T.A.G.C. - Iso-Erotic Calibration
CD £11.50 | LP Black £21 | LP Brown £23 - OUT NOW!

    

Carefully constructed aural rituals from T.A.G.C., this album maps new realms in the area of sensual electronic music. Founder Adi Newton (CLOCK DVA) uses The Anti Group as an outlet for his research in psycho-acoustic music.

"Iso-Erotic Calibration" explores the potent topic of human sexuality. Recorded over a period of three years, this could be considered on of their more "accessible" albums.

Originally released in 1994 (Side Effects, the label of Lustmord, Musica Maxima Magnetica, and Adi's own Anterior Research Recordings), we are proud to present the album for the first time on vinyl, as well as the first official CD reissue, fleshed out with four bonus tracks: two were bonus digital-only tracks (2013); one track is taken from the soundtrack to the 2011 T.A.G.C. film 'Given'; one is a remix of the title track.

The Anti Group Communications (T.A.G.C.) was devised by Adi Newton and Steven James Turner as early as 1978 as a multi-dimensional research & development project. TAGC are not affiliated to any one system of philosophy or epistemological paradigm or occult fraternity but are open more to individual systems and innovative thinkers. Science, Art, Music Sonology, Literature, Research & Publication are its main areas.

The artwork is filled with text and illustrations supporting the different songs.

• CD in matt-laminate 6-panel digipak

• Ltd Ed 300 copies on brown heavyweight 180g vinyl in a matt-laminate sleeve

• Black heavyweight 180g vinyl in a matt-laminate sleeve

LTD BROWN LP £23	BLACK LP £21	CD £11.50

VARIOUS ARTISTS - 'Noise Forest'
CD £11.50 | 2LP Black £26 | 2LP Forest Green £28 - OUT NOW!

      

A classic compilation that emanated out of Osaka, "Noise Forest" brings together a powerhouse of early 90's Japanese noise stalwarts: MERZBOW, C.C.C.C., SOLMANIA, DISLOCATION, MONDE BRUITS, MASONNA, VIOLENT ONSEN GEISHA, and INCAPACITANTS.

The ultimate Japanoise collection, originally released in 1992 on the cult Les Disques Du Soleil label / record store on CD-only, and now impossible to find. Remastered and presented here on deluxe 2LP in matt-laminate gatefold sleeve (first time on vinyl) and new CD edition, all with new artwork.

A forest isn't something normally associated with noise; it brings to mind silence and solitude. However, the ominous cover art here - and the artists within - bring to mind the notorious suicide forest Aokigahara. Despite all tracks falling into the Japanoise genre, the tracks are very diverse, yet every track is so distinct it could only be by that artist.

"One of the most unique and stand-out noise comps of the 90's".

For mini-reviews of each track, please visit the release pages, or listen to Noisextra's 'Noise Forest' special!

• CD in matt-laminate 6-panel digipak

• 2LP Ltd Ed 250 copies on forest green heavyweight 180g vinyl in a matt-laminate gatefold sleeve

• 2LP Black heavyweight 180g vinyl in a matt-laminate gatefold sleeve

LTD FOREST GREEN 2LP £28	BLACK 2LP £26	CD £11.50

PITCHSHIFTER - Peel Sessions 1991-93
CD £12 | LP Black £22 | LP White £25 - OUT NOW!

    

We proudly present the first ever release of PITCHSHIFTER's legendary BBC sessions for the late, great John Peel.

These ultra heavy industrial metal tracks were recorded over two sessions at the iconic Maida Vale studios: 28th April 1991 and 30th March 1993 and were sourced directly from the BBC Archives (with thanks), with careful remastering for CD and vinyl. The 1991 session was recorded during the same period as "Industrial" (Deaf Records / Peaceville), with the 1993 session recorded around the time of "Desensitized" (Earache), with the massive EP "Submit" in between.

PREMIERE AT CVLT NATION

"If you look on your PITCHSHIFTER albums you will see that we always credit John Peel. He was instrumental in getting the band out there and often played our music on the radio when no one else dared. The 'Peel Sessions' we did were a great honour and every time I met John he was always such a great guy... a legend" (JS).

