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La Dimensione Umana
An obscure Italian early Industrial/Electronic outfit coming from Brianza, in the Lombardia region covering the triangle between the cities of Milan, Monza and Brescia, an area known for the high amount of furniture factories. Die Form first emerged in 1982 with the tape La Dimensione Umana (here remastered and put on vinyl for the 1st time) later the band members merged with long time friends Orgasmo Negato (also known as Nulla Iperreale), choosing the definitive name Tasaday in 1984. The …
Music For Zeitgeist Fighters
New album by the much revered solo project of Gary Mundy (Ramleh / Broken Flag). 2 pieces of intense, emotional and purgative electronics miles away from audiophile realms." Welcome to 2017. I’m laughing because I’m thinking of music and I’m thinking of death. Welcome to the Captagon, the room is dizzy and moving. The DJ’s turntables are on fire and the heat hits me full on as I walk onto the dancefloor. Distorted sounds like the bass rumbles or high frequencies are moving from one wall to anoth…
Mörder Tape
First ever re-issue of this mythical Maurizio Bianchi tape from 1980. Mörder Tape was recorded in Milano at Mectpyo Studio using concrete sounds and radio waves. Another very fascinating M.B. early experiment. Limited edition of 150 copies in digipack. Cover images are original M.B. artworks from 1980.
Sheet Tape Registered Black 1977-1979
Steve Hitchcock (currently known as Ferrara Brain Pan) began experimenting with music and art in early 1977 as a freshman-year university student in San Diego, where he edited and published five issues of a Neo-Dada mail art 'zine called 'Cabaret Voltaire’. While active in mail art, he corresponded with Genesis P-Orridge and Cosey Funni Tutti of COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle and thereby became involved with the early Industrial music movement. During the years 1977-79, he created thes…
Archive 1980 - 1986 (Friends Edition)
Simon Crab of Bourbonese Qualk compiled 80 of his favorite BQ tracks for this 4LP set, which he has written and composed. The selection ranges from the early, more industrial-ish and experimental period of the first ultra limited tapes from 1980 and 1981 such as 'Us', 'Cast Loose Red Net' or 'Half Erased' to more beat-orientated compilation contributions of the mid '80s. The box also contains 20 previously unearthed and unreleased tracks of same period. If there was ever a missing gap in the hi…
Archival Rarities 1975-1981 (Friends Edition)
These archival rarities of Boyd Rice and NON constitute a kind of lost chapter in the early history of Boyd Rice. Most hasn’t been heard in 35 or 40 years or wasn’t even remembered by the artist anymore. A few were only recently rediscovered after having gone missing for the last several decades. The lion's share of this material is being released here for the very first (and perhaps last) time ever. Find out why early critics considered NON to be the loudest, noisiest, most minimal group ever t…
Storage
First ever vinyl re-issue of this classic Merzbow album. The first two track were originally published on LP on the ZSF label in 1988. Masami Akita creates in Storage a very experimental and atmospheric album with a masterful use of scraping sounds and metal percussions but also with a very effective use of silence. A strongly hypnotic and creepy sounding early analog Merzbow album. The third track was published as an extra track for the CD reissue issued in the Merzbox is re-issued here for the…
Dead Body Love
It feels like I’ve been writing about Dead Body Love for as long as I have been recording harsh noise. What else can be said? I can’t express enough how much of an influence Italian harsh noise has had on my own personal works, but It also lets me and several peers investigate the techniques and styles of the 1990s harsh noise and the atmosphere that was created expressed from different regions of the world. The more I listen and revisit the material of 90s Japanese harsh noise, the 80s UK power…
EDWIGE
The intrinsic fandom tendency toward Eurotrash actress Edwige Fenech has possibly been one of the most encompassing examples of ‘obsession’ translating into layers of pummeling abrasive sound, especially in the building block heyday of the heavier OVMN and Incapacitants inspired style of International contemporary early 2000s harsh noise artists. Edwige Fenech– just the name sends the educated into a whirlwind of her cinematic stylizations, objectification, and glorious portrayal and generator o…
The Lilac Fairy
Pygmalion carved a beautiful woman from ivory and when he kissed his statue’s cool white lips he found that Aphrodite had turned them pink and warm with life. From ephemera, from tulle and satin, The Rita has assembled a fantasy woman; a ballerina, a fairy, a sex worker – violently she is animated into existence as a sonic monolith dense and menacing as Richard Serra’s looming steel. With the double LP set The Lilac Fairy, The Rita reaches an apex of fixation on the dancer’s body. This obsession…
