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Idiots
** Heavyweight high-gloss embossed jackets with metallic Pantone. Each LP housed in polyethylene acid-free paper backed sleeves within consistently designed 12" sleeves for each record ** Adding to its already extensive discography, The Hafler Trio (now just solo) enlisted the help of Wire's Bruce Gilbert for their latest, Idiots. Grim and far reaching, this 2XLP moves at its own pace and draws the listener in with its slow, dark amble. Channeling both the natural and industrial worlds, Idiots h…
Idiots + Revenge Of The Selfish Shellfish (3LP Bundle)
This bundle includes the latest albums released on Nihilist:
- The Hafler Trio, Bruce Gilbert – Idiots 2LP- Steven Stapleton, Tony Wakeford – Revenge Of The Selfish Shellfish LP
Revenge Of The Selfish Shellfish
Tip! *First time on vinyl!* Originally released by Tursa (UK) in 1992, Revenge of the Selfish Shellfish was the first, full-length collaboration between Steven Stapleton and Tony Wakeford. Consisting of an eerie, yet beautiful, combination of songs and surreal locales, Shellfish remains a unique landmark with qualities not easily found in either Nurse With Wound or Sol Invictus discography. Evoking a strong sense of narrative, such as Wakeford's vocals on Lucifer Before Sunrise and the perpetual…
Psychoacoustic Electronics
Tip! *300 copies limited edition* Andy Ortmann owns Nihilist Records, of whom we also reviewed The New Blockaders and Diana Rogerson's works last week. And before I say anything about the music on this album, I would love to show you a bit of the inside of my head. Because when I read the title of this impressive triple vinyl totalling over two hours of music, I was thinking about something completely different. So: What is psychoacoustic music, and how do psychoacoustic electronics fit into the…
Blue Bottle In A Jam Jar
A luminary of the industrial music scene that includes Coil, Current 93 and Nurse with Wound, Diana Rogerson has been making groundbreaking music for the best part of forty years. Recording under alias Chrystal Belle Scrodd, Rogerson released her debut The Inevitable Chrystal Belle Scrodd Record in 1985 on the United Diaries’ experimental label, followed by Belle de Jour a year later. Since then, she has spent a sizeable chunk of time working with NWW’s Steve Stapleton (her partner for a time) b…
Take Root
Ultra-limited edition of 105 copies. This material has been substantially reworked from the original digital version. The vinyl (not lathe) sounds simply incredible, with hyper-crisp fidelity and intimidating bass response. This edition also comes with a Venus Flytrap seed for you to grow (grow instructions included in the liner notes). This release will bring years of enjoyment!
Recorded at Solid State Electronics Laboratory Studio, ChicagoSeptember 2019-2020All material re-worked 2022
Physica…
Erosion Of The Monolith
*333 copies limited edition. 2023 stock* "Back in 2004, Nigel Ayers (Nocturnal Emissions) and Phillip B. Klingler (PBK), got together to collaborate- during this session, they created two hours’ worth of material. Some of it appeared on various releases over the next few years, but a portion was left aside. Mid 2021 rolled on, and Klingler decidedly to unearth this remaining portion and thus, Erosion of The Monolith was born- which is a contemporary example of exquisitely peculiar ambience. Both…
Chronopolis
Limited to 45 copies. In Andy Ortmann's own words: Earlier in 2020 I was commissioned to score a film of my choosing. Chronopolis (Piotr Kamler) from 1982 was my first choice. It was to have been debuted in Chicago over a 16 channel speaker system, incidentally this was the first event to my knowledge to be cancelled due to Covid-19, furthermore it was Friday the 13th. I re-edited the the film to 40 minutes and re-scored it from the ground up. This took no less than 40 hours in the studio to co…
Live Electronics
Extremely rare up-close glimpse at Salvatore Martirano, lovingly presented by Nihilist. This box includes full video + cassette of 2 pieces performed by Martirano, totaling 38 minutes, audio has been mastered for highest clarity. Cassettes each dubbed in real-time. Information cards detail the Sal-Mar Construction "considered to be the world's first composing machine" in addition to one of five different SAL-MAR buttons.Two unheard tracks by Salvatore Martirano total time 38 minutes. Amazing vid…
Terra Firma
Nihilist is ecstatic to present 2 unreleased works by Illusion Of Safety! Housed in heavy durable zip-tied vinyl pouches, each cassette dubbedin real-time for highest audio quality. Cover art collage by Dan Burke.
Electroacoustic Underground
The long-awaited vinyl pressing of the latest Panicsville album that fans and critics alike are calling "weird" and "is this the same band?" This psychedelic slab of electroacoustic anti-punk is pressed on one hundred and something gram Vanta Black vinyl! (200 copies only). Spiralling dark drones, eerie feedback textures, archaic drum and cymbal patterns, atonal / tonal sounds and distant / peculiar sample layers expansive atmosphere that continuously spirals further towards the unknown areas of…
Split
As the cassette market becomes more and more over-saturated, it’s nice to see some of these artists break out onto the vinyl format. This is, I believe, the first vinyl outing for John Elliott’s Outer Space project. Apparently John plays in some other group called Emeralds and shares a side here with like-minded artist Raglani. Both cuts on this album promise globular analog synth glory; pre-orders have started and this split LP will set your bank account back $18. Limited to 500
Untitled
This album is a return to brutality for Drumm and a continuation of the intense lo-end evil of Wiese. Needless to say it is amazing and an essential purchase for noise fans, Mania-inducing heavy waves of suffocating bass frequencies with ripping and tearing, hissing and speaker-destroying hell-storm; at times these guys indulge in noise in the service of the metal that has influenced them via hi-end frequencies, but for the most part this is an expansive record that will immensely satisfy fans o…
Split
New split album from Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth/Northampton Wools/Dream Aktion Unit et al and Graham Moore of To Live And Shave In LA/Black Meat/Blossoming Noise et al. Edition of 500 copies on marbled, coloured 140g vinyl with pro-pressed sleeves. Thurston's side is a torrent of guitar noise that scales almost Prurient levels of electronic barbarism cut-up with plateaus of achingly-extended feedback, one of his most flat-out damaged conceptions to date. Graham's side is more based around tap…