A CROWN OF LIGHT - 'The Clearing' CD (Eibon Records)
A Crown of Light is a collaborative project between American artists Brandon Elkins (A Crown of Amaranth) and Robert Hunter Osgood (Conversations About the Light). 'The Clearing' is a laid back Dark Ambient record with some experimentation, some Concrete Music soundscapes, and some noisy electronics. But predominantly the album unfolds in a calm, and ominous manner, with various organic samples and vocals limited to just one song. An intriguing project to watch out for.
2009 CD reissue of (ex-Wolf Eyes) Aaron Dilloway's "Chain Shot" LP (2007). 'With only tape loops, metal, and horns (and sometimes, it seems, metal on horns) the two long pieces, 'Chain Shot' and 'Execution Dock' respectively, explore the ugly underbelly of noise before just scraping right through and aiming for the insides. In a genre that has quickly turned into a broad and often inaccurate description of a certain breed of every-man experimental music, Dilloway sticks to the old-fashioned definition of noise, doing battle with the materials in front of him as he continues the construction of his impressive body of work" (Ear Conditioned Nightmare). Contains a 28 minute bonus track. Digipak.
ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE COSMIC INFERNO - 'Hotter Than Inferno: Live In Sapporo 2008' CD (Vivo Records)
"Hotter Than Inferno captures AMT in their fired-up, mainly noisy and wonderfully chaotic live format were spacey keyboards whiz and buzz, guitars singeing with multiple soloing and the rest of the band kick up a hell of a dust storm. The 73 minute set was recorded live in their native Japan on 29 June 2008 at Counter Action, Sapporo and features two long jams... An invigorating, fiery and enjoyable live album" (Musique Machine). Over 70mins of space-psych-prog-rock music featuring tracks from "Journey Into The Cosmic Inferno", "Pink Lady Lemonade...".
Russian post-industrial music from George Beloglazov, who also creates computer games with an unconventional author approach. The action takes place in March 1953 in an abandoned Soviet bunker - a place of strange experiments on the human psyche. The game explores such themes as the limits of mental possibilities, EVP, experiments with thought-transference and impact of fear on the human organism. The game soundtrack, presented on this CD, embodies the project's concept in sound. Imbued with an industrial atmosphere, leisurely soundscapes turn into states of calm estrangement and isolationism. Excursions into the unknown corners of the consciousness bring to its surface old memories and long forgotten yet vaguely familiar images... and laboratorial claustrophobia grows into light melancholia. This musical picture is performed in the trademark style of Anthesteria combining abstract dark ambient, melodic neoclassical and experimental sonic artifacts. Ltd x 500 copies in an A5 gatefold card sleeve with full-colour cards depicting game locations and fragments of a book about mental suggestions from 1962. Finished off in a nice card slipcase.
ARCHON ORCHESTRA - 'Pong' CD (Shadowplay Release / Muzyka Voln / Monopoly Records)
The CD cover of this band's debut album shows a collage with a fragment of a Renaissance painting on which biblical saints look at the "sky" above them and see the game "Pong" being played there (a cult arcade game from 1972, first game by Atari). What could this marvellous picture mean? Let the listener decide. The main instrument on this CD is the organ, in fast mechanical sequences, typical for the Berlin school of electronic music. Simple compositional structure meets vivid expression, liturgical atmosphere and a sublime metaphysical line running through the whole concept of the project. Archon Orchestra deal with clearly structured music lying in the intermediate plane between the so called 'holy minimalism' and 'repetitive music'. Recommended for lovers of Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Terry Riley and Recoil ("Hydrology").
UK 10.50£
Europe 11.50£
World 12.50£
QUANTITY
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.
UK 11.00£
Europe 13.50£
World 16.00£
QUANTITY
ASTRO / CRAZY RIVER / KOBI / LOVE HZ - 'Penguin House' 7" (OHM Records)
Harsh noise set recorded live at Penguin House, Tokyo, Japan in March 2007. Lineup: Hiroshi Hasegawa, Per Gisle Galåen, Kai Mikalsen and Petter Flaten Eilertsen. Listen to music equipment being abused and smashed and the crowd going wild during eight minutes of sonic mayhem. Artwork by Lasse Marhaug. Limited edition of just 202 copies.
UK 8£
Europe 9£
World 10£
QUANTITY
ATARAXIA - 'Concerto No. 6: A Baroque Plaisanterie' CD (Twilight Records)
Reissue of Ataraxia's 1996 album (Apollyon), remastered with an exclusive bonus track. Contain 9 songs taken from the original album, plus "Orlando, A Female" from the "Orlando" EP and Ataraxia's version of Franz Schubert's 'Ave Maria'. "Concerto No. 6" was inspired by Ataraxia's admiration for the stylistic canons of Baroque music, a music that incessantely pursued an aesthetical-formal elegance that was sometimes the mirror of an inner beauty. A deeply felt tribute to the Music Maestros of the past, a suffered research in the profound meaning of music, a personal homage to the impressive film of A. Corneau "Tous les matins du Monde", a dialogue between our earthly dimension and the ones we belong before being born and after death, an individual contribution to the Baroque harmonies and age, a subtle balance between formal beauty, passion and spontaneity, a singular excursion in the purity of sound. Digipak.
UK 11£
Europe 12£
World 13£
QUANTITY
AURA NOCTIS - 'Itineris I' CD (Twilight Records / Gradual Hate Records)
The two feminine characters animating this project, Pilar and Olga, follow a Dark Atmospheric Heavenly Voices direction originating in Arcana, Elend, Dark Sanctuary, Qntal or The Moon and The Nightsprit. The cello, piano and synth sound more atmospheric and dreamlike. The voice sounds like the breath of the forest, hanging over the music and leading the listener into dreamy landscapes. "Itineris I" is an initiatory journey through the most evocative romanticism. Aura Noctis aims to transport us to those places where the mind has never been, arousing fantasy that is latent within us. Their melodies are the hope that drives away the pain.
UK 11£
Europe 12£
World 13£
QUANTITY
BAD SECTOR - 'Transponder' CD (Infinite Fog Productions)
Since 1995, each new album of this Dark Ambient project is an event which is anticipated by almost every listener of industrial music. This is the long-awaited CD version of one of the most interesting albums of Italian master Massimo Magrini! Originally released as a very limited release (Blade Records, 1999), the album is available once more with 2 additional, exclusive compositions from that period! More than 60 minutes dark, deep, meditative, structured noise-ambient. Remastered and presented in a digipak.
UK 11£
Europe 12£
World 13£
QUANTITY
BIRDS BUILD NESTS UNDERGROUND & MY CAT IS AN ALIEN - 'Gramofonu = Voice Of The Universe' LP (Love Nest / Opax)
The first meeting of two improv acts, Prague-based turntable & 8mm band Birds Build Nests Underground and Italian psychedelic troubadours My Cat Is An Alien. Two different approaches to music make a sound that takes both from the unknown realms of the outer space and from the somehow-well-known world of old cracking records and the music and sounds on them. BBNU provided some of their live improvisations, MCIAA then chose those close to their hearts and laced them with sounds of guitars, space toys & ray guns, wordless singing and alientronics. Never has music of the spheres crackled so nicely. As if the whole galaxy lies on a giant turntable. The record starts with an exciting, ecstatic and excellent improvised speech by a Czech avant-garde poet V�tezslav Nezval who sees the whole world through his glass and the glass in the window of a recording studio. Ltd x 300 copies in a pro-printed sleeve.
UK 13.00£
Europe 16.50£
World 20.00£
QUANTITY
BIRTH! - 'I Will' CD (Realicide Youth Records)
"After cutting his teeth as a bass player and experimenting with the industrial noise of Elephant Skull, he began making thrashy electropunk tunes under the name BIRTH!, and he's only been getting stronger. Like some deadly combination of Test Dept and Dandi Wind, he delivers shrieked vocals and war-whoops over brutal analogue electronic beats. Between his other musical duties in Bestial Mouths and Realicide, he tours and plays punishingly energetic shows, having abandoned his apartment and job for the sounds he loves." Ltd x 1000 copies in a digisleeve with lyric sheet and sticker.
UK 9£
Europe 10£
World 11£
QUANTITY
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.
UK 11£
Europe 12£
World 13£
QUANTITY
BOYD RICE AND FRIENDS - 'Music, Martinis, And Misanthropy 21st Anniversary Edition' LP (Extremocidente)
21st Anniversary edition of this classic release! Kind of like a uber-group of the "Apocalyptic Folk" set, the musicians included besides Boyd Rice (NON), Michael Moynihan (Blood Axis) and Douglas P. (Death In June) are Tony Wakeford (Sol Invictus), Rose McDowall (Strawberry Switchblade) and Robert Ferbrache (Blood Axis). "Some records do not need an introduction. Some records define a genre and refine a chain of thought. They give you a pat in the back and let you know they've been there forever. They let you know you're right. Music Martinis & Misanthropy came out 21 years ago. There is no need for an age of consent to unwrap all its gifts but it feels damn nice to be 21 and this is a gift, from us to you: 2 tracks from the original release, one from the CD reissue and two new. Pressed in mint green vinyl and limited to 666 numbered copies, housed in a UV spot varnished cover and with six postcards and a lyrics inner... Life feels great."
UK 20.00£
Europe 23.50£
World 27.00£
QUANTITY
BRB - 'Disinterpretioned' CD (Muzamuza Records)
Formerly known as Big Road Breaker. "More sub-space transmissions from out of the void, other worldly murmurs and ambiences that shimmer like phantoms then fade into oblivion. Clicks, static and rumbles are allused as devices to convey abstractions of space and time. Layer upon layer of sound, treated to bring out new textures; the musical splitting of an atom" (Bizarre). Released in an edition of 500 copies, though only 300 were ever made available due to a shortage in the printed sleeves. Comes in a in PVC archive sleeve with multiple transparent and card inserts with obi strip.
UK 10£
Europe 11£
World 12£
QUANTITY
CIRCLE - 'Rautatie' CD (Ektro Records)
Circle is ever changing, ever Circular. On "Rautatie" the Finnish six-piece once again dives into uncharted waters of music, into a miasma of influences that feels vaguely familiar but, in an uncanny way, is not quite real. "Rautatie" is epic hard rock and colossal riffs that corrode into fragments of black metallic atonality over time. Occasionally the album’s majestic elements step aside and let sprinkles of athletic boogie take the center stage. Together the eight tracks on the album form a hard rocking bullet train, speeding ever onwards on a circular railroad to infinity.
CIRCLE - 'Rautatie' LP (Full Contact Records / Svart Records)
Clear vinyl edition of this 2010 album. Circle is ever changing, ever Circular. On "Rautatie" the Finnish six-piece once again dives into uncharted waters of music, into a miasma of influences that feels vaguely familiar but, in an uncanny way, is not quite real. "Rautatie" is epic hard rock and colossal riffs that corrode into fragments of black metallic atonality over time. Occasionally the album’s majestic elements step aside and let sprinkles of athletic boogie take the center stage. Together the eight tracks on the album form a hard rocking bullet train, speeding ever onwards on a circular railroad to infinity.
