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VA 'Decoder' CD complete soundtrack with 10pp booklet is in stock early!
Pre-order price remains in place until MIDNIGHT TOMORROW!
ILLUSTRIOUS (Martyn Ware of Heaven 17, B.E.F., ex-The Human League - and Charles Stooke) 'Mesmerine 111™' 2CD + slipcase **signed** is in stock after a short delay at the factory. Thanks for your patience!
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We have added all remaining 'long sold out' titles from a closed distributor to the webstore, including two further titles we missed out: MERZBOW 'Cafe OTO' 2CD, and MERZBOW Vs NORDVARGR 'Partikel III' CD. Less than 10 copies of each in stock, so act fast! You can find the full list here, including very limited vinyl.
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In the press
MARTYN WARE spoke to Blitzed Magazine about Illustrious 'Mesmerine 111', the new 2CD album for Cold Spring:
"By the end of the five-hour [production] session I literally felt otherworldly, like I was gone, on drugs... it does genuinely put you in a trance, particularly if you take both doses".
CHIMEHOURS 'Underneath The Earth' featured on BBC Radio 6 Music's Forever Dark.
Listen back until 6th October.
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CHIMEHOURS - 'Underneath The Earth'
CD £9.50 Adv. / LP Black £18 Adv. | LP Ltd Earth Green £21 Adv. - OUT 24th OCT
    
"Underneath The Earth" is the debut album from Chimehours; a hauntological music project for the dislocated present day. Taking inspiration from Max Porter's novel "Lanny", the album digs into themes of nature, myth and community, with an edge of folk-horror.
Drones, drums and gritty guitars are juxtaposed with woodwind, strings and ethereal song. Written and produced between Derbyshire, London and Margate, the album takes musical influence from the likes of Liz Fraser, Broadcast, Beth Gibbons, Bibio and Jóhann Jóhannsson, and atmospheric cues from The Wickerman, The Fog, and Enys Men.
Chimehours is a collaboration between Beck Goldsmith and Jon Dix. The pair have previously performed in bands together and composed music for award-winning film and television. They conjured up this foray into cinematic, horror-flecked contemporary-folk to explore their love of the supernatural and the other-than-human.
Chimehours raid the vaults of 70's British cinema and trad folk soundscapes to riff on contemporary anxieties and ecological yearning. They conjured up this foray into cinematic, horror-flecked contemporary-folk to explore their love of the supernatural and the other-than-human. The result is a collection of all things earthy, exquisite and grotesque.
FFO: Darkher, The Unthanks, Wardruna, Jóhann Jóhannsson...
• CD in matt-laminate digipak
• Ltd x 250 copies on 180g black vinyl
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VARIOUS ARTISTS - 'Decoder'
CD £11 Adv. - OUT FRIDAY (IN STOCK EARLY!)
 
Released on standalone CD for the first time in 33 years, this now-complete edition of the ground-breaking, legendary soundtrack is finally here.
A cult classic of sci-fi dystopia, "Decoder" (1984) saw EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN's members working alongside GENESIS P-ORRIDGE (THROBBING GRISTLE / PSYCHIC TV) and WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS. It's one of the strangest (and most prescient) films of the decade. The film was made in Hamburg and Berlin, and directed by Klaus Maeck 'Muscha' (who directed several punk films).
The lead roles are played by Christiane F and FM Einheit from Neubauten, who also contributed to the film's score. Genesis P-Orridge, the kingpin of the English industrial scene, also appears as a priest of the Black Noise faith. Author William S. Burroughs portrays an insurrectionist salesman of audio equipment (and contributes spoken word to the soundtrack), and American cult actor Bill Rice plays a detective.
SOFT CELL contributed their classic 'Seedy Films', while MATT JOHNSON from THE THE wrote a frenetic, deformed song for the film that is both fantastic and painful to listen to, and EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN's 'Compressed Metal' is sublime. Dave Ball (SOFT CELL), Jon Caffery and Genesis P-Orridge composed the rest of the soundtrack.
A futuristic film, and a joyous application of William S. Burroughs' "The Electronic Revolution", which proposes a seditious and rather poetic method of subverting the masses and inciting them to rise up against the forces of order.
MUZAK IS MORE THAN MUSIC.
• CD in matt-laminate digipak with 10-page foldout booklet.
Track listing:
1. Genesis P-Orridge & Dave Ball 'Muzak For Frogs' (3:23)
2. The The 'Three Orange Kisses From Kazan' (4:30)
3. Genesis P-Orridge & Dave Ball 'Dream' (2:30)
4. Genesis P-Orridge & Dave Ball 'Main Theme (Showdown)' (3:04)
5. Genesis P-Orridge & Dave Ball 'Sex And The Married Frog' (3:24)
6. Soft Cell 'Seedy Films' (5:05)
7. FM Einheit 'Riots' (2:55)
8. Genesis P-Orridge 'Information (0:46)
9. FM Einheit / John Caffery / Alexander Von Borsig 'Muzak Decoding / Dream Machine / Pirates' (8:41)
10. Einstürzende Neubauten 'Compressed Metal' (2:25)
11. Genesis P-Orridge & Dave Ball 'Main Theme (Finale)' (3:42) |
ILLUSTRIOUS - 'Mesmerine 111™'
2 x CD **SIGNED** £17.50. - OUT NOW!
