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ZHELEZOBETON / Muzyka Voln releases
Anthesteria -- "Phobos 1953 (OST)" -- CD -- €12
2010 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-XXVI / 7Hz Publishing, D 01, (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 Publishing.
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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 -- "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 -- "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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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 + 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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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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CD-R / CD
.-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')" -- 2 x 3"CD-R -- €10
2009 YAOP, YAOP 042, (ltd. 9)
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". First 9 copies have special package - 2 3"CDRs in a VHS-box with instructions for neuroleptic medications and funny newsletter cuts. Full hand-made, all information is hand-written, each copy is unique. [press-release]
... -- "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]
... -- "Hermit (Otshelnik)" -- 3 CD-R -- €10
2008 Valgriind, VG 16
The second work of conceptual project. Analogue Ambient / Noise and throat singing. Fundamental, almost 3-hour work with extensive graphical accompaniment, wrapped with bag's cloth. [label info]
... -- "No" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Valgriind 07, (ltd. 50)
Philosophical noise, sonic manifestation of the ideas of the school of Madhyamak-Prasangik. Most of the material is comprised of cover-versions of the tracks by YAO 91404 D and Merzbow, performed live without audience, plus something else. Handmade artwork (collage, paper envelope, cardboard with a hand-pront and inserts). [label info] Three long tracks. First sounds like this: background accidental music (from radio or TV), someone howls monotonously and melancholically, and either rhythmically or spontaneously taps on a metal bucket. A couple of times all this is interrupted by fragments of a lecture on eastern philosophy. Second track starts with the sounds of house cleaning, then radionoise appears with a looped voice phrase, again metal clinks, then comes amateur non-harmonic guitarplaying and other absurd sounds. The third track is conceptually the same: jingles, knockings, farting noise, looped phrases, verses and accidental sounds.
>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]
>o< -- "Yollinen" -- CD-R -- €10
2009 self-released, (ltd. 8)
Previously unreleased live recording done on November 13, 2006. Ritual industrial with the use of a flute, radio-receiver, make and female voices and metal objects. Shamanism. Completely handmade artwork: cardboard folder A5 with a photo 15x20 cm, hand-written info and a herbarium. [YAOP 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]
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]
A Crown Of Light -- "The Clearing" -- CD -- €12
2006 Eibon Records, Acr064
Concrete / noise / dark ambient. This is her turned to stone on the shore ..... There are strange creatures out there. ..... This is her crown of light now shattered ..... Espin is one of them. A CROWN OF LIGHT (A Crown of Amaranth + Conversations About the Light) tells us his story of pain, solitude and abandonment through a complex mixture of different sound sources. ..... Blood and fire and I will grow ..... Dark ambient, concrete music, noise, hidden melodies. Espin's world is complex, and so is its soundtrack. [label info]
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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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Abdulla -- "Fallen Russia - Agony and Torment" -- 2 CD-RW -- €9
2008 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
An original incursion in ambient territories from a wicked ismalic russophob Abdulla. Are you waiting for a journey to the dark side? In vain! Quiet noise with hardly heard ambient component. [label info]
Abdulla -- "Yesterday a simple akyn, today a marksman" -- CD-RW -- €5
2008 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
New name on Hlobkorob! Russophobic embittered power electronics - a straight challenge to Russians. "Zvoe zlo russkay nazlo" ("Evillish evil Russian to spite") - sounds a heart-rending recitative! [label info]
Abutor' -- "Stalinorgel" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 Artius
Harsh military-EBM / Harsh Electro with ideological lyrics and brutal vocals, dedicated to WWII. [YAOP]
Abutor' -- "Volchyey Tropoy" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 Artius
Harsh military-EBM / Harsh Electro with ideological lyrics and brutal vocals. Slim case with full-colour cover. [YAOP]
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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Acid Hexen -- "Orkiestra Wojskowa" -- CD-R -- €4
2007 Triangle Records, [TR019]
Total devastation! Death to all human being! This is the war-hymn! Grim power-electronix trough unrated mysanthropy. Blood, smell of death and your death mates-all your suicide thoughs. War as a pure art. No one could survive! Mysticism of pain! [label info]
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Across The Rubicon -- "Elegy" -- CD -- €10
2007 Rage In Eden, RAGE 59
Although the name of ATR is new on the military scene, men standing behind are already recognized. Across The Rubicon is a joint martial industrial act of Marcin Bachtiak (Cold Fusion), Robert Marciniak (Rukkanor) and Radoslaw Kaminski (Ab Intra). ATR has been established as a medium to express theirs fascination of martial sounds. A debut album called "Elegy" contents ten orchestral, bombastic tracks with strong marching rhythms, powerful arrangements, spoken samples, everything so characteristic of the classic of genre. 10 tracks, 44 minutes, CD in digipack. [press-release]
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Across The Rubicon -- "Who Doesn't Listen To The Song, Will Hear The Storm" -- CD -- €10
2010 Rage In Eden, RAGE 70
The second album of Across The Rubicon. After some long period of silence ATR is coming back with new material, natural continuation of the style known from the debut. Orchestral arrangements, bombastic rhythms, strong martial accents and melancholic atmospheres. Music, lirycs and artwork are related to the dark time of Great War 1914-1918, first worldwide conflict, which was to be the last one... 10 tracks, 40 minutes, CD in digipack designed by Michal Karcz. [press-release]
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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 -- "Cuore Mini" -- CD-R -- €6
2008 Observatiore 18, (ltd. 18)
Ritual old school industrial from Rostov-on-Don, Russia.
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 -- €6
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]
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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Aeoga -- "Zenith Beyond The Helix-Locus" -- CD -- €10
2005 Aural Hypnox, [AH05], (ltd. 1000)
From beyond the mundane symbolscape, the 2nd album of Aeoga - entitled 'Zenith Beyond the Helix-Locus' - emits aural phenomena from devouring multi-layered elemental ambience to amorphous and hallucinatory sequences entrancing one's awareness thoroughly. The fifteen formations manifest themselves in various forms; bright and luminous helixes intertwine with shadowed and shapeless non-beings. All in all truly overwhelming material where acoustic instruments and electronic equipment mingle themselves to channel forth the aural elemental current. [press-release]
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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 -- "New Dawn" -- CD -- €14
2009 Cold Meat Industry, cmi199
Aesthetic Meat Front -- "Temple of Flesh" -- CD -- €13
2006 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 087
"Temple of Flesh" is based on an Invocation of Rapture from A-M-F's "Blood Sun Rising" Rituals (2003-004). The text of this invocation has been translated into 12 languages, and sculpted into a dark electronic abyss. Ritual drones are the framework for haunting invocations and chants, which are supported by the seductive mantras of Zaskia Morgan. Bombastic drums and instruments connected with hooks into the skin of the ritual participants are also sound sources for this release. Elegantly packaged in a DVD case, Temple of Flesh comes with 6 double-sided cards reflecting the essence of an A-M-F ritual. Italian invocation featuring vocals by OEC master : Rodolfo Protti... Sounds remixed by R|A|A|N. [label info]
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Aesthetic Meat Front -- "Plague Of Humanity" -- CD -- €10
2002 Collapse Industries, CI 001
The original material for this recording was made in Spring 1999, simultaneously as human population reached 6.000.000.000. It seems as human population increases, human intelligence decreases. Mankind does everything possible to support its own De-volution. The majority of the population uses technology and mass communication only as toll to kill off their senses and intellect. They numb themselves with entertainment that offers non-information and over stimulation. Mass morals suppress the instincts necessary towards evolution. Common sense is replaced by safety laws and thinking is no longer required and encouraged. Over 6000.000.000 degenerated meatmachines currently crowd our planet and consistently work towards the destruction of their own habitat. And still we praise the value of human life as the highest of all. It is on the time to reconsider this and to be more concerned about the value of intelligence! [label info]
The Afeman vs. Madame P -- "Journey Through the Shadow of the Sun" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2007 AFE Records, afe50016, (ltd. 50)
Ambient / Drone Music. The Afeman is one of the multiple personality of Andrea Marutti, best known as Amon, Never Known, Lips Vago and Afe label owner. Madame P is the latest musical incarnation of italian artist Patrizia Oliva, also quite active in italian free-music scene. "Journey Through the Shadow of the Sun" is The Afeman's radical reworking of "Ombra di sole", one of Madame P's finest solo vocal tracks originally recorded and mixed by well-known italian electronic maestro Fausto Balbo. Madame P's voice is overcome by The Afeman's treatments and it is turned into an infinite array of ghostly whispers and hisses which slowly build up a droney lamentation of biblical proportions... [label info]
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Aganezz Uebkosyan -- "Fuckery, Russophobia, Power, Toby Dammit" -- CD-RW -- €5
2008 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
Some tracks on this album Aganezz performed onto the poems of Robert Rozhdestvensky. Power, as always, utterly russophobic. And Toby Dammit - isn't he an idol? [label info]
Aganezz Uebkosyan -- "A Honey Kiss" -- CD-RW -- €5
2008 HlobKorobRecords, (ltd. 10)
Style: shitelectronegs, aligophrenpop. This seems to be the most poppy disk released by the label. Recommended to all the lovers of Toby Diamond and Flutchwacht. Pover electronegs mixed with old school industrial noise. Recommend! [label info]
Aganezz Uebkosyan -- "Shaurma, Shurpa, Shaverma" -- CD-RW -- €5
2008 HlobKorobRecords, (ltd. 10)
Style: high-calorific pover electronegs. Utterly russophobic recording, which reflects the political views of the author - Russians don't have a place in this world. Russian nation should be destroyed - for the sake of the progressive humanity! And what progressive humanity don't like eastern fast food? [label info]
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 -- "Three Organic Experiences" -- CD -- €13
2003 Hic Sunt Leones, HSL 022
AGLAIA is a musical project performed by Gino Fioravanti and Gianluigi Toso. Gino Fioravanti is at the same time: therapist, writer, painter and musician and his touch with electronic music perfectly blends human and cosmic/amniotic. His writings and his studies go thorugh different fields like Alchemy, mithology, ortho-bionomy. Gianluigi Toso is a musician and a back-school teacher. He performes different musical styles, and, together with Gino Fioravanti, he has realized many cd mainly for mind and spirit. "The concept of AGLAIA is to create long musical instants, apparently motionless, but with inside the movement of undreds of nuances, micro-variations, pulsations. A fluid, sonoruous tapestry with a never ending motion. The music was thought like a magma of raw materials to refine throught an infinite number of sonorous passages. The listening of T.O.E. behave towards the micro-particle that compose our subtle individual plot, in a world where nothing is firm and nothing is really moving." [press-release]
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 -- €11
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 -- €11
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 -- €11
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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Ain Soph -- "Aurora" -- CD -- €14
2003 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 053
Re-edition of the long time sold out Ain Soph "masterpiece", released in 1992 on Cthulhu Records, with one additional rare compilation track "Colpo di Grazia" recorded in the same period. This album is to be considered a pioneers opera of neo-folk cabaret and was influencing many artists after his production back in 1992! A very controversial and politicaly uncorrect album talking about Italy during & after the WW2! Digipack basically in the same form of the original but with some changes. [label info]
Ain Soph -- "I" -- CD -- €10
1984/2000 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 036 / Misty Circles, MCR21
Re-edition of the first 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! [label info]
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 -- "III" -- 2 CD -- €12
1985/2000 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 023 / Misty Circles, MCR16
This stuff was previously produced by the band only as tape in a very limited edition of just 100 copies & never reissued! This legendary tape is now finally released into 2 cd's: 1st cd features "ritual 00" which is an endless trancy loop used for a Bhakti Yoga rite which can be used also as background for ritual concentration... 2nd cd is enttitled "the failure of Jesus, visible oscurity, garbage, the city & the death"... for sure the more obscure & rare Ain Soph release! co-produced with Misty Circles... [label info]
Ain Soph -- "Kshatriya" -- CD -- €14
1988/2007 Hau Ruck! SPQR, HR! SPQR XIII
Reissue of a classic Ain Soph LP in a digipak. This edition come with the original cover artwork and a 8-pages booklet including lyrics and a large article about the album itself.
Ain Soph -- "Rituals" -- CD -- €12
Old Europa Cafe, OECD 042
All tracks are unreleased, they was recorded live during 1985 in front of a selected audience at Ain Soph's studio in an elegant '800 palace at Piazza Venezia in Rome as trial before their very first live gig at "Piper club" in Rome, this performance was named "Rituals" and is a unique and rare "live" document on this cult band! The sounds can be compared to tracks from their first two albums... An other must for all lovers of this great real esoteric Italian/planetary project! Special black leather digipack cover with gold prints. [press-release]
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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Airway -- "Live at LACE" -- CD -- €10
1978/2006 Harbinger Sound, HARBINGER 047
This live recording captures a 1978 performance by sonic art behemoths Airway, a troupe of noise musicians led by Joe Potts. This recording was previously made available in 1995 as part of a LAFMS (Los Angeles Free Music Society) 10 CD boxset by RRRecords in collaboration with Cortical Foundation, though the version presented there differs from this new Harbinger Sounds reissue, which draws its master from the original tape recording of the event. The music here is divided into two 'sides', each comprising twenty minutes of the most esoteric and downright harsh din-crafting you could hope to encounter. Taking radically disfigured musical instruments, feedback signals and an array of effects the group launch a sensory onslaught, all captured in the grittiest, seediest fashion for this raw, archaic recording. Potts had referred to the philosophy behind Airway as a kind of "sonic facism", with the group reportedly projecting a kind of hypnotic tyranny over audiences. Legend has it that attendees of Airway performances would often be forced out of the venue by the sheer unbearable volume of sound and any particularly keen audience members would have to listen from outside the performance space. The resultant sounds are very much akin to the kind of uncompromising audio filth you'd hear on a Yellow Swans live document or even a particularly lo-fi Hototogisu outing, albeit with a waft of live drumming buried deep within the sludge. A fascinating period piece for noise fans looking for the movement's early innovators. [press-release]
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]
Algol -- "Deep Thoughts About Universe" -- CD-R -- €6
2007 Misfake, MF#6
Russian project from the depth of Siberia. Press-release says: We are all physically living in a definite space and time, but we have an amazing gift, that must not be left out! Mentally, we can broaden the borders of reality by Imagination. I feel myself trapped in a cage between two lions; the first one is eternity of Macro - and the second is chaos of Micro - world. But if you close your eyes, cast aside all your useful thoughts, and join a mind flight with me, you will be able to explore new unknown horizons and see other worlds. Use & develop your imagination thoroughly for it's the most important sense that we possess as human beings. We can not fight against Time, but nevertheless, we can play with it using our Minds!
Alio Die -- "Flight of the Real Image" -- CD -- €13
2006 Faria Records, FAR-05, (ltd. 1000)
The Russian label Faria Records have re-released the MCD by ALIO DIE "The Flight of Real Image" (out of stock from a long time), in full lenght version: this is a limited edition in 1000 copies in a special cardboard package with 5 cards, inside the cover. The artwork was released by Hic Sunt Leones in collaboration with the painter Sara Luciani. The tracking list bring together the tracks originally included in the mcd, with two unrealised track with Saffron Wood, a new track with Bruno Sanfilippo, a beautiful acoustic track with Luciano Daini, and other inedits. [artist info]
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Alio Die -- "Khen Introduce Silence" -- CD -- €13
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 -- €13
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 -- "Suspended Feathers" -- CD -- €11
1996/2005 Silentes / Hic Sunt Leones, cd 200505 / HSL 031
One of the best known works of Alio Die, originally released in 1996 on Amplexus and long sold out. 5 long tracks made in collaboration with Gregorio Bardini and Vidna Obmana.
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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 -- €13
2006 Hic Sunt Leones, HSL037
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 & 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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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... -- "As You're Vanishing In Silence" -- CD -- €14
2005 Cold Meat Industry, cmi136
All My Faith Lost... -- "The Hours" -- CD -- €14
2007 Cold Meat Industry, cmi174
Allah Ak Bars -- "Natalya Katkova - Best Ruskai Girl!" -- CD-RW -- €7
2009 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
Russophobic harsh-pauar from Abdulla and Dzhigitkhan! Death to all Russkai, except for Natalya Katkova. Becus sheepman sings for her and horseman accompony! [label info]
Allerseelen -- "Abenteuerliches Herz" -- CD -- €14
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 -- €13
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 -- €14
2003 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 -- "Stirb und Werde" -- CD -- €14
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 -- €14
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 -- €11
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]
Allseits -- "Hel" -- CD -- €13
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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Altera Forma -- "Asta la Vista" -- CD -- €8
2007 Q-Code Records, 460712236005
"Asta la Vista" is the 2nd full-length album of this Russian band. In 4 years of existence Altera Forma has passed the stylistic way from trip-hop music to electro-pop - genre that most precisely characterises this album. The basis of band's concept is search and experiment, and the area of pop music doesn't conflict with these two definitions. "Asta la Vista" will probably surprise the listeners who knew the band's sound of 2003-2004 with the absence of dark apocalyptic imagery, and the light, emitting by the voice of the guest female vocalist Emily A. Saaen, and more light - but only at first glance - presentation of the material... The new album of Altera Forma is recommended for those who are interested in "intelligent" electronic music and modern state of affairs on Russian dark scene. [label info]
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]
Ambelion -- "Winter Breed" -- CD-R -- €9
2002 Quasi Pop Records, QPOP CD016, (ltd. 50)
First of the two "winter albums" 2002 of Ambelion, which are establishing hard and new style of the project, quite avant-garde and experimental even for such progressive style as IDM. Music, created by one person on a very simple equipped computer, recorded in real time directly into the hard disc. Once created the compositions and loops combinations without bar programming are impossible to replay next time. These are solid feelings, total improvisations, and the charm of accidental coincidence. [press-release]
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 -- €13
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 / 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]
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
Tesco Organisation, Tesco 026
Released 1996 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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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 -- "Listen, the Other Side" -- CD-R/Lathe -- €9
2010 Produck
A digital / analogue release: first 21 mm from the center of a usual CD-R are recorded traditionally, and the outer 15 mm are lathe-cut for record players. Actually this material was given to label as YAO 91404 D, but Produck has named it Anti-Verstand for some unknown reason. So, the digital side is "Listen, the Other Side": fragments from self-titled Soviet-Mongol movie from 1971 about military noisicians (!), analogue rough noise and lo-fi industrial, free singing in Mongolian and Japanese languages. "Vinyl" part presents a track from the forthcoming YAO 91404 D (whatever labels say! :)) album, conceived in far 2002 and recorded in almost primordial concrete industrial way in 2008. Sleeve. [from the author]
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 -- "Reverse" -- CD -- €14
2005 Sonderübertragung!, SUE12, (ltd. 500)
Antlers Mulm -- "Silbergrauer Staub" -- CD -- €14
2003 Sonderübertragung!, SÜ07, (ltd. 541)
Anus Mush -- "Copromo" -- CD-R -- €5
Severe Mutilation Productions, SMP 002
8-bit Grind Electro.
Apatheia -- "Lifethesis" -- CD -- €14
2003/2009 Cold Meat Industry, cmi204
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 -- €13
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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Aquarium Guriy / Strup -- split -- CD-R -- €5
self-released
Chopped harsh split! Aquarium Guriy - analogue old school harsh noise from St. Petersburg's Grisha Avronin (Gra, Alisa-Yhtye, etc.), without any moans! Strup - cutting edge harsh noise from Belarus without any mumbles and snot! The release is tightly packed in a sleeve that is frightful to unpack! [Mu-hu-hu]
ARC -- "13th" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2002 Taalem, alm 10
ARC is a Canadian trio comprised of Aidan Baker, Richard Baker (no, they're not brothers) and Christopher Kukiel. It was formed spontaneously in 1999. ARC's music is based on drones and melodic loops created by Aidan's heavily-treated guitar. Add Richard and Chrisopher's tribalish rhtyhms made with various percussive instruments and you get the picture. When we, at Taâlem, first heard ARC, we couldn't help thinking of Life Garden and Voice of Eye, those great US tribal ambient bands from the 90's. But ARC is no copycat! [press-release]
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ARC -- "Arkhangelsk" -- CD -- €10
2008 Epidemie Records, EPR 064, (ltd. 600)
ARC is a Canadian trio (Aidan Baker - guitars, flutes, tapeloops, Richard Baker - drumkit, percussion, & Christopher Kukiel - percussion) playing tribal guitar drone ambient with psychedelic and post - rock elements and very hypnotic sound. Their brand new album Arkhangelsk brings 4 compositions in 67 minutes and comes in nice 6 panels digisleeve and is limited on 600 copies. Arkhangelsk was recorded in Toronto, Canada in December 2007 in two separate sessions. The first consisted of improvisational performances on drumset and guitar and the second consisted of layering percussion, electronics, and woodwind tracks on those original drum/guitar tracks. Both sessions were done in real-time in single takes with a minimum of post-production editing or manipulation in an effort to capture the spontaneity of the performances. As such, Arkhangelsk maintains the typical ARC sound while simultaneously exploring more adventurous poly-rhythms and textures, combining influence/inspiration from such artists as Flyer Saucer Attack, The Boredoms, Tribes of Neurot, and Rapoon. [press-release]
ARC -- "Glassine 1" -- CD -- €11
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 -- "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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Archon Satani -- "In Shelter" -- CD -- €10
1996/2005 Dark Vinyl, DVLR 6
As member of the Cold Meat Industry family, Archon Satani is a familiar name to those following dark electronics. Five dark ambient structured tracks, with sometimes bleak and evil monotonous sounds. If you are fascinated by ritual sacrifice, ethereal atmospheres and excursions through darker ambience, this trip should be yours. IN SHELTER works through the power of hypnotism and this release is very minimalistic in function. Re-pressing done in 2005. [label info]
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 -- €13
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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Arford, Scott / R.H.Y. Yau / Michael Nine -- "7HZ" -- CD -- €10
2002 Ground Fault Recordings / Auscultare Research, aus 017
7hz, founded in 1995 by Scott Arford, has continued to function as San Francisco's premiere venue for noise and experimental media. A space where new combinations of image, sound, and experience can be realized. Since its inception it has had the privilege of hosting performances for many of the world's most interesting, progressive, and challenging sound and media artists. This CD represents some of the best recordings by each of the 3 people that live at 7hz and make it the wonderful place that it is. Randy has appeared on Ground Fault (GF009 - RHY Yau "The Hidden Tongue"). Scott is also no stranger to Ground Fault (GF003 - Radiosonde "Meter Sickness"). Michael Nine is better known for his work under the name Death Squad. [press-release]
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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Arktau Eos -- "Ai Ma Ra" -- 2 CD -- €15
2009 Aural Hypnox, [AH11], (ltd. 1000)
Ai Ma Ra is a monumental album containing over 105 minutes of experimental elemental and ambient music, original in the literal sense of the word. More than music, it is 'ethnography of the unknown' in action, providing vistas into rarely glimpsed corners of reality. Created primarily on acoustic instruments, organs and harmonium, carefully mastered on vintage tape, the sound is equally earthy as it is otherworldly - a contradiction in terms maybe, but then Ai Ma Ra is not classified easily in any other respect either. It is a record in which to immerse one's self over time, containing more than two years' worth of strange experiences and sensations distilled into a curious, potent elixir, the use of which may in its truest sense be determined only by the individual listener... Ai Ma Ra, pressed in 1.000 copies, comes in a sturdy, deep green cardboard box stamped with the mark of Arktau Eos. Contained within is an 8-page booklet bound in tËte-bËche format on high quality paper, a small talismanic print, and two CDs. [press-release]
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Arktau Eos -- "Mirrorion" -- CD -- €10
2006 Aural Hypnox, [AH06], (ltd. 1000)
Presented in seventeen chapters that can be approached as singular gateways or a slowly unfolding journey of epic proportions, the debut album of ARKTAU EOS is a challenging, complex work. Born of intense private musico-magical sessions held in places abandoned by man and further refined in the temple-laboratory of the duo, it is the distillation of seven arduous months of work. As the title suggests, 'Mirrorion' is the music of stellar light thrown down from the Heaven's zenith and its eldritch reflections in the depths below, uniting atavistic elemental noise with serene passages of crystalline, spectral ambience. Ultimately, 'Mirrorion' seeks to surpass such earthly definitions in favour of a non-dual vision of reality, hopefully transforming the listener in the process. For this recording ARKTAU EOS have favoured an organic approach with majority of instrumentation being of acoustic variety, including the unearthly choral of the kanglings, piercings blasts of windbones, accelerating steel-plate rolls, singing bowl and various kinds of stringed instruments. [press-release]
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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]
As All Die / FDH -- "North American Underground Alliance" -- CD-R -- €7
2005 Absolute Zero Media, AZM-001
Neo-folk and Martial Industrial from North America. [YAOP]
Asche -- "Non Apocalypse" -- CD -- €11
1994 Functional Organisation, Functional 007
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]
Astromero -- "s/t" -- 2 CD -- €13
2005 P-Tapes, P28 / Troniks, TRO-168, (ltd. 800)
A double cd Hiroshi Hasegawa / Damion Romero collaboration recorded between 1995-2005. Hasegawa began ASTRO in 1993 to explore his analog synthesizer work and was also a founding member of the legendary psychedelic noise act C.C.C.C. Damion Romero has been exploring the possibilities of power acoustics since the early '90s, also recording as SPECULUM FIGHT and head of the P-Tapes label. Disc one recorded by mail & in person, on the second C.C.C.C. tour of the USA and on Romero's journey in Japan. Disc two was made from two different live show recordings in Tokyo 2002. [press-release]
Ataraxia -- "Concerto No. 6: A Baroque Plaisanterie" -- CD -- €14
1996/2009 Twilight Records, TW 1.63
Ataraxia -- "La Malediction d'Ondine" -- CD -- €13
2007 Twilight Records, TW 1.36
One of the most important and famous act into the medieval music is now part of Twilight Records. Ataraxia has a long career into the scene and lot of albums wich let the band in the higger status of the genere. Now Twilight Records is releasing the old and exellent album LMD, wich take inspiration on the Greek mithology, one of the more beautifull works of the band. This time with a new cover design and in a nice digipack. The following are few words regarding this album concept: "...envelopped by the waves, dragged by the streams of the rivers, sucked by the gloomy overflowingats of the laOnkes the echo of the up and down of many female souls repeats itself an infinite number of times, we've heard that dirge, we've transformed it into some songs and we are repeating the same tune like the echo of an echo to you, oh listener... Ondine were nymphs of the streams, of the marshes, of the lacustrine surfaces, they were both women and Goddesses, a medley far from perfection, Ondine could kill dragging us in the whirlpool of their pain and death, always consumed by water, Ondine could love passionately, just like women, with all the sublime burden of their primordial instinct. La malediction d' Ondine it's also a curse, the neurologists describe it as an apnoea that happens while sleeping, if someone doesn't wake-up in time it will probably wake-up somewhere else, anchored to the seaweeds braids of a deep sea or stranded on a branckish smell beach....." [press-release]
Atavist / Nadja -- "II: Points At Infinity" -- CD -- €10
2008 Profound Lore Records, PFL 037
Again spanning two epic elongated tracks (around 22 minutes each), 'Points At Infinity' goes much further substance and depth wise than the first experimentation these two acts converged in. Definitely taking this experiment between both acts to the next level, albeit creating something wholly new and different when compared to the debut, rather than just continue on from the first release, 'Points At Infinity' takes the doom/drone/ambient experiment into new territory as both acts continue to push new sonic ground... 'Points At Infinity' also marks the first Atavist recording featuring the new Atavist line-up which consists of new vocalist Matt Bartley and ex-NARCOSIS bass player Oliver Turner. Of course Nadja is and always will be Aidan Baker and Leah Buckareff. [press-release]
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 -- "The Deep Invisible" -- CD -- €11
2008 Vendlus Records, Vend032
Peter Andersson is a must-know name in the world of dark ambient and industrial music. He's the man behind Raison d'etre, Stratvm Terror, Bocksholm among many, previously released by Cold Meat Industry, Essence Music and Old Europa Cafe. Atomine Elektrine is described as a truly out-of-body, deeply layered and dynamic cosmic experience in the form of a masterful ambiance, filled with outbursts of energy and synthetic movements. 'The Deep Invisible' is his 5th album as Atomine Elektrine, it is a journey of dark matter to outer and inner space, to the empty regions of the universe outside the ambience of celestial bodies and to the inner most subconscious manifestations of the mind. [press-release]
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 -- "Ptahil" -- CD -- €13
2007 Cold Meat Industry, cmi168
The fourth album from composer Simon Heath (Sweden) ventures beyond the vestiges of your mortality, granting a fleeting glance at the world beyond the veil. As ever, Simon has reinvented the genre as well as himself with a unique ambience created from his ever-increasingly complex and obscure techniques of mental dissolution and musical innovation. Atrium Carceri emerges from the vapours with yet another stunning release entitled Ptahil (fetahil). The obsidian citadel stands stoic, its forceful gaze forever over streets running rampant with the councils bidders, while the citadel of glass attracts the mindless reincarnates grasping at anything physical while their memories slowly burn away in the womb of their eternal home. The comforts of quiet lives forever washed away by a miasmic tidal wave of necrotic flesh, sagging, protean forms and the chill of the grave. This is a place where steel rusts and is forgotten, where flesh and the fleeting forms it inhabits are forever changed. Ptahil sees all, and forgets naught. Let your mind be stripped to the pulpy, undulating core with this darkened voyage into domains both dreadful and serenely beautiful. [press-release]
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Atrium Carceri -- "Seishinbyouin" -- CD -- €13
2004 Cold Meat Industry, cmi133
Seishinbyouin is the second album from Atrium Carceri, and drags the listener on a violent journey through haunted mental asylums, ripe with the cries of the lost and the damned. Rotting jailcells, past insanity and the crumbling domes of the other side are a few of the many eerily twisted images that this evocative music compels. There is a constant dark majesty that forcefully propels the message of inevitability: The colorful illusion people spend most of their lives in is fragile as a rose petal, and just as easily shattered in Seishinbyouin. With brilliant use of the full spectrum of dystopia, this will surely leave no one unscathed. The album is filled with dark ambient soundscapes, haunting symphonic intensities and engulfing atmospheres that let you get inside the twisted psyche of the total other. One can but wonder at the twisted mind of the tortured soul that made this vision spring to ghastly unlife. [press-release]
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Atrium Carceri -- "Souyuan" -- CD -- €13
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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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 -- €10
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 -- "Chain [RE] Action" -- CD -- €11
2005 Blossoming Noise, BN001CD, (ltd. 1000)
Chain [RE] Action was recorded using metal chains as it's only source of sound. This is a brilliant and elegent merging of Akifumi's organic ambient and noise styles. A feat of dexterity. [label info]
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 -- "Live in Besancon 1997" -- CD-R -- €8
2002 G.R.O.S.S., GRL-015, (ltd. 150)
Recorded live at Centre De Linguistique Appliquee De Besancon, France, 10 June 1997 by metal. Remastered at Studio MECCA Kyoto Japan 2002.
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: Iulius" -- CD -- €10
2001 Armonika, KA200007, (ltd. 500)
September part of the "Millennium" series. Sound source material: Earth.
Aube -- "Millennium: Ausgustus" -- CD -- €10
2001 Armonika, KA200008, (ltd. 500)
September part of the "Millennium" series. Sound source material: Earth.
Aube -- "Millennium: September" -- CD -- €10
2001 Armonika, KA200009, (ltd. 500)
September part of the "Millennium" series. Sound source material: Earth.
Aube -- "Millennium: October" -- CD -- €10
2001 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.
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 -- "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 -- "Substructural Penetration 1991-1995" -- 2 CD -- €15
1998 Iris Light Records, i-light 008CD, (ltd. 1000)
Aube's compilation appearances compiled.
Augsburger Tafelconfect -- "Fusion In The Slaughterhaus" -- CD -- €9
2004 Nneon, Nneon 002-2
Augsburger Tafelconfect is an audiovisual hamburgian trio consisting of Jyrgen Hall, who also recorded quite a lot of stuff for Cologne's finest label Staubgold under the name of Gunter Adler, as well as with his group Gronland Orchester, on laptop and electronics. Musically he teams up with Sebastian Reier on volcano-guitar. Their name pays tribute to the frivolous medieval music of Valenthin Rathgeber but their music is far away from that. Mixing electronically processed analogue guitar, computer, electronics as well as concrete sounds and beatz, they create a kind of half-improvised music that kicks ass instead of boring people with too much academic referentiality - their live sets add another component: the strong and colorful atmospheric visuals by BaronesseA who is also the designer of Nneon. This is their debut recording. [Fulldozer]
Aural Holograms -- "Vol. 1" -- CD -- €10
2007 Aural Hypnox, [AH08], (ltd. 1000)
The very first part of the Aural Holograms series incorporates various call and response patterns manifesting vibrating, subtle energies, all of which have been accurately divided into separate rhythmic dimensions and time-shifting aural tapestries. The overall experience - i.e. the ecstatic effect - is transmitted by the intensity of syncopated rhythms, reed organ lingering on a few tones, self-transforming vocal work accompanied with carefully chosen oscillating tunes and a variety of percussive patterns utilising artefacts crafted according to the methods of traditional metallurgia, as well as real-time tape operations. Comes in six-panel hand finished cardboard booklet, in an edition of 1.000 copies. [label info]
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Austere -- "Solyaris" -- CD -- €11
2008 Hypnos, hyp2753
This is a creative peak for this much-overlooked ambient duo, their first release on Hypnos, following their Hypnos Secret Sounds album Pulse in 2007. In their 10 years of productivity, Austere has covered territory from Pulse's drone minimalism, ranging back through odd and trippy Coil-inspired sonic experimentation, to seamless dark ambient, and occasionally glitchy weirdness. Despite some challenging material in their back catalog, Austere have in this case produced an album as friendly and pleasant as any Austere fan could have imagined possible, and yet without resorting to the usual tricks that make music sound "listenable." [label info]
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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]
Azoikum -- "Endzeit" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Produck, Produck 13
72 minutes of superb Harsh Noise from the German project witha 13-year history. To listen and to enjoy. [Abgurd]
Azoikum / Government Alpha -- "Das Methadonprogramm" -- CD -- €10
2005 Multi National Disaster Records, MNDR 2015, (ltd. 444)
Harsh noise.
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]
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 -- "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 -- "Kosmodrom + Extra Tracks" -- 2 CD -- €30
2006 Waystyx, WR16, (ltd. 185)
Double CD set, first CD contains "Kosmodrom" album, 2nd - 4 bonus-tracks developing the main theme.
Bad Sector -- "Plasma" -- CD -- €12
1998 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 011, 2nd edition
If "Ampos" is the "plastic" masterpiece by Bad Sector this is the "surgerical" masterpice by the Italian industrial master! great conceptual work! sound sources: Magnetosphere, Vostok + Salyut + Soyuz original recordings, Pulsar, High Voltage, Neon... all this sounds are building a unique powerful & pulsing sound sculpture, a great mind experience! Thešcover presents a series of interesting "electricity / energy "šphotos! Second print with a new full color re-worked cover! [press-release]
Bad Sector -- "Storage Disk 1" -- CD -- €13
2007 Waystyx Records, WR30, (ltd. 500)
First part of 2CD project revealing interest of Massimo Magrini in history of Soviet computer technics and presenting ten years of Bad Sector creative activity. It includes as remastered released compilation and bonus tracks as never before released material. Contains compositions from "Survival Tool" 3"CDR (Cohort Records), "Polonoid" concert edition CDR (Bastet Records) and "BadBox" edition boxset (Tantric Harmonies), "Toroidal Body" 7"+ mCDR (Pre Feed/Eibon Records), "Dolmen" 7" (Drone Records), "Manifesto Industriale Italiano" (Old Europa Cafe) tape box set. [label info]
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Bad Sector -- "Storage Disk 2" -- CD -- €13
2008 Waystyx, WR43, (ltd. 500)
2nd part of rare tracks anthology. Contains material from: "Planar Energy" picture 7" (Smallvoices), "Scrignum Vitae" box with CD and objects (Old Europa Cafe), "Ten Years Of Madness" 2 CD (Achtung Baby!), "Land:[Schaft]" 2x10" (Cold Lands), "Hover" CDr (Bastet Rec.), "L'Ame Electrique Presents Old Europa Cafe" (Ame Electrique) + 4 previously unreleased tracks recorded in 2002.
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Bad Sector / Contagious Orgasm -- "Vacuum Pulse" -- CD -- €12
2000 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 032
"...From a mere description, this could end up sounding like every other drone and ambient noise release you own, but the fact is that nothing can account for the sheer depth and richness of the sounds on offer here. Everything has an almost organic quality to it, the drones sounding so liquid and deep that they take on a life of their own, both separate and a part of their generative technology - an otherworldly symbiosis of life and machine that stems directly from science fiction. It is hard to distinguish the two different artists' efforts from one another, as their approaches to sound and composition are so alike, especially when focussed towards this common theme. It is, then, almost the perfect collaboration, each artists' talents serving to enhance the other's and producing a work that is not far removed from their usual output, but that has that elusive X-factor of genius and serendipity that quickly ranks this as a classic of modern music. Nearly indescribable, highly recommended." [Gavin Lees, Immanence Records]
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 -- €10
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 -- "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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Baker, Aidan & Ultra Milkmaids -- "At Home With..." -- CD -- €10
2005 Infraction, INFX 010, (ltd. 538)
Band Of Pain -- "¿Qué Amiga?" -- CD -- €12
2001 Cold Spring Records, CSR43CD, (ltd. 1000)
This is the fifth album proper from England's finest cinematic composer. Cinematic dark soundtracks of the highest calibre - intense passages and bleak anthems in a constant flux, dark emotions and neo-classical edged intensity. Possibly the finest work from Band Of Pain to date. Digipak. [label info]
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Band, Ellen & Myers, David Lee -- "Two Ships" -- CD -- €11
2005 Pogus, 21035-2 CD
Ellen Band is composer and violinist, involved into musical experimentation since 70s. Her main interest is located around environmental sounds and noises in contemporary compositional practice, which means creating sound-sculptures and scoring various performances. The endless expanse of textures, tonal and rhythmic interplays that can be found in our natural surroundings, are intended for recontextualization in so called aural hallucinations. Each range of sound sources takes its place in phenomenology of perception during psychoacoustic training. David Lee Myers was formerly better known under Arcane Device moniker, re-emerged in 2000 with his new sonic exploration using the same attitude of feedback technology application. He usually operates the unbelievably simple sounds, giving them unique perspectives through massive battery of delays and filters, drifting around resonance loops and other critical physical exceptions. Recently, he published a bunch of albums. Each one was based on certain idea of basic sound sourcing. "Two Ships" is the first collaboration between these aamerican musicians. This time, Myers got his initial data from another musician, working with sounds created from samples and field recordings made by Ellen Band herself (she use to travel very much and got a big collection). The music is very contemplative and breathtaking, but also definitely has certain meditative quality, it should be used for introversion reinforcement. For Myers, this album could be the most lively ones: besides "real sounds" over electronics predominance, the composition itself always tends to appear more organic. The non-linear dynamics and the spirit of sound poetry are very distinctive for experimental music, it goes back to the 60s. So, I think this is one of the most important collaborations Myers ever did, it should be of great interest for all of you who are into experimental electronics. [Dmitry Vasilyev, Independent Electronic Music]
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]
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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Bardini, Gregorio -- "Sentinelle del Mattino" -- CD -- €9
2007 The Eastern Front, Front 008, (ltd. 1000)
Hypnotic musical journey composed by the legend of Italian scene Gregorio Bardini. An artist who is on scene since early 80s, stood behind TAC and Kino Glaz, collaborated with Thelema and Tuxedo Moon, Tony Wakeford and Vidna Obmana, Alio Die and Steve Pikkolo, Thierry Lolif and Doubling Riders. "Sentinelle Del Mattino" dips you into the world of harmony, expressiveness and anguish melodies. Wide specter of musical instruments (piano, flutes, guitars, drums, zurna, kena, ciaramella, saxophone), unforgettable vocals, unique records of Mary de Rachewilts voice, reading her father Ezra Pound' Cantos and musical innovations of Stefan Rukavina (Bleiburg), Tiziano Popoli, Mauro Franceschi, Paolo Longo Vaschetto, Peter 'Kompripiotr' Holzknecht, Martin 'Mala' Langes, Stephan 'Physh' Fischnaller, touches a heart up to its deepest depths. [press-release]
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Bardini, Gregorio & Gerstein -- "Arise Of A Bleeding Rose" -- CD -- €11
2009 The Eastern Front, Front 025, (ltd. 1000)
Collaborative work of two legends of Italian industrial scene Gregorio Bardini and Gerstein featuring S. Rukavina (Bleiburg) and Paolo Longo Vaschetto. Gerstein (a.k.a. Maurizio Pustianaz) and Gregorio Bardini knew each other in the mid '80s. At that time Gerstein was moving his first steps composing his piano experimental suites, while Gregorio was active as keyboard and flute player with Thelema first and with Kino Glaz then. They missed their contact and during the last twenty years Maurizio experimented with musical styles and atmospheres (see his 1993 'Sucker' album for his intimate piano/guitar ballads as well as the CD released by Discordia in 1996 for his first steps into anxious electronic/guitar soundtracks composition, to name few) and Gregorio studied flute with Severino Gazzelloni, became a trained blow instruments concert artist and collaborated with Tuxedo Moon, T.A.C. and many others. Gregorio studied also Euro Asiatic and Indo European cultures/sounds and explored these themes producing different albums on the Arx Collana label. Their paths crossed again when Maurizio received the Gregorio Bardini first release for The Eastern Front label (titled 'Sentinelle del Mattino') for a review on Chain D.L.K. (magazine that he founded with Marc Urselli in the mid '90s). Maurizio asked to Gregorio if he was interested into a collaboration and after his positive answer, he prepared ten electronic tracks that were aiming to create a timeless suspended in time effect where fears and hopes were battling like a clash of titans. Electronic sounds, piano, kettledrums and drum machine patterns have been used having in mind the Keith Emerson soundtrack to the 'Inferno' movie as reference for the atmospheres he wanted to create. Gregorio added flutes, ocarina and performed spoken word and singing, Maurizio gave his voice only to the main track 'Arise Of A Bleeding Rose', a song/anthem for the whole album which is focused on the regain of the original self... 'Arise Of A Bleeding Rose' sounds like no other album of the genre and sees as guests Bleiburg and Paolo Longo Vaschetto whom also took care of the final mix. [press-release]
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Bardini, Gregorio & Thierry Jolif -- "Kantalon" -- CD -- €11
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 + Neznamo -- "Matra" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Moonsun Productions, MS003, (ltd. 111)
It's a collaborative creation of teo Russian musicians from Moscow: Sergei Gabbasov (BARDO) and Dmitry Shilov (NEZNAMO). The album which is dedicated to the Mother Goddess, consists of 7 sound meditations, each one devoted to one of the Goddess' manifestations. The rite for unity with Divine Mother, performed in ritual / dark / organic ambient. Limited to 111 copies, painted CD-r, handmade layout: cardboard, mosaic gold. [label info]
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Bardoseneticcube -- "Bad Heaven" -- CD-R -- €8
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 -- "Geosphere" -- CD-R -- €8
2001 Ultra, UCD 08, (ltd. 120)
Electronic and concrete sounds combined with inner motion and metamorphoses.
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 -- "Monolith" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 ML, ML 0308, (ltd. 93)
The album consists of one track lasting for a little more than an hour. Smooth and slowly moving nocturnal industrial tapestry: soft background noises, fragments of voices and echoes of all kinds... One of the most atmospheric recording of Bardoseneticcube.
Bardoseneticcube -- "Naegleria Fowlery" -- CD -- €11
2007 Blade Records, wmda071, (ltd. 300)
This strange and extremely varied disc opens with a track which whirls in and out of The Caretaker's 'Haunted Ballroom'-style samples with piercing electronics. Moving onwards we encounter dense rhythmic industrial pieces and experimental electronics - all the while chasing the thread of eccentric samples and searing white noise. Limited to just 300 hand-numbered copies in an outsized foldout package. A great, if unusual, piece from the Russian outfit. [Cold Spring Records description]
Bardoseneticcube -- "Noosphere" -- CD -- €10
2008 Monochrome Vision, mv24
New album by russian project Bardoseneticcube dealing with theory of russian scientist Vladimir Vernadsky about collective consciousness, emerging from the interaction of human minds. The continuos computer-generated music, minimally changing but reaching maximum concentration, comes as the one long track, designed for your mind challenge. "The universe is full of endless and omnipresent information fields, different in their energy/meaning potentials. Some of them are accessible for people who are using it extensively, others are intended only for machines that seem to be their source and destination at the same time. This soundpiece is pure improvisation by Igor Potsukailo (BARDOSENETICCUBE) and a Toshiba Satellite A-110 laptop (BARDOSENETICCUBE). The laptop is the leading performer here, created by unknown system error and playing the music of solar wind, derived from the information field that is not accessible to anyone else. Igor Potsukailo uses a kind of feedback circuit, adding the elements of human presence into this music and modifying the energy/information balance in that powerful field near our planet Earth called Noosphere... The laptop was stolen shortly after the recording session, so this particular album represents its only appearance in the project BARDOSENETICCUBE." [press-release]
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Bardoseneticcube -- "Saturn Wind" -- CD-R -- €9
2006 Deserted Factory, DF032, (ltd. 180)
Dark Noise / Industrial from Russia. [label info]
Bardoseneticcube -- "Technosphere" -- CD-R -- €8
2001 Ultra, UCD 06, (ltd. 120)
Soft obducing enviroment of a dying city.
Bardoseneticcube -- "Toyz-z-z" -- CD-R -- €8
2006 Black Arts Productions, Black Arts 11
New mini-album of St. Petersburg based project on an undergrounf Finnish label. Evident childish themes with mental corrosion: under a cover with fragments of dolls' remains you'll find 5 dynamic tracks assembled from disfigured childish voices, cartoon tunes, nice poppy rhythms and puzzling frequency and noise splashes. Alice in Wonderland has eaten too much Caterpillar's mushrooms.
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 -- "zig-ODA" -- 3"CD-R -- €8
2009 S und S Records, SS-2009-010-01, (ltd. 35)
Sonic meditations on understanding of what goes around, on all planes of existence of different forms of consciousness. Recorded in November-December 2008. [label info]
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 + 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 / 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]
Barracker -- "Calmness" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Necrophone, C, (ltd. 12)
Mid-frequency harsh noise turning into collage noise in vein of Veprisuicida, and then into shimmering industrial drone ambient. Handmade cardboard cover with stickers. [YAOP]
Barzel -- "A Shield of Defence and the Word of the Son of Blood" -- CD -- €10
2004 Topheth Prophet, TP003, (ltd. 500)
Anti-human power electronics, think of Genocide Organ mixed with an audiofilm about the history of Zionism. Lots of archive audio-documents. Politics. Hate. Racism. [YAOP description]
Bastard Noise / Christian Renou -- "Brainstorming" -- CD -- €10
2003 Desolation House, DH-0300, (ltd. 1000)
Two of the most prolific and inventive noise musicians from the past decade have merged and delivered 'Brainstorming'. Both abstract and impressionistic, each piece inspires a concrete vision by association. Bastard Noise (Wood / Wiese) create noise at its best with an orchestra of home spun instruments and loads of lo-fi electronics, field recordings and power electronics. Christian Renou (ex-Brume) has won himself a place of his own with his crossover between collage, electro-acoustics and noise. Mastered by Robert Rich. 6-panel digipak. [Cold Spring]
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]
Bates, Martyn & Troum -- "To a Child Dancing in the Wind" -- CD -- €12
2006 Transgredient Records, TR-03
Profound songs inspired by Yeats-poems: The acoustic transformation of the deepest yearning for this release, the German 'transcendental-drone'-duo Troum teams up with the legendary British singer/songwriter and Eyeless In Gaza-member Martyn Bates. More than 2 years in the making, Martyn Bates has sung & played (mouth organ & melodica) over basic material Troum provided - consisting of harmonic minimal loops & basic song structures derived from accordion, e-bass & guitar, percussion, who were then also responsible for the final subsequent additional mastering (adding more guitar-work, voices & balalaika). Martyn Bates has chosen to sing four poems of the famous Irish poet W.B.Yeats, and he did this with a most impressive sensitivity for Troum's very sublime & rather hidden harmonic structures. There are also two instrumentals in a more experimental style on this disc, one being a dark drone reprise of the main piece 'Mad As the Mist and Snow #2.' Martyn's voice is surely not something for everyone - it's of an extreme emotional & yearnful quality that might be not easy to stand - a yearning which is like a deep 'cry out to the horizon,' to something that is unreachable per se, feeling a passion that tears you apart inside. This is pure emotional poetry transformed into yearnful audible spherics! [label info]
Beachhead -- "Drowning Tonight" -- CD -- €14
2004 Sonderübertragung!, SÜ09
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]
Behrens, Marc -- "Animistic [for Donatella]" -- CD -- €11
2004 Aufabwegen, aatp14, (ltd. 500)
This CD contains two pieces, 'Animistic (for Donatella)' concentrating on mixing location recordings with 'played' objects to obtain a complex soundscape in three parts that is inspired by the idea of an animist understanding of nature. 'Decaying Study 3' on the other hand offers a dense and dynamic drone-like composition built from the generative transformations of two sound files. The cover features 7 full colour cards in a DVD box that show photographs by the artist, complete with liner notes and texts explaining the nature of the location recordings. Marc Behrens is an artist and designer working in several fields. He has conceived musical compositions, installations, performances, objects, videos, and design. Born in Darmstadt, Germany, M. Behrens is a citizen of Konungarikena Elgaland-Vargaland (KREV). His discography spans releases on such labels as Sirr, Trente Oiseaux, Hypnotism, Intransitive, Wachsender Prozess to name but a few. He has collaborated with Francisco Lopez, Paolo Raposo, John Duncan and others. [label info]
Bek Gul -- "A Man Who Fucks" -- CD-RW -- €5
2008 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
New album from a hot hacho Gul. Wall of chabandance! For the lovers of Azerbaijan discoteka. [label info]
Bek Gul -- "Pastoral During Apocalypse" -- CD-RW -- €5
2008 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
In a veiled form Bek praises his native Azerbaijan the accompaniment of nordic modern-martial noise. Here's no place for traditional chabandance - the work is cold and serious. This is the reason why one of the best tracks in album is called "Warriors of Islam - Bek Gul is with you!". [label info]
Bek Gul -- "Russian Genocide" -- CD-RW -- €5
2008 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
A journey into noise nirvana. Wall of noise track lasting for 50 mins. For the connoisseurs. [label info]
Bek Gul / Aganezz Uebkosyan -- "SPLITh(7)" -- CD-RW -- €3.50
2008 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
Two tracks - two opposites. Bek is traditional wall of chabandance. Aganezz - monotonous power larded with radionoise. Elerimde Chekiler! [label info]
Bek Gul / Dzhigitkhan -- "Allah Hymn" -- CD-RW -- €7
2009 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
Hacho Gul - a wall of noise and wretched sheepman paver-electronics. Dzhigitkhan (Egor Medvedev) - experiments with harsh noise. Stupidity and intellect multiplied by russophobia. Dedicated to Natalya Katkova. [label info]
Bek Gul / Ezh Eralash -- "Pozitiv" -- CD-RW -- €7
2009 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
A common session of two drunk and stoned boneheads - hot hacho Gul and Ezh Eralash (Musicproduct, Grave Nigguz) - fierce harsh with a harmonica and bombed IDM. Dedicated to Natalya Katkova. [label info]
Bek Gul / Mudenoise -- "Tenge Chabana (Chabanyi Money) / Radio Gaaga" -- 2 CD-RW -- €9
2008 HlobKorobRecords, (ltd. 10)
Style: popnoise mixed with radionoise, chabandance. Totally ungifted release from two silliest projects. Pops larded with background noise meets extremely fuzzed eastern rhythmics of Bek Gul. Jegetey Elim! Disks are packed in packets for dog shit with an inscription: "culture begins with the little". [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 -- €14
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 -- "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 & 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 (M.B.) -- "A M.B. Iehn Tale" -- CD -- €10
2004 Small Voices, SVR04012, (ltd. 500)
The brand new release of Maurizio Bianchi (M.B.). Similar to his early experimental bionic - industrial masterpiece like "The Plain Truth", "Armaghedon", "Endometriö and "Carcinosi", this album presents eight decomposed tracks with slow, obscure and meditative music... Cold atmospheres and reverberating piano... Really one of Maurizio Bianchi best work to date!!! Dedicated to all the meditative people who is living in the environmental paradise. [press-release]
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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 (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 -- "Neuro Habitat" -- CD -- €10
2007 Abgurd, AB-40, (ltd. 500)
Re-release of a CD that was brought to light by EEs'T Records in 1998. It contains three early works by monstrous forefather of industrial music as a whole. Neuro Habitat, Moerder Unter Uns & Plutoniumetrio create an utterly numbing, horrifying & mangling ambience, suspense of which is beyond any heights and forever will be. [press-release]
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Bianchi, Maurizio (M.B.) -- "The Self-Portrait of M.B." -- CD -- €10
2008 Silentes Minimal Editions, sme 0715
An unusual self-portrait of Maurizio Bianchi in a minimal and introspective version, "a discreet" sonic self-portrait, elaborated with soft and nearly abstract electronic sketches, cyclical waves, tangles of intersected sounds, stratified, continuously changing, manipulated and molded through uses of effects, filters, reverbs, choruses, delay... Expanded paces, rarefied and "apparently quiet" atmospheres, but at the same time always full of a constant sense of gravity and heaviness, of vulnerability, always on the extreme border of the abyss that leads towards the unknown, the dark, the not to be defined and the mystery... This CD was released as part of a trilogy entitled "An Absurd Trilogy", the other titles being "Menstruum Regles" (sme 0716) and "Dead Colours" (sme 0717). [label info]
Bianchi, Maurizio (M.B.) -- "The Testamentary Corridor" -- CD -- €10
2006 Silentes Minimal Editions, sme 0608
Alternating between lighter atmosphere and darker isolationistic moments, Bianchi penetrates deep into the most subtle essence of sound, re-arranging it's elemental particles/grains and creating unbelievable sonic-washes. M.B. says: "Insubordinate discord in five tempos for monolithic keyboards and multicellular dissonances, perpetrated during the autumn of 2005. Dedicated to the lamented martyrs. To commemorate a testamentary event the human beings expend time and care, all theirs energies, but sometimes the results are disappointings... Due to the unconvenient heritage of our rhetorical history lost in the corridor of time." [label info]
Bianchi, Maurizio / 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 -- €10
2008 Afe Records, afe105lcd, (ltd. 300)
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 / 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 & TH26 -- "Arkaeo Planum" -- CD -- €10
2006 SmallVoices, SVR06018
After the "A M.B. Iehn Tale" release (CD - SmallVoices 2005) for the first time Maurizio Bianchi meets TH26, historical Italian project in dark electronics. After their first official release ("La Haine" CD - SmallVoices 2002) they are now back with this amazing cooperation. For this release TH26 leaves their usual rhythmical attitude, in perfect symbiosis with Maurizio Bianchi, the "father" of Italian industrial music. This work presents deep obscure minimal soundscapes, moving in the fields of dark ambient music. Arkaeo Planum is a long deep 5 tracks trip through 5 interlinked themes (Aereo, Arkaeo, Audio, Caro e TerraPlanum) togheter with a single special track titled MB Sorrow (dedicated to Maurizio Bianchi) as final sadly sequence of melting melody. Sound textures with piano incursions and samples, properly treated by M.B., involved in a magmatic and dark isolationist sonority, made by TH26. [label info]
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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Biosphere -- "Wireless - Live At The Arnolfini, Bristol" -- CD -- €16
2009 Touch, Tone 38
Birch Book -- "Fortune & Folly" -- CD -- €12
2006 Helmet Room Recordings, HR6
A side-project of In Gowan Ring. Drifting away from the overtly psychedelic, medieval, and soporific atmosphere which typified In Gowan Ring, B'ee displays a more organic, individualistic approach to songwriting. Fortune & Folly blends elements of idiosyncratic folk-pop and outcast-country with brooding layers of sound and sense, yielding a spectral ethereality in a captivating chiaroscuro thick with the visionary allusions of a haunted wanderer. [label info]
Bisclaveret -- "Psyche noMine" -- CD -- €11
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 -- €11
Zoharum, Zohar 001
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 -- "Purification" -- CD -- €11
2009/2010 Freak Animal Records, FREAK-CD-051
Already legendary 2009 album was originally issued 200 copies on Filth & Violence. This is 2nd edition, published by Freak Animal in 2010, packaged in standard b/w jewelbox style. Music and disc is exactly the same, cover is the same artwork modified to fit the 4 page booklet + double sided inlay type packaging. [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 -- "Shortest Way to the Moon" -- CD-R -- €8
2007 Harha-Askel, [HA-2], (ltd. 80)
Two live recordings from the British tour 2006 of this prolific Norwegian drone ambient duo. Deep drones and pounding percussion. Intense. Strange. Beautiful. Black disk, handmade cardboard cover. [YAOP]
Bjerga & Iversen / Skullpture -- "split" -- CD-R -- €7
2005 Musically Incorrect Records, MIR #25, (ltd. 100)
More Musically Incorrect Records, although the content is not always a strikingly incorrect thing, as many of their releases hoover nicely along the lines of experimental music. Such as the split by Bjerga/Iversen and Skullpture. The ongoing collaboration between Bjerga/Iversen is here ready with part three of The Lighthouse Tapes: "All things Bright And Beautiful". Iversen plays 'electonics' and effects and Bjerga 'ampilied' objects and effects. In this long piece they gently improvise their way through scratching, moving and rubbing objects, while feeding them to the maggots of electricity, in an atmospherical setting (two candles and a bunch of LEDs lit the entire room, I imagine, while outside the wind can be heard at Norway's Southernmost point). This collaboration is finally growing and growing. Skullpture is a different bunch. They improvise on guitars and feed them through the lines of distortion and delays. Also slightly atmospheric, but much more raw and untamed than those of Bjerga/Iversen and more along the lines of some of the New Zealand lo-fi improvisers. Nice, but a bit long. [FdW, Vital Weekly]
Black Deal With Snow & Mesopic Vision -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €8
2008 Still*Sleep, CDR06
Black Deal With Snow is one of the multiple incarnations of Russian drone-musician [S], known for his projects Exit In Grey, Five Elements Music, Sister Loolomie, etc. Mesopic Vision is a creation of another Russian musician who previously used the name Polaris and is also known for his label Abgurd. Their collaboration work is a one 37-min. long track of dark drone ambient. Really strong, varied and powerful recording.
