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Based on the work of Wilhelm Reich and his encounters with UFOs, this influential album has been remastered and reworked from the original recordings. This album influenced many other electronic artists and has been hailed as one of the first recordings to be labelled "dark ambient". |
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Radical forms of concrete music, unorthodox sounds, conceptual arts and experimental recording practices of acoustic phenomena. Feat: Aderlating, Andrea Marutti, Burial Hex, Deadwood, Francisco Lopez, L'Acephale, Nordvargr, Philippe Petit and more! |
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ALTAR OF FLIES - 'Female' LP (Peripheral Records) - £14 |
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Angst ridden experimental noise, utilising tape, field-recordings and various electronic sound generators. A true nightmare of epic proportions from this enigmatic Swedish artist. Seriously uneasy listening. "This recording is very special and personal on so many levels for me. This is the end. And the beginning of something new." (Mattias Gustafsson). Sleeve design by Nullvoid and Mastered by Phil Julian @ Cheapmachines. Ltd x 250 copies.
• All Altar Of Flies Titles • All LP / 12" Vinyl |
ASTRO - 'Deformation Receiver' 7" (Dead Mind Records) - £7 |
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Noisy stuff from Hiroshi Hasegawa (Astro, C.C.C.C., South Saturn Delta)! Astro’s endeavours seem to marry Japanese harsh noise conventions with more psychedelically charged sounds, throwing together a blistering arsenal of noise signals. There is a veil of reverb that drenches the whole EP into a kind of wet and saturated mass, but in the evel of detail, it's fast electronic noise. There is distortion, electronics, and synth, but basically only the echo takes the atmosphere closer to old oscillation wave Astro. This is great noise! Ltd x 200 copies.
• All Astro Titles • All 7" Vinyl |
BLACK SUN ROOF! - 'Feral' LP & CD (VHF Records) - £17 |
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"Feral" marks the return of Matthew Bower’s Sunroof! (in the guise of Black Sun Roof), for their first release in 5 years. Quiet since the release of 2007’s blistering "Panzer Division Lou Reed", Sunroof! returns here with a more introspective set, reaching back to the fuzzy, spacey sounds of releases like the epic double "Bliss", with drifting, fuzzed out washes of sound, and crude riffing. In addition to the all-new tracks on the LP, the package also includes a bonus CD (in a separate sleeve) featuring an MB-curated overview of his work. Many of the tracks on the 75 min "Zebra Blood" CD are from scarce or out of print recordings, including 'Austrian Shade' from an impossible-to-find Total 7”. Also included is the epic and exclusive new track, 'Spirit Animal Danzig'.
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CONTAGIOUS ORGASM & BABYLONE CHAOS - 'Altered Beats' CD (Steelwork Maschine)
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Collaboration between these well known Japanese and French projects. An apocalyptic blend of mechanical beats, shrieking noises, old-school synths, creating a great industrial record! "Both sound architects joined forces to achieve a pure experimental work featuring 8 tracks. The cinematographic aspect of the album is quite noticeable while some dark orchestral arrangements inject a kind of dramatic expression. That’s precisely what “Altered Beats” tends to reveal; a kind of apocalyptic sensation made of noises, sound manipulations and other sonic chemistry to torture the listener’s poor souls. This is the kind of release that gets you in its grip and causes symptoms of fright, confusion, stupor and torment" (Side-Line). Limited to just 100 numbered copies (!) in a digipak with booklet.
• All Contagious Orgasm Titles • All Babylone Chaos Titles |
DEATH IN JUNE - 'Lives At The Edge Of The World' DVD (Steelwork Maschine) - £21 |
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Three different live events from Brest, Brittany, recorded in December 2011, May 2005 and April 2002. 4 hours of video featuring 45 different songs and 81 different performances (!). Also contains a massive gallery of unseen photos and a poster. This is certainly the most complete collection of Death In June songs on one single release. Comes in a DVD digisleeve.
Watch the trailer here!
