FDS39 HEADBUTT 'Disillusioned' 7" 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. £1.00

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FDS55 V/A 'Bottom of the World' 7" 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... £1.50

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FDCD61 A.M.P. STUDIO 'Unconscious Country' CD 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. £8.00

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FDCD63 GOEM 'Disco' CD 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. £8.00

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FDCD64 STYLUS 'Pedwar' CD 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). £8.00

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FDCD65 V/A CD 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. £6.00

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FDCD66 MERZBOW 'SCSI Duck' CD 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. £9.00

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FDLP67 CIRCLE 'Arkades' LP Following around ten years since their last (and only) release for Fourth Dimension (the now o/p 'Ghatarian' 7"), 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). NB: LAST COPIES £11.00

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FDCD68 ANDREW LILES 'In My Father's House Are Many Mansions' CD 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). £10

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FDTS69 ANDREW LILES limited edition T-SHIRT 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. £15.00

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FDP69 ANDREW LILES limited edition PRINT 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. £4.00

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FD2CD70 MERZBOW 'F.I.D.' 2CD 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). £12.50

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FDCD71 CIRCLE 'Arkades' 2CD 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. £13.00

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FDCD72 THE FIELDS OF HAY 'Songs For Nine Ladies' CD 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. £10.00

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7INS001 V/A 'Under the Skin (Volume One)' 7" Features Delphium, Spleen and Heroin. One of the two Delphium tracks includes a collaboration with Splintered members. Spleen featured Colin Bradley of Dual/Splintered, and Heroin featured Stuart Carter who also went on to work with Splintered's final incarnation before it evolved into the still active Theme. Released in October 1993 in an edition of 500 with an insert.

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7INST002 V/A 'Under the Skin (Volume Two)' 7" Features Band Of Pain, Cosmonauts Hail Satan, Indianhead and Husk. Released in November 1994 in an edition of 500 with an insert. NB: The record's labels were actually put on the wrong sides (a manufacturing fault). £1.00

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AGHIATRIAS Regions of Limen CD Post-industrial drones, neo-classical arrangements, power electronics, etc. Limited to 500. Epidemie Records, Czech Republic. £9.00

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ANOTHER HEADACHE Pushing the Envelope MCD Four cuts, spanning almost 20 minutes, by this recently revived UK project. "The musical project, Another Headache, was started in 1989 by David Bourgoin. Primarily influenced by the likes of Throbbing Gristle, Zoviet France and early Sonic Youth, it soon developed a sound of its own that blended elements of Krautrock, Industrial music and Minimalism to create unique and captivating soundscapes. Early releases were included on a number of cassette compilation albums and the tracks soon attracted good reviews. Encouraged by this, the cassette album "Nothing Definite" followed, as did a split 7" with dROME. A further CD compilation appearance and some soundtrack work for a film by Richard Baylor led to a double 7" being released by Dirter Promotions. The tracks demonstrated that Another Headache had evolved to new levels of sound exploration and again attracted good press. Further tracks were written and recorded utilising speech samples, found sound and more regular instrumentation as Another Headache explored new avenues in which to experiment with sound collage..." Released 2005. Thisco, Portugal. £5.50

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ARBEITSGEMEINSCHAFT FRUCHTTANZ UND ARTVERWANDTE ORGIEN Fisch Zum Fruhstuck CD Experimental noodlescapes and metamorphic electro-acoustic soundworlds from Germany's Gunter Schroth and his many cohorts. Archegon, Germany. £9.00

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ARCHON SATANI Mind of Flesh & Bones CD "The classic Archon Satani album, out of print for over a decade, remastered and repackaged. (These) are one of the founding voices of Death Industrial - with their unique style being emulated to this day. (This) Swedish duo create claustrophobic, ritualistic, menacing anthems..." (label spiel). Cold Spring Records. £10.00

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ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS Tristes Tropiques CD Eight cuts recorded between July 1998 and March 1999 by Phil Todd's hum, drone & crackle platform. Tapes, garbled undercurrents, drifting torrents of distorto-spew and feedback heavily obscured or smeared by whorls of hiss & hazy psych-lust. Perhaps, alongside A Warm Palindrome, the most endearing of Todd's many 'projects'. BWCD/Blackbean & Placenta/Rhizome, UK, USA & Australia. £8.00

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AUBE Reworks Stefano Gentile CD Shimmering tones, loops and twilight atmospherics from Japan's Aube, sourcing material originally supplied by Stefano Gentile. Silentes, Italy. £10.00

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AUBE Reworks Maurizio Bianchi Vol.1. CD First volume whereby Aube sources material by renowned power electronics/industrial-noise artist, MB. Silentes, Italy. £10.00

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AUBE Reworks Maurizio Bianchi Vol.2. CD "Static music, suspended by a thread of silence. Circular flowing audio structures. Archeology of sound. Mind expanding texture(s). A new fascinating operation of disassembly and restructure of sonic material by Maurizio Bianchi (the entire album, 'The Testamentary Corridor), by incomparable Japanese 'audio sculptor', Aube." Silentes, Italy. £10.00

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AMIR BAGHIRI Yalda CD Fantastic new album from last year by this Persian hypnosmith now living in Germany and moving away from the more subdued 'ambient' settings of his earlier releases to something more rhythmic and befitting of the desert imagery adorning the sleeve. Vivo, Poland. £10.00

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