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This classic reissue of Electric Wizard's 2nd album from 1996 finds the band drug hazed take on doom sludge, exploring the depths of strange star systems and hellish worlds beyond most imagination. The led weighted riff’s buzzing and churning with black star cannons, and dark audio psychedelics .
The Ice hotel in Jukkasjarvi, Sweden is surely one of the seven man made wonders of the world, built each year in the winter purely out of ice, then as the spring comes on left to melt. Igloo is recorded and made purely in and around the ice hotel, only human voice and ice it’s self, are the used as instruments.
Lithuanian electroinca /sound artist Gintas K has been making music since 1994. This double disk set offer up two very different albums in one package. Lengvai moves in denser and ambient warmed Raster- Noton sound space. 60 x one Minute Audio Colours of 2kHz Sound 01-60 is 60 minute one snapshots of the sound frequency 2khz that’s altered and twisted in his machines.
Agrippa’s 3 books is this bass clarinet quartet’s celebration of all things occultic and heavy metal influence. They artful and effectively turn the bassy depth of metal to their advantage in this concept album, it all's seems to be based around occultic philosophical texts.
Based in Maine, U.S.A., Tumbledown is basically a one-man-band of Tom Gagne. His debut CD Safe And Sound contains a varied mix of songs which can be described as an intelligent and emotional type of rock music.
Merzdub is one of the more defined and musically ‘normal’ albums from Merzbow in a long time, since the chain beat records released by important records . There is defined musical melody and beats here and also defined Instruments, such as piano Synth, bass ect. It’s all brought to life with the help of Jamie Saft.
Nightmania literally Finds the listener inside of Mr Ortmann’s dreams and I can safely say, it’s one of oddest , bad acid like , skin crawling creepy, nausea inducing audio trip's I’ve been on, in some time, maybe ever!. All I can say is I’m glad I don’t live In Mr Ortmanns dreams.
Metal box brings together the all the live work of improvisional group Text of Light, the three disk nicely presented in a facsimile of Public image Ltd metal box album. The band consitst of all or some of( depending on performance) :Lee Ranaldo, Alan Licht, ( of sonic youth) William Hooker, Christian Marclay, Tim Barnes, Ulrich Kreiger and DJ Olive. It starts from their first concert in 2001 through to may 2005.
Bizarrely enough Minimum chips are from Australia, they seem the most unlike band to come from sunny climes. As the tracks seems to hovering in English suburban air of faded net curtains and peeling wall paper. The tracks plod along in a wonderfully downbeat, trying to be happy maner. 70’s time locked organs rumble along under bassy toped indie, sailed over by charming sing- song female singing.
Graves at sea mix upbeat doom, with slow-riffing stretched out moments, touches of grimy ambience and all toped off with growled vocals. They seem to perfectly balance between sounding morbid and groovy, evil and memorable.
This dark and edgy, ahead of it’s time rap masterpiece was original meant to have released back in 1997, but with the fall of Loud records it remained unreleased. Now Anticon gives us back a chapter in hip-hops evolution and a damn fine album to boot.
The dominant tradtion of Greece in the last 100 years has been rembetika. Originally the music of outcasts of society, gangsters and hookers and not seldomly singing about weed. In a sense is gangsta rap, even to the extent that it has grown the popular representative music of the country, despite its less glorious background.
The post punk period of the early 1980’s gave us some of the most interesting innovative and ahead of thier time bands, that often seem not part of any scene or genre. Ike yard is one such band and this excellent compilation brings together, their one and only album on factory records, along a ep and unreleashed tracks
Nostalgia has a haunted, eerier and emotional edge not often found in noise. Sure it’s still noise, and brutal as hell, but there seems something in the sounds and the way their put together, which really hits you in different places to most noise, sort of like body blows to soul, so to speak.
Bloody sea comes off like a more approachable, less violent version of the four disk Turmeric set from early this year. using elements of guitar feedback and electronic pluses and some very crude rhythmic elements.
Andy Stott’s debut album offers up ten slices of sleek and atmospheric beat work, that Ripple with beautifully edgy piano. Stott has managed to artful mix electronica, bassy dance fluctuations, crisp beats patterns and memorable melodies.
Within the first few minutes it’s clear from the quality and depth of the sound here, why Cold spring wanted to re-releases this deep dark ambient masterpiece, it was original releshed as a Cdr pressing of just 85. It drifts into chilling banks of flimatic synthesizer work, low and deep bouncing off the abyss drones , and sounds that suddenly fire out of the darkness at you, to keep you on edgy.
Soundpooling is the first proper Nurse with wound live album, recorded in Vienna, May of last year. Steve Stapleton and Colin Potter are helped by Andrew Liles, Diana Rogerson and Matt Waldor of Irr.App.(Ext) to create a captivating and surreal ambient soundscape.
This is a great speaker shaking reissue of a classic sludgy black doom 'n 'roll 3rd album ,by these uk doomsters. It’s all been remastered sounding more hevey than every, With the added bonus of a extra 14 minute track to boot.
On the preceding tour-only EP Digitalis the duo from Pittsburgh included a song called Sapphire which seemed a tribute to Jan Hammer's work for the infamous Miami Vice series. The other unreleased tune was Siberia, which resembled the Ennio Morricone soundtrack to The Thing, which on its turn seemed a tribute to director John Carpenter's own soundtrackwork. Yet, neither of these directions are taken on the second full-length Surface To Air.
The La noise scene seems to growing day by day, with varied and inventive takes on the noise genre. This excellent compilation brings together 36 tracks, from 36 artists. Making an ideal primer for the scene or as a tool to investigate further into this varied sound landscape.
Wraith Of The Ropes come off like a freakish cross breed of G.G.F.H. Stumbling doom, horror piano, sinister intent and proggy structures, high with synthesizer horror. Making for a debut album those mangers to offer something a bit chilling and different, with a great focus on atmosphere and creepiness.
Dull Lights manages to balance between sounding heartbrokenly beautiful and haunting, with awkward, shambolic and wrong sounding musical edges. Instruments seem to wondered off at their own accord, seemingly unaware of song structure, the songs feel brittle, as if you were to the slightest pressure on them they'd fall apart, like a broken biscuit on a farmhouse kitchen floor.
Mudlarking is Australian instrumental duos Tooth third release, offering up a double disk collection of progy tripped tunes that mix, various genre's and musical colours, all toped off with beats and a hippy type air. Making a varied and often inviting collection of tunes.