Russian post-industrial music from George Beloglazov, who also creates computer games with an unconventional author approach. The action takes place in March 1953 in an abandoned Soviet bunker - a place of strange experiments on the human psyche. The game explores such themes as the limits of mental possibilities, EVP, experiments with thought-transference and impact of fear on the human organism. The game soundtrack, presented on this CD, embodies the project's concept in sound. Imbued with an industrial atmosphere, leisurely soundscapes turn into states of calm estrangement and isolationism. Excursions into the unknown corners of the consciousness bring to its surface old memories and long forgotten yet vaguely familiar images... and laboratorial claustrophobia grows into light melancholia. This musical picture is performed in the trademark style of Anthesteria combining abstract dark ambient, melodic neoclassical and experimental sonic artifacts. Ltd x 500 copies in an A5 gatefold card sleeve with full-colour cards depicting game locations and fragments of a book about mental suggestions from 1962. Finished off in a nice card slipcase.
BAD SECTOR - 'The Harrow' CD (Ewers Tonkunst / Indiestate Distribution)
Reissue of the 2001 release (Ltd x 584 copies, AVA/ES1-Reset) from this Italian legend. Maybe the most dark and obscure work of Bad Sector, this is an absolutely brilliant masterpiece of anxious claustrophobic dark ambient with a touch of radio noise, digital Geiger counter sounds and some sparks of subtle melodic threads, inspired by Kafka's work. Released in a digifile with all new artwork.
UK 11£
Europe 12£
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COLD FUSION - 'Rundfunktechnische Versuchsanstalt I' CD (War Office Propaganda / Rage In Eden)
Rundfunktechnische Versuchsanstalt was the experimental radio engineering outpost created in Germany in July 1940. On Cold Fusion’s latest record you will find some compositions that were available earlier on previous limited publications, ("Parabellum", "63 days", "The Sound Of Nothingness"). Additionally, the CD has been enriched with 7 tracks from "The Radio Of Destroyed City" 2004 sessions that have never been published before. Martial Industrial / Dark Ambient. Digipak.
DMT - 'Selected Funbient Works 1-4' 2 x CD (Zhelezobeton / Aquarellist / Monochrome Vision / KultFront)
Dmitriy Tolmatskiy (1970-2009) - a journalist and musician from the city of Saratov, one of the first promoters of alternative intellectual culture and particularly industrial music in post-Soviet Russia. He was the creator of the RWCDAX website, which had certain influence on the mindset of many modern personalities of Russian post-industrial art. The compositions included on "Selected Funbient Works 1-4" were recorded by the Dmitriy in the first half of 00s. Initially it was planned to release four parts of "Funbient" on four separate CDs. However later Dmitriy selected the best for a double album release. The album vividly displays the complex music world of DMT, which, like everything innovative, exists on the crossing of several musical styles and directions: from dark-ambient and industrial noise sketches to technoid rhythms and pure sonic experiments. Ltd x 500 copies in a gatefold digisleeve.
HALL OF MIRRORS - 'Altered Nights' 2 x CD (Malignant Records)
3rd CD from the acclaimed Dark Ambient duo of Andrea Marutti (Amon, Never Known) and Giuseppe Verticchio (Nimh). Spread out over two CDs and totaling over 100 minutes, there’s a lot to absorb here; organic, textural ambience that’s murky and abstract, uncurling like tendrils of smoke before coalescing into a simulacrum of shadowy figures, to turbulent, more immersive post industrial sounds that prowl the depths of subterranean caverns and forgotten, still radioactive ruins. At its core, this is dark ambient, but with its roughly edged, mildly corrosive machine edges and cascading factory whir, Hall Of Mirrors moves into a much more active and cerebral sonic realm. Features contributions from Vestigial, New Risen Throne and K11. A must for fans of Troum, Terra Sancta and early Zoviet France. 6 panel eco-wallet.
UK 13.50£
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IN SLAUGHTER NATIVES - 'Insanity & Treatment' 3 x CD (Infinite Fog Productions)
The bloody awaited new release from the cult Swedish Industrial / Dark Ambient act! Jouni Havukainen has never released his records too often. In over 20 years of existence, ISN have produced just five full-length albums, each of which is an approachless peak in the history of dark music. "Insanity & Treatment" is a collection of the group's live performances, the best of which have been carefully selected and remastered personally by the author. You'll discover the legendary radio recording of Mort Aux Vaches, concerts in Madrid, France, Prague and Moscow. Rediscover classics such as 'Purgate My Stain', 'Death, Just Only Death' and 'You Are The Dead'. Features appearances from Tomas Pettersson (Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio), Kathleen Binder (Transistor) and Peter Andersson (Raison D'Etre). Ltd x 999 copies in a stunning digibook designed by Jerome Nougaillon (Propergol).
UK 26£
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KSHATRIY - 'Slepok Soznaniya' CD (Muzyka Voln)
The project Kshatriy appeared on the Russian post-industrial scene in 2004 and Muzyka Voln now presents the project's first "professional" CD with the album "Slepok Sonzaniya" ("a mould of consciousness"). This work is based on the concept of consciousness of a warrior, a galactic warrior of light, bringing to world pure knowledge, infinite silence, perfect balance, a moment of power and might, a flight of freedom, love, serenity, joy, light, unified time, eternal life, simplicity and bliss. The music of the project can be described as fractal dark drone ambient with lots of patterns, woven from various sonic fibres: synthesized drones, processed field recordings, acoustic echoes and rhythmic loops. Calm and profound, filled with resilience and hidden power, like an endless ocean of tranquility, energy and beauty. Ltd x 500 copies in a digipak.