This titillating live spectacle of Circle was multitracked at the reputed rock venue The Croft, Bristol, during their UK tour in autumn 2011. Here Circle gives us a one hour rumble of old and new songs, a brisk illustration of the adult-oriented kraut-rock / prog-rock / avantgarde music that they have lately been involved in. Includes a cover of Brian Eno's 'Here Come The Warm Jets'.
UK 10.50£
Europe 11.50£
World 12.50£
QUANTITY
COCK E.S.P. - 'Historia De La Musica Cock' CD (Sunship Records / Little Mafia / Breathmint)
The 17th full-length album by infamous Minneapolis noise band Cock E.S.P. is both an homage and parody of the group's extensive and eclectic musical influences, a unique tribute to the past 100 years of experimental and underground music, forming a new cornerstone in the group's mission to challenge the conventional wisdom of unconventional music. Featuring 125 pieces divided into 11 chapters, recorded over a period of two years and clocking it at a mere 38 minutes, "Historia de la Musica Cock" presents an intricate, diverse and rapid-fire selection of art movements and musical genres from Noise to Jazz to Psychedelia to Avant-Garde. Guests: V/VM, Costes, Andy Ortmann, Smell & Quim, Origami Bøe and many more! Comes in a 5x7" card package.
UK 10.50£
Europe 11.50£
World 12.50£
QUANTITY
CONTROL - 'The Means To An End' CD (Eibon Records)
Redefining the concept of aural aggression. Structured, multi-layered, hyper-complex Power Noise. Sharp like a surgical scalpel and powerful like a demolition hammer, the music of Thomas Garrison's Control adds a new meaning to the abused "Power Electronics" definition. The only good way to describe "The means to an end"? A fierce beast constrained (temporarily...) in a steel cage, far too small to contain its natural aggressiveness. The cage won't last forever...
It is difficult for a listener to step away from the narrative concept behind Conure's previous CD ("The Generation of Our Grandfathers") and just immerse oneself in the sounds. With his new work, Mark Wilson utilises non-musical themes in a different manner in order to allow that immersion. Themes run throughout the five tracks of "Stream", but this time the themes were used primarily as building blocks rather than as the focus of the CD. His new creation is rawer than previous works, while still retaining their compositional strengths. The music, constructed primarily from field recordings and other mic'ed sound processed through effects pedals, is probably the closest that Conure has come to reproducing the sound of his live performances in the studio environment. Ltd x 550 copies.
CYCLOTIMIA - 'Celestis: Space Ceremonial Music' CD (Shadowplay Release / Zhelezobeton / Monopoly Records)
An album inspired by the activity of the American aerospace company Space Services Inc. which among other things dispatches human ashes in space. For more than 30 years Space Services Inc. has been a leader company in the sphere of private space missions of scientific and educational character. By agreement with Space Services Inc. a copy of "Celestis" CD will be launched in space on board of the rocket with ashes of 179 people from different countries and will be the official soundtrack for the memorial "Legacy" flight. Musically "Celestis" fundamentally differs from their previous works - real old-school atmospheres using vintage devices. File alongside Brian Eno, Klaus Schulze, Download, Coil, Bad Sector and even The Future Sound Of London or The Orb. 2010 reissue with bonus track 'Another Time Another Place'.
CYCLOTIMIA - 'Sci-Fi Music (Soundtrack To A Nonexistent Movie)' CD (Shadowplay Release / Zhelezobeton / Monopoly Records)
As the title suggests, the new work by the Russian masters of electronic soundscapes represents a score to an imaginary sci-fi movie. The musicians are admirers of old-school Sci-Fi / Cyberpunk genres and for a long time they have felt a desire to make some music inspired by soundtracks of sci-fi blockbusters from 1970-80s... Spaceship battles, alien colonies, teleportation and mysterious droid ceremonies are only part of the images created by this music. The album contains both dynamic rhythmic "hits" and disturbing space ambient as well as avant-garde neoclassical pieces. Ltd x 500 copies.
"Styx" is the most mainstream work in the Cyclotimia discography. The music is free of their usual experimental and academic explorations; here the emphasis is made on the rhythms. Eleven compositions depict the sickly technogenic reality of the planet wrapped by networks of global capital, media glamour and ideological obsessions. In ancient Greek mythology the Styx was the embodiment of primeval dread and gloom, from which the first living creatures emerged. This was a personification of the underworld river whose pestilent currents seclude life from death. Similarly to this mythic river, currents of credits, percent, funds, financial quotations, capital issues, barrels of oil and advertising spaces flow on the Cyclotimia album to the accompaniment of hard, sterile and atmospheric electronic music. Recommended for fans of Skinny Puppy, Clock DVA, Laibach, Front Line Assembly. Ltd x 500 copies.
UK 10.50£
Europe 11.50£
World 12.50£
QUANTITY
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.
Formed in 2001, this debut CD from Greek act Dark Awake is a mystical, martial avant-garde opus with a majestic and pompous feeling. "Meseonas" explores the macabre fantasies from the nocturnal macrocosm of imagination. The music of Dark Awake is not just a piece of art... it is the ritual of life as a sacrifice of will towards the totality of infinite possibility. Includes a cover of the Celtic lullaby 'All The Pretty Little Horses'. Digipak.
DAS SYNTHETISCHE MISCHGEWEBE - 'Neunundvierzig Entgleisungen' 2 x 10" (Auf Abwegen)
DSM is now the sole project of Guido Huebner, who has been working in the medium of sound and found objects since the early 1980s. DSM have their very own take on the patialisation of sound and the moving around of sonic objects in the stereo field. The overall impression is of rawness and fragility at the same time. The music on these two 10" records is super-dynamic and fragmented and sounds very fresh and alive. "Neunundvierzig Entgleisungen" comes in a full cover gatefold sleeve. The records play at 45rpm (the label incorrectly states 33rpm). Features texts by Jean Rene Lasalle, painting by Francoise Vigot and layout by Stefan Hanser (Anemone Tube). Ltd x 500 copies.
UK 16£
Europe 19£
World 22£
QUANTITY
DER ARBEITER - 'Holzwege' CD (Ur Muzik)
Following the acclaimed debut album "Reflejos del Sol" (2004, Divine Comedy Records), Der Arbeiter release their second opus, "Holzwege". Ten songs conceptually inspired by the work of Chilean writer Miguel Serrano, and his conception of Minne ("a love at once illicit and morally elevating, passionate and disciplined, humiliating and exalting, human and transcendent"). In musical terms, Holzwege is an alchemical mix of electro-folk with a slight mediterranean taste, which gives it a unique and distinctive sound that moves away from the well known cliches of the neofolk-martial scene. An original and inspiring work, made in Chile, arising from the ruins. Digipak. Polish import.
UK 11£
Europe 12£
World 13£
QUANTITY
DER BLAUE REITER - 'Le Paradise Funèbre - L'Envers Du Tristesse' CD (Caustic Records)
A side-project of Sathorys Elenorth (Narsilion, Ordo Funebris). Inspired by warlike ambience, where powerful percussion, solemn piano pieces, majestic martial and neoclassical passages are the central characters of this work. More than an hour of melancholic music replete of feelings and deep pain. "Feel how the crying of a cold war, legacy of the past, stir itself in the tops of destruction of our last days, where the dreams are just a legend and the death is a dark reality." For fans of Predella Avant, Raison d'êtré, Les Joyaux De La Princesse etc. Presented in a 6-panel digifile.
'Saddharma' is a very intense Experimental Industrial-Noise orgy, lasting over nearly 32 minutes. On this brilliant track, the mastermind of the Japanese Noise pioneers Dissecting Table, Ichiro Tsuji, combines different rhythmic old school elements, experimental sounds and very dark / aggressive vocals, that remind of the band's early years. After the mysterious Japanese Power-Noise band White Hospital split up into Grim and Vasilisk, the new band released 3 fantastic LPs in 1987-89, which became some of the most wanted records in the collector's scene. After more than 20 years, Tomo Kuwahara (Vasilisk) is back with the same amazing Ritual Music as before! 4 lengthy new tracks recorded from 2010-2011. Ltd x 500 copies in a slimline DVD case.
UK 11£
Europe 12£
World 13£
QUANTITY
ELIWAGAR - 'Fjellfolk Saga Fra Forntiden' CD (Morningside Records)
Eliwagar's second release "Fjellfolk Saga Fra Forntiden" ("the legend of the mountain-folk from the past time") tells about a legend written by Runahild herself years ago, but songs are also full of metaphors. The music is more rustic pagan folk, taking the listener away into a wooden cabin at the heart of nature, while a snow storm is raging outside, or while a sweet sun raises at the dawn of a spring. Eliwagar's music is meant to give a positive feeling, reminding of a good feast between family and folk or a calm moment near a fire on an enjoyable evening. "Darkness appeals darkness, and despair appeals despair". After every fight, there is a feast! After every storm, the sun rises again! Even the blaze of a candle can brighten all darkness. Ltd x 500 copies in a digipak.
UK 11£
Europe 12£
World 13£
QUANTITY
FALKENSTEIN - 'Urdarbrunnen' CD (Heimatfolk)
Falkenstein's self produced debut-album "Heiliger Wald" gained a lot of praise in Folk music press. Their 2nd album "Urdarbrunnen" is now released by the Steinklang Neofolk sub-label Heimatfolk. "Urdarbrunnen" is again a perfecly played, strong and dreamingly beautiful album with a rich, varied instrumentation, even more dense and powerful than the debut album. The musical range lasts from acoustic ballads over Martial Folk songs to dark fairie tales about mysticism, paganism and natural rites in the Alpine regions. If Falkenstein were around 40 years earlier, they would stand in line with bands like early Steeleye Span, Magna Carta and Pentangle. Digipak with 16-page booklet.
FATUM ELISUM - 'Fatum Elisum' CD (Aesthetic Death Records)
This is the debut CD from new French act Fatum Elisum. Formed in 2007 this excellent act creates some of the finest doom death metal but with a dark, mystical, melancholic and sinister edge. Great musicianship and compositions - a dark aura permeating their doomful melodies. Inspired by the early doom death metal scene - with no keyboards or female vocals - with a twisted dark metal edge. For fans of My Dying Bride, Anathema, Evoken, Esoteric, Mournful Congregation, Silencer, Bethlehem, Ataraxie, Indesinence - with lyrics inspired by dark literary classics. Six tracks and over 50 minutes of music.
UK 10.50£
Europe 11.50£
World 12.50£
QUANTITY
FAUST - 'The Land Of Ukko & Rauni' 2 x CD (Ektro Records)
"A concert (84 minutes) by the current incarnation of the reformed band (original members Werner Diermaier & Hans Joachim Irmler, long-serving American guitarist Steven Lobdell, and relative newcomers Lars Paukstat & Michael Stoll), recorded in Finland April 20, 2000. As always with Faust, things are never predictable or easily categorized, and for the most part, the individual pieces tracked on the CDs flow into one another with only subtle differentiations at the track boundaries. Faust continue to make music (with noise) more interesting, diverse and compelling than most of the head music bands around now or then, be they psych / space / prog / stoner / kraut..." (Aural Innovations).
