"The A.V.E. - Tapes / Live in Nevers"
CD (ltd. 500)
ZHB-XXX
1. A.V.E.-Extrakt 1 [mp3]
2. A.V.E.-Extrakt 2
3. A.V.E.-Extrakt 3 [mp3]
4. A.V.E.-Extrakt 4
5. Live in Nevers - May 1995 [mp3]
total length: 70:09
price: €12
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Maeror Tri "The A.V.E. - Tapes / Live in Nevers" CD (ltd. 500) ZHB-XXX 1. A.V.E.-Extrakt 1 [mp3] 2. A.V.E.-Extrakt 2 3. A.V.E.-Extrakt 3 [mp3] 4. A.V.E.-Extrakt 4 5. Live in Nevers - May 1995 [mp3] total length: 70:09 price: €12 |
The German band Maeror Tri existed from early 1988 to the end of 1996. Over these nine years they have made a serious contribution to the development of the European post-industrial scene and had significant influence on many young musicians. Much of this was also achieved by their own record label Drone Records which has discovered a lot of talented artists. Even now, after the break-up of Maeror Tri, the band members continue to excite fans with recordings of their new projects Troum and 1000schoen.
Unlike many industrial and noise musicians exploiting the themes of violence, politics and social problems in their creativity, Maeror Tri turned attention to the transcendental quality of sound, to its ability to expand consciousness and to awaken timeless and non-personal spiritual experiences. They recorded their music, which can be formally called industrial drone ambient, with the use of guitars, percussion, tape loops, various objects and effects, turning everything in a coherent flux of unconscious drones.
This compact disk contains the last previously unreleased recordings by Maeror Tri. Four tracks are fragments of the band's 12-hour concert at the "Audio-Visual-Experimental" festival in Arnhem, The Netherlands, on November 11th, 1995; the fifth track is a part of their performance at the "Musique Ultimes" festival in Nevers, France, on May 14th, 1995. The material was thoroughly remastered by Sergey Uak-Kib (Kshatriy) and the artwork was prepared by Sergey Ilchuk (Vresnit & Vetvei Art).
15 Degrees Below Zero -- "Under A Morphine Sky" -- CD -- €10
2004 Force Of Nature Productions, fon 07, (ltd. 1000)
15 Degrees Below Zero brings you the companion to 'Morhine Dawn' (2004 Crunch Pod Media), a further journey into the experimental ambience of 15 degrees below zero, who were formerly known as "Imperial Flower Unit". Mastered By Tomas Garrison At Misanthrope studios. "15 Degrees Below Zero's sound ranges from subdued, drifting ambience, featuring skewed, conventional instrumentation and tatters of rhythm, to more insistent, grittier electronic flourishes." [label info]
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Aderlating -- "The Nectar Of Perversity Springs From The Well Of Repression" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Shadowgraph Records, Shadow 02, (ltd. 200)
A side project of Gnaw Their Tongues, satanic death industrial / black ambient.
African Cave Recordings From The Lunar Surface -- "Acoustic Selenology In The 1900s" -- CD-R -- €9
2010 Black Drone: 13 Series, 13-1, (ltd. 39)
Experimental ambient, field recordings and musique concrete. Following the steps of Deutsch Nepal and Lustmord. Sleeve. [YAOP]
Albireon -- "Mr. Nightbird Hates Blueberries" -- CD -- €13
2010 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 132
A dark comedy or a folk drama about drunk birds, mocking spiders, empty bottles and lost souls. Starring David E. Williams, Lloyd James, Sonne Hagal, Future Whirl, Die Weisse Rose. A strange manuscript, telling a tale about some bizarre characters, found somewhere in a forgotten cellar and hidden by countless broken bottles, was the inspiring spark for this dark comedy or folk drama-as the subtitles suggest-set to music in order to show how love can be a faint illusion and the deepest of all wounds. For this decadent party, recorded between late 2008 to early 2010 and graced by great emotional neo folk ballads and more experimental gloomy soundscapes, Albireon invited some very selected guests to share this tasty blueberries’ cake and offer the album a different palette of vocal nuances and a multinational coven of damned artists’ parade. American songwriter-genious David E. Williams, UK’s finest minstrel Lloyd James of Naevus, german neo folk leading act Sonne Hagal, Norwegian/american highly talented artist Future Whirl (formerly Oberon) and the new martial heroes Die Weisse Rose are the selected guests of Mr. Nightbird’s party. These great artists offered a priceless contribution to Albireon’s music and lyrics, and perfectly painted the sad main character, in his struggling pilgrimage toward love, loss, forgiveness and rebirth, but all seen through the drunk eye of the mocking spiders. And after all, you now may be guessing why Mr.Nightbird hates blueberries? Listen to the album and find out why! [press-release]
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Altar of Flies -- "Permanent Cavity" -- CD -- €10
2010 iDEAL Recordings, iDEAL081
Debut full length CD album by Altar of Flies from Mjölby, Sweden. Crude, intense analog waves of sound. Organic, heavy stuff that we wamly recommend to anyone interested in post industrial music and noise. Altar of Flies is the new power on the Swedish noise scene, to be put on the underground throne next to Sewer Election. Altar of Flies is Mattias Gustafsson who has recorded stuff since 2006, mainly for his own cassette label Hästen & Korset but also high quality sub terrestial labels like Cipher, Husk, and Nil by Mouth. ”Permanent Cavity” is his first more widely distributed album release. Altar of Flies is extremely uncompromising, creating organic, dark, unpleasant extreme electronic music through tape loops, analog synths and effects. So – discover the power of Altar of Flies. [press-release]
Am'Ganesha'n -- "Beyond The Soul" -- CD -- €10
2001 Holy Records, HOLY 72 CD
All star Gothic Band from France featuring members from Rajna, Speaking Silence & Les Secrets de Morphee. Forgot Dead Can Dance and welcome Am'Ganesha'n! [label info]
Ambigous -- "Stone Cross" -- CD -- €10
2010 Aliens Production, AP 22, (ltd. 333)
This year's winter had quite strong and freeze roots, which has taken its cold into the wombs of this new Slovak project, which has with its charisma found a place in our family. With this Aliens Production opens next phase and brings this time horrifying and darker form of Slovak deep dark terror. Mystical, deep project covered with mystery, in which protagonist combines beautiful moods in combination with destroying, almost after death atmospheres and out of space surfaces, which are covered with a veil of mystery. Soundtrack for the movie in other surface, cleaning for the soul or look into imaginary world, that is the best escape from the reality. Real, Slovak dark ambient, that will take you through dark corners of Slovak woods. A certain choice for fans of: Cold Meat Industry, Malignant Records, Cyclic Law, Ars Benevola Mater... Limited edition 333 copies and exclusive metal packaging... [press-release]
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Anal Sadist -- "Ugly, Still" -- CD -- €10
2010 Impulsy Stetoskopu, 024, (ltd. 250)
A solo act by William Christman, a US performance / noise artist and owner of Turbine Cassettes. "Ugly, Still" reissues two tapes ("Austere" and "Chaw / Shotgun Head") and unreleased live tracks, spanning the years 1987-1997. Inspired by John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Edgar Varese, Morton Subotnick, Fre Firth, Merzbow and other Japanese noise artists, Anal Sadist has managed to come up with his own style of industrial. Ltd x 250 copies in black sandpaper envelopes. [Cold Spring]
ANTIchildLEAGUE -- "The Father" -- CD -- €10
2008 Hagshadow, Hag 01
An eclectic work that journey’s from dark experimental ambient music to harsh noise, combined with both spoken word and hostile vocalizations. The musical or backing structures are derived from field recordings, self created loops, both classical analogue and software synth and rhythms. An exploration into the world of the dysfunctional family, society control, over population, relationships, religion and physiological trauma. This is the first complete album work from ACL in its ten year existence of sporadic collaborations. Recorded both in London and in sight of the Italian Chapel Orkney between 1998 to 2008. [press-release]
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Aossic S'lba -- "PanAeonic Glyphs" -- CD-R -- €10
2009 Old Europa Cafe, OECDR 040
Aossic S'lba has an occult direction based in large part on the work of Kenneth Grant, of the Typhonian O.T.O., who knew Aleister Crowley in his latter years at Netherwood. Grant was a major Magus he was the author of books such "Nightside of Eden", "Outside the Circles of Time" and "Outer Gateways". Aossic S'Lba is pure Esoteric sound and it's a side project by Ulex Xane better known for his infamous roject “STREICHER”. With this new project Ulex shows us a complete different stile and a complete new direction in his music! Don't aspect anything harsh, no power-electronics, no violence but only very accurate, ritual and obscure dark-ambient music. [press-release]
Armon Kuilu -- "s/t" -- CD -- €10
2008 Totuuden Sarvi Levyt, 001, (ltd. 500)
The first release from Totuuden Sarvi Levyt is a piece of Finnish art destined to remain in the minds of those who hear it. The debut mini-album by Armon Kuilu is a funereal musical journey, two long progressive compositions built out mostly of classical piano, strings, orchestral drums, singing, prayers and invocations in male and female voices. More of a gothic work than a total assault on the senses, yet one must remember that the word gothic is often abused in connotation with just a melancholic form of new age entertainment music but here the soundscapes bring to mind images of forlorn cemetaries, initiatory cults, bloodletting, woodlands and altered states of consciousness. At times the melodies of chamber music break out into squeals, groans and crackling which haunt the space and resonate with the Finnish poetry, that most of the time reminds one of a satanic ceremony. Some passages sound familiar to the listeners of European avantgarde and progressive music such as ACTUS, ART ZOYD and releases from the label Athanor. Post-industrial fans should also listen to this work but remember that this is not your generic so-called occult album with the usual Crowley spoken parts. Instead this is a deeply personal work with challenging classical and sometimes jazz or progressive melodies composed by the master behind the project and performed by real musicians with authentic instruments and also utilizing real actors for the various voices and spoken parts. Believe me, you will hear the difference. The mini-album comes in a black & white sleeve with a full color 8-page art booklet (size 7x7"), built from nature-mystical imagery shot on infrared film. [press-release]
Ataraxia -- "A Calliope... Collection" -- CD -- €14
2002 Essence Music, ESS000, (ltd. 333)
Ataraxy / Ego Death -- "Soundspheres" -- CD-R -- €5
2010 Vomit Bucket productions, VBP 041-2010, (ltd. 50)
Agressive harsh noise. Sleeve. [YAOP]
Belt -- "The Killing Verdict" -- CD -- €10
1995 Freedom In A Vacuum, VACCD.04
Industrial / noise from USA. Dark, brooding, evil and intense vocals and sounds. [ND]
Bianchi, Maurizio / M.D.T. -- "Genologic Technocide" -- CD -- €10
2006 Spatter, SPCD3 / Pagan Moon Organization, PGM009, (ltd. 500)
These recordings show the most extreme side of M.B.: not very much ambient oriented, but a strong industrial noise opera reminding us the masterpiece from 1981 "Symphony for a Genocide". [label info]
Bjerga, Sindre -- "Hermetically Sealed Static Operation" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT77, (ltd. 109)
Live recording made by famous Norwegian musician in St. Petersburg's Experimental Sound Gallery (ESG-21) on June 29th, 2010. Alchemical tapestry at the edge of non-aggressive atmospheric old school industrial and chtonic technigenic drone with expressive psychedelic taste, parts of live glockenspiel and ocarina. For the fans of Vetrophonia and ZGA, NON and Herbst9... Artwork made of paper and plastic, special unique insert comes with 8 copies. [press-release]
Bloodyminded -- "Phases : Two" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 BloodLust!, B!074, (ltd. 200)
These recordings were made in November 2006, by Mark Solotroff (for Bloodyminded), at Conservatory, Chicago, Illinois - solely utilizing live versions of songs from the "Magnetism" CD that were recorded live during the August 2006 Bloodyminded tour - as source material. [label info]
Bonemachine –- "Erste Rotation (eine Retrospektive von Krieg und Zeit)" -- 2 CD -- €16
2008 Sabbathid Records, Hoof044
Military Industrial / Dark Ambient from Austria. Two lengthy CDs containing old, unreleased and remixed material. Based upon the legacy of industrial music and krautrock Bonemachine has chosen the right way to lay out its own vision of industrial era, following some methods of alternative dark and electronic music. Double DVD Box. [YAOP]
Bonemachine / Maskinanlegg -- "War Against Banana" -- 3"CD-R -- €7
2007 Tosom, TOSOM XS-002, (ltd. 150)
Austrian War Industrial meets great Norge Noise. Split release by Bonemachine from Austria and Maskinanlegg from Norway. Each project with one track. "War Against Banana" is a strange kind of electronic art from the vaults of Europe. MINI DVD BOX WITH 3 INLAY. [label info]
Cat'n'Bone -- "I Will Clap When I Will Dying" -- CD-R -- €5
2010 self-released
Dark melancholic depressive suicidal industrial. Quite an expressive work not for a single listening. [YAOP]
