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Tetraphobia
*2022 stock.* After channelising all his musical energy into Beyond Sensory Experience for the past two years, K. Meizter finally returns with a new solo exertion. Spawned during the sinister last months of a northern year, Tetraphobia scans through the kafkaesque layers of human anxiety, and continues K. Meizter’s distinctive manipulation of sound, melody and pulse. Following Travelling Light, Dark Matters and the Horologium collaboration Eight Studies in Transition, K. Meizter’s new release de…
Dark Matters
*2022 stock. Special edition, limited & numbered to 176 copies including a mini-poster plus a bonus 3" CDR with three exclusive tracks.* The enigmatic scientist K. Meizter of Beyond Sensory Experience has left his murky laboratory to release "Dark Matters", a dark puzzle piece to his debut solo album "Travelling Light". K. Meizter's new album is a strong musickal reaction of dark ambient soundscapes with subtle and sinister melodies, catalyzed by pounding rhythms and distorted experimental elect…
L'Ultimo Vero Bacio
*2022 stock* A long obscure Crime Jazz Industrial soundtrack for Hard Boiled and Pulp situations, Night Club, Femmes Fatale, Revolver and Vendetta. In debt with Chandler, Hammett, Cain, Spillane, Thompson, Goodies, Williams, Ellroy, Malet, Izzo, Giovanni, Le Breton... True Malavita Industrial from Rome. For the first time presenting many femal voices ! For sure their more dark-mafia-jazz, obsessing & glamour album ! Special digipack ...
Profilo Ottimale Delle Ferite
*2022 stock* Debut album for this Italian power-industriual monster which is taking inspiration from the many italian extreme industrialoids like : the old MB, Murder Corporation, Atrax Morgue ... but with a more cool & cold touch and adding some incredible jazz-noisy-bossasnuff-bloodeasy sounds which makes this new project simply unique! A real big surprise to be discovered! Crime Jazz Industrial!!!
Hard Boiled Night Club
*2022 stock* Look at your back : Macelleria Mobile di Mezzanotte is on the road again ....Negroni, Cigarettes, Flash, Guns, Paparazzi .... This is the trade-mark sound for "Loosers".White-Jazz Industrial as only MMM can play. A mix of cold Industrial and a warm Jazzy Saxophone. Back on Via Veneto. The murder place, where everything has begun. The last rays of Dolce Vita still enlightened the winter day when MMM brought this forgotten bunch of songs to a new life, ready for their best effort to d…
Black Rubber Exotica
*2022 stock* Second official cd after the debut album on OEC in 2002 ... New snuff-noise & cold-crime-jazz-samples for serial-killers ! Hard-boilled, Hollywood (the hill of Suicides), femme fatale stories ... muzac for fans of : J&B, Crysler cars, Italian thriller b-movies of the sixties, La dolce Vita, Via Veneto, Paparazzi, James Ellroy ... Stories of Sex, Martini, black death stockings ... stories of Snuff-electronics ! Crime is always arround the corner ...
The Face Of God
*2022 stock. Limited edition of 300 copies.* This album was first released directly by the band in a special Boxed edition of which only very few copies was made available. OEC is re-editing that CD album in a 6 panels digipak and this will be the only available format from now on as the band stopped releasing the special boxed edition. The Face of God contains 11 tracks, a combination of industrial soundscapes and metal and skin percussions, wind instruments and vocals, in the best tradition of…
Ambiorix
*2022 stock. Limited edition of 500 copies. CD comes in special eco-leather sleeves, half in light and half in dark brown leather.* After releasing the Militia debut album into cassette (a split with Con-Dom entitled "Scorching Earth Policy") in 1995, Old Europa Cafe, 23 years later, proudly comes with the new and Militia album "Ambiorix" devoted to the great Gaul King. All sounds with the usual unmistakable Militia trademark, a big variety of rythms with loads of self made percussions and wind …
VI Congresso Post Industriale
*2022 stock. Limited edition of 345 hand-numbered copies.* This compilation features 7 exclusive unreleased tracks by the four projects taking part to "VI Congresso Post Industriale" live venue organised by Old Europa Cafe on Februry 14 2009 at club Siddharta in Prato (Florence) - Italy.
