T • A • G • C – Digitaria (1986)

Country: England

 

Tracklist

1. Blood Burns Into Water 03:03
2. Dog Star 04:23
3. Balag Anti 08:12
4. Chozzar Over Abyss 02:13
5. Pre-Eval 05:03
6. Ghost Cultures Under Collapse 06:59
7. Noosphere 08:12
8. Lux Nox 09:07
9. Tzaddi (1994 CD Bonus Track) 01:27
10. The Abominable Plateau Of Leng (1994 CD Bonus Track) 01:56
11. Sekhet (1994 CD Bonus Track) 04:59
12. ShgL 3.33 (1987 CD Bonus Track) 03:36
13. Sunset Eyes Thru Water (1987 CD Bonus Track) 05:39
14. Po-Ema (1987 CD Bonus Track) 02:41

 

 The Anti-Group Communications (or T.A.G.C.)  is an open-membership collaborative art and information project

formed in 1978 by Adi Newton and Steven James Turner of Clock DVA fame.

The T.A.G.C. acronym refers to the four different types of DNA Nucleotide: thymine, adenine, guanine, and cytosine.

The group's main objective was to combine interactive and mixed media art, installations,

and research on psycho acoustics and philosophical concepts to produce fascinating presentations.
The first non theoretical action devised by T.A.G.C. was the film "The Delivery", a 16mm triptych projection and soundtrack,

and the Anti theater performance "The Discussion" designed for five tape recorders and multi-video projection systems.

These two works were first presented at the "De Doelen" center in Rotterdam on Saturday, September 22nd, 1985.

"The Delivery" has been exhibited at the "2nd Atonal Festival" in "The Ballhaus Tiergarten" Berlin, Feb 18th 1985

where the soundtrack was recorded on a mobile 24 track system.

This document was released as "The Anti Group - The Delivery" on Atonal Records.
After these initial performances T.A.G.C. concentrated on audio development.

It was during this period 1985 to 1987 that the above recordings were realized

along with the highly acclaimed ambisonic album "Digitaria" which is a technological and ethnological work

based on the ideas of the Sabean cults of ancient Khem and the Dogon tribe of Mali.

Having worked through these areas, it became the next logical step to move into the application of Psychophysics 

developing the use of frequencies and Psychoacoustics with computer aided technology.

Performance of these ideas took place at the "3rd Atonal Festival" at "Alte TU-Mensa" Berlin on December 13th, 1986

and "SO 36" Berlin on Feb 14th 1987 and at the "Museum Of Contemporary Art" Prato, Italy on Sept 23rd 1988.
It was at this time also that T.A.G.C. displayed their first Meontological visual experiment "Burning Water".

The recordings utilized in these performances were released as part of a series of recordings

entitled Meontological Research Recordings 1 + 2.

T.A.G.C. performances were held at the Electro-Acoustic Music Academy Stockholm, August, 23rd 1990

and at the ARS Electronica symposium on Virtual Reality held in Linz, Austria on September 8th, 1990.

Meontological Research Recordings 3 + 4 followed where Recording 3 explores the central ideas 

expressed in the Coulier Noire and Recording 4 centers around the current research project

into the development of methods and techniques to aid expanded consciousness

in collaboration with R.E.S.T., SpaceTimeTanks and Relaxation Center Chicago, America.
All these psychoacoustic experiments and carefully constructed aural rituals are usually accompanied 

by lengthy liner notes, explaining the theoretical underpinnings of the recordings.
In this way, T.A.G.C. presents itself explicitly as acoustic research rather than music.

 Although the group disbanded in 1996, Newton continued the project with CD releases and live performances in 2009.
T.A.G.C. audio recordings are released on Newton's Anterior Research Recordings label.

