UPDATE OCTOBER ‘06
ATRAX MOGUE – Pathophysiology CDR [OEC] 10
(Re-edition of a
legendary tape out in 1995 on Old Europa Cafe (OEC 062) !The tape was
completely remastered at Sweet Slaughter ....To the original recordings was
aded :2 unreleased tracks recorded in 1995 2 unreleased tracks recorded in 2002 Be(a)st
Morgue-Industrial from the cadaverous mind of this sick italian corpse ! Profesionally printed CDR numbered on CD
label and limited to 200 copies)
ATRAX MORGUE – Disconnected CDR [SIN ORG] 25
(just 2 copies
in stock of this rare limited edition CDR with excellent recordings from 1999.
Psychotic & sick powerelectronics assault)
BLACK SUN PRODUCTIONS -
operettAmorale CD
[divine frequency] 13
(operettAmorale
is Massimo & Pierce's personal tribute to the poetry of German poet,
playwright and thinker Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956). The album is composed of 11 classic Brecht's songs, here revisited
according to Massimo & Pierce's irreverent attitude. Massimo & Pierce
invited some of their friends to contribute to operettAmorale :COIL
recorded the song A List of Wishes (one of the latest studio
performances by Johnn Balance) purposely for this album The Ballad of
Sexual Dependency is here delivered by the incomparable voice of
Lydia Lunch.HR Giger contributed
with the cover artwork and a vocal cameo appearance on Seeräuber-Jenny.Ellegant
digipack + large booklet )
BLACK
SUN PRODUCTIONS - Astral Walk
CD [finalmuzik] 12
(Great
CD album by COIL-related project. "Astral Walk" contains
Musick for the Performance Installation Plastic Spider Thing Part 22. Black
Sun Productions’ members Massimo & Pierce are the creators of the
performance project Plastic Spider Thing (a ritual / installation in 23 parts
carried by the couple throughout 2002 and 2003) and live members of Coil
on their only tour in more than twenty years of the band’s
recording activity. To remind some previous releases: Black Sun Productions’
member Drazen is the author of the only official album of Coil remixed,
"Plastic Spider Thing". This is energetic, breathtaking ritual music
for both mind and body!)
BRANDKOMMANDO
–
“Nasz Ukochany Kraj”
CDR [beast of prey] 10
(New
album of BRANDKOMMANDO "Nasz Ukochany Kraj" - 50 minutes of
dewastation, extreme view of political situation and world around.
No mercy, sharply and directly!! Unconventional
issue: Package made from white plastic folded in three pieces to 150 x 150 mm
format. Inside - element which grips the cd. Plastic sticked with printed
inserts. All is foiled, hand-numerated to 200 items. Professionally made cdr.)
DEAD
FACTORY / ATUM – “Strefa” CDR [beast of prey] 10
(Split
of two polish dark industrial projects. Cold and dark fusion of industry,
factory halls and musical space - it all make over 50 minutes of music on the
"Strefa". Unconventional issue: 150 x 140 mm format. Made from a 70
cm, grey, printed cardboard on which two pockets are placed. In pockets there
are two photographs chosen from six different and a steel net. In the front of
the cover there is a photography in 120 x 120 mm format. All is foiled and
hand-numerated to 213 items. Professionally made cdr.)
HERR / DER ARBEITER / STORM OF
CAPRICORN / GHOSTS OF BBRESLAU – “Hopes Die In Winter” CD [Beast Of Prey] 12
(Beautiful
neo-folk / neo-clasic / military pop / dark ambient music....
Unconventional release, whole folds on four parts building from printed
cardboard belt. To this is add insert with photo and poem "Na Obczyźnie"
by Wojciech Kętrzyński)
INHALANT
– Sca.Pela C15 cassette single [propulsive] 6
(effective & violent
powerelectronics asault. Limited 30)
INHALANT – Clinical C15 cassette single [propulsive] 7
(effective & violent
powerelectronics asault. Limited 100 . special package)
INHALANT – The Torments of Flesh C15 cassette single [propulsive] 6
(effective & violent
powerelectronics asault. Limited 30)
(From
Sweden, exclusive recordings by this Cold Meat Industry act! Vinyl only
release, excellent
industrial, extreme electronics/power noise. Limited to 600 copies.
Essential to anyone into B.D.N., Genocide Organ, Whitehouse, T.G. and early
S.P.K. - LAST COPIES!)
INSPHERA -"Shepe” CDR [Beast Of Prey] 10
(INSPHERA is an
industrial project. Music is a reflect surrounding us world of industrial
ruins, world of large concrete building, world of rusty machines. INSPHERA
project makes approximately idustrial music, cold industial...Album
"Shape" is released by an unconventional way in a printing carton.
Colour inscriptions. Released turns up under Beast of Prey wings and in
assocation in entente with Terra Inferna Rec. is in Beast of Prey
colaboration.)
MARIAE
NASCENTI - Morituri te Salutant
CD[finalmuzik] 12
(FinalMuzik
is honoured to present the first full length CD revelation album (after some
excellent "D.I.Y." CDr releases, who received great reviews in
Italian fanzines) for this Milan-based project, Mariae Nascenti, linked – in
a way or another – to Black Sun Productions’ activities. Music is
outstanding, ranging from 80’s Italian experimental/esoteric sounds (early
Sigillum S, Ain Soph, to name a few) to new millennium thrilling dark
soundscapes. For those into Coil, Nekrophile Records and early-CMI
"industrial" stuff. Limited to 500 copies only!!)
MISANTHROPHY – underground noise‘zine issue # 1 -
€ 5
( A5 size fanzine with
:Grunt,Slogun, Green Army Fraction, Sickness, Atrax Morgue, Brethen,
Propergol, Skm-etr 44 b/w pgg.)
MONOID / SADISTIC LINGAM CULT / INHALANT – 3 way split CD [Lofiordierex] 12
(from noise &
powerelectronics to morbid death industrial sickness…excellent release)
N. - Failure CDR [Abgurd] 10
(The
very new album of Italian Power Electronics grandeur. Sublime layers of hard
synthetic Noise.limied ed. Of 172 copies in dvd box)
NECROPHONIE – s/t
CD [Sottomondo Edizioni] 14,50
(Necrophonie
is the name used by the noise duet formed by Devis G. (Teatro
Satanico, Lunus, DeV) & M. Nothing (aka M. Corbelli / Atrax
Morgue). They were yet partner-in-noise ten years ago, indeed a very small
portion of this music had been four-handed composed, performed and tape
released on 1996 and 1997 by Slaughter Productions. The duo retrieve
parts of mid 90s live electronics sessions, adding new recordings, and editing
and 're-animating' that old tape recorded matter, here-hence
'Necrophonie' name: for the act of giving new electronic life to 'dead audio
recordings'. But the necrophiliac suggestion is just a fleeting feeling, since
these compositions ground on serious thoughts about electronic noise:
" The noise is not the negation of the grammar forms, rather than an
otherwise unspeakable assertion of the language. Indeed only the noise unveils
the mere semantics value of the musical game. Noise is more than Music: Music
pertains to entertainment, Noise pertains to reality".
"SM0002" (enhanced CD + video.mpg + 12 full-colour
pages booklet) mixes power electronics with abstract sonic
expressionism, low frequency pulses, feedback and analogue
synth drones. A real post-Aktionist 'death-music' manifesto: Sein
Zum Tode...)
