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.
Italy, Industrial, Techno, Electronic, Experimental, Noise, Dark, Cold Wave; Limited Edition (White Marbled Colour) Double LP - Ex Used condition
Italy's "Black Tears" is a project by Violet Poison and Giorgio Gigli (Zooloft). . The project lies somewhere between cold, post Industrial, soundtrack and mutated techno and EBM. Violet Poison describes the material as "neoromantic nihilism". Music for a dystopian society where all aspects of life are controlled and love and lust are forbidden. People become robots and a false smile hides the real pain inside.
Dark, Experimental, Techno, Ambient, Noise, Electronic, Industrial; Limited Edition, Single Sided, Etched Vinyl 12" Single - Ex Used Condition
Caviar Glowing is the most realised face of Croatian Amor so far. Over the three pieces that make up the recording a broad spectrum of the projects previous methods are present, but they manage to go further than they have done prior. Field recordings, voice samples, synthetic melodies and electronic drum rythms blend and bleed in and out of each other. Caviar Glowing is a club record. But rather than being a record to play at a club it is a record trying to portray what it sounds like being there, when night turns back into day under puncturing dance floor beats and in the toilet stalls where you can trade anything you have or is. Where you feel more than you ever did before and know less, the place where ecstasy and paranoia becomes two aspects of the same core emotion, the inescapeable fever of knowing that no matter how hard you dance or how much you take, no one in the room will be as beautiful tomorrow as they are at that point and with every beat morning is getting closer. Caviar Glowing is a record about being in a place, knowing that you are supposed to be somewhere else.