Black Leather Jesus -- "First You Destroy Their Faith" -- CD -- €10
2004 Spatter, SPCD1
Black Leather Jesus has been something of an umbrella project for collective works of a number of various noise/experimental artists. In its best years, BLJ included as many as 13 members. It was originally formed by Richard Ramirez in 1989 and is still active nowadays, 15 years later. This new release on Spatter is another great chapter in the BLJ saga. Killer harsh noise. [8mm Records]
Black Leather Jesus -- "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 Lung -- "Silent Weapons For Quiet Wars" -- CD -- €10
2008 Shadowplay Records, SPR 016
Russian reissue of the first album of Black Lung, a project run by Davi Thrussel (Snog, Soma).
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 -- €14
2008 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 112
Black Tape For A Blue Girl -- "A Retrospective" -- CD -- €10
2008 Shadowplay Records, SPR 070
Black tape for a blue girl - legends of the Neo-Classical / Heavenly Voices / Darkwave scene - have their first Russian best of courtesy of Shadowplay Records. Featuring tracks from all eras of their career, A Retrospective is designed for recent fans of vocalists Elysabeth and Bret from The Scavenger Bride and Halo Star as well as those who go back to the 80's and 90's with Oscar's vocals. Keeping things lively, Sam picked alternative mixes of many tracks, and also included three re-recordings with current members ("Remnants of a Deeper Purity"," "Overwhelmed, beneath me" and the previously unreleased "I have no more answers."). [press-release]
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Black 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]
Blame -- "Water" -- CD -- €9
2007/2008 Klangdynamik Records, KD 06
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 -- "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 -- "Way Of Crosses" -- CD -- €11
2007 The Eastern Front, Front 009
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 Axis -- "Blot: Sacrifice in Sweden" -- CD -- €14
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 & Les Joyaux De La Princesse -- "Absinthe: La Folie Verte" -- CD -- €17
2002/2006 Athanor, ATNR017
Absinthe: La Folie Verte is a sonic and poetic invocation combining mind-altering music and powerful recitations of Absinthe-inspired poems of the fin-de-siecle. These elements unite with a brilliant graphic presentation to conjure an emerald realm of euphoric delirium. It is also one of the most obsessive recordings ever made: the various melodies that float across these soundscapes derive from forgotten Absinthe songs of the past; actual elements of the latter, derived from old cylinder recordings and 78s, have also been carefully stirred and distilled into new formulations by Les Joyaux de la Princesse. Furthermore, all aspects of this album (instrumentation, spoken recitations, and even the final mixing) were executed under the influence of the drink. The end result is an impressionistic tour-de-force and the ultimate aural hymn to la f?e verte, the Green Fairy. [press release]
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Blood Axis & Les Joyaux De La Princesse -- "Absinthia Taetra" -- CD -- €17
2004 Athanor, ATNR 023, (ltd. 1000)
Two 10" from the "Absinthe" boxset are presented here in a single CD digipack with remastered sound. No extra material or graphics but all the music from the original release. Some studio tracks along with the complete live in Sintra, the only time BA and LJDLP ever presented Absinthe on stage. [label info]
Bloodyminded -- "Live: Behind The Green Door / Street Level At VG Kids" -- CD -- €7
2006 BloodLust!, B!051
This CD is an enhanced re-release of the limited edition 3-inch CD-R split-release with Chondritic Sound, from 2005, with a bonus full-show video. The video was recorded in Ypsilanti, MI, on October 15, 2004 - the infamous "office hallway" show - and the audio was recorded in Detroit, MI, on October 16, 2004. Professionally replicated CD; packaged in a full-color cardboard sleeve. [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 -- €11
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 -- €12
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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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]
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 & Anton Nikkilä -- "Where Are They Now" -- CD -- €8
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]
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 -- "The White Heads" -- CD-R -- €10
2007 Practising Nature, PN07021
Cinematic soundscapes from Antwerpen (Belgium). Intense and moving. [label info]
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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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]
Brand, Steve -- "Awakensong" -- CD-R -- €9
2006 AFE Records, afe084lcd, (ltd. 100)
Ritual / Tribal / Ambient. Steve Brand has been creating sound art and visual art since the mid-80's. From 1995 to 2003 he was active as Augur, creating obscure and organic music which was released on many labels worldwide, including The Foundry, Manifold, Alluvial, Self-Abuse and others. His atmospheres, alarmingly austere, with varying shades of gray, are drenched in allusion and a heightened sense of cinematic noir for the listener. Consisting of nine tracks, "Awakensong" was recorded and mixed in early 2005, and is an highly enjoyable excursion into good meditative / ritual / tribal Ambient music. The album utilizes shakuhachi, Native American courting flute and bass flute, udu, medicine drum, camel bells, gongs, voice, prayer bowls and keyboards... [label info]
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Brand, Steve -- "Looking into the Other" -- CD-R -- €9
2007 Afe Records, afe094lcd, (ltd. 100)
Ritual / Tribal / Ambient. Steve Brand has been creating sound art and visual art since the mid-80's. From 1995 to 2003 he was active as Augur, creating obscure and organic music which was released on many labels worldwide, including The Foundry, Manifold, Alluvial, Self-Abuse and others. During the years he had the chance to collaborate with artists such as Jeph Jerman (Hands To, Animist Orchestra), Rick Kitch (I Am Umbrella, Lucky Cricket), PBK, James P. Keeler (Wilt), Brooke Oates (Birds of Tin), etc. His atmospheres, alarmingly austere, with varying shades of gray, are drenched in allusion and a heightened sense of cinematic noir for the listener. According to his own words, "emotional aspects of a recording always come first". Consisting of six long tracks, "Looking Into the Other" takes up where "Awakensong" (...released on Afe in April 2006...) left off, expanding the exploration of twilight worlds. The album utilizes bells, synthesizers, voice, various flutes, medicine drums, cymbals, fiddle, rattles, prayer bowls, etc. Once again, with this work Steve has created an high quality and excellent album of deeply emotional music, and proved himself as one of the most inspired authors in contemporary Ritual Ambient... [label info]
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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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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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Brandkommando -- "New Fucking Radical Orthodox" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Deserted Factory, DF047, (ltd. 100)
If you live in a flat and if you like to have a peaceful neighborhood, well, then don't switch on this music! BRANDKOMMANDO is a Polish Industrial/Noise/Power Electronics act, which can look back on a rich discography. "New Fucking Radical Orthodox" is already the 15th release for Karol, who is the brainchild behind this act. It is musically one of the roughest and most disturbing releases I've heard so far. Walls of abrasive noise manipulations, effected, processed and overdriven in different frequencies with a high amount of improvisations. Add to this Karol's not lesser manipulated screaming voice performance, and you'll an album especially designed for the fans full of anger and hate. Radical may in its message, but surely radical of its music content, these 7 tracks are a pure sonic assault to breakdown your nerves. Powernoise in its roughest kind. [Marc Tater, Chain D.L.K.]
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Brandkommando -- "USA - The United States Of China" -- CD -- €10
2009 Beast Of Prey, bop 6.6, (ltd. 350)
New album of BRANDKOMMANDO, another portion of power electronics, good old harsh and more and more common vocals. Everything sharp, pervert, without mercy. This album is only for mature people!! Over 50 minutes long album will with ease make a slurry with the brain, makes you feel sick and repugnant. The album content is only for mature listeners. It shows the image of perverse reality, disgusting facts that we are surrounded by, that we learn from internet, television or press and we watch them with dread, thinking where this world is coming to. The album does not judge or insist or promote any violence, it's only an image of reality. The album was released as a 12 page booklet with graphics, speaches, commentaries. Cardboard booklet size 135mm x 180mm. The CD is mounted inside. All foiled. Limited to 350 copies. [press-release]
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Brandkommando -- "USA - The United States Of China" -- CD + 3"CD-R box -- €25
2009 Beast Of Prey, bop 6.6, (ltd. 100)
New album of BRANDKOMMANDO released as collectioner edition BOX with additional 3'Cdr that was recorded along with KREPULEC and contains four tracks in vein of power electronics/industrial. Cardboard box with silicon fetish toy and graphic bonuses. Limited edition in 100 copies. BOX is for mature people only!! [label info]
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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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Brennan, Thom -- "The Path Not Taken" -- 3"CD -- €8.50
1995 Amplexus, XUS 04, (ltd. 1000)
Produced by Steve Roach, this is an extraordinary single track (nearly 20 minutes in length) of complex, beautiful and intelligent ambient workings. Very much recommended. Packed in A5 full colour foldout, in PVC slipcase. Essential part of the 3"CD collectors series. [label info]
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 -- "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 -- "May All Be Dead" -- CD -- €14
1999 Cold Meat Industry, CMI.67
May All Be Dead sets a new standard for cultural terrorism, as well as marking a new milestone in the Industrial history. It is not a follow-up to any previous album, as the concept for this album arised already in 1996. The music has been in a state of deconstruction ever since, and the album was realized in an atmosphere of Violence, Anarchy, Chaos and Love. Cover is designed as a tribute to the erector of Brighter Death Now, Roger Karmanik's teen-idols CRASS. [label info]
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Brighter Death Now -- "Obsessis" -- CD -- €15
2000 Cold Meat Industry, CMI.91
This is more than merely the new album by Brighter Death Now. 'Obsessis' is the completion of a cycle, a testimonial summing up themes touched on by Roger Karmanik over the years. It captures the schizophrenic visions of the Lille Roger era, the deadly paranoia of BDN, and the wonderful world seen through the eyes of a family father. 'Obsessis' is the brain scan of a sonic ninja: lost in confusion - left in disillusion - lusting in seclusion - living in commotion - launched from obsession to obsession. Now is the time, and you are the prey. Featuring the immaculate Lina B Doll as guest on one track. [press-release]
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Brighter Death Now -- "Where Dreams Come True" -- CD -- €14
2009 Cold Meat Industry, CMI196 / Jinx, JINX CD-003
Brume -- "Accident de Chasse" -- CD -- €12
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 -- "I'm... I come... I was..." -- CD -- €12
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 -- €12
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 -- €12
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 -- €12
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 -- €12
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 -- €12
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 -- €12
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 -- €12
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 -- €12
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 -- €12
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 -- €12
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 -- €12
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, waystyx 65
"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.
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]
Bunker -- "The Document First" -- CD-R -- €7
2006 UFA-Muzak, UFA03, (ltd. 101)
Power-electronics from creators of Ryr. Violence, pain, agression and sound frequencies corresponding with these parameters of human existence.
Burke, Dan & Thomas Dimuzio -- "Upcoming Events" -- CD -- €11
2008 No Fun Productions, NFP32
Further exploring the collaborative powers of Illusion Of Safety mastermind Dan Burke and prolific sound crafter Thomas Dimuzio, Upcoming Events is an unending spur of equal parts gorgeous and uncomfortably perplexing sound spread of 15 tracks. Crackles of electronic fire, tremolo-infused waves of sustained guitar, broken music boxes and found sounds among all other sorts of unfounded wails of gargantuan melancholy drone, Burke and Dimuzio's collaboration is a forceful collection of early industrial sound ruination combined with classic Krautrock ambiance of the Tangerine Dream/Cluster ilk reassuringly composed into something wholly modern and powerful. [press-release]
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]
Burning Star Core -- "Challenger" -- CD -- €10
2008 Hospital Productions, HOS-216
Burning Star Core began in 1993 in Cincinnati, OH where it currently resides with primary member C. Spencer Yeh. It is considered a project and not a pseudonym. While the Burning Star Core project has included much wider ensembles, Challenger is a direct solo composition of C. Spencer Yeh. This recording is perhaps Yeh's most revealing, unguarded work. Challenger is a composed work, not an improvisation, with each piece revolving around a central melodic theme, featuring field recordings, which serve as an audio diary. The sounds range from pure tonal mood to huge electronic crescendos. But what's most remarkable is the use of space, where parts come in then drop out to build up the emotion. When the piano sound crashes in 'Mysteries of the Organ,' it reflects a frustration with paradise, a rejection of perfection, a jolt of inexplicable throes of life. In contrast is the quiet, haunting 'Hopelessly Devoted,' which sounds like a love letter written to outer space. These make for an album that is both dynamic yet consistent as a full statement. [Insound]
Burning Star Core -- "Inside The Shadow" -- CD -- €10
2005/2010 Hospital Productions, HOS-212
A reissue of an obscure tour only recording from 2005 brings to the light the flikering dance of Mr yeh and his dives into organic drone music. Unlike the majority of his electronic compositions inside the shadow reveals three textures brought to life with violin , chimes and bells that defy most of the contemporaries limitations to synth only exercises. Yeh prooves the heart of landscape oriented linear composition is only limited by the imaginations of the creators and brings warmth to an otherwise cold genre with the flame of inside the shadow. [press-release]
Burried Machine -- "Austin" -- CD -- €10
2008 Rockatansky Records, rr-001
Based on old horror movie which collage made the horror movie and an imminent records and cds with cassette tape mtr and several cassette tape walkman obstinately as hell that sound image in confusion creates the image of the horror movie which is the subject and the violent collage sound that they made to gradually splash on each other. A vulgar tape collage work by plain machine and the buried original technique. [label info]
C.C.C.C. -- "Chaos is the Cosmos" -- CD -- €10
2007 Cold Spring Records, CSR79CD
Japanese Noise. We are very proud to announce the return of C.C.C.C. to Cold Spring (after their outstanding album 'Flash' in 1996). This is also the first album from C.C.C.C. in 10 years! This cult Japanese Noise group is made up of Hiroshi Hasegawa (Astro, YBO2, South Saturn Delta), Mayuko Hino, Fumio Kosakai (Hijokaidan, Incapacitants), and Ryuichi Nagakubo (Tangerine Dream Syndicate). An absolutely essential album for those with a penchant for extreme Japanoise. Just under 45 minutes of music. [press-release]
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c.j. mind & man ufo (eXperiment) -- "eXtrasensory" -- CD-R -- €9
2007 Ambiroad Records, AR01
c.j. mind & man ufo (eXperiment) -- "Source" -- CD -- €11
2008 Faria Records, FAR-24, (ltd. 500)
If you like music of Steve Roach - you will like it too!... The natural beginning of all life on the Earth intertwines with estrangement pressing on the person the incomprehensible power of an external world (space). Too extraneous and severe really to be a monastery of each of us, as if a mourning bed-sheet swallowed light. In this contradiction, someone finds something attractive for search of the external forms not similar to ours, but probably forgets that its house, a family and surrounding close friends as anybody another is important to him. And being behind an understanding side, and remains not untangled ball drawing to only when on it is unique a question exciting you to you by all means (here and now) it is necessary to receive it is unique a right answer... Stay in a womb, a birth, individual search of sense of existence, leaving in the other world. Spring (awakening) before fading in a cold twilight of mature autumn (death). All is marvelously simple. After all the, Nature does not suffer intervention in its nature. When it exists without our presence - flows and sounds absolutely other light. But the Creator comes and by a wave of an invisible conductor's baton twists a surprising pattern on beauty, in which the voice of a far-far star is audible... The teamwork purpose (the present album) consisted, first of all, in desire to grope some integrity of a universe and attempt to find room for this perception in presented on seventy five minutes of a music material. [press-release]
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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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Camisole -- "Claustrophobic Education" -- CD-R -- €8
2008 Bone Structure, Bone 116, (ltd. 66)
Candyman And Evil Flowers -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €8
2008 Still*Sleep, CDR07
One more project of Russian musician [S] known for Exit In Grey, Five Elements Music, Sister Loolomie, etc... Under this name he explores more dense sounding side of drone ambient music, sometimes even bordering with noise, but still driven by emotions. The closest analogues are Maeror Tri and Troum albums. The lovers of these projects should really draw their attantion to this release - you won't be disappointed. The recording was done with the help of guitar, accordion, flute, voice and percussion.
Captain Heroin -- "Drama" -- CD-R -- €6
Onyxia, onyx006
Captain Heroin is the frolic analogue anaconda with clashing sounds of plaintive retro-electro and stomping hot vibrations of elegance. The dramatic act of Captain Heroin's artificial music seeks happiness in loneliness, sadness and madness. The electric disco sound of reluctant nausea and disturbance makes Captain Heroin the reptile that sneaks in the electronic jungle of the Garden of Eden and commands to eat from the tree of drama. The musical streamlines travel from the highest peaks of happiness into the deepest pits of despair and delirium: music from sunshine to heartbeat flat-line. [press-release]
Caramelos, Felipe -- "Se Prohibe Cantar" -- 2 CD -- €18
2007 Waystyx Records, WR31, (ltd. 423)
After few years of work recognized master of concrete sound Lt. Caramel create brand new material, devoted to slavery in contemporary Spain. And now we present this edition with 2 booklets, decorated by real silver key. [label info]
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Caspar, C.O. -- "Epitaph" -- CD -- €10
2005 Waystyx, WR08, (ltd. 480)
Penetrating sonic confession from respected German master C.O. Caspar, Berlin-based activist of an experimental sound, consisting of four tracks, each for 20 minutes. Sound is based on field recordings, spoken lyrics from the anthology "Les Fleurs du Mal" by Ch. Baudelaire and fe-male robot's voice. [label info]
Caspar, C.O. -- "Fun am Schrillen Lauschen" -- CD -- €10
2004 L-White Records, LW-018, (ltd. 300)
At parts quite noisy & powerful stuff with the ingredients we know from CO CASPAR: metallic sounds and percussion, an odd & suspenseful atmosphere, distorted vocals. But also great raw dark ambience-parts are here to be found... This is a recording from a concert (& installation?) which happened at "Eisenbahnmuseum Arnstadt" in Nov. 2001. Comes in large cardboard cover in a lim. ed. of 300 copies. [label info]
Caspar, C.O. -- "Reports From This Lunatic Asylum" -- CD -- €14
2009 Hau Ruck!, HR!93
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 -- "Bones Rattle (Ego Death's Remixes)" -- CD-R -- €7
self-released
Greek noisician remixes Russian ambient-experimenter. Rough noise with unusual harmonic fragments. Concisely. Worthy. [YAOP description]
Cat'n'Bone -- "Deep in the Bottle (Overload and Glass)" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 self-released
The project from Northern Russia continues its explorations of the Art of Noise. This album presents electroacoustic drone noise ambient performed on a glass bottle. Drones, rustlings, noise and blurry voices. [YAOP]
Cat'n'Bone -- "Pencil" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 self-released, (ltd. 20)
Beautiful and interesting Old-School Industrial / Musique Conrete, exploring the cultural and sonic phenomenon of a pencil. Paper sleeve with a sticker, 8-page A5 booklet, a set of 6 pencils, rubber and blade. [YAOP info]
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]
Cat'n'Bone -- "Sniff a Tree" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 self-released, (ltd. 8)
Art Noise / Noise Ambient with mysterious stalking atmosphere. Jewel-case with tho cards and a piece of dendromaterial. Just 8 copies!! [YAOP]
Cat'n'Bone -- "Some Carrot?" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 self-released
The recording of the process of carrot-eating by the means of artful sound-manipulations turns into high grade Industrial Noise with powerful feedbacks. Musique concrete in action. Sleeve, a couple of inserts and some slices of dried carrot. [YAOP info]
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).
Cel -- "Fugitive Angle" -- CD-R -- €8
Dead Sea Liner, dead sea liner 02
Uterine lo-end drone ambient. Atrax Morgue in oblivion... However some harmonic guitar tracks also present here. [Abgurd]
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]
Chain Flail Debarker -- "K Stenke" -- CD-R -- €8
2007 Mu-hu-hu records, [mhh003]
The first album of lo-fi-noisecore project from Moscow [Russia]. It's not music, it's wall of noise and death! Death for everyone who strives for power! [label info]
Changes -- "Lament" -- CD -- €14
2010 Hau Ruck!, HR!94
From Changes' inception, R. N. Taylor and Nicholas Tesluk have woven bardic tales of gallantry, chivalry and of larger-than-life legendary and mythical heroes. They've sung of new love, love unrequited and love lost. They've written songs painting sonic imagery foretelling a dark apocalyptic future, which later came to pass while currently prophesying a society in the seminal stages of an even darker fate. With their new album, Lament, they turn their gaze inward, to their own personal apocalypses, stemming from their long marriages ending in dismal dissolution. They tell of their dark, oppressive inner-world that sought to drive them beyond the brink of despair. Only by being able to immerse themselves in their art and create works expressing these sorrows would they be able to maintain their sanity. Lament reaches out to all who've had their lives disrupted by modern societal partners going through mid-life crises, becoming antagonistic strangers to their families overnight. The song entitled "The Invisible Man" tells a tale based on H. G. Wells' novel with a personal twist. In their song "Emily", the historical figure of poetess Emily Dickinson comes to life. The "Mountains of Sorrow (Remix)", is an instrumental song enhanced by the deft arrangement, musicians and singers of Der Blutharsch with a voice-over by R. N. Taylor of his heart-rending lyric poetry. Also included, new versions of three of Changes' earlier works; "The Saddest Thing", "Sweet Eve" and "Memorabilia" as these songs merged well with the album's concept. Lament is sixty-four minutes in length with thirteen tracks. Comes in nice Digipak with a sixteen page liner booklet. [press-release]
Chaos As Shelter -- "Dead Air Broadcasts" -- CD -- €11
2003 Immanence Records, imm003 / DTA Records, DTA 014
One of the early releases by this Israeli dark ambient act. Relying on processed and sampled radio sounds as the basis for most of the tracks, "Dead Air Broadcasts" shows much more depth once you familiarize yourself with it. Might definitely appeal to Kryptogen Rundfunk fans. [Mechanoise Labs]
Chaos As Shelter -- "Live in New Jerusalem" -- CD-R -- €8
2003 Solipsism, Solipsism-48, (ltd. 100)
Two live tracks of beautiful dark ambient sounds from Israel. Over an hours worth of music, the first track was recorded in December of 2000 at New Jerusalem Studios, the Second is from August of 2000, and was recorded live at the Abama Theatre, in Jerusalem. Mixing drifting, dark ambient electronics with subtle rhythms and ethnic sounds, Chaos as Shelter are one of the more interesting new projects from the last couple of years, and his live work adds another layer to his already complex sound. Haunting, and meditative, this is music that evokes a world of it's own. [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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Chasse, Loren & Northam, Michael -- "The Otolith" -- CD -- €11
2008 Helen Scarsdale Agency, HMS 014, (ltd. 700)
The Cherry Point -- "Black Witchery" -- CD -- €10
2006 PACrec, PACrec118 / Troniks, TRO-223
In 2004, The Cherry Point completed a trilogy of limited edition 3" cdrs, released on Chondritic Sound, Fargone Records, and Audiobot. Now collected and remastered, the dark spell has been cast as Black Witchery, a murky potion of macabre frequencies, derelict moans, satanic power and the hideous stench of occult slaughter. A black mass ritual for fans of Evilspeak, The Gate, Satan's Black Wedding, Ghoulies 2 (the one set at a carnival), The Tempter, Paura Nella CittÁ dei Morti Viventi, The Legend of Hell House, and John Cassavetes in Incubus (1982) + Rosemary's Baby (1968). [label info]
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Chetyre Pozitsii Bruno -- "Body to Carry Out" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 Ostroga, OTR-014, (ltd. 52)
A mixture of drunk and sober folk, pop and club music, purely industrial and experimental tricks and schizoid vocals. Quite funny stuff! :)
Chetyre Pozitsii Bruno -- "Poluidol" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 Ostroga, OTR-014, (ltd. 52)
Experimental dub-ambient from Ural, Russia, in vein of Kadegu and Pepelaz A.B. [YAOP info]
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]
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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Circular -- "Shaping the Unknown" -- CD -- €14
2006 Loki Foundation, loki 44
The debut album of Circular defines an opulent style of meditative ambient music and celebrates the pure sound engines of perfect analogue synthesizer music. Johannes Riedel created an elegant and stylish form of drone music to build ellipses in-between sculptures blowing through the triangular center. This aural paintings discover sacred landscapes of drifting loops, analogue synthesizers and the brilliant use of guitars to set up an unearthly visionary wall of sound. The method of Circular's music dispose a special principle where tracks build up slowly and take the period of concentration, of taking shape, followed by overwhelming massive soundworlds from outer states. Sounds are swirling around the cuboid and adhere at the cognition through unique scapes of the swelling and digressing resonance. [press release]
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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 -- "...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 -- €16
2005 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 -- €9
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 -- "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]
Cities In Desolation / Eric Boros -- "Of Trains And Funky Shit" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 1000+1 Tilt
Cities Last Broadcast -- "The Cancelled Earth" -- CD -- €15
2009 Cyclic Law, 21st Cycle, (ltd. 1000)
Clausthome -- "Radiophare (Lampe D'Ambiance)" -- CD -- €13
2005 Indiestate, IST034CD, (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]
Clear Stream Temple -- "XVI" -- CD -- €11
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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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]
Coelacanth -- "The Glass Sponge" -- CD -- €11
2003 23five, 23five 004
Coil -- "Musick To Play In The Dark 1" -- CD -- €21
1996/2006 Chalice, graal cd003
Cold Fusion -- "Occupatria" -- CD -- €13
2005 Steinklang Industries, SKD 07, (ltd. 1000)
An oppressive atmosphere in a occupied town, in a occupied country. Only illusion of freedom - no freedom. Cold Fusion - Occupatria - a musical journey on the thin line between urge of freedom and lack of its realisation. 45 minutes of beautiful symphonic Martial music, compared to A Challenge Of Honour, Les Joyaux de la Princesse, with a strong touch of early Dead Can Dance and Graeme Revell's soundtracks! [label info]
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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 -- "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]
Cold Fusion & Rukkanor -- "Silk Road" -- CD -- €10
2008 Rage In Eden, RAGE 62, (ltd. 500)
The Silk Road is a series of trade and cultural transmission routes connecting East and West by linking traders, merchants, pilgrims, monks, soldiers, nomads and urban dwellers from China to the Mediterranean Sea during various periods of time. Many artistic influences transited along the Silk Road, especially through the CentralAsia, where Hellenistic, Iranian, Indian and Chinese influence were able to intermix. "Silk Road" - a split of Cold Fusion and Rukkanor is a road album, connecting past with present, East and West, classical oriental melodies with modern arrangements. 9 tracks, 43 minutes, CD in digipack. Limited edition of 500 handnumbered copies. [press-release]
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Cold Fusion & Rukkanor -- "Wunderwaffe" -- CD -- €10
2008 Rage In Eden, RAGE 50, (ltd. 500)
The 5th anniversary of War Office Propaganda / Rage In Eden we'd like to celebrate with our classic re-edition. Critically acclaimed martial industrial split "Wunderwaffe" of Cold Fusion and Rukkanor, after first versions V-1 and V-2, this time comes as a V-3 weapon - third (and definitely last) time. Album contains two unpublished bonus tracks, both from "Wunderwaffe" session, and original, conceptual artwork made by Michal Karcz. Total time 42 minutes, 8 tracks in digipack. Limited to 500 copies. [press-release]
Collapse Project -- "Your Own Way" -- CD-R -- €9
2007 Klangdynamik Records, KD 02, (ltd. 111)
Colloboration Mat -- "A Recording" -- CD-RW -- €9
2010 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
Mayonnaise (noise-project of "Planeta im. Saharova"), Andrey Ivanovich (Mudenoise) and Teatral (leader of post-punk band "Tired Toys") in common industrial-noise jam. [label info]
Colloboration Of Ophthalmologists -- "Humanity of Refrigerators" -- CD-RW -- €7
2009 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
A collective frenzy of hot hacho Gul and Green Ceiling - post-nuclear toxinoise, fun with pepper. Each third buyer of this disk will receive a free can of pea "Green Giant". Dedicated to beautiful eyes of Natalya Katkova. [label info]
Comatose -- "Oceans Of Tears" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Bone Structure, Bone 67, (ltd. 77)
Comforter Inc. -- "Faustrecht" -- CD-R -- €8
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 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.
Compest -- "Benu" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2005 Taalem, alm 26
Compest is the latest project of Martin Steinebach who was already a busy bee with his three other projects Monoid (electro industrial), StillStand (ambient soundscapes) and Conscientia Peccati (dark ritual). Compest could be described as his meta-project, gathering all his sounds. Mastered very loud, "Benu" is a 20min piece mixing tribal, ambient & noisy sounds... [press-release]
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Con-Dom -- "The Eighth Pillar - A Confession Of Faith" -- CD -- €13
1991/2008 Functional Organisation, Functional 016
We are proud to present a vinyl diamond for the first time on CD, by the British power electronics industrial outfit Con-Dom, short for Control Domination! The Eight Pillar was the first full-length Con-Dom release dating back to the year 1991, and was the second vinyl release after the Tesco 7" "Oh ye of little faith." This release had an accompanying booklet ordered separately which is now included in the artwork of the CD release. The CD is inspired by the life, writings and example of British author and "man of action" T.E. Lawrence - an enigmatic outsider who lived a tortured odyssey of physical and spiritual extremes in search of his own personal faith. The name of the CD derives from his book called "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom." With these recordings, Mike Dando, the man behind Con-Dom, set high standards in a genre that was just starting to arise. The powerful sounds and his strong voice give a good impression on how torturing the life of Lawrence must have been. Con-Dom explores every kind of social tension and control: political, religious, racial...with an acidic, violent and uncompromising attitude. He is well-known in the industrial scene for his furious ravaging vocals and the devastating live performances, in which he turns into a real stage animal. This record is a perfect example on how good writings and experiences can flow into this sort of industrial/power electronics music. Those who missed the LP version limited to 300 copies back in 1991 must see this record as a milestone or just a simple must! [press-release]
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Con-Dom -- "Holy Bible" -- mCD -- €14
2007 Freak Animal Records, FREAK-CD-028, (ltd. 500)
Con-Dom "Holy Bible" mCD is the latest studio material what was originally to be released by Tesco Organization, but changed to Freak Animal. Great and unusual power electronics. No walls of noise, no heavy distorted screech, but innovative and experimental approach for real power electronics-industrial! Comes in A5 black cardboard sleeve with silver printing, including lyrics. [press-release]
Con_Sense -- "Code Sent" -- CD-R -- €9
2009 Databloem, DB09026
Con_Sense is a project driven by Tomas Weiss, one of the most promising names in Ambient / Electronic music. Beautifully mastered cinematic ambient with atmospheric / tribal grooves. Code Sent covers over an hour of top class contemporary electronic music, with a wink to various Berlin school legends. [label info]
Concrete Belly -- "s/t" -- 3"CD-R -- €5
2007 Mechanoise Labs, [mn031], (ltd. 50)
A nice small post rock disk. Sampling and collages turn into soft semi-melancholic guitar tunes, sometimes blurring into cozy amorphism, sometimes gathering into distinct melodic constructions. Simple and beautiful.
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Concrete Violin -- "End Times" -- CD-R -- €7
2003 Solipsism, Solipsism-55, (ltd. 100)
Raw noise music of American PE-school with monotonous noisescapes and lots of distorted vocals. Concrete Violin here isn't that agressive as his colleagues usually are, this album is even atmospheric to a certain extent.
ConDemek -- "Technological Shack Job" -- CD -- €11
1997 Functional Organisation, functional 011
"Technological Shack Job" is a tour-de-force of experimental mayhem within a tight conceptual framework. Damian Catera, Steve Lombardi, and Roxanne Benedetto weave an alluring sonic landscape that veers simultaneously towards rock, experimental power electronics, and more. This concept album explores the socio-political and psychological dimensions of humanity's relationship with technology and in its inter-mingling with reactionary belief systems. The American project presents over 60 minutes of mixed rhythms and soundscapes, with outbursts of noise and samples developing into a wall of rhythms. [press release]
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Contagious Orgasm -- "Confession Of Mannequin" -- CD -- €11
1988/2009 Industrial Recollections, IR-CO2
Highly worshipped earliest material of the cult industrial-experimental band from Japan. This 2nd tape from 1988 (SSSM) shows a very different project to what CO is known to be today. You can see why they established in early 90s deals with many leading European Industrial / Power Electronics labels (Tesco, Ant-Zen, Praxis Dr. Bearmann etc). 45 minutes presented with original sound from metal master tapes without any modern day boosting gimmicks. Great dynamics and amazing quality. Covers include full re-print of all original tape artwork as it was. [press-release]
Contagious Orgasm -- "Flows Out" -- CD -- €10
2003 Waystyx Records, WR04, (ltd. 777)
Contagious Orgasm is the band which was always cutting the line of japanese noise units. The music of Hiroshi Hashimoto appears to be much more structured and heavily "composed". Even in early albums released by Tesco and Ant-Zen, one can feel mind warping and challenging atmosphere instead of more usual raw instinctual aggression freed by sound. With every new album, the Contagious Orgasm music becomes more complex and unpredictable. "Flows Out" probably takes the band to the high point of career - to the moment, it's most mature and completed work. It's homogenous, but implicated with a plenty of different elements, not contrary but hardly combined within the noise music unwritten rules. These elements are mostly rhythmic parts related to minimal techno, techno ambient, glitch, electro industrial and even dub and swing grooves, which are fitting perfectly in every aspect of industrial aesthetics which flows out of the album. One can see the organic sounding as the optimizing feature for those who couldn't accept the real voice of nowadays underground. Anyway, this album is the perfect choice for the newcomers and people who never heard this band before. As always for Waystyx, deluxe edition including a set of nice postcards, placed with CD into the black pseudo-digipack... [Dmitry
Vasilyev, "Independent Electronic Music"]
Contagious Orgasm -- "Illegal Occupation of Ears" -- CD -- €12
2000 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 026
The Japanese master of recycled ambient-sounds! 2 long tracks, 2 real sound sculptures, 2 more surprises for your ears with his unique way to re-work & assembling broken sounds! The cover presents some collages by Ryuta Nogouchi a new very interesting japanese designer. [label info]
Contagious Orgasm -- "Impregnate" -- CD -- €11
1987/2009 Industrial Recollections, IR-CO1
Highly worshipped earliest material of the cult industrial-experimental band from Japan. This debut from 1987 (SSSM) shows a very different project to what CO is known to be today. You can see why they established in early 90s deals with many leading European Industrial / Power Electronics labels (Tesco, Ant-Zen, Praxis Dr. Bearmann etc). 45 minutes presented with original sound from metal master tapes without any modern day boosting gimmicks. Great dynamics and amazing quality. Covers include full re-print of all original tape artwork as it was. [press-release]
Contagious Orgasm -- "Spill Drop" -- CD -- €13
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 + Kotodama -- "Blackout" -- CD -- €10
2008 SSSM, SSSM-109
From deep electro and dark sounds, noise to dreamy and atmospheric soundtracks. [label info]
Contemplatron -- "Antarabhava / The Six Realms" -- CD -- €11
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]
Contrastate -- "False Fangs For Old Werewolves" -- CD -- €11
2005 Fin de Siècle Media, FDS 14
Ever since the demise of Contrastate five years ago, there has been a void in the experimental music scene that no other act has managed to fill. Their diverse creative output, manifestated as sweeping electronics and sound manipulation together with theatrical spoken word, was nothing less than mindblowing in its complexity and originality. Fin de Siècle Media hereby does mankind a great favour by presenting a collection of rarities, singles and previously unreleased material. Contrastate believed that rather than trying to re-create studio material, new songs would be specifically written to be performed live. It was also seen as a practical matter of attempting to move on each time. And unlike other bands who contribute rejected album material to compilations, Contrastate treated each project with utmost respect and dedication - and a great sense of humour. For these reasons, their music demands - and deserves - your full attention. You won't regret it. This retrospective contains thirteen tracks recorded between 1989-1999, and among the many rare pieces is the last ever Contrastate recording - written for the album they were working on when they decided to go separate ways. Furthermore, you will also find tracks from since long deleted cassettes, vinyls and CDs, and perhaps even the Backwards Diva! [press-release]
Contrastate -- "A Live Coal under the Ashes" -- CD -- €13
1992/2008 Tesco Organisation, TESCO 010
1992 saw the release of "A live coal under the ashes" which was inspired by the events leading up to the changes across Eastern and Central Europe during 1989. This release marked the change conceptually in which the group's ideas became more specific and more focused on contemporary political issues. "A live coal:" was critically acclaimed not just for the music, but also for the artwork and packaging: - a CD placed in the middle of a 12 inch clear vinyl record. After many years of unavailabity Tesco can finally present a rerelease with remastered tracks and a new yet unreleased track called: "Death follows the one eyed cow." An album full of ambient atmospheres, drones, percussion, suitable dark narrations and some steady muted rhythms. These are intense, highly charged recordings with a powerful mystic and ritual feeling. A masterpiece of sound poetry. Comes in nice Digipak. [label info]
Contrastate -- "Seven Hands Seek Nine Fingers" -- CD -- €11
2005 Fin de Siècle Media, FDS13
Contrastate was formed in 1987 by Stephen Meixner and Jonathan Grieve. Two years later their debut LP õSeven Hands Seek Nine Fingersæ was released on their own label Black Rose Recordings, in a limited edition of 500 copies. Since then, Contrastate continued to gain critical acclaim and a cult following for their challenging mixture of dark atmospheric soundscapes and surreal humour. Tragically, the band decided to split up five years ago. As big admirers of Contrastate's legacy, Fin de Siecle Media are very proud to present the remastered issue of "Seven Hands Seek Nine Fingers", available on CD for the first time. This is pretty much an essential document in the history of experimental music, by one of the most underrated acts throughout the years. Listen and learn! [label info]
Contrastate -- "Throwing Out The Baby With The Bathwater" -- CD -- €13
1995 Functional Organisation, Functional 008
Ambient soundscapes interspersed with rhythms and noises from the masters of ritual industrial. [label info]
Control -- "Natural Selection" -- CD -- €12
2003 Eibon Records, Con044
Brand new album of this legendary power noise artist. Concrete & abrasive songs, consuming & devastating sounds, evolving & mutating noise. Keep your aspirines at hand - CONTROL is here to crush you. To little pieces. [press-release]
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Coph Nia -- "Holy War EP" -- mCD -- €10
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 -- €10
2008 Wrotycz Records, WRT008
The collection of Coph Nia-fied covers including Ozzy Osbourne's 'Mr Crowley', the song Mr. Aldenon's band was born to cover, 'Black Sabbath' by the band of the same name, 'Sick Things' by Alice Cooper and 'Levitation' by psychedelic space rockers Hawkwind.
Coph Nia -- "Shape Shifter" -- CD -- €14
2003 Cold Meat Industry, cmi122
The second full length album displays familiar streaks while simultaneously pointing out new directions. The pitch-black darkness is eased by moments of sacral ambience, while at times a grand piano and screeching choirs augment the goings-on. [label info]
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Corder, Jason & Beta Two Agonist -- "Further To Find Closer" -- CD-R -- €9
2008 Databloemm, DBCD08019
Two of the most promising names in contemporary electronic music join up for a journey through electro acoustic ambient with a glitch.
This collaboration grew from a collection of musical fragments exchanged between November 2007 and February 2008. These fragments evolved into nine movements seamlessly fused and blended into a morphing cloud of texture. The sounds used were recorded from acoustic/analog instruments and then processed or left untouched. Jason Corder & Beta Two Agonist: vibraphone, xylophone, glockenspiel, windchimes, prayer bowls, electric piano, guitar, field recording, effects and processing. [label info]
Corder, Jason & Opium -- "Autunno" -- CD-R -- €11
2006 Practising Nature, PN019
Jason Corder's percussive minimalism interwoven with Opium's drones. Jason Corder - The moniker "Off the Sky" was originally birthed as a simple misinterpretation of an obscure line from that famous film Trainspotting. Random as its conception was, Off the Sky is an all too apropos title summating the dub-atmospheric and acoustic solo projects emanating from Jason Corder's studio in Kentucky, USA. It is a humble hand that reflects both his mild mannered nature and his usual "in-the-clouds" mind-set. Jason's musical style is loosely inspired by the likes of Monolake, Gas, and Christian Fennesz. Teo Zini (Opium) was born in Bollate, Milan (Italy) in 1979 and now lives in Varese. His love for electronic music began when he was 15. His first experiments were created with the first home personal computer soundcards. Through software he creates rich drones and complex soundscapes often using etnic/tribal sounds and beats. Opium is also involved in other projects such as Sola Translatio with Alio Die. [label info]
Corder, Jason & Opium -- "Thepresentday" -- CD-R -- €11
2006 Practising Nature, PN019
Opium drones and ethnic elements are interwoven with Jason Corder's percussive minimalism to create a flowing long-form work of seven fascinating movements. [label info]
Corpoparassita -- "Inesorabile" -- CD -- €10
2007 FinalMuzik, FM06, (ltd. 500)
Italian project Corpoparassita is known in the industrial underground scene for a few outstanding limited edition CDr releases. "Inesorabile" is their first full length CD, including - trust us! - the most obscure and colder stuff around! Just imagine a modern version of Italian 70's horror movies' soundtrack meeting thrilling dark ambient and morbid black noise. "Inesorabile" is a must for industrial / dark ambient fans, and it is available in a beautiful poster sleeve akin to some Crass and hc / crustcore releases. [label info]
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.
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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Creation VI -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Satanarsa Records, STN-052
Gorgeous Drone Ambient with field recordings and a touch of light noises and rhythms. Jewel-case. [YAOP]
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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Crumer, Jason -- "Local Scum" -- CD-R/Lathe -- €9
Produck, Produck008, (ltd. 25)
A digital / analogue release: first 21 mm from the center of a usual CD-R are recorded traditionally, and the outer 15 mm are lathe-cut for record players. Wild neanderthal harsh noise with industrial touch, live recording from 2006. Sleeve. [YAOP]
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]
Cumsock / Ego Death -- "Fight Till You Die" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 Sewer Records, SEWER 006, (ltd. 150)
Cumsock - 30 microsongs of fucked-up grind with noisecore - in vein of the great Finns Nekro-Torso. Ego Death have obviously decided to experiment with all the styles of post-industrial sounds here: radionoise, harsh, something Abruptum-like... what's pleasant, that everything's made in good old school manner. [YAOP description]
Current 93 -- "Aleph At Hallucinatory Mountain" -- CD -- €16
2009 Coptic Cat, NIFE004CD
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 -- "Algorithms" -- CD -- €10
2005/2008 Rage In Eden, RAGE 52
Moscow duo Cyclotimia is one of the best recognized, well-known Russian projects in the electronic scene today. On "Algorithms" album Cyclotimia presents apocalyptic version of electronic music, dark ambient sounds supported by bouncing electronic rhythms, religious samples and different effects, all blended in that way which makes this album very intriguing. Cyclotimia's trademark sound proceeds from using a mix of the modern synthesis technologies and cult vintage analog / Soviet machines. For all who listen into Ulver, Holon or Forma Tadre. 11 tracks, 52 minutes, 3 panel glossy digipack. [press-release]
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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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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
D-Darkradioinduztrie -- "Appunti di Dolore Metropolitani" -- CD-R -- €7
2006 Deserted Factory, DF029, (ltd. 100)
This Italian (i guess?) artist is not familiar to me from before, despite the fact that he (?) seems to be making music with an experienced touch. Appunti di Dolore Metropolitani is music that could be best described as industrial compositions. The sound world is rough and distorted, but at the same time very musical, even melodic. On one side this reminds me of Bad Sector, but something in the cold and concrete feel is closer to Wilt. Opening track Paure che affiorano dalle tenebre.. fails to create any other impression than of the kind of sad droning soundscape that has already been heard enough times. The second track Note fra macchine meretrici.. manages to turn my head around completely with its beautiful melodies. The impression is something like very beautiful classical music was being played with an industrial music sound palette. This gives it the same charm that many russian industrial artists have (this should not be mixed with the kind of cliche melancholia represented by CMI at its worst). Unfortunately the record fails to bring another track of the same beauty, although it often comes close - especially on the ending track Canti delle madri e nuove battaglie industriali.. A promising name, worth getting to know especially for fans of genuinely emotional soundscapes a la Reutoff. [John Bjorkman / Kuolleen Musiikin Yhdistys]
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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]
Dahlia's Tear -- "Under Seven Skies" -- CD -- €11
2007 Thonar Records, TR.07, (ltd. 1000)
Dahlia's Tear is coming with the third album, entitled "Under Seven Skies". This album clearly differs from preceding releases of ambient dark project with the extension of new sound elements layered by masterful narrative layout. With seven ethereal and dark tracks Dahlia's Tear creates an an enigmatic story, the renewed sound bears hypnotic touch of dreamy mood and specific abstract atmosphere... Anil ED uses Distorted guitars, skillfully embedded lush skin of strings, gloomy slow frequencies and twisted layer of vocal layers to combine different moods to entire conception of tiresome longing and adding a huge depth to the sound. "Under Seven Skies" album is bringing an atmosphere between harsh and haunting feeling. [press-release]
Dannagoischd -- "Emm Dichda Ondrholz" -- CD -- €14
2009 Percht, Percht13
Dapnom / EWE / Stigma Diabolicum -- "Mind Control" -- CD -- €10
2006 Sonic Tyranny Production, STP001
Four black ambient medecines of utter darkness and mind raping waves of chaos created by members of Dapnom, EWE and Stigma Diabolicum. [label info]
Darkwood -- "Flammende Welt" -- CD -- €14
2001 Heidenvolk, HV 04
"Flammende Welt" is the third album by the German band Darkwood. After leading us into a neo-classical soundscape and battlefield atmosphere on their album "Heimat & Jugend", they now close the circle to "In the Fields" and present a heroic acoustic album with German and English vocals and an omnipresent touch of melancholy. Martial tunes and samples complete the historical tale on the Folk of Destiny. [label info]
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Darkwood -- "Ins Dunkle Land" -- CD -- €14
2009 Heidenvolk, HV12
This new recording is a work of magic realism presenting harsh industrial themes, catchy neofolk songs, and hypnotic folk tracks on a torrent into the Dark Land. 12 tracks like 12 pillars of perception are seperating the realm of darkness from the realm of light. The album comes with a rougher sound using a lot of drums, completed by industrial patterns, acoustic instruments, and again English and German vocals. The CD is delivered in a noble digipack with 20pages booklet. [press-release]
Darkwood & Chaos As Shelter -- "Lapis" -- CD -- €13
2004 Heidenvolk, HV 08
This collaboration of Darkwood and the masterminds of Chaos as Shelter and Agnivolok is dedicated to Alchemy. The 8 tracks represent different phases within a mystic alchemical transmutation process. The listener is captured in a maze of whirling noisescapes and acoustic folk themes with Russian and German vocals. The CD comes in a beautiful Digifile including 12 pages booklet presenting poems and paintings. [label info]
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]
The Days Of The Trumpet Call -- "Purification" -- CD -- €15
Trutzburg Thule, TRUTZCD004
Dead Land -- "Harbingers..." -- CD-R -- €8
2009 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT36, (ltd. 36)
Death Ambient Ó with obscure raw industrial sound. This is the debute album of this project and it represents the research of the phenomenon of a harbinger-man, a harbinger of storm, war, chaos... it's divided into 3 parts: birth, where life meets death and youth with decrepitude; boyhood, where a man closes himself inside settling down in solitude; and finally the third stage - madness, where reality borders with dreams and where this man is born - a Harbinger... Among the influences the author mentions Oophoi, Klaus Wise, Staruha Mha, John Grzinich. Package: handmade sleeve with a slit and info-sticker, made of textured cardboard with fabric and spattered with ink + printed insert with photo and track-list. [press-release]
Dead Man's Hill -- "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 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]
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 -- €18
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 -- "Braun Buch Zwei" -- CD -- €18
2009 New European Recordings, BAD VC CD11/2
Death In June -- "Burial" -- CD -- €16
1984/2006 Leprosy Discs, UBAD VCCD 4
Burial was originally released as a LP in 1984 and was the first Death in June record to come via Leprosy Discs. The Personnel at this time was: Pearce, Wakeford and Leagas. After this record T. Wakeford left the band. A CD version was released for the first time in 1991 and remained sold out now for many many years. Amongst the tracks on this record you'll find a lot of classics and a complete set of brilliant live tracks. Another piece of the puzzle to fill the gaps in the Deat In June backcatalogue. [label info]
Death In June -- "Lesson 1: Misanthropy" -- CD + DVD -- €27
1986/2009 New European Recordings, BAD VC CD726
Death In June -- "Symbols And Clouds" -- 2 CD BOX -- €130
2009 Nerus, BAD VC BAD VC 3638
Death In June -- "The Wall of Sacrifice" -- CD -- €16
1989/2003 New European Recordings, NER BAD VCCD88
Re-release of classic Di6 recording, luxury embossed digipak, contains booklet with new photos and lyrics.
Deathkey -- "Hammer Of Aryan Terror" -- CD -- €13
2009 Freak Animal Records
Satanic Skinhead power electronics-noise. CD edition of sold out LP. 200 copies. [label info]
Deathpile -- "Final Confession" -- CD -- €11
Pain Compliance Productions, PCP 001
Collection of the best DEATHPILE material from rare and out-of-print releases plus one previously unreleased track (with guest DAVID E WILLIAMS). Includes all lyrics and extensive liner notes. This is the definitive DEATHPILE collection. Harsh American power electronics with layers of noise and aggressive vocals. Definitely one for fans of TAINT, GRUNT etc. As the title indicates, this is the final work of DEATHPILE. [Cold Spring]
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]
Decaer Pinga -- "The Brown Mouth Downer" -- CD-R -- €7
Chocolate Monk, CHOC-126
Modern-psych / lo-fi. DP 5tet of Dylan Nyoukis & Dora Doll with Karen Constance (Smack Music 7), Rhian Thompson (CKDH) and Drew Demeter (Withdrawal Method) recorded in Edinburgh in 2004. A snippet from a sweaty ear rot session rescued from Demeter's erase button finger. [Mimaroglu Music Sales]
Defektro -- "Collapse of the Unseen Wall" -- 3"CD-R -- €11
2008 Linija Shuma, Shum 0007, (ltd. 54)
Japanese project performing it's music on metal constructions. Neatly structured compositions combining elements of atmospheric ambient and harsh ferro-noise, providing the feeling of almost physical contact with a crystalline molecular grid. Packed in a silver cardboard sleeve with a polished metal insert under the disk. Recommended to the lovers of a Canadian artist Alan Bloor (Pholde, Knurl).