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GRUNT - 'Someone Is Watching' CD
(Force Majeure / Nuit Et Brouillard)
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Reissue of Grunt's 1998 tape, originally released in an edition of 128copies. All material was recorded in April and July 1997 and re-mastered to CD by Hermétique. Eight tracks of Power-electronics / Harsh Noise by the headliner of the Finnish industrial scene.
Using analogue synths, feedback, effects, metal and heavy processed vocals, Grunt creates well-structured pieces of destructive noise around the subject matter of video-surveillance.
You thought it is just paranoia. Ltd x 500 copies in a square DVD case.
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GRUNT - 'Someone Is Watching (1)' T-Shirt
(Force Majeure / Nuit Et Brouillard)
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Double-sided printed T-Shirt with picture of a video camera on the chest left. The text on the back of the shirt reads: "GRUNT - SOUND OF DISSENT: ACCEPT THE CONTROL FROM YOUR POTENTIAL ENEMY, TRUST IN THE GOOD WILL OF THOSE IN CHARGE". Printed white on heavy premium quality black Fruit Of The Loom shirt. See website for available sizes.
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GRUNT - 'Someone Is Watching (2)' T-Shirt
(Force Majeure / Nuit Et Brouillard)
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Double-sided printed T-Shirt with pictures of video surveillance on the chest, text about the same subject matter on the back. Printed white on heavy premium quality black Fruit Of The Loom shirt. See website for available sizes.
• All Grunt Titles • All Shirts
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HAUS ARAFNA - 'You' CD (Galakthorrö) - £15 |
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"You" is an album of contrasts and leads the listener along carefully selected levels of suspense through the full gamut of the Arafna-esque art of sound creation. The spectrum extends from dark jewels which permeate nerve and brain, to great boulders which avalanche their way through the intestines. A peculiar hybrid of various Industrial music styles forming a malicious monster, remarkable for its changeability and the unexpected. Difficult to control, cunningly applied analogue electronics meet sawing Angst-synthesizer ensembles ingeniously accompanying scream, -speech, -distortion vocals to the beat of noise and steel. That has proved itself, but today’s music from Haus Arafna is generally more advanced, more to the point. All probably created just for "You". |
JASON CRUMER & ROXANN SPIKULA - 'Suppression In The Third' 2 x 10" (Ecstatic Peace!)
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Jason Crumer first started blowing minds as guitarist in the insane sludge punk core outfits Aluminum Noise and Facedowninshit, and more recently noise-rock with American Band. Roxann Spikula has been creating killer noise action for years in the Raleigh, NC scene. Her work here in conjunction with Crumer is deep and considered and moves from dark drone solace to sick shards of noise hell. Keeping it evil - Matthew Franco, Laura Parsons, Matthew Parsons, Rachal Spikula, Thurston Moore, Galen Williams, Vanessa Harris, Monica Canilao, Chris Murdoch. Ltd x 500 copies in a gatefold sleeve.
• All Jason Crumer Titles • All 10" Vinyl |
K2 - 'Variation: Pianoise' 7" (Dead Mind Records) - £7 |
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This 7" from Japanese Noise act K2 (Kusafuka Kimihide) features piano, feedback, MTR and various effects. No computers, no midi. "Piano for Sadists" is great song title, and K2 does his best to tranform the original sound source into a pure noise assault. The single features sharp ripping noise, rather than the earlier metal junk by K2. Ltd x 200 copies.
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KAZERIA (KZ) - 'Discipline Of The Shadows' Enhanced CD (Twilight Records) - £11 |
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This is the reissue of the first Kazeria album, originally released in as a very limited CDR (Ltd x 50, SkullLine, 2008). Martial, industrial, folk and some electronic landscapes. The concept of the album is based on the darkest side of human conflict (war at a massive scale) anguish, hope, opression and desperate resistance to keep ourselves alive, understanding how bleak could be this life. Comes with 2 bonus tracks, new artwork, and a remastered sound. Includes a video-ritual for the track 'Song For A Black Sun', directed by Diego Arandojo.
