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Optimal - Rolling Stock

Here’s a smartly presented CDR in a printed card wallet, with both front and back covers depicting a bridge across water. The label spiel says that although it was established to reissue archival recordings, it has released Rolling Stock, recorded 2023-2024, since it revisits the late 1990s as a ’well crafted homage to DHR releases and ambient breakcore/jungle playlists from the 90’s’. The album is a compilation of tracks taken from three digital EPs.


Vidna Obmana - Twilight Of Perception Redux Volume Two 1995-2002

Twilight Of Perception Redux Volume Two 1995-2002 is the next in a series of CD compilations from Poland’s Zoharum.  Each release in the series serves up a selection of rare and unreleased tracks from Euro ambient pioneer Vidna Obmana, aka Belgium's Dirk Serries.  This three-CD set takes in sixteen tracks, and as you’d imagine from such a collection, we get variation in both the tone/atmosphere, moving from pared-back ambience, all the way through to detailed/rhythmic-edged ethnic ambient works.


Richard Scheib - A Viewing Guide To The Pandemic(book)

A Viewing Guide To The Pandemic is just over two hundred pages guide to depictions of plague and pandemic, in both Film and television. It blends (largely) concise & honest reviews with often troubling facts/ figures regarding real plagues and pandemics, as well as looking into the background/origin of the fictional side of things too.


Darkthrone - Panzerfaust( 2025 reissue)

Released in 1995, Panzerfaust was the fifth album from Darkthrone. It saw the band returning to their BM roots, with many of the tracks having very clear nods towards the likes of Bathory and Celtic Frost- though still managing to maintain some of their own grimly churning and blackly lo-fi coldness. From Peaceville Records, as part of their series of two-disc CD releases of classic BM albums from the band, this is a reissue of the album. The first disc takes in the original album, and the second disc features a full-length commentary track from songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Feriz.


Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger( 2025 reissue)

Transilvanian Hunger was the fourth album from Norway's Darkthrone;  and it was also the third and final chapter in the band’s Unholy Trinity, which defined not just Norwegian black metal, but the whole second wave of BM. The eight-track/thirty-nine-minute 1994 album is the very definition of grim ‘n’ freezing BM, and has gone on to probably one of the mimicked/all-out copied albums in BM history- if you don’t know this album, you don’t know the genre!. Here from Peaceville Records, as part of their series of two-disc CD releases of classic BM albums from the band, is a reissue of the album. The first disc takes in the original album, and the second disc features a full-length commentary track from songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Feriz.


Yorkshire Modular Society & Peter Digby - Beneath the Hanging Sky

Extensive and enigmatic, this massive first collaborative effort from Yorkshire Modular Society & Peter Digby Lee is four pieces of rich, droning ambient totaling over two hours in length. Beneath the Hanging Sky is the product of a chance meeting at the resonance Drone Bath in Todmorden, where the two made a connection through a shared vibration at the space, linking their minds for future work together. While not instant, this collaboration came in the form of vast amounts of samples (recorded and collected by Peter) being reworked and reformed by Dominich Schofield (Yorkshire Modular Society), resulting in the monolithic album coming from Dragon's Eye this month.



       
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