)
Darkwave / suicidal ambient. "One of the most unusual representatives of the dark scene: music created obviously with some help of drugs (you can see this from the lyrics) and forbidden for sale in Europe and Russia. This prohibition is connected with the project's bad glory - people say there were many suicides after listening to their music. One of them was their guest guitarist who helped to record one of the albums "From..." Some parallels can be seen with such bands as Sopor Aeternus and Dvar, but in general the music of Flesh & Space is very original and distinctive, and it will definitely cause very different emotions." [Dark Monastery] Jewel box with 4-page booklet.
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Fletcher, Todd -- "Star" -- CD -- €11
1996 Arya, Y02, (ltd. 1000)
Electronic drones unvaryingly generate a pleasant environment of passive sound, exploring minimalism tempered with Fletcher's innate creativity. Extremely tranquil percussion does little to disturb the sonic veil, even enhancing the serenity with its languid, muffled beats. The textures of delicate tonalities are almost ephemeral, expertly filling the void with an delectable resonance that neither rises not plummets, maintaining an unobstructed course through the air, not unlike sunlight bathing the spectacle of an ocean undisturbed by winds or waves. Electronic pulses are elongated to impossible duration, wavering in the embellishment of secondary sweeps that cross the audience's perceptions like washes of tinted light. While intended to convey celestial concepts, this music possesses an earthy quality that touches the listener's soul with soothing reassurance. [Matt Howarth, Sonic Curiosity]
Flexkiks -- "Freeland" -- CD -- €8
2006 Peace Technologies, PT 004
Flexkiks is Alex Matrosov (Alexandroid), Liam-Arthur Berent (Abstract Avenue) and Vladimir Muhlberg (PlusMinus) joint project, recorded in Munich, Germany. "Freeland" contains broken rhythms of techno-break, dark-hop, idm character. Musicians took some elements of industrial culture as a basis for their work and constructed their own vision of music. [label info]
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Flint Glass / Telepherique -- "Information Gigabyte" -- CD -- €10
2007 .Angle.Rec., .A.R.05.05., (ltd. 404)
Musically speaking, many artists from the industrial and post-industrial scenes have addressed the topic of future information shock, be it explicitly or implicitly; for example SPK, as early as 1979-1980:In 2006, it is still a hot topic, more than ever in fact. With a will to sonically explore the intricate and infinite mazes of information spun in the last few dozens years, and illustrate the tremendous changes which have been occurring during that period and which affect us all, TELEPHERIQUE's Klaus Jochim and FLINT GLASS' Gwenn Tremorin have joined forces for this collaborative album, which is indeed a concept album about information overload, the speed at which technological changes occur and the negative effects of this information overload on our psychological state. Both artists have sampled and gathered a great deal of sounds taken from computers or conferences on the topic, in a totally digital way from the FLINT GLASS perspective, and in an analogic/old-school fashion from the TELEPHERIQUE perspective. The idea was to confront the technological evolution with itself in the composition process, in a chronological way, by imagining the evolution from 1980 or so, up until now. You can then expect a pleasing and surprising 'shock' between FLINT GLASS' trademark distorted idm-ish beats, intertwined with sinister and expansive atmospheres, and TELEPHERIQUE's dirty soundscapes and machinesque old-school and sometimes or often lo-fi drifts for which they have been renowned since 1989. Let aural information flood you! [label info]
Flores, Rafael -- "Nubes, Cometas, Rumores Y Orugas" -- CD -- €10
2005 Monochrome Vision, (mv05), (ltd. 500)
First official CD album of Rafael Flores who hails from the depth of spanish noise underground scene, known for his early works released under Comando Bruno moniker. This compilation presents the latest decade of his sound experimentation, and shows quite diverse sides of his creative efforts, which ranges from collaged field recordings to noise ambient loops, from rhythmic structures to hypnotic electronic passages. [press-release]
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Flores, Rafael -- "Olive Days" -- CD-R -- €7
2006 Zeromoon, Consume Buy 2006 series
A handful of nice minimal concrete/atmospheric experimentations by this Spanish underground musician. Released in "Consume Buy 2006" series by American Zeromoon label available for sale only in 2006.
Flue -- "Beyond The Edge Of Nowhere" -- CD -- €10
2007 Diophantine Discs, n = 7, (ltd. 500)
"Beyond the Edge of Nowhere" is Flue's first full-length album, following the trio's debut 7" in 1999 on Obuh. This is a wonderfully atmospheric and experimental recording: the enchanting and mysterious sounds are created largely from guitars, bass, and synth, imparting an extremely unique feel to the work. It is certainly a very active work, with many diverse elements and threads fused and juxtaposed together (often simultaneously) into a cohesive whole, lasting for fifty minutes... Flue consists of three figures from the Bay Area experimental music scene: Mason Jones, Jason Stein, and Chris Miller. Mason is known through his solo work, the classic Trance project, and his Charnel Music label. He has also been a member of many groups, including SubArachnoid Space and Culper Ring. Jason has been a member of SubArachnoid Space and Tekachi, and Chris has also been a member of Tekachi. This album features guest contributions from Geoff Walker (Gravitar)... The CD comes packaged in an elegant blue paper wallet with silver printing. [press-release]
Flutwacht -- "30 Monkeys" -- CD -- €11
2006/2007 The Tourette Tapes, TT#4, (ltd. 300)
Reissue of the extremely limited (30 copies) Apocalyptic Radio release from 2006, with bonus, previously unreleased, tracks. "30 Monkeys" is the soundtrack for a world controlled by apes, crushing machines and noisescapes. "The music is a degenerate mass of harsh electronic waves and patterns as savage as the primate of the title. Even when Flutwacht lower the decibel levels down a fraction the violent restraint is never far from the surface. A brooding seething mass of noise waiting to erupt once more. The production on this release is crisp and clean... and this gives the recording a greater sense of depth and bite allowing the hugely powerful electronics full reign to take centre stage... Take the best aspects of Propergol, minus the samples, and multiply the effect by ten". [Heathen Harvest]
Flutwacht -- "Breath" -- CD -- €10
2008 Mask Of The Slave / The Tourette Tapes, MS-015 / TT#11, (ltd. 500)
New full length album from the wellknown german Power Electronics/Noise projekt. Flutwacht returned to Mask of the Slave Records with this great stuff, after several releases with other labels in the industrial/experimental scene. The best Flutwacht release to date, highly recommended for PE/Noise/Experimental maniacs. [label info]
Flutwacht -- "Creta" -- CD -- €11
2006 The Tourette Tapes, TT#1, (ltd. 222)
The album alternates pure and ellegant electronic ambient tracks sometime featuring even a femal voice to harsh power electronics as we know from the best German acts! 70 minutes of best industrial sounds! [Old Europa Cafe]
Flutwacht -- "Heroinloops" -- CD -- €9
2008 Steinklang Industries, SK 45, (ltd. 350)
"Heroinloops" is a brilliant, pure Industrial album by German's top-Noiser FLUTWACHT. Their new album brings a great mix of rhythmic oldschool Industrial a la early Esplendor Geometrico, or like the famous early 90ies Steinklang Rhythm-Noisers, with a strong touch of "modern" Power-Electronics. The powerful noise-tracks alternate with hypnotic Ambient-Noise tunes, which give the album a comatose and traumatic character. "Heroinloops" is a varied and well structured Noise-album, for all fans of the early Industrial years. [press-release]
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Flutwacht -- "Secondface" -- CD + CD-R -- €14
2008 The Tourette Tapes, TT#9, (ltd. 77)
Reissue of one of the limited CDRs in vast Flutwacht's discography, originally published in an edition of 50 copies. This is actually an album of cover-versions of the title track, performed by such projects as Xedh, Contagious Orgasm, Objekt/Urian, Vincenzo Bossi, Antracot, TZII, Bonemachine, Synomorph, Terg and Hyeno. The album is closed by the original track by Flutwacht, which sounds quite unusual for this project - rhythmic, almost danceable industrial hit. All other versions can be divided in two groups: first (strangely small) shows the adherence to shock tactics and heavy rhythms, while second prefers dark ambient with deep atmospheric bass sounds as if created from machine samples or even field recordings. Limited edition of 77 copies. [Monochrome Vision]
Folkstorm -- "The Culturecide Campaigns (Archive Series 5)" -- CD -- €14
2010 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 137
The series of the 'Folkstorm' monster continues! The Culturecide Campaigns was released in 2000, only available for one month through MP3.com, during which time only 39 copies were sold. These more than ten years old recordings has now finally been restored, redesigned and remastered and features two bonus tracks. This album was recorded back to back with "Victory or death" and carries the same menacing feeling, but with a bit more structure and empahsis on pounding rythmic industrial noise. The Culturecide Campaigns was Folkstorms first attempt at infiltrating mainstream culture and also infiltrating the new and upcoming filesharing culture. Besides releasing this album only online it was also spread in secret over the Napster filesharing website. Mainstream "top ten album" downloads were manipulated and tracks were exchanged. That means that possibly thousands of people that were expecting to listen to Madonna or U2 ended up listening to this. So maybe this oscure gem actually has been more played than all of the Folkstorm albums, albeit in secrecy to an unaware audience?
If you want rough old-school industrial this is what you need! The campaign continues... [press-release]
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Folkstorm -- "Folksongs" -- CD -- €14
2011 Old Europa Cafe, OECD144
Folkstorm returns to follow up the successful 2009 album "Ortodox" with another crushing assault on your senses. This time Nordvargr pushes the sound even further and adds a more classic songstructure and vocals to the album - hence the title. While still maintaining a harsh old-school industrial vibe, these recordings takes Folkstorm to a whole new level. Welcome to explore the wrath of a man gone seriously pissed off with everyone and everything. Don't loose the chance to taste the new Folkstorm Combat Folk-Pop(?)! [press-release]
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Folkstorm -- "Sweden" -- CD -- €10
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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Fonnia -- "2010" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Le Crepuscule Du Soir, lcds015, (ltd. 67)
Haunting Drone Dark Ambient dropping curtsies towards Power Ambient / Droning Noise. 4-page full-colour A5 digisleeve with a booklet. [YAOP]
Foresta ESP -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Le Crepuscule Du Soir, lcds019, (ltd. 50)
Gloomy Dark Ambient from Italy. Symphonies of night wanderings through desolate dangerous places. 4-page full-colour A5 digisleeve. [YAOP]
Foundation Hope -- "The Faded Reveries" -- CD -- €9
2006 Cold Meat Industry, cmi162
Foundation Hope released its debut album A Call To All Redeemers on the French Divine Comedy Records in January 2006. After summer 2006, two tracks will appear on the Book-cd compilation Pere Lachaise. Before the debut, two promo's were made, respectively titled Broken Sounds Set To Despairing Melodies and The Forsaken Playgrounds. Both are sold out. The musical influences of Foundation Hope are many, from dark-ambient to abstract noise and post-rock. The aim was and will be, trying to find an individual and somewhat original sound, instead of the sound of common dark-ambient Lustmord epigones. [label info]
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Foundation Hope -- "Our God Is A Consuming Fire" -- CD -- €9
2008 Autarkeia, acd 028
The latest album Our God Is A Consuming Fire by the Dutch project Foundation Hope, just like its earlier output, aims at the exposure of hope institute promoted by the Christian religion. The album is characterised by the transparent but melancholic atmosphere, where each track radiates with quiet and modest despair. Our God Is A Consuming Fire is the high class of ambient deeply affecting human emotions. In short, this album may be labelled the despair consolidated in sound. [press-release]
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Foundation Hope -- "Tunes for the Wounded" -- CD -- €9
2008 Cold Meat Industry, cmi177
'Tunes for the wounded' can be considered a lament. It is a defamatory accusation to the world and it's suffering. Foundation hope lodges complaints through gritty ambient-industrial structures, broken sounds and despairing moods. Always without losing touch with the beautiful and melodic. Always with that tiny bright spark of hope, overshadowed by doubt and cynicism. This successor to 'The faded reveries' is a little more harsh. Incorporated are distorted guitar drones, tape-decks, broken strings and noisy outbursts. Firmly rooted in reality, this is tears dropping slowly, a herd crawling through mud and blood, and a call to a redeemer who isn't there. [label info]
Fractal Heads -- "Light On The Stepped Plates" -- CD -- €11
2006 Laton, Laton 043
This duo from Novokuznetsk composed from Sergei Malkin (Radius) and Dmitry Kravchuk first appeared in the program of "Cultural hero of XXth century" festival in 1999, and debuted on the Exotica label compilation, remains quite unknown outside Kemerovo region for a long time. In 2003, their album "Dreampainting" was released on very limited edition CDR by St.-Peterburg based label Fight Muzik. Finally, this full-length CD is released officially, but the material itself was recorded back in 1999. Actually, this type of music is a bit dated, but in terms of cultural isolation it's really exciting. They combined in very smart way some minimal electronic sequences, mysterious radiovoices and polyrhythmic patterns, all created by soviet analogue synthesizers. The aesthetic feeling is very close to Kraftwerk circa early 80s, that means emotional insensibility and rarefied atmosphere. The static approach in arrangements and simple melodies slowly transformed to amorphous sounds disappearing in the past makes me think about technocratic aspects of ambient music. [Dmitry Vasilyev, Independent Electronic Music]
Fractional -- "Aliwen" -- CD -- €11
2006 AKH Records, akh 10061-2
On his first cd-album on the Dutch label AKH Records, Pierre Remy finds himself among the spiralling worlds of modern and experimental electronic sounds. Aliwen is a 60+ minute journey through several landscapes, that results in lightweighted industrial collages, melodical and downbeat dub and minimal percussive aural excursions. Not making use of extended long dreaded passages, featuring steady rhythms and endlessly played chords, Fractional's variety of styles comes to the surface. Pick out the best of the Intelligent Techno from Albion, for example, Autechre and Squarepusher, add some subtle elements, a pinch of the harshness of Muslimgauze and Aliwen proves to be Fractional's ideal showcase on this self produced first album. This is the urban style of modern electronic music. [label info]
Frakmundt -- "Urbarglieder" -- CD -- €14
2010 Percht, Percht15
Franklin, Martin & Northam, Michael -- "An Opening Of The Earth: Recovered" -- CD -- €11
2008 Faria Records, FAR-23, (ltd. 500)
':.excavating the sonic crust with heavy synthesised drones, trebly buzzes and popping bursts of sound::eerie as hell.'
Darren Bergstein, I/E (from review of original release)... "An Opening Of The Earth: Recovered" revisits a spontaneous collaboration between the two musicians, captured in the early 90's. Recorded in an obsolete format, no longer playable with today's technology. The old playback device, recovered from dusty storage for one last use, and the recording of this event brought back into the present - recovered once again.At once a sonic artifact of the recent past and a touchstone for contemporary developments in lo-fi electronic sound... Franklin and Northam's original meeting saw them both on the cusp of developments in their own careers. Franklin's seminal Ambient trio, TUU shortly after embarked on an enduring series of CD releases and performances across Europe. Michael Northam's nomadic life as a travelling sound artist continued from this point onward, leaving a trail of recorded evidence from projects in 25 countries... Mythic imagery of man descending into the mysteries of the Inner Earth is conjured in this intense recorded performance.Using lo-fi sampling, eerie drones, percussive metal instruments and effects, the players trace an intuitive path through a midnight electronic improvisation. Snippets of sound from other projects of that time slip in and out of the mix, roughly recorded Theatre rehearsals, and audio of UK street life appear from dictaphone tapes. Like an unearthed archeological find, the recordings of this ritualistic performance tie the pieces to their location, as well as the events of their time... After unearthing the original tapes, Martin Franklin has created all new mixes for this Faria Records release, including previous unheard sections, re-interpreted and enhanced for the 21st Century listener. [press-release]
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Frequency In Cycles Per Second / Maurizio Bianchi -- "Chaotische Fraktale + Letzte Technologie" -- 2 CD -- €15
2006 Silentes Minimal Editions, sme 0612
A new double cd from Silentes, containing soundworks by 'Chaotische Fraktale' and 'Letze Technologie'. These works were sourced from collaborations between M.B./Maurizio Bianchi, and Frequency in Cycles for Second/Sandro Kaiser. A fascinating sonic mix of influences here... industrial, electro-experimentation, minimalism, noise, and deep-listening. Large, drone-based segments meld with the distant sounds of reverberating piano and soft whispered melodies. Dramatic and dark. Huge pools of sound, where the listener can float weightlessly between earthly calm and otherworldly discord. [press-release]
Frequency In Cycles Per Second / Maurizio Bianchi -- "Der Abgrund" -- CD -- €10
2007 Silentes Minimal Editions, sme 0719
After the recent edition in double CD of "Chaotishe Fraktale Letzte Technologie", Silentes introduces now the result of the new collaboration between Frequency in Cycles for Second (Sandro Kaiser) and Maurizio Bianchi. Music of the great dynamics and great dramatic mood, powerful, aggressive sounds, drones, sour electronic rumors, but also deep sounds underground, more static parts, dark and expanded atmospheres, dark and buried rhythmic mechanics movements, echoes of reverberating metals. Music of great effect joined to one quality of the recording to the top, for one rendered sonorous absolutely extraordinary and detailed. [press-release]
Friedman, Stephan -- "Music for Theatre" -- CD-R -- €7
2006 T'an! Kaven!! Ash!!!, Ash!!!005, (ltd. 55)
A project commissioned from Stephan Friedman (Silence & Strength, Antiochus) by Notzar Theatre for the play "Stom!". "STOM!" (Shut up!) is an absurd play about absurd life. It tells the tale of a person in a modern society who has no say in the matter. He is being humiliated, thrown around, beaten, stepped upon from birth till death. Notzar is a small avant-garde Jaffa-based theater. The Theater dialogue group consists of Arab and Jewish young actors that say things which are hard to say and are even harder to hear. Over an hour moving score of ambient layers, scourging electronics and original poetry. [label info]
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Frisch, Johannes & Ralf Wehowsky -- "Unwahrscheinlichkeiten" -- CD -- €16
2010 Waystyx, WR64, (ltd. 188)
The duo of Johannes Frisch and Ralf Wehowsky has already showed up on the "Tränende Würger" CD (Korm Plastics, 2005). The main instrument of Frisch is double bass, the trademark approach of Wehowsky is pedantic electronic sound transformation aiming towards artifacts and tiny details of sound to be put to the foreground. The collaboration of these two musicians combines modern neoclassical and concrete music with complex psycholigical compositional structure. The album consists of three tracks. The first one was recorded real-time with minimal post-editing. The second one contains two recordings of the same piece, taped after each other during the same recording session. The third track consists of 3 excerpts from one recording, played back in different speeds and layered over each other. Pathologically strange sound of a classical instrument, filtered under a meticulous supervision of a German composer - the accents are put on microscopic details of double bass, all rustles and creaks are put to the front, supported by strange electronic sounds as if sucked by syringes from the wires of pick-ups and effects modules. Recommended to the rare lovers of getting into the very depth of sound. Special cardboard sleeve.
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Frog -- "s/t" -- CD -- €16
2010 Waystyx, WR49, (ltd. 146)
New side-project of Christian Renou known for his project Brume. Monotonous haunting and sometimes almost danceable beats are layered over looped electroacoustic sounds and dark ambient pierced by lengthy droning lines. Fascinating industrial rhythms, elaborate compositional structure and fantastic depth of sound from the true master of musique concrete... Non-standard hand painted cover from thick cardboard.
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Frozen Faces -- "Broken Sounds of a Dying Culture" -- CD -- €11
2007 Wrotycz Records, WRT 005
"The year is 1996 I was surfing on cold waves through the very heart of Linkopia, night after night it was all the same. Sleeping in the Karmanik basement seduced by delerium echoing between white concretwalls. I could hear the equiptment slowly disintegrating as I put out the light, broken sounds of a dying culture. This might be the erosion of history eternally scraping on the crown of mankind... or was it just the decline of my personal belongings after years of abuse... and was there any diffrence between the two theories? I streched out my limb and pressed the record-button." - Lina Baby Doll. Originally released by Entartete Musikk in 1996 as a limited edition LP. Now available in CD format with totally remastered sound, new artwork and bonus tracks from the Religion of Hate 7" in original extended versions. A must for all the fans of Lina's works who somehow missed the vinyl version! A5 folding cover. [press-release]
Frozen Ocean -- "Steamworks: Hibernation" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT38, (ltd. 62)
The age of steam technology left almost the same mark in mankind culture history as stone or bronze ages. Locomotives, steamboats, manufactures based on steam power - all this formed the basis for civilization in XIX and early XX centuries. Now this age is gone but it still inspires technical artists working in different genres. The Moscow based project Frozen Ocean also paid it's homage in the form of beautiful old school industrial dark ambient album dedicated to steam technology. Now even the official mass media seriously consider the possible demise of modern industry based on electrical energy (2012 cataclysm) and who knows, maybe today's state of steam machines is just a hibernation before future awakening?... Sleeve + insert. [press-release]
Frozen Rabbit -- "26,000" -- CD -- €10
2005 Dehausset, DE001
Frozen Rabbit's debut CD represents sonic futurism at its most epic. 26,000 pits gradually unfolding analogue synth drones against monumental walls of reverb while flickering, ghostlike voices emerge from the ether. This is nocturnal psychedelia; simultaneously languid and intense... Frozen Rabbit is a new project from renowned Vancouver musician and engineer Phil Western, in collaboration with Tim Hill. Western is best known as a member of Skinny Puppy and offshoot project Download - and the new project with Mark Spybey (Dead Voices On Air, Zoviet*France, Reformed Faction) called Beehatch. Western was also a full-time member of Off'n'Gone, Floatpoint and Plateau, and has worked with an excessively long number of artists... Previous collaborations between Western and Hill have been rooted in dancefloor-ready techno. Here they drop the beats and focus on the darkly meditative, expansive potential of pure, resonant sound. This admirably adventurous new approach takes the style of the ambient disk from Western's solo CD World's End to a whole other level of ornate abstraction. [press-release]
GAAD / V.I.K.I. -- split -- 3"CD-R -- €5
2008 SUBliminalRECordings, no.187, (ltd. 30)
A rare release of a prolific yet brought to an early grave Greek label. Industrial Harsh Noise in mid-aggressive bass forms. [YAOP]
Gabbasov, Sergey -- "India" -- CD -- €11
2010 Faria Records, FAR-028, (ltd. 500)
Here is the sonic picture of India, naturally modelling the melodic continuum to fit it's title - starting from the size of an ear auricle and getting to the knowledge of reality. This work could be filed under "relax" and "sounds of nature", but to melomaniac's pleasure, it also contains the deep sense inside, guided by duduk, percussion and electronics. They appeal to get imbued by the voice of peaceful eternity, successfully imitated by Sergey Gabbasov, who obviously used to dissolve himself in the noble ethers of Indian musical heritage. "India" is a nice example of a meticulous work, assembled by bits like a mosaic, presenting the fertility and diversity of this country, loved by chilled hyperboreans. [press-release]
Gae Bolg -- "Petite Introduction Aux Pratiques Des Gymnosophes" -- CD -- €14
2009 Le Cluricaun, CL014
Galaxy The Incubator -- "Collages Cult" -- CD-R -- €5
2006 self-released, (ltd. 24)
Project from Petrozavodsk, Russia. Collages with various degree of intensity - from harsh to cut'n'noise, from minimal playing on frequency generator to pieces in vein of Out Of Focus. In other words, domestic recordings multiplied by TV & radio cut-ups + broken CD-player. Carelessness to everything all around. The disc is divided into several parts: track 1 - beginning, 2-6 - tension increases, 7-9 - a little rest, 10-15 - sharp phase, 16-17 - ending. Packed in sleeve made from the sheets of medical textbook from 1981, insert. [press-release]
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Galaxy The Incubator -- "UFO are Messengers of Satan" -- CD-R -- €8
2007 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT24, (ltd. 116)
Space Ambient / Noise inspired by a yellow book about "UFO mysteries" (where from the album title is taken, and each of 28 tracks is dedicated to one of the "extraterrestrial civilizations" described in a book). Vacuum drone pressure turns into abrasive tracks with blurred voices from without and then makes room for almost industrial futuristic pulsations and uneasy hiss of apparatus. Really new approach to the seemingly trite space subject. 116 copies in a double-cover. [press-release]
Galerie Schallschutz -- "H.A.A.R.P." -- CD -- €13
Tesco Organisation, TESCO053
This album of a German project is based on a US military project referred to as HAARP. The material is composed of extended structures that usually evolve from and into pulsating frequency patterns and deep enveloping patterns of noise... Here some more infos about the concept: The U.S. government has a new ground-based "Star wars" weapon which is being assembled on a military base in Alaska, by the Air Force and the Navy. HAARP stands for High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program. This new system has the capability to manipulate the environment in such a way as to change weather patterns, disrupt global communication systems, disrupt human mental processes, negatively affect health and impact the earth's upper atmosphere in an unnatural and damaging way. All participants involved in designing HAARP are part of a giant partnership of government and it's done in secret. The military gives the impression that this project is mainly an academic project with the goal of changing the ionosphere to improve communications for our own good but they has deliberately misled the public, through sophisticated word games, deceit anf outright disinformation... for all who still want to think and who still can think... Comes in nice DVD package. [label info]
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Galerie Schallschutz -- "Montauk Project" -- CD -- €16
Tesco Organisation, TESCO 063
The price seems to be high but this release comes in a a very outstanding and impressive package and with a very nice effect lenticular card afixed. Finally 3 years after the "H.A.A.R.P." CD, Galerie Schallschutz comes with another superior release and again with strong thematic content... We all know something is out there, but we're not sure exactly what. Galerie Schallschutz at long last, begins to provide some solid clues. "Montauk Project", also called the Phoenix Project during some of its phases, was a covert government's ultra-top-secret electromagnetic mind control and time experiment project that took place during the 1970's and early '80s at an abandoned Air Force radar base at the southeast tip of Long Island, New York. Much evidence has surfaced indicating that the base and the subterranean facilities were and still are used for a tremendous amount of top secret, ultra-classified research and experimentation into interdimensional technology, quantum and particle physics, black hole simulation, super-powerful electrical and electromagnetic fields, weather control, psychotronics (interfacing mind and machine), particle beam technology (HAARP transmissions:), and electronic and drug- based mind control...! Galerie Schallschutz provide you with the perfect soundtrack to go further into this secret world. [press-release]
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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 -- "Puppet Faust" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Sickcore, SC-17, (ltd. 100)
Harsh Apocalyptic Noise.
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Gaping Chasm -- "Fragments Of War" -- CD -- €10
2006 Aliens Production, AP 12, (ltd. 550)
Gaping Chasm is Ergo - it is a one-man project which was started in 1995. It present an effort to create classical EBM, to combine vocal with aggressive and on the contrary very pleasant sounds. We can find in every new Ergo's stuff an effort not to be monotonous. Within some time Ergo started to create a lot of instrumental materials that iniciated to move his work to more peaceful and mysterious atmospheres, the result of this was a creation of side project Anima Mundi, which links the different cultures and their traditional sounds with Ergo's moods. [press-release]
Gasparin, Gi -- "24 Soli" -- CD-R -- €8
2009 Lunhare, zzz - 7, (ltd. 100)
Always busy with many groups (Piume E Sangue, Pangolinorchestra`, Gi-Napajo, etc.) and collaborative projects (just look for some other Lunhare releases), the workaholic Gasparin had the time to record this solitary work. Just a guitar, a keyboard, and a misterious 'horizontal rantola' as instruments, but lots of ideas and influences. [label info]
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Gasparin, Gi & Andreini, Jacopo -- "Il Giro del Mondo in 80 Pezzi" -- CD-R -- €8
2008 Lunhare, zzz - 8, (ltd. 100)
That is, 'Around the World in 80 Tracks'. Gasparin and Andreini are active in the Italian impro/alternative circuit since the early 90's. Here they join forces and travel around every musical genre and style you can mention. This is the world music you'll never find in a world music shop. [label info]
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Gasparin, Gi & Pesavento, Felice -- "Caja Antelice" -- CD-R -- €8
2009 Lunhare, zzz - 10, (ltd. 100)
A work based on sampling, tapes, and records with some guitar and keyboard additions. It may sound like dark ambient at first, but it suddenly turns into looped rhythms then suddenly it turns into more structured compositions then suddenly..... [label info]
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Geisha -- "Die Verbrechen der Liebe" -- CD -- €10
2008 Crucial Blast, CBR 68, (ltd. 1000)
This hour-long, six track monolith follows Geisha into a psychedelic black storm, their blown-out and raw rock infused with a bone-rattling recording and covered in a thick sheen of white noise and gritty distortion. As with their previous album, the spirit of seminal noise rock / sludge rock (think Cherubs, Melvins, My Bloody Valentine's "Isn't Anything" for coordinates) is combined with violent, chaotic NOISE and tainted with blurred VHS cassette visions and vague allusions to BDSM, and then jammed through an orgone accumulator, forming a ferocious, crushing rock beast that reveals it's powerful hooks and melodies underneath the churning distorted bass rumble and sludgemetal riffage, blasts of psychedelic drone-noise and corrosive skree, percussive pummel, and deranged singing. The sound is immense, and the first five tracks on Die Verbrechen Der Liebe deliver Geisha's in-the-red heaviness and hooks in surplus. "Prelude To Amber Pays The Rent", "A Wilderness, Except By Sight", "Sportsfister" - every one is a crusher. But then Geisha pull out the monstrous thirty-minute, thirty-five second closer "Theme From Diana", and the tone changes completely. This track is a re-working of a "metal percussion" set that Geisha originally performed live several years ago, and it begins as a slowly building fog of voices and effects and shimmering metal that blooms into an expanse of droning, fx-heavy guitar, looping samples, cosmic effects, and improvised percussion. It's a kind of rumbling industrial dronescape that stretches out forever, until suddenly in the last few minutes the drifting drones and psychedelic guitars and sampled voices suddenly explode in an immolating nuclear blast of overdriven, speaker-annhilating noise and the track immediately, terrifyingly changes shape into a monstrous lumbering noise-metal dirge that bulldozes out of your speakers, whooshing Hawkwind effects swooping overhead, the band knotted together into a white-hot blast of ultra heavy riffage, distortion, and a wall of percussive force. "Diana" is one of the most crushing pieces of music that I have ever heard from Geisha, like some majestic and brutal conglom of Swans, Skullflower, Merzbow, and Burmese forged into a destructive space-metal supernova. Crucial Blast is releasing the CD version of Die Verbrechen Der Liebe in a limited edition of 1,000 copies, packaged in a full-color gatefold jacket. [press-release]
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Geisha -- "Mondo Dell'Orrore" -- CD -- €10
2006 Crucial Blast, CBR 52
Devouring/rebirthing the concept of "noise rock" into something frighteningly beautiful and brutally heavy, GEISHA deliver crushing blasts of impossibly hyperdistorted rock baked in massive frequency overload and massive hooks and melodies and sinister crushing riffs, all of it slathered in filthy throbbing feedback and white noise horror holocaust, like the early 90's alt rock of Isn't Anything-era MY BLOODY VALENTINE and DINOSAUR JR. mashed together with the most brutal sort of UNSANE/Am Rep style racket and distortion-drenched psych/noise into a sludgy metallic mass, jamming with a small army of pedal-smashing harsh electronics troglodytes playing awesomely catchy/crushing pop songs buried beneath a hellish storm of skree and amp-blowing fuzz. Terrifying. Beautiful. [press-release]
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Gelsomina + no Xivic -- "Furnace" -- CD -- €10
2007 Some Place Else, SPECD07044
Furnace is an unlikely yet strangely natural union of no Xivic, renowned sculptor of dark electro-acoustic soundscapes, and Gelsomina, Finland's most prolific harsh noise artist. The title track, also the main piece on the album, is a live collaboration recorded in late 2006, a grand opus of psychedelic noise with a peculiar 'kraut' flavour! In addition to this, both artists created exclusive tracks on their own to complete the album. In total, Furnace is a 44-minute blast of fire, brimstone and hazardous electric currents, and thus a fine completion of Some Place Else's tenth year of activity. [press-release]
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Generic -- "Torture" -- CD -- €10
2008 Fractured Spaces Records, FS0208CD, (ltd. 1000)
Genre: Creepily atmospheric dark ambient. For its second release, Fractured Spaces Records couldn't have chosen a better one: Generic's "Torture", a long and deeply unsettling journey into the beating black heart, and Antarctic iciness of the collective shattered psyche, of mankind. Created using 'foley tracks' and sound effects (used for both film and television), as well as the occasional guitars, bass, and found sounds, it all combines to produce a haunting, nerve-shredding, ghostly and schizophrenic soundtrack, guaranteed to simultaneously freeze the heart and mind, and induce cold sweat to bead the forehead and shivers to wrack the body. Six mid to long tracks of bleak mindscapes totalling just over 50 minutes and wrapped in beautiful full colour digipak with artwork by new German digital artist Thamus. Generic is Adam Sykes and is based in the United Kingdom's West Country. He also records as Ritual Summertime and ran the Iris Light label, releasing artists of the calibre of Aube, Band of Pain, Crackletone, Dense Vision Shrine, and Front 242. [press-release]
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Genetic Load -- "Tollenkisten" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 ML, ML 0408, (ltd. 93)
Genetic Load is a collaboration project by Bardoseneticcube and Reductio Ad Absurdum. The album was recorded in 1996 and originally self-released on a cassette in 1997, then re-released on a CD-R by Black Dead Rabbit Productions as a limited edition of 100 copies. Powerful industrial experimental noise recording.
Genetic Selection -- "World Of Tomorrow" -- CD -- €15
2007 Ant-Zen, act 195
Genetic Transmission -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €11
2006 Die Schone Blumen Musik Werk
Low-key atmospheric old school industrial played on metal, resembling the works of Russian project Misery. Sophisticated package: carbdoard sleeve with printed info is glued over with fallen leaves, sprayed with varnish and packed in outer slipcase. Gorgeous artwork and great music! [YAOP]
Genetic Transmission -- "Ascetic" -- CD -- €10
2007 Beast Of Prey, BOP 4.0, (ltd. 444)
New album of Polish industrial scene leader, Tomasz Twardawa, long-time artist, creator of legendary project Genetic Transmission, coauthor of such projects as ?adne Kwiatki, Godzilla and Hated Bruit Kollectiv. "Ascetic" is an acoustc, experimental album in bruit convention represented by GENETIC TRANSMISION. Over 60 minutes journey trough ascetic world of industrial collages. It's like cubism, synthetic in music, acoustic colours, natural objects and artistic deformation become a discussion between reality and art. What in reality and sorrounding is common for us GENETIC TRANSOMISIONS deforms, shatters and turns in it's bruit style. In recording of "Ascetic" were used mainly field recordings, experimantal-industrial sounds and combined allogether. The album is released in an unconventional package, in form of round paper circles of 150mm diameter. Three round paper inserts plus two round inserts of brown paper. In all circles are four holes and all is combined with a small rope. The CD is attached on a rubber insert between the papers. All hand made and numbered, to 444 copies limit. [press-release]
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Genetic Transmission -- "Music for Vienna Actionists" -- CD-R -- €11
self-released
In 2003 in Katovice, Poland there was a show of silent films by Viennese actionists Otto Muhl and Gunter Brus (made in 1964-65) with soundtrack from Genetic Transmission. This documentary disc includes the original films with this soundtrack, a fragment of a live performance of Genetic Transmission in Euforia Art Cafe and separate recording of the soundtrack/ Sleeve. [YAOP]
Genetic Transmission -- "R.E.T.R.O." -- CD -- €10
2007 War Office Propaganda / Rage In Eden, WOP41
Genetic Transmission is a project of Tomasz Twardawa - a legend of polish industrial scene. The newest GT album - R.E.T.R.O is recorded in vein of old industrial. Most of basic sounds are microphone recordings of different instruments, original acoustic installations like set of stones, glass and metal as well as field recordings. The equipment is wide spectrum of contact and dynamic microphones, old telephone headphones. All enriched with vintage soviet made electronic devices from early 80's. More than sixty minutes of pure industrial sounds in six tracks, CD in digipack. [press-release]
Genetic Transmission -- "Rondel Pelen Lajna" -- CD-R -- €7
2003 Soulworm Editions, Worm XXXVI, (ltd. 100)
Tomasz Twardawa is a living legend of the underground industrial scene in Poland. Since the mid eighties, he has taken part in pioneer projects as TKT, Godzilla and a few more, introducing noise and power industrial aesthetics into the numb, self-proclaimed 'avantgarde' crowd, stimulating its development with his uncompromised, radical approach. His main brain-child, Genetic Transmission, with numerous great releases under belt, proves that his flame still burns. The album presented hereby is a bruitist construct of thoughtful, detailed electroacoustics with a remarkable musique-concrete edge and composition methods that are completely unpredictable, yet consistent. Sound is the matter. [press-release]
Genetic Transmission -- "Spiral" -- CD-R -- €9
2008 Afe Records, afe113lcd, (ltd. 100)
Experimental / Industrial / Noise. Tomasz Twardawa is a living legend of the underground industrial scene in Poland. Since the mid eighties, he has taken part in pioneer projects as TKT, Godzilla and a few more, introducing noise and power industrial aesthetics into the numb, self-proclaimed 'avantgarde' crowd, stimulating its development with his uncompromised, radical approach. His main brain-child, Genetic Transmission, with numerous great releases under belt, proves that his flame still burns. After many albums on his own label Die Schöne Blumen Musik Werk, and more recently on Tochnit Aleph, Beast of Prey and War Office Propaganda, "Spiral" is his first release on Afe. Consisting of one long track - about 43 minutes - "Spiral" begins smoothly with a field-recording of wind blowing through a desert alley, but soon turns into a powerful industrial collage. Genetic Transmission has the ability to deform everyday sounds and submit them to his own laws, converting usual noises into a proper surrealistic and bruitiste language all of his own. Most of the sounds used in this composition are culled from recordings of different instruments, original acoustic installations - like sets of stone-sculptures, glass scoriae and metal agglomerates - and field recordings. Tomasz's equipment includes a wide spectrum of contact and dynamic microphones, old telephone headphones, vintage soviet devices and modern computer technology. "Spiral" is varied, claustrophobic and sharp. Nerve-wracking at times, with noises crawling up and down the invisible thread that unites them, the album has an oppressive and dense feeling from the beginning to the end... [label info]
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Genocide Organ -- "Remember" -- 2 CD -- €20
1997/2007 Tesco Organisation, TESCO 067
The 10th birthday of "Remember" sees the re-release, containing an extra of 50 minutes live material. Total Time: 139min.! All material was remastered for this release by Propergol and the artwork is completely overworked. It gives an oversight on G.O. performances from the beginning until the year 2000. Powerful, provocative and subversive, just different! [label info]
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Gerechtigkeits Liga -- "Hypnotischer Existenzialismus / The Games Must Go On" -- CD -- €13
1985/2005 Isegrimm Records, Isegrimm 001
Geriht -- "Forgotten Ways" -- CD-R -- €9
2008 Rigorism Productions, RP014, (ltd. 100)
Dim dusty death ambient full of depressive guitar drones, sick cries and moans, muddy noises and suicidal washy rhythms. A perfect soundtrack for the last days of a self-hater's life. DVD-box. [YAOP]
Gerostenkorp -- "Terre Brulee" -- CD -- €10
2009 OPN Records, OPNCD0010, (ltd. 500)
"French Experimental artist Gerostenkorp produces a tribalistic stomp that treads similar ground in different areas to Pain Teens and Swans. Gerostenkorp provide a futuristic soundtrack that works on subtle atmospheric ambience throughout. Ghostly ambient qualities dominate this album, yet it also changes its approach frequently. "Terre Brulee" seems industrial only in its electronic futurism, yet seems reach out further in its sound and ambitions. There is a sense of seductive French Neu Wave where the song overtakes the ambient passages" (Judas Kiss). Features guest appearances by Von Magnet and Terroritmo, bringing a theatrical dimension to the addictive tribal-oriented rhythmic Industrial soundscapes. Presented in a sumptuous 6-panel digipak. [Cold Spring]
Gerostenkorp & Neon Rain -- "Io Non Ho Paura" -- CD -- €11
2008 OPN Records, OPNCD009, (ltd. 500)
The brand new split gathering Gerostenkorp & Neon Rain. Velluto Grigio & Profondo Giallo are 2 tracks dedicated to Dario Argento's works and Giallo movies. More than 50 minutes of Industrial Ambient "Giallo" music. Limited edition of 500 copies housed in a slim dvd package with full "Giallo" colour artwork. [label info]
Gerritt -- "Space Level Blaze" -- CD -- €10
2005 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 025
Psych-out acid noise reak extravaganza! Star dust, inhalation and electric fire evidence in the wake of smoke and strobes! Material extracted from Gerritt on the west coast and meticulously deranged by John Wiese. [label info]
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Gerstein -- "Phlegmaticus" -- CD-R -- €8
1999 Oktagon Records / Misty Circles, GON 002 / MCR 19
Gerstein was born in fall 1984 as a personal music project of Maurizio Pustianaz. Since then he has moved between solo melancholic piano ballads, experimental harsh sounds, synth-guitar powerful extravaganza before approaching his electronic semi-melodic style in the latest years... This album is a re-issue of a 1986 cassette out on Misty Circles with a bonus track. Old school dark atmospheric Italian experimental music.
Girnu Giesmes -- "Rupus Miltai" -- CD -- €11
2005 Autarkeia, acd 011, (ltd. 299)
Rupus miltai presently counted as the eighth album of Lithuanian post-industrial music pioneer Girnu Giesmes. The begetter of this Project Laurynas Jukonis used to mark all his albums by some most archaic and original elements of Lithuanian culture, such as the glee, rhymed recitations in ancient Lithuanian language, some ornament on the cover. They reflect the coherence between the author and archaic worldview, genetics of ancestors, moreover - they perfectly adopt the ancient code for enriching the collective future thinking. The newest album entitled with the ancient relic, genuine and dearly fine Lithuanian euphemism - Rupus Miltai - which is not translatable into other languages, perhaps even not explicable to foreigners, but naturally acceptable by everyone of Lithuanian descent as some higher element of communication, open to selected ethnos. The author of this Project chose this relic of sublime reality as the guiding point to surreal, psychedelic trip into different, more universal reality where the ocean of associations and infinite possibility of interpretation rise. The web of senses generated by the album Rupus Miltai throws the listener along the emotional draughts as if the whirlwind carrying the small butterfly. A stream of transparent ambient suddenly grows into the hysterical ritual dance of shamans, leading to the labyrinth of feelings hiding the fearful obscurity. As the battle falls, the light descends, and the vanishing mind erases every thought and sense. Rupus Miltai is a peculiar, psychedelic album talking of .... With various eclectic post-industrial accents twinkling in it, with unique style aesthetics unrolling and blazing in unconventional loops of dark and hypnotic ambient and frozen industrial pulse. [press-release]
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Girnu Giesmes -- "Tiems, Kas Budi Uz Slenkscio" -- CD -- €10
2006 Autarkeia, acd 014, (ltd. 500)
Laurynas Jukonis, the author of GIRNU GIESMES project and the pioneer of the Lithuanian post-industrial, has dedicated his ninth album "Tiems, kas budi uz slenkscio" (For Those Who Keep Vigil Beyond the Threshold) to the next element of the archaic worldview of the Lithuanians, that is, the mythological sagas. To be more precise, it is dedicated to the weird reality functioning in accordance with specific laws in sagas that has been deeply ingrained in human mind from time immemorial. The modern rationalism has not managed to destroy this system until our days. Probably the mythological reality with all its strange creatures can relatively be called the remnant of the evolved shamanism. This is arcane, but not necessarily unapproving worldview of the supernatural world as the dark powers. The latest GIRNU GIESMES album conveys exactly these features. Each track projects a fascinating interpretation of the archaic thinking system in music. Vivacious and a bit eerie music of "Tiems, kas budi uz slenkscio" album is difficult to define in terms of music style. Some tracks sound with mysterious psychedelic ambient, while the others reverberate with bizarre broken rhythms and loops. Yet, a strong and interesting mood is undoubtedly created by the rich and professionally compiled sound collages featured in the CD. [press-release]
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Giscard Le Survivant -- "Seul Contre Le Programme Commun" -- CD-R -- €9
2002 Mechanoise Labs, [mn014], (ltd. 100)
Being the most atypical release from Mechanoise Labs so far is already quite a feat, but pushing it beyond the novelty point is something else altogether. Giscard le Survivant manages to move from stomping distorted beatbox loops to odd collages of vintage late 70's samples with the sort of flow that keeps you wondering what's next on the menu, as some buzzing synthsaw taunts you. The references might be a bit too obscure for those unfamiliar with the late 70's/early 80's reign of then french President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, but the general sense of lo-fi madness of the music will make sure that not all of it is lost on them. Votez Giscard! [press-release]
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Glasberg -- "Utrennik" -- CD-R -- €6
2008 ElectroIndustria, 11EIóDr, (ltd. 100)
In a certain sense Glasberg (St. Petersburg, Russia) reminds of clanking question mark, which can appear in the head after a sleepless night on a balcony of a tower-block in St. Petersburg outskirts. Important are not the specific formulae, but the gesture and message themselves. Technologically the meditation is performed by a method of intuitive warping, by distorting the sound in real time intil it turns into a rarefied vibrational flow flavoured with a desperate voice. [press-release] The debut album of Uncle Fika, a permanent member of Deutsch Nepal concerts in St. Petersburg ;) Old-school death-industrial, analogue weirdness and insane vocals.
Glaukom Synod -- "Uczulony" -- CD-R -- €3.50
self-released
Schizoid electro-industrial from France with sampled metal parts.
Global Systems Silently Moving -- "Altering The Air" -- CD -- €10
2007 Silentes, 200614
Quiet, flowing, rivers of murky low-fi atmospheric haze, with deep, distant, sub-bass pulses that seem to come from underground. Waves of shortwave noise roll up to the listeners feet like water on the shore. Introspective movements to get lost in. Repetitious, hypnotic sequences transmitted from an ethereal universe. All-pervading, and infinitely elastic. Widescreen glimpses into seven perpetually moving soundscapes that have no beginnings or ends. Epic patterns... rolling until the end of time. Lost souls wandering in a dense audio-fog. These are archival analog recordings made in Detroit (1996), and seem to be somehow affiliated with the 'deepchord brotherhood' (recorded by/produced by DC), however... the actual artist here is not completely clear. [press-release]
Gnaw Their Tongues -- "An Epiphanic Vomiting Of Blood" -- CD -- €10
2008 Crucial Blast, CBR 69
Gnaw Their Tongues, an enigmatic project from the Netherlands that has wowed fans of messed-up heaviosity with the phenomenal Reeked, Pained and Shuddering CD that was released on Paradigms along with a host of super-limited CDR and cassette releases, is joining the Crucial Blast roster for the CD release of the new full length An Epiphanic Vomiting Of Blood, which was released as a limited edition vinyl release at the beginning of 2008 on Burning World Records. This undefinable mass of black amorphic horror is one of the most intense listens we've engaged in recently, a nihilistic pit of howling orchestral strings and blackened abstract doom, operatic female voices plunging into a fetid sewer of filth and blackness, equal parts avant black metal and splattered sludge and symphonic horror movie score. An overwhelming deathscape scrawled in jagged figures across pieces like "My body is not a vessel, nor a temple. It's a repulsive pile of sickness" or "Sawn asunder and left for the beasts", and flecked with moments of unbelievably crushing beauty that may surprise fans of Gnaw Their Tongue's previous work. [press-release]
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Goatvargr -- "s/t" -- CD -- €9
2006 Cold Spring Records, CSR65CD, (ltd. 1000)
A harsh journey of sound structures summoned from the deepest caverns of Hell by the scene's most prolific madmen, Nordvargr (SE) and Goat (USA). Working with each other's source material, they offer up a brutal and violent masterpiece. Not just a head on noise album, but a refined symphony of bestial lust, worship and violence. Goatvargr is an assault on the senses, appealing to both the metal and noise scenes (for fans of MZ.412). [press-release]
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Goatvargr -- "Black Snow Epoch" -- CD -- €10
2010 Cold Spring, CSR126CD
The second unholy union of Lord Nordvargr (MZ.412, Folkstorm, Toroidh etc) and Goat (USA). Time, pilgrimages and bloodlines have been bourn since the first testament of Goatvargr was witnessed in this era of false knowledge. The first covenant of Goatvargr was baleful, lycanthropic and lethiferous. A rejection of the techgnostic kingdom and circuitry idols which seduce our era. The downfall of light has brought a world of coldness. This Black Snow Epoch is a time to honour our forbearers such as MZ.412 and the elements of flesh, wood and alchemical steel. Industrial loops and analogue keyboards merge with sheet metal and chains to create a solemn winter hymn where the cold steel stings your flesh. The wolf instinctively hunts through the frost, and the goat is blamed for human transgressions, yet during the Black Snow Epoch, the true hunters will pursue... Presented in a jewelcase with foldout poster cover. [press release]
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Gods Of Electricity -- "Sundiving" -- CD -- €11
2006 Faith Strange, fs6, (ltd. 600)
Goem -- "Robbed" -- CD -- €8
2007 SmallVoices, SVR07023
Originally Goem used to be a trio of Frans de Waard, Roel Meelkop and Peter Duimelinks, and while they still exist as a trio, there have been several solo and duo releases by the various members under the name of Goem, the latest being a solo work by Roel Meelkop. All the source sounds for 'Robbed' were sampled from one single CD; we are told that the details should remain secret, but except for the conceptual delight and above all the fun of wondering what it could be (mainstream pop? A rock hero? 1990s Euro trash dance?), it doesn't really matter anyway, since it seems next to impossible to trace back the origin of the sounds and they can well stand on their own. Goem's trademark is the straightforward rhythmic pulse, but it's probably needless to say here that the music isn't fully suitable for the dance floor. This doesn't mean, however, that the music on 'Robbed' is devoid of groove. The tracks are based on short loops, consisting of one or two recurring elements, which go through varying combinations, and the resulting rhythmic patterns offer a taste of minimal funk that thrives greatly on the strictly repetitive character of the music. The overall sound is of remarkable digital warmth and fullness, and far away from the standard vocabulary of clicks cum sine waves. Cleverly switching between up- and down-tempo passages, Roel Meelkop achieves a nice balance between various moods. Some of the tracks evoke a relaxed, at times even dub-like feeling, while others include odd contrasting elements, which give them an insistent, driving character. Goem's music is well structured and demands repeated listening to discover the complex micro-variations within the rhythmic patterns; but what makes 'Robbed' truly likeable is that it succeeds in blending these characteristics with a swinging, thoroughly pleasant overall atmosphere. [MSS, Vital Weekly]
Goem / FdW -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €7
2005 1000+1 TiLt
Goem / FdW means Goem as Frans de Waard alone or is it Frans de Waard alone as Goem, could be Frans de Waard as Goem alone, anyway, it's 3 new songs of the usual rhythm and high quality noises. [label info]
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Goh Lee Kwang -- "Sight" -- CD-R -- €8
2010 Lunhare, ZZZ - 13, (ltd. 100)
Acclaimed worldwide as audio/video artist, Goh offers here a long trip in the depths of sound. Nearly imperceptible variations on a sonic wall(paper). [label info]
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The Golden Oaks -- "Autumn Testament" -- CD -- €8
2005/2008 A Silent Place, ASP17
And finally, unto the earth, The Golden Oaks are borne. Comprised of Brad Rose (The North Sea) and Keith Wood (Hush Arbors, Sunburned Hand Of The Man), The Golden Oaks are acoustic folk magicians springing forth candles from wooded sanctuaries. Composed by mail, "Autumn Testament" is a hymn to the season of red, gold, and orange. A canopy of leaves shelters the proceedings from the fog that threatens to obscure these sounds. This is a glorious combination of organic grace, blessed by the forests of past centuries. Digifile. [press-release]
:Golgatha: -- "Tales of Transgression and Sacrifice" -- CD -- €14
2007 Cold Meat Industry, cmi176
The French philosopher Georges Bataille serves as the inspiration for the new and third fulltime album of the German ritual-folk-band :Golgatha:. Founded in 2004 by Christoph Donarski and S. Marleni, :Golgatha: began in the dark realms of ambient-drones and continually developed their use of acoustic instruments to create a unique mixture organic and electronic elements. After two acclaimed albums on the subject of heroism, 'Tales of Transgression & Sacrifice' marks a certain change of course in the music of :Golgatha: - in a psychonautic trip from ritual-drumming via multi-textured soundscapes up to catchy folk-songs this album appears even more sensual, erotic and fascinating than before. [label info]
:Golgatha: -- "Waste Land" -- CD -- €14
2005/2009 Cold Meat Industry, cmi198
:Golgatha: / Dawn & Dusk Entwined -- "Sang Graal" -- CD -- €14
2008 Cold Meat Industry, cmi184
Golyshev, Nikita -- "3 Plays For Mechanical Water And Electrical Sky" -- CD-R -- €7
2006 Zeromoon, Consume Buy 2006 series
Three long compositions from Nikita Golyshev (CD-R project). Very quality-made atmospheric electroacoustic music. Released in "Consume Buy 2006" series by American Zeromoon label available for sale only in 2006.
Golyshev, Nikita -- "Solaris" -- CD -- €10
2007 Monochrome Vision, (mv20), (ltd. 500)
The debut CD album of one of the most promising russian underground musician, presenting his own unique vision of ambient music. Combining the deep layers of machine-like hum and minimal melodic keys, Nikita creates highly emotional and dramatic journey to the netherworld. Two parts of this one hour long suite are the partly presented in the program of Add Noise II festival on May 15th, 2007. Beginning in 2003 as the part of duo aptly titled CD-R, Nikita Golyshev quickly became the one of the most promising electronic musicians on the Russian underground scene. His output progressed from rhythmic noise mayhem to diverse and heterogeneous experiments, ranging from machine improvisation through bleak drones to pure processed acoustic minimalism. He released some CD-Rs and published many works online, as well as on his own Musica Excentrica, Electrosound and Share My Wings imprints. He finally recorded the debut CD album under his real name. [press-release]
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Gomberg, Billy -- "Days" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 The Land of, LND007, (ltd. 100)
Days collects five studio pieces drawn from acoustic recordings of piano and voice, treated, amplified, and arranged. The arrangements are simple: long passages of sound material lay next to each other, their closeness and distance outlining a structure. Billy Gomberg is a musician and occasional video artist living in Brooklyn NY. His studio practice incorporates analog synthesis, digital treatments, acoustic recordings and custom programming, creating electronic sound caught gazing at its own physicality, acoustics in love with their abstraction. [Databloem]
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Gorduw -- "Crossfire Center" -- CD-R -- €8
2011 Torga Amun, 029, (ltd. 51)
Industrialized Minimal Electro with lots of urban samples. Recorded by dr. Feithnathoroth in prison in 2005-2006. Double handmade sleeve. [YAOP]
Gorduw -- "Ress Veriints" -- CD-R -- €8
2011 Torga Amun Rec., 027, (ltd. 50)
Famous Russian underground project from Siberia mostly active in early 2000ies. The album was recorded by its mastermind Dr. Feitnathoroth during 2005-2006 in prison (where he was serving a sentence). 65 min. Folvork dark electronic with elements ambient, noise, beat: CD-R, DVD-slim box, 50 copies.
