Maribor
Members: Giuseppe Verticchio, Andrea Marutti, Stefano Gentile, Maurizio Bianchi, Pierpaolo Zoppo, Gianluca Favaron
Nuances De Spleen
*50 copies limited edition*
Completely handmade packaging.
The edition consists of:- sleeve cover (13.5x13.5 cm.) in black cardboard (thickness 200 grams), on the front of which is attached a figure printed in color on canvas.- 6-fold cover (13.5x13.5 cm. approx. closed, 40.5x13.5 cm. approx. developed), printed in color (200 grams paper)- cdr with printed surface, in black envelope. In the cd envelope is attached a cardboard envelope (12x6.5 cm. approx., cardboard 200 grams thick) which contai…
Das Testament
*200 copies limited edition* M.B.: electronics, rhythms, neutronic effects. The two suites of Das Testament were recorded in 1982 and can be included among the most extreme and uncompromising M.B. recordings. Once more, maximum electronics.
Symphony For A Genocide
*202 copies limited edition* First issued on LP in 1981 by Sterile Records, London, England. The moral of this work: The past punishment is the inevitable blindness of the present. MB: electronics. Symphony For A Genocide came out in 1981, on this album, MB construct brutal, hallucinatory blasts of electronic noise and grinding rhythms of hand-cut tape noise and overblown synthetic distortion.
These, bleak chilling drones are reminiscent of Conrad Schnitzler at his most neurotic, Nurse With Wou…
Reflected Alienation
Collaboration between noise maestro Maurizio Bianchi and Kristian Day.
KD: crude tape loops, field recordings, synthesizerMB: electronics, guitar, piano, noise effects, pictures
Ircool
*50 copies limited edition* Quiet armonic ambient from the Italian master. The cdr is contained in a cover measuring 14.50x14.50 cm. approximately, printed in color on high quality 300 gram thick embossed ribbed paper. The cover is closed by a 300 gram polyester tag printed in color, which bears the name of the M.B. project. Four colored satin ribbons pass through the tag, then knotted on the back of the cover. The ribbons are four different colors, and are chosen from the colors white, black, g…
Telmegiddo / Bacterihabitat (CDr + LP, Blue)
*2024 stock. *Signed By The Artist* 50 copies limited edition* "LP by Maurizio Bianchi and a CDR by M.B., and that's why a book is such a great idea. Why is that? 'Telmegiddo' (CD) is 'the last cassette tape decomposition' and was previously released as 'Extreme Man 2'. The two pieces on 'Bacterihabitat' (CDR) are from May 1982 and previously released as 'Extreme Man 1' - both of the releases actually released without permission. Its hard to say what the differences would be between both works, …
Bacillusmetrial Entopathogen
*200 copies limited edition* Grubenwehr Freiburg has been amassing an impressive array of releases by highly regarded artists from the noise/industrial scene in a rather short time. This latest addition to their roster, by Italian genre pioneer M.B. (aka Maurizio Bianchi), comes as a co-release with attenuation circuit. The 75-minute CD is accompanied by an oversized 7” artwork insert, which neatly showcases the fact that M.B. is not only a prolific sound artist, but also has something to offer …
Regel
Oblio, a brand new imprint dedicated to reissues from the moodier spectrum of Italian experimental music, launches into action with the first ever fully remastered vinyl reissue of Maurizio Bianchi's 1982 private press masterstroke “Regel”. A seminal cornerstone of early '80s Italian experimentalism, Industrial music, and noise - long hunted by collectors - that is regarded as one of Bianchi's most definitive works - bristling various sound sources, electronics, and synths - more than 40 years o…
En Trance
*300 copies limited edition* Alchemist Maurizio Bianchi has opened seven gates that lead directly to a trance state. Beyond the gates, the sound of higher dimensional beings moving through space, or perhaps the revelry of angels as they celebrate their pouring down from the heavens, jointly unfold the world of a superb ambient trance symphony that mixes unknown sounds that resist our ordinary perception. You can transit at your own leisure in this blissful trance world, and it may be a chance fo…
