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Eden's Island - Extended
Now here we go with a project that can easily be labeled a mammoth. Who remembers Eden Ahbez actually, except for a couple of born too late retro hippies? Well, here we go with the story: It is 1960, Rock’n’Roll has just lost a couple of its protagonists during this and the previous year, the time of the great balladeers has just begun, but soon will run out due to the new and exciting beat invasion. In the US mainstream the tiki culture has reached a certain peak and is about to collapse, but s…
Thirty
Originally released as a 3 CDr set on Inyrdisk to commemorate 30 years of If, Bwana, and now available on manufactured CDs, this triple disc gracefully spans 3 and 1/4 hours of riveting musique concrète and refined experimentation from Al Margolis. These recent recordings come to you re-mastered and repackaged from the self-released tapes sold in a nearly invisible edition during a brief tour, sub-titled within Thirty as Blue Two, Green Three and Yellow Four. Thirty captures If, Bwana championi…
Issue 9
The 9th issue of Lasse Marhaug's fanzine Personal Best. 100 pages, full colour offset-printed with glued spine. Nearly three years on from the last issue, Marhaug conducts in-depth interviews with: Christian Blandhoel, Martìn Escalante, Russell Haswell, Campbell Kneale, Tine Surel Lange, Greg Pope, Joe Potts (and Los Angeles Free Music Society), Mariam Rezaei and Edward Sol.
Marmo
"After two vinyl releases finally a digital album by the master of Japan-Noise on OEC. This album is entitled Marmo (Marble for Italian) and is devoted to the Italian and particularly the Venetian marble. Masami was visiting and playing in this magic Italian city several times and was impressed by all the marbles used in the Venetian buildings and paintings... The 3 tracks composing this album are entitled Merzbotanica-parallela. "Botanica parallela" is a book written by the Italian author Leo L…
Folkmusik
*2022 stock.* Like a restless zombie that refuses to stay dead Folkstorm once again has risen from the grave to wage war on the world. Mr Nordvargr has been active as usual the last years, but he has focused more on producing darkambient and electronic music, but that is now changing. Our guess is that he just cant sleep at night if he doesnt let off some steam every once in a whileThe new album Folkmusik is very much a classic Folkstorm album with it´s roots firmly placed in the old-school indu…
Love Me Tender or I Will Cause Pain
*300 copies limited edition* Rumoured said there will be no more albums and the project is dead. But no, that would have been too easy. Stratvm Terror had just gone underground, hiding for their next terrorising attack. Now they are back after 15 years with their new assault: 'Love me tender, or I will cause Pain'. This album is filled with seven oppressive and depressive weird obscurities to ease or cause you pain, depending on your inclinations.Massive layers of corrosive darkness with occasio…
Folksongs
*2022 stock.* Folkstorm returns to follow up the successful 2009 album "Ortodox" with another crushing assault on your senses. This time Nordvargr pushes the sound even further and adds a more classic songstructure and vocals to the album - hence the title. While still maintaining a harsh old-school industrial vibe, these recordings takes Folkstorm to a whole new level. Welcome to explore the wrath of a man gone seriously pissed off with everyone and everything. Don't loose the chance to taste t…
Pariah Demise
*2022 stock.* 2nd official album by this Reison D'Etre side project, best cold & doom scandinavian power-electronics ! This album was long time sold out and first released in 1996. Pariah Demise has been re-mastered with additional extra material from the Germinal Chamber tape out in the same time on OEC and now deleted, plus one previously unreleased bonus track from 1996. Discover this nice killer plate of pulsing and beating, cold and doom power industrial electronics served in a complete new…
Das Sein Des Seins
*2022 stock* Debut CD by this new great exoterica German duo! This is the end result of a mix between Satanism & Mystic, Ambient & Noise, Industrial & Elektro experimentalism! The title of this work "The be of being" (Das Seins des Seins, all texts are in German language!) shows that we are talking about a milestone for all "free thinkers"! Through the tracks you will find the endless loop story of an Angel that is continuously chased by darkness. In each culture & his mythology is described a f…
Rise Of The Vulcans
*2022 stock.* 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 …
Nothing Matters
*300 copies limited edition. In process of stocking* Yes, another Folkstrom album out on OEC. And this is for sure best Folkstorm album ever: True elite industrial noise punk! A mix of best white noise a la Whitehouse and a sort of Cabarte Voltaire dance machine. The Swedish master of Industrial Power Electonic Muzak is giving here a class of how the genre should be made. Several tracks will become hits for a very, very long time. You are warned: buy or die withought knowing the true sound of p/…
Amalgamelody
"Third collaborative album by the Japanese and Italian grand-masters of Industrial and Noise. This time all tracks are collaborations by the two artists. Only analogue sounds used, a true return to the old roots of Industrial music.Digipack with a great and futuristic space-design and a psychedelic touch made by Tex Tescari using images supplied by MB.