Chaoticum -- "[Psycho] Log: Y" -- CD -- €13
2007 HORUS CyclicDaemon, HCD 09, (ltd. 500)
Clausthome -- "Radiophare II [Les Ondes Radio]" -- CD -- €12
2010 Indiestate, IST 081 CD, (ltd. 500)
The Latvian radionoise gurus Clausthome are back! With its new work "radiophare [les ondes radio]" they offer a new trip into the world of the radio waves. The route is a bit different than in the previous work "radiophare [lampe d'ambiance]" (Indiestate, 2005) - now it is closer to the actual radio waves and leads through darker spaces. Sometimes you will be left alone in the beauty of the invisible electromagnetic choir that surrounds us all. Sometimes there will be mere documental fragments thrown into your ear. At some point, it is sounding like a story about life - a look at life through radio waves. The sound here is made using carefully selected and processed scans and recordings of the radio waves, served by Clausthome's usual attitude to the radionoise aesthetics. The release is limited to 500 copies and comes in a monochrome silkscreened digisleeve, recommended to the fans of Bad Sector, John Duncan and other radionoise and radiodrone projects. [press-release]
Cleaning Women -- "Pulsator" -- CD -- €9
2001/2004 Soyuz Music, BV-1
Industrial clangs and yells, echoes of Lapland lullabies, a Sufi and smile on techno-pop. Cleaning Women found the way off from the autobahn where Kraftwerk brought the music - directly in the parallel world, to Cleanus, the planet of cleaning robots. The most witty anti-utopia, most ominous dances, most functional clothes dryers! [AFI]
Crumer, Jason -- "Ottoman Black" -- CD -- €10
2008 Hospital Productions, HOS-215, (ltd. 500)
"Ottoman Black" is an album of midnight drones and true noise. Using powerfully clear electronics as a base for declarative noise bursts, Crumer manipulates the sounds with a resounding animosity. In the vein of Pedestrian Deposit and Air Conditioning, Crumer yields his mean streak to an array of silences over the course of the album. The theme here is personal relations; tracks like "Betrayal After Betrayal" have a conversational quality, both the screams and the muffles, the physicality. "Where Were You" is an actionist-influenced piece of torture. There's nothing not painful here, especially the quiet; the peaks are almost a relief. Ottoman Black is a stern and unforgiving universe. [press-release]
Darsombra -- "Eternal Jewel" -- CD -- €14
2008 Public Guilt, PG015
De Fabriek goes The Hitmachine -- "Het Terrein II" -- CD -- €13
2007 EE Tapes, EE08, (ltd. 185)
De Mange Machine -- "Gourmandise" -- CD -- €10
2002 Brume Records, BRUME 06
Mostly influenced by Nurse With Sound, Illusion Of Safety and Hirsche Nicht Aufs Sofa (H.N.A.S.) surealist collages, and the unique atmospheres of Zoviet France, The Hafler Trio, Whitehouse, Coil’s albums. De Mange Machine finds its strongest power moments in the simplicity and essence of the elements, it even reaches the point by refusing the use of any kind of beats with the shifts in it's threatened atmospheres. Forbidden frequencies are merged seamless with unseen fear and organic consciousness. The new album Gourmandise is built on a great variety of sounds coming from electronic generators as well as various items. The sounds used (birds singing or door creaking for exemple) are here much more expressive than the sound of any instruments. Constructing some of the remotest soundtracks imaginable - a gorgeous sampled environment, emotions are not considered here at all - they are replaced by sensorial stimulation restricted to the essence, this is a timeless album, arising from a blinding, beatless labyrinth of beauty. [press-release]
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Demimonde -- "Mutant Star" -- CD -- €10
2000 Epidemie Records, EPR 042
Dim Arcana -- "Yersinia" -- CD-R -- €9
2010 Black Drone: 13 Series, 13-8, (ltd. 39)
A conceptual album from the Italian dark ambient project, dedicated to the Middle Age plague epidemied. Can be compared to death ambient epiphanies of their compatriots from Urna, but complicated with the addition of neofolk gothic moments. Overall very talented and qualitative work. Sleeve. [YAOP]
Discordance -- "Supremacy" -- CD -- €10
1998 Crowd Control Activities, Crowded 06, (ltd. 500)
The first full lenght CD by this great power electronic unit from Italy. [Slaughter Productions]
Disharmony -- "Zoomer" -- CD -- €10
2004 Broken Seal, BS008
Disharmony strikes back with their second album „Zoomer“, which is the follow up to „Moonflower“. Complexity, atmosphere, rapidly changing mid-tempo beats and agressive vocals are the main elements of their sound. But also danceable killer tracks like “Angels”, which reminds to Mortal Constraint, are to find on a very intense album. The highlight of the whole album is the fascination “Zoomer (Sauron)”, which starts like a sleeping beast and develops to a great Dark Techno-hymn. A lot of instrumental passages are used to present a dark, brilliantly arranged album, which is miles away from the usual Electro stuff offered today. Cold Meat Industry meets Dark Techno! [press-release]
DiversAeon -- "Existence Exceeded" -- CD-R -- €7
2005 Toiko, TOK-06, (ltd. 50)
Industrial / Noise / Experimental. 20 minutes of high quality material from Finland. [Freak Animal]
Dodo Bird -- "Flat" -- CD -- €11
2004 CAPP, CAPP-CD82
Angst-pop based on vintage electronics, nercotic melodies, sharp sounds, melancholic piano, depressive vocals and aggressive bass pulsations. [YAOP]
Doroga -- "s/t" -- CD -- €10
2010 Ikuisuus, IKU-021 / Nekorekords, Neko-02
Debut CD by a new Finnish duo. Slow ritual gongs, metals, percussions, loops and free clarinet/sax meditations, etc. Slow and intense... A study in evolving emptiness and truly a hypnotic trip. Comes in a 7" size sleeve. [labels info]
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Douris, Francois -- "Colombe" -- CD-R -- €10
2000 Solipsism, Solipsism-29, (ltd. 100)
Drakh -- "Bethlehem" -- CD -- €13
2010 Essence Music, ESS014
Dust To Dearth / Lysergene -- "The Death Of The Sun" -- CD -- €10
2009 Aesthetic Death Records, ADCD 012
Split CD from two awesome dark minimal ambient artists: Dust To Dearth and Lysergene. Dust To Dearth is the dark ambient manifestation from Mandy (Murkrat), featuring harrowing and chilling dark desolate sounds. Meanwhile Lysergene - the side project of Esoteric member Gordon Bickness - come forth with their second release with 3 dark droning evocations of melancholic ambient drone to bring forth the Death Of The Sun. [Cold Spring]
Ego Death -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €5
2010 Kwark Records, KwaK 055, (ltd. 27)
The new work by the Greek noise project. Sleeve. [YAOP]
Ego Death -- "Fresh Flesh for Rotting Humans" -- CD-R -- €5
2010 self-released
Power electronics and noise mixed with wry avantgarde. Necrosis. [YAOP]
Ego Death / For All X T / Lajos Ishibashi-Brons -- "No Self" -- CD-R -- €5
Smell the Stench
A tough way from a piano & organ composition through the effects, remixes and collaborations to noise and drone. Sleeve. [YAOP]
Eiserner Wille -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 self-released, (ltd. 11)
Martial industrial with a touch of power electronics. Triple sleeve with a cut out of stones and inserts. [YAOP]
Emeralds -- "Solar Bridge" -- CD -- €10
2008 Hanson Records, HN 183, (ltd. 1000)
HANSON RECORDS is proud to announce EMERALDS - SOLAR BRIDGE, the trio's first full-length album after numerous cassette and cd-r releases on such labels as American Tapes, Chondritic Sound, and the bands own imprints Wagon and Gneiss Things. The album opens with the side long 'MAGIC' where the band builds a quiet drone into an extreme thick sawblade of swirling noise as beautiful as it is menacing. The flip is yet another sidelong journey titled 'THE QUAKING MESS', a track that stabs your brain with fluttering sparks of synthesized needles before relaxing you into a Göttsching-esque dream state while slowly bringing you back to earth with an electronic wave of molten rumble. Fans of the smooth tones of 'New Age Of Earth' era Ash Ra Tempel and the buzzing thick drones of Throbbing Gristle's 'Heathen Earth' should take note, as EMERALDS may be their new source for electronic drugs. [press-release]
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Encryption -- "Secrecy" -- CD -- €10
2003 Waerloga Records, WAER003
At last, Belgium has given birth to a dark-wave band which creates music in the vein of Weltenbrand, Autumn Tears, Die Verbannten Kinder Evas etc. Encryption consists of composer Lacrimas (ex-Trollrath) and female vocalist Lady Clarisse, who - merely by playing with vocals, heavy keyboards, samples and sporadic percussion - create a wonderful atmosphere around the medieval legendary secret Ordo Libidis. It sounds like a neo-classical soundtrack. It's nice and dark, slow, sometimes romantic, then again ominous, but more importantly: it's very good. [Mind View]
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Equimanthorn -- "Exalted Are The 7 Throne Bearers Of Ninnkigal" -- CD -- €9
2007 From Beyond Productions, FBP-061
Fourth album from this dark ambient / experimental / transcendental collective. A conjuration that features member of Absu, Melechesh, The Soil Bleeds Black, and others. [label info]
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Exploplasmatic Coagulation -- "C++ (Selected Works 2005-2010)" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 InterioRepertoR, IR04
Exploplasmatic Coagulation is one of the projects of Moscow based musician Oleg Hurvatov, also known for Interior Disposition and Lanceolaria Im Licht Der Laterne. Like the author says himself, "if the matter of two other projects, anyhow, is the internal side of the human ego, Exploplasmatic Coagulation enters in sphere of mechanical interactions. The sound becomes the tool - a microscope or a scalpel opening a micron wrong side of the world." Cold abstract ambient and non-aggressive noise fields with spatial atmosphere.
Fear And Aghast / 21 Gramms -- "Sick Reality Is Immersed In A Void Of Time" -- CD-R -- €9
2010 Black Drone: 13 Series, 13-9, (ltd. 26)
Beautiful gothic dark ambient in best traditions of CMI and Fluttering Dragon from two Polish projects. Funeral atmosphere and fantastic piano parts. Sleeve. [YAOP]
Flutwacht -- "Secondface" -- CD + CD-R -- €14
2008 The Tourette Tapes, TT#9, (ltd. 77)
Reissue of one of the limited CDRs in vast Flutwacht's discography, originally published in an edition of 50 copies. This is actually an album of cover-versions of the title track, performed by such projects as Xedh, Contagious Orgasm, Objekt/Urian, Vincenzo Bossi, Antracot, TZII, Bonemachine, Synomorph, Terg and Hyeno. The album is closed by the original track by Flutwacht, which sounds quite unusual for this project - rhythmic, almost danceable industrial hit. All other versions can be divided in two groups: first (strangely small) shows the adherence to shock tactics and heavy rhythms, while second prefers dark ambient with deep atmospheric bass sounds as if created from machine samples or even field recordings. Limited edition of 77 copies. [Monochrome Vision]
Folkstorm -- "Ortodox" -- CD -- €12
2009 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 126
Screaming vocals, harsh analogue filter sweeps, pulsing distorted sines and squares... Folkstorm has never sounded this angry and mean. Maybe it is a reflection of the current state of things - regression, massunemployment and a corrupt financial system about to implode. Ortodox is a return to the fine tradition of making music all analogue - no computers, no sequencers or modern trickery. A pure celebration of classic Swedish Industrial music, and a protector of values that are about to be lost. [label info]
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Frisch, Johannes & Ralf Wehowsky -- "Unwahrscheinlichkeiten" -- CD -- €16
2010 Waystyx, WR64, (ltd. 188)
The duo of Johannes Frisch and Ralf Wehowsky has already showed up on the "Tränende Würger" CD (Korm Plastics, 2005). The main instrument of Frisch is double bass, the trademark approach of Wehowsky is pedantic electronic sound transformation aiming towards artifacts and tiny details of sound to be put to the foreground. The collaboration of these two musicians combines modern neoclassical and concrete music with complex psycholigical compositional structure. The album consists of three tracks. The first one was recorded real-time with minimal post-editing. The second one contains two recordings of the same piece, taped after each other during the same recording session. The third track consists of 3 excerpts from one recording, played back in different speeds and layered over each other. Pathologically strange sound of a classical instrument, filtered under a meticulous supervision of a German composer - the accents are put on microscopic details of double bass, all rustles and creaks are put to the front, supported by strange electronic sounds as if sucked by syringes from the wires of pick-ups and effects modules. Recommended to the rare lovers of getting into the very depth of sound. Special cardboard sleeve.
Frog -- "s/t" -- CD -- €16
2010 Waystyx, WR49, (ltd. 146)
New side-project of Christian Renou known for his project Brume. Monotonous haunting and sometimes almost danceable beats are layered over looped electroacoustic sounds and dark ambient pierced by lengthy droning lines. Fascinating industrial rhythms, elaborate compositional structure and fantastic depth of sound from the true master of musique concrete... Non-standard hand painted cover from thick cardboard.
