 |  | Left, Right and Centre - Left, Right and Centre( Blu Ray) | Left, Right and Centre is a star-studded 1959 political satire from director Sidney Gilliat (The Great Manhunt, Green For Danger and The Great St Trinian’s Train Robbery). The film stars Ian Carmichael (From Beyond the Grave, I’m Alright Jack and The Lady Vanishes), Alistair Sim (An Inspector Calls, A Christmas Carol and The Belles of St Trinian’s), Patricia Bredin (The Secret of Monte Cristo, The Bridal Path and To Have and To Hold), Richard Wattis (The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Longest Day and Tam Lin) and Hattie Jacques (Carry on Camping, Carry on Cabbie and Sykes).
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 |  | Supervixen - Supervixen( Blu Ray) | Supervixen was the twenty-first feature from director/ writer Russ Meyer. Appearing in the middle of the 70s- the film is a wild, at-points wacky romp blending large-breasted softcore, camp drama, and action with a few moments of extreme/nasty violence. The film starts off, as a jealous and randy woman-focused unhinged domestic drama- before shifting towards a blend of bloody murder thriller, sexual encounter lined road movie, comedy-drama, and whacked-out action film- so a ride and a half, and the film's tagline of ‘Too much…For One Movie’ most certainly fits. Here from Severin, as part of their series of reissues of the Meyers work, is a new release of the film- taking in a new bold ‘n’ buoyant print, and a few new and archive extras.
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 |  | Venomous Echoes - Dysmor | Never short on concept, Venomous Echoes returns with Dysmor, utilizing a forward thinking blend of death and black metal to tackle the anxiety, fear, and frantic thoughts caused by the artist's body dysmorphia. With this in mind, it also helps to shed some light on the subject matter of 2023's Writhing Tomb Amongst the Stars, but sees a musical progression in form and construction. Never one to rest on his laurels, Ben Valweeden is a one man maelstrom handling everything but the cover art. His vision is clear and his path from start to finish takes the listener through chaos, madness, grime, terror, but also distorted beauty in the form of piano and sax.Truly and intriguing and engaging work, Dysmor is another great album in a quickly growing catalog.
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 |  | Joke Lanz & Thomas Rehnert - Combination Without Repetition | Using turntables, modular gear, and percussion, Joke Lanz & Thomas Rehnert have crafted a release comprised of two very long tracks, each of which is like an accelerationist manifesto on how to combat the culture industry of drifting attention: outrun the bastards! As the title of their join effort portends, Combination Without Repetition, the gauntlet has been thrown. Never let any moment of sonic expression reach a point of repeatability, lest the army of Ritalin-addled nippers get their way. What does this all mean, you might ask? Well, the 33 minutes that make up this work leave absolutely no room for getting into a groove, anticipating what comes next, because Lanz and Rehnhert amputate any morsel of potential auditory pleasure before it can become a "thing", the sonic form of an object or stable entity. This makes for difficult listening, to be sure, but if you can read a little, the duo are pretty upfront about their intentions, and the work that went into crafting such a frenetic journey is worth paying attention to, even if it hurts and you just want to turn the damn thing off (I know I did).
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 |  | Memory Scale - Chapter Five | Memory Scale (aka Arnaud Castagné from Bordeaux, FR) has crafted a pretty unique take on the ambient genre in his Chapter Five, a new album composed of twelve tracks that are really, for lack of a better term, songs. This is part of what makes this work unique, for the structure and internal momentum present within each composition certainly moves, in a developmental way, toward a horizon, wherever that is. To be fair, any music does by virtue of its durational character, but the movement I mean here is formal, built into the internal tensions within each song.
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 |  | Olga Anna Markowska - ISKRA | The distinctions between modern/contemporary classical and the countless offerings that appear under the catch-all "ambient" are increasingly difficult to identify without a few helpful liner note or two. I suppose someone with a formal musical education could probably feign some deeper appreciation for the notational correctness in the former, or so I imagine, but not I. On the level of sonic expression and its recorded capture and manipulation, there does seem to be a shared interest in the arrhythmic, for whatever reason. I guess that how each artist in their respective genre ended up choosing that path probably says a great deal about the genealogy of their own concept of music. Enter Olga Anna Markowska, one of those classically trained instrumentalists who has crafted an elegant, and at times quite moving, ambient album, ISKRA, composed of electronics, cello, zither, and the like. In true classical fashion, ISKRA is essentially a narrative journey divided into 10 individual compositions, each with their own emphasis on a particular time of the day, from dawn until dusk
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 |  | High Crime - High Crime ( UHD, Blu Ray, CD) | High Crime is an early 1970s Poliziottesco/crime action film focusing on drug smuggling. It features a great rage exploding-to-emotional performance from lead Franco Nero, a good shifting pace, some great/ tense action set-ups, and creative shot use. Here from Blue Underground is a three-disc release of the film- taking in a UHD, Blu-Ray, and CD. With a new 4k scan, three commentary tracks, a good selection of new/ archive extras, and the film's soundtrack.
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|  | Alien Sex Fiend - Possessed By De... | Since the early 1980’s Alien Sex Fiend have gleefully dodged genre labels and brackets. The UK two-piece darkly tongue-in (rotten) cheek sound mixes el...
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