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KAZUMOTO ENDO & KAZUMA KUBOTA - 'Gyoen Bedieningshendel' 7"
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Collaboration between two Japanese Noise artists: Kazumoto Endo (RYKE, Killer Bug) and Kazuma Kubota (KKTK, Bloody Letter, The Cracked Mirror). Cut up harsh noise with precise editing and short diverse bursts of ultimate energy attacking your ears from the speakers. It's like a puzzle with scattered pieces. The sound of the noise itself is high voltage electrocution with ultra distorted noise pressure. Ltd x 200 copies.
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LUFTWAFFE - 'Trephanur Uhr' CD (Lichterklang) - £11 |
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Reissue of Luftwaffe's 2004 album, featuring Boyd Rice (NON), Douglas P. (Death In June), and Richard Leviathan (Ostara). "Luftwaffe create effective industrial atmospheres through swathes of harsh electronic noise interspersed with sample and dialogue and declamated lyrics. The constant martial rhythms and occassional orchestral effects ensure easy comparisons with NON's epochal live recording "In The Shadow of the Sword". Several tracks adopt a harsher outlook... A folk based approach incorporates gentle flute but the vocals remain rooted in a masculine and stern manner. Ostara's Richard Leviathan delivers esotericism over acoustic guitar and spirited trumpet score... Douglas P.'s refined tones are set against a backdrop of acoustic guitars and kettle drums recalling early Death In June. Both tracks are free of the industrial posturing proving the age old adage: less is more" (Compulsion). Digipak.
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MIND & FLESH - 'Martyr Generation' CD
(Force Majeure / Nuit Et Brouillard)
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"Martyr Generation" is the first CD by Oslo-based Mind & Flesh (aka Anders B. of Katabol Process, Babyflesh).
The nine tracks of "Martyr Generation" were recorded between 2005-2008.
The music of Mind & Flesh is a mix of dark and heavy analogue electronics and pounding rhythms with processed vocals. His sound can be filled under the Death Industrial genre... hypnotic and powerful at the same time. Includes a track written by Atrax Morgue. Ltd x 500 copies in a 6-panel digipak.
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MOUTHUS - 'A Ticket For Decay' LP (Ecstatic Peace!)
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After releasing the first Mouthus LP years back Ecstatic Peace returns to unleash another beast by this duo. Brian Sullivan and Nate Nelson connect here with a focused, thematic hayride through long tone static and fried mind amp terror. Anyone following the arc and molten flow of Mouthus' last few LPs and CDs will be surely intrigued by Divisionals as it is Mouthus at their sweetest. Almost. Just when you're drifting through the electric skies you find the earth reaching into your soul pulling you back to a primordial foreverness. A charming action. Ltd x 500 copies.
• All Mouthus Titles • All LP / 12" Vinyl |
MUTANT APE - 'A Ticket For Decay' LP (Ecstatic Peace!)
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Mutant Ape is the insane noise project by Yorkshire resident George Proctor (Turgid Animal boss). He has been releasing Mutant Ape sounds wherever and whenever establishing his classic yet contemporary noise/horror vision of lust and spectacle as one of the premier scum artists of the last decade. Erotic Yorkshire is Mutant Ape at its most corrosive delivering from track to track occult ambience to skin shredding power drug electronics. All bookended by the demented and misogynist rants of Jamie Gillis. Disgust, depression, defilement and demotion are all here for those of you who demand only the best in carnal crud.
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OTHILA - 'Titouan' 7" Picture Disc (None) - £9 |
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After 6 years of silence is back with 2 new tracks on a wonderful 7” picture disc. "Othila is the last rune of the ancient Futhark, the rune of accomplishment. The rune under where the clans and the families find themselves. The rune which symbolises the legacy from our Fathers. Othila is the light after a long and hard inner travel. Othila is the aim they've fixed themselves, trying to live in harmony with the environment, nature and human beings, with wisdom and humility. Othila is John Doe and Lionel G. Their music wants to be an ode to our Mother Nature and to the old Celtic & Nordic cultures... Nothing else! Celtic ambient close to Valhalla Rising atmosphere". Ltd x 600 copies with insert.
