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Spring Bi-Weekly Newsletter - 17th December 2015
COLD SPRING CHRISTMAS DRAW!
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NEW COLD SPRING RELEASES - OUT 28th DECEMBER
TROUM - 'Acouasme'
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Z'EV - 'Eleven Mirrors To The Light' CD (CSR196CD) - £8 |
COLOSSLOTH - 'Outstretch Your Hand For The Impress Of Truth' CD (CSR214CD) - £8 |
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| After the much praised collaboration with RAISON D'ETRE released summer 2015 (“De Aeris In Sublunaria Influxu”) and the final volume of the ‘Power Romantic' trilogy with “Mare Morphosis” in late 2013, “Acouasme” is the first full length album from TROUM in over 2 years. With this album, TROUM wanted to go in a completely different direction, creating a ‘harsher' and more ‘Industrial' sounding album as a contrast to previous releases. But through the trademark troumatic machining, the final result doesn't sound at all like standard harsh noise – it's rather industrial noise as if filtered through a feverish dream, through a deranged perception. The six long tracks of pestering transrational drones on “Acouasme” sound like an aural psychiatric symptom, a humming hallucination leaving the stable reality. |
Z'EV completes an alchemical exploration of Concord and Dissonance that began with the cosmological equations of Sum Things and then clasped the elemental quintet of air, water, fire, earth and spirit in A Handful of Elements. Now, with Eleven Mirrors to the Light, Z'EV plays with the intersection of light and dark, catching waves of luminescence between prisms and mirrors that fragments particles into shimmering washes of sound. Z'EV's trademark percussion transforms into glistening soundscapes and drones, one part subterranean and another subatomic.
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From the wild hedgerows and deep dark rivers of the Midlands, Leicestershire's Colossloth makes psychogeographic maladies and invocations to warm the heart of the discerning and intrepid psychonaut. Phonic seeds planted in Blackened soil fertilised by visceral imagination. A fugitive ambience for those seeking solace in the unexpected.
From supporting the likes of Tim Hecker and Wrangler, Colossloth's music alternates between the brooding and abrasive to the transcendental and enchanted. With nods to a multitude of genres - from industrial and ethnic tribalism to caustic electronica, it's spirit can be found crucified in between the anode and cathode of occult circuitry, transmitting across modern England whispered messages from the lips of the old gods of Albion. |
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| COIL - 'Backwards' CD (CSR203CD) - £10.50 |
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The essential bridge between "Love's Secret Domain " and the later "Musick To Play In The Dark" series. Started in 1992, updated considerably between 1993 and 1995, and transferred in 1996 to New Orleans, where it was finished in the magic of the Nothing studios of Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails).
23 years after its initiation, these tracks are finally available in highest quality audio. Contains the original versions of Coil's much-loved tracks; 'A Cold Cell' and 'Fire Of The Mind', now presented as originally intended.
This album is It is an essential conduit, to understand the journey that was taken.
CD in digipak. Comes with release card from Cold Spring only!
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| COIL - 'Backwards' 2 x LP (CSR203LP) - £23 |
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Deluxe double LP version of the above release. Presented in a gatefold sleeve with download code. Comes with release card from Cold Spring only!
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| HIJOKAIDAN - 'Emergency Stairway To Heaven' LP & CD (CSR208P) - £17.50 |
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Cold Spring are proud to announce the new studio album from the legendary Japanoise act Hijokaidan. The set arrives on luxurious 12” picture disc and CD - both formats have completely different audio! 12” Picture Disc: The new studio album, four slabs of unique sounds that only Hijokaidan can provide. In the studio – the full line-up of JOJO Hiroshige, T. Mikawa, Junko and Futoshi Okano. CD: Live at Uplink, Shibuya, 20th May 2014 - JOJO Hiroshige: synthesizer, T. Mikawa: electronics, Junko: screaming. Live at Chikusa-za, Nagoya, 21st Dec 2014 - JOJO Hiroshige: electric guitar, T. Mikawa: electronics, Junko: screaming, Futoshi Okano: drums. Ltd x 750 copies only!
