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

    febrero 9, 2018

    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)

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    julio 20, 2017

    Federico Monti ‎– Str004

    Label: störung ‎– str004
    Format: CD
    Country: Spain
    Released: 13 Apr 2009
    Style: Experimental, Minimal

    Five track with long evolutions show the talented work of this Störung artist from Argentina. His sound is based in cyclic structures that help him build minimalist atmospheres where pause and low frequencies are taken in great consideration.

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    Cinco tracks de larga evolución que muestran el impecable trabajo de este artista Störung. Planteamientos sobre estructuras cíclicas que conforman atmósferas minimalistas donde la pausa y las bajas frecuencias son tratadas con especial detalle. str004 representa un paso firme en la evolución del sello.

    Este trabajo está sólo disponible en CD en edición limitada y ha sido masterizado por Álex Gámez.

    Buy: http://www.gh-records.com/1613-federico-monti-str004.html

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    julio 18, 2017

    Kim Cascone ‎– Anti-Musical Celestial Forces 

    Label: störung ‎– str006
    Format: CD
    Country: Spain
    Released: 2009
    Style: Field Recording, Spoken Word, Experimental, Ambient

    Kim Cascone studied electronic music at Berklee College of Music, Boston and worked since the late 70’s in electronics. In the late 80’s Cascone was assistant music editor for David Lynch’s films ‘Twin Peaks’ and ‘Wild At Heart’. In 1986 Cascone founded the record label Silent, where he released first results of his project PGR.

    Artwork – Jean-Pierre Roy
    Cello – Claire M. Singer
    Technician [Linux Audio Ninja] – Ken Restivo
    Technician [Mad Scientist] – Mike Rooke
    Voice [Spoken Word] – Gary R. Weisberg

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    Continuando la serie de CD’s basados en field recordings: “Austrum Argentum”, “Pharmacie:Red & Green” y “Music for Dagger & Guitar”, “Anti-Musical Celestial Forces” presenta un montaje cinematográfico de field recordings recogidos durante su gira de finales de 2008 en Europa, mezclados texturas generadas a través de ordenador y spoken words.
    Sólo disponible en CD en edición limitada.

    Buy: http://gh-records.com/1611-kim-cascone-anti-musical-celestial-forces.html

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    Pylar – La Gran Obra

    julio 11, 2017
    Pylar

    Pylar – La Gran Obra
    Label: Sunneurosis Records
    Format: CD, Album Limited to 250 copies
    Country: Spain
    Released: 2016
    Style: Experimental, Avantgarde, Doom Metal

    After the successful second album, PYLAR collective returns with a new release: La Gran Obra. This CD is limited to 250 copies (a number that touches upon the threshold of madness) and is inspired by Alchemy.
    In the same way as the alchemical process, La Gran Obra is divided into three parts: Nigredo, Albedo and Rubedo. Throughout this piece, the enigmatic heresiarchs manage to manipulate the lost language of colour and the complex esoteric symbolism of ancient science, dropping clues to the follower and allowing them to walk down the path of the ineffable.
    The second side, Speculum (ArboNargAl), is a perfect mirror image of the first. In a sense, an infinite loop has been created between the two sides with the purpose of bending time and entering a level of existence where our subconscious memories live.

    PYLAR has once more presented us with a veil which we can choose to lift in search of the key to uncover the last of their holy mission.

    Buy: http://gh-records.com/1593-pylar-la-gran-obra.html

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    junio 15, 2017

    Bionulor ‎– Sacred Mushroom Chant

    Label: Wrotycz Records ‎–
    Format: CD, Album
    Country: Poland
    Released: 07 Jan 2011
    Style: Experimental, Ambient

    Created on the basis of author’s creative method called the “100% sound recycling” (treatment of the human voice without additional sounds or instruments).

    Inspired by the work of such artists as Aube and William Basinski, Bionulor again rakes the past, looking like an alchemist for the most appropriate material for his work. “Sacred Mushroom Chant” is a record created solely on the basis of treatment of the human voice without additional sounds or instruments.

    Each of the five tracks is based on a separate part of the sound source. Then the base is: an archival record of shamanic chant associated with the ceremony of taking hallucinogenic mushrooms, a Japanese traditional song extracted from a collection of old vinyl records, Neil Armstrong’s walking on the lunar surface famous phrase, a fragment of an interview with Marcel Duchamp telling about his first ready-made, and finally the voice of the artist himself denouncing the sentence attributed to Hassan ibn Sabbah (“Nothing is true”).

