Hello!
Together with the labels
Aquarellist and
kultFRONT we're glad to present the CD edition of the album
"Monochrome" by
Cisfinitum, which was originally released last fall by
NEN Records as a tape limited to just 45 copies. The album is dedicated to the memory of the music journalist and publisher
Dmitry Vasilyev and is designed in the aesthetics close to the releases of Dmitry's label
Monochrome Vision.
Russian underground scene continues to produce a lot of new music, this time we received the recent releases from such labels as
Sidi Doma,
BioSonar^Lo-End,
ΠΑΝΘΕΟΝ,
Infinite Fog Productions,
COD Music / COD Nozes / COD Noir,
NEN Records and
[electrotapes archive].
We should also mention the releases of
Drone Records / Transgredient Records from Germany,
Force Majeure / Nuit et Brouillard from France, and the truly international publishing project
Vibora Collective. The lovers of noise and power electronics will probably be curious to check out the big list of new tape arrivals, from budget items to ultra-limited editions and collector boxsets.
As usual, send your orders to
mm@radionoise.ru or
zhelezobeton@inbox.ru. Reservations are possible for reasonable time.
April podcast is now available on mixcloud:
https://www.mixcloud.com/Kryptogen/zhelezobeton-mix-26-april-2019/
And if you wish, you can download all previous mixes here:
https://yadi.sk/d/Bs4Vf88v3TF4WT
All the best,
M.M.
22.04.2019
I. New release
‘Monochrome' is a eulogy to Dmitry Vasiliev, a music enlightener, a label owner, a journalist, an ardent devotee of experimental music. Initially the composer Eugene Voronovsky conceived 'Monochrome' as a futuristic 'hi-res' mass, an alchemical fusion of angelic chorales and dub techno pulsations. A dream-like transparency of the material is deceptive in masking its technical complexity. Thus, the rhythmic canvas is built of "non-square" rhythms - 7/8, 15/16, etc., from which the strong beat gains fluidity typical of Oriental music. Ambient textures are based on the works of the medieval composers Josquin des Prez, Guillaume de Machaut, Pérotin the Great. Through reverberation the sound is "placed" into authentic space of the Great Pyramid of Giza; it's a meaningful reference for the album, entitlted in its draft by Enochian key of the alchemist John Dee.
The news of Vasiliev's tragic death caught the author in rendering the final mix. Thus the meaning and the purpose of this year-long work were redefined. ‘Monochrome' became a funeral service for a dear friend, a person whose role for independent electronic music in Russia cannot be overestimated.
The album was originally released as a limited edition cassette by NEN Records in October 2018 and now re-issued on CD by the joint forces of Aquarellist, kultFRONT and ZHELEZOBETON.
II. Forthcoming events
26.04.2019 – Noiseroom
JOAO CASTRO PINTO, VEHJORA & NOISES OF RUSSIA, BARDOSENETICCUBE, SYMPHOCAT, DROJJI
St. Petersburg, Sound Museum / ESG-21. More info...
26.04.2019 – Tinnitus: a night of ritual sound art
JOHN DUNCAN, CISFINITUM + PURBA
Moscow, Richter. More info...
27.04.2019 – Unravel Festival / Horizon Ambient Stage
TSHDH, SANDER SHIFTER, LUNAR ABYSS, SVETLO111, ANDREW SPRRW & NIKA, EGOR EFREMOV, ALEX ZENDER, ENTHA, UNLOGIC THING, OLLI AAMI, SYMPHOCAT, ZVUKOFOR, ABJECTIVE
St. Petersburg, Blank. More info...
27.04.2019 – Ambient and More Vol. 7
SYMPHOCAT, UHUSHUHU, CREATION VI, AMAZON WATCHER
Moscow, Botanical Garden of the Moscow State University. More info...
05.05.2019
HOLOCODER, ANTIMUZYKA
Rostov-on-Don, bar "Nasmert". More info...
16-20.05.2019 – Solar Systo 2019 – Drone Glade
303, 73!, ANDREW SPRRW & NIKA, АООМ, ASYNCHRONICS, CODEX OCCULTA, CREATION VI, DESSIN BIZARRE, DJ EVERGREEN, EGREGOROS, JAM DAZAN, JUM-JUM, KRYPTOGEN RUNDFUNK, LUNAR ABYSS DEUS ORGANUM, MURMURATION MEDITATION, NEZNAMO, SMEHOPILORAMA, STRANNYE YAGODI, SVETLO111, SYNTHCONE, TIMELESS TRIP, VEHJORA & NOISES OF RUSSIA, W I I, CONTACT WITH ALIENS IS MUSIC, MIRA DREVO, PETROGRAD DRONE GATHERING, REKONSTRUKTSIYA MHA (KORA/M), UHUSHUHU, CHERNOBYLNIK, SIX DEAD BULGARIANS and more
open-air, Leningrad region. More info...
18.05.2019 – Akoazm
MAAAA, ACUTE VELLEITY, .NYCTALOPS., KRAAA, MEDICINAL
Moscow, DOM. More info...
19.05.2019 – Акоазм
MAAAA, Akoazm, ACUTE VELLEITY, .NYCTALOPS., KRAAA, GRIGORY AVRORIN
St. Petersburg, Mosaique. More info...
20.05.2019 – Sampo Distortion
MAAAA, BUDDY PSYHOLLY
Petrozavodsk, Ubezhische №1. More info...
24.05.2019
MERZBOW
St. Petersburg, Zal. More info...
25.05.2019
MERZBOW
Moscow, Moscow Station Hall. More info...
30.05.2019
JACOB KIRKEGAARD, KRYPTOGEN RUNDFUNK
St. Petersburg, Sound Museum / ESG-21.
31.05.2019 - Drone Gathering
LUNAR ABYSS, REKONSTRUKTSIYA MHA, UHUSHUHU and more
St. Petersburg, tea-club "Know the Tea". More info...
III. New items in mailorder catalogue
CDs & CD-Rs
4 POZITSII BRUNO -- "Vzyatie" -- CD-R -- €7
2017 Sidi Doma, doma18 / Valpurgieva Zvukozapis', VALPUR049, (ltd. 100)
Experimental electronics from Ekaterinburg, Russia. Packed in 4-panel digipak.
[bandcamp]
ABOVE THE RUINS -- "Songs Of The Wolf" -- CD -- €13
1984/2018 Infinite Fog Productions, IF-85
A long-awaited reissue of the important album in early Neo-folk history, which sold out more than 20 years ago. This for sure will be interesting for those who are deep in the new wave/post-punk/neo-folk music and interested in the history of genres. The album was released by legendary “World Serpent” in 1995 but recorded in far 1984 after Tony Wakeford left Death In June. A splendid mix of post-punk, new wave and slightly folky, sound bears resemblance to early Death In June, Tony Wakeford's future project Sol Invictus and Joy Division. “Songs Of The Wolf” was released as a tape in 1984 and as LP in 1986, both well acclaimed and sold out immediately. A new version includes the complete CD album plus two rare bonus tracks. This is absolutely everything that recorded by that short-time project, ever. This is music by very young people with a hot blood and raw energy. The album like a trip back in old times, makes you feel young again... but not too much and only for a while. Part the money from sales will be donated to charities like “Hunt Saboteurs”, “Southall Black Sisters” and "Animal defense community"... We tried to publish this album since the 2009 year and happy that that is finally done. Now we can enjoy music (!) again and some collections became more complete. [label info]
[bandcamp]
BASARABIAN HILLS -- "Eerie Light Of Fireflies" -- CD -- €10
2018 COD Music, COD16 / Der Schwarze Tod, tod54
Atmospheric Black Metal. New album by deeply atmospheric project Basarabian Hills from Moldova. Instrumental atmospheric black metal weaved with synth ambient passages. [label info]
[bandcamp]
BASARABIAN HILLS -- "Enveloped In The Velvet Cloak Of Midnight" -- CD -- €10
2015/2017 COD Music, COD11 / Der Schwarze Tod, tod39
Atmospheric Black Metal. Black metal sparks within warm Basarabian ambient night. Remastered album from 2015 in the best Lustre way. [label info]
[bandcamp]
BASARABIAN HILLS -- "Groping In A Misty Spread" -- CD -- €10
2014/2018 COD Music, COD17 / Der Schwarze Tod, tod55
Atmospheric Black Metal. Remastered edition of the 2014 album. First time on CD.
[bandcamp]
BOSMANN, KARL -- "Unton" -- CD -- €10
2005/2017 E-Klageto, Exklageto 10, (ltd. 500)
Re-issue of the great debut CD from 2005 by this German 'noise sculpteur' and Drone Rec. artist; concrete noise-poetry somewhere between post industrial and electro-acoustic, very special and impossible to describe! [Drone Records] “....Like before, Bösman works his way through a set of atmospheric sounds, which in the first few tracks get the addition of layered guitar, but towards the end, say the last three tracks, all seem to be more electronic. Here the rhythm elements also returns. It’s nowhere similar to anything dance related, just a recurring bunch of repetitive sounds. The music is not vaguely at all, it’s very much the opposite: there is lots of dynamics explored here, giving the material an almost modern classical approach, such as in ‘Esplentorture’, but it keeps leaning on the darker edges of music. Quite forceful with ties in both ambient, modern classical music, musique concrete all sauced with a touch of darker atmospherics.” [FdW, Vital Weekly]
DAGAZ -- "Battle Time Chronicle Of Glory. Part Two" -- CD -- €10
2019 COD Noizes, SHUM20 / Der Schwarze Tod, tod57, (ltd. 100)
Acoustic / Neofolk. Acoustic solo project from member of black metal acts Krada, Grimnir and Nebokraj. Compilation of rehearsal, live and cover tracks. Honestly and sincerely. 4-panel digipak, limited edition of 100 copies. [label info]
[bandcamp]
DRONNY DARKO & APOLLONIUS -- "The Sea Of Potentials" -- CD-R -- €9
2017 Pantheon, PAN034, (ltd. 50)
Dark Ambient. In the darkest places, there's always a light. Hidden, untouched yet always omnipresent since it is its nature. The deepest sea levels, the vastness of space, the darkest corners of the human soul. It's always there, waiting for the call, eager to unfold and to show an unexpectedly wide horizon of possibilities. On the fundamental level, it's not even light as we know it – just feasibility of action, of motion and creation. We all have it. It's a boundless sea and we are always on its shores... Pro-printed and varnished hq CDR disc housed in the black cardboard envelope with grey ribbon and pro-printed artwork. [label info]
[bandcamp]
DVANOV -- "For Gathering Dust" -- CD -- €10
2017 COD Noir, NOIR04
Psych Folk. Southern Gothic in the russian primordial way. Hot prairie winds blowing on cold northern Neva's waters. Psychedelic rock, folk, alt-country and russian native despair – all you can find in the debut album of Dvanov — a band from the north capital of Russia, but with south russian roots. Jewel-case with 12-page booklet. [label info]
[bandcamp]
IMPERIVM LVCIFERI -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €16
2017 Deivlforst Records, DF 028, (ltd. 50)
Dark Ambient / Drone / Experimental. Music & visual art concept by IMPERIVM LVCIFERI, based on ritualistic ambient sessions recorded in Germany and Italy on a single KORG MS-20 mini analog synthesizer, channeling visions of the fall and reign of Lord Lvcifer through the same electronic medium. To be listened to in solitude and at high volume. 6-panel digipak. [label info]
[bandcamp]
ISA -- "The Sky In The Salty Wells" -- CD -- €10
2018 COD Noizes, SHUM17 / Der Schwarze Tod, tod53
Ethereal / Neofolk / Ambient. The fourth album of the project originally released on cassettes has been remastered for the CD format. Now without any metal touches. Pure spiritual musical landscapes woven from ethereal, neofolk, ambient and new age. Devotional music in its perfect form. [label info]
[bandcamp]
KHRAGKH -- "ΓVΛΩ (HALO)" -- CD -- €10
2018 COD Music, COD15 / Der Schwarze Tod, tod51
Avantgarde black metal. The second album of the project. 6-panel matte digipak with stencil UV-varnish printing.
