Deep symphonic dark ambient space music. A completely alien and eerie experience of darkness and cold void desolation. M87 was created in 1995 by Huw Davies, inspirationally catalysed by a television documentary about Black Holes. Originally aiming to create music which expressed the strangeness and extremity of these elusive celestial objects, and as much aided by his extraordinary technical level as a guitar player as limited by his nonexistent technical level on any other instrument, Davies spent over a year developing and perfecting notation, playing, and recording techniques which would enable him to produce an alien orchestral sound with nothing but his 13 guitars and some recording equipment. Ltd x 1000 copies.
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MAA - 'Tuhkankantajat' CD (Anima Arctica)
A groundbreaking band, right on the leading edge of what neofolk as a genre can be capable of. "Tuhkankantajat" draws together folk, classical, experimental, ambient and noise influences with quiet and organic perfection. Although built on a core of acoustic guitar, bass, drums, and pathos-laden Finnish vocals, MAA also use piano, chimes, strings, and various electrical devices. Each song invites us into a rich weave: introspective, sombre, edgy, emotionally complex. Mournful-wistful-joyous, weary elation, measured but indefatigable momentum. Aching beauty, inky and dark and heavy, yet dappled with sunlight like the earth in a primordial forest. "Tuhkankantajat" is darkness tempered with ecstasy; raw and sophisticated; deeply interior yet verging on the boundless. These Finnish masters have been quietly forging rich new possibilities for Neofolk. Ltd x 500 copies.
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MAAAA & K2 - 'Split' CD (Triangle)
New compositions by a Warsaw duo and a Japanese surgeon are presented on this 50-minute album. MAAAA buzzes using the Korg MS-20 and Polivoks synthesizers, and they clink damaging iron pieces and coil springs. Dr. Kusafuka (K2) handles his stylus like a scalpel. Having decided not to employ metal garbage, he turns to extensive use of his analogue synth, creating loud and sharp pieces of work reminiscent of a surgical knife cutting flesh. All in all, be prepared for the heavy analogue modulations, drilling feedback, rich bass, pulsations, biting high frequencies and the hazardous loudness of the record. Extreme Harsh Noise! Ltd x 300 copies in a card slip.
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MAAAA - 'Decay And Demoralization' CD (Mind Flare Media)
"Decay and Demoralization" comes at you with 6 tracks well over 60 minutes in length. This stuff is harsh and without a doubt the most extreme band coming out of Poland's underground today. "Decay and Demoralization" includes tons of Power Electronics and bizarre recordings that create an odd, otherworldly atmosphere stuck in a white noise frenzy. Banging metal, shrieking, dying, the cover of this album should say it all. These guys like to take the energy of punk rock and fuse it with noise, creating a sound all their own. An excellent showcase of what's to come. Extreme harsh analogue noise! Ltd x 500 copies.
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MAAAA - 'Sampo Distortion' CD (24919 Records)
Loud, extreme metal-junk / Soviet noise. This is the new album of Polish project Maaaa. Maaaa has created a completely pitiless thing, both in sound and sense. The mythical coffee-grinder of Kalevala like mighty annihilator rises from the bottom of the sea and grinds all this ugly world of evil and progress down. "Everything crashes, at out place everything crashes, here, now and then" - as one unknown lady said. And she was right, "Sampo Distortion" comes to you! Power Electronics / Harsh Noise in the vein of Macronympha. Ltd x 500 copies in a digipak with booklet.
MAATH - 'No Survivors For The New World' CD (Eibon Records)
Debut album from this Italian artist. Based upon the concept of coma, sleep and suspended animation, "No Survivors For The New World" gently brings you through a dormant world, where dreams flow freely around you, leaving a coloured trace in the cold and dark void. Melodic dark ambient of the finest kind; round, deep, mesmerizing. Are you ready for your new world? Presented in a beautiful digisleeve.
A dark disc from the catacombs of Paris and the debut album from Machine De Guerre (War Machine). Reminds of Haus Arafna, Le Syndicat Electronique or Millimetric. For followers of Industrial, Minimal Electro and Coldwave. Presented in a very nice 6-panel black and white digipak.
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MACHINEFABRIEK - 'Daas' CD (Cold Spring CSR128CD)
The tracks on "Daas" have been carefully picked to form a provoking, haunting journey. What the tracks have in common is a sense of nostalgic graininess. As with the music of Philip Jeck, The Caretaker or William Basinski, these tracks are full of degrading melodies and dusty ambience. 'Daas' is the previously unreleased opening track of the album, and features contributions by the great Richard Skelton. 'Flotter', 'Koploop' and 'Grom' were previously available on small run self released EPs, while 'Onkruid' was a track previously released on 'A Room Forever', as an expensive and extremely limited 12" boxset. All are now brought to a wider audience. Presented in a matt laminate digipak.
MACHINEFABRIEK - 'Duotoon' 3" Metallised CD (None)
A most refreshing, back-to-basics composition from Rutger Zuydervelt. 'Duotoon' is said to be inspired by the works of Alvin Lucier and Steinbruchel - an intriguing pairing of influences, but you can certainly hear their respective fingerprints all over this fine concoction. As Zuydervelt himself is keen to point out, there are "no dusty vinyl crackles, textural field recordings or grainy guitars here... just pure tones." A statement like that is itself music to the ears, implicitly acknowledging and shunning elements that are increasingly becoming platitudinous mainstays of the ambient/microsound genre. 'Duotoon' is all about nuanced harmonic interplay and layered micro-intervals, drawing the ear toward clever phasing effects and infinitesimal melodic development. On the surface it's all very simple, but it's within this economical, back-to-basics construction that the piece's great strength resides. Beautifully presented on a 3" metallised CD in a card sleeve.
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MACHINEFABRIEK - 'Huiswerk' 7" (Ketchup Cavern)
"...a gorgeously minimal guitar workout that reminds us of another aQ fave, Part Timer, with it's sleep guitar figures, wreathed in digital glitch, bits of crackle and streaks of hiss, every now and then a thick distorted guitar surfaces, only to drift off again, leaving lots of space for that lonely guitar to drift through. Stuttery, skipping, sudden moments of near silence, but all peppered throughout a slowly unfurling expanse of warbly woozy fractured folk, soft and pretty, spacious and minimal, the glitchiness mostly adding texture, rarely interrupting the song's dreamy drift" (Aquarius). Ltd x 381 on black vinyl.
MACHINEFABRIEK - 'Loops For Voerman' 3" Metallised CD (None)
With this remarkable MCD containing the most intensely affecting Machinefabriek recording since last year's career-defining 'Dauw'. 'Loops For Voerman' was recorded as part of an art installation/sculpture by Rob Voerman but doesn't rely on any visual association for its unique, almost harrowing quality. Bowed strings take on a metallic, razor-like identity, with vocal shards and found sounds arranging themselves throughout the looped cycle of the track, each time re-positioning themselves with an almost imperceptible shift of emphasis. Originally performed on a three-way speaker system, one can only imagine the impact on the listener with all that extra movement of sound, intensifying an already overpowering aural experience and delivering one of the most valuable artefacts yet in the already mightily impressive Machinefabriek canon. Very highly recommended. Second edition, beautifully presented on a 3" metallised CD in a gold printed card sleeve and including a free bonus download (Live For Voerman).
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MACHINEFABRIEK - 'Sol Sketches' CD & Eraser (None)
Wonderful self-released album from one of the brightest stars of the Ambient scene. 21 piano 'sketches' which form the score for a documentary by Chris Teerink about American artist Sol LeWitt. The piano takes centre stage for the majority of the set, embedded against subtle electro-acoustic rendering and diffusions to create a gently swirling sense of space. One of Rutger's more restrained projects, making for a highly refined and engrossing listen. Comes in a shrinkwrapped card slip with a specially printed Sol Sketches eraser.
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MACHINEFABRIEK - 'Veldwerk' CD (Cold Spring CSR156CD)
Sublime drone music and field recordings by Rutger Zuydervelt. 'Slovensko I & II' are best seen as a travel diary, recorded in Slovakia. RZ made 'sound snapshots' with a small digital recorder. A major influence both while recording and assembling the tracks was Chinese sound artist Yan Jun. 'Rusland' is a sound collage comprising field recordings and sections of live performances made in Russia. An incredible adventure and culture shock with long train journeys, bizarre venues and amazing people. 'The Breaking Water' can be heard as a sonic portrait of Rotterdam's famous Erasmus bridge. It includes recordings taken from both on and beneath the bridge, along with further sounds from the river that it crosses, the Nieuwe Maas. 'Floor & Radio' is a contrast to the outdoor pieces recorded for the the installation 'Licthung' in Radolfzell, Germany. Contrasted against the outdoor silence was the squeaking floor in the guest house and the distorted signal and static from the radio. Sometimes there's music in everything. Makino Takashi asked RZ to perform a score for his film 'In Your Star'. After a screening in Tokyo, a studio version was recorded. The result is 'Apollo', a sonic journey to space and beyond. Digipak.
MACHINEFABRIEK - 'Vloed' CD (Cold Spring CSR138CD)
'Vloed' is a collection of (slightly edited) live performances, recorded between 2006 and 2008 in Amsterdam and Den Haag. "All performances find Machinefabriek in fine form, offering up thick billows of warm guitar shimmer, fluttery staticky ambience, and at one point some uncharacteristically heavy super distorted metallic guitar, but here, it's not so much metal as simply a mighty drone, thick and throbbing and super intense. There are long stretches of near silence and super minimal high end drone, glimmering slow building crescendos, squalls of distorted choral buzz, warm whirring metallic reverberations, shimmery and dense black dronemusik, all the stuff we love about Machinefabriek" (Aquarius). Beautifully remastered with a 20-minute bonus track, 'Vloed' captures the immersive live experience of a Machinefabriek concert. Presented in a stunning matt digipak with modified artwork.
"This is a collection of recordings culled from 3" CD releases from Dutch musician Rutger Zuydervelt, yet arranged and sequenced in a way that makes it a perfectly flowing listening experience. The warm ambience definitely harks back to some ground level krautworks, but almost every instrument blurs into placid soundscapes that are constantly shifting and evolving, electronic crackles rise out of dark lakes of guitar drone; the sounds are very intimate, immediate, not overwhelmingly dark but definitely indicating Zuydervelt's past as a guitarist in a doom band. With both live instruments and assorted programming, the sheer human emotion injected into a machinated music form is stunning, and the variety of places these tracks go to are timed perfectly to hold the listeners' attention and reveal a seemingly limitless bank of ideas that I can't recall being utilised since the golden days of Seefeel's Polyfusia record. Very grand" (WMFU).
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MACHINIST NOISE ASSAULT - 'Self Help' CD (Silken Tofu)
'Self Help' is the first official album by Machinist Noise Assault, culminating after years of dabbling with different styles of drone, noise, and industrial since its inception in 1998. Lyrically, 'Self Help' is a scornful examination of various forms of self abuse / neglect, and severe internal struggle based around the concept of one being one's own worst enemy. Sonically, expect to hear densely layered Power Electronics, standing out from the usual 'Set it and forget it'-style of its peers with less focus being applied to outright abrasiveness, and more being put on texture, development, and atmospheric elements. Mastered by Thomas Garrison (Control). Ltd x 300 copies in a 7" gatefold black card folder with silver print.
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MACRONYMPHA - 'Live At No Fun Fest - March 18, 2006, NYC' SINGLE SIDED 12" (Self Abuse Records / Mother Savage Noise Productions)
As the title states, this is Macronympha live at No Fun Fest 2006. Raw and violent sexual noise. Featuring the line up of Joe Roemer (OVMN, Mother Savage, One Dark Eye), Roger Stella (Mother Savage, Hollow Bush), Dominick Fernow (Prurient, Cold Cave), and Tim Oliveira (Stimbox). Single-sided LP. Limited to just 156 copies! EXTREMELY RARE AND ONLY A FEW COPIES IN STOCK - ACT FAST!
