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AARON TURNER - 'Repression's Blossom' LP (Full Contact Records / Ektro Records / SIGE Records) - £20

Aaron Turner's solo debut album explores the realm of avant-garde and reductionist metal. Avoiding the pitfalls of unintentional monotone, the abstract narrative tightropes through viscous noise mayhem and clinical serenity towards the mythical echelons of minimalism with gravity analogous to Kevin Drumm, Caspar Brötzmann and Pauline Oliveros. The drone-supported fragments of exquisitely manipulated audio create a magnificent multi-layered backdrop for Turner's feral guitar mangling, which extends across lyrical abstraction and concrete art. Besides his solo works, Aaron Turner is renowned for his participation in the bands SUMAC, Old Man Gloom and more. He is also the founder of Hydra Head Records. Mastered by James Plotkin. Ltd x 300 copies with sleeve art by Turner.

ATE & NOWA ZIEMIA - 'Substrate' CD (Zoharum) - £11.50

Artur Krychowiak (Nowa Ziemia) and Petar Petkov (ate), both hailing from Tricity in northern Poland, join their forces to showcase mutual passion for guitar drones and harmonies. "Substrate" consists of 2 long, harmonic ambient tracks. Heavily processed guitars are surrounded by field recordings and subtle electronics creating soothing dronescapes. With each listen you'll discover new layers of musicality. This music is like a cushion for your mind. Ltd x 250 copies in a 6-panel digisleeve.

CIRCLE - 'Meronia' 2 x LP (Full Contact Records / Ektro Records / Svart Records) - £26

Unavailable on any format since the 2007 CD edition, the album that started the Finnish proto post-rock / krautrock cult in 1994 is finally reissued on deluxe double LP with a a bonus vinyl-only track. This new version features updated album artwork and has also been digitally remastered. Meronia's 70+ minutes of simultaneously mesmerizing and crushing songs laid the foundations for future Circle albums to come. Although various incarnations of the band have since created over 20 full-length releases, the fundamental elements at the heart of Circle (circling, hypnotic riffs and motorik rhythms) were already present on this first album. Ltd x 300 copies on solid orange vinyl in a gatefold sleeve.

CONJECTURE - 'Hydra' CD (Zoharum) - £11.50

Conjecture is the solo music project of the Greek Avant-Garde visual artist Vasilis Angelopoulos. Using mostly hardware synthesizers, metal sheets, piezo microphones, DIY impulse responses "collected" from abandoned buildings, and tape-manipulation, Conjecture expresses his manifestos upon human existence: religious folklore stereotypes and transcendence through archetypal rituals, body deconstruction, human subtraction and murder. On "Hydra", Angelopoulos pays homage to Greek mythology, with every track (and album itself) titled after a mythic creature telling its own story. The music is dark and sublime... the sound is crunchy and powerful. Tension is built from the very first and is kept high until the last track which eases it off with soothing ambient, field recordings and trumpet, giving this album closure it deserves. Greeks seem to have their own vision of ritual industrial music; Conjecture's take on the subject is mature and original and manifests in ruthless machine rhythms and cinematic storytelling that keeps you captivated from the very beginning to the very end. Ltd x 350 copies in a 6-panel digipak.

ERKKI KURENNIEMI - 'Rules' 2 x LP (Full Contact Records / Ektro Records) - £24

Key recordings and sonic experiments from the pioneer of Finnish electronic and experimental music and one of the great unsung innovators of the electronic age. Erkki Kurenniemi (1941-2017) played a central role in the development of electronic music in Finland. In the early 1960's he founded The University of Helsinki Electronic Music Studio, where his renowned electroacoustic recordings were realised. These tracks, produced 1963-1975, include Kurenniemi's focal works and previously unreleased raw material composed as solo works, plus collaborations with Kari Hakala, Jukka Ruohomäki, Otto Donner and Eino Ruutsalo. Kurenniemi’s impulsive attitude towards his art (including electronic music, films, media art, instrument design) is perfectly captured in his composition rules presented as a guide line of the release: #1 The work has to be completed in a single day #2 Consecutive sounds must be chosen so that they are totally inconsistent or surprising and have no rational relationship with each other. Carefully chosen masterpieces have been newly digitized from the original master tapes with highest possible sample rate and resolution (192 kHz, 24 bit) to preserve a pristine listening experience. Kurenniemi’s works are now heard first time as genuine as possible, with no artificial restoration applied in the remastering process. Second edition in gatefold sleeve.

