Genetic Implosion
*2022 stock.* Long time sold out and very requested album, finally here comes the re-print. The powerful side project by Peter Andersson aka "Raison D’Etre".7 studio tracks & for the first time on digital format 3 live tracks recorded in 1998 during the Nursery Injection Festival in Stockholm. The sound is getting more harsh & powerful than on the two previous cd releases. 56 minutes of great and uncompromising power-electronics. Dark and painful sounds with few filtered voices coming from a col…
Fixation
*2022 stock.* Full length album for this great Sweden power industrial duo & Raison D'Etre side project, 3rd S/T album produced on OEC! Fixation is in our mind, and the world may be a cruel place just as reflected in "Fixation". This album mainly contains unreleased material recorded in 1998-1999, in the vein of the earlier CD album "Genetic Implosion" but way more harsh and brutal, there are also two completely new tracks recorded in 2004 showing a change in direction by combining doom metal an…
Acid Realm
*2022 stock. Limited edition of 300 copies.* Haare is the solo project of Ilkka Vekka, sometimes accompanied by Janne Martinkauppi. Very dense psychedelic-industrial sounds from Finland! Continuing in the same psychedelic/electroacoustic/industrial direction as the former albums Brain and Tantric Noise, we dive even deeper into The Acid Realm. Layers of acoustic and electronic instruments combined with scraping metal, flutes and distant guitar distortions take you deep into a melting, boiling br…
Aged Fractures And Dead Ends
*2022 stock.* Is it really dead? : yes, this release marks the end of Stratvm Terror. But what an end! Massive sounds of drowning liquids, mechanized background noises, brain mangler soundscapes and harsh abrasive amplifications. Playing this loud will probably make you deaf, but what else is there to listen to after experiencing this. 'Aged Fractures and Dead Ends' is a vast collection of various archive material produced by the Stratvm Terror constellation Peter Andersson (Raison d'être) and T…
XVIII Congresso Post Industriale
*2022 stock. Limited edition of 200 hand-numbered copies.* The exclusive compilation released for the XVIII Congresso Post Industriale, OEC's traditional venue to be held in Pordenone / Italy on September 11 2021. All tracks are unreleased - those tracks which sounds familiar are new versions.
For the first OEC venue during pandemic we were inviting 3 primer Itaian industrial / dark-esoteric / psychedelic and electronic projects. A journey through uncomfortable sounds.
Pratotypon
*2022 stock.* OEC was since ever the home for the more harsh & batteling Peter Andersson aka Raison D'etre side projects. OEC was releaseing the debut Stratvm Terrror CD & 2 other very acclaimed ST followers ...Now we like to go with this new disc by Peter which will be the very last one for his other "harsh" project : "Panzar".World War II has ended and so will Panzar ....Including a unique live performance from the hot summer desert war 2005 and a number of early prototypes never released befo…
It's Nothing, But Still
*In process of stocking* Steve Fors offers deeply physical music on his Hallow Ground debut »It's nothing, but still.« Having already established himself as a composer of visceral drone and noise pieces in various Chicago- and New York-based underground projects, Fors’s first release under his given name is even more dense and evocative than his earlier work. A concept album on the subject of breath, the Siavash Amini-produced record sees the now Swiss-based composer blend field recordings with …
The Key
*2022 stock.* Two years after "Rings", Corrado Altieri and Simon Balestrazzi are back on Old Europa Cafe with a new release that draws its inspiration from the life and work of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, the 19th centuty Russian occultist, whose research and publications are still today a reference for many modern esoteric disciplines. "The Key" is a psychic voyage in eight parts, each one referencing dates, places or events which have been pivotal in Mme Blavatsky life and spiritual journey. Ca…
Rings
*2022 stock.* Candor Chasma is the new electronic Italian duo of Corrado Altieri (Monosonik, Uncodified) and Simon Balestrazzi (T.A.C., Dream Weapon Ritual). The band name comes from outer space (Candor Chasma is one of the largest canyons in the Valles Marineris canyon system on Mars) and their debut album is a 5-part hallucinogenic voyage inside analogue whirls, multilayered textures made of tapes and white noise, psychedelic frequencies and cerebral ambient-noise. With the duo rewrites and re…
King Cobra
*First pressing vinyl edition.* Baltimore hip-hop experimentalists Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals return with vital new album King Cobra, a mighty, omnivorous record that pushes the duo to unstoppable creative heights. Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals’ inexhaustible creativity has already gifted us 2020’s Dear, Sudan - a kaleidoscopic, unpredictable joyride of late night channel-hopping - and 2021’s brutal post-George Floyd manifesto Rhino XXL, but King Cobra is a new experience still. It is a mas…
