The new album of this Portuguese duo (consisting of Cronica label owner Miguel Carvalhais and Pedro Tudela) is a long electroacoustic composition, which demonstrates their full range of soundprocessing diversity and creates stunning images of great potential. The duo have collaborated as @C since 2000, developing their work along three complementary approaches to sound art and digital music: procedural composition, concrete sound and improvisation, with one foot in the fields of experimental, contemporary sound art and the other on live performance. Ltd x 500 copies.
ARCANE DEVICE - 'Devices 1987 - 2007' 2 x CD (Monochrome Vision)
Anthology of rare and previously unreleased tracks by Arcane Device, recorded within those 20 years and divided into two parts. The first part consists of tracks from compilations issued by Subterranean Records, Tragic Figures, SFCR Tapes, and Generations Unlimited, but also unreleased material remastered and/or remixed in 2007. The second part is subtitled as "Feedback symphony" and is based on various recordings, presented in four movements and finished in 2007. One more chance to approve the exceptional skills and compositional / technical talent of David Myers who controls electrons by will, creating fantastic soundscapes. Ltd x 500.
DAS SYNTHETISCHE MISCHGEWEBE - 'The Escape Of The Electrified Dermatologist Epitomises His Dissent With The Compromising Juxtaposition Of The Smell And The Sound Of A Pair Of Wings Injured In The Subdued Romance' 2 x CD (Monochrome Vision)
DSM's music world appears as the intricate but finest tapestry of microscopic sounds, sophisticated packing of voids with sonic hallucinations, textural interactions and layering effects. Mostly sourced from ordinary life, sounds changed beyond any recognition, the endless flow of electroacoustic treatments and studio engineering. This album includes collaborations with some finest sound artists out there (ERG, Artificial Memory Trace, Jörg Thomasius, The Oval Language, TBC), and is therefore very diverse. Ltd x 500. Russian import.
DMT - 'Selected Funbient Works 1-4' 2 x CD (Zhelezobeton / Aquarellist / Monochrome Vision / KultFront)
Dmitriy Tolmatskiy (1970-2009) - a journalist and musician from the city of Saratov, one of the first promoters of alternative intellectual culture and particularly industrial music in post-Soviet Russia. He was the creator of the RWCDAX website, which had certain influence on the mindset of many modern personalities of Russian post-industrial art. The compositions included on "Selected Funbient Works 1-4" were recorded by the Dmitriy in the first half of 00s. Initially it was planned to release four parts of "Funbient" on four separate CDs. However later Dmitriy selected the best for a double album release. The album vividly displays the complex music world of DMT, which, like everything innovative, exists on the crossing of several musical styles and directions: from dark-ambient and industrial noise sketches to technoid rhythms and pure sonic experiments. Ltd x 500 copies in a gatefold digisleeve.
Highly conceptual project that combines features of remix, recycling and plagiarism - the re-interpretation of classic album by Asmus Tietchens “Daseinsverfehlung”. All that can be heard on this CD, as always in case of Frans de Waard framework, is made from music that already existed: every sound, word in titles and even the cover picture - all is just processing and manipulation techniques. Ltd x 500.
KARL BOSMANN - 'Euphoria Mitte' CD (Monochrome Vision)
Since 2003 German musician Karl Bösmann has released a whole bunch of limited edition releases on such labels as Tosom, Domestic Violence Recordings, Youdonthavetocallitmusic and Verato Project. This is his second CD proper and includes several new compositions. His soundscapes oscillate between programme music and abstraction, leaving no doubt about the maturity and intensity of his talent. His impulse is to experiment and to create timeless solid buildings of tones. Bösmann constructs, in the good old tradition of electroacoustic music, with instruments played by himself, and completely without the fashionable chic of a laptop: minimal repetitive passages, especially drones that vibrate in themselves, that flash, shimmer and take a character and 3D-quality of its own. Ltd x 500 copies.
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MYSTERY HEARSAY - 'Flesh Tomb' CD (Monochrome Vision)
The music of Mystery Hearsay is synth / guitar-based old school post-industrial from the 80s, featuring classic home-taping aesthetics, psychedelic noise trips with some rhythmic parts and fuzzy vocals. This is the first proper CD album ever from the band, including remastered tracks from the "Flesh Tomb" tape, and from the "Unifur" tape originally released as the "Larb" album back in 1986. Ltd x 500 copies.
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PBK & ZANSTONES - 'Mantis Fog Desert' CD (Monochrome Vision)
The new collaboration of Phillip Klinger (PBK) and Zan Hoffman (Zanstones) is the experiment in the perfect interaction between noise music, an ambient approach and electronic sounds, with organic and psychedelic output. For both artists, being active in the underground music scene for many years, this album is a very distinct showcase of their endless creative potential. Ltd x 500 copies.