Deison -- "Dirty Blind Vortex" -- CD -- €10
2000 Crionic Mind, CM006, (ltd. 500)
A fuming miasma of desiccated frequencies and oppressive atmospheres from this Italian purveyor of Death Industrial & Dark Ambient. "Dirty Blind Vortex" is a cryptic snarl of emotion and obsession, impulse and lethargy. Features contributions from SSHE RETINA STIMULANTS, GOVT. ALPHA, BAAL, R.H.Y. YAU, LASSE MARHAUG and more. [label info]
Deison & 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 -- "Good Morning Heartache" -- mCD -- €9
Moloko+, PLUS 060
This minion includes 5 tracks recorded in various moments between 1994 and 2001: old unreleased tracks + two remixes done by The Infant Cycle and Al.x. Everything in Delphium trademark style: the grainy breakbeats, frame-rattling basslines, ominous sound effects, that's how industrial drum'n'bass should sound!
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 -- €12
2006 Mondes Elliptiques, .E.Q.05.02, (ltd. 500)
his is the stereo version of a sound installation presented at MontrÊalôs Studio Cormier in December 2004. It is the second part of the óôMa chambre quand je nôy suis pasôô series. The piece is based on the recording of õsilencesæ, i.e. the recording of sound produced in spaces with no human presence. The sound of an õemptyæ 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 (õHallæ, õLiving roomæ, õBedroomæ, õLabæ). This installation closed Mathias Delplanqueôs MontrÊal residency at Studio Cormier from July to December 2004, as part of Les Inclassables program, proposed by the Association franÚaise d'action artistique (AFAA), in partnership with the Conseil des arts et des lettres du QuÊbec (CALQ) and the Office franco-quÊbÊcois 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, óôspeakôô and óônon-speakôôåOne 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]
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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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Dense Vision Shrine -- "Unwinding The Inside" -- CD -- €11
2007 Rape Art Productions, RAP#028, (ltd. 500)
DVS is a dark ambient side project from Norweigan artist Karsten Hamre aka Penitent. Material dense produced under an orchestral ambient mixtured with pure and deep sounds in 3 amazing conceptual tracks. If you like acts as Lustmord, Archon Satani, MZ412, Inade, Cold Meat Industry, Cold Spring, War Office Propaganda titles I recommend you it. Black & white art works. Comes packaged in PVC sleeve. [label info]
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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]
Dent, Loren -- "Anthropology Vol. 1" -- CD -- €10
2009 Infraction, INFX034, (ltd. 900)
Dental School -- "Live at Miroiterie, Paris" -- CD-R -- €5
2006 Monopolka, This is Monopolka 113
Evil Moisture / Monopolka / Helicoptere Sanglantes / Pop Quizz / Crank Sturgeon. Classics of central-european noise cabaret with american VIP and russian "gender surprise". If you don't regularly do on tours with idiots, then close your eyes, put this disc - and you are there! Alcohol, poring over with strawberry jam, games "funny? not funny!", sluggish continuous slaughter with chewed contact mics and broken schemes from children toys. Sleeve, serigraphy, pro-printed CDR. [label info]
Depressive Disorder -- "In Depth" -- CD -- €9
2006 Monopol Records, monopolrecords 007
Depressive Disorder -- "Ultima Ratio" -- CD -- €9
2005 Monopol Records, monopolrecords 004
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]
Derniere Volonte -- "Devant Le Miroir" -- CD -- €13
2006 Hau Ruck!, HR!81
The new album by the French masters of erotic military pop, more gloomy than ever before. [label info]
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Derniere Volonte -- "Immortel" -- CD -- €14
2010 Hau Ruck!, HR!96
Immortel, Derniere Volonte`s 5th studio album took 4 years in making and marks their 15th anniversary! It is a huge development from the former style which redefined the therm "military pop" to a more homoguene, less neoclassic but much more modern in sounds, more electronic but organic at the same time - and reinvents a style Geoffroy D has been influenced since his early days. The themes on Immortel are effected by books, movies or personal experiences of Geoffroy but reflects in general his personal feelings about beloved people and their spirit which is and always will be present in our souls and memories. Immortel is another milestone in the oevre of one of France`s most interresting band from the underground scene and will for sure attract fans from the early days but a lot of new fans from other musical scenes. [press-release]
Des Esseintes -- "Les Diaboliques" -- CD -- €12
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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Desiderii Marginis -- "Deadbeat" -- CD -- €13
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 -- "Seven Sorrows" -- CD -- €13
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 -- €13
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 -- €13
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 -- €12
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]
Desolation Zone -- "L'Homme Machine" -- CD -- €10
2007 Beast Of Prey, bop 4.1, (ltd. 444)
New full lenght album of industrial project DESOLATION ZONE. 40 minutes of industrial compositions, machine rhythms and factory noises. The struggle of man with the machine with use of industrial-acoustic sounds, devices, objects attached with electronic samplers. On their workbench DESOLATION ZONE with skill cuts and shatters with surgical precision. Body, mechanisms, mind are the mysteries that man studies and work on for ages. In XVIII century a French doctor and philosopher Julien Offray de La Mettrie created controversial philosophic dispute "l'Homme Machine". "Man A Machine" represented mechanical materialism trough which he must many times escape. The album is released in an unconventional package, a metal can with a sticker. It contains CD, black latex gloves and original surgical scalpel hermetically packed. Folded insert with infos, all limited and hand numbered to 444 copies. [press-release]
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Deuterror -- "Le Gueule de Guerre" -- CD -- €10
2007 Steelwork Machine, SMR06, (ltd. 1000)
Talking about drone-based works another one comes from French label Steelwork Maschine. After having released two mp3-albums, "Cohortaris Lex" and "Agripen", Belgium sound artist calling himself Deuterror is ready with his debut CD-release. The album titled "Le Gueule De Guerre" is a very dark piece of ambience. Dominating on the album is harsh industrial-based buzz drones giving a quite hard-edged and disturbing approach to dark ambience. Despite the cynic and quite brutal air saturating the album, there is a great atmosphere adding some melodic warmth to the album. Especially the final track shines with its mixture of brutality and beauty woven together into a tense contrast between grim reality and idyllic soundscapes. The limited edition of 1000 copies also includes a section computer-generated images and short film clip of medieval-looking fantasy landscapes, suiting the atmosphere of the music very well. [Niels Mark, Vital Weekly]
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Deutsch Nepal -- "Comprendido!... Time Stop!" -- CD -- €14
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 -- "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 -- €22
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
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 -- "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 / 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]
The Digitariat / Audiocum -- split -- CD-R -- €7
Symbolic Productions, SYMBCD23, (ltd. 200)
7 tracks of English Experimental Noise / Industrial versus 11 tracks of French Harsh Noise. Pathologically. A5 sleeve. [YAOP]
Dilloway, Aaron -- "Boggs Vol. Two" -- CD -- €10
2005 Hanson Records, HN 112
Boggs Volume 2 is a collection of two long out of print CDR's from Wolf Eyes member, Aaron Dilloway. This new release contains, in their original entirety, the "Seizure" CDR released by Hanson and the "Appalling & Alive" 3" CDR released by Chondritic Sound. [label info]
Dilloway, Aaron -- "Chain Shot" -- CD -- €10
2007/2009 Hanson Records, HN 207, (ltd. 500)
DIGIPAK CD reissue of CHAIN SHOT LP which was originally released on LP by THRONE HEAP. Contains a 28 minute bonus track. A review of the original LP: 'With only tape loops, metal, and horns (and sometimes, it seems, metal on horns) the two side long pieces, 'Chain Shot' and 'Execution Dock' respectively, explore the ugly underbelly of noise before just scraping right through and aiming for the insides. In a genre that has quickly turned into a broad and often inaccurate description of a certain breed of every-man experimental music, Dilloway sticks to the old-fashioned definition of noise, doing battle with the materials in front of him as he continues the construction of his impressive body of work. Dilloway, a former member of noise-titans Wolf Eyes, has recently been releasing solo work that explores much more abstract and thoughtful terrain than his previous group's onslaughts." [Henry Smith, The Ear-Conditioned Nightmare]
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Disharmony -- "Evolution" -- CD -- €10
2009 Tympanik Audio, TA029
Under-rated, yet revered with undying admiration by the already initiated, this Slovakian duo has (un)quietly scorched the underground Electro-Industrial scene for many years, releasing several continuously morphing collections of work amongst the awe of fans and music critics alike... With a plethora of remixing and album credits to their name, dISHARMONY manage to speak volumes once again with their signature brand of down-tempo, yet hard-hitting electronica-tinged dark electro works, paying never mind to any looming trends, but instead constantly evolving beyond the typical genre clones and earn their right to the throne amongst a horde of imitators... You may know dISHARMONY's critically-hailed last album 'Malignant Shields'. You may know their prolific remix collection 'Cloned: The Other Side Of Evolution'. You may know their recent collaborations with the likes of Flint Glass, Totakeke, Mnemonic, Stendeck, Fractional, Anhedonia, Zentriert ins Antlitz, and countless others. But be sure of this: you do not know 'Evolution': Yet. [press-release]
Disharmony -- "XFrames" -- CD -- €10
2006 Aliens Production, AP 14, (ltd. 550)
Lord Sauron and Ryby are standing behind this Slovak dark-electro project. Cold atmospheres, samples from the movies, hypnotic rhythms, crystal electronic and distorted vocals are the main elements of this project. Unreleased material from early era + remixes made by Gaping Chasm, Anhedonia and Flint Glass. Dark-electro-ambient. [label info]
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Diskrepant -- "33-12" -- CD -- €11
2004 Fin de Siècle Media, FDS 10
While the first outing from Diskrepant, the "Folie a Deux" split CD with des Esseintes, had Per Åhlund delving into the realms of ear-shredding noise, the new album points in another, less visceral direction. "33-12" deals with the spirituality - not to be confused with religiosity - of Man. The sparse electronics are augmented by gongs, bells and the occasional chanting, lending a feeling of a sacred Tibetan ceremony performed in a high tech studio. With "33-12" Diskrepant have made an album with a timeless, yet modern feel, that is bound to appeal to fans of the monotonous drone excursions of Mirror and Organum, as well as those with fond memories of the ritual / industrial synthesis of Zero Kama.
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Diskrepant -- "Ex Machina Libertas" -- CD -- €10
2009 Fractured Spaces Records, FS0408CD
Dark environmental ambient / Experimental. This is the fourth release for both Diskrepant and Fractured Spaces Records, and this time we're entering a dystopian vision of the future of mankind with a nightmare amalgamation of flesh and machine. Using subtle environmental field recordings Diskrepant dives into a Hadean vision of a world where people are half-natural/half-robot, a world where nature is slowly being squeezed by metal and glass. Diskrepant is Stockholm-based Per Ahlund. Previous releases on Fin de Siecle Media include the Folie a Deux EP, plus the 33-12 and Into Sleep albums. [press-release]
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Dislocation -- "Out Of Memory" -- CD-R -- €7
2001 Spirals Of Involution, SOI 026, (ltd. 100)
Japanese improv-noise band Dislocation has a cult status within industrial-noise community, both in the homeland and outside of it. The original blend of saxophone, electronics and guitar allows them to create unique sound more close to the works of Stockhausen then to the traditional Japanese noise artists like Merzbow or Hijokaidan. [label info]
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 -- "Day Of Nemesis" -- CD-R -- €10
2006 Multi National Disaster Records, MNDR 2020 B, (ltd. 132)
European edition of this album, one bonus track, special art-leather package.
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 -- "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 / Errare Humanum Est -- "Howling Silence" -- CD -- €12
2008 Psych.KG, Psych.KG 023, (ltd. 300)
Split of the Japanese noise classic and recently returned on stage German project. DisTable presents long harsh track with sporadic metallic percussive moments and heavy, even death-metal guitar coda. E.H.E. gladdens with four live (w/o processing, synths or computers) rough noise tapestries somewhere close to K2. Vinyl box, colour cover, insert. [YAOP info]
Divisionofdarkradioinduztrie -- "Tek..A.D..Stereo..Apocalypse.." -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Deserted Factory, DF044, (ltd. 200)
Nothing is really known about this anonymous Italian project with the only one released album consisting of three long tracks lasting for nearly 40 minutes. Stylistically it can be described as improvisational guitar ambient, but not dark ambient, rather it's a cinematic collage of slowly moving contemplative melodic themes. Limited edition of 200 hand-numbered copies. [Monochrome Vision]
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DJ Chaban -- "Acid Kishlak" -- CD-RW -- €9
2010 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
Azerbaijanian disco is the base of this album. Hot mix of Sabir's song "Golubka", muslim prayers over hip-hop beats and of course mega-hit "Allah is everywhere" in disco-funk style. This disk will burn the dancefloor! [label info]
DJ Chaban -- "Disco in Aul" -- CD-RW -- €9
2010 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
On this album praising Allah, Chaban remixes Chechen and Dagestan pop music. Rasul Seitov, Timur Bisultanov and Timur Mutsuraev sing over harsh industrial rhythms. Dense and saturated dance sound for true muslims. Recommended to everyone not familiar with chaban-dance. Allah will punish you! [label info]
DJ Chaban -- "Muslim House" -- CD-RW -- €9
2010 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
Psychedelic versions of well-known Tatar singer Michail Bairamukov. Ethnic percussions, ambiental background and classical Tatar pop. [label info]
DJ Chaban -- "Our Caucasus Blossoms" -- CD-RW -- €7
2009 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
A live set of chaban (sheepman) for Natalya Katkova - a cocktail of rhythmic noise, hardcore and IDM - with typical eastern colour. Dedicated to Natalya Katkova. [label info]
DJ Chaban -- "Throat of Slops" -- CD-RW -- €9
2010 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
Trash-horror ambient played on a drum-machine. With samples from cult Soviet cartoon-series "Merry Carousel". [label info]
DJ Chaban -- "Thunder of Georgia" -- CD-RW -- €9
2010 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
Dark industrial: clear rhythms, low noise background and Georgian traditional choir. The album is dedicated to the proud mountain country not willing to to bow and scrape before lousy Russian animals. [label info]
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 -- €8.50
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 -- €4
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]
DN23rd + Light Collapse + Galaxy The Incubator -- "Chants Of Ether" -- CD-R -- €3
2008 B-rush, B-19, (ltd. 48)
Radionoise collaboration.
DN23rd / Strup -- "Spirali Nebitiya" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 self-released, (ltd. 23)
A collaboration between Moscow radionoise 'project' DN23rd and Strup from Bobruisk, Belarus. Three long tracks, combining static interference, ethereal howls and scraps of voices with analogue and digital noise, electronic signals and recordings of unknown origin. All this sound mass oscillates back and forth from one-two layers to dense collage, and during one hour totally erases the idea of normal music from listener's mind. Double sleeve, handmade package.
Donis -- "Alexandreia" -- CD -- €11
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 -- €11
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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Doppelgänger -- "Saturnian Rings" -- CD -- €7
2006 Shadowplay Records, SPR 035
"Saturnian Rings" is the fifth album by one of the oldest and most famous Russian gothic-rock bands. Its career started with modern forms of gothic-rock, and album by album the band's sound comes closer and closer to the early sounds of gothic-rock and post punk. "Saturnian Rings" is some sort of a destination point, some sort of a last house on the block. On this album band appears with absolutely non-commercial outlook, giving up a certain part of its audience for the sake of revival of traditional sound. Band members' interest to the role of Roman God Saturn in medieval alchemic teachings has served as a framework for this album; lyrics to some songs are inspired by writings of Gustav Meyrink, well known Austrian author. This is not just another use of occulted subject as mysterious bait for the listeners. This is a simple historic interest, an effort to reevaluate the historical and intellectual heritage of Western European culture from own point of view. Along with 10 original tracks this album contains 4 bonus tracks. Bonus tracks are the remixes of the DopelgangeR song by Two Witches (Germany/Finland), Redemption (USA), The Way Of All Flesh (UK), Secrecy (Portugal). Also, there is a special appearance of Pavel "NWO" Gromov, the front man of Moscow based band Antisisters. He sings on one of the tracks. [press release]
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]
Dove Yellow Swans -- "Live During War Crimes" -- CD -- €10
2006 Release The Bats Records, RTB 012, (ltd. 1050)
Live During War Crimes is a collection with the best parts from various older releases, all remastered and edited to work as a new fullenght album. The result is a epic mayhem. 6 songs in about 47 minutes. A industrial wasteland of futuristic electronics, hypnotic feedback assaults and atmospheric drones - a beautiful, yet grim, sonic bliss. The material is taken from the Dusk tape (released on Jyrk, the bands own imprint), the Demonic cdr (Hung Like A Horse) and the Drill cdr (Snse). Everything was recorded live between May and June 2004. Comes packaged in a special dual plover styled fullcolor digipack. Cover drawings by Devendra Banhart. [label info]
Down In June -- "Covers... Death In June" -- CD -- €16
2008 Nerus, NERUS 12
Drahomira Song Orchestra -- "The Return Of 120 Magicians" -- CD -- €13
2005 Waystyx, WR19, (ltd. 100)
DSO is the musical offshot of mysterious Institut Drahomira, known for its cinematographic, literary, political and criminal activity, which nevertheless comes beyond our interest. This ensemble was formed in the mid 80's, but the name wasn't mentioned anywhere until the end 90's, when some works was published by labels like Vacuum and Flesh Eating Ants Records. The overall number of albums recorded since then, is near thirty! But most of them are still unreleased and waiting for the lucky moment to see the daylight, as the official website says. They are looking for interested labels, offering their material for a prominent release. One of the first voices around, that was Moscow based label Waystyx, recently interested in analogue soundings and old-school recording techniques quite common for the 80's/90's underground scene. "The Return of 120 Magicians" is an unique, really peculiar album, which can't be compared with anything else. It could be described as mysterious combination of collage recording technique and analogue electronica, the boiling mix of avantgarde, surrealism, nostalgia and grim humour. Musicwise, the structure of tracks is dispersed between several patterns and fragments, repeated sounds that are varied in details, they are swirling around and above you, creating hypnotizing and haunting atmosphere which will overwhelm you since the very beginning. Retro aesthetics, electronic permutations of analogue sources, reviving samples and percussive stringed sounds - all these components are doing the excellent job together, so we must say this one is one of the best albums of the year. [Dmitry Vasilyev, "Independent Electronic Music"]
Drape Excrement / Söldnergeist -- "Black Rider" -- CD -- €10
Steinklang, 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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Dreddup -- "El Conquistadors" -- CD -- €10
2010 Beast Of Prey, bop 7.1, (ltd. 500)
DREDDUP is an industrial, machine, dynamic, and energetic project from Serbia. It is a rare occasion to see a project from the Balkans on the European market. DREDDUP has huge creative potential, and its performances are particularly dynamic, which places it in the forefront of the European industrial scene. Their truly apocalyptic lyrics touch on subjects such as time, transience and existence. 'El Conquistadors' gives you 70 minutes of hardcore, dynamic industrial/rock music similar in fashion to Einstürzende Neubauten, The Young Gods, or Laibach. It is their third album, and it constitutes the last part of the trilogy preoccupied with the notion of time. 'El Conquistadors' tells a story of the here and now and of the boundaries of the human soul. Ladies and gentlemen, we present a cry from the Balkans, a manifesto of the realm of machines, dust and rust... This 70-minute album contains 15 tracks and is available in a full-colour Digipak. Edition of 500 copies. [press-release]
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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 -- €10
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]
Drumm, Kevin -- "Imperial Horizon" -- CD -- €10
2009 Hospital Productions, HOS-251
Imperial Horizon by Kevin Drumm is a further examination into sustained tone as most recently heard on his previous Hospital Productions benchmark album, Imperial Distortion, stretching out minimalism to unreached heights of serene ambient. Lulling electronic drones slowly transform over the course of the hour plus piece in constant flux, echoing both an existential terror and Zen calm. Mutations grow so quietly only the body opens to identify this change while the mind closes. The ephemeral and seeming lightness of the tones hang with taut balance in contrast to the method in which they are overlapped and rotated with deadly Áweight. How wildly divergent emotions rise, hover, and fall using so little is a mystery that only Kevin Drumm can provide. While you may not find an answer, you can certainly get lost in the question. [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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Dvar -- "El Mariil" -- CD -- €10
2010 Shadowplay Records, SPR 112
Hands go round, time go ahead... Now the hour has struck for the 10th anniversary album of the main incognito of Russian musical scene - DVAR! Judging from the hermetical artwork, the artists have returned to early esoterics of the project, filled with magic, alchemic symbolism and bee theurgy. Antropomorphous insectoids post-modernists which appeared in stylish fashion getup on two last dance albums "Zii" É "Fayah!" now switched to astral plane on "El Mariil" and appear as Angel Bees who hover in emerald azure and blow their horns. The sounds of these horns will appeal to those for whom the message of DVAR has ended on last chords of "Roah" and "Rakhilim". Absent of popular electronic arrangements and mentally deranged dances, "El Mariil" is a lyrical message from DVAR, a complex and neoclassical album. This elegant release is destined mainly for the lovers of beautiful and sublime music. [press-release]
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Dvar -- "Jraah Mraah" -- CD -- €10
2007/2010 Shadowplay Records, SPR 116
Reissue of the 2007 album will all cyrillic spelling. Original press-release: "After a year odd of silence DVAR comes back with a new extraordinary creation. "Jraah Mraah" presents 30 finely crafted miniature masterpieces made at the meeting-point of indietronics, gothic, fantasy pop, minimalism and avanguard. Blazing expressive pieces vary from driving ones to meditative, from "cheerful" to tragic. That's possibly how "punk" or "synthpop" should sound if performed by cockroaches, flies and caterpillars from old Soviet cartoons. And really, one can't but admire this inventive sickness in performance! The disc is literally covered with odd obscure atmosphere similar to David Lynch's movies. This feeling, when under a mask of a clown you can see a skull, or when a colorful wrapping of a chocolate sweet hides a pile of dead earthworms inside... Besides traditional fans of Dvar, this album will be surely appreciated by sentimental lovers of touching child's music and other most unusual, experimental and innovative. Unambiguously recommended to the fans of 'Schnappi, das Kleine Krokodil', THE RESIDENTS, DRAGIBUS, PLUXUS, MESSERCHUPS, Yan Tiersen, LITTLE COMPUTER PEOPLE, SNAKESKIN, etc."
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Dvar -- "Madegirah: Bizarre Rares & Early Works" -- CD -- €10
2009 Shadowplay Records, SPR 102
An absolute collection of all kinds of rarities and oddities recorded by the project during their "seclusion" period (1992-1997) and during the recoring of their full-length albums until "Jraah Mraah" (2005). Contains tracks from the legendary cassettes "Dvar" and "Raii". This album is only for true fans of DVAR open for different sides of the project's manifold legacy. 80 minutes and whole 50 tracks of total madness, animated shamanism, theatrical grotesque and gothic surrealism! Specially recommended for the lovers of subtle absurdity and post-modern magic. Contains a cover-version of a track "Fly" of a neo-classical band Caprice. WARNING: this music can seriously injure your mental health for indeterminate period of time. [press-release]
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Dvar -- "Piirrah / Taai Liira" -- CD -- €10
2009 Shadowplay Records, SPR 103
The complete and final reissue of the material from the legendary albums "Piirrah" and "Taai Liira" on one CD with a generous bonus-track section. The occult project DVAR has become known for the "gothic" community after the compilation "Edge Of The Night" released in the year of Millennium. The song "Taai Liira" stood out among the rest of material. Full of inhuman aggression, paranoidal hysteria and infinite pathology this song created at the junction point of darkwave and electronic black metal has opened a window for mass audience. Later followed the release of the first full-length album "Piirrah" in Italy, then powerful stylistical metamorphoses, creation of their own unique style "lightwave", release of 5 albums on Russian label Irond, including "Taai Liira", and many more... This CD presents the complete reissue of "Piirrah" and it's Russian reissue as "Taai Liira" also featuring previously unreleased material. This is a sort of archive mould of surely one of the most dark and sickly chapter in the history both Russian and international "dark scene". [press-release]
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Dvar -- "Rakhilim" -- CD -- €10
2003 Monopoly Records, MONO 002-1103
The music is frivilous and amusing, making you smile and grimace, sometimes slightly sad, sometimes just semi-danceable. Round-dance of elves overdozed with acid. "Started back in early 90's and playing some kind of bizzare 'cartoonish-like' avantguard music, DVAR released several works ('Dvar', 'Raii') which now are rated among big rarities. After long years of silence DVAR returned with a gothic darkwave album 'Piirrah' released in Italy in 2002 and presenting material from the period 1999-2000. A year later the band produced 'Roah'. This time DVAR's style changed once again. It wasn't really 'dark' anymore, but rather melancholic. Oriental and minimalist influences could be easily heard. Music critics claimed it 'lightwave'. DVAR was recording 'Rakhilim' during year 2002, and by now it is the freshiest material of the bizzare formation. With this album DVAR's unique style reaches its artistic and technical purity." [label info]
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Dweller At The Threshold -- "Ouroborus" -- CD -- €10
2001 Hypnos/Binary, HYBY0101
E.P.A. -- "Black Ice" -- CD -- €10
2004 Dorobo, 019, (ltd. 500)
First part of "black | mass" trilogy by Darrin Verhagen (Shinjuku Thief, E.P.A.). A 42 minute slab of sonic violence which is as unmerciful as it is exquisitely crafted. Under his new power electronics pseudonym, Shinjuku Thief's mastermind finds a finely balanced tension between visceral chaos and deliberate nastiness. If all the Shinjuku Thief albums which preceded it suggest the ghostly existence of a very dark world, black ice delivers the map, the accelerator and the searing pain upon arrival. [label info]
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 Incubator / 581C -- "split" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Heart-Shaped Box Prod., HSB-035, (ltd. 25)
Noise / dark ambient split between two Russian industrial projects (also owners of the labels Mind Noise Disintegration and Ostroga/HSB). Sprayed disk in a DVD box, children-made artwork. [YAOP]
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.
Edge of Lament -- "Ka of Fall" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Satanarsa Records, STN-028
A wonderful work coming from Doom subculture, but staying in the context of post-industrial scene. A fine blend of neoclassic, industrial, ambient and post-rock. Melancholic fragments turn into wonderful melodic tunes and industrial rhythms. [YAOP]
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 "(($%$%^%^&((()))^&^&^(*())))" / Cat'n'Bone "einitinnudrndl?rnreeli?" -- CD-R -- €4
2009 Smell The Stench
Ego Death / Cat'n'Bone -- "Bald Split" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 self-released
ED: psychopatic collage noise in best traditions of early Veprisuicids. C'n'B: quality-made harsh noise with pleasant bass passages. Nice! Split is packed in a DVD-box, full-colour print and insert made in aesthetics of Soviet agitation posters. [YAOP description]
Ego Death / Cripple Slaughter -- "Worshippers of Pan" -- CD-R -- €5
2006 Undergrind Productions, (ltd. 35)
Experimental split from the artists from Greece and USA.
Ego Death / God Pussy -- "Habitat" -- CD-R -- €7
SUBliminalRECordings no.184
God Pussy - futuristic dada Negro experimental industrial from Brazil. Ego Death - experimental noise from Greece. [YAOP]
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]
Ego Death / Mixturizer -- "split" -- CD-R -- €7
Smell the Stench / Hard to Digest Stuff, HTDS02 / Sewer Records, SEWER 024, (ltd. 150)
Greek-Spanish split from proto-japanese harsh noise to technogenic noise ambient and feedback based rhythm'n'noise. Urban. Modern. [YAOP info]
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]
Elephant Zyclus -- "Zyclus Over Berlin" -- CD-R -- €9
2002 Afe Records, afe028cd
Please welcome the return of one of the earliest Afe artists: Elephant Zyclus is here again with his second album. Recorded live directly to DAT/MD during many different sessions at Ariols Studio between late 1999 and early 2002, all the tracks were subsequently edited and mixed by A2M at Lips Vago Studio. In his new approach to Techno music Mr. Zyclus takes filtering to the limit while skycrapers of ultra-distorded beats fall down on devilish 303s. Industrial is often just around the corner, repetion and subtle variations abuse the listener from the beginning to the end. [label info]
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Elisabetha -- "Über Das Prinzip Der Unschuld" -- CD -- €10
2007 Beverina Productions, BP 050, (ltd. 500)
14th release of this Austrian act. "Is there a desire to live a life after you awoke? Do you wish to flee? Are you strong enough to be your dream? Are you ready to give up what you think is reality? Can you leave behind your faith and to focus the light of your eyes on perception. You must be willing to learn to live again and to bear the pain of thousands of aeons. Pain will be a friend on your side. You will bring death to your loved ones and this will be the sin of your love." 80 minutes of Neoclassical, Martial and Ambient music with medieval elements. Limited to 500 copies in an elegant gold digipak. Very reminiscent of Von Thronstahl and Blood Axis in places. [label info]
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Elli Riehl -- "Das Brauen Der Feuerwolken / Alraun" -- 2 CD -- €25
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]
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 -- "s/t" -- CD -- €10
2007 Lens Records, LENS0016
Encomiast have been harvesting an audience of enthusiastic music fans for almost a decade now. With six full-length releases, 2 EP's and half a dozen compilation appearances, Encomiast are one of the most highly regarded and prolific artists in the dark ambient/drone genre. For this Self-titled CD - Encomiast mined their extensive early recordings and un-released material to compile, edit and re-master six tracks that give a glimpse into where it all started. Lens Records released Encomiast's Winter's End CD in 2001 - a release recently described as 'a delirious blend of dark dreamy blackened drones and shimmering cinematic ambience' - the tracks on Self-titled revisit much of the same sonic territory. [press-release]
Encomiast -- "Havens" -- CD-R -- €7
2005 Crucial Bliss, Bliss09
This disc contains three exquisite new driftworks from ENCOMIAST, entitled Havens. Formed from vaporous clouds of guitar, gamelan, shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute), violin, vina, voice, flute, and field recordings, Ross Hagen and Megan Garland have stretched these sounds into infinite ribbons of metallic shimmer, twisting and swirling into gorgeous hum. The three tracks on this disc are extended works that range from eleven to twenty-five minutes in length, and drifts within the angelic regions between Andrew Chalk's minimalist explorations, the dream music of Troum (and their predecessor, Maeror Tri), and the bleary melodic smear of My Bloody Valentine. Havens distills the bliss of deep dreams and early morning haze into captured hymns, and is one of ENCOMIAST's finest drone offerings to date. [press-release]
Encomiast -- "Winter's End" -- CD -- €10
2001 Lens Records, LENS0003
The eagerly anticipated full-length CD Winter's End from Encomiast represents the culmination of 2 years of hard work writing, recording and promoting their music to the masses. Since first posting original compositions to MP3.com in April of 1999, Encomiast have established themselves as one of the up and coming artists in the dark ambient/electronic genre. Encomiast have been featured several times on the famous MP3 website including the Halloween 2000 newsletter and special genre page features. Inclusion on a Riffage.com CDRom distributed through the October 2000 issue of SPIN magazine enabled them to reach an even broader audience - an audience that has placed them on the top of the dark ambient radio charts on MP3.com several times. Contributions to several compilation CD releases in the near future only help to confirm that Encomiast are a trip everyone wants to take. [press-release]
Endraum -- "In Flimmernder Nacht" -- CD -- €11
2006 Shadowplay Records, SPR 029
Russian reissue with bonus tracks.
Endraum -- "Innerlichkeit" -- CD -- €11
2006 Shadowplay Records, SPR 027
Russian reissue with bonus tracks.
Endraum -- "Zeitenlicht" -- CD -- €11
2006 Shadowplay Records, SPR 028
Russian reissue with bonus tracks.
Eonic -- "Shadows" -- CD -- €7
2005 Oskorei Music / Abgurd Subdivision, (osmcd 015) / AB-20
Album `Shadows` by EONIC - a project from the South of Russia - was recorded in 2003 and got multiple enthusiastic reviews in zines and web-zines. Reviewers noticed reminiscences of ANTHESTERIA, WEJDAS, DONIS, AMETHYSTIUM, DELERIUM & even ALLERSEELEN `Venezia` & `Neueschwabenland`. `Shadows` brings forth 50+ minutes of calm, soft electronic Ambient with a touch of oriental-style melodies. The album takes you to absolute serenity from Beyond. With its marvelous pieces it builds castles in the air, creates out-worlds, spreads forth yearning for the parallel spaces. [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 -- €13
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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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]
Europaplan -- "Arme de Vengeance/ Vergeltungswaffe" -- CD -- €10
2002 Achtung Baby!, ABCD003
Europaplan is a new joint project by well-known French group Nocturne and German total sound ideologists Axon Neuron/Vagwa, who have been working long time in the vein of power-electro experiences and archive documentation of WWII. The central theme of their new research is a history of creation of the one of the most legendary German military rockets - 'a weapon of revenge' A4/V2 (Von Braun/Dornberger konzeption). Both musicians represented here a sound expressive and quite exciting monumental document: uncompromising bubbling "military" industrial and abrasive power-electro sounds, obscure war noise outfit, deep rumbling from hell, wrapped in a gristly sleeve, its sound like a true chronic documentary soundtrack with big amount of sampled voices in German from the past and wartime narration. [label info]
Ex.Order -- "The Law Of Heresy" -- CD -- €11
1997/2010 Industrial Recollections, IR-EX01b
Re-issue of famous 1997 tape of Ex.Order. Presenting the band at their gloomy and dark approach to german power electronics. Throbbing echo drenched and suffocating material atmosphere. Oscillating synthesizers, vocals, samples, loops.. Including collaborations with Dagda Mor and Dies. Original artwork used and sound mastered from DAT tape showing the clarity and power as it originally was! [press-release]
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 -- "Radionarayan" -- CD-R -- €8
2007 Daphnia Records, ph08
This time Exit In Grey, reduced to one member [S], experiments with combining guitar drones and radionoises, and does it really successfully! More than an hour of calm yet energetic meditative drone music.
Exit In Grey -- "Raktasonic" -- CD-R -- €8
2009 Daphnia Records, ph09
This album contains early recordings from 2004, made only by [S], one half of the duo. Minimal guitar drone ambient with resonating harmonies.
Exit In Grey -- "Sub Pluvia" -- CD-R -- €8
2007 Daphnia Records, ph07
"This work is dedicated to all those forlorn during the rain." Emotional guitar drone ambient with uneasy and sorrowful atmosphere. Each track features sounds of rain, thunder or flowing drops. This is the most rough album of the project because of wide use of distorted guitar.
Exotoendo -- "Push Kara" -- CD -- €12
Athanor, ATNR 008
Exotoendo "Push Kara" has impressed all our distributors and customers for its ritual sound qualities somewhere between Lustmord and the Bonpos ritual. Once again, a must have for the dark ambiant/ritual lovers. This is also the second CD of this french project after one on Old Europa Cafe. One hour of ambiant ritual music recorded in an old industrial vat, which has been since destroyed. Push Kara is inspired by the Tibetan Book of the Dead, however the music is not only an interpretation of the Bardo-Thodol but is also the reflection of a reality: the essence expressed in the Bardo. Push Kara express the 6 states between life/death/rebirth, as explained in the booklet. Abundant and pure sound (which reflects the atmosphere of the strange place where it was recorded) with a few voices, percussions, pipes, violin and singing bowls. [label info]
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Exsanguinate / La Infame Turba De Nocturnas Aves -- "Allegory Of Death" -- CD -- €10
2003 Misanthrope Studio, MS003, (ltd. 500)
Each band presents it's own sonic Allegories of Death... meditations on that inevitability we all fear and at the same time are fascinated by. To set the tone Exsanguinate starts with a commanding and urgent track, flush with militaristic undercurrents in it's opening moments. From there the material evolves into something more abstract and steeped in dread with tendrils stretching into elements of clinical drone and throbbing frequencies to a more introspective ambient chaos. [l-i-t-d-n-a] rounds out the disc with their unique blend of deep tones, harsh frequencies, gentle pulses against an almost ambient feedback. Squalls, static, interjecting beats, squirming distortions and vocalizations accentuate an anxious,looming reality. [l-i-t-d-n-a] closes among fluid environmental recordings juxtaposed with clanks and pulse beats, to provide the score for a yet to be discovered altered state, one in which reason is elusive. [press-release]
Exterior Mirror -- "Hupp" -- CD -- €10
1996 Katyn Records, KAT-01
Deep ambient electronics from the Chicago artist Claude Willey.
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]
Falkenstein -- "Kraftort" -- CD -- €14
2009 Heimatfolk, HF 08
Falkenstein -- "Urdarbrunnen" -- CD -- €14
2008 Heimatfolk, HF 04 / Kraftplatz Records, KRPL 02
False Mirror -- "North" -- CD -- €11
2007 Thonar Records, TR.04
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]
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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Faust / Nurse With Wound -- "Disconnected" -- CD -- €13
2007 Art-errorist, D/DIS1/07
A collaboration album between Colin Potter (Faust) and Steven Stapleton (Nurse With Wound).
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 Konstruktor & Mourmansk 150 -- "Arson Acrimony" -- CD-R -- €8
2008 Spirals Of Involution, SOI 052
Power Electronics.
Feindflug -- "Feindflug (Vierte Version)" -- CD -- €14
1999 Black Rain, BR 001
Feindflug -- "Hirnschlacht" -- CD -- €14
2002 Black Rain, BR 012
Feindflug -- "Im Visier" -- mCD -- €12
1999 Black Rain, BR 003
Feindflug -- "Sterbehilfe EP" -- mCD -- €12
2000 Black Rain, BR 008
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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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 -- "Come Closer, Cut Deeper" -- CD -- €10
2005 Nihilist, NIHIL 33
A fine combination of power electronics, piercing loud, but not just banging on the distortion pedal, there is strong undercurrent in this music that is related to ambient industrial. Throughout 'Come Closer Cut Deeper' seemed to me louder and noiser than last week's 'Meditate/Mutilate', which had a few calmer moments to spare. Also a little bit less varied than that one. But Fire In The Head is a noise force who knows what he is doing, still. This new one might appeal to the die hard fans. [Vital Weekly]
Fire In The Head -- "Meditate / Mutilate" -- CD -- €12
2006 Eibon Records, Fir063
Power noise. The straightjacket has been removed, the medication has worn off and the delusions have intensified. F/I/T/H has returned to spread the poison with 'Meditate/Mutilate', a schizophrenic and volatile mix of seething, harsh electronics, dark ambience and tortured vocals. From the blackest depths of neurosis to the apex of unrestrained psychosis, the ten tracks on this cd hone F/I/T/H's dual-edged blade to perfection... The assault has just begun. There's a world out there. Prepare to bleed. [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 -- €10
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 -- "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]
First Human Ferro -- "Motherwards" -- CD -- €10
2002 Eldritch Music, em011ee, (ltd. 999)
Non-extremal monochrome noise pieces - psychoanalytic exploration of mothers archetype. Jewel-case with full-color print.
First Human Ferro feat. Kenji Siratori -- "Adamnation" -- CD -- €12
2007 Eibon Records, Fhf071
What happens when modern classical music meets power noise, female sopranos meet dark ambiences, harsh death industrial voices melt with traditional melodies? First Human Ferro are bringing experimental music to new territories... [label info]
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Five Elements Music -- "Herbal Cemetery" -- CD-R -- €8
2009 Still*Sleep, SS19
Two long ambient tracks made of field recordings: rustling leaves, herbs, branches, blowing wind, etc. An immersion into sonic micro world filled with it's unordinary life.
Five Elements Music -- "Isolation & Echoscopy" -- CD-R -- €8
2007 Still*Sleep, SS13
One more exploration of elements by FEM this time is based on prepared sounds produced by human body. All kinds of crunches, gurglings and wheezes are plaited in sophisticated sound tracery with FEM's trademark sound. An interesting phisiological experiment - listen to what your body can make in the hands of the artist.
Five Elements Music -- "Kapotte Muziek By" -- CD-R -- €9
2008 Moving Furniture Records, MFR001, (ltd. 100)
The Dutch duo of Frans de Waard and Roel Meelkop traveled all the way to St. Petersburg, Russia in May 2008, where they did some live performances as Kapotte Muziek. From these performances one has been reworked by the Russian sound/drone artist [S] who also works under the name Five Elements Music. The result is an amazing piece combining field recordings with metal scrapping and oozing drones. [label info]
Five Elements Music -- "Magic Of Deconstructor Band" -- CD-R -- €8
2005 Still*Sleep, SS08
Rustling and slightly ringing ambient sometimes turning into drone, collected from processed field recordings. Very calm atmosphere like with always that [S] creates.
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Five Elements Music -- "Mystic Echo" -- CD-R -- €8
2006 Still*Sleep, SS11
Isolationist and somewhat vague ambient collage based on field recordings with ghostly and distant sound. Everything is imbued with sounds of wind, quiet but fairly tense. Heavily transformed resonating soundflows of winds in their enviroments... These are mystic echoes, pseudo-subterranean vibrations, faint sounds of surroundings, chime of bell and glass... Entangled in the light haze of air streams. [label info]
Five Elements Music -- "New Communications: One" -- CD-R -- €8
2006 Still*Sleep, SS09
Russian project FEM works approximately in the same conceptual course as Japanese Aube, but oriented towards "natural" approach. While Aube uses only one sound source for an album, may it be tone generator's waves or sounds of water, FEM chooses only 5 elements: air, water, earth and stone. And while Aube often goes mad with building mathematically precise multy-level constructions with hi-fi sound, FEM on the contrary inherited droning structure of tracks from other projects of [S] (Sister Loolomie, Exit In Grey) with muffled lingering sounds. This album starts with literally stone ambient but by 10th minute the identification of sound practically disappears and only sometimes kind of familiar timbres emerge: cicadas, radionoises, etc.
Five Elements Music -- "Nexus" -- CD-R -- €8
2008 Still*Sleep, SS15
Electroacoustic ambient made from field recordings. The album consists of two long tracks. The first one, unlike many F.E.M. recordings, has dense and saturated sounding. The second one is more smooth and calm in atmosphere, but not less in density of sound - several sonic layers collide and create multifarious wave pattern drawing inside like a swirl in which you can notice every tiny detail while drowning...
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 -- "VarunaGhat" -- CD-R -- €14
2007 Mystery Sea, MS40, (ltd. 100)
Russian project Five Elements Music is a shoot coming from Exit In Grey's rich compost of sound experiments, and also Sergey's solo highly organic vehicle... The name comes from a vedic concept of "Five Elements" (ETHER, Air, Fire, Water, Earth) needed to have a global approach of reality, one that goes beyond appearances, words and consciousness for an enhanced experience of Life both on an emotional, physical & spiritual level... ETHER is the central element of this bouquet, holding all forms & colors, and the human body is the perceptual tool... Five Elements Music paints a sound canvas, trying to reach a sort of supra-awareness through the manipulation of chosen sensible sonic fragments coming from some essential elemental sources... [label info]
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Five Elements Music & [D] -- "New Communications: Two" -- CD-R -- €8
2006 Still*Sleep, SS12
From the author: "My first collaboration work with Diona. The work of this artist is quite diverse... in this case it's presented in two acts. In the first act this is more post-industrial material... short distorted loops, pulsations, modulations and knocks. Pretty abrasive and rusty. In the second act she synthesises pleasand and lingering ambient. Droning and near static. Tones are layering one over another, hanging in the air and returning back to the un-revealed. Developing her creativity in these directions, she undoubtedly reaches very successful results. And I sincerely hope we'll hear again from her. Some nice and recognizable material was sumbitted by FEM as well."
Five 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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Fjernlys -- "Beyond The Undulant Quiescence" -- CD -- €14
2010 Loki Foundation, LOKI 51
Flat Affect -- "Mute Verses" -- CD-R -- €8
2008 Smell The Stench
Horribly suicidal dark ambient with rhythmic moments full of documental recordings of phone calls and doomed confessions. Total "Twin Peaks". Endless repeat of the muddy tragedy pf Laura Palmer in the atmosphere of emetic impassable psychiatry. Very qualitatively and talented, yet too scary. [YAOP description]
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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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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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]
Flugkudf -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Zhivu, Zhivu06-88
Improvisation social-military-mystia-apocalyptic music linen from coal sladge-doom-hard-core guitar riffs, bass, drums, vocal semples and opera undercuts. On a guitar is Sergey Ilchuk, +3 other, is complete composition of Yaroslavl ECHOES OF ETHER. Printing the raising layers of this time. Sludge \ Doom \ Hardcore \ Experimental. 3 tracks 30 minutes, colour envelope. [press-release]
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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 -- €13
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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Folkstorm -- "Hurtmusic" -- CD -- €10
2000 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 033
Second release on OEC by this new side project of MZ.412 leader Mr. Nordvargar! This album was recorded live at Nar Mattaru on March 11 2000 in front of a selected audience, this is just the first bombastic live attack, prepare yourself for more powerful assaults by the new master of power-electronics, many live gigs are planed! Full colour cover presenting a kind of renascence pictures with a fine touch of s/m. [press-release]
Folkstorm -- "Information Blitzkrieg" -- CD -- €10
1999/2000 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 028, 2nd. ed.
Folkstorm is the solo project of Mr. Kremator Nordvargr, mind of MZ.412! The sounds on this album are quiet different and not related to MZ.412, although this is heaviest power-electronics and old school industrial... ranging from real beating tracks to more noisy ones with lots of sampled voices! a masterpiece of new industrial muzak, no politics, no religion, no standard. The first 470 copies was sold during the pre-seals, second print available... [press-release]
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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Folkstorm -- "Victory Or Death" -- CD -- €10
2000/2009 Cold Spring, CSR31CD
Death Industrial / Power Electronics. The mammoth sound of Folkstorm in captured here, on what has been called the project's finest album to date! Samples of war, speeches, harsh noise, heavy gritty vocals. Distorted rhythms and extremely intense sonics fuse into this mammoth blast of war themed assaults. Executed with brutal thoroughness by Nordvargr, of MZ.412, Toroidh etc. Brilliantly re-mastered, unlimited 2nd edition with modified artwork for 2009. [label info]
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Food For Fantasy -- "The Secret of Dreamin'" -- CD -- €11
2006 Spheric Music, SMCD 2012
Foundation Hope -- "Our God Is A Consuming Fire" -- CD -- €11
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 -- €13
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]
Franklin, Martin & Northam, Michael -- "An Opening Of The Earth: Recovered" -- CD -- €11
2008 Faria Records, FAR-23, (ltd. 500)
':.excavating the sonic crust with heavy synthesised drones, trebly buzzes and popping bursts of sound::eerie as hell.'
Darren Bergstein, I/E (from review of original release)... "An Opening Of The Earth: Recovered" revisits a spontaneous collaboration between the two musicians, captured in the early 90's. Recorded in an obsolete format, no longer playable with today's technology. The old playback device, recovered from dusty storage for one last use, and the recording of this event brought back into the present - recovered once again.At once a sonic artifact of the recent past and a touchstone for contemporary developments in lo-fi electronic sound... Franklin and Northam's original meeting saw them both on the cusp of developments in their own careers. Franklin's seminal Ambient trio, TUU shortly after embarked on an enduring series of CD releases and performances across Europe. Michael Northam's nomadic life as a travelling sound artist continued from this point onward, leaving a trail of recorded evidence from projects in 25 countries... Mythic imagery of man descending into the mysteries of the Inner Earth is conjured in this intense recorded performance.Using lo-fi sampling, eerie drones, percussive metal instruments and effects, the players trace an intuitive path through a midnight electronic improvisation. Snippets of sound from other projects of that time slip in and out of the mix, roughly recorded Theatre rehearsals, and audio of UK street life appear from dictaphone tapes. Like an unearthed archeological find, the recordings of this ritualistic performance tie the pieces to their location, as well as the events of their time... After unearthing the original tapes, Martin Franklin has created all new mixes for this Faria Records release, including previous unheard sections, re-interpreted and enhanced for the 21st Century listener. [press-release]
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Freiband -- "Replicas" -- CD -- €10
2007 Monochrome Vision, (mv19), (ltd. 500)
Highly conceptual project that combines features of remix, recycling and plagiarism - the re-interpretation of classic album by Asmus Tietchens 'Daseinsverfehlung'. All what can be heard on this CD, as always in case of Frans de Waard framework, is made from music that already existed: every sound, word in titles and even the cover picture - all is just processing and manipulation techniques. Frans de Waard was born in 1965 in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. His experiments with sound started back in 1980 when he just was using tape recorder, guitar and household objects. The first ever piece recorded was published in "Katacombs vol.III" compilation tape, released by Karsten Rodemann on his Graf Haufen Tapes label in Germany, 1984. So it becames the moment when Kapotte Muziek was formed, and then also Korm Plastics label, bothe of them are still existing until today. Initially, Frans teamed up with Christian Nijs, but in 1987 the latter one left, soon replaced by Peter Duimelinks, who was very active in that time with V2-Organisation (the big independent label, production center and publishing company, later just obscured by Staalplaat) and multimedia performance group THU20. Another musician from this group, Roel Meelkop, also got involved with Kapotte Muziek later, in 1996. Actually, THU20 had many participants and was more influenced by realtime composition, while Kapotte Muziek is very conceptual project dedicated to timeless and continuous exploration of recycled sound, whether acoustic or electronic ones. What you hear is like slow shimmering, irregular pulsations or some crackles pushing the limits of audibility and then pushed away by silence. So it seems that almost each piece ever recorded can be also used for further processing. Besides Kapotte Muziek, Frans currently also plays in Beequeen duo with Freek Kinkelaar, runs Plinkity Plonk and other small labels, writes tons of reviews for the Vital Weekly newsletter. When he just get some free time, becomes active with various side-projects like Goem (minimal techno), Quest (ambient), Shifts (post-rock), Captain Black (remixes) etc. Freiband is also one of his solo projects. [press-release]
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freq_out -- "freq_out [0-∞Hz]" -- CD -- €12
2003 Ash International, Ash 5.8
'freq_out' is an international group consisting of sound artists, architects, composers, producers, sculptors, mathematicians and visual artists and curated by Swedish artist Carl Michael von Hausswolff. Each artist is assigned a frequency range with which to work. This process is carried out in situ, each using a workstation consisting of a mixing desk and PA system. All the resulting compositions are then amplified together in the space to create a sound installation or performance. The project reveals how space-specific certain frequencies can be, but also how other sounds can be separated from their source and 'thrown' around the space. It also shows how sound 'fits' (or not) into the space provided by exploring the complexities of frequencies and their interaction. The final mix not only reveals the innate properties of the frequencies, but also the possibilities when they are combined. This CD contains sound material prepared by the artist for their first event which took place at Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark, in June 2003. 12 tracks are provided by participating artists (Petteri Nisunen & Tommi Grönlund, Brandon LaBelle, Hans Sydow, Jana Winderen, PerMagnus Lindborg, J.G. Thirlwell, Kent Tankred, Mike Harding, Jacob Kirkegaard, BJ Nilsen, Franz Pomassl, Finnbogi Pétursson) and 13th track is a 'collective' arranged by BJ Nilsen.
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freq_out -- "freq_out 2" -- CD -- €11
2005 Ash International, Ash 6.8
C.M. von Hausswolff writes: "We have created a totally new concept for making music. This idea is based upon respect, division and assemblage. The orchestra is dead! The band is dead! The ensemble is dead! Long live the new organic frequency output autocracy! This is the eve of the new music of the 21st Century". The 2nd freq_out cd after Ash 5.8 [2004] features the usual suspects; curated and conducted by Carl Michael von Hausswolff, freq_out 2 was recorded and performed for Ultima the Oslo Music Festival 2004, at the Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Norway, by: BJNilsen, J. G. Thirlwell, Jacob Kirkegaard, Jana Winderen, Maia Urstad, Kent Tankred, Finnbogi Petursson, PerMagnus Lindborg, Brandon LaBelle, Franz Pomassl, Mike Harding and Tommi Grönlund & Petteri Nisunen. Much more 'ambient' than the spikey, threatening sonic conflict of the first freq_out CD [Ash 5.8, 2004], this second piece was featured in frieze magazine "Each detail, each instance of noise and silence, simply contributes to the kind of complex atmospheric and emotional swelling that most of us think of as the very essence of musicality. It has to be said: as music, Freq_Out provides a hugely enjoyable experience, and it gets better the longer you spend with it, as you gradually become attuned to the variations of this coming together of sound spaces. But it also has to be said that the integrative force of 'the mix' soon gives the territorial metaphor a more precise definition: that of a landscape. For this constantly evolving soundscape most of all evokes the kind of uncontrollable change produced by natural phenomena - but viewed as one big sublime process." [Ina Blom]
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]
Freya Aswynn -- "Shades Of Yggdrasil" -- CD -- €11
1995/2002 Fremdheit, FREMD CD 93
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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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 -- €4
2009 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT38, (ltd. 62)
The age of steam technology left almost the same mark in mankind culture history as stone or bronze ages. Locomotives, steamboats, manufactures based on steam power - all this formed the basis for civilization in XIX and early XX centuries. Now this age is gone but it still inspires technical artists working in different genres. The Moscow based project Frozen Ocean also paid it's homage in the form of beautiful old school industrial dark ambient album dedicated to steam technology. Now even the official mass media seriously consider the possible demise of modern industry based on electrical energy (2012 cataclysm) and who knows, maybe today's state of steam machines is just a hibernation before future awakening?... Sleeve + insert. [press-release]
Frozen 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]
Gae Bolg -- "Petite Introduction Aux Pratiques Des Gymnosophes" -- CD -- €15
2009 Le Cluricaun, CL014
Gae Bolg vs. Omne Datum Optimum -- "s/t" -- mCD -- €10
2005 self-released, 7vsXXI, (ltd. 467)
4 tracks, 2 from each band, previouly unreleased. CD comes in cartonsleeve and is limited to 467 pieces.
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 -- "Broadcast For Victims Of Black Comet" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 óËÏÔÏÍÏÇÉÌØÎÉË, SM010, (ltd. 13)
7 tracks of soft slightly processed radionoise. The disc is packed in old manuals and drafts found at Onega Ship-Building Plant. [label info]
Galaxy The Incubator -- "Morning Cunt-Akt" -- CD-R -- €2
2008 Mind Noise Disintegration, [MND-15]
Release of well-known petrazavodsk project. Samples, radionoise, feedback and more in total noise elaboration. 3 sick tracks on a half of hour, 1st - for shizo meditation, 2nd for action of 1st and also for psychadelic dances, final 3rd track created for put into hypnotic trance the listener. [label info] DIY-artwork: the CD is wrapped in a sheet of paper with a hand-drawn picture.