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MACRONYMPHA - 'Notes From The Underground' CD (Industrial Recollections / Freak Animal)
Re-issue of infamous USA harsh noise unit Macronympha. "Notes From Underground" offers a straight forward rumbling distorted noise assault. Two master tape versions existed of this release, and the version chosen was the one with more detail and dynamics. Mastered directly from original tapes by band members. Features the original artwork.
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MAEL MORDHA - 'Gealtacht Mael Mordha' CD (Grau)
The 2nd album from this Ceol Breatha Gaedhealach ("Gaelic Doom Metal") act. Between Doom Metal and pagan folk music, this album is original, whilst maintaining the quality of the compositions of the band, mainly themed around Celtic legends and the Irish spirit. Seven tracks with a lot of ambiance, giving the feeling of travelling in time through the vast lands of Eire.
First time on CD! Post-Industrial Ambient and hypnotic loops created by the legendary Maeror Tri. These recordings are based on loops that were used by Maeror Tri during their live-concerts in Torino, Cologne and Ghent 1996. Originally issued on LP in 1998 (Soleilmoon). Ltd x 300 hand-numbered copies in an A5 gatefold sleeve.
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MAEROR TRI - 'Hypnotikum II' CD (Nefryt)
First time on CD! Post-Industrial Ambient and hypnotic loops created by the legendary Maeror Tri. These recordings are based on loops that were used by Maeror Tri during their live-concerts in Torino, Cologne and Ghent 1996. Originally issued on LP in 1998 (Poeta Negra & Absurd). Ltd x 300 hand-numbered copies in an A5 gatefold sleeve.
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MAEROR TRI - 'Language Of Flames And Sound' CD (Old Europa Cafe)
2nd Edition of this album, originally issued by OEC in 1996. Power for the right side of the brain! Our world is dominated by the left brain hemisphere! M.T. is here supporting the theory that it is necessary to stimulate and challenge the right hemisphere in order to get back to an equal activity of the two sides of the brain. This is some of the best Shamanic Meditation music of the industrial era! Maybe the best and most intense Maeror Tri album? Maeror Tri disbanded in 1996, with 2 members going on to form Troum. Comes packed in a special brain-shaped folder in a limited edition of 500 copies. ACT FAST!
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MAEROR TRI - 'Meditamentum I' CD (Manifold)
Reissue of this essential collection (originally released on Holonom, 1994). The masterful German drone-guitar trio is now just a memory. But by culling the best tarnished gems from cassettes and compilations, "Meditamentum I" becomes a seamless, darkly grand proclamation of the wordless beauty and sorrow that was Maeror Tri. This album is probably the more ambient of any other Maeror Tri release, going for more textural guitar and drift than the rumbling, backwards-chord sound. Comes in a brown cardboard envelope with embroidered cloth banderole with the MT wheel logo, four-page booklet inside inspired by rough layouts of cassette-years past gives plenty of text to absorb with the sounds.
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MAEROR TRI - 'Mind Reversal' CD (Infinite Fog Productions)
Welcome, to the early days of this cult formation! Maeror Tri (1998-1996) were a German trio that used only electric guitars and processing devices to create their floating and static droning soundscapes. Knappe and Gitschel formed Troum, Siehl formed 1000schoen. "Mind Reversal" was recorded 20 years ago, and only backwards-sound was used for this album. This is the fourth edition of this magic album which was released twice on cassette and once on CDr. Now it's the time for a proper CD release! Limited to just 270 copies in a stunning digibook with exclusive art from a talented St Petersburg painter.
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MAEROR TRI - 'Multiple Personality Disorder' CD (Purple Soil)
Repress of the first CD release by Maeror Tri (1993, Korm Plastics). "Multiple Personality Disorder" is a concept CD divided in four long parts recorded back in 1991 that fully showcase their mastery in distorting drones and layering guitar sounds. Stefan Knappe and Martin Siehl now record under the guise of Troum. Presented in a very nice 6-panel digifile with booklet and postcard, featuring the original (yet unused) cover for the album's initial 1993 release. Expanded liner notes and the story behind the album by Frans De Waard.
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MAEROR TRI - 'The A.V.E. - Tapes / Live In Nevers' CD (Zhelezobeton)
Maeror Tri existed from 1988-1996 (members now recording as Troum and 1000schoen). Over those nine years they made a serious contribution to the development of the European post-industrial scene, focusing on the transcendental quality of sound, its ability to expand consciousness and to awaken timeless and non-personal spiritual experiences. They recorded their industrial drone ambient music with the use of guitars, percussion, tape loops, various objects and effects, turning everything in a coherent flux of unconscious drones. This CD contains the last unreleased recordings by Maeror Tri. Four tracks are fragments of the band's 12-hour concert at the Audio-Visual-Experimental festival in Arnhem, Netherlands in November 1995; the fifth track is a part of their performance at the Musique Ultimes festival in Nevers, France in May 1995. The material was remastered from the original DAT tapes by Sergey Uak-Kib (Kshatriy). Ltd x 500 hand-numbered copies in a digifile with artwork by Vresnit.
MAEROR TRI - 'Wheel, Collection Of Rare And Lost' 2 x CD (Waystyx)
This is mainly a collection of long deleted compilation tracks by M.T. that appeared on various MC & CD compilations, along with some previously unreleased material, sorted chronologically by the date of creation / final mastering. All material was collected from various 4-track masters, DAT-masters, compilation tapes & CDs. A generous sample of this project's electronic and semi-industrial music from 1988-1996, using only electric guitars and effects to create these droney ambientscapes, although voice work does surface from time to time. Limited to 432 hand-numbered copies, in a unique wheel-shaped die-cut package, embossed with the band's famous tri-partite 'glyph'. Each copy has unique multi-colored manual print. Stunning!
MAINLINER - 'Mainliner Sonic CD (Collapsar Records)
Reissue of the 1997 album from this Japanese Space-Psych-Rock group, originally released on Mason Jones' Charnel Music. Makoto Kawabata (Acid Mothers Temple, Tsurubami), Yoshida Tatsuya (Acid Mothers Temple, Ruins, Zeni Geva) and Asahito Nanjo (High Rise). Mainliner Sonic merrily operates under the principle that nothing is not worth doing if not done in ways that make amplifiers sound like they are melting rapidly. Which is something that can be said about a variety of such groups from Japan, but with Makoto Kawabata credited as playing "motor psycho guitar", one can rest assured that it's probably going to sound pretty good! Mainliner find grooves and throttle them until they bleed, with acid freakout chaos. Ltd x 500 copies . Chinese import.
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MAJDANEK WALTZ - 'Ashes' CD (Nadeln Prod.)
"Ashes" is the first part of the Majdanek Waltz trilogy. This album contains all tracks which were previously recorded exclusively for the compilations, different versions of some compositions also released on the compilations and new unreleased tracks. Majdanek Waltz stay within their own tradition - melancholic and twilight, anxious and "transparent" neofolk with brilliant fragments, embracing dark ambient and martial atmospheres.
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MAJDANEK WALTZ - 'On The Origin Of The World' CD (Wroth Emitter)
Fourth official album of this dark folk formation from Ryazan, Russia. A symbiosis between classic European dark folk and dark ambient. Slow guitar fingering and strident viola are mixed with gloomy drones. The vocals are doomy and violent. About the birth of the world. Music for thoughtful listening. Features guest vocals by Wolfsblood.
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MAJDANEK WALTZ - 'Ophelia' CD (KultFront / Wroth Emitter)
"Ophelia" is the second part of a trilogy by Russian Dark Folk / Neoclassical / Dark Ambient act Majdanek Waltz. This CD can be considered as an evolution of the musical and lyrical essence of the band introduced by the "Hamlet's Childhood" album. This release is based on the original acoustic music of the band coupled with the lyrics of the German early XX century expressionist poets Paul Zech and Georg Heym. All compositions are published for the first time.
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MALDUR ATAI - 'Alarm / Valhala' 7" (Autarkeia)
The second single of Maldur Atai is much sharper than the first. Expressive ambient / martial, powerful WWII samples generate darkly uncanny and psychedelic atmosphere. Like the first single, this one is also characterised by its astonishing completeness. It seems any addition would disturb this especially precise and well-balanced harmony of tracks. Ltd x 230 copies in an embossed sleeve.
This is the first full album from Lithuanian industrial / ambient project Maldur Atai. This hour long album emanates a strong and solid atmosphere that grows, develops and changes during each exquisitely constructed track. All are related to violence in religion and religion as an arcane or masked violator acting in informational reality. This album reveals religion as a system marketed and propagated by invisible conspirators. Checkpoint is a filtration camp where children's souls are met by elitist creatures of the arcane society wearing black mantles and hiding their faces. They lie, they enslave, they manipulate and they involve you in the vicious circle with almost no hope of retreat. Checkpoint is an abstract, universal and purified vision of Maldur Atai in which many will recognise their own very personal experiences and the symbols of the everyday secret war. Ltd x 300 copies in a digipak.
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MALDUR ATAI - 'Patrols Of Paradise' 10" (Autarkeia)
Two long and powerful tracks from Maldur Atai provide a unique interpretation of the political and religious insularity and power of the Muslim world, secret currents and moods of this mechanism expanding its influence. The listeners will discover powerful, solid ambient, political incantations of the Muslims and strong, unsettling atmospheres in the professionally constructed tracks of this 10". This captures the reflection of today's Iran. It is mysterious and alluring, vilified by Zionist propaganda, yet independent and unbroken. Don't buy if you're easily offended. Ltd x 230 copies in an embossed sleeve.
"Maleficia is the bay area duo of Andy Way (Orchest, French Radio, Carrion) and Ilysea Viles Sunderman, who crafted this desolate, post-industrial smear of voice, violin, and electronics for the always impressive isounderscore label. With the titles of the two side long pieces being "Making" and "Remaking," Maleficia offers a crucible of elemental sounds being obliterated into a charred dust and rebuilt into ashen constructions of misery and disgust... The industrialized loops that wraps around the voice and violin come across like a slow-motion Maurizio Bianchi on par with the downer records he did with Land Use or the grim power electronic phase in the early '80s. Certainly for fans of Amber Asylum, early Lustmord, and the dark ambient aspects of Broken Flag" (Aquarius). Ltd x 400 copies.
Debut release from this Greek Neofolk / Folk Noir / Neo-Cabaret / Experimental act, apparently created as an homage to Current 93. Their sound has gradually changed to incorporate different music styles, playing with folk-rock elements. A dark and gloomy atmosphere, quite heavy and dramatic - at times reminiscent of Sonne Hagal or Svarrogh (who collaborates on a bonus track). Ltd x 500 copies in a luxury digipak.
Debut EP from this French duo containing the two title tracks and two remix tracks. 'Psychoide' is a "gorgeous soft cacophony of epic post rock drift", while 'Participation Shift' has "deep soft swells of shimmering warmth and distant bits of industrial clatter, a slow burning ambient drift that is eventually joined by a simple motorik rhythm". The two remix tracks are: 'Psychoide' remixed by SCANNER (Robin Rimbaud) and Participation Mystic remixed by JESU (Justin Broadrick of Final, Techno Animal, Godflesh). The result is a very cinematic, mesmerising warm piece of music, spanning 43 minutes. Limited to 1000 copies in a nice digipak with sticker.
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MARANATA - 'Total Repair' CD (OHM Records)
Maranata has its aesthetic revelation well planted in the middle of grindcore, black metal, ritual music, noise and old school electro-acoustic design in varying degrees of decay. The main focus is on nekroimprov and total noise. This time joined by Manheim on Mayhem-ic drums. Ltd x 200 copies in a digipak with cover artwork by Lasse Marhaug.
