15 DEGREES BELOW ZERO - 'Resting On A' CD (Edgetone Records)
With their third full length CD, 15 Degrees Below Zero re-introduce the listener to their signature blend of guitar, digital and analog atmospheres, and noise. The trio continue to explore a territory of noise-oriented soundscapes, rich drones, flowing ambient and compositional narratives that emerge between the planes of discord and melody, but with this release, a feeling of spaciousness underlies the existing tension.
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ACCURST - 'Fragments Of A Nightmare' CD (Colflesh Records)
Accurst is a concept project exploring the nightmares of existence and the horrors of the subconscious. Echoing distant screams, psychotic laughter, the soundtrack to a soulless madman's dream. Psychotic vocal effects drift through the low drones and repetitive melodic elements. This is a disturbing album, which should appeal to fans of dark ambient artists like Legion, Atrium Carceri, MZ 412 and Nordvargr.
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AIDAN BAKER & THISQUIETARMY - 'Orange (Extended)' CD (Lunasylum)
"Orange" was the first collaboration between the two Canadian drone-doom guitarists Aidan Baker (Nadja) & Eric Quach. After sharing a bill in 2005 with their respective bands, they exchanged files by mail, which were then mixed by Quach in Montreal during the summer of 2006. The result was released as an EP through Quach's imprint (TQA Records). "Orange" is now reissued, re-edited, remastered and extended into a 47 minute CD, with the addition of 4 extra tracks from the same sessions that were left behind five years ago. Ltd x 400 copies in a mini-LP sleeve.
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ALFREDO COSTA MONTEIRO - 'Epicycle - Metallic Brown Cover Edition' CD (Etude Records)
Portuguese minimal-electro-acoustic artist Alfredo Costa Monteiro surprises with "Epicycle". The steady-state, relatively drone-ish character of this 38-minute piece of work is much more fluid than his earlier work and is also based on sound recordings of his voice, although processed virtually beyond recognition. "�picycle" fluctuates from roars to barely perceptible pings, often with an abruptness that initially startles but on second listen seems entirely natural, like a cloud suddenly blotting out sunlight. It's a fascinating, chillingly beautiful journey; you never feel quite safe but always have the sense you're in capable, acutely sensitive hands guided by a deep musical imagination. Comes in an outsized sleeve with metallic brown cover.
ALFREDO COSTA MONTEIRO - 'Epicycle - Metallic Red Cover Edition' CD (Etude Records)
Portuguese minimal-electro-acoustic artist Alfredo Costa Monteiro surprises with "Epicycle". The steady-state, relatively drone-ish character of this 38-minute piece of work is much more fluid than his earlier work and is also based on sound recordings of his voice, although processed virtually beyond recognition. "�picycle" fluctuates from roars to barely perceptible pings, often with an abruptness that initially startles but on second listen seems entirely natural, like a cloud suddenly blotting out sunlight. It's a fascinating, chillingly beautiful journey; you never feel quite safe but always have the sense you're in capable, acutely sensitive hands guided by a deep musical imagination. Comes in an outsized sleeve with metallic red cover.
The first vinyl release of the enchanting Polish act Artefactum. Described by herself as "Female Esoterica", "Sub Rosa" opens a vast space filled with different sounds coming from very far away, as nebulous melodies, whispers, voices and choirs, little clicks and cracks, with soft percussive structures appearing on Side B. The two pieces named "Rosa Alba" and "Rosa Rubea" (white & red rose) have a strong metaphorical alchemistic background, meaning the end point of all alchemistic transmutations. The overall release including the beautiful artwork gives the impression of an almost fabulous acoustic fantasy, so refined and almost caressing yet secretive at the same time. Second edition of 300 copies on pink vinyl with insert, in a handmade cover with decoratively cut corners.
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AS LOUD AS POSSIBLE - 'Issue One' Magazine
Hotly anticipated inaugural issue of this UK 'Noise Culture' magazine, packed full of articles, in-depth discographical analysis, and historical reportage that shines new light onto near-forgotten corners of experimental music history, be it harsh noise, industrial, power electronics, drone, sound poetry, musique concrete, dark ambient, or any other subgenre you care to name. Featuring unprecedented access to performers recent and classic, ALAP combines internet-age access with postal correspondence-era obsession to provide new perspectives and information, while still offering comparative reporting on recent recordings and artists in order to contextualize the entire development. Selected articles in this issue: 36-page history of Broken Flag, No Fun festival, 30 years of The Haters, HNW, Apraxia Records, Sewer Election, Putrefier, Cheapmachines, Zone Nord, IDES, Climax Denial, Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock, Alien Brains, Storm Bugs And Anti-Messthetics. All this plus opinion columns and an amazing 40 pages of reviews! A4, 166pp, perfect bound and offset printed. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!
First vinyl for Asianova - Ure Thrall of Voice Of Eye and Pamela Passmore, with several guests - and the second in the "Substantia Innominata" series from Drone Records (the first being Daniel Menche's "Radiant Blood"). Over 30 minutes of music inspired by "the unknown, the unnameable, the unspeakable, the unthinkable". Musically this release sits between experimental drone and ethno-ambient. Haunting sound effects and eerie female vocals are carefully layered over a combination of drones, soundscapes and ambience. File next to Hybryds. First edition of 500 copies with full colour cover and pressed on pink / white marbled vinyl.
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ATAVIST / NADJA - 'II:Points At Infinity' CD (Profound Lore Records)
Spanning two epic elongated tracks (around 22 minutes each), 'Points At Infinity' goes much further substance and depth wise than the first experimentation these two acts converged in. Taking this experiment between both acts to the next level, 'Points At Infinity' takes the doom / drone / ambient experiment into new territory as both acts continue to push new sonic ground. 'Points At Infinity' also marks the first Atavist recording featuring the new Atavist line-up which consists of new vocalist Matt Bartley and ex-Narcosis bass player Oliver Turner. Of course Nadja is and always will be Aidan Baker and Leah Buckareff. 6-panel digipak.
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AUTHOR & PUNISHER - 'Drone Machines' CD (HCB Records)
By squelching, triggering, amputating, stretching and tormenting sounds achieved from the execution of heavy machinery into vivid instruments, Author & Punisher offers "Drone Machines". Nonetheless, "Drone Machines" is beyond avantgarde, in that exciting sense that it brings together slow-paced Doom whips, modern technology, an eerie flood of vile drones and heavy machinery in a whole new perspective. It's also an album that is reviving the Industrial Metal genre from its ashes and rephrasing the primeval passion for that classic bestial drum pound with rancid low end and sonic-metallic scraping. Recommended if you like Godflesh, HALO, Swans, Human Queena Orchestra, Dead World, Grave in the Sky, Khanate, Black Mayonnaise etc.
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BIG CITY ORKESTRE - 'Drone Gnomes' 10" (Substantia Innominata / Drone Records)
Fifth sonic illustration of the excellent 10" series by Drone Records, exploring "unnamed or unnameable substance". This time around we have acoustic trance from San Francisco's masters of obscure atmospheric noises. Ltd x 500 copies on blue marbled vinyl. Features artwork by well-known illustrator Mike Dringenberg!
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BIG ROAD BREAKER - 'Don't Fuck With The Angels' CD (Muzamuza Records)
Rare release from this Newcastle band. A very successful combination of reverberating atmospherics and SPK style industrial sounds. An excellent collage with a child singing, tapes growling, delayed noises, flute, drones, prepared guitar ambience and celestial choirs. A wide range of intense, ritual and psychedelic sounds. Ltd x 500 hand-numbered copies in a heavy, silk-screened PVC archive sleeve with four inserts.
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BOY DIRT CAR - 'Spoken Answer To A Silent Question' CD (Aftermusic)
The Milwaukee Noise ensemble Boy Dirt Car (including Eric Lunde) issues its first new recordings since 1988. Many of you will know the name from their appearances on RRRecords. "... I keep thinking to recognize the old Boy Dirt Car, but there is also strong memories of Impact Test [BDC member Darren Brown]. It's not easy to pin this down, but rock drone would come close I think. Slow, peaceful organ loops, heavy bass and siren like sounds, make this balancing on the fine line of ambient industrial and 'real' industrial, although this comes nowhere close to the real noise. Hard to imagine that eight (!) people play on this work. It's both retro sounding as well as new, this can be a true example for everybody who love their lo-fi noise / drone / rock music of the younger generation" [FDW]. Digipak.
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CELER - 'Vestiges Of An Inherent Melancholy' LP (Blackest Rainbow)
Second vinyl LP from this formerly active American duo of Will Long and Danielle Baquet-Long. "Vestiges Of An Inherent Melancholy" features 2 sides of unearthed recordings that were created between December 2006 and July 2008. The duo create some truly beautiful drone works with their use of an organic and electronic palette of instrumentation; cello, violin, pipe organ, electronics, tape, field recordings, samples, and mixing board. This really is a standout side from Celer, pulling together their variety of sounds to make a heart breaking collage of sounds falling between beautiful dream tones and heavier dark moments. The album pushes Celer further to the front of modern minimal composition, creating some of the finest and most beautiful, fragile drone records around. Ltd x 500 copies in thick old style hardback jackets, pressed on 140 gram vinyl.
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CISFINITUM - 'Coniunctio' 2 x CD (Ewers Tonkunst)
Cisfinitum is one of the oldest and well-known projects in the Russian industrial scene. This 2CD set contains the tracks from the most gloomy and profound albums of Cisfinitum - "Landschaft" and "Malgyl" (previously unreleased), which were recorded during 1999-2001. The material has been remastered and recompiled to become the new entity called "Coniunctio." Going through the desperate landscapes of today's dying spiritless world, the listener comes into the sacred and surreal inner space of an immaterial land full of light, mysticism and universal melancholy. One of the most beautiful and heartfelt records in the drone ambient style, reminding of the best and saddest Maeror Tri. Second edition in gatefold digisleeve with new artwork.
The fourth volume in the "Substantia Innominata" series comes from one of the best projects of the Russian experimental-atmospheric / drone / post-industrial-scene, headed by Evgueny Voronovsky from Moscow. Cisfinitum itself means the "logic of the infinite non-existence" - that "something" that is beyond all rational things. "Devotio" uses monumental bell-sounds and hypnotic drone-waves over various layers, dissolving into pure vibrations. A journey into the heart of the sacral, pointing at a sphere of transcendence where all questions end. Or begin again. First edition, ltd x 500 copies on white vinyl.