 
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Michael Convertino – The Hidden - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1987)

Composer: Michael Convertino

 

Tracklist

1. Main Title 01:51
2. Political Rally 01:51
3. Back At Home 01:02
4. Transference 02:19
5. Miller In Apartment 01:55
6. Lloyd And The Little Girl 01:13
7. Lloyd Alone 01:14
8. Final Transference 03:16
9. The Dog 01:26
10. Rampage 07:33
11. Shoot-Out 05:57
12. Stripper 01:50
13. Road Block 01:55
14. Mannequin 05:01

 

"The Hidden" is a 1987 American sci fi-horror action film directed by Jack Sholder,

written by Jim Kouf (under the pseudonym Bob Hunt), and released by New Line Cinema.

It stars Kyle MacLachlan and Michael Nouri, along with Clu Gulager,

Chris Mulkey, Ed O'Ross, Clarence Felder, Claudia Christian and Larry Cedar.
Director Jack Sholder was drawn to the film because of the script.

Writer Jim Kouf had originally expressed interest in directing, but when the studios refused, he lost interest in the script. Sholder, who saw the potential to turn it into more than an action film,

did a rewrite to heighten the themes of what it means to be human.
The score was composed by American musician Michael Convertino (born 1952 in New York City) 

best known for his collaborations with director Randa Haines on films like "Children Of A Lesser God", "The Doctor",

"Wrestling Ernest Hemingway", and "Dance With Me", as well as "Bull Durham",

"Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead" and the Tim Allen comedies "The Santa Clause" and "Jungle 2 Jungle".

 
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Iron Halo Device – The Collapsing Void (1998)

Country: United States

 

Tracklist

 Pulsating Flesh
1. Introduction - Eyespark, The Man 12:04
2. Penetration - Intruding The Skin 10:37
3. Reflection - The Collapsing Void 15:41
4. Completion - An Empty Anthem 09:14
Spliced & Segmented
5. Creation - The Abduction Of Winter 05:54
6. Evolution - The Expanding Void 04:19
7. Observation - Red Memory 03:32
8. Contemplation - A Passion Vessel 03:29

 

 Project of Philip T. Easter (aka eyespark), member of Stone Glass Steel and Death In Arcadia.
Additionally, Easter was the creative director at Malignant Records

 and he has done the mastering for a large number of releases in the industrial/noise genre.
"The Collapsing Void" was the debut album of the project offering a mix of heavy pounding drum patterns

with experimental noise and dark ambient atmospheres combined with many samples.
Tracks 1-4 were recorded live at the Hurricane in Kansas City on July 31, 1996

while tracks 5-8 were compiled from home demos recorded in August and September 1995.
Released through Malignant Records in 1998 in plain jewel case CD with transparent tray and 3-fold out booklet.

 
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Nightmare Lodge – Negative Planet (1994)

Country: Italy

Tracklist

1. First Contrast 01:15
2. Baby / Death 06:34
3. Become Visible 03:59
4. The Bird Comes Back 03:44
5. Negative Planet 04:32
6. Mirage IV 05:56
7. Toxic Ways 02:54
8. Grey Wind 03:31
9. The Glorious Animal 03:20
10. Presence 04:54
11. Endless Pleasure (On) 03:49

Nightmare Lodge started in June 1987 as a musical project founded by Minus Habens Records / Disturbance founder

Ivan Iusco alongside vocalist B. Mazzilli and bass player Gianni Mantelli,

when the trio decided to embark on a path in search of their own dreamlike musical dimensions.
Soon they entered a small recording studio in Bari to record their first cassette "Big Mother In The Strain",

that was released on December 12, 1987 as the first publication of Minus Habens founded in the same year by Iusco.
After a few months, because of trivial disputes, the lineup was changed.
Ivan found himself completely alone deciding the Nightmare Lodge destiny.
In the meantime, he met female vocalist M. Cioce, that was selected

to be involved in two tracks on the split LP "The Oneiric Transgression / Noise And Dream",

with the Roman band Lyke Wake, the first vinyl release of Minus Habens Records in 1989.
When the album was out, M. Cioce left and B. Mazzilli returned.

