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We're glad to present the new cooperation release between Evil Dead Productions and ZHELEZOBETON Distribution Division - the album by the Yekaterinburg-based project Sol Mortuus "Extinction". Viscous ritual ambient performed mainly on acoustic instruments - music interpretations of the Ural legends and tales of the northern peoples.
Like always, our distro catalogue has been updated with lots of musical oddities and rarities of all kinds. Russian underground never sleeps! We got new items from NEN Records (Stpocold and Sal Solaris + Heinali cassettes), Frozen Light (Astrowind, Moloch and more), Operator Produkzion / YAOP, BioSonar^Lo-End, Semperflorens, Observatoire, Spina!Rec, Intonema, Aquarellist (extended reissue of Rapoon's "Tin of Drum"), Chernaya Zemlya, plus cassette version of the latest album by Reutoff "No One's Lullabies" in exclusive packaging.
We also got the series of compilations from the German label Chamber Music, a collection of releases from Thomas Beck's (tbc) label Wachsender Prozess, from the Italian imprint Naked Lunch Records, reissue of the classical album by Yen Pox & Troum "Mnemonic Induction" on Transgredient Records and 3-LP set by Trepaneringsritualen on Retortae.
Autumn promises to be intense. Stay with us, listen to the right music, be good bunnies!
Best vibes,
M.M.
07.10.2015
I. New release
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Sol Mortuus
CD (ltd. 300) |
Sol Mortuus is the project of the Yekaterinburg-based musician named Kein, who played in the 90-ies in a well-known underground Russian atmospheric black metal band Thy Repentance and later got carried away by experimental ambient sound. Under this name he has already released the album "Black In The Green Wreath" on a split with Zinc Room (2014, Evil Dead Productions, EDP 014) and a couple of tracks on compilations. Kein is also the author of such projects as Scratching Soil, Carved Image Of Emptiness, Church Of Howling Dog and is a member of Prognostic Zero and Zinc Room.
"Extinction" was recorded in 2014-2015 and dedicated to a life in decay, under a dying Sun, or possibly Three Suns? This is slow, thick and viscous rhythmic ritual ambient evoking spacious desert images (although everyone has their own visions). Aside from the essential synthesizers which play a background droning role here, a lot of acoustic instruments were used in this recording: cello, mandolin, blockflute, kaluka, vargan, buben and various percussion. The album sounds whole, it seems the tracks bleed one from another but at the same time each of them carries its own story built on the interpretations of the ancient Ural legends and tales of the northern peoples.
II. Reviews
Neznamo "Aiwyâstô" CD:
Santa Sangre Magazine: https://santasangremagazine.wordpress.com/2015/09/27/neznamo-%E2%80%8E-aiwyasto/
The Wire: http://zhb.radionoise.ru/eng/zhb-xlvii.html#wire
Brutal Resonance: http://www.brutalresonance.com/review/uhushuhu-geoscience/
III. Forthcoming events
09.10.2015
PHELIOS, MELANOSIS
St. Petersburg, "The Place". More info...
09.10.2015
XIU XIU play music from TWIN PEAKS
St. Petersburg, "The Place". More info...
10.10.2015
PHELIOS, CREATION VI, СПЯ
Moscow, "Ditch". More info...
10.10.2015
XIU XIU play music from TWIN PEAKS
Moscow, "CDH". More info...
14.10.2015
MOTHER TEREZA, OTZEPENEVSHIYE
Moscow, "Muse". More info...
16.10.2015
NOISES OF RUSSIA, MXY7 OHKA, Дьякон Евгений
Moscow, "Shagi". More info...
23.10.2015 - Tremor Control
LEBANON HANOVER, SHE PAST AWAY, DIE SELEKTION, SCHWEFELGELB, SSSS
St. Petersburg, "The Place". More info...
24.10.2015 - Tremor Control
LEBANON HANOVER, SHE PAST AWAY, DIE SELEKTION, SCHWEFELGELB, SSSS
Moscow, "Theater". More info...
24.10.2015 - Гудельня
HATTIFNATTER, OGNI VIDENIY, THREE COWS FREE
St. Petersburg, "Zanza". More info...
29.10.2015
COH, FUTURE FAKTORY, ROZET
Moscow, "16 Tonns". More info...
07.11.2015
NOISES OF RUSSIA
St. Petersburg, "ESG-21".
07.11.2015 - Ritual Muz Fest
NYTT LAND, AD LUCEM TENEBRATUM, LIHOLESIE, SACRA FERN
Novosibirsk, "Fenix". More info...
08.11.2015 - Dronefest
SIX DEAD BULGARIANS, CREATION VI, DVORY, LUNAR ABYSS DEUS ORGANUM, UHUSHUHU
St. Petersburg, "The Place". More info...
IV. New items in mailorder catalogue
CDs & CD-Rs
Adr-va -- "Pigment...#1" -- 3"CD-R -- €8
2012/2015 Rostov Vox, cdr01, (ltd. 10)
Reissue - 10 copies in a piece of green cloth. Individual audio lo-fi series, part 1 - "Chatte". Manipulations with ochra, sand, terracota... and other materials and processing... [label info]
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Adr-va -- "Pigment...#2" -- 3"CD-R -- €8
2012/2015 Rostov Vox, cdr02, (ltd. 10)
Reissue - 10 copies in a piece of green cloth. Individual audio lo-fi series, part 2 - "Chatte - Reverse". Manipulations with ochra, sand, terracota... and other materials and processing... [label info]
[mp3]
Adr-va -- "Pigment...#3" -- 3"CD-R -- €8
2012/2015 Rostov Vox, cdr03, (ltd. 11)
Reissue - 11 copies in a piece of green cloth. Individual audio lo-fi series, part 3 - "Les". [label info]
[mp3]
[mp3] [mp3]
Antikatechon -- "Woe Is The Reward" -- CD -- €10
2014 Rage In Eden, RAGE 105, (ltd. 300)
Davide Del Col has been working in the specific and uncompromising ritual dark ambient genre since the end of the 90s, this firstly under the moniker of Ornament for a couple of very rare limited editions then as Antikatechon which now represents the highlight of his artistic and stylistic creativity. A first full length album has been published on Silentes Minimal Editions back in 2011, this one provides a very accomplished effort in the realms of hauntingly dark ambient music with a touch of melancholic-spiritual inflected nihilism. Signed on Rage in Eden, "Chrisma Crucifixorum" is an other eloquent and complex release which oscillates between stately gazing drone sequences and original audio treatments, the whole thing surrounded by a sacral aura. 2013 saw the rise of a collaborative effort with the pioneering ethno-noise ambient act Nimh, also from Italy. This musical meeting gave birth to a passionate and typical dark ambient offering. The conceptual-visual background is connected to the visions and powerful painting works of Goya. Davide Del Col presents here his new catchy electronic dark ambient release entitled "Woe is the Reward", welcomed by Rage in Eden Records. A tremendous, entrancing and blasting dark ambient odyssey full of majestic sound sculptures, huge resonances, bleak noises, metallic reverbs and many more. This sonic, soundtracky and "acoustically haunted" ambient symphony will totally enthrall and ravish the listener. Be prepared to this intense sonorous adventure. [Philippe Blache]
[youtube]
Arbeit / Beauchamp / Palumbo -- "Torino 012010" -- 2 CD -- €10
2011 Tourette Records, tourette 022, (ltd. 500)
Torino 012010 is the second release of a series documenting the collaboration between Jochen Arbeit (guitar player of Die Haut and Einstuerzende Neubauten) Paul Beauchamp and Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo (the duo known as Blind Cave Salamander). This collaboration started as part of Arbeit's “Soundscapes” improvisation live project. The focus being on the moment of the spontaneous meeting of different systems of soundscaping, the task and challenge of exchanging the results of individual sound research in a public space. The Torino 012010 double cd release on Tourette Records follows the vinyl only live album Halle 27022010 (released by the German label Behind s.r.b.) and presents two different sessions recorded by the trio in January 2010 in Torino Italy: a studio session at O.F.F. studios recorded, mixed and edited by producer and sound engineer Marco Milanesio and a recording of a live performance in the historical chapel of the San Pietro In Vincoli ex-cemetery as recorded by Larsen's Paolo Dellapiana and edited by Jochen Arbeit. Even though this collaboration is an integral part of Blind Cave Salamander's activity and discography the musicians have decided to release these albums under their individual names to emphasize the project's collaborative nature based on improvisation and composing as a real time emotional and musical reaction to each other's inputs/outputs. [press-release]
Arsenne / Cisak / Oleksinski -- "s/t" -- CD -- €6
2015 Frozen Light, FZL 027, (ltd. 300)
Arthur Arsenne from France, Piotr Cisak & Pawel Oleksinski, both from Poland, are modern European post-industrial music experimentators. This “Power Trio” clustered to create Doom-driven Drone Ambient with Noise and Abstract sounds collected in an untitled live album. 4 long meditative soundscapes lead you through empty workshops, silent industrial suburbs, hooting marshalling yards and harbours, droning substations and beautiful protection belts. Emptiness and Silence. [label info]
[bandcamp]
Aseptic Void -- "Carnal" -- CD -- €10
2015 Naked Lunch Records, NLR010CD, (ltd. 500)
New album from the italian dark ambient composer Davide Terreni. "Impressive continuation of dark themes and masterful use of static, haunting spaces in their music, including silence". [Vulpiano Records]
[youtube]
Astrowind -- "Kedr" -- CD -- €10
2015 Frozen Light, FZL 022, (ltd. 102)
Latvian composer, musician and sound designer Kirils Lomunovs / Astrowind is soaring up to the cosmos again with his new EP “Kedr”. An unquiet and seemingly somewhat chaotic music enshrouds deep textures of sound, micronoise of cosmos and voices of its conquerors. Atmosphere of nostalgia for enthusiasm of a gone epoch of extraterrestrial space active research and an attempt to look past earth orbit from the Earth have been explored in the terrestrial studio Tokctoka. Voices of antique analogue synthesizers and analogue sound effects are employed to help in piercing the space: Vermona synthesizer, Roland RE-201 Space Echo, multiple artifacts of Formanta Radio Factory in Kachkanar, USSR, including Polivoks itself, as well as other exciting and legendary tools. A virtual-analogue synthesizer Oberheim OB 12 – „crazy mathematician” – plays a special role in this record. [press-release]
[soundcloud]
Aube -- "Flood-Gate" -- CD -- €39
1993 Vanilla Records, VANILLA-27, (ltd. 500)
Recorded at Studio MECCA, Kyoto using water sound only as material. Signed by Akifumi Nakajima!
Aube -- "Infinitely Orbit" -- CD -- €25
1996 Alchemy Records, ARCD-088
Source material: monophonic analogue synthesizer Roland SH-2. Signed by Akifumi Nakajima!
[youtube]
Badrutt, Gaudenz / Ilia Belorukov / Jonas Kocher -- "Rotonda" -- CD -- €9
2015 Intonema, int016, (ltd. 200)
In September 2014 Intonema co-organized the Russian tour of Gaudenz Badrutt, Ilia Belorukov and Jonas Kocher. They played in Moscow, Yaroslalv, Tomsk, Kemerovo, Novosibirsk and St. Petersburg. They recorded the material of this album in Intonema's hometown, St. Petersburg, which extends the series of releases recorded in rotunda of the Mayakovsky Library. Acute attention to silences and extremely careful work with sound comes from the “fourth” collaborator, the space of the rotunda and its specific acoustics. [label info]
[youtube]
Baker, Aidan -- "Element" -- CD -- €10
2000/2015 Teta-Morphosis, TM03, (ltd. 500)
A collection of the early works by the Canadian musician. All compositions were recorded in late 90-ies. This is a kind of journal documenting the search for "oneself", one's own style of sound. In fact "Element" sounds a bit more abstract then many late Aidan's albums. And although this album has something from the industrial drones of Troum, Baker still continues the traditions of European drone, upgrading them with his own sound and instrumental skills. On his very firsl album one can see how good is Aidan in creating the atmosphere. Endless spaces-oceans of ambient wash throgh our ears. Guitar loops melt into the song of water running underneath a bridge. Aidan Baker is a really acclaimed drone musician, and "Element" shows us the great debut work representing the style which Aidan has been developing and refining during the long years of his career. [press-release]
Blanchard, Philippe / Christian Renou -- "Play:Lunch" -- CD -- €14
2000 Plate Lunch, PL 13
A collaboration of the two masters of French experimental music - Philippe Blanchard (Lt. Caramel) and Christian Renou (Brume), inspired by the history of diet and kitchen, full of recordings of a Middle East bazaar, of cooking food, degustation and eating. Jewel-case.
[youtube]
Brume -- "Battery Hens Sabotage" -- CD -- €20
1992 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 001, (ltd. 498)
Brume -- "Hysterical" -- CD-R -- €18
1999 Transfixional Entertainment, fix009, (ltd. 250)
A collection of rarities, remastered and alternative versions of compilation tracks and exclusive material recorded by Brume in 1989-1997.
[youtube]
Brume -- "No-Thing" -- CD -- €18
1991 Staalplaat / Soleilmoon Recordings, STLTD 06, (ltd. 500)
Brume -- "Normal" -- CD -- €16
1998 Release Entertainment, RR 6999-2
Brume -- "The Sun / The Moon" -- 2 CD -- €10
2009 Elsie & Jack Recordings, #:018, (ltd. 671)
In celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, elsie and jack presents two recordings - an old one and a new one - by the French artist BRUME: "The Sun" and "The Moon". "The Sun" is a remastered release of one of his early cassette pieces, originally recorded in 1989/1990 and issued on the Italian label OLD EUROPA CAFE, plus two bonus tracks from the same period. "The Moon" includes unreleased material, recorded in March and April 2009, 4 solo tracks, 7 in collaboration with other musicians. "The Sun" contains 12 tracks/70 mns of ritual & experimental music with many ethnic sounds, hypnotic rhythms, tape-voices and cut-ups while "The Moon" offers 11 pieces of Musique concrкte (68 mns), quieter and more ambient than "The Sun". Both CD's come in full-colour cardboard covers with several inserts, all housed in a special deluxe foldout sleeve. Limited handnumbered edition of 671 copies. [label info]
Brume -- "Xeros" -- CD -- €16
1993 Korm Plastics, kip-002
Brume -- "Zona Ventille" -- CD -- €16
2001 Elsie & Jack Recordings, #:008, (ltd. 1000)
When this CD was released, it was considered the last published work by Brume... Jewel-case with a sticker.
Building 33 -- ".End." -- CD-R -- €5
CVLMINIS, (ltd. 20)
Cat.n.Bone / Ego Death -- "Unveiling The Wicked Dead Glass Behind A Curtain Of Thin Tissue Under Any Circumstances" -- 3"CD-R + 3"DVD-R -- €6
2012 self-released, (ltd. 22)
Chasse, Loren -- "The Animals and Their Shadows" -- CD -- €10
2015 Semperflorens, sf12, (ltd. 500)
It's easy to imagine this album coming out on a well-known Belgian label Mystery Sea. Actually, Loren has already had a release there under a name of Coelacanth, and under his own name there was a release on Unfathomless, the sister label dedicated to field recordings. No wonder, abstract ambient compositions drawn on a frame of fieldies are always in favour. "The Animals and Their Shadows" is thill a bit beyond the concept of the Belgian drone imprint: Loren doesn't limit himselfby only by sea-scapes, his microphone aims to the whole range of sounds of natural and artificial origin. Something like Lawrence English's "Songs Of The Living" if they were not just his audio travelogue. So Loren develops his tracks using the abstract rhythms of occasional field recordings. "The Animals and Their Shadows" is like a poetry book: metaphors, surprising comparisons, images strung on a thread of associative rhythmics. [Dmitriy Takmakov]
Cloama + Blutleuchte -- "s/t" -- CD -- €5
2005/2008 Anima Arctica, AUER-004
Reissue of a CDR oroginally published by New Old Sentinel.