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COLLAPSAR - 'Beyond The Event Horizon' CD (Malignant Records)
Malignant presents another rising star within the dark ambient scene, this time in the form of French act Collapsar. With their debut CD, Collapsar transports the listener on an epic journey deep into the cosmos, forging a path across a vast, inky void, and steering a course around a roiling galactic core of hyper-dense stars and black holes. The sound is epic, expansive, and most of all, HEAVY. There is beauty and tranquility within these realms, but there is no light - just massive, pulsating textures coalescing into shimmering drones, rippling sound waves, and billowing, multi-dimensional layers of powerful dark energy. “Beyond the Event Horizon” is without question, dark ambient in its purest form and one of the more genre defining releases of the last several years. A must for fans of Inade, Lustmord etc. In 6 panel digipak, with design by eyelyft.
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COLOSSLOTH - 'Antipathy In Nature' LP (Doom Mantra Records)
Hailing from the middle of England, Colossloth represent the best of the new wave of British drone / doom / blackened ambient. This, their debut release on vinyl, the band wished to start with an album of ambient drone swirled in a cascade of darkness. Released on Noiseville's doom / drone side label Doom-Mantra. Ltd x 300 copies with a silk screened cover. ACT FAST!
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CONTAGIOUS ORGASM - 'One Drop Water' LP (Record Label Records)
This is the alias of Hiroshi Hashimoto. The first cut 'At The National Border' is stunning with it's electronic bleeps, bells and strings which make way for a breathtaking vocal surrounded by a chorus of vocal drones. I can imagine this soundtracking an epic Samurai movie. Just when you think things couldn't any better the track switches gear and I'm left in goosebump city. 'Wavelength To Amplify' has Hiroshi bring the noise with pounding drums, manipulated samples and acidic squiggles perhaps recalling bits of Meat Beat Manifesto. 'Acid Rain 2' on the B-side has some brain melting synthesizer sounds give way to a piano motif, congas, melancholy strings and sampled dialogue then a big thumping slow and heavy kick drum drops by. Highly original audio which is increasingly rare these days. Baby pink vinyl in a PVC archive sleeve.
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CTEPHIN - 'Duad' 7" (Drone Records)
Ctephin are a whole drone-family from the Great Plains creating bizarre and lovely ambient noise, atmospheric and noisy soundscapes with various friends and their 7 children. Calling themselves "Umbrella Noize Collective", they live to the: "Law of Liberty as laid out in Liber AL vel Legis". "Duad" is their first vinyl release and uses pumping drones, field recordings, guitars, metallic effects and a kind of very harmonic cembalo instrument. The two tracks develop in a lovely way; from pure ambience to noise and back. The same use of beautiful harmonics and noise-drones creates quite a special atmosphere. File under Thelemic Light Drones and Drone Lights. First edition of 300 copies on superb gold marbled vinyl in hand-made covers with insert.
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DANNY O'REALLY - 'An Evening With Danny O'Really' CD (Solitude Records)
Amsterdam-based noise artist / music producer Danny O'Really's first solo CD, "An Evening with..." Recorded in 2006. This CD features six original cuts of analogue / digital drone guitar manipulations. Opening with a dark industrial-like track the further pieces are more similar to 1960s tape music like from Tod Dockstader or Ilhan Mimaroglu. Amazing sounds between strength minimalist lines and noisy outbursts, highly concentrated stuff. Ltd x 500 copies.
After a few amazing cassettes, this is the very first vinyl issue for German act Dronæment, containing two flowing tracks based on water sounds, entitled "Wassermond" and "Wassertank". Sounds go up and down like waves, pulsate soft and tender, surround you like cotton wool, being added up by sensitively created electronics. This is a kind of homage to water, symbol for life, moving and development. Second edition of 300 copies on green vinyl with an inlay.
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DRONAEMENT/THE INFANT CYCLE- 'Klab' LP (The Ceiling)
It has been a long time coming, but we believe it was worth the wait. This LP is the continuation of earlier collaborations between Marcus Murkes (Dronaement) and Jim DeJong (The Infant Cycle) that appeared on releases by Drone Records and EE Tapes. This is a combination of electronics and acoustic sources melded together, always moving and changing, travelling simultaneously into the dark past and towards the uncertain future. Beautiful handmade covers by Marcus Murkes and clear vinyl. Limited to 300 copies.
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DUAL - 'Klanik' 7" (Drone Records)
The music of UK act Dual is a mixture of mighty guitar drones with massive sub bass undertones and slight rhythmic structures that evoke feelings of total transcendence and grandeur. Cascades of tuneful layered guitars speak a special language of their own, flipping over to more concrete elements and unpleasent feedback arising, added by strange backwards sounds creating a rather eerie and challenging feel to it. This is highly demanding incremental experimental guitar-music with a very individual style! Second edition of 300 copies on white vinyl with hand-coloured sleeve and an insert.
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DUST TO DEARTH / LYSERGENE - 'The Death Of The Sun' CD (Aesthetic Death Records)
Split CD from two awesome dark-minimal ambient artists: Dust To Dearth and Lysergene. Dust To Dearth is the dark ambient manifestation from Mandy (Murkrat), featuring harrowing and chilling dark desolate sounds. Meanwhile Lysergene - the side project of Esoteric member Gordon Bickness - come forth with their second release with 3 dark droning evocations of melancholic ambient drone to bring forth the Death Of The Sun.
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FALSE MIRROR - 'Derelict World' CD (Malignant Records)
After three years of intense work, Dark Ambient disciple False Mirror returns with his third full-length journey. With the timeless drones of his debut "Chronostatic Scenes" and the icy soundscapes on his highly acclaimed sophomore masterpiece "North" still resonating through space, solo artist Tobias Hornberger delivers "Derelict World", his most massive and epic undertaking so far. Dark drones, frostbitten soundscapes and warm vibrating tones from the deep bowels of the earth. From the sheer force of a tornado set loose to the beguiling calm within the eye of the storm, "Derelict World" is a 74 minute long sonic journey into a desolated, depopulated world. In a digipak containing a 20 page booklet with a conceptually linked short story written by author and journalist Bjørn Springorum. The album contains a number of hidden messages that lead to a rewarding "Bonus World" on falsemirror.de. "One of the best dark ambient releases in recent years" (Orkus).
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FEAR FALLS BURNING - 'Frenzy Of The Absolute' CD (Conspiracy Records)
On this album Dirk Serries (Vidna Obmana) blends his drone spectrum with slow repetitive drums (with drummers such as Tim Bertilsson / Switchblade and Magnus Lindberg / Cult of Luna), and additional guitar layers, manifesting a work of mysterious landscapes of ghostly echoes and whispered guitars, long stretches of blissy drift and dark washes of distorted hiss... Over the past 2 years FFB has manifested itself as a wilful and unique statement in the ever expanding drone music genre. Digipak.
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FOUNDATION HOPE - 'The Faded Reveries' CD (Cold Meat Industry)
Foundation Hope was formed in 2003 by Joep Smaling. The main idea was to make dark cinematic soundscapes with a strong focus on the harshness and cruelty of everyday life. Ironically presenting itself as a foundation, an institute that comforts seeking souls in times of distress, it is instead an attempt to confront the listener with moods of isolation, despair and sorrow. Drones, strings, melancholic tunes, confusing vocal-samples and cinematic moods. A very successful follow-up to their 2006 debut "A Call To All Redeemers" (Divine Comedy Records).
Brutal ambient noise and drone/doom split from two great young acts. Ghast offers up two monsters: the 21+ minute torturous noise / dark ambient epic "Le Noye" and the ultra sick, ascetic doom mutilation "Tetanos". The three tracks of Rape-X are united by one title "Civil Servant" and divided into 3 chapters 'The Cop', 'The Commissioner' and 'The Mayor'. A much more aggressive noise attack than the Canadians! A powerful constant noise beam oriented into infinity, along with mutant harsh voices. 70+ minutes playing time in total! Ltd x 1000 copies.
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GNAW THEIR TONGUES - 'An Epiphanic Vomiting Of Blood' CD (Crucial Blast)
Reissue of the extremely limited LP (Ltd x 250, Burning World Records) from this ultra heavy act. Harrowing, apocalyptic, bestial ritual music from the deepest, darkest cellars of the Netherlands. Avant black metal, agonising funeral doom and blackened experimental drone noise stab forth again and again until all the blood is spilt and total carnage is all that remains. Pure dread put to music. Recommended for disturbed folk into Abruptum, Khanate, Axis Of Perdition, Swans and Univers Zero. "The bleakness and sheer refusal to allow any light to permeate proceedings alongside the non-linear, sprawling nature of the tracks will alienate a lot of people, but for anyone looking for something truly extreme, you’ll have a hard time beating this" (Kerrang). Hardback digifile.
GNAW THEIR TONGUES - 'L'Arrivee De La Terne Mort Triomphante - Black' LP (Burning World Records)
Gnaw Their Tongues transcend genres, creating their own distinct sound. Descriptors include ambient black metal, funeral doom metal, industrial drone etc. Instrumentation relies heavily on keyboards and percussion, with the drumming looming in the distance like a hideous parade before a battle is set loose. Monk-like choirs, industrial emanations, bizarre samples, occasional shrieks and droning, abused guitars are all on display, brought together almost unwillingly to share the same stage. Lyrically, L’Arrivee de la Terne Mort Triomphante is a concept album about death (“morte”). Songs describe the white throne of death, address the song of death and praise death’s majesty and grandeur. For many listeners, "L’Arrivee de la Terne Mort Triomphante" will be little more than noise or frustratingly dull drone. However, fans of the outré of the genre, where bands such as Sunn O))) and Throbbing Gristle practice their art, will find much to uncover and savour. Under the anger and fear there is joy, sadness, selfishness, and self-discovery. All you have to do is let these find you. Ltd x 750 copies on black vinyl in a deluxe gatefold sleeve.
GOSPEL OF THE FUTURE - 'The Eclipse' CD (Epidemie Records)
Long-awaited second album from this Czech band. The gates of Hell are opening. Slow, loud, dense and very dark occult stoner/drone/doom. Six compositions including a slowed-down sludge/drone cover version of Master´s Hammer song "Geniove". For fans of Sunn O))), Boris, Neurosis, High On Fire. Ltd x 500 copies in a stylish 6-panel digipak with artwork created by American graphic design genius Seldon Hunt.
