Bog Summoner
Renowned composer and sound artist Francis Heery, under his alias The Cube of Unknowing, announces the release of his latest sonic expedition, 'Bog Summoner', via Library of the Occult. This immersive electronic album blends kosmische, motorik rhythms, and spectral atmospheres, drawing listeners deep into the mysterious heart of the Irish Midlands. A visionary in avant-garde music, Heery's compositions have been performed by ensembles including the RTE Symphony Orchestra, Crash Ensemble, Quiet M…
Ex Machina⁴ - Edition Siebziger Jahre
2007 release ** Excellent electro-acoustic music compilation. Works composed in 1974, 1974/75, 1978 & 1974.
Firestorm
2009 release ** "Tom Hamilton is unquestionably among the most inquisitive minds around. Local Customs explores some obscure notions about music theory and performance practice, leading to sound combinations that are at once unsettling and yet somehow familiar. One discovers that there is very little in Local Customs that follows from conventionally intentional music writing. It is perhaps better to regard it as a group of artifacts of little-known origins, modified through new transformations i…
☆Lolicon Noise Star☆
2012 release ** Limited edition of 100 copies. "Venta Protesix hates music. He and his laptop are between the foremost representatives of the global scene of lolicon noise purism, a micro-terrorist genre born on the deepest reaches of last.fm shoutboxes, where mysterious 14-old Japanese schoolgirls praise chemical drug abuse, Konata-worship and black metal. Among his peculiar influences are 山内大輔 Daisuke Yamanouchi’s ero-guro movies, AV idols, hentai and the concept of fan service as an ontologic…
Sampo Distortion
2010 release ** Harsh-noise metal-junk project from Russia/Poland.
Niigata
2007 release ** "Minamata is the noise side-project of the veteran French industrial project La Nomenklatur. Primarily active from the mid 80's to the early 90's with tape releases. Minimata's world is a toxic one of industrial wastewater and environmental decay, where the human howls struggle against tides of metal junk noise and sustained pollution. This re-issue of the project's third tape from 1985 comes with two estra tracks from compilations recorded at the same period and one unreleased 1…
Solo: Observed
1989 release ** "Stefanie Schwedes began her artistic career in the 1980s with the Becker Lehnhoff music project. Sound installations were created using tape recordings and later digital sampling. The artist has developed this basic working method further and transferred it to the image. She explores human-nature relationships in photography, drawings, spatial and sound installations."
Love's Song (Limbo)
Love’s Song (Limbo) is a collaborative LP from artists Reece Cox and Liza Lacroix. This 10 track LP is a release version of a 90 minute soundtrack composed by Cox for the occasion of two solo exhibitions by Lacroix in 2024 - the first at Neue Galerie Gladbeck, Germany and the second opening shortly after at Magenta Plains, NY. In each exhibition the piece was installed within a locked closet and played at high volume as if emanating from the stereo of an inconsiderate neighbor, acting as an inte…
Dans Ta Nuit
French coldwave act Corps Diplomatique comes to Dark Entries with Dans Ta Nuit, a collection of tracks recorded between 1984-1987. Founded in Marseille by Olivier Aubin, Marie-Eve Bensussan, Patrick Loubet and Nicolas Pélissier, Corps Diplomatique remain shrouded in mystery. The band only released one 7” during their time, 1988’s Paradis I, in addition to appearing with three tracks on the La Muse Vénale compilation, a holy grail for devotees of the French coldwave. Dans Ta Nuit brings us nine t…
Crepuscular Elixirs
Tip! After releases on Ginjoha, Ikuisuus, Mappa and Nonlocal Research such as Collision and Coalescence and Squirlich Stroll, the German/Finnish duo composed by Jani Hirvonen (Uton) and Johannes Schebler (Baldruin) teams up with Artetetra, bringing to light a new sonic wizardry. It has been six years since Grykë Pyje (forest ravine in Albanian) stretched out their high sensitivity feelers for the first time into the greatest of outdoors to bring us fascinating, multilayered soundscapes and intro…
Parasite
