Issued with Grim Humour #3 fanzine during Spring 1984. 1000 pressed. I'm Dead featured Keith Goldhanger, later of Headbutt and presently still active in music. Epidemic were a Canterbury based punk group whose founder, Patrick Murphy, is now involved with gothic-rock outfit, Jesus Fix. OUT OF PRINT
The one and only release by this Wasted Youth/Only Ones-tainted psychedelic group, from mid-1984. 1000 pressed. Following this release, Gary Levermore was no longer involved with Fourth Dimension's operations... OUT OF PRINT
Debut recordings by Richard Johnson's first group, from March 1986. 150 copies. Three songs, including a cover of AVT's Splitting in Two... A non-retailed item, just given away. OUT OF PRINT
Featured exclusive contributions by Sonic Youth, And Also The Trees, Inca Babies, Mel-O-Tones, Bushido, Portion Control, Playground, Stress, The Veil, Beat Of The Beast, The Fifteenth, Manifesto, Brigandage, S-Haters, Ausgang and Blyth Power. Released in an edition of 250 during mid-1986 and, together with a booklet and postcards, represented Grim Humour #9 fanzine. Compiled by the three main writers for the fanzine. OUT OF PRINT
Released with Grim Humour #8 fanzine in mid-1986. 1000 pressed. OUT OF PRINT
Included exclusive material by Clair Obscur, Shockheaded Peters, Playground, Kevin White, Head Of David, Furyo, Iron In The Soul, Scrapheap, Feast Of Friends, Passion Of Ice and Mustard Kestrels (feat. Kevin, later of Headbutt). Limited edition of 250, in special package including postcards, released November 1986. OUT OF PRINT
Joint-released with Strength Thru Joy. Included songs by Shockheaded Peters, Spizz, ATV, Scientists, Playground and Perfect Daze, plus an exclusive interview with The Damned. Compiled by Andy P. and packaged with a small booklet. Released
late 1986. OUT OF PRINT
Debut collection of studio and live material, in special packaging. Released Spring 1987 in an edition of 250. OUT OF PRINT
An abandoned project, which is probably something we can now only be grateful for...
Another (thankfully) aborted idea...
Umbrella title given to the availability of every show by the group. Each tape had a uniform cover and was duplicated to order. A couple of these, in turn, even ended up released in different packages on other cassette labels at the time. Idea launched in 1987 and abandoned in 1989, when the group split into Playground Mk.II. (helmed by Andy P.) and Splintered (founded by Richard Johnson and also comprising the remaining members of Playground).
A collection of demos from 1983 - 1986 by this Birmingham based and extremely Iggy-fixated group. Released in an edition of 100 sometime during mid-1987. OUT OF PRINT
Abandoned second LP by a dramatic and atmospheric rock group led by Abbo, who went on to found the Big Cat label...
Originally pencilled in for release during late 1987/early 1988, but finally materialised in mid-1990 (while, meantime, surpassed by subsequent releases and catalogue numbers on the label). Featured Splintered, Hotalacio, JFK (early Anthony di Franco platform), Crane, Voiceless (feat. Keith and Ashley, later of Headbutt and Project DARK notoriety...), Sofa Head, Brainstorm, Political Asylum, Identity and Filler. Issued with Grim Humour #15 fanzine. 1000 pressed. OUT OF PRINT
Yet another aborted idea for a compilation cassette...
Didn't materialise...
Three non-songs by Playground's noisier alter-ego. 50 copies duplicated. A terrible piece of work, once more instigated by the sinister Andy P... OUT OF PRINT
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PLAYGROUND 'Seeking the Truth' 7"
Debut vinyl release, from early 1988. 500 pressed by Fourth Dimension
(in hand assembled sleeves, plus including rubber-stamped labels and an
insert...). Reissued (in an unspecified quantity) by Vinyl Solution later
in the year (plain labels, proper sleeve, no insert). "Playground
are spiritual kin to Bastard Kestrel, creating cyclonic, maddened noise
that goes nowhere first. The outtake of an American fundamentalist preacher
that introduces the three songs here serves as scant warning of the retribution
to follow - Dr. Who is crucified by psychedelic hardcore bikers from hell.
