Ayria - Paper Dolls

2016-04-17 (News)

Ayria strikes hard again with release number five. An established icon of female club industrial music, mashing pounding beats, aggressive synths, with melodic female vocals, stays true to her roots on this release diving back into the slick electro sound that started Ayria in 2003, while continuing to evolve the sound to appeal to modern listeners, teamed up once again with heavyweight producer Sebastian R. Komor. Their artistic chemistry to produce the kind of unique alternative electro-pop that sounds both big, gritty and beautiful all at once, continues to capture new breeds of fans around the globe. 
"Paper Dolls" is not a minimal release. This release is no longer an exploration. This release is 11 solid anthematic tracks that can each stand on their own as a single. Long gone is the young girl starting a solo project and exploring her sound. What’s left in 2016 on "Paper Dolls" is a confident artist, a mature sound, and some of Jennifer’s strongest songwriting to date, all combined with explosive, ear-candy production highlighting vocals in the midst of Ayria’s huge beats and synths.

Common Eider, King Eider - Extinction

2016-04-16 (News)

A new ritual from this long running doom/drone/ambient collective, offering up modern manifestations of ancient energies, channelled into smouldering swathes of ceremonial hypnosis and explosive gouts of blood-red radiance. Extinction is an extended ceremonial rite conducted below ground at the Wisp House (R.I.P.). A song suite of psychedelic devotionals assembled from reverb drenched industrial drones, billowing clouds of metallic throb, and churning, rhythmic bombast. Fields of ghostly incantations suspended in the ether, draped over metallic murmurs and moaning melancholia. The low end rumble of monk-like chants beneath the soft tangle of keening lamentation.

Andrew Chalk, Ralf Wehowsky & Eric Lanzillotta - Yang-Tul

2016-04-15 (News)

A legendary sound collaboration formed of two lengthy pieces. The first track features Andrew Chalk (Mirror, Ora, Ferial Confine) gently reworking the sound materials of Ralf Wehowsky (P16.D4). A hypnotic, slowly-evolving drone with waves of mysterious sounds, static and glitches. The second piece, on the other hand, finds Ralf Wehowsky composing a frenzied journey into otherworldly realms using sound material from Andrew Chalk and Eric Lanzillotta (Eye Music). These pieces reflect a sound unique from the work of any of the three individual participants, but clearly related. Subtle, but full of detail for the willing listener.
Originally issued as limited coloured vinyl only on Lanzillotta’s label Anomalous Records in 1998.
Cover painting by Andrew Chalk.
Remastered for CD from the original master recordings.

Medicine Rain - Still Confused But on a Higher Level

2016-04-14 (News)

Following their debut ‘Native’ in 1995, things went extremely well for this experienced band, formed in 1989. Great reviews, festival performances and a new record deal with a bigger label with full international distribution was signed. The new album was recorded but was never released and eventually the band stopped playing and pursued other careers, some in music and some elsewhere. However the album ‘Still Confused But on a Higher Level’ is far too good to stay on a master tape, hidden from humanity. Recorded in 1996 it’s timeless in its classic Gothic rock sound, full of energy and in that very gothic rock style that made the band so appreciated everywhere.

Psy'Aviah - Seven Sorrows, Seven Stars

2016-04-13 (News)

On new album "Seven Sorrows, Seven Stars", Psy’Aviah creates some distance from its darker and almost depressive roots taking us towards more joyful and positively driven atmospheres while keeping his unique emotional and almost ghostly creative touch intact. The lyrics deal more this time with magic, wonders and mysteries and beautifully match with the band’s characteristic sound-mix of futuristic electro, moody trip hop, floating ambient and other groovy eurodance.
"Seven Sorrows, Seven Stars" is an album that speaks to both body and mind. Psy’Aviah delivers a true chef d’oeuvre full of emotional contrasts and dynamic vibes, capturing irrational moments of life across the universe. 
Tradition for Psy’Aviah now, the album also comes out as a limited deluxe carton box edition with a 14-track bonus CD holding album songs reinterpretations with a much more dancefloor techno / trance oriented sonic approach.

Entrzelle - Total Progressive Collapse

2016-04-12 (News)

Uncompromisingly individualistic, Entrzelle continue true to form to deliver their latest magnum opus, "Total Progressive Collapse". An album that represents the culmination of 3 years of dedicated work and introspection, and that aims to convey a traditional album feel through story-telling, dynamic expression, and performance nuances. The songs build and support one another in a way that takes the listener on a complete musical experience, and the music is recorded in such a way to allow as much variety and freedom as possible - this means heavy automation in the instruments and unique repeated performances in the vocals, among other techniques. Harsh sounds and pounding beats are in full force, but are harnessed to support the songs rather than asphyxiate them. Entrzelle's music is unique, daring electronic music that pushes the boundaries between form and disorder, tranquility and rage... in a violent and merciless return to storytelling through noise and color.