CODES: - Drone Records

Geräuschmusik, Filmmusik & Experimental-Rock liegen.... wobei jedes
Stück bis ins kleinste Detail ausgearbeit ist !
Nicht nur höchst kurzweilig, sondern auch anspruchsvoll und ästhetisch
tönen diese Aufnahmen, die bereits im Jahre 2000 gemacht wurden...
Dies die limitierte Vinyl-Version....
“Ed. of 325 copies. Vol. 3 of Records are not for Baking In the midst of
the world's fascination with so-called Electroclash, leave it to the old
school to really show what post-punk is really about, while
simultaneously turning the concept on its fractured head. LA STPO has
the finesse and invention and the je ne c'est quoi to massage its victims
into a quiet trance, only to pummel them seconds later. Slices Of Throw
Time is like a Van Der Graaf arc between the bombast of Blurt/Ex/Dog
Faced Hermans/Contortions/Birthday Party and the subtle, avantcomposerly
moments of Henry Cow/This Heat/Univers Zero/Faust. The
punchy rhythm section, abetted by the squawky horns, makes for a
music to which one can truly contort. LA STPO's musical muscle,
however, is always backed up by solid jazz/classical informed chops
that can and will chop any lesser outfit into nothing more than a pile of
over-loud rock and roll dust. LA STPO infuses their punk with dynamics
of both volume and texture, producing a slightly zeuhl flavoured post
rock, which should, by all rights, land Slices Of Throw Time on many a
critic's year end top 10 list. We all know this will not likely happen, but
hopefully there is enough room in YOUR top ten list for rock that both
rocks and explores.” [label info]
* Andrew LILES – The Dying Submariner ( Amalgamation, Codicil
and Appendix) LP (Beta-Lactam Ring Records mt110b, 2006)
[lim. 150] € 26.00
Jetzt kommt die Abteilung: Wir machen die Sammler verrückt ! Diese
LP ist NICHT identisch mit der CD gleichen Titels! Sondern stellt einen
äussert gelungene Remix der CD-Grundversion da, erscheint dunkler &
sphärisch-verträumter, Eindrücke einer fast surrealistischen Einsamkeit
machen sich breit.... tolle Platte mit einfachen Mitteln kreiert, leider
teuer.
“Edition of 150 numbered copies. This vinyl edition features a very
different reworking of the CD edition with new artwork. Leviathan low
end growls belch a hazy pitch into the sea, rendering daylight useless to
penetrate the unknown depths. Andrew's concerto for piano and reverb
conjures many spirits, including that of wrathful Poseidon. The piece (in
4 movements) also conjures the spirit of nothingness. A sense of
complete loneliness prevails in the echoey death throes. The faint scent
of forebears fascinated with watery graves and abandon lingers from
the wake of such pieces as Gavin Bryars’ The Sinking Of The Titanic
and many of Harold Budd's early works, though Liles’ fitful concerto
paints his submariner's demise more as a dissonant, prolonged struggle
than as a melodic, majestic descent. Spatially, the work tends to build
into shifting layers similar to Charlemagne Palestine, Henry Cowell's
clusters or La Monte Young's Well Tuned Piano (though Andrew's work
is not based on a microtonal system). The ringing resonances
sometimes fan out as distinct harmonic phrases, and sometimes the
notes simply propagate and clash with the reverb creating ripples of
pure metallic sound, even to the point where the piano's strings melt
into the sculptural, welling up more like tidal pools alongside Bertoia
and Dumitrescu. A beautifully disturbing wet suit suite of sonic sound.”
[label description]
* MACRONYMPHA - Diseased Erotica 7” (Freak Animal Records
EP-018, 2006) [ed. of 270] € 6.00
Limited 7” on the finnish harsh noise cult-label, female sighs drowning
in thunderstorm-noise, really sick sex-noise.
”two intense cut-up noise tracks of harsh electronics and junk and sex
moaning Macronympha is well known for. 270 copies pressed!” [label
info]
* MNEM – No Cosmic Ox 7” (Negative Foundation, 2006) [ed.
of 500] € 5.50
Fourth release on NEGATIVE FOUNDATION, the MNEM-label. MNEM
music sounds so basic, so raw, so “old” in a way, its raw ambient-noise
full of strange mysterious details....
“It was conceived using reel-to-reel tape recordings and loops,
microphones, pedals, and 8-track mixing.” [label info]
* MNORTHAM – Condensation 7” (Povertech Industries artifact
three, 1996) € 6.00
Re-found few copies of MICHAEL NORTHAMS very first vinyl-release!