Gorduw -- "XI Chastt Istorii Feitnathorotha. Pulsar 44 (Gultu Euphoria)" -- CD-R -- €8
2011 Torga Amun Rec., 025, (ltd. 48)
Famous Russian underground project from Siberia mostly active in early 2000ies. Folvork sympho industrial / dark electronic with elements ambient, noise, beat: Cardboard sleeve.
The Goslings -- "Spaceheater / Perfect Interior" -- CD -- €10
2006 Crucial Blast, CBR 51
Spaceheater/Perfect Interior collects the first two EP's from husband-and-wife duo the GOSLINGS, originally released as short-run CD-Rs on low-fi/indie noise imprint Asaurus Records in 2003-2004. Working with a signature palette of melted, low-fi indie pop and muggy/smeared psych-drone ambience ground through overdriven amplifiers and shot out into pools of swirling basement shudder, The GOSLINGS adorn their gorgeous powermurk with eerie field recordings, ghostly subterranean vocals, and crackling cable buzz. If SUNN O))) had, in actuality, been a late-80's dreampop outfit on 4AD Records, or if cult shoegazers MEDICINE had ever collaborated with drone-axe sorcerers EARTH, the resulting fug may have been similiar to this black-sugar avalanche. Simultaneously ethereal and blown-out, angelic strains of four-track mud-majesty shaking the walls of the ancient well it's buried beneath. [press-release]
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Goteki -- "Goteki O/S: Corrupted Files" -- CD -- €11
2004 Wasp Factory, WASPFAC026
The remix album of the Cyber Gothic style godfathers - the UK band Goteki. Tracks made in vein of EBM / Cyber Gothic / Electroclash / Future Pop featuring Echo Image, Seize, Icon of Coil, The Chaos Engine, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Carol Masters, Graeme Norgate, .Intron.Depot., Glis, Deathboy, Project 65, Yendri and auto-remixes.
Government Alpha -- "Impregnable Storm" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 New Nihilism, NN VI, (ltd. 250)
It's impossible to get a clue about Japanese noise phenomenon without mentioning Yasutoshi Yoshida, the man responsible for numerous extreme music gems such as Government Alpha, S.Isabela, Detroit Core etc. and surely the kingpin of the renowned Xerxes label... Govt. Alpha's mission started in 1992 as a natural conclusion to Yoshida's urge for expression through the art, deliberately in it's terminal form. While incorporating all that awesome elements of Japanese noise sound, Government Alpha suddenly developed its own trademark sound-abstract yet seductive framework of multilayered feedback, mangled distortion roars, wild editing and manic signal processing that takes an assault on your ears with no holds barred... Tokio's wildest, Government Alpha proves it again on Impregnable Storm, an album scheduled for NN so long ago... And worth to wait for, hands down! This is extremely brutal, loud and harsh. This is the passion. This is sexy. This is Government Alpha... Once again the packaging consists of an A2-sized, offset printed poster folded to form A5 sleeve housed in crystal celar plastic wrapper. Limited to 250 hand numbered copies, get yours just now. [press-release]
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Grain Belt -- "s/t" -- CD -- €10
2010 Small Doses, DOSE75 / White Centipede Noise, WCN01 / Phage Tapes, PT:99, (ltd. 200)
Harsh noise and metal abuse from Minneapolis. Grain Belt is a trio comprised of the people behind the Wince, Baculum, and Willful projects. Three tracks each recorded at a live show. [label info]
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Grassow, Mathias -- "Deeper Purity" -- CD-R -- €11
2007 Practising Nature, PN07026
Grassow, Mathias -- "Elixir" -- CD-R -- €11
2005 Practising Nature, PN0605
Grassow, Mathias -- "Highlights 1" -- CD-R -- €11
2007 Practising Nature, PN07014
Grassow, Mathias -- "In Search Of Sanity" -- CD -- €13
1993 NO-CD, CDNO 05
Grassow, Mathias -- "Tiefweite Stille 2" -- CD-R -- €11
2006 Practising Nature, PN007
Atmospheres and drones flavoured with tribal rhythms and Indian instruments. [label info]
Grassow, Matthias / Baghiri, Amir / Gleisberg, Rudiger -- "Arcanum" -- CD -- €23
1997 Arya, Y05, (ltd. 700)
First edition of this legendary album, jewel-case. [YAOP]
Grassow, Mathias / Baghiri, Amir / Gleisberg, Rudiger -- "Arcanum" -- CD -- €11
2007 Faria Records, FAR-12, (ltd. 500)
This is rerelease of legendary masterpiece from 3 famous german composers. "Arcanum" - it is collaboration of three different musical styles which creates a unique arcanum of excellent music. Mathias Grassow fills compositions his special deep mood drone ambient. Amir Baghiri adds his hypnotic percussions and Rudiger Gleisberg plays wonderful cosmic electronics. It will enjoyable to all music lovers! Previously released by Amplexus label as ltd of 500 copies at 1998 and totally sold out few years ago. Now rereleased with two bonus tracks, and luxury pack with artworks of Markus Vogt with several cards inside. [press-release]
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Grassow, Mathias & Jim Cole -- "Deep - Breath - Silence" -- CD-R -- €11
2006 Practising Nature, PN07020
Grassow, Mathias / Fricke, Siegmar -- "Aurora" -- CD-R -- €11
2005 Practising Nature, PN010
Grassow, Mathias & guests -- "Dronament" -- CD-R -- €12
2006 Practising Nature, PN008
Atmospheres and drones flavoured with tribal rhythms, Indian instruments and ambient guitar. Reminiscent of textbook ethno- or eco-ambient by the likes of Vidna Obmana, Antonio Testa and Alio Die. Unlike their classic works, however, there is the occasional "disturbance" in the ambient atmosphere, when flatulent horns and chaotic percussion clatter and clash for just an instant, like a sudden thunderstorm. [label info] The guests are: Holger Brune, Klaus Wiese, Carsten Agthe, Markus Reuter, SiRenee.
Grassow, Mathias & guests -- "Fata Morgana" -- CD-R -- €11
2006 Practising Nature, PN012
Grassow, Mathias & guests -- "Opus Posthumum 2" -- CD-R -- €11
2005 Practising Nature, PN003
Grassow, Mathias & guests -- "Opus Posthumum" -- CD-R -- €12
2005 Practising Nature, PN002
A hypnotic mix of soundscapes and indian string instruments, flavoured with harmonic singing. [label info] The guests are: Klaus Wiese, Kai Schroder, Jim Cole.
Grassow, Mathias & Jiri Mazanek -- "Inner Path" -- CD -- €11
2008 Nextera, ERA 2051-2
Inner Path - the idea of combining pure handplayed acoustic instruments with modern electronics, samples and nature-sounds. With a spiritual sight behind, Inner path is open for free direction and interpretation nevertheless with a strong focus inside ourselves by considering the existence here on earth as ONE of many journeys back into the inner light. This work is a remembrance... Mathias Grassow: electronic creations, nature-sounds, singing-bowls, voice. Jiri Mazanek: 86-string zither, 8-string kantele, 5-string kantele, guitar, overtone singing. [label info]
Grassow, Mathias feat. Jiri Mazanek -- "Music Infinity Meets Virtues" -- CD -- €10
2009 Nextera, ERA 2059-2
Performed Live at Church of St.Simon and Juda, Prague 1 - Old Town, May 23rd, 2009.
Grassow, Mathias & Weiss, Thomas -- "Insights" -- CD-R -- €11
2007 Practising Nature, PN07023
Thomas Weiss and Mathias Grassow creating a new sound, which works well for the traditional and contemporay listener. Deep and reflective. [label info]
Grassow, Mathias & Weiss, Thomas -- "Outland" -- CD -- €11
2007 Faria Records, FAR-13, (ltd. 500)
A reflection from outer spaces in between the universe of our mind. A miniature of the endless space from far behind mankinds tangibility. To understand the real essence of the heart of the matter, often it is necessary to take a look from the distance. Just this distance shows structures and connections, which are otherwise impossible to see and grasp - because everyone himself is part of a certain situation. Therefore 'Outland' stands for a journey into an 'outer land', to become an advanced view for realization. Luxury pack with artworks of Markus Vogt. [press-release]
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Green Army Fraction -- "Caste War - Back In Their Place" -- CD -- €10
2006 Steinklang Industries, SK38
Green Army Fraction travels through the totality of Indo-Europa, from the far East to the high North, to present you his personal vision of individuality and collective consciousness in the light of the Absolute and the Self. A metaphysical speculation wrapped in harsh and well structured power electronics, crowned with screaming dirtorted and clean vocals and many fine samples. Songtitles like "Yggdrasil 3000" and "Heliga Nord" round the album to a powerful conceptual work about Eurasian understanding of spirituality. [press-release]
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Green Army Fraction -- "Chlorophyll Flood" -- CD -- €10
2005 Steinklang Industries, SKD 08
Re-release of this great Power Electronics album from Swedens Noise-Terrorists. Originally released as a CDR edition of 100 copies only! This CD-version was totally remastered in the Steinklang-Studios and comes with new artwork and 2 unreleased bonus-tracks from the same time. [label info]
Green Army Fraction -- "Norrlandsvisor" -- 3"CD-R -- €10
2005 Misanthrope Studio, MS015
Gregory -- "Restart Now" -- CD -- €9
2004 Monopol Records, monopolrecords 001, (ltd. 500)
Greinke, Jeff -- "Wide View" -- CD -- €11
2002 Hypnos, hyp2240
Jeff Greinke is regarded as one of the forefathers of the modern ambient/atmospheric genre. Classic Greinke releases such as Lost Terrain and In Another Place inhabit an original, evocative, sonic territory unique in ambient music - somewhere north of the fourth world. Now, with his newest CD Wide View, Greinke has taken his sound into an entirely new context. In doing so, he has created a unique album in a catalog of unique albums, as well as a sterling example of what ambient music can achieve. The first impression I had when listening to the CD was how composed it sounded when compared aside past ambient releases by. On the surface, the sound palette is somewhat traditional; with electronic strings and piano, all drenched in reverb. In fact, this release has a classic quality to it - the type of early ambient flavor we had come to expect from a Harold Budd or Brian Eno album during the seventies. This comparison is valid and appropriate. But make no mistake - this is not a rehash of triumphs from other artists' catalogs. Greinke takes the lead of past masters and imbues their spirit with a musicality all his own. A close listening to Wide View will reveal the signature sounds we expect from Greinke, all in an extremely subtle and restrained fashion. This is an album that will open to the listener gradually, with repeated playing. As with past Greinke works, Wide View inhabits a rain-soaked atmosphere; but it is also one of stunning cloud banks, with their silent movement across panoramic skies (as depicted in the cover art). The themes of light and shade are explored in an extremely personal way - always a quality of the best ambient/atmospheric music. These soundscapes reach the stratospheric heights, but are never too far away from earthly repose... [Brian Bieniowski]
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Gretel -- "Casket" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 self-released
Gretel exists from 2010. The album "Casket" was recorded at home using automatic writing method. The instruments were broken guitar and cracked crash cymbal. The music of Gretel is hard to categorize. Surreal grotesque atmosphere, ghostly vocals, toy sound and fairy unsettling melodies. Gretel also is a creator of Madlene band. [from the author] Sophisticated package made of cardboard, polyesther, polyfoam, etc.
Grey Daturas -- "Dead In The Woods" -- CD -- €10
2004/2007 Crucial Blast, CBR 62
A re-issue of the out-of-print 2004 monsterpiece from the Melbourne, Australian trio Grey Daturas. Originally released through the band's own Crashing Jets imprint, Dead In The Woods is a massive exhortation of lumbering metallic sludge rock, freely improvised amplifier noise and crushing riff splatter, and massive, sky-streaking psychedelic corrosion. The Crucial Blast re-issue of Dead In The Woods features a full remastering by Scott Hull at Visceral Sound, and also comes with a brand new packaging design via a 4-panel case printed by Stumptown Printers. [press-release]
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Griffin, M. -- "Fabrications" -- CD -- €12
2008 Hypnos, hyp2806
Grkzgl -- "Esque" -- 3"CD -- €8
2006 .Angle.Rec., .A.R.03.01., (ltd. 500)
First release of the .Angle.Records. label in the 3'' mini-cd format! This format lends itself well to the implementation of a maximum of ideas within a minimum of space. Clocking it at under 20 minutes on the cd player, this release proposes a journey that is indeed short but full of variations. Here is an excellent introduction for this promising artist from Montreal. Grkzgl (pronouced 'grak-siggle'), once known under various other names, comes from many horizons at the same time. Influenced by the post-industrial universe as well as the minimal or noisy avant-garde, Grkzgl strings 6 pieces together, which represent so many micro-adventures, interrelated and presented in an uninterrupted fashion, the whole forming an entity driven by multiple jolts. His ingredients? Spacious ambiences, cracklings originating from everywhere and nowhere, short-circuits, underlying hummings, psychoactive noise :one already feels, upon the first moments, the presence of each of the many sound components which will compose this mini-album. Except that in the very beginning, each one goes its own way :and very soon, the unison happens, all particles and corpuscles meet with each other and, in concert, all those elements lay the foundations, terribly structured and chaotic at the same time, of a universe that is whacked-out but full of a constant lucidity and direction. The various preferred sound sources of the artist are, of course, triturated and recycled in a peculiar way, resulting in organic abstractions that are carefully thought out, evocative, evolutionary and saturated. [press-release]
Growing / Mark Evan Burden -- "s/t" -- CD -- €15
2005 Xeng, XENG 01 CD
Grundik + Slava -- "Frogs" -- CD -- €10
2005 Topheth Prophet, TP004
A really cool take on the experimental ambient genre, creating beautiful soundscapes using dark synth sweeps, found sounds, guitars and a bunch of other things. There are a few tracks where they go into completely different territory - especially the second track, which sounds like some aliens kidnapped a funk band - but mostly they stick to the really experimental ambient stuff. "Frogs" also features the talents of Chaos As Shelter, Igor Krutugolov and Victoria Hanna, the latter of which contributes vocals on half of the tracks, giving them a really weird feel, adding a somewhat playful side to the darker tracks [...] There are some more traditional middle eastern elements here and there, but mostly this disc keeps to its really nice experimental dark ambient textures with the previously mentioned Hanna's vocals popping in to add even more texture. There are always new sounds coming into the mix, it never gets boring. [industrial.org]
Gruntsplatter -- "The Aberrant Laboratory" -- CD -- €10
2006 Dark Vinyl, DV 52
"The Aberrant Laboratory" finds Gruntsplatter exploring more ambient and disorienting planes in an effort to contextualize the ramifications of renegade science and deviant medicine. Framed against a somewhat literary backdrop, it is one of the more concrete conceptual works from the project and creates a different kind of listen than past releases. The familiar components of the sound that has sustained Gruntsplatter for the last 10 plus years are intact, and are perhaps at their most effective in allowing the listeners thoughts to wander with this outing. Brooding ambience, and cutting frequencies combine with odd melody and an enveloping, fluid mix that lead you through the dirty laboratories and hovels of taboo science where genius and atrocity meet on level ground. [label info]
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Gruntsplatter -- "Chronicling The Famine" -- CD -- €10
2003 Desolation House, DH-0200, (ltd. 1000)
The enigmatic Gruntsplatter is a malleable creature that hovers in the gray area between abrasive noise and dark ambient by combining the atmosphere of one with the density of the other. Evocative and subtle in its detail, its mood and depth of composition are incredibly refined. Gruntsplatter also draws, though somewhat esoterically, from literature, history, and the death rattles and rituals of an eroding gene pool. [press-release]
Gruntsplatter -- "The Death Fires" -- CD -- €10
2000 Crowd Control Activities, Crowded 19
Gruuthaagy -- "Metraton - Order Of The Outer Darkness" -- CD-R -- €3
2005 Smell The Stench
Croatian experimental project on Australian lo-fi/noise label. Gloomy atmospheres mixed with energetic metal percussion beats and sometimes subdued distorted guitars & synths. Raw primeval sound, like a powerful mix of homemade pompous metal and lo-fi ritualistic industrial.
Gruuthaagy -- "Suicide Frequencies" -- CD-R -- €3
2004 Smell The Stench
Second GRUUTHAAGY CDR at pure underground australian label SMELL THE STENCH is my July 2003 demo. 3 tracks each playing for excatly 13 min 52 sec, so you should know what you can expect here. Yeah, industrial doom. The main idea was audio exploatation of the ultimate tabboo - DEATH. In some way inspired with the way SPK explored the same subject as the idea gets initiated by them, I have made my own version of deep, death noise. Listening to SWANS and lots of extreme doom metal lately (HELLHAMMER, KHANATE, EARTH, BURZUM, etc...) it was just matter of time when I will do something like this. First track is based on long sad melodies and mystic atmosphere, very emotional and epic. Perhaps my most pop sounding track so far. It has sort of neo-folk feel, very minimalistic and gently building the dark and misanthropic mood for later sacrilage. Now, second track gets more nasty and raw, alieneting industrial noises with droning low pitched guitar samples and heavy mechanic drumming. It has simple background melody lines but raugh minimalism and anxiety are first to be heard at here. From sort of cybersludge it moves to third and real industrial track. Monolithic rhythms and sometimes disturbing noises, creating more morbid and intense feel, like euphoric dance macabre that calls for the final ritual death to finish it all. This is ultimatelly black and grotesque musick, and I am not responsible for the possible consequences it may have on someone who shouldn't listen to it. Made to feed hungry demons among us. [from the author]
Grzinich, John -- "Surface Scripts" -- CD -- €10
2010 Semperflorens, sf05, (ltd. 500)
Surface Scripts was composed from field recordings, site-specific actions, environmental installations and wire instrument sounds recorded from 2008-2010. The title refers to my interest in the time-worn processes of nature and the effects this has on various materials such as stone, metal or wood. Much of the sounds we hear around us are the acoustic effects of these processes taking place while the visual patterns are written as ancient scripts. A set of small lines carved into a stone by water may have taken thousands of years, yet the sounds we hear are momentary. [John Grzinich]
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Guignol Dangereux -- "Dr. Kangaroo goes Classical" -- CD-R -- €8
Deserted Factory, (ltd.99)
Mockery over classical music. Talented pieces in which Bach meets Merzbow, P.A.L. and Klangstabil. [YAOP description]
Guignol Dangereux -- "Robbery Pop" -- CD-R -- €8
2006 Sick Arts, SAP 14, (ltd. 100)
Rhythmic electronic music somewhere between collage / techno / minimal / industrial with quite abstract feeling and sharp sound. 7" cover with photo art by Stefan Weimbs.
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]
Gyvata / Pragnavit -- "Broliai Karelin Jojo / Ad Gloriam" -- CD -- €10
2010 Crivia Records, RITUAL03, (ltd. 350)
Crivia Records presents its next release: a split between young Lithuanian band GYVATA and Belarussian project PRAGNAVIT, dedicated to the glorious anniversary - 600 years of the Battle of Grunwald. Belarussians and Lithuanians celebrate their great victory just like hundreds of years ago! The release consists of two parts: first is the debut album of GYVATA "Broliai Karelin Jojo"; second is the new work by PRAGNAVIT "Ad Gloriam"... The band GYVATA from Klaipeda is yet little known outside Lithuania, but after the release of "Broliai Karelin Jojo" the situation will undoubtedly change - because in front of us is one of the most promising groups in the Lithuanian folk scene. The young musicians succeeded to show the root Baltic music from the completely new and unusual point of view, by giving modern sound to ancient melodies and not breaking the thousand year old harmony. We should also mention the important fact that one of the band's members is Donatas Bielkauskas more known for his project DONIS. Altogether there are twelve musicians in GYVATA! "Broliai Karelin Jojo" features five tracks of the Lithuanians... There's no need in presenting the Belarussian project PRAGNAVIT from Mogilev. This is one of the oldest dark ambient bands in Eastern Europe whose albums are well-known outside of Belarus. The musicians behind the project, Vojst and Kastus Kancavy couldn't stand aside of celebrating the great victory of the Great Lithuanian Principality and here presented the new edge of their creativity - militant, symphonic and aggressive. "Ad Gloriam" features five tracks of the conceptual album dedicated to the Battle of Grunwald, and the sixth bonus track dedicated to heroes fighting for freedom of Belarus under Stalin's regime... Crivia Records puts a lot of attention in the quality of its releases, so the mastering work for this CD was done by famous German musician Axel Frank (WERKRAUM), who have worked with such musicians as DER BLUTHARSCH, CHANGES, FORSETI, GAE BOLG, STURMPERCHT, TRIARII... The release is presented in spot-varnished mat digipak with the artwork featuring works by the well-known Belarussian painter Pavel Tatarnikov. [press-release]
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GZ -- "Switching Surface" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 Vapraksila Inc, c0015
Russian musician Egor Favorsky (GZ) has recorded his album "Switching Surface" using old analogue synthesizers and sound processing units, trying to keep his electroacoustic sound as close as possible to the remote 70-ies. During 40 minutes the experiment in sound happens, testing the acoustic systems of the listeners. [label info]
H.e.e.l. -- "Light In The Hell" -- CD -- €9
2004 Monopol Records, monopolrecords 005, (ltd. 500)
H.E.R.R. -- "Fire and Glass: a Norwood Tragedy" -- mCD -- €8
2007 Cold Spring Records, CSR74EP
This brilliant new four-track EP from the Anglo-Dutch masters of Neoclassical music relates to the incredible story of the Crystal Palace, an architectural jewel in the heart of Victorian London and itself a tragic metaphor for the rise and fall of the British Empire. Recited alongside talented Dutch composer Michiel Spape's wonderful score, Troy Southgate - who was born and bred in the area - begins his tale with a beautiful description of the Palace in all its majestic glory, before moving on to a dramatic account which deals with its cataclysmic destruction in 1936 and, finally, a very moving and personal epilogue which elaborates upon the heartfelt sadness he feels for Upper Norwood's contemporary decline. Welcome to the Pleasuredome! [press-release]
H.E.R.R. -- "XII Caesars" -- CD -- €10
2009 Cold Spring, CSR117CD
Neoclassical. H.E.R.R.'s 4th album was originally inspired by the book "De Vita Caesarum" by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus from 121 AD, during the reign of the emperor Hadrian. It is one of the greatest sources of much of what we know about the first twelve Caesars after the fall of the Republic. The first tragi-comic Neoclassical operetta about The Twelve Caesars. Let the light of heart rule in this more "song-based" album. Comes with an elegant 16-page booklet. [label info]
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h.h.t.p. & portablepalace -- "Cavitation" -- CD -- €10
2005 Monochrome Vision, (mv04), (ltd. 500)
Cavitation is the phenomenon where small cavities of partial vacuum form in fluid, then rapidly collapse, producing a sharp sound. These cavities are caused by still object within moving fluid or by moving object in still fluid. If you focus ultrasonic waves into water, tiny bubbles will be produced, forming a fractal structure and radiating sound by themselves. This is a cavitation field being produced by a radially symmetric sound field - acoustic cavitation. The interaction between computer science technology and freeform musical creative process becomes a central point in this international collaboration of three artists from Belarus and USA. The abstract soundscapes are obscured by intricate structures, acoustic phenomena and electronic effects, it's going to infinity and never repeat itself. The finest harmony of soundfield is credited to the principles of intuitive simulation, realised through the system of computer-aided instruments. [label info]
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H.W.R. / Hatekod -- "Totenmarsch / Anti-NWO" -- CD-R -- €8
2011 Ufa Muzak, UFA 43, (ltd. 131)
Martial industrial ambient / Postmortem power electronics. Conspiratorial underground. Red light illuminates the hands. Faces covered with masks. The noise of heavy leather shoes. Cloths with images of old symbols on the walls. New secret fire is modelling in front of their concentrated eyes. Echo is heard through narrowed consciousness - an old German song. Split of two clandestine projects from France, a pile of black & white photographs scattered on a table: archive and modernity. H.W.R. - wakeful ghosts of the past, in absolute silence, on the places of old battles, they come out and become visible. Old discoloured uniform with hardly seen badges, pale hair and faces, whisper. Hatekod - fragments of modernity where the idea spreads turning into growing red branch on a map. From a screen hissing with snow shows up the footage of streets drenched in blood and houses with forbidden symbols drawn. Dark, malevolent and hoax filled audio document, a deadly strain transmitted in encoded form... 10 tracks, 45 minutes, A5 cardboard cover, insert. [press-release]
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Haare -- "Madon Evankeliumi" -- CD -- €10
2010 At War With False Noise, ATWAR091, (ltd. 500)
It's taken long enough but I'm chuffed to finally be doing a release with one of my favourite noise (I sue this in the loosest term) artists going around right now, Finland's Haare. This is total swirling psychedelia, incredibly heavy shifting tides of drone with evil organ lines permeating the noise. I can't better the description Haare himself gave it: "a slow, heavy bell". Based on source sounds provided by Olly Pearson, Chris Chantler and Dom Finbow. You may have heard of them! 500 copies in an A5 pro-printed foldover wallet and PVC sleeve. Amazing art by Andrew Labanaris (Electric Wizard and MOSS). [press-release]
Hag-Hag-Hagal -- "s/t" -- CD -- €9
2008 Valgriind, VG 12
Experimental ambient from little known Russian project. Sometimes noisy, sometimes melodic, but in general sounding like a constant "conscious flow" without interference of rational thought, which resembles Bardoseneticcube. A very good sound quality & nice varied atmosphere. Digipak.
Haisha / Mizuko -- "Happily Never After" -- CD -- €10
2001 Crucial Blast, BLAST 10
A meeting of two demented forces from the filthiest gutters of Los Angeles. HAISHA opens with a seriously grotesque noisecore/grind/trash hybrid, powered by jackhammer drum machines and miles of bad fucking attitude. Think early EARACHE grindcore, japanese trashpunk a la CONFUSE, and hardcore gabba smashed up in a crystal meth milkshake. Things only get worse when MIZUKO follow up with event-driven found sound, grisly power electronics, and queasy death industrial that is misanthropic to its very core. Black transmissions from a rotting planet, unleashed on an unsuspecting ghost world. Presented in a sleek glossy gatefold package. [press-release]
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Hall Of Mirrors -- "Forgotten Realm" -- CD -- €10
2009 Silentes Minimal Editions, sme 0927
Second 'chapter' in the 'Hall of Mirrors' saga, a project that hides the fervid minds of Giuseppe Verticchio/Nimh and Andrea Marutti/Amon. On this release they're supported by Andrea Freschi (Subinterior, Konau:) and Andrea Ferraris (Ur, Sil Muir:), who gave their contribute with additional sound sources. Another long and fascinating journey among the ruins of lost and ancient civilizations, among desolate landscapes forgotten by time: To enrich the already busy electronic stratifications, among slowly evolving ambient sonorities and occasional parts of more sharp and 'rough' elements of a Post-Industrial nature, we also find suggestive sound of reverberating flutes and dilated electric guitar parts, ending with delicate melodic arpeggios and evocative rhythmic accents of a vague cinematic taste. The adventure goes on: [label info]
Hall Of Mirrors -- "Reflections On Black" -- CD -- €10
2007 Silentes, SME0713
A dark transmission utilizing an immense range of synthesizers and obscure electronic equipment. Complex compositions created with various sequencers, backing tapes, field recordings, electric guitar and masterful audio processing techniques, combined with expert assembly (mixing / digital editing). With "Reflections in Black" Hall Of Mirrors redefine the genera of dark ambient. A must have for fans of Lustmord and Darker / Gothic atmospheres. "Reflections In Black" is isolationistic music for midnight rituals: post-millennium soundscapes and darkest beauty personified. [press-release] A collaboration project of Giulio Biaggi, Andrea Marutti (Amon, Never Known), Giuseppe Verticchio & Daniela Gherardi (Nimh).
Halo Manash -- "Language of Red Goats" -- CD -- €10
2008 Aural Hypnox, [AH09], (ltd. 920)
Guided by nether nectars and dream herbs, oneiric visions and the light of lunar tides, Halo Manash Language of Red Goats aims to be a cartography of cavernous elemental realms and regions, sources and springs that run deep and thick with the fluids of life, death and dream. What was seeded at the Thin Veils has been gathered at Harvest time, and is offered to the seeker as a libation and guide into the ever-liminal, shrouded spaces, for dream-vigils and awakenings. Language of Red Goats is a complete work in itself, but can also be viewed as the first facet of a tripartite series of works that are part of one holistic creation - three faces of the same being. More akin to a primitive fieldrecording in the realm of oneirotropic exploration, than an actual album, the work consists of one lengthy tripartite soundscape. Utilizing only gongs, bells, metal bowls and wind instruments, as well as flocks of birds, the work is in contrast to earlier more refined works that feature a wide multiplicity of instruments and soundsources. Language of Red Goats is a bare, primitive and sometimes raw aural landscape, and yet nonetheless achieves a rare subliminal intensity and an edge of otherwordly luminosity. Comes in a hand finished cardboard booklet, in an edition of 920 copies. [press-release]
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Hamre, Karsten & Jecan, Vlad -- "Enter Inside" -- CD -- €11
2007 Wroth Emitter, W.E. 015
Karsten Hamre is a very busy person. Through the years, the list of names and titles he's worked with have increased exponentially-- each band and title an exploration of a sound and ambience that was destined to become solely his own. From the quixotic brilliance of Penitent, to the dark elegance of Veiled Allusions, and now also a solo project bearing only his name. What often is remembered most about Hamre's work is an ambience that always feels nautical. There is ever a sense of vast, oceanic space. It is expressed in various ways through his works, but it seems always to be there. Many of the sounds seem to come from under water, or inner water. They hint at the dark things hidden in our histories, in our religions; in the decayed and rotting backyard pools of post- Apocalypse suburbia. Karsten Hamre takes a minimalist approach to his typically lush (albeit delightfully creepy) soundscapes. The result reminds me of works such as Geir Jenssen's "Biosphere", with bits of Lustmord and K.K. Null thrown in for both ominous rhythm and outer darkness... Vlad Jecan manages to combine sounds of different types and horizons, distorted sonorities who yet express profound calmness, a fast slide of cosmic images placed in front of your eyes and just then you will hear sounds that reflect the grey emotions lurking inside yourself. The music of an emotional paradox, depressing yet mirthful, distorted yet calm. [press-release]
Harvest Rain -- "Night's Glow" -- CD -- €9
2006 War Office Propaganda, WOP 21
Masters of American dark folk in theirs newest full lenght album. 11 beautiful songs, 42 minutes of haunting, atmospheric and melancholic music. No need to say more, as in case of Harvest Rain's music no special recommendation is needed! Simply great CD! Glossy varnished digipack with original cover designed by Michal Karcz and reproduction of Tor Lundvall's paintings inside. [press-release]
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Hated Bruit Kollektiv -- "Aktion One" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 New Nihilism, NN II, (ltd. 250)
HBK is an ephemeric project held among musicians behind Genetic Transmission, Moan and Nojsens. Three minds, three individualities, tree artists sharing one inspired vision. These are people we know for years so it became somehow natural to invite their bastard child to our NN therapy group finally, starting the "Harsh Kontakt" series of relases from now on. The sound sculpture presented hereby has been captured at Bez Kontroli Fest 2007 as probably HBK's best gig to date. Expect the unexpected, as they have gone the whole hog, without no mercy to the audience or themselves. OK, it's all there: refreshing traditional industrial, warming harsh noise, stoned bruitist plunderphonics, and last but not least-good taste and the fucking clue, VSOP. The packaging consist of a huge, A2-sized heavy stock poster folded to form A5 sleeve housed in a solid plastic wrapper. [press-release]
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The Haters -- "Ordinarily Nowhere" -- CD -- €10
1995 Pure, DIDX-031037
Hati -- "Die Mechanik, Die!" -- CD -- €10
2008 Beast Of Prey, BOP 5.7
The album of the group from Torun - this time under the banner of Beast of Prey. A characteristic trance-gong-drone-music in the release "Die Mechanik, Die!" has been saturated with electronic sounds. Such HATI will suprise many of you! More than 45 minutes long album perfectly recorded during the performance in "the Mechanik" club in Gdansk. This time HATI famous for its acoustic sounds - made propably the darkest CD in its discography, the CD enriched with dark ambient tones. Tarry and heavy backgrounds perfectly harmonized with trance and mechanical instrumental variations of musicians move the imagination and bring nearer the world of the dying mechanics. From one side - harmonic and perfectly interrelated pieces of music, from the other side - increasing and intensifying athmosphere of the darkness which - like a rust - conquers more and more parts of urban areas. The title of this release speaks for itself... HATI has got already few albums released in Poland and Europe, also from the concert aspect is one of the most recognizable projects in our country and HATI's live performances take many people breath away. The group has been performing in many cities in Poland and also abroad: in Germany, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands. HATI is a music group founded on sounds of acoustic instuments - traditional ones with the industrial instrumentarium. [press-release]
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Hati -- "Mantra-I - Prehistory Of HATI: Vol. 1" -- CD-R -- €8
2006/2008 Eter, etcdr 03 / 2nd, (ltd. 66)
Early 1997 recordings from this Polish project, this time with a ritual touch added to their percussive / junk metal modus operandi. 6 long pieces of hypnotizing lo-fi loops and drones. [Mechanoise Labs info]
Hati -- "Works For Scrap Metal" -- CD -- €10
2007 Eter, etcd 06, (ltd. 500)
HATI is a Polish project based on acoustic instruments sounding. HATI uses ethnic istruments (Asian gongs, North African drums and clarinets, Polish wooden trumpets and horns) and hand-made instruments or find objects of scrap metal, plastic, wood. Musicians use electronic equipments to modulate acoustic sound as well. HATI connects a personal interest in modern improvised and acoustic music with ritual and meditation music. Ltd x 500 copies in a heavy quality cruciform package with booklet and postcard. [Cold Spring]
Hattifnatter -- "Ololiuqui" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT57, (ltd. 112)
A collaboration project of Evgeny Savenko (Lunar Abyss Deus Organum) and M.M. (Kryptogen Rundfunk). Transcendental mystical electroacoustics and Musique Concrete, improvisations in psychedelic Drone Ambient and Lo-Fi Easy Noise style. Dark and funny atmosphere of a parallel existence. Music of electromagnetic lifeforms. Intuitive journey in sound through the spaces of wave fields and noise veils. Cult of Barometer and Lightningism. Handmade cardboard cover. [press-release]
Haus Arafna -- "Blut + Nachblutung" -- CD -- €15
2006 Galakthorrö, 006
Before someone else does it for us, we'd rather do it ourselves: the debut album from Haus Arafna is, after 11 years, once more available. In re-freshed sound quality, and with a new look: a 24 page monster booklet which is filled to the top with blood-enriched pictures and texts, with which the listeners can also enjoy themselves visually. In addition to the well-known "Trilogie des Blutes" from 1995, there are three bonus tracks ("Nachblutung"), to listen to, which also stem from this period. These have, however, only now been fully completed in order to be included in this re-issue from mr. and mrs. Arafna. [press release]
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Haus Arafna -- "New York Rhapsody" -- CD -- €15
2011 Galakthorrö, Galakthorrö 028
This is no typical Haus Arafna album. It has already celebrated its premiere in September 2009 as part of the New York Fashion Week. Haus Arafna had accepted the offer to create the soundtrack for a show featuring the fashion designer Katie Gallagher. Somewhat of an unusual venture into a new environment, and in front of a new audience, this was obviously an exciting challenge for creative artistes, and for 'Industrialists', considering the extreme style of expression, a very pleasurable experience. The emphasis laid on the various elements on this album is different to that of the earlier releases. That is why Haus Arafna has preferred to delay the issue of 'New York Rhapsody' until after the release of the 'official' album 'You'. Angst-Synthesizer, raw electricity, metal percussion, artfully reduced electronic textures and unusual vocal performances combine into a 'sound from the Abyss' with deep ritual undertones. No sign of 'Screams'n'Shouts' here. Instead Haus Arafna has created Angst-Pop hits and Industrial Monsters with an extra dose of darkness, almost as if the March into Destruction has to be sweetened somewhat. Well-dressed, of course... CD in jewel case with 12 page booklet incl. all lyrics. [press-release]
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Haus Arafna -- "The Singles 1993-2000" -- CD -- €15
2003 Galakthorrö 015
The official re-release of all 4 vinyl singles on one compact disk, dated for 10 years anniversary of the band and the label. Contains "Sex U Mas", "Take One Get Two" (split-single with Karl Runal, CD release contains only Haus Arafna's part), "The Last Dream Of Jesus" and "Für Immer".
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Haus Arafna -- "You" -- CD -- €15
2010 Galakthorrö, Galakthorrö 025
"You" is an album of contrasts and leads the listener along carefully selected levels of suspense through the full gamut of the Arafna-esque art of sound creation. The spectrum extends from dark jewels which permeate nerve and brain, to great boulders which avalanche their way through the intestines. A peculiar hybrid of various Industrial Music styles forming a malicious monster, remarkable for its changeability and the unexpected. Difficult to control, cunningly applied analogue electronics meet sawing Angst-synthesizer ensembles ingeniously accompanying scream, -speech, -distortion vocals to the beat of noise and steel. That has proved itself, but today's music from Haus Arafna is generally more advanced, more to the point. All probably created just for "You". CD in jewel case with 16 page booklet. [press-release]
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[haven] -- "Amity" -- CD -- €10
2010 Zoharum, ZOHAR 016-2
'Amity' is definitely the most accessible album in the discography of this project. After flirting with American Tympanic Audio, [haven] comes back to the Polish market. The fifth album of one of the most interesting projects on the Polish independent scene released on Zoharum - [haven]'s 'Amity'. The new album can be quite a challenge for the current [haven] fanbase. 'Amity' is a bold journey through different soundscapes. [haven] links different musical worlds: elements of ambient and post-industrial electronica soaking in the experimental sauce. Spiced up with oriental melodies and beautiful voice of Magda Glocka, it constitutes an attractive alternative for listeners from the outside of the independ music circle. [press-release]
Havoc1986 -- "Anti-Life Wind / Lair Of Macabre" -- CD-R -- €6
2009 Valgriind, VG 24
The first Power Electronix release from Valgriind. 9-tracks storming pressure of discharged nihilism from perspective Kharkiv project. Pulse of the absolute technogenic hate under the dust of organic substance. Envelope from duralumin sheets, bounded with screw. [label info]
Haynes, Jim -- "Sever" -- CD -- €10
2009 Intransitive Recordings, INT032
It gives me great pleasure to present Sever, the third solo album by San Francisco-based composer Jim Haynes, whose singular music evades simple attempts to describe it. The process of decaying and wearing down materials is implied in Sever; its passages of rough clang and cyclic scraping metal seem implacably tangible, as if one is witnessing time-lapsed erosion in action. For me, Sever conjures images of oncoming storms, abandoned industrial sites, huge empty warehouses, creaking glass, ships rocking in a port, the middle of the ocean far from land. Sever is an engaging album of evocative, highly visual drone music made up of layers upon organic layers that are in constant motion, and yet seem somehow still... Jim Haynes has exhibited at Westspace (Melbourne, Australia), Diapason (New York), Jack Straw Productions (Seattle), and Works (San Jose), Eyedrum (Atlanta). He has collaborated with Loren Chasse (as the duo Coelacanth), Keith Evans, Steve Stapleton (Nurse With Wound), and irr.app.(ext.). He runs the acclaimed Helen Scarsdale label, and works as the Editorial Director for 23five, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the development and increased awareness of sound arts within the public arena. He has written extensively on sound art, noise culture, minimalism, and general music experimentation for The Wire, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, Metro Pulse, and Chunklet. [press-release]
Haynes, Jim -- "Telegraphy by the Sea" -- CD -- €12
2006 Helen Scarsdale Agency, HMS 009, (ltd. 500)
Mr. Haynes has forged a breathtaking album of mangled field recordings and droning techniques perched at the allegorical intersection of electromagnetic landscapes and meteorological phenomena. Here, it is not uncommon to find exasperated blasts of air bellowing in harmony with a swarm of mechanical locusts and a tumbling landslide of jagged rock. Yet Mr. Haynes grounds the bulk of the album in a dynamic play of sinusoidal drones. At times, these timbral flutterings waver into asymmetrical smears of holy-minimalist splendor; at others, monolithic grey slabs of drone collapse upon themselves into turbulent oceanic currents. If comparisons must be made, perhaps Telegraphy By The Sea parallels William Basinski at his most fortified or The Hafler Trio at his least arcane. [label info]
He Would Drown -- "Music To Wreck To" -- CD -- €10
2004 Noise Control Corp., NCC/9, (ltd. 500)
Heal -- "Extension" -- CD -- €11
2000 Sound On Probation, SOP 002, (ltd. 500)
From the mind of Lauren Perrier - who also works under the names Zonk't, Pylone and his own - comes the new trip-hop electronica project Heal and their debut CD Extension. In collaboration with Bernard Ducayron and featuring collaborations with Samia Doukali & Anouk Azar - Extension is sure to appeal to fans of Massive Attack with smooth, deep bass lines, laid back electronic drum grooves and synth washes that perfect the modern club 'chill-out' vibe. [Lens Records info]
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Heal -- "Starting Back" -- CD -- €11
2007 Sound On Probation, SOP 007, (ltd. 500)
Laurent Perrier don't know rest, he's always working to something new. It is amazing that he's running a label where every project of its roster is headed by Laurent himself. This time after seven years from the previous album "Extension" we have a new CD by Heal. STARTING BACK is the most melodic work to date made by Laurent and if the first Heal album was approaching to dub and ambient just like the Scorn of the first period did, the new album changes everything by introducing elements of jazz, 70s progressive rock (check "Chute d'oreiller" and its approach a la Goblin) and hip hop. Blending everything just to compose an ideal soundtrack for a futuristic noir movie, Heal did something new where the dub element is still present and you can hear it by listening to the bass lines but the new influences enrich the sound creating a new and fresh mixture. The fifteen instrumental tracks sound mysterious and if you check "Mainmise" you'll be seduced by its oriental melodies. Good one! [Maurizio Pustianaz, Chain D.L.K.]
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Hekate -- "Goddess" -- 2 CD -- €22
2004 Auerbach Tonträger, AB 011LU
Herbst9 -- "The Gods Are Small Birds, But I Am The Falcon" -- CD -- €14
2008 Loki Foundation, LOKI 48The all new album of Herbst9 is a step further into the depths of the Assyrian and Asian mythologies, using authentic audio and visual fragments of sacrifices, lamentations, prayers and ancient rituals. The result is a deep labyrinth of sounds with meditative percussions, ghostly vocal fragments and singings which melts with detailed and multi-layered tones of various traditional instruments. All this is constructed around a core of dark and ongoing floating drones creating an atmosphere of true archaic music which has been developed by Herbst9 to perfection. This soundtrack is the secrecy from the deep and hidden places of the sacred earth transcending us beyond the real world to the inner realm of ourselves. The CD is presented in 6-panel digipack. [press-release]
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Herbst9 vs Z'EV -- "Through Bleak Landscapes" -- CD -- €14
2007 Loki Foundation, Loki 45
With this stunning collaboration the dark cavernous drones and ethnic-ritual instrumentation of Herbst9 melts with the complex and percussive sounds of industrial pionier and master of rhythmajik Z'EV. Ten tracks of deep spheres and blazing ruminant lightnings abducting you into golden constellations and swirling worlds full of aural effects and demonic resonance. Both projects worked with raw material of each other while the final mix was made by Herbst9. The result is a sombre and meditative soundtrack made with gongs, choral textures, deep vibrating strings and scraping effect-sounds reaching it's climax with outbursting tribalistic sequences and drummings. An impressive and gripping journey through bleak landscapes and abandoned places accompanied by a 24-pg booklet. [press-release]
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Hex On -- "In Slow Motion" -- CD -- €10
2008 Shadowplay Records, SPR 077
The compilation of "extravagant" music "Extravaganza!" (http://www.monopolyrecords.com/extravaganza/index.html) released in 2007 by Monopoly Records in cooperation with Stereo & Video magazine, unleashed the debut of this mysterious Russian-American project... It is known that all creative activities concerning the album "In Slow Motion" were performed only during the night, and were supported by strong hallucinogenic and psychoactive drugs, through which the musicians sought to contact the dead stars of American pin-up and vintage erotica. Which certainly has had its effect on the music! The album is packed with dark eroticism, the inseparable whispers making it an ideal soundtrack for succuba and incubi's nightly routs... This highly unconventional style formally belongs somewhere between dark trip-hop and post rock, but in fact it's absolutely unique... Reminiscent of: Recoil, Massive Attack, Portishead... It's worth pointing out the design and the lush booklet containing highly artistic drawings and calligraphy. [press-release]
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Hildebrand, Gustav -- "Primordial Resonance" -- CD -- €14
2005 Cyclic Law, 15th Cycle
Gustaf's second full lenght is a unique, evolved experience offering you to embark upon an odyssey through ancient and lifeless surroundings. Sweeping ambient soundscapes and delicate textures mingle with the distant shrieks of surreal machinery - conjuring up images of abandoned and forgotten places, clouded skies and dead cities where time has been standing still. A captured moment from a strange no man's land lit by a perpetual gloom, Primordial Resonance is a voyage only limited by the imagination of the listener. [press release]
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Hildebrand, Gustav -- "Starscape" -- CD -- €14
2004 Cyclic Law, 7th Cycle
Known from his Lithium (CMI) project and his collaboration with Karjalan Sissit and now working under his own name, Gustaf Hildebrand takes us through the sonic confines of space with his own vision of how space could aurally be experienced. First pressing of 500 copies in textured fold out sleeve. [press-release]
Hinageshi Bondage -- "Pariisi Vuonna 1959" -- CD-R -- €7
2001 Nihil Market, nM 1.3, (ltd. 150)
Depther is the solo work of a Finnish guy from the band I.corax (not that that ring any bells here). There are three lengthy piece of very dark soundscapes, two are studio pieces and one is a live pieces. Heavy, dense, dark atmospheric music of sounds being pushed around through the wild bunch of sound processors. Vibrant stuff, as opposed to some of the more static counterparts to be found in this alley. The live piece is a bit more static then the studio pieces though. [Vital Weekly]
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Hirsch, Vladimir -- "Concert Industriel Pour Orgue" -- CD -- €10
2007 Ars Benevola Mater, ABM29, (ltd. 435)
Concert industriel pour orgue is initially an extensive composition in quasi-oratorial form, in final version abbreviated and restructuralised. Classical form is here only in contours. Opus is characterised by thematic spurts, erupting in desultory pulses and, exhausted, dying away in a mass of industrial sounds, without consequent ending of idea. The industrial matrix is also a space and energy source for volcanic activity proper. The solo role of the organ is surprisingly not dominant and its parts are often taken over by other instruments. The revised and re-worked second version of the composition is placing more emphasis on systematic approach to its theme and sound, without essentially influencing the above said basic qualities of the opus. In 2002, the third and final concert version was created, markedly different from the original ones with closer concept and highlighted church atmosphere of the composition. This is now released by the Italian label Ars Benevola Mater, both separately and as a part of the author's set of works entitled "The Assent to Paradoxon" (2006-2007 Ars Benevola Mater). [press-release]
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His Divine Grace -- "Reverse Aleph" -- CD -- €12
2001 Hau Ruck!, HR!14
A lot of secrets around this band, no information. Even the labels seems to know nothing about this formation. So is the music, dark & ritual, doomy and gloomy, coming from behind, getting you in your sleep. Haunting you in your deepest nightmares. You may be dead and even then you don't know a thing about this release. Just experience it! [label info]
Hitti, Enten -- "Giant Clowns Of The Solar World" -- CD -- €10
1996 Aqua, A9601, (ltd. 1000)
A rare sort of ambient work, 'Giant Clowns Of The Solar World' sounds more like an orchestra of voices, instruments and song. Crave a new Mandible Chatter, IAM Umbrella or Voice Of Eye disc? Well, here's a great experience that will grab your imagination. You can almost see people dancing odd steps in some oak grove for a crowd. But there are the drifting, cloudy moments too. The ambient drones ornamented with the sparse instrument: guitar, violin, female voice like an angel, a piano ghost. Very orchestral, inspiring, an orchard of sound... And for you artwork freaks, this one's really nice. It is a six panel, large-sized fold-out display book on heavy artpaper, full-color printing of surreal images and landscapes. Lots of text but most of it in Italian. [Manifold Records description]
Hladna -- "Gromoglasnoe DA!" -- CD-R -- €7
2006 Hladna, (ltd. 7)
Special edition of long sold-out live album "Gromoglasnoe DA! jertvam himicheskoy ataki" prepared for gig in Ryazan' on January 5, 2006. Harsh power electronics/noise. Contains 4 video clips of the side-project Xerox 667. Handmade sleeve + photo insert.
Hladna -- "Gromoglasnoe DA!" -- 2 CD-R -- €10
2007 Hladna, (ltd. 30)
Special author's edition of the recording entitled "Gromoglasnoe DA! jertvam himicheskoj ataki" prepared for the european tour of Hladna / Noises of Russia in spring 2007. Rough handmade sleeve made from sodden in black oil paper. Audio + video from the concert which took part on 20.05.2003 in St. Petersburg's Experimental Sound Gallery. Harsh power electronics/noise.
Hladna -- "March 2003" -- CD-R -- €7
2011 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT85, (ltd. 60)
Ultra powerful initiative Power Electronics with deep earthy bass pulsations and shamanic energy. Ritual rhythms take all your bowels out and leave the body whirling around the bonfire like a frantic phantom with glassy eyes. Slim box, embossed cover. [label info]
Hladna -- "Melting Water" -- CD -- €10
2007 Aquarellist, aquarel 04-07, (ltd. 300)
Reissue of a very limited CD-R "Talaya Voda" (Russian translation of the title). Old recordings of St. Petersburg-based project from 1998-99. Very raw ritual ambient/noise saturated with ultramundane drones and metal rattle. Mostly meditative but sometimes brutal. Primordial music. Specially for this reissue the album was remastered by Igor Potsukailo (Bardoseneticcube). Cardboard foldout sleeve.
Hladna -- "Music of Empty Rooms" -- 3"CD-R -- €10
2001 self-released, (ltd. 68)
Cosmic-cold ultra-minimalistic electronic ambient. Absolute detachment. Handmade cover with a piece of mirror.
Hladna -- "Untitled 1996" -- CD-R -- €7
2006 Hladna
On this CDR you can find very early recording done in 1996-1997, "proto-Hladna", so to say, known to friends as "Lord Black". Absolutely minimalistic atmospheric compositions played on a simple synthesizer, not even a hint at horrible noise Hladna makes these days. More likely this is a recording in vein of post-metallic Burzum, but even more minimalistic and strangely more atmospheric. Beautiful rough handmade package.
Hladna -- "Vetrokamni" -- CD-R -- €9
2007 self-released
Basic material for this new album of St. Petersburg-based project was found in old recordings from 1996, which then had been seriously reworked in 2007. If one tries to define the style, he can find electroacoustics, lo-fi, drone ambient, ritual, noise, etc... but all these definitions are secondary, and primary is the power, the spirit lying inside, and here are no problems with that. The disc instantly grasps your mind and holds until the end for an hour, and forces to press "repeat" afterwards. Earnestly recommended to everyone who loves hypnotic records. The artwork consists of a woven sack with a couple of inserts.
Hladna & Vresnit -- "Inej Senju Kornej" -- CD -- €10
2010 Vetvei, V08, (ltd. 383)
This release presents the first part of collaborating materials recorded by Nikolay Kalmykov (Hladna) and Sergey Ilchuk (Vresnit) in a remote Jarogora village in January 2010. Winter woods of Vepsky Park, ...disturbing pulsation of the earth and majestic meditative canvas. Handbells summons the frozen spirits, the snow crunching underfoot breaks off by sharp technogenic crunches, twilight goes down, the frost grows stronger and then all calms down. At a dawn fairytale maids sing solar lullabies, and boundless birds spin heavenly open spaces. Space drone equipment, flutes, jaw's harp, field taperecordings, -the nature and technology have merged here in three dense Drone Noise Ambient shamanic rituals where kind covers of Vresnit's chtonic naturalism and weird psychedelic hide a lump of severe urbanistic existentialism which is indispensable for Hladna's works. Design presented by full-color six-panel envelope from Vresnit Art. [press-release]
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Hladna / Zevodvozogon' -- "s/t" -- 2 CD-R -- €12
2007 Hladna
This set contains Zevodvozogon' album + Hladna's "Untitled 1996".