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HARVESTMAN - 'In A Dark Tongue - Black' 2 x LP (Burning World Records)
Sumptuous double vinyl treatment of this 2009 album (Neurot Recordings). Harvestman is the brainchild of Neurosis vocalist / guitarist Steve Von Till, who considers "In A Dark Tongue" a venture into an imagined past. The album is inspired by Hawkwind, Fairport Convention, Tangerine Dream, Pentangle, Steeleye Span, Skullflower, Caspar Brotzman and Loop, among others. It is a massive meeting point of styles and influences, all of which boil down to a surreal and inspired sound. The first Harvestman record, "A Grave Is A Grim Horse", was a dizzying confluence of delicate 70s British style folk, shimmery spaced out drift and glacial doom-drone sprawl, a constantly evolving, organic song suite that seemed to exist in some glorious blissed out druggy spacefolk otherworld. On "In A Dark Tongue", the glimmering strands of traditional folk music that had tethered the first record become even more tenuous. Black vinyl in a deluxe gatefold sleeve.
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HARVESTMAN - 'In A Dark Tongue - Gold' 2 x LP (Burning World Records)
Sumptuous double vinyl treatment of this 2009 album (Neurot Recordings). Harvestman is the brainchild of Neurosis vocalist / guitarist Steve Von Till, who considers "In A Dark Tongue" a venture into an imagined past. The album is inspired by Hawkwind, Fairport Convention, Tangerine Dream, Pentangle, Steeleye Span, Skullflower, Caspar Brotzman and Loop, among others. It is a massive meeting point of styles and influences, all of which boil down to a surreal and inspired sound. The first Harvestman record, "A Grave Is A Grim Horse", was a dizzying confluence of delicate 70s British style folk, shimmery spaced out drift and glacial doom-drone sprawl, a constantly evolving, organic song suite that seemed to exist in some glorious blissed out druggy spacefolk otherworld. On "In A Dark Tongue", the glimmering strands of traditional folk music that had tethered the first record become even more tenuous. Gold vinyl in a deluxe gatefold sleeve. FEW COPIES IN STOCK - ACT FAST!!
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The Polish duo HATI is a very active live group, using an array of archaic and ethnic instruments such as gongs, cymbals, north-African drums and clarinets, wooden trumpets, horns and flutes. What’s more, their music also includes found objects of scrap metal, plastic or wood. Their first release on vinyl presents two pieces of multi-layered gong drones, nicely processed for full trance effect and enriched with whistling and rattling sounds and delayed percussion. Above all these sounds, there’s a mighty overtune buzz with heavenly droning contemplation wafts. First edition of 300 copies on red vinyl with silk-screened covers and an inlay.
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HELICE PIED - 'Conduit No. 2' 7" (Drone Records)
Hélice Pied (previously recording under the name NIXILX.NIJILX) is a newcomer from Athens, Greece. "Conduit No. 2" is a perfect example of sensibly spun experimental drone, floating waves with metallic tinkling-sounds slowly approaching and disappearing again, soft white noise-swooshes circulating widely around an invisible centre... sound-sources are hardly recognizable (coming from concrete sounds of churchbells and e-guitar), the atmosphere rising is one of quietness & meditation, able to transcend your mind. All words & symbols Héilice uses have a strong structural and inter-related meaning. First edition of 300 copies on white vinyl with hand-painted, hand-numbered covers and an inlay.
Two great new pieces by this Russian artist, most sensible and emotional drone-ambience, a graceful dance of acoustic reflections and resonances. "Spectral Ship" and "Tidal Fire" appear like universal mantras, revealing the basic HUM of the universe. These works seem to represent perfectly the concept of the "Substantia" series: Sound that exists but which is not originating from the impact of two subjects in contact. Sound that is simply "there", with no beginning or ending. Limited to 500 copies on silver coloured vinyl, with a full colour sleeve designed by Daniel Crokaert / Mystery Sea.
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HYIOS - 'Consuetudines' CD (Malignant Records)
The alluring debut from Leipzig Germany’s Hyios offers 7 lengthy compositions of cold ritual drones, arching trajectories, and visceral descents into subterranean caverns, where rich, kinetic textures and deep resonant tones move and morph in a fluid, serpentine fashion, sprinkled with the debris of an ancient culture and something more otherworldly and primordial. Leipzig has historically proven to be fertile ground for dark ambient and "Consuetudines" continues in the fine tradition set forth by such notable acts as Inade and Herbst9. Presented in a 6 panel digipak, mastered by Secret Lab. A great new discovery!
INORGANIC BLOSSOMING - 'Seasons Project: Autumndrones' CD (Infinite Fog Productions / Vegvisir Music / 7Hz Records)
'Autumndrones' is a name which belongs to two musicians from Siberia - Becoming and Freeall. 'Autumndrones' - can be explained as a love of autumn. They did not want to dedicate the music to this season, they wanted to write it. Therefore they music was written during the fall only, and when the first autumn passed they left the unfinished material until the next one. That is why the work took them 3 years. The whole mood of the album went through this season, even live instruments, such as violin and accordion, were recorded in fields along with the leaves' noise. The sound of nature and the human together. Mild ambient, careful noise and accidental melodies, the mix of leaves rustling, wind blowing and analogue synths singing. Ltd x 292 copies in a handmade A5 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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KALLABRIS - 'Music For Very Simple Objects' 10" (Substantia Innominata / Drone Records)
Maybe the most mysterious and thought-provoking German experimental project with recordings derived from field recordings so bizarre it's difficult to find any words for it! This work features very short sequences of concrete sounds, arranged in a structural and temporal way that the "known reality" is placed in a new frame and context, thus making it possible that the world behind may become "visible" through our acoustic senses. What is usually familiar is suspended in order to make new experiences. The acoustic elements have been configured in a certain causal formation which is not consciously perceivable within the phenomenal order. The phenomenon hides the principle & substance of the sound-pieces. Limited to 500 copies on fluorescent green coloured vinyl, with a full colour sleeve designed by Andreas Mal Hoeschen.
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KNURL - 'Reactance' LP (Wintage Records & Tapes)
After nearly two decades of creating car crash reality and damaged ear bleed sound, Canada’s king of scrap-metal harshness, Knurl, releases his first ever LP. Delivering a furnace blast of searing frequencies, Knurl utilises his trademark saw-blades, chains and metal files to full effect leaving nothing but a husk of melted electronics and a pile of smouldering wires. Knurl brings out the barb-wire violin creating scorching drones baked under a hot desert sun, eventually left to melt and congeal with tortured electronics forming in to one nasty pool of mercury and chaos. Steel on steel, metal on metal, rust on rust. White jackets with front and back screen-printing. Knurl, “Reactance”. Ltd x 300 numbered copies with insert.
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LASSE MARHAUG & MARK WASTELL - 'Kiss Of Acid' CD (Monotype Records)
In recent years Lasse Marhaug has almost become synonymous with Scandinavian Noise. From his camp in Trondhem, Norway, he's been launching release after release with brutal noise both under his real name and with groups such as DEL and parts of the Origami Republika projects. London-based sound artist and composer Mark Wastell builds enormous atmospheres on the Tam Tam (here recorded at an abandoned school in Norfolk) with very little actual movement. Wastell's music is dark, deep and beautiful. Slow movements build up sonic pulses that are able to take over rooms and buildings. Together the duo have created over 40 minutes of drone / dark ambient. Gatefold ecopak.
LAYERS OF THE ONION - 'Hal-An-Tow' CD (OHM Records / Apartment Records / Droning-On Records)
Layers of the Onion is a Drone / Folk project featuring Martin Powell (Kobi, Origami Satanika, Monolab) & Fredrik Ness Sevendal (DEL, Kobi). The debut album 'Hal-An-Tow' features guest artist Aaron Moore (Volcano the Bear) on one Track. Hal-An-Tow is an ancient pagan dance ceremony from Cornwall, thought to date back to before medieval times. It is a re-birth ceremony after winter, celebrating the coming of the longer days, the light ad the spring, similar to the green man ceremony.
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LDRTFS / GATE TO VOID / AeON NOUGHT - 'Those Who Dwell Beyond' CD (Black Mass Records)
3-way split between 3 Ritual-Doom-Droner acts: LDRTFS ("Like Drone Razors Through Flesh Sphere"), Gate To Void and Aeon Nought. LDRTFS offer a new 30-minute track with influences that include from the most extreme Drone / Doom from composers like Penderecki or Arvo Part. GTV's effort includes a new track, a Xasthur cover and a track recorded jointly with LDRTFS. Aeon Nought offers 2 new tracks. Released in a 6-panel outsize folder.
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LDRTFS / MIGUEL PRADO - 'Aurum Nostrum Non Est Aurum Vulgi' CD (Black Mass Records)
Split CD featuring the Australian Ritual-Drone-Doom entity LDRTFS ("Like Drone Razors Through Flesh Sphere") and Spanish noisician Miguel Prado, who previously collaborated with Stephen O'Malley and Julien Skrobek, among others. Includes LDRTFS's 'Synthetic Hybridization' recording, Miguel Prado's 'Descripción de un Combate' and a collaboration track recorded by both acts. Presented in a printed gold envelope with insert.
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LICHT-UNG - 'Kristall' 7" (Drone Records)
LICHT-UNG ("glade") is the name of a label, art and sound project from Germany, with a very peculiar and rather dadaistic approach. The two pieces on "Kristall" seem to be based mainly on feedback and metal or glass sounds that are carefully put together for a strange-sounding trip. Side A consists of humming, growling drones, low siren-like sounds and high-frequency feedbacks, powerful and absorbing and very abstract, while never turning into sheer noise. Side B delivers a crystal-clear noise chant and metallic overtones processed with obscure effects. First edition of 300 copies on blue / black marbled vinyl with silk-screened covers and silver printed black inlay.
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LIKE DRONE RAZORS THROUGH FLESH SPHERE - 'Like Drone Razors Through Flesh Sphere' CD (Black Mass Records)
Latest, eponymous album from this great Spanish Drone / Doom / Ambient entity. LDRTFS return to the conscious world with a brand new, slow as Death, meditative guitar driven ritual that will summon you into a never-ending hypnotic trance. Five tracks and 75 minutes of cathartic oozing minimalism.
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LNGTCHE - 'Music For An Untitled Film By T. Zarkkof' CD (Etude Records)
The debut album from this project is an obscure piece for the widely unknown Russian auteur T. Zarkkof. A 44:22 minute long soundtrack of dark isolation, drones and exploration of ambient music, blending electronic soundscapes with the sound of raw guitar. A beautiful, haunting and darkly complex work packaged in an exclusive triptych panel with brilliant artwork by SELDON HUNT (also known for his artwork for Sunn O))), Earth, Troum, Neurosis, Z'EV etc).
