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Mauthausen Orchestra

One of the earlier Italian early industrial, power-electronics projects, Mauthausen Orchestra, in the person of Pierpaolo Zoppo, started in 1982. His work explored morbid subjects, usually extreme sex, perversion, tortures and disease, and the sound was a brutal collage of noise, electronics distortions and inhuman vocals.

One of the earlier Italian early industrial, power-electronics projects, Mauthausen Orchestra, in the person of Pierpaolo Zoppo, started in 1982. His work explored morbid subjects, usually extreme sex, perversion, tortures and disease, and the sound was a brutal collage of noise, electronics distortions and inhuman vocals.

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COLLEZIONE DEL SILENZIO is a series of 26 cassette tapes edited by SILENTES TAPESTRY  SO SILENT... Each tape is associated with a letter of the alphabet Each letter is associated with an artist Each letter gives birth to an unwanted word The music is the artist's personal vision of silence 26 tapes by 26 italian acts Each tape is hand numbered and limited to 100 copies. The letter M is associated with Mauthausen Orchestra.
Konzentration
Edition of 200 copies. Splatter eco vinyl with paste-on labels. Fold-out cover with paste-on artwork. Front cover artwork is Glow In The Dark. All tracks were originally released on compilation cassettes during the 80s. Released here for the first time on LP format. From the vault of Italy industrial music trailblazer Mauthausen Orchestra comes this selection of obscure early 80s of hidden gems that showcase the very beginnings of this pioneering act - taken from even more obscure cassette relea…
Private Thoughts Recordings
*99 copies limited edition* Mauthausen Orchestra was one of the most important musical projects of the Italian industrial scene in the 80’s and has contributed to the birth of the power electronics and harsh noise across the globe. Tape after tape has constituted, in a few years, the backbone of what we will know as an alienating and extremist style, made of metal nightmares and sonic torture , often dilated, dissected and extended up to the limit of endurance. Mauthausen Orchestra carry us as r…
Sonic Deprivation
A selection of archive materials from the very first cassette releases (Murderfuck, Mafarka, Anal Perversions, Host Sodomy, From Homicide To Slaughter), completely restored and remastered.
Private Thoughts Recordings
* Edition of 200 in 6-panel ecopack/digifile * Nine years after the death of Pierpaolo Zoppo, an unforgettable artist and a forerunner of Industrial Music with his Mauthausen Orchestra 'cult' project, this new CD of completely unreleased material - containing tracks he composed between 2009 and 2012 - is finally released by Standa. The album - a release which has been officially authorised by his family - shows us Pierpaolo Zoppo at the peak of his artistic maturity: after investigating the most…
From Unhealthy Places
"The energy, the genius and the intransigence of the music of the hystoric 'cult' power electronics project Mauthausen Orchestra / Pierpaolo Zoppo, joined to the originalty, the eclecticism, the rigorous experimental research carried on since fifteen years by Giuseppe Verticchio, mostly with his Nimh solo project. Disturbing images of unhealthy places, nocturne landscapes covered with fog, psychotic nightmares, tormenting and delirious, described with sonorities of great impact and incredible dr…
Mauthausen Orchestra 1982
Originally published on tape by Broken Flag, U.K., as BF16. Remastered from original tape. Limited edition of 100 copies in digipack.. This re-issue was fully authorized by Pierpaolo Zoppo. Mauthausen Orchestra wass a musical group founded by Pierpaolo Zoppo, Italian noise musician of the early industrial and power electronics school from the 1980s. Along with Maurizio Bianchi he was one of the pioneers of Italian noise. Zoppo's work explored morbid subjects, usually extreme sex, perversio…
Anal Perversions
Edition of 60 hand-numbered copies for this early industrial artefact, originally produced on tape in 1984 "Since 1982, the Mauthausen Orchestra, mastermined by Pierpaolo Zoppo, have developed their brutal tendencies, reaching, by the last productions, the highest standards of sonic power. With "Necrofellatio" begins the flirtation with the "Aquilifer Sodality"; sexual impetus, and the M.O. support the sound stimulation offered by The Sodality with their mastery of elating power electronics. The…
Orgies Of Crime
Mauthausen Orchestra remains one of the pioneering exploits from the early Italian industrial scene along with Maurizio Bianchi and the later with Atrax Morgue. Pierpaolo Zoppo started releasing tapes of his Mauthausen Orchestra project on the shocking Aquilifer Sodality label from 1982 until 1986. Zoppo didn't leave much to the imagination with the titles of these early works: ‘’Anal Perversions’’, ‘’Murderfuck’’ or ‘’Bloodyminded’’, just to name a few, carries us into real rituals of a …
Murderfuck
Since 1982, the Mauthausen Orchestra, mastermined by Pierpaolo Zoppo, have developed their brutal tendencies, reaching, by the last productions, the highest standards of sonic power. With "Necrofellatio" begins the flirtation with the "Aquilifer Sodality"; sexual impetus, and the M.O. support the sonorous stimulation offered by The Sodality with their elating power electronics mastery. Their complete devotion to extreme sexual pleasures makes their ultra violent attacks the ultimate enjoyments. …
