Orphx – Fragmentation (1996)

Country: Canada

 

Tracklist

 1. Word And Symbol 03:22
2. Layers Of Dura 04:19
3. Ekstasis 06:10
4. Auto-Erotic 04:11
5. Sepsis 06:14
6. Tanha 08:14
7. Pathogenesis 06:40
8. Words Once Spoken 09:22
9. Electroencephalographic Measurements 04:04
10. Samsara 04:29
11. Cellular Resonance 08:48
12. Within 07:05

 

 Orphx is an industrial/techno project from Canada.

Formed in 1993 in Hamilton, Ontario by Rich Oddie, Christina Sealey and Aron West

 and inspired by early industrial music and the extreme fringes of metal.
In late 1995 West departed to focus on his noise project Tropism,

while Oddie and Sealey began to push Orphx in a more rhythmic direction.
Orphx have been developing their hypnotic rhythms and experimental noise using modular and analog synthesizers,

software, location recordings and feedback circuits, utilizing darker pieces of techno and electro

and combine these elements with the experimental aesthetics and themes of early industrial music.
Oddie and Sealey have performed throughout Europe and North America at celebrated venues like Berghain and Tresor 

as well as notable electronic music festivals such as Movement and Mutek.
Their live appearances are renowned for delivering improvised performances

that combine software with modular synthesizer and other hardware.
"Fragmentation" was originally released on Malignant Records label

and was made using the same basic tools as in their early cassettes: contact microphones, scrap metal, 

effects pedals, feedback circuits, a drum machine, a couple of synths,

and location recordings and found sounds manipulated by Sealey on reel to reel machines and an 8-bit sampler.
While early Orphx recordings were primarily improvised direct to tape, this album places much greater emphasis

on carefully constructed layers of sound, shaping their improvisational energy into powerful compositions

that combines death industrial atmospheres and brutal power electronics with relentless, hypnotic percussion.
"Fragmentation" was reissued by Hospital Productions in 2020 including the original album

and over an hour of additional rarities and previously unreleased recordings.

 The Memory links also contains these as bonus.

 
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Sort Vokter – Folkloric Necro Metal (1996)

 

Country: Norway

 

Tracklist

 1. Kveldstimer 05:08
2. Langs Stier Uten Ende 02:19
3. Grålysning 04:04      
4. Fra Kilden Til Tjernet 03:43
5. Tårers Sang 01:59
6. Hatefulle Tanker Ut I Natten 03:24
7. Ni Gygrer / Nattjakt 02:46
8. Bak To Lysende Øyne 02:58
9. Sønn Av Skyggers Skygge 03:08
10. Fjellstev 08:04

Ildjarn project that featured a full line up and consisted of Ildjarn (Bass, Guitars, Vocals),

 Nidhogg (Vocals),  Heiinghund (Bass, Guitars) and Tvigygre (Bass, Guitars, Vocals).
Sort Vokter (Black Guardian in Norwegian) only released one album through Ildjarn's personal label  

Norse League Productions, had programmed drums and everyone involved played on different instruments on every track.
The lineup for the keyboard/ambient tracks is not credited.
"Folkloric Necro Metal" was distributed by Napalm Records and later by Transcendental Creations.

 
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Girnų Giesmės – Aštuoni Nerimo Veidrodžiai (1997)

Country: Lithuania

 

Tracklist

1. Veidrodis I 14:42
2. Veidrodis II 06:00
3. Veidrodis III 03:38
4. Veidrodis IV 04:50
5. Veidrodis V 13:37
6. Veidrodis VI 05:25
7. Veidrodis VII 04:36
8. Veidrodis VIII. Žiemos Rūpesčiai (Mix) 06:24

 

Girnu Giesmes was born in 1996 by Laurynas Jukonis,

who had experimented with several underground bands in Vilnius before starting his own project.
Album "Kerai" (Spell), recorded the same year and issued by the label Dangus in cassette format.
In 1997 the cassette "Aštuoni Nerimo Veidrodžiai" (8 Mirrors Of Anxiety) was self-released

and was distributed only in a close circle of friends.
The next year the cassette "Juodi Vasaros Trimitai" (Black Trumpets Of Summer) was released, 

followed by the split release "Brėkšta" (Breaking Dawn) together with the band Šalikapalikau in 2000.
The first Girnu Giesmes work in CD format was published in 2001 under the title "S:S:S:S".
From 2003 to 2022 six more albums were recorded while the project also played live on several notable festivals.
"Aštuoni Nerimo Veidrodžiai" was re-released in CDr in 2001 under the title "8 Nerimo Veidrodžiai" with a different cover.

 
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