An immersion into sonic matter from micro and macro environments dominated by the wind in Patagonia. A vast barren space shaped and inhabited by the ever-changing forces of plants, rocks, sand, snow and ice. An irregular environment of relentless strength and richness. And above all, a tour de force of profound listening. López’s Patagonian winds have a ferocious beauty and immensity. Delicate whispers combine with wild swarms and eddies underpinned by deep bass punches. All of this is produced by an invisible force that endlessly sweeps the surface of the globe. With this, we are no longer in the tidy world of human music, but have entered the sublime domain of natural sound. Packaged in a super gloss digipak with 16 page booklet.
UK 10.50£
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MERZBOW / BAND OF PAIN - 'Reptile / Insect' Picture Disc LP (Dirter)
Merzbow is well established as THE pioneer of the Japanese noise / avant-garde scene and Band Of Pain are leaders in the melancholic dark ambient / cinematic world - once described by Terrorizer magazine as being "what Wagner would be doing if he was alive today." This full colour picture disc is pressed onto heavyweight vinyl and cut by the finest mastering studio to give the best possible reproduction for its powerful and intoxicating layers of sound. Limited to 1000 copies worldwide, this beautiful picture disc vinyl LP features a side apiece from each of these artists, with artwork by O. Lomer (the man behind our 'Swarm' sampler). Highly recommended!!
UK 16.00£
Europe 19.50£
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MERZBOW / THE GUILT ØF... - 'Split' LP (Chrome Peeler)
Japanese noise legend Merzbow offers up an assault of violent, swarming electronic distortion swirling with shards of brutal high-end feedback and cosmic oscillating tones, creating a vast whirlpool of caustic aural grit and buzz while Industrial noise punks "The Guilt øf... " a New Orleans-based group made up of Mike IX Williams (EyeHateGod, Outlaw Order, Arson Anthem) and Ryan McKern (Wolvhammer) layer waves of piano, fuzz, tortured vocals, drums and distorted sub-bass to create a mesmerizing and crushing drone-like effect. Ltd x 500 copies with full colour cover.
UK 15.00£
Europe 18.50£
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METHADRONE / FRAGMENT. - 'Astray' CD (Locust Swarm Rex)
Debut release from this new UK label, featuring New Jersey act Methadrone and French act Fragment. 3 of the 4 doom / drone tracks from Methadrone are taken from the extremely limited "Absorption" split with Nadja from 2005, with a new track 'Absorbed Version 2'. Fragment.�s rather atmospheric music combines ultra soft, melodious tones and electronica, epic doom riffs, massive atmospheres. Ltd x 500 copies.
This debut from new Dutch label Kazemat is a split venture between Amsterdam artists Morsanek and Vinkepeezer. Morsanek builds audio narratives by connecting and disconnecting small timbral and organisational complements and improv guitar. Vinkepeezer's music is built from many tiny sampled fragments that reappear as a swarming flock of birds, falling apart and building up again in ever changing forms. His music is organic, cinematic, warm and thickly layered, full of contrast. Ltd x 550 copies in a gatefold sleeve on heavy (180gm) vinyl.
UK 14.00£
Europe 18.50£
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MUSLIMGAUZE - 'Damascus' 2 x LP (Staalplaat)
Mainly unreleased tracks from the late Bryn Jones - a prolific British ethno-ambient, ethnic electronica and experimental musician, influenced by conflicts in the Muslim world with an emphasis on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Tracks: A1. Khan Younis (previously featured on "Hamas Arc"), A2. Cairopraktur, B1. Kfar Chouba, B2. Sleeping Fundamentalist, C1. The Fazur Dome, C2. Islamicistswarm, D1 Ummqasr. Ltd x 700 copies in a stunning B&W gatefold sleeve. Act fast!
ONE COPY PER CUSTOMER ONLY! If you attempt to purchase more than 1 copy, your order will be refunded.
UK 26£
Europe 31£
World 36£
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SCOTT HULL - 'Audiofilm 2' 3" CD (Crucial Blast)
Scott Hull (Pig Destroyer, Agoraphobic Nosebleed) has been gradually revealing another side of his musical persona over the past few years; an obsession with cinematic soundscaping and dark evocative film scores, mutant electronic textures and pitch-black isolationism. On this second Audiofilm 3" CD, Scott creates a much more frantic and energetic soundscape, this one alive with minimal bass-shuddering pulses and tone manipulations, layered swarms of insectile electronic chitter, swells of shadowy ambience, brain-melting plasma blasts, and vast tectonic drones. A brief but amazing dose of abstract dark ambient/noise that will appeal to fans of Bastard Noise, Astro, and freaked-out 70's sci-fi synth soundtracks. Ltd x 1000 copies in a mini gatefold sleeve with artwork from Seldon Hunt.
