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Ei Meidän Kotimme
*200 copies limited edition* "For the last few years, Absolute Key has been releasing a variety of highly sophisticated and innovative releases on various labels. With Ei Meidän Kotimme, frontman Antti Klemi, who some may know from projects such as Circle of Ouroboros and Valtakunta, displays his impressive skills and feeling for experimental soundscapes.
Ei Meidän Kotimme mostly consists of organic sound sources whose sounds make the listener remember the most acquired usage of scrap metal that…
Unmeaningful
*200 copies limited edition* Finnish mystery man Le Kriz An presents his first official release Unmeaningful. Expect nothing but full frontal assault Harsh Noise from the empire of sonic innovation. The artist has not released anything yet, but is known from some live actions which were well received by old and new fans of the craft, making him one of the freshest and highly anticipated newcomers.
The tracks on Unmeaningful present a varied and skilled showcase for Harsh Noise bliss, in which Le…
Split
Delirant Fracture is a new harsh noise project from Anju Singh (The Nausea, Ceremonial Bloodbath, and more). Molena strikes the label again with pure harsh noise delight. Vancouver yet again proving itself beyond worthy in the field of noise.
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*33 hand-numbered copies* \|\/|\ is a sonification of the poetic "History of Machines", written in the last years of his life by the Siberian mathematician Valery Yakorev (1927-1999). The poem consists of eight parts, connected by the principle of the circulation of technics, starting from the first machines that worked on the fuel of pain, passing through their cooling in faded anesthetic machines and hardening in machines of neutrality, and ending with a phantom oracle (prophecy), returning th…
Septic Trench
*80 copies limited edition* Slighly departing from the more primitive previous efforts, while keeping all the negativity and crudeness they reeked off - now closer to the Macronympha, Speculum Fight and Putrefier influences the artist aimed for. Disorienting, autophagic Harsh Noise.
Beneath Hidden Pittsburgh
A three way sound clash between some of Pittsburgh's finest current noise artists. Each artist brings a solo slice of noise, finished off with a collab track. Blending blown out harsh noise, fast paced cut ups and piercing electroncs. Inside collage by Ken Geiger.
Somnambulant Hysteria
Tip! *200 copies limited edition* If there are still living legends of contemporary noise, Rotat would certainly be among those that would have to be named. Tero Trogen, a raging lunatic from ever-expanding Suomi, started in 2015 and quickly rose to the highest ranks of the scene, being backed by some of the most prestigious and reliable labels currently active. Revolving around its usual blend of perversion, insanity and an uneasily black form of absurd humour, the project presents „Somnambulan…
Painted Windows
Latest release on Tribe Tapes by American harsh noise act Dead Door Unit.
II
Tahma is one of the most unique noise acts in Finland at the moment and this second release shows what it’s all about. Wet and dirty-sounding, hands-on cut-up noise frenzy with sharp bursts of feedback twitching like hundreds of electroshocked, bloodsucking leeches.
