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Spring Bi-Weekly Newsletter - 9th December 2010
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RELEASE NEWS
PSYCHIC TV 'Themes' 6CD Boxset is available to pre-order now!
Get a free bonus CD 'Live In Basildon' only when ordered from Cold Spring!
RARE SUBTERRANEAN TITLES!
We have some extremely rare titles on the legendary Subterranean Records label
in stock now! Controlled Bleeding 'Hog Floor' cassette, Angel In Heavy Syrup 'S/T' CDs,
VA 'Dry Lungs V' 2CD, VA 'Dry Lungs IV' CD/LP (red). All still sealed - act fast!
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3 runner up prizes of any free CD from our catalogue (to the
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automatically entered into a special prize draw, which will be
made on Christmas Day.
(Orders made through coldspring website only! Excludes orders made through ebay, discogs and downloads)
Winners will be announced in the next newsletter after the draw
and will be contacted directly.
(Please write 'no draw' with your order if you
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| PSYCHIC TV | Themes 6 x CD Boxset + Bonus CD (CSR123B) £39.23 / £42.23 / £45.23 |
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For the first time, all THEMES albums by PSYCHIC TV released together, in a sumptuous, matt laminate, spot-varnished box set. The music itself was designed not only as soundtrack but also for subsequent use by Initiates of The Temple Ov Psychick Youth in their rituals as Functional music intended only to aid in the process of making things happen. It is a practical tool. Thee essential collection of rare, archive and modern PTV ritual / esoteric musick! Each CD is presented in it's own matt laminate, spot-varnished mini-LP sleeve. The box also includes a 28-page booklet of rare photos and essays. Click here for tracklisting.
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| MZ. 412 | Vault 5 x CD Boxset (CSR142B) £80 / £90 / £100 |
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Ultra collector's boxset containing all 5 albums in the MZ. 412 reissue series: "In Nomine Dei Nostri Satanas Luciferi Excelsi", "Burning The Temple Of God", "Nordik Battle Signs", "Domine Rex Inferum" and "Infernal Affairs". The inventors of "Black Industrial" blur the boundaries between Black Metal, Ritual Industrial, Dark Ambient and Power Noise. True Swedish Black Industrial! 5 x digipak albums, along with exclusive 5" VINYL WITH EXCLUSIVE TRACKS, pin-badge, tie, artcards and other surprises! Housed in a black wooden boxset with silver print. Ltd x 300 only!!!
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| V/A | We Bring You A King With A Head Of Gold 2CD (CSR100CD) £13.50 / £14.50 / £15.50 |
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The follow-up to our award winning Folk compilation  "John Barleycorn Reborn" from 2007. 34 tracks and 146 minutes of music from the best of current British Folk artists. |
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| MZ. 412 | Burning The Temple Of God CD (CSR140CD) £11 / £12 / £13 |
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The ultimate statement in Swedish Black Industrial,
summoning forth the act's controversial black metal side. Remastered with bonus tracks. Digipak. |
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| MACHINEFABRIEK | Vloed CD (CSR138CD) £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50 |
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Live performances, 2006-8. Thick billows
of warm guitar shimmer, minimal high end
drone, black dronemusik. 20 min bonus track. Digipak. |
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| MZ. 412 | In Nomine Dei Nostri Satanas Luciferi Excelsi CD (CSR136CD) £11 / £12 / £13 |
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The darkest sides of Satanism, death and ritual sacrifice. An enduring,
blasphemous statement of True Swedish Black Industrial.
Remastered version with
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| STEVEN SEVERIN | Blood Of A Poet CD (CSR135CD) £11 / £12 / £13 |
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Solo artist and founding member of Siouxsie and the Banshees. This album is Severin's entire soundtrack to Jean Cocteau’s 1930 surrealist classic. Gatefold digisleeve. |
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| MERZBOW & Z'EV | Spiral Right / Spiral Left CD (CSR133CD) £11 / £12 / £13 |
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Stunning collaborative release from Japanese Noise
King Merzbow and legendary elemental sound artist Z'EV. Dark Ambient
Noise in a special textured card digisleeve.
