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Future Cheers
"I destroy out of joy, not despair. I don’t destroy out of anger. I destroy out of curiosity. I tear things apart to see what makes them tick. I want to take time apart to see what makes it tick-tock. I enjoy destroying everything because I enjoy leaving nothing un-destroyed. My noise acts as a kind of audio account or authentic evidence of this ceaseless, perpetual bittersweet happiness we call entropy." - GX. The Haters are a noise and conceptual art troupe from the United States. Founded in 1…
Lowest Music n. 2
Merzbow stands as the most important artist in noise music. The moniker of Japanese Masami Akita was born in Tokyo in 1979. Inspired by Dadaism and Surrealism, Akita took the name for his project from German artist Kurt Schwitters' pre-war architectural assemblage "The Cathedral of Erotic Misery" or “Merzbau”. Just as Schwitters attacked the entrenched artistic traditions of his time with his revolutionary avant-garde collages, so too would Akita challenge the contemporary concept of what is cal…
Likainen Ehtoollinen
Bizarre Uproar is one of the colossal phenomenon in Finnish harsh noise scene. Throughout the years, this artist has gradually taken the Bizarre Uproar concept to more and more extreme level. Wrapped in darkness, tight as second skin. Suffocating (like) latex mask. Likainen Ehtoollinen, was released on F&V tape in 2008, is the purification in filth and violence, cleansed in flesh and blood that are shit and piss, enlightenment in everlasting ejaculation. New extremes in sonic bizarre domination!…
Strange Feeling, Shit Coming
Taint is known to be one of the most authoritative and pervert act in the power electronics scene. A kind of juiced up, Taint squared a brutal stew of screaming high-end feedback, crushing distorted scrape and corrosive furious vocals that are overlaid with sheets of white noise. Strange Feeling, Shit Coming, that was released on legendary Japanese tape label G.R.O.S.S. in 1993, showed Taint at his best. Fucking brutal!The record has been pressed on 140 gr black vinyl with black label and black …
No Sacrifice LP
Vidna Obmana is a pseudonym used by Belgian artist Dirk Serries. He has been a significant name in the ambient scene for more than two decades, releasing over more than 50 solo albums and numerous collaborations. But apart from his main ambient colleagues, Vidna Obmana originates from the industrial cassette network scene in early eighties, releasing several tapes on his own label and on others. No Sacrifice Lp get tracks from infamous tape released in 1985 on Zeal SS No sacrifice for w…
Ripper Box
Atrax Morgue is the brainchild of Marco Corbelli as sound project started in the early nineties and focused in various areas related to the field of psychopathology: murder, violent death, sadism, necrophilia, schizophrenia and insanity. The primary influences come from projects as Brighter Death Now and Whitehouse, pioneers of a minimal, evil and visceral electronic; and from the legendary projects Mauthausen Orchestra and The Sodality. The main manifesto of Atrax Morgue is the analysis of the …
The Complete Recordings
Among the releases of 1993 under the name Slaughter Productions, there is also Insanatorivm , a tape issued by Marco Corbelli with the moniker of Kranivm. This side project, conceived and completed in little more than a year, released other two tapes, Brighter The Edge Of Death and I - The Blood . This last one was finally reprinted in 1997 by the French label The Family Erzsebet with the title Chapter Blood , and a few tracks taken from the first two cassettes. Insanatorivm and Brighter T…
Necro Box
Atrax Morgue is the brainchild of Marco Corbelli as sound project started in the early nineties and focused in various areas related to the field of psychopathology: murder, violent death, sadism, necrophilia, schizophrenia and insanity. The primary influences come from projects as Brighter Death Now and Whitehouse, pioneers of a minimal, evil and visceral electronic; and from the …
Listen And Die!
