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COMPACT DISCS
Adriva — ‘Cold Sea Week’
Project of Denis from formations of SUNCHARIOT, ENMERKAR and MATTER shows a little more experimental Drone Ambient than the one he performs in his main project, SUNCHARIOT. The album is dedicated to the author’s sojourn on the shores of Black Sea in winter. Slack, congealed soundwaves crystallize in the air and gently descend on eyelids and shoulders, immersing one in eternal slumber of Suspense. Floating spectres of drowned fishermen, call-signs of ultramundane submarines, icefloes that ram Eternity, chasm of scalding coldness and pitch-darkness.
(Abgurd, CDr, 100 copies, ˆ8)
Aidan Baker & The Infant Cycle — 'Rural Sprawl'
Canadian musicians Aidan Baker and Jim DeJong (aka The Infant Cycle) have used the "gentleman's kit" of modern experimenters for creating the compositions of this disk: guitar, bass, tapes, samples, feedback generator, playouts and thumb piano. Four album tracks correspond with four seasons, four states of the soul...
(Zhelezobeton, CD, 250 copies, ˆ10)
Alexei Borisov and HEC — ‘Live in Paris’
(Sickcore, CDr, 200 copies, ˆ7)
Amateur Ant / Mtombo — ‘Electric Anthill’
(Sickcore, CDr, 100 copies, ˆ7)
Angina P — ‘8 Rooms’
This Angina P album consists in a collaboration between several artists worldwide: Slacknote, Semiomime, Edgey, Larvae and C-Drik. It remain some Tarmvred or Iszoloscope, because of two elements: the background ambient elements, contrasting with rhythm, and the prominent breakcore side. But the difference is that, globally, the sound is clean. Atmosphere is calm, ethereal and serene. Neither has it anything dark (almost…), nor industrial.
(Notochord, CD, ˆ10)
Antarctida — 'Base 211'
Reissue of a cult first joint work from RYR and TCHERNOBYLAD. Ritual military Industrial.
(Valgriind, CDr, ˆ4)
Anti-Verstand — ‘Song Like Wind’
ANTI-VERSTAND - side-project of YAO 91404 D - is pretty known among adorers of Russian Noise due to tapes released by YAOP and a couple of CDR re-releases made by Abgurd and Fight Muzik. With ‘Song Like Wind’ the project introduces absolutely new and fresh point of view on its Art. The first recordings of ANTI-BRAIN were on the verge of boundless madness and unprejudiced aural challenge, while the new album appears to be more expressive, strict and catchy, burning with romantic-totalitarian lunacy of the best works by YAO 91404 D, e.g. ‘Heroes of the Coal Age’ and ‘Key to Abyss’. Love-poetry of soviet-era, disco-songs, accompanied by a captured metal impress, soviet-era variety art, rough and rigid feedbacks, concorporated into percussive ritual noise loops and abrasive distorted tapes emerge monumental piece of art.
(Abgurd, CDr, 100 copies, ˆ8)
Arktau Eos — ‘MIRRORION’
As the title suggests, ‘Mirrorion’ is the music of stellar light thrown down from the Heaven’s zenith and its eldritch reflections in the depths below, uniting atavistic elemental noise with serene passages of crystalline, spectral ambience. Ultimately, ‘Mirrorion’ seeks to surpass such earthly definitions in favour of a non-dual vision of reality, hopefully transforming the listener in the process.
For this recording ARKTAU EOS have favoured an organic approach with majority of instrumentation being of acoustic variety, including the unearthly choral of the kanglings, piercings blasts of windbones, accelerating steel-plate rolls, singing bowl and various kinds of stringed instruments.
(Aural Hypnox, CD copies, 1000, ˆ12)
Atum / Roto Visage — ‘Syndrom Cotarda’
Split of two exponents of murky sounds. Well known from dark ambient labels project ATUM in cooperation with american dark project ROTO VISAGE created over 40 minutes disc which presents heavy and funeral (gloomy?)dark ambient as title syndrome.
Cotard’s syndrome - People with Cotard’s Syndrome believe that they do not exist. Cotard’s sufferers complains of having lost everything: possessions, part of or entire body, often believing that he or she has died and is a walking corpse. Paradoxically, being ‘dead’ often gives the patient the nation of being immortal. This form of depressive disorder was described by psychiatrist, Jules Cotard, in 1880.
(Beast Of Prey, CDr, 200 copies, ˆ8)
B-Machina — 'Rotation Zwei'
New album of Austrian project. Professional polygraphy in CD-envelope. Synthesis of acoustic guitar sound and noise background.
(Valgriind, CDr, ˆ8)
Bardoseneticcube – ‘Bad Heaven’
(Ostroga, CDr, ˆ8)
Bargain Basement / Wilt — ‘Flea Market / 1958’
BB works with field recordings and synthesied noises, backgrounds. WILT creates dark, comatose Death Industrial and meditative Drone Ambient.
(Solipsism, CDr, 100 copies, ˆ8)
Bisclaveret — ‘Psyche noMine’
(The Eastern Front, CD, 1000 copies, ˆ10)
Black Sun Productions and Val Denham – ‘Somewhere Between Desire and Despair’
http://www.myspace.com/blacksunproductions (Tourette, CD, ˆ15)
Bleiburg — ‘Open Wound Front’
live performance in Kassel, Germany on 23.06.2007
(The Eastern Front, CDr, 300 copies, ˆ10)
Bonemachine — ‘Another Time’
Industrial/Harsh Ambient. New mini album of Austrian industrial project Bonemachine
(T’an! Kaven!! Ash!!!, 3"CDr, 77 copies, ˆ5)
Brandkommando/Cavum Oris — 'Several Words'
Power electronics, noise/Split of the two members of harsh genre, Polish project BRANDKOMMANDO and Bulgarish CAVUM ORIS.
(Beast Of Prey, CDr, 99 copies, ˆ6)
Circumjecta — ‘Ulchi hop’
Experimental ethnic electronics. Review.
(Dars records, CDr, ˆ6)
Cisfinitumaaaa — ‘Drone’
Mail-art drone/concrete stuff from CISFINITUM and MAAAA.
