[MIXTAPE] MONSTER MUSIK October 2012

Here it is! Monster Musik's October Mixtape! I meant to post this on the 31st at midnight but got caught up with something else. Who cares? We all know that Everyday is Halloween! Hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I enjoyed putting it together.

Tracklist:
01. Black Mountain Transmitter - Black Goat of the Woods [Intro]
02. Umberto - Temple Room
03. LA Vampires Meets Zola Jesus - Bone Is Bloodstone
04. Burial Hex - Book of Delusions [Mueran Humanos Remix]
05. Burial Hex - The Saintly Death [Edit]
06. Vatican Shadow - Cairo Is A Haunted City Mythic Chords
07. Yoga - Open Sesame
08. Bardo Pond - The Cawl
09. The Haxan Cloak - The Growing
10. Lussuria - Queen of Swords Reversed
11. Master Musicians of Bukkake - Failed Future
12. Umberto - The Investigation
13. John Carpenter & Alan Howarth - Hello Grandma


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[2012] Kreng - Works for Abattoir Ferme [2007 - 2011]

Our affection for Pepijn Caudron's ghoulishly absorbing music as Kreng is no secret - 2009's L'Autopsie Phenomenale De Dieu and last year's Grimoire both made a big impression on us. But those two records, it turns out, are the tip of a particularly chilling iceberg: as a long-time member of renowned theatre troupe Abattoir Ferme, he's been crafting suitably arcane ambiences and gothic overtures for their theatre performances for several years now. Finally, the best of these works from 2007-2011 are being collected by Miasmah across four LPs, compiled here in one box set, and it's a hugely engrossing, occasionally disturbing haul indeed.

Tracklist:
Tourniquet
A1 Tourniquet (Part One) 23:55
B1 Tourniquet (Part Two) 23:37
Mythobarbital
C1 Mythobarbital (Part One) 23:44
D1 Mythobarbital (Part Two) 23:46
Snuff
E1 Snuff (Part One) 23:46
F1 Snuff (Part Two) 21:07
Monkey
G1 Monkey (Part One) 23:12
H1 Monkey (Part Two) 22:02
Monster
I1 Monster Opening Credits 0:40
I2 The Dying Dead 3:19
I3 Hitler Needs Women 4:15
I4 Stef In Rome 1:57
I5 Color Me Crazy 2:41
J1 The House Of Nudie 5:05
J2 Tine's Exorcism 2:40
J3 It Came From The Planet 4:42
J4 Monstro 1:40

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[2012] The Soft Moon - Zeros

Exhilarating sophomore album from the neo cold wave vanguard. Lest we forget, Luis Vasquez's self titled 2010 debut as The Soft Moon was one of that year's finest, ranking highly in end of year lists by Fact, Wire magazine, The Quietus, and ourselves; a flawless revitalisation of early '80s post-punk and wave music's choicest memes. Arguably, 'Zeros' surpasses that LP in bounds, knuckling down to a seething, vicious blend of industrial strength 4AD/Joy Division basslines, butterfly-knifed guitar chops and leather-bound beats played with shark-eyed fervor and seared under arcing, apocalyptic synth skies. In classic style it was mostly written on the road while touring in support of his debut as a five piece band.

Tracklist:
01 It Ends 1:51
02 Machines 2:46
03 Zeros 4:39
04 Insides 4:01
05 Remember The Future 3:23
06 Crush 3:58
07 Die Life 3:36
08 Lost Years 4:36
09 Want 3:38
10 sdnE tI 1:51


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[2012] Andy Stott - Luxury Problems

Following on from a pair of Extended Players released in 2011 ("Passed Me By" / "We Stay Together") Andy Stott returns to Modern Love with 'Luxury Problems', an 8 track album of new material recorded over the last 12 months. Five of the tracks on the album feature the voice of Alison Skidmore, Andy's onetime Piano teacher whom he hadnt seen since he was a teenager back in 1996. There was no grand gesture in mind, it just sort of happened - but after almost a year of studio work the result is really quite unlike anything you'll have heard from him before.