SISTRENATUS - 'Division One' CD (Cold Spring CSR61CD)
Powerful debut of the Canadian noise project. 'Division One' is harsher and more bombastic than Harlow MacFarlane's now defunct project FUNERARY CALL. A true onslaught of Black Ambient, Power Noise and Death Industrial. This is the much anticipated album, after the well received track on our legendary SWARM sampler.
A black-void beaming of utterly destroyed drone rock and crushing amplifier obliteration that rains down black ash and punishing blasts of feedback skree on the listener. A dynamic, bleary-eyed meditation. An avalanche of powerdrone that threatens to take your cranium apart and transport your grey matter into filthy new dimensions infested with melodic razor cuts and submerged mantras. A triumphant eruption of apocalyptic meta-metal and radioactive raga swarms, guaranteed to loosen eardrums. This album is one of the heaviest, harshest slabs of guitar armageddon from Matthew Bower since the glory days of Total, and bridges the void between the krautrock / celestial free drone influence of the last few Skullflower albums, and the blackened molten death of his Mirag material.
STEEL HOOK PROSTHESES - 'Atrocitizer' CD (Malignant Records)
2nd CD proper from the Texas Power-Noise duo! While "Atrocitizer" will probably not be considered SHP's most aggressive release, it is unquestionably their most unsettling and creepy. 10 tracks and 50 minutes of death industrial in it's purest form, dripping and oozing with sinister intentions, and full of grim electronics, unnerving pulsations, and cold frequency spasms that swarm from a fetid pit of malevolence. Add in a steady stream of ultra menacing , processed vocals and nightmarish samples, and surely you have one of the more disturbing releases ever to be released on Malignant. Presented in a 6-panel digipak.
UK 11£
Europe 12£
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VA - 'Untitled' 3 x CD Boxset (Public Guilt Records / Epicene / UndeRadar)
Three labels have teamed up to co-curate and co-release a 55 artist, 225 minute, 3CD compilation of some of the best noise / experimental / avant artists active today. Collected in a chunky kraft paper box and wrapped in a beautiful gold ink on red paper band, "Untitled" features the visual art of four visual artists and tracks from: 1thousand Holy Shards, Aughra, Back From Iraq, Ben S. Jacobs, Bet Hell, Big China/Little Trouble, Black Meat, Blango, Burning Star Core, Cotton Museum, Darsombra, Dead Machines, Decimation Blvd., Destructo Swarmbots, Donna Parker, Door, Earwicker, Forbes Graham, Gerritt, Gerritt & John Wiese, Guilty Connector, Heires Of Rockefeller, Herpes Ö DeLuxe, Hum Of The Druid, Iovae, Jason Zeh, Josh Lay, Leslie Keffer, Magicicada, Mermaids, Mike Shiflet, Noveller, Oblong Box, OP Rechts, Panicsville, Perfect Teeth, Robert Inhuman, Scutopus, Sick Ill Cell, Skullcaster, Small Life, Steve Bradley, Strotter Inst., Subterrane, Sword Heaven, Teeth Collection, Tentatively A Convenience, The Cherry Point, Thurston Moore, Tonight Golden Curles, Travis Ryan, Ultra//Vires, Wether, WZT Hearts and Yellow Tears. Essential!!
Originally released on cassette in 2004 in a limited edition of 100 copies, "Badb" is one of the earliest releases from the Saskatchewan-based black metal / noise duo Wold. The nine tracks featured here revolve around the mythology of the war goddess, the spectre of doom that lurks at the edge of the battlefield. It begins at the heart of a roiling black blizzard and proceeds through a charred nightmare soundscape of icy corroded black metal riffs, fractured blasting, melancholic melodies blurred and smeared into malevolent new shapes, and scathing distorted witch-screams ripping through the blackness, all doused and drowned in Merzbowian levels of feedback and distortion abuse. Now presented on CD for the first time, this early swarm of Wold's psychotropic black metal / noise terror comes with all-new artwork from Pippi Zornoza. A stunning blast of black noise metal, highly recommended to devotees of extreme distorted evil. Digipak.
UK 10.50£
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YEAR OF NO LIGHT - 'Nord' CD (Crucial Blast)
"Nord" is the colossal debut from French ensemble Year Of No Light that was originally released by Radar Swarm in 2006. A heavy, chugging metallic monster that channels both gloomy atmospherics and crushing dirgecore. "Nord" orbits guitar-heavy early 90's alt rock of bands like Swervedriver, Dinosaur Jr. and My Bloody Valentine, just as much as it draws from the crushing metallic post-hardcore pioneered by Old Man Gloom, Neurosis and Godflesh. "Nord" flows seamlessly between passages of ultra melodic post-rock and frenzied bursts of dissonant hardcore, to austere radiant guitar figures and gorgeous ambient drones, to massive doomy dirge metal, utterly gorgeous melodic bliss, and epic riffs, with powerful, strained vocals fighting through their wall of sound. Presented in a Stumptown gatefold sleeve with new artwork.
