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Aidan Baker - Exoskeleton Heart (Crucial Bliss)
Label info: "Following up his amazing Periodic disc that was issued through Crucial Bliss two years ago, acclaimed Toronto drone-guitarist Aidan Baker is back with Exoskeleton Heart, his newest entry into our ongoing Crucial Bliss series. And this 2-track, hour long excursion into deep feedback bliss is stunningly beautiful. Split into two halves, "Interior" and "Anterior", Baker once again taps into his visions of the bodycage using only his electric guitar, performed and recorded live; the result is an evocative feedback-heavy dronescape drifting with the gritty hum of the amplifier, layers of shimmering, chiming feedback, crushing distorted ambient dirge that borders on Sunn O)))-levels of sonic weight, and shafts of elegiac melody breaking through the stormclouds of Baker's cavernous rumbling like rays of sunlight. Aidan Baker is without question the North American counterpart to the Tuetonic guitar drones of Troum, and Exoskeleton Heart delivers some of his most massive, meditative, crushing, and beautiful subterranean drift yet. Hell, the final 10 minutes of "Anterior" is without questions one of the most beautiful things we have ever presented through this label, an angelic glacial melody that builds inexorably into a wall of blissed out fuzz a la something you'd expect from Aidan's drone sludge band Nadja. Essential. [...]"
(pro-printed CD-R, oversized sleeve, 7.50 €)
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Ait! - Romanticismo Oltranzista (Punch Records)
Label info: "Ladies and Gentlemen: Mr. AIT! is back at last to reveal himself with a new kinky show
for those of you having lost their heart in a dark Italian discotheque, some thirty years ago.
With a couple of hard-boiled songs and a boxful of extremist love letters
this obscure erotique one man orchestra gets its stylish fists right into the face of today's fashion kids. Too strong to be pussy. Too pussy to be romantic. A bizarre cup of circus fun served in a Jess Franco ballet dance through hell.
Remember the mirrorballs and watch this whole unique striptease from lounge to funk to rock'n'punk. Everything in here, more than a spicy cocktail. All shaken not stirred. A punch of its own!"
(CD, digipak with 28-page booklet, 13.50 €)
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Ait! / Novy Svet / O Paradis / Totenlieder - Drinking to Better Days (Punch Records)
A great experimental neo-folk compilation that brings together some of the most (and few) lively and interesting bands in this field. Each of the four participating projects contributed two tracks to this 12" EP. The luxurious hand-made sleeve is covered in blue velvet on the outside and satin on the inside, and this release is limited to 410 hand-numbered copies.
(12" EP, out of stock)
Alexei Boris / Jeff Surak - Ulitsa Novatorov (Locus of Assemblage)
Label info: "Alexei Borisov is the godfather of Russian experimental music. Active since the early 1980s, Borisov was the driving force behind many new wave, industrial, electronica bands such as Tsentr, Nochnoi Prospekt, F.R.U.I.T.S. and Vogla. Borisov has performed to packed stadiums to underground clubs in the former Soviet Union, and is a regular participant in many European festivals. On this new release on Locus of the Assemblage Borisov is joined by Surak (Violet, v., -1348- etc), creating post industrial compositions, that are thick, rhythmic and abstract".
(3" CD-R, plastic sleeve, 6.00 €)
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Alio Die - Suspended Feathers (Silentes)
Label info: "Silentes presents another great reissue. Suspended Feathers is one of the best well-known works by Alio Die, published originally in 1996 in a limited edition of 1000 copies in a special package by AQUA/AMPLEXUS and sold out for years. [...] The 5 tracks include one long track originally composed for the "mythical" Amplexus series, one track composed together with Gregorio Bardini nd one track composed with Vidna Obmana. After 10 years this album [still] sounds fresh and it's a real ambient masterpiece."
(CD, clear jewel case, 9.00 €)
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Altar of Flies - Dead Air, Broken Wings (BlackGapDeathTrap Records)
CD-R re-release of the tape with an extra track. Altar of Flies is Mattias Gustafsson from Sweden, and this project is one of those great surprises you run into and feel like sharing with whoever is actually reading this. This is tense, sputtering electronic sludge with industrial overtones done right, crafted into an organic beast with a life of its own. Limited to 50 copies, and we've only got two to spare.
(CD-R, individually handmade artwork, 7.00 €, last copy)
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Altar of Flies - Consequences (Husk Records)
New release from this Swedish project, with two slabs of nightmarish midnight noise.
(Tape, 7.00 €)
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Altar of Flies / M Frisk / Gjalp - Krig Pest Svält Död (Nil By Mouth)
Label info: "Altar of Flies meets M. Frisk and Gjalp (both acclaimed Swedish underground artists): a new way of sound from this young but promising project. Heavy, spook, creep with metal noises for a rough junk attitude! Drones, live noise, voices, metal percussions, disturbed frequencies and pure noise."
(Tape in white box with stamped logo and one large insert, 7.00 €)
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Amon - Nona (Weird Amplexus)
One 21-min track from Amon, the cinematic dark ambient project headed by Andrea Marutti, of Afe Records fame. As always the occult Egyptian themes aren't too far away, as this EP is inspired by the Rosemary case of the early 1930's. During those seances, a British woman allegedly spoke in ancient Egyptian and claimed to be "Nona", or "The One Without a Name", the consort of the Pharaoh Amenhotep III (ancient spirits just love these multiple nicknames). Going back to the music, this track could be thought of as an appropriate soundtrack to those candle-lit seances of yore where every kick in the table was obviously a sign of otherworldly communication.
(CD in 10"-sized sleeve, 8.00 €)
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Andy Ortmann - Nightmania (Nihilist)
First full-length album from the founding member of Panicsville and the Nihilist label. This release contains 6 tracks that individually serve as soundtracks to the drawings and collages presented in the booklet. From corrosive pools of gurgling noises to dense collaged moments of joyful mental retardation, this is a rich and rewarding listen for those with a taste for the disturbing. A special mention also goes out for the crystal clear audio production.
(CD, clear jewel case, out of stock)
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