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Atrax Morgue

"Collection in formaldeide".

"Collection in formaleide" is a conceptual release exploring the theme death. It was recorded February 1994, and first saw the light of day as a limited tape release in edition of 30 on Slaughter Productions, later the same year. The presentation of the release was executed in an elaborate manner, and presented in a standard VHS snapcase with cover art printed on transparent sticker-foil. The intital packaging consisted of: A J-card, one white latex glove, two postcard size flyers, and a 8-panel fold-out A4 mini zine - pierced with a hypodermic needle - titled "DEATH INJECTION PART III: Aseptic Vision". The imagery within the zine consisted of dead bodies in various stages of putrification. The text on the front VHS snapcase stated: "Death injection part II/III" - the rear; "DEATH INJECTION PART II: The psychopathology of sounds". Atrax Morgue’s desire with "Collection in formaldeide" was to inoculate and found the release as ‘an injection of death’.

The Urashima LP has been pressed on 140 gram black vinyl with black labels and black inner sleeve. The visuals takes its cue from the original Slaughter Productions tape. The front cover shrouds a decomposing human torso - executed as a black ink print on black cardboard. The rear art work consists of a silver silkscreened Urashima logo on black cardboard. The LP includes also a variation of inserts and objects from the original cassette release. Study: The Aseptic Vision mini fanzine, one postcard, two white latex gloves, a syringe, release credits plus new art from the 1966 medical book “Atlante di medicina legal” (“Atlas der gerichtlichen Medizin”, 1963) by Waldemar Weimann and Otto Prokop. The LP is remastered at Elettroformati, 2013.

"Collection in formaldeide" consist of 15 tracks. Seven on Face A, eight on Face B. The instrumentation on the LP is minimal and consists of synthesizers and spoken word samples. The synth work oscillate between sole repeated tangents to layered constructions with perfectly timed beat frequencies. Compositions and segments range between the chord stagnant to the subtle progressively layered; and from the solemnly repeated to the percussively layered. Spoken word samples are all death-related, and possibly lifted form TV shows, news casts or documentaries. The compositions are semi-founded on principles from Western academic minimal electronic music, devotional music, psychoacoustics and micro tonal compositional technics.

Though simple in construction, “Collection in formaldeide” manage to weave a dense and intense structure with mental trap doors. The main theme of death is never deviated from. It is repeatedly psychologically hammered into the listener’s cortex cerebra, as Atrax Morgue posthumously looms over with his calulated grotesque spectral audio frequencies and vertical throbbing sound waves. The material on the 12” can be described as a hypersensitive clinical no-progression abnormality, engulfed in a automatic sterile static environment that is devoid of any human emotion. All is: Void, lifeless, humanoid; lit by a pulsating dim cadaverous pale-yellow shimmer ala Gaspar Noe’s most intense cinematography. “Collection in formaldeide” is as stripped down and emotional barren as post-mortem electronics / death industrial can get. Prolonged listening sessions in this audial environment may repeal your sense of time and place; while on the more serious side it can instigate temporary psychological exhaustion and mild angst / depression related side effects, as well as minor physical drudgery with the balance nerve. In other words: This is not a head space one desire to trench down in for too long: Which in itself is a sign of exceptional quality. “Collection in formaldeide” is sheer unpleasant stasis, a looped nightmare, cocooned and frozen - bordering to the unbearable. As the LP tracks towards its Face B conclusion, a sensation of claustrophobic malignant auxesis grows more and more opaque. This is one of the most potent and densest series of recorded atmospheres and psycological states I’ve come across in a long long time. “Collection in formaldeide” is capable of vacuuming the listener’s emotions, and with bleak audial terror induce the spectator into taking involatory refugee within the darkest recesses of his own mind. The album is a stand-out acheivement by Atrax Morgue, and a profound testimony to the artist’s deep knowledge of minimal music making, and his personal study into psychoacoustics. Urashima’s “Collection in formaldeide” is a highly articulated and expertedly crafted album, with potential for subtle mental hijacks. In short: A gift to sick alienated minds, death fetishist' and murder obsessive fanatics.

