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BFE 068LP
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The Doubling Riders were born in the middle of the '80s from the ashes of the great experimental/minimal wave project A.T.R.O.X. around the trio of Francesco Paladino, Pier Luigi Andreoni, and Riccardo Sinigaglia (Professor of Electronic composition at Milan's Conservatory). Starting from an electronic music approach and working freely with ethno, folk and wave elements, the sound of the Doubling Riders was extremely original and hard to classify. Mostly quiet meditative stuff, with folk, experimental electronic influences and some unusual vocalizations, some sang in a strange Italian dialect. Even if often compared to the more intellectual electronic experimental bands like Tuxedomoon, Coil or Vox Populi, Doubling Riders can be easily considered a unique project within the Italian new music scene. Remastered from the original files. 180 gram vinyl with insert.
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Originally released in 1983 as a cassette and an EP containing three tracks -- "The Search", "I Just Thought", and "Schoolbooks Decide" -- by Innocent Records. This is a remastered version of the cassette including a couple of unreleased tracks. Electronic post punk and synth pop waves travel in circles, spiraling around solid blocks of underground experimental rhythmics. A proper treasure in the hidden realm of '80s experimentation, some of the most brilliant occult song lines of music innovation of its era show in these songs. It has the marks of a domestic piece of art where you can hear the anxious tension between the mechanical production of goods, and the need to consume pleasure in your free time; both as unsatisfying, both as devoid of essence. Around this dialectic, we hear the result of homemade repetitive music as a reflection on consumer existence. Not totally conceptual, but very much thought out, the success of these tunes is both its initial idea, and the end product. You can hear a solitary room of composition, and an art gallery of exhibition with interacting bodies. The imaginative sound design, and actual very catchy composition make this one of the most memorable entries in the fertile innovative music canon of its time. David Chesworth (born 1958, Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom) is an Australian-based interdisciplinary artist and composer. Known for his experimental and at times minimalist music, he has worked solo, in post-punk groups (Essendon Airport, Whadya Want?), electronic music, contemporary ensembles, and experimental performance. Industry & Leisure was partly written while Chesworth was Artist In Residence at the Praxis Community Art Foundation in Fremantle, in 1981. RIYL: A Certain Ratio, Talking Heads' Remain In Light mixed with Dark Day, Ike Yard, Din A Testbild, Marc Barreca.
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The Barcelona's duo explores their more industrial (as in early industrial, not industrial noise) and minimal synth facets. Tribal elements are kept to just a couple of tracks. Metallic percussion, throbbing synths and arpeggios living together under the same roof. This release has it all: rhythm, experimentation and melody. FFO: Throbbing Gristle, Diseño Corbusier, Chris and Cosey, Liasons Dangerouses, Einstürzende Neubauten, Soft Moon, Cabaret Voltaire, Essaie Pas, DAF. All music by Dame Area. Recorded at Màgia Roja HQ 2018-2019. Mixed at la Isla with Pablo Miranda. Photo: Giulia Passamonti. Design: Cassandra Dada.
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Bambi OFS is Cédric Dambrain (1979), composer, electronic musician, and virtual instruments designer based in Brussels, Belgium. Dambrain's approach to music is motivated by an exploration of perception thresholds, psychoacoustics, and the physiological impact of sound. This diversity of themes is matched by his wide range of production styles, which include electroacoustic computer music, compositions for ensembles, noise, sound installations and, more recently, club-oriented polyrythmic explorations. Dambrain has also been composing extensively for performance artists and music theater. Spanning four tracks of intricate and ever-shifting rhythmic progressions, Bambi OFS's debut EP, Yakka, frames a tense and glittering ethno-fictional world, combining kaleidoscopic percussive textures with a precisely economical aesthetic. Extending on Cédric's exploration of sound.space.perception as a unified phenomenon in his sound installations and noise projects, the record artwork features a photography shot by ethnomusicologist Judith Becker during a Bebuten ceremony in Bali; the picture evokes her inquiry in the trance phenomenon, in which she demonstrates that our ability to enjoy trance and its healing virtues is inversely proportional to our sense of separateness from the rest of the world. Meshing together numerous influences, and reflecting on the self/other dichotomy, Yakka is a playful invitation to reconsider our identification processes.