Nightmare Lodge succeeded to assemble two new works across 1990 and 1991,

a split LP, " Ice Skin / The Gospel According To The Men In Black" with the band Blackhouse and a tape entitled "Asylum".
These two releases marked a long retirement period for the duo

caused by the compulsory military service that overwhelmed Ivan and B. Mazzilli.
In that time Nightmare Lodge produced only some tracks on various compilations around the world.
With the relocation of Mazzilli in Veneto in 1992 and the collaboration of Ivan Iusco with the Belgian Dirk Ivens for Dive,

the post-industrial period of Nightmare Lodge closed.
When Ivan came back from the military service he was busy in raising again his record label Minus Habens.
Due to this, the Nightmare Lodge inactivity existed until 1994.
In that year a new friendship born with the mysterious Russolo,

a very talented electronic composer passionate with horror and science fiction cinema.
A perfect union was made and since then Nightmare Lodge released a CD trilogy

("Negative Planet", "Luminescence", "The Enemy Within"),

that received considerable attention from critics and audiences in various countries.
In 1998 Nightmare Lodge composed the soundtrack (in collaboration with the Sicilian musician Paolo Bigazzi)

of the independent science fiction film "Syrena" by Mariano Equizzi

followed by two albums ("Blind Miniatures" and "Tentacled") for the U.S. label Red Stream.
In the summer of 2000, Nightmare Lodge, with guitarist Nicola Cipriani,

performed live for the first time in Calabria a soundtrack written specifically for the film "The War Of The Worlds".
Ivan Iusco has also involved with the project It and composed two songs for the sci-fi video game "Cyberpunk 2077".

 
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Immortal Agony – A Virgin Among The Living Dead (1996)

Country: Italy

Tracklist

1. In Blood We Trust 11:25
2. La Fontaine De Sang 04:23
3. A Very Strange Agony 06:22
4. The Haunted Boudoir 08:19
5. Gothic 04:52
6. Soporiferous Sex (Liquid Emission) 04:56
7. Pagan Orgasms 03:16

Another project of Emanuele Lago (Black Mountains Chronicles, Tombstone, Crisantemo Nero etc.) 

that focuses on death/ambient and horror/industrial soundscapes.
Originally released in 1996 on his label Psychotic Release on a limited edition cassette with 2 inserts,

a little ceramic bat and a small booklet with images for each track.

Later in 2001 it was reissued on CDr together with his previous album "The Queen Of Heaven & The Queen Of Hell".

 
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Morte Macabre – Symphonic Holocaust (1998)

Country: Sweden

Tracklist

1. Apoteosi Del Mistero 4:20
2. Threats Of Stark Reality 2:59
3. Sequenza Ritmica E Tema 7:06
4. Lullaby 8:05
5. Quiet Drops 6:46
6. Opening Theme 2:53
7. The Photosession 7:14
8. Symphonic Holocaust 17:51
9. Suoni Dissonanti (Vinyl Bonus Track) 03:17

Morte Macabre was formed by the members of two Swedish progressive bands, Landberk and Anekdoten.
In 1998, Nicklas Barker and Peter Nordins of Anekdoten,

along with Stefan Dimle (Landberk, Paatos) and Reine Fiske (Landberk, Paatos, The Guild)

released the album "Symphonic Holocaust" on the Swedish label Mellotronen.
The album mostly consists of covered themes from horror movies, such as "City Of The Living Dead", 

"The Beyond", "Rosemary's Baby", "Beyond The Darkness", "Cannibal Holocaust" and "Golden Girls", 

with the exception of two original compositions.
The music is instrumental and characterized by improvisation and heavy use of mellotron and synthesizers.

The Memory link also features the bonus track "Suoni Dissonanti" that was included on the vinyl version of the album.

