R-A-A-N delivers dark-ambient in it's classic pure-form, at times, conjuring the spirit of Heresy-era Lustmord or vintage Raison D'Etre. Heavy ritualistic drones, sporadic rhythmic accents, and deep subsonics that will vibrate your very core. Thematically, The Nacrasti explores an ancient desert culture that was advanced beyond its time and yet long forgotten by history. Your dark evolving journey into this lost "Nacrastan" landscape is streaked with the warm hue of sun-bleached rock, sand, gold, and fire. A serenely brooding work with a myriad of nocturnal sub-textures. Beautiful packaging.
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R.Y.N. - 'Astral Death' CD (Unrest Productions)
RYN is the project of UK drone duo Pete Burn (Marzuraan) and Dean Glaister (Romance). With one previous 7" on Drone Records, this is their first full-length album. "6 long tracks of waving and slowly shifting massive drones, based on guitar, bass, metal and effects. The sounds here are just flooding immensely, there's nothing 'concrete' you can hold onto; the mind and body seem to be washed out slowly by these rustling feedbacking and deeply reverberating overtune-waves. "Astral Death" is a journey into the pulsating, meandering heart of disintegration" (Drone Records).
RADIO KUOLEMA - '10050 Cielo Drive' CD (Ars Benevola Mater)
With closed eyes Radio Kuolema attempts a real documentary, where the tragic events linked to the Manson “family” offer the black humus on which the music ideally sticks the obsessions of homicide mysticism which marked out an enduring trail of blood in the american collective unconscious. “10050 Cielo Drive” is the sound, the image, the memory. In these atmospheres the innocence and the frenzy of a world already on the edge of the abyss find shelter: an abyss where the children stare silent at whole cities devoured by flames, while they are still holding tight long knives in their hands. Ltd x 545 numbered copies in out-sized package.
RADIO KUOLEMA - 'Symphony No. 2 Op. 29 For Cembalo And Dying Children' CD (Ars Benevola Mater)
Radio Kuolema's 2007 album is a journey in seven stages carved in dark ambient landscapes which taste of infinity. Atmospheres suspended in time, true industrial symphonies melting in the sidereal space. Hearts of rust facing the stars. Without possibility of redemption. Ltd x 535 copies in an outsized textured sleeve with artcard.
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RAFAEL FLORES - 'Nubes, Cometas, Rumores y Orugas' CD (Monochrome Vision)
First official CD album of Rafael Flores who hails from the depth of the Spanish underground noise scene, known for his early works released under Comando Bruno moniker. This compilation presents the latest decade of his sound experimentation, and shows quite diverse sides of his creative efforts. The music ranges from collaged field recordings to noise ambient loops, and from rhythmic structures to hypnotic electronic passages. Ltd x 500 copies. Russian import.
RALF WEHOWSKY - 'Nameless Victims' 3" CD (Metamkine)
Musique concrète realized in 1994 / 95 in the studio of the composer. Part of the Collection Cinéma pour l’oreille, curated by Jérôme Noetinger. Just over 18 minutes of music. Comes in a cardboard gatefold sleeve with shrinkwrap.
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RAMLEH - 'We Created It, Let's Take It Over - Vol. I" CD (Pure / RRRecords)
British power electronics act, featuring G. Mundy (SKULLFLOWER) and P. Best (WHITEHOUSE). Volume one of this 3-part blast of electronics, tapes, feedback, and the howling and screaming of a human who feels there is evil in the world which need be commented upon. Dark, droning, and brutal noise assaults. Extreme lo-fi old school power electronics dating back to 1982-83, mostly collected from early tape, vinyl and compilation releases. On the RRR Pure imprint with the usual hand-made and uniquely printed covers.
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RAMLEH - 'We Created It, Let's Take It Over - Vol. I-III" 3 x CD Set (Pure / RRRecords)
SPECIAL OFFER! Buy all 3 of the three separate CDs on Pure from 1995. All three are collections of earlier Ramleh material, generally from cassette releases. Volume III contains the “Hand of Glory” single in its entirety plus live material. Hand-made and uniquely-printed covers, as per all releases on the RRR Pure imprint.