(Triangle, CDr, 50 copies, ˆ6)
Cyclotimia — 'Music for Stockmarkets'
The "Music for Stockmarkets" album with its radically experimental nature stands out in the extensive discography of this Moscow project. The 64-minute album includes 32 tracks divided into three conceptual parts: "Wallstreet Requiem" (25 minutes, recorded in 2004-2007), "Trivial Pleasures" (26 minutes, recorded in 2002, this part was the only one released as a seperate CD in 2003) and "Financial Glossary" (13 minutes, recorded in 2003). The music material itself is nothing like the one heard in the previous records of Cyclotimia. There is no apocalyptic soundscapes of "Wasteland" times, no cybernetic hi-tech and media madness of "E$chaton", no cosmic downtempo of "Celestis: Space Ceremonial Music"... Minimalism, academic sterility, surgical accuracy and meditative ataraxy prevail on "Music for Stockmarkets". Then again it is not the familiar "idm", "glitch", "noise", "clicks and cuts" and not "minimal techno"... The sound of the album is chrystal-clear and warm at the same time. "Vintage" lovers have a wonderful chance to listen to the masterpieces of Soviet music production (such as Rhythm 1, Rhythm 2, Aelita, Formanta UDS, Formanta EMS-01, Polyvox) in pure sound, unprocessed by effects.
(Zhelezobeton, CD, 500 copies, ˆ10)
Das Reut — ‘Arte de ben morire’
(Divine Comedy, CD, ˆ10)
Dasein — 'Vae Victis'
Deep noise ambient, associated with history of world wars. Author's artworks are used in design. 100 copies.
(Valgriind, 100 copies, CDr, ˆ8)
Endvra — ‘Elder signs’
Red Stream have resurrected the dead souls of these primal recordings and added to them rare, exclusive bonus material to produce an album that documents the early years of Endura. In 1999 the Elder Sign has risen as Endura’s lavish double CD release.
(Red Stream, 2 CD, ˆ12)
Erthad — ‘Gma’
The disk has very specific atmosphere: this is a noise meditation, calm and detached from emotional fuss. An intuitive electronic pulse synchronizes with brain frequencies, rising and falling waves of non-aggressive white noise pacify thoughts, and constantly rustling high frequencies when listened to attentively evoke dissotiative sensation, dissolving perception in the sonic field. However, everything as always depends on a listener himself. [from press-release]
(ZHELEZOBETON, CDr, ˆ6,5) mp3 mp3 mp3
Exit In Grey — ‘Twilight Waters’
[S] and (S), who live in Pushkino city in Moscow suburbs, created their project EXIT IN GREY four years ago. During the last couple of years they worked with their solo-projects as well. Those are ABANDONED HEAD of (S) and SISTER LOOLOMIE and FIVE ELEMENTS MUSIC of [S]. EXIT IN GREY is 100% example of Drone Ambient: hypnotizing field-recordings of city and nature, their own unique methods of musicianship, harmonizing guitar, synths and singing bowls helps the musicians to follow their chosen path of Archaic and Emotional. ‘Twilight Waters’ was recorded in the year 2005 and was released by the musicians own label Daphnia Records in ultra-limited edition ‘for friends-only’. Gloomy and cold, streaming through underground caves sound collages. Transformed droning streams of ever-water and noises of oceanic spaces co-work with guitar-based drones and singing bowls. Calm and introvert recording for dilution and absorption.
(Abgurd, CDr, 100 copies, ˆ8)
Fin De Siecle — ‘Patagonie’
(OPN Records, CD, 500 copies, ˆ10)
Four Positions Of Bruno – ‘Touch your cheek to star on grandfather’s shoulder straps’
(Ostroga, CDr, ˆ8)
Four Positions Of Bruno – ‘Poluidol’
(Ostroga, CDr, ˆ8)
Four Positions Of Bruno – ‘Body to take out’
(Ostroga, CDr, ˆ8)
Funkstillesender — 'Untitled'
FUNKSTILLESENDER along with ZFK, PUBLIC IMMORALITY and KOMATOSERZUSTAND was a part of mysterious alliance that existed in Lipetsk, Russia, in 2004 and 2005. During that period the projects created a solid amount of very talented albums that cloaks the listener with scorching Harsh Noise (ZFK and PUBLIC IMMORALITY) and hollow Radiodrone (FUNKSTILLESENDER and KOMATOSERZUSTAND) in a masterly fashion. The mini album we have here contains two last tracks that appeared in 3 years after the author's death in May of 2005. If you had listened previous albums of FUNKSTILLESENDER you know what to expect: lo-fi drones and trance radionoise united in a monumental all-devouring clutter. There is nothing to add — just listen to the message from Beyond.
(Abgurd, 3"CDr, 50 copies, ˆ6,5) mp3
Genetic Transmission — ‘Ascetic’
New album of Polish industrial scene leader, Tomasz Twardawa, long-time artist, creator of legendary project Genetic Transmission, coauthor of such projects as Ladne Kwiatki, Godzilla and Hated Bruit Kollectiv.
‘Ascetic’ is an acoustc, experimental album in bruit convention represented by GENETIC TRANSMISION. Over 60 minutes journey trough ascetic world of industrial collages. It’s like cubism, synthetic in music, acoustic colours, natural objects and artistic deformation become a discussion between reality and art. What in reality and sorrounding is common for us GENETIC TRANSOMISIONS deforms, shatters and turns in it’s bruit style. In recording of ‘Ascetic’ were used mainly field recordings, experimantal-industrial sounds and combined allogether.
The album is released in an unconventional package, in form of round paper circles of 150mm diameter. Three round paper inserts plus two round inserts of brown paper. In all circles are four holes and all is combined with a small rope. The CD is attached on a rubber insert between the papers. All hand made and numbered, to 444 copies limit.
(Beast Of Prey, CD, 444 copies, ˆ10)
Harvest Rain — ‘Night’s Glow’
Masters of American dark folk in theirs newest full lenght album. 11 beautiful songs, 42 minutes of haunting, atmospheric and melancholic music. No need to say more, as in case of Harvest Rain’s music no special recommendation is needed! Simply great CD! Glossy varnished digipack with original cover designed by Michal Karcz and reproduction of Tor Lundvall’s paintings inside. [press-release]
(War Office Propaganda / Rage In Eden, CD, ˆ12) mp3
HATI — 'Die Mechanik, Die!'
The album of the group from Torun - this time under the banner of Beast of Prey. A characteristic trance-gong-drone-music in the release "Die Mechanik, Die!" has been saturated with electronic sounds. Such HATI will suprise many of you! More than 45 minutes long album perfectly recorded during the performance in "the Mechanik" club in Gdansk. This time HATI famous for its acoustic sounds - made propably the darkest CD in its discography, the CD enriched with dark ambient tones. Tarry and heavy backgrounds perfectly harmonized with trance and mechanical instrumental variations of musicians move the imagination and bring nearer the world of the dying mechanics.
(Beast Of Prey, CD, ˆ10)
Havoc1986 — 'Lair Of Macabre/Anti-Life Wind'
The first Power Electronix release from Valgriind. 9-tracks storming pressure of discharged nihilism from perspective Kharkiv project. Pulse of the absolute technogenic hate under the dust of organic substance. Envelope from duralumin sheets, bounded with screw.