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| SHE SPREAD SORROW - 'Rumspringa' CD (CSR212CD) - £10.50 |
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Ritual deathscapes, obscure Death Industrial, sinful Power Electronics from Alice K. A trip into distorted faith, guilt, repressed desires, punishment, discipline and perversion. File next to: Pharmakon, Puce Mary, Sewer Goddess. 6-panel digipak. |
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| KHOST - 'Corrosive Shroud' CD (CSR211CD) - £10 |
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Second album from Birmingham's doom / industrial behemoths Khost. Collaborators: Eugene Robinson of Oxbow and Syan who add their stories to the narrative, along with personnel Jo Quail, Daniel Buess, Gustave Savy and featuring a contribution from Tel Aviv-based Hostage. |
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| IRON FIST OF THE SUN - 'We Can Yield Our Own Footsteps' CD / LP (CSR204CD/LP) |
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IFOTS maintains his exemplary, melancholic, cold industrial, with sinister frequencies and tumultuous, mutilated vocals. The album utilises new recording methods and extraordinary, intoxicating song arcs. |
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SUTCLIFFE JUGEND - ‘Offal' CD/2LP (CSR209CD/LP)
VA 'Sound Of Progress' DVD (CSR194DVD) - Foetus, Test Dept., Coil, Current 93 |
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TREPANERINGSRITUALEN
•18-19 Dec 15, Bimfest XIV, Antwerp (BE) - with The Arch, Schwefelgelb + more
•8 Jan 16, Ioneteka, St Petersburg (RU) - with Desiderii Marginis
•9 Jan 16, DOM, Moscow (RU) - with Desiderii Marginis
•27 Feb 16, Nalen Klubb, Stockholm (SE) - with Celldöd
SHE SPREAD SORROW
•2 Jan 16, Destination Morgue IX, Rome (IT) - with Sshe Retina Stimulants, Lashtal, Svart I, Mare Di Dirac
•8 Jan 16, Padiglione 14, Collegno (IT) - with Luca Sigurtà
KHOST
•15 Jan 16, The Black Heart, London - with Locrian, Necro Deathmort
•2 Apr 16, Noiz All-Dayer, Manchester - with Iron Witch, Dukatalon, Witchsorrow
COLOSSLOTH
•16 Jan 16, Weird Garden, Lincoln
SUTCLIFFE JUGEND
•23 Apr 16, XI Congresso Post Industriale, Bologna (IT) - with Slogun, The Rita, N.
•27-28 May 16, Epicurean Escapism, Berlin (DE) - with Skin Area, Nikolas Schrek, Last Dominion Lost
IRON FIST OF THE SUN
•29-30 Apr 16, United Forces Of Industrial III, Apiary Studios, London - with Ke/Hil, Uncodified, Stab Electronics, Kevlar
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ALLERSEELEN - 'Terra Incognita' CD (Aorta / Ahnstern) - £11 |
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Brand new album! "All art is at one surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril." (Oscar Wilde: Dorian Grey) is the quotation that Allerseelen use for this release. So be adventurous enough to go beneath the surface of the music of Allerseelen! The album features guest contributions by guitarists like John Haughm (Agalloch) and Jörg B (Der Blutharsch, Amestigon, Graumahd), Daniel P. Arnica (Arnica) and Alexander Wieser (Hrefnesholt, Uruk-Hai), who add their very special musical charisma to several songs. The vocals for the songs are not only those by the frontman Gerhard Hallstatt but also by Robert Taylor (Changes). This release again is a manifest for the musical expression of Allerseelen that is difficult to be labelled as it is a unique combination of seemingly contradictory elements from industrial, metal and folklore. Presented in a digipak with a 16-page booklet full of photographs and all lyrics in English and German.
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AUTOPSIA - 'Metal' CD (Old Captain) - £11 |
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Autopsia Archive "Prague Vol. I". 50 minutes of Industrial / Neoclassical recordings spanning 1982-1996. "Divine violence, egalitarian terror, messianic moment, absolute negativity, revolutionary truth, future anterior: Autopsia's quintessence of the last decades. We work in the dark, to serve the light. A timeless classic". Ltd 200 copies in a digipak.
