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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AIDAN BAKER - 'Letters' LP (Basses Frequencies)
Reissue of Aidan's long out-of-print solo work from 2002, originally released on Arcolepsy, Canada. "Letters" consists of 2 sidelong, slow motion drone pieces (45mins). Meditative and introspective with haunting, ghostly vocals. Subtle melodies create one of the most emotional Aidan Baker (Nadja) records to date. Slow and quiet yet complex - each listen reveals new layers and the depth of this incredibly rich work. Ltd x 400 copies on heavy vinyl. French import.
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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 "Épicycle". 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. "Épicycle" 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 "Épicycle". 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. "Épicycle" 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.
"Inframundis" ("inland universe", Latin) is a research of stalagmite and stalactite sounds mixed with textures and drone. It's a meditative record and it creates a balance between biosphere and technosphere. The CD sets free all its energies, its little/big sounds, its hidden atmospheres, and microharmonies. The sounds, music, make us come back to the past, offering us the view of a World. The sound evokes angelical moments between the imperceptible evolution of the sound of the sky and the ethnic roots, natural instrumental sounds creating atmospheres which evoke in our imaginary visions and images of the most far places. It is an alchemic project of ancestral sounds, deeply rooted in our unconscious. Ltd x 500 copies in an outsized package with inserts. Russian import.
ASIANOVA - 'Love Like A Veiled Threat' CD (Eibon Records / Radiotarb)
A few years after the acclaimed "Burning the blue skies black", ASIANOVA (Ure Thrall of Voice Of Eye and Pamela Passmore) are back with a monumental opus. Rarely does a dark ambient CD encompass so many different elements & influences such as this: from ultra-low abysses of drones to ghostly female vocals, from ethnic percussive sequences to bright, shimmering flute melodies, from crystal-clear guitar harmonies to immersive synth-layers. A long journey through a magical world. Presented in a beautiful 6-panel digipak.
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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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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CAUL & KIRCHENKAMPF - 'Sleep - Night - Death' CD (Malignant Records)
Two artists return to the Malignant roster, having teamed up to create over 60 minutes of dark ambient solitude. A soundscape for late night reflections, full of quiet, whispering drones, cosmic flutterings, arching climatic tones and textures that ascend and descend in a delicate interplay between beauty and bleak desolation. You know their work as separate entities, find out what they do when brought together. Limited to 888 copies in a gatefold digifile with spot-varnishing, designed by eye lyft.
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CIRCLE - 'Forest' CD (Ektro Records)
Finnish version of the 2004 album. "It's incredible how Circle always manage to maintain their trademark sound - repetitive, hypnotic post-prog-rock grooves - even as they produce new albums with such distinct, different identities. Forest, is another great, unique Circle effort. This time around, they've gone semi-acoustic, kinda folky. Also spooky and sinisterly-synthed... This a Forest of nightmares, with whispering and groaning in the trees... Most of the time Forest is all-instrumental, spacious, suspenseful, grooved-out, darkness. The final, longest track dabbles in ambient, experimental witch-project drone before those Circle rhythms return and Mika moans his last. So good" (Aquarius).
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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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CLOSING THE ETERNITY - 'Noughtwards' CD (Epidemie Records)
The all-new album from the mysterious project hailing from Russian Ural. The 74-minute composition called 'Noughtwards' is full of dark harmonic drones and subtle pulsations, and is meant to multiply your inner self by zero and to take you off... noughtwards. Shamanic / Ambient Drones for fans of Rapoon, Oöphoi etc. Ltd x 600 copies in a 6-panel digipak.
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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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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 - 'Keimar Sty' CD (Coombe Records)
As always, all the sounds on this release are derived from the guitar and this second full CD release shows UK act Dual exploring rhythms and percussion coaxed from the guitar while applying various treatments and manipulation. Although some traditional methods of playing the guitar have been employed on the recordings of this album the finished mixes show no real sign of a plucked guitar string. Drones and textures are interwoven with clicks, pops and buzz from the electronics with subtle bass rhythm to create a soundbed of drifting melancholic ambience.
Starting out in 2005, Emeralds has grown in recent years into a monster of heavy improvised drone using analog synths and masterfully effected guitar. Born out of the midwest scum-noise scene, these guys have taken the intense heaviness of their midwest brethren to a place that is entirely their own. They have replaced the creepy atmosphere and abrasive harsh noise of their peers with a very different, though equally intense assault of cosmic drone power. This is the trio's first full-length album after numerous limited releases. Fans of the smooth tones of 'New Age Of Earth' era Ash Ra Tempel and the buzzing thick drones of Throbbing Gristle's 'Heathen Earth' should take note, as Emeralds may be their new source for electronic drugs. Ltd x 1000 copies in a digipak.