Hoarfrost -- "Ground Zero" -- CD -- €10
2008 Zoharum, ZOHAR 005-2
Zoharum Collektiv presents debut album of Silesian dark ambient project: HOARFROST - "Ground Zero". The 'Ground Zero' is a landscape developing from an unknown cataclysm presenting ruins and debris of steel, dust flying in the air, rust and slivers, tumbling down construction, where steel structures bend and fold like a pack of cards. A 37-minute story about the destruction of the concrete world is presented in 6 pieces in a dark ambient/industrial climate. Additionally the record also contains a video clip to 'From here to ruins'. [label info]
Hoarfrost & Inner Vision Laboratory -- "Decline" -- CD -- €10
2010 Zoharum, ZOHAR 010-2
Both Hoarfrost and Inner Vision Laboratory are young projects, but it would be an understatement to call them 'newcomers.' Each of them has already released debut albums alongside numerous split releases, collaborations, web extended plays and compilation tracks. Thanks to them they gathered a substantial following among experimental music listeners. It was just a question of time when the men behind the projects would collaborate on a release. The result is 'Decline' - a tale of descending into the pits of madness in 8 parts. Inspired by two poems, 'Madman' and 'Modern Icarus,' takes you on a journey into the realms of dark thoughts. With such a clear concept, it's no wonder that the music is cinematic, thus slowly building images in the listener's head. Face the stillness, but remember: something is lingering in the corner. [label info]
Hollowing & Maor Appelbaum -- "Collaborating Torture" -- CD -- €10
2008 Topheth Prophet, TP016 / Heart & Crossbone, HCB-017
'Collaborating Torture' was created through the collaboration of two artists who shared a dark ambient vision; the increasingly prolific Israeli Maor Appelbaum (Grave In The Sky, Poochlatz and many others) and Rectrix Records founder Matt Gibney's solo project Hollowing. Consisting of a single 54 minute track full of heavy, dark drones, 'Collaborating Torture' is a haunting, shifting mass of sound that evolves, expands and contracts as it progresses. Layered drones intersect as chimes gently ring out and voices from another dimension call out from deep within the rumbling depths of sound. Although less bassy than most drone based recordings, 'Collaborating Torture' focuses more on a sweeping, swirling maelstrom of encircling sound that encapsulates and cocoons. Adding to the more atmospheric and ethereal aspects are creaking, chinking, chiming little sounds that resemble movement and activity in the shadows while dominant layered drones and obscured ritualistic chants sweep all around in dark swathes. After building and building the layers of sound, they are stripped away and, while the earthquake-like drones rumble beneath the feet, the sound opens up, the chants and delicate chimes become clearer as if observing some ancient ritual deep in an underground cavern with painted symbols and burning torches. As sounds build and fall again, the addition of short passages of acoustic guitar and rattling percussion can be made out amongst the murky layers... [Paul Lloyd, Judas Kiss]
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Hollowing / Marspiter -- "Habashira" -- CD -- €10
2005 The Rectrix, TF12
Split release with 4 tracks from the Hollowing and 3 from Marspiter. The former move from cavernous noise ambient to aggressive tribal pieces, while Marspiter sticks to a subterranean form of neoclassical with a restrained and buried sound suitable for the epic movies of yore. A nice combination that covers a fair amount of sonic ground. [Mechanoise Labs]
Horologium -- "Earthbound" -- CD -- €13
2008 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 107
The 3rd full-length album from Horologium, who offer 43 minutes of monumental, fierce, yet listenable music. Aided by TROY SOUTHGATE, MARIA SOUTHGATE, MERISSA D'ARLETTE and EUSTACIA VYE on vocals, Grzegorz Siedlecki takes you on a Nietzschean trip once again. Postindustrial dirt meets martial drums, opera arias and neoclassical sublimity. Do you remain true to the Earth? Some of the lyrics include fragments from H.Hesse, F. Nietzsche and O. Spengler. 'Earthbound' may also be perceived as an antidote to a slowly emerging neo-christian scene within the postindustrial/martial paradigm. Horologium scorn fanatics. Artwork designed by K.Meizter for a luxurious digipack release with additional booklet! [press-release]
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Horologium -- "A Handful of Dust and Ashes" -- CD -- €10
2010 Zoharum, ZOHAR 013-2
'A Handful of Dust and Ashes' is a collection of tracks recorded during various occasions, but united here by a peculiar sediment of dust and rust; it's a journey in time to strictly limited 'A Handful of Dust', published by Cynfeirdd, and to 'Opium', amounts of which are long sold out and yearned for by those in search of lost time. The (re)collection is crowned by three tracks performed live in Barcelona and Bologna in 2008 and 2009. The artwork by Fab and Sophie embody fin de siecle that has never been that convincing and tangible. Packaged in 3-panel digipack in new design. [press-release]
Horologium -- "Le Cartoline Perse" -- CD -- €10
2007 Blade Records, wmda074, (ltd. 300)
A collection of various unreleased and rare compilation tracks by this cult Polish act. Four tracks have never been released before, while the last track, 'Anywhere', gives us a taster of the forthcoming album 'The World Is Not Enough'. The music ranges from Symphonic Industrial with strange, haunting vocal samples, to upbeat Laibach-esque Industrial pop anthems. A nice range of styles on this disc and a good introduction to the act. Limited to just 300 hand-numbered copies in an outsized foldout package (with a couple of naked ladies on the cover for good measure!). [Cold Spring Records]
Horologium -- "Songs for Hunters" -- 3"CD-R -- €10
2006 Bunkier Productions, BXII CDr, (ltd. 100)
Five tracks influenced heavily by classical music of Berlioz, Wagner, Puccini and others, martial industrial and musical psychodelia of '70 at times. These 20 minutes bring a fusion of orchestral sounds, industrial music and opera arias. [label info]
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Hotel 74 -- "Rooms" -- CD -- €11
2008 self-released
Hotel 74 are a French electronic music duo based in Paris, created in 2007 by Alexis Gelinet and Jean-Christophe Villain. Their highly atmospheric music is practically entirely instrumental and reminds of Boards Of Canada, Moby, Clint Mansell or Mogwai. Their sound, combining analogue keyboards, guitars and organic rhythms, echoes the soundtracks of John Carpenter's movies or 80's American TV series like Miami Vice or Twin Peaks. [Databloem]
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Howden, Matt -- "Robot World - An Original Film Score" -- CD -- €13
2011 Redroom, Redroom 007
Howden, Matt -- "Voyager" -- CD -- €11
2004 Ars Benevola Mater, ABM 08, (ltd. 1077)
Twenty-one neo-classical tracks that follow the progress of the Voyager space probe from Jupiter, past Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and out to The Heliopause, the outermost reaches of the Sun's rays. As the album progresses out through the Solar System, the time signatures, keys, and conventional sounds and phrases mutate - the music becomes wilder and manipulations of conventional sounds, and time elements become more pronounced. The last track, The Heliopause, brings together all the elements of the album in a seventeen minute finale, capturing the relentless journey of Voyager heading out of our Solar System. [press-release]
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Howden, Matt / Wakeford, Tony -- "Wormwood" -- CD -- €13
2003 Tursa, TURSA 031CD
Hrefnesholt -- "Uraungst" -- CD -- €14
2010 Percht, Percht16
Hrossharsgrani -- "Ancient Tales" -- 2 CD-R -- €8
2010 Valgriind, VG 37 / Lost Reich Records, Reich 12, (ltd. 200)
A compilation of early works of this Austrian project with some references to early Graveland and Darzamat. The music takes listener to the ancient times full of myths, hoary legends and war-drum rolls. Pure art binding together past and future. Professional artwork. [label info]
Huber, Alois -- "Founder" -- CD -- €10
2006 Laton, 039
Alois Huber is another austrian artists, co-founder of Laton label, formerly also known as the collaborator for many Sabotage Communications and Craft Records projects. In the early 90s, he was a part of Dependance band, along with Franz Pomassl. His more recent works are drawing a line between minimal techno and ambient. He released some albums between 1996 and 2003, but "Founder" stands apart, so it was just released. So, it's pure synthetic music with straight rhythms and middle-paced arrangements. There is also very funny cover version of Ganymed's "Take Me Higher" (1978) - unbelievable! [Dmitry Vasilyev, Independent Electronic Music]
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Hudak, John -- "Sand Or Stars" -- CD -- €10
2005 and/OAR, and/16
The first piece of this CD mastered by John's friend and collaborator Stephan Mathieu (Sirr.ecords, Lucky Kitchen, Hapna, etc), is unlike much of John's previous work in that it features sharp staccato percussive sounds suddenly dodging in and out, but nevertheless it still has John's "endless" compositional sense written into it. A subtle sense of humor seems to be inherent in the piece as well, as if some of the sounds hesitate with indecision as to whether or not they should make their presence known or perhaps they are trying to avoid colliding with some of the other sounds. And upon listening to this piece, be careful with volume settings at first listen, because the listener will quickly discover another aspect of this piece that is unlike much of John's previous work: sudden volume shifts. This seems to suggest that the sounds are also changeable in temperament as well! The second piece on this CD is perhaps the most meditative of the collection with its muted midrange buzzing that jumps around within the stereo spectrum, perhaps being reminiscent of musical radar signals or sonifications of normally inaudible activity occurring in a planet's magnetosphere, all the while maintaining a benevolent warmth throughout. And what could possibly be described as the amplification of rolling ion particle blasts being broadcast via shortwave radio, tells us that we have reached the third and final piece of this collection of what could be considered as being among John Hudak's finest works. [label info]
Hukam -- "Astral Track Inside of Moutain" -- CD-R -- €8
2008 BioSonar Labyrint 05, (ltd. 108)
Project of Evgeny Savenko (Lunar Abyss, Ritualnaya Bioingeneria, eyc.) "Hukam - a term of Sikh, those who search for spirit in Himalayan foothills. Hukam is a Life Impuls, which is called Naam & Sach by Sikh, Shabd & Nad by Hindu, Kalma & Kalam-i-Rabani by Muslims and Logos by Christians. Here Hukam is a psycho-energetical sound project from L.A.D.O. and it has no connection with music (is aesthetic sense). This project represents sound meditative practices, journeys in the body of sound, tuning on the between-dimensional perception. A bridge between crystalline and organic consciousness. This disk is a tuning on the astral projection, a trip to the depth of your astral body, slight widening of attention sphere due to temporary relaxation of the frontal ego. The effect is achieved by using the difference between sonic waves in two channels. Sound which comes in consciousness through hearing transfroms into a signal of a non-sonic nature and is perceived as a tune bypassing brain functions. The nervous system relaxes and the consciousness obtains the possibility of free movement in the astral body." [press-release]
Hull, Scott -- "Audiofilm I" -- 3"CD -- €7
2008 Crucial Blast, CBR 71, (ltd. 1000)
Scott Hull is already well known in the grind/metal underground for his devestating riffage in Pig Destroyer and Agoraphobic Nosebleed; outside of extreme metal, however, Scott has also worked on dark, sumptuous soundscapes and ambient film scores at his Visceralsound lair that have just recently began to appear in recorded form over the past few years. Scott's Requiem CD that came out through Relapse Records earlier this year was one of the first official releases of his film score/soundscape work, and was widely embraced by fans of bleak cinematic ambience and chilling electronic sound sculpture. Crucial Blast is following that amazing disc with a series of limited-edition 3" CDs that each feature a short, 10+ minute piece of fearsome dark ambient music from Scott that showcase his skill at blending blackend Lustmordian drift with terrifying mixing techniques that clot the mind's eye with unnerving, nightmarish sound events. [label info]
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Hull, Scott -- "Audiofilm II" -- 3"CD -- €7
2010 Crucial Blast, CBR 79, (ltd. 1000)
The second installment in our series of limited-run 3" CDs from Scott Hull. Best known for his amazing thrash/grind riffage in the bands Pig Destroyer and Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Scott has been gradually revealing another side of his musical persona over the past few years, an obsession with cinematic soundscaping and dark evocative film scores, mutant electronic textures and pitch-black isolationism that employs brilliant production trickery to immerse the listener in a vibrant, active aural environment. The first disc that we released, Audiofilm I, was a terrifying, lightless driftscape, filled with creepy vocal loops, massive low end ambience, and an all-around horrific vibe that had us comparing it to works from Lustmord, Lull, and the Ambient disc from Painkiller's Execution Ground. But on this follow-up, Scott creates a much more frantic and energetic soundscape, this one alive with minimal bass-shuddering pulses and keening tone manipulations, layered swarms of insectile electronic chitter, swells of shadowy ambience, brain-melting plasma blasts, and vast tectonic drones. A brief (at 12 minutes) but amazing dose of abstract dark ambient/noise that will appeal to fans of Bastard Noise, Astro, and freaked-out 70's sci-fi synth soundtracks. As with the first disc, this 3" CD is packaged in a full color miniature folder with awesome artwork/photography from Seldon Hunt, and pressed in a one-time run of 1,000 copies. [press-release]
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Hum -- "Caldron of Winds" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2007 Taalem, alm 47
Russian artist Dmitry Chistov is an extremely busy bee! Known under various aliases (Sphogha, Maw, Mikosterion or Small Town Zombie to name a few), he has self-produced many releases for around ten years. First labels to notice his evocative drones were the usual suspects Drone Records and Mystery Sea. Composed in 2004 and 2005, "Caldron of Winds" shows Dmitry's ability to create subtle & melancholic drones mixed with natural sounds... [press-release]
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Hum -- "Flesh of the Soul" -- CD -- €11
2006 Quag, twenty two, (ltd. 300)
Finally, after the numerous CDRs and one 7" on Drone Records, this is the first factory-pressed CD of this brilliant drone-ambient project. "Flesh Of The Soul", which is definitely one of the best works Dmitry Chistov has ever done, is a real masterpiece of cold transcendental soundscapes. The album is filled with majestic melancholy, it is clear and soothing, there's a plenty of veiled melodies and celestial harmonies hidden inside its simple sound structures. It sounds a bit nostalgic cause Dmitry uses only old-fashioned tape-technique and analogue synth loops, utilizing digital devices just for the final mastering, but the atmosphere is very special, reminding of early Zoviet France, Maeror Tri, Tesendalo or Aidan Baker. It could seem very peaceful and calm, but beyond this bright and peaceful surface the sorrow and darkness is hidden. The beauty of this music is enchanting and it is hard to resist its magical spells, so it might be difficult to fight the desire to play this album over and over in yearning to experience again the tender touch of this unearthly Flesh Of The Soul. The album is limited to 300 copies and comes in special package printed silver on black. Very recommended. [press-release]
Human Flesh -- "Penumbra" -- CD -- €9
2007 EE Tapes, EE10, (ltd. 300)
An exclusive new work by Human Flesh, the legendary musical project of multi-instrumentalist Alain Neffe (Insane Music, Belgium) and his friends-musicians/singers. These never before released tracks, which were recorded between 1985 and 1995 on an old reel-to-reel TEAC 8-track, have been analog-mixed on a 2-track open real tape or DAT (Digital Audio Tape) and digitally remastered by computer. 7" cover printed on deluxe cardboard with insert. [press-release]
Human Greed -- "Black Hill: Midnight At The Blighted Star" -- CD -- €10
2008 Lumberton Trading Company, LUMB011
Human Metronome & 33 Tetragammon -- "Resonating Earth" -- CD -- €9
self-released
The Human Quena Orchestra -- "The Politics Of The Irredeemable" -- CD -- €10
2009 Crucial Blast, CBR 76
...Crushing and oppressive, a crawl through abstract fields of low-end sound that move from punishing blasts of ultra-heavy machine-doom and earth-shaking tectonic riffs, to thick fogs of black electronic ambience that shimmer with subsonic pulses and celestial drones, the presence of malevolent electricity crackling in the air around the lumbering, nightmarish electro-sludge monstrosity of the Human Quena Orchestra. And at the same time, there are passages of immense beauty on this album that lurk at the peripheries of HQO's malevolent crush; the track "Aspirations" for instance, where pummeling slow-motion industrial percussions grinds in an infinite loop beneath a swirling nightsky of kosmiche synthesizers and heavenly, blissed-out ambience... [label info]
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The Human Voice -- "Exit Lines" -- CD -- €12
2008 Eibon Records, Voi077
Dark ambient/post rock. NORTHAUNT mastermind Harleif Langas gives voice to a less dark and oppressive journey with "Exit lines", and explores the thin boundary between ambient (not necessarily dark....) music and spacious post-rock. Deep drones and sparse melodic guitar lines, "skeletal" structures and subtle noises. Appealing to both the Constellation-freaks and the courageous (and open minded) dark ambient travellers. Digisleeve. [press-release]
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Hunting Lodge -- "Necropolis" -- CD -- €11
1993 Dark Vinyl, DV #17
Re-release of the classical industrial LP "Nomad Souls" (1984) + 2 versions of the track "Tribal Warning Shot" (studio & live).
Hunyadi P.H. -- "Recycled Sounds & Forbidden Songs" -- 3"CD-R -- €5
2008 Mask Of The Slave, MS-021, (ltd. 125)
Old school noise/PE from Transylvania. The title speaks for itself! Analog harsh noise with lots of PE elements mixed with Hungarian military songs from the 2WW. [label info]
Hurvatov, Oleg -- "Anaesthesia Dolorosa Psychica" -- CD-R -- €8
2011 Radiodrone Records, RD-02, (ltd. 100)
New album by Oleg Hurvatov (Interior Disposition, Lanceolaria Im Licht Der Laterne) presents this space ambient musician on the other part. There's a totally unfamiliar, unexpected person. Anaesthesia Dolorosa Psychica is an exorcism dive into the depths of sorrowful heartlessness, which fetters the will to live. It is a proven attempt to find a way out of the maze of closed benumbed consciousness by sound magical opportunity. Psychoactive drone ambient transmits the chaotic flow of neurons and dark thought forms. It's a last refuge into a infinite loneliness of a microcosm. The abyss calls to abyss. The abyss swallows up the abyss. Envelope from craft-parer with fullcolour print. [press-release]
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Hush Arbors -- "Cleaning The Bone" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2005 267 Lattajjaa, LTJ-33
Psychedelic drone ambient, sounding like Troum performing slowest songs of The Doors. [YAOP]
Hybryds -- "Dreambient" -- CD + DVD -- €17
2008 Aquarellist, aquarel 07-08, (ltd. 1000)
HYBRYDS is a Belgian ritual-esoteric project, which in the early 90-s released it's most significant album "Music for Rituals" on the cult label Artware run by Donna Klemm (R.I.P.). They have reached the peak of creativity in 90-s with their classical discs "The Ritual Should Be Kept Alive" parts 1 & 2, "Soundtrack For The Aquarium", recorded for the Antwerp water park, "Dreamscapes From A Dark Side", "Tectonic Overload". In 2000 the female member of HYBRYDS, Yasnaia, leaves the band, and Magthea is busy with his project NA-DHA for some time. The new album of HYBRYDS, "Dreambient" is based on exploration of the female characters from the Pagan past: archetypes of the seducer, the demon, the girl, the whore, the slave, the mistress, the priest, the mother... The music of the project has become more accessible for uninitiated listeners: traditional ambient-ritual basis is enriched with rhythmic electronics, melodic synthesizer tunes and even guitar parts. Vocals are now done by Madeline Arndt from the German darkwave/gothic band Schattenkinder. Audio-CD is supplemented by a DVD containing a visualization of the subconscious flow of religious and erotic archetypes. The release is packed in a double-digipak with a booklet. [press-release]
Hybryds -- "Ritual Anthology" -- CD -- €12
2009 Aquarellist, aquarel 10-09, (ltd. 600)
With this CD Aquarellist is proud to present the anthology of early ritual works of this fabulous Belgian project. This music immerses the listener into the space of RITUAL - the magical action aimed to reach the goals beyond the borders of the ordinary world. An action evoking deeper layers of consciousness, deeper memories not active in our everyday life. An action that helps to reveal our potential as powerful and miraculous creatures... Hybryds present their visions of rituals in the form of rhythmical compositions built on repetitive percussive loops crowned with layers of numerous archaic instruments, aided by vocal spells and atmospheric soundscapes with minor electronic additions... This material was recorded in 1986-1993 by Magthea & Yasnaia with the help of their friends: Ah Cama Sotz, Djen Ajakan Shean, Vidna Obmana, Clive Richards, Irae Deprofundo and Bobby Colombo. Three tracks from this CD were previously released on "The Rhythm Of The Ritual" CD (Charnel Music, 1994), one track was released as "The Ritual Should Be Kept Alive - Part 1" CD EP (3RIOART, 1991), and three other tracks are released here for the first time. [press-release]
Hybryds -- "Tryptykh" -- CD -- €10
2003 Tantric Harmonies, TANTRA X3, (ltd. 999)
A collection of previously unreleased live tracks of this famous Belgian ethno-ritual band, recorded during 1991-1996.
Hyios -- "Consuetudines" -- CD -- €10
2009 Malignant Records, TUMOR CD40
The alluring debut from Leipzig Germany's Hyios, Consuetudines offers 7 lengthy compositions of cold ritual drones, arching trajectories, and visceral descents into subterranean caverns, where rich, kinetic textures and deep resonant tones move and morph in a fluid, serpentine fashion, sprinkled with the debris of an ancient culture and something more otherworldly and primordial. Leipzig has historically proven to be fertile ground for dark ambient and Consuetudines continues in the fine tradition set forth by such notable acts as Inade and Herbst9. In 6 panel digipak, mastered by Secret Lab. A great new discovery. [label info]
Hypnoz -- "Chronica Plennyh" -- CD -- €9
2006 Insofar Vapor Bulk, IVBCD12
"Chronica Plennyh" is the first album of Hypnoz, or better not, it's rather mystical-sonic notes of Dmitry Zubov, very personal and disgracefully sincere, shocking with their non-standard approach to recording. For instance, on a track "Elektrichestvo" he plays backand forth the recording of laughing of his friend Roman S. (project Staruha Mha) who took LSD-25 for the first time, plus overlay of glass breaking by metal crow-bar at his home, altogether mixed with sounds of boiler-room. Or recording session with a man who was imprisoned for a murder ("Serdcebienie"). The 9th track "Radio "Artem" is dedicated to the fond memories of Artyom Grechko (silly and funny man, founder of a style "dispanser rock"), brutally killed at a spring in a sleeping-quarter somewhere in Moscow. After listening to 14 tracks one unwittingly finds himself in a dark space realm of unknown sides of Russian soul. As author says himself, he's been travelling there often. [press-release]
I Am Nothing -- "Without People 3 - Under Concrete and Glass" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Valgriind, VG 01, (ltd. 50)
Fast impulsive radionoise / philosophy. Reissue of a self-released work, handmade artwork (overexposed X-ray film, X-ray paper package). [label info]
I Am Nothing + Light Collapse -- "Levelheaded / Urban Machinery" -- 4 CD-R BOX -- €11
2010 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT69, (ltd. 19)
A great collaboration of two leading Russian industrial artists - Noumen (MNL9, Yadokhimikaty, Morbus Mundi, Hyperborea, etc.) and Vitaly Maklakov (Obozdur, Kromeshna, 581C, etc.). Three-hour long canvas of rough pulsating retrograde Industrial and urban lo-fi drone in vein of early releases of Industrial Records and Ultra, and old records of NON. Dedicated to the founder of Japanese "School of pure land" in Buddhism Sinran Shohin and all the fathers of dadaism. Artwork contains technological scheme unique for each copy. [press-release]
I Burn -- "Infraharmonies, Scald Cavities" -- CD -- €11
1998 Fuoco Records, Fuoco001, (ltd. 500)
Soundtracks for your cremation. Harsh and noisy BRIGHTER DEATH NOW-like structures meet dark ambient: transmute your conception of sound: you BURN...... Transparent yellow jewelcase. [label info]
I.Corax -- "Spectral Metabolism" -- CD -- €14
2005 Kaos Kontrol, K\K 012, (ltd. 1000)
Haunting revelation of sonic worlds where primal elements and archaic voices flux side by side with contemporary methods of amplifying the relation between sound and mind to culmination. Whirling soundscapes of organic and natural phenomena woven together with the synthetic and manipulated; the outcome being nothing short of utmost brilliance in the field of dark ambient and post-industrial. After a few highly acclaimed limited CDr works, the Finnish duo finally presents their first CD release, undoubtedly setting out to challenge the stagnance of the genre they master eminently. Stunning black/white oversized foldout carton sleeve. [press-release]
I/DEX -- "Layers" -- CD -- €10
2009 Lagunamuch Community, LMC1001
I/DEX (Vitaly Harmash) is a musician and an audio-designer from an industrial city of Novopolotsk, Belarus. From the mid 90s Vitaly was experimenting making his own music, using analogue synthesizers, radio, guitars, field recordings, various devices and computers.
The life in a city with a huge industrial estate has influenced the art of Vitaly. I/DEX music hypnoses and fascinates listeners by its warm structures. His music is a subtle intellectual electronics filled with sunny melodies and micro-glitches, which dissolve in pure ambient landscapes of nature - in forests, fields and lakes. In 2003 the debut album of I/DEX - Seqsextend was released on an experimental label Nexsound and received numerous positive reviews from web-zines all over the world. Since then I/DEX has worked with such people as Pole (~scape rec.), H.H.T.P., Kriipis Tulo, Guy Van Belle and took part in several European festivals of electronic music. Hand by hand with his concerts, Vitaly continued recording his art experiments and recorded a very deep and a serious album Layers. Layers is an outstanding collection of inner feelings, transmitted by an audio-artist with its music. Each element here is a multi-layered synthesis of intellectual art - micro-electronic, idm and deep ambient. Each of 9 tracks is an insight into a world of surrealism and fantasy with their mysterious flora and fauna. When listening to this album-exposition, you will see your own images and landscapes. This is how your own world will be mirrored in this music. [press-release]
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i: Wound -- "Tryptych 2: Skarz" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2001 Taalem, alm 2
I:Wound is a fascinating German project. You might know thanks to his excellent "Ram Nai Satya Hai" CD he released some years ago. Sascha uses a lot of field recordings (indian crowd, makets, that kind of stuff) sometimes mixed with hard rhythms or ambient sounds. Might recall Muslimgauze on track 4. [press-release]
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ICK -- "Les Hemorragies Nihilistes" -- CD -- €10
2001 Hau Ruck!, HR!25
First CD by this Frensh project this time with a more rhytmic & electronic tune! [label info]
Id Molotov -- "Mordance" -- CD -- €11
2007 Tesla, nT01, (ltd. 500)
Indiestate Distribution is proud to present the first release on its new label Tesla which will specialize in various genres of modern electronic music, especially in hard and extreme rhythm-oriented stuff from power noise and teknoize to TBM and industrial hardcore. The first release on the new label is the debut album of Id Molotov, the artist from Saint-Petersburg which is very well-known in Russia due to his numerous live gigs on the best extreme dancefloor events. Being a qualified butcher for a number of years, he learned to combine the professional brutality with soulful softness inside and to view the world with a bit of distance and a touch of humour. These personal traits continue in his music, where the harsh and cruel rhythms are united with the cold but soft keyboard pads, ironic samples and bizarre effects. "Mordance" is a hardcore slaughter with an intelligence inside, containing a bunch of smash driving tracks well deserving hard dancefloor DJ's attention. Recommended to the fans of Hands Production's most direct and extreme stuff. The CD is limited to 500 copies only, it comes in a full-colour fold-out digisleeve with an insert. Total time 74 min. [press-release]
IDX1274 -- "The Crimean Tatar Architecture Of The Zincirli Medrese In Bakhchisaray" -- CD-R -- €4
2007 Triangle Records, [TR026], (ltd. 50)
Necrotic rough-noise as a creation of Death her Majesty. Her bone fingers never let you go, as you was catched once. Impenetrable darkness and total misery. Ltd. to 50 copies. [press-release]
Ierophania -- "Ritual Works For Destruction II [Amphitheatre of War]" -- CD-R -- €6
2008 Spermodeath Records, SD-04
Ritual martial ambient. Tragedy of existence and approaching bundles of pain. Fading light of meaty lanes, the war promises to be harsh. The depth of Russian thought, bloody despair and painful loop of necessity. Sharpened blades of fear and scream of fire. "...mass people extermination do not mean the end of the world..." Style: ritual martial ambient. Form: cd-r / cardboard package with inserts. [label info]
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If, Bwana -- "Radio Slaves" -- CD -- €10
2007 Monochrome Vision, (mv11), (ltd. 500)
Al Margolis hailed from the 1980s American cassette under- ground through his cassette label Sound Of Pig Music; he is co-founder of experimental music label Pogus Productions. Active under the name If, Bwana since 1984, his music has swung between fairly spontaneous studio constructions and more process-oriented composition. Currently Margolis is also label manager for Deep Listening, Experimental Intermedia (XI Records), and Mutable Music. He has recorded and/or performed with Pauline Oliveros, Joan Osborne, Ellen Christi, Ulrich Krieger, Dave Prescott and Fred Lonberg-Holm, among others. In 2006 he performed at the 15th Brooklyn College Electroacoustic Music and the 6th Sonic Circuits DC festivals, had installations at Diapason in NYC and the Santa Fe Electro- acoustic Music festival, been commissioned by WDR Cologne, collaborated with video artist Katherine Liberovskaya on "Take- off", which has been shown internationally, and premiered "Three Songs in Search of a Voice", a "nohtopera" with MutaMYTHeatre (text and voice by Lisa Barnard). "Radio Slaves" album was recorded in 1986, when Margolis had just gotten the Casio sampler SK-1. It was cheap and easy to use, producing very short loops, probably only up to 4 seconds. Almost the entire recording uses that technology, loops completely populating the pieces. These works in particular make use of samples from the radio and vinyl as the main sound sources - the LP scratches heard on some of the tracks are meant to be there, as they are an integral part of this work. Originally issued as a limited edition cassette "Radio Slaves" on the Medicinal Tapes (France) in 1986, then re-issued on CDr by the Generator Sound Art (USA) in 2003, this album finally released on CD with some bonus tracks. Loopy and sampledelic, it will return the spirit of 80s into your ears. Great collage music from the pioneering american experimental sound project. [press release]
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Igloodoom -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €7
2006 XV Parowek, XVP40
Recorded in November 2005, featuring: Hubert Napiorski (Thaw/Astipalea) - analog equipment, Bartek Kalinka (XV Parowek) - computer. Dynamic, improvised electroacoustics. CDR comes in pink paper envelope, with color cover and insert. [label info]
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Igloodoom -- "Broken Ghost of Penniless Wilds" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 XV Parowek, XVP48, (ltd. 100)
77 minutes of darkened, dragging, futuristic soup, hopeless chemical reaction, hang in a void. Music pulled out from many jams by Bartek/XVP, Hubert/Thaw/Astipalea. Non-digestable drones, loops, hiss, undercover explosions, etc. Definitely cold, rather not loud.
CDR comes in pink paper envelope, with color cover, insert and print on the cdr. Limited to 100. [press-release]
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Ignis Vrbis Mithrae -- "Sacrae Romanae Origines" -- CD -- €15
2009 Wolf Age, WAR08
Il Mestruo Delle Puttane -- "L'Armonia Dello Scazzo Pt1: PorcoDio" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2004 Perineum Productions, 008, (ltd. 41)
Powerful base-driven industrial noise with guitar roar and metallic clangs. Handmade cardboard sleeve + insert. [YAOP]
Il Prato Dei Desideri -- "Mr. Bizzarre / Una Notte Nel Prato" -- 2 CD-R -- €12
2007 Blade Records, WMDA079, (ltd. 100)
A side-project of Urna, experimental industrial ambient from Italy.
Illusion Of Safety -- "Bridges Intact" -- CD -- €12
2010 Waystyx, WR 69, (ltd. 324)
New album of Illusion Of Safety was recorded preliminary with piano, guitar, electronics and sound processing devices. Abstract tonal and atonal improvisations share the sonic continuum with background drones, rasps and gentle noises, and they do it in highly unpredictable surreal way: mild "melodies" turn into energetic uneasy passages being interrupted by "concrete" sonic romp evolving into spatial drone and electronic landscapes... and all this whirl continues during the whole CD increasing the degree of abstractness and psychedelia as it moves towards the end, which is presented in a form of beautiful harmonic composition.
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Illusion of Safety -- "In Session" -- CD -- €13
2008 Waystyx, WR40, (ltd. 500)
Illusion Of Safety is one of the oldest post-industrial acts in the Americal musical underground, and in my opinion, of the most interesting projects ever. During 25 years of existence IOS have recorded a lot of various albums and their music has been changing a lot. Having passed through all the circles of industrial hell, Dan Burke has lost almost all his companions and remained alone. He hasn't released too many albums recently, and "In Session" released in 2008 has become a real surprise for me. I mean of course the fact of the release, because the highest quality of musical material and huge amount of pleasure while listening to it is guaranteed by any of IOS albums. "In Session" was recorded in 2007, the mastering was made by Thomas Dimuzio at Gench Music Studio. This is a very thorough and delicate work, an abstract performance in which synthetic and natural sounds mix in the most unusual combinations, when you really hold your breath to wait what's gonna be further. In 6 tracks of the album there are a lot of quiet microscopic sounds which whirl in front of the eyes like thoughts without rational content. They change into the smooth waves of melodic ambient, then to insane sampled collages which don't make you feeling relaxed keeping the constant tension. This shortening of the distance between contemplativeness and neural spasms has always been the trademark of IOS - it's interesting to watch how the musical structure transforms under the emotional passion hiding after each second of the track time, but not always going out. Separate compliments should be given to the artwork designer - you can observe the cover for a really long time being astounded by it's beauty. [Dmitry Vasilyev, Monochrome Vision]
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Imagho & Ultra Milkmaids -- "By Mail..." -- CD -- €10
2001 SSSM, SSSM-102, (ltd. 500)
COLLABORATION works, very ambient/melodic sound, Feeling of floating drifting electronics of atmosphere is ambient air space of characteristic. From France. [label info] A great CD for ambient / guitar drone lovers!
Imanishi, Masayuki -- "Land" -- CD -- €11
2008 Deserted Factory, DF008
Some very tasty science-fiction incoherent noise escapades from Masayuki Imanishi, whose Land (DESERTED FACTORY DF-8) is filled with many distorted, swirling and hyper-edited adventures in boldly reverberating insanity. Unlike many noise artists who place too much faith in violence and volume, Imanishi pays close attention to fast-moving dynamics and juxtaposing of sonic layers, and somehow maintains a high degree of obnoxious unlistenability throughout. Recommended to all you noisician sophisticates who are getting bored with the usual daily diet of Hair Police, Pain Jerk and John Wiese. [Ed Pinsent, The Sound Projector]
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The Impossible Flower -- "Anthophobia" -- CD-R -- €9
2007 AFE Records, afe064lcd, (ltd. 100)
"Anthophobia" was supposed to be released one year earlier along with "Roots and Fruits" to showcase the other side of The Impossible Flower. Unfortunately we had to pospone this release until... now! In the meantime, The Impossible Flower has gained more and more a cult status due to a collection of previously self-released material that was compiled and published by Benbecula Records in their monthly Mineral Series. Just like "Roots & Fruits", all the tracks that appear on "Anthophobia" were recorded some time ago, when The Impossible Flower was still a solo project by Andrew David Daly. Clocking in at about 50 minutes, "Anthophobia" (...an abnormal and persistent fear or flowers...) consists of nine great carefully produced IDM tracks that compete with themselves to conquer the listeners' favour. A very difficult match since all of them stand out one way or the other... [label info]
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In A Nutshell -- "Arrhythmia" -- CD -- €12
2007 Lagunamuch Community, LMC334
The second album of In A Nutshell is called Arrhythmia. It is a further exploration of dark corners and mazes of inner conscience. This time everything sounds even more experimental and darker than last time in Ultraviolet Test. A hidden entrance into another world, where live invisible ghosts and shadows of alienation of the modern civilised society. This album expands intrinsic intellectual space, bridges through the thin line of the horizon, leading to the land where dreams disappear. [press-release]
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In A Nutshell -- "Ultraviolet Test" -- CD -- €8
2005 Lagunamuch Community, LMC400 / KillKenny Rec., kk-001
In a Nutshell plays a melodious post-punk turning to eccentric grunge or unobtrusive ambient. All the members of the band are from Russia. The music of In a Nutshell is full of reflection, slump and November rain. In spite of the sensibility and the co-ordination of the musical stuff they're always looking for new sound and technics. The music has become more rhythmic, but it's still romantic and delicate all the same. Probably in their work musicians affirm the famous Hamlets phrase "O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space". [label info]
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In Gowan Ring -- "Exits and Entrances" -- 2 CD -- €16
2007 Ahnstern, Ahnstern25
Jon Michael B'Eirth (B' - IN GOWAN RING / BIRCH BOOK) is one of the last of a dying breed, that of the wandering minstrel. At the same time he is one of the first, one of the founders of a new generation of Folk musicians, gently growing out of the early ninetees, after a worldwide, for 15 years lasting dark era of no ambitious Folkrock music at all. Approaching the middle of the 70ies, all the great Folk-Rock bands, Songwriters and Minstrels either disappeared or started to drift into triviality (beside a very few exceptions) and the darkness in Folk should last up to the late 80ies/early 90ies, when artists from the early World Serpent label recovered their roots out of the late 60ies/early 70ies era. This was the time, when the young B' joined World Serpent and within only 2 albums, he got one of the most important acts on that label and for the whole growing scene. From the very beginning until today he was the lonesome wandering minstrel and with his heartbreaking balads and Psychedelic Folk tunes he occupied many hearts over the past 15 years. IN GOWAN RING is not only unique because of B's outrider position, he is also a perfectionist and a highly professional autodidact. He is one of the very few persons I ever met, who plays all imaginable instruments and who is even able to build and (re)construct these instruments himself. A unique genius with a big heart full of sadness and flowers... Exists & Entrances is a retrospective through the years 1994 to 2003. All 40 songs and 157 minutes have never been released officially before, only the artist himself gave away some copies on CDR. On several songs B' was performing with Michael Moinyhan & Annabel Lee (BLOOD AXIS / ALRAUNE), with Markus Wolff (WALDTEUFEL) and other friends around his magical circle of Folk freaks. Besides several traditional songs, this compilation also includes coverversions from songs by great 60ies/70ies Progressive Folk artists and songwriters, like THE INCREDIBLE STRING BAND, STRAWBS, VASHTI BUNYAN, NICK DRAKE, FRED NIEL, ROD McKUEN, as well as coverversions from PSYCHIC TV, LEGENDARY PINK DOTS, Brian Castillo (JARBOE) and 17 PYGMIES. All songs were remastered by Axel Frank (WERKRAUM) in the Blue Lounge Studios/Berlin. [press release]
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In Gowan Ring -- "Hazel Steps Through A Weathered Home" -- CD -- €14
2002/2005 Shayo, Shayo005
In Meditarivm -- "The Great Limbo" -- CD -- €10
2010 Wrotycz Records, WRT 010, (ltd. 500)
In Meditarivm is an Ukrainian apocalyptic ritual & dark ambient project organized in 2000 by Olegh Kolyada known by his projects First Human Ferro, Ostarbeiter and Oda Relicta. The albums like 'Les Fleurs du Mal' and 'Uterus' outlined the old school approach of the project clearly influenced by highlights of Morthound, Ildfrost, ConSono or Archon Satani. "The Great Limbo" is based on the re-engineered early works selectively crafted anew in summer 2009 at Olegh's Oda Relicta home studio. An elusory history of the project proceeds with a special Wrotycz Records release. The record, accompanied by a talented artwork of Kati Astraeir, comes as a limited to 500 copies 4-panel UV-varnished digipack with a poster. [press-releases]
In Meditarium -- "Les Fleurs Du Mal" -- CD-R -- €7
2002 Soulworm Editions, Worm XVII, (ltd. 300)
Another fine incarnation of the almighty Ukrainian artists of the First Human Ferro fame. In Meditarium has that easily recognisable sound, but makes a few steps deeper into dark atmospere of decadent joys of an alienated human being. Some ritualistic influnces are to be heard (say Archon Satani in the 'Virgin Birth' period), the rudimetary melodies fulfill the whole setting. The lyrics deal with consensual aspects of love and completion on the one hand, pain and serenity on the other. James Joyce's lines (taken form 'Giacomo Joyce') constitute the final comment and an invocative epitafium to this masterpiece... [press-release]
In My Rosary -- "15" -- CD -- €10
2008 Shadowplay Records, SPR 068
"An unexpected and highly welcome return by legendary Dark folk act In My Rosary. "15" comes swelled with dreamy melancholic melodies carried by deep and melancholic vocals". Russian reissue with 3 bonus tracks.
iN sCissorS -- "Mnemosyne & The Structure Of Time" -- CD -- €10
2011 Zoharum, ZOHAR 021-2
"Mnemosyne & The Structure Of Time" is a translation of the scenes that preceded the Earth's decline in 'Orbis Terrarum Requiem' into the sounds of iNsCissorS' 'Cinematic Ambient' where Mnemosyne, the ancient Hellenic Titan goddess of memory and remembrance and the inventress of language and words orchestrates the sequence of events and guides you throughout the complex cluster of the structure of time downwards to her lake in Hades where initiates used to drink in order to remember and bear memories along their journey through life... iNsCissorS' third full-length album is a new journey through places beyond the Earth's surface composed and performed by Vincent Andelmoth but with the also greatly important feature and additional composing and arrangements of Jason Andelmoth... Angel W. Black features giving her own enchanting touch with her astonishing voice either when lamenting as a queen that passed to silence or when invoking Hecate from Hades! Finally, as in every album the artwork is an inseparable part of the concept of iNsCissorS. This time the images cloaking the music are designed by the well known photographer/image maker John Santerineross (www.santerineross.com) who gave life to the image of Mnemosyne in his own unique way capturing the atmosphere of the album through his camera and translating it to another work of art! [press-release]
iN sCissorS -- "Orbis Terrarum Requiem" -- CD -- €10
2009 Zoharum, ZOHAR 008-2
"Orbis Terrarum Requiem" in brief means "The World's Requiem" or "The Earth's Requiem" and in the case of this album the second explanation given fits better to its concept and thematology. It is a requiem for the destruction that has befallen Earth/Nature inflicted by humans. It describes a world deserted and the only inhabitants are life forms that used to dwell beneath the Earth's surface even long before the Nature's fall and they still do after it... An excellent follow-up to 'The Veratrine Evangelicum', more structured and mature. An album that will grow on you after a few listens. For fans of Sanctum, Mental Destruction, Sui Generis Umbra, Bisclaveret, Dead Man's Hill. [label info]
In The Nursery -- "Cause + Effect" -- CD -- €10
2007 Shadowplay Records, SPR 042
"We are never aware of a cause in the creative process until it becomes an effect." A unique collection of specially commissioned and exclusive remixes of material from throughout In The Nursery's 20 year back catalogue. Contributing artists include - Faith & The Muse, Attrition, Assemblage 23, And Also The Trees, Chandeen, Haujobb, Electronium, Flesh Field, Ivan Iusco & Seize. 'Cause + Effect' is intended to highlight the interactive, inspirational and motivating nature of music. IN THE NURSERY include their own special interpretation of the classic Joy Division track 'Love Will Tear Us Apart'. [press-release]
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Inade -- "Aldebaran" -- CD -- €10
1996/2007 Cold Spring Records, CSR13CD, 3rd edition
The masters of Black Ambient! "Aldebaran" is the black sun of the secret knowledge. This work focuses on the German Vril society myths of 'Aldebaran', from which universal spirituality is said to originate. One hour of immense walls of dark, brooding atmospherics, pulsating anthems of the universal power, mixed with themes of heritage and history. The ultimate document of deep and cavernous dark ambient. [press-release]
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Inade -- "Burning Flesh" -- CD -- €14
1993/2007 Loki Foundation, LOKI 24
Due to the big interest we decided to re-release the legendary "Burning Flesh" material from 1993 with all the bonus material that appeared already on the limited CD-Version in 2000 in a new sympathically remastered version done at Secretlab in June 2007. The soundscape is a pitch-black ambience in which peculiar sounds scramble about, ignites a rising wave of gloom, driven by the slow clatter of tribal hooves upon unearthly terrain. [press-release]
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Inade -- "Colliding Dimensions" -- 4 CD -- €29
2005 Loki Foundation, loki 38
Live retrospective box with 4 individual CDs and 16-pg. booklet. All material recorded and sculptured during live shows and rehearsal sessions 1995-2002.
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Inade -- "The Crackling Of The Anonymous" -- CD -- €14
Loki Foundation, LOKI29
After 5 years since the last studio album Aldebaran, we can finally announce the release of a new full lenght work. With The Crackling Of The Anonymous, Inade move beyond all pre-conceived notions of sonic creativity. The plethora of puzzle pieces that interconnect in the expanding universe that Inade unwaveringly explores have grown amorphous, no longer defined by distinct outlines, melding as one whole, obscure entity. The expansion comes in many levels, incorporating the vast parameters of time, dimension and reality as viable participants in Inade's aural objective: to shine a light on the enigmatic unknown and give it a vague silhouette. The dark and hallucinatory masterwork that is The Crackling Of The Anonymous, is constructed via the never heard utterances of the void, while tapping into the psyche of the impossible. A stunning release that defies all logic because it creates its own! [press-release]
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Inade -- "The Incarnation Of The Solar Architects" -- 2 CD + DVD -- €180
2009 Loki Foundation, LOKI 50 SE, (ltd. 259)
Ultra limited edition of the latest album including bonus CD and DVD.
Inami, Sunao -- "Delayed" -- CD -- €12
2004 Electr-ohm, TCCD-20041
Sunao Inami's music's main strength lies in repetition, but where the "poison" lies is different every time: electronics, glitch, techno, noise, ambient; the result of recent years of progression, digression and collaboration from which he's gained impetus, irritation and motivation. By soaking up these sensations, he has arrived at his most recent sound. Inami embraces the thrill of improvisation on the Powerbook G4 and the feeling of tension and composition from the newest DSP recording methods and any and every editing process. For "Delayed" he used a Waldorf synth for hardware, and mainly Reaktor 4, Live, Spark, Logic 6 and Protools for software. Otherwise spoons and other kitchen utensils. [label info]
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Inami, Sunao -- "An Impulse of Acoustic" -- CD -- €12
2005 Electr-ohm, TCCD-20051
The music made by improvisation sound sketch and cut up, after that editing and constituting that it same method of his album "DELAYED", but a greatly different matter from before is the following, the multiple use of the irregular beats by the samples chopped up by filtering and Granular synthesis especially with a complicated thing characteristic this time. The sounds influence from IDM and glitch or electronica stuff of these days, and also German electronics or experimental of the 70s and the early '80s industrial music. Sunao used NI Reaktor 4, Absynth, Ableton Live 4, Waldorf synthesizers mainly. [label info]
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Inanna -- "Signal / Or / Minimal" -- CD -- €13
1999 Crowd Control Activities, Crowded 17
Inapt -- "Inaptology Part II" -- CD -- €14
2001/2002 Antigroove, Antigroove1
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]
Incorporeal Consciousness -- "Demoscapes" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Spermodeath Records, SD-05, (ltd. 100)
Irreality sounds, creaking doors from the outside. Meditations of spaces of the incorporeal consciousness, the remote rustle of other and cold lips of death. The reckless jump in a black tunnel - somewhere there far shivers a pupil, absolute emptiness, fear of eternity. Starting fingers in the incorporeal. Experiments for all and for anybody. Style: drone ambient, dark lo-fi experimental. Form: cd-r / cardboard package with inserts. [label info]
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Indigo Larvae -- "Abandoned to Despair" -- CD -- €10
2007 Steinklang Industries, SK 42, (ltd. 500)
This is a new project of STAHLWERK 9 with a even darker and far more aggressive and sinister atmosphere. Created in the ultimate depth of hell these 9 symphonies of misanthrophy, despair and self-mutilation hold the key to carnage and suicide. Listen to it, and start to squirm:you are never alone! A new shadow has appeared in the black forests of Death Industrial to blot all your hopes out. But beware: this is not the end! It is just a beginning. - a new revelation for BRIGHTER DEATH NOW addicts! [label info]
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Indra -- "Seven Mortal Sins" -- CD-R -- €7
2011 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT13, (ltd. 92)
Conceptual Death Industrial / Power Electronics album inspired by the concept of seven deadly sins. Sound was created from processed recordings of real manufacturing equipment, to be compared with best projects of Italian PE school, like Atrax Morgue and N. The disc is packed in a 5" flexi disc package and comes with 4 double-sided inserts with pictures for each track. [label info]
Indra -- "Taste the Poison" -- CD-R -- €8
2007 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT11, (ltd. 99)
Toxic Power Electronics. Totalitarism, overload of venomous frequencies, clanks of carriages, barking of guard dogs, orators' calls, hiss of sprayers in gas chambers, yperite fog over trenches and momentary collapse in the end. We should note the sound separately - ideal combinations of power and lo-fi, worth of best works in genre. Handmade package of mirror-like plastic with roughly burnt logo. Limited to 99 copies. [press-release]
Indra -- "Through the Cold Wells" -- CD-R -- €4
2009 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT12, (ltd. 100)
Second full-length album of Indra was being prepared for several years. First track was recorded in 2001, looks like this is the earliest recording by Indra, second was created in 2003 on the ruins of a building bombed during WWII, third was recorded in 2002. Noise ambient, mainly linear, but in the 2nd track more cyclic... many sounds for this album were recorded in wells. The disc contains a video-clip made by >o< for Indra on the ruins of a mysterious street in Lagoda. Cold and dampness. Big full-cover sleeve with inserts. [press-release]
Indra / YAO 91404 D -- "Khibinogorsk" -- 2x3"CD-R + MC -- €14
2011 YAOP, YAOP 046, (ltd. 31)
The long-avaited second part of the series dedicated to during expeditions and walks. The city of Khibinogorsk (now Kirovsk) was built on Kola peninsula, among Khibiny mountains in the late 1920s - early 1930s by "special migrants" (agrarians who were exiled from Central Russia during Stalin's collectivisation). The nucleus of the city was Apatite-nepheline concentrating factory ANOF-1 - the first enterprise of such a kind which was intended to let USSR get rid of necessity to import chemical fertilizers. In 1931 Khibinogorsk recieved a status of city and the factory started its work. In December 1939 a giant building of railway station was opened. It had splendid interior with parquetry, marble walls and bronze chandeliers and received trains from Moscow and Leningrad. But gradually the importance of the city went down, it gave its role away to the neighbour city of Apatity which was esatblished in 1959 12 kilometers far from Khibinogorsk. In the 60-s direct trains between Kirovsk and the capitals were abolished, in the late 80s the railway station was abandoned, in early 90s same happened with the factory. Nowadays the city is significant only with ski resorts and monumental ruins... A collaboration release between two industrial projects includes a disc with live recording of performance / live without audience at ANOF-1; a cassette with a studio album asembled exclusively from recordings made there with analogue tape recorder; a disc which includes almost 200 historical pictures of Khibinogorsk and a scanned book about the city from 1933 and a photo insert. [press-release]
Indu Mezu -- "Chdetoria" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 Misfake, MF08, (ltd. 57)
Long awaited release. We finally assembled all compositions to reach integrity of album and create masterpiece. Some tracks was published before and some not. Music varies from rythmic noise to glitchy ambient with higly saturated sound full of details. Higly recommended. [press release]
Indu Mezu -- "Dustplastic Tube" -- CD-R -- €5
2004 self-released, (ltd. 21)
Unmusical music containing from various unmelodical melodies, unrhythmical rhythms and other strange electronic components. Partly reminds IDM, but completely psychedelic in its crookedness. As if you shake up Aphex Twin in a mixer, shave some cinematographic fragments there, put child's colour cubes and spit. Disc is packed in Soviet popular scientific magazine "Science and Life" of 60-ies!
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Indu Mezu -- "Opus" -- CD-R -- €5
2007 Cold Graey, MF09, (ltd. 57)
Tape was recorded in the end of 1997, beginning of 1998. Remastered in 2007. No computers used in recording. Hardware: two tape decks, broken guitar, lo-fi mics, CASIO M-100, various handmade stuff and tapes, tapes, tapes. [label info]
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Infamis -- "Upiór - Qualis Rex, Talis Grex" -- CD-R -- €7
2005 Beast Of Prey, bop 2.0, (ltd. 333)
Neoclassic dark ambient with vivacious melodies and gregorian chorales. Stylish artwork made in a form of a A5-formatted booklet with thematic pictures and texts.
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The Infant Cycle -- "A Mysterious Disc" -- 3"CD-R -- €5
2009 The Ceiling, CEIL032
A disc mysterious. The release has not a single letter on the sleeve or the media.
The Infant Cycle -- "A Mysterious Disc" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 The Ceiling, CEIL032
A disc mysterious. The release has not a single letter on the sleeve or the media.
The Infant Cycle -- "A Mysterious Disc [1]" -- CD-R -- €4
2010 The Ceiling, CEIL032
A disc mysterious. Packaged in a white cardboard sleeve. No information at all is written on the release. First disc in new series in 5 parts.
The Infant Cycle -- "A Mysterious Disc [2]" -- CD-R -- €5
2010 The Ceiling, CEIL032
A disc mysterious. Packaged in a white cardboard sleeve. No information at all is written on the release. Second disc in new series in 5 parts.
The Infant Cycle -- "A Mysterious Disc [3]" -- CD-R -- €6
2010 The Ceiling, CEIL032
A disc mysterious. Packaged in a white cardboard sleeve. No information at all is written on the release. Third disc in new series in 5 parts.
The Infant Cycle -- "A Mysterious Disc [4]" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 The Ceiling, CEIL032
A disc mysterious. Packaged in a white cardboard sleeve. No information at all is written on the release. Fourth disc in new series in 5 parts.
The Infant Cycle -- "A Mysterious Disc [5]" -- CD-R -- €8
2010 The Ceiling, CEIL032
A disc mysterious. Packaged in a white cardboard sleeve. No information at all is written on the release. Fifth disc in new series in 5 parts.
The Infant Cycle -- "Remote" -- CD-R -- €9
EE Tapes, ET 74, 2nd edition, (ltd. 60)
Comprised of three long tracks, this is the more "difficult" side of the project. Constant changes in texture, sudden contrasts, rhythms that flex and contract, and structures that reveal themselves as something very different than what they seemed on the surface - not background music.
The Infant Cycle -- "Trialism - Clear Shapes Stereo" -- 2x3"CD-R -- €10
2009 Abgurd, AB-47, (ltd. 100)
Reissue of the "clear forms" lathe cuts that were released by The Ceiling in 2002, 2003 & 2004, and B-sides of those that were put online by mp3-label Sonus in 2005. [label info]
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The Infant Cycle / Davison, Jared -- "Periodical I" -- 3"CD-R -- €6.50
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)" -- 2x3"CD-R -- €9
2007 Afe Records, afe086mcd, (ltd. 100)
Experimental. Jim DeJong (The Infant Cycle) and Muffy St. Bernard (UPhold) are pleased to be partnered with each other for "Our Past Present (Now Then)". Their friendship dates back to the early '90s Canadian experimental tape scene, and they have worked together on occasion. The Infant Cycle was begun in 1992 by Jim DeJong, as a 21st birthday present to himself. Since then he has steadily created a large number of releases working with both "musical" and "non-musical" objects to create soundscapes that don't easily fit ready-made descriptions. UPhold was formed by Muffy St. Bernard in 1993, growing out of early-morning radio experiments on CKMS, the University of Waterloo's campus station. Those experiments were honed in the group Mindsculpture (a.k.a. Mind-skelp-cher) and have matured over time. His music has been released through his own label, Dangermuff Enterproses, and through Jim DeJong's The Ceiling. "Unrelated Work Tapes 7/7/04" by The Infant Cycle is a new chapter in his series of aural collages based on his own past, present, future and non-existant releases, where he explores the wide possibilities offered by manipulation / juxtaposition of different portions of audio materials taken out of their original context. The four UPhold tracks include assorted synthesizers, field recordings, found sounds and voices, metal percussions and other low-budget electronic paraphernalia used to create very complex and cinematic experimental music... [label info]
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Infra Red Army -- "EnTrails" -- CD -- €11
2007 Laton, Laton 037
Under this playful moniker there is the ukrainian project appeared for the first time on the "Polyvox Populi" CD released in 2003 by Nexsound label. Another track was included in the "Culmination" compilation released by Laton, so here is it, the debut album released in 2006, also by this austrian label. The material presented here is very close to ambient music, but based not on sustained drones rather on various sounds and samples interweaved into multi-layered almost static soundscapes. One thing to be recognized here for sure is guitar (Dmitry Soroka is the classically-trained guitarist). The music has some distinctive features like melancholic mood, downtempo timeframe and very subtle emotional organization, revealing the sort of dramatic plots behind the steady sound images. Eleven tracks with strange and intriguing titles like "NocTurn" and "OptiMystique" will help you to make one step forward to understand the enigmatic ukrainian soul. [Dmitry Vasilyev, Independent Electronic Music]
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Initial Chaos -- "Median of life: Terminate the process" -- CD -- €9
2008 Winter Silence, WS001 / Cyberborea Records, CYBER001
Synth Dark Electro with screaming vocals.