2009 release ** "The works of Antanas Kučinskas collected on the album "Parasite" are based on the method of re-composition, i.e. processing material with a strong historical and stylistic identity using techniques that are completely "alien" to him. I am talking in particular about sampling, loops and scratches, which make up the aesthetics that Kučinskas himself called "parasitic music". I am an omnivorous parasite: my works feed on existing music and develop at its expense until the complete …
Like Music To Their Ears Vol. 2
2004 release ** "This is a compilation from the French label Mechanoise Labs and, as it says in the subtitle, it’s ‘an international gathering of extreme electronics’. These extreme electronics are often presented in a noise form, but it’s not only about that. Some of the tracks, by Cutman (from France), Control (from USA) and others, are like a harsher noisy side of (post)industrial. Sometimes there’s use of talking samples or the noise atmosphere is building up with voice shouting in Cutman’s …
Into The Void
2005 release ** "Into the Void is a reflection upon the history and the recent changes in the Krakovian neighborhood of Kazimierz. The center of this meditation is the seemingly contradictory development of the last few years, which shows the attempts to re-animate Jewish culture. This piece is an attempt to reverse the seasons from summer to winter in the 700-year-old Jewish district of Krakow. What struck Meissner at first sight, was the glaring contrast between the rich, the rise of the mater…
Decay And Demoralization
2005 release ** "MAAAA's "Decay and Demoralization" comes at you with 6 tracks well over 60 minutes in length. This stuff is harsh and without a doubt the most extreme band coming out of Poland's underground today. Decay and Demoralization includes tons of power electronics and bizarre recordings that create an odd, otherworldly atmosphere stuck in a white noise frenzy. Banging metal, shrieking, dying, the cover of this album should say it all. These guys like to take the energy of punk rock and…
Nowhere Campfire Tapes
2005 release ** "Third release under the pseudonym Punck for Adriano Zanni, an artist active in the Italian electroacoustic scene since the first half of the 90s. After his debut "Mu", released in 2002 on cd-r support, follows the 3-inch "A Movie Without Images" on the Ctrl+Alt+Canc label, a small netlabel founded by Zanni himself and dedicated to the diffusion of experimental sounds that, among other things, also includes in its catalog Ovo di Bruno Dorella and Sinistri. "Nowhere Campfire Tapes…
Tone Redust
2006 release ** "There are a lot of spontaneous and “fortuitous” sounds from casual urban life in that music on the face of it. But it is impossible to be sure that these sounds are on the background of other elements or these sounds serve themselves as a background for something main… There are also some naive and unaffected chords played on acoustic guitar as well as some clinking and iridescent synth waves & gentle drones. Generally speaking, any tunes, any beats. But, on the whole the struct…
Pluma De Piedra
2002 release ** "Two spirits, one sound: making music that moves. Moving onwards, in the open, invisible fields. Moving towards their own souls. Creating his personal path into the pure and mystical depths of pre-hispanic richness, Mexican musician Reyes encounters Dutch sound-sculptor Blauw, who makes use of digital communication tools to pave the way for vulnerable, powerful and everlasting nudity. This joint-adventure erases virtual differences between the old and the new, between wholesome a…
White Zombie
2016 release ** "Paul Roland’s obsession with the 1931 film White Zombie, starring Bela Lugosi, a true cult of voodoo cinema, led him in the 90s to write the basis of what should have been the film’s soundtrack, rewritten by Roland. It was mostly instrumental music, with songs and choirs that depicted the slavery of these men reduced by the mad scientist to zombies, automatons to increase the workforce in the factories. A rather current theme, outside of metaphor… Talking about it one evening at…
Breathing
1996 release ** "In deference to this age of “environmental consciousness”, “Breathing”, says the insert, is “recycled and/or scavenged” pieces that once inhabited another form. The composer is Al Margolis, who appears on electronics, tapes, effects, piano, sampled flute, vocals, wind, cello and strings. He is joined by didjeridu, oboe and organ. The album beds itself in deep wind or breath like sounds, with an electronic, industrial, and dark edge."