[bandcamp]
LYUDI NA HOLME -- "Nocturnus" -- CD -- €10
2019 COD noizes, SHUM14
Neofolk. A long night has reigned over the Polar Circle, the sky has been painted with magical inks and the ripe berries of stars swelled. And we present a new album of the Murmansk collective "Lyudi Na Holme", dedicated to the Northern Night. Ancient human fear of darkness; flashes of unthinkable revelations, born in the darkness, or faces of the gods, looking at us from behind a black veil - let everyone find something of their own on this sacred night. [label info]
[bandcamp]
MAEROR TRI -- "Mort Aux Vaches: Hypnos/Transe" -- CD -- €12
1997/2012 Raubbau, RAUB 018, (ltd. 500)
Re-mastered re-issue of the fourth M.T. CD that came out 1997 in Staalpaats "Mort Aux Vaches"-series, with recordings made "live in the studio" in May 1995 at VPRO in Amsterdam with no overdubs; three movements of raw & contemplative power-ambience, symbolizing a 'different state of consciousness' = the expansion of the mind through sound; lim. 500 with new artwork by SALT (Ant-Zen). [Drone Records]
[bandcamp]
MAEROR TRI -- "Venenum / Timeless Transcension" -- CD + DVD -- €18
1992/2018 Infinite Fog Productions, IF-86, (ltd. 300)
This is our 4th step in reissues of Maeror Tri albums and obviously, there is no sense to present to you this legendary ambient/industrial trio, again. This time in our Digibook reissue series we glad to announce "Venenum" - a peaceful analog drone album recorded between 1989 - 1991 years. A first-time "Venenum" was released in 1992 as a tape and reissued on limited 200 copies CD in 1999 by very nice short-living France label ÜNE (r)ecords. New version carefully remastered and packed in a Delux hardcover Digibook with booklet. Beside of CD album, there is also a great surprise for all band-fans - bonus DVD with "Timeless Transcension" - an experimental video created and released by the band in the 1992 year on VHS. The outstanding artwork was created especially for the album by a young painter and designer from Sanct-Petersburg Anton Bogdanov, who did a great job for "Peak Experience" and "Mind Reversal" reissues before. [label info]
[bandcamp]
MED GEN -- "Brittleroots" -- CD-R -- €9
2018 Pantheon, PAN118, (ltd. 50)
Dark Ambient / Drone. The quiet humming of the earth and high-pitched bird calls, reflections of the autumn sun in the bog puddles... Silent steps on the path well-hidden in the thickets. No winds here. Just mesmerizing swaying of branches. Maybe they're giving you signs not to partake in this journey, maybe better turn back and go home while you can... Yet this smell, these colors, those mysterious rustles in the deepness of the woods. One step after another and the story begins to unfold. What lies beneath these murky waters, between the layers of peat and on these oddly colored tussocks? Sun is approaching the horizon, so don't hesitate, breathe in this night... Pro-printed and varnished hq CDR disc housed in the black cardboard envelope with grey ribbon and pro-printed artwork. [label info]
[bandcamp]
NIRMALA, TIRATH SINGH -- "Bluster, Cragg, & Awe" -- CD -- €5
2007 Digitalis Recordings, digi031
Not too long ago, John Clyde-Evans made a huge splash with his phenomenal solo LP on England's Fisheye imprint. He also performed as an important member of the seminal UK group, Hood. After taking a seven year hiatus and committing to the path of Sikhism, he returned as Tirath Singh Nirmala. His continually unfolding backstory is interesting enough, but it's his music where the real magic and mystery stretch their silver wings. Nirmala returned to making music after his close friend and collaborator, Vibracathedral Orchestra's Neil Campbell, gave him some free software and set him on his way. Nirmala responded with nearly a dozen self-released, highly limited CD-Rs. The releases were filled to the brim with Eastern-influenced, transcendental drones and uplifting spiritual sound explorations. His manipulation of sine waves and use of obscure Asian instruments creates a wholly original and unique sound. As on his solo LP as John Clyde-Evans, Nirmala's ability to concoct sprawling, majestic drones using such simple terms is unmatched. Bluster, Cragg, & Awe, Nirmala's first non-CD-R release, is the perfect beginning. It collects the best tracks from those now impossible-to-find releases and adds one new song and one collaborative piece with Scottish guitar guru, Richard Youngs. It is a journey that lasts less than an hour, but contains a lifetime of aural experience, wrapped into one, shimmering golden package. [label info]
[youtube]
NORMA REAKTSII -- "Agartha" -- CD-R -- €8
2009/2013 Ufa Muzak / Shum Shturm Proizvodstvo, C1, (ltd. 54)
Lo-fi noise-ambient journey in other side, meditative tracks for urban relaxation. Project from Tver', Russia. Owner of Valgriind rec. [Valgriind] Reissue from 2013 with design from Nihil Design Studio and several inserts.
RABOR -- "Roots" -- CD -- €10
2018 COD noizes, SHUM16 / Der Schwarze Tod, tod52
Folk Ambient. We are proud to present a new effort "Roots" ("Корни") by Russian project Rabor (Рабор) released on COD noizes. For this album Rabor has broken all connections with dungeon synth past and provides pure ritual folk ambient full of live acoustic instruments supplemented with mysterious field recordings. [label info]
[bandcamp]
SATORI -- "Dispossession" -- CD -- €10
2018 COD noizes, SHUM18
Industrial. British industrial veterans Satori was formed in Margate, Kent by Dave Kirby and Robert Maycock in 1984. Origially called Psychopath. Satori have released material on cult labels which represented post-industrial music culture in its absolute form: Zeal SS, Broken Flag, Cold Spring Records, Tesco Organization / Functional Organization, Malignant Records and many more. They collaborated and splitted the stage with Sutcliffe Jügend, Nadja, Abattoir and Merzbow. Comprising a mixture of dark ambient, harsh noise and power electronics with a harder and heavier percussive beat than before Satori now present a collection of new songs “Dispossession”... Album, consisting of twelve tracks with a total length more than an hour, has been released as a luxury matte laminated digipak housed in a matte laminated cardboard slipcase decorated with glossy stencil UV-varnish printing. [label info]
[bandcamp]
SATORI -- "Psychopathology" -- CD -- €10
2019 COD noizes, SHUM19
Industrial. We continue cooperation with British industrial veterans Satori and have prepared another Satori release entitled “Psychopathology”. This is not a new album. In the opposite, this is a complete retrospective collection of early works from 80-ies released on cassettes by Broken Flag and Mindscan Tapes and by musicians themselves. Some tracks was lost for the long time and have never been released before. All tracks have been remastered for this release. Maybe some tracks still sound unbelievably amateur, but we have resisted the temptation to remix them. Because all of them preserved a spirit of the “golden” period of post-industrial music with its pure experimentation and absence of nowadays “industrial” cliche. And now, along with “Infection” compilation released by Tesco Organization in far 1995, you can get the full early discography of this outstanding project. [label info]
[bandcamp]
SEMILANCEATA -- "Jordtron" -- CD -- €9
2015 Darker Than Black, DTB 188, (ltd. 500)
Semilanceata is Wagner Ödegård from Sweden. Haunting Dark Ambient / Ritual Folk with medieval elements. Throughout the entire oeuvre of Semilanceata, several key aspects appear again and again. The calmness, the overall repetitive character of the art, the dark atmosphere, noises from nature; all those can be found on each of the band's releases. Includes tracks from the 2010 self-released tape "Kaleidoskopiskt DualheRuus" (ltd x 47 copies). Ltd x 500 copies in a digipak.[label info]
SEMILANCEATA -- "Wallmoburna" -- CD -- €9
2015 Darker Than Black, DTB 187, (ltd. 500)
Semilanceata is Wagner Ödegård from Sweden. Haunting Dark Ambient / Ritual Folk with medieval elements. Throughout the entire oeuvre of Semilanceata, several key aspects appear again and again. The calmness, the overall repetitive character of the art, the dark atmosphere, noises from nature; all those can be found on each of the band's releases. The majority of the tracks here are taken from the 2011 tape "En Wallmoburen Myhr, Där Döön Grödha Mellom Bitter Root Ok Frucht" (Auris Apothecary, ltd x 100 copies). Ltd x 500 copies in a digipak. [label info]
STRUP -- "Eternity Is Closer to Heaven (Vechnost' Blizhe K Nebesam)" -- CD-R -- €5
2018 Sidi Doma, doma27, (ltd. 33)
Industrial / Sound Collage. Experimental project from Belarus, later moved to Russia, for more than 10 years never stops to attack his (and not only) listeners with new musical creations. This happens quite successful, as he has released over a hundred albums of this and other projects. This material was recorded just before its release, which is embodied on a CDR in the amount of 33 copies. [label info]
[vk.com]
SUN THROUGH EYELIDS -- "Glacial Iridescence" -- CD-R -- €9
2018 Pantheon, PAN108, (ltd. 50)
Dark Ambient / Drone. Liminal states and unexpected discoveries they bring – means of the evolution, a constant call inside some weird ones. Travelers, visionaries, tricksters, magicians, artists... Explorers of the Earth, of Cosmos and, hence – the deepness of the human possibilities. Which land will lull them in their last sleep? Will be it under tall trees or in the midst of iced tundra? Radiowaves and bird calls, forgotten rituals and enigmatic fossils – no one knows where and when this mystery will give some keys to its essence. But there is always someone ready to follow this path, no matter where it ends... Pro-printed and varnished hq CDR disc housed in the black cardboard envelope with grey ribbon and pro-printed artwork. [label info]
[bandcamp]
TAR -- "Throne" -- CD -- €10
2017 COD Music, COD10 / Der Schwarze Tod, tod37
Atmospheric Post-Black Metal passages with psychedelic touch. "Tar" is a resin which impregnateses the mighty trunks of ancient trees, pensively bending over the frozen soil of an endless, ever-living forest. This is a stories about forest thin-material beings wandering through deep thickets, looking through awkward branches to random guests, dreaming and griefing. [label info]
[bandcamp]
UMPIO + IRR.APP.(EXT.) -- "Permutable Schema" -- 2 CD -- €14
2019 Vibora Collective, VIB002, (ltd. 500)
Experimental / Noise. Second collaboration of intercontinental nightmare sound sculptures (first was released by Monochrome Vision in 2013), with one CD by each artist cooking up very different results from partly the same source materials. Released by Vibora Collective, an international group of underground sound pushers, curated by Pentti Dassum of Umpio. 6-panel glossy double digisleeve.
UROCHISCHE MOZHER -- "Like The Unseen Sorrow... Vedogon" -- CD -- €10
2017 COD noizes, SHUM07 / Der Schwarze Tod, tod35
Ritual Folk Ambient. Chtonic call, ritual folk sounds from the deepest Russian thickets. [label info]
[bandcamp]
VAPOR HIEMIS -- "Enchantress Of Death" -- CD -- €10
2019 COD Music, COD22 / Der Schwarze Tod, tod58, (ltd. 500)
Post-Black Metal / Folk / EBM. COD label and distribution / COD music in cooperation with Der Schwarze Tod present the new work of Belarusssian Vapor Hiemis “Чараўнiца Смерцi” (“Enchantress Of Death”). On the fourth album, the group brings to a new level its original style, fusing together folk, cold black metal riffs and electronic beats. Eight tracks - eight new hymns, glorifying Death, Cold and the ancient ice curses of the Winter sorceress. The album is released as a magnificent digipak with gold embossing and a 12-page booklet. [label info]
[bandcamp]
VIVITA AND THE SUFFERINGS -- "The Last Song Of The Ear" -- CD -- €10
2019 COD Noir, NOIR07
Dark Folk / Dark Country. The first full length album of weird project leaded by Russian banjo-diva Alina Vivita. Foggy gothic country through the prism of dark folk from the deepest swamps of a ruined human soul. [label info]
[bandcamp]
VARIOUS ARTISTS -- "David Lynch Tribute Bundle" -- CD + 2 CD + CS -- €29
2016-2019 kultFRONT / ZHELEZOBETON Distribution Division
A offer for the uber-fans of David Lynch! All three releases in David Lynch Trubite series in one bundle with €5 discount! "Now It's Dark" CD + "The Owls Are Not What They Seem" 2 CD + "Electricity" CS.
VARIOUS ARTISTS -- "Genzai" -- 2 CD -- €14
2017 16 Shots Per Second Records, SEC-014, (ltd. 500)
Harsh Noise. KILLER BUG, ASTRO, SPORE SPAWN, GOVERNMENT ALPHA, KAZUMOTO ENDO, ODA TAKUMI, FACIALMESS, LEECHER, SLAUGHTERTABLE, ZR3A, ABISYEIKAH. Comes with a bonus CD EP "Tokuten" containing three tracks from KILLER BUG, KAZUMOTO ENDO and SPORE SPAWN.
Vinyl
ABOVE THE RUINS -- "Songs Of The Wolf" -- LP -- €22
1984/2019 Infinite Fog Productions, IF-85 LP
A long-awaited reissue of the important album in early Neo-folk history, which sold out more than 20 years ago. This for sure will be interesting for those who deep in the new wave/post-punk/neo-folk music and interested in the history of genres. The album was released by legendary “World Serpent” in 1995 but recorded in far 1984 after Tony Wakeford left Death In June. A splendid mix of post-punk, new wave and slightly folky, sound bears resemblance to early Death In June, Tony Wakeford's future project Sol Invictus and Joy Division. “Songs Of The Wolf” was released as a tape in 1984 and as LP in 1986, both well acclaimed and sold out immediately. A new version includes the complete CD album plus two rare bonus tracks. This is absolutely everything that recorded by that short-time project, ever. This is music by very young people with a hot blood and raw energy. The album like a trip back in old times, makes you feel young again... but not too much and only for a while. Part the money from sales will be donated to charities like “Hunt Saboteurs”, “Southall Black Sisters” and "Animal defense community"... We tried to publish this album since the 2009 year and happy that that is finally done. Now we can enjoy music (!) again and some collections became more complete. [label info]
[bandcamp]
COSEY FANNI TUTTI -- "Time To Tell" -- LP -- €30
1983/2017 Conspiracy International, CTITTTLP2017
Reissue of the work from 1983 on clear vinyl, marketed as "super clear", packaged in a gatefold jacket with a foil block title, and accompanied by a 16-page full-colour 12” booklet containing the original cassette transcripts and photos plus many new and updated statements and colour photos.
[youtube]
DARK AGES -- "The Tractatus De Hereticis Et Sortilegiis" -- LP -- €15
2011 Primitive Reaction, PR032, (ltd. 330)
A most certain strange and true discovery of blackest blasphemies, nighttime rituals and terrible crimes against our mother church. New dark ambient masterpiece from a frontman of DRUDKH and HATE FOREST. With this third album Dark Ages has lifted their dark art to the new level. [label info]
[youtube]
DIETER MUH -- "The Bjorn Tapes" -- LP -- €18
1999/2018 Force Majeure, Force 009, (ltd. 320)
Industrial. This is an entire reissue of a limited to 50 copies C45 audio cassette originally released by Xerxes (Japan) as ES-27 in April 1999, later re-released as a limited CDr by Blade Records (Italy) in 2004. All material recorded live on 30 January 1999 in Nottinghem, U.K., edited and produced by Dave Uden during February 1999, re-mastered in September 1999. Using electronics, samples, tapes, bass-guitar, vocals, the English duo created here three long tracks of hypnotick electronic music / ambient noise in the "old-school" experimental genre. White vinyl housed in a three-panel folded silkscreened cover released in a limited edition of 320 handnumbered copies. [label info]
DUGHPA -- "Dughpa" -- LP -- €40
2016 Aetergap Productions, AEP020
Space Minimal Ambient side-prohect of Wagner Ödegård. Heavy black vinyl, glossy cover, lyrics sheet.