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BIZARRE UPROAR - 'Amputaatio' LP (Urashima) - £17 |
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New 2015 full length album from the legendary Finnish noise master. 2 long tracks of obliterating filth ridden power electronics. Somehow more dirge ridden and in the gutter than previous albums. Harsh, violent vocals and thunderous decayed bass tones clash against an oppressive percussive hell. Hail BU! Ltd x 199 copies with silver print on black card sleeve, plus insert.
• All Bizarre Uproar Titles• All LP / 12" Vinyl |
CELER & MACHINEFABRIEK - 'Compendium' CD (Irrational Arts) - £11 |
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Late in 2011, Celer and Machinefabriek teamed up and recorded the 7" 'Maastunnel / Mt. Mitake', to coincide with their tour in The Netherlands. They then decided to make it into a trilogy of 7" singles, all self-released in limited editions. Now, Irrational Arts has compiled the six tracks of the 7"s onto a CD‚ titled "Compendium (Collected Singles and Remixes)". The CD also includes a new, additional track by Celer and Machinefabriek, and remixes by Stephan Mathieu, Sylvain Chauveau and Nicolas Bernier. The artwork of the CD continues the design style of the singles, with collages of old Japanese cards and ephemera. Digipak.
• All Celer Titles • All Machinefabriek Titles |
CLIMAX DENIAL - 'In The Absence Of Self-Control' LP (Urashima) - £17 |
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For over a decade, Climax Denial has been exploring a unique and evolving approach to the power electronics genre. Beginning with his debut tape on Hospital Productions, and following with dozens of other sought-after releases: peerless in their stalker/submissive debauchery. Alex Kmet with his Climax Denial project practically bathes in its own urgent sexuality, stalking through each album with glassy eyes and a raging boner. In an age where many of his peers are doing their part to look beyond perverse sexuality, or perhaps expressing it in more poetic terms, Climax Denial rings true like the last of the old-school perverts, a man as terrifying as he is abject. Teasing with elements of dark ambient restraint, coyly manic vocals, and anxious industrial texture; we are presented with an unnerving composition of lovingly lecherous soundscapes. Ltd x 99 copies.
• All Climax Denial Titles • All LP / 12" Vinyl |
COÀGUL - 'Prophecy Of The Black Widow' LP (Burka For Everybody) - £13 |
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Five sonic spells, conceived and composed by Marc O’Callaghan in 2014 between Barcelona and Picanya. The first four tracks are equal to the four ages of mankind: from the iron age to the golden age. The length of each spell is in proportion with the mathematics of the traditional division from the Vedic doctrine of the four yugas. The last spell, which occupies the whole second side of the record, is an incarnation of the new city, which is another name for the heavenly city of the New Jerusalem. The twelve stanzas of this long spell equal to all that is twelve: the zodiac, the precious stones, the fruits of the tree of life, the angelic typologies, the months of a year, the prophets, etc. The first side of this vinyl symbolically equals to the circular shape, and the second one equals to the square shape. So all in all, “La Forja Centrípeta” is a large sonic tool that can be magickally used to achieve what the hermetics rightly called "the squaring of the circle". Ltd x 250 copies.
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COSMOS - 'Bosques' 7" (New Approach Records) - £6 |
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Great Neofolk / Urfolk from Spain. Recordings from summer solstice 2012, originally self-released on CDR in 2013. For fans of Ataraxia, Sangre Cavallum, O Paradis. Ltd x 250 copies with inlay.
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DEUTSCH NEPAL - 'Alcohology' CD (Entartete Musikk) - £12 |
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Deutsch Nepal is back after 5 years of retreat of the Swedish woods with a brand new album. Obviously in between (or even during) the recordings there was some examination of bottles and the liquor they contained going on, the object for the album is the impact alcohol might have on people when consumed. Alcohology mainly contains slow pounding industrial music in the vein that are familiar to all Deutsch Nepal fanatics. Swirling mirrors of looped sounds loosely glued together with pounding or haunting beats followed with simple melodic input. The dystopian vocals present a surrealistic scenario built up inside your head while listening. The thoughtful statements of the gain and dangers of the consumption of alcohol continues as a theme all through the album and end with a re-recording of Erosion from the album with the same name from 1999 where the impact fluids have, not only on the human body but also on Mother Earth itself. Digipak.
