L'ACEPHALE - 'Malefeasance' 2 x LP (Aurora Borealis)
"Malefeasance" is a lengthy and complex affair that further explores L'Acephale's fascinations and strikes headlong into the darkest of musical vistas. The journey this time is perhaps even more academic than the debut "Mord Und Totsclag": further ethnographic audio elements are now present, more spacious passages, a deeper approach. A mix of ambient, warping tones, black metal, chanting, ethereal keyboards, drones, acoustic guitars, noise, field recordings and Tibetan ritual music. The last two tracks best show the nature of Set Sothis' collaborations with Markus Wolff (Waldteufel, Crash Worship), sharing some of his vocal and percussive styles. By no means do L'Acephale make music for the casual listener. In many ways they transcend the preconceived ideas of what may be expected: L'Acephale are most successful at operating beyond the constraints of genre altogether, and 'Malefeasance', with its dark, dreamlike and harrowing atmospheres, is their testament. Ltd x 500 copies on heavyweight vinyl in a matt sleeve with A1 poster and booklet.
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L'ACEPHALE - 'Malefeasance' CD (Aurora Borealis)
"Malefeasance" is a lengthy and complex affair that further explores L'Acephale's fascinations and strikes headlong into the darkest of musical vistas. The journey this time is perhaps even more academic than the debut "Mord Und Totsclag": further ethnographic audio elements are now present, more spacious passages, a deeper approach. A mix of ambient, warping tones, black metal, chanting, ethereal keyboards, drones, acoustic guitars, noise, field recordings and Tibetan ritual music. The last two tracks best show the nature of Set Sothis' collaborations with Markus Wolff (Waldteufel, Crash Worship), sharing some of his vocal and percussive styles. By no means do L'Acephale make music for the casual listener. In many ways they transcend the preconceived ideas of what may be expected: L'Acephale are most successful at operating beyond the constraints of genre altogether, and 'Malefeasance', with its dark, dreamlike and harrowing atmospheres, is their testament.
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L'ACEPHALE - 'Stahlhartes Gehäuse' CD (Parasitic Records)
"Stahlhartes Gehäuse" walks the kindred path with the co-conspirators that lead the Live Actions front of L’Acéphale. This release follows more directly the path illuminated by Black Metal with the aligning stars of Traditional Folk, Martial Dark Ambience, Pagan Black Metal and Audio Ethnology. No less than 9 artists participated in this release, including Markus Wolff (Waldteufel, Blood Axis, Crash Worship etc). Ltd x 1000 copies in a 6-panel digipak with 24-page booklet.
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L'EFFET C'EST MOI - 'Les Voix De L'Apocalypse' CD (Midnight Productions)
The brand new album from the Italian Medieval-Martial-Neoclassical project! Greatly invoked by romanticism as well as a martial spirit, "Les Voix De L'Apocalypse" is more epic sounding music-wise than their last full-length "Tomber En Heroes" (War Office Propaganda), with a great mix of more medieval melodies. CD Reissue of the 2008 release on SkullLine (100 copies). Ltd x 500 copies in a digipak. Chinese import.
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L'EFFET C'EST MOI - 'Tomber En Heroes' CD (War Office Propaganda)
This interesting music entity rises from Recanati, Italy - the same hometown as Der Feuerkreiner, with whom it seems to share a passion for epic, Neoclassical and Martial compositions. L'Effet C'Est Moi ("the result is me") refers to the concept of Nietzche, identifying between the ruling class and the people. The idea of power and domination, in particular with the splendour of the Roman Empire at its zenith, and also the dark side of its might, that has survived through the ages and formed the totalitarian regimes of the 20th Century. A magnificent world of conquests, armies, battles, emperors and immortality, through excellent orchestral keyboards, epic piano themes and hammering martial percussions. Digipak.
The masterpiece by L’Orchestre Noir from 1999, now remastered, remixed and re-released by Italian label Precordings. L'Orchestre Noir is Tony Wakeford (Sol Invictus), along with Eric Rogers (Gae Bolg), Nathalie Van Keymeulen and Céline Marleix-Bardeau (amongst others), who contribute to this mainly instrumental project - a vehicle for Wakeford's interest in classical and soundtrack composition - with bass, cello, harp, trumpet and violin building a ritual and magical requiem for the fallen of WWI. Digipak.
