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[2010] The Skull Defekts & The Sons Of God - Received In Studio Dental,...
A bizarre collaboration between part of The Skull Defekts (typically known for their noisy, stripped out guitar output) and the bizarre duo The Sons of God, whose main focus are free performances,...
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[2011] Nurse With Wound - Orgasm Mix
Sold at the KOKO show back in May 15th, making it a tour-only release. Abrasive loops of noise, interlaced with haunting, indiscernible sampling. Download it here: [V0][FLAC]Unavailable for purchase.
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[2011] Der Blutharsch And The Infinite Church of The Leading Hand + Aluk...
Tight, syncopated drumming, wonky bass and martial industrial madness. What's not to love? The new collaboration between these two dark beasts is out, and as expected, it shows the best of both bodies...
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[2011] Fire! with Jim O'Rourke - Unreleased?
After two years of their first album, Fire! teams up with Jim O'Rourke to release the follow-up, 4 new tracks pushing forward the abrasive, repetitive style of the trio with his piercing guitar blasts...
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[2011] Gregg Kowalsky - Battery Townsley
Recorded inside the WWII bunker that gives this release its name, using a similar method for his Tape Chants, in which he locates cassette players across a room creating stacked, ever-evolving loops...
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[2001] Luigi Archetti & Bo Wiget - Low Tide Digitals
This guitar/cello duo from Italy and Switzerland respectively is one of the few non-norwegian artists releasing material via Rune Grammofon, focusing on a series of three albums (so far) ranging from...
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[2006] - Panzerpappa - Koralrevens Klagesang
Norwegian avant-prog in the vein of Samla Mammas Manna and Art Zoyd, although in a less dark, instrumental style that differences them from the classic RIO bands. It still follows some of the ideas...
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[2011] Daniel Levin - Inner Landscape
Inner Landscape is Daniel Levin's first solo album, released via Clean Feed as many of his trio/quartet works. Fully improvised, this album is a stripped out display of his cello skills that have been...
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[2011] The Haxan Cloak - The Haxan Cloak
One of the most interesting Aurora Borealis artists of this year, The Haxan Cloak have released a few live CDr EPs independently through the years, this s/t being their first LP under a label. The...
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[2010] Architeuthis Rex - Dark As The Sea
Sunken civilizations, inhabited by fearsome creatures and forgotten, devout cultures subdued by eons of tectonic and oceanic chaos. Architeuthis Rex (the monicker used by the italian artist Antonio...
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[2010] Marcia Bassett/Jenny Gräf - Paradam
A female duo mapping the mysteries hidden beneath the empty cosmos and the tightly compressed stone crystal with their heavily layered and abrasive noise tapestry, making a clever use of brass...
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[2011] Larsen & Z'EV - In V.Tro
Half recorded during live sessions and another half recorded in studio, this collaboration was commissioned as a "soundtrack for micro-cinematic images on the study of cells", as a tribute to Giuseppe...
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[2011] Torture Corpse/Architeuthis Rex - Ignorance/Daemon
Architeuthis Rex returns this year in a split with the paranoid, trance-inducing, dark ambient project known as Torture Corpse. 4 songs, three full songs on side A belonging to Torture Corpse and a...
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[2005] Zu & Mats Gustafsson - How To Raise An Ox
If there was any doubt that Mats Gustafsson had the required talent to work alongside a jazz band with math-rock leanings (and therefore, constricted to a measure) while retaining the freedom of his...
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[2011] Tuusanuuskat - Nääksää Nää Mun Kyyneleet
Fonal Records' latest release, Tuusanuuskat is a collaborative work between their label manager Sami Sänpäkkilä (also known as ES) and Jan Anderzén (Kemialliset Ystävät), both very involved in the past...
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[2011] irr. app. (ext.) / Nurse With Wound - 4 Orphans
After Angry Electric Finger 3, 4 Orphans is the new collaboration between these two bizarre figures of the sound collage/dark ambient scene, although it's somewhat of an irr. app. (ext.) album mostly,...
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[2009] Chord - Flora
Chord is a collective of four guitar musicians formed in Illinois (among them Trevor De Brauw from Pelican), focusing their efforts into a stripped out, minimalist arrangement revolving around a single...
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[2005] The Thing - Live at Blå
Look at that smug Paal's face...This is their first live album recorded around 2005, which has some songs from their debut album and Garage but mostly reinterpreted and loosened out. The live...
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[2007] Peter Brötzmann, Paal Nilssen-Love & Mats Gustafsson - The Fat Is Gone
Three long songs, three renowned exponents of the contemporary european jazz scene. The Fat Is Gone gathers Paal Nilssen-Love and Mats Gustafsson (from The Thing) with one of the big legends of the...
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[1993] Stereolab - The Groop Played ''Space Age Batchelor Pad Music''
As of lately, my go-to choice for Stereolab. One of their earliest albums, while it seems softer than Peng!, in here the motorik-fueled beats are more accentuated than in their next albums, even...
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