MAJDANEK WALTZ & SAL SOLARIS - 'Tenebrae' CD (Zhelezobeton / Shadowplay Release)
A collaboration album by two prominent Russian post-industrial projects. The conceptual core of the record is the poetry of Paul Celan, one of the major German-language poets of the post-World War II era. His cryptic fractured lyrics spoken in a specific estranged way by Pavel Blumkin is enchased by a weird fusion of avant-garde neoclassic and dark ambient music. Decadent sounds of violin, cello, clarinet, piano and bayan from Majdanek Waltz blend with shimmering electronic drones and uneasy soundscapes of Sal Solaris in paradoxical unity making your heart throb painfully. The last track features the haunting voice of Rada Anchevskaya (Rada & Ternovnik). The depth of this dream lures and makes you return and experience it again and again.
"Maleficia is the bay area duo of Andy Way (Orchest, French Radio, Carrion) and Ilysea Viles Sunderman, who crafted this desolate, post-industrial smear of voice, violin, and electronics for the always impressive isounderscore label. With the titles of the two side long pieces being "Making" and "Remaking," Maleficia offers a crucible of elemental sounds being obliterated into a charred dust and rebuilt into ashen constructions of misery and disgust... The industrialized loops that wraps around the voice and violin come across like a slow-motion Maurizio Bianchi on par with the downer records he did with Land Use or the grim power electronic phase in the early '80s. Certainly for fans of Amber Asylum, early Lustmord, and the dark ambient aspects of Broken Flag" (Aquarius). Ltd x 400 copies.
RADIO KUOLEMA - 'Symphony No. 2 Op. 29 For Cembalo And Dying Children' CD (Ars Benevola Mater)
Radio Kuolema's 2007 album is a journey in seven stages carved in dark ambient landscapes which taste of infinity. Atmospheres suspended in time, true industrial symphonies melting in the sidereal space. Hearts of rust facing the stars. Without possibility of redemption. Ltd x 535 copies in an outsized textured sleeve with artcard.
UK 11£
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VA - 'Apocalyptic Streams' CD (Apocaltyptic Radio)
Dark Ambient, Power Electronics, Noise and Experimental music from: Antracot, Atrox, Brechen, Errare Humanum Est, Kadaver, Moral Fraktal, MX Nihil, N.Strahl.N, Noiseconcrete, Praying For Oblivion, Steel Hook Prostheses, Tod Durch Arbeit, Vronthor and Wach. Ltd x 250 hand-numbered copies in an outsized, hand-assembled digipak.
UK 10.50£
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VA - 'Dark Ambient Radio Vol. 1' CD (Dark Ambient Radio)
A genre compilation that emerged around the web radio of the same name. 72 minutes of the finest dark ambient, with each of the eleven tracks having been created exclusively for the release. From established acts to relative newcomers, this completely self-produced collection is a gem waiting to be discovered! Features: Ah Cama-Sotz & All Sides, Dark Muse & Nihil Communication, Evoke Scurvee, False Mirror, Megatone, Mytrip, Nagual Art, Phelios, Phobos, Stephen Parsick and Svartsinn & All Sides.
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VA - 'Dark Ambient Radio Vol. 2' CD (Dark Ambient Radio)
This compilation is the result of almost one year of careful design and polishing of cutting-edge dark ambient songs. Dark Ambient Radio managed to raise the bar with this superb collection of dark ambient music. As with Vol. 1, each of the 11 tracks here has been created exclusively for this release. Features: Arkhitektur, Aspectee, Crepuscular, False Mirror, Inner Vision Laboratory, Nagual Art, Phelios, Phobos, Therradaemon, Tholen and Troum.
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VA - 'Radio Rivendell Compilation' CD (Waerloga / Radio Rivendell)
Fans of dark ambient, orchestral, neofolk and fantasy music will enjoy this compilation! You can listen to the album as an instrumental soundtrack to several (non-existent) fantasy films or games (LOTR fans take note!). Features almost all previously unreleased tracks from Abnocto, Balaghan, Dimitrij Volstoj, Erdenstern, Gargim The Liar, Helen Trevillion, Lost Kingdom, Markus Holler, Morgan The Bard, Project Morfeo, RIsing Shadows, Sean Beeson, Sibelian, Tincolindo, Tom W Hall and Wilbert Roget II - many of whom are established game / film soundtrack composers.
Vresnit, the project from Yaroslavl, is devoted to harvesting, separation of grains from weed. Six Dark Drone Ambient mysteries grown from processed tape field recordings, live flutes, analogue electronics, hand bells, trance rhythmic structures and voices. Cause and effect... We reap what we sow. The meditation over fire as the breathing of Space Itself... comprehension of the greatness of action and oneself in it... Balance, transition, watching the light, and watching the watcher of Light. Ltd x 363 hand-numbered copies in a 6-panel outsize sleeve with insert.
VULTURES Vs AMPERSAND - 'Vultures Vs Ampersand' CD (Born In Mind)
This album boasts dark ambient and industrial sounds that recall Italian Futurism in two 30-minute tracks that highlight the unusual instrumentation and varied musical backgrounds of the two projects. Ampersand, led by artist and musician Stephen Oldfield, builds and performs with giant metallic structures created in his Deptford home. Along with the sound sculptures, Ampersand uses missile shell casings, corrugated iron sheets, and a dismantled piano as well as radios, detuned electric bass, and enhanced electronics. Vultures Quartet for this recording features prepared zither, a Korg synthesizer, metal percussion, bowed cymbals, and house hold objects such as pot lids, a wok, table legs, and a CD rack. Many of the acoustic sounds made by the quartet were manipulated and reintroduced into the composition through the live computer processing of member Matt Chilton. Digipak.