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LAGOWSKI - 'Temporary Distractions' CD (Ars Benevola Mater)
Andrew Lagowski (S.E.T.I., Legion) stands as one of the most highly-regarded experimental and cultured artists working in Industrial Music today. With 'Temporary Distractions', he takes his long experience in the world of electronic music and filters them through brilliant, harmonious and deeply involving Electro pathways with sound structures continuously fluttering inside electric spirals of minimal atmospheres, futuristic beats and avantgarde solutions. Ltd x 1035 copies in an outsized textured sleeve with artcard.
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.
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LAMA SONAM DORJE & ANTON BATAGOV - 'Daily Practice' CD (Tummo Productions)
This album is an unique collaboration between a composer Anton Batagov and Lama Sonam Dorje, the first Russian Buddhist practitioner who spent 7 years in Himalayas in a strict solitary retreat. After the retreat he received permission and blessing for teaching Dharma in Russia. Lama Sonam Dorje chose eight canonical texts and recorded all of them, along with a dzogchen meditation on a sound 'A,' in the studio. Batagov then composed an instrumental accompaniment, along with two textless instrumental pieces: an introduction, and music for daily meditation. In these compositions he used the rhythmic structure of traditional Tibetan prosody. These rhythmic patterns are usually heard in Tibetan prayers.
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LAMBWOOL - '...And The Angel Is Gone' CD (Divine Comedy)
The French solo-project from Cyril Laurent strikes back. The music here keeps the direction of the first Lambwool effort "Fading Landscape", with delicate but strong ritual and symphonic music. "The atmosphere surrounding this opus is frightening and oppressive. The darkness of the sound brings the listener in a whirlwind of surrealism... The tracks have been meticulously built up while the sensations emerging from the sound are going crescendo... Once you enter the world of Lambwool, you feel like progressively imprisoned in a dark ambient web. This is an absolute must have for the fans of the genre!" (Side-Line). Ltd x 500 copies in a gatefold digisleeve.
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LAND - '1988-1997' CD (Divine Comedy)
This retrospective embraces their first 10 years of existence. Nostalgic cinematic atmospheres and a mixture of neoclassical, minimal ambient and orchestral music make them one of the most sought after artists in the genre. Twelve remastered tracks with some selected from their deleted tapes releases, showing their evolution, with reminiscence of earlier Dead Can Dance releases, In The Nursery, or Les Joyaux De La Princesse. "1988-1997" comes in a beautiful digipak with an extensive informative booklet. Very nice piece.
LAND:FIRE - 'Gone' LP (Loki Foundation / Power & Steel)
The first release of HERBST9 side-project! Massive drones and sinister melodies rise out from the inside of a dark and bleak ground while crushing rhythms and unreal vocal shreds echoing through a wide spectrum of sounds and effects. The perfect sound journey through devastated landscapes.
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LAND:FIRE - 'Physical : Mental : Psychological' CD (Tesco Organisation)
Land:Fire is the more clinical technical project of Henry Emich and Frank Merten, the men behind Herbst9. Land:Fire produce ritual technical ambient music, if this is possible. Sound layers of real brilliance which leave no room for a way back to archaic orchestration. This album is a documentation and a reflection of the historical instant of 5:29:45 a.m. on July 16. 1945 when the first atomic device, "Trinity", detonated. Comes in a nice double foldout DVD digipak with extensive booklet.
Coming back with an all new album after more than 5 years the alter ego of Herbst9 delivers another outstanding soundtrack about radiological warfare and it's debris during the last century. SWT is like a massive energy spike with a surrounding maelstrom of machine noises, rhythms, interferences and electromagnetic waves. The complex arrangement of technical sounds creates a deadly atmosphere of fallout and devastated landscapes with an apocalyptic aura reflected by dissonant harmonies and deep shimmering ambient scapes. Presented in a 6 panel digipak. Mastered by Andreas Wahnmann (First Law).
LASSE MARHAUG - 'If The Revolution Could Start Right Now' 7" (Ketchup Cavern)
Single-sided disc from one half of Norwegian duo Jazzkammer. "Lasse Marhaug has a discography as long as your arm and a list of previous collaborators that would scare the pants off us if they were all in the same room, but that wouldn't matter if he didn't drop the heavy jams... This is a physical record, instead of someone twisting knobs it sounds like someone slapping you around and yelling in your ear for five minutes and five seconds. Total radness!" Hand-numbered edition of 284 copies!