 
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Time Machines – Time Machines (1998)

Country: England

Tracklist

1. 7-Methoxy-β-Carboline: (Telepathine) 23:22
2. 2,5-Dimethoxy-4-Ethyl-Amphetamine: (DOET/Hecate) 13:19
3. 5-Methoxy-N,N-Dimethyl: (5-MeO-DMT) 10:01
4. 4-Indolol,3-[2-(Dimethylamino)Ethyl],Phosphate Ester: (Psilocybin) 26:45

"Time Machines" is a 1998 studio album by English experimental group Coil,

originally released under the one-off project alias Time Machines.

The album was created under the premise of psychedelic drone pieces named after corresponding hallucinogenic drugs,

"tested and retested" during the album's studio sessions for apparent narcotic potency.
It is composed of four electronic drone pieces created with modular synthesizers,

which as hinted at in their track names are an attempt to recreate the chemically derived psychedelic and narcotic potency

of Telepathine, DOET, DMT and Psilocybin mushrooms (Telepathine and DMT being primary components of Ayahuasca).

As well as this, John Balance intended the album to cause "temporal slips" in time and space,

allowing both the artist and audience to figuratively "dissolve time".
Drew McDowall created the original demo, at first inspired by what he saw as a hypnotic state created in Tibetan music,

but his final idea with Balance and Peter Christopherson was to use filters and oscillators

on the tones of the demo to induce trancelike effects.
When "Time Machines" was first released, the group was initially very conscious

that it should not be labeled as a Coil album due to how abstract and different it was compared to previous works.
However, the group later tended towards regarding "Time Machines" a part of the Coil catalog

and this led the 2000 follow-up live album "Coil Presents Time Machines" to be released as a Coil album.
A five-disc Time Machines box set was announced in 1998, but never developed.
Also a two-disc version was announced in January 2006 as a future release but this was never expanded on either,

although an album by Peter Christopherson, called "Time Machines II", was released posthumously.
In 2018, surviving member Drew McDowall collaborated with British visual artist Florence To

 to perform an updated audio-visual version of the entire album in selected venues and festivals around the world.

 
Memory

Havohej – Black Perversion (12'' EP 1994)

Country: United States

Tracklist

1. Black Perversion 07:18
2. Unholy Sodomy 02:00
3. Mary Goddess Of Shit 06:00

Solo experimental black metal project of Paul Ledney, formed in 1993 after the split of Profanatica the previous year.

Former Profanatica and Incantation member Brett Makowski assisted with guitars and bass on the first Havohej album,

"Dethrone The Son Of God" in 1993, which consists mainly of re-worked and re-recorded Profanatica tracks.

During the following years Havohej developed a much more unique and experimental style

of minimalist black metal, mixed with dark ambient and noise/industrial elements.

On September 29th, 2007 the band made their very first and only performance ever at the Autumn Equinox V festival.

 
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Drowned God: Conspiracy Of The Ages Soundtrack (1996)

Composers: Tom Smyth & Will Joss

Tracklist

1. Bequest Globe 01:26
2. Staircase 1 02:11
3. Staircase 2 02:08
4. Kether 00:57
5. Malchut 01:37
6. Stonehenge 00:54
7. Knight's Torso 00:37
8. The Round Table 01:38
9. Arthurian Myth 01:36
10. Arthurian UFO 00:44
11. Merlin's Oak 00:30
12. Battlefield 00:45
13. The Shore 01:19
14. Templar's Tower 00:33
15. Morgana's Roost 01:36
16. Catacombs 01:06
17. Leonardo's Workshop 1 00:30
18. Leonardo's Workshop 2 01:01
19. Albert Einstein & Isaac Newton 01:29
20. Knight's Head 00:55
21. Puzzle Box 01:06
22. Temple Grounds 1 00:47
23. Temple Grounds 2 00:49
24. Temple Grounds 3 00:30
25. Temple Roof 1 01:22
26. Temple Roof 2 01:18
27. Temple Interior 1 00:48
28. Temple Interior 2 00:44
29. Horus' Prison 01:13
30. Horus 01:18
31. The American Submarine 00:49
32. Noah 1 01:20
33. Noah 2 01:00
34. Noah Organ 01:25
35. Aleister Crowley & Carl Jung 01:06
36. Industrial Underground 1 00:45
37. Industrial Underground 2 00:45
38. Industrial Underground 3 00:22
39. Industrial Underground 4 00:22
40. Industrial Underground 5 00:45
41. Underground Carnival 02:04
42. Illuminati Lodge 01:28
43. Dungeon 01:42
44. Baphomet 01:07
45. Diner 1 01:01
46. Diner 2 01:08
47. Hacker's Caravan 00:31

