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The first distro catalogue update in this year features mostly Russian releases: Just to remind you - we still have this winter sale where you can order 10 or more items from the disto catalogue marked with a [-50%] sign, and have them for half-price. Sale also refers to some items from the rare & used list (marked green). We'll keep the sale running until next update, approximately in early or mid-March.

Best vibes,
M.M.
10.02.2015



I. Reviews


Sustem Morgue "Feu" CD:


II. Forthcoming events


14.02.2015 - Ambient vs Classic Music
Sergey & Natalya Voloschuk, A.T.M.O.M., KSHATRIY, VJ Yuri Elik
St. Petersburg, Experimental Sound Gallery (ESG-21). More info...

14.02.2015
PURBA
Moscow, Simply Cafe. More info...

15.02.2015 - On And Working
PUSTOTA + RADIOSTALKING, BOEVIE CIKADY and friends, SVETLO
St. Petersburg, Experimental Sound Gallery (ESG-21). More info...

21.02.2015
HATTIFNATTER, NIFLHEIMR, STYRIOTH, SKRIPP (ex-Whistler), RALAX
St. Petersburg, club Capella. More info...

26.02.2015 - Vox Sirenum
CREATION VI, AKINESIA, EXIT IN GREY, SYSTEM MORGUE
Moscow, Cinema Bar Fassbinder. More info...

27.02.2015
SRUB, YUDOL PLACHEVNA, RADA I TERNOVNIKК
Moscow, Rock House. More info...

28.02.2015
SRUB
St. Petersburg, club Zoccolo 2.0. More info...

07.03.2015
ROME, JARBOE feat. Helen Money
Moscow, club Theatre. More info...

08.03.2015
ROME, JARBOE feat. Helen Money
St. Petersburg, club Place. More info...

15.03.2015
MOON FAR AWAY
St. Petersburg, club Zoccolo 2.0. More info...

20.03.2015
CULT OF YOUTH, KING DUDE
St. Petersburg, club Place. More info...

21.03.2015
CULT OF YOUTH, KING DUDE
Moscow, club Theatre. More info...



III. New items in mailorder catalogue


CDs & CD-Rs

Above The Ruins -- "Songs Of The Wolf" -- CD -- €20
1984/1996 World Seprent, ATR 1
Reissue of the only one album by Above The Ruins (orig. 1984). Post-punk project of Tony Wakeford created after he left Death In June, before Sol Invictus. Jewel-case, golden cover.

Aldinucci, Giulio -- "Aer" -- CD -- €10
2014 Dronarivm, DR-25, (ltd. 200)
Invisible and intangible air around us is actually similar to the sea, which always varies. And sound is the voice of air, and the impression of the space where it have been heard. The new album by Giulio Aldinucci called “Aer” focuses on the ability of different sounds to communicate and become music. CD comprises seven ductile atmospheric soundscapes produced from complimentary field recordings and software and analogue hardware generated ambient. And the appearance of each track is comparable to the birth of a new universe. This is the case when “listening”, “feeling” and “breathing” are synonymous. [label info]
[youtube]

Almofar -– "L'Ange De La Melancolie" -- CD-R -- €6
2011 Runenstein Records, RR40, (ltd. 66)
Ambient / Neo-Classical.
[youtube]

Antez + Mathieu Calleja + Miguel A. Garcia + Artur Vidal / Gregory Buttner / Hector Rey -- "Malasana / Kaktus / Myxini" -- 3 CD-R -- €7
2014 Observatoire, obs * RD#4, (ltd. 100)
"Malasana": This recording was made in an area of Madrid called Malasana. The name recalls the Spanish struggle against the French troops of Napoleon, which took place at the beginning of the XIX century and is famously represented in the paintings of Goya. Nowadays, despite the increasing gentrification of the area of Malasana, it remains a place well known for night-time unrest and counter-cultural disobedience. This cultural climate draws parallels with the way improvised music relates to confrontation. Many musicians feel that improvised music clashes against, or is at odds with, social institutions, as in the case of Madrid, where modern or contemporary music is almost completely ignored by popular culture. In this recording we can hear a different kind of confrontation. Musicians seem to be trying to fight, both against themselves and against the temptation of presenting what they already know. They seem to be seeking out strategies for creating music collectively, without falling back on cliche, imitation or cultural habits. The listeners of this recording are invited to consider if the musicians have succeeded in this attempt. They are also encouraged to interrogate their own listening, as both a cultural practice shaped by social environment and as an area for a similar internal contest... "Kaktus": For this track I recorded the needles of a cactus played with my fingers. After some digital processings I edited them into a composition in 5 parts. In parts 3 and 5 the cactus recordings are combined and modulated with sinus-waves... "Myxini": Recorded in Bilbao during the summer of 2012. No overdub. [label info]
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Avrorin, G. -- "Hohotun" -- CD-R -- €5
2014 Heart Shaped Box Prod., HSB-075, (ltd. 30)
Experimental noise music played on a bass guitar. Pro-CDR, 30 copies, jewel-case. [label info]
[bandcamp]

Avrorin, G. -- "Kvakun" -- CD-R -- €5
2014 Heart Shaped Box Prod., HSB-078, (ltd. 30)
Experimental noise music played on a bass guitar. Pro-CDR, 30 copies, A5 black / white glossy envelope. [label info]
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Bakker, Anne Chris -- "Reminiscences" -- CD -- €10
2014 Dronarivm, DR-20, (ltd. 200)
“Reminiscences existed with no detailed plan. It is more the result of spontanious playing and recording over a period of 5 months using guitar, pedals and and a violin bow. During playing lots of images came up in mind, quite simular to the half sleep state of mind where images and situations flow and bind in an unstructured way. While playing and listening to the material it opened up a map of lost memories. This is how I recollect. Reminiscences” (Anne Chris Bakker). Anne Chris Bakker is an musician from the Netherlands who creates music somewhere between electro accoustic, experimental, ambient and minimal music. “Reminiscences” is an artist’s first full lenght solo album. [label info]
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Blackthrone -– "Ihmisvihaaja" -- CD-R -- €5
2012 NitroAtmosfericum Records, NRN-010, (ltd. 25)
Dark Ambient / Drone / Doom Metal.

Block, Olivia & Kyle Bruckmann -- "Teem" -- CD -- €9
2010 and/OAR, either/4
Olivia Block: field recordings, piano, reed organ, editing and mixing. Kyle Bruckmann: oboe, English Horn, suona, accordion, field recordings, editing and mixing. Bruckmann and Block’s creative relationship dates back to the recording of Block’s 1999 release Pure Gaze, shortly after both artists entered into Chicago’s vibrant experimental music community. Their decision to create a collaborative duo ensued, but remained in the realm of good intentions until shortly before Bruckmann’s relocation to the San Francisco Bay Area. They then began playfully stockpiling sounds from a myriad of sources, collecting field material, and recording duo improvisations in various spaces using hallway intercom systems and unorthodox microphone placements, among other processes and techniques. This initial activity was followed by five years of collaborative editing, processing and mixing, resulting in the emergent expanse that is Teem. [label info]

BloodSoil / Verney 1826 / Striider / Waffenruhe -– "The Power Of Bygone Ages" -- CD-R -- €10
2013 Castellum Stoufenburc, CS 05-13, (ltd. 200)
Martial / Neo-Classical.

Brume & TBC -- "House Unwillently" -- CD-R -- €7
2001 Wachsender Prozess, WP 05
Collaboration work between Brume & tbc from sold out LP record. You'll hear a rich varity of diffrent industrial styles: rhythmical, droning, cut-up and even melodical parts in short compositions. It's electro-acustic music with a popular feeling. [label info]

Chromevelour -- "Bystroserebro" -- CD -- €7
2014 Frozen Light, FZL 017, (ltd. 104)
Trip Hop / Post Rock / Experimental / Downtempo / Broken Beat. Debute album by St. Petersburg / Moscow experimental electronic rock project Chromevelour. The music of this project is far from being standard, it's really hard to describe it in words, so better take a listen! Digipak, 104 copies. [label info]
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Disgorged Faeces + Light Collapse -- "Collaboration" -- 3 x CD-R -- €15
2014 Heart Shaped Box Prod., HSB-082, (ltd. 11)
HNW. A collection of collaborative works. The most juicy and greasy pieces of the abstract forms. 3 x pro-CDR in a red sack. The artwork features the results of graphic experiments with photocopies and oil monotyping. Each copy is unique. Limited edition of 11 copies. [label info]

Dumont, Olivier & Rodolphe Loubatiere -- "Mouture" -- CD-R -- €6
2013 Observatoire, obs * RD#2, (ltd. 100)
This french guitar/percussion pairing produce few surprises, having found a comfortable slot in the post-reductionist, texturally aware corner of modern Improv. But what makes their music consistently interesting is the depth of the duo's palette. For every sound that resembles anything like percussion, even fewer sound anything like a guitar and a fair amount can't be easily attributed to either musician. Individual personalities, egos and characters diminish, and the focus is left on the sound of the music alone. Things scrape, roar, rumble and whine through a slow, finely detailed morass of constantly churning sound (the album's title translates fittingly as Grind). At different points both claustrophobically murky and airily glowing, this is engaging, absorbing music, but it's no easy listen, and patient attention is required befor it gradually seeps out its rewards. [The Wire Magazine]
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Duplant, Bruno -- "Quelques Usines Fantomes" -- CD -- €10
2012 Unfathomless, U13, (ltd. 200)
Field Recording / Musique Concrete / Experimental. "...Duplant forms space and darkness from his building blocks. He positions discrete sounds carefully and never overwhelms the listener with a monstrous industrial roar. This is much more subtle. It isn’t industrial music, it is ghost music. The industry has gone, but the sounds are preserved as memories, phantoms, spirits emanating like vapours from dead factory walls and floors..." [Chris Whitehead]
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English, Lawrence -- "Studies For Stradbroke" -- CD-R -- €8
2008/2013 Winds Measure Recordings, wm11-2, (ltd. 150)
Unprocessed hydrophonic field recordings made in January and August 2007 at Stradbroke Island, Queensland, Australia.
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Expired Station -– "s/t" -- 2 CD-R -- €5
2010 Heart Shaped Box Prod., HSB-051, (ltd. 23)
Radio noise - fixation of ether made in spring 2008 by a 14 years old girl Darya Kudryavtseva. 2 CD-R with spray paint, 23 copies, artwork by Varvara Udachina. [label info]

Five Elements Music -- "Rishikesh" -- CD -- €10
2012 Unfathomless, U11, (ltd. 200)
Field Recording / Experimental. "In this work, I present two acoustic environments. These sounds are born in India. Rishikesh is located in the foothills of the Himalayas of which it is a gateway to. Within this piece are sounds that were recorded near the flowing mountain streams of the Ganges; they have been captured at night time, where small streams of water eventually grind coastal rocks. There is also the echo of prayer wheels, and the noise of the slow Ganges and streams flowing from the mountains… and many more other sounds that were hanging around me." [S]
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Freiband / Kromeshna -- split -- 3"CD-R -- €5
2015 Ostroga, OTR-035, (ltd. 30)
Two different views on experimental music combined in one mini-album. Light sparkling light airplanes from the Netherlands. And cool down from the summer sun gloomy landscapes of Ural from Russia. Artwork and design by Vitaly Maklakov. Envelope of photographic paper 10 x 11.5 cm. [label info]
[bandcamp]