Courtis, Anla -- "Live in Hamburg, 23.02.07" -- CD-R -- €7
Wachsender Prozess, WP 22
This is an electro-acustic performance from the former guitarist of Reynols from Argentina. It's a rich, various set of primitive atmospheres with the use of field recordings, self-built instruments and various guitarplaying with psychedelic overtones. It starts with a pause and devolops like a Xenakis track in a very dynamic performance. [label info]
Das Synthetische Mischgewebe & TBC -- "Notre Besoin D'attachement Est Aussi Celui De Rupture / They Never Come To Hit The Public" -- CD -- €10
2010 Wachsender Prozess, WP 31 / Reduktive Musiken, redukt014
DSM is Guido Hübener, living in Caen, France. He is some of the leading modern electro-acustic composers of today. Many mentionable releases he has done in the last years: a collaboration retroperspective for Monochrome Vision or the collaboration with The New Blockaders. Out of isolation he is always looking to work with others musicans in some or other way. So seems to be natural to do a split-cd for Wachsender Process. His track is dry, only filtering effects based surrealistic domestic home noises compostion on object sound. Yes, in some sense quiet, but noise as can be. It's seems the home is a living organismen! Tbc is the group behind Wachsender Process. Their track is a tour de france of cut-up technics. Sometimes loud, sometimes senual quiet with some aural shock effects. They use all technics of modern compostion: noise, fieldrecording, abstract electronics, plunderphonic and ambient in one compostion. It's like a best of or showcase recording. [label info]
Dauby, Yannick -- "Chant de Dune" -- CD-R -- €10
1999 Le Silence Des Sirenes, SILSIR004CDR
The original release of the 20-min long piece made by the author himself and later re-released by the French label taalem. Yannick Dauby is a French composer, known for his collaborations with Alio Die ("Descendre Cinq Voiles à L'ombre d'une Voile" CD-single on Amplexus), Mnortham (the "Entrelacs" project) or Thomas Köner (the recent "Zyklop" 2 CD-set on Mille Plateaux). "Sounding sands are found in many places in the whole world. This rare natural phenomenon, is represented most of the time by beaches, whose sand is squeaking when it is struck or pushed. However, in some deserts, we meet some large dunes which have a more astonishing activity. Sand avalanches, mostly provocated by the wind, create very deep sounds, extremely powerful, accompanied by tremors and lasting for several minutes. Unexplained, these singings from the desert are despicted like roarings, voices from surnatural beings or the rumbling of the thunder." (Yannick Dauby).
[mp3]
Dauby, Yannick -- "Keoladeo" -- CD-R -- €10
1999 Le Silence Des Sirenes, SILSIR001CDR
20-min long piece composed of field recordings made in India in 1998.
De Filippis, Alain -- "Ton Dieu Ne S'appelle-t-il Pas Ego?" -- 3"CD -- €8
1994 Metamkine, MKCD 013
Musique concrete realized in 1993 in the author's studio and those of KHEM. First public performance on 20 June 1993 as part of the "Attitudes Singulieres" exhibition (St-Colomban, 44). Very sincere thanks to: Cesario Rachador, Marielle Colin, Philippe Peyronnel and all the team at KHEM. Part of the Collection Cinйma pour l'oreille, curated by Jerome Noetinger.
Endlosung -- "Recollection About Past Full OF Death For Life" -- CD-R -- €6
2015 CVLMINIS, (ltd. 20)
Fear Konstruktor -- "Preparation Of Humanity" -- CD-R -- €6
2009 Sickcore, SC 016, (ltd. 100)
Masterful Power Electronics from already quite known Russian project. Magnificent sophosticated package.
Feine B°tongs Bei Tbc Zu Hause -- "Dynamik Der Freiheit" -- CD-R -- €7
Wachsender Prozess, WP40
Electro-acustic work done in the FSK 93.00 MHz Studios here in Hamburg with B°tong, Feine Trinker Bei Pinkels Daheim and tbc live on air. Lot of found sound, treatments and effects, samples and electronics. Real wiered stuff! [label info]
Frozen Ocean -- "Likegyldig Raseri" -- CD -- €8
2011 Deleting Soul Records, DSR007 / Suffering Jesus Productions, SJP024
Geychenko, Sergey -- "Text" -- CD -- €7
2011 Frozen Light, FZL 001, (ltd. 200)
Second album of the Moscow based composer, poet, writer, etc. Sergey Geychenko. A conceptual musical tapestry based on Sergey's literature works (also featuring poems by Pushkin and Khlebnikov). Musically this is somewhere between industrial, noise-ambient, folk and classical music, based on a solid rock'n'roll platform. Sergey has recorded and performed almost all parties by himself (from piano and guitars to washing bowls, gates and solo on a rake comb)... Many surprises are waiting for the attentive listener! [label info]
[bandcamp]
Geychenko, Sergey -- "Piano Pieces" -- CD -- €7
2009 Frozen Light, (ltd. 50)
First edition of the Frozen Light label done in 2009. The disc presents piano pieces by Sergey Geychenko composed in same years... [label info]
Gorduw -- "XVII CIF. SS Army" -- CD-R -- €6
CVLMINIS, (ltd. 20)
78 min. Folvork Sympho Industrial / Dark Electronic With Elements Ambient, Noise, Beat… [Folvork] Reissue by CVLMINIS.
Gorduw -- "XIX CIF. 30/15" -- CD-R -- €6
2011/2013 Kadaath Records, Kadaath 58, (ltd. 30)
79 min. It starts with rough ragged noise based on a batch of overwound effects of looped samples, which grows like an avalanche raving and then comes down to the valleys of more spacious structures, after all degrading to monotonous noise jelly hanging like an impenetrable fog. Persistent schizophrenic collages of mind-corroding voices, a short break and then again millstones start their work, grinding the common sense. Reissue by Kadaath Records.
Gorduw -- "XXIV CIF. Underground Dark Chill Out" -- CD-R -- €5
CVLMINIS, (ltd. 20)
Hurtado, Marc & Vomir -- "2011" -- CD -- €10
2012 Tourette Records, Tourette 030, (ltd. 400)
Collaboration between Marc Hurtado, former of Etant Donnes, with Vomir (aka Romain Perrot). Marc Hurtado, musician, film director, painter, poet and producer is the founder with his brother Eric Hurtado of the french multimedia band Etant Donnйs, since 1977 he made 20 albums collaborating with people like Alan Vega, Genesis P Orridge, Lydia Lunch, Michael Gira, Marc Cunningham or Bachir Attar and the Master Musicians of Jajouka. He released some records with his solo project Sol Ixent between 2002 and 2004 and recorded between 2005 and 2008 an album of Neue Weltumfassende Resistance with Gabi Delgado, he produced the album “The Source” by Bachir Attar and the Master Musicians of Jajouka in May 2010 and released the album “Sniper” with Alan Vega in November 2010. He made several soundtracks for films by Philippe Grandrieux, Jessica Hausner or Mathieu Dufois and released “The Infinite Mercy Film” with Alan Vega in 2009 and the film “Jajouka, something good comes to you” with his brother Eric Hurtado in the Moroccan village of Jajouka in 2012... The project VOMIR (aka Romain Perrot) exist since 2006 and is active internationally with multiple releases, 2012 confirmed his status of International Master of the Harsh Noise Wall genre, which described a monolithic static harsh sound. Marc Hurtado met Vomir in 2010 and felt immediately in love for his “burning” static sound. He invited him to work on the album 2011 which is the outcome of 3 years of work putting in abyss their respective universes and trying to blow up all the sound barriers and perceptions of art. “2011 is a raw and savage album elaborated in total freedom with no consideration for time or space that surrounded us” (Marc Hurtado). [press-release]
[youtube]
IAMNOTHING & Hal McGee -- "BorisHalofi" -- CD-R -- €6
2015 CVLMINIS, (ltd. 20)
Collaboration of two well-known experimental noise artists - Hal McGee from the United States and Boris Kurtanov from Russia. Dadaism, Musique Concrete, field recordings, radionoise, samples, Siberian shamans. Slim-box. [YAOP]
Illusion Of Safety -- "Inside Agitator" -- CD -- €5
1992 Complacency, CPCD01002
The Chicago area's prime Noise-ician's new release is another in a never-ending series of uncompromising and exquisitely-crafted tonalities. Anyone familier with the previous releases from these reigning Kings of Pain will find this CD to be more thoughtful and conceptual than other offerings. The title refers to a favorite theme of founder/leader Dan Burke, namely, a ghastly glimpse into the aberrations of the human psyche. This collection of half-rhythmic beat/collages and half ambient-noise reflect the dichotomy within us all: the age-old struggle between the violent and the sublime, the Dark & the Light. The ambient passages represent the internal aspects of the subconcious mind, whereas the rhythmic/sound-bite passages refer to the outwardly negative manifestations of the conscious mind. Differing from most I.O.S. releases, this CD is more statement-orientated. Meant as sort of a follow-up to their earlier release. In 70 Countries (which is an audio analysis of state-sponsored torture around the world), Inside Agitator is a conceptual excursion into Burke's degree in Psychology. Though the level of difficulty in I.O.S.'s oeuvre keeps their local following relatively small, these seasoned experts have been in business for nearly 10 years and have released dozens of cassettes, LP's and CDs. They have toured the U.S. and Europe numerous times, recently playing to a national radio audience in Switzerland on their last Europ-tour. Exceptionally gifted within the genre they work, their unusual 'music' is an acquired taste and not for the faint-of-heart. [Scott Marshall]
Illusion Of Safety -- "Time Remaining" -- CD -- €10
2003 Ossosnossos, osso2
Digital noise, articulated structure, fractured beat, blurry landscapes luring you into a false sense of security, then when you have ground to stand on, your head gets kicked in. [label info]
[cd baby]
Karna -- "Circle Of Nav" -- CD -- €10
2011 Assault Records, 017bullet
Subjective: one of the best albums of this project, created by KARNA ever. The first and absolutely otherworldly, lost and lifeless piece of the TRIPTYCH. The labyrinth without exit … a life without meaning, moving shadows, embodied in a cruel, cold and dark Industrial/Harsh/Ambient monument. Shuffles razors, destroys the sounds and summoning otherworldly voices. Cemetery of hopes. [label info]
[bandcamp]
Khem -- "Nessuna Redenzione" -- CD -- €10
2015 Naked Lunch Records, NLR009CD, (ltd. 500)
A mix between sonic poetry and industrial experimentation, the beat-driven new Khem's album Nessuna Redenzione offers a powerful sensorial experience lead by the sharp recital of Collettivo's vocalist Cosimo. [label info]
[bandcamp]
L.C.B. -- "Pornography Should Not Be An Illusion" -- CD -- €10
2014 Naked Lunch Records, NLR007CD, (ltd. 500)
New album on Naked Lunch Records for the deviated power electronics project Le Cose Bianche from Arezzo. Featuring: Macelleria Mobile di Mezzanotte, Wertham, Eraldo Bernocchi and Paolo Bandera. [label info]
[bandcamp]
Lloyd, David -- "Organisms (For Rolf Julius And John Hudak)" -- CD -- €11
2012 and/OAR, and/39, (ltd. 100)
Organisms created between 2004 and 2005, is a unique release for the artist in that it brings to the fore some of the many ambiguous elements and processes he has employed in his work over the years. Organisms is a collection of seemingly organic, micro-environments created from transmuted field recordings of everyday human activity and computer generated electronic sounds. So, contrary to what might seem otherwise, no animal sounds were used in the making of this work... From December 1st through the 4th, 2005, Organisms was presented as part of Susan Robb’s Aqua Art Sound Broadcast: Hidden iPod Transmission installation which took place at the Aqua Hotel in Miami, Florida. Only recently - many years after "Organisms" was finished - was it decided that the CD release would partially serve to pay respect to sound artists Rolf Julius and John Hudak, in recognition of their micro-environment work that pre-dates this one. Listening to Organisms while the CD player is set to “random shuffle” and/or “repeat” modes is highly recommended. This release is limited to 100 copies. [press-release]
Lost Kadath -- "Oscillating Apparitions" -- CD EP -- €7
2015 Naked Lunch Records, NLR016CD, (ltd. 250)
Brand new EP composed by three tracks of deep and shockingly dark ambient, a disturbing sonic experience into the overwhelming darkness. Comes in a high-quality printed 4 panels digipack. [label info]
[bandcamp]
Matochkin, Alexandr -- "Traditional Woeful Folksongs Of Russian Kin" -- CD -- €10
2014 Chernaya Zemlya, CHZ:d, (ltd. 200)
Daring fun, kosovorotkas and kokoshniks, clapping and stomping - such associations we have now with the words «Russian song». Maybe it is truth, but not all one. Here is the other face of Russian song heritage, a selection of songs from the collection of Alexander Matochkin, among which are Russian folk songs, some foreign ones and author's songs too. Alexander Matochkin was born and grew up in an urban environment, where Russian traditional song is a real rarity now. No wonder - truly folk, not arranged and not accompanied by instrument song it is a real surprise to the modern listener - such inescapable, ultimate Russian melancholy is in it. Alexander mastered the traditional Russian songs in the folk ensemble of the St. Petersburg State University. Fifteen years he studied folk songs, toured with expeditions in the Russian North, has collected many ancient tunes and tales, but has not defended his thesis. Perhaps, he gathered too many Russian melancholy on villages, and had to reserve it for himself. He himself learned to play the harmonica. Russian songs are not often sung under the harmonica, but it seems to us, this is not a deviation from tradition. Terrible are these folk songs, actually, and harmonica is terrible too. [press-release]
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McCann, Sean -- "Sincere World" -- CD -- €5
2011 Amethyst Sunset, AS-003
Listening to new work from Sean McCann is always an exciting prospect. Go far back into this young pioneer's catalog and you'll without a doubt uncover a collection of music as diverse as it is long. What you may also notice is the consistency with which Sean portrays himself. His music is always fearless, frank and personal. Sincere World is another turn toward Sean's signature earnestness. Open Resolve and The Capital, both cleverly laced with swirling filter manipulation and confounding superimposition of manic and sloth-like compositions, exposed us to a more playful side of McCann's persona. These works are on the surface a bit zany, but deeper down they still maintain a charming character—something that draws the listener in magically. Sincere World is the somber younger brother to these two. Sincere World is adrift on Badalamenti-like lethargy, skeptical of the world around and unsure of what to do about it. But despite his bashfulness, he is every bit as charming and perhaps even more so, for there are no rough edges on him. In six movements, Sean takes us from under the bed to behind the bleachers and finally, to the bottom of the sea. Recorded mostly in 2009, Sincere World has after two years in hiding, finally mustered the audacity to come out into the open. This is the world Sean McCann lives in, and I want to do everything I can to live there too. [Michael Jantz]
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Microscopic Suffering -- "The Rowing..." -- CD EP -- €3
2014 Pent Up Release, PURcd-014, (ltd. 500)
"Seattle's grim revolutionary colonial medical-swine research & dirge unit. The Rowing is a harrowing portrait of grave circumstance and desperate fates." [label info] "There is violin, bass, loops, drums (and it looks like they have two drummers) and guitars, and the music was already recorded in December 2008... This is more metal... with a heavy slow sound, menacing, loud, and grim. Very grim indeed. I don't think it's something that I would listen to on a daily basis, but here too: no time wasted, as I enjoyed it quite a bit. It starts a bit more experimental with loops and rattling percussion, all instruments but the other two pieces have this voice beyond grave thing, but that experimental bit put them in my favour. Cut together as nineteen-minute piece, this is quite an odd release." [FdW, Vital Weekly]
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Moloch -- "Abstrakter Wald" -- CD -- €10
2015 Frozen Light, FZL 028, (ltd. 102)
Remastered CD reissue of the Dark Ambient classics from the Ukrainian dark ambient / black metal project. Recorded on reel-to-reel / open-reel audio tape recorder in semi-stereo mode somewhere in the woods of Carpathia, Dismal Winter 2010. Remastered in 2015 and complemented with two bonus tracks: one from the "Horizont" EP, another from the split with Voidstar. Digipak.