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MARC BEHRENS - 'Architectural Commentaries 4 & 5' CD (Entr'Acte)
The recording for this Architectural Commentary took place at Resonance FM, London, in June 2004. Patrick McGinley and Behrens recorded the studio equipment itself, the drive noises, ventilation, vibrations in the machines, the studio’s air conditioning, doors… This particular array of sound forms the sole and exclusive basic material for Architectural Commentary 5: Some Models for Resonant Behaviour and links the cycle to earlier music pieces constructed with sounds from computer labs. Loosely based on Luigi Nono’s idea of ‘isole musicali’. "...encyclopaedic variations of themes are generated and often highlighted by silent breaks, like islands, between the individual parts, all different in form and size, but topologically similar.” Ltd x 300 copies a heat sealed medical-type bag.
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MARCH OF HEROES - 'Liberation' CD (War Office Propaganda / Rage In Eden)
After many years of silence, the much-anticipated new album of Polish act March Of Heroes is finally here! March of Heroes has created music similar to their debut album "March For Glory". Still present is the bombastic percussion, orchestral arrangements and melancholic, dark ambient atmospheres which make March of Heroes bravely enter the regions of Toroidh or Karjalan Sissit. Comes in a digipak.
MARIAE NASCENTI - 'Raise Your Paw To The Sky And Break The Truce' Enhanced CD (Final Muzik)
The second album from Italian Mariae Nascenti was produced by Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo (Larsen), "Raise..." is arguably the best work of Mariae Nascenti: pain, loneliness, imagination, dreams, blood, souls and flesh collide together in this wonderfully emotional album. It develops though vital energy a devastating tabula rasa of feelings, through other-worldly melodies, "found" songs, silences, sudden spoken texts, obscure nightmare soundtracks and cold nocturnal music for black & white memories. Guests: Larsen, Northgate, Blind Cave Salamander, Femina Faber / Ludmila, DsorDNE and more. Includes a bonus video track. Ltd x 1200 copies in a digipak with booklet.
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MARK O'LEARY - 'Fabrikraum' CD (Creative Sources)
The prolific Mark O'Leary performs an improvised music that covers a wide degree of territory: he describes himself as a post-jazzer, but his music incorporates contemporary classical and electronics. He has worked extensively in all these areas touring as a member of Paul Bley's trio, composing and performing with Cikada String Quartet, as well as in an acoustic / electronic project with Terje Isungset. Born in Cork, Ireland, he started to improvise on guitar age 11, moved to USA to study when he was 17, returned to Ireland and has performed in 26 countries. "Fabrikraum" was recorded at the National Sculpture Factory in Cork, Ireland in November 2007.
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MARK O'LEARY / GUNTER MULLER - 'Skyshifter' CD (Creative Sources)
"...the duo weave a shimmering tapestry of alien drone, scattering bits of harddrive flotsam across squalls of ringing jetsam. "Improvisational" this recording might be, but aesthetically more than a few chronologically cultural links are forged with pioneer soundscapers of yesteryear (Xenakis, Stockhausen, Babbitt, Subotnick) more so than any straightforward diagrammatical connection with post-jazz avant-gardists... the duo delight in erecting a quakebasket quiverfest of extraordinarily well-articulated electronic music: gently warbling pulses course and murmur as they feint between preening tone clusters and software backwash, a bubbling cauldron of intense sonic energy that is factory resistant to pigeonholing." (The Squid's Ear)
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MARK SADGROVE & ANTHONY GUERRA - 'Iron Sand' CD (A Binary Datum / Black Petal)
On this release, Anthony Guerra (Paper Wings) plays electric and acoustic guitar, electronics and vocals, while Sadgrove (MHFS) plays electric guitar, aluminium harp, electronics and vocals. "Recorded in their new homeland Japan, this is the point where improvised music meets singer songwriting. This is 'easy' music, music that makes your mind wander off, into the grey sky, into the desert, or into the deep sea. Blues like emptiness, very empty. Drone like strumming, slide guitar setting the tone. Vocals don't take a big place around here and are more to underline the desolate character of the music. A fine release of sparse sounds. Minimal indeed" (Vital Weekly). Packaged in a hand-made Japanese art paper sleeve.
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MARTIENSGOHOME - 'MGH Plays Ulver' 10" (Kalinka Vichy)
Industrial-tinged sound art and drone inspired by Ulver; bleak avant-rockers from Norway. The first side is shrouded in a blackly evil veil, with rumbling, hissing frequencies. The other side is less harsh and evil but still very desolate, infused with the creeping dread of infinite dystopia. Alien sounds ricochet down a leaky rusted metal tunnel whilst a shadow in the distance emits the sound of a horrific digital chuckle, the essence of which dances in the atmosphere like an echo. The worst kind of echo - the aural reflection of your mind's worst possible thought? Spot-varnished sleeve.
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MARTIN BLADH - 'Dirge: The Peter Sotos Files' CD (Freak Animal)
Martin Bladh (IRM, Skin Area) says about this Noise album: "While I was working on the Swedish translation of Peter's excellent book Selfish, Little: The Annotated Lesley Ann Downey, I found that i couldn't get enough of this unsafe, highly personal world, and got the ugly idea to make my own piece based upon it... I asked Peter for the permission to do a recording centered on his private universe. He agreed and sent me a load of sound and video clips, which he'd collected and put into context. I guess it's fair to call this album a conceptual piece". Produced by Erik Jarl (IRM).
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MARTIN BLADH - 'Study For A Theater Of Cruelty' CD (Annihilvs)
This is the much-anticipated solo release by the genius frontman of Swedish industrial legends IRM and Skin Area. Aktionist, provocateur, visionary: Martin Bladh has composed an eerie score for impossible performance art, incorporating sparse, stringed drones and chilling atmospheres similar to Bladh's work with performance artist Bo I. Cavefors. Jewelcase edition. Ltd x 300 copies.
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MARTYN BATES & TROUM - 'To A Child Dancing In The Wind' CD (Transgredient)
Profound songs inspired by the poems of Irish poet Yeats. The acoustic transformation of the deepest yearning. German duo Troum teamed up with the legendary british singer / songwriter Martyn Bates of Eyeless In Gaza. Beginning with sound structures, drones and minimal loops by Troum, Bates sung and played over this basic material - which was subsequently added to and mastered by Troum. Sensitive, sublime and harmonic. Presented in a beautiful 6-panel digipak with images by Bates.
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MARTYN BATES - 'Mystery Seas (Letters Written #2)' CD (Shayo)
"Mystery Seas" (originaly released in 1995 on A-Scale Recordings and now entirely remastered) is the second of Martyn Bates' (Eyeless In Gaza) "Letters Written" series. On this album he sets his songs into organ based backings, going right back to the drones of traditional song and more than this, to church music. It's an intensive sound which would appeal to fans of traditional folk and electronic music fans all at once. There is a dream state built up from these songs of drifting minimal chords and layers of vocals. What could sound sparse, sounds full and balanced. Digipak.
MASCHINENZIMMER 412 - 'Macht Durch Stimme' CD (Dark Vinyl)
Reissue of the debut album by these Swedish legends - first issued as a 6-track cassette in 1988 (x50), then issued onto CD with 6 extra tracks in 1990. Maschinenzimmer 412, founded by Kremator Nordvargr and Drakhon, were resurrected in 1995 as MZ. 412, and can be described as the rightful leader of true Swedish Black Industrial. Dark, doomy and challenging.
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MASTERY - 'Barbaric Usurpation Of the Hypereonic Black Metal Throne' 2 x CD (Tumult)
Mastery is Domignostika's long running project, which, over the last six years. released 5 extremely limited CDR demos, all of which are collected here, remastered, and widely available outside of the Bay Area for the very first time. Starting with creeped out ambient, Mastery launches into frenzied freak out black buzz... sinister beastly croaking vocals, furious blast drums, rapidfire multiple guitars... a demented slab of black metal weirdness. Mastery is total berzerker black metal, rooted in the tradition of true grim blackness... a droned out and damaged, outsider blackness, that sounds pretty much unlike almost any other black metal. Latter tracks end the double disc release with crumbling, blackened doom/drone drenched black metal.
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MATERIA AURORA - 'Post Night Sequences' CD (OPN / BKO Media)
First CD release from this French project, mixing cold ambient music with drones and acoustic sounds. Glacial and deeply organic music created with 'machines and guitars'. Eleven atmospheric pieces heavy influenced by Biosphere and Brian Eno and equally recommended to fans of Thomas Köner or Paul Schütze. Ltd x 500 copies and housed in a DVD digipak.
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MATHIAS GRASSOW & THOMAS WEISS - 'Conscience' CD (Nextera)
"Conscience: An authority between the human made ego and his creator". Grassow and Weiss present ambient, with a slight touch of experimentalism. Deep washes of synthesizers, with sparse, slow melodies andsome far away, alienated sounds. Grassow and Weiss walk the well-known path of ambient: through a misty forest on an early sunday morning, with a touch of sunlight. A beautiful release with sympathetic artwork.
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MATT HOWDEN - 'Robot World' CD (Redroom Records)
An original film score by Matt Howden (Sieben, HaWthorn, Duo Noir). "Robot World" is a non-verbal documentary by German film director Martin Hans Schmitt. The soundtrack is best described as Neoclassical in style; it is music to sink into and drift away with. The music is scored with strings, loops, piano, and bass. Just over 50 minutes of music in total here. Shrinkwrapped card slip.
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MATT SHOEMAKER - 'Tropical Amnesia One' CD (Ferns Recordings)
"More field recordings here, this time around taken from the Amazonas, Brazil, to precise the Mamori Lake. Shoemaker taped the sounds there and treats the whole thing into one piece of music that lasts 64 minutes. If I was to imagine how the Amazonian rainforest would sound like, I think it would sound like this. A fairly thick mass of busy buzzing insect sounds, birds and wind like sounds. Shoemaker opts for a dramatic approach in this work: things start out relatively quiet and moody, but over the course of those 60 some minutes grows with some violent intention. Shoemaker uses strong equalisation, adding low end sounds to the piece, that makes the earth tremble among the heavy weight of this piece. Yet he never loses the clarity of the sounds, birds and insects are always to be recognised here. An excellent piece along the lines of the best of Francisco Lopez (who organises the annual Mamori Sound Project. Shoemaker delivers a great work, perhaps his best so far" (Vital Weekly). Ltd x 300 copies in a 6-panel sleeve held in place with a metal clip.
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MAURIZIO BIANCHI - 'Apokalypsis XXIII' CD (Nitkie)
"Maurizio Bianchi's last ever electronic music album. The four long tracks are inspired by verses from "The Book of Revelation", the final and most mysterious part of the New Testament. "The old master of industrial music is back after a hiatus... Four quotes from the book of Apocalypse is all the cover reveals for this. Bianchi is apparently still a devoted man, but this time the apocalypse doesn’t get a loud soundtrack, like it would have sounded thirty years ago, but a rather gentle work. Four long parts of non-committal synthesizer playing using loops of synthesizers, along with real-time playing, the apocalypse is depicted here as a chaotic but mild place... A powerful work by Bianchi, even when the power is the actual mildness of the music" (Vital Weekly). Ltd x 500 copies in a golden foil embossed digisleeve.
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MAURIZIO BIANCHI - 'Escape To Bela-Zoar’ CD (L-White Records)
"Stick with it, get it at the right volume, and the latest CD from this established industrial pioneer totally delivers. 3 long tracks of old school atmospheres, full of curdling, pulsating drones, unsettling tonal washes, and strong, black undercurrents. Minimal, but penetrating, with a palpable bleak and grim quality (track two is heart wrenching) that you just don’t get from the newer kids on the scene. Maybe I’m just a sucker for the old school sound, but this sounds great" (Malignant Records). Ltd x 500 copies in a DVD case.
