Exploratorium
Swedish experimental outfit White Stains created five highly influential albums. Band members Carl Abrahamsson and Thomas Tibert later on went on to form the equally influential act Cotton Ferox. Their improvisational approach and dark musical atmospheres created a following which remains to this day, and which even led to a one-off reunion gig in Gothenburg in 2013 together with long time collaborator Genesis P-Orridge (Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV). The album Exploratorium is a compilation of…
Defragmental
Cotton Ferox key members Carl Abrahamsson and Thomas Tibert have composed, performed and produced groundbreaking music since the late 1980s. After their time in White Stains and several solo projects, Cotton Ferox have been their main mothership. Always producing cutting edge stuff, they have also always made an issue out of collaborating with other interesting artists. In both White Stains and Cotton Ferox, they’ve worked together with industrial pioneer/legend Genesis Breyer P-Orridge. Some ex…
Codex Astra - Wand Of Flame
Steven Severin is one of the founding members and bass guitarist of UK’s influential and seminal, Bromley Contingent, punk group Siouxsie and the Banshees. His solo work as Codex Astra is a project exclusive to Erototox Decodings and Wand of Flame is the fourth in a set of four series EP’s. Each EP in this series is inspired by quotes from Magician, writer extraordinaire, the inimitable Aleister Crowley.
Codex Astra - Idols Of Glass
Steven Severin is one of the founding members and bass guitarist of UK’s influential and seminal, Bromley Contingent, punk group Siouxsie and the Banshees. His solo work as Codex Astra is a project exclusive to Erototox Decodings and Idols of Glass is the third in a set of four series EP’s. Each EP in this series is inspired by quotes from Magician, writer extraordinaire, the inimitable Aleister Crowley.
Codex Astra - Hours Of Gold
Steven Severin is one of the founding members and bass guitarist of UK’s influential and seminal, Bromley Contingent, punk group Siouxsie and the Banshees. His solo work as Codex Astra is a project exclusive to Erototox Decodings and Hours of Gold is the second in a set of four series EP’s. Each EP in this series is inspired by quotes from Magician, writer extraordinaire, the inimitable Aleister Crowley.
Codex Astra - Circles Of Silver
Steven Severin is one of the founding members and bass guitarist of UK’s influential and seminal, Bromley Contingent, punk group Siouxsie and the Banshees. His solo work as Codex Astra is a project exclusive to Erototox Decodings and Circles of Silver is the first in a set of four series EP’s. Each EP in this series is inspired by quotes from Magician, writer extraordinaire, the inimitable Aleister Crowley.
Joulupukki
"Joulupukki is a stunning electronic artwork by Xambuca, which is the moniker for American multimedia artist Chandra Shukla. Inspired by northern indigenous peoples, Xambuca is in the process of creating a trilogy dedicated to and stimulated by these unique cultures and geographies. The 2014 release Kamuy (Erototox) was inspired by the Ainu people of northern Japan, Sakhalin Island, and the Kuril Islands in the northern Pacific. Joulupukkiis about the Saami people living at the top of the Fenno-…
Yesterday + Today, A Music Of Time
"Vincent Wrenn works with a microtonal system of seven octaves and each octave being divided into 360 notes, with Saturn being the lowest and the sun being the highest octave. That may sound also pretty esoteric, but the six pieces here are excellent studies in what seems to be sine wave like sounds. Each of these pieces appears to have very few variations and when played very loud may burst an eardrum, or destroy your relationship with your neighbour. I would think these pieces are best enjoyed…
Unichtozheniye
Xambuca does not really exist in the material space time continuum. Instead, Xambuca conceptually feeds on the subconscious figment of a host's imagination; a host that has a tendency to encounter its name or symbols in passing by mere coincidence.