Haii Yuuko & Obozdur -– "Information Warfare & Abstract People" -- CD-R -- €4
2014 Torga Amun, Amun-080, (ltd. 15)
Harsh noise.
[bandcamp]

Homo Durus / Life With An Idiot -- "The All-Russian Census of Hydrogen" -- CD-R -- €5
2014 Frozen Light, FZL 013, (ltd. 30)
Frozen Light presents new mini-album by post-industrial jesters Homo Durus, who experiment on pure forms of improvisation. Their new work called "all-Russian census of hydrogen" was designed as a collaborative effort with piano noiseacoustic project "Life with an Idiot» (pushkinstyle1799.narod.ru/idiot.html). Both projects have retreated from their traditional themes (turtles, cheese and herring) and spread out on a search for the limits of music perception as an art form and the air rending. Grand Total - all sad and funny at the same time. Material is traditionally based on one-day live improvised recordings using electronic equipment, piano and voices. The new album was recorded in one evening, like the previous one, but if the group explored the principles of analog synthesis and ironic allusions to the music at that time, now the principle of sampling and grotesque in electronic and acoustic music are the main objects of experiments. We recommend this work for all who love the humor in experimental music! Physical version was released as packaged in a sealed envelope CDr with full-color A5 cover. 30 copies. [press-release]
[bandcamp]

Hulduefni / Ataraxy -– "Inside Dark Chambers" -- CD-R -- €4
2013 Vomit Bucket Productions, VBP 142, (ltd. 30)

Inmortus -– "Instrumental Energy Of Symphonic Cover" -- CD-R -- €4
2014 CVLMINIS, (ltd. 20)

Jules, Marsen -- "Sinfonietta" -- CD -- €10
2014 Dronarivm, DR-28, (ltd. 100)
Aristotle referred the term “symphony” to music of the spheres that embraces the concept of a ethereal harmony. Sinfonietta, which lasts 45 minutes, is a very first element of cosmic architectonics, the miniature universe model. Unwrapping in time, this self-contained composition is skillfully woven out of orchestral sound fragments repeated in a cyclical manner. But it would be not enough, just to listen to this music. Marsen Jules offers a new sense of reality beyond the three known dimensions, where time is non-linear and perception is multivariate. [label info]
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Kahn, Jason & Asher -- "Vista" -- CD -- €9
2008 and/OAR, and/31
The work on Vista began in the summer of 2006 with recordings made by Asher in the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston. Walking through the alleys and side streets he recorded the various mechanical rooms, generators, ventilation systems and idling motors which were to be found there. These recordings were processed and sent to Kahn. Later that fall, Kahn sent Asher several pre-dawn recordings he had made on the shores of Zurich Lake. Asher processed these in keeping with the methods he had used with his own location recordings so as to create continuity among the amassing material. Unprocessed wind recordings made by Kahn in the Swiss Alps in the summer of 2007 comprised the final batch of material used on Vista. Asher and Kahn spent the remainder of that year working on a final mix. Addressing the idea of hearing and seeing out and beyond spatial planes, title Vista references both the aural expanses of Asher's home on a hill in the town of Somerville and Kahn's trips to the Alps and Zurich Lake. In processing and mixing the discrete details of a landscape, we hear them from a real physical distance. Through the incidental combinations of processed local sounds and sound materials which are entirely foreign to us, an imaginative aural view is created which obscures any relationship to a documentary account of the original locations recorded for Vista. [label info]

Kassel Jaeger -- "Lignes D'Erre & Randons" -- CD -- €10
2010 Unfathomless, U04, (ltd. 200)
Abstract / Musique Concrete / Field Recording / Experimental. In these times of maximum transparency, Kassel Jaeger‘s musical personality remains remarkably elusive. From an aesthetic angle, he is a field recorder working with a high degree of post-processing. From a performative perspective, he is an improviser working with field recordings. To historians, he is a sound artists in the Musique Concrete tradition. As lignes d’erre & randons proves, all interpretations are as true, to a degree, as they are irrelevant. These recordings of wind and water, Parisian pipelines and German rivers, of insects and algae are always just points of departure, the result by default a composite of fact and temporal distance. Jaeger doesn’t just accept the limitations of faithfully re-assembling the past, he actually considers them a primary source of creativity. Through the lens of transfiguration, everything appears both more beguiling and bewildering : On “vultighjime”, the sounds of ultralight aircraft motor engines on Corsica are assembled into a subtle score of pitched points, bent curves, discrete drones and the occasional aerial chord. “windshore”, similarly, hinges on a duet-like interplay between breaking waves and ghostly breathing sounds. These pieces are clearly carefully constructed, and yet they appear perfectly ‘real’, showing the inner world as a natural extension of physical manifestations. In these times of maximum transparency, Jaeger is always one step ahead of the listener when it comes to his approach, aims and choice of tools, which lends his compositions a slightly unsettling touch. Clearly, mystery remains a precious commodity: Would I like to visit the places Jaeger‘s depicting? I’m not sure, but it’s hard to avert my ears. [Tobias Fischer, Tokafi]
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Light Collapse -- "Coloured Walls - Part 2" -- CD-R -- €6
2015 Heart-Shaped Box Prod., HSB-086, (ltd. 10)
Harsh noise wall / noise wall. Experiments with different textures and shades of sound. Unique and inimitable sound. Release decorated by hand with oil monotype. Each copy is unique. Pro-CDR, only 10 copies. [label info]
[bandcamp]

Light Collapse -- "Flowering Grass" -- CD-R -- €6
2014 Ostroga, OTR-030, (ltd. 10)
Ambient / drone / noise. Subject-associative summer picture. Synth insects and other forest secrets. Pro-CDR, A5 full colour envelope. 3 photo inserts with graphic works Vitaly Maklakov. A special edition of 10 copies. [label info]
[bandcamp]

Light Collapse -- "Lanita" -- CD-R -- €5
2015 Torga Amun, Amun-083, (ltd. 10)
HNW. Madness, absurdity and degeneration of modern civilization. Pro-CDR, only 10 copies. [label info]
[bandcamp]

Light Collapse -- "Something That Can Not Let Go" -- CD-R -- €6
2015 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT108, (ltd. 50)
Urbanistic rhythmic ambient with hypnotic cycles in vein of Obozdur "Pessima", but with more industrial touch. Slim-case with engraved copy number decorated with vintage bookbinding materials from the Soviet past. For those who can't let go. [label info]

Light Collapse + Ego God -- "Chlorophyll Labyrinth" -- CD-R -- €5
2014 Heart-Shaped Box Prod., HSB-084, (ltd. 15)
Noise wall / drone wall. Random target. Two different structures processed and glued in one composition. Long immersion in the microcosm. Pro-CDR, CD sleeve, 15 copies. [label info]
[bandcamp]

Lunar Abyss -- "Live in Kiev" -- CD-R -- €7
2015 Biosonar^Lo-End, 046, (ltd. 23)
One hour long live recording made in Kiev on October 26th, 2010 in "Prime at Podol" club. The recording was made in one track from the mixing desk. A fine live recording from that year. Artwork - cardboard sleeve with a set of old calendars and other fetishes, unique for each copy. Limited edition of 23 numbered copies. [label info]

Lunar Abyss + Ogni Videniy -- "S" -- CD-R -- €7
2015 Biosonar^Labyrint 027, (ltd. 52)
This disc presents the result of collaborative drone sessions, practically, a live session on one of the private parties at Zanza Room, in close Sostice eve, on the night December 21-22, 2014, with minimal editing and in one track to keep the mind flow: one long piece about winter sun, winds and flows of rotation, waves and pendulums, seasons and changes. Winter air blends with the aroma of tea ceremonies and spicy smoke. The soundflow is made with the use of analogue modules with hybrid processing and acoustic elements, such as flutes and voice, cassette field recordings and radio interference. Recommended to listen on wideband audio systems as well as in earphones, and if there's a chance to use both at the same time - surely use both simultaneously. The disc is packed in a cardboard sleeve with a hand-made stamp, each copy is numbered. [label info]

Majutsu No Niwa -- "Ecstatic Crystallization" -- CD -- €14
2010 Musik Atlach, MA009, (ltd. 250)
Feedback drenched guitarnoise drones by Rinji Fukuoka’s Majutsu no Niwa, his follow-up band to the legendary Overhang Party. A magical garden of post-Velvet doom stripped to the bare essentials by way of the Japanese psyche. [label info]

Maklakov, Vitaliy -- "Abstract Expressionism - Part I" -- CD-R -- €7
2014 Heart Shaped Box Prod., HSB-083, (ltd. 15)
Experimental noise / improvisation. Stream of consciousness. Impersonal expression hitters in the interweaving of analog and digital sound. The unique design of the release. Each envelope - a small picture painted by hand (in mixed media). In the creation of paintings were also involved 10 years old children. Pro-CDR, 15 copies. [label info]
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Marchetti, Lionel & Yan Jun -- "Shanghai Atelier" -- CD -- €10
2014 Observatoire, obs * experiment | 051, (ltd. 200)
"I think it was in 2009 when i received email from Lionel... Wow, it’s long enough to scheme a coup. Maybe two... Since then we discussed a lot about release his work on Sub Jam label and invite him to China... I wrote this long story into the book The Only Authentic Work which has been published with Lionel’s CD 23 Formes en Elastique as one work in 2013. Then he came to China for a release tour. The day he arrived in Beijing was one of the heavy pollution days. On taxi to my home from airport was like lost in a cyberpunk film. He told me later: Mamma mia! I thought it was apocalyptic! But surely we survived from it and got a lot of bonus. Hot pot, Forbiden City, ink paitings, alcohol, black tea, music and friends, frozen worm and more hot pots. Then the trip to Shanghai and Hangzhou. And more alcohol and friends. And sounds, which are entirely, constantly embracing us and jumping into our recorders... We traveled with Soviet Pop, an electronic music duo based in Beijing. 6 events in 3 cities including Beijing. In two weeks i discovered these cities as a traveller as well. Beijing was dusty, huge and droning. Hangzhou looked rich and tasty. Shanghai was fresh. We call it the capital of magic. I can recall so many pieces of moments of sounds, lights, colours, smells and faces... Yes that’s tour as it always been... Lionel has wrote a lot of poems after this trip. I wrote few. Also we made photos and field recordings. Yes. That made a balance to what we eat (lamb and noodles) and breath (air with smog) from the world. Or maybe not. I’m not really sure what we did to the world. We just spent some time together with helps from people and electricity. The foods were fantastic anyway... Before the last day Lionel stayed in China we recorded this album at an artist friend (Lili Chin)’s residency studio in Shanghai. Both we had speaker cones as instruments so we recorded our sounds from them. Plus recordings from our mixers. That was November 11th, 2013, in one of the most expensive hotels of the world." [Yan Jun]
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Mieville, Emmanuel / Dante Tanzi / Hiroki Sakaguchi -- "Sound as Language" -- CD-R -- €7
2014 Observatoire, obs * RD#6, (ltd. 100)
Emmanuel Mieville: edited field recordings from Normandy and Brittany made on the river Andelle and in St. Nazaire in a submarine base used by German army. Dante Tanzi: minimalistic slowly developing electronics with a delicate sound. Hiroki Sakaguchi: three improvised electroacoustic compositions from quiet rustling to dramatic cello performance.
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Monocube -- "Blue Dusk /// Red Dawn" -- CD -- €10
2014 Midira Records, MD017
“Blue Dusk /// Red Dawn” is the new album by ukrainian artist Monocube. You can expect a dense massive voyage through soundlandscapes, made by guitar, field recordings and alienated vocals, moving slightly between ambient and drone. The album is about 39 minutes long, but the tracks give you a feeling of endless moving sounds. The soundscapes are very raw, blurred and distorted at the same time, what makes them sounding warm and catchy even if there is no straight structure. Asking Monocube about the intention of the album, he explains that the idea behind the tracks is based on “private associations, memories, atmospheres, vibes of beloved cities, vibe of the night, twilight and dawn times, feelings, emotions…” [label info]
[bandcamp]

