DANIEL MENCHE - 'Bleeding Heavens' CD (Blossoming Noise)
(2007) "Portland-based artist Daniel Menche deconstructs the organ and trumpet on this latest album, yet little of the resulting work reflects these instruments in obvious ways. Instead, these four tracks sound like mechanical insects mating with pink noise and then giving birth to an apocalyptic swarm... Bleeding Heavens is proof of Menche's uncanny talent for mutating common sounds into tracks that are dizzyingly unworldly. A tour of his universe is unlike any other and well worth the time and attention invested in attentive listening." (Brainwashed). Digipak with sticker. Extremely limited stock - ACT FAST!
UK 11£
Europe 12£
World 13£
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DESTRUCTO SWARMBOTS - 'Clear Light' CD (Public Guilt Records)
(2007)Destructo Swarmbots has carved a unique niche for themselves over the past 4 years. Their live shows consist of chaotic walls of white noise, improvised textures and battered instruments. Their recordings are delicate, at times meditative, washes of ambience constructed from countless piles of tortured sounds. Influenced heavily by 200+ needle-dropped, out of print psyche records, "Clear Light" is their strongest effort yet and the next step on their journey to artistic isolation.
Mitchell Altum's brand of power electronics is focused and intense. What makes this project so distinctive is the coherence of the work. Each sound follows another in a way that augments the mood of the piece. Layers upon layers of textures and kaleidoscopic drones overwhelm the listener; swarms of corrosive electronics wrap tighten lines of barbed wire around your battered and bruised psyche. An astounding sonic document of brutality and hatred.
UK 5£
Europe 6£
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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.
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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!!
Mitchell Altum's brand of power electronics is focused and intense. What makes this project so distinctive is the coherence of the work. Each sound follows another in a way that augments the mood of the piece. Layers upon layers of textures and kaleidoscopic drones overwhelm the listener; swarms of corrosive electronics wrap tighten lines of barbed wire around your battered and bruised psyche. An astounding sonic document of brutality and hatred.