Frontier Guards -- "Predestination " -- CD -- €10
2008 Aliens Production, AP 18, (ltd. 550)
Cybernetic revolution in our community is getting new face and at ALIENS PRODUCTION we would like to present very promising project, that will make a debut in our label with very strong album. Dazing, dark ambiental surfaces in which are concentraiting various space dust and catastrophic references and heritage. Music, that will very fast drawn you and won't let you back. Bright palette of sounds, noises and unexpected turns will follow you during this whole space trip. To songs very often seconds hybrid beats and industrial marches. Mix of idm, ambient and synthetic electornics. On cd will be great remixes by projects like: Oxyd, Subheim and Anhedonia. In our family for now the most darkest album, that will tickle to imaginarilly tuned listeners and also this material will present by its visual concept excellent photographer Tom Galle and his futuristic compositions, that goes with this creative grown project. [press-release]
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Gelsomina -- "Pythogenetics: Collection" -- CD -- €10
2009 Turgid Animal, TA285
Since the early 2000's, up until the UK tour in the summer of 2008, Gelsomina has been the musical outlet of Finnish Harsh Noise fiend, Pekka PT. A brutal mix of junk metal abuse and pedal worship, sometimes resulting in total unflinching chaos and other times resulting in a more structured industrial noise masterwork. Having released dozen's of tapes, cd's and vinyl it was never going to be an easy task to wittle it all down to CD length but through the critical eyes of the man himself, Pekka has managed to pull together 74 minutes of what he considers the best of his Gelsomina, and I couldn't agree more. Featuring a full colour tray card and 4 page booklet with liner notes by Mikko Aspa (Grunt/Freak Animal Records) and Pasi Markkula (Bizarre Uproar/Filth and Violence). Essential Harsh Noise document by a now defunct but legendary project. But it's not all bad; Watch out, Sick Seed is on the rise! [press-release]
Gnomonclast -- "Tempus Null" -- CD -- €13
2010 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 125
Great debut release by this US project. Previously consigned to the liner notes of diverse Luftwaffe releases, GNOMONCLAST—having gathered themselves together—has recorded a virulent 60 minute exposition on the subject of time’s censure. “TEMPUS NULL,” is the result of a collaborative effort waged by Luftwaffe and Valence. This debut album consists of 20 tracks, which includes a cover of Death In June’s “Rose Clouds of Holocaust,” and also features collaborations with ARt ABSCONs and State Research Bureau. [press-release]
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GoGooo -- "Long, Lointain" -- CD -- €11
2007 Baskaru, karu:9
Far-away sounds, close to the heart... Delicately-played instruments whose sounds, once sampled and digitally treated, seem to permeate our ears from a distant world both strange and strangely familiar. And yet, the resulting music is intimate as can be, full of untold and evocative imagery... GoGooo is Gabriel Hernandez, born in 1979 in Grenoble, France. Gabriel started making music because he wanted to accompany his guitar-playing cousin. Untrained, he turned to the computer, and thus came to life their duo Simagre'e. Other collaborations ensued with Alain Basso (Sol III) and Daisuke Miyatani (Miyagooo)... "Long, lointain" [Long, far] is GoGooo's first professional full-length release, following a number of net releases, CDR EPs and compilation appearances. 2007 is a coming-out year for GoGooo, with additional releases on labels such as (1.8)sec Records (Canada), Magic Book (Japan), EKO (France) and his own netlabel Rain Music... "Long, lointain" features 10 short pieces exerting a fleeting charm, populated with field recordings, found sounds and skeletons of melodies, all delicately arranged to titillate and soothe your ears. This music can be compared to electroacoustic folk for its instrumentation, but is actually unique in style. [press-release]
Grain Belt -- "s/t" -- CD -- €10
2010 Small Doses, DOSE75 / White Centipede Noise, WCN01 / Phage Tapes, PT:99, (ltd. 200)
Harsh noise and metal abuse from Minneapolis. Grain Belt is a trio comprised of the people behind the Wince, Baculum, and Willful projects. Three tracks each recorded at a live show. [label info]
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Gyvata / Pragnavit -- "Broliai Karelin Jojo / Ad Gloriam" -- CD -- €10
2010 Crivia Records, RITUAL03, (ltd. 350)
Crivia Records presents its next release: a split between young Lithuanian band GYVATA and Belarussian project PRAGNAVIT, dedicated to the glorious anniversary - 600 years of the Battle of Grunwald. Belarussians and Lithuanians celebrate their great victory just like hundreds of years ago! The release consists of two parts: first is the debut album of GYVATA "Broliai Karelin Jojo"; second is the new work by PRAGNAVIT "Ad Gloriam"... The band GYVATA from Klaipeda is yet little known outside Lithuania, but after the release of "Broliai Karelin Jojo" the situation will undoubtedly change - because in front of us is one of the most promising groups in the Lithuanian folk scene. The young musicians succeeded to show the root Baltic music from the completely new and unusual point of view, by giving modern sound to ancient melodies and not breaking the thousand year old harmony. We should also mention the important fact that one of the band's members is Donatas Bielkauskas more known for his project DONIS. Altogether there are twelve musicians in GYVATA! "Broliai Karelin Jojo" features five tracks of the Lithuanians... There's no need in presenting the Belarussian project PRAGNAVIT from Mogilev. This is one of the oldest dark ambient bands in Eastern Europe whose albums are well-known outside of Belarus. The musicians behind the project, Vojst and Kastus Kancavy couldn't stand aside of celebrating the great victory of the Great Lithuanian Principality and here presented the new edge of their creativity - militant, symphonic and aggressive. "Ad Gloriam" features five tracks of the conceptual album dedicated to the Battle of Grunwald, and the sixth bonus track dedicated to heroes fighting for freedom of Belarus under Stalin's regime... Crivia Records puts a lot of attention in the quality of its releases, so the mastering work for this CD was done by famous German musician Axel Frank (WERKRAUM), who have worked with such musicians as DER BLUTHARSCH, CHANGES, FORSETI, GAE BOLG, STURMPERCHT, TRIARII... The release is presented in spot-varnished mat digipak with the artwork featuring works by the well-known Belarussian painter Pavel Tatarnikov. [press-release]
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In Meditarivm -- "The Great Limbo" -- CD -- €10
2010 Wrotycz Records, WRT 010, (ltd. 500)
In Meditarivm is an Ukrainian apocalyptic ritual & dark ambient project organized in 2000 by Olegh Kolyada known by his projects First Human Ferro, Ostarbeiter and Oda Relicta. The albums like “Les Fleurs du Mal” and “Uterus” outlined the old school approach of the project clearly influenced by highlights of Morthound, Ildfrost, ConSono or Archon Satani. "The Great Limbo" is based on the re-engineered early works selectively crafted anew in summer 2009 at Olegh's Oda Relicta home studio. An elusory history of the project proceeds with a special Wrotycz Records release. The record, accompanied by a talented artwork of Kati Astraeir, comes as a limited to 500 copies 4-panel UV-varnished digipack with a poster. [press-releases]
J Orphic -- "Cum Ipse Gratia" -- CD-R -- €8
2010 UFA Muzak, UFA 36, (ltd. 120)
Martial / Neoclassic / Avanti. Roman tsar, Pax Romana, the holy dictator Gaius Iulius: as a holy writer, hides behind our backs and we hear the secret hymns of the triumvirate. The son of Venus, million times slowed down in word and prayer - of colour and fall. Modern neoclassicism of J Orhic tells us, with the voices of the living party, that is not allowed to listen to by profanes. Minor tones of icy speech, neoclassical counterpoints and artificiality of sound. Industrial as an echo in the throne room where 23 stab wounds were given, and the walls changed the sound, coloured the length of parts with the amethyst spectrum. Imperium. Militaria. Ad extra. 11 tracks, 70 minutes, CDR, non-standard cardboard sleeve, 3 inserts. [press-release]
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L'Anus Solaire -- "Manifestation I : Orifices" -- CD -- €13
self-released, AS 01, (ltd. 300)
Larva 108 -- "99.09 | Inside The Stones" -- CD -- €10
2010 Greytone, grey007, (ltd. 500)
"99.09 Inside the stones" is a collection of the most significant tracks made by LARVA 108 during the first 10 years. 12 songs for 60 minutes. A sountrack for walking alone through a winter snowstorm or between the trees during a grey day of november. Experimental, electronica, drones create organic gloomy atmospheres... LARVA is born in 1999 when Guido (also known as 108) began to make some experiments with a PC, an old DOS software called Fasttracker and some other tools, instruments and pedal effects. Strongly influenced during his youth by people like William Burroughs and by movies like Decoder, he finally found a way to express himself with an old computer. The main goal was to produce a sound inspired by nature, a soundtrack for landscapes, moments and for abstract visual productions, to make something disturbing or just a way to escape from this world for few moments. LARVA is heavily connected with the 108's visual productions so the project name turned in to LARVA 108. Since 2002, Guido is also active with the dark ambient/noise band called CORPOPARASSITA and from this moment the sound of LARVA 108 changed a bit becoming more organic and less noisy, with more electronica on it. During these years he released many pieces, always strictly limited to few copies on tapes and CDr, home made most of the times and very hard to find. In 2008 108 created some soundscapes for the installations called "La bolla di legno" inside the Triennale di Milano and in Wroclaw (Poland) at the BWA gallery. During the years he collaborated with many artists and with the coreographer Tamara Gvozdenovic. [press-release]
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Lethal Dose 50 -- "21st Century Awakening" -- CD -- €13
2006 Nuit Et Brouillard, NB CD 05
Lieutenant Caramel & Victor Nubla -- "Dos Hombres Verdes" -- CD -- €16
2010 Waystyx, WR67, (ltd. 256)
Computerized electroacoustic, collage concrete music, hallucinogenic ambient, perverted voices, thoughtpul piano passages, almost rock'n'roll guitar tunes and drums falling to pieces... Totally unpredictable flow of sound, a puzzle for an attentive listener, a real trip.
Lunar Abyss -- "Timeline... 2010" -- CD-R -- €8
2010 Biosonar^Labirint 016, (ltd. 52)
The author's mix containg tracks from early period of Lunar Abyss Quartet till nowadays releases of Lunar Abyss Deus Organum, also featuring unreleased fragments and live backing tracks. Fluent journey in time and space of Lunar Abyss sonic creation. Mixed in three tracks matching the timeline. Each copy is handmade and handnumbered. [label info]
Lunar Abyss Deus Organum / Boevye Cikady / Pustota -- "Vetry Pamyati (Winds of Memory)" -- CD-R -- €8
2010 Biosonar^Labirint 019, (ltd. 52)
Three live fragments recorded in various years, of the three projects by one person, previously unreleased. L.A.D.O. - calm, almost soporific drone ambient, remote echoes of reindeer breeders tribal songs and howls of wind in the night. Boevye Cikady - a hurricane of digital twists and wildness of information flows, matted in funnels of noise whirls. Pustota - live version of the track "Ravens at the Sea" - dense natural noise, rumpus of crows in spring and a sorm in winter city of Yalta, all mixed on the basis of mountain wind. Each copy is handmade and handnumbered. [label info]
Lunar Abyss Deus Organum / Hattifnatter -- "Boloto" -- CD-R -- €8
2010 Biosonar^Labirint 017, (ltd. 52)
The continuation of subnatural theme is presented in the new swamp album by LADO & Hattifnatter. A journey to the world of hobgoblins and water spirits. Vibrant engulfing soundscapes are mixed with laid-back light melodic noisy pieces, narrating about helobious existence and non-existence. Trip ambient, easy noise, ritual electroacoustics. Each copy is handmade and handnumbered. [label info]
Lycia -- "Cold" -- CD -- €10
1996 Projekt, PROJEKT67
Barren frozen and cold, visions of blowing snow. Isolation. Sharp as icicles, as numb as freezing rain, beautiful as the glitter on snowy trees, as blinding as the sun in winter. Reflections back to autumn... crisp and cool. On fire with the color of changing leaves. Uneasy, like a ride on a haunted carousel. The new season begins... a million miles away from the desert. [label info]
Marchetti, Lionel -- "Sirrus" -- CD -- €11
2001 Auscultare Research, aus 014
Enter Lionel Marchetti, a fine member of the concrete school, who opts for the spins of the tape machine and processing rather than the laptop. Marchetti's music abstracts sounds at points equal to Schaffear and Luc Ferrari. But an even closer reference point is Stockhausen's "Sans la Soleil" as well as Karlheinz's other abstract works (although that segment of Stockhausen’s corpus is not strictly speaking musique concrete)... Marchetti's music, however, channels more eclectic sources than Stockhausen's. In “Passerele,” a fragment of wild organ brings a moment of warmth to a landscape of analog blurbs. “Sirrus” features some sped-up sounds providing a balance to the darker drones below. At times the album has the feel of a full fledged score, with sounds disengaged from their original source congealing into symphonic structures... On pieces like “Micro-climat,” though, Marchetti uses a structure closer to field recordings than the abstract sequences of distortions that make up much concrete. Perhaps Marchetti owes a little to the acoustic-ecology of R. Murray Schafer in that this work sounds more like a study of the acoustics of an environment than a direct abstraction of a symphonic score. But Marchetti seems less worried than Schafer about decorating casual listening environments with a conceptual premise. Sirrus is a complex work, with each segment unfolding into a recurring motif of ambient noises that's ahead of the pack of laptop manipulators... Marchetti’s work is hardly a new direction for concrete, but holding Marchetti up to such groundbreaking impositions might be too lofty. Like the clicks-and-cuts punks who see this school as their predecessors, what’s important here is that the music on Sirrus is a challenging, rewarding, and engaging experience, just not a new one. [Andrew Jones, Dusted Reviews]
Massive Ejaculation -- "Pony Express" -- CD -- €10
2009 24919 Records, CD24919-02, (ltd. 500)
First line-up of Massive Ejaculation was gathered in Fleetwood, Lancashire to plat rock'n'roll. First release "Anarcho-hippy with dogs" consisted of 86 songs about violence and was released on a 6-minute cassette by Smith Research label. The cover was made of fragments of 11 pirate videocassettes with the movies by Aristide Massacceze (Italian porn director). 15 years later the basic discography of Massive Ejaculation is presented on a CD by Russian label 24919. [Monopolka] Wildly joyful collage noise, horribly dirty sound of archive tapes and natural "shitcore" which will clean the remainings of your brain out of brainpan, and in the end - a fervent remake of Ministry song. All this is "Pony Express". [label info] Digipak.