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ENMARTA - 'Sea Of Black' CD (Cryo Chamber) - £12 |
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Dark Ambient with influences from the vast corners of the earth, combining ritualistic elements, fine textural work, throat singing and live viola. A multifaceted album that will attract those in search of a multi-layered dark ambient experience with classical influences. Debut release from this Oregon act. "Enmarta is not music... Enmarta is the darkest tear in the deepest human frailty." 6-panel digipak.
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FJERNLYS - 'Four (One Unearthly Room)' CD (Loki Foundation) - £13.50 |
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After 5 years, Fnernlys finally release a new full-length album. Fjernlys' attention to detail is typically exquisite here: the looped bowing of a cello provides a droning bassline beneath pitch-bent chimes and melodic pads. Clear homogenic sounds creeping over deep organic rhythms with lovely effects have been incorporated in a poetic ambiance guided by brilliant vocals. Atmospheric and sensitive ambient compositions with accented percussion elements, vibraphone sounds and viola supplements to set the electronic soundscapes into wonderfully concentrated and organic pieces. Swimming beneath Fjernlys' ambient arrangements is a primordial cosmos of sonics: the falling of rain outside a window, the tumble of unknown random oscillations, a whirl of ebow guitars. The hustle and bustle of these sounds ground the grandiose orchestration on the record and give it an abstract sense of the transcendental space. On the second CD are remixes of 4 tracks from the album by Kammarheit, Peter Bjärgo (of ARCANA, who also provides vocals on a main album track), S.E.T.I. and Herbst9. Every interpretation these artists made completes the puzzle of this release to its entire form of One Unearthly Room. 8 panel foldout digisleeve.
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GELSOMINA / BIZARRE UPROAR - 'Älä Tee Huorin' LP (Urashima) - £17 |
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Collaboration between two purveyors of fine Finnish filth. "Älä Tee Huorin" was originally released as a double tape in 2008 (Ltd 54, Filth & Violence / Untergeschoss). Bottom dense mechanical roar scattered by contrived vocal screams then a shift towards doom-tronics, solid and asphyxiating... feedback, vocal abuse and pedal insanity... slow, pounding junk noise, and pulses of feedback. Features a live collaboration in Birmingham 2008, and a mail collaboration, plus one solo track each. Ltd x 99 copies with silver print on black card cover, plus insert.
• All Gelsomina Titles • All Bizarre Uproar Titles • All LP / 12" Vinyl |
KLEISTWAHR - 'The Return' CD (Fourth Dimension) - £12 |
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"The Return" is a remastered reissue of a limited edition LP, originally on Noiseville Records back in 2009. Gary Mundy (Ramleh, Breathless, S.P.I.T.E., Toll, Broken Flag) revisits the album, which features two previously unreleased bonus cuts: 'The Storm' and 'The Resounding'. It has also been digitally remastered by Mundy to render the music at once powerful and dynamic in a setting where volume also plays a significant part of the sound. As with Ramleh, the music of Kleistwahr stems from a place both angry and anguished. The Return witnesses electronic music once more teased and reshaped into something highly original by one of the genre’s master craftsmen. Listen to it as loud as your ears can take! Ltd x 300 copies and packaged in a gatefold Broken Flag-style sleeve. |
MAURIZIO BIANCHI - 'CMRS/OPEA' 2 x LP (Urashima) - £25 |
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In the office where M.B. used to work he found a stamp with the word 'COMPRESA' ('Included' in English) and so came to the starting point for an experiment. Using a synth KORG MS20 and an AKAI cassette-recorder, the inevitable consequence was a mono recording. The result that followed was a C90 cassette with very grim and voluptuous electronic sounds. The tape was distributed only to very few friends and followers (around 8). After virtually disappearing, the tape was rediscovered years later by Vittore Baroni. Decomposed in October 1980 using cacophonelectronics, and dedicated to the physical attraction to Sylvia Simonelli. Ltd x 199 copies.