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EMME YA - 'Atavistic Dreams And Phallic Totems' CD (CSR127CD)
ANNI HOGAN - 'Mountain' CD (CSR132CD)
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@C - '0º-100º'
CD
(Monochrome Vision)
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The new album of this Portuguese duo (consisting of Cronica label owner Miguel Carvalhais and Pedro Tudela) is a long electro-acoustic composition, which demonstrates their full range of sound processing diversity and creates stunning images of great potential. The duo have collaborated as @C since 2000, developing their work along three complementary approaches to sound art and digital music: procedural composition, concrète sound and improvisation, with one foot in the fields of experimental, contemporary sound art and the other on live performance. Ltd x 500 copies.
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ALIO DIE - 'Tripudium Naturae' CD
(Hic Sunt Leones)
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After 20 years of activity Alio Die present his 15th solo album. "Tripudium Naturae" presents 10 new tracks with a celebratory feeling, that lead into some intimate, illuminating and deep atmospheres. Some tracks are close to his first albums, some tracks remind of the recent "Castles Sonorisation" series, employing the usual loop-technique and the electro-acoustic sounds-magma into new forms and atmospheric explorations. A kind of classic Alio Die's album. 6-panel digipak.
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ALIO DIE & MARILOINA ZITTA - 'La Sala Dei Cristalli' CD
(Hic Sunt Leones)
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Selected sound materials from sonorous stones, stalactites, bat calls, flutes, field recordings collected by Mariolina Zitta in different caves in Liguria a Sardinia, Italy, processed and edited by Alio Die. Drones are played by the authors on a set of long stones that resonate, caressed by a bathed hand, and by the same principle of crystal glasses. A very immersive and obscure journey, an underground meditation with a ritual touch, in accordance with the "natural sound", despite the sampling and multi-effect techniques used here. A deep listening experience. 6-panel digipak.
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ALIO DIE & MATHIAS GRASSOW - 'Praha Meditations' CD
(Hic Sunt Leones)
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After a concert in Prague in 2009, these artists spontaneously played acoustic instruments in a stone circle on top of a hill in Troja. Inspired by the special surroundings and the springtime, zithers, tubes, bells, rattles, shells and flutes were used. The recordings were edited in studio by Alio Die, then Mathias Grassow added electronic drones to expand the point of view and enrich the flow and layers of the compositions. The resultant eight tracks show how mostly static and repetitive balanced sounds can interact with our perception during listening, bringing us into an active and intimate quiet mood, softly absorbing us into a dream-like and time-opening experience. 6-panel digipak.
• All Alio Die Titles • All Mathias Grassow Titles
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ANGEL IN HEAVY SYRUP - 'Angel In Heavy Syrup' CD
(Subterranean Records)
- £15 / £16 / £17 |
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The first album by these Osaka girls is a way-60's-style not-quite-garage psychedelic tour de force, rather reminiscent of the earliest San Francisco sound groups and the famous Japanese noise-rock scene. Sometimes gentle and spacey, sometimes punky, with great, lush female vocals. This reissue (with different artwork to the 1991 Alchemy Records edition) also includes as a bonus track their 11 minute space opus "Crazy Blues" from the out-of-print, Japan-only compilation "Taste of the Wild West 3". Guitarist Toda Fusao later collaborated with Japanoise legend Masonna under the name Christine 23 Onna. Still sealed!
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ÀRNICA - 'Numancia' MCD
(Ahnstern)
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Numancia was a small castro (Spanish for Celtiberian village). The inhabitants of Numancia fought against the Roman Empire for more than 20 years. In 133B.C. Rome sent their best general Escipion to create a siege and destroy Numancia so they could control the entire peninsula. However, when the Romans entered the village, the survivors decided to kill their own children, set their own belongings on fire and end their own lives. If the Empire controlled Celtiberia they could not control their people. Musically Numancia is a invigorating trip from the magnificence of the village to the final decision of choose to die instead of being conquered. Solid drums and ritual elements are mixed with Heathen tunes for the recognizable Ur-Folk sound. All texts are written and sung in Spanish and in the ancient Celtiberian language. Outsize sleeve.
