GENESIS P-ORRIDGE & DAVE BALL - 'Imagining October' (Derek Jarman) O.S.T.
12" Etched £18 - out 14th October

        

The first ever release of the soundtrack to the rarely-seen DEREK JARMAN 1984 short film "Imagining October", with music recorded by Derek's friend and collaborator Genesis P-Orridge (PSYCHIC TV / THROBBING GRISTLE), and Dave Ball (SOFT CELL / THE GRID). Recorded at DJM recording studios in Theobalds Road, London.

Limited Edition 12" vinyl featuring a beautiful etched B-Side. Features liner notes by James Mackay (Jarman's producer, collaborator and archivist).

Derek Jarman put together a programme of films for the London Film Festival, reflecting the cutting edge of the London avant-garde of the time. Recorded at the same time as "The Angelic Conversation", "Imagining October" was filmed in the Eisenstein Museum in Moscow, Vladimir Mayakovsky's grave at Novodevichy Cemetery, the GUM department store facing red square, and the fire temples of Baku in Azerbaijan. The painting sequences with a group of soldiers (Angus Cook, Stephen Thrower (COIL), Peter Doig and Keir Wahid) was filmed in London. Jarman considered it one of the best, if not the best, of his shorter works. It was intended as an agit-prop work and the combination of music and imagery remains powerful to this day.

JAGATH - 'Svapna'
CD £9.50 - out 5th October

        

"Svapna" is the brand new album from JAGATH - the ritual / industrial / dark ambient act from Perm, Russia.

"A portal to another world is located inside an abandoned Soviet-era swamp drain near a residential building in the Zakamsk suburb of Perm, Russia, 58.0122, 55.9623. A ritual was performed here, so now we are living in an inside-out world.

This is one of the last recordings inside our Temple - the oil tanks are finally scrapped. I hope this is not the end.

This album is dedicated to the victims of totalitarian regimes".

JAGATH create their music at abandoned industrial locations - the bottom of a moist underground sewer shaft and inside huge hollow oil tanks - without using digital synthesis. Simple, mostly hand-crafted instruments, found objects and voices are used to share their vision of decaying post-industrial age, to unleash the spirit of deep beyond-world and unveil life in the abyss.

6-panel glossy digipak. For fans of: Shibalba, Phurpa, Raison D'etre, Arktau Eos.

DEAD VOICES ON AIR - 'Abrader Redux'
CD £9.50 - out 7th October

        

The hugely sought-after debut album from DEAD VOICES ON AIR (Mark Spybey of DOWNLOAD / ex-ZOVIET FRANCE, REFORMED FACTION), featuring cEvin Key (SKINNY PUPPY / DOWNLOAD).

"Abrader" blends processed sounds from primitive instruments and found objects into hypnotic looped rhythmic structures, with dark clusters of heavy ambient washes into what could be described as Organic Panambience, or 'music for the eyes'.

"Abrader" was the first of over 80 releases (so far) by Mark Spybey using the name DEAD VOICES ON AIR. It was recorded over the space of days in Vancouver in 1993 and released as a tape the following year by Akifumi Nakajima (AUBE), for his G.R.O.S.S. label. Chronologically, the material was recorded after most of the music that made up his first two releases on compact disc - "New Words Machine" and "Hafted Maul" - however, "Abrader" was released before both of those albums.

"Abrader Redux" features the three lengthy tracks that were released on the original cassette, plus the bonus tracks that were included in the 2009 reprint as part of the "Fast Falls The Eventide" double CD, and now with two 'new' previously-unreleased bonus tracks recorded 1994 - taking this masterwork up to 7 tracks and over 67 minutes of exceptional music.

"If most ambient is the laudanum of the new fin de siécle, then Dead Voices on Air are the absinthe" (Village Voice).

The album for Cold Spring has been remastered by Martin Bowes from Attrition. Packaged in a matt-laminate digipak with art by Spybey, beautifully laid out by Abby Helasdottir.

KOLLAPS - 'UNTIL THE DAY I DIE'
CD £11 - out now! || LP £18 Adv - out 20th October

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"Until The Day I Die", the third album from Australian post-industrial outfit KOLLAPS, is a merciless and visceral assault on the senses and continues the trajectory of the band's idiosyncratic approach in their creation of sound. The album showcases an uncompromising force of harsh post-industrial music narrated by overarching themes of condemnation and redemption; of violence, romanticism, sexuality, and addiction. Much of the creation and lyrical conceptualisation of the record has been stylised and presented using William S. Burroughs' cut-up method.

A wide variety of metals and raw materials were used in the creation of the album including metal grates, a rusted hoist, cement cylinders, field recordings, hammering of various decrepit objects, broken amplifiers, an exposed reverb tank, various synthesizers, and the infamous metal coil; a crudely self-constructed artifice that has become iconic in its use across KOLLAPS' triptych of releases and lengthy touring history.

Mastered by: James Plotkin. Cover artwork: Nullvoid (Thomas Ekelund | Trepaneringsritualen).

CD in 6-panel digipak || LP with full colour matt-laminate sleeve and printed inner lyric sleeve.

CACKLE CAR - 'G.I.L.' CD (Total Black) - £11.50

A collaboration between Ted Byrnes (Wood And Metal) and Sam McKinlay (The Rita), "G.I.L." is the debut full-length from Cackle Car. Solo percussion tracks from Ted Byrnes emulate drag racer engines idling on nitro. Sam McKinlay then takes each track and translates them even further into a distorted cackling texture. A call and response divided into 10 parts, "G.I.L." reaches points of near mania, and constantly shifts into a new direction as soon as it becomes comfortable. One for those who enjoy a 'difficult' listen! Photography by Sam McKinlay. Mastered by Grant Richardson (Gnawed).