NEKYIA
-"Slowmotion Downhells" CD
[beast of prey] 12
(Latest
NEKYIA album, the new incarnation in dark ambient sounds with some rythmics.
"Slowmotion Downhells" is the forth album presenting alchemistic-
ritual face of the project. 52 minutes of material will take you to underworld
filled with dark sounds. Unconventional edition : a piece of parchment folded
to A5 envelope, two inner inserts in A5 format, all is waxed and foiled.)
TEHO
TEARDO - Tower Microphone
CD [finalmuzik] 12
(Known
for his past collaborations with Nurse With Wound, Coleman (of Cop Shoot Cop),
Lydia Lunch and many more, this Italian artist started 20 years ago from the
industrial scene to always go on with his sound research: neoelectronica,
avantgarde rock and soundtrack material is year 2005 repertory for M.T.T.;
"Tower / Microphone" is the best dark ambient, isolationist music
album made since ages! Music for tower (!) and microphones: the tower (through
its microphones via Teho Teardo) listens, whispers and plays. Ambient music at
its very best!)
V/A
"Brewery in Piotrków Trybunalski" 2CD
book edition A5 [beast of prey] 14,00
("...Beer
is refreshing drink with small percentage of alcohol. Pleasant bitterness,
foam and secretion of carbon dioxide wonderfully satisfies thirst, increases
appetite and coction process, works encouraging..."
V/A "Brewery in Piotrków Trybunalski" is a special compilation , on
which projects and bands recorded special tracks about beer. From feasting and
chemical processes during production of beer to beliefs and myths. On two cd's
their music presented: DIVISION-S, ROSE ROVINE E AMANTI, HOROLOGIUM,
ASMOROD, KREPULEC, NEKYIA, THE ARKHAM, DANCE HOSPITAL,
SATOR ABSENTIA, INFAMIS, NIEGRZECZNA PENSJONARKA, OUT OF
SIGHT, I. V. LAB., WERMUT, THE WELL OF SADNESS,
DESOLATION ZONE, BARBAROSSA UMTRUNK, DER ARBEITER, STORM OF
CAPRICORN, PRZEMEK CACKOWSKI, D EAD MAN'S HILL, ISOTHESIS,
HATI. Unconventional issue: A5 book, 28 pages with all graphics and photos
made by bands. All printed on a special yellow paper. Cd's griped by a special
elastic to handle the cd. All is foiled, hand numerated to 444 items)
UPDATE
JULY ‘06
A MACHINE CALLED ORGASM - Dedicated to Max Hardcore CDR [Dumping Ground
Recordings] 10,00
(First full length release
from this American sex-noise artist. All sounds on this album were made by
destroying Max Hardcore videos. CDR comes in a 7" record sleeve with
insert. Limited to 96 copies.)
ANTARKTIDA -"Baza 211" CDR [UFA Muzak] 11,00
(Ritual Industrial/Martial
Avanguarde.Collaboration project of Russian underground musicians standing
behind Ryr, Thernoblyad and is dedicated to German researches of the South
Pole made in the 30ies of XX century. This disc can definitely break your view
on how should sound military industrial concerned with National-Socialism.
Insane collages made from retro music, German speech samples and mad
sound-trash from Ryr are supplemented with savage industrial noise and rhythms
from Thernoblyad and . The guys evidently have outstanding imagination, all
together it is listened on one breath. The booklet contains several collages
comparable to music. "Deep penetration into the dark waters of
occult-theosophic Reich, made together by projects Ryr, Thernoblyad and ,
mystyc atmosphere of alchemic death, combined with cosmic vision of unknown
areas of world and man. The secret of "Last Sacral King",
"Haunebu" project, operation "Valkyrie" have become topics
for this collaboration. Flying saucers, enigmatic arctic bases, experiments
with time and space - everything finds its reality here. Cold industrial sound
implicitly subdueds the consciousness to move towards the North. Ritual kicks
and chtonic frost, analogue noise hell, burning apparatus and exalted
classics. ltd.ed. 88. 8 page booklet, format À5 with personal art for each
track)
BIOMASS vs. COMFORTER split CDR [Spirals Of Involution] 11,00
(Biomass tracks (project comes from the city of Yaroslavl) are dedicated by
japanese movie "The Ring" by Hideo Nakata and represent rather calm
noise flow. Comforter whips out with hurracane of cut-up porno-harsh-noise
with Vladimir Zhirinovsky as a guest vocalist in the last track (ltd. 197)
BUNKER/RYR -
"DUST" CDR [UFA
Muzak] 12,00
(old Heavy
Electronics/Martial Avanguarde.War as a way to an internal devastation and
dependence. Not clear hatred built in new discipline, detailed and
frightening. Detailed in disgustingly heavy sound from the BUNKER starting up
blood through a praytank noises and dirt with fury and despair. 4 plays
concentrated harsh trip.The winding of a prickly wire on an interior continues
the project RYR, 2 steps to abyss and plague. Shadows the soldier.
Dust...ltd.ed. 91)
BUNKER -"The Document
first" CDR [UFA Muzak] 11,00
(Heavy / Power
Electronics.Immersing in a dense and gloomy atmosphere of the crude bunker.
All is impregnated with a smell of death, violence and atrocity. An extreme
sound burn last rests of humanity, and the poisonous votes will force to
submit. It is necessary. Àtonal electronic accords, dark melodies, hypnotic
of a loop, catacomb of a phrase on Russian (!) Gloomy and àdrenalin
atmosphere. Ìonuments of fear and pressure(voltage). Subjects from military
genocide, antiselection up to some sexual perversion. Motivation for war,
death and madness.For the admirers GENOCIDE ORGAN, OPERATION CLEANSWEEP.The
project of one of the participants UFA. ltd.ed. 101)
CHRISTINA KUBISCH - dreaming
of a major third / a composition for the clock tower of mass moca CD [edition RZ] 12
COMFORTER vs.
LEFTHANDEDDECISION split CDR
[Spirals Of Involution] 11,00
(Power electronics/harsh noise from Russia and USA. Limited to 104.
"...It's noise music of the very loud and very aggressive kind...")
ETAT BRUT - Mutations Et
Protheses 2x7" [Vinyl Feces]
8,00
LARVA - "Musica per la lumaca piu triste" CDR [noir] 10,00
(Sterile, cold &
melancholic dark ambient. Layers of sound gathered to create a maximum feeling
of void and inhumanity. A vacuum. DVD case)
MIRROR - Front Row Center LP [Die Stadt] 15,00
NIKO SKORPIO - Delta Amoeba CD EP [Some Place Else] 10,00
KADAVER - "Abandon all
Hope" CDR [noir] 10,00
(Harsh noise until death.
Two tracks of aggression and anger towards hope. Distorted samples &
fucked up frequencies with lots of variation and sonic attack.DVD case)
KULT - "Male" CDR [noir] 10,00
(Pulsating monotone death
industrial. Built after low frequency pulses and high pitched feedbacks.
Hypnotic and obcessive. 5 tracks gathered as a soundtrack to
self-gratification rituals of men.DVD case)
RYR - "in the Spring
117 "CDR [UFA] 11,00
(2006, UFA05, 8 tracks, 46 minutes, CD-r, non-standard registration,
(Apocalyptic Martial Avanguarde.The new chapter from the project RYR. War...
Emptiness... Despair... Hope... A fog... Blood... A sight... A history...