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ASBAAR - 'Vita Mutatur Non Tollitur' CD
(Midnight Productions)
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Asbaar is the solo side project by Marc Merinee of Eldar. Asbaar is a meeting with our ancestors who speak to us in our dreams, and teach us how to run our lives, everything that lies between the energies that move the world. To hear is to connect with our collective conscience, irrational consciousness that unites all living things together with all the energy that moves the universe. Asbaar use environmental sounds, industrial or everyday, combined with mystic, religious and philosophical concepts , seeking a state of mind open to perceive all the nuances of our mind and come to understand and to internalise our environment and our ideas, wrapping us in soundscapes that will help us create our own space and our own conclusions. Digipak. Chinese import.
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ASMUS TIETCHENS - 'Marches Funebres' 2 x CD
(Die Stadt / Auf Abwegen)
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Latest installment of the ongoing reissue programme of early Asmus Tietchens records. This is a reissue of the LP from 1989 (on Swedish Multimood label) plus one previously unreleased 9 minute bonus piece from 1979. Tietchens melds Ambient funeral music with a modern classical / experimental touch. Ltd x 600 copies.
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BJ NILSEN & STILLUPPSTEYPA - 'Passing Out' CD
(Helen Scarsdale Agency)
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Nordic sound artists BJ Nilsen & Stilluppsteypa have authored the last component to a trilogy of isolationist compositions for barren field recordings and lumbering electric drones, thematically linked in the psychotropic effects of alcohol. With one singular track that spans 60 minutes, a nearly constant thrum and rumble of monochromatic low frequencies casts a grim pall upon the precisely dialled-in modulations and vibrations. Spectral guitars, maudlin tunes from haunted radios, angrily growling voices, and field recordings of wind-whipped snow and ice bury themselves deep amidst these subharmonic drones. All of these tease at the edge of perception, sculpting the narrative of the drone into a vehicle for unhinged expressionism of varying degrees of horror, melancholy, beauty, and oblivion. Ltd x 1000 copies with letterpress and silkscreen artwork (white overprint on semi-opaque vellum edition).
• All BJ Nilsen Titles
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CONTROLLED BLEEDING - 'Hog Floor (A Fractured View)' Cassette
(Subterranean Records)
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Legendary album from Industrial / Noise pioneers Controlled Bleeding (Joe Papa, Paul Lemos, Chris Moriarty). A retrospective of sorts, bringing together their original harshness and violence with their later rich melodic minimalism, coherently covering 5 years of the group's early history (1983-85), dating back to "Knees And Bones". All tracks are either previously unreleased or from out-of-print releases. Includes the harsh noise classic 'Swallowing Scrap Metal'. This rare cassette version has 3 extra tracks, not available on the vinyl version. Still sealed!
• All Controlled Bleeding Titles • All Cassettes
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DEAD MAN'S HILL - 'Spirits' Enhanced CD
(Steinklang)
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Dark and deep-droning Ambient, mixed with strong and powerful Martial songs, varied with hypnotically mesmerising tribal parts. The whole album has a strong Death Industrial touch and even carries some Gregorian elements. Listen to this album and let yourself be taken away to an intangible world, to far away spheres where things are just different to all you ever expected. "Spirits" includes a video for the track "Road to Sweet Waters", made by Hugin (Uruk-Hai). Slimline DVD case.
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DISSECTING TABLE - 'Chaos Attractor' CD
(RONF Records)
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After the introduction to "Chaos Attractor" in the form of a 3" MCD (17 mins) released in June 2010 this is the full length CD version at 49 minutes from prolific Japanoiser Ichiro Tsuji. Frenzied, chaotic, dynamic multi-layered distorted synths, rich in textures and Noise with Industrial influences. One massive complex track consisting of what could have been 12 different tracks. A totally recommended monumental work. Ltd x 500 copies in a card sleeve.
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DMT - 'Selected Funbient Works 1-4' 2 x CD
(Zhelezobeton / Aquarellist / Monochrome Vision
/ KultFront)
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Dmitriy Tolmatskiy (1970-2009) - a journalist and musician from the city of Saratov, one of the first promoters of alternative intellectual culture and particularly industrial music in post-Soviet Russia. He was the creator of the RWCDAX website, which had certain influence on the mindset of many modern personalities of Russian post-industrial art. The compositions included on "Selected Funbient Works 1-4" were recorded by the Dmitriy in the first half of 00s. Initially it was planned to release four parts of "Funbient" on four separate CDs. However later Dmitriy selected the best for a double album release. The album vividly displays the complex music world of DMT, which, like everything innovative, exists on the crossing of several musical styles and directions: from dark-ambient and industrial noise sketches to technoid rhythms and pure sonic experiments. Ltd x 500 copies in a gatefold digisleeve.
