Gender Trouble – ChokehairLabel: Dark Vinyl Records – DV69Format: CDCountry:GermanyReleased: 11 Nov 2016Style: Industrial, Techno, Noise Gender Trouble is a new project by R. Loren (Pyramids / Sailors With Wax Wings / White Moth) and Faith Malimba (Black Doll), along with guest collaborators including Kenneth Parker and Ashley Scott Jones, and vocal spots by Marissa Nadler, and Scout Pare Phillips. “Chokehair explores the much ignored / maligned / ignored genre of Harsh Noise Wall through the prism of noise, techno, and the spectacle. Gender Trouble is static and synth and more static, waves and waves of static, and rejection of music and rejection of nihilism, but with a decent beat…
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Echo West – Pagan City Ghosts
Echo West – Pagan City GhostsLabel: Dark Vinyl Records – DV64Format: CD, AlbumCountry: GermanyReleased: May 2015Style: Electro, Minimal, Industrial ‘Pagan City Ghosts’ is the seventh album by Echo West and the fourth CD release on Dark Vinyl. Furthermore, it’s the second part of the ‘Pagan City’ trilogy, once again offering well known Angst Pop tunes and EBM rhythms in the old style of The Klinik. The CD contains nine tracks that were created between 2011 and 2014, plus a re-mix of the track ‘Are We City Humans’ that appeared on the ‘Pagan City Gods’ CD in 2013. The soundscapes range from minimal electronic arrangements via negative pop to hard rhythmic…
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Zos Kia / Coil – Transparent
Zos Kia / Coil – Transparent Label: Cold Spring – CSR230CDFormat: CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered Country: UKReleased: 09 Jan 2017Style: Industrial, Experimental ZOS KIA was formed by John Gosling (MEKON), John Balance (COIL) and Min – with guest Peter ‘Sleazy’ Christopherson (THROBBING GRISTLE). Their one and only album, Transparent, was released August 23rd 1983 in a cassette only edition on the now defunct Nekrophile label, Austria. They were the first released recordings of both COIL and ZOS KIA. It was reissued years later by COIL (Threshold House / Eskaton) in an edited edition. The entire recordings are now released on CD/vinyl for the first time and are completely remastered from…
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Kongo – Blubber
Kongo – BlubberLabel: Ur Muzik – UR010Format: CD, AlbumCountry: PolandReleased: 22 Dec 2016Style: Industrial, Experimental Henrik Nordvargr Björkk and Peter Nyström are both well known figures in the realm of dark soundscapes. They have been providing their obscure sonorities for decades now and each new release by either of the two legendary artists is an awaited treat. With their new project KONGO, Björkk and Nyström set off on a journey where they delve deep into early industrial music: using cut-up technique, processing speech samples, looping distorted melodies and making Blubber the ultimate homage to Severed Heads and Cabaret Voltaire’s works. It’s hectic, obsessive, and crazy. And it’s got that punk…