• All Maurizio Bianchi Titles • All LP / 12" Vinyl |
MAUTHAUSEN ORCHESTRA - 'From Homicide To Slaughter' LP (Urashima) - £17 |
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Vinyl reissue of the amazing and rare tape recorded 1982-83 by Mauthausen Orchestra, originally on Aquilifer Sodality. "From Homicide To Slaughter is compiled of six tracks, three on each side. From now on we are seeing / hearing a more structured Mauthausen Orchestra sound than to what appeared on "2nd Movement". There is a lot of shortwave radio "crackle" and pink noise / white noise oscillations. Side one contains voice tapes (US Military) and high-pitched tonal frequencies. Side two (along with the shortwave radio static) contains high energy forceful electronics, fast paced stuff with Pierpaolo taking his foot off the pedal so to speak - the final track is crashing power electronics with the sound of repetitive machinery surrounded by howling electronics" (Muhmur). Mastered from the original tape. Ltd x 199 copies.
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MAUTHAUSEN ORCHESTRA - 'Necrofellatio' LP (Urashima) - £17 |
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Vinyl reissue of the amazing 1983 tape by Mauthausen Orchestra, originally on Aquilifer Sodality. Tape after tape Mauthausen Orchestra was built the backbone of what is known as an alienating and extremist style, made of metal nightmares and sonic torture, often dilated, dissected and extended up to the limit of endurance. Conflict carry us, once again, as real rituals of a civilization without gods, in a pure world of suffering. Infinite modulations towards a sky that has now disappeared and locked in concrete. A fierce nihilism that overflows into the undefined territory between mind and matter, marking our brains and our skin. Mastered from the original tape. Ltd x 199 copies.
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METATRON OMEGA - 'Gnosis Dei' CD (Cryo Chamber) - £12 |
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Scorpio V from Serbia presents us with Metatron Omega, a dark ambient project inspired by a variety of Eastern / Western esoteric and religious traditions. Massive choir works paint a picture of dilapidated cathedrals crumbling under the pressure of time. Sacred vocal work speaks of the path to enlightenment to a backdrop of textural field recordings and monasterial reverberations. 6-panel digipak.
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NEW PROCESSEAN ORDER - 'Crucifego' CD (End Of Kali Yuga Editions) - £11 |
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CrucifEgo is the second album by this Italian spiritual project, committed to restore and to spread the teachings of an obscure religious cult of the past century: "The Process - Church of the Final Judgement". The seven tracks here describe a complete spiritual path, starting with "CrucifEgo" (the crucifixion of the ego) and ending with "Exit" (the exit towards transcendence).
The music is an alchemical mix between dark-ambient, ritual, experimental, post-industrial and occult psychedelic.
Some of the impressive musicians involved are: Alessandro Papa, Marcello Fraioli (AIN SOPH, Spectre), Simon Balestrazzi (KIRLIAN CAMERA, T.A.C., Candor Chasma), Marco Deplano (WERTHAM, Foresta di Ferro), Corrado Altieri (UNCODIFIED, Candor Chasma, TH26), ClauDEDI (AIN SOPH, Malato), Gabriel Marzi (Dolpo). Ltd x 500 copies in a 6-panel digipak.
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PRURIENT - 'Frozen Niagra Falls' 2 x CD Set (Profound Lore Records) - £15 |
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'Frozen Niagara Falls' is Prurient's defining, most exploratory and ultimately rewarding work to date. It's an epic undertaking spanning two discs and includes over an hour and a half of music, veering from surprisingly contemplative destroyed-folk, to painfully blissful, Vangelis-esque night-scapes to decimated noise and many many points in between. Narrated by Fernow's own highly-presonalised vocals, by the end of its 90+ minutes you feel worn out, exhilarated, withdrawn, pummelled and ultimately comforted by the sheer scope and ambition on display. There is an assured, obsessive, hungry quality to this material that is certain to elicit an obsessive following from both Fernow's long-standing noise worshippers and his more recent, electronically-minded converts of his alter-ego Vatican Shadow. One of the most engrossing and complex albums in recent memory - regardless of genre. Presented in a deluxe 8-panel spot-varnished digipak with 2 booklets.
