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Polar Nights Live
Although Hijokaidan's status as noise superstars they rarely perform outside Japan. The pleasure was then ever greater for the All Ears festival in Oslo Norway to present Hijokaidan at their festival in january 2006. Polar Nights Live documents these historical and astonishing performances. Jojo and Junko performed as a Hijokaidan two-piece on the opening night of the festival, a rarely heard line-up. Their performance got such a tremendous response that they came back for an encore (Otomo Yoshi…
Gunpowder temple of heaven
Birchville Cat Motel is the project of New Zealander Campbell Kneale, who has from his base in Lower Hutt since the mid 90-ies established himself as the leading voice of this generation of NZ sound artists. Gunpowder Temple of Heaven is a new highlight in his extensive discography. A single 40 minute long-form piece that keeps building and unfolding; heaven for drone-noise enthusiasts. The CD comes with a booklet with a complete Birchville discography as well as liner-notes by Bruce Russell. Fr…
Notes: stones (in solidarity)
*50 copies limited edition. In process of stocking* An hour long mix, created for the May 26, 2021 Sonic Liberation Front الجبهة الصوتية للتحرير broadcast on Radio Alhara راديو الحارة, curated by Abdullah Al Taher. Featuring Drekka, Bana Haffar, Remst8, Mark Trecka, and Tremble With Joy.
There Is No Silence Left
*Tape reissue of previous CD release* 'There is no silence left' is a collection of remixes and reworkings by Mkl Anderson of Drekka, released under various monikers between 1996 and 2012. Contains 13 previously unreleased or rarely heard tracks, including mixes for Aube, lovesliescrushing, Racebannon, Soul-Junk, and many more.
Osmose
** Edition of 300 ** Born and raised in Paris, Ariel Kalma studied electronics, computer science, music and art in Paris, he performed with several bands, then toured the world and visited Europe, Japan, India, Eastern Canada, and parts of the USA. Apart from rhythm & blues, pop and jazz, he acquired assorted experiences in Middle Age French, electro-acoustic, and modal music. All the travels broadened Ariel's musical horizons tremendously; listening to and playing with different styles, people,…
Autumn Resonances / Domino Figures
The LP release presents the reissue of a little-known, but extremely beauty, Post-Minimalism album composed by Wayne Siegel when he was mid-twenties. Moved from US to Denmark, between 1979 and 1980, he began to investigate possibilities of a very personal language, contributing to mould the heterogeneous kaleidoscope of Post-Minimalism results. These works are constructed around a relentless musical process that consists of delaying and repeating every element in a certain measure, without inten…
Issue 9
The 9th issue of Lasse Marhaug's fanzine Personal Best. 100 pages, full colour offset-printed with glued spine. Nearly three years on from the last issue, Marhaug conducts in-depth interviews with: Christian Blandhoel, Martìn Escalante, Russell Haswell, Campbell Kneale, Tine Surel Lange, Greg Pope, Joe Potts (and Los Angeles Free Music Society), Mariam Rezaei and Edward Sol.
Folkmusik
*2022 stock.* Like a restless zombie that refuses to stay dead Folkstorm once again has risen from the grave to wage war on the world. Mr Nordvargr has been active as usual the last years, but he has focused more on producing darkambient and electronic music, but that is now changing. Our guess is that he just cant sleep at night if he doesnt let off some steam every once in a whileThe new album Folkmusik is very much a classic Folkstorm album with it´s roots firmly placed in the old-school indu…
Love Me Tender or I Will Cause Pain
*300 copies limited edition* Rumoured said there will be no more albums and the project is dead. But no, that would have been too easy. Stratvm Terror had just gone underground, hiding for their next terrorising attack. Now they are back after 15 years with their new assault: 'Love me tender, or I will cause Pain'. This album is filled with seven oppressive and depressive weird obscurities to ease or cause you pain, depending on your inclinations.Massive layers of corrosive darkness with occasio…
Folksongs
*2022 stock.* Folkstorm returns to follow up the successful 2009 album "Ortodox" with another crushing assault on your senses. This time Nordvargr pushes the sound even further and adds a more classic songstructure and vocals to the album - hence the title. While still maintaining a harsh old-school industrial vibe, these recordings takes Folkstorm to a whole new level. Welcome to explore the wrath of a man gone seriously pissed off with everyone and everything. Don't loose the chance to taste t…
Pariah Demise
*2022 stock.* 2nd official album by this Reison D'Etre side project, best cold & doom scandinavian power-electronics ! This album was long time sold out and first released in 1996. Pariah Demise has been re-mastered with additional extra material from the Germinal Chamber tape out in the same time on OEC and now deleted, plus one previously unreleased bonus track from 1996. Discover this nice killer plate of pulsing and beating, cold and doom power industrial electronics served in a complete new…
Das Sein Des Seins
*2022 stock* Debut CD by this new great exoterica German duo! This is the end result of a mix between Satanism & Mystic, Ambient & Noise, Industrial & Elektro experimentalism! The title of this work "The be of being" (Das Seins des Seins, all texts are in German language!) shows that we are talking about a milestone for all "free thinkers"! Through the tracks you will find the endless loop story of an Angel that is continuously chased by darkness. In each culture & his mythology is described a f…
Rise Of The Vulcans
*2022 stock.* Out of the abyss but not out of the darkness. Electro-acoustic production interwoven with heavy rhythms, minimal songwriting, ominous vocals and neatly placed in a vacuum, high quality recordings & sounds which have their roots into neo pop'n'folk, dark ambient, dubbing-drones ...This is the 2nd full length release from NY based artist J Greco. Sometimes aggressive, and other times distant, but without loosing continuity. Featuring vocals from Tracy Jeffrey (Orchis), Tony Wakeford …
Nothing Matters
*300 copies limited edition. In process of stocking* Yes, another Folkstrom album out on OEC. And this is for sure best Folkstorm album ever: True elite industrial noise punk! A mix of best white noise a la Whitehouse and a sort of Cabarte Voltaire dance machine. The Swedish master of Industrial Power Electonic Muzak is giving here a class of how the genre should be made. Several tracks will become hits for a very, very long time. You are warned: buy or die withought knowing the true sound of p/…
Amalgamelody
"Third collaborative album by the Japanese and Italian grand-masters of Industrial and Noise. This time all tracks are collaborations by the two artists. Only analogue sounds used, a true return to the old roots of Industrial music.Digipack with a great and futuristic space-design and a psychedelic touch made by Tex Tescari using images supplied by MB.
Suffering and Defiance
*199 copies limited edition* Brand new album by Jonathan Canady (Deathpile). As Jonathan says: the album is all instrumental heavy analog electronics, inspired by albums like "Sickness Report" by Atrax Morgue and "Menses" by MB... Aseptic and chirurgical sounds in best Old School Industrial, P/E tradition by one of the US masters in the genre. First 8 tracks in the CD was suppsed to be the only ones in "Suffering and Defiance". But 2 long tracks from "Present Shock" Canady's digital-only release…
Septic
*300 copies limited edition* Septic was the second full length vinyl release from Himukalt. The LP was released by Malignant in 2020 and immediately sold out. Here comes the CD re-edition including 2 exclusive bonus tracks, some minor chages on another track and a complete new mastering for best CD sound quality. Himukalt aesthetic and template is immediately recognizable through the 5 original Septic tracks and becomes even more intriguing through the addition of the 2 exclusive bonus tracks. D…
Journey into Space
York University's music department houses one of the UK's first-ever
electronic music studios, and during the early '70s, it was a hotbed of
creative activity. Much of the released output from the studio at this
time revolved around the work of the dynamic composer Trevor Wishart. Journey Into Space
was his first release, composed between 1970 and 1972, and was
privately-pressed (shortly before the formation of YES records), as two
separate LPs in 1973. (The CD cover amalgamates the two or…
Episodes at 4AM
Bob Downes is most often thought of as a jazz flautist, composer and group leader, but throughout his varied career that has included such diverse musical activity as working with the John Barry Seven and playing on Egg's second LP, he also had his own fluid conceptual group Open Music with principle bass player Barry Guy and drummer Denis Smith. Other players that passed through Open Music include Chris Spedding, Kenny Wheeler, Ray Russell, Ian Carr, Henry Lowther, Harry Beckett, Harry Miller, …
Lingual Music
Double CD, comes with 12 page booklet. Britain's best-known sound poet is Bob Cobbing, but it's hard to come up with a list of other sound poets working in Britain in the '60s and '70s. It's equally difficult to think of any female sound poets working anywhere. Lily Greenham was Danish, but spent her childhood in Vienna. After several relocations across Europe, she settled in London in 1972 with her British husband (musician and poet Peter Greenham), where she lived until her death in 2001. Near…