  
Illustrious is MARTYN WARE (HEAVEN 17, B.E.F., ex-THE HUMAN LEAGUE), and CHARLES STOOKE.
Illustrious Company presents... Mesmerine 111™. This is a 3D soundscape based on / inspired by the frequency 111Hz, which has been historically and scientifically proven to induce a trance-like state.
Findings of MRI scans suggest that at exactly 111hz, the brain switches off the prefrontal cortex, deactivating the language centre, and temporarily switches from left to right-sided dominance, which is responsible for intuition, creativity, holistic processing, inducing a state of meditation or a trance.
These findings have been confirmed by archeo-acousticians in studies regarding ancient and Neolithic shamanistic burial rituals around the world. The title is a take on the use of sound as pharmacology (Mesmerine is the name of an imaginary drug). ...
The soundscape of the ambient Dose 1 is 50 minutes in duration - long enough to induce a true trance-like state. Dose 2 continues with a calming and unctuous vocal mix performed by Charles Stooke. Bringing to mind HAL 9000 (2001: A Space Odyssey), the sound is simultaneously reassuring and disquieting.
The world premiere of the 3D sound composition was at the FOCUS Art Fair in New York, Spring 2025.
Safe when used as directed. Recommended optimal dosage: 30-60 minutes at (less than) 70dB, delivered by Illustrious Labs 3D audioscape system or binaural through your own headphones.
Side effects may include:
Contra-indications (in less than 10% of cases)
Loss of consciousness
Unresponsiveness
Low blood pressure
Hypnogogic meta-trance
Inertia
Extreme calm
Hypnotic hypersensitivity
Hyperacuity
Visual hallucinations
• 2CD in matt-laminate gatefol digisleeve, presented in a slipcase with sticker hand-signed by Martyn Ware.
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MARC AND THE MAMBAS - 'Three Black Nights Of Little Black Bites'
Ltd 2LP Black / Red Splatter (sold out) | Ltd Red 2LP (sold out) | Black 2LP - OUT NOW!
 
The complete recordings of the legendary Marc And The Mambas run of three live performances given at The Duke Of York's Theatre in London's West End in 1983. Restored from the original VHS tape recordings made by the late Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson (Throbbing Gristle, Coil), these remain the only recordings that exist of Marc And The Mambas performing live.
Originally released in 2012 on Marc Almond's (Soft Cell) own Strike Force Entertainment label as a CD/DVD set (long sold out), this edition, presented on vinyl for the first time, contains the 17 tracks from the SFE CD release, expanded to include the two bonus DVD-only tracks: 'Près Des Ramparts De Séville' and 'Jacky'. Completely remastered for vinyl by Martin Bowes (The Cage Studios).
A combination of the chanson and torch songs which he still sings today, over piano, strings and woodwind-accompanied compositions. "It's quite a spectacle, especially when Almond hits his sweet spot of sinister lyrics, declared pompously over a droned string arrangement... Early signs of the full-on showtune and classical rearrangements that make up Almond's current albums are evident"(Record Collector).
Presented on heavyweight double vinyl in a deluxe glossy gatefold sleeve featuring the extensive reminiscence by Marc Almond himself from the 2012 release.
Also included is a reproduction of the 16-page programme printed for the three concerts in 1983. The stunning cover painting by Val Denham is exclusive to this release.
• Ltd x 150 copies Red / Black Splatter 2LP (via Cold Spring only! SOLD OUT!)
• Ltd x 350 copies Red 2LP (SOLD OUT!)
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PSYCHIC TV - 'A Prayer For Derek Jarman'
CD £11.50. OUT NOW!
Unavailable for almost 30 years in its own right, this collection from the Cold Spring archive has been remastered / repackaged with new art. This classic album exists as a document of the soundtrack work PSYCHIC TV created for the many films and videos of Derek Jarman. Another demonstration of why PSYCHIC TV were one of the most important groups in the world.
The titular track, 'Prayer For Derek', is intended as an invocationary prayer, based on Tibetan rituals; a collage of sounds including field recordings of the lulling waves running aground on the shingle beach opposite Jarman's Prospect Cottage in Dungeness, Kent alongside bird song, crying babies, and massed ritualised chants to aid the late film director in his after-life journeys.
Other tracks feature elongated drones, washes of dissonance, melancholic guitar chime, evocative piano scoring, Burroughs cut-ups, gothic chants, and familiar snarling dogs.
• CD in matt digipak with 8-page fold-out booklet, with detailed liner notes by Genesis P-Orridge (1997); Astorical anecdotes and background facts for completeness.
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SONOLOGYST - 'Planetarium'
2 x CD £13.50 |
LITTLE ANNIE - 'With'
CD £11.50 | LP Black £22 | LP Green £24 |
ANDREW OSTLER - 'The Blind Sublime'
CD £11.50 |
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An aural exploration of the solar system using data from NASA's probes.
On the latest album by Sonologyst, raw data from radio waves, electromagnetic fields, and plasma fluctuations, utilising data sonification files provided by NASA, are transformed into a haunting soundscape, unveiling the ambient music of planets, solar winds, and the cosmic beyond.
As the newest addition to Sonologyst's series of sonic documentaries, this work deepens his exploration of the sonic spectrum, converting cosmic phenomena into immersive auditory experiences.
• Double CD in a matt-finish gatefold ecopak, with a bonus disc of the raw source material from NASA's probes.
