The enigmatic scientist K. Meizter (Beyond Sensory Experience) has left his murky laboratory to release "Dark Matters", a dark puzzle piece to his debut solo album "Travelling Light". K. Meizter's new album is a strong musickal reaction of dark ambient soundscapes with subtle and sinister melodies, catalyzed by pounding rhythms and distorted experimental electronics. "Dark Matters" comes in a stylish B&W digipak.
After channeling all his musical energy into Beyond Sensory Experience for the past two years, K. Meizter finally returns with a new solo exertion. Spawned during the sinister last months of a northern year, Tetraphobia scans through the kafkaesque layers of human anxiety, and continues K. Meizter’s distinctive manipulation of sound, melody and pulse. Following 2 previous solo albums K. Meizter’s new release develops even more unsettling atmospheres of reflection and alteration. With 10 tracks and over an hour of foreboding avant-garde, "Tetraphobia" is K. Meizter’s most convincing work thus far. Dark and solemn.
K. MEIZTER - 'Travelling Light' CD (Horus Cyclic Daemon)
Solo outing for BEYOND SENSORY EXPERIENCE main-main K. Meizter. "Travelling Light" still lurks within the realms of dark ambient, but breaks new ground for experimental areas focusing primarily on melancholy melodies and twisted rhythms. "Travelling Light" takes the listener on an intriguing journey through the universe of the mind, coming further enhanced with elegant and thought-provoking artwork. This deluxe limited edition comes presented as 500 numbered copies housed in a special A5 sized embossed folder with booklet. Mastered by M Goedrijk (This Morn' Omina).
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K11 - 'Voices From Thelema' Enhanced CD (Aurora Borealis)
"Voices From Thelema" is an action of instrumental transcommunication with short wave receivers. It was realised inside the ruins of Thelema Abbey, Cefalù, Sicily - founded by Aleister Crowley in 1920. K11 is a project of Italian sound / installation artist Pietro Riparbelli that deals with the world of radio signals, trans-communication and other invisible phenomena, to create a dimension where the only sound sources are signals from shortwave radio receivers. Deluxe digipak with 32 page booklet featuring photographs from the recording process at Thelema Abbey. Also features a short film shot on location at the Abbey.
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KAAOS IN ECCENTRIS / LIDDIKOATIGHT & LEIF ELGGREN - 'No-One Takes One Too Free / Trapezoid' 7" (Some Place Else)
Kaaos in Eccentris - on this session Mockingwyrd, Ovro, Niko Skorpio and Ibrahim Terzic - create an oddly trance-inducing, almost groovy piece that limps forward powered by the combination of hypnotic bass and crackling rhythms. Liddikoatight is a new Japanese band with Kouhei Matsunaga among others. Leif Elggren, from Sweden, has worked with sound and performance art since 1980 and has a long list of releases, books and live-performances under his belt. For this record, Liddikoatight and Leif Elggren collaborated via telepathy. Mix of the results form the track Trapezoid. Ltd x 500 copies with gatefold sleeve.
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KADAVER - 'Automatic Autopsy' CD (Topheth Prophet)
"The latest from this extreme and disturbing Israeli project. A vortex of scourging, flesh burning electronics, apocalyptic noise, and venomous hate, with a palpable sense of unpleasantness and general malaise. If I had to pick someone within this scene that was either going to commit suicide or go on a mass killing spree, it’s probably this guy." (Malignant). Ltd x 500 copies. Israeli import.
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KADAVER - 'Kadaver' T-Shirt - Extra Large Size (None)
Official shirt from Israeli death industrial / harsh noise / twisted ambient prodigy Kadaver (Michael Zolotov). Black shirt with front print (Kadaver text and grayscale image) and back print ("Kadaver supports the total annihilation of the human race... thank you for your cooperation").
Please note that we do not accept returns on items of clothing! We are happy to provide chest measurements on request.
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KADAVER - 'Kadaver' T-Shirt - Large Size (None)
Official shirt from Israeli death industrial / harsh noise / twisted ambient prodigy Kadaver (Michael Zolotov). Black shirt with front print (Kadaver text and grayscale image) and back print ("Kadaver supports the total annihilation of the human race... thank you for your cooperation").
Please note that we do not accept returns on items of clothing! We are happy to provide chest measurements on request.
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KADAVER - 'Molested Into Form' CD (Fractured Spaces)
“Molested into Form” is the soundtrack to accompany our species’ inevitable (and, some would say, welcome) demise. Searing, grating electronics, mind-melting granularity, ferocious jet-engine sonic blasts and flesh-rending nastiness all combine to bring us a worthy paean to an already lost cause. .. welcome to the nightmare world of our future. Also included is a tribute to Jörg Buttgereit’s classic underground film “Nekromantik”.
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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!
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KALLABRIS - 'Hund Vor Die Tur' LP (Entr'Acte / Jazztone)
Kallabris is the 'electro-acoustic chamber music' project of German sound artist Michael Anacker, active since 1986. "Hund Vor Die Tür" focuses on "the significance of dogs", but his main interest is a reflection on the electro-mechanical conditions of sound recording presented in everyday recording devices such as home computers, dictaphones and answering machines... he is not interested in the limits of musical styles but in the limitations of sound (re)production. "...a vocoder voice that recites some lines every now and then... is embedded in a warm bath of computerized drones... plucked acoustic guitar and even a hot steamy rhythm... a great record of a mythical band with great sound, hovering the experiment and the pop notion of folktronics." [FdW]. Ltd x 200 copies in a sealed sleeve.