LOCRIAN - 'The Crystal World' 2 x CD (Utech Records)
Locrian's third studio album, "The Crystal World", is an epic journey. Inspired by JG Ballard’s 1964 novel of the same name that tells the story of a physician who specialises in leprosy sent to a remote African outpost to discover a jungle that is slowly crystallizing and encroaching upon everything it touches. Terence Hannum, and André Foisy are joined by Steven Hess (On, Pan American, Ural Umbo), whose contribution pushes Locrian deeper into the abyss of despair rendering a sound that is darker, bleaker, and engulfing than any of the group’s previous releases. Locrian continue the conceptual trajectory of blackened drone, manipulating tones and textures that transport the listener to an apocalyptic wasteland. At times, the layers are serene and somber, at other times they are chaotic. Ltd x 1000 copies in a Stoughton gatefold sleeve with outstanding art by Vberkvlt.
Lotus Eaters is Stephen O'Malley (Sunn O))), KTL), James Plotkin (Khanate, Phantomsmasher) and Aaron Turner (Isis, Old Man Gloom). Previously issued on CD, Plotkin has remixed, remastered and rearranged Wurmwulv for this vinyl edition using alternate takes from the original recording sessions. The 2LP also includes reworked material from Lotus Eaters' self-titled 7" released by Drone Records. 52 minutes and 29 seconds on 3 sides of direct metal mastered 200 gram virgin vinyl, the 2LP has a drawing by Turner etched on side D. Housed in a Stoughton tip-on gatefold jacket designed by O'Malley, Wurmwulv features Stephen Kasner paintings printed on linen-textured woven paper, a spot varnished interior and flooded pockets. The Kasner paintings and Turner drawings included were created specifically for this vinyl edition. Reconfigured for vinyl, Wurmwulv is a solvent-soaked carpet ride into loose soil. Worms writhe over cilia as moist roots lick and graze skin. The dampened howls of wolves reverberate through water freezing into creaking crystals. When oxygen levels reach a critical low, a cacophony of clanging metal provides an inhalation of humid air." Ltd x 600 copies black vinyl. ACT FAST!!
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LUASA RAELON - 'The Poison City' CD (Eibon Records)
“Welcome to the poison city. A place where nuclear radiations colour the sky with green clouds, mutating vegetation suffocates the sun and asphyxiating miasms coming from abandoned toxic wastes endanger life...”. LUASA RAELON is one of the most interesting realities of US dark ambient/death industrial scene, combining low-rumbling drones with extemporaneous noise bursts to create a pretty personal and recognisable sound.
MARTYN BATES - 'Mystery Seas (Letters Written #2)' CD (Shayo)
"Mystery Seas" (originaly released in 1995 on A-Scale Recordings and now entirely remastered) is the second of Martyn Bates' (Eyeless In Gaza) "Letters Written" series. On this album he sets his songs into organ based backings, going right back to the drones of traditional song and more than this, to church music. It's an intensive sound which would appeal to fans of traditional folk and electronic music fans all at once. There is a dream state built up from these songs of drifting minimal chords and layers of vocals. What could sound sparse, sounds full and balanced. Digipak.
MAURIZIO BIANCHI - 'Escape To Bela-Zoar’ CD (L-White Records)
"Stick with it, get it at the right volume, and the latest CD from this established industrial pioneer totally delivers. 3 long tracks of old school atmospheres, full of curdling, pulsating drones, unsettling tonal washes, and strong, black undercurrents. Minimal, but penetrating, with a palpable bleak and grim quality (track two is heart wrenching) that you just don’t get from the newer kids on the scene. Maybe I’m just a sucker for the old school sound, but this sounds great" (Malignant Records). Ltd x 500 copies in a DVD case.
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MELANCHOHOLICS - 'A Single Act Of Carelessness' CD (Multi National Disaster Records / Deafborn)
Building on the experimentations from their debut CD (with a mix of field-recordings, guitars, electronically manipulated sounds and spoken word fragments), Melanchoholics walk new paths, combining minimal guitars, drones, low-end bass and lo-fi electronic sound collages. The only consensus is to create slow, depressive soundscapes. A soundtrack to personal miserable states of mind, psychotic euphoria and intoxicated wastelands. It is a low-end manifesto for low-end connoisseurs.
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MELANCHOHOLICS - 'Masking My Monkeys' 7" (Drone Records)
This German trio Melanchoholics work on dark guitarish and very filmic sound-drones, "thick atmospheric darkness" at its best. With a background rooted in Death Metal and Grindcore as well as in Industrial, they still use guitar, bass and electronic sounds, but their aim is to explore the realms of loneliness and melancholy by sculpting almost filmic atmospheres with not much aggression. Their first vinyl release is filled with beautiful accordion drones, desert-like guitars, electronic sounds and voice-samples, thus enlarging the "classic" drone sound in a very fruitful way. First edition of 300 copies on dark blue vinyl in silk-screened covers (various colours) with insert.
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MICHAEL NORTHAM - 'Suhina' 10" (Substantia Innominata / Drone Records)
"Suhina" is a notion for the sound of the wind moving through the trees. Instead of capturing field recordings of wind, Michael Northam tried to capture this feeling and the essence of this process through instrumental recordings from Indonesian flute and keyboard. Natural phenomena seen as the true manifestation of the Unknown. Stunning full colour artwork by Indian artist Rohini Devasher. Ltd x 500 copies on white vinyl.
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MOLJEBKA PVLSE - 'Koan' CD (Eibon Records)
Like in the good and old tradition of Maeror Tri or Final, this Swedish act headed by Mathias Josefson, brings us liquid dark ambient based upon manipulated guitars and e-bows. Clear but dark layered drones, swathed in heavy bass, and journeying through layers of rippling reverb. Needless to say, a very good late-night listen for those who like trips into sonic, haunted dreamworlds.
MY CAT IS AN ALIEN / STEVE RODEN - 'Cosmic Debris Volume II' CD (A Silent Place)
CD re-issue of the second installment in the "Cosmic Debris" split ART-LP series set up by Maurizio and Roberto Opalio, aka My Cat Is An Alien, on their own Opax Records. California visual / sound artist Steve Roden's contribution represents the unique experience of hearing him literally 'playing' guitar chords. MCIAA deliver another piece of 'cosmic debris', centered on multilayered echoes of voice, toy piano, space drones raising from a distant horizon, and their own physical gestures performed during the recording, which reproduce themselves through the air, re-play and give birth to echoes of real time that overcomes its own essence, becoming field recording itself, mirror and spectre of its immutability. Their track entitled also features Ramona Ponzini's Japanese bells contribution. Digisleeve.
Two titans of doom / guitar drone collaborate together. The result is heartstopping, taking a similar path to Jesu. Massive guitars, mountainous bass, tribal drums, choral vocals. Sublime - essential. Ltd x 750 copies in a black with silver-print sleeve on heavyweight vinyl. One side is good old-fashioned 'acid etched'. ACT FAST!
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NADJA - 'Skin Turns To Glass' CD (The End Records)
CD reissue of the very limited release on NOTHingness Records (2003). Nadja creates music that has been variously described as drone metal, ambient doom, and shoegazer, incorporating influences from such diverse artists as Swans, Godflesh, Jesu, Sunn O))), Earth, OM and My Bloody Valentine. Nadja combines soundscapes, electronics and atmospheric vocals with snail-crawl, epic riffs and dirge-like percussion, tempering the cacophany with a certain ethereal melodicism such that the listener is enveloped in a sublimating wall of amorphous sound.
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NADJA - 'When I See The Sun Always Shines On TV' CD (The End Records)
Toronto ambient / shoegaze / drone duo Nadja (Aidan Baker / Leah Buckareff) illustrate their diverse roots by covering some of their favorite artists: My Bloody Valentine, Codeine, Swans, Slayer, A-Ha, Elliott Smith, Kids In The Hall and The Cure. "... more than a simple tribute album. It's one of the best Baker byproducts in years" (Pitchfork). "Nadja carve out great slabs of sound, throbbing and trudging to melodic resolution with incredible slowness, over an entire side of vinyl at a time; you want to say “tectonic” and “chthonian” but not “glacial” because the fuzz-bass is so warm, rising through your feet, and the layered drones are so disorienting" (Drowned In Sound). Highly recommended!
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NECRO DEATHMORT - 'Music Of Bleak Origin' CD (Distraction Records)
Second release from this London duo (Matthew Rozeik / AJ Cookson), whose debut "This Beat Is Necrotronic" earned them support slots with Ulver and Shining. "Music Of Bleak Origin" takes things up a notch. An intense soundtrack of crunchy fuzz, chambertronic buzz, walls of guitar wail, crashing chords, acidic bleeps and blips, creeping drone, heavy, nihilistic doom and guttural screams, combining analogue and digital noise to devastating effect. Ltd x 1000 copies in a heavy PVC archive sleeve with an 18-panel poster sleeve with artwork by Dominic Hailstone (Isis, Mogwai).
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NEVER KNOWN - 'On The Edge Of Forever' CD (Eibon Records)
The Dark Ambient (and earliest) project of Andrea Marutti (Amon). The 4th full-length in the Never Known saga, and this time it's even better than before... Deep melodies, rumbling drones, the new edge of forever... Digipak.
Noise Dreams Machina is the project of Spanish artist Oscar Martin, who explores the possibilities of homemade software with free tools for sound deconstrucion and realtime performance. "In / Out" is his first vinyl release and uses a wide range of environmental recordings which are processed digitally in more "electro-acoustic" ways. This leads to a balance between Drone and Electro-Acoustic where the acoustic potential of conventional reality is enlarged via digital processing. Through intense mutation & deconstruction of acoustic materials a new or previously hidden meaning can be revealed for the blind spot of our perception. First edition of 300 copies on opaque white vinyl with silk-screened covers and an inlay.
Noise Maker's Fifes is an experimental performance group from Brussels. The first side of "Zona Incerta" is based on the choreography "Dyonisos' Last Day" from 2003 and uses material from various live performances. The second side is created from insect field recordings made in Kenya. "Zona Incerta" builds a hazy and foggy dimension.. sounds ebb and flow in and out... water and metal-sounds are recognisable in the sound-field, high insect-frequencies intertwine with all kinds of strange noises and animal sounds. Released in two different vinyl-colours, limited to 250 copies apiece: blue-green and clear (sorry, we are unable to state which colour you will get, as they're sealed). Artwork by Mars Wellink (Vance Orchestra).
