Thunder Over City Hall
Welcome to this second release in HDK's "Kosmische musik" series, dedicated to our favorite artists playing E.M. in Berlin-school tradition. It is a real pleasure to introduce Grant Middleton and Colin Anderson, aka Under The Dome from Scotland. Under The Dome 's music sounds crystal clear like the air after a storm, and dreamy like a staring off among the sky in a summer night; "Thunder over city hall" is a wonderfully retro-futuristic collection of songs that you will never tire of listening!…
Monofuture
Evanescent lights in the night. Dirty cities. Cruel concrete buildings soaring in an ashen sky. On the paths of our imagination, dreams and fears intersect, generating accidents and strange mythologies of a near future. Cavern plays with the anguished fantasies of retro-futuristic sci-fi to compose deep and pulsating music that conveys a sense of agonizing wait. Here in the HDK headquarters we immediately fell in love with Cavern's music and decided to publish a cassette anthology entitled "Mon…
Pioneering Knob Twiddler
Super Tip! **Edition of 500.** Before we go on, Janet Beat does exist. This is not some invented composer, cunningly dreamt up so I can sell some modern sonic noodlings as old ones to unsuspecting record buyers. I say this as it has happened in this market before and her name could easily arouse some suspicion. But yes, Janet Beat actually exists and she’s certainly one of the best examples of nominative determinism I have ever personally come across. However, even though Janet Beat does make mu…
Sex, Crime & Politics - Cinematic Disco, Jazz & Electronica from Yugoslavia 1974-1984
Six vintage cinema classics scored by famous BAFTA nominated Croatian composer Alfi Kabiljo are compiled here for the first time in one album. At the time of the release of this record famous Croatian composer Alfi Kabiljo will be celebrating his 84th birthday. One might think that this can be an occasion to slow down and reflect on the past, as many of his colleagues would do, but this certainly does not apply to versatile and busy musician. He is still working, writing music, conducting, arra…
The rise of the Gazunderlings
** Kрасный cassette + j-card + "Gazunderling Mine Workers Union" badge ** Heimat Der Katastrophe presents The rise of the Gazunderlings by Red Gremlin. "In the darkest corner of the Sword Mountains, hidden in the shadow of the Icespire, lies the Kazunder Valley. Here, out of sight of prying eyes, the Faceless are overseeing the extraction of something far more precious than gold. No being in their right mind would ever set foot in these mines voluntarily and so the Faceless choose the cowardly c…
Icebound
** Superclear cassette + 5-panels j-card ** Heimat Der Katastrophe presents Icebound by Varkana. "Eons ago in a land faraway covered with nothing but blinding white frost, Temple of Ice arose from nothingness and began to enlighten the hearts of those who sought the gift of infinite knowledge. For years and years pilgrimages were made by mystified souls to reach the great cosmic offering. Centuries later, the temple is long forgotten, buried under mountains of ice with only distant tales remain…
Polar
** Super-clear cassette + 28 pages booklet ** After the conclusion of the trilogy about Zotique's cycle by Clark Ashton Smith, Doom Catacomb, the bard of unspeakable horrors, is back with a... chilling album! "Polar" declines the decadent and nihilistic poetics expressed in the previous albums in a new and surprising direction. The landscapes of death and desolation that Doom Catacomb has accustomed us take on the appearance of endless icy expanses: the impenetrable polar regions, where every gl…
Battlefield 1986
Music for animation cyber-noir film "Battlefield" (based on same-titled book by Stephen King). Animated films soundtrack is one of the most substantial aspects of Volodymyr Bystryakov's career. He masterfully balances between being a composer and a sound designer. A cartoon thriller for Stephen King's original story was created at the Kyivnaukfilm studio in 1986. The work itself reached the Soviet reader in 1981 for the first time and was King's first publication in the Ussr, as well as "Battleg…
L'alba dei Morti Viventi / La Caccia
** Grey & Pink mixed - Brain coloured vinyl + Poster ** The series of exclusive 45rpm’s published by AMS Records in collaboration with legendary Cinevox Record continues with this 7-inch that includes two tracks from the soundtrack of George Romero’s movie “Zombi / Dawn of the Dead”. Of the two tracks, “L’Alba dei Morti Viventi”, the key theme of the film and one of Goblin’s greatest masterpieces, is presented here in an exclusive alternative version. This special edition is made exclusively for…
Electric Circus
Remastered edition of an intriguing international project from the mid-70s. A meeting of jazz and rock that goes far beyond what is usually considered fusion. Originally released in 1976, the album "Electric Circus" was the second solo project of German guitarist Toto Blanke, but at the same time the beginning of an unusual trio formed by the Dutch pianist Jasper van't Hof and Finnish drummer Edward Vesala (known in Poland thanks to his collaboration with Tomasz Stańko). Three very strong indivi…
