Surface of the Earth
Since its release in 1996, Surface of the Earth's self-titled first album has gradually been recognized as an unlikely minimalist masterpiece and one of the key albums to emerge from New Zealand’s 1990’s Free Noise movement. Liberated from tonal and structural convention, yet also embracing elements of drone and ambient music, the Wellington trio created an album that defied easy categorization. It has been called "one of the most important albums to ever drag the subterranean vibe of unending d…
Patterns and Mechanisms
** Edition of 300 ** "Patterns and Mechanisms", Eraldo Bernocchi and Merzbow's first album together, was written and recorded during the lockdown. Both artists exchanged audio files and ideas fascinated by the phenomenon of urban wildlife where wild animals decide to relocate, or establish home in our cities, the album is just two long pieces. Despite being dense and noisy, "Patterns and Mechanisms" has a 'melodic' approach to composition, with Merzbow's noise assault conjugating with Bernocchi'…
Apatia
*200 copies limited edition* Apathy is a work to be considered "autobiographical". It contains one of the darkest periods in the life of its creator Vintras (Djinn). An endless sequence of fear / sadness / pessimism, which day after day bring the human being into a state of mind of pure apathy. A long hopeless journey, made even more sick by the fantastic collaboration of the American artist Ester Kärkkäinen alias Himukalt.
Metamorfosi Asincrona e Discontinuità Biologiche
*200 copies limited edition* Hot on the heels of some striking recent productions, Corrado Altieri (Uncodified, Candor Chasma, Monosonik, TH26) and Paolo L. Bandera (Sigillum S, SSHE Retina Stimulants, Iugula-Thor, Ensemble Sacrés Garçons and much more) join forces for a brand-new collaboration, deploying audio science-fiction with a profound body horror obsession, in love with the intoxicating radicalism of extreme sound tissue surgery. Recorded, manipulated and assembled through a three-year p…
Dreams Drenched In Static
Cremation Lily’s “Dreams Drenched in Static” exists at the horizon of consciousness and heavy experimental music. Through the use of frenetic vocal melodies, tape degradation, and guitar noise, the album documents the liminal moments at the edge of sleep, and the distressing thoughts that often accompany late-night R.E.M. disturbances. The lyrics were largely written at three in the morning and serve to evoke the depression and meditations on death that seem to haunt these early hours.
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Cucumber Sandwich
* In process of stocking. 70 copies limited edition * Originally released on CDR by Music Mundane in 2007. Recorded at home in Nottingham in 1992. Stewart Walden: Casio SA10
Free noise improvisation from the beginning to the end, if it's even ever ending. The sound continues its journey somewhere when the cassette stops. Broken melodies, noises and strange sounds coding the mind while the brains think it's already sleeping. Originally recorded to C90 cassette, but later both sides mixed together…
Anamnesis Landscape
Michael Valentine West is a composer/decomposer utilising lessons learnt from various musical disciplines such as minimal, ambient, glitch, hip hop, jazz and sound design. He has recorded, produced and remixed using aliases such as Twiggy And The K-Mesons, K-Meson 4, Suck Susan, Lower Third, Mikimo Sosumi, Anal Teens and of course MVW. He has also scored music and contributed songs to soundtracks for several independent films.
Deforms The Unborn
*66 copies limited edition* 'Portraying the sensation of being possessed by a demon, Zepar to be exact, Deforms the Unborn was a live-performance by Xiu Xiu at the Guggenheim museum. After researching multiple first hand accounts of demonic possession, the material that came out of all of that is basically an auditory version of a Lovecraft story. You are never quite sure what is real and what isn't, there is this constant abrasive feeling of paranoia and dread lingering in the background, stran…
I N T E R C O N E X I O N
Aurora Central presents I N T E R C O N E X I O N, a collaboration between Concepción Huerta and Milena Pafundi. First edition in blue cassette tapes, with handmade book of photography. QR codes for downloading video documentation of a live performance are also included.