Tracklist:
01 Numb
02 Lost And Found
03 Sleepless
04 Hatch The Plan
05 Expecting
06 Luxury Problems
07 Up The Box
08 Leaving


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[2012] Demdike Stare - Elemental [UPDATE]

As promised, Demdike Stare collect their 'Elemental' album to a double-disc edition, and as warned, it's a morphed beast, comprising alternate versions and additional material in bleakest post-industrial fashion. Arguably this is their finest work to date, the result of two heads realising their ambition without compromise and in a typically enigmatic, shadowy way. By sonic sleight of hand, the smoke and mirrors effect of the sound design is potently disorienting, suspending our disbelief with masterfully immersive results. Each new scene or "cue" is rendered with meticulous attention to detail and mise en scene as to enhance the album's labyrinthine effect. But, it's what isn't revealed that leaves most to the imagination, keeping listeners guessing 'til the bitter, and when rendered/blended with such expansive, textured nuance, there are dark corners and ghostly snags which only reveal themselves after repeated listens, collaring us like a movie you've watched for the umpteenth time only to notice something startlingly new that's been there all along...

Tracklist:
01 Untitled 3:53
02 New Use For Old Circuits 5:04
03 Mephisto's Lament 5:23
04 Kommunion (Alternate Version) 8:28
05 Unction (Alternate Version) 5:04
06 Mnemosyne 5:25
07 Shade 3:20
08 In The Wake Of Chronos (Alternate Version) 5:52
09 10th Floor Stairwell 3:47
10 Violetta 6:40
11 Metamorphosis 6:51
12 All This Is Ours (Sunrise) 7:16
13 Erosion Of Mediocrity 7:09
14 Nuance 7:41
15 Falling Off The Edge (Alternate Version) 10:24
16 Dauerlinie 5:38
17 Dasein 6:24
18 We Have Already Died 7:04
19 Ishmael's Intent 7:23



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[2012] V/A - Black Mass Rising OST [REQUEST]

Triple vinyl edition soundtrack to Shazzula's new Movie Black Mass Rising. Featuring Master Musicians Of Bukkake, Bobby Beausoleil, Makoto Kawabata, Yoga, Aluk Todolo, Burial Hex, and more! This release was requested by our fellow member Brød and Sirkus. Be sure to checkout the Requests Forum and other cool features available to Registered Forum Members!

Tracklist:
  The Rising - Part I
01 Master Musicians Of Bukkake – Durga 6:56
02 Entrance Band, The* – Juicy's Last Dance 4:36
03 Bobby Beausoleil – Hellion Rebellion 6:30
04 Makoto Kawabata – Black Lucifer Rising Son Of A Bitch 3:43
  The Rising - Part II
05 Shazzula – Apocalyptic Dream 5:47
06 Sylvester Anfang II* – Embryo's Dochter II 6:00
07 In Zaire – Owl's Path 4:27
08 Mourning Ring – Chant Of The Invisible Builders 3:41
  The Rising - Part III
09 Rose Croix – Towers Of Deimos 4:21
10 Ga'an – Living Tribunal 8:12
11 Mater Suspiria Vision – Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse 5:52

  The Black Mass - Part I
01 Horror Illogium – Luxus Magus 4:36
02 L'Acéphale* – Passing Into Sleep 6:02
03 Cultus Sabbati – Mouth Of The Beast 8:45
04 Sayona – First Element 2:40
  The Black Mass - Part II
05 Sum Of R.* – Without Erika 6:06
06 Kinit Her – His Traces In Us 5:58
07 Yoga (5) – Greys 8:12
08 Aluk Todolo – Schwarzesonne 6:00
  The Black Mass - Part III
09 Burial Hex – Backwards Curse 5:25
10 Menace Ruine – Feu Bon (Soundtrack Vinyl Version Long Edit) 7:57
11 Demonologists – Mistress Of Decay 7:12

