Cold
Spring Bi-Weekly Newsletter - 26th April 2006
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9 days to Whitehouse! If you want to get your cheaper advance
tickets, order
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UK customers is Tuesday 2nd May (1st class). If you are travelling
from outside of the UK or want to pick your tickets up from the
door, let us know when you place your order. Don't forget, we
will have a nice Cold Spring stall with special prices.
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of the month! Make sure you cast your votes before then and we
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| ROSE
ROVINE E AMANTI | Rituale
Romanum (CSR67CD) |
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Available:
Late April 2006
Rose Rovine e Amanti is the solo project of Damiano Mercuri
from Roma. Italian neo-folk with a neoclassical touch. Christianity
and old European cabaret sin, Love and Hate. 'Rituale Romanum'
features guest appearances from Josef K (Von Thronstahl),
Belborn and Pamela Gargiuto. RR&A began in 2002, releasing
two previous CDRs and an MCD.
UK: £10 | EU: £11 | World: £12
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| NECROPOLIS
| Necrosphere
(CSR51CD) |
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Available:
Late April 2006
Hailing from the Siberian land of Irkutsk, Russia, Necropolis
came to Cold Spring's attention when they released the extremely
limited (85 only) CDR "Necrosphere" - the soundtrack
to the author's dreams and based on field recordings made
in Taiga and disused military missile shafts. Cold Spring
is reissuing this immense Dark Ambient creation - remastered
with brand new, stunning artwork and an extra 14-minute long
track.
UK: £10 | EU: £11 | World: £12
MP3
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| H.E.R.R.
| Vondel's
Lucifer T-Shirt (CSR57TS) |
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Available:
Now
Ltd x 50. Sizes: S / M / L / XL
UK: £12 | EU: £13 | World: £14
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Now |
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GOATVARGR
| Goatvargr
(CSR65CD) |
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Available:
Now
Unholy alliance of Goat & Nordvargr. A brutal and violent
harsh noise masterpiece. For fans of MZ.412. |
UK:
£12 | EU: £13 | World: £14
MP3
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Now |
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| LAIBACH
| Neu
Konservatiw (CSR38CD) |
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Available:
Now
Official
release of the semi-official, legendary 1985 LP. Laibach at
their most powerful, orchestral and anthemic!!
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UK:
£12 | EU: £13 | World: £14
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| ARCHON
SATANI | Mind
Of Flesh & Bones (CSR63CD) |
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Available:
Now
The classic Archon Satani album, out of print for over a decade,
remastered and repackaged! Claustrophobic, ritualistic, menacing
anthems. |
UK:
£12 | EU: £13 | World: £14
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| VARIOUS
ARTISTS | Swarm
(CSR60CD) |
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Available:
Now
New Cold Spring label sampler. 22 exclusive tracks. Double gatefold
pack. A double CD for the price of a single CD! Click on image
for full info. |
UK:
£12 | EU: £13 | World: £14
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Now |
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NEXT
PLANNED RELEASES:
John
Watermann - 'Calcutta Gas Chamber' CD (CSR52CD)
Sistrenatus - 'Division One' CD (CSR61CD)
Shinjuku Thief - 'The Scribbler' CD (CSR62CD)
Bleiburg - 'Pieces Of A Broken Dream' 2CD (CSR68CD)
H.E.R.R.
- 'Vondel's Lucifer' CD (CSR69CD)
Toll - 'Christ Knows' CD (CSR66CD) |
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| ALL
AVAILABLE COLD SPRING TITLES |
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Archon
Satani - 'Mind Of Flesh & Bones - From Synthesis,
Gothronic, Guts Of Darkness (FR)
VA
- 'Swarm' - From Guts Of Darkness
(FR)
Kreuzweg
Ost - 'Edelrost' - From Twilight Zone (IT)
H.E.R.R.
- 'The Winter Of Constantinople' - From Twilight
Zone (IT)
Kriegsfall-U
- 'Kriegsfall-U' - From Twilight Zone (IT)
Deadwood
- '8 19' - From Twilight Zone (IT)
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full review archive
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LAIBACH
1st June, Werk II, Leipzig, Germany (Bachfest)
Z'EV
28th April, l'Espace Curial, Paris, France (with KK Null)
Cold
Spring Presents:
WHITEHOUSE / HOLIDAY STABBINGS
5th May 2006, The Jailhouse, Coventry - Buy
Tickets |
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Updated 18 April 2006
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| 5/5/2000
- 'Reflektionen Musique' CD (Post
Replica) - £12 / £13 / £14 |
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Lost,
unreleased and unknown soundscapes from San Diego’s
cult Ambient electronic ensemble. Named after the
date many believed would be the end of existence as
we know it (5/5/2000), Travis Ryan (Cattle Decapitation,
Attention Deficit Recordings chief) and Nathan Berlinguette
(Creation Is Crucifixion, M. Kourie, Daft Alliance
records bossman), unleash an apocalyptic soundtrack
of startling sonic paranoia. Includes the duo’s
last studio track recorded sometime between 1999 and
2000, along with a beautiful live set performed on
SDSU’s KCR radio.