All purchases direct from Cold Spring will receive a small pack of original stamps from the golden age of the space race - one original Soviet stamp celebrating the Venera 14 probe to Venus, and a further random stamp from anywhere in the world again celebrating Mankind's missions into space. All stamps are authentic and original and can be neatly stored away within the package.
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This collection features the cream of Little Annie's collaborations with some of the greatest names in the 'alternative' music world: MARC ALMOND (Soft Cell), COIL, SWANS, BONNIE "PRINCE" BILLY, BABY DEE, KID CONGO POWERS (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, The Gun Club, The Cramps), PAUL WALLFISCH (The Ministry Of Wolves, ex-Swans), and LARSEN.
A common atmosphere brings these tracks together; lamenting torch songs, esoteric electronics, melancholic pianos, avant-garde lounge... a collection for dark, candle-lit corners of smoky cabaret bars and secret speakeasy clubs.
Mastered by Martin Siewert (known for his incredible mastering for the likes of Hermann Nitsch, Thurston Moore, Lydia Lunch, Mika Vainio, Keiji Haino, and more).
Cover paintings by Little Annie.
• CD in matt-laminate 6-panel digipak
• Ltd Ed 250 copies on green heavyweight 180g vinyl in a matt-laminate sleeve (via Cold Spring only!)
• Black heavyweight 180g vinyl in a matt-laminate sleeve
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Andrew Ostler continues his artistic evolution towards choral beauty, orchestral textures, ambient drones and low woodwind, into the realms of Jóhann Jóhannsson, Arvo Pärt or Stars Of The Lid.
Building on the string arrangements of his previous LP "Dots On A Disk Of Snow", and taking a heavy dose of sax drone from an earlier album still, this record also adds a full choir, taking the music to another level.
On the first three compositions the drones are, for the most part, relatively gentle, while chant-like choral arrangements drift and weave around and above them. 'Affirmation' is quietly confident, with a surge of intensity around the midpoint; 'Confession' is perhaps more tentative, the shifting canon of the voices threatened by a distant storm of distorted synth shredding; 'Adoration' restores the straightforward choral beauty, building to an unashamed cadence.
The immense final track 'Meditation' is a quite different affair. Here the drones are more intense slabs, the choir is more demonstrative in its emotion, and the ultimate climax the more devastating for it. The journey is longer, but the rewards are greater for the committed.
• CD in matt-laminate digipak
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 DIE TÖDLICHE DORIS - ' ' CD + Art Set (Suezan Studio) - £20
Die Tödliche Doris was born out of West Berlin's lively post-punk community in the early '80s. Along with Einstürzende Neubauten, Malaria, Sprung Aus Den Wolken and Frieder Butzmann, Die Tödliche Doris ranks amongst the Geniale Dilletanten - which roughly translates as "ingenious dilettantes" - who sought to democratise cultural productions beyond the grip of both Western capitalism and GDR socialism. The Geniale Dilletanten became synonymous with a free-for-all approach to music, film, painting and performance where participants encouraged raw expression through provocation and experimentation. Wolfgang Müller and Nikolaus Utermöhlen founded Die Tödliche Doris in 1980, presenting the public persona of Doris as a constantly shifting entity that deliberately engaged the contradictions of the human condition. The band often referenced themselves in the third person singular, alluding to Doris as a fully-formed female character with explosive, colourful emotions. For her debut album - originally released on Zickzack in 1982 and playfully titled " " (that is, blank space surrounded by quotation marks) - Doris most closely entertains the notion of a typical rock band with drums, bass and guitar. Produced by Neubauten's Blixa Bargeld, the thirteen songs presented here are disquieting lullabies of profound anxiety, savage and primitive deconstructions of German polka and manic lacerations of punk minimalism: all reflections of the many and fractured personalities of Doris. This remastered edition comes in a mini-LP sleeve with several mini-booklets and artwork (some explicit). Ltd x 500 copies - very few in stock! Japanese import. |
 DIE TÖDLICHE DORIS - 'Das Typische Ding - Reenactment (I)' CD Boxset (Suezan Studio) - £30
The deluxe CD version of the latest recordings by Die Tödliche Doris after a silent period of decades. A sound spectrum of 31 contemporary dildos and vibrators. The Deadly Doris now appears to us as a performer, musician and instrument in one. Tabea Blumenschein, a founding member, made illustrations of all 31 sex toys. In the Neuköllner recording studio of Frieder Butzmann cultural scientist Katrin Kämpf put the devices into operational and receptive readiness; her reviews appear on the backs of the corresponding portraits (in English, German and Japanese). Wolfgang Müller founded Die Tödliche Doris in 1980, presenting the public persona of Doris as a constantly shifting entity that deliberately engaged the contradictions of the human condition. The band often referenced themselves in the third person singular, alluding to Doris as a fully-formed female character with explosive, colourful emotions. "The Deadly Doris (Englische version), have mastered the illogic of a very creepy dream experienced under the influence of half a litre of out of date "Night Nurse". Full of everything you need; desperate screamed vocals.....in German! Scraping violin strings! Incompetent childlike drumming! And no recognisable reference to modern pop culture. This music is like a Primal Scream from a long forgotten prison cell; which I suppose West Berlin was a large version of when these nutters were active. Unhinged genius!!" (Die or DIY). Ltd x 300 copies in a printed 7" boxset containing the CD in its own sleeve, 31 illustration cards and separate info sheet. Very few copies in stock! Japanese import. |
 FALLEN SUN - 'Parallel Disalignment' CD (Fourth Dimension) - £11.50
Fallen Sun is the solo noise / industrial alter ego of Y'ng-Yin Siew (Reverse Image) from Malaysia. An intense and explosive affair, the sonics on "Parallel Disalignment" are jagged and abrasive as they collide into each other or assume meta-rhythmic forms which flutter violently into torrents of searing lava. Formed from a pedal noise set-up with the exception of one track which was created with Eurorack, the seven pieces successfully apply new meaning to a genre synonymous with the likes of Incapacitants, Merzbow and Masonna. "Parallel Disalignment" presents the perfect title to an album grand in its quest to reach beyond something it might be seen as being part of. Besides the dynamic interplay at work throughout it, often cut with an edge which at first appears as hostile as it is impenetrable, there's something almost uncontrollably joyous to behold. This is evident on the collaborative piece, 'Session 46', which witnesses the deployment of birdsong by Peter Wullen to help counter the overtly incendiary nature of the proceedings with sounds more organic or celebratory.
