SECOND LAYER





'After a new ‘rock’ 10-inch EP co-released earlier this year by Black Rose Recordings and an also resurrected Broken Flag, Second Layer Records are extremely proud to present Valediction - the first all new Ramleh album since 1997, and the first new power electronics recordings from the project for 25 years. And yet Valediction is no ordinary 'power electronics' record, nor is it anything as straightforward as simply a return to their roots. Valediction is very much an entity of its own – both consolidating and expanding upon everything Ramleh have touched on in the past, but also digging into entirely fresh ground for the band. Valediction is, perhaps, Ramleh’s most bleakly psychedelic creation so far. Comes in a 4-panel gatefold sleeve with 8 page booklet with photos and cut-up lyrics from some of the tracks. Limited to 1000 copies. '---LABEL DESCRIPTION


'Brand new Skullflower studio recording featuring the line-up of Matthew Bower, Samantha Davies (Voltigeurs), Lee Stokoe (Culver) and Stuart Dennison (Ramleh, original Skullflower) back on drums. Three long tracks of blackened guitar wall. No one is making music that sounds like this. Comes in 6-panel digipack with artwork by Matthew Bower. '---LABEL DESCRIPTION

SECOND SLEEP



'Conquerors is a new Italian project, this is his first recorded material and what he do here is a concept about the first world war. Musically this could be translated as an intense mix of minimal and concrete layers with a dynamic assault of harsh waves and basses.'---LABEL DESCRIPTION.

SEGERHUVA



Barrikad is the sound of young Sweden. The raging youthful energy of anarchist noise as presented by Barrikad. Three tracks of splendid energetic white-hot scorching electronics dealing with the frustration and despair of what passes for everyday life for modern man in a consumerist society. Neurology 2 is most likely the last of Death Squad's recordings. The most current name has changed to MK9. Hydra is Greg Scott who was also a member of the power electronics project Final Solution from New York. Vocals by G. Scott and electronics by Death Squad. Extremely bass-heavy and dense electronics gnawing on the top of your vertebrae, a worthy conclusion to the saga of the criminally underrated genius of DEATH SQUAD. Wake up... ---label description


At last we are able to present this eagerly awaited CD by Sweden?s most hardened sexnoise extremist. No hyperbole needed - if you are at all serious about noise and/or LOVE, you should get this. Guaranteed to leave your eardrums like a pair of flogged ass-cheeks...Sore, numb, and aching for more... ---label description. SERIOUSLY if her into the new wave of TOTAL BLAST HARSHNESS like THE CHERRY POINT, IMPREGNABLE, FILTHY TURD, etc... You GOTTA CHECK OUT BLOD!!! --AD


'Pro-printed color box set with 3 LPs, envelope and photograph. Sex-noise á la Jesper Forselius - short blasts from a perverted mind! Material from two very limited tapes from the late nineties and one LP with compilation tracks.'---LABEL DESCRIPTION

SERIOUSLY AMAZING...and HIGHLY RECOMMENDED harsh Swedish WALLS of NOISE... This is HNW before there was HNW. Packed in an INTENSE classic pro-printed box. 3 LP's of insane sex noise w/ titles such as: 'DAY OF PISS', 'PAINTED TEEN FACE', SOFIE IS COMING WHILE BEING FED', 'VOMIT QUEEN 2'...and the mysteriously titled....'ECLIPSE'. Full colour box containing 3 LP's, an art photo and an envelope with liner notes inside. Limited edition of ONLY 255 copies. If you don't grab this now....You will be PISSED when this is gone! (or maybe i should say PISSED ON!) HIGHEST RECOMMENDATION ...NOISE SCUM

REMEMBER to Count as 3 LP's for shipping


Master Control was meant to hurt, and it did. It still does. Now 20 years later it comes across as a work of true and deeply original vision. Even better than the first time. Obviously it takes its departure from the Iphar/Whitehouse/Broken Flag-tradition, but rapidly takes a weird turn and ends up somewhere else; at the very edge of a completely unknown territory. The unspeakable mad landscapes of HP Lovecraft seems to be one point of reference, snuffmovies by Brazilian deathsquads another. And plenty of attitude in between. Sure, it?s the work of a mad man, but it?s also the work of a stunningly apocalyptic genius; it will likely blow your mind as it did mine. This is extremely powerful stuff. I never quite recovered from this one. ---Tommy Olsson //// Master Control contains the original c-60 plus a 10 minute bonustrack recorded in 1988. FUCKING KILLER!