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Murayama, Seijiro -- "Broken Iteration" -- 2 CD -- €15
2013 Herbal International, 1303-2
Seijiro Murayama, the Japanese percussion player who lives in Europe. According to his website he has three fields of interest: "1, non-idiomatic improvisation (that includes idiomatic researches about it, or workshops on it), 2, electro acoustic composition, 3, plural disciplinary collaboration (with words, images, body movements etc)" and it would seem to me that these four pieces here are a combination of 1 and 2. It says recorded at Hotel Pupik, 2011, which may suggest a live recording, but for all I know (and I didn't investigate) it might also be a studio. Which brings the second subject on board: is this played live (in concert or in studio) or is this the work of over dubbing? That is a question that I find very hard to answer. Murayama's playing is very minimal and we do recognize indeed the element of percussion instruments, and Murayama explores his instruments with great care. It has a fine meditative character this music and it explores in depth the textures of the instruments. Murayama doesn't use his drum parts as a drum kit, but plays one or two separate elements with brushes, sticks or objects and explores them. But over the course of a thirty minute piece, he picks up a new device to play and continues with that. [FdW, Vital Weekly]
Murmer -- "Framework 1-4" -- 2 CD -- €15
2012 Herbal International, 1202-2
The Framework compositions are a series of experiments with untreated field recordings, exploring notions of musicality within the structures of found sound. The compositions were created with differing sets of self-imposed rules: Framework 1 (whose sources were all recorded in Paris, France in March/April 2003) was recorded, edited and composed entirely on a single MiniDisc with no overdubbing or alterations to the sounds or their relative levels; Framework 4 (originally released on the Soundwalk Editions blog) is an experiment in sonic perception via the contrasts of resonance in different indoor and outdoor spaces; and Frameworks 2 & 3 are both long-form works of multi-layered sonic environments originally commissioned as radio works (for the Radia Network and Silenceradio, respectively). Framework 3 also explores the use of voice as a musical tool within a larger public soundscape, and includes sounds produced by a group of workshop participants in an attempt to actively resonate and interact with a specific space, both of which call into question a recordist's position as passive spectator. As an artist working with field recording who considers himself a musician, these works were in some way a reaction against this idea of documentary or objective presentation of found sound. If every microphone is a frame, can the works born via their vibrations be disconnected from a recordist's perspective, decision, action, or emotion? These works could be said to represent a momentary perception of a place and time, or perhaps a conglomeration of overlapping memories and impressions of past moments, activities, and spaces. [press-release]
Nehil, Seth -- "Umbra" -- CD -- €12
2002 Edition ..., edition xxv
An album of continuous pitched sounds with strong white noise, air on the edge of tone, amplified through a compositional process of massing and layering, incorporation of room tone and re-recording environments. Sonic shadows - sound as a casting of color or dark, the slowly unfolding shade of space within a field of time, “night music”. Sources include blown bottles, pump organ, voice, bowed autoharp, piano, recorder, sagbut, and field recordings of fireworks, crickets, caves on the Oregon coast, a rotating electric sign in the cobblestone streets of Maribor, Slovenia, boiling water. [press-release]
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Nigulesugci feat. DN23rd -- "Buddha, Green, Anarchy" -- CD-R -- €6
2015 CVLMINIS, (ltd. 20)
The expression of my views - Shin-Buddhism, Communism, Dadaism and noise... are nothing without Christ! [from the author]
Nimh -- "Black Silences" -- CD -- €10
2015 Naked Lunch Records, NLR012CD, (ltd. 250)
Drone dark ambient from one of the most prolific and talented musician in Italy. Based in Rome, Nimh, alias Giuseppe Verticchio, offers an unforgettable sound-experience. Recorded in 2010\2011, finally Black Silence is available on CD. [label info]
[bandcamp]
Penitent -- "Maestro Beethoven" -- CD -- €14
2001 Memento Mori, MORI 11
Well-known Penitent project (Karsten Hamre) performs compositions by Beethoven. Jewel-case, 8-page booklet.
Rapoon -- "Tin Of Drum" -- 2 CD -- €14
1998/2015 Aquarellist, aquarel 29-15, (ltd. 450)
"Whilst travelling through the USA and Canada on a tour in 1996 I found a tin of rolling tobacco in a truck stop store in one of the Southern states. This doesn’t sound like much of an incident but I was four or five weeks into the tour and at the time I was a chain smoker and all of my European tobacco had gone and i was trying to smoke the dry tinder that passed for rolling tobacco in the US. I spotted the Tin of Drum tobacco on a shelf and was almost overcome with a kind of silly joy. It looked to me like i had found the holy grail... I gave up smoking many years ago. I kept the tin, to remind me. Nowadays I feel the same sense of joy when I look at the sea, paint a good picture, hear my children laugh. Times change… I went looking for America and found a Tin of Drum. Hallelujah… Revisiting some of the same places 15 years later I found the world had homogenised and what had once been unfamiliar and intriguing had become familiar and of less interest. Only the deserts and the stars in the deserts remained unchanged. The second disc is about the deserts." [Robin Storey]
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Renou, Christian -- "Ex-Voto" -- CD -- €16
2007 Elsie & Jack Recordings, #:016, (ltd. 500)
Rubbish + Hal McGee -- "The Noble Art Of Audio Destruction" -- 3"CD-R -- €9
2010 Roil Noise Offensive, RNOCDR116
Creative pillaging consisting of Hal McGees raw original cut-up audio recordings assimilated, vexinated, mulched, composted, spiritualized, roilized, and rubbished by Pat Rubbish. [from the author]
Sektion B -- "Holy Land In Flames" -- 3"CD BOX -- €28
2014 L. White Records, LW076, (ltd. 50)
3 new tracks with a length of around 20 minutes dedicated to the holy land and all the problems there! Lim. 50 / special box release with some holy land extra inserts: a black satin Kippa, a small wooden Dreidel, a small plastic Mezuzah, some Israelian and Palaestinian stickers, a cut piece of a Palaesitian cloth, some pieces of original Israelian newspapers, nice Jewish confetti, an original empty bullet, a small zip bag with original salt from the Dead Sea and a printed photo collage from the SEKTION B travel to the holy land in 2009. [label info] This copy comes w/o empty bullet or nice Jewish confetti, but that's exactly how it was received from the label.
Seventh Genocide -- "Breeze Of Memories" -- CD -- €10
2015 Naked Lunch Records, NLR013CD, (ltd. 450)
First album of the band after the post-black metal evolution. Fast and massive riffs merge with soft and comtemplative acoustic and post rock passages. For fans of Alcest, Vallendusk, Agalloch and Deafheaven. [label info]
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Songs -- "1 & 2" -- CD -- €9
2015 Intonema, int015, (ltd. 200)
Intonema broadens the stylistic range of its catalog again, this time we produced an album of contemporary music. Songs is a quartet hailing from Berlin with Lucio Capece on bass clarinet, Catherine Lamb as vocalist and violist, Rishin Singh as trombonist and composer, and Stine Sterne as vocalist. They perform two of Singh’s songs which make up the album of minimalist structures, delicate and precise gestures, and a sonority ranging from lush to the austere. That’s how their debut album sounds. [label info]
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tbc -- "Antisystem" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 Wachsender Prozess, WP 24
Performance soundtrack of personal view in the meaning of not a system for everyone. Deep, static minimalistic bass exploration of various states of progression and sound. Isolated studies. [label info]
tbc -- "Chicago 2" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 Wachsender Prozess, WP 25
Loopy harsh freeform industrial noisework with new compaignion Hans Fallopen on electronics. It's about architecture of the city where the highrise flats and bussines towers comes: big complex architectured sound: distorted fragmented beats, harsh noise exploration and a lot of samples. [label info]
tbc -- "No Animal Conviction" -- CD-R -- €7
2005 Wachsender Prozess, WP 16
Cdr from tbc about animals and "vegan lifestyle". A lot of treated field recordings of animals and nature sound in a rich, discontinued, broken up compositionswise. The subject is about the binary of culture and nature. Also electro-acustic music with some harsh and aliened moments. Remainds to elektro-akustic work of L. Nono. Real frankenstein music. [label info]
tbc -- "Spectral Anarchy" -- CD-R -- €7
Wachsender Prozess, WP 21
Remastered harsh noise masterpiece in full effect of found object sound. Chaotic rhythmic exploration, object sound in hifi. [label info]
Tchort -- "Pentagram Errection" -- CD-R -- €5
CVLMINIS, (ltd. 20)
Side-project of Gorduw.
Toy Bizarre -- "kdi dctb 278" -- CD -- €10
2015 Semperflorens, sf13, (ltd. 500)
Recorded 1994~2013 @ various locations; sequences built for various projects. Some parts appeared first in the kdi dct 216 "garden / square meter" series (Melbourne). This version, mixed 2015/06.
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Unit-Ass -- "Warlust Style" -- CD-R -- €5
CVLMINIS, (ltd. 20)
Side-project of Gorduw.
Whitehead, Chris -- "Ravenscar" -- CD -- €11
2012 Unfathomless, U12, (ltd. 200)
Ravenscar is a small coastal village in North Yorkshire on the east coast of England. There’s not a massive amount of evidence of the presence of humanity on this recording as instead of the village Chris focuses his attention on creating a five part phonography of the surrounding environs. It’s a really lovely set with quite a bleak and isolated character to it. Some of the sound sources are maybe a little commonplace but they are situated so as to offer character rather than as a primary focus. At no point does this ever feel like the focus has become the recordings rather than the area it is documenting. A beautiful and immersive release that really does feel like it speaks of place, time and perception. [Ian Holloway, Wonderful Wooden Reasons]
YAO 91404 D -- "Psychocosmic" -- CD-R -- €7
2015 Operator Produkzion, OPERPRODUKT121, (ltd. 30)
Head-spinning psychoactive Retroelectronic Noise played on antique electro organs, radionoise, resonances and ingenuous effects, sort of acid-rock from 60-ies turned inside out and mixed with psychotropic pills. Second track - not really harsh in sound but no less marginal combination of lo-fi field recordings and crooked electronic quasi-baroque. Sleeve made of technical paper from 1966. [label info]
Yen Pox & Troum -- "Mnemonic Induction" -- CD -- €12
2002/2015 Transgredient Records, TR-11
Completely re-mastered re-issue of this much requested dark dream-opus from 2002, now bringing out more sound details inside the endless amorphous morass; 4 movements, 63+ min. long. Comes with NEW artwork by GYDJA incl. the 'dream essay' by R.B. HENSLEY that should be read accompanying during this subconscious/subsonic experience... "How could this be anything but perfect? Two of the most capable ambient projects of the current generation doing what they do best: dark ambient. I'm tempted to say nothing except that this is exactly what you hope it will be. Dark, escalating, imperious walls and oceans of titanic sound. Swelling currents of icy miasma swirling endlessly on through a descending subterranean river five miles wide. It rumbles and groans and shudders for ages. How does one get so much depth out of sound? .... The listener can penetrate so far into this landscape. The tones are so elaborately pieced together that the forefront is gauzy, wispy, ghostlike. On the horizon are huge stone structures, mountains, tornados of power but far away and almost invisible to the ear. Affecting you only by subsonic booms that rattle the soles of your feet. You can almost step into this and turn around on your heels, face your room and watch your body recede as you slip slowly away on a living ocean of sound." [Malignant Records]
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Zoloft Evra -- "Negative Infliction Pleasure" -- CD -- €10
2015 Naked Lunch Records, NLR014CD, (ltd. 500)
The perverse suicidal dark ambient project Zoloft Evra was founded in 2014 by the will of the main figure: ZC (Macelleria Mobile di Mezzanotte, Cronaca Nera) with the intention to create a new musical act focusing on disturbing atmospheric suicidal themes and visuality. The project was later on joined by COLD (Nocturnal Degrade, Scent of Silence, Der Noir) on guitars and by BLACKFROST (Apolokia, Nordavind, Nostalgya, In Nomine) on vocals. The music itself reflects the different personalities and background of the three known extreme artists involved in Zoloft Evra, each one through their own perceptions and negative meaning. [label info]
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V/A -- "Destroying the Night Sky (Cadaverous Condition remixes)" -- CD -- €10
2008 Klanggalerie, gg119, (ltd. 700)
NURSE WITH WOUND, THIGHPAULSANDRA, NOCTURNAL EMISSIONS, ANDREW LILES, CONTROLLED BLEEDING, COLIN POTTER, PRODUCT 8, ASMUS TIETCHENS, GJOLL, HOLY McGRAIL, ALI HELNWEIN versus CADAVEROUS CONDITION. Destroying The Night Sky CD in a limited edition of 700 copies. A very special release with an unusual mix of sound: Using Cadaverous Condition's "To The Night Sky" album as source material for their tracks, all the aforementioned bands have created a unique new style of music. Call it metal ambient, drone metal or electronics metal, the result is something previously unknown and exciting. Hear Nurse With Wound doing one of their darkest tracks ever - listen to Controlled Bleeding's totally insane restructuring of a rock track, or be surprised by Nocturnal Emissions's return to noise - this album is unlike everything else you have heard in recent years. All cover artwork by Cyril Helnwein, son of Gottfried Helnwein. [label info]
V/A -- "Dictaphonia Microcassette Compilation 2" -- CD-R -- €9
2009 HalTapes
61 minutes of sound recordings made on microcassette, originally released on microcassette. Dictaphonia was a 10-volume compilation series produced by Hal McGee in 2009-2010 on his HalTapes label. Contributors were invited through an open call invitation to send short recordings in any style created and recorded on microcassette. McGee compiled the contributions and released 60-minute compilations on microcassette. This was the second volume of the Dictaphonia compilation project. [label info] Dave Wright, Richard Orlando, Mark McGee, Sonic Disorder, Douglas Burkett, Jamison Williams, Zebra Mu, Ian Watson, Crap Last Tap, Kurt Gottschalk, Julie Schubert, Dada Action Group, Andrew Coltrane, The Raytownian(s), Belltonesuicide, Blanco Estira Nuestro (+), Hermana Helice, Fried Marlenstahl, NXP, Rez Epo, Hanson Ono, Death Factory, Douglas Ferguson, Melissa Lovely & Justin Waters Here And Thereian Duo, Pony Payroll.
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V/A -- "Dictaphonia Microcassette Compilation 3" -- CD-R -- €9
2009 HalTapes
59 minutes of sound recordings made on microcassette, originally released on microcassette. Dictaphonia was a 10-volume compilation series produced by Hal McGee in 2009-2010 on his HalTapes label. Contributors were invited through an open call invitation to send short recordings in any style created and recorded on microcassette. McGee compiled the contributions and released 60-minute compilations on microcassette. This was the third volume of the Dictaphonia compilation project. [label info] Neonworm, Mannequin Hollowcaust, Karl J. Paloucek, Justin Robert, Carl Holmes, Ooy, Fludd, Jliat, Bisexual Swingers, Alan George Ledergerber, Stirner, Auvikogue, Mortuus Auris & The Black Hand, Johnny Brewton, Master/Slave Relationship, Big Sugar Victorious, EGG, Vultures, Ecoute La Merde, Lindsey Leepe, Retarded Children, Raw Mummy, William Wesley & The Tiny Sockets.