Initial Chaos -- "Ego Splitting" -- CD -- €7
2010 Nihil Art Records, NAR 003, (ltd. 500)
Sombre synth / darkwave with screaming "black" vocals and sophisticated existentialist lyrics on russian. [label info]
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Inner Vision Laboratory -- "Anywhere Out Of The World" -- CD -- €10
2010 Beast Of Prey, bop 7.0, (ltd. 500)
This new album by a Polish group explores the phenomenon of Ambient music. The project's use of surround sound, its combination of various styles and field recording methods makes it characteristic and easily recognizable. 'Anywere Out Of This World' will take you on an amazing journey into the world created by INNER VISION LABORATORY, a journey which will inspire your heart and spirit. This journey resonates with echoing sounds and folk songs invariably connected to Mother Earth. This album has a spirit - the spirit of Earth. On 'Anywhere Out Of This World' you will find perfectly arranged and well-balanced ambient compositions, spatial collages underpinned by folklore, which emphasizes the album's specific nature. As usual, suitable piano parts reflect the record's character. This over-50-minute album contains 11 tracks and is available in a full-colour Digipak. Edition of 500 copies. The album should appeal to those who enjoy tranquil, diverse, dark-ambient sounds similar in fashion to Raison D'etre, Desiderii Marginis, Asmorod, etc. [press-release]
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Inner Vision Laboratory & Roto Visage -- "Cinema Stain" -- CD-R -- €9
2009 Beast Of Prey / No Angels Productions, NAP-CD 011, (ltd. 200)
We would like to present a unique opus, which appears as a co-operation of Inner Vision Laboratory (Poland) and Roto Visage (USA) projects, symbolically entitled "Cinema Stain". Here, the listener is forced to wale in pathological and "impure" visualizations of human pain, fears and suffering, which are surprisingly seducing with subtle beauty. Some of the soundforms are painted heavily with a brush of rhythm while others flow like the spools of film spinning through a mechanical projector. The aim of both of the composers was to write an original soundtrack to a non-existent horror film - the result is excellent, and by taking vocal samples from other movies, they created also an auditory record of tension and melancholic darkness. For layout of this release, we used modified photographs from the very talented photographer - Karolina Kosowicz. Packaging is non-typical: professionally printed and professionally duplicated CDR with additional graphical insert are placed in a plastic box (slim dvd box type). Inserts and covers are professionally printed on gloss paper. Edition is limited to 200 hand numbered copies. Album production by No Angels Prod. and Beast Of Prey. [press-release]
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An Innocent Young Throat-Cutter / Vomir / Government Alpha / Torturing Nurse -- "Harsh Purification" -- 4 CD-R -- €13
2009 Corrosive Art Records, CA-19, (ltd. 100)
Absolutely infernal release consisting of four harsh noise albums. An Innocent Young Throat-Cutter is a project by Richard Ramirez, others need no introduction. DVD-box with inserts. [Abgurd]
Inorganic Blossoming -- "Autumndrones" -- CD -- €12
2010 7Hz Records, 7HZ 03 D / Infinite Fog Productions, IF-13 / Chernaya Zemlya, þú:Ç, (ltd. 292)
An ambient / drone project from Kemerovo, Russia. Three tracks last for 28 minutes and appear in a form of quiet contemplative harmonic ambient with mild noise accompaniment and rare glimpses of mysterious melodies. Masterfully created arrangements, flawless timbral decisions and optimal length of the tracks are the three trumps of "Autumndrones". This music instantly compells attention from the very first sounds and sometimes it's really impossible to turn away from it - you just catch yourself listening to this recording for fourth or sixth time in a row. To keep it short, this is a cimpletely amazing recording from the talented project, and one of the best ambient recordings in my collection. [Dark Industry] The CD is packen in DVD-size corrugated cardboard sleeve with a dry leaf.
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Inoue, Tetsu -- "World Receiver" -- CD -- €10
1996/2006 Infraction, INFX 015, (ltd. 800)
Instant Movie Combinations -- "5.Now" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2008 Abgurd, AB-34, (ltd. 50)
One of the very first tracks recorded during the summer of 2004. Grand static Drone Ambient for sleep experiments. [press-release]
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Instant Movie Combinations -- "9Ymbo" -- CD-R -- €7
2006 Abgurd Subdivision, AB-19
Debut album from the project coming from Novosibirsk, Russia. IMC plays noise drone ambient and promises to become one of the openings of this year. Static and elastic dissociating layers of sonic waves. Imagine Klaus Wiese's "Ruh" but performed completely with digital technologies, add "life-enhancing" analogue hisses and crackles a la Galakthorrö and you'll probably get the image. "Once you remember..." [press-release]
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Instant Movie Combinations -- "Dreams Frozen / Boiled" -- 2 CD-R -- €9
2006 Misfake Studio, mf03, (ltd. 57)
A hobby-horse of IMC has always been static music for which you have to have special perception tuning - don't expect that you'll be carried away by melodies or unusual collages or some other evident tricks, here you should let your attention creep inside the depth of sound, feel it's texture by ear. And then minimalistic static fields unfold in flowing layers of constantly transforming waves. First disk is really cold, more "digital" and heartless in feeling; second one is more warm and shaggy, wheezy and distorted. Very good and interesting work.
Institut -- "Live Like Traitors, Die Like Traitors" -- CD -- €11
2003 Cold Meat Industry, cmi106
Allow yourself to remember the sixties for a moment, a world full of ideals, protesters and national secrecy. Steaming masses, no repents, frightful threats. Influenced by political regulation, dramatic borderlines and acute strife, Institut claim their view of disorder with nine throbbing new radical outbursts. The sound presented here has a narrower approach than before, tending to even more monotony, though no compromises has been made in intensity levels. Full of splendid hate for one and all. Feel the presence and keep your head held high. So, no more dancing folks, this is serious business. Chew stone, fuel for fistfights, instead of your daily falafel. Explore new ground. There's a lot to change. [press-release]
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Institut -- "The Struggle Never Ended" -- CD -- €14
2005 Cold Meat Industry, cmi143, (ltd. 1000)
Lirim Cajani's project Institut should be well established now, having played a lot around Europe over the years. This newly recorded effort, the first CD without earlier member Johanna Rosenqvist, is a solid tribute to the struggle of the little man. A strong delivery of faith to the oppressed and a raging ripper for your right to only remain. The sound is more up-front live-centered, almost totally devoid of rhythms throughout and with a lot of anguished and hateful vocals. Full of drenching static and simple but effective walls of noise and reverberating samples which surely works sufficiently incisive. Kill your inconveniences! [press-release]
Institution D.O.L. -- "With Her I Had Some Tropical Feelings" -- CD -- €10
2005 Steinklang Industries, SKD 09, (ltd. 500)
The new masterpiece from Austria's obscure-electronic act no.ONE! This musical mixture between rhythmic noise sequences, psychedelic melodies and ambient/hypnotic patterns treats the untold story of Madame I. and M. (the man behind INSTITUTION D.O.L.). Listen and be part of a psychoacoustic trip through romantic storytales, disturbed by violence, brutal sex and the sound of a chainsaw! The perfect soundtrack for your private S/M-party; reminds a little to Cosey Fanni Tutti's masterpiece "Time to tell". [label info]
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Interior Disposition -- "From Autumn..." -- CD-R -- €7
2011 InterioRepertoR, IR08, (ltd. 100)
New album of this Moscow based project envelops the listener with sorrowful drones and uncomplicated melodies, immersing into autumnal melancholy. [label info]
Interior Disposition -- "Melancholy Crescent" -- CD-R -- €8
2007 Still*Sleep, CDR04
Moscow-based project previously known as just ID which self-released nice album "Galaxys" sounded like local Bad Sector, has now widened the meaning of it's name and made a new release in a guest-series of Still*Sleep label. Space dreamy ambient with sometimes hostile and uneasy atmosphere. [Abgurd]
Interior Disposition (ID) -- "Starvision Fields" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 InterioRepertoR, ir01, (ltd. 150)
The new release from the Moscow-based project ID. "This album can be understood as attempt to clear a sound up to transparent weightlessness, uniting structural features "Galaxys" and "Astrohelix". The decision of this problem was promoted also by presence of the new equipment. All album can be broken into conditional four parts. 1. The introduction (composition Deep Green): a moonlight night, the person goes on the central strip of hayway; 2. studying of space (all short tracks: RATAN, COS-B, EXOSAT, IUE, VLA): the person looks not on carried by automobiles, and lifts the person to the sky; 3. sight of space (Ectasia Of The Red, B26 Orion, M31 Andromeda, Metanic Ice, Andromeda Will Back!): the abyss peers, but as a matter of fact it is a part of internal geography of the person + the ending" [artist info]
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Interior Disposition -- "Taedium Vitae" -- CD -- €7
2010 Nihil Art Records, NAR 002, (ltd. 500)
Dark drone ambient. The album is dedicated to memory of Italian musician Marco Corbelli, the only member of project Atrax Morgue. On May, 6th, 2007 at the age of 36 years old he has committed suicide. New album of Interior Disposition "Taedium Vitae" is the attempt to glance in the painful world of the Italian artist. [label info]
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Interior Disposition & Sister Loolomie -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €8
2009 Still*Sleep, CDR12
A collaboration between two Russian projects. The united sonic field of these 4 tracks harmonically meld together the characteristic features of both projects: hallucinogenic digital rasps and bright melancholic guitar tunes from Sister Loolomie and universal scale atmospheres of Interior Disposition. As a result we have beautiful and deep space ambient / drone.
Intrinsic Action -- "II" -- CD -- €10
1987/2004 BloodLust!, B!046
"Aggressive and fully adrenalised Power Electronics / Extreme Noise feedback and 'sado-electronics' from a project of Mark Solotroff (Bloodyminded). All tracks have been digitally remastered for CD." [Cold Spring] American-style PE back from 1986!
Intrinsic Action -- "Bad Jack" -- CD -- €10
1988/2003 BloodLust!, B!044
Re-mastered re-release of the fourth I.A. cassette, originally issued in 1988 on Arbeit Recordings. With bonus tracks [live + SCTL] and new photographs and artwork. 71 minutes. [label info]
Intrinsic Action -- "Five" -- CD -- €10
1988/2004 BloodLust!, B!048
"Aggressive and fully adrenalised Power Electronics / Extreme Noise feedback and 'sado-electronics' from a project of Mark Solotroff (Bloodyminded). All tracks have been digitally remastered for CD." [Cold Spring] American-style PE back from 80-s!
Invisible Front -- "Interferences And Time" -- CD -- €9
2007 Indie-ziert, IZ.03, (ltd. 477)
IOIOI -- "Sleeping: Awaken Visions" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Ikuisuus, IS-045
IOIOI approaches here the possibility of witnessing the flux of sound-emotions.... through the breathing of a passive mind. What is left when the body-mind is almost sleeping yet awake?.... Each track acts as a perceptive pleat; time affecting. It asks for time. All the process is improvisation, however it may sound as composition, here and there..... 'If you fall asleep while you listen to:that's very good. When you wake up sounds are ended. What's left?'.... Love, .... [label info]
Ionosphere -- "Angular Momentum" -- CD -- €14
2004 Power And Steel, PAS 19
With the first full length work of this German project another remarkable release in dark and space ambient has earthed that accompanies with the classic works of this genre. The ten tracks on this album following their previous 10 inch release on Avatar Records, creating a giant sphere full of šthick and brooding soundscapes with thunderous eruptions, imploding stars, ghostly voices, powerful machine noises and pulsing rhythms. On "Angular Momentum" Ionosphere probing the darkness until it's deepest core! Digipack CD. [label info]
IRM -- "Oedipus Dethroned" -- CD -- €13
2000 Cold Meat Industry, CMI.87
Christ revelead himself before two young Swedes, urged them to confront their peers with their bleak vision, the gospel according to IRM. Time's up for another peek into their shady world, populated by megalomaniac stalkers and zany zealots-cum-martyrs. The city streets a stage; the self-appointed cleaners taking out human trash the actors. But noone is clapping their hands, except in their own deluded minds. The urge to use the flesh of a stranger, a surgical sacrifice for a God in the gutter. Their bleak vision, your worst nightmare. Their prophetic revelation, your next purchase. After their highly acclaimed vinyl album - now a new fullength CD. [press-release]
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IRM -- "Order4" -- CD -- €14
2010 Cold Meat Industry, CMI205
IRM -- "Red Album" -- CD -- €14
1999/2010 Autarkeia, acd 054, (ltd. 500)
To celebrate that a decade has passed since the release of the IRM "Red Album" LP, a CD reissue is now presented by Autarkeia. Martin Bladh and Erik Jarl had already known eachother for a few years when they began their mission as IRM in 1997. Fuelled by the rage of sonic power-houses like Whitehouse and Brighter Death Now, they recorded a demo tape that landed them a deal with Cold Meat Industry. Immediately upon its arrival, "The Red Album" was met by great enthusiasm as it breathed new life in a genre gone quite stagnant at the time. The sound displayed a unique amalgamation of Jarl's analogue bass-heavy eruptions, and Bladh's revelatory lyrics/vocals which were thematically more aligned with the apocalyptic preachings of Michael Gira and Nick Cave than the confrontationalism of William Bennett. Also the monochrome cover designs that IRM chose to work with stood in stark contrast to the cheap shock tactics that had infested the power electronics scene for so long. On subsequent landmark albums such as "Oedipus Dethroned" and "Virgin Mind" IRM honed their sound and dug deeper into the maze of the human psyche, while in parallell both Bladh and Jarl have explored new aestetic avenues with diverse solo projects. Now when looking back, it is perfectly clear that IRM have fulfilled and surpassed all the expectations that the release of "The Red Album" promised. More than ten years down the road, the adolescent debutants have become the revered minstrels of industrial gospel. [press-release]
Irrumatorium -- "Also Sprach My Ass" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Steelkraft Manufactory, SKM05, (ltd. 100)
ALSO SPRACH MY ASS is the first full-length CD of Irrumatorium, based on artist's thinkings which have especially guided his life: the readymades of Marcel Duchamp, the book Fight Club, the Occam's razor principle, etc... Can you imagine the result of these maximal references condensed in this minimal music? [label info]
Ishida, Naoki -- "Tone Redust" -- CD -- €10
2006 Quasi Pop Records, QPOP CD044, (ltd. 500)
It's quite difficult to describe the music of Naoki Ishida's debut album correctly. There are a lot of spontaneous and 'fortuitous' sounds from casual urban life in that music on the face of it. But it is impossible to be sure that these sounds are on the background of other elements or these sounds serve themselves as a background for something main: There are also some naive and unaffected chords played on acoustic guitar as well as some clinking and iridescent synth waves & gentle drones. Generally speaking, any tunes, any beats. But, on the whole the structure and the nature of 'Tone Redust' isn't the typical 'ambient' free flow nor 'pop' bars + beats grid. Perhaps, the compositions of Naoki Ishida in a manner are deconstructed 'digital' folk ballads or scant fat-free jazz pieces. And one more important note: there's not a 'ready for use' music, there's just an non-ambitious audio-situation where the music is growing in process of being. This is the fixation on the moment of spilling over from routine life into something more artificial and adventurous: In other hand, this unstable situation exists between classical, everlasting questions: to be (the next sound or note or every event) or not to be. That album follows the traditions of aerial & environmental recordings of labels such Hapna or Lucky Kitchen. All music played & composed by Naoki Ishida with acoustic guitar, synth and field recordings. This is the very first release of artist from Japan on Quasi Pop. [press-release]
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Isomer -- "Face Toward The Sun" -- CD -- €14
2009 Tesco Organisation, TESCO 076
Isomer's third cd with Tesco takes a sharp turn toward more aggressive territory, with the raw industrial hinted at in previous outings getting a proper airing. The dark ambient textures for which he is known still feature, but Face Toward the Sun forges new stylistic ground for the project. From the throbbing electronics of the opening track, through power electronics, walls of noise, violent vocal deliveries and carefully structured dark ambience, this is a characteristically varied album. Never one to shy from a dirty old blending of styles, a nice little martial ditty even makes an appearance for the militant in all of us. Face Toward the Sun was assembled from improvisations, previously unused material and nights of MS-20 hard-ons, making a lusty, varied album of industrial music. Some of the tracks here has been already presented on the well received DVD Cold Meat Live in Australia, where Isomer delivered one of the most surprising gigs of the festival. The studio versions of the tracks here will appeal to listeners of martial industrial as well as to an industrial dark ambient audience. Presented in a double gatefold digipack with potent imagery, total running time: 58 min. [press-release]
Isomer -- "Serpent Age" -- CD -- €13
Tesco Organisation, TESCO054
Isomer is the solo project of Australian David Tonkin, and remains one of the few active producers of dark ambient music in this far-flung continent. To date, Isomer has self-released three full-length cassettes: Semblance of Perfection, Sedation, and The Lotus Eaters. Serpent Age heralds a new stage in Isomer's progression, taking a decidedly more dark ambient approach than previous outings. It is a focusing and culmination of past work. Serpent Age is an album airing personal beliefs and passions. The Serpent has appeared in many guises throughout history and in a myriad of cultures. It represents deceit for some, wisdom for others. The coil of death, the helix of power. Serpent Age hails this creature as a seal of personal strength and focus. Direction, endurance, fortitude. [label info]
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It-Clings vs. Pneumatic Detach -- "The All Too Logical Descent Into Madness" -- CD -- €10
2007 Bugs Crawling Out Of People, bcp003
Spoken words by It-Clings with pounding beats provided by Pneumatich Detach (Hive Records). Not exactly the "hearing faint voices inside your head" kind either, this is more like inviting a spiteful cynic with a megaphone to rant away to his heart's content from the comfort of inside your cranium. From lucid observations to over-the-top diatribes, there's thankfully enough black humor in here to keep it from turning into a neurotic moan fest. You'll also find out more about a new creative use for a spoon. [Mechanoise Labs]
Iud Polk -- "Summer Klezmer Orgy" -- CD-R -- €7
2003 Stop-Eject, This Is Eject03, (ltd. 100)
American noise disgrace. Collage stuttering tracks move into elastic rhythm'n'noise and back. With lots of speech samples playing up the stupidity of "American English": a funny collade made from OK's. Sleeve, insert, stickers on a disc. [YAOP description]
Ivan Samshit -- "Essential Shit" -- CD -- €10
2007 Quasi Pop Records, QPOP CD047, (ltd. 500)
The very first (and still remains the best) electro-pop Ukrainian group Ivan Samshit has recorded 12 (or even more) albums in period from 1987 to 1997, but very few of them was released on cassettes in Ukraine and Germany in 90th. 'Essential Shit' is a compilation of the best tracks from these neglected recordings, that are available on CD for the first time ever! 19 tracks have been re-recorded directly from original pre-historyc master-cassettes and reel-tapes and carefully re-mastered using both modern digital and vintage analogue restoration equipment. In result, the sound of this CD is very similar to the tape sources - warm, deep, hissing and a bit raw in it's primal beauty. There are a lot of the well-known real 'pop-hits' presented on CD and some more experimetal tracks as well. [press-release]
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Iversen, Jan-M -- "Lull Before The Storm" -- CD-R -- €4
2008 B-Rush, [B-10], (ltd.40)
Preceding a storm oppressive silence, the weak wind which is walking on deserted coast and calming down in depth of fjords. An old beacon as the symbol of hope and rescue, grows gim in darkness of a coming storm. The 57-minute play rough ambient from the known Norwegian musician. Ltd. 40. [press-release]
Izanami's Labour Pains -- "Womb of Izanami" -- CD-R -- €6
Sick Arts, SAP 15, (ltd. 25)
Juicy digital noise, with it's brutality and cruelty close on the heels of Russian project Comforter. [Abgurd description]
J Orphic -- "Cum Ipse Gratia" -- CD-R -- €8
2010 UFA Muzak, UFA 36, (ltd. 120)
Martial / Neoclassic / Avanti. Roman tsar, Pax Romana, the holy dictator Gaius Iulius: as a holy writer, hides behind our backs and we hear the secret hymns of the triumvirate. The son of Venus, million times slowed down in word and prayer - of colour and fall. Modern neoclassicism of J Orhic tells us, with the voices of the living party, that is not allowed to listen to by profanes. Minor tones of icy speech, neoclassical counterpoints and artificiality of sound. Industrial as an echo in the throne room where 23 stab wounds were given, and the walls changed the sound, coloured the length of parts with the amethyst spectrum. Imperium. Militaria. Ad extra. 11 tracks, 70 minutes, CDR, non-standard cardboard sleeve, 3 inserts. [press-release]
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Jaaportit -- "Avarrus" -- CD -- €13
2006 Epidemie Records, EPR 059, (ltd. 500)
Jääportit is a Finnish band playing profoundly azure electronic ambient music since 1997 CE. With "Avarrus" the band has effected its third auditory manifestation. The new album contains five new diverse songs, composed and produced by Tuomas M. Mäkelä in his home studio during 2004-2006 CE. The record's musical style grows over simple limits. Electronic sequences blend into progressive elements. Roots dig down deeper into the unknown. You travel across levels as rhythmic combinations distance themselves from preceding minimalistic soundscapes. The music of digital machines is enlivened by acoustic instruments such as violin and female voice. In lyrics' stead the story is carried along and afar by soundstream gathered from a live environment. From the twilight of the Age of Aquarius one is moved to the whereabouts of a misty future, and via the nucleus of Space, back again. [label info]
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Jaaportit -- "Voimasuo" -- CD -- €10
2009 Epidemie Records, EPR067, (ltd. 600)
A new album of frosty Finnish project JÄÄPORTIT. Seven atmospheric compositions blending together dreamy etheric ambient, cold rhythmical nordic electronics and melancholy post-rock. The album is thematically dedicated to the world under human kind transformation. Intense, strong and polymorphous album hardly to fit in conventional categories, because it's kind of a musical labyrinth, definitely worth of exploring. The album is coming out in nice six pannels digipack in limited edition of 600 pieces. [press-release]
Jamming? -- "It's Not Cold With Us" -- CD-R -- €3
2009 Ambulacranarx Records, amblcrnrx - 09, (ltd. 20)
This release is made as a result of contact with members of this duo (Ramzon and Skifa). Original music played with improvised means, self-made ethno-rasta instruments and their own rasta-vocal cords. [label info] Homemade recordings of ritual parties: rhythmic percussive sketches, jew's harp, rainstick, pipes, voices, etc.
Janko, Krul' Albanskaj -- "Ekezhhm, Gyuvel Pyuganlahkh Aektspyud?" -- CD -- €10
2001 Some Place Else, HAM 018 CD
File under sample terrorism! Location recordings, recontextualized classical music, experiments with noise and so-called 'cinematic isolationism' by the late Henry Zalkin (also Bulimia, etc.). 4 tracks, 70 minutes. [label info]
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Jannerwein -- "Abendlauten" -- CD -- €14
2008 Heimatfolk, HF 05
Jarboe + Justin K Broadrick -- "J2" -- CD -- €11
2008 The End Records, TE096
J2 is the much-anticipated ambient musical exploration from singer/songwriter/performer Jarboe (ex-Swans) and Justin K Broadrick (Jesu, Godflesh), a collaboration fueled by a unique and diverse energy. [discogs.com]
Jardin D'Usure -- "Jardin D'Usure Revoit Le Daily-Bul" -- CD -- €16
2009 Waystyx, WR37
The Belgian duo Jardin d'Usure (Marc Moedea and Gabriel Severin) made their first CD in 1994 ("Musique Du Garrot Et De La Ferraille") where there was already a strong interest on so-called literary avant-garde movements, with, for example, some interpretations of dada poems from Raoul Hausmann, Hugo Ball and co. This time the duo is working on seven funny texts from another international avant-garde movement, the Daily-Bul (born at La Louviere at the end of the fifties). These sardonic and insane interpretations of texts from Balthazar, the Piqueray brothers, Pol Bury, etc. are accompanied by some strong electroacoustic pieces in Ultraphonist style (one of their other common projects). [label info] Unconventional cardboard sleeve.
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Jarl -- "Akatisi / Somnolens" -- CD -- €10
2005 Tantric Harmonies, TANTRA X21, (ltd. 499)
Solo release of Erik Jarl - one half of Swedish power-electronic duet IRM. Static sound fields and repetative patterns somewhere between dark ambient and noise, smooth pleasant timbres, calm atmosphere. Mastered by Peter Andersson.
Jarl -- "Breaking Point Syndrome" -- CD -- €11
2007 Autarkeia, acd 021
Breaking Point-Syndrome is the ninth album of Erik Jarl, Swedish industrial genius. Just like his previous albums, this one radiates the remarkably icy, mercilessly depressing and languorous as well as claustrophobic mood. To reach the effect, Erik simply generates unique industrial sound. His each accord smacks of unexplainable anxiety, the feeling of degenerate future, drug-induced reality, poisoning and exceptionally technocratic character. Jarl music can be qualified as psychedelic industrial/drone, while the album Breaking Point Syndrome is an excellent example of the Scandinavian mastership in creating esp. persuasive and visionary sonic landscape. [press-release]
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Jarl -- "Fragile Confrontation" -- CD -- €10
2005 Annihilvs, APEX001
ANNIHILVS proudly presents FRAGILE CONFRONTATION, our second full length CD release by Swedish Darkambient sound sculptor JARL. Since the release of the debut full length SEALED VOID in 2003, this brilliant artist (who has already shown his mettle as a member of IRM) has released albums for such noted labels as MALIGNANT RECORDS and SEGERHUVA. Now, JARL has returned to ANNIHILVS as the label begins its rebirth. FRAGILE CONFRONTATION finds JARL looking back into the sparse, cold isolationist landscapes of SEALED VOID, while instilling an undercurrent of impending violence, like a blade slowly moving toward flesh in tense, scraping frame-by-frame action. Metallic drones and static waves slide against each other as the confrontation between steel and skin comes to a mind-numbing collision. [press-release]
Jarl -- "Sealed Void" -- CD -- €10
2003 Force Of Nature Productions / Annihilvs
Jarl has already taken the world of dark electronic music by storm as one half of Irm, hailed the world over as the new leaders of the Swedish noise-industrial underground. With his solo project, he has once again risen to the throne and stands strong as a force to be reckoned with. SEALED VOID takes the listener drifting past dying suns, through black holes and beyond, to a place where the universe takes human form. [press-release]
Jarl -- "Turbulence Colour" -- 2 CD -- €18
2008 Autarkeia, acd 030, (ltd. 500)
Turbulence Colour is the tenth album of talented Swedish composer Erik Jarl, containing two and a half hours of new, never released sound material in two CDs. In terms of music, Erik Jarl remains loyal to his original but dismal style. Very long, hypnotic tracks convey unbearable, depressing and morbid states of human psyche. Turbulence Colour is at the same time a journey into the grey matrix of anxiety where the listeners are masterfully taken through the sickly labyrinths of the author's mind. The latest Erik Jarl's release is the top class drone psychocollage packed into a very elegant package. [press-release]
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Jarl -- "Vertigo Emission" -- CD -- €10
2009 Autarkeia, acd 045, (ltd. 200)
Vertigo Emission, the twelfth album of Erik Jarl, this Swedish genius of sound construction, is a logical continuation of his earlier works. The composer remains loyal to the style he propagates. Slow, very heavy and dismal sound waves grip the listeners and take them into the colourless, uncanny and morbid world. Like the previous ones, this album reminds a person who could earlier see the colours but became colour blind and in order to adapt to the new situation has to understand familiar yet irreversibly changed signs anew. The aesthetics of Erik Jarl's sonic decoration is like always very austere and merciless, however, it is marked by endless charm resulting from especially sensitive and subtle construction. Regular edition in digipak, limited to 200 copies. [press-release]
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Jarl -- "Vertigo Border" -- CD -- €10
2010 Autarkeia, acd 048, (ltd. 200)
Vertigo Border is the thirteenth album of the Swedish electronics favourite and the second volume of Vertigo trilogy. The magic number thirteen may imply that the album contains anything special: However, let us leave these considerations for the numerological masturbators. There is nothing more special in Vertigo Border than in the earlier Erik's albums since he remains loyal to his credo to fuck the audience with his monotonic, depressing, icy and colour-blind sound waves, to throw a tie onto their necks and slowly strangle them out of this grinding, claustrophobic and cramped world. All Jarl's albums smack of enormous and refined weariness. This is already the thirteenth album and this is the thirteenth tomb on your little grave, this is the thirteenth swing of the spade with the soil onto your coffin. The coffin sealing you off with all your squeaks of madness from the outside. The coffin doomed to choke you out of your life. This is an existential coffin with existential suffocation caused by unbearable, morbid and monotonous reality embodied in the sounds of the album. This is the ice in which you are frozen and where, beholding the inexhaustibility of the infinity, you may neither move, nor speak or even wink. So, you are that mechanical toy paralysed by sadist existence. Jarl is a ghost monotonously repeating this to you, so do not expect anything hopeful from the thirteenth master's album. Nor from the fourteenth that is still to be composed. Nor from the fifteen either. Suffer because you are worth it! [press-release]
Jarl -- "Vertigo Rebirth" -- CD -- €13
2010 Autarkeia, acd 053, (ltd. 200)
Vertigo Rebirth is the fourteenth album of Swedish composer Erik Jarl and the third and last part of the Vertigo trilogy. It is difficult to say anything more about Jarl's music on the whole. Like the earlier albums, this one generates particularly severe emotions that could be shortly defined as isolation, intoxication and especially negative, poisonous intuition. This impression is enhanced by the contrast. Erik opens the album with a track that has a construction uncharacteristic to his previous compositions. This composition contains quite strange rhythmics and is rather dynamic, which generates deceptive elation. But that's only the first track of the album. The rest fling the audience back to the cold uncompromising space of drone, piercing and crushing all attempts to perceive the phenomenon of Jarl's impasse. This is one more remarkable album for potential suicides. [press-release]
Jarl -- "Wound Profile" -- CD -- €11
2007 Autarkeia, acd 024, (ltd. 500)
The album Wound Profile by Erik Jarl, the genius of Swedish electronics, previously released in a cassette, has now, after some processing of the record, come out as a CD in a very elegant digipack. The album consists of two record sessions: one of them (6 tracks) was recorded by Erik in 1999, while the other (one track) was recorded 18 months later. Those closely following the music of the Scandinavian master may recognise the early sound of Erik's compositions in Wound Profile album that at certain points even remind the first IRM records. Clear-cut, abnormal, psychedelic rhythmics, its distorted, massive repetitions, analogous loops of synthetic sound generate the emotions of anxiety, morbidity and degeneration. Unlike Erik's later music marked for its abstract structure and closer to drone style, the album Wound Profile can be characterised by emotional straightforwardness and brutality. [press-release]
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Jarvis, A. -- "Thread (Uproot And Scatter)" -- CD-R -- €7
Fencing Flatworm Recordings, ff015
Atmospheric Psychofolk with transparent acoustic guitar, mild ambiences and melancholic voice samples. Sleeve. [YAOP]
Jazkamer -- "Balls The Size Of Texas, Liver The Size Of Brazil" -- CD -- €10
2007 Purple Soil, pulse zero: four
If "diverse" is the very word for JAZKAMER duet (John Hegre + Lasse Marhaug), it also seems to be the best "Balls the Size of Texas, Liver the Size of Brazil's" description. None of the band's previous full-length albums were same or similar to each other, so are(n't) the "Balls". If "Panic" is band's ultimate blues record, "Balls" are band's "London Calling", with each song different not only within the album, ranging from harsh noise outburst to calm to dreamy guitar ambiences. But the blues is still in and on with simple artwork, consisting strictly of landscape pictures to underline the album's misty, dreamy, nostalgic atmospheres. Full length CD, paper fold-out cover. [label info]
Jazzfinger -- "The Ducal Palace" -- CD -- €10
2009 Turgid Animal, TA408, (ltd. 300)
Only the second ever pro-pressed CD by North-East England's drone masters Jazzinger. This time chronicling the first ever rehearsal and recording of the core duo of Ben Jones and Hasan Gaylani. Raw guitar recordings from 1996 fill the discs 30+ minutes and if you listen carefully on the last track you can hear the police turn up and tell them to cease making the racket! Old school experimental work out from a simpler time. Artwork by long term fan of the band, George Proctor. [press-release]
Jennifer Gentle -- "Concentric" -- CD -- €8
2010 A Silent Place, ASP39, (ltd. 500)
Better known as purveyors of quirky, semi-sleazy avant pop gems on their Sub Pop albums, Jennifer Gentle have also issued through the years a series of weirder releases, running the gamut from out-there psychedelic rock to 'crunching and hefty slab of tripped out musique concrete worthy of Joji Yuasa, Kunihara Akayima or one of their equivalent early '60s greats' (Julian Cope). Concentric is the last and also their bleakest, most uncompromising and probably best experimental album to date. This time Fasolo took his live band in his own Ectoplasmic Studio, recorded them and then spent hours painstakingly editing the material, adding here and there the odd effect and generally directing what sounds like a nightmarish Surrealist movie perversely shot in lush Cinemascope, or a hellish version of Lumpy Gravy as played by a freaked-out jazz combo. Digipak. [label info]
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Jennifer Gentle -- "A New Astronomy" -- CD -- €8
2005/2006 A Silent Place, ASP13
Official re-issue of the ultra rare 2005 Sub Pop release (Ltd x 100 copies), now in a digipak. This album is dedicated to Giovanni Paneroni, amateur astronomer and misunderstood genius. "A new astronomy" is probably the most eccentric and out-there JG release to date. Recorded mostly in Marco Fasolo's bedroom on a 4-track cassette machine, the album was conceived as the imaginary soundtrack for some of their most bizarre, vivid dreams - obviously interspersed by the occasional nightmare. It's made by grainy, hallucinated musical scores trying to depict the beautiful, the scary, the annoying and the simply absurd inhabiting dreams. It runs the gamut from ghostly ambient drones to brain-damaged acoustic sketches, covering everything in between - furious guitar freak-outs and a homage to British 60's producer Joe Meek included. [label info]
Jennifer Gentle & Kawabata Makoto -- "The Wrong Cage" -- CD -- €8
2002/2008 A Silent Place, ASP34
Re-release of "The Wrong Cage", the superfreaky, acid rock album that introduced Italian psych-pop mavericks Jennifer Gentle to the rest of the world, leading to their subsequent Sub Pop signing. Originally self-released in 2002, "The Wrong Cage" saw the young Italian quartet join forces with Kawabata Makoto (Acid Mothers Temple) for a live album that captured the band at it's most ferocious. Over 30 minutes of wonderful sonic carnage: two long, ultra-heavy guitar freakouts plus a eerily beautiful solo sarongi track played by Kawabata. All in all, a must for all fans of heavy, guitar-driven psychedelic avant-rock. Inlcudes a bonus track - an 18-minute long version of "Bring Them" from another night of that tour. Digipak. [label info]
Jerman, Jeph -- "Prayer * Tactus" -- CD -- €10
2009 Semperflorens, sf01
Track 1 is made from Tinguely's machine, Tibetan prayer wheels, burden basket, drum; track 2 - from stones, volcanoes, shortwave, wire, VLF. Constructions of field recordings mixed with object improvisations. "Prayer" is peripheral sounds existing around "religious" activities of different faiths. "Tactus" deals with geologic or geophysical sound traces finely layered. As above, so below... [label info]
Jerman, Jeph -- "Roadwork" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Lunhare, ZZZ - 14, (ltd. 100)
A work documenting 25 years of field recordings on the roads of the USA brilliantly edited and mixed in a single long track. [label info]
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Jerman, Jeph & Doug Theriault -- "Tathata" -- CD -- €13
2010 Nitkie, patch one, (ltd. 500)
Tathata is a central concept in Buddhism, literally translated from sanskrit as "thusness" or "suchness". Tathata expresses appreciation of the true nature of reality in any given moment. As no moment is exactly the same, each one can be savored for what occurs at that precise time, whether it is thought of as being good or bad. However, Jeph Jerman and Doug Theriault are trying to give us the possibility to meditate on this word, they recorded three long improvised pieces for the same-titled album. Jeph plays acoustic sources (stones, health balls, metals, sticks etc) and Doug played guitar and processed it with his laptop. The music is very quiet, the sparse and spontaneous movements reveals the silence playing the main role between abstract sound gestures. It seems so that the musicians have no intent to produce music, which can express certain ideas or follow the process, thus it's setting free your mind and clear it from any predominant thoughts. In fact, it's a new direction of perceiving the environment, the musicians share with some sounds, originated far from the complex pseudoreality programming, it's mostly intuition. Another important step to understanding the musical ecology, to reach the point where anything can be taken apart from everything else. [press-release]
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Job Karma -- "Strike" -- CD -- €10
2005 Ars Benevola Mater, ABM 11, (ltd. 1080)
Slowly elating deep ambient, analogic ritual industrial, sadness of vacuum tube generators, echoes from the "life", voices taken from somewhere, rhythmical sound... is not easy to describe the music of this polish combo! This is the perfect soundtrack for a decadent world, an apocalyptic society controlled by the machines & industries... just give a look to www.jobkarma.pl to discover more about this FANTASTIC band!!! [press-release]
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Job Karma -- "Tschernobyl" -- CD -- €11
2007 Ars Benevola Mater, ABM 35, (ltd. 1000)
The Joy Of Nature -- "The Empty Circle Part III - Anitya" -- CD -- €10
2010 Rage In Eden, RAGE 74
Anitya is that which has no existence in the beginning and no existence in the end. Its nature is impermanence. The record was created in two different and very special periods of time and it musically unites both western and eastern sounds. The tracks contained are the musical expression of different kinds of dreams. It consists of folk, experimental, psychedelic and industrial elements, and even classical music but sounding, at various places, like ritual music. The structures of the tracks owe as much to classical as to psychedelic music. [press-release]
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Judah -- "s/t" -- CD -- €8
2007 SmallVoices, SVR0720
Second full album by those clones of NY's legend Suicide! This album is even more close to the very typical Suicide sound than the first one.. they sound extremely close to the originals! An incredible collision between cold and analogue minimal electronics with toxic and vicious vocals, rock'n'roll and savage punk. A real cult project / cult release. [label info]
Juhning, Herz -- "Miasma" -- CD -- €15
2009 Galakthorrö 024
After Herz Jühning has whetted the appetite of so many listeners with his Faces EP, Galakthorrö now is proud to be able to present Herz Jühning's first Longplayer. On Miasma he combines the kinetic energy of Power-Electronics with favourite ingredients from the witches'cauldron of Angst Pop. You will hear brutal bass-drones, nasty electrified currents, pumping analog rhythms and eerie frequency modulations. The sound elements have been ruthlessly selected to emphasise the reductive characteristics, and brought together around the incisive vocals to form an homogenous and complete work of art. Whether ailing popsongs, aggressive noise-attacks, or ominous sound experiments, all is artfully united in the 13 songs found on Miasma. Once more it is Jühning's no-frills arranging technique, that shows itself to be so highly effective on Miasma, just as it made Faces so successful. There is much to discover and Miasma will take the hearts of its listeners by storm! How could it not? CD in matt finish digipac, 16-page booklet incl. lyrics. [press-release]
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Julie's Haircut -- "Our Secret Ceremony" -- 2 CD -- €12
2009 A Silent Place, ASP38
"Our Secret Ceremony" is the fifth album by Julie's Haircut. The record lives on the osmosis of different styles and approaches, from pop to electronica, from psychedelic rock to experimentation, still never lacking in coherence and unity. The first disc has a more classically orientated song structure, accompanied by the second part which has a looser feel. In a way, it's as if there are the two basic aspects of the creative process and, ultimately, of the human existence, living side by side: light and shadow, consciousness and unconsciousness, reality and dream. Presented in a hardback cardboard 6-panel digisleeve. [label info]
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Julie's Haircut & Sonic Boom -- "N-Waves / U-Waves" -- CD -- €8
2007/2008 A Silent Place, ASP19, (ltd. 750)
In late September 2005 Sonic Boom, (Pete Kember of Spacemen 3, Spectrum and Experimental Audio Research) meets Julie's Haircut at Studio Alpha in Bologna to co-operate with them in the final editing of their latest album. Only a part of 3 days of studio recordings was released in the original 10" edition of this release (Ltd 524). "N-Waves / U-Waves" contains two takes produced in that session: 'Gemini, pt. 1 & pt. 2' presented here in its first take; and 'Scarfo Spanks DC' - another completely unreleased improvisation. Two more studio improvisations complete this CD release, with Sonic Boom playing exotic electronic devices such as the Raagini, Kraakle and the EMS Synthi AKS sinthetizer. CD slip with embossed outer sleeve. [label info]
June 11 -- "Matter is Alive" -- CD -- €9
2008 EE Tapes, EE16, (ltd. 400)
The CD starts with a cover version of By This River, a mood-evoking 1977 Brian Eno song, and contains melodic tributes to other abstract artists like Marthe Wery and Robert Rauschenberg. Harold Budd, another great influence, is honored with a graceful waltz. The music seems to fill the gap between ambient and song. Assembled in layers, electronic ones as well as piano, clarinet, sax, guitars, percussion, and samples from faraway places. All these elements are treated as equal. Also: some very sensual female vocals by Mieke Versyp and special guests Nadine Bal (from BeNe GeSSeRiT, Human Flesh...) and Drita Kotaji (who was - back in the 80ies - the composer and singer of the haunting ballad 'my Suitor' by Bernthoeler and is now part of INK). The project was set up in Gent, Belgium by Jan Van den Broeke. Some might remember him as a member of The Misz and Absent Music, a long time ago. This CD puts him back on track, with new tools, old and new friends and a strong and personal new vision. Matter Is Alive: 10 painted songs, 50 minutes of beauty and melancholy in the face of
the end of the world: [press-release]
K11 -- "The Sacred Wood" -- CD -- €13
2010 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 141
K11 (aka Pietro Riparbelli) is a very good sound-sculptor continuing the long tradition of Italian Ambient Industrial artists... This special album was recorded at the enchanting park of Monsters of Bomarzo. The park of Monsters of Bomarzo was devised by the architect Pirro Ligorio (he completed the Cathedral of Saint Peter in Rome after the death of Michelangelo and built Villa d'Este in Tivoli) on commission of Prince Pier Francesco Orsini, called Vicino, only to vent the heart broken at the death of is wife Giulia Farnese. The park was born in 1552 as "Villa of Wonders" to be the only one of it's kind in the world. Incredible but true, the Park of Monsters remained in complete oblivion till 1954 and only few people was aware about all the fantastic treasures contained within the park for over 400 years! K11 was recording the soul of this park of Monsters and Wonders and after re-working the sounds he delivers us a trip between reality and dream. Psychadelic, ritual ambient music from an other space, from an other era, from an other land... [press-release]
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K11 -- "Waiting For the Darkness" -- CD-R -- €9
2010 Afe Records, afe126lcd, (ltd. 100)
Experimental / Industrial / Noise. "K11 is a project that deals with the world of radio signals, the trans-communication and other invisible phenomena, to create a dimension where the only sound sources are signals from shortwave radio receivers. In this project I use only sounds coming from the atmosphere and from invisible places." Many music works created by Pietro Riparbelli were released by Radical Matters in Italy during the recent years. His "Voices From Thelema" was published by Aurora Borealis in the United Kingdom during early 2009. "Waiting For the Darkness" is K11's first release on Afe, here's a short introduction to the album written by the author: "Waiting For the Darkness" is the documentation of an action of instrumental transcommunication performed in a forest in 2007. It consists of a video, recorded during the last hours of the day and of five audio tracks composed with short wave radio signals recorded during the action itself. This work wishes to investigate the dimension of fear and continues the research of Pietro Riparbelli about Instrumental Transcommunication started off with the first action performed within the Abbey of Thelema and documented on the "Voices From Thelema" CD. "Waiting For the Darkness" was born as an audio-video installation which has been hosted by "PX Piombino Experimenta 04" international sound art festival in collaboration with Influx..." [label info]
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K2 -- "HA GA NE" -- CD -- €8
2010 Triangle Records, TR-44 / Cerosene, CRSN, (ltd. 250)
A member of 80s mail-art-scene, the King of metal Junk Noise of 90s - Kimihide Kusafuka - a surgical pathologist and a scientist started his musical activity. After early period of ambient/industrial works, then blasting metal collages, in the end of 2009 K2 started a new chapter, changed the method and the style of his noise. “HA GA NE” is made with processed old metal tape recordings and distorted Korg MS-20 synth, recorded and mixed traditionally on MTR. Loud'n'fast cut-up noise! Kimihide Kusafuka says: “Punk rock gave me both the concept that the persons who cannot play the musical instruments professionally and skillfully are even able to play “music”, and the loudness of the aggressive rock sounds. (...) I have been considering on the relationship between the loudness and complexity of noise music and the biological (or scientific) and social influences. “Noise” is a factor, which should be excluded in the post-modern “clean” world, but I think that “noise” - like factor needed for acquisition of healthy balance between inner (personal) and outer (social) sides. If no noise exists in the world, I think that we will self-destroy. Loudness and complexity of noise give us the paralyzing of our logical and rigid thinking circuits, and speed of noise give us the freshness or relaxation of our firm right brains.” This is real CD, limited to 250. [press-release]
Kabal -- "Alone" -- CD-R -- €9
2002 Afe Records, afe040cd
After delighting his audience with the self-titled debut album in 1998 Dr. Kabal has finally come up with his second full-lenght release which is proudly presented as an Afe Records / Moonfear co-production. For all those who passionately remember the good old days of what was called "Intelligent Techno" (whatever that meant...) this will be a very enjoyable experience. Entirely recorded at Pergolab with the affectionate support of Leeza and the whole Afe Community, it literally sweats out the soul of the silicone chips that generated it. [label info]
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Kabal -- "Kabal" -- CD-R -- €9
1998 Afe Records, afe009cd
New Electronica, very "warpish" debut of Dr. Kabal. All the tracks on this release were written and produced by Kabal between October 1995 and May 1997, except tracks 2, 3, 9, 10 and 11 written by Kabal and Leeza, track 6 written by Leeza and track 13 remixed and produced by Lips Vago. [label info]
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Kadaver -- "Automatic Autopsy" -- CD -- €8
2009 Topheth Prophet, TP018, (ltd. 500)
Second album of Israeli project on Topheth Prophet label. "Automatic Autopsy" is a bit strange material which is not aggressive unlike many of his other works, it's built on blending various styles and this gives specific oppressive sound, and Michael Zolotov did a good job on this. The album consists of multi-layered sound structures of feedbacks, field recordings, sampled loops, etc. which create overall terrifying and depressive atmosphere. [Sickcore]
Kadaver -- "God Has Left The Building" -- CD-R -- €7
2006 Mask of the Slave, MS-008, (ltd. 150)
Kadaver is a 1man project by Michael Zolotov from Israel. Active since 2003 (yet the first release came out on 2005). The sounds of Kadaver shifts from dark and twisted ambient through industrial till harsh noise and power electronics. This is NOT art nor music. Kadaver is NOT an artist trying to "creatively express himself" via this format. This is a cancer. It's sickness. It's a warm streaming vomit of hatred towards life, humans and existence. It's the knife in your hand when nightmares twist your dreams. It's the emptiness that devours your meaningless being and bleed as tears of decay over it. This is not for anyone... This is Kadaver. [press-release]
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Kadaver -- "This Time... It's Cancer" -- CD -- €10
2007 Topheth Prophet, TP012, (ltd. 500)
"This Time... It's Cancer" is the latest release by Israeli death industrial prodigy Kadaver
originaly was supposed to be released by Italian Slaughter Productions but due to the circumstances changed to Topheth Prophet. "...Death needs time for what it kills to grow in..." (William S. Burroughs). [label info]
Kadef -- "Statt Disco lullend um sich selbst kreisen" -- CD-R -- €7
Tosom, TOSOM XX-003, (ltd. 99)
4 abstract and desolate minimal-noise pieces in Kadef's analogue lo-fi style. Music for people without Saturday-night-disco-fever. People which circle around itself and this of course alone. [label info]
Kahn, Jason & Francis, Richard -- "s/t" -- CD -- €10
2009 Monochrome Vision, mv28, (ltd. 500)
The new album from two masters of electroacoustic improvisation, who are living thousands miles away from each other, but found some common aesthetic views and originality of artistic expression. This materials were recorded live during their collaborative performances in various locations, consisting of four long tracks, presenting the unique interaction between technology and intuition... Jason Kahn's work includes sound installation, performance and composition. He was born in New York in 1960, grew up in Los Angeles and relocated to Europe in 1990. He currently lives in Zürich. He has given concerts and exhibited sound installations throughout Europe, North and South America, Japan, Mexico, Korea, Israel, Turkey, Russia, Lebanon, Egypt, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Australia. Kahn performs both solo and in collaborations, using percussion, analog synthesizer or computer in different combinations. He composes for electronics, acoustic instruments and environmental recordings. For larger groups of directed improvisation he has devised a system of graphical scores. Kahn creates his sound installations for specific spaces. The focus of these primarily non-visual works lies in the perception of space through sound... Richard Francis has been releasing works on CD/vinyl, performing solo and in collaboration as a touring artist since 1996. He uses field recordings of natural and electronic sounds and a signal generator to compose layered sound works of textural and tonal detail. He has released solo and collaborative works on a number of labels worldwide and runs his own label CMR through which he currently releases limited edition lathe cut records by New Zealand artists. In performance he uses a computer and electronics and has toured Japan, Australia, Hong Kong, Canada, USA and Europe. Since 2003, Francis has composed works for sound installation, participating in group and solo shows at galleries throughout New Zealand. [press-release]
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Kaiten -- "Turning Of The Heavens" -- CD -- €10
2005 Annihilvs, APEX002, (ltd. 500)
ANNIHILVS proudly presents TURNING OF THE HEAVENS, the debut album from KAITEN, the collaborative project featuring Erik Jarl (IRM, JARL) and Lirim Cajani (INSTITUT, OPERATIV PERMANENT). As would be expected from an alliance of these two Swedish artists, KAITEN is a foray into dark, dense, and superb harsh electronics. Taking their name from the infamous Japanese manned torpedoes, a submarine counterpart of the Kamikaze planes of WWII, KAITEN submerges the listener in a world of claustrophobic, shuddering tension. Distorted echoes of mayhem resonate against the hull of a steel coffin speeding toward certain destruction. Grating, shouted vocals, radio intercepts, and bombastic rhythms are crushed together to represent an inevitable fiery death and a hero's grave in the cold, crushing depths of the Pacific Ocean, all in the name of imperious glory. [press-release]
kakaokamkami -- "@" -- CD-R -- €7
self-released
The first record by this Helsinki-based outfit. Features five home-made instrumental tracks of simple glockenspiel and violin melodies flavored with buzzing guitars and programmed percussion. [from the author]
kakaokamkami -- "Snowballs" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Jozik Records
This is the most psychedelic but at the same time the most rocking effort by kakaokamkami so far. Ten tracks, forty minutes of beauty. Comes in handmade carton covers. [label info]
Kammarheit -- "Asleep and Well Hidden" -- CD -- €14
2003/2005 Cyclic Law, 3rd Cycle
First "official" CD from this Swedish master of what we could term apocalyptic dark ambient. After a streak of CDrs and an apperance on the "Nord Ambient Alliance" compilation CD, Kammarheit offers us a unique album of tortured sonic landscapes taking us on an unsetteling journey through darkened dreams. Homogeneous dark ambiences combined with serene drones and put together as a shadowy collection of dreamy, melancholic soundscapes, Kammarheit forms images of long lost ruins, barren lands and gigantic, rumbling machines. "Asleep and well hidden" was created as a tool for dreamers, a place to flee to when the outside world comes too close. [label info]
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Kandelin, Toni -- "Abstractions ïf Kindness" -- CD-R -- €6
2004 Spirals Of Involution, SOI 040
Yaroslavl-based label Spirals Of Involution is a true discovery for real noise-lovers and this disc isn't the exception. Toni Kandelin - a Finnish musician and founder of Hammasratas label - seems to be a big noise-lover as well. Powerful analogue sound, abstract composition structures, harsh noise as it is!