INCAPACITANTS - 'As Loud As Possible' CD (Total Black) - £12

The mid-90's were particularly abundant years for harsh noise, producing many albums which are now considered masterpieces. One of the most beloved classics from this period is "As Loud As Possible" by Incapacitants. Active since 1981, the duo of Toshiji Mikawa (Hijokaidan) and Fumio Kosakai (Hijokaidan, C.C.C.C., Tangerine Dream Syndicate) found their stride in the early 90's and set off on an unrelenting course which produced countless gems of noise. Having never been reissued since its original 1995 release (CD, Zabriskie Point), "As Loud As Possible" is now made available for the first time in 27 years, with no corner cut in preparation of its reissue. The audio was transferred from the original tapes by Din-I-Ilahi, and re-mastered for digital format by Rashad Becker. The iconic cover photographs by Naomi Hosokawa have been scanned from the original negatives , along with outtakes and unused shots, which are now included here for the first time. The 8-panel digipak also features extensive liner notes written by Sam McKinlay aka The Rita.

INCAPACITANTS - 'As Loud As Possible' 2 x LP + 7" (Total Black) - £35

Super deluxe vinyl edition of the above release. Re-mastered for vinyl format by Rashad Becker. The iconic cover photographs by Naomi Hosokawa have been scanned from the original negatives and enlarged for the expanded LP format, along with outtakes and unused shots, which are now included here for the first time. T. Mikawa also dug into the Incapacitants archives and unearthed two additional tracks of previously unreleased material, recorded around the same time as the album. These two vinyl-only tracks, entitled "As Loud As Possible Revisited" are included as a bonus 7" with alternate picture sleeve. Features extensive liner notes written by Sam McKinlay aka The Rita. Deluxe gatefold sleeve with full-size insert.

JOE COLLEY - 'Deformation Of Tone' LP (Total Black) - £20

This album delivers abrasive-adjacent electronic judders cloaked in a feeling of intimacy distilled from primordial ooze. Opening voices dissolve into Lucierian mosaic yammer, and plummet into a negative space populated by an unadorned clicking, that most elemental physical manifestation of audio phenomena; the antithesis of awareness and enlightenment and transcendence. The episodes continue without pause, as if one is moving through an exhibition. Compared to Colley's work, which he once described as "little noises arranged on a piece of plastic", a lot of other noise seems hell-bent on shameless over-compensation. His material has always been low-key, and "Deformation Of Tone" finds him shuffling in a colder, harsher, more desolate direction. The single-malt rasp of an unnamed conspiracy theorist / motivational speaker, present more for his intonation than anything else, punctuates this rather sculptural 33 minutes of machines whirring, devices beeping, blank-face rotary drones swelling and merging with unnaturally regimented hive rustlings and perfectly unpleasant high-gain squelch - all constructed with a master's timing and sense of scale.

JUNTA CADRE - 'The Enemy Is Listening' LP (Total Black) - £20

Following the red thread of history that wove its way through the 20th century, Power Electronics act Junta Cadre previously targeted the development and overtake of Communism throughout China and South-East Asia. Now, the iron-sights are set on the era of the red scare and Cold War. "The Enemy Is Listening" draws heavily from personal research and reading, aiming to document the years of paranoia, intimidation, and political terror of Soviet Communism, and its tense relationship with the United States. After several tape releases, this debut LP picks up sonically where the previous full-length "Vietnam Forever" left off, introducing the most expansive sound for the project so far. With the help of artists Deterge, Striations, and Death Kneel, "The Enemy Is Listening" delivers oppressive synth lines, scathing vocals, crushing noise, and meticulous sampling. Includes 8-page A4 full colour booklet.

RELAY FOR DEATH / JASON CRUMER - 'Channel Gutter' CD (Total Black) - £11.50

"Channel Gutter" is a split affair between autonomous American noisers Relay For Death and Jason Crumer. Relay For Death open with a barrage of sound, and over the six movements contained in the 25+ minute piece, Roxann and Rachal Spikula weave between noise, musique-concrète, dark ambient, and industrial, while maintaining an intangible and stoic nature. "Pauperized Monolith" is a nearly 37-minute deep arrangement from Jason Crumer. Featuring harsh noise extractions from the classic early 2000s "Ruth" sessions, the second half of the split is pensive, occasionally veering into the realm of ambient. Absolute highest recommendation. Ltd x 300 copies in a digipak.

THE RITA - 'Gamzatti' CD (Total Black) - £12

Deluxe CD reissue of the long sold-out LP "Gamzatti", originally released by Total Black in 2014. Includes an extra 27-minute long reworking of original source material entitled "Gamzatti Stripped". "Gamzatti" marked the first The Rita recordings utilizing sound sources from pointe shoe work to create his signature Harsh Noise Wall sound. The pointe shoe preparation and technique here is by Hannah Sarah Myrberg, and this CD reissue is dedicated to her memory. All of the dancer's pointe shoe movements were mic'd, recorded, photographed, and processed live by The Rita, turning her dance steps into something significantly more sinister. Gamzatti is arguably Sam McKinlay's (Black To Comm, Vice Wears Black Hose) favourite female classical ballet character. His top three favourite performers of the role are Ludmila Pagliero, Tatiana Terekhova, and Marianela Nunez. Housed in a stunning 8-panel digipak with full-colour booklet.