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PLEASURE BROTHERS || STEP ON A RAINBOW

VR29: CASS

The final offering of Tony McKey’s Pleasure Brothers project. Working in the medium of reel to reel tape this release offers six tracks that evoke a cold, ominous environment where time is ultimately stultified. Ambient industrial of the finest order, a master of the domain.

SATURN FORM ESSENCE || ALPHA & PROXIMA / SIGNALS

VR28: CASS
Saturn Form Essence is a project of Ukrainian, Sergiy Gordiuk, who many would know from his long running depressive black metal project, Moloch. SFE offers a parallel direction, with focussed synth based cosmic works, utilising recordings of interstellar frequencies. In fact these recordings diverge from traditional black metal and does away with common anthropomorphisms, taking you beyond insignificance into pure annihilism, they are synth works that resonate with textures of matter adrift in physical time.
Side A consists in two new synth works: Alpha & Proxima. While the flipside collates three previous releases: 'Signals-200LPPT-I03' (Depressive Illusions Records), 'Signals-I9-LPPT-992' (Depressive Illusions Records) and 'Pillars of Creation' (Floppy Noise Records).

RUINATION || DESCENT INTO ATROPHY

VR27: CASS
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This is a recent project undertaken by Jarro Raphael. Raw black industrial that deals in revelations of harsh Aussie realities. Thematic content addresses the conspiratorial apparatus of social fabrication, offering an affront to the conditions of normative oppression, it speaks to the liberated ones, the sovereign ones, the wolves of the steppes.
Recent live performances have seen the addition of decaylust on vocal duties.

ARKHE || CHABRAT ZEREH AUR BOCHER

VR26: CASS
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A reissue from Andreas Johansson's death electronics project, Arkhe. This tape originally saw a limited released on Kafé Kaos for distribution at early Arkhe shows in Sweden circa 2013, it is made available again as a testament to the strength of this industrial project.

DEAD BODY COLLECTION // RADICAL CREATION || SPLIT

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Split release from projects that offer articulations from differing strains of harsh noise. Dr Alex continues his wave of brutal HNW, a precise slab of refined wall - turn it up and ride 'til death! The Radical Creation side pursues more depressive necropolitical electronics, this release is focussed on Australia's disintegrating political landscape, from populist progressive right wing movements to the spectre of Islamic State for alienated muslim youth.

ENEMA SYRINGE || LIVE INJECTION

VR24: CASS [VIRRASH RAW BOOTS]
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Kai Parviainen's Enema Syringe project seems to consistently re-emerge every few years with quality release after quality release, the two recent releases (on Fragment Factory and Kai's own Tiny Dog) offer material spanning the last few years and they are no exception. This tape, however, is nothing but a shithouse, raw-as-fuck, bootleg quality recording of a 2009 performance that captures the madness of Enema Syringe. The material from this performance covers the 'Mitt Livs Novell' (UFO Mongo) era.
This tape comes in a small run and at a low cost purely for the Enema Syringe die-hards!
Australia: ppd. $4au
World: ppd. $7au

ODIO || RAIN IS POURING THROUGH THE BUNKER'S CEILING

VR23: CASS
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The third release from Italian ambient death-industrial project ODIO, consisting of members Davide Femia and Luca Redaelli. Following a demo through Inner Empire and an album on Santos Productions, this release offers two bleak environments of distance and despair. This material is cold.
Their version of this Wretched track from the ODIO demo is also well worth hearing; bleak and supreme.

STUDIO SS || CUBIC REPORT

VR22: CASS
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New Studio SS material from Jan Svensson (Frak / Börft Records) that displays a clear knack for an intuitive relationship with his machines. Six exercises of electronic dexterity, with each track pursuing deep lines of technologic. These meditations will have you in trance while stripping your flesh right down to the wires.

LUCID CASTRATION || THE MALE SLAVE

VR21: CASS
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Arbeit style power electronics from Liam Osborne (Future Archaic). This Melbourne based project has been building on the form of rhythmic industrial electronics to purvey a harsh critique of mens responses to an evident crisis of masculinity. Men, be(a)ware.