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| CYCLOTIMIA
- 'Trivial Pleasures' MCD (Monopoly
Records) - £9 / £10 / £11 |
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Cyclotimia
is one of the most widely known Russian electronic
bands. The band creates unique crossover soundscapes
in the modern 'post-industrial' area, referred to
as 'L'Electronique Mondial' by the musicians. "Trivial
Pleasures" is the first part of their similarly
titled "L'Electronique Mondial" trilogy
which will include two more MCDs of their unique music.
Created using mainly old Soviet analogue synths, "Trivial
Pleasures" is a bit 'alien' to the previous works
of the band, but at the same time is Cyclotimia's
most radical and experimental album. Russian import.
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| DEGENERATE
- '#4' Magazine (Kaos
Kontrol / Freak
Animal) - £3.50 / £4 / £4.50 |
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RESTOCK!
The fourth issue contains a wide variety of styles
and themes related to the power electronics, noise,
ambient and industrial genres, presented through interviews
with Niko Skorpio, DVT ,Brethren, Boyd Rice/NON, Fire
in the Head, Snip-Snip Records, C.O.Caspar, Spatter
Productions, Proiekt Hat ,Barzel, I.corax, Haare and
Segerhuva. Also included is a USA tour report by Grunt
and the usual ton of reviews. An essential read!
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| EATEN
BY CHILDREN - 'The Sword Swallower's Grave'
CDR (State
Sanctioned Recordings) - £8 / £9 / £10 |
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After
a lengthy gestation period, finally we can offer the
debut release by this London artist (aka Rob Hart).
This album has a few different faces - melancholic,
acoustic tracks accompanied by harmonium; drones,
hums, electrical hisses from the Tube; white noise
and lo-fi analogue electronics; random extreme frequencies;
ultra-mellow piano. Limited to 200 hand-numbered copies
in nicely-presented folder with etching.
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| HENTAI
Vs NORDVARGR
- 'Semen' CD (Vital)
- £12 / £13 / £14 |
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Semen
is a collaboration between Jakob Nybo (Hentai) and
Henrik Nordvargr Björkk (MZ.412, Toroidh, Folkstorm).
Hentai and Nordvargr ejaculate their audio semen into
the cold electric womb, and watch in fear as an unnatural
sonic offspring mutates, squirms in agony and slowly
comes to life. A unique and extremely disturbing masterpiece
of fleshy, cold and perverse avantgarde dark / death
electronic soundscape nightmares. Comes in a superb
digipak with artwork by Salt (Ant-Zen).
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| H.H.T.P
& PORTABLEPALACE
- 'Cavitation' CD (Monochrome
Vision) - £12 / £13 / £14 |
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The
interaction between computer science technology and
freeform musical creative process becomes a central
point in this international collaboration of three artists
from Belarus and USA. The abstract soundscapes are obscured
by intricate structures, acoustic phenomena and electronic
effects, it's going to infinity and never repeat itself.
The finest harmony of soundfield is credited to the
principles of intuitive simulation, realised through
the system of computer-aided instruments. Ltd x 500
copies. Russian import. |
| MERZBOW
- 'Maschinenstil' CDR (Dual
Plover) - £6 / £7 / £8 |
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Cheapskate
re-issue of this 1998 release (famed for being the only
Merzbow release to spell Masami Akita's name incorrectly).
One of the last analogue-era releases and one of the
first recorded at "Bedroom, Tokyo." Structurally,
the two pieces here sound a lot like what Akita would
go on to do with his powerbooks, but much harsher and
significantly more organic than much of the often too
rigid material of the digital era. An album with some
very harsh sounds, though not brutal from start to finish.
Home-made CDR, but with the original professionally-printed
artwork. A recommended release purely for the music. |
| MIGUEL
A. RUIZ - 'Grossor' CD (Monochrome
Vision) - £12 / £13 / £14 |
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This
is the new, remastered version of classic material recorded
back in 80s, next to postindustrial aesthetics priority
in electronic music. Rigorous and austere, ascetic but
dynamic, this music rearranges everyday being into mindchallenging
imagination, reserving the leading parts for the habitual
processes and domestic objects. From the deep underground
of Spanish industrial music, it comes to be rediscovered
after 15 years. Ltd x 500 copies. Russian import. |
| MOST
OF THE TACITURN - 'History Of Iron And Blood'
CD (Dying
Art Productions) - £12 / £13 / £14 |
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Just
six short months after their debut 'Silent Accuser',
Chinese act Most Of The Taciturn has evolved into a
huge war machine. The latest album "History Of
Iron And Blood" is an Asian perspective of the
"Second World War European history of the rise
and fall of three empires". Excellent centralized
Industrial revelations! Influences cited are Puissance
and Sophia, but we are sure this will appeal to all
fans of the Martial symphonic/bombastic genre (A Challenge
Of Honour, Cold Fusion etc). Strong political artwork.