Founded in Nottingham in 1989, PITCHSHIFTER's early style was heavy industrial metal, being cited as one of the originators of the genre along with Godflesh - a style which they termed "Death Industrial". These sessions and albums mark the end of that classic period, before a shift towards the more commercial, beat-driven Industrial style from the mid-90's onward that they are still known for.

• CD in matt-laminate 6-panel digipak

• Ltd Ed 500 copies on white heavyweight 180g vinyl in a matt-laminate sleeve

• Black heavyweight 180g vinyl in a matt-laminate sleeve

• Ltd 100 copies on Black & White swirl heavyweight 180g vinyl in a matt-laminate sleeve (via Pitchshifter only)

LTD WHITE LP £25	BLACK LP £22	CD £12

BESTIA ASTRUM - 'Fury 161'
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The debut album from Bestia Astrum (aka Abby Helasdottir / GYDJA) is a grim exploration of Fury 161, the prison planet from Alien³.

An industrial ambient travelogue of the spaces in the planet's dark and rusty facility, beginning on a wind-swept shore and ending in the eternal repose of stony sleep.

More than just an alternate soundtrack to a film, "Fury 161" takes cues from the long and troubled production of Alien³, incorporating themes from earlier concepts proposed during its development hell, including the treatment created by Vincent Ward, who imagined the movie's location as a wooden planet that was home to an order of space monks.

Motifs of eremitic religiosity permeate the album, as well as themes of Yeatsian apocalypticism, abject anatomy, and the intersection between the sacred and the profane, betwixt the beautiful and the grotesque.

• CD in full colour matt-laminate digipak with gold spot colour, accompanied by a 16-page booklet with an essay by Abby Helasdottir.

THE SEA OF WIRES - 'The Sea Of Wires'
2CD £13.50 - OUT NOW!

       

The Sea Of Wires were a very early '80s electronic duo hailing from the industrial wastelands of Coventry.

Followers of the German Electronic Scene of the time (Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Tempel, Popol Vuh, Cluster etc), Chris Jones and Tony Murphy used elements of Kosmische Musik in their compositions, with a variety of warm synths, analogue effects, and layered experimentation.

This double-CD collects cassettes which appeared on their own Sea Of Wires label: "Individually Screened" (1980, then 1981 on the famous Flowmotion label); Chris Jones' "Diversions" (1981, featuring Murphy on synth); and "Beyond The Edge Of Tomorrow" (1982), representing the absolute peak of their sound.

These tracks appeared as a double LP on the illustrious Vinyl-on-Demand label back in 2014 as part of the massive 12LP boxset "80's Minimal Synth. Wave Vol.2", but are presented here on CD for the first time ever.

"A bubbly electronic miesterwerk from the electronic Dark Ages, those very early 1980s, just as synths started to get smaller and more affordable... They mostly relied on beat-free sequencer pulses with something of a Kraut influence, plus the occasional nod to the past glories of the Radiophonic Workshop... Full of classic warm synth settings, not unlike a solid state volcanic mud pool, pumping out bubbles of sweet sounding ear gases through the smooth hot mud" (Die Or DIY).

FFO early Human League, Vice Versa, We Be Echo, Tangerine Dream.

• Double CD in a matt-finish gatefold ecopak.

DAVID JACKMAN - 'Flames Of Fire' CD (Die Stadt) - £13.50

"Flames of Fire" from David Jackman (Organum) consists of a 47-minute piece titled 'Flames of Fire & Stars of Lighte the Sun Ariseth'. The opening metallic hum vaguely resembles the vibrations of a sitar; shruti-like drones elongated and sustained into infinity. Unlike his work as Organum Electronics, the composition is clearly organic, retaining some electronic elements. A serpentine slithering tone that consistently flows - swelling and drifting into the lower end of the frequency spectrum - gives this piece a different feel than the ones that preceded it. The focus shifts to the tones, and he brings in the vibrating gong sounds that have featured in most of his recent work, with a noisy undercurrent towards the end. "The drones are heavier on this release... There is an orchestral darkness about this, an enormous cloud without too many details and a more machine-like proposition... This is also very dark music, but with a rather menacing undercurrent... a bleak picture and the soundtrack for a gloomy time" (Vital Weekly). Ltd x 500 copies in a digisleeve with excellent artwork by Jonathan Coleclough.

