Electronic, Experimental, Industrial, Ambient, Noise; Limited Numbered Edition #200 of 300 Gatefold Vinyl LP with 2 colour inserts [This release originally came with a CD and Pin Badge (Both missing)]
Nordvargr makes a triumphant return to the darkambient scene after a few years of silence. Having focused more on the harsher and electronic music styles for a while he felt that he had a couple of new ideas to try out and he sure delivers.
"Murkhr" is a multiformat release that spans over a whole vinyl LP and CD and is probably among the most dark journeys into sound that has been made in the studio at Villa Bohult. Imagine the deepest passages from his debut "Awaken" being mixed with solemn orchestrations and shamanistic chants.
Electronic, Industrial, Noise, Power Electronics; Vinyl LP (2015) - Ex Used condition
THEOLOGIAN comes in the form of the four punishing sequences. A Means By Which To Break The Surface Of The Real offers, with nearly forty-five minutes of material created in collaboration with David Castillo of Primitive Weapons and White Widows Pact, Daniel Suffering of Whorid, Matt Slagle, and engineer Kevin D. Reilly, Jr., who has periodically worked with Bartow since the earliest incarnations of Navicon Torture Technologies in the mid-late 1990s. Noisey offered in part of the album, “THEOLOGIAN's dark industrial pedigree is impeccable… A Means By Which To Break The Surface Of The Real, is a nightmarish affront of torturous industrial rhythms and suffocating drones...” And Heathen Harvest issued, “Bartow is an artist who, like so many of his influential peers from Brighter Death Now to IRM, has been enormously important to our development as fans of industrial music over the past decade and a half... Bartow leads us once again into the deep, dark recesses of the mind and the world…”
Electronic, Experimental, Rhythmic Noise, Industrial, Noise; Vinyl LP - Ex Used condition
Berlin-based Italian producer Shapednoise brings here six tracks of malefic, distorted techno. 'Until Human Voices Wake Us' is the label's first release brokered specifically for vinyl - following their LP reissues of MCMXCI's 'Skogen, Flickan Och Flaskan', and Wanda Group's 'P*ss Fell Out Like Sunlight' - and fits perfectly with their most extreme aesthetics. Consolidating his love of industrial noise, rave and hard techno, 'Until Human Voices Wake Us' could never really be called one or the other - it's a grotty, primal new form that feels like it just slunk out of a bilge pipe. A-side he swerves from crushed, rheumatic rhythms to howling tunnel noise and more ecstatic bluster in the title track, while flipside is given to strobing bass pulses and tense strings, murderous roil 'n drone and a sludgy techno deconstruction.
Ambient, Techno, Electronic, Noise, Experimental; Black Vinyl Edition LP - Ex Used condition
Nitrogen Narcosis marks the first full length and strongest statement in the Scuba Death repertoire after the privately issued, ruthless ‘Demon Seed’ twelve inch back in 2011. The album alternates between surprising lethargic dance inflections all nestled between 75 & 100 bpm, the normal resting heart rate for adults, and the more conceptual, numbness inducing pieces like "50-70 Meters" and "Nociception." Sequencing plays an integral role on Nitrogen Narcosis as the listener is suddenly thrust into the darkest reaches of the ocean after dark alley grooves are sucked into an aquatic abyss.
Dark Ambient, Experimental, Ambient, Germany; Double Vinyl LP (2010) RARE! - Ex Used condition
Transcendent dark ambient from sunny Germany. The Incarnation of the Solar Architects makes me feel as though I am a human-shaped pile of ash and dust that is being blown into the æther by cosmic winds. You know, like in 'Altered States'.....
