Date: May 24th 2009

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- Latest catalog additions -




Stalnoy Pakt - O Roma O Morte! CD-R (ALF Produkt)
Vetrophonia - Generalissimus Chiang Kaishek 3"CD-R (ALF Produkt)
Ritualnaya Bioingeneria - Poluraspad CD-R (Ultra)
T.A.U. - Absolutely Black Body CD-R (Ultra)
T.A.U. - T.A.U. CD-R (Ultra)
Lunar Abyss Deus Organum - Snovidenie CD (BioSonar Labirint)
Lunar Abyss Deus Organum - Tuntury CD (Aquarellist)
Linija Mass - Industrealism CD (ALF Produkt)
Dvar - Jraah Mraah CD (Gravitator Records)
Dvar - Rakhilim CD (Monopoly)
Bad Sector - The Harrow CD (Ewers Tonkunst)
Various Artists - Sacral Symphony CD (EE Tapes)
Rapoon - Escaping From Color (Rapoon Recomposed & Remixed) CD (Quasi Pop Records)
KK Null - Galactic Tornado CD (Quasi Pop Records)
Job Karma - Tschernobyl CD (Ars Benevola Mater)

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- In stock, TBA shortly -

T.A.U. - La Splendeur, Geometrique / Urbanomania CD-R (Ultra)
Stalnoy Pakt - ROA 3"CD-R (ALF Produkt)
Hated Bruit Kollektiv - Aktion One CD-R (New Nihilism)
Per Aspera - Nil Desperandum CD (New Nihilism)

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- Detailed list of additions -

Stalnoy Pakt - O Roma O Morte! (ALF Produkt)
Sights and sounds of Fascist Italy condensed into one 16-min long military-industrial collage of anthems, marches, cheering crowds and gramophone fuzz. Includes a 3-min video clip set to the tune of a reconstructed version of "Giovinezza". Best enjoyed with a fine glass of castor oil.
(CD-R in oversized sleeve, $12.00)

Vetrophonia - Generalissimus Chiang Kaishek (ALF Produkt)
Short EP dedicated to Chiang Kai-Shek, the Chinese political and military leader who fought both the Japanese during WW2 and against the Communists in the following civil war, ultimately resulting in the creation of the Republic of China (known today as Taiwan). 4 tracks of subdued musique concrete merged with sampled Chinese musical elements. Limited to 30 copies.
(3"CD-R, oversized hand-made sleeve, $12.00)

Ritualnaya Bioingeneria - Poluraspad (Ultra)
Ritualnaya Bioingeneria is Lunar Abyss Deus Organum dragged from the forest and forced into industrial labor. With its combination of busy factory sounds, bursts of radio noise and snippets of Soviet-era gramophone recordings, "Poluraspad" is definitely at home on Alexander Lebedev-Frontov's label. Few copies in stock.
(CD-R, silver-inked paper sleeve, $12.00)

T.A.U. - Absolutely Black Body (Ultra)
Back in stock. Collaboration effort from Kirill Rozhkov and Alexander Lebedev-Frontov. Machine noise and processed radio signals that have a trance-like quality to them. Limited to 120 hand-numbered copies.
(CD-R, cardboard sleeve, $12.00)

T.A.U. - T.A.U. (Ultra)
First self-titled release from this collaboration between Kirill Rozhkov (S36NZ-OKH) and Alexander Lebedev-Frontov (whom you should already know of by the time you're reading this). Where Linija Mass is the sound of industrial labor running at full capacity, T.A.U.'s debut album is its nighttime counterpart, with the pacing of the activity subdued and restrained. The shouts of the foreman are ghostly echoes here, and the faint rumble of automated machinery is only interrupted by sparse malfunctions in its cycles. The poetry of machines in motion.
(CD-R, cardboard sleeve, $12.00)

Lunar Abyss Deus Organum - Snovidenie (BioSonar Labirint)
First full-length CD album from the new incarnation of the long-active St Petersburg project known as Lunar Abyss Quartet. The material presented here is in the vein of the Brusnika 7" released on Drone Records and the Sleeping in the Sleep mini-album, with a similarly haunting and ethereal atmosphere. Ritual percussion, traditional Russian folk instruments and field recordings come together to form these incantations for forest spirits over a background of hazy drones and discreet electronics. A personal favorite that comes highly recommended.
Each copy comes in a different hand-made cardboard package.
(CD, hand-made cardboard sleeve, $14.00)

