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    The Dark Red Seed ‎– Stands With Death

    septiembre 15, 2017

    The Dark Red Seed ‎– Stands With Death
    Label: Prophecy Productions ‎– PRO 214 LP
    Format: Vinyl 12″ EP
    Country: Germany
    Released:14 Sep 2017
    Style: Neofolk

    The Dark Red Seed is the musical outlet of Tosten Larson, guitarist for Seattle dark folk musician King Dude. A self-coined ‘metaphor for the heart’, The Dark Red Seed represents a direct reference to life – and death – itself. The duo, which also includes King Dude engineer Shawn Flemming, is now about to release its debut EP, “The Dark Red Seed Stands with Death”.

    Described as ‘a study of death’, “The Dark Red Seed Stands with Death” is a dark, dusty discourse on the departure and ultimate dissolution of life; a powerful expression of absolute loss shaped through Larson’s haunting, Cash-like delivery. Each of the EP’s three songs represents various aspects of death (the death of America, death of culture and death of reality through technology and globalization), drawing on deep feelings and unanswered questions to create living, breathing sound.

    “I know when death comes for me I will most likely run away with blind fear,” Larson says. “I’m sure when death comes, I will almost certainly cling to life until my dying breath and pray to someone else’s god for salvation. But in life, I try to approach death as the ultimate acceptance. Whatever death and a possible life thereafter means to each individual, death is the only place where we might find answers. For in life there are only questions. Death is the one thing that awaits us all.”

    Raised in Kalispell, Montana and currently based in Portland, Oregon, Tosten Larson began his classical instruction as a young boy sitting at his grandmother’s piano. Firmly rooted in the traditions of American music, Larson’s sound is equally shaped by art rock such as Swans and Six Organs of Admittance, Eastern masters like Kayan Kalhor and Ravi Shankar, and hard rock staples such as Led Zeppelin and Neil Young. Though he wears his influences on his sleeve, his music attempts to defy category and carve its own path.

    The Dark Red Seed’s first full-length album, “Becomes Awake”, is already in the pipeline and tentatively scheduled for a summer 2018 release. The record is described as a detailed concept album that can be thought of as an answer or sequel to “Stands with Death”.

    Edition:
    – Vinyl MLP

    Tracklist:
    1. The Antagonist
    2. The Tragedy of Ålesund
    3. The Master and the Slave

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    Philippe Laurent – Phoenix (12″, EP, Ltd, Whi)

    septiembre 7, 2017

    Philippe Laurent – Phoenix (12″, EP, Ltd, Whi)
    Label: Peripheral Minimal ‎– PM15
    Format: Vinyl, 12″, EP, Limited Edition
    Country: Released:
    05 May 2017
    Style: Experimental, Minimal, Synth-pop

    Phoenix is a three track E.P. featuring two brand new tracks on the A-Side, ‘Phoenix’, and, ‘Agapao’. Meanwhile over on the B-Side, we have the 13-minute electronic opus and highly representative of his early work, ‘Exposition 4’, a never before released track from Philippe’s extensive archive, and recorded in 1982.

    The E.P. Is representative of Philippe’s latest forays into contemporary synth music, but still with a retro futurist edge and influenced partly by German pioneers Kraftwerk / late 70s Kosmische and au courant electro / synthwave acts, fitting into the current enthusiasm for early 80s synth pop and minimal wave.

    The E.P. is presented on white vinyl and limited to 300 copies.

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    Beta Evers, Spatial Relation ‎– Split (Vinyl, 12″)

    septiembre 7, 2017

    Beta Evers, Spatial Relation ‎– Split (Vinyl, 12″)
    Label: Peripheral Minimal ‎– PM20
    Format: Vinyl, 12″, 33 ⅓ RPM, EP, Limited Edition
    Country: UK
    Released: 28 Jul 2017
    Style: Electro, Minimal, Darkwave

    ‘Beta Evers / Spatial Relation’, a six-track 12” E.P., that also features, Heinrich Mueller of Dopplereffekt. The six tracks contain the coldest of minimal synth and technoid darkness, underpinned by a melancholic sentiment. This is the third release by Spatial Relation on Peripheral Minimal, and the first by Beta Evers.