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KAMMARHEIT & PHELIOS - 'Of Dawn And Of Ice' 12" (Power & Steel / Loki Foundation)
The third part in the 12" split series is bringing together for the first time on vinyl two highly respected ambient artists from Norway and Germany. Ominous drones, wind swept atmospheres, melodic layers and majestic waves of sounds are underpinned by subtle textures and sonic environments from the deepest woods of the North. With this fine piece of vinyl Kammarheit and Phelios paint an epic picture about the gloomy haze of the dawn and the shimmering of icy landscapes. Ltd x 333 copies. Mastered by Andreas Wahnmann (First Law).
KAMMER SIEBEN - 'Unfinished Movies' CD (Eis & Licht)
German duo Kammer Sieben ("Chamber Seven") present their first album. "Unfinished Movies" is pure old school neoclassical music with strong German vocals, mysterious orchestral themes and fine melodies. The album sounds like a dark march or a sad soundtrack for the haunting pictures featured in the beautiful 8-panel digifile. 75 minutes of pure neoclassic ecstasy!
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KAPOTTE MUZIEK / LICHT-UNG - 'Split' 10" (Punk Kein Rock)
Second in the split 10” series released by the German sound project Licht-Ung (on their own label Punk Kein Rock). Kapotte Muziek's side is a nice mixture of both quite, and noisy sounds - groans, crackles, clicks and silences. Quite obscure. While Licht-Ung's side (recorded under the guide of Seymour) is heavy droning tones, pure feedback and microphone noises. Very nice piece. Limited to just 276 copies with old-skool photocopied cover artwork and inserts.
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KARJALAN SISSIT - 'Fucking Whore Society' LP (Eternal Soul)
This is Karjalan Sissit's 5th album. With his infamous bombastic sound and voice full of aggression, Markus Pesonen from Sweden unmasks the society's face as a nasty and ignorant one. "Fucking Whore Society" shows the dark side of Scandinavia, the bitter life of poverty and alcoholism. Karjalan Sissit as strong and angry as ever, without compromise. A must for fans of Martial / Industrial. Comes with a bonus vinyl-only track. Ltd x 300 copies on black vinyl, in a gatefold sleeve with A2 poster. ACT FAST!
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KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN - 'Dirigiert Haydn & Mozart' CD (Acanta)
ULTRA RARE GERMAN IMPORT DISC!!! Stockhausen conducts the Radio Symphie-Orchester Berlin in 6 compositions by Joseph Haydn & Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Tracks: MOZART: 1 'Allegro Maestoso', 2. Adagio Non Troppo' 3. Rondeau Tempo Di Menuetto', HAYDN: 4. 'Allegro', 5. 'Andante', 6 'Allergro'.
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KARNA - 'Forever In Darkness' CD (Possession Productions)
The much anticipated follow up to 2007's "The Haunted (Age Of Destruction)". With "Forever In Darkness" the undisputed leaders of the Russian Black Ambient scene have created an album that is more gloomier and terrifying than before. A unique, dark and haunting soundtrack "to listen to only in absolute darkness!". File next to MZ.412 or Kerovnian! Digipak. Russian import.
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KARNA - 'The Haunted (Age Of Destruction)' CD (Eternal Pride Productions / Possession Productions)
"Not everyone follows the Blood Path... not everyone returns from the Coma... almost nobody comes out alive from the Industrial Zones of the Darkness... to the portal, leading to the Temple of the Dead God... whose altars are for the cultivating of Flesh... ...and the Harvest will approach for everyone...". Cold, post-industrial pulsations, freezing black ambient passages and explosive military rhythms from this Russian act. "Musical shapes mimic and hide in secret spheres, their power destroying the illusion of reality, moving the listener out of their boundaries, as it befits the true Black Art."
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KARNA - 'Voron / Raven' CD (Eternal Pride Productions)
As the lead transforms alchemically into gold, the gloomy dark Cold Wave of the older Karna has transformed into the unique Blackened Ambient Music. It's a symbolic hymn to Solitude, Emptiness and Total Dark. The monotonous and hypnotic guitar passages react with the cold Ambient fragments. Seven dead coal-black raven feathers reflecting the dark mentality of one more soul which disappeared in the Dark. Russian import.
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KARSTEN HAMRE - 'Through The Eyes Of A Stranger' CD & DVD (First Fallen Star)
Having created music for many years under such project names as Arcane Art, Penitent, and Defraktor, Karsten Hamre returns with the "Through the Eyes of a Stranger". Similar to his project Dense Vision Shrine, under his own name, Karsten crafts desolate dark ambient sound structures, ornamented by sampled sounds and experimental textures. The end result of this process is an experience categorized perhaps too simply as dark ambient, though it more closely resembles a dark soundtrack to a movie, or to a life - as seen through the eyes of a stranger. Ltd x 500 copies in a DVD case with bonus DVD that takes the viewer on a visual journey of imagery used for live performances.
PAL, Region 0 (will play in all European DVD players).
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KASPER VAN HOEK - 'Minerva - Special Edition' LP (KVH)
Private release from Kasper Van Hoek, made for his final exam at the Groningen art academy, Minerva. "..Van Hoek uses old cassette players, turntables, speakers, microphones, mixers and in the studio the computer, using field recordings as their source, but also feedback generated sound... Van Hoek crosses the lines between the non rhythmic Pan Sonic, and combines it with nice, but not all too harsh noise and leap frogs into the world of drone. His use of loops prevents this to be much in the world of musique concrete, but there too lies some of his interest... a most enjoyable album of experimental music" [FdW]. This is the special edition of 100 hand-numbered copies (No's 1-100 of the 300 total pressing) with hand-printed covers, each with uniquely-coloured artwork. Very collectable piece!