N. / Obozdur -- split -- CD-R -- €6
2014 Torga Amun, Amun-075, (ltd. 50)
Experimental noise industrial split from Italy & Russia. Two live records. Pro-CDR, 50 handnumbered copies. A5 black / white glossy envelope + photo insert. [label info]
[bandcamp]

Namblard, Marc -- "Chants Of Frozen Lakes" -- CD -- €9
2008 Kalerne, kal01
Field recordings of an unusual natural phenomena: the sounds of a frozen lake singing. Marc Namblard, sound artist and naturalist living in the northeast of France, has spent several years listening to and recording an acoustic phenomenon occuring in the winter time. The tiniest crackles inside the ice of frozen lakes produce mechanical vibrations. Under specific atmospheric conditions, these impulses propagate in the ice, whose tension makes it similar to the skin of a drum. The acoustic result is an unbelievable blend of drumming sounds and etheral resonances. This CD retraces the whole phenomena : in 55 minutes, one can discover the different steps of what happened at Lac de Pierre Percee (a lake close to Marc's village) on the 16th of January 2006. It began with the frost falling on the vegetation accompanied by birds in the distance. The first brief percussive sounds announced the ice beginning its work under the first sunrays. A little bit later, the ice started to crackle : sounds became longer and more intense. At the end of the session, ice was breaking everywhere, the lake was singing. The phenomenon vanished with the appearance of a slight breeze... This soundwork gathers some of the most beautiful moments of hours and hours of Marc's recordings into a whole piece, but there was no processing or overdub in the production of this publication : the aim is to propose to the listener an experience of what he would expect in the front of the lake (with the exception of the temperature). Marc's recording technique is based on ORTF stereo configuration using condenser microphones and high-end preamplifiers. “Chants Of Frozen Lakes” can easily be classified in the domains of Naturalism, since it is based on straight observation of natural events, and in the field of Sound Art as it proposes a very intense listening experience. Therefore, this CD should delight listeners of nature sound recording, experimental music as well as electronica. [press-release]

Nekaya Bulkaushaya Sreda -- "From Space Chaos To Cosmic Noise" -- CD -- €9
2012 Provoloka, PRVLK-0003, (ltd. 500)
Analog synth / sci-fi / power electronics. The project appeared during the expansion of the so called "Izhevsk wave". First recordings were made in 1992 (mini-album "Centuria"), and resembled the works of classical electronic composers, but with a touch of retro-futurism. The last album was a one-session recording made in 1997 on a Polyvox synthesizer, lost soon after the recording. However 10 years later the author has wound this work, converted it to digital format and gave it to the label. Now we proudly present this weird agressive synth-based power electronics charged with a spirit of Soviet sci-fi. [label info]

Nigdeniya -- "Conticescet" -- CD-R -- €6
2014 Ostroga, OTR-031, (ltd. 16)
A joint project of Michel Madrange (M.Nomized) and Vitaly Maklakov (Kromeshna). Pro-CDR, 16 copies, special design. Including 4 cards with conceptual images. [label info]
[bandcamp]

Nightwood Movies -- "Enter the Obscurity" -- CD -- €8
2014 Sulphur Flowers, SF 2
A debut album by a dark folk duo from Königsberg who venture out to explore ethereal facets of post-folk music in this enigmatic and dreamy adventure called 'Enter the Obscurity'. [label info]
[bandcamp]

Northam, Michael -- "Le Septieme Deguise En Neuf" -- CD -- €10
2014 Observatoire, obs * mif | 049, (ltd. 200)
An enigmatic new record from Michael Northam tracing a reorientation process of moving from over a decade of nomadic life across Europe (2001-2013) to settling into rural life in the unique bioregion that is Southern Oregon. The tracks are improvisations recorded in distinct locations, each carrying a certain feeling-seed of this movement between September 2012 and September 2013. From resplendent Villa Waldberta in Bavaria to a humble shack along South Pacific Highway in Jackson County, Oregon. Guided by a series of visionary experiences regarding time, space and ever waking-up process of the everyday. These recordings transmit through their vibrations an ever shifting reorientation that everyone must learn to navigate one day or another… [http://orogenetics.org]
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Northam, Michael / Brume & TBC -- split -- CD-R -- €7
2004 Wachsender Prozess, WP 10, (ltd. 100)
Mnortham comes with a intense soundscaping droning ambient piece with psychological effects. It's based on field recordings made in the Zion Ntl. Park in the USA. The Brume & tbc tracks are light underwater ocean impressions of intense material processing. "Strandwasser Ozean" have a alien ambient atmosphere of surreal texures. 100 copies with handmade papyrus cover art. [label info]

Nytt Land (Ylande) -- "s/t" -- CD -- €8
2015 Sulphur Flowers, SF 3
Nytt Land is a side-project of a Siberian folk-rock band Ylande which first self-titled release's front cover still bears traces of its old affiliation. On this album a group of talented ethno-instrumentalists aim to share the magnificence of genuine Northern nature and culture materialized in Wardruna-inspired ritual-oriented folk music. A vast array of ethnic instruments along with a decent skill to match it bring us a solid and enchanting ritual folk release. [label info]
[bandcamp]

Papapostolou, David -- "Contrastes (Dispositifs D'ecoute; C'est Moi Qui Souligne)" -- CD -- €9
2013 Winds Measure Recordings, wm32, (ltd. 300)
"Dispositifs d'ecoute" refers to the interaction of the pieces with the listener's immediate sound environment, and how that shapes the overall listening experience. "C'est moi qui souligne" is a literary expression used by authors quoting someone else's text and highlighting a particular section: the highlights/italics are mine. This addresses the question of authorship in the context of the listening situation described above: although the listening experience is mediated by a sound environment and pre-existing conditions beyond my control, it is clear that adding those particular sounds to an existing environment is a pre-determined situation set out by myself. Therefore my suggestively is ever present; despite the many layers of chance operations at play in the making of these pieces, and no matter how hard the man who had nothing to say tried to make sure sounds were only sounds. [David Papapostolou]
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Ravcan & Creation Six -- "Desiring Machine" -- CD-R -- €5
!--30--> 2013 Shit Noise Records, SNR 483, (ltd. 50)
The noisy side of my musical creativity. Half an hour of drone-noise with drums, mouth harps and piping of frogs. I recommend maximum volume and no spiteful neighbours! [Creation VI]

Revenant -- "Zeltini" -- CD -- €10
2011 Unfathomless, U05, (ltd. 250)
Abstract / Field Recording / Experimental. Revenant is an ongoing project with open membership that focuses on site-specific acoustic actions. All sounds originate from materials found in-situ, and from interactions with the space itself. This material was recorded by Maksims Shentelevs, Eamon Sprod, John Grzinich, Kaspars Kalninsh, Felicity Mangan. "There were some “dark” elements surrounding this session. It was mid-November in the Baltics which meant that it was cold, gray and the sun goes down early. By the time we entered the bunker and set up to record there was no natural light left to see. Trying to find a shared experience through improvisation among a group that is not familiar is hard enough, trying to do this in the dark in an unfamiliar place is even harder. Knowing we would be without visual and sometimes auditory communication because of the multiple spaces available I suggested to do a recording experiment, to each use our own equipment yet synchronize the timing at the start. If we were to get “lost” or immersed in our own experiences, it would be interesting to reassemble them later as a shared “fictional” space. This is indeed what we ended up with. Using only my ears and a headlamp to guide my way, I foraged through that unknown space collecting objects and playing them on the varied surfaces I discovered. I remember the old rags, the dust, broken pieces of concrete, pipes coming out of the ground and how I searched for ways to animate the space and instigate interactions with the others. Whether it was the quest for new objects or the need to stay warm I constantly moved around and even ended up outside toward the end." (John Grzinich)
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Roadside Picnic / Light Collapse -– split -- CD-R -- €4
2014 Heart Shaped Box Prod., HSB-085, (ltd. 24)
Noise wall / harsh noise wall / experimental sound. The album turned out original and fresh. Even in the genre of a noise wall one can experiment. First half of the split, most moving, is farmed by the project from the UK. Russian project experiments with cassettes and compositional structure (analog / digital). Pro-CDR, 24 hand-numbered copies. [label info]
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Saturn Form Essence -– "Part Of The Veil Nebula" -- 2 CD-R -- €6
2011 Rigorism Production, RP054, (ltd. 50)
Dark Space Ambient / Drone.