Ars Electronica 89/90
Komendarek in recordings from the late 80s and early 90s, prepared for the interdisciplinary Ars Electronica festival. Avant-garde madness against the background of ingenious sequences. Previously unpublished material appears on CD for the first time. By the end of the 80s, Władysław Komendarek had already established himself in Poland as a leading creator of electronic music. However, he did not rest on his laurels, and when he found an opportunity to take part in a futuristic review Ars Electr…
Dinner at Eight
Reissue of this amazing 1986 album where drum machines meet improv jazz. Wayne Horvitz gathers together his drum machine and synths along with his talented friends -Elliot Sharp included- for this really original record that is both composed and improvised. An obscure gem by one of the most spirited musicians to populate NY 80's avant-garde, a golden era for vanguard attitudes and sounds. Horvitz, keyboard player at Naked City (along with John Zorn, Bill Frisell, and Fred Frith) had classical mu…
Dungeon-synth magazine # 2
Dear dungeoncrawlers, light your torches and sharpen your swords...once again! The success of the first volume of HDK DSM was... dazzling! And so here we are with this Second Issue and we hope you will enjoy it like the previous one (or maybe more!). The dungeon-synth is wonderful and unpredictable music made to give free rein to creativity and to the desire of telling weird and astonishing stories. The four musicians involved in this release will not disappoint your thirst of gloomy and evocati…
Kowloon Neon City Episode 2
HDK is proud to introduce you the second episode of "Kowloon Neon City", the immaginary distopic and retro-futuristic anime released in 199X. In this second part, the story moves from the rejected city of Kowloon to its double Olympus. We will discover a world permeated by technology that brings many aspects of our reality forward, to the extreme consequences. Mei and Cheng, once again the protagonists of this story, have to fight for their lives against the global sistem of surveillance. And we…
Avventura nel Castello
** DIY Super-Limited Tape + Three Pins! ** Heimat Der Katastrophe presents Avventura nel Castello by 1Kbyte Dungeon. Driven by the thirst for adventure, you went down into the dungeons of the castle of the evil Baron Karloff and now you are lost. Behind its endless gates the most monstrous mysteries are hidden. Will you find the exit? Probably not. "Avventura nel castello" is a frightening time-machine able of transporting the listener into the disquieting era of monochrome Rogue-like CRPGs, tex…
Dancing with Bullets Under a Neon Sun
** Fluo Cassette ** Andy Bones and John Dawson are back with the soundtrack of a cyberpunk RPG called "Dancing with bullets under a neon sun". The style of the italo-finnish duo is delightfully the same as the best-selling "Chip of Depression": retro-futuristic-pop and italo-disco with breathtaking melodies and pressing minimal rhythms. "Dancing with Bullets Under a Neon Sun" is a weird cyberpunk RPG for fans of the OSR. "Dancing with Bullets Under a Neon Sun" will provide a unique ambiance to y…
Altnyc88 OST
New York City, year 1988: you are part of one of the many gangs that operate in the slums of the city, hiding in the subway, dungeon under skyscreapers, squatted houses and, when necessary even, in the sewers system. Raids up to streets are dangerous and are always undertaken disguise or under cover of the night: gangs fight for territory and control, as the organized crime and corrupt cops rule with an iron fist. Yes, it's a violent world, baby; but also full of '80s clichés like post-nuke muta…
La Gabbia Umana
** Pro-dubbed black cassette + insert ** In 1979 the director Antonio Rasiera started filming a sci-fi tv-movie called “La Gabbia Umana” (The Human Cage), an alienating and dehumanizing post-apocalyptic parable in which the human body is described as an inexorably closed cage, “without key and without lock”.
A few days after the start of filming, director Rasiera (already prey to his serious disease) dies: today what remains of “The Human Cage” is its soundtrack, composed by the maestro Augusto …
Necromancy in Naat
** Pro-dubbed black cassette + 32 pag. booklet ** The bard of the unexplicable nightmares is back: Doom Catacomb gives us his masterpiece, the third and final chapter of a trilogy dedicated to the writer Clark Ashton Smith, started in 2018 with "Empire of the necromancers" and continued in 2019 with "The weaver in the vault". "Necromancy in Naat" takes the music of Doom Catacomb to even darker and more mysterious levels, it will accompany you on a hallucinating journey into pain and evil, but it…
The Spectre of the Duke
Heimat Der Katastrophe presents The Spectre of the Duke by Lucifer Analog. Some rumors tell of a monumental tomb near the Pok swamp, in Grumacchio region. A long time ago, the Duke Friedrick Gonzagor was buried there at the end of his controversial existence. His life was characterized by a rapid rise and quick decadence. At an nearby inn you bought for a few gold coins a map that indicates the location of the sanctuary that it is said to keep rich treasures. So far, although some adventurers ha…