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The Death Of Myself
To celebrate the tenth anniversary of New Forces we are excited to reissue an album from the label's first batch of releases. At the time, Koufar's "The Death of Myself" represented the closing of the project's first chapter. A sonic requiem delivered at maximum volume. The innovative blend of classical samples and abrasive vocal exhortations carved out a unique position in contemporary power-electronics. Content focused on the politics and history of Lebanon eschewed genre tropes for something …
Solonoise 1 & 2 (2CD)
* Compilation of the 1982 cassette releases Solonoise 1 and Solonoise 2. Limited to 300 copies. Released in digipak. * Merzbow re-edition of 2 historical tapes of the first Japanoise era! Special guest on "Solonoise 1": Kiyoshi Mizutani.This albums offers pure analog noise with varied timbre and string, keyboard, percussion. Inspired by DADA & Kurt Scwitters from which he took "MERZ" for his project name, this might be considered a New-DADA experiment....These early tracks are not the overwhelm…
195 Melrose Avenue NW2
Originally released in 1996 on Self Abuse as a limited Music Cassette in 1996. Self Abuse and Old Europa re-released this tape for the first time into CD for it's 25th anniversary. Moreover, when looking through original tapes trying to find the master, Patrick (Self Abuse) found an extra cassette labeled "195 melrose Ave NW" with only 3 songs on one tape side, such tracks wasn't used for the release of the tape. Well, we are going to use such "unreleased tracks" as bonus for this CD re-release.…
Sonic Deprivation
A selection of archive materials from the very first cassette releases (Murderfuck, Mafarka, Anal Perversions, Host Sodomy, From Homicide To Slaughter), completely restored and remastered.
Paranoia (Expanded)
** Pink Edition of 100. 20th Anniversary Edition. For the first time re-released on 2xLP ** This was the first full-length album released by OEC by the Italian prophet of Murderous & Pain Electronics in 2000 as a CD. For the 20th anniversary of that album we are proud to go for the re-release into vinyl format of such a masterpiece. A slow death with great sorrow... Psychopathic ready to kill voice, self-abusing electronic sounds mixed to dangerous feed-backs & noises. An isolationist and disgu…
The Sound of Sadism
** Edition of 250. Deluxe foil block cover on 180 gram vinyl ** The classic rests on 180 gram vinyl for the first time. originally released on the noble compact disc format as a co-release between malsonus and crowd control activities. commissioned and complied by Jonathan Canady. Controversial when it came out and controversial now, it could not be better suited for our current end-times. The sound of sadism is part of the holy trinity of classic 90’s wide spread compilations alongside cold mea…
Blizzard
** 2021 Stock ** Autoerotichrist is the noise enigma of r mason from enemy soil and anjilla. they did three classic split 7” in the 90’s with richard ramirez, japanese torture comedy hour and incapacitants. this is their first release in nearly 15 years and doesn’t disappoint! Pure arcane and explosive noise in the way that is gone from our terrible world now. Prurient side is ‘black medieval grind’ short burst tracks of electronic prayers from 2001 in the style of Mater Dolorosa and the split 7…
Erector (Legacy Re-Issue)
Special legacy CD reissue on Susan Lawly. Originally released in early 1981, Whitehouse's third album 'Erector', with its Sadean themes and state-of-the-art electronic harshness, became a critical defining influence on the noise and power electronics genres of the mid to late '80s. This CD-reissue comes with a beautiful 12-page booklet packed with photos, information, the original LP inserts and uncensored artwork.