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RAPOON - 'Tin Of Drum' 2 x CD (Aquarellist) - £13.50 |
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"Tin Of Drum" was originally released in 1998 by Staalplaat. It is the culmination of years of flirtation and preparation. This CD is as deep and as dark as it gets. The atmospheres are bleak and hopeless. There are moments of brief respite when the spirit lifts up to merely evil. The sound is huge, enveloping and elegant, performed with a mastery on the level with the best of its kind. Beautifully hypnotic, mysterious, and insidiously compelling. If, indeed, there is a hell in the afterlife, Robin Storey (Zoviet France) has created the soundtrack. The second disc is about the unchanging deserts from Storey's trip to USA, where he found that original Tin Of Drum. Ltd x 450 copies in a 6-panel digipak.
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SATORI - 'The Hanging' CD Boxset (Tesco Organisation) - £14 |
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A spore. Or a seed. Or maybe a drop of blood. There is always something left. Just when everyone thought the devil was done, the alien defeated, it comes back. Dave Kirby formed Satori in the early 1980s with Rob Maycock, released music on the legendary Broken Flag label and then, just as quickly as they had arrived, stopped. Resurrected briefly to promote the retrospective CD "Infect", Dave and Justin Mitchell (Cold Spring boss) joined forces to blast a total wall of noise to unsuspecting gig-goers. Then Dave vanished. Justin, along with new recruit Neil Chaney (Pessary), released the album "Kanashibari" and the MCD "Contemptus Mundi" in 2008. After touring the UK, Europe and Japan (with Sutcliffe Jugend) things went quiet again. Until now. Dave is back with classic Power Electronics, Industrial and Dark Ambient soundscapes, sculpted from a collection of alienating electronica, found sounds and heavy drums. "The Hanging" marks both a new beginning and a continuation of a project now 30 years old. Over an hour of brand new Satori. Comes in a boxset CD in card slip and 10 x inserts (1 per track).
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THE RITA - 'Queen Sheets' 2 x LP (Urashima) - £25 |
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A new, abrasive noise work from Sam McKinlay, in collaboration with sculptor Megan Milller. Inspired by her piece 'Untitled Form (Barrier)' - made of timber, bricks, mortar and the use of chiffon to hold bricks in a hanging fashion. It brought to McKinlay's mind the focus of his past recordings that delved into the world of nylon and stocking fetishism: "...any sound made by the structure's movement of bricks against each other piled in a virtual sling of moving chiffon would be perfect for textural, abrasive sound source". A new structure 'Queen Sheets', was built for a collaboration with The Rita that embraced expanded utilitarian themes around the use of nylon. The intensive building process of both sculptures was recorded for eventual processing by The Rita. Ltd x 199 copies.
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UMBERTO - 'Prophecy Of The Black Widow' LP (Burka For Everybody) - £13 |
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"Matt Hill presents his sophomore Umberto album. It follows on from the Giallo soundtrack style he brilliantly aped on "From The Grave", deeper into the bowels of the early '80s sound, leering creepily at John Carpenter and the more bewitching ends of Italo disco and new wavey bits. Many have tried this sound - step forward Zombi, Gatekeeper, Francesco Clemente, Anton Maiovvi - but far fewer have achieved it with as much grain and VHS-warped eeriness as this. Sick record... Highly Recommended!" (Boomkat). Ltd x 300 copies.
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WIND ATLAS - 'Lingua Ignora' LP (Burka For Everybody) - £13 |
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Wind Atlas’ music has gained in nuances, drifting smoothly from dark dream-pop and new-wave passages (which remind us of Dead Can Dance) to gloomy postpunk atmospheres similar to those of Crispy Ambulance, Durruti Column or In Camera. Music to think of an unknown continent, to look for the lost alchemical formula, to eventually discover Talos the robot hurling rocks at the Argonauts. Music that requires to do nothing but listen, a task that nowadays appears almost impossible. The message is conveyed in an imagined language from a terra incognita, the lingua ignota. Each song is like an accent or a period, like a comma, a verse, a whole chapter of a liturgical chant. Gibberish for those who relish the best soundtrack by Basil Poledouris and the 4AD catalogue. Ltd x 300 copies.