„Erste Single von Michael Northam aus Texas, der mit selbstgebauten
Instrumenten (z.B. "Tubeviolin", "prepared autoharp") obskure und
feinambiente Klänge erzeugt. Auf Seite 'the remains of a monument'
arbeitet er mit CO CASPAR aus Berlin zusammen.. Tip!” [old Drone
info]
* MONOLAKE – Alaska Melting 12” (Monolake 20, 2006) € 8.00
“Is there no stopping Robert Henke? Featuring his finest material since
the seminal "Fragile/Static" twelve back in '99, Alaska Melting deploys
two brand new Monolake killers following the tried and tesed metallic
techno template - but somehow with enough of a shift of emphasis to
keep things fresh and predictably crushing. The production here really
is almost unfathomable - crisp, airy and yet incredibly heavy, with
'Alaska' deploying a regimented bassline that could almost underpin
dubstep with its rugged convulsions, while 'Melting' opens up into a vast
display of effortlessly intricate 4/4 variations that make techno sound
perfectly pristine. In other words - another essential twelve from one of
the finest Techno producers of the last decade - a must buy.“ [Boomkat]
* MOORMAN, CHARLOTTE / NAM JUNE PAIK – TV Cello do-LP
(Alga Marghen alga19, 2006) [ed. of 200] € 38.00
SoundArt-Platte mit einem Mitschnitt einer Performance aus New York
City, vom Nov. 23, 1971: die Cellistin CHARLOTTE MOORMAN (die
noch 1967 verhaftet wurde weil sie sich bei einer Performance “oben
ohne” präsentierte) und die Videokunst-Legende NAM JUNE PAIK sind
bei der Durchführung von “TV CELLO” zu hören: TV-Geräte werden
übereinander gestapelt bis sie die Form eines Cellos annehmen,
welche dann von MOORMAN mit einem Bogen “bespielt” wird,
woraufhin auf den Bildschirmen Bilder von ihr und anderen Cellospielenden
Musikern erscheinen. Bei dieser Performance waren so
illustre Gäste wie YOKO ONO und JOHN LENNON zugegen,
man hört rumpelnde Sounds, sprechende / performende Leute und
typische Galerie-background-noises.
“A documentation of Charlotte Moorman activities as a performer is
generally available only on the iconographic level in various catalogues
which documents the crucial intersection with the work of nam june paik
or the association with events connected to the Fluxus movement. One
of Charlotte Moorman's more substantial merits is having consciously
reversed the traditional role of the virtuoso performer on her own
instrument, uncovering by this overturning one of the most authentic
keys for comprehending the aesthetics of experimental music. It was
properly the natural spontaneity in this attitude to fascinate Paik and to
have decreed her indispesable capacity as a performer, thus giving rise
to the reasons animating their fecund and symbiotic collaboration. Cello
Anthology is a collection of documents (sonic and photographic) as well
as original texts and testimonies, made available for the first time in a
unitary form by Alga Marghen. One of the CDs included in the edition,
currently in a final process of realisation, will offer an in situ recording of
the famous TV Cello, realised in September 1982 during the three days
inaugurating the Paik retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art
in Chicago. The 2LP edition presented here introduces to a different
version of the same piece, conceived by Paik for Moorman as a living
sculpture: the Concerto for TV Cello and Video Tapes historical World
Premiere, recorded at Galeria Bonino, New York City, 1971. More
rough and primitive than the masterpiece recorded in 1982 in Chicago,
these uncompromisingly obscure original recordings will not be included
in the forthcoming 4CD anthology.' 2LP set in gatefold cover
reproducing photos of Charlotte Moorman with John Lennon and Yoko
Ono playing the TV Cello at Galeria Bonino 1971 vernissage. Private
edition limited to 200 copies.“ [label info]
* NICOLE 12 – Braces 7” (Freak Animal Records FA-EP-015,
2006) [ed. of 275 copies] € 6.00
Limited 7” one finlands harsh-noise cult-label, obsessed and dark
abrasive cynical industrial.
“Return of the most hated and at the same time most praised project
under banner of Freak Animal. 4 tracks, c. 15 minutes of playing time.
Sweet full color covers, including couple inserts with some of the lyrics
and more artwork.” [label info]
* NITSCH, HERMANN – Day 3 of “Orgien Mysterien Theater” 1998
LP & CD-R (Cortical Foundation CORTI 018.2) [lim.500] € 32.00
"Packaged in 12" deluxe gatefold sleeve with 12" full-color printed innersleeves.
Day 3 of Vienna Aktionist Hermann Nitsch's magnum opus
total experience in a 6 Day excess, a Baccanalian rite that is sub-titled
the Orgies Mysteries Theater. Two separate editions exist for Day 3 in a
12" Gatefold Jacket. Part two of this edition includes a 220 Gram Vinyl
pressing of the Finale of Day 3. The second CD is a CD-ROM Cinepak
movie compatible with the Windows media player and Quicktime: 220
Gram Vinyl. DMM Quality Pressing. Limited Edition 500 copies." [label
info]
* NOCTURNAL EMISSIONS – Nightscapes LP (Small Voices
SVV003, 2006) [ed. of 555 copies] € 14.00
Überraschendes Comeback, NIGHTSCAPES tönt so sanft & ambient
wie kein N.E.-Album zuvor, wallende und melodische Ambience....
“NIGHTSCAPES is probably one of the purest and most refined record
made by Mr. Nigel Ayers as Nocturnal Emissions. First of all we have to
consider that N.E. is an ultra vicennial project which can challeng the