Kapotte Muziek -- "Assemblage" -- 2 CD-R -- €9
2010 Lunhare, ZZZ - 15, (ltd. 100)
The Assemblage project started as a 7" which had music and visuals open to be used by anyone who wished to do so. From that point of departure, KM produced three cassettes: 'Ages Be Alms', 'As Smega Bel' and 'Clyicsert'. All this music is gathered here, with the addition of a compilation track and a remix created by Freiband in 2010 using all the material involved in this package. [label info]
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Kapotte Muziek -- "Egg" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Lunhare, zzz - 11, (ltd. 100)
EGG is Electrocute, Gematria, and Gilles de Rais, three works released on cassette in 1984 and 1985, representing the early KM way to sound manipulations. [label info]
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Kapotte Muziek -- "Enhanced Room Acoustics" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Lunhare, zzz - 4, (ltd. 100)
Previously released on cassette in 1996, the two original tracks are here enhanced by a new one especially composed and performed by Freiband (Frans de Waard) in 2007. From the analogic sound modifications of last century's industrial age to the micro and nearly audible variations of the new digital era. [label info]
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Kapotte Muziek -- "Interaction" -- 2 CD-R -- €9
1990/2011 Lunhare, ZZZ - 17, (ltd. 100)
Previously issued in 1990 as two separate tapes to be played at the same time, here enhanced by one new double track composed and performed by Freiband. [label info]
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Kapotte Muziek -- "Praag / Rotterdam" -- CD -- €10
Chondritic Sound, CH-127 / PACrec 114, (ltd. 1000)
This joint-release of Chondritic Sound and Pac Rec contains two live pieces, recorded in 1995 and 1998, at the time when Kapotte Muziek was still a trio featuring Roel Meelkop, Peter Duimelinks and Frans de Waard. 'Praag', recorded in 1995, starts off with a serene drone, subtle added by the fickle crackling of various kinds of manipulated sounds. Although 'Praag' may be classified as a standard live set, being menial documented, the second piece should be seen as an ode to Detroit, the city of punk, noise, trash and techno. In 1998 Kapotte Muziek took part of the 'I rip you, you rip me' project in Rotterdam, a project dedicated to the impact of Detroit to the music history. All mentioned music elements, except punk perhaps, pass by during the set. It's great to hear the meaning of 'trash' being used by taking found objects as source material, gradually manipulated to noise and electronic excerpts. I guess you may call it a punk spirit. [MW, Vital Weekly]
Kar -- "Sfrigor" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2005 Taalem, alm 22
Kar is an Italian duo, who presents here its first 3"cd-r after some self-released cd-r's and a pair of other cd-r's on the sadly defunct S'Agita Recordings. This 20min piece will surprise you as its sound evolves radically from the beginning till the end. It starts with some scraping & scratching sounds which could remind you some stuff like Organum, then moves to a more electronic domain with some glitchy sounds... [press-release]
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Karisen, Botchan -- "Réactions Méchaniques" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2006 Taalem, alm 33
Botchan Karisen is a French artist also known under the Babylone Chaos alias where he creates electro-industrial sounds (his latest release was on Divine Comedy Records) and is a member of the experimental & oniric duo Scripta Manent. This piece, created in 2004, mixes an un/de-tuned piano melody, manipulated sounds, ambient experimental music and noise... [press-release]
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Karjalan Sissit -- "Fucking Whore Society" -- CD -- €12
2009 Cyclic Law, 25rd Cycle, (ltd. 2000)
At last, Karjalan Sissit return after 4 years of relative silence with their most obscure and harshest work ever. Fucking whore society is an anger and Vodka fueled bombastic opus inspired by the world's psychopathic state. A revolt against the cruel and sickly ways of today's society and a visceral and personal statement denouncing betrayal. Karjalan Sissit have masterfully expanded their signature sound with dense ambient passages and unsettling vocals all combined with their intensely unique orchestral passages, presenting us their best and most intense work yet. Produced by Peter Bjärgö (Arcana / Sophia). Edition of 2000 copies In A5 gatefold cardboard sleeve. [press-release]
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Karjalan Sissit -- "Karjalasta Kajahtaa" -- CD -- €12
2004/2009 Cyclic Law, 8th Cycle, (ltd. 1000)
The Finnish pioneer is back from the degenerated and alcoholized Swedish ghetto of Eskilstuna. 3rd full lenght from Markus Pesonen who now dove deeper into total Melancholy, Anti socialism, Bitterness, Disintegration and Alcoholism. Filled with what has defined KARJALAN SISSIT's sound thus far: Bombastic outbursts of Neo classical arrangements entwined in traditional Finnish Humppa and deep industrial sonorities. The songs were this time fiercly enhanced with some added vocals giving the whole album a much more aggressive touch. Again produced by Peter Bjärgö at Erebus Odora, this new album definitely stands above it's predecessors. Edition of 1000 copies in A5 book. 2nd edition. [press-release]
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Karjalan Tazavalla -- "Uhtua" -- CD-R -- €8
2009 UFA Muzak, UFA 29, (ltd. 91)
Death Industrial / Power Ambient. Karelian republic as Uhtian republic. Wonderful sonic document of the second "opus magnum" of this project from Petrozavodsk. This disc is a dedication to the Uhtian republic, which was founded in 1920-s in the northern Karelia and wanted to separate from Russia and become part of Finland. Two revolutionary revolts happened but were suppressed. This is history. During the running time of this disc you'll hear: iron walls of death industrial, cold currents of death ambient, and whisper of dark noise - this would most efficiently describe all the dreams that haunted the musicians during the recording of this material... Väinämöinen arises from Tuonela and warns people: don't make evil deeds and you won't be in that horrible situation where mean people are... 5 tracks, 54 minutes, CD-r, black carbdoard handmade digi-folder + stickers and cards. [press-release]
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Karma Marata / Kristian Giorgini -- "...And Still Remain" -- CD-R -- €9
2010 Ufa Muzak, UFA38 / Skullline, SLCDR110-10, (ltd. 120)
Neo-Folk / Military Pop. "One day the city will surrender and new barbarians will come to pull most terrible crimes. The replete and refined culture will turn to nothing, to dust under the feet of ignorant conquerors. They will destroy everything that was accumulated and systematized by this civilization in centuries, in one night all monuments, paintings, books and inventions will be committed to eternal nothing. This happens all the time, because this is a part of life itself, like nature and the right for rough uncontrolled power. Then the barbarians will go away, leaving only remembrances, quickly erased by time, feelings hovering over the ruins..." The 40th release of the label is a collaboration of German and Italian artists. A deep cultural excursion into martial - neofolk - synthpop musical areas. Professional sound cultural cafe will give you the passes for solemn and Teutonic-like romantic ritual from Karma Marata. After a short rest on a glade, chest full of mountain air, burned by cold water, as if by enchantment you're invaded by warm and mysterious aromas of Corsica - Kristian Giorgini. Gentle vocals and staggering ecstatic electronics... 6-panel hand made digipak. [press-release]
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Kasyansky, Grundik -- "Floating Point" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 Topheth Prophet, TP011, (ltd. 100)
Grundik Kasyansky plays feedback synthesizer, field recordings, theremin, samples and assemblage and here on 'Floating Point' one Fyodor Makarov plays toy concertina. The music is an 'audio collage based on three works written for dance', all mixed up into one piece, so the relevance of the music for dance is gone, I'd say. In his previous releases Kasyanksy was a man who showed his love for quiet music, with a big role for silence among the silence, and perhaps a soft peep here and there. But on this new release he makes a step forward. It may end out in his usual soft mood, but over the course over the thirty-six minutes that go before that he brings his material alive through a very strong audio collage. Field recordings and feedback, and occasional bang on the toy piano: it makes up quite a strong release. At times I was reminded a bit of Andrew Liles, even when Kasyansky's music sounded at times more fully loaded than Liles. It marks a great step forward for Kasyansky and is by far his best release to date. [Vital Weekly]
Katzo -- "Disposition" -- CD -- €10
2006 Silentes, 200611
A (nearly) 70 minute flux of dynamic/driving programmed rhythmic sequences, bass lines, and pulsing grooves... meshed into each other, then infused with microsounds. KATZO is a Japanese project by Katsuya Urushizaki. This is 'on the go' ultra high-tech electronic music... great for listening while on the move, or as a 'night dub soundtrack' for your deepest dreams. [press-release]
Keeler, James P. -- "5 Shades for a Grey Room" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2002 Taalem, alm 8
James P. Keeler has become shortly a big name in the dark-ambient / experimental fields with his Wilt project. Under his own name, James doesn't change his music radically. Sometimes more haunting with some rhythms and deep rumblings, sometimes more concrete with unexpected natural sounds, it has an experimental aspect that keeps you awake! [press-release]
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Keimverbreitung -- "The K Sessions" -- CD-R -- €6
2003 Amplexus, (ltd. 177)
Keimverbreitung is a new dimension in ambient-avantguarde music. Decadent atmospheres, rumorism, laments & electronic sounds....all mixed to create the perfect soundtrack for our unsound minds...to dscover it! [label info] Something experimental-vanguard. Throat singing, shaman's percussion, ethnic guitar parts, dark industrial ambience. Eclectic but interesting. [Abgurd description]
Keli -- "Zero" -- CD -- €11
2010 OPN Records, OPNCD0013
Yukiko Fukushima is a japanese artist, who experienced her talent in many ways such as photography, or music. Her main musical inspiration comes from classical music, especialy Bach's piano works she's studying endlessly. Yukiko's first musical creations consisted in piano improvisations. Since 2008 she has been working on a more personnal projet called Zero. Her unarmed inspiration is an unique ambiant and colorful musical piece build around her classical influence and her oriental soul. Zero is an endless work, like its numerical symbol, a musical laboratory, an infinite experience. [press-release]
Kenotaph -- "Promise" -- CD -- €10
1998 Functional Organisation, Functional 012
Side project of Skalp presents the material of an old tape with bonus material. Distorted rhythmic noise with harsh pounding machinelike sounds and slow whispering voice.
Keplers Odd -- "Strena Seu De Nive Sexangula (A New Year's Gift Of Hexagonal Snow)" -- CD -- €10
2008 Fractured Spaces Records, FS0108CD, (ltd. 1000)
Genre: Guitar-based noise drone ambient. From the darkest and coldest heart of Sweden comes the trio known as Keplers Odd, and Fractured Spaces Records is pleased to announce that "Strena Seu de Nive Sexangula", their third CD album, is the first official release on the UK's newest quality underground music label. Featuring seven tracks of noisy yet subtly ambient guitar-driven sonic attacks, eerily redolent of the icy cold mysterious aurora-wrapped landscapes prevalent throughout Northern Europe, inhabited by creatures and monsters spawned from the myths & legends told around campfires over countless generations. Indeed, Keplers Odd have themselves spawned a monster of an album, creating textures and ambiences far beyond the normal run of over-driven guitar noisefests - yes, there is unalloyed power here, but there is also quiet subtlety, sinister atmospherics, and deeply dark occult moods. Ancient abandoned buildings, dark musty corridors, sinister forces at play - it's all here in stonking quantities!! KEPLERS ODD are: Daniel Jansson (Deadwood, STUG 218 & Crest 218 [Crest & STUG 218 collaborative project]), Magnus Moilala (Crest & Crest 218 [Crest & STUG 218 collaborative project]), and Kristina Persson (Viper Trail). Currently they are to be seen rampaging around Gothenburg, Sweden. [press-release]
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Khaos Theory -- "From the Darkness of Khaos" -- CD -- €9
2008 Military Industrial Komplex Records
Khaos Theory is a military industrial metal band from NYC sounding sometimes like hardcore version of Laibach. "The concept for "From the Darkness of Khaos" is to reveal the hidden governments of the world and expose them into the light and minds of the 95% ignorant in today's world. Each song deals with a specific topic on the Iraq war, 9/11, Multinational corporations, Religion as an ignorant tool of enslavement, and the hidden elect or Illuminati secret societies which are slowly changing the world we live in to a uni-polar Orwellian state where only one government has the means to control and subjugate your life. Songs like "Kein Entkommen" give a vision of Corprate tyranny over the common man as they slowly destroy natural resource to gain profit to become an establisment that is too powerfull to stop. Thus none escape the grasp of total control they have. "Black September" is a song about the planes destroying the world trade center and changing the outlook of the western thought towards third world states. "The West Will Conquer" is a song that has a militant and patriotic anthem like any good propaganda piece to inspire a people to become active and involved in their countries agenda. The current album contains these tracks and many others like "Khaos Theory" and "From the Darkness of Chaos". Some songs are more dark and futuristic industrial, where as other songs are more classical and neo-militant". [from the press-release]
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Kiila -- "Tuota Tuota" -- CD -- €10
2009 Fonal Records, FR-65
Tuota tuota is the third full-length album by Kiila. Its songs were born of peaceful, focused work and intense rehearsals with friends, interspersed with sleep and mealtimes. The album features an eight-strong core line-up but, as always, the composition of the group varies effortlessly according to need. At this table, there is room for everyone... As musical form, songs have always been important to Kiila, and consequently Tuota tuota develops around its songs. On the other hand, the album consists of many details: the sound is full, the web of instruments more varied and carefully orchestrated than before. It is unnecessary to separate the electronic from the non-electronic components. Different traditions of folk and pop music intermingle with electronic music and improvisation, tones and sound itself. This way, the album also poses questions about songs and songwriting... The motifs in the songs are not easy to render in English, but one can at least attempt to translate some of them: master of the house, elk antlers, tree bark, sound of rapids, fog, letters, calves, fingers. The list, however, doesn't make the songs easier to understand in a foreign language. The words sound archaic, anachronistic or timeless, the language of the myth. But can they be something else, too? And how transparent do we want the myth to be? At the risk of sounding dull, I suggest that the songs do speak to their age, our age, the nature of knowledge and work, the fluctuations of inspiration and threat. Unfortunately, it is mostly only the Finnish-speaking listeners who will be able to assess the validity of this idea... The name of the album, Tuota tuota, translates roughly as 'well, well' and signifies a thinking pause, a moment of contemplation. The language alone is likely to give pause to an English-speaking listener, but I hope the idea will convey itself in more ways than just that. And a pause for thinking is, of course, never a waste of time. [Niko-Matti Ahti / Kiila]
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Kiln -- "Thermals" -- CD -- €10
2005 Infraction, INFX 007, (ltd. 500)
KiloWatts -- "Undercurrent" -- CD -- €14
2009 Somnia, somnia 009, (ltd. 777)
Kinetix -- "Final Archives" -- CD -- €10
2010 Silentes Minimal Editions, sme 1043
This is the final chapter for this project run by Gianluca Becuzzi - well known for his old dark wave project LIMBO but also for his solo works and collaborations with Fabio Orsi. FINAL ARCHIVES is a sort of collection of rare tracks recorded from 1999 to 2006 totally reworked and remastered in 2009. ABSOLUTE GREY is the title that Kinetix gave to his graphic artwork selection exhibited with an ambient score specifically composed for the exposition space. The exhibition is made up of ten grey scale serigraphs on white forex sheets a metre square and a composition of 20 minutes played through two loudspeakers with one woofer covered in grey powder on top of a white cube. RAW MATERIALS is a collection of seven short tracks from early Kinetix productions. Noise gestaltmusic. A multi-dimensional concept created with sound layers and ambient concretism. These tracks help the listener to understand the starting point of Kinetix's sound research. RESOUNDING SCULPTURES is based on the concept of "composition for blocks of sound" made in the 50's and 60's by Iannis Xenakis. For this reason traditional compositional criteria (harmonic-melodic / rhythmic-metric) replace the various criteria of plastic / spatial forms. Part of the sound sources used were extracted from the works of Iannis Xenakis to whom this composition is dedicated. [press-release]
Kinetix -- "Gestaltsystem 01 :: Possible Forms" -- 2 CD -- €15
2006 Monochrome Vision, (mv06)
"Possible Forms" is the first section of the audio installation titled "Gestaltsystem" represented for the first time at the exhibition "PX: Piombino eXperimenta 2005" Piombino (Italy). "Possible Forms" is not a double-CD album, but it's an audio-set composed by two CDs planned to be played simultaneously. It includes sixteen electronic compositions of identical length (5'.20") for a total time of 42'.42" for each CD. This work is conceived in order that every track of each record could play as second layer on every track of the other one. For this reason, the tracks hasn't neither title nor a pre-arranged sequential order. Macrostructure: the black CD includes eight tracks with metrical-tonal elements, while the white CD contains eight tracks of only noise drones. Both CDs have the same peak level (0dB), so the listener can choose the respective volume of each of the two CDs. These recordings contain ultra and sub sonic frequencies; for this reason the author advices the listener not to play the CDs at high volumes. Microstructure: all the tracks are obtained from a special combination of forty different audio fragments, previously selected and extracted from various digital sources. The minimal form of the entire work was specifically created to facilitate the listening in combined modality, establishing this way a precise relationship between sign and function. Vertical audio system: using two CD players (or CD-ROM/DVD players) in Random / Shuffle and Repeat modes, both players have to be started simultaneously. So, the two records can be played together ad libitum, generating sounds and sequences in continuous movement. Possible Forms uses sound strategies based on the calculation of auditive times and spaces in order to create a different kind of audio-logic design. In this sense this work can be intended as a device able of expanding the ordinary possibilities of domestic listening and it can be presented in the form of audio installation. [press release]
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Kinetix -- "Selected E_Missions" -- CD -- €8
2003 Small Voices, SVR 03007
SMALLVOICES proudly present the first official cd album of new italian project KINETIX. Since 1999, KINETIX is the new moniker of Gianluca Becuzzi, artist active since the first half of the 80's. This CD includes material written during the first years of KINETIX artistic activity (2000/2002). It's constituted by six tracks (identified by graphic signs) presented in totally unreleased versions. This work can be considered as KINETIX official debut; the start point to approach to the KINETIX aesthetic dimension. A collection of deep and wrapping digital soundscapes, dotted by micro-noisy granular material, resonant fields where time and space humble themselves in a single perceptive continuum. Contemporary, abstract, minimal, cold, intense and evocative drone music. First volume of the SMALLVOICES series of KINETIX releases. Released in an elegantšdigipack. [press-release]
Kinetix -- "White Rooms" -- 2 CD -- €12
2004 Small Voices, SVR04014
Kinetix is the new moniker of Gianluca Becuzzi (LIMBO). Kinetix' second official release on Small Voices, "White Rooms" is a work which conjugates radical electronica and expressive power in a unique formula made of stylised and very personal minimalist sound-design. The relationships between physical space and acoustic space constitute the main theme of this double-CD, packaged in an elegant digipak. "White Rooms" is a limpid digital gallery through which the listener is invited to discover bright and resounding spaces, white flats inhabited by concrete sounds, ultra-frequencies, noises, voices and silences. An aesthetic experience placing itself beyond the genres in territories of pure contemporary avant-garde." [press-release]
'kirchenkampf' -- "Babel" -- 2 CD -- €15
2007 Diophantine Discs, n = 8,9, (ltd. 500)
"Babel" follows the recent and well-received albums "Island of the Dead" (on Cohort) and "Transmissions" (which we released last year). It is an extremely dynamic and dense work that could generally be classified as experimental dark ambient. The theme here is the Tower of Babel and each disc takes a somewhat different yet complimentary approach: the first ("Red Babylon") is generally a rather heavy and intense recording, while the second ("Citadel of the Nevermind") is more droney and dream-like. A profound and monumental journey lasting well over two hours... 'kirchenkampf', the project of John Gore (Cohort Records, The Oratory of Divine Love, >wirewall<), has been active since 1986. Since that time he has released numerous recordings on his own and other labels. Additionally, John has collaborated with a number of others, including Steve Hall (Yen Pox), C. Reider, and Brett Smith (Caul)... The CDs come packaged in a stunning printed gatefold sleeve. [press-release]
Kiritchenko, Andrey -- "Live At Ultrahang Festival" -- CD-R -- €8
2005 Live Reports, nlr02
Born in 1976 in Kharkiv / Ukraine and started his musical activity in 1991 as a singer / song-writer in a rock band. Active in fields of electronic music since 1996. Andrey is a cross-genre experimental sound artist combined acoustic and digital aesthetics, tiny melodies and noise. So far, under all aliases he released more than 40 albums on labels such as Staalplaat, Ad Noiseam, SPEKK, Zeromoon and Nexsound; has over 50 compilation appearances on labels all over the world; performed through continental Europe, Russia and Kazakhstan; had collaborations with Francisco Lopez, Kim Cascone, Sara Lunden, Jeff Surak, Kotra, the Moglass etc.; nominated and awarded by Qwartz Electronic Music Awards... This material was recorded live on 27.09.2003 in Budapest, Hungary.
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Kiritchenko, Andrey / Courtis, Anla / Moglass -- "s/t" -- CD -- €10
2006 Nexsound, ns49 / Carbon Records, CR122 / TIBProd., TIBCD80 / Gold Soundz, GS#46 / 1000+1 TiLt
Collaboration album by Anla Courtis, Andrey Kiritchenko and the Moglass. All three musicians put their sounds in the common pool and manipulate them, in the honoroued tape trading way. [label info]
Kirlian Camera -- "Invisible Front. 2005" -- CD -- €13
2005/2007 [Trisol], TRI 306 CD
Re-Release of the studio album of the year 2005. A tragic odyssey of 11 incredible songs permeated by a sense of loss, as beautiful KIRLIAN CAMERA have never produced before; despite some highly appreciated masterpieces of their past. It looks as though the band's latest hard period had condensed in a desperate lust and need to communicate, which has never been so luminous and aimed at its own unique vision. The enormous relief given to both Elena's stunning voice and talent in composing has been rewarded by an incomparable result, made even more intense by Angelo's anticipated "return to the male vocal parts. A record filled with a dreadfully incorporeal atmosphere, a somewhat statuesque, incomprehensible alienation, or estrangement, settle very closely to the borders of places impossible to describe ... - places that Elena, Angelo and their various collaborators (amongst them Jarboe from THE SWANS and Lloyd James from NAEVUS) seem to know very well. Ghostly and seemngly "magic" signals are appearing everywhere in a transfigured and nearly frozen scenery, almost as if Ridley Scott's "ALIEN" got wrapped in an additional cloak of sensation, dread, but also of a tragic beauty, indeed. These signals or echoes are coming from an unknown zone in which a spacecraft haunted by hallucinating spectres seems to be silently travelling on forever. KIRLIAN CAMERA have chosen a voluntary distance towards the typically conceited trends of the music-scene, an attitude that gave birth to a breath-taking new album, that will leave the inclined listeners speechless with admiration. Combinin "future avant-garde" with classical pop-arrangements, this amazing album will blast the confines of the genre of mere electronic music, sending a shiver own everybody's spine. The distilled power of all the hit-singles KIRLIAN CAMERA have ever created in their long career has been magnified on this album !!!=Is something like this really possible after so many falsely acclaimed - as fa= too often "empty" - electronic releases all around?!? It really looks so, at last... [label info]
Kirlian Camera -- "Odyssey Europa" -- 2 CD -- €18
2009 Out Of Line, OUT 373 | 374
KK Null / John Wiese -- "Mondo Paradoxa" -- CD -- €10
2009 Auf Abwegen, aatp26, (ltd. 500)
Constructed over the period of two years via mail collaboration this is a great and forceful collaboration between two artists that each have made a name for themselves with their unique approach to making sound. KKNULL is a master of feedback studies, working with looped scenarios to create dense and vital sound units. KKNULL has a long history as an experimental musician and is also the leading force behind proto-metal-group Zeni Geva and the dark-industrial project Absolut Null Punkt... John Wiese has recently collaborated with such acts as Wolf Eyes and Sunn O))) and is also a graphic designer in high demand. Usually he creates fragile but very erruptive lo-fi noise rumblings with an almost poetic touch. He has a musical past in the group Bastard Noise... Needless to say, both artists combine the best of both worlds in this crunching release! Comes in beautiful full cover digipak, designed by Government Alpha, typesetting by John Wiese. [press-release]
Klammheim -- "Heimwarts" -- CD -- €14
2009 Heimatfolk, HF 10
Klinikal Skum -- "Miasma" -- CD-R -- €8
2006 Abgurd Subdivision, AB-22, (ltd. 102)
New album from Ryan Oppermann of REDROT, NEUNTOTER DER PLAG, etc. It features analogue electronics and synth-noise styled atmospheres, though the musician doesn't actually use a synth. The theme with KLINIKAL SKUM is of mental hospitals, clinic, medication, nurse fetish, medical fetish, psychosis, etc. It is very much influenced by italian instrumental synth-noise: ATRAX MORGUE, M.Bianchi, MURDER CORPORATION and N. It is dark, creepy, and demented... [press-release]
Knifeladder -- "Music/Concrete" -- CD -- €13
2009 Cold Meat Industry, cmi192
Knifeladder have been in existence in one form or another since 1998. Their sound is the culmination of years of experimentation and independent development. The resultant sound is a heavily percussive industrial organic hybrid, a new meshing of electronic loops, live bass and percussion and ethnic instrumentation to form a kind of Organic Industrial Music. Two years after the release of 'The Spectacle' (now sold out) Cold Meat Industry are pleased to present the latest work by Knifeladder; 'Music/Concrete'. - a unique mix of hi tec and lo fi sounds, authorititive drums courtesy of the one and only John Murphy, and distorted obscure instruments, Knifeladder have again produced a work of great visceral power. With shuddering machine loops overlaid with frenetic metal percussion, power ambient soundscapes melting into epic defiant anthems, Music/Concrete uses traditional hand played electronics and instrumentation to realise a throroughly contemporary vision of rebirth and decay... Compared to such acts as Test Dept, Coil and Mother Destruction, Knifeladder have outgrown their reference points to create their own niche in the genre obsessed Industrial scene. The personnel include Jonh Murphy, percussionist and electronic pioneer with such acts as SPK, early Current 93 and credible pop act The Associates. Andrew Trail was founder of Autogeddon and performed in the controversial Ministry of Love, who broke up after being banned from performing in every live venue in Sydney. Hunter Barr was a founder member of the infamous Infant Skull Surgery and is a renowned recording engineer for his unconventional yet obsessively perfectionist approach. Knifeladder themselves have performed with such acts as Allerseen, Sieben, Naevus, Coil, Bad Sector and Neither/neither world. With over 100 live actions, they have mastered the live environment like few others... Play loud, play often, and find the joy that only laughing in the face of death can bring... [press-release]
Knox Om Pax -- "Laudanum" -- CD -- €10
2007 Destructive Industries, DI001, (ltd. 1000)
Heartful, yet very morose Neoclassical/Ambient. Suicide soundtrack for the fallen. [label info]
Knudsen, Jørgen -- "Wealth" -- CD -- €10
2006 Quasi Pop Records, QPOP CD038, (ltd. 500)
This is the first solo album of Norwegian composer and musician Jørgen Knudsen who was a founding member of highly acclaimed duo Information. This duo had an unique combination of sound and creative methods as well as their interest in connecting music with visuals, texts, dances etc. Information released a few fantastic albums on labels such as Beatservice and Rune Grammofon. Jørgen had been working on his first solo album during last few years, recording and collecting the audio sources for it. Most of these recordings were made in defferent places around the planet: Norway, Iceland, Greece, Chech Republic, Japan, China, Shri-Lanka, Goa, Thailand, Cambodia etc: Generally speaking, 'Wealth' has no typical style or even its own specific sound, this record reflects the Jorgen's interests in developing music in many different directions at the same time. Follows its name, 'Wealth' is a surrealistic blend of natural sounds and field-recordings, acoustic instruments, exotic voices, delicate melodies in 'Thai pop' style, different found sounds and noises. Another interesting fact about this release: the music was composed by Norwegian, recorded around the world, assembled in Cambodia and Thailand & at last, released on Ukrainian record label. Beautiful fotos on the cover of this album were made by Ukrainian photographer Sergey 'Doctor' Volkov in Greece. Is this a Globalism? [press release]
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Knurl -- "Vermifuge" -- CD -- €14
2007 PACrec, PACrec134 / Troniks, TRO-269
Knyaz' Myshkin -- "Wizard & Woman + Grifomania" -- CD-R -- €7
2006 Chopsticks, CSCD01
Legendary Belorussian avantguard project self-identifying as "intuitive improvisation". Each recording and performance are being done "right here and right now" and thus are unique. Everything what you might or might not imagine about improvisation music you'll find here. Mad mixture with a fragrance of John Zorn, Bill Laswell, Sergey Prokofiev and Asian and African folklore. The disk contains studio session "Wizard & Woman" and live set on Grifomania festival in Minsk. Not absolutely standard package. [press-release]
Kodiak / Nadja -- "s/t" -- CD -- €14
2009 Denovali Records, DEN40
Koff Koff -- "The Quality of Life" -- CD-R -- €7
TIB Productions, tibcd75
Norwegian noise, sharp and harsh, but intelligent and full of events at the same time. [YAOP description]
KolpakopF -- "áGNOIA" -- CD-R -- €7
2011 Heart Shaped Box prod., HSB-049, (ltd. 40)
Dark ambient created under the influence of Borges stories. Project coming from Ryazan, Russia. Sprayed CDR, 40 copies, slim-case, full-colour cover. [YAOP]
KolpakopF -- "Fire and Algebra" -- CD-R -- €7
2011 Heart Shaped Box prod., HSB-047, (ltd. 40)
Dark ambient created under the influence of Borges stories. Project coming from Ryazan, Russia. Sprayed CDR, 40 copies, slim-case, full-colour cover. [YAOP]
KolpakopF -- "Prostranstvo Ugroz" -- CD-R -- €7
2011 Heart Shaped Box prod., HSB-048, (ltd. 40)
Dark ambient created under the influence of Borges stories. Project coming from Ryazan, Russia. Sprayed CDR, 40 copies, slim-case, full-colour cover. [YAOP]
KolpakopF -- "The Sky Is Out of Order" -- CD-R -- €7
2011 Heart Shaped Box prod., HSB-050
Psychedelic drone ambient created under the influence of Borges stories. Project coming from Ryazan, Russia. Double sleeve. [YAOP]
Kommando -- "Necroinvasiv" -- CD -- €13
2007 L. White Records, LW-050, (ltd. 300)
They digged very deep in the UMB-archive, and finally brought some really rotten, dirty, sticky "audio-corpses", dated from mid of the 90`s,to the surface. The material had been digitally cleaned and partly restructured for being presented for the very first time on cd. Well arranged power-electronics with distorted screams and aggressiv vocals, leads to the roots of this pre-THOROFON project. [press-release]
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Konau -- "Speech From The Shadows" -- CD -- €12
2006 Eibon Records, Kon061
A "hybrid" creature formed by SUBINTERIOR and NEW RISEN THRONE members. Disquieting & obscure dark ambient, with some amazing "melodic" structures scattered through the songs. The shadows are speaking.... [press-release]
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Kopp, Hermann -- "Under a Demon's Mask" -- CD -- €15
2008 Galakthorrö 021
Everybody who has seen the Buttgereit films Nekromantik 1+2 and Todesking, has heard of Hermann Kopp. The music he wrote and performed for them is ever-present, pervading the atmosphere and has contributed considerably to the advancement of these films into classics. He still retains to this day his exceptional musical ability, and proves it yet again. Galakthorrö is proud to be able to present 13 new songs from the nekrodramatist: more than 40 minutes of new material, which today - just as it did then - has as its core his dissonantly tempered and individualistic violin playing. Combined with electronics, a host of weird instruments and metal percussion he creates an unequalled gruesome opus, carried by an effectively conceived minimalism, and the most beautiful and haunting Angst melodies imaginable. So morbid and wonderful in fact, that we have to ask ourselves how we could manage to survive for so long without any new material from Hermann Kopp - and which demons were riding him that he had to keep us waiting so long. CD in matt finish digipac, 20-page booklet incl. all texts and lyrics. [press-release]
Kora Et Le Mechanix -- "Excursin Forte (16:9 Progressive Remixes)" -- CD -- €11
2007 Nextera, ERA 2047-2
Following the critically acclaimed debut album "Excursin", Kora et le Mechanix the Czech experimentalists decided to invite some of the most interesting Czech and Slovak artists from the alternative scene to participate on their remix album! The result is a unique compilation of exclusive remixes from 16 different artists covering various musical genres including dub, chill out, click'n'cuts, drill'n'bass, electronica and electroacoustic music, but mostly exploring the experimental sides of ambient music. Carefully selected and mastered, this conceptual remix album is highly recommended to everyone, who likes progressive and experimental music with a fresh feeling full of new sounds and ideas. [press-release]
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Korperschwache -- "Evil Walks" -- CD -- €10
2010 Crucial Blast, CBR 88
Evil Walks is the first widely available cd release for Crucial Blast from Korperschwache after almost a decade of smaller, limited-run discs released through the label's Crucial Bliss sub-imprint. It's also the most focused work yet from this utterly demented Texas outfit that started out in the mid 90s as a pure noise project but gradually evolved into this weird, lumbering black-dirge that we hear now. The eight songs that make up Evil Walks feature the signature Korperschwache moves: thumping minimal drum-machine pound courtesy of the relentlessly decisive Doktor Omega, droning dissonant riffs that veer from hypnotic noise to dismal quasi-black metal buzz, RKF's narcoleptic croaking and malevolent sneer bathed in reverb and amp skuzz, guitars humming and droning against cranked-up amps while creepy news sound bites, the distant sad howling of wolves and ear-piercing screams drift across the background... Strange post-punk reverberations rumble all throughout this disc, nothing new to those who are familiar with the myriad other Korperschwache discs that have come out since 2001 when RKF first began flirting with his odd mix of simple, mesmeric gloom-guitar and black mechanical slime, but it's never sounded better to my ears than it does here, when the music forms into this stoned blackened hypno-rock thing, the buzzing guitars and acid-scorched melodies looping over the skittery industrial beats and weird dubbed-out snares and concussive Godflesh-esque rhythms, turning into something that sounds remarkably like a mutant cross between late-80s British psych/drone rockers Loop and those notorious improv-black metal freakazoids Abruptum... [press-release]
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Kotkavuori, Tapio -- "Terra Hyperborea" -- CD -- €11
2005 Gemina Stella, GSCD-003
Tapio Kotkavuori is a Magister of the Temple of Set and he has an essential role in the practises and information sharing of northern magical context. He is also the author of two books on the subject of Left Hand Path. Terra Hyperborea contains a selection of Kotkavuori's sound-magical Workings recorded in 2001CE. At the time, recordings were made under the project name Vaskikäärme. These recordings have now been remastered and are publicly available in CD-format for the first time. The album contains also a high-resolution version of the Underground Tunnels-video. Musically artist himself describes Terra Hyperborea as "post-apocalyptic dark-ethno-ambient". Its semi-organic, semi-electric soundspheres are trance inducing, almost hypnotic, varying from soft mood adjustments to more focused incantations and chants. Kotkavuori's main weapon of choice in this battle against silence is didgeridoo, but tons of other instruments - such as vocals, rainstick, shaman drum, coffee maker, synthesizer, kitchen knives etc. - have been utilized as well. All in all, these recordings create a shamanistic ambiance with a dark twist characteristic to the Left Hand Path. They provide an inspiring background for mundane as well as Other Kind of activities. To some, this record offers an unique peek to the world of Black Magic. To others, it offers a lot more. [Some Place Else]
Kotra -- "Reset" -- CD -- €10
2008 Kvitnu, KVITNU 6
Reset serves up seventy minutes of scalpel-sharp electronic music from Ukraine-based Dmytro Fedorenko under the Kotra name. The Kvitnu head and one-time Nexsound co-producer (2003-07) likens his music to 'ear needles' and the album's sixteen tracks are certainly invasive and uncompromising (though he's issued a dozen full-length albums and collaborations since establishing the Kotra name in 1998, Reset is his first solo release since 2004's Dissilient). Reset, which breaks up its longer pieces with five fragments, brutalizes the listener from the outset with 'Rational Attack' and 'Absent Response,' tracks whose machine-like precision and relentlessness exemplify the material's merciless tone. If there's a comparative point of reference for Kotra , it's Carsten Nicolai's Alva Noto whose material is also inhumanly cold yet rhythmically funky too. Kotra's 'Vilna Struktura,' for example, merges high-pitched tonal cross-currents with pulsating throb in a way that suggests Alva Noto operating his gear in a particularly aggressive frame of mind. There's inarguably a sadomasochistic dimension to Kotra's music- the violent onslaught of grinding noise in 'Solid Dissection' and 'Fire Fractions' is so eardrum-piercing it's almost painful-but there's music to be heard in these eviscerations too, for those at least with dispositions strong enough to handle it. [Textura]
Kotra -- "Revolt" -- CD -- €10
2010 Kvitnu, KVITNU 9
Prime explosion of sprightly elements from different times in combination with bizarre oscillations from friendly alchemists.. Something from the past and something from the present. Independence in variety, light's inside. This is 8th solo work of Kotra. 10 original tracks with five remixes from Zavoloka, Dunaewsky69, Sturqen, v4w.enko and Pomassl. [label info]
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Kotra & Zavoloka -- "Wag The Swing" -- CD -- €10
2006 Kvitnu, KVITNU 1
24 swinging and jazzing tracks that sound quite different from each artists solo works. Explosive broken beats, slow motioned melodies, raw uncutted pieces - more than two years of improvising and constructing in one release. Bass, empty vinyl player, blank CD matrixes, voice and other machines. Swinged and jammed in Kyiv mostly during summer and autumn of year 2006, also in winter and spring of 2005. [label info]
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Koufar -- "The Purity Of The Cedars" -- CD -- €10
2010 Topheth Prophet, TP021
Power Electronics. Topheth Prophet is proud to present the latest from Maronite Resistance unit KOUFAR. 7 tracks assault on current Lebanese state unleashed with genuine brute anger. Middle East politics were never that harsh! [label info]
Kraken -- "Amore" -- 2 CD -- €17
2005 Spectre, S17
Krasniy! -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €5
2008 S und S records, SS-2008-004-04, (ltd. 13)
This is how the music of our ancestors sounds in the modern world, the expression of extasy and turnover during the ritual of Kolo zeal. Furious noise, tambourine and fifes - a live recording of the ritual. The blood-belief is not forgotten, it waits for its morning hour to be awaken with the rise of the clear bright face. Recorded in 2007 by one of the members of UFA Muzak label. [press-release] Fourth variant of limited edition, in simple but nice handmade package.
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Krasnye Svitki -- "First Dog Trip" -- CD-R -- €8
2007 TSPHN Researches
Russian punk-folk band Krasnye Svitki (The Red Scrolls) made this recording during their trip from Ryazan to Yaroslavl and back. In trains, bus, boat and just on the street the guys were singing traditional folk songs and recording them onto a dictaphone. Pure male vocal polyphony without any instruments + background sounds of direct Russian reality of public conveyances. Released by the home label of Majdanek Waltz / Ganzer in thick handmade cardboard sleeve, contains songs lyrics and manifesto about punk-folk (in Russian). Absolutely authentic release.
Kratong -- "The Bees of Psychic Province" -- CD -- €10
2004 Wrotycz Records, WRT 001
KRATONG is a solo project of Jhonny, the guitarist of Romowe Rikoito (Prussia). All the nine tracks from "The Bees of Psychic Province" show us various musical inspiration of the artist. On this album you'll find song inspired by the middle ages, neo-folk music, ambient passages and even a rhytmic electro. Although the music is very complex every little sound created by the artist is neccesary here. Fomat: CD, A5 folding cover. [press-release]
Kreutzfeldt, Danny -- "Numberground" -- CD-R -- €10
2007 Practising Nature, PN07025
Haunting industrial soundscapes by Danny Kreutzfeldt. An ambient nightmare in 6 movements. [label info]
Kreuzer -- "In Hoc Signo Vinces" -- CD -- €11
2008 The Eastern Front, Front 018, (ltd. 300)
New album of the very young Israeli project Kreuzer. Martial dark ambient sounds mixed with industrial elements. Feel spirit of the Crusades and medieval Jerusalem in Kreuzer new album - 'In Hoc Signo Vinces'! [label info]
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Kreuzer -- "Lilium" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 T'an! Kaven!! Ash!!!, Ash!!! 027, (ltd. 100)
The newest work of Israeli power electronics ambient project Kreuzer - mini-album 'Lilium' is out now. It is the second mini-album released on T'an! Kaven!! Ash!!! following 'Noises Of Independence' released in 2008 on T'an! Kaven!! Ash!!! and 'In Hoc Signo Vinces' full-length album released in 2008 on The Eastern Front label. [label info]
Kreuzer / Surma -- "Viltis" -- CD -- €10
2008 The Eastern Front, Front 020, (ltd. 300)
New split of two young projects - Ukrainian Surma and Israeli Kreuzer. Viltis in spite of being composed by two different musicians, sounds as a whole-hearted album... Like the full-length albums of both musicians, here music flows in industrial and dark ambient music space and complete the nostalgic atmosphere by the samples of old records in Lithuanian language. [press-release]
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Kreuzweg Ost -- "Edelrost" -- CD -- €10
2005 Cold Spring Records, CSR58CD
'Edelrost' draws a line from yesterday to tomorrow, from hope to despair, from blind obedience to revolution. Outstanding arrangements - rhythmic military industrial and hymnal orchestration - creating an oppressive sonic soundtrack of incredible martial anthems. Essential. [press-release]
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Kriegsfall-U -- "s/t" -- CD -- €10
2011 Epidemie Records, EPR073
A new eponymous album of Hungarian project KRIEGSFALL-U. Uncompromising sacral martial industrial with apocalyptic neo-folk elements declaiming in Hungarian. Delikatessen for lovers of old Derniere Volonte, Der Blutharsch, Sophia. Luxurious digipack edition with 12 pages booklet. [label info]
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Kriminaaliset Metsänhaltijat -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €13
2008 Triangle, TR-36, (ltd. 16)
One more forgotten work of this project, a collection of live recordings. Radical. Utterly unpleasant noise flow, rattle and metal clank. [label info]
Kriminaaliset Metsanhaltijat -- "Anarkkia, Kaaos, Maailmanloppu!" -- CD-R -- €12
2008 Triangle Records, [TR039], (ltd. 5)
Ultimate industrial / power-electronics. Manifests about end of the world, politics and dark angels of Chaos. Power. Limited edition 5 copies. [label info]
Kriminaaliset Metsanhaltijat -- "Koskemattomuus" -- CD-R -- €8
2009 BloodLust!, B!138
BloodLust! is happy to announce "Koskemattomuus," the label's second release by the emerging industrial noise group, Kriminaaliset Metsänhaltijat, which follows on the footsteps of the bands recent "Anarkkia, Kaaos, Maailmanloppu!" EP [B!129]. The members of this shadow group of old-school industrial acolytes originally hail from Finland and from Karelia -- a region and an autonomous republic of northwest Russia, between the Gulf of Finland and the White Sea. To paraphrase some of the band's own dogmatic yet oblique statements and manifestos, Kriminaaliset Metsänhaltijat quite accurately claim to have built their sound on the bones of such groups as S.P.K. and Throbbing Gristle, through a prism of Japanese harsh-noise and Finnish hardcore-punk, spewing out a nihilistic nightmare of diffused synth hiss, commanding metal percussion, waves of harsh-noise, anarcho-punk attitude, and dissident power-electronics. This "new" album, which the band actually recorded in 2001, furthers the group's association with the anarcho-punk scene [CRASS, et al] by presenting a fiercely grim anti-war statement. By conjuring the disasters of war, both historic and contemporary, the group lays the blame for the death of so many innocent civilians squarely on the shoulders of greedy politicians and big business. Kriminaaliset Metsänhaltijat weave their aggressive, dark industrial-noise style with segments of traditional, romantic Finnish war songs from World War II, as well of impassioned battlefield vocal segments, creating a complex and compelling tableaux that should appeal to a broad group of listeners, including fans from the martial music, minimal synth, crusty punk, and noise scenes. These are professionally duplicated CDs, with single panel, double-sided inserts, featuring striking color artwork; in jewel boxes with shrinkwrap. [press-release]
Kromeshna + Bardoseneticcube -- "Lilac Honey" -- CD-R -- €7
Ostroga, OTR-019
One collaborative 21 min. track from St. Petersburg based Bardoseneticcube and Kromeshna from Ural. "Like psychedelic balm pouring in florid patterns in eternal search for otherworldly clouds" [UFA Muzak]. A5 paper sleeve with a herbarium.
Kromeshna / Light Collapse -- "Hton" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Spermodeath Records, SD-03
Ritual harsh ambient, death industrial. Rituals of earth and hardly discernible faceprints... neither cold nor warmth. A crossing of two guiding forces under the soil... Coming back through fingers... [label info]
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Kromeshna & M.Nomized -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €6
2005 Ostroga, OTR-005, (ltd. 61)
Mini-album. Two tracks recorded together by Russian Kromeshna (side-project of Light Collapse and Obozdur) and French M.Nomized. First track is isolationist lo-fi dark ambient with marsh gurglings completely in Kromeshna style. Second track on the contrary is almost purely electronic rhythmic and also quite sombre.
Krutogolov, Igor -- "White" -- CD -- €10
2006 Auris Media, aum 10 / Topheth Prophet, TP006, (ltd. 1000)
From Israel comes Igor Krutogolov, who is besides a musician also the designer for Topheth Propeht. Apparently he is mostly known for his 'klezmer core' project Kruzenshtern & Parohod but also a 'toy orchestra' Igor Krutogolov's Karate Band as well as various collaborations he has done with people like Chaos As Shelter, Agnivolok, Bastard Noise, Tidal and Darkwood. For 'White', which comes with a booklet with white pages (funny or arty) he plays bass with bow and strings, voice, keyboards, objects, flute and birds and gets help from somebody playing bells and someone delivering a tape of rain sounds. Divided into seven parts, this is however very much one piece. The musical theme's re-occur in every track, the rain sounds return every now and then. The label compares this is to Colin Potter and Andrew Liles, which, especially in the case of Liles, I can see some parallel. The drone like sounds form the backbone of the piece and with irregular intervals, real instruments are added. Unlike Liles however, Krutogolov doesn't dwell that much of sound effects, and rather uses them in a more natural sounding way. Quite hypnotic and engaging at times, this is surrealist music, with a built in tension that keeps lurking around the corner, and the listener is waiting for something to happen. Wether or not it happens I won't reveal, but it's a pretty strong CD. [FdW, Vital Weekly #560]
Kryptogen Rundfunk & DN23rd -- "Silentium Universi" -- CD-R -- €4
2010 CSRC, CSB-01, (ltd. 25)
Radionoise description of the Universe with total length of 45 mins 55 secs, made by comrades MM and DN in autumn 2002. Human factor is reduced to an essential minimum, and eloquent pithiness of the natural signals of radio ether comes to the forefront. "It is only an emission produced by processes that are purely physical, natural, and totally uninhabited, therefore devoid of any linguistic character, of content, of meaning..." The medium is packed in a kraft paper envelope with b/w photo, a quotation from "His Master's Voice" by Lem unique for each copy, and all the necessary and sufficient information. [press-release]
Kryvakryz -- "Malitvy Vainy" -- CD -- €10
2009 Crivia Records, Ritual 02, (ltd. 500)
The debut album of a Belarus neofolk band Kryvakryz - 12 brisk and energetic songs in Byelorussian language (one in Russian), sung to the accompaniment of grand piano, violin, trumpet and drums, and telling about the great historical past of the Lithuanian princedom.
Kubin, Felix -- "Atoma Exi Mono" -- CD -- €9
2005 Solnze Records, SCD 042
"The best of..." compilation from one of the coolest lo-fi eccentric Felix Kubin. Includes tracks recorded together with Aavikko, Angie Reed, Klangkrieg, some tracks previously published only on old 7". "Felix is dandy and aesthete. Of course he's a propagandist of absurd and trash but he looks at absurd and trash from aside, he plays with them". [Andrey Gorohov, "Musprosvet"]
Kult -- "Overtures for Violent Intercourse" -- CD-R -- €7
2003 Dungeon Records, DR002
Sinister and oppressive Industrial Noise from Portugal - correct listening at maximum volume. Underground distribution edition - CD-r has ink-jet printed black/white cover. [Misanthropic Propaganda]
L.E.A.K. / Kosmophon -- "Duochromatic" -- mCD -- €8
2004 Fin de Siècle Media
L.E.A.K. - ambience, distorted environments and lustige elektro-akustische klänge.
The music of L.E.A.K. is sometimes disturbing, sometimes beautiful, but always sincerely present. The soundscapes take you to one of those rare places where structure and chaos are not necessarily mutually exclusive. L.E.A.K. released the album 'The Old Tea House' on Cold Meat Industry in 2001. Kosmophon - a side project of weird British cult soundtrack fetishist Caesar Romero, who released the highly recommended CD 'Matamoros' on his own Shadowfist label. The material presented here is of a very different nature. The sleaze and spaghetti western hints are replaced by minimal and hypnotic analog electro noise experiments. [press-release]
L'Anus Solaire -- "Manifestation I : Orifices" -- CD -- €13
self-released, AS 01, (ltd. 300)
L'Homme Eternel -- "Maladie Orientale - Sessia" -- CD-R -- €6
2008 Observatiore 21, (ltd. 50)
L'Homme Eternel is a collaboration project of two Russian musicians: Denis Shapovalov (Adriva, Sunchariot, Matter) and Alexander Selivanov (Mortart). The second work of H.E. is made in the same vein, but more chaotic and surreal. It doesn't contain flowing tracks as before, but still has the mesmerizing ritualistic feeling. Like in the previous album here the most interesting think lies in live improvised sonorities. Sounds are like alive creatures from other dimensions inhabitating the surreal jungles, they frighten and surprise one's consciousness. In general, this is a rough and abrupt work. [label info]
L'Idiot Du Village -- "Bestioles" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Steelkraft Manufactory, SKM02, (ltd. 100)
Ants. Moths. Butterflies. Cockroaches. Centipedes.... And many others are featured on this L'Idiot Du Village record, for a 73 minutes opera of groovy insects doing their sometimes harsh, sometimes ambient, noise stuff, conduced and directed by L'Idiot Du Village. L'Idiot du Village has been releasing solo albums since 1999 on labels 'Black Sun Rising', 'Broken Brains' and 'L'Eglise de la Petite Folie', and is currently a member of math-core band 'Rotule'. [label info]
La Maison Moderne -- "Day After Day" -- mCD -- €9
2000 Hau Ruck!, HR!07
La Maison Moderne is a side-project of Der Blutharsch and mixes a sense of humor with the spirit of wine drinking. Some might not care for it while others might enjoy this strange mix. [label info]
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Lab Report -- "All Your Little Pieces Make Me A Whole" -- CD -- €10
1998 self-released
This album was created using samples taken entirely from Sound Cube. Those sounds were manipulated in Pro Tools. The entire album was sculpted or pieced together, as opposed to being played live. The dialogue is from Jeffery Dahmer's defense attorney. This CD is sound support for a gallery opening for Matt Schultz's one man show (of the same title) at the Oskar Friedl Gallery, featuring his sculpture, hand made instruments and his Anti Tank Guitars. [Lens Records]
Lab Report -- "Classical Atmospheres" -- CD -- €10
2000 self-released
Classical Atmospheres sees Lab Report venturing into new sonic and compositional territory. Very much in the soundtrack vein but still with a healthy dose of the otherworldly drone that is signature Lab Report. Features Matt Schultz with Johnny Polonsky and Tom Slattery. [Lens Records]
Ladder House -- "Aaron" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Happy Family
Seven pieces of frantic doxology in alien dialect to the accompaniment of violint, piano and sounds of nature. Art without looking back at human logic and common sense. Predecessor of the project Negligee. [label info]
Laibach -- "Neu Konservatiw" -- CD -- €11
2003/2006 Cold Spring Records, CSR38CD
The official release of the semi-official, legendary 1000 only vinyl from 1985, now a highly sought-after collectors piece! Lovingly remastered, with an 8 page book of new text about LAIBACH and NSK of the time by ALEXEI MONROE (commissioned exclusively for this release by LAIBACH), plus never before seen images from the NSK archive. This album finds LAIBACH at their most powerful, orchestral and anthemic!! [press release]
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Lamia Vox -- "... Introductio" -- CD -- €11
2010 Der Angriff, Angriff Nr. 38, (ltd. 500)
The brilliant first album of a young impressive artist coming from Saint-Petersburg, Russia. LamiaVox is one-girl project exploring lovecraftian dark chtonic realms with a very professional attitude to the composition and sound of her audio witchcraft. The melodic dark ambient with a subtle touch of ritual percussion is very sinister and cold but at the same time very emotional. "Introductio" is far from being monotonous, obviously having some evil living inside. Desiderii Marginis, Vestigial, Northaunt and of course Lustmord of "Heresy" era comes to mind when you hear these hymns to the new aeons of Great Elders returning. The release limited to 500 copies comes in a full colour 4-panel digipak. [press-release]
Lanceolaria Im Licht Der Laterne -- "Olympus Mons" -- CD-R -- €8
2008 Still*Sleep, CDR05
Dark aspects of human mentality - there is an area of Lanceolaria im Licht der Laterne. That is darkest the than the most incognizable, that remains unknown, even being placed under a lantern of reason. It is that part of human mentality which is hostile to the person. The space theme is actual and for this project, but space in it is submitted as an excited environment - as aggressive, as our subconsciousness. This small album is devoted to volcanic activity on planets and satellites of system of our star. In record of an album singing Buddhist monks, and set of the effects which have been written down in real-time is used, create stratification of sounds to listen attentively more and more. [from the author] Side-project of Interior Disposition (ID).
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Land:Fire -- "Physical:Mental:Psychological" -- CD -- €13
2004 Tesco Organisation, TESCO059
Land:Fire is the more clinical technical project of the men behind Herbst9. Ritual technical ambient music, if this is possible... sound layers of real brilliance which leave no room for a way back to archaic orchestration. This album is a documentation and a reflection of the historical instant of 5:29:45 a.m. on July 16. 1945 when the first atomic device, "Trinity", detonated. Comes in nice cardboard DVD digipak with extensive booklet. [label info]
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Land:Fire -- "Shortwave Transmission" -- CD -- €14
2009 Power & Steel, PAS 25
Coming back with an all new album after more than 5 years the Alter Ego of HERBST9 delivers another outstanding soundtrack about radiological warfare and it's debris during the last century. SWT is like a massive energy spike with a surrounding maelstrom of machine noises, rhythms, interferrences and electromagnetic waves. The complex arrangement of technical sounds creates a deadly atmosphere of fallout and devastated landscapes with an apocalyptic aura reflected by dissonant harmonies and deep shimmering ambient scapes.
Presented in a 6 panel digipack. Mastered by Andreas Wahnmann. [press-release]
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Langemarck -- "Injustitia Est Commodatum" -- CD -- €11
2009 Der Angriff, Angriff Nr. 31, (ltd. 500)
The debut release from the project of Stefan S. known for his collaboration with Von Thronstahl ('Return To Palestine'). A perfect mix of martial industrial and neofolk elements with a bit of electronic industrial tunes. For the ones who like Derniere Volonte, Forseti, early Death In June and Sixth Comm. The release comes in a deluxe full-colour embossed digisleeve with partial UV-laquering. 13 tracks, 51 minutes, limited to 500 copies. [press-release]
Lark Blames -- "The Reins Of Life" -- CD -- €12
2010 Ur Muzik, UR 002
Larva 108 -- "99.09 | Inside The Stones" -- CD -- €10
2010 Greytone, grey007, (ltd. 500)
"99.09 Inside the stones" is a collection of the most significant tracks made by LARVA 108 during the first 10 years. 12 songs for 60 minutes. A sountrack for walking alone through a winter snowstorm or between the trees during a grey day of november. Experimental, electronica, drones create organic gloomy atmospheres... LARVA is born in 1999 when Guido (also known as 108) began to make some experiments with a PC, an old DOS software called Fasttracker and some other tools, instruments and pedal effects. Strongly influenced during his youth by people like William Burroughs and by movies like Decoder, he finally found a way to express himself with an old computer. The main goal was to produce a sound inspired by nature, a soundtrack for landscapes, moments and for abstract visual productions, to make something disturbing or just a way to escape from this world for few moments. LARVA is heavily connected with the 108's visual productions so the project name turned in to LARVA 108. Since 2002, Guido is also active with the dark ambient/noise band called CORPOPARASSITA and from this moment the sound of LARVA 108 changed a bit becoming more organic and less noisy, with more electronica on it. During these years he released many pieces, always strictly limited to few copies on tapes and CDr, home made most of the times and very hard to find. In 2008 108 created some soundscapes for the installations called "La bolla di legno" inside the Triennale di Milano and in Wroclaw (Poland) at the BWA gallery. During the years he collaborated with many artists and with the coreographer Tamara Gvozdenovic. [press-release]
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Last Dominion Lost -- "The Tyranny Of Distance" -- CD -- €13
2004 Tesco Organisation, TESCO 058
The multi-talented John Murphy (currently in Foresta di Ferro, Kraang, and Shining Vril) did these recordings with Dominik Guerin in Australia in the early nineties. The music is more or less a follow up to classical SPK music like "Leichenschrei" - hard aggressive screams, rhythms, and noise loops with a partly tribal touch. All produced with old analog equipment. If there is a music to be labeled "old school" than here it is! [label info]
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The Last Hour -- "s/t" -- CD -- €10
2008 Intuition Records, INT28006
Debut album from ex-Gothica member Roberto Del Vecchio. The music is cold dark wave, played in an atmospheric and romantic way (this is Italian!) with touch of harsh industrial elements and modern electronica, combined with neo-classical and soundtrack-like tunes. In some parts it reminds me a lot of classic Hyperium releases (Stoa, Anchoarge, Manic P) as well as such Projekt bands as Lycia and Soul Whirling Somewhere or recent CMI signers like :Golgatha:, Atrium Carceri, or even 4AD icons like This Mortal Coil, Dead Can Dance and Clan of Xymox. Roberto creates music which paints an atmospheric pictures in the listeners head. The whole album is true masterpice of art sombre. [press-release]
Last Influence Of Brain -- "Two Faces" -- CD -- €10
2009 Aliens Production, AP 20
In 1996, Solo and Blazena started the electro-industrial project "Samhain" and a few months later, they were joined by Bop, a close collaborator of K.I.F.O.T.H and a founding member of the electro act "Mindscape". In 1998, the trio launched a new project "Loct In" venturing into complex atmospheric sound, but both projects were left unnoticed. The early missteps have prompted the band members to go back to their roots and explore the old school electro sound. Last Influence of Brain (LIOB) came to life in 1999. The demo debut "Revolution Countries Evolution" and the follow-up EP "Escape" have earned them a steadily growing fanbase, and stirred the attention of the now defunct label Black Flames Records, which offered them a contract for a European release in 2003." Four years after their highly-regarded debut "Illusions and Reality", Last Influence of Brain are on the verge of storming their way back into the alternative electronic scene. "Inner Wars" features over 75 minutes of authentic dark elektro pleasure that would appeal to young electrofreaks and veteran rivetheads alike. Gems such as "Return", "Absent Meaning", "Inner Wars" and Why are You Waiting?" are destined to become dark elektro classics. The album concludes with an ecstatic remix of "Why Are You Waiting?" by the Brain Leisure. [press-release]
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Lauxna Lauksna -- "Sakai" -- CD -- €10
2005 Dangus, DGCD016
Smart and distinctive Baltic industrial, blending rough electronic music, tribal rhythmics and ethno-cosmic visions, which are the core here. "Sakai" (Resin) is a debut album of a promising Lithuanian duo who stand for avantgardist ideas, noiseous lo-fi aesthetics, analogue signals, psychedelic ambiente and good poetry with original vocal style. Thats a magic heathen adventure on a modern industrial highway, where instead of urban smog you have starlit vaults, and dripping honey, milk and resin instead of gasoline... Choose your trip. Choose amber vision. - Lets really explore! CD includes 9 tracks and special printed lay-out. [label info]
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Lavelle, Brian -- "Fallen Are The Domes Of Green Amber" -- CD -- €10
2007 Diophantine Discs, n = 10, (ltd. 500)
With "Fallen are the Domes of Green Amber" Brian Lavelle continues in his more recent direction with experimental drone music, while also incorporating some of his earlier recordings into the pieces. At over 70 minutes, the album consists of two lengthy and picturesque tracks. Both are extremely focused, complex, and dynamic -- they evolve, gradually and intricately. Beautiful (yet also melancholy) and abstract, the two pieces are quite distinct from each other in their own respects, yet fit together to form a seamless and monumental overall work... Recording under various guises since 1990 (though generally under his own name), Brian Lavelle's work has covered a large cross-section of experimental music ranging from more noisy works in the past to his more ambient/drone material of recent years. He has released material on such labels as Audiofile, Bake, Afe, Microwave, and Freek. Additionally he has collaborated with artists such as Richard Youngs, Alistair Crosbie, and Emil Hagstrom. Brian also runs the Dust, Unsettled and Quinquaginta labels, and operated one of the earliest mp3-labels: techNoh... The CD comes in a beautiful green printed wallet. [press-release]
Lavelle, Brian -- "Supernaturalist" -- CD -- €10
2008 EE Tapes, EE12, (ltd. 300)
Law -- "Our Life through your Death" -- CD -- €11
2000 Triumvirate
The gun on the cover of this album, LAW's Mitchell Altum tells us in the liner notes, 'is the pistol my younger brother used to commit suicide.' The music itself is scarcely more cheerful or forgiving, but it's certainly a compelling expression of Altum's misanthropy. With occasionally recognizable guitar buzzes and snippets of spoken word, it's pretty clear that the work of Boyd Rice's project NON is one of LAW's big inspirations. Atmospheric and minimal but never quite sedate, tracks like 'Scars of Isolation' and '100 Degrees' employ various metallic sounds, ranging from crashing cymbals to percussive springs, and a large dose of studio effects to generate a sort of dull pessimism. Despite the intensely personal event that apparently inspired it, this album is less emotive and cathartic than numb and hopeless. Even the sad moans of 'Unseen Existence' are produced electronically. Such a bleak response to personal tragedy, however, makes for a fine approach to industrial ambient, and there are some beautiful tracks here. 'Forged Motion' is soft and eerily creaking, full of deep feedback and muffled pulsing rhythms, while 'Your Body Is Immobilized' and 'It Is Beyond Us Now' have more of a martial feel- again, reminiscent of NON's early work - with its extended brassy drones. The one soft spot in all this unforgiving industrial ambience is 'Betrayal of the Flesh,' which begins with soft, almost folksy psychedelic guitar strums. The song itself is a betrayal, however, and turns unexpectedly into an extended noise composition full of high-pitched squeals and distorted percussion. Pitiless music for a pitiless world, LAW is soul music for the sociopath within. Listen with caution. [Matthew Johnson, Grave Concerns]
Law -- "Wading Knee-Deep in Your Blood" -- CD -- €10
2002 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 039
Oroginally issued in 1997 as blood-red vinyl LP in a very limited edition on OEC and long time sold-out! This album was re-released into digital format completely re-mastered by Thomas Dimuzio at Grench Studios. Original album plus some bonus material for a total length of 67 minutes of obsessing harsh & heavy power-industrial sounds for a new LAW! "The composite picture of man that merges from the art of our time is the gigantic figure of an aborted embryo whose limbs suggests a vaguely anthropoid shape... screams in abysmal terror at the universe at large"... For lovers of grups such as Propergol, Genocide Organ, Slogun... An album which needs to be discovered! [press-release]
Lay, Josh -- "True Mask" -- CD -- €10
2009 Small Doses, DOSE66, (ltd. 200)
It's hard to believe that this is the first Josh Lay release to find its way to the compact disc format. Fittingly, Josh considers this to be his best work to date, and I can't say I disagree. This is a four track, nearly 40 minute meditation on the masks people wear to make their way in the world. Elements of black metal, harsh noise, power electronics and dark ambient combine to create a dark, twisted environment built from electronics, guitar, and some of the most gutteral vocals I've heard him spew. The accompanying art was hand-made by the artist. Edition of 200 copies packaged in jewel cases with 4-panel inserts and double sided jewel cases. [press-release]
Lazharus -- "Error" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Le Crepuscule Du Soir / Cain Records, lcds028 / CR003, (ltd. 50)
Black Industrial sounding like a mixture of slowed down Tchernoblyad with most character pieces of Abruptum. Very atmospheric perverted work for the lovers of dark catacomb art. DVD box. [YAOP]
Lazyfish + Alexandroid -- "OS" -- CD -- €8
2005 Peace Technologies, PT 003
"Lazyfish presents his next multifarious great collaboration album OS this time with Alexandroid from Riga. The album contains 11 tracks on cd. Slow melodic tunes and dark heavy beats altogether. Lazyfish has already released an album Vortex in Russia, some deep-tech tunes on Trapez records, an interactive track on the Native Instruments compilation (WMF Records) and his above mentioned collaboration cd with Mewark. Andrew Antonets aka Alexandroid is from Riga. He released 3 albums with his production partner Alex Matrosov on russian electronic labels and album False Starts on Lo recordings, England. OS is the digital translation of experiences and emotions, a shadow of the past and a view into the future. Most of the tracks on OS are made by Alexandroid, four by Lazyfish. Lazyfish and Alexandroid present their rich collection of the (still) wide-range of purely digital-electronic music in many different styles and colours with fantastic additional vocals by Kristi Aivare, Alex Matrosov and Andrew Antonets himself." [press-release] Light airy electro-ambient with unobtrusive admixture of IDM. Sandy sound textures with rustling electronic sounds, fragments of female and less male vocals, deeply processed guitar and the whole mass of various micro-sounds and cracklings, psychedelic atmosphere. Re-edition of the album previously released on German label K2O.