Fall... 117steps... Downwards... 46 minutes new experience martial of an
atmosphere for the people which should know something greater and probably
more terrible. The ambiguity of a rule(situation) leaves by despair and fury,
necessity to kill passes in a unique(sole) opportunity of existence. Deviation
as a sight in eternal existence. The monuments remember it...In music the
album very different also is sated. harsh noise, military rhythms, ritual of a
pulsation, ambient-landscapes, besides classical for RYR samples, here you
will hear Apocalyptic poetry on French, Russian,German, Swedish... The album
begins with a vigorous hymn " of Union of the German girls
",gradually leaving in shots, shouts and groans it comes to an end
magnificent" Last spring " Grig.first 46 disks are filled with
blood.(ltd. 117))
SUDDENT INFANT - Invocation of the aural slave gods CD
[blossoming noise] 12,00
SUTCLIFFE JUGEND - live
assault 01 CD [RRR] 10,00
THE VAULT - "Be My
Psychotic Slave" CDR
[noir] 10,00
(Harsh psychotic dark noise
/ power electronics. Incisive and harsh creating a feeling of madness and and
isolation.DVD case)
TORTURA - Mental Agony/Victimm 7" [Spectre] 12,00
VVAA - RISING FROM THE RED
SAND - 5 cassette boxset
[RRR/Statutory Tape] 35,00
special SAMARKANDE
offer(reduced prices on each CD plus special purchase offer,buy all three SAMARKANDE
CDs and get a FREE SAMARKANDE t-shirt t-shirt
is black cotton size L with "SAMARKANDE" in grey on the front ):
SAMARKANDE - 4 Cadavres
Exquis CD [Samarkande Records]
8,00
(dark brooding ambiences, low growling and doomy melodies trapped in a
distorted and harsh atmosphere. the perfect soundtrack to your nightmares.
"4 CADAVRES EXQUIS"is like a catacomb muzak that could be heard in a
demented prison. Lullabies for children who will never want to sleep again..)
SAMARKANDE - Rude Awakening CD [Samarkande Records] 8,00
(An unpleasant "wake up call" set in an industrial universe fill
with tensions and organic spasms, an invitation to step out of our torpor.
That torpor created by a capitalistic system worshipped by a brainless society
in a lethargic state. A contemporary poem filled with dreads and anger created
by ambiences that clashes into a dense sonic architecture meant to be
destroyed by a nuclear winter)
new CD !
SAMARKANDE - Douglas
Basement CD [Samarkande Records]
10,00
(From chaotic darkness, to
nevrotic atmospheres, through disjainted ambiances, SAMARKANDE is taking you
to an epic 60 minutes that pours out in a torrent of inner turmoil that weaves
enough layers togheter to make each listen a fascinatingly fresh experience.
Douglas' Basement is much akin to the awesome forces of insanity; it's
menacing, and sometimes violent, but it also amazes quite like nothing else.
Making it an essential for fans of dark electronic experimental music, and
dark ambient.)
UPDATE JUNE 06
ATRAX MORGUE - Frustration biz card cdr [En. mi. ty Records] 8
(Atrax Morgue plays a cover
of a Soft Cell's song: "Frustration"; in a very frustrated screaming
electronic vein... Limited edition in little box + sticker, 50 numbered
copies)
BIZARRE UPROAR -
mass 10" [Freak
Animal] 15
(Limited to 100
copies. Ultimate harsh noise orgy. Originally self released CDr by the band.
With black covers with original color artwork pasted on it )
CAMISOLE -
Infernus CDR
[necrosyndrome] 10
(6 new anthems to abortion
from Belgium's Camisole... these symphonies of sickness and suffocation are
meant to be played in rememberance of those who refused to live beyond the
uterus. Nothingness, nothing more. Limited edition of 50 copies in mini-slim
dvd packaging.)
CONTROL - World of lies CD [Freak Animal] 12CD version of debute 12" vinyl
finally out! After many praised CD releases and couple 7"s, Control
delivered highly praised full (length vinyl, what now comes available also on
CD format for lovers of this digital format. Only 200 copies is pressed
(making total amount of album therefore 275 LP + 200 CD = 475 copies).
"World Of Lies" follows already trademark style developed on past
albums, but with always something new. Colossal sound of looped metal banging,
more noisy and violent electronics and contains some tracks with louder vocals
than in most of the past releases."World Of Lies" is more more of
political nature and comes in vinyl-box covers with insert including all
lyrics. c. 45 minutes playingtime contains heavy death-industrial / modern
power electronics what you can't confuse to works of other artists.)
CONTROL - World Of Lies LP [Freak Animal] 15
(Debute 12" vinyl
finally out! After many praised CD releases and couple 7"s, Control
delivers you their debut full length vinyl. "World Of Lies" follows
already trademark style developed on past albums, but with always something
new. "World Of Lies" is more more of political nature, and contains
some tracks with louder vocals than in most of the past releases. c. 45
minutes playingtime contains heavy death-industrial / modern power electronics
what you can't confuse to works of other artists. Comes in silkscreened covers
with insert including all lyrics)
GELSOMINA - 7" [Freak Animal] 8
(Debute 7"
release from praised Finnish harsh noise artist. Taking more simple WALL OF
NOISE method on this release. Strong and ultra heavy distortion walls with few
layers of ear torturing details.)
GRUNT - Seer of Decay double CD [Freak Animal] 18
(Landmark of Grunt's almost
15 year long career. This double CD is actually first real studio CD. Debut CD
on Les Disquis Bruitistes label released back in 1997 was mere collection of
whatever tracks remained unpublished, unrelated to eachother. After that, all
discs were either split, collaboration or re-release of tapes/CDr's with bonus
live tracks etc. Therefore this double CD is first "aimed to be
album" kind of Grunt CD release, essential for anyone who wants to see
how Grunt sounds like as well as complete their collection of Grunt. It is
suitable no matter what side of project's work ("harshnoise" or
"pe/industrial") you enjoy.-1st disc offers constructed power
electronics/noise, close to earlier well known Grunt releases as "Europe
After Storm" or "Terror & Degeneration". Heavy loops and
analogue electronics with samples and violent vocal attacks are combined with
painful sounds of screeching iron and rusty metal. Also unusual methods with
keyboards and other unusual elements are hidden into songs.-2nd disc offers
long tracks of colossal sound of industrial-noise orgy. Coarse and harsh sound
of completely acoustic metal noise, starting from disturbing screech and
clangs, ending up into full scale noise orgy.About 2 hours of Grunt p.e.-noise
is packaged in no less than 50 page pro-printed paperback-book covers!
Includes lyrics and plenty of artwork.)
GRUNT - "dead
beauty" 7"
[Freak Animal] 8
(Most violent p.e. assault of Grunt lately. No random harsh noise this time,
just vocal dominated extreme electronics. Two over 7 minutes long tracks and
covers + couple inserts with all the lyrics, information / artwork.)
LA FOLIE. Il corpo riflesso book + CD [LAF Organic] 17
(italian language pro
printed book contains articles about: Antonin Artaund, Dino campana, Joel
Peter Witkin,including writings/interviews of Vittore Baroni, Massimo
Indellicati, Michele Pingitore... including artwoks, pictures and collages
from various italian underground artists. CD contains unreleased tracks
from:D.B.P.I.T., Malato, N., Teatro Satanico, Nenia, Morder Machine, Christian
Rainer, Cane Capovolto. Comes in cardboard sleeve.)
