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Laudanum - Laudanum (Archana / Amplexus)
21 minutes of minimalist ambient and Gregorian chants from this joint project involving Amir Baghiri and Rüdiger Gleisberg.
(CD, cardboard sleeve, $10.00)
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[ ambient ]
Hilter - Sexfilms (Ars Benevola Mater)
With titles such as "Sushi Slut Sisters" and "Analdildo", you'd expect some sort of OTT power electronics, but "Sexfilms" is all about crude bass drones, cut-up VHS porn samples (complete with tape hiss) and occasional outbursts of noise.
(CD, oversized cardboard sleeve, $10.00, on sale)
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Matt Howden - Voyager (Ars Benevola Mater)
Label info: "Twenty-one neo-classical tracks that follow the progress of the Voyager space probe from Jupiter, past Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and out to The Heliopause, the outermost reaches of the Sun’s rays. As the album progresses out through the Solar System, the time signatures, keys, and conventional sounds and phrases mutate - the music becomes wilder and manipulations of conventional sounds, and time elements become more pronounced. The last track, The Heliopause, brings together all the elements of the album in a seventeen minute finale, capturing the relentless journey of Voyager heading out of our Solar System."
(CD, digipak, $15.00, on sale, last copy)
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[ ambient ] [ neoclassical ]
Job Karma - Strike (Ars Benevola Mater)
Sometimes when doing trades, you end up regretting not having taken more copies of a certain release which turns out to be a great pick. This is one of those cases. Job Karma is a Polish duo with a number of releases on Amplexus and ABM under their belt, and "Strike" is their 4th CD so far. Its mix of loop-based industrial, ritualistic ambient and analog synthesizers is impressive and highly enjoyable, and the closest reference I can think of is Internal Fusion but with a much stronger technological sound. The album also includes a great cover of Kraftwerk's "Radioactivity".
(CD, digipak, $13.00)
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[ ambient ] [ industrial ]
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, $14.00)
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[ dark ambient ]
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, $15.00, last copy)
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[ ambient ] [ industrial ] [ percussive industrial ]
S.E.T.I. - Knowledge (Ash International)
Finally stocked some new and sealed copies of this classic 1995 release by Andrew Lagowski's S.E.T.I., also active in the past as Legion and as part of Terror Against Terror. The four long tracks of detailed cosmic ambient are teeming with radio signals, highly processed vocal samples and deep soundscapes and rank among the best material by Lagowski, right up there along with his recent albums on Loki Foundation / Power & Steel.
(CD, clear jewel case, $8.00)
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[ ambient ] [ cosmic ambient ]
Nero's Day At Disneyland - Attention Shoppers (Audio Savant)
A roller coaster ride of manic beats, hysterical vocals and mastered lunacy. Catchy as hell and bound to be repeatedly listened to if you think Mr Bungle slugging it out with Hearts of Darknesses while the Mile 329 gang cheers them on sounds like a great idea. Somebody get this guy to put out more music NOW, or I'll have to do it myself.
(pro-printed CD-R inside a 5-1/4" floppy disk, out of stock)
A Crown Of Amaranth - Manuscript / Winterupt (Audio Savant)
First full-length from this American experimental noise / ambient project whose upcoming third album will be out soon on Eibon Records. Just as eclectic as "Love Lies Bleeding", you'll hear blasts of jet engine noise, farmyard field recordings (yes, that's a pig all right), warbling drones, solemn piano pieces, howling sirens and who knows what else over the course of this record.
(CD, jewel case, $5.00, on sale, last copy)
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[ drones ] [ field recordings ] [ noise ]
Legion - Zodiac (Auf Abwegen)
Label info: "New release by the master of dark ambient, Andrew Lagowski. He has worked with Lustmord, Isolrubin BK and Terror Against Terror in the past and his other projects include S.E.T.I. and Lagowski. Zodiac is a study into the depths of human misery - haunting and fearsome."
(CD, clear jewel case, out of stock)
[ dark ambient ]
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