The Rita
The Rita (aka Canadian Sam Mckinlay) essentially pioneered the idea of the “harsh noise wall”: a formless, unwavering monolith of sound that does to power-electronics what Earth did to metal. In recent years, numerous other artists have followed strictly to the guidelines of HNW, whereas McKinlay himself has continually pushed onward, unwilling to plough the same terrain for too long, only content while scratching deeper into the creative recesses of his mind.
Possessed Nun Sleaze
*300 copies limited edition* One of the first The Rita releases, out in 1998 on Labyrinth Recordings in an edition of only 50 copies and highly sought after. Finally this special album is going to be reprinted into CD. One of the early albums where S…
The Rita / Winter Rose
*100 copies limited edition* The Rita / Winter Rose split tape on Phage Tapes.
Sottana & Calze
On this split cassette, Sottana & Calze’s The Gloria and The Rita collide in a sharply focused post‑industrial ritual. Trifurcated contact mics, woolen stockings and monophonic chants meet the Canadian project’s obsessive “canes” study, pressed onto …
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Metal Machine Music: Power To Consume [Vol. 1]
On Metal Machine Music: Power To Consume Vol. 1, a coalition of noise heavyweights channels Lou Reed’s most infamous album into a new crucible of feedback, tape rot and industrial grind, where extremity becomes form and chaos is sculpted into brutal,…
Flyers & Blues
Pushing boundaries and redefining sonic experimentation, Gabi Losoncy and The Rita join forces for a striking new CD, “Flyers & Blues.” This uncompromising release offers a visceral audio experience, with each track composed entirely using NHL regula…
The Alceste
A new chapter in The Rita's singular trajectory - an artist who, despite his widespread appreciation, continues to be alone on the forefront of radical and challenging exploration of harsh sound. "The Alceste" is a return to a more layered technique,…
Correlations (Book)
This monograph presents the visual language inseparable from the higly influential sound project of Sam McKinlay, pioneer of the "harsh noise wall" with the multidisciplinary entity The Rita. Correlations presents some of the images and documents Sam…
Lines of Black Nylon and Red Cut Throats
*300 copies limited edition* Vice Wears Black Hose (V.W.B.H.) is a collaborative project by 2 monsters of the American Noise, P/E, HNW scene: Sam McKinlay aka The Rita and Richard Ramirez aka Black Leather Jesus. Project name was inspired by the Ital…
Magazine
Tip! *2023 stock* New Forces is happy to announce a 2xCD edition of the monumental "Magazine" by The Rita. This 2-disc edition is fully remastered by Grant Richardson, and includes the tracks by Treriksröset and Werewolf Jerusalem, recorded using "Ma…
Sten MK II / Breda - SAFAT
*199 copies limited edition* Guns & Harsh Noise Walls! The Rita & Uuincodified meet up for an album devoted to 2 legendary guns used during Warl War II: Sten MK II (British machine gun used by British and Commonwealth forces); Breda-SAFAT (Italian ma…
Self Shop
*300 copies limited edition* The Rita and Caligula031 "Self Shop" was first released as a split tape in 2013 by the Italian cult tape-label Nil By Mouth in a limited edition of 180 copies. 2023 marks the 10th anniversary of this album and here we go …
Split
*200 copies limited edition. In process of stocking* Brand new split LP by two titans of the harsh noise scene. One side long piece by each artist, delivering trademark splintered harsh noise and low pummelling bass rumble and crunch. Please note tha…
Medora
*2022 stock. Limited edition of 300 copies.* Here comes the next The Rita attack on Old Europa Cafe...This time also coadiuvated in noise-crime by Caligula031, Climax Denial, Lingua Ignota, Ted Byrnes...
“I’ve seen some people saying that English Nat…
Adding And Subtracting Limbs
*Limited edition of 300 copies.* Formed in Texas by Richard Ramirez back in 1989, Black Leather Jesus is for sure one of the more prominent and reknown harsh-noise collectives world-wide. The Rita is the solo project of Sam McKinlay, also reknown for…
Sharks And The Female Form / Tight Fitting Armor
Sharks and the Female Form. The aesthetics and patterns of a woman’s physical form violently and tragically manipulated in the arts:
Painting“You have dared to torture the female who was so certain he would always be adored! You have scourged her, fl…
The Elizabeth, The Mary
For those who have followed this project over the years, at this point you are either fully on board or perhaps you've abandoned ship. This is not the type of project you occasionally dabble with, it's a multi-verse of escapism for the fanatically ob…
Bandaged Invisibility
*Limited to 50 comes along an exclusive black t-shirt in chain-spun cotton with white monochrome print with the original artwork by Sam McKinlay * With his flagship project based in Canada, The Rita, Sam McKinlay has explored and distilled into sound…
Bandaged Invisibility
Crushingly beautiful, conceptual rich, and patent by a deep sense of emotive tension, The Rita’s Bandaged Invisibility is issued as double cassette in a very limited edition of 99 hand numbered copies, housed in a beautiful deluxe wooden box.