UK 15£
Europe 16£
World 17£
QUANTITY
FUNERARY CALL - 'Dark Waters Stirred' CD (Fall Of Nature Records)
Heralded as one of the progenitors of black ambient music, Funerary Call (aka Harlow MacFarlane of Sistrenatus) returns from dormancy with his darkest release to date. "Dark Waters Stirred" is a ceremonial maelstrom of ominous electronics, doom-laden guitars and dark ambient textures. An audial descent into ritualistic obscurity and misanthropy. Features guest appearances from the likes of Deathlord (Blasphemy, ex-Conqueror), and Troy Southgate (H.E.R.R., Seelenlicht) amongst others. Australian import.
UK 10.50£
Europe 11.50£
World 12.50£
QUANTITY
GHAST / ABANDONER - 'Ghast / Abandoner' CD (At War With False Noise / Choking Hazard Records)
Two tracks each from bands coming at dark heaviness from different ends of the spectrum, but who compliment each other perfectly. The 2 Ghäst tracks are painfully slow, heavy and unrelentingly repetitive funeral dirges of ultradoom. There are some definite sludge overtones going on there but this is definitely for fans of bleak doom/sludge: think Moss / Burning Witch / Corrupted etc. Abandoner is Jay and Ryan from Unearthly Trance but this is a different proposition altogether: post-industrial soundscapes, this is almost like an alternative soundtrack to Eraserhead. Drenched in feedback, almost lost vocals, buzzing, processed guitar all come together in a massive dark, almost symphonic whole. Total void music. Ltd x 500 copies.
UK 10.50£
Europe 11.50£
World 12.50£
QUANTITY
GHOSTS OF BRESLAU - 'Peste’ CD (Twilight Records)
Ghost Of Breslau's debut album "Peste" (originally released in two very small editions on Bunkier Prods.) has finally been captured onto CD format for a larger audience. "Peste" is a voyage to the beginning of the World War II - a time when the world was on fire and violence engulfed the city of Breslau (the German name for Wroclaw). Ghosts of the past are still present here. Martial Industrial, apocalyptic war hymns, neoclassical music and dark evocations of the forces now hopefully forgotten. File next to Turbund Sturmwerk, Karjalan Sissit etc.
UK 11£
Europe 12£
World 13£
QUANTITY
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.
GOATPSALM - 'Erset La Tari' CD (Aesthetic Death Records)
Second album from this Russian act. Bleak death industrial ambient for the fearless, a dark initiation co-existing with lo-fi noise and raw black metal visitations - an eclectic diversion of auditory dissonance and dissidence. Steeped in demonology, this music will inspire the darkness dwelling in your subconscious. Features members of Karna, Sickrites, Baal Zebuth, Cyber Baphomet etc. A true underground and occult aura surrounds this act of darkness. Ltd x 1000 copies.
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.
UK 7£
Europe 8£
World 9£
QUANTITY
HROSSHARSGRANI - 'Pro Liberate Dimicandum Est' CD (Steinklang)
"Pro Liberate Dimicandum Est" was released specially for the 2000 years anniversary of the "Varusschlacht" (also known as the Battle Of Teutoburg Forest and immortalised by Ridley Scott in the film "Gladiator"). Classical melodies combined with the iron rough edges of Martial Industrial on a crusade through the ages. A musical journey far off the trampled paths of industrial art was the basis for each single Hrossharsgrani track! Hrossharsgrani is Alex Hugin Wieser, the man behind Uruk-Hai, Bonemachine etc. DVD case packaging.
IGNIS FATUUS - 'In Our Mad Bliss' CD (Eibon Records)
Back in 1998, Ignis Fatuus released one of the most impressive debut albums ever - "The Futility Goddess" (Cold Spring). Their astonishing mixture of neo-classical, ambient, wave (with amazing vocal contributions from SWANS singer Jarboe) gathered a load of positive feedbacks from everywhere. Now, Ignis Fatuus strike back with "In our mad bliss". Dark, warm, rich, gloomy music that transcends boundaries and defies definitions. Fairy-tinted musical scenarios, impressive female vocals, a sensual and seductive journey through a gently illuminated nocturnal world.
IN SLAUGHTER NATIVES - 'Insanity & Treatment' 3 x CD (Infinite Fog Productions)
The bloody awaited new release from the cult Swedish Industrial / Dark Ambient act! Jouni Havukainen has never released his records too often. In over 20 years of existence, ISN have produced just five full-length albums, each of which is an approachless peak in the history of dark music. "Insanity & Treatment" is a collection of the group's live performances, the best of which have been carefully selected and remastered personally by the author. You'll discover the legendary radio recording of Mort Aux Vaches, concerts in Madrid, France, Prague and Moscow. Rediscover classics such as 'Purgate My Stain', 'Death, Just Only Death' and 'You Are The Dead'. Features appearances from Tomas Pettersson (Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio), Kathleen Binder (Transistor) and Peter Andersson (Raison D'Etre). Ltd x 999 copies in a stunning digibook designed by Jerome Nougaillon (Propergol).
UK 26£
Europe 28£
World 30£
QUANTITY
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.
JAHRTAL - 'William Blake - Lieder Von Unschuld Und Widerfahren' CD (Ahnstern)
This is the second album by the Austrian Psychedelic-Folk artist Jahrtal. The man behind Jahrtal is Ewald Spiss, a artist from Tyrol, who started doing electro-acoustic music and sound-installations in the early 80s. Jahrtal today is authentic psychedelic Folk music, maybe only comparable with In Gowan Ring. The lyrics of the second album are poems of "Songs Of Innocence and Of Experience" by the English poet William Blake (1757-1827), translated by Ewald Spiss, as near as possible to the original Blake-texts.
Jazzkammer's Lasse Marhaug and John Hegre, captured live in Singapore in 2003, during the height of the SARS epidemic. "This CD sees them playing with noise and feedback, despite the use of some water sounds and short outbursts of rhythmical elements. For the bigger part it's still Merzbow influenced noise music" (Vital). 20 minutes of beautiful broken sounds and horrendous feedback! Comes in a beautiful little gatefold digifile.
UK 6£
Europe 7£
World 8£
QUANTITY
JAZZKAMMER - 'Sound Of Music' 3" CD (OHM Records)
"The title of this Jazzkammer (Lasse Marhaug / John Hegre) release is a very nice reference to their tactics: they create sound out of music. With the help of electronic equipment and a guitar, they blast their way through definitions of the term that shocks so many. This little disc leaves no questions about Jazzkammer's intentions: they want noise and they'll make it happen. In twenty minutes time they offer the whole spectrum of the genre as we know it: fierce rumbles, glitches, hisses and piercing tones. And not to forget: some looped melodic elements, heavily distorted and, more often than not, buried under an avalanche of other noise... Way to go!" (Vital). Comes in a little gatefold digifile.
UK 6£
Europe 7£
World 8£
QUANTITY
JOHN HEGRE / LASSE MARHAUG / HELGE STEN - 'The Comfort Of Objects' CD (OHM Records)
A one-shot collaboration CD recorded over two years, where the three artists (John Hegre of Origami Replika and Jazzkammer, John Hegre of Der Brief and Jazzkammer and Helge Sten of Deathprod) reworked the same source material, not knowing what the others would do with it - resulting in three very different solutions. From the intense and loud to the subtle and beautiful, "The comfort of objects" is Norwegian electronic music at its best.
UK 8£
Europe 9£
World 10£
QUANTITY
KADAVER - 'The Moon Bares Teeth - Special Edition' CD (Paranoise Records)
Apocalyptic doom noise from Israel. "The Moon Bares Teeth" is a tale of apocalypse in three acts with a prologue (a Jewish biblical ceremony for the departed) and a finale (a call for blood and death). Minimal structured noise layered on deep subsonic frequency rumble leading to a dark tunnel of screaming hopelessness and destruction, creating a misanthropic feel that leaves you alone in the decay of human being. It ends with final breaths. This is no music. This is cancer. It's the total emptiness of existence, the message of doom. Ltd x 100 copies in special cardboard package!
UK 13£
Europe 14£
World 15£
QUANTITY
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.
UK 11.00£
Europe 13.50£
World 16.00£
QUANTITY
KREUZER / SURMA - 'Viltis' CD (The Eastern Front)
New split of two young projects - Ukrainian Surma and Israeli Kreuzer. "Viltis", in spite of being composed by two different musicians, sounds as a whole-hearted album... Like the full-length albums of both musicians, here music flows in the martial, industrial and dark ambient music space and nostalgic atmosphere is completed by samples of old records in Lithuanian language. Ltd x 300 hand-numbered copies in a gatefold outsized folder.
UK 10£
Europe 11£
World 12£
QUANTITY
KRISTOFFER NYSTRÖMS ORKESTER - 'Overlook Hotel' CD (Malignant Records)
KNO is a collaborative project between Swedish industrial legend Peter Nystrom (Megaptera, Negru Voda), and Norwegian up and comer Kristoffer Oustad (V:28, Plague Machinery). Welcome to Overlook Hotel, where every room has a ghost, and every room has a story to tell. Travel the hallways and explore, as you venture into a cerebral musical state, where ghostly transmissions and hypnotic layers of surreal, ethereal atmospheres intersect with disembodied voices, clattering, furnace blasting percussion, and of course, healthy injections of true, old fashioned Death Industrial noise and sweeping doom, done in the best Scandinavian style. The pacing of the album is truly impeccable, flowing seamlessly from to track, as if moving from room to room in a hazy, dream state, the layering and cohesiveness on a whole nothing short of meticulous. 6-panel digifile.
KNO is a collaborative project between Swedish industrial legend Peter Nystrom (Megaptera, Negru Voda), and Norwegian up and comer Kristoffer Oustad (V:28, Plague Machinery). Welcome to Overlook Hotel, where every room has a ghost, and every room has a story to tell. Travel the hallways and explore, as you venture into a cerebral musical state, where ghostly transmissions and hypnotic layers of surreal, ethereal atmospheres intersect with disembodied voices, clattering, furnace blasting percussion, and of course, healthy injections of true, old fashioned Death Industrial noise and sweeping doom, done in the best Scandinavian style. The pacing of the album is truly impeccable, flowing seamlessly from to track, as if moving from room to room in a hazy, dream state, the layering and cohesiveness on a whole nothing short of meticulous. 10 tracks in total, 2 of which are exclusive to the record, one of which is a backwards version of what will be on the CD released later in winter. Limited to 217 copies (one for every room at the hotel). Don’t miss a chance to grab what is unequivocally one of the most well conceived and well executed records in the history of Malignant.
ONE COPY PER CUSTOMER ONLY! If you attempt to purchase more than 1 copy, your order will be refunded.