Drowned God: Conspiracy Of The Ages is a 1996 science fiction adventure game

developed by Epic Multimedia Group and published by Inscape.

The game propounds the conspiracy theory that all of human history is a lie

and that the human race's development and evolution were aided by extraterrestrials.

The player attempts to uncover the truth through the course of the game by traveling to a variety of different worlds,

interacting with historical and fictional characters, and solving puzzles.
Drowned God is based on a forged manuscript written by Harry Horse in 1983,

purported to have been written by 19th-century poet Richard Henry Horne, who shares Horse's birth name.

After facing legal trouble and fines when he attempted to sell the text,

Horse shelved it until playing Myst and The 7th Guest in the mid-1990s,

whereupon he decided a first-person adventure game would be the best way to tell the manuscript's story.
William S. Burroughs was originally scheduled to narrate the game, but died just before he could begin recording.
Drowned God's haunting and atmospheric music was written and performed by the ambient UK music duo,

Tom Smyth & Will Joss, operating under the name Miasma.

 
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Brotherhood Of Pagans – Tales Of Vampires (1995)

Country: France

Tracklist

1. The Gathering 02:07
2. Don't Fall 04:12
3. Warshow 04:53
4. Resurrection 05:00
5. Black Art 03:37
6. Sinner Comes To Bits 08:54
7. Halloween 04:20
8. Rooms 04:37
9. Guilty 06:06
10. God Damn My Soul 04:01

French Gothic/Rock group formed in March 1990

and risen from the ashes of two other act of the Cold Wave genre, Itchy Souls and Nuits Heretiques.
The band consisted of Alien (rhythm guitar and vocals), Coccs (synthesiser),

Sailor (drums), Elrik (bass) and Vox Populi (guitar).
Brotherhood Of Pagans began playing their first live gigs in 1991,

but it was during the course of 1993 that they started to make themselves known,

thanks principally to the beginning of a their relationship with the French label Darkland Of Tears.
Among other things, this enabled them to provide support for Corpus Delicti at a concert in Nice,

and to appear at a Festival in Dorsten (Germany) in front of 800 people.
This collaboration with Darkland Of Tears further allowed Brotherhood Of Pagans to participate on numerous compilation,

firstly those on the Darkland label such as "Cold Tears" and "Gothicland",

then on compilations produced by other re-known labels like "Goth Box" by Cleopatra, and "Death By Dawn" by Appolyon.
Their first album finally appeared in March 1995 under the title "Tales Of Vampires" and was an immediate success.
Unfortunately at the peak of it’s glory, the band split following the departure of bassist Elrik.
Elrik later joined the band Disorder and also Alien decided to focus on his solo project under the name Alien Marteens.
In 2006, Vox, Coccs and Sailor decided to head for the studio in order to start working on a new album entitled "Only Once".
In 2007 the first track of the album, also called "Only Once" was featured on the Str8line compilation "Movement One".
"Only Once" was finally released in 2009 through Alone Prod exploring various musical influences

that the remaining members of Brotherhood Of Pagans had gathered through the past years

and also featured a cover version of the track "Resurrection" from their first album.

 
Memory

Tyrant – Rise Of The Fallen (Demo 1998)

Country: Sweden

Tracklist

1. This Frozen Realm 05:36
2. När Natten För Evigt Fallit 06:07
3. Era Av Blod 07:08
4. Outro 00:50

Swedish black metal project formed in 1996 in Jönköping and released only one demo in 1998 entitled "Rise Of The Fallen".