Womankind
** Compilation of the two Womankind cassettes released on Survivalist in 2010 and 2012. Remastered in an edition of 200 copies ** A new compilation featuring the two Womankind tapes by The Rita released on Survivalist in 2010 & 2012. Remastered by Gr…
Swingers Get Killed
** Remastered by Grant Richardson. Edition of 200 CDs in digipak covers ** Reissue of the classic The Rita's album released on Solipsism in 1998. Featuring new artwork and co-released with Self Abuse Records. A true noise classic.
Gamzatti
* Reissue on CD with 8 panel digipak, booklet, includes new material * CD reissue of the long sold-out The Rita LP 'Gamzatti'. Includes an extra 27 minute long reworking of original source material entitled "Gamzatti Stripped". 'Gamzatti' marked the …
Threesome Slitting
**In process of stocking. 300 copies white label 45 RPM 12".** Live collaboration between these titans of harsh noise. Recorded February 2014 at Dead Audio studio, in Houston, Texas. Double sided offset printed DIY style pasted covers, including A4 i…
The Nylons of Laura Antonelli
**300 copies** "Here we have The Nylons of Laura Antonelli, a multi-item release by The Rita, Sam McKinlay. The version you have here is its third issue. This release is the sound of different models of nylon for legs used according to Sam's own purp…
Journey Of The K-Verband (Throat Lure)
2017 Edition. Journey Of The K-Verband (Throat Lure) was recorded in the summer of 2011 and is the second chapter of The Voyage Of The Decima Mas. The K-Verband was the WWII German frogman equivalent to the Italian Decima MAS; taking example from th…
Wide-Eyed In The Dark
2017 Edition. This is an immersive collaboration between 2 heavyweight practitioners of the noise sub-genre Harsh Noise Wall: An Innocent Young Throat-Cutter and The Rita. Wide-Eyed In The Dark features the ever prolific American noisemaker Richard R…
Female Statuesque
2015 Edition. The Rita continues his journey through ballet fetishism. Female Statuesque is a complex work of obsessive research on discipline, elite beauty, and suffering in the world of ballet. Monolithic walls of harsh noise with the classic Sam M…
Toe Cleavage
"With his flagship project, The Rita, Sam McKinlay has, for nearly two decades, explored and distilled into sound various permutations of fetish and vice. He is recognized as the creator of Wall Noise (or Harsh Noise Walls/HNW), but that sound — mass…
The Lilac Fairy
Pygmalion carved a beautiful woman from ivory and when he kissed his statue’s cool white lips he found that Aphrodite had turned them pink and warm with life. From ephemera, from tulle and satin, The Rita has assembled a fantasy woman; a ballerina, a…
Queen Sheets
Some time ago a colleague emailed me and informed me that an artist made a short video of herself knitting to The Rita's 'Thousands of Dead Gods.' I watched the short video and thought it was interesting, but then also noticed that the woman had a l…
La Vierge de Nurembourg
'La Vierge de Nurembourg' 4 x 7inch red vinyl with Vomir, Safe, The Rita, Torturing Nurse. Very limited edition (100 copies only).
Women’s Vocals
For THE RITA, the abstraction and minimalism of the female form has played a major role in the fetishized development of his source sounds and eventual harsh sound manipulations. Eye shadow and eyebrow pencil pushed to raccoon-like limits and nylon …
Predators
European tour 7". Two 5 minute studio tracks of processed underwater recordings. Bayonet and diving knife scrapings in a steel basin, recorded closely and then processed to breaking point. Limited edition of 200 copies.
Collaboration
A new collaboration with Canadian harsh noise artist THE RITA and Italian harsh noise artist ALO GIRL (Urashima label owner Cristiano Renzoni). Taking the combined love of both projects for knives, legs, black hose and Giallo films, the two vinyl tr…
Skate-Snorkel
The second LP in the RRR Foley Artist Series. Another great noise-wall record from The Rita. Two sound sources, one for each side. Because each side is a completely separate sound source, lets consider it a split LP.
Tortured Ghosts Of Creeks And Rivers
Released on Trash Ritual [website], a USA-based label specialising in Harsh Noise/Power Electronics. Limited to 200, released in 2006 - Found this copy at RRR [website] while visiting Lowell (RRRon RRRules) - No need to try to get a copy directly fro…
Two On A Match
The ongoing study and execution of harsh noise by driven artists constantly reinstates the medium via different techniques, concepts, and different artist amalgamations for a collaborative work. For myself, working with the different 'warbling' and g…