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Meizter, K. -- "Travelling Light" -- CD -- €16
2006 HORUS CyclicDaemon, HCD 07, (ltd. 500)
Melek-Tha -- "Perfect World Eradication" -- CD -- €13
2003 Kubernoise, NOISE003
Minamata -- "Cyclator" -- CD + DVD -- €17
2009 Les Nouvelles Propagandes, NP.021, (ltd. 500)
Minamata -- "Niigata" -- CD -- €13
2007 Zone De Confusion, Z.D.C.02
Moljebka Pvlse -- "Zojo" -- CD -- €10
2010 Greytone, grey008, (ltd. 500)
The Moljebka Pvlse album Zojo was recorded during the Mathias studies at the Royal Institute of Art. He was inspired by the longest night of the year in Stockholm, the day when there is almost no daylight. His ambition was to make an acoustic album of minimal music without any musical instruments. Moljebka Pvlse setup long nylon strings across his entire studio at school, which he then plucked and bowed and recorded with his favorite contact microphones on that very night. These recordings became the fundament of the album and set the tone for the rest of the work. Moljebka Pvlse are very grateful for the contribution by the Japanese artist Michiko Kashiba on this album. [press-release]
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Moore, Thurston -- "Sensitive/Lethal" -- CD -- €10
2008 No Fun Productions, NFP26
Sensitive/Lethal is Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) in deep basement cosmosis. Investigations into acoustic guitar as noise instrument as well as noise/amp discussion for a hopeful and bright blackness. Childhood dreams of noise essayed with photos of unsuspecting innocents running from noise weirdo (front cover) and texas blues albino drug zap (johnny winter – still alive and well detail – back cover). This is the story told in drone meditation and sweet slice. [press-release]
Muskel -- "Seven Days Of Pain" -- CD -- €10
2003 Black Plagve, infect05
Good old fashioned noise record to cleanse the system. A delerious racket delivered with precision and control and with the iron willed determination of a Swedish maniac. This is a cattle prod jolt to the system, leaving in it's wake a distinct burning sensation followed by the dull roar of frazzled nerve endings. There are no subtleties, no ambient interludes, just a twisted mass of metal and chaos screaming at the top of it's lungs. [label info]
Musterion -- "The Black Lodge" -- CD -- €16
2006 HORUS CyclicDaemon, HCD 06, (ltd. 500)
N. -- "City Of The Broken Wheelchairs" -- CD-R -- €7
2005 Spatter Records, SP021, (ltd. 100)
Analogue old school power electronics from Italy. DVD-box. [YAOP]
Nadja -- "Autopergamene" -- CD -- €13
2010 Essence Music, ESS013
Navicon Torture Technologies -- "I Fucking Hate You All And I Hope You All Fucking Die" -- CD -- €13
2002 Eibon Records, Nav035
One of the world's best dark ambient/noise acts. Turning your worst nightmares to music via a rough injection of abrasive sounds. [label info]
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Negligee feat. Prosphora -- "Impotence" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Happy Family
Relaxed passages and thoughtful intonations are present here just to meet the noise saturnalia of the side-project PROSPHORA. Two sides of one medal, a scythe struck a stone, and a split in the author himself. Quite unbalanced. [label info]
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Nest -- "Trail Of The Unwary" -- CD -- €8
2007 Irond, IROND CD 07-1309
Nest is the creative music works of Finnish musicians A. Tolonen and T. Saxell. Their extraordinary atmospheric sound is based on Kantele, ancient & traditional Finnish plucked string instrument of the zither family. Acoustic Nordic melancholia and deep voice telling old legends about the forest.... Best Nordik ambient folk! [Old Europa Cafe] Russian licensed edition.
no Xivic / Somnivore -- "Getsemane" -- CD-R -- €10
2006 New Old Sentinel, Sentinel-CDr-04, (ltd. 50)
Split release and brand new material from these finnish artists. Ambient soundscapes, abstract melodies, spoken word, electronics, loops. Inspired by Kalervo Palsa. Comes in Digipak styled cover with one insert. [label info]
Northam, Michael / Brume & TBC -- "Steps Towards The Hairy Night / Strandwasser Ozean Remix" -- CD-R -- €9
2004 Wachsender Prozess, (ltd. 100)
MNortham has recorded three 10-15-minute tracks of ringing and murmuring drone ambient based on electroacoustic elements. Static and fascinating. A collaboration between Christian Renou (Brume) and Thomas Beck (TBC) uses field recordings turned into very resonant, spatial and surreal monolyths of droning-rustling-exploding acousmatics. [Abgurd] Gorgeous handmade sleeve from papyrus and 2 inserts.
Northaunt -- "The Ominous Silence" -- CD -- €12
2001/2010 Ewers Tonkunst, HHE 027 CD / Cyclic Law, 32nd Cycle, (ltd. 470)
Second in a series of collaborations between Ewers Tonkunst and Cyclic Law is also a re-issue of a long sold out dark ambient milestone - the debut Northaunt album which first saw the daylight back in 2001 on Polish label Fluttering Dragon. "The Ominous Silence" is more musical album than its followers, with a lot of piano, guitar and synth melodic parts like in the classical tracks "De Sorte Traer" and "Pain Is Better", but the typical Northaunt elegiac melancholy and dark gloomy nordic ambient soundscapes are already here. This edition has completely new artwork, new mastering and a bonus track, it is limited to 470 copies and comes in a stylish monochrome mini LP-like embossed cover with inner sleeve and three inserts. [press-release]
Objekt/Urian -- "Tonfragmente II" -- CD -- €13
2001/2004 Zone De Confusion, Z.D.C.01, (ltd. 1000)
Orchis -- "A Thousand Winters" -- CD -- €10
1997/2009 Infinite Fog Productions, IF-05
Outermost / Guttural Strap-On / Gelsomina - Perkust -- "3-Way Split" -- CD-R -- €7
2004 Musically Incorrect Records, MIR #20, (ltd. 100)
Outermost (Japan) has been making harshnoise for ages and his contribution here is yet another reason to make you wonder why the hell he isn't as famous as Merzbow, Pain Jerk and others?!? Guttural Strap-On (Sweden) makes dark ambient so excellent it makes you wonder why he isn't signed on CMI?!? Gelsomina-Perkust collaboration (Finland) makes you wonder when Finnish noise will become concept equal to Japanese noise?!? [label info]
Penjaga Insaf -- "Sama Sadja" -- CD -- €13
2010 Power & Steel, PAS 27
For several years Ingo Sauerbrey made extensive travels through Indonesia, always carrying recording equipment to collect sounds as an audio diary. During periodic return trips to Germany, he started to work on the recordings with electronic devices. Some sounds were edited, cut and transformed, while others were kept completely intact. To name a few sound sources only recordings from Water Puppet and Shadow Theatres, Gamelan and various welcoming and fighting dances like Kecak, Jegog and the Tarian Caci were used for this album. Some of those impressive performances were made of 60 to 90 men chanting and dancing while a bamboo orchestra used 4 meter long bamboo sticks playing bass drums on it. SAMA SADJA is waving together the sounds of living traditions, religions and languages with spherical ambient pads and electronically edited drones from the field recordings. This is an contemplative and intimate soundtrack from the deepest heart of South East Asia. [press-release]
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Picatrix -- "Quaestio Prima" -- CD -- €10
2005 Juggernath Recordings, JUG 001
Luigi Seviroli is a professional composer working for several major TV networks in Italy, including RAI and Mediaset. Basing his musical work on the novels of the well-known italian writer Valerio Evangelisti and the character of the inquisitor Nicolas Eymerich, “Quaestio Prima” has been already defined by Evangelisti himself as the only opus able to incarnate the spirit of the novels, as well as of being a true soundtrack to the dark landscapes surrounding Eymerich... “Quaestio Prima” is a professional composed and recorded “soundscape”, a storytelling masterpiece ranging from darkambient interrogative pulsings to acoustic and traditional grand openings. Intense surroundings will draws the listener to realities banned by time or forgotten by men, yet real and invasive... Hard to be further labelled, this first album from Picatrix offers a complex yet straight musical texture with a particular attention to sounds, production and composition. We strongly recommend to listen to it carefully in order to get you own personal picture. [press-release]
Prick Decay -- "Mud Sound For Car Stereos" -- CD -- €10
1995/1999 Pure, PURE 52
Mind-liquifying squeaks, burps and flatulence from an all-star cast including Emil Beaulieau, Runzelstirn & Gurglestock, Jeph Jerman of Blowhole, and lots of mysterious others. Actually this noise-fest is a source of endless amusement, what with its ever-surprising array of overloaded, clumsy, explosive sounds. [label info]
Pustota -- "Vmesto Togo (Instead of That)" -- CD-R -- €8
2010 Biosonar^Lo-End 002cdr, (ltd. 20)
Field-recording project of E.S. (Lunar Abyss Deus Organum, Hattifnatter, Anamezon, Boevye Cikady, Ritualnaya Bioingeneria, Navia). Live recording of the performance from the art-apartment "VMesto". A play of recordings of natural and technogenic character, reprt from the trip over mountains, seas and cities. DIY fetish artwork made of found photos and postcards. [label info]
RedSK / Gorgonized Dorks / Ego Death / Jason "EVIL" Covelli -- "Can-KaNoRey4way" -- CD-R -- €5
2010 Trashfuck Records, [TFR020], (ltd. 31)
Power Electronics / Noise. Sleeve. [YAOP]
Retarder -- "Enquiries" -- CD -- €13
2009 Tourette, tourette 006, (ltd. 400)
Sanfilippo, Bruno -- "Piano Textures 2" -- CD -- €12
2009 AD21 Music, ad111
Sanfilippo, Bruno & Mathias Grassow -- "CROMO Piano & Drones" -- CD -- €12
2010 AD21 Music, ad112
santAAgostino -- "La Morte Marcia Sui Terreni K" -- CD -- €10
2008 Inner Gravity Records, IGR 005
Italian trio Santa Agostino have been around since 2005. "La Morte..." tells of noises from beyond the grave, playing the journey of no return from the death phase - and the return of those who are reborn more rotten and foul than before. A mix of noise drone and glitch, in the typical vein of Raster Noton and Mego, with moments of musique concrete. "Threshold field recording... minimalist, futurist sound architecture". [Cold Spring]
Silence & Strength -- "Das Haus Zur Letzten Latern - A Tribute To Gustav Meyrink" -- CD -- €16
2009 HORUS CyclicDaemon, HCD 10, (ltd. 500)
Sink -- "The Process" -- CD -- €10
2008 Kaos Kontrol / Kult Of Nihilow, (ltd. 1000)
There is obscure and then there is Obscure. The difference is subtle, but when you hear Sink, you know the limit between obscure and Obscure has been surpassed. The Process is a beast that drags you below the surface and lets you gasp for air just enough to keep conscious and experience the horror. Monumental wall of sound built from demented vibrations, violent distortion, wailing feedback, reverberating clashes and almost choral (in)human voices echoing in your mind like amplified painful memories; and when the wall collapses, the undertow pulls you deeper into paranoid and disturbing surroundings filled with static drones, scorching electrical trills and gravely impressive Obscurity that defies mental health. You may never reach back to the surface… This is not a sludge record. This is not a drone record. This is not an experimental record. This is The Process. Released in co-operation by Kult of Nihilow and Kaos Kontrol. CD comes in special fold-out full colour carton sleeve. [press-release]
Spreu & Weizen -- "Gott Erhalt's. Roman Edition" -- CD-R -- €9
2010 UFA Muzak, UFA 37, (ltd. 100)
Martial / Neoclassic. The reissue of the best album of the German duo S&W is dedicated to honour the great European thinker - baron Julius Evola. His imperial superhuman ideas inspire those "last" people who still consider the traditional principles unbreakable. And martial industrial music scene honours his writings and contribution in the new conservative mentality against total bourgeois order. Steeping deep in the musical epic fields of the Aryan project we see a marching Roman column with a raised fascia, and through the rumble one can hear the roaring cry: "Going to death, we hail you!" On this album you'll find the rattling explosive martial with tragic neoclassic in vein of Von Thronstahl with lots of epic samples. "Romans had clear and aristocratic vision of the afterworld, very close to the spirituality of the "Olympic" type common for the period of all the great Indo-European civilizations. They did not fear death. They believed great men and heroes would have the priviledge of godlike and bright immortality..." - Julius Evola. 11 tracks, 60 minutes, pro-CDR, cardboard A5 sleeve + insert. [press-release]
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SRMeixner -- "Between The Lines" -- CD -- €10
2003 Dirter Promotions, DPROMCD 51
From the ashes of leading experimental outfit, Contrastate, comes the self-named srmeixner project. Electronic music and field recordings are utilised to create a sonic soundtrack to an apocalyptic world exploring a sense of space and architecture inspired by Daniel Libeskind's Jewish Museum in Berlin. This is music inspired by the past, but very much of the future. The music resembles minimal modern architecture, and is a perfect aural example of the 'less-is-more' principle. An excellent release. [Cold Spring]
Strangulated Beatoffs -- "Reverse Child Psychology" -- CD -- €10
2001 Nihilist, NIHIL 15
There are nine long tracks here, again based on tape loops of all sorts of music, but mainly these boys are into a sort of wacky sort of techno music, like in “Lightning Bolt Nightmares” or “(I’m) Big Dick Black” played with raw loops of guitar noises and phased synthesizer. Strange music, as each track is quite different from the rest, but it’s sort of a coherent style they present. Weird and raw, but then also quite accessible too. Simple, yet effective music which despite the fact that they use loops, which might easily leap into boredom. But it doesn’t. Nice one here. [Vital Weekly]
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Stumm -- "I" -- CD -- €10
2006 Aesthetic Death Records, ADCD 005, (ltd. 2000)
Sludge / doom from Finland.
Summoning -- "Lost Tales" -- mCD -- €3
2003/2008 Mazzar, MYST CD 374
Summoning’s Lost Tales features rare and unreleased tracks from the Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame album sessions. An exceptional treat for those enchanted by the call of Middle Earth! [label info] Russian market edition.
