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The New Blockaders

Country: United Kingdom

The New Blockaders combined a masked mythology with a militant anti-art/anti-music stance. This was the very definition of nihilism through sound. They can truly be credited as pioneers of Noise music as we know it toda

The New Blockaders (LP)
Impossibly rare original copy of one of the most sought-after artifacts of the early experimental DIY/noise scene, self-released in 1982 in an edition of 100 copies with die-cut generic cardboard sleeve and xeroxed insert. Total nihilist and anti-eve…
Changez Les Blockeurs (CD)
Rare 1995 first-ever CD re-issue on Urthona in an edition of 750 copies of the most classic album of nihilist noise originally released in 1982.
Live At Morden Tower Newcastle-Upon-Tyne (tape)
Ultra-rare American edition with different cover produced by Aeon in 1984 of the first self-published cassette album of a 1983 live nihilist noisefest in collaboration with Sir Ashleigh Grove (Metgumbnerbone), with hand-painted labels and xerox of th…
Seinsart (CD)
2000 first-ever CD re-issue on Siren Records in an edition of 200 numbered copies of the first self-published cassette album of a 1983 live nihilist noisefest in collaboration with Sir Ashleigh Grove (Metgumbnerbone).
The New Vortex Blockaders Campaign (LP)
1998 first vinyl re-issue in an edition of 200 copies with unique sleeves hand-made with fragments of vinyl records of the 1984 ultra-limited noise-fest cassette. With insert.
The Final Recordings (LP)
Rare original and sole edition of the collaboration with Andrew Chalk released by Christoph Heeman's Dom Bartwuchs in an edition of 300 copies in 1990.
The Final Recordings (LP)
Ultra-rare original test-pressing collaboration with Andrew Chalk released by Christoph Heeman's Dom Bartwuchs in 1990.
Simphonie In X Major
Picture-disc in an edition of 400 copies released by RRRecords in 2004.
Simphonie In Ø Minor (tape)
1991 cassette released in 1991 by Hypnagogia in a hand-numbered edition of 250 copies and TNB's most nihilist release (the tape is blank).
TNB Est Mort! (2CD box)
Double-CD set with recordings featuring Andrew Chalk (Ferial Confine) contained in an oversize box with booklet, released by Tesco Organisation in an edition of 988 hand-numbered copies in 1995.
Final Live Performance (CD)
1997 CD-only live release featuring Andrew Chalk (Ferial Confine) in an edition of 400 numbered copies jointly released by Robot and Siren Records.
History Of Nothing (CD)
Rare 2001 CD compilation with mostly previously unreleased recordings from 1982/1984, released by Siren Records in an edition of 500 copies.
Live At Hinoeuma (LP)
Picture-disc in an edition of 400 copies released by RRRecords in 2004.
Oumagatoki (LP)
2004 collaboration between the two Kings of Noise released as a 10"LP on Hypnagogia in an edition of 400 copies.
Force Majeure 87")
2008 7" on splatter vinyl released by Dot Dot Dot Music in an edition of 250 copies.
Regelmasken (LP)
2010 split LP released on Kommissar Hjuler's Domestic Violence Recordings in an edition of 177 hand-numbered copies with paste-on cover.
Dedication (LP)
1992 compilation of European and Japanese noise bands released by Freudwerk/Artware in and edition of 300 hand-numbered copies with hand-painted cover. With booklet.
Anti-film Reworked
*300 copies limited edition* A compilation of tracks constructed using audio from an anti-film project originally conducted by The New Blockaders.
Collaberrations (2CD + 1DVD)
For a group founded on refusal, The New Blockaders have collaborated a great deal. It is less a contradiction than it looks. Where most collaborations in music amount to two recognisable personalities meeting and reinforcing each other, TNB's have al…
Viva Negativa! The New Blockaders: The Noise of Art and Nothing (Book)
Few gestures in the history of recorded sound have been as absolute as the one Richard and Philip Rupenus made in a garden shed in rural Newcastle in 1982, when – as The New Blockaders – they committed Changez Les Blockeurs to tape and, with it, drew…
Viva Negativa! The New Blockaders: The Noise of Art and Nothing
Few gestures in the history of recorded sound have been as absolute as the one Richard and Philip Rupenus made in a garden shed in rural Newcastle in 1982, when – as The New Blockaders – they committed Changez Les Blockeurs to tape and, with it, drew…
Antibox
With Antibes, The New Blockaders compress twelve years of activity into a fiercely curated 4CD set, 100 copies only, each hand‑signed and uniquely defaced. It plays like a late‑period labyrinth: alternates, rarities, and lost shards arranged as a sin…
Succès De Scandale
