Experimental / Industrial

From the depths of Gothenburg, The Family Men emerge. Since 2017, they have slowly carved out a sound entirely their own within the current music scene, standing out as one of the hardest groups in Sweden today. Making use of unconventional sampling, chainsaw-guitars and gritty industrial tones, they manage to blast their way into yet uncharted musical territory. Their debut album 'No Sound Forever' is an explosive, daring and vital record of a band ready to swallow you whole.

2006 release ** Oversized cardboard sleeve. "Square rhythms, flashes of punk-hardcore (almost deviated rock & roll at times, as in "Part 1"), modulated feedback, more than distorted voices (but never invasive), magmatic stasis, dissonances: this is the recipe of Two Dead Bodies, which will be appreciated both by fans of those who today go crazy for Liars and Wolf Eyes, or by those who nostalgically remember God or the schizoid metal of Naked City."

2007 release ** "Spectral modulations refer artificial synthesis of psychophysical filters, while electro hypnotic segmentations unclose multiple external stimuli of pauperized dimensions. The neural degree is shading the higher method of frequencies, but the turgescent preceptive instruments autoregulate the recognizable discomfort. The normalization method is already remitted to the infected acquisition: it's the lacerating beginning of the epileptic end, realized in the year 2005."

2011 release ** Limited edition of 150 copies. "A tasteful masterpiece using only acoustic guitar!"

Rare grey area split 7" EP from the late 80's with pieces from live recordings and compilation cassettes. Second edition of 93 copies with yellow cover.

Original 1996 edition on clear vinyl on United Durtro of the second collaboration between Stapleton and Tibet under their own names and sister album to Musical Pumpkin Cottage. With insert.

1990 partly re-mixed re-issue on Harbinger with picture sleeve of the split 7" single originally included in the first 1000 copies of C93's Nature Unveiled.

1988 re-issue on L.A.Y.L.A.H. Antirecords, with beautiful new cover by Steven Stapleton, of the very first C93 record release from 1984, with David Tibet, Stapleton, Coil's John Balance and 23 Skidoo's Fritz Häaman.

1987 reissue with new cover limited to 2000 copies of the 1985 LP featuring NWW's Steven Stapleton and John Fothergill, Krang's and SPK's John Murphy and Coil's John Balance.

1990 first CD re-issue on Durtro of the 1988 LP featuring NWW's Steven Stapleton, Death In June's Douglas P., Strawberry Switchblades' Rose McDowall, Krank's and SPK's John Murphy and Coil's John Balance.

First CD edition on Durtro of the 1990 album featuring NWW's Steven Stapleton, Death In June's Douglas P., Sol Invictus' Tony Wakeford and Strawberry Switchblades' Rose McDowall.

First CD edition on Durtro of the 1991 album featuring Michael Cashmore and Julie Woods among others.

Regular edition limited to 974 hand-numbered copies with folded cardboard sleeve of the 1989 single on Shock with cover by Savage Pencil.

1990 split 7" single issued with a generic cover in a limited edition of 1000 copies to be given free at the Chislehurst Caves concert.

Grey-area LP from 1990, in an edition of 333 numbered copies (this is 306/333) with printed labels and paste-on cover, with the recording of C93's concert at NL Centrum in Amsterdam in 1984.

Grey-area split LP from 1989, in an edition of 418 numbered copies (this is 135/418) with printed labels, paste-on cover and insert, with two pieces taken from both bands' earlier cassettes (circa 1983 and 1987 respectively).

First 1987 edition on New European Recordings with textured sleeve and all four inserts of the fifth DIJ album, also featuring Strawberry Switchblades' Rose McDowall and Coil's John Balance helping Douglas P. and David Tibet.

2003 release ** "Xenofonia combines choir, harpsichord, percussion, glitch and environmental recordings. Migrating bird-calls and human voices play a central role heard a cappella or accompanied. Singing often ventures beyond the limits of language. The formidable choral force of ex-miners Snowdown Colliery Male Voice Choir, the intimate voice of Matthias Grübel from German duo Phonºnoir, British vocal trio Juice Vocal Ensemble, and background vocals by Elaine Mitchener and Jade Pybus are heard …

2011 release (RARE) ** Limited edition of 100 hand-numbered copies. "‘A Guide for Reason’ was how Ptolemais of Cyrene, a musicologist from over 2,000 years ago no less, saw the role of perception or sensory experience in sparking a more theoretical compositional process, perhaps suggesting that the work presented here is primarily sensual, designed to inspire the listener to form their own narratives. Meanwhile the often lengthy track titles all seem to be aphorisms optimistically guiding the li…

Holy Tongue (Valentina Magaletti, Al Wootton & Susumu Mukai) follow up their critically acclaimed album with a two track 7” on Trule. On the A Side ‘Ambulance Dub’ creeps in like John Carpenter at Firehouse. The B Side ‘The Bigger Tutti’ goes full on Steppers punk. They are all snakes now.

