Label Description: recorded live in studio to stereo master
2024/25
Tag Archives: industrial
IRM – Triptych (Industrial Distro Lithuania)
Label Description: OCCD67 IRM – Triptych 3CD
Triptych brings together the celebrated post-industrial act IRM’s last conceptual studio recordings as one unity for the very first time. Being a duo, consisting of Martin Bladh and Erik Jarl, since the start in 1998, the EP Indications of Nigredo (2007), was the first record to introduce Mikael Oretoft as a third permanent member. With this recording and its follow-up, the band’s fourth full-length album ORDER⁴ (2010), IRM sought to push the envelope and move away from their early industrial/power-electronics beginnings by introducing new, radical track structures and a wide variety of instruments and sound sources. When the band’s swansong, the fifth full-length album and the third part of the trilogy, Closure…, was released in 2014, IRM felt that they had moved too far from their early roots and would never be able to evolve beyond the material without burying the moniker for good. The nameless voice which leads us through these three records is locked within a philosophical discourse, oscillating somewhere between the inevitability of Freud’s Death Drive and Bataille’s negative mysticism as Inner Experience. By inventing a corporeal language of self-negation, the protagonist is strongly determined to leave a terminal impression on the world by transgressing every possible and impossible frontier. By reaching for this black light, he seeks to get marked and immortalised in the same way as the biblical figure Onan, who Yahweh slew for his impure offence(sic). This is a work which doesn’t concern itself with catharsis, spiritual gold, or finding the Philosopher’s Stone. It remains firmly stuck in the mud, and it never had the intention of elevating itself above it.
Packaged in a limited gloss-laminated 6-Panel Digisleeve. The special edition is accompanied by an A5 30-page brochure and an A3 poster based on Karolina Urbaniak’s original artwork.
Forgotten Sunrise – elu + dELUx reMIXes (Ohm Resistance)
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The leading black light of OUTDUSTRIAL music, Forgotten Sunrise, have put together a comprehensive remix album of their LP elu. With 21 versions from their closest allies, the album’s timeless tracks are given multiple re-envisionings, yielding many new moments of musical delight across the board. Estonia’s most legendary unquantifiable band have added another piece to their still flourishing discography, striking further into the realms of the unknown.
Purchase also includes code to original full length album!
Richard Bégin – Déjà Vu (Reverse Alignment)
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Déjà vu is a fleeting yet profound sensation, a moment when time seems to fold in on itself, between past and present. It is a phenomenon of memory—both elusive and deeply personal—where recognition and strangeness coexist. Few artistic mediums can evoke this liminal state as powerfully as ambient music, where repetition, decay, and texture shape sonic landscapes that mirror the ghostly presence of the past within the present.
Canadian composer Richard Bégin has been steadily building a reputation in the realm of ambient music for his explorations of memory, crafting soundscapes that feel like echoes from a distant past, lost yet eerily familiar. His latest work, centered on the concept of déjà vu, follows in the tradition of artists like Boards of Canada, Fennesz, Philip Jeck, and William Basinski—musicians who have sculpted time-worn textures, fragile loops, and sonic artifacts to capture the essence of recollection and its inevitable dissolution.
Like Basinski’s Disintegration Loops, which document the slow decay of recorded memory, or Jeck’s ghostly turntable manipulations that awaken forgotten voices from the grooves of old records, Bégin’s music invites listeners into an auditory space where time is fluid. Fennesz’s digital deconstructions and Boards of Canada’s nostalgia-tinted melodies find an echo in Bégin’s work, which similarly embraces imperfection, layering textures that drift between clarity and erosion keeping the listener between the comfort of recognition and the disquieting realization that the past is always just out of reach.
Canadian composer Richard Bégin has been steadily building a reputation in the realm of ambient music for his explorations of memory, crafting soundscapes that feel like echoes from a distant past, lost yet eerily familiar. His latest work, centered on the concept of déjà vu, follows in the tradition of artists like Boards of Canada, Fennesz, Philip Jeck, and William Basinski—musicians who have sculpted time-worn textures, fragile loops, and sonic artifacts to capture the essence of recollection and its inevitable dissolution.
Like Basinski’s Disintegration Loops, which document the slow decay of recorded memory, or Jeck’s ghostly turntable manipulations that awaken forgotten voices from the grooves of old records, Bégin’s music invites listeners into an auditory space where time is fluid. Fennesz’s digital deconstructions and Boards of Canada’s nostalgia-tinted melodies find an echo in Bégin’s work, which similarly embraces imperfection, layering textures that drift between clarity and erosion keeping the listener between the comfort of recognition and the disquieting realization that the past is always just out of reach.
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released April 16, 2025
REVIEWS
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Derma – Gran Monoplano (Ant-Zen)
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DERMA, a collaboration between riccardo bianchi and massimo magrini (also known as BAD SECTOR), embodies a sophisticated fusion of retro-futuristic electronica and poetic lyricism. originating in 1995 and revitalized in 2020, this project has become a distinctive voice in the italian synthwave scene.
their musical approach combines analog loops, diverse vocal inserts, and synthetic arrangements, blending ’70s and ’80s synth-electro aesthetics with modern production techniques. this unique amalgamation results in a raw yet refined auditory experience, where abrasive electronic textures intertwine with complex vocal arrangements.
