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Great White Death (Special Edition)
Great White Death, the last Whitehouse effort for Come Organisation, differs greatly from some of their earlier albums. The instrumental parts of the songs are not played on such extreme levels as before; however, the vocals of William Bennett are unusually dynamic and intense. Songs such as "We've Got the Power," "I'm Coming up Your Ass," and "You Don't Have to Say Please," for example, have a low bass drone in the background, while Bennett stretches his voice from quiet whispering to high-pitc…
Extreme Music From Africa
RESTOCKED! Extraordinary release, follow-up to the Extreme Music From Japan CD featuring 14 exclusive tracks from 10 groups and full colour 12-page booklet of fantastic new Trevor Brown artwork....Africa - the dark continent of the tyrants, the beautiful girls, the bizarre rituals, the tropical fruits, the pygmies, the guns, the mercenaries, the tribal wars, the unusual diseases, the abject poverty, the sumptuous riches, the widespread executions, the praetorian colonialists, the exotic wildlife…
Birthdeath Experience
Official reissue of the 1st Whitehouse album, originally released on the Come Organisation in 1980. Includes William Bennett's original LP design. Includes the warning: "Extreme electronic music: please acquire with due caution." "The place it all began: the seminal first album by Whitehouse. Even to this day, it is a remarkable piece of work created entirely with tone generators and EDP Wasps, and lyrically full of what would be their uncompromising trademark irony. It would prove instrumental …
Halogen
a very nice reissue of the 1994 studio album recorded by Steve Albini in Chicago and featuring colour artwork by Trevor Brown. One of their few truly 'minimal' and 'meditative' is i can say so...
Worried Friends b/w Nervous Enemies
Released autumn 2007. 300 copies (first edition), 200 copies (second edition). Piano music by Ambarchi and Marhaug. Recorded Oslo november 2006. Reviews: October 2007 release; a pair of 'piano music' pieces, acting as the debut collaborative single from two of contemporary experimental music's most prolific/consistently rewarding practitioners; oren ambarchi and lasse marhaug... those of you expecting something on par with maurizio pollini's reading of satie's gnossiennes might be a little shock…
Burning Orange
The CD consists of two complete sets; one Incapacitants as a duo and on the second joined by finnish noise-connoisseur Tommi Kernen (Testicle Hazard) as a trio under the name of Fumio Tommiakawa (a take on Gomikawa Fumio; the trio of Pain Jerk and Incapacitants). The sound of Incapacitants is described in the liner notes of Burning Orange by Tommi Kernen as an inspiring, pure, all-encompassing, ecstatic storm of sound that has a power of near-religious proportions Ð and that alone, without any u…
Kama
A monumental 41 minute colossal single-track of an album recorded in the period from summer 2006 to february 2007 during dark nights in her studio in Oslo. Kama is mostly made from the sound of her french-horn; although if you didn't know it you probably wouldn't have guessed. Layers upon layers of distorted, processed and mangled pieces of sound form a consistent stream of sonic bliss. Within this massive sound-construction slowly shapes build into an epic climax. The title Kama hits at few int…
Polar Nights Live
Although Hijokaidan's status as noise superstars they rarely perform outside Japan. The pleasure was then ever greater for the All Ears festival in Oslo Norway to present Hijokaidan at their festival in january 2006. Polar Nights Live documents these historical and astonishing performances. Jojo and Junko performed as a Hijokaidan two-piece on the opening night of the festival, a rarely heard line-up. Their performance got such a tremendous response that they came back for an encore (Otomo Yoshi…
Unterhaltung
"Great minimal recording of 'Mr. Cassettencombinat II' from early 80's compiled from TASS I and II and unreleased TASS III material. A brilliant mixture of Portion Control meeting SPK and Throbbing Gristle." All Vinyl On Demand LPs are on 180 gram vinyl, in limited editions of 500 copies.
im leeren
Awesome artsy edition with a spectacular pop up cover, 333 copies only, handnumbered. Olyvetty is formed by claudio rocchetti (3/4hadbeeneliminated and many many more) and riccardo benassi (visual artist and italian experimental underground agitator).the olyvetty-project was born in berlin in 2006, it immediately results as a melting of minimal techno drifts and power-noise fury. they performed in many european festivals like sonambiente, flora and netmage. after their first release 'as all-enco…
Shanked And Slithering
"Nearly 80 minutes of the most animalistic and violent industrial noise to ever crack the crust of the earth. Compiles and reworks early and unreleased out of print noise classics as well as brand new noise aberrations. For fans of early Controlled Bleeding ala Knees And Bones And Bladder Bags!" - Hospital Productions.