DAVID JACKMAN - 'Schining' 2 x CD (Die Stadt) - £15

The next in Die Stadt's David Jackman / Organum series, continuing his pursuit of the monolithic shifting structure. Beginning with similar sounds to "Flames Of Fire" - a metallic buzz and deep, resonating tone - Jackman shifts the pitch more with sharper buzzing and a greater use of gongs and bells. A shimmering mix, with the first half much heavier. On the second CD he opens the sound up more, with the dynamics giving an almost buoyant quality to the music. Leading off with the crashing gong, it's soon stripped back allowing a sustained, wavering tone to be in the forefront. The sound resembles what could be an organ but held for infinity. Just as it becomes mesmerising and hypnotic though, Jackman throws in the bells, with variations coming in rapid succession versus the otherwise slow and steady feel. Ltd x 500 copies in a digisleeve with excellent artwork by Jonathan Coleclough.

DAVID JACKMAN - 'Herbstsonne' CD (Die Stadt) - £13.50

This work by David Jackman (Organum), "Herbstsonne" consists of a single 47-minute long track which is the result of recording sessions at RMS Studios, South London in 2018. Using the sounds of tanpura, piano, organ and bells, the music perfectly captures the title of the piece which translates to "Autumn Sun". "Deliberately minimalist in arrangement, but with an unquestionable dedication to the finest detail of sounds, it is another work of fascinating beauty by the legendary artist... some of the most engrossing music I have heard all year" (Brainwashed). Precision editing by Alan Jones. Ltd x 300 copies in a digisleeve with excellent artwork by Jonathan Coleclough.

KONTAKT DER JÜNGLINGE - 'Makrophonie 1' CD (Die Stadt) - £13.50

The very first studio album from Kontakt Der Jünglinge: Asmus Tietchens and Thomas Köner. This is the result of various scores which were developed before and during miscellaneous live performances. These worked out structures were then taken to the studio, where they were concentrated and received their final finish. "Makrophonie 1" can be described as KDJ music in highly-concentrated form. "Ghostly sweeps of dark, haunting tones mix with crackling, phased static early on, with both trading off to create a dramatic, swirling build of intense music that sounds richer and more fully realized than what was captured on their live collaborations" (Brainwashed). Ltd x 500 copies in a digipak.

KRISTIAN OLSSON - 'Giftnålen No. 1' Book (The Ajna Offensive) - £42

An incredible hardback book publication spanning a huge 480 pages! Dealing with all kinds of apocalyptic culture, anarchic rants, archaic sorcery, damned poets, esoterrorist tactics, forbidden knowledge, libertine lusts, necromantic collages, oneiric musings, outlaw occultism, perversion, sinister arts and visual expansionism, Giftnålen is the foul arts journal for death-obsessed brutes and society's outcasts. Revel in amoral excesses. Sit back and enjoy reading while this world burns. A total derangement of the senses. Heavily illustrated with tons of exclusive and rarely seen material. Harking back to the days of the late 1980s-early 1990s in terms of diversity of content, drawing inspiration from underground books and publications such as Amok, Esoterra, Exit, Force Mental, Pandemonium, Rapid Eye Movement, Svarta Fanor etc. Giftnålen takes it next level and further into unknown territory. Includes: Throbbing Gristle, The New Blockaders, Organum, Metgumbnerbone, Ramleh, Putrefier, Con-Dom, The Grey Wolves, Vagina Dentata Organ, Genocide Organ, The Sodality, Club Moral, Zero Kama, Vivenza, Monte Cazazza, John Duncan, SPK, Merzbow, and many, many others. 20x29,6cm, B&W, 480pp, English text.