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RAMLEH - 'We Created It, Let's Take It Over - Vol. II" CD (Pure / RRRecords)
British power electronics act, featuring G. Mundy (SKULLFLOWER) and P. Best (WHITEHOUSE). Volume two of this 3-part blast of electronics, tapes, feedback, and the howling and screaming of a human who feels there is evil in the world which need be commented upon. Extreme lo-fi old school power electronics dating back to 1982-83, mostly collected from early tape, vinyl and compilation releases. On the RRR Pure imprint with the usual hand-made and uniquely printed covers.
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RAMLEH - 'We Created It, Let's Take It Over - Vol. III" CD (Pure / RRRecords)
British power electronics act, featuring G. Mundy (SKULLFLOWER) and P. Best (WHITEHOUSE). Volume three of this 3-part blast of electronics, tapes, and feedback, dating back to 1982-83, mostly collected from early tape, vinyl and compilation releases. Volume III contains the "Hand of Glory" single in its entirety plus live material. On the RRR Pure imprint with the usual hand-made and uniquely printed covers.
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RAPOON - 'Church Road' CD (Tantric Harmonies)
The trademark dark and ethno-ambient of Rapoon mixed up with surreal electronic textures for an unforgettable experience. "Church Road" was recorded during a private show Robin Storey (ex-Zoviet France) performed in 2005 for friends and contains previously unreleased material plus a bonus track. Jewelcase edition, limited to 500 copies. Russian import.
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RAPOON - 'From Shadows Sleep' CD (Essence Music)
'From Shadows Sleep' sees Rapoon visiting ancient temples, moving between shadowy labyrinths of meticulous drones, echoed tones and distant rumblings, building a hypnotic sonic ritual that brings traces from a distant past in form of atmospheric, spiritual mantras of a possessive power. Packaged in an old-fashioned letterpress embossed mini-box with a set of cards printed on quality recycled paper stock, showcasing 11 exclusive paintings by Robin Storey. Simply stunning. Limited edition of 800 copies. Brazilian import.
One of the predicted changes in the weather due to global warming is paradoxically a new ice age which could envelope Europe. "Time Frost" is music based upon this concept and uses tiny fragments / lock grooves of music from an iconic European composition, Johann Strauss's 'Blue Danube'. Imagine that tiny pieces of former cultures survived locked in the ice, waiting for future archaeologists to discover and interpret them. "Time Frost" is an imaginary recording of the mutational process of sound locked into ice and transformed over millennia. Like ghosts of music trapped in an ever-shifting permafrost. A stunning, haunting and hypnotic release. Highly recommended! Limited to 750 copies in a beautiful matt digipak.
Reissue of this Ritual-Noise classic album! The music deals about the act of dying from different cultural aspects; Santeria-Rituals, christian mythology, early celtic mysticism and Japanese death rituals. incl. the club-hit "Exitus"! Rhythmic loops and broken fragments, nightmarish sounds of debris and broken machinery, liberal sample usage, and a sense of heightened drama. Limited to 450 copies, on this cult Austrian label.
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RASTHOF DACHAU - 'Prison Poems' CD (Steinklang)
Controversial album from this Austrian project. "Prison Poems" is a conceptual work about the Irish civil-rights movement of the 1970’s. This album deals with the fate of a handful of young IRA hunger strikers, imprisoned for political affairs, but then simply sentenced as criminals. Most of the text on this album is taken from poems written by one of the strikers - on toilet and cigarette paper with the refill of a biro-pen, hidden inside his body in the years before he died. The sounds on this album vary from dark and cold songs á la GalaktHorroe to early SPK-like Heavy-Electronic tracks. All with hard or subliminal rhythms and psychic analogue frequencies. CD version in jewel case.
RECONDITA STIRPE - 'Nessuna Letargia' CD (Hau Ruck! SPQR)
The debut album from this Folk Rock / Neofolk hailing from Genoa, Italy. Twelve songs of love, nightmares and pure passion. Melancholic folk noir in the way only Italians know! Featured Diego Banchero from MALOMBRA e SEGNO DEL COMANDO. From the Italian division of Hau Ruck! Ltd x 1000.
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REUTOFF - 'Reutraum IV' 7" (Drone Records)
This Russian trio comes from the Moscow suburb of Reutov. This, following some cassette-releases, is their vinyl-debut and first release outside of Russia. As one of the pioneers of the Russian industrial-scene Reutoff create an ultra dark visionary music, using elements of ambient as well as rhythmic industrial. There is no light in this darkness, maybe only behind it. "The space of Reut as the dream of regret". Second edition of 300 copies on brown / black marbled vinyl with full-colour gatefold sleeve and an insert.