Track list:

Side A
Meditation For Homicide
Formaldeide
Tetramixina
Necroactivity
Trauma Post-Operatorio
Monochrome Man
Knife Wounds

Side B
Aseptic Room
Asphrenix Coadiuvante
Sintetic Murder
Bloodfucker Maniac
Paraphilia
Needles Obsession
Infection Part I
Infection Part II

12” vinyl
Comes in clear plastic folder
Edition of 99
Released by Urashima, October 2014.

Price: 170,- NOK + shipping.

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KRANIVM LP reissues from Urashima to be added to distro shortly.

Kranium: I -The Blood 12"
Kranium: The Brighter Edge Of Death 12"
Kranium: Insanatorivm 12"

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Bizarre Uproar

"Vihameditaatio".



Lastest full-length of Finnish hate extremist and anti-social l'enfant terrible Bizarre Uproar. Four tracks of decaying filth, hate and bizarre sexual humiliation.

Bizarre Uproar was initiated in 1993, and has since then released over 30 albums in addition to numerous collaborations, splits, eps and singles. Deathkey, Silent Abuse, Goatmoon, Ride for Revenge, Macronympha and Grunt are some acts that have collaborated with Bizarre Uproar in the past. These references should in their own stature give witness to the level of professionality Bizarre Uproar - aka BU - operates on. The thematic foundation of BU is purely psychosexual, and rests within a fanatic fetish culture plus the explicitly perverse side of our human sexual spectrum. The visuals and lyrical content (verbatim and substratum) make no attempt to disguise Bizarre Uproar's predatory affections and blatantly hail anti-social attitudes and desires; while sadistically spitting into the face of majority PC social acceptance. During the last years BU has toured extensively in Europe. Both as a solo outfit and as a duo with the assistant of session musicians Silent Abuse and SS-Pekka. The sheer brutality and power of these live actions have at times resulted in blown out sound systems, laborious collective tinnitus and crushed reality perceptions/semi-nervous breakdowns for unprepared audience members. I personally, have observed all three occurrences in one single evening.

"Vihameditaatio" was released on CD by Filth & Violence and LP by Urashima, spring 2014. The material on the album is a continual exploration of the audial cellars manifested on prior full-length "Perverse bizarre humiliation", and 7" split "Appetite for destruction" with Goatmoon. The instrumentation on "Vihameditaatio" is relative minimal and consists of: Low-end rumbling loops, ground trembling bass riffs, heavily decayed thundering drum section, chains, contact mic`ed sheet metal, feedback, delay/reverb effect pedals, and fierce ample vocals with close to no effects - or no effects at all. The recordings and sound production are dynamic and raw with full audio spectrum. "Vihameditaatio" is the results of a lengthy developing period in the BU cargo container, stretching over several months. The material was shaped and perfected via a series of rehearsals, 4-track demo recordings and pro-longed listening sessions; before promptly being committed to tape during two short recording sessions, each lasting three till four hours. The first recording session representing 'LP Face A' followed a very structured and strict composed schematic, and was executed as a live-in-studio session. The approach to Face B had a contrasting method, as it relied only on a sketched compositional frame and was executed as ritualistic free-form improvisation, all done in one take with less and less effects - and towards the end - pretty much nailed down unplugged. The album also includes a conceptual silent track that honoures the cause. After the recording phase was completed, minor mixing adjustments were executed and volumes checked. Make note: No heavy post-production. The Album was solemnly recorded by Bizarre Uproar. No personnel was practically involved during the course of the recording period - apart from Ms. BU aka Silent Abuse giving a critical eye on tracks and project progression.