LAURENT PERRIER - 'As Far As' CD (Sound On Probation)
Created for Alban Richard’s choreographic show of the same name, “As Far As” is a sound structure built on classical music samples, off beat loops, collages, quotations. The album starts with a long, minimal, repetitive track, reminding one of some of Charlemagne Palestine’s work. Emotion prevails on abstraction, a long heady, cinematic development, a play on volumes and contrasts like hesitating between total anguish and peaceful contemplation. The musical form thus created is the prelude to an almost apocalyptic noise swoop which, in an oddly beautiful manner, finally transforms itself into a collage of orchestrated violins, illusion of infinity meeting a most abrupt end. Digipak.
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LAURENT PERRIER - 'Downfall Disperse' 2 x CD (Sound On Probation)
Not to be confused with the champagne of the same name, this is the first solo album in a decade by this French artist (member of Zonk’t / Nox and label manager of Odd Size). ‘Downfall’ is a single track which develops ultra slowly, with very low, organic rumbling and hypnotic bass. The composition seems minimalistic but yet complex, absorbing and disintegrating, cold yet organic. ‘Disperse’ is also a singular track, but is more in the vein of concrete electro-acoustic music. Inspired by the compositions of Steve Reich, loops are copied, layered and moved around, so that the listener is under the permanent impression of growing turbulence and spatial buzzing.
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LAW - 'Our Life Through Your Death' CD (Triumvirate)
LAW, the creative vehicle in which Mitchell Altum employs his experimental endeavours, has a niche fusion, in terms of technique, between Noise Ambient and Power Electronics - both of which usually sit on opposite sides of the fence, having it's own set of rules to play out. ‘Our Life…” has an open-ended but "governed" approach, whereby the already established rules of Noise Ambient and Power Electronics are reversed, meshed and re-constructed through the use of a regimentally structured, but eclectic mode of assembly.
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LC - 'Weltanschauliche Mission' 12" (Hau Ruck!)
Very limited (only 500 copies manufactured), and now (naturally) very scarce and sought after. A nice find for Hau Ruck! Russian project LC (aka Lucisferrato), blend the best elements of ritual dark ambience with a touch of folk styles. Recommended!
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LDRTFS / GATE TO VOID / ÆON NOUGHT - 'Those Who Dwell Beyond' CD (Black Mass Records)
3-way split between 3 Ritual-Doom-Droner acts: LDRTFS ("Like Drone Razors Through Flesh Sphere"), Gate To Void and Æon Nought. LDRTFS offer a new 30-minute track with influences that include from the most extreme Drone / Doom from composers like Penderecki or Arvö Part. GTV's effort includes a new track, a Xasthur cover and a tracl recorded jointly with LDRTFS. Æon Nought offers 2 new tracks. Released in a 6-panel outsize folder.
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LDRTFS / MIGUEL PRADO - 'Aurum Nostrum Non Est Aurum Vulgi' CD (Black Mass Records)
Split CD featuring the Australian Ritual-Drone-Doom entity LDRTFS ("Like Drone Razors Through Flesh Sphere") and Spanish noisician Miguel Prado, who previously collaborated with Stephen O'Malley and Julien Skrobek, among others. Includes LDRTFS's 'Synthetic Hybridization' recording, Miguel Prado's 'Descripción de un Combate' and a collaboration track recorded by both acts. Presented in a printed gold envelope with insert.
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LE DEPEUPLEUR - 'Disambiguation' CD (Auf Abwegen)
Third CD by this project of LE DEPEUPLEUR (Zbigniew Karkowski and Kasper T Toeplitz). Both musicians use computers, and create electronic sounds - no samples, no found sounds - all pure electronic. Both names are known in Noise circles for their collaborations with artists such as Merzbow, Tetsuo Furudate, C.C.C.C. or Francisco Lopez, to name a few. 'Disambiguation' features on ongoing stream of grey, heavy and disturbing noises, with blocks of solid and almost material sounds and an urgency to the music. Ltd x 500 copies in a card slip case.