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FRÄKMÜNDT - 'Uufwärts E D'Föuse' MCD
(Percht)
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"Uufwärts e d’Föuse" (Upward to the rocks) is a conceptual album which takes the listener on an imposing musical journey to untouched Alpine areas. As on "Urbärglieder" all tracks are presented in the typical Fräkmündt Central-Swiss alemannic dialect. After an "Alp-Blessing" ("Aupsääge"), the journey upwards is visualised using acoustic guitars, accordion, drums, hurdy-gurdy melodies and flute. The nighttime track “Höttehock” is a swinging and wild traditional dancing track with a catchy accordion melody and nice acoustic guitars. The last track "Stouz ond frey" (proud and free) is a devotional and powerful song with profound hurdy-gurdy, rhythmic guitar melodies and catchy accordion tunes. The MCD ends with a Dark Alpine Ambient track called "Bärgtröim" (Mountain Dreams) which smoothly leads the listener back to the valley. A varied 27-minute piece of extraordinary Ur-Folk music, which perfectly describes the mystic and legendary Alpine areas. Outsize sleeve.
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FROM THE BOGS OF AUGHISKA - 'From The Bogs Of Aughiska' CD (Lone Vigil Recordings)
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Dark / Black Ambient noisescapes inspired by Celtic history, the harsh, rugged west coast of Ireland, misty boglands, dark nights, rural isolation, forests, The Burrens flora and fauna. Over 40 minutes of cavernous soundscapes (similar to Inade, Satori and Lustmord), moving into Vinterriket territory, with interesting tales of banshees and the pagan mythology of Ireland. The musical equivalent of standing atop the majestic Cliffs Of Moher with a gale force wind in your face.
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HREFNESHOLT - 'Uraungst' CD
(Percht)
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Going back to far away times, Hrefnesholt digs out long forgotten, ancient tales amongst the myths of the Upper Austrian forests. These legends of sinister and primal fears were too terrible to be retold and people wanted to forget them over the centuries. Now these ancient tales are finally being retold in "Uraungst". A mixture of dark, organic Ambient, Folk, a slight Black Metal touch and spoken/sung lyrics and tales in Austrian dialect. Hrefneshold is pure Doom Folk and incomparable with any other music style. Outsize sleeve.
• All Hrefnesholt Titles |
KARL BÖSMANN - 'Euphoria Mitte'
CD
(Monochrome Vision)
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Since 2003 German musician Karl Bösmann has released a whole bunch of limited edition releases on such labels as Tosom, Domestic Violence Recordings, Youdonthavetocallitmusic and Verato Project. This is his second CD proper and includes several new compositions. His soundscapes oscillate between programme music and abstraction, leaving no doubt about the maturity and intensity of his talent. His impulse is to experiment and to create timeless solid buildings of tones. Bösmann constructs, in the good old tradition of electroacoustic music, with instruments played by himself, and completely without the fashionable chic of a laptop: minimal repetitive passages, especially drones that vibrate in themselves, that flash, shimmer and take a character and 3D-quality of its own. Ltd x 500 copies.
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KNURL - 'Thiocarbamide'
CD
(Phage Tapes)
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Latest release by Canadian Harsh Noise master Knurl (aka Alan Bloor of Pholde). Intense metal-abuse-inspired noise. In the tradition of 'pure' Industrial, source materials are nothing more than pieces of metal and violin put to effective use. Sounds ripple up the spine and tingle the ears with ice-tempered chills that can make the listener shiver with sheer delight or terror. Four tracks and roughly 51 minutes of heavy and well-executed brain melting noise! Ltd x 200 copies.