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RICHARD CHARTIER - 'Archival 1991' CD (Crouton)
Throughout his recent work, Chartier has continued to present sound as design - clean, simple design, implying colors and direct lines and shapes; a spotless, modern room; a series of colored screens. His release on Crouton predates this taste, when things were a bit more complex, a bit more intense. As his recent work sucks the listener into white space, Archival 1991 takes you straight into a black hole, in the most comfortable way imaginable. This is a different kind of clean simplicity. The work is beautiful, stunning, and most of all, complexly powerful. The recording is based on two compositions from 1991, using analogue and digital synthesizers. In 2003, these original pieces were used as source material for this new work, resulting in an extremely intriguing revisit, and aesthetically true to much of his work from the same period. Presented in a 6-panel sleeve in a hand-numbered edition of 500 copies.
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RICHARD CHARTIER / BOCA RATON - 'Kapotte Muziek By Richard Chartier / Boca Raton' CD (Korm Plastics)
The 13th installment in the "Kapotte Muziek by..." series. Chartier's piece takes original recordings of KM from a concert at Garage Festival, Stralsund (August 2004). A quiet, 20-minute low drone piece, with little change. More diversity and adventure comes in with the four tracks by Boca Raton (Martijn Tellinga), who reworks original recordings from a KM concert at Smart Space, Amsterdam (March 2003). Minimal ambient vs atmospheric microsounds, with gentle sensibilities of musique-concrete, electro-acoustics and suchlike.
RICHARD FRANCIS - 'Together Alone, Together Apart' CD (CMR)
"The building blocks of 'Together Alone, Together Apart' by New Zealand's Richard Francis are 'sound moments': sonic interludes of a dozen or so seconds of environmental sound, whose subtle arrangements and cross-contaminations are the springboard for the compositions found here. Given the quiet volumes, sounds at the threshold of audibility are presumably those which have captured his imagination. A soft hiss and variable low end frequency introduce the first untitled track, with small crackles, glitches and echoes sporadically breaking through. The second is considerably more dramatic, with a flapping rhythm emerging from a grounded hiss like a moth's wings beating against glass. The final track is almost undetectable, even with headphones, and strengthens the connections between Francis's work and the reductive strategies of Bernhard Gunter or John Hudak..." [Wire]. Ltd x 300 copies in a digifile with inner sleeve.
Back in 1974 (a year before Brian Eno’s first landmark in Ambient-music), a young musician from New York wrote down a fragment of beauty’s hidden story with the minimal vocabulary of sine waves on the young black skin of a Moog synthesizer. This CD features Lainhart’s masterpiece in its original 29-minute version. "...composed and recorded in the fall of 1974 at the State University of New York, Albany in the Coordinated Electronic Music Studio. CEMS was created by my composition teacher Joel Chadabe with design and custom fabrication by Robert Moog and was, at the time, the largest integrated Moog modular synthesizer studio in the world" [Lainhart]. The title came about as a blizzard passed by Lainhart's window whilst finishing the piece: "the snow swirling in the light against the blackness; a moving painting continually drawn."
RICHARD RAMIREZ - 'Deconstructed Hand Device' CD (Deadline Recordings)
Re-issue of Ramirez's 1995 debut full-length release, originally issued in an edition of 500 copies. "The sounds of tornados ripping and rumbling through, tin roofed shacks scraping together and flying apart, all rendered with low-grade electronics. Abrasive, non-rhythmic, non-ambient harshness...". Two long tracks from the head of Black Leather Jesus / Priest In Shit. Professional CD in PVC wallet.
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RISING SHADOWS - 'Falling Deep Within' CD (Twilight Records)
Welcome to the amazing fairy world of Rising Shadows! "Falling Deep Within" is the debut album of this gifted Swedish act. A beautiful journey into the darkness of ourselves and our past. Initially a solo project of Fredrik Klingwall, vocalist Linda-li joined the band in 2004. Stylistically, comparisons could be made to Arcana and Stoa, drawing the listener into beautiful medieval dreamscapes full of nostalgia and twilight darkness. This is music for the soul and it will paint your mind images and dreams. Soon the shadows will rise again! Presented in a deluxe digipak.