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LE SYNDICAT - 'Timespace Losses 1982/1987' CD (Monochrome Vision)
This CD is a collection of rare tracks by this most famous French noise project. It represents the pioneering Bruitism music in the most raw and powerful mode, it's still going strong and hitting hard, thus should be not missed by any real noise fans. All tracks recorded between 1982 and 1987 and originally released on compilations: "The Call Of Cthulhu" (Cthulhu Records), "Sexorama vol.3" (ZSF Produkt), "Morality" (Broken Flag), "Wolfsangel" (Nihilistic Recordings), "L'Enfer Est Intime Vol.00" (VP231), "L'Enfer Est Intime Vol.01" (VP231), "Kill SPK" (Beast 666 Tapes), "Dry Lungs I" (Placebo Records). A bonus-track "All armi" is the first ever live recording made at "L'Abbatoir" club in 1982. Some tracks have been remastered for this re-edition. Ltd x 500 copies.
LEAFCUTTER JOHN - 'The Forest And The Sea' CD (Staubgold)
Leafcutter John is London-based John Burton. Since his debut on Planet Mu in 2000, Burton has developed a strong musical identity using processed instrumental and environmental recordings. "The Forest and The Sea" features a dynamic hybrid of electronic and acoustic songs. Telling a true story, the compositions are bound together by a meticulous narrative enriched by haunting vocals and traditional instrumentation. Both story and field recordings were constructed and gathered in various locations including Greece, Sweden and the UK. Guests: Seb Rochford & Tom Herbert from Mercury Music Prize nominees Polar Bear. Vocals by Leo Chadburn aka Simon Bookish and Alice Grant.
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LEBENSWELT - 'Lebenswelt' CD (RAIG)
This self-titled limited edition album is both an official debut by the project and a perfect introduction to their creative activity as it collects the most intriguing recordings from 2004-2005. Inspired by the ambiguous works of German prophet poet and translator Stefan George (1868-1933), Lebenswelt to a great extent sounds aristocratic, remote, and dark, with many references to the modern European symbolist movement. Mixing distinctive drones and ambiences with repetitive industrial hammerings, well-designed noise layers, and varying rhythmic structures, they depict apocalyptic industrial canvas with morose and hopeless atmosphere. Presented in a stunning cardboard package. Russian import.
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LES AFFRES DE LA MORT - 'Vorwarts : Freiheit : Europa' LP (Slaughter In Art)
Martial and Neofolk anthems, with solemn, haunting Dark Ambient passages. 17 tracks in total from this French artist ("the pangs of death") on newly-founded French label Slaughter In Art. Limited edition of 500 copies in a sumptuous gatefold sleeve with an A2 hand-numbered poster. A very nice, quality piece indeed - act fast!
LES FRAGMENTS DE LA NUIT - 'Musique Du Crépuscule’ CD (Equilibrium Music)
Les Fragments de la Nuit is a blossoming band created in 2005 by Michel Villar (piano) and Ombeline Chardes (violin), score composers for film. A vision of night wrapped in mystery: a night haunted by spectral chants, under the spell of epic, poignant strings and sustained by hypnotic piano pulsations. Some see in it the influence of repetitive music composers such as Philip Glass or Steve Reich, others the melancholic emotion found in the works of Arvö Part or Canadians Godspeed You! Black Emperor. A neo-classical or post-nocturnal masterpiece! Digipak.
LICHT-UNG ("glade") is the name of a label, art and sound project from Gemany, with a very peculiar and rather dadaistic approach. The two pieces on "Kristall" seem to be based mainly on feedback and metal or glass sounds that are carefully put together for a strange-sounding trip. Side A consists of humming, growling drones, low siren-like sounds and high-frequency feedbacks, powerful and absorbing and very abstract, while never turning into sheer noise. Side B delivers a crystal-clear noise chant and metallic overtones processed with obscure effects. First edition of 300 copies on blue / black marbled vinyl with silk-screened covers and silver printed black inlay.
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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.
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LIHOLESIE - 'Boundless Thirst For The Outside' CD (Assault Rex)
The transient serenity of Liholesie's previous album has gone. More Angst, more drums, more thrilling tunes! Go ahead! Beyond horizons! This is the fourth album of the Russian project Liholesie. More Industrial-Neofolk with barbaric drum patterns but keeping to the previous melodic / lyrical lines this time. Enigmatic, dark and mysterious, with atmospheric ambience, industrial layers and drones. Amid debris of a bygone civilization. "This album is dedicated to all the wanderers of the cursed forests and men amongst ruins."