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MAURIZIO BIANCHI - 'Hibernum' CD (EE Tapes)
New work by the Italian Industrial legend. "A marginal division of the whole existence in four palpable seasons, marked by pestilential changes in emotional hemisphere. Seasonal differences in the reformistic exposure turn on the climatic sounds for a thermostatic solstice while modular equinoxes transit along the nodulous diagram of astronomical devices. Usually considered as ephemeral like consciousness neurectomy which includes a mixture of chronological elements. The principle of living originates from electric sources of materialistic disturbances for unequivocal substances. At the end, the hibernating organisms organise a reproducing molecule of environmental for a silent 'hybernum'. 3 lengthy, slowly shifting atmospheres for private meditation". Ltd x 300 copies in a silver print on black cardboard sleeve with insert.
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MAURIZIO BIANCHI - 'Ludium' CD (Silentes Minimal Editions)
A long and almost solemn track built with reverberated piano notes, a slow and rhythmical flow leaned on a background made of clashing hisses and vague, distant, rustling ambient noises. A brief interval based on obscure drones moving in circles, inexorably entangled on themselves. Then another long piano-based track, this time more dilated, confused, ethereal and prim, so much that it takes the distinguishing features of an indecipherable sonic mass, abstract and booming, estranging, deep and psychedelic. A few and minimal elements, “directed” in a masterly fashion and assembled in an absolutely fundamental work, from the brightest mind of the Italian experimental scene and of all the music “without compromise” of the last thirty years.
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MAURIZIO BIANCHI - 'Spiritualis' CD (Kubitsuri Tapes)
"...the duo weave a shimmering tapestry of alien drone, scattering bits of harddrive flotsam across squalls of ringing jetsam. "Improvisational" this recording might be, but aesthetically more than a few chronologically cultural links are forged with pioneer soundscapers of yesteryear (Xenakis, Stockhausen, Babbitt, Subotnick) more so than any straightforward diagrammatical connection with post-jazz avant-gardists... the duo delight in erecting a quakebasket quiverfest of extraordinarily well-articulated electronic music: gently warbling pulses course and murmur as they feint between preening tone clusters and software backwash, a bubbling cauldron of intense sonic energy that is factory resistant to pigeonholing." (The Squid's Ear)
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MAURIZIO BIANCHI - 'The Bowls Of Anger' CD (Menstrualrecordings)
"The Bowls Of Anger" is based on Revelation, Chapter 16, Vs 1-21. It is a "...wounded work, lesioned during the altered spring of 2009, using ruinous electronics, a degenerate piano and waves in declay, with the deteriorated participation of Siegmar Fricke.... Extremistic judgments on a grazed world that is worshiping the Wicked One, certain to occur in the last part of the inspected times. It is a dark time for imponderable humanity, and "The Bowls Of Anger" wants to lead our minds towards an unpopular positiveness". Ltd x 200 numbered copies in a 7" sleeve.
MAURIZIO BIANCHI - 'The Valley Of Deep Shadow' CD (Menstrualrecordings)
The latest recordings by Maurizio Bianchi are based on Psalm 23. MB surprises us again by changing directed and going into new and unexpected sonic territories. A "sacral sonorization for electro-spiritual keyboards, induced and regulated in the present theocratic year with the pressurized elaboration of Siegmar F". Bleak sonic atmospheres, dark ambient and industrial soundscapes, with cold and distant synths. Ltd x 515 hand-numbered copies in a hard plastic snapcase.
The Italian electronics maestro seems to be still going strong after around 30 years with his latest release. Opener 'Ortini' is like the hazey recollection of a long train journey being put through an analogue filter bank. 'The Inflammatory Sesor' has a kind of feeling of nostalgia or distant memory that recalls William Basinski or The Caretaker. 'Oigada' sounds like two decomposing tape loops slightly out of sync creating a disorientating phasing effect. There are some very absorbing sounds here to get lost in. One for a late night in near darkness. Ltd x 400 copies in a digipak.
Three long and majestic tracks where Maurizio Bianchi's typical deep and reverberated sonorities, full of crepuscular melodies and subtle dissonances, get enriched by more electronic elements and fascinating elaborations, sophisticated manipulations and strong dynamic interventions operated by Cria Cuervos' Three touching compositions built on progressive crescendos and a raging of slow sonic stratifications that lead to real explosions of sounds, drones, pulsations, frequencies, vibrations. A new, magnificent and successful collaborative experience.
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MAURIZIO BIANCHI / PETER ANDERSSON / HENRIK NORDVARGR BJORKK / ERIK JARL - 'S.F.A.G. / S.F.A.G. De-Composed' 2 x CD (Old Europa Cafe)
Reissue of the 1983 cassette on the legendary Broken Flag label. "The modulatory shaking of S.F.A.G is the oxygenating prelude to the irradiating bionic music later developed through works such as “Endometrio” and “Carcinosi” and represents a milestone in my pre-apocalyptic production which later will culminate into the horrid of “Armaghedon”. The exegesis of this work reflects a strong attachment to smooth and round effects of the roughness of the frantic early days, but with a constant preference for the symbiosis between well preordered sound masses and not well defined radio broadcasts, like nebulae drifting in a space in trembling condensation." Digitally remastered by Peter Andersson (Raison D’être). The Original album is accompanied by a second CD with 3 de-compositions using extracts of the original S.F.A.G. recordings, created by 3 well known Nordic industrial artists: Peter Andersson (Raison D'Être), Henrik Nordvargr Björkk (MZ.412) and Erik Jarl (IRM). Gatefold mini LP sleeve with vinyl-look CDs.
MAUTHAUSEN ORCHESTRA - 'Digression' CD (Silentes Minimal Editions)
After the recent reprint of historical material collected on "Sonic Deprivation", Mauthausen Orchestra (aka Pierpaolo Zoppo) returns with brand new tracks and a new album where the fury and aggressiveness of his usual harsh sonorities of a Noise / Power-Electronics nature are merged with more quiet, wide and dark ambient parts, sometimes surprising, with unexpected and undisclosed pulsating rhythmic-electronic inserts. A great album for a project that has recently born again with an unsuspected and inspired artistic vital energy. Digipak.
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MEGAPTERA - 'Extended Chaos' 2 x CD (Autarkeia)
Another release to celebrate 15 years of Megaptera! "Exended Chaos" consists of two old releases, "Near Death" and "Beautiful Chaos". "Near Death" (cassette, Sound Source 1991) was Megaptera's first official release and is the only release with all 3 members (Peter Nyström, Magnus Pettersson, Mikael Svensson). Using drum machine, various synths, movies, TV, radio and microphone they created a totally analogue and dirty death theme. On this CD, 3 bonus tracks are added from the same period. Get prepared for old school! "Beautiful Chaos" (MCD, Fever Pitch 1998), has been extended to 10 tracks. The extra material is the two classic tracks 'Shadowland' and 'Sodom' from the "Death Odors" compilation, the two tracks from the "In the Buchers Backyard" compilation, a bombastic remix of the apocalyptic 'Final Day' (by The Protagonist) and an extended version of 'Shadowland', remixed by Peter Nyström and Magnus Sundström. The sound of "Beautiful Chaos" is structured and heavy with an "end of the world" theme, using sampled and mixed sounds. Mastered by Magnus Sundström. Ltd x 500 hand-numbered copies in a stunning foldout digipak, with an embossed slipcase. Highly recommended!
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MEGAPTERA - 'Staring Back At You' CD (Malignant Records)
The definitive last statement from this prominent and highly influential Death Industrial project. "Staring Back At You" collects demo versions, outtakes, and rare songs from various arenas, including the rare compilations "Zyklon B", "Beating the Meat", "Slaughter Age '95", "The Book Ov Shadowz", "Death Odors II", as well as material from the "Deep Inside" MLP and more - all remastered for this release. These tracks capture Megaptera at their grittiest, creepiest, and most horrifying... a grinding, lurching monstrosity fueled by the madness, violence, lies, wars, and disease that plague the world. 'Staring Back At You' is final nail in the coffin for Megaptera, and may they rest in peace, but continue to deliver nightmares, maddening thoughts, and the darkest of obsessions. Limited to 800 copies in a beautiful 6-panel digipak.
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MEGAPTERA - 'You Will Never Survive This Nightmare' 2 x CD (Live Bait Recording Foundation)
This release was an unexpected bonus for the 15 year anniversary of cult Industrial act Megaptera. This double CD set includes completely remastered versions of the extremely limited cassettes "You Will Never Survive This Nightmare" (Slaughter Productions 1995), tracks from "You Will Recover" (Nüxdorf 1991), "Nightmares" (Anomalous 1992), and also includes a recording from London in May 2001. Over 2 hours of music. Get re-acquainted with your Death Industrial roots! Ltd x 1000.
MELANCHOHOLICS - 'A Single Act Of Carelessness' CD (Multi National Disaster Records / Deafborn)
Building on the experimentations from their debut CD (with a mix of field-recordings, guitars, electronically manipulated sounds and spoken word fragments), Melanchoholics walk new paths, combining minimal guitars, drones, low-end bass and lo-fi electronic sound collages. The only consensus is to create slow, depressive soundscapes. A soundtrack to personal miserable states of mind, psychotic euphoria and intoxicated wastelands. It is a low-end manifesto for low-end connoisseurs.
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MELANCHOHOLICS - 'Masking My Monkeys' 7" (Drone Records)
This German trio Melanchoholics work on dark guitarish and very filmic sound-drones, "thick atmospheric darkness" at its best. With a background rooted in Death Metal and Grindcore as well as in Industrial, they still use guitar, bass and electronic sounds, but their aim is to explore the realms of loneliness and melancholy by sculpting almost filmic atmospheres with not much aggression. Their first vinyl release is filled with beautiful accordion drones, desert-like guitars, electronic sounds and voice-samples, thus enlarging the "classic" drone sound in a very fruitful way. First edition of 300 copies on dark blue vinyl in silk-screened covers (various colours) with insert.
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MELEK-THA - 'Apokalypsia' CD (Necrocosm)
The new offering from the apocalyptic war machine rumbles into view - Kult Evil Dark Ritualistic Industrial projekt Melek-Tha continue their descent into and deep fascination with Satanic imagery, war, death and overall human damnation. Omnipresent opression and despair permeate every aural second expressed through music somewhere between apocalyptic orchestral and dark ambient sonics. This is supreme symphonic Occult Black Industrial at its very best. Six tracks of sonic pain and dense, obscure glimmers from the abyss.
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MELEK-THA - 'Gloriam Demondi' CD (Dark Vinyl)
Following in the obscure steps of 'Evil Is Too Strong', the French apocalyptic war machine is back with more supreme symphonic and occult death music, more memorable destructive rhythms and entangled mentally insane orchestrations. Melek-Tha stands for extremely monumental, orchestral and bombastic Black Industrial, with symphonic chants.
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MELEK-THA - 'Perfect World Eradication' CD (Kubernoise)
Utterly disturbing and disconcerting, whipping up a fury of hallucinatory dark noise that can be spoken in the same breath as bands such as Lustmord, Brighter Death Now and Kerovnian. A supreme Apocalyptic Dark Ritual! A perfect mixture of obscure orchestrations mixed together with nihilistic industrialised sonorities... more abrasive than ever! Destructive death musick!
MELEK-THA - 'The Decimation World' CD (Dark Vinyl)
Once again the apocalyptic war machine is back! With more supreme symphonic and occult death music... more memorable destructive rhythmns and entangled mentally insane orchestrations... but this time with more concentration on his industrial roots. This means pure impressive Industrial power in combination with apocalyptic black doom.
MELEK-THA - 'The Diablerie Manifesto' LP (Self Abuse Records)
Four tracks of pounding, war like demonic anthems proclaiming the end of the world from the French Apocalyptic / Death Industrial project Melek-tha. Satan has returned, the end is near! Ltd x 300 copies with full colour sleeve. RARE - ACT FAST!