Untitled
Gently unpredictable successions of concrete, electronic and instrumental sounds that chime, shudder, and wrinkle. Seven sequences salvaged from meandering recording sessions, self-collages from the remnants of forgotten ideas and intentions.Matthew P. Hopkins (Australia, 1978) is an artist based in Melbourne, working with sound, visual art, and writing. His audio work sits loosely within the realm of concrete music. Tim Coster (New Zealand, 1980) is a musician from Auckland, now living in Melbo…
Untitled
A music magma of junk-electronics, abstract tape loops and proto industrial drones. An acid mix of the early electronic experiments of Pauline Oliveros, the noisy static wall of Maurizio Bianchi and the DIY American weird touch like Nate Young and Aaron Dilloway. Michele Mazzani is one of the most "pure" representative of the Italian underground music scene. In the strangest places you can image as show locations (bivouacs lost in the mountains, crumbling houses, garbage dumps) he organizes live…
1973 Live - Milky Way
Black Truffle present the first vinyl issue of Keiji Haino's Milky Way. Originally released as a limited CD in Japan by the short lived Mom 'N' Dad Productions in 1993, this release documents a blistering live performance recorded in Kyoto in 1973, five years before the formation of the first line-up of Fushitsusha, and eight years before Haino's first solo album. Working with a mysterious set-up including primitive electronics, homemade acoustic instruments, piano and voice, Haino lets loose a …
Mectpyo Box
New 2015 edition!!! Starting from Sterile Records' "Symphony for a Genocide" to Broken Flag's "The Plain Truth", passing through DYS' "Mectpyo Bakterium" and all the records privately issued by M.B. on his Mectpyo Sound (“Menses”, “Neuro habitat”, “Regel”, “Das Testament”, “Endometrio”, “Carcinosi”, “Armaghedon”), plus all the tracks by M.B. from international LP compilations (issued on Bain Total, Broken Flag, Come Organisation, and TRAX), a large selection of tracks from international K7 compi…
Vehicular Manslaughter
Crash At Every Speed is fairy long running high signal feedback based HNW project of Texas noise legend Richard Ramirez, started back in 2001. All of the projects work is themed around car crashers & road accidents. Vehicular Manslaughter is new full length work on vinyl and in forty minutes split on two sides Ramirez alternates between interlocking seas of uniformed crackling static & burst of off-pattern stat…
Mangraft
Few current noise artists have discovered the sonic qualities of scrap metal to the extent that Hal Hutchinson had made with his ‘’Factory of Metal Sound’’ aesthetic. Hutchinson employs a unique approach to collecting and layering his recordings of sheet metal, pipes, metal barrels, chains, and other metallic objects being shattered and pulled and crushed. A cacophony of metal scraping clatter is transformed in…
Nacht Musik
Japanese noise legend Hiroshi Hasegawa has begun his improvisation with his voice and percussion in early 80's and in 1989 he formed the amazing noise band and performance art act C.C.C.C. (Cosmic Coincidence Control Center) which's concept was improvisational mass-noise with very loud sound. Also he has begun his solo unit Mortal Vision with guitar in 1990 as well as playing in C.C.C.C. and then he has…
The Triumph of the Will
First ever official vinyl re-issue of the infamous "Triumph of the Will" LP. Also the track contained on the one sided 7" is officially re-issued here for the first time on vinyl! The material contained here was previously issued under the moniker Leibstandarte SS MB.The moniker Leibstandarte SS MB and the nazi speeches that were added to the music were used without Maurizio Bianchi knowledge and without his consent. William Bennett, head of the band Whitehouse and the British Come Org. label, …
Aware Not Aware Radio Enemy
This split LP is one of several collaborative projects between Zbigniew Karkowski and Lars Åkerlund, which took place during the years 2012–2013. The collaboration between Karkowski and Åkerlund goes back to the 1980s, with projects like P.I.T.T. and the Dreamers and Onge-4-X. They continued during the 90s with an opera setting of Dostoyevsky´s The Idiot and a trio with Dror Feiler, among other things. Collaborations during recent years include the CD Horology, which Karkowski and Åkerlun…
Berlin Tapes
Performance of turntablism and double bass from Sudden Infant / Schimpfluch-Gruppe alumni Joke Lanz and Christian Weber. Recorded live November 9th 2012 at Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin by Rashad Becker. Limited edition clear vinyl LP housed in old-style gate fold jackets.
oke Lanz is a prolific artist working with sound and performance since 1986. His activities in various solo and collective guises (for music groups, radio projects, theater and dance endeavors) have included Sudden Infant,…