NEUNTOTER DER PLAGE -Doors
Beyond Doors [Abgurd]
10
(NDP is an another project stillborn by Ryan Oppermann. Here he takes a
direction towards morbid and twisted Ritual Death Ambient. Dark hypnotic
atmospheres, autoharp, droning vocals, backwards samples, chains, electronic
drones, violin,hand bells, sleigh bells, etc. This project is devoted to the
author's psychedelic experiences - according to the sounds put here, that
experience was really horrifying. Open those Doors for yourself.)
NICOLE12 -
"Braces" 7" [Freak Animal] 8
(Return of the
most hated and at the same time most praised project under banner of Freak
Animal. 4 tracks, c. 15 minutes of playing time. Sweet full color covers,
including couple inserts with some of the lyrics and more artwork.)
OLHON - "Sinkhole"
CD
[Eibon] 12
(OLHON was born as a cooperative effort of Massimo Magrini (mastermind of the
genious BAD SECTOR) and Zairo (ofthe ultra-obscure dark ambient travellers
WHERE). "Sinkhole" (the band's second full-length after
"Veiovis") was composed using original field recordings taken
(mainly underwater) in the "Pozzo del Merro", the world's deepest
sinkhole. The result is an extremely organic, almost "breathing"
dark ambient journey. Very challenging, that's for sure.....Nobody knows what
lies in the abyss. Just sit down and listen to the sound of the earth's
depths.)
TEATRO SATANICO MUSAKILLER CD [Sottomondo Edizioni] 15
(new delirious release by
cult project "Teatro Satanico" featuring 8 new tracks + 1 bonus MPEG
video file...a cartoon about one of thier most bizarre songs
"Marta". Comes with beautiful full colour 6 pages booklet.)
TESTICLE HAZARD - Beauty of
Nature CD [Freak Animal] 12
(Beauty of Nature is a
document of the Testicle Hazard live debut (and first time playing together)
on November 18th 2005 in Avanto festival. A non-stop, heavy and intense
take-no-prisoners harsh noise tornado without unnecessary gimmicks or
appendices - pure noise only. Testicle Hazard is Lasse Marhaug and Tommi Keränen.
"Beauty of Nature" has c. 40 minutes playing time. Comes in full
color covers, only 200 pressed!!)
UPDATE APRIL / MAY 06
20.SV - Acid Vomit. Human
Genocide" CD
[Autumn wind productions] 12
(Facing a stream of faceless
uninspired soft frequencies, 20.SV stands firm and alone in bringing forth
post apocalyptic frequencies of your own demise. Like no other, 20.SV crafts
perfectly its own Industrialized Post Apocalyptic Bio-Nuclear Radiative
Frequencies. Depicting genuinely the future of the human race, 20.SV is set to
connect your mind to images that your feeble descendants will witness.
Industrial Noise.This CD is part 1 of a 6 part series..the last CD will be
released with a black box that will be able to hold all 6 CD's.)
ATUM - Agorafobia CDR [Beast of Prey] 8
(The first album of the Polish dark ambient "Agorafobia" project-
ATUM is a record that is as cold as ice. Dark and cool sounds are inspired by
dead and huge space. The cover includes a beautiful poem by A. Mickewicz
called "By the huge and clean water". The unconventional triangular
cover-21x21x30cm is folded in two with two holes through which a black rubber
band connects the entire cover. Inside there is a cardboard strap thet keeps
the record from moving inside the box. The edition is hand-numbered and
includes 255 profesionally made CDR's )
ANENZEPHALIA/ INADE / OPERATION
CLEANSWEEP - 3 way split cd [teito sound company] 12
(Teito Sound Company proudly presents 3-way split CD with Anenzephalia, Inade
and Operation Cleansweep. Each bands provide us exclusive trucks
forcommemorating their first live appearance in Tokyo, Japan on Mar.21st.2006.
All the trucks well represents its master's distinctive character. Heavy,dark
and well structured. With 3 small cards with photos of each members used for
flyers of this event. LTD.1000 copies.)
AUBE - REWORKS MAURIZIO BIANCHI VOL.2
CD [SILENTES] 12
(Static music, suspended by a thread of silence. Circular flowing audio
structures. Archeology of sound. Mind expanding texture. A new fascinating
operation of disassembly and restructure of sonic material by Maurizio Bianchi
(the entire album THE TESTAMENTARY CORRIDOR), by incomparable japanese
"audio sculptor" AUBE.)
BLACK SEAS OF
INFINITY/KANIBA/UGEGI AOIVEAE A SER - "The trinity of non-being" 3 way split CD [Autumn wind productions] 12
(The Trinity of Non Being
focuses and reifies, the manifestation of non manifestation, through searing,
transcendent whispers, to the bottomless depths of unbecoming, the keys to the
palace of wisdom are revealed, through the cacophonous creations of Black Seas
of Infinity, Kaniba, and Ugegi Aoiveae A Ser.. The initiation of the angular
interstices has begun. Dark Ritualistic Ambient.)
BLOODYMINDED - Magnetism CD [Bloodlust!] 12
("Magnetism" is the fourth full-lenght BLOODYMINDED album,
surprisingly, released just over a year after their last CD, "Gift
Givers". Approximately 46-minutes in lenght the new album reflects an
updated approach to the band's sound, and it is comprised of fifteen
feedback-drenched tracks - ten of which are songs and five of which are the
band's trademark blast songs. track lenght lines might be a bit
blurred,though. Some listeners might equate the sound of "Magnetism"
to the band's often urgent, turbulent live sound. This album features
more-abstract, eccentric, guttural vocals that encompass screaming, howling,
yelling, moaning etc., and which will no-doubt divide listener opinion. Like
"Gift Givers," the CD was co-produced by Brian Gaynor and Mark
Solotroff, this time utilizing a new studio: Slang Musicgroup. Veteran
designer Megan Emish created a handsome black and white digipack to house the
cd)
BRANDKOMMANDO - Time Of Violence
CDR [Beast of Prey] 12
(The double album of the Polish band BRANDKOMMANDO. More than 90 minutes of
music. Power electronics and power harsh noise! The man of the 20th century in
order to take control over another man, has given rise to conflicts which
became the symbol of violence, terrorism, discrimination and intolerance.
Every day a person dies as a result of violence. "Time of Violence"
is a Harsh noise double destruction record! It's an unconventionally issued
record made from a strap of printed cardboard. The records are based on
additional straps of cardboard which ensure security, the entire thing is kept
together by a red band, it's hand-numbered and the edition includes 200
records. Profesionally made CDRs! )
CAMISOLE - deceased humanity report
CDR [necrosyndrome] 12
("Obscure death ambient/noise from Belgium. Re-issue of the previous
limited compilation cdr with enhanced tracklist and brand new artwork. The
nightmare you just woke up from and the terror to come. Comes in slim DVD case
limited to 40 copies. ")
CIRCUS JOY - Improvvisa Azione Paganini
CDR [OEC] 10
(Circus Joy was born in 1984 from an idea of the painter & poet Corrado
Mancini...Up to now the only releases by CJ are on a bounch of vinyls produced
through Juergen Weber (Novy Svet) and Old Europa Cafe, this is their first
official digital production .6 studio tracks + their devastinhg live versions
ending with the Velvet cover "Run, run, run" translated into italian
! Re-edition of the legendary recordings previously out on the Nekofutschata
"Noi e il Mondo" Vinyl box in 2002 as a very limited edition ...New
Punk'n'Pop / Anti Neo-Folk sounds by this uncompromising Roman band)
CONTROL - Misanthrope CD [L-White
records] 12
(harsh misanthropic powerelectronics from this well-known californinan
project. digipack.)