[youtube]
DUGHPA -- "Dughpa II" -- LP + 7" + zine -- €40
2018 Brugmanziah, BRUG005
Space Minimal Ambient side-prohect of Wagner Ödegård. LP released with 7" and 32-page A5 zine "Tellusting".
GERRARD, LISA & MARCELLO DE FRANCISCI -- "Departum" -- LP -- €22
2010/2018 Infinite Fog Productions, IF-84 LP
Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner singer/composer Lisa Gerrard (Dead Can Dance) and film composer Marcello De Francisci have joined forces to bring you their first collaborative album work titled "Departum". This album is a collection of pieces, which are filled with lyrical soundscapes, orchestrated with vocal chants, cimbalom, guitars, percussion, modern instruments and orchestra. An effort that took two years in the making moreover a journey inspired by ancient world cultures (Mesopotamia, Europe & Asia)... After the groundbreaking album "The Trail Of Genghis Khan" written in collaboration with an Australian artist Cye Wood, Lisa Gerrard returns to Infinite Fog with the long-awaited complete extended edition of the album "Departum". Highest quality sound, ambient drifts, soft tribal rhythms, touching melodies of Cymbylom and 144-Strings Yang Chin played by Lisa Gerrard and transcendental vocals. All this gives even more in sum and makes "Departum" pure pleasure listening... The album recorded with Marcello De Francisci, a well-known American composer /visual artist with an Italian-Argentinean background, based in Los Angeles, California. Marcello De Francisci is a big name in soundtracks industry, in 2006 he won the best soundtrack of the year G.A.N.G. award for his work on SCEA's "God of War" game. His music has been used in major theatrical movie trailers such as "Avatar", "Prince Of Persia", "Monsters VS Aliens", "Seven Pounds", "Hellboy" to name a few. Moreover, we can remember his mesmerizing music in the sequel to "Baraka" art-house documentary, "Samsara". In 2009, Marcello and Lisa started to work together and recorded several soundtracks for major and art-house movies. Besides that, their creativity also found a realization in a common album "Departum" which became one of the most top-rated albums in Lisa Gerrard discography. Attentive listener may remember Marcello as co-creator Lisa Gerrard's album "Twilight Kingdom"... [label info]
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LAIBACH -- "Macbeth" -- LP -- €30
1989/1990 Restless Records, 7 71458-1
"Music for Life and Theatre, performed in Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Hamburg, 1987/88 (Directed by Wilfried Minks). Recorded in Studio Tivoli, Ljubljana."
KANTER, ADRIEN -- "Infinites Reflexions" -- LP -- €15
2017 Nuit Et Brouillard, NB.V.03, (ltd. 382)
Adrien Kanter is an eclectic, self-taught musician, who made his debut at the age of 20 (guitar, trumpet and synthesisers). Equally comfortable playing electronic music or rock (improvised or otherwise) he has formed the bands Trésors (Electro), Le Réveil des Tropiques (Psychedelic Rock), Deux Fois Deux Fois (Folk), Testa Rossa (Rock) and Eddie 135 (Ambient). He frequently works with stage directors of theatre companies such as Das Plateau, Si vous pouviez lécher mon cœur or Le Service des Urgences poétiques. He also composes soundtracks for live performance arts (dance and theatre), radio plays and for films. «Infinites réflexions» is his first solo album... For this first solo album, Adrien Kanter invites us to an intimate exploration of his imagination, offering here all of his sensitivity. Synths, guitar, voice, field recordings, microphones etc are all ways to an universal hypnotic and sensorial introspection. His music was born from a rewriting of his own improvisations gathered at some places or during encounters, simple moments, or when back from travels or tours the head full of images and the mind excited. They were then cut and arranged as a whole nourished by the years he spent in the bands of different styles he is a part of. Elaborated during a period o six months at his home studio, the 10 tracks included in this album convey this fragile intimacy inherent to its completion. Infinites Reflexions is a night tour, an interrupted moment during which Adrien Kanter defies places, repetitions and textures while sonorities evolve depending of the titles or the instants of life crossed by these vibrations expressed by colours and rhythms harmony... Infinites reflexions is a kaleidoscopic sonorous dream, a psychedelic, hypnotic and sensorial film score on the boundary of ambient, krautrock, drone, post-rock and experimental music. Vinyl is housed in a silk-screened fold-out cover on deluxe textured paper and comes in an edition of 382 copies. [label info]
[bandcamp]
LASWELL, BILL feat. COIL & TETSU INOUE -- "City of Light" -- LP -- €22
1997/2019 Infinite Fog Productions, IF-69 LP
Bill Laswell, true music legend, “man with the golden ears“ 2013, he has been involved in hundreds of recordings with many collaborators from all over the world. Bassist, composer and music producer - enough to say that he was the producer for such legendary albums like Motörhead “Orgasmatron”, Iggy Pop’s “Instinct”, Public Image Ltd “Album” or Swans “The Burning World” to name just a few... In 1997 Bill Laswell released his sixth solo album “City of Light” recorded in Banaras, India, and mixed in Greenpoint, NY. For this album he invites John Balance and Peter Christopherson from COIL, they did a 13-minutes epic composition “Kála”; and Japanese ambient genius Tetsu Inoue, who decorated the album with his characteristic sound. Together they created an amazing conceptual record full of deep drones, tabla-rhythms, and ambient collages... “City of Light” is about Banaras, a city older than history, tradition, and legends. It is Shiva's land, founded at the dawn of creation. It is India's oldest and most fabled city. The Hindus call it Kashi, the luminous... The City of Light... First time the album was released by the Belgian label Sub Rosa back in 1997, it was sold out many years ago. [label info]
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M. BRYO & D.M.T. -- "Things I Was Due To Forget (1979 - 2005)" -- 2 LP -- €30
2018 Nuit Et Brouillard, NB.V.04, (ltd. 439)
M.BRYO & D.M.T. was one of the musical projects of the Antwerpen based multimedia artist Mark Burghgraeve. In the late seventies Mark followed Art school and from young age tempered with electronics. He formed M. BRYO & D.M.T., his first synthetic band that time with some fellow students. M. BRYO & D.M.T. played from 1982 till 1984 in clubs, cultural centers, chapels and at art exhibitions sometimes complete with the D.M.T. line-up, sometimes solo. Among other things, Mark constructed the original KLINIK with Marc Verhaegen and collaborated with the artist Jan Fabre... "Things I Was Due To Forget" is a record of songs that appeared on K7 and vinyls or came from M. BRYO's personal archives of unreleased tapes. As a whole this is an inspired release conceived as the full-length album that never saw the light of day that time. It can be seen as a kind of "anthology" of what the artist composed under M. BRYO moniker... All tracks were remastered by the artist especially for this release. This timeless jewel is now available as double LP in a run of 439 copies. This version features one black and one white LP in a fold-out sleev with silk-screen printing. [label info]
[bandcamp]
NEIGE ET NOIRCEUR -- "Vent Fantome" -- LP -- €18
2018 Avantgarde Music, AV339LP
Drone Doom / Ambient.
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OIL THIEF -- "Southern Scorpion" -- 7" lathe-cut -- €18
2018 Total Black, 111, (ltd. 38)
Industrial / Power Electronics from Los Angeles, USA.
[youtube]
ORDER OF NINE ANGELS -- "Mark Of The Beast" -- LP -- €14
2017 Total Black, 84, (ltd. 233)
Dark Ambient / Noise. Doubled sided glued artwork, each copy hand-stamped.
[bandcamp]
SAVAGE REPUBLIC -- "Aegean" -- 2 LP -- €30
2014/2015 Nuit Et Brouillard, NB.V.02, (ltd. 400)
Hailing from the Los Angeles underground of the 1980s, Savage Republic forged an astonishing reputation for themselves with their legendary performances. Their brand of ritualistically tribal exhibitions blurred the boundaries of Post-Punk and Industrial music. Their music incorporates minimalist bass rumbles, exotic and/or militaristic drumming, Arabic melodies, primal chants and even a bit of surf guitar... "Aegean" is their latest album to date, this version is on two black vinyls packed in the three-colour silkscreened plates on rough-textured paper.
[youtube]
V. SINCLAIR -- "A Name, For Desire" -- LP -- €16
2019 Total Black, 105, (ltd. 225)
Ambient / Experimental. Active since 2013 with a multitude of acclaimed cassette releases on Summer Isle, Strange Rules, Clandestine Compositions, and our own imprint; "A Name, For Desire" is the debut V. Sinclair LP and vinyl release. Twelve movements composed of piano, synth, and field recordings display significant growth from the earlier works. Includes a 12 page booklet with photography from V. S. [label info]
[bandcamp]
WAGNER ODEGARD -- "Nidvintern" -- LP -- €50
2017 Brugmanziah
WERWOLFSBLUT -- "Dungeon Dirges" -- LP -- €30
2016/2018 The Clandestine Coven, First Spell, (ltd. 250)
Dungeon Synth / Dark Ambient.
[bandcamp]
Cassettes
4 POZITSII BRUNO -- "Roliki Dlya Papy" -- C-60 -- €6
2016 Sidi Doma, doma7 / Valpurgieva Zvukozapis', VALPUR046, (ltd. 99)
Experimental electronics from Ekaterinburg, Russia. The album was recorded in 2003, supplemented by the tracks from 2004, mastered in 2015.
A.B.N.T.R. -- "Demo MMVIII" -- CS -- €7
2012 HATEHATEHATE Tapes, HHHt 01
Power Electronics from Finland. Reissue of the debut CDR with two bonus tracks.
[youtube]
AHLZAGAILZEHGUH -- "Recycled" -- CS -- €7
2012 RRRecords / Recycled Music
Harsh Noise. Part of the Recycled Music series on RRRecords.
[youtube]
ALO GIRL -- "Gently Before She Dies" -- C-30 -- €8
2009 Turgid Animal, (ltd. 30)
Noise / HNW.
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ALO GIRL -- "Statutory Limitations" -- C-30 -- €8
2009 Turgid Animal, (ltd. 30)
Noise / HNW.
[bandcamp]
BBBLOOD -- "Visions Of Lizard Ecstasy" -- C-20 -- €7
2007 Unrest Productions, Unrest 10, (ltd. 60)
Noise.
BEREFT -- "First Degree Of Separation / Removed From Security" -- 2 CS -- €13
2004/2012 Danvers State Recordings, DSR41, (ltd. 100)
Industrial / Power Electronics / Noise. Reissue of the first two BEREFT releases and a compilation track from the same era... all material is long out of print. Heavy, blackened industrial rumblings and feedback drenched vocal assaults. Nearly two hours of material; a good look into the early works of the band. [label info]
BIANCHI, MAURIZIO -- "Violichte" -- C-54 -- €16
2010 Robert & Leopold, R&L001, (ltd. 100)
Violichte was composed and recorded between 2008 and 2009, using violoops and hertzian waves, and is dedicated to the Italian microtonal sounds sculptor Giacinto Scelsi.
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BIANCHI, MAURIZIO & RYAN MARTIN -- "As Strong As Death Is" -- 2 CS BOX -- €20
2013 Robert & Leopold, R&L051, (ltd. 100)
Spanning the course of two years to create, legendary Italian noise composer Maurizio Bianchi and artist Ryan Martin (York Factory Complaint / Copley Medal / Dais Records) took on the pilgrimage of scoring the abstract concept of marriage based on the biblical Song of Solomon. Employing prepared electronics with accompanying strings and tape, this ambient religious collaboration seeks to flesh out the union, to understand the universal desire to be one. Constricted lullabies walk down the aisle to create a consortium of moving, ghost-like consolidation. Mixed ad edited by Anthony Mangicapra (Hoor-paar-Kraat) and mastered by Kris Lapke (Alberich / Hospital Productions). Recorded in both New York City and Opera, Italy between 2010 and 2012, this release was originally released in 2013 as a limited double cassette on Martin's own Robert & Leopold imprint in a edition of 100 copies. [Backwards]
[bandcamp]
BIANCHI, MAURIZIO / ROADSIDE PICNIC -- split -- CS -- €8
2014 Unit Structure Sound Recordings, USSR033CS
The eponymous split between Maurizio Bianchi and Roadside Picnic is the final installment of a trilogy on as many labels. Two great artists contribute what they do so well; thought provoking new music. Unit Structure Sound Recordings is proud to present a split release by two artists that they hold is such high esteem... [label info]
[bandcamp]
BIANCHI, MAURIZIO + ROADSIDE PICNIC -- "The Mind Is An Ancient Capital" -- C-65 -- €11
2014 Los Discos Enfantasmes, LDE048, (ltd. 120)
We are in suspended animation at the moment due to the sin that holds us like a sleeper ship, blocking our awareness of our full capacity of our minds, which will be revealed to us in the 1000 years when we are awoken in our full sentient selves (the rise) only then we can walk around the ancient capital of the whole human mind. [M.B.]
