Friday, December 27, 2019
Sadio - (2018) Questionable Pleasures CS
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Thursday, December 26, 2019
VA - (2019) 20 Years Of Experimental Music 10xCD
Fibrr Records – 001
Nantes trio Formanex celebrates 20 years of activism in experimental
music with a 10 CD edition full of amazing collaborations with ONsemble
(contemporary music group from Nantes and Saint-Nazaire) and composers
they have worked with. The box set includes early works by Formanex’s
own Julien Ottavi, unique compositions created by Keith Rowe, pieces by
Kasper T. Toeplitz, Ralf Wehowsky, Seth Cluett, Michael Pisaro, Radu
Malfatti, as well as other giants of contemporary music from the last 50
years; such as Phill Niblock and Christian Wolff.
A rare collection of CDs, this box set represents a broad vision of experimental music from noise to electronic abstract composition, radical minimalism, contemporary and improvised music.
A rare collection of CDs, this box set represents a broad vision of experimental music from noise to electronic abstract composition, radical minimalism, contemporary and improvised music.
S.P.K. - (2008) Dokument III0 1979 - 1983 6xLP
Vinyl-on-demand – 050
SPK was an Australian industrial band formed in 1978 in Sydney by Graeme
Revell and Neil Hill, being one of the earliest, most extreme and most
influential industrial, noise, post-punk art projects. By 1983 the band
was joined by other artists such as Sinan Revell, Brian 'Lustmord'
Williams, John Murphy, Karel Van Bergen, Mike Wilkins, James Pinker.
Without any doubt S.P.K.'s early stage from 78 to first half of 1983 and
its releases such as Information Overload and Leichenschrei can be
considered as ground-breaking and protagonistic for a whole
industrial-music-movement to come.
SPK can be considered as influencial as other Industrial-Super-Groups such as Throbbing Gristle, Clock DVA or Cabaret Voltaire and there is no way to come-around this band when talking about the Industrial-Music-Movement.
Drawn from mixing desk masters, found recordings and studio takes, this Box Set covers the band’s nascent, exploratory phase of grimacing noise and cold, hard rhythms shot thru with chilling samples and the kind of blackened electronics which placed them in the same category as TG, Cabaret Voltaire or Clock DVA, all before band-member Graeme Revill began driving the group toward synth-pop and dance music post-1984.
The 1st disc features the brute, primal jabs and cranky sample textures of Information Overload Unit (1980) and disc 2 compiles their trio of nigh on impossible-to-find punk 7”s Factory / No More / Mekano (1979 - 1981) for a fascinating and very rare run-out.
Disc 3 stars their seminal, nightmarish Leichenschrei (1982) album which really pricked the wider Industrial consciousness upon original release, and appears here alongside a full disc 4 of roiling, spitting, buzzing Backing Tracks for Leichenschrei (1982) exclusive to this compilation.
Also of interest to completists, historians and SPK über fans, disc 5’s Other Studio and Compilation Tracks (1981-1983) reveals some of their choicest, harder-to-find highlights such as the slow, sexy Metal Field alongside straight essentials Another Dark Age and Twilight of The Idols or their US studio recording of The Sickness.
Disc 6 contrasts mixing desk recordings made in London’s Heaven and Electric Ballroom (1982-1983), whilst disc 7 serves a previously unheard haul of backing tracks for those shows including some amazing component parts for Another Dark Age among a brace of skeletal proto-techno and tribal steppers.
SPK can be considered as influencial as other Industrial-Super-Groups such as Throbbing Gristle, Clock DVA or Cabaret Voltaire and there is no way to come-around this band when talking about the Industrial-Music-Movement.
Drawn from mixing desk masters, found recordings and studio takes, this Box Set covers the band’s nascent, exploratory phase of grimacing noise and cold, hard rhythms shot thru with chilling samples and the kind of blackened electronics which placed them in the same category as TG, Cabaret Voltaire or Clock DVA, all before band-member Graeme Revill began driving the group toward synth-pop and dance music post-1984.
The 1st disc features the brute, primal jabs and cranky sample textures of Information Overload Unit (1980) and disc 2 compiles their trio of nigh on impossible-to-find punk 7”s Factory / No More / Mekano (1979 - 1981) for a fascinating and very rare run-out.
Disc 3 stars their seminal, nightmarish Leichenschrei (1982) album which really pricked the wider Industrial consciousness upon original release, and appears here alongside a full disc 4 of roiling, spitting, buzzing Backing Tracks for Leichenschrei (1982) exclusive to this compilation.