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Japanese industrial-experimental-synth outfit formed by Tommi Tokyo (synths, drum machines, vocals) and Sayaka Botanic (violin, sampler, tapes). They create a unique mixture of dark minimal synth and avant-noise with striking visuals and stage performances. Group A carries on the very breath of early pioneers such as Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, and the Japanese underground scene from the early '80s. This is the vinyl edition of group A's second self-produced album released in October 2013 only in CDR format. Nine tracks of genuine experimental minimal electronics.
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Самцы Дронта (Samtsi Dronta, or Male of Dronts in Russian) was a shoegaze/dream pop/experimental band formed in the late '80s in Izhevsk, USSR. The first rehearsals were about noises made on detuned guitars and cheap Soviet synths while listening to cassettes of Clan Of Xymox, Cocteau Twins, Coil, Psychic TV, and Dead Can Dance in the cinema booth where worked Konstantin Bagaev (from Стук Бамбука в XI часов, another cult soviet experimental band). In 1990, Maxim Fedoseev joined the group. According to him, he was invited because he was burnt with sulfuric acid and knew how to play the Soviet song "Клен ты мой опавший" on the guitar. Afterward Anna Lebedeva joined the group. Concerts happened infrequently and the band recorded some tracks in 1992 ("Cassandra" and "Croquet") and 1993 ("Wild Child"). Also, a music video called "Сумерки" (Twilight). During early '90s various musicians joined and left the band (Vasily Agafonof, ex-member of Стук Бамбука в XI часов, and Alexandr Merzlyakov) and finally was left a duo of core members Maxim Fedoseev and Anna Lebedeva. In late '90s they disbanded. Fedoseev started other projects and Lebedeva started a media career. This is the band's first release on vinyl, remastered from the original recordings. Edition of 200. Co-released with XII Chasov records from Russia.
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Laughing Hands worked in the experimental music scene in Melbourne in the very early 1980s. They were an improvisation group using tapes, synthesizers, guitar, and hand percussion much of which was then treated through the synthesizers, producing their soft, insistent and rhythmic sound. Dog Photos was originally released in 1981 by band's own label Adhesive records. The sounds in these 11 pieces are a combination of direct to tape and cassette to tape recordings, a perfect mix of electronic tape explorations, spectral synths shadings, and foreground rhythm abstractions. For fans of: Chris & Cosey, Dome, Cabaret Voltaire, Coil. Engineered by David Chesworth. Remastered at Plataforma Continental by José Guerrero.
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One of the all-time fantastic masterpieces of rhythmic ambient, an absolute must-own for any fan of the genre. Peyote is a musical trip well worth taking. Originally released in 1991 on CD and now released on vinyl for the first time. O Yuki Conjugate (OYC) are an English post-industrial/ambient musical group founded in 1982 in Nottingham by Roger Horberry and Andrew Hulme and still -- intermittently -- active today. Originally inspired by the spirit and sound of post-punk, they soon started pioneering their own brand of ambient at a time (early '80s) when few people were interested in such a low-key approach. Their music has been variously described as "ambient", "fourth world", and "dark wave"; the band prefer to call it "dirty ambient".
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B.F.E. Records present a reissue of the fantastic debut LP from France's pioneer avant-electronic unit, Art & Technique. Clima-X was originally released in 1981 by Hi-Tech Records. Haunting obscure minimal electronic sounds, ambient and atmospheric ventures, minimal wave with some ethnic elements. And excellent use of rhythm boxes, sound generators and strange vocals, reminiscent of 23 Skidoo's "7 Songs", early Muslimgauze or O Yuki Conjugate's sound. Remastered by former member Bernard Filipetti. Edition of 300.
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Official reissue of Made In Spain, the experimental industrial electronic classic by De Fabriek originally released by Discos Esplendor Geométrico in 1987.