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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]
Galaxy The Incubator / Mudenoise -- "Ideological enemies" -- CD-RW -- €5
2008 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
A farcical split of the project from Petrozavodsk, Russia, and St.Petersburg's chaban Mudenoise. GTI makes non-typical pop-noise, Mudenoise gives himself a try in cyclic noise-ambient. [label info]
Galerie Schallschutz -- "Cocoon - Live In Antwerp" -- CD + DVD -- €19
2008 Tesco Organisation, TESCO073
"Only the awakening of the individuals from prejudice and recovering from the capacity to act will collapse the entity." GALERIE SCHALLSCHUTZôs first ever live appearance at the Tesco Festival / Antwerp 2007 is now available on DVD-Video and CD! With the sole purpose of giving the audience a great night's entertainment, not just the usual mundane "live act", Galerie Schallschutz have put together an exceptionally amazing multimedia show with a profound stage concept. To maximise attention G.S. have optimised their performance almost theatrically, with a highly topical theme that covers the controlling of willpower, observation and constrictions of individual basic rights, and the ideology of freedom! Moreover, the musical concept with its layered ambient-drones, deep pulsed frequencies and manipulated interferences, was produced specifically for this special event and contains completely new, and most importantly, previously unreleased sounds. This rare and exclusive live recording of the outstandingly excellent debut in Belgium was skillfully filmed and tastefully produced by a professional German TV- and multimedia company! The 2 disc edition comes in a luxury 6-panel DVD digipak and includes additional information in the 8-page glossy inlet booklet. Box-set includes the full 46 min. Video Pal Stereo DVD in region free quality and a live 6-track Audio CD. "For all who still want to think - For all who still can think." [press-release]
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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 -- €4
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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Gelsomina -- "Greenaway" -- CD-R -- €11
2006 Multi National Disaster Records, MNDR 2012, (ltd. 200)
7 Track CDr about the Moviemaker Peter Greenaway, most brutal Finn-NOISE, lim. edition of only 200 numbered copies in cardboardsleeve w/ orig. photographs. [label info]
Gelsomina -- "Silver Screen" -- CD-R -- €7
2003 Deserted Factory, DF0008, (ltd. 55)
The legend of Finnish harsh-noise on Japanese label. Sleeve. [YAOP description]
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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Gen 26 -- "A Door To..." -- 3"CD-R -- €5
2007 Mask of the Slave, MS-009, (ltd. 100)
GEN 26 is dedicated to sound experimentation, natural, urban noise, sound deviation and manipulation. All this is done on the level of improvisation through self-thought manipulation elements. Sound source: balloons, electronics, kitchen fork & small spoon. Great Slovenian project created by Matjaz Galicic. [label info]
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 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 -- €11
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]
Genocide Organ -- "Leichenlinie 1989 / 2009" -- CD -- €14
1989/2010 Tesco Organisation, TESCO 080
20 years have passed since :Leichenlinie: got released the 1st time, and 10 years since it got released the 2nd time as CD accompanied with the :Truth will make you free: album. And now it shines here as the totally remastered 20 years anniversary edition. Completed with 2 additional tracks recorded around the same time and formerly released on the Monochrome Meditator MC only (SSSM / Japan 1991). This material stands for one of the most wanted records in this genre for all times. :Leichenlinie: remains as an outstanding release in the german post industrial music genre. The well-balanced music contains power electronic rhythm based tracks as well as dark drowning ambient pieces with haunting samples. Tracks like Klaus Barbie, Mind Control and Come Orgasm are played on various stations, parties and radios for the last 20 years. The two additional tracks, so far unknown to the majority, are fitting perfectly to the line-up of the early industrial-rhythm driven sound of the band. The CD version comes in a nice spot varnished digipack with the logo debossed on the front cover, similar to : In-Konflikt :. Genocide Organ got founded in 1985. :Leichenlinie: compiled G.O. material that got recorded between 1987-1989 at Strebelwerk / Mannheim. Originally released in 1989 as Tesco 001. :Leichenlinie: is still an outstanding milestone in europeon "post industrial" music as it let loose new creative energy of a genre which was thought to be dead. The socio-political criticism, and cultural-terrorist approach is inherent. A document of its time! The opening opus of the bands restless striving for more depth in a shallow reality, in a society that likes to hide the unpleasant and controversial sides of life. The phrase "noli me tangere" is no longer in effect! [press-release]
Genocide Organ -- "Remember" -- 2 CD -- €18
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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Geriht -- "Ruins Of Humanity" -- CD -- €9
2010 Rigorism Production, RP044, (ltd. 500)
Dismal Drone Ambient with dusty cello sound and periodical invasions of slooooow Depressive Suicidal Black Metal with typical Burzum-ish guitar tunes. Artwork contains dark landscape photos. [YAOP]
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.
Ghosts Of Breslau -- "And Should the Spring Come..." -- CD -- €11
2007 Twilight Records, TW 1.35, (ltd. 555)
After the big success of the oficial release of "Peste" album (we sold 500 copies in no more than 3 weeks) now a new piece of food of martial industrial ambient fans!!. "And Should The Spring Come..." - long awaited second album by Ghosts Of Breslau. Thirteen brand new tracks, more than 54 minutes of amazing, haunted sounds, inspired by old songs and poems from Polish resistance movement from World War II. This is a tribute to brave men and women who kept on fighting even when all hope seemed to be lost. You will not forget this album after listen it, cinematic, deep, dark and full of evocative moments. [press-release]
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Ghosts Of Breslau -- "Peste" -- CD -- €11
2007 Twilight Records, TW 1.33
Finally the long awaited album "Peste" originally released in a CDR format in only 150 copies, will be officially release under TW. The dark ambient martial act GHOSTS OF BRESLAU only appeared with some tracks in different compilations. Music "Peste" is a voyage to the beginning of the World War II - a time when the world was on fire. Postindustrial, apocalyptic war hymns, dark evocations of the forces now hopefully forgotten. Neoclassic, industrial, Martial music! "Breslau was the German name of Wroclaw, a city in southwestern Poland, Lower Silesia. Since the beginnig Wroclaw was multicultural town, where Poles, Germans, Czechs, Jews and many more nations lived together - sometimes peacefully, sometimes not. Throughout history Wroclaw was Polish, German, Czech and Austrian. The influences of all cultures are still visible. The XXth century and especially the events of both World Wars left strong marks in the spirit of this city. Ghosts of the past are still present here. Ghosts of Breslau. In my music I try to capture the unique soul of this city and madness of the totalitarian ideologies". [press-release]
Ghosts Of Breslau -- "Sacred Place" -- CD -- €11
2008 Twilight Records, TW 1.50
Third album by GHOSTS OF BRESLAU, this time it's a collection of material from numerous compilations, split releases and never before published tracks. Including extremely limited and hard to get "Gas" mini-cd (released by Z-Bugle Records in China), very special song "Warszawa" (intended for now defunct "63 Days" - 7" vinyl series from Fluttering Dragon) and special guest appearance by Ritual Front. 18 amazing soundscapes that will haunt you for a long time... We all have a sacred place - what's yours? [press-release]
Gielareck -- "Asfalt" -- CD-R -- €9
2003 Nefryt, N 011, (ltd. 222)
Le bruit composition in 17- chapters. This is story about asphalt production. Very intelligent postindustrial, best in Poland! Atmosphere of power-stations, factories, labolatories... Special cover co-existent with music. Limited & hand numbered edition of 222 copies. [press-release]
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Giffoni, Carlos -- "Arrogance" -- CD -- €10
2007 No Fun Productions, NFP08
Five chapters of sound inspired by one of the most powerful and complex emotions of humankind. Arrogance is a departure from the digital machine insanity of his previous full length release, Welcome Home (Important Records), for a world of total analog electronics, primal energy, walls of monumental sound and precise attention to layers - creating massive slowly evolving structures that are both beautiful and terrifying. Arrogance is the first CD release on the No Fun Productions label. Recorded live with no overdubs in Brooklyn during a 12 month period by Carlos Giffoni and mastered by James Plotkin. Cover artwork by award winning artist/designer Megan Ellis. [label info]
Gira, Michael -- "Live in B2, Moscow, 23.09.2004" -- CD-R -- €11
Invisible Hand Distribution, IHD 033, (ltd. 100)
Solo concert of Swans leader in Moscow. Handmade swastika-like package, all info is habdwritten. Megarare. [YAOP]
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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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 -- "Ogre" -- CD-R -- €2
2007 self-released
Collage electro aggro-industrial from France. Wild and energetic, but often non-structural music, compiled from noises, rhythms and heavy guitar samples.
Glaukom Synod -- "Uczulony" -- CD-R -- €3.50
self-released
Schizoid electro-industrial from France with sampled metal parts.
Global Darkness -- "World of Terror" -- CD-R -- €6
2005 Capre Noctem, CN5, (ltd. 150)
Dark ambient one-man project from Belgium. All that disturb and inspire us. Piano sketches, public figures' voices, steps, statics, fly, voices. The new picture of a trip to the world of everyday terror and outside. [Vetvei]
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]
Gods Of Electricity -- "Sundiving" -- CD -- €11
2006 Faith Strange, fs6, (ltd. 600)
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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: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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Grassow, Mathias -- "Ambience" -- CD -- €13
1995/2005 Divine Frequency, DivF04
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 -- "Namakar" -- CD -- €11
1997 Lunar, L 199702, (ltd. 1000)
In the words of the artist "Namakar is a description of four different initiation rites: Aboriginal Australian, Egyptian, Native American and Tibetan. Like the four dimensions, these are four possible cardinal points to consider the own psyche, the most fascinating and complex building of the creative genius. The divine in me is greeting the divine in you... in remembrance to the great sacred spirit testimony of our ancestors." All 5 tracks were composed and written by Mathias Grassow in 1995 utilizing keyboards, synthesizers, singing bowls, programmed rhythms, sequencers and natural sound effects and samples. "My life and music have only one aim: To learn more about denominationless spirit in life and music, and to give back my experiences to the people." Born in 1963, Mathias Grassow has spent nearly his entire life living in Wiesbaden, Germany making music and sound. Those artists who had the greatest influence on young Grassow included Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Pink Floyd, Yes, Stephan Micus, David Hykes and especially Klaus Wiese, whose singing-bowl music can be heard as an influence on this CD. By the early 80as Grassow had been introduced to spirituality and the works of Alan Watts. It was at this time that he devoted his life to a study of the spiritual energy flow and charge of music and of life. He has intensively studied Buddhism, the Sufis, mystic Christianity and many Celtic and Viking cultures. "More and more I felt in love with real spiritual power in music, found especially in overtone chanting and in North India Raga music." Grassow's recent work has reflected these attitudes as he exclusively works with synthesizer drones and all kinds of overtone music and its effects on the human psyche. [label info]
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, 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 -- €13
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 -- "Conscience" -- CD -- €11
2006 Nextera, ERA 2041-2
An authority between the human made ego and his creator. The conscience is a regulator and gives always precisely feedback about our emotional actions. Everyone has the free will to accept this. Many people have forgotten to follow their inner voice. Instead their decisions are depended on status symbols and social standards. This music don't want to entertain you, but give you a view inside your "self". As soon as we have spirit, mind and body together we are practising the truth. [label info]
Grassow, Mathias & Weiss, Thomas -- "Insights" -- CD-R -- €11
2007 Practising Nature, PN07023
Thomas Weiss and Mathias Grassow creating a new sound, which works well for the traditional and contemporay listener. Deep and reflective. [label info]
Grassow, Mathias & Weiss, Thomas -- "Outland" -- CD -- €11
2007 Faria Records, FAR-13, (ltd. 500)
A reflection from outer spaces in between the universe of our mind. A miniature of the endless space from far behind mankinds tangibility. To understand the real essence of the heart of the matter, often it is necessary to take a look from the distance. Just this distance shows structures and connections, which are otherwise impossible to see and grasp - because everyone himself is part of a certain situation. Therefore 'Outland' stands for a journey into an 'outer land', to become an advanced view for realization. Luxury pack with artworks of Markus Vogt. [press-release]
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Gregory -- "Restart Now" -- CD -- €9
2004 Monopol Records, monopolrecords 001, (ltd. 500)
Greinke, Jeff -- "Lost Terrain" -- CD -- €10
1992/1999 Hypnos, hyp1916
Excellent move on the part of Hypnos to re-issue this jewel of atmospheric music. Lost Terrain is really the most accessible and accomplished album from Jeff Greinke's body of work. Very different from some of his more experimental adventures, Lost Terrain cultivates a melancholy reserve through delicate melodic structures, restrained decorative elements, even subtle ethnic influences. This "lost terrain" being reclaimed would seem to be the very terrain of being, of the profound search for one's self. A quest for identity which results in a music both introspective and transporting. [Via 2, Orleans, France]
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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The Grey Wolves -- "Judgement" -- CD -- €14
2009 Hospital Productions, HOS-247
Griffin, M. -- "Fabrications" -- CD -- €12
2008 Hypnos, hyp2806
Grilli, Gianfranco -- "Come to the Light of Day" -- CD-R -- €10
2006 Tantric Harmonies, TANTRA X29, (ltd. 230)
Sound-journey from pure darkness to the light based on "Egyptian Book of the Dead". Impressing opus about enigma of death and origin of a new life. Comes in foldout sleeve and limited/numbered to 230 copies. [label info]
Grismannen -- "Panus Anus" -- CD-R -- €6
2004 Yantra Atmospheres, YA-2004-06, (ltd. 300)
The latest research in rectal anatomy sphere by dr. Peter Andersson. As usual, weird electronics, nasty voices and dancing faeces. Musique exkrementale.
Grobbing Thristle -- "Hidden Strategies" -- CD -- €10
2009 Beast Of Prey, bop 6.8
Who would expect that under the name Grobbing Thristle are hidden mutated clones of Genesis P. Orridge, will be surprised by the amount of sound strategies used by the Poznan''s ensemble. Despite that GT knowingly place themselves in continuum named by the creations of "20 Jazz Funk Greats", their noise-electronic collages with every listening bring new musical universes... On one of the levels Grobbing Thristle play steel symphony of postindustrial earthy Inferno. Noisy wind of clicks, cracks, laptop grinds, insect like microsamples and psychotic looped vocals lead into paranoic world like in novels of Philipa K.Dicka. The thing that scares here the most is by paradox, the most common and accustom element - voice. The words "...So yes I have to go now, so bye bye..." opening the album sound like a goodbye before descending into the abyss. But this is a hell of cybernetic robots - this is a music that brings pain. Fortunately for artistic might of the recordings GT knows how to dose it... Grobbing Thristle is close to Coil's vision of "lunar music". It's the same type of psychoactive spells, slowly finding and tasting what hidden beyond the courtain of everyday time. The project idea came from Radek Dziubek, former co-creator of Blimp (grow up from post-punk scene and minimal rock Polish precoursors of postrock fusions). From them they learned how to describe the fragile nature of world, by dosing the intense of sonic signal. Grobbing Thristle made one rare thing - finding energy between what "live" and "mechanic", emotional and dehumanized, spontanous and constructed, created their own musical idiom. What more important - even though their experimental ambitions, the recordings hipnotyze with dense, mysterious, and often momochromatic aura. Dark and disturbingly beautiful album. [press-release]
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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. [from industrial.org review]
Grunt -- "Petturien Rooli" -- CD -- €11
2009 Freak Animal Records, FREAK-CD-049
Freak Animal is proud to present new full length CD of Grunt! Recorded between 2007-2009, making it longest recording task of project so far. Presenting some of the new sides of Grunt, but with the touch known from before. Album contains no harsh noise, but is innovative mixture of fierce power electronics with echoes of early 80's Ramleh & Sutcliffe Jugend, mixed with experimental organic noise influences a la Organum, Ferial Confine, to heavy dominant euro PE/industrial attacks to rhythic elements and metal percussions linking towards Vivenza, Test Dept and Militia. Exclusively Finnish language lyrics and samples, with themes related to history of Finland since early turbulent years of civil war to post WWII atmosphere. 64 minutes with 9 songs presenting wide variety of moods, sound sources, compositions, approaches, blended into album that could be said unique even in extensive Grunt discography! Packaged in jewelbox with b/w artwork. [press-release]
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 -- "The Death Fires" -- CD -- €10
2000 Crowd Control Activities, Crowded 19
Gruntsplatter -- "The Eulogists Assembly" -- CD -- €12
2005 Eibon Records, Gru052
Death industrial. Bringing "death industrial" to new, never before experienced levels, US noise manipulators GRUNTSPLATTER throw us in a desertic, abandoned, outworldly land where the only sounds come from agonizing machineries, abandoned to their inevitable rusting processes // Construction. concretion. abrasion. decay. A flow of energetic noise bursts mixed with dark ambiences, a new sensational chapter in the GRUNTSPLATTER saga. [press-release]
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Gruuthaagy -- "Black Funeral" -- CD-R -- €7
2005 Deserted Factory, DF0015, (ltd. 99)
Bewitching Ritual Drone Ambient. [YAOP description]
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]
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]
Guttersnipe -- "Airless" -- CD-R -- €7
Smell the Stench
British project, bassy analogue droning noise on feedbacks and loops. Sleeve. [YAOP description]
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 -- €7
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. -- "Vondel's Lucifer - First Movement" -- CD -- €10
2006 Cold Spring Records, CSR69CD
Neo-Classical / Neo-Folk. Taken from the Dutch playwright's seventeenth-century opus, 'Lucifer', this eagerly-awaited release tells of heavenly discontent amid a jealous tale of angelic rebellion in the face of God's love for humankind. Containing both half-sung and spoken vocals, an ever so gentle folk-like melody, baroque composition, rich musical arrangement and the kind of indomitable spirit and literary tradition that only a group like H.E.R.R. can render in such a magnificent cultural style, this album introduces the first three acts in 75 bombastic minutes. An illustrious cast includes Richard Leviathan (Ostara), Dev (While Angels Watch), Holger F. (Belborn), Cornelius Mikael Waldner (Sagittarius) and Maria Southgate (HERR/Survival Unit). Now, awake the stars from their harmonious peace and let the battle commence! [label info]
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H.E.R.R. -- "XII Caesars" -- CD -- €10
2009 Cold Spring, CSR117CD
Neoclassical. H.E.R.R.'s 4th album was originally inspired by the book "De Vita Caesarum" by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus from 121 AD, during the reign of the emperor Hadrian. It is one of the greatest sources of much of what we know about the first twelve Caesars after the fall of the Republic. The first tragi-comic Neoclassical operetta about The Twelve Caesars. Let the light of heart rule in this more "song-based" album. Comes with an elegant 16-page booklet. [label info]
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h.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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The Hafler Trio -- "An Utterance of the Supreme Ventriloquist" -- CD -- €15
2005 Soleilmoon Recordings, SOL 134 CD, (ltd. 1000)
'An Utterance of the Supreme Ventriloquist' was originally issued by Soleilmoon in 1996 in a hand-numbered edition of 451 clear vinyl Lps. Now, nine years later, it's being released for the first time on compact disc. 'Utterance' consists of two 21-minute pieces, 'Placing the Seed' and 'Seeding the Place'. It's psychedelic head-trip that reaches a similar plane of consciousness occupied by Nurse With Wound. The material has been completely remastered for maximum digital appreciation, and is presented in a deluxe embossed folder with lavishly printed inserts, all wrapped in semi-transparent paper, very much in the style of the recent reissues of 'The Sea Org' and 'Mastery of Money'. This compact disc edition is strictly limited to 1000 copies. [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.
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 -- "Am Kha Astrie" -- CD -- €10
2008 Aural Hypnox, [AH10], (ltd. 1000)
As the apex of Spring heralds awakenings, Halo Manash emerges from Winter and hibernation ~ Treefaced. Horns spiral skyward and antlers ascend. A tripartite trunk arises - a pillar that splits all worlds... Am Kha Astrie, a work of heliotropic, elemental ambient, is an opening, an awakening, a summoning, a crossing of thresholds. After their previous oneiric and minimal album, Am Kha Astrie sees Halo Manash re-integrate a more diverse instrumentation and a multiplicity of soundsources to create their work, which consists of seven interrelated tracks. Am Kha Astrie is a complete work in itself, but can also be viewed as the second facet of a tripartite series of works that are part of one holistic creation... Archaic elemental drums, bones and spiraling animal horns merge with various metal percussions, chimes, wind-instruments, voices and a multitude of other instruments to create a deep, earthly and yet celestially-bound opus. Am Kha Astrie is a massive and sometimes ominous work, a primal experience of coming-into-being, with all the terror, ecstasy and divine awe that it implies... Comes in a hand finished cardboard booklet, in an edition of 1000 copies. [press-release]
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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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Halo Manash -- "Taiwaskivi" -- CD + DVD -- €15
2009 Aural Hypnox, [AH12 / AHDVD01], (ltd. 500)
As winter hibernation and spring awakening gives way to summer, Halo Manash rises radiant into luminosity, with wings spread into all worlds, and brings forth Taiwaskivi, an opulent work of solar ambience and primordial Ur-music... Taiwaskivi, a work of sonic flame and aural ash, consists of seven interrelated tracks, utilizing such diverse instrumentation as organ, horns, vocals, drums, gongs, percussions and various string instruments as well as field-recordings captured during the pilgrimage that the creation of the work embodies... An air of finality abounds, as Taiwaskivi, although a complete work in itself, can also be viewed as the third and final facet of a tripartite series of works that are part of one holistic creation - a treelogy, with seed, root, trunk and finally, branches. Being the culmination of an ascending journey through the aforementioned realms within and without, Taiwaskivi is the celestial crown at the peak, reaching toward Sol, source and beyond; it is the leaves and fruit of the branches and their skybound nectar ever-flowing - the sacred fire, the consummation and conjunction of All... Comes in a hand finished cardboard booklet with inserts. [press-release]
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Harvest Rain -- "Blood Hymns" -- CD -- €11
2006 OPN, OPN CD 05
These Midnight Sessions began within the Winter Solstice and the recordings continued during the 12 Nights of Yule in 2002. 'Blood Hymns' is a personal soundtrack to the search for Thule/Hyperborea. The Spirit's journey back to the lost homeland. A "musical diary" of the blood answering the Pull of Magnetic North's Most Northerly Midnight. Where one finds the 13th Hour. These Midnight Sessions began after 'A Frost Comes with the Wind' and should be considered the follow-up to that album. The largest line-up for a Harvest Rain album yet. Special preparations and work with the Chilean artist Juan Almarza Anwandter of Der Arbeiter without whom this album would not be. 'Blood Hymns' is for all those on the Path of A-MOR. Expect simply the best with this new collection of heathen folk music anthems... [press-release]
Harvest Rain -- "Night's Glow" -- CD -- €13
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 info]
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 -- "Butterfly" -- CD -- €15
2003 Galakthorrö 014
Third album is finally here, after five years delay. New Haus Arafna album... well, it's very different from all previous works. Some of you who already had opportunity to listen "Fur Immer" 7"-single will definitely understand what I mean. The old fans should be amazed. No, there is even more fascination of the beyond and general darkness. Just like the prominent horror movie which is well done without dead bodies, blood streams and other superficial features of borrowed violence - no need for that while really frightening. All the senses are submerged into fathomless pit of human soul, still continuing torture and threaten with inexplicable force. An awful prophecy and damnable firmness - a bitter grin turns to deadly mask. This album is not so easy to understand, for me it took at least five times to play it back again and again, then something more or less distinct began to standing up against me. On the other hand, there are many people who didn't heard any previous Haus Arafna song, the new generation - seems that for them "Butterfly" should be more accessible. I even think that it could bring much new flesh into the fans camp. According to musicians, this is their first album sincerelly devoted to the true love sense, and logical develpement out of previous releases - like it always was and, I hope so, always will be. [Dmitry Vasilyev, "Independent Electronic Music"]
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Haus Arafna -- "Children Of God" -- CD -- €15
1998 Galakthorrö 008
The second album of legendary German angst-pop band. Horror from the dark corners of consciousness, rage, putrid cold and absolute electronic insanity. "Our paralysed Agnesle with the pretty hydrocephalus learns to speak only to tell her heart's desire: let me die in gas".
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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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Haven -- "A2982" -- CD -- €10
2008 Rage In Eden, RAGE 60, (ltd. 500)
42 minutes 05 seconds. This is the duration of the album. It will communicate any meter of time. Let us not however be deluded by the spells of this sorcerer; because the first sounds overturn its acknowledged and safe definition and begin construction of different, weirder spaces. This is the last chance to resign and turn back. Otheriwse, when you listen to the end of first track the only thihg left to say is "Toto, I have an impression that we're not in Kansas". You begin your own, separate (and the longest?) journey. What do you see on your way? What unknown ladns, traditions, incomprehesible rituals and dialects will you discover? I do not know. But I am sure that if David Lynch will ever undertake the filming of "Alice in the Wonderland" the soundtrack of the movie will be filled with the music from this particular album. "Victoire Vrist "Le Figuro". 10 tracks, 42 minutes, CD in digipack. [press-release]
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[haven] -- "Naos" -- CD -- €10
2006 War Office Propaganda / Rage In Eden, WOP31
The debut of [haven] - "The Last Breath of Lonely Buildings" released by WOP in 2005 was critically acclaimed, and the edition was sold out immediately. And now it's time for second opus of this very interesting act [haven] - "Naos" is more mature than debut, musical travel between Europe and Asia, oriental atmosphere and raw dark ambient both create visions of rich history of Middle East. CD released in WOP standard - beautiful digipack designed by Michal Karcz. [press-release]
Havoc1986 -- "Anti-Life Wind / Lair Of Macabre" -- CD-R -- €7
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 -- "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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Heavy Seals -- "Jazz Bust" -- CD -- €9
2005 Troniks, TRO-198
Heiliges Licht + ZR 19.84 -- "Empor Die Herzen - A Tribute to St. Michael" -- CD-R -- €8
2008 UFA Muzak, UFA25, (ltd. 181)
Neo Folk/Martial Industrial. Burnt bridges, hands in bloody water, eyes dropped, you can't lift the redden sleeves, amidst the burning land, bloody stains between us, holy spirits in iron betrothal of the unfading field: by weapon - by cruelty - by authority. Mystic folk, ecstatic martial and insane industrial have been crossed in this personified act of Germany and Italy. Non-official modernist calling and resume for the Christian figure of St. Michael. Post-historical approach to the timeless survey inside the military heroic tradition that survived over hundreds and thousands of years... The dragon should be killed, whatever it may cost! A beautiful example of European underground music + melodic and industrial anti-contemporary art. Free people against the World Order! The great tradition - the great path! The successors of pure art! 10 tracks, 52 minutes, CD-r, 6 panel sleeve, full-colour print. [label info]
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Helmond -- "Fruhe Werke" -- CD -- €14
2008 Trutzburg Thule, TrutzCD002, (ltd. 300)
Helmond -- "Licentia Poetica" -- CD -- €14
2007 Trutzburg Thule, TrutzCD001
Herbst9 -- "From A Dark Chasm Below" -- CD -- €13
1995/2005 Loki Foundation, Loki29
The legendary and long deleted first album now finally available again in a remastered version! Complex, textural ambience, consisting of layer upon layer of kinetic, luminous tones and ephemeral nuances of time. Nearly 70 minutes of finest ritual ambient music, mesmerizing rhythmic percussions with deep and sonorous dronings. Herbst9 construct sonic rituals gleaned from the ruins of minds scraped hollow and left to decay while the natural sound stands with this release and the archaic motives developing visionary sequences. [label info]
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Herbst9 -- "The Gods Are Small Birds, But I Am The Falcon" -- CD -- €14
2008 Loki Foundation, LOKI 48
Herbst9 vs Z'EV -- "Through Bleak Landscapes" -- CD -- €13
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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Hexperos -- "The Garden of the Hesperides" -- CD -- €12
2007 Equilibrium Music, EQM019
'The Garden of the Hesperides' is the debut album by Hexperos, the new Gothic/Neo-Classical project by the soprano Alessandra Santovito, founding member of Gothica. The exotic Mediterranean fragrance of sensual percussion patterns, together with the low rumble of Francesco's double bass and the soft keyboard pads enriched by the work of violinists Domenico Mancini and Alessandro Pensa, set the appropriate nocturnal atmosphere for Alessandra's soaring voice to cast its spell - although Hexperos often brings to mind her past in Gothica, it is also obvious that her work has now reached a more mature stage. [label info]
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Hildebrand, Gustav -- "Primordial Resonance" -- CD -- €13
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 -- €15
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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Hinyouki / Cthulhu -- split -- CD-R -- €7
Symbolic Productions, SYMBCD12
Spanish Hinyouki present 7 tracks of harsh noise in japanese style. French project Cthulhu added one track of occult dark ambient. DVD box. [YAOP description]
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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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!" -- 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 -- "Melty 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".
Hogan, Anni -- "Kickabye" -- 2 CD -- €15
2009 Cold Spring, CSR99CD
Murder Ballads / Funeral Pop / Experimental. From her early days as a legendary Batcave DJ, through her work with Marc Almond, Anni Hogan is one of the true geniuses of the alternative scene. A composer, songwriter, arranger, producer, promoter and DJ, she helped to shape the sound of the 80s. Cold Spring is proud to present her debut release expanded and brought to the public for the first time on CD. "Kickabye" features some of the leading lights of the alternative scene: NICK CAVE, MARC ALMOND, FOETUS, BUDGIE (Siouxsie And The Banshees) and GINI BALL amongst others as well as production by Jim "Foetus" Thirwell, plus 10 extra tracks from the same period. The second CD also features tracks from the same period, featuring YELLO and production by BARRY ADAMSON. Digitally remastered with 4 new and exclusive song versions. [press-release]
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Hollowing & Chaos As Shelter -- "Heavenly Letter" -- CD-R -- €9
2005 Mechanoise Labs, [mn025], (ltd. 100)
Appearing at times of despair and plagues across Europe, the flagellants believed in punishing themselves in the hope that God would not. Their processions of self-flagellation lasted 33,5 days, matching the number of years in Christ's life, and served as penance for their sins and those of others. The Heavenly Letter refers to the text that they believed was a direct ultimatum from God himself: humanity, failed and corrupt, had one last chance at reform before the destruction of all life. Denounced as heretics by the Church, they were persecuted and driven underground. During the Black Death in 1348, the same letter reappeared with an added paragraph that addressed the plague, and became the manifesto of a reborn flagellant movement. As times went on and the world didn't end as expected, enthusiasm for self-scourging waned and the movement dispersed. The work here isn't easily digested and is often demanding of one's senses. Slow, churning drones collapse into clattering bells, wheels of noise rotate themselves to oblivion and disembodied flutes and voices accompany the procession on its way to absolution. Sound throbs as one writhing body, and then explodes into morsels of granulated flesh, purity found once again. [press-release]
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Holtzman Engine -- "Music For Abandoned Harbours" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Deserted Factory, DF052, (ltd. 100)
"MUSIC FOR ABANDONED HARBOURS" is the attempt to create a soundscore, evocating the image of someone exploring an abandoned harbour: so water, boats, machineries, iron, chains, wood, rain, and so on are trying to make their work! All samples are hand recorded and mixed, no synths, no loops; the will is to give the idea of something real, earthly... following an independent path from "artificial" soundscores. [label info]
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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 -- "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 -- "Le Paradis des Chasseurs" -- CD -- €11
2008 Twilight Records, TW 1.47
HOROLOGIUM is one of the most important acts in Poland if we talk about dark ambient, martial music. With lot of works in different labels and important collaborations with important bands they return with a new beautiful work trought Twilight Records. We think we are an exotic label and Horologium is an exotic band too. The title of this release is "Le Paradis des Chasseurs' and it contains material from "Songs For Hunters' and "Paradise Inverted' - two mini albums that embody Horologium's most bombastic recordings to date. Both 3 inch CDr releases were out in a strictly limited amounts (100 and 150 copies, accordingly). We believe that this sonic output needs much more recognition! Additional bonus track was recorded with a wonderful assistance from Juan A. of Der Arbeiter. [press release]
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 -- "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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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 -- "Don't Worry About Anything, I'll Talk To You Tomorrow" -- CD -- €9
1998 Alluvial Recordings, ALL001, (ltd. 1000)
Completed in 1998, this is only the third full length composition from NY composer John Hudak to appear on CD. He is mostly known for his cassette work in the mid-eighties. His work is primarily built on repetition and alteration, usually from single sound sources. With this composition, he has manipulated an answering machine recording of his mother's voice. The piece is shifting and complex. It is smooth and relaxed with the contradiction of extremely high, piercing frequencies. It is undoubtedly one of his most complex works to date. In an edition of 1,000. [press-release]
Hudak, John -- "Helene Marie: Reinterpretations" -- 2 CD -- €12
2002 Alluvial Recordings, A11, (ltd. 500)
When John Hudak recorded the "Don't Worry About Anything; I'll Talk To You Tomorrow" compact disk for Alluvial in early 1998, through a series of events, we ended up in possession of an extra piece. We had always intended to release it in some format but remained unsure how to use it. We approached John with the idea of presenting the piece to other composers, many of whom we had in mind prior to raising the idea with John. Upon receiving John's OK, we set about sending it to the composers we chose and a couple of John's choosing. The project ended up taking a lot longer than anticipated. It was well worth the wait. The first track on disc one is the original piece by John Hudak. All other pieces are reinterpretions or reworkings of this piece by Jason Lescalleet, Marc Behrens, Sukora, Peter Duimelinks, John Hudak himself, Francisco Lopez, Eric Lanzillotta, Frans de Waard and Leif Elggren. The CD's are packaged in a 12 page booklet which includes photo work from John Hudak and Rachael Jackson. [label info]
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]
Hum -- "Caldron of Winds" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
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]
Hum -- "Lost In White Flame" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2006 Datura Landscapes, DATURA 8
One track recorded in 2001. Dedicated to all fallen asleep in embraces of winter. Melancholic detached drone ambient.
Hum -- "Sleepland Emission" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2003 Sphogha, Ultra Low Fidelity 10
Beautiful drone! Soft and at the same time moderately raw analogue sound carries away into spiral depths of unknown levels of consciousness.
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
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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]
Hutchinson, Hal -- "Male Captive" -- CD-R -- €5
2010 Mask Of The Slave, MS-026, (ltd. 100)
London based HNW/DRONE/POWER ELECTRONICS/EXPERIMENTAL/NOISE. [label info]
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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.
Hyperborea (Ryr feat. Morbus Mundi) -- ":GIBUR:" -- CD-R -- €8
2008 UFA Muzak,UFA18, (ltd. 108)
Martial Industrial Avanguarde. Synergy of Polar Blue blood continues the way of inner astral war of the Hitlerian age. Gods of the 3rd Reich are awaken and wait for putting the right question, saying the right word, finding the magical hyperborean sound. This time Ryr collaborates with another Russian mystical fascist project Morbus Mundi and presents the picture of creating other spheres and other planes through the prism of martial industrial, ritual noise, dark ambient and techno trance. Rattling and charming dance of anscient ices plays fairy melodies, prancing and swirling crosses whistle in the sky, thunder and lightning break from shining blood. Schwaben borders of Antarktida have come to their Ultima Faterland to the North, and now we witness the "secret terrain" - Hyperborea. The place where everything will start from the beginning. 88. "Hyperboreans, The White Gods will once appear from The Inner Land, or come back from the starn on a feathery serpent, on a golden eagle in the Age of Condor, or on a white horse. The will come to guide us in the end of Kali-Yuga and show the right direction for the axis of Earth to obtain the right state, into the harmony after the staggering events, with wich this Manvatara ends, this cosmic age consisting of four aeons. The poles will be united then again." 4 page A5 booklet made of textured cardboard. [press-release]
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Hypnoz -- "Autumn Sun" -- CD-R -- €8
2009 Absurd Vibration, 001, (ltd. 50)
After releazing his CD "Breath of Earth", Dmitry Zubov aka Hypnoz presents one more gift - the new album "Autumn Sun", consisting of tracks recorded from 2001 to 2008. This instrumental ambient tapestry complements his previous work in character and contents... Following it's simple title, "Autumn Sun" presents a collection of musical drawings which came into being through the moments of calm philosophic contemplation of nature and the outside world. Restrained and minimal pieces depicture images all-sufficient in their inner completeness. A light sleep of a soldier combining howl of the wind and restless ticking of passing time. A deserted hill among the equable silence of autumn fields. Last warm sunbeam fallen on cheek-bones of November, whited from cold. A sleepless night before Easter calling from the sky abyss with deafly heard call of angelic flutes. Morning dew showering under the feet with myriads of sparkling precious beads... Sparing guitar loops and drones, scrappy noises and sound effects extracted from analogue sound devices and synths - this is the toolkit used on "Autumn Sun". Monotonous soundscapes of "Last Night Before Easter" and "Deserted Hill" with droning guitar background turn into meditative ringing of "Embossomed With Trees" filling up all the space. Laconic watercolor sketches "Shining From Beyond" and "Sunbeam In November" make room for even more sleepy eerie rustle of "Flicker" and "Morning Dew"... This album invites for poetic dreaminess and other tranquil pleasures. The artwork features author's photographies. [Radiodrone]
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 + 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/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]
Ielasi, Giuseppe -- "s/t" -- CD -- €10
2006 Häpna, H.28
The new untitled album by Giuseppe Ielasi lives in a land of lights and shades. The mist lies thick but close to the ground it's glowing and sparking. Reflections shoot wildly in ambiguous patterns. The log-cutters are working with their loved and hated timber. This is GIs most complex work to date, both in regard to instrumentation and compositional form. A well-prepared decoction of dark cinema, wanderlust and experimental sound manipulating techniques. [press-release]
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Ierophania -- "Detstvo (Childhood)" -- 2x3"CD-R -- €9
2006 Embrion-D, 001, (ltd. 40)
Second album of Russian project. Rough and juicy old school industrial. Metal rattle, drone of industrial objects, brave drumming and sometimes noise, voice samples and harsh unhealthy vocals. An "industrial gentelmen" kit of images in the artwork: comrade Stalin, a piccaninny, some freaks and porn. The release is wrapped in red fabric.
Ierophania -- "Post-Military, Chapter 2: Localization of Fear" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 UFA-Muzak, UFA21, (ltd. 113)
Noir Martial / Power Ambient. The project of military ritual chanson and occult blessing from Rostovs-on-Don have spread out on a bloody altar of the Great Black Mother the special mercury medicine. The effect constant of "restless presence" has given amazing result in an image of a new album: on trails of infinite war and through furnaces of true faith, to the greater acceptance Nigredo and incessant nervous pressure. It is a very serious album up to extreme limits. And it is necessary to listen to it standing, Without tears, without hysterics, without splits, having compressed in a fist all "human". Having washed, having dressed in clean clothes and having understood that the road back already no. The history already no. Through severe industrial form of steel sculptures of the past accept the fear as a duty, in blood now there is more IEROPHANIA. The group which to the full expressing "the mystery of Russian soul". Light dies away, everyone leave: 10 tracks, 67 minutes, 6x panel envelope with the texts, made from a rough cardboard drawn by a cord. [press-release]
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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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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 -- "Fifteen / Finite Material Context" -- CD -- €12
1993 Functional Organisation, Functional 001
Excellent material from a long deleted tape. Odd rhythms with cut-ups, tape manipulations and haunting ambient textures. The best IOS release if you prefer their harder, noisier side. [label info]
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Illusion of Safety -- "In Session" -- CD -- €14
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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The Impossible Flower -- "Roots and Fruits" -- CD-R -- €9
2006 AFE Records, afe063lcd, (ltd. 100)
Post-Everything. Simplicity is probably the key to Andrew David Daly's longly prepared and awaited debut on Afe. Basically recorded a few years ago, when The Impossible Flower was still a solo project (Gareth Dickson have joined forces with him in the meantime, to maximise the potential of their organically based sound), "Roots and Fruits" is simply brilliant. Consisting of seven tracks clocking in at about forty minutes, created mostly using guitar, piano, sampler and electronics, the album opens with the lovely bowed strings of "Bees and Honey". The track proceeds introducing reversed guitar lines, sampled finger exercises, arpeggios and chords that perfectly summarize The Impossible Flower approach to electronically influenced guitar music... [label info]
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Impulsantwort & Telepherique -- "Bewegung Der Klangmasse" -- CD -- €10
2005 Theesonicabyss, CPS 0507, (ltd. 300)
Split-CD of two German projects - hyperactive electronic music literally swarming with events. Permanent splashes of frequency activity over deep bass sound-layers. More uneasy and impulsive by Impulsantwort, more calm and structured by Telepherique, but in general similar stylistically. Quality sound production.
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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 Gowan Ring -- "The Twin Trees" -- CD -- €14
1997/2006 Shayo, Shayo009
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 Slaughter Natives -- "Purgate my Stain" -- CD -- €14
1996 Cold Meat Industry, cmi129
Orchestral Industrial. Finally available, this epic milestone, previously released by Staalplaat and longtime out of stock. New artwork and remastered. [label info]
In Slaughter Natives -- "Resurrection" -- CD -- €14
2004 Cold Meat Industry, cmi135
One of the very first outbursts on Cold Meat Industry were In Slaughter Natives, and still to this day they are one of the most renowned and well-respected acts on the label and the industrial scene today. Since the birth of J. Havukainen's brainchild back in 1988, the accumulated brilliance and overall excitement of every In Slaughter Natives release have far surpassed what any other band, man or woman can possibly accomplish over the extent of a lifetime; and this time is no different. We are awestruck by the bombastic mayhem and the classical agony of hell's philharmonic orchestra coming to visit, and we bow our heads in reverence to the frantic growls of the king himself grinning from his place in your living room sofa. This is pure brilliance; a masterpiece which proves that all these lonely years of everlasting anticipation have been worth the wait; In Slaughter Natives are back and still an untamed force to be reckoned with. This is the soundtrack to the rising apocalypse, the mad laughter of the heretic burned at the stake; this is the return of a king. [press-release]
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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 -- €11
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 -- €11
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 -- €30
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" -- CD -- €13
2009 Loki Foundation, LOKI 50
There is a world that shadows our world, a world of mysterious design and unspoken secrets, of space that breathes and infinite echoes that never cease to cry. Mirrors that refract images into dark pools of cosmic nothingness. Inade explore these worlds on their latest masterpiece, The Incarnation of the Solar Architects, in which sound is utilized in a transformative manner, not only to focus on that which lies beyond and that which has never been seen, but to embrace the Darkness and let it wash over one's soul. The mythology that Inade has created touches that place beyond forever, yet now, through the insistence of that which lurks in the margins, a metamorphosis has transpired, in which the cosmos of self has awakened. If one believes that God is everywhere, so is the Darkness that came before Him. A Darkness thriving with anonymous ideals (the possibilities are endless... ) and devious intentions, resplendent with mystical creatures that shamble through antediluvian kingdoms constructed from polished metal, luxurious crystals, and unlimited dreams... though one would need new eyes to see them, and new ears to hear them. Inade provide the soundtrack--the frisson of unease is abundant, a churning, seething dread that veers into awe. It's up to the individual listener to listen intently, behind shuttered eyelids... to see and experience the true labyrinthine hierarchy of black splendor that awaits. [press-release]
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Inade -- "The Incarnation Of The Solar Architects" -- 2 CD + DVD -- €180
2009 Loki Foundation, LOKI 50 SE, (ltd. 259)
Ultra limited edition of the latest album including bonus CD and DVD.
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 -- "Day Ov Torment" -- CD -- €11
2007 Cold Spring, CSR71CD
Reissue of the massive Death Industrial album from this ARCHON SATANI side-project, originally issued by Staalplaat in 1993. INANNA were at the forefront of a new force in Doom Ambiance way back in the early '90s. This stunningly remastered and repackaged album brings alive one of the classic scene albums - a milestone in ultra grim and crushing death sonics, that paved the way for many Drone and Ritual Industrial bands around today. Mixed by J Havukainen (IN SLAUGHTER NATIVES). [press release]
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Incapacitants -- "Pariah Tapes" -- 5 CD -- €37
Freak Animal Records, FREAK-CD-034, (ltd. 500)
Godfathers of Japanese noise. Freak Animal has released in digital format first five cassettes by Incapacitants from 1981-1985, 2 of which were never put for sale, and 3 other had very limited editions. At the time when most of Japanese artists of early 80-ies were playing improvised avantguard or making sound-collages, Incapacitants were blasting such powerful harsh-noise which is not easy to repeat even today. Cardboard box with elastic band, includes the artwork for all 5 tapes + comments. [YAOP description]
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]
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 -- "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]
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 -- "Ephedrin Bird Samba" -- 3"CD-R -- €5
2002 The Locus Of Assemblage, mass02, (ltd. 200)
This release marks the 10 year anniversary of inception of The Infant Cycle. A journey through rhythms, sparse terrains and full on power drones. Sound sources: shortwave radio, feedbacks, birds, pre-fab keyboard samba rhythm, sliced vinyl record cover. Minimal, but very deep and thorough work as usual with this Canadian project.
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 -- "Old Plus Four" -- CD-R -- €9
EE Tapes, ET 66, (ltd. 100)
First release of this Canadian artist in digital format contains the material from two deleted tape singles and some previously unreleased tracks. Magically carved rhythms obtained from scratched vinyls, sharp tunes sounding as if being refracted throught the lattice, and soothing viscous drones. Unusual music outside of stylistic boundaries.
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 -- "The Sand Rays" -- CD -- €10
2009 Diophantine Discs, n = 20, (ltd. 500)
We're happy to introduce the new full-length record from The Infant Cycle. The Sand Rays is to be played from the outside to the center, from whichever edge you choose. The Sand Rays is pinball rhythm reverberations from sliced vinyl record playout grooves, gravelly surface vibrations. The Sand Rays is exploiting broken cords, near-empty batteries, half-broken equipment. We loved it and think you will too. Just be prepared to be a bit more confused when it is all over, but don't worry: you'll be too busy wiping that silly grin off your face because you had such a fun time... The Infant Cycle, active since 1992, is the brainchild of Jim DeJong. He has released material on such labels as Drone, EE Tapes, Hands, Moloko+, Afe, Zhelezobeton, Blade, Abgurd, and his own The Ceiling. Additionally he is a former member of Mind Skelp-cher and (as The Infant Cycle) has collaborated with numerous artists including Aidan Baker, Orphx, and Dronaement. [press-release]
The Infant Cycle / Antmanuv -- "Periodical III" -- 3"CD-R -- €5
2006 The Ceiling, CEIL031, (ltd. 80)
THE INFANT CYCLE presents more "Unrelated Work Tapes" - part of series of that is both deeply interconnected (to other parts and future and past Infant Cycle tracks), yet can be heard on their own. Like much of the Ceiling catalogue, what is seemingly chaos later reveals itself as something else, and features much of the Infant Cycle's uneasy balance between abrasive textures, and quiet meditation - a balance often on the verge of tipping over. Over the past few years, ANTMANUV has created a diverse body of work in many different mediums. On this release, he has contribued a piece of wholly organic sound, a dense and growing entity of everyday sounds propelled into a hypnotic sphere of the familiar moved into unfamiliar territory. [label info]
The Infant Cycle / Davison, Jared -- "Periodical I" -- 3"CD-R -- €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 & 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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Inoue, Tetsu -- "World Receiver" -- CD -- €10
1996/2006 Infraction, INFX 015, (ltd. 800)
Insphera -- "Shape" -- CD-R -- €7
2003 Terra Inferna, TinF 001
Classic old school dark ambient - omnious atmosphere, industrial noises and distant percussion, smooth electronics and echoes of working factories. Musical walk through the abandoned industrial territories.
Instant Movie Combinations -- "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.
Instant Movie Combinations -- "Shipyard" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 Cold Graey, MF10, (ltd. 57)
Drone noise, deeper and cleaner. Classical for I.M.C. monotonous, but detailed hum.
You need a good ship to cross the sea. You need a perfect ship to cross the sea, you've never been. The sea is inside. And here's the place to start. [label info]
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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. -- "Diskotheka Dekadenza" -- CD -- €10
2004 Halbwelt Organisation, Halbwelt 003, (ltd. 1000)
This album is a collection of various soundscapes ranging from mellow ambient sounds to harsh noise, but it steers clear of structured rhythmic noise. Institution D.O.L. creates post-industrial music similar to early Cold Meat Industry releases. [Tesco]
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 (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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Intravene -- "Flotation Toy Warning" -- CD -- €11
1998 Aufabwegen, aatp04
New project by members of Band Of Pain and Contrastate from Great Britain. Field Recordings, distant voices and tape collages are interspersed with some beats. [label info]
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)
Ion And Sophus -- "The First Step towards the Abyss..." -- CD-R -- €8
2007 Still*Sleep, cdr1
One more project from the Exit In Grey / Five Elements Music company - created by Sergey [S] and [D]iona. Stylistically it's almost the same: totally calm atmospheric ambient woven from mainly processed field recordings and smooth synth tunes.
Ion And Sophus -- "Mini Mum" -- CD-R -- €8
2007 Still*Sleep, CDR03
Second album, recorded by Sergey [S] (Exit In Grey, Sister Loolomie, Five Elements Music) under the name of Ion And Sophus. Three minimalistic lo-fi compositions created with the use of processed field recordings and calm synthesizer lines. Third track is recorded in collaboration with Russian musician and writer Maxim Tioulenev.
Ion And Sophus -- "Three" -- CD-R -- €8
2008 Still*Sleep, CDR10
Third album of lo-fi ambient project of Sergey [s], just as gentle and fairy as previous two.
Ionosphere -- "Angular Momentum" -- CD -- €14
2004 Power And Steel, PAS 19
With the first full length work of this German project another remarkable release in dark and space ambient has earthed that accompanies with the classic works of this genre. The ten tracks on this album following their previous 10 inch release on Avatar Records, creating a giant sphere full of 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]
Ireland, David & GX Jupitter-Larsen -- "s/t" -- CD -- €10
1999 Vinyl Communications, VC-163
David Ireland was an American artist most known for creating site-specific installation art pieces; most notably, his former residence at 500 Capp St., San Francisco. At this CD he collaborated with sound artist GX Jupitter-Larsen (The Haters) remixing and re-recording tapes from the audio achieves of 500 Capp St.
Irikarah -- "Endstation Steinbruch" -- CD -- €11
2007 Blade Records, wmda072, (ltd. 300)
Re-issue of an extremely limited cassette (20 copies!), originally published by Andreas Arndt's own label Keine Zeit Recordings in 1996. Six tracks of dark and disturbing Power Noise / Death Ambient, not far off the style of Brighter Death Now. Limited to just 300 hand-numbered copies in an outsized foldout package. Recommended! [Cold Spring Records description]
Irikarah / E.H.E. / C. Vollmer -- "Noise Rhine Westphalia" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Sick Art Products, SAP20, (ltd. 150)
A triple split of noise enthusiasts of Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Power Electronics, Old-School Industrial, Harsh Noise. Sleeve. [YAOP info]
IRM -- "Order4" -- CD -- €14
2010 Cold Meat Industry, CMI205
Iron Fist Of The Sun -- "Behavioural Decline" -- CD -- €10
2009 Cold Spring, CSR116CD
Power Electronics / Black Noise. Personal obsessions skewed by drug use, codes of behaviour observed by a misanthropic mind. Bitter and cold. Nihilistic and scornful. Elitist and Pure. Behavioural Decline documents the rise of treachery and the fall of honour. Power electronics that sonically takes inspiration from electro-acoustics and ideology akin to black metal / black noise. 'Concert For Evening Battle' was recorded live at Radio Black Forest's festival of electro-acoustic music 22/8/2009, Birmingham, England. A deeply personal Recording. [press-release]
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irr. app. (ext.) -- "Perekluchenie" -- CD -- €14
2005 Beta-lactam Ring Records, mt072b
Behind every ambiguously pronounced name lies an ambiguously pronounced sense of purpose. In other words: who can say what is really going on here? Whatever it is, it is delightfully dada. irr. app. (ext.) remain more concrete (i.e. musique) than a rusting parking structure on a windy day. Music does occasionally spill out from the crisp snips and gravel, but it is only as one other element in an overall sound construct. Here, no-music IS the music! Get it? Now go read some John Cage. The simplicity of a burbling stream washes out of a reverberation of flange. Voices are air dropped into the squeaking remnants of things left decaying in the basement. Small noises are looped and heaped upon one another, evoking a temporarily quiet cacophony that is sloooowly faaaaded ooooout in favour of a slooowly faaaaaded iiiin drones vs frogs episode. One thinks lovingly on Hafler Trio, P16.D4, NWW, Chris Watson, etc. Put your Irr. to the App. and get (Ext.)! [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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Isomer -- "Zero Lounge" -- CD -- €13
2005 Tesco Organisation, Tesco 061
The follow-up to "Serpent Age", the highly acclaimed first CD by the Australian artist David Tonkin, the man behind Isomer. Isomer does not remain in the field of dark rhythmic ambience, with the second release it explores new fields. This CD brings a blend mixture of classical industrial elements, power elctronic noises and ritual soundscapes... it still has its very own touch and varies its style often but never losses the thin red led of an extraordinary brilliance in recording. [label info]
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]
Jaaportit -- "Voimasuo" -- CD -- €10
2009 Epidemie Records, EPR067, (ltd. 600)
A new album of frosty Finnish project JÄÄPORTIT. Seven atmospheric compositions blending together dreamy etheric ambient, cold rhythmical nordic electronics and melancholy post-rock. The album is thematically dedicated to the world under human kind transformation. Intense, strong and polymorphous album hardly to fit in conventional categories, because it's kind of a musical labyrinth, definitely worth of exploring. The album is coming out in nice six pannels digipack in limited edition of 600 pieces. [press-release]
Jahrtal -- "William Blake - Lieder Von Unschuld Und Widerfahren" -- CD -- €14
2009 Ahnstern, Ahnstern39
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.