UK 16.00£
Europe 19.50£
World 23.00£
QUANTITY
KRUPSKAYA - 'Clouds Over Pripyat' MCD (Ignore This Records / Circus Of The Macabre Records / Ripping Thrash / Sassbologna Records)
"A truly devastating collection of 18 songs in about as many minutes, Krupskaya's terrifying grind-metal mix overlaid with harsh noise, stuck pig vocals and creepy samples is totally apocalyptic; the aftermath echoed by the strangely beautiful scenes of nuclear wastelands that adorn the artwork" (Collective Zine). Noisy, heavy and chaotic, UK act Krupskaya paint a bleak picture of the world. Ltd x 1000.
LAIBACH - 'Laibachkunstderfuge BWV 1080' CD (Dallas Records)
This album is the Laibachian interpretation of Johann Sebastian Bach's work The Art of Fugue (Die Kunst der Fuge). The majority of the material was created in 2006 and performed the same year on 1st June at Bachfest in Leipzig. Since the work is very much based on mathematical algorithms, Laibach decided to use computer and computer program as the key "instrument", providing a very special electronic interpretation and showing that J.S. Bach with his work could as well be understood as the pioneer of electronic, techno, computer music. Digipak.
UK 13£
Europe 14£
World 15£
QUANTITY
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.
LIETTERSCHPICH - 'I Cum Blood In The Think Tank' CD (Topheth Prophet / HCB Records)
The debut album of this Israeli noise ensemble. The eight-piece group of Lietterschpich (Hebrew for litre of cum) has been boiling down foul language, obscene noise, primitive rituals and perplexing visual propaganda since 2004. Comprised of local veterans of the Israeli post-punk, industrial and electronica scenes, they quickly gained cult status in the Israeli underground. "This bleak digital-doom-dub shriek is bound to slap the hard-core fans of innovative harsh music. It doesn't get more extreme than this!" Roughly an hour of Doom Noise terror. Ltd x 1000 copies. Israeli import.
UK 10£
Europe 11£
World 12£
QUANTITY
LIONEL MARCHETTI - 'Une Saison' 2 x CD (Monotype Records)
Musique Concrete / Experimental music by French composer Lionel Marchetti. Features field recordings made at several glaciers in the the French Alps along with male/female vocals, synthesizer and clarinet. The characteristics of numerous compositions by Lionel Marchetti, including those featured in this collection, are fullness and perfection, a design both obscure and transparent at the same time, so typical of a classic work. Ecopak with 16 page booklet containing text by Michel Chion on Marchetti's music.
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).
LUSTMORD - 'First - A Document Of Early Acoustic & Tactical Experimentation' CD (Dark Vinyl)
"First" was released as the first (untitled) Lustmord album on Sterile Records in 1982. The earliest Lustmord recordings show the project's industrial roots with a sound not far from Throbbing Gristle. This record incomparably represents art, ideology, uncompromising consequence and sound tactical proceeding of one of the most interesting, still existing members of the industrial music movement. "First" features John Balance of Coil and additional voices by Nigel Ayers of Nocturnal Emissions, and Nigel Dunster. The CD version features longer edits of some of the LP material, along with additional material (compilation tracks) not on the original.
UK 10.50£
Europe 11.50£
World 12.50£
QUANTITY
MAINLINER - 'Mainliner Sonic CD (Collapsar Records)
Reissue of the 1997 album from this Japanese Space-Psych-Rock group, originally released on Mason Jones' Charnel Music. Makoto Kawabata (Acid Mothers Temple, Tsurubami), Yoshida Tatsuya (Acid Mothers Temple, Ruins, Zeni Geva) and Asahito Nanjo (High Rise). Mainliner Sonic merrily operates under the principle that nothing is not worth doing if not done in ways that make amplifiers sound like they are melting rapidly. Which is something that can be said about a variety of such groups from Japan, but with Makoto Kawabata credited as playing "motor psycho guitar", one can rest assured that it's probably going to sound pretty good! Mainliner find grooves and throttle them until they bleed, with acid freakout chaos. Ltd x 500 copies . Chinese import.
Debut EP from this French duo containing the two title tracks and two remix tracks. 'Psychoide' is a "gorgeous soft cacophony of epic post rock drift", while 'Participation Shift' has "deep soft swells of shimmering warmth and distant bits of industrial clatter, a slow burning ambient drift that is eventually joined by a simple motorik rhythm". The two remix tracks are: 'Psychoide' remixed by SCANNER (Robin Rimbaud) and Participation Mystic remixed by JESU (Justin Broadrick of Final, Techno Animal, Godflesh). The result is a very cinematic, mesmerising warm piece of music, spanning 43 minutes. Limited to 1000 copies in a nice digipak with sticker.
UK 9£
Europe 10£
World 11£
QUANTITY
MARANATA - 'Total Repair' CD (OHM Records)
Maranata has its aesthetic revelation well planted in the middle of grindcore, black metal, ritual music, noise and old school electro-acoustic design in varying degrees of decay. The main focus is on nekroimprov and total noise. This time joined by Manheim on Mayhem-ic drums. Ltd x 200 copies in a digipak with cover artwork by Lasse Marhaug.
UK 11£
Europe 12£
World 13£
QUANTITY
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.
An original film score by Matt Howden (Sieben, HaWthorn, Duo Noir). "Robot World" is a non-verbal documentary by German film director Martin Hans Schmitt. The soundtrack is best described as Neoclassical in style; it is music to sink into and drift away with. The music is scored with strings, loops, piano, and bass. Just over 50 minutes of music in total here. Shrinkwrapped card slip.
UK 9£
Europe 10£
World 11£
QUANTITY
MERZBOW - 'Dead Leaves (Kareha)' CD (Licht-Ung)
Another fine release by Japanese Noise King Masami Akita! Not much info about this one. Possibly a reworking of the same-titled track 'Kareha' from the "Collapse 12 Floors" (OHM Records, 1999) album? Who knows! Not as harsh as the old analogue days, but has a sense of structure without beat - controlled feed back etc. Recorded and Mixed at Munemi House in January 2008 with artwork by Jenny Akita. Just under an hour of music. Released in a beautiful 6-panel digipak.
UK 11£
Europe 12£
World 13£
QUANTITY
MERZBOW - 'Don't Steal My Coat' CD (No Music Records / Olmolungring)
Recorded in November 2008. This time Masami Akita, the legend of Japanese noise, delivers a Jazz(?) Noise-Muzak album. More than 66 minutes of powerful noise in best Merzbow quality with live free-jazz-like drums which turn into more rhythmic and beating ones... Very unusual for Merzbow: this is a very rhythmic album! The sheep on the cover ask you not to steal his coat! Russian import.
UK 8£
Europe 9£
World 10£
QUANTITY
MERZBOW / CRIS X - 'Guya / Greed' LP (CX Records)
Second official release from CX records, Italy. “Guya” is a new and unreleased track from the master of Japanese noise, Merzbow (Masami Akita). 18 minutes of noise bliss, a powerful sonic trip structured by feedback, digital and analogue electronics. A devastating masterpiece. The flipside features 3 new tracks recorded, composed and mixed in Berlin, Rome and Tokyo by Cris X / Cristiano Luciani in collaboration with underground Japanese musicians, Keiko Higuchi and Sachiko: a dark and visionary journey through expressionist ambient atmospheres, electronic and vocal experimentations. Ltd x 300 copies on white vinyl.
UK 18.00£
Europe 21.50£
World 25.00£
QUANTITY
MICHEL BANABILA - 'The Latest Research From The Department Of Electrical Engineering' CD (Tapu Records / Lumberton Trading Company / AudioTong)
The latest work from Dutch composer Michel Banabila. The music is created mainly from electrical sources, but the approach is not clinical, rather mechanical, loud, intrusive, but also has a distinct human factor to it. It is clearly Banabila doing the engineering here, obviously enjoying his new 'mad scientist' incarnation. Some of the recordings arose from earlier mix-versions of tracks originally made for the dance performance ZOUT, by Conny Janssen Danst & Anne Soldaat. Unlike previous Banabila albums, there is very little of the so-called 'world music', voice samples or jazz influences, but instead a mainly electronic angle, with a special contribution by sound-artist/performer Zenial (AudioTong, Vivo Records). 40mins of music. Ltd x 300 copies in a card sleeve.
UK 8£
Europe 9£
World 10£
QUANTITY
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.
UK 7£
Europe 8£
World 9£
QUANTITY
MURKRAT - 'Drudging The Mire' CD (Aesthetic Death Records)
Beautifully enchanting, yet tortuous, misanthropic, dark, harrowing doom from this Australian duo. Drudging The Mire contains repetitive, minimalist guitars, sometimes ritualistic, with sacred chants and slow, reverent drumming. Sprawling, dominant songs, with great lead guitar. This is clearly more of a work by purists for purists. The music presented to the listener is a tragic, lamenting march into the unknown. File next to Esoteric.
UK 10.50£
Europe 11.50£
World 12.50£
QUANTITY
MUSIIKKIVYORY - 'Tulemme Sokeiksi' CD (Ektro Records)
"Tulemme sokeiksi" ("We're Becoming Blind") is a retrospective CD by Musiikkivyory ("music avalanche"). In addition to being a curious chapter in the endless saga of the post-punk era, this DIY document is also one of the finer, more elusive threads of the cassette-culture scene. Originally issued in 1981, Musiikkivyory's two tapes were the work of Mika Taanila, a 15-year-old who would grow up to become an internationally acclaimed filmmaker. This CD features the key tracks from those micro-edition recordings. Musiikkivyory's output is typical of the early 80s raw zeitgeist, but with a timeless, teen-anguish twist. Taanila heartily embraces punk's total do-it-yourself ideal, yet his style is light years away from the conventional guitar groups of the day: Atonal riffs, home electronics, randomly cut-up radio sounds, noise and primitive industrial weltschmertz blend into a rough, highly personalised whole.
MY CAT IS AN ALIEN / KEIJI HAINO - 'Cosmic Debris Volume III' CD (A Silent Place)
CD re-issue of the third 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. The Vol.III sees the two space brothers from Torino, Italy, alongside Japanese cult musician and dark shaman Keiji Haino. Imagine a cosmic bomb exploding in your brain, and you'll have an approximate idea of this collaborative release. These two long tracks were recorded during live performances in their hometowns, respectively Torino and Tokyo. Haino's track is one of the highlights of his long career, and MCIAA's track is one of the brothers' most ass-kicking for sure! Digisleeve.
UK 8£
Europe 9£
World 10£
QUANTITY
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.
UK 10£
Europe 11£
World 12£
QUANTITY
NAPALMED - 'Noisax Jazzostrial Fractamental' CD (Guerilla Records)
For this album Czech artist Radek Kopel and new band member Martin.B were joined by Japanese saxophonist / improviserer Hiroyuki Fujiwara and Japanese guitarist Teruhiro Shiojima. Their fundamental elements were enriched in post-production with clean, industrial poundings, beatings and feelings with a touch of electronics. A unique and autogenous movement within the depths of music.
UK 10£
Europe 11£
World 12£
QUANTITY
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).
