Date: August 21st 2008

For mp3 samples and ordering, please go to the catalog page.

The relocation to Northern Virginia is now over and the stock shipment has finally reached its destination, meaning that our mail order activities will now resume from our new location.

European / worldwide customers are definitely more than welcome to order from us as usual, specially given the current low USD value and the cheap international shipping costs in the US.

Please note that due to the lack of an appropriate printer at the time, most of our own CD-R releases will not be available for a while, so consider ordering them from one of our distributors if you should be looking for them.

- Latest catalog additions -
Mattias Frisk - Ett Liv I Vantan Pa Doden CD-R (Self-released)
Urna - Liber Lelle CD-R (Abgurd)
Neuntoter der Plage - The White Ashen CD-R (Abgurd)
Isolrubin BK - Crash Injury Trauma CD (Soleilmoon)
Oxyd meets Sumad - Mysterious Places Of Dead Souls CD (Ars Benevola Mater)

O Paradis - Pequenas Canciones De Amor CD (Tourette)
Nikita Golyshev - Solaris CD (Monochrome Vision)
Various Artists - Roulette Russe pour un peu de Caviar CD (Monochrome Vision)
Various Artists - We're Punch Addicted CD (Punch Records)
O Paradis - Las Nubes que Mueren CD (Punch Records)

Jazkamer - Balls The Size Of Texas, Liver The Size Of Brazil CD (Purple Soil)
Svasti-Ayanam - Sanklesa CD (Eternal Pride)
Nordvargr - Helvete CD (Eternal Pride)
STROM.ec - Manual of Diagnosis CD (Neuroscan.org)
Cloama & Blutleuchte - From Wasteland Mausoleums CD (New Old Sentinel)

- To be added soon -

Nick Soudnick - Akhe Music Vol. 5 Faust 3 CD (Ultra)
Hati - Works for Scrap Metal CD (Eter)
Hati - Mantra-I - Prehistory of Hati: Vol. 1 CD-R (Eter)
Troum - Ryna CD (Transgredient Records)
Troum - AIWS CD (Transgredient Records)
Various Artists - A Selection Of Drones Past: Singles 1993-2000 2CD (Tumult)
Rrupt - Traverser CD (Egone)

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- Detailed list of additions -

Mattias Frisk - Ett Liv I Vantan Pa Doden (Self-released)
Second part of what is announced as a trilogy of releases by Swedish artist Mattias Frisk, whose eerie and colorful paintings and collages are just as attention-worthy as his musical output.
Exploring the themes of "time, death and apathy", this second chapter shifts to slower and more dispiriting sounds, with gloomy piano melodies and ghostly drones pierced by brittle noise shards. Solemn and somber like it should be, this definitely comes highly recommended. Packaged like the first volume in an envelope with a hand-written letter in Swedish.
(CD-R in envelope, $10.00)

Urna - Liber Lelle (Abgurd)
New 2008 release from long-active Italian artist Gianluca Martucci, with a number of past releases on Slaughter Productions. Gradually stepping away from its dank death industrial origins towards more ritualistic and luminous sounds over the years, Urna's new work further confirms this evolution with its compositions of serene acoustic ambient. Bells, cymbals, percussion, mandolin, balalaika, zither, accordion and flutes are woven together into a lustrous tapestry of sound dedicated to the life and death of Angela da Foligno, a Christian author, nun, and mystic. This could easily be a White Magic audio counterpart to Endura's "Black Eden".
(CD-R, plastic case, $13.00)

Neuntoter der Plage - The White Ashen (Abgurd)
Re-release of the long sold-out tape originally issued on Ryan Opperman's own Skeletone label. Three long tracks of poisonous death drones and demonic howlings.
(CD-R, oversized sleeve with netted fiber cover, $13.00)

Isolrubin BK - Crash Injury Trauma (Soleilmoon)
Lustmord side-project themed on car crashes and their consequences. Between Terror Against Terror's clinical electro and Lustmord's brooding ambient works. Released back in 1993, and long sold out and out of print. Only one spare copy, in as new condition.
(CD, jewel case, $25.00, last copy)

Oxyd meets Sumad - Mysterious Places Of Dead Souls (Ars Benevola Mater)
Ethereal ambient from Slovakia with a somewhat baroque touch to it. Spacious drones are layered with melodic instrumentation and sparse processed vocal samples. Somewhere between Bisclaveret, Tabor Radosti and some CMI acts.
(CD, oversized cardboard sleeve, $17.00)

O Paradis - Pequenas Canciones De Amor (Tourette)
New 2008 release from our favorite Catalonian troubadour, with a somewhat more light-hearted and poppy spirit than "Cuando El Tiempo Sopla". Pure Mediterranean sunshine. Also features a cover of Bob Dylan's "It Ain't Me, Babe".
(CD, digipak, $20.00)

Nikita Golyshev - Solaris (Monochrome Vision)
Debut CD album from Nikita Golyshev, a Moscow artist also known for his many mp3 releases as CD-R. "Solaris" comes in the shape of two long deep ambient pieces with perpetually expanding drones and minimal melodic tones. These tracks were partially presented at the Add Noise II festival on May 15th, 2007.
(CD, jewel case, $16.00)

