Manic Depression Records: The Spoiled – Ironshell EP

The Spoiled - Ironshell

The Spoiled is an Italian solo project founded in late 2015 by main producer, singer, songwriter and instrumentalist Giovanni Santolla. Its musical framework is a mosaic of darkwave, noise rock, dark ambient and industrial combined with a deep love for surrealist and horror movies and Decadent literature.

Glacial drum machines, tribal percussions, chorused basses, distorted synths and ethereal vocals portray a claustrophobic yet melancholic journey through the deepest and darkest feelings of human being.

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Posted on March 8th, 2016 under Releases, ,

Stellar Kinematics: Hante – This Fog That Never Ends

Hante - This Fog That Never Ends

After her previous noteworthy projects Phosphor and Minuit Machine, Hélène de Thoury offers, through her first solo project, a cold and synthetic music mixing nagging cold wave and striking electronics.

Limited edition of 500.

Posted on March 6th, 2016 under Releases, ,

Desire Records: Orphan Swords – License To Desire

Orphan Swords - License To Desire

Going further into techno territory, Orphan Swords come back with a three tracks EP called “License To Desire” on Paris-Based Desire Records. Following the “Risk In The New Age” EP (2014), this new hypnotic release is probably their most powerful so far, concentrating EBM, minimal techno gristle and industrial electronics.

This EP clearly relates to previous efforts such as “Caim” that has been described by XLR8R as “The grinding sounds and whirling blasts of white noise position the track directly in the realm of acts like Sandwell District and Richie Hawtin’s digressive and hypnotizing Plastikman moniker.” Make sure to check out the massive epic of ‘Asmoday’ and the textural sophistication of ‘Hooker’.

ORPHAN SWORDS is a Brussels-based duo previously described as “Oppressive industrial techno/drone pressure”, “industrial-slanted techno” or “new school industrial” by Boomkat, XLR8R and The Quietus, They have played supports for Vatican Shadow, The Body, Black Rain, Kyoka etc.and more. After releases on Idiosyncratics, an EP called “Risk in a New Age” was released on Desire Records in june 2014, it features a collaboration with NYC cult band Ike Yard. “Stunners, the lot of them!” said JUNO about that release. Following this, upon request of Desire, they made an official rework of Ike Yard’s NCR/Cherrish8.

« Factory Floor meets the Fuck Buttons. Tough stuff. »

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Posted on March 4th, 2016 under Releases, ,

Manic Depression Records: Ascetic – Everything Is Becoming

Ascetic - Everything Is Becoming

Ascetic is the post-punk project of Saxon Jörgensen, August Skipper and Andrew Jigalin from Melbourne, Australia, now located in Berlin, Germany.

Second album ‘EVERYTHING IS BECOMING’ is the distillation of a slowly evolved sound stemming from the long writing collaboration between Jörgensen and Skipper, a carefully collated sonic vocabulary that along with the main instrumentation of guitar, bass, voice and electronic drums, includes found sounds, voice memos, field recordings, sampled synths and resampled guitars woven into the texture of the record, lyrics that embody a poetic restraint in exploring what it is to be human in a moment in history through both darkness and redemption.

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Posted on March 2nd, 2016 under Releases, ,

Werkstatt Recordings: Beatbox Machinery – Tele​-​synthesized

Beatbox Machinery - Tele​-​synthesized

Beatbox Machinery was formed in February 2010 by Toxic Razor. Hardware synth wave soundscapes blended with analog monophonic waves and digital analog sequences. Everything is recorded with real hardware gear and there is no use of midi, VST instruments or software plugins.

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Posted on February 29th, 2016 under Releases, ,