UK 10.50£
Europe 11.50£
World 12.50£
QUANTITY
NEST - 'Trail Of The Unwary' CD (Corvus Records)
Eerie, acoustic, calm Nordic ambient/folk music played on the kantele, giving the music a medieval touch. Beautiful sounds dedicated to nature and inspired by her beauty… and of legends untold. "A hidden pool amidst the woods where the otters come to play, an owl's faint call echoing through the woods, sparkling waterfalls and vast snow-covered landscapes where the reindeer folk and wolves hold their domain. These are only some of the things with the atmosphere Nest strives to capture.†Though Finnish, the music of Nest has a Celtic feel and even reminds of Clannad in places!
UK 11£
Europe 12£
World 13£
QUANTITY
OCTOBER FALLS - 'Marras' CD (Corvus Records)
The music of the Finnish project October Falls is acoustic and melancholic. Cello, soft piano tones, choir and acoustic guitar weave beautiful melodies about the Nature's beauty. 'Marras' tells a story about withered leaves, autumn rain and mist in the forest. Perfect melodies for the long winter nights. Originally released in a digipak in 2005, this reissue is presented in a jewelcase.
UK 11£
Europe 12£
World 13£
QUANTITY
ODA RELICTA - 'Lux Aeterna' CD (Twilight Records / Gradual Hate Records)
"Lux Aeterna" is a chamber requiem that follows a classical arrangement with real soprano, bass and tenor vocals, juxtaposed with angelic chants of the Child's Choir of Donetsck Musical School, piano and organ passages of simple composition yet true purifying power. Originally composed in 1988, the tracks were re-recorded, re-engineered and re-arranged in 2010. The CD comes in a grey/black digipak and is limited to 200 copies.
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.
UK 11.00£
Europe 13.50£
World 16.00£
QUANTITY
OPHIR - 'Opus Operatum' CD (Callithrix Records)
Debut album from this Swedish act who met at EMS studios and started a series of eight sound experiments, which was part of their formal education in electro-acoustic music. An encounter between two very different musical dimensions; Anders Hallengren came from the Medieval Sacral Mass and the Renaissance polyphony of Lassus and suddenly found himself “in the world of post-post-modern electro-technology and apocalyptic Death Metal” of Stefan Östlund. But somehow these apparently conflicting worlds intertwined and the outcome was something new, even recondite and elusive to both. A stunning array of musical instruments is used throughout (violin, piano, horn, flute, bells, drums etc). All female vocals were performed by Julia Hallengren. Digipak.
UK 11£
Europe 12£
World 13£
QUANTITY
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.
UK 14.50£
Europe 15.50£
World 16.50£
QUANTITY
ORTHODOX - 'Baal - Clear' LP (Alone Records)
4th album from the Spanish Avant-Doom trio. Like previous efforts, the new Orthodox album moves again towards a search of spirituality and the sense of innovation that is part of their music. This time the band has concentrated all its strength and sound imagery into these 5 pieces. The band explores its roots to leave behind the search for alterations in their musical language and the emerging psychedelic and progressive atmospheres that appeared in their previous work "Sentencia". This work sums up all the attributes picked by the band during their career, places them in a new starting point and gives them a spectacular projection because their sound and musical ideas have yet to travel far beyond. "Orthodox were a metal band once, but they have become much bigger. At this point, everything they have in common with doom music or any other style of metal music is the sense of spirituality and their search of catharsis through rites" (The Wire). Limited clear vinyl edition.
UK 15.00£
Europe 18.50£
World 22.00£
QUANTITY
ORTHODOX - 'Baal' CD (Alone Records)
4th album from the Spanish Avant-Doom trio. Like previous efforts, the new Orthodox album moves again towards a search of spirituality and the sense of innovation that is part of their music. This time the band has concentrated all its strength and sound imagery into these 5 pieces. The band explores its roots to leave behind the search for alterations in their musical language and the emerging psychedelic and progressive atmospheres that appeared in their previous work "Sentencia". This work sums up all the attributes picked by the band during their career, places them in a new starting point and gives them a spectacular projection because their sound and musical ideas have yet to travel far beyond. "Orthodox were a metal band once, but they have become much bigger. At this point, everything they have in common with doom music or any other style of metal music is the sense of spirituality and their search of catharsis through rites" (The Wire).
UK 11£
Europe 12£
World 13£
QUANTITY
OSCILLATING INNARDS - 'Nadir Emergence' CD (Troniks / Iatrogenesis Records)
"Nadir Emergence" is the second full-length from Oscillating Innards; a document of the recurring and parallel themes of artistic/romantic failure and the forces of insignificance and degradation. Encompassing and hybridising elements of electroacoustic harsh noise, deliberate tonal studies, atmospheric drone collage and severe power electronics, "Nadir Emergence" is a dense and breathing environment of evocative sound and lyrics, steeped in continually growing and failing tones, recurring and degrading melody, and vehement sentiment. This is deeply personal music of smoldering roots and crumbling achievement; the secret infidelity and defeat of timbre. Ltd x 1000 copies.
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.
UK 7£
Europe 8£
World 9£
QUANTITY
PAS - 'Pure Energy Output Sessions' CD (PAS Records)
NYC experimentalists PAS (Post Abortion Stress) is a group out to create musical collages through the form of abstract sound. Their name refers metaphorically to those who have been aborted by society, because their point of view doesn't fit in the constraints of 'normal' society. The short name refers to the negative in French, metaphorically negating everything that is established to start from a new beginning. The band create soundscapes underpinned by the notion that music can be whatever the ear perceives... a conception fueled by the love of life and art. The compositions themselves are more akin to soundscapes than 'songs' in the traditional sense. There are no clearly defined melodies, no structural landmarks that give you any sense of traditional anchor. Sonic sculptures in the mode of pure art. 6-panel digisleeve.
UK 10.50£
Europe 11.50£
World 12.50£
QUANTITY
PEPE WISMEER - 'Musi' LP (Equation Records)
Pepe Wismeer is a duo from the Champagne-Ardennes region of France, who have been making their own unique brand of music since 1999. The music on this LP moves with patient strides, sometimes swelling to sudden crescendos, accompanied by electronic scrapes and coughs. A slightly damaged, spare, chamber folk-psych, whose distant cousins can be found in the darkly tender moments infused in early Psychic TV / Current 93 / Coil, or in the atmospheric postures of Antony & the Johnsons. The music is mainly structured around piano and voice accompanied by electric-acoustic guitar, bass, concrete sounds, samples, sitar, metallophone… sheep, birds, water and glass. All music was recorded on analogue equipment to add warmth to the icy atmospheres. Ltd x 100 hand-numbered copies with insert.
UK 18.00£
Europe 21.50£
World 25.00£
QUANTITY
PHARAOH OVERLORD - 'Siluurikaudella' CD (Ektro Records)
Pharaoh Overlord - masters of rigid hypnotic riffing and overlords of rock 'n' roll repetition - surprise everybody on their latest offering by propelling themselves head first into three lengthy surreal partitures. Instead of the familiar avalanche of distortion and metronome-like drumming, "Siluurikaudella" offers a sound that has been stripped of all traces of rock music. Has the ever-present riff disappeared? Is it still buried somewhere beneath the unpredictable textures woven by three guitars, drums and bass? Are the results too obscure for rockers? Too avant-garde for jazz connoisseurs? For fans of Finnish stoner / space / psych rock ala Circle.
UK 10.50£
Europe 11.50£
World 12.50£
QUANTITY
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.
UK 11£
Europe 12£
World 13£
QUANTITY
PSYCHIC TV - 'Themes' 7 x CD Boxset (Cold Spring CSR123B)
For the first time, all THEMES albums by PSYCHIC TV released together, in a sumptuous, matt laminate, spot-varnished box set. The music itself was designed not only as soundtrack but also for subsequent use by Initiates of The Temple Ov Psychick Youth in their rituals as Functional music intended only to aid in the process of making things happen. It is a practical tool. Thee essential collection of rare, archive and modern PTV ritual / esoteric musick!
Each CD has been carefully remastered and is presented in it's own matt laminate, spot-varnished mini-LP sleeve. The box also includes a 32-page booklet of rare photos and essays.
"Themes" was originally released in 1982 as a limited bonus LP with the first 5000 copies of the legendary PSYCHIC TV album "Force The Hand Of Chance". Musicians: Stan Bingo, Peter Christopherson (Coil, Throbbing Gristle, Soisong), Genesis P-Orridge, and David Tibet (Current 93).
"Themes 2" was originally released on LP in 1985 by Temple Records and subsequently reissued as an extended CD version by Cold Spring in 1997. Musicians: Genesis P-Orridge, Alex Fergusson, John Gosling (Zos Kia, Coil, Mekon). "Themes 2" is presented here as a 2 CD set, including the full vinyl version - plus the original "Unclean" 12" and it`s two B side tracks that were recorded in the same sessions.
"Themes 3" was originally released on LP in 1986 by Temple Records and is presented here for the first time on CD, completely remastered. Musicians: Genesis P-Orridge, John Gosling (Zos Kia, Coil, Mekon), Mark Sangerman, Monte Cazazza. "Themes 3" is presented here as a 2 CD set, with an unheard, yet legendary version performed in Boston, US by Genesis P-Orridge and John Gosling under the title of "Pagan Easter".
"Themes 4" is a brand new Psychic TV album, recorded by the late partner of Genesis P-Orridge, Lady Jaye and Psychic TV. Compiled by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Ryan Martin and Bryin Dall. Musicians: Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Larry Thrasher, Bryin Dall.
Get a free bonus CD 'Live In Basildon' 1986 - only when bought from Cold Spring!
QUIMERA MUSIC - 'Love And Madness' CD (Twilight Records)
"Love And Madness" reflects Quimera’s unique style of Classical-Baroque, Gothic and Symphonic sounds, carefully crafted into powerful music that is paired with lyrics of deep meaning. The artist states "Love And Madness is more than my debut album, it is my own revelation of love, fear, hope, and the touch of madness which I believe is inherent within all powerful feelings. I want my music to inspire others, to take them places in their minds, and maybe even help them go through whatever difficult thing they may be going through, perhaps things they can’t even speak about to anyone. Music is the only way I know to express the inexpressible." 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.
UK 7£
Europe 8£
World 9£
QUANTITY
RICHARD RAMIREZ / BLACK LEATHER JESUS - 'Scrapyard' CD (Phage Tapes / RONF Records)
Re-issue of this classic Harsh Noise picture disc LP, originally released back in 1995 by German label Praxis Dr. Bearmann. Includes the bonus Richard Ramirez track 'Just Like Me', which wasn't on the original vinyl release, making up 51 minutes of music. A rare gem in the American Harsh Noise scene! Ltd x 500 copies with new artwork by Jovan Hernandez.
UK 10.50£
Europe 11.50£
World 12.50£
QUANTITY
RISING SHADOWS - 'Finis Gloriae Mundi' CD (Twilight Records)
"Finis Gloriae Mundi" is the third album from Rising Shadows. Once again the beautiful voice of Linda-li enriches the mysterious and complex musical textures created by Fredrik Klingwall. The Swedish duo now goes well beyond their neoclassical and medieval roots and leave the boundaries of a genre. Together with co-producer Mattias Olsson and several session musicians they explore new layers of instruments and rhythms in their music. "Finis Gloriae Mundi" is the soundtrack to a great finale, inspired by the curiosity of death and transmutations of our reality. The result is yet another haunting melancholic masterpiece.