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KAWABATA MAKOTO - 'Hosanna Mantra' CD (Important Records)
Inspired by Popol Vuh's 70s album "Hosianna Mantra", this album was originally released as an LP (Ltd 550) on Italian label A Silent Place. Also included here are the tracks from the limited 7" (first 200 copies) accompanying that LP. Guitarist, violinist, performer, composer and leader of Acid Mothers Temple, Kawabata Makoto, expresses in this solo performance all his mantric cosmical vocations and spins them into space sonorities. Makoto recorded the "Hosanna Mantra" album using electric guitar, bouzouki and sitar. The result is this new fantastic sound coming from the cosmos. A simple gem of crystalline beauty, presented in a gatefold digifile with booklet.
KAWABATA MAKOTO - 'The Tales Of The Dream Planet' CD (Housepig)
The mastermind behind Acid Mothers Temple (and a zillion other projects) parked his spaceship long enough to fish this CD out of his beard and give it to Housepig, before closing the hatch and rocketing back into the stratosphere. What he brought back from the Dream Planet is two tracks of long, overlapping guitar drones; glacially melodic, meditative and a touch otherworldly. Curl up in your favorite dashiki, let your hair hang down, fire up some incense (or anything else) and let Kawabata spin you a tale! Ltd x 500 copies in a square plastic snapcase.
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KAYNO YESNO SLONCE - 'Elohim Neva Senzu' CD (Corvus Records)
Veselin Mitov furnishes a mix of monumental and epic ambient soundscapes with powerful, natural Bulgarian folklore played with gaida (bagpipe), kaval (wooden flute) and percussion. Add to this a voice encompassing the pure feeling of freedom and archaic wisdom at the same time and you will be mesmerised! Some thrilling versions of traditional Bulgarian folk songs are added for the lovers of the old culture of the Balkans, where every stone is soaked with blood and has his own story.
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KAZERIA (KZ) - 'Credo Nostrum' CD (Twilight Records)
Kazeria [KZ] means “Hunt” in Spanish. This solo project started in 2008 is lead by Argentinean composer [S]. “Credo Nostrvm” ("Our Creed") has nine tracks inscribed onto a martial, neofolk, neoclassical and dark ambient combination, dealing with some themes that represents [KZ] main topics: the meaning of glory, decadence, eternity, struggle, occult and sacred symbols of forgotten times. [S] spouts out a harsh vision about reality, which could be understood as “active nihilism”. This is its way to relate to this current decaying age which, in [S] words, “must be overcome”. The Hunt has begun! KZ wears its influences on its sleeve: Toroidh, Wappenbund and Triarii. Digipak.
KAZUYA ISHIGAMI - 'Trash, Rubbish, Poor Works' CD (Neus-318)
A collection of 10 unreleased works (2004-2006) from the Osaka musician. "The music of Ishigami can best be described as a computer version of electro-acoustic music, true to the original form of Musique Concrete. Collage like, bouncing up and down, back and forth, jumping, but sometimes also with longer sustaining blocks of sound. All of which dwell heavily in the world of ones and zeros. I am not sure but it seems there is not an analogue machine in sight" (Vital Weekly). Released in a plastic snap case.
KEIJI HAINO - 'Next, Let's Try Changing The Shape' CD (Swordfish)
Recorded in Japan, these 6 pieces see Haino further developing the themes of his last album This is one of his most wildly contrasting albums ranging from his wildly exciting full on guitar improvisations unearthly vocal chants reminiscent of Zen Buddhist chants to his development of sampling his own sounds and layering them with more live sounds. An intense, atmospheric and beautiful performance from one of the most extraordinary and original improv artists in the world today.
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KEITH ROWE & OREN AMBARCHI - 'Flypaper' CD (Staubgold)
These recordings depart wildly from anything that either Rowe or Ambarchi have produced before. This speaks volumes when you consider the combined weight of their explorations to this point. Amazingly, neither player falls back on past gestures or comfortable proven techniques. The result is four startling electro-acoustic environments. Only David Tudor's "Rainforest" has gone so far to create a world that is at once highly electronic, yet totally organic, without resorting to base mimicry of natural sounds. It evokes the sea, an immovable mass of fluidity, in a way that Roland Kayn would admire. But having said that, there is little to compare this to. The four pieces on this disc could be field recordings from lost civilizations. Comes in digipak with artwork by Keith Rowe.
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KENTIN JIVEK - 'Eight New Prophecies' CD (None)
Kentin Jivek's fourth album is inspired by historical writings and prophecies with a Neofolk flavour. "Eight New Prophecies" is mainly based on the return to childhood, Zarathustra, Nietzsche's book, spoken words, and Nostradamus' predictions and prophecies. Songs like "Shipwreck / The Fall of Euhemerus" and "Quelle importance" confirm Kentin Jivek's style, mixing world origins and occult references, with a Mediterranean 'Neofolk 'n' Pop' temperament. File next to Novy Svet, Ô Paradis, Spiritual Front, The Green Man etc. Slimline jewelcase.
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KEPLERS ODD - 'GRO J1655-40' CD (Desolation House)
Keplers Odd are a unique drone project comprised of bass, guitar and noise, headed by Daniel Jansson of Deadwood. The band's debut album is a raw sound affair performed and recorded live in the truest sense of the idea. Keplers Odd create textural soundscapes of harsh atmospheric noise which show an uncanny Merzbow-ian sense of tension and release. It's this innate ability to harness noise's primal ebb and flow that allows "GRO J1655-40" to be as disturbing as humanly possible. 6-panel digipak.