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Lazyfish / Mewark -- "s/t" -- CD -- €8
2006 Peace Technologies, PT 005
Alexander Potekhin aka Lazyfish, one of the most talented up-and-coming artists from Moscow electronic music scene, will release his second album in collaboration with Alexander Petrunin aka Mewark. Lazyfish has already released an idm/techno album Vortex in Russia and some more deep-tech tracks on Trapez records in Europe. Alexander Petrunin aka Mewark works as a sound designer & jingle maker on MTV-Russia. Both met about 2 years ago programming for Native Instruments Reaktor and started working on the album. Lazyfish/Mewark contains 14 songs highlighting in the different aspects of these 2 sound designers: starting with some dsp-ambient-dub, floating into some bitter-sweet Autechre influenced melody-monsters, some tricky technical freak-outs, coming down to dsp-ambient again and ending in some dark and modern deep electronic. [label info]
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LCEDP -- "De L'Utilité Des Convoyeurs" -- CD -- €10
2005 .Angle.Rec., .A.R.05.03., (ltd. 500)
Coming from the speedcore/hardcore area of electronic music, Montreal's LCEDP now delves into the world of rhythm'n'noise. His first CD creation, De L'Utilité Des Convoyeurs, takes up where urban exploration leaves off, and strives to return all that decaying matterå to life. A vibrant life, a powerful cry of joy, sadness, anger and bliss altogether. The machines are operational again, and they have a lot to say. LCEDP listened to their message and translated it into his elegant yet stormy and abrasive musical style. The result, you hold in your hands. Noisy and punchy and ultra rhythmic, with a few more introspective and abstract momentså 21 impressions transcoded by LCEDP + 1 additional impression revised by ORPHX. Grey sleeve with tone-on-tone embossed patterns and insert. [label info]
Le Dépeupleur -- "Disambiguation" -- CD -- €11
2006 Aufabwegen, aatp15, (ltd. 500)
"Disambiguation" is the third CD from the duo of Zbigniew Karkowski and Kaspar T. Toeplitz. It features one ongoing stream of grey, heavy and disturbing noises. It contains blocks of solid and almost material sounds, causing a physicality and urgency to the "music" which is rare to find these days. [label info]
Le Futurisme -- "Instrument Of Darkness" -- CD-R -- €6
2009 Valgriind, VG 28, (ltd. 50)
Radical art on the border of obsession and adequate perception. Straem of deformated crunch, going through consciousness like a hymn of electric beast in whirlwinds of magnetic fields. [label info]
Le Masque -- "Colloquio" -- CD -- €10
1986/2008 Oltrelanebbiailmare, CD200801
Born in Milan in 1979, Le Masque are one of the finest Italian wave band. This cd contanis the reissue of the legendary 'Colloquio' EP (released on Supporti Fonografici in 1986), influenced by the melancholic writings of the Italian Crepuscolari poets (the lyrics of the title track are an extract from Carlo Vallini's poem "Un Giorno"), plus a live recording of Le Masque exhibiton at Club tenco in 1990. In 1984 they also released their first mini-lp 'Happy Flock' on the legendary italian label Mask Production, runned by Lisfrank, this name will remember something to the minimal synth lovers. [Mannequin Mailorder]
Le Masque -- "Fu Languore" -- mCD -- €10
2011 Oltrelanebbiailmare, CD201106
After several years of silence, LE MASQUE are back with a brand new mini album (23 minutes) of unreleased music... and there are simply no words to describe their poetry. Musically speaking, it is a return to some of the atmospheres we heard on albums like "Il Signor Gustavo Coscienza" or "La Memoria di Venere", showcasing an acoustic approach and their usual poems that are simply stunning. [label info]
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Le Syndicat -- "Timespace Losses 1982 / 1987" -- CD -- €10
2009 Monochrome Vision, mv28, (ltd. 500)
This CD is a collection of rare tracks by this most famous french noise project, previously released on obscure tape compilations and includes the very first live recording session. It represents the pioneering bruitism music in the most raw and powerful mode, it's still going strong and hitting hard, thus should be not missed by any real noise fans... All recorded between 1982 and 1987 and originally released on compilations: "The Call Of Cthulhu" (1985, Cthulhu Records), "Sexorama vol.3" (1987, ZSF Produkt), "Morality" (1985, Broken Flag), "Wolfsangel" (1986, Nihilistic Recordings), "L'Enfer Est Intime Vol.00" (1985, VP231), "L'Enfer Est Intime Vol.01" (1985, VP231), "Kill SPK" (1985, Beast 666 Tapes), "Dry Lungs I" (1985, Placebo Records). Bonus-track "All armi" is the first ever live recording made at "L'Abbatoir" club in 1982. Some tracks optimized by Ruelgo 2009, specially for this re-edition. [label info]
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Le Testament De La Lumiere -- "Echoes Out Of Time" -- CD + CDR -- €16
2010 Steinklang Industries, SK 47, (ltd. 150)
Lebedev-Frontov, Alexander -- "Bio Versus Mechano" -- CD-R -- €9
2011 ALF Produkt, No. 17, (ltd. 60)
This disk is a collection of previously unreleased noise constructions produced in 1988-1992 undear heavy hypno aesthetic influence of so called "music of machines" and in presentiment of forthcoming triumphal march of biological mechanisms on planetary scale. Special thanks for inspiration to KRAFTWERK, Gary NUMAN, Paul HINDEMITH, Ernst TOCH, Hans Heinz STUCKENSCHMIDT, and also A.ANDRIEVSKY. [from the author]
Lebedev-Frontov, Alexander -- "Chaos" -- CD-R -- €8
2009 ALF Produkt, No. 12
Archive recordings from Alexander Lebedev-Frontov (Linija Mass, Stalnoy Pakt, Veprisuicida) made in 1985-86. In fact, this is his first full-length audio work recorded before the creation of his famous project Linija Mass. Digitized from cassettes.
Lebedev-Frontov, Alexander -- "Cosmos" -- CD-R -- €8
2009 ALF Produkt, No. 13
Archive recordings from Alexander Lebedev-Frontov (Linija Mass, Stalnoy Pakt, Veprisuicida) made in 1986. This is his second audio work (after "Chaos") recorded before the creation of his famous project Linija Mass. Digitized from tape.
Lebensessenz -- "Die Letzten Momente Von Werther" -- CD-R -- €4
2010 Valgriind, VG 42, (ltd. 120)
The new work by this neoclassic project is dedicated to the novel of J.W.Goethe "Die Leiden des jungen Werther" (1774) which describes the German reality of XVIII century and the dramatic personal feelings of main character who ends up with suicide. This novel brought fame to Goethe, none of the books of that time were read that much by the contemporaries as this novel. The circulation of the novel cased an epidemy of following suicides in Europe, which was later called the Werther effect. This effect was so strong that some of the countries had to prohibit the distribution of the book. "..Zum Bleiben ich, zum Scheiden du, erkoren, Giingsit du voran - und hast nicht viel verloren.." [label info]
Lebensessenz -- "Die Rauber" -- CD-R -- €6
2009 Valgriind, VG 30
Masterly passages of an old piano, melodies from the depths of memory, original analogue neoclassic from the famous Brazil author. A new view on the forgotten concepts of German and Austrian composers of the second half of XVIII century, through the prism of the end 90's Varg Vikernes's art. The first album of pre-arranged label's series. Limited edition with professional layout, released as an envelope. [label info]
Leeza -- "Living in a Pixel" -- CD-R -- €9
2006 Afe Records, afe079cd
Six years passed since Afe released Plasmic, Luca Di Mattei's adventorous lo-fi electronica debut disc assembled with an almost total lack of equipment. During all this time Luca has been busy working on his many musical projects (Leeza, Hendy Van Morris, Bill Catez and Jabba) and had a few releases on Afe and on his own label called Moonfear. Luca also collaborated with Kabal on many of the tracks that appeared on his self-titled debut album, and also gave him some help on the following "Alone"... Leeza's music is generated using a laptop computer and no other electronic devices. It has its main roots in what was once called Intelligent Techno, and is clearly inspired by the good records published during the '90s by labels such as Warp, Rephlex, Skam, etc. With "Living in a Pixel", he has crafted an album of classic melodic electronic compositions which are very rarely tuneless. [label info]
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The Legendary Pink Dots -- "The Crushed Velvet Apocalypse" -- CD -- €14
1990/2001 SPV Poland / Big Blue, SPV-L 0072
If you're interested in The Legendary Pink Dots and don't know the way in their enormeous discography, "The Crushed Velvet Apocalypse" might be a very good starting point. This album offers high quality material and at the same time it's one of the more accessible LPD-albums. "I Love You In Your Tragic Beauty" and "Princess Coldheart" are amongst the most beautiful ballads in their discography. Tracks like "The Safe Way" and "The Death Of Jack The Ripper" will give you a glimpse of the Dots' more experimental side, while "Just A Lifetime" and "New Tommorow" are a good introduction to the lyrical qualities of singer Edward Ka-Spel. Note that this is the first album featuring Niels Van Hoorn. Highly recommended! [discogs.com]
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Legendary Pink Dots -- "Faces In The Fire" -- CD -- €14
1996 Soleilmoon Recordings, SOL 42 CD
The Legendary Pink Dots -- "Live at the Metro" -- CD -- €14
1999 SPV Poland / Big Blue, SPV 150122
Recorded live at the Cabaret Metro, Chicago on November 11, 1998.
Leiche Rustikal -- "333" -- CD -- €10
2007 Steinklang Industries, SKD 16, (ltd. 500)
The brandnew album of Munich's primary Industrial act brings you Death-Noise hymns and rhythmic Noise tracks in old-school-Steinklang manner with modern elements, partly even with song-character and male+female vocals. [label info]
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Leichtmann, Hanno -- "Nuit Du Plomb" -- CD -- €14
2006 Karaoke Kalk, karaoke kalk cd 37
Les Joyaux De La Princesse -- "Aux Volontaires Croix De Sang" -- CD -- €18
2007 Les Joyaux De La Princesse , LVN ~ IV, (ltd. 2000)
The new LJDLP opus is based on the obscure 1930's "Croix de Sang" movement. This album contains new material with the exception of a reworked track from the "Croix de Bois" 10". Digipack packaging with copper debossed finition and a 12 page full color booklet.
Les Mort Skin -- "Front Capacity" -- CD-R -- €9
2007 UFA Muzak, UFA15, (ltd. 151)
LES MORT SKIN is a side project of a Bulgarian power electronics act CAVUM ORIS. Not going far away from it's horrible music, it moves towards martial-oriented fortifications. With it's specific brutal view and understanding it represents "wild hunt of Odin" on contemporary fields, like a slaughter where everything burns. In the course of the whole album to the accompaniment of metal crushes, clangs and cracks stands the dense atmosphere of pitiless collision of interests, where the fact of being right established only by complete destruction of one of the sides. This is an industrial symphony, with which the whole XX century is filled, the great opera of suffering, death, explosions, torture, fire, pouring blood, burnt flesh, pain, gas and suffocation. Breaking, burning, bursting metall, tons of which fall from the skies, flying in heads, crushing bones, annihilating blood, metal as a reason? Paradox. Martial/death industrial. 7 tracks, 36 minutes, CD-r, black sleeve with silver serigraphy, insert. [press-release]
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Lethal Dose 50 -- "21st Century Awakening" -- CD -- €13
2006 Nuit Et Brouillard, NB CD 05
Lethe -- "Nowhere" -- CD -- €10
2010 A5 Production, AP-04
Lethe is a one-man Dark Ambient / atmospheric project by StormChild from Kiev. With very occult, dark and obscure apocalyptic ambient music, "Nowhere" captures the cold, dead atmosphere of the ghost town of Tschernobyl. 8 tracks and around 43mins of music in a DVD case with professional artwork by Dmitry Mayatsky. Ukrainian import. Not to be confused with the Japanese minimalist composer of the same name. [Cold Spring]
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Lietterschpich -- "I Cum Blood in the Think Tank" -- CD -- €10
2007 Topheth Prophet / Heart & Crossbone, TP010 / HCB009
"...The power electronics and death industrial on this cd sound like Skin Chamber, Irm and Master/Slave Relationship crashed into each other head-on, afterwards the broken and mangled remnants were used as good or as bad as it went to build a new vehicle. The tortured electronica hums, growls and fluctuates; the slow and refractory music with sluggish rhythms has been outfitted with distorted, mentally deranged sounding vocals of the kind that instigates nightmares to boot. One track even inclines towards breakcore, but the insanity on this disc is quite different from the madness of Venetian Snares or Hellfish. Besides Merzbow-style white noise there are also discernible structures apparent in the sonic waves, this makes 'I Cum Blood In The Think Tank' a listening experience which is all the more imperative. Drone lovers might want to check this out as well, by the way. This is digital doom for advanced nihilists." [Nanhold, Gothtronic]
Lieutenant Caramel -- "Early Tape Works" -- 2 CD -- €15
2006 Monochrome Vision, (mv08), (ltd. 500)
Lieutenant Caramel is the musician and film director at the same time, he shoot movies for ears with microphone. The continuous search for poetic images, frantic interchange of subjects, twisted and broken mosaic of fuzzy elements, the breathtaking incoherence of perception, the mark of primitive life, the total absence of organization and rational thoughts. All this breathes, moves, obtains the voice and gradually becomes meaningful. Theatrical view of musique concrete, humorous and surrealistic collection of masterpieces recorded in the ten years. Despite its evident correlations with french electroacoustic school, Lieutenant Caramel's music finds much more common issues with approach of such artists as Brume and Nurse With Wound - surrealistic and humorous, breaking rhythm of everyday life, household inventory instead of real instruments. All tracks are specially remastered for this album, originally they appears on:
(1-5) "L'Odyssee Du Lieutenant Caramel" (1985, 1989 audiofile Tapes aT84), (11-17) "Les Bonnes archives du Dimanche" (1985, 1986 Old Europa Cafe OEC003), (18-20) "Du Plomb plein les ailes" (1984, 1985 Acteon), (6, 21) "Et Ca Vole!" (1993, SPH), and also on split-LP with La Sonorite Jaune: (7-10) "Je ne veux plus voir le ciel" (1988, Acteon 011/SJ Organisation SJ028). [label info]
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Lieutenant Caramel -- "Street Noise Penetrates My House" -- CD -- €16
2009 Waystyx, WR46, (ltd. 500)
A new album of French musique concrete genius. Quite unusual CD sleeve with fleecy cardboard and corset-style lacing.
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Lieutenant Caramel & Victor Nubla -- "Dos Hombres Verdes" -- CD -- €16
2010 Waystyx, WR67, (ltd. 256)
Computerized electroacoustic, collage concrete music, hallucinogenic ambient, perverted voices, thoughtpul piano passages, almost rock'n'roll guitar tunes and drums falling to pieces... Totally unpredictable flow of sound, a puzzle for an attentive listener, a real trip.
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Light Collapse -- "Pop" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 Heart Shaped Box Prod., HSB-018, (ltd. 31)
Concrete Radionoise. A portrait of Russian radio-ether. Handmade sleeve from a page of some glamour zine. [YAOP]
Light Collapse -- "Walls" -- 2 CD-R -- €10
2011 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT94, (ltd. 24)
HNW, mainly hypnotizing rumble sometimes intersected by more varied Harsh Noise materian in vein of Masonna. Vinyl box, cover made of wallpaper, insert with info. [label info]
Light Collapse & Cat'n'Bone -- split -- CD-R -- €7
2011 Torga Amun Rec., 023
Harsh Noise from Ural based Light Collapse versus industrial ambient substance from Murmansk based Cat'n'Bone. Slim box. [YAOP]
Light Collapse + LN 313 -- "Making External Space" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Heart-Shaped Box Prod., HSB-034, (ltd. 32)
Cosmic technogenic noise ambient, collaboration work between two projects from the Ural, Russia. Handmade cover from a page of an old technical magazine + a couple of inserts. [YAOP]
Light Collapse & Radiokvadratura -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €7
Heart Shaped Box productions, HSB-011, (ltd. 45)
Collaboration work between two Russian projects from Ural region. Sick and aticky anti-dance marathon. Brutal dances with broken legs, crutches, burnt bottles with foil and piles of crap. No artwork, just a piece of paper, PVC sleeve and something sprayed on a disk. We dance the third day. Not enough bottles. [Abgurd description]
Light Collapse & Vomir -- "Torgamun" -- CD-R -- €7
2011 Torga Amun Rec., 026, (ltd. 50)
Harsh noise wall. 44 mins. DVD-slim box.
Light of Shipwreck -- "From The Idle Cylinders" -- CD-R -- €7
Crusial Bliss, BLISS20, (ltd. 200)
Light Of Shipwreck is a one-man project of Ben Fleury-Steiner, owner of Gears of Sand Recordings. Dense ominous feedback drones and heavy pounding riffs freely flowing under the massive of the mechanical tribal rhythm. Three tracks of intense crushing power-ambient, with huge resonating metal slabs glimmering in an ocean of heavenly feedbacks and reverbed guitar on the back of trance-krautrock percussion. Colour A5 cover. [YAOP]
Ligne Claire -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 Steelkraft Manufactory, SKM 001, (ltd. 100)
Ligne Claire is a project brought up by Bertrand Barrere, featuring David Delwiche (HYTC), Stephane Flauder (Fin de Siecle), Serge Usson (Neon Rain, Storm Of Capricorn), Christophe Gales (Westwind) and Delphine Riou. During a one year recording session, all these individuals contributed by internet, each adding his own elements to the previous work of others, in turns. The result is a perfect blend of old-school industrial, rumbling drone/ambient and raw power-electronics. [press-release]
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Liles, Andrew -- "My Long Accumulating Discontent" -- CD -- €10
2004 Nextera, ERA 2035-2
'My Long Accumulating Discontent' is the fourth and certainly the strangest recording from Andrew Liles. This CD is in places more 'melodic' than Liles' previous output and its 17 tracks cover a wide musical territory. Some songs are short and harmonious, other pieces are longer, subtle and contemplative with drifting delicate drones. In places the CD is truly bizarre and defies all conventions. The album doesn't fit easily into any definable bracket and we feel this oddity belongs in a class all of its own. Traditional English vernacular culture connoisseur Andrew King joins Andrew Liles for one track and Aaron Moore and Nick Mott of Volcano the Bear contribute to several other songs. 'My Long Accumulating Discontent' is a distinct and peculiar excursion from the norm. [press-release]
Liles, Andrew -- "New York Doll" -- 2 CD -- €14
2007 Infraction, INFX 013, (ltd. 550)
Lilly -- "Apocalyptic User" -- CD-R -- €8
2006 Abgurd, AB-33, (ltd. 184)
Official (re)release of project of dr.Feitnathoroth (GORDUW/TCHORT/Folvork) and Scum (Twilight shadows web-zine / NUCLEAR WINTER) tributed to 'Never Stop the Madness' campaign. The most funny thing is that one of the authors utterly hated another one. So it is a unique example of mutual-enemy collaboration. Drone Ambient as it is performed by CLOSING THE ETERNITY by Scum and Rhythm'n'Noise falling into Power Electronics by dr.Feitnathoroth. Distorting reality, hum in your head, voice in your ears... Sophisticated structures of industrial dance-rhythms force you to dance with your conscious rapped... Shutting doors, echoes of steps -- unreality of drained brain... Only drones and ringing in your hollow head. The first edition of this album released but not distributed by Folvork because of imprisonment of dr.F contained a couple of barbiturates Lilly -- now you have to find them yourself if you need... [press-release]
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Lilly -- "Lilly's Kiss" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Folvork'prod, Kfeytzez 100, (ltd. 50)
65 min. Drone Dark Ambient & Power Electronics / Power Noise (GORDUW / TCHORT & OBOZDUR Members). Special cardboard packages made of the boxes from DXM containing cough syrup Tussin Plus + HIV-infected used syringe! [label info]
Lilly / Strup -- "Lullaby for a Dead Monky" -- CD-R -- €7
2011 Folvork'prod, Kfeytzez 107, (ltd. 20)
Split work from the musicians from Krasnoyarsk (Siberia, Russia) and Bobrujsk (Belarus) dedicated to the psychoactive substance called dextromethorphan (DXM). Lilly - primive rhythmic noise with vocal samples and rough & raw death industrial collages. Strup - minimal raw noise turning into harsh power electronics. Special artwork made with the use of "Glikodin" cough syrup and a pipette.
The Lindbergh Baby -- "Hoodwinked" -- CD -- €13
2007 False Flag Records
Lingua Lustra -- "Horizon" -- CD-R -- €10
2006 Practising Nature, PN004
Deep and psychadelic, blended with rhythmic structure. Second album by sonic experimentalist Albert Borkent (Amsterdam). [label info]
Linija Mass -- "Trud" -- CD -- €11
2007 Der Angriff, Nr. 13, (ltd. 400)
Reissue of the very first tape album previously published by Alexander Lebedev-Frontov's own label Ultra.
Linija Mass -- "Mechano-Faktura" -- CD -- €11
2007 Der Angriff, Nr. 14, (ltd. 400)
Reissue of a CDR previously published by Alexander Lebedev-Frontov's own label Ultra.
Linija Mass -- "Proletkult" -- CD -- €11
2007 Der Angriff, Nr. 30, (ltd. 400)
Reissue of a CDR previously published by Alexander Lebedev-Frontov's own label Ultra.
Linija Mass -- "Industrealism" -- 3"CD -- €8
2007 ALF Produkt, No. 9, (ltd. 440)
Mini-album with two old tracks (2001) and one new (2007). Standard edition.
Linija Mass -- "Industrealism" -- 3"CD -- €12
2007 ALF Produkt, No. 9, (ltd. 60)
Mini-album with two old tracks (2001) and one new (2007). Limited to 60 copies in handmade package.
Lips Vago -- "A Trip To Wherever You Like" -- CD-R -- €7
2000 Afe Records, afe019cd
All the tracks on this release were recorded in June 1996. From station to station, from city to city, from Earth to Space, another selection of tracks taken from the huge Lips Vago archives. CD-R EP in transparent jewel case with special full color printed artwork. [label info]
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Lips Vago -- "First Experience" -- CD-R -- €9
1998 Afe Records, lip001cd
New Electronica. All the tracks on this release were written and produced between January and March 1995 and are Lips Vago's very first recordings. [label info]
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Lips Vago -- "Flaco EP" -- CD-R -- €7
1999 Afe Records, afe002cd
A bizarre excursion through cheap sounds and strange effects. All the tracks on this release were recorded between September and December 1995. Original version of track 5 was created and gently supplied by Kabal. All the tracks originally appeared on the "Words & Numbers" tape. [label info]
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Lips Vago -- "Second Experience" -- CD-R -- €9
1998 Afe Records, lip002cd
New Electronica. Early Lips Vago material. All the tracks on this release were written and produced between March and June 1995. [label info]
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Lips Vago -- "The Space Age" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2000 Afe Records, afe016mcd
More signs of (alien...?) life from Lips Vago... one long space inspired track recorded back in March 1996. This is the very first Afe MiniCD-R 3". [label info]
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Lips Vago -- "Transparent Life" -- CD-R -- €9
1999 Afe Records, afe001cd
Another alias of Andrea Marutti known to dark-ambient lovers by his projects Amon and Never Known. Light electronic music, early material recorded in 1995. First CDR release on his own Afe Records.
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The Liquescent Horror -- "A Funeral for the Things Undying" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Satanarsa Records, STN-037
Gothic Horror Neoclassic based on piano and cold minimalistic Dark Ambient with doomed growling and rare intrusions of heavy doom guitar. Jewel case. [YAOP]
Liquid Bridge -- "Cornucopia" -- CD-R -- €7
2005 Strange Charm Records, SC05003
This project was formed by Tony Sharp and Brian Cosgrove. Cornucopia is their first officially released work that will please all fans of classic EM sounds and analogue electronics. The following equipment was used on this release: EMS VCS3, DK2, ARP 2600, Roland JP8000, Juno 60, SH02, SH09, SH101,MC202, VK1, VP330 Vocoder Plus, XP10, TR707, SH1000, PK5, Emu Emax, Vintage Keys plus, Kawai K4, Korg MS10, N5ex, Kurzweil PC88, Oberheim OB12, Matrix 1000, Fender Rhodes Stage 73, Moog Minimoog, Yamaha DX7 Mk1, DX7II, MU80, Alesis Air F/X, Lexicon MPX100 and a late appearance by the NED Synclavier II. [Databloem]
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Lith -- "Pylon" -- CD -- €14
2002 Divine Comedy Records, DC 011, (ltd. 500)
Llovespell -- "Audioemotional Retreat" -- CD -- €15
2011 Sonderübertragung!, sue38cd, (ltd. 299)
Llovespell -- "Every Song Is A Llovesong" -- CD -- €14
2007 Sonderübertragung!, SUE25, (ltd. 300)
Llovespell -- "Last Breath Before Light" -- CD -- €14
2009 Sonderübertragung!, SUE30, (ltd. 330)
Llovespell -- "Signatures Of Sympathy" -- CD -- €14
2005 Sonderübertragung!, SUE15, (ltd. 300)
Llovespell -- "Symmetric Poetry" -- CD -- €14
2004 Sonderübertragung!, SÜ05, (ltd. 500)
Lomakin, Andrey -- "The Attack" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Necrophone, å, (ltd. 25)
Guitar noise, improvisation, pseudo-sludge. DIY artwork from cardboard and burnt reports. [label info]
Lomakin, Andrey -- "Obscure Domestic Chaos 2005-2006" -- CD-R -- €5
2008 Skotomogilnik, SM003, (ltd. 12)
Andrey Lomakin from St. Petersburg, noise of various velocity levels. Rough sleeve made of a carpet found on a car graveyard. [label info]
Lonsai Maikov -- "From the Fountain" -- mCD -- €6
1993 Cauda Draconis, NA024CD
The debut mini-CD of a French project Lonsai Maikov, 6 tracks lasting for about 19 minutes. Utterly dark apocalyptic neofolk music.
Loo, Andres -- "Skeletons On Rock" -- CD -- €11
2009 Laton, Laton 048
Originally a drummer, Andres Loo is a musician, who does shows with his exclusive wave-edit based music, prototypically rhythm-focused, spiced up with heart ache vocals for cherries on the cake. Coming from Tallinn, Estonia, Loo has recently been warming up bands like Black Dice and writing film music for Estonian feature films. His upcoming collaborations include a musical, to be written alongside Kevin Blechdom. "Skeletons on Rock" (Laton 048) is the debut release by Andres Loo. Loo's sonic edge seems to be hijacked from the experimental, but don't let it deceive you... It is music. Poppy, occassionally extremist sounding powertunes, and a tease for music lovers of many kinds. [press-release]
Lopez, Francisco -- "Amarok" -- CD -- €13
2010 Glacial Movements Records, GM007
Francisco Lopez is known all over the world as one of the main figures of all time experimental music. He performed in hundreds lives, projects and sound-sets in 60 countries of 5 continents and his huge discography has been released by more than 200 labels all over the world. His musical universe moves from human-ear limits to the deepest abysses of sonorous power and it is mostly composed of field recordings caught along the wildest areas of Earth or between the sounds of industrial world... For 'Amarok' composition two years of hard work have been employed using sounds and processed field recordings. It's a unequalled conceptual soundscape in this artist's huge discography and it perfectly joins to Glacial Movements aesthetics. After a few seconds from the track beginning we are dip into an arctic trip which lasts more than an hour and in which tangled weavings in a masterly fashion handled by the Spanish artist appear, develop and dissolve. Gusts of arctic wind, the Amarok's wheezing breath (Amarok is the name of a gigantic wolf in Inuit mythology) and the sense of loss in the polar night are only some of the sensations that this cryogenic hallucinatory acustic is able to evoke. 'Amarok is probably one of the more isolationist and spookiest work I've ever done' Francisco Lopez, march 2009. [press-release]
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Lopez, Francisco -- "Untitled (2006-2007)" -- 2 CD -- €15
2008 Monochrome Vision, mv25, (ltd. 500)
Wide and diverse selection of several short pieces, composed by this prolific spanish musician during the last two years. It features quite a variety of sonic materials, from very atmospheric to quite fast-paced, and everything in between, including pieces made with recordings from planes, a piece for an instrumental ensemble, etc. The whole is quite cohesive and strong work, very characteristic and intense. [label info]
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Lopez, Francisco -- "Wind [Patagonia]" -- CD -- €10
2007 and/OAR, and/27
and/OAR couldn't be more pleased to present the third part of Spanish sound artist Francisco Lopez's already classic "trilogy of the Americas" which started with La Selva, followed by Buildings [New York] (both released by V2 Archief, Netherlands). An immersion into the sonic matter from micro- and macro- environments dominated by wind in Patagonia. A vast barren space shaped and inhabited by the ever-changing forces of unmuted plants, rocks, sand, snow, and ice. An irregular broad-band environment of relentless strength and richness. And above all, a tour de force of profound listening... Packaged in a super gloss digipak with 16 page 4 color booklet. [label info]
Love-Fine -- "Temperature's Rising" -- mCD -- €11
2010 Latona, Latona 02
This quartet comes from Kazan', Russia. A girl behind a groovebox and a yound man behind a "Korg" stand still like robots from Kraftwerk, while vocalist and guitarist are slamming like The Hives (Timour, the singer, even sings husky). In response to the label "electro-punk" being constantly tagged to the band, they make shoegazing noise and weird psychedelic melodies, swear love to kraut-rock and help organising the gigs of Austrian and Polish electronic avantguardists. This CDEP consists of 3 new band's tracks + 2 remixes on the title track from Astrolabe and A Headphones. [Fulldozer]
Low End Ensemble -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €8
2009 .Angle.Rec., .A.R.05.07., (ltd. 125)
.ANGLE.REC. is proud to present the first production of Montreal's own LOW END ENSEMBLE. Coming out from the ashes of multiple rock, progressive, blues and metal bands, Christian Lecompte joins forces with Simon Thibaudeau's oscillated and noiseful world. Witness the birth of Low End Ensemble. We promise no knobs to be left unturned, no feedback left unheard and rumble that would make an earthquake feel ashamed. Simon plays synths, effects, noise & bass Christian plays bass, feedback & moog. Simon also goes under the KVIK moniker, with releases on labels such as BRISE-CUL RECORDS or NAME RECORDS. The particularity of LOW END ENSEMBLE lies in the exchange of favours between the two sound creators of the project: due to his musician training as well as his experience and mastery in more conventional and ''written'', styles, Christian embeds, in a certain structure, the dishevelled explorations of Simon Thibaudeau, while the latter, with his off-beat and noisy approach, incites Christian to let himself loose and somewhat break the mold of the rigidity and seriousness sometimes associated with more ''composed'' music. From there, one could rightly qualify this first album as ''composed improv'' or ''improvised compo''...Treasures unfold over the 4 long tracks that compose this first official production :In the end, a disc that is more atmospheric than full-on noise. To be filed under organic psych/drone. [press-release]
LU -- "B-Interrail" -- CD -- €10
2003 Small Voices, SVR03004
LU is a great new Italian one man band. Multi-instrumentalist and sampler wizard Gianluca Porcu proposes a very personal mix of acoustic and electronic music, endowed with a warm and lively Mediterranean sensibility. The album is an organical suite in various movements in which lyrical and melodious orchestral themes are played with the help of a small ensemble of special guests (flute, clarinet, sax, piano, guitar), then deconstructed and remixed through layers of soft electronica, female choirs, cut-up vocals (including the ghost of Marcel Duchamp) and glitches elements, all with a stimulating attitude between pop and classical plus more than a small hint to vintage lounge soundtracks. In the final track, Consapevolezza della riduzione, LU also proves to be able to construct powerful avant-pop songs. LU is the missing link between The Penguin Café Orchestra and Fennesz. A very unique, pleasurable, slighthy wistful and at times funny experience, also for lovers of Nobukazu Takemura, Pascal Comelade, Pulseprogramming, The Books, etc. [press-release]
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Luasa Raelon -- "80000v" -- CD-R -- €7
2003 Snip-Snip Records, SNIP-SNIP 13
Luasa Raelon -- "Automatic Satan" -- CD-R -- €7
2002 Snip-Snip Records, SNIP-SNIP 02
Luasa Raelon -- "Consumed Within the Years of Lead" -- CD -- €10
PACrec / Snip-Snip Records, PACrec104, (ltd. 1000)
Brooding, dark industrial material with insane structure and sense of space. Inspires a sense of unease and dread, total midnight music. [label info]
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Luasa Raelon -- "The House Of Flesh" -- CD -- €11
2008 Snip-Snip Records, SNIP-SNIP 55
New 2008 from David Reed's main project. Doom-ridden synth wailings and gloomy atmospheres welcome you inside the House of Flesh. Absolute audio dread. [Mechanoise Labs] Enter the house. Meet your doom. Pure evil. [label info] :)
Luasa Raelon -- "Storms Of Neptune" -- CD-R -- €7
2002 Snip-Snip Records, SNIP-SNIP 01
Lucisferrato -- "Ahnenschein" -- CD -- €12
Der Angriff Nr. 1, (ltd. 450)
The first CD of LC aka Lucisferrato, which releases on Hau Ruck made well-known to the world this one of the most unique and original St. Petersburg outfit that uses various analogue devices, voice and prepared accordion to create the frightening picture of human soul suffering in the modern world collapse. [label info]
Lucisferrato -- "Ingermanland" -- CD -- €12
2002 Hau Ruck!, HR!26
Yuri Sakevic sings sad hymns underlain with drones and layers of organs. Breaks from historical cut-ups and orchestral neoclassical pieces give the final touch to an atmosphere of darkness and depression that surrounds this project. [label info]
Luftwaffe -- "Ere I Perish" -- CD -- €14
2010 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 129
The new full-length CD featuring 55 minutes of oratorical demagoguery from U.S. Martial and Neofolk duet, Luftwaffe. With 16 original tracks with collaborations by with Richard Leviathan (of Ostara and Strength Through Joy), Awen, Valence, Gnomonclast. Features an original cover-art painting by the internationally renowned NY artist Richard Phillips. The uncompromising marriage of Martial Industrial, Acoustic Folk and Solipsistical Nihilism; Luftwaffe continues to forge new awakenings within the Post Industrial genre. "The overriding voice. The word bespoke is power. And these words shall be the last. And that voice is ours. Thou shalt perish. Ere I perish." [press-release]
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Lull -- "Like a Slow River" -- CD -- €13
2008 Glacial Movements, GM004
After a long period of silence, Glacial Movements Records is glad to announce you the return of the most important representative of ambient isolationist music ever: the wonderful English artist Mick J. Harris aka LULL (Scorn, Painkiller, Napalm Death).Unquestionable genius of the last century's second half European music and point of reference about the rising isolationist aesthetics, being on the same wavelength as post-rock last scenaries... "Like a slow river" it's a work characterized by sharp and minimal atmospheres but also dark, cold and huge such as big bodies of ice which slowly move carried by an endless river. The five compositions of "Like a slow river" reach the high expectations of the previous works such as "Cold Summer", "Continue" and the "Murder Ballads" trilogy with Martin Bates. With no doubt, this is the coldest and darkest work ever composed by this pioneer of industrial-ambient music. You all will be led to the oblivion of your existence....the freezing darkness of these glacial night is going to come down on your bodies and minds....you'll fall in your deepest sleep with the far echo of glacial runnings....the way to eternity is in front of you.... [press-release]
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Lullabier -- "VeritÁ Rivestite D'Ombra" -- CD -- €10
2011 Oltrelanebbiailmare, CD201107
Delicate and fragile dreamy atmospheres, melodic and hypnotic ambiental light touches, sonic landscapes... now semi-acoustic, then nearly shoegaze... lyrics with introspective views, whispered by a simple and gentle voice, mainly based on evocative and shining, delicate and expanded, electric guitar riffs, on discreet rhythmic bases, sometimes followed by more simple ethereal folk guitar chords, in a singer-songwriter mood. An intense album, simply elegant, and at the same time competent and extremely touching... [label info]
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Lumina Sector / Ego Death -- "Light & Darkness" -- CD-R -- €3
2010 Sewer Records, SEWER 042 / Vmr Recordings, VMR 8
Dark Ambient, Noise, Power Electronics. [YAOP]
Luminous -- "Links" -- CD -- €10
2008 Tara Records, TARA 004
Time for some sub-aquatic bubbling abstract electronics and dark ambient sound worlds from Links. 'Luminous' Two 30 minute tracks take you on a sonic journey and really give you the sense that your lost in a different space and time, like floating around in some liquid metal dreamscape. With the sound of drones creating a feeling of amnesia. Very absorbing stuff. I'd like to listen to this whilst locked in a cupboard and become a total void. Housed in a red clamshell case on Tara Records. [Norman Records]
Lunar Abyss -- "aut-inJiR" -- CD-R -- €8
2011 Biosonar^Lo-End 011 cdr, (ltd. 13)
Quite conceptual recording of a night live set on the afterparty of "inJiR" forest festival (Crimea, Aya cape, September 2011) done from the desk and representing slowly shifting loops going in three asynchronous layers, no "playing", only cold watching of what's happening. The recording features a fragment of predawn hour, an hour of visions and dreams. DIY carbdoard box with b/w stickers and inserts with b/w photos of Aya cape and the festival. [press-release]
Lunar Abyss -- "Drema + Solntse" -- 2 CD-R -- €8
2011 Biosonar^Lo-End, 008-cdr, (ltd. 20)
Two concerts recorded in summer 2011 at forest gatherings "Dreaming 1" ("Drema 1") and "Holidays in the Sun" ("Kanikuly na Solntse"). Recorded on air on Zoom H4 portastudio without any studio editing. Nice live atmosphere, good sound quality. For those familiar with Lunar Abyss worls it would be nice to spot some familiar elements in the sonic canvas. DIY fetish artwork in cardboard box with a set of found postcards and photos. [label info]
Lunar Abyss -- "Timeline... 2010" -- CD-R -- €8
2010 Biosonar^Labirint 016, (ltd. 52)
The author's mix containg tracks from early period of Lunar Abyss Quartet till nowadays releases of Lunar Abyss Deus Organum, also featuring unreleased fragments and live backing tracks. Fluent journey in time and space of Lunar Abyss sonic creation. Mixed in three tracks matching the timeline. Each copy is handmade and handnumbered. [label info]
Lunar Abyss as Boevye Cikady -- "Golden Dissaciative Trip" -- CD-R -- €8
2010 Biosonar^Labirint 015, (ltd. 91)
The album is dedicated to dissociative and deprivated states of mind. Details and phenomena of the world loose interdimensional links and here comes the dissociative meeting of a mirror and it's reflections. The disk contains author's early works, not previously released because of thematical correspondence, one can comprehend them as some accumulated sonic-time experience, as a guide in dissociative states, or as a poetic reflection of this theme. All these tracks sound aomewhere right in the middle of the mentione projects, and apeear to be a synthesis of two mythologies of sound. Sunny atmosphere of ultramundane experiences, vigorous wave high-tech ritual! Handmade cardboard sleeve. [press-release]
Lunar Abyss + Bardoseneticcube -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €6
Biosonar Revers
Author's reissue of a limited CDR, published in 2003 by 8th Moon Art, with simplified artwork. Mutual remixes of these two Russian projecrs, dense multi-layered noise-ambient.
Lunar Abyss + Lesnaya Pogan' -- "Dremo-Ta" -- CD-R -- €8
2010 Biosonar^Labirint 014, (ltd. 108)
Wooden noises, crunch and grunts of the analogue synth power, howlings of gnomes in the night, rustles of furtive efts, bubbling of mineral and electromagnetic magic, music of wood spirits. Tape loops, Soviet era vocoders, reverbs and synths, field recordings and accidental sounds found on old tapes. A winter collaboration recording. Handmade cardboard sleeve with monotyping. [press-release]
Lunar Abyss vs Lunar Abyss -- "Teni" -- CD-R -- €8
2011 Biosonar^Labirint 020/2011, (ltd. 52)
Auto-remixes of the early tracks of the project. Dense layered clouds of sounds interlace with transparent shadows of recognizable sounds. The material is sometimes transformed to total loss of identification, sometimes unprocessed samples from that tracks are utilized. The twisting of personal creative time in non-personal sound flow, reflashing of dronings. Trip ambient, ritual electroacoustics. Each copy is handmade and numbered. [label info]
Lunar Abyss Deus Organum -- "Bereg Holodnoj Vesny" -- CD-R -- €10
2009 Vetvei, V04, (ltd. 108)
Final part of two-piece opus from L.A.D.O is out now on Vetvei! CD-R contains best fragments of artists night performance, as heard by guests of annual forest open-air festival Systo Togethering 2007. Album starts with sounds of body moving into forest - human breathes, moves and hears approaching drone and rustles. Lazy sun sets and inner space of sleep rise. L.A.D.O blindfolds the listener and leads him\her into the deep caverns and shallow waters. Listener follows the pulse of branches and joins procession of glowworms and fireflies to find his\her inner space. Speaking of style - second part of series is still a trademark psychedelic drone ambient canvas embroided with analog and digital soaring sounds, sometimes turning into undanceable experimental trance with radio signals and shamanic songs. Evgeniy Savenko uses loops, vinyl records, musique concrete and voice to create his well-known frost-tinged drones. In general the record done in Biosonar style - structured, colorful, complex and more bright than many well-known and average releases on drone scene. The cover in gold and gray waxed paper cover with herbal Vetvei-style artwork and 3 photos from the shores of Cold Spring. Each copy has individual cardboard package with 3 inserts. [press-release]
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Lunar Abyss Deus Organum -- "Box" -- 8 CD-R -- €55
2010 Biosonar^Labirint 006-013, (ltd. 8)
Special box for the fans of this project, includes 8 recent releases: "Snegopad", "Tsagan", "Geologorazvedka", "Ostrov" (feat. Hattifnatter), "Lesnaya" (feat. Hattifnatter), "Nidra" (feat. Anamezon), "Dendralepsya" (feat. Neznamo), "Magnitnaj Zmij" (split with Neznamo and Kryptogen Rundfunk). 8 CDRs in original package in carboard box + additional inserts and fetishes.
Lunar Abyss Deus Organum -- "Geologorazvedka" -- CD-R -- €8
2010 Biosonar^Labyrint 012, (ltd. 108)
A concept album made out exclusively of analogue synthesizers with the help of Neznamo and Lesnaya Pogan. Layered structure, multi-level flow of drones, clatters, signals, rustles and crackles merge in thick ambiental environment with dense earthy sound of geological visions. Packed in cardboard sleeve with coloured photos. [press-release]
Lunar Abyss Deus Organum -- "Snegopad" -- CD-R -- €8
2009 Biosonar^Labirint 007, (ltd. 52)
One more disc collected from winter home and processed field and live recordings. Drone-ambient - it's kind of called like this. Three tracks lasting for approximately an hour, enveloping droning-windy sound, spirally twisted distant echoes of outward events, rushing voices of crazed winter spirits. Third track is a rhythmically organized butoh of wood-goblins. Handmade artwork - each copy is unique. [press-release]
Lunar Abyss Deus Organum -- "Snovidenie" -- CD -- €10
2006 Biosonar^Labirint 01, (ltd. 323)
New full-length of famous Russian project L.A.D.O. contains reworked material from the ultra-limited mini-album "Sleeping In The Sleep" plus new tracks dedicated to the subject of dreams. Musical canvas of the album streams like a river, on which surface one can watch layers of droning ambient, voices of mermaids and forest spirits, ritual percussion, echoes of electronic impulses... Lots of authentic Russian folk instruments and field recordings were used on this recording. The CD is packed in handmade cardboard package - each copy is unique.
Lunar Abyss Deus Organum -- "Tryakusta" -- CD -- €10
2011 Vetvei, V17, (ltd. 485)
New album from Saint-Petersburg L.A.D.O. progect is result of 3 live records mixing: July 1, 2010 in art-apartment "Vmeste" - a meditative sound performance "Ring Time" - feat Kshatriy; July 4, 2010 a morning concert in "Zelenogorsky Festival of ambient music vol.1"; July 14, 2010 a meditative sound performance "Diamond Sandman - 12 th floor" in the art-apartment "Vmeste". An incredibly deep multilayered Drone Ambient with plenty of colorful patterns. A dense self-observing stream, that takes away all the dependences and rushing through an endless self-similar spheres. Mastered by Kshatriy. Full-colored six-panel envelope Vresnit & Vetvei Art. [press-release]
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Lunar Abyss Deus Organum -- "Tsagan" -- CD-R -- €8
2010 Biosonar^Labyrint 011, (ltd. 108)
Tsagan (Tibetian) - white, clear, bright. Lullaby and bathing songs decorated by drones and pipes, bells, breath of dawn, drops of lead, voice and guitar loops, mouth harps, theremin and forestal rustles. Everything sounds a bit alike "Brusnika" 7" but with more varied sound. Also took part in this recording: Tanya Svaha, 6sun, GoRa, Neznamo, and others... Packed in cardboard sleeve with coloured photos. [press-release]
Lunar Abyss Deus Organum -- "Tuntury" -- CD -- €10
2009 Aquarellist, aquarel 08-08, (ltd. 500)
The new album of one of the oldest Russian dark-ambient projects Lunar Abyss Deus Organum is a collection of six sonic pictures of the world of thundra-yoga. Each composition is like a complex multidimentional mosaic build of layered sounds of completely different nature: field recordings, samples, synthesizers, singing, tape noises, etc. These layers not just sound along, but slowly and relentlessly create a slowly twisting deep sonic spiral, stretching listener's attention out to several directions at once. Hallucinatory ambient of double dosage.
Lunar Abyss Deus Organum -- "Uzor" -- CD -- €10
2011 Biosonar^Labyrint 23, (ltd. 323)
The third "real" CD by LADO combines tracks recorded in 2002-2004 and due to various circumstances initially spread over various compilations and EPs ("Heilige Feuer III", "Thalamus II", "Holy Mother Russia", "Listopad Vot On", "Brusnika"). Now the circle is closed and this CD represents the pieces almost in the same order as they were created. The album reflects a certain period of creativity and especially author's interest in proto-Eurasian cultures. The compositions are created from acoustic and electronic structures, drum and noise loops, voice samples, scientific & journalistic recordings and deep wave drones.
Lunar Abyss Deus Organum -- "Uzor" -- CD -- €18
2011 Biosonar^Labyrint 23, extra limited, (ltd. 23)
Special edition of "Uzor": 23 copies in handmade A5 book made of hard cardboard with additional drawings done by the author during the recording of this album.
Lunar Abyss Deus Organum + Anamezon -- "Nidra" -- CD-R -- €8
2009 Biosonar^Labyrint, 010/2009, (ltd. 108)
Anamezon is a new project by Evgeny Savenko characterized by more electronic synthetic sound, and this "collaboration" is sort of balance between natural ambient of L.A.D.O. and electronic embient, sometimes even rhythmic. Field recordings, sounds of forest and alien voices are mixed with monotonous dronings, gentle pulsations and cosmic vibrations of analogue and digital synthesizers. Trademark multi-layered sound, psychedelic atmosphere and even-tempered energetics guaranteed. One track features Pepelaz A.B.
Lunar Abyss Deus Organum / Boevye Cikady / Pustota -- "Vetry Pamyati (Winds of Memory)" -- CD-R -- €8
2010 Biosonar^Labirint 019, (ltd. 52)
Three live fragments recorded in various years, of the three projects by one person, previously unreleased. L.A.D.O. - calm, almost soporific drone ambient, remote echoes of reindeer breeders tribal songs and howls of wind in the night. Boevye Cikady - a hurricane of digital twists and wildness of information flows, matted in funnels of noise whirls. Pustota - live version of the track "Ravens at the Sea" - dense natural noise, rumpus of crows in spring and a sorm in winter city of Yalta, all mixed on the basis of mountain wind. Each copy is handmade and handnumbered. [label info]
Lunar Abyss Deus Organum + Hattifnatter -- "Boloto" -- CD-R -- €8
2010 Biosonar^Labirint 017, (ltd. 52)
The continuation of subnatural theme is presented in the new swamp album by LADO & Hattifnatter. A journey to the world of hobgoblins and water spirits. Vibrant engulfing soundscapes are mixed with laid-back light melodic noisy pieces, narrating about helobious existence and non-existence. Trip ambient, easy noise, ritual electroacoustics. Each copy is handmade and handnumbered. [label info]
Lunar Abyss Deus Organum + Hattifnatter -- "Lesnaya" -- CD-R -- €8
2009 Biosonar^Labyrint 009, (ltd. 52)
"Lesnaya" means "woody" in Russian, so this is a new woody album from LADO & Hattifnatter. Having walks in a forest in company with ether creatures, talks of trees, movements of roots, singing of streamlets melt together in deep psychedelic (dark)-ambient with haunting atmosphere. Each copy is handmade.