Three Projects (Bruitiste - Captured Music - Fifty)
Last copy available ..."the principles of cooperative working and of a free-floating exchange of musical material and ideas always were a crucial point for P16.D4's work. These principles were put to work in the DISTRUCT and N4 - projects and taken to an extreme with the "THREE PROJECTS": "Bruitiste" was done by non-P16.D4-members of selektion (an organization of artists and musicians, related to P16.D4 since 1984) in an attempt to create P16-D4-style music."Captured Music" uses non-P16.D4-sound…
Up from Zero
Originally released in 1982 on cassette (Aeroplane Records AR3, UK), Up From Zero was David Jackman's third album of compositions. Integrating tapes, loops, shortwave radio signals, guitar tones, voice and a host of percussion elements, each piece accumulates into a complex collage of cycles that create a haunting set of 'movements' and bizarre spatial relationships. These are the most sought after of Jackman's first, solo recordings. The proto-Organum sound. Also included is 'Offshore', (1980).…
Pompeji
Rare and original, limited to 488 handnumbered copies. It comes in a 6-page 17x14.5 cm booklet-cover which is closed with a sticker. A cardbord-sleeve for the CD is sticked inside the cover. Inserts are a 2-page 10.5x21 cm postcard and an one sided 16x13 cm label-catalogue.
Beyond frequencies
Rare original first edition with cover artwork printed on tracing paper. In the Galakthorrö family, Karl Runau could fit the role of the silent professor with a compulsive obession for minimal analog electro. This album was recorded between 1994 - 1998, and tracks vary from punchy beatbox pieces to brooding synth noodlings, all with that certainGalakthorrö touch.
Für Immer
rare and long out of print 7" Limited to 1.690 handnumbered copies (this is n. 341) comes in a gatefold sleeve with printed inner sleeve and a sealed string. Haus Arafna is a German duo comprised of shrouded Mr. & Mrs. Arafna (it seems that House Arafna was originally some kind of cryptic medical facility in Germany) and they have been steadily supplying the world with dark analog experimentation for the last twenty years.
Children Of God
Rare original first edition, that comes in a jewelcase which is put in a cardboard slipcase. It contains a folded poster.
Gyo-Kai Elegy
Pioneer, innovator and visionary are words easily associated with Toshiji Mikawa. One of the prime movers of Japanese noise, he started his musical activities in the late 1970s and joined the legendary and notorious Hijokaidan. In 1981 he formed Incapacitants to pursue his interest in pure noise, in contrast to the more performance art oriented Hijokaidan of that time. Initially a solo project, later he was joined by Fumio Kosakai to make Incapacitants a duo that has been widely acknowledged for…
Quality Control
A giant of Scandinavian experimental music, Lasse Marhaug has been active in sound creation since his teenage years. His interests have spanned a wide range of styles: from improv jams to film sound, from humorous collages to crushing harsh noise works. This non-stop activity has resulted in a massive body of recorded work and numerous live performances all over Tellus. Besides his solo work he has collaborated with a multitude of fellow sound artists on stage and in the studio. In the everflowi…
cruise
Penultimate and incredible controversial album - marking a revolutionary new approach in style, includes 16-page booklet featuring extensive lyrics and information Produced by William Bennett, except 'public' by Steve Albini Mastered by Denis Blackham; definitely one of Whitehouse's best albums. As far as complaints about it being too short: well, many of the Whitehouse albums that the folks on this list state as being good starting points or favorites ("Dedicated To Peter Kurten", "Bu…