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[2012] Yoga - Skinwalker

Don’t get your hopes up just yet, ‘Skinwalker’ isn’t a follow-up to 2009’s incredible ‘Megafauna’, but it isn’t to be scoffed at either as it’s a retitled and fresh new pressing of Yoga’s much sought after self-titled debut album. Initially released on cassette only, this was the record where the band made their statement of intent, and for anyone who hasn’t managed to hear it yet it’s just about as essential as they come. It’s creaking, lo fidelity metal at its finest, eroded to the point where it might not even rock at all as it disintegrates into dusty, wailing, shrieking noise. You could almost compare it with William Fowler Collins’ dense ‘The Resurrections Unseen’, as the tape hiss and recording grime ands up acting as another band member rather than a hindrance to be removed ‘in the mix’. Goblin and noise metal lich lords Wold are chalked up as influences, but this only scratches the surface as Yoga plow through reels of discarded foley sound, corroded synthesizer drones and the kind of damp, warbling atmospheres that James Ferarro has made his calling card over the last few years. The further you fall down the rabbit hole, the weirder and more inviting ‘Skinwalker’ becomes, and all traces of metal disappear into a psychedelic, transcendent, drug-induced haze.

Tracklist:
01. Open Sesame 05:21
02. Littlefoot 04:42
03. The Necromancers Goblin Ha' 06:12
04. Lemurian Dreams 02:03
05. Cosmic Safari 05:46
06. Mothman 03:43
07. Star-Spawn of Cthulhu 03:57
08. Emin and Anakim 05:08


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[2012] Robin The Fog - The Ghosts Of Bush

Having already created a huge amount of interest, 'The Ghosts Of Bush' is finally here on a limited vinyl pressing and is easily one of the most pertinent and interesting Radiophonic and hauntological artefacts we've had the pleasure of stocking in recent years. Created by World Service studio manager Robin The Fog, 'The Ghosts of Bush' Consists entirely of nocturnal location recordings made by him at Bush House, the iconic home of the BBC's world service for over seven decades before it moved to a new location in July this year. The recordings were mostly made during Robin's night shifts at Bush House and then eventually manipulated on dual quarter-inch reel-to-reel machines, creating a seamlessly segued side of ghostly, decaying acoustic sounds captured within the stone-clad building's numerous corridors, lifts, studios and stairwells. As you'd imagine, the effect is immensely evocative, at once recalling Daphne Oram's most isolated experiments, Konstantin Raudive's famous EVP recordings, the disintegrating loops of William Basinski, even Burial's most haunting interludes, and not least AFX's 'SAW II' classic; a phosphorescing mass of ferric-stroked midnight sonorities and metaphysical murmurs, or as the artist himself puts it "The sounds the building makes when it thinks no one is listening". It should be considered a set text for sound art students and scholars of the ether, we urge you to snap one up while you can.

Tracklist:
01 Cantonese Subs / Fog At 5am
02 The Resonating Stairwell
03 Cold Space And Peeling Oxide
04 London Ta Ke Kira
05 Shortwave Fishtank
06 The Haunted Handle / Stairwell Reprise


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[2012] Stephan Mathieu - Coda [For WK] [EP]

This new CD from Stephan Mathieu is a coda to 'A Static Place', created with his highly focused setup of two mechanical-acoustic gramophones and computer. Coda (For WK) is dedicated to the legendary “quiet” pianist Wilhelm Kempff, whose 1927 recordings of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 26 Les Adieux from a double 12” 78RPM set on Brunswick were used as input for an autogenerative process. Mathieu’s process emphasizes the archaic beauty and texture of this early media while using the original tones for the body of this rich extended work that is both hypnotic and grainy; a journey into the essence of sound that can be appreciated on many levels. Mathieu has made this gramophone and computer setup a constant factor for his signature process of late and the work he produces becomes more deep and personalized with each release. The echoes of the past can be heard in these ghostly compositions and Mathieu’s love for not only the process but the original music is clearly seen in his passion for the work. Coda (For WK) was first released by Minority Records on the vinyl version of A Static Place in an edition of 155 copies. 12k is presenting it here on CD, packaged in a sleeve that echoes the designs of the era that gave birth to this music.

Tracklist:
01 Coda (For WK) 20:00


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[2012] Russell Haswell - Factual

Russell Haswell is enjoying a purple patch at the moment: Factual is effectively his third album this year, following the recent 5" Vinyl Series LP on Downwards and the Scandinavian Parts live document for iDEAL, and is if that weren't enough he's soon to unveil Concrete Fence, a new collaborative project with one of modern techno's most revered figures. Haswell's stubbornly abrasive recordings, not to mention his live sets, are invariably hard-going for even the toughest and most adventurous ears, and so it may surprise some of you to learn that Factual is a diverse, dynamic and - by Hazza standards - accessible work.