RISING SHADOWS - 'Found In The Cold' CD (Twilight Records)
With "Found In The Cold", Rising Shadows explores a colder and more distorted, harsh landscape than before, yet still holding up the ethereal beauty with the voice of Linda-li. Lyrically and musically the album is a continuation of the themes from "Falling Deep Within". The dreamy, folk inspired songs are still there with the dark lyrics of a journey through life into death and the catharsis in between. Rising Shadows speak about the world of imagination all of us have in mind; a possible world, full of tales, fantastic creatures and beautiful landscapes. A fantastic journey through the mystical world of faeries, wizards and gnomes. Try to search your lost and sad princess into the deep and dark forest of Scandinavia. Imagine a mix of Dead Can Dance, Ennio Morricone and Kate Bush and you'll getting closer to the sound of Rising Shadows! Digipak.
The Festival Issue of UK bi-monthly magazine Rock-A-Rolla, featuring Super Sonic, Input and Green Man festivals. Features interviews with Michael Gira (Swans), High On Fire, Chrome Hoof, Les Savy Fav, Orthodox, Odd Nosdam, Qui, Walter & Sabrina, Eyvine Kang - and a Q&A with Odd Nosdam (Clouddead). Plus a special on "Classic Label" Load Records and the usual vast selection of news, music, DVD and live reviews from the avant-rock, metal, noise and experimental scenes. Always highly recommended!
UK 5.00£
Europe 7.50£
World 10.00£
QUANTITY
ROCK-A-ROLLA Issue #13 Magazine
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!
UK 5.00£
Europe 7.50£
World 10.00£
QUANTITY
ROCK-A-ROLLA Issue #17 Magazine
Portland act Grails are the cover band for the final Rock-A-Rolla issue of 2008. #17 also features interviews with Hair Police, Aaron Dilloway (ex-Wolf Eyes), Deerhoof, Bohren & Der Club Of Gore, Porn, MoHa!, Helms Alee, Mustard Gas & Roses (M.G.R.), Akimbo, Zach Hill, and a Q&A with Ten East. This month's Label Focus is on Southern Records. Also included is the usual vast selection of news, music, DVD and live reviews from the avant-rock, metal, noise and experimental scenes. Highly recommended!
UK 5.00£
Europe 7.50£
World 10.00£
QUANTITY
ROCK-A-ROLLA Issue #18 Magazine
The latest edition of UK mag Rock-A-Rolla features Italian avant-rockers Zu. There's also interviews with Dälek, Gnaw (former Khanate frontman Alan Dubin), Glacial Movements, Ocean, Enablers, Randall Dunn, Ephel Duath, Glissando, and a Q&A with Zombi. This month's Label Focus is on Alone Records. Also included is the usual vast selection of news, music, DVD and live reviews from the avant-rock, metal, noise and experimental scenes. Highly recommended!
UK 5.00£
Europe 7.50£
World 10.00£
QUANTITY
ROCK-A-ROLLA Issue #36 Magazine
Rock-A-Rolla 36 features Corrosion Of Conformity. There are also interviews with Locrian, Alcest, Dirty Three, Helmet, Orange Goblin, Disappears, A Whisper In The Noise, Pontiak, Loincloth, Christian Mistress, The Eye Of Time, Bushman's Revenge and Kelvox1. This month's Label Focus is on Sulatron Records. Also included is the usual vast selection of news, music, DVD and live reviews from the avant-rock, metal, noise and experimental scenes. Highly recommended!
UK 5.00£
Europe 7.50£
World 10.00£
QUANTITY
ROSE LAND - 'Au Mont Des Soupirs' CD (Frozen Wing Records)
The debut album from this French act. "Au Mont Des Soupirs" is a 14-track journey through dreamy, nostalgic, intimate and melancholic ambient / neoclassical / ethereal music from another world. Explore wonderful landscapes created from piano parts, synths, strings and whispers. A journey beyond the eternal horizon. Digipak sleeve with artwork dedicated to nature.
UK 11£
Europe 12£
World 13£
QUANTITY
ROTHKO - '291' 7" (Zeal Records)
Rothko are a UK 3-piece who employ a unique approach to ambient music. All three members play electric bass and often utilise a handful of effects to alter the bass guitar sound to otherworldly rumbles and pulses. Their songs wander between intertwining bass melodies and washes of sound. "291," is comprised of simple meandering bass melodies, with a set verse, chorus, verse structure. The parts themselves sound very open and freeform, which gives the song a spacious feel, like their tone collages, despite the absence of any ambient noises. The B-side, "St. Seno" combines soundscape with melody. The end result is fairly similar to the A-side but much easier to grab onto. Droning waves of sound provide a full backdrop for the simple harmonies of the two bass guitar parts. Faint clinking of bells and sound loops playing backwards create a dream-like ambience which smears the song into a short, to the point, bliss out.
UK 5£
Europe 6£
World 7£
QUANTITY
SALLY DOHERTY QUARTET - 'Second Time Around' CD (Tiger Records)
This album from Sally Doherty (ex-Sieben) features an inspired choice of material, an excellent band and faultless intonation and taste from Sally herself, sounding equally at home in Portuguese, Spanish and English. All the tracks are superbly arranged and produced and the sound quality is exceptional. The singing is not only technically accomplished, but very beautiful, and Sally manages to make these songs her own. Sally's exquisite voice is mostly backed by a piano trio with guest musicians on Spanish guitar and cello as well as violin and string orchestra on the final dramatic track.
UK 11£
Europe 12£
World 13£
QUANTITY
SAVAGING SPIRES - 'Savaging Spires' CD (Cricital Heights)
This music belongs somewhere. Late summer afternoons, English pre-twilight and the old house that could do with some work. You walk along the edge of the lake and catch the scent of jasmine. The voices are still out there, all these years later, singing something you remember. Savaging Spires have created a world of sound where old ghosts can walk freely through these sunny grounds and impart equal doses of dread and joy. Whistles, strings and choral vocals.. work songs for the dead... wonderfully melodic songdreams... stuttering feedback... hazy music box melancholy... a gentle reverie of harmonica and slide guitar. One of the most evocative records you're likely to hear this year. Outsize hardback digisleeve.
This music belongs somewhere. Late summer afternoons, English pre-twilight and the old house that could do with some work. You walk along the edge of the lake and catch the scent of jasmine. The voices are still out there, all these years later, singing something you remember. Savaging Spires have created a world of sound where old ghosts can walk freely through these sunny grounds and impart equal doses of dread and joy. Whistles, strings and choral vocals.. work songs for the dead... wonderfully melodic songdreams... stuttering feedback... hazy music box melancholy... a gentle reverie of harmonica and slide guitar. One of the most evocative records you're likely to hear this year. Gatefold embossed sleeve with full colour inner sleeve.
UK 14.00£
Europe 18.50£
World 23.00£
QUANTITY
SCANNER & DAVID ROTHENBERG - 'You Can't Get There From Here' CD (Monotype Records)
Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner is a conceptual artist, writer, plasticien sonore and composer working in London, whose works traverses the experimental terrain between sound, space, image and form. Philosopher and musician David Rothenberg's music is inspired by the melodies and beats of birds, insects, whales, water, and wind, he blends spontaneous musical inventiveness with a sense of rhythm, exuberance, and listening to nature. Chilled out experiments augmented with spoken word, bass and clarinet. Gatefold ecopak.
"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.
UK 11£
Europe 12£
World 13£
QUANTITY
SELAXON LUTBERG - 'Cold House Of Love' CD (Eibon Records)
Selaxon Lutberg are debutants on Eibon, but have a long back-catalogue behind them already. "Cold House of Love" brings together Dark Ambient and Post Rock, in a particularly sad and icy-cold mood. Ten minimal soundscapes based upon emotional sounds made with guitars, piano and heavily processed field recordings. A journey through subtly disquieting ambient music. Presented in a very nice 6-panel digifile.
SKROL - 'New Laws / New Orders' CD (Twilight Records)
The return of one of the most amazing industrial acts! The conception of of Czech ensemble Skrol arose from the visions of its spiritual father Vladimír Hirsch in autumn 1995, when he was joined by Martina Sanollová-Sweeney and Tom Saivon. Skrol employ original principles of composition, with the added depth of classical influences. Their inspiration derives mainly from Slavic melodic and harmonic systems. "New Laws / New Orders" was originally an instrumental suite of Vladimír Hirsch, created in 2000, later reworked alongside some unreleased pieces from 1996-1999. Skrol's majestic and uncompromising music is based on specific melodiousness and orchestration of contemporary neoclassical music, situated in the arch of industrial ambient and brutalised by noises and modern technological sounds. This album represents the “swan song” of the band, being its last activity. Digipak.
SKULLFLOWER - 'Malediction' CD (Second Layer Records)
Brilliant Skullflower studio recording featuring the line-up of Matthew Bower, Samantha Davies (Voltigeurs), Lee Stokoe (Culver) and Stuart Dennison (Ramleh, original Skullflower) back on drums. Three long tracks of blackened guitar wall. No one is making music that sounds like this. Comes in 6-panel digipak with artwork by Matthew Bower. Limited to 1000 copies.
UK 10.50£
Europe 11.50£
World 12.50£
QUANTITY
SNOG - 'The Last Days Of Rome' CD (Hymen Records)
Australian musician David Thrussell (Snog, Black Lung) has been active in the electro / industrial genre since 1992. On “The Last Days Of Rome” he offers subtle electronica elements with an acoustic attitude through guitars, and perversely apocalyptic lyrics. Sliding between genres, “The Last Days Of Rome” is dark, powerful and totally catchy, a sleek meaningful beast. Produced by The Calculators (The Faint etc) and featuring the voice of Royce Doherty, the collapse of civilization has never been this groovy before! Adding to the celebratory atmosphere is an extraordinary down tempo remix by UK electro legend Sir Real, followed by four acoustic tunes and finished with 'A Nation At War', a true conclusion to an album like this by a band like this. 20 tracks in a digipak.
ABISMO - 'Ultimo Canto Ciclico Do Sol' CD (Nihil Art)
Black Ambient / Industrial / Occultic music from Brazil. A new disc with the old carcass called Abismo, in the realm of deep dark ritual ambient. This is a funeral of the soul... a funeral march for humanity heading for extinction. With an extreme aversion for life, this is sick music for ruined souls. Ltd x 500 copies. Russian import.
BLACK DEPTHS GREY WAVES - 'Nightmare Of The Blackened Heart' CD (Aesthetic Death Records)
The new album from Black Depths Grey Waves - the sickened minds of Clint Listing (As All Die) and Saint Of Gravediggers (Ordo Tyrannis). Consisting of 3 lengthy Blackened occult noise rituals, "Nightmare Of The Blackened Heart" is a crawling immersion into the darkest reaches of your subconscious mind. A disturbing audial experience influenced by MZ. 412, Valefor and Schloss Tegal. Digipak.