(Valgriind, CDr, ˆ10)
[-Hyph-] – ‘Alter.Tenacio’
[-hyph-] is Nicolas Wiese (not related to John) who records under this banner. He is from Berlin where he composes his electro-acoustic music using instruments played by others. There is xylophone, double bass, alto saxophone, bass clarinet (which he plays himself, actually) as well as field recordings from Canada, police helicopter and human voices. Before I compared this with the ‘never quiet’ music of Brume. There is always something happening here. No second silence seems to be permitted. Wiese uses the computer to treat his sounds beyond belief, or rather : beyond recognition. It seems to me that he tries to tell us a story, as there is a multitude of voices to be detected in this work, but it’s not easy to grasp that story. The titles seem to give a clue however: Pulverize Dreams, Reset Barriers, Upgrade Sirens and Suspend Values (the latter is called track 5 on the cover, meaning there is one track without a title). Maybe it has to do with idealism versus state control (or perhaps any sort of control really), I don’t know. What I do know is that the music is very much along the lines of @C : very vibrant, very free in approach and result, composed from the original ideas of musique concrete, but with a strong touch of his own. Perhaps not entirely new (either), but it’s all done with great care and style. Before I said good to see it released and not just a radio piece, now I can safely say : great to see this on CD. [Review by FdW]
(Tourette, CD, ˆ14)
Hypnoz — ‘Breath of Earth’
Hypnoz is a project of Dmitry Zubov, a musician from Moscow suburb Fryazino, the town that endowed the lovers of post-industrial music with such names as Hum and Staruha Mha. His first composition was recorded in 1993, and during its existence Hypnoz has released one CD on the Moscow label Insofar Vapour Bulk, which gathered tracks from different periods, a couple of very limited CD-Rs, and participated on the compilation "Iznutri" by the Ewers Tonkunst label with a fragment of a composition from this album. Aside from Hypnoz Dmitry plays in several other projects: Zuboff Sex Shop (post-punk / new-wave), Circle Of Iron Tape (harsh noise), BRZB (electronics, with Alexey Borisov), etc.
The basis of most of the tracks for "Breath of Earth" was recorded by Dmitry together with Evgeny Voronovsky (Cisfinitum) during their joint night psychedelic sessions, and this is evidently felt in their mood. Stylistically this can be called tranquil electronic ambient with a remarkable experimental touch – but who thinks about it while recording? Slowly twisting sound helixes, drawing inside the astral subspaces, pulsating rhythms, cosmic sounds of old analogue synthesizers, – all this produces an appropriate effect on the listener's mind, and there's nothing more to demand from music.
(Zhelezobeton, CD, 500 copies, ˆ10)
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Igor Krutogolov – ‘Muzika Elektronica’
Fat harsh rhythm`n`noise. Recommended.
(Heart Shaped Box Prod, CDr, 99 copies, ˆ8)
ILI — ‘Ask me: what is it?’
It is deeply penetrating, psychedelic music. With each successive listen, ‘Ask Me: What Is It?’ becomes synonymous with ILI’s attentiveness to motion and detail. Concerning these attributes, the album remains steadfast in its glitchy dedication. Insect metaphors continue to be appropriate in describing the contrasting delicate-versus-substantial elements of the music’s varying inflections, whether melodic or dissonant. From the trancey synth stabs of the title track, to the infusion of far eastern flavors in both sound and structure (‘Massa Ra’), ILI offers a product that delivers guaranteed mind-bending satisfaction, but little more. ‘Ask Me: What Is It?’ feels soulless, and it is anyone’s guess if that is intentional or not.
(Dars records, CDr, ˆ6) Connexion Bizarre review
The Infant Cycle — ‘Playout’
The Infant Cycle’s music has never been notable for tensity or ornateness, instead of this it focuses on the subtle aspects of sounding of separate timbres and their combinations. Such textural orientation allows to create a completely peculiar effect, and the seeming minimalism carries into the contemplation of the infinity of possible microsound combinations. Among favourite instruments of project are Poly-800, shortwaves, feedback, field recordings and altered vinyl records. Vinyls deserve special mentioning. [from press-release]
(ZHELEZOBETON, CDr, ˆ6,5) mp3 mp3
The Infant Cycle — 'A Mysterious Disc'
A disc mysterious.
(The Ceiling, CDr, ˆ8)
The Infant Cycle — 'A Mysterious Disc'
A disc mysterious.
(The Ceiling, 3"CDr, ˆ5)
The Infant Cycle/Jared Davison — 'Periodical I'
The first issue of the Periodical series. THE INFANT CYCLE has been in operation since 1992, producing numerous CDRs, CDs, vinyl, cassette and MP3 releases, alongside many compilation appearances for labels all over the planet. The Infant Cycle creates eccentric sound-worlds from disparate strands of instrumental phrases, field recordings, and everything in between; composition mixing with improvisation, influenced by happy accidents and technical failures. The piece contained is a mixing of previously recorded tracks, rethinking the past and foreshadowing future releases. JARED DAVISON has followed an uncompromising path from his time as founder and mainstay of the many incarnations of Mind Skelp-cher, through various short-term projects, to his current work under his own name. While quiet for the past few year, he is re-emerging with material focused narrowly on particular sounds isolated from their sources, and projected into unpredictable shapes and atmospheres. "Phonography" is an uneasy and sometimes violent soundscape based entirely on the crackle and hum hiding amidst the grooves of your favourite vintage vinyl.
(The Ceiling, 80 copies, 3"CDr, ˆ5)
The Infant Cycle — 'Trialism — Clear Shapes Stereo'
Reissue of the "clear forms" lathe cuts that were released by The Ceiling in 2002, 2003 & 2004, and B-sides of those that were put online by mp3-label Sonus in 2005.
(Abgurd, 2x3"CDr, 100 copies, ˆ10) mp3
Jeremy Bible And Jason Henry — 'Ound'
American artists JEREMY BIBLE & JASON HENRY work in the field of electroacoustics, digital sounds and field recordings constructing deep and smooth Drone Ambient with light touch of experimental and slightly noisy sounds. During the year 2008 they released some albums throught their own label Experimedia and through other labels: Gruenrekorder, Resting Bell and Gears of Sand. The last one is known for its releases of NETHERWORLD, OOPHOI and AIDAN BAKER, in which ranks the JB&JH duet stands proud and self-confident without any allowance for the yet short musical career.