Bajascillators
With a tactile clunk, Bitchin Bajas (Cooper Crain, Rob Frye and Dan Quinlivan) bubble to the surface. Bajascillators, arriving almost five years since their last official full-length, 2017’s Bajas Fresh, is a riveting new full-length springing forth from the implacable, eternal gene pool that's also included soundtracks, re-imagined cuts from Sun Ra's catalog, and collaborations with Natural Information Society and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy among their illustrious recorded output. Following the flow…
Sur quelques mondes étranges
Long-time touchstone of international experimental music presents his monolithic (and first) solo vinyl Sur quelques mondes étranges on Felix Kubin’s Gagarin Records. Jérôme Noetinger is known to most for the audio-visual trio Cellule d’Intervention Metamkine, alongside his countless recorded & live collaborations, compositions for radio & stage, and breathtaking multi-channel diffusions in the acousmatic tradition. Discovering the ReVox B77 tape machine as his tool for live electro-acoustic mus…
Pérélandra
It was some line up, even for the most open-minded: Emmanuelle Parrenin and her musicians, in 1981, opening for the Clash in Paris, at the Zénith! Unsurprisingly, the crowd roared the name of the English band as soon as the French musicians appeared on stage. Didier Malherbe responded with a saxophone improvisation with all the others joining in behind. If we believe the musician improvising, rather than following the cult playlist of Maison Rose, was what saved them. Created from previously unp…
The Outside
*2022 stock. Limited edition of 500 copies.* Fourth chapter of a series that began with 2007’s “Whispers Of The Approaching Wastefulness” (Cyclic Law). A Conceptual soundtrack envisioning the evolution of a fictional story and of which will soon come a VR experience. After centuries of isolation the human race begins a journey in search of the causes that led to the end of its world, and for the first time it approaches the Structures, new life forms that have developed and evolved in the emptin…
A Wilderness Of Cloades
*2022 stock. Includes CD, MCDr in Wooden Box. Limited edition of 103 copies.* First 103 copies of this very special release will come in a limited wooden-box, top of the box will be silkscreened with Nordvargr / Surachai red logo.What began as a mutual correspondence turned into immediate respect and eventually a sickness and obsession that resulted in A Wilderness of Cloades. The two artists, Nordvargr whom hails from the depths of Sweden's wintered wastelands and Surachai from the frozen concr…
Hypergenome666
*2022 stock. 2xCD in Special Folding Slip-Box. Includes a 80-pages book.* Nordvargr vs. Kenji Siratori - Antimaterial: Tragedy Rom Creature BSE vs. Kenji Siratori - Substance : Sympathy Cell Waves This will be for sure the more surprising release for 2006 in the ambient-dark industrial field. Those 2 great scandiniavian dark-industrial projects leaded by MZ.412 members are here making an excursion in Kenji Siratori acid world made of encrusted blood & samen, made by all the information in the un…
Emergence & Immersion
*2022 stock.* Two CDs at the price of one! In 2007 Voice of Eye ended their 12-year silence with 2 CD-R improvisation volumes: Emergence and Immersion. The works were released for their European tour in editions of only 100 each and sold out fast. Now those impossible-to-find, extremely limited releases are finally available on factory-pressed CD’s! Old Europa Cafe of Italy has re-released Emergence & Immersion in a fine 2-CD 4 page full-color digifolder, re- mastered with a new bonus track, “Pe…
XVIII Congresso Post Industriale
*2022 stock. Limited edition of 200 hand-numbered copies.* The exclusive compilation released for the XVIII Congresso Post Industriale, OEC's traditional venue to be held in Pordenone / Italy on September 11 2021. All tracks are unreleased - those tracks which sounds familiar are new versions. For the first OEC venue during pandemic we were inviting 3 primer Itaian industrial / dark-esoteric / psychedelic and electronic projects. A journey through uncomfortable sounds.
It's Nothing, But Still
*In process of stocking* Steve Fors offers deeply physical music on his Hallow Ground debut »It's nothing, but still.« Having already established himself as a composer of visceral drone and noise pieces in various Chicago- and New York-based underground projects, Fors’s first release under his given name is even more dense and evocative than his earlier work. A concept album on the subject of breath, the Siavash Amini-produced record sees the now Swiss-based composer blend field recordings with …
Spirit Transform Me
*In process of stocking. 2022 stock.* Oren Ambarchi is a composer and multi-instrumentalist experimenting in the dark trance-inducing worlds of ambient, industrial and electronic music. His newest collaborative project features the legendary percussionist/composer and mystic Z’EV in a hypnotic series of pieces exploring the inner meanings of the Hebrew Alef-beit. A remarkable vision from beginning to end, with sounds both fragile and powerfully intense, Oren and Z’EV take the sonic investigation…
Reverberations: Tape & Electronic Music 1961-1970
11 CD set adapted from 12 CD edition. All tracks included. This dense 11-disc retrospective of Pauline Oliveros' early and unreleased electronic work includes her very first piece made for tape in 1961. Organized chronologically, this set not only documents Pauline's earliest electronic music but it also functions as an early history of electronic music itself. Follow as she participates in the establishment of the legendary San Francisco Tape Music Center and then moves to University Of Toronto…