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Breath Vessels
On Breath Vessels, Liz Allbee braids horns, tuning forks, sine waves and voice into a kind of speculative folk ritual, imagining a future orchestra of bodies and resonant objects sharing breath, charge and memory when the grid has finally gone dark.
Live in Melbourne
2015 Live Recording from "Supersense" Festival Melbourne featuring a 'supergroup' formed around Manuel Göttsching, Ariel Pink, Oren Ambarchi, Shags Chamberlain playing material from the classic Ashe Ra Tempel releases "Schwingungen" and "Seven Up". "Out of the blue - I was invited to perform in Melbourne, Australia. It happened thanks to my dear old friend Mick Glossop, who made the suggestion to Sophia Brous, at the time the curator of a music-festival called „Supersense“ at the Melbourne Arts…
Electronic Cottage - The complete collection (Book, Hardcover)
Hardcover, 468 pages, 21×27 cm! In the wake of his Cause And Effect cassette label and distribution service, Hal McGee launched Electronic Cottage International Magazine. From 1989 to 1991, its six issues focused on the independent home recording community – artists who had developed their craft in the post-punk DIY era. The contributors were nearly all members of the hometaper community. The magazine featured articles providing helpful tips and highlighted the challenges hometapers faced. It in…
Lines
"Lines was born from the desire to take where I’ve left it with 'Fleeting Future' and go a bit more horizontal and ambient. Work with layers of lines, whether they be dotted or straight, and leave them to unfold and see where they would take me." — Akusmi “ ‘Secant’, I must have listened to this tune 3 times in a row, this one soundtracked my night drive through the winding roads” – Benji B, BBC Radio 1 London based composer, multi-instrumentalist and producer Akusmi announces ‘Lines’, an exhila…
Bio Electric
New Forces is proud to present the first in a series of CD boxsets reissuing the catalog of Hands To, the legendary recording project of artist Jeph Jerman. “Bio Electric” collects the five “body sounds” tapes released by Hands To in the late 1980s while Jeph was living in Colorado: Maesh, Decesh, Invesh, Aggresh, and Recesh. As Jeph recollects in the linter notes, “I had begun investigating the use of human body sounds after noticing a definite physical effect while listening to one of my earli…
Early Kinky Works 1983-1988
The ultimate statement from Japanese noise legend Kimihide Kusafuka. A "fake compilation" of tracks recorded under various aliases, originally issued by his Kinky Musik Institute label in 1993. Noise, power-electronics, techno, post-punk, psychedelia... Kusafuka does it all on this compilation. A work of unbounded creativity and a key document of the Japanese cassette underground.
"This is a fake compilation. All pieces in this product were composed and recorded during 1983 to 1988, under the na…
Vigilant New Forces
Vigilant New Forces is a compilation celebrating fifteen years of label activity. Featuring all new tracks from New Forces artists - past, present, and future. The finest noise and experimental sound, offered with gratitude to all those who have supported this endeavor. Stay vigilant. Featuring Jackson-Pratt, Mayuko Hino, Kjostad, Mass Marriage, MO*TE, Organ Of Corti, Kyle Flanagan, Rodger Stella & Scant, Wince, Joe Colley, Jeph Jerman, Form Hunter, and Matriarch.
Warlord
Warlord is the latest full-length album from Kjostad, the follow up to last year's Extinctionist released on Chondritic Sound. This is the evolution of Kjostad's approach in every aspect, an attempt to distill 7 years of development into the project's finest work yet. The place-based field recordings are more intimate. The environmental explorations are more harrowing. Hissing tape loops collide with pulsing electronics. The noise clatters, clangs, and grinds across six tracks that investigate a…
All Pressures Past
Primitive Isolation Tactics is the foremost example of how the current generation of Canadian noise builds on the foundation forged by some of the country's textural masters while expanding into new and ever more dynamic territory. There is plenty of monolithic crunching to sink your teeth into on "All Pressures Past," but the sounds skitter, jump, and implode into a satisfyingly damaged wreckage of burned wires and fried voltage. Primitive Isolation Tactics wields both patience and restlessness…
The Final Fumes From The Soup Bowls
Brain liquification from the secret agents residing at Chocolate Monk headquarters. The last installment of their recent "soup" trilogy, these final fumes waft into your ears in precise yet frenetic fashion. Jarring cuts, unexpected sounds, and surreal atmospheres abound. Music to confound and delight.