(Abgurd, CDr, 100 copies, ˆ8) mp3
K. Meizter – 'Travelling Light'
K. Meizter makes his solo debut with Travelling Light after five successful years in BEYOND SENSORY EXPERIENCE. Still lurking in the realms of dark ambient, K. Meizter now sets foot towards more experimental grounds focusing on melancholy melodies and twisted rhythms. Travelling Light takes you on an intriguing journey through the Universe of Mind and comes with elegant and thought-provoking artwork presented in a special hand-numbered oversized booklet. The album has been mastered by Mika Goedrijk (of This Morn’ Omina) at Atomic Studios and in some parts it would remind best times of this ritual group! References: Hybryds, 4th Sign of the Apocalypse, TMO.
(Horus, CD, 500 copies, ˆ18)
Kadaver — ‘Kadaver’s Valentine’s Greetings’
(T’an! Kaven!! Ash!!! 018, CDr, 50 copies, ˆ5)
Kadaver — ‘Kadaver’s Valentine’s Greetings’
(T’an! Kaven!! Ash!!! 019, CDr, 50 copies, ˆ5)
Karna — ‘Diabolic’
On this new CD Russian project KARNA performs brilliant Satanic Cold Black Ambient with cold night feelings spreading the Darkness. Soundtrack that gives birth to the ghostly visions calling into the bottomless Abyss... [press-release]
(2005 Eternal Pride Productions / Posession Productions, CD, ˆ9)
Kenji Siratori — ‘Melancholic Lobotomy’
Harsh dark ambient. New mini album from the pioneer of Cyberpunk scene. Comes in small jewel case with black and white insert. In the cover artwork were used surrealistic drawings by Michael Zolotov (Kadaver)
(T’an! Kaven!! Ash!!!, 3”CDr, 99 copies, ˆ8)
Kreuzer — ‘Noises Of Independence’
(T’an! Kaven!! Ash!!!, 3”CDr, 60 copies, ˆ5)
Kryptogen Rundfunk + Hladna — ‘Rokton + Formanta’
Hladna and Kryptogen Rundfunk - behind these names stand two St. Petersburg-based musicians playing experimental noise music. They both nourish a tender passion for old electronic instruments and often use them at their concerts and on recordings. One warm sunny day they gathered and decided to play on two analogue rhythm synthesizers ‘Rokton’ and ‘Formanta’. These are actually two identical instruments which were produced in the Soviet Union by two different factories. Each of them is the ‘brain’ for electronic drum-kit, but can also be used separately - as a multi-channel tone-noise-generator or rhytm-machine. Kryptogen Rundfunk used his device smoothly, evenly and calmly while Hladna expelled from his more sharp and unpredictable sounds. Worth mentioning are Hladna’s non-standard ways of making sound - on the last two tracks he opened the back plate of his synth and played not only using knobs but also getting inside and abridging contacts with his own hands (for which he was incidentally struck by the current a couple of times). Live recording without any processing, with all it’s natural crackles and tasty overloads. Abstract electronics, minimalism and a little noise.
(Zhelezobeton, 3”CDr, 250 copies, ˆ4,5)
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Light Collapse & Ln 313 – ‘Marking External Space’
Dark ambient/drone-noise/radionoise.
(Heart Shaped Box Prod, CDr, 32 copies, ˆ8)
Maaaa and Galaxy The Incubator — ‘Fury From Outer Space’
Drone-noise from outer space.
(Triangle, CDr, 66 copies, ˆ4)
Maaaa / Torturing Nurse — ‘We Are So Fucking Harsh! You Are So Fucking Suck!’
Harsh-noise metal-junk massacre from Karelia with evilkids from Chine against other sucking world. Bloody waltz of dangerous frequencies, tones and noises. Try to survive.
(Triangle, CDr, 50 copies, ˆ4)
Machinist — ‘Mutatus’
Power Noise Drone. Sounds like mix of ATRAX MORGUE and INSTANT MOVIE COMBINATIONS. DVD-box.
(FAMP, CDr, 150 copies, ˆ6)
Majdanek Waltz — ‘Hamlet’s Childhood’
(The Eastern Front, CD, ltd. 500, ˆ10)
(Kultfront, CD, 500 copies, ˆ10)
Maurizio Bianchi + Maor Appelbaum — ‘Environmental Meditations’
Album dedicated to brain structure and music influences. Compositions named: Synapse, Thalamus, Dendrite, Hypothalamus and so on.
(Topheth Prophet, CD, 500 copies, ˆ7)
Maurizio Bianchi & Siegmar Fricke — ‘Primordium’
CDr in 3 panels half handmade digipack. Primordial sounds created by Maurizio Bianchi/M. B. using a rudimental five strings guitar, afterwards polarized effects added by Siegmar Fricke utilizing a shapeless analogtronic apparatus.
(T’an! Kaven!! Ash!!!, CDr, 250 copies, ˆ8)
M.B. — ‘Neuro Habitat’
Re-release of a CD that was brought to light by EEs’T Records in 1998. It contains three early works by monstrous forefather of industrial music as a whole. Neuro Habitat, Moerder Unter Uns & Plutoniumetrio create an utterly numbing, horrifying & mangling ambience, suspense of which is beyond any heights and forever will be.
(Abgurd, CD, 500 copies, ˆ10)
Meta-Physical Pekining — ‘From X Day to 3 Days’
Japanese Bondage Power Electronics with flute.
(Misanthrope Studio, CDr, 100 copies, ˆ4)
Merzbow — ‘Baztoutai/Loop Panic’
(RRRecords, 2xCDr, ˆ14)
Merzbow — 'Dont Steal My Goat'
New – created in November’08! never released previously FREE-NOISE-JAZZ MUZAK album from the great legend Master of Noise — Masami Akita more than 66 minutes of powerful various noize with live free-jazz-like drums. 100% quality noise art album, professional and high talented as usual! Support animal rights protection campaigns!
(Olmolungring/No Music Records, CD, ˆ12)
Merzbow — ‘Collapse 12 Floors’
(OHM Records, CD, ˆ12)
Merzbow/Emil Beaulieau — ‘Loves’
(RRRecords, CD, ˆ12)
Merzbow — ‘Scene’
(Waystyx, CD, ˆ12)
Miel Noir/B-Machina — ‘Weiss’
(The Eastern Front, CDr, 300 copies, ˆ10)
Monologue — ‘Comprehending Of Senseless’
Misantrope ambient noise. Handmade sleeve with individual inserts - photo of Pripyat city, Chernobyl.
(Sickcore, CDr, 50 copies, ˆ4) mp3 mp3
Mtombo — ‘4949’
Loop digital noise. One track, 49’ 49”. Limited 49 copies. Wired in fabric handmade sleeve, digital print.