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KEPLERS ODD - 'Strena Seu De Nive Sexangula (A New Year's Gift Of Hexagonal Snow)' CD (Fractured Spaces Records)
From the darkest and coldest heart of Sweden comes the trio known as Keplers Odd (headed by Daniel Jansson of Deadwood). Seven tracks of noisy, yet subtly ambient guitar-driven sonic attacks, eerily redolent of the icy cold mysterious aurora-wrapped landscapes prevalent throughout Northern Europe, inhabited by creatures and monsters spawned from the myths and legends told around campfires over countless generations. Keplers Odd create textures, ambience and noise. But there is also quiet subtlety, sinister atmospherics and dark occult moods. Digipak. Ltd x 1000.
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KEVIN DRUMM & DANIEL MENCHE - 'Gauntlet' MCD (Editions Mego)
Collaboration between the hugely prolific Oregon artist Daniel Menche and Chicago-based avant-garde artist Kevin Drumm. "One organ, one guitar, several fuzz boxes and two highly regarded purveyors of American extreme sonics are the savoury ingredients that created 'Gauntlet'. Building on Menche�s aural low end physicality and Drumm�s exacting attention to high frequency detail - the aptly titled 'Gauntlet' is a sizzling, scorching slab of essential audio." Just under 30 minutes of music.
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KHLYST - 'Chaos Live' DVD (Archive)
The first and (highly likely) only live date from the James Plotkin (Khanate, Old), Runhild Gammelsæter (Thorr's Hammer) and Tim Wyskida trio. Captured live in 2006 at the Hydra Head CMJ showcase, New York City. Edited and prepped for consumption by Plotkin. Comes in a heavy matt stock cover, adorned with paintings from Stephen Kasner's reckless mind and silkscreened in silver. Packed into a heavy PVC archive outer sleeve. The DVD itself comes in a black handstamped envelope. Ltd x 500 copies only! Very limited quantity in stock!
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KHVARENA - 'The Spirit Rises' CD (Projekt)
Khvarena is a journey across time and countries, into the ethno-ambient / heavenly voices realm from which spirits will arise. A striking encounter between Italian maestro Francesco Banchini (Ataraxia / Gor) and France's Jeanne & Fabrice Lefebvre (Rajna). The first steps of a journey from the European continent to the countries of the Middle East: lush and majestic at times, ritual and devotional at others, and sometimes festive and cathartic. A myriad of ethnic instruments accompany the intertwined vocals of Jeanne and Francescot. This is music of brightness, color and emotion with rapturous Arabic overtones. This 1st edition is released in a hand-numbered edition of 1000 copies presented in a recycled DVD Digipak.
KIKO C. ESSEIVA - 'Sous Les Etoiles' CD (Hinterzimmer)
Second album by Swiss electro-acoustic / musique concrete-composer Kiko C. Esseiva, that brings to mind Luc Ferrari and some older Nurse With Wound works. Rich and intriguing electro-acoustic soundscapes. Comes in a nice chipboard, gatefold digisleeve. Swiss import.
KINIT HER - 'Glyms Or Beame Of Radicall Truthes' CD (Hinterzimmer)
Wisconsin act Kinit Her are triumvirate a realm of qliphotic vibrations. They employ a wide array of sources from the Purple Analects of Taoism up to modern day conspiracy theories. The record is informed by the 80's British underground experimental scene, 90's Scandinavian black metal, and the timelessness of all folk currents, embroidered with witches croons and crystalline sonic manipulation. Comes in a nice chipboard, gatefold digisleeve. Swiss import.
"Babel" is an extremely dynamic and dense work that could generally be classified as experimental dark ambient. The theme here is the Tower of Babel and each disc takes a somewhat different yet complimentary approach: the first ("Red Babylon") is generally a rather heavy and intense recording, while the second ("Citadel of the Nevermind") is more droney and dream-like. A profound and monumental journey lasting well over two hours. Ltd x 500 copies in a special printed gatefold wallet.
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KIRLIAN CAMERA - 'Schmerz' CD (Twilight Records)
Re-issue of legendary Kirlian Camera album ‘Schmerz’, originally released in 1995. Kirlian Camera are the historical pioneers of the Italian electronic scene, active since 1980. 'Schmerz' is one of their masterpieces and contains some of the best tracks ever written! It is also an eclectic album, with dark folk, electronic, ethereal and many other different styles on the same record. This album sounds as fresh and new as it was recorded yesterday! Regular jewelcase edition.
KISS THE ANUS OF A BLACK CAT - 'The Nebulous Dreams' CD (Conspiracy Records)
Kiss The Anus Of A Black Cat has always been utterly fascinated with primitive savagery and heathen tactics. On this third full length endeavor, they explore and recast their horror-filled doom theme in the light of current debates on modernity and globalization. Minimalist instrumentation and hypnotic ultra dramatic vocals are wrapped in equal parts doom ridden heresy, the percussion is stripped down off hazy emotions and stretched into a pure vessel of magical strength, where a muted buzz deliberately enforces mental overload. A divine doom folk/rock cloud that shares apocalyptic interests with such visionaries as Current 93, Woven Hand, Richard Youngs, Comus and other uplifting pagan psych-folk. Digifie.
During the 80s, Kiyoshi Mizutani was a member of Merzbow with Masami Akita, beginning his solo work in 1989. Mizutani's sound is characterised by use of primitive electric feedback and field recordings. Soundscape theory is integral to his work. Kiyoharu Kuwayama began working with sound in the late 1980s, using half-scale violin and contact mic, daily junk and found objects. In 1999 he started improvised acoustic duo Kuwayama-Kijima. Hideaki Shimada is a Japanese violinist. In the late 70s he became interested in the European improvised music scene. Since 1980, he has been involved in violin improvisation. In 1985, he started solo project, Agencement. His solowork has been described as both noise and music, avantgarde and minimalist, nervous and mellow, frantic and still, hectic and calm. Recorded at Gambetta, Tokyo in 2001.
