Probably the most depressing Deutsch Nepal album, earlier released as a limited edition by Staalplaat (1999), now with new artwork. Genial project author Der General remarked sometime ago that during the recording of "Erosion" there persisted the feeling that this was the last work of Deutsch Nepal after which nothing will remain... perhaps only death. This almost came true as Deutsch Nepal went silent after the recording for nearly 10 years. Now the masterpiece of melancholy clad in an elegant digipak and with an enhanced sound triumphantly opens the golden worlds to the audience again.
The genial album "Tolerance" is one more golden deja vu of industrial culture, originally released by Staalplaat (1994). The new release of this cult album enjoys an enhanced sound and a new package design from the author Lina Baby Doll. Those who do not know Lina Baby Doll’s masterpieces, should be informed that "Tolerance" is an artefact of the early stage of Deutsch Nepal's music. The period is characterised by ritual tribal rhythms, mesmerising loops and indeed suggestive psychedelic atmospheres. Digipak.
FIRE IN THE HEAD - 'As The Nest Burns' CD (Autarkeia)
"As The Nest Burns” is an album about the darkest depths of psychosis, about the delusions and actions over which one has no control when entrenched in a manic state and the nightmares from which some never awaken. It is an album born in the blackest of times, to be listened to in the blackest of times. With this recording F/I/T/H experiments with new arsenal of sounds and techniques adding a heavily psychedelic edge to his mix of noise / power electronics / drone. These are the straight-jacketed screams from the bowels of a mental institution. Ltd x 400 copies.
The tenth album by the Lithuanian post industrial pioneer Girnu Giesmes uniquely marks the jubilee of composing and is distinguished by its special maturity and professionalism. Each frequency, sample or rhythm has been composed by the author himself. Some tracks are in a drone style, others in ambient, while the third contains dynamic, elemental rhythms. However, all tracks in the album have one common trait - they cannot be compared to anything else you heard before. Even the general mood of the album, although it is very close to human emotions, is practically indescribable in words. Most probably the title of Bevardes Salos (Nameless Islands) has been purposefully chosen for this musical journey, so that various listeners could explore and discover their unique vision emerging from the play of sounds. Ltd x 500 copies in a digipak.
This Swedish Dark Ambient sound sculptor (who has already shown his mettle as a member of IRM) has also released albums for such noted labels as Malignant Records, Autarkeia and Segerhuva. "Fragile Confrontation" finds Eric Jarl looking back into the sparse, cold isolationist landscapes of "Sealed Void", while instilling an undercurrent of impending violence, like a blade slowly moving toward flesh in tense, scraping frame-by-frame action. Metallic drones and static waves slide against each other as the confrontation between steel and skin comes to a mind-numbing collision. Mastered by Peter Andersson (Raison D'Etre).
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JARL - 'Turbulence Colour' 2 x CD (Autarkeia)
"Turbulence Colour" is the tenth album of talented Swedish composer Erik Jarl (IRM), containing two and a half hours of new, never released sound material over two CDs. In terms of music, Erik Jarl remains loyal to his original but dismal style. Very long, hypnotic tracks convey unbearable, depressing and morbid states of human psyche. "Turbulence Colour" is at the same time a journey into the grey matrix of anxiety where the listeners are masterfully taken through the sickly labyrinths of the author’s mind. The latest Erik Jarl’s release is the top class drone psycho-collage. Presented in a stunning debossed 6-panel digipak inserted into an embossed slipcase. Extremely high quality product! Ltd x 500. Lithuanian import.
"Vertigo Emission" is the twelfth album of Swedish genius Erik Jarl. The composer remains loyal to the style he propagates. Slow, very heavy and dismal sound waves grip the listeners and take them into the colourless, uncanny and morbid world. Like the previous ones, this album reminds a person who could earlier see the colours but became colour blind and in order to adapt to the new situation has to understand familiar yet irreversibly changed signs anew. The aesthetics of Erik Jarl's sonic decoration is like always very austere and merciless, however, it is marked by endless charm resulting from especially sensitive and subtle construction. Ltd x 200 copies in an embossed glossy digipak.
Vertigo Rebirth is the 14th album from Swedish composer Erik Jarl (IRM) and the third and final part of the Vertigo trilogy. Like the earlier albums, this one generates particularly severe emotions: isolation, intoxication and especially negative, poisonous intuition. The album opens with a track that has a construction uncharacteristic to his previous works. This composition contains quite strange rhythms and is rather dynamic, which generates deceptive elation. But that’s only the first track of the album. The rest fling the audience back to the cold uncompromising space of drone, piercing and crushing all attempts to perceive the phenomenon of Jarl’s impasse. This is one more remarkable album for potential suicides. Ltd x 200 copies in a digipak.
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MALDUR ATAI - 'Alarm / Valhala' 7" (Autarkeia)
The second single of Maldur Atai is much sharper than the first. Expressive ambient / martial, powerful WWII samples generate darkly uncanny and psychedelic atmosphere. Like the first single, this one is also characterised by its astonishing completeness. It seems any addition would disturb this especially precise and well-balanced harmony of tracks. Ltd x 230 copies in an embossed sleeve.
This is the first full album from Lithuanian industrial / ambient project Maldur Atai. This hour long album emanates a strong and solid atmosphere that grows, develops and changes during each exquisitely constructed track. All are related to violence in religion and religion as an arcane or masked violator acting in informational reality. This album reveals religion as a system marketed and propagated by invisible conspirators. Checkpoint is a filtration camp where children's souls are met by elitist creatures of the arcane society wearing black mantles and hiding their faces. They lie, they enslave, they manipulate and they involve you in the vicious circle with almost no hope of retreat. Checkpoint is an abstract, universal and purified vision of Maldur Atai in which many will recognise their own very personal experiences and the symbols of the everyday secret war. Ltd x 300 copies in a digipak.