Encomiast have been harvesting an audience of enthusiastic music fans for almost a decade now. With six full-length releases, 2 EPs and half a dozen compilation appearances, Encomiast are one of the most highly regarded and prolific artists in the dark ambient / drone genre. For this eponymous CD, Encomiast mined their extensive early recordings and un-released material to compile, edit and re-master six tracks that give a glimpse into where it all started. Encomiast's "Winter's End" CD (2001) has been described as "a delirious blend of dark dreamy blackened drones and shimmering cinematic ambience" - the tracks on "Encomiast" revisit much of the same sonic territory. CD with rice paper insert and vellum sleeve.
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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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FIRST HUMAN FERRO - 'Corona Astralis' CD (OMS Records)
"Corona Astralis" is the follow up to the 2000 album "Motherwards" and fundamentally represents the development of this Ukrainian project. "Corona..." carefully combines early 1998-2001 Death Ambient / Industrial experiments with recent ever-generating solid electroacoustics, harsh electronica and dronesque synth multi-structures. Inspired by one of the greatest examples of poetical mastery "Corona Astralis" by Maximilian Voloshyn (a classical representative of the so-called Silver Age of Russian poetry) this album accurately deals with eternal ideas/values of a main being like a grain of sand in a Pascalesque desert-like Universe. Ltd x 500. Ukrainian import.
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FIRST HUMAN FERRO - 'Guernica Macrocosmica' CD (Eibon Records)
Who said dark ambient has nothing to share with melodies? Who said it is not possible to combine dark, deep and dense drones with traditional music and melodies? These phenomenal Russian musicians are here to prove there are seemingly undiscovered ways to conceive and create dark ambient. Put your imagination to work, and try to figure out something like AMON meets Red Army choirs, LUSTMORD meets sad Russian popular music. Very hard to explain with words alone. Digifile.
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. Ghäst 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.
HALF MAKESHIFT - 'Omen' CD (Profound Lore Records)
“Omen” is a devastating observation of formidable experimental ambient drone-like subtle mastery. With moments that remind of Nadja, Sunn O))), Godspeed! You Black Emperor and A Silver Mount Zion, “Omen” is an opus of dense and flowing sonic terrain where cinematic sound visions create vast, desperate, and devastating scenarios, almost serving its purpose like a desperate doomsday soundtrack. Working as a 50+ minute track, but separated into four parts, “Omen” subtly shifts through different emotions and moods; soothing and comforting, yet at the same time virulent and uneasy, and ultimately eerie and chilling. The incredible use of melody via light guitar strums and guitar ambience, melded with waves of static bursts and ivory key tappings, create the build-up that will inevitably come in the form of massive drone rumblings. This is the final work of Half Makeshift. Mastered by James Plotkin (Old, Khanate). 6-panel digipak.
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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HIVE MIND - 'Death Tone' CD (Hanson Records)
"Weird dudes jamming synths. Alone. Social Problems. Problems. Recorded late into the night. Fucking A. That is the business, right there. Shit is just creepy-gets under your skin. While most noise youth get their chocolate fingers lost in gadgetry and posturing-something about a synth jam that's just... Human... humanly wrong. But fucking right. Right on Hive Mind". One epic, disturbing 43-min drone-noise-ambient track. File beside Prurient, Emeralds, Robedoor etc.
"Collaborating Torture" is one of the last known recordings made by Matt Gibney (Hollowing), who died in January 2006. Gibney, a member of SOIHADTOSHOOTHIM and label boss of the Rectrix label, was joined here by the prolific Maor Appelbaum (Grave in the Sky, Poochaltz, Vectorscope) to create a brooding and massive 54-minute track of dark, pitch-black ambient, hypnagogic swirls and industrialised drones. Sometimes subtle, yet mostly haunted and delirious, this is highly recommended if you like Wilt, Aidan Baker, Z'EV, Daniel Menche and John Duncan. Israeli import.
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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!