'These strangely cinematic and abrasive droning landscapes of impending doom made up from analog synths are the work of David Reed, for some perhaps known from the plausible Luasa Raelon project. The sparse, cold, minimal pieces reminds us of early industrial-era electronic artists such as Maurizio Bianchi and Lustmord, but also gives hints to the works of Klaus Schulze and early Tangerine Dream. Without doubt presenting a vile and nightmarish vision of a territory where noone can be trusted and there's nowhere to hide – this certainly is bleak post-apocalyptic music. Limited to 300 copies in pro-printed black/white matte covers.'---LABEL DESCRIPTION


CD reissue of a classic INCAPACITANTS cassette originally released in a small edition on G.R.O.S.S. back in 1995. THE BEST in JAPANESE HARSH NOISE.


Dudes.. INCAPACITANTS on VINYL!!! SEWER ELECTION ...on VINYL!!! limited to 500 copies.. full color covers... HARSH HEADS UNITE!!! YOUR SATANIC PRAYERS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED!


'On the theme of alchemy and the topics of shame vs. bodily self infliction, IRM makes way for a new start after the inspired 'Virgin Mind' double-disc set from 2005. These are new recordings with the new member Mikael Oretoft joining on bass. Two long tracks - the first being an intense up-building, deep pulsating number with both spoken and rough vocals, volcanic exaggerated bass noise and doom-laden atmosphere. The second more of an aftermath with its downspiralling, almost dreamy character of echoing tones, ripping clangs and chilling audio-schmerz. In total over 23 minutes of music in a glossy colour sleeve with gross artwork and a small insert. Edition of 500 copies.'---LABEL DESCRIPTION


One of the best LP's I've heard in a while. A reissue of MNEM's first 10 inch, plus a previously unreleased bonus track. Killer organic noise stuff... Fans of Hands To, Panther Skull, Darksmith, etc.. should check this shit out... serious KILLER. ltd to only 270 copies.


'The most extreme and outstanding music from Sweden. Desire, despair, disgust, destruction & death - The Sound of RJF. This is the real thing, no false grace or hypocrisy. RJF get their inspiration from the sickness of mankind. This is not about music, this is survival and fighting back. A cock down the throat of morality. A knife in the back of society. RJF create their own values. Control & Knowledge.'---Text from the original 1983 press release.

We might not have put it as poetic but when we found the old press release we couldn't resist the beauty of the text. The sounds on this disc drag you all the way back to the chilly gutters of early 80's fierce electronics. Menacing and mechanical noises, grating rhythms pick on your nerve endings, this is a sinister reminder that something was alive back then, something that is missing now. This CD-reissue of the old LP has been re-mastered from vinyl since the master tapes are missing and is packaged in a 12-page booklet A5 sleeve with lots of pictures, liner notes by Kristian Olsson and original art made by Leif Thuresson. Edition of 500 copies.---LABEL DESCRIPTION


powerful electronics and noise firmly rooted in the


'Please get ready for a true heavy weight team-up on this split LP. Testicle Hazard (Lasse Marhaug + Tommi Keränen) deliver a side-long orgy of blistering fuzzed-out heaviness. This is a duo that has very quickly proved that they are indeed capable of producing some truly ear-shattering noise bliss - two noise maestros doing what they love and live for, and you can feel privileged to indulge in the result of their hard work.

Golden Serenades (John Hegre + Jørgen Træen) immediately locks into a devastating groove (for lack of a more suitable term), and a terribly convincing assault of metal clattering and a non-stop moving mass of forceful sonic onslaught of the highest order. When these Norwegian lads team up, you can expect nothing less than noise nirvana. If you have yet to experience the thrill of Golden Serenades, this is where you get *on*.'---LABEL DESCRIPTION


Seriously one of the BEST comp LP's to be released in QUITE SOME TIME. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED LP of excellent Swedish noise... SOON TO BE A CLASSIC.---AD

'Four lenghty tracks from four Swedish experimental groups in tribute to the god-forsaken land we call Sweden - or, Höga Nord if you wish. From BOCKSHOLM's structured and up-building jackhammer mechanics, onward with DUSA's moody downer-beats from the outskirts of hell - further down the road NIELLERADE FALLIBILISTHORSTAR's abstract and ghostly metal junk/cymbal ambient to VÅRTGÅRD's heavy and painful death industrial - this is a record that follows an unknown path, where grey and depressive specimen without contrasts makes a subliminal whole. For sure not the full-on noise Segerhuva perhaps is known to release but a beautiful and deranged journey through our native mushroom woods and what one can find if taking a leak on a small highway side-track somewhere outside of Skara. Edition of 300 copies in printed black and white matte sleeves with insert. ---LABEL DESCRIPTION

SEIZURE PALACE



Excellent modular synth work. Pure cosmic electronics.


