Nevermore
The DiN label, established in 1999, reaches something of a milestone with “Nevermore” (DiN69) as it represents the 100th release on the esteemed British electronic music label. This equates to this, the 69th album on the main DiN imprint as well as 26 digital only releases on the DiNDDL sub-label and 5 Tone Science albums. It seems only fitting then that this release comes from DiN label boss Ian Boddy. Performed live at DiN HQ the performance was videoed and streamed on March 27th 2021 as part…
Re-Recorder
*Edition of 100* This release initiates a series of propositions between Bonnetta and Hamann exploring film sound design as a relation of anecdotal music. Each side is composed of location recordings, musical fragments, foley, in-studio recordings, outtakes, and sketches gleaned from various re-recording processes. In the absence of images, these sound propositions reflect on the possibilities of a particular form of ‘aural cinema,’ of fictional spaces constructed from the reordering and recasti…
Oh! Uomo
*Edition of 70* Oh! Uomo (Part I) “What I love are not the pieces, but the repetitions, the protractions; to proceed slowly on my way, to come back, back to the same thing, being a litany, litany as life, to stay long there before ending, not willing to make music of a man – and above all of a composer, and and above all of a westerner – but rather music of a sparrow, a quite indecisive sparrow perched on a branch, a sparrow trying to call a man…” (H.Michaux) "Oh! Uomo (Part I)" is a composition…
Burnish
Kali Malone and Maria W. Horn's XKatedral label deliver an incredible album of empyrean chimes and subterranean drones from out-musick duo Tongue Depressor. It’s an in-depth exploration of tuned percussion and just intoned drone that comes highly recommended if you’re into the work of Tony Conrad, C.C. Hennix, John Cage, Philip Corner and Michael Ranta - or if you’re into church bells, gamelan, or Popol Vuh's earliest meditations. Floored.
On The Darkest Day, You Took My Hand & Swore It Will Be Okay
‘On The Darkest Day, You took My Hand and Swore It Will Be Okay’ spawns out of reflections and realizations from the past year. The musical pieces themselves teeter between anger, anxiety, and hope, usually turning to distortion and noise. These were often an attempt to make sense of the happenings around the world. At times this process was a way to soothe my own frustrations with life at a standstill. A big influence on this album was watching events unfold online. Technology made it incredibl…
Hiss Lift
"What I remember … a car on fire alongside the highway in the middle of the night. Waking in someone else’s bed in London with an entire poem spilling into my head, and then recording it with Tim in the kitchen after breakfast. Seemingly endless car, bus and train rides full of the country side splintered and refracted through glass and fatigue, always the same, always different. The screaming woman at the airport who pulled the fire alarm, evacuating the terminal. Some guy in Brooklyn talking t…
Issue 80: Drive - Inside the Untimate Synthwave Soundtrack (Magazine)
This month's Electronic Sound cover feature tells the fascinating story of the soundtrack to 'Drive', one of the greatest movies of recent times.
Nurses
*2022 stock. 30 copies limited edition* Nurses was recorded in 1996 and was supposed to be released as a split album by the Murder Release label. The split album never materialized and was for a long time forgotten but in 2017, together with Murder Release/Moreno Daldosso, menstrualrecordings decided to finally release it. Nurses was pressed in 2017 but the pressing was faulty. Most copies and the metal plates were destroyed. We were able to save 30 fully playable copies. Those 30 copies are the…
Produktion Film Soundtracks
*2022 stock. 200 copies limited edition* Produktion was Ross Cannon, Christine Glover & Paul Hurst. Originally from Tasmania (Cannon) and Australia (Glover and Hurst) they formed Produktion when they moved to London in 1978. In London they opened Produktion Hair hairdress salon where they cut "supercuts" while playing Industrial Music all day. Produktion also made super 8 films, animations, fanzines and tapes. Some of their obscure tapes saw them collaborating with artists such as John Duncan, M…
World As Will
*2022 stock. 100 copies limited edition* "I found an old CD-R seemingly containing the first live recording that i had made with Zbigniew in Japan. Somehow i tried to mix it. So i copied the data, but what i got through Pro Tools was something different. What happened! I was always using familiar file names (World as Will.aiff) for everything. So the file that opened was another recording of same duration of 30 minutes and 26 seconds. It seems as if Zbigniew were here and said You take the wrong…
Telmegiddo / Bacterihabitat
*2022 stock. 100 copies limited edition* "LP by Maurizio Bianchi and a CDR by M.B., and that's why a book is such a great idea. Why is that? 'Telmegiddo' (CD) is 'the last cassette tape decomposition' and was previously released as 'Extreme Man 2'. The two pieces on 'Bacterihabitat' (CDR) are from May 1982 and previously released as 'Extreme Man 1' - both of the releases actually released without permission. Its hard to say what the differences would be between both works, but they (all four pie…
Profana Liturgija
*2022 stock. 100 copies limited edition* A profane mass interpreted by Dedali and Maurizio Bianchi. First issued as part of the limited edition 2CD of the collaboration album Elektro Tones published in Japan by Noctovision. This re-issue is a collaboration between Noctovision and menstrualrecordings. Limited edition of 100 copies in digipack. Includes a numbered insert.
Mectpyo / Blut
*2022 stock. 250 copies edition* 'Mectpyo/Blut' came out in 1980 as a ninety-minute cassette and between that and this official double CD Banned Production and Bacteria Field released it on cassette, but also came out as a double LP by Marquis Records and a single LP in Japan on no particular label. This release marks the transition from using the name Sacher Pelz to M.B. and was his first official release as M.B. (or MB, whatever you prefer).Four pieces here, each about twenty-two minutes (henc…
Nekro
*2022 stock. 150 copies limited edition* The all new work released by Murder Corporation, which is the musical project of Moreno Daldosso, who started to play as Murder Corporation in 1992, 'nearly as a joke', after hearing heavy metal, punk, hardcore, EBM and then industrial music, and taking inspiration from Merzbow, Boyd Rice, William Bennett and Kevin Tomkin (and yes, I am not sure about that 'nearly as a joke' either).Murder Corporation uses tapes, noises, short waves and distorted voices, …
Neuronale
*2022 stock. 250 copies limited edition* "Ezio Albrile, a young and convinced supporter of an extreme militarism in the 80s, today renowned historian of religions of the ancient world and one of the greatest scholars in the field of gnostic religiosity. Albrile had already appeared musically with Psychopathic Blossom, an industrial/experimental project born among the school desks and composed by two other young Turinese, but that remained confined to a few tapes, without a label, and to some rad…
Splat Tv
*2022 stock. 200 copies limited edition* The DVD is made from previous VHS (1995/96) material which focuses on mutilated bodies and some Nazi film. The bodies are mostly murdered women, in one section the images have been superimposed with effects... or colored washes applied. The sound track mechanical/industrial noises. Murder Corporation obviously exploit violence, in particular sexual violence against women and Nazi violence. All works if taken seriously I suppose involve a critique of human…
Schwarz
*2022 stock. 250 copies limited edition* "<< Schwarz>> is a total black CD-R it contains 6 tracks of industrial noise- repetitive loops etc, which appears to be different on each channel, the 7 inch sleeve has a picture of a decomposing corpse. This is a re-release, from a 1994 tape. There is nothing special about the sounds, Murder Corporation obviously exploit violence, in particular sexual violence against women and Nazi violence. All works if taken seriously I suppose involve a critique of …
Hilt
*300 copies limited edition* »Hilt« is the first collaboration between Rudolf Eb.er and Will Guthrie who, based on their previous musical work, seem very different at first glance. However, it quickly becomes apparent, that the distinct approaches to composition and sound complement each other perfectly and make this album a very special and exciting affair. The closer you listen, the more you will be drawn into it and realize that the rhythmic drumming, the careful arrangements of hiss, crackle…
Tomorrow Is Too Late
Australian born, Sweden based artist John Chantler returns to Room40 with his fifth solo edition. Tomorrow Is Too Late was commissioned by INA GRM for their Présences Électronique festival in 2018 and sees Chantler significantly expand the horizons of his acoustic palette. Moving from subtle microtonal movements to passages of intense harmonic saturation, Tomorrow Is Too Late is his most dynamic work to date. A powerhouse of reductive intensity that bares witness to Chantler’s uncompromising son…
Discepolato Nella Nuova Era
Xenotropic spokesmen at Artetetra are hitting the airwaves the with a new, fresh release. This time, the fascination for otherworldly tunes and cloud-like atmospheres meets visions of ethereal lights, nordic alien forces and pataphysical hymns of sort. "Discepolato Nella Nuova Era" is the debut album by Luce Celestiale (celestial light): an italo-spanish duo and free-form band formed by the Andalusian painter Lorena Serrano Rodriguez and the Tuscan electronic sorcerer Devid Ciampalini, also know…