Invercauld has resurfaced from the murky depths of the abyss after years of virtual silence since his debut "Tiamhaidh" (2004, Cyclic Law). D. Finley offers up a powerful opus of masterfully crafted dark ambient with a continuation of deep, droning explorations inspired by his ancient Scottish ancestry. With songs titled in the primitive Gaelic dialect, accompanied by English definitions, this latest work is a logical progression of this slowly evolving behemoth of drone. 14 meticulously layered tracks, with soul jarring drones that heave and dirge, erupting into noise laden saturations. Where “Tiamhaidh” harnessed more of an Earth bound and overall organic feel, “Deamhan” seems to transcend time and space. Taking the listener on a fascinating journey through infinite realms of dark matter and aural sorcery. For true connoisseurs of Dark Ambience!
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KOSAKAI FUMIO & TAKAHASHI IKURO - '... Of Dogstarman' CD (Pataphysique Records)
Collaborative disc featuring electronics and oscillator work from Fumio, best know from as a member of Incapacitants, and Ikuro from Fushitsusha, LSD March and many others. Not as abstract and minimal as Ikuro’s solo works but sways closer in that direction than the harsh noise world. "Squealing drones made by electronics and processed reeds from this Japanese duo... Quite beautiful. Similar to Keiji Haino's hurdy-gurdy pieces or free saxophonist Evan Parker's recent electronically-enhanced works" (Aquarius).
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LDRTFS / GATE TO VOID / ÆON 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 Æon Nought. LDRTFS offer a new 30-minute track with influences that include from the most extreme Drone / Doom from composers like Penderecki or Arvö Part. GTV's effort includes a new track, a Xasthur cover and a tracl recorded jointly with LDRTFS. Æon 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 Gemany, 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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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. Zärkkof. 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).
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.
LUNAR ABYSS DEUS ORGANUM - 'Brusnika' 7" (Drone Records)
Lunar Abyss (ext.) is the child of Evgueny Savenko from St. Petersburg, who creates his own peculiar touch of hypnotic-ethno-ambient industrial music mostly under the name Lunar Abyss Quartet. This very first 7" for L.A.D.O. is a pure aural-shamanistic-journey, where heard and felt are Earth's elements and life itself, such as fire, voice-murmurs, strange animals noises, the wind's force and whistles, the enchanting voice of a woman singing, various softly looped voices are perceptible throughout this sound journey. All these natural sound-ingredients are merged into a deeply etched vibrating rhythm of raw and deepest rumbling analogue sounds. These are the kind of electro-acoustic drone-pieces that breathes spiritual strength and build shamanistic atmospheres full of intensity. 1st edition of 300 copies on red vinyl with insert and unique hand-painted covers.
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MARTIN FRANKLIN & MICHAEL NORTHAM - 'An Opening Of The Earth: Recovered' CD (Faria Records)
"An Opening Of The Earth: Recovered" revisits a spontaneous collaboration between the two musicians, captured in the early 90's. Mythic imagery of man descending into the mysteries of the Inner Earth is conjured in this intense recorded performance. Using lo-fi sampling, eerie drones, percussive metal instruments and effects, the players trace an intuitive path through a midnight electronic improvisation. Like an unearthed archeological find, the recordings of this ritualistic performance tie the pieces to their location, as well as the events of their time. After unearthing the original tapes, Martin Franklin has created new mixes for this release, including previously unheard sections, re-interpreted and enhanced for the 21st Century listener. Ltd x 500 copies in an outsized package with inserts.
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 roght 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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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 - 'Lode Lvx' 7" (Drone Records)
For some years now Stockholm based artist Mathias Josefson has delighted the drone scene with his highly minimal excursions into drone territory. From harsh noise to soft and gentle ambience, the aim is to reach a basic level of sound conscience. In doing so the "human mind" and the "sound mind" interact to build a symbiotic entity. "Lode" and "Lvx" are great examples of breathing drone structures which seem to be derived from real string or wind instruments. Harmonic and mysterious, dense and aspiring... this is indeed music like a lode of illumination. First edition of 300 copies on black vinyl with silk-screened, embossed covers and an inlay.
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MURMER - 'In Their Homes And In Their Heads' 7" (Drone Records)
The man behind Murmer is the US field recording specialist Patrick McGinley, who is also responsible for the 'Framework' radio programme on London’s Resonance 104.4FM. The two pieces on this "Drone" captivate the listener with intelligently assembled and multi-layered recordings of a garden in London (i.e. tree bark, water, footsteps, a creaking gate), processer and ventilation sounds of an old computer, and beads of a broken necklace. All sounds were left un-processed. Combined, they take you on a trip into an other world of low drones and high-pitched noises, crunching and gritting microsounds, surprising cut-ups, all very near and clear. First edition of 300 copies on opaque white vinyl with hand-assembled covers (made up of scarf, notebook and hair) and an inlay.