Tracklist:
01 Black Metal Instrumental Intro Demo
02 Urban No!Se
03 Killer Snakehead
04 Record Shop Day
05 Rave Nihilation
06 Sheffield


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[2012] Lorenzo Senni - Quantum Jelly

Russell Haswell, EVOL, Mark Fell, Lee Gamble - at the moment there's no end of rave-savvy sound artist types deconstructing dance music for the pleasure of sick and inquisitive minds. Lorenzo Senni is the latest to join the club (no pun intended), making his eMego debut with an album influenced by his love of "90s trance/hard-trance music and a growing interest in the musical structures and sound archetypes of these genres." What this amounts to is the Italian artist identifying generic characteristics - super-saw synth lines, ludicrous build-ups, instant-gratification melodies - and drawing attention to their strangeness through isolation and repetition.

Tracklist:
01 XmonsterX
02 Windows Of Vulnerability
03 Makebelieve
04 Digital ∞ Tzunami
05 Powerage Xion4


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[2012] Jim O'Rourke - Old News #8

For anyone unfamiliar with the breadth of Jim O'Rourke's incredible oeuvre - especially his electro-acoustic and computer works - Mego's Old News series must be a total revelation. This eighth edition is a remastered version of the 'Mere' section to his 1992 release 'Disengage' for Staalplaat recorded live at Depaul University in 1991, now with an additional 18 minute addendum 'Merely'. O'Rourke processes contributions from Jeff Cortazzo (Trombone), Sue Wolf (Cello), Michael Prime (Shortwave), plus the vocals of Geoff Fontaine, Gretchen Wells, Matt Guerierri, and Scott Shell into glowing, swelling microtonal drones and timbral scree, sweeping into pensile, gossamer ambience and plangent sonorities, opening the moment to near-infinity and exploring its depths to the fullest. Surprisingly, the final section introduces the rolling percussion of Carrie Biolo, gradually accumulating glassy tones until a crucial balance is tipped and a passage of slow, incendiary electro-acoustics consumes all, fading out to drone. Remarkable stuff.

Tracklist:
01 Mere Pt 1 15:19
02 Mere Pt 2 17:10
03 Mere Pt 3 13:48
04 Merely 18:23


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[2012] Jan Jelinek - Music for Fragments

Since forming the Fatiche imprint, German veteran Jan Jelinek seems to have had a shock to the system, with new releases coming thick and fast, each bubbling with the kind of understated joy that made ‘Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records’ so essential way back in the early 00s. ‘Music For Fragments’ is his latest oddity, and continues Jelinek’s flirtation with the dusty sound palate of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop while cautiously delving into his enviable canon. The first of a series of four proposed mini-LPs, this one collects up a diverse range of recordings (live, commissioned and simply unreleased) and pieces them together here for our listening pleasure. Somehow it all hangs together too – if we hadn’t have read in the press release that these tracks weren’t intended to be an album, we probably wouldn’t have realized. Whether diving into the rhythmic, frazzled electronics of his past (‘Fragments One’, ‘Fragments Two’) or the Delia Derbyshire-esque chirpy bleep of ‘Jackdaw’, Jelinek seems to have hit on a rich creative seam and one which never ceases to yield top quality results. There are plenty of artists right now trying their hand at ‘vintage’ electronic sounds, but few do it with quite the uncynical panache as Jan Jelinek.

Tracklist:
01 Fragments One
02 Fragments Two
03 Jackdaw
04 Forest Weaver
05 Dipper
06 Wood Pigeon


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[2012] Dylan Ettinger - Lifetime Of Romance [UPDATE]

Darkwave cyberpunk intrigue from synth-wrangler Dylan Ettinger. Moving on from his kosmiche issues, Dylan deploys his own vocals to authentically grubby, DIY effect on seven leathered-up and shark-eyed experimental Wave songs. Docking in with the Neuromancer-referencing 'Wintermute' he draws us deep into his narrative with the phet-affected dissonance and rusted machine beats of 'Disparager', through to the panoramic cue 'Maude', stalking the depths of the sprawl searching for the cheapest gynoid fun on '18' before crooning the narcotic misery of 'Blue and Blue', leaving the future open to great possibilities with this awesome augmentation of his sound. TIP!

