May 17th Newsletter
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  • Sissy Spacek – Live In Hong Kong
    Sissy Spacek – Live In Hong Kong
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    Sissy Spacek is known for their extended approach to sound and performance. Founded in 1999, the group (since 2013, primarily a duo of Charlie Mumma and John Wiese) have released […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Sistrenatus ? Sensitive Disturbance
    Sistrenatus ? Sensitive Disturbance
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    Blurring the lines between Dark Ambient, Industrial and Noise, Sistrenatus storms forth, shifting between oppressive aggression and unsettling atmospheres. “Sensitive Disturbance” is [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Kollaps ? Until The Day I Die
    Kollaps ? Until The Day I Die
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    “Until The Day I Die” is the third album from Australian post-industrial outfit KOLLAPS. “Until The Day I Die” is a merciless and visceral assault on the senses and [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • NDE – Krieg Blut Ehre Asche
    NDE – Krieg Blut Ehre Asche
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    Debut from this Belgian duo. Like the dark solitary figure which adorns the cover, NDE are shrouded in mystery and desolation. No website. No social media. No contact details. The […]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics, Metal
  • Splinterskin ? Wayward Souls
    Splinterskin ? Wayward Souls
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    Splinterskin unveils his spell after years of solitude and hermetic isolation, in the form of a harsh, dark folk music. His tales are told using an old classical guitar accompanied […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Trepaneringsritualen – Veil The World
    Trepaneringsritualen – Veil The World
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    »All seals have been broken« proclaims a demonic voice on the titular track of Veil The World, and that is something terrifyingly evident in the music contained therein. On Veil […]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • South Saturn Delta ? Experience The Concreteness
    South Saturn Delta ? Experience The Concreteness
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    This is South Saturn Delta’s debut album, featuring their finest live recordings from between 2003-2005, in Osaka and Tokyo. SSD is a kind of Japanoise supergroup, formed in 2003, with […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • NBDY – Woods & Wires
    NBDY – Woods & Wires
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    Czech Republic based artist NBDY utilities precise measures in his approach to cut-up noise. Tearing into passages with precise immediacy which at points abruptly hyperextends into crisp, bracing [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Harko City – Harko City
    Harko City – Harko City
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    Harko City is a cult industrial/ horror electronics project of Evan Price and Cory Rowell (Demonologists). The debut album for Harko City contains 15 tracks, 4 of which have the […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Demonologists – Dissociative Themes
    Demonologists – Dissociative Themes
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    Released October, 2020

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Demonologists/Utarm
    Demonologists/Utarm
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    Released December, 2020