The final track is taken from a live appearance at the Negative Frequencies show in Malaysia - so powerful you can picture yourself being washed over in this assault of merciless cadences; like being showered in razor blades whilst grinning from ear to ear. Ltd x 300 copies in a digipak. |
 FM EINHEIT (EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN - 'Stein / Fruehlingserwachen + Educacăo' 2 x CD Set (Suezan Studio) - £30
The first solo album by FM Einheit (ex-Einstürzende Neubauten) from 1990. All tracks were digitally remastered in 2004, including an unpublished track from the same time. FM Einheit, a key figure in the founding of Neubauten, had a profound influence on the band's direction. This album, which bridged the gap between Berlin and Hamburg, is being reissued for the first time since its original release in 1990. A compilation of stage and ballet scores created between 1988-1990, it's a masterpiece of industrial music, featuring a wide variety of electronics, orchestration, and, as the album title suggests, heavy percussive sounds produced by "stone". Guest appearances include CHRISTIAN GRAUPNER (aka VOOV), CASPER BRÖTZMANN, DIAMANDA GALÁS, and fellow Einstürzende Neubauten members BLIXA BARGELD and ALEXANDER HACKE. One previously unreleased track is also included. The latest digital remastering, which delivers even higher quality sound than the currently available audio, brings the powerful sound back to life in vivid detail!
The original recording has been recreated using fluorescent ink, and only 500 copies have been pressed, making this a Japan exclusive!
The CD is presented in a mini-LP sleeve with obi-strip. We are very pleased to offer the Japanese-only bonus CD "Fruehlingserwachen + Educacăo", which was only ever available direct from the label. Ltd x 200 copies - very few in stock! ONE PER CUSTOMER ONLY! |
 J. AERNUS & B. VARVOHZA - 'Do Arauto I' CD (Zazen Sounds) - £12
A ritual dark ambient / drone collaboration between two musicians who have explored the sound translation of ancient spiritualites through their various projects (Wolfskin, Karnnos, Run Arbos, etc.). "Do Arauto I" is a process of wandering, following the two-headed snake's hypnotic movement into the recondite recesses of cosmic transmutation. It is a meditation-like process, of meandering through abandoned monasteries, of searching for the heretic light, while hearing the resounding echoes of lost prayers to the Moon and Sun. The challenge for this record was for the duo to search for new synergies, to reach a synchronic visualization of what lays beyond the ephemeral. The result was a work of monastic drone, contemporary and ancient at the same time, reaching for the light entrenched deep within. A new inner dawn. Ideal Listening for the followers of Raison D'etre and New Risen Throne. Gatefold digisleeve. Already sold out from the label! |
 MAURIZIO BIANCHI - 'Mectpyo Bakterium' CD (Eighth Tower Records / Unexplained Sounds) - £12
"Mectpyo Bakterium" stands as one of Maurizio Bianchi's most clinical and unsettling sonic statements; a corrosive audio document born in the early 1980's industrial underground (originally self-published on cassette by M.B. in 1981). The cryptic title itself fuses mechanical coldness (Mect), purulent infection (-pyo), and microbial life (Bakterium), suggesting an imagined organism: half-machine, half-disease.
This work embodies a sonic pathology, raw, repetitive, and minimal, evoking sterile laboratories, decaying tissues, and viral mutations. It's not music in a conventional sense, but rather a form of aural autopsy: examining the corrupted interface between human biology and technological decay. Originally released at the height of Bianchi's early experiments, "Mectpyo Bakterium" remains a pivotal artifact in the evolution of industrial and power electronics. One of the most vital documents from the Italian industrial underground. Ltd x 100 copies (CD proper) in a 6-panel matt-laminate digipak. |
 MAURIZIO BIANCHI - 'S.F.A.G. 31.11.1981' CD (Eighth Tower Records / Unexplained Sounds) - £12
"S.F.A.G. 31.11.1981" is comprised of two tracks of mechanically echoing structures from Maurizio Bianchi, the father of Italian post-Industrial. The original 1982 cassette, "S.F.A.G. 81", used his earlier work, "Symphony For A Genocide" as source material, albeit heavily filtered. This definitive reissue is the first to use the album's proper name and track titles. It explores a number of themes that appear throughout Bianchi's works - destruction and technological decline resulting in bleak dystopias, personal and societal disorientation, philosophy, and spirituality. It is purposely ambiguous with reverberating noise and dissonance that reflects - or perhaps creates - a sourceless yet immersive tension. Bianchi's penchant for manipulating raw sounds results in a hypnagogic journey that does not have a clear beginning or end.