SIMON WHETHAM & FRIENDS - 'Meditations On Light' 2 x CD (Monochrome Vision)
In 2009 Simon Whetham was commissioned by painter Kathryn Thomas to compose a surround sound composition and installation to accompany her Darkspace project, a series of paintings inspired by the infinity of the cosmos, which was exhibited as part of her biggest solo exhibition to date, 'Lightyears'. The composition was mixed down to a stereo version, mastered by Scanner, and released on Simon's own label, Traceable Echoes, for the exhibition. Simon reworked the raw materials of 'Lightyears', as he felt the brief was very restrictive, and wanted to hear the results of using the same material without these constraints. He also offered the opportunity to artists, who produced their own characteristic interpretation of the composition: Christopher McFall, David Wells, Fourm, Iris Garrelfs, John Kannenberg, Lawrence English, Maile Colbert, Mise En Scene, Philippe Petit, Richard Lainhart, Scanner and Yann Novak. A common thread is evident, but very individual voices are heard, leading you on an immersive, engaging journey... Ltd x 500 copies.
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THANOS CHRYSAKIS - 'Magma' CD (Monochrome Vision)
"Magma" is a long electro-acoustic piece, recorded in 2011 and presents one of the best compositions by this Greek artist. For this work, he extensively uses electronic devices, acoustic sounds and field recordings. The music on this CD breaks the boundaries between experimental electronics, electro-acoustic, glitch, micro-sound and ambient, as myriads of colliding sounds coalesce and interact in a minimal, abstract sonic dramaturgy. Ltd x 500 copies.
A very strong personal work, with each track having its own concept and story of creation. Despite this, the album has a strong sound and a monolithic continuous-direction, which can be felt only after hearing it in full. Thoughtful, emotional, dark and mysterious neoclassical / ambient music with a black palette. After all, there is a law by which the viewer / listener perceives a black stage design as separate from themselves, the viewer, and a white / light as a continuation of it, the viewer's space. Ltd x 250 copies in a card envelope.
THE OVAL LANGUAGE - 'Tapes Singles and Remixes' CD (Monochrome Vision)
The Oval Language was founded in 1987 by Frank Berendt and Klaus-Peter John. This first CD album presents the old tracks restored from tapes, as well as exclusive remixes made by Guido Hübner (Das Synthetische Mischgewebe). A wonderful excursion into the world of underground noise music, which is sometimes extreme but always interesting and unpredictable. This is a real discovery for all the fans of the experimental music genre. Ltd x 500 copies.
VA - 'Roulette Russe Pour Un Peu De Caviar' CD (Monochrome Vision)
This compilation of contemporary Russian artists was comissioned by Studio Forum (Annecy, France) for presentation at "Bruit de la neige" festival on 20th April 2007 and contains exclusive tracks by: Alexei Borisov, Bardoseneticcube, Cisfinitum, Exit In Grey, Hum, Instant Movie Combinations, Interior Disposition, Kolpakopf, Kryptogen Rundfunk, Moscow Laptop Orchestra and Noises of Russia. An excellent compilation showing the great potential of the Russian experimental music scene in the fields of electro-acoustic, abstract electronic music, drone ambient and noise collages.
VA - 'XXXIIº Concorso Internationale Di Musica Elettroacustica E Rumore' 2 x CD (Monochrome Vision)
In March 2010, Le Bruit De La Neige Festival organized the annual "Luigi Russolo - Rossana Maggia Competition" at the Faverges Soierie, France. The aim was to promote the electroacoustic music of young composers (under 35 years old). 60 composers from 28 countries participated in this contest. MV selected the 13 pieces which received the maximum votes for this compilation. Bruitism is a movement of sound art that was born on 9th March 1913 when the painter and composer Luigi Russolo published the manifesto "L'Arte dei Rumori" (The Art of Noises), inviting the people to appreciate the complex sounds from nature and the industrial environment. Ltd x 500 copies.
This compilation of contemporary Russian artists was comissioned by Studio Forum (Annecy, France) for presentation at "Bruit de la neige" festival on 20th April 2007 and contains exclusive tracks by: Alexei Borisov, Bardoseneticcube, Cisfinitum, Exit In Grey, Hum, Instant Movie Combinations, Interior Disposition, Kolpakopf, Kryptogen Rundfunk, Moscow Laptop Orchestra and Noises of Russia. An excellent compilation showing the great potential of the Russian experimental music scene in the fields of electro-acoustic, abstract electronic music, drone ambient and noise collages.