Lunar Abyss Deus Organum + Hattifnatter -- "Ostrov" -- CD-R -- €8
2009 Biosonar^Labirint 006, (ltd. 52)
The new album, compiled from the autumnal home sessions and field recordings made with the project Hattifnatter (E.S. from L.A.D.O. and M.M. from Kryptogen Rundfunk). Spacey walks in deserted places, city streets and parks. Sound canvases - immersions, once in saturated bioactive environment, then minimalistically laid-back, a bit sorrowful flows and currents. Handmade artwork. [label info]
Lunar Abyss Deus Organum + Hattifnatter & Neznamo & Kshatriy & Vresnit -- "Sonastroika" -- CD-R -- €8
2011 Vetvei, V14, (ltd. 181)
A collective performance recording of LUNAR ABYSS DEUS ORGANUM + HATTIFNATTER & NEZNAMO & KSHATRIY & VRESNIT with the assistance of VJ Yury Elika from November, 4th, 2010 in ESG-21 club, St.-Petersburg. A six-parts session of a group audio-visual communication in a wonderful day of the decreasing moon. There were no separate performances of projects this evening, the participants joined in the action of unity. Field records, voices, guitars, synthesizers, wind instruments and extensive electronic devices in hands of the consciousness phenomena spin a dense Drone Ambient veil. A communication, a sound breath, an illusion stream, a clearing walk on the autumn wood, called to connect all the opposites! A design is presented by a six-pannel full-color envelope and a flyer of the action Vetvei & Vresnit Art. [press-release]
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Lunar Abyss Deus Organum feat. Kshatriy -- "Listopad Vot On" -- CD-R -- €8
2007 Biosonar^Labirint 02, (ltd. 64)
Here it is, the fall of leaves, here is it's flickering dance, whirling in the time cell between the branch and the earth. We gathered the recordings of the autumn, for the immersion and for the movement, for the games with the astral doubles and etherial creatures. Rhythmic rolls, cyclic funels, helix passages, magnetic pickups. Admiring the transition season. The Earth breathes... Two ritual ambient tracks are recorded and mixed in 2003, the following two are dark-psychedelic remixes on the material from "Zeleznaya Voda" CD and "Brusnika" 7". Packed in cross-folding handmade sleeve with lots of inserts unique for each copy. [press-release]
Lunar Abyss Deus Organum vs Neznamo -- "Dendralepsya" -- CD-R -- €8
2010 Biosonar^Labirint 013, (ltd. 108)
Dendralepsya - ability to suddenly turn into a tree. Assume you're sitting home, having a dinner with relatives and all of a sudden you're all covered with branches, most often coniferous - this is it! This disk presents dendraleptic soundscapes, i.e. the sound you hear while being a tree. Dense shroud of tender drones, like a mist. Images and visions create light gaps between the trees. Delicate tuning of your heart chakra - melodic layers in ultimately remote background. Music for strain listening and recognizing. The sound is based on voices and live instruments, ocarina and pipes, but all drown in fog, in mist, in solute. Handmade cardboard sleeve. [press-release]
Lunar Abyss Quartet -- "8" -- CD-R -- €8
2007 BioSonar^Labirint 004, (ltd. 52)
Re-edition of the very first album recorded in 1996-98 and released by 8th Moon Art in 1998. Atmospheric dark drone ambient with old school approach and vague analogue sound and cold atmosphere. Music of northern woods and tundra. Outstanding sound-processing techniques dilute the seriousness of content with a dashing smile, and lecture about discovering the Transbaikalian copper deposits in 1949 may be cognitive in self-educational sense, dear comrades.
Lunar Abyss Quartet -- "Arktika" -- CD-R -- €6
2007 BioSonar Revers
Author's re-edition of the 3rd full-length album of this well-known Russian project. The original version has been released on limited to 80 copies CDR by Ultra label in 2002. Cold landscapes of arctic expanses, voices in polar explorers' heads, atmosphere of doomed mystery... almost completely acoustic recording. Simple artwork in jewel case.
Lunar Abyss Quartet -- "Cosmologamma" -- CD-R -- €6
Biosonar Revers
Meditative monotonous ambient extracted from handmade metal and brass instruments. Author's reissue of the CD published by Quag, with simplified artwork.
Lunar Abyss Quartet -- "Hyperborean" -- CD-R -- €6
2010 BioSonar Revers
Authors reissue of a 10" record published by Der Angriff in 2003. "Mysterious travel into the heart of ancient Baltia, where the cold lakes and moss-covered stones in the pine-woods still keeping the secrets of the times long forgotten: Chants, ambient layers and delicate percussion together with some sound effects shroud the listener in the mist of the Hidden:" [Der Angriff]
Lunar Abyss Quartet -- "Zeleznaya Voda" -- CD-R -- €6
2002/2011 Biosonar^Revers
Author's reissue of a CD released by Chimaera label in 2002. "Resonant engulfing dark ambient played on natural instruments. Brilliant archival live recordings from this Russian ritualistic pagan droning ambient act, here presenting recordings from live performances and sessions made during 1998-2002. Wonderfully evolving soundscapes of sonorous drones and echoes blending together with ritualistic rhythms and voices as well as some more industrial elements." [Old Europa Cafe] Simplified artwork - b/w print in a slim sleeve. [label info]
Lundvall, Tor -- "Ghost Years" -- CD -- €14
2010 Tursa, TURSA101
"Ghost Years" is my first retrospective CD featuring tracks from various compilations, vinyl-only releases plus some unreleased material. The focus is more on my vocal work, however there are a few instrumental pieces included as well. Although the music spans about a decade, I was surprised at how well the tracks flow together to make a coherent ensemble, evolving from my earlier song-oriented compositions to the more ambient nature of my recent recordings. [Tor Lundvall, November 2009]
Lunyov, Svyatoslav -- "Para Pacem Para Bellum" -- CD -- €10
2006 Quasi Pop Records, QPOP CD037, (ltd. 500)
'Para Pacem Para Bellum' is the first CD release with the great music of Svyatoslav Lunyov's. That serious, highly emotional and spiritual work is the result of two general methods of creating music: academic tradition (scores, acoustic instruments and playing of the real musicians) and the contemporary/experimental way (generating, synthesis, editing with computer tools). Needs to say that this electro-acoustic work combines the well-known traditional elements of the Requiem, Passions and the Mass. There where the liturgical canon showes up just as the titles of some parts of the macrocycle. All the parts represent to some extent the variations of integral and unbroken melodic-harmonic complex. The whole work can be considered as a sort of chaconne. The main dramatical collision of this work develops on the level of interaction/contraposition between the natural acoustic sounds (the piano, organ and the strings) and the synthetic electronic timbres. [press-release]
Lurk -- "Furking" -- CD-R -- €8
2007 Blade Records, wmda078, (ltd. 100)
Mathias Josefson (Moljebka Pvlse) says: "This record is a re-release of a tape that was released almost ten years ago. The material is improvised in the studio with little or no-overdubs. The first and the last track on the re-release are new recordings from 2006 done by rb and mj".
Lustmord -- "Beyond" -- CD -- €17
2009 Vaultworks, J-3, (ltd. 1000)
Lustmord -- "The Dark Places Of The Earth" -- CD -- €17
2009 Vaultworks, E-7, (ltd. 1000)
Lustmord -- "Heresy" -- CD -- €15
1990/2004 Soleilmoon, Sol 99 CD
It's not often that an album comes along that both initiates and defines a genre. From the deepest vault at Soleilmoon, precisely such a cherished but long unavailable classic has been remastered, repackaged and re-issued. "Heresy", the album that launched and defined the dark ambient genre when it was first released in 1990, has been hailed by critics and fans as one of the most important works of its time. Nearly 15 years after its release it regularly features on top-ten lists of ambient music. "Heresy" was recorded in various subterranean locations and manipulated in the studio with Andrew Lagowski providing engineering and additional programming. It was the first Lustmord album to feature extensive sampling and computer assisted sound design. Recent improvements in sound technology permitted Lustmord to re-master and significantly improve on the original recordings for this new version, which comes in a digipak and even bears a new catalog number. Based on recognition established through recordings like "Heresy", Brian Williams, the man behind Lustmord, went on to work as a sound designer in Hollywood and has over 40 major motion picture credits as well as TV, games and now commercials. His resume includes musical collaborations with The Melvins, Adam Jones (Tool), Chris & Cosey, Coil, Paul Haslinger (Tangerine Dream), SPK, Robert Rich, Current 93 and Nurse with Wound. He has done remixes for Jarboe (Swans), Venetian Snares, Lori Carson and Mortiis. From 1985 until 1999 he ran Side Effects Records, the label launched by SPK, releasing more than 30 albums. As Lustmord he has released 11 albums since 1981. "Heresy" stands as Lustmord's signature work, the gauntlet that birthed a genre, and this new edition shows even more why it's been a best seller for such a long time. [press-release]
Lustmord -- "Juggernaut" -- CD -- €15
2007 Hydra Head, HH666-123
With sound design & production by Lustmord and guitar & vocals by King Buzzo of the Melvins, Juggernaut unleashes four tracks worth of menacing ambient tremors, boomeranged drones and ominous sonic moonscapes in swell after unsettling swell of creeping electronic deviance. Initially recorded for an art opening by hot-rod enthusiast / notorious tit man Chris "Coop" Cooper in August 2004, this version of the Juggernaut collaboration is a limited release and an updated version of the original recording. [label info]
Lustmord -- "Metavoid" -- CD -- €15
Nextera, ERA 2008-2
Originally released in 2001 and being out of print for some years this is the seventh Lustmord release, and the first since 1994's "The Place Where The Black Stars Hang". "Metavoid" presents the logical development of that unmistakable Lustmord sound, and pushes further into new depths which raised global interest in Lustmord's originality as the musician and sound engineer. "The human mind is, and will forever remain, incapable of comprehending the many depths and layers that encompass the universe within which we live. We construct ever changing theoretical and semiotic perspectives in an attempt to map and decode the unknown, but meaning remains incomprehensible. Through endless corridors of silence and dread, deeper than vacuum, beyond infinity and the realm of measurement, ideographic patterns do not emerge. Our role is insignificant, and is futile at best. The sum of knowledge is nothingness. Outside the narrow confines of our intellect, larger forces are at play, and some things may best remain unknown." [label info]
Lustmord -- "The Monstrous Soul" -- CD -- €15
2000 Soleilmoon, SOL 97 CD
Lustmord -- "Other" -- CD -- €15
2008 Hydra Head Records, HH666-157
Lustmord -- "Purifying Fire" -- CD -- €17
2000 Soleilmoon, Sol 98 CD
A collection of rare and unreleased tracks from this master of dark ambience... Covering the years between 1995 and 1998, it includes tracks previously given for compilations to a diverse range of labels, including Plug Research, Side Effects, Cold Spring and Dry Lungs, also some completely unreleased tracks.
Lustmord vs. Metal Beast -- "s/t" -- CD -- €14
1997 Side Effects, dfx 32
A collaboration record made during their live performance on radio and afterwards enhanced in the studio. Typical Lustmord's obscure atmospheres and dark-ambient versus rhythmic electronics of Metal Beast.
Lvpercalia -- "Florilegium" -- CD -- €12
Equilibrium Music, EQM 005
In the finest Italian neo-classical medieval/gothic italian tradition, Lupercalia's second album blends together eastern and european influences in an alchemical creation produced by top-notch musicianship and a strong soprano voice.
Lysergene -- "Critical Mass" -- CD -- €11
2008 Aesthetic Death Records, ADCD 008
Project of the founder of legendary funeral doom band Esoteric - Gordon Bicknell. Imagine Godflesh playing EBM inspired by psychedelic substances and nuclear weapon. Cyberapocalyptic. [YAOP]
M.E.S.S. -- "Weekend Ritual Massacre" -- CD -- €10
2008 Pitkit, PIT666
With so much evil-doing around them, politically and/or musically, it's no wonder that Israel's M.E.S.S (stands for Mr. Error Sound System) are fueled with so much spite and angst-ridden ferocity that it's only natural for them to be squashing membranes with their uptempo and speedy-punk-grind-noise-hardcore, overpowered by a squeaking and growling female vocalist that is bringing the Riot Grrrl movement back from the dead with the most innovative and fresh attitude you can imagine. Or can't, actually. Mixed and mastered by thee mighty Dan Swano to make it top-notch and even more hostile. Recommended if you like Melt-Banana, Bikini Kill, Huggy Bear, Karyn Crisis and Daisy Chainsaw. [press-release]
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Maa / Out of Focus -- "split" -- CD-R -- €4
2006 Triangle Records, [TR04], (ltd. 120)
Split of two Karelian projects. Maa - noise performed on microphone and frequency generator. Out of Focus - mostly heavy formed noise. An attempt to bring household devices, makeshift trash and computer together. [label info]
Maaaa -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €9
2006 Triangle Records, [TR09], (ltd. 20)
Noise, nothing more... Digipack. [label info]
Maaaa -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €4
2006 Korovox Sound, KOVO-020
Scotch reissue of a CDR previously published on Triangle Records limited to 20 copies. Press-release says: "TOTAL JOYOUS HARSH OVERLOAD FROM THE ATRICAL NOISE", well, we won't argue :) Package: lemon-yellow 1/2-dvd-box + orange paper. [Triangle Records description]
Maaaa -- "Decay And Demoralization" -- CD -- €10
2010 Mind Flare Media, MFM002, (ltd. 500)
MAAAA's "Decay and Demoralization" comes at you with 6 tracks well over 60 minutes in length. This stuff is harsh and without a doubt the most extreme band coming out of Poland's underground today. Decay and Demoralization includes tons of power electronics and bizarre recordings that create an odd, otherworldly atmosphere stuck in a white noise frenzy. Banging metal, shrieking, dying, the cover of this album should say it all. These guys like to take the energy of punk rock and fuse it with noise, creating a sound all their own. An excellent showcase of what's to come. [press-release]
Maaaa -- "Human Waste" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Rokot, (ltd. 100)
This Karelian project has been very active giving gigs and producing studio works during 2006-2007 but as the founder moved to Poland there has started a sort of hiatus for MAAAA. "Human Waste" was issued by Rokot in 2008 as a tape with additional bizcard CDR and got a lot of good response from listeners worldwide. Due to some wishes of people who were late in getting a copy of the first edition, we decided to make a CDR version to provide everybody with a great piece of Power Electronics. Don't be confused if you heard some of MAA(AA) earlier works that contain raw and chaotic Noise. On "Human Waste" nicely constructed tracks are pulsing directly through your liver right to the spine. The sound is thick and mangling. Maybe the whole picture is not that agressive and insane but if you want a nice "CONTROL making ATRAX MORGUE-like throbs" album -- you'll be satisfied. [press-release]
Maaaa -- "Sampo Distortion" -- CD -- €10
2010 24919 Records, CD24919-03, (ltd. 500)
New album of ex-Karelian project Maaaa, now residing in Warsaw. Maaaa has created completely pitiless thing, both in sound and in it's sense. The mythical coffee-grinder of Kalevala like mighty annihilator rises from the bottom of the sea and grinds all this ugly world of evil and progress down. "Everything crashes, at out place everything crashes, here, now and then" - as one unknown lady said. And she was right, "Sampo Distortion" comes to you! [label info]
Maaaa -- "Satan Edge" -- CD-R -- €9
2008 B-rush, B-11, (ltd. 44)
The Karelian project from Triangle Records, 44 minutes of blowtorching barbaric harsh with samples of satanic ceremonies + guitar-drone thought in the end of the disk. Packed in a sleeve with colour insert. [label info]
Maaaa & Galaxy The Incubator -- "Fury From Outer Space" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 Triangle Records, [TR023], (ltd. 66)
Dreaming about nothing. Collaboration of two projects coming from Petrozavodsk, Russia, recorded on the night of May 18-19, 2007. Dense and pitch-dark wall of meditative drone-noise. "Fury From Outer Space" is a fixation of hidden reality, the parallel worlds. Thr truth is over here. Packed in 2 plates of radio-chips, fastened with screws, an insert with detailed description and polygraphy. [label info]
Maaaanopolka -- "s/t" -- 3"CD-R -- €3
2006 Triangle Records, [TR011], (ltd. 75)
Collaboration between 2 north-west silly projects. Some bullshit on cosmic level. Punks and squirrels. Bougth the disk - shaved mohawk! Package: printed sleeve, insert. [label info] Dense harsh-noise attack from Russian projects Maaaa and Monopolka.
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Maath -- "No Survivors For The New World" -- CD -- €12
2005 Eibon Records, MAA054
Dark ambient. Based upon the concept of coma, sleep and suspended animation, "No survivors for the new world" gently brings you through a dormant world, where dreams flow freely around you, leaving a coloured trace in the cold and dark void. Melodic dark ambient of the finest kind, and one of the most impressive debuts I've heard in a long long while. Round, deep, mesmerizing. Are you ready for your new world? [press-release]
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Machine De Guerre -- "Vanites" -- CD -- €10
2011 OPN Records, OPNCD0015
A dark disc from the catacombs of Paris and the debut album from Machine De Guerre (War Machine). Reminds of Haus Arafna, Le Syndicat Electronique or Millimetric. For followers of Industrial, Minimal Electro and Coldwave. Presented in a very nice 6-panel black and white digipak. [Cold Spring]
Machinefabriek -- "Daas" -- CD -- €10
2010 Cold Spring, CSR128CD
The tracks on Daas have been carefully picked to form a provoking, haunting journey. What the tracks have in comon is a sense of nostalgic graininess. As with the music of Philip Jeck, The Caretaker or William Basinski, these tracks are full of degrading melodies and dusty ambience... 'Daas' is the previously unreleased opening track of the album, and feautures contributions by the great Richard Skelton. This track was made as a reaction to the piece 'Koploop'. 'Flotter', 'Koploop' and 'Grom' were previously available on small run self released 3" CDRs. Sold out for some time now, these tracks deserved a wider audience. These three long tracks also seem to come from the same galaxy, making perfect sense when put together. 'Onkruid' was a track previously released on 'A Room Forever', as an expensive and extremely limited 12" boxset, now brought to a wider audience... Presented in a matt-laminate digipak. [press release]
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Machinefabriek -- "Vloed" -- CD -- €10
2010 Cold Spring, CSR138CD
'Vloed' is a collection of (slightly edited) live performances, recorded between 2006 and 2008 in Amsterdam and Den Haag. "All performances find Machinefabriek in fine form, offering up thick billows of warm guitar shimmer, fluttery staticky ambience, and at one point some uncharacteristically heavy super distorted metallic guitar, but here, it's not so much metal as simply a mighty drone, thick and throbbing and super intense. There are long stretches of near silence and super minimal high end drone, glimmering slow building crescendos, squalls of distorted choral buzz, warm whirring metallic reverberations, shimmery and dense black dronemusik, all the stuff we love about Machinefabriek" (Aquarius). Beautifully remastered with a 20-minute bonus track, 'Vloed' captures the immersive live experience of a Machinefabriek concert. Presented in a stunning matt digipak with modified artwork. [press-release]
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Maeror Tri -- "Ambient Dreams" -- CD -- €15
2007 Beta-Lactam Ring Records, mt157, (ltd. 500)
This is a reissue of the cassette release on ZNS Tapes, made in 1990 and limited to only 50 copies with different photo-covers. All sound you hear on this CD originated from natural ambient sources. No electronic sound-sources were used. Ambient recordings made between August 1989 and June 1990 in West Germany. Produced by Maeror Tri in August-October 1990.
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Maeror Tri -- "Hypnotikum I" -- CD -- €12
1998/2010 Nefryt, N 018, (ltd. 300)
First time on CD. Both packed in A5 gatefold covers, both limited & numbered to 300 only!!! Postindustrial ambient and hypnotic loops created by legendary Maeror Tri. These recordings are based on loops that were used by Maeror Tri during their live-concerts in Torino, Cologne and Ghent 1996. [label info]
Maeror Tri -- "Hypnotikum II" -- CD -- €12
1998/2010 Nefryt, N 019, (ltd. 300)
First time on CD. Both packed in A5 gatefold covers, both limited & numbered to 300 only!!! Postindustrial ambient and hypnotic loops created by legendary Maeror Tri. These recordings are based on loops that were used by Maeror Tri during their live-concerts in Torino, Cologne and Ghent 1996. [label info]
Maeror Tri -- "Language Of Flames And Sound" -- CD -- €13
1996/2008 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 008, (ltd. 544)
Finally we are going for the re-edition of this great Maeror Tri album! Power for the right side of the brain! Our world is dominated by the left brain hemisphere! M.T. is here supporting the theory that it is necessary to stimulate and challenge the right hemisphere in order to get back to an equal activity of the two brain sides... Best Shamanic Meditation music of the industrial era! Maybe the best and more intense Maeror Tri album! All material PRODUCED by MAEROR TRI [...] from 1992 to 1996. Comes packed in a special brain-shaped folder. [label info]
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Maeror Tri -- "Meditamentum I" -- CD -- €14
1994/2005 Manifold Records, mancd044
Re-edition of the CD previously published by German label Holonom in 1994. This was the 2nd full-length of Maeror Tri after "Multiple Personality Disorder". It contains retrospective compilation of cassette tracks dated 1989-1992. "This compilation is probably the more ambient of any Maeror Tri compilation, going for more textural guitar and drift than the rumbling, backwards-chord sound. Comes in an amazing brown artboard case and embroidered cloth sleeve, four-page booklet inside inspired by rough layouts of cassette-years past gives plenty of text to absorb with the sounds. Amazing sounds demand amazing packages and we wanted to make sure this would be a treasure for all who were ever interested in Maeror Tri." [label info]
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Maeror Tri -- "Multiple Personality Disorder" -- CD -- €10
1993/2009 Purple Soil, pulse zero: six
Repress of the first CD release by Maeror Tri (1993, Korm Plastics). "Multiple Personality Disorder" is a concept CD divided in four long parts recorded back in 1991 that fully showcase their mastery in distorting drones and layering guitar sounds. Stefan Knappe and Martin Martin Gitschel now record under the guise of Troum. Presented in a very nice 6-panel digifile with booklet and postcard, featuring the original (yet unused) cover for the album's initial 1993 release. Expanded liner notes and the story behind the album by Frans De Waard. [Cold Spring]
Maeror Tri -- "Myein" -- CD -- €10
2005 Waystyx, WR10, (ltd. 675)
Re-edition of one of the most beautiful and significant musical work in the history of industrial music previously released by ND in 1995. Slowly evolving layers of guitar droning, sometimes harsh and distorted, sometimes clinking and melancholic, sometimes abstract and meditative. Total hypnosis.
Maeror Tri -- "Wheel: Collection Of Rare And Lost" -- 2 CD -- €16
2009 Waystyx, waystyx 39, (ltd. 432)
This is mainly a collection of long deleted compilation tracks by M.T. that appeared on various MC- & CD-compilations, along with some previously unreleased material, sorted chronologically by the date of creation / final mastering. All material was collected from various 4-track masters, DAT-masters, compilation tapes & CDs by BarakaH early 2009, and re-mastered my Markow C. in April 2009.
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Maeror Tri -- "Yearning for the Secret(s) of Nature" -- CD -- €12
2009 EE Tapes, EE13, (ltd. 300)
Born as an obscure cassette on Fool's Paradise (London 1993), this exclusive and essential work by Maeror Tri made a brief appearance earlier as a CD-r on EE Tapes (Saint Nix 2001) before it quickly vanished into oblivion. Due to popular demand it has finally been made available again as a limited CD release! Repolished in sound and housed in a new designed jacket, 'Yearning....' has now become of full value between such masterpieces as 'Myein' or 'Language of flames and sound'. Don't miss it this time....... Restoring/remastering work by Anders Peterson @ ghostsounds.net. Art design by Alan McClelland @ eyelyft.blogspot.com. [press-release]
MagatsuJuso -- "Hymnary Of Disposable Mankind" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Le Crepuscule Du Soir, lcds020, (ltd. 50)
Ritual Dark Ambient from Japan inspired by ancient Japanese mythology. Obscure blackened work. 4-page fill-colour A5 digisleeve. [YAOP]
Mahapralaya -- "New H" -- CD -- €10
2010 Tormented Whores of Da'ath Records, TWDR-10, (ltd. 100)
Minimal Dark / Black Ambient. "Ambientcore for True Headbangerz exclusively. Very normal. Digibook CD". [label info]
Maison Close -- "s/t" -- CD -- €10
Force Majeure, Force 005
Inspired by "Johnny Got His Gun," this self-titled release contains many samples from the movie that can be heard all throughout the album. It was recorded in 1998-99 and contains electronics, metal tapes, and vocals. The works are akin to Anenzephalia, and Maison Close's minimalism is reminiscent of Dagda Mor's "Border of Light," though it seems to incorporate a more emotional approach. Packaged in a digipak. [label info]
Majdanek Waltz -- "About the Origin of the World" -- CD -- €8
2006 Wroth Emitter Productions, W.E. 012
Fourth official work of this Russian dark-folk band. A symbiosis of classic European dark-folk and dark-ambient. Unhurried guitar fingerings and piercing alto interwoven with dark drones. Doomed and furious voice declaiming about the origin of the world. Music for thoughtful listening. Recorded in 2004. [label info]
Majdanek Waltz -- "Black Sun" -- CD -- €8
2006 Strely Peruna prod., SP016
"One of the strongest albums of this dark/neo-folk band is now officially released. Dark marching composition with romantic touch and bright reflection of Tradition in lyrics. The band explores the signs and unconsciousness leading to search and protest. Special handmade cover. 35 minutes." [press-release] The CD also contains exclusive video "Spores of fear, seed of darkness". Standard edition.
Majdanek Waltz -- "Cold" -- CD -- €12
2006 KultFront, KF-IV, (ltd. 500)
"Cold" is the 4th release of KultFront label and the 2nd officially published work of Ryazan-based group Majdanek Waltz. "Silver age dark folk" - that's how this release can be characterized. Live flute and accordion, guitar and bass, accompanied by smooth industrial noises, cast the feeling of transparent melancholy. This is neither light nor dark feeling. More likely it's closer to cosmic coldness, whirling onto the earth surface. Besides Majdanek Waltz this album was prepared with the help of other musicians: Anthesteria (St. Petersburg) and Wolfsblood (Moscow). Anthesteria presented a remix on the track "Everything is going to be in winter way"; Wolfsblood sang on the track "Cold" to the accompaniment of MW. In addition to this album you'll find previously officially unreleased track "Raven" and two thematic photo galleries uncovering the visual constituent of inner life of Majdanek Waltz' musicians. [press-release]
Majdanek Waltz -- "Cranes" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2008 KultFront, KF-XI, (ltd. 150)
"Cranes" is a new single from Russian neofolk project Majdanek Waltz, who have previously praised the heavenly manifestations in the concept of WWII. This new release is dedicated to all the soldiers who fought for the freedom of Europe in 1939-1945. After the years the theme of ideological enmity doesn't loose it's topicality, but the band's music sates with wisdom and understanding of fallacy of fratricide. No More Wars Amongst Brothers - says the booklet of "Cranes" from Majdanek Waltz. Faces of loser soldiers as a pole of that dream where beautiful black birds fly... The discs are packed in KultFront traditional cardboard sleeves, tightened by black laces. [label info]
Majdanek Waltz -- "Cranes" -- 3"CD-R box -- €13
2008 KultFront, KF-XI, (ltd. 45)
First 45 copies of the single are accompanied by a special necessity set of an intellectual front soldier. Aside from the musical disk the fancy box contains materials aimed to help the deeper understanding of the beauty of the great war-song melody, of the sense of it's words. [label info]
Majdanek Waltz -- "Hamleth's Childhood" -- CD -- €12
2007 KultFRONT, KF-VIII
Born in "the soul of all Russia" - the city of Ryazan' - musicians of Majdanek Waltz are carried away by the most mysterious, so called Siver Age of Russian poerty and prose. They appeal to decadence and withered roses weaving them into the "heavenly tragedy" of European expressionism. On a dark stage, among silence, appears death... Without time, like a paradoxical-permanent attribute of the eternal in human soul. "Hamleth's Childhood" is the first in last 3 years, new and long-awaited full-length album of Majdanek Waltz. It's name is taken after a poem by Boris Poplavsky, who was called "a distant violin between close balalaikas" by Vladimir Nabokov... The musicians themselves say that this album reveals the band's sound at most. They have used their classical instruments: guitar, bass, bayan (accordion), violin, keyboards and human voices. For the first time here's female voice - of Larisa Archipetskaya - "precticing witch in third generation" - as the musicians say. Guest appearances also include Anthesteria, Misery and Wolfsblood. The new album emphasizes the emotional saturation, it immerses the listener in melancholy and light autumnal sorrow. Fading, freezing cold and the beauty of death. Besides Boris Poplavsky's poems, "Hamlet's Childhood" is based upon the works of mystic symbolists Georg Heim and Maximilian Voloshin. [label info]
Majdanek Waltz -- "Hamlet's Childhood" -- CD -- €11
2007 The Eastern Front, Front 012, (ltd. 500)
Beautiful lyrics in Russian (original poems of Symbolist poets Boris Poplavsky (1903-1935), Maximilian Voloshin (1877-1932) and translated poems of German Expressionist poet Georg Heym 1887-1912), acoustic guitars, violins, traditional Russian accordion (bayan). Decadent tragic atmosphere of Russian Silver Age faded away in cafe's of Paris and Berlin, nostalgic and gloomy music rooted deeply in classical European and Russian musical traditions of XX century... [press-release]
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Majdanek Waltz -- "Pepel" -- CD -- €10
2009 Nadeln Prod., NaP.I
'Pepel' is the first part of MAJDANEK WALTZ trilogy. This album contains all tracks which were previously recorded exclusively for the compilations, different versions of some compositions also released on the compilations and new unreleased tracks. MAJDANEK WALTZ stays within their own tradition - melancholic and twilight, anxious and 'transparent' neo-folk with brilliant fragments of embracing darkness and martial atmosphere. All texts are on Russian language. [press-release]
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Majdanek Waltz -- "Ophelia" -- CD -- €10
2009 kultFRONT, KF-XIII / Wroth Emitter Productions, W.E. 024
"Ophelia" is the second part of a trilogy by Majdanek Waltz. This disc can be considered as evolution of the musical and lyrical essence of the band introduced by the "Hamlet's Childhood" album, and is based on original acoustic music of the band coupled with the lyrics of the German early XX century expressionist poets Paul Zech and Georg Heym. All compositions are published for the first time. The CD was released on October 9, 2009 by joint efforts of the Moscow label Wroth Emitter and St. Petersburg label kultFRONT. [press-release]
Majdanek Waltz -- "Zhatva (Harvest)" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 kultFRONT, KF-XIV, (ltd. 250)
"Zhatva" (Russian word for "Harvest") is the final part of the trilogy by Majdanek Waltz (after "Pepel" and "Ophelia"). This disk is a sort of retrospective of uncommonality of the group. Aside from the features of their classical style, here you can find the depths of the band's experimental abyss. Composed using lyrics by Georg Heym, skills of flute and cello players, and help of the St. Petersburg project Anthesteria. Limited to 250 numbered copies. [press-release]
Majdanek Waltz / Sal Solaris -- "Himmel Des Reichs / Der Himmel Über Berlin" -- CD -- €12
2008 KultFront, KF-X, (ltd. 500)
Split "Himmel Des Reichs / Der Himmel Über Berlin" is a re-issue of the most energetic recording of MW with remastered sound, with special support of their associated from SS. In fact the release continues the theme of MW's single "Cranes" - the theme of inanity of the confrontation between the two forces of brother-soldiers. And yet two poles can be distinctly seen here, divided both stylistically and ideologically. If four tracks of MW are the hymns of one of the confronting sides, performed at the meeting point of anxious military-industrial and dark-folk, four tracks of SS are the ambient-industrial memory of those who was at the other side of the front. The CD is accomplished by a thematical videoclip of SS "Der Himmel Über Berlin" created from archive video-materials. The author is a clip-maker Oleg Potiy (VJ Dornier Wal). The artwork contains rare photographs from 1939 when the fighters of both poles were still confederates. [press-release]
Makoto, Kawabata -- "The Tales Of The Dream Planet" -- CD -- €13
2009 Housepig, HPIG-15, (ltd. 500)
Malameccanica -- "Noli Tangere" -- CD-R -- €8
2010 Turbinicarpus Records, TBC009, (ltd. 25)
This music has it's own life. I'm trying to say that you will not find yourself familiar with "Noli Tangere". There is a distance between you and the music (a really greasy road sometimes). But even feeling this distance with your skin, you understand that your mind and the tape noises are sticked together. It's a quite strange situation but it is the way it goes... This music is quite noisy but not riotous. It does not screech. It does shimmer like a yellow octopus in ancient water... The singer is not really a singer. He's more a herald with a tremendous conviction in a voice. You may think that the words are just a dazzle paint for the music but then you get a perfect sign that it makes music really unfathomable... No, no time for logomachy... This mix of italian wave and contemporary noise and electroacoustics gives your wits the opportunity to look and to see something more underneath all-around things. Why? Coz' it deals not with a warped reality but with an intermittent pulse, flagging and melting until you get a refuge in a perfect glee... There are many ways to describe how the person thrusts in a puke on the platform and there is the only way not to tell that. [press-release]
Maldur Atai -- "Checkpoint" -- CD -- €10
2010 Autarkeia, acd 047, (ltd. 300)
This is the first full album of industrial/ambient project Maldur Atai, titled Checkpoint. This dose of music of nearly one hour emanates strong and solid atmosphere that grows, develops and changes during each exquisitely constructed track. The notional indexes of the album touch upon a variety of religious aspects. Yet, they all are related to violence in religion and religion as an arcane or masked violator acting in informational reality. This album reveals religion as a system marketed and propagated by invisible conspirators. The system marked by powerful structure, network and techniques. It exists as a secret institute in the informational field of hallucinations, entices with its promises and attractive images, however, in reality opens horrible nightmares, marauds and kills. What is worst in this matrix is that it chooses children as its main target. The adults have been conditioned in their childhood so that they would sacrifice their children to the system later. Checkpoint is a filtration camp where the children's souls are met by elitist creatures of the arcane society wearing black mantles and hiding their faces. They lie, they enslave, they manipulate and they involve you in the vicious circle with almost no hope of retreat. Checkpoint is an abstract, universal and purified vision of Maldur Atai in which many will recognise their own very personal experiences and the symbols of the everyday secret war. [press-release]
Maldur Atai -- "Verger" -- CD -- €10
2011 Autarkeia, acd 060, (ltd. 300)
History is falsified. Facts are fiercely distorted, while the reasons for that are hidden with even more ferocity. A powerful network of a secret organisation creates phantasmagorical projection that has nothing to do with reality. Official explanations for the millions of people killed during the Second World War and the official causes of this war smack of absolute farce, while the political leaders have never existed in the first place. These were new generation 4D holograms. The actual war causes are concealed by a formidable conspiracy and lie in the pre-Buddhist epoch, the history of Maldur Atai puzzle. Although concealed so vigorously, the true causes of the Second World War and all other wars have been far from economic or political. They have to do with religion, the old Maldur Atai cult and the anticipated second Resurrection. According to the conspiracy, those building the falsified hologram of the world do everything to prevent the prophesy from happening and the ancient cult from returning as predicted. They do not want the truth to be disclosed. They seek the reference and the element containing the encoded signs of its Revelation. It is suspected that the main obstruction of time machines and projector of holograms is hidden in deep labyrinths under one of the small countries that has been responsible for the Crusades of the ancient times as well as all invasive wars. Indeed strange events took place on the threshold of the Second World War, the bloodiest war in human history. A secret leader has rallied all his agents and they have performed some kind of special ritual, the purpose of which is not known until today. A number of signs were seen and then the war raged with lethal outcomes. The truth remained hidden. What does the leader conceal from us? And, after all, who is he? What will his next ritual bring forth? The rebirth of Maldur Atai cult or the Third World War? MALDUR ATAI's album Verger is exactly about all of this. [press-release]
Maldur Atai -- "Vermin" -- CD -- €10
2010 Autarkeia, acd 049, (ltd. 300)
Vermin is the second full album coming from the industrial/ambient project Maldur Atai. The subject-matter of this album is the arcane supernatural world that is sometimes accidentally opened by unawares people. They summon demons they cannot control later. Vermin is a contact with otherworldly powers with unpredictable aftermath, the word about which will spread for ages. It is an album testifying the outburst of aggression destroying safe existence. This is one of the gloomiest and most persuasive albums released recently. The atmosphere of the tracks varies greatly, yet they have one common impact: they make your hair rise. Languorous, ominous and full of longing sounds turn into devouring mentally disturbed elements. Rich sample library was used for the composition of the album. The layout of samples in the sonic fabric is not accidental. The place of each sample is meticulously chosen and well-thought, so the album seems incomposite and involving. Vermin is the invasion of powerful and especially malicious demons into the everyday life upon the accidental uttering of the forbidden mantra. Do not forget to make the circle in chalk, the vermin knock on you door. [press-release]
Man Da Rin -- "Bad / Good EP" -- 3"CD-R -- €2
2007 Ambulacranarx Records, amblcrnrx - 03, (ltd. 30)
A small single from gothic Mandarin. Clicks and glitches, pulling wires out of mind and other joys of the author inclined to machine murder. The disc contains 1 track + 1 bonus track. Also 2 mp3 files contain 2 unmixed tracks from the first composition, so you can listen to them either separately, or together. CD-extra (2 audio tracks + mp3 bonus). [press-release]
Manson, Charles -- "The Summer Of Hate - The '67 Sessions" -- CD -- €11
2007 Arte Lupo, L182
Charles Manson's name should be no stranger to lovers of the weird and wonderful, having been sentenced to life without parole for his leadership of the cult 'The Family', who committed several murders in the late '60s. Before these events, Charley had high-hopes of becoming a pop star, with his strange psychedelic folk music - bizarrely more fashionable today than ever. Here for the first time are the complete recordings that were made on 11th September 1967 in a rehearsal studio, which went onto be used as demos to try to secure a recording deal, which never happened. Spoken word elements throughout the 18 tracks (just under 45 minutes). Essential for collectors of '60s Folk and weird psych freakouts. [label info]
Marhaug, Lasse -- "It's Not The End Of The World" -- CD -- €10
2007 Quasi Pop Records, QPOP CD043, (ltd. 500)
Quasi Pop proudly presents this record by Norwegian experimental/noise hero Lasse Marhaug. On this record he plays with the methods and traditions of serious electronic avantgarde that integrated into the aesthetics of loud & bloody harsch noise music. Damn hard, loud and overloaded skillfull thing, but exciting and highly intelligent at the same time. Please, play this CD as loud as it possible! Important: This is CD re-release of the same-titled very limited CD-R released in 2006 on chinese label Doufu. Our CD version with brand new artwork was fully re-mastered and also some tracks were added. The stunning collage artwork & design for this release by Lasse Marhaug himself. [press-release]
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Marutti, Andrea -- "The Subliminal Relation Between Planets - Live In Archiaro" -- CD -- €10
2008 Nextera, ERA 2049-2
Marutti, Andrea -- "Traces 94-95" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2001/2005 Taalem, alm 1
You might not know this name but if we tell you that this is the man behind the great dark-ambient projects Amon and Never Known, we think you'll see who Andrea is... Here he proposes us three tracks recorded some years ago and mastered very recently especially for this release, a bit close to the old Never Known sound. Not really dark-ambient, a liitle more experimental yet still melodic. [press-release]
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Marutti, Andrea & Fausto Balbo -- "Detrimental Dialogue" -- CD -- €10
2010 Afe Records, afe127cd / Boring Machines, bm023 / Fratto9 Under The Sky Records, fratto012
Experimental / Avantgarde. Andrea Marutti and Fausto Balbo have met in 2005 at Lab12 in Vigevano; both active in music making since more than fifteen years, their friendship has grown over the years on the fertile ground of the interest that they share about electronic experimentation and their wide and open-minded listening habits. "Detrimental Dialogue", their very first collaboration, deeply explores various types of analogue and digital synthesis (additive, subtractive, Physical Modeling, FM, Phase Distortion, Granular, etc.) and live electronics elements. Recorded together in the authors' studios and then worked out in seclusion between 2007 and 2009, the tracks on "Detrimental Dialogue" were subsequently redefined during a one-week long collective mixing session rigorously made with analogue equipment and precious outboard effects at Fausto Balbo's studio. The album presents four experimental electronic pieces whose exact classification eludes us since their musical contents are rich of the most disparate suggestions. In a formula full of its own natural-born personality, we find elements that recall prominent experimental forms - sometimes pseudo-abstract - rich of fragments, loops and "clusters" of sounds that bear a pronounced and exhibited synthetic matrix. "Atmospheric", dilated and generally quiet sequences are alternated with more structured, dramatic and progressive moments that shake the listeners and emotionally involve them with a more orthodox path, without giving way to conventional or stereotyped solutions... [label info]
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Marutti, Andrea & Tommaso Cosco -- "Turra" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2008 Afe Records, afe120mcd
Ambient / Dark Ambient / Drone Music. "In the house where I live, a fire-place continually warms my own intimacy during wintertime, while my wife spreads sweet gastronomical scents of real mediterranean nature as I capture the flights and rests of the birds in the garden with my eyes. In silence I listen to the beating of time that scans each and every of my emotions for all the smallest particles and instants of my perceptions. When I have the chance I go to Archiaro, a countryplace where memory and becoming merge in a present full of inspired consciousness. Gratitude lives in my existence and it keeps me in touch with the pulses of silences that pour inside my body where I keep the "Knots" of R.D. Laing, the "Moses and Aaron" of Jean-Marie Straub, the sounds of Morton Feldman, the movements of turtles and a trove where I hope to give shelter to all God's creations." [Tommaso Cosco] "Turra" is meant to be a natural extension to "The Subliminal Relation Between Planets (Live in Archiaro)" CD released by well-known Czech label Nextera in January 2008... [label info]
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Maska Genetik -- "Strada" -- CD -- €15
2011 Galakthorrö, Galakthorrö 027
'I've reached the limits of my strength' said Amon Radek, and set off in search of a new life. There was to be no place for Maska Genetik, it was too much of a torture to justify those high standards he insisted on. We were astounded and couldn't believe it, and so we held his album back for some considerable time. Perhaps he wanted urgently to replace one of the songs? An artist of course, has his sensibilities, and a Russian has an additional inbred melancholy. So let us not be too hasty. Over the years we have certainly fulfilled our role as inheritance trustees, and so now we present his first and probably last album. It is all the more regretful, because Maska Genetik represented a pinnacle in the history of Galakthorrö, for us and for many of our listeners. This is obviously the case with Strada. There are songs to be heard that were created before, and after, the sought-after Quarantine EP. Radek's inner conflicts and his very real suffering have shaped his Angst Pop into its own unique form. We are not presented with self-pity, but with anger and a deep sorrow, at a world fashioned by mankind, in which a future for humanity is hard to imagine... CD in jewel case with 8 page booklet. [press-release]
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Maskinfett -- "Stinkhole Universe" -- CD-R -- €7
Ominous Recordings, OR001
This pulse-oriented harsh, industrial noise from Sweden. The debut albums contains some of Maskinfetts greatest moments. This should be of interest for fans of Merzbow, Smegma and more such, since it's filled with sickening cluster, harsh industrial noise, and pulses. [label info]
Massive Ejaculation -- "Pony Express" -- CD -- €10
2009 24919 Records, CD24919-02, (ltd. 500)
First line-up of Massive Ejaculation was gathered in Fleetwood, Lancashire to plat rock'n'roll. First release "Anarcho-hippy with dogs" consisted of 86 songs about violence and was released on a 6-minute cassette by Smith Research label. The cover was made of fragments of 11 pirate videocassettes with the movies by Aristide Massacceze (Italian porn director). 15 years later the basic discography of Massive Ejaculation is presented on a CD by Russian label 24919. [Monopolka] Wildly joyful collage noise, horribly dirty sound of archive tapes and natural "shitcore" which will clean the remainings of your brain out of brainpan, and in the end - a fervent remake of Ministry song. All this is "Pony Express". [label info] Digipak.
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Materia Aurora -- "Post Night Sequences" -- CD -- €11
2009 OPN Records, OPNCD0011 / BKO Media, BKOMCD01, (ltd. 500)
First release in CD format from this french project mixing cold ambient music with drones & acoustic sounds. The music is cold as ice as well as deeply organic. The cd is housed in DVD digipack file with full icy colour artwork. [label info]
Maths Balance Volumes -- "Black Husk" -- CD-R -- €7
Weirdo Records, (ltd. 50)
Most low-key Maths recording in a while, and one of the best...mostly short pieces, with childlike melodies being forced into repetitious and grime-covered songs, trance-inducing synth/percussion grooves, black holes of tape murk, lullabies, and a few large ensemble explosions of rock n' noise... [Microsound-announce] Minnesota gypsy violin gyrations, samples stretched & broken until they morph into odd casio songs, unruly tape pieces let go over acoustic guitar thump & back porch stomp. [label info]
Matousek, Vlastislav -- "Kaligrafie II: Shakuhachi" -- CD -- €9
2004 Nextera, LK 0146-2
Japanese traditional music played on shakuhachi flute.
Matter -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €10
2007 Observatory Records 9, (ltd. 11)
One more side-project of Sunchariot / Adriva, this time experimenting with digital drone ambient. Leisurely minimalism and atmosphere truly engulfing beyond. Music for full immersion.
Matter -- "Pinkly Lips" -- CD-R -- €9
2007 Observatoire, Observatoire 14, (ltd. 50)
Matter is a project of Russian musician Denis Shapovalov (Adriva, Sunchariot), in which he explores the possibilities of computer technologies. However he does it in the same way as in his main projects. The result is rather strange meeting of digital sound and raw primordial approach: monotonous noises, crackles, loops and complete obscurantism. An engaging release.
Mauthausen Orchestra -- "Sonic Deprivation" -- CD -- €10
2009 Silentes Minimal Editions, sme 0930
A fantastic selection of archive materials from the 'golden age' of Mathausen Orchestra, the Italian power-electronic project born in the early 80s from the mind of Pierpaolo Zoppo, recently back in full to his artistic activity (see also the other CD Silentes SME0932, Nimh/Mauthausen Orchestra: From Unhealthy Places). Coming as a wonderful digipack CD, these six tracks collected from his very first cassette releases (Murderfuck, Mafarka, Anal Perversion, Host Sodomy, From Homicide to Slaughter) are released in a completely restored and remastered edition that finally does justice in full to the incredible and futuristic visions of one of the most significant Italian experimental artists of the last thirty years. Unthinkable and apocalyptic sonic masses pushed to the extreme, an endless flux of strong emotions, a violent and devastating impact: Absolutely not to be missed. [label info]
Mauthausen Orchestra -- "Where Are We Going?" -- CD -- €14
2008 BloodLust!, B!091
Mavis, Mac -- "Report from the Lake" -- CD -- €11
2009 Faria Records, FAR-27, (ltd. 500)
Synthesized audio report from far away lake and it's surroundings of natural beauty and original almost untouched wilderness. Drifting in a boat with only a small synthesizer and portable recorder to create ideas for later production. Capturing moments of peace impossible to tell in words. Life by this lake, where only handful of people live. Meetings with the friendly natives living near by. From waking up to early morning sunrise to late night boat journeys,losing all sense of time and date. World as we know it has no meaning in here. This is no 2 week holiday watching TV. This is wildlife, survival for the inexperienced. When the evening falls and winds calm down you can hear whispers of the wilderness. When thunder storm arrives you have wooden cottage for shelter. No need to worry about electricity blackout because here you never had any. Old radio at the cabin porch playing ambient music, battery operated synthesizer, guitar and food. Silence is everywhere. This album is based on real life experience. Melodic and warm ambient music, created totally with hardware synthesizers and sequencer. With some actual on location field recordings as reference. [press-release]
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McKaras -- "Right To Stay Bestial!" -- CD -- €10
2008 Autarkeia, acd 032
The tracks of the album Right to Stay Bestial! have been recorded at least thirteen years ago. It travelled through the hands of lovers of dark electronics, among the Lithuanian underground people, in the form of a re-recorded CRD. Everyone admired depressing atmosphere, spite and sterile aggression of this disc. Today, the album author McKaras (McWAR) newly interpreted the old tracks, complemented them with a number of various samples and produced a new master. The results is an esp. fine, newly sounding album, the style of which can hardly be defined. Some may think it is hard techno, yet dancing is hardly possible to this rhythmic music. Gloomy atmosphere, aggressive rhythms, psychedelic loops will push the audience into heavy criminal and politically incorrect mood. The album is ideally suited for listening in the car driven towards criminal purposes. However, bear in mind the punishment, will you? Mckaras is to techno as Darkthrone is to black metal perhaps. [press-release]
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MD Howser -- "Phat Beat Farming" -- 3"CD-R -- €5
2008 Harha-Askel, [HA-7]
THE FUTURE IS NOW! a.k.a. is it the 20th century already? Retarded tekkno-beats and total regressive electronica from the boy wonder MD Howser. [label info]
Mechthild Von Leusch -- "Aith Ochnal, Rungholter Tanze, Zweites Buch" -- CD -- €22
1993 Walter Ulbricht Schallfolien, WULP 016
Meditations -- "Eternal Absence" -- 3"CDR -- €5
2008 Small Doses, dosethirtythree, (ltd. 115)
This is the third release from this trio - Franklin Teagle, Matt Yacoub, and Ryan McGill (Bones of Seabirds). Schizophrenic noise -PE-like one moment dark ambience in others - of the highest order - drenched in feedback with a heart of stone. [label info]
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Medusa's Spell -- "Last X Hours" -- CD -- €12
2008 Cold Meat Industry, cmi186
The Italian duo Medusa's Spell is back with their second album after the 'Mercurial Behaviour' released on Cold Meat in 2006. 'Last X hours' is also a conceptual album, this time following the ten last tragic hours of a woman who stands accused for witchery. Ten songs, each representing one hour of her last ten in life, from the moments of the trial, - when her body is completely exhausted from pain - until her mind resigned to her fate of death. The lyrics of the first and the last song is a curse! - the true words spoken by a woman falsely accused of witchery and condemned to death in 1428. The witch of Medusa's Spell is however a symbolic woman representing all women condemned as witches. By infernal torments and torture her mind and tongue slowly converts to the Devil: and her voice becomes finally the voice of the Devil. Medusa's Spell has again created a genuine accoustic ritual dark-folk concept. [press-release]
Medusa's Spell -- "Mercurial Behaviour" -- CD -- €12
2006 Cold Meat Industry, cmi155
Mercurial Behaviour is a conceptual album on which every "act" represents the confused thoughts and visions of a murderer. Lyrics and words are rearranged in different ways and moments to create a hypnotic mantra leading us in different directions and states of emotions; all intertwined through a soft and haunting dark atmosphere created by piano, acoustic guitar, bells, industrial sounds, loops and of course that broken Italian psychotic voice of Daniele Serra. Medusa's Spell is a filmic dark-ambient-pop project of Mara Lasi and Daniele Serra, known from the parallel project Chirleison (amongst others) who released a CD on Fossil Dungeon in 2004. The album was recorded and engineered by the legendary Simon Balestrazzi (TAC, Kirlian Camera) at the Neurohabitat studio. Comes in nice digipak with 8 pages booklet. [label info]
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Meelkop, Roel -- "5 (Zwischenfälle)" -- CD -- €13
2007 Auf Abwegen, AATP18, (ltd. 500)
5(zwischenfaelle) is the latest release by dutch electronic musician ROEL MELLKOP (also member of Kapotte Muziek, THU20 and GOEM). It is a special release in Meelkop's catalogue because it is consist of five piece that were originally used in the context of sound installations running over a certain period of time in specific special surroundings. For 5 (zwischenfaelle) Meelkop has set himself the task to compress these soundscapes into five dense and still minimal audio pieces that could work outside the context of the original installations. 5 (zwischenfaelle) is focussed on single sound events and stark beautiful dynamic movements in a certain area of sound and does not have the bruitistic research-like feel of other solo works by Meelkop. 5 (zwischenfaelle) makes for concentrated unpolished ultra minimal listening with maximum effect. For all friends of Bernhard Gunter, Francisco Lopez, Joe Colley/Crawl Unit or Marc Behrens this is a definite work! [press-release]
Meelkop, Roel -- "Real Mass" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2008 Lona Records, locd40r, (ltd. 100)
Roel Meelkop (1963) studied visual arts and art theory at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. During a post-graduate course at the same academy he decided to dedicate his work to sound and music. His musical activities date back to the early eighties when he started THU20, together with Jac van Bussel, Peter Duimelinks, Jos Smolders and Guido Doesborg. THU20 have released several tapes and CD's and performed regularly in Europe. The working method of THU20 included many discussions about how to compose and why. This period was crucial in forming his ideas and concepts about sound and how to organise it, but it was not until the mid nineties that he was able to fully realise these ideas. The purchase of a sampler and later a computer radically changed his possibilities of working with sound, offering infinitely more control and freedom. Since then he has worked steadily on a body of work, most of which was recieved enthusiastically in the small but dedicated world of sound art. His other activities include working with Kapotte Muziek and GOEM and organising sound events, mostly in Rotterdam. Aside from releases, Meelkop also creates site-specific sound installations and performance pieces in collaboration with other artists. [label info]
Meelkop, Roel & Takanobu Hoshino -- "Fukushima" -- CD -- €10
2011 Observatoire, obs * 030 cd, (ltd. 350)
It may sound preposterous, but this CD is the direct result of a catastrophy. When on March 11th of 2011 an earthquake was noticed in Japan, nobody could anticipate the destruction that would ensue in a large part of the country. The city of Fukushima had to endure te worst of all: it was first hit by an earthquake and then a tsunami. But with the breakdown of a nuclear plant in direct vicinity of the city, a nightmare came true. Not only did many people lose their homes, now the fear of contamination was as real as it could get. Up until now it is still unclear how many people will suffer the consequences of nuclear radiation. It is for the city of Fukushima and its inhabitants that this CD was concieved and produced, as a memorial to their struggle and a token of respect to their endurance. [press-release]
Megaptera -- "Staring Back At You" -- CD -- €10
2007 Malignant Records, TUMOR CD29, (ltd. 800)
In a final celebration of Megaptera's 15 year anniversary, Malignant presents the definitive last statement from this prominent and highly influential death industrial project. Staring Back At You concentrates on demo versions, outtakes, and rare songs from various arenas, including the compilations Zyklon B, Beating the Meat, Slaughter Age '95, The Book ov Shadowz, Death Odors II, as well as material from the Deep Inside mLP, and more. These tracks capture Megaptera at their grittiest, creepiest, and most horrifying...a grinding, lurching monstrosity fueled by the madness, violence, lies, wars, and disease that plague the world. Lmtd to 800 copies, and coming in a 6 panel digipak designed by Marten Kellerman, this has been re-mastered by Magnus Sundstrom (The Protagonist), with additional boosting courtesy of Thomas Garrison (Control). Staring Back At You is final nail in the coffin for Megaptera, and may they rest in peace, but continue to deliver nightmares, maddening thoughts, and the darkest of obsessions. Track listing: More Disturbance (demo version), The Passage (demo version), Disoriented (Totally Different demo version), Lurking Fear (Pre-damaged demo version), Frozen Corpse, The Final Day (excerpt), Morior, Mass Murder, Antropofagi, Deep Inside. [label info]
Megaptera -- "You Will Never Survive This Nightmare" -- 2 CD -- €15
1995/2006 Live Bait Recording Foundation, LBRF 026
In 1995 Slaughter Productions released a cassette tape called "You Will Never Survive This Nightmare", by cult Industrial act Megaptera. This cassette was a milestone in the development of genre of Death Industrial. Containing a re-mastered version of the debut cassette "You Will Recover" originally released in 1991 on Nuxdorf Recordings, as well as the three track cassette "Nightmares" and three unreleased bonus tracks. The formation of Live Bait Recording Foundation could be traced back to the acquisition of this cassette. So, it is with great excitement and honor we announce the re-issue of this seminal Death Industrial release for the first time ever on CD, completely re-mastered in the summer of 2006. Fleshing out this 125 minute double CD is a long forgotten 6 track live performance from London in 2001. Featuring a completely obscure set-list featuring favorites like "Someone's at the Door" and "Plague Spot". Get re-acquainted with your Death Industrial roots, or ours at least!!! [press-release]
Meizter, K. -- "Tetraphobia" -- CD -- €10
2009 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 117
After channelising all his musical energy into Beyond Sensory Experience for the past two years, K. Meizter finally returns with a new solo exertion. Spawned during the sinister last months of a northern year, Tetraphobia scans through the kafkaesque layers of human anxiety, and continues K. Meizter's distinctive manipulation of sound, melody and pulse. Following Travelling Light, Dark Matters and the Horologium collaboration Eight Studies in Transition, K. Meizter's new release develops even more unsettling atmospheres of reflection and alteration. With 10 tracks and over an hour of foreboding avant-garde, Tetraphobia is K. Meizter's most convincing work this far.