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NORDVARGR - 'Re-Awaken' CD (Eibon Records / Code666)
Revamped, remixed, remastered and expanded version of the long time sold out cult album "Awaken". Thick, massive and utterly dark soundscapes of true black ambience coming from one of the founders of the now legendary Swedish industrial scene. Drones, strings and voices of the dead join forces in the cavernous cellar of Bohult. Comes in a stunning digisleeve with inner sleeve.
This is the first vinyl release for the collaborative project of Bad Sector and Where! Pure sounds from an abandoned metal water tank located in a forest in Tuscany, Italy (originally used by miners from that region). Both tracks are based entirely on these field recordings, made during a windy September night in 2007, then treated and assembled in the studio during 2008. Lucifugus music for Lucifugus men! Ltd x 500 copies on orange vinyl with stunning artwork from Tilmanna Benninghaus.
First ever vinyl by the Italian deep ambient master! Two long contemplative tracks into the centre of holy places (may it be physically or mentally), opening endless spaces with low humming and reverberating meditation-drones! Limited edition of 500 copies on luminous green vinyl, with full-colour artwork by 1000SCHOEN aka ex-Maeror Tri member Helge Siehl.
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ORGANUM - 'Omega' CD (Die Stadt)
The third and final part of the Organum trilogy that started with 'Sanctus' (Robot Records) and 'Amen' (Die Stadt). 'Omega' is a further continuation of those first two parts and "...comes to form in the use of a church organ like sound, some highly processed chime like sound and a deep drone of rusty metal in the background. Just as on 'Sanctus' and 'Amen' - and much true to the form of Organum mystery, there are three pieces here, which all sound quite similar - or perhaps they are similar? ... just enjoy that crazy genius Organum. I am long converted to his belief" (FdW). First edition of 600 copies in digipak.
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ORGANUM - 'Sorow' CD (Siren Records)
"Sorow" is a new work by David Jackman aka Organum after completing the recent "Holy" trilogy ("Sanctus", "Amen" and "Omega"). "Sorow" is not an album that expands the trilogy still farther, but opens a new chapter in Organum's career. On the basis of the European organ drones and the Indian Tanpura foundation, the gentle Japanese temple bell compliments the piece. It is neither of European Middle Age by a revisionist nor Oriental music composed from a European viewpoint. Its actions are of international minimalism and "Sorow: is 'Universal Music' in the true sense of the word. Ltd x 500 copies in a stunning digibook designed by Jonathan Coleclough. Japanese import.
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OVRO - 'Horizontal / Vertical' 7" (Drone Records)
On "Horizonal / Vertical" "the wondergirl of Finnish experimental music" presents deep waving droning noises, set against vortexing echoes and swirling digital effects, derived from what could be instrumental sources or object recordings, moving the willing listener into a surrealistic subconscious dimension. On the second side the contrasting conrete material fills your imagination with "something" that "happens", so captivating and condensed! This music spreads like an unconscious aural travelogue in different spatial directions (horizontal and vertical). Cinematographic and narrative drone atmospheres, with great care for even tiniest details. First edition of 300 copies on white vinyl with handpainted sleeve pasted up with pieces of newspaper and filmstrips. Includes an insert.
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PHAENON - 'His Master's Voice' CD (Malignant Records)
After the well received debut "Submerged", Phaenon follows things up with an even deeper immersion into a world of bleak, isolationist sounds. Whereas "Submerged" was one long and infinitely expansive drone piece, "His Master’s Voice" is broken up into four separate, but flowing tracks of sprawling and spacious ambient drift, laced with interstellar disturbances, probing, alien tones and icy shards of celestial debris…a whirling spectre of darkness and void-ic space, thematically based upon the 1968 novel of the same name by Stanislaw Lem, which is centred around the efforts by scientists to decode, translate and understand a series of extraterrestrial transmissions. As a whole, His Master’s Voice represents a logical progression in Phaenon’s sound and is the ultimate in headphone listening. In a gorgeous 6 panel digipak.
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PHAENON - 'Submerged' CD (Malignant Records)
The debut release of Polish-born artist Szymon Tankiewicz, 'Submerged' is a dark ambient tour de force. Visually and sonically enveloping, this is an album of space and texture, slowly revealing a psychoactive soundscape of majestic, arcing timbres, circadian buzzes, and expansive drones. Heavy, and cosmically weighty in the beginning, 'Submerged' evolves into something more minimalist and serene, radiating a celestial beauty, yet becoming even more bleak and suffocating as it progresses over it‘s 66 minute time frame. A must for dark ambient purists. 6 panel digipak, with artwork by K. Enderlein (LOKI). Mastered by Thomas Garrison (Control). File next to Yen Pox / Lustmord / Inade / Caul.
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PHELIOS - 'Astral Unity' CD (Malignant Records)
Third album from Germany's revered dark ambient project Phelios, following two CDs on Eternal Soul and a recent split LP on Loki Foundation with Kammarheit. With its swirling cosmic drones and sweeping, cinematic drift, the music of Phelios is breathtaking and hypnotic, often evoking moments of serenity and beauty, yet spiking them with deep cushions of ritualistic percussion and textural squalls that suggest something much more ominous and threatening looms on the vast horizon. Collectively, "Astral Unity" is thoughtful and concise - a vivid and richly detailed entity that's alive and constantly evolving, channeling the universe while simultaneously exploring the inner regions of a more primordial earth. 6 panel digipak, with gold foil stamping.
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R.Y.N. - 'Archaic Techniques Of Ecstacy' LP (Equation Records)
R.Y.N. are a UK-based duo probably best known for their Astral Death CD (Unrest Productions) and an excellent 7" on Drone Records. On this vinyl-only release R.Y.N. present 44 minutes of completely new recordings: a mix of archaic, unsettling, new and melancholy. This album took many months to record as a result of the careful attention paid to the record by the duo. This LP provides both classic R.Y.N. darkness plus even heavier oppressive, dark, soundscapes that can only be fully appreciated on vinyl over the two side-long tracks: Archaic Techniques Of Ecstacy and Provisional Sketch Of The Mind. If you don't know their work then this is definitely worth exploring. If you do know them then this is a must. Ltd x 233 numbered copies in a foldout silkscreened sleeve with spot varnish black on grey card stock and with inserts.
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RAPOON - 'Obscure Objects Of Desire' CD (Vivo Records)
Beautiful album from this dark / ethno-ambient / drone project of Robin Storey (Zoviet France). This album is about yearning. That aching emptiness that still exists when all rational processes have been exhausted. The unobtainable, all consuming and immaterial. The irrelevant and the irrational. The dark torments and the light hearted banter. The victories and the defeats. The achievements and the failures. The loves and the losses. When all are accounted for there remains only the obscure objects of desire. Packed in a hardback 6-panel digisleeve.
RASALHAGUE - 'Rage Inside The Window' CD (Malignant Records)
"Rage Inside The Window" is the astounding debut album from Indiana based dark ambient artist Rasalhague, offering some of the most haunting, dread filled, and yet dynamic atmospheres we've come across in some time. Inspired by the true events of a young girl neglectfully imprisoned in filth and squalor by her thoughtless and uncaring mother. "Rage Inside the Window" takes the listener into the mind of a savagely depraved soul. Don't expect ambient of the spaced out, blissful, and softly textured variety. This is dirty and impenetrably dark, with an intertwining mass of demonic squalls, intense probing, highly ominous tonal drones, distant monolithic pulsations, and bleak isolationism. 6 lengthy tracks of pure psychological horror, progressively getting darker, brooding, and more menacing. Finally, with the final track, some semblance of solace is achieved. Akin to Atrium Carceri or Raison d'Etre. 6 panel DVD Digipak.
As one of the pioneers of the Russian industrial-scene Reutoff create an ultra dark visionary music, using elements of ambient as well as rhythmic industrial. A perfect example of the group's ability to build unsettling and sinister dark ambient industrial sounds, with an overall atmosphere of despair and deep melancholy, maybe mirroring today's "Russian soul". There is no light in this darkness, maybe only behind it. Second edition of 300 copies on brown / black marbled vinyl with full-colour gatefold sleeve and an insert.
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ROBERT MILLIS - '120' CD (Etude Records)
Reissue of Millis' extremely limited 2008 release (Ltd x 120). Despite his many activities, Millis' recorded output has almost entirely been by way of collaboration, making this gem of a solo album all the more special. Psychedelic smear pocked with snippets of conversation, poetic extracts from his collection of 78s and a judicious amount of vinyl crackling. Blissed out shimmers constructed from loops and drones from guitar, bells, and glass harmonica, where haunted melodies from times long gone whisper through the mix. As if Millis were tapping into some stream of consciousness that subcutaneously connects all of these intermingling sounds. Ltd x 1000 copies in a digipak.
The 13th edition of UK bi-monthly magazine Rock-A-Rolla features fantastic interviews with stoner doom artists Earth, drone ambient masters Stars Of The Lid, guitar drone heroes Skullflower, Burial Hex and Atlas Sound. All this, plus a special on "Classic Label" Important Records. We're also treated to the usual vast selection of news, music, DVD and live reviews from the avant-rock, metal, noise and experimental scenes. Highly recommended!
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SAILOR WINTERS - 'Red At Morn' CD (Stickfigure / Black Noise Recordings)
Sailor Winters is Ryan Cox who previously served time as one of the vocalists for Georgia power-violence powerhouse Divorce. After numerous self-releases and compilation appearances as Sailor Winters, "Red At Morn" finds Cox utilising power electronics and drone to create a very thick and heavy, but tranquil sound. Sailor Winters will appeal to fans of John Wiese, Daniel Menche and others.
"Requiem", the first score from veteran sound-designer Scott Hull (Pig Destroyer, Agoraphobic Nosebleed), is a beautiful yet acutely sobering work of profound depth and reach. "Requiem" explores the pathos of death, the burden of guilt, and the weight of consequence in all their stages. Dark Ambient / Drone / Experimental music influenced by Morricone and Popol Vuh and films such as The Shining, Dead Man, Aguirre and more, "Requiem" further establishes Hull as a modern virtuoso. Hardback digisleeve.
