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.
Electronic, Experimental, Industrial, Techno, Noise; Limited Edition (500 copies) Vinyl LP - Ex Used condition
With 'Referèndum' Exoteric Continent draws us into the awkward spaces and styles around techno and noise's shifting, jagged borders, using drums, percussion, magnetic tape and synthesisers to outline nine atonal and enigmatic silhouettes. Ranging from the creeping slow techno misshape of 'Percentages' thru the sagging chamber feeling of 'Posicions', to the Soisong-like gamelan tones of 'Transició', and over to the kinky industrial swing instincts of 'La Mirada Llarga', he mixes rugged structures with stranger, keening electronics in the insectoid logic of 'Autoritat', and the rubbled electro-acoustic texturhythm of 'Agrupació Civil' to forge a fractious, unstable brace of noise techno that sits somewhere between classic Pan Sonic and his Hospital lablemate Alberich.
Experimental, Ambient , Electronic, Minimal, Mika Vainio, Pan Sonic, Darkwave; Double LP (2014) - Ex Used condition
Konstellaatio, Vainio’s full-length under his occasional mononym Ø, shares several sonic and stylistic traits with the slow wave of doom-oriented electronic musicians that have grown out of darkwave, shoegaze and heavy metal in recent years. Across these nine tracks, Vainio juxtaposes blanketing drones with airy keyboards, clipped beats and beeps with seemingly bottomless bass. These slow-motion spans treat the beautiful and the threatening as necessary complements, as though he were a horror film director with an eye for both shock and cinematic elegance. For its overall aggression and bulk, Vainio’s back catalogue can be intimidating, even off-putting. But Konstellaatio is luminous and eerie, the sort of liminal record where the pretty sounds elicit goose bumps and the grimmest tones feel like exhalations. Likely by little conscious design, Vainio is the stylistic contemporary of acts such as Demdike Stare, the Haxan Cloak and Andy Stott, at least temporarily. If there’s a movement among such groups, Konstellaatio merits more than mention with it.
Punk, Oi!, Street Punk, UK; Various Artists Compilation Vinyl LP (1982) - VG Used condition
Pretty cool label compilation by Beat the System/Lightbeat Records with their house bands and in 1982 they have published of those their first 7Inches and pressed some here plus a few rare tracks I think. The result can be compared with other UK slabs of that time and that were some. Fourteen, two from each band, spiky short goodies which will not die out. Let's see what else I pack today at the buffet!
Industrial, Techno, Electronic, Experimental, Noise, Remixes; 12" Clear Vinyl 3 track Single - Ex Used condition
Violetshaped is a collaboration between Violet Poison and Berlin-based artist Shapednoise. This first installment in this series features remixes from Roly Porter (formerly of Vex'd), who electrocutes "The Lord Won't Forget" with spasmodic concrète jolts, Vatican Shadow aka Dominick Fernow tattooing your ear drum on "Delusory Parasitosis" with drum work almost approaching Cut Hands levels of focused ferocity, and Kangding Ray who rounds it all out with a grungy, pendulous re-carve of "The Oven."
Industrial, Ambient, Experimental, Noise, Michael Gira, Jarboe, Swans; Vinyl LP + poster and flier - Ex Used condition ('87 pressing)
Blood, Women, Roses (1987) was Michael Gira and Jarboe's SWANS side project's first release and featured vocals entirely by Jarboe, who had previously mainly been performing backing vocals. Many of the tracks on this album were covers of show tunes and other popular songs (for example "Cry Me a River" and "The Man I Love").
