ANDREW KING - 'The Harbinger Of The Decaying Mind' 10" (Old Europa Cafe)
Andrew King’s personal selection of those live recordings and un-issued tracks that he considers worth preserving from the years following his celebrated album "The Amfortas Wound". This 10" brings together six recordings from four very different occasions. Side one consists of 3 recordings in preparation for King’s performance at Hinoeuma in 2001. Side two contains collaborative pieces with noted experimental artist Andrew Liles (Nurse With Wound) and two live pieces. For the majority of these recordings, King was joined by John Murphy (Death In June, Knifeladder), Andrew Trail (Knifeladder) and Hunter Barr (Knifeladder). Ltd x 500 copies only on "traditional" heavy black vinyl.
UK 10£ Europe 12£
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BLACK SUN PRODUCTIONS - 'Chemism' CD (Old Europa Cafe)
Dedicated to William S. Burroughs on the 10th anniversary since his death, "Chemism" is largely inspired by William S. Burroughs' 1969 novel "The Wild Boys". With 14 tracks of tribal electronica, "Chemism" stands as the most rhythmic output to date coming from Massimo & Pierce and their fellow Children of the Black Sun. The mutating precision of Pierce’s electronics is here counterpointed by Massimo's sonorous, deep vocals. Some tracks were written and performed in collaboration with draZen and Bahntier. "Chemism" also features Val Denham, Ariot Fleischmann, Roman Hollenstein and Roberto Budelo. 6-panel digipak.
UK 10.50£
Europe 11.50£
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DEAD MAN'S HILL - 'Dog Burial' CD (Old Europa Cafe)
7th full length album for Dead Man’s Hill, with far more violent and darker atmospheres than ever before. This entire album handles the loss of nature, all the people who destroy it, knowing and unknowing in what they’re doing. It is also about nature making conspiracies with the Loa’s to let mankind disappear from the earth. The music sounds like a storm wiping away everything in the neighbourhood. Extremely dark classical / death industrial with choirs and the voice of the Apocalypse telling people in their dreams how it all will evolve. Matt digipak.
UK 5£
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HOROLOGIUM & K. MEIZTER - 'Eight Studies In Transition' CD (Old Europa Cafe)
On "Eight Studies in Transition" the Polish industrial nostalgic Horologium and the Swedish sound scientist K. Meizter (Beyond Sensory Experience) examine humanity's impossible fight against time. From birth to death, from playfulness to bitterness, from serenity to mental awe, this tale is transposed into music ranging from calm dark ambient to orchestral delirium, making it a fascinating exploration that will appeal to most industrial and dark ambient tastes. Presented in a special recycled 6-panel digifile with inserts.
UK 11£
Europe 12£
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HOROLOGIUM - 'Earthbound' CD (Old Europa Cafe)
The 3rd full-length album from Horologium, who offer 43 minutes of monumental, fierce, yet listenable music. Aided by Troy and Maria Southgate (H.E.R.R.), Merissa D'Arlette and Eustacia Vye on vocals, Grzegorz Siedlecki takes you on a Nietzschean trip once again. Postindustrial dirt meets martial drums, opera arias and neoclassical sublimity. 'Earthbound' may be perceived as an antidote to a slowly emerging neo-christian scene within the postindustrial / martial paradigm. Horologium scorn fanatics. Digipak with booklet, designed by K. Meizter.
NECROPHORUS - 'Drifting In Motion' CD (Old Europa Cafe)
Reissue of the 2000 release (Crowd Control Activities) from the project of Peter Andersson (Raison D'Etre). "Arctic ambience, melting with imagination, leads the listener to the frozen tundra at the top of the world. This rarely explored land, resonant with a shimmering radiance that is bleak, barren and mysterious, is distinguished by slivers of fantastical nuances that twinkle like crystals under the midnight sun.” The entire album has been carefully remixed and has been spiced with 3 more nuances. For this reissue, Maria Gullqvist and Eva Verholen were asked to contribute with their own impressions of experiencing ’Drifting in Motion’. Their amazing works are presented on the completely new designed CD artwork in a six-panel digipak.
NOCTURNE - 'Terroriser Manipuler Conveincre' CD (Old Europa Cafe)
This conceptual album from Nocturne is built arround the figure of "Dr. Mabuse" the anti-hero of Norbert Jacques's novel, the genius of crime and chaos, of finance in a world slowly falling apart in the first years of the 20th Century. Slowly moving tracks, recalling the atmosphere of the years before First World War - a very 'industrial' concept using analogue instrumentation mixed with sound-samples from the beginning of the last century and many samples taken from the legendary "Dr. Mabuse" film. This release comes presented in an oversized 7" Cover with inserts.
