Drone Islands - The Lost Maps
**200 copies** "The second volume the Drone Island series, Drone Islands - The Lost Maps, continues Eighth Tower Records' deep explorations into the realm of "droning music". Alongside drone ambient music masters like Troum, Rapoon, Schloss Tegal, Autopsia, and well known dark ambient projects like Alphaxone, Taphephobia, the volume presents experimentalists such Simon Balestrazzi, Trauma Terrestrial, as well extremely interesting young musicians like Gaspar Peralta. Solid realities and new prom…
Incantatios From Ugarit
In process of stocking. **100 copies** "The dark jails of the city of Ugarit are only lit by distant torches that light up the maze of streets, houses and tangled temples. From there too, we hear the awful ritual, incantations and other terrifying spells dedicated to Baal. The new Moloch Conspiracy album sets up atmospheres inspired by different collections of liturgical and religious texts found in the ruins of the city of Ugarit in Syria. The civilization of Ugarit expresses a very strong reli…
Pentral
Legendary album of Jacaszek from 2009, first time on vinyl, 180g, gatefold cover, with download code.
Simulacra
"First released in 1989 as a tape on the legendary German label Cthulhu Records and re-released in 1998 by OEC as limited vinyl, this legendary album by Ain Soph and Sigillum S finally sees the light for the first time on CD format. An absolute masterpiece of Ritual Music by those two primer Italian post-industrial acts."
III
"This stuff was previously produced by the band only as tape in a very limited edition of just 100 copies and never reissued... until now! This legendary tape is finally re-released as a 2CD set. First disc features Ritual 00, which is an endless trancy loop used for a Bhakti Yoga rite which can be used also as background for ritual concentration... The second disc is entitled The failure of Jesus, Visible Obscurity, Garbage, the City and the Death... For sure the more obscure and rare Ain Soph …
II
"CD repress of the second Ain Soph album originally released on tape in 1985! A must for all researchers and collectors of early exoteric dark industrial."
I
"CD repress of the original Ain Soph debut album! A must for all researchers and collectors of early exoteric dark industrial…""Ain Soph are a legendary group - or rather an entity - that over the years has managed to win a small but select following, reaching a true cult status. Formed in the early '80s in Rome, they started their activity by publishing a series of tapes not intended for publication but intended as real "magic" rituals. These were sound experiments inspired by magic texts, in p…
OEC 100 / The Old Europa Cafe
"A compilation planed and released during 2007 for the 25th OEC anniversary. 101 artists / groups / projects which was / are / will be involved with OEC was invited to submit an unreleased, re-worked, exclusive track devoted to the theme: "Europa". Europe: from Portugal to Russia / from the Ocean to the Urals, Europe History, Europe Culture, Europe Cities, Europe Beauty. A true Mammoth compilation in 7 CDs, featuring a large spectrum of Industrial sub-culture sounds styles. A big document on OEC…
Enthralled by the Wind of Loneliness
**300 copies, 2020 stock** "For the first time on vinyl, here comes the re-issue of 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. Re-mastered fo…
Prospectus I
**300 copies, 2020 stock** "For the first time on vinyl, here comes the re-issue of 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.
Within the Depths of Silence and Phormations
**2020 stock** "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 been rendered imp…
Requiem for Abandoned Souls - Expanded Edition
**2020 stock** "First escorted and abandoned by dark spirits, you wander alone through pitch-blackness, following sounds you'd rather run from then to. But there is no other place to go but down, deeper and further. So turn off your lights and put out your candle when you listen to this powerful release. The title says it all, Requiem for Abandoned Souls is filled with such extreme talent and understanding in the ways of the desolate decay that eats away at the very structure of mankind, that th…
Tales from the Tabula Rasa - Early Works 1988-1991
**2020 stock** "This is not a new album! This does not sound like Raison d'être! This is Raison d'être from another time and world! Tales from the Tabula Rasa presents Raison d'être in its earliest form, when there was no past and only future. This was the birth of Raison d'être and the creative music mind of Peter Andersson. In one way it can be seen as the first particles to the seed that later became the established Raison d'être sound in the 1990's. In the other way it can be seen as the evi…
Metamorphyses - Expanded Edition
**2020 stock** "Transformation is the key to the psyche. It unlocks the hidden domains inside us and finds the paths to inner wisdom. Metamorphyses is a journey into the deep inner self; a drama of the sublime and trancendental transformation of the psyche through a katabasis ritual presented in six transitional stages slowly moving towards completion. Metamorphyses is the key to the psyche."Hypnotic, introspective and yet more difficult. Being the seventh full-lenght album from Raison d’être, M…
Anima Caelum
**2020 stock** "Anima Caelum contains both complete live sets and selection of tracks from live recordings by Raison d'être, from performances stretching from the world tours of 2014-2015 to the very unique moment at the once-in-a-lifetime event Cold Meat Industry 30 years Anniversary Live in 2017 performing one track from each of his Cold Meat Industry studio albums. This is apocalyptic music that can bring life to heaven! Originally released on Old Europa Cafe as a double MC in 2018, now revis…
The Silent Container
**2020 stock** "Finally here comes the re-edition into digital format of the Silent tape trilogy originally released some years ago on OEC, for long time sold-out and much requested from all Lina's fans. Here you can really hear all Deutsch Nepal's different sounds in a long, accurate and complete work. Those who know Lina's sounds don't need many words to understand that this is for sure, if not the best, one of his very best works ever, a true classic for all Industrial lovers. Everything was …
Live At Cafe Oto
Hand-numbered LP limited to 300 copies - On November 8, 2016, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and Edley ODowd performed an intimate and dynamic set to a sold-out audience at Cafe OTO in London. These multi-track recordings will be mixed by Psychic TVs Jeff Berner and Edley ODowd and issued as a very limited 12” vinyl edition by Old Europa Cafe. Expect darkness, light and the occasional humor as these two collaborators glide through a set of improvisational words and sound.
Anthology of Persian Experimental Music
**2020 small repress with slightly different tracklist and artwork** "After more than three years, the Unexplained Sounds Group releases a CD version of the previously only digital “Persian experimental underground survey”, one of the most recognized anthologies focusing on experimental and alternative music from Iran. It includes 4 digital bonus tracks, a new cover artwork and was re-mastered for the CD version. Initially, the compilation was released under the banner “Iranian” experimental mus…
Black Metamorphosis
**Edition of 100 copies** From Sierra Leone via Berlin, Lamin Fofana elusive new work. Steeped in afro-futurist aesthetic, this is the first part in the hyper-conceptual trilogy by global drone and noise artist Lamin Fofana. Not getting a digital release and only 100 copies world wide, we're getting a handful direct from Berlin. From Lamin himself: The West is an insane asylum, a conscious and premeditated receptacle of black magic. – Fred Moten Black Metamorphosis is the first installment in a …
The Gloaming
**Edition of 200 on 180 g vinyl with a hand-made silkcreened cover** Relict records steps into the game with The Gloaming, the full length debut LP by composer Chris Berkes. The Gloaming is the consequence of intensive reflection on the expressive potential of sound based structures. The result culminates in potent electro-acoustic compositions that form a complex and visceral narrative of arresting nature. relief draws from the tradition of Musique concrète but translates it into a contemporar…