Janitor -- "Qoumran 4-ever" -- CD -- €13
2006 Tesco Organisation, TESCO 064
Long time no see! ...and then suddenly a new Janitor release on Tesco. This is Janitor's 3rd full-length release, after õReceiving a Flower on Mothers' Day.æ The two masterminds Peter Andersson (Lina Baby Doll / Deutsch Nepal) and Benny Nilsen (Hazard) got together again and managed to produce a very good follow-up to their highly acclaimed first release on Tesco. Again Janitor delivers an outstanding mix of rhythms, industrial elektronikk soundscapes, romantic tunes with the distinct voice of Lina, a sentimental journey into the world of weirdness. After years of contemplation and research in the monastery caves of Qoumran, Nilsen and Baby Doll found the hidden treasures they were looking for. The dry wind as a tapestry of sand in an elektronikk desert, structures and ornaments hidden in the storm of Saudi. Another surprising release from the swedish duo recorded in the woods of Sweden at Studio Habelsbolet. All music/artwork by Nilsen/Baby Doll. [press release]
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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 -- €20
2008 Autarkeia, ACD 030, (ltd. 500)
Jarl -- "Vertigo Emission" -- CD -- €13
2009 Autarkeia, ACD 045, (ltd. 200)
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]
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]
Jazkamer -- "Balls The Size Of Texas, Liver The Size Of Brazil" -- CD -- €11
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]
Jazzkammer -- "Mort Aux Vaches" -- CD -- €10
2005 Mort Aux Vaches
Last year Marhaug's duo with John Hegre as the ongoing Jazzkammer was in The Netherlands to play the Earational festival and took up the occassion to record a session at the VPRO radio studio and now being released in what should be known by now as the John Peel sessions for underground music: Staalplaat's Mort Aux Vaches series. This is not the first entry for noise in the series, following Merzbow and the Sensorband. Jazzkammer has one piece to play of sonic overload, building from scratch. A highpitched tone, scraping the surface with a contactmicrophone and from there building things up by adding layers of nasty frequencies. As the piece evolves the high end techniques of laptopnoise start to mingle with low-end electronics. This work, a straightforward, unedited recording is a bit on the regular side of noise. But even at that, Jazzkammer on an ordinary day is way more interesting than many other noise heads on a good day. [FdW, Vital Weekly]
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Jazzkammer & Howard Stelzer -- "Tomorrow No One Will Be Safe" -- CD -- €10
PACrec 128, (ltd. 1000)
Tommorrow no one will be safe brings a track a piece from Norwegian noise collective Jazzkammer & Usa Electronic artist/ tape manipulator Howard Seltzer & then a one joint track. All of the tracks were recorded on the pairs tour in 2004, and offer up a creative and varied take on improvised music, noise and bizarre soundscapes... A rich and rewarding collection of erratic and often doomy soundworlds, played out with real control and depth of sound. Certainly not for those looking for all out noise attacks, but for those wanting more thought out and detailed noise craft, you can't go wrong. [from Musique Machine review]
Jeck, Philip -- "7" -- CD -- €12
2003 Touch, TO:57
This is Philip Jeck's seventh solo cd, and 4th for Touch, after Loopholes, Surf and Stoke. He also made Soaked with Jacob Kirkegaard, and the Live in Tokyo CDR. All Seven are edits of home and concert recordings (UK Germany & Belgium) using Bush, Ferguson, Fidelity & Philips record-players, Sony portable mini-disc and Casio keyboards. Bush Hum was made from the amplified hum of a Bush record-player and delay-pedal. Wipe was originally made for a video by Marisa Zanotti. "... points of origin slip into areas of acceptance then long listening eliminates any worries about that acceptance and parts the normally tightly bound, throwing seldom acknowledged emotions through newly opened doors..." [label info]
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Jeff -- "Mutagen Substance" -- CD-R -- €7
Altsphere Production
A curious French project playing music somewhere between rhythmic electro-industrial and original ambient. Five tracks narrating about the occult experiments in monster creating. Quite simple yet irresistible sympathetic music. Underground distribution edition - CD-r coming with photocopied black/white cover.
Jeff -- "Soundtrack To Escape" -- CD-R -- €7
Altsphere Production
A curious French project playing music somewhere between rhythmic electro-industrial and original ambient. Two long tracks each lasting for half hour - chill-out for experimenters. Underground distribution edition - CD-r coming with photocopied black/white cover.
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]
jgrzinich -- "Rudiment Of Two" -- CD -- €10
2007 Edition Sonoro, es01, (ltd. 300)
"Rudiment Of Two" contains three extended compositions based on an array of sound material recorded in 2006 in Estonia, Italy, Portugal, Japan and Finland. Acoustic sounds from various objects, materials, improvisations and field recordings were processed to varying degrees and woven together to form spatial interplay of delicate textures and tonalities. The CD package was designed by the artist which features imagery from a unique series of his photographs and montages. [label info]
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)
Jovanovic, Arsenije -- "Galiola - Works For Radio, 1967 - 2000" -- CD -- €10
2008 FO A RM Projects / and/OAR / Alluvial Recordings, FO A RM CD01 / and/all2
Over the last 40 years, Serbian radio-art composer and film director Arsenije Jovanovic has developed a deeply personal style of sound art for radio broadcast. His compositions are imbued with natural environments and human-centered activities. They feel rooted in place - whether real, imaginary, remembered or dreamed. Weaving voices, instruments, field recordings and manipulated sound, Jovanovic creates vivid narratives without a story. He takes full advantage of sound's capability for seamless morphing and far-flung association. [label info]
The Joy Of Nature And Discipline -- "The Fog that Life is Haunted by" -- CD-R -- €9
2006 Bunkier Productions, BX CDr, (ltd. 213)
The Joy of Nature And Discipline is a musical project from Azores (Portugal), exploring musically its own concept of purity. Musically The Joy of Nature and Discipline is like a live force, like a serpent always renewing itself - never resting on one shape, changing the form but keeping the same essence... Sometimes folk, others ambiental, traditional and experimental. Musically it draws inspiration from Ethnic, Dark/Folk and Industrial music. Thirteen tracks, over 40 min of music. Real powerfull music! [label info]
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Judah -- "Cool Crap" -- CD -- €10
2004 Small Voices, SVR04008
The debut album of Italian project playing romantic twisted electroclash. Cold minimal catchy electronics performed partly in retro-manner plus toxic and vicious, sometimes distorted vocals. Perhaps the nearest analogue in tearms of atmosphere is November Növelet. Very cool work.
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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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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]
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]
K2 -- "Molekular Terrorism" -- CD -- €10
1996 Pure, PURE 40
Japanese noisician Kimihide Kusafuka produces a cacaphonous flow of jumbled, processed sounds, voice and electronics that never rests or slows. [Subterranean Mailorder]
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 -- "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]
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!
Kaniba -- "The Serpent, or the Omega and the Completion of the First Circle" -- CD -- €10
2006 Autumn Wind Productions, AWP008
Thematically, The Serpent is of the Earth and Shub-Niggurath; the Womb of all, the grave of all. Life and Death, creation and destruction, the Alpha and the Omega. The Serpent represents the return to the Source from whence Kaniba came, as Terrorgoat, and a reflection upon the journey from that moment to what is now. It is a union of old and new elements, of old and new themes. The Serpent represents good and evil, light and dark; the giver and taker of life. The Serpent celebrates Life as the gift which comes from the womb of Shub-Niggurath, and The Serpent celebrates Death as the sacrifice craved by the jaws of Shub-Niggurath. The Serpent is the grave, which is a womb, The Serpent is the birth occuring through demise. The Serpent is the undoing of death, and the elevation of the soul that is ascendancy. Most of all, The Serpent is the end. [press-release]
Kapotte Muziek -- "Egg" -- CD-R -- €8
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 -- "The Malevolent Ear" -- CD -- €12
1996/2005 Red Stream Inc, RSR-0110
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 Tazavalla -- "S.L.O.N." -- CD-R -- €7
2008 UFA-Muzak, UFA23, (ltd. 71)
Death Industrial. The one from few the most brutal releases of UFA. Analog rough death industrial from Petrozavodsk (Russia). Powerful and cold theme is dedicated to first official genocide organ known as Solovetskiy camp of the special purpose. The black, rough and dead cloth of sound. The buried alive sing the lingering and sad song, beautiful and touching melody flow from tombs of necrological horror rumble and death... It is as if you drink water which poisoned by burial ground. "From many tens Soviet concentration camps Solovetskiy under the right could be considered as most severe, and his name covered with terrible glory. Located on islands of the White sea, on a line of a North polar circle, he was torn off not only from all laws of the country, but appear he was mockering and above all laws of humanity. So much life were not lost anywhere, the terror and more frankly arbitrariness was not stronger anywhere than here, anywhere was not more and more helplessly prisoners than on Solovky islands". 3 tracks, 37 minutes, external envelope is from black cardboard with the invoice under leather + sticker, internal envelope is from red paper. [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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Karlota / Ego Death / [Unit auf] -- "Pare Me Apo Piso" -- 3"CD-R -- €5
SUBliminalRECordings no.032, (ltd. 15)
Obscene Greek disco star Karlota sings some restaurant song, and two of her noisy compatriots makes harsh noise remixes. [YAOP]
Karna -- "Diabolic (Soundtrack For My Nightmares)" -- CD -- €8
2005 Eternal Pride Productions / Posession Productions, EPP 002 / PS17
On this new CD Russian project KARNA performs brilliant Satanic Cold Black Ambient with cold night feelings spreading the Darkness. Soundtrack that gives birth to the ghostly visions calling into the bottomless Abyss ... [label info]
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Karna -- "Raven" -- CD -- €9
Eternal Pride Productions / Possession productions, EPP04 / PS29
As the lead transforms alchemically into gold, the gloomy dark Cold Wave of the older Karna has transformed into the unique Blackened Ambient Metal. It's a symbolic hymn to Solitude, Emptiness and Total Dark. The monotonous and hypnotic guitar passages react with the cold Ambient fragments. 7 dead coal-black raven feathers reflecting the dark mentality of one more soul which disappeared in the Dark. [label info]
Katzo -- "Disposition" -- CD -- €10
2006 Silentes, 200611
A (nearly) 70 minute flux of dynamic/driving programmed rhythmic sequences, bass lines, and pulsing grooves... meshed into each other, then infused with microsounds. KATZO is a Japanese project by Katsuya Urushizaki. This is 'on the go' ultra high-tech electronic music... great for listening while on the move, or as a 'night dub soundtrack' for your deepest dreams. [press-release]
Keeler, James P. -- "5 Shades for a Grey Room" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2002 Taalem, alm 8
James P. Keeler has become shortly a big name in the dark-ambient / experimental fields with his Wilt project. Under his own name, James doesn't change his music radically. Sometimes more haunting with some rhythms and deep rumblings, sometimes more concrete with unexpected natural sounds, it has an experimental aspect that keeps you awake! [press-release]
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Keimverbreitung -- "The K Sessions" -- CD-R -- €6
2003 Amplexus, (ltd. 177)
Keimverbreitung is a new dimension in ambient-avantguarde music. Decadent atmospheres, rumorism, laments & electronic sounds....all mixed to create the perfect soundtrack for our unsound minds...to dscover it! [label info] Something experimental-vanguard. Throat singing, shaman's percussion, ethnic guitar parts, dark industrial ambience. Eclectic but interesting. [Abgurd description]
Kenotaph -- "Promise" -- CD -- €10
1998 Functional Organisation, Functional 012
Side project of Skalp presents the material of an old tape with bonus material. Distorted rhythmic noise with harsh pounding machinelike sounds and slow whispering voice.
Keplers Odd -- "Strena Seu De Nive Sexangula (A New Year's Gift Of Hexagonal Snow)" -- CD -- €10
2008 Fractured Spaces Records, FS0108CD, (ltd. 1000)
Genre: Guitar-based noise drone ambient. From the darkest and coldest heart of Sweden comes the trio known as Keplers Odd, and Fractured Spaces Records is pleased to announce that "Strena Seu de Nive Sexangula", their third CD album, is the first official release on the UK's newest quality underground music label. Featuring seven tracks of noisy yet subtly ambient guitar-driven sonic attacks, eerily redolent of the icy cold mysterious aurora-wrapped landscapes prevalent throughout Northern Europe, inhabited by creatures and monsters spawned from the myths & legends told around campfires over countless generations. Indeed, Keplers Odd have themselves spawned a monster of an album, creating textures and ambiences far beyond the normal run of over-driven guitar noisefests - yes, there is unalloyed power here, but there is also quiet subtlety, sinister atmospherics, and deeply dark occult moods. Ancient abandoned buildings, dark musty corridors, sinister forces at play - it's all here in stonking quantities!! KEPLERS ODD are: Daniel Jansson (Deadwood, STUG 218 & Crest 218 [Crest & STUG 218 collaborative project]), Magnus Moilala (Crest & Crest 218 [Crest & STUG 218 collaborative project]), and Kristina Persson (Viper Trail). Currently they are to be seen rampaging around Gothenburg, Sweden. [press-release]
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Khaos Theory -- "From the Darkness of Khaos" -- CD -- €9
2008 Military Industrial Komplex Records
Khaos Theory is a military industrial metal band from NYC sounding sometimes like hardcore version of Laibach. "The concept for "From the Darkness of Khaos" is to reveal the hidden governments of the world and expose them into the light and minds of the 95% ignorant in today's world. Each song deals with a specific topic on the Iraq war, 9/11, Multinational corporations, Religion as an ignorant tool of enslavement, and the hidden elect or Illuminati secret societies which are slowly changing the world we live in to a uni-polar Orwellian state where only one government has the means to control and subjugate your life. Songs like "Kein Entkommen" give a vision of Corprate tyranny over the common man as they slowly destroy natural resource to gain profit to become an establisment that is too powerfull to stop. Thus none escape the grasp of total control they have. "Black September" is a song about the planes destroying the world trade center and changing the outlook of the western thought towards third world states. "The West Will Conquer" is a song that has a militant and patriotic anthem like any good propaganda piece to inspire a people to become active and involved in their countries agenda. The current album contains these tracks and many others like "Khaos Theory" and "From the Darkness of Chaos". Some songs are more dark and futuristic industrial, where as other songs are more classical and neo-militant". [from the press-release]
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Kiila -- "Tuota Tuota" -- CD -- €13
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)
Kinetix -- "Gestaltsystem 01 :: Possible Forms" -- 2 CD -- €15
2006 Monochrome Vision, (mv06)
"Possible Forms" is the first section of the audio installation titled "Gestaltsystem" represented for the first time at the exhibition "PX: Piombino eXperimenta 2005" Piombino (Italy). "Possible Forms" is not a double-CD album, but it's an audio-set composed by two CDs planned to be played simultaneously. It includes sixteen electronic compositions of identical length (5'.20") for a total time of 42'.42" for each CD. This work is conceived in order that every track of each record could play as second layer on every track of the other one. For this reason, the tracks hasn't neither title nor a pre-arranged sequential order. Macrostructure: the black CD includes eight tracks with metrical-tonal elements, while the white CD contains eight tracks of only noise drones. Both CDs have the same peak level (0dB), so the listener can choose the respective volume of each of the two CDs. These recordings contain ultra and sub sonic frequencies; for this reason the author advices the listener not to play the CDs at high volumes. Microstructure: all the tracks are obtained from a special combination of forty different audio fragments, previously selected and extracted from various digital sources. The minimal form of the entire work was specifically created to facilitate the listening in combined modality, establishing this way a precise relationship between sign and function. Vertical audio system: using two CD players (or CD-ROM/DVD players) in Random / Shuffle and Repeat modes, both players have to be started simultaneously. So, the two records can be played together ad libitum, generating sounds and sequences in continuous movement. Possible Forms uses sound strategies based on the calculation of auditive times and spaces in order to create a different kind of audio-logic design. In this sense this work can be intended as a device able of expanding the ordinary possibilities of domestic listening and it can be presented in the form of audio installation. [press release]
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Kinetix -- "White Rooms" -- 2 CD -- €14
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]
Kirchomfeld -- "Querschnitt" -- CD -- €11
2006 Dark Vinyl, DV #55
Cold & melodic Minimal Electronic songs in best tradition of / reference to German avantgarde / electronic bands of the 80ies (such as Kraftwerk, La Dusseldorf, Der Plan...) with melancholic vocals, added by modern soundcollages, surprisingly melodies and selected lyrics from famous poem writers (Eichendorf, ...). [label info] From myself: total sickness, think about Karl Runau or something in his vein.
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 -- "Erinnerung" -- CD -- €14
2006 Twilight Records, TW 1.22
Returning after the massive success of the three last releases "Invisible Front", "Pictures from Eternity" and "Cororner's sun", the legendary band commanded by Angelo Bergamini and Elena Fossi, KIRLIAN CAMERA, present the re-release under Twilight Records a masterpiece deleted for ages: Erinnerung. The album will come in very nice digipack with brand new artwork and will include some bonus unreleased tracks. Erinnerung is one of the most incredible, amazing album on the KC career and a trip into the time to the post war Europe with beautifully expressive female vocals. Another piece of the puzzle into the band discography. The line-up at this time was: Angelo and Emilia Lo Jacono, and guest appaerances as Grace Osei (aka Nancy Appiah) Simon Balestrazzi, Ivano Bizzi, Vicenzo Pastorino, Francesco Germini and Alessandro Nidi. [press release]
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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 -- "Pictures from Eternity" -- CD -- €12
1996/2008 Twilight Records, TW 1.10
After the highly deserved success of their current album 'Invisible Front .2005', is a big honour to our record label to re release this beautiful and cult album from one of the most important and popular electro bands in the gothic scene. This is the re-release of - in my opinion - one of their most legendary and best albums. Originally on Discordia in 1996, it comes with 3 exclusive bonus-Tracks! 'Pictures:' followed the very 'difficult' conceptual album 'Solaris', and marked the return of KIRLIAN CAMERA to their earlier, darker, romantic and melodic days. It's a definite RETRO album and includes some of the most beautiful tracks, Angelo Bergamini has written in 20 years! The opening track 'Ascension' has become a CLASSIC, but also the highly infective single 'Your Face in the Sun', the original version of 'I am the Light', the remake of a very early KC-track from 1981 (Meine Nachte sind heiser zerschrien') and the amazing Kraftwerk-inspired track 'Haalh' are real jewels of Angelo's discography - as well as the orchestral 'Wasted Bridges' or the neo-folkish 'The End of Days': Kirlian Camera today are without a doubt one of the most important acts in the electro scene and this work marked without a doubt one of the peak moments of their career and is regarded as their most 'accessible', and most 'darkwave' kind of album. This new version runs more than 72 minutes now - in fact it not only contains 3 bonus tracks, but also the 'Kuolema' remix of 'Ascension' from the original edition has been replaced by a much better sounding version! [press release] This is a second re-release in digipak limited to 300 copies.
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Kirlian Camera -- "Schmerz" -- CD -- €12
2007 Twilight Records, TW 1.39
Originally released in 1992 as a 7' single, enclosed to a magazine (tracks 1 to 6) and as MCD on KC's own 'Heavens Gate' Label (incl. track 7) and finally as full-length CD in 1995 (all 13 tracks) on extinct record label Discordia, this album sounds as fresh and new as it was recorded yesterday! Schmerz is one of the top masterpieces by Kirlian Camera and contains some of the best tracks ever written (Heldenplatz or Twilight Fields to mention just two)! Kirlian Camera are the historical pioneers of the Italian electronic scene. Active since 1980, it is one of the most important cult bands in Europe and it was about time, to make this amazing album available again! Schmerz is eclectic - we can find dark folk, electronic, ethereal and many other different stiles on the same record. [press release] Sdandard edition in jewelcase.
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Kirkegaard, Jacob -- "Labyrinthitis" -- CD -- €12
2008 Touch, Tone 35
Jacob Kirkegaard has turned his ears inwards: His new work LABYRINTHITIS is an interactive sound piece that consists entirely of sounds generated in the artist's auditory organs - and will cause audible responses in those of the audience. LABYRINTHITIS relies on a principle employed both in medical science and musical practice: When two frequencies at a certain ratio are played into the ear, additional vibrations in the inner ear will produce a third frequency. This frequency is generated by the ear itself: a so-called 'distortion product otoacoustic emission' (DPOAE), also referred to in musicology as 'Tartini tone'. By arranging the tones from his ears in a composition and playing them to an audience, the artist evokes further distortion effects in the ears of his listeners. At first, each new tone can only be perceived "intersubjectively": inside the head of each one in the audience. Kirkegaard artificially reproduces this tone and introduces it, "objectively", into his composition. When combined with another distorting frequency, it will create another tone... until, step by step, a pattern of descending tonal structure emerges whose spiral form mirrors the composition of resonant spectra in the human cochlea. Paradoxical as it may sound: we can listen to our own ears. The human hearing organ - still often perceived as a passive unidirectional medium - does not only receive sounds from the outside, it also generates its own sound from within itself. As a matter of fact, it can even be 'played on', just like an acoustic instrument. [label info]
KK Null -- "Galactic Tornado" -- CD -- €10
2008 Quasi Pop Records, QPOP CD051, (ltd. 500)
The album 'Galactic Tornado' by Mr. Kazuyuki Kishino (KK NULL) presents the deep, dense & dynamic electronic music. It's unconditional, intuitive and highly emotional excellent audio-work. Combining synthetic sounds from various synthesizers and electronic machines with acoustic audio signals, the composer explores (from his own point of view) some artistic values of 'psychedelic electronic sound' that were widly presented on space/electronic/kraut albums from 70s. Naturally, this CD could be recommended for listeners who prefer the contemporary experimental sound in its highest quality and for fans of 'retro spacey' sound from the groups such as Popol Vuh, Cluster or even Tangerined Dream as well. Luxurious 6-panels digipack with silver lettering and spot varnishing feautures artwork with images done by Kazuyuki Kishino. [press-release]
Klammheim -- "Heimwarts" -- CD -- €14
2009 Heimatfolk, HF 10
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 -- €10
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]
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]
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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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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Korperwelten -- "Avatars Of Rape And Rage" -- CD -- €10
2008 Malignant Records, TUMOR CD36
Having started the process way back in 2002, this collaborative project between Swedish powerhouse Nordvargr and US apocalyptic industrialists Navicon Torture Technoloies finally sees the light (so to speak) in 2008, having been re-worked and re-structured as a perilous 40 minute plunge into a black hole of sound. Waves of grim, doom filled atmospheric sludge crossbred with buzzing black drones, grinding distortion, and a seething underbelly of rhythmic pulsations, ultimately delivering everything you might expect from these two giants of the industrial scene. In 6 panel digipak, with extreme and controversial, Jonathan Canady (http://art.malsonus.com/) designed artwork sure to be banned if it falls into the wrong hands. [press-release]
Kraken -- "Amore" -- 2 CD -- €17
2005 Spectre, S17
Krasniy! -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €5
2008 S und S records, SS-2008-004-04, (ltd. 13)
This is how the music of our ancestors sounds in the modern world, the expression of extasy and turnover during the ritual of Kolo zeal. Furious noise, tambourine and fifes - a live recording of the ritual. The blood-belief is not forgotten, it waits for its morning hour to be awaken with the rise of the clear bright face. Recorded in 2007 by one of the members of UFA Muzak label. [press-release] Fourth variant of limited edition, in simple but nice handmade package.
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Krasnye Svitki -- "First Dog Trip" -- CD-R -- €8
2007 TSPHN Researches
Russian punk-folk band Krasnye Svitki (The Red Scrolls) made this recording during their trip from Ryazan to Yaroslavl and back. In trains, bus, boat and just on the street the guys were singing traditional folk songs and recording them onto a dictaphone. Pure male vocal polyphony without any instruments + background sounds of direct Russian reality of public conveyances. Released by the home label of Majdanek Waltz / Ganzer in thick handmade cardboard sleeve, contains songs lyrics and manifesto about punk-folk (in Russian). Absolutely authentic release.
Krepulec -- "Martial Industrial Power With Parabellum In The Hand" -- CD -- €11
2008 Twilight Records, TW 1.51
This is not a new KREPULEC album, but a re-release of an old and long delete mini album with the adition of some more tracks to complete an album! Is like parabellum, a shot in your head, martial industrial music for all the fans of Krepulec and also for the fans of this kind of sounds. A very intense experience, different than the other works, but with the sign of Krepulec. In the beginning this album was an split: Krepulec and Cold Fusion and was released by Beast of Pray in a very Limited edition 3"CDr of 66 handnumbered copies in special package. Now you could take and enjoy this album and more! [press-release]
Krepulec / Outofsight -- "Furious Friends" -- CD -- €11
2007 Twilight Records, TW 1.37, (ltd. 500)
This cult-album was originally released by the Polish label "Beast of Prey" in an extremely limited edition of 222 copies in CDr and was immediately sold out. This new edition is limited to 500 copies. Re-release in new Artwork and including 2 previously unavailable bonus-Tracks! Dark folk, martial sounds, timeless hymns and bombastic noises are the ingredients for this amazing split album. The two artists created a rich and varied release - 'Furious Friends' evokes the right timbre of dignity that the subject of the album requires. The album deals with tales about humanity, their weaknesses and heroism during German occupation and oppression of the Polish Nation in WW2. [press-release]
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Kreutzfeldt, Danny -- "Counterperipheral" -- CD -- €10
2004 Databloem, DBCD 007
Brooding industrial atmospheres, and deep dubby beats. Very thoughtful and highly addictive. If one needs a soundtrack to impending fall that works excellent on the headphones as well, there's plenty of reasons to get acquainted with Danny Kreutzfeldt. [label info]
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]
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
2005 Cold Spring Records, CSR54CD
Sacral post-industrial from Hungary with heroic, esoteric and philosophical influences. In the Blood of Heroes of Love and Fear. Purity and Justice against the Wane and Impurity. Musically, you may compare KRIEGSFALL-U with Turbund Sturmwerk, Wappenbund, Les Joyaux De La Princesse, Sophia, early Der Blutharsch... The CD comes in a nice digipack, with an A/3 full-colour poster. All lyrics translated into English. Fresh blood in the scene. [press-release]
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Kriegsturm -- "Eternity" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Valgriind, VG 34
Reissue of only one recording of already non-existent Latvian neo-folk project. Combination of live nature recordings, guitar, noise waves and strident female vocals. Design contains documentary photos of The Second World War made on the Baltic territory. Limited edition with professional polygraphy , different from the first edition. [label info]
Kriminaaliset Metsänhaltijat -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €13
2008 Triangle, TR-36, (ltd. 16)
One more forgotten work of this project, a collection of live recordings. Radical. Utterly unpleasant noise flow, rattle and metal clank. [label info]
Kriminaaliset Metsanhaltijat -- "Anarkkia, Kaaos, Maailmanloppu!" -- CD-R -- €12
2008 Triangle Records, [TR039], (ltd. 5)
Ultimate industrial / power-electronics. Manifests about end of the world, politics and dark angels of Chaos. Power. Limited edition 5 copies. [label info]
Kriminaaliset Metsanhaltijat -- "Koskemattomuus" -- CD-R -- €8
2009 BloodLust!, B!138
BloodLust! is happy to announce "Koskemattomuus," the label's second release by the emerging industrial noise group, Kriminaaliset Metsänhaltijat, which follows on the footsteps of the bands recent "Anarkkia, Kaaos, Maailmanloppu!" EP [B!129]. The members of this shadow group of old-school industrial acolytes originally hail from Finland and from Karelia -- a region and an autonomous republic of northwest Russia, between the Gulf of Finland and the White Sea. To paraphrase some of the band's own dogmatic yet oblique statements and manifestos, Kriminaaliset Metsänhaltijat quite accurately claim to have built their sound on the bones of such groups as S.P.K. and Throbbing Gristle, through a prism of Japanese harsh-noise and Finnish hardcore-punk, spewing out a nihilistic nightmare of diffused synth hiss, commanding metal percussion, waves of harsh-noise, anarcho-punk attitude, and dissident power-electronics. This "new" album, which the band actually recorded in 2001, furthers the group's association with the anarcho-punk scene [CRASS, et al] by presenting a fiercely grim anti-war statement. By conjuring the disasters of war, both historic and contemporary, the group lays the blame for the death of so many innocent civilians squarely on the shoulders of greedy politicians and big business. Kriminaaliset Metsänhaltijat weave their aggressive, dark industrial-noise style with segments of traditional, romantic Finnish war songs from World War II, as well of impassioned battlefield vocal segments, creating a complex and compelling tableaux that should appeal to a broad group of listeners, including fans from the martial music, minimal synth, crusty punk, and noise scenes. These are professionally duplicated CDs, with single panel, double-sided inserts, featuring striking color artwork; in jewel boxes with shrinkwrap. [press-release]
Kristus Kut / Mixturizer -- "Harsh Music For Hot Nurses Vol. 6" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Symbolic Prod, SYMBCD49, (ltd. 77)
Split with 5 Tracks of killer insane ambiant noise from Holland and 1 long Track of Harsh Noise from Spain!!! This CDR is limited to 77 copies and come with Gloves. Artwork on special gold Paper. [label info]
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.
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.
Kshatriy -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €8
2005 self-released
Apocaliptically calm bright'n'dark drone-ambient with impregnated with unhurried cosmic pulsations, visions of galactic warriors of light. Author's artwork - A5 sleeve. [Biosonar description]
Kshatriy -- "Drones" -- CD-R -- €8
2008 BioSonar^EleKtro - 012, (ltd. 60)
Melancholic anxious melodic and droney dark ambient, slow flowing structures in a field of endless vibrational space. Astral trip a the warrior of light in his sonic body through the waves of galactic convergence. Reissue of a self-released CDR. Author's artwork - A5 cardboard sleeve. [press-release]
Kshatriy -- "Live 19.06.04" -- CD-R -- €8
2005 self-released
Live recording of one of the most successful show, more anxious material than on studio works, but not less cosmic. [Biosonar description]
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]
Kuu -- "Suomi or the Well of Impossible Wishes" -- CD -- €11
2008 Twilight Records, TW 1.46
Kuu is the name that Finnish people gives to the moon. The action: the battle with yourself. The scene: the flat and snowy lands of Finland under the northern lights. This is the context where take place the drama of Kuu. A collection of poems that focus the problem of self conscience, the misunderstanding of feelings, the internal chaos. To be completely alone in a foreign land with an internal conflict, only being able to talk with the moon, with Kuu. She is the one who can hear your laments and hug you when everything is lost. There exists always an exit. Based in his experiences in Finland in 1999, Kuu wrote these poems. Later he decided to transform them into music in 2001. He talked with Bitxo, a friend from Barcelona, gave him the poems and explained him his experiences. So, Bitxo recorded electro-acoustic basis and Kuu went to Barcelona to record the voices. Finally the tracks were sent to Sheffield where Matt Howden includes a violin line to some of them. An amazing trip trought different geographies.. you can say its dark folk, ambient, electronic, its just KUU!! [press-release]
Kuwayama-Kijima -- "01.05.10." -- CD -- €9
2003 Alluvial Recordings, A15
Kiyoharu Kuwayama (cello, violin) and Rina Kijima (violin, viola) have been creating rich, flowing live improvisations for some years. On previous efforts, they have recorded improvisational pieces under a highway interpass whereby the environmental sounds of the area are heard in the background of each piece. Much of this music is to be heard on the trente oiseaux, gg, and 20 City labels, to name a few. With this release, we hear a refinement of this sound as the improvisations found on this CD were recorded in the empty warehouse no.20. Gone are passing cars and other incidental sounds. This work gives us the chance to hear the beautiful interplay of these two gifted musicians that is flawlessly recorded and leaves no detail unheard or muffled. The CD is packaged between five beautiful double sided cards containing artwork from Kiyoharu that suggests alchemy and the melting of sound. [press-release]
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'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]
L'Idiot Du Village -- "Haikus" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Steelkraft Manufactory, SKM09, (ltd. 100)
An improved re-release of L'Idiot Du Village concept-recording 'Haikus' with extra tracks and a nicer artwork. Motherboards declaiming noisy alexandrines make CPUs rumble and crackle, along 39 tracks of pure computer-poetry. Released by Steelkraft Manufactory, limited to 100 CDR in a white digipak. [label info]
L'Orchestre Noir -- "11" -- CD -- €14
1998/2006 PREcordings, PRE004
La Nomenklatur -- "La Legende Des Voix" -- CD -- €10
1986/1995 Ant-Zen, act 34, (ltd. 1000)
"La Legende Des Voix" is a re-release of La Nomenklatur's first tape, recorded in 1986. Powerful pulses and cold noises layering in very electronic sounding sheets of bruitalist percussions and distorted vocals. This aggressive aggregate is a raw document from the early days of rhythmic industrial noise. [label info]
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 -- €12
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 -- €12
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]
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 -- "A Stuffed Crocodile" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2001 AFE Records, afe50005, (ltd. 50)
Computer Music / Minimal Electronica. Brian Lavelle has been creating music for more than ten years using a variety of electronic devices. His most famous works are the "Radios" series, composed with Richard Youngs, but we can't help mentioning his wonderful "How To Construct A Time Machine" guitar suite released by Staalplaat's subsidiary Bake Records. "A Stuffed Crocodile" is his longest piece of computer music and density is its key: lots of digital information is layered into dense clusters which complement and contrast each other and somehow still appear to sound melodic and harmonic. [label info]
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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 -- "Skull Magic Volume 3" -- CD-R -- €7
2005 Morbid Tapes, MT#09
Electroguitar Death Industrial. Red sleeve. [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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LC (Lucisferrato) -- "Ahnenschein" -- CD -- €13
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]
LCEDP -- "De L'Utilité Des Convoyeurs" -- CD -- €12
2005 .ANGLE.REC., .A.R.05.03., (ltd. 500)
Coming from the speedcore/hardcore area of electronic music, Montrealôs LCEDP now delves into the world of rhythmônônoise. 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]
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Le Forbici Du Manitù -- "Terrore Nello Spazio" -- CD -- €11
2003 Small Voices, SVR 03005
One of the most enigmatic, eclectic and cosmopolitan bands of the Italian electronic scene returns with a singular sonorization - originally commissioned by the sci-fi festival Invasioni and performed live in Cosenza in Summer 2001 - paying a tribute to the cult movie Terrore nello spazio (1965, a.k.a. Planet of the Vampires and The Demon Planet) by Mario Bava (1914-1980), the undisputed and unforgotten Maestro of Italian gothic and macabre cinema (with films like Black Sunday, Black Sabbath, Blood and Black Lace, etc.), an ingenious and ironic innovator of the low budget productions that was appreciated and revalued in France, UK and USA much earlier than in his native country. Based freely on the story (later plagiarized by Ridley Scott's Alien) of the spaceships Argot and Galliot, attracted to land on a dying planet by ectoplasmic alien-vampires that in order to escape to other worlds need to take possession of the body of astronauts turning them into living zombies, Le Forbici di Manitu have created a sharp-witted hybrid of B-movies retro-fascinations and stylized genre contaminations, by mixing samplers and analogic electronics with an instrumentation hinting at jazz (flute, clarinet, congas, vibraphone) and disseminating the score with surreal cut-ups of dialogues from vintage films (where horror queen Barbara Steele can be heard in conversation with the high-brow characters played by Monica Vitti or with the silly comedians Franco and Ciccio), to permeate it with a mid-Sixties mood. Starting with the ironic and swinging intro of Razza in estinzione and going on to the thrilling keyboards of Invasioni (reminding of Dario Argento's favourite band Goblin) and to the unusual lounge-jazz of Space Spiders, proceeding to the foggy and liquid horror-ambient of Una notte di 21 ore, the poignant cameristic requiem of La colonna flessibile and the lavic electro-beat of Pianeta di sangue, this is just another happily unclassifiable work by one of the best kept secrets of the Italian underground. Short-circuiting B-movies with Author's cinema, just like Bava's Terrore nello spazio ends with an unexpected plot twist, we find at the end of the album a surprise cover version of Eclisse Twist, a song turned into a hit in the Sixties by the popular Italian singer Mina, originally penned by Ammonio (pseudonym of film director Michelangelo Antonioni) and Fusco for the film L'eclisse. As a cherry on top of the end-titles, the song summarizes the climate of apocalyptic romanticism of the whole imaginary soundtrack: "Radioactivity / sends a thrill through me / but you, but you / even more so". [press-release]
Le Forbici Di Manitù -- "Tagliare" -- 2 CD -- €15
2004 Small Voices, SVR04011
Veterans of the Italian experimental scene, Le Forbici di Manitù celebrate in their own peculiar way twenty years of underground activism through an album recorded live in their cellar, offering new arrangements, essential and direct, of (nearly) all the 'songs' in their back repertory, appeared from 1983 until today on a dozen of different releases (cds, compilations, rare cassettes and singles). Laying aside for this time conceptual electronics, noise-oriented audiogames and imaginary soundtracks, the atypically affable voice of Manitu Rossi guides us through an heterogeneous collection of surreal ballads of desperate love and disconsolate odes to the most despairing normality, grim dark songs about serial killers and nervous psycho-funk hymns inspired by old b-movies, touching elegies to deceased pop artists and sad reflections on the state of indie music. On the second cd we find instead remakes and remixes of other songs by Le Forbici di Manitu, recorded in the studio through a network of friends and special guests. We hear the enthralling G-Pop of Valvola & Mac Donald Duck Eclair and the deviant electro-funk of Technogod and Erasermen, the bizarre avant-punk of Maisie (with the plagiarist Plozzer) and the rarefied ambient dub of Teho Teardo. And let's not forget the tour de force of the hallucinatory title-track Tagliare (literally 'to cut'), an electro-rhythmical sequence by Le Forbici di Manitu reworked by several international artists (Mana ERG, DJ Balli, Lloyd Dunn, Rod Summers, T.A.C., Massimo Giacon, Nocturnal Emissions) and then mixed in a phenomenal cut-up dj set of over 23', performed by Marani and Taver of DuoZero. An ironical and amusing autocelebration from the part of a band rooted in the do-it-yourself tradition and in networking culture, confronting and taming the 'song format' with the same unbridled fervour and fantasy with which Bugs Bunny enters the Plaza de Toros. Jewel-box in cardboard slipcase with de-luxe booklet including track-by-track notes by Manitu Rossi and intro by Alvise Simonazzi, cover art by Emanuela Biancuzzi and graphics by Piermario Ciani. [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 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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Lebedev-Frontov, Alexander -- "Chaos" -- CD-R -- €7
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 -- €7
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 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 -- "All The King's Horses" -- CD -- €14
2002 SPV Poland / Big Blue, SPV-L 0132
For longtime listeners of the Dots, it is a welcome return into the beautiful dread of Edward Ka-Spel's idiosyncratic poetry, Silverman's kaleidoscopic synths, Niels van Hoornblower's weaving flutes and Martijn de Kleer's swirling, effects-laden strings. 'All the King's Horses' and 'All the King's Men' mark a sort of turning point for the band. After losing drummer/guitarist/bassist Ryan Moore (of Twilight Circus Dub Sound System), the Dots have made a clear and deliberate step back from the heavy progressive rock influence of the last couple albums. The lack of live drumming has brought more programmed beats and drum machine back into the mix, and along with it an emphasis on more minimal, eerie compositions. Additionally, the violin solos of mid-80's albums like 'The Golden Age' and 'The Lovers' are back, in a somewhat more subtle form. This material bears more in common with Ka-Spel's solo albums, or early Pink Dots albums such as 'The Tower' than the fuzzy, psyched-out prog of recent albums like 'Nemesis Online' and 'A Perfect Mystery'. [Jonathan Dean, Brainwashed]
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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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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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Les Joyaux De La Princesse -- "Aux Volontaires Croix De Sang" -- CD -- €17
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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Les Fragments De La Nuit -- "Musique Du Crepuscule" -- CD -- €13
2008 Equilibrium Music, EQM022
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 -- "The Pandora's Box" -- CD -- €12
2000 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 035
This is the most "Futurist" & "Post-modern" musician of the french "musique-concrete" generation! Sounds which are re-proposing on a new way his more authentic & first rough works: Cover art-works presents burning super-hero toys melting inside moulding vinyl discs. Music for the Theater writings by Christophe Pellet and directing by Anastasia Politi. [label info]
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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Light Collapse / IDX1274 -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €7
2005 Heart-Shaped Box, HSB-004, (ltd. 138)
Split of Russian and American projects. Apocalyptic noise-jihad. Arms: radionoise, fragments of TV-broadcasting and domestic objects noise. Limited to 138 copies and decorated with scenes from the "Saw" movie. DVD-box.
Light Collapse & M. Nomized -- "Combinat" -- CD-R -- €8
2008 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT15, (ltd. 84)
Trance-redionoise, chaotic and hypnotizing, sometimes resembling classical material of Sadogipnoz "Heavy Gravitation", sometimes "de-cycled" Lo.By..., sometimes - solo works of Light Collapse. Very dense album with lots of ingredients. This reissue is supplemented with a bonus-track "Severoprorva" from Light Collapse. Limited to 84 copies in handmade cardboard retro-industrial covers with usage of punched tape from Soviet computers. [press-release]
Light Collapse / plaZmat -- "split (2)" -- CD-R -- €7
Heart Shaped Box prod., HSB-008, (ltd. 40)
A new split from two Russian noise talents coming from Ural and Siberia regions. plaZmat presents 7 tracks of ear-tearing mid-frequency crackle, and LC gladdens with near-power electronic industrial compositions remotely resembling Hladna. Packed in an epochal attainment of Russian science and industry - a plasic box, developed, designed and patented (don't even think of copying - you'll be sued!) in Russian Federation. [YAOP info]
Light Collapse & Radiokvadratura -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €7
Heart Shaped Box productions, HSB-011, (ltd. 45)
Collaboration work between two Russian projects from Ural region. Sick and aticky anti-dance marathon. Brutal dances with broken legs, crutches, burnt bottles with foil and piles of crap. No artwork, just a piece of paper, PVC sleeve and something sprayed on a disk. We dance the third day. Not enough bottles. [Abgurd description]
Light of Shipwreck -- "From The Idle Cylinders" -- CD-R -- €7
Crusial Bliss, BLISS20, (ltd. 200)
Light Of Shipwreck is a one-man project of Ben Fleury-Steiner, owner of Gears of Sand Recordings. Dense ominous feedback drones and heavy pounding riffs freely flowing under the massive of the mechanical tribal rhythm. Three tracks of intense crushing power-ambient, with huge resonating metal slabs glimmering in an ocean of heavenly feedbacks and reverbed guitar on the back of trance-krautrock percussion. Colour A5 cover. [YAOP]
Ligne Claire -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 Steelkraft Manufactory, SKM 001, (ltd. 100)
Ligne Claire is a project brought up by Bertrand Barrere, featuring David Delwiche (HYTC), Stephane Flauder (Fin de Siecle), Serge Usson (Neon Rain, Storm Of Capricorn), Christophe Gales (Westwind) and Delphine Riou. During a one year recording session, all these individuals contributed by internet, each adding his own elements to the previous work of others, in turns. The result is a perfect blend of old-school industrial, rumbling drone/ambient and raw power-electronics. [press-release]
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Liles, Andrew -- "In My Father's House Are Many Mansions" -- CD -- €10
2006 Fourth Dimension Records, FDCD68
A fantastic new album by the highly prolific Brighton soundsmith, featuring work remixed/re-organised by Nurse With Wound, Colin Potter, Aaron Moore (Volcano The Bear), John Coleclaugh, Ruse, Band Of Pain, Bass Communion, Auto Manipulator, Irr. APP (Ext), Darren Tate, The Hafler Trio, Unsong, Vidna Obmana and Freiband. [label info]
Liles, Andrew -- "My Long Accumulating Discontent" -- CD -- €11
2004 Nextera, ERA 2035-2
Liles, Andrew -- "New York Doll" -- 2 CD -- €14
2007 Infraction, INFX 013, (ltd. 550)
The Lindbergh Baby -- "Hoodwinked" -- CD -- €13
2007 False Flag Records
Lingua Lustra -- "Extramunda" -- CD-R -- €9
2009 Databloem, DBCD09028
Lingua Lustra is Albert Borkent from Amsterdam, known from some minimal ambient releases on early Databloem and Practising Nature. This new relase is a jewel of an album that will not be unnoticed by the more sensitive listener. A blend of deep emotions, and a more ethereal touch brings on a magical and mysterious atmosphere. Here's a ticket for a journey through the soul, along the stars, encountering the otherworldly. [press release]
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 -- "Trud / Mechano-Faktura / Proletkult" -- 3 CD + CD-R -- €35
2007 Der Angriff, Nr. 15, (ltd. 100)
Box edition prepared for the 20 year anniversary of the project contains 3 CDs with the albums + a CD-R with previously unreleased material "Kinematika Mechanizmov".
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.
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.
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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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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Liquidated Error / Ragnar -- "split" -- CD-R -- €8
2002 L. White Records, LW-007, (ltd. 200)
New German industrial, sometimes experimental, heavy, brutal, droning, sick, first release by this two projects. [label info]
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Liyr -- "Fragments of Dust" -- CD -- €10
2010 Rage In Eden, RAGE 72
LIYR is a French martial act born in 2008. Heavily inspired by neoclassical, bombastic percussions and industrial martial sounds Liyr creates his own characteristic atmosphere. Behind the harshness of the percussions, there is an esoteric thought about Celtic tradition and legends - LIYR is the God of Sea in Celtic myths. But the main idea is that we all live in a changing world dominated by sort of feelings like hate and love, fear and pleasure - in his music and lyrics LIYR talks about all these feelings. 10 tracks, 42 minutes, CD in digipack. [press-release]
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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]
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.
Lonsai Maikov vs Dissonant Elephant -- "Thee Darkening ov Powers" -- CD -- €10
2006 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 079
After 6 years of silence finally we maneged to produce the Long awaited come-back album by LONSAI MAIKOV for this release joining force with DISSONANT ELEPHANT (both projects featured on the legendary compilation "Mystteria Mithrae" by Athanor). Their new common album is an exposition of the Dark side of the Spiritual travel in the world. A Shamanic travel, an extra-corporal musical inner travel, not ecstatic but a meditating one : even if everything has two face, two side and different degrees, and so implies also some violent experiment. The "esosymphonic pop-folk" has been completed by more electronic rough sounds and dark ambient martial sounds : "Thee Darkening ov Powers" has been a long work of meditation, writing and composition, paradox of meditation : elaborating sounds that reflects our thoughts and deeds about the Real Religious and Spiritual History of the World has we know it : from the Claws of Fenriz to the Exaltation of the Cross, from the Wud to the Wonderful Christian Mysteries containing all things by the practice of via negativa and via affirmativa. Musically and spiritually we want to fulfill our "mission" in a christian way and without any syncretism making sound and vibrate the great northern figures as anticipation of the Kingdom of the Logos and the Paraclet. To tell the Truth : composing odes and hymns to an other restoration of the same and eternal REGNUM : by using DOCTRINE EXPOSED AS POETRY what means ORARE et OPERARE. This place us, musicians - trobadors in the line of the northern initiation intimated linked to the antient poetry, and stay alive in the Christian initiation of Chivalry ! The tree is inverted but still we have to climb. We must pass through the darkness of being, the inferior, the most exterior state of being to conquer the highest, but in these Dark ages, the time we are living, our most external lives are already the darkest stages. : Et tenebrae eam non comprehenderunt !" As we at OEC like to say, this is best quality "Neo Pop'n'Folk" ! [press-release]
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 -- "El Dia Anterior A La Emergencia De Los Adultos De Magicicada" -- 3"CD -- €8
2006 Purple Soil, pulse three: one, (ltd. 505)
Repress of 1993 tape only release, showing the ambient-most face of Lopez' music. Deep, droning ambience at the usual threshold of the audible. [label info]
Lopez, Francisco -- "Live In San Francisco" -- CD -- €11
2005 23five, 23five 007
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]
Lopez, Francisco & Roden, Steve -- "Le Chemin du Paradis" -- CD -- €11
2002 Fario, Fario cd05
Split/collaboration of two electroacoustic musicians working with processing of field recordings into music. Collaboration track opens the CD with unsteady contours and distant sounds. Then comes solo composition of Steve Roden - slowly unfolding spiral of melodic drone. Sleeve notes say: "headphones recommended". Besides this it can be also recommended to listen this album on high volume and good apparatus otherwise you have a chance to miss Francisco López' track recorded with extremely low signal level.
LU -- "B-Interrail" -- CD -- €11
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 -- "Storms Of Neptune" -- CD-R -- €7
2002 Snip-Snip Records, SNIP-SNIP 01
Lucus -- "Cantiones Filicatae" -- CD -- €11
2006 Twilight Records, TW 1.25
LUCUS is a new italian medieval project of the brillant and talented musician Andrea Tuffanelli, collaborating with other musicians to produce a simple, yet intimate, musical setting that positions the listener in a vast depth of melancholic into the world of the ancient medieval past. Meditation, is a word to describe this work, inspired in the medieval times and the traditional music. Cantiones Filicatae, that's the title of this beautiful album, is composed of several original works as well as a variety of traditional pieces interpreted by the band, ranging from the early medieval periodis a wondrous mix of delicate atmospheres and an angelic soprano voice. For fans of Estampie or Qntal. A brilliant release !!! [press-release]
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 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 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 -- "Bereg Teploj Vesny" -- CD-R -- €10
2009 Vetvei, V03, (ltd. 108)
First part of the dilogy of "Spring banks" (the title translates from Russian as "Bank of Warm Spring") is a new release from Lunar Abyss and the third release by Russian label Vetvei. The continuous tapestry was recorded during the night of May 8th on the "ex-mental stage" of the international open air festival "Systo Togethering 2006" held in the woods of Leningrad region. E.S. used tapes, loops, concrete sounds, ocarina, voice and N.N. used computer, sound-generator and tape recordings, so they were telling the tales of alchemical process at the banks of mythic rivers reflected in dreams of animals who awake in dreams from rivers-voices and heavens-birds. Frequency moves in the body of voice and outside, pulsations, permanent ambient movements-trans-formation, a journey tale with a shaman to the dwellings of primordial elements. The artwork features views of Finnish gulf opening in early May morning. Cardboard sleeve unique for each copy, 3 cards. [label info]
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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 -- €11
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 -- "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 + 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 / 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 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 -- €11
2004 QUAG, quag 29, (ltd. 400)
The re-release of the first CD-R album with bonus tracks. Meditative monotonous ambient extracted from handmade metal and brass instruments.
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 -- €11
2002 Chimaera, [xm 1]
Resonant engulfing dark ambient played on natural instruments. A perfect mix of russian pagan rituals and soulful atmosphere. Recorded live in various moments in 1998-2002. Hand-made digipack.
Lunar Abyss Timeline -- "Timeline 2010" -- CD-R -- €6
2010 Biosonar Revers
The author's medley made from all the works from the early period of Lunar Abyss Quartet till present releases of Lunar Abyss Deus Organum. Mixed in three tracks matching the timeline. Simple artwork, cardboard sleeve. [label info]
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 -- "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 -- "Paradise Disowned" -- CD -- €15
1986/2000 Soleilmoon Recordings, SOL 96 CD
Lustmord -- "The Place Where The Black Stars Hang" -- CD -- €15
1994/2006 Soleilmoon, SOL 141 CD
"The Place Where the Black Stars Hang" was first released in 1994 on Side Effects, via Soleilmoon and while the earlier Lustmord album "Heresy" (Soleilmoon) gave birth to the "dark ambient" genre, it is "The Place Where the Black Stars Hang" that defines it. It's a work regularly cited by critics, audiences and musicians as being amongst the very best and most influential albums of its decade. "Black Stars" has been unavailable since 2002. It has been re-mastered and given new artwork for this edition. The differences are subtle yet powerful, giving the album a more nuanced feeling of space and detail than ever before. Oft imitated, but never equaled, Lustmord: The Power of Sound. [label info]
Lustmord -- "Rising" -- CD -- €15
Vaultworks, H-12, (ltd. 1000)
Lustmord: Rising was captured live at The Center for Inquiry, Los Angeles June 6, 2006, with no additional overdubs or production. The first Lustmord performance in 25 years! The performance drew on material from various Lustmord albums, melded and blended into new combinations, as well as new material and improvisation. The release of Lustmord: Rising also marks the 25th anniversary of Lustmord. Over the quarter century of its existence Lustmord has attained a legendary reputation, with numerous albums and collaborative recording partnerships with the likes of Tool, Melvins, Coil, Paul Haslinger, Tangerine Dream, SPK, Chris & Cosey, Throbbing Gristle, Clock DVA, Robert Rich, Jarboe (Swans), Current 93, Nurse With Wound and Lori Carson. Brian Williams, the man behind Lustmord, has furthermore made a name for himself in the last 13 years, while based in Los Angeles, with his sound design and music expertise for film, television commercials and video games. He has worked on more than 40 motion pictures, including Underworld, The Crow, The Craft, From Dusk Till Dawn, The Negotiator, The Siege Bride of Chucky and The Insider. Often imitated, never equaled. Lustmord live, the next chapter. [press-release]
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.
Lutyi -- "Arkasha come on!" -- CD-RW -- €7
2009 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
Noise-versions of Arkasha Severny (Russian rogue-chanson singer). Dedicated to Natalya Katkova. [label info]
Lutyi -- "Hidden Disease" -- CD-RW -- €7
2009 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
Rogue music, micronoise, paranoid melancholia. Dedicated to Natalya Katkova. [label info]
Lutyi -- "Night Job" -- CD-RW -- €7
2009 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
Noise-rogue. Dedicated to Natalya Katkova. [label info]
Lutyi -- "Russian Trace" -- CD-RW -- €7
2009 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
Noise-ambient-rogue. Dedicated to Natalya Katkova. [label info]
Lutyi -- "A View from... (Vzglyad iz...)" -- CD-RW -- €7
2009 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
Rogue-noise and some ambient. Dedicated to Natalya Katkova. [label info]
Lutyi -- "Zona" -- CD-RW -- €5
2008 HlobKorobRecords, (ltd. 10)
Style: bastarddrone. Original remixes of Russian songs especially loved by criminals, like "Vladimirsky Central", "A man in a quilt", "Butyrskaya prison", etc. Industrial factory ambient. Old school mutherfucker!!! [label info]
Lutyi + Valera -- "Budet Vam!" -- CD-RW -- €5
2008 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
Noise + thieves songs. Valera (born 1920) is an old-school convict, 18 years under the political article... Performes classical Russian prisoners' songs: The Blue Sky, Katyukha, Gop-stop, etc... Lutyi simultaneously makes violent harsch noise. An experiment? Agree. But the result has overcome all expectations. For the lovers of Arkasha the Northern and Toby Dammit. [press-release]
Lutyi Fraer -- "Bottom" -- CD-RW -- €9
2010 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
Poetic post-industriel combined with post-rock and post-punk. Best work to date. [label info]
Lutyi Fraer -- "Camp" -- CD-RW -- €9
2010 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
Drone-martial album dedicated to WWII. Inspired by the Soviet movie "No Way Back". Uncharacteristic sound for this project. [label info]
Lutyi Fraer -- "Chiki" -- CD-RW -- €9
2010 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
Cover-versions of old Russian shlager songs in retro-electro style with catchy melodic guitar by Fraer and truly heavy grindcore material. [label info]
Lutyi Fraer -- "Days are Passing in a Train" -- CD-RW -- €7
2009 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
Stylistically varied work. Noise-ambient loops with soft guitar, paver-electronics-martial with marching drums and distorted vocals, droning prison noise, a cover-version of Arkadiy Severny (Russian rogue-chanson singer)... For the most beautiful Moscow girl in a world. For Natalya Katkova! [label info]
Lutyi Fraer -- "Kosmicheskaya Urla" -- CD-RW -- €7
2009 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
A collaboration between Lutyi (Formanta P-432 synth) and Fraer (Fedor from Ace Ventura band, solo guitar). Space ambient, post-rock, criminal aesthetics of Soviet times - don't forget to pour a glass or two during the listening - it will be appropriate! Dedicated to dear Natalya Katkova. [label info]
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.