LINGUA FUNGI & SHRINE - 'Strange Growths / Wander' CD (Corvus Records)
The long awaited split album from ambient masters Lingua Fungi (Finland) and Shrine (Bulgaria). Two different artists, two different points of view. Lingua Fungi’s sound is calm, soft and tasty - enriched with acoustic instruments and brilliant percussion. Long and mature compositions with clear sound drifting in a timeless trance. Shrine’s sound is more ambient / industrial, darker, with more samples and a bit noisy. Ltd x 500 copies in a 6-panel digipak.
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LINGUA FUNGI - 'Flowery Dreams' CD (War Office Propaganda)
A magical journey through strange dreams with beautiful flowery scenery, drifting and melting. No sharp line between sorrow and joy, dark and bright moments. Lingua Fungi takes us along on the trip to the land of subconscious. Real instruments are utilised - flutes, guitars, bass, mandolin and different kind of ethnic percussion, mixed with ambient soundscapes. Digipak.
LINGUA FUNGI - 'Tlapallan Pantonal' CD (War Office Propaganda)
'Tlapallan Pantonal' is a personal interpretation of Central American mythology. This album is inspired particularly by the myth of Quetzalcoatl - one of the most important and greatest gods of Mesoamerican Indians. More than utilising the sound of native American music tradition, this record is made entirely around the mood that the great stories personally evoked. Sounds vary from purely abstract ambient to acoustic folk passages. Yet another very interesting record of Lingua Fungi. Digipak.
Reissue of this early album from the famous Russian old-school analogue industrial noise project of Alexander Lebedev-Frontov (Stalnoy Pakt / Vetrophonia). One of the most sought after collectibles of Russian Industrial culture heritage, "Mekano-Faktura" (1999, Ultra) offers a bonus track from the rare 7" release "Genus Ferru". All the sound material has been remastered from the original source tapes. A must for all fans of pure and true industrial art! Ltd x 400 copies, packed in a stark black and white 'envelope' sleeve with a poster. Russian import.
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LINIJA MASS - 'Proletkult' CD (Der Angriff)
Reissue of this early album from the famous Russian old-school analogue industrial noise project of Alexander Lebedev-Frontov (Stalnoy Pakt / Vetrophonia). One of the most sought after collectibles of Russian Industrial culture heritage, "Proletkult" (1999 Ultra, 2001 Membrum Debile Propaganda) contains the track 'Dinamika Grunta', not present on the MDP LP edition. All the sound material has been remastered from the original source tapes. A must for all fans of pure and true industrial art! Ltd x 400 copies, packed in a stark black and white 'envelope' sleeve with a poster. Russian import.
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LINIJA MASS - 'Trud' CD (Der Angriff)
Reissue of this early album from the famous Russian old-school analogue industrial noise project of Alexander Lebedev-Frontov (Stalnoy Pakt / Vetrophonia). One of the most sought after collectibles of Russian Industrial culture heritage, "Trud" (1997 Ultra) contains the exclusive, previously unreleased track 'Elektrostahl'. All the sound material has been remastered from the original source tapes. A must for all fans of pure and true industrial art! Ltd x 400 copies, packed in a stark black and white 'envelope' sleeve with a poster. Russian import.
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LISA GERRARD & PIETER BOURKE - 'Duality' CD (4AD)
Duality is at once sacred and playful. It is both dark and light, organic and refined, masculine and feminine. Dead Can Dance's Lisa Gerrard partners with Pieter Bourke, formerly of Aussie band Eden, to create this compositional dance of partnership that is classical, ancient, and thoroughly modern. Gerrard's voice is multi-tracked at times, conjuring a cathedral choir and the droning chants of monks. Drums and synth snake from desert to brilliant stormy sky to shaking earth and the bodies that inhabit those spaces. There are lush multiple layers of strings, bagpipe drone, and, quite literally, the laughter of children. The vocals sans "real" words and multicultural instrumentation will be familiar to Dead Can Dance listeners. Yet there is something more exclusive, more womb-like about the music of Bourke and Gerrard; rather than two distinct bodies making music, like mother and in utero child sharing blood and breath, they are mutually dependent.
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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. Zärkkof. 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).