Bizarre Uproar's choice of less and overtly violent instrumentation is a conscious one. After a substantial discography of high volume recorded filth that terrorize the listening space, "Vihameditaatio" is a critical side step from this strata and a continuing new chapter in Bizarre Uproar's career. The compositions and ideological concepts have matured and are distilled to pure essence. Furthermore, we can see a band expanding its artistic expression and compositional structures well beyond the idea of 'anti music' - to now include inspirations leaning towards: Doom, metal, hard core and religious music. Check tracks Verilippu and side B's title track Vihameditaatio for reference. Here Terveet Kädet's riffs and chaotic fervor gigs seem buried in the disintegrating low rumble… as well as… the slow - echoing - mean - calculated stride found in G.I.S.M.'s pitched intermesso sequences on VHS': "Subj and egos, Chopped" & "+ R, Regicide reverberation". The most significant severance from prior material is Bizarre Uproar's wish to slow down the tempo in own compositions, and focus on creating unique audial spaces with ambience - a decision much in contrast to a prior discography that is mainly filthy violent power electronics/harsh noise. The emphasis on less instrumentation have presented an opportunity to focus on other compositional qualities such as structure and acoustics, but also allowed time to investigate various recording techniques that would capture and utilize the BU bunker's characteristic sound qualities. With this in mind, one can to a certain extent note up the BU cargo container plus recording gear as an extended added vocabulary to already mentioned instrumentation. The new work approach seem also to have proven useful in articulating a more precise image of the Bizarre Uproar live experience onto album format. This in itself is a difficult translation to pull off - both production wise and artistically. And… if we add a lived concert experience that is audial and physical to the equation, the task begins to toll, as BU live is: An extremely dynamic and brutal seance, with an own sense of space and physical presence. If you are an industrial dyslectic or metalhead turned noise invalid what I just said translates to this: The level of physicality in sound at a Sunn O))) + 120 decibel concert hailing eras White 2, Black One and Dømkirke - is in blood with BU's might and power. A cheap and scorned comparison within extreme industrial culture yes - if it doesn't corset you drink my steamy p**s - it is a valid reference aimed towards - you - the lone fanatic that still haven't checked out this act.

The sound production on "Vihameditaatio" is dense with monumental decay and minimal attack. In other words… there's plenty of dark abyss beneath your feet… and quite a distance to pitch into before crushing ground at the bottom of the mine shaft. Slight overload on a few selected pieces in the instrumentation or recording gear used. I suspect this is a desired quality that could have been achieved by a loud PA / amp section, recorded via room plus line-in signals at maximum volume in a fairly small environment. The bunker serving as a recording space color the sound quality and adds additional signature resonance to the compositions. One can at times sense how the sound waves cascade and build momentum till and of the metal walls. The attributes of production and interplay between instrumentation are one of breath and space. This strategy generates the sufficiently perfect space for the room acoustics to negotiate with the compositions, and thus adding additional depth and dynamic to the mix. The latest annexed BU rig: Drums, bass - in addition to his well known vocal and feedback abilities remain in the forefront of the tracks in full audio spectrum. Low-end rumbling loops and other ingredients shift and snake at low height within the audial space, scraping like waves over rocks at the continual semi-clear cascading forefront mix. And like natural obfuscate deep time processes the prioritized is patiently worn down before being transponded into a oblivion of coarse mid-to-low end textures. The cycle continues.

The compositions evolve slow in an assertive and ritualistic meditative fashion, each, taking its good calm time to add compositional layers and build towards hateful volcanic ejaculations. All tracks exude a mesmer and vile mordant substance. The aesthetic consistency of the recordings are of ghostly materiality with the tactility of a damp underground excavation. At times one have the sense that the work have modifiable physical characteristics as a stinging medusa jellyfish - yet at the same time … with a viscosity that is too elusive to grasp as ectoplasm - and way too acidic to even consider approaching. Furthermore, the tracks have a circular evolving structure. This is a trait often experienced in religious music as well as folk songs from the Middle east to Scandinavia. One or more repetitive patterns are here articulated, then revisited and investigated via continual novel vantage points. The performer often process and reinterpret the musical and thematic content into new subtle variations and in this manner propels track progression. We are here talking about an inmost and detailed study of musical material and its historic roots, but also of a practice that has spiritual connotations… So... what kind of depraved fetishistic fanaticism is Bizarre Uproar worshipping? Consider this issue while reading on… Within the frame described there is a knife's edge balance between tranquil transcendence and eruptive brutality. The material is constantly evolving and holding ground, and never devolve to compositional structures with cheap campy cliches or overdone noise catharsis endings. The performer seem to be 100% committed to the material and recording situation, and hails for total immersion in flesh, composition, sound and artistic matter. Judging from the artistic investment and performance documented on this vinyl slab, the recording period must have been a physical endurance test. One can easily imagine the sweat dripping from chains unto the army boots. This is especially noticeable on the longer tracks Verilippu and Vihameditaatio, where the vocal performances drain the last reservoir from gut and vocal chords. The vocals moves within the audial space "Vihameditaatio" explores. At times pausing in a concrete position, or venturing into the mix as an added distinct layer of semi-instrumentation, then repositioning towards the foreground where it expands and breaks against the outer boundaries of the sonic sphere. The vocal trademark is as usual: Massive, harsh and guttural with attitude; but now also very much in comparison to BU in live format. When comparing the vocal delivery on "Vihameditaatio" to the semi-bridged outputs of "Perverse bizarre humiliation" and "Appetite for destruction", a subtle artistic progression in singing is located: The realization of vocals on the current album are more guttural and have an added venom texture that is raspy and coarse in quality. This textures envelope the main trunk of the voice and create an added vocal layer which resembles the technique of dual voice singing. Sparse use of effects on vocals. Where used, it functions as an supplementary element that corresponds to and with the acoustic ambiance. The album also displays a delicate and slightly lyrical side of Bizarre Uproar. This is especially evident in the level of pronunciation on Verilippu's feedback sequences - most likely executed at low or medium volume - thus creating: soft but piercing overtone feedback veils that move like the aurora borealis: Forceful, merciless and beautiful.