"A bunch of friends whom knew each other from the city of Zwolle, and as such they recorded their first LP Schafttijdsamba at home in 1980. After that the group splintered and expanded, odd as it may sound. The original core went each own way and De Fabriek sought outside help. This was a time of independent cassette culture, home production of music, corresponding and mail art and so it happened membership, co-workers in De Fabriek lingo, were fanatical home tapers around the world, with a director at the helmet in Zwolle, albeit not a director not in the capitalist sense of the word, but someone directing the sound. Listening to the cassettes received, deciding upon order and layering of various sounds. For Made In Spain De Fabriek headed out to Nijmegen, Studio De Tempel, and home of Mekanik Kommando. But workers and a director are not enough for a factory, it also needs machines, and machines were plenty around in De Tempel. Following a decision on what goes where along with what other received contribution, and then mixed together, using the vast amounts of effects racks available in this studio, which put their fingerprint on this record. Made In Spain was an expansion of an earlier release 'Mont Cantis', slightly the same yet significantly different and exploring the industrial sound a bit further, taking cues no doubt from the music of Esplendor Geometrico, taking matters a bit further and deeper, to stay within the theme of old mines in the German Ruhr area that runs through these ten pieces, this is a record that at that time saw De Fabriek fully connecting to the industrial scene without forgetting their earlier post-punk and krautrock roots. Yet unlike so many other industrialists back in the day, De Fabriek always remains to have some melody to be part of their music. It is not the noise for the sake of noise." --Frans De Waard, September 2018
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Official reissue of Sahrah, the excellent first mini album by End Of Data, originally released in 1984 by Divine Records (Tuxedomoon, Fra Lippo Lippi, Mecano). The record has been remastered and includes liner notes by the band. End Of Data existed in Rennes, Brittany during the early '80s and shared members with Charles De Goal. They released only two records that are classics of minimal synth pop and new wave. "Great and rare French album. minimal synth, post punk and some art rockish hints. Would appeal to all fans of Autopilot, Kas Product, Dark Day, Sad Lovers and Giants, etc." --Mutant Sounds
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B.F.E. Records present a reissue of Glorious Din's Leading Stolen Horses, originally released in 1985.
"One of the true lost gems of West Coast gothic postpunk, this 1985 release was the first for the band led by Sri Lankan expat singer-songwriter Eric Cope. Taking the darker moments of Joy Division as a starting point but leaving behind the industrial angst and fury for a rich and soulful melancholy that seamlessly blends first and third world cultures, they built something else entirely with insistent tribal rhythms, atmospheric guitar work, and Eric's ghostly and desolate vocals, all with fine recording and production." --Insight
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Iranian-born Emad Dabiri, aka SΛRIN, creates ominous atmospheres with industrial and dark techno influences. Psychic Stress was originally released on a limited 50 copies edition tape on X-Img (record label of Emad Dabiri). The songs have been mixed again, some synth lines re-recorded and mastered for vinyl and digital versions in Sountess Studio. The record includes also an Unhuman remix of the song "Total War". Artwork by Sam McKenzie. Edition of 400.
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Third volume of the series Material Eléctrico this time released on vinyl. Compilation of international mutant electronic underground. A tour around experimental electronics covering abstract rhythms (Santiago, Black Zone Myth Chant), industrial new EBM beat (Celldöd, Klack, Violet Poison, Bässt), minimal wave (Circa Tapes, Sam De La Rosa), and the great collaboration between Sam De La Rosa & Kyle Dixon (Survive, Stranger Things soundtrack). Artwork by Joni Kosmos; Typography by Israel Pinilla. Mastered at Sountes Studio. Edition of 260.
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Progression and creativity are keywords regarding James Plotkin's oeuvre. Beginning with the relentless, ever evolving and hallucinating music of O.L.D., through his many solo records and collaborations, to the surreal heavy-weight sound of Khanate, he's always been bound to be personal. Proof of quality are these instrumental demos of his landmark album of experimental music The Joy Of Disease. The Joy Of Disease: Demos & Remixes showcases the initial recordings in preparation for the cult-favorite album, released in 1995 on John Zorn's Japanese Avant label. These early home-recorded instrumental versions are supplemented by unreleased remixes from Plotkin and co-producer Mick Harris of Napalm Death/Scorn fame. The remixes were done during the original album sessions at Mick Harris' Black Box studio in the Custard Factory in Birmingham, UK. This is the first time these demo recordings have been heard by anyone other than Plotkin since their inception.
"... somewhere full of stabbing psychedelic guitar loops and a slow, steady swarm of almost goth-like dirge beats that was quieter than something of the Wax Trax! or Boredoms ilk, but also subtler and simpler, with an avant-garde touch of Bruce Gilbert-styled feedback minimal electronica." --All Music
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