    Over 50 minutes of pure experimental music (mix of minimal, ambient and even noisy sounds) created on the basis of author’s creative method called the “100% sound recycling.” You will be really impressed when you realize that those tracks were crafted only with scraps of samples.

    Cover art by Monika Machnik, mastered by Peter Andersson. Comes in 4-panel digipack.

    Buy: 10 € http://gh-records.com/1579-bionulor-sacred-mushroom-chant.html

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    agosto 16, 2016

    Peinemann ❘ Tietchens ‎– Harvestehude

    Label: Auf Abwegen ‎– AATP 53
    Format: 2 × CD, Album
    Country: Germany
    Released: 25 Oct 2015
    Style: Experimental, Abstract, Ambient, Industrial

    After more than 10 years of enthusiastic experiences and encounters with so-called „Difficult Music“ throughout the 1980ies Martin Peinemann and Asmus Tietchens deemed their somewhat differing approaches to making music compatible and agreed upon a loose collaboration in the year 1992. For various reasons (organizational and others) the work was not to take place at Audiplex studios but at Peinemann’s home studio. This modest lab featured all the necessary technical equipment needed to realize noise music meeting the standards of the day. This included an analogue 4-track-tape deck (9,5 cm/sec, Dolby noise reduction, integrated 6-channel mixer), soon after a digital 8 channel multitrack, a powerful periphery and sound producing devices of all kinds. For „Hochallee“, their first collaboration, Peinemann and Tietchens set trhemselves no definite deadline. The working sessions took place in an atmosphere of relaxation, usually on Saturday afternoons. By 1996 Peinemann and Tietchens finally had amassed a series of pieces they considered to be complete. At this time Peinemann began working on computer generated solo works and Tietchens moved on towards a more reductionist sound work.

    “Klosterallee”, their second collaboration, was realized under completely different circumstances. In the years gone by since their last work Peinemann had deeply immersed himself into the field of extreme digital sound manipulation that he often discussed with Tietchens. From this collection of sound structures Peinemann offered some to Tietchens as sourcings for further treatments. The following expanding of these structures was not done in the form of sessions but executed by Tietchens alone over a period of three months. Peinemann then authorised the final results.

    Unlike Asmus Tietchens Peinemann never released any music until now. He always valued the working process higher than the working result. The reason for this collaboration to finally come out as a double CD follows a noble motif that can be roughly translated as such: „A warning to the Old, an instruction to the Young.“ (Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, „Pädagogische Ergetzungen“, 1802).

    Buy: http://www.gh-records.com/1224-peinemann-tietchens-harvestehude.html

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    agosto 11, 2016

    TZii ‎– SAnd HAert RAge

    Label: Treue Um Treue ‎– TUT031
    Format: Vinyl, 12", EP
    Country:Germany
    Released: Dec 2014
    Style: Electro, Experimental

    Hyperactive musician and filmmaker TZII is no newcomer to the TuT/RuR roaster, since we already had the pleasure to release his much acclaimed BLACK MONOLITH SPACE QUEST soundtrack on Rectangle Astral, and to welcome him on JAW with his project SOLAR SKELETONS. TZII has been making music for almost two decades, and yet SAnd HAert RAge is a first in the artist’s career in several ways: amidst a long discography of CDs and tapes, it is his first solo appearance on vinyl; and more importantly perhaps, it is the first time that he chooses to tackle one of the most fundamental experiences of his life, his Saharian childhood. TZII spent his early years, until adolescence in fact, in Africa, confronted to a multitude of intense, deeply life-altering experiences, from Beninese Voodoo rituals to the endless landscapes of the Sahara desert. An extreme environment, provoking extreme and very divergent emotions, which find their musical expressions in the changing ambiances of the record’s four tracks. From mystery to simple beauty, from melancholy to pure joy, this is an intimate but exalting record, where meditative and festive moods rub shoulders in the most natural way. Best Oriental Chill-Wave for both the dance-floor and your inner eye.