RITUAL FRONT - 'Lightnings Over Crimson Hill' CD (Der Angriff)
The first full-length record of one of the most interesting Russian newcomers to the Dark Folk scene. This album is dedicated to Crimson Hill, or Vottovaara, a mountain in Karelia, considered a halidom by former the inhabitants of these Northern forests. With severe battles on peak during World War II, it gained the new name of Death Hill. “Lightning Over Crimson Hill” is a manifest of resistance against mediocrity and dullness, hypocrisy and hollowness. The complex musical structures incorporate acoustic guitars, passionate voice, strong but ascetic keyboards, beautiful piano melodies and martial drums, making the record something more than just a collection of songs. Comes in a full-colour fold-out digisleeve with a booklet, limited to 300 copies only. Russian import.
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RLW - 'Contours Imaginaires' 10" (Drone Records)
Terrific 3-track 10" by the prolific German composer Ralf Wehowsky. The whole composition is based on only few seconds of piano sounds and vocals (the rest is imagination). The track titles and pieces offer strong inter-relations in a complex way. The sounds develop through imagination and decay and appear in the pieces with different emphases. The classical piano sounds and its highly processed permutations are set in contrast with the highly emotional voice material, like entering a convoluted labyrinth of voice frazzles, drones and fragmented, strange micro-sounds. Are these the memories of single cells? The shadow of abrasion processes? The slow decay of imaginations? A fantastic work where conceptual thoughts and emotionally driven acoustics merge in a perfect way. First edition of 500 copies on amber / black marbled vinyl with an inlay.
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RLW - 'The Pleasure Of Burning Down Churches' CD (Black Rose Recordings)
The title of the CD dates back to the mid 90s when RLW was travelling around Vietnam and met an American veteran soldier. He talked about the churches he bombed during the War, with great enthusiasm and was extremely pleased to show him some of the ruins... leading to the title of this work. RLW utilises his trademark electro-acoustic sounds alongside field recordings, musique concrete, industrial, microsounds and improv. Features Kouhei Matsunaga. Digipak.
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ROBOT - 'Issue #2' Magazine
Nice little fanzine from Turkey (not sure we've ever stocked any fanzines from Turkey before!). English language apart from one Turkish interview. 34 pages of interviews with Einstürzende Neubauten, Richard Ramirez, Guilty Connector, C-Drik, Sikhara, Niko Skorpio, Ovro, Joe Colley, Kazuya Ishigami, Penyynep, Hermit, Defektro, and articles on Grunt and Sunao Inami. A5 xerox zine, hence the price.
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ROCK-A-ROLLA Issue # 1 Magazine
First issue of this brand new UK magazine, chock-full of interviews and features on Khanate (who grace the cover), Melt Banana, Wolf Eyes, Merzbow, Jello Biafra, 13 & God, The Locusts, Carnival In Coal, Bohren & Der Club Of Gore, Hüsker Dü, Ipecac – plus lots of reviews. Perfect-bound and full colour - a very promising start indeed!
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ROCK-A-ROLLA Issue # 2 Magazine
Second issue of this exciting UK magazine, crammed with interviews and features on: Justin Broadrick (Godflesh, Final), Whitehouse, Dälek, Liars, Mike Patton (Faith No More, Fantomas), Mudhoney, Guapo, Earth, Eyesburn, Atavist, Black Flag label – plus lots of reviews. Perfect-bound and full colour.
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ROCK-A-ROLLA Issue # 3 Magazine
Third issue of this already cult UK magazine. This glossy issue contains interviews with Melvins (12 pages!), Boris, Todd, The Mass, Ufomammut and Cult Of Luna. Articles on Swans, Alternative Tentacles label and the usual ton of reviews and live reports. Perfect-bound and full colour. Always highly recommended.
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ROCK-A-ROLLA Issue # 4 Magazine
Fourth edition of this bi-monthly UK mag. Features interviews with Subtle, Chris McGrail ( Slomo - who recently toured the UK with Sunn O))) ), Ghostigital, Big Business, Kaada, Lords, Zombi, Sika Redem. Plus great articles on Southern Lord and The New Blockaders and a big bunch of album/live reviews. Always highly recommended.
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ROCK-A-ROLLA Issue # 7 Magazine
Wolf Eyes embellish the cover of the 7th edition of UK mag Rock-A-Rolla, and are also interviewed along with Lasse Marhaug (Jazzkammer), Makoto Kawabata (Acid Mothers Temple), Yellow Swans, KK Null, Burning Star Core, Æethenor and Made Out Of Babies. Issue 7 also features a rather good article on the influential Sub Pop label, and includes the usual vast array of music, DVD and live reviews. Always highly recommended!