Another amazing synth spiral from the man known as DEAD/BIRD. Again in kickass silkscreened cover.


Killer split between these two PDX electronix goons...amazing silkscreened covers...AMAZING. Listen to the excerpts!

mp3 samples: HONED BASTION excerpt -- SISPRUM VISH excerpt

SELF ABUSE



'Four records recorded using four different sound sources, each pressed on different colored vinyl. Comes in a heavy cardboard box, with full color front and back cover! (Count as 4 items for postage.)'---LABEL DESCRIPTION


RRR main man abusing old SELF ABUSE records by CRAWL UNIT, STIMBOX, MLEHST, DEATHPILE, HANGED MANS ORGASM, ATRAX MORGUE, DEAD BODY LOVE, & SURGICAL STAINLESS STEEL. AWESOME!


Split CD w/ one collab track from these two Japan based Harsh Noise yucksters!


'Using source material from the band Thread to create two tracks of dense shifting noise fragments.'---LABEL DESCRIPTION


 'Self Abuse is proud to announce the release of Betwixt Descending Corridors, the new LP by Neuntoter der plage. A dark and hallucinogenic journey into places best left unventured. A bleak hellscape filled with the crawling horrors of your childhood nightmares.

Neuntoter der plage is the project of Ryan Oppermann (Klinikal Scum, Redrot, Post-Mortem Junkie, etc) A personal exploration into the dark places that exist inside all of us. Inspired by vivid nightmares and dark visions glimpsed while staring into the bottomless depths of the abyss. Combining the best (or is it worse) elements of Dark Ambient, Death Industrial and Black Metal to create the darkest music possible.'---LABEL DESCRIPTION


'The CD collects track from the Japan tour only AMERICAN VIOLENCE split with Slogun, the personal and private 'Scavenger Bag'- 3 Business card release (from the 2006 Japan tour), an unreleased live track from Germany, and two tracks off limited releases on the Iatrogenesis Records label. Comes with a 12 page booklet containing all the writings and pictures that came in the 'Scavenger Bag' making this an in depth and personal look at the thoughts and ideas that made the music and 'Mudlark'. The evolution of harsh electronic purity and scumbag electronics at its finest. Recommended listening for the self loathing. (Self Abuse / Ninth Circle)'---LABEL DESCRIPTION


'Harsh ambient noise. Last in the murder series.'---LABEL DESCRIPTION

SELF-RELEASED



Strange split/collab confusion 7 inch from these 2 PNW projects... Both very strange pop music.. Fans of RALPH records stuff may dig this...


ALERT ALERT to all lo-fi tape gunk manipulation LOVERS... fucking EXCELLENT debut LP from this long running group of weirdos... HIGHLY RECOMMENDED slab of hiss, clatter, squeals, moans, stretches, peels, female vox. RULES


Awesome weird shit from NOW OHIO BASED MBV crew...really raw stuff...super lo-fi...Excellent shit...fans of Choco Monk, early Nautical, etc... need to check these dudes out... electronics, horns, tapes, rulers....dubbed onto shitty tapes they prolly found in the dumpster. A+


Found a small stack of these in the move. A self-released cassette from the short lived duo of MAX CLOUD and VIKI. Weird damaged electronic beat sound. Original copies from late-90's/early 00's...I can't remember.