Kind of reminds me of those posters about rabies you see in the ports
of entry of this great democracy, so diseased is the sound these reprobate
punks generate. A military tattoo for the undead, no less. Punk rock died
for your sins? This is the resurrection." (Melody Maker)
OUT OF PRINT
Cassette package assembled by Andrea Parsons, who shared duties with Fourth Dimension's operations for two years or so and edited Cloth Ears fanzine. Included material by Attrition, Bastard Kestrel, Salad Speech (later to evolve into I'm Being Good), Venus Fly Trap, Lean Steel and more. 250 copies, released mid-1988. OUT OF PRINT
Issued with Cloth Ears #7, late 1988. 1000 pressed. OUT OF PRINT
Debut from a Nottingham based group with strong post-hardcore, Chicago-style, leanings. Released late 1988 in an edition of 500 with handmade sleeve and insert. Later reissued by Pigboy Records. OUT OF PRINT
Issued with Cloth Ears #8 fanzine. Featured Exit Condition, Senseless Things, Perfect Daze and Playground. Released Spring 1989. 1000 pressed. OUT OF PRINT
Released late 1989. 1000 pressed. The penultimate release for Fourth Dimension that was handled by Andrea. OUT OF PRINT
Released, after several delays, in October 1992. Pressed in a numbered edition of 500, although a further 50 arrived and were packaged in a green textured sleeve. OUT OF PRINT
Released mid-1991 and issued with the first 500 copies of Grim Humour (Volume II) #1. 500 pressed. OUT OF PRINT
Following the group's debut single on Stefan Jaworzyn's Shock label, their second release (outside two compilation appearances and an extremely limited demo cassette), from February 1991. 650 pressed. "Screaming fire guitars in the mould of Skullflower form a wall of obscene noise..." (The Empty Quarter) OUT OF PRINT
Issued with Cloth Ears #11 during mid-1991. 1000 copies pressed. The last release for Fourth Dimension handled by Andrea. OUT OF PRINT
Released mid-1992 and issued with the first 500 copies of Grim Humour (Volume II) #2. OUT OF PRINT
This catalogue number was originally designated for a compilation cassette by Andrea, but since this never materialised it was used for this tour single, released in late 1994 to coincide with a handful of dates in Belgium. 250 pressed. OUT OF PRINT
Released August 1993 and issued with Grim Humour (Vol.II.) #3. Despite the magazine's cover announcement that these were only available with the first 750 copies, 825 were actually pressed. OUT OF PRINT
Co-released with Dying Earth, during mid-1993. Debut by this (now possibly abandoned, but who knows...?) Splintered side-project of Richard Johnson's. A complete garbled mess of improvised clatter, textures and metal percussion. 500 pressed. OUT OF PRINT
Another catalogue number originally intended for something entirely different (namely a Splintered cassette) but
resurrected around two years later for this group featuring Richard Johnson, Steve Pittis and James Machin of Splintered and a local yob, Kerry White. 50 copies pressed, mid-1995. OUT OF PRINT
Second single by a duo here 'covering' Coil's unused soundtrack for Clive Barker's Hellraiser film. Includes the duo pictured with Mr. Barker on the sleeve. First edition of 380 pressed on black vinyl and in grey sleeve, second edition of 250 pressed on clear vinyl and in burgundy sleeve. Originally released October 1993, but the represses were done a few months later. OUT OF PRINT
Released November 1993 in an edition of 650. Another 200 were repressed in Spring 1994 (though the packaging, etc. remained the same). OUT OF PRINT
The second single from this blazing improv. duo featuring Stefan Jaworzyn (Whitehouse, Skullflower, Shock Xpress, Shock Records, etc. notoriety). Released in a numbered edition of 400 during February 1994. OUT OF PRINT
Released in an edition of 300 in February 1994. OUT OF PRINT
Debut single comprising four tracks by this dubscaped electronics / Aphex Twin-type outlet. Released in an edition of 300 mid-1994. Repressed with different sleeve in an edition of 75 about a year later. OUT OF PRINT
400 pressed, Spring 1994. B-side was recorded in Osaka, Japan during the Torture Chorus tour in 1992. OUT OF PRINT
Three vicious slabs of percussion-led sonic terrorism from the now defunct London based collective whose mainstay, Ashley Davies, has been more recently involved with Project DARK and iD. Around 800 pressed during Spring 1994. Still very much available, although a few boxes have been scrapped due to the fact I'm now sick of the sight of them. BUY NOW!