From 1979 to 1984, Bianchi released around 35 albums, showcasing a period of intense creativity before he took a break from music until 1998. Working with rudimentary equipment, including basic tape recorders and synthesizers, Bianchi overcame significant technical limitations as well as a conservative mentality in the music industry of the time. Ltd x 200 copies in a 6-panel matt-laminate digipak. |
 SÁNDOR VÁLY - 'Early Works 1988-1992' CD (Unexplained Sounds) - £12
A raw sonic document of exile, trauma, and transformation, this CD collects early works by Hungarian artist Sándor Vály, recorded between 1988 and 1992. Created using homemade instruments, rudimentary electronics, and cassette gear in Budapest and Helsinki, these tracks trace a turbulent path through desertion, psychiatric confinement, political escape, and cultural rebirth. Inspired by the Tibetan Book of the Dead and personal upheaval, 'Bardo Tödol I-II', 'SoulDrum', and other recordings evoke a haunting inner journey between life, death, and renewal. "A collection of vintage tracks which oscillate between grainy electronic harshness and ecstatic droning mantras. The result admits mesmeric moments with efficient psycho-acoustic effects and darkened sound ritualism" (Igloo Magazine). Ltd x 100 copies (CD proper) in a 6-panel matt-laminate digipak. |
 VARIOUS ARTISTS - 'Anthology Of Experimental Music From Australia' CD (Unexplained Sounds) - £12
This chapter in Unexplained Sounds' "Sound Mapping" series turns its ear to Australia, a continent whose sonic expressions are as vast, isolated, and idiosyncratic as its geography. The artists featured in this compilation explore a wide terrain of auditory possibilities, from shimmering drones and granular textures to fractured electronics and abstract field manipulations. These works seem to breathe with a spatial consciousness, attentive to both the expanse and the minutiae of sound.
Some artists draw from the natural world capturing insect rhythms, wind distortions, or the resonance of empty spaces, while others build synthetic architectures that pulse and collapse in unpredictable rhythms. There is a tension between the organic and the constructed, the intimate and the remote. This is a snapshot of the Australian experimental scene; a selection of singular voices navigating sound beyond genre, tradition, or commercial expectation. Features: Browning Mummery, Alexandra Spence, Wythchings, Tuonela, David Whatson, Amby Downs, Automating, Lost Ether, Matt Warren, Ergonomic Sound Office, TAK / Todd Anderson-Kunert, Astral Flight, Von Helfenstein, Bushranger, and Scientia. Ltd x 100 copies (CD proper) in a 6-panel matt-laminate digipak. |
 VARIOUS ARTISTS - 'Bio-Mechanik. Aural Tribute To The Art Of H.R. Giger' CD (Eighth Tower Records / Unexplained Sounds) - £12
Few artists have captured the unsettling beauty of the fusion between flesh and machine as hauntingly as Hans Ruedi Giger. His biomechanical visions, cathedrals of bone and chrome, embryonic nightmares suspended in steel wombs, eroticism bound in cold circuitry, have etched themselves into the collective unconscious. Born in Chur, Switzerland, in 1940, H.R. Giger studied architecture and industrial design. His early drawings, ink studies, and airbrush paintings rapidly evolved into a distinctive visual language, the biomechanical style, which merged organic forms with mechanical structures, all suffused with eroticism, existential dread, and an alien logic. His breakthrough came with the publication of "Necronomicon" in 1977, a collection of nightmarish illustrations that captured the attention of filmmaker Ridley Scott, who invited Giger to design the xenomorph and other visual elements for the film Alien (1979). The result was a visual icon that redefined science fiction and horror. The musicians featured on this compilation have interpreted H.R. Giger's themes through dark ambient, industrial, and experimental soundscapes - resonances, echoes of the biomechanical sublime that the master revealed. Features: Sshe Retina Stimulants, Modelbau (Frans de Waard), Mario Lino Stancati, Mark Hjorthoy, Red Stars Over Tokyo (Jeroen Lauwers), Oubys, vÄäristymä, Lars Bröndum, Nihil Impvlse, Phoanøgramma, MoCM & Schema Musicalis (Andreas Monopolis & Stelios Giannoulakis), and Richard Bégin. Ltd x 100 copies (CD proper) in a 6-panel matt-laminate digipak. |
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 ARCANE ART - 'The Cursed Artist' CD (Memento Mori / Dark Vinyl) - £10
Arcane Art is the Norwegian dark ambient / neoclassical darkwave project of Karsten Hamre (Penitent, Dense Vision Shrine) with Bernt E. Egeland and a host of guest vocalists. This debut album features tracks from the "Arcane Art" 10" vinyl (Prophecy Productions), released a few years before this full-length. "An intense, concrete, aesthetically clear and lyrically charming opus that has but a few relations with the medieval epoch - most probably it was inspired by the renaissance age with its categories of Universal Soul and the cult of an ordinary person's beauty, where a creator/artist is the central image, equal to god and the one who rejects it; the epoch of titans, whose existence is reflected within comprehension of the eternal problems and ideas - grandeur and failure of the Artist, who is identifying himself to the Universe, a person's weakness in the eyes of fate, but at the same time - overcoming the very fate by the obsessed / cursed artist" (Stigmata). Features art by Michael Riddick (The Soil Bleeds Black). |
 MERZBOW - 'Don't Steal My Coat' CD (No Music Records) - £10.50
Japanoise King Masami Akita delivers an unrestrained Noise album in best Merzbow style with live free-jazz / psych drums which turn into more rhythmic and beating ones, and additional electronics / synth work. Recorded November 2008, this is a very rhythmic Merzbow album! Four loud 'parts', wild and crippling, but diverse in their sound compositions, with their own rhythms, movements, their own mood and even, as it may seem upon careful listening, with their own melodies. Behind the roar of feedback and the swirl of strange "cosmic" sounds (the beginning of the third part brings to mind Acid Mothers Temple), psychedelic noise is hidden a furious, animal power, spilling out of the quiet Japanese man, striving to convey his beliefs to the maximum number of people. The title is an anti-sheep shearing statement, and the artwork depicts sheared sheep asking you not to steal his coat! Ltd x 1000 copies. Long sold out from the label. |
