L'ANUS SOLAIRE - 'Manifestation I: Orifices' CD (AS)
"(I aim to destroy another myself) First step in body exploration. How to reach the blind level of self-destruction. This record was conceived as an erotic experience, exploding orifices - anus, wound, vagina, mouth - until a final, grotesque revelation. Musically speaking, each piece was built on dephased layers and archaic loops of processed string samples. This is minimal. This is liberation. This is fulfillment." Ultra dark and hypnotic ambient in a nice digipak. Ltd x 300 copies.
L'EFFET C'EST MOI - 'Tomber En Heros' 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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L.E.A.K. / KOSMOPHON - 'Duochromatic' MCD (Fin De Siecle Media)
The music of L.E.A.K. is sometimes disturbing, sometimes beautiful, but always sincerely present. The soundscapes take you to one of those rare places where structure and chaos are not necessarily mutually exclusive. L.E.A.K. released the album “The Old Tea House” on Cold Meat Industry in 2001. Kosmophon is a side project of weird British cult soundtrack fetishist Caesar Romero. The material presented here is of a very different nature. The sleaze and spaghetti western hints are replaced by minimal and hypnotic analog electro noise experiments. Great split release between these two Swedish acts!
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LA NOMENKLATUR - 'Un Recueil De La Nomenklatur' CD (Les Nouvelles Propagandes)
A collection of early compilation tracks, originally released between the years 1988 and 1992. This French project of Philippe Escartin (Tiburce, Minamata) mixes Industrial, Avant-Garde, rhythmic electronica, Dark Ambient, Power Electronics and Noise, with aggressive vocals, reminding of Institution D.O.L.
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LADY MORPHIA - 'Essence And Infinity' CD (Surgery)
English Neofolk act Lady Morphia are back with their second full-length album, featuring 10 songs. The range of styles contained on "Essence And Infinity" is immensely diverse, stretching from tenebrous experimental ambience to beautiful acoustic ballads, via lush classical orchestrations, darkly energetic post-rock and more. Despite the genre-spanning nature of the various compositions, the entire recording is underpinned by a conceptual and atmospheric unity. Comes with a lavish sixteen-page booklet, which includes lyrics stunning artwork.
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LADY MORPHIA - 'Recitals To Renewal' CD (Surgery)
Debut full length release from this English Neofolk act. Like a flag unfurling in the wind, this album shows strongly where their lineage comes from - the likes of Death In June, In the Nursery, Ostara and Dead Can Dance. Epic Neofolk / acoustic folk and melancholic militaristic beats draw us into an ancient world full of myths and legends. Choral ambiences re-affirm this connection with a more pagan heart and its closeness to nature.
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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.
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 - '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.
"Chimney" is the final result of a year of sporadic and inspired sessions of improvised music making by Marc Blackie (Sleeping Pictures) and Lloyd James (Naevus). The instrumentation used ranges across piano, percussion, guitar, synthesizer, accordion, electronic treatments and abused microphones to produce pieces whose styles could be variously described as: ambient, mock-power electronics, exotica... but, for the most part, the pieces here simply defy description. Includes guest vocals from Rose McDowall (Strawberry Switchblade, Coil, Sorrow) and John Murphy (KnifeLadder, Shining Vril, SPK, Death In June). Digipak.
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LARKIN GRIMM - 'Time Is A Spiral #02' 10" (Clear Spot)
Following the In Gowan Ring 10", this is the second release in the Time Is A Spiral 10" series, which is entirely dedicated to recordings made by, at and for the highly regarded radio show 'Dwars' at VPRO. Larkin Grimm, who beyond doubt is one of the most intriguing and talented exponents of the contemporary folk-boom, entered the VPRO studio in 2006 to record this extremely intense session. This 10" captures the very soul of Larkin Grimm at its purest. Truly wonderful and very unique! Limited edition of 500 copies.