Suffering and Defiance
*199 copies limited edition* Brand new album by Jonathan Canady (Deathpile). As Jonathan says: the album is all instrumental heavy analog electronics, inspired by albums like "Sickness Report" by Atrax Morgue and "Menses" by MB... Aseptic and chirurgical sounds in best Old School Industrial, P/E tradition by one of the US masters in the genre. First 8 tracks in the CD was suppsed to be the only ones in "Suffering and Defiance". But 2 long tracks from "Present Shock" Canady's digital-only release…
Flesh Metal Orgasm
*Limited edition of 300 copies.* Out via Old Europa Café in early September is the CD re-edition of an ultra-rare Merzbow tape, “Flesh Metal Orgasm”, which was originally released in 1989 on Nihilistic Recordings and then re-released in 2010 by Blossoming Noise. Both editions are long time sold out and this is the first time this album is released on CD format.
Recorded live at the ZSF Studio in September 1988, the tapes and CD hold 2 tracks, “No-1” (21:50) and “No-2” (24:14). The material for t…
Septic
*300 copies limited edition* Septic was the second full length vinyl release from Himukalt. The LP was released by Malignant in 2020 and immediately sold out. Here comes the CD re-edition including 2 exclusive bonus tracks, some minor chages on another track and a complete new mastering for best CD sound quality. Himukalt aesthetic and template is immediately recognizable through the 5 original Septic tracks and becomes even more intriguing through the addition of the 2 exclusive bonus tracks. D…
Explorations (1970 - 1973) 3CD Box
The first ever survey of the seminal British experimental music collective, Gentle Fire, "Explorations (1970 - 1973)" offers a remarkable and previously unavailable glimpse of their activities during the early 1970s.
Journey into Space
York University's music department houses one of the UK's first-ever
electronic music studios, and during the early '70s, it was a hotbed of
creative activity. Much of the released output from the studio at this
time revolved around the work of the dynamic composer Trevor Wishart. Journey Into Space
was his first release, composed between 1970 and 1972, and was
privately-pressed (shortly before the formation of YES records), as two
separate LPs in 1973. (The CD cover amalgamates the two or…
Electronic Works
One of our favourite "pure drone" album consisting of 3 amazing long tracks by Pauline Oliveros. I of IV was made in July 1966 at the University of Toronto Electronic Music Studio and was first released by CBS alongside works by 2 other young composers - 'Come out' by Steve Reich and 'Night music' by Richard Maxfield. It is really only in recent years (born out of the more radical elements of dance music, Electronica and ambient music) that music like this is being rediscovered by a growing numb…
Episodes at 4AM
Bob Downes is most often thought of as a jazz flautist, composer
and group leader, but throughout his varied career that has included
such diverse musical activity as working with the John Barry Seven and playing on Egg's second LP, he also had his own fluid conceptual group Open Music with principle bass player Barry Guy and drummer Denis Smith. Other players that passed through Open Music include Chris Spedding, Kenny Wheeler, Ray Russell, Ian Carr, Henry Lowther, Harry Beckett, Harry Miller…
Installation Recordings (1973-2008) 2Cd
This 2CD is essentially a retrospective of Max Eastley's Installation work. As such, it updates and adds many new examples to the 1975 release 'New and Rediscovered Musical Instruments', which was released as a split LP with David Toop on Brian Eno's Obscure Records. This is Eastley's first solo CD. Of the 35 tracks, only the last 2 have any guests or 'playing' (the most virtuosic moment being George Lewis playing a grass blade). All the other pieces are either powered by the natural forces of w…