Phos
*In process of stocking* Electroacoustic improvisation trio Bloodmist is proud to present Phos, their second studio album, scheduled for release in summer of 2020. The group’s most focused offering to date, Phos showcases an expansive exploration of vivid hellscapes, encompassing elegiac clarinet melodies, feral noise textures, multi-layered electronic percussion, and wildly evocative electronic processing. Bloodmist is Jeremiah Cymerman (clarinet, electronics), Toby Driver (electric bass), and …
Moonlight And Sentiment
*In process of stocking* "This music does not create a song for our ears. It is a ‘state’, such as moonlight poured over the fields.” Leonard Huizinga
This is not a crafted record. The quality is often very poor and the resolution is seldom realised. The melodic lines drift into sentimentality and the production lacks focus and rigour. It is, however, the authentic sound of moonlight suicides, Christmas midnights and a representation of a certain kind of recovered memory that ruins your sleep.
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Alkaline Hydrolysis
*75 copies limited edition* Fricke's music as Bestattungsinstitut and on "Alkaline Hydrolysis" centers around dark ambient and clinical industrial compositions. Biodegraded tape loops and foreign field recordings, musique-concrète-amalgams and organic textures recorded on magnetophone. In addition to sonics, the Bestattungsinstitut alias was also active as a distributor and label in the early 1990s, releasing an eclectic range of artists such as The Grey Wolves, Maeror Tri, and David Prescott. …
The Graphic Cabinet
*In process of stocking. Limited edition of 500 copies, pressed on clear vinyl, with sleeve and innersleeve artwork by 4AD legend Chris Bigg* Downwards’ deep bonds with NYC catalyse the immense debut LP by Jim Siegel’s Vivid Oblivion, a reveberating post-industrial salvo produced by adopted Brooklynite Karl O’Connor (Regis), and co-mixed by Anthony Child (Surgeon) and Simon Shreeve, who also mastered it. It’s a super deep, highly atmospheric beast somewhere between Valentina Magaletti’s most exp…
Axis Mundi
*Limited edition of 200 copies.* "According to the anthropology of religions, the axis mundi is a bridge between three dimensions: Earth, Heaven and Abyss. It is an element of verticality and transcendence as well as of fall. Often identified with towers or altars, it indicates the axis of the cosmos, which relates the center of man, his deep soul, with what exists Outside and Beyond. The axis mundi embodies its impulse towards eternity, not only as an aspiration to a shining after life but also…
Atrabile
*In process of stocking. Limited edition of 150 copies.* Black bile, in ancient Greek medicine, is one of the four humors that make up the human body and affect its existence. Specifically, black bile is the mood responsible for melancholy, anxiety and depression. “Atrabile” is an album about depression in its different stages, from despair (“Koma”) to suffocation (“Atlas”), via total discouragement (“Achlýs”), anxiogenic obsession (“Knōsós”) and deviant perception of time (“Kairos”). The work i…
Byakuya
*2022 stock.* Na-Dha is the solo project by Sandy aka Magthea, the male half of Hybryds! During centuries Japanese religion (Sjintoisme with Boeddistic influences) has been used by the ruling classes for political purpose and domination. After world war II Japan trembled, to discover that their emperor was not a God, reshaped their inner believes and left many in confusion.Japanese man had a particular need for breaking out of the excessive obedience by outbursts of violence. This mental escape …
Stairway 13
Swooping, sub-heavy sci-fi from Riz Maslen. Leda Maar is a new moniker for the established artist who’s released a crop of downtempo and electronic music as Neotropic and Small Fish With Spine, as well as collaborated with the likes of Future Sound of London, filmmaker Andrew Kötting, and featured in PSP-era Grand Theft Auto soundtracks. Mana’s long lasting love of Riz’s 1996 Laundrophonic EP, released under her Neotropic name, spurred this new release. That 12” was a deep and dark web of rhythm…
We Stay Together (2LP)
* 700 copies. Pressed on clear vinyl in a plain sleeve, sticker on the shrink-wrap * Andy Stott’s ultra-classic bout of screwed, knackered House is a shapeshifting, hardy perennial whose crushing traction and atmospheric grip has only deepened in the decade (+1) since it was first issued, as part of a now notorious one-two in 2011 beside ‘Passed Me By’. Out of print for almost a decade, it’s now finally available again in a new edition that’s still sounding unlike pretty much anything else we’ve…
Keskipäivän Hetken Sumea Vaillinaisuus
*Limited edition of 500 copies, 45 rpm, incl. download.* "Keskipäivän hetken sumea vaillinaisuus" collects new dark ambient & industrial leaning tracks by Finnish producer Ilpo Väisänen (Pan Sonic).
