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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 ]
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 ]
Le Dépeupleur (Zbigniew Karkowski / Kaspar T. Toeplitz) - Disambiguation (Auf Abwegen)
Label info: " 'Disambiguation' is the third CD from the duo of Zbigniew Karkowski and Kaspar T. Toeplitz. It features one ongoing stream of grey, heavy and disturbing noises. It contains blocks of solid and almost material sounds, causing a physicality and urgency to the "music" which is rare to find these days."
(CD, cardboard sleeve, out of stock)
[ harsh noise ]
Intravene - Flotation Toy Warning (Auf Abwegen)
Intravene is the collaborative project formed by Stephen Meixner (Contrastate, SRMeixner) and Steve Pittis (Band of Pain), and understandably enough this album incorporates elements of both individuals' acoustic domains. Field recordings, low-key drones and processed samples make up most of "Flotation Toy Warning" while some unexpected drum n' bass rhythms sneak their way in on rare occasions.
(CD, jewel case, $15.00)
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[ drones ] [ experimental ] [ field recordings ]
Halo Manash - Par-Antra I: Vir (Aural Hypnox)
First part of a sonic trilogy, this is high quality soundscape material made from organic elements (including e-bowed guitars, wind bones, chanting vocals) and analog synthesizers. Great production level and a refreshing approach make this project one to keep an eye on.
(CD, A5 booklet, include a 50cm x 40 cm Vir-Wallcanvas, out of stock)
Halo Manash - Syoma (Aural Hypnox)
Label info: "Halo Manash's third full-length album offers both minimalistic and complex material mainly created via acoustic instrumentation. The ritualistic / electro-acoustic soundscape is based on dark and hypnotic sample textures, evolving guitar drones, dynamic ritual-percussions & reverberating gongs/chimes/bells, chanting vocalizations, various windbones / experimental instruments and analog synthesizers."
(CD, in 6-panel cardboard package, out of stock)
[ dark ambient ] [ esoteric ]
Aeoga - COAV (Aural Hypnox)
Label info: "The debut album of Aeoga presents very original and haunting material based on spiraling dark drones, eerie guitar feedback textures, archaic drum and cymbal patterns, atonal / tonal vocalizations and distant / peculiar sample layers."
(CD, octagon-shaped cardboard cover w/ 6 panel sleeve, $13.00, last copy)
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[ dark ambient ] [ esoteric ]
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