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MELEK-THA - 'War Is Coming' CD (Dark Vinyl)
French act Melek-Tha still stands for bombastic Black Industrial and Apocalyptic Death Music, accompanied by symphonic chants. The only difference to his earlier releases are the much more aggressive and rhythmical beats and the more doomy guitars, which will blow you away! Armageddon is near and the fusion / melting between death industrial and black metal has reached a new zenith under the leadership of Melek-Tha.
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MELEK-THA / DAPNOM - 'Omnium Finis Imminent' 2 x CD (Fire Of Fire Records)
French Satanic black ambient masters Melek-Tha and Dapnom combine forces, each with their own full length CD, to bring you a two CD set entitled 'Omnium Finis Imminent'. These two CDs (70 minutes apiece) each bear the same song titles and the tracks link up second for second in an experiment in which you have the option of creating your own mix of the album to your specifications.
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MENTAT - 'Amarillo Abisal' CD (Boue Records / Odio Sonoro)
CD edition of "Amarillo Abisal" - the debut album from Valencia, Spain doom-mongers Mentat. Just under an hour of seriously heavy, epic sludge / doom / post-hardcore, with some impressive use of a brass section and a piano, which give them a beautiful and experimental edge. Six lengthy tracks of apocalyptic instrumental Doom and death atmospheres! Ltd x 500 copies.
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MERZBOW & Z'EV - 'Spiral Right / Spiral Left' CD (Cold Spring CSR133CD)
In the planning (and many faxes, emails and discussions in person) for 20 years, finally this stunning collaborative release for Cold Spring from Japanese Noise king Merzbow and legendary elemental sound artist Z'EV is here. The tracks were created in London and Tokyo, with each artist remixing the other's original sounds. Two tracks weighing in at 22 minutes and 28 minutes respectively! Dark Ambient Noise in a special textured card digisleeve.
"Age of 369" was originally released on cassette in 1984. The lesser known "Chant 2" is also from this period and complements the sonic intensity of the other. Of further importance is the influence of Maurizio Bianchi (MB) and the mail art that was integral to the industrial underground. These reissues document significant works from Japan's Noise master. Made with a cheap tape recorder and a lot of tape loops, which were then manipulated by hand. "Lowest Music 2" was a very early example of that. Then Merzbow mixed more tape loops with more harsh noise. "Age of 369" (Mlroku No Yo) and "Chant 2" are the finest early examples of that. The Japanese title of "Age of 369" was inspired by the Omoto Cult, founded by Onisabura Degughi. The double CD re-release of "Age of 369" (miroku No Yo) and Chant 2" combines both the music and the Mail Art of this period and is a fitting document of Merzbow In 1984. Australian import. EXTREMELY RARE! ACT FAST!
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MERZBOW - 'Anicca' CD (Cold Spring CSR107CD)
The first track on Merzbow's latest opus was recorded at Tin Pan Alley studios, London, on 20th April 2008 - the day after his momentous performance at ULU. Akita created an astounding and very unique 20-minute track, playing freestyle drums over his trademark noise. The final 2 tracks were created at Munemi House in Tokyo. Another fine example of why Merzbow is the undisputed King of Japanese Noise! 58 minutes in total.
MERZBOW - 'Another Merzbow Records' 3 x CD Set (Dirter)
Possibly the most essential Merzbow release for many years. This 3CD set is culled from appearances on various compilations, ranging from the most obscure cassette releases, to long out of print gems on labels such as Blast First and Susan Lawly. This material spans an entire decade from 1991 to 2001 and as such, tells its own story of the development and sonic chicanery that is the Merzbow sound during this time. The three CDs in full colour sleeves are packed inside a beautiful bronze printed slip case and the set is limited to 1000 copies.
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MERZBOW - 'Arijigoku' CD (Vivo Records)
"There's in your face, and then there's Merzbow. Masami Akita's umpteenth pummelling album shrieks straight down to business, squalls upon shards mashed up against sheets and droves of fingernail-scraping NOISE, four screaming yowls of pain and rage shot through from ear to ear and back again with lurching, clattery drums abused and battered over and over in demented rhythms, the whole shuddering with vibrant, agonising sonic torture, eventually becoming breathlessly overpowering, ripping up all external sensory input on a tide of aural debasement and kicking down the doors of any other sort of perception until there is only the sound of one electrified claw smacking, Merzbow's avenging boot of animal oppression stamping on the ears forever, twisting and wrenching with a dynamic which is also content to offer distended, almost caressingly brutal passages where the fervour of the acoustic punishment is allowed to subside before returning tenfold" (Plan B). Packaged in a hardback 6-panel digisleeve.
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MERZBOW - 'Dead Leaves (Kareha)' CD (Licht-Ung)
Another fine release by Japanese Noise King Masami Akita! Not much info about this one. Possibly a reworking of the same-titled track 'Kareha' from the "Collapse 12 Floors" (OHM Records, 1999) album? Who knows! Not as harsh as the old analogue days, but has a sense of structure without beat - controlled feed back etc. Recorded and Mixed at Munemi House in January 2008 with artwork by Jenny Akita. Just under an hour of music. Released in a beautiful 6-panel digipak.
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MERZBOW - 'Don't Steal My Coat' CD (No Music Records / Olmolungring)
Recorded in November 2008. This time Masami Akita, the legend of Japanese noise, delivers a Jazz(?) Noise-Muzak album. More than 66 minutes of powerful noise in best Merzbow quality with live free-jazz-like drums which turn into more rhythmic and beating ones... Very unusual for Merzbow: this is a very rhythmic album! The goat on the cover ask you not to steal his coat! Russian import.
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MERZBOW - 'F.I.D.' 2 x CD (Fourth Dimension)
F.I.D. (Fur Is Dead) is a double album from Japan's King Of Noise, released in collaboration with the UK's PETA organisation. It includes information about animals affected by the fur trade and £1.00 from each sale made with be donated to PETA. Three powerful electronics recordings from December 2005 and January 2006 on each disc.
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MERZBOW - 'Higanbana' CD (Vivo Records)
"Masami Akita in collaboration with some chickens. Given his penchant for animal kingdom-themed releases in recent years, that actually makes some sort of sense. Another theme in recent Merzbow releases has been the reappearance of analogue electronics, and true to form, Higanbana finds Akita using EMS synth alongside his laptop. It's hard to tell exactly what's making the noise at any given time here, but the intensity is often pretty overwhelming. Fortunately, in amongst the fuzz and feedback you'll hear a few cleaner oscillations penetrating the mix, adding elements of colour, and avoiding the all-out overload that might have otherwise foiled the album... This is an intense, largely unrelenting assault on the ears, and that's probably exactly what you expected to hear from Akita" (Boomkat). Packaged in a hardback 6-panel digisleeve.
Masami Akita's 5th release for Polish label Vivo. This is (apparently) one of the most accessible releases in the huge Merzbow discography. Continuing with Akita's love of animals, "Hodosan" features 3 lengthy, abrasive tracks based on pigs, utilising drums, rhythms and noises. Over 52 mins packaged in a hardback 6-panel digisleeve.
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MERZBOW - 'Kamadhenu' CD (Hypnagogia)
This is the first volume of the "Merzcow" trilogy by Japanoise King Merzbow, with "Surabhi" and "Goloka" following later in 2011. It is inspired by cattle worship in Hinduism. The album is named after Kamadhenu, a Hindu goddess who is the mother of all cows and a "cow of plenty'. Ltd x 300 copies in a digipak.
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MERZBOW - 'Lop Lop' CD (Rustblade)
Masami Akita began to bring about his own brand of noise music in 1979, and since then been constantly changing the very foundation his sound is built on. His music is an interpretation of very complex ideologies imbued with a violently non-traditional, but ultimately transparent sense of beauty. On "Lop Lop" Merzbow takes a step in a new direction from his recent releases and focuses on manipulating sounds and harsh beats in a way meant to make a new mark on the face of his well known style. The synths and guitars scream and sing in a way which allows them to be heard through all the oppressive noise, often returning to ferocious power electronics sounds which clearly define the anger of this new release. Nicely packaged in a snapcase, housed in a printed card envelope with sticker. Features original painting by Akita with artwork from Alessia Catanuto.
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MERZBOW - 'Marmo' CD (Old Europa Cafe)
"Marmo" (Marble for Italian) is devoted to Italian and particularly Venetian marble. Masami Akita visited and played in this magic Italian city several times and was impressed by all the marbles used in the Venetian buildings and paintings. The 3 tracks composing this album are entitled "Merzbotanica-parallela" - an ode to "Botanica parallela", the book written by the Italian author Leo Lionni who is also the inventor of such botanic science, a parallel hyper-real botanic where imagination is more reliable than reality. A real psychadelic tribute by the Japanese master of noise to Venice and Italy. Enter this new "Merzcolored-Merzbotanic-Merzpsychomuzak" full of scratching rhythms and psychoactive noises and let your brain explode. Presented in a special folding cover with Venetian marbled paper effect and golden lettering.
MERZBOW - 'Merzbow' T-Shirt - 2XL Size (Cold Spring CSR134TS)
Essential new Merzbow shirt for Cold Spring! Simple and to the point - very high quality black shirt emblazoned with MERZBOW in crimson red. The only shirt to be seen in this summer!
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MERZBOW - 'Merzbow' T-Shirt - Extra Large Size (Cold Spring CSR134TS)
Essential new Merzbow shirt for Cold Spring! Simple and to the point - very high quality black shirt emblazoned with MERZBOW in crimson red. The only shirt to be seen in this summer!
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MERZBOW - 'Merzbow' T-Shirt - Girlie Size (Cold Spring CSR134TS)
Essential new Merzbow shirt for Cold Spring! Simple and to the point - very high quality black shirt emblazoned with MERZBOW in crimson red. The only shirt to be seen in this summer!
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MERZBOW - 'Merzbow' T-Shirt - Large Size (Cold Spring CSR134TS)
Essential new Merzbow shirt for Cold Spring! Simple and to the point - very high quality black shirt emblazoned with MERZBOW in crimson red. The only shirt to be seen in this summer!
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MERZBOW - 'Merzbow' T-Shirt - Medium Size (Cold Spring CSR134TS)
Essential new Merzbow shirt for Cold Spring! Simple and to the point - very high quality black shirt emblazoned with MERZBOW in crimson red. The only shirt to be seen in this summer!
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MERZBOW - 'Merzbow' T-Shirt - Small Size (Cold Spring CSR134TS)
Essential new Merzbow shirt for Cold Spring! Simple and to the point - very high quality black shirt emblazoned with MERZBOW in crimson red. The only shirt to be seen in this summer!
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MERZBOW - 'Metamorphism' CD (Very Friendly)
"Metamorphism" is a powerfully emotional, violently painful, and strangely ambient work - ungodly deep and loud pulses, around which is wrapped all sorts of whistling and buzzing. There is also abstract guitar strumming throughout chaotic sheets of static and ear-splitting metallic scrapes overwhelming the carefully constructed rhythm. Pocket-friendly reissue of the legendary marble box, in a slimline jewel case. Ltd x 500.
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MERZBOW - 'Mini Cycle' 3" CD (OHM Records)
"The basis of this work was recorded in a radio station in Oslo and later reworked in Merzbow's bedroom studio. I must admit I don't know where Masami's love for chickens comes from, but a whole chicken chorus is present on this work. They are there in the form loops, and on top Merzbow improves with computers. A dense, cloudy swirl of sound is what the result... Despite the work done later on in the studio, the 'live' element is still present here" (Vital). Comes in a little gatefold digifile.
