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    Golpea Tu Cerebro: Spanish Underground Cassette Culture, 1980-1988


    Golpea Tu Cerebro: Spanish Underground Cassette Culture, 1980-1988

    Label: Insane Muzak ‎– NON1001
    Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Limited Edition, Numbered, Stereo
    Country: Spain
    Released: 07 Feb 2018
    Style:Industrial, Noise, Experimental

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    *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 industrial cassettes.

    They were influenced by DIY, Futurism, Dada as well as by the early Industrial bands (Throbbing Gristle, Whitehouse, Nurse With Wound, S.P.K, Cabaret Voltaire, NON, Esplendor Geométrico, etc), which were championed in Spain thanks to adventurous radio shows, fanzines and mail order catalogues selling imported and domestic albums and cassettes.

    We’re talking about what probably was the first DIY and truly independent music scene in Spain. The dark side of the “Movida”. Individualism and avant-gardism in opposition to superficiality and emptiness. Most of these projects were just one-man operations or collectives created by friends. We’re talking about underground tape labels like ä.d.n, El Consumo Del Miedo, Auxilio de Cientos, S.T.I., Obreros del Sonido, Toracic Tapes, 3EM…and fanzines like Cloruro Sónico, Necronomicon, Particular Motors, Syntorama, El Papel de la Merienda…

    They released their cassettes in limited homemade editions and there were lot of exchanges with other creators and participations in compilation cassettes from worldwide labels within the International Tape Network.

    Featuring legendary names like LA OTRA CARA DE UN JARDÍN, COMANDO BRUNO, LÍNEA TÁCTICA. FRANCISCO LÓPEZ, UVEGRAF, ÉTICA MAKINAL, L’AKSTREMAUNÇIÓ, NEO ZELANDA, SEPTIEMBRE NEGRO, TÉCNICA MATERIAL, FÍSODO 13.4 along with obscurities like EL ENTERRADOR ENTERRADO, 1985, ZUMBI-2, BRIGADA NADIE and more.

    Including tracks originally released on rare cassettes and compilations along with a few previously unreleased ones.

    Sound taken from the original cassettes / reel-to reels and remastered by Ángel Álvarez (Septiembre Negro / Linneo Dos).

    Primitive harsh noise; dark electronics; wild tape manipulation; electroacoustic noise and just homemade weirdness…

    52 page bilingual English / Spanish insert includes and introduction/ essay and detailed info about each artist. Lots of photos and memorabilia are also included.

    RIYL: ESPLENDOR GEOMÉTRICO, THROBBING GRISTLE, NON, WHITEHOUSE, NURSE WITH WOUND, VIVENZA, MAURIZIO BIANCHI…

    *2LP EN CAJA RÍGIDA DE CARTÓN CON LIBRETO BILINGÜE ESPAÑOL / INGLÉS DE 52 PÁGINAS.
    *SONIDO REMASTERIZADO
    *CUPÓN DE DESCARGA
    *EDICIÓN OFICIAL LIMITADA A 440 COPIAS NUMERADAS A MANO QUE NO SE REPRENSARÁ


    “Golpea Tu Cerebro” es la primera recopilación en vinilo dedicada la todavía desconocida pero fascinante escena española underground de cassettes de los 80.

    Con muy pocos medios, pero gran imaginación, una serie de creadores, la mayoría de ellos muy jóvenes, empezaron a principios de los 80 a grabar sus cintas ruidosas, industriales, electrónicas y experimentales. Estaban influidos por las vanguardias artísticas del siglo XX (Futurismo, Dada, Surrealismo) así como por el mail-art, el DIY y por el bombazo que supone la irrupción de pioneros de la música industrial (Throbbing Gristle, Whitehouse, Nurse With Wound, S.P.K, Cabaret Voltaire, NON, Esplendor Geométrico, etc), que se dieron a conocer en España gracias a programas de radio, fanzines, revistas y catálogos de venta por correo de discos de importación y cassettes nacionales y extranjeras.