Murkhr
*2022 stock. Limited edition of 300 copies.* Note: All LPs have a small manufacturing defect: all delivered discs are not perfectly flat, they have a slight inclined shape which however does not prevent the perfect reproduction of the sound. We like to clarify this before your order but don't hesitate ordering such item as this small flaw is almost invisible and has no side efects.
Nordvargr makes a triumphant return to the darkambient scene after a few years of silence. Having focused more on …
Memories Compiled : Three Tapes
3CD album released in eight-panel digipack, limited to 400 copies. This publication is the second Trilogy of this project, released under the banner of Zoharum. This time it collects ambient recordings, recorded in the early period of Vidna Obmana's activity, originally published on 3 different cassettes in 1989-1991: "Gathering In Frozen Beauty", "Near The Flogging Landscapes", "Refined On The Gentle Clouds", and which have never been re-issued in any other form so far. Now fully refreshed, mas…
Tutti Quanti Sognano Porno (Compiuti I Dieci Anni)
*2022 stock. 300 copies limited edition* The celebration of 10 years Le Cose Bianche (2007-2017), this album collects all the help, support, talent of all musician and non-musician friends who have influenced and marked this LCB decade. Iincluding in the recording of this album are: Eraldo Bernocchi (Sigillum S), Paolo Bandera (Sshe Retina Stimulants / Sigillum S), Egle Sommacal (Massimo Volume) , Andrea Chiaravalli (Iugula-Thor), Francesco Perizzolo (Satanismo Calibro 9), Maurizio Bianchi (MB),…
Wading Knee-Deep In Your Blood
*2022 stock* Great Amerikan power electronics project ! harsh & heavy scraping sounds for a new Law! This was the first print of this album (second print came, on OEC, into CD format ...) “the composite picture of man that emerges from the art of our time is the gigantig figure of an aborted embryo whose limbs suggestest a vaguely anthropoid shape... screams in abysmal terror at the universe at large"
The Sacred Wood
*2022 stock* K11 (aka Pietro Riparbelli) is a very good sound-sculptor continuing the long tradition of Italian Ambient Industrial artists ... This special album was recorded at the enchanting park of Monsters of Bomarzo. The park of Monsters of Bomarzo was devised by the architect Pirro Ligorio (he completed the Cathedral of Saint Peter in Rome after the death of Michelangelo and built Villa d'Este in Tivoli) on commission of Prince Pier Francesco Orsini, called Vicino, only to vent the heart b…
Returning To The Past By Silence
*2022 stock* A requiem to the past century, whose peace has been buried under the layers of asphalt, glass and steel, under human indifference and soullessness, under the false values... conceptual work consisting of six parts of sympho-industrial interlacing with darkwave and some martial touch! high quality live recording by Latvian acts Claustrum and Traur Zot. A big surprise to be discovered !!!
Phantom
*2022 stock* 1st class italian dark ambient electronics project ! Remainding a lot to those 80es electronica sounds ... For sure something not to be missed for peple who likes this new coming Electronic reinasance ...! Ectoplasm’s, extraterrestrial visions, dreams and phantoms ! Deca is also known for many collaborations with Runes Order,Die Sonne Satan, Atom Infant Incubator...
A Silent Siege
*2022 stock* As a conclusion of the Silence tapes triology out on OEC, here comes the "Silence" CD-release "A Silent Siege". An outburst of adrenalinestuffed new tracks, remixes, and documentations. Massive and beating sound walls in good old industrial style! What then could we expect from this industrial ambient project? At last that which have been kept within now is released in form of an agressive expression in sound and attitude. More cloose to the chaotic livesound of his performances, Li…
1978
*2022 stock. Limited edition of 300 copies.* Djinn returns after about 10 years from his last full-length album with this new work based on year 1978. The year in the modern era in which the biggest mass-suicide was perpetrated. More than 900 person was killing themselves on November 18 1978 in Jonestown, exactly the same day in which Vintras, the mind behind Djinn, was born. A date which became the symbol of the beginning and the end, of self-inflicted death. In this album Vintras collects the …
The Secret Golden Flower
*2022 stock. Limited edition of 300 copies.* Eldar, the Spanish Dark Ambient / Martial project that once started on Cold Meat Industry, return with yet another conceptual album presenting a wide range of beautiful sounds.
The concept of this album is inspired by the mystical and psychological archetypes to explain the universal version of a generic soul that rules from the collective unconscious of individuals in all human civilizations since antiquity. These archaic prototypes were copied, emul…