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LAST DOMINION LOST - 'The Tyranny Of Distance' CD (Tesco Organisation)
Project by two former members of SPK! Multi-talented man John Murphy (KnifeLadder / ex-SPK and live member of DEATH IN JUNE) made these recordings with Dominik Guerin in Australia in the early 90s. The music is more or less a follow up to classical SPK - music like "Leichenschrei", hard aggressive screams rhythms and noiseloops with partly an tribal touch, all produced with old analog equipment, if there is a music to be labelled "old school" than here it is! Definitely something that closes a gap!!
With his 8th solo album, French composer Laurent Pernice presents pure electronic music, providing fresh views for academic avant-garde, from the different sides of microtonal music, reductive minimalism and other methods of digital decomposition. Most of the sounds came about through sheer experimentation while trying to distort the use of an instrument. Thus, the first immobile music was based on a double bass using only its extreme high notes and on a zither played with bass drumsticks. The incongruity between the technique and the instrument produced chance music that, in a certain sense, created itself. Ltd x 500. Russian import.
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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LAW - 'Vindication And Contempt' CD (Triumvirate)
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.
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LC - 'Weltanschauliche Mission' 12" (WKN)
Very limited (only 500 copies manufactured), and now (naturally) very scarce and sought after. A nice find for WKN/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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LE DEPEUPLEUR - 'Disambiguation' CD (Auf Abwegen)
Third CD by this project of LE DÉPEUPLEUR (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 TESTAMENT DE LA LUMIERE - 'Der Tod ist ein treuer Kamerad' CD (Dark Vinyl)
LE TESTAMENT DE LA LUMIÈRE unleash 10 wonderful dark ambient tracks with sometimes rhythmical, industrial structures, well balanced between old school (THROBBING GRISTLE, SPK etc) and contemporary influences (RAISON D'ETRE, MEGAPTERA etc). Recommended for all fans of quality, brooding dark ambience.
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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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LEGER DES HEILS - 'Aryana' CD (Eis & Licht)
"Aryana" was first published as a LP / CD release in 2002, now available again in a new package with a bonus track. On their debut CD, Leger Des Heils present German poetry exquisitely set to unique and fresh sounding Neofolk, with beautiful symphonic orchestration and subtle, yet still highly effective, martial percussion - all of which produce a stunningly bombastic ‘European’ sound. Such poetry of course is not the work of contemporary writers, but Leger Des Heils leave it to the attentive listeners to search in the past for the authors of the verses. Comparisons could be made with Autopsia, Leitmotiv or Upsland, but the music of Leger Des Heils has an eminently German feel to it. Presented in a 6-panel digifile, ltd x 750.
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LEGION - 'Zodiac' CD (Auf Abwegen)
Haunting release by the master of Dark Ambient, Andrew Lagowski, who has worked with Lustmord, Isolrubin BK and Terror Against Terror in the past. His other projects include S.E.T.I. and Lagowski. ‘Zodiac’ is named after (but not dedicated to) the infamous Zodiac killer who terrorised the San Francisco area din the 1960's & 70’s. It is a study into the depths of misery, the human capacity for evil and self-deception. Ltd x 500 copies.
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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 SENTIERS CONFLICTUELS & ANDREW KING - '1888' CD (Athanor)
On this cinematographic album, Andrew King reads the strange letters signed "Jack the Ripper" Scotland Yard received in late 1888 in a most sinister manner. Les Sentiers Conflictuels provide a dark Neoclassical soundtrack, with some cold foggy drones and archived sounds (mechanical noises, old cylinders samples). A dark and disturbing journey into the wet sinuous streets of Victorian Whitechapel, London. Presented in a stunning limited edition 6-panel, textured digipak.