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Svartsinn -- "Of Darkness And Re-Creation" -- CD -- €12
2003/2010 Ewers Tonkunst, HHE 026 CD / Cyclic Law, , 5th Cycle, (ltd. 500)
First in a series of collaborations between Ewers Tonkunst and Cyclic Law, this is a re-issue of long sold out second Svartsinn album from the year 2003. "Of Darkness And Re-Creation" is a "collection of stories based on heavy mind struggles, emotional complicity or elegies which either leads to emptiness or dark places for a re-creation of the self image. Darkness is all around us or inside each and every one of us, let's not fear it.. Prosper in darkness..." (from the original edition release notes). Maybe most hopeless and desperate music ever done by Svartsinn's mastermind's Jan Roger Pettersen, it is definitely one of the classical works from this "new" generation of dark ambient artists that were gathered around Cyclic Law in the first decade of 2000's. This edition has completely new artwork and new mastering, it is limited to 500 copies and comes in a stylish monochrome mini LP-like cover with inner sleeve, both with some silkscreened elements. [press-release]
The Tirolen Horn Section -- "Almdudler" -- CD -- €10
2004 Atacama Records, a.r.14, (ltd. 300)
On the contrary to the folky bandname and CD title, this is absolutely NOT a new Alpine-Folk project! T.H.S. is a Electronic project from ATROX - ANTRACOT - BOLESKINE. Some tracks are really experimental with a lot of feedback, others have deep rhythms and/or are even mesmerising. A very strange but good listenable album with even more strange lyrics. Anyway worth to taste! [Steinklang]
Tole Ache -- "A Pure Black Night" -- CD-R -- €7
2003 Psych.KG, Psych.KG, (ltd. 200)
Classical European Old-School Industrial based on analogue synthesizers, samples and radionoise. DVD-box. [YAOP]
Topografia -- "Genius Loci" -- CD -- €10
2010 Greytone, grey005, (ltd. 500)
Another project by Maciej Banasik, known for his ambient/noise project ATUM. Genius Loci uses deep drones, acoustic instruments’ sounds and field recordings registered near the author’s place of living (Jaworzno). The project was inspired by the author’s personal fascination with the diversity of nature and the philosophy of Schopenhauer, who considered nature to be one of the most primaeval manifestations of a blind and aimless will, a will which we too are a part of. [label info]
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Trama afonA -- "s/t" -- CD -- €10
2010 Greytone, grey004
Trama afonA is the sound/visual project by Lorenzo Scacchia - an attempt to tramaphonise (convey) what he sees in the dark and hears into silence. This Cinematic Dark Ambient album constitutes the first official release, gathering tracks composed between 2005 and 2008. TA pays particular attention to individual and specific human stories, rather than to history... focusing on what happens behind the scenes, aside, beneath. Opening doors and drawers using the sole curiosity as tool, walking backwards the traces of memory, wandering amid shades and details given by mystery, decadence, abandon, romanticism. Carefully delving into psychological dynamics. Openly denouncing the social plagues, but often humbly providing just visual and sound suggestions. Digipak. [label info]
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Transistorwald -- "Birth of the Spirit Atom" -- CD-R -- €5
2010 Valgriind, VG 41, (ltd. 87)
Martial Industrial Ambient with elements of Neoclassic, themes on Nordic mythology, Ragnarok and the Third Reich. Features a cover version of Burzum track. Sleeve. [YAOP]
Troum -- "Eald-Ge-Streon" -- CD -- €14
2009 Beta-lactam Ring Records, mt181, (ltd. 500)
CD in a full color deluxe gatefold book bound cd case - single cd edition. Design, layout and artwork by Stephen O'Malley. Welcome to the Thunderdome. Troum’s bone-cracking reverberations respirate with such ferocity that all non-Troum molecules are blown away. Eald-Ge-Streon is a massive, rising beauty. It is a great becoming, and we are nothing but an ant in the afterbirth. Troum has set its controls beyond the heart of the Sunn. The pulsating inferno of these 7 drone concertos may require an insurance adjuster, but what a lovely way to burn. It is in your nature to do one thing correctly. Before Troum, you rightly tremble. But fear is not what you owe Troum. You owe Troum awe! [press-release]
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Uruk-Hai -- "Dragons Of War" -- CD -- €10
2005 Dragon's Breath Records, Dragon's Breath 001, (ltd. 1000)
Beautiful Martial Neoclassic Ambient from this Austrian artist working in various projects since early 80-ies. DVD-box, full-colour cover, insert. [YAOP]
Uruk-Hai -- "Lost Songs From Middle Earth" -- CD -- €10
2008 Aphelion Productions, AP034
Beautiful Martial Neoclassic Ambient from this Austrian artist working in various projects since early 80-ies. Jewel-case, 16-page colour booklet. [YAOP]
Utarm -- "Minus The Divine" -- CD -- €10
2009 Turgid Animal, TA406, (ltd. 300)
Utarm is Norway's Sindre Foss Skancke and "Minus The Divine" is the incredible new album released as follow up to 2007's "Mutilation Epoch". Experimental Black Metal and Noise rolled into one well composed and certainly exciting if not bizarre sounding album. All the best bits of Skullflower, early industrial and influences drawn from his countries native Black Metal underworld fighting for space amongst a backdrop of blackened Harsh Noise filth. [label info]
Valvula Antirretorno -- "Dios Existe" -- CD-R -- €10
2005 Slaughter Productions, SPCD55, (ltd. 100)
VALVULA ANTIRRETORNO is new spanish promising industrial, powerelectronic duo. "Dios Existe" featuring 5 tracks, a very nice work including as first track a great Esplendor Geometrico cover "quince anos tiene mi amor" rmx... really deranged and schizophrenic with smashing rythms and psycho's voice. Other tracks are excellent, from the more noisy to the more quiet.. like the last track "amen" a very ambient track with a very nice trick near the end. Highly recommended, very nice entertainment... Limited to 100 copies in standard jewel case. [press-release]
Vetrophonia -- "1987/1989" -- 2 CD-R -- €10
2010 ALF Produktion, ALF Produkt N14, (ltd. 48)
These two disks contain the prehistory of Vetrophonia we know now. The material was recorded in 1987-89 even before Alexander Lebedev-Frontov met Nick Soudnick. At first it was considered to be a Linija Mass album, but then obtained a separate sense and formed into a different project. The real Soviet noise collage industrial.
VoidWork -- "Horror/Forsaken" -- CD -- €14
2010 Black Drone, BDRL006
A beautiful release by VoidWork featuring Ann-Mari from Arcana on vocals. Comes in a 4-panel digipak. Horror/Forsaken is a double album based loosely on the concepts of fear, abandonment and mankind's meaningless place in an impersonal Universe. "Horror", the first half of the release, is relatively song oriented and was inspired musically by nineties dark wave, as well as traditional melodies of both Eastern and Western culture. "Forsaken" mainly carries traditional dark ambient influences and focuses on atmosphere rather than on conventional song structure or sound. Both dark halves come together to make a black whole that is organic in its origin and purpose. From waking to sleep, birth to death. [press-release]
Vresnit -- "Seed Solar" -- CD -- €10
2010 Vetvei, V13 / Aquarellist, aquarel 16-10, (ltd. 484)
Joint release of Aquarellist and Vetvei label - new Vresnit album recorded in winter-autumn 2010 in cooperation with Kshatriy, Hladna and Neznamo. Qualitatively new in project creativity a five-part ambient space dedicated to the Culture Solar beginnings and transfiguring seeds disseminating. Vresnit art is turned to research primary being experience, - human consciousness conditions being resonant to the general nature. Sparkling cosmogonic Drone Ambient twined from voices, string and wind instruments, bells, singing bowls, electronic instruments and field recordings. Great Kshatriy mastering, solar full-coloured envelope and card Vresnit & Vetvei art. [press-release]
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Vresnit -- "Seed Solar" -- CD -- €16
2010 Vetvei, V13 / Aquarellist, aquarel 16-10, (ltd. 13)
First 13 copies come with a special artwork on thick wooden board 30x27 cm and four additional cards.
ZHA -- "Noise of Native Order" -- CD-R -- €8
2010 Biosonar^Labirint 019, (ltd. 52)
A wonderful side-project of Ogni Videniy created with a film maker Sergey Zhigaltsov. Ritual ambient of purifying nature. Ringing and droning of live instruments weaves the net which catches spirits and feeds the body of music. Sound from the center, from the heart of action, from the shores of the Arctic Ocean. Each copy is handmade and handnumbered. [label info]
Zinc Room -- "Alley" -- CD-R -- €9
2006 self-released
Self-released CDR from a well known old school industrial project from the Urals, Russia. Two audio tracks and five professional videoclips with depressive perverted mood. Sleeve. [YAOP]
V/A -- "Hypercommunity" -- CD -- €10
2010 Aliens Production, AP 23, (ltd. 300)
After releases Signs and Hyperreality, AP label has again gathered under his shield synthetic palette of electronic community and is representing in the modern concept of electronic underground. Atmospheric flows and the volumes of spherical particles which impacts in our atmosphere and the particles under the shield of older and new sounding projects that are tuned to similar and equally resonating frequency. Tune in to AP label channel and to Hypercommunity. Again exclusive turnout and colorful complex sounds and hybrid rhythms presented by: Apparent Symmetry, dISHARMONY, Anhedonia, Lpf12, Miiktek, Sec1nine13, Cybo, In A Mindset, Oxyd, Headdreamer, Structural Fault, Ish, Liob, Furthest From The Cold. [press-release]
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V/A -- "The Information Apocalypse Compilation" -- CD -- €10
2002 Annihilvs, ANNIHILVS001, (ltd. 1000)
Navicon Torture Technologies, Gruntsplatter, Tarmvred, Lab Report, Converter, Wilt, Hollowing, Land:Fire, Control, Death Squad, Unter Null, Jarl, Nothing, Abfall.
V/A -- "Melting Works" -- 2 CD-R -- €10
2002 Hammasratas, HK-20
Gelsomina, Perkust, Agnosia, The Nihilistik Kitchen Unit, Toni Kandelin, Cloama, Lasse Marhaug, Barfly, Grunt, Audiofolio, Alchemy Of The 20th Century, Verde, Hinageshi Bondage, Tubus Suffocate, Zeist, Uton, Paraffin Affiliates, Zomba El Mentaur, Molder Bate, Depther.
V/A -- "Signs" -- CD -- €10
2005 Aliens Production, AP 10, (ltd. 550)
After a many cooperations and single releases has been again released interesting work from the workshop of aliens production, that presents new face of electro culture and with its content brings exclusive materials not only from slovak and czech underground electro scene. This cd is in fact a sort of review of industrial generation, that isn't a rookie on the scene. Besides one czech and more slovak projects this project has supported with its unchangeable sound french formation FLINT GLASS, german electro pioneer POLYGON, that exclusive materials you can only find at this release. I believe, that you'll let your inside open and make a space for your senses of hearing and so you can enjoy in this review of industrial blocks, ambiental atmospheres and magical electronics that will for sure widen your views and take you deep into the waters of electro underground. [press-release] Featuring: Anima Mundi, Samhain, Flint Glass, Disharmony, Vortex, Terminal State, mindMap, Gaping Chasm, Oxyd, Depressive Disorder, Tension, Polygon.
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Alec Empire -- "Kiss Of Death" -- 7" -- €12
2005 Digital Hardcore Recordings, DHR44ER, (ltd. 1000)
Apzolut -- "Rub Disturbly On This" -- 7" -- €9
2006 LoMechanik, LOMEK 005
Bauri / Erik Levander -- "Jan Emanuel Whiskey 40" -- 7" -- €8
2002 Jonathon Whiskey, 40, (ltd. 250)
Bola -- "Soup" -- 2 LP -- €21
1998 Skam, SKALP002
Edenflux -- "This Stickpony Kills Fascists" -- 12" -- €14
2007 Label Haters, LBH-001, (ltd. 200)
Flying Lotus -- "Cosmogramma" -- 2 LP -- €28
2010 Warp Records, WARPLP195
Fractional -- "Come Mierda" -- 12" -- €9
2008 Brume Records, BRUME 19
Leech Woman -- "No Name" -- 12" -- €11
2009 Quai Loh Records, LEGION 1202
Maclaurin, Angus -- "Glass Music" -- 12" -- €11
Bubble Core Records, BC-031
Noize Creator -- "12 Long Hours / Part Of The Dead" -- 12" -- €12
2008 Active Underground, AU09
Raquel De Grimstone -- "Liber Cordis Cincti Serpente" -- 7" -- €11
2002 Mirex, mirex 006, (ltd. 500)
Ruoho, Esa -- "Spaces" -- 12" -- €12
2001 Inc.us, inc.us 05
Sand -- "Robins Wurl / Bol" -- 12" -- €12
1998 Satellite, STL 006
Supply Module -- "My Early Vote Against Everyone" -- 10" -- €11
2007 Zero71 Recordings, Z71.SM.1001
Tele:Funken -- "Breakdown Test" -- 7" -- €8
1999 Domino Recording Company Ltd., RUG 85
Vendor Refill -- "Sysreq EP" -- 12" -- €12
2002 Coredump Records, core_002
Verbose -- "Observe" -- LP -- €20
2004 Warp Records, WAP 172
V/A -- "Polymorphik Piece I/III" -- LP -- €21
2004 PuZZling Rec., PUZZ 003, (ltd. 615)
Michael Manteca, Crotchet, Noize Creator, Rony & Suzy, Etschaberry, Dino Felipe, Undacova, E25 Corporate, Subskan, Xanopticon.