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SEETYCA - 'The Lake' 7" (Drone Records)
Seetyca is a German project dealing with language, poetry and sound. Seetyca’s musical interest lies more in creating acoustic landscapes or moods than in telling stories. They’re especially interested in unconscious archaic states of the mind. The two pieces on "The Lake" relate to a sacral approach of experiencing nature. When beautiful (classic?) samples are set into a sphere of extremely wide spaces and reverberation, when these clouds of sounds spread out in infinite refulgence, moving like slow surging billows, a point of utmost inner calmness can be reached. First edition of 300 copies on green / black marbled vinyl with hand-sprayed covers and an inlay.
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SEKTOR 304 - 'Soul Cleansing' CD (Malignant Records)
Equipped with a frightening and impressive array of primitive instrumentation pulled from junkyards and scrap metal heaps, this Portuguese outfit has delivered an astounding debut - a heady mixture of truly old school industrial in the vein of Einstürzende Neubauten, Test Dept. and S.P.K., and the grinding, bass heavy dirge of vintage Swans and Godflesh. These are anthems to the past, but geared towards an apocalyptic and bleak future… a form of counter-culture using what is most evident in modern western society: the debris, the abandoned objects, the waste, the noise, and the interference. With a solid foundation of rusty, oil drenched percussion, Sektor 304 adds layer upon layer of squalling industrial clangor, hammering metallic noise, grimy atmospheres, heaving masses of haunted factory drones, and threatening tribal batter, with a strong and commanding vocal presence. Anyone into TRUE industrial really should not miss out. 6 panel digipak.
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SHRINE - 'Distorted Legends, Pt. 1' 7" (Drone Records)
Behind Shrine we find a fresh experimental drone project from Bulgaria, combining the melancholia of distorted synths with odd micro noises and effects. The fusion of rough and thunderous drones with hidden melodies evokes a strong emotional impact, like the feeling of being stuck in a confusing dream. Shrine's philosophy shows a way to realise that what we call “reality” is to be mistrusted based upon our usual perceptions. The distortion of this reality opens up a chance to better understand its true essence and confront the things that lie behind the surface. First edition of 300 copies on black vinyl with full-colour gatefold sleeve and an insert.
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SIL MUIR - 'Sil Muir' CD (Diophantine Discs)
Italy's Sil Muir present their debut full-length solo work. It is a beautiful, yet melancholic, hour-long recording carrying us along that sleepless journey from dusk 'til dawn. Powerful and gentle drones shudder and shimmer through these four dense and amazing tracks. Sil Muir is the collaboration between Andrea Marutti (Amon, Never Known, Afe Records) and Andrea "Ics" Ferraris (Ur, Airchamber3, Ulna). Ltd x 500 copies in a special printed wallet.
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SILCHARDE - 'Sortilège De Mécréant' CD (Frozen Wing Records)
First CD proper from this Occultic French Dark Ambient act. Glowering Drone Ambient with sparkles of distorted guitars. Every passing minute is a deeper step into gloomy and sick nightmares. "The projekt Silcharde is the vehicle of Hereb in Aob. Silcharde is dedicated to the true BM occultists. The theme is sleep paralysis essentially and out of body experiences". Ltd x 500 copies.
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SKIN AREA - 'Rothko Field' CD (Malignant Records)
3rd full length release from this acclaimed Martin Bladh (IRM) project (in conjunction with Magnus Lindh), following two albums on Cold Meat Industry. Like previous works, "Rothko Field" is a visceral auditory experience... mind bending and turbulent sonic explorations that are grainy, abstract and tense, where uneasy frequencies intersect with caustic drones, insectile buzz, swelling drifts, and slow motion, percussion driven sludgery. "Rothko Field" is more structured than in the past, coming off as both spacious and yet suffocatingly claustrophobic, suggestive of a spiral downwards into mental decay and degradation, and further enhanced by Martin's uniquely distressed and provocative vocalizations. 9 tracks in total, broken into two "mirrored parts", with track 5, "Void" acting as the actual mirror itself. Digipak with 24-page booklet.
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SOL - 'Offer Thy Flesh To The Worms' CD (Van Records)
Third full-length from this Danish act, created by Emil Brahe. A departure from their normal funeral doom / death metal sound, "Offer Thy Flesh To The Worms" is a predominantly acoustic dark drone album. A haunting experiment to create the atmosphere of SOL via acoustic instruments. Ltd x 300 copies in a textured black digifile with silver print.
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AGALLOCH - 'Pale Folklore' CD (The End Records)
"Pale Folklore" features eight tracks (62mins) of Black Metal / Doom from this Portland act. Very elaborate and diverse, and surrounded by the majesty of nature and the burden of human existence, the album bursts with melodies with a basis of dark yet very emotional concepts. Creating auras of dark, symphonic melancholia, "Pale Folklore" turns out to be one of the most tragic, mournful yet expressive listening experiences ever!
ELYSIÜM & MONARCH! - 'Elysiüm & Monarch!' CD (Solitude Records)
Talk about your polar opposites, it’s like night and day on this one! This French pairing brings together the skull exploding grind antics of Elysiüm and the super slow motion doom of Monarch. Elysiüm splatters gray matter with four cuts in 10 minutes of noxious, hyper speed grind frenzy. Meanwhile Monarch eclipses the sun with a 58 minute dirge featuring some of the sickest female vocals ever committed to CD! Apocalyptic droning, dredging doom riffs and a fetid air of misery impact with all the subtlety of a rusted knife to the groin. If Burning is too fast for you, then Monarch! should fit just right! Second edition of 500 copies.
HIGHGATE - 'Shrines To The Warhead' CD (Totalrust)
After two years of silence Highgate is back with another grim slab of sickness. "Shrines To The Warhead" delivers four noisy tracks of almost 45 minutes and shows once again their unique powerful Doom / Black Metal / Sludge / Noise that is nasty, oppressive and suicidal. This album is the heaviest effort of the band so far. Devastating. Ltd x 1000 copies.
TREES - 'Lights Bane' CD (Crucial Blast)
2010 edition in a digipak. The debut album from the Portland quartet Trees delivers two epic tracks of monolithic, blackened doom metal with a twisted, noise-damaged approach and a dank basement vibe. Trees craft glacial abstract riffs and rivers of ashen amplifier goo that fans of feedback-laden heaviosity will find highly satisfying - a kind of grinding, slow-motion black hole psychedelia that has a similar hypnotic death-ritual quality as artists like Bloody Panda and Khanate, but with their own unique trance state of swirling guitar textures, horrific jet black dronescapes and ghoulish, excoriating vocals.
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SPIRACLE - 'Evestrum' 7" (Drone Records)
THE LAST EVER DRONE EP! Spiracle is the project of Japanese artist Hitoshi Kojo. On this, the first Spiracle vinyl release, two pieces of sublime Drone-Muzak are placed, mesmerizing and mind-expanding sonic clouds. The two tracks are "focused on the physicality and the osmosis of the sound" as Hitoshi describes it. The acoustic source material comes from a glass harp, resonated trumpets, metal sheets and electronics. A kind of sonographical report of a process that a "subtle spiritual existence merges into a physical body and becomes tangible through the senses." First edition of 300 copies on transparent vinyl in a handmade sleeve made of cotton wool, gauze, thread and special paper.
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STEMCELL RESEARCH PROJECT - 'Charnel Houses' CD (Syzmic Records)
Five songs inspired by death and post-mortem rituals with each passage delving deeper into the stygian abyss. "Charnel Houses" is profoundly imbued with feelings of despair brought forth with field recordings of actual autopsies taking place. Somber moments layered with metal percussion, white noise and rhythmic drones that envelope the listener like a lead blanket. SRP is J. P. Whetzel of Welter In Thy Blood. Mastered by John Stillings of Steel Hook Prostheses. Ltd x 300 copies in a digipak.
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STRIBORG - 'Autumnal Melancholy' CD (Displeased Records)
By our count, this is the eighth official Striborg full-length album. Deep forest Black Metal is combined with dark ambient / drone / doom soundscapes, creating a chilling and eerie atmosphere. Typically cold, desolate and depressive stuff from this prolific Tasmanian artist. File next to Burzum, Vinterriket, Xasthur, Leviathan etc. Breath-taking grimness!
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SVARROGH - 'Yer Su' CD (Ahnstern / Steinklang)
With their 5th full-length album, Svarrogh present a very complex post folk experience, dedicated to the holy earth-water Yer Su - from the mystic and ancient Bulgarian pantheon of Tangra. It also shows the symbiotic allegiance to slavic mythology and European culture from the depths of the Pamir mountains and meadows through the slavic steps up to the Balkan realms. Traditional Bulgarian instruments sit alongside vocals in Bulgarian, Italian, English and Lithuanian, with guitars and drums arranged to a Balkan post folk and avantgarde dark folk adventure with ambient drones, elements of Industrial and Black Metal and traditional compositions. Features special guests: Kostas (Defile des Ames), Marcel P. (Allerseelen), Valentina (Der Feuerkreiner), Michael Z. (Negura Bunget) and Gyte Tamosiunate. Digipack with 12-page booklet.
SVARTSINN - 'Devouring Consciousness' CD (Eibon Records)
Debut album from this Norwegian Dark Ambient legend. Imagine a crossing between Amon and Lustmord, enriched with some dreadful melodies here and there. An orgy of bass frequencies, an apocalypse of drones, a black resounding monolith. Those who are in love with gloomy ambiences won't be put to bread and water. Experience the depths, if you're brave enough... Digifile.
TAM QUAM TABULA RASA - 'Cotidie Morimur' 7" (Drone Records)
A legendary and very original Italian post industrial group from the cassette-underground culture of the late 80’s/ early 90’s, who had their one and only vinyl release on Drone in 1995. They were at the forefront of what one could call “archaic drone-noise”. TQTR are active again these days so we decided to put this early Drone EP back into existence. Second edition of 300 copies on blue / yellow marbled vinyl in a foldout sleeve with insert.
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TARKATAK - 'Skärva' 7" (Drone Records)
A north German drone-project that has since this EP developed to one of the main German atmospheric deep droners... beautiful, dark transcendental noise. Tarkatak uses synths and other electronic devices, the music is slow, non-impulsive and dream-like. Very low rumblings, dark harmonies, some subliminal and dense backwards-effects. This is "archaic music" which could be easily compared to old Zoviet France and the like. Another Mind-Drone. Second edition of 300 copies on blue / white / red marbled vinyl in a foldout sleeve with insert.
