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Lost Illusions Turned Into Black Rage
Vologne debut album tells stories about loss, existence and oppression...when lost illusions turned into black rage. To the restless and misunderstood people who enjoy another kind of beauty.
Total Purge For The Living
Total Purge For The Living is a whole made of contrasts. Harsh, abrasive, chaotic power electronics noise exploding with distorted violence meshes with atmospheric, ominous yet peaceful layers of slowly evolving synths. Deafening noise gives way to powerful percussions. Distorted, disturbing speech samples are laden over minimalistic drones. Vologne draws power from the friction of these internally opposed elements, creating industrial noise compositions with considerable emotional and atmospher…
The Sky Falls Down
Hot on the heels of last year's tape EP "Total Purge For The Living" (also on Steinklang), French Vologne present their debut album. "Lost Illusions Turned Into Black Rage" continues, evolves and expands upon the EP, elevating Vologne's industrial soundscapes to the next level. Whilst still firmly rooted in the tradition of analogue synthesizer driven power electronics, death industrial and harsh noise, the album expands the French one-man project's palette with, for example, elements from rhyth…
Silver Monk Time - A Tribute To The Monks
2006 release ** "Unlike many tribute projects that fall flat due to those involved being either overawed or ignorant of the original material, Silver Monk Time succeeds because the participants have taken the group´s primitive rock surge as a template to experiment with. As a result the sound of The Monks is treated to a 21st century workout with synthesizers and beat tracks threaded through the original quartet´s already way out psychotic minimalism". Featuring: fsk, the fall, faust, fehlfarben…
Échancré
**200 copies** A new work by French raging harsh noise act, Tourette. This is Tourette's first new material since 2017's "Proximité Du Murmure" (Triangle Records). An absolute masterclass of dynamic, crushing and emotive harsh noise presented within 4 untitled tracks (over 40 mins of music). Digisleeve.
Ritualistic Mutilation in the Bloody Darkness
**299 copies** Controlled Death is the dark side project by the Japanese noise legend Maso Yamazaki a.k.a. Masonna. In April 2018 he decided to make a shudder debut with the first album Symphony For the Black Murder then followed at the beginning of 2019 by the second work in an astonishing black wooden box that included Journey Through a Dead Body on vinyl and Deathwish Tapes 1-3 on CD and double tape. Now we’re thrilled to see yet another mind-boggling work on a double LP recorded during this …
Hirotta ishiga wareta
When one thinks of the terms “mass” and “massive” in music, especially contemporary music, perhaps certain aural images come to mind: generic metal heaviness; dynamics-bereft noise; ear-battering dance floor madness; the multitudinous forms of drone darkness. All of these are massive in their own fashion. However, this newstudio album from 7FO (pronounced “nana f o”), a composer-performer based in northern Osaka, investigates and inhabits a different aspect of the massive. A glorious combination…
Arc 1
Finnish label Sähkö Recordings is launching a new archival series of unreleased work from its co-founder Mika Vainio. The late Vainio left behind plenty of unreleased material after his passing in 2017. Arc 1 represents the first in a series of releases that draw on Vainio’s archives. The material here was constructed for a 1994 radio project, entitled Ambient City, that Vainio performed as Ø. Both sides here begin with perturbed ambient synth-scapes - grumbling LFOs, digital noise, that sort of…
Actual Earth Music - Volume 3 & 4
Earthball are an avant/noise/rock wrecking ball of a band from Nanaimo, Canada. Rooted in total improvisation, free expression, and a deeply psychedelic sensibility, EarthBall operate on pure instinct. They hurtle onwards in a combustion of spontaneous composition, shooting from the hip, as they fall out of the sky ablaze. The group encompass Isabel Ford (vocals, bass), John Brennan (drums, percussion), Jeremy Van Wyke (vocals, guitar, trumpet), Kellan Maclaughlin (guitar, talkbox), and Liam Mur…
Aste
Essential Re-issue of this stone cold classic .First released in 2006 Written and produced by Mika Vainio in Turku 1992-1993.