ÉVA POLGÁR & SÁNDOR VÁLY - 'Gilgamesh' CD (Ektro Records) - £11.50

On this work, literature becomes music. "Gilgamesh" is the second joint project of two Hungarian experimental artists: international pianist Éva Polgár and conceptual multidisciplinary artist Sándor Vály. The music, based on the 5,000 year old Epic of Gilgamesh, is pervaded by extreme expressiveness and melancholic minimalism simultaneously. On the borderline of different time dimensions, the work presents an insoluble tension between realisation, death, and eternity. Every piece on the album contains the two extremes where the female quality answers the male, one builds upon the other, or they complete each other. Polgár and Vály continue the musical dialogue already featured on their first album, "Mondrian Variations". That is, the acoustic and electronic dialogue of piano, percussion instruments, and samplers.

ÉVA POLGÁR & SÁNDOR VÁLY - 'Milky Way And Nervous System' CD (Ektro Records) - £11.50

A representation of the macrocosm and microcosm; the duality of chaos and symmetry, using the pathways of the stars / nervous system as notation. "Milky Way" is a large-scale church organ work in which the vibration of sustained notes and the wide range of sound emulate the infinite nature of the universe. Following "Bruegel Variations" technique to determine the notes on the music sheet, this first part alone includes 180 lines; their total playtime would last seven and a half days. Thus, to play the music of all eight parts of the Milky Way would take 56 days without stopping. The sample that the listener hears on this CD is the first half of 1 out of 1350 lines. Whereas the Milky Way can be associated with the collective anthology of humanity that connects generations through past, present, and future, the human nervous system evokes roots, paths, and relations within the individual. The electroacoustic soundscape of "Nervous System" (which also uses the "Bruegel Variations" technique to map the human nervous system as notation), comprises percussive instrumental effects on top of piano lines. The whole album was inspired by the intriguing juxtaposition of a purer and ethereal world (macrocosm) and the noise and pulse of society (microcosm). Digipak with booklet. RECOMMENDED!

ÉVA POLGÁR & SÁNDOR VÁLY - 'Mondrian Variations' CD (Ektro Records) - £13

The second part of Sándor Vály's and Éva Polgár's experimental and audiovisual art project is a synesthetic processing based on Piet Mondrian's paintings. Modrian's paintings (composition, colour, space) have been transposed to sound-time codes, and orchestrated for piano and sampler. The score and music formed from the paintings in this way is a direct translation of the work, and allows the recipient to enjoy Modrian's paintings as music. "Music is the field where the human soul can sense the most of dissolution and union of genuses. This is the eroticism of music... the ancient unity of this harmony of feminine and masculine power". The CD includes the paintings: Composition with Grid 8, Broadway Boogie Woogie, Pier and Ocean, New York City I. The package also contains a 40-page (!) documentation booklet, which introduces the method used to create the Mondrian Variations. Housed in a slipcase.

FINAL MACHINE - 'Remora' CD (Flag Day Recordings) - £11

"The landscape is changing. Liquified sludge drifts through an ocean of oil, casting off the dimming sunlight of another gray day. A lone figure roams the bone-coloured terrain, drifting towards the sound of distant sirens - calling out to the wanderer from the bay of an empty harbour town. As the figure approaches, the mirage mutates before his eyes: the sirens become machines; their distant cry becomes a present scream. This is Remora. This is Final Machine". For the past five years, Roger Owsley has operated as a sort of medium: channeling the ghosts in the machine, and translating their nebulous frequencies into concrete, sonic paintings. "Remora" is his latest canvas, and its shadowy sickness may hold the cure you've been searching for - hidden somewhere in the molten panorama. Ltd x 100 copies (CD proper) in a gatefold digisleeve. Highly recommended!

GAAP KVLT - 'Untitled' CD (Zoharum) - £11.50

A compilation of tracks previously released by Polish BDTA label. If you're new to his work this is a great way to begin your journey. What you'll find here are dark, minimalist and often bass-heavy soundscapes enriched with field recordings, electronica and references to Near East drumming aesthetics. From more isolationist ambient and moods to sink into, through dubbed out pulsations to more rhythmic structures to nod your head to, this compilation presents well-balanced and maturely paced selection of the artist vision of music that is convincing enough that at times you can almost smell the sunburned sand of the desert. Ltd x 350 copies in a 6-panel ecopak.

