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Electric Field In Parallel
‘Another stunning, definitive and beyond harsh release from the arguably the most forward thinking ultra-sonic-destruction unit in the world.’ - Brandon Hill
Seeing Trip’le
*Second edition of 50 copies* Dave Gilden & Richard Ramirez created Slave Labor in 1993. With this project they performed live in Houston at Deadline's Noisefest in the same year. Also, at this festival Gilden debut his project simply known as DEPRESS (not long after to be renamed Depress/Regress). Gilden & Ramirez continued to work together in Black Leather Jesus & Lingula. Although troubled as an individual, Gilden's work shows what an impact his legacy has left us as part of the American nois…
Akashic Records
*2022 stock* Japanoise queen and one of the noise innovators, Mayuko Hino (original member of the legendary C.C.C.C.) releases her first solo album! Akashic Records is blockbuster work of beautiful noise about the concept of a record of the activities of the soul of mankind. The world's only 6-strand theremin oscillator (coloured pink!), originally ordered by Ryo Araishi (ichion (Shrine.jp)) and harsh noise with brass plates etc. as the main sound sources. Recorded live with an emphasis on thril…
Atemporal Activity
'A piece that will continue to be talked about in the vast catalogue of Italian industrial/noise artist M.B. (Maurizio Bianchi), 2016, new domestic release.
Industrial~Noise~Electronic~Ambient, an ambient piece that demonstrates a depressive worldview in all directions, but it is full of M.B. taste that continues to suffer quietly. Twisted ambience, a historical invention of M.B.'s. A universal industrial classic. A destructive force that is more like an ever-expanding electronic cell than noise…
A Taste Of... RNA
*In process of stocking.* RNA consists of Eiko Ishibashi, a multi-instrumentalist known for her diverse activities ranging from electronic music to singer/songwriter and film/ animation soundtracks; Fumio Kosakai, a noisemaker who has played in many of Japan's most important noise bands such as Emergency Stairs, C.C.C.C, and Incapacitants, and who has picked up guitar in Space Engine and others; and Kimihide Kusabuka, aka K2 who has been searching for new frontiers since the dawn of Japanese ind…
Secret Apex
*In process of stocking* An intense, lysergic sounding mixture of electronic music and noise. Distorted objects, ecstatic drones, feedback and field recordings get mixed with traces of electroacoustic experimental and kosmische musik. Contains a wide array of sound sources from field recordings done in Malaysia to a pipe organ recorded in a concert hall in Finland.
2017-2020
"2017-2020 is a box set of five original albums by Merzbow released on Slowdown Records. Since 2018, Merzbow has been running an archive series on the same label that contains mainly unreleased and unearthed material from the past, and while each series is organized according to production period and musical concept, this box is a collection of original albums produced individually. However, this box is a collection of original albums produced individually, and each one has a very different musi…
Double Beat Sequencer
"The fourteenth series of the Merzbow archive series, which began in 2018 and focuses on unreleased and unearthed material, is a collection of unreleased recordings from 2014 that were performed with a sequencer in the background: Double Beat Sequencer Vol. 1, Double Beat Sequencer Vol.2", "Double Beat Sequencer Vol.3", "Double Beat Sequencer Vol.4", "Double Beat Sequencer Vol.5" and "Double Beat Sequencer Vol.6". Double Beat Sequencer" is a boxed set of all six of these works. The sequencer use…
Horizon
"The thirteenth series of Merzbow's archival series, which began in 2018 and focuses on unreleased and unearthed material, includes six albums recorded between 2011 and 2012: Insect 801, Kumo No Zettaichi, Sugamo Flower, Bit Blues", "Kotorhizome", and "Gman+". Horizon" is a boxed set of these works. In 2011, Merzbow released "Dead Zone" on the Ukrainian label Quasi Pop Records, which focused on the radioactive contamination caused by the nuclear accidents in Fukushima and Chernobyl, and also rel…
Drum & Noise
"The 12th series of the archive series, which started in 2018 and focuses on Merzbow's unreleased and unearthed recordings, includes "Drumorph", "Ensemble Drums", and "Arijigoku (Test Mix)", which contain recordings from 2008-2009, when Merzbow developed a style that incorporated drum performance. Arijigoku (Test Mix)", "Red Brick", "Groon Lesson", and "Pi-Eggplant". The boxed version of these albums is called "Drum & Noise".Masami Akita was originally a drummer who was greatly influenced by psy…
Arrangement
"This is the eleventh release in the Merzbow Archive series by Slowdown Records, which began in 2018. This box (Arrangement) contains six albums from 2004 to 2005: "15 August 2006", "27 August 2006", "Bloodour", "Coma Test", "Yono's Journey", "Feedback", and "Purple Yellow". Other Merzbow's works during this period include "Minazo" (Important Records, 2006), "F.I.D. (Fur Is Dead)" (Fourth Dimension Records, 2006), "Bloody Sea" (Vivo, 2007), "Merzbear" ( Important Records, 2007), and Peace For An…
Kuomintang and Generalissimus Chiang Kaishek
** Edition of 300 numbered copies in cardboard folder ** A collaborative project between Nick Sudnick (ZGA) and Alexander Lebedev-Frontov. Reissue of the album Kuomintang (Ultra, 1998) and the mini-album Generalissimus Chiang Kaishek (ALF Produkt, 2008) collected here on one CD. Especially for this release Nick Sudnick and Alexander Lebedev-Frontov recorded a bonus-track, Kuomintang 2, in May 2018.
Discography 2010-2012
Hospital Productions collect some of the strongest cold-wave pop dirges of a generation with Contrepoison's Discography 2010-2012 survey, wrapping up both his self-released tapes and releases for Dominick Fernow's cherished imprint. Since the late '90s, Québécois musician and noise artist Pierre Marc-Tremblay has been recognized as a vital force in nether musical realms with a palette ranging from hermetic black metal (Akitsa) to the bitterest rhythmic noise (Âmes Sanglantes), and, more recently…
Cosmic Bondage
Hospital Productions present a reissue of Smell & Quim's Cosmic Bandage, originally released in 1995 on their notorious Stinky Horse Fuck imprint. Cosmic Bondage stands as a monument to the universal perversion inside us all. Birthed into the world with an auto-asphyxiated doll complete with toy packaging and overgrown pubic hair in an edition of 100, despite its limitation the material within has become a staple of the groups live performances to this day. The dark humor enforced by truly maste…
Seinsart : Live at Morden Tower
*Limited edition of 150 copies.* First ever official vinyl re-issue of this absolutely essential TNB recordings! Seinsart : Live At Morden Tower includes two legendary full live performances recorded in 1983. Originally Seinsart : Live At Morden Tower was self released by TNB in an edition of 100 copies on cassette. The original tape edition is very hard to find and ridiculously expensive nowadays. Black vinyl LP with printed labels. Paste on cover. It includes replicas of the original performa…