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V/A -- "Dictaphonia Microcassette Compilation 4" -- CD-R -- €9
2009 HalTapes
60 minutes of sound recordings made on microcassette, originally released on microcassette. Dictaphonia was a 10-volume compilation series produced by Hal McGee in 2009-2010 on his HalTapes label. Contributors were invited through an open call invitation to send short recordings in any style created and recorded on microcassette. McGee compiled the contributions and released 60-minute compilations on microcassette. This was the fourth volume of the Dictaphonia compilation project. [label info] Sparkle Girl, Mark Sonnenfeld, Igloo Martian, Enstruction, The Lexington Steele, Cellular Terror, Witch With Flying Head, Dave X, Kathy Burkett, Minimum Of None, Bryce Beverlin II, Front Gauche De L'art / Hermann Kleid, The Saint Petersburg Institute Of Noise, H.G. Wells, The Montreal Nintendo Orkestar, The Silent Committee, Frog, Projexorcism, Hal McGee, Super Pizza Party, Gerechtigkeits Liga, SOS aka Astral Fields Farmer, Dave Fuglewicz.
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V/A -- "Dictaphonia Microcassette Compilation 5" -- CD-R -- €9
2009 HalTapes
60 minutes of sound recordings made on microcassette, originally released on microcassette. Dictaphonia was a 10-volume compilation series produced by Hal McGee in 2009-2010 on his HalTapes label. Contributors were invited through an open call invitation to send short recordings in any style created and recorded on microcassette. McGee compiled the contributions and released 60-minute compilations on microcassette. This was the fifth volume of the Dictaphonia compilation project. [label info] Don Campau, Ian Watson & Matthew Lovett, Otolathe, William Wesley & The Tiny Sockets, Rajun Cajun, Ironing, Heffalump Trap, Ceramic Hobs, Mi.T. - CON, Charles Rice Goff III, Sonic Disorder, M.Stactor, Mannequin Hollowcaust, Mad Max, Hal McGee, Richard Orlando, Littlecreature Courses Through Content In Ribald Constance, NXP, Jamison Williams, Zebulon, Capstan Drive.
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V/A -- "Dictaphonia Microcassette Compilation 6" -- CD-R -- €9
2010 HalTapes
60 minutes of sound recordings made on microcassette, originally released on microcassette. Dictaphonia was a 10-volume compilation series produced by Hal McGee in 2009-2010 on his HalTapes label. Contributors were invited through an open call invitation to send short recordings in any style created and recorded on microcassette. McGee compiled the contributions and released 60-minute compilations on microcassette. This was the sixth volume of the Dictaphonia compilation project. [label info] Id M Theft Able, Andrew Chadwick, The Noisettes, Rubbish & Can Sahin, QCKCOFSE, Pganickz, Golden Roses, Thee Virginal Brides, Vagina Teeth/Jesus Teeth, Subversive Intentions, Crank Surgeon, Chris Blair, Ethan Tripp, Daniel Steffey, Bryce Clayton Eiman.
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V/A -- "DruckEmpfindeN" -- CD -- €9
2009/2011 Chamber Music Records, CMR001, (ltd. 200)
Exclusive tracks and mixes from GENEVIEVE PASQUIER, PROPERGOL, BAD SECTOR. This CD was released on the occasion of the DruckEmpfindeN Festival on 7th November 2009 in Darmstadt, Germany. This is the second edition of the CD in a white slimcase with 2-sided inlay card & english flyer for the festival.
V/A -- "Radioactive Astral Bell Noises" -- 2 CD-R -- €10
2011 Wachsender Prozess, WP 32
Live compilation with: HATI: out of Poland they play a mixture of Cageian percussion music with ethnological influences on instruments like gongs. RENOISE & HATI: Renoise is a Hamburg based noise guitarist which play here a short session with Hati from Poland. TBC: that is a duo collaboration between Hans Faloppen on sampler and Thomas Beck on manipulated record player, tapes and electronics. KAKAWAKA: Berlin based noise musican wich is here the dokumentation of a wild and funny noise set. ASTRO: well-known Japanise artist with an excellent track of noisy high tone modulated minimalism. Comes in dvd-case. [label info]
V/A -- "Replace" -- CD -- €10
2011 Edition Degem, ed01 / Deutsche Gesellschaft Fur Elektroakustische Musik, CD 10
A compilation of modern electroacoustic music curated by Marc Behrens: Denise Ritter, Nicolas Wiese, Matthias Ockert, Marcus Beuter, Nikolaus Heyduck, Sam Auinger, Bernd Leukert, Sciss, Jan Jacob Hofmann, Frank Niehusmann, Michael Harenberg, Kirsten Reese, Ludger Kisters, SA/JO. Digipak with 10-page booklet.
V/A -- "Saite An Saite (A String Based Compilation)" -- CD -- €10
2009 Licht-Ung, (ltd. 300)
This compilation consists of 3 long guitar drone tracks from Milan Sandbleistift (Licht-Ung), Aidan Baker (Nadja) и Relapxych.0 (psycho-acoustic project of Anders Peterson from Objekt4). Jewel-case, 12-page booklet with abstract photos.
V/A -- "Scanning Shearing-Stress Microscopy" -- CD-R -- €8
2001 SSSM, SSSM-021
A compilation released on Hiroshi Hasegawa's label: S·Core, Billy?, Guilty Connector, Espiritu, Sukora, Contagious Orgasm.
V/A -- "Tribryd > Installation Soundtracks" -- CD -- €12
2003 Beta-lactam Ring Records, blurr02, (ltd. 500)
Exclusive tracks by: Beequeen, Aranos, Illusion of Safety, Asmus Tietchens, Scanner, Rapoon, M. Behrens, C. Renou, Humectant Interruption for the Soundvision gallery space. Tribryd is a 3-part installation series by visual artist TJ Norris in collaboration with these nine international composers. Each installation, presented in a different country, built around direct response to the original soundtracks. [label info]
V/A -- "ZugZwang" -- CD -- €10
2010 Chamber Music Records, CMR002, (ltd. 300)
Exclusive tracks from GERECHTIGKEITS LIGA, EX.ORDER, MINAMATA. Released at the "ZugZwang-festival", 06.11.2010, at Weststadt Bar in Darmstadt, Germany. The CD comes in a metal case weighted with a steel plate bound by a punched-out banderole. The release includes an info card, the english flyer for the festival and a sticker. 300 numbered copies.
V/A -- "ZugZwang II" -- CD -- €10
2011 Chamber Music Records, CMR003, (ltd. 360)
Exclusive tracks from CENT ANS DE SOLITUDE, M.A.O., PPF, ESPLENDOR GEOMETRICO. This CD was released on the occasion of the ZugZwang-Festival II on 5th November 2011 in Darmstadt, Germany. Limited edition of 360 numbered copies in a card envelope with a laser cutted metal label on it. The release includes a 4-page booklet, the english flyer for the festival, a sticker and a metal plate.
V/A -- "ZugZwang III" -- CD -- €10
2012 Chamber Music Records, CMR004, (ltd. 300)
Exclusive tracks from CLUB MORAL, SUTCLIFFE JUGEND, LA NOMENKLATUR. Released at "ZugZwang-Festival III", 03.11.2012 at "Weststadt Bar" in Darmstadt, Germany. Limited edition of 300 numbered copies in a card envelope with a laser cutted metal label on it. The release includes a 4-page booklet, the english flyer for the festival, a sticker and a metal plate.
V/A -- "ZugZwang IV" -- CD -- €12
2013 Chamber Music Records, CMR005, (ltd. 200)
Exclusive tracks from TROUM, RAPOON, REUTOFF. Released at "ZugZwang-Festival IV", 02.11.2013 at "Weststadt Bar" in Darmstadt, Germany. Limited edition of 200 numbered copies in a cardboard box with a laser cutted metal label on it. Includes a 4-page booklet, the english flyer for the festival and a sticker.
Vinyl
Alleypisser -- "Savn" -- 7" -- €19
2011 Angoisse, ANG-03, (ltd. 75)
В глазах незнакомца ностальгия становится личной. [информация лейбла]
Claudia Shitter / Adolf Shitter -- "Goa Shitter Shrimp Soup / Enregistre Live Durant Le Bourg En Bruit Fest" -- 7" -- €4
2012 Zombi Attack Records / NHDIYSTREC / Underground Pollution Records / Mr Bobaloba
Absurdist cut-up experimental pop lounge shit noise core from Russia and France. Phil Monopolka and his insane friends.
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Herbst9 -- "Snake Of Saigon / From Below" -- 7" -- €7
2006/2009 Shortwave Transmission, SWT05, (ltd. 159)
This two single pieces are remixes from tracks originally released on "From A Dark Chasm Below". 2nd edition of 159 copies. Comes in a different cover with stamped white labels including an info card.
Trepaneringsritualen -- "The Totality Of Death" -- 3 LP -- €40
2013/2015 :retortae:, venenum 1, (ltd. 200)
Retortae is proud to present it's first collaboration with Trepaneringsritualen, the brilliant project from Sweden which has already gained the cult status among the industrial music fans. Our release is the vinyl version of the compilation The Totality Of Death which was released in 2013 by Malignant and Silken Tofu as 2CD and now is already sold out. The album contains all the tracks from the CD version as well as some compositions which were not included there. The material is a compendium of the best tracks from various rare and obscure tape and vinyl releases, which are now highly sought after and very expensive. Musically it is a world full of inner psychic monsters, occult and unclean rituals and strange perverted desires made with a quality and energy which is now rare to meet. The old school industrial approach is combined with nowadays decaying world feel and as a result we have the things made on a level of industrial godfathers classic like if they were in their best form in our time, but with a today's reality vibe inside. We won't like to make any direct comparisons like they usually do in the release notes like that since this project is really unique and definitely has no direct influences by its predecessors, it is just industrial music in its own, influenced by the death, horror, dark mysticism and perversions directly as the life itself... The general edition comes in offset-printed monochrome paperbox which contains all three vinyls in separate monochrome inner sleeves. [label info]
Umpio / Ronskibiitti -- "Ne Tulee Huuteleen" -- 7" -- €3
2010 Nekorekords, Neko 04 / Huge Bass, HB011, (ltd. 159)
Two different faces of the Finnish underground. Harsh noise track from Umpio + alternative experimental hip-hop track by Ronskibiitti. Includes two postcards.
Cassettes
Akpan & ZHA -- "Mystique Samsara" -- C-30 -- €11
2014 Lenta, LENTA1, (ltd. 20)
Ritual ambient. White cassette in O-card, two stickers.
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At The Altar -- "The Time Is At Hand" -- C-20 -- €3
2013 Phage Tapes, PT:148, (ltd. 20)
Aube -- "E-Power" -- C-46 -- €12
1994 G.R.O.S.S., GR-031
All composed, recorded and designed at Studio MECCA, Kyoto using only 1 voltage controlled oscillator as source material. Packaged with double layer cover. The top layer is a fragment of an x-ray and each copy is unique.
Aube -- "Frequency For Collapse" -- C-46 -- €29
1994 G.R.O.S.S., GR-026
All composed, recorded & designed by Akifumi Nakajima at Studio MECCA, Kyoto 1993-1994 using only field recording sounds of Daiku Building Okayama (which will be dismantled by fate in Winter 1994) as source material. Still sealed!
Aube -- "Ruminant" -- MC -- €20
1997 Sound Probe Recordings, Sound Probe # 10, (ltd. 125)
All composed, mixed, recorded and designed by Akifumi Nakajima at Villa Kujoyama, Kyoto and Studio MECCA, Kyoto May and July 1997 using only 1 voltage controlled oscillator as source material. Hand-made rubber package.
Aube -- "Spindrift" -- C-46 -- €39
1992 G.R.O.S.S., GR-001, (ltd. 50)
All composed, recorded & mixed by Akifumi Nakajima at Studio MECCA, Kyoto 1991 using using water sound only. First 50 copies on metal tape (type IV). Artwork with silvered / translucent j-card.
Belorukov, Ilia & Sergey Kostyrko -- "Etudes" -- MC -- €5
2015 Spina!Rec, sr015, (ltd. 25)
We continue our series of analog recordings: this time Sergey Kostyrko (modular synthesizer) and Ilia Belorukov (ivcs3, monotron, effect pedals, radio) are going to record 25 pieces of 14-minutes long cassette tapes without any mixing and mastering. Not only an audio material will be exclusive, but also an artwork of cassettes, which draws the artist Alexander Korolev in real time during the recording session. [label info]
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Benzolnye Mertvecy / Mars-96 -- split -- MC -- €5
2015 Spina!Rec, sr019, (ltd. 25)
Two headliners on the same cassette! Benzolnye Mertvecy turn 10 years and we cannot help celebrating this event. Brainfucking noise rock goes along with their famous screaming and the energy suppresses and oppresses. The side with Mars-96 continues the series of their splits on Sp!na. This time listeners will have to meet their less known side: lyrical sketches, psychedelic effects, minimum of overdrive. [label info]
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Brume -- "Fractisum" -- C-60 -- €10
2012/2013 BRUME Rec.
Reissue of a cassette released by Banned Production in 2012.