Dark, Depressing, Disturbing, Historical, Documentary; DVD
Witness, if you will, just a smattering of the horrors within:
A ten-year-old boy and his younger brother run away from home, find a remote farm several miles away and promptly blow the owner’s head off. They spend the rest of the summer frolicking at the ill-gotten farmhouse until the farmer’s brother comes for a visit. The boy is sentenced to life in jail. A funeral director is suspected of botching a burial. The woman’s body is exhumed and the woman is found to have been buried alive, her fingers bitten half off in madness after discovering her horrific fate. A sixty-year-old woman, afraid that the rash on her back would kill her, steps into her backyard, douses herself with gasoline and self-immolates. A young mother takes her three children out for a day at the beach, and then drowns them, one by one, while the others watch. A fifteen-year-old Polish girl burns down her employer’s barn—and his house—because she wanted some “excitement.” A young German man, having only moved to Black River Falls a month prior, attempts suicide by train, lying down on the tracks and refusing to move. He is finally removed by four men. He later vanishes. A teenage girl, jilted at the altar by her fiance, goes mad with grief, hanging herself in the local asylum. Meanwhile a young man, also recently jilted, shoots his ex-fiance and then himself. A recently divorced man shoots his ex-wife and her family dead in the crowded town square. An outbreak of diphtheria kills off a score of local children. The school is closed and the houses of the afflicted burned to the ground. A formerly world famous opera singer moves to town and within a month is reduced to eating chicken feed to survive. A farmer decapitates all of his chickens and burns down his farmhouse, convinced that the devil has taken over his farm. A drifter is taken in by a kindly family. He has dinner with them and as they sleep, he shoots them all and then himself.
And there’s more, so much more. Just endless misery death, murder, mutilation, arson, starvation, cruelty and unrelenting depression. And all in the space of just a few years
Horror, Gore, LSD, Acid, Bloodthirsty, Uncensored, Deluxe; 2 Blu-ray set + Acid Blotter Sheet
RABID, DRUG-INFESTED HIPPIES ON A BLOOD-CRAZED KILLING SPREE!
It's NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD meets Charlie Manson in this gore-drenched 1971 drive-in classic. After consuming rabies-infected meat pies, an LSD-addicted hippie cult goes on a vicious murdering rampage! Heavily censored since its original release, this infamous landmark of cinematic brutality is being presented in all its blood-splattered glory.
Special Features:
Spectacular new HD restoration of the original UNCENSORED DIRECTOR'S CUT
4 controversial deleted scenes including the original blood-drenched ending deemed too disturbing for '70s audiences!
Provocative audio commentary by director David Durston and star Bhaskar
Newly recorded audio commentary by stars Jack Damon and Tyde Kierney
Revealing on-camera interviews with stars Lynn Lowry, Tyde Kierney and Jack Damon
New in-depth interview with director David Durston
The original theatrical trailer and radio spots
Extensive gallery of stills and poster art
Rare and shocking film of Bhaskar performing THE EVIL KING COBRA DANCE
TWO BONUS CO-FEATURES
- I EAT YOUR SKIN (1964) - presented for the very first time in HD + exclusive interview with 2nd unit director William Grefe
- BLUE SEXTET (1969) - David Durston's long-lost uncensored psychedelic shocker presented for the very first time on home video!
Corrupted, Doom, Real Footage, Deathumentary, Mondo, Shockumentary, Documentary; DVD New Sealed
Japanese documentarian / death photographer Tsurisaki Kiyotaka is back, with his own unique vision of our planet. The Wasteland is a look into the world around us. It is a look into the aftermath of war, religion, and other evil facets that aid in the destruction of Earth. Kiyotaka teams up with the legendary doom metal band Corrupted to set the mood for this epic. Don't look away. The Wasteland is real.
Experimental, Noise, Electronic, Guitar, Dark, Sweden; Limited Numbered edition (300 copies) Vinyl LP
Malign trades in a sense of depression and negativity that draws strength from the vacuum behind hope, vacillating forlorn, Loren Connors-like guitar melodies and rubbled shellac samples that recall The Caretaker with passages of fierce distortion and slurried atmospheric textures that project hellish images of waterboarding and abject terror on the mind. The guitar pieces are almost Jandek-like in their awkwardness, often morphing mid sentence into the kind of shuddering knots that Aaron Dilloway would be proud of, steadily toeing away hope in favour of full depressive immersion and feelings from the brink. Ultimately, though, the record wouldn’t be so convincing without its severe sense of sincerity, honestly conveying that pall of darkness without any ironic distance. It’s a proper downer in the best way.
Soundtrack, Film Score, Limited Edition, Coloured Vinyl, Death Waltz, Horror, Cult; Limited Edition (400 copies)
Jay Chattaway’s score to the sleazy 1980 horror flick Maniac is a great listen, with a certain amount of big dramatic arpeggiations, but also with plenty of rarer elements in the mix. Think eerie strings, flutes and discordant synth-stabs, arranged in an unpredictable and unsettling way. Limited edition of 400 transparent blue vinyl LPs, via Death Waltz.