Urashima is proud to present a six long playing box reissue from the legendary Slaughter Productions six cassette box set, "Listen And Die!" (SPT 100), from 1997! This rare collection of The Italian/American Power Electronics Massacre was limited to 100 copies, and featured contributions from (in order of appearance) Iugula-Thor, Sshe Retina Stimulants, Atrax Morgue, Murder Corporation, Diktat, Discordance, Surgical Stainless Steel, Taint, Deathpile, Slogun, Skin Crime and Bacillus: 4 hours And…
Sexual Depravity and Pleasant Atrocities
**Outstanding archival oddity out by the knowledge at Urashima. Mauthausen Orchestra, a key figure in the dark waters of early industrial music** One of the key figures of the Italian industrial scene, Pierpaolo Zoppo starts releasing his own tapes of his project Mauthausen Orchestra under the astonishing label Aquilifer Sodality in 1982. Pierpaolo Zoppo does not leave much up to the imagination with the titles for these early Mauthausen Orchestra albums. Sex. Death. Blood. Combing through top…
From Homicide To Slaughter
Continue reprints of the amazing tapes by Pierpaolo Zoppo aka Mauthausen Orchestra released on Aquilifer Sodality in the early 80s. Tape after tape Mauthausen Orchestra constitute, in a few years, the backbone of what we will know as an alienating and extremist style, made of metal nightmares and sonic torture , often dilated, dissected and extended up to the limit of endurance. Conflict carry us, once again, as real rituals of a civilization without gods, in a pure world of suffering. In…
Nekrofellatio
Continue reprints of the amazing tapes by Pierpaolo Zoppo aka Mauthausen Orchestra released on Aquilifer Sodality in the early eighties. Tape after tape Mauthausen Orchestra constitute, in a few years, the backbone of what we will know as an alienating and extremist style, made of metal nightmares and sonic torture , often dilated, dissected and extended up to the limit of endurance. Conflict carry us, once again, as real rituals of a civilization without gods, in a pure world of sufferin…
Lyoto Music
Lyoto Music was a terrific collaboration between Pietro Mazzocchin (The New Sadism, Observation Clinique and Swastika Kommando) and Pierpaolo Zoppo (Mauthausen Orchestra) which flows into a unique cassette published in 1984 by Aquilifer Sodality. Mastered from original master tape kindly provided by Andrea Cernotto with the full permission of Pietro Mazzocchin. “As far as I remember, Lyoto Music was one of the most appreciated items and possibly one of the best-sellers in the (Aquilifer) Sodalit…
CMRS/OPEA
Mindblowing double LP taken by a Maurizio Bianchi impossible-to-find early tape (from 1980!) "decomposed" in October 1980 using cacophonelectronics, and dedicated to the physical attraction to Sylvia Simonelli (September 1980/June 1981) “The genesis of this work is incredible. In the office where I worked, I had found a stamp with ‘’COMPRESA’’ (in English, included) written over it, and so I came to the starting point for a new experimental work. Erasing before the second, fourth, sixth and ei…
Ala Tee Huorin
These two purveyors of fine Finnish filth have collaborated many times in the past (recommended “Assisted Self-Sterilization” on Freak Animal) and this unholy partnership continue to flourish today . Älä Tee Huorin is the final documentation as separate entities and it was released like double tape in a white double poly box on Filth & Violence and Untergeschoss in only 54 copies and now available for the first time in vinyl edition.Side A include the two tracks on original tape one. It begins …
Amputaatio
Bizarre Uproar is a Finnish power electronics slash harsh noise project initiated in 1992 by Markkula. The thematic subject matter is founded in extreme sexual transgressions, and rests within a totalitarian fetish culture at the explicitly perverse spectrum of human erotics. Central concepts within this context are pleasure carnage and death ritualization; mixed with an affixed seething desire to exercise fetid sexualized violence and humiliate the contemporary - sans safewords - towards utter …
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 link included on her 'Instagram' account for her sculptural works. I had a look at her work and was instantly taken by the sheer immensity and power of her structures, all exemplary of long hours of labour and provocative patterns behind the material…
In the Abscence of Self-Control
For over a decade, Climax Denial has been exploring a unique and evolving approach to the power-electronics genre. Beginning with his debut tape on Hospital Productions, and following with dozens of other sought-after releases: peerless in their stalker/submissive debauchery. Alex Kmet with his Climax Denial project practically bathes in its own urgent sexuality, stalking through each album with glassy eyes and a raging boner, just like the protagonists of all of those classics you are tempted t…
Ottoman Black
Ottoman Black is a masterful damn record, an album of midnight drones and true noise, a definitive statement that makes most other noise records of this ilk seem immature, if not outright stillborn. From cover’ s photography , presenting mundane situation with an air of isolated, hysterical desperation, to the track titles, presented in the style of an academic outline (I.,II.,a.,b.,etc.) this is a formally conceived and meticulously crafted 35 minutes, leaving nothing untitled or untidy.…
The Passion Of Rubbers
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 unquestionably is always my answer. From head-to-toe, insert-to-tape, all elements are in glorious harmony and conversation with what another. Having the G.R.O.S.S. label’s ’industrial design’ fetish/obsession (some would say a relatively antiseptic departure from much of the other noise tapes of the time) articulating the sexualize…