Released mid-1994. 400 pressed. OUT OF PRINT
Released Spring 1995. 400 pressed. OUT OF PRINT
Originally released in an edition of 600 during Spring 1995, but these sold out so quickly that a further 200 were pressed about two months later. These also sold out quickly. If only the same could be said about everything else on Fourth Dimension... OUT OF PRINT
UK debut from mid-1995 by these Finnish hypno-rockers (who only now, 8 years on, seem to be garnering more serious attention over here...), successfully blending atmospheric textures and occasionally choppy guitars with strong, repetitive rhythms & distant vocals. A neat entry into an expansive catalogue by this strong & prolific group. 400 pressed. OUT OF PRINT
A release originally intended to catch one side each by the band's then six members. Unfortunately, however, it didn't happen...
Joint-released by Dirter Promotions. 550 pressed during mid-1994. OUT OF PRINT
Second release for FD, with three cuts by the Japanese guitarist. 750 pressed on clear vinyl during Autumn 1994. A further 100 pressed on black vinyl during Spring 1995. OUT OF PRINT
Originally scheduled for release during early 1996 (as FDCD47) but finally surfaced with the help of both Amanita and Dirter Promotions during late 1998. As such, this is the second release on Dirter Proms and FD's joint Will Montgomery imprint (the first release being a very limited live Splintered CD-R). B-movie snippets, skewed guitars, moronic bass abuse, churning rhythms, noise shards and suchlike billowing senselessly from a factory's long forgotten basement. Also includes Stefan Jaworzyn
sleevenotes. 500 pressed. OUT OF PRINT (Although Amanita and Dirter Promotions might have some still...)
Abandoned showcase compilation CD for the Finnish label, intended to appear with Grim Humour (Vol.II.) #4...which likewise never materialised...
Joint release with Dirter Promotions. Five pieces over four sides in this beautifully packaged (if financially crippling) gatefold sleeved release from early 1995. 1000 pressed. OUT OF PRINT
Released Autumn 1995 in an edition of 400. OUT OF PRINT
Outstanding debut solo work by Zeni Geva's high-end guitarist / Marble Sheep vocalist, Tabata. Filmic and pleasantly kaleidoscopic guitar-based avant-rock. Released Spring 1996 in an edition of 400. Had a great album on Elsie & Jack a little later, too, but seems only too quiet now, unfortunately. OUT OF PRINT
Released in an edition of 300 at the beginning of 1997 (following the usual run of delays). Some (20 or so) surplus copies of the single were also repackaged a couple of years later. OUT OF PRINT
Released during early 1997. 300 pressed. Together with Splintered's collaborative CD with RLW from around the same time, the two cuts here represent the group's final recordings. A.S.P. were another project of Richard Johnson and Steve Pittis. Here, a track over 8 minutes long represents the second release for the (possibly still ongoing...) foray into guitar loops and textures. Originally, FDTEN53 was intended for a Husk 10”, but these (unfinished) recordings were aborted before Poland's (now defunct) Obuh Records could house them instead. OUT OF PRINT
Released mid-1996 in an edition of 400. OUT OF PRINT (Although Stefan himself might still have a few left...)
Joint-released with Fisheye and compiled by NZ loser, Nick Cain of Opprobrium magazine. Features Omit, SandozLab Technicians, RST and Surface Of The Earth. Originally scheduled for late 1996, but finally surfaced in mid-1998. For a lot of personal reasons, it was a tough couple of years for the label... BUY NOW!