• All Othila Titles • All 7" Vinyl |
SAISON DE ROUILLE - 'Caduta Dei Gravi' LP (Kaosthetik Konspiration)
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Saison De Rouille (Season of Rust) was created in 2011, born from the meeting of Karl S. (Danishmendt) and D. Sébastyén (Opium Dream Estate). The project combines the best industrial elements from Swans, Godflesh and early Young Gods: heavy percussion, gravelly vocals, harsh as the land they are talking about, creeping guitars, and melancholic violins. The musicians have created strong and evocative music, the violin slithers like rays of pale light in a claustrophobic universe claustrophobic. In essence, SdR is a collaborative project and polymorphic. For the debut, Flo L. (Danishmendt), Benoit C. (Xnoybis), PH (piaytche.com) and Christian K (Valborg) participated. The project title and the title, "Caduta dei Gravi" (The Falling Bodies), summarize the universe of the first cycle composed and recorded between September 2011 and March 2012. Ltd x 300 hand-numbered copie in a fold out sleeve with A2 full colour poster.
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SERVILE SECT - 'A Ticket For Decay' LP (Ecstatic Peace!)
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LP reissue of a limited CD (2007, Sounds of Battle And Souvenir Collecting). Based in and around Humboldt, CD, Servile Sect are the true investigation of psychedelic dimensionality. An awesome set of contemporary Black Metal - classifiable thusly only via the singer’s pained coffin-growl; otherwise the music itself owes more to contemporary psychedelia, minimalism / drones, and the kinds of guitar-based lateral smear more commonly typified in the contemporary harsh-noise sector. Ltd x 500 copies.
• All Servile Sect Titles • All LP / 12" Vinyl |
SLOGUN - 'I Will Bury You' LP (Peripheral Records) - £14 |
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Ten harsh bursts of brutal noise and monosyllabic vocal stabs in the vein of classic Slogun Power Electronics plus an extra track from John Balestreri's darkly ambient side-project Self . The material follows Slogun's previous two albums, 'We Human Animal', and 'Visit Revisit', in both style and subject matter. Ltd x 250 copies with insert. 75 random copies contain a hand-numbered limited postcard of photos taken in and around New York by Balestreri.
• All Slogun Titles • All LP / 12" Vinyl |
THE BLEEDING PEASANT ORCHESTRA - 'Sanctuary And Truce' CD
(Corrosive Growth Industries) - £11 |
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Debut album from UK act The Bleeding Peasant Orchestra. "Sanctuary and Truce" has moments of deep, churning gyre, draped in the cackle of the world; thundering post-rock epics wound around ethnic armoury, horns and choirs; there are haunting moments where distant pianos drift amid sheets of humming electronics and damaged strings; there is pulsing, uplifting krautrock to be found alongside filthy drones; and there are elements of post-industrial-trance-folk. Digipak. |
THE ENCHANTED WOOD - 'Monster Parade' CD (Steelwork Maschine)
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During the cold days and the deadly nights, come enjoy the music of The Enchanted Wood! "Monster Parade" will pleasure your ears with quality features, and nine delightful songs of monstrosity, unspeakable sins and unutterable melancholy. Listening is believing! “...a must-have if you are into experimental folk and Twin Peaks-moods. It’s original, it’s poetic and arty without ever tending to be pretentious at all.” (Evening of Light). Gatefold digisleeve.
• The Enchanted Wood - 'Monster Parade' LP - £15
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THE HAT CITY INTUITIVE - 'A Ticket For Decay' LP (Ecstatic Peace!)
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Hat City Intuitive have long been the mainstays of the Danbury, Connecticut free improv scene. This session has most recent member Gene Moore showing up with his kid bro Thurston, who plugs into the nearest amp and is only too happy to just GO, as Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) is a long-time fascinant of the Hat City Intuitive, having grown up in the same Nutmeg State environs just 30 some years prior. Compiled from hours and hours and hours of basement mind/spirit autumnal wine soaked pot smoked camaraderie, this recording is where the dirt meets the concrete and winks up to the forever sky.