V/A -- "Polymorphik Piece III/III" -- LP -- €21
2005 PuZZling Rec., PUZZ 005, (ltd. 800)
Rony & Suzy, A.L.F., Exillon & Cdatakill, Polymorphik, Etschaberry, Noize Creator, Dev/Null, E25 Corporate.
Guilty Connector / Maaaa -- "split" -- MC -- €6
2010 Triangle, TR-45 / XV Parowek, XVP73 / Chaosynod, CHSN009, (ltd. 100)
Short blast by 2 providers of premium demolished sound. Guilty Connector (Japan) - deep wall of static and junk with good bass, Maaaa (Poland/Russia) - rapid load of distorted waste and dog barking. C10 tape, with pro printed sides + audio replication, color cover, standard box, wrapped. [press-release]
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Nox -- "Thul Okgha" -- MC -- €5
2009 Frozen Wings Records, FWR007
Shamanik Occult Ambient. Full-colour cover and silk-screened cassette. [YAOP]
Pustota -- "Vmesto Togo (Instead of That)" -- MC -- €8
2010 Biosonar^Lo-End 002tape, (ltd. 13)
Field-recording project of E.S. (Lunar Abyss Deus Organum, Hattifnatter, Anamezon, Boevye Cikady, Ritualnaya Bioingeneria, Navia). Live recording of the performance from the art-apartment "VMesto". A play of recordings of natural and technogenic character, reprt from the trip over mountains, seas and cities. DIY fetish artwork made of found photos and postcards. [label info]
Radiostalking -- "No Dreams / Aviagrottos" -- MC -- €8
2010 Biosonar^Lo-End 001tape, (ltd. 9)
Radionoise project of E.S. (Lunar Abyss Deus Organum, Hattifnatter, Anamezon, Boevye Cikady, Ritualnaya Bioingeneria, Navia). Dense hypnotic radionoise, deep insight of the rough structures of multidimensional crackles and hisses, changes of radio ether drone caused by aircrafts taking off from the nearby aerodrome. Monotonous tracks, one for each side. DIY fetish artwork made of found photos and postcards. [label info]
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A Challenge Of Honour -- "Ashigaru Revealed" -- CD -- €10
2008 Eternal Pride Productions, EPP 012
"Warrior's way means death. When there are two ways to choose, choose the one that leads to death. Don’t argue! Direct your thoughts to the way you’d prefer, and follow …" The latest work from one of the most prominent and outstanding Martial / neoclassical European projects. Continuation of music Odyssey began 7 EP - box-set "Ashigaru and dedicated to warrior’s traditions of medieval Japan. Graceful and epic cocktail of atmospheric neoclassical passages, Japanese drums and rhythms. The album is released as appealing digi-pack, its design in classical Japanese style was created by Peter Savelkoul. [press-release]
A Challenge Of Honour -- "Leonidas" -- CD -- €13
2009 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 120
The City of Sparta was once one of the biggest military state within Greece, the most famous Spartan king was Leonidas. A Challenge of Honour re-arranged lost material from his archive and created an Epic soundtrack in honour of king Leonidas, the ruler of Sparta! For this album A Challenge of Honour has once more returned to his sound of the legendary Seven Samurai recordings to try to get the right atmosphere for this journey into ancient history. Expect heavy percusion and powerful orchestral brass work combined with choirs and marching drums. [label info]
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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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Alisa-Yhtye -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €6
2009 Triangle Records, [TR042], (ltd. 100)
Grigory Avrorin makes noise since 1997. He started in a band TALONOV NET, and after it's breakup continued to improve his skills in heir band TEA MAN WITH TEA GUM. Later there were such projects as SOVIET SEX MACHINES, MONOPOLKA and some more. In the last years Avrorin paid more attention to his solo work. His noise researches are presented to the audience under various titles, the most known of them are GRA, FREDRIKSON, CHELOVEK V SHTANAH, FON-BARON, DOKTOR KINCHEV, NOISE WENDY, ALISA-YHTYE, HUREN AQUARIUM, VIOLINIST IN ASSHOLE, G. Avrorin. Most of his works have their own recognisable sound, namely dirty, disharmonic and aurally disgusting. ALISA-YHTYE is not an exception and represents junk industrial mixed with scrap noise. Nevertheless it sounds very noble and traditional, the listener immediately feels the atmosphere of late 80-s - early 90-s. Sluggish hardly heard noise is interlaced with metal gritting and percussion. Feedback whistles quietly, and G. Avrorin leisurely emits another cloud of cigarrete smoke. Noble old school industrial noise. [press-release]
All My Faith Lost... -- "In A Sea, In A Lake, In A River .. ...Or In A Teardrop" -- CD -- €10
2002/2009 Infinite Fog Productions, IF-04, (ltd. 1000)
Allerseelen -- "Venezia" -- CD -- €13
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]
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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Aube -- "Ambera Planeta Wawar" -- CD -- €10
2007 Autarkeia, acd 025
AUBE Ambera Planeta Wawar goldenCD was the first bootleg issued by AUTARKEIA label. However, after the author Akifumi Nakajima apologised to us for his "negligence“, the misunderstandings between AUTARKEIA and Akifumi were cleared out. In the meantime after the author recognised the bootleg, AUBE Ambera Planeta Wawar goldenCD has acquired a new status. This publication has become an official release of the project, while its previous concept (that of a bootleg) became meaningless. The exclusive record by the Japanese genius is based on excellent psychedelic ambient and the collages of extreme, structural noise music. The release is sold in an elegant digipack, which is probably the first in AUBE history. [press-release]
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Aube -- "Dazzle Reflexion" -- CD -- €10
1997 The Releasing Eskimo, IGLOO 007, (ltd. 500)
All composed, mixed, recorded and designed by Akifumi Nakajima at Studio MECCA, Kyoto December 1995 to February 1996; except original version of "Closed Radiant" recorded November 1994 using only the sounds of the fluorescent and glow lamps as source material.
Aube -- "Redintegration" -- CD-R -- €11
2002 G.R.O.S.S., GRCDR2002-RED, (ltd. 202)
Material: percussion synthesizer Amdek PCK-100.
Aube -- "RM4" -- CD -- €10
2002 Ultra-Mail Prod., U.M.P.-001, (ltd. 1000)
Rusty metal was the sound source for this work of japanese master. Absolutely abstract soundscapes, droning and ringing, very intelligent soundwork. Hypnotic minimalism. One of the tracks has been previously releasen on home label of Akifumi Nakajima - G.R.O.S.S. - as a 3" CD-R limited to 22 copies.
Autopsia -- "The Knife" -- CD -- €10
1989/1992 Staalplaat, STCD 020
Reissue of the 12" originally released by Staalplaat in 1989. Features two bonus tracks. "Solemn piano, rising strings and bells, synthetic horns, al overwhelming with a blinding sense of ancient powers and glorious triumph. Music for these new dark ages." [miki, Discogs.com]
Bad Sector -- "CMASA" -- CD -- €13
2009 Power & Steel, PAS 23
In 2005 Massimo Magrini was invited to provide a soundtrack for the M3M art exhibition in Pisa/Italy. The exhibition was based around images of the seaside and the rivers estuary of Pisana area with CMASA airplane factory built there in it's centre vis a vis of archaic marine cottages. This marvelous seaside scenery mixed with vintage industrial locations, together with some kind of nostalgia, created an unexpected but amazing mood. To sculpture a soundtrack of this scenery Massimo Magrini was asked to use acoustic and natural sounds too and so he added for this work treated piano and snippets of acoustic guitars together with water sounds and metal samples. This may sound unusual for a BAD SECTOR release but all those new elements are perfectly blent into the massive and ambient soundwaves for what previous releases are known for and making CMASA probably to the most emotional album of Massimo Magrini to date. All initial exhibition sounds where regenerated, remastered and re-assembled during 2007-2009. Digipack. [press-release]
Big City Orchestra -- "Eerily" -- CD -- €13
2009 EE Tapes, EE17, (ltd. 300)
Blood Box -- "The Iron Dream" -- CD -- €11
2004 Eibon Records, Blo047
Bringing dark ambient to a new dimension... Coming from the genius mind of Michael JV Hensley (YEN POX & HOLLOW EARTH), BLOOD BOX became a sort of CULT for the dark ambient freaks thanks to the previous cd "A world of hurt", whose monstrously deep droning ambient created an ideal soundtrack to the apocalypse. A million miles away from earth, in the empty vaults of space, where collapsing stars cry and solar winds blow, BLOOD BOX captures the anxiety of a moaning universe. The chants of a dying supernova, the sound of a multi-dimensional worm-hole, where gravitational gradients capture light and turn it into a formless singularity... To the end of night... [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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Brume -- "After The Battle (A Chronicle Of The Joy Of Life)" -- CD -- €13
2009 EE Tapes, EE18, (ltd. 300)
Cities Last Broadcast -- "The Cancelled Earth" -- CD -- €14
2009 Cyclic Law, 21st Cycle, (ltd. 1000)
Coph Nia -- "Shape Shifter" -- CD -- €13
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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Derniere Volonte -- "Obeir Et Mourir" -- 2 CD -- €30
Nuit Et Broulliard, NB.CD.06
Re-issue of the mythical double tape-boxset released by La Nouvelle Alliance in 1998 in a limited and numbered edition of 120 copies (L.N.A. 01). Only 90 were finally edited that time. All original material was entirely remastered and seven unreleased tracks from the same recording sessions were added for a tolal length of about 140 mns/28 tracks. Unlike to the recent releases of this French one-man project "Obéir et Mourir" includes neither any singing nor pop-influences. The sound here is a great blending of dark ambient soundscapes, militaristic percussion samples and tape-voices taken from World War II' documentaries. Powerful anthems march in front of melodic tracks and oppressive atmospheres reflecting perfectly the climate of the 30's and of the 40's made of fury, pain and tears… "Obéir et mourir" is nothing but an audio and visual illustration of these dark days... The two CDs come in cardboard cover with a 14 postcard-set, housed in a deluxe dark green boxset with embossed front-picture and bronze printings. [press-release]
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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Gelsomina -- "Nostalghia" -- CD -- €10
2004/2006 Cipher Productions, (sic 28) / Musically Incorrect Records, MIRCD2, (ltd. 500)
The name Gelsomina was encountered before, on a bunch of CDR compilations from Finnish Musically Incorrect Records, who also released 'Rautavaara'. The first ten tracks on 'Nostalgia' were originally released by Smell The Stench in 2004 as a cassette. Gelsomina is the nom de plume for Pekka PT, who is credited for 'noise' and noise is what we get. Loud obnoxious feedback and distortion, the full works are here. Unlike others in this field, Gelsomina has 'depth', has 'variation' and has 'skil' - three factors not always present in the work of the lesser imaginative noise makers. Even when Gelsomina walks the paths of noise that is now paved like a highway and no longer a 'find your way in the bush', he still does a pretty fine job, pretty much along the lines of a good Merzbow. One of the better noise makers I encountered recently. [Vital Weekly]
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Gravitar -- "Edifier" -- CD -- €10
2001 Manifold Records, mancd27
Experimental improvised rock music with traditional for rock bands instruments: drums, guitars, effects, vocals. At the same time there's no "song" structure at all, the music is in permanent change which is more peculiar to electronic musicians, varying from calm acoustic pieces to almost noise themes.