Pilgrimage
*Limited edition of 300 copies* A pilgrimage is a journey or search of moral or spiritual significance. Typically, it is a journey to a physical place of importance to a person's beliefs and faith, although sometimes it can be a metaphorical journey into someone's own beliefs. On this pilgrimage into humanity’s inner world [ówt krì] continues his exploration of contrasts and counterpoints. It is a journey through abstract spaces that digs deep into our psyche, a film for your inner vision. The s…
Tietoisen Siirtymän Oletettu Toiseus
Ilpo Väisänen (Pan Sonic), offers a deeply personal and emotional record that literally translates to “The Presumed Otherness Of The Conscious Transition”. An appropriate title for a very somber and serious listening.
Phlogiston
Elliott Sharps's release on Erototox Decodings is no different in terms of his ongoing homage to science, entitled 'Phlogiston', aptly named after a substance supposed by 18th-century chemists to exist in all combustible bodies, and to be released in combustion. It’s also his first purely electronic and synthesized record to date.
Blendwerk
Blendwerk is all about smoke & mirrors.„Potpourri" - as a track - is new, its components are old. One element per existing album by Strotter Inst. has been intertwined. The parts are old, the entirety is new. "Quodlibet" represents an impossibility, 23 loops are cut next to each other. The simultaneity - as the title suggests - is only conceivable.
An Un World
Andrew Liles offers little hope or joy on his meticulously crafted album An Un World. Over the course of the tracks comprised of various sound sources tweaked into dark ambient soundscapes, the producer carries you through an often fantastic, sometimes frightening world of sound, characterized by its tone more than its individual components. Every song features its own unique palette of sounds. For example, indecipherable voices murmur beneath a haunting wind-like buzz on "Over Before It Began,"…
Barricades
The story is that Vigroux spent most of the time on his tour constructing what would subsequently evolve into Barricades. Working indefatigably on new tracks in the morning and performing them live in the evening - that is basically how this excellent work was assembled. Recording everything in stereo, using only two tracks, Vigroux aimed to incorporate “the rawness of a ‘live’ recording”. Consequently, the sound here became unmistakably pure and expressive, somewhat reminiscent of artists such …
RA
Schneider TM & Jochen Arbeit of Einstürzende Neubauten release an album of ‘urban cosmic freeform music’ on the US label Erototox Decodings in cooperation with MWM featuring musical contributions by Julia Kent (cello), Lucio Capece (bass clarinet) & Claas Großzeit (cymbal). The album, which almost became a lost treasure, was already recorded in winter 2011/12 and stretches out it’s harmonic dissonances between heavy drones, strange noises, industrial-like metal percussion, feedback-ish flutes, …
LCM
"A mainstay of the Bay Area experimental music scene, Thomas Dimuzio played countless times at this comfortably carpeted venue, that kind of privately public space where it can be hard to properly tell the music apart from the community. Though ’LCM’ is technically a live album — two side-long suites, each built out of three continuous movements — it’s also been seamlessly composed from so many different nights that it represents an entire era, evoking the sites that allow music like this to com…
Matériaux
A physical release for ‘Matériaux’, the 2020 EP from French multimedia artist Franck Vigroux. Somewhere between a mini-album and a long EP, Vigroux expresses a range of different moods but in the same simple, musique concrète-influenced manner, driven by texture and harmony at the expense of melody.
The Wind In Kirtipur
"The Wind In Kirtipur is a piece in two parts using normal and treated location recordings, pitched Tibetan thigh bone horn and singing bowls. Recordings were made at the Bagh Bhairab Temple in Kirtipur, at the Swayambhunath Stupa in Kathmandu and inside the walls of the Kumari Ghar where the 'Kumari Devi' (Living Goddess) lives in Kathmandu, Nepal. The title is inspired by a text written by poet Ira Cohen as a foreword to a book of early texts/poems by Angus MacLise entitled 'The Map of Dusk': …
Live In Austin
Performed & recorded live on June 25th 2019 at Barracuda Club via Antumbrae Intermedia Events + Installations, Austin, Texas / USA