Also of interest to completists, historians and SPK über fans, disc 5’s Other Studio and Compilation Tracks (1981-1983) reveals some of their choicest, harder-to-find highlights such as the slow, sexy Metal Field alongside straight essentials Another Dark Age and Twilight of The Idols or their US studio recording of The Sickness.
Disc 6 contrasts mixing desk recordings made in London’s Heaven and Electric Ballroom (1982-1983), whilst disc 7 serves a previously unheard haul of backing tracks for those shows including some amazing component parts for Another Dark Age among a brace of skeletal proto-techno and tribal steppers.
Dome - (2019) 1 LP
Editions Mego – 001
With the demise of the group Wire in 1980, founder members Bruce Gilbert
and Graham Lewis joined forces to create Dome. With the assistance of
engineer Eric Radcliffe and his Blackwing Studio Dome took the ethic of
“using the studio as a compositional tool” and recorded and released
three Dome albums on their own label in the space of 12 months: DOME
(July 1980), DOME 2 (October 1980) and DOME 3 (October 1981). A final
fourth album, WILL YOU SPEAK THIS WORD: DOME IV was released on the
Norwegian Uniton label in May 1983.
These albums represent some of the most beautifuly stark and above all timeless exercises in studio experimentation from early 1980s alternative music scene.
These albums represent some of the most beautifuly stark and above all timeless exercises in studio experimentation from early 1980s alternative music scene.
Dome - (2019) 2 LP
Editions Mego – 12345.2
With the demise of the group Wire in 1980, founder members Bruce Gilbert
and Graham Lewis joined forces to create Dome. With the assistance of
engineer Eric Radcliffe and his Blackwing Studio Dome took the ethic of
“using the studio as a compositional tool” and recorded and released
three Dome albums on their own label in the space of 12 months: DOME
(July 1980), DOME 2 (October 1980) and DOME 3 (October 1981). A final
fourth album, WILL YOU SPEAK THIS WORD: DOME IV was released on the
Norwegian Uniton label in May 1983.
Dome - (2011) 4 Will You Speak This Word LP
Editions Mego – 12345.4
The fourth Dome reissue sees Wire’s Bruce Gilbert and Graham Lewis
solidify the styles of their first 3 x LPs into a mutant form of folk,
jazz, no wave and avant-songcraft that ranks among the ‘80s most
important experimental recordings.
Again recording with Eric Radcliffe and an early Fairlight-weilding Vince Clarke (THE ’80S) at Blackwing Studios in London - only this time released by Norway’s Uniton label - 1982’s album ‘4’ is just as singular as their first trio, but feels less disjointed, as though they took a few steps back and let the last few years experiments marinate in the mind before returning to their studio-as-instrument.
A big highlight of their catalogue, ’To Speak’ goes first with extended folk fiddle drones and jazzy sax blurts that saddle up around 10 mins in and trek off somewhere between the VU, Peter Zummo and Current 93, while the palate cleansing battery of ‘To walk, To Run’ and unsettling skronk of ‘To Duck, To Dive’ almost sound like abstractions of Scott Walker. ‘This’ is perhaps the trippiest piece here, with Clarke’s Fairlight used to sample and morph Gilbert’s vocals and lay some of the earliest techno roots, while ‘Seven Year’ trades in loopy noise repetition that resonates with earliest Steve Hitchcock records, and ‘Atlas’ could be considered an eldritch echo of The Residents, or a nightmarish Talking Heads piece.
Again recording with Eric Radcliffe and an early Fairlight-weilding Vince Clarke (THE ’80S) at Blackwing Studios in London - only this time released by Norway’s Uniton label - 1982’s album ‘4’ is just as singular as their first trio, but feels less disjointed, as though they took a few steps back and let the last few years experiments marinate in the mind before returning to their studio-as-instrument.
A big highlight of their catalogue, ’To Speak’ goes first with extended folk fiddle drones and jazzy sax blurts that saddle up around 10 mins in and trek off somewhere between the VU, Peter Zummo and Current 93, while the palate cleansing battery of ‘To walk, To Run’ and unsettling skronk of ‘To Duck, To Dive’ almost sound like abstractions of Scott Walker. ‘This’ is perhaps the trippiest piece here, with Clarke’s Fairlight used to sample and morph Gilbert’s vocals and lay some of the earliest techno roots, while ‘Seven Year’ trades in loopy noise repetition that resonates with earliest Steve Hitchcock records, and ‘Atlas’ could be considered an eldritch echo of The Residents, or a nightmarish Talking Heads piece.
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