Brume -- "Recifs" -- C-60 -- €20
1991 Audiofile Tapes, aT 144
Developer -- "OKTOo1o" -- C-47 -- €5
2010 Okto Media, OKTOo1o, (ltd. 30)
Favory, Jean-Baptiste -- "Voyage Immobile" -- MC -- €5
2015 Observatoire, obs * akusma|055
A self-portrait, sonic phantasms which reflect how I'm travelling through life... Or is it rather life which is flowing through me as I stand still? [from the author]
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Joie De Vivre -- "Il Portiere Di Notte" -- MC -- €7
2015 Naked Lunch Records, NLR003MC, (ltd. 50)
Recorded in two nights in May with only an analog synth (MS-20) and a couple of effects, namely a reverb and a delay unit. Stemming from isolation, depression and a sense of impending doom, Il Portiere Di Notte is another strong release by the young italian project Joie De Vivre. For fans of: Atrax Morgue, N., the italian old school power electronics scene. [label info]
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Kostyrko, Sergey & Kurt Liedwart / Mumbles -- split -- MC -- €5
2015 Spina!Rec, sr020, (ltd. 25)
Sergey Kostyrko and Kurt Liedwart played together for the first time in summer of 2015 but the result turned out to be so well made that Sp!na decided to share this pleasure with you immediately! On their side you can swim among long textures of noisy sound, synthesizer chaos pads, rhythmic minimalism and enjoy other means of their electroacoustic instrumentation. On the other side you can find Mubles from the Basque Country! On this archival track composed by Miguel A. Garcia they kind of mock the listener, mixing on one plate hardly combinable ingredients. Don’t waste your time and listen right away! [label info]
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Kromeshna & Ego God / Banana Pill -- split -- MC -- €5
2015 Spina!Rec, sr017, (ltd. 25)
Spina just released a summer tape with ambient music from Russia, Germany and Finland. On the side with Kromeshna and Ego God you can find field recordings and static electroacoustic noises, which jointly create an image of ancient swamp. The atmosphere is great! Track from Banana Pill conjures different feelings: here one can find a sluggish drone texture, slowly evolving over half an hour. Meditation as it is! [label info]
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Lunar Castration -- "The Thirteenth Month" -- MC -- €5
2013 Strange Rules, RULE-060, (ltd. 49)
Macronympha -- "Keystoned" -- C-60 -- €8
2015 Bacteria Field, BF022, (ltd. 100)
All new Macronympha. Recorded early 2015. Released on bacteria field cassette label. This is the first Macronympha release containing no source material from other various collaborators (Roger or Tom). Old techniques mixed with new direct from Joeseph Roemer. Limited to 100 copies. [label info]
Pharmakon -- "Deserve It - Live in Chicago" -- C-32 -- €8
2012 Chondritic Sound, CH-265
Jeffrey Jinx supplied this excellent live recording of this piece, which will only exist recorded in this form. Here Pharmakon shows a great deal of tension, release and restrained energy. Anguished vocals meet heavy dark electronics and percussive tolls like cracked church bells. Program repeats on both sides. [label info]
Pustota -- "Polumery" -- C-46 -- €4
2015 Biosonar^Lo-End, 051, (ltd. 13)
Another field recording from the home stations. October 2014, St. Petersburg, Kirovskiy district, Knyazhevo area, in a yard of Khruschev-era quarter - dying cassette recorder and unbiased documenting of the sonic flow... old half-dead cassette for the master recording, microphone "hears" the rumbling of dictaphone's motor. On the edge of field and broken sonorities... Cardboard box with cassette decorated with small Soviet calendars from the collection found in a dump in Sevastopol (all different, don't be surprised)) [label info]
Radiostalking / Kryptogen Rundfunk -- "Code 55 / Elektrostatika" -- C-60 -- €4
2015 Biosonar^Lo-End, 050, (ltd. 15)
Cassette split. Two radionoise projects from Petrograd. Each side contains a 30-min track. An ocean of radio interference and clear channels of selective radionoise, analofue oscillations and droning tubes, felt-like walls of rustle and drape-like pockets of crackle... branches that don't exist, chandeliers that will never be. Snore of the invisible giant in other realms of dreaming. Packed in a craft-paper lo-end pouch with an attached print of informational character. [label info]
Reutoff -- "No One's Lullabies" -- C-32 -- €11
2014 Sea State, east3, (ltd. 80)
We hug Reutoff from Russia! For Sea State they come out with rhythmic Lullabies to highlight what dreams may wait inside the hollows of a human mind. Or maybe they just wanting our legs to take over. In case you want to try the last-mentioned, the bouncy "Ice in my Liver" is recommend. But be sure you're shaved off properly before dancing, it's a delicate track right from the Red Room. The hymnic opener "Slumber Song" speaks of a dystopian design, we expect a mostly uneasy sleep. In the end the song turns more and more into something cleansed, the tunes get thinner, get separated, revealing another level of perception. The b-side hits with two more nocturnal statements. While "Edge of Oblivion" is a kind of noisy slow motion stomper, the clockwork-like "Dead Templar's Groove Manuscript" reminds us of the placid beauty of Brendan Perry's solo works. Remaining a final question: who is "No one"? A persona non grata, a classified subject? Or no one, nobody? As you know; the question is also the answer. A further profound work is the package made by Mogul Nudge. The heavy cardboard slipcase is re-covered with the sheets of a book (about nursery) from the beginning of the 20th century. As you may have presumed there are some stamped marks and a sealing sticker on top of it all. [press-release]
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Sal Solaris & Heinali -- "Distress" -- MC -- €6
2015 NEN Records, NEN05, (ltd. 33)
Distress is an album of the Moscow-Don duo Sal Solaris and Kyiv music composer Heinali. The fruit of a long-standing mutual sympathy. As in any love, two separate elements joined the working process and finished as one single organism. Distress is not just a split as an addition of capacities, but a mutual multiplication of them. The result of a deep rethinking of each other’s ideas and materials. The record’s another key theme is an attempt at collaboration with oneself, return to the forgotten past. Ivan Napreenko and Konstantin Mezer reworked some archival materials of Sal Solaris forerunner project, characterized by a prominent Russian critic Dmitry Tolmatsky as "music for meditation on the final phase of Kali Yuga." Musically Distress is a step aside from the rhythmic experiments typical for recent works of Sal Solaris, as well as from electroacoustics, performed live by Heinali. Release features two 25-minutes monoliths, where tar thick drones explode with deep-techno flashes, as voices of dozen nameless Russian birds break through the noise veil of processed XVIII century classical music. The album title hints at collaboration’s emotional direction. Distress, completed in it’s final form through deep inner devastation, is a postscript to the scenario of a future that never came, of those, who, in William Blake’s expression “breed pestilence”. It’s an act of self-therapy that does not bring relief yet still is capable to incidentally abduct a listener. [press-release]
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Stpocold -- "What Was Inside" -- MC -- €6
2015 NEN Records, NEN03, (ltd. 33)
Stpocold is a project by Novosibirsk artist Swill Klitch, who also operates under monikers Indu Mezu and Instant Movie Combinations and manages Cold Graey label. First album of the project (much more brutal in sound) was released on this very label back in 2007. Quote by unfairly forgotten culture researcher Bela Rose serves as an epigraph to What Was Inside. It declares radical uniqueness of personal experience. This uniqueness has direct relevance to Swill Klitch’s music. Although stylistic references of Stopcold are quiet obvious (angst pop in the vein of Galakthorrц and Belдten production), music is free from genre cliches. Yet it is soaked with all absorbing strangeness, twistedness of personal handwriting aligned with its own, self-made copy-books. As Swill Klitch points out, What Was Inside is a story of inner mental transformations provoked by the loss of reference point. In this situation emotions twinkle and flicker, causing pain, joy, both at once. So it is in music: familiar elements encounter in unfamiliar combinations, and they seem not to recognize each other. Ferocious noise sounds almost ironic, absurd appears through solemn declamation. In spite of paradoxical nature of these encounters, they do not provoke disorder. Stpocold's music has weird integrity, and this integrity is like a promise that one can never attain any reference point without losing it. [press-release]
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Takuya Dairiki -- "A Floating Medaka And Two People" -- MC -- €5
2015 YAOP, YAOP 071, (ltd. 48)
Debute noise album by the Japanese cinema director, participant of Rome cinema festival, grand prix winner of Image Forum cinema festival in Tokyo. Experimental psychedelic art of noise of the highest caliber, a symphony of cosmoc psychoactive signals and crackles. Takuya Dairiki is also known as a children books illustrator, he also works with wooden engravings. One of his engravings is on the cover of this cassette. [label info]
Umpio -- "Spiritual Cancer" -- C-40 -- €6
2015 Black Psychosis, BLACK02, (ltd. 25)
"Acoustic junk bashing, objects of all sizes thrown about, some turntable torture, pure destruction captured on tape without any wimpy pedals. Then these tapes were fed into different delay lines to create a non-repetitive structure of chaos for a new order. Some exquisite extractions of electronic impossibilities were added to spice it up, because fuck you." Normal edition - pro dubbed c40 tape with printed colour double sided j-card. [label info]
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Venta Protesix -- "Higyakuseiai No Otaku" -- C-20 -- €3
2014 A Dear Girl Called Wendy, WE31, (ltd. 100)
Venta Protesix hates music. He and his laptop are between the foremost representatives of the global scene of lolicon noise purism, a micro-terrorist genre born on the deepest reaches of last.fm shoutboxes, where mysterious 14-old Japanese schoolgirls praise nazism, chemical drug abuse, Konata-worship and black metal. Among his peculiar influences are Daisuke Yamanouchi’s ero-guro movies, AV idols, hentai and the concept of fan service as an ontological category of Being. Sounds like: Masonna trapped in a pink laptop along with Sachiko M and a 56k modem that survived the 90s. New electronic noise for a generation of romantic shut-ins. [Wasser Bassin]
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Wonderland -- "Pride Event / Cigarette Pig" -- C-48 -- €12
2014 THIRDSEX, 3rd/fourteen, (ltd. 23)
Grim noisy post-industrial from the US.
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Wozzeck -- "6" -- MC -- €5
2015 Spina!Rec, sr018, (ltd. 25)
Spina congratulates Wozzeck with its 8 years of existence and presents their sixth album! Treading further the paths discovered on their previous release on Intonema the trio researches the features of perception and plays with the attention of the listener. Slightly evident rhythmic construction, minimal sound and interaction between the musicians and programmed electronics will soothe you for 90 minutes. [label info]
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Video
V/A -- "SpinaVideoTapeVol1" -- VHS -- €10
2015 Spina!Rec, sr014
We continue to return the analog media to masses: a VHS cassette with video recordings from Spina!Rec. residents is available for order now. Three hours of selected material from Benzolnye Mertvecy, Mars-96, Glina, Coaxil, Sladkiy Ded, Mars-69 and Harlekino. Take video players from your attic! [label info]
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Frea market
Aeoga - Coav - CD - €4.00Arcana - Le Serpent Rouge - CD - €5.10
Arditi / Atomtrakt - Nachlass Der Vergessenen / Templets Heliga Hдrd - 7" - €5.10
Aube - Blood-Brain Barrier - CD - €7.40
Aube - Emotional Oscillation - MC - €8.70
Aube - Entangle Spirant - MC - €34.20
Aube - Feed The Fishes - MC - €18.10
Aube - Grind Carve - MC - €18.10
Aube - Howling Obsession [Revised] - CD - €2.70
Aube - Stared Gleam - CD - €4.70
Axiome - Ca Ne Nous Rendra Pas Le Congo - CD - €7.80
Bad Sector - Plasma [1st ed.] - CD - €4.70
Becuzzi, Gianluca [Kinetix] - Memory Makes Noise - CD - €8.00
Brume - Anthology Box - 13 CD - €69.00
Brume - Emergence - 2 MC - €14.10
Brume - The Sun - MC - €7.40
C.O. Caspar - Pass The Times - CD - €6.00
Dauby, Yannick / Wan-Shuen Tsai - Village, Vestiges - CD + book - €13.10
Illusion of Safety - Distraction - CD - €7.40
Illusion of Safety - Of & The - 2 CD - €7.40
Illusion of Safety - Probe - CD - €8.70
Illusion of Safety - The Need To Now - CDR - €7.40
Illusion of Safety - Water Seeks Its Own Level - CD - €7.40
Incapacitants - Stupid Is Stupid - 2 MC - €33.50
Indu Mezu - Dustplastic Tube - CDR - €5.10
Jliat - Hilbert's Hotel - CD - €7.10
Lieutenant Caramel - Street Noise Penetrates My House - CD - €7.40
Lieutenant Caramel - The Pandora's Box - CD - €6.00
Namblard, Marc & Namblard, Olivier - Cevennes - CD - €7.40
Nehil, Seth - Amnemonic Site - CD - €10.10
No Dreams - Pessimistic Subsidence - MC - €7.40
Noise-Maker's Fifes - Soiree Dansante - CD - €10.10
Norma Reaktsii - Vril' - CDR - €5.10
PBK & Artificial Memory Trace - Transphere 1997_1999 - CD - €6.00
Phurpa - Tro-Wo Phur Nag - CDR - €10.10
Sigillum S - Heteromorphonicks - CD - €11.40
Sigillum S - Malattia: Hallucinated Moisture Of Synaptic Slaughterhouse / Mutilated Terrorism - CD - €11.40
Sshe Retina Stimulants - Some Whores And A Camera Zaibatsu - CD - €9.40
Stratvm Terror - Pariah Demise (1st ed.) - CD - €13.40
Vishudha Kali - Prem Genocide - CD + 2 CDR BOX - €30.20
Where - The Creatures Of The Wind - CD - €8.40
V/A - Field Tales (Mania, Satori, Whorebutcher, Control, Streicher, Diagram: A, Circuit Wound, Atrax Morgue, Priest In Shit, Ames Sanglantes, Macronympha, Furisubi, Grunt, The Teeth, The Urge Within, The Grey Wolves, Slow Death, Survival Unit, Stegm, Disease Management, Prurient, Nicole 12) - 3 MC BOX - €28.80
Don't forget to check the full list of rare & used items with all details, it's here.
Other
The Grey Wolves / Genocide Organ -- t-shirt -- €14
2014 Tesco Organisation
Cotton t-shirt with silk-screen print, dedicated to the release of the collaboration 12" "Absolute Truth". A unique misprint copy with only front side, no print on back! Size M. Image.
Mars-96 -- "Ne Zabyvai" -- 2 x 3,5" floppy -- €5
2015 Spina!Rec, sr013, (ltd. 10)
Mars-69 plays the mix of pop-songs, noise electronics and rock, and a distinctive feature of the collective is a full spontaneity in music process. They have already released a vinyl and a cassette. And now it is the turn of next magnetized medium: 3.5" floppy disk! The single "Ne zabyvai" on one side and the b-side on the other will delight all lovers of Mars-96 on the contrary! [label info]
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Vyazkiy Sharab -- "Audiogram to Descendants" -- 3,5" floppy -- €5
2012 Salmon Peoples Records, SPR-003, (ltd. 10)
Vyazkiy Sharab's address to the audio-archaeologists of the future. Ogg-vorbis files recorded at 3,5'' floppy disk.
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Acid Hexen -- "Orkiestra Wojskowa" -- CD-R -- €5
2007 Triangle Records, [TR019]
Total devastation! Death to all human being! This is the war-hymn! Grim power-electronix trough unrated mysanthropy. Blood, smell of death and your death mates-all your suicide thoughs. War as a pure art. No one could survive! Mysticism of pain! [label info]
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Ad Lux Tenebrae -- "Call of the Wild" -- CD -- €10
2008 Vegvisir Music, o:002, (ltd. 963)
First full-length CD of Ad Lux Tenebrae (or K Svetu T'my - in Russian language), released after several split, collaboration and CDR editions. The disk contains two rituals, first was performed in the evening of Jan. 23rd, 2008, second - during the night on May 24-25th, 2004. Shamanic Dark / Drone Ambient of Ad Lux Tenebrae is the sound of the most ancient and deepest layers of existence, irrational and anti-rational, utterly alien to nowadays people, the manifestation of human side not distorted by the influence of "civilization" and "modern society". Message from the source where the essence of Nature and human flow together. Music from pre-times and out of time. The noise produced by humanoid organisms crawling about piles of metal and plastic, now completely drowns the call from the source of all living. Musicians of Ad Lux Tenebrae act as media, conductors that embody this signal, not bringing anything personal in the act of creation. In their rituals they use the original instruments like tambourine, self-made drums, tube, flutes and other untitled instruments made by themselves. Every ritual is put into a completed action only once, and will never be repeated in future... First ritual is intense and uneasy. A ritual of purifying from momentary things and merging with something that was rejected long time ago in blindness and stupidity. This is a wind tearing apart rotten meat of momentary and dissolving in an inexpressible glow from beyond. The storm of the first ritual gives place to pacification of the second one, but this calmness is illusive. Just like a pillow of moss in the middle of a forest looks so calm and safe, but it hides deadly depth of swamp pit underneath. Ghostly lights appearing in the very border of vision in short yet infinite moment of daybreak twilight, they lure inside the thicket warped in ghostly mist. The road of this music is tempting and frightening, what's gonna happen with the one following it?.. This CD is dedicated to the memory of Raven, a permanent member of the band, passed away in cold autumn of 2008. Rituals of "Ancestor's Call" were among the last recordings done with his participation. [press-release]
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Ad Lux Tenebrae -- "Ghanood" -- CD -- €10
2014 Vegvisir music, o:011, (ltd. 200)
Dark Ambient | Drone | Ritual. Ghanood is new album of Ad Lux Tenebrae played in collaboration with 121 of Closing the Eternity. One more then half of hour long track. 100% organic & synth-free ambient somnolent meditation with strings, bells, drones, bowls, chimes & rainsticks. [label info]
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Adriva -- "Equites Mini" -- CD-R -- €9
2007 Observatory Records, Observatory 13, (ltd. 30)
This project always remains true to itself: minimalism, lo-fi sound, slowly rotating loops and feeling of some devilry happening around.
