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Recorded in late 1977, this seven-track live album found space rockers Hawkwind trying out a new name, Dave Brock’s Sonic Assassins, a new line-up, and a more spacy, bounding, and at points punked take on their sound. Here from Atomhenge, one of Cherry Red Sub labels, is either a CD or vinyl reissue of this key/ important release in the band's history.
From the late 1970’s The Music Machine is an entertaining and rather charming slice of British disco-exploitation. It’s set around a north London disco competition, and focuses on Gerry, a wide-eyed, strawberry-blond twenties-something, who wants to break out of unemployment drudgery. The film features a likeable cast, lots of pulsing lights, sparking suits, disco ball spinning tunes, and groovy dance moves, plus some very British touches. Here from Severin is a recent Blu-ray release of the film, featuring a sparkling new 4k scan and a good selection of all-new extras.
Now here’s one of the more creative/orginal takes on the sharkploitation genre. A half-man/ half-shark serial killer, set in a genre blend of unsettling slasher & criminal-on-the-run thriller with touches of demented creature feature, action, and, of course, Jaws send-up. Here from SRS Cinema is a new Blu-ray of this 2026 film, taking in a director's commentary & trailer.
If you didn’t know any better, you might guess that Jana Irmert’s latest release is meant to accompany something — an installation, a perambulatory exploration of some subterranean environment, or, more prosaically, a film.
Percussion ensemble HIIIT returns with the third instalment in their collaborative electronic series, SIIIX. As the name would imply, HIIIT worked with six other artists to come up with the tracks for this latest volume, each sharing/manipulating material in a two-way exchange, unlike many compilations of this sort. In this way, both artists have a say at how the other's is shaped and moulded, and the interplay/interweaving is stronger and more intense. This leads to tracks that have more rigid intent and feel more like compositions instead of improvisations. But, at the heart of it all is the percussion, and fans of putting on headphones and zoning out to an ambulatory beat should take note, as all six pieces move fluidly and effortlessly.
From the early 1990s, Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky stands as one of the most camp, OTT & extreme prison films of all time. The dystopian future-set picture features a muscley, ragged-haired, and seemingly unkillable martial arts master who has been sent to a corrupted private prison. The film is an eventful comic book and dark comedy-edged affair, full of eye-popping, guts-pulling, head-crushing, and limb-ripping violence. Here from 88 Films is a dual-format UHD & Blu-ray release of the picture. Taking in a brutally vibrant new 4k scan, three new commentary tracks, and a mix of new/ archive extras.
Here’s a release that ties together unrelentingly juddering wall noise with distant, harmonically edged ambient. It’s not clear where the projects from, but the release appears on London’s HNW label- so we know it’s going to be of a certain standard.
Static Terrain is a forty-minute slice of crudely galloping ‘n’ nastily spluttering HNW from this highly prolific and long-running Californian project. It’s a simple/ no-nonsense example of the form.
The Beast is an exercise in manically nerve-racking, and totally unforgiving junk noise walling from Whores Breath (aka David Hilshorst). The just over twenty-seven-minute track finds this Cincinnati project truly going all out to create an impenetrable mass of ratting, forking, luching, and grating noise
Corpse is a 2019 horror movie written, directed, produced, edited and scored by Christopher Williams (Hell is Inside) and starring Joe Blackstock (no other movie credits), Walt Braley (Snapped), Reise Kitts (no other credits) and Mingo Perry (Death of the Final Girl and Neon Sinner).
Tending collects together four pieces for modern ensemble by British-American composer/ guitarist James M Creed. The CD release features on its cover a monochrome photo of two figures walking along a misty mountain scape. And this is most apt, as many of the pieces have a drifting across a hazy landscape feel- where details, shape, and subtle traces of melody slowly come into view.
Flare collections together six modern classical chamber works from up-and-coming Malaysian Australian composer Sylvia Lim. Her work mixes the gloomy and emotional felt, with the lightly searing to the awkwardly bounding. This collection is relatively varied in both its sound & instrumental use
2026’s The Mortuary Assistant blends & blurs several sub-genres of horror to create a grimly heady and macabrely unpredictable ride. It focuses on a newly trained mortuary assistant's first night working solo. The film mixes creepy & lightning-striking gothic unease, are-they-going-crazy-or-not psycho thriller, occultic mystery, and demented demonic horror- which at points get quite action bound/ tense. Here from Acorn Media International is a Blu-ray release of the film.