Various Artists - Roulette Russe pour un peu de Caviar (Monochrome Vision)
A compilation of exclusive tracks by Russian artists, intended for presentation at the 2007 "Bruit de la neige" festival by Studio Forum (Annecy, France). Both established acts and newcomers are represented here, covering the fields of electro-acoustic, abstract electronic music, drone ambient and noise collages. Features Kolpakopf, Bardoseneticcube, Exit In Grey, Cisfinitum, Instant Movie Combinations, Hum, CD-R, Interior Disposition, Alexei Borisov, Kryptogen Rundfunk, Moscow Laptop Orchestra and Noises Of Russia.
(CD, jewel case, $16.00)

Various Artists - We're Punch Addicted (Punch Records)
18 exclusive tracks from the established Punch roster and a host of newcomers with a similar taste for the eclectic. Features tracks from Ait!, Erik Ursich, O Paradis, Comando Suzie, Nina Belief, The Plague Year of Audioscope, J.G. Cabargas & Los Inmortales, Pierre Normal, Ronin, Manasyt, Merging of the Self, Divine Muzak, Thomas Nola et son Orchestre, Mushroom's Patience, 1997EV, Terroritmo, Luftwaffe and Smrt I Cekic.
(CD, clear jewel case, $18.00)

O Paradis - Las Nubes que Mueren (Punch Records)
2CD compilation of previously abandoned and unreleased tracks and demos from past recording sessions. While this sort of exercise usually gathers leftovers that prove only interesting to completists, O Paradis' level of work makes this collection a release that can definitely stand on its own merit.
(2CD, digipak, $23.00)

Jazkamer - Balls The Size Of Texas, Liver The Size Of Brazil (Purple Soil)
While the prolific duo of John Hegre and Lasse Marhaug is mostly known for its taxing brand of harsh noise and glitch-happy deconstructions, this 2007 release on Czech label Purple Soil proves to be much more affable than their past works would have suggested. Sure, there is an electronic storm of a piece somewhere on here that's guaranteed to have you jumping for the volume knob, and the first track is basically little more than an old medical report apparently found on vinyl, but the real attraction here is to be found on the tracks which rely on a strangely western-tinged blend of guitar noise. The drawn-out squalls and piercing feedback become sorrowful ballads for desert sunrises and midnight prairies, the sort better seen when the whiskey kicks in. In those moments of grace, everything else just fades away.
(CD, multi-paneled booklet, $16.00)

Svasti-Ayanam - Sanklesa (Eternal Pride)
Label info: "Svasti-ayanam is Peter Andersson's foray into dark, Tibetan-Nepalese ambience. Andersson is well known for his work as Raison D'etre, Atomine Elektrine etc. In this incarnation, his signature Raison D'etre sound has been modified in an incredibly pronounced, and effective way. Sanklesa is marked by strong tribal rhythms that draw the listener into distant, foreign, ritual soundscapes. Andersson has released a prolific catalogue of music, that includes many CD's, limited vinyl and countless compilation appearances. Album includes 2 exclusive bonus-tracks."
(CD, digipak, $20.00)

Nordvargr - Helvete (Eternal Pride)
Label info: "The newest creation from Villa Bohult, the Nordvargr family burial vault. This time the "cursed poet" Wrest from the USBM Leviathan Cult and Drakhon (Beyond Sensory Experience, MZ.412) have joined the night sessions of the never sleeping Swedish zombie.
It would be totally insane to be waiting for something life-asserting, light and positive from the three of them. "Helvete" is just the overwhelming Darkness and the ice-cold all-filling Terror. Meditative and sinister Dark Ambient rhythms are filled with the ominous whisper of Wrest and Drakh. Deep and lengthy drones as well as the charming atmosphere of the Swedish industrial decadence.
At the end of this trip all of those nostalgic for the times of the "Burning The Temple Of God" MZ.412 will be fully rewarded for all the years of waiting..."
(CD, digipak, $20.00)

STROM.ec - Manual of Diagnosis (Neuroscan.org)
Label info: "Listen to the sounds of torment from a lobotomized nervous system and spasms of hallucinatory madness. STROM.ec is back with a painful pure industrial experience from rhythmless, smoking, burning, nauseating ambiances to vibrant cosmic pulsations which either unite with God or the worst nightmare of schizophrenia. Never afraid to take one progressive step further, STROM.ec has progressed from power electronics to a para-psychological frenzy of influences and alternate states of mind that border on the clinically deranged. Definitely not easy-listening music but the added depth of production and audio technology is sure to tune your subconscious to become one with STROM.ec's extreme, damned and perverted sensory suggestion. "The Manual Diagnosis" is conceived as a concept album on surgical lobotomy."
(CD, DVD case with insert, $15.50)

Cloama & Blutleuchte - From Wasteland Mausoleums (New Old Sentinel)
Stunning collaboration release between those two Finnish projects. Cloama's lurch towards more experimental sounds from its power electronics / noise beginnings is further emphasized by Die Blutleuchte's contributions, and this release effortlessly shifts from post-apocalyptic mantras to doom jazz dirges, with distorted guitar melodies and bleak atmospheres thrown in between. Scrapyard shamanism at its best. On a side-note, be sure to also look into Die Blutleuchte's "Rus", a sonic overview of Russian military history.
(CD, clear jewel case with UV-coated 8-page booklet, $15.50)