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 -- "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 & 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]
Maaaa / Torturing Nurse -- "We Are So Fucking Harsh! You Are So Fucking Suck!" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 Triangle Records, [TR028], (ltd. 50)
Harsh-noise metal-junk massacre from Karelia with evilkids from Chine against other sucking world. Bloody waltz of dangerous frequencies, tones and noises. Try to survive. ltd. to 50 copies. [press-release]
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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Macelleria Mobile Di Mezzanotte -- "Profilo Ottimale Delle Ferite" -- CD -- €10
2002 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 048
Translated : "MIDNIGHT MOBILE BUTCHER'S SHOP - Excelent Profile of the Wounds", debut album for this Italian power-industriual monster which is taking inspiration from the many italian extreme industrialoids like: the old MB, Murder Corporation, Atrax Morgue... but with a more cool & cold touch and adding some incredible jazz-noisy-bossasnuff-bloodeasy sounds which makes this new project simply unique! A real big surprise to be discovered! Crime Jazz Industrial!!! [label info]
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 -- "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 -- €12
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 -- €11
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 -- "The Wheel" -- 2 CD -- €20
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.
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]
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 -- "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]
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]
Man Da Rin -- "Bad / Good EP" -- 3"CD-R -- €2
2007 Ambulacranarx Records, amblcrnrx - 03, (ltd. 30)
A small single from gothic Mandarin. Clicks and glitches, pulling wires out of mind and other joys of the author inclined to machine murder. The disc contains 1 track + 1 bonus track. Also 2 mp3 files contain 2 unmixed tracks from the first composition, so you can listen to them either separately, or together. CD-extra (2 audio tracks + mp3 bonus). [press-release]
Mania -- "Ultra-Negative" -- CD -- €13
2008 Freak Animal Records, FA-CD-043, (ltd. 250)
4 tracks of heavy and noisy Mania material, with extensive use of metal junk. 2 tracks with analogue electronics contribution from Aaron Dilloway (former member of Wolf Eyes and many other projects). 1st edition of 250, in plastic box with full color inserts. [label info]
Manson, Charles -- "The Summer Of Hate - The '67 Sessions" -- CD -- €11
2007 Arte Lupo, L182
Charles Manson's name should be no stranger to lovers of the weird and wonderful, having been sentenced to life without parole for his leadership of the cult 'The Family', who committed several murders in the late '60s. Before these events, Charley had high-hopes of becoming a pop star, with his strange psychedelic folk music - bizarrely more fashionable today than ever. Here for the first time are the complete recordings that were made on 11th September 1967 in a rehearsal studio, which went onto be used as demos to try to secure a recording deal, which never happened. Spoken word elements throughout the 18 tracks (just under 45 minutes). Essential for collectors of '60s Folk and weird psych freakouts. [label info]
Mantra, Michael -- "A/B" -- CD -- €10
2006 Silentes, cd 200612
Two long tracks of obscure drone-based atmospheres. Layers of slowly morphing sound-streams. Electronic waves, natural ambient feedback, deep rumbles, distant echoes of metallic clattering masses in motion... An unbelievable sonic trip into the deepest darkness. [label info]
Mantra, Michael -- "A.L.B.E." -- CD -- €10
2009 Silentes, 200923
Soft and dilated ambient atmospheres, minimal sonorities, floating electronic carpets: A new, 'classic' and fascinating album in the typical and unmistakable Michael Mantra style... Four long and suggestive tracks, to be listened at low volume relaxing in the half-light, just like a discreet and refined sonic background, or at an higher volume for a 'full immersion' into warm and wrapping electronic soundwaves, to the discovery of intriguing and evocative sonic landscapes: [label info]
Mantra, Michael -- "Boolean Languages" -- CD -- €10
2005 Silentes, cd 200509
Boolean Languages is a dark ambient album that is sombre in approach and mysterious in overtones. A combination of digital and analog synthesizers, musique concrete and drones creates an album that is an ambiedelic brew of sonic excursions into the dark unknown lands within. This album is dedicated to world peace and the end of all suffering for all sentient beings. [press release]
Mantra, Michael -- "D#m/Gm" -- CD -- €10
2008 Purple Soil, pulse zero: five
The so far unreleased 1998 album. Classical example of static music. Two lengthy ambient tracks, heavy on subtle drones and concrete sounds, descending slowly forwards. [label info] "D#m/Gm is an album of extended ambient listening of sonic icebergs slowly shifting over time. This album is based in ultra minimal atmospheric dronecore, an exploration into the dark unknown of somber sonic states of the mysterious unknown and leveraging changes in states of feeling and states of consciousness. For maximum sonic effect, listening to this CD with stereo headphones is recommended. Do not listen to this album while operating heavy machinery or operating an automobile, motorcycle, marine craft, aircraft of extra terrestial craft. This album is dedicated to world peace for all sentient beings." [sleeve notes]
Mantra, Michael -- "Mobius Logic" -- CD -- €10
2008 Silentes, 200821
Evocative and crepuscular atmospheres, tenuous sounds from the inks color pastel, minimalistic melodies acclimatized on background of "discreet" but wrapping field recordings... Evoked and surrealistic soft sonorous landscapes with warm synthetic sounds, mixed to crystalline natural noises, concrete sounds, breaths... A fascinating classic "and" quiet "album of" ambient music, to work of one of the greatest and "historical" masters of the sort... [label info]
Mantra, Michael -- "Sonic Alter (Deepchord Remix)" -- CD -- €11
2004 Silentes, cd 200401
This is a new re-working of the classic ambient masterpiece by Michael Mantra. Sonic Alter was originally issued by Kim Cascone on his Silent imprint in 1994. For this version, Rod Modell (Deepchord Records in Detroit) added rhythmic elements and further processing. The original Sonic Alter was one of the best selling atmospheric records, and possibly the best on Silent. Many brain-hemisphere synchronization techniques / frequencies are employed. With headphones, this cd has a stunning drug-like effect. An updated classic. [press-release]
Mantra, Michael & De La Casa, Charlz -- "Cerulean Transmission" -- CD -- €10
2006 Silentes, cd 200616
A precious sonic masterwork, documenting the extraordinary collaboration between Michael Mantra and Charlz De La Casa. A cd of suspended time and space... 'classical' static music. Two long tracks flow like sonic lava, weaving together lush background washes, and evocative field recordings. Dark electric sounds, beautiful drones, inner-Earth rumbling, human voices, concrete noises, ship engines, sirens, sounds of the sea, bubbles, wind, chants, and wildlife sounds merge in an indefinable (and never before experienced) way... an absolutely unmissable work. [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 / Cosco, Tommaso -- "Turra" -- 3"CD-R -- €10
2008 Afe Records, afe120mcd
Maschinenzimmer 412 -- "Macht Durch Stimme" -- CD -- €10
1988/2008 Dark Vinyl, DV #40, (ltd. 400)
Repressing of the long time deleted CD. MASCHINENZIMMER 412 was founded in 1990 by KREMATOR and DRAKHON and can be descriped as the real leader of the true Swedish Black Industrial scene. Meanwhile well known thru their current releases under MZ412, the time is right to look back to their first release from 1990 "Macht Durch Stimme". Also if MACHT DURCH STIMME doesn`t exactly represent evil in the same way as the new MZ412 albums do, it`s is interesting to see where all started from. True swedish black industrial, dark doomy and challenging. [press-release]
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]
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.
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]
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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MC uYObko -- "HlobkovoYO SchastiYO" -- CD-RW -- €5
2008 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
Politicized radical bum-R'N'B! [label info]
Meditations -- "Eternal Absence" -- 3"CDR -- €5
2008 Small Doses, dosethirtythree, (ltd. 115)
This is the third release from this trio - Franklin Teagle, Matt Yacoub, and Ryan McGill (Bones of Seabirds). Schizophrenic noise -PE-like one moment dark ambience in others - of the highest order - drenched in feedback with a heart of stone. [label info]
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Meelkop, Roel -- "5 (Zwischenfälle)" -- CD -- €11
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]
Megaptera -- "Extended Chaos" -- 2 CD -- €20
2006 Autarkeia, acd 015, (ltd. 500)
MEGAPTERA's back again with yet another release to celebrate the 15 years anniversary. The new release is titled EXTENDED CHAOS and consits of two old releases, Near Death and Beautiful Chaos. Near Death is Megapteras first official release way back in 1991. It was released as a 7-track cassette on the CMI-sidelabel Sound Source. It's the first release with Peter Nystrom as an official member of the band. Near Death is also the ONLY release with all three members! Using drummachine, various synthezisers, movies, TV, radio and microphone they created a totally analog and dirty death theme. On this CD, 3 bonus tracks are added from the same period. Get prepared for old school! The second disc is a re-release of the 1998 4-track MCD Beautiful Chaos, that was released by Fever Pitch Music, USA. This time it's extended to 10 tracks. Extra material is the two classic tracks Shadowland and Sodom from the Death Odors-compilation and the two tracks from the In the Buchers Backyard-compilation. And as the top of the cake, the CD ends with a bombastic remix of the acopolyptic Final Day, signed The Protagonist, and a 9 min extended version of Shadowland, remixed by Peter Nystrom and Magnus Sundstrom. The sound of Beautiful Chaos is structured and heavy "end of the world-theme" using sampled sounds, mixed in a computer program. Both discs are mastered by the genious of Magnus Sundstrom. [label info]
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Megaptera -- "Staring Back At You" -- CD -- €11
Malignant Records, tumorcd29, (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 -- €13
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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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 -- "Gloriam Demondi" -- CD -- €11
2004 Dark Vinyl, DV #37
Following the obscure steps of EVIL IS TOO STRONG the apocalyptic war machine is back with more supreme symphonic & occult death music, more memorable destructive rythms and entangled mentally insane orchestrations. MELEK-THA stands for extremely monumental, orchestral and bombastic Black Industrial, added by symphonic chants. [label info]
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 -- "Deluge & Sunder" -- CD -- €13
2007 Beta-lactam Ring Records, mt137, (ltd. 350)
A CD edition of what every D.M. fan considers his finest work to date. Remastered and expanded with a bonus album "Sunder", a follow up to "Deluge". What makes a Menche a Mensch? Well, kids, if you do not already know, the thick textural musings of Mr. Menche are more subtle and moving than those of the average power elctronic bear. Too frequently lumped in with a rather dour lot, Menche, I believe, is often misunderstood as being a darkly obsessed character, and while he does paint in chiaroscuro, his sonic assaults have much more to do with palpability than pulpability. Think of it as being assaulted... with a Pepa. 'Deluge' is actually a surprising departure from previous explorations as the tones are generated by real live instruments (bass guitar, accordian & melodica) as played by a real live Menche. The rumbly counterpoint that so well defines Menche's sensibilities is still there, but is played against, initially, a seering wall of D sharp that is built from what sounds like an extended bowing (ala Stephen Scott's monofiliment attacks on piano interiors, but more as if conducted by Dumitrescu). The latter piece is a beautiful and playful exercise with a bellowed instrument. A solid droning G has a conversation with quietly modulated tones above (angels?) and soft porcine bassy throbs below (fat angels?). Maybe akin to later Nigel Ayers or Soliloquey era Nurse, but the precedings are distinctively Menchian, and the last piece breaks down so sublimely that I found myself listening to just the end part over and over again. I'll do that sometimes when I've had too much coffee. [press release]
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Menche, Daniel -- "Hope And Prey" -- mCD -- €8
2004 Soleilmoon Recordings, SOL 135 CD
Soundtrack for the film "Hope And Prey" by Vanessa Renwick.
Menche, Daniel -- "Scather" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2005 Taalem, alm 23
Taâlem goes noise :-) Another great artist in the Taâlem series that should need no introduction. Daniel Menche has fastly gained a strong reputation in the experimental/noise scene thanks to many releases on various labels all around the world (Tesco, Soleilmoon, Beta Lactam Ring, Antifrost, to name but a few) and extremely physical live performances. Here's another fine example of his huge talent to create loud and powerful but subtle music! [press-release]
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Menche, Daniel -- "Wings on Fire" -- CD -- €10
2006 Tantric Harmonies, TANTRA X33, (ltd. 555)
Extreme ambient in a textured gatefold sleeve, strictly limited to 555. Scorching and searing drones, heated and flaming rhythms and a burning ritualistic sonic force to be reckoned with. This is Daniel Menche's "Wings on Fire" and this noise inferno soars with volume and intensity that makes it the unheard soundtrack for the flight of Icarus - that is, if his wings did not melt and he did actually fly to the sun. This is Daniel Menche at his most ferocious sonic exploration. Call it extreme ambient or gorgeous noise, Wings on Fire is a must-have release to incinerate the speakers and melt the listener to a beautiful submission of sonic power. [label info]
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 -- "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 -- "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 -- "Scene" -- CD -- €10
2005 Waystyx, WR11
Recorded in November 2004, this material is not remarkable for it's brutality, rather on the contraty, sometimes it reminds quite normal music. The album is filled with straight rhythmic moments and ambient diffusions, but of course Masami Akita couldn't do it without good noise flavouring even here.
Merzbow -- "SCSI Duck" -- CD -- €10
2003 Fourth Dimension Records, FDCD66
Four cuts recorded in 2003 by harsh electronics innovator Masami Akita. "It's been years since I've reviewed a Merzbow CD. Every other month I see a new release surface yet I hesitate to listen. After the 10 CDs I've heard in the past, I was expecting the same old harsh white noise; I'm happy to say that I was wrong. "Greenman", the opener, starts with a junk percussion sound and quickly turns violent and spacious, with plenty of layers and textures. "Rock Me Booa" is also pounding and percussive, with more focus on the wall of electronics and swirling feedback. Loud and abrasive is "Untitled 12," a thirteen minute piece. "Herpos Suite" clocks in at 26 minutes and is very hard to get through. Very uneasy, very loud. My attention span is more in the five minute marker, but good nonetheless. Once again Masami Akita proves he is the king of noise; Japanese or otherwise." [Fever Pitch Music]
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 -- "Hyena Safari" -- CD -- €8
2005 Solnze Records, SCD OGI 010
The hard-liners of Russian-style "easy listening" music Messer Chups have released their eighth "horror-album" called "Hyena Safari". It is "easy listening" since one can enjoy it as a background music while the other one will get a kick out of relishing every detail. Cover design of album created by Doping-Pong. The idea of the woman - werewolf is shown in 6 stages as a black-and-while cartoon. The woman transforms into hyena. Hyena associates with danger. Listening to guitar-surf of Messer Chups one can imagine Eros and Thanatos dancing together on a circle of life called "sansara" in Buddhism. Digipak. [Fulldozer]
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]
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)
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]
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 / 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]
The Missing Ensemble -- "Hidden Doors" -- CD -- €11
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]
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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]
Mizutani, Kiyoshi / Shimada, Hideaki / Kuwayama, Kiyoharu -- "Gambetta" -- CD -- €10
2008 Monochrome Vision, mv27, (ltd. 500)
This unique collaboration of three Japanese musicians coming from quite different music background (Kiyoharu Kuwayama: contact microphone, hand made electronics; Hideaki Shimada: violin, live electronics; Kiyoshi Mizutani: feed back, drumstick) tends to be the most radical and uncompromising one. It's really hard to explain what it's all about, it's too alien and very far from any rational thought you can imagine. For the unprepared listener, it can be very uneasy and helpless experience, but for me, it explains the very idea of avant garde music in our post modern age. [label info]
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Moan -- "Between / Associated" -- CD-R -- €9
2003 Afe Records, afe044lcd, (ltd. 200)
Moan's music is getting more and more recognition these days and "Between / Associated" is his second CD-R on Afe after the stunning "Clear Your Consciousness" released in June 2001. Rafal Sadej, the body behind the soul of Moan, was born and brought up in Siemianowice Slaskie, Poland, in the midst of atmosphere and sounds of industrial enviroment of ironworks and coal-mines, producing whole lot of unnatural sounds inscribing themselves into ordinariness of surrounding districts. Such influence permeated most of his previous works like "Isolate", "Desolate" and "Clear Your Consciousness", and it's also present here in a more subliminal way hidden somewhere between the ambient textures and the orchestral movements. "Between / Associated" was commissioned by the polish Youth's Gallery association to match the painting exhibition of Magdalena Sikora and was entirely composed by Moan using only his PC as instrument. The version of "Between / Associated" reproduced on this CD-R was recorded live on 23.02.2002 at the Cogitatur Theatre in Katowice during the opening of Magdalena Sikora exhibition. [label info]
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Moan -- "Endemia" -- CD-R -- €7
2003 Soulworm Editions, Worm XXXVII, (ltd. 250)
Moan's work has never been easy to pigeonhole, nor should it be overlooked. And here's the proof, almost an hour long excursion through the contaminated psyche, alienated entity and anxious being. After a couple highly anticipated albums (not to mention the 3" on Soulworm, folks!), 'Endemia' seems to be the crucial achievement. Although immersed in Moan's genuine, claustrophobic ambient mood, the songs presented hereby are kept in dark industrial style, with some suggestive, chaotic outbreaks. We are proud to release this wonderful album, the most spectacular manifestation of both talent and approach, and last but not least - a notorious friend of ours. [press-release]
Mockingwyrd -- "Cracks in the Void" -- 3"CD-R -- €5
2007 Some Place Else, SPECDR07041, (ltd. 150)
Mockingwyrd. Not much is known about him/her/them (?) thus far, except vague credits on a number of Finnish experimental releases (often by other Some Place Else artists, such as Ovro and Niko Skorpio). It is rumoured that Mockingwyrd is also a bass player in several doom & thrash metal, jazz and experimental groups. [...] Sceptics maintain Mockingwyrd is just another pen-name of a Some Place Else-related artist. Some others claim he's an extra-terrestrial entity from Aldebaran and worship him as god of the new aeon. Some Place Else representatives dismiss both of these claims as nonsense, but what do you know? Who do you believe? Nevertheless, Cracks in the Void is an EP, to our knowledge the debut, by Mockingwyrd. It contains two tracks recorded 'in the void', employing a bass guitar with a carefully selected pile of effects. These two tracks create a narrow yet spacious interzone, a one-off meeting point of low-frequency drones and sparse yet delicate melodies. Press play, slip in and enjoy your brief escape from daily routines. [label info]
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Modell, Rod -- "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]
Moljebka Pvlse -- "Fall In Woodland Cemetery" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2008 Taalem, alm 49
With his first works released on well-known labels like Cold Meat Industry, Eibon Records or Fin de Siecle Media, Mathias Josefson's Moljebka Pvlse has fastly gained a strong reputation in the dark ambient/industrial world. Including more & more field recordings in his sound, Josefson soon departed from his typicial "Swedish roots" to more droney sounds like his more recent productions on Mystery Sea, Gears of Sand, Drone Records or this very 3". Minimal yet captivating droney field recordings! [press-release]
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Moljebka Pvlse -- "Sadalmelik" -- CD -- €10
2002 Cold Meat Industry, cmi113, (ltd. 1000)
Imagine someone delicately rolling out a dough comprising both the subtler moments of Maeror Tri and the hypnotic ambience of mid-eighties Lustmord, incorporating low frequency factory sounds and you might come close to this monotonous drone-party. [label info]
Moljebka Pvlse -- "Sadalsuud" -- CD -- €10
2007 Some Place Else, SPECD07040
Mathias Josefson is a sound-artist from Stockholm, Sweden, and currently attending the royal university college of fine arts. His main project is Moljebka Pvlse, which is an experimental music group that works with both electronic and acoustic instruments, as well as with field recordings and found sounds. What comes out is hypnotic and meditative soundscapes. Over the years Moljebka Pvlse has performed live in Canada, Finland, France, The Netherlands, Slovenia, Sweden and the U.S. Mathias has, mainly as Moljebka Pvlse, released several albums on many different labels, such as Cold Meat Industry, Eibon Records and his own Isoramara label. Some Place Else is proud to release the new album by Moljebka Pvlse, entitled Sadalsuud. For this album, Mathias collaborated with a number of his colleagues who provided him various source sounds to work with. The name Sadalsuud refers to a star of the same name in the constellation of Aquarius. The name comes from an Arabic phrase meaning "the luckiest of them all". Nevertheless the album is rather earthy-sounding, yet mystical and surreal, almost claustrophobic at times. The sound is vaguely reminiscent of some works by Nurse With Wound, Maeror Tri or The Hafler Trio, but carries the trademark Moljebka Pvlse feel. An unsuspecting pre-listener described Sadalsuud as "a visit to a supposedly haunted house, though only once you've entered the house you begin to grasp the real meaning of haunting." [press-release]
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Mollusk -- "Accretions" -- CD -- €10
2001 The Foundry, FOU.14
Moloch -- "Isa" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Heart-Shaped Box Prod., HSB-029, (ltd. 21)
Experimental Dark Industrial. Terroristic keyboards in vein of Karl Runau, metal percussion, nordic invocations, brutal vocals, drum-machines. For the lovers of MZ.412, Archon Satani, early Allerseelen, Antarktida. Double handmade sleeve. [YAOP]
Moloch -- "Meine Alte Melancholie" -- CD-R -- €6
2007 Heart Shaped Box Prod., HSB-016, (ltd. 30)
Minimal intuitive ambient 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]
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 -- €11
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].
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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]
Monologue -- "Heroes of Non-Russian Rock" -- CD-R -- €8
2005 self-released promo
Powerful sonic terror vinaigrette made from radio and TV-noise, songs or russian rock bands, pieces of breakbeat and a lot of porn samples. Somewhere between Veprisuicida and Lo.By... [YAOP description]
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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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 -- "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).
Moon Lore -- "The Spheres Beneath The Heavens" -- CD -- €10
1997 Malicious Records, MR111, (ltd. 1111)
Morgen Mittag / Daruin / Galaxy The Incubator -- "split" -- CD-R -- €6.50
2007 Dotnum Dunton, dotnum02, (ltd. 30)
Morgen Mittag - nice microwave minimalism, chattering and squeaking signals, spontaneuosly organizing in rhythmical patterns, sibilant and hissing backgrounds. Daruin - 20-min track constructed from various rags: noise, field recordings, abstract electronics. Galaxy The Incubator - fat digital noise, strange acoustic effects and insane collages of movie samples.
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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 -- "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 -- "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]
Mudenoise -- "All Truth About Emptiness" -- CD-RW -- €9
2010 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
Romantic ambient-industrial. [label info]
Mudenoise -- "Aperture" -- CD-RW -- €7
2009 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
Digital noise with allusions to dark ambient. Dedicated to Natalya Katkova. [label info]
Mudenoise -- "Dark and Cold Space of Non-Existence" -- CD-RW -- €7
2009 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
Noise ambient, obscure and depressive. Dedicated to Natalya Katkova. [label info]
Mudenoise -- "Digits" -- CD-RW -- €7
2009 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
Soft ambient, easy noise, a touch of IDM by the end of the album. Dedicated to Natalya Katkova. Love noise. [label info]
Mudenoise -- "DYI" -- CD-RW -- €7
2009 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
Noise-experiments. Dedicated to Natalya Katkova. [label info]
Mudenoise -- "The Edge of Noise" -- CD-RW -- €7
2009 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
The album is dedicated to Natalya Katkova. Post-Soviet analogue ambient and soft noise. Recommend. [label info]
Mudenoise -- "Elena Petrosyanko" -- CD-RW -- €5
2008 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
Pop-noise, noise-humour. Thanks to Petrosyan-Stepanenko for this great harsh! [label info]
Mudenoise -- "Fallen Childhood" -- CD-RW -- €9
2010 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
Ambient with samples from the child songs of Evgeny Krylatov. [label info]
Mudenoise -- "From the Sky" -- CD-RW -- €9
2010 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
Ambient industrial. Quite smooth and calm atmospheric album. [label info]
Mudenoise -- "Ice" -- CD-RW -- €7
2009 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
Experimental noise. Dedicated to Natalya Katkova. [label info]
Mudenoise -- "Images" -- CD-RW -- €7
2009 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
Harsh noise, a mechanical utopia. Dedicated to Natalya Katkova. [label info]
Mudenoise -- "In the Core of the Wave" -- CD-RW -- €7<
2009 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
Fifty-minute long track - experimental noise-union of digital and analogue. Recommend. Dedicated to Natalya Katkova. [label info]
Mudenoise -- "Industrial Canzona" -- CD-RW -- €9
2010 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
Harsh-noise played on metal junk. Two infernally thick sounding tracks. Ear-blocking! [label info]
Mudenoise -- "Innovations" -- CD-RW -- €7
2009 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
Horrible industrial-noise. The album is dedicated to Natalya Katkova. Best recommendations. [label info]
Mudenoise -- "Innovations 2 (Freedom from Love)" -- CD-RW -- €7
2009 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
Hard to perceive harsh-noise, created from human voices. Cacophony of sound, a spitting of negative. Not for all. Only for those free from love. [label info]
Mudenoise -- "Micronoise" -- CD-RW -- €7
2009 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
The neighbourhood of analogue and digital - micronoises and Soviet synth. Dedicated to Natalya Katkova. [label info]
Mudenoise -- "Minitrash" -- CD-RW -- €9
2010 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
Trash flocks of noise, yes yes! [label info]
Mudenoise -- "Monotone" -- CD-RW -- €7
2009 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
Industrial, noise for the fans of Sound_00. Dedicated to Natalya Katkova. [label info]
Mudenoise -- "Noise for noise" -- CD-RW -- €5
2008 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
Noise brought to dadaist absurd. Ten tracks of white noise which precisely repeat the album of Abdulla "Yesterday a simple akyn, today a marksman". Real trash! [label info]
Mudenoise -- "Non Harmony" -- CD-RW -- €7
2009 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
Live performance for Natalya Katkova. Four analogue compasitions. Noise-ambient meditation full of love. [label info]
Mudenoise -- "On a Plane" -- CD-RW -- €7
2009 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
Noise-ambient album. Dedicated to Natalya Katkova. [label info]
Mudenoise -- "Phase of Feelings" -- CD-RW -- €7
2009 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
Romantic noise ambient. First release in series dedicated to Natalya Katkova - the muse of Mudenoise. [label info]
Mudenoise -- "Places of Winter" -- CD-RW -- €9
2010 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
Insane mixture of guitar noise, industrial drum-machine and indistinct ambient. Plus absurd dada samples from old Soviet films. [label info]
Mudenoise -- "Pressure" -- CD-RW -- €7
2009 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
Digital noise. Dedicated to Natalya Katkova. [label info]
Mudenoise -- "Pseudo Ambient" -- CD-RW -- €9
2010 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
A sort of soundtrack for Soviet sci-fi documentaries, played on an old Soviet analogue synth. [label info]
Mudenoise -- "Rejected in a Strange Land" -- CD-RW -- €5
2008 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
An original interpretation of the "music box" from a cult Soviet movie about spies. An utterly sickly recording for the ears, dedicated to all the dissidents in modern Russia, which are oppressed by Russians. [label info]
Mudenoise -- "Secret Agent of Pop-noise" -- CD-RW -- €5
2008 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
A wild recording - you get buzzing noise in one ear and Lena Perova (Russian poop-star) overstraining in another. The recording hasn't passed any mastering, this is how - disgustfully and cursedly - pop-noise sounds! [label info]
Mudenoise -- "Speech" -- CD-RW -- €9
2010 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
Politicized power electronics, some tracks feature guitar by Fraer. [label info]
Mudenoise -- "Two Illusions" -- CD-RW -- €9
2010 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
Noise ambient with sounds of nature. [label info]
Mudenoise -- "Untitled" -- CD-RW -- €7
2009 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
Digital noise ambient. Dedicated to Natalya Katkova. [label info]
Mudenoise -- "Utility Waste" -- CD-RW -- €7
2009 Hlobkorobrecords, (ltd. 10)
Root industrial of old English school, a bit harsh and frank rhythmic pop. Recommend! Dedicated to Natalya Katkova. [label info]
Mudilonoise -- "Shum!" -- CD-RW -- €5
2008 HlobKorobRecords, (ltd. 10)
Style: harsh noise. Tedious track lacking of originality. Sometimes with hi-frequency overloads. The recording not claiming for anything. [label info]
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, and, as a whole, here you have the reasons why an edition like this couldn't keep on passing unnoticed for the average fan of the more listenable side of Industrial. A perfectly designed product and an infallible bet, which surely decided the artist to give its best in all senses once he realized what he had between hands. A moment of brilliancy and a high mark difficult to be surpassed in the near future, but that can set a new beginning for the band. [press-release]
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Muridae -- "Under The Fable Of Meaning" -- CD -- €11
2009 Silentes, 200925
Opium + Jason Corder + Brian Archinal. A variegated and original universe of electronic visions; leading ryhthmic parts, cosmic suggestions, echoes of filtered human voices and hints of concrete noises extraordinarily mixed with catchy electronic progressions, among pulsating basses, sequencer patterns and winning melodic arpeggios: A surprising 'mix' of ideas that 'draws' from a wide range of stylistic influences, an extraordinary deep impact sound quality rich in dynamics, for an uninterrupted flux of incredible emotions: [label info]
Mushroom's Patience & Outofsight -- "Split" -- CD -- €10
2006 War Office Propaganda / Rage In Eden, WOP26
Long awaited album, an excellent split of legend of italian avantgarde - Mushroom's Patience and very promising polish project Outofsight, critically aclaimed on "Gloria Victis Vae Victis" (WOP 15) compilation. 50 minutes of very interesting sounds and rhythms. Matt varnished digipack, as usualy beautifully designed by Michal Karcz. [press-release]
Musicproduct -- "Lduzduz [live in Japan]" -- CD-R -- €6
2007 O[k]hlupeng recordz 00, (ltd. 100)
A mix from live performances of Musicproduct in Japan in 2006 (Osaka - Kobe - Kyoto) and field recordings made in Tokyo and Kansai region. Dance-rubbish in half with shamanism of singing Japanese gaffers. 4-page insert + silk-screened CD-R. [label info]
Muslimgauze -- "Armsbazzar" -- CD -- €13
2008 Essence Music, ESS011, (ltd. 999)
Armsbazzar investigates both released and unreleased selected recordings from the intense period comprised between 1994 and 1997. Included are the out-of-print Hebron Massacre and Gulf Between Us singles, which feature two of the longest, most stunning and hypnotic MUSLIMGAUZE pieces ever - plus two inedit, highly percussive tracks taken from the recording sessions of the mythic, yet still unreleased and unheard, Zamindar album. Presented in our custom 6-panel digisleeve packaging - which also houses a 5-color poster - adorned by the highly original and strong artwork from the fantastic Iranian visual artist Mohammad Fadaei. Mastered by Peter Andersson and limited to 999 hand-numbered copies. Unfortunately Bryn Jones, this eccentric music visionary and controversial figure who spent a lifetime moved by personal beliefs and relentless dedication to the Middle East issues, is no longer with us, but his unique and disturbing music is carved in stone and will always be in our hearts and minds. [press-release]
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Muslimgauze -- "Nadir Of Purdah" -- CD -- €11
2008 Tantric Harmonies / Aquarellist, TANTRA X43 / aquarel 06 - 07, (ltd. 200)
A compilation of vinyl-only tracks: 1-3 are taken from the "Nile Quartra" 7" (originally released by Jara, 1994), tracks 4-7 from the "Nadir Of Purdah" 12" (originally released by Jara, 1995), track 8 taken from the "Impulse #4" (Impulse Magazine Tape Compilation). Standard edition in jewel case.
Muslimgauze -- "Nadir Of Purdah" -- CD -- €15
2008 Tantric Harmonies / Aquarellist, TANTRA X43 / aquarel 06 - 07, (ltd. 200)
A compilation of vinyl-only tracks: 1-3 are taken from the "Nile Quartra" 7" (originally released by Jara, 1994), tracks 4-7 from the "Nadir Of Purdah" 12" (originally released by Jara, 1995), track 8 taken from the "Impulse #4" (Impulse Magazine Tape Compilation). Special edition in cardboard package.
Mutagene -- "Sleeping Possession" -- CD -- €10
2002 Databloem, DBCD 003
An intriguing blend of dub, ambient, techno, and the orient. One could think of Plaid, Namlook, Warp or Orb. No need for any resemblance, Mutagene is original enough and a real pearl between the pile of recent releases. [label info]
MX Nihil -- "No Fun, No Life, No Love" -- CD-R/Lathe -- €9
2008 Produck, PRO.014
German Power Electronics from a guy also known for the projects Iron Youth, Blank Banner, Black Light Orchestra, The 120 Days, etc. Provocative, aggressive, rough and loud. Digital/analogue release: first 21 mm from the center of a CDR contain burned digital audio, and 15 mm closer to the edge of a CDR contain lathe-cut track "So Sick Of Love" suitable for usual vinyl record players. Sleeve. [YAOP]
The Mystery School -- "Dawn of the Magicians" -- CD -- €11
2004 Weird Amplexus, WAX11, (ltd. 300)
Intended as an exercise in awareness and spiritual awakening, "The Dawn of the Magicians" carries with it the messages of hope and joy despite the many opposing forces we face while living in this reality. It is a guide, of sorts, intended to help the listener cast the scales from their eyes and heart. The rulers of the earth try to keep us, as humans, at a low vibrational frequency. This is a step in helping us to see them for who they are, what they represent, and how we can overcome the path they have set for us. [press-release]
MZ.412 -- "Infernal Affairs" -- CD -- €14
2006 Cold Meat Industry, cmi161
After 7 years of hard work MZ.412 finally deliver their swan-song "Infernal Affairs".
After the prelude "Domine Rex Inferum" this is the ultimate new album of MZ.412, nothing but pure bombastic evil manifested in explicit sounds; and it is terrifyingly beautiful! As always, based on the dark arts, the sound is classic MZ.412 taken to the extreme and beyond. Whatever dark fetishism you're into, it's all here; from abysmal ambient parts, heavy pounding industrial dance hits, to grand orchestral maneuvers. The Swedish Legion returns to dominate the scene once again, with an album that clearly defines what true black industrial music is all about.... After inventing the style that degenerated an entire genre in the early 90's, they show once again that they are here to lead the way for future generations.... Yes, you may think you've heard it before - but never ever this powerful! No, we're not here to convince you - We're telling you! MZ.412 are the original home for members of many wellknown projects in the electronic scene. The CD comes in an extremely dark and very MZ-stylished embossed 6-panel digipak. Release date: 6.6.6. [label info]
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N. -- "Communication Overload" -- CD-R -- €8
2008 Mind Control, MC004
Analogue old school power electronics. A live classics. DVD box. [YAOP info]
N. -- "Failure" -- CD-R -- €7
2006 Abgurd, AB-30, (ltd. 172)
The very new album of Italian Power Electronics grandeur. Sublime layers of hard synthetic Noise. [label info]
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N-616 -- "[Ex-Planet Earth]" -- CD -- €10
2005 Desolate Catacombs of SMERSH, SMERSH01, (ltd. 500)
First CD-album by Russian electro-project from the city of Stavropol. Side A of the CD contains same-titled full-length album, side B - mini-album "Winter World III" with bonus track. Rhythmical brisk electro body music with lots of keyboards and samples as well as small pseudo-black-metal hail!
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N|B|K -- "Miasma of Civilisation" -- CD-R -- €7
2006 Sickcore, SC 006, (ltd. 50)
Radioactive catacomb noise and ambient compositions with overhuman track titles like "Thistle", "Godworm" and "Woodland Belt". Misanthropical sick sound. Really interesting work. The package once again shows that Sickcore owner is one of the best designers in Russian industrial scene. [YAOP description]
N|B|K / Light Collapse / Obozdur -- split -- CD-R -- €8
2009 Ostroga, OTR-016
3 tracks of dark and "honest" Death Industrial from now defunct Russian project N|B|K + 2 tracks / projects of pulsating and devouring Noise / Dark Ambient from Ostroga label. Mastered by SGI (Vetvei). Black & white A 5 sleeve with archo-industrial images. [Vetvei info]
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N.Strahl.N -- "Koordinatenpunkte" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Deserted Factory, DF046, (ltd. 100)
Silent whispering sounds of scraping metal and a diversity of tape loops are used to create tasteful industrial sound constructions with a dark uncomfortable atmosphere. N.Strahl.N creates dark ambient noise which is filmic. Long shots of old black and white movies of old decaying factories or people working with transmitting sets. N.Strahl.N is hyper active Mario Löhr who has made a lot of recordings with this project already in its short existence of only four years with already six releases only for this year. Koordinatenpunkte is an interesting listening experience in nine "punkten" with different atmospheres in which N.Strahl.N will bring you into various filmic situations from factories, transmitting centre to U- boats or deep dark forests like in "Punkt I". All tracks have slow dark atmospheres in which every movement takes its time. The music evolves slowly and is building some tense. The analogue sounds are warm and seductive and you will be picked up easily within the atmosphere, sucked into mysterious scenarios with slow rhythm, clattering or scraping metal, different pulses and drones. The swelling compositions are rhythmic due to the use of pulses and loops and are minimal in instrumentation which gives an open sound with subtle industrial elements. However the music is dark it also is very relaxed and mellow... [Remco / Gothtronic]
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N.Strahl.N. / Pythagora -- "Shift Coordinate Points" -- CD-R -- €4
2008 Sickcore, SC-014, (ltd. 150)
Experimental Ambient Noise. A collaboration recording between German project N.Strahl.N. and Swedish Pythagora, based upon reworking of the each other's material. Sound sources used: field recordings, synthesizers, spoken word collages of William S. Burroughs and shortwave recordings. The result is experimental industrial-ambient with "laboratorial" sharp and delicate sound.
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Na-Dha -- "Voices Without A Sound" -- CD -- €12
RWCDAX Records, RWCD 10
This is a first solo full-length CD of MAGTHEA, the member of now legendary ritual industrial project HYBRYDS. Recorded live during night sessions, this album submerges a listener into the space of dream-like images and forms, makes him feel like somnambulist in the full-moon night in some haunted land. Using the treated voice samples intertwined with ambient and meditative structures, NA-DHA builds an unreal hall of sound mirrors reflecting different elements of this illusory world. [label info]
Nadja / Atavist / Satori -- "Infernal Procession... And Then Everything Dies" -- CD -- €11
2008 Cold Spring Records, CSR111CD, (ltd. 1000)
Split release from Canadian Shoegaze / Droners Nadja (Aidan Baker and Leah Buckareff), Manchester Doomers Atavist and UK Fortean Electronics / Dark Ambient act Satori. Released to coincide with their UK joint tour. Ltd x 1000 copies in a 6-panel outsized sleeve. [label info]
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Nadja & Troum -- "Dominium Visurgis" -- CD -- €13
2010 Transgredient Records, TR-07
This is something you could call a "dreamlike liaison". When the Canadian "avant metal / drone doom"-duo NADJA (who name TROUM as one of their early influences) and the German post-industrial / experimental drone pioneers TROUM (years ago active as MAEROR TRI who are still discovered by many drone-fans these days) combine their exceptional styles, they form something even vaster as usually known from them. These three long collaboration tracks were recorded as a result of a spontaneous improvisation in April 2008 "live in the studio" near the Weser-river in Bremen, Germany, and suck you in with their powerful & emotional drone melancholy that works in many micro-& macrocosmic ways, using electric & acoustic guitars, bass, accordeon, drum-machine & voice. [press-release]
Naevus -- "Relatively Close To The Sea" -- CD -- €14
2008 Hau Ruck!, HR!91
Naevus -- "Silent Life" -- CD -- €14
Hau Ruck!, HR!85
Naevus' fifth album, Silent Life, is the band's first album as a full four-piece, sees Lloyd (voice, acoustic guitar, keyboards) and Joanne (bass, accordion, keyboards) joined on all tracks by Greg Ferrari (Womb, Bedsit Injury) on electric guitar and John Murphy (Knifeladder, Shining Vril, SPK, The Associates, etc.) on drums and percussion. On four tracks, the band is joined by Rose McDowall (Strawberry Switchblade, Sorrow, Coil, etc); two tracks include voice and/or keyboards by David E. Williams (the inimitable American singer/songwriter); and two tracks feature violin by Matt Howden (Sieben, Sol Invictus, Rain Dogs, etc.). Digipack includes 16 page lyric booklet and photographs. [label info]
Naevus -- "Soil" -- CD -- €14
2001 S.P.K.R., THUK I
The long sold out classican from Naevus available again in small quantity! CD comes in beautiful digipack.
Namanax -- "Monstrous" -- CD -- €10
1998 Release Entertainment, RR 6973-2
Napalmed -- "Full Connect-i-cut" -- CD-R -- €7
2003 Altsphere Production, ALT052
Noise / industrial. Recording of a live show in 2006. Underground distribution edition - CD-r coming with laser-printed black/white cover. [Misanthropic Propaganda]
Napalmed -- "iii" -- CD -- €10
2008 Napalmed, 2008 CD 011, (ltd. 600)
Let us introduce third (?) album in self-release production as a continutity of previous full-lenghts "Up to the Ears in the Tinnitus" (1997, three compositions) & "Never Mind the MSBR, Here's the Napalmed" (2002, two tracks). Full-lenght, pro-pressed compact disc is packaged in really unusual pro-printed, oversized, hand-made cover. 80-minutes long track in actual line-up: Martin.B. + Radek.K. - industrial, noise, materials, effects, metals, water, vibes, waves, sounds, junk, grabage, breath, voice, shouts, graphics, photos. Careful home recordings, thoughtful mix & accurate mastering - both in superb proffesional studio. No music, no silence, nothing more than 'pure harsh industry impro noise' in Napalmed way! Main stuff improvisation 22/04/07, few additional sounds 10/08/06, both at schoolshebna. Mixed & mastered 17/11/07 at 'Deamon's Pit' by Daemon and Radek.K.. [press-release]
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Napalmed -- "Live Performance in Zofingen 13.12.2003" -- CD-R -- €8
Sick Arts Products, SAP 06, (ltd.100)
Noise ritual. Horrible mixture of dark ambient, power electronics and old-school collage noise. DVD-box. [Abgurd description]
Napalmed -- "Mixes II. + III." -- CD-R -- €7
2003 Altsphere Production, ALT001
Re-edition of CD of well-known Czech noise industrial trio, 10 tracks album that came back from 1999 a. b. Underground distribution edition - CD-r coming with laser-printed black/white cover. [Misanthropic Propaganda] This is not a remix album per-say. It is more of an album of originals wich happens to contain several short, heavily manipulated samples from the bands KMFDM, ZooBombs, Laurie Anderson, Octadred, THC, Manic Street Preachers, Danzig, Madonna, Cathedral, Task, Dying Fetus & Laibach. [Discogs info]
Napalmed -- "Noisax Jazzostrial Fractamental" -- CD -- €10
2008 Guerilla Records, GR 049-2, (ltd. 500)
Brandnew, the fourth album was recorded for your pleasure by Napalmed band (MartiN.B. and RadeK.K.). Two japanese musicians, Teruhiro Shiojima on guitar and Hiroyuki Fujiwara on altsax and digipiano, join album as collaborators. If we use strong words, recording is enriched by improvisation, jazz, collaborations, avantgarde, with the well-known parts of industrial, electronics and of course noisy spaces. [label info]
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Napalmed -- "Smell The Sound" -- CD-R -- €3
2004 Smell The Stench
The recordings from Napalmed first ever professional studio session. Noise, concrete metal sounds, processed voice and feedbacks, ambiental parts... one complex track lasting 35 minutes.
Napalmed "Live Performance 11.01.2000" / Ego Death "No Country, No Family, No God" -- CD-R -- €5
2007 Sewer Records, SEWER 004, (ltd. 150)
NAPALMED is one of the most respected experimental / noise bands in the world. EGO DEATH is the experimental / noise project of the owner of the Greek label Sewer Records. This is a nihilistic approach to music through a mixture of dreamy soundscapes and the harsh reality. [label info]
Napalmed -- "Up to the Ears in Tinnitus" -- CD -- €10
1999/2006 Stand Against Vivisection Records, (ltd. 500)
Repress of 1999 legendary picture LP on CD. Includes slightly remixed two original tracks and bonus track from the same session. Altogether 80 minutes of harsh, deafening old school noise. CD, 3 tracks/80 minutes, full color fold-out paper cover.
Napalmed / Merzbow -- "Crash Of The Titans" -- CD -- €10
2001 Merciless Core Records, MRS 012/01 / Napalmed, (ltd. 1000)
Despite what its title could have implied, Crash Of The Titans is not a collaboration between Czech underground noise duo Napalmed and the Lord of Japanoise Merzbow. This split CD offers 35 minutes of music from each artist. The youngsters perform merciless noise based on field recordings made at a factory using metals, microphones, and analog effects (guitar and pedals, voice, etc.). They sound like a cross between early Einsturzende Neubauten and Merzbow's early years. Yet their approach feels fresh and free of gratuitous violence or primal scream-type mayhem. The music peels off wallpaper and it will make your neighbors wonder if you haven't turned your house into a foundry. On the other hand, Merzbow's contributions are subpar (which works to the advantage of Napalmed, the contender). "Untitled-1" remains a one-dimensional stream of noise through the whole duration of its 15 minutes (and fades out at the end). "Chemlage Mini" begins with a high-pitched tone and ends with a sub-bass tone. Between these two points hell breaks loose. "Orgiastic Noise" is the best description here, although the music lacks some depth -- it simply feels like Masami Akita is going through the motions. Merzbow completists will have a hard time locating a copy of Crash Of The Titans and they'll probably end up seeking more of Napalmed's own material. If one of the sumo wrestler on the cover is Czech (and why not?), he won. [Francois Couture, All Music Guide]
Narkoleptik -- "So Sweet, So Perverse" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Mask Of The Slave, MS-017, (ltd. 100)
The long awaited new album from the leading Romanian PE/Noise act! The 5 tracks of the album were edited and mastered from old tapes! Essential release. CD-R in normal jewel case limited to 100 copies. [label info]
Nasekomuss -- "Kompressor" -- CD-R -- €3
2007 Ambulacranarx Records, amblcrnrx - 01, (ltd. 60)
Siberian project Nasekomuss continues to put obstacles in the way of total glamouring of minds, being inspired by working mechanisms of compressor equipment of the city heating plant crew outside the windows, that's how the 2007 album "Kompressor" was born. The author himself uses it for background listening, but as far as it's quite detailed, it's also interesting to listen to it deeply. An artist of romantic post-industrial craft. The CD contains 8 audio tracks + forum-zine ART-ERROR + images. [press-release]
Nauchno-Elektronnoe Muzykalnoe Obyedinenie -- "What is break?" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2007 KultFront, KF-VII, (ltd. 111)
Hail the Soviet period of stagnation! With it's gray dusty but proud people's faces, in homely clothes - miced up with space flights, fantasctic attainment of the Soviet scientists, interest in the unknown and thus frightening "capitalism" and it's manifestations, with a premonition of changes. KultFRONT is glad to introduce you the "Nauchno-Elektronnoe Muzykalnoe Obyedinenie" (Scientific Electronic Musical Association) with a mini-album "What is break?". Rare (real!) recordings of the enlightener's "anti-agities" vinyls for village people, - about robots, new-fashioned break, etc., - set off with quality industrial electronic arrangement. Five exclusive tracks about the past. Although, why the past? Someone for sure will want and see the outlines of the future in this disk. This release forestalls the full-length CD of N.E.M.O., however not all of the tracks presented on this minion will be included in the album. [press-release] I can only add that this Russian project was formed by Evgeny Voronovsky (Cisfinitum) and Yaroslav Rost (Kooperativ Nishtyak) and the material was recorded in 2001, so it's quiet a unique recording indeed. 100% analogue recording made under influence of Kraftwerk and Soviet disco.
Navia -- "Holodno" -- CD-R -- €6
2009 BioSonar Revers
Reissue of the recording made in 1997 and first released in 2002 on 8th Moon Art label limited to 30 copies. Lo-fi dark ambient. Chtonic collaboration of people who now play as Hladna and Lunar Abyss Deus Organum, in which one can find their current musical predilections. Simple artwork. [label info]
Navicon Torture Technologies -- "The Church Of Dead Girls" -- 2 CD -- €16
2002 Malignant Records, TUMOR CD18
The second full-length release on Malignant from Navicon Torture Technologies digs deeper into the doomed psyche of NTT founder Leech, in yet another cathartic step down the darkened evolutionary path that began with Scenes From the Next Millennium. Having coined the term "Power Romance", Leech now seeks to refine and solidify the idea into a true sound and vision of his own, once again combining the volatile, highly charged delerium of power electronics with the claustrophobically heavy atmospheres of dark ambient. The Church of Dead Girls is a darker and more disturbing journey than any previous NTT release, but is nevertheless rife with the brutal honesty which has begun to permeate every facet of the NTT mindset. A document of crushed emotional states and savage impulses, The Church of Dead Girls asks the listener to face their own worst thoughts and feelings, despite the pain and discomfort, ultimately leaving them with a permeable feeling of uncleanliness. This is the ultimate expression of Power Romance sensibilities, spanning more than two hours of sonic self-evisceration. Packaged in a unique hi-rise digipak. [press-release]
Nazca -- "Biodegradable" -- CD -- €10
1999 Eibon Records, Nzc013
Post rock/dark. Highly recommended to any SWANS or Nick Cave fan, this album offers a particular mixture of wave, gothic and dark. [label info]
Nazca -- "Non Grata" -- CD -- €10
2002 Eibon Records, Nzc038
Wave/post rock. Two years in production, Non Grata is Nazca's most realised release yet. After a series of misfortunes (bankruptcies, carcrashes, deception, lies, breakups and illness), 'Non grata' is finally ready to be presented to the world. Imagine how far a post-rock band can go when driven by intense motivation. Imagine how far a wave band can go when lighted up by incredible talent and commitment. Imagine how high a band can go. Point. Then double it. And you won't be even close to the heights reached by these finnish wavers. Non grata is a reminder of how good music can get. Period. Happy ? Satisfied ? Try NAZCA before saying you're OK.......... [press-release]
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NDE -- "Krieg Blue Ehre Asche" -- CD -- €10
2009 Cold Spring, CSR110CD
Martial Industrial / Black Metal. Debut from this Belgian duo. Like the dark solitary figure which adorns the cover, NDE are shrouded in mystery and desolation. The music speaks loudly and across the centuries. A unique smelting of malevolent, noisy Black Metal, pounding, anthemic martial drums and wretched Death Industrial in eight acts. [label info]
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Necrasota -- "First-born (Pervorodnoe)" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Spermodeath Records, SD-01
Power electronics, necro ambient, death industrial. First-born darkness and withered sawdust of existence guided by Death... the only living and shaggy. Tongues of infamous ritual licking decomposing flesh. "We were moved out by one..." Tear the blood clots, eating yourself with eyes, hands, dogs, desires, sinful thoughts... Flesh dominates, by kisses of gravestones are the paintings drawn. It just remains to "cover the bed with bodies". The soul is ploughed up with mausoleums, the sun is jacked off... Dark! Dark! Dark! Kiss me darkness! [label info] Solo project of one of the members of Ierophania (Rostov-on-Don, Russia).
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Necro Stellar -- "Pulsing Zero" -- CD -- €10
2006 Shadowplay Records, SPR 024
Veterans of Russian dark wave, quite often shocking with their extravagance, occultists NECRO STELLAR for a long time do not require any more representation to domestic public. However, and not only for domestic: the previous album of this collective - " Saturating Cemetery " - has subdued hearts not only of Russian listeners, but also has been warmly met by the European and American audience. In the 30 of the best releases of 2005 in opinion of the biographer of Goth Mick Mercer "Saturating Cemetery " appeared in the first (!) 10, and such influential foreign editions as ZILLO, ORKUS and GOTHIC BEAUTY gave this creation the extremely positive estimations. Tracks of NECRO STELLAR appear in play-lists of the western broadcasts devoted to schwarze scene, and disks of this band now can be found practically in any parts of the globe, starting from Japan and stopping by Brazil and Argentina. The matter is the unique sound of this collective. The leader of the project Yuri Zvezdniy is known as the brilliant master and the expert in work with an analog sound. Together with his colleagues of band he puts horror into listeners, generating chilling up to depth of the soul, or forcing blood to begin to boil a mix from EBM, dark electro and ambient... The basic musical direction based on sound of the old analog synthesizers, tape processing, physical modeling, guitar drive, magnificent programming, generously seasoned with naturalistic noise and sounds, a different sort of anxious rustles, vinyl effects, industrial Low Fi loops, iron sheets, ominous jingling of scythe and tribal-percussion of human bones, put listener in a mysterious atmosphere of a dark wood of the human consciousness... The variety of vocal components gives the sounding of an album the unique, bright, expressive, sharp-sensual painting. Here are cutting-through ears vocoder chorals replaced by quiet open pathetic singing of the soloist, and gentle, sometimes ethereal motives - wild growling of Anastasia Podnebesnaya... Considering an unanimous opinion of the western critics, it is possible to say, that unique style of performance and the own style of this band which are out of habitual frameworks of the modern electro music, allows to tell about creativity of NECRO STELLAR as of the most interesting phenomenon which has arisen on the ground of their country's schwarze stage. The style of this collective some conditionally name "VooDoo Electro", actually represents difficultly giving in to the description symbiosis of kraut, old school electro and modern electro, some moments seems like trance and experimental... The band have co-operated with many known Russian electronicians. Some of them, in particular Moscow violinist Evgeny Voronovsky from CISFINITUM, took part in record of "Pulsing Zero"... Besides the unique material represented by the band, essential interest for the listeners is the results of teamwork of NECRO STELLAR with pioneers of British electronics ATTRITION, Australians ANGEL THEORY and gifted American divine UNWOMAN. You will find all this on the new album of NECRO STELLAR - Pulsing Zero". [press-release]
Necro Stellar -- "Saturating Cemetery / Dissaturating Stellar Space" -- 2 CD -- €13
2008 Shadowplay Records, SPR 066
The double disk is the re-release of 'Saturating Cemetery' album containing 'Tachyon Spiral' graphic video in its bonus section. The second disk 'DISSATURATING STELLAR SPACE' consists of remixes and cover versions by the most interesting bands from all over the world.