Comes in nice digipak with insert. Recommended! |
| NICK
SOUDNICK - 'AKHE Music Part II' CD (Ultra)
- £12 / £13 / £14 |
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Ritual-industrial
soundtrack for the AKHE Engineer Theatre installation.
Nick Soudnick (Vetrophonia, ZGA) mixes acoustic music
to TV and PC for a final black magic and alchemical
ritual with an old Russian touch. Ltd x 500. Nice piece
on this obscure Russian label. |
| OMEI
- 'When All Your Ghosts Are Tired' CD (Ninth
Circle Music / Misanthrope
Studio) - £12 / £13 / £14 |
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Omei expresses itself through the idea of "one
thought for a thousand years." The same memory
played over and over. The mind to the grindstone with
nothing ahead but hours and hours of empty slow time.
Two long pieces of grinding, sometimes turbulent minimalist
drone and industrial from this SICKNESS side-project.
Features contributions from James Keeler (WILT) and
Joe Colley (CRAWL UNIT). Aggressive, negative, empty
and burned. Ltd x 500 copies in slimline jewelcase. |
| RAFAEL
FLORES - 'Nubes, Cometas, Rumores y Orugas'
CD (Monochrome
Vision) - £12 / £13 / £14 |
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First
official CD album of Rafael Flores who hails from the
depth of the Spanish underground noise scene, known
for his early works released under Comando Bruno moniker.
This compilation presents the latest decade of his sound
experimentation, and shows quite diverse sides of his
creative efforts. The music ranges from collaged field
recordings to noise ambient loops, and from rhythmic
structures to hypnotic electronic passages. Ltd x 500
copies. Russian import. |
| VETROPHONIA
- 'Promzona' CD (Ultra)
- £12 / £13 / £14 |
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Second
album from this collaborative project between Russian
activists Nick Soudnick (ZGA) and Alexander Lebedev-Frontov
(Linija Mass / Stalnoy Pakt). While somewhat more
accessible than "Simultannostb", "Promzona"
carries over much of the same elements but in a more
refined form, resulting in what is possibly their
best release yet. Oxygen-starved symphonic loops,
industrial field recordings, worker's speech samples,
the sounds of a gramophone from the workshop and metallic
clangs form a soundtrack to a desolate world of slowly
sinking tugboats and aborted construction sites. True
Russian Industrial music! Comes in oversized sleeve.
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| ZHURONG
- 'Zhurong's Anger' Pro-CDR (Qin
Dynasty) - £10 / £11 / £12 |
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RESTOCK!
Extremely underground music from China. This mysterious
project (and label) present just over 25 minutes of
Kerovnian-esque Dark Ambient, threatening percussion
and a hint of neoclassical in the vein of Puissance.
Doom-laden and bleak, this is a great insight into the
dark Chinese psyche. Presented in slim DVD case with
insert – all text in Chinese. By the Chinese writing
inside, we presume this is a numbered edition. Pro-duplicated
CDR. |
| VARIOUS
ARTISTS - 'It Just Is (In Memoriam Jhonn
Balance)' 2 x CD (FullDozer
/ Nocharizma
Records) - £15 / £16 / £17 |
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Double
CD compilation dedicated to the memory of Jhonn Balance
(1962-2004) and personally approved by Peter Christopherson.
30 projects from ex-USSR territories and other countries
make tributes to and cover versions of Jhonn's pioneering
work in British group COIL. Features: The Threshold
Houseboy's Choir (Peter Christopherson), Thighpaulsandra
(featuring Balance), Theodor Bastard, Kotra, Spies Boys,
Alec Empire, 2/5 BZ, Chris Connelly, Biblioteka Prospero,
Phillip Klinger (PBK), KK Null, EU, Darling Kandie,
Pomassl, Alexei Borisov, COH, Alva Noto, Goodiny &
PCP, Schlammpeitzigner, Scanner, Brompton's Cocktail,
Mystified, H.H.T.P., Noises Of Russia & Olga Komok,
Kryptogen Rundfunk, A. Vorodeyev, Serge Tereshkine,
Volga, I.L.I., M.R.F. / Elena Voynarovskaya. Russian
import. |
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