    Estamos hablando de la que se podría considerar como la primera escena autosuficiente, DIY e independiente que se produce en nuestro país. El reverso tenebroso de la Movida. Individualismo y radicalidad sonora frente a frivolidad y superficialidad.

    La mayoría de los protagonistas de esta escena eran células individuales o colectivos formados por amigos, dispersos por todo el territorio español. En cualquier ciudad o pueblo, no sólo en grandes urbes como Madrid o Barcelona, aparecían inquietos personajes editando fanzines o grabando sus cintas experimentales. Comienzan a aparecer sellos como ä.d.n, El Consumo Del Miedo, Auxilio de Cientos, S.T.I., Obreros del Sonido, Toracic Tapes, 3EM…y fanzines como Cloruro Sónico, Necronomicon, Particular Motors, Syntorama, El Papel de la Merienda…

    Editaban sus cassettes en ediciones muy limitadas y caseras y hubo multitud de intercambios con grupos, sellos y creadores, tanto nacionales como extranjeros, así como participaciones en recopilaciones de sellos de cassettes de todo el mundo, englobados dentro de la “International Tape Network”.

    Aquí encontrarás a nombres legendarios como LA OTRA CARA DE UN JARDÍN, COMANDO BRUNO, LÍNEA TÁCTICA. FRANCISCO LÓPEZ, UVEGRAF, ÉTICA MAKINAL, L’AKSTREMAUNÇIÓ, SEPTIEMBRE NEGRO, NEO ZELANDA TÉCNICA MATERIAL, FÍSODO 13.4, etc, junto a sujetos más oscuros como EL ENTERRADOR ENTERRADO, 1985, ZUMBI-2, BRIGADA NADIE y muchos más.

    El libreto a tamaño LP de 52 páginas ofrece información detallada sobre toda esta escena y los creadores incluidos, además de raras fotos, memorabilia, etc.

    Todas las canciones han sido seleccionadas de raras cassettes y recopilaciones de la época y se incluyen algunas inéditas.
    Sonido extraído de las cassettes y bobinas originales y remasterizado por Ángel Álvarez (Septiembre Negro / Linneo Dos).

    Ruido extremo, proto-harsh noise, electrónica oscura, manipulación de cinta, ruido electroacústico, primitivos sonidos industriales y todo tipo de experimentación casera “házlo-tu-mismo”.

    Recomendado si te gustan: ESPLENDOR GEOMÉTRICO, THROBBING GRISTLE, NON, WHITEHOUSE, NURSE WITH WOUND, VIVENZA, MAURIZIO BIANCHI, MERZBOW…

    TRACKLIST:

    CARA A

    1. BULBO RAQUÍDEO – Cuando me entra el telele (1981)
    2. EL PUNTO DE VISTA OPERATIVO – Preparado para la guerra (1981)
    3. COMANDO BRUNO – Los descuidos de Marsha (1984)
    4. LA OTRA CARA DE UN JARDÍN – Acedera (1985)
    5. FÉLIX MENKAR – Cantos imaginarios (1986)
    6. ÉTICA MAKINAL – El placer de la carne (1986)
    7. L’AKSTREMAUNÇIÓ – Hrönir (1986)

    CARA B

    1. C-307 – K-04 (1986)
    2. QUAXAR – Ominous scrab (1985)
    3. EL ENTERRADOR ENTERRADO – La yugular del petróleo (1988)
    4. ZUSSAMENWÄCHSEN – Sin Título (Extracto) (1984)
    5. TÉCNICA MATERIAL – Los que sufren (1986)
    6. BRIGADA NADIE – Sin Título (Extracto) (1986)
    7. UVEGRAF – Área Pupilar (1986)

    CARA C

    1. LÍNEA TÁCTICA – Ambient music for empty congress (1980)
    2. FÍSODO 13.4 – El universo es mi casa (1986)
    3. NEO ZELANDA – Morgana (1984)
    4. ZUMBI-2 – Frecuencias (1986)
    5. INTERACCIÓN – Ayuten (1985)
    6. POLÍDRICO – Sin Título (Extracto) (1986)