    Buy: 14 € http://www.gh-records.com/1220-tzii-sand-haert-rage.html

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    Agalloch – The Mantle

    julio 20, 2016

    Agalloch – The Mantle
    Label: Grau – Grau 001 CD
    Format: CD, Album
    Country: Germany
    Released: 2011
    Style: Black Metal, Experimental, Neofolk

    “The Mantle” is a grand multi-dimensional opus of 70 minutes featuring their dark melancholic metal with post rock and neo-folk elements. References range from Pink Floyd, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Sol Invictus, Ulver, Dissection, Fields Of The Nephilim and a lot more

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    julio 20, 2016

    Andrew Chalk, Ralf Wehowsky & Eric Lanzillotta ‎– Yang-Tul

    Label: Cold Spring ‎– CSR220CD
    Format: CD, Reissue
    Country: UK
    Released: 11 Apr 2016
    Style: Drone, Experimental

    A legendary sound collaboration formed of two lengthy pieces. The first track features Andrew Chalk (Mirror, Ora, Ferial Confine) gently reworking the sound materials of Ralf Wehowsky (P16.D4). A hypnotic, slowly-evolving drone with waves of mysterious sounds, static and glitches. The second piece, on the other hand, finds Ralf Wehowsky composing a frenzied journey into otherworldly realms using sound material from Andrew Chalk and Eric Lanzillotta (Eye Music). These pieces reflect a sound unique from the work of any of the three individual participants, but clearly related. Subtle, but full of detail for the willing listener. Originally issued as limited coloured vinyl only on Lanzillotta’s label Anomalous Records in 1998. Cover painting by Andrew Chalk. Remastered for CD from the original master recordings. Digipak.

    Buy: 13,50 € http://gh-records.com/1181-andrew-chalk-ralf-wehowsky-eric-lanzillotta-yang-tul.html

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    julio 18, 2016

    V.A. “EL doble”

    Label: Contubernio Records
    Format: CD, Compilation, Limited Edition
    Country: Spain
    Released: 17 Jul 2015
    Style: experimental, electronic, electronics experimental, rock industrial martial, martial industrial, minimal synth, neofolk, Madrid

    “El doble” is a cover project made by Contubernio artists and friends. The songs were weekly released starting on April the 8th, 2015 and ending on July the 19th, 2015.

    Two physical editions have been edited:
    CRCS045L – Limited and numbered cassette edition (20 u) – September 2015.
    CRCD045 – CD digipack edition (200 u) – Mastered by Moira Muñoz – May 2016.

    Inspired by “The Double” – Fiódor Dostoyevski, 1846.
    Image – “La reproduction interdite” – René Magritte, 1937.

    1. Comunión y Liberación (with Pawboss) – Un buen plan para el fin de semana
    2.Reserva Espiritual de Occidente – Limpieza y orden
    3.<default> – El desgarro
    4.Propaganda Tres – Tódolos bonitos cabalos
    5.Gesell – Regreso (Okto mix)
    6.Sentionaut – Bola asesina
    7.Luz Oscura – Ursus Maritimus
    8.Pawboss – Para los seres atados
    9.Vadim Tudor – Hecho en Rusia
    10.Gatos Negros – La luz roja
    11.The Berlangas – Bésame mucho
    12.Moira – Corriendo por el filo
    13.I.G.O.R. – Tenebre
    14.Avería – Dies irae
    15.Fallens Valley – El imperio (contraataca)
    16.Dal Verme – No me importa
    17.Nigongo + Bajonazo – Bienpagä
    18.Me Dais Poca – El balón
    19.Explosivos Riotinto – Bajo d’el mar
    20.Wences Lamas – Eres tú mi peluchito
    21.Peninsular – Digan lo que digan. 

    “EL doble” es un proyecto de versiones hechas por distintos artistas y amigos de Contubernio Records. Las canciones fueron lanzadas semanalmente entre el 8 de Abril y el 19 de Julio de 2015.

    Se han editado dos ediciones físicas distintas: en cassette (CRCS045L), en edición limitada y numerada de 20 copias, y en CD Digipack, masterizada por Moira Muñoz (200u).

    Este proyecto se ha inspirado en la novela “El Doble” de Fiodor Dostoyevski (1846). Imagen de la portada: “La reproduction interdite” – René Magritte, 1937.

    Buy: 7 € http://gh-records.com/1158-el-doble.html

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    el doble (CRCS045L) (CRCD045) by contubernio records

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