Tracklist:
01 Wintermute 6:54
02 Sport And Superstition 5:55
03 Disparager 7:50
04 Arco Iris 3:44
05 Maude 7:53
06 18.0 2:55
07 Blue And Blue 3:35


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[2012] Emeralds - Just to Feel Anything

It seems like eons ago that Ohio weirdos Emeralds dropped their genre-baiting ‘Does It Look Like I’m Here?’ and single handedly re-routed their sound from the pensive overdriven drones of ‘Solar Bridge’ to something more progressive and rhythmic. ‘Just to Feel Anything’ picks up after a couple of years of ceaseless touring and a seemingly endless stream of oddities from John Elliot’s increasingly prolific Spectrum Spools label, and once again finds the three piece confounding their built-in audience. If its predecessor took the Emeralds core sound into more mainstream areas, then ‘Just to Feel Anything’ goes still further, giving their characteristic sounds a breathy sheen you’d rather expect to find on an early 90s action movie soundtrack than a basement noise act from the Mid West. It shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone who’s followed their progress from the beginning, as this is simply a realization of the trio’s manifesto, but it might come as a shock for those of you hoping for a return to the dreamy synth-clouds that dominated their early catalogue. It’s propulsive stuff, and has been put together with the kind of defined narrative you’d more likely expect from a prog rock concept album – there are the usual elements of Ash Ra and mid-80s Tangerine Dream, but these are offset by what sounds like a keen knowledge of Pink Floyd, pre-electronic Bill Nelson and 90s chiptunes. Somehow these influences are melted together into glossy, coherent ‘songs’ and while they’re bound to polarize listeners, the hardline retro fetishism has forced the band to land on a sound that they can truly call their own.

Tracklist:
01. Before Your Eyes
02. Adrenochrome
03. Through & Through
04. Everything Is Inverted
05. The Loser Keeps America Clean
06. Just to Feel Anything
07. Search For Me in the Wasteland


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[2012] Matmos - The Ganzfield [EP]

Arch electronic conceptualists Matmos consecrate their new relationship with Thrill Jockey on a strikingly diverse 12" including a heavyweight techno remix by Sandwell District's Rrose. It marks both the 20th anniversary of the label, and the musical and romantic partnership of Drew Daniel and M.C. Schmidt, whilst also heralding their new album 'The Marriage Of True Minds', revolving around theories of parapsychology (telepathy). For the past four years the duo have been conducting experiments based on the classic 'Ganzfeld' test - using blindfolded subjects who were played white noise in states of sensory deprivation while Daniel attempted to transmit "the concept of the new Matmos record" direct to their minds.

Tracklist:
01. Very Large Green Triangles (Edit)
02. You (Rrose Mix)
03. Just Waves


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[2012] Steve Moore - Light Echoes

'Light Echoes' is Steve Moore's first proper solo album since the fantastic 'Primitive Neural Pathways' (2010) and it's an absolute beauty. There are few artists out there with the vision to match or even proper approach undertakings of these proportions and the Zombi dude is at their vanguard. While many of the current retro-futurist episodes can be a lot of fun, they're often knowingly disposable. It's not so with Moore's output. The deceptive simplicity of 'Light Echoes' disguises the enduring vision and wrought intentions of its creator - his banks of classic analogue synthesizer are an extension of his glowing nervous system by the fact he's spent so long with them, resulting in the kinds of sonic imprints and spacious diffusion which can't be achieved by any shortcuts. He's done it the hard way, and it will defintiely sound like it to anyone familiar with the original kosmische visions.

Tracklist:
01 Tyken's Rift 6:14
02 Light Echoes I 6:39
03 Aldebran Exchange 6:42
04 Light Echoes II 14:06
05 Protomorphosis 8:53
06 Ancient Shorelines II 28:05


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[2012] Ekoplekz - Intrusive Incidentalz Vol 2

Ekoplekz's music is not what you would call soothing—his output is dark, noisy and often devoid of any melody or conventional rhythm for the listener to latch onto. This was especially true on Intrusive Incidentalz, which RA's Andrew Ryce described as "40 minutes of a man struggling to control his hardware, fighting to mould it into shapes that are vaguely musical." Arriving almost exactly a year later, Intrusive Incidentalz Vol 2 follows very much in the same vein as that release, compiling what the label calls "dark, oppressive atmospheres and violently unstable interludes, inspired by childhood memories of terrifying electronic soundtrack music from the 1970s." The album will be available digitally and on vinyl.