LOCRIAN - 'Drenched Lands' CD (At War With False Noise / Small Doses)
First full-length studio album from one of the most consistently good bands around today, Chicago's Locrian. "Drenched Lands" is a beautifully thought-out piece of music, from a gentle guitar strum / synth opening which cuts out abruptly just as you're becoming entirely engrossed, only to give way to an epic cavernous drone. The whole thing brings to mind some sort of disused industrial factory or barren post-apocalyptic landscape. Dark tones, noise, keys and the odd well-placed guitar strum combine brilliantly to evoke feeling of desolation, loss, a submission of will, almost tangential in sound to Earth's "Hex" album. Ltd x 1000 copies in a Stumptown 'Arigato' pack (pro-printed, high-quality card envelope) with 4-page insert.
For the past four years, Chicago's Locrian have been recording their unique and haunting brand of experimental music. Their first LP "Greyfield Shrines", was recorded live on WHPK in late 2007. The music is dense and enveloping, with mysterious drones and arcane melodies flowing throughout the ominous work. The piece climaxes on the B side as the modulated feedback surges. This release will surely appeal to a wide range of listeners, from industrial, drone, and experimental, to adventurous fans of drone & doom metal. Ltd x 300 copies on grey marbled vinyl. Housed in a printed letterpress cover. Stunning piece!
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LOCRIAN - 'Rain Of Ashes' CD (Basses Freqencies)
"Essentially a single, hour long track split into two parts, Rain of Ashes brings in even more elements to the duo’s normally guitar/electronic sourced metal tinged drone/doom. The introduction’s shimmering guitar feedback over a simple electronic bed is not far removed from the band’s earlier works, but the building complexity of guitar tone is extremely dynamic, alternating between melodic post-punk tones and shrill piercing feedback, all the while the frozen wall of electronic textures stay in place. Eventually the noise shifts away to allow the subtle low end electronic sounds to move forward." (Brainwashed). Ltd x 400 copies with obi strip.
A new 7" release for Chicago's dark, foreboding guitar / drone duo Locrian and Illinois' singular, oddly-toned noisers Katchmare. "This split matches up Locrian's thick, heavy, feedback-laden punishment with the Katchmare's signal torture and high-volume pressure / insanity complex to satisfying effect... Essential to those who like noise but have grown weary of the low level of entry" (Dusted Magazine). Ltd x 100 copies on grey marbled vinyl - ACT FAST! US import.
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LONGING FOR DAWN - 'A Treacherous Ascension' CD (Grau)
Canadians Longing For Dawn, formed in 2002 by Stefan Laroche and Frédéric Arbour (Cyclic Law boss), play heavy, atmospheric, Doom laden Metal. "A Treacherous Ascension" is a wretched, dismal doom album that drips into the abyss at a mournfully slow pace. One of the best acts in the funeral doom movement.
LONGING FOR DAWN - 'Between Elation And Despair' CD (Grau)
Third album of crawling, transcendental, utterly morbid and depressive doom from this excellent Canadian band - Stefan Laroche and Frédéric Arbour (Cyclic Law boss). "...one of those albums you can lose yourself in ...The music is thoroughly morose and depressive, though not on an even remotely whiny sense, and never allows the listener any respite... an album for funeral doom purists to enjoy... this is a band that deserves kudos for the integrity of their approach and the quality of their work." (Chronicles Of Chaos).
LORDAMOR - 'Lordamor' CD (Descending Towards Damnation)
From the beginning in 2006, this Finnish band's goal was to create primitive, slow and oppressive music with small partitions of calmer and more melodic passages to enchant the effect of otherwise crude atmospheres. Excruciatingly slow black / doom metal in the vein of Unholy, Worship, Thergothon and Beherit with lyrical themes involving man's dark shadow-nature, decay and death. The black Demiurge has taken its grip from the soul of man, and there's no way to overcome it. Over an hour of bleak, nightmarish soundscapes.
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LOST KINGDOM - 'As The New Dawn Awakes' CD (Waerloga)
Debut album from this Swedish duo (brothers Daniel and Mikael Tjernberg). The music is neoclassical and leans towards Strauss but also Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, Wagner, Verdi, Brahms, Dvorák, Tjajkovskij and Mahler. But it is not only classical music in the romantic style. It’s also hints of modernism like the masters Stravinsky, Francis Poulenc and Arthur Honegger. Yet with their own style and touch of course. The biggest inspiration for the album is nature.