Urashima edition is pressed on 140 gram black vinyl with black centered labels and black plastic-lined inner sleeve. The LP is housed in a black gravestone like cardboard stock jacket with silver silkscreened logo and album title in front - Urashima logo on the back. Included in the stock jacket is an A5 release sheet with album information printed on 160 gram ivory paper. Mastered and perfectly cut at Elettroformati.

Rubber. Cum. Blood. Lust. Sexualized rituals. "Vihameditaatio" is hate meditation with an iron hard cock. Can you hear the masses hailing? " V E R I L L I P P U N O U S E E !!! K Y Y N O U S E E !!!! "

Track list:

Side A
Verilippu

Side B
Vihameditaatio
Hiljainen hetki
Untitled

12"vinyl
Edition of 199
Released by Urashima, May 30th 2014.

Price: 185,- NOK + shipping.

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/// Latest tape batch from ANGOISSE.
/// Limited edition zine from MANDATORY.
/// Limited edition 12" LP of Broken Flag tape "WHITE POWER".
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Mandatory christmas zine - SOLD OUT -



Ryan Gosling. His cock. His car. The women.

Color flyer included.

Comes in A5 sized sealed paperbag
B & W
Format: A5
52 pages
Published by Mandatory Publications, December 1st 2014.

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"White power".



LP reissue of Broken Flag's classic industrial / power electronics cassette compilation anno 1982. MANDATORY.

Track list:

Side A
Ramleh: "Fist f**k"
Consumer Electronics: "Penisator"
Maurizio Bianchi: "Menstruum"
Sutcliffe Jugend: "Pommerencke".

Side B
Club Moral: "Eating limbs"
Krang Music: "Uro"

White label 12" LP
Edition of 100
Released 2014.

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NOTE: Will restock after holidays. Though very limited supply and possibly just as a pre-order thing for interested parties as not to burn in with a lot of copies. PM if interested or email wherefrostreign@gmail.com.

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Fedrelandslaget tape is now sold out from Where frost reign.

Few copies available via cadre imprint recordsofthefleshgod, plus distributors Terrorlt and Analog Worship.

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Fetish Ritual - SOLD OUT -

"F & R".



Filthy Aussie power electronics.

Track list:

Side A
Birthright
Satisfaction
Pathetic

Side B
Baby Sitting

Rose

18 year age restriction on purchase
Comes in sealable transparent plastic bag
Xerox covers
Edition of 100
Released by Synthetik Assembly, November 2014.

The tape is sold as a ‘batch package’ along with Fetish Ritual zine, issue 1 .

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Fetish Ritual zine issue 1. - SOLD OUT -



From the mind of Down & Out comes the first issue of Fetish Ritual. A noise/PE fanzine dedicated to the form, not the art. The publication documents said genres as they exists for the editor right now: Small tape editions and one-off projects. This is Down & Out’s view of electronic noise abuse: Tape-only-endeavors and perverted unapologetic collage art!