Seattle Phonographers Union -- "s/t" -- CD -- €9
2009 and/OAR / Mimeomeme, and/mim1
"The Seattle Phonographers Union convene to explore the ways in which we recognize, differentiate, map, and navigate our sonic environment. Our intent is to move beyond habitual experience of sound and uncover what is foreign in the familiar and familiar about the foreign; to explore what we hear and relearn what we know. Some sounds will be familiar, others less so. Both novel and familiar sounds will be juxtaposed in ways unique to each event. Our intent is to investigate and enrich both our intuitive and analytical relationship with sound. The goal is not to excite, confuse or entertain per se, but to attend to the world, which is much more detailed and diverse than any one person's perception of it." (from program notes written by Yitzchak Dumiel for the very first SPU performance in 2002)... As has always been the case with this particular Phonographers Union group (there are several in located in other cities in the US and UK), no processing is used during the performances, so what you hear are straght-up field recordings mixed within live improvised settings. This release encapsulates some of the finest performances over the span of four years from 2004 to 2008. Longtime followers of and/OAR's catalog and history (e.g. the compilations produced for Phonography.org) will be familiar with names of most of the members of SPU featured throughout this release: Steve Barsotti, Peter Comley, Christopher DeLaurenti, Katie Gately, Mark Griswold, Doug Haire, Susie Kozawa (also of Aono Jikken Ensemble), Dale Lloyd, Perri Lynch, Robert Millis (also of Climax Golden Twins), Toby Paddock, Heather Perkins, Steve Peters, Jonathan Way. [press-release]

Stuzha -- "Butugichag" -- CD -- €10
2015 Ksenza Records, KSZ 001 / Infinite Fog Productions, (ltd. 333)
Siberian cold-ambient project “Stuzha” ("severe cold" in Russian) returns with the second full length release, "Butugichag". As on the previous album, the sound is filled with field recordings of Siberia. "Butugichag" tells a story of one day of the most deadly Soviet labour camps of Kolyma. A must for fans of Northaunt music or Glacial Movements releases. Ltd x 333 copies in a 6-panel digipak. [label info]
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T-Wald -- "Landeinwarts: In Memory Of Hermann Hesse" -- CD -- €10
2014 Ufa Muzak, UFA 66 / Valgriind, VG 56, (ltd. 300)
Symphonic ambient / Neoclassic. The album dedicated to Hermann Hesse opens like his book, from the very first lines inviting to the inmost fabulous world of his impetuous imagination, intellectual fiction tightly related to the moments of his own life. Hesse set himself against the society and was running from it into his dreams, in journeys, in complete dissolution in nature which was the confirmation of the existence of God. He couldn't imagine life without creativity, having truly healing force, being able to bring up a personality, giving answers to the essence of things. Hesse wrote about that in his last philosophical surrealistic novel "The Glass Bead Game", in which an order of intellectuals invents the universal art influenced by Buddhism and mathematics in addition to music. Like in the aesthetics of Romanticism, kept up by the German classic, the idea of progress and civilization is opposed by returning of a human to the roots of nature, so in the music of T-WALD one can hear quiet whisperings of wildlife spirits, always having a powerful impact on the ability to create. The album touches the key points of the writer's world of imagery. Deliberately quiet recording prepares the listener for the attentive contemplative mood, in which he would open again and again the faery grottos inviting to take a rest in each of them, being imbued by the magic. Light weightless melody, like a breath of wind from Bodensee, carries long faded smells, voices, rustling of leaves and splashes of water from the past. There is no return, the only thing left is the book read long ago and buried in a pile of dry leaves, and the eternal music in a long abandoned empty house. "Oh, was not all suffering time, were not all forms of tormenting oneself and being afraid time, was not everything hard, everything hostile in the world gone and overcome as soon as one had overcome time, as soon as time would have been put out of existence by one's thoughts?"... 9 tracks, 45 minutes, 6 panel cardboard sleeve. [press-release]

Tietchens, Asmus / Jetzmann / TBC -- "Hunde I & Hot Mail Music" -- 2 CD-R -- €10
Wachsender Prozess, WP 26/27
Dedicated to the "RRR 500" loop record. Using three record players, the musicians created their own thick, multilared mix from these records. Diffrend styles and dedications: sometimes minimalistic noise, sometimes wild sample action. [label info]

Titin-Schnaider, Michel -- "La Mort De La Transcendance" -- CD -- €10
2014 Observatoire, obs * E | music 050 / Aventures Electro Acoustiques, AEA 14001, (ltd. 200)
This 7th album contains a set of musical works for virtual instruments inspired by the philosophicals thinking leading to the post-modernity. "Lumieres", Deconstruction, "Monde de la technique", post-globalisation, existential anxiety, immanence, impermanence of the systems are the themes musically illustrated here, in reference to philosophers like Spinoza, Nietzsche, Sartre, Heidegger, Arrendt or also Luc Ferry. [label info]
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Tomhet / Throudos / Funeral Inconscientemente Natural -– "Architectes" -- CD -- €5
2010 9th Meridian Records, 9MR-005 / FunerART, FA 038-1
Dark Ambient / Drone / Doom Metal.
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Turra, Luigi -- "Ki" -- 3 CD -- €15
2011 and/OAR, and/37
A first version of "Enso" was originally released by Small Voices in 2007, but the release suffered from peak-volume distortion due to being mastered too loud, plus the use of compression altered the sound of the work. Here, it is free from distortion and compression. "Ancient Silence" was originally self-released as a limited edition CDR EP in 2007. Presented here for the first time is the full length version. "Shasekishu" is a previously unreleased third part of the "KI" trilogy. "Ki" traverses and transcends dimensions of time and space, so all notions of past, present and future defy linear logic. Ephemeral occurrences turn into frozen memories suspended in the air like clouds of dust in sunlight. An epic and outstanding example of reductionist sound cinema. A truly visionary work. [label info]

Turra, Luigi & Christopher McFall -- "Tactile.Surface" -- CD -- €10
2010 Unfathomless, U02, (ltd. 250)
Abstract / Field Recording / Experimental. "Tactile.Surface" is the sound presentation of a virtual place, an imaginary environment born from the alchemy of recordings between two different but real places, far apart geographically, yet close in time and spirit. On one side, are the sounds captured in the intimacy of my living room in the small city of Schio (North of Italy), mainly those reflecting its silence, and also some caught from the windows in the early hours of morning, enhanced with some discreet short recordings of shakuhachi flutes. On the other side, lies the open space of Kansas City urban context, and the sound/views absorbed during a long travel to Colorado by Christopher McFall. The two different sound places have been blended into a new one, rich of memory and keeping intact the physical perception of the surfaces, and their tactile, material aspects. (Luigi Turra)

Urfyr -– "Nordgotter" -- CD -- €12
2014 self-released
Dark Ambient / Neo-Classical. Perfectly designed special 7" package, including 16-booklet.
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Wakeford, Tony -- "Cupid & Death" -- CD -- €20
1996 Tursa, TURSA 011 CD
One of the fundamental albums in neofolk genre.

Whetham, Simon -- "Mall Muzak" -- CD -- €10
2011 Unfathomless, U07, (ltd. 200)
Field Recording / Experimental. In 2009, as part of the ‘All Around You’ season of sonic events at The Cube, Simon Whetham was invited to produce a site-specific work for a half-derelict shopping centre called ‘The Mall’ in Bristol. He explored the space with various microphones and techniques to uncover sounds not normally heard by the shopping public. Memories of childhood visits portrayed the shopping centre as a crammed and noisy place, every shop a brightly lit shrine, drawing in it’s worshippers… On returning to The Mall, it was apparent that the current recession had hit hard, with almost half the units with their shutters down, possibly never to open again. The seemingly empty drones of the various processes that keep a structure like this alive could be heard over the scattering of shoppers. Behind the scenes, the drones become more musical and tonal, singing a lament to the financial situation and to better times. The chattering of air conditioning and escalators echoing that of now absent consumers. Ltd x 200 hand-numbered copies in a PVC archive sleeve with insert. [Cold Spring]
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Whiskey Alpha 2XLima / Pulsating Veins -- split -- CD-R -- €6
2014 Down Elcovka Records, CD-R DER 020, (ltd. 12)
Harsh Noise Wall. Split of two projects that should be known by previous releases of the label. Two tracks from the project from Mogocha, Russa and one from the project from Belarus. Three gritty noise walls will scratch your brain during almost 80 minutes, leaving deep fissures and unidentified stains. [label info]

Xtematic -- "Symphony Of Nothing" -- CD -- €7
2014 Frozen Light, FZL 016, (ltd. 100)
Frozen Light presents "Symphony Of Nothing" - a new album by Croatian project Xtematic. Deep and atmospheric noise, compiled from records of the dead radio stations, urban sounds, vibrations of different objects, as well as suspicious otherworldly signals. Pure noise, unclear rhythms and buzzing drones are broken by appliances, beaten by the distorted walls of and drown in the overdriven airwaves. Digipak, 100 copies. And this is the first project’s album pressed on CD! [label info]
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V/A -- "Antihumanism 10 Years 2003-2013" -- CD -- €5
2014 Antihumanism Records, AHV01, (ltd. 500)
A compilation dedicated to the 10 year anniversary of the underground Belgian label Antihumanism: Grunt, Dead Reptile Shrine, Cultus, Myself, Circle Of Ouroborus, Maximum Perversum, Pagan, Mons Veneris, Vatfer, Thorns Blade, Profane Congregation, Ames Sanglantes, Goatmoon.

V/A -- "Horosho! - A Tribute To Vladimir Mayakovsky & Russian Futurism" -- CD -- €10
2014 Collapsar Publishing
The long awaited tribute to Russian futurism and such a flagship personality as Vladimir Mayakovskiy. The tritube was created by the musicians from Russia and Italy - the countries that most actively manifested themselves on the path of the Futurist movement. Unlike many compilations dedicated to the Futurism, we won't hear waves of abrasive noise and distorted rumble, but rather enjoy a glass of wine and feel inspiration from the elegant pop music and decadent rock, diving into the age of the avant-garde spirit and revolutionary art. AIN SOPH, ANENERBE MUSIC CLUB, CINETECA MECCANICA, ШРКЪ, SPIRAL69, TEATRO SATANICO, TORCH PROJECT, SPECTRE. Digisleeve with an 8-page booklet. [Ufa Muzak]
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V/A -- "Points On The Plane" -- CD-R -- €3
2014 Down Elcovka Records, CD-R DER 021, (ltd. 50)
Harsh Noise Wall. Eight walls of noise - 8 points of the plane of noise existence. Six projects from Russia, one from Belarus, one from Germany. After several spins wer recommend you to bury this disc for the archaeologists of future generations. Sogra, Damage Report, Concrete, Ethyl Snowman, Wram, Whiskey Alpha 2XLima, Pastuhamovci, Female Domination. [label info]

V/A -- "Songs from the Bunker II" -- CD + CD-R -- €13
2014 Bunkier Productions, BXXII CD, (ltd. 200)
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Bunkier Productions - a part II of our "Songs From The Bunker" compilation will now out! Eighteen brand new tracks: Brazen Serpent, A Heart In The Stillness, Ghosts Of Breslau, Ludola, Docetism, Jaroslaw Wos, Keltika Hispanna, Ruda (a side-project from Ritual Front / Wukowar members), Der Frachter Am Abend, Enu Kaleidoskops, Room Noir, Skon, Lonsai Maikov, Srub, Moongazing Hare, Strydwolf, Nacht Und Nebel, Awen... Special edition of 200 copies comes with bonus CDr - "Songs From The Bunker I", first part of the compilation: Koavt, Ritual Front, The Arid Sea, Alien Levi, Necropropagand, The Blue Hour, Storm Of Capricorn, Westwind, Weihan, Der Krieg, Cold Fusion, Der Feuerkreiner, One For Jude, The Well Of Sadness, Ghosts Of Breslau, Morpheus. [label info]



Vinyl

Atomtrakt / Arditi -- "Nachlass Der Vergessenen / Templets Heliga Hard" -- 7" -- €7
2014 Trutzburg Thule, TRUTZEP010, (ltd. 500)
Brand new split EP from Martial Industrial heavyweights ATOMTRAKT and ARDITI. Atomtrakt follows the path of their last album "Artefakte Des Verderbens"; a stunning darkfolk track with german vocals over martial, militaristic soundscapes. Arditi proceeds with deep and dark martial Industrial under atmospheric spoken words by P.Stahl of LEIDUNGR on vocals. A beautiful hand-numbered collector's item featuring two exclusive tracks, limited to 500 copies on grey vinyl. Comes with a special 6-panel 14x14cm insert. [Cold Spring]

Dilloway, Aaron & Jason Crumer / Gene Pick -- split -- 7" -- €8
2014 A Dear Girl Called Wendy, WE30
On side A, two of the best American artists in a collaboration to remember 'Boogie Woogie Man' Jimmy Valiant. On side B, a track by Gene Pick, new astro in American noise scene, recorded live to tape with modular system, MS20, mixer and pedals. [Experimedia]
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Rasthof Dachau -- "Blut Und Boden" -- LP -- €26
1998/2013 Steinklang Industries, SK 15, (ltd. 40)
Third edition of the classic debut full-length album, previously issued in conjunction with Wolf Rec in 1998, from this Austrian heavy electronics / industrial outfit leading Max Presch, a mastermind of the label. Dealing with the act of dying from different cultural aspects: Santeria-Rituals, Christian Mythology, early Celtic Mysticism and Japanese Death Rituals. [Lust Vessel] Hand-numbered edition of 40 copies.
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V/A -- "V-p V-f Is V-n" -- 7" -- €7
2008 Winds Measure Recordings, wm10, (ltd. 350)
A 7" compilation of short pieces and locked grooves of field recordings, abstract and concrete music from the american label Winds Measure Recordings. Participants: Jeph Jerman, Albert Casais, Ting Ting Jahe, Richard Garet, Alfredo Costa Monteiro, Ben Owen, Lawrence English, Mpld, Civyiu Kkliu, Tommy Birchett, Andy Graydon, Ben Scott, Ilya Monosov.