Released Autumn 1997 in an edition of 1000. Masami Akita 'plays' (heavily buried) drums on this. OUT OF PRINT
Two exclusive cuts, recorded 1996, by Thurston and The Blue Humans' Tom Surgal. Released late 1996 in an edition of 2500. These sold out fairly rapidly, so during late Autumn 1997 the release was reissued as a CD, with the help of Cargo Records, in an edition of possibly 1500... OUT OF PRINT
Abandoned (due to financial constraints...) release, originally scheduled for late 1997, by this Japanese improv. outfit featuring Kawabata Makoto (now in Acid Mothers Temple). Does this mean I was ahead of the pack...?! Pity I was going through (financial) hell at the time, due to personal 'complications'...
Another release originally planned for late 1997, but finally materialised in 2000 in an edition of 275. OUT OF PRINT
Joint-released by Amanita and Suggestion, this appeared in late 1998 and amounts to something of a 'lost' album originally intended for release a few years earlier by a US label. A vinyl version of the same album was released by Dirter Promotions in 1994 in an edition of 300 which very quickly sold out, although this was supposed to originally represent an actual accompaniment to the 'proper'/full version captured on this CD. OUT OF PRINT
Second album from Richard Amp, released mid-1999. "The second solo album from Richard Walker of Amp features two lengthy tracks of atmospheric space-rock that venture into hazy electronic noodling with metronomic downtempo techno pulses and Roy Montgomery like improv-guitar solos" - Aquarius Records, USA. BUY NOW!
Co-released by Tremor Recordings during mid-2000. The debut by this post-Splintered group, comprising members of their final line-up, Richard Johnson, Stuart Carter and Hassni Malik, in a setting which stripped the few remaining 'rock' elements and accentuated the electronics or more filmic side. Although the album flounders somewhat at points (due, largely, to a combination of too many lost weekends and a reaction to the trappings ensnared by Splintered), there are plenty of moments which point towards the far more progressive second album, 'Our Angels Dislocated', on Lumberton Trading Company in February 2006. "Splintered, former guitar noise cum tape splicers from past days, are no more. They have reformed themselves into Theme, went into the studio for a long time (this CD took over a year to make). Theme move beyond the wall of guitar with additional heavy metal banging, sampling and field recording, with a variety of sounds and styles. The opening track moves from guitar tune into a ambient synth pattern that is almost minimal techno. Right after that you get served 'Lines Swallowed Red', with a dub percussion theme and ditto bass guitar. Breakbeats and all that form the backbone of 'Real Is Seeing Blind'. There are pieces that see to dwell entirely on samples, such as 'Enmity Divided', but the overall impression is that these boys play a lot of the instruments themselves (drums, guitar, synth), which adds to the more rock character of this, even when there are elements of dub, d&b or techno. The whole thing is a joy to hear, with great care of the details in the production. There are lots of small things, effects and washes everywhere to make this into an exciting album. Guitar underground of the past, match with new undergrounds of today..." (FdW, Vital Weekly, NL). OUT OF PRINT
Released mid-2001. "Disco. That's D.I.S.C.O? D, deleted. I, insubstantial. S, super-structure. C, corroded. O, oh-oh. Let's
get this straight. Disco is not disco. It might be disco if it was speeded up to Warp Factor 9, but even then it's hard to be certain. Goem's Disco is what you get if you dip minimal techno into acid, corroding the insubstantial and leaving only the backbone, the super-structure. It is deleted techno and the slow cycles are hypnotic." - Robots & Electronic Brains fanzine, UK. BUY NOW!
Released mid-2002. "A record of audio stories,sentimental attractions by the roadside. Phonic prayers to mundane scenes in everyday lives. Stylus is a project by Dafydd Morgan, UK native and apparent sentimentalist supreme. The sounds in Pedwar are looped, cut-up, cyclic textures and field recordings, invoking scenes that can feel like reading an encyclopedia but only by looking at those tiny black and white pictures in the margins next to the descriptions. A heady injection of mechanical sounds, birdsound and woofing dogs in the background, also flute, wind, organ and many other sources are laid in for periods, pulled out, replaced, changed. Tracks fade out as individual experiments in memory and scenery. A warm, strange and somehow nostalgic retreat, delicately crafted. See the Pedwar website for more info on this very unique project. Hope to hear more" - (Manifold Records, USA). BUY NOW!