    CARA D

    1. IÉXIMAL JÉLIMITE – La noche de las vísceras palpitantes (1985)
    2. FRANCISCO LÓPEZ – Untitled (1980)
    3. SEPTIEMBRE NEGRO – La inspiración de las escrituras (1984)
    4. EL COLECCIONISTA DE POLIEDROS – Golpea tu cerebro (Daña tu mente) (1986)
    5. 1985 – Madrid es una ciudad mundial (1984)
    6. OH-CASIO-ÓN – Anuncios por palabras (1987)

  • Distribution,  Vinyl

    Last Dominion Lost ‎– Abomination Of Desolation


     


    Last Dominion Lost ‎– Abomination Of Desolation (Vinyl, LP)
    Label: The Epicurean ‎– cure.15, La Esencia ‎– LER017/2017
    Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition
    Country: Europe
    Released: 23 Oct 2017
    Style: Industrial, Experimental

    Last Dominion Lost has existed since 1992, formed out of the ashes of Merge (a project created by Dominik Guerin, founding member of SPK, and Jon Evans). With the inclusion of John Murphy (ex-SPK, Whitehouse, Current 93, Death in June), the transition was complete. In April of 1992 the recording sessions for what was to become „The Tyranny of Distance“ began (released on Germany’s Tesco Records). 16 years later, the opportunity arose to reform the slumbering project. With the welcome addition of Ash Wednesday (Crashlands, Einstürzende Neubauten) and Julian Percy (Ratbag) initial recordings and rehearsals began in May of 2008. In November of 2015 Till Brüggemann (Gerechtigkeits Liga, Krank) joined LDL.

    Desolation: total, utter, without remit. Departure, loss, absence, yawning valleys of noise. The overture moans from the terminal ward. The humiliation of the cadaver, the scouring of abandoned houses and rubbish heaps, a planet blasted by the fruits of hubris. The last sigh of bathos: «It is finished“.

    Such is the subject matter and sentiment of this follow-up to the much acclaimed albums “Snowdrops From A Curate’s Garden“ and „Towers of Silence“ which put Last Dominion Lost firmly on the throne of post-industrial music. “Abomination of Desolation” is consistent with their development into a dark and profound direction, and yet saturated with the noise and feedback that taps deep into the genre’s conscience: Metallic percussion and the screams of terror, ritual chants and anxious atmospheres, all used and abused in order to create the most accurate soundtrack of desolation.

    By the fans, “Abomination of Desolation” will be met with mixed feelings – as recordings began with John Murphy in 2015 and through his untimely death that year had to be finished without him, the acknowledged grandsigneur of post-industrial music. The album’s theme and musical approach were originally intended by John for a KRANK release: An electronic album, reflecting on John’s experiences when he was first hospitalized, comatose, and hooked to a breathing machine which was constantly creating bizarre sounds.

    The result stands as a brief and concise display of the group’s ability to create an unmistakable old school sound with contemporary production value. The album runs for ten tracks clocking in less than 40 minutes total and features new member Till Brüggemann (Gerechtigkeits Liga), as well as guests Nikolas Schreck, Lori Goldston and John Murphy’s beloved wife Annie Stubbs among others. With a firm electronic/analogue backbone, a delicate contrast of percussions of various origins and uncanny vocals, this is a truly dark affair, and while towards the end of the journey some more aggravating feedback loops crawl in, it never gets upfront aggressive.

    With the crisp mastering job of Hunter Barr it is safe to say that “Abomination of Desolation” will not lag behind its predecessors at all, but forge their deserved status as genre icons.


  • CD,  Distribution

    Iron Fist Of The Sun ‎– Live At The Garage 2011


    Iron Fist Of The Sun ‎– Live At The Garage 2011
    Label: Cold Spring ‎– CSR204B
    Format: CD, Limited Edition
    Country: UK
    Style: Power Electronics, Industrial

    IFOTS Live at the Garage, London, 5th March 2011

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