Cassettes

>o< -- "The City Meets The Sea" -- MC -- €5
2015 YAOP, YAOP 070
First 100% Field Recordings release on YAOP. Recordings made on a western border of the Vasilyevskiy island (St. Petersburg), where inded the city meets the city. Tranquil pacifying meditative sound: earge, hum of passing ships, cries of seagulls and echoes of city noise. [label info]

>o< -- "Oceanic" -- MC -- €6
2015 YAOP, YAOP 067, (ltd. 17)
Serene, calmly gleaming Psychedelic Drone Ambient / Amorphous New Age, pierced by the feeling of what Stanislav Grof calls oceanic or Apollonian ecstasy - the deepest peace, quiet radiant joy and satisfaction, unity with nature and cosmic order. Filled with warmth and water element, this work is based on keyboard parts accompanied by the sounds of ocean, voices of whales and noises recorded in mother's womb. Each cassette is packed in a plastic box painted by hand with wavy ancient Greek meanders and filled with shells from the shores of the warm seas. [press-release]

A//O / Relic Radiation -- "La Notte di Architetto x A" -- C-20 -- €5
2014 La Notte Di Architetto, LNxA
Minimal / dark techno. The long night of creation of existence: the Architect assembling reality from the dreams, giving birth to worlds, infinitely. First release of the new cassette label, focused on techno experimentalism, brings pieces by A//O and Relic Radiation. [label info]
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Davies, Angharad & Taku Inami -- "Two Hands" -- C-52 -- €5
2011 Winds Measure Recordings, wm27, (ltd. 100)
Ultra-minimalistic recordings from these two artists, the tape mostly consists of silence and rare occasional violin sounding as quiet as ever possible and clapping hands.

Faded Flowers -- "Noir" -- MC -- €5
2014 Materia Productions, Mtr 002, (ltd. 50)
In the last days of the passing year, we're glad to present the new release by our label - "Noir" from the Russian project Faded Flowers, released on cassetted in an edition of 50 copies. We should note that the tape sound differs from digital towards darkness and lo-fi-ness. Somewhere between Tropic of Cancer and Lycia, instrumental cold & gloomy sound of this project seems to be born to be played back from the tape: melancholic guitars, vague synths and cold drum machine will plunge you into a bottomless ocean of analogue melancholia. Sides A and B are marked by the Sun and the Moon respectively. [label info]

Hasegawa, Hiroshi & Vitaly Maklakov -- split -- MC -- €6
2015 Ostroga, OTR-034, (ltd. 60)
Studying invisible at first glance processes in nature. The movement of air particles and disclosure of mentality mushrooms. Secret Laboratory of Russian-Japanese subconscious. Modular analog synthesis and endless intellectual drift, invisible pulsations of the world. Artwork and design is done by Vitaly Maklakov. [label info]
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Inkubator -- "Berusad" -- MC -- €5
2011 Ingen Vag, 012
Swedish Darkwave / Post-Punk for the fans of Der Golem, Monument Straha and same kind of dark music. [YAOP]

K2 -- "IsoDoping" -- C-48 -- €9
2011 Robert & Leopold, R&L013, (ltd. 100)
Full-lenght album dedicated to all victims of "Fukushima" nuclear plant.

Litvin, Arseniy & Light Collapse -- split -- MC -- €5
2014 Torga Amun, Amun-078, (ltd. 15)
Old school industrial / noise industrial. Side A - Marasmic perverse industrial nightmare. A loud harsh noise. Cut tendons and splatters stink. Side B - Cold oblivion in the reflections on the metal prominences. Gnashing of industrial rocks and glass dragonflies. Special hand-made design. [label info]
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Messer fur Frau Muller -- "Happy End Dead" -- MC -- €8
1992/2000 Solnze Records / ХОР, hmc-042
Reissue of an early noise-punk album of MFFM from 1992.

Messer fur Frau Muller -- "Little Joys" -- MC -- €8
1992/2000 Solnze Records / ХОР, hmc-043
Reissue of an early noise-punk album of MFFM from 1992.

Messer fur Frau Muller -- "Senors Crakovajk" -- MC -- €8
1992/2000 Solnze Records / ХОР, hmc-044
Reissue of an early noise-punk album of MFFM from 1992.

Psychologische Abwehrfront / Pyosalpinx -- split -- MC -- €14
1997 Scrotum Records, HODE 027, (ltd. 99)
A rare split cassette of the German Power Electronics project Psychologische Abwehrfront (from the now deceased musician and writer Heiner Gehring, explorer of "The Base 211", creator of the projects Bolschewiki, Der Schwarze Mann, Heimcomputer 80, Kinderlager) with a noisecore dou Pyosalpinx. [YAOP]

Pustota -- "Refrain" -- 2 MC -- €8
2015 YAOP, YAOP 068, (ltd. 21)
Refrain (from the old French refrain (from refraindre) - "repeat") - the main theme in music, a certain musical material being repeated many times during the musical composition. In poetry refrain can be a line or several lines inserted between verses. The presence of refrain defines the compositional form. The most common form of refrain is rondo. Other forms include villanelle and virelai. First appearance of refrain is mentioned among trouveres, e.g. Gas Brule, in the XIII century there's a rise of all forms of songs with the refrain, which lasted until the XV century. To a large extent it can be considered as a beloved method of the poets living in a region between Loire and Rhine, writing both in Latin and vernacular languages. Troubadours in contrast have rarely used it. On this 150-min long cassette work the refrain has long amplitude and each side of a cassette can be interpreted as a poetic line, and the whole cycle - as a quatrain with a random sequence of all four sides, which makes it an instrument for creating variations. Variative concept has been used during the recording of this work in a sequence of the devices for fixating and re-recording of the cassette tape noises - it's different on each side, with only four magnetic recording devices used in the whole cycle. A project by Evgeniy Savenko (Sadogipnoz, Lunar Abyss, Boeviye Cikady). Handmade cardboard box painted by hand. [press-release]

Relic Radiation -- "Live at Villa sul Lago" -- C-20 -- €5
2014 La Notte Di Architetto, LNLx1
Minimal / dark techno. 20-min live set from the label owner - Relic Radiation from St. Petersburg.
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Skripp -- "Abrasion Marks" -- C-20 -- €5
2014 La Notte Di Architetto, LNxB
20-min drone / ambient / post-industrial / noise / whatever immersion from the St. Petersburg based musician Skripp (ex-Whistler).
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Frea market

Aube - Deglaze (1st ed.) - LP - NM - €6.90
Aube - Deglaze (1st ed.) - LP - VG/VG+ - €3.90
Beyond Sensory Experience & Moljebka Pvlse - Zielona Gora - CD - VG/VG+ - €6.30
Beyond Sensory Experience - Korrelations - CD - NM/NM - €8.40
Brume + Vomir - Unstable - LP - NM - €14.40
Cloama - Neuroscan Organization - LP - NM/VG - €3.90
Daeva Durzeiriche / Moloch / Saturn Form Essence / Magatsu Juso - Void - CD - NM - €4.60
Dauby, Yannick - TW04-05 - CD - NM/VG+ - €6.30
Eckloff, Juergen - Zwei Sinterflaschen In Wechselschaltung / Kompositionen ohne Grund - LP + 7" - NM - €9.80
Enkidu - Live In Kyoto (signed) - 2 LP - NM/VG+ - €7.90
Herbst9 - Consolamentum - 12" - NM/VG+ - €5.90
Krieger - ...Denn Dein Ist Das Reich - 12" - VG+/NM - €5.90
Laibach - Macbeth - CD - NM - €12.80
Lettera 22 - True Form - LP - VG/VG+ - €9.80
Lunde, Eric - 30 X 30 - Short Bursts Of Light - LP - VG+ - €7.90
Menche, Daniel - Deluge - 12" - NM - €5.90
Prins, Gert-Jan - Risk - 3"CD - NM/VG - €4.60
Rasthof Dachau - Blut Und Boden - LP - NM/VG+ - €14.40
Rasthof Dachau - Schmerztherapie '93 - LP - VG+ - €9.80
Rasthof Dachau - Zero Tolerance - 12" s/s - NM - €18.30
Rocchetti, Claudio - These Are The Days - LP - NM - €7.20
Stahlwerk 9 - Babi Yar - 12" - NM/VG+ - €3.90
Turbund Sturmwerk / Inade - Peryt Shou (red) - LP BOX - NM/VG+ - €14.40
V/A - Born To Be White - A Tribute To Varg Vikernes (Ultrapolyarnoe Vtorzhenie, Aelia Capitolina, Dasein, Lin313, Ierophania, Daemorph, Regul, Horth, Arisk Priest, Ragnarok, Frozen Ocean, Chasm Haze) - CDR - VG+/VG - €3.90

Don't forget to check the full list of rare & used items with all details, it's here.



IV. Back in stock


Adriva -- "Adtasa" -- 3"CD-R -- €5
2008 Observatiore 19, (ltd. 18)
This release contains 2 tracks: first long track is quite typical for Adriva - same raw loops of sound, revolving like giant black millstones. Second track is even more minimalistic and consists of deep low-end rumbling loops.