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TERRA SANCTA - 'Disintegration' CD (Malignant Records)
Four years after the release of "Aeon", "Disintegration" finds Australia’s Terra Sancta in fine form, delivering another sweeping, dark ambient epic. Expanding on the sounds explored on his previous releases, "Disintegration" pushes the levels of intensity to new heights, featuring four long and texturally turbulent emissions of formidable power and depth. With it’s enormous washes of stormy drones and billowing, multi-layered atmospheres, these are tracks that grow and build to such a degree they seem to collapse and erode under their own weight, strewing particles into a vast horizon and creating a broad panorama of ever changing desert colored hues. A completely enveloping and engulfing release, this is dark ambient on a massive scale. Artwork designed by Vestigial.
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THE DAUGHTERS OF CONCEPTUAL SEX DEATH - 'The Daughters Of Conceptual Sex Death' CD (Muzamuza Records)
Another rare release from this Newcastle label, this time around the one and only album from obscure UK experimental / noise group The Daughters Of Conceptual Sex Death. "This release lies within the experimental realm, controlled, distorted-ambient soundscapes. The sonic attacks are used to punctuate the floaty keyboards and streams of swirling drones. Looped sounds hypnotise and draw you into a world of processed and dissected ambiences" (Bizarre). Ltd x 500 hand-numbered copies in a heavy PVC archive sleeve with 2 inserts.
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THE HUMAN VOICE - 'Exit Lines' CD (Eibon Records)
Northaunt mastermind Harleif Langas gives voice to a less dark and oppressive journey with "Exit lines", and explores the thin boundary between ambient (not necessarily dark....) music and spacious post-rock. Deep drones and sparse melodic guitar lines, "skeletal" structures and subtle noises. Appealing to both the Constellation-freaks and the courageous (and open minded) dark ambient travellers. Digisleeve.
THE INFANT CYCLE - 'Secret Hidden Message' 7" (Drone Records)
The Infant Cycle is an experimental project from Ontario (Canada), active since 1992. The three pieces on this EP were created using sounds from various instruments (Trombone, guitar, windchimes, marimba, birdcage). The result sounds rather electronic and hypnotic, with bright shining drones and repetitive rhythmic patterns, loops moving into more amorphous and multilayered electro-acoustics. In spite of the rather experimental working-methods the outcome is very compact and condensed. The Infant Cycle's approach to sound is based on the belief that words and explanations can only fail to describe or explain it, what is needed is a non-verbal, intuitive understanding of the work." First edition of 300 copies on clear grey vinyl with printed transparent cover and an insert.
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THE MEMORIES ATTACK - 'LP2' CD (Tumult / Noyes Records)
The Memories Attack are a duo, augmented by an occasional drummer, who sound like they were transported directly from the early 90s, bringing with them all the jangle pop, lo-fi bedroom folk, crunchy distorted guitar, gorgeous vocal harmonies, busted effects pedals, old synths, incredible hooks, shimmering metallic drones and catchy songs they could stuff into an old beat up suitcase. Every track here is some glorious strain of perfect pop, whether it's a chunk of old school college rock jangle, a burst of synth infused almost metal crunch, wild wooly lo-fi garage-y stomp, or hushed intimate bedroom pop, it's all so catchy and rocking and irresistible. And it's all held together by some sort of mysterious pop music magic that few have mastered and even fewer understand, but which never fails to totally and utterly entrance every time.
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THE TELESCOPES - 'Night Terrors' 7" (Trensmat Records)
The Telescopes open proceedings for Irish label Trensmat with an E.P of free drone audio druidry. Side 1 contains the seven and a half minute AMM meets Suicide groove of DSM-1v axis 1: 307.46 - the DSM term for night terrors. Side 2 builds a brilliant and atmospheric subterranean world of drone-scuzz and white noise using household objects - true metal machine music. Imagine a strange meeting between Fuxa, Suicide and Vibracathedral Orchestra. Ltd x 400.
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TO BLACKEN THE PAGES / KORPERSCHWACHE - 'A Way Dark' 2 x CD (Colony Records)
"A Way Dark" is a bold work from two of the most pioneering blackened noise guitar musicians working today: Texas-based Korperschwache and Dublin's To Blacken the Pages. From lighter, shoegaze inspired tracks, to harder, more abstract compositions, and of course exploring the juxtaposition of each artist's extreme guitar work. The album was a chance for both musicians to challenge other – each taking turns to suggest themes and ideas, for example each working with drum patterns and guitar structures, RKF (Korperschwache) often providing a sonic wall of drone while Paul McAree (To Blacken the Pages) would blaze guitar solos over the top. Irish import.
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TROUM - 'Eald-Ge-Stréon' CD (Beta-Lactam Ring Records)
Welcome to the Thunderdome. Troum’s bone-cracking reverberations respirate with such ferocity that all non-Troum molecules are blown away. "Eald-Ge-Stréon" is a massive, rising beauty. It is a great becoming, and we are nothing but an ant in the afterbirth. Troum has set its controls beyond the heart of the Sunn. The pulsating inferno of these 7 drone concertos may require an insurance adjuster, but what a lovely way to burn. It is in your nature to do one thing correctly. Before Troum, you rightly tremble. But fear is not what you owe Troum. You owe Troum awe! Comes in mini-gatefold cover with strange metallic silver-blue layout by Stephen O'Malley (Sunn O))), Thorr's Hammer, Gravetemple, Æthenor etc) and photography by Seldon Hunt.
A continuation of Maeror Tri, this is dark, moody, contemplative ambient / drone material. "The first half of this single still sounds like Troum, but is unlike anything we've heard from them, strange looped high end guitar, what sounds like backwards chords, almost choral vocals, dramatic and haunting and cinematic... over a distant grinding low end tone drifting way off in the background, washed over by epic sweeping swells.. The other side is a bit more raw and intense, a seriously corrosive guitarscape, distorted and crumbling chordal buzz, looped and layered into a strange glacial riff... it manages to be intense and fierce but also gloriously washed out and blissful." (Aquarius). Part 1 of the Landscape series. Ltd x 400 copies on black vinyl with full colour insert.
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ULTRASOUND - 'Death Comes From The Left' 7" (Drone Records)
Coming originally from Texas, the trio ultrasound (partly ex-Stars Of The Lid) are now located in Den Haag, Netherlands, and Texas, USA. With this, their first ever 7", they present two unbelievable emotional touching pieces of guitar and bass-drone-music, where long echoes of overtone guitar-sounds melt in one stream of pure sensible acoustics. Ultrasound submerges the listener into a deep salty sea to float on the frail border between air and water, light and reflection, perception and knowing. This is pure yearning transformed into sounds. Second edition of 300 copies on clear vinyl in a clear sleeve with sticker.
Ure Thrall (Asianova, ex-Voice Of Eye) is an American artist from Houston, Texas, who is long active in the more atmospheric, transcendental experimental US-scene. His first vinyl release contains two long tracks with an organic, filmic and sublime quality, using echo-flutes, bass, e-bowed guitar and restrained percussion underneath. The whole 7” is a personal statement about the politics of the USA after this tragic day, which is expressed also in the cover artwork and the liner notes. Second edition of 300 copies on red / black marbled vinyl with full-colour sleeve and an insert.
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VA - 'A Selection Of Drones Past: Singles 1993-2000' 2 x CD (Tumult)
This compilation serves as a digital introduction to the analogue world of DRONE RECORDS. "A small sampling of wondrous sounds from this ongoing series of limited, lovingly hand assembled 7" singles." Featuring: Alio Die, Aube, Delphium, Die Feinen Trinker Bei Pinkels, Dronæment, Dual, Francisco Lopez, Inade, Kallabris, Klood, Maeror Tri, Osso Exotico, Reynols, Spear, Tarkatak, Toy Bizarre, Ultra United, Vance Orchestra, Vir and Yen Pox. Packaged in a gatefold digisleeve with a poster showing the sleeves of the 7" records, from which the songs are taken. A true gem for non-vinyl fans and drone fanatics alike.
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VA - 'California' 10 x LP Boxset (Troniks / Ground Fault / RRRecords)
A document of contemporary California-based experimental, noise, drone and improvised music. 20 artists each fill an LP side of this 10 x LP boxed set. Includes: Amps For Christ, Control, Damion Romero, Gerritt, GX Jupitter-Larsen (The Haters), Joe Colley, John Wiese, Moth Drakula, Oscillating Innards, Open City, RHY Yau, Rubber O Cement, SIXES, Solid Eye, Spastic Colon, The Cherry Point, The Skaters, Tralphaz, Xome and Yellow Swans. Compiled by Phil Blankenship (The Cherry Point / Troniks). A truly beautiful artifact of sonic art. Ltd x 1000 copies in a shrinkwrapped box. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!
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VANESSA VAN BASTEN - 'La Stanza Di Swedenborg' CD (Eibon Records / Radiotarab / Noise Cult / Cold Current Productions)
Vanessa Van Basten is a strongly emotional sonic magma that absorbs and metabolises different sonic influences, from the introspective metalcore / heavy Postrock of Jesu and Neurosis to the experimental metal drones of Sunn O))), from Lycia and Slowdive melancholy-driven soundscapes to the cinematic melodies of Morricone and Badalamenti. Astonishment, meditation, psychotropic medias, cynism and human misery. Welcome to the Swedenborg Room. Outsized digisleeve with printed inner sleeve.
A three-way summit on bleak doom and buzzing misery. Sandy Saunders (Torso), Darcy Spidle (Divorce Records) and Jordan Hines mix drums, bass, electronics and vocals into a thick morass. Vennt stakes out territory at the intersection of black metal, drone, doom and power electronics, then fortifies the barricades. US edition. Ltd x 400 hand-numbered copies with a copper cover and insert in a heavy PVC archive sleeve.
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VIPCANCRO - 'Tropico' CD (Lisca Records)
VipCancro is a Tuscan quartet lead by Andrea Borghi. "VipCancro cultivate a carefully dark ambience throughout 'Tropico', their third release. The quartet revolves around a buzzing core of electronics to create six moody pieces that hum with the fascination of machines and the ability to produce acoustic and electronic sounds that mimic them... a dense cauldron of sound, mixing digital and tape drones - possibly looped or preprocessed sounds - with subtle, tasteful percussion and electroacoustic touches to round out the very electronic-sounding pieces" (Foxy Digitalis). Typographic print on special textured paper in jewelcase.
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VIPCANCRO - 'Xax' LP (Lisca Records)
Lisca Records is a no form music label dedicated to sounds generated by environmental saturation and reflection. This is the debut LP from the Tuscan drone / post-industrial / experimental quartet of Andrea Borghi, Filippo Ciavoli Cortelli, Alberto Picchi and Nichola Quiriconi. Limited to just 150 copies in special handmade packaging - ACT FAST!