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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 - 'Bliss Torn From Emptiness’ CD (Profound Lore Records)
Reissue of the extremely limited (60 copies) release on Fargone Records (2005) from the Toronto duo of Aidan Baker and Leah Buckareff. The original release consisted of just one track. This special re-release has been given the ultimate facelift. Still characteristically (and aesthetically) seen as one long track (here stretched out to more than 51 minutes), this time though broken down into three segments / parts / tracks respectively. This Doom / Dark Ambient / Drone creation was mastered by James Plotkin (Khanate). Presented in a stunning 8-panel digipak with sticker.
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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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NECRO DEATHMORT - 'This Beat Is Necrotronic' CD (Distraction Records)
Necro Deathmort (Matthew Rozeik / AJ Cookson) raise their ignoble heads on their first proper release. Running the full gambit from jittering, skuttering brutal electronics, Earth-style drones, creamy hiss, turntablist noise pedal effect antics, crushing guitars, elegant ballroom atmopherics, to full-on, balls-out, full decaying, post-apocalyptic doom, this combines analogue and digital noise to devastating effect. Comes in a fantastic 6-panel package printed at Thumbprint Press and with utterly superb artwork by Dominic Hailstone (Mogwai, Isis etc). Limited to 500 copies!
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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).
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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OOPHOI - 'The Spirals Of Time - Deluxe Edition' 3 x CD (Faria Records)
"The Spirals of Time" is considered the best of Oophoi's albums and has been recognised as one of the best drone-ambient projects of all time. Now this legendary album has been reissued in a deluxe 3-CD set! This record was initially created to become the finishing disk of this trilogy. Here you will find new ideas and new development of the concept. However the "classical" sound of "The Spirals of Time" is kept. Ltd x 500 copies in an outsized package with inserts. Russian import.
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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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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PETER WRIGHT - 'Air Guitar' 7" (Drone Records)
Welcome to the Dance of Overtones! New Zealand's Peter Wright (currently residing in London) has raised a reputation over the last few years with his music built mainly by guitar and field recordings. This 3-piece EP consists of little fluxion-mantras, made by waving guitar-overtones and sounds of air and water, with little additional sounds of daily room-noises. Ultra-minimal and harmonic, but with a certain raw directness and concreteness that creates a unique atmosphere, these wonderful over-tonic vibrations and sounds seem to tell little stories or daydream-phantasies. First edition of 300 copies on orange marbled vinyl in a stenciled sleeve with insert.
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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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R-A-A-N - 'The Nacrasti' CD (Malignant Antibody / Malignant Records)
The remarkable debut from R-A-A-N (Stig Berg) delivers dark-ambient in it's classic pure-form, at times, conjuring the spirit of "Heresy"-era Lustmord or vintage Raison D'Etre. Heavy ritualistic drones, sporadic rhythmic accents, and deep subsonics that will vibrate your very core. Thematically, "The Nacrasti" explores an ancient desert culture that was advanced beyond its time and yet long forgotten by history. Your dark evolving journey into this lost "Nacrastan" landscape is streaked with the warm hue of sun-bleached rock, sand, gold, and fire. A serenely brooding work with a myriad of nocturnal sub-textures. At times a subtle, almost alien combination of sounds. Dark-drones which intone an element of beauty and power. A critical addition to every dark-ambient collection!
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R.Y.N. - 'Astral Death' CD (Unrest Productions)
RYN is the project of Pete Burn (Marzuraan) and Dean Glaister (Romance). With one 7" on Drone Records to their name this is their first full length. Six long tracks of slowly shifting massive drones created with guitar, bass, metal and effects. Cosmic drift as supenovas explode, dark matter envelops and your psyche slowly dissolves. Fans of early hour come downs and cosmic levels of despair, self-regard and narcosis will be more than happy. "A menacing yet strangely uplifting drone album, simply yet beautifully constructed" (Heathen Harvest).