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TREPANERINGSRITUALEN - 'Judas Goat' 7" (Fang Bomb) - £8 |
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"Judas Goat" is brand new, two-song 7" single from Trepaneringsritualen (aka Thomas Ekelund of Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words). An investigation of betrayal, fratricide and self-sacrifice. Trepaneringsritualen explores themes of religion, magick and the occult realms of consciousness, taking its musical cues from the old school of ritual ambient & death industrial. Rhythmic and seething at times, and oozing forward with a creeping sense of desolation, Trepaneringsritualen conjures forth bleak but mesmerizing visions of the end-times. Ltd x 141 copies on white vinyl in a foldout sleeve.
• All Trepaneringsritualen Titles • All 7" Vinyl |
W>A>S>P>S / NACHT UND NEBEL - 'Split' 7" (None) - £6 |
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Nacht Und Nebel is Henry Davies - ex-Army Of Flying Robots, drummer with UK sludge outfits Moloch, Dead in the Woods and Nadir. This is NuN’s first 7” outing, presenting three dark, short and lo-fi soundscapes. W>A>S>P>S is the UK’s Benjamin Hallatt (from UK artrock act Swimming). W>A>S>P>S presents Hallatt’s return to his roots in unashamedly minimal electronics with one side of bass heavy and static drenched digital noise plate. Very raw and direct. Comes with either a red or green cover!
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VARIOUS ARTISTS - 'Dark Ambient radio Vol. 3' CD
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Like previous Dark Ambient Radio compilations, Vol. 3 emerged as a collective effort of the participating artists and was finally produced with the help of a crowdfunding action with Dark Ambient Radio listeners. The tracks were voted onto the CD by a double-anonymous rating process among the artists. Features: Aspectee, Crepuscular, Mortaja, Myth Industries, Mytrip, Nepenthe, Sjellos, Stephen Parsick, Valerio Orlandini, and Winterbound.
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CLOAMA - 'Cloama' CD
(New Old Sentinel)
- £11
This second album by Cloama offers very obscure industrial with ambient and experimental touches dealing with frequences, radiations and waves as well as with their possible effects on nature, mind and body. Strange, quite subtle, evocative and deep atmospheres are developing throughout the five tracks. 43 minutes of music enhanced by some frightening, hostile and weird elements, setting off the beauty of the whole, revealing a contrast between peaceful appearences and things behind the mirror. Not dissimilar to some Schloss Tegal. Ltd x 500 copies in an A5 sleeve. |
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DER ARBEITER - 'Holzwege' CD
(Ur Muzik)
- £11
Following the acclaimed debut album "Reflejos del Sol" (2004, Divine Comedy Records), Der Arbeiter release their second opus, "Holzwege". Ten songs conceptually inspired by the work of Chilean writer Miguel Serrano, and his conception of Minne ("a love at once illicit and morally elevating, passionate and disciplined, humiliating and exalting, human and transcendent"). In musical terms, Holzwege is an alchemical mix of electro-folk with a slight mediterranean taste, which gives it a unique and distinctive sound that moves away from the well known clichés of the neofolk-martial scene. An original and inspiring work, made in Chile, arising from the ruins. Digipak. |
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GRUNT - 'Europe After Storm' CD
(Force Majeure / Nuit Et Brouillard)
- £11
Reissue of Grunt's 2001 album (originally released in a limited edition of 489 copies). Tracks 01-04 re-mastered from the "Europe After Storm" tape (Spite Recordings 1998), tracks 05-07 are unreleased studio material, tracks 08-11 are live tracks from S-Osis, Turku, Finland, 1999. Seven studio and four live tracks of Power-electronics / Harsh Noise by the headliner of the Finnish Industrial scene. Ltd x 500 copies. |
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INCAPACITANTS - 'Mon, Ma? Mon!!!' CD
(Triangle)
- £11
Continuing the celebration of their recent 30-year anniversary, iconic Japanese band Incapacitants present a new gift for their devotees. Their latest CD contains 60 minutes of exhausting psychedelic noise. Inedible mush made up of whistling feedback and drilling high frequencies. Cumbersome, nasty debris of harsh noise! Ltd x 500 copies in a digisleeve. |
