Thursday 29 February 2024

Stigma – Structures Of Chaos (7'' EP 1995)


Country: France

Tracklist
1. Untitled 07:32
2. Lethal Radiations 03:54
3. Structures Of Chaos 04:18

French short lived project featuring Licinio Da Costa (No Empty Room, Noït, Onukeio),
Antonio Da Costa and Laurent Kistler (Neon Cage Experiment).
They self released in 1994 on cassette their first album "Anastigmatic Aperture",
followed by "Putrefaction Taste" in 1995, on Daft Records, and "Inhumanity" in 1996, on Ant-Zen.
Their style was a mixture of industrial/dark ambient with chaotic rhythmic percussions.
"Structures Of Chaos" was co-issued by Ant-Zen and Ombre Sonore in 1995,
as a limited edition clear vinyl of 327 copies in a printed folder.

Wednesday 28 February 2024

Ashes To Ashes – Museum Of Dust (1994)


Country: France

Tracklist
1. Imperturbable Stiches Of Time, The Diverted Device, The Great Theatre Of Decrepitude,
The Long Experience, Damage Melody/The Last Elegy 21:53

Ashes To Ashes was another project created by Cyril Herry (Exotoendo, Lecanora, Sechres Mound, Ninth Desert).
The band released two cassettes, "Museum Of Dust" in 1994 and "Figement Profile" in 1995,
on Herry's personal label Incense.
"Museum Of Dust" was recorded in Dark Sound Studios (Lausanne) in May 1994,
and is presented as five tracks in one continuous play, with a unique handmade cover and a separate info insert.

Sunday 25 February 2024

Le Syndicat – 1985 - 1995 - Ten Years Of Excess (1995)


Country: France

Tracklist
Disc 1
Delikatëssen
1. Masse Dépréciatrice 13:19
2. Farce De Morse 09:31
3. Machefer Recharge 10:06
4. Terrificante Matter 07:41
5. Chanson Bruitiste 02:13

Relapse
6. Quadripartite 21:53
7. Dentiste-Surprise 04:24
Disc 2
Vorgine
1. Exorde 06:44
2. L'Horloge De St-Luce 06:25
3. Jouvenceau 00:46
4. Maelström Fornicator 06:16
5. Le Corps De Jehan 05:53
6. Deux 02:55
7. Vorgine 08:36

Relapse (Continued)
8. Roméo Ou Juliette 19:20
9. Dissection-Fantaisie 05:33

Le Syndicat is a collective entity and a former cassette label that began activities in 1982.
It is one of the leading bands in the industrial movement in France
and was created by Jean-Marie Onni (aka Ruelgo) and Zyklon B.
The project later collaborated with visual artists Zorïn and Mïrka Lugosi,
produced a lot of audio concrete cassettes and participated to a lot of "mail art" international compilations.
As a label Le Syndicat released cassettes for artists such as Merzbow, Parazite, Pacific 231, Controlled Bleeding,
Blackhouse and Dog As Master while they also had contacts,
notably with exchange of sounds and compositions by correspondence, with Japanese noise bands like The Hanatarashi.
After the departure of Zorïn and the arrival of Veidt Mjolnir, their  music is experiencing a significant change,
leaving the fields of improvisation and moving from collages, tape loops,
film samples or sequences of classical music, to prominence electronic rhythmic noise beats.
During the second half of the 1990s , the group enters into sleep and reappeared in 2010 with a new album,
this time reconnecting  with bruitism, collage and extreme dynamic forms.
"1985 - 1995 - Ten Years Of Excess" is a double compilation CD released in 1995 by Staalplaat 
featuring the re-release of their cassette albums "Delikatëssen" (1985), "Relapse" (1987) and "Vorgine" (1986).

Wednesday 31 January 2024

Subterfuge – Darkland Awakening (MCD 1994)


Country: Australia

Tracklist
1. Darkland Awakening 07:32
2. Haborym 03:44
3. A Prayer For The Kindred 03:06
4. Pre-Dawn Hours 03:52
5. Darkland Awakening (Pray Hard Mix) 07:34

Subterfuge was formed in 1993 by Clifford Ennis along with Rick Mullen and Brendan Toull in Melbourne, Australia.
Although involved musically together since 1987-88 it wasn’t until 1993 that started to take the whole thing more seriously.
They began work on a 4 track demo tape, briefly recruited a 4th member (Jonathan Mee)
and the self-titled demo tape saw the light of day in September 1993.
One gig at a private party for a newly opened record shop in Melbourne called Heartland Records followed
in December before they started working again as a 3-piece band after they discarded with Jonathans services.
On the strength of that live show and the demo tape, they were approached by Heartland Records to release a MCD.
In 1994 after a gig that they played as a 3 piece Brendan left the band and Clifford and Rick decided to continue as a duo
and started working on their debut MCD "Darkland Awakening".
Work on the MCD finished in March and it was released the following month to very favorable reviews.
For the remainder of 1994 Subterfuge played live in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and Brisbane promoting the MCD.
The time was perfect for an album to capitalize on the success, sadly though, a follow up did not eventuate.
Between 1995 and 1997 they sporadically played live around Melbourne while releasing songs on various compilations.
Subterfuge became less active as the years passed, however Clifford stayed involved in the scene.
 In 1996 he created the project Jerusalem Syndrome, a collaboration band with Chris McCarter of Ikon.
He also joined Ikon and played guitar with them and later created the side project Razorfade 
this time with Mark Tansley from UK goth band Suspiria.
In May 2013 a Subterfuge CD album entitled "Reflect<<Rewind" was released on European label, Strobelight Records.
This was a comprehensive collection containing 16 tracks, including unreleased songs and mixes plus some demos.
in 2016 Clifford found himself back in the studio recording brand new material
and in March 2017 a new album entitled "Blind To Reason" was released.
One third of the album is co-written with Rick Mullen thus essentially keeping the 90s duo alive.
2019 saw a return to the studio and a new CD EP entitled "Heat" was released on 2nd April 2020.