Adr-va -- "Pigment...#1" -- 3"CD-R -- €8
2012 Rostov Vox, cdr01, (ltd. 10)
Individual audio lo-fi series, part 1 - "Chatte". Manipulations with ochra, sand, terracota... and other materials and processing... Only 10 copies, each containing a photo card from the author. [label info]
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Adr-va -- "Pigment...#2" -- 3"CD-R -- €8
2012 Rostov Vox, cdr02, (ltd. 10)
Individual audio lo-fi series, part 2 - "Chatte - Reverse". Manipulations with ochra, sand, terracota... and other materials and processing... Only 10 copies, each containing a photo card from the author. [label info]
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Alo Girl -- "U" -- C-41 -- €5
2011 Silentes Tapestry, Collezione Del Silenzio – U, (ltd. 100)
Collezione Del Silenzio is a series of 26 white cassettes of 26 Italian artists. Each cassette is associated with a letter of the alphabet, representing artist's personal vision of silence.
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Amateur Ant / Mtombo -- "Electric Anthill" -- CD-R -- €5
2007 Sickcore, SC-013, (ltd. 100)
Radio-frequency noise / digital noise ambient. AA: Chirrimg noise resembling a pile of swarming ants with lots of hi frequencies. M: calm digital noise-ambient. As a bonus - 2 mutual remixes. [Triangle description] Cool handmade cover - hard binders cover with attached metallic shavings.
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Anti-Verstand / Totalmehehe -- "Cyclodol / Haloperidol" -- CD-R -- €6
2015 Cvlminis, (ltd. 20)
This isn't really a split release: Anti-Verstand's track "Cyclodol", being a soundtrack to the use of this anticholinergic drug (the original will be released soon) was reworked and edited by Noumen. As a result, the non-emotional anti-human almost-HNW track turned into an existential drama, spiritualized by the narratives of Noumen and flavoured with historical and religious samples and field recordings from a lunatic asylum. Two solo tracks by Totalmehehe are approximately in the same vein, multi-layered and verbally imbued, utilizing noise samples from Merzbow and other masters of noise. The result is unusual, raw, honest and certainly conceptual, like in all projects by Noumen: MNL9, IAMNOTHING, Morbus Mundi and others. Art bruite in its best. Slim-box. [YAOP]
Antikatechon -- "Chrisma Crucifixorum" -- CD -- €7
2012 Rage In Eden, RAGE 87
There were no classic dark ambient albums in Rage In Eden recently, so it's highest time to change it. This time I offer 57 minutes of music in this genre. Very interested album, not dominated only by dark sounds (of course they are present), but they are some kind of base for beautiful, trance melodies. This alternance of melodies and unspecified sounds makes this album to be listen with huge interest. [press-release]
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Artificial Memory Trace -- "Attracted By Light (Collection 7)" -- CD -- €10
2013 Semperflorens, sf10, (ltd. 500)
The album consists of 3 long compositions assembled in 2011-2012. First track "Attracted By Light" was constructed from underwater sounds of crustaceans, mollusks, soniferous fish and insects, including ants, termites and bees, also sounds of wind, fire, ice and New Year fireworks. Second track "Hydrones 8" is based on underwater recordings of subaquatic insects partly recorded in ultrasonic range, tonal sounds of electric field of Gymnotiform fish, and also sounds of water-pump, propellers, boat-engines and tucuxi dolphins. Third track "Pegamorsego" is based on ultrasonic echolocation and social calls of various micro-bats and insects recorded in Brazil.
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Aube -- "108" -- CD -- €5
1996 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 018, (ltd. 801)
This album has been constructed from the sounds of bells. Industrial zen-meditation.
Aube -- "Comet" -- 2 CD -- €8
2006 Troniks / Cipher Productions, TRO-218 / (sic 23), (ltd. 500)
Sound sources: for CD 1 - ice, for CD 2 - space.
Aube -- "Dazzle Reflexion" -- CD -- €8
1997 The Releasing Eskimo, IGLOO 007, (ltd. 500)
All composed, mixed, recorded and designed by Akifumi Nakajima at Studio MECCA, Kyoto December 1995 to February 1996; except original version of "Closed Radiant" recorded November 1994 using only the sounds of the fluorescent and glow lamps as source material.
Aube -- "Le Syndrome Aquatique" -- 2 CD -- €8
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 -- "Metal on Metal" -- 2 CD -- €8
2008 Silentes, sme 0722
Another long awaited reissue from Aube. METAL ON METAL (as for AQUA SYNDROME) was published by MANIFOLD records. Also for this work, over the original album, you'll can hear a bonus track and a full live CD. To the discovery of the alchemical secrets and the magic of the metallic materials, of their acoustic characters, and the possible technological manipulations on the sounds that are possible to pull out... It arches of it resonances, mantric vibrations, hypnotics bells rings... That features of sounds of cymbals, plates, rings... that tubular elements are used or more ordinary and simple metallic objects of common use... that they are bowed or scraped..., Aube acquires the sounds and of it transforming its essence... decomposing and recomposing the shape... Fragmenting, expanding, stratifying and elaborating the sonorous matter, constructs complex wafts, resounding weaves carpets, interlaces thin threads of metallic tensions, crumbles and agglomerates acoustic particles, leaves to flowlong, reverberating, harmonic drones... "Metal on Metal", two only, fantastic CD for and a matchless release. [press-release]
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Aube -- "Recontextual Abstraction" -- 2 CD -- €15
2002 Gender-Less Kibbutz, GLK 15, (ltd. 500)
Compilation of Aube material recorded in 1996 for compilation releases.
Aube -- "Ricochetentrance" -- CD -- €5
1999 Lunar, L 199904, (ltd. 1000)
All composed, mixed, recorded and designed at Studio Mecca, Kyoto, Japan, August-October 1998 using only the water as source material.
Aube -- "Substructural Penetration 1991-1995" -- 2 CD -- €10
1998 Iris Light Records, i-light 008CD, (ltd. 1000)
Aube's compilation appearances compiled.
Belorukov, Ilia & Andrey Popovskiy / Anton Mizenko –- split -- C-40 -- €5
2013 Macrurus
Noise / improv / industrial. "Avantgarde elite from ESG-21 club". [label info]
Bizarre Uproar -- "Bunker Sessions" -- CD-R -- €10
2007 Housepig, HPIG 013, (ltd. 150)
Perverted Finnish harsh-noise played on metal junk. Recorded in a beton bunker remained from WW2. [YAOP]
Boneheads vs. Hotdogs / Concrete Belly -- "split" -- CD-R -- €9
2007 Triangle Records, [TR017], (ltd. 50)
Split of Russian project BvsH and Englisg CB. Sexy vegetarian blonds from Novgorod, Russia won't make you dull with their pathological love to toys. Their rival - Sir Belly loves more serious toys, in the end we have a fine example of royal alco-noise and shit-ambient - spirit-lovers may get properly drunk. The guy is completely mad, look at his photo. Package: cardboard envelope A5, serigraphy. [label info]
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Borisov, Alexei and HEC -- "Live in Paris" -- CD-R -- €5
2008 Sickcore, SC-015, (ltd. 200)
Experimental noise.
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Brandkommando -- "Patria, Socialismo O Muerte!" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Sickcore, SC-19, (ltd. 100)
Power Electronics.
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Brume -- "After The Battle (A Chronicle Of The Joy Of Life)" -- CD -- €14
2009 EE Tapes, EE18, (ltd. 300)
Christian Renou, leading master of audio suspense is back under his familiar alias Brume. Following ‘something old & new’ on Elsie and Jack, here is a full brand new solo work: 'After the battle', an amazing visual journey in sound that captures you from the first seconds right to the very end! Whether all this was created analog/digital or mixed seems irrelevant, Brume keeps surprising his audience in the best possible way, as if he has never been away…… Viva Brume! Goldprint on helldark blue relief cardboard featuring artwork by US artist Jonathan Canady. Including the official Brume/C.Renou discography, with big cheers to the Grandsons of Elsie and Jack! [press-release]
Brume -- "Drafts Of Collisions" -- CD -- €14
1997 Crowd Control Activities, Crowded 02
Series of ambience and sounds sculptures as a continuos evolution. Good "Concrete Music". [Old Europa Cafe]
Brume & Vrischika -- "s/t" -- CD -- €14
1998 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 016, (ltd. 500)
Second co-operation by Brume and Vrischika after the MCD out on Brume's own label. An ethno-industrial moisture with a wide range of ambients. [label info]
Cat'n'Bone -- "Butterfly" -- 3"CD-R -- €3
2010 self-released, (ltd. 20)
Hollow Concrete Noise Ambient with industrial taste. Sophisticated medical fetish package. [YAOP]
Cat'n'Bone -- "Sniff a Tree" -- CD-R -- €5
2010 self-released, (ltd. 8)
Art Noise / Noise Ambient with mysterious stalking atmosphere. Jewel-case with tho cards and a piece of dendromaterial. Just 8 copies!! [YAOP]
Crawl Unit -- "Stop Listening" -- CD -- €5
2000 Ground Fault Recordings, GF008
A pioneer in sound event constructions, Crawl Unit (Joe Colley) has been releasing material since 1992 on labels around the world, including Drone, Manifold, G.R.O.S.S., Ant-Zen, Chocolate Monk and Self-Abuse, among others. Crawl Unit has also appeared on over a dozen compilation recordings, composed sound for dance and performed live nationally and abroad. In addition to recording and performing as Crawl Unit, Joe Colley also runs the renowned label Povertech Industries, releasing material by sound artists such as Michael Prime, Hafler Trio, Hands To, Crawling with Tarts, Francisco Lopez and many others. With Stop Listening, Joe Colley, aka Crawl Unit put together a beautiful sound art record, one of the finest productions on the Ground Fault label. Five works make up the 55-minute program. Most of the material is related to ambient drones, the purest and most soothing example being "Empty Sound". "(Untitled)" sounds like a treated hurdy-gurdy, at least something more metallic. But the highlight is the first piece of the set, "Overload Harmonics" (15 minutes). Sitting on the fence between avant-garde minimal drone music and noise, it takes the shape of a slowly evolving piece punctuated with strange pollutions -- totally entrancing. The same comment cannot be applied to "Study for 3 Speakers", a "live" recording of a 3-channel speaker installation. There are interesting ideas, some rattling sounds seem to indicate the use of objects and contact microphones in the speakers (a technique better exploited by Xavier Charles in Silent Block), but overall the piece remains more technical than absorbing. The main reason for that is the distance kept between the music and the listener. A more binaural recording may have done the trick, although the piece also lacks a bit of cohesion, its segmentation failing to bring something more to the table. Still, Stop Listening is a strong album. [Francois Couture]
Cyanosis -- "The Ethereal Stairwell Suite" -- CD -- €14
1998 Mu, MU 04
Guitar Drone. Ethereal ambient soundscapes created with guitar and bass from this US project. Cardboard package with a piece of hand-painted canvas.
Dauby, Yannick -- "Chang, Factory" -- CD -- €10
2015 Kalerne, kal05
A dystopic essay, "repeated gestures in a decaying factory, empty ritual for a globalized reverie", using field recordings taped in Xinzhuang, Taiwan. Dauby does an excellent job, conjuring up a bleak but endlessly detailed, claustrophobic world, where events materialize subtly, gaining power before you're aware of it. Nothing is too spectacular, the sounds brewing for a good while, assuming prominence, burning or rotting away. Theres an overtone-rich hum on occasion that sounds like a ghost-choir of Tuvan singers. Gradually, sounds one might normally associate with factories intrude, though murky and ill-defined, as though smothered in wool: repetitive, banging, mutedly clinking. It passes through a more watery phase, equally desolate and beautiful before concluding with a sequence soft ringing tones, bell signals heard through an acidic haze. Exceedingly well-crafted and through out, an excellent, subtly frightening soundscape. [Brian Olewnick, Just Outside]
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Dauby, Yannick -- "Vescagne, Salese" -- CD -- €10
2015 Kalerne, kal06, (ltd. 250)
Dauby treads far different territory on this release--two tracks, the first recorded in a lignite mine in Vescagne (inactive), the second on an Alpine mountain, Caire Archas. "Lignite" is mysterious while also being rather luminous and transparent, bearing a number of surprisingly "musical" sounds, zither-like strums and resonant, warm booms. Clearly composed and, I imagine, processing the field recordings a good bit (I could be wrong), it works very well, calm but with a subtly disturbing undercurrent, as though Dauby is disturbing an area that would rather be left on its own. The second cut is full of air, ice and snow, very much outdoors, with crows cawing, snow crunching, wind flowing... as well as distant engines. The presumably electronically-produced drones add quite a bit of drama to the central section of the work. When they dissipate, leaving behind its echo and a wash of liquids, the effect is somehow very magical. It ends with several minutes of...I'm not sure, except it sounds like someone slogging through heavy, packed snow, deep in a crevice. Both pieces are very strong, really well designed and realized of this type. [Brian Olewnick, Just Outside]
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De Waard, Frans -- "Vijf Profielen" -- CD -- €10
2007 Alluvial Recordings, A26
In November 2005 Frans de Waard spend a week recording and composing on location in the small Dutch town Vlissingen, near the cost. The Marine shipyard is located in the centre of that town, but activities are moved and the whole area gets new direction in years to come. As part of an exhibition '[Mijn] Domein', three musicians were asked to reflect on this transition. Frans de Waard was last and recorded the remaining activities in this building where so called 'profiles' are made used in shipbuilding. In the piece things move from hectic and busy (in the first profile) to emptyness (in the fifth profile), although it's one piece. Using mainly recordings made on site of elevators, metal cutting and room ambience, this piece is a strong work of field recordings with minor electronic processing. Frans de Waard is best known for his work with a wide variety of projects, such Kapotte Muziek, Beequeen, Goem, Freiband and many more, all in the field of experimental music and sound art since 1984. Since then he runs his own Korm Plastics, had a brief involvement in Staalplaat and since 1986 has a magazine called Vital, since 1995 known as Vital Weekly. 'Vijf Profielen' is however the first full length Cd under his own name. Housed in the usual Alluvial Recordings plastic wallet, cover was printed at Knust in Nijmegen and design is by Roger_NBH. [label info]
DN23rd -- "Nix" -- CD-R -- €14
2006 Abgurd, AB-32, (ltd. 23)
Latest album by date. Three morose tracks. Sun rising over ruins... Nothing alive, only ether carries cuts of useless liturgies. [label info]
DN23rd -- "Signals From Outside / Unconnect" -- 2 CD-R -- €10
2013 Down Elkovca Records, CD-R DER 007, (ltd. 13)
Unique and cult "project" from Russian underground, all the recordings of which are the fixations of radionoises on various frequencies. No editing. Only selection of an interesting frequency and complete human noninterference in the process of radio-receiver's work. This release is a reissue of two previously released radio fixations. Signals From Outside was released three times (in 2001 - ltd. 4 copies, in 2002 - ltd. 23 copies, and in 2004 - again ltd. 23 copies). Unconnect was released only once in 2004 ltd. 23 copies. And now, after 9 years since the last editions, both of these fixations are available again under one cover. Two CD-Rs with printed surface packed in a slim-case. Radio scheme on aged paper used as a cover, info insert inside. [press-release]
Exploplasmatic Coagulation -- "Harmonium" -- CD-R -- €7
2015 Still*Sleep, CDR25
40 minutes of hypnotic and meditative (drone), split- second digital fluctuations spread for a few octaves – this is a new album Exploplasmatic Coagulation “Harmonium”. The album, inspired by Kurt Vonnegut’s novel The Sirens of Titan will cast you into deep detachment and, like one of the novel’s characters, will bring you to Mercury to take care of harmoniums - creatures who change their psychophysical properties, influenced by every sound vibration. The album is good both for Tantric practice and for deep relaxation. [Oleg Hurvatov]
Fanum & Vazhes -- "IR" -- CD-R -- €7
2010 Still*Sleep, CDR14
Thirty minutes of steady dense and tight (like molten bitumen or solidifying lava) "trademark" drone from Fanum, filled with hardly imperceptible movements of keys, mournful singing of duduk, bird voices and rustle of wind in the leaves, boiling of huge amount of water in which the listeners dives closer to the middle of the track, and voices recorded probably by Sergey Gabbasov (Vazhes) during his ethnographic trips to abandoned villages. I can call for help the words "natural ambient", and it will be quite relevant and characterizing the hidden events happening in the depth of the sonic mass and illustrating such processes as slow growth of grain, deliberate movements of shadows, dissolving items and substances in the water and something like this, invisible from the first glance and subject to the eternal cycles of the outside world. [maeror3.livejournal.com]
Gielareck -- "Asfalt" -- CD-R -- €9
2003 Nefryt, N 011, (ltd. 222)
Le bruit composition in 17- chapters. This is story about asphalt production. Very intelligent postindustrial, best in Poland! Atmosphere of power-stations, factories, labolatories... Special cover co-existent with music. Limited & hand numbered edition of 222 copies. [press-release]
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Grinding Halt / Totalmehehe -- "split" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 Sickcore, SC 011, (ltd. 50)
A good split of two Russian death industrial projects. Grinding Halt presents icy death industrial in vein of I Burn and minimalistic works of Brighter Death Now, Totalmehehe gave more drone-oriented material closer to Klinikal Skum. Non-standard handmade cardboard cover. [YAOP description]
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Hum -- "Blade Charm" -- CD-R -- €9
2006 Sphogha, (ltd. 52)
The album is compiled from recordings made in summer 2001 with the use of synths, radio, tapes and tapeloops. It reminds more early projects of Dmitry Chistov (Nigredo, Sphogha), then late soft drony Hum in way of "Sleepland Emission". Here the sound is more rough and shaggy, with dominating wheezing noises, though of course he couldn't do without long resonances and hypnotic atmosphere. Beautiful and tidy handmade cover.