HANZO HASASHI - 'Ikigai' CD (Flag Day Recordings) - £11

After the intense 2020 tape "Tykoching vs. Gamera", Hanzo Hasashi's brand of cinematic, surgically accurate and twitching cut ups continues with "Ikigai" ("a reason for being"). This Japanese concept refers to having a direction or purpose in life, providing a sense of fulfillment and towards which they the person may take actions, giving them satisfaction and a sense of meaning. Hanzo Hasashi is an artist involved in the areas of cut-up harsh noise mixed with field recordings, ambient, jazz, industrial and modern electronic music. Each of his albums show a different style and approach, bringing something new and surprising to the listener. Digisleeve.

JUSSI LEHTISALO - 'Elämä' LP (Full Contact Records / Ektro Records) - £23

A deep and complex collection of experimental synth-pop sounds exploring the themes of movement, light, and shadow, Jussi Lehtisalo's (CIRCLE, PHARAOH OVERLORD) seventh solo album delivers tones ranging from subtle and spacious modulated environments to complex rhythmic soundbeds, and chaotic glitch-inspired madness. With a genre-defying career that spans nearly 20 years and nearly 100 different recordings, Jussi Lehtisalo is most renowned for Finland's legendary krautrock band CIRCLE. Ltd x 300 copies on yellow / green splatter vinyl.

NATHAN MOODY - 'De/Still' CD (Flag Day Recordings) - £11

"de/Still" is a musical score for photography. Composer / musician Nathan Moody was asked by photographer TJ Norris to aurally interpret his "Urban Juxtapositions" series. The result is an eleven-movement audio work that boldly bridges the worlds of bricolage, musique concréte, electronic music, and acoustic drone into a unified sound-world. Rather than literally interpret each photograph as a visual score, Moody categorized the textures at play and created timbral leitmotifs and instrument classifications to help convey the photographs' patina of wear and cycles of decay and renewal. Synthesizers, fiddles, dulcimer, strings, piano, field recording, digital glitch, and damaged analogue tape swirl in a dreamlike mélange of menace and solace. de/Still is undeniably urban, utterly timeless, and truly unique. Mark Wiedenbaum (Disquiet) provides an interpretive essay alongside Norris' intriguing photographs in the accompanying 8-page booklet. The CD is presented as a massive continuous mix.

OLD CASTLE - 'Welcome To Graceland' CD (Zoharum) - £11.50

Robin Storey (Rapoon, ex-Zoviet France), Robert Pepper (Pas Musique) and Shaun Sandor (Promute) met in 2011 when they performed in Brooklyn. First collaborating as duos, they decided to work as a trio and so Old Castle came to life - an incarnation of synergy drawn from the experience and creativity of each member. The end result is pretty hard to classify; tracks bear echoes of Coil... you can feel a shamanistic approach to sound creation with influences of IDM... the dark tone moves towards more rhythmic, colourful and abstract structures to end with the droning horror of the last track. Everything is veiled in mystery and eeriness; the overall experience reminds of an acid trip with all its lighter and darker aspects. Colours, textures and shapes turn into acid-like yet coherent collages of sounds. Ltd x 400 copies in a 6-panel digipak with cover art by Magdalena Eftimova.

PAKASTEET With CHARLES HAYWARD - 'Molten Salt' LP (Full Contact Records / Ektro Records) - £20

Pakasteet (Jussi Lehtisalo of CIRCLE / PHARAOH OVERLORD and Mika Taanila of SWISSAIR / MUSIIKKIVYÖRY) with Charles Hayward (THIS HEAT, THIS IS NOT THIS HEAT, CAMBERWELL NOW), inspiried by early Tuxedomoon's bittersweet melodies, Negativland's angular collage attacks, the looseness of Mark Z. Danielewski's novel House Of Leaves, and the mind-boggling short films by John Smith. Imagine A.I. amalgamating the last avant-hard sonicists of a future-past for the final anthem: that mad dance of a civilization lost in sunshine ruin. "We’re all busy talking to ourselves", groans Charles Hayward, man of skins... "everybody’s looking in the mirror". A possible tomorrow, cut and drawn out long by the warbling of the cot and the battlefield... the limitless possibilities of electricity. Recorded at Cafe OTO, London, October 2017.