Released with Adverse Effect (Volume III) #1 magazine (mid-2003 edition). Includes exclusive contributions from Stylus, C. O. Caspar, Freiband, Theme (Band Of Pain remix), Dual, Ektroverde, Pimmon, Weird As Fish (Will Sergeant of Glide/Echo & The Bunnymen), Storm Bugs and others. BUY NOW!
Four cuts recorded in 2003 by harsh electronics innovator Masami Akita. "It‚s been years since I've reviewed a Merzbow CD. Every other month I see a new release surface yet I hesitate to listen. After the 10 CDs I've heard in the past, I was expecting the same old harsh white noise; I'm happy to say that I was wrong. "Greenman", the opener, starts with a junk percussion sound and quickly turns violent and spacious, with plenty of layers and textures. "Rock Me Booa" is also pounding and percussive, with more focus on the wall of electronics and swirling feedback. Loud and abrasive is "Untitled 12," a thirteen minute piece. "Herpos Suite" clocks in at 26 minutes and is very hard to get through. Very uneasy, very loud. My attention span is more in the five minute marker, but good nonetheless. Once again Masami Akita proves he is the king of noise; Japanese or otherwise." - (Fever Pitch Music, USA). Released December 2003. BUY NOW!
Following around ten years since their last (and only) release for Fourth Dimension (the now o/p 'Ghatarian' 7", already noted), this apocalyptic Finnish avant-metal/improv./folk/Neu-Prog group return with a special live radio session recorded for WFMU during their October 2005 US tour. Possibly one of their best, most blissed-out, records yet. Two side-long tracks wrapped in a Spaghetti Western sleeve. Perfect. And not a Kiss or Judas Priest homage in sight! This has been available since mid-March 2006 and is selling fast. Between Fourth Dimension Records and our distributor, Cargo Records, only a handful of copies now remain. However, please note the news near the foot of this section concerning a possible CD version being made available in the near enough future. "I will admit that my interest in Circle has been marred w/doubts 'n pain through the yrs. I'd say I pretty much lost track after the Bad Vuguum days but occasionally I'd catch wind of their doings (the Squealer reish cd comes to mind) but them goins on wasn't enough for me to separate my cash from my wallet. A couple yrs pass & I dunno, I lived my life & I don't think I thought aboute'm even once. Then about a month ago I came across the massively brilliant double lp 'Sunset' & suddenly I understood that like any unit worth their salt, Circle attack w/the sun at their back. On this one, they got all grizzled up & desperado-Jesse James style-then went out & hijacked a train full've lucre on it's way to Fort Rock & proceeded to rob all the prog & fuck all the metal. Oh the humanity! I am not ashamed to say I surrendered my 35$ in cashish GLADLY to the record dealer for a copy of Sunset. Actually, I've ended up takin all kind've odd jobs to raise extra money so's I wouldn't miss their next vinyl outings. I am available for croquet instructions or if you need a ringer for your next volleyball or pingpong outing, I'm your man (we can discuss money later). So just the other day I come across this here copy of the latest Circle album on the Fourth Dimension label entitled 'Arkades'. I put it on the turntable & within seconds of the needle droppin, I was crippled by an overwhelming sense've deja vu. I had heard this before! I mean, I recognized this as music that had been spinnin in my head for months & I couldn't place it. I propped myself up next to our la-z-boy & got a better look at the cover.'Live on WFMU' it read. Then I got a gander at the back cover & seen Brian Turner's name as the daddy of some liner notes & then all the cows come home. Ya see, I'd had this blood transfusion back in late September at Western Baptist Hospital. I'd been cuttin firewood barefoot earlier in the summer & unbeknownst to me, a tic had gone & burrowed itself in the top of my foot. No cards or letters please! I feel dumb