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BLACK MOUNTAIN TRANSMITTER -- "Oscillator Ritual" -- C-40 -- €19
2017 Lysergic Earwax, 008, (ltd. 50)
Analog / Ambient / Noise. "Oscillator Ritual" is the first album of new Black Mountain Transmitter studio material since "Playing With Dead Things" in 2012. Largely created using two semi-modular analog synthesizers, the carefully selected combination of specific electronic tones contained within this release can be used under certain conditions to facilitate the opening of inter-dimensional portals. Please note: the end user is solely responsible for the appearance (and banishing) of any undesirable entities that may manifest as a result of the use of this recording. [label info]
[bandcamp]
CHERNOBYL ROSE -- "Slavic Water Porn" -- C-20 -- €7
2012 Red Light Sound, RLS20, (ltd. 35)
Harsh Noise / Power Electronics. Synth driven harsh noise/p.e. art brut from the man behind Family Smut and the Pissflowers blog. [label info]
[bandcamp]
CHRISTIAN COSMOS -- "Cadence Upon The Threshold Of Judgement" -- CS -- €25
2012 Hospital Productions, HOS-349, (ltd. 99)
Another 'soundtrack for the judgement of souls' as Dominick Fernow puts it. The man behind the Prurient/Vatican Shadow projects is making some uncomfortably affective releases as Christian Cosmos with a sort of baroque machine noise like beacons of oncoming doom spread across the curent musical landscape. On this issue, pulverized machine rhythms crawl under plangent, near-black metal guitars until a resolution of redemptive meditation on 'The Old Creation Has Been Imbued With A New Dimension Of Spirit'. But it's the incredibly dank chamber atmospheres of 'And A New Creation Has Begun', or the marrow-freezing ambience of 'God Has Entered So Fully Into The Human Experience That Everything Has Changed' which most grab our attentions partly thanks to that petrified mastering finish. So good. [Boomkat]
[bandcamp]
CHURCH OF HATE -- "Irreversible" -- C-50 -- €5
2019 self-released, (ltd. 10)
Sound Collage / Tape Noise. Mystic noise project affiliated with Nazlo Records – steadfast digging of found tapes, sometimes with fury and predilection, sometimes without, but with the constant detection of curious artifacts. Recycled cassettes with pink duct tape stickers, pink covers and pink cases, limited to 10 copies.
[bandcamp]
CITIZEN 2-13 / SWOLLEN ORGANS -- split -- C-20 -- €7
2014 Noise Co. 2-13, (ltd. 50)
Milwaukee noise meets New York power electronics on this c20 split featuring 3 tracks from Citizen 2-13 and 2 tracks from Swollen Organs. With cover collage work by Amber Dawn. [label info]
[bandcamp]
CREMATION LILY -- "The End Of The Pier" -- C-25 -- €17
2014 Strange Rules, RULE-064, (ltd. 75)
Power Electronics from the UK. Contains recordings of two live gigs played in Nottingham and London in August 2013.
[youtube]
CREMATION LILY -- "Lines Of Golden Light" -- 5 x C-10 BOX -- €60
2014 Strange Rules, RULE-079, (ltd. 72)
Synth Ambient / Experimental. Two tracks contain additional source material by False Moniker. Housed in an oversize vinyl case with an insert and a booklet.
[youtube]
CYBORG SEE CYBORG DO -- "Observations" -- CS -- €10
2017 Veter V Ivah, VVI 010
Cosmic ambient from a cold Russian place about deep feelings and aromas of life.
[bandcamp]
DEATHKEY -- "Segmented God Plane Extrapolation" -- 2 CS BOX -- €75
2013 Deathangle Absolution Records, (ltd. 100)
Power Electronics. 2 cassettes in oversized box. This release that compiles the rare and long out of circulation demos "Operation 14 f 13" and "Gateway: Cygnus X-1", along with the previously unreleased demo "Throne Of Blood". Finishing up the boxset are 3 unreleased tracks, including the collaboration with 88MM titled "Barrage Of Sickness". This
release marks the 12 year anniversary of DEATHKEY. [label info]
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DORO BENGALA -- "s/t" -- C-8 -- €5
2010 Presto!?, P!?013, (ltd. 250)
Field Recordings / Experimental. Doro Bengala are Francesco Cavaliere and Dracula Lewis. "Doro Bengala propose a fireworks display, we use explosions as sounds and sounds as explosions of colours. We practise the art of sense stimulation through the use of coloured flames, of shrieks and low frequencies. Our group carry out a practice from Bengal founded by Mrs. Subhash Chandra Doro in the late 1895. Thank you for your attention. It was a pleasure." [label info]
[youtube]
EXOTERIC CONTINENT-- "Referendum Volume One" -- CS -- €33
2014 Hospital Productions, HOS-430, (ltd. 48)
Experimental Electronics from Spain. Cassette copies limited to 48 copies and only sold at the Hospital Productions showcase in Los Angeles 09/20/2014.
[bandcamp]
EXOTERIC CONTINENT-- "Referendum Volume Two" -- CS -- €33
2014 Hospital Productions, HOS-430, (ltd. 48)
Experimental Electronics from Spain. Cassette copies limited to 48 copies and only sold at the Hospital Productions showcase in Los Angeles 09/20/2014.
[bandcamp]
GRIM -- "Divine Music For Sleeping + Field 1987" -- C-62 -- €37
2014 Lust Vessel, LV#017, (ltd. 200)
Grim is one of the primal projects in the history and the realms of Industrial Music in Japan. Originally founded in early 80's as a solo moniker by Jun Konagaya, one half of the founding member for WHITE HOSPITAL, as well as a mastermind of the label Eskimo Records... "Divine Music for Sleeping + Field 1987" features the best kept secret material on 10 tracks in total, strictly selected from two cassettes "Divine Music For Sleeping" and "Field 1987" both contains initially released on Eskimo Records in 1987 confidentially; All material/moments has never appeared in public before... This archival album is a solid condensate of naked live recordings performed with some participants played full of junk metal percussion in various unconventional situations; The most distinctive dokument of Grim tribe... Professionally duplicated Chrome Extra tape. Comes with b/w xerox 5 panel heavy card stock and professionally b/w printed & bound 12 pages A5 size booklet. [label info]
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GRIM -- "Vital 1983-86" -- C-50 -- €32
2014 Lust Vessel, LV#016, (ltd. 200)
GRIM is one of the primal projects in the history and the realms of Industrial Music in Japan. Originally founded in early 80's as a solo moniker by Jun Konagaya, one half of the founding member for WHITE HOSPITAL as well as a mastermind of the label Eskimo Records. "Vital 1983-86" delivers 11 tracks of cryptic studio & live recordings produced in 1983 - 1986 and initially released on Eskimo Records in 1987 confidentially. Each track straightly correlates with "Amaterasu", "Folk Music" and also most aggressive material of White Hospital in musical mass especially. Constructed with junk metal percussion, heavily distorted guitars, synthesizers, feral vokills and so on... Professionally duplicated Chrome Extra tape. Comes with b/w xerox 5 panel heavy card stock and professionally b/w printed & bound 12 pages A5 size booklet. [label info]
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GRUNT -- "Sacrosanct Imperium" -- C-20 -- €8
2015 Freak Animal Records
New 2015 studio tape that continues well where "Myth Of Blood" directed. No leftovers, no live material. Just new songs, of rough industrial-noise & power electronics. Chrome tapes, b/w j-card packaging with lyrics/artwork. [label info]
[youtube]
HUTCHINSON, HAL -- "Recycled" -- CS -- €7
2010 RRRecords / Recycled Music
The material on the release is similar to my recent 'Taste of Iron' release on Freak Animal Records but with a much darker and more dense atmosphere - scrap metal manipulated into low-end rumblings with crashing, screeching and ripping sheets of metal wreckage in the mid to high frequencies creating an increasingly tense factory of noise. Due to the nature of dubbing over the donated cassettes these layers of metal sound will meld into rusty filth. [from the author]
KE/HIL -- "LifeDeKay" -- C-80 -- €13
2016 Tesco Organisation, TESCO 104 / Zaetraom, ZAETRAOM 015, (ltd. 300)
Industrial / Power Electronics. Two 40-min live recordings from Mannheim 2011 and Helsingör (Click Festival) 2015.
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KUMULONIMBUS -- "Sarxphagein #2" -- CS + zine -- €27
2017 Brugmanziah, BRUG004, (ltd. 300)
Side-project of Wagner Ödegård. The cassette comes with a 16-page A6 zine "Sarx #2". This particular copy also comes with "Sarx #1" as a bonus!
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LAST DOMINION LOST -- "Mort Aux Chiens" -- C-30 -- €8
2016 Trapdoor Tapes, TT098
Industrial. A live document recorded at Epicurean Escapism Festival 2016. Pro-duplicated cassette w/black shells and double sided xerox parchment card inlays.
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LE COSE BIANCHE -- "Lust Murders (Il Mostro Di Scandicci)" -- 2 CS -- €33
self-released
Power Electronics from Italy. 2 recycled cassettes in VHS-case with 2 paper inserts.
LE COSE BIANCHE / LYKE WAKE -- "Exhale." -- CS -- €8
2014 Custom Body Records, CBR16
Industrial / Noise from Italy.
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LUSSURIA -- "Sunken Meadow" -- C-30 -- €45
2011 Hospital Productions, HOS-309, (ltd. 41)
"To those who were there", two opiated ambient drifts from Hospital Productions' Italian wing. Gloaming, morphing harmonies and rumbling low end threat dilating time and space with carefully cast magick. [boomkat]
[boomkat]
MAJDANEK WALTZ & PATIMAT KHRIPA -- "Rat King's Pantry (Kladovaya Krysinogo Korolya)" -- CS -- €10
2019 NEN Records, NEN30, (ltd. 45)
"...That cunning and dark creature can rule the man's mind. It rules the secrets of underground where it's hiding... Has a power of transforming its own shape. They have hands, legs, wear suits, have faces, eyes, movements so that they're not differ from human at all. Pest, hunger, wars, raids relish them. Then rats gathered, secretly transformed, working as people. You'll speak with them, not knowing... what they are." [Alexander Grin, The Ratcatcher] Cardboard case. Two-sided coloured inlay sleeve. Gold glitter cassettes. 45 hand-numbered copies. Postcard included.
[bandcamp]
MASONNA -- "Exploring Self-Corrosive Noise With Coquette" -- 7 CS BOX -- €125
2018 Urashima, URA 037-043, (ltd. 99)
Along with Merzbow and Hijokaidan, Masonna is one of the best (known) Japanese noise projects. A psychedelic touch, cascades of electronic noise and vocal belching mixed together constitute the ingredients of Mademoiselle Anne Sanglante Ou Notre Nymphomanie Auréolé, the double-barrelled named for Masonna. Yamazaki “Maso” Takushi created Masonna in 1987. He started recordings on cassette tapes for his own label: Coquette. His plentiful productions were presented in a ultra limited edition, sometime totally confidential (one sole copy), and contributed to create a mythology based above all on the astonishing intensity with which "Maso" devastates and reprocesses the vocal cords, in a true total electronic song... In his impressive live performances he created and electrically overcharged universe, punctuating the electric and vocal sonorous power with some quite moments and brief interruptions, conferring a very particular dynamic to his pieces. Studio recordings are making full use skillfully editing how to edit cut-up, in which elaborate lump-sum making has been performed, the psychedelic taste for each track of time is taken into consideration, Yamazaki extends musical width. Masonna is an emblematic figure of Japanoise, who shines by a personal approach and an immediately recognizable style. A zenith in the noisy Japanese landscape... Wooden box (limited to 99 copies) comes with reissue of seven ultra rare tapes released on legendary Coquette: "Like A Vagina" (1988), "All Live Recording At My Room" (1989), "Mad Onna" (1989), "Maso + Onna = Masonna" (1989), "Hate" (1995), "Freak" (1995), "Filled With Unquestionable Feelings" (1995). Includes seven black shell cassettes, comes with A5 booklet, 2xA5 size inserts, A4 sized insert xerox collage, letter-sized numbered Urashima insert and a set of 'natural-colored' earplugs. [label info]
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MK9 -- "Interim: Unused Sounds From The 2010 Tour" -- C-10 -- €10
2011 Neural Operations, NO 6, (ltd. 50)
Michael Nine aka Death Squad aka MK9. Numbered edition of 50, red C-10 cassettes in a unique cover. The back of the cover has writings that are done at the time the tape is ordered. The cover image for each cassette is also one of a kind. Minimal unprocessed sounds that were left after finishing the backing audio and video for the tour. [from the author]
[soundcloud]
MORGIA, NINNI -- "Ladyboy Sonata" -- C-30 -- €7
2011 Ultramarine, UM013, (ltd. 100)
Thirty minutes of guitar delirium from Italy's finest avant guitarist. Morgia starts off in his own unique warped way, with a noise psych intro filled with fiery bendings and his signature wild distortion. Then the guitar gets modulated until it's filtered and thinned out to a hammering, hypnotic cicada chant. It's a kafkian nightmare, and when the guitar is reduced to bits, it feels like it's emitting its last cries of help, like Solmania's face-cutting licks, or better, like a windy February night walk in NY. Morgia's guitar work resembles the extended techniques applied to trumpet by Peter Evans and Axel Doerner, both in terms of dynamics and research, especially in richness, clarity and overtones, and also in a beyond-limits live performance (there are no overdubs on any of his recordings). Pro-dubbed imprinted black tapes with a foxxy ninni on the cover. [label info]
[youtube]
MUTANT SEX QUARTET -- "Chapter Nine" -- C-60 -- €7
2008 Second Sleep, SS020
Obscure noisy electronics from the Italian underground.