SERGENT MASSACRE



'First vinyl outing for Peckham based Chora, compiling out of print tracks from cdr albums released between 07 & 08. All the tracks were conceived in Sheffield as a trio of Ben Morris, Rob Lye and Chris Boyd at the furniture makers workshop / Chora practise space, culled from long nights of jamming, eating house special fried rice and drinking wheat beer. The record displays the bands revolving approach to composing, improvising & recording, with sounds moving between shingled skeletal percussion & kitchen sink gamelan to electronic attack & ecstatic vocalisation. Pressed on 180g black vinyl with pro-printed cover.'---LABEL DESCRIPTION


'The band as a quatuor (Hell, Bunny, Coccyx, Coorz) adds another masterpiece to its discography with these new recordings. 30 minutes of desolated jazz spread over two side-long tracks. Artwork by Wouter Vanhaelemeesch'---LABEL DESCRIPTION

SHARK BITE



 'Collaborative LP from industrial pioneer ZEV and Graham Moore (Blossoming Noise, To Live and Shave in L.A.). Recorded and recoded in 2008. Edition of 300 copies in deluxe 5 color jackets with photography by Suzy Poling.'---LABEL DESCRIPTION

SILENTES



Another long awaited reissue from Aube. METAL ON METAL (as for AQUA SYNDROME) was published by MANIFOLD records. Also for this work, over the original album, you can hear a bonus track and a full live CD. To the discovery of the alchemical secrets and the magic of the metallic materials, of their acoustic characters, and the possible technological manipulations on the sounds that are possible to pull out... It arches of it resonances, mantric vibrations, hypnotics bells rings... That features of sounds of cymbals, plates, rings... that tubular elements are used or more ordinary and simple metallic objects of common use... that they are bowed or scraped..., Aube acquires the sounds and of it transforming its essence... decomposing and recomposing the shape... Fragmenting, expanding,stratifying and elaborating the sonorous matter, constructs complexwafts, resounding weaves carpets, interlaces thin threads of metallic tensions, crumbles and agglomerates acoustic particles, leaves to flowlong, reverberating, harmonic drones... Metal on Metal, two only, fantastic CD for and a matchless release ---LABEL DESCRIPTION


An unusual self-portrait of Maurizio Bianchi in a minimal and introspective version, a discreet sonic self-portrait, elaboratedwith soft and nearly abstract electronic sketches, cyclical waves, tangles of intersected sounds,stratified, continuously changing, manipulated and molded through uses of effects, filters, reverbs, choruses, delay... Expanded paces, rarefied and apparently quiet atmospheres, but at the same time always full of a constant sense of gravity and heaviness, of vulnerability, always on the extreme border of the abyss that leads towards the unknown, the dark, the not to be defined and the mystery...---LABEL DESCRIPTION


Decomposition instead that composition. De-structured music that instead structured music. Not to complex and articulated technologies forrecording, mixing of the parts and mastering; not to onesophisticated production and maniacal and defined participations correct in post-production... This the new challenge capacityto the extreme limit from Maurizio Bianchi, a new musical effort,directed, raw, immediate, absolutely uncompromising new, to outsideof every law and from every pre-constituted rule... Fragments ofmusic, short fragments of sonorous material of varied extraction, now short, now long, placed in sequence one behind the other,in a dry way, following absolutely unforeseeable times and dynamics. Continuous loops, raw unexpected cuts, noise alternated to musical parts, single sounds, drones, notes of piano, buzzes, soft pads, electric current workers... Two long traces, 75 minutes, a listening experience over any edge and reliable definition.---LABEL DESCRIPTION


In the last period of life MARCO CORBELLI (ATRAX MORGUE) collaborated with MAURIZIO BIANCHI to a project. This is the result... and this is also the last ATRAX recording ever..---LABEL DESCRIPTION


'Three long and 'majestic' tracks where Maurizio Bianchi’s typical deep and reverberated sonorities, full of crepuscular melodies and subtle dissonances, get enriched by more electronic elements and fascinating elaborations, sophisticated manipulations and strong dynamic interventions operated by Cria Cuervos… Three touching compositions built on progressive 'crescendos' and a raging of slow sonic stratifications that lead to real 'explosions' of sounds, drones, pulsations, frequencies, vibrations… A new, magnificent and very successful collaborative experience.'---LABEL DESCRIPTION


After the recent edition in double CD of Chaotishe Fraktale Letzte Technologie, Silentes introduces now the result of the new collaboration between Frequency in Cycles for Second (Sandro Kaiser) and Maurizio Bianchi. Music of the great dynamics and great dramatic mood, powerful , aggressive sounds, drones, sour electronic rumors, but also deep sounds underground, more static parts, dark and expanded atmospheres, dark and buried rhythmic mechanics movements, echoes of reverberating metals. Musicof great effect joined to one quality of the recording to the top, for one rendered sonorous absolutely extraordinary and detailed.---LABEL DESCRIPTION