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MERZBOW - 'Ouroboros' CD (Soleilmoon)
Ouroboros is an ancient symbol dating back more than 4000 years. A snake or dragon eats its own tail, and represents eternity, or the circularity of life. A more modern interpretation might suggest that mankind will eventually consume itself once it finishes consuming all the life and resources on Earth. Masami Akita, recording under the name Merzbow is considered one of the preeminent artists in the field of noise music. In recent years his output has centered on animal themes, following his concern for the protection of animal rights. Albums for chickens, whales, seals and dolphins have been released on a variety of labels. "Ouroboros" is presented in an exquisite handmade screen-printed eight-panel roll-folder featuring original artwork by Mr. Akita, and is limited to 500 copies.
This disc from the Japanese master builds after many minutes into noise, but this is structured, rhythmic, surging blasts of localised power. Reminds of old Skullflower, Holland Skin Tunnel, a loud Nurse With Wound. This is because it feels so instrumental, almost as if a guitar or two are involved in this. From there we return to Akita's early style where the walls of noise were not so loud and thick. There are very obvious variations and mechanical changes within the piece, creating patterns and moods. Digipak.
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MERZBOW - 'Somei' CD (Low Impedance Records)
Masami Akita is really one of those people that need no introduction. ‘Somei’ is a 55-minute trip into rhythmic hell, sure to please devoted Merzbow followers as well as bring new members to the ongoing cult of noise that he has built throughout the last 20+ years. Featuring live drums that wouldn’t sound out of place in a grindcore or thrash-jazz album, as well as the obligatory full-on sonic assault, this is Merzbow at his finest and heaviest. Digipak. Greek import.
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MERZBOW - 'Surabhi' CD (Hypnagogia)
This is the second volume of the "Merzcow" trilogy by Japanoise King Merzbow, with "Kamadhenu" already out and "Goloka" following later in 2011. It is inspired by cattle worship in Hinduism. The album is dedicated to the Care For Cows charity in Vrindavan, India, which takes care of abandoned cattle. 'Vanamali and Balaram' are the names of cows at Care for Cows. The cover photo is from Care For Cows and depicts Vanamali. The Care For Cows site has a gallery of cows swimming in the Yamuna river, captioned 'Yamuna Snan'. Ltd x 300 copies in a digipak.
The drumming on this set of singles is by Japanese Noise King Masami Akita himself and is in an aggressive free / improv style. The noise is reminiscent of the screeching / howling thunder and lightning of the analogue days of Merzbow, combined to create a brand-new release. The result is an exhilarating blast of ecstatic overload as drums and noise combine and fight against each other. Ltd x 300 copies on yellow / orange / green marbled vinyl in a luxurious gatefold sleeve with gold print. ACT FAST!
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MERZBOW - 'Tombo' CD (Fellacoustic)
Masami Akita is back with his newest offering of early era Merzbow (it appears Masami went back in time and brought his EMS synth back to accompany his current eco friendly stance). "Tombo" is 3 tracks of sheering high frequency psychedelic sound experimentations proving once again why Masami Akita is the king of all noise musicians. Digipak.
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MERZBOW / BAND OF PAIN - 'Reptile / Insect' Picture Disc LP (Dirter)
Merzbow is well established as THE pioneer of the Japanese noise / avant-garde scene and Band Of Pain are leaders in the melancholic dark ambient / cinematic world - once described by Terrorizer magazine as being "what Wagner would be doing if he was alive today." This full colour picture disc is pressed onto heavyweight vinyl and cut by the finest mastering studio to give the best possible reproduction for its powerful and intoxicating layers of sound. Limited to 1000 copies worldwide, this beautiful picture disc vinyl LP features a side apiece from each of these artists, with artwork by O. Lomer (the man behind our 'Swarm' sampler). Highly recommended!!
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MERZBOW / CRIS X - 'Guya / Greed' LP (CX Records)
Second official release from CX records, Italy. “Guya” is a new and unreleased track from the master of Japanese noise, Merzbow (Masami Akita). 18 minutes of noise bliss, a powerful sonic trip structured by feedback, digital and analogue electronics. A devastating masterpiece. The flipside features 3 new tracks recorded, composed and mixed in Berlin, Rome and Tokyo by Cris X / Cristiano Luciani in collaboration with underground Japanese musicians, Keiko Higuchi and Sachiko: a dark and visionary journey through expressionist ambient atmospheres, electronic and vocal experimentations. Ltd x 300 copies on white vinyl.
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MERZBOW / SUTCLIFFE JUGEND / SATORI - 'Split' CD (Cold Spring CSR102CD)
Released on the occasion of Merzbow, Sutcliffe Jugend and Satori at ULU, London, 19th April 2008. Japanese Noise, Power Electronics and Fortean Electronics from these 3 giants of the Noise / Industrial scene, with one exclusive studio track from each act. This CD is presented in a full colour card slip and is shrinkwrapped. Limited to 1000 copies only!
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MERZBOW / THE GUILT ØF... - 'Split' LP (Chrome Peeler)
Japanese noise legend Merzbow offers up an assault of violent, swarming electronic distortion swirling with shards of brutal high-end feedback and cosmic oscillating tones, creating a vast whirlpool of caustic aural grit and buzz while Industrial noise punks "The Guilt øf... " a New Orleans-based group made up of Mike IX Williams (EyeHateGod, Outlaw Order, Arson Anthem) and Ryan McKern (Wolvhammer) layer waves of piano, fuzz, tortured vocals, drums and distorted sub-bass to create a mesmerizing and crushing drone-like effect. Ltd x 500 copies with full colour cover.
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METHADRONE - 'Better Living (Through Chemistry)' CD (ConSouling Sounds)
Methadrone has come a long way since its conception as a 2-bassed sludge / drone monolith. Craig Pillard (Evoken, Incantation) gradually expanded his sound through experiment with acoustic guitars and other vocal collaborations. "Better Living (Through Chemistry)" pushes beyond the boundaries of traditional doom music, resulting in well balanced atmospheric pieces which make this third full album the apogee of Methadrone's oeuvre this far. On this innovative journey, that bridges the gaps between doom, drone, dark ambient, wave and neofolk, Pillard sided with Jason Wallach (The Unquiet Void), Tara Vanflower (Lycia) and Thierry Arnal (fragment.) present their next step in the evolution of gloomy music. Ltd x 2000 copies in an outsized 6-panel sleeve.
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METHADRONE - 'Retrogression' Enhanced CD (Subdrone Recordings)
Re-release of the 'Retrogression' EP (Nothingness), now on professional CD. Death / doom metal with industrial influences and a touch of sludge, based around two bass guitars. Reminds of ISIS. With Craig Pillard (Womb, Incantation). The bonus material consists of two video clips and a cover of SWANS' 'Sex, God, Sex'. The CD comes in a slimline DVD-case with full colour cover and is limited to 1000 copies.
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METHADRONE / FRAGMENT. - 'Astray' CD (Locust Swarm Rex)
Debut release from this new UK label, featuring New Jersey act Methadrone and French act Fragment. 3 of the 4 doom / drone tracks from Methadrone are taken from the extremely limited "Absorption" split with Nadja from 2005, with a new track 'Absorbed Version 2'. Fragment.�s rather atmospheric music combines ultra soft, melodious tones and electronica, epic doom riffs, massive atmospheres. Ltd x 500 copies.
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MEZIRE - 'Corrosion Effects' CD (Rustblade / Zero01one)
An extreme and balanced mix of power electronics, industrial and dark electro from this German band. "Mezire is a good example of a band that has seriously evolved in sound throughout the years. While they started in the 90s with a rather electronic-orientated sound they progressively evolved towards more industrial ideas. "Corrosion Effect" goes a step further, touching the border of pure noise. There are still a few industrial elements running through their work, but generally speaking this album sounds like an ambient wall of noise. The originality probably resists in the use of vocals, which give it a more human aspect. This is a more accessible noise release however it remains pretty extreme!" (Side-Line).
MICHAEL GIRA - 'Songs For A Dog' LP (Lumberton Trading Company)
Over the years, Michael Gira (SWANS, The Angels Of Light, ex-Pigface etc) has honed his craft into something more sophisticated without actually having lost sight of the power, emotional tugs, or even the simplicity of his earlier works. On 'Songs for a Dog', he has collected ten tracks (mostly culled from releases only available via his website, plus three unreleased tracks), that catch him in his purest form. Mostly built around his guitar and voice in a home studio environment, the songs here expose perfectly how he can function without the layers of sound he's also often fond of exploring. These songs capture an artist who seems forever capable of pushing himself into new avenues. Ltd x 2000 copies in textured packaging, complete with insert and pressed on heavy vinyl.
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MICHAEL MANTRA - 'A.L.B.E.' CD (Silentes)
Soft and dilated ambient atmospheres, minimal sonorities, floating electronic carpets… A new, “classic” and fascinating album in the typical and unmistakable Michael Mantra style... Four long and suggestive tracks, to be listened at low volume relaxing in the half-light, just like a discreet and refined sonic background, or at an higher volume for a “full immersion” into warm and wrapping electronic soundwaves, to the discovery of intriguing and evocative sonic landscapes...
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MICHAEL MANTRA - 'Amanita Lake' 2 x CD & DVD (Silentes)
Two hours and a half of music collected on a double CD set that also contains a DVD entitled "Amanita Furniture". Two long tracks of sublime and evocative pseudo-abstract and multicoloured ambient textures, built with “discreet” and repetitive background microstructures layered with continuous and infinite variations worked out from “clusters” of sounds and “sketches” of melodic sequences made of light sonorities, “delicate” and “quiet” as well, but also hypnotic and warm… Fragile harmonies and mild dissonances in a timeless sonic continuum that enwraps and “rocks” the listener, among infinite spirals and floating waves in an everlasting movement… Another new, mind-boggling masterpiece, absolutely unmissable for all the lovers of Michael Mantra’s music. Presented in a stunning 6-panel digisleeve.
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MICHAEL MANTRA - 'D#m / Gm' CD (Purple Soil)
"D#m / Gm" is an album of extended ambient listening of sonic icebergs, slowly shifting over time. The album is based in ultra minimal atmospheric dronecore - an exploration into the dark unknown of sombre sonic states, of the mysterious unknown, leveraging changes in states of feeling and states of consciousness. Presented in a stunning 6-panel digisleeve with images courtesy of NASA. Recommended!
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MICHAEL NINE - 'Empathy / Apathy' 7" (Neural Operations / Maruta)
Rare white vinyl from this artist formerly known as Death Squad. Mostly spoken words and samples with some sinister background sounds, always threatening. 500 of this vinyl were pressed but according to Maruta Records, 250 were lost during shipping, leaving only 250 in circulation.
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MICHAEL NORTHAM - 'Suhina' 10" (Substantia Innominata / Drone Records)
"Suhina" is a notion for the sound of the wind moving through the trees. Instead of capturing field recordings of wind, Michael Northam tried to capture this feeling and the essence of this process through instrumental recordings from Indonesian flute and keyboard. Natural phenomena seen as the true manifestation of the Unknown. Stunning full colour artwork by Indian artist Rohini Devasher. Ltd x 500 copies on white vinyl.
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MICHAEL PRIME - 'Requiem' LP (Die Stadt)
A prolific sound composer and an active member of Morphogenesis, Prime has also collaborated with (among others) David Jackman/Organum, Jim O'Rourke, Eddie Prevost, David Toop and Adam Bohman. He's also one half of Negative Entropy (with G. Feyton of Noise Makers Fifes). "Requiem" is one of his most intense works so far and quite different from his more environmental studies. Limited edition of 700 copies on thick vinyl, in a stunning gatefold sleeve with a textured insert.