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VOICE OF EYE - 'Anthology Two 1992-1996' 2 x CD (Transgredient)
Rare and unreleased tracks from the U.S. dark ethno/drone cult-project, all re-mastered by Voice Of Eye themselves. You will find here: the famous "Sprocket" 7" for Drone Records (1994), the lost mCD for ND that was never released (1995), rare compilation tracks (some of them never came out), plus a complete, fantastic rehearsal for a live show (1996) and an extract from Tryst 8 (split MC with BIG CITY ORCHESTRA, 1995). Comes in a nice 6-panel digipak with artwork by Bonnie McNairn.
The comeback of the legendary duo from New Mexico, USA, consisting of Bonni McNairn and Jim Wilson. Between 1992-1995 VOE released three albums with their unique style combining ethnic, ritualistic and folklore influences in an experimental and highly organic way to create a kind of transcendental drone ambience, using only "real" instruments and self-built devices and an array of electronic effects. These 3 tracks (39 mins) of new material are inspired by the wisdom of Buddhist / Advaitic meditation and philosophy, and are based on ethereal vocal material, flute-sounds and their self-built string-instruments, full of yearning and beauty. Ltd x 500 copies on clear / golden marbled vinyl. Recommended!
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WALDCHENGARTEN - 'Distractions' CD (Phisteria)
Really low-end ambient, sporadic humming pulses and blasting noise from this Danish artist (who recently released a 7" on Drone Records). “The senses are hit by a typhoon of charged electricity which sends your mind into a cabinet of mirrors where darkness folds and unfolds. The sound image presents itself as an inseparable unity in which myriads of parallel sequences are constantly undergoing transformations. Transcend through ethereal radiation!” Mastered by renowned Norwegian artist Lasse Marhaug. Nice piece!
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WALDCHENGARTEN - 'Electrical Bonding' CD (Desolation House)
Danish drone / dark ambient / experimental duo Waldchengarten provide enveloping, blackened light on the sixth installment of the Desolation House series - Relapse Records / Release Entertainment's premium dark ambient collection. Mastered by the impeccable ear of Robert Rich. Ltd x 1000 copies in a 6-panel digipak.
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WALDCHENGARTEN - 'The Leech' 7" (Drone Records)
Wäldchengarten is a Danish duo that could be best described as “noise ambient” or “raw / harsh drone”. After some already very promising releases, this is their first vinyl. The music on 'The Leech' is very raw and filled with tiny noisy outbursts, at the same time ultra-sluggish and powerful. Low whistling feedback and pure electronic whirl-tones are omnipresent, everything seems to gradually sink to an alien centre of heavy gravity. This is dark, but its a darkness of sheer beauty. First edition of 300 copies on violet marbled vinyl. Black Covers with silver silk screen print and inlay.
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WAZ HOOLA - 'Multiply Reality By Infinity' CD (Red Guard Records)
Waz is an active member of the Newcastle underground noise scene and collaborator with Bong and Culver amongst others and credited as 'Sound Purifier' on Bong's "Gilgamesh Lives" album. Two epic tracks (31:16 and 22:58) from the North East's premier master or throbbing drone, with elements of Doom and Psych-Prog-Rock. Reminiscent Kevin Drumm's recent Drone work. Ltd x 297 numbered copies in a card envelope with wax seal.
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WHERE - 'Wererat' CD (Eibon Records)
7 years after their acclaimed debut 'The Creatures Of The Wind', Where (Zario of organic ambient project Olhon and Darvulia) return with 'Wererat'. Utilising field recordings taken in sewers, this release revolves around the idea of rats conquering the earth. Hyper-obscure, deep, cavernous Dark Ambient and Drone for followers of Lustmord, Thomas Köner, Kerovnian or Amon. Highly recommended!
WHITE DARKNESS - 'Nothing - Black' 2 x LP (Roadburn Records)
The debut album from dutch doom/drone act White Darkness - the sonic creation of Dutch artist Jason Köhnen. A one-man symphony creating his personal interpretations of nihilistic thoughts, melding modern classical composition with traditional funeral doom and dark ambient soundscapes. White Darkness throws open the doors to vast universes of musical possibility, creating darkly tense portraits of things best left undisturbed. Ltd x 300 copies on black vinyl in a magnificent gatefold sleeve - ACT FAST!
WHITE DARKNESS - 'Nothing - Yellow' 2 x LP (Roadburn Records)
The debut album from dutch doom/drone act White Darkness - the sonic creation of Dutch artist Jason Köhnen. A one-man symphony creating his personal interpretations of nihilistic thoughts, melding modern classical composition with traditional funeral doom and dark ambient soundscapes. White Darkness throws open the doors to vast universes of musical possibility, creating darkly tense portraits of things best left undisturbed. Ltd x 100 copies on yellow vinyl in a magnificent gatefold sleeve - ACT FAST!
The debut album from dutch doom/drone act White Darkness - the sonic creation of Dutch artist Jason Köhnen. A one-man symphony creating his personal interpretations of nihilistic thoughts, melding modern classical composition with traditional funeral doom and dark ambient soundscapes. White Darkness throws open the doors to vast universes of musical possibility, creating darkly tense portraits of things best left undisturbed.
"Those who worship at the altar of all that is slow and low and heavy and sludgey and doomy and droney, you must now bow before a new lord, the duo from New York known simply as Wicked King Wicker. After three records, each heavier than the last, comes Borne Black, a sprawling black sun explosion of creepy crawly riffage, lumbering lugubrious tempos, tarpit sludge, and spaced out abstract buzz and shimmer, if you fancy Moss, Bunkur, Blue Sabbath Black Cheer, SUNNO))), Wolf Eyes, Khanate, Skullflower, Human Quena Orchestra, Monarch, Corrupted, Otesanek, Habsyll, and all the various other denizens of the inky black dronedirgedoom underworld, and have yet to hear WKW, you are in for a treat. (Aquarius). Ltd x 999 copies.
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WILT & HORCHATA - 'Geomancy' CD (OHM Records)
Dark music pioneer Wilt bridges the gaps between industrial, drone, noise and experimental. Avant mystics of the modern day, Wilt continue to create endless landscapes of mystery and isolation juxtaposed against depression and decay. Horchata focus on four major elements: complex beat music, dark ambient soundscapes, programmed compositional glitch music and field recordings. Geomancy is a study of the interconnection between the human consciousness and the energy of the earth. Geomancy is focused on sacred geometry, the way that spirit integrates into matter - by echoing and amplifying the geometry of nature and planetary movements. The sonic resonance of body / mind / spirit with the harmonic frequencies of the cosmic above and the earthen below. Maximizing the possibility of connection to the One. Limited to just 200 copies in a digipak!
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WYRM - 'Divination Bones / Adam Coils' 7" (Drone Records)
Excellent abstract drone-experimentalism by this mysterious project by the long active Allan Zane, feat. Liz Lang (Auracene). This is second, extended, revised and complete version of both tracks previously released as a 7" picture disc. Zane describes the sound as a construction of aural amalgamations of genres now often referred to as "dark ambient" and experimental "electronica". Layered subdued drones with e-bow and repetitive structures. Second edition of 400 copies on silver vinyl.
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XABEC - 'Feuerstern' 7" Boxset (Drone Records)
"Feuerstern" ("Firestar") captures two tracks of luminous tones and magnetic resonances, which create a warm and floating aural flux. With mellow concrete material setting the counterpoint, very subtle hisses, smacking and clicking sounds can be distinguished. These are enriched further on Side B with field recordings by Michael Northam, made in 2006 at the Audioframes Sonic Art Festival in Herne. This was where "Feuerstern" was also performed in a choreographed way using fireworks! Very delicate tone colours and a perfectly balanced sound pattern allow for contemplative listening sessions. The 7" comes in a golden lettered and embossed grey cardboard box with golden printed inlay. First edition of 300 copies on dark red vinyl.
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YAN JUN - 'Music For Listening On The Moon' CD (Kwanyin Records)
One hour of continual sound, entwined with the other dim sounds of your room. “Music For Listening On The Moon” is a continuation of “Wormhole Trip OST” (Kwanyin, 2009). "A contemplative album of innerspace travel. The album transcends its humble productions of sinusoidal flutterings of pedal sourced feedback and squiggling aquatic field recordings treated with ring modulation, as Yan seeks a radically different approach to the cosmic listening embarked by the likes of Cluster and Tangerine Dream, whose baroque expansiveness has been subsumed by the vacuum of outerspace, with just those two sources intertwining in an endless mobius strip of silvery drone and pointilist tactility. It sounds more like Steve Roden taking over an Asmus Tietchens album and allowing the electronically treated sounds and tones to organically evolve into a radiant blossom instead of the purposefully cold and sometimes stiff compositions that Tietchens often produces" (Aquarius). Digipak.
Brand new material by this cult project from the US, working with deep e-bass sounds to create an isolationist mass of darkest cosmic ambience, a kind of "black hole" ur-drone. When you put this on you are immediately touched by the cold breath of an amorph "otherness". This sound is so monumental and complex that it seems to suspend not only the mind but also the physis, and you experience intensely that both are the same anyway. There's something in this music that lets you really shiver and feel levitated at the same time. Gloriously, the self is dissolving. Ltd x 500 copies on black vinyl in a spot-varnished sleeve, with artwork by the great artist & photographer Eyelyft.
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ZENIAL - 'Reworked' CD (Vivo Records)
Experimental electronica, tribal, musique concrete, ambient, drone, cut up noise by the young Polish sound experimentator Zenial. Features 15 tracks including some collaborative pieces with: Andrew Duke, Andrew Lagowski, Amir Baghiri, Jason Wietlespach & Jon Mueller, Kasper Toeplitz, KK Null, Maciek Szymczuk, Tetsuo Furudate, Vidna Obmana and Zbigniew Karkowski. Packaged in a hardback 6-panel digisleeve.
Building on the experimentations from their debut CD (with a mix of field-recordings, guitars, electronically manipulated sounds and spoken word fragments), Melanchoholics walk new paths, combining minimal guitars, drones, low-end bass and lo-fi electronic sound collages. The only consensus is to create slow, depressive soundscapes. A soundtrack to personal miserable states of mind, psychotic euphoria and intoxicated wastelands. It is a low-end manifesto for low-end connoisseurs.