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Equipment Pointed Ankh – Changing Legs
    Equipment Pointed Ankh – Changing Legs
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    What our staff has to say: “EPA return with a disc of duos. I would say this is a good disc for all Improv Heads, Kraut Rock Dropouts, & Kentucky […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Smut – How The Light Felt
    Smut – How The Light Felt
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    Smut shines a spotlight on the sounds of the 90s across genres – a record scratch, a spacey synth line, a breakcore beat – all while maintaining freshness and originality. […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Fuxter Schittly – “1998 – 1999 God Particles”
    Fuxter Schittly – “1998 – 1999 God Particles”
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    What our staff has to say: “An excellent example that we have no real grasp on what is going on around us. In a world of fake news and discordianism, […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Devin DiSanto – Waiting and Counting: Domestic Ritual for the Stereo Field
    Devin DiSanto – Waiting and Counting: Domestic Ritual for the Stereo Field
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    Waiting and Counting : Domestic Ritual for the Stereo Field Material for this release is based around a performance determined by a partial system of cues (max patch) that occur […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Sissy Spacek – Reslayer CD
    Sissy Spacek – Reslayer CD
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    ‘Sissy Spacek reaching full maturation – Hyper destructive low end heavy cut ups. Harsh noise from unheard nether-realms.’ -Brandon Hill (Fantastique / Starved Relations) [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Sam Weinberg, Henry Fraser, Tyler Damon – Foment
    Sam Weinberg, Henry Fraser, Tyler Damon – Foment
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    “Foment” represents a first-meeting of New Yorkers saxophonist Sam Weinberg & bassist Henry Fraser with Chicago drummer Tyler Damon. Although the three musicians had not played in [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Angel Olsen – Big Time CD
    Angel Olsen – Big Time CD
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    Fresh grief, like fresh love, has a way of sharpening our vision and bringing on painful clarifications. No matter how temporary we know these states to be, the vulnerability and […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Takeda – Psychedelic Minimalism Vol 1
    Takeda – Psychedelic Minimalism Vol 1
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    Psychedelic Minimalism Vol​.​1 is a collection of previously, and very limited, released material. These 4 long-form tracks were recorded on a Tascam 4-track from the beginning to late 2000’s. [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Birth! – I Will
    Birth! – I Will
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    What our staff has to say: “Revisited this Midwest classic after hearing of Doug’s passing. An album ahead of its time – and even though it has been years since […]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Sharon Van Etten – We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong
    Sharon Van Etten – We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong
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    Sharon Van Etten has always been the kind of artist who helps people make sense of the world around them, and her sixth album, We’ve Been Going About This All […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Sudden Infant – Lunatic Asylum
    Sudden Infant – Lunatic Asylum
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    Joke Lanz and Sudden Infant once again return in their razor-sharp trio setting whereby the absurdist nature that Joke’s work is already cut with is reconfigured in a gnarled and […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Orquere – Foundations
    Orquere – Foundations
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    With an explorative approach Orquere organizes concrete sounds into experimental structures of cold and dry sonic landscapes where sounds appear as objects. Stripped down to their bare essence. [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Drekka – Examinations – 2016 – 2018 CD
    Drekka – Examinations – 2016 – 2018 CD
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    For over twenty years, Mkl Anderson has curated a vast archive of recorded material for his cinematic ambient industrial soundscapes. Working for as many years under the name Drekka, he […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Drekka – Sleeping Patterns Of The Discontent
    Drekka – Sleeping Patterns Of The Discontent
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    «One can be a discontent – that is, an insurgent or a revolutionary – but there is also that more literal, personal meaning of the word which may be in […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Drekka – Beings Of ImberIndus
    Drekka – Beings Of ImberIndus
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    “Beings of ImberIndus” was commissioned as a hexaphonic sound installation to accompany the “Beings of ImberIndus” solo soft sculpture show by Carrie Weaver; presented at [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Drekka – There Is No Silence Left (Drekka Remix)
    Drekka – There Is No Silence Left (Drekka Remix)
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    “There is no silence left” is a collection of remixes and reworkings by Mkl Anderson of Drekka, released under various monikers between 1996 and 2012. Contains 13 previously [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • K.M Toepfer – Retrace No Steps
    K.M Toepfer – Retrace No Steps
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    Cold, surgical harsh noise achieving militant purity through unorthodox means. Minimalistic brain drilling, carving, and rolling textures. Latent tones that attack the body’s nodes and trigger [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Lacerations
    Lacerations
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    Six international artists showcased across two compact discs of shredding sound, clattering depths, power electronics violence, and deafening discordance. Though a diverse compilation, [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Vasculae – Broken Lust
    Vasculae – Broken Lust
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    The distant clang and scrape of metals, slow burning atmospherics, and subdued electronics both tonal and textured; less blast and more resignation this time around. Mostly recorded and composed [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Snail Mail – Valentine CD
    Snail Mail – Valentine CD
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    Valentine was written and produced by Lindsey Jordan and co-produced by Brad Cook (Bon Iver, Waxahatchee). Written in 2019-2020 the album is filled with romance, heartbreak, blood, sweat and [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Caroline – S/T CD
    Caroline – S/T CD
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    UK eight-piece caroline’s eponymous debut album often cascades with force like an avalanche, squalling and rumbling on the edge of all-out collapse. At other points they slip back into impossibly [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Stare Tasmy – Kryzys Czytelnictwa
    Stare Tasmy – Kryzys Czytelnictwa
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    Debut from this Polish group, whose name means Old Tapes and whose members have an impressive background in punk, improv, experimental and even classical music. They have come together here […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Molly McCann – Das Jahr
    Molly McCann – Das Jahr
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    The first published recordings of Molly McCann, my older sister, playing Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel’s Das Jahr (“The Year”, 1841); a groundbreaking cycle of 12 thematically interlocked character [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Charlie Morrow – Chanter
    Charlie Morrow – Chanter
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    To celebrate composer Charlie Morrow’s 80th birthday, Recital presents 80 minutes of voice-based recordings in his new album, Chanter. Curated by Sean McCann, this collection spans over 60+ years [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Mass Marriage – Restless CD
    Mass Marriage – Restless CD
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    After a series of highly regarded tapes releases New Forces is proud to unleash the much-anticipated debut full-length CD “Restless” by Mass Marriage. Across these five tracks [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Riki – Gold
    Riki – Gold
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    West coast new romantic icon Riki returns with her 2nd simulacrum of pitch-perfect synth-pop, aptly titled for the precious substance it is: Gold. Inspired by notions of symbolic power, letting [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Advance Base – Live At Home
    Advance Base – Live At Home
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    The last Advance Base show in front of a live audience was in Portland, Oregon on March 11, 2020, four days into a west coast tour with Claire Cronin & […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • October Prowler – On The Prowl Again
    October Prowler – On The Prowl Again
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    The sequel to last year’s ‘October Prowler’ Pro-duplicated and printed CDr in a Digipack case