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MICHEL BANABILA - 'The Latest Research From The Department Of Electrical Engineering' CD (Tapu Records / Lumberton Trading Company / AudioTong)
The latest work from Dutch composer Michel Banabila. The music is created mainly from electrical sources, but the approach is not clinical, rather mechanical, loud, intrusive, but also has a distinct human factor to it. It is clearly Banabila doing the engineering here, obviously enjoying his new 'mad scientist' incarnation. Some of the recordings arose from earlier mix-versions of tracks originally made for the dance performance ZOUT, by Conny Janssen Danst & Anne Soldaat. Unlike previous Banabila albums, there is very little of the so-called 'world music', voice samples or jazz influences, but instead a mainly electronic angle, with a special contribution by sound-artist/performer Zenial (AudioTong, Vivo Records). 40mins of music. Ltd x 300 copies in a card sleeve.
Ultra minimal drones and textures from Russia. Originally released as an MP3 file on the obscure label Quietzone, now given the CD treatment. The packaging is as minimal as the music, with basic text printed onto the CD, and coming in a PVC sleeve. Everything about this release makes you focus on the music within. This is tranquil, isolationist listening for followers of labels like Mego or Touch. Two tracks with 26 minutes of music. Russian import.
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MIEL NOIR - 'Der Honigflugel' CD (The Eastern Front)
"Apocalyptic Chanson Doctrine". Another, completely different project from Bulgarian artist Dimo Dimov (Svarrogh, Sturmpercht, Allerseelen, Sagittarius). A brilliant piano symphony with industrial elements and samples from Russian movies, inspired by classical Russian novel "Crime and Punishment" written by Fyodor Dostoevsky and Goncharov novels. Ltd x 500 hand-numbered copies in a gatefold outsized folder.
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MIKE PAGE - 'Page' CD (At War With False Noise)
The first solo release from Fire In The Head's protagonist Mike Page is finally issued on Scottish label At War With False Noise. This is one long and untitled U.S. Noise / Power Electronics piece, clocking it at almost 44 minutes and is fucking brutal! Ltd x 500 copies only!
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MILITIA - 'Power, Propaganda, Productions!' CD Boxset (Neuropa)
The six famous muscle workers from Belgium have not only unleashed a new production following their 2005 album “Everything Is One”, but have also set a new milestone in their long-running industrial career. The album contains 11 new studio tracks dealing with the very topics Militia has always been pointing at during their provocative career. Most of the percussion instruments are made out of oil barrels and old metal parts from cars and machines. They combine these self made instruments with conventional drums, toms and cymbals. The band members also play a variety of self-made wind instruments and tools. Comes in a deluxe cardboard box with an 8-page booklet and a magnificent Militiapolitburo mini-poster, all designed by Metastazis from France.
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MINAMATA - 'Cyclator' CD & DVD (Les Nouvelles Propagandes)
"Cyclator" is the 2009 release for this pioneer of the French industrial scene. It includes a full-length CD containing material recorded from 2002-2007 and a DVD offering the complete Minamata performance recorded live on 21st April 2007 in Antwerp, plus the video of this show. Massive waves of Power-electronics are perfectly mixed with metal sounds and percussion and heavily processed vocals, reflecting the agony of the Japanese city of Minamata in the 1950s-60s. This concept release comes in a 6-panel digipak and is limited to 500 copies.
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MINAMATA - 'Niigata' CD (Zone De Confusion)
Re-issue of this legendary French group's third tape, originally released in 1985 (Les Nouvelles Propagandes). Contains two bonus tracks from compilations from the same period, plus one unreleased 17 minute-track recorded in 2002. Pure old-school industrial and hardcore electronics with lots of metal sounds and percussion and echoed screams. This is truely the sound of agony. 70 minutes of music. Digipak.
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MIRT - 'Most' 12" (Cat Sun / Nefryt)
Reissue of the Mirt 3" release from 2003 (Ltd x 121, Malachit). Great solo project from the leader of One Inch of Shadow. "Field recordings from big inactive railway bridge. The bridge is situated on Polish - German border. Fauna & flora of The Odra River, "industrial" echoes of the bridge & sounds of accordion and clarinet recorded at studio. 24 minutes deepest experiences. Magic of place & sadness of existence". Ltd x 225 copies in standard sleeve.
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MISTRESS OF THE DEAD - 'Henriette's Message From The Other Shore' CD (Epidemie Records)
New album from the Czech funeral doom metal project. Two long compositions totalling 46 minutes. Mysterious, slow, esoteric funeral doom metal. A delicacy for lovers of Esoteric, Mournful Congregation, Worship and Until Death Overtakes Me. Melancholy atmospheres, cemeteries, deep underground and funeral doom metal. Ltd x 500 copies.
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MISTRESS OF THE DEAD - 'White Roses, White Coffins' CD (Epidemie Records)
Funeral Doom Metal from the Czech Republic. Mistress Of The Dead is one-man project covered with mystery, which produces mystical funeral esoteric doom metal of extra high quality. Delicacy for admirers of Esoteric, Mournful Congregation, Until Death Overtakes Me and Nortt. A 76 minutes excursion over 4 massive compositions!
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MIXTURIZER - 'Siete Patologias' CD (RONF Records)
An intense Noise album from this Spanish act. Seven tracks dealing with sickness, abstractness, violence and insanity. Purely analogue executed using effects units, machines, cheap odd mics, feedback, metal junk, voice, body and soul. Varied, ranging from lo-fi to brightness, from dynamic to static, from detailed to brutalist, from chaotic to structured, hopeless, restless, straight to the sick point. 70mins. Ltd x 500 copies in a stickered card slip with insert.
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MOHA! - 'Kriiskav Valgus' 7" (Le Petit Mignon)
These two tracks are probably some of the most ecstatic pieces to have emerged from the Norwegian duo. This new blitz 7" sounds almost as improvised as composed: no hesitation, no failures, no rest, just overheating and broken drum sticks. This is Moha! possessed by a powerful light, spreading the remains of free Jazz, noise, arcade games vandals and clubbing terrorists. There's no respite in these two intense and solid tracks, both subtly composed in spite of the constant overgain and apparent mess, both spat out towards your ears throughout these ten minutes. Take an avalanche of drum parts, hints of power electronics, and pure data activism, and you'll get an idea of the substance of this record. Ltd x 300 copies on white vinyl in a hand-numbered, silkscreened 12-page booklet. FEW COPIES IN STOCK - ACT FAST!
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MOLJEBKA PVLSE - 'Koan' CD (Eibon Records)
Like in the good and old tradition of Maeror Tri or Final, this Swedish act headed by Mathias Josefson, brings us liquid dark ambient based upon manipulated guitars and e-bows. Clear but dark layered drones, swathed in heavy bass, and journeying through layers of rippling reverb. Needless to say, a very good late-night listen for those who like trips into sonic, haunted dreamworlds.
Mathias Josefsons one-man-project Moljebka Pvlse from Stockholm, Sweden here stretches the boundaries of ambient drone-music, perhaps a surprising listen for those accustomed to his other recordings put out by Eibon and Cold Meat Industry to name a few. This work to a larger degree features a sound pallette unarguably harsher than his other recordings. Tons of frenzied, computerised, but crispy clear distortion flows out over you like an ice wall and leaves the listener in a nervous state, begging for a warming aftermath. Static walls of rampant treated guitars and billowing droney backgrounds screaming endlessly out over the cold plains of the earth. Ambient gourmets also get their piece, though somewhat in a more experimental way. The final track is the 16-minute long soundtrack to the movie "A Bird Is Not An Animal" by D & D Productions. Digipak.
MOLJEBKA PVLSE - 'The Leaves Of Their Songs' CD (Fin De Siècle Media)
Moljebka Pvlse is Mathias Josefson from Stockholm, Sweden. With releases on labels such as Eibon, Segerhuva and Cold Meat Industry, he has become one of the most appreciated purveyors of ambient drone music. While the previous album "Tamon" was an excursion into static and distortion, "The Leaves of Their Songs" is a return to the earlier hypnotic audio sculptures. Once again, Moljebka Pvlse combines heavily processed guitars and electronics to perfection, creating six tracks of mind-bending ambient minimalism in the vein of Troum and Thomas Köner.
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MOLJEBKA PVLSE - 'Zojo' CD (Greytone)
This album was recorded during Mathias Josefson's studies at the Royal Institute of Art. He was inspired by the longest night of the year in Stockholm, the day when there is almost no daylight. His ambition was to make an acoustic album of minimal drone music without any musical instruments. Moljebka Pvlse set up long nylon strings across his entire studio, which he then plucked and bowed and recorded with his favorite contact microphones on that very night. These recordings became the basis of the album and set the tone for the rest of the work. Features Japanese artist Michiko Kashiba. Ltd x 500 copies in a digipak.
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MOLJEBKA PVLSE / SEVENTEEN MIGS OF SPRING - 'Ravha / Electricity Gardens' CD (Topheth Prophet)
A split / collaboration disc, with one 27-minute track by the Swedish trio Moljebka Pvlse, five tracks by the Israeli duo Seventeen Migs of Spring and one shared piece. Both acts are known for their unique approach to drone ambient sounds - with processed field electronics, quiet metallic rumbles, dark brooding ambience and drones - with a more aggressive approach by SMOS. Limited to 500 copies in a digifile, with artwork and design by Niko Skorpio.
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MOLNIJA AURA - 'Utopian Suns' CD (Topheth Prophet)
Molnija Aura's debut album is inspired by science-fiction themes and space-age relics. Consisting of six tracks created mostly with analogue and digital synthesizers, the album is a long and engaging journey through sidereal depths: shrouded in the darkness of immense and untouched vastness, beyond the great unknown, hovering in the void of zero gravity landscapes explored with slow and unreal movements. The uneasiness of silence and the absolute void of impenetrable gloom, the infinite and overwhelming distances, the fear of solitude and isolation, the anxiety of no return… And then the emotion of discovery: other worlds, unknown universes and impalpable beings, undefined and unidentifiable entities, close encounters, the unutterable and the unthinkable. Molnija Aura is Andrea Marutti (Amon, Never Known) and Davide Del Col (Echran, Ornament). Stunning Dark Ambient in the vein of Inade - recommended!
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MONARCH! - 'Mer Morte' CD (Crucial Blast)
First appearing as a limited edition LP on the Spanish label Throne Records in 2008, "Mer Morte" is now made available on CD as an unbroken thirty-four minute sludge-and-feedback feast that sprawls out further into the dismal black void that these French doom junkies have been lurking in for the past six years. As with previous releases, Monarch move through massive blackened tarpits of low-end riffage and sheets of gluey feedback that are stretched out into monolithic slabs of sound, a grim, glacial ultra-doom that crawls at a saurian sub-tempo. Vocalist Emilie sounds as gaunt and ghostly as ever, her vocalizations materializing across the spatial doomscape as distant ululating wails, breathy whispers, and putrid death shrieks. Digisleeve.
Monno have come a long way, extending their malignant nature through thick layers of fog. For this new burial they've built a soundtrack like creeper with traces of gargling glass and atonal spheres that swing through the tracks like unidentified floating objects in the sky. At times you get the feeling your brain is attached to a mechanical beehive suffering various degrees of degradation resulting from the ingress of water and salt attacks. Without doubt their most brutal and menacing album to date, etheric yet droning vocals covered in doom frost... An impaired psychomotor as troublesome as the stars that hang above us, with the reeking odor of a thousand corpses. Think along the abandoned shores of Corrupted, Burning Witch, Ulver or Godflesh. Digipak.
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MONOPIUM - 'Mesmerized' CD (Beast Of Prey)
The debut album from Polish project Monopium is definitely something new and different. 40 minutes of psychedelic / neo-cabaret music based on a fascination with the dadaism, avant-garde atmosphere of old Berlin cabarets and surrealism. If the Dadaists were an anarchistic negation of European heritage, rejecting today's conventions and restrictions for the sake of free and unbound fantasy and a bit of trivial mystery, then what is Monopium today? Dada works with all his might to incorporate the idiocy all around. But creatively. So have Monopium. Ltd x 500 copies with cover art by Robert Schalinski (Column One).
