Experimental / All styles

You can’t speak of industrial music without mentioning the cassette tape. The tape was an essential format in the formative years of the experimental, industrial underground, and has remained a significant factor within the post-industrial scenes ever since. Where right now the cassette tape is going through some kind of fetishized hipster-revival in other scenes, in industrial, experimental and noise music it never died. The tape was a revolutionary format for Paolo Bandera as well, who capture…

More than 30 years since their first release, French Regard Extrême are back with a new album, their third on Steinklang. Stylistically, Eco Solemnis builds upon the foundation established on previous albums: medieval music and orchestral neoclassical with elements of martial industrial. In comparison to the previous album of new music, 2021's Ars Veterum, Eco Solemnis incorporates more prominently the neoclassical elements of earlier Regard Extrême, but without abandoning the medieval, even mon…

On their third album, Finnish Dieux Des Cimetières continue to explore the territory of the martial post-industrial underground. Achingly melancholic melodies, sweeping strings, atmospheric orchestrations, martial percussion and pulsating synths combine to create an intricate album of esoteric neoclassical and martial industrial. Influenced by authors such as Giuliano Kremmerz, Oswald Spengler, H.P. Blavatsky and Mircea Eliade, Säkeitä esoteerisesta Euroopasta (Verses on Esoteric Europa) looks a…

Division S are here again - and this time they don't drink alone. As always, the Italians have an unhealthy obsession with alcohol, as is testified not only in the name of the album and many of the tracks, but also the music. There is a psychedelic, outlandish weirdness to be found in the weird atmosphere and feel of this music. What to call it? Tags one often finds attached to Division S ring hollow and untrue on a deep level, despite being superficially suitable. Yes, there are elements of neo…

Original edition on Factory of the sole 1984 album by cult Manchester refined electronic new wave group produced by Peter Hook of Joy Division / New Order.

Original Italian edition on United Artists of the magnificent and essential 1977 debut album by one of the most original and successful bands connected with punk that needs no presentation.

Original Italian edition on United Artists of the essential 1977 nastier second album by one of the most original and successful bands connected with punk that needs no presentation.

Original Italian edition on United Artists of the superb and quite diverse 4th album from 1979. Quite a masterpiece indeed.

Original European edition with embossed sleeve of the band's transitional, with a more electronic sound, album from 1983.

With titles such as Membranous Glomerunonephritis, Cleidocranial Dysostosis and Alessitimia (more familiar to English-speakers as alexithymia), Italian Whiterat firmly put the focus of Conglomerate Malaction on all things disfigured, diseased and aberrant. In the form of a vicious deluge of harsh noise, the tape plunges deep into the distressing, mortifying depths of corruption. Blaring walls of crackling static; distorted and manipulated sounds of abused metal; ear piercing shrill screeching. F…

Original European edition on Epic of the 1984 refined pop album.

Do you like your power electronics totally old school, totally depraved, totally filthy? Then look no further: Swedish/American project Kontakt Service (joint union of Ideal Father and Human Vault) will provide just what you're looking for. With the pictures and quotes on the cassette sleeve lifted from the classic Swedish crime smut magazine Kriminal Journalen, one could say Kontakt Service are wearing their heart on their sleeve. This is all about that classic low-brow tabloid sleaze. And musi…

Original European edition on Epic of the 1986 refined pop album, the last of the original line-up.

Doomy and partly experimental soundtrack to a rarely seen film by The Stranglers' bass and keyboard players, released on Epic in 1984.

"Dämmerung" is the second compilation release by Dark Awake, the first one being released in 2015. With a discography tens of releases in almost 20 years, the time is certainly ripe for the Greek project to release another one. Starting from 2013's "Soil, Blood ...And The Reaping Of Light" and proceeding all the way to 2024's "Archemoros", this tape is an authoritative slice-through of the Greek project's extensive back catalogue. The selection of eleven older tracks is completed by one previous…

Rare original edition on Rather Records / Rough Trade of the wacky classic avant-garde punk debut album.

First album by Swell Maps' and Dogs D'Amour's guitarists and singers' band, released by Glass Records in 1984

Original Uk edition of 1989 album by Swell Maps' guitarist and singer released by Creation as a double LP set.

1981 debut live album on Burning Rome Records by Kirk Brandon's art-punk band later to become Spear of Destiny.

Rare original UK edition on Rough Trade of TH's second and final album from 1981, one of the highest achievements of that era and one of the absolute masterpieces of experimental new wave, produced by The Flying Lizards' David Cunningham. Insurmountably original and essential.