Comedy, Cult, Terrible, Outsider, Rhino Records, Various Artists,1983; Vinyl LP with sick bag!! - Ex Used condition
There is perverse pleasure to be had in sampling the tasteless, inept, and bizarre, and it was with this fact in mind that Rhino Records unleashed The World's Worst Records, a compilation of abrasive novelty songs, demented outsider artists, and clumsy comedy. With liner notes by Dr. Demento and Rhino mainstays Barnes & Barnes and Wild Man Fischer on board, there's not much doubt as to the tone of the collection. The set list is skewed strongly toward silly, self-consciously dumb parody tunes that range from amusing (Ogden Edsl's wacky child-abuse singalong "Kinko the Clown") to obvious and unfunny ("I Wanna Be Your Dog" sung by some bad Three Stooges imitators). Should the "World's Worst Records" include songs like these that were specifically designed for such a list? For those who think not, there's the psychobilly classic "Paralyzed," a formless, atonal jumble of guitar, drum, and bugle from The Legendary Stardust Cowboy, a genuine eccentric who actually turned this wild, incredibly alive record into a hit for a short while in 1968. Blame it on the age of irony, or a desperate attempt to find unique sounds in an increasingly homogenous world, but there are those who find pleasure in the accidental, the broken, and the incorrect. 'The Rhino Brothers Presents The World's Worst Records' anticipated this trend several years in advance, proposing that "bad" was infinitely better than "boring," though their overdependence on prefab wackiness lessens the importance of the package.
Synth, Noise, Experimental, Wolf Eyes, Nate Young; Limited Edition Vinyl LP (500 copies) - Ex Used condition
This split LP is, fittingly enough, a co-release between the CIP label and Vertonen's own CIP imprint. Demons is the all-synth-playing duo of Wolf Eyes man Nate Young and Steven Kenney of Isis and Werewolves, and their side comes in the form of a live recording of a Chicago show from earlier this year. The sounds are brutal but highly sculpted oscillator articulations very much in keeping with the Merzbow/Carlos Giffoni analogue material that was circulating a month or so back. It's a hybrid of ferocious noise assaults and sci-fi LFO experiments. Very nice indeed. Over on the flipside Vertonen pushes the volume levels upward for some grittier sounds, which flail about the place admirably until the whole thing settles down into a solid drone signal, which reluctantly ebbs out to a close.....
Abstract, Industrial, Experimental, Electronic; Vinyl LP (1988)
Track A1 from the first Sleep Chamber album. (1984).
Track A2 from the first Sleep Chamber album. (1984).
Track A3 from the first Sleep Chamber album. (1984).
Track A4 unreleased Version rekorded for, but left off the first Sleep Chamber album. (1983).
Track B1 from "Musick For Mennequins". (1983).
Track B2 unreleased demo from "Submit To Desire". (1985).
Track B3 from "Musick For Mannequins". (1983).
Doom, Drone, Metal, Heavy, SunnO))), Pita, Stephen O'Malley, Peter Rehberg, Mego; 12" Vinyl EP (2007)
Peter Rehberg (aka Pita) and Stephen O'Malley (better known as one half of doom overlords Sunn O)))) have been pretty busy over the last couple of years. Not content with throwing down music for Giselle Vienne and Dennis Cooper's theatrical work 'Kindertotenlieder' they have managed to notch up two full albums and now this, the third in the series of blackened doom masterpieces. For me this is possibly the finest yet, moving ever closer to Rehberg's patented computer manipulations and further away from any comparisons that could be made to the rest of the scene. While '2' was an experiment into the annals of the black metal genre, with the howling spirit of Varg Vikernes somewhere in the mix, '3' edges closer to the doomy soundscapes of Svarte Greiner or the bass-heavy electronic compositions of Murcof. However where their contemporaries never manage to wrench themselves from a definite sense of structure Rehberg and O'Malley effortlessly create a soundtrack to pure hell which bears ever less relation to modern music as we know it. Sure there are synthesized blips and there's thick, pounding bass but this is closer to the wall-scraping soundtrack to The Ring, or the foley sound from Hostel... it's a frightening glorification of all things dark, all things evil, and in that is an absolute triumph. Computer music shouldn't be allowed to sound this menacing, this terrifying, but this duo rise to the challenge as if it was never an issue in the first place and have created a work that sounds like the future while paying close attention to gloomy times past. Coming with a stunning etching on the B-side and limited to only 2000 copies for the world this isn't going to last long, so doom fans hurry up, trust me this is an absolute classic release. Essential purchase!
Horror, Soundtrack, Film Score, John Carpenter, Death Waltz, Limited; Deluxe Edition Colour Vinyl LP - Ex Used condition
Remastered Orange Vinyl Deluxe Re-issue with fold out poster.
Industrial, Noise, Ambient, Drone, Electronic, Experimental, EBM, Techno; 12" EP - Ex Used condition
White Marbled Vinyl
Violet Poison is the dark/esoteric side-project of Francesco Baudazzi, already known as Obtane, co-owner with Giorgio Gigli of the defunct techno label ZOOLOFT.