Brand new album from cult Russian Neofolk act Moon Far Away! "Minnesang" is an album of 21st century ritual music encased in a unique fusion of the most diverse and zeitgeist-capturing musical styles, from neofolk, dark folk and post punk to practically future pop. The theme of the album, the deep-rooted feminine archetypes in contemporary art, is embodied in the title, which identifies a genre of medieval knight lyrics. At the same time, most of the original Russian lyrics on the album are drenched with the trademark Pomor flavours, emphasising the pride that the band has always taken in its cultural roots that extend deep into the epic traditions of the Russian North. "Minnesang" is a new milestone achieved by a cult group who already gave contemporary art scene a number of discoveries and revelations. This Ahnstern version has partly different artwork to the Russian edition and the last song is completely different to the Russian version. 61 minutes of music in a digipak.
This debut from new Dutch label Kazemat is a split venture between Amsterdam artists Morsanek and Vinkepeezer. Morsanek builds audio narratives by connecting and disconnecting small timbral and organisational complements and improv guitar. Vinkepeezer's music is built from many tiny sampled fragments that reappear as a swarming flock of birds, falling apart and building up again in ever changing forms. His music is organic, cinematic, warm and thickly layered, full of contrast. Ltd x 550 copies in a gatefold sleeve on heavy (180gm) vinyl.
UK 14.00£
Europe 18.50£
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MORTIFICATION TO THE FLESH - 'Le Tresor Maudit' CD (Final Muzik)
Reissue of the 1988 LP (Bog-Art, Ltd x 300). “Le Trésor Maudit” reached a huge cult-status within the industrial scene. Following the best 80′s German music tradition, the band put together different styles into an unique sound, strong and suggestive at the same time. Rhythmic, hypnotic “new wave” (with female vocals) meets courageous experimental music, classic industrial and art-electronics. Mortification To The Flesh features, amongst others, contributions by Al Margolis and Giancarlo Toniutti. An essential album for the fans of German industrial music and underground new wave. Ltd x 600 copies in a digifile with all 6 tracks from the original vinyl plus 3 bonus tracks.
UK 10.50£
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MORTUOR - 'I'm Waiting For You' CD (Syzmic Records)
Debut release from this US act. The stale state of experimentalism has forced this; the union of sickness and sound. A tribute to the forerunners of power-death electronics. Pure emotion. Pure sickness. Pure power. Nothing compromised. Classic Death Industrial, dedicated to and inspired by the works of the late Marco Corbelli (Atrax Morgue) and the Italian Death Industrial Movement. Ltd x 250 copies in an outsized gatefold sleeve.
UK 10.50£
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MOSE - 'Halfway To Nowhere' CD (Solitude Procuctions)
Möse translates to Sludge in south-west Flemish. No coincidence. After a self-titled single and a split with Hog Mountin, Möse now release their first full-length album after many years of work. High quality sludge / Doom from the Belgian project featuring members of Neuthrone and Thee Plague of Gentlemen. The powerful sound is ensured by professional mastering and the crushing compositions of "Halfway to Nowhere" proclaim the appearance of a new serious representative of the style in Europe.
Alabama-based Hog Mountin are a pissed off sludge doom band that lie somewhere in between Grief, Crowbar and Eyehategod. You can expect pretty heavy "scream the lungs out" sludge throughout most of the music. On the second part of the split you get a couple of killer tunes by the Belgians M�se (featuring members of Neuthrone, Thee Plague Of Gentlemen and Kiss The Anus Of A Black Cat...), a misanthropic sludge-metal outfit with one previous 7". Heavy and crushing, yet uniquely weird.
MOST OF THE TACITURN - 'History Of Iron And Blood' CD (Dying Art Productions)
Just six short months after their debut 'Silent Accuser', Chinese act Most Of The Taciturn has evolved into a huge war machine. The latest album "History Of Iron And Blood" is an Asian perspective of the "Second World War European history of the rise and fall of three empires". Excellent centralised Industrial revelations! Influences cited are Puissance and Sophia, but we are sure this will appeal to all fans of the Martial symphonic/bombastic genre (A Challenge Of Honour, Cold Fusion etc). Strong political artwork. Comes in nice digipak with insert. Recommended!
UK 11£
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MOST OF THE TACITURN - 'Nan King - Special Edition' CD & T-Shirt - Large Size (Dying Art Productions)
With the 71st anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre, Most of The Taciturn release their third album. "Let the victims of the Massacre be remembered but not buried in lies". 13 tracks of dark, solemn, sorrow ambient with martial atmospheres. Ltd x 100 copies in a B5 digipak with a black t-shirt ("Don't Forget The History - Forgetting It Means Betrayal") with front and back print and a poster. ACT FAST!
Please note that we do not accept returns on items of clothing! Chest measurement has been provided.
UK 20£
Europe 23£
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MOTH ELECTRET - 'Tocasen' CD (Diophantine Discs)
"Tocasen", Moth Electret's second record - after the debut "Lil" on Mystery Sea (2007) - is an engaging and intense hour-long work of experimental ambient music. Landscapes of mysterious worlds are forged from a variety of drones, processed sounds, and other recordings. Within these seven tracks the sounds pulse and flutter through a beautiful and complex metamorphosis. Stig Berg has been recording music since 2000 as R-A-A-N and as a member of Aesthetic Meat Front. Ltd x 500 copies in a special printed wallet.
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MOURMANSK 150 - 'Triumphant Over Your Remains' CD (Eibon Records)
Power Electronics / Harsh Noise at its highest, most violent, intense and roughest levels. Take the roots of good, healthy, sane old-school industrial and mix them up with a modern approach to power noise. These ingredients define what long-standing French act MOURMANSK 150 will harm, kill, topple and destroy. And they shall stand, triumphant over your remains. 13 untitled slabs of violence. Digifile.
30+ minutes of arcane and nihilistic doom from Nashville! Mourner is a 4 piece group of musicians (the Ghost Crow Collective) bonded by the creation of Doom in its most raw, arcane and nihilistic state... drawing influence from a wide array of musical styles and art, emotions, experiences, the occult and esoteric and an overall bleak and daunting feeling. Ltd x 333 copies in a card sleeve.
The ultimate East coast / West coast soundclash as Oregon’s Yellow Swans and Brooklyn’s Mouthus present a smouldering document from their onstage interactions on their 2006 US tour. The sound of Mouthus’s splat&clatter percussion and sheets of severely altered guitar and voice noise paired with Yellow Swans’ raucous axe-mangling and sublime noise processing make for a gargantuan oil tanker of sound that can’t avoid enveloping the listener. ‘Live On Conan Island’ is a range of monstrous caverns of free electro skronk, alt-percussion and wailing guitars. Gigantic!
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MRTYU! - 'Blood Tantra (Rituals De Sang Du Culte De Tantra' 2 x CD (20 Buck Spin)
Imagine a crossbreed of ("Salt Marie Celeste" era) Nurse With Wound, Khanate and Throbbing Gristle and you can start to imagine the sound of New Zealand's Mrtyu! The sound is a mix of back woods New Zealand and modern urban decay. When the deep bass detonations lash out on 'Rites of Death in Body Temple' you're not quite sure whether it's the sound of an ancient Aboriginal ritual or the menacing 808 war march of a midnight low-rider with its lights low and sawed-offs strapped. Harsh noise, Industrial Sludge and Narco-Metal meeting at the crossing of the Styx. Mrtyu! is Antony Milton (Black Boned Angel). Reissue of two extremely limited releases. 6-panel digisleeve.
MURDEROUS VISION - 'Ghosts Of The Soul Long Lost' 2 x CD (Live Bait Recording Foundation)
This double CD retrospective is a testament to the productive career of this maleficent Post-Industrial beast. This album shows the changing face of Murderous Vision: Dark Ambient, Death Industrial and Power Electronics. Clocking in at 160 minutes, 'Ghosts...' is packed to the brim with rare and unreleased work spanning the years 1996-2004 .Included in this collection are every compilation appearance to this date as well as all material from split releases with Kuru. Acclimate and Black Mayonnaise. This is the definitive Murderous Vision release! Limited to 1000 copies.
MURDEROUS VISION - 'Ghosts Of The Soul Long Lost: Volume 2' 2 x CD (Live Bait Recording Foundation)
Out of print, rare and unreleased archival material by long standing US dark industrial act Murderous Vision. This 2nd volume contains two full length albums and bonus tracks that showcase the more Death Ambient and Neoclassical side of the project. Disc 1 is an unreleased album from 2006-8 called "Cathartic Drifts In A Sea Of Sadness". Sonically this slab of melancholia features many elements familiar to the Murderous Vision sound, plus some new elements and a much more composed overall sound. Disc 2 contains the out of print album from 2009, "Frozen In Morphia". Showcasing the neoclassical elements in the forefront with a grinding underbelly of post-industrial textures and demonic vocal drifts. Features 2 bonus tracks, not included on the original release. 135 minutes of material! Ltd x 500 copies.
A deathly mixture of the blackest of Ambient passages supplemented heavily by Classical refrains and post-industrial rhythmic structures. Add to this sound and vocal contributions by the controversial Industrial artist Brethren, crystal clear production values and a superb mastering job from the legendary hands of Peter Andersson (Raison d'être). Ltd x 1000 with artwork by visual Artist Rebecca Potter and multi media by Polish artist Kati Astraeir to perfectly match the dark vision of this album. A must own for all who live for Death Industrial / Ambient!
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MURKRAT - 'Drudging The Mire' CD (Aesthetic Death Records)
Beautifully enchanting, yet tortuous, misanthropic, dark, harrowing doom from this Australian duo. Drudging The Mire contains repetitive, minimalist guitars, sometimes ritualistic, with sacred chants and slow, reverent drumming. Sprawling, dominant songs, with great lead guitar. This is clearly more of a work by purists for purists. The music presented to the listener is a tragic, lamenting march into the unknown. File next to Esoteric.
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MURKRAT - 'MurkRat' CD (Aesthetic Death Records)
2008 album antipodean witch of "MurkRat". This is the year of the Rat... take an enticing misanthropic journey into the world of the soothsayer and the twisted imagination of the Murkrat. Primitive monotonous raw doom - yet utterly beautiful and enticing. Long bass lines with bewitching harmonies and ethereal vocals. These tracks will haunt you - and will replay in your mind incessantly. Three dark melancholic misanthropy-infused tracks - lasting over 30 minutes. Plus bonus material from the 2006 "Murky Ratmass" demo - totalling over 70 minutes of music. Somewhere between Diamanda Galas meets Mordor meets Portishead meets Gallhammer - and you'll still be nowhere near!
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MURMER - 'We Share A Shadow' CD (Helen Scarsdale Agency)
Murmer is the pseudonym for Patrick McGinley. His field recordings of activated environments (resonant industrial spaces, windswept telephone lines, bowed branches, gasping ventilator systems etc.) originate from all of the locations where he has travelled. In spiraling his manipulated field recordings as a slow revelation of the environmental sonorities that undeservedly go unnoticed each and every day. Singing frequencies of a bowed piece of metal undulate against a grey tapestry of rain and rasping insects. Golden overtones from shimmering drones quell what agitated textures reside in McGinley's active field recordings, rendering the aggregate sound a nocturnal opiate with considerable potency. Second edition of just 175 copies, featuring hand water-coloured artwork and letterpress printing.
Building on the experimentations from their debut CD (with a mix of field-recordings, guitars, electronically manipulated sounds and spoken word fragments), Melanchoholics walk new paths, combining minimal guitars, drones, low-end bass and lo-fi electronic sound collages. The only consensus is to create slow, depressive soundscapes. A soundtrack to personal miserable states of mind, psychotic euphoria and intoxicated wastelands. It is a low-end manifesto for low-end connoisseurs.
