Documentary, Disturbing, Crime, Mondo, Special Interest; DVD - Ex Used condition
A fascinating documentary on a very contentious topic, The Executioners will take you through the history of mankind's ultimate form of punishment. The entire 3 part series is captured here on one DVD: Part 1: Hangman: As late as the 1960's, Britain was still executing convicted murderers. The method: death by hanging. Part 2: Dynasties of Death: The groom, Henri Desfourneaux, is a killer. To his left, Anatole Deibler Desfourneaux, another. Two rows back another... Between them, they would killed more than a thousand men. Part 3: The American Way of Death: For much of the world, it was the rope or the blade. But in its short history, America has experimented with a bewildering array of execution methods.
Skate, Freestyle, Skateboard, Coliseum; DVD - Ex Used condition
'Featuring PJ Ladd, Colin Fiske and more. Heroes from "Wonderful Horrible Life" skate and destroy many spots in Boston. Tech skating at its best.'
Controvercial, Peter Sotos, True Crime, Murder, Creation Books, Paperback Book,192 pages - Ex Used condition
The Dunblane Massacre in March 1996 by Thomas Hamilton of 16 schoolchildren remains the most abhorred act of mass murder ever perpetrated in the British Isles. Ten years on, Peter Sotos re-examines Hamilton's life and motives, revealing the sick paedophile subculture which spawned this most reviled of killers.
Death, Documentary, Atrocities, War, Creation Books; Paperback Book - 192 pages Ex Used condition
The Modern Death series:?The history of the 20th century-both military and social-is defined by violent death. The Modern Death series examines every aspect of human annihilation, from the mass battle casualties and civilian atrocities of war to the world-changing political assassinations, mass murders, celebrity suicides and car crash deaths which define our lives and times. ? ?From Pol Pot's reign of terror in Cambodia during the late seventies, to Japanese medical experimentation camps, and USSR death camps at Kolyma, on the Far Eastern Pacific coast, where 12 million Soviet citizens were gratuitously and systematically massacred, Annihilation Zones examines the shocking Far Eastern tradition of brutal murder and atrocity which persists to this day. Stephen Barber, cultural historian and leading academic, presents this graphic, revelatory document demonstrating how homicide and xenophobia remain inextricably entwined in the Far Eastern psyche, ever-ready to resurface. Illustrated with rare and harrowing photographs, Annihilation Zones is volume 1 in Creation's new "Modern Death" series and the follow-up to Barber's best-selling Caligula: Divine Carnage.
Transgressive, Counterculture, Manson, Serial Killer, Porn, Punk, Interviews; Paperback Book (384 pages) - VG Used condition
Forty-five key interviews with celebrities from the worlds of rock, art, literature and the counterculture, taken from the 18-year history of New York-based Seconds magazine. Interviewees include Marilyn Manson, David Bowie, JG Ballard, Henry Rollins, Allen Ginsberg, Anton LaVey, Joe Coleman, Peter Sotos, Joe D'Allesandro, Ron Jeremy, Wayne Kramer, Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, John Waters, Richard Ramirez, Charles Manson, Ed Sanders and Robert Williams. Contributors include Michael Moynihan, Carlo McCormick, Boyd Rice, David Aaron Clarke, Art Deco and John Aes-Nihil.
Experimental, Electronic, Ambient, Noise, Industrial, Abstract; Vinyl LP (2016) - Ex Used Condition
Love Means Taking Action separates itself from Croatian Amor’s previous work because of its ability to maintain an overall mood among its many smaller shifts. Older works like Genitalia Garden would constantly reset tone between tracks, choosing between a darker or lighter sound. Whereas here a song like “No Sex Club” starts so claustrophobically with single-tone electronics and cut up samples of someone panting, only to give way to bright, piano-like chords that shift the whole tenor of the song, while still keeping the original creeping sensation present in the background. These production changes point toward the greater risks Rahbek is taking here. The vocal slicing and splicing on “Like Angel” are reminiscent of Holly Herndon, and the short piano piece “Nadim Call Emergence II” would never exist on previous releases. Here they not only make sense, but give the more traditional Croatian Amor compositions (“Octopus Web,” “Any Life You Want”) more gravity.