I. B. M.
Limited edition of 50 copies (hand-numbered sticker). Comes as white shell tape with pro print, 3 panel j-card, clear jewel case. A true experimental music classic by Maurizio Bianchi, originally released as private cassette in 1980 and then later bootleged on tape
Utopian Suns
Tip! Molnija Aura is an electronic ambient/glitch project of Davide Del Col and Andrea Marutti from Milan, Italy. "Utopian Suns" is the project's first full-length album. Recorded and mastered between 2007 and 2009, the CD is inspired by science-fiction themes and space-age relics. Consisting of six tracks created mostly with analogue and digital synthesizers, the album is a long and engaging journey through sidereal dephts: shrouded in the darkness of immense and untouched vastness, beyond the …
Sil Muir
Tip! "Sil Muir presents to us here their first full-length work. It is a beautiful, yet melancholy, hour-long recording carrying us along that sleepless journey from dusk 'til dawn. Powerful and gentle drones shudder and shimmer through these four dense and amazing tracks. Sil Muir is the collaboration between Andrea Marutti (Amon, Never Known, Afe Records) and Andrea "Ics" Ferraris (Ur, Airchamber3, Ulna). Their only previous appearances are a lengthy compilation track on Transf.Order and a col…
Never Existed Before Consequently It Will Never Exist After
Maurizio Bianchi is an Italian pioneer of industrial music and dark ambient, originating from Milan. Bianchi was inspired by the music of Tangerine Dream, Conrad Schnitzler and Throbbing Gristle. He wrote about music for Italian magazines before beginning to release his own cassettes under the name of Sacher-Pelz in August 1979. He released four cassettes as Sacher-Pelz before switching to his own name or simply "MB" in 1980. Bianchi corresponded with many of the key players in the industrial mu…
Music For Zoe
*150 copies limited edition* Music For Zoe is the result of the encounter between two masters of free improvisation, Edoardo Ricci (soprano saxophone and bass clarinet) and Lucio Bonaldo (drums) with Gianluca Favaron (computer), a prime mover of electronic sounds often pushed beyond the limits. What emerges from this encounter is a kind of European-style free music, with open structures, sometimes close to radical contemporary improvisation. The acoustic sounds of percussion and wind instruments…
Absurdum
**Special limited edition of 66 copies.** The long-awaited reissue of ABSURDUM is finally released. Originally published by 13/Silentes in an incredible art edition of only 17 copies as a 3LP box and a handmade book, it is now being made available for everybody. ABSURDUM began as a series of writings by MB entitled DISSECTIONS. These 16 texts are now featured inside the poster cover that includes the CD of the entire work. No other words are necessary. It's only absurd. It's only MB
Art edition.…
Antimateria
*50 handnumbered Editions on green 135g Vinyl* Maurizio Bianchi is one of the founders of early industrial and noise music and should be familiar to most. For Antimateria he contributed two brand new, merging pieces in which he approaches the theme through sounds of luminescent and rushing keyboard clusters. Coalminer establishes several harsh noise tracks, for which they collaborated with the most diverse artists of the genre, from different countries. With the help of Toshiji Mikawa (Japan, Fo…
Verrückt
'Verrückt' was originally a split cassette release with Criminal Party from back in 1987 on the Japanese label Lunatic Propaganda. M.B. better known as Italian power electronics/avant-garde/noise artist Maurizio Bianchi contributed one side of the tape. Original copies are scarce, to say the least, so M.B. himself reissued it as a CDr and now St.An.Da. give it the vinyl treatment. Captivating '80s underground cassette music, bordering on ambient with its bubbling dreamlike soundscapes.
Computers S.P.A.
*300 copies limited edition. Includes CDr and tote bag* "After the "concretistic" beginnings and the synthesis between integral concretism and artificial synthetism, in the autumn. After the "concretistic" beginnings and the synthesis between integral concretism and artificial synthetism, in the autumn of 1980 I arrived at the synthetic court of the purest and most uncompromising electronics and thus the "Computers S. P. A." project was born, consisting of two improvisations on the Korg MS synth…
Detrimental Dialogue
Tip! Andrea Marutti and Fausto Balbo met in 2005 at Lab12 in Vigevano; both active in music making since more than fifteen years, their friendship grown over the years on the fertile ground of the interest they share about electronic experimentation and their wide and open-minded listening habits. “Detrimental Dialogue”, their very first collaboration, deeply explores various types of analogue and digital synthesis (additive, subtractive, Physical Modeling, FM, Phase Distortion, Granular, etc.) …
Variations (Fragments Of Evanescent Memories)
100 copies. Oversize packging, numbered edition Gianluca Favaron: tapes recorders, analog synth, objects, guitar, field recordings, contact microphone, hydrophones, cartridge, effects. Female voice on Fragment #1 : Alexandra Drotz Ruhn Cymbals on Fragment #5 : Anacleto Vitolo Recorded and mixed at Raum 22 between April and December 2017 Mastered by Anacleto Vitolo Images treated by Stefano Gentile Layout by The Designers of the Thirteenth dream "Even variation is a form of repetition" (Arnold S…