" A previously unknown shellac recording of the dadaist recording his immortal sound poem, Ursonate, from the 1930s, was apparently recently discovered. And to much amazement has been released here for the first time. Historically, sonically mindblowing." (forcedexposure.com)
"This is a remarkable artifact and a revealing, even moving rendition." (Option, July/August 1995)
Note: According to Ernst Schwitters's testimony, this is the original recording of his father Kurt's performance. We do not wish to conceal the fact that this claim has since been doubted by a third party. WERGO is investigating the matter.
CD - New
Proper and overdue re-issue of a limited edition 12 cassette on Annihilvs released back in 2012. Hubrizine was two years in the making and features source material by Finland's mighty STROM.ec, undoubtedly heralded as masters of the PE oeuvre, as reinterpreted and re-engineered by Theologian, in celebration of a shared appreciation for the works of Philip K. Dick. From the opening moments, what immediately strikes you is that this probably isn't what you thought it was going to be, given the history of both acts. Sure, there are a good deal of passages of volatility and focused intensity as you might expect, but they are complimented by an equal amount of passages of hallucinatory ambience and cold, serene atmospherics. It's this very dichotomy that makes this such a masterful recording, and listening to it one sitting becomes almost mandatory just to wrap your head around the mind fuckery that unravels over its 7 tracks, as celestial drift and horizon filling textures collide with sudden eruptions of militantly hostile vocals, machine clatter, blistering frequency pulsations and writhing distortion. The title track is clearly the centerpiece here...an epic and sprawling 18 minute track of climatic and shimmering drones that disintegrates into corrosive generator hum and contorted loops with an insane vocal outburst that rivals any STROM.ec output ever created. Hubrizine clearly takes heavy electronics in a direction where few have dared go, and few will ever match. In fold out presentation folder with artwork by Andre Coelho
Limited / Numbered CD - Comes in luxurious 5 panel folder with metallic/black print, 19 x 14 cm, packaged in transparent bag
One year after the highly acclaimed "Dream Landscape" CD ANEMONE TUBE returns with the new concept album "Death over China".
No country in history has emerged as a major industrial power without creating a legacy of environmental damage that can take, if at all possible, decades to undo. China`s rise as an economic power has no clear parallel in history; thus, its pollution problem has shattered all precedent developments.
"Death over China" is a retaliation of nature against humankind. In the same moment it is a dedication to our untamed curiosity for the essence of death and our (inherent in our collective action) secret death wish. In China`s uncompromising economical and social development we see demonstrated, how we - even with the immolation of our health, environment and tradition - are the servants to material progress. Though we are aware of the approaching ecological disaster, we hazard the consequences. Sustainability is sacrificed on the altar of egoist quest for happiness. We consume, we destroy, we thrive, we conjure: "Deathly kingdom of desire, you sustain the life in me, Black death rise!"
Using field recordings, collected in Nanjing and Shanghai in 2007, ANEMONE TUBE creates an unsettling yet intriguing, apocalyptic soundtrack with a sinister atmosphere and a depressive undertone - a unique blend of dark ambient, post industrial and power electronics in the tradition of European industrial music.
"Death over China" is the second part of "The Suicide Series", for which field recordings provide a conceptional basis. In a poetic way ANEMONE TUBE combines analytical realism of the phenomenal world with buddhist psychology and nihilist rhetoric influenced by the works of Michael Haneke, Hayao Miyazaki, H.P. Lovecraft and Yukio Mishima.
All music recorded between July 2007 and December 2009. Mastered by JAMES PLOTKIN 2010.
Definitely ANEMONE TUBE`s best and most mature album yet.
Recorded within the bleak transitional period immediately prior to the sessions that would now become known as Bermuda Drain, Dominick Fernow sketched out four compositions which can only be framed as “ambient power electronics”.
For the past couple decades, Prurient (along with his revered Hospital Productions imprint) has tackled some of the most challenging aptitudes of experimental music and navigated the baggage that comes along with growth and maturity within the confines of noise.
Ex Used Condition
Some of Fernow’s most destitute works to date, this release captures Prurient at its most vulnerable and sedate, reflective and rapt. Compositions that throw away that past decade of experience, only to start at the foundation of his art.
Original exclusive cover art collage by artist Genesis Breyer P-Orridge.
Pressed in an edition of 500.
Damien Dubrovnik (Prurient) and Brian Chippendale (Lightning Bolt)
125 pressed on double sided color vinyl. This means that side A is blue and side B is red. 375 copies of the pressing is a red/blue swirl.
This copy is Red A / Blue B
Double sided screen printed jackets.
Australian Post Punk - Experimental - John Murphy
Limited Edition - Numbered - Yellow Vinyl - with Insert (1997)
With original Demo Cassette with hand painted cover.
Ex Used Condition
Second full length release, and second installment of the "Swarm" trilogy.
Released on DumpsterScore Home Recordings in a special early tour edition of 50 copies in the Summer of 2010. Sold out.
Re-released properly in an edition of 100 copies by Phage Tapes in 2011 in special over-sized silk screened packaging.
Released as part of the Crucial Blaze series, limited to four hundred hand-numbered copies. Comes in a plastic DVD-size library case with full sleeve art, a booklet with liner notes from Hal Hutchinson, and a set of six black and white photography prints.