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LETHAL DOSE 50 - '21st Century Awakening' CD (Nuit Et Brouillard)
Lethal Dose 50 is the poison dose injection, used to carry out the death penalty in some US states… but LD50 is also a Belgian trio which has been around for years now in the fields of electronic music. After 2 self-releases, N&B offer their first full length CD. LD50 develops atmospheric ambient which is also warm, cosmic, experimental, melodic, deep and mutative. Housed in an original A5 size silk-screened fold-out cover.
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LI JIANHONG - 'San Sheng Shi' CD (Archive)
An incredible focused and formidable fifty something minute single track solo electric guitar wall of noise work from a new face of the Chinese music scene. A release that will be sure to make more then a few people scramble to dig up Li’s back catalog of work on his own 2pi imprint. Comes packed in a double sleeve with the outer sleeve being a semi transparent vellum fold around. Graphic work by Chase Middaugh. Ltd x 500.
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LICHT-UNG - 'Kristall' 7" (Drone Records)
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 - 'Videniya' CD (Stygian Crypt Productions)
Third full length album of one-man project Liholesie under the name of "Videniya" ("The Visions"). Almost 2 years after the last Liholesie release, these 11 tracks are like a wind to another world… like a splinter of forgotten dreams, like echoes from the very heart of the forest, gloomy visions in the witch circle. Musically speaking, this album is Neofolk-ritual-ambient with a slight ‘electronic’ touch. The melodies, instruments and sounds are a manifestation of Nature, Heritage and Pursuit. Includes a cover version of "When The Sky Is Dark Yet" by Thy Repentance. Presented in a beautiful 8-panel digipak in a limited edition of 1000 copies.
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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 - '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.
LINIJA MASS - 'Eiserne Revolution' 12" (Membrum Debile Propaganda)
Conceptional 12'' one of the best and most sought-after Russian industrial acts. Very rhythmical stuff, with metal and noise intertwined. "Sounds like from old industrial halls." The Iron Revolution! A very highly recommended piece. Limited to 400 copies only.
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LINIJA MASS - 'Triumph Stali' 10" (Der Angriff)
One of the best and the oldest Russian industrial projects. Repetitive, mechanical patterns with voice samples. Abrasive analogue sounds are used to create an aura of futuristic art revolt. File next to Vetrophonia, Stalnoy Pakt, Dagda Mor, Grey Wolves etc. Ltd x 330 numbered copies in a textured foldout sleeve. Naturally, this is a very desirable piece. Russian import.
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LISA GERRARD - 'The Mirror Pool' CD (4AD)
Over a career that takes in almost two decades with Dead Can Dance, award-winning movie soundtracks and a series of acclaimed solo and collaborative albums, Lisa Gerrard has established herself as one of Australia's most ground-breaking and in-demand artists. Lisa Gerrard was indelibly a part of the sound of Dead Can Dance, with her otherworldly voice, that it's little wonder her debut album feels essentially like a continuation of the band's haunting, vast and cinematic atmospheres (assisted by the Victorian Philharmonic Orchestra). Highly recommended!
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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).
Born out of the dark, industrial city of Cleveland, America, Lockweld have been creating sounds since 1993. Using found electronics and industrial machinery, this duo take the listener on a nightmarish journey through a factory of pure sonic mayhem. Actual industrial machinery is used to create sounds that are used on releases. Lockweld use the machinery to create discordant sounds lined with rhythms, drones, and sometimes harsh, sometimes minimal electronic bursts. During live performances, they use found metals, wood, concrete, and other materials, with contact mics which are destroyed by the use of hand grinders, circular saws, chainsaws, impact wrenches, jack hammers, routers, electro etching units, lathes!
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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.
"(I aim to destroy another myself) First step in body exploration. How to reach the blind level of self-destruction. This record was conceived as an erotic experience, exploding orifices - anus, wound, vagina, mouth - until a final, grotesque revelation. Musically speaking, each piece was built on dephased layers and archaic loops of processed string samples. This is minimal. This is liberation. This is fulfillment." Ultra dark and hypnotic ambient in a nice digipak. Ltd x 300 copies.