Allerseelen -- "Rauhe Schale" -- CD -- €9
2010 Aorta, AORCD13
"Rauhe Schale" ('Rough Shell') is the brand new album from Austrian legends Allerseelen, which fascinates musically as well as visually. Everything moves and flows in a field of force between industrial, metal, folklore and pop. Lovers of bands like Nine Inch Nails, Einstürzende Neubauten, Laibach or Underworld could also fall in love with Allerseelen. Gerhard Hallstatt sometimes describes his music as Electronic Folklore or Apocalyptic Rock. But basically there is no real description for Allerseelen - all attempts to find an expression for their music may be valid for some time, yet lose their meaning after a couple of months or years. The songs were inspired by various magical mystery tours in Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Italy and Slovenia. Gerhard is assisted here by Dimo Dimov (Svarrogh, Miel Noir, Sturmpercht), Marcel P. (Sagittarius, Miel Noir, Halgadom), Meri Tadic (Eluveitie) and Annabel Lee (Blood Axis). 70 mins. of music in a digipak with booklet. [Cold Spring]
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Allerseelen -- "Venezia" -- CD -- €9
2001 Aorta, AORCD06
Dedicated to Mediterranean culture and music, this album was inspired by the beautiful city of Venice, Italy. The albums music moves between powerful and rhythmic oriented tracks to soundtrack-type grooves, encompassing the decadent, inspired, hypnotic and surreal. Based on R.M.Rilke and inspired by Nietzsche and E.Pound. Lounge and downtempo industrial. [label info]

Astral & Shit + Kromeshna -- "Emyd Lub" -- 3"CD-R -- €5
2012 Ostroga, OTR-023
20'56 mn unique track issued from a collaboration between two Russian musicians. The result is an instrumental droning ambient piece, mixing electronic and concrete sounds. Nice sound. Housed in a special painted enveloppe. [Nuit Et Brouillard]

Atomtrakt -- "Artefakte Des Verderbens" -- CD -- €10
2012 Steinklang Industries, SK56, (ltd. 400)
Two years after the highly acclaimed „Sperrstelle Nordost“ album the mighty ATOMTRAKT are back with a new bombastic, martial, heroic and apocalyptic Industrial release which is entitled „Artefakte des Verderbens“. The album spreads a superior and cold atmosphere and deals with the Battle of Stalingrad (2nd World War). As on “Sperrstelle Nordost”, cold, heroic and atmospheric synthesizer layers are mixed with bombastic drums and military war-like rhythm patterns. The vocals on the new record vary from dark and clean to distorted and threatening. The overall sound of the album is powerful and bombastic – it spreads a superior and mighty atmosphere rarely heard before. The lyrics deal with fears, death, decay and ambiguity. When listening to this sophisticated album, you can find yourself on the battlefield in Stalingrad. The album itself never gets boring - This is due to the variety of songs and themes. The album is available in a 6-panel DIGIPAK and it was recorded and mastered at Luftschutzkerker Studio in Switzerland. [press-release]

Aube -- "Le Syndrome Aquatique" -- 2 CD -- €12
2008 Silentes, sme 0721
This is the long awaited reissue of one of the best Aube's work originally titled AQUA SYNDROME, published about 10 years ago by MANIFOLD records. The new reissue included the original album with a bonus track and a bonus live CD. LE SYNDROME AQUATIQUE is an impressive job of deconstruction and resetting of sonorous material to work of Aube, this particularly extended in the duration, treaty and expanded time, much to be proposed in a rich edition in double CD. Through sophisticated and very tested technical of sonorous rework assembled in years of untiring activity in a searching experience, Aube puts molding on and models fragments of concrete sounds of "aquatic" derivation transforming them in unknown drones, noises, pads, loops rhythms-mechanics, constructing a fantastic sonorous tapestry of valuable invoice and incredible impact, and unavoidably bringing back to the memory the first three CD constructed with single water sounds of the monumental one box of 12 CDs proudly published from Amplexus more than 10 years ago. One new unforgettable work for all those who love, and has loved, the avant-guard-istic sonorous experimentations of large the great Japanese master. [press-release]
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Aube -- "Variable Ambit" -- CD -- €20
2011 Housepig, HPIG-16, (ltd. 300)
This long-awaited disc finally sees the light day! Recovered from a now-defunct label, delayed for various reasons including a fake cd plant scam, Housepig is proud to present "Variable Ambit"! The master of single-source recording takes a simple starting point - feedback - and manipulates it into a rich tapestry of overlapping tones and textures. Eight tracks, 66 minutes. Pro CD in jewel case with full-color four-page booklet, limited to 300 copies. [label info]

Bad Sector -- "Ampos" -- CD -- €13
1995/2012 Power And Steel, PAS17
After it's first limited CD release in 1995 this album became a much sought after item and finally the re-release of BAD SECTOR's classical first full time record sees the light of the day now. With AMPOS Massimo Magrini set a standard in deeply emotional dark ambient noise and many of his following releases went in that vein of evocative intensity and monolithic sound. In addition to the remastered eleven tracks of the original version this issue includes two bonustracks recorded with the same set-up from 1995 that closes the circle of this timeless masterpiece. Cardboard sleeve. [label info]

Band Of Pain -- "Sacred Flesh (Original Movie Soundtrack)" -- CD -- €9
2000/2010 Cold Spring, CSR33CD, (ltd. 666)
On Friday 14th April 2000, the film SACRED FLESH finally premiered at the ABC Piccadilly cinema for a two week stint, before being shown at cinemas across the country. It was delayed for a while as the BBFC decided on whether to grant a certificate for screening, or to ban it altogether! Finally, with a few edits they gave it an 18 certificate. The soundtrack was written by BAND OF PAIN, creating a very dark, brooding atmosphere to compliment Nigel Wingroves' film. Originally with a 16-page booklet depicting explicit scenes from the film (generallt cute lesbian conventuals), pressure from the distributors forced the artwork into a revised 4-page version. SACRED FLESH is dark journey into realms of mental anguish and repression; a very Black Ambient soundtrack. At last, BAND OF PAIN is working in the medium to which its most suited. An incredible new album with massive demand from both film and music distributors alike. 10 year anniversary edition of 666 copies! [label info]

Barbarossa Umtrunk -- "Wehrwolf Dharma" -- CD -- €10
2010 Ufa Muzak, UFA 33, (ltd. 500)
Military pop / Esoteric industrial. UFA presents a grandiose album by the French sound battalion BARBAROSSA UMTRUNK. This masterpiece is hard to file under a certain style, as they are so interwoven in music and can't be clearly defined. Ethnic elements, cimbals, shamanic singing, heavy drones, synth lines and lots of vocals blend together into an insane mix of apocalyptic, ritual and orchestral neoclassics. The album's concept is no less complex and sophisticated, it was inspired by the theories of Hans Horbiger and northern dark shamans cults. Spinning around the magic of seids and werewolf mysteries, the hidden plot of the songs tells us about the attempt to rewrite the history of Hyperborean race from the very beginning, from the fall of Thule legend. The ice-cold atmosphere of this album penetrates into the fundamental principle of a mystery, and the werewolf spirit sleeping in collective unconscious wakes up. BU ised in their work texts by J. Parvulescu, R. Howard, A. Rosenberg, M. Marmin (creator of "Greece" new right-wing group in France). The album contains tribute songs to Runes Order and Celtic Frost... Cold merciless ambience of a forest where secret is buried in soil itself, dark paths that protect and wreck, gibbous Moon singing silent songs... in darkness it starts the dreadful game of death, and the sound of broken bones and the wild howl of wolves become a new catastrophic believe. 10 tracks, 72 minutes, sturdy 4-panel sleeve with an insert. [press-release] Third pressing with different artwork.
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Bianchi, Maurizio (M.B.) -- "The Testamentary Corridor" -- CD -- €8
2006 Silentes Minimal Editions, sme 0608
Alternating between lighter atmosphere and darker isolationistic moments, Bianchi penetrates deep into the most subtle essence of sound, re-arranging it's elemental particles/grains and creating unbelievable sonic-washes. M.B. says: "Insubordinate discord in five tempos for monolithic keyboards and multicellular dissonances, perpetrated during the autumn of 2005. Dedicated to the lamented martyrs. To commemorate a testamentary event the human beings expend time and care, all theirs energies, but sometimes the results are disappointings... Due to the unconvenient heritage of our rhetorical history lost in the corridor of time." [label info]
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Currents Of Death -- "Cretodoh!" -- CD -- €8
2012 Provoloka, PRVLK-0005, (ltd. 500)
Possibly first power electronics project on exUSSR scene. First records was made at 91/92 in Novokuznetsk,Russia. Raw and angry synth,pulses, distorted vocal - five tracks of true classic power electronic! Also,there is additional bonus on disc - videoclip by Vadim Koshkin and Natalia Popikova, especially made for festival Exotica in 1993. [label info]
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D'incise -- "Prairie" -- 2 CD-R -- €8
2012 Observatoire, obs * e|myth 038, (ltd. 100)
Swiss-based Peter Laurent (d'incise) offers four lengthy works on this double-disc set, centered around drones and the audible elevation of small sounds. These range from vibrating drum skins to the amplification of "quiet parts" from past concerts (an idea I rather like). This latter is my favorite piece here, yielding a varied range of not-overtly-related sounds and textures that possess a very full feeling, elements jostling around in space, buffeting each other, sliding past one another, chaotic but of a whole. In the notes to the release, he writes, "When it gets boring it becomes interesting" and d'incise abuts that subjective divide now and then. All the tracks are listenable though at times, my attention wandered, which is perhaps fine. I'm guessing that they'd function quite well as traditional (that is, Eno-oriented) ambient music in the sense of subtly causing one to think differently. Hard to say. Listening to the final piece, assembled from "feedbacks, open piano, magnetic glitches, pre-amps, laptop and house noises", one realizes that there's a hell of a lot occurring beneath the apparently simple hum though attempting to focus on it, like looking directly at a faint star in the night sky, often causes the cohesion to disappear. Very interesting work, especially the second disc. Worth checking out for those inclined in this direction. [Brian Olewnick]
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Dead Man's Hill -- "Spirits" -- CD -- €9
2010 Steinklang Industries, SK 53
Over the last 7 years, DEAD MAN'S HILL became a well known and much appreciated artist in Ritual Ambient, Neoclassic and Bombastic Martial Music and with this new album, the band drags the listener into alternate realities and far away spheres. The lyrics are mainly dealing with travelling in these worlds. Musically the album goes further in the vein of Lakes of Sacrifice (2006) but a lot deeper-going and much more worked out, so you can say that "Spirits" is definitely the band's best album up to date. Dark and deep-dronning Ambient, mixed with strong and powerful Martial songs, varied with hypnotically mesmerizing Tribal parts. All in all the whole Album has a strong Death Industrial touch and even carries some Gregorian elements. Listen to this album, and let yourself take away to a intangible world, to far away shperes where things are just different to all You ever expected. "Spirits" includes a video from the track Road to Sweet Waters, made by Alex Hugin Wieser. 8 songs / 65 min. [press-release]
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Deadwood -- "8 19" -- CD -- €9
2006 Cold Spring Records, CSR53CD
Outstanding Power Electronics from Sweden. This is DEADWOOD's debut album and is a solid, pounding force of electronics, Death Ambient atmospheres and brutal vocals. Featuring a member of Satanic Black Metal act Blodulv. File alongside such luminaries as The Grey Wolves and Mz.412. DEADWOOD is a relentless assault on the senses! Approach with due caution! [press-release]
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Deadwood -- "Ramblack" -- CD -- €9
2008 Cold Spring Records, CSR104CD
“Ramblack" is the follow up to Deadwood's successful 2005 album "8 19" (CSR53CD). Over the past 3 years this Swedish artist has been toiling away, creating a new black ambient / death noise masterpiece and "Ramblack" is the result. Cloaked in a more raw and morbid sound then its predecessor, this album truly changes ones perspective of audial darkness. This analogue beast of an album layers the tonal prayers of demons and the distorted cries of angels, sickness and depravity. True Death Electronics. The soundtrack to your end. "Ramblack" features guest vocals from Norwegian Black Metal legend Maniac (Skitliv, ex-Mayhem), who’s vocal approach on the song 'Forakt' shows the full range of his capacity. Truly one of the most sick and twisted pieces of sonic art ever recorded. Enjoy the disease! [press-release]
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Dmitriy Rodionov Experience -- "Seventeen Moments Of Winter" -- CD-R -- €5
2010 Heart-Shaped Box, HSB-043, (ltd. 41)
"The work over this album took about 6 months of winter and spring 2003, mostly in Scherbakovka village in Sverdlovsk region. "Seventeen Moments Of Winter" is filled with the sense of frosty Ural winter, loneliness and warmth of village life. The main line of the album is the composition "New Year's experiments" split in 4 parts. In general, all compositions are like "dreams" seen in frosty winter nights in a Ural village. All these "dreams" are divided in several periods of waking up, marked as "Origin through". One of the tracks - "Influence of the moon" - was inspired by an exhibition of Marina Kutyavina (http://www.mariku.ru). The exhibition was called "Angels and Moons". The track "Gagarin" tells about the first space flight of the Soviet cosmonaut Y.A. Gagarin. "What has felt the man who was the first in the history of Earth to fly in space? Must be something on the edge of insanity. Total detachment from reality". "Seventeen Moments Of Winter" is a conceptual work in which the author refers to his childhood memories. "Music has the ability to take you through the time... Just like, for instance, a smell which you liked in childhood can recreate the image from your childhood, if you close your eyes". [from the author]