Medicine Stunts
Psychic Sounds presents Medicine Stunts, the long-awaited first vinyl pressing of haunting atmospheric meditations of Aaron Dilloway's most foreboding ambient works. Originally released by Lal Lal Lal in 2014, these atmospheric practices and mysterious meditations receive their first proper mastering and wax pressing, revealing new depths in the Wolf Eyes founder's exploration of shadowed sound territories. Recorded across 2009 and 2014 using an arsenal of unconventional instruments - tapes, jug…
Shredded Nerve / Form Hunter
In the summer of 2023 Shredded Nerve and Form Hunter embarked on an east coast tour that culminated at the Initial Shock festival in Montreal. This CD is a reissue of a limited edition tour cassette available at those shows, and also features a brand new track from each artist, totaling 4 tracks and more than 40 minutes of music. Psych-noise incantations colliding with metal junks avalanches that rip the forest to shreds. Smashing cassette players into oblivion with a baseball bat to the cheers …
Bending Your Sauna
In 2022 New Forces received a pair of discs in the mail from Nick Forté (Rorschach, Raspberry Bulbs, Half Mortal) that contained the initial creative burst from his new project Green Tea. The albums were astonishingly well crafted and could hardly be considered "demos"; indeed, they felt like masterworks that emerged out of thin air, blending psychedelic harsh noise with ambient and new age music in a way that felt incredibly fresh and exciting. As the artist describes it, "I knew I was working …
All Pressures Past
Primitive Isolation Tactics is the foremost example of how the current generation of Canadian noise builds on the foundation forged by some of the country's textural masters while expanding into new and ever more dynamic territory. There is plenty of monolithic crunching to sink your teeth into on "All Pressures Past," but the sounds skitter, jump, and implode into a satisfyingly damaged wreckage of burned wires and fried voltage. Primitive Isolation Tactics wields both patience and restlessness…
Wilderness & Industry
Perfected Grave Vault is the high octane noise duo of Charlie Mumma and Aaron Aspinwall. Following on the heels of their highly regarded 2023 CD Mutative Forecast (Oxen), this latest offering is a constantly shifting, fast paced flamethrower of a recording. Evoking the Americanoise crunch of classic acts like Skin Crime or Macronympha, "Wilderness and Industry" manages to to achieve a monolithic heaviness without bogging down in static minimalism. This is a quick moving recording that seizes you…
Black Flights
*300 copies limited edition* A new devastating alliance in the Italian Power Electronics / Industrial underground. Black Flights marks the first collaboration between: Uncodified, Funerale Classico Italiano (aka Giovanni Maffeis, long-time collaborator of Brighter Death Now), and Wertham / Caligula031.
Black Flights delivers everything you'd expect from this trio: structured, oppressive patterns, high-octane harsh frequencies, distorted field recordings, and vocal. The album is a cold, methodica…
Sick Thoughts
*300 copies limited edition* Murder Corporation returns with a brand new full album after about 10 years of silence. You know exactly what to expect from such Italian monster! Harsh & Sharp Maniac Killer sounds... If you need more words, you don't need this album!
Sex Worker: The Complete Recordings
The Sex Worker series began in 2019, as a reflection on my relationship to the sex industry. There are three cassettes in the series - all out of print, and highly collectible - published by Total Black, with my take on power electronics and death industrial, channelling the emotions of rage, mania, depression, and lust, and featuring interviews and vocals from women in the sex industry from around the world, telling their stories, expressing their place in the industry.
The first two cassettes …
Red Magnesia Pink
First released by Extreme in the massive, infamous 'Merzbox,' "Red Magnesia Pink" is extracted and recontextualized as a standalone release for the first time. Recorded in 1995, "Red Magnesia Pink" sees Merzbow in peak form. A psychedelic whirlwind of synthetic transmissions; harsh, wet, screeching sounds that could only be produced by Masami Akita. Featuring two previously unreleased bonus tracks from the same era.
Infinity Quartet
*300 copies limited edition* The debut album from a new Gothenburg group featuring Erik Nystrand (Capers), Dan Johansson (Sewer Election), Per Palmqvist (Slow Exit) and David Valleryd (Schakalens Bror). A blistering free noise tornado recorded at Longest Night in Kortedala during October 2024. Electronics, guitars, drums. Blown-out and at times almost psychedelic grittiness in the spirit of Hijokaidan, Borbetomagus, Ascension and the likes, though channeled through the neverending well of unmana…
Parallel Disalignment
Tip! *300 copies limited edition* "Since Fallen Sun’s debut CD, 'Beyond the Flat Earth', which appeared on Fourth Dimension Records in 2024, there have been rare live appearances and collaborative releases by this solo project of Malaysian electronic artist, Y’ng-Yin Siew. She has also released a few albums under the name, Reverse Image, which is a comparatively sedate project given to more atmospheric sounds yet no less metamorphic or unsettled because of that. Fallen Sun, as the name itself al…