MYKORIZA / REKONSTRUKTSIYA MHA -- "Sovet Valezhnika" -- C-90 -- €8
2019 BioSonar^Lo-End, 095/2019, (ltd. 23)
Fourth split of Mykoriza with a comrade in sound vibrations. Side A presents the live recording from a swamp festival "Brushwood Counsel in Ushkovye" in August 2018. The night set was very heartfelt, with a touching forest atmosphere. Flying and rustling ambient with cosmic synth gurglings and backing vocals in Vyatka manner. Side B contains five pieces by one of the members of the previous recording, namely the solo recordings of the Reconstruktsiya Mha (Moss Reconstruction) project. Paleonthological sentences are performed in a similar manner of analog-synth / ambien-noise layers with mild waves of bass guitar. Artwork – cardboard sleeve with attached art by the painter Lilia and branches of a dead tree, hand-written info and numeration. [label info]
NACRAPTOR, ALEXANDER -- "Videodrome" -- C-32 -- €7
2019 [electrotapes archive], [ETA-TAPE-01], (ltd. 20)
Experimental / Techno / Rhythmic Industrial. Strange, unsteady collages from the wrong side, in which vague images of culture and counterculture are mixed with noises, distortions and abstract rhythms. In the end, all this is only Videodrome. A place where the reality of what is happening is questionable, and the openness of perception is the only condition of existence. [label info]
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NECROFILIA -- "Sein Zum Tode" -- CS -- €55
1997 Slaughter Productions, SPT 92
Italian industrial project by Devis Granziera (Teatro Satanico) and Marco Corbelli (Atrax Morgue).
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PHARMAKON -- "Deserve It: Live in Chicago" -- C-30 -- €10
2012 Chondritic Sound, CH-265, 3rd press
Industrial / Power Electronics. An 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]
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PRAYING FOR OBLIVION -- "Bookburner's Anthem" -- C-60 -- €16
1999 L.S.D. Organisation, LSDO-T004, (ltd. 100)
Industrial / Power Electronics. Praying for Oblivion hails from Nashville Tennesse, the home of everything country music, and this is some rather intense lo-fi power electronics. These tracks have astatic type movement with buried samples which sound like hymns or something. The noise is churning and very slow evolving. [Angelfire]
PRIEST IN SHIT -- "Recycled" -- CS -- €7
2010 RRRecords / Recycled Music
Harsh Noise. Part of the Recycled Music series on RRRecords.
PRURIENT -- "Despiritualized" -- 2 x C-10 -- €45
2011 Hospital Productions, HOS-330, (ltd. 110)
Power Electronics. Recent productions from the desk of Prurient, originally issued on limited edition tape. Fetid power noise and drone accounts for the majority, highlights are the murky descent of 'Closing Arguments' and the intensive noise on 'When Different Worlds Collide'. [boomkat]
[boomkat]
PRURIENT -- "Pleasure Of Ruins" -- C-30 -- €125
2012 self-released, (ltd. 24)
Noise. Rehearsal session for Prurient live performance NYC July 21, 2012. "Listen inside alone during midday desert hours."
PRURIENT -- "White Magic" -- C-60 -- €45
2004 American Tapes, AM380, (ltd. 50)
This recording is from 1998 and is an hour of unprocessed field recording as a memorial for an acquaintance who was murdered by her father on the day of an early Prurient performance in Wisconsin. 60 Minutes Of Silence: Memorial For Lenka Orlikova. Jewel case with rough xerox cover. Hand-numbered edition of 50 copies.
PUSTOTA -- "p03a" -- C-60 -- €6
2019 BioSonar^Lo-End, 094/2019, (ltd. 11)
We remember that tape noise can be different or it can be very similar, the same during the entire playback time. This noise is somewhat in between these variations, it's monotonous and it's even always noise. One channel features the phonogram of flat tape noise, while the other channel is filled with a strange stretched resemblance of slowed down rock music, and this music can't even be identified because of the entropy and deformation of sound. Wonderful postcards from opera theaters adorn cardboard packages. Inscriptions and numeration are hand-written. [label info]
PUSTOTA -- "Pylevoy Paz (Dust Groove)" -- C-60 -- €6
2019 BioSonar^Lo-End, 096/2019, (ltd. 11)
Soft noise. Gentle noise. An the brink of field recordings and tape noise. The rustle of wind re-recorded through various kinds of tape, already lost its structure and dynamics, almost melted in tape interference. Like dust on the glass, transparent layer of rustle. Artwork – fragments of various leftovers attachet to a cardboard sleeve. Inscriptions and numerations are made by hand. [label info]
THE RITA -- "The Nylons Of Laura Antonelli" -- 8 x C-30 BOX -- €110
2009 Utmarken, utmarken 16, (ltd. 49)
Minimal / Noise. Recorded live using various mic'd styles of women's nylon stockings. Methodical dwelling on the different densities of the nylons via classic harsh noise instrumentation. Stockings, eye liner, eye shadow, and mascara - the abstraction and deconstruction of the female form. Edition of 49 copies. Packaged in a plastic box with folded A4 insert.
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THE RITA -- "Toe Cleavage" -- 7 x C-30 BOX -- €85
2017 Urashima, URA 030-036, (ltd. 99)
Noise / HNW. With his flagship project, The Rita, Sam McKinlay has, for nearly two decades, explored and distilled into sound various permutations of fetish and vice. Recognized as the creator of wall noise, McKinlay's conceptual intent and the singular intensity of his focus established something novel and profound. McKinlay's compulsive reverence for noise is a fetish of sound. Frequently, McKinlay utilizes field recordings and other sounds sourced from the objects of interest before encrypting them in an opaque shell of noise. Listening to McKinlay's recordings, it's often difficult to determine whether one actually hears the sounds of the source material or if the power of suggestion is so strong that the listener extracts phantom sounds. In recent years, McKinlay has increasingly focused on the female form, particularly the modes of body augmentation that define classical femininity, such as make up, nylon stockings, etc. The progression of this focus culminated with the most archetypal projection of femininity in Western Culture: the ballerina, her feet, and her pointe shoes. The foot of a woman has long been identified as the most common source of unusual sexual preoccupation. Toe Cleavage is the most comprehensive expression of McKinlay's recent endeavors. For the uninitiated, the term "toe cleavage" refers to the display of the upper portions of toes in low cut shoes -- an essential detail for many shoe designers. Across the seven tapes in this set, McKinlay, through his music, dissects, indulges, illustrates, and worships the feminine foot. To that end, McKinlay worked with Los Angeles based visual artist Olivia Burr and recording artist Kristin Hayter (Lingua Ignota). In addition to photographic contributions, Burr and Hayter provided much of the source material for McKinlay including: dance studio floor recordings; contact mic'd ballet shoes; and the repeated unboxing, unwrapping, trying on, walking in, and re-boxing of various designer shoes (Valentino, Miu Miu, etc.). Adding depth to the overall experience, McKinlay interspersed interludes throughout the recordings featuring audio samples derived from discussions and tutorials about pointe shoes, toe cleavage, and various designer ballet flat and stiletto reviews. This set of recordings is arguably McKinlay's most focused and obsessive effort to date and perfectly embodies the cultivated stylistic traits that have defined his work through the years. Seven-tape set come in a wooden box with a 16-page book, a colored poster, an insert drawn by Sam McKinlay in Ivory paper, and a sheet with notes. Edition of 99 (hand-numbered). [label info]
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SACHER-PELZ & SUCTION MELENA -- "Neutropenia" -- CS -- €8
2015 Custom Body Records, CBR19, (ltd. 33)
A collaboration of two Italian projects: Sacher-Pelz aka Maurizio Bianch and Suction Melena aka Le Cose Bianche.
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SMEHOPILORAMA -- "Bird Rabies Is Transmitted Through Milk" -- C-60 -- €6
2019 BioSonar^Lo-End, 093/2019, (ltd. 14)
Harsh Noise. The third cassette release from the low-fi harsh noise collective from the Kurortniy District of Leningrad. Fucked up by varnish and oyster sause, those loafers decided to deafen the neighbors by a portion of overdriven daddy-noise and dumped the thick black paste of sound from their guitar/synth channels. The recording lasted for about an hour and is presented here on two sides of the cassette in chronological order. Artwork – black waxed paper and kraft with white duct tape, hand-written info and numeration. [label info]
STRUP -- "Everybody Die Young (Vse Umirayut Molodymi)" -- CS -- €5
2010/2011 Depressive Illusions Records, cut413, (ltd. 100)
A gorgeous album, true discovery-2010 for the post-Soviet noise scene! Lo-fi collage noise material built on multiple samples from Soviet records from 70-80-s, concrete & field recordings and talented author's poems read in a very expressive way (resembling Egor Letov...). The result is a haunting weirdly atmospheric work, a kind of caleidoscopic dream with cuts from Veprisuicida and unforgettable breakthroughs of the project Communism. Psychedelic "babyphone" for thirtysomething people. [YAOP]
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TONGUES OF MOUNT MERU -- "The Delight Of Assembly" -- C-40 -- €7
2010 The Tapeworm, TTW#11, (ltd. 250)
Drone. Behind Tongues Of Mount Meru we find one Jon Wesseltoft and the well-known Lasse Marhaug. One would perhaps expect some noise release, or cut-up collage like sounds, but these two pieces sound like these two found a bunch of cheap bontempi keyboards. Pressing a few chords down on all of them, they sit behind a mixing board mixing the sounds together. Welcome ye of drone music! Its the kind of drone music I like very much - lover all of organs. Hardcore minimalism at work here, with slow changes in the sound material, but piercing throughout. Not in a noise way, but in a more upfront manner. The new plasticity of drone music. Simply yet effective. Great release. [Vital Weekly]
URUK-HAI / ABANDONED -- "Valhall / Assuage My Tristful Soul" -- CS -- €5
2005 A.M.F. Productions, AMF 017
Mystic and ritual pagan ambient from Austria vs. emotional depressive ambient from Bulgaria. Pro-cover. 6 tracks - 37 min. [label info]
VASCULAE -- "Anxiety Blackout" -- C-23 -- €8
2014 self-released, (ltd. 25)
Noise. Self-released cassette from a new solo moniker of Jon Borges, well know as Emaciator, a mastermind of the label Monorail Trespassing and a found member of Pedestrain Deposit. Originally released for southwest tour 2014. [Lust Vessel]
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VATICAN SHADOW -- "Death Is Unity With God" -- 6 x CS BOX -- €120
2014 Hospital Productions, HOS-424, (ltd. 100)
“Death is Unity With God” finds Dominick Fernow returning to the kind of feral, burned-out productions which for our money find Fernow at his very best and which dominated “Ornamented Walls” released on Modern Love back in 2012. Nodding to classic Muslimgauze, the oppressive atmospheres and destroyed rhythms isolate the gutted toil and drone in ‘It’s To Come’, while ‘F.B.I. God’ reduces the drums to scorched blasts against some harrowing, darkside chords. The quasi-speed torment of ‘Manufactured Silencers Under Direct Orders’ flows into the haunting chorales and chiming percussions of ‘Living on and off at the Shadows Motel’ and the scything techno roil of ‘Small Explosives and Blasting Caps Inside the Pages of a Phonebook’, before a particularly affective chamber-like meditation, ‘McVeigh Figure’ draws aesthetic lines between ambient black metal, Coil and early Autechre. ‘Waco (Postmortem)’ ends the set operating nearly out of earshot with those incredible, sashaying synth motifs persisting with its struggle against the patina of hiss and exasperated rhythms blurred around the edges. [boomkat]
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VIOLET POISON -- "Voices From The Hell" -- CS -- €14
2013 Hospital Productions, HOS-379, (ltd. 100)
Francesco Baudazzi (Obtane) turns back to his Violet Poison alias for a more nuanced approach to the no-mans-land between techno, dark ambient and abstract electronic spheres. [boomkat]
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WEREWOLF JERUSALEM -- "Eye Of The Spider: Tribute To Kiyoshi Kurosawa" -- 4 x C-30 BOX -- €65
2008 Dead Audio Tapes, DAT61, (ltd. 10)
WHITE SWAN -- "To The Point Of Exhaustion" -- C-40 -- €8
2015 Narcolepsia, narco057, (ltd. 100)
Power Electronics. Stripped down to the barely audible, orthodox and monochordic filth from this newcomer spitting hate from deep within the Finnish gutters. For those into the unrelentless savagery of the old masters of murder electronics. [Analog Worship]
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WINCE -- "Sekt" -- C-40 -- €12
2017 Hospital Productions, HOS-484, (ltd. 100)
Hospital Productions debut for this German noise project, who recently released a CD on Freak Animal. "Traditional asshole sniffing noise. The dense rumble of What A Smell meets the creepy feedback of the hardest end of Stabat Mors." [label info]
WRITHE -- "Forlorn" -- CS -- €8
2017 Supreme Analog Torture Records, SATR-032, (ltd. 100)
Filthy Harsh Noise from United States. 33 minutes of merciless sounds. [label info]
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Y -- "De Occulta Philosophia" -- C-90 -- €24
2015/2017 Baumwurzel, Root 2, (ltd. 33)
Dark Ambient / Black Metal from Greece. 33 hand-numbered copies in a pouch with printed sigil, incl. 3 cards.
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Y -- "Imaginativa, Rationalis, Mentalis" -- C-90 -- €24
2017 Baumwurzel, Root 4, (ltd. 33)
Dark Ambient / Black Metal from Greece. 33 hand-numbered copies in a pouch with a mirror and inserts.
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YGGDRASIL / ANEMONE TUBE -- "Wald" -- C-55 -- €16
1998 Transfixional Entertainment, fix003 / Darkness Productions, P&V 008, (ltd. 150)
Ambient / Noise split & collaboration between two German projects. Cassette is packed in an oversized sleeve covered with an attached fabric net.