DEI NOSTRI - Intimitet
CDR [kadaverfauna] 10
("Dei Nostri is dark Death Industrial from Sweden. This is No bullshit Industrial music! It is based upon
nothing but true uncensored thoughts and emotions. Introvert or extrovert,
horny or hateful! Nothing is used but Digital and analogue sound sources
(synths, tapes) forced through a lot of effects, screams and speech. Includes
one live track from 050910 recorded in Umeå/Sweden (at NOISEBATH). The first
10 copies comes with 1 of 5 different signed photographs by Swedish artist
Gudrun Hagerö.")
DIGITAL NOISE DISTORTION - Blood and
Gore CD [Armageddon93] 12
(new work from this promising italian project; this time inspired by horror
movies; features noise frequencies mixed with classic music... Limited
numbered edition of 193 copies)
DISSECTING TABLE - Life CD
[Relapse] 12
DISSECTING TABLE - Into the light
CD [Crowd Control Activities] 12
DISSECTING TABLE - Dead Zone CD
[UPD] 12
GOREGHAST - Nightmares CDR [Beast
of Prey] 8
(Fans of Mervyn Peake's art surely know what it is about - GOREGHAST is a
background project of Destroyer (PARANOIA INDUCTA) who's creating very dark
music Black / Dark Ambient - rythmic and filled with inhuman sounds, like from
the other, black dimension. CD issued very originally, folded into three parts
cardboard strap, all coiled in transparent material - limited edition,
hand-numerated in 202 copies!! )
GRENN ARMY FRACTION - CDR [teito
sound company] 10
(About German philosopher/occultist Guido Von List. Well structured
noise/industrial. Ltd 77 with #.Printed cdr.)
HENRIK NORDVARGR BJÖRKK - Vitagen
CD [Essence Music] 12
(Driven by obsessive ideas and an uncontrollable will of producing quality
ambience, he's the man of many projects - MZ.412, Folkstorm, Toroidh, not to
mention the successful recent collaboration with Masami Akita (aka Merzbow) -,
but it's under his given name and very own grim fashion that Mr. Björkk
delivers the most suffocating music around. Pitch black holes of sound meet
glitchy, cold elektronika overtones and haunted minimalist atmospheres,
building a foundation for rhythmic movements, detailed drones, distant rumbles
and disembodied voices. The different shades of black and grey Nordvargr
paints with have never been more disturbing and at the same time more
beautiful!Mastered by Peter Andersson and housed in a custom 6-panel
digisleeve packaging. The definitive masterwork from the Nordic giant of
modern dark ambient music! Limited edition of 800 copies.)
KROTHOR - Czer CDR [No Angels
Prod./ beast of Prey] 8
(New release of No Angels Prod. in colaboration with Beast Of Prey. Emotional
journey through dark corners of mind, where madness and calmness, desire and
fear as well can be found. Original mixture of dark ambient structures with
symphonical parts. Often rythmical but also fragile "waving". Very
rich arrangements including whispers, recitations and screams - all in Polish
language. Unconventional release: CDR placed in cardboard envelope with
professional prints - foiled. Limited to 100 copies.)
KULT - Hybris: Rituals of
excess and the art of self destruction CDR [Farbstoff Abstrakt Media Produktionen] 12
(Dark Industrial with
occasional Power electronics and ambient parts related to SM themes..)
LONSAI MAIKOV vs DISSONANT ELEPHANT - Thee Darkening ov
Powers CD [OEC] 12
("Thee Darkening ov Powers" has been a long work of meditation,
writing and composition, paradox of meditation … elaborating sounds that
reflects our thoughts and deeds about the Real Religious and Spiritual History
of the World has we know it … from the Claws of Fenriz to the Exaltation of
the Cross, from the Wud to the Wonderful Christian Mysteries containing all
things by the practice of via negativa and via affirmativa.)
MAURIZIO BIANCHI - THE TESTAMENTARY
CORRIDOR CD [SILENTES] 12
(Five months after the acclaimed "Niddah Emmhna", Silentes releases
a new five track cd of "suggestive twilight sounds". Visionary
electro-acoustic ambience by the most eclectic Italian decomposer / inventor /
manipulator of sounds: MAURIZIO BIANCHI. Alternating between lighter
atmosphere, and darker isolationistic moments, Bianchi penetrates deep into
the most subtle essence of sound, rearranging it's elemental particles/grains,
and creating unbelievable sonic-washes.)
MMM - La dolce Vita CD [Cold Current] 12
(Adriano Vincenti, the
leader of MMM is back(after 2 albums on OEC) with a new astonishing album!
“La dolce vita” is a new cocktail of minimal experimental noises and
nightly jazz influences, nihilism, 50’s movies soundtrack, sex - martini -
rock’n’roll, drunken gamblers, sexy girls, ‘60 -’70 aesthetics,
revolvers and more!)
MAUTHAUSEN ORCHESTRA - Lost
in boyz town 7"
[Bloodlust!] 20
(limited edition of 100
copies only released in 1999 by Bloodlust! in grey vinyl. Powerfull !)
M.O. - Forbidden Ground 7" [Bloodlust!] 8
("Forbidden Ground" marks the welcome return of M.O. to BloodLust!
Pierpaolo Zoppo is one of the most remarkableconstituents of the original
Italian industrial/power-electronics/noise/experimental scene. As Mauthausen
Orchestra, he released a brace of brutal and influential cassettes on the cult
Aquilifer Sodality label, along with a series of significant compilation
tracks. "Forbidden Ground" sees Zoppo taking a new approach,
re-working older recordings,while still generating a relentless, ringing
miasma of electronic sounds.)
MOLJEBKA PVLSE / HOROLOGIUM - Kaukasus
CDR [Beast of Prey] 12
(experimental/dark ambient/industrial/ The highest mountains in Europe have
been a place of constant national conflicts ever since. 'Kaukasus' by Moljebka
Pvlse and Horologium is an album devoted to this magical and spellbound
region, known for its natural beauty and cultural variety. 45 minutes of
experimental ambient music on a limited to 555 copies CD edition, which as
always comes in a splendid packaging: 260 x 360 cm poster folded in two (13 x
18 cm). A linen clothing is added for your aesthetical pleasure.)
N. - Senso di colpa CDR [Butchers house] 10
(new excellent work by N.
About “sense of guilt”. Good for psychopaths and paranoids. Morbid
electronics.)
NARCOSA - Taking care of your pain CD [selfreleased] 10
("various human bones and medical instruments were used for drumloops and
other sounds". I let you the sick surprise to discover this new
interesting project. Limited edition of 100 handnumbered copies with blood
fingerprint.)
NEKYIA - Purgatory As The Serpent
Domain CD [Beast of Prey] 12
(The great new album of NEKYIA project presents beautiful darkwave / dark
rhythmic ambient. 50 min of music, powerful sounds and very good vocals!!
Special release staring in to eyes of Death, scaring surgery, failure, fear...
CD filled with compicated structures of human anxiety and full of
trepidation...)