    Brigitte Enzler aka Beta Evers, grew up with the New Wave and experimental electronics scenes in the late 70’s and early 80’s. In her teenage years she founded a girl-band and started her first record label at the age of 16, to independently release and distribute the music of her project. During the early 90’s Brigitte started to arrange gatherings / parties, (electronic music) for local underground clubs in her home city of Augsburg, Germany.

    In the year 2000 she founded the electro collective Kommando 6, and in 2001 she decided to run a label again, under the same name, Kommando 6. Finally, in the same year, she started to compose and produce her own tracks independently. Besides her solo-project, Brigitte collaborates in a side-project with Dystronic called, Black Spider Clan, which began life in 2002. Furthermore she is involved in, Flying Bodies and Radikale Analog Fraktion. In 2006 she closed the Kommando 6 label after it had released 20 records. More recently she started 2 new labels called Bodyvolt and Venus Noir.

    Married New York based couple, Lissette and Jacob Schoenly founded Spatial Relation several years ago, and have sporadically released classic technoid synthwave / minimal wave, akin to fellow US act, ‘Adult’ who are also a major influence. Their first full length LP has been critically acclaimed, and the three tracks herein continue their twisted electro sounds.

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    Blackhouse ‎– Live In Leipzig

    mayo 19, 2017

    Blackhouse ‎– Live In Leipzig
    Label: Dark Vinyl Records ‎– DV67LP
    Format: LP, Album,Black Vinyl
    Country: Germany
    Released: 2016
    Style: Industrial

    After 31 years of existence, Blackhouse’s live world premiere took place in Leipzig in 2015. 10 classic Blackhouse songs from the first albums, with extra improvised material, recorded in excellent sound quality directly from the mixing board! Blackhouse are the grandfathers of Industrial and as most fans still say: the tracks from their first 3 albums are their best tracks ever – the best of them were all played live for the the first time in history in Leipzig and you can find them all on this document of the memorable gig!

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    Sieben – Our Solitary Confinement ‎(2xLP, Album)

    marzo 25, 2017

    Sieben – ‎Our Solitary Confinement
    Label: Dark Vinyl Records ‎– DVLP09
    Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Album
    Country: Germany
    Released: 03 Feb 2017
    Style: Neofolk

    This record was recorded at Redroom Studio, Sheffield, England, during 2002. It was written, performed and produced by Matt Howden. The original CD (TRI 151) came out on the Trisol/Iceflower label.

    This was the first Sieben album to be a solo endeavour, but was before the looping phase of my Sieben career. That would come next, with the release of Sex & Wildflowers. Songs on this album were inspired by, or written in conjunction with photographs by Danish photographer Kristine Haffgaard. We inspired each other. This record has been mastered for vinyl by Bobby Bachinger at MAG Studio, Germany. Sleeve design by Martin Bedford.

    This vinyl edition runs to two records. All songs from Our Solitary Confinement are included, plus an unreleased work, The Sound Of His Horn. Written at the same time, The Sound Of His Horn was intended to be a book CD release through Tartarus Press. The idea was that it would accompany the book the music takes its name from, by author John William Wall (pen-name Sarban). For some reason this never quite happened. It is possibly one of my most ambient works – though has its scary moments, principally because it was written to accompany a spooky tale. The music to the Sound Of His Horn pinches and intertwines musical lines and beats from Our Solitary Confinement, Voyager (an album released under my own name that I was also working on at the time), and Hellfires (Redroom 002, released 2001). I’m often working on quite a few projects at the same time. With those that aren’t central to what I do, as with the Sound Of His Horn, I enjoy being free of ‘writing from fresh’, and will lift and re-use material. So strange to come back to these pieces I’ve never re-listened to, and hear echoes of Our Solitary Confinement peek through the soundscape.