Mastered at Dubplates & Mastering by Rashad Becker.
Dead Can Dance
The uncompromising eponymous debut, Dead Can Dance, harnessed a bewitching barrage of sounds (including the distinct sound of the yangqin) with the then five-piece interchanging instruments to leave the vocals of Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry as the only constant. The album’s cover was important as an introduction too, a Papua New Guinean mask that some believe when worn, a life force can be put into the inanimate wood - the dead can dance.
Gathering
The pianist Fumio Karashima is best known internationally for his long association with Elvin Jones, having held the piano chair in Jones's working bands for years, a credit that already tells you most of what you need to know about his playing. Gathering, his trio date for Three Blind Mice, is the work of a player who has spent serious time on the bandstand with one of the most demanding drummers in jazz history, and the record's qualities reflect it: a strong rhythmic centre, a left hand that …
Hundred Tongues
*200 copies limited edition* Erik Klinga’s second entry in his Thanatosis trilogy is darker, more dystopian in its bloom. Where his debut glowed with incandescent warmth, Hundred Tongues absorbs the unease of the present and yet throws a flash of light, albeit blinding. Composed at Malmö Art Museum on the 16th-century Genarpsorgan, threaded with his Buchla synthesizer, field recordings from Skåne and Öland, and a deliberate, focused touch, it reads as one long form: episodes that coil, return, a…
The Will Come Is Now
On The Will Come Is Now, Ronnie Boykins finally moves from Sun Ra’s bass chair to the centre of the frame, leading a septet through six originals where earthy groove, cosmic harmony and astonishing arco work reveal the band’s quiet architect as a full‑blown composer.
Epic Sound Battles Chapter One
Here’s a monster of its own. Not to be confused with Trevor Jackson early 2000 project (even if the british producer has obviously been informed by post-punk, dub, post-industrial and the likes) Playgroup was more than anything a collective, based somewhere around Bristol and London. Drummer Bruce Smith was the key figure behind the project. Neneh Cherry husband and fabulous motorik force for The Pop Group, The Slits, New Age Steppers, African Head Charge and – more recently - Public Image Limit…
Prehistory
Some 42 years after its initial release, Circle X’s Prehistory returns to the vinyl format. New listeners to this music will discover, in addition to the roiling compulsion in its odd, dance-damaged clockwork and instinctive joining of feral and aestheticized values, a refined understanding of the width andbreadth of “post-punk” music, both in and out of its time. In and out of time, Circle X operated between 1978 and 1995, formed in Louisville, KY, but existing largely as a New York-based colle…
Crónicas Intrascendentes
On Crónicas Intrascendentes, Akenathon threads a shadowed, cinematic strain of Argentine progressive rock through small, quotidian vignettes. Everyday scenes – a clown’s complaint, a kiosk errand, the death of a cobbler – become surreal miniatures where symphonic textures, narrative vocals and sly humor turn “inconsequential” chronicles into quietly unsettling parables.
World Rhythms
"In late 1975, Annea Lockwood realised her composition World Rhythms. It represents one of the first creative works exploring the potentials of field recordings in a multichannel setting. It is a landmark work and a composition that, on its 50th anniversary, has gently carried forward over the decades, but arguably now is only starting to come into true focus, and be understood for exactly how revolutionary it was. World Rhythms was a work concerned with a practice of sustained listening into th…
Le Temps Fou (LP)
2019 grey area repro of the 1969 album originally on Polydor with the soundtack to the Marcel Camus film, featuring Gunter Hampel and Barre Phillips.
Live At Hachioji Alone
On Live at Hachioji Alone, Shudan Sokai document Tokyo free jazz at the moment it moves to the city’s western margins: exuberant quartet music where loft‑sharpened fire, song forms and nursery‑rhyme mischief collide in a tiny Hachioji club.