The New Blockaders

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-everything noise and now history. A once-in-a-lifetime chance to get a copy.

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.

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 the original cover.

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).

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.

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.

Ultra-rare original test-pressing collaboration with Andrew Chalk released by Christoph Heeman's Dom Bartwuchs in 1990.

Picture-disc in an edition of 400 copies released by RRRecords in 2004.

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).

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.

1997 CD-only live release featuring Andrew Chalk (Ferial Confine) in an edition of 400 numbered copies jointly released by Robot and Siren Records.

Rare 2001 CD compilation with mostly previously unreleased recordings from 1982/1984, released by Siren Records in an edition of 500 copies.

Picture-disc in an edition of 400 copies released by RRRecords in 2004.

2004 collaboration between the two Kings of Noise released as a 10"LP on Hypnagogia in an edition of 400 copies.

2008 7" on splatter vinyl released by Dot Dot Dot Music in an edition of 250 copies.

2010 split LP released on Kommissar Hjuler's Domestic Violence Recordings in an edition of 177 hand-numbered copies with paste-on cover.

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.

*300 copies limited edition* A compilation of tracks constructed using audio from an anti-film project originally conducted by The New Blockaders.

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 always worked in the opposite direction: material is passed over, altered, buried, returned, and what emerges belongs to nobody in particular. Paul Hegarty has described the process as one in which individuality gets swamped, the sound cut loose from a…

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 the founding line of noise as an art of pure negation. From the outset TNB armed the music with a manifesto: blockade as resistance, an anti-music and anti-art set against every convention of composition, performance, and even personality, the sound…

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 the founding line of noise as an art of pure negation. From the outset TNB armed the music with a manifesto: blockade as resistance, an anti-music and anti-art set against every convention of composition, performance, and even personality, the sound…

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 single, anti‑retrospective.

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 reactivated for the present.

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 interplay, pushing sound to extremes where chaos and restraint strangely converge.​

With two exclusive tracks by Coil and Psychic TV.

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 Zane has seamlessly merged the anti-music of TNB with Knurl’s mechanized, amorphous soundscapes, feeding the results through the LSD absurdity blender to create a swirling vortex of utter chaos.

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 access a bonus film and extra, printable material. CD1 features 'Ein Glücklicherer Zufall: Genau Zu Lang (A Happier Accident: Exactly Too Long)', an hour-long, part studio / part live collaboration between seminal anti-music stalwarts The New Blocka…

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.

* 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 biographical reference, TNB are often cited as pioneers of Noise music but for TNB themselves Noise music is not just an assault on tonality but a complex language of communication. From Luigi Russolo's 1913 Art Of Noise manifesto to TNB’s T.I.C. manifest…

*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 phrase “The Sound of Nihilism”.The complex mosaic of harsh frequencies stack and pile on each other relentlessly, detailing the richness of sound through crazed electronics and effects device manipulation. Organic sound elements get deconstructed and reg…

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 the track "Live At Anti-Fest". Changez Les Blockeurs (1982), is the first true Noise LP of the modern era. Although Changez Les Blockeurs was undoubtedly hugely influential, TNB’s Live At Morden Tower cassette (1983) was perhaps even more so, just ab…

** 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 in noise music should need no introduction to The New Blockaders. Hailed by Ron Lessard (of legendary US noise label RRR) as, ‘The first truly devoted noise artists,’ TNB self-released their debut LP in 1982. That original LP is now one of the most s…

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 like minimal art! 'TNB are in a world of their own and always have been. Ripped out of the grooves and positively bleeding out of the speakers Simphonie In X Major takes Stockhausen's baby and abuses it cruelly. Once the bloody and battered carcass has…

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

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 history as a big classic, and is now reissued, in nice remastered form.'Extreme, nihilistic Musique Concrete which creates unrelenting walls of sound... Images of chaos, collapse and extreme violence dominate.' Aeon'This will rip your face off and wear it …

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 earlier noisy music. On ‘The Pulp Sessions II’ Part I the noise levels and sounds change throughout the course of both sides, but the level of pandemonium remains constant. There are loads of feedback, radio, scraping, clanking, and other sounds, chopping …

**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.

**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 5x 8" vinyl records on Des Astres d’Or. Comes in a collage artwork and bolted box / wooden dowel designed by and executed by Raymond Dijkstra. Each copy is different.

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 has attained a somewhat mythical / legendary status (Record Collector magazine included it in a list of the rarest, most collectable records ever) and 2017 was the 35th anniversary of its original release. In celebration of this, TNB invited some of…

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 Broken Flag Festival held that year, the second as part of the Harbinger Sound Festival. That information alone might be helpful to put these recordings in context after all Steve Underwood, the owner of Harbinger Sound, had just published his first (…