Lunar Abyss Deus Organum - Tuntury (Aquarellist)
New 2009 release from St Petersburg's finest purveyor of shamanistic ambient. Psychedelic drones, rustling bells and clear melodic tones are overlaid over natural field recordings of rain, crackling fire and bird calls, but the more animated pace of these 6 tracks makes for an active hallucinatory listening experience rather than a strictly laid-back "ambient" affair.
For this release, Evgeny Savenko was joined by M.M. of Zhelezobeton / Kryptogen Rundfunk on processed guitars, synths and tapes.
(CD, digisleeve, $14.00)

Linija Mass - Industrealism (ALF Produkt)
Mini-album composed of two tracks from 2001 and one from 2007. This is some of the most rhythmical and loop-based material released by Linija Mass, mechanical grinding and the restrained hum of machinery replacing the maelstrom of factory noise present on earlier releases. A different direction approached with the project's consistent stakhanovist efficiency.
(3"CD in oversized sleeve, $12.00)

Dvar - Jraah Mraah (Gravitator Records)
The mysterious creatures of Dvar are back with a whole new repertoire of otherworldly songs and playful little ditties. Thankfully not much has changed since the last time, and "Jraah Mraah" has the same hobgoblin-like vocals and impish melodies that make every one of their albums a fairy tale for the ears, keeping with the oral tradition that is essential to the genre. There's one key difference though: the tale is no longer being told from the point of view of an omniscient narrator in your language, but directly by the gnomes, trolls and pixies themselves in theirs. Wonderfully enchanting as always.
(CD, clear jewel case, $14.00, last copy)

Dvar - Rakhilim (Monopoly)
A personal favorite and definitely an acquired taste, Dvar is a mysterious Russian band that makes music ideally suited for drunken gnomes and overworked elves, complete with otherworldly vocals and cartoon-ish melodies. Hysterically joyful at times, desperately melancholic at others, Dvar is always completely off the charts in the best way possible and this is definitely one of their highest points so far.
(CD, clear jewel case, $13.00)

Bad Sector - The Harrow (Ewers Tonkunst)
Re-release of this classic Bad Sector album from 2001 in a slick digisleeve. Based on sounds emanating from a digital Geiger counter and naval, air and military radio bands fed through custom signal processing, "The Harrow" is just as impressive today as when it was initially released, with its streams of radiant signals and impulsive electronic patterns. Absolutely essential.
(CD, digisleeve, $14.50)

Various Artists - Sacral Symphony (EE Tapes)
5 exclusive and long-playing tracks curated by Evgeny Voronovski of Cisfinitum for this great yet discreet Belgian label. The contributors are 1000sch�en, Troum, Rapoon, First Human Ferro and Cisfinitum himself. Also features great artwork by Eugeny Kuprienko, who also took care of the design for Cisfinitum's "Tactio".
(CD, oversized screen-printed sleeve, $16.00)

Rapoon - Escaping From Color (Rapoon Recomposed & Remixed) (Quasi Pop Records)
15-track compilation of music exclusively composed with Rapoon's "Tribal Sci Fi" sound library. Participants include Francisco Lopez, Machinefabriek, Troum, Jorge Castro, Aidan Baker, Anla Courtis, Mike Shiflet, Cisfinitum and more.
(CD, digisleeve, $13.50)

KK Null - Galactic Tornado (Quasi Pop Records)
2008 release from long-active experimental musician Kazuyuki Kishino. While the combination of a prolific discography and the "guitar noise improv" tag kept me away from his works so far as efficiently as the colors on a poison dart frog, my preconceptions were thankfully proved wrong by this album. Far from being interchangeable and self-indulgent, the five 10+ minute tracks here do not show a single moment of dullness. Attention has been obviously paid to keeping the flow dynamic and renewing the pool of sounds, as thick slabs of cosmic noise crash into twitchy electronic pulses and deflagrations. If this is representative of his current work, I'll be definitely investigating more of his similar material.
(CD, multi-paneled digipak, $13.50)

Job Karma - Tschernobyl (Ars Benevola Mater)
This 2007 release from Poland's Job Karma is a concept album based around the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and its aftermath. Melancholic synth melodies, minimal rhythmic patterns and layered voice samples are used in the same carefully constructed manner as on 2005's "Strike", and this is definitely a commendable and consistent follow-up to it (barring the somehow off-topic "Man in my Room" with its ridiculous sample from "Saw").
(CD, multi-paneled digipak with booklet, $16.00)