    Matt Howden – February 2014

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    Uvegraf ‎– 2047- Sala De Máquinas

    marzo 14, 2017

    Uvegraf ‎– 2047- Sala De Máquinas
    Label: Discos Proceso Uvegraf ‎– PU-2
    Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Color Translucent Red
    Country: Spain
    Released: 03 Mar 2017
    Style: Industrial, Techno

    The return of one of the most outstanding industrial music projects emerged in the eighties in Spain !. Uvegraf is Juan Teruel, also involved in the scene of fanzines of the time (Mental) and founder of the tape recorder Proceso Uvegraf in 1985, where he published the first work: A.C.I./Enucleación (C-40). He later edited the legendary compilation Conspiración (1986) which counted on the contribution of some of the main protagonists of the electronic underground scene of Madrid (Esplendor Geométrico, Interacción, Depósito Dental, La Otra Cara de un Jardin, etc..)

    ¡El regreso de uno de los proyectos de música industrial más destacados surgido en los ochenta en España!. Tras Uvegraf se encuentra Juan Teruel, involucrado también en la escena de fanzines de la época (Mental) y fundador del sello de casetes Proceso Uvegraf en 1985, donde publicó el primer trabajo : A.C.I./Enucleación (C-40). Posteriormente editó el legendario recopilatorio Conspiración (1986) que contaba con la contribución de algunos de los principales protagonistas de la escena electrónica underground de Madrid (Esplendor Geométrico, Interacción, Depósito Dental, La Otra Cara de un Jardin, etc.
    Ahora en el 2017 recupera su sello y edita en lujosa edición limitada (vinilo rojo) su primer LP : 2047-Sala de Máquinas. 10 temas donde se combinan influencias de la mejor música Industrial de los ochenta con rítmos electrónicos technoides.

    TRACKLIST

    Koenig
    Patria
    Miedo-La Paura
    Mi propia zona muerta
    Donbass
    Omnytronika
    Shake
    Tupolev TU-144
    Rus mantra (Industrial Putin mix)
    Cuarto Reactor-Chernobyl

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    Sieben ‎– Each Divine Spark

    febrero 27, 2017

    Sieben ‎– Each Divine Spark
    Label: Dark Vinyl Records ‎– DVLP-7
    Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
    Country: Germany
    Released: 25 Feb 2014
    Style: Acoustic, Neofolk

    Lim Edition (150 copies in black vinyl) ; Gatefoldcover

    Each Divine Spark was lovingly knitted and written, rehearsed and diced; recorded live, loud and looped in a beautiful space; layered delicately and slow-roasted at home over UA-Ds, tape saturation and warm delays; passed over the ears of people who appreciate and emit sonic sorcery; then sensitively mastered to preserve said sonic sorcery. The space in this record is the subtlest sound I have never made, but can lay claim to.

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    Dark Awake ‎– Anunnaki

    enero 23, 2017

    Dark Awake ‎– Anunnaki
    Label: Sleaszy Rider Records ‎– SR LP-004
    Format: Vinyl, 12″, Album
    Country: Greece
    Released: 09 Dec 2016
    Style: Dark Ambient, Neo-Classical, Neofolk, Industrial

    “Anunnaki” is DARK AWAKE 4th full length album that contains 9 new songs.

    An esoteric mystical and spiritual music that must be felt not just heard.
    There are dark ambient parts without of earth instrumentation,
    that lead to powerfull martial industrial parts that inspire war and dominion.
    An abysmal orchestration that will send your soul to places beyond.
    The absolute masterpiece of dark music.
    Dark Awake ’s brand new opus takes inspiration from the ancient gods of Mesopotamia, Anunnaki.
    Anunnaki are a race of superhumanly powerful humanoid beings
    who were once worshipped by several of the tribes and cultures of Mesopotamia.