Green Army Fraction -- "Caste War - Back In Their Place" -- CD -- €11
2006 Steinklang Industries, SK38
Green Army Fraction travels through the totality of Indo-Europa, from the far East to the high North, to present you his personal vision of individuality and collective consciousness in the light of the Absolute and the Self. A metaphysical speculation wrapped in harsh and well structured power electronics, crowned with screaming dirtorted and clean vocals and many fine samples. Songtitles like "Yggdrasil 3000" and "Heliga Nord" round the album to a powerful conceptual work about Eurasian understanding of spirituality. [press-release]
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Gruntsplatter -- "Chronicling The Famine" -- CD -- €10
2003 Desolation House, DH-0200, (ltd. 1000)
The enigmatic Gruntsplatter is a malleable creature that hovers in the gray area between abrasive noise and dark ambient by combining the atmosphere of one with the density of the other. Evocative and subtle in its detail, its mood and depth of composition are incredibly refined. Gruntsplatter also draws, though somewhat esoterically, from literature, history, and the death rattles and rituals of an eroding gene pool. [press-release]
Herbst9 -- "The Gods Are Small Birds, But I Am The Falcon" -- CD -- €13
2008 Loki Foundation, LOKI 48The all new album of Herbst9 is a step further into the depths of the Assyrian and Asian mythologies, using authentic audio and visual fragments of sacrifices, lamentations, prayers and ancient rituals. The result is a deep labyrinth of sounds with meditative percussions, ghostly vocal fragments and singings which melts with detailed and multi-layered tones of various traditional instruments. All this is constructed around a core of dark and ongoing floating drones creating an atmosphere of true archaic music which has been developed by Herbst9 to perfection. This soundtrack is the secrecy from the deep and hidden places of the sacred earth transcending us beyond the real world to the inner realm of ourselves. The CD is presented in 6-panel digipack. [press-release]
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Hildebrand, Gustav -- "Starscape" -- CD -- €14
2004 Cyclic Law, 7th Cycle
Known from his Lithium (CMI) project and his collaboration with Karjalan Sissit and now working under his own name, Gustaf Hildebrand takes us through the sonic confines of space with his own vision of how space could aurally be experienced. First pressing of 500 copies in textured fold out sleeve. [press-release]
Inner Vision Laboratory -- "Anywhere Out Of The World" -- CD -- €10
2010 Beast Of Prey, bop 7.0, (ltd. 500)
This new album by a Polish group explores the phenomenon of Ambient music. The project's use of surround sound, its combination of various styles and field recording methods makes it characteristic and easily recognizable. 'Anywere Out Of This World' will take you on an amazing journey into the world created by INNER VISION LABORATORY, a journey which will inspire your heart and spirit. This journey resonates with echoing sounds and folk songs invariably connected to Mother Earth. This album has a spirit - the spirit of Earth. On 'Anywhere Out Of This World' you will find perfectly arranged and well-balanced ambient compositions, spatial collages underpinned by folklore, which emphasizes the album's specific nature. As usual, suitable piano parts reflect the record's character. This over-50-minute album contains 11 tracks and is available in a full-colour Digipak. Edition of 500 copies. The album should appeal to those who enjoy tranquil, diverse, dark-ambient sounds similar in fashion to Raison D'etre, Desiderii Marginis, Asmorod, etc. [press-release]
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Interior Disposition -- "Taedium Vitae" -- CD -- €7
2010 Nihil Art Records, NAR 002, (ltd. 500)
Dark drone ambient. The album is dedicated to memory of Italian musician Marco Corbelli, the only member of project Atrax Morgue. On May, 6th, 2007 at the age of 36 years old he has committed suicide. New album of Interior Disposition "Taedium Vitae" is the attempt to glance in the painful world of the Italian artist. [label info]
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Karjalan Sissit -- "Fucking Whore Society" -- CD -- €14
2009 Cyclic Law, 25rd Cycle, (ltd. 2000)
At last, Karjalan Sissit return after 4 years of relative silence with their most obscure and harshest work ever. Fucking whore society is an anger and Vodka fueled bombastic opus inspired by the world's psychopathic state. A revolt against the cruel and sickly ways of today’s society and a visceral and personal statement denouncing betrayal. Karjalan Sissit have masterfully expanded their signature sound with dense ambient passages and unsettling vocals all combined with their intensely unique orchestral passages, presenting us their best and most intense work yet. Produced by Peter Bjärgö (Arcana / Sophia). Edition of 2000 copies In A5 gatefold cardboard sleeve. [press-release]
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Karjalan Sissit -- "Karjalasta Kajahtaa" -- CD -- €14
2004/2009 Cyclic Law, 8th Cycle, (ltd. 1000)
The Finnish pioneer is back from the degenerated and alcoholized Swedish ghetto of Eskilstuna. 3rd full lenght from Markus Pesonen who now dove deeper into total Melancholy, Anti socialism, Bitterness, Disintegration and Alcoholism. Filled with what has defined KARJALAN SISSIT's sound thus far: Bombastic outbursts of Neo classical arrangements entwined in traditional Finnish Humppa and deep industrial sonorities. The songs were this time fiercly enhanced with some added vocals giving the whole album a much more aggressive touch. Again produced by Peter Bjärgö at Erebus Odora, this new album definitely stands above it's predecessors. Edition of 1000 copies in A5 book. 2nd edition. [press-release]
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Maaaa -- "Kello On Soinut" -- MC -- €6
2008 B-Rush, [B-33], (ltd. 20)
First side of this cassette was recorded in 2007 and sent to Belgian musique concrete label Kourlyk which was closed soon after releasing because of serious desease of it's owner. A year later the project decided to put out this release on a small Karelian label with some new material for the B-side. The release has been delayed for several times because of strange events happening with project members and the publisher during the work on this release. Musically this differs a lot from what Maaaa has been doing before - the A-sise contains one long YAOP-like track composed from concrete samples of squeaking doors, ticking clocks, sirens, etc. Second part is more multi-layered: field recordings, occasional sounds, voice mantras, screams - all this merges into whole obscurely bewitching picture in vein of early works of :Zoviet France:. Artwork - orange cover, all information is typewritten, similar insert - everything is packed in a sewn mitten with attached hand bell. [press-release]
Maeror Tri -- "Hypnobasia / Ultimate Time" -- 2 CD-R -- €20
2005 Old Europa Cafe, OECDR 005, (ltd. 300)
Re-edition of two cassettes released on Old Europa Cafe in 1992 and 1994 with a bonus-track from the same period.
McKaras -- "Right To Stay Bestial!" -- CD -- €10
2008 Autarkeia, acd 032
The tracks of the album Right to Stay Bestial! have been recorded at least thirteen years ago. It travelled through the hands of lovers of dark electronics, among the Lithuanian underground people, in the form of a re-recorded CRD. Everyone admired depressing atmosphere, spite and sterile aggression of this disc. Today, the album author McKaras (McWAR) newly interpreted the old tracks, complemented them with a number of various samples and produced a new master. The results is an esp. fine, newly sounding album, the style of which can hardly be defined. Some may think it is hard techno, yet dancing is hardly possible to this rhythmic music. Gloomy atmosphere, aggressive rhythms, psychedelic loops will push the audience into heavy criminal and politically incorrect mood. The album is ideally suited for listening in the car driven towards criminal purposes. However, bear in mind the punishment, will you? Mckaras is to techno as Darkthrone is to black metal perhaps. [press-release]
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Muslimgauze vs. Species Of Fishes -- "s/t" -- CD -- €13
2007 Tourette 003
Bryn [Jones] took 2 different albums of Species of Fishes to create this album. Because this is a remix, we get some different sounds than usual for a Muslimgauze release, which is nice! There are still occasional Arabic voices, and overall this release has a pleasant sound to it overall, not as 'challenging' as some Muslimgauze can be, but there are still spots that make you take hold, like, wow, what an ear piercing first song! This looped whistle gets into your head and makes the world a different place. Dubby sounds on track 2 with the trademark dropouts of Muslimgauze. There are other tracks with sharp sounds, but they aren't distorted like on some other releases - just the sharp without the static. This is a cool release for Muslimgauze. Some are take it or leave it, but this one is worth hearing. [EAR/Rational] Previously released in 1999 on Species Of Fishes (FCD 01). The original tracks from Species Of Fishes albums "Songs Of A Dumb World" and "Trip Trap" were used for this remix project. All remixes, summer/autumn 1998.
Navicon Torture Technologies -- "Scenes From The Next Millennium" -- CD -- €10
2001 Malignant Records, TUMOR CD15
After numerous underground tape releases and live actions, the much anticipated disc of this long standing member of the NYPE crew has arrived. Navicon presents an infinitely bleak and apocalyptic vision that transcends what's normally classified as power electronics. This is the sound of a post nuclear-war society, where war machines shudder and grind in endless cycles, and the black soot of dying factory production fills the poisonous air. Structured elements of loops and samples meld with caustic textures, erupting amidst bridled chaos and pulsating waves of white hot, saturated noise and distortion. An anguished, confrontational vocal presence makes itself known, exploding in a cathartic aggression brought on by suppressed demons and festering hate. [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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The Nordic Miracle -- "We Shall Provide" -- CD -- €10
2002 Humbug, Humbug009
For this first album as The Nordic Miracle, Jazzkammer's Lasse Marhaug and Origami Arktika's Tore Boe have collected their first three live performances, "unedited and unprocessed," presented between December 2000 and September 2001. All three are ferocious slabs of harsh noise in the most extreme, unruly way (think pre-laptop Merzbow or Government Alpha). Their sheer power turns them into physical experiences, but despite their blatant in-your-face nature, they hide clever twists and a bizarre sense of contrasting a propos. Don't try too hard to find relations between the referential titles and the musical contents. If you manage to find something by Bach or The Beatles in there, you may be listening to the wrong record. There is a guitar chord buried somewhere in the middle of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," but that's about it. Everything else is raging analog and digital noise. The aforementioned track makes good use of "outbursts" of silence (yes, in this context silence feels almost more violent than noise), while "Bach; Die Johannes-Passion BWV 245" can almost become ambient it is so relentlessly deafening. Followers of the Origami Arktika constellation, and even Jazzkammer fans, will be surprised by the brutality of this material. [Francois Couture, All Music Guide]
Nordvargr -- "In Oceans Abandoned By Life I Drown... To Live Again As A Servant Of Darkness" -- CD -- €13
2007 Essence Music, ESS008, (ltd. 800)
Nostalgia -- "The House On The Borderland" -- CD -- €11
2005 Ars Benevola Mater, ABM 18
O Paradis -- "Pequenas Canciones De Amor" -- CD -- €13
2008 Tourette, tourette 005
Sixth full-length release from our favourite Catalonian troubadour, with a somewhat more light-hearted and poppy spirit than their previous CD. 17 tracks of the stripped-down, lugubrious Latin pop which is the trademark sound of the band Pure Mediterranean sunshine. Also features a cover of Bob Dylan's "It Ain't Me, Babe". File next to Spiritual Front, Division S, Mushroom's Patience etc. Digipak. [Cold Spring]
O Paradis / Escama Serrada -- "La Corte Del Rey Pescador / La Reina Este Mala" -- 2 CD -- €23
2009 Tourette, tourette 007/008, (ltd. 300)
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]
Origami Galaktika / i: Wound / Inderst Elia -- "Monolake" -- CD -- €10
2005 Purple Soil, pulse zero: three
Repress of the most beautiful of several live collaborations of these projects. Recorded already in 2000 in Oslo, originally released as limited CD-R on AMBERMUSIC year later, using fragments from still legendary, but still unreleased ORIGAMI GALAKTIKA “Laos Vegas” album, this high-peak of live ambience comes again carefully re-mastered from the original minidisk (by Karel Kourek, man responsible for the sound of all recent h3o and OOPHOI albums) and re-packaged in nice paper fold-out cover. [label info]
Paranoia Inducta -- "Pia Fraus" -- CD -- €10
2008 Beast Of Prey, bop 5.8, (ltd. 444)
"Pia Fraus” is second part of the Lux Mundi trilogy. This trilogy is a tribute to all those who died, were killed, deceived, humiliated and oppressed by chatolic church. It's a tribute to all those victims who instead of love and hope were given torment and death. More than 50 minutes long album, on whitch the creator of Paranoia Inducta, Anthony A. Destroyer once again invited eLL from Sui Genesis Umbra nad Robert Marciniak from Rukkanor. Second act in red symbolises the cardinal color. And as the first album that was violet, symbolising the bishop and rachbishop state, the "Pia Fraus" is dedicated to all victims of cardinals. Dark ambient album with specific atmosphere of death and industrial sounds, choirs, songs and voices. The style from "Gloria Laus" was kepted. The cd is unusualy released - red coverwith 12-page booklet filled with graphics marching every track. The booklet is inside specially designed cross-shaped envelope and sealed. In front of the cover we find sign along the red seal. All together is wrapped in a foil and hand-made marked with serial number in limited edition of 444 pieces. [press-release]
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Propergol -- "Tormentor" -- 7" -- €8
2003 Nuit Et Brouillard, NB V 01, (ltd. 1000)
First 7" and vinyl release for this French confirmed project. "Tormentor" is dealing with usual PROPERGOL’s intimate obsessions and again music is nothing less than a reflection and an exploration of his confused and chaotic innerworld... Tracks are made of nervous, repetitive and hypnotic pulsations as well as noise injections and vocals in the typical PROPERGOL’s style made of anger and despair underlying his personal oversensitivity... With this 7", PROPERGOL takes you both to a trip to places overwhelming with imagination and to a mental journey on the sinuous and unhealthy roads of neurosis when your own imagination is becoming your most intimate enemy. Like a nice musical score on schizophrenia... Deluxe packaging on a glossy fold-out cover plus postcard. [press-release]
Psychonaut 75 -- "Stealing the Fire from Heaven" -- CD -- €9
2002 Memento Mori, MORI 15
The debut album of this side-project of Valefor, dark rhythmic dance industrial with alchemical background.