A fantastic selection of archive materials from the golden age of Mathausen Orchestra, the Italian power-electronic project born in the early 80s from the mind of Pierpaolo Zoppo, recently back in full to his artistic activity (see also the other CD Silentes SME0932, Nimh/Mauthausen Orchestra: From Unhealthy Places). Coming as a wonderful digipack CD, these six tracks collected from his very first cassette releases (Murderfuck, Mafarka, Anal Perversion, Host Sodomy, From Homicide to Slaughter) are released in a completely restored and remastered edition that finally does justice in full to the incredible and futuristic visions of one of the most significant Italian experimental artists of the last thirty years. Unthinkable and apocalyptic sonic masses pushed to the extreme, an endless flux of strong emotions, a violent and devastating impact… Absolutely not to be missed..---LABEL DESCRIPTION


The energy, the genius and the intransigence of the music of the hystoric cult power electronics project Mauthausen Orchestra/Pierpaolo Zoppo, united to the originalty, the eclecticism, the rigorous experimental research carried on since fifteen years by Giuseppe Verticchio, mostly with his Nimh solo project… Disturbing images of unhealthy places, nocturne landscapes covered with fog, psychotic nightmares, tormenting and delirious, described with sonorities of great impact and incredible dramatic force… A dark and long itinerary, to be covered wrapped in the spirals of a time that progressively seems to slow down and stop, folded on itself, just like suspended in the void, without offering any way out… A sonic adventure for brave souls… Elegantly packaged in a digipack.---LABEL DESCRIPTION


After few months of distance from the escape of The Missing Tapes and the relative Rework by Aube, Nimh (Giuseppe Verticchio) sets aside the ethnic-lysergic visions that have characterized the previous  album and continues along the distance of sonorous search and fascinating  experimentation electronic, already undertaken with works which The Impossible Days and Subterranean Thoughts, ulteriorlyexpanding just the range of sounds and instruments set, revealing the own secrets through new, dark but stylistically a unclassifiable CD, in which it arranges with extraordinary originality and in an absolutely personal and unknown elements of drone music, dark ambient, electronics, ritual, ethnic, field recordings, and enriching in particular every track with the recurrent presence of evocative sounds of electric guitar in varied filtered and elaborated way. The search goes on... ---LABEL DESCRIPTION


After the extraordinary 4CD box-set, Together s Symphony (with MAURIZIO BIANCHI), Silentes Minimal Editions is proud to present the incredible new solo effort by NIMH. Stratospheric sounds from another dimension, where multi-cultural sound-worlds collide. Processed electronic emulations of traditional Thai (and other indigenous) instruments, esoteric percussion, breathing, drones, feedback, shortwave radio, disembodied voices floating in air, and hazy field recordings all combine is a most intoxicating manner. With THE MISSING TAPES, NIMH returns to a more adventurous style, pushing the boundaries of sonic innovation past anything that weve heard before. An amazing 50+ minute sonic-travelogue of electroacoustic experiments. Ambiguous music for those who want something completely unique.---LABEL DESCRIPTION

SIMPLE GEOMETRY



'The Japanese guitarist Tetuzi Akiyama performs an improvised set as a duo with Canadian percussionist Jeffrey Allport on July 1, 2006. This recording is of the first and only time these two well-regarded improvisers have ever played together. Living on opposite sides of the Pacific, this show became an opportunity for Allport and Akiyama to each perform some of their most advanced techniques in improvised music with a player whose style was truly compatible. Allport approaches every side of his drum, the rim, the snares, the steel clamps, and of course, the skin to produce a challenging repertoire of sounds that defy the drum's gambit, segues from Tibetan drones to electronic clicks and cuts, distant steamships to nearby popcorn. Akiyama's preternatural improvisations along the neck and body of his guitar meditate patiently on each bluesy sound, almost as if his fingers were playing along the surface of a slow-moving river. Every note that Akiyama plays becomes a sensational interruption causing ripples, splashes, and oxbows in the flow of the music. Performed live at a sold-out Western Front, Vancouver's oldest and most significant artist-run venue, Akiyama and Allport propose a rich new vocabulary for music. Two tracks on vinyl mastered by Toshimaru Nakamura. This LP documents an unprecedented collaboration between two modern masters of far left improvisation.'---LABEL DESCRIPTION. Limited to 500 copies

SKELETON DUST



Fuckin ABRASIVE feedback and junk noise from OH ruler...SCUMMY AND HARSH AS FUCK!




yet another RICHARD RAMIREZ project....Noisy maybe? oh YEs...