Hum -- "Lambent" -- 3"CD-R -- €6
2008 self-released, (ltd. 35)
3 new tracks from this Russian lo-fi drone ambient project. For those who love tranquility and harmony.
Hum -- "Landmarks In Mistscape - Extended Version" -- CD-R -- €9
2010 Datura Landscapes, Datura 14
Extended reissue of Hum material previously available as a very limited edition split-cassette with Misery. Minimalistic drones with wavy rolls od reworked field recordings, glimmer of resonant loops, slow whirling of sonic shadows...
IA -- "Cella" -- CD-R -- €7
2012 Still*Sleep, CDR20
*Cella* is the first full-length solo release from US drone ambient project IA, whose debut discs were published earlier this year on French labels Basses Frequences and taвlem. Sourced entirely from voice and tape noise, *Cella* is a five-part journey through vast, emotional and transcendent drones, some gazing to the highest heavens, others into desolate chasms of the self. Like starlight hanging in the blackest night sky, the patient music of IA draws the mind simultaneously to fantasies of epic beauty and to remote places of doubt and sorrow. [label info]
Illusion Of Safety -- "Bad Karma" -- CD -- €5
1998 Soleilmoon Recordings, SOL 51 CD
Extreme at-the-edge electronics, music for inducing unpleasant LSD flashbacks. [label info]
Inade -- "The Incarnation Of The Solar Architects" -- 2 CD + DVD BOX -- €90
2009 Loki Foundation, LOKI 50 SE, (ltd. 259)
Ultra limited edition of the latest album including bonus CD and DVD in black wooden box.
Interior Disposition -- "Blood & Scars" -- CD-R -- €7
2012 InterioRepertoR, IR11
Tracks included in this album were recorded in various moments between 2007 and 2011, united by mastering made in 2012. Science fiction driven space ambient will all genre attributes: electromagnetic signals, textured background noises, paddy synth lines and simple but effective melodies.
Interior Disposition -- "Cranium Vult: Unreleased & Rarities 2003-2013" -- CD-R -- €7
2013 InterioRepertoR, IR12, (ltd. 150)
A collection of previously unreleased tracks of this Russian project from the last decade. Space ambient with trademark "rustling" sound and minor consonances, quite resembling Bad Sector of "Polonoid" period, but with more minimalistic and abstract atmosphere, sometimes with rough rhythmical constructions.
Interior Disposition -- "From Autumn..." -- CD-R -- €7
2011 InterioRepertoR, IR08, (ltd. 100)
New album of this Moscow based project envelops the listener with sorrowful drones and uncomplicated melodies, immersing into autumnal melancholy. [label info]
Interior Disposition & Sister Loolomie -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €7
2009 Still*Sleep, CDR12
A collaboration between two Russian projects. The united sonic field of these 4 tracks harmonically meld together the characteristic features of both projects: hallucinogenic digital rasps and bright melancholic guitar tunes from Sister Loolomie and universal scale atmospheres of Interior Disposition. As a result we have beautiful and deep space ambient / drone.
Invisible Hand -- "Babalon" -- CD-R -- €6
2008 YAOP, YAOP 033, (ltd. 23)
Neoritual music. First worthy Russian answer to the works of such bands as Ain Soph, Psychic TV, AIT! and Mushroom's Patience. Simple esoteric music, mesmerizing voice and allusions to the legacy of Crowley and Miguel Serrano. The single contains one song in studio and demo versions. Handmade cardboard cover A5, insert with information and three texts. [press-release]
Ion & Sophus -- "Transit Station" -- CD-R -- €7
2011 InterioRepertoR, Ir05, (ltd. 100)
New album by one of the projects of Sergey [S] (Exit In Grey, Sister Loolomie, Candyman & Evil Flowers, etc.) deals with the theme of railroad stations, so close to the heart of any Russian man. First long track (nearly 29 minuites) - samples of traffic controllers and recordings of rail station stmospheres interlaced in mild yet persistent substance, balancing between melody and drone, merging altogether into an unhurried ambiental soundscape. Second track features same kind of melody combined with wave-like celestial noise creating more active and cosmic feeling.
Karkowski, Zbigniew -- "Intensifier" -- CD -- €12
2004 [walnut + locust], Wl002, (ltd. 500)
Zbigniew Karkowski is a polish-swedish composer/musician presently living and working in Tokyo, Japan. He has worked professionaly in the areas of written contemporary music, industrial music, pop music and experimental performance for the last 11 years with artists like Blixa Bargeld, Merzbow, Pita... his work has been performed throughout Europe, North America, Australia, and Japan. He is active in the underground noise scene in Japan. [press-release]
Konrad Kraft -- "Temporary Audiosculptures And Artefacts" -- CD -- €12
2011 Auf Abwegen, aatp33, (ltd. 300)
Trying to set musical events in a sculptural form, the Düsseldorf/Wuppertal based artist and musician Detlef Funder (a.k.a. Konrad Kraft), develops the temporary audio-sculpture. Knowing that a tonal event can never take the materiality of a real sculpture, Konrad Kraft attempts this special transformation with the help of various elements. Human imaginativeness, time, as well as the tonal event itself are the elements for the listener to form an individual audio-sculpture and to let it develop in their heads. The audio-sculpture with its acoustic body, around which various tonal/sound elements and events float, appears with a physical structure, a dimensionality. Tonal/sound elements are of various origins. In part elicited from nature, or being conjured up synthetically, or just being put together randomly, all elements are enhanced and altered sometimes significantly to the point that the character has changed completely and can hardly be identified. The term ‘artefact’ relates to the fact that sound fragments, through the synthetic alteration, are broken-up and only exist and appear as particles. They flow as ‘artefacts’ in the tonal range... It sounds like floating metallic sound units interfere with small concrete sounds in the foreground. It reminds us at times of some of the work by Illusion Of Safety, Controlled Bleediung and Cisfinitum. [label info]
Kriminaaliset Metsanhaltijat -- "Mina Rangaistan Loukkaajaa!" -- CD-R -- €9
2007 Triangle Records, [TR019]
Greatest lakes in Europe... Hejniasejmaa island... They have conducted some tests here... Late autumn... Everything's died... Moisture... Beton bunker walls... Taren... Malice put out by chemicals and atmosphere of nuclear trials of the past. Protest in every track, unwillingness to obey the system and to have connection with rotten society. Dirty emotional noise/power-electronics: dark pulsations of analogue synthesizers and rattle of metal junk, natural reverberation of an abandoned bunker and two furious vocals. Hail Finland! [press-release]
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Krutogolov, Igor -- "White" -- CD -- €9
2006 Auris Media, aum 10 / Topheth Prophet, TP006, (ltd. 1000)
From Israel comes Igor Krutogolov, who is besides a musician also the designer for Topheth Propeht. Apparently he is mostly known for his 'klezmer core' project Kruzenshtern & Parohod but also a 'toy orchestra' Igor Krutogolov's Karate Band as well as various collaborations he has done with people like Chaos As Shelter, Agnivolok, Bastard Noise, Tidal and Darkwood. For 'White', which comes with a booklet with white pages (funny or arty) he plays bass with bow and strings, voice, keyboards, objects, flute and birds and gets help from somebody playing bells and someone delivering a tape of rain sounds. Divided into seven parts, this is however very much one piece. The musical theme's re-occur in every track, the rain sounds return every now and then. The label compares this is to Colin Potter and Andrew Liles, which, especially in the case of Liles, I can see some parallel. The drone like sounds form the backbone of the piece and with irregular intervals, real instruments are added. Unlike Liles however, Krutogolov doesn't dwell that much of sound effects, and rather uses them in a more natural sounding way. Quite hypnotic and engaging at times, this is surrealist music, with a built in tension that keeps lurking around the corner, and the listener is waiting for something to happen. Wether or not it happens I won't reveal, but it's a pretty strong CD. [FdW, Vital Weekly #560]
Kurbonsho -- "Vahan Songs" -- CD -- €10
2011 Chernaya Zemlya, CHZ:a, (ltd. 700)
The disc contains unique ethnographic field recordings made by Andrey Komarov (Vishudha Kali), during an expedition to the Pamirs in 2004. One of the goals of this expedition was to study the musical traditions of the Pamir highlands. Here he discovered the most outstanding poet and musician, Kurbonsho. The village in which he lived is a wild place on Vakhania (Afghan gap) with no electricity and extremely difficult access. Although local residents claimed that he was unlikely to agree to sing, Andrey still managed to record his primordial folklore music, which is represented on this disc. Kurbonsho died in 2008. Beautiful lyrical melodies (sung in Devanagari) with smooth transitions and flowing vocals - the music is clear and unprepared for the European organic ear. Ltd x 700 copies in a 20-page A5 digibook. [label info]
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Light Collapse / PlaZmat -- split -- CD-R -- €5
Heart Shaped Box prod., HSB-008, (ltd. 40)
A new split from two Russian noise talents coming from Ural and Siberia regions. plaZmat presents 7 tracks of ear-tearing mid-frequency crackle, and LC gladdens with near-power electronic industrial compositions remotely resembling Hladna. Packed in an epochal attainment of Russian science and industry - a plasic box, developed, designed and patented (don't even think of copying - you'll be sued!) in Russian Federation. [YAOP]
Litvin, Arseny / Vyazkiy Sharab / Konstantin Kozlov -- "Winter Noise Sessions" -- MC -- €4
2013 Salmon Peoples Records, SPR-004, (ltd. 30)
Two improvised noise sessions including radio noise elements recorded to a cassette recorder. Recorded on used cassettes. [label info]
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Maa / Out of Focus -- "split" -- CD-R -- €7
2006 Triangle Records, [TR04], (ltd. 120)
Split of two Karelian projects. Maa - noise performed on microphone and frequency generator. Out of Focus - mostly heavy formed noise. An attempt to bring household devices, makeshift trash and computer together. [label info]
Maw -- "Melancholy Drop" -- CD-R -- €9
2006 Datura Landscapes, DATURA9
New album of Maw (side-project of Hum) is made of recordings from 2001. Four long tracks in best author's traditions - slow, fluent, laid-back, resonant, well, here one can list all the epithets that fit to outstanding lo-fi drone ambient. Again beautiful stylish cardboard cover.
MOHR / Maeror Tri -- "Hafenstadt" -- CD -- €12
2015 Auf Abwegen, aatp19, (ltd. 500)
This music was originally planned to form a part of the third tape box in the MØHR interpretation series of ZNS TAPES. In this series different artists got an individual 30-minutes-piece of basic material by MØHR to be interpreted it in any way: Using it as a backing tape and adding some more tracks, getting inspired and doing something unique in the spirit of the basic material, deconstruct and arrange it anew. The invited artists had any opportunity to re-work the source material. For the actual release the basic material was placed on side A and the interpretation on side B, enabling the listener to compare the basic and the final sound. Three tapes were compiled as one tape box linked by a loose theme. The first box, Bürokratie, contained works by DAS KONZENTRAT, BESTATTUNGSINSTITUT and SUICIDE COMMANDO (released in 1990), the second, Kulturschock, contained works by ANDREW CHALK/DARREN TATE, ECTOPLASMIC EMBRYO EXPERIENCE and FLAGRANTs D’ELI (released in 1991). The third one, which was to contain Hafenstadt by MAEROR TRI (as well as material of PBK and THE HATERS), has never been released due to the sudden end of ZNS TAPES. We’re convinced that this combination of basic stuff plus musical reworking is still an interesting and exciting experience for the audience, maybe especially after more than 20 years in the archives. [Andreaz Vogel]
Murohamma -- "Daughter of Shadows" -- CD-R -- €7
2013 Down Elcovka Records, CD-R DER 006, (ltd. 8)
Beautiful lullaby dark ambient with a very tender melodic component. Ideal soundtrack to prepare for lucid dreaming or just for usual evening relaxation. The album was released on a cassette ltd. 100 (by Ukrainian label Depressive Illusions Records), and in digital format (by the net-label GV Sound). Now it's also available as a fetish CD-R version for the limited amount of conosseurs. CDR with b/w print, packed in hand-written sleeve made of kraft paper. Sleeve is attached to a wooden piece and wrapped in an envelope made of black cloth. [label info]
N|B|K / Natural Obscenity In Sexual Experiments -- "Split" -- CD-R -- €8
2005 Sickcore, SC-001, (ltd. 25)
Sick ambient noise / harsh noise.
