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  • Aki Onda – Transmissions From The Radio Midnight
    Aki Onda – Transmissions From The Radio Midnight
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    This project, entitled Transmissions From The Radio Midnight, started around 2006, when I acquired a Sony TCM F59 — an AM/FM radio and cassette recorder combined in a slim, handheld […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Heiki – Valley Beyond
    Heiki – Valley Beyond
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    “Valley Beyond” is the Suction Records label debut by Heiki, aka Toronto-based, Canadian electronic music veteran, Heiki Sillaste. Heiki first made his mark with Digital Poodle, a cult EBM [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • What Lies Beneath #5 Zine + CD-R
    What Lies Beneath #5 Zine + CD-R
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    Interviews with/writings on Troth, Warm Currency, Ritual Heaps & Minimum Table Stacks.   What Lies Beneath, 2024

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • John McCowen ? Models of Duration
    John McCowen ? Models of Duration
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    The latest from the uncompromising John McCowen is a split release between Dinzu Artefacts and Astral Spirits. Models of Duration follows the same trajectory as McCowen’s other amazing solo [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Gnawed ? Torchsmoke & Rope
    Gnawed ? Torchsmoke & Rope
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    Following the path forged on 2020’s landmark album Subterranean Rites (Malignant/Cloister), Grant Richardson returns from the depths of his literal and conceptual explorations of civilization’s [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • The Trendees _? Barmaid
    The Trendees _? Barmaid
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    The Trendees uberoscure 2017 cassette for Albert’s Basement has somehow found its way to a 7″ release some seven years later, replete with an extra third track in tow. If […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Lord Spikeheart – The Adept
    Lord Spikeheart – The Adept
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    The Adept is Lord Spikeheart’s first full-length album. A ferocious debut that ups the intensity and physicality of his previous releases and promises to bring a telluric big bang in […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Matsumoto / Shiroishi / Watanabe – Yellow
    Matsumoto / Shiroishi / Watanabe – Yellow
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    Yellow brings together acclaimed LA-based musicians Kozue Matsumoto, Patrick Shiroishi, and Shoshi Watanabe. With total expressive command of their instruments, the trio unfurls a brilliant and [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Group Material – Intimations
    Group Material – Intimations
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    Intimations marks the first official release of Group Material, the sound work of Eric Sanchez and Avalon Kalin. Released as a limited edition cassette on Slug Spitter. Dreamlike, “Intimations” [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Plight – Plastic Sun
    Plight – Plastic Sun
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    Brooklyn-based four piece Plight has spent the last five years making a name for themselves in New York City. Releasing their Catharsis demo in 2017, the group has been cultivating their own […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Max Nordile ? Hanging By A Fan Over Wet Cement
    Max Nordile ? Hanging By A Fan Over Wet Cement
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    Hanging by a Fan Over Wet Cement is the music of listening after listening, when water runs relative to the sound of your own footsteps, and you lean over the […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Cartoon ? Nyuck Nyuck Boing!
    Cartoon ? Nyuck Nyuck Boing!