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Rapoon / Cisfinitum -- "Mental Travellers" -- CD -- €12
2006 Ewers Tonkunst, HHE 012 CD, (ltd. 500)
"Mental Travellers" is a collaboration work created by mail during the year 2006. This record could be considered as an attempt to find the very deep basic background which is common for all the people independent of cultural environment or political barriers between nations and states. The delving into the very depth of the heart exposes these common roots, and "Mental Traveller" shows it perfectly with its complex structure and at the same time simple integrity. It is an excellent blend of both artists' distinctive features - the esoteric rhythmic patterns and mystical rustles by Robin Storey is intertwined with subtle and beautiful drone ambient waves by Eugene Voronovsky. The result is quite diverse and captivating, and most of the compositions remind us more of early Zoviet France than current Rapoon or Cisfinitum works. The final track called "Eurasia" features Russian ethnic female singer Toloka, whose archaic chanting makes a very natural conclusion for this mental travel to humanity's primordial roots. The CD comes in a full-colour fold-out digisleeve with artwork by Robin Storey, this edition is limited to 500 copies only. [press-release]
Reformed Faction -- "Until..." -- CD -- €13
2010 Greytone, grey002
"Until…" by Reformed Faction is a new set of recordings built around the ideas of abstract compositional instructions similar in meaning and intent to those used by Karlheinz Stockhausen in such works as “From the seven days”. Eager to create a diverse and ever changing catalogue of works Reformed Faction here embrace improvisation, a feature fundamental to all their recordings, with a different focus and sensibility allowing sounds to evolve slowly and sub-conciously across a unrestricted timescale. Reformed Faction are Robin Storey and Mark Spybey, both ex-members of zoviet*france and both with long established and productive solo careers as Rapoon and Dead Voices On Air respectively. [label info]
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Sanfilippo, Bruno -- "Auralspace" -- CD -- €12
2009 AD21 Music, ad110
Sanfilippo, Bruno -- "InTRO" -- CD -- €12
2006 AD21music, ad107
From the start, InTRO sets a relaxing, reflective mood. Sanfilippo maintains a consistent mood, which means the CD makes an ideal sountrack for relaxing and thinking. Eno has suggested that ambient music must be listenable as well as ignorable, supporting various levels of attention, and the tracks on InTRO are excellent examples of this idea. Highlights of the CD include InTROpiano, which recalls Vangelis Memories of Green and the Brian Eno/Harold Budd classic, The Pearl; and InTROvoices, which uses wordless voice sounds to create a choral and even orchestral texture. InTRO is one of the finest ambient releases we've heard this year. [Synthtopia.com]
Sanfilippo, Bruno -- "Piano Textures" -- CD -- €12
2007 AD21 Music, ad108
“Piano Textures” is an introspective album which offers center stage for the processed sounds of a Grand old piano from 1923, accompanied by some synthesizers, duduk and samples of strings. All eight tracks have a more or less cinematic impact, their sounds tap from some kind of subconscious source, breathing a sense of melancholy that was also found in his former recordings... [Bert Strolenberg, E-dition magazine]
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santAAgostino -- "Operazione Paura" -- CD -- €10
2010 Greytone, grey002
SantAAgostino tell of the Noises from Beyond the Gate. SantAAgostino play the Journey of No Return from the Death Phase. SantAAgostino sing the Dark Zone of those who met the pain-soaked Demiurge and came back to Earth without forgiveness for their sins. SantAAgostino write about the laments and the looks of those who saw beyond the coma and came back. SantAAgostino feel the return of those who died and are reborn more rotten and foul than before. Operazione Paura is a tribute to music and cosmos energy: the same energy that santAAgostino trio was permeated with during the opus and the esecution of the pieces. Operazione Paura is a total turning not just for the band but for dark, ambient music and noise, generally speaking. That’s because santAAgostino is like a meteor crashed onto the Earth disarranging all the balances, rhythmes and cycles. After the crash the planet seems to be perished but, in the inner part, the new fire of life is burning. A brand new energy developed in a new way of living, of thinking and being. Operazione Paura speaks of the filmic and horrorific fear, mind trap “to kill” atavistic thoughts and all those mental factors that trapped the man into a selfmade cage in his own mind, through the mind itself. Operazione Paura is an awl that, slowly but inexorably, drives the listener to a dimension where there is no thought, no images, no more conceptualizing, nothing still exhists: there is just a huge solitary desert now, where sounds spontaneously flow creating new monster beyond space and time. It’s a place where new divine dynasties born, spreading their seed, in order to bear a brand new reign far from the borders that we can’t even imagine. [press-release]
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Simulacrum -- "Upuaut" -- CD -- €10
Old Europa Cafe, OECD 069
3rd full length album by this great Slovakian project! "Upuaut" means in old Egyptian: "that (man), who opens a door", this album is less ambient than the previous two, containing great tantric rythms (sometimes reminding to the best Rapoon...), many sampled voices & droning, mystic, hypnotic & sexual sounds... the perfect soundtrack for your rituals. [label info]
Sinke Dus -- "Akrasia" -- CD -- €14
2007 Cyclic Law, 19th Cycle
Akrasia is an old question dealing with the weakness of the will. To behave "akratically" is when one acts against his better judgement, committing acts that are known to be wrong but yet still going through with the motion. Markus Lonebrink wanted to explore not so much the philosophical issues at hand, but rather the subjective experience of akrasia itself. To learn of the underlying motives of when one acts akratically. Certain events in the akratic process felt natural to him and it was those he tried to integrate into these soundscapes. There are no conclusions described in the music, but there might be a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel and perhaps the shadow of a hint of why we humans sometimes act as irrationally as we do. A shared quest to gain better knowledge of oneself through this self-revisionistic ambient journey filled with ethereally lush passages that give way to a truly visionary and immersive experience.
The album also features a special collaboration with Par Bostrom of KAMMARHEIT. In fold out gatefold cardboard sleeve. [press-release]
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Sol Invictus -- "In The Rain" -- CD -- €10
2007 Eternal Pride Productions / Infinite Fog Productions, EPP 009 / IF-02, (ltd. 300)
One of the fundamental and significant albums of the world's dark folk stage. The Russian edition comprises an exclusive bonus-track. The limited to 300 copies edition. Release only for Russia area. [press-release]
Stahlwerk 9 -- "Der Tod Nagelt Die Augen Zu..." -- CD -- €11
2006 Steinklang Industries, SK37
The new album of Germans grandmaster of death ambient. On this album the artist presents his noisy side. Still it sounds like a typical Stahlwerk 9 album, but loaded with dronning and pulsating noise sequences and deep voices from the valley of death. [press-release]
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Stratvm Terror -- "Genetic Implosion" -- CD -- €12
2000/2009 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 029
Long time sold out and very requested album, finally here comes the re-print. The powerful side project by Peter Andersson aka "Raison D’Etre". 7 studio tracks & for the first time on digital format 3 live tracks recorded in 1998 during the Nursery Injection Festival in Stockholm. The sound is getting more harsh & powerful than on the two previous cd releases. 56 minutes of great and uncompromising power-electronics. Dark and painful sounds with few filtered voices coming from a cold hell. All implosions treated by Peter Andersson and Tobias Larsson between 1997-1999. [press-release]
Svartsinn -- "Elegies For The End" -- 2 CD -- €20
2009 Cyclic Law, 26th Cycle, (ltd. 1000)
The 4th album by Norwegian dark ambient act, Svartsinn, shows a more melodic yet rather obscure side of the artist. 2009 is the 10th year of Svartsinn's existence and it has inspired Pettersen to try a different approach and to experiment with some new ideas. This new musical journey deals with sadness and melancholy, about not knowing one's place in this vast and at times uninviting world, how it can become a daily torment to not be able to find one's reason to exist. And it's also about finding one's personal path, finding ways to endure and hopefully transcend these engulfing life challenges... The Double CD includes a unique collaboration track with Dahlia's Tear and a 10 years anniversary bonus disc containing exclusive remixes by Triarii, Kammarheit, Letum, Life Toward Twilight, Gustaf Hildebrand, Tenebrious, New Risen Throne, MGriffin, Visions and Hovmod. All acts giving very interesting perspectives on some of Svartsinn's previously released tracks, making this second disc a very special homage to the singular world of Svartsinn. Edition of 1000 copies in 8 panel foldout cardboard sleeve. [press-release]
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Taphephobia -- "Access To A World Of Pain" -- CD -- €10
2010 Greytone, grey006, (ltd. 500)
The music Taphephobia makes is mostly based on manipulated guitars (except house of memories that is mostly based on sounds). Taphephobia try to get out the feelings he has at the moment when Ketil compose the music. The idea is to create a atmosphere that is sometimes scary, and sometimes beautiful, like for example a good thriller drama movie. Taphephobia is very skilled to create a cinematic atmosphere combined with personal feelings like fear, hope, hate, regrets etc… The main goal is to make the listener able to dream away with the music. [press-release]
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Tholen -- "Sternklang" -- CD -- €14
2007 Cyclic Law, 20th Cycle
Sternklang is the expression of the intimate encounter with the whole, the direct connection with the stars and the vast universe, the sense of complete union with all the overdimensional attributes of what sourrounds us. With THOLEN, Eisen, the man behind this project has given us an aurally materialized glimpse of his numerous stargazing evenings...where the soundscapes are revealed while the stars seemed to gather and sing out of their primordial and powerful environment. The darkest hour is always the one before sunrise... In fold out gatefold cardboard sleeve. [press-release]
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Total -- "Exploded Star Sad Servant" -- CD -- €10
1995 Self Abuse Records, SAD-03
Hypnotic, hallucinatory guitar feedback from Matthew Bower of Skullflower. [label info]
Trezvytel -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €5
Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT05, (ltd. 49)
100% analogue comatose noise pickle for tomorrow's morning. First release of archive album from 1999 by Alexander Korotkov (Lo.By., Po.No.(i)Za.). Original Russian electro-noise: feedbacks, howls, groans and resonances. Quality pure sound. Legal package from the white port #72 and treasures of archive of the Supreme Soviet of RSFSR. Limited to 49 copies for regular use. [press-release]
Troum -- "AIWS" -- CD -- €12
2007 Transgredient Records, TR-05
AIWS is the first full-length cd release from Troum since 2003. It covers studio-recordings composed from 2002-2005. These musicians have compiled some of their most favorable pieces through the years to be placed on this release. Presenting nine analogue (4 & 8 track) recorded compositions that lead the listener through vast feelings of beautifully deep melancholic and hypnotic states of mind. Composed with guitar-drones and harmonic phrases that are processed in various ways creating an atmosphere of the sublime and emotional meditative states that transcend listener to immerse within themselves. Ingredients: Sufi-songs, old vinyl-crackles, acoustic & e-guitars, e-bow, e-bass, voice & whisperings, accordion & flute. Stunning photography & design work by Alan McClelland (Eye.lyft). One of the most emotional and profound Troum releases to date now available on Transgrediant Records. Dedicated to Eternity. [press release]
Ultra Milkmaids -- "Pretty Day" -- mCD -- €12
2008 Waystyx, WR38, (ltd. 500)
A small collection of new Ultra Milkmaids tracks and remixes both by them on other bands' tracks and by other bands on their tracks. A pretty nice disk for the fans.
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Urblud Dramader -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €9
2004 self-released
Studio full-length from the band of Eduard Srapionov (Papa Srapa). Dirty shamanic noise rock remotely resembling Sonic Youth or Grazhdanskaya Oborona. Includes such superhits as "Sudak (Song of Iona)", "Shoes" and many other good songs. Handmade package made of 5" floppy disk, scotch tape, razorblade and coin. [YAOP]
Vargr -- "Wehrmacht Satanas [by lord Nordvargr]" -- CD -- €10
2007 Eternal Pride Productions, EPP 007
The name of Henrik Nordvargr Bjorkk has always been associated to the power of Swedish Black Industrial which has always been linked to MZ. 412 for many years. As a part of MZ. 412, Nordvargr first managed to combine black metal and post-industrial aesthetics. But VARGR is even a more diabolic, blasphemous and terrifying cocktail of the real Scandinavian black metal of the early 1990s and the noise post-industrial layers which create the atmosphere of real Evil, Death, Chaos and Destruction in their impious graciousness. An unholy communion summoned to create the soundtrack for all wars to come. Bow to the Northern Wolf! [press-release]
Vresnit -- "Tunvet" -- CD -- €10
2009 Vegvisir music, o:008, (ltd. 484)
Shamanic Drone Ambient. Vresnit presented its first CD-release contained ecstatic & exploring records made in the fall of 2008 and remastered in winter-spring 2009. Vresnit is the project of one man working for artistic embodiment of the creative rotation within the label Vetvei. He was formerly known as ruler of Kerpg label, Pugna, Vagranok, Nrodum and other projects, now ceased their activities. Deaf thickets and swamps, heaven ravines, lost voices, unseen birds. Eternal mosses, lichens, fog and ancient trees. The path lies deeply through the thickets and higher to the sun, meeting with ancient human-animals, keepers of the Book. Majestic and archaic canvas neither begins nor ends, woven by the Sledge of Three-Worlds-Animals. The Words of scratches, beats, rings and rustles - all goes into vibrating flow of crudely woven muscarinic Shamanic Drone Ambient atmosphere. Tunvet appears as primitive experience for co-breathing with Earth, diving into the twilight forest and flowing into its beyond. Slow and endless movement in a Circle that appears as Eternal Order. A Myth of the World-Man Creation, a dreamflight, a meeting with the Forest Spirits preying on the flesh and substituting it with metal and stones, giving life to the Ancient Co-knowledge... Created using field recordings, voices and woodwinds, metal gongs, percussion and "concrete" sounds. Gripping, saturating and transforming experience of raw wind, celestial chariots and chthonic naturalism. [press-release]
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Will Over Matter -- "9 To The Moon" -- CD -- €11
2009 Bestial Burst, BeBu-034, (ltd. 500)
74 minutes journey through ritual electric doom, occult power electronics and lunar new wave madness. Created with oscillators, radio frequences and synthetizers, this unique release is suitable for those with an ear for electric albums of Beherit, Suuri Shamaani and the more experimental Ride For Revenge material. [label info]
V/A -- "Hyperreality" -- CD -- €10
2007 Aliens Production, AP 16, (ltd. 333)
Unreal experience and dense silhouette of electronic orgies that can inspire and in opposite case torment your senses. Various and in the same time identical mixture of various atmospheres and quality electronic music from the countries: Czech Republic, France, Australia, Germany, Slovakia and Switzerland are great guarantee, which confirms exclusive work in their tracks only for this sampler. Unique opportunity to have under control top projects of electro underground, from that opposite side. Compilation is strictly limited to 333 copies, packed in metal pack. Here is the list of gathered artists: Otx meets Kenji Siratori, Terminal State, Anhedonia, Empty, Encripse, Tabor Radosti, Xabec, Gaping Chasm, Flint Glass, Oxyd, Last Influence Of Brain, Anima Mundi, Mnemonic, Disharmony meets Anhedonia, Polygon, Stendeck. [press-release]
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V/A -- "Soundtrack for the End of the World" -- CD -- €10
1994 Self Abuse Records, SAD-01
Featuring: Native X, Taint, Con-Dom, Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock, Macronympha, The Haters, Aube, S*CORE, Skin Crime, Diesel Guitars, Violent Onsen Geisha, and Thomas Dimuzio.
V/A -- "The Walls Are Whispering" -- CD -- €13
2003 EE Tapes, EE03, (ltd. 525)
Inade, Troum, Dieter Müh, Vidna Obmana, Kallabris, PBK, Steve Roden, Christian Renou, Toy Bizarre.