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ROCK-A-ROLLA Issue # 8 Magazine
Edition #8 of UK mag Rock-A-Rolla features New Jersey duo Dälek, along with our very own Nordvargr, Prurient, The Locust, Big Business, Hella, The Hidden Hand and Black Sun. We're also treated to articles on "Innovators" The Residents, "Classic Label" Earache and a great selection of news, music, DVD and live reviews. Always highly recommended!
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ROCK-A-ROLLA Issue # 9 Magazine
The ninth edition of this UK bi-monthly magazine features interviews with Battles (who grace the cover), Neurosis, Faust, Jesu, Melt Banana, Modified Toy Orchestra and Oxbow - and a Q&A with Chris Spencer (Unsane). Plus a special on "Classic Label" Hydra Head and the usual vast selection of news, music, DVD and live reviews. Always highly recommended!
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ROCK-A-ROLLA Issue #10 Magazine
Sunn O))) embellish the cover of this UK bi-monthly magazine, now in its 10th issue. Features a massive interview with Sunn O)) as well as KTL, Liars, Cephalic Carnage, Pelican, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, - and a Q&A with Duane Denison (Tomahawk) Plus a special on "Classic Label" Neurot recordings and the usual vast selection of news, music, DVD and live reviews. Always highly recommended!
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ROCK-A-ROLLA Issue #11 Magazine
The Festival Issue of UK bi-monthly magazine Rock-A-Rolla, featuring Super Sonic, Input and Green Man festivals. Features interviews with Michael Gira (Swans), High On Fire, Chrome Hoof, Les Savy Fav, Orthodox, Odd Nosdam, Qui, Walter & Sabrina, Eyvine Kang - and a Q&A with Odd Nosdam (Clouddead). Plus a special on "Classic Label" Load Records and the usual vast selection of news, music, DVD and live reviews from the avant-rock, metal, noise and experimental scenes. Always highly recommended!
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ROCK-A-ROLLA Issue #12 Magazine
Dillinger Escape Plan are the main attraction of UK bi-monthly magazine Rock-A-Rolla #12. Interviews this time around: TenHornedBeast, OM, Magik Markers, Maninkari, VIbracathedral Orchestra, Miasma, Lento, Fog, - and a Q&A with Sunburned Hand Of The Man. Plus a special on "Classic Label" American Tapes. Also included is the usual vast selection of news, music, DVD and live reviews from the avant-rock, metal, noise and experimental scenes. Always highly recommended!
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ROCK-A-ROLLA Issue #13 Magazine
The 13th edition of UK bi-monthly magazine Rock-A-Rolla features fantastic interviews with stoner doom artists Earth, drone ambient masters Stars Of The Lid, guitar drone heroes Skullflower, Burial Hex and Atlas Sound. All this, plus a special on "Classic Label" Important Records. We're also treated to the usual vast selection of news, music, DVD and live reviews from the avant-rock, metal, noise and experimental scenes. Highly recommended!
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ROCK-A-ROLLA Issue #14 Magazine
Eclectic act Secret Chiefs 3 feature on the 14th edition of UK bi-monthly magazine Rock-A-Rolla. Along with a lengthy interview with head honcho Trey Spruance, we're also treated to interviews with Asva, Birchville Cat Motel, Zu, Kinski, Fuck Buttons, Unearthly Trance, 5ive, White Mice, Why? and a Q&A with Boris. This month's Label Focus is on UK label Chocolate Monk. Also included is the usual vast selection of news, music, DVD and live reviews from the avant-rock, metal, noise and experimental scenes. Highly recommended!
R-A-A-N delivers dark-ambient in it's classic pure-form, at times, conjuring the spirit of Heresy-era Lustmord or vintage Raison D'Etre. Heavy ritualistic drones, sporadic rhythmic accents, and deep subsonics that will vibrate your very core. Thematically, The Nacrasti explores an ancient desert culture that was advanced beyond its time and yet long forgotten by history. Your dark evolving journey into this lost "Nacrastan" landscape is streaked with the warm hue of sun-bleached rock, sand, gold, and fire. A serenely brooding work with a myriad of nocturnal sub-textures. Beautiful packaging.
