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The Irresistible Art Of Space Colonization And Its Mutation
CD Edition. Sigillum S, the Italian deranged explorers of unknown territories among extreme electronics, fringe acoustics and occultist noise, are back with a new album, the first one featuring the line-up of Eraldo Bernocchi, Paolo “NG5361” Bandera and Bruno Dorella.Since 1985, Sigillum S have been continuously developing their own special brand of post-industrial audio investigations, where theories lead trajectories and sound is employed as a tool for mapping of neglected areas of the subcon…
Controlled Death Blax Box
Wooden black box comes with LP, CD digipack and two cassettes plus postcard, insert, business card and sheet with notes in Japanese by Tamotsu Mochida, in 199 copies. Controlled Death is a new project by the Japanese noise legend Maso Yamazaki a.k.a. Masonna. In April 2018 he decided to make a shudder debut with 1st album "Symphony For The Black Murder" . In this LP, Maso Yamazaki tried to commit to the dark side of psychedelia deepest in his own projects history and surprised the fans, but as s…
Ultimate Ambience
Deluxe edition, 199 copies w/insert. Finally available again, is the MSBR (Molten Salt Breeder Reactor), a.k.a. Koji Tano, debut album! Msbr was one of the most respected noise artists to arise from Japan's exciting noise/experimental music scene of the 1990's. Much of his material was self-released on his own label, the astounding MSBR Records, which was dedicated to the production of limited edition releases wi…
Meta
**Limited edition of 300 copies on black vinyl** Backwards proudly presents the new full length album of Greek great artist Dead Gum. "Meta", Dead Gum’s sophomore studio album, constituted a challenge for its maker. While “Gainer” - its predecessor - hollered for awareness and singularity, this one indulges into multi-layered, ambiguous narratives tracing an impossible duality. With abiding influences that distance him from conspicuous contemporary norms, Panagiotis Spoulos creates a nocturnal, …
The Ruins
From the ruins of hours of multi-channel recordings created during his residency at EMS Stockholm, Francisco Meirino has created a definitive statement of time and discovery. Inspired by the Serge and Buchla modular synthesizers, he felt as if he were standing before ancient ruins, familiar yet unknown. After allowing these recordings to sit and decay over time, he discovered, when he finally came back to them, that all that was left were the pieces and ruins of sonic archives. The end result is…
Today is Horrible
**Theatrical harsh noise stalwart, Peter J. Woods displays a tightrope of
finesse and bravado. Dynamic work ranging from sound art, spoken word
and power electronics in a miraculously short span. Milwaukee’s finest** Recorded between 2014 and 2018, Today is Horrible chronicles the sonic elements from six different performance pieces written and performed by Peter J. Woods during that time. Although these recordings rely on Woods’ usual palette of sounds (sine waves, crumbling static, obscured …
Benzedrine Bonanza
Where spring LP Omelette Of Disease was an orgy in painfully hard driven feedback, and the early summer cassette Overdrive focused on rumbling low-end, Benzedrine Bonanza brings a live all-at-once approach. Not unlike Schakalens Bror's earliest cassette excretions, yet now more refined and with the energy of his later live shows successfully transferred to tape. Fully fledged free form guitar noise in a league of its own.
Kallt Kaffe
Dan Johansson, Matthias Andersson, and Erik Nystrand blasting all the way off as they’re known to do, guaranteed to please the throng of superfans. "Heinz Hopf is a trio of Matthias Andersson, Dan Johansson, and Erik Nystrand. You have seen all these names before in these pages. Heinz Hopf is a Harsh Noise project for sure. The emphasis is on feedback, amp/mic abuse style. There are a few more or less subdued moments, but for the most part, this is Noise City. I cannot get all that enthused abou…
Afrikaner's Street
A vinyl reissue of an industrial/electronic tape release from 1989 by members of Urbain Autopsy. The album includes a cover of 'Nag Nag Nag' by Cabaret Voltaire. A duo born after the separation of URBAIN
AUTOPSY. Created in 1989 by Overload System (Pascal Jeannet) to the
sampler and Chris.P. (Christophe Mielle) on vocals, it was to develop a
radical and innovative musical project. They will be joined by Fiflo (Ex
Ausweis keyboard) on bass then by Peewee (Ex Flitox drummer) who will
replace …
I, Residuum
** Edition of 199 copies. Deluxe silver silkscreen on black cardboard. Reissued for the first time in vinyl, the record has been pressed on 140 gr black vinyl with black label and black inner sleeve ** Incapacitants are the best noise band to ever come out of Japan. The group was formed in 1981 in Osaka, as the solo project of Toshiji Mikawa, a member of the amazing noise group Hijokaidan. Mikawa, a bank employee, later moved to Tokyo, where he joined with government office worker Fumio Kosakai…
The Passion Of Rubbers