On Succès De Scandale, The New Blockaders exhume and reframe their own history, collaging a feral 1984 Morden Tower performance with later materials into a single, rust‑coloured slab of anti‑music that feels like the group’s original sabotage reactiv…
The Melancholy Mad Tenant
The Melancholy Mad Tenant, a collaboration between Coil, The New Blockaders, and Vortex Campaign, is a remastered anthology of radical noise, drone, and experimental anti‑music. It delivers brutal textures, haunting silences, and fierce creative inte…
Earthen - A Cold Spring Sampler
With two exclusive tracks by Coil and Psychic TV.
Pulchrum Metallum
Hot on the heels of the TNB + LSD La Puissance Du Vide LP (Wepwawet Editions) comes Pulchrum Metallum, a three-track collaboration CD in conjunction with Knurl. Pulchrum Metallum is a work of a seemingly incompatible blending of aesthetics. Allan Zan…
The Stage As Antiworld
This double CD set includes an extended collaboration between The New Blockaders & Grinder-without-Organs, and two live recordings of anti-theatre premiered at Cafe OTO (London, UK) and Audio Foundation (Auckland, NZ). The set also includes a link to…
Denn Das Schöne Ist Nichts Als Des Schrecklichen Anfang
Four long collaborations between The New Blockaders and Stephen Meixner, Ice Yacht (Philip Sanderson) and Das Synthetische Mischgewebe: a quieter, musique concrète side of TNB, one piece built on readings from their manifesto. 6-panel digipack.
Etudes De Rien
* Edition of 200 copies, black vinyl * The New Blockaders are unique in the history of music and art. What, in our opinion, stands supreme in TNB’s 40-year existence is a passionate execution of their anarchistic and unconventional stance. In a biogr…
Kyomu-No-Ne
*249 copies limited edition. 2023 stock* These 2 heavyweights and veterans of the harsh noise genre come together once again to deliver 3 tracks of junk noise nihilism. Titled “Kyomu-No-Ne” in Japanese, it loosely translates to the philosophical phra…
Seinsart : Live at Morden Tower
Tip! *Limited edition of 300 copies.* Live At Morden Tower was first released in 1983 and re-released many times through the years but never into CD format. Finally here comes the very first CD re-edition of such seminal work including as bonus also …
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Changez Les Blockeurs
** Deluxe vinyl LP version. Much needed repress of this all time classic. Transparent vinyl ** Within the history of noise music, there are few artefacts, as seminal as The New Blockaders' Changez Les Blockeurs. Anyone who has even a casual interest …
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Simphonie In X Major
Edition of 300 copies in digipack. Re-issue of noise classic Simphonie in X Major (1989) plus Simphonie in O Minor (1991).Quoting audion magazine'  The New Blockaders certainly make one hell of a racket. Simphonie In X Major makes Whitehouse sound li…
Prickle / Crevice
Edition of 300. An incredible collaboration of East & West noise. This is a one sided clear LP, which come with hand painted insert by Rupenus and a full color transparency photo by Nobuo Yamada
The New Vortex Blockaders Campaign
Edition of 180 copies in digipack. First official re-issue. The New Vortex Blockaders Compaign was released on tape in 1984 and was bootlegged on LP in 1998. Both editions are now sought after collectors items. This release went down in noise histor…
The Pulp Sessions II
Edition of 180 copies in digipack. 'When I heard the The New Blockaders / Organum ‘Pulp’ 7” in the mid-‘80s it was one of the noisiest things I had ever heard and I had heard plenty of Industrial Music and Power Electronica as well as a lot of earlie…
Kunst In Gebreke
**numbered edition of 25 copies** Composed and mixed by Raymond Dijkstra & The New Blockaders. LP in Softcover Black Normal LP Cover. Original Collage Artwork by Raymond Dijkstra and Richard Rupenus. Signed by the Artist. Each copy is different.
Destructieve Verlichting
**numbered art edition of 25 copies** Raymond Dijkstra and The New Blockaders have been collaborating since 2010. This is the first music published of this collaboration. Destructieve Verlichting (Destructive Enlightenment) is issued in ten parts on …
Changez Retravaillé
Edition of 300 copies. 3 CD set with booklet. Compilation including Nurse With Wound, Asmus Tietchens, Ralf Wehowsky, Thurston Moore, Merzbow, Jim O'Rourke and many more reworking of The New Blockaders's legendary LP from 1982.  Changez Les Blockeurs…
Live At The Rammel Club / The Dome
2016 Release. The kings of UK confrontational Noise Music, The New Blockaders, surface yet again with these 2012 recordings, which features two lengthy performances captured in venues in Nottingham and London respectively. The first was part of the B…