enough as it is. Anyhow, I was sicker than shit come Labor Day & no idea why. Went to the doctors & they told me I had Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. So they admitted me & I had to have this transfusion. It was done on the morning of Tues., Sept. 27th, 2005. I guess I come outta my grog sometime after 2pm (cst) & the nurse asked me if there's anything she could do for me. "Put on the Brian Turner Show" I gasped & feebly pointed to my computer. She hooked it up, got it to a respectable volume & left the room. I remember layin there, driftin in 'n out of consciousness while the Circle set was aired, havin allkind've crazy dreams & visions. It sounded like the psychedelic sides of 'Ummagumma' all playin at once & sometimes Mika or one of the other vocalist would sing like John Kay speakin in tongues to a rattlesnake. It was all very hypnotic & subtley powerful but when I come to, I thought I'd conjured up the whole thing in my head (I'd like to get the name of that anethtesiologist. Kudo's to your heavy hand). But no, thankfully it was for real & here it is, documented on vinyl. And ya know what? It's way more witchy, outer stratos & psychagnarlic than I remember. In other words, don't listen to this in the dark! Unless your inside a pentagram or somethin. These bogeymen bite 'n there ain't no tetanus shot that'll cure that venom. I mean, that one line on the back says it all; 'We are from Finland & we only climbed down from trees twenty years ago'. So run, don't walk!" (Tom Lax, Siltbreeze Records' blog, USA). LAST COPIES - BUY NOW!
A fantastic new album by the highly prolific Brighton soundsmith, featuring work remixed/re-organised by Nurse With Wound, Colin Potter, Aaron Moore (Volcano The Bear), John Coleclaugh, Ruse, Band Of Pain, Bass Communion, Auto Manipulator, Irr. APP (Ext), Darren Tate, The Hafler Trio, Unsong, Vidna Obmana and Freiband. Released February 2006. "Andrew Liles has had a busy year; only recently his collaborations with Daren Tate (Without Season Parts
I-IV) and Tony Wakeford (Cups In Cupboards) were released. Add to this his recent brilliant solo CD Mother Goose's Melodies Or Sonnets From The Cradle featuring narration by England's most favorite eccentric Lord Bath, plus several projects (including one with Steve Stapleton) lined up and you have a very busy man. In fact so busy, that his latest CD is a remix project. On this poetically entitled disc (Liles loves his titles) we find a host of well-known Liles-friends such as Paul Bradley, Colin Potter, Jonathan Coleclough, Bass Communion, Aranos, Darren Tate, Irr. App., Hafler Trio, Nurse With Wound, Vidna Obmana and Freiband paying aural tribute to the man. Each of these artists re-work one of Liles tunes with often-impressive results. At times the mixes remain close to the original gentle collages (like the mixes by Bradley or the very recognizable piano theme Potter uses) or more like soundscapes such as the tracks by Coleclough, Tate, Nurse With Wound (a Soliloquy no less) and Bass Communion. Ruse and The Hafler Trio deliver trademark, more abstract versions and Freiband submits, compared to the other tracks, the noisiest piece of them all. It is interesting to note that as much as these tracks are made by individual artists with individual styles, this CD still sounds as a coherent project, which makes for enjoyable listening and is probably why this is released under the name Andrew Liles. Another intriguing and highly enjoyable addition to the already impressive Liles-catalogue." (FK, Vital Weekly, The Netherlands). BUY NOW!
25 t-shirts, black print on white, featuring Andrew Liles' 'The Brevity of Enamel' design. Available in sizes S, M and L. Please state which size you want.Please also note the XL shirts have long sold out and only a handful exist in total of the remaining sizes. BUY NOW!
25 prints, black print on white A4, featuring the same 'The Brevity of Enamel' design as on the t-shirt above, plus personalised and signed by Andrew Liles and hand numbered. BUY NOW!