(Sickcore, CDr, 49 copies, ˆ4) mp3 mp3
Muslimgauze vs Species Of Fishes
Bryn [Jones] took 2 different albums of Species of Fishes to create this album. Because this is a remix, we get some different sounds than usual for a Muslimgauze release, which is nice! There are still occasional Arabic voices, and overall this release has a pleasant sound to it overall, not as challenging as some Muslimgauze can be, but there are still spots that make you take hold, like, wow, what an ear piercing first song! This looped whistle gets into your head and makes the world a different place. Dubby sounds on track 2 with the trademark dropouts of Muslimgauze. There are other tracks with sharp sounds, but they arent distorted like on some other releases - just the sharp without the static. This is a cool release for Muslimgauze. Some are take it or leave it, but this one is worth hearing. [EAR/Rational] Previously released in 1999 on Species Of Fishes (FCD 01). The original tracks from Species Of Fishes albums ‘Songs Of A Dumb World’ and ‘Trip Trap’ were used for this remix project. All remixes, summer/autumn 1998. [Review by help.me]
(Tourette, CD, ˆ14)
Musterion – ‘The Black Lodge’
‘The Black Lodge’, a world beyond, is the place were Agent Dale Cooper is trapped. He travers through memories, dreams, Tibet, the works of H. P. Lovecraft and more. The Agent possesses the body of the late Jerzy Grotowski as he do his last journey among the walking dead. The visions of Cooper are seen, heard and felt in this avant-garde and exquisitely dark ambient album from Musterion, Simon AA Kolle (Za Frumi, Abnocto).
(Horus, CD, 500 copies, ˆ19)
Musterion – ‘The Wondrous Journey Through The Catacombs Of Life’
The Wondrous Journey Through the Catacombs of Life is the second album of Musterion, following the highly acclaimed debut album The Black Lodge (2005), built upon complex and obscure composition techniques and musical innovation, and it drags the listener on a brilliantly imaginative and frightening journey that combines elements of dark ambient, surrealism, absurdity, Holyism with the help advanced structural and theoretical considerations in terms of the composition.
The album was released on Halloween 2009 as a pressed CD housed in a digipak in the limited edition of 500 copies. Extra pocket includes 12-pages booklet. Printed on Paper Couture Specials, BlancBeige, 300 g/m2 and 170 g/m2 beige. Artwork and design by Niko Skorpio.
(Horus, CD, 500 copies, ˆ13)
N.Strahl.N / Pythagora — ‘Shift Coordinate Points’
(Sickcore, CDr, 150 copies, ˆ7)
Nazi Bastards From Aldebaran — ‘Invasion’
(Zhelezobeton, CDr, ˆ7)
Nekyia — ‘Purgatory As The Serpent Domain’
The great new album of NEKYIA project presents beautiful darkwave / dark rhythmic ambient. 50 min of music, powerful sounds and very good vocals! Special release staring in to eyes of Death, scaring surgery, failure, fear... CD filled with compicated structures of human anxiety and full of trepidation...
Cover made from three parts, it contains two additional inserts with graphics and CD, all is foiled. External size: 135 x 180 mm.
(Beast Of Prey, CD, ˆ10)
Nekyia — 'Alchemalady'
Whatever You could call NEKYIA music, there are always elements that move past used musical patterns. "Alchemalady" is an album founded upon a strong and solid rhythm, whose walls are build by uncommon arrangement rich in various sounds. And the binder is an alchemical concept, merge together element with element, track with track, sound with sound. "Alchemalady" is a 60 minute long, dynamic album, full of rhythm, female and strong male vocals, whispers and singings. 14 compositions combining electronic elements with varied percussion and strong industrial hits.
(Beast Of Prey, CD, 456 copies, ˆ10)
Neuntoter Der Plage — ‘Doors Beyond Doors’
NDP is an another project stillborn by Ryan Oppermann. Here he takes a direction towards morbid and twisted Ritual Death Ambient. Dark hypnotic atmospheres, autoharp, droning vocals, backwards samples, chains, electronic drones, violin, hand bells, sleigh bells, etc. This project is devoted to the author’s psychedelic experiences - according to the sounds put here, that experience was really horrifying. Open those Doors for yourself.
(Abgurd, CDr, 124 copies, ˆ8, hand-made sleeve. Ink-jet printed CD-r) mp3 mp3
Neuntoter Der Plage — 'The White Ashen'
Much-esteemed Ryan Opperman from the town of Novi, MI has been creating insane and utterly weird Death Industrial and Noise albums for almost 10 years by now. His projects REDROT, KLINIKAL SKUM, XOMBIE, POST-MORTEM JUNKIE and some others are worthy of rapt attention. This time we introduce the re-release of the tape «The White Ashen» that was available through musician's own Skeletone records as a limited to 100 copies edition. Three long tracks grant minimal infernal Black Ambient / Death Industrial with necro voices.
(Abgurd, CDr, 100 copies, ˆ8) mp3
No – ‘Moongoon’
Tourette Records’ first release is a collection of older material by Jan Iwers project No, co-released with No Rekords. Some of the tracks date as far back as the late 1990s and in parts the material has been previously released (on the 7’ of the same name on Drone and the Schmoll compilation on Dhyana). No is all over the place here. There is a short piano improvisation, a reverie of quietly dancing notes. There are far stretched sub-bass drones, combined with airy high frequencies and hints of melodies. There are tracks built from contrasting blocks and fragments of sound, rumbling just above the threshold of audibility, spiraling upwards and downwards, moving like soft clouds in the sky. Some field recordings, both processed and unprocessed are to be spotted now and then, but mostly No moves in abstract terrains. He manages to keep a remarkable coherence in all these pieces, a sense of structure and tension and a sound that is all soft and gentle but keeps a certain jagged quality below the surface. So this CD-R presents a nice collection of tracks, making older, probably long gone material available again and serving as a good introduction as well as a highly welcome retrospective. [Review by MSS]
(Tourette, CDr, ˆ10)
Noise Novosibirsk Institute — ‘Reriya’
Digital Noise. Minimalistic compositions, sampling.
(Sickcore, CDr, 50 copies, ˆ4) mp3 mp3
Noises Of Russia — 'Experimental Structure'
Nowadays Noises Of Russia is one of the most known groups on the Russian experimental post-industrial scene, mainly because of their numerous concerts and CDR-releases, published by their leader — Gosha Solnzev aka 1g0g ("Van Gog") — on his own label ElectroIndustria. This release has captured one of such concerts which took place at the Experimental Sound Gallery (ESG-21) in St. Petersburg in October 2008. This concert was peculiar because of the non-traditional band line-up which aside from 1g0g included some of his friends: musicians Nikolay Kalmykov (Hladna), M.M. (Kryptogen Rundfunk), Igor Potsukailo (Bardoseneticcube) and Evgeny Savenko (Lunar Abyss Deus Organum), and also VJ Alco (video projection) and Grigory Glazunov (ODDDance Theatre, butoh dance). By common efforts these comrades performed totally improvised material quite typical for the "St. Petersburg post-industrial wave" and combining elements of collage, industrial, noise and ambient. Field recordings and voice manipulations, metal percussion and rough analogue signals, guitar semi-melodies and various sound effects — all this is harmoniously blended in the unified psychedelic soundsphere.
(Zhelezobeton, CD, 250 copies, ˆ10)
O Paradis – ‘La Corte Del Rey Pescador’
Escama Serrada – ‘La Reina Esta Mala’
Split release (Tourette, CD+CD, ˆ25)
O Paradis – ‘Pequenas Canciones De Amor’
(Tourette, CD, ˆ15)
Obozdur – ‘Natural & Easy’
Experimental noise / lo-fi / tape experiments, handmade sleeve.
(Heart Shaped Box Prod, CDr, 24 copies, ˆ8)
One For Jude — ‘Figures’
French New Wave, Dark Folk Rock. From first minutes, music full a melancholy and romanticism, will transfer you deeply, to the farthest, warm, and probably for a long time the lost memoirs. Where it will want to come back again and again... Guests musicant Eric Roger (ex-Sol Invictus, Gae Bolg). [press-release]
(Infinite Fog, CD, 500 copies, ˆ10)
Out Of Focus — ‘Subliminal Collages’
Surrealistic domestic noise, chaos, collages and distorted space. This time Karelian guys use: vacuum cleaner, guitar, naildrawer, cellophane bag, egg-cutter, piano, glass vase, iron ball, slide projector, water, scotch tape, 5-liter jar, paper, foam plastic, strobes, mouth organ, ski stick, pocket flashlight, electric razor, massager, hanger, scissors, engraving machine, gramophone, perforator, oven grill, screwdriver, peas, table spoons, forks. Disk has a multimedia part - clip and photo-album. Rough paper envelope with insert. Cover drawn by children from kindergarten number 114 of the city of Petrozavodsk.
(2006 Triangle Records, CDr, 60 copies, ˆ4)
Overdose Kunst — ‘Was ist Overdose Kunst’
The Japanese duet Overdose Kunst exists since 2001 and records a strange sort of music which they call ‘schizopoetry’. Rejection of stylistic norms in the name of sound-craft freedom, deconstruction and irrational re-assemblage of musical material - that’s what stands behind this term. This approach allows them to keep a child’s purity and frankness in musical perception with the ability to send an emotional charge without using settled compositional forms. This disc includes the most song-like tracks of the band: crookedly recorded guitars, voices emotionally singing some nonsense in a mixture of several languages, and reversed melodies. Fine and lyrical post-rock from Japanese experimental underground.
(Zhelezobeton, 3”CDr, 250 copies, ˆ4,5)
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Paranoia Inducta — 'Pia Fraus'
dark ambient / dark industrial — special packing, handmade/ Second part of the Lux Mundi trilogy. This trilogy is a tribute to all those who died, were killed, deceived, humiliated and oppressed by chatolic church. More than 50 minutes long album, on whitch the creator of PARANOIA INDUCTA, Anthony A. Destroyer once again invited eLL from SUI GENERIS UMBRA nad Robert Marciniak from RUKKANOR. Dark ambient album with specific atmosphere of death and industrial sounds, choirs, songs and voices. The cd is unusualy released - red coverwith 12-page booklet filled with graphics marching every track. The booklet is inside specially designed cross-shaped envelope and sealed. In front of the cover we find sign along the red seal.
(Beast Of Prey, CD, 444 copies, ˆ10)
Periskop — 'Periscopes'
Avangarde music, neo-cabaret, experimental. Debut album of Polish project PERISKOP. 19 tracks and 53 minutes.
(Beast Of Prey, CDr, 100 copies, ˆ6)
Pneumatic Detach — ‘vis.cer.a’
(Hive, CD, ˆ12)
Public Immorality / Ganzer / Sudanstrain — ‘PIGSs’
PI is the one from now-dead FUNKSTILLESENDER / ZFK / KOMATOSERZUSTAND ranks. His part had been recorded during 2004 and remastered during the beginning of 2005. The base of its piece is songs of THE BEATLES. Brainquaking Harsh Noise is the result of the processing. Project of MAJDANEK WALTZ Dark Folk band — GANZER. Factory War is a sort of a radioshow based on the book Mona Lisa Overdrive by W.Gibson. Radio-controlled robots, made of metal junks, (the Witch, the Judge and the Investigator) are crushing in a battle in a factory yard. Monotonous, transcendent Harsh Noise. SS — Harsh Noise / Power Noise project of POLARIS with a couple of split-tapes done. 4 tracks of hysterical Harsh Noise & buzzing Power Electronics.
(Abgurd, CDr, 154 copies, ˆ7)
Pugna — 'Soberet_izdar'
SOBRET_IZDAR is an incantation and a rough test of the strength that are destined to stagger a human at the crucial point. Everything collapse except the one with the solid transcendent foothold. Awfully buzzing, morbidly dissonant and clattering guitar-and-synth-based Drone of the distant explosions with terror-struck meditation. Recorded in 2006.
(Abgurd, CDr, 100 copies, ˆ8) mp3
Reutoff — ‘Deprivatio’
(Evers Tokunst, CD, ˆ10)
Red Moth — ‘Red World’
‘Red World’ is an album portraing frightfully chaotic development of Earth, men and their mad rush. Dictatorship of world awakens the need of money, profits, land or control above others. The heat of development in every genre of life leads also to social, cultural, emotional and spiritual vitiation. Project RED MOTH trough extremal sounds interpretates it’s own observations of chaos on this earth.
Unconventional release, raw cover cut in shape of cross from thick waste-paper cardboard. On front pasted a photo showing the cover of the album, and additional insert. The CD is mounted on plastic element. All folded in 15x15 cm square, wraped with special wire and foiled. The album is hand made and numered, limited to 150 copies.
(Beast Of Prey, CDr, 150 copies, ˆ8)
Retarder – ‘Enquiries’
The solo debut of Lloyd James, known for what he has done in NAEVUS for the last decade.
(Tourette, CD, ˆ14)
Rock’n’roll Squirrels — ‘Woman Power’
Feminist-lesbian power electronics against cunt-thirsty machos! Die, you scumfuck! Vortex of anger will crush your mind. We are Rock’n’roll Squirrels-two Karelian blood-junkies and we gonna show you our power! Fuck the noise! Fuck the anal sex!
(Triangle, CDr, ˆ4) mp3
Roricat – ‘Uki Uki’
Russian duo consisting of Eugene & Julica make spacey, abstract instrumentals. Heavily delayed guitar strumming, accompanied by various random sounds and minimal hand drum percussion. Light & airy ambient guitars with subtle rhythms. Very relaxing yet propagates passion. A strange odd ditty, acoustic guitars, tiny cutesy little lead synth and sometimes an itty bitty Power Puff girl vocal. Gurgles, burps and blips. It’s great to hear synths playing nice with guitars. The definition of quirky this is. Indescribable stylistically. More strangeness, more quality, more inventiveness. Very unique sound! A bit like David Bowie’s ‘Sound and Vision’ (Low). Beautiful noise. Fascinating cinematigraphic, chaotic dream of drones and distortions with ambient, multidimensional, psychedelic, ironic, and hypnotic guitars. All friends of electronics will be pleased by this amazing dada-like music from the very north of Siberia...
(Horus, CD, 500 copies, ˆ10)
Sagntid/Vornoff — 'Life Eclipse'
Official re-edition of two projects from Danish depressive performer Svest with "Crows Awaiting Murder" and "Forledt" demos and bonus tracks included. Simple, melancholic and haunting ambient are the keywords behind this music. When you listening SAGNTID music remember to sleep with your lights on Evil Lurks in the shadows. The music of VORNOFF is however still very simple and harmonic where the keyboard is, as previously, the main instrument and builds up with its piano imitation the very atmospheric and beautiful music. The sorrow filled atmosphere that has been present on all the VORNOFF releases is still present, as strong as ever and creates a melancholic, yet a very peaceful mood within the listener and you easily get lost in the music and lose all sense of time and space. Pro-CD-r coming with black/white cover in slim box edition. This release is the first one under the Misanthropic Propaganda’s sub-label Schisma Spiritualis Music.
(Misanthropic Propaganda, CDr, ˆ6)
Sanctus Daemoneon — 'NothinglessNothingness'
(Dunkelkunst, CD, ˆ10)
Seven Morgues — ‘Fallacious, Formless and Fragmentary’
New album of Seven morgues, CDr pro with two tracks of about 55 minutes of slow, droning pianos and bells with tormented vocals. ‘Fallacious...’ is released as a limited release before the complete new Seven morgues album is being released.
(House of the Last Light , CDr, 100 copies, ˆ7)
Shadow Theater — ‘Siona’
Conceptual album of Shadow Theater, a fusion of two German acts Flutwacht
(T’an! Kaven!! Ash!!!, CDr, 150 copies, ˆ8)
Silence & Strength — ‘Le Divin Cagliostro’
A Tribute to the Grand Copht, the creator of the Egyptian Rite of Freemasonry, the most colourful magical Adept and one of the previous incarnations of the Master Therion. Recorded in Tel-Aviv, Israel by local dark-ambient/dark-folk project.
’Neofolk from Israel? Till 5 years ago it would have sounded odd, but after Death In June’s concert in Tel Aviv and the Blutharsch CD , it doesn’t anymore. So, here we have Silence & Strength, a band from Israel playing folk-noir ballads and also waving mysterious dark ambient soundscapes.’ Filth Forge (Italy)
(The Eastern Front, CD, 620 copies, ˆ13)
Sol Invuctus — ‘In The Rain’
Limited edition CD. Re-release of 1995 ‘In the rain’ with bonus track - previously unreleased ‘Stay’.
(Infinite Fog/Eternal Pride Productions, CD, 300 copies, released only for Russia, ˆ12)
Sound_00 — ‘She’s the One’
Noise and flowers from Makedonia! Best gift for your girlfriend! Packed in 1/2-dvd box, full-cover print, seeds of beautiful flowers! [label info]
(2006 Triangle Records, CDr, 50 copies, ˆ4)
Storm Of Capricorn/Paranoia Inducta — ‘Jama’
‘Jama’: is a story and cd devoted to tragedy of balkan world. Dark history enriched by beauty of balkan folklore. French project STORM OF CAPRICORN presents dark martial ambient and polish project PARANOIA INDUCTA shows music full of folklore.
(Beast Of Prey, CD, ˆ10)
Stud — ‘Lsad’
Variations of IDM with amazing sound, conjuring special mood. STUD’s another project - Gultskra Artikler.
(Dars records, CDr, ˆ6) Play all songs lo-fi
Subhuman — ‘[Untitled III]’
Final part in the history of the project. The first two 3” CDrs gained a lot of attention and and good reviews, many people asked if any continuation would happen. If [untitled I] was rather bombastic, with neoclassic elements, whereas [untitled II] shifted emphasis to ambiences and minimal use of instruments while being more industrial — [untitled III] merges those two sides of Martial genre, combining light and touchy melodies with deep background ambiences.
(Abgurd, 3” CDr, 50 copies, ˆ5)
Sunchariot — ‘Fictio’
A project of a sculptor and an ethnographer Denis Shapovalov from the city of Rostov-on-Don, who is also the one and the only member of ADRIVA, ENMERKAR and MATTER. ‘Fictio’ calls to self-dependent comprehension of forms by sublimation of clods of clay and granite monoliths with alchemy of archaic Drone Ambient, giving birth to resonances and fluctuations of Time. As deep stone strata that move by one millimetre in a thousand years, humming and drifting drones spread over the body, moving away all the vanity and fuss. The release consists of two 35+ minutes parts, one of which was released as the same-named CDr on Observatory recordsin an edition of 40 copies.
(Abgurd, CDr, 100 copies, ˆ8)
Technology of Silence – S/T
Experimental industrial music.
(Heart Shaped Box Prod, CDr, 51 copies, ˆ8)
Tetragor — 'Made in Madness'
TETRAGOR is a siberian project from the city of Kemerovo. In 2005 it recorded Made in Madness which can be described stylistically as mystic Dark Industrial. Archaic symphonies sound from millions miles away, obliterating tread of Time, rigidity of Chaos, primeval essence of heteroaseity. The album brings reminiscences of the early albums released by mighty Cold Meat Industry — ILDFROST, MEMORANDUM, MENTAL DESTRUCTION — with its aesthetics of introvertive religion of Kali-Yuga.
(Abgurd, CDr, 100 copies, ˆ8) mp3
Timisoara — ‘Cells of Heaven’
Statik, flickering Noise Ambient. Incredible work.
(Denshi Zatsuon, CDr, ˆ8)
Troum — ‘Symballein’
(Smallvoices, CD, ˆ12)
UL — ‘III’
(Zhelezobeton, CDr, 250 copies, ˆ7)
Vornoff — 'Body and Blood'
Great dark ambient release from Denmark with lots of keyboard arpeggios
(Selfreleased, CDr, ˆ3)
The Well Of Sadness — ‘I’m Uprooted from it’
And finally the real masterpiece has found the right place and the right time. With no doubt one of the greatest releases from War Office Propaganda delivered by this Italian one-man act of Daniele Giustra. Beautiful music, very moving songs in apocalyptic, martial neo-folkish atmosphere mixed with oppresive soundscapes. 10 songs, 40 minutes of music comes on CD in nice gloss varnished digipack. [press-release]
(War Office Propaganda / Rage In Eden, CD, ˆ12) mp3
Wooden Wand And The Vanishing Voice — ‘Angel Hair’
(Chocolate Monk, CDr, ˆ7)
Vilgoc — ‘Wypelnienie’
Known Polish representative of extreme electronics. Power Electronics that squash with intensive of its sound waves. Microphone couplings, distortions, hardcore nois, expressions and mega harsh vocals! Mix of noises that will blow the spekaers fuck away to the orbit! VILGOC is a genius live performance project who can devastate the minds of listeners with his expresions and emotions. On the album ‘Wypelnienie’ lasting more than 33 minutes, Sebastian - creator of the project Vilgoc gives display of his skills!
(Beast Of Prey, CDr, 150 copies, ˆ8)
YAO 91404D — 'Pervomay'
One of the best albums from St. Petersburg. Walls of three-dimensional noise constructions and documental recordings from the beginning of the XX century. Scratching of the gramophone needle on the breath of the agonizing country.
(Valgriind, CDr, ˆ8)
VARIOUS ARTISTS COMPACT DISCS
va – Avtogen-Shaitan
Cisfinitum, Bardoseneticcube, Kryptogen Rundfunk, N-616, Flutwacht, Stpocold {as Inde Mezu} and more. (Ostroga, 2xCDr, ˆ10)
v/a — ‘Idm Zoom’
Post-IDM as Intelligent Dars Music. Tracks by ILI, Nightech, Stud, Clapan and more.
(Dars records, CDr, ˆ6) Play all songs lo-fi
v/a — ‘Music of Deneb.2099’
IDM compilation. Tracks by ILI, EU, Nightech, Syntetika, Stud, Clapan, Nole Plastique and more.
(Dars records, CDr, ˆ6) Play all songs lo-fi
v/a — ‘Noise.il’
Mortalmanifest, Drone Lebanon, Gedem, GAOP Vs Aboolele, Wreck & Drool and Barzel
(Tophet prophet, CD, ˆ10)
v/a — ‘Noto-1’
This compilation features several artists evolving within several electronic styles abstract, rhythmic noise, glitch, IDM, ambient, downtempo and experimental. Slacknote, Semiomime, Wisp, Stephen James Knight, Sunao Inami, Autoclav1.1, Blue T-Shirt
(Notochord, CD, ˆ10)
v/a — ‘La Folie. Il Corpo Riflesso’
D.B.P.I.T., MALATO, N., TEATRO SATANICO, NENIA, MORDER MACHINE, CHRISTIAN RAINER, CANE CAPOVOLTO. Multimadia presentation.
(Transf.Order, CD, ˆ12)
v/a — ‘Ressonus net vol.1’
Electronics and ambient. Sunao Inami, Strangelet, Landschaft, Stuzha and others. Previews available on release page
(Ressonus, CDr, ˆ10)
v/a - — ‘Rush for black celebration (Russian industrial tribute to Depeche Mode)’
(Kultfront, CD, 500 copies, ˆ10)
v/a — ‘Swarm’
KREUZWEG OST, SHINJUKU THIEF, MERZBOW\NORDVARGR, CLEAR STREAM TEMPLE, JOHN WATERMANN, ZOS KIA, DEADWOOD, NECROPOLIS, SLEEP RESEARCH FACILITY, VON THRONSTAHL, KRIEGSFALL-U, A CHALLENGE OF HONOUR, GOATVARGR, BAND OF PAIN, WERKRAUM, SCHLOSS TEGAL, H.E.R.R.
(Cold Spring, CD, ˆ18)
v/a — ‘…where tattered clouds are stranding (Tribute to Einar Jonsson)’
(The Eastern Front, CD, 1000 copies, ˆ10)
v/a — ‘...With eyes wide open for a brighter future...’
Various points of view and various interpertations on the 9/11 events. with .cut, 15dbz, kadaver, circle six, as all die, thee virginal brides, clear stream temple, brainquake, michalthomasjackson, sound 00 and ctephin.
(House of the Last Light, CD, ˆ10)
v/a — ‘Muzyka Voln’
The first release of a new sublabel of ZHELEZOBETON - Muzyka Voln - is a compilation of the same name, containing compositions from twelve Russian projects playing ambient / drone music. A selection of audio-tales in which each project introduces the listener to its own sound world he’s living in: mystical stories, isolationism, altered states of consciousness, space landscapes, monotonous technogenic rumble, guitar passages and much more...
Specially for this compilation exclusive tracks were provided by: Anthesteria feat. Kaj?, Bardoseneticcube, Cisfinitum, Closing The Eternity, Exit In Grey, Hum, Instant Movie Combinations, Kshatriy, Lunar^Abyss^Deus^Organum, Necropolis, Polaris and RemoteBand. This compilation may be useful for those interested in the Russian experimental scene and just for lovers of beautiful contemplative music.
(Muzyka Voln (Zhelezobeton), CD, 500 copies, ˆ10)
Release page on Zhelezobeton with mp3 previews.
Video
Bleiburg — ‘Open Wound Front’
Video version of ‘Open Wound’ contains one track more than audio version.
(The Eastern Front, DVDr, 300 copies, ˆ10)
’Voices of the Dead’ — video - Yuri Elik, sound - Gosha Solnzev, Yuri Elik’
Electronic Voice Phenomenon (voices of the dead, Raudive voices) are the voices of anomalous origin appearing while making records on tape recorders or other electronic audio devices. EVP researches claim and have proof that this is a possible way of communication between physical and some other non-physical planes of existence. The exploration of this phenomenon led to an effective cooperation between 1g0g and Yuri which resulted in a series of live performances with the ‘Voices of the Dead’ program and this short film, with 24 minutes an obscure psychedelic drama evolving in front of the spectator. A multi-layered collage of concrete visual images and kaleidoscopic colour fields constantly transforms, accompanied by unusual and uneasy sombre ambient with real voices of the dead samples interlaced in it’s structure. As a bonus this disk also contains a 12-min. slide-film ‘City Spirits’: alternation of photos by Yuri Elik with his own soundtrack constructed from city noises. The release is packed in a special cardboard sleeve and goes with a booklet with an encyclopaedic reference about the phenomenon of electronic voices. [from press-release]
(ZHELEZOBETON Film, 250 copies, ˆ10)