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LARRNAKH - 'Now Will You Believe?' CD
(Steinklang)
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Great Neofolk album featuring (ex)members of Cawatana, Sturmast and Scivias. "Now will you believe?" is a brilliant mix of classical guitar-based Neofolk with electronic elements, varied and assembled with droning Ritual / Dark-Ambient tracks. The mix of two completely different styles in music makes this album an outstanding new milestone of "crossovers". Dark and sometimes frightening soundscapes with samples, trumpets and haunting drums are compiled with beautiful harps, piano, violin and narrating vocals, rounded by fine Neoclassical elements. Digipak.
• All Larnnakh Titles
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MURMER - 'We Share A Shadow' CD
(Helen Scarsdale Agency)
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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 spiralling 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.
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ONOMATOPOEIA - 'Irrelevant' LP (The 7.17 From West Wittering Is Late Again)
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Vinyl reissue of the legendary "Irrelevant" tape originally released by Perverse Series in an edition of 70 copies, back in 1997. Artwork kept similar to the original with the front cover featuring a different national flag. Onomatopoeia (aka Steve Fricker / Cheeses International label) on top form played/produced/mixed/edited the whole album using a different instrument for each track (hunting horn, cymbal, piccolo, bass guitar and a home-made zambomba). The 7.17 From West Wittering... is proud to release its first record with Steve's final edit of this project. Ltd x 300 hand-numbered copies.
• All Onomatopoeia Titles • All LP / 12" Vinyl |
ORCRIST - 'Fallen' CD (Sturmklang)
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Orcrist’s new album “Fallen” combines ice cold riffs with melancholic sounds, which will send a shiver over your backbone and create darkest sadness in your minds. The song “Fallen” was written by Goblin of ISVIND and is dedicated to his friend Valfar of WINDIR who died in 2004. Goblin composed and recorded guitars and bass for the majority tracks and performed vocals on all tracks besides 'Outro/The Return of Silence Part 2' which was written and recorded by Hugin, of the Austrian band URUK-HAI. Orcrist is the true spirit of pure fucking Underground Black Metal! Slimline DVD case.
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RAUHNACHT - 'Vorweltschweigen' CD (Sturmklang)
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"Vorweltschweigen" is completely based on the lyrics and sounds of Sturmpercht, the legendary creators of Alpine Folk music. Rauhnacht is pure Alpine Black Metal, based on the atmosphere of early Norwegian Black Metal, but dealing with Alpine and Celtic mythology, philosophy and tradition. ABM contains a large variety of (ancient) traditional acoustic instruments from Alpine/Celtic areas, such as the Alphorn, the Teufelsgeige, hunter's trumpets and other obscure Alpine instruments, as well as organic/natural field-recordings from black forests, craggy mountains and dark caves. Rauhnacht is the name for the twelve nights between 24th December and 6th January, where the demons of winter and the Perchten celebrate their wild hunt through hidden Alpine villages and forests. 7" foldout sleeve with inserts.
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SATORI - 'Live At The Cave' CD
(Steinklang)
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Live document from the long standing and highly appreciated English Dark Ambient / Industrial project Satori. This CD is a live document in highest sound-quality from their famous concert in Salzburg on 10.10.2008, which took place in a cave in central Salzburg. Fascinating dark rumbling Ambient and Industrial sounds we love and know so well from Satori's "Kanashibari" album. "A real masterpiece in the history of this outstanding band!" 46mins of music in a card sleeve.
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SEVEN MINUTES OF NAUSEA / KUSARI GAMA KILL - 'Collapsing In' CD
(RONF Records
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A split between SMON (Germany) and KGK (Denmark). "Seven Minutes Of Nausea crams more than a hundred of their insane fifteen-second bursts of micro-nuke grindnoise into a single long track... just over eighteen minutes of brutality distilled into base elements of splattered drum machines, ultra-distorted bass and guitar noise, creepy background samples and vomitous gargling vokills... Imagine Sore Throat remixed by Gerogerigegege... Kusari Gama Kill incorporate heavy use of digital effects into their short, thirty second eruptions of zombie obsessed grind-chaos... eighteen tracks of crazed electronic beats, fried digital noise, fucked-up hyperspeed gabber blasts, and hoarse, fearsome vokills... like Merzbow remixing early Earache speedcore..." (Crucial Blast). Ltd x 300 copies.