"Saturating Cemetery" is, in a sense, some kind of rarity and experiment in which wide spectrum of different instruments is presented, from Soviet synthesizers to percussions made of human bones. The stylistics varies from dark ambient and psychedelic rock to electro and cyber dark space. The mild synthetic beat that moves to dance rhythm, the classical contrast between low male vocal and ethereal female one. The occult mystic atmosphere gives the special dark mood to the album. This release will be very interested to the fans of dark wave, synth-goth, dark electro and EBM. [press-release]
Necro Stellar -- "White Tranquility. Russian Album" -- CD -- €10
2007 Shadowplay Records, SPR 045
NECRO STELLAR devotes this album to the all dead within the Second World War. The feat of our ancestors, the memory of them and the new revival of their immortal spirit in ourselves - are inseparably connected. Respect for ancestors strengthens the invisible connection of generations, opening ways in the world. Our ancestors, their acts, their victories and defeats are personification of us. In this sense The White Tranquility represents an obelisk of memory and direct way in essence of our patrimonial ring, in the core of our sort filled with clemency and the inexpressible contents of spirit of the left ancestors... Current degenerative tendencies of the western ideology try to cancel unprecedented universal heroism and a feat of brotherly Slavic people within the Second World War, trying to impose alien to our people pseudo-cultural and pseudo-cultural wealth. The one who, having despised tombs of the ancestors, sates the body and soul with a substitute of a masscult, - loses connection of generations, tramples on the spirit and becomes an essence without kith or kin... Our ancestors say: 'leaving each moment - I remain forever. Remaining forever - I have stiffened in motionless movement'. We shall remember that we are the great nation living on the great land... We are to create the future. [press-release]
Necromondo -- "s/t" -- CD -- €11
2007 Mechanoise Labs, [mn030], ltd. 525
Have you ever watched horror movies in childhood? What can be more frightening than a rotten mug of a deadman, slowly but steady striving after main hero's throat? Or stained porridge, dripping out from a broken skull... or malicious indigenes, dismembering stupid white men... or a warlock, raising up hordes from the ground to lead them on a decisive fight between good and evil? All these dreadful fantasies, realized in trash cinematograph of 70-80-ies, especially Italian (City of the Living Dead, Zombi 2, Burial Ground, Cannibal Holocaust, Inferno Dei Morti-viventi, etc.), start to leak through the acoustic system via itching sinewaves, omnious ambience and of course proper samples. The release has wonderful thematic artwork by studio STPo. Absolute must-have in a B-side horror fan's collection!
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Necrophorus -- "Drifting In Motion" -- CD -- €13
2000/2008 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 104
'Arctic ambience, melting with imagination, leads the listener to the frozen tundra at the top of the world. This rarely explored land, resonant with a shimmering radiance that is bleak, barren and mysterious, is distinguished by slivers of fantastical nuances that twinkle like crystals under the midnight sun.' The above quotation was taken from a review of the original CD release of 'Drifting in Motion' (2000 on Crowd Control Activities). Now, 8 years later it is time for an enhanced re-release for even more refined sound and experience of 'Drifting in Motion'. The entire album has been carefully re-mixed in 2007 and has been spiced with 3 more nuances... Peter Andersson is a multi-talented man most famous for his RAISON D'ETRE project on the notorious label Cold Meat Industry LABEL but he is also are responisble for music projetcs like Stratvm Terror, Bocksholm, Atomine Elektrine, Panzar and many more. For this new release, two artists, Maria Gullqvist (Sweden) and Eva Verholen (Holland) has been asked to contribute with their own impressions of experiencing 'Drifting in Motion'. Their amazing works are presented on the completely new designed CD artwork in a six panels digipak. Composed by Peter Andersson in 1998-1999, except track 7 (2001), track 8 (2006) and track 9 (1991). All tracks re-mixed in 2007. [label info]
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Necrophorus -- "Elinros" -- CD -- €11
2005 Yantra Atmospheres, YA-2005-07
Classical dark ambient album done by master of this genre. Singing bowls and flutes, synthesized sound layers and field recordings. Profound fabulous poetry of a murky forest.
Necrophorus -- "Imprints" -- CD -- €11
2007 Wrotycz Records, WRT 006
Beautiful, sensitive and electrified. 'Imprints' by Necrophorus goes beyond the previous album 'elinros' (2005) and further investigates the aural landscape of imagination and mysticism. 'Imprints' vibrates a fresh air mixed of three dimensional electrified organic field recordings and minimal immersive sequenced organ sounds thus creating the psychedelic atmosphere of virtually being inside the music, inside the magic circle of the aural landscape. 'Imprints' is the fifth CD album from Necrophorus/Peter Andersson (Sweden) who is most known for the project raison d'etre with several masterpiece releases on the Swedish legendary Cold Meat Industry label. Inspired by the impressions of his visit to the amazing landscapes of Iceland summer 2006, Peter Andersson has created a new astonishing aural output. 'Imprints' consists of three variations of the same impression: two of them are pure studio composisitons while the third variation is improvised as 'live in studio' recording. [press-release]
Necrophorus -- "Moments of Sleeping Sadness" -- CD -- €10
2008 Tantric Harmonies, TANTRA X41
This is the anthology of the early tracks of Necrophorus. All titles created by Peter Andersson in 1991-1992 and appear on the first demo-tapes: 'Sadness and Somnolence' (1991) and 'The Voices of Eternity Which Calls for the Captives of the Time' (1992).
Necropolis -- "Necrosphere" -- CD -- €10
2006 Cold Spring Records, CSR51CD
Re-issue of a CD-R, published by Zhelezobeton in 2003 limited to 85 copies. The album was recorded as a soundtrack to author's dreams and based on field recordings made in taiga and disused military missile shafts. Cold Spring is reissuing this immense dark ambient creation - remastered with brand new, stunning artwork and an extra 14-minute long track.
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Negligee -- "Wet Conversation" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Happy Family
An unprecedented case of blending folk tunes, free improvisations and crafty sophistications about near-religious themes. Completeng the picture are slightly limping rhythmics and inimitable acidity. [label info] A young Russian project playing nice melodic synth-ambient with a good touvh of absurdity.
Nekyia -- "Alchemalady" -- CD -- €10
2008 Beast Of Prey, bop 5.2, (ltd. 456)
Whatever You could call NEKYIA music, there are always elements that move past used musical patterns. "Alchemalady" is an album founded upon a strong and solid rhythm, whose walls are build by uncommon arrangement rich in various sounds. And the binder is an alchemical concept, merge together element with element, track with track, sound with sound. "Alchemalady" is a 60 minute long, dynamic album, full of rhythm, female and strong male vocals, whispers and singings. 14 compositions combining electronic elements with varied percussion and strong industrial hits. Unconventional released album made of 130mm x 180mm cardboard. Three sepearete cards with from brown cardboard with golden prints. All cards have holes and all is combined with a small rope. The CD is attached on a rubber insert between the papers. All handmade and numbered, to 456 copies. [press-release]
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Nekyia -- "Purgatory As The Serpent Domain" -- CD -- €10
2005 Beast Of Prey, bop 2.3
New album of Polish project playing music somewhere between military industrial, darkwave and gothic dark ambient with male and female vocals. The album is decorated with captivating pictures from the course of retro-anatomy.
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Nekyia -- "Slowmotion Downhells" -- CD -- €11
2006 Beast Of Prey, bop 3.4
Dark ambient / dark wave. Latest NEKYIA album, the new incarnation in dark ambient sounds with some rythmics. "Slowmotion Downhells" is the forth album presenting alchemistic-ritual face of the project. 52 minutes of material will take you to underworld filled with dark sounds. Normal edition: A piece of parchment folded to A5 envelope, two inner inserts in A5 format, all is waxed and foiled. [label info]
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NeonCoil -- "Non-Stop Electronic Cabaret" -- CD -- €9
2008 Klangdynamik Records, KD 05
Neon Rain -- "Dirtier than the Dirt" -- CD -- €10
2003 Steelwork Machine, SMR01
Welcome to ritualistic industrial. Neon Rain hail from France and this is their first full-length legit release (on their own label), after a demo back in 2000 and a several compilation appearances. Loop based compositions minimal in nature, where oppressively paranoid moods dominate. Repetitiveness is central to the composition method, and the variety achieved through the use of analogue sound effects, saturated noises, unsettling vocal samples, monotone vocals, steel percussion, dark ambiences, drones is remarkable. Brutality, noises, rhythms and ambiences rub shoulder in a most effective way with the overall feel being quite dark and surreal. A soundtrack to a surreal, imaginary ritual. Neon Rain can be easily filed under avant-garde industrial, as they effectively couple loads of experimentation with the rawness of death industrial and with space ambient following no predefined schemes. A recommended choice for the bleak-industrial crowd. [Dark Life]
Neon Rain -- "We are Meat / The Vultures" -- 2 CD -- €14
2008 Steelwork Machine, SMR007
Between drone and power electronics, Neon Rain is carrying all the sufferings of working-class meat slaves on the first part of this release. From defiance to resistance, through synth-pop to post-industrial martial anthems, the second part is dedicated to all the people around the world who lead our societies to more chaos and destruction. A no man's land, the ultimate step to peace. [press-release]
Nerell, Loren -- "The Venerable Dark Cloud" -- 3"CD -- €8.50
2000 Amplexus, XUS 12, (ltd. 1000)
Very rich ethno-ambient created using bonang, ciblon, gendÉr, gongs, slenthem, synths, samples, treated sonic textures - all atmospheres used in this recording were recorded in Bali, Java and Los Angeles between 1993-1997. A perfect addition to the Amplexus ambient series of 3" CDs, in full colour card wallet in PVC slipcase. [label info]
Never Known -- "On the Edge of Forever" -- CD -- €12
2000 Eibon Records, Nev021
Melodic dark ambient. New chapter in the NEVER KNOWN saga, and this time it's even better than before. Deep melodies, rumbling drones, the new edge of forever... [label info] The second album by Andrea Marutti also known by his Amon project and AFE Records label. Beautiful soft and deep calm dark-ambient.
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Never Known -- "Once in a Lifetime" -- CD-R -- €10
2007 Afe Records, afe014rcd
Never Known is the earliest music project of Andrea Marutti, best known as Amon and as Afe label owner. Andrea began his experiments with music in the early '90s using tapes and concrete elements. A few years later he also began to use synthesizers, samplers and other electronic devices, and founded the Lips Vago Digital Studio. Several releases of Ambient / Dark Ambient music were published by labels such as Eibon Records, Amplexus, Drone Records, Taalem, etc. on CD and other medias. Following "Dawn of an Era", "Once in a lifetime" was Never Known's second release. Recorded between August 1994 and August 1995, it was published by Murder Release as a C46 tape in September 1995. The tape was subsequently re-released on CD-R by Afe in March 1999. For this new edition, all tracks were remastered from the original tapes by the author in March 2007 at Lips Vago Digital Studio. The album consists of ten short ambient numbers mostly created with poor equipment which included several tape recorders, cheap microphones and objects. Basic synthesizers lines were subsequently added to some of the tracks. [label info]
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Never Presence Forever -- "Disturbed Visceral Nociception" -- CD -- €10
2002 Crionic Mind, CM009, (ltd. 500)
NEVER PRESENCE FOREVER unravel slowly with a profoundly well conceived album of Bleak Minimalism and Dark Ambience. To this foundation they add somniferous hints of melody, abrasion and rhythmic punctuation. Rich textural drifts and detailed craftsmanship give this release a enveloping penetration and depth. NPF has a few limited releases but "Disturbed Visceral Nociception" is the marks the first widely available release. [press-release]
New Bondage Faeries -- "New Bondage Experiments II" -- CD-R -- €7
2003 Soulworm Editions, Worm XXXV, (ltd. 250)
NBF is the sonic equivalent of a dildo rammed up your virgin little asshole. Bow down to the awesome force that is New Bondage Faeries. [label info]
New Risen Throne -- "Crossing The Withered Regions" -- CD -- €13
2009 Cold Meat Industry, CMI193
The sole member of New Risen Throne is known as Stielh, and is one of the Grand Masters of the blackened dark ambient coming from Italy recently (see also Vestigial). His exceptional black foreboding ambient creations is wellknown in the scene by now. The previous NRT release "Whispers of the approaching wastefulness" (Cyclic Law) represented the steps leading to the acknowledgment of the approaching end of all things... This new chapter "Crossing the withered Regions" is the journey thru wasted "regions" of our inner self, withered by our doubts, thoughts and fear about the end. This is the soundtrack to the world we live and experience at the very present. This is utterly dark! and there is certainly no sun in the horizon. Slit your wrists and float away... The CD is an enhanced CD with a special video-track and comes in a 6-panel digipak. [press-release]
New Risen Throne -- "Whispers of the Approaching Wastefulness" -- CD -- €14
2007 Cyclic Law, 18th Cycle
The latest offering and first for Cyclic Law of one of Italy's finest Black Ambient master. The main concept and transpiring feeling of this album and the title "Whispers of the approaching wastefulness" can best be described as the "steps" or "journey" leading to the acknowledgment of the approaching end of all things. "Whispers" represent doubts and thoughts about the prevalent decadence that is around and deep within us and "wastefulness" translates to the imminent, definitive end of all things, to oblivion... NEW RISEN THRONE's latest opus offers a bleak and sorrow filled soundtrack celebrating death with little hope for rebirth... This Enhanced CD features an exclusive bonus video clip of the unreleased track "Unknown (II)". [label info]
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New Risen Throne & Cruel Harvest -- "Shadows Over Humanity" -- CD -- €11
2005 God Is Myth Records, GIM011
3 brand new tracks from Italian dark ambient master New Risen Throne, plus the debut of U.S. dark ambient project Cruel Harvest. 7 tracks total and over an hour of icy cold and treacherous dark ambient soundscapes for fans of Raison D'etre, Northaunt, Svartsinn & Atrium Carceri. [label info]
New Risen Throne / Locust Reign -- "Prophets from the Abyss" -- CD-R -- €9
2004 Deserted Factory, DF009
Dark Ambient. Nothing experimental, only certified drone, rattle and loop samples from unearthly workshops and adits. [YAOP]
Nezhegol -- "Istoki" -- CD -- €6
2009 Valgriind, VG 22 / Lost Reich Rex, Reich 09
New full-length album of the famous project, full of breath of Belgorod's edge, voices of free wind in old tree's branches, rustles of the forest streams and beat of brave heart under hymns of Holy War. Release was issued in split with Lost Reich Records. [label info]
Nezhegol -- "Ot Serdtsa k Solntsu" -- CD -- €6
2008 Valgriind, VG 11 / Lost Reich Rex, Reich 06
10 tracks of pure heathen metal with Slavonic lyrics and original atmosphere. CD comes with full-color 8 pages booklet. [label info]
Neznamo -- "Korjenje" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2010 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT54, (ltd. 111)
Known for his wonderful works in the field of traditional drone ambient, this time Neznamo takes a shot at completely different but spiritually close approach. Ritual music full of humming life, bird voices, fabulous atmosphere of bright summer nights, ringing of a ceremonial bell. The work is dedicated to a small people living in South-West Germany - Luzyczanie (or Serbjo), and the artwork contains thematic photos and text in Luzycz language. Mysterious voices from Spreewald. 2-sided printed sleeve. [press-release]
Neznamo -- "seme>zemlya" -- CD-R -- €5
2007 Moonsun Productions, ms001, (ltd. 111)
"We are now ready to present to you our first release - "seme>zemlja" by NEZNAMO, previously was known as UNKNOWN. This is the first work after a long period of silence. Return to the Roots...Sky, Wind and Rain... vernal Earth and Seed thrown in It... Protoslavonic ritual ambient soundscapes. Limited to 111 hand-numbered copies." [label info]
Neznamo -- "Utrata" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Moonsun Productions, MS002, (ltd. 111)
Ancient ritual ambient tapestries will take you to the times of blossoming Tradition. Three ceremonial weeping songs for lost legacy of the Ancestors.... CD-r with handmade layout, 111 copies. [label info]
Neznamo -- "Zavet" -- CD-R -- €8
2010 Vetvei, V10, (ltd. 111)
This is the last part of Neznamo's 'MY' trilogy. 'Zavet' finishes this song devoted to the Tradition. First two parts, 'Seme>Zemlya' and 'Utrata' were published by Moonsun Productions. Themes of 'Zavet' - the Fall of Tradition, Defeat of Spirit, and their future Revival. Eternal Primary Myth of Death and Rebirth appears here as sounds and echoes. This release presents majestic Drone Ambient canvas weaved of drones and noises created with wind, string and percussion instruments and field recordings. Decorative design presented as full-color six-panel envelope. [press-release]
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Neznamo / Kryptogen Rundfunk / Lunar Abyss Deus Organum -- "Magnitnaj Zmij" -- CD-R -- €8
2008 Biosonar^Labyrint, 08/2009, (ltd. 52)
A triple split from the projects which played together in the cultural center "Dom", Moscow on February 17, 2009, containing the material recorded live at that event. Neznamo - archaic drone ambient with live flute. Kryptogen Rundfunk - gritty noisy electronics filled with radio interference, samples and analogue signals. L.A.D.O. - multi-layered fractal psychedelic ambient.
NGC 292 -- "Alien Sky" -- CD-R -- €6
2008 InterioRepertoR, ir02
NGC 292 is a Ukrainian project (coming from Odessa), performing pompous melodic synthesized ambient on space themes. Resembling artists: Interior Disposition, Algol, 'kirchenkampf'.
NID -- "Galactic Nebulae" -- CD-R -- €7
2002 Verato Project, verazitat 005
NID is an anonymous experimental group of three members living in Basel, Bremen and Munich, and uses strict analogue sources to create spontaneous brooding environmental ambiences for your listening discomfort.? This CD-R features 7 outstanding atmospheric soundscapes. Varied sounds guaranteed to warp your mind! [press-release]
NID -- "Plate Tectonics" -- CD -- €10
2007 Auf Abwegen, AATP13, (ltd. 500)
NID is an experimental group whose aim it is to challenge conventional concepts and structures of electronic music by experimenting with the source of sounds. The music is created on the spot, making each performance a genuine and unrepeatable event. It has been described as moving sound-objects, improvised electronic noise, or brooding ambient music. It has been compared to an underwater-journey, a pathway to the inner self. Given enough volume, it certainly affects the body as well as the mind. In which way remains open to the listener's psyche... NID was formed in 1995. Over the years the core-members have performed in art-galleries, rock-clubs, bars, water-reservoirs, cinemas, as well as at industrial and electronic festivals and in record shops... As for the group name: A 'nid' is a curse or insult with homosexual connotation that was frequently in use in the Viking age. It brought a depth to the concept of honour and shame. It could be used as a challenge or simply to ridicule another (which was a challenge per se). It could reveal anyone else to be no better than he was, and it undermined social structures... NID disbanded in 2006. Chris Sigdell continues in various projects, most notably his solo project B-Tong. Jurgen Eberhard releases music under the name Feine Trinkers Bei Pinkels Daheim... This is NID's one and only proper CD release... The sound on this work may appeal to fans of Lustmord, New Blockaders or collage post-industrial in general/experimental ambient. The music on this CD was recorded live 2004 in Arnheim by Mars Wellink (Vance Orchestra). The cover was done by Katja Wahl. [press-release]
Niellerade Fallibilisthorstar -- "Hackelsekista" -- CD -- €10
2004 Total Holocaust Records, THR-25
Hypnotising, ambient, recorded in the wilderness, in decaying suburban envoirments, this is not the standard Black Metal release, in fact it's not Black Metal, it's a Dark Ambient project, with among others, Ravenlord of Woods of Infinity behind the group, consisting of 4 other members. If you want a soundscape that provides you with hate, with a sense of being there, that provokes your feelings, a CD without comprimise, over 70min of the darkest of ambient/ritualistic sound to be discovered. Comes crowned in maybe the best looking booklet I ever seen. All in all, don't miss out. This will be a trip you will not forget. [press-release]
Niellerade Fallibilisthorstar / Green Army Fraction -- "Westerbotten" -- CD -- €10
2009 Cathartic Process, CP-14
After Sweden's Niellerade Fallibilisthorstar's impressive full length albums HÅlrum (SNSE) and Skrankverk (Dystonia EK) (among other stellar releases), this collaborative album shows an even further development in their sound. The pairing with Green Army Fraction (also from Sweden) for Westerbotten results in a massive, powerful sound. Their heavy use of cymbals and analog electronics creates impressions that surpass harsh noise trappings, and the listener immediately realizes that Westerbotten exceeds genre definitions or expectations of either group involved. The sounds created reveal the magickal qualities of Metgumbnerbone or Coil, the dark psychedelic ambiance of The Stargazer's Assistant The Other Side of the Island or Wolf Eyes' Black Wing Over the Sand, and the cacophony of The New Blockaders. Prepare yourself for one of the most impressive listens in recent memory. Elaborately printed with metallic inks and packaged in a gatefold sleeve, along with a 16-page booklet. [press-release]
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Night Shift -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €7
267 Lattajjaa, LTJ-78
Russian project from Yaroslavl on Finnish psychedelic label. The musicians call their style punk-ambient. Colour sleeve. [YAOP]
Nightech -- "Deviation" -- CD -- €8
2007 Lagunamuch Community, LMC900, (ltd. 1000)
Nickname Nightech conceals a talented painter of ambient structures, aka Ed Sherbakoff, living in a remote industrial city of Serov in Urals. Beginning from 2001 he has recorded about 10 original works on different labels in Russia and in Europe. His new album Deviation, written in space dark-ambient direction is another sound experiment dedicated to research of transition between outer sound spaces by means of music and a thought. This is a message from extraterrestrial worlds that has occasionally found the receiver in thounds of light years. [press-release]
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Nightmare Lodge -- "Blind Miniatures" -- CD -- €10
1999 Red Stream Inc, RSR-0128
Soul-stiring, dark string orchestral architectures building into an orgasmic frenzy of floating beats, maddening juxtaposed rhythms, and many unidentifiable sound creatures. It is a moody trip through a red terrain of distorted filled thoughts and sensations, haunting passages of subdued and quiet minimal soundscapes. [label info]
Nigredo -- s/t -- CD-R -- €8
2001 Sphogha, Ultra Low Fidelity/ULF02
One more side-project of Hum released on his own label. Sound sources for this recording were "Plyvox" Soviet analogue synthesizer and reel-to-reel recorders. Mysterious hums and hisses, distant electronic flows and - like always with Hum - catchy atmosphere.
Nigulesugci -- "D.E.F. / Siegfried Tod" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT53, (ltd. 108)
Second full-length of this mysterious project, this time featuring YAO 91404 D. Cold genocide old school death industrial blended with mournful atmospheric melodies, necro-avantguard and old archive recordings. A serious soundwork and high recording quality. 2-sided printed sleeve. [press-release]
Nihilist Commando -- "Assault Noisecore - Demo 2002" -- CD-R -- €7
2002 self-released
One of the projects by Mikko Aspa (Grunt, Freak Animal label). Noisecore. "Extreme and brutal sound. Aggressive voice with lyrics (included)". [author's info]
Nihilist Commando -- "Demo 2005" -- CD-R -- €7
2005 self-released
One of the projects by Mikko Aspa (Grunt, Freak Animal label). "176 songs with lyrics printed on cover. over 14 minutes of extreme nihilistic assault noisecore! Not for the weak! Noisecore mental corrosion!" [author's info]
Nihilist Commando -- "Noisecore Genocide - Demo 2006" -- CD-R -- €7
2006 self-released
One of the projects by Mikko Aspa (Grunt, Freak Animal label). "88 songs with lyrics printed in cover. About 14 minutes of extreme nihilistic assault noisecore! This time much more longer blasting tracks than on previous demo, and less 1 second explosions. Sound in drums is clearer, but remains still utmost sonic cruelty!" [author's info]
Nimh -- "Frozen" -- CD-R -- €9
2002 AFE Records, afe043lcd, (ltd. 100)
It's been about ten years since the day that Giuseppe Verticchio, a.k.a. Nimh, started exploring the wide spectrum of Ambient / Electronic music. Since the late '90s he has recorded and self-released many interesting works of different nature, both under is own name and the Nimh moniker, ranging from the purely synth moods of "Fragments From The Lost Times" to the layered and treated Thai movements of "Distant Skylines" via the aboriginal beauty of "Tjukurpa", an album mostly based on the didjeridoo. Afe is now presenting a new version of his classic "Frozen", recorded back in 2000, which comes in a new artwork / package and is constructed around long slowly evolving droney tunes that wander in isolation through the coldest low frequencies zones. The title itself appropriately depicts the musical contents of this work more than other thousand words. Terminal Ambient someone says... He's got it right. Get yourself well covered: the landscape is frozen... [press-release]
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Nimh -- "The Impossible Days" -- CD -- €10
2004 Weird Amplexus, WAX 13, (ltd. 500)
Point of arrival of a long course of sonic research and experimentation, The Impossible Days sees Nimh (Giuseppe Verdicchio) summarizing a long time experience in combining obscure and static resonance, electronic plots, sound-effects, tensions, pulses, voices and real life ambient recordings, acoustic and electric sound sources treatments, in a high emotional impact diversified alternation... An impressive utilization of articulate sonic stratifications, mixings of electroacoustic material and samplings, original sounds, analogue and digital noises, generated by electronic machines, collected through both traditional and in contact microphones recordings. [label info]
Nimh -- "The Missing Tapes" -- CD -- €10
2007 Silentes Minimal Editions, sme 0610
Unique stratospheric sounds from another dimension: Processed electronic emulations of traditional Thai (and other indigenous) instruments, esoteric percussion, breathing, drones, feedback, shortwave radio, disembodied voices floating in air and hazy field recordings all combine is a most intoxicating manner. With this CD NIMH returns to a more adventurous style, pushing the boundaries of sonic innovation past anything before. An amazing 50+ minute sonic travelogue of electro acoustic experimentation... [press-release]
Nimh -- "Subterranean Thoughts" -- CD -- €10
2005 Silentes Minimal Editions, sme 0505
About one year after the release of The Impossible Days, Nimh (Giuseppe Verticchio) explores the innermost paths of electronic experimentation again with his new Subterranean Thougths. The album showcases a kaleidoscope of many different sounds, from the lysergic visions of Rewind to the cinematic suggestions of Recovered Memories, from the tight and dark atmospheres of Back to Laudomia to the ritual elements of Perpetual Cycles, from the rhythmic distorsions of Subterranean Thoughts to the hypnotic stasis of The Liquid Dream and the lyrism of the title-track reprise at the end of the disc. [label info]
Nimh -- "Travel Diary" -- CD -- €10
2009 Silentes Minimal Editions, sme 0929
Finally collected on a single CD, and released in a completely re-edited and re-mastered version enriched with new sounds and parts, Silentes present all the music created by Giuseppe Verticchio/Nimh during 2001/2002 using ethnic instruments only, in a total 'unconventional' way, with the addiction of treated/processed field recordings. A real challenge beyond every stylistic and 'geographical' border; an original and evocative dark-shaded ethnic-electronic-ritual music, born from the 'voice' of ancient and often unknown traditional ethnic instruments mostly collected in the Far East, without using synthesizers and any other electronic/synthetic source at all. An absolutely original 'Travel Diary, unpredictable and unrepeatable: [label info]
Nimh -- "The Unkept Secrets" -- CD -- €10
2008 Silentes Minimal Editions, sme 0718
After few months of distance from the escape of "The Missing Tapes" and the relative "Rework" by Aube, Nimh (Giuseppe Verticchio) sets aside the ethnic-lysergic visions that have characterized the previous album and continues along the distance of sonorous search and fascinating experimentation electronic, already undertaken with works which "The Impossible Days" and "Subterranean Thoughts", ulteriorly expanding just the range of sounds and instruments set, revealing the own "secrets" through new, dark but stylistically a unclassifiable CD, in which it arranges with extraordinary originality and in an absolutely personal and unknown elements of drone music, dark ambient, electronics, ritual, ethnic, field recordings, and enriching in particular every track with the recurrent presence of evocative sounds of electric guitar in varied filtered and elaborated way. The search goes on... [press-release]
Nimh & Mauthausen Orchestra -- "From Unhealthy Places" -- CD -- €10
2009 Silentes Minimal Editions, sme 0932
The energy, the genius and the intransigence of the music of the hystoric 'cult' power electronics project Mauthausen Orchestra/Pierpaolo Zoppo, united to the originalty, the eclecticism, the rigorous experimental research carried on since fifteen years by Giuseppe Verticchio, mostly with his 'Nimh' solo project: Disturbing images of unhealthy places, nocturne landscapes covered with fog, psychotic nightmares, tormenting and delirious, described with sonorities of great impact and incredible dramatic force: A dark and long itinerary, to be covered wrapped in the spirals of a time that progressively seems to slow down and stop, folded on itself, just like suspended in the void, without offering any way out: A sonic adventure for brave souls: Elegantly packaged in a digipack. [label info]
Nimh / Nefelheim -- "Whispers From The Ashes" -- CD -- €10
2004 Weird Amplexus, WAX09
Ideally inspired by the Inquisition era, like some titles of the tracks may suggest, Whispers from the Ashes presents Nimh (Giuseppe Verticchio) and Nefelheim joined together for the production of a dark oriented CD that alternates obscure and haunting atmospheres with more gloomy and sometimes dramatic and highly evocative episodes... In a blend of low frequencies, metallic sounds, echoes of distant voices and human screams, whispers, concrete noises, ritual processions, suddenly an acoustic guitar chord, some reverberate piano notes, the sound of falling rain, bits of thundering percussions emerge... Like in a disquieting voyage to a far away past, in a stakes and witches age, featuring persecutions of heretics and superstition... A wonderful trip in vein of Raison D Etre and Cold Meat sounds. [label info]
Ninth Desert -- "Neyss" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Deserted Factory, DF042, (ltd. 150)
Desolated landscapes of various feedback sounds like a blowing wind over monolithic plateaus grinding the rocks into dusty clouds of sand. Ninth Desert creates atmospheric sonic landscapes made of subtle feedbacks and other cavernous metallic sounds. Unfortunately most tracks are short and end abruptly awaking me rude from my listening experience. Ninth Desert is an ambient project by Frenchman Cyril Herry who may also be known from other projects like Ashes to Ashes. Neyss is already his fifth album for his Ninth Desert project, and second for Japanese Deserted Factory label. The atmosphere on this CD is dark and industrial but the tracks are very much the same in construction and structure. I do like to hear the separate tracks but the whole CD in one run causes some lost of attention and makes Neyss into nice background sound. [Remco / Gothtronic]
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Ninth Desert / Materiel Brouilleur -- "Ainos" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Deserted Factory, DF043, (ltd. 150)
In the pile of Deserted Factory releases I recently got to review, was next to neyss by Ninth Desert also a co-release with Materiel Brouilleur. Hearing the music on the site of Materiel Brouilleur their music is more rhythmic and electronic of nature than that of Ninth Desert. Strange enough I do not hear these influences on Ainos, in fact Ainos sound pretty similar to Neyss except for the fact that Ainos is more mechanical in atmosphere. What makes Ainos more interesting is the length of the tracks. The lengthier tracks give more atmosphere while there is more time to dive into it. The sound is thicker with more layers of sound which makes the music more dimensional. There are heavy metallic drones with distant drives of pounding sounds with deep resonance like a pile of clattering and scraping metal. The growing sounds in second track "Sennassiom" are building some tense with swirling intensifying drones. This tension is carefully expended in next track "Seriel" with subtle plane metallic sound like a lathe with its turning chisel scraping. "Maz Experience" is a hypnotizing swirl which is, unfortunately a bit short and last track "Depressive western" becomes almost melancholic with a slow melody. Within this corporation the minimal approach works well and both men have created a nice album with atmospheric compositions and tense full moments. [Remco / Gothtronic]
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Nitrous Flesh -- "Shadow Fracture" -- CD -- €10
2003 Tantric Terror, KALI 001
Debut full-length CD. Psychedelic death industrial and dark ambient soundscapes with overtones of horror and the occult. [label info]
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Njurmannen -- "Terror In The Dollhouse" -- CD -- €13
2008 Old Europa Cafe, OECD110
NJURMANNEN was the VERY first project in which Lina DEUTSCH NEPAL was involved!!! And he was working and recording with the rest of this "CULT" band all the tracks on this album!!! The album features studio recordings arround 1990 by the legendary Swedish electronica pioneers Njurmännen! This CD album contains the most part of their long time out of print LP "Reality Adventures" plus some stray material from compilations and seven inch vinyl and one previously un-released track! Snappy gothic pop tunes meet electronic gamelan meets Russian poetry in outer space... Or something like that... Or much more simply "The real cult release of 2008" !!!?!?!? [press-release]
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Nkondi -- "Illuminatedblacknessofmyinvisibility" -- CD-R -- €7
Deserted Factory, (ltd. 99)
Brutal American harsh noise on low and middle frequencies. The Elite. [YAOP]
No -- "Moongoon" -- CD-R -- €7
2006 Tourette 001 / No Rekords 132
Tourette Records is a new label from Texas and its first release is a collection of older material by Jan Iwers' project No, co-released with No Rekords. Some of the tracks date as far back as the late 1990s and in parts the material has been previously released (on the 7" of the same name on Drone and the Schmoll compilation on Dhyana). No is all over the place here. There is a short piano improvisation, a reverie of quietly dancing notes. There are far stretched sub-bass drones, combined with airy high frequencies and hints of melodies. There are tracks built from contrasting blocks and fragments of sound, rumbling just above the threshold of audibility, spiraling upwards and downwards, moving like soft clouds in the sky. Some field recordings, both processed and unprocessed are to be spotted now and then, but mostly No moves in abstract terrains. He manages to keep a remarkable coherence in all these pieces, a sense of structure and tension and a sound that is all soft and gentle but keeps a certain jagged quality below the surface. So this CD-R presents a nice collection of tracks, making older, probably long gone material available again and serving as a good introduction as well as a highly welcome retrospective. [MSS]
No Exit -- "One Step" -- CD -- €10
2006 1000+1 TiLt
Behind No Exit is one Joseph Fruiscante, of whom I never heard, and on 'One Step' he plays, according to the cover 'sax and bamboo string', while on one song one Myriam Boucris sings. Those are the facts about this cd, while we are kept in the dark about other information. In thirty minutes, Fruiscante plays some powerful music, clearly recognizable on his saxophone and less clearly on his string bamboo. What the cover doesn't tell us, is the fact that studio treatments play an equally important role here, especially delay and reverb are two important features (or perhaps I am wrong, and we don't have a studio here, but is the whole thing recorded in a tunnel). Fruiscante's music is minimal, even a bit drone related, but at the same time, and perhaps strangely enough it is also forcefully present, even a bit distorted in the deeper bass end of the release. An odd combination of mood music and some more distorted elements, Fruiscante moves here with outside any regular movements or rigid paths of improvisations, ambient, drone or noise. And that is, in my book, very fine. [FdW, Vital Weekly]
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No Festival Of Light -- "Officina Gentium Vagina Nationum" -- CD -- €13
2000 Functional Organisation, Functional 013
The second CD from this Swedish outfit containing experimental, ambient drones, and creating a nightmarish atmosphere with occasional satanic outbursts. [label info]
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No Name Desire -- "Wastelands" -- CD -- €9
2004 Monopol Records, monopolrecords 002
no Xivic -- "I Do Blame You" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2004 Taalem, alm 17
no Xivic is Henkka Kyllonen, a Finnish artist you may have discovered thanks to his untitled 7" released last year by Drone Records, described by the label as "underground 'dronish' experimental sounds, based on long & moving metallic drones mixed with higher, near-distorted frequencies and low rumblings. This results in pure & elegant floating dronescapes that never stands still, giving you nothing to fix upon from your completely immersed mind." "I Do Blame You" might be harsher & noisier than this previous piece of vinyl. Here, no Xivic proposes us a near 24min long track, perfect blend of noise and dark ambience, piercing frequencies and rumbling drones. "Try this in supermarket or some place filled with people! (works everytime)". [press-release]
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no Xivic -- "Uneksija" -- CD -- €13
2004 Onyxia, onyx003
Henkka Kyllonen, the Finnish artist trading as no Xivic, will probably not thank me for describing him as a twenty-first century Sibelius, but that is the first thought that springs to my mind upon listening to this dark and edgy slab of doom ambience. Kyllonen has spent a staggering fourteen years studying music theory and piano at the Oulu Conservatory, which sounds a whole lot more fun than getting a job. What we have here are long swathes of grey textures, each a slightly different beast from its predecessor, nagging at the corner of the mind like half-seen apparitions, this interspersed with tinkling piano and muttered voices. It's almost Thomas Köner territory, pleasantly soporific yet vaguely sinister. There is silence here, and space. Time and distance are magnified, there is resonance, depth. [...] [Fluxeuropa]
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no Xivic -- "Yksityisyys" -- CD -- €13
2007 Onyxia, onyx007
After a seemingly long wait, we have finally been presented with no Xivic's second actual full-length album. The album is titled Yksityisyys ("Privacy") and contains an array of intimate emotional states ranging from pleasure to anxiety and hopelessness. [...] Yksityisyys is definitely a very well thought-out and executed album. It follows a clear concept where each track forms an individual story. Different musical styles form narrative tools, and Henkka Kyllonen proves he can master them all, from piano to drone to harsh noise. The true display of mastery, however, is being able to merge them all into one expressive and meaningful whole. The only catch is that the record really requires the full attention of it's listener: it should be listened to like reading a book, otherwise it will only turn into meaningless background drones. When given focus, however, it proves to be very accessible, musical, emotional and intimate. [John Bjorkman, Kuolleen Musiikin Yhdistys]
Nocturne -- "Fleisch und Metall" -- CD -- €14
2007 Steinklang Industries, SKD 17, (ltd. 500)
"Fleisch und Metall" is a conceptual album, a soundtrack for an actionistic performance, done by the French Industrial / Noise act Nocturne. The performance took place in a old, ruined factory and the 20-page booklet shows impressions from this event, as well as several artistic fotos from industrial areas. "Fleisch und Metall" is a very organic and icecold album, sometimes reminding to early Werkbund, sometimes even to japanoise-like metall-orgies. All in all the album is very complexly structured and many changes in music and style don't let come up any boring moments. Nocturne also uses a lot of samples in French language and even more sirenes, saws, metal-hammerings and more machine sounds, what gives "Fleisch und Metall" the grade of a 100% pure Industrial album. An additional 11 minute video brings you a challenging hommage to industrial work and revolution, accompanied by an amazing Industrial soundtrack. [press release]
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Nocturne -- "Hymn For Herest I & II" -- CD -- €13
2002 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 040
Second release by Nocturne on OEC after the legendary 10" vinyl! Nocturne is the musical representation of "Art Schock" visual work, which is completely based on historical facts related to the 2 World Wars... Representing on a crude way this reality in sounds & images...! Over 75 minutes of uncompromising bubbling & rumbling "military" industrial sounds with lots of sampled voices from the past & war sounds! Pain & reality... Special large folding poster cover, as usual devoted on explicit way to the wars... [press-release]
Nocturne -- "Terroriser Manipuler Convaincre" -- CD -- €13
Old Europa Cafe, OECD 082, (ltd. 150)
Concept album builded arround the figure of Doctor "Mabuse" the anti-hero of Norbert Jacques's novel, the genius of crime and chaos, the genius of finance in a slow falling world in the first part of 1900... Slow moving tracks reminding to a world brocken by First World War. Very industrial concept using analog instrumentation mixed up to sounds from the beginning of the last century and many samples in German language taken from the legenadry movie as well as french vocals. Oversized 7" cover plus inserts. [label info]
Noi, Hubert / Howie B -- "Music for Astronauts and Cosmonauts" -- 2 CD -- €12
2007 Laton, 042
This album is a collaboration of world renowned Britisch studio wizard, remixer and DJ Howie B, who has worked with the likes of U2, Bjork, Brian Eno, Tricky, Sly and Robbie, Soul to Soul and islandic artist Hubert Noi who's musical collaborations include Phsycic TV and HOH aka Hilmar Orn Hilmarsson. Howie B is for the first time working with the Icelandic artist Hubert Noi on a musical project. Before their lines crossed when Howie used one of Hubert's paintings for the cover of his solo album 'Music for babies' 1996. 'Music for Astronauts and Cosmonauts' is a soundtrack for a round journey in Earths orbit (297 km above Earth). The length of the tracks: 'Morning', 'Day', 'Evening', 'Night' is 90 minutes (one round) that time-measure equals what takes 24 hours to see on earth (sunrise to sunrise). [label info] Very slowly and monotonous yet nice ambient work.
Noise-Maker's Fifes -- "Legnica" -- CD-R -- €10
2008 Impulsy Stetoskopu, 003, (ltd. 120)
This recording comes from a show which took place in the theatre in Legnica while Ars Media Presentations on 5th October 1997 during second tour NMF in Poland. Recorded live direct from mixing desk. Edition of 120 numbered copies. Cd comes packaged inside an aluminum foil slipcover. [label info]
Noise Novosibirsk Institute -- "Black Rectangle" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Necrophone, D, (ltd. 40)
Rhythm'n'Noise with broken rhythms mixed with harsh noise. A couple of home live sessions + remix of a mobile phone tune + a couple of noise improvisations. A very quality work of this Siberian project. Mini-DVD-box. [YAOP]
Noises Of Russia -- "Electrosummer" -- CD-R -- €6
2004 Electroindustria, 03EICDr
Placing the urban people (ourselves) into the nature we risk losing the peace of mind and becoming mentally diseased. Shocking silence, exciting trembling of forest, full relaxation of mind can paralyse the human will and wish for living. The program is composed from the samples of natural sounds combining with polyphonic landscapes. [press release]
Noises Of Russia -- "Invisibility & Labour" -- CD-R -- €6
2005 Electroindustria, 04EICDr
In the program "INVISIBILITY and LABOUR", which was successfully performed at the international music festival SKIF-7, we placed the emphasis on the increasing of the psychical influence on the spectator/listener. Intonation changes typical for non-stop performances - and NOISES of RUSSIA always make non-stop performances because we consider conditional both the bounds between the different compositions and creative finality in all its manifestations - so the intonation changes became stronger and more notable. Noise curtain gave place to sweet quiet harmonies, conceptual hysterics to ethereal whispers, dark sound landscapes to airspace full of rustles. The result of such suggestively sometimes was unexpected and seemed like shock treatment. The noise with the special attention to radio waves began to play the main role in the influencing on listener/spectator. The same importance had texts used by the participants of the project. At different times we used for compilations lyrics of such groups as SWANS, CURRENT-93, LEGENDARY PINK DOTS, old Sumerian poetry, Maya mythologies, texts of Catholic mass, works of Russian poets Vladimir Buritch and Velemir Khlebnikov and our own poetry.
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Noises Of Russia -- "In Ryazan. Easel Painting, sketch # 5" -- CD-R -- €6
2006 Electroindustria, 06EICDr
Recorded live in Ryazan on 25.01.2006. "The program EASEL PAINTING opens anthology of industrial sound. The noises of industrial machines represent the monochrome part of spectrum of the industrial-sound palette, the retrospective sight of the XX century - the age when the heavy industry myth was born and was dethroned. The solists are machines. Their interaction with each other and with human voices, with harmonic polyphonies (so-called landscapes) and noises (music concrete) that appeared as accompaniment creates atonal and non-rhythmic sound picture which gives the spectator a rare chance to combine the work therapy with shock therapy." [press release]
Noises Of Russia -- "Hydrophobia" -- CD-R -- €6
2006 Electroindustria, 07EICDr
In our new program HYDROPHOBIA we continue investigations into the stereotypes of perception. If our latest program INVISIBILITY AND LABOUR was dedicated to the full disintegration of personality under the social pressure which is mechanizing all the life processes, the program HYDROPHOBIA materializes the response of individuum to the social aggression. The object dissection is mechanism of manifestation so-called forbidden emotions such as mystical joy, inexplicable sorrow, in-depth horror, catharsis which are opposed to the legalized feelings of cleanness, sterility, health, happy unconscious alcohol intoxication, enjoyment of material comforts. [press release]
Noises of Russia -- "We Sorrow For You" -- CD-R -- €6
2007 Electroindustria, 09EICDr
Second full-length studio album of Noises Of Russia, the result of two-year work with archaic layers of consciousness and saturated sound canvases. The album's sound came out even, dark and discreet. It's textural basis is one of the central monuments of Indoeuropean culture, one of the most anscient spiritual instructions of humanity - "Upanishady" - the precept of defence against the monsters born by endless vigil of mind. The subject of this electronic symphony in 5 parts is the ironical lesson of merited pass out, from child's carelessness to death through the experience of existence. [label info]
Noises Of Russia / A Challenge Of Honour -- "2010 Secret Assembly Apocalyptic Tour" -- CD-R -- €6
2010 ElectroIndustria
Split-release dedicated to the joint tour of Noises Of Russia and A Challenge Of Honour happened in April 2010. Contains 4 new compositions from Noises Of Russia + 3 previously unreleased tracks from A Challenge Of Honour.
Noises Of Russia and Komok, Olga -- "Cantigas De Santa Maria" -- CD-R -- €6
2005 Electroindustria, 05EICDr
In the program CANTIGAS DE SANTA MARIA performed by breath -noise group NOISES of RUSSIA & OLGA KOMOK (the leader of the medieval music collective LATERNA MAGICA) the authentic Spanish music of XIII-XIV centuries is placed into the dramatic sound landscape of the modern urban civilization. Old Spanish spiritual songs (cantigas) singing to the accompaniment of wheel lyre (it's a modern copy of XIV century instrument) are accompanied by harmonic polyphonies (so-called landscapes), noises (music concrete), industrials sounds and rhythms. CANTIGAS DE SANTA MARIA is a monument of medieval culture and cult of Mother of God, which was the most important for Catholics in Middle Ages and is still alive nowadays. Cantigas tell about the different miracles of Virgin Mary: how She defeated basilisk and dragon in Toledo, how She saved drunk monks from the river near Salamanca, how She cured dying horse, how She catholicized Jews and exorcised the devil from the girl. Each story is full of true faith in the infinite mercy. Every tenth story is a the song of praise dedicated to Mother of God. [press release]
Nojsens -- "Transmisja" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Beast Of Prey, (ltd. 68)
Debut album of experimental project NOJSENS released in colaboration with Beast Of Prey. Project has been around for some time, and his creator Dawid Chrapla is experienced in colaborations with Genetic Transmission and co-founder of Hated Bruit Kollectiv. The album "Transmisja" is a psychedelic bruitysm with use of synths inspired by Genetic Transmission as well as technically crafted noise made from tiny sound parts. Fast, exploding fragments filled with streams of sound mix with more static parts, occasionally torn by more noise fragments and loops. At the same time the sound is more clear than typical noise build on hardware or static sound sources. Samples and hums combine with synth parts, but there are also metallic, extent fragments as well as bits - dynamic and much processed, more distant from more trans approach to music. [press-release]
Nono Orchestra -- "Angels Breakin'" -- CD -- €11
1999 Aurora, AUR006, (ltd. 500)
"Angels Breakin'" is the second album of NONO ORCHESTRA. NONO ORCHESTRA is a group of three people: Klaus Wiese, Rick Rummler and Mani Reisser. The central idea of NONO ORCHESTRA is to create abstract soundscapes with newly constructed natural instruments: a huge steel cello, a bow chime (both played with a bow), and finally a glass harp, on which singing bowl-like background sounds are made. "Angels Breakin'" shows the full range of possible expression of sounds, from a soft whistle to unheard powerful screams, which hit the listener like the sword of a Samurai. Those who like the experimental touch of these instruments may enjoy the energetic charisma of these natural sound sculptures. [label info]
Nord'n'Commander -- "Maps Of The Shadow' Travelling" -- CD -- €9
2008 Casus Belli Musica, CBM 001CD, (ltd. 1000)
Many ancient philosophers taught that our world was only a shade and a shape in respect of the Real World. But thirst for this Perfect World requires permanent development of attention exactly to ... a shadow. Just as a bridge to the Superior the NORD'N'COMMANDER members realize the word "shadow" and offer us their maps, their plan of What Veritable Intention prefers. The album "Maps Of The Shadow' Travelling" (2003) has taken over from the album "Heavenly Barrow" (2002) some stylistic features. Cold, "gothic" vocals and keyboards in combination with "industrial" guitars and drums are also present here. But there is something that makes this album related to "Sacred Spear Aftersounds" (2001) too: namely, interest in archaic Indo-European harmonies. So the style of the album may be called approximately as "gothic / folk / electro". Curiosity for a Shadow, which the NORD'N'COMMANDER members have displayed, is expressed in the fact that musical and poetical images, metaphors and symbols are flowing freely and easily. The symbols are being transfused out of serious philosophical constructions into human (sometimes over-human) psychological praxis and even mental moods. It's just an atlas of shadows sui generis. But remember that Shades and the Superior are joined. Listen to them!.. [press-release]
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Nordschlacht -- "Silence, Beauty And Cruelty" -- CD -- €9
2008 Klangdynamik Records, KD 04
Nordvargr, Henrik Bjørkk -- "The Dead Never Sleep" -- CD -- €12
2005 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 073
The undisputed master of nordic darkness & leading mind of MZ.412 returns once again from his cellar with a new offering for OEC. Following the success of the more experimental CD "On broken wings towards victory", "The dead never sleep" is a massive journey of classic Scandinavian darkambient, but with added outbursts of more violent layers and haunting electronics. Without comparison, this is the only fix of darkambient you need this year to satisfy your needs. Take heed as the dead souls surrounding you slowly twitches and claws to come back to haunt you... [press-release]
Nordvargr -- "Helvete" -- CD -- €11
2008 Eternal Pride Productions, EPP 013
The newest creation from Villa Bohult, the Nordvargr family burial vault. This time the 'cursed poet' Wrest from the USBM Leviathan Cult and Drakhon (Beyond Sensory Experience, MZ. 412) have joined the night sessions of the never sleeping Swedish zombie. It would be totally insane to be waiting for something life-asserting, light and positive for the three of them. 'Helvete' is just the overwhelming Darkness and the ice-cold all-filling Terror. Meditative and sinister Dark Ambient rhythms are filled with the ominous whisper of Wrest and Drakh. Deep and lengthy drones as well as the charming atmosphere of the Swedish industrial decadence. At the end of this trip all of those nostalgic for the times of the 'Burning The Temple Of God' MZ. 412 will be fully rewarded for all the years of waiting... [press-release]
Nordvargr, Henrik Bjørkk -- "On Broken Wings Towards Victory" -- CD -- €12
2003 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 061
Following in the steps of "Awaken", this CD explores the dark cellars of Bohult even deeper... This time new elements are thrown into the trademark darkness, using knifes, water and some broken electronics this CD is sure to deliver a new perspective on the way we see and hear our nordic wolf. [label info]
Nordvargr -- "Pyrrhula" -- CD -- €11
2008 Cold Spring Records, CSR98CD
Partly based on an old Swedish folktale, Pyrrhula ("doomlord") is a pitch black journey into utter darkness. This is a tale of foreboding doom... a portent of dark times to come... a blight on the face of this earth. These eight Black Ambient / Doom / Droneworks were brought forth from the abyss of Villa Bohult exclusively for Cold Spring and contain the malevolent vocals of Lord Nordvargr himself! "Beware the small creatures of light, they only bring misery and death upon the enlightened ones. For they will paint their breast with blood and reap your unborn angels." [press-release]
Nordvargr / Drakh -- "The Betrayal Of Light" -- CD -- €15
2007 tUMULt, TM373
Nordvargr / Drakh / Klier -- "The Less You Know, The Better" -- CD -- €13
2008 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 111
Norma Reaktsii -- "Agartha" -- CD-R -- €6
2009 Necrophone, B, (ltd. 66)
Lo-fi noise-ambient journey in other side, meditative tracks for urban relaxation. Project from Tver', Russia. Owner of Valgriind rec. Limited edition of 66 copies in handmade cardboard sleeve with stickers. [label info]
Norma Reaktsii -- "Chaosgaze" -- CD-R -- €6
2008 Valgriind, VG 14, (ltd. 50)
Norma Reaktsii -- "Echo Stihii" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT48, (ltd. 88)
Ideological art of noise. Radionoise recorded with the use of pre-war receivers with re-soldered components, magic atmosphere, field recordings, techno-mysticism and soundscapes of WWII. Wandering echo of radio ether of 1942. Handmade cardboard cover. [label info]
Norma Reaktsii -- "Silver Thunder" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT59, (ltd. 88)
Minimalistic angst ambient / indurtsial filled with sounds of vintage electronics, radionoise, guitar chatter, field recordings, amplified powerful voice recitating austere traditionalistic lyrics. Aesthetics of Karl Runau and November Novelet combined with author's talent and right ideology! Slim DVD box with an insert. [press-release]
Norma Reaktsii -- "Telluric Energy" -- CD-R -- €6
2008 Valgriind, VG 08, (ltd. 50)
Four tracks of pure unprocessed radionoise.