1992 release ** "Fifth and final installment in a series of industrial noise/experimental albums compiled by Paul Lemos of long-running New York group Controlled Bleeding, released in 1992 by Subterranean Records and Dark Vinyl Records. Features various tracks from Controlled Bleeding and associated projects (Skin Chamber, Fat Hacker and solo works), tracks from a variety of Japanese noise artists including Merzbow, KK Null, Incapacitants, Masonna, etc., plus a variety of other artists and group…

2001 release ** "HXA from Chelyabinsk was formed in 1987 by Lev Gutovsky, a graduate of Ural State Conservatory. His ensemble was arguably the only professional musical act in the USSR dedicated to creating music for absurdist theatre and postmodernist happening. By the end of the 1990’s, HXA shrunk to a trio of Lev Gutovsky (voice, electronics), Sergey Belov (trombone, electronics) and Olga Leonova (voices) increasingly focused on modern improvised and electro-acoustic music. Lev Gutovsky is cu…

2010 release ** ""«Deep Komis» by Vazhes, the project of Russian anthropologist and documentary director Sergey Gabbasov, is dedicated to authentic ethnic music of the Permian Komis. This album was made with Rapoon, Northaunt and Fanum. It dips into the hidden and secret world of ancient and primordial nature, of secret and mysterious rituals. On the fanciful turnings of the forest path we will meet authentic ethno music of the Permian Komis, Nordic ambient, ethno-industrial, dub. Interweaving l…

2009 release ** "In this work Dream Weapon Ritual deconstructs and reassembles the thin substance of dream and vision in a performance-ritual that, moulding together organic electronics and treated acoustic instruments, takes place in an invisible and vague terrain; an unexplored territory, where the borders between song, theatre and installation blur. "Like A Tree Growing Out Of A Sidewalk" started as a multimedia performance with collaboration of visual artist Elisabetta Saiu, whose video, pro…

2005 release ** Improvised music sessions, made using 4 custom turntables, edit scratched vinyls played in forced locked grooves, hand made phonograph, microphone, delay pedal, environmental feedback, mixer. Recording and mastering on PC. All Tracks sounds exactly as it was recorded.

Quickly on the heels of their debut, Cuneiform Tabs return with Age, an LP that takes a massive leap forward in both melodic sensibilities and inventiveness. Bathed in late night psychedelia and the looping repetition of a drone sample, the group's experimental penchants remain, yet this time wrapped around tunes too sweet to be denied. In pulling back a little of the crackle and haze that made their first album so inviting, the Tabs have revealed more of their pop instincts. The overall effect …

2025 stock For forty-two years and counting, the long-running experimental Chicago group ONO has been committed to—as their mission statement says—exploring gospel's darkest conflicts, tragedies and premises as an experimental, noise, and industrial poetry performance band, charting a defiant course through a sea of seemingly disparate influences. One of few Black bands taking part in the ‘80s industrial and experimental underground, ONO’s first album Kate Cincinnati is a crucial document, showc…

2012 release ** My Right of Frost draws sound signs from electronic circuits rewired and made unstable up to the feedback’s critical point. The sequences proposed are totally improvised from the point of view of the musical value of the sounds, and tonally unrepeatable. Across and beyond the concept of circuit bending, My Right of Frost operates constantly on the verge of oscillators and filter’s collapse, extemporizing electronic paths that diverge to form a macro-sign, i.e. the artwork.

1989 release (RARE) ** "The acRID acME [of] P16.D4 might be the most well known work, no doubt due to the unique approach taken for the first segment: in 1987, the P16.D4 dredged recordings from the 1981 punk incarnation and placed them in a completely different context. As a result, "Maba 4. 12." and "Rotting Outscratched" reveal their initial forms, the former with the occasionally perceptible fragment of punk thrash sipping out unscathed from the abused tapes, and the latter allowing a hint o…

2003 release ** "Crazy free noise, controlled chaos & vocals in usual Sudden Infant's Childish-Industrial style."

1993 release ** Legion, Nocturnal Emissions, Art Decade, Paul Lemos, Premature Ejaculation, Dissecting Table, Phallus Dei, Trance.

1992 release ** John Watermann, Asmus Tietchens, Ophiolateria, Sigillum S, Trance, CV Massage, Trance, Total Disease.

Very obscure 1983 cassette on Squit Tapes of superb experimental electronic music succesfully mixing industrial and repetitive influences (M.B. meets Philip Glass somehow), with original A3 insert, plus bonus insert and Rat sticker.

Ultrarare 1985 20-minute 4-track cassette compilation on Squit Tapes of synth-wave music recorerd between 1980 and 1982 by very obscure 'bands': Alan's Lads, Johnny & Mark and the duo of 3- and 4-year-olds Raboceie Dielo. With A3 insert and bonus Rat News 4 A3 booklet.

Very varied (new wave, experimental, ebm, no wave) cassette compilation produced by Daniele Ciullini featuring Pankow, The Tempest, Minox, Rinf and Ciullini himself. Originally coming with two booklets not included here.

Rare electronic/industrial music compilation cassette with Rinf, Nulla Iperreale, 2+2=5, Gregorio Bardini, Nocteau, "Airthrob In", Bourbonese Qualk, St. Spirale, Laxative Souls, Radio Honolulu, F.A.R.. Originally enclosed with The Scream 7 magazine, not included here.

Rare early tape (1984) on ADN with the Bel Canto Orchestra and Pierre Bastien.

Rare excellent music fanzine with articles/interviews on/with Tuxedomoon, Clock DVA, Illogico, Die Form, Cabaret Voltaire. SPK, etc.

Fanzine of music reviews published my the cassette label MegaMagoMusic.

Rare complete set of great 1983 Trax cassette compilation featuring a.o. DDAA, P16.D4, Renaldo And The Loaf, Bene Gesserit, Laibach, Merzbow, 001011011100...Cancer, Charlie Morrow, Monty Cantsin, Culturcide and The Haters. With hand-numbered 7" book with unique 'fragment'.