Japanese experimental music legend KK Null tests his own limits onto the darkness and focuses all his artistic skills on creating a personal cinematic audio nightmare. "Akumu" is like being caught in a spider web that sticks and creps to your skin, there is no escape... "Akumu" is a truly imaginative and terrifying electronic album that gives us a new and unique edge on sound master Kazuyuki Kishinos' universe. A dark masterpiece! Comes in a superb 6-panel digipak with artwork by Salt (Ant-Zen).
"The album opens up with the sound of insects & birds which i recorded live at wetland in Kakadu National park in Australia, that symbolizes organic life / organism (including our human bodies) composed of baryons. then, abstract electronic noise overlaps them and takes you into a journey through deep inner and far outer spaces at any scales. However, you don't have to care about what i say here, just i hope this music inspires you as much as it does myself, and enjoy with your open mind and free imagination!!" (Kazuyuki Kishino). Digifile.
"Ergosphere" was recorded live during Kazuyuki Kishino’s (Zeni Geva, etc.) tour of Russia in late 2005, specifically on his only two solo dates, live at Moscow Palace of Youth in Moscow Russia October 5, 2005 and “Festival Hea Uus Heli” Kanuti Gildi Saal in Tallinn Estonia on October 7, 2005. An uneasy balance of lull and divide.
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KK NULL - 'Galactic Tornado' CD (Quasi Pop)
Deep, dense and dynamic electronic music. An unconditional, intuitive and highly emotional audio-work combining synthetic sounds from various synths and electronic machines with acoustic audio signals. Kazuyuki Kishino explores (from his own point of view) some artistic values of “psychedelic electronic sound” that were widly presented on space / electronic / kraut albums from 70s. Recommended for listeners who prefer the contemporary experimental sound in its highest quality and for fans of “retro spacey” sound from the groups such as Popol Vuh, Cluster or even Tangerine Dream. Ltd x 500 copies in a 6-panel digipak with silver lettering and spot varnishing.
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KK NULL - 'Outer Bounds Of Sound' LP (Noiseville)
KK Null is one of Japan's finest, and most admired experimental music composers ever. This album is loud, abrasive and out there, and it is just what you'd hoped it would sound like. He is able to sculpt noise like clay into an image as equally dark as light, artistic and savage, submissive and dominant, the most sublime of the most painful of art. This is uneasy listening, to the max. "Outer Bounds Of Sound" is an experimental LP series from Noiseville. Each release is pressed in an edition of just 300 copies with a hand-made cover. This is KK Null recorded live at the Electron Festival in Geneva, Switzerland on March 22, 2008. US import.
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KK NULL - 'Prime Radiant' CD (Blossoming Noise)
"Prime Radiant' is noise as a spray of blood-red roses, a vast wash of colour concealing six inch thorns. Kazuyuki Kishino has been at the forefront of the Japanese noise scene for over 20 years, both as guitarist/leader of extremist sludge rockers Zeni Geva and as a solo artist exploring the outer territories of electronica. Along with Masonna and Merzbow, he is part of a trinity of noisemakers whose work seems to operate at the very limits of human endurance. Like theirs, Null's work transcends its surface violence and reveals something rich and strange at its core. What makes this montage of live and studio work marginally less forbidding than usual is its abrupt change of mood and texture; rather than pummelling an idea into the dust, he covers a lot of sonic ground here, albeit a terrain of savagely blasted extremes. Kishino has said that he tries to imagine through his work what music from other galaxies might sound like. If the little green men are all listening to this stuff for fun, 'Prime Radiant' is a scary prospect for sure" (The Wire). Card sleeve
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KK NULL / JOHN WIESE - 'Mondo Paradoxa' CD (Auf Abwegen)
Constructed over the period of two years via mail collaboration this is a great and forceful collaboration between two artists that each have made a name for themselves with their unique approach to making sound. KK NULL is a master of feedback studies, working with looped scenarios to create dense and vital sound units. He is also the leading force behind proto-metal-group Zeni Geva and the dark-industrial project Absolut Null Punkt. John Wiese creates fragile but very erruptive lo-fi noise rumblings with an almost poetic touch. He has a musical past in the group Bastard Noise. Needless to say, both artists combine the best of both worlds in this crunching release! Comes in beautiful full cover digipak, designed by Government Alpha, with typesetting by John Wiese.
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KLAMMHEIM - 'Heimwärts' CD (Heimatfolk)
Klammheim's debut is a collection of melancholic, soft-spoken and acoustic folk songs that occasionally reveal Klammheim's roots in heaver, rockier sounds. All vocals are sung in lead singer Dea's Styrian (Austrian) dialect, and to augment the band's line-up of guitars, accordion and percussion are guest musicians such as Thomas Bøjden (Die Weisse Rose) and Benjamin Sperling (Jännerwein). The album is based around the longing for the Heimat, the mythical homeland of German romantics and nostalgia for youth. Housed in a lavish digipak with 16-page booklet.
