Drone, Noise, Experimental, Electronic, Dark, Ambient, Doom, Limited Edition (300 copies); Double Vinyl LP (2008) - Ex Used condition
The debut full-length by Emaciator (Jon Borges of Pedestrian Deposit, Monorail Trespassing), Reflection was recorded in the spring of 2007 and represents 'second phase' of Emaciator's music. Situated both historically and aesthetically between the dirty, depressive gutter pulse of the early cassette releases and the cleaner, blissful guitar shimmer of his newer material, these two pieces of vinyl bridge the gap with ghostly synth-based melodies that drift over a churning urban landscape of gritty static. Conceived of and composed as a complete artistic statement, the sides follow a narrative of deceit and betrayal, bookended by two halves of one musical idea; sides A and D are mirror images of each other, giving the title of the album its double meaning. Emotional and intensely personal, Reflection finds the Emaciator project at its most despairing, positioning aching melodic beauty in a context of bleak drone decay to suggest a kind of rock-bottom hopelessness. This is music for wallowing.
Noise, Experimental, Power Electronics, Harsh, Drone, Denmark; Vinyl LP - Ex Used condition
Vegas Fountain is the 2015 full length album from Copenhagen based industrial duo Damien Dubrovnik (aka Posh Isolation founders Loke Rahbek and Christian Stadsgaard). Since 2013’s ‘First Burning Attraction’ LP, Rahbek and Stadsgaard have continued to be consistently busy as label bosses and performing artists, performing worldwide and building a reputation for their fierce and powerful live show. It was during this time as well that the duo honed their craft in the studio and found a working rhythm where their live performance fed into the studio work and vice versa. Using this process to feed off the springboard of Rahbek’s words and imagery, it not only helped shape a stronger state of equilibrium in this project but also allowed the duo to challenge themselves, both musically and emotionally, exploring concepts like relations, performance, sexuality and their breaking points. This is possibly Damien Dubrovnik’s strongest work to date.
Experimental, Abstract, Electronic, Industrial, Techno, Dark, Power Electronics, EBM; Double Vinyl LP
Coherent Abstractions quickly sets a bleak tone, as "Virtuality Continuum" opens with what sounds like a possessed dentist drill. The album's entire first half is steeped in dread, although the Drexciyan flourishes of "Arrival Into Uncharted Territory" and the twinkling IDM touches in "Phenomenalist" prove Mitchell isn't entirely indebted to the dark side. Nevertheless, those seeking punishment will hit pay dirt in "Conjectured State"'s ominous plod and the digital overload of "Nearing Obliteration," which includes a sort of monologue from Mitchell. It's followed by the only other vocal number, the churning "Bound & Broken," whose guest appearance by Janina is both seductive and menacing.
Experimental, Electronic, Noise, Nate Young, Wolf Eyes, Detroit, Industrial, Harsh; Vinyl LP (2008)
Nate Young airs two of his alter egos on this great split LP: Demons, featuring Steve Kenney, and Hatred, which combines Young once again with Kenney, but this time with the added presence of Spence Bryant. The Hatred side sounds like the motor on your turntable is continually breaking down, as if some perpetual Technics power-down effect was causing all manner of primitive pitch-sliding antics to go haywire on those squelchy synth oscillations. The Demons side is rather different from their ace No Fun album and instead sounds like some hiss covered live recording of a garage rock band buried underneath some rubble. You'd expect this to be pretty grotesque sounding, but it's all so much filthier than you're likely to have bargained for.
Rare, Harsh, Noise, Electronic, Power Electronics, Drone, Ambient; Single Sided 12" - Limited Edition - Ex Used condition
Limited Edition of 110 copies with Insert and hand printed sleeve....
Experimental, Drone, Noise, C Spencer Yeh, Electronic, Avant Garde; Limited Edition Vinyl LP (2002) Ex Used condition
'A Brighter Summer Day' is the debut Studio album by Burning Star Core, released in February 2002 by Thin Wrist Recordings. After almost ten years of numerous private recordings and self-released recordings, the album marked the first time the project received wide distribution, with five hundred pressings in vinyl. Apparently numbered....but I cant see where??