Fire In The Head -- "As The Nest Burns" -- CD -- €9
2005 Autarkeia, acd 009, (ltd. 400)
Fire In The Head is probably one of the garish artists of noise/power electronics, representing the famous school of the USA. The project's author Michael Page previously participated at live performances of the legendary Giovanni Balistrer's project SLOGUN, also closely linked to the livery of NY sound terrorists. As The Nest Burns is short, but highly hysterical, brutal and dark album of noise/power electronics stylistics. Michael Page masterly plays with amplitude of different tracks intension. Slackened, leaden, psychedelic sounds overgrow into the avalanche of terribly aggressive and hysterical noise, gradually flooding back as unusual and uncomfortable sound stream. As The Nest Burns is a sort of element of otherworld civilization, starting its sudden extension, transformation and smashing attack. There are many fragments of distorted vocal in this album, making the tracks especially threatful. This is a completely new, reformed attack of USA power electronics tradition against the normal and moral world. Do you know what happens as the nest burns??? Then the children burn!!! [press-release]
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Hyperborea (Ryr feat. Morbus Mundi) -- ":GIBUR:" -- CD-R -- €33
2008 UFA Muzak,UFA18, (ltd. 108)
Martial Industrial Avanguarde. Synergy of Polar Blue blood continues the way of inner astral war of the Hitlerian age. Gods of the 3rd Reich are awaken and wait for putting the right question, saying the right word, finding the magical hyperborean sound. This time Ryr collaborates with another Russian mystical fascist project Morbus Mundi and presents the picture of creating other spheres and other planes through the prism of martial industrial, ritual noise, dark ambient and techno trance. Rattling and charming dance of anscient ices plays fairy melodies, prancing and swirling crosses whistle in the sky, thunder and lightning break from shining blood. Schwaben borders of Antarktida have come to their Ultima Faterland to the North, and now we witness the "secret terrain" - Hyperborea. The place where everything will start from the beginning. 88. "Hyperboreans, The White Gods will once appear from The Inner Land, or come back from the starn on a feathery serpent, on a golden eagle in the Age of Condor, or on a white horse. The will come to guide us in the end of Kali-Yuga and show the right direction for the axis of Earth to obtain the right state, into the harmony after the staggering events, with wich this Manvatara ends, this cosmic age consisting of four aeons. The poles will be united then again." 4 page A5 booklet made of textured cardboard. [press-release]
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Indigo Larvae -- "Abandoned to Despair" -- CD -- €9
2007 Steinklang Industries, SK 42, (ltd. 500)
This is a new project of STAHLWERK 9 with a even darker and far more aggressive and sinister atmosphere. Created in the ultimate depth of hell these 9 symphonies of misanthrophy, despair and self-mutilation hold the key to carnage and suicide. Listen to it, and start to squirm…you are never alone! A new shadow has appeared in the black forests of Death Industrial to blot all your hopes out. But beware: this is not the end! It is just a beginning. - a new revelation for BRIGHTER DEATH NOW addicts! [label info]
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Jupitter-Larsen, GX & Vitaly Maklakov -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €5
2013 Heart Shaped Box Prod., HSB-068, (ltd. 50)
A collaboration work by two noise legends from the US and the Urals, Russia. Dense thick brain-tamping droning noise with layers of creaking decomposed field recordings. Full-colour double-sided cover. [YAOP]

K2 -- "Abdominal Electricity" -- CD -- €10
2011 Phage Tapes, (PT:140), (ltd. 500)
Newly released 2011 album from Kusafuka Kimihide, who has been permanently damaging ears for the past 20 years as K2. Almost 60 min of crackling electronic storms and cut-up junk noise. Features amazing art design by Alonso Urbanos. [Mechanoise Labs]

K2 -- "Molekular Terrorism" -- CD-R -- €6
1996 Pure, PURE 40
Japanese noisician Kimihide Kusafuka produces a cacaphonous flow of jumbled, processed sounds, voice and electronics that never rests or slows. [Subterranean Mailorder]

Lopez, Francisco -- "Lopez Island" -- CD -- €9
2007 Elevator Bath, eeaoa011, (ltd. 500)
Elevator Bath is immensely proud to present this exquisite new work from one of the major figures of contemporary experimental music. Lopez Island was crafted from original environmental sound matter recorded in Lopez Island during the winter of 1999-2000. The resulting composition is 51 minutes of both delicate minutiae as well as startling power - crackling, howling, and haunting. The small island in Washington state provided the beautiful, isolated terrain for Lopez' gathering of raw sounds and, as a personal audio document (though clearly beyond mere documentary), the landscape has been expertly translated. A quintessentially chilling interpretation of the winter beach, Lopez Island is a worthy addition to Lopez' exemplary body of absolute concrete music and, indeed, one of his finest works to date. Packaged inside two elegant printed sleeves of 100% recycled paper, this compact disc has been issued in an edition of 500 copies. [press-release]
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Olsson, Kristian & Bo Cavefors -- "Dödens Ö / Die Toteninsel" -- CD -- €9
2010 Autarkeia, acd 059, (ltd. 300)
Bo Cavefors is a famous persecuted Swedish playwright and brutal writer, persona non grata of the Swedish official culture, whose plays and exhibitions have been banned for their quite extreme and nonconformist character. Kristian Olsson, well-known Swedish sound terrorist, the founder of SURVIVAL UNIT and ALFARMANIA projects, using Bo Cavefors' book texts and his voice, has recorded a very gloomy dark ambient album dedicated for the inevitable phenomenon - DEATH. [press-release]

Omenya -- "Ancient Rites" -- CD -- €7
2005 Purple Soil, Pulse zero: two
Omenya is a project of Mark Davis who released his albums under this name on Tantric Harmonies and Klanggalerie. The closest analogue to Omenya can be called Rapoon - waves of smooth ambient in conjunction with sampled semi-ethnic percussion. Tranquil atmospheric music with ritual touch.

Onirot -- "Augusta Taurinorum" -- CD -- €9
2001 Inner Gravity Records, IGR 003
Onirot is a malignant project showing the darkest side of human isolationism. 8 tracks of pure insane sonic anxiety will burn into the soul. A great mixture between early MEGAPTERA and LUSTMORD. Included a bonus video track full of the extreme realities of human weakness... [Cyclic Law]

Reductio Ad Absurdum -- "Do You Feel Crunch In Your Ass, Yellow Bastards?" -- CD -- €9
1997/2012 Provoloka, PRVLK 0004, (ltd. 375)
Fifth album of the veterans of post-Soviet noise industrial music, previously released by Ultra label in 1997 as a cassette edition of 30 copies. The reissue also features bonus track "Subfrontal zoomorphism accompanied by dysphoria" taken from "Zvukoterror-3" compilation (Ultra, U25, 1998).

Reductio Ad Absurdum -- "Sovmehkastratsiya" -- CD -- €9
1996/2009 Provoloka, PRVLK 0002, (ltd. 375)
Reductio Ad Absurdum is one of the most interesting and original noise projects emerged from the post-Soviet Russia. They started their collective experiments in 1994, having recorded and released almost twenty albums, part of them was released by Ultra and Black Dead Rabbit Productions, another part by their own label Plodovitaya Suka. "Sovmehkastratsiya" was released on a cassette in far 1996 by Ultra as a limited edition of 30 copies. After almost 15 years this album is now available on digital media with an additional bonus-track taken from "Zvukoterror" compilation (Ultra 14, 1996). The musical component of this album won't leave untoched the lovers of oldschool analogue noise: noisy trance of Noizeclot, aesthetics of Dog As Master's "Conduit" period, inclination to alogical rhythmics of early Esplendor Geometrico - the music of Reductio Ad Absurdum combines all these approaches making their own, easily recognisable style. [press-release]

Sala -- "Plotina" -- CD-R -- €7
2012 Observatoire, obs * миф|(л65) 042, (ltd. 65)
New myth, new great record from the Lithuanian sound artist Audrius Simkunas gives us a terrifying and low roar of a dam (replacing the background drone and we have a very successful chance to observe the development of this theme) and there are sometimes manifested signs of the environment - you can hear the voices of birds and the rustle of plants... Try some! [label info]
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Sheffield, Colin Andrew -- "First Thus" -- CD -- €9
2005 Elevator Bath, eeaoa020, (ltd. 330)
"First thus" is a phrase used by book sellers, publishers, collectors, etc. to describe a book which may be considered a first edition and/or first printing, but which has been available previously in a slightly different form. A true first edition is the original, first printing of a given book, while a first thus is the first printing of a new version of that book. This classification can come about for any number of reasons, though often times it has to do with a new translation of a particular work, the involvement of a new (different) publisher, or with a new forward or introduction.... First Thus is Sheffield's debut solo album. The recordings on this disc were entirely composed using other commercially available recordings. The goal was to distill the essential qualities of these works and then utilize that essence for new recordings. Only very brief sections of the original works were selected. These raw components were then contracted, expanded, layered, and/or otherwise processed until something new was forged. The result is gorgeous ambient music that gradually shifts and unfolds, offering subtle nuance and quiet restraint. In a sense, it is a collection of other people's work, but this music appears here for the first time in a new setting or, if you will, a new translation. Packaged inside two elegant printed sleeves of 100% recycled paper, this compact disc has been issued in an edition of 330 copies. [press-release]
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Smallwood, Scott / Sawako / Seth Cluett / Ben Owen / Civyiu Kkliu -- "Phonography Meeting 070823" -- CD -- €9
2011 Winds Measure Recordings, wm22, (ltd. 300)
The recording is comprised of unprocessed field and or location recordings in 10 minute parts mixed consecutively person to person. Recorded live at Issue Project room - OA Can Factory, Brooklyn, NY. [label info] CD and insert, packaged in a paper envelope, attached to three-panel letterpress card stock sleeve.
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Sol Invictus / Hawthorn / Sieben -- "Writ in Water" -- CD EP -- €12
2004 Precordings, PRE001
A concept mini-album dedicated to Percy B. Shelley, John Keat and Lord George G. Byron. Digipak with 12 page booklet.