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KNIFELADDER - 'Music/Concrete' CD (Cold Meat Industry)
KnifeLadder have been in existence in one form or another since 1998. Their sound is the culmination of years of experimentation and independent development. The resultant sound is a heavily percussive industrial organic hybrid, a new meshing of electronic loops, live bass and percussion and ethnic instrumentation to form a kind of Organic Industrial Music. "Music/Concrete" is a unique mix of hi-tec and lo-fi sounds, authoritative drums courtesy of John Murphy, and distorted obscure instruments. With shuddering machine loops overlaid with frenetic metal percussion, power ambient soundscapes melting into epic defiant anthems, "Music/Concrete" uses traditional hand played electronics and instrumentation to realise a thoroughly contemporary vision of rebirth and decay. Digipak.
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KNIFELADDER - 'Organic Traces' CD (Operative Records)
"Organic Traces" is the first full length release by London act KnifeLadder and features percussion by John Murphy (Death In June, SPK etc), bass and electronics by Hunter Barr (AntiValium), vocals and electronics from Andrew Trail (Inertia, AntiValium), and a guest appearance on one track by Andrew King. A rare and exemplary example of tribal industrial, spewing forth as much earth born fire and dripping with the same salty burn of sweat and blood as other seminal acts from the genre, yet endowed a sense of here and now that keeps it contemporary and vital.
"The Spectacle" is the follow up to the monumental "Organic Traces" album. This tribal organic Industrial trio consists of Andrew Trail (Inertia, AntiValium), John Murphy (SPK, The Associates, Death in June), and Hunter Barr (AntiValium, Infant Skull Surgery) - here unleashing an amazing (proper) industrial album of pounding percussion mixed with doomy electronic soundscapes and twisted songs melodies. For fans of Throbbing Gristle, SPK, Whitehouse etc.
Koan effectively deliver ambient and atmospheric songs which shall relinquish your soul entranced, perhaps as if it were caught in a pitch black forest. Their music will unfold the spaces in your intellect through a phenomenon of neon underwater dreams. Human voices, delayed rhythms, keyboards, and didgeridoos liquefy together to propel your brain's subliminal regions into the stratosphere. Koan is the mind expanding ritual of Zahaah (Himinbjorg) and Christop Pion-Chozenon (Spher). Track titles include Forest Transe-in, Neon Dreams,Chaos, and Rain. Godly and effective design by Steve "Los Osos" Miller.
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KOEFF - 'Liminal Looks' 3" CD (Unrest Productions)
Swedish sound artist Johanna Rosenqvist - currently in Cataclyst with Peter Andersson (Raison D'Etre) and formerly of Institut - never disappoints. This is the usual slab of thought induced structured disco-industrial with commanding vocals. A must in every good home! Pro-pressed 3" CD with over 17mins of music. Pro-printed j-card artwork in a dinky PVC sleeve. Ltd x 500 copies.
UK 4.50£
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KOIKAZE - 'Pyramid Blast Order Or The Gospel To The Lovers Of The 21st Century' CD (Dotsmark)
Special collaboration unit from Maruyama Marco (a.k.a.Variations Of Sex) and cult Japanese avant-garde artist Katsumasa Motoki. The theme of this album is 'song' and 'escape from established noise'. Maruyama's singing voice is comparable to Keiji Haino, but the music is harsh noise, collages and Japanese psychedelia meets Otaku songs. Contains a 6-panel booklet with AMT style cut-up artwork and all text in Japanese. Japanese import.
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KOMMANDO - 'Necroinvasiv' CD (L-White Records)
A pre-Thorofon project, dug up from the archives and re-mastered for this L-White CD release. Abrasive and raw (yet, loud and clean) Power Electronics with ragged frequencies, lurching, distorted crunch (think a more primitive Haus Arafna), and spasmodic outbursts, with uneasy, sickly vocals. One can see the roots of early Thorofon here, but for the most part, this is a much dirtier and grimier sound. Ltd x 300 copies in an A5 sleeve.
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KONAU - 'Speech From The Shadows' CD (Eibon Records)
A "hybrid" creature formed by members of Italian Dark Ambient acts Subinterior and New Risen Throne. Disquieting and obscure dark ambient, with some amazing "melodic" structures scattered through the songs. The shadows are speaking... Will appeal to fans of Raison D'Etre or Desiderii Marginis. Highly recommended!
Part three of the series of live CD's by the ongoing Thomas Köner / Asmus Tietchens project. '-1' features their second performance at the Lagerhaus on 28th April 2001. For everyone who liked '1' and '0' this is not to be missed. It once more shows their mutual talent of building a sound landscape of striking depths that, if the listener is willing, will draw him in further and further with every new listen. Ltd x 900 regular copies in a card sleeve.
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KONTAKT DER JUNGLINGE - '0' CD (Die Stadt)
This is the second part of the ongoing series of live performances (numbered backwards) by Kontakt Der Jünglinge - the collaborative project of renowned sound sculptor's Thomas Köner and Asmus Tietchens. '0' was recorded inside the M.S. Stubnitz, a ship situated in the harbour of Rostock, Germany. Much more 'basic' in the use of sounds than their first CD '1', the 43 minute long track creates a more dense and dark atmosphere with occasional rhythmic additions, seeming to reflect the space it was recorded in. Ltd x 900 regular copies in a card sleeve.
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KONTAKT DER JUNGLINGE - 'N' CD (Die Stadt)
Fourth part in the ongoing series of live collaborations by Thomas Köner and Asmus Tietchens. This marks the end of the first phase in their mutual work featuring the familiar 'classic' cover style. The music was recorded on 28th May 2002 at the 'Stedelijk Museum' in Amsterdam and shows the two treading on quieter grounds this time - crackles, drones, vast spaces with erratic noises. Ltd x 900 regular copies in a card sleeve.