NENIA - Hospes CD [Nenia Project]
15
(It's a name we have forgotten, un unknown mother's voice. The wait in a
protracted silence. It's the appearance of a place that we feel to be the
threshold. There is a method that allow to define with the cyclicity of sounds
and frame the multiplicity. In a process that doesn't carry out itself for the
human being, but against the human being cast itself. The chemistry of the
sound belongs to human being because to the human being belongs the chemistry
of memory, of perceptions. In this direction only the architecture is human.
In the present and in the past there are its derivation, fear and memory. From
the Silence to the Threshold. From the Threshold to the Light.Everything is
still. Comes in 20 x 20 deluxe booklet/sleeve. )
NOCTURNE - Terroriser Manipuler
Convaincre CD [OEC] 12
(Concept album builded arround the figure of Doctor "Mabuse" the
anti-hero of Norbert Jacques's novel, the genius of crime and chaos, the
genius of finance in a slow falling world in the first part of 1900 ...Slow
moving tracks reminding to a world brocken by First World War .Very industrial
concept using analog instrumentation mixed up to sounds from the beginning of
the last century and many samples in German language taken from the legenadry
movie as well as french vocals ...A new masteripiece by the French
cultural-terrorism organisation "Art Shock"! Oversized 7" cover
plus inserts)
PANZAR – Pratotypon CD [OEC] 12
(’Pratotypon’ contains all you need: harsh and growling electronic sounds,
distorted and transformed beats, danger and blood from the battlefield. Comes
in jewel case with artwork filled with early tanks. If you have a CD-player in
your armoured vehicle this is the definite music to play, or why not :
"buy a TANK !" Panzar is a side project of Peter Andersson / raison
d'etre /Startvm Terror)
POST CONTEMPORARY CORPORATION –
Gerarchia Ordine Disciplina CD [OEC] 12
(Founders of PCC are the ex giutarist of "Disciplinatha" Dario
Parisini, the electronic composer Luca Oleastri & the histionic front-man
Valerio Zekkini ! PCC are a very unique project in the Italian but in the
international musical scene, the force of their texts, in exclusive Italian
and Spanish language, which are declaimed in form of modern sermons by Mr.
Zekkini, full of eversive sexuality & sulfureous satire, with many
references to the Italian Futurist movement (the Marinetti Futurist manifesto
is here becoming the text for one track !) are a war declaration to all day
life and morality of our ages ! Sounds are ranging from agressive psychedelic
to pop to electronic-dance & experimentation with some touches of
post-industrialis)
SEVEN MORGUES - Something to cry about
CDR [House of the last light] 10
(First release on this Israeli label. "Something To Cry About"
features seven tracks and about one hour of dark electronic ambient/industrial
with piano and bells. Seven Morgues (aka Raphael Tetro) also hail from Israel.
Reminds me of the sonic experiments of Nurse With Wound and Coil in places.
Features nice artwork by Ma'ayan and includes a nail (the significance of
which I'm not sure) along with hand-sprayed CDR. Limited, naturally.)
SLEEPING PICTURES - Many Hands Should
Throw Stones CD [OEC] 12
(This new release by SP includes sombre piano pieces, experimental soundscapes
and an expansion upon the electric guitar work hinted at on their previous
release. The lyrics of vocalist Marc Blackie have also began to explore new
themes whilst retaining his characteristic bleakness.With traces of dark
humour he explores the conditions of modern life, love, sexuality and
religion. Jewel-box, large booklet with all songs text)
S.Q.E. - The Rise of the Vulcans CD
[OEC] 12
(Out of the abyss but not out of the darkness. Electro-acoustic production
interwoven with heavy rhythms, minimal songwriting, ominous vocals and neatly
placed in a vacuum, high quality recordings & sounds which have their
roots into neo pop'n'folk, dark ambient, dubbing-drones ... This is the 2nd
full length release from NY based artist J Greco. Sometimes aggressive, and
other times distant, but without loosing continuity. Featuring vocals from
Tracy Jeffrey (Orchis), Tony Wakeford (Sol Invictus), and Kris Force (Amber
Asylum), and featuring additional collaborations with Ure Thrall (Asianova /
Voice of Eye), and Alan Trench (Orchis))
STEEL HOOK PROSTHESES - Light reflected from a cold
cutting table CD [pain and compliance] 12
(After literally 3 years of delay, finally... the "new" fulle lenght
Steel Hook Prostheses is here! 11 cuts of cold, clinical electronics
influenced by medical phobia and fetish and the frailty of the human
condition. From catatonic ambience to surgically sharp power electronics
"Light Reflected from a cold cutting table" is the soundtrack to
your next desperate stay in the infirmary)
STORM OF CAPRICORN / PARANOIA INDUCTA -
Jama CD [Beast of Prey] 11
("Jama": is a story and cd devoted to tragedy of balkan world. Dark
history enriched by beauty of balkan folklore. French project STORM OF
CAPRICORN presents dark martial ambient and polish project PARANOIA INDUCTA
shows music full of folklore.CD issued very originally in A5 format, folding
cover with two additional postcards and photography. 45 minutes of music
issued on CD, all in atypical graphic style! )
TAM QUAM TABULA RASA - Lacrymae Rerum /
Muleacenani 2XCDR [OEC] 15
(Redition of this 2 tapes out years ago on OEC into the digital format,
completely remastered sounds & new covers ...Hard ethnic, esoteric looping
& spheric sounds, maybethe two TQTR best albums now in a unique box ! A
great italian project inspired by German & English classics like
Kranioclast or Haflet Trio ... A must for all lovers of real
"industrial" sounds ! Limited edition of 150 copies in jewel-box +
full color cover & professionaly printed CDR + printed disc surface ! )
V.A. - Arte Noise CDR [Noise
Industry/MDT] 9
(Atrax Morgue, Acherontia Styx, Die Schwartze Pest, DND, Djinn, F.ormal L.ogic
D.ecay, H(A)nd, M.D.T., N., Posk, Splinter Vs Stalin, Toby Dammit, Tiziano
Miliani, Urna, Wurt Organum. Comes in DVD box with colour cover.)
VA - Macrocephalous Compost II -
DVDR [OEC] 17
(Featuring : Atrax Morgue, Ain Soph, Big City Orchestra, Sshe retina
Stimulants, Iugula-Thor, Aube, Hex Minora, Illusion of Safety, Archon Satani,
Konstruktivists, Advokat Ihrer Hoheit, MK u.l.t.r.a., Songs of the New
Erotics, Black Leather Jesus, Raison d Etre, True Romance (Merzbow).
Professionaly printed DVD housed in DVD-Box. )Plays on all DVD players !
UPDATE MARCH 06
ARCHON SATANI - In Shelter CD [Dark Vinyl] 12
(Repressing of the long-time
deleted album from 1996. As member of the Cold Meat Industry family, Archon
Satani is a familiar name to those following dark electronics. 5 dark ambient
structured tracks, with sometimes bleak and evil monotonous sounds. If you are
fascinated by ritual sacrifice, ethereal atmospheres and excursions through
darker ambience, this trip should be yours. IN SHELTER works through the power
of hypnotism and this release is very minimalistic in function)
ANTI-VERSTAND [untitled] CD-r [Abgurd] 8
(Another catacomb project from Leningrad. This CD-r contains all the tracks
from tapes that were released by YAOP,except `Electroorganics` track. As a
bonus, it has sick, voice + synths session that took place during
Summer'05.Mind-erasing overcompressed harsh shit-noise made of radionoise,
prepared toys, fucked-up samples, voices, etc.Involves a member of YAO 91404
D. Imbecylish.Hand-made sleeve with insert. 75 copies.)
AUBE : REWORKS MAURIZIO
BIANCHI VOL.1 CD
[silentes] 12
(A superb work of re-editing and re-composition of original material by
Maurizio Bianchi, that saves the distinctly experimental aim of the music by
the hystorical italian artist, renewing it in surely less extreme and hard but
equal new form, unquestionably catching and sure effectiveness.)