MICRO_PENIS - 'Schlim' LP (Doubtful Sounds) - £18

Schlim (slime in Alsatian dialect) is the final instalment of a trilogy from French 'gross improv' unit Micro_Penis. "Forget all the 'crazy stories' about members in mental hospitals and Zen temples, covering themselves with stuff from garbage bins, and concentrate on what is on offer, and that's the music. The four members, Heyer, Kittel, Ogrob and Spenlehauer, are no doubt non-musicians in the truest sense of the word... They swap their instruments on all tracks, and keep at them for the duration of the track. There is the usual vocal abuse, a bit of noise, improvised guitar bits, the demented rock approach if you will. It all goes down to tape and then gets mixed, and there it gets interesting; Micro_Penis use the studio-as-instrument to great effect here... It all reminded me of a bit of Nurse With Wound layering tons of weirdness on a bunch of tracks in the studio and then seeking out the right balance between those tracks in order to build an intense composition... This is surely their best album so far" (Vital Weekly). Ltd x 300 copies.

ORGANUM / Z'EV - 'Temporal' CD (Die Stadt) - £13.50

"Temporal" is the third collaborative work from Organum and Z'EV, following "Tinnitus VU" on Touch and "Tocsin" on Die Stadt. Z'EV began reworking basic sound material from the Organum archive back in 2006, which resulted in a collaborative mixing of the material until early 2008. The finishing touches were then left to David Jackman between March and June 2008. The overall tone on "Temporal" is comparable to the 'classic' Organum sound; a multi-layered and intense listening experience. Ltd x 600 copies in a digisleeve.

STEVE UNDERWOOD - 'Even When It Makes No Sense - The Broken Flag Story' Book (Korm Plastics) - £17.50

UK cassette and record label Broken Flag was founded in 1982, and whilst not having released anything for a long time, it has never officially ceased to exist. Their primary interest was radical music, noise and power electronics. They first released music by label boss Gary Mundy's project, Ramleh, but later also by Le Syndicat, M.B., Controlled Bleeding, Giancarlo Toniutti and various Mundy solo projects. As Loud As Possible magazine first published the text by Steve Underwood (Harbinger Sound label boss) in 2010, but it is expanded here with additional interviews; updates; a reprint of two issues of Broken Flag's fanzine, "Even When It Makes No Sense"; and reproductions of many of the label's cassette covers. A fascinating read and an indispensable piece of industrial music history. Paperback, 17x24cm, 144pp.

FILER COLEMAN - 'Below/Light' CD (13 / Silentes) - £12

A selection of ambient works by Jim Filer Coleman (COP SHOOT COP). "Below/Light" represents an antidote, or perhaps a counterpart, to the more aggressive music that he may be more known for such as Cop Shoot Cop and Human Impact. These tracks were recorded over a span of a few years, slowly evolving and seeking definition. Electrocoustic in nature, the approach was always exploratory and playful, searching for balance and connection with the natural world. Jim Coleman was an instrumental member of Cop Shoot Cop, playing keyboards and creating samples. Afterwards he worked in other groups with more electronics - like Baby Zizanie along with J.G. Thirlwell, and Here with Teho Teardo - and recorded a solo album as Phylr. He also released an ambient album entitled "Trees" under his own name. Additionally, Coleman has scored a good number of indie films, like 'Exposed' by Beth B and 'Stay Then Go' by Shelli Ainsworth, and TV series. He has also worked with directors such as Todd Phillips, Hal Hartley, Richard Kern and Danny Leitner. Ltd x 200 copies in a 6-panel digisleeve.

SDUG BSNGAL - 'Pathei Mathos II' CD (Zazen Sounds) - £12

A harrowing descent into the abyss of sound, this ritualistic offering fuses raw noise and experimental textures with an atmosphere of profound unease. A spiritual collaboration between the innermost beings of Rickard Gunnerfeldt (ex-Lifelover) and Johan Eddebo (Reverorum ib Malacht), "Pathei Mathos II" emerges as a sanctum for those drawn to the chaotic and the cathartic. Because creativity is truly a blessing, what is of real importance is the essence of the work of art. This deeply personal project is, on the one hand, from the perspective of Roman-Catholic mysticism, and, on the other hand, a Jungian auto-biography. The concept of Sdug Bsngal is that both voluntary and involuntary pain and suffering is fruitful. Ideal for devotees of Brighter Death Now, it beckons the listener into a realm where sonic pain transforms into transcendent revelation... Gatefold digisleeve. Already sold out from the label!