Die Regeninsel is a collaborative drone-ambient album from two of the European masters of the form, Dirk Serries & Asmus Tietchens. Both have been actively making work for several decades- building up large but respected discographies. This is a six-track affair, with a fair amount of tonal, textural and atmospheric shift between each track- though the focus is largely dark, troubling, and grim intensity.
From the early 2000’s, The Screaming is a mix of cult-focused horror, new-age satire, and demonic creature feature. It’s an SOV film, though it’s at the mid-range of the quality/ skill side of the genre. So, while yes, it does look cheap, the acting is passable, as are the effects & the film's general execution, all with a keen sense of both creativity and entertainment. Here from the swell folks at Visual Vengeance is a recent Blu-ray reissue, featuring commentary tracks, two versions of the picture, and a CD soundtrack.
Here from VCI Entertainment, we have a dual DVD/ Blu Ray release of two low- budget creature features from the 1960s…one regards a severed alien-possessed hand, and the other subterranean slime people overtaking LA.
Soylent Green is a telling, relevant and at times troubling dystopian thriller from the early 1970’s. It shows us a future where humankind has well and truly ruined the planet- temperatures are constantly boiling, and the air is hazed/ polluted. Vegetation, plants, and trees have all but gone- as have most animals. The general public have to queue to get rationed portions of Soylent in various colours) a bland processed food, and hope in general is in very short supply. The film centres around a weary/ jaded detective played by Charlton Heston (The Omega Man, Ben-Hur) who’s investigating the death of a very wealthy man, which ends up revealing an awful truth. Here from Arrow Video- both in the UK & Stateside- is a release of the film. It comes as either a UHD or Blu-Ray, with a new 4k scan of the picture, new commentary, and archive extras.
Falling Down stands as one of the more memorable, impactful, and thought-provoking thrillers/ action films of the 1990’s. It stars buzz- cut & bespeckled Michael Douglas ( Wall Street, Fatal Attraction, The China Syndrome) as a snapped everyman ironing/ shooting out the flaws he sees in society. It’s a blend of salary-man breakdown psycho drama, societal satire, jet-back comedy, and action thriller. Here from the fine folks at Arrow Video, both in the UK & US, is a new release of the film. It’s available as either a UHD or Blu-Ray- which take in a new 4k scan, and a mix of new/ archive extras.
Exploring the interaction between a physical Ondes Martenot and a virtual reconstruction, Kr-Krr (Nathalie Forget and Gilles Aubry) fuse the haunting waves of the instrument with electronic experimentation, creating an intriguing mixture of texture and tone. Based around improvisation, the duo work together to bring this early electronic instrument into a new age, allowing its voice to shine but also giving it provenance within a modern experimental setting. Its warm, wavering voice is somewhere between a theremin and a bowed instrument; this semi-alien quality gives it a head start in melding with the more experimental electronics that make up the bulk of Nebulage's sound.
The wonderful, named Inflatable Sex Doll Of The Wastelands, is a Japanese Pink film from the late 60’s. It’s a decidedly wonky and often disorienting blend of noir, surrealism, and, of course, female flesh. Here from Deaf Crocodile is a Blu-ray release of the film, featuring a restored print, a new commentary track, and a few other new extras.
Liminal Nightmares blends billowing, baying, and droned-out wall noise with an undercarriage of uneasy, creepy, and downright horrifying found sound/ sampling.
Bouf Noise Wall finds this prolific Czech project presenting us with three ten-minute walls, all of which take a distinctly industrial twist on the genre.
Teeth is just over an hour’s worth of bubbling ‘n’ flowing laver/steam hissing walled noise from Brazil’s Kadaveric Kommando. Been the sonic equivalent of walking around the top of an active volcano.
Manque severs up two around twenty-minute tracks from this Bordeaux-based project. The first focuses on thick droning ‘n’ hacking walling. And the second is a blend of slurred bass pelt and grainy jittering.