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    Human Headstone Presents… “Nyuck Nyuck Boing!”, the debut full-length from Philadelphia’s CARTOON. Listener discretion advised : Weight-defying escapades, technicolor transmutations, a swirling [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Joy Guidry ? Amen
    Joy Guidry ? Amen
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    AMEN is the 3rd release by bassoonist / composer / producer Joy Guidry. Representing a major step up in her ability to fully realize and embody a sound and concept, […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • A Record Could Be Your Whole World: Vinyl Records as the Total Artwork Of The Late 20th Century
    A Record Could Be Your Whole World: Vinyl Records as the Total Artwork Of The Late 20th Century
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    This is a book about records considered ‘in themselves’. It is not about musicians, or music, or design, or music history — though all those things are considered at various […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Imminent Death – Radiant Ignition
    Imminent Death – Radiant Ignition
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    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • INTRAVIS Compilation
    INTRAVIS Compilation
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    A compilation featuring Nota Grave, Vampiros Kosmos, Universal Cell Unlock, Zach Rowden, Energy Gradient, Tval, Shredded Nerve, Mortido, Prosperity, and Cienfuegos.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Spiteful Womb ? Traumacore
    Spiteful Womb ? Traumacore
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    C20, Edition of 50

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Greer Lankton: Sketchbook, September 1977
    Greer Lankton: Sketchbook, September 1977
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    Sketchbook, September 1977 is an early journal by Greer Lankton written during her time as an art student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. It offers key […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Martin Wong: Footprints, Poems, and Leaves
    Martin Wong: Footprints, Poems, and Leaves
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    A rich and engaging facsimile of the artist’s first visual poetry book, self-published in 1968 The paintings of Chinese American artist Martin Wong (1946-99) are celebrated for their [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Marcel Schwob – Spicilege
    Marcel Schwob – Spicilege
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    Exquisitely crafted essays on medieval criminal slang, ancient Greek prostitution, laughter, anarchy and more from the endlessly influential Marcel Schwob “All over the world,” wrote [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction, Weird Fiction/Sci-Fi/Unexplained Phenomena
  • Marguerite Young – Miss Macintosh, My Darling
    Marguerite Young – Miss Macintosh, My Darling
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    This novel is one of the most ambitious and remarkable literary achievements of our time. It is a picaresque, psychological novel—a novel of the road, a journey or voyage of […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Hamlet in Purgatory: Expanded Edition
    Hamlet in Purgatory: Expanded Edition
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    In Hamlet in Purgatory, renowned literary scholar Stephen Greenblatt delves into his longtime fascination with the ghost of Hamlet’s father, and his daring and ultimately gratifying journey [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Propaganda and the Holy Writ of the Process Church of the Final Judgment: Process Sex Issue-Fear Issue-Death Issue
    Propaganda and the Holy Writ of the Process Church of the Final Judgment: Process Sex Issue-Fear Issue-Death Issue
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    The rare and collectible Process Church magazines are back in print. Do you dare find out who rules you? The Process Church of the Final Judgement inspired fear and devotion […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Kate Zambreno – To Write As If Already Dead
    Kate Zambreno – To Write As If Already Dead
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    To Write As If Already Dead circles around Kate Zambreno’s failed attempts to write a study of Hervé Guibert’s To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life. In this […]

    GENRE: Memoir, Non-Fiction
  • Passionate Enlightenment: Women in Tantric Buddhism
    Passionate Enlightenment: Women in Tantric Buddhism
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    The now-classic exploration of the role of women and the feminine in Buddhist Tantra The crowning cultural achievement of medieval India, Tantric Buddhism is known in the West primarily for […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Expanded Cinema: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition
    Expanded Cinema: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition
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    Fiftieth anniversary reissue of the founding media studies book that helped establish media art as a cultural category. First published in 1970, Gene Youngblood’s influential Expanded Cinema was [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Maryanne Amacher: Selected Writings and Interviews
    Maryanne Amacher: Selected Writings and Interviews
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    The life and work of Maryanne Amacher are as vast as they are little known. In this volume, Amy Cimini and Bill Dietz offer a heterodox and idiosyncratic selection of […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction
  • Erik Davis – Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica
    Erik Davis – Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica