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KORA ET LE MECHANIX - 'Excursin' CD (Nextera)
Kora et le Mechanix explore the fields of abstract experimental ambient music. Michal Koran previously played in Richter Band and Forgotten Orchestra of Dreamland, and in 2003 received the Slovak DOSKY award for best score for the theatrical production of Peron. Filip Homola worked previously with Die Archa and Znameni kruhu. Two tracks on the album were recorded at their performance in Prague, January 2006, with Biosphere (certainly an influence on their music, along with The Hafler Trio). Digipak, limited to 1020 copies.
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KORINTH - 'Sign Of Eternal Return' CD (Construct.Destroy)
Digipak reissue of Slovakian artist Korinth's 2006 debut album, with all new artwork. Korinth's first opus is a mixture of dark, orchestral ambient of great proportions. Beautiful choirs, orchestral parts and a sense for darkness are presented in a single, 40 minute long journey. Conceptually, Korinth stands somewhere between philosophy and insanity, and the album is dedicated to the Nietzschean idea of "eternal return". Ltd x 500.
KORPERWELTEN - 'Avatars Of Rape And Rage' CD (Malignant Records)
The much-anticipated full-length collaboration between two giants of the Industrial scene: Nordvargr (MZ.412, Folkstorm, Toroidh etc) and Leech (Navicon Torture Technologies). Some of you will remember their previous collaboration 'Breed For Me' from the "Enter Nordvargr" compilation. Epic Power Noise and Blackened Ambient never sounded so good! Mastered by J Stillings (Steel Hook Prostheses). Presented in a 6-panel digipak with artwork by Jonathan Canady (Angel Of Decay, Deathpile). Highly recommended!!
KOSAKAI FUMIO & TAKAHASHI IKURO - '... Of Dogstarman' CD (Pataphysique Records)
Collaborative disc featuring electronics and oscillator work from Fumio, best know from as a member of Incapacitants, and Ikuro from Fushitsusha, LSD March and many others. Not as abstract and minimal as Ikuro’s solo works but sways closer in that direction than the harsh noise world. "Squealing drones made by electronics and processed reeds from this Japanese duo... Quite beautiful. Similar to Keiji Haino's hurdy-gurdy pieces or free saxophonist Evan Parker's recent electronically-enhanced works" (Aquarius).
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KOTODAMA - 'Captured Voices' CD (Vital)
The rising star of Japanese avant-garde electronic music Manabu Hiramoto (Shinkiro) has entered the darkest places of his unique nightmarish imagination to record and capture the voices that has been haunting his creative mind. Now Manabu brings you his new dark electronic music project KOTODAMA. In Japan the old ancient word Kotodama meaning "the spirit of words" says to have a mysterious supernatural and spiritual power and is a word to be used with great caution and respect. Comes in a deluxe 6-panel digipak with designs by S.ALT (Ant-Zen).
KOUHEI MATSUNAGA / NIKO SKORPIO - 'Split' CD (Deserted Factory)
With 74 minutes of music and numerous collaborations (including Frans De Waard, Phroq, Lasse Marhaug and Mattin amongst others - some 'telepathic'), this split release covers many areas of electronic and experimental music, from chilling ambience to high energy noise freakouts and from trapezoidal rhythms to plain weird alien atmospheres. Comes with a particular magickal vibe and underground spirit. Standard jewelcase with folded Japanese cover design.
KRATONG - 'The Bees Of Psychic Province' CD (Wrotycz)
Kratong is a solo project of Jhonny, the guitarist of Romowe Rikoito (Prussia). All the nine tracks from "The Bees of Psychic Province" show us various musical inspiration of the artist. On this album you’ll find song inspired by the middle ages, neofolk, ambient passages and even rhythmic electro. Although the music is very complex every little sound created by the artist is necessary here.A5, 6-panel sleeve. Polish import.
KREPULEC - 'Martial Industrial Power With Parabellum In The Hand' CD (Twilight Records)
This is not a new Krepulec album, but a re release of an old and long delete mini album with the addition of rare ane exclusive tracks to complete the album. This is like parabellum, a shot in your head, martial industrial music for all the fans of Krepulec and also for the fans of this kind of sound. A very intense experience, different than the other works, but with the sign of Krepulec. In the beginning this album was a split release Cold Fusion (Beast Of Prey, 2003) in a very Limited edition of 66 handnumbered copies. Digipak. Argentinian import.
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KREUZER 'In Hoc Signo Vinces' CD (The Eastern Front)
New album of very young Israeli project Kreuzer. Martial dark ambient sounds are mixed with industrial elements. Feel the spirit of the Crusades and medieval Jerusalem in this album! File next to A Challenge Of Honour, Cold Fusion etc. Ltd x 300 hand-numbered copies in a gatefold outsized folder.
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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.
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KREUZWEG OST - 'Edelrost' CD (Cold Spring CSR58CD)
'Edelrost' draws a line from yesterday to tomorrow, from hope to despair, from blind obedience to revolution. Outstanding arrangements - rhythmic military industrial and hymnal orchestration - creating an oppressive sonic soundtrack of incredible martial anthems. Features members of Black Metal act Summoning. Essential.
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KRIEGSFALL-U / AUTOPSIA - 'Split' 10" (MozgaloM)
After 9 years of silence, Industrial legends Autopsia present 2 brand new songs! Hungarian Martial Industrial act Kriegsfall-U also bring two new pieces to the table. Ltd x 298 hand-numbered copies on clear vinyl, in a full colour sleeve with full-size double insert and special limited postcard.