Interviews with:
// Death Kneel
// Consensual Rape
// Painted Woman
// Gastric Lavage
// V. Sinclair
// Deepthroat
// Serpent777 on The Walking Dead

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& Reviews of: Puce Mary, Granite Mask, Pimp Aktion Slutgun, The Grey Wolves, Brethren, Ivory Prince, Forza Albino, Xenophobic Ejaculation, Shredded Nerve amongst others.

The zine is sold as a ‘batch package’ along with Fetish Ritual’s cassette “F & R”.

18 year age restriction on purchase
English language
Comes in oversized plastic zip lock bag with restricted stickers and adult bookstore price labels
Black and white xerox
Stapeled spine
A4 format
Released by Down & Out, November 2014.

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EUROPE DISINTEGRATION / IDEOLOGIES CLASH / MORAL DIVIDE / A WAR AGAINST AN IDEA, IS A WAR AGAINST THE SELF:



PARIS '15.

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"The Palermo Protocol".



The sound of Posh Isolation now.

Protocol 1 - Side A
Puce Mary: Fifth trumpet
Border Force: Amber
F. E. Denning: Margarita Nikolayevna

Protocol 1 - Side B
Arv & Miljö: 2415 dagar
Händer Som Vårdar: We won’t always be 21
Rosen & Spyddet: Monaco

Protocol 2 - Side A
Vanity Productions: The seared grasses
Sansernes Rus: Afstand
Sansernes Rus: Koldblodig og miserabel

Protocol 2 - Side B
Vit Fana: Constance
Chrome Burden: Popular culture & religion 1. Sagat blows his horn Twice
Rose Alliance: Seachers

Protocol 3 - Side A
Marcell: Rust patch
Klaus Hansen: Always the same
Hvide Nætter: Sammenknebne muskler

Protocol 3 - Side B
Blodvite: Illuminated eyes
Marching Church: Hungry for love
Croatian Amor & Angeles: Nahid border

3 x C30 cassette
Edition of 250
Released by Posh Isolation, December 9th 2014.

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Xiu Xiu

"Knife Play".



Cassette reissue of Xiu Xiu’s classic 2002 debut album. Released in conjunction with the band’s European tour, November 2014.

Instrumentation featured by Jamie Stewart and 11 studio musicans: Bass accordion, bass, synthesizers, mandolin, cello, gong, trumpet, guitar, piano, bells, harmonium, programming, saxophone (alto, baritone, tenor) and vocals.

An eclectic and well-articulated album that fuse: industrial, avant-garde pop, new wave, noise rock, free jazz, synth pop celebrations, ’80s UK pop chart, techno and ballads; into one unique language. The compositional structures vary between the bare and multi-tracked complex; all within a frame that is rich of harmonies and dissonant lyricism. The end result hinge between the upbeat, tender, unnerving and subtly confrontational.

Excellent audio duplication to tape. Dynamic sound image with depth and full frequency register. Props to Xiu Xiu and Stoned to Death for reissue.

Track list:

Side A
Don Diasco
I Broke Up (SJ)
Luber
Hives Hives
Dr. Troll
Over Over

Side B
Anne Dong
Suha
Poe Poe
Homonculus
Tonite And Today (What Chu’ Talkin’ About)

Reissue of 2002 CD
Pro-printed J-card
Hand drawn ‘cassette titles + side’ indications
Edition of 100
Released by Stoned to Death, 2014.

Price: 85,- NOK + shipping.

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Cremation Lily - SOLD OUT -

"Fluids of October".



Regional crown (1988 - 2014).

Last days of autumn. Regional interstate. No traffic. Forest. A car passed above her midway down the incline that arched into the woods. She didn't catch the color and the walkman drowned out the make of the engine. Low sun. Northern breeze. Copper tint metallic light. Saturated leaves… tree tops and interstate in level.

Dirty thumbs under backpack shoulder straps, waist high in yellowed beige grass. So serene and completely still. Eyes to clouds. Birds gathering before winter migration. Hair flickering in the wind. She left the Nikes neatly in the grass and walked barefoot to the right. Dry leaves, rustling in the crowns above.

Track list:

Side A
Lights in shards, showers in gold

Side B
Pour homme

Pro-duplicated ferric tape
Pro-printed J-card
Limited undisclosed edition
Released by Angoisse, October 22nd 2014.

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”Protect”.