 PENITENT - 'Roses By Chaos Spawned' CD (Memento Mori / Dark Vinyl) - £10
Penitent followed their Cold Meat Industry debut album "Melancholia" with "Roses By Chaos Spawned", conjuring orchestral classical music coupled with vocals and apocalyptic lyrics. The music on "Roses By Chaos Spawned" is beautiful, sublime and mournful, prevailed by a variety of orchestral samples, but also piano and organ taking the leading roles. It also features (sung) sonoric vocal parts by Andrew Goldmine (Amidst The Leafs / Alone With Blade), supported by the heavenly female vocals of Ellen White. A well succeeded combination of classic, dramatic vocal parts and frightening apocalyptic atmospheres. Penitent was formed in 1994 by Karsten Hamre (Arcane Art, Dense Vision Shrine), obsessed by the idea of combining his "mad poetry" (topics such as life and death, pain and torture, sorrow and depression) with music, in order to create a powerful atmosphere. "What kind of emotions guide us when we feel the loss of hope and the whole life seems to be nothing but a mournful bridge over a river of tears? One got to live his life, and bear all the pain and sorrows, sadness and depression". Cover art by Mike & Mark Riddick (The Soil Bleeds Black). Comes with 8-page booklet.
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 PROFANE GRACE - 'Epitaph Of Shattered Dreams' CD (Memento Mori / Dark Vinyl) - £10
Horror Dark Ambient / Black Ambient from Seattle's Profane Grace - the duo of Chad Davis (Subklinik / Mortuor) and Robert Cruzan (Raven's Bane / Crimson Moon / Demoncy). Nine dark ritualistic funeral ambient tracks with whispered, hoarse black metal vocals, minimal strings and winding soundscapes, to commemorate our ultimate demise. The American masters of horrific dark ambient are back from the graveyards and shadowy realms. Welcome to the deepest desires of all things dark. Features art by Michael Riddick (The Soil Bleeds Black). |
 SVARTTHRON - 'Obscure Telepathy' CD (ISO666 Releases) - £9
Raw and depressive Black Metal from Lithuania with a few ambient parts. Created as a way to express the author's philosophy, negative emotions and inner demons, and as therapy for his own mental illness, this second album is also heavily inspired by occultist Aleister Crowley. Misanthropic, suicidal black metal in the vein of Strid, Xasthur, Striborg and Nortt. Greek import. |
 VINCENT PRICE - 'A Hornbook For Witches, Stories And Poems For Halloween' CD (Tangled Copse) - £11.50
Reissue of the ultra rare 1976 vinyl, on CD for the first time. Turn up the volume... and turn down the lights. Suspense-master Vincent Price presents a hair-raising, bone-chilling collection of classic horror tales featuring a ghastly brew of witches, ghosts and goblins. Edgar Allan Poe's eerie Dreamland, John Collier's offbeat Thus I Refute Beezly and Maria Leech's practical but frightful How to See Ghosts or Surely Bring Them to You, are just a few of the tales stirring up fear in this chilling concoction of horror. These stories, sounds, spells, and incantations will send shivers up your spine. This is a truly amazing landmark recording from the good old days presented by one of the greatest voices of horror. Also features pieces written by Leah Bodine Drake, Charles Kingsley, and John Kendrick Bangs. Comes complete with all the original stunning album artwork and text over a 6-panel booklet. Digitally remastered. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! |
 WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS - 'Häxan: Witchcraft Through The Ages' CD (Sotpackan) - £9
Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen’s legendary 1922 film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that the witches of the Middle Ages suffered the same hysteria as turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients. But the film itself is far from serious; instead it’s a witches’ brew of the scary, gross, and darkly humorous. In 1968, an abbreviated version of the film (77 minutes) was released. This version features an eclectic jazz score by Daniel Humair (played by a quintet including Jean-Luc Ponty on violin and Daniel Humair on percussion) and dramatic narration by William S. Burroughs. The artwork features great stills from the film. Exclusively distributed by Cold Spring. |
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 VARIOUS ARTISTS - 'When Worlds Collide' 2 x LP (Fourth Dimension) - £32
A collection of artists who have either been released on / or are associated with the Fourth Dimension and Lumberton Trading Company record labels. The title, based on the name of a childhood '50s sci-fi film favourite, not only reflects the bringing together of these two labels but also the fact that most of the artists they are concerned with tend to navigate a wide range of ideas and approaches. The 2LP began as a reflection of a 2024 label night at London's Cafe OTO, featuring Alternative TV, Splintered, Edward Ka-Spel and Bass Communion, being released much later as it grew into something bigger and more expansive. The set includes the following artists, mostly with exclusive tracks: Alternative TV,
Nick Mott,
Bass Communion, Sion Orgon,
Theme, Final (Justin K. Broadrick),
Edward Ka-Spel (The Legendary Pink Dots), Ashtray Navigations, Band of Pain, Senestra, Kleistwahr (Ramleh), Splintered. Ltd x 500 copies, beautifully packaged in a Puppy38 designed sleeve. |
 KATI RÁN - 'LYS' CD (Svart Records) - £12
KATI RÁN - 'LYS' LP BLACK (Svart Records) - £23
KATI RÁN - 'LYS' LP 'NATUREL' (Svart Records) - £26
Kati Rán's classic dark Nordic folk album "LYS" (Norwegian for "Light") is considered a genre-defining album in the animistic Nordic and Pagan Folk genre. Produced by Christopher Juul of HEILUNG, it features songs with HEILUNG's singers Kai Uwe Faust and Maria Franz, and the viral hit song 'Suurin', bringing the listener into a howling and wolf-shapeshifting state of mind.