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KRISTOFFER NYSTROMS ORKESTER - 'brakeHEAD' CD (Malignant Records)
Kristoffer Nyströms Orkester is a collaborative project between Peter Nyström (Megaptera / Negru Voda) and Kristoffer Oustad (V:28). 'brakeHEAD' is the result of a post-gig improvisation betwen the two projects from 2005. This is an album that is as majestic as it is bleak, capturing the essence of old school Swedish industrial, but forging a new path towards a dark future. "A phenomenally majestic piece of dark ambience and noise that will leave you totally awe struck. The visceral raw power of the electronics is a thing of untamed beauty that heralds in a new era by which others must now be judged against." [auralpressure]. Digipak.
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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.
Pulsating drones, low-key rhythms and more importantly, the mass of dense radio noise that has even become incorporated in his own label's domain name, is the definitive sound of Krytpogen Rundfunk. Using gritty radio textures, shuddering digital noise and subdued rhythmic structures, this debut album elegantly combines simplicity with satisfaction. The layered sound hums and sizzles with the soothing quality of a crackling power line, achieving the glowing warmth of an electrical fire. Issued in an A5 foldout sleeve.
The debut album from this Belarus Neofolk / Military / Apocalyptic Folk band. 12 brisk and energetic songs in Belorussian language (one in Russian), sung to the accompaniment of grand piano, violin, trumpet and drums. The album tells of the great historical past of the Lithuanian princedom. A project for lovers of exquisite martial orchestral music, nostalgia-laden letters in your native language, making this album a delight hearing. Reserved for those seeking tribal and martial laconic tunes away from the conventional and rarities from atypical country in this musical genre. Ltd x 500 copies.
The project Kshatriy appeared on the Russian post-industrial scene in 2004 and Muzyka Voln now presents the project's first "professional" CD with the album "Slepok Sonzaniya" ("a mould of consciousness"). This work is based on the concept of consciousness of a warrior, a galactic warrior of light, bringing to world pure knowledge, infinite silence, perfect balance, a moment of power and might, a flight of freedom, love, serenity, joy, light, unified time, eternal life, simplicity and bliss. The music of the project can be described as fractal dark drone ambient with lots of patterns, woven from various sonic fibres: synthesized drones, processed field recordings, acoustic echoes and rhythmic loops. Calm and profound, filled with resilience and hidden power, like an endless ocean of tranquility, energy and beauty. Ltd x 500 copies in a digipak.
KTL is Stephen O'Malley (Sunn O))), Gravetemple, Æthenor, Thorr's Hammer) and Peter Rehberg (PITA). Devastatingly beautiful four part follow up to the acclaimed debut CD recorded in a former abattoir in Angers, as well as a 16th Century manor in the west of France. Taking the blueprint that was laid out on the first record even further, with the ecstatic build up of ‘Theme’, the near psychedelic ‘Abattoir’, and closing with the twisted romanticism of the closing ‘Snow 2’. An upgrade both artistically and emotionally. As with the first CD elements appeared in the finished version of the theatre piece ‘Kindertotenlieder’ by Gisele Vienne and Dennis Cooper, which was premiered in Brest, France, March 2007. Cover by SOMA.
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KTL - 'IV' CD (Editions Mego)
The long awaited new album by the ongoing duo of Stephen O'Malley (Sunn O))), Gravetemple) and Peter Rehberg (Pita) is the first full length KTL release that is not commissioned work for theatre or film. Whereas the ‘Kindertotenlieder' trilogy of 1, 2 and 3 were blurred washes of fog and noise polished in by ambient shine, "IV" is a more direct and demanding beast, referencing such diverse projects as; volume era Swans, Mecca period Cabaret Voltaire, phase one Wire, Fushitsusha and This Heat... "IV" is a stunning new direction and great addition to both artists' already impressive canon, with blowtorch riffs... sub bass rumbles... driving bass pulse interwoven with razor sharp guitar... arhythmic and punishing drumming (courtesy of Atsuo, from Japanese top-rockers Boris)... black frozen resonant harmonics. Produced by Jim O'Rourke. Highly recommended!
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KTL - 'KTL' CD (Editions Mego)
Threatening new collaboration taking in parallel worlds of Extreme Computer Music and Black Metal. KTL is Stephen O'Malley (Sunn O))), Gravetemple, Æthenor, Thorr's Hammer) and Peter Rehberg (PITA). A six part collision amongst the increasingly fading presences between the light and the dark. This work came about as the two were composing sound and music for a piece by Gisèle Vienne and Dennis Cooper, entitled 'Kindertotenlieder'. This CD is NOT the soundtrack to said piece, but a separate project. However, elements may appear in the finished piece which is to be premiered in Brest, France, March 2007. Pieces were recorded in a resistance fortress in southern France during a thunderstorm. Others in a wintergarden drenched in the sunlight.
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KUTNA HORA - 'Santa Cruz' 7" (Black Sun Productions)
RARE! Two unreleased tracks from this Argentinian acoustic dark folk / Neofolk act - "Little Flowers In My Hands" and "Claustro". Ltd x 200 copies. Brazilian import. VERY limited copies in stock - ACT FAST!
Koan effectively deliver ambient and atmospheric songs which shall relinquish your soul entranced, perhaps as if it were caught in a pitch black forest. Their music will unfold the spaces in your intellect through a phenomenon of neon underwater dreams. Human voices, delayed rhythms, keyboards, and didgeridoos liquefy together to propel your brain's subliminal regions into the stratosphere. Koan is the mind expanding ritual of Zahaah (Himinbjorg) and Christop Pion-Chozenon (Spher). Track titles include Forest Transe-in, Neon Dreams,Chaos, and Rain. Godly and effective design by Steve "Los Osos" Miller.