PHARAOH OVERLORD - '5' CD (Ektro Records) - £11.50

The synth wave that's been hammering Ektroland in recent years is now banging at the door of Pharaoh Overlord Synthesizer Club with ear-splitting frequencies soaring down across the Moog Bass lines. A concoction of dystopian anthems - a cauldron of Neue Deutche Welle storm - prepared by Tomi "Florian" Leppänen and Jussi "Ralf" Lehtisalo (both hailing from Finnish krautrock legends Circle). Pharaoh Overlord "5" marks the arrival of the band's brave new duo lineup. Ingredients: Suicide, Nena, La Düsseldorf, Lonnie Holley. Space rock with "sequenced rhythms and gleaming keyboard melodies cribbing from cosmic disco, Italo, synthpop and the more proto-techno sorts of the 1970s German set, then topped off by extreme metal vocals" (The Quietus). Features guest guitars/vocals from Aaron Turner (SUMAC, Old Man Gloom).

PHARAOH OVERLORD - '5' LP (Full Contact Records / Ektro Records) - £20

Vinyl version of the above release. Ltd x 350 copies.

PHARAOH OVERLORD - 'Zero' CD (Ektro Records) - £11.50

Pharaoh Overlord steer an exceedingly singular course on their ninth studio album "Zero" . Augmented by Antti Boman (DEMILICH) and Hans Joachim Irmler (FAUST), the psych-rock / space rock supergroup (consisting of members from CIRCLE) have taken their ouvre to a whole new psychiatric plateau. Libido-driven arithmetics do not apply on these aberrant tracks. "Zero" provides an offbeat rock 'n' roll implosion, with its sonic realm contorting inwards like a sapient voice muffled by the gentle void of cyberspace. What the album has to offer is exposure to genuine ingenuity. Mastered by James Plotkin. Presented in a mini-LP sleeve with printed inner sleeve.

PHARAOH OVERLORD - 'Zero' LP (Full Contact Records / Ektro Records / Hydra Head) - £20

Vinyl version of the above release, with printed inner sleeve.

RAPOON & PACIFIC 231 - 'Palestine' CD (Zoharum) - £11.50

"Palestine" was the first collaboration between two titans of the industrial and underground music scene: Pierre Jolivet (Pacific 231) and Robin Storey (Rapoon, Zoviet France). Originally released as limited CD in 2007 by Old Europa Cafe and "Dedicated to the struggling Palestinian Nation and to the memory of Bryn Jones 1961-1999". Given that "Palestine" is dedicated to Muslimgauze and Israeli-Palestinian conflict it's easy to predict what you'll find here. Each side of the record presents the artists' take on middle eastern rhythms and sound. Side A is raw. For over 20 minutes Jolivet focuses on subtle processing over hypnotic distorted drum loops. On side B Storey takes us on a long, IDM-ish trip following what seems to be Muezzin call. This extended CD contains additional 3 rare tracks that were taken from the limited Old Europa Cafe version of the album and Pacific's "el-Arish" business card CD. This album is as important due to the subject it touches as it's true and uncompromising and is still relevant now as it was in the time of its creation. Remastered by Robin Storey. Ltd x 200 copies in a 6-panel ecopak.

RAPOON / LORDS OF INFINITY - 'Split' CD (Zoharum) - £11.50

A split release between Rapoon and Lords Of Infinity, hailing from England and Russia respectively. "For this split CD I returned to the origins of processes that had been there in their most fundamental form in Zoviet France. A ritualistic and shamanistic approach to the creation of music. Uncensored by intellect. More spiritual in nature than conceptual. Elemental and primordial. Not that these elements do not exist in my contemporary creation process, more that they are stripped bare in these pieces" (Rapoon). Behind Russian ritual ambient and experimental project LOI stand Marina Kryzhanovskaya and Mikhail Kiryukhin: "the woman and the man, two eternal souls. The main idea is that life is an immersion to the mystery. The main and essential mystic experience is love and creation. Spiritual invocation awakes delight and horror... music incarnates pan-unity. But whereof one can't speak, thereof one must be silent. Our split is about the eternal marriage of all that exists, flow of the eternally youthful life energy" (Lords Of Infinity). 70 minutes of beautiful and enchanted music. Ltd x 500 copies in a 6-panel digipak.