Death Ceremonies
**400 copies**Death Ceremonies is the darkest, most primitive death industrial record, soaked throughout with the smell of rotting corpses and burning bodies. Controlled Death (Masonna) features Maso Yamazaki's most compulsive Korg MS-20 drones and obsessive, disturbing vocals, drenched with anxiety and alienation. Dense atmospheres of doom, death, and decay build up just to break away in deep paranoia. Rudolf Eb.er (Schimpfluch) scratches a near-dead violin over horrifying synth tones, celebrat…
Grudge For Life: A Book About Ramleh
**360 pages; Hardback Cover** “I don’t see myself as being in charge. It is an equal partnership. We only do things that we both want to do. If I love an idea and Anthony doesn’t, I will work on it solo, as I would expect him to do if I wasn’t sure about an idea of his. Other people that help out have a lot of creative input in that we rarely tell anyone what to do. It’s up to them but, after the recordings are made, it is up to me and Anthony to decide what to do with the material we have. More…
This World Is Not My Home/Over Your Heads Forever
Reissue of these now o/p albums (originally released as CDs on Fourth Dimension Records in 2014 and 2016, respectively) as a limited edition 2LP set. A similar set collecting the Down But Defiant Yet and Acceptance Is Not Respect albums will follow later. Each album in this series will be featured in its entirety. 200 of each set will be made available for retail via direct orders and selected stockists. This is strictly limited and will not be repressed. The latest album from Gary Mundy (Ramleh…
Torturous Chapter
**2022 stock. 300 copies in digipack** Let's celebrate the 25th anniversary of this release with a re-release. Torturous Chapter was released on OEC as a tape 25 years ago and here comes for the first time the CD version of this historical album. Tremendous old-school industrial-noise recorded at Spinalklast / Rust Industries - Summer 1995. Sounds by: Richard Ramirez / Rick Baily / Kevin Ogg / Ryan Hunt. No need to say more! Digital mastering and trasfer from original tape plus sound boosting b…
Bleeding Headwound
**300 copies in digipack** Let's celebrate the 25th anniversary of this release with a re-release. Bleeding Headwound was released on OEC as a tape 25 years ago and here comes for the first time the CD version of this historical album. Tremendous Old-Shool Industrial-Noise recorded at The Meatshop in 1995. All sounds by Richard Ramirez. No need to say more! Digital mastering and trasfer from original tape plus sound boosting by Devis Granziera (Teatro Satanico / Lunus).
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Milanese Bestiality / Drunk on Decay
**300 copies** "Milanese Bestiality / Drunk On Decay first came out in 1997 as a vinyl-only release limited to 470 copies. This long time sold-out album is now re-released for the very first time into digital format with the addition of 2 unreleased bonus tracks (one for each artist). Those two exclusive additional tracks was recorded back in 1997, in same recording sessions done for the release of the album. A tribute album by those 2 primer world famous noise artists to the Italian first "Indu…
Amalgamelody
"Third collaborative album by the Japanese and Italian grand-masters of Industrial and Noise. This time all tracks are collaborations by the two artists. Only analogue sounds used, a true return to the old roots of Industrial music.Digipack with a great and futuristic space-design and a psychedelic touch made by Tex Tescari using images supplied by MB.
Marmo
"After two vinyl releases finally a digital album by the master of Japan-Noise on OEC. This album is entitled Marmo (Marble for Italian) and is devoted to the Italian and particularly the Venetian marble. Masami was visiting and playing in this magic Italian city several times and was impressed by all the marbles used in the Venetian buildings and paintings... The 3 tracks composing this album are entitled Merzbotanica-parallela. "Botanica parallela" is a book written by the Italian author Leo L…
Hermerzaphrodites
An unusual Merzbow double CD album, in lovely (digipak) packaging! Two very different CDs bounded in one unique release. While on one disc the sounds are more "ambient style", with a free piano, many field recordings, far and rumbling rhythms and noises (The Piano Lento Ma Non Troppo Madness), the other disc's sounds are diving deep into "poly-rhythmics", continously beating and popping plus additional sequencing and 'exploding' sounds (The Pop-Corn Psychedelia). The soundtrack for a new psyched…
All Dreams Are Only Self Facials
**2020 stock, 300 copies** "Collaborative release by a dangerous Italian friends trio. Iugula-Thor is the Italian Industrial / Power-Electronic monster born from the minds of Andrea Chiaravalli and Paolo Bandera (Sigillum S / Sshe Retina Stimulants) in the early '90s. Suction Melena is the other harsh face of Giovanni Mori (Le Cose Bianche), the new man in the Italian Harsh Power-Electronics. This is sharp and uncompromising Hard Power-Electronics in pure Italian-Style. Scraping vocals, Analogic…
Opera
**2020 stock** "Old Europa Cafe, Elettronica Radicale Edizioni and Lake Shark Harsh Noise are glad to announce the 2015 reiussue of Iugula-Thor’s classic Opera. Originally published on tape in 1996 by Old Europa Cafe, Opera was a notable personal piece that blended noise and power electronics by mixing piercing high frequencies, a subtle and threatening vocal presence and classical music, buried under layers of violent harsh noise. Alongside Dead Body Love's classic Low-Fi Power Carnage, Iugula …
Ostracized Enigmatic Conqueror
A corrosive and psychedelic-noise album by this primal duo of the Japanese industrial-noise culture! Three devastating Incapacitants tracks to listen at maximum volume for high hearing damage. Two studio tracks and one live recording.