Sexual Depravity and Pleasant Atrocities
**Outstanding archival oddity out by the knowledge at Urashima.  Mauthausen Orchestra, a key figure in the dark waters of early industrial music**  One of the key figures of the Italian industrial scene, Pierpaolo Zoppo starts releasing his own tapes of his project Mauthausen Orchestra under the astonishing label Aquilifer Sodality in 1982. Pierpaolo Zoppo does not leave much up to the imagination with the titles for these early Mauthausen Orchestra albums. Sex. Death. Blood. Combing through top…
From Homicide To Slaughter
Continue reprints of the amazing tapes by Pierpaolo Zoppo aka Mauthausen Orchestra released on Aquilifer Sodality in the early 80s. Tape after tape Mauthausen Orchestra constitute, in a few years, the backbone of what we will know as an alienating and extremist style, made of metal nightmares and sonic torture , often dilated, dissected and extended up to the limit of endurance. Conflict carry us, once again, as real rituals of a civilization without gods, in a pure world of suffering. In…
Nekrofellatio
Continue reprints of the amazing tapes by Pierpaolo Zoppo aka Mauthausen Orchestra released on Aquilifer Sodality in the early eighties. Tape after tape Mauthausen Orchestra constitute, in a few years, the backbone of what we will know as an alienating and extremist style, made of metal nightmares and sonic torture , often dilated, dissected and extended up to the limit of endurance. Conflict carry us, once again, as real rituals of a civilization without gods, in a pure world of sufferin…
2nd Movement
Continue reprints of the amazing tapes by Pierpaolo Zoppo aka Mauthausen Orchestra released on Aquilifer Sodality in the early eighties. Tape after tape Mauthausen Orchestra constitute, in a few years, the backbone of what we will know as an alienating and extremist style, made of metal nightmares and sonic torture , often dilated, dissected and extended up to the limit of endurance. 2nd Movement carry us, once again, as real rituals of a civilization without gods, in a pure world of suffering. …
Conflict
Continue reprints of the amazing tapes by Pierpaolo Zoppo aka Mauthausen Orchestra released on Aquilifer Sodality in the early eighties (Conflict also released on Broken Flag). Tape after tape Mauthausen Orchestra constitute, in a few years, the backbone of what we will know as an alienating and extremist style, made of metal nightmares and sonic torture , often dilated, dissected and extended up to the limit of endurance. Conflict carry us, once again, as real rituals of a civilization without …
Necrosi Statica
Originally released as a private tape in 1982. Necrosi Statica was the first ever cassette by Pierpaolo Zoppo and was recorded before the infamous Mauthausen Orchestra tapes. The early electronic experiments of Necrosi Statica show an intriguing but inevitable progression from glacial synthetic sounds to a primordial flow of noise thoughts. It comes in a stickered black sleeve with black inner and black record labels.Included is a photo, an insert and a label catalogue.
Dedicated to J.Goebbles
The tape more provocative and irritating of Pierpaolo Zoppo, the Italian sub-genius behind Mauthausen Orchestra, is certainly Dedicated to J. Goebbels . The tracks were recorded during '82-‘83 and offer an overwhelming noise ferric devolves into agonizing nightmare and atrocities sound that recall the dark side of humanity. This is the fourth official reprint on Urashima in Lp and the artwork was approved by the artist.Tracks remastered from the original tape and the record has been pressed on 1…
Material Modulations
"Second and final collaborative work by MB [Maurizio Bianchi] & MO [Mauthausen Orchestra], recorded before the premature departure of Pierpalo Zoppo the man behind Maurhausen Orchestra (R.I.P.).In the modulatory system, sounds are extracted from a basic materialistic sound and then overlaid with the use of random techniques that conceal the rumoristic load-bearing tones. The result is these "Material Modulations", which represent the primary device to receive physical and emotional response for …
Spiritual Noises
Historical collaboration between two of the fathers of Italian (and not only Italian) Old-School Industrial, Maurizio Bianchi and Mauthausen Orchestra."Creating noise is determined by the presence of an original particle to which randomly apply an alteration to convey a voltage-activated disturbing that determinates the electrophonic perturbation. As a result we obtain the spiritual noisesMO_disturbo" Sounds by M.B.: ancient loops, modern metals and futuristic waves and M.O. :synthesizer, loops,…
Bloodyminded
Brutal & harsh tones that cut through the air with manic male agonizing screams moving into a lyrical attack… Bloodyminded, originally released in 1984 on the legendary Aquilifer Sodality in cassette, is the third official reissue of Mauthausen Orchestra on Urashima in Lp. Tracks remastered from the original tape. The record has been pressed on 140 gr black vinyl with black label and black inner sleeve (with inside polyethylene plastic) and comes in a deluxe silver silkscreen on black cardb…
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