Sol Invictus / Rose Rovine E Amanti / Andrew King -- "A Mythological Prospect Of The Citie Of Londinium" -- CD -- €12
2006 Cold Spring Records, CSR75CD
Nine exclusive studio tracks, three each from Sol Invictus / Rose Rovine E Amanti / Andrew King, in their own unique style. English artists Sol Invictus and Andrew King bestow London-inspired Neofolk and traditional English Folk music, evoking olde Londinium town; while Rose Rovine E Amanti offer romantic Italian Neofolk. The CD comes wrapped in the beautiful paintings of Andrew King, representing the city of London. [label info]
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Sound_00 + Lefterna & Kromeshna -- "s/t" -- 3"CD-R -- €5
2012 Ostroga, OTR-024, (ltd. 24)
2 tracks of experimental drones, first done by Macedonian projects Sound_00 & Lefterna, second by Russian Kromeshna.
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Splinterskin -- "Wayward Souls" -- CD -- €9
2009 Cold Spring Records, CSR114CD
Dark Acoustic / Woodland Folk. Splinterskin unveils his spell after years of solitude and hermetic isolation, in the form of a harsh, dark folk music. His tales are told using an old classical guitar accompanied by haunting vocals, violin, and soothing whispers cradled in the delicate atmospheres of autumn. A collection of tales blending life and death, entities and creatures, hidden wisdom, unknown places, pain and suffering, folklore, possession, insanity, nature and the dark world that surrounds. Yet there are no words to truly describe Splinterskin's message or music. [press-release]
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Spreu & Weizen / Der Jager -- "split" -- CD-R -- €20
2009 Ufa Muzak, UFA 31, (ltd. 120)
Martial Industrial / Nordic Classic. The disc as one has doubled twice.There's nothing impossible at all.This is not a best time to explain why.Even if it'll end we'll wait.Chronometric,expected and diluted at a hand shake, self-occupied as a snow at the hand.There's a memory at clothes and chevrons, you're sitting down,slowing down, nothing, just echo,you weren't here.You can see your names among running river's waters...SPREU & WEIZEN - are the artistic revolutionaries of military sence,and DER JAGER - is the compensation of last years' sins, as ulcers,they're removable.Military humour,weapon laughter,reference to Odin, the most distant marching for the answer that could be told just by the trunk.Yeah, Freya skipping at eyes, and the beast is stealing about.Mystical martial classic is cutting the air,kneeled industrial is minting the words. 4 tracks, 37 minutes, 4-side fullcolor cardboard envelope А5. [press-release]
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Survival Unit -- "Fentanyl Martyrs" -- 2 CD -- €15
2007 Autarkeia, acd 020
Survival Unit Fentanyl Martyrs 2-golden-CD box is the latest cultural terror attack coming from cultic non-compromising Swedish postmortem/power electronics project. This time an especially dreadful and relevant theme has been chosen for compromising the declared illusions of human civilisation. Both discs have been dedicated to Chechnya undergoing the total genocide, the total war where neither honour nor rules are acknowledged, except perhaps those of Marquis de Sade, who - bearing in mind the facts of this war - would have never imagined how far the fantasy of brutal people can advance in order to dominate, torture and control those resembling themselves [...] This time the album of the conceptual project Survival Unit - unlike the earlier albums contained in intentionally cheap, anarchistic DIJ aesthetics and packages - will be a posh release. A special 3-part digipack, 20-page booklet, 2 golden CDs and a special manually-made box will spit into the face of those mocking underground and the truth. Total dirt, horror, bloody audiovisual collages, non-compromising mockery of illusions: the TRUTH will be packed in special luxury. On the one hand, it is a real pity because this is the grand pre-funeral wake of the Survival Unit project. Yet, the legendary project leaving to Valhalla must be specially honoured. So, no wonder that the independent AUTARKEIA, which has previously buried Megaptera giant very solemnly, has been chosen for arranging the funeral. [label info]
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Survival Unit -- "Thought-Trigger-Target" -- CD -- €10
2001/2009 Autarkeia, acd 040
Here is one more masterpiece of Swedish cultural terrorism supplemented with new material and re-released in the golden collection of cultural terrorism series. If compared with the most aggressive albums of Kristian Olsson’s gang Survival Unit, this one is perhaps more atmospheric than openly destructive. Yet, like all other Survival Unit’s diversions, it is pervaded by the black social despair, hate towards human civilisation and the lies it spreads about the reality. It also conveys the position of a person developed in the violent world, i.e. violence against violence for violence. Resistance to everything and anything. Life and its meaning in a nihilistic fight against the surrounding fake reality. This album is a gloomy insight into the future that awaits us all and a fine lesson showing us what stands at the end of the Scandinavian idyll. The album is released in a very elegant digipack with an embossed cover. [press-release]
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Survival Unit -- "Tied Down For Survival" -- CD -- €10
2003/2009 Autarkeia, acd 038, (ltd. 500)
At the times of global crisis, the zombies of cultural terrorism strike again with the fire of new toxic power. Tied Down For Survival is a old/new blow from the Scandinavian cult project Survival Unit to the rotten cancer of Western civilisation and the second collection of rarities in the golden collection of cultural terrorism series. This is an exceptionally suggestive, psychedelic power electronics with deeply terrorising implications. Here you will listen to unreleased live records, passages from limited edition utan fana and the controversial conspiracy theory of Rolf-Peter Andersson, where Swedish monarch family, Indira Gandhi and Mikhail Gorbachev practice cannibalism. [press-release]
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Svartsinn -- "Traces Of Nothingness" -- CD -- €14
Cyclic Law, 13th Cycle
The 3rd offering from Norway's Svartsinn could be acknowledged as the end of a trilogy, the first opus "Devouring Consciousness" was an album containing stories made during what the artist explains as being some difficult and rough times. The second offering, "Of Darkness And Re-Creation", was the process of trying to deal with these struggles and reflect on them. "Traces Of Nothingness" is simply the reaction, result and the path ahead in this ongoing, seemingly endless darkness. A slightly more melodic, sad and obscure side of Svartsinn that still keeps the cold and dark atmosphere that defines his sound. [press release]
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Toll -- "Christ Knows" -- CD -- €9
2006 Cold Spring Records, CSR66CD
Cold Spring are very proud to re-issue the legendary LP released by Broken Flag in 1986, now for the first time on CD. Featuring Tim Gane (Stereolab), Paul Lemos (Controlled Bleeding) and Pacific 231. This completely remastered disc features the complete 'Christ Knows' LP plus 3 previously unreleased bonus tracks. Classical old-school British Industrial. [label info]
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Von Thronstahl -- "Sacrificare" -- CD -- €10
2007/2014 Fasci-Nation Recordings, 005
"Sacrificare" is the all new album by VON THRONSTAHL and contains a total of 14 tracks, with over 70 minutes of music. Von Thronstahl deliver real traditional Neofolk, alternating between intense and powerful, to romantic and orchestral tunes, but always very melodic. This could be considered the most commercial Von Thronstahl release to date, and with the superb song-writing of Josef K, sets a new benchmark for the Neofolk genre. [Cold Spring] Reissue made in 2014.
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Zero Centigrade -- "Birch" -- CD-R -- €7
2013 Observatoire, obs * instrument 045, (ltd. 65)
There is a Swedish guitarist David Stackenas, he had an album with Mats Gustafsson in mid-00s entitled "Blues". Of course, there was no blues at all, it was 100% Scandinavian improv originating from English improv, as you know. What am I about? I'm about first several munutes of melancholic fingerpicking of two acoustic guitars of the Italian duo Zero Centigrade which reminded me of that CD and particularly manner of Stackenas. A kind of sloed down improv, which is not blues at all but you want to call it blues. However the Italians are not done yet, as they also use feedback appearing in guitars. And again, that Swedish guitarist have actively used an e-bow and its sounds are quite close to natural feedbacks, so here I remembered his solo works. Well, enough of similarities, let's better talk about differences and peculiarities. What immediately strikes an eye (ears) is the absolutely anti-Italian mood with absence of sun in the music and low sound. It's weird, because they live in Naples, and it is an extremely bright, southern, bustling and noisy city. Perhaps for this reason the duo is so gloomy, if not misanthropic. Maybe they're not glad with the Mediterranean weather when going out to the streets and prefer the twilight of their own studio. The album features only one track lasting for 26 minutes. In the beginning and in the end they play without electronics and this reminded me of "blues". The rest of the track is dedicated to feedbacks and gentle work with them adding and fading out breaking overtones and some sonic defects. The overall mood is extremely relaxed and concentrated at the same time, and if the first quality is pretty obvious, the second appears only with understanding of what and how Zero Centigrade play. Melancholic mood of the music helps thoughts running leisurely in the evening after daytime worries. One can relax and just follow, or attentively listen to every sound appearing - choose what's best for you. [Ilia Belorukov, SM]
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Zinc Room & Obozdur -- split -- MC -- €6
2014 Ostroga, OTR-027, (ltd. 30)
Two Ural-based projects. Midnight tradition and shamanism. Bottomless quagmire and cries, sinking into the night. Dark ambient Industrial / death industrial, field recordings and recordings of forest performances. Design: 30 cassettes dressed in exclusive cardboard covers. Each case features a unique oil monotype. Each cassette painted in tricolor acrylic texture. Comes with a photo card of a real wooden idol from a small village Maly Atyazh from the Urals. [label info]
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V/A -- "Perineum Noise Festival 2007" -- 2 CD-R -- €14
2008 Perineum, Perineum # 24, (ltd. 93)
4 one of the most interesting acts in Lithuanian underground: • d.n.s. - a side project of famous ambient/folk project Donis.here he creates rhythmic industrial experimental passages, one of the best performance ever. • echidna aukstyn - old avantgarde/experimental act, you never know what'd besides the corner, this time some freaky techno and flutes and deep ambient. • nulis - a side project of famous post industrial project Girnu Giesmes, here does joyfull experimental music, using a sample from Soviet movie or smthg. • bruzgynai - one of the first shows, the primal feedback chaos, the most destructive act. [press-release]



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