Techno, Dark, Electronic, Experimental, Ambient, Germany, Self-released; Double Vinyl LP - Cover has water damage/creases - Vinyl Ex Used condition
Pearl black techno from the shady edges of a decayed forest, Headless Horseman's music doesn't let the light filter through its dead branches slowly waving to an eternal cold breeze. Unstoppable asymetric rhythms support distant industrial recollections and dark shamanic atmospheres from a faded mechanical era, emerging as a carved up figure, half-machine and half-human. This album is the perfect companion to those who seek sunless territories, roamed by murky stampedes of lifeless horseriders.
Experimental, Electronic, Abstract, Tech, Dub, Shapednoise, Mumgo, Logos; Vinyl EP - Ex Used condition
The Sprawl - a scindicate of mutant sound carriers individually known as Logos, Mumdance and Shapednoise. Inspired by Gibson's notions of uploaded consciousness in a post-human society, and the way in which the sensory-scrambling effects of technology have played out across our collective reverie, EP1ventures four cuts of retina-scorching dis-torsion and chrome-burning modular synth work.
Art, Photography, Death, Gore, Pungent Stench, Joel-Peter Witkin; DVD - Ex Used condition
RARE PROMOTIONAL-ONLY copy of "THE MYSTERY OF PRESENCE" DVD. This special DVD was used to promote Joel-Peter Witkin's exclusive showing at the RICCO / MARESCA GALLERY in NYC. The video was not available commercially and was intended for the press and patrons only, making it very difficult to find. Packaged in a standard sized CD jewel case with cover & back art inserts. The interactive DVD Menu is labeled with the Maresca gallery information and includes:
TWO COMPLETE AND UNCENSORED DOCUMENTARY FILMS:
1. "VILE BODIES" (1997)
2. "L'IMAGE INDELEBILE" (1993)
3. VIDEO PHOTO GALLERY (a collection of Joel's favorite and rarest prints)
Running time: 65 MINUTES plus PHOTO GALLERY.
One of the most renowned "grotesque" Photographer & fine artists ... Joel-Peter Witkin is explored here as the films delve into his interesting methodology and working process. Witkin explains at length his very creative and unique process, his experiences and interactions and focus on subjects and the world's surroundings.
Jarboe, Swans, Justin K Broderick, Godflesh, Experimental, Electronic, Industrial; CD (promo copy - no back CD card)
Two of the most prolific, restlessly creative, and influential artists in underground music join forces; the result sounds closest to Jarboe's dark, gothic electronics. Sonically, J2 sounds most like the terrain Jarboe has been exploring as a solo artist: dark electronica, laced, bound, and gagged with goth, psychedelia, and metal. Yet the seeds of this album were planted during the Jarboe-sung "Storm Comin'" from Jesu's recent Lifeline EP-- a dance-y, swirly, poppy track, perhaps even recorded during the same session as these. J2 opener "Decay" begins with eerie, heavily effected Jarboe yodels with a spooky synth-bass churning underneath. Then you get blasted with that thunderous distorted bass-- also an echo of sorts, showing how Broadrick's grit-doom bass from the first few industrial-based Godflesh albums owed a ton (operative word meaning heavy) to the Swans' early nightmare stomps.
Experimental, Electronic, Noise, Australian, Bedroom Community, Rare; Vinyl LP - Ex Used condition
From the ominous darkness and intensity of its opening moments, one might expect a death metal album to break out in an instant, but Theory of Machines is an album whose design is as symphonic as it is confrontational - the tempo doesn’t pick up, no hooks or vocals arrives, and when the drums finally kick in they are as fragmented and corroded as they could possibly be and still resemble a groove.
In Theory of Machines, Ben Frostexploits every extreme of pitch, volume and timbre, the changes in music sometimes seem as gradual as changes in the weather - and sometimes as violent. As the music changes it changes only in textures, colour and intensity so that the sense is not of something being created, altered or even developed, but of something already present being slowly illuminated.