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STEIN - 'Haldor' CD (Heimatfolk)
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Stein was founded in 2005 as the solo-project of Norbert Strahl, the singer of Seelenthron and founding member of the famous Neofolk outfit Dies Natalis. Norbert's aim with Stein was, to compose songs for the poems of Georg Thom (his grandfather), written between 1911 and 1936. In the beginning of the band, Norbert worked with Jens Vetter of Grünland, who also was ex-Dies Natalis member, but due to the intense work on Seelenthron, Stein stopped in the fledgling stage, until in 2009 the project finally grew to a real band. Finally in summer 2010 the first album "Haldor" was recorded in the Studios of Alexander Meier. "Haldor" is a mix of romantic-paganism and apocalyptic visions, packed in real handmade, classical Neofolk. The album is dedicated to Lorenz Klinger, Norbert's little son, who fights against leukemia with the power of a tiny rock. "Haldor" is Norse and means "Thor's rock". Digipak.
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THE OVAL LANGUAGE - 'Tapes Singles and Remixes'
CD
(Monochrome Vision)
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The Oval Language was founded in 1987 by Frank Berendt and Klaus-Peter John. This first CD album presents the old tracks restored from tapes, as well as exclusive remixes made by Guido Hübner (Das Synthetische Mischgewebe). A wonderful excursion into the world of underground noise music, which is sometimes extreme but always interesting and unpredictable. This is a real discovery for all the fans of the experimental music genre. Ltd x 500 copies.
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URUK-HAI - 'In Durins Halls (Return To The Mines Of Moria)' Enhanced CD
(Runenstein Records / Bleichmond Tonschmiede / W.A.R. Productions)
- £11 / £12 / £13 |
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The world was young, the mountains green, No stain yet on the Moon was seen... The world was fair in Durin's Day. Way back in 1999, Uruk-Hai recorded their first Demo "In Durins Halls" and a legend began. 11 years later that demo from 1999 has been re-arranged and remastered with totally new, epic and powerful soundscapes and rough Black Metal hymns featuring Pr. Sergiy from Moloch. "In Durins Halls" is rough, epic, dark and full of forgotten legends. The album was hidden for a decade in in the mines of Moria but now its unleashed! No harp is wrung, no hammer falls: The darkness dwells in Durin's Halls. Mastered at the Luftschutzkerker Studios Suisse by cz (Vinterriket, Atomtrakt). Contains a video entitled "In Durins Halls" Slimline DVD case.
• All Uruk-Hai Titles |
VINTERRIKET - 'Nachtschwarze Momente' MCD (Frozen Landscapes Records)
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2009 MCD from Germany's cult artist cz (Atomtrakt, Nebelkorona etc). Two new tracks and over 30 minutes of music inspired by frozen, desolate landscapes. The music follows in a more mellow, folk-ish approach adopted in the past couple of years (such as their 2009 "Horizontmelancholie" release), as opposed to the usual cold ambient / raw black metal of old. Ltd x 500 copies. Greek import.
• All Vinterriket Titles |
VINTERRIKET - 'Zwischen Den Jahren' MCD (Sturmklang)
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After years of waiting, Vinterriket is finally back with a new atmospheric Black Metal release. “Zwischen den Jahren” is a powerful and hypnoitic BM release with catchy riffs and desolate vocals. Cold chords and stirring hypnotic riffing is paired with haunting and cold synthetic soundscapes, evoking an chilling atmosphere full of bleakness, coldness, desolation, solitude, emptiness, melancholy, darkness and nothingness,... The bleak mourning of desolate idleness within eerie and misty sonic landscapes. A tribute to the darkest side of nature. 7" foldout sleeve with inserts.
• All Vinterriket Titles |
WINTERBLOOD - 'Le Fredde Ali Del Inverno' CD (Frozen Landscapes Records)
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Debut album from this Italian act, formed in Firenze in 1996, but on ice until now. 3 tracks (47 minutes) of pure sombre Dark Ambient, inspired by astral projections, initiations, untouched places, arcane geometries, solitude and frozen landscapes. "...their debut album meanders on its dark journey through crystalline streams and misty mountains utilising its dark ambient confines to noble and magisterial effect. The mood created is often one of immense loss and tragedy; time stands still while silent mourners stand, heads bowed in dark flowing cloaks, hands clasped in a futile bid to deny the cold. The synths never sound overworked, employed with the idea of giving each composition a life of arboreal quality - slow, noble, and wise. Obvious comparisons could be drawn with Vinterriket but Winterblood have their own quality and I feel hugely optimistic about their future" (Asgard Root). Ltd x 500 copies.