SUI GENERIS UMBRA - 'Ater' CD (Dying Art Productions)
Sui Generis Umbra is the new guise of Polish act Umbra. Dark haunted occult music, similar to Aghast. The music of Umbra has a special, magical, dark and secret atmosphere. It flows out of a lonely heart which belongs to a creature from another world. A world with no time, a world freed from reality. Hidden in the world of solitude and darkness, living among the old superstitions Lady Lugalla describes a world in which the unreal coexists with the real. Howling of the distant wind, scornful yells, the singing of bells playing the demons' song called Ater. A song which comes straight out of the depths of Lady Lugalla's heart. A spell that takes the listener on a trip to the magical world of The Witch! Originally released in 2000 by Fluttering Dragon, now re-issued with new artwork in an edition of 500 copies.
VISTHIA - 'In Aeternum Deleti' CD (ATMF)
There was a time when extreme music was not a mere shouting exercise, but a Vision, an idea of how to develop the magma of creation. Hailing from Italy, Visthia confirm the innovative attitude and contribution this scene is giving to reawakening the daring attitude that scene seems to have lost. Where others merely stopped to investigate, Visthia crossed the Rubicon, passing through the most extreme metal hemispheres to the industrial fields, resulting in the Black Powernoise genre. Told through the Latin tongue, the Occult Tradition becomes untold. The platter is enriched by the contribution of the internationally renowned artist Nicola Samorì, known for his unique style, bringing modern decay into the crystalized perfection of the ancient. File beside Dødheimsgard, Diabolicum, MZ.412 and Aborym.
UK 30£
Europe 33£
World 36£
QUANTITY
SPHERE REX - 'For Electronics And Piano' CD (Shadowplay Release / Monopoly Records / Muzyka Voln)
Sphere Rex is the solo project of MK (Cyclotimia), playing ambient in a traditional vein (uncommon for today), combining minimalism and a background style of electronic music a la Brian Eno and piano improvisations based on proto-ambient ideas of Erik Satie. This music is able to calm down and lull to sleep like alpha-wave rhythms or paint weird images guided by the surreal titles of compositions in one's imagination. For the goals of complete authenticity only analogue devices were used in recordings, as well as tube pre-amps and compressors from 60s-70s. Ltd x 500 copies. Russian import.
STRATVM TERROR - 'Pain Implantations' CD (Old Europa Cafe)
Formed by aggression and pain the aptly titled 'Pain Implantation' is probably a good description of the music, given the focus of the approach. Sparse and suffocating atmospheres float forth while distorted sicken tones are injected. The music throughout the disc pounds on your skull without mercy and then slows down before the next eruption, ripping through your ears jamming them with feedback and beats tearing the mind apart. Every track has a nerve grating, tympanic membrane agitating attraction, sonically careens off of the interior fortress of the body. Stratvm Terror is is the Death Industrial project of Peter Andersson (Raison d'être) and Tobias Larsson (Ocean Chief). Originally issued on Malignant Records (1998), now reissued in a digipak with new artwork and 2 bonus tracks!
STRICTA DOCTRINA - 'Stricta Doctrina' CD (Twilight Records)
Stricta Doctrina is a one man project born in summer 2010. Between November 2010 and September 2011, 9 stunning Martial Industrial / Apocalyptic songs were composed. The music is inspired by history, the rise and fall of empires. This is also a critique of the modern society, decay taking more and more place, with a return to tradition in the metaphysic sense being the only remedy to that. For fans of Triarii, Arditi, etc... Digipak.
STROM.EC - 'Divine Legions Beyond Psyche' CD (Malignant Records)
With their fifth full length CD, Finland’s STROM.ec continue to further explore the far regions of power electronics, challenging the confines and stretching the boundary of the genre, sculpting new and innovative creations that are uniquely their own. Having been under construction for over 7 years, "Divine Legions" shows STROM.ec with a majestic control of their craft, offering 8 tracks of powerful and explosive industrial music, full of volatile frequencies, brain bending, enigmatic atmospheres, hallucinatory noise, and the trademark vocal assault that few acts can rival. Presented in an 8-panel DVD-size digipak, designed by Jerome Nougaillon (Propergol), "Divine Legions" represents STROM.ec at their finest, most creative form, having reached a pinnacle in an already illustrious discography.
This mystic techno trio from Frankfurt delivers us four new tracks, as well as a remix of 'Isis'. These five tracks are a beautiful kind of mid-paced strange techno. It has the melody and the flow of trance, but features a lot of sounds from more industrial releases. Every tune is very carefully created and integrate itself very well in an orchestra of percussions and slow analog progressions. The recording is noiseless, and the samples of Genesis P. Orridge and Aleister Crowley's voice get along very well with the music. A recommended release for fans of the collectable Ant-Zen or Hymen labels. Ltd x 666 copies only!
UK 10.00£
Europe 13.50£
World 17.00£
QUANTITY
T.O.M.B. - 'Total Occultic Mechanical Blasphemy II' CD (Fall Of Nature Records)
Recollecting selected fragments from the past of one of underground music's most mysterious and obscure forces, "Total Occultic Mechanical Blasphemy II" serves as an archival release of today's leading Black Noise artist T.O.M.B. Resonating with a pulsing necrotic ambience and saturated in graveyard ritual noise, this is only for the most extreme of tastes. This album collects T.O.M.B.'s "Sacrilegium", and "Black Crypt Worship" demos along with unreleased "Dungeon Sessions". 20 tracks.
UK 11£
Europe 12£
World 13£
QUANTITY
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.
UK 6.50£
Europe 7.50£
World 8.50£
QUANTITY
TERRA SANCTA - 'Anno Domini' MCD (None)
This self released debut from Australian Dark Ambient legends Terra Sancta preceded the astonishing "Aeon" on Malignant Records. Anno Domini takes its cue from stunning acts like Raison D'Etre and Desiderii Marginis... sparse, textural soundscapes, deathly drawn out keyboard melodies, and smatterings of sampled (predominantly) female choir vocals. Over 31 minutes of music. Ltd x 500 copies in a card sleeve.
UK 8£
Europe 9£
World 10£
QUANTITY
THE HATERS - 'Ordinarily Nowhere' CD (RRRecords)
The Haters are a noise music and conceptual art troupe from the United States. Founded in 1979, they are one of the earliest and best-known acts in the modern noise scene. The group is primarily the work of the Hollywood, California-based musician, artist, writer, and filmmaker GX Jupitter-Larsen, accompanied by a constantly changing lineup of other "members," usually local experimental musicians and artists in whatever town in which a Haters performance happens to take place. The masters of consequent noise and anti-art! Latest pressing with cut & paste artwork in a PVC sleeve.
UK 9£
Europe 10£
World 11£
QUANTITY
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 JOY OF NATURE - 'The Empty Circle Part I: Swirling Lands Of Disquiet And Catharsis' CD (Ahnstern / Steinklang)
The Joy of Nature is a project from the Azores (a group of 9 islands between Europe and North America, belonging to Portugal). Musically, "The Joy of Nature" is like a serpent - always renewing itself, never resting in one shape, changing form but keeping the same essence. 'Swirling Lands of Disquiet and Catharsis' is the first part of a trilogy entitled 'The Empty Circle'. This first part corresponds to Nigredo. This album is about a world of disquiet, in which a catharsis should be done. To gather the impurities, realise their nature and build something pure from there. The music follows the concept - there are elements of Folk, Ambient, Psychedelic and Experimental music, mixed in a coherent way, creating a unique sound and a breathtaking atmosphere, predominantly acoustic and with dark tones.
THE JOY OF NATURE - 'The Empty Circle Part II: Rastos De Sangue E Fragmentos Da Tradicao' CD (Ahnstern)
The second part of the trilogy "The Empty Circle" by The Joy of Nature reflects and gathers fragments of the Perennial Tradition. Naturally, it is also about the Spiritual inheritance of the Portuguese ancestors. Musically, it's the most song-orientated The Joy of Nature release until now, with its roots in the folk tradition of rural Portuguese regions, especially the Azores. The album is not just a Folk-album, it also has several amazing psychedelic moments. Features collaborations with R. Coutinho, B. Ardo (Sangre Cavallum), Rui Almeida (Massa Última), Triarca, Mara Neves and M.J. Over an hour of music.
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.
UK 10.50£
Europe 11.50£
World 12.50£
QUANTITY
THE NEW BLOCKADERS / MERZBOW / ANOMALI - 'Kali-Yuga Karma' CD (Hypnagogia)
CD reissue of three 10" records from 2003-4 ("Falten", "Oumagatoki", "Nitya-Baddha") plus a new piece composed and arranged by members of all three acts. "From the maltreated vinyl attacks of Falten to the delicate electronic noise patterns employed by TNB/Merzbow, in a 20 minute unrelentness style (why did the term HNW not exist for this, I wondered), with even a touch of musical-ness in the second part of Oumagatoki. Anomali uses acoustic treatments along with pre-taped music from vinyl (I assume) and slips into a more quieter style of noise on the second part of Nitya-Baddha. Three somewhat different approaches to the idea of ‘noise’ and this all culminates in the short title track: a furious attack on the nerve system. Study material for aspiring cement builders of Harsh Noise Wall" (Vital). Ltd x 300 copies in a digipak.
UK 11£
Europe 12£
World 13£
QUANTITY
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.
UK 4.50£
Europe 5.50£
World 6.50£
QUANTITY
THY CATAFALQUE - 'Roka Hasa Radio' CD (Epidemie Records)
Hungarian act Thy Catafalque was born in 1998 as an epic black metal band. Since that time it has progressed to its actual, very original music that can be described as avant-garde post black metal / ambient / folk. Founders Tamás Kátai and János Juhász invited nine other musicians as guests to record a very unusual 70-minute album. Hungarian male vocals are complimented by the beautiful ethereal female voice of guest singer Ágnes Tóth (The Moon and the Nightspirit). 2nd edition in jewelcase
UK 10.50£
Europe 11.50£
World 12.50£
QUANTITY
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.
UK 13.50£
Europe 14.50£
World 15.50£
QUANTITY
TURBUND STURMWERK - 'Sturmgeweiht' CD (Rabauken Records)
The first official release from Turbund Sturmwerk is now available now for a wider audience. "Sturmgeweiht" documents the musical starting point of Turbund Sturmwerk and already sets a standard in this genre. A powerful and percussive manifestation of classical industrial structures and spoken word collages.
UK 11£
Europe 12£
World 13£
QUANTITY
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.
UK 6.50£
Europe 7.50£
World 8.50£
QUANTITY
VA - 'C.U.E. Compilation 3' CD (C.U.E. Records)
Third compilation from Japanese label C.U.E. On this release, the Noise, Minimal, Ambient, Experimental and Abstract music is again by mostly Japanese artists, and is once more 15 tracks: Scanner, Kissa Big Yodo, Sunao Inami, Kazuya Ishigami, Morgan Fisher , Symphony Space, CARRE, Anla Courtis, Morishige Yasumune, Keitaro Iijima, Funaman, Huguet, Atsunobu Tadatsu, Tadashi Usami and Yow Funahashi. Comes in slimline jewelcase. Extremely rare Japanese import.