DERMA’s lyrics, delivered in italian through singing and declamation, explore introspective decadence and everyday science fiction. drawing inspiration from krautrock, ebm, and cold wave, their music creates a nostalgic yet forward-thinking soundscape that appeals to both retro enthusiasts and contemporary audiences seeking a darker, more cerebral dance music experience.
their compositions serve as sonic time capsules, echoing the past while envisioning the future, with sharp, icy melodies set to danceable rhythms.
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released April 17, 2025
DERMA: riccardo bianchi (voice) & massimo magrini (music)
artwork by stefan alt
this is ant-zen act476
DERMA – gran monoplano [trailer]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JQtzWU2fqQ
Anatoly Grinberg And Mark Spybey – Crop-Dusting (Ant-Zen)
Label Description: for this, their fourth release, the duo of ANATOLY GRINBERG and MARK SPYBEY continue to carefully straddle the blurred lines between electronic and acoustic music and on a more personal level, the difficulties imposed by the political landscape and climate that separates and divides nations and people. friends, united in a common language. to create art.
OvO – Split (Artoffact Records)
Label Description: OvO and Mai Mai Mai, two essential figures of the Italian experimental underground, join forces for an exceptional split album. These artists have continuously pushed the boundaries of musical genres, exploring extreme and uncharted sonic territories.
Formed in 2000, OvO is a noise rock duo consisting of Stefania Pedretti (guitar, vocals) and Bruno Dorella (drums). Their music—both tribal and apocalyptic—is a relentless sonic assault, an audacious fusion of noise rock, sludge metal, industrial rock, and avant-doom. Renowned for their intense live performances and strong DIY ethos, OvO remains a unique force in extreme music.
Mai Mai Mai is the project of Toni Cutrone, a Rome-based musician and sound explorer. Blending traditional Southern Italian folklore with industrial drone, proto-techno, and heavy sonic textures, Mai Mai Mai crafts immersive performances that transport audiences into a ritualistic exploration of ancestral sounds.
After making a strong impression at Roadburn Festival 2023, OvO and Mai Mai Mai now unite for a one-of-a-kind split vinyl, merging their singular sonic worlds. On Side A, OvO unleashes four new tracks, raw and abrasive, pushing the limits of their chaotic and untamed noise rock. On Side B, Mai Mai Mai delves into experimental and electroacoustic realms, weaving an immersive and dense atmosphere filled with ritualistic sounds and electronic manipulations.
The visual identity of the release is enhanced by a striking cover artwork by tattoo artist Arthur Tête de Mouton, perfectly complementing the explosive encounter between these two visionary forces.
Tech Level 2 – Indifferent. EP (Avalanche Recordings)
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With Tech Level 2, Justin K Broadrick harks back to the days when drum and bass was ruff, rugged and raw, in the 90’s and very early 00’s.
And, for those who don’t know, Justin worked tirelessly in the drum and bass scene in the mid 90s to the early 00’s producing many records on revered UK drum and bass labels, both as Tech Level 2 and his pre Tech Level 2 project Youpho (which was a duo). More info can be found on the blurbs for the previous Tech Level 2 releases on Avalanche Recordings.
Drum and bass / Jungle, had a huge impact on Justin from its inception in the early 90’s, and he brought that influence into his Godflesh productions from the mid 90’s onwards. An influence that has been omnipresent ever since, in not only Godflesh, but across every project.
Now operating without engaging in any scenes or DJ culture, Tech level 2 still exists to continue flying the flag for the roots of pure, raw and minimal/maximal drum and bass.
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released March 14, 2025
Produced 2020 – 2024 by Justin K Broadrick /
AVALANCHE RECORDINGS /
AREC077 /
2025 /
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
In Slaughter Natives – Still Just Only Still (I.S.N. Media)
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1. Released on Machinenfest 2017 [pflicht 075]
2. Previously unreleased, Featuring Shane Beck [The last American Poet]
3. Previously unreleased
4. Previously unreleased
5. Released on Machinenfest 2006 [pflicht 028]
6. Released on Electroanschlag V & Recollection II [ISNM-12]
7. Released on !Krrrbrrrtzkrrrbrrrtztz! Vol.4 [SRB awake001 CD]
8. Released on The Absolute Supper [CMI.50]
9. Released on Recollection II [ISNM-12]
10. Released on Melt [NET002]
11. Made for a compilation
12. Released on Machinenfest 2012 [pflicht 050] Originally from 1985
featuring, R.I.P Robert [Synth Robban] Säfstöm
13. Released on Ashes of Angels [SIP001]
My credit and gratitude to
my son Sebastian Skattung and
Shane Beck [The last American Poet]
And to the memory of May Sun Beck and
Robert [Synth Robban] Säfström
I.S.N MEDIA ISNM-15
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