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ZFK -- "Mashina Yest / Medizinisch" -- C-20 -- €4
2011 Rokot, RKT-13, (ltd. 50)
ZFK was among Russian circle of experimental underground Noise / Industrial projects that included PUBLIC IMMORALITY, FUNKSTILLESENDER, KOMATOSERZUSTAND and existed in 2003-2005. The first album of ZFK called Rabochiy Kontrol was released as the CD-R by Abgvrd and then re-released as CD by Japanese Teito Sound label. Two tracks recorded in 2004 present raw rumbling Industrial / Harsh Noise with very old-school ear-mangling sound. [label info]
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VARIOUS ARTISTS -- "4th World: Vital Comments On Recent Conspiracy Practices" -- CS -- €13
2015 Zaetraom, ZAETRAOM 011, (ltd. 250)
OPERATION CLEANSWEEP, MISSSIXTYSIX, J.E.W.E.D., GENOCIDE ORGAN, HERBST9, STRINGERE GULAM, SINGULAR CLEANSWEEP OPERATIONS, MAGADAN, MÜLLER OF DEATH. Cassette in O-card packaged with an A5 booklet/poster. Edition of 250 numbered copies.
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VARIOUS ARTISTS -- "4th World: Afterworkpopsongsforchildsoldiers" -- CS -- €13
2017 Zaetraom, ZAETRAOM 016, (ltd. 250)
The 2nd in line cassette compilation dealing with the 4th World, this time definitely not only challenging but breaking the limits of genres! From Lounge / Pop / Rock Music they want to party to, via Structured Noise they ought to listen to, to Harsh Noise and Power Electronics they have to kill to – the full spectrum of music for our little, young friends all over the planet of the 4th world and through all its times: Afterworkpopsongsforchildsoldiers presented by Zaetraom in collaboration with DEATHPANEL, GENEVIEVE PASQUIER, SALFORD ELECTRONICS, LINEKRAFT, DOGPOP, PAIN NAIL, ILL, GRUNT, FRED UND LUNA, DAVID E. WILLIAMS and AM NOT. [Tesco] Limited to 250 hand-numbered copies. Professionally duplicated tape. Yellow cassette shell with green imprint on both sides. Housed in a full-color O-card with a glossy, full-color, 24-page booklet.
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VARIOUS ARTISTS -- "A Bird's Eye View Into A Machiavellian World Of Secrecy" -- 4 CS -- €60
2016 Hospital Productions, HOS-469, (ltd. 469)
Very special boxed edition from Hospital Productions featuring four specially commissioned new albums from REGIS vs PRURIENT, ALESSANDRO CORTINI, KEVIN DRUMM and LUSSURIA - each on a separate individual tape, clocking in at over 3 hours of music. The set has been made in a very limited run of 469 copies and is not available on download formats. There are two different versions of this box set - one housed in a vintage clamshell case, the other in a clear quadruple tape shell with entirely different artwork - orders were despatched at random from one of these two versions. [boomkat] This is the version in clear Norelco box.
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VARIOUS ARTISTS -- "Tied To An Abuse" -- 2 CS -- €13
2010 Nil By Mouth Recordings, NBM23TAPE, (ltd. 300)
CLIMAX DENIAL, CLOAMA, PROPERGOL, GRUNT, GOVERNMENT ALPHA, BLACK LEATHER JESUS, BARRIKAD, STEEL HOOK PROSTHESES, BIZARRE UPROAR, HUMILIHATE, WERTHAM, GRIEFER, ELECZEMA, FEAR KONSTRUKTOR, ALO GIRL, CONTENT NULLITY, SICK SEED, TAETER, ICONOCLASM, MOLD CREVICE. Large plastic case, pro-dubbed white cassettes with on-body print, booklet and an insert.
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SPECIAL INTERESTS ##1-10 -- set of zines -- €75
2009-2018 Special Interests / Freak Animal
A set of 10 zines produced by Mikko Aspa (Freak Animal, Grunt, etc.). Everything one should know about the harsh noise culture and radical art: interviews with many artists and labels, various articles, live gig reports, reviews, artworks. Each edition is 52-84 pages. English language.
Flea market
ARD BIT - Yelleen - CS - €4
COLD CAVE / PRURIENT - Stars Explode - CS - €24
EXPLORING JEZEBEL - Performs For Her And Her Bulls - CS - €31
FFH / FORCE PUBLIQUE CONGO - War Crimes And Natural Resources - CS - €24
FLUTWACHT - Breath - CD - €3
FOLKSTORM - Sweden - CD - €4
FORCE PUBLIQUE CONGO - Civil War Follows Colonization: Investment 2 - CS - €24
FORCE PUBLIQUE CONGO - Civil War Follows Colonization: Investment 3 - CS - €24
FORCE PUBLIQUE CONGO - Civil War Follows Colonization: Investment 4 - CS - €24
GOATLAB - Sevigny / Eris - CS - €6
KARNA / VELEHENTOR - Era Of Cold Hearts / The Asha Blaze - 7 Minutes Later - CD - €4
MIRA DREVO - Ozer Nebesa (Heavens of Lakes) - CD - €4
O'CONNOR, KARL & MICK HARRIS / RADOVAN SCASASCIA / ROGER SEMSROTH - We Can Elude Control - CD-R - €6
UNCODIFIED / LE COSE BIANCHE - Dilatatorium - CS - €9
VATICAN SHADOW - Pakistan Military Academy - 2 CS - €39
VATICAN SHADOW / CONTREPOISON - The Serpent Carries Him Back Into Paradise - CS - €11
VARIOUS ARTISTS - Khatyn: Tacet, Sed Loquitur (Propergol, Pragnavit, Cyclotimia, Bad Sector, Majdanek Waltz, Ataraxia, Moon Far Away, Osimira, Donis, Cawatana, Vishudha Kali, First Law, Necro Stellar) - CD - €6
Don't forget to check the full list of rare & used items with all details, it's here.
IV. Back in stock
BAKER, AIDAN -- "The Taste of Summer on your Skin" -- 3"CD-R -- €5
2004 Taalem, alm 15
I'm not sure Aidan Baker really needs an introduction. Also a member or the tribal-ambient trio ARC (remember "13th" we released some months ago), he has built an impressive discography in a few months, releasing his beautiful drone/ambient guitar-ish music on every interesting label (Mystery Sea, DTA, S'Agita or The Locus OF Assemblage to name but a few). Of course we couldn't not be part of (smile!). So here is "The Taste of Summer on your Skin", "a melodic, shimmering multi-instrumental drone track" as Aidan describes it himself. [press-release]
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BARRIKAD -- "Through The Voice One Becomes Animal" -- C-20 -- €7
2013 Nil By Mouth Recordingsб NBM35TAPE
This release is a heavily structured mass of sounds, consisting of pulsating analogue oscillators, field recordings, concrete drones, grinding steel pipes, voice samples from documentary archives, distant screams, oil drums and the vibrations captured by contact microphones. On this record BARRIKAD blends diverse elements of sound, evoking a cold fusion of old school industrial music to celebrate the first 10 years... [T.A., Exoteric Zine]
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BOAR / CIRCUIT WOUND / SKIN GRAFT / A SNAKE IN THE GARDEN -- split -- 2 x C-30 -- €13
2011 Phage Tapes, PT:163, (ltd. 100)
4 sides of harsh noise. Each artist has a different take on harsh noise so this release is really well rounded and is a good representation of the breadth of what can be accomplished. Edition of 100 in tall Norelco 2x cs case. Cover image by Simon Clark. [label info]
DARK AGES -- "Twilight Of Europe" -- CD -- €9
2005/2010 Inferna Profundus Records, IPR011 / Primitive Reaction, (ltd. 1000)
Dark ambient from Ukraine. Second edition on CD in digipak.
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DAUBY, YANNICK & HITOSHI KOJO -- "La Vie Dans Les Airs & Dans Les Eaux" -- 10" -- €15
2017 Drone Records / Substantia Innominata, SUB-24, (ltd. 300)
Drone Records is proud to present the first ever collaboration release of these two cosmopolitan sound artists from France and Japan (residing currently in Taiwan and Belgium), based on a variety of field recordings, 'concrete' material improvisations and personal additions done in different parts of the world. We can hear mysterious (micro)-sounds that could come from minerals, stones, plants, or daily objects and instruments - opening up two soundscaping tracks full of wondrous elements, combining the 'concrete' with the sublime and the atmospheric.... lost in the huge network of organic entities in the 'More-Than-Human World' around us. 10" vinyl on black vinyl and with full colour sleeve, lim. 300 copies. cover artwork: ANDREW CHALK. [label info]
DEVIS DEVILS -- "D" -- C-30 -- €5
2011 Silentes Tapestry, Collezione Del Silenzio - D, (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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DISSECTING TABLE -- "Deadlock" -- C-40 -- €6
2018 Nazlo Records, NzR083, (ltd. 40)
New tape by prominent japanoise \ experimental project from Hirosima. Ltd. to 40, full-color two-sided j-card insert, c40 tapes.
DN23RD -- "Nix" -- CD-R -- €10
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 / LIGHT COLLAPSE -- "Slag" -- CD-R -- €10
2006 Heart-Shaped Box, HSB-005, (ltd. 31)
An antiquarian split of two competent Russian radionoise artists. Powerful radio blizzard from DN23rd versus waves of mid-frequency ether hiss from LC. Colour print on a disc, slim-box with a sticker. [YAOP]
EK -- "Structures Of Existence" -- CD -- €10
2017 COD noir, NOIR3
Dark Folk / Noir Pop / Psychedelic Rock. «Evan Krestov» is an image of the narrator who tells weird stories about disappointment, fragility of human existence and the final time limit of all created things. Strange Music as a kind of myth or an old story, something abstract and weightless on a cosmic scale – as human life. It is a search for something is clearly unattainable, for the crown of the nonexistent king that nobody is destined to see. Through what thicket are you ready to wade to get knowledge and answers? All we know that there is not a «distant land, where there is no injustice», but there are always cranks, ready to look for such land. So let’s start our search with sounds of «Structures Of Existence». [label info]
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GRUNT -- "Someone Is Watching" -- CD -- €10
1998/2011 Force Majeure, Force 001
Finally re-issue of this 1998 tape! Perhaps 8 years ago started re-issue project has slowly moved towards completion. Back in 2005 Hermetique remastered original tape material for CD. And now finally out and available! Late 90's style noisy PE from Grunt. Themed on surveillance, control society and big brother paranoia. [Freak Animal]
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THE HATERS -- "Purpose" -- 5" reel-to-reel -- €15
2019 Nazlo Records, NzR099, (ltd. 40)
New release on reel-to-reel tape, by legendary THE HATERS (Gerald Xe Jupitter-Larsen), iconic noise / sound art project existing for as much as 40 years for now - in collaboration with Eugene Voronovsky also known as Cisfinitum and featuring a track dedicated to Pyotr Chaadaev and containing a fragment of his uncompleted work 'apologia of a madman' being read on his grave by Sergey Pakhomov, as well as one more new track and the first collaboration track of The Haters with Cisfinitum from 2002. The album is dubbed on recycled tape, ltd. to 40, packed in recycled boxes with handmade all-unique application artwork made using pages from a book about Pyotr Chaadayev, handtyped labels and printed inserts, immortal art! [label info]
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KIBANOV, ALEXANDER + ALEXEI BORISOV + ALEXEI BORTNICHUK + CISFINITUM + HUTOPIA -- "Memento" -- 5" reel-to-reel -- €13
2018 Nazlo Records, NzR095, (ltd. 10)
The sudden and impetuous poorly reflexed release on a reel made in the recycled series - an eclectic company of well-known sound extractors from electronic devices, revised version of a track from ten (?) years ago, Soviet industrial design, ultra-limited edition with 60% of author copies, delightful analog mono sound, multidimensional reminder of you know what. [label info]
LETHAL DOSE 50 -- "21st Century Awakening" -- CD -- €10
2006 Nuit Et Brouillard, NB CD 05
LETHAL DOSE 50 is the poison dose injected into the veins of persons sentenced to the death penalty in some states of the United States.… but LD50 is also a Belgian trio which has been existing for years in the fields of electronic musics. After a self-released first tape and a first CD-R, we are proud to offer you the first fullength CD by this talented unit. Using some digital instruments - synths, samplers- as well as some analogue ones -synths, rhythm'n box, effects-… LD50 develops an atmospheric music which is at the same time dark but warm, cosmic and experimental, melodic and deep, meditative but aware, often underlaid by some sampled voices and sound-collages, sometimes intermingled with/ intersected with some hypnotic rhythms. Being fully mastered and definitely original compared to some nowadays releases from the dark-ambient genre, "21st century awakening" will both appeal to the nostalgics of the 70ies and 80ies sonorities -old-school space-electronics from the 70ies and 80ies such as TANGERINE DREAM, NOCTURNAL EMISSIONS-.as well as to the lovers of some nowadays dark ambient acts such as SCHLOSS TEGAL, INADE, HERBST 9 or FIRST LAW… LD 50 is certainly the sole musical project able to set a bridge between these two tendencies, these two sounds, these two periods… Fans of sterilized lap-top generated or of cheap new-age ethno-ambient can go their way. "21st century awakening" will appeal as much to the soul as to the body, to the mind as to the heart. At first listening, this record may seem a little bit strange to you, like being out of phases, but the following listenings will draw you into an endless spiral similar to the one painted on the sleeve. Allow yourself enough of freedom for that... CD re-mastered by Christian RENOU, housed in an original A5 size silk-screened fold-out cover. Paintings by Leyla ERSEN. 64 minutes/10 tracks. [press-release]
LIHOLESIE -- "Boundless Thirst For The Outside" -- CD -- €12
2008/2017 COD noizes, SHUM12 / Der Schwarze Tod, tod45
Folk Ambient / Ritual Ambient. We want to please all fans of high-quality electronic music. This fall on COD label and distribution — COD noizes with the support of Der Schwarze Tod took place the re-issue of «Boundless Thirst For The Outside» — the fourth full-length album of the Russian project Liholesie which does not need an introduction. On this record, the sole author of the project Sever proved himself not only as the creator of the incisive ambient landscapes, inspired by the spirit and magic of Northern nature, but as the experimenter in the field of rhythmic structures. Combined with the folkloric melody and elements of darkwave this creates an unique, easily identifiable sound... For this re-issue the album was completely remastered as well as supplemented by bonuses: «From The Very Depths» released before on «The 1st Harvest» compilation, remix track «Crows» from WooDMooD, and a cover version of the song «Under Leaden Skies» from project Mira Drevo. Album has been released as six-panel digipack with reworked artwork decorated with silver printing and stencil varnish. [label info]