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MALDUR ATAI - 'Patrols Of Paradise' 10" (Autarkeia)
Two long and powerful tracks from Maldur Atai provide a unique interpretation of the political and religious insularity and power of the Muslim world, secret currents and moods of this mechanism expanding its influence. The listeners will discover powerful, solid ambient, political incantations of the Muslims and strong, unsettling atmospheres in the professionally constructed tracks of this 10". This captures the reflection of today's Iran. It is mysterious and alluring, vilified by Zionist propaganda, yet independent and unbroken. Don't buy if you're easily offended. Ltd x 230 copies in an embossed sleeve.
Another release to celebrate 15 years of Megaptera! "Exended Chaos" consists of two old releases, "Near Death" and "Beautiful Chaos". "Near Death" (cassette, Sound Source 1991) was Megaptera's first official release and is the only release with all 3 members (Peter Nyström, Magnus Pettersson, Mikael Svensson). Using drum machine, various synths, movies, TV, radio and microphone they created a totally analogue and dirty death theme. On this CD, 3 bonus tracks are added from the same period. Get prepared for old school! "Beautiful Chaos" (MCD, Fever Pitch 1998), has been extended to 10 tracks. The extra material is the two classic tracks 'Shadowland' and 'Sodom' from the "Death Odors" compilation, the two tracks from the "In the Buchers Backyard" compilation, a bombastic remix of the apocalyptic 'Final Day' (by The Protagonist) and an extended version of 'Shadowland', remixed by Peter Nyström and Magnus Sundström. The sound of "Beautiful Chaos" is structured and heavy with an "end of the world" theme, using sampled and mixed sounds. Mastered by Magnus Sundström. Ltd x 500 hand-numbered copies in a stunning foldout digipak, with an embossed slipcase. Highly recommended!
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SABLE MOUVANT - 'Out Of The Nightmare / Back To The Dream' 7" (Autarkeia)
After his debut drone / ambient album bridge that leads nowhere, Lithuanian composer GyS produced two new especially suggestive tracks. This is a hypnotic trip to transitional states: between sleep and wakefulness, day and night. This is a travel to the twilight and its secrets, of both nature and subconscious. This short album marked by genius reminds a certain transformation. Opening with sombre anxious accords, the album ends with total immersion into the state close to deep sleep. Ltd x 257 copies on brown vinyl.
Debut album from Lithuanian post-Industrial / ritual project Spanxti. The album is full of maturity and has an elaborate structure, dedicated to recall the atmosphere and gravity of ancient rituals. Every track represents a separate ritual which is extremely authentic in the way it simulates rituals performed by ancestors in the past. It strove to restore the authenticity of rituals by using the original scripts of ritual / mythological content, created in ancient Indo-European languages. All scripts are authentic, written down hundreds or thousands of years ago, and clearly represent the outlook of the ancient world. The title of the album is the reconstructed word of the Proto-Indo-European, which means “the earth”. The whole album is an integral ritual, consisting of a few smaller ones, and a certain attempt to experience the archaic spirit in authentic way. Ltd x 200 copies in a jewelcase with die-cut slip.
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SURVIVAL UNIT - 'Murder For The Mission' CD (Autarkeia)
Although the cult album "Fentanyl Martyrs" embodied the death of Survival Unit project, the latter is toxic even while buried. The zombies are coming back. The new album Murder For The Mission is Volume 1 of old and very rare, almost unobtainable retrospective records of the Swedish cult project or the collection of cultural terrorism. The album Murder For The Mission includes both released and yet unreleased tracks from a few sessions. These are Vemod label's tape Murder For The Mission, a concert in Paris and a very limited edition on Utan Fana. So the audio terror goes on and those who believe that it has ended after the "Fentanyl Martyrs" act, now will pay the double price. The extremely aggressive psycho-powerelectronics shock full of hatred and insane samples will get them. Digipak.
SURVIVAL UNIT - 'Tied Down For Survival' CD (Autarkeia)
Originally released as a limited edition in 2003 (self-released). At the times of global crisis, the zombies of cultural terrorism strike again with the fire of new toxic power. Tied Down For Survival is a old/new blow from the Scandinavian cult project Survival Unit to the rotten cancer of Western civilisation and the second collection of rarities in the golden collection of cultural terrorism series. This is an exceptionally suggestive, psychedelic power electronics with deeply terrorising implications. Here you will listen to unreleased live records, passages from limited edition utan fana and the controversial conspiracy theory of Rolf-Peter Andersson, where Swedish monarch family, Indira Gandhi and Mikhail Gorbachev practice cannibalism. Digipak.
Coming from the master of Lithuanian post-industrial, Laurynas Jukonis (Oro!Oro!, Girnu Giesmes), this project reveals his sincere interest in the roots of the civilisation, the beginning of the archaic, multi-meaningful, solid and conflictless reality. Svaixt's music consists of deep, pulsating and very transparent ambient building up a mystic, arcane atmosphere. The value of the album lies in the absence of digital sounds, recorded only by playing single brass percussion, inducing meditation and providing the sound with a strong oriental zest. Originally self-released in an edition of 50 copies, the album is now complemented by new artwork and presented in a limited edition digipak of 500 copies.
"Zachystka (Fuck The Modern World)" is dedicated to the second NORDIC AUDIO MODERN festival which took place in Vilnius, May 2005. Exclusive, remixed or previously unreleased tracks from the following performers at the festival: Con-Dom, Deutsch Nepal, Frozen Faces, Hazard, Janitor, The Grey Wolves, Traur Zot and Wejdas. In the slang of Russian military task-force, “Zachystka” carries the meaning of purging a certain territory of everything that moves and breathes. Digipak.
