Author Archives: John Lithium

h{EE}l – Lividity

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Cave Fluffer
Body Cavity Stuff, A Downward Rope
A Long, Twisted cable
Gut Luck & Rib Jangle

Cash on the Dime & Dollars
for Organs

Charity Teeth ~
The Best Beak in the Buisness

We’re still your best entertainment Value ~

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released February 20, 2025

This Album created using the sounds of

Scott Bazar / CViard / Stick Skiffy / CP McDill / Bim Prongs / Jo Bled / James Ghost / {AN} EeL

Ripples On Water – III. Generation – A World After (Aural Films)

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This is the 2nd album by Ripples on Water.

This is a well-known story. The fall of the machines, the collapse of civilization. The slow rise of those who survived.

A look back into a dystopian future.

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released March 21, 2025

All material composed/arranged/played by Christian Fiesel & Godfried Stockmans

Godfried Stockmans – Programming/Synthesizers

Christian Fiesel – Synthesizers/Guitar

My interest in music was always there, but I also worked in the industry as a mechanic in mines, factories, gas company & finally teaching metal construction & welding. So there’s a broad real-life experience too. My interest in music recording production is still going on in reading magazines, looking things up on the internet, etc… Over the years I started to develop my own sound. More info: stockmanmusicnews.wordpress.com

Every sound has its own story. And each story can be completely different. That said, Christian Fiesel is trying to cross all borders of electronic and experimental music. His interest is not about being into a specific genre but to dare anything at least just once. All sources are allowed. So you won’t find any impressive list of gear but the will to create atmospheres with a minimum of starting material. Christian wants the listeners to close their eyes and to open their minds to be brought to an unexpected place. To get in touch with his newest ideas, get in touch via FB : www.facebook.com/christian.fiesel

Aural Films is an online record label (netlabel) that releases high-quality soundtrack albums for movies that do not exist. We cover a wide range of music styles ranging from ambient to experimental to popular to soundtrack musics. Often on the same albums. You can find our complete catalog of releases online at AuralFilms.com

Aural Films catalog AF0452

(C)+(P) 2024

Hablamos Muertos – The Ship Is Sinking (Submarine Broadcasting Company)

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Hablamos Muertos is the work of Lisbon based artist José Trujillo.

Jose has been producing solo work since 2017, working with personal experiences filtered through instrumental & psychedelic music

Themes, process, and influences in relation to ‘The Ship Is Sinking’

“The Ship Is Sinking is an album about fragility, transformation, and the echoes of lost spaces. Inspired by Lev Tolstoy’s “What Men Live By?”, the album is structured as a sonic shipwreck, where every piece reflects the disintegration and reconstruction of something that is slowly sinking.

The music is both simple and complex, chaotic and sublime, structured yet dispersed. I started by wanting to create something between Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, and Suzanne Ciani, embracing the contrast between noise and harmony, whispers and screams, ocean waves and deep silence.”

Technical Process & Gear Used

● Moog Mother 32 – A key element in shaping the textures.
● Minimoog (digital version) – Bringing a warm analog depth.
● Fugue Machine – Adding a sense of repetition and movement.
● Suzuki Precision Bass (1978) – Processed through expression pedals, creating fluid and unpredictable harmonics.

Each track on the album represents a stage in the descent:

Mikhail – A spectral opening where melody dissolves into emptiness.
Wreckage – The reconstruction through fragmented noise.
Deep Waters – A hypnotic descent into the abyss, where sound becomes liquid.
Ectoplasma – The lingering presence of what is lost, vibrating in a liminal space.

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released March 21, 2025

This is the second album I have worked on with Raúl Espinoza Garza, who handled recording and mastering. Our first collaboration was Rhetorical Figures (2019). Raúl is not just a great sound engineer—he is a friend with an incredible musical taste, someone with whom I can have deep and fascinating conversations about music and philosophy.

The album cover was designed by Anastasiia Parshina, a painter and art professor, andmy wife. She has collaborated with me on several projects, including the cover for Mechanik Mushrooms. Her work bridges visual art and sound, making her a key artistic collaborator.

José Trujillo, Lisbon, 2025

Imperial Triumphant – Goldstar (Century Media)

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Label Description: Goldstar takes perennial New Yorkers, IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT’s exploration of the extreme and arcane and delivers the band’s most focused, authentic and accessible work to date. Featuring guest appearances by Meshuggah drummer Thomas Haake and legendary drummer, Dave Lombardo, both of whose presence makes it clear that musically, IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT are in a class by themselves. In their vision of urban disorder, IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT’s monolithic cityscapes are dark as any of their extreme or black metal brethren.