Singer and multi-instrumentalist Kati Rán celebrates the 10 year anniversary of her debut album "LYS", featuring the album's ten original songs and the bonus track 'Vinda - Acoustic' featuring Helisir. Performed in Norwegian, English, German, and Old Norse, "LYS" brings Rán's inner world, voice, and historical instrumentation to life. During the transition to a solo career after separating from the folk band L.E.A.F., Kati Rán collaborated with Christopher Juul (HEILUNG), who provided his immersive audio production expertise, shaping, recording, and performing all the tracks together at the renowned LAVA Studios in Denmark. Since its original release, "LYS" is widely considered a genre-defining record in Nordic Dark Folk, impressing not only with its sound but also through its collaborations with various artists and bands. These include Oliver S. Tyr of the German pagan folk act FAUN, Kai Uwe Faust's signature throat vocalizations on the hit track 'Suurin', a duet with Maria Franz (HEILUNG, EUZEN) on 'Vinda', soothing harmonizing vocals by drummer Kristian Uhre (EUZEN) on 'Sol', the beautiful Celtic Harp playing of SOWULO's Chloe Bakker, and instrumental contributions from Kati Rán's former bandmates in L.E.A.F. The album also features Rán's first duet recordings with HEILUNG's Kai Uwe Faust on the opening track 'Flamme'.
CD: presented in a digipak with updated artwork and a stunning booklet with original lyrics and English translations.
Black LP: First time on vinyl for this Nordic / Pagan folk classic. Comes with a stunning full-size lyric booklet on matt black card, with original lyrics and English translations.
Limited edition 'Naturel' (clear / pale gold) LP: First time on vinyl for this Nordic / Pagan folk classic. Comes with a stunning full-size lyric booklet on matt black card, with original lyrics and English translations. ALREADY SOLD OUT FROM THE LABEL! |
 VARIOUS ARTISTS - 'When Fear Bites The Land' CD (Live Bait Recording Foundation) - £12
A brand new 77 minute compilation featuring exclusive tracks telling tale of Phantoms and Apparitions, of Ghosts and Demons, of places far away... For this collection of international traditions, Stephen Petrus (Murderous Vision) curated a collection of artists to paint ballads of passed down ambience and folklore industrial: ᚦᛟᚦ ᚷᛁᚷ (Thomas Ekelund of Trepaneringsritualen), Prurient, Himukalt, Awen, Haare, Murderous Vision & C*nting Daughters, The Vomit Arsonist, Alone In The Hollow Garden (Dan Serbanescu of Tanz Ohne Musik), Grimoire De Occulte (Baal of Blue Eyes, and Philosoph), Ansiktsløs (Apócrýphos), Sediment (members of Wolf Eyes / Hair Police, Hive Mind / Black Sand Desert), and Dead Peasant Insurance (Skin Graft). Ltd x 400 copies in a jewelcase with 12-page booklet, further exploring the stories unfolding before you. |
 SCRELOMA - 'I Continue To Hate This Unfair World' 7" Lathe Cut (Subliminal Propaganda) - £13
Screloma is the one-man Japanese power electronics / industrial noise project from Jun-ichi Takahashi (MOTHRA). This is the ultra limited lathe cut vinyl edition of a digital-only EP from December 2024. "Life is unfair, and that can't be helped"...however, there are people who die without ever being able to do what they love or what they want to do, and there are also people who die having lived a lucky and happy life.
You cannot choose the country or environment you are born into.
If you are born into a terrible government, your life choices are further limited.
How can you continue to live a satisfying life in this one and only life when you are not blessed with a good environment?
This single has the same style and appeal as their previous 4th album, "Amplifying Hatred" (2021). Lathe cut disc, limited to just 50 copies with numbered insert! |
 AWEN & MURDEROUS VISION - 'A Nature Out Of Season' CD + Sigil Deck (Live Bait Recording Foundation) - £17
Awen and Murderous Vision combined to produce an album of sinister industrial psychedelia, devastating dark ambient and wistful dark folk intention. A distillation of synthetic and practical sounds - the composite elements recognisable to the initiated, but together forming a distinct entity with a compelling presence of its own. Let it guide you on a journey between worlds and times. Special guest appearances by Larry Kerr (of Steel Hook Prostheses) on two tracks and C*nting Daughters on another.