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    In these wide-ranging essays, Erik Davis explores the codes — spiritual, cultural, and embodied — that people use to escape the limitations of their lives and enrich their experience of […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Jonas Mekas: Scrapbook of the Sixties: Writings 1954-2010
    Jonas Mekas: Scrapbook of the Sixties: Writings 1954-2010
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    Andy Warhol, Susan Sontag, John Lennon & Yoko Ono ― Jonas Mekas was well acquainted with a great many New York artists. Born in Lithuania, he came to Brooklyn via […]

    GENRE: Memoir, Non-Fiction
  • Jimmy Desana: Salvation
    Jimmy Desana: Salvation
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    Salvation is a previously-unpublished artist book by Jimmy DeSana that he conceptualized shortly before his death in 1990. The publication contains 44 of the artist’s late photographic [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Stefan Aune – Indian Wars Everywhere: Colonial Violence and the Shadow Doctrines of Empire
    Stefan Aune – Indian Wars Everywhere: Colonial Violence and the Shadow Doctrines of Empire
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    References to the Indian Wars, those conflicts that accompanied US continental expansion, suffuse American military history. From Black Hawk helicopters to the exclamation “Geronimo” used by [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization
    Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization
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    A landmark work that demystifies the rich tradition of Indian art, Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization analyzes key motifs found in legend, myth, and folklore taken directly […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Arkady & Boris Strugatsky – Hard To Be A God
    Arkady & Boris Strugatsky – Hard To Be A God
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    Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are widely known as the greatest Russian writers of science fiction, and their 1964 novel Hard to Be a God is considered one of the greatest […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jose Donoso – The Obscene Bird Of Night
    Jose Donoso – The Obscene Bird Of Night
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    Deep in a maze of musty, forgotten hallways, Mudito rummages through piles of old newspapers. The mute caretaker of a crumbling former abbey, he is hounded by a coven of […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Carmelo Bene – Our Lady of the Turks
    Carmelo Bene – Our Lady of the Turks
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    Carmelo Bene (1937–2002) was a notorious Italian actor, writer, and director who inaugurated his theater in 1959 with Camus’ Caligula then exploded onto the artistic scene with his outré Christ [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Joy Williams – The Changeling
    Joy Williams – The Changeling
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    With a new introduction by Karen Russell, the 40th anniversary edition of The Changeling is a visionary fairy tale and a work of mythic genius by one of our best […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Heather Lewis – Notice
    Heather Lewis – Notice
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    A classic queer text of trauma, written by one of the most talented novelists of her generation. The reason it’s never just once is the same reason money’s only a […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • John Cage/Aaron Dilloway – Rozart Mix
    John Cage/Aaron Dilloway – Rozart Mix
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    “So excited and honored to finally release the vinyl document of my realization of JOHN CAGE’s ROZART MIX.  Back in the extremely strange year of 2020, I was approached by […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Indigo Ranch – Hard Gloss
    Indigo Ranch – Hard Gloss
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    Recorded by the band in their studio in 2022, Indigo Ranch’s Hard Gloss scratches an itch for DIY sound & aesthetics. Mixed with Jeff Zeigler and mastered by Mikey Young, […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Mot ? Remains
    Mot ? Remains
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    Recorded during the Autumn of 2023 amidst fluctuating extreme states of tension and tranquility, Canadian artist Paul van Trigt delivers 30 minutes of thoughtfully spliced cassette and reel [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Bermuda Squares – Outsider
    Bermuda Squares – Outsider
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    As corny as it sounds, you can’t help but describe Bermuda Squares as a Minneapolis supergroup. Ringleaded by singer/guitarist Tony Milek, the band comprises members of Sinks, Neo Neos, Citric [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Why Bother? ? Serenading Unwanted Ballads
    Why Bother? ? Serenading Unwanted Ballads
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    Serenading Unwanted Ballads is the fifth album from Iowa’s WHY BOTHER? and a testament to the fact that they will never make the same record twice. Full of twists, their […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The Ar-Kaics ? See The World On Fire
    The Ar-Kaics ? See The World On Fire
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    The Ar-Kaics are back with See the World on Fire, their first new album in six years. It’s also the first release from this newly-minted partnership between Feel It Records […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Choncy ? 20X Multiplier
    Choncy ? 20X Multiplier