UK 5£
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NORDVARGR / DRAKH / KLIER - 'The Less You Know, The Better' CD (Old Europa Cafe)
"Zero point. Death. Ultimate stop. Internal. External... the transgression of things to be and never be again. Secrets weave milky webs, textures kill the progress of disaster and yet the fevered bleakness endures. There are no highlights here, only the darkness. That of the far graces of space released. You, the lost vacant listener cross paths with three of the scariest people alive. The less you know the better" is a great collaboration by the famous Swedish duo Nordvargr / Drakh (MZ.412) and the new American master of dark minimal sounds, Cordell Klier. Very elegant and structured sounds constantly and slowly changing into new patterns. A masterpiece of best dark and elegant ambient electronica!" A5 sleeve.
O PARADIS & TOTENLIEDER - 'Sin' 10" (Old Europa Cafe)
Collaborative album by those two great Neoolk projects from Spain and Canada respectively. Both projects are well known for their recent releases on Hau Ruck and Aorta and the great collaborations of Ô Paradis with Novy Svet and Allerseelen. Sad songs of love, loneliness & melancholy. All wonderfully sung in Spanish by Demian and accompanied by Sebastien’s heart-breaking Violin. Clear red vinyl, artwork printed on dark-red on quality cardboard in black & gold. Limited edition of 500 only!
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ORGANISATION TOTH - 'Presents... Gloria Victis!' CD (War Office Propaganda)
Eight black anthems dedicated to the struggle for Light and Truth. This French act (with previous releases on Athanor and Old Europa Cafe) combine dark and ritual sounds with martial rhythms, choirs, piano and cryptic chants. A sweet indoctrination. Faith is Everywhere! Digipak.
PACIFIC 231 & RAPOON - 'Palestine' CD (Old Europa Cafe)
Palestine is a face-2-face meeting between Pacific 231 and Rapoon, dedicated to the memory of the late Bryn Jones 1961-1999 a.k.a. Muslimgauze. "The production also supports the struggle for a truly free Palestinian nation, a key issue for a liberated middle-east". Ritual, Ethno-Ambient and Experimental music spanning a 20+ minute track from each artist. Ltd x 700 copies in a screen-printed ejector case with black CD.
Charming Italian Neo Cabaret’n’Folk band with intense deep female voice, poignant accordion, essential guitar, tough bass and velvety percussion. An eleven-cut debut including an amazing cover version of Jacques Brel’s Next. Romantic songs with a taste of Italian folk tradition and rough cabaret stuff from nostalgia up to present. For those who rely on traditional love songs, retro tavern music and noir cabaret.
Third full length album from this great Slovakian project! "Upuaut" is ancient Egyptian and means "that (man), who opens a door". ... This album is less ambient than their previous two releases, instead containing great tantric rhythms (sometimes sounding close to the best of Rapoon), many sampled voices and droning, with mystic, hypnotic and sexual sounds. The perfect soundtrack for your rituals. Simulacrum is a side-project of Einleitungszeit.
UK 10.50£
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STRATVM TERROR - 'Fixation' CD (Old Europa Cafe)
After several years of silence finally a new full length album for this great Swedish power industrial duo & Peter Andersson (Raison D'Etre) side project. Fixation is in our mind, and the world may be a cruel place just as reflected in "Fixation". This album mainly contains unreleased material recorded in 1998-1999, in the vein of the earlier CD album "Genetic Implosion" but more harsh and brutal. There are also two completely new tracks recorded in 2004, showing a change in direction by combining doom metal and industrial elements in a masterful way!
VA - 'Manifesto Rumorarmonico Post Futurista' 2 x LP (Old Europa Cafe)
Vinyl compilation devoted to “Luigi Russolo” the father of Futurist music and the first man theorizing that music has to be composed mainly by rumors and not by harmonic sounds. His music was played with a self made instrument named "Intonarumori” or “Rumorarmonio”. For this project, OEC invited four artists known for being very close to "Futurism" since their beginnings and for their true and uncompromising “Industrial” involvement: GX Jupitter-Larsen, Merzbow, Rapoon and Sacher Pelz (Maurizio Bianchi). Ltd x 765 hand-numbered copies on heavy white vinyl in a very nice textured gatefold sleeve.
7th full length album for Dead Man’s Hill, with far more violent and darker atmospheres than ever before. This entire album handles the loss of nature, all the people who destroy it, knowing and unknowing in what they’re doing. It is also about nature making conspiracies with the Loa’s to let mankind disappear from the earth. The music sounds like a storm wiping away everything in the neighbourhood. Extremely dark classical / death industrial with choirs and the voice of the Apocalypse telling people in their dreams how it all will evolve. Matt digipak.