SAKSET - 'Salaisuuksien Puutarha' LP (Full Contact Records / Ektro Records) - £20

If you build a pyramid using the combined album discographies of Veli-Matti Äijälä (Terveet Kädet, Aavikon Kone Ja Moottori, The Kolmas), Jussi Lehtisalo (Circle, Pharaoh Overlord) and Tomi Leppänen (Circle, Pharaoh Overlord), you'd end up with a megastructure big enough to be visible from the moon. But where to enter that pyramid? Do you need to cut a hole into the door? The secret passage is the new electronic album by Sakset (Scissors). "Salaisuuksien Puutarha" ("Garden Of Secrets") is musically soft and melodic. Lyrically it dives deep into grief and loss, but also transcends high through the cosmos. Produced under the experimental synthwave / accidental pop umbrella of Lehtisalo and Leppänen, the music on this album makes a perfect bed for Äijälä's cryptic one-liner poetry. Comes in a reverse board sleeve, with A1 poster and printed inner sleeve, with cover art by Benjamin Marra.

SÁNDOR VÁLY - 'Young Dionysos' CD (Ektro Records) - £11.50

The main music of the multidisciplinary artist Sándor Vály here was an extreme experimental ritual of piano destruction with an axe; beautiful, brutal, honest. The mutilated piano plays surprisingly beautifully, yet heartbreakingly, until the end. "We are here not for your entertainment. If you are here for entertainment, go home. We are offering you the cathartic experience of pain, the one needed for every creation, for every piece made by humans". "Young Dionysos" is about authority, madness, breaking the boundaries, unpredictability, scandals, depth, ecstasy, and sexuality. In this concert it comes out as sound, noise and music. This concert is part of a bigger audiovisual production that combines music, painting, sculpture, and actionism. "Young Dionysos" is a growing work that combines sound, form and movement; it is a story of the intensive and cathartic experience of existence without which nothing man-made would exist. "Young Dionysos" is an orgy of vitalism. "Young Dionysos" is a feast. Digipak with booklet.

SÁNDOR VÁLY & ÉVA POLGÁR - 'Die Toteninsel' CD (Ektro Records) - £13

Sándor Vály's fictional reconstruction of the lost opera "Die Toteninsel". Collaborating with pianist and composer Éva Polgár, Vály explores the meanings embedded in the libretto published in the aftermath of World War I in 1919. The original score for Karl Georg Zwerenz's (1874-1933) libretto was composed by Jeno Zádor (1894-1977). The opera was performed just once. After its premiere at the Hungarian Royal Opera House in 1928, Zádor's score disappeared without a trace. In the hands of Vály and Polgár, the multifaceted libretto and the lost music lends itself to Dadaist interpretation. Their minimalist and avant-garde take on the text reflects the misunderstandings, mishearings, accents and language distortions that are characteristic of our day and age. Vály and Polgár's highly original music captures the listener in its mesmerizing grip as profoundly as Steve Reich and Philip Glass. The libretto is based on symbolist artist Arnold Böcklin's (1827-1901) painting The Isle of the Dead. Presented in an impressive 6-panel digipak with a 100-page (!!) booklet.

SÁNDOR VÁLY & JÚLIA HEÉGER - 'Sacred Songs' CD (Ektro Records) - £12

"Sacred Songs" brings eerie minimalism to meditative drone. Sándor Vály and Júlia Heéger's monochrome masterpiece of Medieval overtones is augmented with brutal feedback noise, while Heéger's bewitching vocal springs from monophonic sacred music. With superb tension-building, these musical recordings and releases pay tribute to Europe's first female composer Hildegard Von Bingen - the diverse and ramifying German mystic, the naturalist abbess, whose work spread into the fields of natural science, of medicine, of poetry and of music. This work gives rise to dance; to sacred dance and to provocation; to one of the oldest and purest forms of communication, as old as mankind. It is a question on the absence of dance in churches, when every other artform is present - the separation of body and soul; the elevation of the spiritual world and the rejection of the body. Digipak with booklet. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

SCHRÖTTERSBURG - 'Dalet' CD (Zoharum) - £11.50

"Dalet" is the fourth full-length Schröttersburg album. It presents the persistence of vision in the trio's style - new wave and post-punk aesthetics with krautrock propulsion enriched by echoes of psychedelia and industrial rawness. Add yearning vocals on top and you get a balanced mixture that keeps you hypnotized to the very end. The album is very cohesive as a whole, but each song also lives its own life as an autonomous entity. The lyrics are as deeply emotional as they are expressive and they complete the music perfectly. Ltd x 300 copies in a digipak with 16-page booklet.

SCHRÖTTERSBURG - 'Dalet' LP (Zoharum) - £19

LP version of the above release. Ltd x 300 copies on 180g vinyl with full-size insert and download card.