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LOTUS CIRCLE - 'Bottomless Values And Boundless Floods' CD (Nykta)
A true underground apocalypse! This UK act "gives you the strange feeling of going on a bad trip. A dark vision of forgotten swamps and demon caves, a void, a storm of sounds! Lotus Circles' sound is close to early Earth and Sunn O))) but in different way. Lotus Circle are the Black Metal side of drone / doom. Feedback noises mixed up with inhuman vocals..." Ltd x 500 copies. Greek import.
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LOTUS CIRCLE / BOSQUE - 'Split' CD (Dunkelheit Produktionen)
Lotus Circle starts this split release with 4 new curses. Their part is full of occult preaches for the Beast, free drone / doom guitars / black metal, combined with extreme screaming vocals full of depression and hate... and noise with the main purpose to abstract you from this place and time. Stories of burned down villages, inner visions of the absurd and deep dark caves. Bosque continues next with the spell "Veneration". This band serves an obscure atmosphere at it's best and leaves you a bitter black taste of depressiveness deep in your thoughts. The abstract doom / black spell of Bosque is a pure dark atmosphere painted with colourless feelings and a raw sound that makes this a priceless result of true funeral doom / black art. Hand-numbered edition of 500 copies.
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LUASA RAELON - 'Season Of The Witch' CD (Snip-Snip)
"Season Of The Witch is a horrifying and spine tingling collection of drifting dread scapes. Using dark ambient, horror filmatic work, noise elements, death breath and bone brittle drifting rhythmic thuds. Which all builds a really creepy haunted house or dead black wood of an album" (Musique Machine). Conception, production, execution and capture in the Variax Crypt and among Celestial Tombs in the year of your lord, January through April, 2006.
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LUASA RAELON - 'The House Of Flesh' CD (Snip-Snip)
"The House Of Flesh" has been brought into the world. A nightmare journey through a a living house bent on your destruction. The House of Flesh once more finds David Reed and his Luasa Raelon project pulling the listener into sinister and dread filled continents of sonic fear. With things going a little more noisy than "Season of the Witch"; but this is still prime death industrial meets blackened ambience of the highest and most horrifying order. Prepare to meet your doom.
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LUASA RAELON - 'The Poison City' CD (Eibon Records)
“Welcome to the poison city. A place where nuclear radiations colour the sky with green clouds, mutating vegetation suffocates the sun and asphyxiating miasms coming from abandoned toxic wastes endanger life...”. LUASA RAELON is one of the most interesting realities of US dark ambient/death industrial scene, combining low-rumbling drones with extemporaneous noise bursts to create a pretty personal and recognisable sound.
A cavernous soundscape composed of spacious drifts and dense, rumbling drones. This is the fourth full-length from Mick Harris under the Lull moniker. "Consisting of a one-hour-long track that unfolds excruciatingly slowly, Continue could be the soundtrack for a '90s version of 2001: A Space Odyssey, which was equally unnerving for its vast expanses of nothingness. Where Scorn can be the horrific equivalent of a musical Freddy Krueger - getting in your face to tell you how badly he's gonna mess you up - Lull's approach is more subtle and seductive, soothing your nerves before slitting your throat while you sleep" (All Music Guide). Hypnotic journeys into the abyss.
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LULL - 'Like A Slow River' CD (Glacial Movements)
After a long period of silence, we welcome the return of one of the most important representatives of the ambient isolationist world: the wonderful UK artist Lull (aka Mick Harris of Scorn, Painkiller, Napalm Death). "Like a slow river" is a work characterised by sharp and minimal atmospheres but also dark, cold and huge such as large bodies of ice which slowly move, carried by an endless river. These five compositions reach the high expectations of Lull's previous works, such as "Cold Summer", "Continue" and the "Murder Ballads" trilogy with Martyn Bates. With no doubt, this is the coldest and darkest work ever composed by this pioneer of industrial-ambient music. You will all be led to the oblivion of your existence....the freezing darkness of these glacial night is going to come down on your bodies and minds... you'll fall in your deepest sleep with the far echo of glacial runnings... the way to eternity is in front of you. Presented in a gorgeous 6-panel digipak. Highly recommended!
Mick Harris ebbs, flows, drifts, and drones through 67 minutes of diverse ambient soundscapes. Reportedly inspired by Mick Harris' deep affection for the soundtrack to the classic David Lynch film Eraserhead, Lull's fifth full-length effort is utterly hypnotic stuff. Comprised of 99 sections digitally edited to form one continuous masterpiece, this makes for transfixing listening.