Bending Your Sauna
In 2022 New Forces received a pair of discs in the mail from Nick Forté (Rorschach, Raspberry Bulbs, Half Mortal) that contained the initial creative burst from his new project Green Tea. The albums were astonishingly well crafted and could hardly be considered "demos"; indeed, they felt like masterworks that emerged out of thin air, blending psychedelic harsh noise with ambient and new age music in a way that felt incredibly fresh and exciting. As the artist describes it, "I knew I was working …
Volume 2
New Forces is proud to present Richard Ramirez Volume 2, a 6-CD boxset compiling some of the best work by noise legend Richard Ramirez: Supply and Shutdown, Nature's Afterbirth, Barebacking, This Angel's Rusted Halo, and Mistaken Genital Apparatus. Each of these discs contains a classic recording of pure noise from one of the genre's key figures; a massive collection you don't want to miss.
Skin Crime
New Forces is proud to offer a reissue of this hyper-limited Skin Crime tape from 1997, originally available in only a handful of copies. Skin Crime on this recording was Patrick O'Neil and Scott Hull. An essential part of the noise archive, and a unique entry in the legendary Skin Crime catalog.
"1997. I get a postcard in the mail from GX asking if we'd like to play at a show he's setting up. Of course I said yes. I talked things over with RRRon, who had also been invited, and we decided that i…
Third Sign
The long-awaited follow up to 2020's "Acts of Betrayal," Justin Lakes returns with "Third Sign," a psychedelic noise masterpiece that will cement Shredded Nerve's position in the noise underground. Desperation, malaise, dread, and melancholy are conjured up with the project's trademark blend of tapes, electronics, and acoustic sounds. Over the course of seven tracks these approaches are woven together into a sonic spacecraft that launches towards some distant, fading galaxy. The final track, "I …
No Longer Penitent
"No Longer Penitent" is the new full-length from Commuter, a project from Portland's Jackson Abdul-Salaam (Herukrat, Junta Cadre) that blends harsh noise and urban field recordings. Building on the highly regarded 2021 album "Inner SE Industrial" released on Phage Tapes, this new effort pushes Commuter's sound and atmosphere even further. A fantastic noise album. Says the artist: "No Longer Penitent acts as a direct follow-up album to "Inner SE Industrial", the previous full-length on Phage. Whe…
Topology
Jeph Jerman (Hands To) and Joachim Nordwall (Organ of Corti) present "Topology," a stunning collaboration that brings out the best from both artists. Jerman's trademark field recordings are accentuated by Nordwall's electronics in a seamless fusion that simultaneously evokes the mechanical and the environmental. There are moments of subtle tension, but longtime fans of Jerman will note several instances of heightened intensity in his contribution that harken back to some of the more aggressive H…
Pleasure Pressure
New Forces presents "Pleasure Pressure," Joe Colley's latest LP of expert sound composition. Damaged wires, crackling speakers, and the existential dread of droning electronics are woven together into Colley's trademark juxtaposition of haunting minimalism and industrial wreckage. Never before has Colley's ability to bring to life all that seems broken-down been so prominently on display. Buzzing, hissing, corroded sounds are wrenched from machines that seem on the brink of imminent collapse and…
Harrington Ballroom - Exhumed & Reanimated
*2023 stock* Industrial legends Hunting Lodge was founded in May of 1982 by Lon C. Diehl, Carla J. Nordstrom & Richard Skott Rusch. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the band’s inception and of their initial releases, this set contains the entirety of the recorded output from the original lineup. A mandatory archival release that New Forces is very proud to make available as a 3-CD set. Harrington Ballroom is a restoration of the first Hunting Lodge release, a live recording from their firs…
Melee
Shanked is Wyatt Howland (Skin Graft) and Roman Levya (Plague Mother, Slit Throats). "Melee" is an unrelenting outburst of Midwest harsh noise, the distillation of the frustrations, ugliness, and anger forged in the post-industrial wreckage of Cleveland, Ohio. Six tracks of nonstop high-energy combustion. Monolithic heaviness abounds, but "Melee" has plenty of dynamism to keep the energy rush in a constant state of escalation. The union of two heavyweights of contemporary harsh noise. Mastered b…
Hangman Cut Himself Loose
*2023 stock* Hangman Cut Himself Loose is the debut full-length CD from ascendant NYC-based noise artist Kyle Flanagan. This is the new psychedelia, an expansive album that ranges from blistering harsh noise to expansive drones. Deep space explorations launched from grimy basements. The perfect blend of careful composition and hallucinatory experimentation. A revelatory noise recording that builds on a series of well-regarded tapes for labels such as New Forces, Dead Gods, and No Rent. This is m…