Tracklist:
01. On Vanishing Land (intro)
02. Pendulum Waltz
03. Ringstone Round
04. Ultra Warble
05. Skala Shadow
06. Silver Rain
07. Abyss Ababa
08. Neutronik III
09. Kelvin Flats
10. Sub Continent
11. Effluvia
12. Induction Channel
13. Trubshaw Test
14. On Vanishing Land (outro)

Source: RA


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[2012] Old Apparatus - Alfur [EP]

The ink has barely set on the distribution forms for Old Apparatus’ Realise EP, but the shadowy ensemble have already announced their next release. Realise, credited to group member LTO, officially hit shelves today. Not wasting any time, Juno Plus report that the group’s trilogy of EP releases is set to continue in October with Alfur, this time credited to A. Levitas.

The EP will feature five new tracks, ranging from the typically dour (‘Schwee’) to the chatoyant (‘Boxcat’). Ever the obscurantists, they’re keeping details to a minimum, but, as you can see above, they’ve serviced us with some typically ravishing cover art. As per Realise, the EP will arrive on the group’s own Sullen Tone imprint.

Source: FACT

Tracklist:
01 Boxcat 3:22
02 Schwee 4:57
03 Cauliroot 3:11
04 Coalapps 4:38
05 Lingle 3:58


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[2012] The Gaslamp Killer - Flange Face / Seven Years Of Bad Luck For Fun [EP]

If not the best kept secret signed to Flying Lotus' Brainfeeder label, San Diego producer the Gaslamp Killer might be the most overlooked artist on the imprint. “Flange Face”, the first track released from his forthcoming debut LP, Breakthrough, is one of the straight-up loudest singles the label’s ever put its name on. The mass of mixed rhythms and decimating drums are equally suitable for headbanging as they are for chin-stroke appreciation, while Miguel Atwood-Ferguson’s violin gracefully weaves through the carnage, rendering a guest singer wholly unnecessary. FlyLo’s recent festival sets have gone heavy on the bangers, but as it turns out, one of 2012’s biggest is under his own roof.

Tracklist:
01 Flange Face 3:52
02 Flange Face (Low End Theory Edit) 3:18
03 Seven Years Of Bad Luck For Fun 3:53


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[NEWS] Vatican Shadow - Ornamented Walls

The third Vatican Shadow album, Ornamented Walls, will arrive next week on Manchester's Modern Love label. The techno-leaning project from Dominick Fernow, the New York-based Hospital Productions label head perhaps best known for his noise material as Prurient, has produced a string of cassette releases encased in provocative artwork, with headline-referencing titles like Washington Buries Al Qaeda Leader At Sea. Ornamented Walls will be one of only a handful of releases on a label other than his own. The first side is culled from material recorded during rehearsals for the live mix of Operation Neptune Spear, a cassette released earlier this year, while the second side features six all new tracks.

Tracklist:
01. Operation Neptune Spear Part 1 (Live Mix Rehearsal)
02. Operation Neptune Spear Part 2 (Live Mix Rehearsal)
03. Operation Neptune Spear Part 3 (Live Mix Rehearsal)
04. Cairo Is A Haunted City (Mythic Chords)
05. Nightforce Scopes
06. Yemeni Telephone Number
07. India Has Just Tested A Nuclear Device
08. Church Of All Images (Church Of The NSA)
09. Boxes Were Wired To Batteries Then loaded Into A Brown Toyota Cargo Truck

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[NEWS] Vatican Shadow Tour & Exclusive Track

Dominick Fernow’s militant techno project, Vatican Shadow has just confirmed new dates for the project’s first European tour (see flier above). Fernow combines hypnotic, machine like rhythms with lush, seductive and sinister melodies reminiscent of Aphex Twin and Mezzanine-era Massive Attack, set to the apocalyptic headline-esque titles and artwork dealing with fear, anxiety and current events.