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HOROLOGIUM - 'Du Grand Desir' CD
(Ur Muzik)
- £11
Recorded in 2011 and 2012 “Du Grand Désir” comes as no surprise to those who have experienced the intensity of Polish act Horologium’s “Tellurian Anthems” album. This new full-length CD delivers eight tracks ranging from ritual ambient to martial anthems and ethnic dances. This solemn and yet strangely uplifting release, where the Orient meets the Occident, is perhaps one of the most varied works to date for Horologium. With additional help from the Chilean artist Der Arbeiter on two tracks, and beautiful artwork by Stefan Alt (Ant-Zen), this release is a must-have for all fans of the genre. Comes as a 6-panel digipak. |
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LARK BLAMES - 'The Reins Of Life' CD
(Ur Muzik)
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Lark Blames was founded in 2005 by Lloyd James (Naevus) and Marc Blackie (Sleeping Pictures). While the initial recordings collected on their acclaimed debut album "Chimney" (Old Europa Cafe, 2006) are improvisatory in nature, the new body of work on their second, "The Reins of Life", constitutes a far more considered and assured collection. The album represents a significant step forward for the duo, who continue to defy categorisation while producing their most masterful and accessible work to date. Live drums and bass provide driving rhythms, alongside brass, acoustic guitar and programmed percussion. Aleatory techniques collide with atmospheric layers, musique concrete meets retro synth textures and the familiar Lark Blames lunacy make an appearance too. 6-panel digipak. |
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LESLIE KEFFER - 'A Ticket For Decay' LP (Ecstatic Peace!)
- £10
Leslie is one of the more fascinating proponents of homegrown Middle America noise music. A single girl drawn to the more ravaged and magical aspects of noise as source music, art and lifestyle. Her inputs are radio transmission wave-noise, the living aura of Lindsay Lohan, punk, pop, Madonna, her amazing girlfriends and defiltering the terror of male-centric Power Electronic depravity and goon-ism. This premier full-length LP of Leslie’s demonstrates where she’s been and where she’s going. Cover painting by Adriane Schramm. Comes with double-sided laser printout insert. Ltd x 500 copies. |
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MAISON CLOSE - 'Maison Close' CD
(Force Majeure / Nuit Et Brouillard)
- £11
Debut album of this French act. Twelve tracks of Dark atmospheric / Power-Electronics with many sampled-voices and some vocals, evolving like a soundtrack inspired by the movie "Johnny Got His Gun". 66 minutes of cold, sick, abrasive electronics and processed objects. A deep and hard journey into pain. Repress. Ltd x 500 copies in a digipak. |
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MY CAT IS AN ALIEN - 'When The Windmill's Whirl Dies' LP (Eclipse Records)
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Vinyl-only work by the space-brothers Maurizio and Roberto Opalio, aka MCIAA. The intimate and vividly estranged mood originated by the floating guitar tunes will enter the furthest meanders of your mind. Both the words, recited and shaped by Roberto from his own homonymous poem that suggested the title of the album, and the oblique minimalism of the complex musical texture made of flowing space sounds, represent the abstract neo-expressionistic substratum of the whole corpus of the work. Moving throughout a nebula of space dust and debris, the starting spoken-word vocals alongside the percussive section sound as powerfully impressive as the violent imagery of trees beaten down by the storm. A beautiful recording housed in a thick, heavy duty gatefold sleeve. Edition of 600 copies. |
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PAIN JERK & JOHN WIESE - 'Mental Peace Liberation Front' CD
(Meatbox Records)
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First part of a collaboration series between Japan's harshest live electronics noise master Pain Jerk and one of the finest American noise and experimental musicians around, John Wiese.
Massive hyper-sonic and heavy harsh blasts, crashing and throbbing pulse electronics, full throttle cut-up with hi-range frequencies.