The band had a full line up featuring Lord Thurisaz (Drums), Tiwaz (Guitars, Keys),

Trollheim (Vocals, Bass) and Hate Svartulv (Guitars).
Tyrant offers here fast and aggressive black metal with the appropriate amount of keyboard parts when needed.
Later, in 1999, they changed their name to The Legion and released three albums before disbanding in 2010.

 
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Subklinik ‎– Feasting On Souls (1996)

Country: United States

Tracklist

1. Feasting On Souls 08:17
2. Journey Through The Halls Of Darkness 13:44
3. Beyond The Existence Of Time And Space 08:08
4. Pt.III 10:35
5. Pleasant Stench 10:03
6. Corpsegrind 07:47
7. Hardening Of The Arteries 06:56
8. Mortuor Lesson 03:10
9. Tormenter 08:03

Subklinik is another project of Chad Davis (Mortuor, Anu, Draath, Hour Of Thirteen, Obscurae, Old Ghoul etc.)

that was formed in 1995 and is one of the longest running Death Industrial / Black Ambient projects

still active in the USA and celebrating its 30 years of existence.
Here Subklinik offers nightmarish necro-soundscapes from the darkest depths of the mind.
Released on Slaughter Productions as a double cassette and packaged in a VHS box with surgical scissors and cotton.

 
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Biota – Rackabones (2xLP 1985)

Country: United States

Tracklist

1. Vagabones A 26:34

2. Vagabones B 26:12

3. Rackabones A 18:08

4. Rackabones B 17:57

American experimental music ensemble that created in 1979 in Fort Collins, Colorado

under the name Mnemonist Orchestra (shortened soon after to Mnemonists).
Biota founded by fellow scientists and community radio engineers Mark Derbyshire and William Sharp, 

the Mnemonists ensemble of artists, musicians, and college-town bohemians.
in 1984, the group split into two collaborative factions:

a visual-arts collective, which retained the name Mnemonists, and the musical group, Biota.
Biota adheres to an unpredictable method of organizing sounds that ideally invites listeners

to imbue proceedings with their own individualized interpretations and experiences

(much like interpreting a work of abstract visual art), thereby allowing for an element of "listener composition".

Such a concept is in keeping with notions of community collaboration

and song evolution inherent in many forms of traditional folk music.
Biota-Mnemonists has taken to the stage for live performance only twice,

in 1981, at the Colorado State University art school in Fort Collins, Colorado,

and in November 1990 at the then-annual New Music America festival, held that year in Montreal, Quebec.

 
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Ishtar – Diabolical Hymns (MCD 1998)

Country: Sweden

Tracklist

1. Mörkets Furste 10:43
2. Damnation 08:10
3. Dismal Paradise 06:07

Short lived Swedish Melodic Black Metal band with a lot of keyboard parts and some female vocals.
Ishtar released in 1998 their MCD "Diabolical Hymns" with Snöstorm handling the lead vocals.

In 1999 their one and only full length album "Krig" followed

but this time with their guitarist Ahldrathan on vocals after the departure of Snöstorm.
Both of them released on Hammerheart Records.

 
Memory

Gnome – Under The Black Moon (Demo 1996)

Country: Japan

Tracklist

1. La Forêt (I - II) 15:46
2. La Mer... 09:47
3. Oriental Flower (Bonus Track) 07:37

Japanese one-man Black Metal project from Osaka that was formed by Masanori "Wood" Haruta in 1995.
Gnome released two demos in mid 90s, the split "Story - Legendary Japanese Wolves" in 1999 with Nyarlathotep

 and the compilation "Silent Scream" in 2012.
The demo "Under The Black Moon" was originally released in 1996 and later in 1997 on the split with Hurusoma

 that was another Black Metal project of Masanori Haruta (along with the ambient project Human Soul).

The Memory link features as bonus the track "Oriental Flower"

that appeared on the compilation "In Search Of Weird Truth..." in 2000.

 
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