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R.Y.N. - 'Whistle And I'll Come To You (Psychedelic Cover)' 7" (Drone Records)
R.Y.N. is british duo Dean Glaister (Romance, Feast Of Ishtar) and Pete Burn (Marzuraan). Their drone-style could be described as “power-drone”, using solely field recordings (electric shaver vibration on bits of metal and refrigerator hum) for the two pieces presented here. These energetic sound-sources build masses of heavy clouds in movement that flood your mind away, pure metallic flood-noises that bring a most welcomed void into your head. 1st edition of 300 copies on purple vinyl with insert and hand-printed, silk-screened covers.
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R.Y.N. - 'Whistle And I'll Come To You (Star Cover)' 7" (Drone Records)
R.Y.N. is british duo Dean Glaister (Romance, Feast Of Ishtar) and Pete Burn (Marzuraan). Their drone-style could be described as “power-drone”, using solely field recordings (electric shaver vibration on bits of metal and refrigerator hum) for the two pieces presented here. These energetic sound-sources build masses of heavy clouds in movement that flood your mind away, pure metallic flood-noises that bring a most welcomed void into your head. 1st edition of 300 copies on purple vinyl with insert and hand-printed, silk-screened covers.
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RAVEN'S BANE - 'Misery Preserved' CD (Baphomet Records)
Obscure and deep ritual chamber ambient from Demoncy member Ixithra (USA). Eerie midnight dark sounds with endless drones and satanic hallucinations. Raven's Bane is a morbid consummation of rumbling black ambient and ritualistic metamorphosis. Mesmerizing and minimal misery! This is the call from the depths! This is the call from the depths! Digest with Dapnom, Karna, Kerovnian etc.
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RAVEN'S BANE - 'Sorrow Breeds' CD (Baphomet Records)
Reissue of the long-sold out release from 2001 (Ltd x 100 copies, Live Bait Recording Foundation) Obscure and deep ritual chamber ambient from Demoncy member Ixithra (USA). Eerie midnight dark sounds with endless drones and satanic hallucinations. Raven's Bane is a morbid consummation of rumbling black ambient and ritualistic metamorphosis. The halls of your mind will lie grim with fortitude! Digest with Dapnom, Karna, Kerovnian etc. Ltd x 500.
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REUTOFF - 'Reutraum IV' 7" (Drone Records)
This Russian trio comes from the Moscow suburb of Reutov. This, following some cassette-releases, is their vinyl-debut and first release outside of Russia. 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. There is no light in this darkness, maybe only behind it. "The space of Reut as the dream of regret". Second edition of 300 copies on brown / black marbled vinyl with full-colour gatefold sleeve and an insert.
Terrific 3-track 10" by the prolific German composer Ralf Wehowsky. The whole composition is based on only few seconds of piano sounds and vocals (the rest is imagination). The track titles and pieces offer strong inter-relations in a complex way. The sounds develop through imagination and decay and appear in the pieces with different emphases. The classical piano sounds and its highly processed permutations are set in contrast with the highly emotional voice material, like entering a convoluted labyrinth of voice frazzles, drones and fragmented, strange micro-sounds. Are these the memories of single cells? The shadow of abrasion processes? The slow decay of imaginations? A fantastic work where conceptual thoughts and emotionally driven acoustics merge in a perfect way. First edition of 500 copies on amber / black marbled vinyl with an inlay.
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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.
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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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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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 SANTA - '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 NEON JUDGEMENT - 'Out Of My Mind' CD-EP (KK Records)
Belgian duo The Neon Judgement veered between minimalistic industrial drones, new wave synth pop and electro dance music, underlain by cold, mechanical rhythms. CD single taken from the 1998 album "Dazsoo", containing radio edit and 3 remixes of the title track.
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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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THEME - 'Valentine (Lost) Forever' CD (HCB Records)
The third album from Theme (Richard Johnson of Splintered, Stuart Carter and Jeanne Boyer). On "Valentine (Lost) Forever" Theme uses barbed yet oblique words cut-up and formed into mantras over a mesh of cascading drones, textures, blissed-out guitar strums, submerged tamboura, metallic sheets of electronic frah, occasional drum pounds and chilling swells 'n' flecks of musique concrete. With an additional remix by ex-Siouxsie & the Banshees bass player Steven Severin, this genuine album offers an apocalyptic sound mirage that recalls the experimental and post industrial works of :Zoviet*France, Throbbing Gristle and Coil, as well as the occult-like numbness of Current 93, the bleak avant-electronica of Andrew Liles and the psychedelic drones furrowed by the group's own previous work. "Valentine (Lost) Forever" is a definite masterpiece in the ever-evolving legacy of the UK industrial scene.