Highly recommended for all lovers of best harsh noise. Ltd x 300 copies with obi strip. |
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PLASTIC CRIMEWAVE SOUND - 'Plastic Crimewave Sound' LP
(Eclipse Records)
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Following the sprawling double concept LP, 'No Wonderland," this is perhaps Chicago's Plastic Crimewave Sound's most consistent and paint peeling statement yet. These tracks were captured with little studio trickery - a set of bellowing free-fest scuzzrock, kraut-style dirges, cosmic communal jams, and fist pumping no-anthems. This is easily the most seriously rocking Plastic Crimewave Sound line-up yet. Get ready to explode into space. |
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PROPERGOL - 'Tormentor' 7"
(Nuit Et Brouillard)
- £6.50
First 7" from this French project. "Tormentor" deals with Propergol's usual intimate obsessions. The music is nothing less than a reflection and an exploration of his confused and chaotic innerworld. The tracks are made up of nervous, repetitive and hypnotic pulsations as well as noise injections and vocals in the typical Propergol style made of anger and despair underlying his personal oversensitivity With this 7", Propergol takes you on a trip to places overwhelming with imagination, and a mental journey on the sinuous and unhealthy roads of neurosis when your own imagination is your worst enemy.
Ltd x 1000 copies with postcard. |
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STARFISH POOL - 'Rituals For The Dying' 10"
(Conspiracy Records)
- £7
"Rituals For The Dying," was a primer for the LP "Kinetic," which has been described as a mixture of dark ambient soundscapes with hypnotic drum patterns.
Starfish Pool is more than likely to gain more appreciation with a packed dance floor that is ready to absorb the dark and protruding beats emanating from this slab of wax.
With an industrial-techno backbone that is reminiscent of the (older) Detroit "sound," one might think that Starfish Pool are trying to recreate that style.
However, with Koen's minimal approach and harsh sound-structures unfold a new chapter for smooth atmospheric noise. Each side ends in a locked groove. |
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VALLEY OF FEAR - 'Possession' CD
(Turgid Animal)
- £10.50
Debut release from the new collaborative project of Matthew Bower (Skullflower, Black Sun Roof!, Total, Hototogisu, Voltigeurs), Justin Broadrick (Godflesh, Jesu, Final) and Samantha Davis (Voltigeurs, Skullflower). Four tracks of off kilter and noisy black metal influenced experimental rock, with trademark sounds from each member thrown into a melting pot. Harsh and glorious! Ltd x 500 copies. |
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VOLTIGEURS - 'Possession' CD
(Turgid Animal)
- £10.50
Voltigeurs is Matthew Bower (Skullflower, Hototogisu, Total, Valley Of Fear, Black Sun Roof!) and Samantha Davies (Skullflower, Valley Of Fear, Harm). Second album of the duo. Since the release of the eponymous first album in 2009, Voltigeurs have been working to create an otherworldly genre-defying scene all of their own. Presented here are 6 new tracks of winding hypnotic guitars and electronics, which seem to audibly bubble under a darkened sky. With excellent liner notes and artwork by both members of the band, the honourable touch of esoteric personality is brought forth. Another highly recommended work from a band truly in touch with their own sound. Ltd x 500 copies. |
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VOLTIGEURS - 'Voltigeurs' CD
(Turgid Animal)
- £10.50
Debut album from this project of Matthew Bower (Skullflower, Hototogisu, Total, Valley Of Fear, Black Sun Roof!) and Samantha Davis (Skullflower, Valley Of Fear, Harm). "Grainy fuzz and sinister metallic frequencies, not to mention flecks of doom style low-end... Bowers' distinctive psychedelic dirge/squall is so evident from the off you may as well be tuning in to a new Skullflower release. I love the sinister echo chamber vibe, the smell of early Earth, the suggestion of Black Metal malevolence, the swirling, grinding, shimmering filth of it all, like a bad tranquilizer trip that somehow you don't wanna get off. Aroma: stale vomit and rusty nails" (Normans). Six long tracks of heavy music running in at a total of nearly 65 minutes. |
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