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N.B.S. (Nekaya Bulkaushaya Sreda) -- "From Space Chaos To Cosmic Noise" -- CD -- €7
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]
Natural Obscenity In Sexual Experiments -- "Ego" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 Sickcore, SC 010, (ltd. 50)
Diversified rough-noise compositions played on electroguitar, radio-receiver and various electronics. A good injection of urban pathology. Package is made like a "document" in red "jacket". [YAOP description]
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Noise Novosibirsk Institute -- "Reriya" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 Sickcore, SC-012, (ltd. 50)
Refined laboratory radionoise from the capital of Soviet science. Subjected to complex processing and montage, ether noises melt into the work of the New Art. The disk opens with powerful composition in vein of Atrax Morgue and N., and then gives way to the caleidoscope of "aerial" trance pieces. Sophisticated handmade package from this label highly respected by the collectors. [YAOP description]
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The Noktulians -- "The Butcher, the Roaring Bright One and the Demon Star" -- CD-R -- €10
2014 Boletus Satanas Doom Occulta, Hypha.I, (ltd. 30)
Drone Doom / Noise / Experimental. There are many legends about a mark left on earth by God's horse. And one of these marks was covered by a swamp. Its fumes and rumbles have created the dark glimmering body of The Noktulians. You can bury this body. In yourself... Note I: all 30 handmade copies have survived in fire, some of them still have ashes. Note II: there was a typo on cover artwork, it's corrected by hand. Note III: search for a hidden stamp. [label info]
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Nubiferous -- "Mana" -- CD -- €10
2014 Post Tenebras Musica, PTM 01 / :Vegvisir music:, o:010 / Le Crepuscule Du Soir, LCDS 193/43, (ltd. 499)
Ritual Dark Ambient | Acoustic | Field recordings. This album initiated experiments with acoustic musical instruments adding archaism and folk colors to the sound canvas of Nubiferous that harmonizes with the album concept: “mana” is a supernatural force or power that may be ascribed to persons, animals, inanimate objects or spirits. Deep ritualistic music on the edge between raw ritualism of Ad Lux Tenebrae and refined soundwork of Troum. CD, 4-panel A5 digifile, h/n, ltd.499. [label info]
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Oophoi -- "Mare Imbrium" -- CD -- €12
2003 Nextera, ERA 2028.2
Re-release of the limited CDR which appeared originally in January 2001. We wrote at that time: "New work by the italian ambient-project, getting more and more attention in the ambient-scene. Oöphoi uses here synths, electronics, tibetan singing bowls, stones, shakuhachi... for his unbelievable spaced-out nebulous & lush drone-sound. "Mare Imbrium" is our favourite, with extremely distant acoustics and a surreal dreamstate-sound, ideal sensual late-night listening! Challenging music to drift away with, a deeply atmospheric listening experience inspired by the most obscure Sea of the Moon, Mare Imbrium, the Sea of Storms. Dark synth washes, subtle noises, the distant voice of the Goddesses and deep slow resonances create a trance-like soundscape which asks for a careful listening to uncover its secrets. [press release]
PBK -- "Retro" -- 3 CD + 1 antimusic CD -- €12
2006 Waystyx, WR24, (ltd. 264)
This is an archive collection of the recordings made by one of acknowledged classics of experimental electronic music. The first CD contains remastered tracks from 1987-1991 previously released only on tapes, 2nd and 3rd CDs contain unreleased albums from 1988, 4th CD contains all necessary information. Special cardboard package.
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Pichismo / B.I.C.S. -- "split" -- CD-R -- €7
2007 Triangle Records, [TR016], (ltd. 50)
Wise elders PICHISMO as a monument to archaism: lyrics on ancient elf's language, completely analogue recording on tape, nothing redundant. Against them Karelian youth B.I.C.S.: spite, energy and maximalism: texts on ancient Karelian language, recording done on digital photo camera which can be interesting for hi-tech boys and girls. What's important, one can find lyrics in the booklet, cover is adorned with petroglyphs from the White Sea. "Infinite" no-fi! Breathing of night-elves and wind noises in Karelian woods: ARCHO-HELL! Package: cardboard envelope, serigraphy. [label info]
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Renou, Christian -- "7 Kisses" -- CD -- €14
2003 EE Tapes, EE02, (ltd. 325)
Ex-Brume. Computer music originally composed and recorded in early 2000 at Brume Rec. These recordings were the first experiment made with old, defective and more recent computers. No analog stuff used. Comes in a 7" sleeve. [label info]
Renou, Christian -- "Flou" -- CD -- €15
Waystyx, WR14, (ltd. 100)
Christian Renou is french musician who began his artistic life from experimentation with modified farfisa-organ and broken recorder in 1978. Year after, he bought monophonic synthesizer and started to play in band Uria, but in 1983 left to start his own solo project and label of the same name: Brume. During the next 20 years, he released a number of albums, mostly on tapes, using only physical instruments and tapes for recording stuff - no samplers and computers. Speaking of style, there were various collages of abstract noises, produced by different handmade electronic gear and prepared acoustic objects. In 2003, Renou stopped Brume but continues to produce soundworks - now he prefer to rely on computers and synthetic sounds, probably got tired of exhausting analogue recording process. The only old elements in his recent works are field recordings and percussion. "Flou" is his new album, produced and released by Moscow-based label Waystyx in strongly limited edition of 100 copies. The title makes me think of broken "flow" - six pieces are flowing each other, reminding some records of Zoviet France from the early 90s. Hypnotic stuff, based on melodic ambient background and repetative sounds that seems to be like percussive use of tonal instruments. Altogether, they developes into irregular rhythm or long minimal melodic part. Such music can be relaxing and disturbing at the same time, but "Flou" goes further into the realm of serious and conceptual music: all tracks are reflecting in each other, they borrows some structure from previous to next one, there is also verbal intro and gently growing silence in the end. [Dmitry Vasilyev, "Independent Electronic Music"]
Saturn Form Essence -- "MS 0302+17" -- CD-R -- €7
2013 Down Elcovka Records, CD-R DER 011, (ltd. 20)
Dark Space Ambient. New album of an obscure project from the Ukraine drawing inspiration from the depths of space. Six tracks of classical droning ambient taking you to a voyage to the distant corners of the superclusters. CDR with printed surface packed in a half-dvd slim box. [label info]
Sound_00 -- "She's the One" -- CD-R -- €5
2006 Triangle Records, [TR08], (ltd. 50)
Noise and flowers from Makedonia! Best gift for your girlfriend! Packed in 1/2-dvd box, full-cover print, seeds of beautiful flowers! [label info]
Splendor Solis -- "...letum - non omnia finit..." -- CD -- €10
2013 Vegvisir music, o:006, (ltd. 347)
Apocalyptic Folk. Splendor Solis (lat. Shining of the Sun) mixes typical dark folk insruments, neoclassical compositional methods and early European musical heritage. Theirs lyrics are inspired by medieval European theology, apocalyptic symbolism, and also by theosophical doctrines and mystical branches of buddism. Splendor Solis' debut album is dedicated to the infinite reincarnation of soul of a man. The album has been created using acoustic instruments only. Music of Splendor Solis is nice, harmonious, not very intricate but melodious right along. Exquisite gold-surfaced CD comes in hard crafted cardboard sleeve with 12-page booklet in semi-transparent vellum cover. [press-release]
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Sunchariot -- "Fictio" -- CD-R -- €8
2007 Observatory Records, Observatory 006, (ltd. 40)
Slowly rolls the Wheel of Sansara, slowly like a millstone twist the loops of ritual noise action. Unhurried rhythm os samples over the thick layer of anxious ambient ground. Rough soundwork, nothing about digital aesthetism.
Troum -- "AIWS" -- CD -- €10
2007 Transgredient Records, TR-05
AIWS is the first full-length cd release from Troum since 2003. It covers studio-recordings composed from 2002-2005. These musicians have compiled some of their most favorable pieces through the years to be placed on this release. Presenting nine analogue (4 & 8 track) recorded compositions that lead the listener through vast feelings of beautifully deep melancholic and hypnotic states of mind. Composed with guitar-drones and harmonic phrases that are processed in various ways creating an atmosphere of the sublime and emotional meditative states that transcend listener to immerse within themselves. Ingredients: Sufi-songs, old vinyl-crackles, acoustic & e-guitars, e-bow, e-bass, voice & whisperings, accordion & flute. Stunning photography & design work by Alan McClelland (Eye.lyft). One of the most emotional and profound Troum releases to date now available on Transgrediant Records. Dedicated to Eternity. [press release]
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Troum -- "Tjukurrpa (part two: drones)" -- CD -- €10
Transgredient Records, TR-01b
This part two is dedicated to "drones", presenting five highly atmospheric and droning tracks ranging from minimal to monumental sounds, from dark ambient to more ritualistic areas: these are drones to loose your rational mind in. The music on Tjukurrpa II is made by loops based on metal-sounds, percussion & other more obscure sources, as well as mouth-organ, choirs, guitars, and effects. [press release]
Troum -- "Tjukurrpa (part three: rhythms and pulsations)" -- CD -- €10
2003 Transgredient Records, TR-01c
Dronecore. This is the third part in Troum's Tjukurrpa-trilogy, following part 1 (harmonies) and part 2 (drones). This final part is dedicated to "rhythms" and "pulsations", with a focus on rhythmic, pounding, looping & repetitive elements and structures. With Tjukurrpa 3, Troum shows a not so well known side, using the trance-power of repetitive textures. In every of the seven extensive tracks (playtime 66+ min) rhythms in various moods build the basis: from smooth ambience-pulsations over ritualistic surroundings up to ecstatic pounding harshness, from underneath & soft pulsative patterns up to evolving harsh & overwhelming rhythmic loops. The music on Tjukurrpa 3 is made by raw & processed loops & handplayed percussion, along with electric guitar & bass, balalaika, mouth organ, male & female human voice, flute, and accordeon. No samplers, synths or computers used. [press-release]
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Tydish / Maaaa -- "split" -- CD-R -- €5
2007 Triangle Records, [TR020]
Power-electronics/Harsh-noise. Think before you think! This is not a test!!!! Total sXe-Jihad is cum-min soon. Make your choise or DIE!!! [label info]
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Ultrapolyarnoe Vtorzhenie -- "Vektor Zelyonogo Lucha" -- CD-R -- €4
2010 Valgriind, VG 40, (ltd. 44)
All remembrances return when the Highest-From-The-Outside allow to find their message. The message sent by Non-People not for people... Never disappearing signal... Pulse of The Bearing Light, Pulse of The Morning Star... Dissolution of "Ego-compound" in "Non-Ego-concentrate". A revelation... a fragment... a spectrum colour. Cardboard sleeve. [press-release]
Ultrapolyarnoe Vtorzhenie feat. Morbus Mundi / Transistorwald -- "Act Of Total Nonrandomness" -- CD-R -- €4
2011 Valgriind, VG 43
Martial Industrial Noise split / collaboration from three Russian talented artists. An esotheric work inspired by the ideas of Miguel Serrano. [YAOP]
VipCancro -- "Tropico" -- CD -- €11
2010 Lisca Records, Lisca007
Second album after well acclaimed Xax, Tropico is the proof of Vipcancro’s ability to let you trip over the edges of industrial-drone-noise exploring several aspects of contemporary music too. Maybe avant, maybe impro, amazing music of course. Typographic print on special textured paper in jewelcase. [label info]
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Vishudha Kali -- "Psenodakh" -- CD -- €10
2013 Vegvisir music, o:004, (ltd. 350)
Ritual Ambient | Ethno-noise. Dark/drone ambient very ritualistic and with some ethno-noise influences. This opus consists of 4 long ritual tracks recorded with sounds of breathing and vocals, acoustically processed through natural and exclusive equipments. Music of this album was heard by author while long sojourn far in Caucasian mountains at the shore of partly ice-covered alpine Psenodakh Lake (Fisht-Oshten pass). Psenodakh means "lost in the middle of moutains". Vishudha Kali presents hymns to the nature mysteries kind of wind, water, stonefalls, wild animals and birds as well as chants on Sanskrit. Firstly album was released at Vishudha Kali's own label Fight Muzik with limitation of 333 copies. New release limited to about 350 copies. CD contain 4 tracks. Fourth track includes two parts: Vishudha Kali song named “Ritual from fire” and song “Haidakhandi Aarti Sankirtan” - very rare archive record of Hindustani saint Mahavatar Shree Haidakhan Babaji made by officiary of Soviet Embrace in India. It was previously published only on die hard edition of this album as additional CD-r limited to 33 copies. Exquisite gold-surfaced CD comes in hard crafted cardboard sleeve with eight-page booklet in semi-transparent vellum cover. [press-release]
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Voda I Ryba (Water & Fish) -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €5
2007 YAOP, YAOP 029, (ltd. 75)
Band from Southern Russia, but sounds very St. Petersburg-like. Cold, damp, suller indie rock a bit like Cocteau Twins. 7 depressive outpourings. 75 copies in cardboard sleeve of exclusive construction. [label info]
Vyazkiy Sharab & Arseniy Litvin -- "Artificial People" -- CD-R -- €8
2012 Heart Shaped Box Prod., HSB-056, (ltd. 26)
Experimental noise from two young Siberian projects. Painted CD-R, DVD slim-box, sticker.
Wojtas, Dariusz vs Z'EV -- "Pro Pagan Da" -- CD -- €12
2012 Nefryt, N 022, (ltd. 350)
Ex-Hati former & his new recordings processed & mixed by legendary Z'EV. Gatefold A5 cover. [label info]
V/A -- "Tribute for Lyni" -- CD-R -- €4
2011 Smell The Stench
Morpeth, Ataraxy, 21 Gramms, TROJ, Animal Machine, Ecoute La Merde, Nezumi, Julia LaDense, Ego Death, Cat.n.bone.
V/A -- "Zvukolan: atmosphere, landscapes, strategy" -- CD-R -- €6
2005 Strely Peruna prod., SP 015, (ltd. 222)
Strely Peruna prod. present the anniversary compilation with projects that supported label in it's 10 year activity with their creative work. The idea of label is spreading the pagan weltanschauung, leaving behind the standards in art perception and liberation from the dogmas of surrounding reality. Geographically this compilation covered North, Centre, Ural and South of Russia which allows to see both common and distinct features in creative landscapes of our Earth. The participants are: Unknown, Hum, Sunchariot, Kromeshna, Lunar Abyss Deus Organum, YAO 91404 D. UNKNOWN (Moscow) is a project of Dmitry Shilov who started his activity in 1996. He released several works on Strely Peruna prod. and claimed himself as an adherent of veda wisdom and search of light in the darkness of the present. Dmitry creates profound and meditative ambient landscapes in which he combines his outlook and great cycles of Nature. Dmitry also took part in a project called Medve Na Veche - the debut release of our label. HUM (Fryazino, Moscow region) - one of the oldest Russian projects working with analogue technology of tape loops. His compositions are very deep and sensitive. The atmosphere of Hum can be compared with a walk in autumnal forest. Dmitry Chistov (Hum) took part in a project Off The Cuff released by Strely Peruna. SUNCHARIOT (Rostov-on-Don) originates from the pagan-metal band gradually reduced to one-man project - Denis Shapovalov. Zoroastrian cult and religions of the Sun are the main inspiration sources for Denis. Minimalistic dark ambient sound of Sunchariot - magic rituals of Sun and Blood. KROMESHNA (Kamensk-Uralsky, Ekaterinburg region) is a young project of Vitaly Maklakov from creative union "Ostroga". Enigmatic ladscapes of Ural, laborious work of Nature, mountain ranges settling down into twilight - all this (and something more that is hard to describe) found it's reflection in music of Kromeshna. LUNAR ABYSS DEUS ORGANUM (St. Petersburg) focuses attention on karelian-finnish shamanism and nothern folklore through the prism of ambient culture and industrial constructivism. The leader of LADO - Evgeny Savenko - also had a project called Koivunmahla released by Strely Peruna prod. YAO 91404 D (St. Petersburg) is a young but promising project absorbing the aesthetics of revolution, labour cult and heroic spirit of industrialisation. Danil Dashkevich (YAO 91404 D) successfully cobines hard psychedelic atmosphere with industrial noises and pagan music primitivism. This symbiosis creates really unusual and emotional ritual/industrial mystery. All projects presented only exclusive tracks for this compilation. The release comes in non-standard handmade sleeve with 6 photos. [label info]
Grunt -- "Someone Is Watching" -- t-shirt -- €14
Force Majeure
Double-sided printed T-Shirt with pictures of video surveillance on the chest, text about the same subject mater on the center back. Printed white on heavy premium quality black shirt. Image. Size L.
Grunt -- "Someone Is Watching 2" -- t-shirt -- €14
Force Majeure
Double-sided printed T-Shirt with picture of a video camera on the chest left, text on the center back : GRUNT - SOUND OF DISENT : ACCEPT THE CONTROL FROM YOUR POTENTIAL ENEMY, TRUST IN THE GOOD WILL OF THOSE IN CHARGE. Printed white on heavy premium quality black shirt. Image. Size L.
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