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Paracusis – Disintegration Schemes
    Paracusis – Disintegration Schemes
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    Cadre Fall 2021 artwork by Paul van Trigt

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • HNRTR – True To Form
    HNRTR – True To Form
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    Cadre Fall 2021 artwork by Paul van Trigt

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Genophobia – Guilty Pleasures
    Genophobia – Guilty Pleasures
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    Cadre Fall 2021 artwork by Paul van Trigt

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Airway – Live At Zebulon
    Airway – Live At Zebulon
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    In December 2019, Los Angeles Free Music Society pioneers Airway performed live at Zebulon with a stacked cast of collaborators, unleashing a constantly mutating wave of raucous free improv [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Sissy Spacek – Radio Format
    Sissy Spacek – Radio Format
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    While we may live in an over saturated time of hi-definition, microwave-pulse paced images and video snippets, one format that has remained in play since the early 1900’s is that […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Wasteland Jazz Unit – Mind Obscured
    Wasteland Jazz Unit – Mind Obscured
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    Wasteland Jazz Unit presents a mind-frying monolith of brain-scrambled haze and searing screech bursting forth from the psychic fog of Cincinnati’s Jon Lorenz (sax, electronics) & John Rich [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Ted Byrnes – Tactility CD
    Ted Byrnes – Tactility CD
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    The first release from our CD imprint, ARKEEN – a 7 track, 30 minute full length from Los Angeles based Ted Byrnes. Percussive abuse and aural assault. Fragmented time creating […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Ted Byrnes – Moving My Body Through Space CD
    Ted Byrnes – Moving My Body Through Space CD
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    Recognized as a skilled and sought after collaborator, Ted Byrnes solo albums cast a wide net that capture Byrnes’ adventurous and omnivorous approach to solo percussion. An alumnus of [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Limbs Bin – Burnt White Elephant CD
    Limbs Bin – Burnt White Elephant CD
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    Toiling tirelessly among the shadows of the crumbling imperial superstructure, beloved noise hero Limbs Bin emerges in 2021 with a new full-length studio album on Damien Records. Burnt White [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Cryocene – Exclave
    Cryocene – Exclave
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    “Exclave” is the debut of NYC-based duo Cryocene, comprised of Stefan Aune (Kjostad) and Matt Boettke (Scant). Over the course of 5 tracks Cryocene weave together an ominous landscape [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Anna Hogberg Attack – Lena
    Anna Hogberg Attack – Lena
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    A primal force of something… real. I have listened back and forth to the new album of Anna Högberg`s “Attack” numerous times now and it hit me like a split […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz