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Cold Spring Bi-Weekly Newsletter - 19th March 2009

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INTERVIEW
There's a great interview with TENHORNEDBEAST at Heathen Harvest.

IN OUR NEXT NEWSLETTER
The new Rose Rovine E Amanti album 'Demian' will be available for pre-order in our next newsletter...
along with the re-issues of Folkstorm 'Sweden' and 'Victory Or Death'!


Anni Hogan | Kickabye 2 x CD (CSR99CD) £11 / £12 / £13

Shipping: 30th March
From her early days as a legendary Batcave DJ, through her work with Marc Almond, Anni Hogan is one of the true geniuses of the alternative scene. A composer, songwriter, arranger, producer, promoter and DJ, she helped to shape the sound of the 80s. Cold Spring is proud to present her debut release expanded and brought to the public for the first time on CD. "Kickabye" features some of the leading lights of the alternative scene: NICK CAVE, MARC ALMOND, FOETUS, BUDGIE (Siouxsie And The Banshees) and GINI BALL amongst others as well as production by Jim "Foetus" Thirwell, plus 10 extra tracks from the same period. The second CD is also tracks from the same period, featuring YELLO and with production by BARRY ADAMSON. Digitally remastered with 4 new and exclusive song versions.

MP3 | MP3 | Anni Hogan


 

TenHornedBeast | My Horns Are A Flame To Draw Down The Truth CD (CSR106CD) £9 / £10 / £11

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The TenHornedBeast rises again. Five new compositions from black ambient / doom overlord Christopher Walton - three remixes / expansions / contractions of songs from the debut album "The Sacred Truth" and two totally new pieces that are in a similar style to this dark masterpiece. Walton has stripped some of the songs to their bare bones and allowed them space to breathe again. This album is all-new but continues the atmosphere of the debut and can be considered a companion piece. Presented in a matt-laminate, spot-varnished digipak.

MP3 | MP3 | TenHornedBeast



Bleeding Heart Narrative | All That Was Missing We Never Had In The World CD (CSR109CD) £9 / £10 / £11

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Reissue of the stunning debut BHN album from spring 2008 (Ltd x 200). Working with a constantly evolving autumnal orchestra of layered cellos, repeating piano melodies, hushed vocals and mutant textures of sound and noise, Bleeding Heart Narrative has constructed a unique, haunting and compelling album. BHN is the work of sole composer, artist and producer Oliver Barrett, working in the live spectrum as a septet. Presented in a digipak with the new and exclusive bonus track 'Blueskywards'. We can't recommend this highly enough!


MP3 | MP3 | Bleeding Heart Narrative

 

Sistrenatus | Sensitive Disturbance CD (CSR108CD) £8 / £9 / £10

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Blurring the lines between Dark Ambient, Industrial and Noise, Sistrenatus storms forth, shifting between oppressive aggression and unsettling atmospheres. "Sensitive Disturbance" is the third offering from this now legendary Canadian act, whose debut "Division One" was issued on Cold Spring in 2007. An aural journey through the urban decay of abandoned factories, scorched landscapes and underground passageways. "Sensitive Disturbance" is an abrasive rendition of the industrial revolution in its darkest phases.


MP3 | Sistrenatus


Prurient | The Black Post Society CD (CSR85CD) £10 / £11 / £12
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"The Black Post Society" embraces and accepts the depression of not having anything left to hunt. Black Industrial / Power Noise from this respected US act!
 

Nadja / Atavist / Satori | Infernal Procession... And Then Everything Dies CD (CSR111CD) £10 / £11 / £12
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Split release from Shoegaze/Droners Nadja (Aidan Baker & Leah Buckareff), Doomers Atavist and Fortean Electronics / Dark Ambient act Satori. Ltd x 1000.
 

Satori | Contemptus Mundi CD (CSR113CD) £8 / £9 / £10
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A collaboration between UK Dark Ambient / Fortean Electronics act Satori and Magus Peter H Gilmore, High Priest of the Church Of Satan.
 

Satori | Kanashibari CD (CSR95CD)
£10 / £11 / £12
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CD version of the 2007 album from UK Dark Ambient / Fortean Electronics act Satori, with bonus track.
 

FORTHCOMING RELEASES:

ROSE ROVINE E AMANTI
- 'Demian' CD (CSR112CD)
Z'EV
- 'Sumthings' CD (CSR101CD)
FOLKSTORM - 'Sweden' CD (CSR29CD) - repress
FOLKSTORM - 'Victory Or Death' CD (CSR31CD) - reissue


ALL AVAILABLE COLD SPRING TITLES

ANDREW LILES
• 20 Mar 09, Radar Festival, Mexico City (MX). As part of Nurse With Wound.

MERZBOW
• 21 Mar 09, Dialoge Festival, Salzburg (AT).
• 24 Mar 09,
Stimul Festival, Prague (CZ). With Birds Build Nests Underground

SHIP OF FOOLS CLUB
• 10 May 09, Bar & Co, London - Sieben & Spectre
• 12 Jul 09, Bar & Co, London - Andrew King & Naevus

PRURIENT / IRON FIST OF THE SUN
• 23 May 09, Vivid, Birmingham (UK). With Nicholas Bullen

COLD SPRING PRESENT:
JARBOE

• 20 Jun 09, The Underworld, London (UK). With Nactmystium
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• 25-26 Jul 09, Super Sonic, Birmingham (UK). With Head Of David, Skullflower, Scorn, Venetian Snares + More!
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VON THRONSTAHL
• 20 Jun 09, DK Swit, Warsaw (PL). With Krepulec.

SATORI
• 26-27 Jun 09, Tonwellen Konferenz 2, Burscheid (DE). With Whitehouse, Hijokaidan, Atrox + More!

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A MINORITY OF ONE - 'Bathe In Fiery Answer' CD (Autumn Wind Productions) - £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50

A Minority Of One is Jason H. Craban (Waldteufel), Markus Wolff (Waldteufel, Blood Axis), Arrowyn Craban, Jason O’Neill-Butler and James Woodhead. AMO1 play a unique brand of ambient music... representing feelings of the forest, the wind, natural sounds, your mind wandering, folk of past and peasant lives. "This Collection of recordings is an exploration of decline and sickness, compost and collapse. Facing my own sickness and my relationship to that of close friends and family members. Contained here is the story of Nidhogg, who undermines and fells the world Tree. Gnawing at its roots exposing the rot of every choice made against our higher values and better intentions." Ltd x 1000 copies in a digipak.

All A Minority Of One Titles

ARMON KUILU - 'Armon Kuilu' MCD (Totuuden Sarvi Levyt) - £10 / £11 / £12

The debut MCD by Armon Kuilu is a funereal musical journey, two long progressive / folk compositions built out mostly of classical piano, strings, orchestral drums, singing, prayers and invocations in male and female voices. The soundscapes bring to mind images of forlorn cemetaries, initiatory cults, bloodletting, woodlands and altered states of consciousness. At times the melodies of chamber music break out into squeals, groans and crackling which haunt the space and resonate with the Finnish poetry, that most of the time reminds one of a satanic ceremony. This is not a generic so-called occult album with the usual Crowley spoken parts. Instead this is a deeply personal work with challenging classical and sometimes jazz or progressive melodies composed by the master behind the project and performed by real musicians with authentic instruments and also utilizing real actors for the various voices and spoken parts. Ltd x 500 copies in a B&W sleeve with a full colour 8-page 7" art booklet.

ÄTTESTUPA - 'Untitled' LP (Release The Bats) - £14 / £16 / £18

There is a myth that elders in olden day Sweden were thrown down from a mountain when they were no longer any use in the farms and households. This place was called Ättestupa. Dealing with an old era of Sweden, this is music that reeks of plague, desolate countrysides, heathen rituals and long, harsh cold winters. The debut album is a journey back to a forgotten world, an anti-urban masterpiece, featuring members of Leafes and Sewer Election. Noise with traces of dark folk music, 70's German prog and a hint black metal, this is mean-spirited stuff with a truly unique atmosphere. Slow and monotonous percussion, deeply buried vocals, crude electronics and droning guitars, tortured synths and flutes... Extremely bleak. Ltd x 330 copies with inserts. ***Please note all copies have 1 slightly damaged corner due to carelessness of customs***. A RARE piece!

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BIG ROAD BREAKER - 'Don't Fuck With The Angels' CD (Muzamuza Records) - £12 / £13 / £14

Rare release from this Newcastle band. A very successful combination of reverberating atmospherics and SPK style industrial sounds. An excellent collage with a child singing, tapes growling, delayed noises, flute, drones, preapared guitar ambience and celestial choirs. A wide range of intense, ritual and psychedelic sounds. Ltd x 500 hand-numbered copies in a heavy, silk-screened PVC archive sleeve with four inserts.

All Big Road Breaker Titles

BIZARRE UPROAR - 'Liha-Evankeliumi' 3 x CD Boxset (Freak Animal / Institute Of Paraphilia Studies)
- £25 / £27 / £29

Re-release of rare self-released 10 x 3" CDR set from this Finnish legend, originally produced in an edition of 50 copies. The material presented in this re-release in in its original untouched form, except for 2 bonus tracks on disc 3. All tracks are untitled and are heavy noise / Power Electronics, as to be expected. Limited edition of 250 copies in a black leather like heavy black box plus booklet with some nice "maniac - S/M" pics. ACT FAST!

All Bizarre Uproar Titles

DARK AGES - 'A Chronicle Of The Plague' LP (Northern Heritage / Freak Animal) - £14 / £16 / £18

Dark Age's second album continues offering us minimalist Dark Ambient, this time more melodic than before, and inspired on the horrors of the Middle Ages. Between the fall of the Western Roman empire in A.D. 476 and the fall of Constantinople in 1453, Europe was ravaged by plagues and superstition. Greek was largely forgotten, and with it much of the learned texts of antiquity. 'A Chronicle of the Plague' is a musical tale of the terror of 1349, which depopulated entire villages and decimated Europe's human population; the disease was not understood at the time, and therefore it was assumed to have been the wrathful punishment from the Judaeo-Christian Deity. Alas, prayers were of no avail... Project from member of Ukrainian BM act Hate Forest. Ltd x 250 copies.

All Dark Ages TitlesAll LP / 12" Vinyl

DARSOMBRA - 'Eternal Jewel' CD (Public Guilt) - £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50

The second full-length album from Baltimore’s Brian Daniloski is a mix of improvised and structured recordings primarily composed on the baritone guitar. The tracks are best described as equal parts doom, psychedelic experimentation and 20th Century composition. From powerful and doom-drenched sections to minimal and shimmering to aggressive rhythms that sound like a pounding string section, "Eternal Jewel" is some of the strongest material yet from Darsombra. Heavy gatefold digisleeve containing 2 inserts, with letter-pressed metallic silver print. "Simply glorious" (Record Of The Week - Aquarius).

All Darsombra Titles

FIRE IN THE HEAD - 'Carrion Wind' CD (Turgid Animal) - £9 / £10 / £11

"Carrion Wind" is an ambitious work which consolidates the sounds explored with F/I/T/H and Sky Burial into a single project, focusing them into a complex and meticulously composed 63 minute industrial opus, a dark and ominous dirge, both beautiful and brutal, incorporating aspects of metal percussion, dark ambient, drone, doom and industrial electronics. Noticeably absent are Page’s vocals as F/I/T/H takes a more "restrained" approach favoring slow layering of synths, field recordings, guitar loops and electronics to build a tension which occasionally peaks at an explosive level comparable to the shorter tracks of F/I/T/H’s previous releases. Featuring artwork by Howard Forbes.

All Fire In The Head Titles

GELSOMINA - 'Phythogenetics: Collection' CD (Turgid Animal) - £9 / £10 / £11

Gelsomina was (until 2008) the musical outlet of Finnish Harsh Noise fiend, Pekka PT. A brutal mix of junk metal abuse and pedal worship, sometimes resulting in total unflinching chaos and other times resulting in a more structured industrial noise masterwork. Through the critical eyes of the man himself, Pekka has managed to pull together 74 minutes of what he considers the best of his Gelsomina. Featuring liner notes by Mikko Aspa (Grunt / Freak Animal Records) and Pasi Markkula (Bizarre Uproar). Essential Harsh Noise document by a now defunct but legendary project.

All Gelsomina Titles

GELSOMINA - 'Untitled' 7" (Freak Animal) - £8 / £9 / £10

Debut 7" vinyl release from this highly praised Finnish harsh noise artist, taking a more simple "wall of noise" method on this release. Strong and ultra heavy distortion walls with few layers of ear torturing details. For the most seasoned Noise ears!

All Gelsomina TitlesAll 7" Vinyl

HAIR POLICE - 'Totaled And Stranded' LP (Hundebiss Records) - £14 / £16 / £18

A 1-sided album of piercing vocals, walls of guitars, precise heavy electronics and thundering drums. A fusion of metal, noise rock, free jazz, industrial, and harsh electronics. "Recorded in a hotel room after we totaled out tour vehicle and became stranded in the worst snowstorm in Ohio history" (Hair Police). hand-cut artwork on black cardboard, with Xeroxed recycled paper and a raw paper inner sleeve. The B side is screenprinted by Serimal. Ltd x 500 hand-numbered copies with no repress.

All Hair Police TitlesAll LP / 12" Vinyl

HEAVY WINGED - 'Spreading Center' CD (Release The Bats) - £12 / £13 / £14

Two new long tracks from Brooklyn's Heavy Winged. Massive sounding stuff, but with more subtle and quiet openings and endings, and without ever losing the abrasive feeling of being dragged in grit and dirt forever. Driving and powerful proto-psych-metal that manages to sound very much improvised and extremely focused and precise at the same time. Both tracks recorded live in California and New York. Limited one-time pressing of 500 copies in a Dual Plover gatefold sleeve with black felt and artwork by Twin Vixen. Play it loud!

All Heavy Winged Titles

JAZZFINGER - 'The Little Girl On The Plane Who Turned Her Dolls Head Around To Look At Me' CD
(Muzamuza Records) - £12 / £13 / £14

Rare debut album from the UK electro-acoustic / avant-garde / experimental duo of Ben Jones and Hasan Gaylani, here investigating classic lo-fi psychedelic noise in a post-Bower / Campbell / Youngs style. "A caustic soundscape of high end streaks, like howling dogs and balloons being rubber together morphs into a thick fuzzy dirgescape thick with industrial scrapes and warbly organ, like some long lost Dead C jam, then some damaged acoustic guitar beneath a field of buzzing electricity... Thick and caustic and noisy but somehow so creepy and pretty" (Aquarius). Ltd x 500 copies in a heavy PVC archive sleeve with vellum wrap.

All Jazzfinger Titles

KK NULL - 'Outer Bounds Of Sound' LP (Noiseville) - £18 / £20 / £22

KK Null is one of Japan's finest, and most admired experimental music composers ever. This album is loud, abrasive and out there, and it is just what you'd hoped it would sound like. He is able to sculpt noise like clay into an image as equally dark as light, artistic and savage, submissive and dominant, the most sublime of the most painful of art. This is uneasy listening, to the max. "Outer Bounds Of Sound" is an experimental LP series from Noiseville. Each release is pressed in an edition of just 300 copies with a hand-made cover. This is KK Null recorded live at the Electron Festival in Geneva, Switzerland on March 22, 2008. US import.

All KK Null TitlesAll LP / 12" Vinyl

KK NULL / JOHN WIESE - 'Mondo Paradoxa' CD (Auf Abwegen) - £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50

Constructed over the period of two years via mail collaboration this is a great and forceful collaboration between two artists that each have made a name for themselves with their unique approach to making sound. KK NULL is a master of feedback studies, working with looped scenarios to create dense and vital sound units. He is also the leading force behind proto-metal-group Zeni Geva and the dark-industrial project Absolut Null Punkt. John Wiese creates fragile but very erruptive lo-fi noise rumblings with an almost poetic touch. He has a musical past in the group Bastard Noise. Needless to say, both artists combine the best of both worlds in this crunching release! Comes in beautiful full cover digipak, designed by Government Alpha, with typesetting by John Wiese.

All KK Null TitlesAll John Wiese Titles

MANIA - 'Ultra-Negative' CD (Freak Animal) - £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50

4 tracks of heavy and noisy Mania (Keith Brewer of Taint, Sonic Sadist etc) material, with extensive use of metal junk. 2 tracks with analogue Power Electronics contribution from Aaron Dilloway (ex-Wolf Eyes). 1st edition of 250 copies in a square DVD case with full colour inserts.

MARTIN BLADH - 'Dirge: The Peter Sotos Files' CD (Freak Animal) - £11 / £12 / £13

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).

MERZBOW - 'Protean World' LP (Noiseville) - £20 / £22 / £24

Limited edition vinyl only release from the King of Japanese Noise! Total Merzbow genius, as you'd expect. Brilliantly powerful noise that leaves the unprepared in ashes. What he does and has done since the early 80's is define the boundaries of music, and with every release, that line is pushed to a new home. His vision and disipline for the limits of musicial freedom of expression changes with each new release. Merzbow is pure devastation. May 2008 recordings from Tokyo; Masami Akita on "noise and drums." Ltd x 700 copies on black vinyl. US import.

All Merzbow TitlesAll LP / 12" Vinyl

MERZBOW - 'Somei...' CD (Low Impedance Records) - £11 / £12 / £13

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.

All Merzbow Titles

NAVICON TORTURE TECHNOLOGIES - 'The Gospels Of The Gash' 2 x CD (Malignant Records)
- £18 / £20 / £22

The final and definitive 2CD release from NTT chronicles one man's journey into a world devoid of light or hope. This is a place where the air is alive with the stink of pain and the beating of great black wings. The two discs compile material from a slew of limited releases from 2005-2007, as well as newer tracks recorded specifically for this release. As a result, "The Gospels of the Gash" is unquestionably the most complete NTT recording to date and nothing short of a monumental achievement... a culmination of the best aspects of past releases combined into an epic odyssey of apocalyptic atmospheres, brutish frequencies, harrowing darkness, and razor sharp vocals. Includes collaborations with Cenotype, Fragment King, and M Slagle, Autoclav 1.1 and Covet. Isomer and Steel Hook Prostheses also made valuable contributions. Mastered by STROM.ec, and packaged in a DVD digipak with layout and artwork by Leech and Jorden Haley, this release is a fitting funerary rite for NTT.

All Navicon Torture Technologies Titles

NIKO SKORPIO - 'Psilocybe Necrophila' CD (Some Place Else) - £11 / £12 / £13

"Psilocybe Necrophila" refers to a psychoactive mushroom that grows on decomposing flesh. Although recorded mostly in 2007, parallel to last year's acclaimed "Half Born in Half Light", it is quite a different trip. The basis of this work was Niko Skorpio's old cassette tape collection from the 1980's. Containing mostly heavy metal demos and live bootlegs, the dozens of KMs of obsolete tape were sacrificed on the altar of creation. Tape was deconstructed, cut, mangled, eaten and torn apart by a number of malfunctioning cassette players. These emerging mutations were captured, processed and reconstructed, over and over until a new form began to take shape. Carefully chosen and prepared additional ingredients were then introduced to this primal tissue in order to impregnate it with a new kind of energy. Ltd x 418 hand-numbered copies in a 6-panel A5 sleeve.

All Niko Skorpio Titles

THE DAUGHTERS OF CONCEPTUAL SEX DEATH - 'The Daughters Of Conceptual Sex Death' CD
(Muzamuza Records) - £12 / £13 / £14

Another rare release from this Newcastle label, this time around the one and only album from obscure UK experimental / noise group The Daughters Of Conceptual Sex Death. "This release lies within the experimental realm, controlled, distorted-ambient soundscapes. The sonic attacks are used to punctuate the floaty keyboards and streams of swirling drones. Looped sounds hypnotise and draw you into a world of processed and dissected ambiences" (Bizarre). Ltd x 500 hand-numbered copies in a heavy PVC archive sleeve with 2 inserts.

THE HATERS - 'Polyheiluttaa' 7" (Freak Animal) - £8 / £9 / £10

Two tracks of Noise from The Haters' frontman GX Jupitter-Larsen. Polyheiluttaa b/w Xyloheiluttaa. Nothing else necessary to say! Ltd x 300 copies. Finnish import.

All The Haters TitlesAll 7" Vinyl

TRAIT (A.K.A. ERIC LUNDE) - 'Inspirationals' CD (Industrial Recollections) - £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50

Back in 1988 Arbeit Group released obscure industrial-noise release by a project called Trait. The A-side of the tape included several different arrangements for inspiration in battle. The B-side included several of those arrangements combined together for temporary unified action. 45 minutes of the most primitive analogue destruction, leaving no place for easy listening or relaxing moments. Coarse sounds of tape loops, manipulation and electronics make this into difficult industrial-noise. Trait is one of the most vicious works of Eric Lunde (Boy Dirt Car). The material has been transferred from the original master tapes by the artist himself, leaving everything 100% as is. The artwork is faithful to the original release, replicating the it as accurately as possible.

Z'EV - 'Outer Bounds Of Sound' LP (Noiseville) - £18 / £20 / £22

Since the late 70's underground music movement in Southern California, Z'EV has made his name as one of the most unique musicians out there. In how he sees his boundaries, he is as punk as any. His musical creativity is boundless and as the sounds he creates are truly "free" from all labels, classification, and direction. There are composers that have also attatined this level with their art, but there is only one Z'EV. "Outer Bounds Of Sound" is an experimental LP series from Noiseville. Each release is pressed in an edition of just 300 copies with a hand-made cover. US import.

All Z'EV TitlesAll LP / 12" Vinyl

VARIOUS ARTISTS - 'California' 10 x LP Boxset (Troniks / Ground Fault / RRRecords) - £66 / £78 / £88

A document of contemporary California-based experimental, noise, drone and improvised music. 20 artists each fill an LP side of this 10 x LP boxed set. Includes: Amps For Christ, Control, Damion Romero, Gerritt, GX Jupitter-Larsen (The Haters), Joe Colley, John Wiese, Moth Drakula, Oscillating Innards, Open City, RHY Yau, Rubber O Cement, SIXES, Solid Eye, Spastic Colon, The Cherry Point, The Skaters, Tralphaz, Xome and Yellow Swans. Compiled by Phil Blankenship (The Cherry Point / Troniks). A truly beautiful artifact of sonic art. Ltd x 1000 copies in a shrinkwrapped box. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!

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All Troniks TitlesAll Ground Fault TitlesAll RRRecords TitlesAll Compilations
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ALUK TODOLO - 'Descension' CD (Public Guilt) - £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50

First full-length from Aluk Todolo, showing the band developing the esoteric theorems established on it's debut 7" and going far deeper in the methodical exploration of the occult powers of musical trance. With the goal to create a timeless, organic mixing of krautrock's strangeness and black metal's coldness, AT conjures rabid obsessive rhythms and abyssal disharmonic guitars, subliminal spiritualist vibrations and bizarre, magick summonings. “Intense and hypnotic, heavy and fucking genius. Ritualistic sounds, both black and brilliant, pulled from the void, a mysterious and sonic netherworld. Definite contender for record of the year" [Aquarius].

CLOAMA - 'Revisionist Knowledge' CD (Freak Animal) - £10 / £11 / £12

Return of the more cruel and vicious side of Cloama! This CD goes two different of directions. 1st 4 tracks are live-without-audience recordings recorded with amplifiers and couple of good microphones. Painful and straight-forward power electronics with vocals. 2nd part of disc is studio recordings and this electronic-genius, known from Strom.ec, makes analogue synthesizers and other tools sound personal with his trademark style. Very stylish designed artwork in cardboard box cover with 4 insert cards.

DEATH SQUAD - 'Fucked In The USA' 3" CD (Freak Animal) - £6 / £7 / £8

Last live action from Death Squad (aka Michael Contreras / MK9) with great sound and original style we are used to hearing from DS! 19 mins of torture recorded live on 5.13.00 in Denver, Colorado at Creative Car Audio. High frequency electronics, samples, vwith a very personal and unique result. Ltd x 500 copies in a mini card sleeve.

GOVERNMENT ALPHA - 'Sporadic Spectra' CD (Ground Fault) - £10 / £11 / £12

Extremely harsh Japanese noise that changes enormously from track to track, and also changes within each track, into several different experiences. Reminiscent of a combination of Merzbow, with his rumbling, crushing noises that cycle, and KK Null's penchant for high pitched, piercing scree via guitar. A satisfying, punishing listen, quality extreme noise for those who know the difference and need the real stuff. Government Alpha delivers, and this is some of the best. Series III ('loud') in the Ground Fault series.

GUILTY CONNECTOR - 'Cosmic Trigger / 2am Visit' CD (Ground Fault) - £10 / £11 / £12

Harsh Noise from Japan. A Japanese hybrid human / noise-machine that creates noise-scapes of unfathomed depths. Banging hand-made noise generators aka “SHIBAKI Electronics” made of iron plates, creating a dazzling spectra of sounds, from ultra-fast extremely trippy harsh barrages to meditative spacy sounds. Experience the roar of his live electronics with your own flesh. Includes a collaboration with Sudden Infant. Series III ('loud') in the Ground Fault series.