A double album released in collaboration with the UK's PETA organisation, to whom a donation of £1.00 from each sale will be made. Three recordings from December 2005 and January 2006 on each disc. "F.I.D.' (Fur Is Dead) follows the lead of the recent 'Minazo Vol. 1', the tracks are coated in defined melodies and ultra noisy denser textured ambience, the use of guitar feedback taken to a new sculptured level. Each track here is very different, not staying in one set of sounds, which makes it a wonderfully balanced double album, standing as one of his best releases of this year. Disk one opens up with 'Exteriorization?@ No.1.', which kicks in with a looped melody under a mound of feedback, then burn and crashing sounds are added, that form into this wonderfully wonky melody full of strange nostalgia, it moves deeper into the mix like a snake slipping off into the grass, as banks of static pound, but all the time the track returns to the melodic twists. Later on, he drops in a looped washed out fairground like melody, as the sounds build; he paints amazing distorted, yet memorable sound patterns. 'Forest of Kelp' is the next track and the longest here at 21 minutes- sounding just as the title suggest some vast churning forest of sound, full of dry hissings, seething banks of droning static, fazer like pulses, but all the time keeping a background of oppressive tempered static. At about the half way mark this great eastern type feedback guitar pattern swirls into view, like a twisted snake charmers songs, it‚s both enchanting and tinged with great sadness. The track also has a slight spacey vibe recalling elements of 1997‚s 'Space Metalizer', as it drifts into tight moog-like twirls and twists of sound. Really one of his most amazing pieces of work, transcending noise and music, audio painting of the highest form. Disk One ends with 'Seitaka' , full of tight bassy punches of looped beat static, distortion is used to paint great tripped out sheets of sound, he adds great bleeps of sound that sound like a gone wrong heart monitor, bouncing them around the stereo field to great effect. As the track develops the beat almost takes on a galloping horse type vibe, which he layers on patterns of metallic gone wrong typewriter clicking, bent electronics, bird chattering and various cluttering. Disk two opens with 'Exteriorization? @ No.2', it seems to concentrate on spiralling and swirling rich clusters of
tuneful guitar painting. With a sad lost air to it, it almost feels like animal screams at some points, both haunting and disturbing. Next up is 'Transition', which starts off with chaotic looped bird chatter, then settles down in to bumpy ambience hiss. The track has an air of the deaf compositions disk from the 'Turmeric' four disk set. Lastly we have 'Kongara', which is all about a static bouncing beat that ripples with some
great fazer and high pitched sound whippings. Drifting mid-way into some breathtaking feedback sound painting. So, in the top two or three Merzbow releases for this year and in the top ten releases of the last few years. Another clear example of an artist, performing at the height of his powers. Simple put, a must buy!" - (Roger Batty, www.musiquemachine.com). BUY NOW!
Reissue of last year's practically sold out LP (also on Fourth Dimension), plus an extra disc featuring a live concert recording. You know you need it. Released late June 2007. Few left. Out late June 2007. BUY NOW!
Debut solo work from Theme's Stuart Carter, featuring a number of guests (including E.A.R.'s Sonic Boom and Theme's Richard Johnson, Zenial and Maria Husarska). Comprises five pieces of chemically-saturated textures, gentle enough guitar & zither strums, field recordings, oscillating electronics and buried voices bound to a space vessel on a course from the same planet which spewed Tangerine Dream, Pink Floyd's 'Atom Heart Mother' and Throbbing Gristle. Released June 2007. BUY NOW!
New vinyl-only release by Finland's finest export, featuring four glorious sides capturing their 25th September 2007 session for USA's WMFU, the very same station that invited them for the session in 2006 that later became 'Arkades' on Fourth Dimension. Released early August 2008. BUY NOW!
Fifteen minutes worth of exclusive material each by five international electronics artists: Merzbow (Japan), Band Of Pain (UK), Zenial (Poland), Freiband (The Netherlands) and Li Chin Sung (China). Includes artwork by French artist/photographer Jeanne Boyer, who has also collaborated with Theme and appears on the next album. Scheduled for late 2008, finally.
New solo album release by this incredible Japanese musician, presently to be found working alongside Kawabata Makoto in the latest Acid Mothers incarnation, the occasionally revived Zeni Geva and various other groups presently hatching 'neath the fog over there. Scheduled for late 2008. More news shortly.