AUBE : REWORKS STEFANO
GENTILE CD [silentes] 12
(Glacial sonic tensions, hypnothic electronic sequences, loops alienated
stratifications, isolationist dark atmospheres, slow and progressive
accumulations of changing sonic masses... An extraordinary work of restoration
and revision of original material by Stefano Gentile developed by Aube,
japanese great master, and able manipulator and contemporary
electronic-experimental music reworker.)
FIRST HUMAN FERRO - Corona
Astralis CD [oms] 11,00
(Corona Astralis is a
consequential follow-up to the 2000 "Motherwards" CD and in the long
run fundamentally represents development of the project, carefully combining
early 1998-2001 death ambient /industrial experiments with recent ever
generating solid electroacoustics, harsh electronica and dronesque synth
multistructures,all to be ultimately finallized as integral one of the world
in a grain of sand... In the vein of Loki, Drone stuff.)
FUNKSTILLESENDER `Gribnoy
Sezon\Smert' Kosmonavta`MC
[Abgurd] 7
(Thick, mangling Radiodrone. Abundantly harsh & noisy album. The last
release of the project. 71 copies. MC with a sticker in a oversized cover.)
FUNKSTILLESENDER+KOMATOSERZUSTAND
`Dno`CD-r [Abgurd] 8
(Radiodrone. Emotionless poisoned masterpiece. Lo-fi rumbles, spoken
passages... dense, all-devouring set.)
GRUNTSPLATTER - The Aberrant Laboratory
CD [Dark Vinyl] 12
(The Aberrant Laboratory
finds Gruntsplatter exploring more ambient and disorienting planes in an
effort to contextualize the ramifications of renegade science and deviant
medicine. Framed against a somewhat literary backdrop, it is one of the more
concrete conceptual works from the project and creates a different kind of
listen than past releases. The familiar components of the sound that has
sustained Gruntsplatter for the last 10 plus years are intact, and are perhaps
at their most effective in allowing the listeners thoughts to wander with this
outing. Brooding ambience, and cutting frequencies combine with odd melody and
an enveloping, fluid mix that lead you through the dirty laboratories and
hovels of taboo science where genius and atrocity meet on level ground.)
G.S. - Metafizyka CD [Ars Benevola Mater] 12,00
(GS's sound evokes the elemental completion of the symbol together with the
mechanical and almost unconscious gesture of the ritual. This is the ideal
place for a music which is obsessive in its forms, rarified and nebulous in
its emanations. The six tracks which coldly paint the soundpath evoked by GS
offer a series of industrial soundscapes in a sacred and tormented key, where
the inviolable dark of an ancient nave meet the grieving silence of an
abandoned industrial area.LTD. 545 NUMBERED COPIES IN DELUXE PACKAGE )
IN MEDITARIUM -Mare
Internum 7" [Drone Records] 9
(Their first vinyl-release, MARE INTERNUM, is a perfect example for
esoteric-organic-drones that impresses the listener with the density and
fullness found in their music. Gentle waving drones added with sub-bass
pulses, all is in a suspension state while hidden harmonies appear in the
background: soft ringing-tones giving the impression as if we were in this
huge organic cathedral. Listening to IN MEDITARIUM might give you the
impression of touching something unknown. Something unclear or unconsciously
forgotten in the length of time... like us being slowly created in the warm
walls of mothers womb.The cover art shows an interesting designed symbol
representing a combination of Yantra (meditation), Rosa(woman) and OM (the
absolute) showing us the way from the Uterus to the Universe. WHITE VINYL.
SILKSCREENED SYMBOL-COVERS)
INTRINSIC ACTION -
"PEEPLAND: THE COMPLETE SINGLES" CD [Bloodlust!] 12
(The newest release in the
Intrinsic Action archive series is a compact disc that compiles the band's
five 7-inch singles, along with a bonus 7-inch by Surgical Stainless Steel.)
INSTANT MOVIE COMBINATIONS
-`9YMBO`CD-r [Abgurd] 8
(Debut album of a promising Noise Drone Ambient project from Siberia. Static,
resilient waves of dissociating music. Imagine album `Ruh` (or another static
drones) by Klaus Wiese performed with digital devices. Add some
"warm" hisses and scratches a`la Galakthorro and you'll get some
excerpts from `9YMBO`. Full-color A5 sleeve with pieces of 8mm film. Printed
CD-r. 196 copies.)
LUSTMORD - First...A
document of early accoustic & tactical experimentation CD [Dark Vinyl] 12
(back in stock... one of my
favourite Lustmord recordings...old school,harsh,deadly industrial...highly
recommended)
M.B. + NIMH : SECLUDED
TRUTHS CD [silentes] 12
(A collaboration between M.B. (Maurizio Bianchi) and Nimh (Giuseppe
Verticchio), oriented to searchness of a spiritual truth, along a sonic
pattern that penetrates the thick blanket of "Before the Light", the
sulphureal ambient industrial of "Other Prayers", the cosmic
restlessness of "Secluded Truths", the dark-ambient minimalism of
"The Sacred Outside", the purifying roughness to cross, the
ascending multicolour swirl of "The World Beyond"... SECLUDED TRUTHS
is the first spiritual co-operation between NIMH and MB. Refractory support
for polyphonic treatments.)
M.B. + NIMH : TOGETHER'S
SYMPHONY BOX [silentes]
50
(A stricly ltd.300 copies 4xCD box that includes: MAURIZIO BIANCHI : NIDDAH
EMMHNA (CD SILENTES SME0504) NIMH : SUBTERRANEAN THOUGHTS (CD SILENTES MINIMAL
EDITION SME0505) NIMH + M.B. : SECLUDED TRUTHS (CD SILENTES SME0506) M.B. +
NIMH : TOGETHER'S SYMPHONY (CD SILENTES SME0507) An extraordinary
collaboration between the hystorical italian de-composer Maurizio Bianchi and
the eclectic electronic-ambiental experimenter Nimh (Giuseppe Verticchio). An
unmissable 4CD box that's a long and kaleidoscopic journey at the edges of
sound, from the dark-industrial feelings of Together's Symphony, CD that gives
the box the title, to experimental-lyric-introspective atmospheres of Secluded
Truths, to sonic multicoloured collages of Niddah Emmhna, by the only M.B.,
and the electronic-acoustic-ambiental visionary suggestions of Subterranean
Thoughts by the only Nimh. Endocrine insulation for diagnostic firabilities.)
MAURIZIO BIANCHI : M.I.
NHEEM ALYSM CD [silentes] 12
The brand new album by
MAURZIO BIANCHI is the first in a series on SILENTES. "M.I. NHEEM
ALYSM" is a decompositive triad for reverbarating piano and osmosized
keyboards, idealized and carried out between the autumn 2003 and the spring
2004. Dedicatated to all the people they proclaim the liberation of the modest
minimalistic sound. A true manifesto.)