"A Nature Out Of Season" is a CD presented in a high gloss digisleeve with a professionally-printed deck of 10 specific sigil cards (each card corresponds to a track on the album), beautifully drawn and designed by artist Lot1113, and housed in a hand dyed / printed cloth pouch. |
 EMERGE - '20' 3 x CD Set (Attenuation Circuit) - £20
In 2003, Sascha Stadlmeier released music under the name EMERGE for the first time: a 7" vinyl on Drone Records entitled "relativity/profundity". Now, 20 years later, EMERGE celebrates his anniversary by re-releasing the two sides of that 7", alongside a collection of unreleased and obscure tracks. But the main part of this release is made up of tracks composed by colleagues, collaborators, and friends of EMERGE from the global experimental underground music network as gifts for his artistic anniversary - all utilising recycled, reworked sounds from the original Drone Records single. To survive, we need to find better ways of living together than those organised as markets. The experimental sound underground points the way: trading and sharing as well as collaboration and collectivity are the rule. As a listener, Sascha Stadlmeier was shaped by this underground, a scene which empowered him to create his own sound over the last two decades. The artists on this album are all connections he made along the way: Ralf Wehowsky, Satøri, Carsten Vollmer, Philippe Petit, Doc Wör Mirran, B°tong, Re-Drum, Kryptogen Rundfunk, PBK, Drekka, Emerge, Grodock, Claus Poulsen, Gerald Fiebig, Anja Kreysing, Circuitnoise, Philip Nußbaum & Gehirn. Implosion, Opening Performance Orchestra, and many more. The response to EMERGE's call for contributions to this project was so enthusiastic that this triple CD is paralleled by the download release "20+", containing 21 additional tracks (download code included with all orders). File under: dark ambient, drone, musique concrète. Ltd x 300 copies in a chunky 6-panel foldout digisleeve. |
 DN. AIDEATH - 'Snake Pit' CD (Tesco Organisation) - £13
The soundtrack of desperation, self-termination against the mind. "Snake Pit" is the second album (and first CD) from DN. Aideath - the one man Death Industrial / Power Electronics project from Yogyakarta, Indonesia. A collector of violent fragments of modern atrocities through a gritty and damp industrial factory machine; an abusive symphony of broken percussion... a war machine orchestra of eternal beats of hatred, melting into the head that constructs a new image of how the end should be. Darkness and silence intersect with liminal dizziness, the taste of its own regret. Mental revolution enveloped in a burning black fire. The snake pit is not a physical area - it's inside oneself. 6-panel digipak. |
 ELFFOR - 'The Black Sentinel' CD (Ksenza Records) - £11.50
Hailing from Basque Country, EÖL's obsession with creating Dark music resulted in Elffor coming alive in 1995. Less ambient than previous albums, "The Black Sentinel" is the perfect mix of heavy Black Metal and Dungeon Synth, with freezing cold riffs, haunted vocals and atmospheric synths. "The Black Sentinel" weaves dark, immersive soundscapes that transport listeners to misty forests and lands filled with ancient legends and heroic tales. Eöl perfectly balances traditional black metal intensity with symphonic and hypnotic passages, capturing the essence of epic, atmospheric Black Metal. Features guest vocals by Déhá (Wolvennest, Aurora Borealis). FFO Weakling's classic album. Ltd x 300 hand-numbered copies in a 6-panel matt-laminate digipak with cover art by Igor Mugerza. |
 ELEKTROPLASMA (feat ISZOLOSCOPE) - 'L'Aube Des Chaos' 12" (YB70) - £18
After many years of absence, Elektroplasma returns to YB70. This rebirth, in collaboration with Rhythmic Noise legend ISZOLOSCOPE (Ant-Zen), who opens the 22-min vinyl with a hardcore industrial remix of the track 'Trigger Man'. This is followed by the original Elektroplasma version of the breakcore track, and lastly the pure beauty of the title track on the flipside. Mastered by Arco Trauma (Audiotrauma, Ant-Zen etc). Ltd x 200 copies. |
 TETSU INOUE / ANDREW DEUTSCH - 'Field Tracker' CD (Anomalous Records) - £11
RARITY! "Field Tracker" was recorded at the Institute for Electronic Art, Alfred NY during the winter of 2000. Tetsu Inoue, utilising his digital sound processing systems in combination with bells, guitar, and other odd sound making objects, constructed tiny improvisational sound moments each one having a shape and gesture of their own. These 'micro compositions' were at times highly abstract and noisy and at other times extremely melodic and calm. Many of these micro compositions were used in the production of his release 'Object and Organic Code', the others (almost 2 hours worth) were handed over to Andrew Deutsch who was to construct another release combining sounds of his own. Being responsible for the overall Auskomponierung (compositional unfolding) of the work, he combined synthesised sounds, drones, chatter, loops and other DSP techniques to produce what he hoped would be a kind of 'Gebrauchsmusik' (useful music) that one might use in the home. The work has a tendency toward change combined with an equal tendency toward stasis. Expanded systemic digital minimalism... sound works for our new recombinatory world. Second edition with black label. Ltd x 580 copies in a sealed card sleeve. |
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