TEHÔM - 'Phobos' CD (Zoharum) - £11.50

TeHÔM is the first ever Croatian dark ambient audio-visual project and one of Europe's mainstays within the genre, previously released on labels such as Twilight Command, Cyclic Law, and Zazen Sounds. "Phobos" is an audio documentation of a live performance held at the extraordinary location of Sophienkirche in Wuppertal, Germany during Phobos Festival in 2019. It was recorded directly at the mixing desk and over a microphone capturing the church's acoustics, which can be heard on the recording itself. The music is atmospheric and ritual; grim and narrative electronics enriched by TeHÔM's chanting and processed acoustics of a percussive nature are at the same time pleasant for the ear and unsettling for the mind. Phobos is a dark, dark place to be. Ltd x 350 copies in a 6-panel digipak.

THE KOLMAS - 'Kolmas Testi' LP (Full Contact Records / Ektro Records) - £18

The Kolmas is Veli-Matti Äijälä (Terveet Kädet, Aavikon Kone Ja Moottori, Sakset) and Markku Leinonen (Death Trip, Terveet Kädet). Compiled from the few known The Kolmas live performances and recordings especially for this LP, "Kolmas Testi" presents experimental / minimal / analogue noise moments with timeless music from over the years. 'Intro' was recorded live in front of a small crowd in a hot garage in Tornio, Finland, in the early 1980's. The remixed versions of The Kolmas-Logo as well as 'Puolet Paavia' parts 1 and 2 were recorded in IKBAL Studios in Tornio. The 'Viisi Osaa' tracks were recorded in IKBAL Studios in Helsinki in the 1990's. The latest nine compositions, which are set in the city of Oulu, give a finishing touch to the coherent whole of this album. An inspiringly mechanical production using the Wasp synthesizer, Alesis SR-16 drum machine, Korg Monotribe analogue ribbon station and more.

THETA - 'Total Division' CD (Zoharum) - £11.50

Behind Theta stands Greek artist Themistoklis Altintzoglou, currently residing in Tromso, northern Norway. He is also half of the duos Metatag and Isolation. Theta has been collaborating with Mitsumidai on Brazilian horror film soundtracks (Uptake Fear and The Hand), background music for podcasts and has contributed with soundscapes and atmospherics for Tau Cross and WAR//PLAGUE albums. "Total Division" presents 9 mysterious, and doom-driven tracks that are drowned in distortion and reverb. Bringing to mind Maeror Tri, Theta unleashes powerful, dense and textural music that you can almost touch, with guitar at the center of his inspirations and sources. Ltd x 300 copies in a 6-panel ecopak.

TOURETTE - 'Échancré' CD (Flag Day Recordings) - £11

A new work by French raging harsh noise act, Tourette. This is Tourette's first new material since 2017's "Proximité Du Murmure" (Triangle Records). An absolute masterclass of dynamic, crushing and emotive harsh noise presented within 4 untitled tracks (over 40 mins of music). Digisleeve.

VIDNA OBMANA - 'Revealed By Composed Nature' CD (Zoharum) - £11.50

A reissue of Vidna Obmana's (Dirk Serries) 1990 album "Revealed By Composed Nature", originally released on Belgian label The Decade Collection. Serries turns to magic whatever he touches. Whenever it’s dark ambient, drone or more experimental sounds you can always expect highest quality of musical expression. This album consists of magnificent and gentle sounds with a slight new age feel. Beautiful harmonics seep through speakers and induce a sedative state. Perfectly constructed tape loops peacefully float into infinity carrying us with them. Tender electronics and acoustic treatments enrich ambience giving us a blurry yet amazingly soothing soundscape. This album as a whole serves its purpose as the aural therapy our disturbed minds in these crazy times. Features PBK. Remastered by Dirk Serries. Photography by Martina Verhoeven. Ltd x 400 copies in a 6-panel digipak.

VLADIMIR HIRSCH - 'Katagenesis' CD (Zoharum) - £11.50

Vladimir Hirsch (Aghiatrias, Skrol) is a composer and a veteran of the Czech industrial scene. "Katagenesis" showcases Hirsch's consistency in style of creation. Melodic, powerful, sublime and absolutely terrifying. The album is presented in the form of a triptych of symphonies: "Axonal Transit", "Metaspheres" and "Hymn". Across 11 tracks we are taking a true tour de fear as we're experiencing a sonic representation of horror. Orchestral instruments mixed with electronics hold us in suspense from the very beginning to the very end giving us only a few short breaks to catch a breath. An amazing take on modern classical and experimental music. Ltd x 300 copies in a digipak.

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