MOFFARFARRAH || DEAD RIGHT

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Chris LG Hill continues the project's exploration into atmospheres of vocal extension. The first side challenges aural experiences of pure embodiment and gargled disgust. While the flip draws from the harsh techniques developed throughout various other projects, re-porpoised for this release.

TARAVANA || HYPOXIA

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Our australasian neighbours deem those who have fallen crazy due to the sea as being embraced by taravana. This recording induces this taravana through an abstracted submersion into oceanic depths. Freedivers: Fjorn Butler, Cooper Bowman and Sean McMorrow.

DAO DE NOIZE || WAR IN THE EAST

VR18: CASS
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New album from Artem Pismenetskii, a first hand account of the secessionist militia war in eastern Ukraine. This release is not merely intended as a document of war, it is to be received as a political statement on the conflict. Contact: pssatori@gmail.com

TRICHOTILLOMANIA \\ NOEMATIC OBLIVION || NOEMANIA

VR17: CASS
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Ever wondered what post-industrial society sounds like without all media and ideological filters... Trichotillomania side melds drum machine absurdity with received communication frequencies from the outer others. Noem Obliv side follows more damaged loops and burped out sequencers.

COOPER BOWMAN || UMBA GUNG

VR16: CASS
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Electronic music that abstracts techno as a club form and internalises the sense of rhythm. The A side cruises through a tape scrawled electrobahn, while the flip takes a deeper route into the rivers of the mind. Final tape pursuing this direction, watch out for new material under the Roman Nails moniker.

VON EINEM // RADICAL CREATION || MODUS OPERANDI

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Split release between projects progressing the form of power electronics and industrial harsh noise. Von Einem with yet another take on sadistic crime in South Australia, this side offers a particular account of psychological and physical violence throughout the 90s, this release marks the return of this figure to the streets. The Radical Creation side follows up the project's extended exploration of political violence, with a focus on Northern Ireland's Shankill Rd.

JUSTIN MARC LLOYD || THE FEAR'S MUSHROOM

VR13: DVDr + CDr
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Video works from Justin Marc Lloyd, accompanied by an audio release of the vid tracks, plus live and new material. JMLs work deals infinite psychotronic abstraction, for those not yet harmonised to this wavelength, we are dealing with one of the most limitless and outward thinking artists of the XXIC.
Have a geezer on the tube.

DRY MOUTH || GONE TROPPO

VR13: 7"
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Take the trip. Give it a listen.

Australia: au$8ppd
W/Wide: au$12ppd
US distro through little big chief
UK distro through volcanic tongue

STREETMEAT || REBIRTH

VR12: CASS
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Strung out power electronics from TX Divided States of America. Subject matter themed around expectancy; never been done before. Robbie Newsome nails his approach on this release with some absolute first-rate synth noise.

PLEASURE BROS. || LOWER THAN A SNAKE'S BELLY

VR11: CASS
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Real to reel tape work executed with brooding atmosphere. This tape oozes an overtly ominous mood that Pleasure Bros has now become known for.

N3 WARRIORS || ROADKNIGHT

VR10: CASS
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N3W exercise in unconscious abstraction. OST for induced unconscious paranoid manifesting from denial of inner turmoil or the threat of real physical harm. Artwork by Fjorn Butler.

CERVERE || INTERIOR LARCENY

VR09: CASS
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Pure depressive cold-industrial disembodiment, displaying a primal animism at its most exhausted.

PLEASURE BROS // RADICAL CREATION || SPLIT

CASS
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Differing articulations of downer electronics. Self-released split C30.

NOEMATIC OBLIVION || FRACTAL EQUILIBRIUM

VR08: CASS
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LFO organicism. Disorienting R&B.

NOEMATIC OBLIVION || FLOOD FIST JUSTICE

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Subliminal tapework.

BIG CITY ORCHESTRA || ACCIAIO

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Big City Orchestra tap into the inner consciousness of the San Fran airwaves. Ethereal dronescapes to instructional plunderphonics. This incarnation of BCO: Ninah Pixie, Univac, Trademark Gunderson, Jon Liedecker and Das. ubuibi.org