Kevin Drumm – Sheer Hellish Miasma II (Erstwhile Records)

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Digital download includes album cover (JPG) and 6-panel digipak design (PDF).

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1. Exorcism – 42:42
2. Icepick – 52:34

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releases March 10, 2025

ErstSolo 009-2

Kevin Drumm – electronics, tapes, microphone, computer assistance
Greg Kelley – trumpet

recorded 2023-2025 at Full and Empty in Chicago
mastered by Taku Unami
produced by Jon Abbey

thanks to Peter Rehberg, Jim O’Rourke, Isabelle Piechaczyk, Tina Frank, Yuko Zama, Mitch Cocanig, Chris Goudreau, Brent Gutzeit

p+c 2025 Erstwhile Records
www.erstwhilerecords.com

Colossloth – The Harmony Knife (Cold Spring)

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The fifth album from industrial / esoteric electronic alchemist Colossloth is a concept album based on the writings of professor Ted Kaczynski AKA the Unabomber. It is not about his terror campaign against the industrial society and the rise of technology – but his manifesto “Industrial Society And Its Future” and in particular the elements of “The Power Process”.

“With “The Harmony Knife”, Colossloth is cutting through to the bone and sinew of Man’s chronic, species-specific dissatisfaction, and the causes thereof. He is laying bare humankind’s inability to solve its own, self-created problems, to meet its basic needs, and to achieve even those goals clearly within its reach.

What is the fundamental nature of the human condition? Is it one of misery and failure in the face of blissful possibility? Is it the contrary unwillingness to accept that we can become fully realised and contented beings through the success of actualised, idiosyncratic, and often basic goals?

In defining and describing The Power Process, the twisted mind of Ted Kaczynski saw mankind’s primal need to struggle for a goal, however small, as necessary for a meaningful life. Indeed, without this elemental piece of the evolutionary struggle, he saw terminal atrophy as the inevitable result.

With “The Harmony Knife”, Colossloth seizes these ideas and sonically extrapolates the implications of humankind’s failure to satisfy even our most rudimentary needs. He creates an auditory landscape examining our repeated inability to focus our efforts on fundamental goals to ensure even a measure of happiness or contentment. Humanity’s inability to live rather than merely exist” (Jake Shell).

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released February 28, 2025

All Music by Wooly Woolaston
Produced by Tom Reynolds (Foul Body Autopsy)
Colossloth Photo: Ash Walker

Mastered by Martin Bowes (The Cage Studios)
Graphic Design by Abby Helasdottir

The Residents – Doctor Dark (Cryptic Corp)

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Over two years in the making, the brand-new studio album from The Residents featuring the story of Maggot and Mark – two young heavy metal fans – and the mysterious Doctor Anastasia Dark, a disgraced visionary who offers those who need it THE GIFT.

Veering from blissed out electronica to thrash metal as only The Residents can, and produced with the San Francisco Conservatory Of Music alongside several familiar guests and collaborators, ‘Doctor Dark’ is the latest masterpiece of storytelling from San Francisco’s weirdest beat combo. ‘The Buddha said that life is misery. For the terminally ill, dying in pain, life is misery compounded – but what comes next? Is there a heaven, a nirvana, a paradise with 72 virgins for every martyr? No one knows, but what is known is that nothing makes humans more uncomfortable than death – the ultimate unknown, the other side of zero, the everlasting void. But maybe death is nothing more than a warm feeling, after a lifetime of whatever misery we choose to embrace, suggesting that nothing is quite so satisfying as one more dip into a lovely river, endlessly flowing into forever. Maybe it is possible to die happily ever after…….’ – The Residents

Scanner & Nurse With Wound – Contrary Motion

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A collaboration between Steven Stapleton (Nurse with Wound) and Robin Rimbaud (Scanner), exploring the darkest regions of the airwaves and live electronics.

It’s an ominous trip into radio waves, processed voices, electronics, squeaky guitars and a mysterious labyrinth of echoing sonic disturbances.

Available in the Scanner CD edition, as well as the Nurse with Wound CD edition, containing identical audio, but alternative artwork. The vinyl edition will be a double LP, with 3 sides of music and one side with a special Babs Santini etching.

You can buy the Scanner oriented CD artwork here, and the NWW oriented CD artwork from NWW.

We will each have a limited bundle of the two CDs for those who want to have both editions.

www.nursewithwound.co.uk

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releases March 3, 2025

All titles written, performed and produced by Robin Rimbaud & Steven Stapleton
Premixing by Andrew Liles
Thanks to Steve Pittis
Cover Art by Santini
Photography & Graphics by Sarah Stapleton