In Sadness, Silence and Solitude
*Limited edition of 200 copies.* Mammoth stone walls stretching high into the unknown, dank cellars stewn with bones and ashes. A chill in the lonely night wind disturbed by the utterance of arcane phrases. This is music guaranteed to at least bring about thoughts of mysticism, if it doesn't produce mystical states outright. This defines the term hauntingly beautiful.In Sadness, Silence and Solitude’, first released in 1997 by Cold Meat Industry, is the fourth fullength album of Raison d'être an…
Within the Depths of Silence and Phormations
*Limited edition of 200 copies.* "Within the Depths of Silence and Phormations takes the listener deep below the world of the ordinary into the catacombs of the subconscious, the worlds lying within us so few ever live to explore. This is music meant to stimulate the mind, to inspire one in their explorations of self and solitude. Layers of ethereal atmospheres and the collage of choirs, strings, bells and occasional voices slowly bleed together to create music for society whose spirituality has…
Enthralled by the Wind of Loneliness
*2022 stock. Limited edition of 200 copies.* For the first time on vinyl, re-issue the second album by Raison d'être, originally released in 1994. For this recording all sounds have been restored and re-recorded from the original source material and all tracks have been carefully remixed to maintain the true feeling and atmosphere of the original album but with current standards for high quality audio. This re-issue also contains 4 bonus tracks not featured on the original album.
Prospectus I
*2020 stock. Limited edition of 200 copies.* For the first time on vinyl, re-issue the first album by Raison d'être, originally released in 1993. For this recording all sounds have been restored and re-recorded from the original source material and all tracks have been carefully remixed to maintain the true feeling and atmosphere of the original album but with current standards for high quality audio. This re-issue also contains 4 bonus tracks not featured on the original album.
Essence of Rituals
*2022 stock. Limited edition of 90 copies. Includes an audio tape, comes with old scripts and is wraped in paper used at the performances which the recording is based of.* Only source for this recording is the sounds created at our rituals. Those sounds have been dissected and forged into a sonique dreamscape. Most of the instruments used at our performance include the human body in one way or another. For example my heartbeat during suffocation, brainwaves at the moment of piercing and thereaft…
Spirit Transform Me
*In process of stocking. 2022 stock.* Oren Ambarchi is a composer and multi-instrumentalist experimenting in the dark trance-inducing worlds of ambient, industrial and electronic music. His newest collaborative project features the legendary percussionist/composer and mystic Z’EV in a hypnotic series of pieces exploring the inner meanings of the Hebrew Alef-beit. A remarkable vision from beginning to end, with sounds both fragile and powerfully intense, Oren and Z’EV take the sonic investigation…
Reverberations: Tape & Electronic Music 1961-1970
11 CD set adapted from 12 CD edition. All tracks included. This dense 11-disc retrospective of Pauline Oliveros' early and unreleased electronic work includes her very first piece made for tape in 1961. Organized chronologically, this set not only documents Pauline's earliest electronic music but it also functions as an early history of electronic music itself. Follow as she participates in the establishment of the legendary San Francisco Tape Music Center and then moves to University Of Toronto…
Alpha And Omega
*2022 stock. Limited edition of 150 copies. Includes an extra-large 12"-sized booklet.* Moral Order is the side-project of Galakthorrö-recording artist 'Da-Sein'. Immanuel Kant developed this term during the 18th century in his 'Critique of Pure Reason' to support the argument for the existence of God, being this one responsible for constituting a Moral Order with which humanity can be governed.
Business Solutions For The Active Terrorist
*2022 stock.* "Econocon" has already entered numerous agreements with a large number of associations. The company's strategy is to supply harsh noise and terror to thousands of European customers, and continue that growth throughout the world in the near future.This growth strategy dictates the immediate need for a market leading album to be distributed throughout OEC into the industrial underground! And here it is this incredible & uncompromising power-electronics masterpiece.
The insane minds …
Il Tempo Della Locusta
*2022 stock.* Reissue of the 1998 "cult" release on Malignant Records / Black Plagve.Cazzodio was the first incarnation of P/S, now recording under the Naxal Protocol monicker and a member of the Italo-Japanese unit CazzoKraft. A hidden gem in the vast tradition of Italian industrial, sold out for a decade and a half, and finally available again, "Il Tempo della Locusta" was a seminal album, a precursor of a strand of rhythmic power electronics that became more popular in the new millennium. A c…