Skin Crime
The Sound of Sadism
** Edition of 250. Deluxe foil block cover on 180 gram vinyl ** The classic rests on 180 gram vinyl for the first time. originally released on the noble compact disc format as a co-release between malsonus and crowd control activities. commissioned and complied by Jonathan Canady. Controversial when it came out and controversial now, it could not be better suited for our current end-times. The sound of sadism is part of the holy trinity of classic 90’s wide spread compilations alongside cold mea…
Traveller On the Road
**300 copies, clear LP** With perhaps the most impactful, harrowing take on minimalist drone since they released Kevin Drumm’s Imperial Distortion over a decade ago, Hospital Productions finally release the first proper new album from Skin Crime in years, a quietly harrowing, Japanese ghost story-inspired album of darkest ambient and industrial shadowplay inverting noise convention and exploring ideas of tense, slow-burn patience instead of aggressive intensity.Described by the label as “the mis…
The Horror of Fang Rock
The Horror of Fang Rock is a continuation of Skin Crime's fascination with the theme of gothic horror as it relates to 18th and 19th century lighthouses. An audible soundtrack to a tale of terror for an unreleased light house keepers memoir. Dark drones, scarecrow electroniks and nightmare ambience ebb and flow over the entire opus. There are no track titles just a wall of sound to let the listener's own experience fill in the voids of the nightmare of, The Horror of Fang Rock. The recording pro…
Ghosts I Have Been
Ghosts I Have Been is the first album from the supreme atmospheric noise band Skin Crime since their colossal 20-CD box set collection on Hospital Productions in 2015. Anyone who attended the Hospital Productions 20 Years Festival in New York City and saw Skin Crime perform their first live show in nearly 15 years will understand the deep masterful balance of tension, texture, and dynamism that has been the signature since the early '90s of this cult and collectible project. A defining char…
Case Studies In Early Taxidermy Techniques
Dominick Fernow’s Hospital Productions label finally unveil this epic, years-in-the-making 20 CD retrospective/compilation of Patrick O’Neil’s noise project Skin Crime. Fernow has described Skin Crime as “the missing link between European musique concrete, Japanese noise, and the gritty abstract electronics of what became the glory and gory days of ‘American harsh noise” and has cited them as a major influence on his own work, and no doubt a major catalyst in the formation of Hospital Production…