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LUMINOUS - 'Links' CD (Tara Records)
First CD proper for this UK-based electronic / experimental artist, after several self-financed 7"s, EPs and appearances on several limited releases, cassette and MP3 compilations. "Luminous rebuilds his sampler to create a bizarre hybrid of uncomfortable percussion and John Carpenter like atmospheres" (Wax Magazine). Also comparable to Aphex Twin. Presented in a clamshell case.
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LUNAR ABYSS DEUS ORGANUM - 'Brusnika' 7" (Drone Records)
Lunar Abyss (ext.) is the child of Evgueny Savenko from St. Petersburg, who creates his own peculiar touch of hypnotic-ethno-ambient industrial music mostly under the name Lunar Abyss Quartet. This very first 7" for L.A.D.O. is a pure aural-shamanistic-journey, where heard and felt are Earth's elements and life itself, such as fire, voice-murmurs, strange animals noises, the wind's force and whistles, the enchanting voice of a woman singing, various softly looped voices are perceptible throughout this sound journey. All these natural sound-ingredients are merged into a deeply etched vibrating rhythm of raw and deepest rumbling analogue sounds. These are the kind of electro-acoustic drone-pieces that breathes spiritual strength and build shamanistic atmospheres full of intensity. 1st edition of 300 copies on red vinyl with insert and unique hand-painted covers.
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LUNAR ABYSS DEUS ORGANUM - 'Tuntury' CD (Aquarellist)
The new album of one of the oldest Russian dark-ambient projects. Lunar Abyss Deus Organum is a collection of six sonic pictures of the world of thundra-yoga. Each composition is like a complex multi-dimentional mosaic built of layered sounds of completely different natures: field recordings, samples, synthesizers, singing, tape noises, etc. These layers slowly and relentlessly create a slowly twisting deep sonic spiral, stretching listener's attention out to several directions at once. Hallucinatory ambient of double dosage. Ltd x 500 copies in a digisleeve.
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LUPERCI - 'The Holy Mountain' 12" (Monolithic Document)
Luperci is a drone based noise project from Albuquerque, New Mexico. 'The Holy Mountain' is an epic and introspective piece that oscillates between quiet, hypnotic drone and trance inducing, crushing wall of sound. 'The Holy Mountain' is about the human drive towards enlightenment and is largely influenced by the path of the Aghori Sadhus - a sect of Hindu ascetics who believe everything is sacred and nothing is profane. As part of their spiritual journey, they live alone in cremation grounds, carry a begging bowl made from a human skull, and wear cremation ashes.The extreme nature of their practice and their intense desire for the union with the divine was a major point of inspiration for the album. Each sleeve was printed by Luperci's Joseph Angelo and includes an insert. This vinyl-only release is a hand numbered, limited edition of 100 copies only. ACT FAST!
The second (and last) disc of extended dark ambient remixes from the Lustmord album [O T H E R]. A stellar release from this legend, on a par with 2009 album 'The Dark Places Of The Earth'. 60 minutes in total. Tracks: 'Er Eb Os', 'Plateau', 'Trinity', 'Atoll', 'Er Eb Es'. Limited edition of 1000 copies in a digipak. Act fast!
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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.
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LUSTMORD - 'Metavoid' CD (Nextera)
The seventh Lustmord release, and the album which followed "The Place Where The Black Stars Hang", "Metavoid" presents the logical development of that unmistakable Lustmord sound. "The human mind is, and will forever remain, incapable of comprehending the many depths and layers that encompass the universe within which we live. We construct ever-changing theoretical and semiotic perspectives in an attempt to map and decode the unknown, but meaning remains incomprehensible. Through endless corridors of silence and dread, deeper than vacuum, beyond infinity and the realm of measurement, ideographic patterns do not emerge. Metavoid: A soundtrack for the apocalypse." Cavernous Dark Ambient. Like all Lustmord titles, comes with the highest recommendation!
LAW, the creative vehicle in which Mitchell Altum employs his experimental endeavours, has a niche fusion, in terms of technique, between Noise Ambient and Power Electronics - both of which usually sit on opposite sides of the fence, having it's own set of rules to play out. ‘Our Life…” has an open-ended but "governed" approach, whereby the already established rules of Noise Ambient and Power Electronics are reversed, meshed and re-constructed through the use of a regimentally structured, but eclectic mode of assembly.