Limited Edition, Experimental, Electronic, Noise, Avant, Gatefold; Double LP (2007) - Ex Used Condition
For over a decade Damion Romero has been crafting minimal sub frequencies to create some of the most interesting and unique experimental music. Twins is Damion's most impressive document to date; it contains four sides of intense and focused pure sound, recorded live with no overdubbing, effects, tapes, or feedback. Twins utilizes many varying textures and layers of sound offering many rewarding, engaging listens. Edition of 500 copies in professionally-printed 'Serie Gramme' style gatefold sleeves.
Limited Edition (500 copies), Experimental, Noise, Psychedelic, Power Electronics, Loops, Aaron Dilloway, Jason Lescaleet; 10" Vinyl EP
Oh man, It’s one of those releases that may well be lost to the sands of time, were it not for some keener-eared folk who recognise its absolute brilliance, so thank f**k for Amethyst Sunset because this is a real doozy, featuring Dilloway at the full width of his tape loop-morphing powers. As with any Dilloway performance or recording - which are almost the same thing, using the same methods of production - you never quite know what will happen, always retaining the ability to start in one place and end up somewhere totally different, yet never quite revealing how we got there. In this instance he starts out by grinding a spare vocal loop until it evaporates into the lushest ambient harmonic swell, and proceeds to squeeze that loop until it’s aching, swooning across the stereo field. And just as the loop begins to open out, he extrudes into a sludgy black metal riff, dragging us out by the roadside and leaving the loop to bake in the sun by the side’s end. Flipside, the trip only gets darker, sending everything down into a low register blur bubbling up fetid gases and drone clusters before sousing us in piercing, coruscating high end stress waves. It unfurls itself with such unique timing and haptic sensitivity that the only apt analogy is with a waking nightmare or the soundtrack to a severely warped video nasty. This is just so damn good....
Industrial, Electronic, Techno, Beats, Experimental, EBM, Ambient, Noise; Limited Edition Purple/Black Vinyl 10" EP
Straight out of the wet and hot city of Houston, //TENSE// delivers a great follow-up to the Memory album with this 6 tracks EP. Released on vinyl for the first time (the EP was originally out on the hype label Disaro as a limited CDr), Consume EP presents a new angle to the hard hitting EBM tracks the band has already released. The sound is cleaner and sharper. It mixes hard beats EBM style with more ethereal and atmospheric ambience of the shoegaze bands of the early 90s. Think Ministry jamming with Slowdive and produced by Salem with the help of DJ Pierre! Limited to 300 copies on colored vinyl on a 10" including a download coupon.
Remastered, Re-issue, Dark, Ambient, Doom, Noise, Black, Noise; Limited Edition Double Vinyl LP - Ex Used condition
In 1992 lustmord and clock dva-founder adi newton forged ‘the monstrous soul’, a follow-up to the seminal ‘heresy’ album. Unlike its predecessor, the monstrous soul didn’t use field recordings from crypts, etc., instead relying on extensive digital recording, sounds sourced and manipulated from military surplus sound generators and spoken word samples. Expanding on the previous album which created a literal hell – here there is a more surreal realm. The five tracks continually engage the listener with carefully timed events that permeate the haunting sonic landscapes fading out into quiet yet menacing dissonance. Undeniably a master of sonic darkness, and established as such early on. Acolytes of ambient’s nether regions will flock (again, or for the first time) to the blackened altar that is the monstrous soul.
'Taking on Lustmord's Monstrous Soul is like taking on a heavy weight, it sits on top of you, weighing you heavily down' - Burning World Records.
Techno, Slipknot, Experimental, Electronic, Noise, Industrial, Abstract; Limited Edition, Clear Vinyl EP
Producer Croww's debut release on The Death of Rave label is somewhere between a mixtape, imagined soundtrack and demonstrative show-reel pieced together from a 'Slipknot' sample pack used by the band’s Craig Jones on their landmark debut album and highly recommended if you're into Autechre, Rabit or Total Freedom. The severely gurned and kerned result is the Prosthetics (MechaMix) uniqueto the vinyl edition, featuring the original samples painstakingly dissected and assembled in uchronic form to suppose an alternate history of the last 20 years of pop and subcultural phenomena, one where rap metal is dissolved and alloyed with the extremities of grindcore, flashcore, late ‘90s D&B and hypermodern rap instrumentals. Safe to say it sounds like naught out there right now.