JARBOE - 'MahaKali - Digipak Edition' CD (The End Records) - £11 / £12 / £13

Studio album from Jarboe (ex-Swans). "MahaKali" is all about the primeval force of the universe; the Universal Mother, the Great Goddess, the Destroyer. Features guest appearances from: Attila Csihar (Sunn O))), Mayhem), Scott Hull (Pig Destroyer, AxCx), Philip Ansselmo (Down, Pantera), Julia Kent (Antony And The Johnsons), Vincent Signorelli (Unsane, Foetus), Josh Graham (Neurosis) and Kris Force (Amber Asylum). An alluring and provactive listening experience - Jarboe's visceral vocals range from a shy schoolgirl to sultry seductress to downright demonic; her delivery can be at turns innocent, knowing, seductive, and vitriolic. Contains the tracks 'Kali Lamentaion I' and 'Violence', exclusive to this edition. Ltd x 2500 copies in a digipak.

JAZZKAMMER - 'Hot Action Sexy Karaoke' CD (Ground Fault) - £10 / £11 / £12

Jazzkammer is the joining of two Norwegian composer / musicians: John Hegre and Lasse Marhaug. Instruments here include turntables, casio, electronics, location recordings, guitar, found sounds, stolen sounds and modified instruments. Series II ('medium') in the Ground Fault series.

MOLJEBKA PVLSE - 'Sadalsuud' CD (Some Place Else) - £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50

For this album, Mathias Josefson collaborated with colleagues from the Royal University Of Arts, Stockholm, who provided him with various sound sources. "Sadalsuud" refers to a star of the same name in the constellation of Aquarius. The name comes from an Arabic phrase meaning "the luckiest of them all". Nevertheless the album is rather earthy-sounding, yet mystical and surreal, almost claustrophobic at times. The sound is quite reminiscent of some works by Nurse With Wound, Maeror Tri or The Hafler Trio, but carries the trademark Moljebka Pvlse feel. Digipak, Finnish import.

OVRO - 'Gegendurchgangenzeit' CD (Some Place Else) - £10 / £11 / £12

“An exercise in aural pathworking. Cinematic isolationist dark-ambient soundscapes, very evocative... you are taken through rainy seas, soaked, shipwrecked, underwater, underground... and what sights you see, what beings you meet on the way is left for your subconscious to reveal. Deep listening for small hours. Sit back, relax and let your mind go.” Finnish import.

OVRO - 'Mosaick the Serpent / Vipera Aurea' CD (Some Place Else) - £9 / £10 / £11

This album consists of two distinct parts, each independent yet linked to each other. Originally intended as two companion EPs, they support and compliment each other and form a new whole, a third being that contains both its makers and in itself is something more. These two EPs, Mosaick and Vipera are twins – independent yet entwined like the snakes of a caduceus. Vipera Aurea is "coagula" to Mosaick the Serpent's "solve". Calm yet intense, vocal-flavoured Dark Ambient mindscapes in the distinct Ovrian style. Features contributions from Massimo (Black Sun Productions), NIko Skorpio and Mockingwyrd. Standard PVC slip.

SICKNESS - 'I Have Become The Disease That Made Me' CD (Ground Fault)
- £10 / £11 / £12


One of the most brutal CDs to exist in the last decade. Sickness (aka Chris Goudreau) of Omei, V.D.) has been around for about 10 years. The sounds on this CD tear through your speaker cones and then drill into your brain. These sounds are constantly moving, panning, jumping and changing at a rapid pace. There is very little “down time” for the duration of the hour long CD. Fans of brutal harsh noise will not be disappointed. Series III ('loud') in the Ground Fault series.

SPASTIC COLON & BASTARD NOISE - 'Split' CD (Pinch A Loaf Productions)
- £10 / £11 / £12


Split CD between two well-respected Southern California noise mongers. Bastard Noise create some engaging, carefully-arranged noise tracks that made good use of both low-end rumble and high-end screeching, often at the same time. Spastic Colon do two long tracks that toss around and spew out unrecognizable samples into a droning stew of noise. Fantastic stuff. Packaged in a foldout, embossed cardboard sleeve. Features a guest appearance from Bizarre Uproar.





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