** Edition limited to 105 hand numbered copies w/insert in black ink on black paper. Lp has been pressed on 140 gr black vinyl with black label and black inner sleeve and comes in black polyurethane sheet with laser engraving and black silk Obi ** Masonna's groundbreaking album, originally released as double tape in the mid 90s. The question of what’s one’s favorite item from their collection (or accumulation) consistently pops up in conversations amongst fans and collectors, and this unquestion…
Open your cunt
**Reissued for the first time, the record has been pressed on 140 gr black vinyl with black label and black inner sleeve and comes in a deluxe silver silkscreen on black cardboard sleeve in 199 copies.** Along with Merzbow and Hijokaidan, Masonna is one of the best (known) Japanese noise projects. A psychedelic touch, cascades of electronic noise and vocal belching mixed together constitute the ingredients of Mademoiselle Anne Sanglante Ou Notre Nymphomanie Auréolé, the double-barrelled named fo…
Impassable Fears
Guitarist Stephen O’Malley conjures distorted chords, controlled by a bank of effects pedals; vocalist Attila Csihar, famous for his time as singer for notorious and controversial black metal band Mayhem, ritualistically intones invented syllables that echo monastic chants; experimental musician Oren Ambarchi extracts strange sounds from his own looped guitar before moving to a drumkit to propel a scattered, urgent rhythm. Momentum overtaking him, a drumstick slips from Ambarchi’s hand, he break…
Merzopo
Merzopo is a collaborative two CD album of Japanese noise legend Masami Akita (aka Merzbow) and the Czech seven member ensemble Opening Performance Orchestra,
based in Prague. The first CD contains four compositions by Merzbow.
"Futaomote" means 'double face' and it was originally titled 'Janus'.
"Yasugibushi" is a Japanese old folk song which was sampled. The second
CD contains two live tracks from Opening Performance Orchestra which
were played live in Tokyo and Prague in 2017 and studio …
A Perfect Pain
LP version. 180 gram vinyl; Includes printed inner sleeve with lyrics; Includes download code. Repressed; 1999 release. A Perfect Pain is a manifestation of the incredible power created by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (Psychic TV/Throbbing Gristle) -- the founding father of the industrial world, and Merzbow -- the undisputed king of Japanese noise. Recorded exclusively for Cold Spring, A Perfect Pain has been hailed as an important album and an extremely successful collaboration.
"a long overdue c…
Watashi Dake?
2018 small repress. Black Editions present the first vinyl reissue of Keiji Haino's stunning debut album Watashi Dake?, originally released in 1981. This first ever edition released outside of Japan features the artist's originally intended metallic gold and silver jacket artwork. Over the last fifty years few musicians or performers have created as monumental and uncompromising a body of work as that of Keiji Haino. Through a vast number of recordings and performances, Haino has staked out a gr…
Obitorio Veneto
Conceived by artist Nico Vascellari as contribution to the Diedrich Diedrichsen-curated exhibition Rock Scissors Paper at Kunsthaus Graz. Lago Morto is “about things that casting calls usually exclude -- targeted aggression, unpredictable social effects and local politics.” The band performed for fifteen days in Vittorio Veneto in nonmusical venues such as bars, hotels, pizzeriaa, laundrettes, video stores etc. All fourteen of the band’s songs are on the CD. The DVD contains a video from each of…
Made In Spain
Edition of 300 copies. Official reissue of this experimental industrial electronic classic originally released by Discos Esplendor Geométrico in 1987. "After 41 years you should know De Fabriek means The Factory, a name not chosen because of a love for Andy Warhol or the UK label of the same name (which hardly existed at the time De Fabriek started), but because of what a factory represents; there are workers, creating a small portion of the final product. In the early days these workers were a …
The Last Moments Of 1923
Konstruktivists was formed by Glenn Michael Wallis in 1982 out of the ashes of Heute, a kraut rock influenced trio using electronics as well as conventional guitars and bass. Around this time -- in the late 70's/early 80's Glenn Michael Wallis was heavily involved with Throbbing Gristle, the U.K. pioneers of 'Industrial'. The first Konstruktivists vinyl album A Dissembly was issued in 1983. This was quickly followed by their seminal LP Psykho Genetika after signing to the newly-formed Third Mind…
Collection in Formaldeide
**Limited to 50 hand numbered copies** In 1994 the activity of the Slaughter Productions becomes more and more frantic, releasing countless tapes. In the same year, leaving four important works of Atrax Morgue on cassette, the first of which is “Collection In Formaldeide’’. The tape, limited to only thirty copies, is accompanied by a syringe needle attached with scotch, signifying that this music would be “an injection of death’’. All this is packaged in a transparent box for VHS, containing a p…