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    From the foxhole of the Rust Belt, Choncy fleshes out a frenzied, multifaceted approach to punk with their sophomore album, 20X MULTIPLIER. The Cincinnati four-piece delivers an intoxicating [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Vacation – Rare Earth
    Vacation – Rare Earth
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    “Vacation’s new album Rare Earth comes at a time when the powder keg of civilization as we know it is particularly vulnerable to the spark that swallows our very existence. […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Vacation ? Rare Earth
    Vacation ? Rare Earth
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    “Vacation’s new album Rare Earth comes at a time when the powder keg of civilization as we know it is particularly vulnerable to the spark that swallows our very existence. […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Thistle Group, P Wits ? Fog On My Brain/Figure It Out
    Thistle Group, P Wits ? Fog On My Brain/Figure It Out
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    Match made in heaven collaborative hit single from New Zealand-based artists Claire Mahoney (Thistle Group) and Benedict Quilter (P Wits). Recorded and mixed by Stefan Neville, mastered for vinyl [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Dancing Plague* ? Elogium
    Dancing Plague* ? Elogium
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    Portland based act Dancing Plague has been a steady presence in the dark/cold electronic music scene for quite a few years now. Since 2016 Conor Knowles’ solo project has been […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Poison Point – Wandering Echoes
    Poison Point – Wandering Echoes
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    Since a while now, the uncanniness from dreams and the unconscious amazes me. These things are quite deep rooted in my way of writing lyrics like in many previous tracks […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Blind Seagull ? Decade Of Effort
    Blind Seagull ? Decade Of Effort
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    10 Years Anniversary compilation LP. Ten years ago, on 21 April 2014, Russian enclave of the Baltic Kaliningrad-based trio Blind Seagull started off its adventure in the soon to be […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Profit Prison ? Gilt
    Profit Prison ? Gilt
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    Four years and one pandemic after his latest Dreams Of A Dark Building EP, the herald of dungeon synth pop is finally back from his shallow grave. Life has not […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Container – Yacker
    Container – Yacker
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    Ren Schofield’s long running electronic project Container returns with his first release since the Creamer EP in 2021. Rolling straight out of the pandemic Schofield has since played a large […]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Franciska – Afvikling
    Franciska – Afvikling
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    The latest in the prolific output of Copenhagen’s talented Jonas Torstensen, better known as Franciska. Those already familiar with Franciska’s output from the past couple years on [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Alex York – Electro Paralysis
    Alex York – Electro Paralysis
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    Frequent patrons of the Prime Ruin catalog should already recognize Alex York as a household name but for those that don’t, here is a brief introduction: Hailing from the Cincinnati, […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Stinkmeat – Stinkmeat
    Stinkmeat – Stinkmeat
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    “Who is he?!” While the subgenre of gorenoise may be a hair outside of this label’s wheelhouse, Gracious Host is no less proud to present the debut of Ithaca’s STINKMEAT. [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Tongue Depressor + Austin Larkin – Landau Bar
    Tongue Depressor + Austin Larkin – Landau Bar
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    Tongue Depressor (New Haven, CT) is the duo of Zach Rowden and Henry Birdsey. They write, improvise, and perform drone-based music with fiddles, pedal steel, lap steel, contrabass, organ, and [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • V/A – Five Spanish Pioneers of Electronic and Experimental Music: 1953-1969
    V/A – Five Spanish Pioneers of Electronic and Experimental Music: 1953-1969
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    This LP reveals the extraordinary diversity of research — almost all hidden — by Spanish musicians in the ’50s and ’60s. Those pieces were composed while the country was [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Stereolab –  Switched On Volumes 1-5 (8xCD Boxset)
    Stereolab – Switched On Volumes 1-5 (8xCD Boxset)
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    An anthology boxset that compiles all five volumes of the Stereolab Switched On series: 94 non-album tracks and sought after deep cuts by the groop. Includes the original Switched On […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Auntie Pus – Halfway to Venezuela b/w Marmalade Freak (Black Vinyl)
    Auntie Pus – Halfway to Venezuela b/w Marmalade Freak (Black Vinyl)
    $8.50 | Add to cart

    Julian Isaacs aka Auntie Pus, made a bet with his childhood friend Chris Millar (Rat Scabies of The Damned) that one of them would have a top ten record within […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Pixies – Pixies at the BBC, 1988-91
    Pixies – Pixies at the BBC, 1988-91
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    Release date: 3/8/24.  Will ship on or around release date. Between 1988 and 1991 – during the band’s 4AD years – Pixies recorded six sessions for the BBC, five for […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth