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B-Semi Live: 24th May 1984
*199 copies limited edition* KontaktAudio presents the first-ever official release of the ultra rare and sought after B-Semi Live 24/5/1984 cassette, a rare and explosive document capturing a crucial moment in Japan’s underground noise and industrial music scene. Recorded at the legendary B-Semi venue in Tokyo, this performance brings together three pioneers - Merzbow, Null (K.K. Null), and Nord - delivering a raw, unfiltered onslaught of early Japanese noise music in its most intense form.
This…
Hatonal
Nobody feels the sound fracturing as Masami Akita, nobody understands noise better than Merzbow. This Japanese artist is for more than forty years the maximum exponent of a style that has been catalogued and denominated with perhaps, the most descriptive word of modern music. Noise can have very diverse connotations, however, when we transfer this term to the pleasure and enjoyment that a piece of music generates in the listener, when we treat non-music as music, we understand that sound express…
You Will Be Excluded From The Kingdom Of Heaven
*300 copies limited edition* "A new edition of the original statement first released by Nil By Mouth Records on cassette and immediately sold out. Old Europa Cafe is making available once again transmissions that refuse to be suppressed by the smothering hands of the seemingly ubiquitous audio platforms. Drawing inspiration from the forefathers of Power Electronics, but pushing the foundational doctrines into new territories, Terror Cell Unit are truly deacons shepherding over the flock of moder…
Reliquiario MMXV-MMXVII
*48 copies limited edition*
38 copies are red copies in standard edition, and 10 copies are white copies in special edition for friends of the project Moana.The standard edition boxset is composed by:-exterior part of box in black cardoard with a sticker-headband with red sticker closing the box (the sticker is white in the white edition)-interior part of the box in black cardboard with red sticker closed with a red ribbon (the red sticker and the red ribbon are both white in the white edition)-…
Collection 001-010
Carrying on their longstanding dedication to the seminal output of Merzbow, Urashima returns with what is unquestionably their most ambitious release to date: “Collection 001-010”, a deluxe, 10 LP vinyl box set limited to 299 copies, gathering together the entirety of the project’s first ten releases, originally released in 1981. Encountering the band in its early incarnation of the duo of Masami Akita and Kiyoshi Mizutani, raw, exposed and bristling with energy, foreshadowing numerous trajector…
Joshi Noise Worship: Kana Bathed In Cobalt
Released in 2020, “Kana Bathed In Cobalt" continued Slit Throats’ the obsessive exploration of the pageantry in Japanese women's wrestling (joshi puroresu) that began with "Dedicated To Hana Kimura" and continues to drive the project today.
On this recording, Roman choose to meditate upon one of his favourite matches of the modern era, an almost theatrical production of traditional Japanese music and beautiful blue lighting as two of the world's best waged war upon each other.
Now, on the eve of…
Industriale / Amoeba
*Limited edition 48 copies* The edition is completely handmade and consists of a lined cardboard envelope measuring approximately 10x13.5 cm. The envelope is closed with a small gray satin ribbon that holds two metal letters, the M and the B.
Inside the envelope you will find:- the printed mini Cdr contained in turn in a handmade envelope with gray adhesive tape- an insert folded into four parts and printed on the front and back in high quality paper measuring 19x19 cm. developed and 9.5x9.5 cm…
The Seeds That Were Silent
Latest from Zac Davis, 80s style industrial / harsh noise collage.
Government Controlled Shrines
Industrial music is not about what is right with society… and there is still work to be done. At 7:57 the fountain is still pumping… industrialization of religion. The songs from torture chambers are passed down through the generations. Packaged in silk screen and velcro heavy canvas bag, with individual disco sleeves, vellum insert and text by Takahiko Yokoyama.
Programmatika
*150 copies limited edition* Originally released on cassette comes ‘Programmatika’ on vinyl for the first time. Coldest possible industrial from one failed state to the world of new idols, new people, new homes… packaged in ultra deluxe embossed cover mit poster.
S.F.F.
*90 copies limited edition* Never doubt the machine’s own hallucinations observing the patient from the clinic to the catacombs beneath the industrial park. Long, patient, slow, hard skeletal textures and voices of circuitry building from entranced earth by Iggor Cavalera. Mastered in london by Eraldo Bernocchi.
Temple
*50 copies limited edition* Massively cold power electronics follow up to the well received addition to the international misanthropy series - for daylight listening only on broken raided streets of the 31st state in the union. In poly bag with obi and tons of inserts.
Nord
*299 copies limited edition* One of the most rare and classic Experimental Japanoise albums, recorded in 1981 - with sticker. It remains one of the holy grails of DIY electronics from Japan. Hazy and drugged, this entrancing 1981 recording by the infamous Nord is a must-have for anyone who is into claustrophobic and destroyed ambient of the most disturbing, affecting kind. "Nord, consisting of Satoshi Katayama and Hiroshi Oikawa, were one of the leading groups in the Japanese underground music s…
Leichenschrei
OEC is proudly going "again" for the re-edition of that SPK masterpiece first out in 1982.
More than 40 years are gone but the energy of Leichenscrei by "Socialistisches Patienten Kollektiv / << S.P.K. >>" is still very H.I.G.H.! A reference and absolute highlight in Industrial culture and muzak!
Schmerzen Eines Traumhauses
*40 copies limited edition* Join the musical destruction of a dream house. Sounds by D.K.E.
Zerremonien
*40 copies limited edition* Distorted Rhythms, Samples, Screams and Noisy Telefone Transmissions.
Mutants
Latest release from the French power electronics project M.I.A. on Phage Tapes.
Oedipus Orca
*20 copies limited edition* The CDR is contained in a black cardboard envelope measuring 13x13 cm. about (250 grams thick) with a 10x10 cm sticker on the front. The cdr has a small sticker, and inside the envelope there is a photocopied insert in front and back of 12x24 cm. approximately (paper 80 gr. thick)
Time Hole
Confusing dreams with memories veils over truth and timeDreams seem like memories confusing strains of timeConfusing dreams with memories all absences of timeDreams mixed with memories creating absences of time
On "Time Hole," Taylor Geddes, Canada’s noise linchpin, has penned and executed a mystical and evocative industrial noise album from a small arsenal of simple electronics. Bookended by the patter of rain drops, thick rusted arteries of industrial noise fracture off into constricted microc…