As previously confirmed, Vatican Shadow will perform at the legendary Berghain club in Berlin, Germany as part of the Downwards Nacht, alongside Surgeon, Regis and Cut Hands. Further appearances include the highly anticipated and heavily curated Blackest Ever Black night at London’s Corsica Studio with a host of acts from the label’s roster, including Black Rain, Russell Haswell, and Source Direct, and Unsound Festival in Poland.

Two new dates have been announced in Helsinki, Finland with Tim Hecker and a performance at Nico Vascellari’s Codalunga in Vittorio Veneto, Italy. Further details will be added on the additional dates mentioned as they become “declassified”.

Source: 13:13

Here are the Tour Dates for easy viewing:

29 September Los Angeles, United States
02 October Berlin, Germany
03 October Barcelona, Spain
04 October Madrid, Spain
05 October Amsterdam, The Netherlands
06 October Vittorio Veneto, Italy
09 October TBC
10 October Hamburg, Germany
11 October TBC
12 October Helsinki, Finland
13 October London, England
15 October Krakow, Poland

The Complete Tour Information [September 28]

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[2012] Matt Carlson - All Moments

Modular maestro Matt Carlson follows up the alien invention of last years 'Particle Language' LP with a lushly melodic and playful suite erring much closer to his work with Golden Retriever. As NNA's 50th release it perfectly reflects the label's explorative agenda, balancing improvised freedom with avant-garde compositional experiments and taking in shorter pop études along with mind-bending polychromatic sprawls. Apparently there was "little-to-no arpeggiation", all sounds were played in by hand and bear a distinctly human fingerprint of expression, bursting with synaesthetic colour/emotion and engrained with fizzing texture/space in an enveloping wormhole of beguiling sonorities and morphing vocoder tones.

Tracklist:
01 A Moment 2:14
02 Raindrop Garden 9:44
03 Field Electric 3:26
04 Reality Club 3:18
05 A Lock Against Oblivion 6:42
06 Standing Wave 4:04
07 All Moments 8:47


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[2012] Silent Servant - Negative Fascination [Extended 12'' Mixes]

If we've got any gripes with Silent Servant's stunning debut album 'Negative Fascination', it's that some of the dancefloor tracks were just a touch short. He's heard our collective prayers and corrects that with these extended mixes, due out on 12" shortly.

Tracklist:
01 Utopian Disaster (End) 10:16
02 The Strange Attractor 7:28
03 Invocation Of Lust 5:24

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[2012] Motion Sickness of Time Travel - The Cirque

The Cirque is a new Motion Sickness of Time Travel piece in three parts: the ever-ascending propulsion of "The Mountain That Was" gives way to the pillowy expanse of "Alternating Pools" before ending with the elegiac finale, "Collected".

Tracklist:
1a Part 1 - The Mountain That Was
1b Part 2 - Alternating Pools
1c Part 3 - Collected


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[2012] Kane Ikin - Sublunar

Sublunar is the first full-length release from Kane Ikin who is also known as one half of the duo Solo Andata. Sublunar follows Kane’s solo debut Contrail (7”, 12k2022) picking up where that EP left off and pushing the boundaries outward in every direction into denser, deeper, wetter and more decayed terrain.
The word “sublunar” can be read to contain many conceptual layers important to the album. It is music about moonlight, darkness, the faintest hint of light and shadow.... Moons locked in orbit, repetition, gravity, weight, pressure... Subconscious, subliminal, distant, deteriorated signals, like radio waves lost in a noisy haze of transmission... and about dust, noise and oversaturation.

Tracklist:
01 Europa 4:47
02 Slow Waves 4:02
03 In The Arc 2:30
04 Ebbing 1:47
05 Rhea 3:16
06 Titan 2:22
07 Sleep Spindle 2:45
08 An Infinite Moment 0:55
09 The Violent Silence 1:10
10 Black Sands 4:49
11 Lo 4:29
12 Prometheus' Trail 2:35
13 Oberon 4:51
14 Compression Waves 4:28
15 In The Shadow Of The Vanishing Night 4:44
16 Hyperion 4:13


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