Last Live
This edition was produced and finalized in a particular context, Mika Vainio having left us on 12.04.2017. This material is the last concert he gave. It took place at Cave12 on 02.02.2017. We needed time to listen to this archive again, which we did in situ in June 2020 with Cindy Van Acker. After this listening, we felt invested in having to make this archive public. In order to work on this material, we asked Carl Michael von Hausswolff to do the editing. He extended the invitation to Stephen …
Verdun 1916
*Limited edition* Verdun, 1916 is full of ghosts. the voices of survivors now departed and the vacuum of the dead. members of GOH are rumored to have relatives who fought in the hills, trenches and bunkers where the longest battle in WWI was campaigned.verdun,1916 expands heavily into the precise combination of martial sound collage and cold mechanical noise fog, supposedly created through archival interviews with veterans, members of GOH travelled to the old battlefields for field recordings, s…
Finger Pointing To The Moon
*In process of stocking* This is not your typical noise album. Harsher palette familiar from previous Mogao releases has been put momentarily aside. Approach now is more intimate with two lingering tracks painting the picture of abandoned landscape, where the flock of electronic birds are swimming amongst the analog warmth of broken piano ambience, echoing the names of Brian Eno and David Tudor in mind. And this is the painting you can touch, feeling all the rough textures and cracks in the canv…
Broken Masses
*300 copies limited edition* Five collaborative pieces between Gary Mundy of Ramleh/Kleistwahr/Broken Flag and Eraldo Bernocchi of Sigillum S. Combining two guitars, subtle electronics and what sounds like a voice from another dimension, rhythmic loops or serene pools of liquid sound are generated that add up to an album of immense beauty and scope. Sometimes more intense and at others almost elegiac, this work is in keeping with Gary's more recent solo work yet benefits also from Bernocchi's ow…
Nativity Colostomy (Anus Horriblis)
Reissue of a cassette from the UK’s most eccentric and vile noise act. Originally released in 1993 via Old Europa Café, “Nativity Colostomy” is an hour’s trek through filthy industrial and colorful shifts of sound. Excellently remastered by Milovan Srdenovic, this crucial part of the Smell & Quim catalog is available for the first time in over two decades as a professionally-manufactured CD digipak.
The Holstein Tapes Vol. 1
Tip! *Edition of 50 copies in special deluxe packaging* De Fabriek presents The Holstein Tapes Vol.1 . Source material for this release was taken from the reel-to-reel audio tape archive of sound recorder and editor Wim van Holstein (1944 -1992). Tape manipulation, processing, (soft)synths and mixing by Martijn Hohmann.
C40 'Petrol blue' Audio Cassette with white on-body printing, wrapped in source tape. Packaged in a deluxe handmade matchbox style pasted box with various inserts on recycled tax…
Palace Zones
*75 copies limited edition* Palace Zones is an epic statement from veteran weirdo music unit Sex Funeral. The long form double album constitutes an exquisite corpse: an incidental yet coherent sonic narrative traversing naïve wonder to cosmic dread and then beyond. Matthew Crowe and Bob Bucko, Jr. evoke cinematic visions; both in gleaming HD widescreen and straight to crackling VHS. A perfect soundtrack for reading paperback sci-fi in the woods, at the end of the world.
Mirror Thru Haze
*75 copies limited edition* Orb Tapes presents Mirror Thru Haze by Andrew Kirschner.
Animal
*75 copies limited edition* Since the 1990s, Nathan Berlinguette has been performing and releasing a prolific range of experimental music. Throughout the years, he has shared the stage with bands such as The Haters, Scott Arford, John Wiese, Geronimo, Locrian and Pharmakon. Some of Berlinguette's projects include 5/5/2000 along with Travis Ryan (Cattle Decapitation) as well as 3 different projects with his ongoing musical accomplice Ryan Unks, which includes their latest effort - a new band insp…
Uncertain Sediment
*50 copies limited edition* Orb Tapes presents Uncertain Sediments by Floralplasm. Squirgles and flimpers by Ian Franklin Ronkles, tomps and flaggelananix by Jamie Orlando. Recorded at Slimbo's Slimy Slurry Shoppe.
Split
*50 copies limited edition* NGM: "Sufferer" and "Hyperventilate" recorded by Luk Henderiks. "Turn Around" recorded by Mac Stephens. Mixed and mastered by Andrew Corl. MM: Both tracks recorded directly to tape by Matthew Jaime.