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VARIOUS ARTISTS - 'Dry Lungs IV' CD
(Subterranean Records)
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Seminal Industrial compilation from 1989, compiled by Paul Lemos (Controlled Bleeding). Features tracks from: Controlled Bleeding, Dissecting Table, Francis Gorgé & Hélène Sage, Heinrich Mucken, James Levine & Paul Lemos, Minus Delta T, Printed At Bismarck's Death, Robert Rich, The Gerogerigegege, and Un Drame Musical Instantané. Diverse, rich sonic explorations from around the world. Still sealed!
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VARIOUS ARTISTS - 'Dry Lungs IV' LP
(Subterranean Records)
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Seminal Industrial compilation from 1989, compiled by Paul Lemos (Controlled Bleeding). Features tracks from: Controlled Bleeding, Dissecting Table, Francis Gorgé & Hélène Sage, Heinrich Mucken, James Levine & Paul Lemos, Minus Delta T, Printed At Bismarck's Death, Robert Rich, The Gerogerigegege, and Un Drame Musical Instantané. Diverse, rich sonic explorations from around the world. Rare red vinyl edition! Still sealed!
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VARIOUS ARTISTS - 'Dry Lungs V' 2 x CD
(Subterranean Records)
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Seminal Industrial compilation from 1992, which features contributions from 24 outstanding experimental and industrial artists from Europe, Japan and the US: Arcane Device, Carl Stone, Chris Moriarty, Controlled Bleeding, Cranioclast, Desaccord Majeur, Etant Donnes, Fat Hacker, Hélène Sage & Bernard Vitet, Hijokaidan, Michael Hovacsek, Incapacitants, Joe Papa, KK Null, Masonna, Paul Lemos, PGR, Phallus Dei, Skin Chamber, Solmania, Un Drame Musical Instantané and Violent Onsen Geisha. Compiled and with extensive notes on the artists by Paul Lemos (Controlled Bleeding), with artwork by Arthur Potter. The packaging includes a large and quite elegantly printed folder inside a 6" by 12.5" (!!) slipcase. Still sealed!
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VARIOUS ARTISTS - 'XXXIIº Concorso Internationale Di Musica Elettroacustica E Rumore'
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(Monochrome Vision)
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In March 2010, Le Bruit De La Neige Festival organized the annual "Luigi Russolo - Rossana Maggia Competition" at the Faverges Soierie, France. The aim was to promote the electroacoustic music of young composers (under 35 years old). 60 composers from 28 countries participated in this contest. MV selected the 13 pieces which received the maximum votes for this compilation. Bruitism is a movement of sound art that was born on 9th March 1913 when the painter and composer Luigi Russolo published the manifesto "L'Arte dei Rumori" (The Art of Noises), inviting the people to appreciate the complex sounds from nature and the industrial environment. Ltd x 500 copies.