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TRAVIS RYAN / DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS - 'Split' CD (Chrome Peeler)
Split release from two US acts: Travis Ryan (Cattle Decapitation, 5/5/2000) and Death By A Thousand Cuts. Travis Ryan's four tracks open the disc with an edgy, paranoid ambience that mixes environmental buzzes and electronic hum with blurry theremin melodies and hushed buzzsaw tones, evoking the faint but discernible hum of electricity you feel when standing at the edge of an urban landscape in the middle of the night. Death By A Thousand Cut's nightmarish free electronic designs are conjured from noxious bass sinewaves and cloudy keyboard drones, curling upwards out of metal-on-metal carnage and blasts of laser-beam effects-pedal violence, and the music becomes strangely beautiful, especially with the cosmic Troum-meets-Bastard Noise insectoid frequencies of final track "Approach Of The Black Claw". Ltd x 300 copies in cut & paste artwork (similar to RRRecords' Pure Series).
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TROUM - 'Nargis' 7" (Viva Hate Records)
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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VA - 'Idioscapes' CD (Idiosyncratics Records)
The only concept given to each artist taking part in this compilation was that they had to provide a specific / particular / idiosyncratic piece. Qualified as a "drone paradise" by Lasse Marhaug (Jazkamer), the result is a fine and coherent whole, full of extended textures, contrasted acoustic surfaces, subtle and strong. 70 minutes of authentic acoustic researches, with glitches, loops, noises, deep and glittering textures, subliminal frequencies and narrative inserts, punctured with sensible musical moments from: Charlemagne Palestine, Critikal, Daniel Menche, Eve And The Sickness, Idiosyncrasia, Janek Schaefer, Jazkamer, Keith Fullerton Whitman, KK Null, Rapoon, Sebastien Roux, Steffen Basho-Junghans and Troum. Ltd x 1000 copies in a digipak.
UK 9£
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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.
UK 8£
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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!
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!
UK 12£
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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!
UK 11.50£
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WALDCHENGARTEN - 'Electrical Bonding' CD (Desolation House)
Danish drone / dark ambient / experimental duo Wäldchengarten 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.
UK 11£
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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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WALDTEUFEL - 'Sanguis' LP (Beta-Lactam Ring Records)
American ‘heathen art’ hero Markus Wolff delivers the much anticipated album "Sanguis". Combining the sub-tribal thud of Crash Worship with earthen tones and extra-terrestrial volk musik this is psychedelic apocalyptic folk replete with drones, accordion meditation and a sound like a Panzer division pushing back some unseen musikal enemy! With strong references to paganism and nordic shamanism, this album evokes rituals to awaken natural forces. Ltd x 300 copies on heavy vinyl in a full colour sleeve with printed inner sleeve.
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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' 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!
"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.
UK 11£
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YUI ONODERA - 'Synergetics' 7" (Drone Records)
Yui Onoderais a composer and multi-instrumentalist from Tokyo, who runs his own label 'Critical Path' to find "new ways to listen to sound". On "Synergetics", he presents two tracks of very minimal and quiet oceanic drones, based on guitar and piano. The music shimmers like light-reflections on water in extreme slow motion, when single recognisable tunes appear. Music for full concentration and contemplation - almost feathery and warm. First edition of 300 copies on blue / white marbled vinyl with hand-made covers and inlay.
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ZONK'T - 'Purr' CD (Sound On Probation)
Third full album for Zonk't, following his remarkable "Itching" on Brume Records. This French act (former member of Nox) presents another very well-written album made of ultra-deep basses, flowing atmospheres, small clicks'n'cuts, and a rather massive sound. Ranging from smooth, minimal dub pulses to drone-oriented, ultra-deep bass, "Purr" takes distilled techno under the microscope and well below freezing with its infinitesimal examination of slow-motion electronic minimalism. It is a work of astonishingly deep character, with an undeniable undercurrent of unease.
Third full album for Zonk't, following his remarkable "Itching" on Brume Records. This French act (former member of Nox) presents another very well-written album made of ultra-deep basses, flowing atmospheres, small clicks'n'cuts, and a rather massive sound. Ranging from smooth, minimal dub pulses to drone-oriented, ultra-deep bass, "Purr" takes distilled techno under the microscope and well below freezing with its infinitesimal examination of slow-motion electronic minimalism. It is a work of astonishingly deep character, with an undeniable undercurrent of unease.