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MAEROR TRI -- "Language Of Flames And Sound" -- CD -- €12
1996/2008 Old Europa Cafe, OECD 008, (ltd. 544)
Finally we are going for the re-edition of this great Maeror Tri album! Power for the right side of the brain! Our world is dominated by the left brain hemisphere! M.T. is here supporting the theory that it is necessary to stimulate and challenge the right hemisphere in order to get back to an equal activity of the two brain sides... Best Shamanic Meditation music of the industrial era! Maybe the best and more intense Maeror Tri album! All material PRODUCED by MAEROR TRI [...] from 1992 to 1996. Comes packed in a special brain-shaped folder. [label info]
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MAEROR TRI -- "Meditamentum I" -- CD -- €10
1994/2005 Manifold Records, mancd044
Re-edition of the CD previously published by German label Holonom in 1994. This was the 2nd full-length of Maeror Tri after "Multiple Personality Disorder". It contains retrospective compilation of cassette tracks dated 1989-1992. "This compilation is probably the more ambient of any Maeror Tri compilation, going for more textural guitar and drift than the rumbling, backwards-chord sound. Comes in an amazing brown artboard case and embroidered cloth sleeve, four-page booklet inside inspired by rough layouts of cassette-years past gives plenty of text to absorb with the sounds. Amazing sounds demand amazing packages and we wanted to make sure this would be a treasure for all who were ever interested in Maeror Tri." [label info]
MAEROR TRI -- "Multiple Personality Disorder" -- CD -- €10
1993/2009 Purple Soil, pulse zero: six
Repress of the first CD release by Maeror Tri (1993, Korm Plastics). "Multiple Personality Disorder" is a concept CD divided in four long parts recorded back in 1991 that fully showcase their mastery in distorting drones and layering guitar sounds. Stefan Knappe and Martin Martin Gitschel now record under the guise of Troum. Presented in a very nice 6-panel digifile with booklet and postcard, featuring the original (yet unused) cover for the album's initial 1993 release. Expanded liner notes and the story behind the album by Frans De Waard. [Cold Spring]
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MARTWA NATURA / TOBIAS SCHMITT - MARTYNA SOLECKA - SASHA STADLMEIER -- "II" -- CS -- €5
2016 Attenuation Circuit, ACT 1040, (ltd. 50)
This second release by Martwa Natura, the duo of EMERGE and Martyna Solecka, is complemented here by a trio set. Joined by Tobias Schmitt aka Suspicion Breeds Confidence, EMERGE switches from sampler to processed guitar and bass, also dropping his moniker in favour of his real name. While the duo set creates a rather dense, slightly ominous atmosphere, the trio opens up more space to breathe as the interplay of Martyna Solecka’s voice, Sascha Stadlmeier’s subtle impulses from the guitar and bass, and Tobias Schmitt’s use of contact microphones creates a texture that works through its fissures as much as through its zones of density. [label info]
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MEMORY FAIL SAFE -- "Code Impenetrable" -- 5 CS -- €23
2019 Nazlo Records, NzR098, (ltd. 15)
This is 100% analog release recorded live on tape and then dublicated straight from this tape without any digital post-production. It consists of a special 5-way plastic box for tapes, an insert hand-typed and hand-numbered on the inside and 5 tapes of different length and color: C50 lavender-coloured tape (No Time To Chill), C90 plum-coloured tape (The Island Of Reverse), C92 pink tape (A Lot Depends On Us), C62 pea-green-coloured tape (Selling Weed To Wizards) and C50 dark green tape (Acid Cancer Sound System). Tracklist, titles of tapes or duration are not credited on the release. Limited to 15 numbered copies. All tapes recorded live in september-october 2018 at Kuz'aevo studio sometimes in conditions close to death mostly on lo-fi equipment. [label info]
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MINAMATA -- "Fukushima" -- CD -- €10
2017 Force Majeure, Force 011, (ltd. 500)
Industrial / Soundscape. This album by the industrial French project was inspired by the disaster at Fukushima nuclear plant initiated primarily by the tsunami following the Tōhoku earthquake on 11 March 2011. The Fukushima disaster was the most significant nuclear incident since the Chernobyl event on April 26, 1986... Huge waves of dense sound rise and fall, creating a symphonic feeling for this industrial soundtrack filled with shredded voices, pounding beats and screeching loops. Four lengthy tracks clocking in 48 minutes. Limited edition of 500 copies in 6-panel digifile.
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NORMA REAKTSII -- "Tectonic Charge Condensation" -- CD-R -- €8
2008 Valgriind 06, (ltd. 50)
Radionoise recorded with an old pre-war radio-gramophone with resoldered components. A project of the founder of the young Russian D.I.Y. label Valgriind. Minimalism, handmade artwork (cardboard, drawing). [label info]
NORMA REAKTSII -- "Telluric Energy" -- CD-R -- €8
2008 Valgriind, VG 08, (ltd. 50)
Four tracks of pure unprocessed radionoise.
OSTERWEG -- "II" -- CD -- €10
2017 COD noizes, SHUM13 / Der Schwarze Tod, tod47
Folk / Medieval. COD noizes with a strong help of Der Schwarze Tod presents the final release of the outgoing year — the second album of Belarusian masters of folk and medieval instruments Osterweg. Album released in six panels matte laminated digipack. [label info]
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PADZEM & ZEUGE -- "Habit[at]" -- CD-R -- €4
2010 Deadpixel Records, DPXL05
This work is the logical continuation of cooperation of two "heavy-weight" electronic producers from Belarus: ZEUGE aka HEADSHOT and PADZEM aka DUMB MUTANT STOKER. CD contains 14 tracks filled with malicious breakcore madness with obvious elements of dark drum'n'bass and hardcore techno, atmosphere of each track brings uneasiness to a digital underground dancefloor. [label info]
THE PSYCHOPATRICKS -- "Ustalost' Metalla / Evangelie Ot Patrika" -- C-90 -- €6
2018 Nazlo Records, NzR097, (ltd. 20)
Drum'n'Bass / Lo-fi. New tape with a longest story ever, that we couldn't possibly tell in English even if we wanted to - just enjoy while you still can - that's the most outsider music you could imagine now in 2018 - drum'n'bass! Recycled c90 tapes with a snail shell glued to the tape shell for ritual purposes as representation of a totem animal. [label info]
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RADIO MURMANSK -- "Shinjuku - Pushkinskaja" -- CD -- €5
2007 Steinklang Industries, SKD 22, (ltd. 350)
After several private CDR releases, this is the new official album from German's Minimal-Noise act Radio Murmansk. A powerful mix from 80ies minimal-electronics and pure noise-walls. Very rhythmic tracks with voice and many Japanese samples. [label info]
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SCHLOSS TEGAL -- "Oranur III - The Third Report" -- LP -- €17
1995 Artware Production, ARTWARE 17, (ltd. 1000)
SIX DEAD BULGARIANS -- "The Flat Polish Holes: Mystery Of The Black Box" -- CD -- €10
1996/2017 COD noizes, SHUM103
Industrial / Experimental / Old School. "The Flat Polish Holes: Mystery Of The Black Box" is one of the darkest works of Bulgarians, imbued with some absolutely transcendental dark melancholy and suicidal drive. "Mystery Of The Black Box" as the key to the door of Death, where each will find his own personal hell. The avant-garde lo-fi songs "Lullaby" and "Eesona", bordering the kitsch, is replaced by volumetric ritual ambient canvases, as if illustrating the contrast of The Being where rotting corpses on Golden Thrones are mixed with homeless, which steals cat canned food on the background of white smiles of pop stars. Especially distinguished is the track "New Boots" (the absurdity of names is a firm feature of Bulgarians, however, emphasizing their relationship with the Russian literary avant-garde of the Silver Age), which creates a landscape of certain prenatal State where all is equal: the absolute knowledge, and the absolute fear, and the inhuman peace. As for the "Allergy" track — it can be called one of the first Post-Soviet experience in the "death industrial" genre... Connoisseurs know that this project is a milestone in the history of the Russian underground, one of the founders of Post-Soviet industrial, example of uncompromising musical avant-garde, sonic experimentation and manipulation with mind... The first and only official edition of the legendary records. [label info]
[bandcamp]
SIX DEAD BULGARIANS -- "The Flat Polish Holes: Mystery Of The Black Box" -- CS -- €9
1996/2017 COD noizes, SHUM103MC
Industrial / Experimental / Old School. "The Flat Polish Holes: Mystery Of The Black Box" is one of the darkest works of Bulgarians, imbued with some absolutely transcendental dark melancholy and suicidal drive. "Mystery Of The Black Box" as the key to the door of Death, where each will find his own personal hell. The avant-garde lo-fi songs "Lullaby" and "Eesona", bordering the kitsch, is replaced by volumetric ritual ambient canvases, as if illustrating the contrast of The Being where rotting corpses on Golden Thrones are mixed with homeless, which steals cat canned food on the background of white smiles of pop stars. Especially distinguished is the track "New Boots" (the absurdity of names is a firm feature of Bulgarians, however, emphasizing their relationship with the Russian literary avant-garde of the Silver Age), which creates a landscape of certain prenatal State where all is equal: the absolute knowledge, and the absolute fear, and the inhuman peace. As for the "Allergy" track — it can be called one of the first Post-Soviet experience in the "death industrial" genre... Connoisseurs know that this project is a milestone in the history of the Russian underground, one of the founders of Post-Soviet industrial, example of uncompromising musical avant-garde, sonic experimentation and manipulation with mind... The first and only official edition of the legendary records. [label info]
[bandcamp]
SIX DEAD BULGARIANS -- "The Freaks: No Violence Over The Individual" -- CS -- €9
1995/2017 COD noizes, SHUM102MC
Industrial / Experimental / Old School. "The Freaks: No Violence Over The Individual". Already in the title of the album it reveals the branded "Bulgarian" irony, with which the authors set off a painful traumatic sound, designed to open the psychic shell, like an old furuncle. The sound became tougher, more aggressive and darker. And the postmodern game with ridiculous names of compositions, like "Agrarian Question", "It Was A Man Of Years Of Fifty", etc. only "knocks" the listener out of the way, breaking the usual boundaries of perception, since in this album appear a serious approach to sound, appeal to ritual elements and psy-ambient with the dominance of metal percussion. As the closest analogue can be called the early work of Zoviet France and Nurse With Wound... Connoisseurs know that this project is a milestone in the history of the Russian underground, one of the founders of Post-Soviet industrial, example of uncompromising musical avant-garde, sonic experimentation and manipulation with mind... The first and only official edition of the legendary records. [label info]
[bandcamp]
SIX DEAD BULGARIANS -- "It’s Not Fearful In The Bunker" -- 2 CD -- €12
1996/2017 COD noizes, SHUM104
Industrial / Experimental / Old School. "It's Not Fearful In The Bunker". When listening to this album, it seems that it was recorded directly in the production shops of the dying Soviet colossus or in the crematoriums smelling of stinking stench and soot. Hysterical laughter and pain, screaming and whispering against the background of a paranoid collage of mechanical percussion, prehistoric noise, ringing of music boxes, children's rhymes, sirens of civil defense, samples from movies and grave ambient. Its sound is like a revived carnivorous wall newspaper that devours your mind. The most satirical and wicked work of the Bulgarians. If the Post-Soviet industrial has its own business card, it is "It's Not Fearful In The Bunker"... Connoisseurs know that this project is a milestone in the history of the Russian underground, one of the founders of Post-Soviet industrial, example of uncompromising musical avant-garde, sonic experimentation and manipulation with mind... The first and only official edition of the legendary records. [label info]
[bandcamp]
SIX DEAD BULGARIANS -- "It’s Not Fearful In The Bunker" -- CS -- €9
1996/2017 COD noizes, SHUM104MC
Industrial / Experimental / Old School. "It's Not Fearful In The Bunker". When listening to this album, it seems that it was recorded directly in the production shops of the dying Soviet colossus or in the crematoriums smelling of stinking stench and soot. Hysterical laughter and pain, screaming and whispering against the background of a paranoid collage of mechanical percussion, prehistoric noise, ringing of music boxes, children's rhymes, sirens of civil defense, samples from movies and grave ambient. Its sound is like a revived carnivorous wall newspaper that devours your mind. The most satirical and wicked work of the Bulgarians. If the Post-Soviet industrial has its own business card, it is "It's Not Fearful In The Bunker"... Connoisseurs know that this project is a milestone in the history of the Russian underground, one of the founders of Post-Soviet industrial, example of uncompromising musical avant-garde, sonic experimentation and manipulation with mind... The first and only official edition of the legendary records. [label info]
[bandcamp]
SIX DEAD BULGARIANS -- "Marazm;a" -- CS -- €9
1995/2017 COD noizes, SHUM101MC
Industrial / Experimental / Old School. "Marasm;a" is the earliest sound work of the Bulgarians, bringing down on the listener an avalanche of technogenic psychosis and postmodern satire, quite in the spirit of the early Throbbing Gristle and Industrial Records. That just worth it a reversed song "Ohrana" (means "Security") from the cult Soviet cartoon "The Bremen Musicians", which Bulgarians turn into the Bulgarian folk song "Onarkho". In its atmosphere, the album goes back to the roots of Soviet industrial, namely to the album "Playing the Airplane Under the Bed" of the unforgettable project "Communism". Psychedelic voice samples, vibrations of analog synthesizers, imitation of throat singing, cassette loops, factory noises, robot marches and moans of biomechanical prostitutes. At the same time, all this abundance of anti-music streams is given in very adjusted doses, not merging into a formless mass. Conceptualism in action... Connoisseurs know that this project is a milestone in the history of the Russian underground, one of the founders of Post-Soviet industrial, example of uncompromising musical avant-garde, sonic experimentation and manipulation with mind... The first and only official edition of the legendary records. [label info]