Tuesday 30 January 2024

Fabio Fabor – Pape Satan (1980)


Country: Italy

Tracklist
1. Ad Inferos 02:52
2. Acheron 03:06
3. Infernal Galop 03:14
4. La Forgia 03:26
5. Segno Di Fuoco 02:13
6. Caronte 02:58
7. Dies Irae 03:34
8. Stige 03:20
9. Trillo Del Diavolo 02:39
10. Dalle Sirene 03:49
11. V Bolgia 02:33
12. Diabolic Love 02:40

Fabio Borgazzi (24 April 1920 - 3 August 2011), also known as Fabio Fabor,
was one of the most prolific library music composers in Italy between the 1960s and 1980s.
A versatile and multi-talented musician, he explored almost all existing genres, from classical to jazz, 
from pop to electronic music, and released hundreds of records through his own publishing company, Minstrel,
and its numerous sub-labels, such as World, Hard, Flam, Fonovideo and Ring.
"Pape Satan" was originally released on the Hard label in 1980 and has become a cult record,
one often regarded as a groundbreaking exploration of electronic music.
In this work Borgazzi makes extensive use of synthesizers (ARP 2600, ARP 3620, ARP Omni and Roland System 700),
percussion, keyboard instruments (piano, harpsichord, Fender Rhodes) and voices,
developing an abstract and experimental electro-acoustic soundtrack to a dark and infernal environment,
or, as Borgazzi himself explained in the liner notes, an "eschatological-Dantesque environment
caught in its side of transcendent imagination metaphysics and, sometimes, even ironic interpretation.".

Monday 29 January 2024

Fumio Kosakai (コサカイ フミオ) – Earth Calling (1987)


Country: Japan

Tracklist
1. Absent Water 05:09
2. Drive To Universe 18:09
3. Look To The Light 22:05

First solo release from legendary artist Fumio Kosakai
that is best known from Japanese noise acts like Incapacitants and Hijokaidan.
In 1987 and 1993, Kosakai self-released two very limited cassettes (about 30 copies each),
of sublime solo electronic minimalism,  "Earth Calling" and "The Warm Garden".
"Earth Calling" was a live recording of a solo performance carried out at the free jazz venue
"Goodman" in Ogikubo, Tokyo, which ran around 1985 - 1986.
For the performance Kosakai used a self-made transmitter, a mini-keyboard Yamaha synthesizer, 
cassette tapes with environmental sounds recorded and a delay-like effect.
For the two first tracks some sounds were overdubbed later on at his home,
while the third track was released as it was on the live performance.
On the track "Look To The Light" Kosakai tried to recreate the infinite repetition
that Terry Riley had performed on his album "A Rainbow In Curved Air".
Also the title of the cassette originates from the first track on the live album "Space Ritual" by Hawkwind.

Sunday 31 December 2023

Memories Yet To Come 2023



In alphabetical order:
 
 
 
1. Ancestral Fortitude – Stronghold (Demo 2023)
 
 
2. Arditi – Emblem Of Victory (Full-length 2023)
 

3. At The Altar Of The Horned God – Heart Of Silence (Full-length 2023)

 
 
4. Auriferous Flame – Ardor For Black Mastery (Full-length 2023)
 
 
 
5. Carlos Viola – Blasphemous 2 (Original Game Soundtrack 2023)
 
 
 
6. Epheles – Promesses (Full-length 2023)
  
 
 
7. Hate Forest – Sowing With Salt (EP 2023)


8. Hate Manifesto – Αποστάτης (Full-length 2023)
 
 
 
9. Homo Deus – First Conquest Of Sastamala (EP 2023)
 
 
 
10. Infernal Curse – Revelations Beyond Insanity (Full-length 2023)
 
 
 
11. Kommodus – Wreath Of Bleeding Snowfall (Full-length 2023)

 
 
12. Maȟpíya Lúta – Wowahwala (Full-length 2023)
 
 
 
13. Motstand – Motstand (Full-length 2023)
 
 
 
14. Nahasheol – Serpens Abyssi (Full-length 2023)

 
 
15. Nattfärd – The Abyss (Full-length 2023)

 
 
16. NHV Beherit – WBRRR (Full-length 2023)
 
 
 
17. Orgasm 666 – Blood Vagina Angel (Full-length 2023)
 
 
 
18. Pa Vesh En – Martyrs (Full-length 2023)
 
 
 
19. Reverorum Ib Malacht – Kyrie Eleison (Full-length 2023)
 
 
 
20. Slidhr – White Hart! (Full-length 2023)

 
 
21. Sodality – Benediction Part 1 (Full-length 2023)
 
 
 
22. Stygian Ruin – A World Past Hope And Fear (Full-length 2023)
 
 
 
23. Thanatomass – Hades (Full-length 2023)
 
 
 
24. Thantifaxath – Hive Mind Narcosis (Full-length 2023)
 
 
 
25. Todverhexen – Verbotene Hexerei (Full-length 2023)
 
 
26. Trhä – Alëce IΩic (Full-length 2023)
 
 
 
27. Urfaust – Untergang (Full-length 2023)
 
 
 
28. Urkraft – Lyset Skinner Best I M​ø​rket (Full-length 2023)
 
 
 
29. Verminous Serpent – The Mailgn Covenant (Full-length 2023)
 
 
 
30. Virulent Specter – Satanic Territorial Moloch (Full-length 2023)