UK 5£
Europe 6£
World 7£
QUANTITY
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!!!
ALL PRICES INCLUDE REGISTERED SHIPPING!
PLEASE CONTACT US BEFORE ORDERING IF PURCHASING WITH ANY OTHER ITEM AS THE ORDER WOULD THEN HAVE TO BE SHIPPED BY COURIER.
UK 65£
Europe 80£
World 90£
QUANTITY
VA - 'Drinking The Goat's Blood' CD (Record Label Records)
Focusing on sound design and atmosphere, consider "Drinking The Goat's Blood" experimental, but not in the typical sense of noise, ambient or improvisational music. Rather, it is a series of often disparate elements that have been lovingly arranged and ritualistically hewn into a seamless psychedelic pastiche. The cast: 10-20, Ata Ebtekar, Candle Labra, Claroscent Dray, Column One, Contagious Orgasm, Dalglish, Fluorescent Grey, Jacob Jarnigon, Koyxen (Kouhei Matsunaga), Mike Dunkley, Nommo Ogo, Sean Niesen, Senryl, Tomoroh Hidari, Upside Down Umbrella, Wisp and Wobbly (2 tracks). Digipak.
UK 8£
Europe 9£
World 10£
QUANTITY
VA - 'Dry Lungs V' 2 x CD (Subterranean Records)
Seminal Industrial compilation from 1992, which features contributions from 24 outstanding experimental and industrial artists from Europe, Japan and the US: Arcane Device, Carl Stone, Chris Moriarty, Controlled Bleeding, Cranioclast, Desaccord Majeur, Etant Donnes, Fat Hacker, Hélène Sage & Bernard Vitet, Hijokaidan, Michael Hovacsek, Incapacitants, Joe Papa, KK Null, Masonna, Paul Lemos, PGR, Phallus Dei, Skin Chamber, Solmania, Un Drame Musical Instantané and Violent Onsen Geisha. Compiled and with extensive notes on the artists by Paul Lemos (Controlled Bleeding), with artwork by Arthur Potter. The packaging includes a large and quite elegantly printed folder inside a 6" by 12.5" (!!) slipcase. Still sealed!
UK 20.00£
Europe 22.50£
World 25.00£
QUANTITY
VA - 'The Ring / The Ring Two O.S.T.' CD (Decca Records)
This CD collects together the soundtracks to remakes of the Japanese cult "Ringu" movies from the 1990s: "The Ring" (2002) and "The Ring Two" (2005). Together Hans Zimmer, Henning Lohner and Martin Tillman have created some of the most powerful and bone-chilling film music of recent years. Delving deeper into the supernatural more than the usual horror film soundtrack, this score executes the terror build-up precisely with the use of piano, violin, synthesizer and duelling cellos played by Martin Tillman and Anthony Pleeth. This urban legend comes to life exposing raw emotion by brewing up a sense of mystery, horror and helplessness for the moviegoer.
Reissue of Velnias' 2008 album. The music of Illinois based blackened doom outfit Velnias can be best described as a combination of sorrowful black metal with a very doomy atmosphere, combined with elements of folk. With three lengthy songs, the emphasis has been laid upon a musical foundation of progressive yet feral riffs, intertwining with delicate passages that only make the heavier parts that much more potent. Combined with lyrical content based upon the premise that the human race is insignificant compared to the grand power and prestige of nature this is a debut album that should not be dismissed! File next to Opeth, Agalloch or Wolves In The Throne Room. Ltd x 400 copies on black vinyl.
UK 12.00£
Europe 15.50£
World 19.00£
QUANTITY
VINTERRIKET - 'Horizontmelancholie' CD / DVD DualDisc (Heimatfolk)
Vinterriket was born in 1996 as a one-man project in order to capture the dark side of nature. "Horizontmelancholie" features 7 tracks full of coldness, melancholy and chilling atmospheres. The whole record is a pure tribute to the darkest side of mother nature. Haunting and cold electronic soundscapes are mixed with atmospheric acoustic guitars and clean vocals. This is a conceptual album; a masterpiece of haunting and evocative aural tapestries, an emotive display of tension and calm. A darkened imagery of shadowed forests and expansive still landscapes. Join the journey into the deepest side of the forest and get lost in misty, snow-covered hills and majestic mountain landscapes. The whole album is featured as music CD and DVD on one disc. Enter the realm of desolation and emptiness. Pure Neofolk only! Digipak with booklet.
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!
UK 11.00£
Europe 14.50£
World 18.00£
QUANTITY
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.
UK 6£
Europe 7£
World 8£
QUANTITY
WELTER IN THY BLOOD - 'Through The Fields Of Mourning' CD (Shadowgraph Records)
Welter In Thy Blood is a three piece Black Funeral Doom band emerging from Los Angeles in 2007 with the intent of giving a soundtrack to human extinction. The elegies of Welter In Thy Blood speak of their virulent hate of human existence and the lauding of death and solitude. Revealed through a staggering funeral cadence and guttural ululations is a feeling of absolute torment and despondency. Like a putrid mass for an unholy God. Welter In Thy Blood musically coalesced self mutilation and misanthropy with the urge for voluntary human extinction, coining the term "Suicide is a Virtue". Not for the weak or feeble, this is music for the slightly deranged and the disturbed. Ltd x 1000 copies in a 6-panel digipak with artwork by Kevin Yuen (TenHornedBeast, Sunn O))) etc).
UK 11£
Europe 12£
World 13£
QUANTITY
WERKRAUM - 'Early Love Music' CD (Ahnstern / Steinklang)
14 progressive and traditional, psychedelic and medieval folk songs and chants of early love. 14 dreamy memories of the merry blue days from early times. With "Early Love Music" the German Folk musician Axel Frank sets a surpassing milestone for the new generation of Folk artists. A year after releasing his quite Martial / Neoclassical oriented debut on Cold Spring (CSR49CD), Axel got heavily involved with Alpine Folk heroes Sturmpercht and found his love in late 60s / early 70s Psych / Prog Folk music, thus changing his own direction, with the highly successful MCD 'Kristalle'. The complex arrangements and large variety of instruments even remind of The Incredible String Band and some early Acid-Folk bands. "Early Love Music" brings 2 cover versions: Donovan's ingenious fairytale "Jabberwocky" and traditional folk hit "The Blacksmith". Features collaborations with Changes, Lady Morphia and Sturmpercht. Digipak. 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.
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!
UK 11£
Europe 12£
World 13£
QUANTITY
WOLF & WINTER - 'When The Cold Earth Rests In Silence' CD (Twilight Records)
Wolf & Winter's second album is still in the vein of their first album's raw black metal, but moves a step forward into depressive black metal, combining ambient strings and bombastic drums from the first pagan metal and using a grimmer repertoire of black metal vocals. Not quite post black metal, it uses some elements of this genre to combine the first age of Bathory and Hellhammer with Ulver, Burzum and even Agalloch. To stand in the roots of primitive and raw music is why this second album does not completely move forward into a more modern concept of black metal, but this doesn't mean it's stuck in the past. This way, the music gains more solidness and independence in a genre which has been so done, so constructed, so reconstructed and at last, so repeated. Digipak.
WOLF EYES With JOHN WIESE - 'Collection' CD (Hanson Records)
A collection of the Wolf Eyes with John Wiese 7" plus two EPs originally released in very limited editions on American Tapes in 2003-04. Digitally re-mastered by Wiese and finally available all together! "Combined into one ugly genetic mishap and flesh hacked covered package by Aaron Dilloway's Hanson label, this is a disintegrated release full of blossoming black sounds... The sheer breadth of textures and styles that they have used is nothing short of astounding... Scattered between exploring inner worlds and blowing-out corneas through riotous frequency changes, this is the place where digits are bent from their 0 and 1 roots into self-adapting cyborg sinews. Elements like stuck groove bell work, tape machine cloud cover and delicate looped horns seem like perfectly constructed movements, musical conclusions of thirty minutes of sweaty improv work". (Brainwashed)
UK 10.50£
Europe 11.50£
World 12.50£
QUANTITY
WOLFSKIN feat. LAST INDUSTRIAL ESTATE - 'Stonegates Of Silence' CD (Malignant Records)
And so the journey formally ends for Wolfskin, 15 years from whence it began with the release of "The Hidden Fortress" cassette back in 1995. The essence of Wolfskin has transformed and mutated throughout the years, reaching on "The Stonegates of Silence" it's simpler form… one of desolation, solitude, insanity and death, the final frontiers of human existence. As he did with "The Hidden Fortress: A Revisitation" CD, Wolfskin once again pairs up with Anders Peterson of Objekt4 fame, now operating under the name of Last Industrial Estate for the purposes of this recording. This is Wolfskin at its bleakest and most restrained, offering 5 tracks of enveloping ambience built around foggy, ambiguous textures and an endless flow of drifting isolationism, shapeless horrors, and oppressive subterranean heaviness. In the case of Stonegates, Wolfskin goes out not with a bang, but with a slow, evolutionary creep into the shadows, forever etched in the lexicon of dark ambient music. 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.
UK 11.00£
Europe 13.50£
World 16.00£
QUANTITY
ZBIGNIEW KARKOWSKI & TETSUO FURUDATE - 'World As Will IV' CD (OHM Records)
"IV" in the 'World As Will' series ("III" Sub Rosa, "II' 23five, "I" Staalplaat). "‘World As Will’ is a work in which Zbigniew Karkowski and Tetsuo Furudate combine orchestral music with computer music - read: noise. At the basis here lie two performances, one for sax, trombone, flute and sine waves and the other for a small ensemble called Sonic Boom. These recordings are slaughtered by the composers during a concert in Tokyo and turned into a racket of noise. Another heavy weight release, with lots of cascading noise samples of orchestral origin spliced on the spot together, fed through the lions of granular synthesis - and who knows what else. Its however in the power of these hands that they know, somewhere in the middle how to pull back and go deeper and deeper into what seems to be the crackling of surfaces with contact microphones, before returning to the world of crashing noise and only to return once more to that somewhat dark underworld, going back up after for a cascading finale. Noise indeed and perhaps I should have left this in the capable hands of Jliat, but this is actually noise of the more intelligent kind" (Vital Weekly). Limited to just 200 copies in a digipak!
Third compilation from Japanese label C.U.E. On this release, the Noise, Minimal, Ambient, Experimental and Abstract music is again by mostly Japanese artists, and is once more 15 tracks: Scanner, Kissa Big Yodo, Sunao Inami, Kazuya Ishigami, Morgan Fisher , Symphony Space, CARRE, Anla Courtis, Morishige Yasumune, Keitaro Iijima, Funaman, Huguet, Atsunobu Tadatsu, Tadashi Usami and Yow Funahashi. Comes in slimline jewelcase. Extremely rare Japanese import.