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BAD SECTOR - 'CMASA' CD (Power & Steel / Loki Foundation) - £11
In 2005 Massimo Magrini was invited to provide a soundtrack for the M3M art exhibition in Pisa, Italy. The exhibition was based around images of the seaside and river estuary of Pisana area with CMASA airplane factory built there in it's centre. The marvellous seaside scenery mixed with vintage industrial locations, created an unexpected but amazing, nostalgic mood. To sculpture a soundtrack of this scenery Magrini also added treated piano, snippets of acoustic guitars, water sounds and metal samples. This may sound unusual for a BAD SECTOR release but all those new elements are perfectly blended into massive and ambient soundwaves, making CMASA probably the most emotional album of Massimo Magrini to date. All initial exhibition sounds where regenerated, remastered and re-assembled during 2007-2009. Digipak. |
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GERMAN ARMY - 'Jivaro Witnesses' LP (Burka For Everybody) - £13
German Army incorporates the memories of the vintage recordings of Cabaret Voltaire, Dark Day, Hafler Trio, and Kaa Antílope, albeit with a stylised, unique European manner of understanding the genre. The band render a kind of sound that veers from noise in order to synthesize a synaptic symphony, gushy and cold, full of barbed-wire fences and vanishing borders. Their sound, akin to Cabaret Voltaire, does not constitute a mere copy of these, but treats paranoia as a primordial sonic expression, and sound as a virus that spreads across the spoken word setting mechanisms that have remained hidden in the listener. Though not an ambient band, they have shaped the volt anatomy against a sky full of threateningly watching drones. Ltd x 300 copies with insert. |
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MUSLIMGAUZE - 'Silknoose' CD (Aquarellist) - £11
Russian reissue of Muslimgauze's long sold out 1995 release (Daft Records, Ltd 800). Ambient-industrial with Arabian tribal dance influences. According to some, one of Muslimgauze's most impressive works. 15 relatively short tracks in a fast, aggressive album. The overall feel emphasises industrial rhythms and harsh loops. These are combined with vocal loops, percussion (tabla, drums, cymbals), occasional harmonium or strings at various points, and some electronic effects. This is an album where variety is the main driving force: interspersed between the fast paced majority are some slower, lazy paced tracks. A very enjoyable album edging towards the harsher sounds of some later albums. Ltd x 400 copies in a 6-panel digipak. |
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TROUM - 'Mort Aux Vaches: Sen' CD (Aquarellist) - £11
"Sen" - Troum's contribution to Staalplaat's luminary "Mort Aux Vaches" series in 2000 - is fixated on the North Sea where sheets of black ice creak under the tidal currents that roll onto a rocky beach. Troum sees no need to utter any direct references, implying their metaphors behind a bleak drone haze of guitars, bells, voice, and keyboards treated with a heavy dose of synthetic cathedral reverb. "Sen" reveals Troum's post-industrial background with a churning drum machine which rumbles underneath the complex tonal patterns like an antiquated seaside factory. Troum, more so than their precedent incarnation Maeror Tri, has the potential to invoke awe through their hypnogogic expanses of droning sound. Rarely have they failed to push beyond their potential, and Sen is no exception. Ltd x 500 copies in a 6-panel silk-screened micro-corrugated cardboard sleeve. |
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TURBUND STURMWERK- 'Sturmgeweiht' CD (Rabauken) - £11
The first official release from Turbund Sturmwerk (originally released on cassette in an edition of 100 copies in 1992) is now available now for a wider audience. "Sturmgeweiht" documents the musical starting point of Turbund Sturmwerk and already sets a standard in this genre. A powerful and percussive manifestation of classic industrial structures and spoken word collages.
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