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ALLERSEELEN - 'Edelweiss' CD (Aorta / Ahnstern)
- £9.50 / £10.50 / £11.50
An outstanding collection of newer musical works of the Austrian artist Allerseelen, many of which are presented for the first time on CD. Also contains some unreleased Industrial-Folk hymns to give pleasure to the listener's ears. For a larger part of the songs, Allerseelen was supported by guest musicians: Demian (O Paradis), Rosa (Circe), Gaya (AntiChildLeague), Josef and Herr Percht (Sturmpercht) help to give this album a very special touch. The 74 minute CD is presented in luxurious 6-panel digipak. |
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ALLERSEELEN - 'Hallstatt' CD (Aorta / Ahnstern)
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13 new apocalyptic and passionate songs about love and death. This release - musically situated somewhere in a terra incognita between folklore, krautrock, metal and industrial music - is inspired by the beautiful Upper Austrian village of Hallstatt, which belongs to the world cultural heritage due to its amazing tomb findings of the Hallstatt culture and the unique ossuary with the painted skulls. The songs have lyrics and vocals by Gerhard Petak and R. N. Taylor from Changes. Apocalyptic industrial folklore songs dedicated to those who decided to disappear forever in the mountains. Presented in a luxurious digipak with 16-page booklet. |
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DÉFILÉ DES ÂMES - 'Lust "N' Stone' CD (Ahnstern)
- £11 / £12 / £13
The swirling sense of lust meets the hardness of stone. The music of Défilé Des Âmes is a blend of contrary elements: Violence & lyricism, atmosphere & rage, murder, purity, winds & mushrooms… Their traditional and classical instruments are accompanied by powerful percussion and the participation of the great Matt Howden (Sieben) gives a incomparable accent to the album. "Lust 'n' Stone" is a brilliant, dark Avant-Garde Folk album and after many years of live appearances and independent releases, here is finally the debut album of the Mediterranean Folk-gods Défilé Des Âmes. |
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FLEURETY - 'Ingentes Atque Decorii Vexilliferi Apokalypsis' 7"
(Aesthetic Death Records)
- £7 / £8 / £9
"Ingentes..." features the first new recordings by Fleurety since 1998. This band from Ytre Enebakk, Norway, has been hailed as one of the originators of the style that has lately come to be known as avant-garde metal. The songs featured here are re-recordings of material from the early 90s. Features guests: Hellhammer (Mayhem) and Necrobutcher (Mayhem) and Runhild Gammelsæter (Thorr's Hammer, Sunn O))), Khlyst), Plenum (Virus, Audiopain) and Bjeima (Delirium Bound, Swarms). Artwork by Trine & Kim Design Studio (known for their work for Mayhem, Gallhammer, Shining, Ulver etc). Mastered by Greg Chandler (Esoteric). Ltd x 666 copies on white vinyl with sticker. |
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KK NULL / JOHN WIESE - 'Mondo Paradoxa' CD
(Auf Abwegen)
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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 eruptive 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. |
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MERZBOW - 'Don't Steal My Goat' CD
(No Music Records / Olmolungring)
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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! Russian import. |
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SVARROGH - 'Balkan Renaissance' CD (Ahnstern)
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With their 4th album, the Bulgarian Black Folklore ensemble Svarrogh has recorded another masterpiece of Ritual Folk music. This mystic sound-journey drags you along to the ancient heart of the Balkan mountains, its caves, rivers, villages and people with their deep mythological roots. Svarrogh play a unique sound of beautiful mandolin and bagpipes, mixed with droning synths. This is a musical look through a grey window to discover the dark past of Bulgaria´s 19th century and its Renaissance, after years of osman oppression. On "Balkan Renaissance" you can listen to original passages of famous Bulgarian poets and artists, as well a tribute to Allerseelen with the song "Kamerad". This album is full of traditional, pagan and ritual Folk music, Neoclassical songs, Martial drumming and it has even some Industrial moments. Ltd x 500 copies with special 'Martenitsi' insert. |
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VARIOUS ARTISTS - 'Willows Songs' CD (Finders Keepers) - £12 / £13 / £14
It seems as though 'Willow's Song' (from "The Wicker Man" soundtrack) has made an impact on everyone who's heard it. All these years on, it still has a sense of the uncanny about it. The title song appears here in its original instrumental version, as performed by the band Magnet, and the remainder of this album is a selection of vintage recordings and traditional Folk songs that inspired the music featured on the film's soundtrack. It's worth remembering that while the music of "The Wicker Man" is often credited with having heavily influenced the various psychedelic folk revivals that have taken place since the '70s, those songs were written by New Yorker Paul Giovanni, and are far from the authentic Pagan tracts they've so often passed for. This Finders Keepers album goes some way toward reconnecting the film with the traditional material that inspired its legendary score, and includes children's rhymes like 'Baa Baa Black Sheep' and 'Oranges and Lemons' sung with dulcimer accompaniment. You'll also notice appearances of medieval composition 'Miri It Is' and a 1960 recording of Child Ballad 'Willy O' Winsbury', both of which were modified and adapted for the soundtrack recordings. There's much to recommend this compilation - not only for fans of The Wicker Man, but anyone with an interest in archived British folk. An essential purchase! CD in jewelcase with obi strip. |
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