Dark and solemn. [press-release]
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Meizter, K. -- "Travelling Light" -- CD -- €16
2006 HORUS CyclicDaemon, HCD 07, (ltd. 500)
Melanchoholics -- "A Single Act of Carelessness" -- CD -- €10
2006 Multi National Disaster Records, MNDR2017 / Deafborn, dbcd04, (ltd. 1000)
This album has become an opening of the year and local cult for us. Incomparable Kraut Dark Ambient, aristocratic like Raison d'Etre, reactionary like November Novelet, psychedelic like Can, hypnotizing like Neil Young's soundtrack to "Dead Man", autumnal like Mogwai, cozy like soundtrack to "Twin Peaks". Special thanks to guitarist and accordionist! [YAOP description]
Melek-Tha -- "Perfect World Eradication" -- CD -- €13
2003 Kubernoise, NOISE003
Mem -- "It Was A Very Good Year" -- CD -- €9
2003 Alluvial Recordings, A16
Mem is one Kamil Antosiewicz from Warsaw. Kamil existed in a previous incarnation as one third of the now defunct Polish trio, EA. Mem's work typically attempts to link sonic anomalies with electronics. His most recent interests include the decontextualisation of sound material. He is currently experimenting with primal structures of non-organic origin, such as white noise and sine waves, and melding them into sounds of organic nature. He works mainly with a PC platform. On 'It Was A Very Good Year', Mem takes source material from perhaps the most popular version of a standard American classic of the same title from the early 1960's. Mem uses isolated sections of string sounds from a big band orchestra and draws them out into slowly cascading layers. We hear humming, vibrating, drawn out drones that build very slowly into a massive crescendo of noise that eventually include others sounds from the orchestra. Many of the sounds are manipulated, but nothing outside the original recorded version is added. The piece results in a stunningly beautiful hour with hypnotic qualities that build in giant ebbs and flows. As a point reference, this is reminiscent of some of the best work from Charlemagne Palestine and Vidna Obmana. In addition to his work as a composer, Kamil runs the Salvia Association with Vion, and formerly worked as a music journalist and cyberculture writer-editor for the first Polish internet magazine titled "WWW". [label info]
Menche, Daniel -- "Scather" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2005 Taalem, alm 23
Taâlem goes noise :-) Another great artist in the Taâlem series that should need no introduction. Daniel Menche has fastly gained a strong reputation in the experimental/noise scene thanks to many releases on various labels all around the world (Tesco, Soleilmoon, Beta Lactam Ring, Antifrost, to name but a few) and extremely physical live performances. Here's another fine example of his huge talent to create loud and powerful but subtle music! [press-release]
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Mercuri, Damiano -- "European Music And Ballads From Renaissance And Baroque Era" -- CD -- €11
2009 The Eastern Front, Folk 001, (ltd. 500)
Damiano Mercuri (Rose Rovine E Amanti) plays Renaissance and Baroque epoch ballads and courtesy music. Damiano Mercuri is known as neo-folk artist while being a professional classical musician Damiano virtuously played and recorded popular in Renaissance and early Baroque era ballads and classical pieces. Pressed CD in quantity of 500 copies. Comes in 3 folded glossy packing with Renaissance painting themed artwork. [press-release]
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Merzbow -- "Annica" -- CD -- €11
2008 Cold Spring Records, CSR107CD
The first track on Merzbow's latest opus was recorded at Tin Pan Alley studios, London, on 20th April 2008 - the day after his momentous performance at ULU. Akita created an astounding and very unique 20-minute track, playing freestyle drums over his trademark noise. The final 2 tracks were created at Munemi House in Tokyo. Another fine example of why Merzbow is the undisputed King of Japanese Noise! 58 minutes in total. [press-release]
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Merzbow -- "Batztoutai With Material Gadgets" -- 2 CD -- €15
1986/2005 RRRecords, RRR-CD-06
Reissue of the do-LP "Batztoutai With Memorial Gadgets" from 1986 remixed in 1993 + bonus CD "Loop Panic Limited" containing cut-ups from various records.
Merzbow -- "Camouflage" -- CD -- €12
2009 Essence Music, ESS012, (ltd. 800)
The elemental excitement for each new Merzbow album remains intact among us here and, after four long years, the undisputable master returns to Essence Music with a new installment of his unique brand of harsh psychedelic noise assault. A bit distant from Sha Mo 3000's pulsing, often rhythmic strategies or the recent albums featuring freestyle drums by Masami Akita himself, Camouflage plays by the more straight MERZBOW rules, going back to his comfort zone of audio barbarism. We salute the ferocious torrents of abused, imploding and exploding electronics, the sharp, pulverizing and abrasive high frequencies and the unrelenting punishment of frenzied throbbing machine-screams witnessed in the controlled cacophonic environment of Camouflage! Presented in our deluxe, sturdy gatefold mini-LP packaging featuring intriguing psychedelic collages by Mr. Akita. [press-release]
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Merzbow -- "Dead Zone" -- CD -- €10
2011 Quasi Pop Records, QPOP CD059, (ltd. 500)
The multi-billions trasinternational concerns think we want more and more cars, computers and mobile phones. For offering all these crap to us for cheap, they need more and more cheap energy. They want nuclear power plants which are powerfull and good in making money, but this technology is extremely dangerous for the people and for our planet. To get a cheap plastic junk today, we are agree to kill our child's future today. We have already had two colossal nuclear disasters in only last 25 years: Chernobyl (Ukraine) in 1986 and Fukushima (Japan) in 2011. There are lots of information everywhere about the sas consequences of both and do we really need more proofs?.. Japanese noise master Masami Akita recorded CD "Dead Zone" in March 2011, the day after the first explosion of Fukushima Nuclear power plant. All pictures for the artwork were taken in Chernobyl and Prypiat in May 2011. This CD is dedicated to the worldwide anti-nuclear movement. [label info]
Merzbow -- "Don't Steal My Goat" -- CD -- €10
2009 No Music Records, noise 015 / Olmolungring, OLR 01
Merzbow -- "F.I.D." -- 2 CD -- €15
2006 Fourth Dimension Records, FD2CD70
Three recordings from December 2005 and January 2006 on each disc. "F.I.D.' (Fur Is Dead) follows the lead of the recent 'Minazo Vol. 1', the tracks are coated in defined melodies and ultra noisy denser textured ambience, the use of guitar feedback taken to a new sculptured level. Each track here is very different, not staying in one set of sounds, which makes it a wonderfully balanced double album... In the top two or three Merzbow releases for this year and in the top ten releases of the last few years. Another clear example of an artist, performing at the height of his powers. [Roger Batty, Musique Machine]
Merzbow -- "Marmo" -- CD -- €13
2010 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 131
After two vinyl releases finally a digital album by the master of Japan-Noise on OEC. This album is entitled "Marmo" (Marble for Italian) and is devoted to the Italian and particularly the Venetian marble. Masami was visiting and playing in this magic Italian city several times and was impressed by all the marbles used in the Venetian buildings and paintings... The 3 tracks composing this album are entitled "Merzbotanica-parallela", "Botanica parallela" is a book written by the Italian author Leo Lionni who is also the inventor of such botanic science, a parallel iper-real botanic where imagination is more reliable than reality.... A real psychadelic tribute by the Japanese master of noise to Venice and Italy.... Enter this new 'Merzcolored-Merzbotanic-Merzpsychomuzak' full of scratching rythms and psychoactive noises and let your brain explode. Special folding cover with Venetian marbled paper effect and golden letterings. [press-release]
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Merzbow -- "Scene / Early Computer Works" -- 2 CD -- €33
2005 Waystyx, WR12, (ltd. 100)
Another recording made by prolific noise monster Masami Akita, which was released in two editions. The first one is single album "Scene", which is quite mundane and nothing new to someone who isn't into Merzbow work too much. I'd say that the only distinctive feature is the cover with heavily cliched Fujiyama look. This one is limited to 500 copies. The second variant has more goals to mention, it's housed in very impressively designed plastic box together with poster and bonus-CD entitled "Early Computer Works". It's quite controversial and special hearing, in comparison with previous albums, it makes a great difference. At this point, I can remember some "loud" releases by Domizil like RM74 "Instabil" and some recent RLW works. This album sounds not so expressive and chaotic as usually, it makes me think about a huge metallic carcass closed in small space. It crawls and shakes, trying to find the way out, raising the pressure and exertion, but without much success. Well, thank to this bonus-CD the boxset is worth to have, but quite hard to find because the edition size is only 100 copies. [Dmitry Vasilyev, "Independent Electronic Music"]
Merzbow / Sutcliffe Jügend / Satori -- "s/t" -- mCD -- €11
2008 Cold Spring Records, CSR102CD, (ltd. 1000)
Released on the occasion of Merzbow, Sutcliffe Jügend and Satori at ULU, London, 19th April 2008. Japanese Noise, Power Electronics and Fortean Electronics from these 3 giants of the Noise / Industrial scene, with one exclusive studio track from each act. This CD is presented in a full colour card slip and is shrinkwrapped. [press-release]
Merzbow / Z'EV -- "Spiral Right / Spiral Left" -- CD -- €10
2010 Cold Spring, CSR133CD
In the planning (and many faxes, emails and discussions in person) for 20 years, finally this stunning collaborative release for Cold Spring from Japanese Noise king Merzbow and legendary elemental sound artist Z'EV is here. The tracks were created in London and Tokyo, with each artist remixing the other's original sounds. Two tracks weighing in at 22 minutes apiece! Dark Ambient Noise in a special textured card digisleeve. [press-release]
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Messdiener -- "Würmer im Kruzifix / Klosterarbeiten" -- CD -- €10
2008, Psych.KG 33 / E-Klageto 01/2008, (ltd. 222)
A strange German project playing some crazy avantguard / rock. Collages from samples, rhythmic drums, space synths, sometimes guitars and wild screams in German. Overall great dada atmosphere. A very decent record quality unlike with many homemade projects. Simple edition.
Messer Chups -- "Black Black Magic" -- CD -- €7
2002 Solnze Records, SCD 025
This Russian masterpiece twists you outta this world. Black Black Magic is Messer Chups most musical release: 50's B-Movie soundtracks, the guitar at times reminiscent of Ricky King, Sci-Fi Horror ala Ed Wood, the erotique of Russ Meyer - all in perfect combination with Lydia Kavina's (niece of Lev Termen, Theremin inventor) Theremin to mutate a sound so 'retro', that it sounds like the future.
The video for 'Go Satan Go' features Russian Playmate of the year Natalya Simakova, guaranteeing even more kitsch. Messer Chups is a side project of one of the members of Russia's Messer fur Frau Muller. Each of their releases is slightly different in tone - they're all loaded with bits of musical and spoken samples, ranging from 1950s B-movies to cartoon sounds.This one, however, focuses more on surf-style guitar music and theremin. Now there's a combination you don't hear much of on CD these days! Messer Chups plays with these completely diverse sounds to create a wonderful musical style all their own. As usual, song titles are pretty indicative of the strangeness - although many of them are listed in Russian only. However, using software such as RealPlayer on your computer will show you the English titles, as I discovered. What can you say about songs called "Cat Religion" or "Cowboys, Indians and Their Parents"? All you need to know is that they really do sound both cool and strange. Aside from 13 excellent songs, there is also a CD-ROM video included on this disc, "Go Satan Go!," which comes from Messer Chups' previous release, Vamp Babes (which is every bit as good as this CD). Run, don't walk, to buy this CD - and all their others, while you're at it; you won't regret it! [Cheryl Shinfield, coldandstrange.com]
Messer Chups -- "Crazy Price" -- CD -- €7
2003 Solnze Records, SCD 032
The king of Russian lounge Oleg Gitarkin changes his image headily - his albums contain less samples and more exotic instruments. The 6th album of his project Messer Chups is recorded with the help of two theremin players - Lidia Kavina is now supported by her apprentice Barbara Buchholtz, - and harpists. All these instrumental rarities and amenities are crowned by a remix from a cult British band People Like Us. [label info]
Messer Chups -- "Zombie Shopping" -- CD -- €7
2007 Solnze Records, scd_zomb
The new album of Messer Chups is made in vein of classical surf of 50-60-ies with lots of retro-sound. Now the project also involves the drummer of Spitfire band, Kaschey. Oleg Gitarkin says about the new album: "The album was recorded with Denis Kaschey as a drummer. Bass guitar - Zombie Girl, she also plays saw. There's a lot of horror and cover-versions, for instance on a band from 80-ies Secret Service with the song "Flash Of The Night". This cover is dedicated to a kyschtymite space alien dwarf Alyoshenka who died in a Russian village but before that he lived for a month at a mentally deranged granny... There will be a clip on this coer too... Also there will be a nice lyrical cover of Piero song to Malvina... In general, the album is very lyrical, like a walk around the cemetary when instead of crosses you see only pluses..." [label info]
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Metaorganism -- "I:Baphomet" -- CD-R -- €6
2008 Some Place Else, SPECDR08048
Metaorganism was conceived - or discovered - in Kuuskulma studio while conducting various experiments with sinewaves, oscillators and feedback. Metaorganism is based on - or communicates through - a network of digital and analog devices transmitting information to each other, back and forth. In the system, a minor change in a supposedly insignificant parameter may unexpectedly change the overall course of the sound. Everything affects everything - as above, so below... At some point of its development, the system will reach a state of balance where it seems to become self-reliant - independent, evolving - and in a sense a communicating entity which becomes conscious of itself. The Manifestation occurs, through sound. A series of recording sessions were held, with the attempt to experiment with the system to serve certain 'hermetic' purposes, to influence the nature of Manifestation, ie. what exactly is invoked in/through the sound. I:Baphomet is the first in what is being planned as a series of Metaorganism audio documents. [press-release]
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Methadrone -- "Better Living (Through Chemistry)" -- CD -- €10
2009 ConSouling Sounds, SOUL0006, (ltd. 2000)
Methadrone has come a long way since its conception as a 2-bassed sludge/drone monolith. Craig Pillard (who has been part of Evoken, Incantation, e.a.) gradually expanded his sound through experiment with acoustic guitars and other vocal collaborations. Better Living (Through Chemistry) is pushing beyond the boundaries of traditional doom music, resulting in well balanced atmospheric pieces of music which make this third full album the apogee of Methadrone's oeuvre this far. On this innovative journey, that bridges the gaps between doom, drone, dark ambient, wave and even neo-folk, Pillard sided with Jason Wallach (The Unquiet Void), Tara Vanflower (Lycia) and Thierry Arnal (fragment.) to present their next step in the evolution of gloomy music. [press-release]
Microspora -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €7
2011 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT73, (ltd. 83)
Operator Produkzion opens a series of releases by Microspora - most likely the least known project of the "Leningrad noise school". It's creator - Valery Rakcheev - belongs to a group of such artists as A. Lebedev-Frontov and K. Stoukaline, he's been active (in the fields of music, fine arts, philophonia, audiophilia, etc.) in the underground since late 70-s, but somehow hasn't released anything from his music until today, just making some copies of his albums for friends. This album is filled with old school power droning electronics, pulsating minimal noises and technogenic claustromanic rumble. Last track is a sort of experimental downtempo industrial with samples from German history of the second third of XX century. Handmade montage cover with the graphics of V. Rakcheev. [press-release]
Microspora -- "BOM" -- CD-R -- €7
2011 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT90, (ltd. 67)
Psychedelic ambient, somethimes rthythmical, sometimes turning into a retrograde droning of an electro organ, sometimes spiced up with concrete noises. Reminds the experiments of the electronic music pioneers in 60-70ies. Handmade cover, all info handwritten. [label info]
Microspora -- "Necrofuturism" -- CD-R -- €7
2011 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT89, (ltd. 53)
Second release from the classic of the Leningrad noise school for Operator Produkzion. Sampledelics, swinging Moog organs, buzz of valve electrobees mixed with blurry factory noise, abrasive rustle and shocking redneck beats. Sleeve. [label info]
Microspora -- "Wool" -- CD-R -- €7
2011 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT79, (ltd. 101)
First track is soft psychedelic sci-fi space ambient based on warm retro electronic sound, resemblind some sci-fi movies from 60-s. Second track contains strange music as if old Suicide from 1975 with their garage electronic sound tried to perform Autechre compositions. Sleeve. [press-release]
Miel Noir -- "Der Honigflugel" -- CD -- €11
2009 The Eastern Front, Front 021, (ltd. 500)
Apocalyptic Chanson Doctrine, created by Miel Noir. Another, absolutely different project of Dimo Dimov (Svarrogh, Sturmpercht, Allerseelen, Sagittarius). Brilliant piano symphony with industrial elements and samples from Russian movies inspired by classical Russian novel 'Crime and Punishment' written by Fyodor Dostoevsky and Goncharov's novels. [press-release]
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Miel Noir & B-Machina -- "Weiss" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 The Eastern Front, Front 015, (ltd. 300)
Miel Noir which was created in 2007 is a side project of Dimo D. founder of Svarrogh and playing in Allerseelen and Sturmpercht. Miel Noir' sound, concept and atmosphere differ from Dimo's main project Svarrogh, it's another way and another music. Miel Noir performed live for the first time on MLB Festival in Madrid on 31 May, 2008 and those who will be lucky to attend this great event heard the Miel Noir premiere performance. 6 melancholic industrial tracks adorned with deep unique Dimo's vocal are titled 'Miel I, II, III, IV, V, VI' and run about 25 minutes... B-Machina is former well-known industrial act Bonemchine from Austria, presented 16 tracks on "Weiss". Only 3 tracks 'The Color Of My Innocence', 'Fahne Empor!' and 'Wald aus Stein & Rost' are full tracks while the other 13 ones is a silence completing perfectly the concept of the album... "Weiss" comes in quantity of 300 hand numbered copies in CD-R format in glossy high quality 3-folded hard paper packing. Artwork designed by A.W. was created in quiet misty colors and enhanced with original photos made by Dimo D. [press-release]
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Mikosterion -- "Slipout" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2002 self-released
One more side-project of Hum. Bright and transparent droney track dedicated to the Autumn Mystery, mushrooms and ideal trip.
Milieu -- "Beyond The Sea Lies The Stars" -- CD -- €10
2006 Infraction, INFX 018, (ltd. 505)
Milk-Man*s=KRANTRANSPORT -- "30M" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Winter Solstice Records, ws001
If you like Kraftwerk, you will probably like this Russian industrial project too. Futuristic music filled with urban sounds of mysterious future, pleasant pulsationg beat and atmospheric keyboards - as if it was created for the movie about intergalactic travels. The universe, space, infinity... Spheres unknown but so attractive to us. So attractive and inviting is the music of Milk Man. You can fully enjoy the vibrations of the amazing electronic ship guided by romantic and authentic captain. [press-release]
Minamata -- "Cyclator" -- CD + DVD -- €17
2009 Les Nouvelles Propagandes, NP.021, (ltd. 500)
Minamata -- "Niigata" -- CD -- €13
2007 Zone De Confusion, Z.D.C.02
Mindmap -- "Plochy" -- CD-R -- €9
2003 Afe Records, afe047lcd, (ltd. 200)
"Plochy" is the debut album of slovakian band Mindmap and comes after the usual demos and the self-released "Live at Subterra" CD-R. Main people involved in Mindmap are Emil Mat'ko and Igor Ilias who take care of all the programming, with the help of Dana Mazalova on vocals, and other collaborators. We're pleased to announce that this is our favourite Afe release ever: if there has to be an album that synthesize all the different styles of electronic music we released until today, that is 'Plochy'. It has beautiful ambient textures, it has real songs, you can dance to certain tracks and appreciate all the research that went into crafting each sound on others. "Plochy" (Slovak name for "strings" or another sustain sound) it's a 360œ journey into the realm of the electronic sound that starts with the suggested exoticism and the mysterious lyrics of "As We Were", and ends with the excellent electro trip-hop Ear Drum Kru Mapmind Remix of "Retrospective". In between these tracks you'll appreciate the calm atmospheres and intelligent rhythms configurations that permeate the whole work: the oniric labyrinth of "Da Song", the delicate guitars on "Cori Celesti", the suffered vocals on "Eman"... each track on this album deserves a special mention. [label info]
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Ministry Of Truth -- "óÌÅÐÏÊ EP" -- CD-R -- €4
2010 No Head Records
Russian darkwave / gothic. A promo-release for the second full-length of Ministry Of Truth which should be released in autumn 2010. All lyrics in Russian language. Featuring an exclusive remix of "Broad is the man" by dj dirty. [label info]
Ministry Of Truth -- "Ministry Of Truth EP" -- CD-R -- €4
2007 No Head Records
Russian darkwave / gothic. A debut release of Ministry Of Truth which captured the band as a duo of it's core members. This is actually the first demo before a full-length album which was released only after three years. This EP is interesting with a track "Timely Death" only performed at the very first live gigs and never re-recorded later, and also the original versions of "Father" and "Emotions", which have become the band's visiting card. [label info]
Ministry Of Truth -- "Night Of The Soul EP" -- CD-R -- €4
2008 No Head Records
Russian darkwave / gothic. Second release of Ministry Of Truth and actually the second demo before a full-length album. First public appearance of the third member, Minister Of Harmony. Interesting with two tracks: the original version of a mega-hit "Broad is the man", and a remix of "Father" by one of the godfathers of German dark scene ENDRAUM. [label info]
Ministry Of Truth -- "Peel" -- CD-R -- €6
2010 No Head Records
Russian darkwave / gothic. Full-length collection of rarities from Ministry Of Truth. Actually, a bonus disc for "Pocketsize God" album, containing different versions of the album tracks, live recordings and remixes.
Ministry Of Truth -- "Pocketsize God" -- CD -- €8
2010 Shirok Chelovek Records, 01
Russian darkwave / gothic. First full-length album of Ministry Of Truth, all lyrics in English. Features guest appearance of Anton Brezhestovsky (Caprice). [label info]
Ministry Of Truth -- "Something, Somewhere EP" -- CD-R -- €4
2009 No Head Records
Russian darkwave / gothic. First completely original release of Ministry Of Truth. First public appearance of Minister Of Culture. An interesting item, as all this material is not going be used anywhere else. [label info]
Minotaur Shock -- "Maritime" -- CD -- €9
2007 Soyuz Music / 4AD, CAD 2511 CD
Minotaur Shock is a new member in the family of famous labwl 4AD which previously released Pixies, Dead Can Dance and Lush. Nowadays debutants play what is now called "indietronics" - a fusion of euphoric indie-pop with voiceless laptop electronics. Optimistic pop tunes gently flavoured with warm electronic noises turn into more abstract compositions resembling tracks of Mum. They don't have their own vocals in the tracks, but sometimes appear various choirs in vein of Royksopp. [Dmitry Veber, Salon Audio Video] Russian edition in jewelcase.
Miriam -- "Scents" -- CD -- €10
2007 Shadowplay Records, SPR 046
"Scents" is the first official release by this very talented Italian act spanning across ethereal, dark and new-wave atmospheres, adding a blend of originality with outstanding female vocals. Mellow and delicate electronica mixed with acoustic instruments to shape fresh and new atmospheres. 10 tracks + 1 video track. [press-release]
Miriam -- "When Beauty Is Invisible" -- CD -- €10
2007 Shadowplay Records, SPR 047
There are very few words that may effectively describe the new melodic shades that this Italian trio reached with its new release 'When Beauty Is Invisible': mesmerizing, visionary, deep... 10 completely new tunes that span across electro, ethereal and orchestral atmospheres, melting it all together through the addition of new sonic landscapes that will capture your ears. Miriam release 'When Beauty Is Invisible' to explore both innermost depths and infinitely distant horizons... [press-release]
Miro -- "s/t" -- CD -- €7
2009 self-released
Miro is a collaboration between Andrey Popovskiy (curator of Experimental Sound Gallery in St. Petersburg) and Mikhail Kuleshin (drummer of the band Rtut' / Hg). Andrey plays electroguitar with lots of effects and objects, Mikhail uses drums and percussion. "Calm sonic landscapes turn into nervous free-jazz fractures, the language of modern academic music is combined with pseudo-impressionistic passages. 'Unusual' ways of producing sound (brushes, bows, feathers, matches, chains, etc.) go with standard plectron. Digital sound-processing devices (reverbs, overdrive, echo, loop station) are applied along with 'clean' sound. This music is improvised, it's not the 'frozen result', but the process of creating the sonic images." [from the authors]
[myspace]
Misery -- "Circles of Life" -- CD-R -- €9
2007 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT16, (ltd. 160)
Rolling are rings of magnetic tape repeating cyclic rhythms of shaman's drum, rolling is the Earth and seasons alternate, trees grow with new yearly rings... A retrospective of live recordings of one of the oldest Russian post-industrial projects: 2 long live tracks and a 25-min. video. Archaic shaman's harsh ambient of completely analogue origin. Limited to 160 copies in a handmade cardboard sleeve. [press-release]
Misery / Neznamo -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Moonsun Productions, MS004, (ltd. 111)
Split of two completely different but at the same time elusively similar projects. Slow, tightening drones and prolonged vibration of NEZNAMO pass into noise-vortex of MISERY, tearing apart and motionless at the same time. Ritual Ceremony of Opposites, joining each other with the streams of ritual / drone / ambient / noise. Recommended for listening in headphones at highest possible volume. CD-r, 2 cards, hand-made layout soft cardboard, graphite, black paint. [label info]
Missing Dog Head -- "Unigami" -- CD -- €10
2011 Delphy Rekords, DER 025
Portugese improvisatonal free rock project featuring Martin Philadelphy, Chris Janka, Gustavo Costa and Helge Hinteregger. As if they're infected with the "virus of slowness" of Bohren Und Der Club Of Gore, but not entirely... Very unhurried but pleasant compositions vary from "almost jazz" and "almost country" to completely improvised soundscape tracks and never try to catch listener's attention, rather dissolve it in their slowness and contemplation of this beautiful music created with a standard rock-band instrument.
The Missing Ensemble -- "Hidden Doors" -- CD -- €10
2006 Mondes Elliptiques, .E.Q.05.01., (ltd. 500)
Three sonic trajectories which tie and untie. Three creative entities to orchestrate the whole. John Sellekaers (Xingu Hill, Dead Hollywood Stars), Daniel De Los Santos (Tamarin) and Mathias Delplanque (Lena, Bidlo) open us the door to a universe whose maze conceals a multitude of other doors. Some are half-open, others are closed and many are, at first sight, invisible. As we explore further, we must let those secret doors some time to take shape, to reveal themselveså and it will then be possible to fix our attention on various aspects of the sound labyrinth that is presented to us, to come and go while letting ourselves be carried by the waves and the modulations, which then become our exploratory vehicle and form one body with us in the journeyå Indeed, many doors are hidden, but they are awaiting to be discovered, probedå Behind them, fullness or emptinesså Here, John Sellekaers, Daniel De Los Santos and Mathias Delplanque have concocted a sound fabric which explores the tangents uniting or dissociating ólowercase soundô, drone and dark ambient. Where does each of those styles start, where does it end? No one could tell... Nevertheless, HIDDEN DOORS brings its share of answerså in a very personal way: lots of textures, palpable ambiences, subtle drifts. The whole is produced in an elegant and stylish fashion. [label info]
Mister Fuckhead -- "333" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 No Part Of It
The material on "333" is made up of free association compositions that incorporate rhythmic noise, pseudo-classical mannerisms, watery electronic sounds, and spastic, fluttering drum machines with wild time-signature juxtapositions. First partially written in 2003, in a 2nd floor closet, squatting in a rat-infested house that only had power in the flooded basement, Clayton Counts mastered the final product in a stretch of about 5-8 hour long days, while we meticulously went over every detail. The 60 minutes of material amalgamates a series of cohesive works made specifically for live performance, in manic, alcohol soaked, dark and solitary sittings of 15-25 hours, then obsessively expanded/refined until 2009. It is composed entirely with a Yamaha RM1x sequencer, incorporating various carefully crafted haywire anamolies that were featured in Dead Tech/Circuit Bending type of art gallery events, and much experience from performing with live bands or working with a wide variety of artists. [press-release]
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Mister Vapor -- "Light And Vapor" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Black Drone, BDRL003, (ltd. 100)
Thomas Park (mainly known for his project Mystified) continues his sound experimentations under the name Mister Vapor. "Light And Vapor" is a sequence of five processed field recording episodes evolving one into another and featuring rhythmic inclusions interwoven with noise of the outside world. Feelings of loneliness and uncertainty will capture the listener from the very beginning and will not let go 'til the very end. [label info]
Mixturizer -- "Senile Dementia" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Mask Of The Slave, MS-024, (ltd. 60)
Noise / Experimental project based in Canary Islands, Spain. Started on summer 2006 by Manuel M. Cubas as a scape from music to pure sound and noise experimentation to express and creating through a personal point of view on surrealistic/ abstract/ non conventional/ anti-commercial and personal ways. Also defined as a multi-layered noise act combining unsightly sound forms with Harsh Noise, Experimental, Industrial, Ambient elements. [label info]
[myspace]
Moan -- "Endemia" -- CD-R -- €7
2003 Soulworm Editions, Worm XXXVII, (ltd. 250)
Moan's work has never been easy to pigeonhole, nor should it be overlooked. And here's the proof, almost an hour long excursion through the contaminated psyche, alienated entity and anxious being. After a couple highly anticipated albums (not to mention the 3" on Soulworm, folks!), 'Endemia' seems to be the crucial achievement. Although immersed in Moan's genuine, claustrophobic ambient mood, the songs presented hereby are kept in dark industrial style, with some suggestive, chaotic outbreaks. We are proud to release this wonderful album, the most spectacular manifestation of both talent and approach, and last but not least - a notorious friend of ours. [press-release]
Mockingwyrd -- "Cracks in the Void" -- 3"CD-R -- €5
2007 Some Place Else, SPECDR07041, (ltd. 150)
Mockingwyrd. Not much is known about him/her/them (?) thus far, except vague credits on a number of Finnish experimental releases (often by other Some Place Else artists, such as Ovro and Niko Skorpio). It is rumoured that Mockingwyrd is also a bass player in several doom & thrash metal, jazz and experimental groups. [...] Sceptics maintain Mockingwyrd is just another pen-name of a Some Place Else-related artist. Some others claim he's an extra-terrestrial entity from Aldebaran and worship him as god of the new aeon. Some Place Else representatives dismiss both of these claims as nonsense, but what do you know? Who do you believe? Nevertheless, Cracks in the Void is an EP, to our knowledge the debut, by Mockingwyrd. It contains two tracks recorded 'in the void', employing a bass guitar with a carefully selected pile of effects. These two tracks create a narrow yet spacious interzone, a one-off meeting point of low-frequency drones and sparse yet delicate melodies. Press play, slip in and enjoy your brief escape from daily routines. [label info]
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Modell, Rod -- "Plays Michael Mantra" -- CD -- €10
2007 Silentes, 200720
"Plays Michael Mantra" is an atmospheric project by Rod Modell (deepchord / echospace) consisting of two 30-minute long tracks. Here Modell portrays the feelings and sensations that he was experiencing on a recent late-night train ride, where he was listening to "a/b" by Michael Mantra on headphones, and was fascinated with the way a/b blended with the sounds of the trip. On "Plays Michael Mantra" Modell created soundscapes that are reminiscent of that night, and then had Mantra's a/b playing in the background (as it was on the train). Made from delicate chime sequences, synth tones, space-echoes, and recordings of distant trains passing through the night. The overal effect is somewhat melancholy, but very soothing and familiar, like sleeping on a rainy night. Epic and majestic ambient sounds that twinkle like stars in the night sky. Extraordinary for late-night listening. [press-release]
Modell, Rod & Mantra, Michael -- "Sonic Continuum" -- CD -- €11
1998 Hypnos, hyp1811
Listening to this album is an incredibly moving experience; its ultra downtempo, sublimely soaring & diving synthwork & staccato mechanical pulses woven against a background of superbly sampled soundscapes (both natural, such as marine/shore & thunder, as well as urban, such as muffled voices & cascading ceramic twinkling) will keep you entranced for the entire album's duration. [zthrockm, Discogs.com]
The Moglass -- "Sparrow Juice" -- CD -- €10
2006 Nexsound, ns45
The group under the Moglass came into being in 1997, in Kharkiv / Ukraine. New records of the Moglass are spontaneous improvisations, mostly live records, which by no means always can be called free-noise because sometimes they are very gentle and melodic. Up to date they released 6 full-lengths and various compilation appearances, have collaborations and recordings with Tom Carter (Charalambides), Vanessa Arn (Primordial Undermind), Anla Courtis (Reynols), Andrey Kiritchenko, Kotra. Toured with Jackie O' Motherfucker, My Cat Is An Alien. [label info]
Moljebka Pvlse -- "dvnkl" -- CD -- €11
2006 Fifth Week, FW003 (ltd. 500)
The 7th full-length album of this Swedish project is recorded by Mathias Josefson in cooperation with Karin Jacobson, who usually sings and plays drums in the band Les Issambres and also takes part in experimental theatre group Kekelejfs. In the hands of Mathias Karin's voice and instrumentation is transformed into a multilayer of sound. Spoken words, singing, sounds of nature, manipulated and twisted, takes us away on a journey. A journey inwards into the mind, cause it's not just any mind, but the mind of someone that is far from alright, someone experiencing the world through multi personalities and trying to make sense of her perceptions, a chaotic mind meeting a chaotic world. But this is far from chaos: the music is done with theatrical precision, carefully directed, performed and executed. This is not an easy listening album, but right from the start it puts a spell on you and you know that you have to listen to it to the end. [label info]
Moljebka Pvlse -- "Fall In Woodland Cemetery" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2008 Taalem, alm 49
With his first works released on well-known labels like Cold Meat Industry, Eibon Records or Fin de Siecle Media, Mathias Josefson's Moljebka Pvlse has fastly gained a strong reputation in the dark ambient/industrial world. Including more & more field recordings in his sound, Josefson soon departed from his typicial "Swedish roots" to more droney sounds like his more recent productions on Mystery Sea, Gears of Sand, Drone Records or this very 3". Minimal yet captivating droney field recordings! [press-release]
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Moljebka Pvlse -- "Ghost Fire" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Lona Records, locd48r, (ltd. 100)
Moljebka Pvlse -- "Sadalmelik" -- CD -- €10
2002 Cold Meat Industry, cmi113, (ltd. 1000)
Imagine someone delicately rolling out a dough comprising both the subtler moments of Maeror Tri and the hypnotic ambience of mid-eighties Lustmord, incorporating low frequency factory sounds and you might come close to this monotonous drone-party. [label info]
Moljebka Pvlse -- "Zojo" -- CD -- €10
2010 Greytone, grey008, (ltd. 500)
The Moljebka Pvlse album Zojo was recorded during the Mathias studies at the Royal Institute of Art. He was inspired by the longest night of the year in Stockholm, the day when there is almost no daylight. His ambition was to make an acoustic album of minimal music without any musical instruments. Moljebka Pvlse setup long nylon strings across his entire studio at school, which he then plucked and bowed and recorded with his favorite contact microphones on that very night. These recordings became the fundament of the album and set the tone for the rest of the work. Moljebka Pvlse are very grateful for the contribution by the Japanese artist Michiko Kashiba on this album. [press-release]
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Moljebka Pvlse / Seventeen Migs Of Spring -- "Ravha / Electricity Gardens" -- CD -- €10
2007 Topheth Prophet, TP015, (ltd. 500)
This collaboration album by Moljebka Pvlse (this time as a trio, with Karin Jacobson and Maria Nordin as the extra members) and the Israeli band Seventeen Migs of Spring contains both individual works from each project and a material that has been made together. It starts with Moljebka Pvlse's nearly 27 minutes long Ravha, a soundscape with breeze-sound and crowd noises as its most obvious elements. There's of course lots of other things in the mix as well, such as a violin and "walking in leaves and Styrofoam". What results is a strange, developing sound-art work that defies catgorization. It breaks and changes, yet stays intact at all times. Second in line is the shared work, Calm Gardens (at night), which clearly fuses together the styles of both groups into one whole. It is also the definitely best piece on the album. The solo part of Seventeen Migs of Spring is divided into five tracks, all of the different fro one another, yet existing as a logical procession. Electricity Gardens thus moves forward, track by track, in an increasingly minimalist, increasingly clinical-sounding fashion. There is nevertheless a warm tone and a certain fullness to it. In addition, the structure of even the most minimalist parts is remarkably solid; for example, Alternating Current uses in its squeals patterns that far more typical in harsh noise than in the glitch music it sound-wise resembles. This album is in no way easy to approach or light to listen to. It also becomes more and more difficult and increasingly distant from the listener the further it progresses, that's how weird it gets.. Despite these issues, it is a very fine piece of work, something one can genuinely call "experimental music" in the best sense of the phrase, and something that well combines the legacy of avant-garde to new innovativeness. [Jiituomas, Kuolleen Musiikin Yhdistys]
Mollusk -- "Accretions" -- CD -- €10
2001 The Foundry, FOU.14
Moloch -- "Meine Alte Melancholie" -- CD-R -- €6
2007 Heart Shaped Box Prod., HSB-016, (ltd. 30)
Minimal intuitive ambient from Ukraine. [label info]
Moloch -- "Nachwirkung Suicid" -- CD-R -- €6
2007 Heart Shaped Box Prod., HSB-017, (ltd. 27)
Experimental industrial from Ukraine. [label info]
Mondrian Oak -- "Through Early Seed" -- CD -- €10
2009 ConSouling Sounds, SOUL0008, (ltd. 300)
Mondrian Oak conceived in autumn 2007, and slowely paved the path to launch their debut album Through Early Seed. These Italians shared the stage with a lot of great bands (Zippo, Gerda, Last Minute To Jaffna, Viscera/// e.a.), which most certainly helped them to shape their own voice within the genre: they have crafted a sound which is evocative and psychedelic merely with the classic rock instruments, devoid of excess. With their loud, doomy and gloomy outbursts that alternate with intimistic accoustic parts, their music is situated on the crossroads between postrock and postcore. The maturity and originality they put in the arrangements of the composition makes this a debut album that truly stands out, and predicts a promising future! [press-release]
Monologue -- "Comprehending of Senseless" -- CD-R -- €9
2006 Sickcore, SC 008, (ltd. 50)
Great atomic black drone ambient + genocide lyrics. The work is dedicated to the city of Pripyat (Chernobyl nuclear plant). The best work of Monologue to date published by cult label Sickcore in finest package, comes with a verse and photo of Pripyat exclusive for each copy. [YAOP]
Monopium -- "Mesmerized" -- CD -- €10
2009 Beast Of Prey, bop 6.4, (ltd. 500)
Debut album of polish project MONOPIUM is definitely something new and different on our Polish music scene. Based on fascinations of dadaism, avantgarde, atmosphere of old Berlin cabarets and surrealism is unusual music project. Over 40 minutes of psychodelic and avantgarde music. The mix of different genres and styles that cannot be described in one word. If dadaists were anarchistic negation of European heritage, rejecting todays conventions and restrictions for the sake of free and unbound fantasy and bit of trivial mistification, so what is MONOPIUM today? Dada works with all his might to incorporate the idiotism all around. But creatively. And how MONOPIUM did this...? Conventional release, cover made by Robert Schalinski from COLUMN ONE idealy presents atmosphere and surrealism of the musical project MONOPIUM. Limited edition of 500 copies. [press-release]
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Monstrare / Wilt -- "Graveflowers" -- CD -- €10
2004 .Angle.Rec., .A.R.05.02., (ltd. 500)
For the last few years, the enthusiasts have been enjoying the evolutionary sound creations of CORDELL KLIER (MONSTRARE) and JAMES KEELER (WILT). The first, very often, in his solo adventures, works in a register which one could hail as "dark glitch", or a close encounter of the third kind between modern technology and the abyss, as the second builds us somber sonic monoliths, raw blocks of black bruitist matter and dark lo-fi atmosphericså It was no doubt that the collision, or fusion, between these two aesthetics tinged with psychotropism was going to give way to a genuine journey, a unique and peculiar epic, in the image of the respective projects of the two creators. There is a natural fit between these projects as both focus on dark mathematical projections. In this monumental production, MONSTRARE feeds us with new-school sonorities as WILT opts for old-school sounds, an it goes without saying that one used the source sound material of the other to crystallize his own visions, and vice versa. Side by side, the intemporal, uncompromising and often arrhythmic sonic fluids secreted here sometimes have a textured minimalistic feel, sometimes reflect a will of nuanced saturationå Here one will easily recognize the traditional ambient and subtle black noise WILT feel, just pushed to the utmost level, with MONSTRARE doing the dark-clicked drone he is renowned for, but in an especially demented way. Alternately, the listener finds himself wandering through the uneven meanders of subterranean cathedrals and flying over futurist cities radiant with an aura of strangely coloured neons. But there are a thousand and one other possible interpretations. Organic yet bleak, the music presented here symbolizes the passing of life into subharmonic spirituality. Now is your turn to make yourself your own interior movie while listening to this album! [press-release]
Monocube -- "Vibramina Maerosis" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT49, (ltd. 100)
Solemn drone ambient unleashing into drone noise. Depressive feedbacks, hollow rumbles and exhausting hi frequencies, cold and twilight. Sleeve. [label info]
Monopolka vs. Tape Salad -- "Noises of Vaporussia / Heroin Marriage" -- 2 CD-R -- €7
2007 Emerson, Lake and Headache
Two anti-musical recordings from Danish artist Anders Artentoft (Bohman Family / Bimbo Sons) and Russian Phil Monopolka (Tea Man With Tea Gum, Massive Ejaculation, etc.). The artwork is an A2 doble-sided poster.
Montgomery, Gen Ken -- "Drilling Holes In The Wall" -- CD -- €10
2007 Monochrome Vision, (mv17), (ltd. 500)
Archive materials from one of the most mysterious musicians in electronic underground, dating from 1988 to 1991. Each piece composed by Gen Ken Montgomery is the result of domestic alchemy, transforming some ugliest environmental sounds into artistic images of impressive beauty. His instruments are just prepared toy synth, but also from time to time laminator, icebreaker, radiator, film projector and so on. These recordings were made in Conrad Schnizler studio in West Berlin, and also live on stage there, in time of Germany reunion. [label info]
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Monument Straha -- "Monument Straha / Spring / Shadow" -- 3 x CD-R -- €13
2011 Retrogad 02, 03, 04, (ltd. 30)
A 3 disk set containing the recordings of the Leningrad-based band Monument Straha (Monument Of Fear). Retrogad 02: "Monument Straha" - contains same material as the cassette released by Ultra label. The press-release says: "A hard case of late Soviet proto-pseudo-quasi-gothic from rainy Leningrad of late 80-ies. The released was announced by ULTRA as far back as 1995 but because of mysterious disappearance of the master tape in the archive depths of bass player Yuri Kovalsky and it's lucky discovery just in the end of 2008, the release is made only now in mass edition of 30 copies for especially steady maniacs. Sound a la Joy Division or Bauhaus, sepulchral lyrics, the atmosphere of invigorative dread and black humour"... Retrogad 03: "Spring" - a reissue of rare cassette from 1991. Retrogad 04: "Shadow" - mini-CDR with previously unreleased audio and video materials... The set also contains 3 posters and is packed in black PVC sleeve.
The Moon And The Nightspirit -- "Osforras" -- CD -- €13
2009 Equilibrium Music, EQM023, (ltd. 1000)
The Moon And The Nightspirit -- "Osforras" -- CD -- €17
2009 Equilibrium Music, EQM023BK
Collector's edition in a digi-book.
Moon Far Away -- "Minnesang" -- CD -- €14
2010 Ahnstern, Ahnstern 45
Moon Far Away -- "Sator" -- CD -- €10
2006 Shadowplay Records, SPR 030
Moon Far Away is the band whose debut album "Lado World" was with the single heart recognized as the first true gothic release in Russia. In 11 years of they existence this Arkhangelsk ritual darkwave \ neo-folk project became the cult one on a Russian dark scene and became very popular abroad. The tracks of the band were presented both in Russian and foreign compilations of the dark scene. The musical press gives excellent reviews on all Moon Far Away creations. You can find picture of the band as the centerfold in German magazine Zillo. Japanese director Susei Nisi made a film that is devoted to the Moon Far Away... "...'SATOR', being the second full-scale release of this cultic lineup, expands the boundaries of its sound image even more, going deeper into the ethno-esoteric genre and using symbols of the early Christianity. The experiments with folk instruments and with the structure of the musical pieces, and the unprecedented atmosphere and ritual orientation of the rhythm structures make 'SATOR' a complete musical pattern dedicated to the mystery of eternal return lived through over and over again. MOON FAR AWAY sings of the harmony of man's material outer space - and the unexplored spiritual inner space:" (from Brudenia Records press-release).
Mortart presents Neglekt -- "Abuse" -- CD-R -- €7
Imbecil Records 009, ltd. 77
Neglekt = Mortart. Classical death industrial from the south of Russia. Dark soundscapes and factory atmosphere, vague blows, low frequencies. The album is recorded in old school manner, without any computers, only tapes, field recordings, metal percussion, etc.
Mortart -- "Annihilation" -- CD-R -- €6
2006 Imbecil Records 017
As it was noticed by critics "in all Mortart's albums slow death approaches to the listener, but in each album it looks a little different". Here it's incarnated as three long and very slow tracks, filled with senseless scraps of human speech and deep low frequencies. Compositions breathe with despair and blackness in listerer's face.
Mortart -- "Klinik" -- CD-R -- €6
Imbecil Records 011, (ltd. 40)
Probably the most abstract Mortart album - 2 tracks of minimalistic ambient extracted from manipulations with electronic devices.
Mortart -- "This World So Beauteful As Formerly" -- CD-R -- €8
Imbecil Records 010
"Although Russian projects didn't manage to go down in history of 'indusrial culture', they confidently take their niche in post-industrial existence. In this relation Mortart is obviously the one who consolidates the foundation of modern industrialism; sounding from total obscurity he is one of the few whose truth and honesty is without doubt. His debut album "World Downfall" caught the attention with its dark beauty and interesting studio moments, for example for this recording was invited Marina Kurasova, the leader of Rostov's division of National-Bolshevist Party. Nowadays Mortart has about a dozen of releases on his own label Imbecil Records, and the project found its trademark sound... As far as we already can speak about 'influences' and 'inspiration sources' in 'post-industrial culture', first of all we have to mention the visible facts of 'where his legs grow from': obviously early BDN, then MEGAPTERA, MZ.412 and ARCHON SATANI. Hence the style of the project can be described as morose blend of death industrial and dark ambient. Main stimulant images-themes are also comparable to mentioned bands: misanthropy, Death as the only aim, anti-christianity (but not Satanism!!!), sexual violence, dissection, serial killers. Nevertheless one can feel Mortart's 'south-Russian' accent: compositions sound especially unhurry and criminal aura of the city he lives in adds subconscious spite and doom..." [CODE_188, "Organic Human Mechanisms"]
Moskiitto, Ville -- "In Fine Style - 4-track Recordings 2003-2004" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2008 Harha-Askel, [HA-8]
Finnish psych-folk, sometimes instrumental, sometimes with vocals, but always atmospheric and almost shamanic. From John Fahey to >o<. [YAOP]
Moskiitto, Ville -- "Kaikki Mitaunohdin Sanoa" -- CD-R -- €7
Foxglove, foxglove124, (ltd. 100)
This album differs a lot from the other works of Ville Moskiitto. The author focuses more on acoustic and organic sounds. From odd soil-blurry folkish roots to awkward forest plaints, the alter ego of Moskiitto - pure magic. Whisper and accordion make sound deeper and push "Kaikki Mitaunohdin Sanoa" forward to the midnight sun. [YAOP]
Moskiitto, Ville -- "Retkikertomuksia" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 Barl Fire Recordings, BF019
More soil-based atmospheric material from the young Finnish talent. Prevail here folk bow instruments. Very strong forest, shamanic spirit. [YAOP]
Moth Electret -- "Tocasen" -- CD -- €10
2009 Diophantine Discs, n = 19, (ltd. 500)
"Tocasen", Moth Electret's second record, is an engaging and intense hour-long work of experimental ambient music. Landscapes of mysterious worlds are forged from a variety of drones, processed sounds, and other recordings. Within these seven tracks the sounds pulse and flutter through a beautiful and complex metamorphosis. Stig Berg has been recording music since 2000 as R|A|A|N and as a member of Aesthetic Meat Front. His first Moth Electret release came out on Mystery Sea in 2007... Housed in a custom printed color wallet. [press-release]
Mourmansk 150 -- "Catharsism Of A Triggers" -- CD -- €10
2006 Misanthrope Studio, MS012, (ltd. 500)
Bristling violent antipathy-StridorHarshNoize, distress/trauma therapy-PowerElektronix and lethargic enervating despair sodden-DeathIndustrial/drones! Mourmansk150 explores, relays and personifies the final bleak outpost of sonic extremity before it transcends into front line active terrorism, hatecrimes and fatal vendettas! When nothing remains but the drive to great your own death aside taking a selection of the despised with you... [press-release]
Mourmansk 150 -- "No Volunter 4 This Society" -- CD -- €8
2009 Topheth Prophet, TP019, (ltd. 400)
With every new album these French noise extremists define their sound more and more clear, improving the style of their own, and "No Volunter 4 This Society" is another proof. The style is somewhere netween power electronics / harsh noise and death industrial soundscapes. Excellent material for the fans of this genre. [Sickcore]
Mourmansk 150 -- "Zwischen Verfall Und Veranderung / Between Decadence And Mutationy" -- CD -- €12
2003 L. White Records, LW-012, (ltd. 300)
Mousepad -- "Waves 01" -- CD-R -- €3
Smell The Stench
This small 17-minute disk presents Mousepad exploring not the 8-bit game devices, but mostly guitar feedbacks, whistling, softly droning or sharply noising in clouds of sonic effects.
Mousepad -- "Waves Two" -- CD-R -- €3
2005 Smell The Stench
Three experimental / noise tracks improvised on an electroguitar with effects.
MSBR -- "Destructive Locomotion. Dedicated To Chizuo Matsumoto" -- CD -- €11
1995 Pure, PURE 25, (ltd. 500)
Mt. -- "Teach Your Children How To Think Not What To Think" -- mCD -- €8
2009 ConSouling Sounds, SOUL0002 / Motive Sounds Recordings, MISC003, (ltd. 1000)
It has been a while since we heard new tunes by the band branded by The Silent Ballet as 'one of the shining new lights of the UK post-rock scene'. The EP contains 4 brand new tracks that push beyond 2006 critically acclaimed Lethologica. During the years of silence the band progressed as songwriters, which is reflected in every track on the Teach Children How To Think, Not What To Think EP. Intelligently layered structures entwined with amazingly crafted melodies leave no room for interpretation: Mt. are back and determined to permanently claim a place in the spotlights. [press-release]
Mueran Humanos -- "s/t" -- CD -- €14
2010 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 138
Multipoint Injector -- "Disseminator" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Beast Of Prey, BOP 5.6, (ltd. 150)
Since 1961 when the first man went to the Space, the regular manned and unmanned exploration has been set going. The Space has become the ground of research and throughly investigation about the Earth. The Space also became the chance for the survival of humanity. The album "Disseminator" is the experimental trial of going into the extraterriestrial zone. The musical picture of exploring and humanizating the Space. MULTIPOINT INJECTOR is the author's musical project of Absteiner from :WULGATA:. It has got few already released albums. "Disseminator" is the first CD released outside native initiatives. F4F and Mizantropy Records. More than 65 minutes long CD contains the compound of various genres and experimental sounds. Calm, pulse and stretched sound structures. The unconventionally released album made of a 450 x 180 mm cardboard stripe, folded in 3 parts and glued around with color photos. Professionally made CDR with a print. The whole is folded by hand and numbered up to 150 pieces. [press-release]
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Murayama, Seijiro / Northam, Michael -- "Moriendo Renascor" -- CD -- €11
2009 Xing-Wu Records, XW5005CD
Murderous Vision -- "Ghosts Of The Soul Long Lost" -- 2 CD -- €10
2005 Live Bait Recording Foundation, LBRF 022, (ltd. 1000)
It is hard to believe that Murderous Vision has been frightening the underground electronic scene for ten years now! This double CD retrospective is testament to the productive career of this maleficent Post-Industrial beast. This album shows the shape-shifting face we have come to expect over the years from Murderous Vision and represents every style the band is known for. From Dark Ambient and Death Industrial to Power Electronics. Clocking in at 160 minutes, Ghosts is packed to the brim with rare and unreleased work spanning the years 1996-2004. Included in this collection are every compilation appearence to this date as well as all material from split releases with Kuru (Blood Brain Barrier), Acclimate (Beautiful Black World) and Black Mayonnaise (Texas Tour CDR). Also included are all the tracks from the Burning The Promised Land 3"CDR and an extremely rare (and beat driven) piece from 1996's "Ov Thee Underworld" cassette single (of which i think there were less than 10 copies). Lavishly packaged in a standard double jewel case with full color 6 panel artwork designed by Murderous Vision himself!!! This is the definitive Murderous Vision release! Limited to 1000 copies. [press-release]
Murderous Vision -- "Life's Blood Death's Embrace" -- CD -- €10
2006 Live Bait Recording Foundation, LBRF 024
The release of 2005's "Ghosts of the Soul Long Lost" retrospective marked the first 10 years of cult Industrial act Murderous Vision. Providing a looking glass into the history of this well respected purveyor of all things dark. "Life's Blood Death's Embrace" charts the path for the future of the project. A deathly mixture of the blackest of Ambient passages supplemented heavily by Classical refrains and post-industrial rhythmic structures. Taking the mixture of these to the next level, of which the foundation was laid by 2002's successful offering "The Times Without Gods". Add to this sound and vocal contributions by the controversial Industrial artist Brethren, crystal clear production values and a superb Mastering job from the legendary hands of Peter Andersson (Raison d'etre, Stratvm Terror etc.). This standard jewel case edition of 1000 copies features artwork by the mesmerizing and lethal Visual Artist Rebecca Potter and multi medium Polish art phenomena Kati Astraeir to perfectly match the dark vision of this album. Audio and Art merged to create a greater whole, and it comes together impeccably. A must own for all who live for Death Industrial/Ambient music! [press-release]
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Murderous Vision -- "The Times Without Gods" -- CD -- €10
2002 Live Bait Recording Foundation, LBRF 018
Deep layers, melodic keyboards, classical samples, some ritualistic percussion here, some low-pitched echoed plus chorused voices there, and a good dose of darkness via reverb and minor chords; you already know the formula, don't you? But the fact is that, even if Murderous Vision repeats the patterns of an established genre with a superb accuracy .. and then, maybe you can infer that this is the case of a perfectly planned album, which lacks an own soul, and that's not precisely what surrounds me .., Mr Petrus demonstrates that it has an identity as a composer. And moreover, I would describe some parts of the recording as highly emotional, giving that somewhat special touch to the album; the quality all art should transmit and something that some technically depurated musicians tend to forget nowadays. Add to it a few carefully arranged pictures (layout work of the acclaimed Michael Riddick) in a standard jewel case, but with a professional appearance