M.B./LAND USE CD [manifold] 12
(Italian Avant-Noise legend
M.B. and Land Use collaborate on dramatic, subterranean wall-of-noise
constructions and swirling textural storms, dense and complex arrangements,
shifting and shimmering tones barely under control, streaming toward some
distant and indefineable precipice. Not noisy, but way too tense and corrosive
to be called ambient. These vibrant monoliths of sound shift the listeners
pysche into a restless sort of zen, a blissful chaos - truly mind and
mood-altering. Bianchi released early records on Whitehouse's Come Org. label
and has been active since the 1970's. And a recent and conspicuous absence
from the experimental music world has been broken by several recent releases
of surprising freshness and relevance. It is unclear where MB leaves off and
Land Use begins but Psychoneurose is definitely a clear and brilliant return
to early MB techniques with several refinements in delivery and focus.
Psychoneurose will be the clear weapon of choice for those who prefer their
ambience with teeth and their Power-Electronics with more of the deep, vaster
textures than violence.)
M.B. - MIND US TRIAL 2CDR [EEs't] 22
(As w/ other recent Ees't
releases, these are CDR's! "EEs'T presents two new works by Maurizio
Bianchi: Mind Us Trial. Phonological
de-composition in eight dissections for tapes, noises and neurologic piano.
This paleogenetic work wants to be an epitaph, and at the same time a
commemoration, of those corrosive instants when M.B. was an equalized disciple
of the industrial delirium. The technological obsession is omnipresent in
every fibre of these tenebrous and stainless sounds. Smooth lumps sliding
along the limits of the rudimental anguish. Not a barren repetition of the
past but a wrinkled celebration of the present. The electrolytic mind is not
developing the signal of a more radical experimentation and the vibration
course has reached its partial reinstatement! With respectful thanks to the
electroacoustic influence of the decadent and palpitating past. 'Ihc Naib
Oizir Uam.' Cyclic improvisation for chaotic piano, apocalyptic guitar and
final frequencies. If we go back, the memories strike us; if we project
ourselves into the future, we're overwhelmed with fears; and if we remain at
the present, we must face the anxieties. This comatose opera is in remembrance
of M.B. atavistic past, M.B. fugitive present and M.B. atemporal
future.")
M.B. - FRAMMENTI CDR [EES'T] 12
("Frammenti, i.e. fragments, is the new direction in Maurizio
Bianchi's music. An acoustic-bionic composition for electromagnetic waves and
cyclic sonorities. Left now are all the indeterminate atmospheres gently
fluctuating, in order to reach a more formal and structured work. Still
dealing with the fragments of our memories made of joy and tribulations,
sensations and awareness, aspirations and disappointments, with the carnal and
the spiritual assistance. This new composition, quite as literally as the
title suggests, consists of two long sound-collages reminding some of the
techniques that MB was using in the late seventies under the name of
Sacher-pelz. The music is not that brutal DIY intensity of analogic
treatments, but more a digital version of nowadays oscillating clinic
sonorities. As the author stated: 'Those who will have the courage to listen
to and investigate it, will remain mentally upright when confronted with the
opposition of today's music -- which is so mechanical, hybrid, aseptic,
narcotic, obsessive -- while in their heart nothing will be left but the
principal fragment, which originated the sonorous universe: the sacredness of
infinity!'. Available now in an edition limited to 500 copies.")
M.B. - ANTARCTICT MOSAIC CDR [EES'T] 12
("Following the path
opened by Frammenti, this new work represents the radicalization of the
fragmentary approach in Maurizio Bianchi's music.
A musical composition
resulting from the combination of various elements: Hetzian-waves, classical
and electronic music. MB eagerly explores the immaculate spaces of the
so-called 'frozen continent', the only one not contaminated by the human
presence. The hostile surroundings and the prohibitive temperatures made the
frozen paradise so stimulating and pure. Antarctica was an immense park frozen
after the post-Flood events when unexpectedly and suddenly the temperatures
felt of many centigrade degrees. This process is well emphasized in the
'Antartic' track. On the other hand, in 'Mosaic' the listener mind is
projected into the future when, after the decontamination process of human
presence on Earth, the frozen continent will become again a paradise. Again a
strictly formal and structured work, two long and exhausting sound-collages
made of little fragments, even more radical than his approach when MB was
active under the name of Sacher-pelz. Also included is an excerpt from 'The
Technological Nonsense', a text presenting the forthcoming book on Maurizio
Bianchi activities soon to be issued by EEs'T. As MB stated: 'Antarctic: sonorous infiltration in a deteriorated glacier' and 'Mosaic:
liquid resonances for asymmetric decodings'. Are the glacial 1980s so far
away? Available now in a CDR edition limited to 300 copies.")
M.B. - CYCLES CDR [EES't] 12
("The terminal concept
of Cycles is matured after the sharp Fragments and the Glacial Mosaics of MB's
recent artistic reproduction, at the end of a triennial project, aiming to
exacerbate the routine of prefab sound, the common and forgone sound created
to be exclusively consumed by an amorphous and servile mass, sunken in a
sullen entertainment. The approach here is totally new and the fragment is
isolated and constantly repeated in order to build an aural minimal
architecture. As MB states: 'Our whole existence is subordinated to intense
and mathematical cycles, from the biological to the technological one, from
the solar to the lunar one, from the historical to the legendary one. The
cyclicity of the sonorous meanders of Cycles is, probably, the unique example
of cyclic music. Particular and interatomic sonorous repercussions infinitely
and distinctly repeating themselves, captured in a spectroscopy of atavic and
coriaceous notes'. And in the classic mood of the early 80s style, MB
continues: 'The establishment will disagree. Such an experiment will be
considered tedious and banal. What matters to me is not the ephemeral
judgement of this sick and condemned reality. Finally the nine cycles included
in this minimal work could be considered my appropriate epitaph. I have
already entirely expressed my own artistic freedom and I wonder whether this
might be nothing but the end of another cycle, in anxious expectation of
the... eternal cycle'. Due to the extreme nature of the material included, the
reproduction of this edition has been limited to 200 copies only.")
M.B. - CARCINOMETRO CDR [simple logic] 9,00
(Carcinimatous areas of
sharply demarcated neoplasms and biphasic sarcoma. Selective targeting and
radiological defensive of endometrioid processes in thromboembolic
fetoplacentas. Granulomatous transferase in the inner membrane of
chloroplasts)
NOSTALGIA - The house on the borderland CD [Ars Benevola Mater] 12,00
(Based on the fantasy tale (which bears the same title) written by the clever
William Hope Hodgson, The House On The Borderland carries symbolically the
listener through pages of real terror where it's told about the gloomy
presences infesting an old house. Echoes of Lovecraft's style for a thrilling
soundtrack precariously and perpetually poised between suggestive melancholy
and abysmal fear of the unknown.LTD. 535 NUMBERED COPIES IN A5 DELUXE
PACKAGE.)
OXYD meets SUMAD -
Mysterious places of dead souls CD [Ars Benevola Mater] 12,00
(Dark soundscapes of onyric ambient, accompanied by the restless breath of
drones and samples overwhelmed with typical scandinavian distressing
atmospheres. Mysterious places of dead souls opens gloomy horizon