Golpea Tu Cerebro: Spanish Underground Cassette Culture, 1980-1988 Label: Insane Muzak – NON1001Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Limited Edition, Numbered, Stereo Country: SpainReleased: 07 Feb 2018Style:Industrial, Noise, Experimental SOLD OUT *2LP BOXSET INCLUDING 52 PAGE LP-SIZED INSERT WITH ENGLISH / SPANISH LINER NOTES AND PHOTOS. *REMASTERED SOUND. *DOWNLOAD CARD INCLUDED. *LIMITED TO 440 HAND-NUMBERES COPIES. *OFFICIAL RELEASE *NOT TO BE REPRESSED! “Golpea Tu Cerebro” (“Shake Your Brain”) is the first ever vinyl compilation dedicated to the unknown yet fascinating Spanish underground cassette scene from the ’80s. In the early 80s, with few resources but unlimited imagination, youngsters all across Spain started recording at home their experimental, noise, electronic and…
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Zu – Jhator
Zu – JhatorLabel: House of Mythology – HOM 009Format: CD, AlbumCountry: UKReleased: 07 Apr 2017Style: Free Jazz, Noise, Prog Rock Stubbornly free from genre classification, Italian trio Zu have been proud to follow their own musical pathways for some twenty years now. Throughout their highly diverse career the band has cultivated the art of collaboration, joining forces with luminaries such as Mike Patton, Damo Suzuki, Mats Gustafsson and Nobukazu Takemura. Their new album – and first on House of Mythology – is no exception, featuring guest musicians such as Jessica Moss of Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra and Kristoffer Lo of Norwegian pop sensations Highasakite, among others. Jhator is…
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Skullflower – The Spirals Of Great Harm
Skullflower – The Spirals Of Great HarmLabel: Cold Spring – csr225cdFormat:2 × CD, AlbumCountry: UKReleased: 06 Jan 2017Style: Noise, Psychedelic The new sprawling double disc from black noise classicists Skullflower – referencing Inferno 17, Dante and Virgil’s spiralling descent into the abyss on demon Geryon. Full of harsh beauty and hymns for lost Albions, battle songs against the homogenisation of modern ‘lyfe’– f**k the new estate! “Hedgerows, tapestries, dream woods, dragon lands. After «Draconis”, we have been released to roam through the multiverse, fashioning trinkets and ornaments from jewelled sounds, and leaving them as waymarkers on our astral travels. We seem to be circling, encountering familiar territories, yet always changed,…
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Lasse Marhaug – White Inferno
Lasse Marhaug – White InfernoLabel: Old Captain – OCCD31, Narcolepsia – narco076Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered, DigipakCountry: Ukraine, PortugalReleased: July 2017Style: Noise During a hellish blizzard in the winter of 1996 Norwegian noise artist Lasse Marhaug locks himself up in his home studio in Trondheim and records the harshest noise of his life. Marhaug’s attempt to obliterate the arctic climate with total sonic destruction fails, but the recorded onslaught results in the “White Inferno” cassette, released on Macronympha’s Mother Savage Noise Productions label. The material reflects Marhaug’s modus operandi at the time: dense analogue tape overload, and could be seen as a more bloody-minded sister-release to his better…