[bandcamp]
SIX DEAD BULGARIANS -- "Reincarnation / 9211-7140" -- CD -- €10
1996/2017 COD noizes, SHUM105
Industrial / Experimental / Old School. "Reincarnation" is a document of the psychedelic avant-garde, which does not even want to be called an "industrial" with its ideological and sound cliches. On this record the sound of the early Bulgarians reaches its maximum depth, without resorting to post-modern sound collages and Soviet industrial aesthetics. As the name suggests, this record is dedicated to the eternal processes of decay and revival, decomposition, conceiving and birth. And this should be understood in a much more spiritual sense, rather than in the physical. And that's why this album can be considered as an alchemical experience in the field of sound. It is pointless to describe the music itself, all this enumeration of rhythmic structures and ambient landscapes will not give any idea of this work, which by the way includes one of the most famous Bulgarian composition "My Fire Shines In The Fog". This must be listened and lived. Our edition also includes two tracks from the single "9211-7140" and three rare extra tracks... Connoisseurs know that this project is a milestone in the history of the Russian underground, one of the founders of Post-Soviet industrial, example of uncompromising musical avant-garde, sonic experimentation and manipulation with mind... The first and only official edition of the legendary records. [label info]
[bandcamp]
SIX DEAD BULGARIANS -- "Reincarnation / 9211-7140" -- CS -- €9
1996/2017 COD noizes, SHUM105MC
Industrial / Experimental / Old School. "Reincarnation" is a document of the psychedelic avant-garde, which does not even want to be called an "industrial" with its ideological and sound cliches. On this record the sound of the early Bulgarians reaches its maximum depth, without resorting to post-modern sound collages and Soviet industrial aesthetics. As the name suggests, this record is dedicated to the eternal processes of decay and revival, decomposition, conceiving and birth. And this should be understood in a much more spiritual sense, rather than in the physical. And that's why this album can be considered as an alchemical experience in the field of sound. It is pointless to describe the music itself, all this enumeration of rhythmic structures and ambient landscapes will not give any idea of this work, which by the way includes one of the most famous Bulgarian composition "My Fire Shines In The Fog". This must be listened and lived. Our edition also includes two tracks from the single "9211-7140" and three rare extra tracks... Connoisseurs know that this project is a milestone in the history of the Russian underground, one of the founders of Post-Soviet industrial, example of uncompromising musical avant-garde, sonic experimentation and manipulation with mind... The first and only official edition of the legendary records. [label info]
[bandcamp]
SKM-ETR -- "Screwdriver City" -- 3"CD -- €2
2006 Freak Animal Records, FREAK-CD-032, (ltd. 500)
Power Electronics / Noise. Previous full length CD caught plenty of attention in power electronics scene. In this new mCD, SKM-ETR takes more straight forward power electronics approach. Hard electronic noise wall with hateful vocals. [label info]
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STREETMEAT -- "Show Me Your Work" -- 2 x CS + bizcard CD-R -- €10
2011 Fusty Cunt, FUC 51, (ltd. 50)
Bouncing harsh glitch static from Streetmeat who are M. Jones and Robert Newsome. This is a C60 + C0 and business card set released on Fusty Cunt in 2011. The b-card is a collaboration with Richard Ramirez. [Bleak Bliss]
TROUM -- "Mare Idiophonika" -- CD -- €12
2010 Silken Tofu, stx.12, (ltd. 500)
Mare Idiophonika ('The Self-Playing Ocean') is the new album by the German duo TROUM and contains the studio-version of the live programme Troum performed in 2007, with a new ending added later. Using bass, guitars, metal objects, voices and choirs and for the first time also singing-bowls and ‘dry’ beats Troum creates yet another magnificent journey into unknown dimensions. Its sounds are stunning and enchanting, leaving one in a state of bewilderment while exploring the world of the unconscious. With its compelling drones and haunting atmosphere Mare Idiophonika is a masterpiece of transcendental soundscapes. It is a mind-blowing dreamy and moving experience, reaching out towards the inner self and beyond. [press-release] European edition in oversized cardboard folder with silver print.
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TROUM -- "Mare Morphosis" -- CD -- €12
2013 Transgredient Records, TR-09, (ltd. 1000)
'Mare morphosis' forms the third & final part of TROUMs so called 'Power Romantic' trilogy that started with 'Mare Idiophonika' in 2010. The basic materials & arrangements for this one long epic piece were created from 2009-2013 (partly based on the recordings for the 'Bach Eingeschaltet, Dritter Band' 7" dealing with experimental reworkings of J.S.BACH pieces) & to some extent used live in different live-programmes: A piece like an 'Ocean of Transformations', morphing through various stages of intensity. 'Mare morphosis' stands out in the history of TROUM studio-albums as their most symphonic, refined and orchestral effort so far. Cover photography by Paul Takahashi, graphic design by Tilmann Benninghaus (8 panel fold out digipack). [label info]
[bandcamp]
TROUM -- "Ryna" -- CD -- €12
1998/2006 Transgredient Records, TR-04
Re-release of Troum's long sold out first album from 1998 with new artwork by Tilmann Benninghaus. Digipack.
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TROUM -- "Sigqan" -- CD -- €12
2003/2009 Transgredient Records, TR-06
Sigqan was produced January to April 2002 at Ghuto-m studios, in Bremen, Germany. It was based on a live performance on their tour throughout Germany and Netherlands with Ultrasound in October 2001. Part 1 & 2 were recorded live in the studio in one take with no overdubs. Part 3 is a new ending-part added later. The first edition was originally released in June 2003 on Desolation House Records (a side-label of Relapse Records).
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TROUM & MARTYN BATES -- "To a Child Dancing in the Wind" -- CD -- €12
2006 Transgredient Records, TR-03
Profound songs inspired by Yeats-poems: The acoustic transformation of the deepest yearning for this release, the German 'transcendental-drone'-duo Troum teams up with the legendary British singer/songwriter and Eyeless In Gaza-member Martyn Bates. More than 2 years in the making, Martyn Bates has sung & played (mouth organ & melodica) over basic material Troum provided - consisting of harmonic minimal loops & basic song structures derived from accordion, e-bass & guitar, percussion, who were then also responsible for the final subsequent additional mastering (adding more guitar-work, voices & balalaika). Martyn Bates has chosen to sing four poems of the famous Irish poet W.B.Yeats, and he did this with a most impressive sensitivity for Troum's very sublime & rather hidden harmonic structures. There are also two instrumentals in a more experimental style on this disc, one being a dark drone reprise of the main piece 'Mad As the Mist and Snow #2.' Martyn's voice is surely not something for everyone - it's of an extreme emotional & yearnful quality that might be not easy to stand - a yearning which is like a deep 'cry out to the horizon,' to something that is unreachable per se, feeling a passion that tears you apart inside. This is pure emotional poetry transformed into yearnful audible spherics! [label info]
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TROUM & YEN POX -- "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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UR -- "J" -- C-45 -- €5
2011 Silentes Tapestry, Collezione Del Silenzio - J, (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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VARIOUS ARTISTS -- "Drone-Mind // Mind-Drone Vol. 4" -- LP -- €16
2015 Drone Records, MIND-04, (ltd. 400)
After a long break listening to many demos of newcomers (showing us the drone 'scene' is alive & kicking!) we can finally present you Vol. 4 in our ongoing series, with new names you probably don't know yet: JEREMIE MATHES (France), KIRILL PLATONKIN (Russia), ILIOU PERSIS (Portugal), and ROMAN KHARKOVSKY (pseudonym for a drone ambient newcomer from Pakistan!); edition of 400 in four vinyl colours [each lim. 100 for every artists choice]. [label info]
VARIOUS ARTISTS -- "Drone-Mind // Mind-Drone Vol. 5" -- LP -- €16
2016 Drone Records, MIND-05, (ltd. 400)
Four "Drones" on one record! Volume FIVE (MIND-05) is OUT NOW (Oct. 2016) and features: GYDJA, CLADE, MONOCUBE, YRSEL. GYDJA: (New Zealand) Enchanting female drone esoterica by an artist who is also known through her stunning artworks for COLD SPRING and other labels. Through magnetic winds and metallic clouds the long track "Gjallarbru" creates a wonderful secretful and sensitive atmosphere; very lonely and frosty, like a cold and clear consciousness released on a high mountain, on top of the world... CLADE: (Scotland / USA) Named after a notion taken from biology science (=Monophylum), this duo is based in Scotland and USA, alluring with very focused minimal drones on so far four releases. The two tracks presented here stand out with their use of somehow refractional, fibrous sounds, placed on monotonus drones with a very sedative and insistent effect... MONOCUBE: (Ukraine) This "ethereal drone" discovery from Ukraine moves musically through endless spaces, creating choral-like aural clouds and strange melodies => self-supporting drones with an incredible width, when even the smallest particles of concrete microsound encountering are exciting, entering into a heavenly "song of the sirens" choir... YRSEL: (France) Another bi-national project is this French-Swedish collaboration of JULIEN LOUVET (2:13 PM, etc.) and C-J LARSGЕRDEN (ONDO), who released three albums so far. Their track "Krstnhmnbrtncrt" consists of very heavy, swallowing drones with atonal elements coming to the surface, diffus and poisonous but also lulling you into a deep (dead) sleep., slowly drowning in dense humming waves of cryptic drones... SOLID SILVER COLOURED VINYL, graphic design by ABBY HELASDOTTIR, using two paintings by British painter PETE GREENING; limited ed. of 400 copies. [label info]
VARIOUS ARTISTS -- "Drone-Mind // Mind-Drone Vol. 6" -- LP -- €16
2017 Drone Records, MIND-06, (ltd. 400)
The newest edition in our DRONE EXPLORERS series, for MIND EXPLORERS, with: NAM-KHAR (Germany), FOR KINGS AND QUEENS (Germany), MARKIAN VOLKOV (Italy) and KEVIN DURR (U.S.A.), ranging from nature vocal-drone to electronic ethno rituals to surrealistic soundscapes. Lim. 400 on beautiful blue-violet-transparent vinyl, with amazing cover-art (a true 3D effect with the use of extra golden pantone colour) by TILMANN BENNINGHAUS, using paintings by British painter PETE GREENING... NAM-KHAR: (Germany): A German collective being influenced by Tibetan philosophy, working in the 'old school' way using analogue electronics and original instruments from the Far East, for the first time on vinyl. The two conjoined tracks consist of dense analogue expanses that wave and move minimally, sparse metallic object sounds and wheezing winds, plus delicate percussion. Very best ethno ambient drone!.. MARKIAN VOLKOV (Italy): This completely anonymous project from Italy excites with hypno-percussive, tribalesque and droning ritual industrial, repetitive structures and samples immersing into echoes and electronic noises with great effect. The two tracks presented share a most captivating tension and power... FOR KINGS AND QUEENS (Germany): After some very promising self-released CD-R's the long track 'Grenzland' (borderland) is the first vinyl appearance for this Berlin-based project [a couple with a professional opera singer], - a deeply surrealistic soundscape with layers of high-pitched sinus tone drones and waves, unreal female voices appear and slowly metallic drones burst in and whirring shortwave radio sounds. Welcome to the borderlands of reality... KEVIN DURR: (USA): Field recordings of water (streams, rain and environment) and vocal whispers seem to be the only sound sources for two highly suggestive, almost caressing nature drone pieces, transformed through clever processing. KEVIN DURR hails originally from Alaska and has been active in various musical project and genres before he started the 'water drone' project with a series of tracks using especialy water sounds combined with binaural recordings techniques and ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridican Response) = two most subtle and fascinating acoustic landscapes. [label info]
VARIOUS ARTISTS -- "Steinklang Industries Disco 1994-2004" -- CD -- €5
2004 Steinklang Industries
This compilation/sampler contains tracks of the most outstanding Steinklang artists, taken from different albums and singles, both from old sold-out vinyl/CDR releases and from forthcoming albums. The booklet of this CD contains full illustrated discography of the label since 1994 to 2004. Total playing time - 89 minutes. Austro-german power-noise and death-electronics as it is. Artists: Rasthof Dachau, Atrox, Painslut, Sektion B, Krieger, Operation Julmond, Legion Condor, Viron, Simon Schall, DKF, A Challenge of Honour, Stahlwerk 9, Code 243, A.R.S., Tormentum, Radio Murmansk, Leiche Rustikal, Institution D.O.L., Allerseelen, Riharc Smiles, Sagentoeter, Sturmpercht.
VARIOUS ARTISTS -- "Steinklang Industries IV: 2007-2008" -- CD -- €5
2007 Steinklang Industries
Part 4 of the label compilation series - half harsh industrial and half folk music. 80 min. / 20 tracks: Indigo Larvae, Flutwacht, Teatro Satanico, KK Null, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Screloma, Dissecting Table, Radio Murmansk, A Minority Of One, Jahrtal, The Joy Of Nature, Defile Des Ames, Scivias, Svarrogh, Seelenthron, Traum'er Leben, Trinithos, Falkenstein, Jannerwein, A Challenge Of Honour.
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