Norma Reaktsii -- "Vril" -- CD-R -- €6
2008 Valgriind, VG 09
Analogue Ambient with Radio noise elements, recorded with the restored radio of 1937 release, with the Russian language lyrics and pure female voice. Sound manifestation of Eternal Ice and Hollow Earth theories. CD-box with radio details. [label info]
Norma Reaktsii / Ruuhi -- "New-born Snow / 0-1" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2009 Valgriind, VG 25
Limited mini CD-R release. Tracks from the beginning of both formation's working. Deep meditative lo-fi radio-drone & middle-frequencies distortion. [label info]
Normality / Edge -- "Inner Photographs" -- 5xCD-R -- €26
2002 AFE Records, afe50010, (ltd. 50)
Ambient / Industrial / Harsh Electronics. Normality / Edge's "Inner Photographs" box-set consists of five discs and collects all the tracks produced by this project during its existence between 1996-1999. All material was reworked and put into shape in 2001 and is released here for the first time. All tracks were created by Hue using only cheap microphones, various objects, primitive sound editors and Dos sequencers. No midi machines, synths, external samplers and so on were ever used. The musical contents are different for each disc and vary from the Dark / Isolationist atmopheres of "Ambient Grooves: A Drowning Fish" to the harsh and distorted assaults of "Industrial Noises: Avoid Contact", passing through the more layered and rhythmically structured "Anxiogen Dances: Instable Balance" and "Dark Rhythms: Monochrome Life", ending with the less obsessive and gentler "Unpleasant Songs: Il Confine (The Edge)". It would really make no sense getting into the details about each track since this work must be seen / listened as a whole. The Normality / Edge "Opera Omnia" is completed by a sixth disc entitled "Nervous System Overload" recorded back in 1995, which is sold separately from the box and is a mixture of Power Electronics and strange ambiences created assembling only sounds captured with microphones and without any kind of sequencer. The inspiration for all the music contained on this box is the sadness, anxiety and angst felt by the author at that time. Life changes, things get worse or better for anyone and Hue is making completely different music now with his Sparkle In Grey project... but that is another story and we are sure we'll have the chance to tell it later on... "Inner Photographs" is here and it's now: don't miss it. The 6th CD-R to complete the "Inner Photographs" box-set is available "on demand" to all those who will send back the replying coupon included in the box. [label info]
Northam, Michael & Vidyarthi, Jatin -- "Golden Shadows" -- CD -- €10
2009 Semperflorens, sf02
"A document of the Khoj residency, Jatin and myself took a bit of time (with the help of the Khoj crew) to make a short edition of a collection of our sessions and recordings we did together... Strange mix of improvisation, minimal acousmatics and field recordings (perhaps the first project of its kind from India)." [Michael Northam]
Northern -- "Drawn" -- CD -- €10
2007 Infraction, INFX 024, (ltd. 740)
Nosesoul -- "Ethik Blues / Winterbirds Helped the Passengers" -- CD + DVD -- €15
2007 Silentes, 200719
A fascinating album of ambient music that straddles the worlds of comfortable quiet sounds (that continually morph and expand)... and darker more introspective tones (that arouse a more turbulant and mysterious character). Atmospherics for nightfall. Large enveloping soundscapes that completely overtake the senses. Similar in many ways to the unmistakable style of OPIUM. Evocative drone-core infused with subtle vocal elements. "ETHIK BLUES" is the soundtrack of the DVD "WINTERBIRDS HELPED THE PASSENGERS" (a truly wonderful movie by FRANCESCO PALADINO). One hour of pure sonic-bliss to completely loose oneself in. An amazing milestone for ambient/isolationistic music lovers, and definitely not to be missed by fans of this genera. [label info]
Nostalgia -- "Beyond Horizon" -- CD-R -- €10
2007 Practising Nature, PN07018
A project of Mathias Grassow and Rudigier Gleisberg. Nostalgias 3rd album again shows the band in another light. It is an instrumental album in electronic style, where Grassows "spiritual ambient" drones and Gleisbergs classical orchestra-sounds are melded together in a perfect melange of surprising and tenseful ethno-electronica. [label info]
Nothing -- "The Grey Subaudible" -- CD -- €12
2000 Eibon Records, Nth022
Prepare to dive into an ocean of darkness. Sounding like an hybrid between LYCIA and RAISON D'ETRE, "The grey subaudible" is a devastating debut, highly recommended to the dark souls out there. [press-release]
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Nothing -- "Silence Came Back In, Filling Jagged Spaces" -- CD -- €12
2004 Eibon Records, Nth046
A disharmonic journey through the mid-world spheres. Fragments of corrupted melodies melt with post-nuclear tribal rhythms. Quiet semi-silences turn into crystal-clear ambiences, then suddently leave space to bursts of noise. Shamanic-like chants evolve into caressing violins, then fall into pits of ultra-droning dark ambient. ...S.U.R.R.E.A.L... ..G.H.O.S.T.L.Y... In clear-trayed jewel box. [label info]
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Nova-Sak -- "Ignominy" -- CD-R -- €4
2007 Triangle Records, [TR015], (ltd. 100)
Brutal ambient and viscous space noise from USA. Astronauts tortured by unfriendly humanoids, sounds of airborne computers, alien talks and drone of wrecking orbital station. Noisy and powerful. Package: cardboard envelope, serigraphy. [label info]
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Novatron -- "New Rising Sun" -- CD -- €12
2000 Cold Spring Records, CSR28CD, (ltd. 1000)
NOVATRON is the main project of ANTHONY DI FRANCO, who many of you will know from his previous projects - RAMLEH, SKULLFOWER and AX, and noise technician, KEVIN LASKA. This debut, exclusive to COLD SPRING, is a powerful journey into dark noise, slamming percussion, and subsonic bass rumbles. An excellent album, rich in variety and sonic textures. [label info]
November Novelet -- "From Heaven On Earth" -- CD -- €15
1999 Galakthorrö 011
November Növelet is more calm and romantic side of Haus Arafna, most of texts and vocals belong to the female part of the duet. Detached, beautiful and blameless as an ice sculpture music which simply has no analogues.
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Novy Svet -- "Faccia a Faccia" -- CD -- €14
2006 The Nekofutschata Musick Cabaret, neko 17
Unavailable for some years, "Faccia a Faccia", NOVY SVET's second album, stands out as a classic from the late 90's post-industrial explosion. First issued by the now defunct british WSD label, here's this influential album now in new artwork and with a different ghost track from the same sessions. Foggy music and scratched melodies make up this CD that once was named the best release to commit suicide to. In other words: just beautiful. [label info]
Nový Svet & Ô Paradis -- "Destello De Estrellas En La Frente" -- CD -- €12
2005 Punch Productions, PP010
After the acclaimed and highly successful CD "entre siempre y jamas suben las mareas, duermen las ciudades" (NEKOFUTSCHATA / TESCO) of 2003, the two Barcelona based groups O PARADIS and NOVY SVET team up for another collaboration album presenting their dark mix of mediterranean accoustic music and electronic psychedelia. "Destello de Estrellas en la Frente" takes their sound in even dustier realms than the followers of both bands are used to. [press-release]
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Nrodum -- "U" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT39, (ltd. 59)
A project of the guy standing behind Pugna, Vresnit and Kerpg... Dialectic metaphysics on the materials of archaic datum, realized in ultramundane radionoise and drone. Static space technique. Raw speaking flow with synth and an invisible voice. Monotony of merged activity, the over-song of the Eternal Force. The author's design: black cardboard sleeve, 2 colour photos. [press-release]
NRYY -- "Kiss" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2009 T'an! Kaven!! Ash!!!, Ash!!! 029, (ltd. 50)
Weird guitar industrial album from Japanese project NRYY. Mix of guitar industrial sounds and melodic noise. Released as 3 parts, each under its own title, come on 3" CDs in quantity of 50 copies each part. Album 1: 'Kiss', Album 2: 'Wind and Cloud', Album 3:'Red'. [label info]
NRYY -- "Red" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2009 T'an! Kaven!! Ash!!!, Ash!!! 028, (ltd. 50)
Weird guitar industrial album from Japanese project NRYY. Mix of guitar industrial sounds and melodic noise. Released as 3 parts, each under its own title, come on 3" CDs in quantity of 50 copies each part. Album 1: 'Kiss', Album 2: 'Wind and Cloud', Album 3:'Red'. [label info]
NRYY -- "Wind and Cloud" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2009 T'an! Kaven!! Ash!!!, Ash!!! 030, (ltd. 50)
Weird guitar industrial album from Japanese project NRYY. Mix of guitar industrial sounds and melodic noise. Released as 3 parts, each under its own title, come on 3" CDs in quantity of 50 copies each part. Album 1: 'Kiss', Album 2: 'Wind and Cloud', Album 3:'Red'. [label info]
Nullkommajoseph -- "Infidel Part 2" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2005 Taalem, alm 24
Sometimes, you don't know why, you're not immediately catched by the music you listen to. That's what happened to me when I received Nullkommajosefh's submission for the Taalem series more than one year ago. So the master stayed on my shelves. Then, three months ago, I gave it a new try. And I got hooked. Immediately. Strange isn't it? After the first part on Tosom, here's "Infidel Part 2", two beautiful tracks by this German newcomer on the dark ambient scene. Nullkommajosefh creates long haunting pieces, full of details in the background you'll discover listenings after listenings. [press-release]
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Numina -- "Eye of the Nautilus" -- CD -- €11
2005 Hypnos, hyp2548
One thing that becomes apparent listening to Numina's work is the craftsmanship is very high. For those that don't know his work it falls under the American ambient school, drones and floating textures with some rhythmic underpinning in places. Jesse Sola weaves his sounds with slow tonal shifting and that's one of my favorite aspects of his work is that unfolding quality which in the right hands is the musical equivalent of storytelling... Numina releases are very heavy on the synths. Jesse's work would appeal very well with those that prefer the synth as the main timbre... There's always a deeply Gothic quality to his work too... no fey crystal happiness here. The whole "Eye of the Nautilus" theme fits the sound perfectly as it spirals out of your speaker putting the whole room under a spell... A definite sonic psychedelic experience. [Paul Ellis]
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Numina -- "Sanctuary of Dreams" -- CD -- €11
2004 Hypnos, hyp2445
Jesse Sola records as Numina. Sanctuary of Dreams, his first release on a major label (Hypnos Recordings), might be his best effort yet. In the past, his CDs have leaned to the darker sides of ambience. While this disc does have some ominous tones, the overall timbres are gentle and soothing. Sola's style allows the uplifting chords to be the overriding persona of this CD. He combines organic textures with languid atmospheres to create warm and friendly soundscapes. This disc is a friend. It will appeal to fans of Jeff Pearce, Remco Helbers, Markus Reuter, and Zero Ohms. [Jim Brenholts, All Music Guide]
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Numina -- "Shift to the Ghost" -- CD -- €12
2007 Hypnos, hyp2650
Numina's third album on Hypnos Recordings is "Shift to the Ghost," a long-form continuous piece, which is a format that is actually fairly new for Numina, despite his many prior recorded releases. The album does include indexed track points for convenience in navigating through the CD, and each song is distinctly different in feel, but the songs evolve seamlessly into one another. The continuous, long-form ambient format works very well here, never droning on too much or dwelling too long in a certain sonic space. Numina himself states that the album "is about the life and death of the physical self," hence the title. Whatever the concept, this album contains all the elements Numina fans enjoy, from deep and sombre ambient, to twinkling, swirling space music, constantly evolving. It's a long, fascinating visual journey, and it never grows tired. The latest work from ambient "rising star" Numina is possibly his best yet. [press-release]
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Nurminen, Jari-Matti -- "In Sickness and in Health" -- CD-R -- €8
2005 Vety Productions, vety07
On his ambient solo recording ex-bass player of sludge stars - Fleshpress - explores sickness and health. First is represented with hollow cyclic drone ambient sounding like quited hushed power electronics, and second - with mellow romantic synth ambient, as if Mortiis would conceive to play warm positive music. [YAOP]
Nurse With Wound -- "An Awkward Pause" -- 2 CD -- €20
2006 Jnana Records, UNITED JNANA 1921
Reissue of "An Awkward Pause" (1999, United Dairies) with a bonus-CD containing demos, remixes, etc.
Nurse With Wound -- "Homotopy to Marie" -- CD -- €17
1982/2007 Jnana Records, UNITED JNANA 366
Homotopy to Marie, originally released in 1982, was the fifth Nurse With Wound album. Steven Stapleton considers it to be the first "real" Nurse record as it was the first record he'd made without any intervention from his early partners. Its release also marked the point where Stapleton assumed the mantle of Nurse for all future releases. Musically, Homotopy is a brilliant example of Stapleton's tape editing and manipulation, producing a disturbing avant-garde collage that remains a stunning listen! Homotopy has been out of print for a few years and appears now with newly designed artwork in a six-panel digipack. This issue has also corrected the misplaced track index points which marred previous CD reissues. [label info]
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Nurse With Wound -- "Huffin' Rag Blues" -- CD -- €17
2008 Dirter Promotions, DPROMCD63
Nurse With Wound -- "Stereo Wastelands" -- CD -- €16
2006 Beta-lactam Ring Records, mt065, (ltd. 500)
A Collection of Musical Debris from the Original "Who Can I Turn to Stereo" sessions. [label info]
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Nurse With Wound / Jim O'Rourke -- "Angry Eelectric Finger 1 (Tape Monkey Mooch)" -- CD -- €11
2004 Beta-lactam Ring Records, mt085b
Repress of the album packaged in a full color gatefold case. Thou had best be ready when the angry electric finger points to YOU! Fortunately, the 3 collaborators above stepped up to the challenged poking, resulting in each offering electric fingers of varying emotional levels ready to fist you in the ear. THUS SPAKE NURSE (& Xhol): The recipe began with our fearless leader, Steve Stapleton, cooking up some recordings & mixing in a few tablespoons of Xhol Caravan. He then sent this delicious sound casserole, one each, to Jim O'Rourke, Cyclobe & Irr.App.(Ext.) & asked that they bake said casseroles in their own sonic ovens. The 3 separate sound casseroles were then returned to the NWW kitchen where Chef Steve added just a dash of this & a pinch of that. Beta-lactam Ring now serves up these 3 piping hot dishes to you, the hungriest of hungry, hungry hippos. Tape Monkey Mooch: The NWW/Jim O'Rourke duumvirate finger points to a brilliant and long overdue marriage. Their consummation has produced an ambient masterpiece; something of a hermaphroditic hybrid between Soliloquy For Lilith/Spiral Insana and Jim's previous Disengage/Tamper. Haunting, weird, dark and beautiful...just like you! [press-release]
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Nurse With Wound / Cyclobe -- "Angry Eelectric Finger 2 (Paraparaparallelogrammatica)" -- CD -- €11
2004 Beta-lactam Ring Records, mt086b
Thou had best be ready when the angry electric finger points to YOU! Fortunately, the 3 collaborators above stepped up to the challenged poking, resulting in each offering electric fingers of varying emotional levels ready to fist you in the ear. THUS SPAKE NURSE (& Xhol): The recipe began with our fearless leader, Steve Stapleton, cooking up some recordings & mixing in a few tablespoons of Xhol Caravan. He then sent this delicious sound casserole, one each, to Jim O'Rourke, Cyclobe & Irr.App.(Ext.) & asked that they bake said casseroles in their own sonic ovens. The 3 separate sound casseroles were then returned to the NWW kitchen where Chef Steve added just a dash of this & a pinch of that. Beta-lactam Ring now serves up these 3 piping hot dishes to you, the hungriest of hungry, hungry hippos. Paraparaparallelogrammatica: On the other hand, NWW + Cyclobe = free form freakout! Cyclobe chose to mince the NWW provisions into a deeply psychedelic electro attack. An ocean of circuits swell & ebb & crash against your woofers in a noisy, electro-acoustic mist. More of an angry electric fingering. & DON"T YOU DESERVE IT?! [press-release]
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Nurse With Wound / irr. app. (ext.) -- "Angry Eelectric Finger 3 (Mute Bell Extinction Process)" -- CD -- €11
2004 Beta-lactam Ring Records, mt087b
Thou had best be ready when the angry electric finger points to YOU! Fortunately, the 3 collaborators above stepped up to the challenged poking, resulting in each offering electric fingers of varying emotional levels ready to fist you in the ear. THUS SPAKE NURSE (& Xhol): The recipe began with our fearless leader, Steve Stapleton, cooking up some recordings & mixing in a few tablespoons of Xhol Caravan. He then sent this delicious sound casserole, one each, to Jim O'Rourke, Cyclobe & Irr.App.(Ext.) & asked that they bake said casseroles in their own sonic ovens. The 3 separate sound casseroles were then returned to the NWW kitchen where Chef Steve added just a dash of this & a pinch of that. Beta-lactam Ring now serves up these 3 piping hot dishes to you, the hungriest of hungry, hungry hippos. Mute Bell Extinction Process: As the final finger in the fist, Irr.App(Ext.) de.emp.has.(ize) the musical aspect of the source material, instead punching it down to its more spacial, raw & cavernous aspects. The textural shifts are long & building. The fractured fallouts reduce everything to a quietly smoldering hollow...like your devastated heart! [press-release]
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NXA (New Art Ensemble) / Nick Soudnick -- "Noise And Fury 2000" -- CD -- €8
2001 Dom Records, cddoma 0106
Split-release: 25 mins. belong to Russian New Art Ensemble (voice, piano, trombone, computers); 48 mins. to Nick Soudnick (ZGA), whose recording is an answer to Otomo Yoshihide's work "Vinil Tranqaliser". This work is comprised of 60 one-minute long short pieces, made from 60 vinyl records. Nick has made 67 pieces (because he lost count) from one record, and it was his own ZGA record. Here is presented approx. half of this work because of lack of space. [label info]
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Nyrja -- "Nielu" -- CD-R -- €7
2005 Toiko, TOK-05
Nyrjä, the solo project of Antti Joensuu, goes through a wide range of machine-based styles of post-industrial music. Included are dark ambient, death industrial and hard heavy electronics. Most of the material is quite minimalist in nature, yet succeeds nevertheless in being both unique and original. The closest, but not too close, points of comparison would be several of Michael Ford's projects - especially Valefor and early Psychonaut - with the difference that Nyrjä's soundscapes are far more intriguing... [Jiituomas, Kuolleen Musiikin Yhdistys]
O Paradis -- "Serpiente de Luna, Serpiente de Sol" -- CD -- €14
2003 Aorta, AORCD08
Most of the songs are based on samples, exquisitely knitted together over original bass-lines, and topped off with Demian's somewhat mournful and nostalgic vocals. Despite being richly produced, some of the songs have a bare, folky quality about them, with Demian's Spanish vocals creating an air of impenetrability to my Anglo-Saxon ears. This is not a negative, just something that underlines the difference between this project and its patron. It is also something that is less noticeable when concession are made to, how does one say, catchiness, such as on the simply gorgeous 'Por Cuidar de Mi, Amor', in which a beautiful synth line carries the song along. One could say that the folkier songs are solid and beautiful, whilst tracks like 'Por Cuidar', and the equally gorgeous 'Palabras', are just transcendent. The clarity of the album's production is worth emphasising, as is the stunning foldout digipak. [label info]
O Paradis / Escama Serrada -- "La Corte Del Rey Pescador / La Reina Esta' Mala" -- 2 mCD -- €25
2009 Tourette, tourette 007/008, (ltd. 300)
O.S.T. -- "Waetka" -- CD -- €10
2008 iDEAL Recordings, iDEAL042, (ltd. 600)
An important album by one of the hidden masters of the contemporary electronic music scene! O.S.T. is Berlin-based Christopher Douglas and "Waetka" is his long awaited return after a five years hiatus, a time he spent hidden in the darkest shadows. Step into a world of advanced electronic composition, static ambient soundworlds and a document of a hurt soul. This is how it sounds to survive. "Waetka" is advanced post-techno - where the beats are replaced by the darkest of atmospheres. [label info]
Objekt4 vs. Kenji Siratori -- "Mind Corpse" -- 3"CD-R -- €5
2007 Mask of the Slave Records, MS-013, (ltd. 100)
A great collaboration 3" between the Stockholm based Objekt4 & the Japanese cyberpunk writer Kenji Siratori. Objekt4 returned to Mask of the Slave Records with this great stuff, after several releases with other labels in the industrial/experimental scene. Kenji Siratori: a Japanese cyberpunk writer who is currently bombarding the internet with wave upon wave of highly experimental, uncompromising, progressive, intense prose. His is a writing style that not only breaks with tradition, it severs all cords, and can only really be compared to the kind of experimental writing techniques employed by the Surrealists, William Burroughs and Antonin Artaud. Embracing the image mayhem of the digital age, his relentless prose is nonsensical and extreme, avant-garde and confused, with precedence given to twisted imagery, pace and experimentation over linear narrative and character development. With unparalleled stylistic terrorism, he unleashes his literary attack. An unprovoked assault on the senses. Blood Electric (Creation Books) was acclaimed by David Bowie. [press-release]
Obozdur -- "Free-form Homework" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 Heart-Shaped Box Prod., HSB-021, (ltd. 21)
Homemade soundscapes and noise improvisations. Double sleeve. [YAOP]
Obozdur -- "Live - 9.01.08" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT68, (ltd. 32)
Lo-Fi Mechano Industrial Noise. Dirty old-school sound, rough tape collages, clangs of metal, unstoppable mid-frequency crack and heavy overload. For the fans of YAO 91404 D, Anti-Verstand, Veprisuicida, Vivenza, Reductio Ad Absurdum. A5 artwork containing vintage Soviet art. [press-release]
Obozdur -- "Natural and Easy" -- CD-R -- €9
2009 YAOP, YAOP 032, (ltd. 10)
Shamanic lo-fi manipulations with guitar, tapes, glockenspiel and field recordings. Resonant rough sound, the atmosphere of autumnal evenings, mountain paths covered with fallen leaves, gloomy days, muscarine nights near a fireplace, and rainy dawns. Colour DVD-box with stickers, handmade cover, all information is handwritten. [press-release]
Obozdur -- "Optimal Way" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Heart-Shaped Box Prod., HSB-037 / Mind Noise Disintegration, [MND-22], (ltd. 21)
New album of a well-known Russian project. Cold drone / noise / old school industrial. Full-colour artwork + outer sleeve made of child drawing. [label info]
Obozdur -- "Pessima" -- CD-R -- €7
2008 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT25, (ltd. 61)
Shamanistic electronics from Ural. Mysterious drones, fascinating rhythms, industrial clanks and crackles, ritual loops. Live recording from the winter 2007. Limited to 61 copy in a handmade sleeve with photographs. [YAOP info]
Obozdur -- "Proceedings of Court of Enquiry" -- CD-R -- €6
2007 Heart-Shaped Box Prod., HSB-019, (ltd. 26)
This release contains even less sense than deliberately idiotic discs and cassettes of omnious Monopolka. Home dictaphone recording about how two students and one girl try to make the homework on comparison of distinctive features of utopian socialists of XVI-XVII centuries. At the same time they play on all the instruments around (toys, accordion, harmonica, etc.). All this tragically ends by reading phragments of Tommazo Kampanella's works with soundtrack from "Requiem for a Dream" movie.
Obozdur -- "Too Small and Eclectic Archive" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2009 Heart-Shaped Box Prod., HSB-041, (ltd. 9)
Cuts from tape experiments from the personal archive and archives of friends and acquaintances, nearly 18 minutes of eclectic sound collages and badly recorded child songs with guitar, monkey tricks with bass guitar processor and other musical rags... Mini DVD box. [label info]
Obozdur -- "Winter Canabinol Essence" -- CD -- €7
2009 Nihil Art Records, NAR 001, (ltd. 500)
Noise. 6 tracks: which will penetrate deeply into your mind & stay there for long time: leaving unique feeling of novelty & at the same time immersing you in depths of style: in a word: noise: free comments: [label info]
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Odal -- "Smashed Up Reality / Damned Nihilism" -- 2 CD-R -- €12
2009 Impulsy Stetoskopu, 013, (ltd. 120)
"These recordings were made in '87 and '88 orginally for Vis a vis the label of Gerogerigegege in Japan, but for some reason it never released on vinyl. 15 years later I received the orginally masters back, but there were rumours that RRRecords had some copies for sale, but that has never confirmed. However I always thought that there's an curse on this project and it is! Thanks to Rafal that he gives some of these Odalsounds an place". [Peter Zicken / Odal]
Off The Cuff -- "Part of the Sky" -- CD-R -- €6
Ostroga, OTR-002, (ltd. 50)
Second edition of collaboration project between Dmitry Chistov (Hum, Maw) and Andrey Ivanov (Misery). Lo-fi old school ambient, archaic psychedelic sound, smooth drones, rattles and noises, like a leisurely walk irreparably lost in primeval forest.
Off The Sky -- "The Geist Cycles" -- CD -- €10
2007 Databloem, DB07017
Off The Sky returns with a fascinating set of experimental ambiances, acoustic and glitchy rhythmic excusions. The geist cycles project began as a series of live sonic collaborations via Lexington (KY, USA) artists interacting to interpret an idea of life in transit to afterlife. The takes were later studio swept and fabricated with various piano arrangements and custom rhythmic texture. After repeated post-studio live performances, the tracks evolved into their current iteration. [label info]
Off The Sky -- "Gently Down The Stream" -- CD -- €10
2005 Databloem, DBCD 013
Jason Corder, recording as off the sky, has released an album that expertly blends the warm textural melodicism of flowing ambient music with the beats, clicks, pops, and effects from the glitch and laptop subgenres. The composite result is an album which brims with imaginative sophistication, a multi-hued affair that rewards the listener as layer after layer of smooth beauty intermixed with computer-controlled rhythms is revealed slowly and deliciously. A flowing collection of sophisticated and glitchy rhythmic ambient. "I consider Gently Down The Stream one of the best in the glitch/laptop subgenre since the turn of the century." Bill Binkelman. [label info]
Off. / Hladna / Noises Of Russia -- "Friedlaender Tor" -- CD-R -- €6
2008 ElectroIndustry
Live recordings made on April 21st, 2007 in Kaliningrad, Russia. "Off. - sound-art project of Danil Akimov, exploring sound aperiodicities happening in the moments of powering up / powering down the electronic devices. For his live performances he uses special device for current interruption and low-frequency signal generators." Mysterious electronic minimalism... Hladna - power drone ambient... Noises Of Russia - orthodox noise & sound-collages... Total time - 71:32.
Officine Schwartz -- "L'Internazionale Cantieri" -- CD -- €11
1997 Il Manifesto, CD 009
One of the very first industrial bands in Italy (started in 1983, first album out in 1986), Officine Schwartz distinguished themselves as a multimedial project, fusing music with performance, theatre, dancing, and lots of other art disciplines. Their music creates a unique melt of heavy industrial rhythms (generated by found metal percussions), electronics, traditional popular songs, workers' striking choirs, and a lot more. This album has allusions to reggae, drum-n-base, klezmer, and even "International" in Chinese language, and all this - in company with hard industrial rhythms in vein of old Einsturzende Neubauten. [YAOP]
Oglav -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €6
2009 Valgriind, VG 32, (ltd. 200)
Drawling digital vibrations from ambient/darkwave project. Expanses of snow-covered fields and feelings of pulsate echo of endless freedom inside own essence. Limited edition with professional layout, released as an envelope. [label info]
Ogni Videniy -- "Skvoz' Temnotu" -- CD-R -- €8
2009 Vetvei, V06, (ltd. 181)
The sixth Vetvei release presents trip "Through Darkness" of the Arkhangelsk (the north of Russia) project Ogni Videniy. The album was recorded in 2007 and was published by the author in some copies of hand-made limited edition. Ogni Videniy (Fires of Images, from Russian) is evolutionary continuation of Industrial Noise project Control Fires (2002) which in turn originates in close dialogue with the project Six Dead Bulgarians, at that time under the direction of Alexey Chulkov (R.I.P). The structure changes, to Industrial Noise basis of Control Fires in 2007 the pure Spirit concept is added, the project gets rituality in the activity, therefore it is transformed to Ogni Videniy, constantly taking part in record and performances Six Dead Bulgarians and to this day. During existence of Ogni Videniy were some collaborations and concetrs with Hladna, Lunar Abyss Deus Organum, etc. Visions Of the Source, Keepers of Fires, Clearing the Wind... This album represents six cloths-trips in Internal Space through coast of northern seas and conversations with birds and stones, through footpaths of playful streams and the fallen asleep Spirits of wood. The purpose of participants is studying of construction of light, a sound, an image, the qualities of psychedelic experiences directed on strengthening. Ogni Videniy represent natural shamanic, ecstatic Ritual Ambient using many authentic acoustic instruments, electronic tools and field recordings. Release is presented in six-panel fullcolour envelope designed by Vresnit. [press-release]
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Ohne -- "020510" -- CD-R -- €7
2003 Spirals Of Involution, SOI 035, (ltd. 150)
Ohne is an international performance-group, action component is as important as musical for them. This disc contains the recording of their show in Yaroslavl and a short video-film with fragments of the show. Uncontemplated insane electronics mixed with touchy lyrical songs flavoured with great sense of humour. Not recommended for pathologically serious persons.
OKOK Society -- "Third Side Experiment" -- CD-R -- €9
2009 Perineum, Perineum # 25, (ltd. 50)
One of the most obscure releases from Perineum. OKOK Society is longtime active mystics working in the underground. Between automatic drawing, outsider art, collage and other streams of chaos magick, OKOK Society also does EVP (Electroinic Voice Phenomena) - these are sounds from beyond - mainly recorded voices, gotten using special technics of recording. "Third side experiment" - is one hour if mystical experience lead by radio, found sound phantasms, nothing telling voices (?) and droning loops. cdr in digipack, 50 copies. [press-release]
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Oloolo -- "Pavilosta" -- CD -- €8
2006 Lagunamuch Community, LMC333
Oloolo is the project of two sound designers from Riga, Latvia - Kriipis Tulo and Rodion Zolotarew. It's founded in 2001. This peculiar quality of Oloolo music is achieved through extensive use of Soviet-era analogue synthesizers (Polyvox, Yunost-21, Formanta, RMIF TI-5 and others). Oloolo took part events: Pan Sonic's and Phill Niblock concerts in Riga (2002, 2004), Watercolors 2002, Skanu Mezs (Sound Forrest - Klangwald) festival (2003), Microstraava (2005) and more. This album is dedicated to Pavilosta, latvian little town, Baltic sea, where it was so good for us, as far as it happens probably. [press-release]
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Olsson, Kristian -- "Laudanum" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2003 Taalem, alm 14
Kristian Olsson is a Swedish artist, once half of Heid (releases on Bastet, Malignant and Cold Meat Industry). He's now known under the Survival Unit moniker, regularly releasing his aggressive power electronics on various labels. With this 3", Kristian gets back to his death-ambient roots with a fantastic 20min long track full of frightening samples, metallic percussions and cold atmospheres... [press-release]
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Omenya -- "Ancient Rites" -- CD -- €11
2005 Purple Soil, Pulse zero: two
Omenya is a project of Mark Davis who released his albums under this name on Tantric Harmonies and Klanggalerie. The closest analogue to Omenya can be called Rapoon - waves of smooth ambient in conjunction with sampled semi-ethnic percussion. Tranquil atmospheric music with ritual touch.
Omit -- "Tracer" -- 2 CD -- €16
2005 Helen Scarsdale Agency, HMS 005, (ltd. 750)
As with all of his previous work, Tracer is an antiquated behemoth, constructed from analogue synthesizers, primitive drum machines, homespun electronics, and numerous effects pedals. Simple wooden rhythms trot, trudge, and even glide along taut metric grids hotwired with bursts of mechanical splutter and the occasional creak from Pierre Henry's wooden door. An occasionally menacing, but more often melancholic orchestration of synthetic tones ripple, flex, and dissolve across the uniform structuralism, creating an ecstatic paranoia rarely heard with such splendor, rigor, and sublime blackness. If sonic references are required, then the Klaus Schulze masterpiece Cyborg remains the closest analogy to what may be found in Tracer. [label info]
Önd -- "s/t" -- CD -- €11
2001 Inner Gravity Records, IGR 002
Önd creates slow bass-heavy and noisy, atmospheric soundscapes that are accompanied by various elements such as cold, ethereal whispers, rhythmic electronic beats and sometimes haunting and beautifull ambient melodies that create a nice contrast with the distant machine-like noises and heavy drones. The music also manages to create a continuous sad and dark desolate atmosphere. [EverDarkGreen review]
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One For Jude -- "Figures" -- CD -- €9
2006 Infinite Fog Productions, IF-01, (ltd. 500)
French band, playing quiet strange neofolk mixed with electronics, gothic and rock music. "From first minutes, music full a melancholy and romanticism, will transfer you deeply, to the farthest, warm, and probably for a long time the lost memoirs. Where it will want to come back again and again... Guests musician - Eric Roger(ex-Sol Invictus; Gae Bolg)." [label info]
One Week In August -- "Documentary" -- CD-R -- €7
1999 Soulworm Editions, Worm II
Sound experimentations based on the destroyed, modified and prepared equipment as vintage tape players, drum machines, effect boxes, wires, metal scraps et caetera. No digital devices were used either for sound generation or recording process. Furthermore, no rehearsals or track sketches were taken before the session, everything is just an effect of improvisation and accidents... Yes, such methods point on the 'old-school industrial' tribute recording which this album exactly is. One Week in August's program varies from malignant, gloomy wasteland ambience to harsh industrial, really intense and painful. Not to miss. [press-release]
Onirot -- "Augusta Taurinorum" -- CD -- €10
2001 Inner Gravity Records, IGR 003
Onirot is a malignant project showing the darkest side of human isolationism. 8 tracks of pure insane sonic anxiety will burn into the soul. A great mixture between early MEGAPTERA and LUSTMORD. Included a bonus video track full of the extreme realities of human weakness... [Cyclic Law]
Onirot -- "Deus Ex Machina" -- CD -- €10
2006 Inner Gravity Records, IGR 004, (ltd. 500)
The final chapter in the Onirot trilogy (following on from Augusta and Ritualis). Deus Ex Machina delves into the dark heart of obscure contemporary cold ambience: Mechanical / Industrial sounds sprawl across heart-wrenching and inhuman, dark, deep and ancient star filled landscapes full of subtle sound threads. Deus Ex Machina is full of violent beauty delivered across five tracks of pure sonic anxiety. A fine Dark Ambient feast in the vein of Raison D'Etre or Herbst9 etc. [label info]
Ontayso -- "Elochim" -- CD -- €10
2003 Tantric Harmonies, TANTRA X19, (ltd. 750)
Brighter version of dark ambient music with lots of natural sounds. Very much like Alio Die works still less drony and more musical.
Ontayso -- "Magical Tone Tricks" -- CD -- €10
2005 Silentes, 200508
Magical Tone Tricks was created during the silent night hours as Ontayso's third full lenght album and their ninth release since their birth in 2002. Ontayso frequently collaborates with several musicians and acts but for this release Ontayso exists mainly by their two core members Koen Lybaert and Esther Santoyo. For this release Ontayso has been mainly focused on electronic manipulations and field recordings. The overall atmosphere spread over the 4 long tracks come close to the well known early Basic Channel sound. Magical Tone Tricks still keeps it's unique experimental Ontayso sound. It is their response to the excellent Rod Modell's releases on Silentes and shows their mutual love for this early 90ties Berlin sound and their joy of working with field recordings and minimal sound manipulations. [press-release]
Ontayso -- "16102004Stage" -- CD-R -- €7
2005 U-Cover, ucdr015, (ltd. 155)
On Saturday 16th of October 2004 Ontayso, Tim Koch, Kettel and Ten and Tracer played live at Cultuurcentrum Luchtbal in Antwerp. This is one of our most liked places to play live at. The perfect conditions on stage and the technical help from the well skilled technicians at this cultural temple made it possible that this live document is from such a high quality. Over 50 minutes of intense and unique electro-acoustic music featuring Esther Santoyo on synths, Steven Lambrechts on guitar, Dave Vanderplas on sax and percusion and Koen Lybaert on guitar and laptop. A night to remember...for those who missed it here is an opportunity to catch by. [press-release]
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Ontayso -- "The Long River Run 2" -- CD-R -- €7
2006 U-Cover, ucdr021, (ltd. 125)
The first Ontayso release in 2006 is a rework version from limited CDR release that was only available at the U-cover live tour end 2004. This time the same settings have been reconstructed in Ableton live 5 and some percussive rhythmic parts and floating synth lines are added to this dark track. Over 45 minutes long build around spacy ambient music that gentle flows above rumbling deep subs, sweet sax melodies, strange guitar sounds and creepy icy synths. In 2004 Esther Santoyo, Steven Lambrechts, Dave Vanderplas and Koen Lybaert constructed their most experimental minded basic, now almost 2 year later Koen Lybaert created herewith 'The long river run 2'. Overall an extravagant music piece that has a sublime combination of minimal music and dark driven ambient. This Ontayso release will appeal for fans of their 'Magical tone tricks' release as well to those who likes their 'Score of an imaginary Iceland' debut. [press-release]
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Oophoi -- "Arpe Di Sabbia" -- 2 CD -- €15
2007 Nextera, ERA 2045-2
"Arpe di Sabbia" (Harps of Sand) is a new double live album recorded in Archiaro, a remote location immersed in the woods of southern Italy, and it features exclusive music composed for this special event. The two discs contain more than 130 minutes of slowly-changing textures and abyssal drones that try to describe the hidden voices of Nature: the endless movements of the ocean waves, the rustle of the crescent moon, the sunset's undercurrents, the life of nocturnal animals, the silent flow of the stars. A magical connection with a world of forgotten sounds. [press-release]
Oophoi -- "Athlit" -- CD -- €10
2001 Hypnos, hyp2236
US - debut of Italian drone-ambient artist Oophoi. He previously released some well-received works on the Amplexus label, both solo and with Tau Ceti (who also contributes here). Many Hypnos listeners have asked for more deep, slow-moving ambient drone material, and if that style is your cup of tea, you'll love this one. It's just short of 74 minutes, one massive continuous ambience (though with four "index" points so you can navigate the CD more easily). There's space music and then there's DEEP space music, and this one is deep, deep, deep. Put on the headphones and drift... [press-release]
Oophoi -- "The Dreaming Of Shells" -- CD-R -- €11
2004/2009 Databloem, PN09031
Oophoi -- "Dreams" -- CD -- €11
2006 Faria Records, FAR-06
"Dream" - in English this word means both "sleep dream" and "imagination dream". Oophoi means both. Tracks for this series were created under impression of some lucid dreams which he had. Each track is a one "dream". When you listen to it you immerse in a state of light slumber, lucid imagination. This is a dream! For full perception, for each "Dream" was created a special SIRDS (stereo) picture, which will open the world of Oophoi's dreams for the listener. First edition of "Dreams" series was released on a mini-CD under limited edition of 70 pieces only. Immediately sold out, of course. But a lot of people ask it still now and we decided to release a new series of 3 full CDs. Here you will find replayed and remixed versions of first edition of "Dreams" and new unreleased material. This is a first CD from our series. [press release]
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Oophoi -- "Dreams 2" -- CD -- €11
2007 Faria Records, FAR-07, (ltd. 500)
The 2nd part of the trilogy.
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Oophoi -- "Dreams 3" -- CD -- €11
2007 Faria Records, FAR-08, (ltd. 500)
The 3rd part of the trilogy.
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Oophoi -- "Hymns to a Silent Sky" -- CD -- €11
2005 Nextera, ERA 2038-2
An album of epic, deep, evocative space music that stretches out in front of you in its own infinite universe of sounds. The music is deeply connected with the mysteries of the sky: clouds moving slowly, delicate and dramatic colors merging together beyond the horizon line, winds carrying voices and sounds from distant times. A remarkable work full of poetry. [label info]
Oophoi -- "The Rustling Of Leaves" -- CD -- €11
2005 Faria Records, FAR-04, (ltd. 500)
Originally this album was issued on CD-R in a limited edition of 150 copies only. It has been sold out very fast and deleted. Now this release has new quality studio mastering and a bonus track, which supplements organically the conceptual picture of the album, and special artwork: a cover with a centre spread and 6 cards inside - thereby each track has also an art idea. The album has been created in a classical Oophoi-style. Sound collages and moods remind of his early works, such as "Spirals of time" and "Three lights at the end of the world". The music immerses the listener in autumn-winter landscapes, when nature has already fallen asleep, and winter is about to cover vivid autumn clothes with its white blanket. The ghostly female vocal in the first track sets the necessary aspect of perception at once, and after that listeners should only enjoy the different sides of autumn mood and drown into the world full of magic, peace and calmness. [label info]
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Oophoi -- "The Spirals of Time" -- 3 CD -- €22
2007 Faria Records, FAR-09, (ltd. 500)
We are happy to present the new version of the most famous album of the great Italian master. "The Spirals of Time" is considered the best of Oophoi's albums, also it has been recognized as one of the best drone-ambient projects of all times. Now this legendary album contains 3 CD! Surprisingly, but materials of this project is a records from two concerts, which was played in own studio of the maestro, in the "Kiva", in April and in June, 1997. The third disk is a record from a concert which was played in old farmhouse in city Assisi (the central Italy) in 1999. This record as though was initially created to become a finishing disk of this trilogies. Here you will find new ideas and new development of conception, however "classical" soundings of "The Spirals of Time" is kept. [press release]
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Oophoi -- "Upuaut" -- CD -- €11
2007 Nextera, ERA 2043-2
'Upuaut' is the unique, over 65 minutes long composition recorded by the Italian drone-ambient musician Oophoi featuring Amir Baghiri and Mathias Grassow, who back in 1999 joined as guests during one special private concert. Since then it's been circulating around the world as hard to find and poor (often bootlegged) CD-R releases only and now "Upuaut" is finally officially and properly released. [label info]
Oophoi & Faryus -- "Forgotten Rituals" -- CD -- €11
2007 Faria Records, FAR-10, (ltd. 500)
Collaboration work between Oophoi and Faryus. This project is a deep meditation about forgotten civilizations and mystery of endless life. This music is created for deep listening. At first sight this music is static. If you will listen to it in a superficial way, you don't get all the hidden sounds and textures, but if you go into a serious deep listening you'll discover that it is not static at all this is powerful mood music. This music full of pictures, moods and thoughts, voices of forgotten civilizations. The concept of this album like meditation to ancient archeological artefact. You see a stone - it statics. But after you start to see the richest history of this object, images, emotions, events opens.. The Stone - a statics, a history - dynamics. Photos of Sumerians artifacts were used in design of this release. Sumerians civilization was the earliest extant civilization. Their culture existed 5000-8000 years ago in Mesopotamia. Nowadays, archeologists find remarkable artifacts and stone tablets with ancient writings and pictures of gods and a mysterious planet left by Sumerians. Sumerians called their gods "Anunnaki" which meant "those who came from heaven downwards the Earth". They believed that "Anunnaki" came from the mysterious planet which resides within our Solar system. They called this planet "Nibiru". [press release]
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Oöphoi & Tau Ceti -- "Subterranea" -- CD -- €11
2003 Nextera, ERA 2029-2
After their acclaimed debut CD release "Celestial geometries" released in 2001 on Amplexus, considered as one of the best space albums ever, italian sound sculptors OÃphoi and Tau Ceti are back with the long awaited second CD "Subterranea", inspired by a book about the myth of Agharti, the hidden realm located in central Asia. Vast sonic explorations with synths, flutes, stones and shells, ranging from subtle and mysterious atmospheres to highly dynamic passages, describe this out of reach underworld. The last part of the long suite "The chamber of eternity" features the unique sound of the tibetan singing bowls of Klaus Wiese. After the outer space adventures of their first CD, "Subterranea" deals with the inner space. [press-release]
Opalio, Roberto -- "The Last Night of the Angel of Glass, Vol. I & II" -- 2 CD -- €14
A Silent Place, ASP11
Roberto Opalio is a member of a project My Cat Is An Alien. His solo album was recorded as a soundtrack for the film of the same name, released on a DVD-R by American label Foxglove. In his recordings Roberto mainly used his own voice, processed to the state of pseudo-angelic choir, plus "electric astral guitar, space toys and alientronics". Two long 46-min pieces, quite leisurely and minimally evolving in their course.
Opium -- "Algorithms" -- CD -- €10
2007 Silentes, 200615
A stunning new offering by Opium. Classically elegant and extremely refined ambient music. Multi-dimensional sounds that are warm and enveloping. An emotional travelogue, starting dramatically, then taking the listener down a slower path, comfortably easing you into a long and fascinating sonic trip, where the sounds grow wide and large, and finally crumble inward, then regenerate, returning for another phase. A new sonic alchemy, and an entirely new world of soothing sounds for the adventurous listener to visit. [press-release]
Opium -- "Pain(t)" -- CD-R -- €9
2009 Databloem, DB09023
Opium is well known for his ultra-deep atmospheres, made from the finest ingredients. On Pain(t) Teo Zini expands his musical pallet with gentle rhythmic elements, creating an extra dimension to his highly refined sound. An challenging, edgy album for both the atmospheric as the groove ambient fan. [label info]
Opium -- "Sympathetic Flying Objects" -- CD -- €10
2005 Silentes, cd 200507
Another extraordinary journey to past, present and future... Ancient instruments sounds, rhythmic ritual progressions, ancestral visions... But present nightmares too, electronic tensions, obscure inner conflicts... And a restless glance to the future... An ambient-rituals new music pearl. [label info]
Opium -- "Watercolours" -- CD-R -- €11
2007 Practising Nature, PN07022
A fascinating and colourful sonic trip. Elegant and highly refined ambient music. [label info]
The Oratory of Divine Love -- "Purgatorio" -- CD -- €11
2006 Waystyx, WR29, (ltd. 225)
The name of The Oratory of Divine Love isn't probably widely known, but researches of experimental music of course know the man behind it - John D. Gore - by his underground label Cohort Records (which released among other interesting artists discs of Bad Sector and Troum) and main project 'kirchenkampf'. By this time The Oratory of Divine Love has only released one CD-R on Belgian label EE Tapes and here with the effort of Russian label Waystyx the second full-length was born. The project's concept reflects John's interest in Christianity and radionoise, all compositions are being recorded always live using only radio passed through effect-chains as the sound source. This CD presents one long track with deeply reverberated surreal atmosphere, sucking your attention and immersing in real trance. Within these reverberations sonic events constantly flow and change like a picture of a dream, processed to full unrecognizability fragments of ether neighbour with low frequency radio drones, smooth waves synchronize with brain activity and slow down rational perceprion towards irrational. It's worth to mention very stylish artwork done by Waystyx - double sleeve made of black-oil-sodden paper (what a smell!), golden serigraphy and embossed album title on the cover.
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Orchestra Noir -- "The Affordable Holmes EP" -- mCD -- €13
2007 Extremocidente, DEO 05030507 - 221b
Orchid -- "Cold and Hunger" -- CD-R -- €6
2008 Valgriind, VG 15
Very emotional digital Pagan Ambient. A project of Nezhegol member. White DVD-box with cardboard insert. [label info]
Orchid -- "Das Syndrom der Einsamkeit" -- CD-R -- €4
2009 Winter Solstice Records, WS006
A masterpiece of Russian darkwave. Sometimes atmospheric and thoughtful, sometimes almost danceable. A project of heathen metal band Nezhegol'. Jewel-case, pro-printed cover. [YAOP]
Orchid -- "Echo / North not Found" -- CD-R -- €6
2009 Valgriind, VG 29, (ltd. 100)
CD-R split release of early unreleased works. Experimental project of Nezhegol author. Sounds, which reveal the essence of the North as a mental Grand-Motherland; Echo as an aftersound of an unseen reality. DVD-slim box with inserts. [label info]
Orchid -- "Message from the Past" -- CD-R -- €6
2010 Valgriind, VG 38, (ltd. 200)
New album after several years of silence, this time with expanded lyrical accompaniment and different sound concept. Full-colour pro-printed 8-page booklet with original artwork. [label info]
Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio -- "Make Love and War - The Wedlock of Roses" -- CD -- €14
Cold Meat Industry, CMI.84
This remarkable recording embarks further on the previously determined and unmistakably distinct path of Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio, eloquent odes, accompanied by the imposing sounds of acoustic guitars, drifting strings and tactile eroticism.
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Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio -- "Make Love and War - The Wedlock of Equilibrium" -- CD -- €14
2001 Cold Meat Industry, CMI.94
Perfected and refined, Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio returns once more with the second chapter of "Make Love, And War" - The Wedlock of Equilibrium. Darker, improved and additionally urging, Make Love, And War / The Wedlock of Equilibrium presents an additional 40 minutes of immaculate equilibrium on the illusive boundary of conjectural extremes. Accompanied by the sounds of acoustic guitars, cyclic soundscapes and martial percussions, Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio presents another ten songs on the threshold of the sensually seductive and morally reprehensible, gospels on the verge of the conjecturally acclaimed and what's soon to be inflamed. Make Love, And War / The Wedlock of Equilibrium embarks further and beyond the previous accomplishment and success of Make Love, And War / The Wedlock of Roses, and congregates into an amazing work which completes the bond of Love And War, making two become one, Roses & Equilibrium = Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio. [press-release]
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Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio -- "ONANI" -- CD -- €14
2009 Cold Meat Industry, cmi191, 2nd ed.
Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio -- "ONANI" -- CD -- €15
2009 Cold Meat Industry, cmi191, 1st ed.
Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio & Spiritual Front -- "Satyriasis, Somewhere Between Equilibrium and Nihilism" -- CD -- €14
2005 Cold Meat Industry, cmi144
The sound of world demoralization presented in a stylish digipak with 12-pages booklet; as Italy's most enigmatic band, Spiritual Front, join forces with the leg-fetishists from Sweden, Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio. The idea of this collaboration was conceived already in year 2003; and now, after considerable anticipation, this most incredible little creature has finally been born to seduce and deprave a whole world with promises of salvation through nihilism and sexual depravity; all accompanied by some of the most wonderful tunes of apocalyptic-neo-suicidal-pop-folk. [press-release]
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Ordo Tyrannis -- "Vasa Iniquitatis" -- CD -- €10
2006 Flood The Earth Records, FTE 008
Experimental / industrial / black metal.
Orfeon Gagarin -- "Neumotorax S.XX" -- CD-R -- €9
2007 Menstrual Recordings, LH04, (ltd. 147)
Austere cosmic electronics from Spain: Orfeon Gagarin leads our minds in a rigorous journey through dynamic an abstract mosaics. It's a syntho-aural odissey dense of surrealistic pathos. A thicket of neurotic sounds in gradual progression. Yes, "Neumotorax S.XX" represents the ruinous tiredness of our slippery and rarefied times. The album was recorded in September 1988 by Miguel A. Ruiz and it was issued as a yellow cassette on his own label Toracic Tapes. [label info]
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The Organisation of Sound -- "Illusion of a Movement" -- CD-R -- €6
Ostroga, OTR-008, (ltd. 100)
German drone ambient mainly built with loops of guitar, violin and clarinet.
Organisation Toth -- "Birth Ov Light" -- CD -- €10
2003 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 057
Ritual & magic beating dark & bleak industrial sounds by the French master for see "the birth of light"... Ill ritual muzak for your magik experiments & for necrophile nostalgics... [label info]
Organisation Toth -- "Gloria Victis!" -- CD -- €9
2007 War Office Propaganda, WOP 38
Organomehanizm -- "Bred Cosmosa" -- CD-R -- €9
2007 self-released, (ltd. 99)
As you can judge from the title, the album is dedicated to the conquest of outer space by the human. All the disk is built from huge amount of unique historical recordings which Kirill Stoukalin has obtained by the long arm of coincedence: singing Yuri Gagarin, talks between Soviet cosmonauts and control center, cuts of popular scientific broadcasts, etc. All this is interlaced in unified schizophrenic pattern with weird noises and odd electronic sounds. A sort of anti-Bad Sector.
Organomehanizm -- "Dichlophosrelaxator" -- CD-R box -- €10
2010 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT41, (ltd. 35)
Apotheosis of base harsh noise and old school industrial. Reissue of a cult album from 2000, previously release only on cassette. Almost infrasonic noise perforates ear-drums, heavy steps of metal percussion and dripping water sounds lead into the labytinths of night catacombs, industrial rumble fuels your brain with adrenaline, electric drone forces out the remainings of a false ego, and incomparable vocals of L.I. Brezhnev adds some idiocy. An absolute masterpiece!!! Special anti-crisis edition comes with a portion of a real Chinese noodles and is packed in a big handmade cardboard box. [press-release]
Organomehanizm -- "Quiet Insanity" -- CD-R -- €8
2009 Rokot, RKT-07, (ltd. 100)
New album of recently reactivated noisician Kirill Stoukalin from Leningrad - you must forget about Saint-Petersburg here for it's pure concrete hash, rusty metal, killing cold humidity and mouldiness of Soviet era city on the banks of Neva. Kirill was a founder of Reductio Ad Absurdum - one of the very first Russian Industrial projects which started in the same time infamous Alexander Lebedev-Frontov did (early 1990s). If you still haven't heard a track from it -- you are loosing some great experience of feeling pure old-school madness and simplicity in the vein of M.B. and M.O. "Quiet insanity" includes 8 tracks of decomposed vinyl records, analogue sound sources and various schizophrenic samples. [press-release]
Organomehanizm -- "Sumerechnoe Sostoyanie" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 self-released, (ltd. 59)
The new release from Leningrad based project of Kirill Stoukaline (ex-Reductio Ad Absurdum). Three tracks recorded in 2006-2007. Monochrome aggressive schizo-noise. [Abgurd]
Orluk, Krzysztof -- "Blurred Reflection" -- CD-R -- €9
2009 Databloem, DBCD09025
Incredibly rich, minimal ambient/glitch in the vein of Off The Sky, Blamstrain, Biosphere, Shuttle358. Krzysztof Orluk is a musician born in Poland and this album is one of the rare pearls Databloem is always looking for. Krzysztof's sound is a compromise between digital machines and field recordings. Apart from this he uses orchestral sounds, opera recordings, different pianos and synthesizers, bells, old vinyl's and artificial cracks and noises. [press release]
Ornament -- "Unicorn Lullaby" -- CD-R -- €9
2005 AFE Records, afe066lcd, (ltd. 100)
"Unicorn Lullaby" was self-released by Ornament in a few copies back in 2000 and is now published by Afe in a fully remastered and repackaged version that showcases the author's visionary attitude. Due to the poor distribution of the original version, this is probably Ornament's less know work, but it's probably his best attempt at Dark Ambient music contaminated with Industrial elements. If we look for some kind of internal reference wondering through the whole Afe catalogue, this can easily be found in Never Known's "Dawn of an Era", but "Unicorn Lullaby" has of course a personality of his own. The distinctive overall sound of the album is subtly achieved with a rich shady substratum of distant sounds that are intentionally and elegantly kept in the background and are fully appreciable at a mid volume level. [label info]
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Orom -- "8" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Satanarsa Records, STN-039
A wonderful Hungarian band playing completely acoustic Doom with a good touch of Neoclassic and Dark-Folk. Depressive transparent music with dark recitations. Fine