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    Anemone Tube / Post Scriptvm ‎– Litaniæ Mortuorum Discordantes (Vinyl, LP)

    enero 20, 2017

    Anemone Tube / Post Scriptvm ‎– Litaniæ Mortuorum Discordantes (Vinyl, LP)
    Label: La Esencia ‎– LER015/2016
    Format: Vinyl, LP, Limited Edition, Golden Vinyl
    Country: Spain
    Released: 19 Dec 2016
    Style: Dark Ambient, Industrial, Abstract, Experimental

    For lovers of soul-shredding funeral music built on dissonance / Triggering spiritual delight / Intended for church performance

    Under the headline “Litaniæ Mortuorum Discordantes” Anemone Tube and Post Scriptvm present a collaborative album with a truly unique concept: Originally applied to a particular style of ancient ritual music, in the Classical era the term Litaniæ Mortuorum Discordantes attained a negative connotation and was used to criticize those compositions – which, instead of instilling listeners with the desired pious euphoria, incriminated them with a sense of dread, existential anxiety, feelings of
    death and decay. Finding this aesthetic choice to be most appropriate for the present era, the two post-industrial projects attempted to create their own “Discordant Death Litanies” for the XXI century.

    The idea is culled from a semi-fictional biography of Johann Sebastian Bach, written by a 19th century Russian author. In the chapter describing Bach‘s childhood and early education, his older brother – who was also his music teacher and mentor – dissuades him from composing those “Litaniæ Mortuorum Discordantes” as they dangerously steer the Christian liturgy into a “wrong” direction of primordial chaos. In reality Bach never dealt with such dark notions, but created the most versatile and accomplished musical glorifications of the Christian god ever composed.

    Yet tempted by the imagination of real “Litaniæ Mortuorum Discordantes”, Anemone Tube and Post Scriptvm stage a linear, gradually unfolding “oratorio” which begins with layers of lush brass synths resounding a time and place enveloped in ancient mythical beauty. The pristine serenity, however, slowly deteriorates through the influx of anguish, social decay and profanity. Raw field recordings, throbbing electronics, metallic tremors, distant voices and chants portrait a life of numbness and confusion, where man – tormented by ignorance, ignoble desires and anger – has become a plaything of insane “Weltanschauungen” and the commercialization plague. In a world where spirituality is reduced to rituals of sadness, the prophetic – and confirmed – certitude that the end of civilization is close at hand prevails.

    • Standard vinyl edition comes with golden vinyl, full color cover with spine, printed paper inner sleeve and high-quality PVC sleeve with silkscreen printed golden typography. Limited edition of 200 copies.

    Ref: LER015/2016, La Esencia
    Release date: Late January, 2017

    Myth and the Relation to the World
    Recueillement (Sa Propre Mort)
    Irruption of the Whore
    Composed, recorded, edited and mixed by Anemone Tube 2013–2016, with field recordings made in Kyoto, Nanjing and Shanghai, 2007/2009 and synthesizer. Gong sounds and additional samples on Irruption of the Whore by Post Scriptvm, 2013. For Ola.

    Buried in Fabula
    Dark and Nameless Gods
    Laterne D’Horreur
    Composed, recorded, edited and mixed by Post Scriptvm in Trepan Studios, Brooklyn, NY, USA, 2014–2015.

    Mastered by Hunter Barr, 2016.

    Cover drawings by Post Scriptvm, 2016.
    Typography, design & inner sleeve photo by Anemone Tube, 2016.
    Photo detail of Tryptic of Saint Stanislaus the Bishop, painted and guilded limewood, Hans Süss von Kulmbach, ~1610; Gallery of Medieval Art, Warsaw.

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    Schwarz ‎– Nación subterránea

    enero 16, 2017

    Schwarz ‎– Nación subterránea
    Label: Verlag System ‎– VS013
    Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Stereo
    Country: Spain
    Released: 2016
    Style: Krautrock, Psychedelic Rock, Space Rock, Prog Rock

    Recorded by Marco Velasco in El Miradoor (Alhama of Murcia) in july of 2016.
    Mixed & mastered by Alfonso Alfonso in Goecia.
    Folder and artwork designed by Susana López.
    Percussions by Miguel Ángel Orengo.
    Chorus in “El propósito es el fuego” by Juanma Martínez & Marco Velasco.

    All songs by Alfonso Alfonso, except “Hashashin” (Alfonso / Martínez).

    “Schwarz are back with an amazing record like all his works, happily complicated as all his discography, audacious in its aesthetic mutation we think to have the courage, wisdom and talent to build all this new repertoire.”
    Tomás Fernando Flores. Siglo XXI – RNE3

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