Fingering Eve is a new project hailing from Barcelona, Spain. Protect is the band’s inital release. The album features four tracks - two on each running sides. Utilized instrumentation is: Layered synthesizers, percussion, vocals, spoken word, objects, efx (distortion/delay/reverb), samples, found recordings, tape loops and processed field recordings. The featured compositions are of a varied palette, and unite compositional structures from: Industrial, death industrial, instrumental power electronics, film scores (horror/sci-fi), cyclical drone, ’70s synthesizer excursions, junk noise and mediative ambient. The sound production is dank dynamic techno territory, with rich soft-gleaming analogue tonalities and subtle grain. Full use of audial frequency register. At times the higher ranges fades into barely registrable human perception. Label Angoisse described quite fitting the album in its press statement as: Post-MDMA industrial for the neon dwellers.

Protect is an atmospheric, hyper-cinematic and predatory tour-de-force through metropolitan infrastructures and nightlife - executed to clinical precision. Here: Memories, in-car cityscape impressions, fading drug realities, faint traffic hum and introverted emotional states ebb, melt - and echo - like cascading waves crashing ashore. The resonance of the instrumentation - in combination with the musical production - evoke sensations that equal long-exposure moving images. Compositions and sonics are in other words overtly visual, and may easily conjure imagery of cruising a post-rain metropolitan area in a muscle car with dark-tinted windows and city lights reflecting in its carrocería. We’re talking a visual language that resonates: Saturated asphalt, pitched down en masse traffic, freeways, high-rise architecture, neon, crossroads, passing traffic, stoplights, windshield vipers sporadically activating, muffled pedestrians, gutter water ripples, muted illumination, leather car interior, custom fit black gloves, slow decisive gestures, killer instinct, knife, stainless void. The feel of Protect is very much akin to Scorsese’s ‘76 film Taxi Driver, and the sequences (from in-car - to street point-of-view) where Travis Brickle’s yellow cab drift past steamy manhole covers in nighttime New York City. Writer Thomas Wolfe’s quote in Taxi Drivers opening credits comes to mind… “The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.”



Layered synths and percussive elements serve as the main basis of all compositions - often working as a body with a call and response function - a musical strategy utilized by composer Vangelis (check: Blade runner). Each instrumentation complements the other. Nothing is over-shadowed or obscured. 

The composition on Protect gradually introduce elements in a stylistic and perfectly timed manner. Nothing is forced, affected or over-emphazied. With fluid ease and keen bio-clock timing, sonic layers are organized in stratas that protract and recede in all directions of the audial space. The compositional movements are often repetitive in circular and epi-circular orbits with reverberating seismic indicating pulses and subterranean industrial shifts and stabs - expanding and fading in all-direction waves towards the fringes of the auditory zone. The compositional layers are of solid mass, but incorporate at the same time an each-and-all layer transparency, that in effect let total sounds be experienced synchronously - independently and in synthesis - without any obfuscation. Each punctuation and added or subtracted ingredient, fundament the sonic environment as a constantly changing space that’s being redefined and reformulated continously. Still, the course and progression of tracks maintain a clearly articulated trajectory that is parable to: A chain reaction gaining momentum and intensity; Johann Bayer’s atlas of directional lines within star constellations; and a shrouded immaterial aura who’s singular perspective is menacing, prey-seeking and larger-than-life - as experienced in Bohren Und Der Club Of Gore’s omen Black Earth.

From the first chord in the album’s opening track, it is clear that Protect is a wholehearted and thoroughly developed work articulated to its fullest potential: From artistic concept, compositional strategies to sound - and post-production. This is contemporary electronic music of high quality that elevates beyond the idea of musical genre: Chic and minimalistic, yet highly complex. Label Angoisse’s visual cassette design corresponds well with Fingering Eve’s cold sensations. All-in-all: Sexy and quite fuckable. The Braille on face A of the tape is especially a dot over the i. 



If I still did ‘this year’s best records’ lists, Protect would surely be up there among the 10th best of 20-14.

Track list:



Side A

Protect

Black tint glass



Side B

Pill report

Lamborghini sex



Pro-duplicated ferric tape

Printed cassette sticker on tape

Pro-printed J-card

Limited undisclosed edition

Released by Angoisse, October 22nd 2014.



Price: - SOLD OUT -